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553362_0 | A Lower Gear for Japan's Auto Makers | The Nissan Motor Company has gone to great lengths to give customers what they want. Japanese buyers of the Nissan Sunny, known as the Stanza in the United States, can choose from nearly 200 variations with different engines, bodies, tires and transmissions. The company has sold fewer than a dozen units of some combina... |
553275_3 | Failed Dictator of a Small Island | his inner circle were grumbling, but long before they considered a rebellion. He executed two of his closest aides to deflect an expected Bush Administration blitz of verifiable charges that his regime was trafficking in cocaine to earn hard currency. "Castro's Final Hour" also sheds new light on several of the Cuban l... |
547956_2 | Astronauts Abandon Test of Tethered Satellite | jammed or snarled again, Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, another astronaut, were prepared to take a spacewalk today to attempt to untangle things. They had taken preliminary measures for such a contingency. Electric Motor Fails The retrieval of the satellite came hours after officials of the National Aeronauti... |
552901_0 | New Jersey and New York Want to Monitor Doctors' Past Problems | If a doctor has had a problem with drugs, alcohol or mental illness in the past, who has the right to know? Regulators in New Jersey and New York say they do because they cannot count on medical societies to monitor their own members. But medical societies say that doctors who have overcome such problems will be unfair... |
552802_0 | Corrections | A headline in some copies yesterday about the arrest of Walker Railey, a former Dallas minister, on a charge of trying to murder his wife misstated the year she was attacked. It was 1987. |
550319_9 | FREE TRADE ACCORD EXPECTED TO TRIM NATION'S FOOD BILL | and transportation system. For example, some wheat that has been stored in grain elevators in North Dakota and Montana by the Federal Government since the late 1950's is still edible. Through a complicated system of import licenses, Mexico has prevented American farmers from dominating its food markets -- and perhaps b... |
549479_0 | Don't Gene-Splice Choice | To The Living Section: Whatever the preference for each of us, pro or con, in genetically engineered foods [ "Gene-Spliced Foods: Is It Safe Soup Yet?" June 17 ] , one thing remains abundantly clear: nonlabeling deprives the consumer of the right of choice, which should be one's option in a free society. An Anjou or Ba... |
549505_0 | How Violence Began in Northern Ireland | To the Editor: In reporting on efforts to negotiate a settlement of the strife in Northern Ireland, you write that "violence in the province . . . began with Catholic protests over discrimination in jobs and housing." You then note that "this gave rise to a guerrilla campaign by the Irish Republican Army to end British... |
549499_0 | The Gold Isn't Worth It for Olympic Gymnasts | To the Editor: As a physician watching young gymnasts competing in the Olympics, I realized that what we are celebrating is a form of female child abuse in the name of sport. One girl, Betty Okino, had pins inserted in her knees; her coach complained bitterly that his young charge lacks proper competitive spirit and dr... |
551467_1 | Wake-Up Call in Tokyo; After 2 Years of a Stumbling Stock Market, Official Japan Says It May Have a Problem | country's industrial base -- what officials call the "real" economy. It has long been an article of faith among the establishment here that the business of Japan was the business of producing things and selling them worldwide, not playing money games. Somehow, it was believed, the markets did not matter to those engage... |
547466_3 | By the Sea, China's Leaders Chart the Nation's Path | by Yang Shangkun, China's President, and then Prime Minister Li. Bo Yibo, another elderly leader, and Wan Li, Mr. Deng's bridge partner and chairman of China's legislature, are also believed to be here. Tight Security for Deng "Deng came on a special train with three cars," said a local driver who has been inside Mr. D... |
547426_0 | Rae Dalven, 87, Former Professor And a Historian of Jews in Greece | Rae Dalven, a translator of modern Greek poets and historian of Greek Jews, died on July 27 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 87 years old and lived in Manhattan. Friends said she had been in declining health but they did not know the cause of death. Dr. Dalven was retired as a professor of English li... |
547446_0 | In Brazil, Indians Start Fighting Back | To the Editor: You report that Paulinho Paiakan, a Kaiapo chief who "has emerged in recent years as a worldwide symbol of Brazilian Indians' defense of their Amazon homelands," has been accused of rape by an 18-year-old white woman (news article, July 5). As you report, there is a growing backlash in Brazil against rec... |
547368_0 | World Economies | |
548699_3 | China Sees Singapore As a Model for Progress | and maintenance of social order. This conception of government rests less on Marx than on Confucius. The sense of continuity from earlier Chinese dynasties, less visible in the Maoist era, has become more apparent in the last decade. The core convictions of "Emperor Deng" seem to have little to do with economic ideolog... |
548972_0 | A Tire That Runs on Empty | TOP to bottom, this year's hot technology ranges from BMW's versatile station-wagon sunroof that opens over either front or rear seats to the run-flat tire introduced on Thursday by Bridgestone/Firestone Tires of Nashville. The new tire adds convenience at the same time that it eliminates weight and the need to carry a... |
