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1163399_2 | SOVEREIGN ISLANDS/A special report.; For Cruise Ships' Workers, Much Toil, Little Protection | that these individuals would be able to obtain in their home countries -- jobs that do not offer either the earning potential or opportunities for advancement and that do not include full room and board, medical care and transportation benefits that are provided to cruise line employees,'' the International Council of ... |
1158588_0 | More Than a Diploma | To the Editor: I write to offer comfort to Casey Schwartz (''Hey, Yale, Can This Be My College Essay?'' Nov. 21), her parents, her friends and their parents, including the mother quoted as saying: ''I told my daughter that if she doesn't get into Yale or Harvard or Columbia, she might as well get a job at Starbucks. I'... |
1158417_4 | Countering Gay Bias Incidents at UConn | being investigated, and patrols have been increased in the center of campus, where many of the bias messages have been written on sidewalks. All officers go through diversity training. This training, also done by the Department of Residential Life, is now being considered for all university employees. Ms. Nelson feels ... |
1158267_11 | Architecture | Reservation in Lakeside, Calif., bringing full circle his homage to the architecture of the inhabitants' ancestors. Alas, two-thirds of Gill's 300 buildings have been torn down, the majority of the remainder altered beyond recognition, and his archives were put out with the trash, making this first-ever monograph a her... |
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1158260_2 | Food; Good and Plenty | dinner parties, not to mention jobs like mine, obsolete. Perhaps, quite cleverly, you will have developed comfort-food-in-a-pill, but -- forgive my skepticism -- I doubt it. We in 1999 already have Prozac and other ostensible comfort pills (also known as mood enhancers), but it's difficult to imagine comfort food encap... |
1158351_5 | Science, Infiltrating the Stage, Puts Life Under the Microscope | if understood, is precise. ''If one takes the theater as being quite simply a microcosm in which you can look at life under a microscope, then in any situation you like, from the most banal to the most exotic, you see a series of processes. But what makes it possible to put those processes into a form that an audience ... |
1158399_5 | Volunteer Connections: Returning the Favor | bad match,'' Mrs. Del Colle said. In part, the increase in the popularity of volunteering is the result of growing community service requirements from schools that encourage students to make a contribution and from churches and synagogues that want confirmation and bar mitzvah students to do the same. The youngsters wo... |
1158578_4 | The World; At Last, the Face of Peace in Ulster. But No Smile Yet. | city's street fighting republican rebels, and when the Catholic civil rights movement took hold in 1969, he left his job packing bacon and eagerly joined in. Arrested for belonging to the I.R.A., he made a bold statement to a Dublin court, ''For over two years I was an officer in the Derry Brigade of the I.R.A.'' he sa... |
1158575_1 | Ulster's Coalition for Peace | political authority in the province is equitably apportioned between its Protestant and Roman Catholic communities. Following a carefully negotiated timetable, Britain transferred home rule powers to Belfast, Ireland gave up its constitutional claim to the North, and the Irish Republican Army named a senior officer to ... |
1158316_0 | Designs for the Next Millennium; Ocean Group | Ocean represents architecture's newest wave: designers who live in different areas (in this case, Helsinki, Oslo and Cologne) yet practice together in a paperless office located in cyberspace. They create designs that explore the expressive potential of computer software. ''Adrift,'' their proposal for the Times Capsul... |
1158702_4 | Concern Rising As Mars Lander Remains Silent | hope of linking with Earth. But controllers had no way of knowing if the lander received the commands or could act on them. Mission officials held out hope that the polar lander's troubles might prove temporary. Perhaps it came down at an odd angle, or it sank a few inches into a crusty surface. In either case, its pos... |
1158350_3 | A Surrealist Composer Comes To the Rescue of Modernism | thing, his spoiled-brat behavior, so much commented on in the press, shows that he is still playing the part our culture has written for a modernist artist. But more positively, as long as there are strong controlling hands like his at the stylistic mixing board, there will be enough life left in modernism, taking that... |
1164685_0 | In America; Tormented Children | They are not usually part of our consciousness, these children. They shiver and tremble and act out to the awful imperatives of mental illness. Sometimes they shut down. Sometimes they lash out, attacking others, or they turn their fury on themselves. Often they are the victims of terrible crimes. We do a lousy job of ... |
