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539750_0 | Third World Women Aren't the Big Polluters; Vatican's Blind Spot | To the Editor: Anna Quindlen got it right in "Zero Population Talk" (column, June 10): discussion of population growth became taboo at the Earth Summit largely owing to Vatican pressure to keep it off the agenda. Seeking the moral high ground, Vatican officials claim that admitting population growth is a problem will l... |
539750_1 | Third World Women Aren't the Big Polluters; Vatican's Blind Spot | it off the agenda. Seeking the moral high ground, Vatican officials claim that admitting population growth is a problem will legitimize coercive use of family planning and abortion, unethically using people as a means to an end. Despite such high-sounding ideals, churchmen have been talking about the relationship of po... |
539751_0 | Third World Women Aren't the Big Polluters; There's Plenty of Room | To the Editor: Anna Quindlen states that in the next century the population may double "on what already seems to be a 'No Vacancy' planet" (column, June 10). What planet is she referring to? It can't be Earth. If the world's population of more than five billion were put in Jacksonville, Fla., every person would have ab... |
533931_0 | Jesus and Peter Never Sought Priestly Celibacy | To the Editor: The love affair of Eamonn Casey, who resigned as Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway, Ireland (news article, May 7), would not be such an uncomfortable situation for Annie Murphy and her son if we returned to the sources of life in the apostolic church. The Bishop would not have to live out his years as a "f... |
533964_0 | Bolivia Grant By Morgan | Bolivia's President, Jaime Paz Zamora, announced yesterday that J. P. Morgan & Company had agreed to donate $11.5 million in Bolivian debt for the benefit of environmental conservation. Under the "debt for nature" swap -- the largest private bank debt donation ever made to a single country -- the Bolivian Government wi... |
533965_0 | PRESIDENT DEFENDS U.S. ENVOY IN RIO | President Bush today defended William K. Reilly, the head of the American delegation to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and attacked an unidentified member of his Administration who made public a confidential memorandum in an attempt to embarrass Mr. Reilly. "Mr. Reilly, a top environmentalist, has my full support,... |
533990_0 | Comes a Hunk of Junk, Goes a Chunk of Steel | Sam Gershowitz warns visitors to his recycling center to park their cars outside the gates. Otherwise, their cars could end up in the shredder. "Believe me, it's happened," said Mr. Gershowitz, who is 52 years old and has been recycling abandoned American dream machines for almost 30 years. He grinds them into metal ch... |
538867_4 | Rome Journal; Who Will Save Italy's Ragged Past? | communities have moved to the cities. Venice is locked in a perennial battle with the waters on which it rests and promised Government money has not arrived for conservation projects, which have been criticized as measures that will only make matters worse. Help for Pisa's Tower In Florence, the 15th-century dome of th... |
536302_1 | What Some Preach in Rio Is Not What They Practice at Home | of environmental and social-action groups in many other developing countries have drawn official ire by challenging government excuses for environmental failures. They rarely get an international hearing. World Bank's Role Opposed These dissident environmentalists say, for example, that poverty is frequently not the ma... |
536256_0 | Battle in Rio: The Day After Friends and Foes Agree On a Sharper Sentinel | The Earth Summit, which wound up with predictable fanfare today, has given the world its first real glimpse of the kind of global diplomacy that is becoming possible now that the the cold war is over. But the conference has also shown how difficult negotiating worldwide solutions to worldwide problems is likely to be. ... |
536206_0 | World Economies | |
535399_0 | U.S. Would Send Troops Only in a Relief Role | The United States is prepared to send troops to help supply and safeguard humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina but has ruled out using troops in combat, officials said today. While President Bush said "there's no commitment" on sending troops, other officials said troops might go, but only in humanitarian roles. ... |
535478_2 | Canadian Official to Lead Population Council | ahead offers extraordinary promise in bringing better family health, including fertility management, to substantially greater numbers of the world's families," Ms. Catley-Carlson said in an interview at the council's offices. "We now have the biggest-ever crop of teen-agers on the planet, and it will be their decisions... |
