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1163903_0 | So Why Punish Cuba? | To the Editor: Re ''To Have and Have Not: Cubans' Life With Castro'' (news article, Dec. 22): You describe the difficult life in Cuba, made all the more difficult by our trade embargo against a country where affection remains strong for a regime that has improved life for the very poor. A few pages away is an article (... |
1105647_3 | John Irving Tale, Halved but Big | is a tone deafness when it comes to the emotional universe in which its characters are supposed to dwell. As in ''Nickleby,'' too, the story of ''Cider House'' is laid out on a broad canvas with minimal scenery -- David Zinn's understated costumes and John Arnone's double-decker clapboard set convey the pleasing sereni... |
1105792_0 | Link to City Most Obvious When It Fails | MARTA COLON will tell you that all is far from perfect with Access-a-Ride, the program of door-to-door transportation for disabled people that is managed by New York City Transit. She found out the hard way. Then again, Miss Colon has found out most things the hard way since she was born with cerebral palsy 17 years ag... |
1105728_0 | Cleaning Up the Big Cars | The news from Detroit was heartening this week -- robust automobile sales, driven mainly by purchases of sport utility vehicles, minivans and a lot of those fancy pickup trucks that are beginning to look as comfortable as luxury cars. The news from Washington was equally heartening -- a set of tough new Federal regulat... |
1107429_1 | World Briefing | in October, explaining: ''I simply do not have the moral right to leave in the middle of the road.'' He vowed to press on with reforms to deal with Ukraine's ailing economy. Official nominations begin today, but opinion polls show President Kuchma trailing the Progressive Socialist Party leader, Natalya Vitrenko. (Reut... |
1110314_3 | On a Greek Odyssey by Land, Sea and Poetry | to the British Durrell and the American Miller, for whom alienation and literature were synonymous. But I risk giving them too much space. They are Professor Keeley's way into his theme and provide a lot of the fun; they are only part of it, though, and not its most memorable fun. As for the theme, ''Inventing Paradise... |
1109156_0 | Law Weans Cabbies From Cell Phones | The notoriously garrulous New York City taxi driver is about to become a little less talkative. Acting on a rising number of passenger complaints, the Taxi and Limousine Commission passed a new regulation yesterday that prohibits cabbies from using cellular phones while driving. Drivers who violate the rule, passed una... |
1109155_5 | U.S. Aide Due in North Korea With Deal to Lift Sanctions | this plan has to have a plan about how to deal with the North if they turn this down. For a while it looked like the recommendation would be benign neglect.'' ''But it is clear,'' said Mr. Gregg, who now heads the Korea Society in New York, ''that if we leave them alone, they go back to building nuclear weapons and mis... |
1108605_0 | Even in Cleaner-Running Machines, Looks Will Count | The vroom is gone, or going. So is the heft of steel and the muscular body. Made of magnesium, aluminum and plastic composites, powered by sustainable-source fuels, the coming generation of pollution-conscious cars is ultraquiet and ultralight. They promise to change the rules of how a car feels, looks and operates, as... |
1108603_3 | Can Motor City Come Up With A Clean Machine? | the off-road vehicles to emit several times more pollution per mile than cars do. Ford is also buying junkyards, with a plan to reuse more auto parts instead of letting them clog landfills. Other auto makers are also taking voluntary steps. All of Honda's American-made Civics and Accords now meet California's strict em... |
1108725_2 | Ganderkesee Journal; Mulching the German Mark | on the mark's fate. ''But if you think that compost is a stimulus to growth, then it is quite a nice symbol.'' Perhaps. Still, it is mildly shocking, and more than mildly nauseating, to watch the famous bills -- shredded into 800 pieces each before 60 million marks ($34.2 million) were given to Mr. Vollmer-Heuer's Envi... |
1107198_1 | Rich Struggle for British Phone Carrier | for high-speed data transmission. ''The overall play here is not just for the subscribers,'' said Steve Wreford, an analyst with Charterhouse Securities in London. ''It's for the growth that will take place over the next three years.'' If Deutsche Telekom succeeds in acquiring Telecom Italia, it would own mobile phone ... |
1104984_3 | Compulsive Gambling: Overlooked Addiction | manual lists addiction characteristics that include a need to increase the amount and frequency of the behavior to achieve the desired excitement (tolerance); discomfort upon being abstinent (withdrawal); inability to control the behavior, despite repeated efforts to cut down or quit; continuing the behavior despite th... |
