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499629_4 | Responding to Academic Achievers as School Budgets Tighten | children who need them, some educators say. "Westchester parents confuse smart kids with gifted kids," Mrs. Sternberg said. Some districts, like Scarsdale, don't offer any differentiated programs for gifted and talented youngsters. Some communities are suspicious of special programs for the intellectually gifted, viewi... |
501853_0 | Beijing Journal; Crime Is Up in China, and So Is the Public's Rage | Chinese prisons tend to be short of food and long on lice, beatings, and coffin-sized punishment cells. Felons can be executed immediately after the most perfunctory of trials, even for nonviolent offenses like embezzlement, and criminals' families are sometimes billed a few cents for the cost of the bullet used to exe... |
501937_0 | World Economies | |
501807_0 | ENVIRONMENT LAWS FACE A STIFF TEST FROM LANDOWNERS | Angry about regulations that control the use of their land, mining and timber companies, developers, farmers and other rural landowners have organized a movement that represents the strongest challenge to date to the nation's principal environmental laws. In the most successful tactic they have discovered so far, the m... |
503694_0 | World Economies | |
503556_0 | China's Floods of July: Misery Lingers | Half a year after a flood devastated parts of central China, at least two million people are still shivering in crude temporary shelters and may not be able to rebuild their lives for years to come. The flood victims are now enduring the coldest winter in many years, without heat or enough blankets, and they are likely... |
500402_0 | Rabies and Raccoons' Sorry Image | For years people regarded raccoons as cute and furry black-masked creatures that roved by moonlight across suburbia's lawns and wooded hills. Their greatest offense was ripping into bags of trash. Now, as rabies outbreaks sweep the metropolitan region, raccoons have replaced pit bulls as four-legged objects of public f... |
498454_0 | World Economies | |
498882_5 | California Olive Oil May Follow Wine In Upward Mobility | planted more than 1,000 trees on 81 acres near Healdsburg in Sonoma County and has another 1,600 waiting to go in the ground. He has estimated his investment at around $15 a tree. "We could plant prime chardonnay on this land and get $1,600 a ton for it," he said. "But I like doing something different." That his compan... |
498907_0 | Serving Workers on the Road With Data to Go | Just as cellular telephone technology vaulted car telephones from rare curiosities to mass-market products, a new generation of nationwide data networks is making it possible for both large and small companies to extend their office computer systems to employees on the road. Mastercard International plans to use such a... |
498832_0 | New Study Strongly Links Passive Smoking and Cancer | A THREE-YEAR study of nonsmoking women in five metropolitan areas has fortified earlier conclusions that secondhand smoke increases a spouse's risk of lung cancer. Taking into account other possible influences on a woman's cancer risk, the study, the largest of its kind, found a 30 percent higher risk of lung cancer if... |
498833_1 | Personal Health | nausea, mood disturbance and ultrasensitivity to light and noise that often accompany them stem from an abrupt drop in previously high levels of estrogen. Women who suffer from the syndrome, called menstrual migraine, also often complain of suchmenstrual discomforts as fluid retention and breast tenderness. "Women are ... |
504240_4 | The Federal Budget: The Overview; PRESIDENT OFFERS CAUTIOUS CHANGES IN SPENDING PLAN | likely to alienate large numbers of voters. As expected, he proposes to increase spending for Head Start, child nutrition, preventive health programs, biomedical research and Pell grants, the major source of Federal aid to college students from low-income families. Those proposals are all intended to reinforce the mess... |
499386_2 | Venezuela in Step to Raise Oil Price | in Vienna on Thursday, and John H. Lichtblau of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation said the meeting represented a step forward in that "it wasn't negative." If Iraqi exports are allowed to resume, they could reach a million barrels a day within weeks, Mr. Licht blau said. Iraq's prewar OPEC quota was 3.14 milli... |
499488_0 | I.R.A. BOMB SET OFF IN CENTRAL LONDON | An Irish Republican Army bomb, the latest in a wave that has undermined public confidence in the effectiveness of anti-terrorist measures in England and Northern Ireland, blew up in the heart of the British Government quarter today, disrupting traffic but causing no injuries. The explosion caused outrage, in part becau... |
502571_3 | MCI, Grown Big, Looks Abroad | the minute. The price is determined only by Pacific Telephone with oversight by California regulators. MCI, U S Sprint and others are now banned from competing in such a lucrative market. The last decade has seen how competition has already transfigured what was once called Plain Old Telephone Service. A.T.& T. enjoyed... |