535409_0 | Pact on Environment Near, But Hurdles on Aid Remain | A multibillion-dollar aid package to help save the developing world's environmental resources took shape here today as national leaders began to arrive for the Earth Summit's concluding phase. After working through the night, negotiators were said to have agreed on almost all aspects of an ambitious package of measures... |
535481_3 | Scientists Report Novel Therapy for Brain Tumors | roundabout as the method sounds on first hearing, its success in the laboratory has been dramatic. In one experiment, when researchers injected altered mouse cells into 14 rats afflicted with brain cancer, the brain tumors vanished completely in 11 animals and regressed significantly in the other three. "When my studen... |
536768_0 | Ulster Protestants and Dublin Aides Plan First Talks Since '73 | The Government said today that for the first time since 1973, its representatives will meet on Friday with officials of both Catholic and Protestant political parties from Northern Ireland. The meeting, to be held in London, will be the first between the Protestant-dominated parties, who insist that the province remain... |
537366_0 | Panel Urges Contraceptive's Approval | A panel of experts on obstetrics and gynecology recommended today that the Food and Drug Administration reverse itself and approve the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera for use in the United States. The contraceptive is approved for use in about 90 countries but has been blocked from the United States market becaus... |
537258_0 | Panel Didn't Rule Out Power-Line Health Risk | To the Editor: An Associated Press article from New Haven June 6 gave a misleading impression of a report by a Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering panel investigating links between health and the magnetic waves sent out by highpower electrical lines. The panel's three-page summary states and restates that th... |
537259_0 | Panel Didn't Rule Out Power-Line Health Risk | To the Editor: An Associated Press article from New Haven June 6 gave a misleading impression of a report by a Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering panel investigating links between health and the magnetic waves sent out by highpower electrical lines. The panel's three-page summary states and restates that th... |
533028_2 | Arts Invade Rio for Earth Summit | Museum, who came here to serve on the show's inter-American jury. On Tuesday, Mr. Bozano, president of Banco Bozano, Simonsen, is to distribute $600,000 in awards to the 12 prize winners, representing eight nations of the Americas. New Means of Protest Luiz Fernando Freire, the show's curator, said he sensed that some ... |
532869_2 | Rio's New Day in Sun Leaves Laplander Limp | that many of the city's repaved arteries will be closed off to become temporary V.I.P. expressways. "Cariocas fear transit chaos more than ecological future," read a headline today in O Globo, Rio's largest selling newspaper. Other groups were disgruntled to learn that they will not profit from the ecological bonanza. ... |
533128_0 | World Economies | |
532969_3 | High Profile on Environment For Brazilian Pulp Company | greatest polluters on the planet," Greenpeace said in a statement released to hundreds of reporters who have gathered here. "The Greenpeace Book of Greenwash," released here on Tuesday, accused Aracruz of "promoting the idea that land must be used for economic function." "Local people cannot eat pulp -- Aracruz's huge ... |
533200_0 | Menopause: A Normal, Natural Part of Life | To the Editor: I have just finished "Aging Baby Boomers Take Fresh Look at a Milestone" (front page, May 17), the first of your two articles on menopause, and I am disturbed by its tone. Menopause is not something women need be afraid of. It is a perfectly normal and natural part of life: like puberty, like childbirth.... |
534894_0 | WORKERS ARE RECALLED BY GOODYEAR IN U.S. AND CANADA | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that it had recalled 840 workers who were laid off at tire plants in Gadsden, Ala.; Union City, Tenn., and Valleyfield, Quebec, and at a hose and belt plant in Lincoln, Neb. It also said 230 new workers had been hired or would begin work soon at plants in Napanee, Ont... |
534868_3 | BUSH PLAN TO SAVE FORESTS IS BLOCKED BY POOR COUNTRIES | clear-cut failure, he answered, "Yes." Both delegates and observers said that time was rapidly running out. Negotiations must be completed by Wednesday night, and the European delegate said that while there had been some progress, the two major questions of the call for a treaty and trade in forest products had not yet... |