1105088_0 | Violent Games, Violent Deeds?; Indicting Mass Culture | To the Editor: A May 1 Art and Ideas pages article discusses the effect that Fredric Wertham's ''Seduction of the Innocent'' (1954) had on the Comics Code. Wertham, a psychiatrist, maintained that the brutal activity depicted in some comics created a culture of violence and encouraged antisocial behavior. Wertham belie... |
1104986_2 | In Arizona Desert, a Bird Oasis in Peril | River, largely disappeared when the rivers were dammed and natural water flows were disrupted, Mr. Hardy explained. The San Pedro River sustains the largest surviving expanse of broadleaf riparian forest in the Southwest. Even in the driest spells, there is water in most of a 50-mile-long stretch of river that straddle... |
1108389_12 | A Doctor's Drug Trials Turn Into Fraud | women with blood serums that showed low levels of estrogen and high levels of follicle-stimulating hormone -- signs that a woman is going through menopause. To make sure that the patients' tests qualified, Dr. Fiddes sent out a memo specifying the hormone levels required for the study. ''We need some serum that scores ... |
1108289_12 | A Doctor's Drug Trials Turn Into Fraud | women with blood serums that showed low levels of estrogen and high levels of follicle-stimulating hormone -- signs that a woman is going through menopause. To make sure that the patients' tests qualified, Dr. Fiddes sent out a memo specifying the hormone levels required for the study. ''We need some serum that scores ... |
1108301_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | already cost thousands of lives. Ethiopia said it had inflicted heavy damage, but Eritrea said no strategic targets had been hit. A8 Elections in Slovakia The Government's candidate, Rudolf Schuster, won the first round of Slovakia's presidential elections but will face a second-round runoff on May 29 against former Pr... |
1110207_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-17 NATO Bombs Disrupt Serbs' Water and Power NATO warplanes hit electrical power transformers throughout Serbia in an effort to cut off the Yugoslav military's communication and supply links to Kosovo, according to Pentagon and NATO officials. But the attacks also had what the officials said was the un... |
1110169_2 | China Shifts on How to Resettle Million People for Giant Dam | Government, with the support of President Jiang Zemin and other Communist leaders. Mr. Zhu is a proponent of market-oriented economic reforms and closer ties with the West. Some Chinese and foreign experts have speculated that he has been seriously weakened in the anti-American atmosphere following the bombing of China... |
1109370_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Clinton Pushes for Troops Along Kosovo Border The Clinton Administration announced that the United States would press its allies to move quickly to deploy what was described as a peacekeeping force of about 50,000 troops on the borders of Kosovo. A1 Yugoslavia insisted that it play a central role in ... |
1110853_1 | Spacecraft's Data Yield First Detailed Map of Mars | debris blasted from the crater would be enough to cover the United States in a blanket up to two miles thick, he said. The new map was generated with readings from an instrument aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which reached Mars in 1997 and began its science mission a year ago. The instrument, the Mars Orbiter Lase... |
1110780_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY /Collecting; Cars With Obscure Spots in the Record Books | OF the thousands of automobiles that have been built in the United States, which ones deserve a place in history? That's easy, to a point: The Model T Ford, the Chrysler Airflow, the original Corvette and Mustang qualify as milestones by any measure, as do various Packards, Duesenbergs and Cadillacs, among others. What... |
1106642_5 | Reports Show Scientist Gave U.S. Radar Secrets to Chinese | committee led by Representative Christopher Cox of California. Submarine Detection And National Security The technology at issue in the Peter Lee case involves a radar ocean imaging program developed in cooperation with Britain. The former manager of the program, Richard Twogood, said in an interview that because the p... |
1106644_3 | DRAWING UP PLANS TO PAY FOR PILLS FOR THE ELDERLY | poor. Thirteen states have programs to help the lower-income elderly who are not poor enough for Medicaid. Medicare does cover prescriptions for its beneficiaries in hospitals. Besides the third of all Medicare beneficiaries with no drug coverage at all, what worries some analysts are the signs of erosion in private co... |
