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1102586_1 | Disabled, Married and On Their Own; Mount Kisco Couple Are Among Those With Handicaps Trying to Live Like Everyone Else | -- is emblematic of a larger effort among those with physical and mental handicaps to pursue independent lives. Like the Launhardts, others with disabilities want to have careers, shop in stores, attend public events, travel on public transportation and take vacations, for example. Stephen Gold, a lawyer with the Publi... |
1102580_2 | Long Ago, When Ships Set Sail From Fairfield | Southport, shallower, engaged in coastal trade with similar vessels. Besides custom house account books, diaries and letters, navigational equipment once used by Fairfield captains are displayed. One, a sextant (used in celestial navigation to find a ship's position), was given to Capt. Isaac Jennings for helping rescu... |
1102886_1 | Following Mothers, Women Heed Call To Nation's Pulpits | undertook theological studies two decades ago. Statistics suggest that the wave is still building. The number of women studying in Christian seminaries for a master of divinity degree increased eight-fold since 1972, to 8,203 students in 1997, the last year for which figures are available. Among denominations, the Epis... |
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1102581_2 | When Autistic Child's Growth Is at Stake | behavioral analysis. ''Everything else was so vague,'' Ms. Buckenheimer said, as she recalled times when her son was uncontrollable. ''Will didn't talk,'' she said. ''He refused to sit down or make eye contact. He'd just wander around the house walking on his toes and flapping his arms.'' Three years later, Will respon... |
1100695_4 | World Briefing | ambush on a highway near Tunceli, the agency said. (Reuters) THE AMERICAS BRAZIL: DIPLOMATIC CUTBACK -- As part of an effort to slash Government spending, required by the fiscal austerity agreement signed with the International Monetary Fund last November, the Foreign Ministry is closing its embassies in Cameroon, Kuwa... |
1097719_0 | But Will It Work? | The Revival Of Pragmatism New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture. Edited by Morris Dickstein. Illustrated. 453 pp. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $23.95. Thirty years ago, pragmatism was dead beyond all hope of resurrection. Pragmatism, that is, in the sense of the philosophical move... |
1097840_2 | Reassembling Art Shattered In a Quake | Fine Arts Administration of Italy. During the first critical weeks, Giuseppe Basile, an inspector at the state Central Restoration Institute in Rome and director of pictorial restoration at the basilica, orchestrated a force of 300 restorers and volunteers, who sifted through the rubble to recover and catalogue the pie... |
1097788_28 | Why a Priest | lay people to allow the church to regulate their sex lives? For while American Catholics tend to believe and accept the church's teaching on most doctrinal issues, according to Gallup polls, more than 80 percent of them, in defiance of doctrine, approve of artificial contraception, two-thirds say that premarital sex is... |
1097448_2 | Is the U.S. Income Gap Really a Big Problem? | with the lowest wages. And, finally, there's the extraordinary bull market in securities, mostly owned by the haves. All these changes, Mr. Feldstein says, are in themselves positive, and tend to benefit some individuals without making others any worse off. By the Pareto criterion, that's a change for the better. Finis... |
1097543_0 | At the U.N. Activists Vie With Vatican Over Abortion | In a novel twist to the fight over legal abortion, an organization of Roman Catholic activists has begun a drive to demote the diplomatic status of the Vatican at the United Nations, though in reality it only hopes to curb its lobbying style. Catholics for a Free Choice, which says it has 8,000 members and disagrees wi... |
1097808_3 | The Way We Live Now: 4-4-99; Crashing the Academy | us to decide whether we are going to continue our current evolution into mere conveyors of knowledge, or become seekers after something akin to wisdom. For if students come to us in the future cyber-dominated world, it will be not because we know things (the machines will know more), but for precisely those qualities t... |
1097520_3 | As It Opens to Outsiders, Cuba Is Infected by Crime | from the streets after they have either being sent back home to the countryside or interned in ''rehabilitation centers,'' work camps where repeat offenders receive counseling while putting in up to four years of agricultural and other labor. While not illegal here or penalized as a criminal offense, prostitution is re... |
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1097761_2 | College and Money; And Never Lie About Your Grades | particular industry. Today, the buzzword in college job hunting is ''information interview.'' Contact an alumnus and ask if you can meet for half an hour. ''Explain that you're looking for information and advice and that you are not applying for a job,'' said Patricia Rose, the director of career services at the Univer... |