534957_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Long-Distance Recycling; Earth Summit Petitions Are Being Put to a Test | By the thousands, Americans are signing up to preserve the environment by pledging "to make the earth a secure and hospitable place for present and future generations." The pledges are to be presented to Maurice Strong, the secretary general of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro today. The problem is, the pledges are o... |
533445_0 | Connecticut Is First State to Bar Hand-Held Radar Guns | Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. signed legislation today making Connecticut the first state in the nation to ban the use of hand-held radar guns, which police unions believe can cause cancer after long-term use. Radar guns, a familiar fixture since the 1950's on rural back roads and super highway speed traps, will still be ... |
533490_0 | Chefs Urge Boycotting New Foods | Some 20 top New York chefs yesterday called for an international boycott of genetically engineered foods. They were responding to the announcement last week by Vice President Dan Quayle that such foods could be marketed without prior approval of the Federal Food and Drug Administration and without special labeling. "My... |
535158_2 | Public & Private; Zero Population Talk | family planning, and that leadership made a difference; because of American aid, the numbers of people in developing countries who use birth control has soared. But in 1984 we enforced the first gag rule, the one that said we would end aid to any international agency that mentioned abortion, the one that sent a signal ... |
537888_0 | World Economies | |
537933_0 | Briton Sees AIDS Cutting Population in Parts of Africa | A British scientist has predicted that because of the AIDS epidemic, populations in the worst-afflicted African countries will within 20 years switch over from their present high rate of increase to an actual decrease in numbers. In Uganda, where 1.5 million people out of a population of 16 million are thought to be in... |
537960_0 | Paris Asked to Admit Vichy's Crimes Against Jews | More than 200 French intellectuals and artists have called on President Francois Mitterrand to recognize and officially proclaim that France's collaborationist Vichy Government was responsible for crimes against Jews in World War II. They urged the President to make such a statement to coincide with the 50th anniversar... |
537971_3 | Women Now Talk Back To Ladies' Home Journal | like the Senate hearings on Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination would be in the insert, which will be called "Extra." And another poll, this one on women and pornography, will run in the August issue. The responses will be sent to every member of Congress three weeks before a scheduled vote on a proposed antipor... |
537939_2 | U.N. Official for Cambodia Pressures the Khmer Rouge | factions. In a surprise development this morning, the nominal leader of the Khmer Rouge, Khieu Sampan, attended in the conference. Urged to attend by the Japanese, he sat expressionless as Mr. Akashi, using words that were somewhat toned down from his prepared text, accused the Khmer Rouge of undercutting the peace pro... |
539144_1 | In 1992, America Discovers Columbus | at noon on Friday, the captain of the crew of about 60, Lieut. Comdr. Santiago Bolivar Pineiro of the Spanish Navy, called his vessels a "cultural museum" bringing "the friendship of the Spanish people." The ships were welcomed by a crowd of public officials as well as tourists and financial-district workers. A handful... |
539132_2 | Geneticists' Latest Discovery: Public Fear of 'Frankenfood' | food producers are experimenting with frost resistance and with genetically increasing crop yields. But therein lies the marketing problem. "The public is scared of the word genetic," said Dr. Jean-Marc Pernet, a biotechnologist for the Rouquette Corporation, a carbohydrate maker in Gurnee, Ill. "We are working on a nu... |
539019_0 | Cuba Seeks Pain Relief: Shot of Western Capital | RECENT months have been filled with sour news for Fidel Castro. First came the sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the billions in aid it had furnished. Then came a near disastrous harvest of sugar, Cuba's main product. Finally, even as supplies of oil and consumer goods from flour to bath s... |
539381_0 | A Plan to Conserve New York's Wilderness | Conserving Open Space in New York State, a plan released last week, is an effort by state officials to define which unprotected parcels should be preserved for future generations. But the state has no money to buy land, and lawmakers are deadlocked over how to finance a trust fund that would do so. All told, the plan i... |
