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1625883_0 | Saving Shangri-La | Progress in China is not easy to chart. Every step forward seems to be paired with a move back, in the direction of the hard Communist past. This pattern of advance and retreat requires constant analysis to determine whether the nation is moving, even generally, in the right direction toward more freedom, better laws a... |
1625890_0 | Ivoirian Throngs Assemble to Shield President From the French | French and Ivory Coast military commanders appealed for calm Monday in Abidjan, as government supporters, whipped into a frenzy by reports that French tanks were assembling near the home of President Laurent Gbagbo, gathered by the thousands to form a human shield around their leader's neighborhood. French soldiers fir... |
1629286_1 | Licenses Sought as Court Action Is Awaited on a Bear Hunt | authority and ordered the department to process all bear-hunting license applications by Dec. 2. The New Jersey attorney general's office, on behalf of Mr. Campbell, has appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the appellate division heard arguments last Thursday on a lawsuit filed by a group seekin... |
1629249_4 | NEWS SUMMARY | to shape the terms for providing services to disabled children. In updating the law governing special education, Congress pared down rights that advocates for disabled students won during the Clinton administration. A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 New York Port Bustling With Asian Trade The Port of New York, which fell into a... |
1629240_3 | Parts of Special-Ed Bill Would Shift More Power to States and School Districts | House and Senate in the next Congress, groups representing children in special education said they would have fared worse had Congress been forced to start rewriting a bill from scratch again next year. ''All the people on the advocate side were protective of current law,'' said Kathleen H. McGinley, deputy executive d... |
1630330_4 | What Gave Us the Right | she is fascinated by the prominence of so many of her classmates in Washington. And so she put aside the poststructuralist approach to political identity and antebellum political culture she'd deployed in books like ''95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method'' to ponder age-old questions about truth and power. Her mo... |
1630382_3 | A Summer Isle, Off-Season | availability of an excellent meal, and space opens up on the ferries and airline flights from the mainland. Hundreds of new homes have been built on Nantucket over the last 20 years. Celebrities are among the arrivals, and the prices of even ordinary houses have reached seven figures. Some high-end businesses downtown ... |
1630605_1 | THE READING FILE | in My Head ''You Hume it, I'll play it ,'' by John Mizzoni, who teaches philosophy at Neumann College, in Aston, Pa., explains why pop music is useful to his trade. The article is in The Philosopher Magazine (www.philosophersnet.com) and the opening lyric is from the group Green Day. Excerpts follow: Last week, I stood... |
1630655_0 | Fear of Flying With Humiliation | To the Editor: The screening procedures that the Transportation Security Administration have adopted are for the most part degrading and at times almost brutal. I have seen elderly women and even one child who could not have been more than 9 years old undergo this indignity. That being said, I find it somewhat strange ... |
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1630430_0 | Cuba Penalizing Dollar Exchanges | The Cuban government has prohibited United States dollars to be used in transactions without a 10 percent penalty to convert them into Cuban pesos. Although most Americans are not allowed to visit Cuba legally, the nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights estimates that 64,000 a year will have gone this year -- down ... |
1630628_4 | For Many Cubans, an Uneasy Farewell to the Dollar | with which state salaries are paid. Those pesos are worth only about four cents, even in Cuba. The currency switch is also a clever way for the government to tap into the more than $800 million that Cubans in America wire home every year to family members. Now expatriate Cubans must either send the money in some other ... |
1088929_2 | U.S. Says It Caught a Chinese Smuggler Seeking Gyroscopes That Can Guide Missiles | at which he agreed to be transferred to Boston to face charges, the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress detailing China's buildup of tactical missiles on its coast facing Taiwan. The report concluded that China was ''still decades'' away from being able to project military force far beyond its borders but that its ... |