1111628_2 | Score Another One for the Behavior Police | razor's edge of liability, as they risk being sued if they monitor their students' private lives and also sued if they don't. Although Justice Kennedy's concern about the tension between sexual harassment law and free expression was welcome, it was also a little late. For the same invasions of privacy that Justice Kenn... |
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1106244_0 | Fighting the Good Fight Against Disease | GREAT changes are taking place in the horticultural world. Emphasis has been placed on environmental concerns and reduction in the use of pesticides. The result is the ever increasing importance of integrated pest management, known as I.P.M. This approach stresses managing a problem and does not advocate complete eradi... |
1106409_5 | Bolivia, at Risk of Some Unrest, Is Making Big Gains in Eradicating Coca | to move in large, cumbersome units. Fearing a guerrilla insurrection, the Government decided to send units of the Anti-Terrorism National Center, a C.I.A. trained and financed agency, into the anti-drug fight for the first time. The intelligence agents paid informers in the cocalero movement and captured code books, a ... |
1106411_3 | Many Researchers Say Link Is Already Clear on Media and Youth Violence | the group, Rammstein, for example, or some rap music lyrics that seem to glorify violence against women -- or of violent video games, some of which allow a player to simulate murder. Both video games and explicitly violent lyrics are relatively recent phenomena and have not been widely studied. Professor Kunkel estimat... |
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1106242_0 | Fighting the Good Fight Against Disease | GREAT changes are taking place in the horticultural world. Emphasis has been placed on environmental concerns and reduction in the use of pesticides. The result is the ever increasing importance of integrated pest management, known as I.P.M. This approach stresses managing a problem and does not advocate complete eradi... |
1106093_22 | A Chance to Break the Pop Stranglehold | away. As for financing, well, if advances were stacked up against finance deals in other industries, they'd look a lot like usury -- except that they aren't even loans: once they're paid back, the label still owns the master. There is simply no worse conceivable form of financing. We can do better if we take charge of ... |
1106131_2 | THE GUIDE | will be offered, accompanied by ''major guests,'' at 8 P.M. at the center on Main Street, nobody (except presumably Mr. Brown) knows what or who it will be, a center spokeswoman said. Sessions on May 28 and June 4 complete the series (288-1500). Taking Summer Stock When it comes to longevity, the Gateway Playhouse in B... |
1106243_0 | Fighting the Good Fight Against Disease | GREAT changes are taking place in the horticultural world. Emphasis has been placed on environmental concerns and reduction in the use of pesticides. The result is the ever increasing importance of integrated pest management, known as I.P.M. This approach stresses managing a problem and does not advocate complete eradi... |
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1104868_0 | Low-Wage Businesses Add to Number of Uninsured Workers | A long-spreading gap between the wages of undereducated workers in menial jobs and those of skilled college graduates is contributing to another gap, in workers' health benefits, a research journal reports. Lending a new perspective on the swelling numbers of Americans without health insurance, an article to be publish... |
1108856_7 | A World Of Choices To Plug In To the Net | can pretty much count on the fact that the larger I.S.P.'s are in heavy-duty competition to roll out high-speed access,'' Mr. Sherman said. ''The question is just when.'' Cable companies can now reach only about 23 million households. Their Internet service costs about $40 per month, said David Eiswert at the Strategis... |
1108437_0 | Weining Journal; Habitat Nearly Full Leaves People's Lives Empty | Deep in the ravaged mountains of southwest China, one of nature's jewels improbably endures, a shallow grassy lake that is a crucial wintering ground for dozens of species of migratory waterfowl. Declared a protected reserve by China, the lake and its surroundings seemed tranquil on a recent morning as families of rare... |
1108435_0 | Insuring Our Children | To the Editor: Re ''Kids' Insurance Fund'' (letter, May 16): If states are having trouble finding children without medical insurance, they should print pamphlets about the program that schools could give to parents when they register children for school. No child's registration should be complete without proof that he ... |
1108393_0 | OBSERVATORY | A New Role for Tobacco Tobacco has a deservedly terrible reputation. But a team of British scientists has developed a potential use for the crop that may prove beneficial. Genetically engineered tobacco, these scientists report, may be used to clean up soil that has been contaminated with explosives. The concept of usi... |