539380_0 | A Plan to Conserve New York's Wilderness | Conserving Open Space in New York State, a plan released last week, is an effort by state officials to define which unprotected parcels should be preserved for future generations. But the state has no money to buy land, and lawmakers are deadlocked over how to finance a trust fund that would do so. All told, the plan i... |
538397_0 | COMPANY NEWS: For-Profit Foreign Aid; Seed Money With a Conscience | Mention alternative trade to most business executives and they assume you are talking about one of those complicated deals in which Russia or some other cash-short nation is trying to convince them to take 10,000 army boots or 500,000 goblets instead of money for their products. But for Equal Exchange Inc. and some 200... |
536654_3 | Eating WellGene-Spliced Foods: Is It Safe Soup Yet? | "by writing letters to the editor and articles that will put the regulation in better perspective." In addition, the agency is planning at least two public meetings with industry representatives and consumers this summer to discuss the issues. Details of themeetings have not been completed. The F.D.A. has its work cut ... |
536579_2 | Hard Sell for Top Universities: Finding New Chiefs | is no consensus on which has the advantage. Campus insiders, promoted to the presidency from administrative or faculty positions, can have a calming effect on a rambunctious faculty, and can get to work immediately, already knowing the campus and the issues. Some Advantages There are times when an outsider has the edge... |
533538_0 | F.C.C. Radio Plan Draws Opposition | A Federal plan to make room on the nation's airwaves for pocket telephones and other new mobile communication technologies is running into roadblocks from powerful senators, as well as from industries that would have to give up radio frequencies they are now using. The high-stakes battle for the right to use a scarce r... |
533685_1 | PARENT & CHILD | to intervene and make the disability go away, and wanting to accept the person as he or she is," said Dr. Ruth Kaminer, a professor of pediatrics and the associate director for medical services at the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "A focus by parents... |
533515_0 | Parents Bring a Home For Mentally Ill to Life | The new group home for the mentally ill at 100 Broadway will have a look all its own. Instead of the drab furniture typical of such places, this one will be filled with whimsical tables, chairs and dressers painted by artists from all over the state. Chairs that were once rusty and tired-looking are now fuchsia with or... |
533575_0 | Let's Not Forget France Sank Rainbow Warrior | To the Editor: As a devoted reader, I am always distressed when you obscure the historical record. You report May 8 on the disappearance of Sidney J. Reso, an Exxon official who was possibly kidnapped by a group calling itself the Rainbow Warriors. The article explains: "The name Rainbow Warrior belonged to a ship owne... |
533540_0 | COMPANY NEWS: The Green Wave; Making Hardware Environmentally Friendly | What makes a product environmentally friendly? The answer is easy for supermarkets, where goods that are biodegradable or made from recycled materials usually carry special labels. But Mike Eisen learned that the question, when asked of the hardware business, can create a logistical headache. As manager of environmenta... |
533716_0 | U.S. Forest Service Increases Protection of Public Timber | After three years of studying alternate methods of cutting trees, the United States Forest Service said today that it was directing its foresters to reduce substantially the amount of timberland harvested by clear cutting. The order, to be issued on Thursday by F. Dale Robertson, chief of the Forest Service, is meant t... |
537107_0 | As Bishops Meet, Catholics Voice Differences With Church's Doctrine; Little Hope Seen for Letter on Women | The chairman of the committee of Roman Catholic bishops that has worked for nine years to draft a pastoral letter on women said after a divisive debate among the bishops today that it would take a miracle to pass the letter when it came up for a final vote in November. "We're going to give it a try, but that's going to... |
537051_0 | Look Who's Adding Missiles | The world has barely absorbed the stirring summit news that the superpowers have agreed to drastic cuts in their fearsome nuclear arsenals. The West can now truly look to the ex-Evil Empire with hope instead of horror. So what are America's allies France and Britain doing? Increasing their nuclear arsenals. With U.S. h... |