1164767_25 | Bold Effort Leaves Much Unchanged for the Poor | her time with her mother, Yolando has even begun getting up with her at 4 a.m. ''I thought I was going to have my kids go see a whatchacallit -- child therapist,'' Ms. Crawford said. ''But they just want attention.'' In describing the effect of the job the household, the children spoke less of abstract pride than of co... |
1157740_0 | U.S. Report Finds Airport Security Breaches and Criticizes F.A.A. | Undercover government inspectors have thwarted airport security so easily that in some instances they have been able to wander through cargo areas, go through gates and even board airplanes and sit down while pretending to be passengers, officials say. The security breaches, noted at several of the nation's busiest air... |
1157707_2 | Anxious French Mutter as U.S. Envoy Tries to Sell Globalism | we fought with Europe and for European values,'' he went on. ''When that war ended, it should have strengthened ties between us. Instead, the French have a feeling of enormous anxiety.'' Kosovo made President Jacques Chirac and many other European leaders, including Mr. Clinton's friend Prime Minister Tony Blair of Bri... |
1157657_1 | London Journal; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, With Sandwiches | has taken on added heat now because of new scholarship exposing reckless past treatment of the treasures by the British Museum and the desire of Greece to have them returned in time for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin -- the name is pronounced with a hard g -- took them from the Par... |
1157743_1 | Internationally, Embarrassment for U.S. | the world trade agenda. Vittorio Zucconi, a columnist for an Italian daily, La Repubblica, commented approvingly on what he described as ''the strange, but formidable alliance between environmentalist agitators and European ambassadors, between blue jeans and double-breasted suits, of mothers against 'Frankenfood,' gen... |
1159308_0 | The Powerful Idea of Human Rights | A great flowering of the ideal of universal human rights has taken place in the last 50 years, a blink of time in a millennium. It is among the most important political legacies of this century. Despite the persistence of state-sponsored repression and genocidal conflict, the belief that individuals have a claim to bas... |
1159302_1 | Nassau County to Cut Spending In Effort to Ease Financial Crisis | pay off some of the county's long-term debt, cutting the cost of debt service and yielding $10.5 million in savings in 2001. ''Only projects that are directly related to the safety of our residents, or are required contractually, are being advanced,'' he said in a statement, adding that the capital projects would be re... |
1159282_1 | Monsanto Campaign Tries to Gain Support for Gene-Altered Food | companies as Archer Daniels Midland, a large agricultural company in Decatur, Ill., but a spokeswoman for the company said it was not involved. Mr. DeNeal said that many of the church members support gene-altered foods because some scientists are using biotechnology to develop crops that may help feed the growing popul... |
1163143_0 | Strengthening Mr. Castro's Hand | Forty-one years after he came to power and a decade after the end of the cold war, Fidel Castro maintains his repressive rule over Cuba, in part with the unwitting collusion of the United States. The resolution this week of a hostage standoff with Cuban detainees in a Louisiana jail and the unresolved custody battle ov... |
1163084_5 | Spam Your Way to a Good Education; Online Application Forms Add to College Admissions Frenzy | influx of applicants who are less than serious about attending. But in many cases the swelling ranks of applicants are cause for cheer, they say: After all, colleges like to brag about their selectivity. The more applications they get, the more they can reject. And the higher their selectivity, the better chance they h... |
1161171_0 | A Step Forward on Mental Health | To the Editor: The surgeon general's report on mental health correctly emphasizes the need for treatment of children and adolescents (front page, Dec. 13). But I would like to note that for the youngest children, treatment is a family matter. Maternal depression is a serious mental health risk for infants and toddlers.... |
1161103_3 | Where War Roiled Danube, Nature Is Peacemaker | to keep it that way,'' said Philip Weller of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, an adviser to the project. Under the plan, parts of the wetlands that were drained in the past will be restored. Engineers will flush out silted-up channels and open up old side arms of the river to let the water run more freely. The river spil... |
1161192_0 | SWAZILAND SUGAR | In a move to consolidate its control of the Swazi sugar production market, the Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation has made an offer to buy a rival, the Mhlume Sugar Company, for an undisclosed amount. If successful, Royal Swazi would be the biggest employer in the tiny African nation, with 8,000 workers. The new company... |