502664_1 | Company to Release Data Questioning Implant Safety | said today: "The documents the F.D.A. has demanded that Dow make public are only the tip of the iceberg. I am very pleased that some of these documents will soon be made public, but the F.D.A. must require Dow to make all the relevant information available to doctors, patients and the general public." The company said ... |
504127_0 | The Once and Future Intern's Lament | To the Editor: "Graduates March Down the Aisle Into Job Nightmare" (news article, Jan. 9), on the growing number of well educated young professionals in volunteer work or internships, hits the nail right on the head. I am a recent graduate of Catholic University of America, who like many of my fellow graduates, saw gra... |
504103_0 | CHRONICLE | A campaign of a different sort has been started to help save a rain forest in Tanzania. On Thursday night, 200 guests at a party at the Yale Club will bid on chances to choose the common and scientific names for a butterfly, a beetle, a frog and a flower found in the Eastern Arc. The arc encompasses seven mountain rang... |
504034_0 | Eating Well | THE rush to create low-fat foods has sent food scientists scurrying to their beakers and Bunsen burners in search of fat substitutes. One method for creating fake fat that mimics the taste and texture of the real thing is to rearrange ordinary components of foods into something entirely new. Caprenin (pronounced ka-PRE... |
502900_1 | Economic Scene; Conservative Plea To Aid Ex-Soviets | challenges in our own interest." The 47 nations attending the Washington aid conference, assembled by the United States, fell well short of that objective. Economic policy makers, Dr. Schlesinger said, would have to cope with "a huge problem for years to come -- namely a worldwide capital shortage." Demands for capital... |
500695_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | like a candidate. A1 A new Bob Kerrey is struggling with the old one. A16 A TV station calls its own shots -- and the candidates'. A16 THE WAR, A YEAR LATER On its first anniversary, the Persian Gulf war has receded in American consciousness to an extent that few people expected, replaced by fears about the economy and... |
500582_1 | For Some Gardeners, Sartorial Weeds Just Won't Do | $7 gloves from Agway? Fashion, that's what, growing greener than a sugar snap pea. The new catalogues are not just talking fashionable perennials and old roses and heirloom seeds. They're talking "the look." The look says you are a 90's person with an eye to what is durable and functional and comfortable. The look says... |
500826_0 | New Sanitation Chief Hopes To Push Recycling Business | Emily Lloyd, who will become New York City's Sanitation Commissioner next month, said yesterday that she hoped to develop new recycling markets that would attract new businesses and jobs to New York City and to encourage communities and businesses to share in keeping the city's streets and sidewalks clean. Ms. Lloyd, t... |
500829_4 | Plan Would Give New Phones Big Swath of the Radio Band | public safety agencies, "there is no place else to go" if they lose their frequencies, said Robert Gurss, a lawyer in Washington representing the Public Safety Microwave Committee, an association that lobbies on communications issues for police and rescue agencies, highway and tunnel authorities and other users. Mr. Gu... |
498378_3 | Noted With Pleasure | symbols of home. For scholars these stories are also artifacts. While many times I crossed snaky fields in high boots and crept gingerly across rotting porches to inspect old structures, the entrance to the home place, I found, was through these oral narratives. The Natural Theater of the New The art critic Robert Hugh... |
498352_3 | Managing; Nice Degree - Go Away and Use It | More than 100 employees, or about 10 percent of the work force, have signed the so-called Ignition Initiative contract, and about 60 are now enrolled in classes. Employees hired before the program began can remain at the company as long as they want, but they are limited to earning $9 an hour. In the few management slo... |
498292_0 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | CHAMBER OPERA Tiny Operas," three short chamber operas adapted by Susan O. Bingham from stories by O. Henry, will be presented by the Chancel Opera Company of Connecticut today at 4 and 7:30 P.M. in Christ Church, 84 Broadway, New Haven. "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf" and "Makes the Whole World Kin," were firs... |
498367_1 | Coming: Telephone Calls That Follow You Around | and route the call to the nearest available telephone, whether it was in a car, a plane, a pocket, a home, an office or a hotel room. But the system would also give more control to the person on the receiving end of the call. Through more advanced versions of caller identification, call forwarding and digital passwords... |
498341_0 | Making a Difference; A Big Break in Biotech | A long-awaited breakthrough finally came late last month for 10-year-old Crop Genetics International and Joseph W. Kelly, its 47-year-old chairman and chief executive. On Dec. 27, Crop Genetics announced that it had formed an alliance with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company to develop naturally occurring insect viruses... |