537077_0 | As Bishops Meet, Catholics Voice Differences With Church's Doctrine; Poll Finds Backing Of Female Priests | A Gallup poll released here today finds that two-thirds of Roman Catholics in the United States favor opening the priesthood to women, an increase of 20 percentage points over just seven years ago. The poll, conducted in May by the Gallup Organization and commissioned by a coalition of groups seeking fundamental change... |
535614_1 | PRESIDENT, IN RIO, DEFENDS HIS STAND ON ENVIRONMENT | to adopt a voluntary set of principles in favor of preserving the world's forests, which had been a goal of the United States and other wealthier countries. But the agreement omitted a call for a treaty to be negotiated that would make such principles binding. [ Page 4. ] Global-Warming Treaty Other negotiators were st... |
535612_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Directory Assistance; Fill It With Yellow Pages And Please Check the Oil | Remember "Let Your Fingers Do The Walking"? A researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology is running 10 telephone company trucks on a chemical that can be made from wastepaper like that used in telephone books. "Now, we've got the directory doing the driving," said Jan Rickey, a spokeswoman for the Florida Energy... |
535667_1 | Pact for Northern Ireland Is Seen as Progress | an effort to prove that a peaceful settlement involving Protestant and Catholic politicians and officials from both parts of Ireland is still feasible. The agreement on a committee, after more than 12 hours of negotiation, was a compromise that kept the talks alive when they seemed to be foundering. The Protestant part... |
535664_0 | Talks in Rio Wrap Up Principles For Preserving the World's Forests | Environment ministers at the Earth Summit finally wrapped up a set of voluntary principles aimed at preserving the world's dwindling forests, a goal that was a United States priority at the conference, and were working feverishly tonight on a global cleanup plan. The Administration did not obtain a commitment to turn t... |
535680_2 | On Amazon, Foes Are Reptiles and Environmentalists | worth an estimated $1.6 trillion, tropical hardwoods valued an estimated $1.7 trillion, huge deposits of natural gas, and fertile areas that would allow Brazil to increase its farmland by 70 percent. Development advocates assert that environmentalists seek to preserve the Amazon as a vast park, ignoring the lot of Amaz... |
535711_1 | Patents; Keeping Ice Out of Food That's Frozen | Cinnaminson, N.J., has used genetic engineering to duplicate an "antifreeze" protein that winter flounder produce to block ice crystals from forming. Company officials say the protein could help extend the shelf life of ice creams, as well as improve the quality of frozen fruits, vegetables and other food. Specializing... |
535696_1 | Mejorada del Campo Journal; Raising a Temple to God, Brick by Crooked Brick | still unfinished but now impressive enough to be seen from miles around, an extraordinary monument to individualism and ingenuity mobilized by religious inspiration. Its walls and windows are in place and 14 towers are near completion, although the two tallest will rise another 90 feet, to 180 feet. Two cloisters are u... |
535665_0 | Religion Notes | Priests as Husbands Faced with a serious shortage of Roman Catholic priests, three-quarters of American Catholics favor allowing priests to marry, according to a nationwide survey conducted in May by the Gallup Organization. The survey, commissioned by a coalition of Catholic groups pressing for major changes in the ch... |
537792_0 | Perspectives: Emergency Repairs; Change Is Afoot in a System Under Fire | THE tale told about the city's Emergency Repair Program by John M. Reilly, executive director of the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation in the Bronx, would ring true to managers and owners of multifamily buildings in lower-income neighborhoods generally. "Several times crews came in to do work that we had completed," ... |
537503_3 | Tears and Awe as Patients Return | what their medical problems were -- had a relatively uneventful course in the nursery and now have cerebral palsy or maybe some motor deficit or cognitive deficit or some form a mental retardation. That's also a shock." The families who attended Sunday's reunion seemed to run the gamut from those with children who live... |
537731_4 | Bedside Manners Improve as More Women Enter Medicine | of male gynecologists' sexism, insensitivity and assembly-line approach. The most offensive cases he has witnessed include male gynecologists who called their male colleagues into an examination simply to admire a patient's body. "No man can understand the experience of being a woman," Dr. Smith said in an interview. F... |