1098977_1 | China's Premier Twice Voices Displeasure Over Not Getting Into the Club | 13 years,'' Mr. Zhu told his audience at the Willard Hotel. ''Surely the time has come to end these talks and move forward to open new channels of U.S.-China trade.'' At the Blair House meeting this morning, members of Congress argued that China had regressed in its human rights performance since Mr. Clinton's state vi... |
1101930_4 | Where Rubber Meets the Road, a Chip | includes a hidden chip that stamps each tire with a unique identification number. A mechanic will be able to send a signal to the chip, asking the tire for its number. Using that number and a handheld computer, a mechanic or engineer could look up information about the tire that has been stored in an external, networke... |
1101958_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR PLUNGES. Sugar prices plummeted on expectations that surging output from Brazil will overwhelm demand from buyers in Russia and Asia. In New York, sugar for July delivery fell 0.23 cent, to 4.52 cents a pound. |
1103462_6 | Where Paprika Is Measured In Pounds, Not Pinches | under water this spring. The flood waters enrich the soil. PAPRIKA is paprika, you might think. But no. It is almost as complex as the Hungarian language, which is related only to Finnish and Basque, as far as anyone knows, and sounds like something falling down stairs. According to Dr. Somogyi, the botanist, the best ... |
1103488_2 | The Internet vs. the First Amendment | his or her computer screen. At the same time, Internet speech doesn't have more constitutional protection than speech disseminated in a more old-fashioned and limited manner. In particular, direct threats or other messages that by their very utterance cause harm receive no more protection on the Internet than anyplace ... |
1103469_0 | Ejido Pino Gordo Journal; All Across Mexico, a Chainsaw Massacre of Trees | The shepherds of this remote mountain settlement till the earth behind oaken plows and grind their corn between smooth stones. They have no television, telephones or electricity. Yet by one standard, the village enjoys vast wealth: it is surrounded by magnificent forests. So when outsiders recently bulldozed a logging ... |
1100166_2 | World Briefing | guarantee a price for the pipeline and agree to pay any excess. No final agreement on the guarantee was reached, but it was expected to total about $2.4 billion. Stephen Kinzer (NYT) FRANCE: TUNNEL FIRE REPORT -- A report on the Mont Blanc tunnel fire, which took 41 lives, faulted France and Italy for carrying out only... |
1100250_0 | Sinn Fein Rejects a Proposal to End the Impasse Over Disarmament | The political wing of the Irish Republican Army said today at peace talks in Belfast that it rejected a proposal by the British and Irish Governments to resolve the impasse on guerrilla disarmament that is blocking the formation of a new Northern Ireland Government. The announcement by Mitchel McLaughlin, chairman of S... |
1098380_0 | Judge Upholds Ban On Assault Weapons | A Federal judge has dismissed a challenge to the state's ban on assault weapons, ruling that supplemental guidelines issued by the state's Attorney General adequately clarify which guns fall under the law, officials said yesterday. The Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen filed a suit in United States District Court in Ca... |
1101419_1 | Santo Domingo Memo; Caribbean Unity? Bananas Are Getting in the Way | pacts and tariff concessions for regional trade and investment. But even though these countries have been striving for unity to cope with economic globalization, the gathering failed to reach consensus on some issues, underscoring the diversity of the countries involved. Among the most divisive issues was the recent Wo... |
1101385_1 | Privacy on Internet Poses Legal Puzzle | Internet: identity, privacy, anonymity and free speech. Mr. Reitinger's opposite number on the panel was Nadine Strossen, a professor at the New York Law School and president of the American Civil Liberties Union. They were joined by Frans Kaashoek, an associate professor at M.I.T., who has been in charge of the anonym... |
1101376_1 | An Unfamiliar Tale of Pride and Prejudice | which characters stand frozen in place, singing to themselves about their emotions. And it's easy to poke fun at the opera's convoluted plot, which asks us to believe that Leopold, the Prince of the Empire, who is smitten with Eleazar's daughter Rachel, successfully courts her in disguise as a Jewish painter, and that ... |
1101391_3 | The Net's Real Business Happens .Com to .Com; A Market That Dwarfs Retail E-Sales | transcend mere back-office efficiency. Alex Cahill, a BOC purchasing manager in Murray Hill, cites the example of tungsten hexafluoride. The company sells the gas in six-foot steel cylinders that are worth $10,000 each when filled, making for an unwieldy, expensive inventory. ''In previous years, our stock has been blo... |