1088890_4 | Expert to Help Devise Format For Delivering Music on Net | year to participate, suddenly makes him an even more influential man: companies with technologies that end up being incorporated into the standard format stand to make millions simply from patent royalties or licensing fees. Internet anarchists, pirates and utopians have been predicting that the delivery of music on th... |
1093695_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR DROPS 3.15 PERCENT. Sugar fell after a report that Brazil, the world's largest grower, increased exports while supplies are ample and demand is weak. Sugar for May delivery slid 0.18 cent a pound, to 5.54 cents. |
1093701_0 | '400 Years' in Irish Jail Lasts Just 16 Months | Four Irish Republican Army guerrillas convicted of terrorist crimes were sentenced today to a total of 400 years in prison by a judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But under the terms of the Northern Ireland peace agreement approved last year, they will be freed by July 2000. The four men were silent as they were sente... |
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1093387_3 | Rare Expose in China Warns Of Unrest Over Dam Project | every other month. The journal was long known as having a conservative bent, but in the last year or two it has become more provocative. ''Often we publish pieces that are not in keeping with official views, in order to encourage discussion,'' said Zhang Jian, an editor at the journal. Still it is hardly a radical foru... |
1093246_0 | Wright's Sagging Balcony | To the Editor: Your story on March 11, ''Saving Fallingwater From a Fall,'' pointed out ''Wright's failure to put enough reinforcing rods into the concrete -- despite strong admonitions to do so.'' But the consequences of Frank Lloyd Wright's not listening to others are insignificant when measured against the consequen... |
1093334_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-14 China's Huge Dam Project Gets Rare Public Criticism A major intellectual journal in China has published a searing expose of social problems caused by the construction of the giant Three Gorges Dam. Such blunt dissection of Government policy is almost never seen in print in China now. A1 U.S. Envoy S... |
1095477_1 | Aid to Environment, Or Threat to Lake?; Cornell Pursues Pumping Plan, But Critics Fear Fouled Water | warming by reducing the need to burn coal to generate electricity. For the most part, government officials have agreed, and construction is expected to get into high gear in April. But a small, determined coalition of critics from Ithaca and surrounding Tompkins County says the school's plan should never have been appr... |
1095499_0 | E-mail: Friendly or Alienating? | To the Editor: Avraham Balaban's rumination on the new voluntary alienation that E-mail engenders is too pessimistic (Op-Ed, March 22). Perhaps he's only nostalgic for the enforced neighborliness that people must endure in a tiny country like Israel, where everybody, as they say, is in your shoes as soon as you step th... |
1090186_0 | World Briefing | ASIA AFGHANISTAN: NEW CLASHES -- Fighting intensified between the ruling Taliban militia and the opposition, a day after both sides announced they had agreed to hold peace talks in Turkmenistan on March 10. Opposition forces said they had gained some ground in the central province of Bamiyan. (Reuters) CHINA: MILLIONS ... |
1096287_1 | 'Mad Cow Disease' Seen in French Zoos | same way that British cattle were dying from mad cow disease. As a result, feed manufacturers stopped adding British beef to their products in 1996. That year, Dr. Noelle Bons, a neurobiologist at Montpellier University in France reported that a rhesus monkey and two lemurs from the local zoo had died of a brain diseas... |
1096382_0 | Talking to Women | To the Editor: A March 28 Week in Review article on women's magazines cites a statement by the 35-year-old writer Danielle Crittenden that women of her generation are ''even more miserable and insecure, more thwarted and obsessed with men, than the most depressed, Lithium-popping suburban readers of the 1950's.'' But l... |
1096304_1 | As Clock Ticks for Peace Pact, British and Irish Leaders Huddle | destroyed, possibly leading to a new round of sectarian violence between paramilitaries of the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority. The peace agreement would give more political power to Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and more influence in the province's affairs to the overwhelmingly Catholic Republic o... |
1096278_2 | Unlikely Tool for Species Preservation: Warfare | in the February issue of the journal Conservation Biology by Paul S. Martin, a paleoecologist at the University of Arizona, and Christine R. Szuter, editor in chief of the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Martin says the theory could partly explain why bison, elk, deer and bears escaped the fate of other, even bigger N... |