548810_2 | All About/Composting; Two Towns Experiment With the Alchemy of Trash | without dirtying the air the way incinerators do. Compost contains nutrients that are released slowly to plants, making it a useful addition to soils in landscaping, agriculture and nurseries. Since it retains water well, compost is useful in areas that have sandy, quick-draining soils, as in much of Florida, or where ... |
548825_2 | Water, Water, Everywhere | Mozart that is higher than Fuji. WE learn about piracy ancient and modern, the latter practiced by Filipino thugs, armed with M-16 rifles, who steal boats, engines, money, cargoes, lives and hostages. (The M-16's, Mr. Hamilton-Paterson reports, are not hard to come by: you enlist in the army, and the moment you've got ... |
548903_3 | Clammers and A.T.&T. Battle Under the Sea and in the Courts | Rehoboth, snagged a cable in 169 feet of water more than 40 miles offshore. The old encrusted cable was about two miles from its charted position, Mr. Gifford said, and the clammers eventually had to cut the dredge loose. The Gifford company is suing A.T.& T. for $65,000 for the loss of the dredge and other damages, an... |
549031_3 | Law Would Classify Drunken Boating as a Crime | 10 to 18 years old to hold safety certificates if they are not accompanied by people older than 18. The current law allows young people to operate boats without safety certificates as long as someone older than 16 is on board. Menaced by Teen-Agers In addition to giving harbor patrols additional powers, the legislation... |
548804_8 | At Goodyear, a Turnaround of Spirits as Well as Profits | to have a strong presence in the international market," said Harry W. Millis, an independent tire analyst based in Cleveland. Mr. Gault must also find a way to either make money from or dispose of the pipeline. Perhaps most important, Mr. Gault, who is in the second year of a three-year contract, must identify a succes... |
548914_0 | About Cars; Safety Drives the New Technologies | MY favorite reading when I was a kid -- other than Red Ryder comics, of course -- was in the pages of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, and it had to do with coming automotive attractions. Things like cars that could fly. Or cars that rode on cushions of air. Or whose wheels turned sideways to ease parallel parkin... |
548844_2 | Planning From the Bottom Up | futures. Describing projects in Central and South America, Asia and Africa, the author explores the particular successes and failures of human-scale attempts to foster ecologically renewable and economically viable development. Mr. Stone knows the "excruciating difficulty of accomplishing anything in rural work." He se... |
549030_3 | Brits in Euroland | subsidiarity as a way of life in the community." Subsidiarity means that the European Community ought to legislate only on matters that cannot be handled at a national or regional level. George Walden, Member of Parliament, writing in The Daily Telegraph, says it is intended as "our protection, our Thames barrier again... |
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549127_2 | Newsprint Makers' Troubles May Haunt Papers One Day | would have increased the price by about $35 a ton. But as Aug. 1 approached, word rippled through the newspaper industry that the newsprint manufacturers were not going to be able to make the new price stick, because there was so much excess newsprint available. "I've got a nagging intuition that there is way too much ... |
549195_2 | Coach Remains Mystery, But Cuban Boxers Aren't | nine of our boxers reached the finals." Cuba suffered only two setbacks in gold medal bouts. On Saturday, Irish welterweight Michael Carruth defeated Juan Hernandez at 148 pounds, and today, Su Choi Chol of North Korea defeated Raul Gonzalez at 112 pounds. In other finals today, featherweight Andreas Tews of Germany be... |
551816_0 | Patents; A Microwave Camera Aids Pilots in Fog | A MILITARY electronics company based in San Diego has developed a microwave camera that it says will allow aircraft pilots to peer through fog and see the runway. Invented at the Thermotrex Corporation, a subsidiary of the Thermo Electron Corporation in Waltham, Mass., the camera creates an image based on the microwave... |
551840_0 | Patents; Applying Math To Tire Traction | The Ford Motor Company has invented a computer algorithm for an advanced traction-control system that prevents a car from spinning its wheels if a driver steps too hard on the gas. Traction-control systems, still in their infancy, are the opposite of computerized anti-lock brakes, which stop a car from sliding into an ... |
551830_0 | Palestinians on the Way to Talks Stumble Over Israeli Travel Curbs | Plans to resume the Middle East peace talks on Monday were jeopardized today when Palestinian delegates angrily postponed their trip to Washington, saying they had been "humiliated" by Israeli soldiers at the border crossing into Jordan. An Israeli military spokesman denied the charge, and accused the Palestinians of c... |
552461_0 | Optical Imaging Offers Gentler Way to Monitor Human Brain at Work | RESEARCHERS have developed a new technique that allows them to see and photograph areas of the brain's surface as it deals with language, memory and other tasks. Using fiber-optic light and a special camera attached to a surgical microscope, a team of scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Sea... |