1101439_9 | Plant Sterility Research Inflames Debate on Biotechnology's Role in Farming | their unsprayed predecessors, the DNA-cutting enzymes are made and the gene that makes the sterilizing toxins is primed to kick in months later when the plant matures. ''It's quite an elegant solution,'' said David Culley, a molecular biologist at Washington State University. Mr. Oliver figures it could have been done ... |
1100131_0 | NEWS SUMMARY INTERNATIONAL SQN# | ABU-HAKIMA-Ahmad Mustafa. Professor, scholar, historian and world authority on Eastern Arabia, born August 28, 1923, in Abbasiyya, Palestine, died April 9, 1998, in Ottawa, Canada. A truly contented man, wherever he traversed he brought optimism and love to the lives of many, many people around the world. Always rememb... |
1100025_0 | NEWS SUMMARY INTERNATIONAL SQN# | URQUHART-Kate F. April 14, 1999. Beloved wife of Irving Herschbein. Loving sister of Richard Urquhart. Loving aunt and greataunt. Contributions in her memory may be made to Historic Woodville and Hope Foundation, both of North Carolina. Interment Saturday. April 17th. 3 PM, at Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lewistown... |
1099784_4 | Putting Things Right In the Everglades | their essential character -- though in a different and truncated form compared with the original. ''I think the plan gets us very close'' to that goal, said Michael L. Davis, an ecologist and deputy assistant secretary of the Army. He oversees the Army Corps of Engineers, which devised the plan with many Federal, state... |
1099793_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR PLUNGES. Sugar prices fell to a 12 1/2-year low on expectations that big harvests in Brazil and Europe would add unneeded supply to world markets. In New York, sugar for May delivery fell 0.18 cent, to 5.25 cents a pound. |
1099804_3 | New Recruits in the War on Sprawl | been granted them. ''If two years ago you had told me you would have a governor who would propose something like this, I'd have said no governor would be that foolish,'' he says. ''But that's what we've done. What I underestimated was that sprawl can be a pretty good political issue. You had a public that was ready.'' ... |
1101752_0 | Technology Can Cost | To the Editor: I'd like to side with the optimists who think that technology has increased overall productivity (news article, April 14), but because I often see (and pay for) many of the costs that technology simply shifts onto others, I'm still skeptical. For example, when a company saves on its printing and mailing ... |
1101729_1 | The Job Description Reads, 'Do It All' | show for the Walker of the work of the sculptor Robert Gober, which will travel to museums in Malmo, Sweden, Washington and San Francisco after it closes on May 9 in Minneapolis. ''From the get-go, you're contriving to find colleagues across the country and globally who are interested in your program and willing to mak... |
1101769_0 | The Met's Greek Galleries | One of the most important traditions in Western culture is the act of restating the centrality of ancient Greek civilization. The images and artistic forms of ancient Greece exude an air of familiarity, which reaffirms our sense of cultural ancestry. But that familiarity is deceptive. What we know about the people depi... |
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1099112_1 | Colorado: Can man and ram coexist? | mountain air. Despite this attention, the sheep have only recently prospered in 20th-century Colorado. While the state's elk population has increased a hundredfold in this century to 800,000, the sheep population barely made it to the 1970's. Wild sheep populations were decimated by hunters and by diseases that were in... |
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1099414_0 | Rift in Effort To Curb Births With Rights For Women | A consensus reached at a 180-nation conference in Cairo five years ago on a new strategy for limiting world population growth by improving the status of women is now facing serious religious, ideological and financial difficulties. The new strategy would allow the world's population to rise from its present level of ab... |
1099174_3 | The Dangerous Necessity of Eating | and re-invented every day by the European Economic Community bureaucrats in Brussels. Last time I was there, I noticed the mysterious initials GM on some food products in the supermarket. In my naivete, I had thought this indicated that they were produced by some global subsidiary of General Motors, probably out of rec... |
1099341_1 | Charity Plea In Italy Draws Money Used To Pay Priests | relief project, ''Rainbow.'' The Catholic relief organization Caritas has been so deluged with clothes, blankets and food that organizers had to appeal to donors to hold back for now. Bishop Nicora said that while donations to Catholic Church charities had grown steadily over the last few years, contributions earmarked... |