537615_1 | Washing Buddha's Face | half white. Angkor Wat -- the largest religious monument on earth, the grandest architectural achievement of an empire that once stretched across Indochina, the most important symbol of unity in a nation that has known nothing but war or genocide for a generation -- is being scrubbed down and partly rebuilt by a team o... |
537615_2 | Washing Buddha's Face | rebuilding collapsed stone structures. Their critics say that the Indians are using outdated cleaning techniques and dangerous, abrasive chemicals to scrub away detail on some of the best-preserved statuary of the ancient world, while pouring cement with reckless abandon on a structure that was originally built without... |
537567_0 | SURFACING | WORD -- "Paleoliberals": Old-fashioned Democrats (e.g., Walter Mondale). CARS -- Beyond the Benzi box: The stereo you can carry in your pocket. SPORTSWEAR -- Recycled sneakers: Nike is testing cross-training shoes with soles made from ground-up sneakers. THEATER -- Recycled sitcoms: First there was "The Real Live Brady... |
538781_0 | Projecting the Present Onto Columbus | Historical uncertainty sails into New York Harbor today in the form of replicas of Christopher Columbus's Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. "Replicas" is an overstatement. Although these models pay meticulous attention to detail, facts about the original caravels are sparse. The same holds true for Columbus. Perceptions of ... |
535988_0 | Satellite View; Forest Damage, North and South | FOR years, environmental groups have been trying to get politicians up in the air to take a look at logging in national forests in the Pacific Northwest. The view from an airplane, they argue, gives a true sense of how much of the publicly owned forests have been cut. Last week, scientists at the National Aeronautics a... |
535996_1 | NEGOTIATORS IN RIO AGREE TO INCREASE AID TO THIRD WORLD | treaties at the Earth Summit, saying Americans are "the leaders, not the followers," on environmental issues and will be "pre-eminent" in carrying out accords signed at the conference. [ Page 10. ] Japan Vows Leading Role Japan, too, made a promise today to "play a leading role" in future world pollution control. Japan... |
536022_2 | Female Sailors Talk of Slow but Certain Change | harassment, the Navy has been singled out because of its deeply rooted image of adventure-seeking and promiscuity. When, in the last year, it was reported that a ship captain had been accused of performing oral sex with a prostitute in front of his crew, some Naval officers said it was not a remarkable incident. Women ... |
536112_0 | Rich Nations Offer Money, But Small Ones Raise Issues | RIO DE JANEIRO, June 13 -- In the parade of world leaders speaking at the Earth Summit, the voices of the great powers won the greatest attention, largely because of the dollar signs nestled in their texts. But it was the smaller nations that often cast diplomacy aside to raise troubling questions about overpopulation,... |
536095_3 | Tough Times In Foreign Jails | and sometimes United States Customs officials stationed at airports. The woman is pulled out of line and arrested as a mule, a drug-carrier. She can be sentenced to seven years in prison. Her boyfriend, meanwhile, is long gone -- and out of the reach of the law. Of course, most of the millions of tourists who roam the ... |
536113_0 | Rich Nations Offer Money, But Small Ones Raise Issues | RIO DE JANEIRO, June 13 -- In the parade of world leaders speaking at the Earth Summit, the voices of the great powers won the greatest attention, largely because of the dollar signs nestled in their texts. But it was the smaller nations that often cast diplomacy aside to raise troubling questions about overpopulation,... |
536029_2 | Lessons of Rio: A New Prominence and an Effective Blandness | widely seen as a promising start to the arduous task of curbing the heat-trapping gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, that threaten to disrupt the earth's climate. Most countries, the United States being the chief exception, also signed a treaty aimed at better conserving the world's dwindling inventory of living species. T... |
535742_5 | Trying to Preserve an Inner-City Parish | priest has my personal signature -- for example, my deep belief in openness and inclusiveness. Some of my important concerns have to be put on the back burner, like inclusive language, language that does not exclude women. A lot of church language uses male language. It takes a lot of work to change that, and because I... |