498291_0 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | CHAMBER OPERA Tiny Operas," three short chamber operas adapted by Susan O. Bingham from stories by O. Henry, will be presented by the Chancel Opera Company of Connecticut today at 4 and 7:30 P.M. in Christ Church, 84 Broadway, New Haven. "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf" and "Makes the Whole World Kin," were firs... |
498358_4 | The Executive Computer; Daunting Hurdles to Using System 7 on the Mac | the lost information. Including shopping for the utility, the process took many hours. But once the compatibility barrier is surmounted, System 7 is worth the journey. Some of its strongest new features are subtle ones. An improved "find" feature, for example, can locate any file or program, then deliver it to the user... |
498209_0 | CONNETICUT GUIDE | CHAMBER OPERA "Tiny Operas," three short chamber operas adapted by Susan O. Bingham from stories by O. Henry, will be presented by the Chancel Opera Company of Connecticut today at 4 and 7:30 P.M. in Christ Church, 84 Broadway, New Haven. "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf" and "Makes the Whole World Kin," were fir... |
498655_4 | In Nuclear Deal, Seoul Halts War Game With U.S. | are resolved. But on Monday the Administration switched from the stick to the carrot, saying that if the inspections occurred, and quickly, they would cancel the annual "Team Spirit" exercises that the North often criticizes as a practice for a nuclear attack. Thousands of soldiers normally would have arrived here late... |
498698_0 | Rabbi Robert Gordis, 83, Dies; Defined Conservative Judaism | Dr. Robert Gordis, an author, rabbi and biblical scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83 years old. He died of complications after a stroke, his family said. Dr. Gordis, who was ordained at the seminary in 1932, taught Bible and Jewish philosophy there from 1937 un... |
503219_5 | Candidates Playing to Mood of Protectionism | States began to run a serious trade deficit for the first time in more than a century. Trade restrictions here exploded. When the dollar is strong, imports are less costly and American exports are more expensive, which meant that important domestic industries like copper, steel and autos found themselves unable to comp... |
503356_0 | Technology; Bombproofing the Skies | Since a terrorist bomb weighing less than a pound destroyed Pan American flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 and caused 270 deaths, the Federal Aviation Administration and research firms have been trying to figure out how to make planes immune to such explosives. One answer might be to harden a plane's removable luggage c... |
503536_0 | The Preservation Movement Is Making Headway | THE little Catskills town of Hurley, N.Y., in Ulster County, has the largest concentration of antique stone houses in the country. Built between 1684 and the early 1800's, the 25 houses line both sides of Main Street, leading to the town's 19th-century Dutch Reformed Church. All were placed on the National Register of ... |
503218_5 | Candidates Playing to Mood of Protectionism | States began to run a serious trade deficit for the first time in more than a century. Trade restrictions here exploded. When the dollar is strong, imports are less costly and American exports are more expensive, which meant that important domestic industries like copper, steel and autos found themselves unable to comp... |
500212_0 | The 'Logic' in I.R.A. Zealotry | The bomb that exploded in central London last week was not meant to kill but to serve as a calling card for the Irish Republican Army. The blast near the Defense Ministry followed weeks of incendiary bombing in Britain and Northern Ireland designed to cause maximum disruption with minimum loss of life. The relative lac... |
500227_1 | Maker of Silicone Breast Implants Says Data Show Them to Be Safe | breast implants. The data Mr. Rylee discussed were reviewed last year by the F.D.A. and were rejected as inadequate, although the agency allowed implants to remain on the market, citing a "public health need." Some of the new information came from rheumatologists and related to the possibility that silicone in the body... |
500295_1 | Castro Cracking Down As the Hardships Grow | the news, as has often been the case in the past. Three Exiles Captured Rather than simply condemning the flight of its citizens, however, the Government has woven the incidents into a campaign already well under way to attack dissidents, warn of a predatory United States and urge greater unity in the face of economic ... |
500094_1 | Careers; For M.B.A.'s, Dim Outlook This Spring | Sachs; Salomon; First Boston; J. P. Morgan, and Equitable Life. This is the 12th year of this type of recruiting for the school. As might be expected at a school named for a financier, many of the students like the idea of taking jobs with financial and other well-known companies in the New York metropolitan area, and ... |