1099108_0 | Brazil: A bit of jungle near Rio's beaches | The hundreds of thousands of visitors who travel to Rio de Janeiro each year go there thinking not of eco-tourism but of sun, sand and shopping. Yet within the limits of the sybaritic city lies a natural wonder, Tijuca National Park and Forest, 13 sprawling square miles of jungle, mountain peaks, trails and waterfalls ... |
1103668_7 | A Home Page Away From Home | iPass relies on local phone numbers, wherever possible, for access to the Internet, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Franke are using it to cut down on their connection charges overseas. But those charges are adding up. Ms. Johnson and Mr. Franke currently pay between $4 to $12 an hour for Internet access alone, which runs $20 to $... |
1103653_5 | Students Search the Web for Their First Real Jobs | and Kaiser-Permanente feed them into resume management databases. Many of the databases organize the resumes by matching words in them with a list of keywords that the companies are looking for. Seeding a resume with the right keywords can become a full-time obsession for some college seniors -- particularly those busi... |
1103860_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths GOLDSCHMIDT, FLORENCE G. | GOLDSCHMIDT - Florence G. Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 15, 1918 passed away in Dallas, Texas on April 26, 1999. She is survived by her loving husband, Arthur; daughter and son-in-law Karen and Norman Lerner; daughter and son-in-law Joan and Dr. Alan Weinstock; and grandchildren Rachel, Elie and husband Naama, Yos... |
1103759_2 | U.S. EASES POLICY ON SOME SANCTIONS | a gesture of friendship toward Iran, but they acknowledged that the action would doubtless encourage improved ties between the United States and the Government of President Mohammad Khatami, who is perceived to be a relative moderate among Iranian leaders. The policy shift comes only two weeks after President Clinton m... |
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1096978_0 | Ulster Talks Miss Goal But Blair Sees Gains | Talks to resolve the last issues blocking the formal start-up of the Northern Ireland peace plan adjourned inconclusively today, but Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said he thought they had established a ''satisfactory basis'' for a final settlement. In statements outside Hillsborough Castle, the official residenc... |
1097021_3 | Clinton's Speech on Kosovo: 'We Also Act to Prevent a Wider War' | price for Mr. Milosevic's present policy of repression. . . . For 10 years and more now a dictator has sought to make himself powerful by convincing the largest group, the Serbs, that the only way they can amount to anything is to uproot, disrupt, destroy, and kill other people, who don't have the same means of destruc... |
1096939_0 | New Video Releases | Beloved Taking on a daunting job of literary adaptation, Jonathan Demme's film gives Toni Morrison's novel a pulse on screen. Through manifestations of terrible events real and demonic, the former slave Sethe (Oprah Winfrey, left with Danny Glover) tries to reconcile the horrors of her experience with the possibility o... |
1096968_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR DROPS. Sugar prices fell more than 5 percent on persistent concern that a global glut will overwhelm weak demand. In New York, sugar for May delivery fell 0.32 cent, to 5.59 cents a pound. |
1098465_1 | Internet Hide And Seek | Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference here today. Moments later, during a panel discussion, he added, ''If you're serious about prosecuting crime on the global communications infrastructure, you have to have traceability. ''Should communications on the Internet be traceable in some circumstances? And if so, what sh... |
1098466_3 | Joy of E-Mail Lights Up the Life of a Retarded Teen-Ager | Rauba, got along famously, the class was too much for him. With 19 other students in the class, he found it hard to focus on the keyboard and the monitor. ''It was more of an attention problem'' than a skill problem, Mrs. Rauba said. After a few weeks, we moved him out of the class. When I signed Zach up for the evenin... |
1103974_0 | When 'They' Are 'Us' | Nearly all the commentaries about the massacre in Colorado seem to share the assumption that the behavior of the killers reflects some deep failure in the nation's culture -- in our treatment of violence and in the way we bring up our children. Even the tough-talking William Bennett has been moved to suggest that our y... |
1103953_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SOARS. Sugar prices rose more than 8 percent, the biggest gain in six years, on speculation that Russia is stocking up on cheap supplies. In New York, sugar for July delivery rose 0.34 cent, to 4.42 cents a pound. |
1097933_0 | Everyone Wants to Use the Parks; New York's Wilderness | To the Editor: A coyote in Central Park (news article, April 2)? How about a timber wolf, mountain lion or black bear? A few centuries ago, all three roamed the wilderness of New York City. One of the fascinating aspects of American wildlife is the different ways species have responded to the development of the country... |