1108519_0 | Macho Literary Update: Big-Game Healer | YOU think you're traveling too much for work? Consider the life of Dr. William B. Karesh, a wildlife veterinarian. January, shlepping his usual 220 pounds of medical equipment, it was down to a Kaa-Iya National Park in Bolivia to advise about animal handling techniques, then to Patagonia to inspect seals and sea lions.... |
1108425_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS SHARPLY. Sugar prices fell amid expectations that a recent increase in producer selling would continue at a time of weak demand. In New York, sugar for July delivery fell 0.27 cent, to 4.63 cents a pound. |
1107686_0 | Yugoslavia Fears Loss of Its E-Mail | Internet users rushed to send last-minute E-mail messages at a downtown Internet cafe today, after word circulated that the United States was going to cut off Yugoslavia from the World Wide Web. ''There was a rush here, and many people heard it was going to be shut down,'' said Borivoj Ivanovic, 23, a Web master at the... |
1107612_0 | Internet Access for Schools | In its start-up year, the e-rate program created by Congress as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act has helped tens of thousands of rural and low-income communities connect to the Internet. Given the growing needs, Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard has properly recommended that the program ... |
1110559_1 | E-Mail Becomes Snail Mail | is now a visiting scholar at Stanford University. ''I came over here and was exposed to the whole Silicon Valley thing, with 75 to 80 percent of people with Internet access,'' Dr. O'Mahony said. ''In other parts of the U.S. and in lots of European and Asian countries, this would be more like 20 percent. A substantial n... |
1110558_2 | After a 20-Year Cleanup, a Brighter, Clearer 'Last Supper' Emerges | Apostles that one of them will betray him before dawn. In 1566, the Renaissance architect Giorgio Vasari complained that all he could see on the wall was a ''blinding spot.'' Charles Dickens, who viewed ''The Last Supper'' in 1845, was more dismayed. ''Apart from the damage it has sustained from damp, decay or neglect,... |
1110650_0 | COMPANY BRIEFS | BELL ATLANTIC CORP., New York, said its wireless division, Bell Atlantic Mobile, would buy one million digital wireless phones and accessories from Motorola Inc. to satisfy demand for its flat-rate calling plans. CD RADIO INC., New York, said it was back in negotiations with General Motors Corp., a month after saying i... |
1110540_4 | Coming Era of High-Speed Net Access Is Here and Now on College Campuses | that it's O.K. to do it, and so everybody does it,'' said Fared Adib, a senior at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. But if the music is copyrighted -- and much of it is -- trade associations do not think that trading files without permission is O.K. at all. The Recording Industry Association of America is lobb... |
1105536_0 | How Pagers Receive Messages, Even ('Hello' Upside Down) | IN the digital culture of the late 90's, being out of reach is the ultimate faux pas; people have come to expect instant access not only to information but also to one another. As a result, business cards are overflowing with addresses and numbers for snail mail, telephones, cellular phones, Web sites, E-mail and, of c... |
1111186_5 | A Poetic Director Becomes a Cause To Champion | common. But it also speaks of the passage of time,'' he said. ''That's why there's that little conversation between two kids at the beginning: 'What is time?' asks one. And the response is that of Heraclitus: 'Time is a young child playing with stones at the edge of the sea.' But I would have rather used the definition... |
1111122_0 | Where Have You Gone, Martin Dihigo? | THE PRIDE OF HAVANA A History of Cuban Baseball. By Roberto Gonzlez Echevarria. Illustrated. 464 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $35. WHEN the Baltimore Orioles flew to Cuba for a game against the Cuban national team in March, ESPN beamed back images that surely surprised many fans in the United States. Havana h... |
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1111476_2 | U.S. May Try To Stop Loan Seen as Bad For Tibetans | annexed in 1959, but has traditionally been strongly ethnically Tibetan and is the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. Although Qinghai has been a province of China since the 17th century, critics see the proposed resettlements as part of a broader campaign by the Chinese authorities to weaken T... |