1161135_2 | Monsanto Sued Over Use of Biotechnology in Developing Seeds | are now using words reminiscent of the Justice Department's case against Microsoft, such as contentions that Monsanto has gained monopoly status through the use of bully tactics, intimidation, deceptive business practices and restrictive technology deals with small farmers. Heading the case is Michael D. Hausfeld, the ... |
1164166_5 | Plans for Military Base Divide California County | ballot measures to incorporate as a city. The measure finally succeeded this year in part because leaders explained to voters that as a city it could battle the El Toro airport more effectively. Orange County is the sixth largest county in the country, with about 2.8 million residents. While at one time much of the pop... |
1164206_0 | Uncertainty Clouds Plans For Pipelines | Freed by deregulation and the demise of utility monopolies, pipeline companies are seeking to build two major new lines to open the New York-New Jersey market to vast reserves of natural gas from western Canada. In theory, the pipelines will enable more independent gas marketing companies to enter the market, encourage... |
1164149_5 | U.N. Agency Is Bringing Timor Online (Horsemen in Mongolia, as Well) | Nations Development Program helped establish the first Internet service in Bhutan, just as the Himalayan nation got its first television station. ''For a landlocked country, information is a good commodity,'' said Henrik Holde at the development program's office in the capital, Thimphu, where efforts are under way to s... |
1157471_0 | Study of Ill Gulf War Veterans Points to Chemical Damage | Some veterans of the Persian Gulf war who have complained of chronic illnesses have signs of brain damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, the authors of a scientific study partly financed by the Pentagon reported today. Magnetic scans of sick veterans found lower-than-normal levels of a certain chemical, indicat... |
1157468_1 | In Ancient Texts, Solace Amid War | embraced slavery, racial triumphalism and infanticide. But the classics offer a continuum with Western literature, architecture, art and political systems. The West's past, its political and social philosophy and intellectual achievements cannot, without the classics, be examined thoughtfully. Nor without a classical b... |
1157428_0 | Business fliers worldwide are increasingly using the Internet to research and book their flights. | BUSINESS travelers worldwide are increasingly embracing the Internet to research and book their flights, an annual survey by the International Air Transport Association has found. Almost two-thirds of the survey's approximately 1,000 respondents from Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region said they used the ... |
1157439_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE BRITAIN: CURB ON BEEF SALES TO END -- A two-year-old ban on sales of beef on the bone is to end Dec. 17 after assurances from medical officials that there is no longer any risk that certain cuts may be contaminated with the infective agent that causes mad-cow disease, which attacks the brain. The action was unre... |
1157490_2 | Documents Show Officials Disagreed On Altered Food | filed against the agency by the Alliance for Bio-Integrity, founded by Mr. Druker, a lawyer who is the organization's executive director. Mr. Druker is conducting a one-man campaign to force the agency to institute mandatory, rigorous safety testing of all genetically engineered food and require labeling. Safety testin... |
1157408_4 | Stealing Fire From Olympus; Staging the Greeks, With High-Voltage and Modern Energy | when he was buried in Sicily, all it said on his grave was, 'Here lies Aeschylus who fought at the battle of Marathon.' And that is what his tomb should have said: In that battle the Greeks were freed from the tyranny of the Persians and went on to create the great democracy that was Athens.'' The company, which is pre... |
1157498_4 | Porto Seguro Journal; Indian Tribe Wants Brazil's Plymouth Rock Back | this park has suffered are due to the Indians,'' complained Silvio da Cruz Freire, the park's acting director, ''so for them to suddenly present themselves as protectors of the environment flies in the face of reality. I can't remember a time when there haven't been Indians inside the park burning trees to plant their ... |
1157432_0 | Times Company Dismisses 23 Over E-Mail | The New York Times Company dismissed 23 employees at an administrative center in Norfolk, Va., yesterday for violating the company's e-mail policy, a company spokeswoman said. The workers -- men and women in a variety of departments and functions -- were among 200 employees at a center that processes invoices, pay and ... |
1162500_10 | TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA: The Economy Transformed, Bit by Bit; Businesses and Society Confront the Inescapable Challenges of High Technology and the Internet | shift. That was precisely the quandary Mr. Gates was sketching out in his 1995 memo: Microsoft was threatened by the rise of Internet software; yet if it scrambled, he wrote, the company could benefit from the Internet. The speed of Microsoft's response is regarded as an exceptional case of a big company's moving nimbl... |