1102369_0 | A Historical Alchemist Turns Medicine Into Gold | The British medical historian Roy Porter was embarking on his first sabbatical in nearly three decades of frenetic teaching and writing when he fell spectacularly ill last fall. ''I got a gigantically enlarged testicle,'' he said cheerfully. What was particularly notable about his condition, which turned out to be a cl... |
1102379_5 | Dream House With Scenic View Is Environmentalists' Nightmare | with the law are clearly angry at the Beas. They say it is very feasible to build houses that blend in so well with the gorge that they are nearly invisible, thus preserving the vistas that make the area, which is essentially a large wooded canyon with one of the greatest concentrations of waterfalls in the world, so s... |
1100648_8 | Sugar Companies Play a Pivotal Role in Effort to Restore Everglades | he ran on a promise to drain the swamps in south Florida and reclaim it for farmland. ''They called it reclaiming,'' Mr. Buker said. ''Now it's restoration. They were reclaiming swampland, and now we are restoring a delicate ecosystem.'' At least 200 family farms are in the district, but more than 80 percent of the sug... |
1101249_2 | Silver Town Stakes New Claim to Fame: No Phones | a fund to provide service to remote areas. Bob Shirley, a telecommunications analyst with the commission, has been trying to find companies to serve Silverton, but in Washington's $3.67 billion telephone market, no company has the incentive. ''Those are a small number of folks, they're going to be very high-cost to ser... |
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1101175_2 | Ideas & Trends: From Eyeglasses to Wheelchairs; Adjusting the Legal Bar for Disability | seeking special treatment. ''If having a disability is the gate through which everyone must enter to get into the promised land of reasonable accommodation, the width of the gate is pretty important,'' said Christopher Bell, a former associate legal counsel for disability cases at the E.E.O.C. and a partner at Jackson ... |
1101167_2 | Ideas & Trends; Your Mind May Ease What's Ailing You | and his colleagues reported longer survival rates for breast cancer survivors who took part in support groups emphasizing emotional expression and active coping skills. Other researchers have reported comparable findings for melanoma and lymphoma patients, though three studies failed to find that psychosocial support l... |
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1100934_4 | Open House for the Ancients | museums in our sense of the word, they liked displaying art for personal pleasure. The Roman collectors were the ancestors of today's donors and lenders at the Metropolitan. The removal of the Greek artistic patrimony began long before Lord Elgin carried away much of the Parthenon frieze. Although collecting is by natu... |
1100859_3 | Best Invention; How the Bean Saved Civilization | Moreover, it was difficult to sail when the sea was rough. Between the 12th and 13th centuries, however, the modern rudder was developed. Fixed at the ship's stern and hinged, like a door, it moved just below the surface of the water and could be operated by a single man, thanks to a tiller on the deck. As usual, the d... |
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1100852_0 | Best Feat of Engineering; Nearer My God | The instructions were simple. Build it of stone so it might stand forever against the ravages of time, wind, water and fire. Don't clutter the space with columns, but make it big. Replace as much of the walls as possible with glass to let the light of God shine through. Oh, and try not to go over budget. It was thus, d... |
1101352_0 | Best Idea; When Tristram Met Isolde | In the ancient world, romantic love would seem to have been virtually unknown, and rarely celebrated. Our generic term ''love'' didn't exist. The sentiment of romantic love as we know it was the homoerotic love of older Greek men for boys; marital love, which surely existed, seems oddly not to have been much honored, a... |
1100868_6 | Best Story; The Book That Killed Colonialism | spice route from beginning to end. There was a problem, though. Portugal lacked the population required to support a maritime force capable of controlling half the non-Catholic world. As a result, it was forced to hire sailors from Germany, France and especially the Netherlands. This weakness would eventually spell the... |
1101344_12 | Best Time to Be Alive; No Time Like the Past | something about progress? All of us are going to be very careful about any use of a word that's associated with social Darwinism and 19th-century optimism. But I have to think, in specific areas, who could deny it? First of all, I think of medical progress. With the best medical care in the year 160, the Emperor of Rom... |