500123_7 | Debate on Buildings: To Scrub Or Not | was cleaned in the mid-1980's with water dripped gently from hoses strung along its roof. As the water flowed over the surface, natural iron pigments deep in the marble began migrating outward, turning the huge white cathedral a rusty brown. Eventually, further water applications washed the iron away and restored St. P... |
499903_0 | Worldwatch Report Calls 1990's Decisive Decade for Environment | Two years ago, the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute warned that the world had about 40 years in which to reverse environmental deterioration or face a long decline into economic and social ruin. But in its latest annual report, the institute asserts that the 1990's are the "decisive decade" for environmental chang... |
499970_0 | World Economies | |
501346_3 | Noted With Pleasure | energies can be periodically renewed in a communion meal that commemorates and recalls its inception. Modern poets such as Wallace Stevens have inherited from the myth makers of old the disposition to supply the perennial human need for once-upon-a-time stories that also inform our own beginnings, but they realize that... |
501755_4 | Cuttings; So the Seeds of the Past Can Give Future Delight | in the 18th century. "The Hutterites were a religious sect that fled to Canada and brought their seeds with them," Dr. Kapuler said. He got about 10 seeds from the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, and grew enough beans to make soup during a weeklong snowstorm. "You know how most beans have to cook all day?" he sa... |
501178_0 | Making a Difference; Payoff for a Hard Worker: A Second Place to Work | David V. Goeddel, the star gene cloner at Genentech Inc., is known as much for his high energy level and long work hours as for his brilliant science. He is famous for having slept in his laboratory when necessary to help Genentech win the race to isolate a new protein for use as a drug. Now Dr. Goeddel will stretch hi... |
501581_2 | Where to Find No-Frills Facts | -- and are probably useful as check lists. Hoyte B. Decker Jr., assistant director for consumer affairs in the Transportation Department, a source of this column's sometimes discouraging data on consumer complaints and flight delays, said that the fact sheets were written to be understood by people who might not have t... |
501187_1 | Public & Private; Not About Breasts | not always met. We have women whose reproductive organs were removed when they were barely past puberty because mothers took a synthetic estrogen during pregnancy that caused cancer in their daughters. We have women who were maimed by an intrauterine device. We have lived with a negative standard -- not unsafe -- inste... |
501532_5 | Biotechnology Companies Find a Home In the State | potential use for the technology, Dr. Abuchowski said, is the production of hemoglobin -- the protein present in blood that is responsible for carrying oxygen. Quest Has Taken Years "This is probably one of the most unique pharmaceutical products ever created," Dr. Abuchowski said. "People have been trying to make arti... |
501395_0 | Insurgency's End Seems Distant at Colombia Talks | An end seems distant in Colombia's guerrilla insurgency, the longest running in Latin America. On Feb. 1, for the fourth time in eight months, representatives of the Government and the guerrillas are to meet in Caracas, Venezuela, in an attempt to negotiate a cease-fire. "No one in the Government expected a fast proces... |
501545_5 | How to End the Abortion War | themselves "pro-choice" and "pro-life" -- misleading terms used here principally for convenience. The pro-life movement began in 1967, six years before Roe v. Wade. The women's movement, also revitalized during the 60's, gave an impetus for self-assertion to women on both sides of the abortion issue. But there are less... |
501405_1 | ULSTER'S WARFARE TAKES VARIED TOLL | these days. Six Bombings in Six Weeks Over the last six weeks, the Irish Republican Army has set off six bombs in the city center as part of a continuing campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. In addition to injuries, the attacks have cost millions of dollars in damage and have left people with jangled nerv... |
502111_0 | Dispute Over a Dam on the Scenic Yangtze | THE Three Gorges Dam would be far from the highest ever built, but it certainly would be among the most controversial water projects in the world. Vigorously criticized by environmental groups from as far away as Canada, the dam would submerge one of the Yangtze River's most scenic spots and it would require a huge exp... |
502116_3 | Black Box: Out of Sight but Crucial | reminder: Back up your hard disk. A newer program like Wordperfect for Windows will not even fit on a 10-megabyte hard disk, and 20 megabytes would be tight. A 40MB drive is adequate, assuming the user does not plan to use many other major applications. If the user wants to take advantage of several Windows programs, h... |
502107_0 | New Cancer Clue: How Cells Talk To Each Other | SEVERAL times each day, a normal cell in the body mutates into a cancerous one but is knocked out by the body's defense mechanisms. Occasionally, however, the mutant cells take hold and grow uncontrollably into a malignant tumor. Uncontrolled growth is distinguishes cancerous cells from normal ones. But precisely what ... |