1162422_5 | Auto Dealers Streamline Operations To Meet the Challenge of the Internet | extract themselves from swamps or deep snow, are likely to be replaced on many vehicles with lighter, less expensive all-wheel-drive systems. All-wheel-drive systems, which typically do not have so-called transfer cases with very low gears, are just as effective as four-wheel drives for accelerating on slippery roads, ... |
1162486_4 | In the Works: Drugs Tailored to Individual Patients | to be used to grow new blood vessels and, in the more distant future, it will be possible to grow entire new organs. One approach to trying to determine gene function is to learn which genes are turned on in different types of cells, such as those turned on in cancer cells compared with normal cells. This has opened up... |
1162413_7 | OUTLOOK 2000: AN EPITAPH FOR THE 20th CENTURY; A Time of Energy And Enterprise And E-Everything | power of technology. The 20th century ''has been a triumph for human expression,'' he said. Communication has been transformed, he said, from what was once largely face to face to something that is now both instant and universal for people around the globe. No matter how effective books and other printed forms of expre... |
1162421_1 | Rocky Outlook for Genetically Engineered Crops | like Monarch butterflies. Over the last year, governments and the industry's biggest customers began deciding it was better to retreat than to ignore negative public sentiment. The backlash was strongest in Europe, where supermarket chains took foods containing oil from genetically modified corn and soybeans off their ... |
1162577_0 | Monsanto and Pharmacia to Join, Creating a Pharmaceutical Giant | The Monsanto Company, which makes one of the world's best-selling drugs but has come under fire recently over genetically altered crops, and the drug maker Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. agreed to merge yesterday in a deal that would create one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The two compani... |
1162513_1 | Rocky Outlook for Genetically Engineered Crops | like Monarch butterflies. Over the last year, governments and the industry's biggest customers began deciding it was better to retreat than to ignore negative public sentiment. The backlash was strongest in Europe, where supermarket chains took foods containing oil from genetically modified corn and soybeans off their ... |
1162526_5 | Auto Dealers Streamline Operations To Meet the Challenge of the Internet | let motorists extract themselves from swamps or deep snow, are likely to be replaced on many vehicles with lighter, less expensive all-wheel-drive systems. All-wheel-drive systems, which typically do not have so-called transfer cases with very low gears, are just as effective as four-wheel drives for accelerating on sl... |
1162420_4 | In the Works: Drugs Tailored to Individual Patients | to be used to grow new blood vessels and, in the more distant future, it will be possible to grow entire new organs. One approach to trying to determine gene function is to learn which genes are turned on in different types of cells, such as those turned on in cancer cells compared with normal cells. This has opened up... |
1162504_7 | AN EPITAPH FOR THE 20th CENTURY; A Time of Energy And Enterprise And E-Everything | power of technology. The 20th century ''has been a triumph for human expression,'' he said. Communication has been transformed, he said, from what was once largely face to face to something that is now both instant and universal for people around the globe. No matter how effective books and other printed forms of expre... |
1162412_10 | OUTLOOK 2000: TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA: The Economy Transformed, Bit by Bit; Businesses and Society Confront the Inescapable Challenges of High Technology and the Internet | shift. That was precisely the quandary Mr. Gates was sketching out in his 1995 memo: Microsoft was threatened by the rise of Internet software; yet if it scrambled, he wrote, the company could benefit from the Internet. The speed of Microsoft's response is regarded as an exceptional case of a big company's moving nimbl... |
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1160101_3 | Driving Yourself To Distraction | Feb. 13, 1997, the New England Journal of Medicine published a large study, made in Toronto, of links between collisions and car-phone use. The authors studied 699 drivers who owned cell phones and had been involved in collisions resulting in substantial property damage. The authors analyzed calls on the day of the col... |
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1160550_3 | Both Sides Report Progress in Talks to Avert Transit Strike | to increase productivity,'' Mr. James said last night. At a news conference yesterday, the mayor said some contingency plans intended to reduce disruption across the city, including wider deployment of privately operated vans, may be set in motion before the union's contract expires at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. With him... |