534481_0 | Networking; Privacy in E-Mail? Better to Assume It Doesn't Exist | It's illegal for an employer to listen in on a person's telephone conversations even if those conversations take place on a company-owned phone. But there are no such clear privacy rules for the electronic mail that moves on a company's computer network. If fact, most legal experts in the field are concerned by just ho... |
534083_2 | Defiantly Incorrect | 41, he finds himself at the center of a debate raging in editorial offices across the country over how far to push the edge of humor in the venerable American craft of cartooning. His 1989 autobiography, "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot," published by William Morrow, was a critical and commercial hit, introducing... |
534509_7 | On Deck to Tour Berlin | that kept easterners from slipping into the river and over to the West remain. Behind that fencing is Babelsberg, the German Hollywood where Marlene Dietrich rose to fame, which after the war cranked out Communist propaganda films. Near the Glienicke Bridge passengers catch a glimpse, high on a wooded hill to the left,... |
534503_2 | All Aboard the Raging Hormone Express | no violence would be done to molecular events if the response were described as "determined" and the signals were, say, "insistent" and "clear." Oddly enough, Ms. Sheehy presents evidence to support a far less alarmist view. In many societies -- especially those in which women gain freedom and status with age -- menopa... |
534180_0 | U.S., Trying to Buff Its Image, Defends the Forests | The United States, under fire at the Earth Summit for perceived foot-dragging on treaties intended to protect the planet's climate and its biological diversity, is trying to restore its standing, at least partly, by leading a drive to save the world's forests. But opponents of the forests initiative are suspicious of t... |
534081_19 | In the Court of the King of Tonga | "Are you saying, Your Majesty, that they should use an atom bomb on Saddam Hussein?" "They should put a bomb under him," the King said. "And you trust the French to test their nuclear devices elsewhere in the world?" (Some time after this conversation with the King, I read that the new French Prime Minister announced t... |
534073_0 | Under Sail Along Ontario's Rideau | ON the map it looks as though the lakes and rivers of eastern Ontario have been splattered there by a celestial Jackson Pollock. Some of the 60-odd lakes appear to have trickled together to form meandering ribbons. Others are blobs connected by fine threads. As I looked at the map, contemplating a one-week sailing trip... |
534252_0 | Show of Creations by Artists Who Teach | CRAFT collectors scour galleries, fairs and stores for well-designed, well-made contemporary pieces. Those in the know also go directly to the craft artists' studios. In New Jersey, connoisseurs and amateurs alike can find all these resources in one place: the Peters Valley Craft Center. The six studios at the center, ... |
534335_3 | Dodge Lets Loose an Old-Style Beast | that year's Los Angeles Auto Show rolled around, the Viper was on the Dodge stand as a concept car. And the public's interest astounded the executives. Since then, the car has starred at all the major shows, and it has been no secret that Dodge was working furiously to make it a production model. "We collected people f... |
534157_0 | Update; Roaming Black Bear Almost Takes Manhattan | The saga of the wayward black bear that wandered into the heart of suburbia in Paramus, N.J., late last month ended Thursday night in a bumpy encounter with a car just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The animal, a 190-pound, two-year old male, was hit at 11 P.M. as it ran across Closter Dock Road near the Palis... |
534162_0 | Delegates at Earth Summit Plan a Watchdog Agency | Diplomats attending the Earth Summit said today that they had achieved a broad consensus in favor of setting up a high-level watchdog group to insure that governments respect the pledges they make here. The new international body, to be called the Sustainable Development Commission, would rely heavily on evidence gathe... |
497540_0 | BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY -- The Global Lab: Agriculture; U.S. Biotech Seeks Foreign Backers | In agricultural biotechnology, the contrast between the American style of creating new businesses and the approach in Europe and Japan is especially stark. The difference has direct bearing on the way biotechnology companies tend to form their foreign alliances, with smaller American players teaming up with bigger over... |
497476_1 | U.S. Orders Assessment of Harm Caused by Dams | Mr. Springer said in an interview, are devices called fish ladders that would allow salmon and other species to spawn upstream. Some dams will be required to install barriers to protect fish from being chopped up by turbines. In addition, Mr. Springer said, dam owners could be called on to build boat ramps and other pr... |