1089168_3 | THE MARKETS: Market Place; Worldwide, Things Are Not Going Better for Coke | Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, predicts that the drop in the Brazilian currency's value will reduce Coke's earnings more than the 6 percent he had originally forecast, given the rest of the global risk facing the company. In 1998, Coca-Cola reported, currency devaluation worldwide reduced earnings by 9 percent. In add... |
1089107_1 | Centers Publish Breast Cancer Guide | a plain-English version of recommendations that the cancer network has been issuing and updating yearly for doctors since 1995. They are in the format of a 24-page magazine article with many diagrams and flow charts, and a glossary. Dr. Ted Gansler, director of health content for the American Cancer Society, said the r... |
1089125_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR PLUNGES. Sugar futures fell almost 4 percent amid signs of weakening demand from India and Russia, the world's biggest consumers. In New York, sugar for May delivery fell 0.24 cent, to 6.02 cents a pound. |
1089108_0 | Search for New Planets Yields Confusion | The discovery of planets around other stars has made Epicureans of astronomers. Not that they now put out the fine silver, pop the cork and dress for dinner by candlelight every long night under the observatory dome; they are still unwrapping their tired sandwiches and tearing open the corn chips, thank you. But nowada... |
1089173_2 | Doctors Warn of the Dangers in Muscle-Building Drugs | the last couple of years as several professional athletes have acknowledged using the chemicals to help build muscle. While the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee have banned the use of these chemicals, the baseball player Mark McGwire, who set a home run record with the St. Louis Cardinal... |
1096171_0 | Questioning Three Gorges Dam | In China, where even a slight relaxation in suppression of debate can indicate a softening of official policy, it is encouraging that some publications have cast an increasingly critical eye on the Three Gorges Dam being built on the Yangtze River. The official line is that there is no turning back on a project that wi... |
1096115_0 | Philosophy Illuminates Minds Darkened by Misfortune | During an unusual course in philosophy and literature that Earl Shorris was teaching specifically for the poor and homeless, a student who had a history of violent behavior telephoned Mr. Shorris. The student had become so angry at a colleague, he reported, that he wanted ''to smack her up against the wall.'' Mr. Shorr... |
1094552_2 | A New Threat to Irish Peace | credible that the organization has genuinely changed. So why is the I.R.A. so determined to keep all its weapons now? In part because disarmament is a symbol of trust, which many Catholics do not feel. In El Salvador, the guerrillas turned over most of their weapons to the United Nations after the war ended. They felt ... |
1091476_3 | Saving Fallingwater From a Fall | and a slower bending (called creep by engineers) which occurs mainly in the building's first year, Mr. Silman said. In this case, the house never stopped bending. ''If it was still moving after 60 years, the inevitable conclusion is that it would eventually move far enough to fall into the river,'' Mr. Silman said. (Th... |
1092803_0 | Screening Method for Cervical Cancer | Cervical cancer, curable if detected early, kills more women in the developing world than any other cancer for the lack of a simple, inexpensive and effective screening method. But researchers in Zimbabwe believe they have found just that, in vinegar, a trained eye and a flashlight. Reporting in the current issue of Th... |
1092802_3 | New Tools Yield Clues to Disasters at Sea | maintenance. Life on oil tankers, freighters and even fishing boats is safer. Few bulkers fly the American flag or carry American crews, but thousands of the giant vessels are registered in countries like Cyprus, Liberia and Panama. The Derbyshire was only four years old when she went down and had won Lloyd's highest g... |
1092848_1 | Renegade Protestants Kill Lawyer in Ulster | men of the Orange Order have tried to walk at the beginning of the Protestant ''marching season'' each July, provoking province-wide violence. The main paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have maintained a cease-fire while their political representatives took part in the negotiations that led to the peace settlemen... |
1094893_0 | Notebook; A Problem in Special Ed | Despite increased attention to the needs of disabled students, the nation faces a chronic and persistent shortage of certified special education teachers, according to the Federal Department of Education's annual report on educating the disabled. In the 1995-96 school year, the latest in the national survey, there were... |