1160546_1 | Rescued From the Deep, 38 Years Later | pitching in heavy seas at the end of a four-mile tether reaching into the deep. Bits of history are interspersed. On July 21, 1961, Liberty Bell 7, bobbing in the ocean after a suborbital flight, became the first accident of the American manned space program. For reasons still unknown, the hatch suddenly blew its 70 ti... |
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1160130_3 | The Way We Live Now: 12-12-99; Feeding Frenzy | the people who eat Olestra, after all. Labeling was rejected out of hand -- too cumbersome and too risky. For who, given the choice, would reach for the spuds with the biotech label? Right there, in the produce section, lurks the question that goes to the heart of what it means to be rational or hysterical about biotec... |
1160421_7 | A Medicine Chest or a Grocery Shelf? | because of poor sales in a southwest Michigan test market. Analysts said Campbell Soup and Kellogg had invested millions of dollars developing functional foods but did not know how to sell them. Kellogg had boasted that Ensemble was rich in fiber, an ingredient so familiar to consumers, critics said, that many were uni... |
1161814_1 | 130 Venezuelans Are Killed in Coastal Flooding and Mudslides | rock that have come crashing down mountainsides. Forecasts are for the bad weather to continue for days. The disaster is attributed to La Nina, the meteorological phenomenon that has caused unusually rainy and cool weather throughout South America in recent months, particularly in the Andean region. A series of rainsto... |
1161744_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | Radu Vasile quit after days of refusing to accept his dismissal by the president. In return, his center-right Peasant Party lifted a ban on his holding any party leadership posts. He will also be allowed to run for head of the Senate, the country's second-highest job. (AP) THE AMERICAS ARGENTINA: 2 PROTESTERS DIE -- A ... |
1162959_2 | Nature's Guardians Still Face Disrespect | more subtle forms of harassment and discrimination, like refusal to serve Forest Service employees at local restaurants and motels. She decried the poisonous political and social climate -- a problem compounded by the lack of cooperation from federal prosecutors, particularly the United States attorney in Nevada, in ac... |
1163005_5 | Havana Journal; To Have and Have Not: Cubans' Life With Castro | riding her bike on the street. ''I make $8 a month and that bike over there costs $30,'' said the man, who declined to give his name. ''I get paid in pesos. How could I buy that? You cannot live on that. Who can?'' He wondered how much longer it would be like this. ''Things have got to get better,'' he said. ''Maybe by... |
1162930_0 | A Disabled Girl's Rights | To the Editor: Re ''Abortion Is Rejected for a Girl, 13, Bitterly Dividing the Italians'' (news article, Dec. 17): The circumstances related to a developmentally disabled girl's pregnancy demonstrate the denial and shame surrounding sexual activity and the disabled. People with disabilities have the same human and repr... |
1164261_0 | OBSERVATORY | Lawn Care Gene It's a suburban homeowner's fantasy: a lawn that grows to a certain height and no higher, and never needs mowing. That dream may become a reality someday, with the recent discovery of a gene that appears to control the production of an important growth hormone in plants. The gene, known as BAS-1 and isol... |
1159723_1 | Agreements by two agency giants add to a year-end rush to capitalize on Internet advertising. | capitalist, making an unspecified investment in E-Dialog along with two venture capital firms, Commonwealth Capital and One Liberty Ventures. ''It's important for us to pair up with agencies,'' said John Rizzi, president and chief executive at E-Dialog, because ''it's a way to differentiate us from other e-mail marketi... |
1159810_2 | Tantalizing Signs of Ancient Martian Ocean | week ago today while trying to land near the Martian south pole to search for water. Editors at Science said the loss of the spacecraft had no affect on the timing of the ancient-ocean paper. In September, yet another craft, the Mars Climate Orbiter, vanished as it approached the planet. Mars today is an icy desert wit... |
1164866_0 | In America; Miracles At Warp Speed | Just 50 years ago, no time at all in the long excursion of history, Americans were driving cars with divided windshields, listening to ballgames on radios that crackled with static, and reading comic strips that suggested someday there might be a portable electronic device (a wrist radio, perhaps) that would allow indi... |
1159502_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: ADAMS TELLS OF CAR BUG -- Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, accused the British intelligence services of planting a listening and tracking device in his car during recent negotiations on a Northern Ireland settlement. Mr. Adams said he had prot... |