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1104435_0 | Artists' Debt To the Past More Than Passing | THE classical world, especially ancient Greece, continues to be meaningful and relevant. The attention being paid to the thoughtful, new skylighted Greek galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is more evidence of this. Coincidentally, the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College in Purchase, N.Y., pays imaginat... |
1104643_3 | Ulster Lawyer's Killing Casts Suspicion on Police | constitute intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference.'' He expressed particular concern that the police regularly ''identified solicitors with their clients and their clients' causes as a result of their discharging their functions.'' Mrs. Nelson opened her practice in Lurgan, 18 miles southwest of B... |
1104453_5 | Literacy Groups: Filling One of Life's Needs | of the Putnam/ Northern Westchester board, said the literacy program taught survival skills along with reading and writing. ''For English-as-a-second-language students, it can be mind-boggling living in our society,'' she said. ''We teach them about what the Super Bowl is, how to fill out a 1040 tax form, what does a r... |
1104436_0 | Contemporary Tribute to Classical Past | THE classical world, especially ancient Greece, continues to be meaningful and relevant. The attention being paid to the thoughtful, new skylighted Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is more evidence of this. Coincidentally, the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College here pays imaginati... |
1104301_2 | U.S. Customs Shows A Friendlier Face | cocaine and heroin. And 28 travelers a day are chosen at random for a full interview and baggage examination, to determine whether statistics for compliance are holding up. Most other passengers come under scrutiny without knowing it. Information collected by the airlines during check-in is shared electronically with C... |
1104428_0 | Bid for Human Rights Panel Remains a Disputed Issue | NOT often in Westchester has an issue arisen that has polarized religious, political, civic and other organizations more than the proposal to establish a county human rights commission, which would include homosexuals among the groups protected from discrimination. On one side are the proponents: some of the county's P... |
1104397_1 | In Chicago, Layers of History but Uncertain Future | 4,000 residents. Under court order, the Palace Car Company gave up its role as landlord by 1909, but its successor, Pullman-Standard, was building and refurbishing railroad cars here through the 60's. Red-brick workers' cottages and two-story flats still line Pullman's verdant blocks in neat, tight arrays. The Hotel Fl... |
1105909_10 | George Bush the Son Finds That Oil and Blood Do Mix | would be very good for our business.'' After a stock swap, Mr. Bush became chairman, chief executive and a director, with ownership of about 15 percent of the company, according to a Spectrum prospectus. Two years later, in 1986, world oil prices collapsed, plummeting to below $10 a barrel in April from $26 in January.... |
1105856_6 | The Study of Trauma Graduates at Last | a large study in California found that people who were exposed to traumatic events as children were much more likely to develop lung disease, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and drug and alcohol addictions. Yet even now, Mr. van der Kolk says, major institutions ''have resisted looking at how reality shapes bi... |
1111012_0 | Frank A. Gunther Dies at 91; Helped Create Radio Systems | Frank A. Gunther, a radio pioneer who helped create shortwave, two-way and FM systems, died on Monday at Bon Securos Hospital in Venice, Fla. He was 91 and lived in New York and Nokomis, Fla. Mr. Gunther often worked with the military, as well as with police and fire departments, devising some of the first radio commun... |
1111014_0 | Resettlement on the Yangtze | There are new signs that China's top leaders are facing up to the destructive reality of the Three Gorges Dam. This month Prime Minister Zhu Rongji made a highly publicized speech about the difficulty of resettling 1.3 million people whose towns and farmlands will be inundated by the dam's 400-mile-long reservoir. The ... |
1109479_0 | The Way We Live Now: 5-23-99: On Language; War Words | Every sailor enforcing a blockade knows the term of art for the warlike act of stopping a ship suspected of carrying contraband: board and search. However, in cutting off the supply of oil to Serbia, NATO's crack nomenclature specialists devised a more blockade-runner friendly term so as not to offend vessels being fri... |
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1109704_0 | Heard It On the PC Grapevine | WHEN employees gossip about their jobs at the proverbial water cooler, the atmosphere is often one of hushed tones and over-the-shoulder glances. But no such discretion applies at the Electronic Watercooler, an on-line network of uncensored bulletin boards intended to attract employees and job seekers at more than 800 ... |