552443_6 | After Fight For Light, Vines Rule Forest Top | food sources for primates in the American tropics. While Tarzan may have been the only human to get extensive use out of vines for transportation, these bushropes serve as public transit for many other animals, from howler monkeys to ants, that prefer to traverse the forest canopy without setting their feet on the grou... |
550968_0 | World Economies | |
547486_1 | How the Taste Bud Translates Between Tongue and Brain | modifying taste stimuli through a complicated network of chemical and electrical signals before sending signals to the brain. As scientists scramble to decipher those signals, they are finding that taste stimuli can affect the taste-bud cells in unexpected ways. The stimuli sometimes exert their effect by interacting w... |
547669_0 | Rae Dalven, 87, Former Professor And a Historian of Jews in Greece | Rae Dalven, a translator of modern Greek poets and historian of Greek Jews, died on Thursday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 87 years old and lived in Manhattan. Friends said she had been in declining health but they did not know the cause of death. Dr. Dalven was retired as a professor of English l... |
547652_1 | COMPANY NEWS: Inside the Global Greenhouse; Woodman, Spare That CO2 Eater | taxes may someday apply to themselves are exploring ways to recycle carbon, a process that trees carry out naturally by absorbing carbon dioxide and using the carbon as a raw material for wood. The thinking behind programs like New England Electric's is that because the earth has only one atmosphere, it does not matter... |
547678_2 | Shuttle Moves Lower For Key Experiment | stable, aligned properly with the Sun and performing normally, European engineers said. They planned a new attempt to raise its orbit. Franco Bonacina, a spokesman for the European agency, said: "The spacecraft apparently is doing fine. We have confirmed that it is stable in a position pointing to the Sun." Although th... |
551253_4 | Twins Study Shows School Is Sound Investment | America's haves and have-nots and feeding a protectionist backlash. But the potential for hefty earnings-gains from education, she argues, implies that America need not choose between a stagnant closed economy that protects blue-collar workers and an open one that grows at the expense of the least fortunate. If virtual... |
551336_4 | Personal Health | people use space under varying circumstances. Have the child stand at one end of a 6-foot strip of masking tape on the floor, then ask him or her to walk toward various imaginary people -- like a parent, teacher, police officer, stranger, acquaintance or close friend -- and stop to talk at an appropriate distance. Usin... |
552735_1 | GTE Leads Major Test of Personal Phone Devices | comprehensive than similar efforts by regional Bell holding companies. For example, Bell Atlantic plans a similar trial of 500 customers in Pittsburgh starting in December. Ameritech has a Chicago trial of 1,000 customers, which began in June, that uses modified cellular telephones that communicate with a small and spe... |
552734_1 | Wireless Phones: Different Visions | Should it be an extension of the world's land-based telephone networks, simply linking remote spots to the nearest phone company? Or should it be a celestial telephone network in its own right, employing an orbiting array of switches and computers that can route calls to any spot on the globe without ever coming near a... |
548257_4 | More College Graduates Taking Low-Wage Jobs | promotions are relatively poor. And the surge in enrollments should increase competition among graduates and gradually whittle down their average pay advantage over the degreeless, economists say. But some, including Professor Bloom, warn against concluding that young people would be better off heading straight from th... |
566011_2 | Nerve Cell Rhythm May Be Key to Consciousness | when seeing the face of one's grandmother. Others searched for the counterpart of a cinemascope screen in the brain, a place where the separate streams of sensory information are projected to form a complete image. But who would be watching the screen? Most neuroscientists now agree that there is no little man, no gran... |
566086_0 | Don't Let F.D.A. Get Cosier With Drugmakers; Mutant-Foods Policy | To the Editor: Your Sept. 30 article on chefs whose environmental politics make the kitchen hotter details disagreement about boycotting genetically engineered food. Whether or not one believes genetically engineered foods are desirable or should be boycotted, we believe consumers should reject the Food and Drug Admini... |
563114_1 | Essay; Humans Confront Android | derided and pilloried ever since his evisceration in debate by Lloyd Bentsen in the last campaign -- came slashing back to brake the Bush decline by carrying out the assignment traditionally given Vice Presidents: to smite the opposition candidate where it hurts most. Stammering like a human being as he groped to marsh... |
563006_0 | Japan's Trade Surplus Hits New High | After slowly building for nearly two years, Japan's trade surplus with the United States and the rest of the world soared to an all-time high in September, in spite of numerous Japanese Government pledges to take measures to bring its trade into balance. The surplus is having a particularly pronounced effect now becaus... |
561040_1 | Witch Hunt in the Navy | one Mr. O'Keefe mentioned. Mr. O'Keefe, a budgeteer who has yet to sit for Senate confirmation of his post and who has never served in the military, decided after conferring with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who likewise has never served, that he has the moral authority to discredit the cultural ethos of the entire N... |