1101530_1 | Art Review; Glory Comes Home to the Classics | the sculptures, now Greek, which have been arranged artfully for a change. The corridor has become one of the greatest public places in the city. It is being reopened as the centerpiece of the second phase of a three-part campaign to overhaul all the Met's galleries of Greek and Roman art. The campaign has grown to $15... |
1101518_3 | There's Plenty of Choice in a Diet for a Healthier Heart | grams, 4 ounces of tofu has 6 to 13 grams and 1 cup of soy milk has 4 to 10 grams. The beneficial substances in soy appear to be plant estrogens called isoflavones, antioxidants which may have an added benefit of reducing the risk of breast cancer. WHOLE GRAINS -- A continuing study of more than 34,000 postmenopausal w... |
1101611_3 | NATO Admits Pilot Bombed 2d Convoy on Kosovo Road | civilians without hampering their attacks on Serbian forces. There is also the question whether it is possible to dependably distinguish civilian from military targets at an altitude of 15,000 feet. General Leaf said the episode began about 12:30 P.M. local time when a pair of United States F-16's saw Albanian villages... |
1101590_0 | Defining 'Disability' Down | Nearly a decade after it was enthusiastically signed into law by President Bush, the Americans with Disabilities Act faces a major review by the Supreme Court. Over the next two weeks, the justices are to hear four cases that will help define the true dimensions of the law. The Court's role should be to reaffirm the na... |
1101559_0 | Johnson Gets Set for Olympic Encore | The remarkable track and field career of Michael Johnson will continue for another two years at least, he said. Johnson opened his 1999 United States season here with a victory in the 400 meters Saturday in 44.51 seconds, fastest in the world so far this year. Afterward, he said his chief goal was to repeat his double ... |
1096858_0 | Hopeful Prime Ministers Hover at I.R.A. Disarmament Negotiation | For the third consecutive night, Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland pressed Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders Wednesday night to compromise in the bitter dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army. The dispute is blocking the advance of the peace effort in this British ... |
1096835_0 | Motorola Offers Mobile Phone That Can Span Continents | Paving the way for worldwide wireless phone use (and possibly some whopping roaming charges), Motorola is introducing a new mobile telephone that can be used in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The phone will be able to receive radio signals from the predominant digital frequencies in Europe, Asia a... |
1096825_5 | Behind Closed E-Mail | discussions about the superintendent's midyear review, according to The Arizona Republic. That board member, Kristy Ryan, has also criticized the president's request for comment by phone or E-mail on a draft of the job review for the superintendent, according to the newspaper. Mr. Delaney, of the Attorney General's Off... |
1096709_7 | Between Tech Fans And Naysayers, Scholarly Skeptics | except for friends and enemies,'' said Sherry Turkle, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. Like Dr. Winner, Dr. Borgmann has written extensively on the high social cost of high tech. And like his fellow skeptics, Dr. Borgmann starts many conversations by pointing out that he is not against computers per se... |
1098075_2 | News Reports Bolster Support for Bombings | to Kosovo, would risk abetting Mr. Milosevic's own desire to rid the province of its ethnic Albanians. Mr. Blair conceded today that his Government would accept an unspecified number of refugees, adding that the ''ultimate objective'' must remain repatriating them to Kosovo. The French Defense Minister, Alain Richard, ... |
1098096_1 | Oil Company Confronts Cluster of Brain Tumors | very unusual pattern of brain cancer here,'' said Jim Lowry, who heads a task force on the brain tumors at BP Amoco, the oil giant based in London that was created when British Petroleum acquired Amoco of Chicago last year. ''You essentially have this puzzle, and it points to a certain space and a certain time.'' Cance... |
1098023_4 | New York's a Jungle, and One Scientist Doesn't Mind | have is New York City. All these different cultures can be found here. They all bring their healing plants, food plants, relaxing plants, beverages with them. I give a class at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. I do my shopping for it in Chinatown and Harlem and also Dean & DeLuca in SoHo. They hav... |
1103261_1 | New Ford Division to Focus On Recycling of Auto Parts | Kwik-Fit, Europe's largest independent fast-fit repair chain. The manager of Ford's new business development, Bill Li, 29, came up with the idea for the recycling company and will be its chief operating officer. He said huge growth potential existed in the vehicle recycling business because demand for used parts by rep... |
1103227_4 | Doctors Fighting Backlash Over Vaccines | the National Vaccine Advisory Committee said that fear of misuse was strong, privacy should be enforced and use of a registry by tax, immigration or other agencies must be prohibited. It opposed a national registry and said that parents should be allowed to keep their children from participating. A central data base ''... |