1094767_8 | NATIONAL ORIGINS: Plant City, Florida; Where Strawberries Thrive Till Summer Comes | on the Plougastel peninsula in Brittany produced the garden strawberry now cultivated everywhere, in a wide number of hybridized varieties. Two-thirds of Mr. Simmons's strawberries are Sweet Charlies, and a third are Camarosas. Camarosas are California-bred, but Sweet Charlies are Florida natives, developed at the nati... |
1094915_0 | Our Virtual Jeeves | To the Editor: What ''good old days'' is Avraham Balaban referring to in his March 22 Op-Ed article, ''Remote Control''? He thinks that E-mail leads to alienation. But for those who could afford it in the 19th century, neighborliness was gladly avoided. Back then, butlers insured that casual visitors didn't disturb a l... |
1094799_2 | Japan Intercepts Two Boats That May Be North Korean | destroyer, the first time that it had done so, and the second vessel was found. The authorities did not explain why they felt compelled to dispatch destroyers to investigate or what they found mysterious about the ships. The vessels were about 100 feet long and bore the names of real Japanese fishing boats. Transport M... |
1094816_2 | High Court Expands Authority Of Judges on Expert Testimony | in a dispute over the reliability of testimony by an expert on tire failure in a lawsuit growing out of an automobile accident. By overturning the 11th Circuit's limited view of the Daubert precedent and finding the tire expert's testimony inadmissible, the Court today added an important weapon to the arsenal of critic... |
1089989_1 | No End to Violence in Ulster: Each Side Now Kills Its Own | there were 65 such attacks, 26 more than in the same, less-settled period last year, just before the peace agreement. The attacks ceased last year in the weeks just before the April 10 signing, but that same night they resumed -- and their number has been mounting ever since, to the current rate of one a day, the highe... |
1090053_1 | Jim Crow Past Haunts a Life Lived in Exile | old criminal conviction that he and others consider racially based. But he turned 63 this week, and sees time slipping away. He would like, however briefly, to go home again. This is, admittedly, more a story about Georgia than New York, but some New Yorkers are key figures in an appeal to Washington to make Mr. King's... |
1089954_0 | Surveys Uncover Substantial Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet | The southern half of the Greenland ice sheet, the second largest expanse of land-bound ice on earth, after Antarctica, has shrunk substantially in the last five years, scientists have found in airborne surveys using new and more precise techniques. Experts have said for some time that a warming atmosphere has caused ma... |
1090010_4 | Gene Study Bolsters Hope for Treating Diseases of Aging | ''It provides strong support,'' he continued, ''for what we've been saying all along for the promise of telomerase in treating aging and cancer.'' Geron, which has financed several advances in the telomere field, but not Dr. DePinho's present work, hopes to add the telomerase gene to the cells of human tissues that hav... |
1089936_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR PLUNGES. Sugar fell 6 percent on expectations that Brazil, the world's top grower, will process more crops for export, adding to swollen stockpiles. In New York, sugar for May delivery fell 0.35 cent, to 5.5 cents a pound. |
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1090295_0 | There Goes the Neighborhood | THROWIM WAY LEG Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds -- On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea. By Tim Flannery. Illustrated. 326 pp. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. $25. ''IT is always slightly unnerving arriving at a new location'' in New Guinea, Tim Flannery says. ''You have no idea what the lo... |
1090654_5 | Microsoft Will Alter Its Software In Response to Privacy Concerns | outraged. ''I think this is horrendous,'' said Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a consumer privacy organization based in Greenbrook, N.J. ''They're tattooing a number into each file. Think of the implications. If some whistle blower sends a file, it can be traced back to the person himself. It's an extremely da... |
1090609_3 | Fiddling While Antarctica Burns | shrink, lose weight and are vulnerable to early death. A decline of krill due to melting of the ice shelf could wreck much of the Antarctic ecosystem that depends on them. Rising temperatures also increase precipitation -- which, in Antarctica, takes the form of snow. Excessive spring snow has disrupted the nesting and... |