501954_0 | Irradiated Food Coming, But Not Without Protest | After years of scientific debate and commercial hesitation, the first food irradiation plant in the nation now stands ready for service and could begin shipping specially treated fruit as early as next week. Many scientists at universities and Federal agencies regard irradiation of food as a safe and efficient way to r... |
502113_8 | Chinese Aim to Harness Yangtze and Yellow Rivers | site of the Three Gorges Dam, and skeptics argue that in a few decades the reservoir will become an unnavigable pool of mud. Backers of the project have conducted extensive tests, some of them using a half-mile-long laboratory version of the Yangtze, and they insist that siltation would not be a major problem. In the s... |
498017_3 | Cuban Pilot Defects With 33 Others in a Daring Helicopter Flight | "Cuba Awaits You," were still on board the helicopter as it sat on the tarmac at Tamiami Airport, with customs agents and Miami police officers guarding it. Under the terms of an international air hijacking agreement that both the United States and Cuba have signed, the helicopter must be returned to Cuba. A spokesman ... |
497951_0 | Sports of The Times; The Menace That Looms In the N.B.A. | When Karl Malone made like Scarface Capone and ripped a hole in Isiah Thomas's head, it made people in the National Basketball Association and beyond take particular notice. At least, it seemed to. But Chuck Person, among others, was apparently otherwise occupied. On Dec. 14, in Salt Lake City, Thomas, the 6-foot-1-inc... |
497964_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about a study of follow-up treatments for breast cancer referred incorrectly to one comparison of possible benefits of therapies in women of different ages. The study suggested that tamoxifen in women over 50 years old (not under 50) produces as good an effect as chemotherapy. |
503113_0 | To Keep Memories, Keep Ellis Island Buildings; Striking a Balance | To the Editor: "Save Ellis Island's Ghosts" (editorial, Dec. 27) balances many of the critical decisions faced in charting the future of this unique national monument. To honor the millions who passed through these portals, a thoughtful plan must be developed to save significant elements across the island. But under cu... |
499269_1 | No Gaps or Static From These Cordless Phones | or occupy the same radio frequency as a neighbor's cordless phone, a baby monitor or even a garage-door opener, and can be subject to eavesdropping with easily available radio equipment, like scanners. Cordless phones are basically radios, connected to a transmitter in the base, that plug into conventional telephone ou... |
499316_1 | U.S. Sees Months of Talks Needed for World Trade Pact | chance for countries to endorse or turn down the pact, the meeting now is likely to be the beginning of further talks. One requirement of the current proposal, presented by GATT's Director General, Arthur Dunkel, in late December, is for countries to reduce their spending on agricultural export subsidies by at least 36... |
503943_0 | How to Use Debt to Save Russian Forests | To the Editor: The United States has agreed to support Russia's inclusion in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank (front page, Jan. 4), to suspend Russia's debt payments until 1993 and to provide millions of dollars in direct aid. For little or no additional cost, the United States and the international commu... |
503748_0 | 61 Acts of Bias: One Fuse Lights Many Different Explosions | Since Jan. 6, when a gang of white youths yelling racial epithets squirted white sneaker polish on two black children in the Bronx, bias incidents have rained down hard and heavy in New York City. Sixty-one cases have been reported so far, ranging from racial slurs hurled from a passing car to subway riders slapped in ... |
503898_0 | Experts Say Logging Of Vast Siberian Forest Could Foster Warming | THE forests of the Amazon and other tropical regions have been getting attention for some time, and understandably so. They are home to a disproportionate share of the world's living species, they absorb huge amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide that would otherwise exert a big heating effect on the earth's climate an... |
503898_1 | Experts Say Logging Of Vast Siberian Forest Could Foster Warming | other heat-trapping gases continue to build up in the atmosphere at the present rate, the earth's average surface temperature will rise by 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit in the next century with possibly catastrophic results, many scientists predict. The rate of buildup would presumably increase if Siberia were deforested. ... |
503875_1 | Shamans and Scientists Seek Cures in Plants | to all their long-term interests and are worth more if preserved as economic assets than cut down for farmland. The spearhead of this crusade is a pair of ingenious efforts to exploit the forests on behalf of medicine. The plans were described at a symposium last week at Rockefeller University in Manhattan. The gatheri... |