497560_0 | Estrogen Is Found to Improve Mood, Not Just Menopause Symptoms | A Los Angeles research team has shown that in addition to the established benefits of estrogen replacement after menopause, it also improves the mood and psychological functioning of well-adjusted, healthy women without any distressing menopausal symptoms. Estrogen hormones given to women to replace those the body stop... |
501105_2 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Voters; HARKIN COURTING DISABLED VOTERS | a leg in Vietnam, can serve as a role model, no other Democrat has courted the disabled as vigorously as Mr. Harkin. He has hired a campaign staff member whose sole job is to organize disabled voters. He has insisted that all his main campaign offices be accessible to those with physical impairments. In addition, he ha... |
499786_0 | Tech Notes; Recycling the Proliferating Disk | When used with personal computers, compact disks can store vast amounts of information in very little space. But as more computer software is introduced on CD-ROM (compact disk read-only memory), regular updates of that software are sure to lead to a growing pile of disks that have outlived their usefulness. Before lon... |
499563_0 | U.N. Ends Protection for Vietnamese at Sea | An anti-piracy program intended to protect Vietnamese refugees from brutal attacks in the Gulf of Thailand has been phased out by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees because the attacks have all but ceased in the last 18 months. Responsibility for policing the seas where, since 1975, thousands of Vietname... |
499749_0 | The Executive Computer; Reports With Sound Effects and Video | Quicktime, one of Apple Computer Inc.'s most exciting recent innovations, holds the promise of making video, animation and sound almost as easy to use in computer programs as text and graphics. A flood of products designed to take advantage of Quicktime will be demonstrated at the Macworld Expo trade show, which begins... |
499779_1 | Power Struggle | is precisely what it has become hundreds of miles away, in southern Quebec and in New York State's capital, Albany, where the central question about the Great Whale River basin is this: Should large parts of it be underwater? Hydro-Quebec, a utility owned by the province of Quebec, envisions flooding the Great Whale as... |
499739_0 | Good News For Snackers And Venture | The announcement this month that Eagle Snacks Inc. has begun selling Cape Cod potato chips made with a canola oil low in saturated fats was good news for Richard Laster. He heads the Intermountain Canola Company of Cinnaminson, N.J., a joint venture of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and the DNA Plant Technology Cor... |
499569_3 | NOW Reasserts Its Role as Outsider | military aid to Israel. Stop paying for the deportation of our people." This prompted boos and catcalls from the new Jewish feminist caucus, which was enraged that the Israeli speaker chosen by NOW, Tamara Gozansky, is a Communist and a member of the country's Peace Party and someone unlikely to express views in opposi... |
499761_0 | Technology; Experimenting With an Unbreachable Electronic Cipher | In the next phase of the Information Age, when business and scientific documents, photographic images and personal correspondence are all stored in computers as strings of 1's and 0's, digital forgery may become a significant threat. Because of that threat, a number of techniques are being developed by cryptographers t... |
499712_0 | Booking With a Computer | THESE days, a journey of a thousand miles can begin with a single tap of the computer keyboard. The best way to get somewhere, some travelers assert, is through the personal computer. Using a computer and a modem, which allows two computers to exchange data over telephone lines, travelers can scan flight schedules and ... |
499836_0 | On the Road With Oldsmobile's Tourer | I REMEMBER, once, trying to rent a summer place in Nantasket, Mass. This was in the mid-60's, and the prospective landlord was a nasty guy. But I wanted the place, and my family was counting on me, no matter that this grouch thought us too inferior to spend a week in his rental house. He didn't like my name. Didn't lik... |
499795_0 | Booking With a Computer | THESE days, a journey of a thousand miles can begin with a single tap of the computer keyboard. The best way to get somewhere, some travelers assert, is through the personal computer. Using a computer and a modem, which allows two computers to exchange data over telephone lines, travelers can scan flight schedules and ... |
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