1109599_3 | From the Nude to the Nutty: There's an Attraction for Everyone | a waterway he had created. Then he added a rock museum and a wildlife exhibition. The state's executive director of tourism, Edward D. Dombroskas, volunteers the information that the River Bend operation is one of his favorite small attractions. Exit 88 East from Route 305 to Route 14A East about 5 1/2 miles. (860) 564... |
1106788_2 | U.S. Loses Hold on Submarine-Exposing Radar Technique | University who has worked on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the Chinese would most easily and plausibly use the secrets to change the depth and speed of their submarines. Secret knowledge of ''what we can and cannot do,'' he said, could help the Chinese dodge submarine spying. Since the start of t... |
1106714_0 | Round 3 in Cancer Battle: A 5-Year Drug Regimen | Having completed the first two phases of treatment for an early breast cancer -- a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation therapy -- I have now begun the third and, in a way, the most exciting phase: five years of daily treatment with the drug tamoxifen. Unlike traditional cancer chemotherapy, tamoxifen does not kill ce... |
1107823_1 | How to Catch A Rising Star | benefits of your workplace, said Lou Adler, author of ''Hire With Your Head'' (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). Even the classified ads you place should focus on where a candidate can go, rather than on where she's been. ''Most ads say, 'Must have four years of this, two years of this, five years of this.' '' Mr. Adler said. ... |
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1082729_1 | World Briefing | the mutual-defense treaty of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the confederation of nations that once made up the Soviet Union. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry said its decision was based on opposition to Russia's call for closer ties among members and Russia's stationing of troops in some nations. The defense pact ex... |
1085630_0 | World Briefing | ASIA HONG KONG: DEPORTATIONS BLOCKED -- A Hong Kong court has blocked the deportation of 18 mainland Chinese who contend that they have the right to residency under a landmark ruling by the territory's Court of Final Appeal. The decision may further inflame relations with China, which has said the ruling is a mistake t... |
1085563_4 | New Study Finds Middle Age Is Prime of Life | care, and the desire of many Americans to play an active role in their own treatment. Menopause is often cited as a difficult transition for women, but the MacArthur study did not support this view. A majority of postmenopausal women said they experienced ''only relief'' when their menstrual periods stopped, while only... |
1087332_0 | Walter Lini, 57, Clergyman Who Led Nation of Vanuatu | The Rev. Walter Lini, an Anglican priest who led the 83 Melanesian islands of Vanuatu and their 172,000 people to nationhood, died on Sunday. The former Prime Minister was 57 and had governed the country for 11 years before he stepped down in 1991. Father Lini was born on Pentecost, one of the larger of what were then ... |
1087328_3 | For Orphaned Little Cubs, a Den Mother | like having a college student around,'' she said. ''They take an interest in their surroundings and start to investigate and really try to figure out what makes everything tick.'' Of course, she cannot be exactly sure of all those equivalents, she said with a laugh, since she herself never reared any children. ''I neve... |
1087284_1 | Biotechnology Treaty Stalls as U.S. and Developing Nations Quarrel | or soy beans, should be subject to the most important requirement of the protocol, which is that an exporter receive permission in advance from the importing nation. The United States, worried that tens of billions of dollars in annual farm exports would get tied up in red tape or blocked completely, maintains that com... |
1084316_1 | Economic Scene; Tax-subsidized savings may not work out as many hope. | holiday for higher-income families and do virtually nothing to achieve its stated goal of rebuilding the nation's low savings rate. Even Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth College, whose research backs the use of targeted tax breaks to increase savings, describes the Torricelli-Coverdell plan as ''wrong means to achieve a l... |
1084342_2 | U.S. JUDGE ORDERS PILOTS IN SICKOUT TO RETURN TO JOB | sick list. ''We are going to scrupulously comply with the order,'' said Brian Mayhew, a captain and vice president of the union. ''That will not remove the elements of frustration and anger that is in the pilot group as a result of the fact that the company is not addressing our core concerns in the negotiations.'' The... |