502310_0 | Text of U.N. Resolution Asking Libya's Help | Following is the text of Security Council Resolution 731, approved unanimously today, which calls on Libya to turn over two of its citizens to face trial in one airliner bombing and to cooperate in the investigation of another: THE SECURITY COUNCIL, DEEPLY DISTURBED by the worldwide persistence of acts of international... |
502310_1 | Text of U.N. Resolution Asking Libya's Help | involved, which endanger or take innocent lives, have a deleterious effect on international relations and jeopardize the security of states, DEEPLY CONCERNED by all illegal activities directed against international civil aviation and affirming the right of all states, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nation... |
497820_1 | Study on Breast Cancer Finds Therapy Is Effective for Years | of breast cancer, they were still significant, particularly several years after treatment. Tamoxifen blocks the action of the female hormone estrogen in the body. Tamoxifen, but not chemotherapy, also protected against development of new cancer in the other breast, the analysis showed. Alternative to Chemotherapy The f... |
497820_2 | Study on Breast Cancer Finds Therapy Is Effective for Years | allowed easy comparison. But a team at Oxford University performed a statistical process, a type of "meta-analysis," to draw conclusions not possible from analyzing the studies one by one or in small groups. The team, headed by Richard Peto, is renowned for its innovative statistical analyses. Breast cancer researchers... |
499057_1 | Unilever Unit Entering Fat-Substitute Market | He also said the company had already received orders for the products from food processing companies that cooperated in the development. National Starch, one of the first companies to introduce a fat replacer, the tapioca-based N-Oil, is the first company to differentiate its fat substitutes. Some analysts described th... |
499048_1 | Graduates March Down Aisle Into Job Nightmare | changed career plans or extended apprenticeships. Ivy League Bartenders Some recent Ivy League graduates, for instance, are tending bar and driving taxicabs, and doctoral students are stalling completion of their dissertations because staying in a $20,000-a-year teaching assistantship is better than leaving a universit... |
547751_0 | Food Notes | A World of Fancy Food This summer's Fancy Food and Confection Show, a trade show held last week in Washington, was testimony to the continuing interest in salsas, spicy foods, olive oils, biscotti, foods that suggest the Mediterranean and so-called sugar-free preserves that are sweetened with fruit sugar instead of can... |
547773_0 | Corrections | A brief article by The Associated Press yesterday about French policy toward the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty misstated the latest action. France formally submitted its adherence to the treaty; it was signed by President Francois Mitterrand on July 1, and France has long pledged to abide by it. |
547753_2 | Lovers of Tomatoes Fear Dr. Frankenstein's Garden | the public is none the wiser, Dr. Fox reasons, how can the public vote? He also worries about what happens to the active nutrients, the vitamins and enzymes whose development is suspended along with the ripening process in some genetically altered tomatoes. He worries about the delicate biochemical relationship between... |
547702_5 | Personal Health | safely consume, the general advice is not to drink at all until after the baby is born. Other adults who should steer clear of alcohol include people with peptic ulcers and other health problems that might be aggravated by alcohol; people taking medications like sleeping pills, anti-depressant or anti-anxiety drugs or ... |
547760_0 | Help Wanted? Call Havana | One of the first things you notice about Ireland's Olympic boxing team is Nicolas Hernandez Cruz. He doesn't look Irish, and his name certainly doesn't imply that he is. But Hernandez, Ireland's 34-year-old Olympic boxing coach, will tell you that since he moved to Dublin from Havana in 1988, he has adopted Ireland, fr... |
552351_0 | World Economies | |
552301_1 | For Misplaced Students, Special Education Can Disable, Too | to a pizza parlor. In his rough way, he suggests, he feels patronized by all this "babywork." All he craves is to sit in a real classroom, to hear a spirited lesson. Thousands of the genuinely handicapped belong in special classes. But too often, critics say, assignment there is not driven by a handicap, but by money a... |
552400_2 | Latin American Indians: Old Ills, New Politics | light of the economic problems, including debt, that hobble the region. This, in turn, raises the question of whether the Indian cultures now on the margin of society can continue to survive on their own. Some argue that it would be better to try to bring native groups into mainstream society, saying that attempts to p... |
550373_0 | AUGUST 9-15: The Doomsday Rock; New Evidence That a Crater Is a Dinosaur-Killer's Grave | The old hypothesis that a doomsday rock from outer space did in the dinosaurs became a bit more real last week as researchers announced new evidence for a collision on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. It turns out that a crater there, 110 miles wide and already identified as big enough to have created a global pall of ... |