1090643_0 | For the Homeless, Rebirth Through Socrates | The students, mostly in sweat shirts and jeans, sit around a long table dotted with soda cans and cookies and consult their highlighted copies of Plato's ''Apology.'' Two professors guide their debate over whether Socrates, on the verge of execution, was arrogant or humble. Outside, the sun sets on the neogothic campus... |
1092123_27 | What the Jumans Didn't Know About Michael | then my kids still have a five times greater risk,'' she says. ''When I was pregnant I had amnios. If, God forbid, there was something wrong, I would have had an abortion. So, if I'd known this was in my past, I would not have had children. How could you pass this disease on when you know about it?'' Like Michael Juman... |
1092386_3 | The Nation: Pondering a White House Shrink; Every First Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way | think I am still normal. If I had any problem along that line develop, the White House can acquire the best almost instantaneously.'' Asked whether Presidents should undergo a mandatory psychological exam as part of their annual physical, former President Jimmy Carter replied: ''No -- You don't have a mandatory require... |
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1095277_2 | Reactions Mix Worry About 'Leap Backward' and Support for Lesser of Evils | sovereign country and that it does not carry the legal legitimacy that a U.N. Security Council resolution would have lent it.'' Outright opposition came mostly from politicians with leftist or Communist backgrounds. In Spain, Willy Meyer of the Communist-led United Left called the action a ''leap backward in civilizati... |
1095211_0 | High-Voltage Benefits Of Improved Batteries | ONE of the most primitive and troublesome components under a car's hood, the battery, is due for an update, auto company executives say. As a result, there could be a cascade of new technologies that would make cars more fuel-efficient and less likely to turn up dead on cold winter mornings. For as long as cars have ha... |
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1093936_2 | The Way We Live Now: 3-21-99 -- The Ethicist; A Slap in the Face | seem to be breaking any laws. Still, Koenderman suggests intervening, but gently: ''The parent may be acting out of frustration and rage. By saying something -- Hey, take it easy' -- you give the parent a moment to stop and think. And it is good to demonstrate that you as a member of society disapprove.'' This point wi... |
1091921_5 | Russian Philosophy Is Given Its Head; Freed From the Orthodoxy of Marx and Lenin, Intellectuals Explore Limitless Possibilities | Philosophy). ''Liberalism was reduced only to minimal government and private property, with disastrous results.'' In theory and practice liberalism itself had turned into a kind of dogma. And corruption, poverty, a dwindling industrial base and agricultural system, and governmental chaos hadn't exactly help salvage the... |
1091930_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE RUSSIA: JEHOVAH'S WITNESS RULING -- Final judgment was deferred in a closely-watched court case against the Jehovah's Witnesses, who have been charged with violating Russia's restrictive law on religion. A judge sent the case to a panel that includes two linguists, a psychologist and two experts on religion. Rig... |
1092004_3 | The City Calls It Hazardous Housing, but the Tenants Call It Home | neighborhood newspapers in which community leaders referred to the tenants as mentally ill. Jonathan L. Gaska, district manager of Community Board 14, which represents the Rockaways, said his office had received complaints about the house for years. Then, last summer, anonymous complaints from people who said they live... |
1093068_0 | Letting Little Go to Waste; An Enterprise Evolves From the Byproducts of Industry | Over a decade ago, Michael R. Daley was touring a plant that burned old tires for energy when he learned that it paid haulers to cart away gypsum, one of its byproducts. Mr. Daley was astounded: Gypsum, he knew, is used in plaster, toothpaste, paints, even molds for false teeth. So Mr. Daley set up shop near the plant ... |
1095006_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS. Sugar prices eased to a 12 1/2-year low as oversupply worries outweighed signs of increased buying by importers taking advantage of low prices. May sugar contracts fell 0.13 cent in New York, to 5.47 cents a pound. |
1094996_1 | World Briefing | said they would turn over to an independent commission by May 15 lists of all accounts and safe deposit boxes seized during the German occupation. The commission will attempt to find rightful claimants. The banks did not say how much money had turned up. Craig R. Whitney (NYT) NORTHERN IRELAND: HOME RULE DELAY -- The B... |