1084239_0 | Baiting the Hooks; How Internet Merchants Keep Customers Coming Back | IF suckers are born every minute, there is a new technique every second to capture some of them on the Web. Here are some of the ways Web site designers lure people in and transform them from surfers into loyal customers. The first and most obvious -- and perhaps the most subtle -- is to make the visitor feel part of a... |
1084383_4 | ONE CITY, TWO CUBAS: A special report.; Miami's Exiles: Side by Side, Yet Worlds Apart | classmates in language school even if I have to go out of my way.'' Eduardo Marquez, 30, arrived in the United States after a year in American refugee camps Panama and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Only one of several distant relatives offered to put him up when he finally got here in 1995, and then only for two weeks. He said... |
1082051_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS NEARLY 5 PERCENT. Brazilian producers sold to take advantage of the strong dollar, compared with the weak Brazilian real; sugar is priced in dollars. The March contract fell 0.35 cent, to 6.76 cents a pound. |
1082073_2 | Orthodox Confront U.S. Reform Rabbis at Western Wall | a giant ultra-Orthodox synagogue.'' The Western Wall, the most hallowed Jewish site, has long been a battleground between traditional and less-traditional Jews. The prayer area directly in front of the wall is divided into men's and women's sections, as in Orthodox synagogues, with the men's area being much larger. The... |
1083000_1 | Beliefs | division has probably been between ''modern Orthodox,'' as they have termed themselves, who believe that a strict observance of Jewish law is compatible with an extensive involvement in the social, intellectual and professional life of contemporary America, and a more separatist, inward strand of Orthodoxy that rejects... |
1085438_4 | AT&T Fights for Control of Its Cable Lines in Struggle Over Internet Access | and immediacy they now enjoy as they retrieve television channels. Roughly half a million Americans now have high-speed Internet access at home through cable or phone lines; by 2002, according to Forrester Research Inc., that number is expected to grow to 16 million, about 80 percent through cable. ''It's like a fire h... |
1085446_0 | Setting Rules for Biotechnology Trade | Delegates from about 170 nations are meeting this week to complete an international biotechnology safety treaty that the United States Government and many American companies fear could greatly restrict exports of food and other products made using genetic engineering. The Biosafety Protocol, which is being negotiated t... |
1088234_1 | State to Closely Monitor Integration Of Disabled In Preschool | ''integrated settings.'' Since the suit was filed, the state and city have enacted a series of reforms that have been reducing the number of students in segregated settings, spokesmen for the state and city as well as lawyers for the plaintiffs said yesterday. The settlement on Thursday, overseen by Judge Eugene H. Nic... |
1088164_4 | When Ideas Get Lost in Bad Writing; Attacks on Scholars Include a Barbed Contest With 'Prizes' | ideas. There's something unfinished about it.'' Mr. Bhabha's work won second place in this year's Bad Writing Contest with an essay that included the words: ''If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstitio... |
1088261_4 | When Ideas Get Lost in Bad Writing; Attacks on Scholars Include a Barbed Contest With 'Prizes' | ideas. There's something unfinished about it.'' Mr. Bhabha's work won second place in this year's Bad Writing Contest with an essay that included the words: ''If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstitio... |
1086419_4 | Greek Pride Is Stung By Capture Of Kurd | a small county. We need money and protection. I feel like our old character, our Greek identity, has disappeared. I never expected this from a Socialist Government. My ideals are shaken.'' Mr. Emmanuel and his friends said they thought idealism was part of the national character. ''Ours is a history of struggle for dem... |
1086437_4 | Internet Changes Language For :-) & :-( | electronic communication, is almost overwhelmingly flat, punchy and declarative.'' Nor is Mr. Birkerts consoled by the evidence that people who would not ordinarily write letters take quickly to E-mail, or that those who would never write a book happily self-publish on the World Wide Web. It is precisely the Internet's... |
1084573_0 | Government Moves to Conserve Remote Areas of National Forest | The Clinton Administration today suspended the construction of logging roads in most of the undeveloped back country of the national forests, decisively shifting forest policy toward conservation after a year of heated public debate. The move sets the stage for a broader review of long-term forest policy. The Administr... |
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