550357_7 | The Latest in Buzzwords: Mailed From America | and shipping, a 25 percent saving. David Zentmyer, Lands' End vice president for corporate ventures, defended the higher British-catalogue price by explaining how much more it cost the company to print a separate edition and establish a local branch to work with customers. What he overlooks is the cachet that also come... |
552083_1 | Where Burpee First Tilled | a white marigold that Mr. Ball insists somebody will love (though why would anybody want a white marigold?). Then there's Heatwave, a new tomato hybrid that is a determinate type -- meaning that the vine will eventually stop growing, creating a bushy plant -- but it is as sweet, Mr. Ball promises, as the ones that grow... |
551953_0 | Times Sq. Subway Station Plan Is Canceled | The postponement of a plan to build four giant office towers in Times Square has forced the New York City Transit Authority to abandon a $165 million project to renovate the ramshackle Times Square subway station, dealing another blow to efforts to revitalize the neighborhood. The Transit Authority's proposal for the l... |
553176_3 | Your Money; Important Time For Job Seekers | may be able to negotiate a bonus," as a result. "The most important thing is research, research, research," about both a company and the specific job, he continued, through a business library, annual reports, 10-K's and personal contacts. That is because the candidate who knows what the company needs is then in positio... |
547009_2 | WESTCHESTER GUIDE | college credits at the State University of New York at Purchase in the department of environmental sciences. A $25 materials fee is the only cost, covering about five texts on the ecology of the region, child psychology and teaching methods. Candidates must be at least 18; a background in teaching or the ecological sci... |
546838_0 | Team Reports Finding Continent's Deepest Gorge | Sounding the bottom of a thick Alaskan glacier, scientists have made measurements showing what they feel sure is the deepest gorge in North America, perhaps in the world. It is the Great Gorge, on a flank of Mount McKinley. The readings, made with seismic instruments used in subsurface mapping and oil exploration, show... |
547120_1 | Foreign Affairs; Redefining National Security | about promoting abortion. Refugees. The international homeless total reached 18 million in 1991, and grows faster each year. The main causes are war and poverty. Costs are staggering: $7 billion yearly just for those seeking political asylum. Peacekeeping and Peacemaking. The flood of refugees will grow and so will thr... |
546812_4 | Special Report; Living on the Edge | English-language skills, is proving less tractable: they leave school at twice the rate of their non-Hispanic classmates. Characteristics known to push children off the edge and out of school, such as pregnancy, drug or alcohol use, low family income or failing grades, do not account for all dropouts. Other pathologies... |
546903_0 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | RAIN FOREST HABITAT According to Gregg Dancho, director of the Beardsley Zoological Gardens in Bridgeport, tropical rain forests cover less than 7 percent of the earth's surface, yet they support more than 50 percent of all species. Today, the rain forests are decreasing by 60 acres a minute, while the world population... |
553574_0 | A Lower Gear for Japan's Auto Makers | The Nissan Motor Company has gone to great lengths to give customers what they want. Japanese buyers of the Nissan Sunny, known as the Stanza in the United States, can choose from nearly 200 variations with different engines, bodies, tires and transmissions. The company has sold fewer than a dozen units of some combina... |
553283_2 | Let's Not Be Reasonable | Mr. Saul lays out his thesis, are readable and occasionally stimulating. After that, things grow tedious, in large part because this relentlessly verbose book is almost completely lacking in narrative sweep. (Mr. Saul would have done well to spend an evening or two with Paul Johnson's "Modern Times" before sitting down... |
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553507_0 | Catholic Panel Rewrites Letter On Female Role | Trying for a fourth time to draft a pastoral letter on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church, a committee of United States bishops has offered a version that rejects the ordination of female priests even more vigorously than the one that stirred intense debate at a meeting of the bishops in June. The new versi... |
553575_0 | A Lower Gear for Japan's Auto Makers | The Nissan Motor Company has gone to great lengths to give customers what they want. Japanese buyers of the Nissan Sunny, known as the Stanza in the United States, can choose from nearly 200 variations with different engines, bodies, tires and transmissions. The company has sold fewer than a dozen units of some combina... |
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