1094984_0 | Notes From the Land of the E-Less | MY dear Aunt Mildred, a 98-year-old Roman Catholic nun who lives in a convent, stopped me at a recent family gathering to broach the topic of the newfangled ways of modern society. ''Do you use the Internet?'' she asked. ''No, Aunt Mildred,'' I confessed, ''I'm not quite up to speed with that yet.'' ''Well,'' she repli... |
1094374_0 | Roller-Coaster Odyssey Through a Calamitous Era | FREDY NEPTUNE A Novel in Verse By Les Murray 255 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25. Freddie Boettcher, an Australian farm boy of German descent, runs off to sea before World War I. In Constantinople he contracts leprosy; the disease is arrested, but it leaves him unable to feel pain or any other physical sensation in... |
1094397_5 | Digital Polish for Factory Floors; Software Simulations Lead to Better Assembly Lines | systems sold by Rockwell International have used simulation to design assembly lines that can handle different-sized items, enabling factories to produce small batches of products cost-effectively. ''We're headed to where modeling will let us design plants that can efficiently build a single-lot size of one item,'' sai... |
1094400_1 | Irish Premier Sees Progress On Arms Issue In the North | the I.R.A. political wing, and David Trimble, the Protestant First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Mr. Ahern said on Irish national radio: ''I have to keep at them to move further. I believe we will find a formula.'' The dispute has blocked the next step in the northern peace effort -- the formation of a Pro... |
1094408_1 | With Balloon's Work Done, Its Builder Reveals a Secret | a camel track, at 26.9 degrees north latitude, 28.2 degrees east longitude. The balloon bounced twice before settling to the ground just after 8 A.M. today (1 A.M. Eastern time). Dr. Piccard and Mr. Jones face a hero's welcome when they fly to Geneva from Cairo on Monday. The balloon was sponsored by a Swiss watch-maki... |
1095836_1 | Disabled Return to Old School but Segregation Is Charged | 380 with some disabled Hasidic children of elementary school age who attended I.S. 71. The district made the switch because the State Department of Education had ruled that the swapped Hasidic children, who have disabilities like Down syndrome, were improperly segregated at I.S. 71 and needed to spend part of the day w... |
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1095831_1 | Women of Which Cloth? Tweed? Cashmere? | matters like nail polish, hem lengths, heel heights and hair color. And they do so at some risk. When Rabbi Mychal Springer, 33, director of pastoral care and education at Beth Israel Medical Center, wore an above-the-knee skirt to work one day, an Orthodox woman recoiled, lambasting her in front of patients and staff ... |
1095590_0 | Books in Brief: Nonfiction | LETTERS OF INTENT Women Cross Generations to Talk About Family, Work, Sex, Love and the Future of Feminism. Edited by Anna Bondoc and Meg Daly. Free Press, $23. This collection of epistolary exchanges between young feminists and their ''foremothers'' may not have turned out exactly as planned. The editors, Anna Bondoc ... |
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1095835_1 | On Line, Few Kick Tires, but Many Look | insurance, financing, accessories and news about recalls. The rapid acceptance of these basic Web shopping services has forced the pioneers, which also include Microsoft's Carpoint (carpoint.msn.com), to develop new ways to sustain their initial popularity. And it has drawn car manufacturers and dealers on line, too. F... |
1095649_3 | Trolling 'Low' Culture For High-Flying Ideas: A Sport of Intellectuals | to argue that any distinctions between high and low are themselves merely political. The main goal is to reveal the deeper political meanings latent in all cultural activity. In this view it may even be that wrestling matches reveal more about society than elaborately disguised ''higher'' activities. But aside from thi... |
1095932_1 | Drug Marketing Starts Legal Battle | the brand name Evista, to prevent the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, also in postmenopausal women. The disease is a major cause of broken bones in elderly women, including fractures in the hips and spine that can be crippling and even life-threatening. Zeneca, which filed suit against Lilly on Feb. 25 in Federal D... |
1096517_0 | Florida Details Wide Abuse At Agency for the Retarded | A state report has documented widespread neglect of patients and misuse of funds at an agency for the mentally retarded that was put under state supervision earlier this month. The report, obtained today by The New York Times and other news organizations, was conducted by the Florida Department of Children and Families... |