1159446_1 | Two Years Before the Mast (and the Computer) | in this season is proving more difficult than we thought!'' reads one of the weekly updates posted on the Makulu II's Web site, www.reachtheworld.org. ''We did NOT find the wind that we hoped would carry us southwest to Brazil. As a result, we have changed our plan and are heading directly to Trinidad, a 2,200-plus-mil... |
1159573_0 | P.S. Send Nicer E-Mail | To the Editor: I would like to add one more item to Letitia Baldrige's list of e-mail rules for good manners (Op-Ed, Dec. 6): When you respond to my e-mail, do not -- wholly, blindly and simply because the e-mail software lets you -- include my message in your answer. I'm not interested in rereading what I wrote. It do... |
1157971_0 | U.S. Hires Advisory Firm in Microsoft Case | The Justice Department said this evening that it had hired New York investment bankers to help determine the financial impact of various proposals for restructuring Microsoft or changing its business practices to resolve the antitrust case against the company. The department said the investment firm Greenhill & Company... |
1157991_1 | NORTHERN IRELAND PICKS UP THE REINS OF ITS GOVERNMENT | pledge to make contact with the commission, headed by Gen. John de Chastelain of Canada, was crucial to the agreement to form the government. In a ceremony this morning in a marble hall of the Foreign Affairs Department in Dublin, Ireland's foreign minister, David Andrews, and Britain's secretary for Northern Ireland, ... |
1158195_0 | Gifts for Body and Soul on New York-Havana Flight | More than anything, the objects packed carefully into luggage for the first direct flight from New York to Havana in nearly four decades told the story. There were gifts, a reminder of families separated by distance and years. There was medicine, a necessity engendered by the economic embargo against Cuba. And there wa... |
1158122_0 | Lure of Internet Success | To the Editor: M.B.A. candidates are dropping out of business schools and flocking to Internet companies not just to follow the money (news article, Nov. 28). They are looking to carve a niche in an industry they know is changing business around the world. On the Web, there are few barriers to entry. Almost every dot-c... |
1161560_0 | How to Make a Scientific Breakthrough Seem Horrifying | CONSIDER the possibilities of a scientific breakthrough that could allow farmers to grow more food while using less pesticide, or to add vitamins to vegetable oils to prevent malnutrition. Maybe some plastic products now made from petroleum could instead be produced from plants. Would the stock prices of companies deve... |
1161534_1 | With a 'Don't Be Vexed' Air, Chirac Assesses U.S. | world because I think it's inevitable.'' China, India, Europe (as Mr. Chirac believes) and Russia (according to Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine) will all be great powers in the next century. French criticism of American ebullience may seem as relentless as Cartesian logic. ''There are moments when Americans get exasper... |
1163613_5 | Latin America Tackling Possible Computer Woes | the region, like Guatemala and Bolivia. In an attempt to help countries like these prepare for the problem, the bank this year opened a $200 million emergency credit line to finance computer upgrades. ''Some of these countries have been hurt by natural phenomena like hurricanes and a decline in the prices of their main... |
1163555_1 | Seeing the Strangest Number From 2 Sides | so it has seemed: it inspired the calculus, spurred explorations of the infinite and now holds court in contemporary physics' most baroque theories. It has also just inspired two books: Robert Kaplan's ''The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero'' (Oxford) and Charles Seife's ''Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous I... |
1162715_0 | Mission in the Rain Forest | To the Editor: I write in response to a profile of me (''A Romance With a Rain Forest and Its Elusive Miracles'') on Nov. 30. While I appreciate its supposed concern for my career, the evolution of Shaman Pharmaceuticals into Shaman Botanicals has not amounted to a ''personal career crisis.'' The major thrust of my car... |
1162736_3 | THE MARKETS: Market Place; After Deal Of 2 Giants, Shares Plunge | the growth potential of plant biotechnology, with huge expected gains once the company broadens its pipeline and starts genetically altering crops to produce more nutritious foods. Having spent billions of dollars to develop genetically engineered crops, Monsanto has lobbied for worldwide approval, so that the company ... |
1162656_6 | Risks For Cancer Can Start In Womb | than inactive women, had been active in their teens and early 20's as well as later in life. In general, the less estrogen a woman is exposed to -- from fetal life through childhood and adulthood -- the lower her risk of developing breast cancer. Early menopause, which results from a loss of estrogens produced by the o... |