1103251_0 | Private Spy In Space To Rival Military's | If all goes well today, years of planning, delay and debate will culminate in the launching of the world's most powerful civilian spacecraft for observing the Earth and its human dramas, inaugurating the first real rival to military spies in the sky. The satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for Space Imaging, a Colorado... |
1103263_1 | Portadown Journal; Front Line in Ulster Conflict Is Measured by Feet | in bulletproof vests and visored helmets waited, blocking their passage through the Roman Catholic housing project beyond. A pennant with a golden scroll reading, ''Drumcree: Here We Stand. We Can Do No Other,'' was snapping in the wind. A statement of protest, a prayer, the singing of ''God Save the Queen,'' and the w... |
1100342_3 | Wiring the Schools For E-Mail and More | education, but the school's motive is not intercontinental correspondence. ''Access to the outside world wasn't really the initial purpose of our electronic mail, and it still isn't,'' said Wolfgang Heidmann, Dalton's technology director. Instead, the school used its E-mail program to set up an internal conference syst... |
1100347_0 | Schools and Web Safety; Balancing the Dangers and the Discoveries As Students Go on Line | THE image of a cherubic fourth grader sending E-mail to a cherubic fourth grader in another school is a heartwarming reminder of the promise of the Internet. The image of a cherubic fourth grader unwittingly sending E-mail to a pedophile, or finding pornography or hate speech on the World Wide Web, is a chilling remind... |
1100436_0 | Taking a Close Look With Satellite Images | Want to be the first on the block to have an aerial shot of your house? Images taken from a Russian satellite -- with resolution said to be sharp enough to see specific homes and even cars -- can be ordered at www.terraserver.com. Aerial Images Inc. commissioned Sovinformsputnik, a branch of the Russian Space Agency, t... |
1100333_5 | Hired Organizers Can Create Order Out of Computer Chaos | out in front of me,'' she said. Another executive who got help from a professional organizer, Bill Finlay, chose to keep his calendar on paper. Mr. Finlay, president and chief executive of Helvoet Pharma, a pharmaceutical supply company in Pennsauken, N.J., sought the assistance of Ira Chaleff of the Institute for Busi... |
1161357_0 | French Stalling on Iraq | Negotiations have dragged on for months on a United Nations Security Council resolution to send an international inspection team back to Iraq, while Saddam Hussein takes advantage of each delay. This week, as the council prepared to vote, France balked at the plan, asking for more time to see if new language could be c... |
1161256_0 | A Tool for Anonymity on the Internet | In the last few years, the online world has been getting more and more like a small town as advertisers and marketers have developed smoother, faster and subtler ways of tracking sites visited and purchases made. This week, a Canadian company, Zero Knowledge, announced a new product that it said could help people avoid... |
1161270_2 | Viruses And Their Cures | shame to waste more time and energy on viruses and worms, which are so easily avoided. Here we go. For people who have no reason to believe their systems have been infected: 1. Back up (make copies of) all your important files. 2. Get in the habit of making regular backups. 3. Get an antivirus program and use it. 4. Up... |
1161253_4 | The Web: New Ticket to a Pink Slip; On the Job, the Boss Can Watch Your Every Online Move, and You Have Few Defenses | monitoring movement, according to companies that sell filtering and monitoring software. If employees are surfing to pornography sites, said John Carrington, president of Websense Inc., ''it's like having porno magazines all through your office.'' If blocking and monitoring software is in place, Mr. Carrington said, ''... |
1163403_2 | Pact Between New Jersey and Netherlands May Mean Cleaner Air for State | environmental protection, said the agreement is the first that specifically calls for the exchange of such credits to achieve goals set by the Kyoto treaty. The treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, was drafted after worldwide attention was focused on global warming by the Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. Reducti... |
1163399_0 | SOVEREIGN ISLANDS/A special report.; For Cruise Ships' Workers, Much Toil, Little Protection | The kitchen on a cruise ship starts bustling for breakfast before 6 a.m., and some days the workers do not stop peeling, cooking and washing until after the midnight buffet. For laboring as long as 18 hours a day, seven days a week, most galley workers are paid $400 to $450 a month. These are the migrant workers of the... |
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