1096691_0 | Compromise On Arms Proves Elusive In Ulster | After two days of intensive negotiations, Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland failed tonight to persuade Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders to compromise on the bitter dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army. But the Prime Ministers, working against a Friday deadline, ... |
1096590_0 | China's Dam Project | To the Editor: In evaluating China's Three Gorges Dam Project, it is important to avoid attributing Western sensibilities to the Chinese people (editorial, March 29). While traveling along the Yangtze River last May, I spoke with residents from several towns slated for inundation. They were enthusiastic about the proje... |
1096612_0 | Compromise On Arms Proves Elusive In Ulster | After two days of intensive negotiations, Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland failed tonight to persuade Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders to compromise on the bitter dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army. But the Prime Ministers, working against a Friday deadline, ... |
1096515_3 | Even Milosevic Foes Criticize Western Media | by either side,'' he said. ''I watch and read our media and the international media, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, and I'm in touch with students all over the world.'' But Dusan complains that Serbs are being demonized and that the world talks of Nazis now to justify an act of aggression on a so... |
1091042_1 | U.S. Says Europeans Withhold Banana-Trade Data | at punishing their 15-nation bloc for its stance in the banana dispute. The world trade forum has found that the European Union's banana import rules give unfair preference to exporters in Caribbean and African nations, most of them former European colonies. Washington contends that European Union rules deprive America... |
1091098_3 | Schools Inquiry Is a Lesson In Tangled Political Tensions | his aides. Mr. Pataki's proposed state budget includes $3.5 million for the investigation of the city's school system, signaling that he intends a much broader inquiry than he has let on. But last week, Joseph L. Bruno, the Republican majority leader of the State Senate, said the inquiry should not receive more than $1... |
1091049_3 | Fishing Nations, Worried About Supply, Will Trim Fleets | tons, the international food agency says. Despite strict controls on fishing in recent years, New England fishery managers concluded in December that the cod fishery in the Gulf of Maine is collapsing. The Clinton Administration has already proposed new spending to take some of the region's boats out of service, and la... |
1091016_5 | A 'Bonus' From Mars: Evidence Of Its Past; Glitch Gives a Spacecraft More Time for Photographs | erosion. This left open the question of whether the early Mars environment could sustain flowing surface water for long periods. Dr. Michael C. Malin of Malin Space Sciences Systems in San Diego and Dr. Michael H. Carr of the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., reported that the new pictures supporte... |
1091099_0 | Britain Postpones the Creation of Ulster's Cabinet for 3 Weeks | Britain announced a three-week postponement today in the effort to create an executive cabinet that is to give the Roman Catholic minority more power and return home rule to this British province. Mo Mowlam, the British Northern Ireland Secretary, said the delay was needed to give the politicians more time to seek comp... |
1089443_4 | Monsanto Visionary in a Cubicle; Could His Company's Special Culture Survive a Merger? | the company with a huge debt load. Earnings suffered, and heavy reorganization charges and layoffs were announced. The stock tumbled in October after the deal with American Home Products collapsed, and it has been treading water ever since. The shares closed today at $44.375, down 6.5 percent so far this year and a 31 ... |
1102753_3 | The World; All in Favor of This Target, Say Yes, Si, Oui, Ja | categories of targets, the North Atlantic Council has now largely removed itself from reviewing specific targets, though individual governments have not. Most major targets still have to be cleared through the political-military chains of command of each ally, leading to second-guessing that has frustrated some command... |
1102878_11 | WHAT PRICE GLORY?: A special report.; Cuban Players Defect, but Often With a Cost | often shrouded in secrecy. Most players whose families have made it to America have denied they knew about or had a hand in the plans. For instance, the wife and two sons of Rolando Arrojo, the Tampa Bay right-hander, joined him two months after his 1996 defection, but the details of their flight by sea have remained c... |
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