1162724_3 | Biology Meets High Technology; Biochips Signal a Critical Shift for Research and Medicine | of nucleotides -- that inform every aspect of human biology. That project is expected to be completed within a year or two, either by the national labs or private companies or, as seems most likely, a combination of the two. Genomics companies like Human Genome Sciences, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Incyte Pharmaceutica... |
1162719_0 | Mission in the Rain Forest | To the Editor: The Scientist at Work profile of Dr. Mark Plotkin was an unfortunately truncated picture of one of the most committed and effective individuals working for indigenous peoples, their cultures and the forests in which they live. Yes, Mark Plotkin started out as a traditional ethnobotanist working in Surina... |
1162674_0 | Chirac and the Bomb | To the Editor: Re ''With a 'Don't Be Vexed' Air, Chirac Assesses U.S.'' (news article, Dec. 17): For President Jacques Chirac of France to speak out critically against the Senate's rejection of a nuclear test ban treaty oozes with hypocrisy. Whatever the merits of the Senate's action, Mr. Chirac is the least qualified ... |
1161979_5 | With a New Century, a Promise of New Sounds | are often comfortingly regressive. Certainly there are few religious composers who emulate Olivier Messiaen in taking it as their sacred duty to embrace any and every sound. Other sources of purpose are hard to find. Few composers can draw strength from a sense of serving an audience, since the audience, in the main, h... |
1162076_3 | Navigating the Bias Minefield | or because the case shattered the notion that a board's admissions decisions were virtually bulletproof. The stunning part of the decision was that several board members were held personally liable for a significant portion of the damages, money that ultimately came out of the board members' own pockets. Since then, co... |
1162328_0 | December 12-18; Monsanto Sued Over Seeds | The Monsanto Company, which has vowed to create sustainable agriculture through the use of genetically engineered crops, was hit with a class-action lawsuit by antitrust lawyers who claim that Monsanto rushed genetically engineered corn and soybean seeds to the marketplace without testing them for safety. The suit, fil... |
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1161972_0 | Who Needs Philosophy? | Kudos to Robert Boynton for capturing Martha Nussbaum's ability to relate ancient philosophical ideas to current political issues. Nussbaum shows us that understanding philosophy is neither a mystical free-for-all nor an exercise limited to the intellectual/social elite. The mental rigor and focus that philosophy deman... |
1160773_0 | In Human Rights, A Global Revolution | To the Editor: ''The Powerful Idea of Human Rights'' (editorial, Dec. 8) mentions that leaders who violate human rights are now subject to international exposure. In fact, the communications revolution's effect on human rights reaches much further than the exposure of atrocities and oppression, as important as that is.... |
1160752_0 | MANY NOT TREATED | One in every five Americans experiences a mental disorder in any given year, and half of all Americans have such disorders at some time in their lives, but most of them never seek treatment, the surgeon general of the United States says in a comprehensive new report. Many people with mental disorders do not realize tha... |
1159026_4 | Clinton Remark on Child Labor Irks Brazil | as worthy, they are not convinced that the United States understands the problems. They wonder whether granting those rights might not destroy the competitive advantage they need for development and whether the West is prepared to provide the billions of dollars needed to eradicate the poverty that lies behind child la... |
1159005_1 | Visiting U.S., British Cabinet Minister Urges Investment in Ulster | Mr. Mandelson acknowledged that, without continued cooperation between pro-British unionists and pro-Irish republicans, the negotiations that have ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland could be set back ''to square one.'' ''The parties now realize that they need each other,'' he told reporters. ''This is the es... |
1159077_2 | Robert A. Swanson, 52, Co-Founder of Genentech | scheduled to go public this week. Robert Swanson grew up in Florida, the son of an Eastern Air Lines employee, and earned degrees in chemistry and management from M.I.T. He joined Citicorp Venture Capital in New York and was transferred to San Francisco, then joined the venture capital firm now called Kleiner, Perkins,... |
1159027_0 | Program to Check Safety of Airlines Abroad | In an effort to improve safety on airlines that do not fly to this country, the Transportation Department announced a plan today to require United States airlines to report on the performance of their foreign partners. The program is similar to an agreement last August between the big American carriers and the Defense ... |
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