561012_7 | Astronomers Open New Search for Alien Life | integrated circuits in developing receivers capable of monitoring tens of millions of radio channels simultaneously. The receivers were built by the Silicon Engines Company in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. These receivers were designed to sift through the natural radio noise o... |
560004_2 | PARENT & CHILD | their families, which is based in Concord, Mass., lost her jaw to cancer 20 years ago and has since had reconstructive surgery. "Parents are embarrassed, but kids will ask me why my face looks funny," Ms. Wilson said. "I tell them that I was very sick, that this is what the doctors did to make me better and that it isn... |
560031_0 | More Developmental Ills Seen in Foster Children | To the Editor: For those professionals who have been working with children caught up in the child welfare system, your series of articles on "Shattered Lives: When Foster Care Fails" (front pages, Sept. 8 to 10) comes as no surprise. Your portrayal of the inadequacies of the overburdened child welfare system and the ov... |
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562517_4 | Castro Steels a Suffering Nation for Confrontation | the sale of each ton of sugar under a heavily subsidized, three-decade arrangement with the former Soviet Union, sales of each ton of Cuba's principal crop, sugar, provide the means to purchase only 1.4 tons of oil. Harshly affecting nearly every sector of the economy, Cuba's annual oil imports have fallen to about 6 m... |
562488_5 | Massive Ozone and Smog Defile South Atlantic Sky | and shrublands, Dr. Fishman said, the NASA plane on a number of days flew through the equivalent of "a smoke-filled room, but then on an enormous regional scale." "At one point, just north of Brasilia, almost every instrument went off scale," he said. "It was unbelievable. People went wild. We were approaching a Stage ... |
564326_6 | Singling Out Blacks Where Few Are to Be Found; Amid Hills of Rural New York, Students From Inner City Find Not-So-Hearty Welcome | They are supposed to help you through." Kevin Slater, the multicultural consultant, said that many disputes between blacks and whites in Oneonta entailed the overt or unspoken threat to call the police. And that reflex, he added, was driven by fear. "All the images you see on television and film, up until a few years a... |
564446_0 | New Type Of Monkey Is Found | A POCKET-SIZED monkey with a koala-like face has been discovered in a remote part of the Amazon, the latest evidence that the world's largest rain forest has yet to give up all of its secrets, a biologist says. The monkey, which has a hint of zebra stripes, is a previously unknown species, and its discovery "shows how ... |
563477_0 | Washington Backs Secret Latin Courts | To the Editor: "Peru's Invisible Judges: A Faceless Tyranny?" (news article, Sept. 27) describes fears that stripping defendants of their rights in secret courts with anonymous judges will set back justice and catch both innocent and guilty. You fail to say that the United States "war on drugs" has pushed use of "facel... |
563254_0 | Sarajevo Journal; In the Zoo's House of Horrors, One Pitiful Bear | The animal house at the Sarajevo zoo is almost silent now, except for volleys of automatic rifle fire directed toward it from the heights immediately above. Gone are the roars of the caged lions and leopards and the wolves' howls that punctuated the summer nights. Gone, too, is the lone zookeeper who risked his life to... |
560967_1 | Japan's Plan to Ship Plutonium Has Big and Little Lands Roaring | territory. Cabinet officials in both Singapore and Indonesia have expressed strong concerns and urged that the ship steer clear of populated islands and avoid the most direct route, the Strait of Malacca, where piracy and collisions have been frequent recently. Several countries have said that if the ship runs into tro... |
560943_0 | World Economies | |
560982_1 | Mexico's Chief, in a Shift, Meets Two of Castro's Main Foes in Exile | most hated by President Fidel Castro, did not return telephone calls to the office of his construction company in Miami or his foundation's public relations agency in New Jersey. Mr. Montaner could not be reached in Miami or at his offices in Madrid. The widening of differences between Mexico and Cuba comes at a bad ti... |
561488_3 | Rearranging the Population: Indonesia Weighs the Pluses and the Minuses | about five acres of land, materials for a simple house, seed, pesticides, a supply of food and a set of clothes. They are moved to their new homes at Government expense. Transmigration has been around in one form or another since the turn of the century, when the Dutch owners of coffee and rubber plantations forcibly m... |
560231_2 | U.S. Violence Studies Are Free of Racial Bias | What about the role of genetics in aggression and violence? Historically there has been a lively debate between so-called nurture versus nature in describing the origins of human behavior. We now know that most human behavior is a composite of both. Any mother will tell you her newborn child comes into the world with a... |
560082_2 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN - Man in the News: James Bond Stockdale; Eager to Face the Test | to become President of The Citadel, the military college in South Carolina. He had been at the Citadel for less than a year when he resigned because alumni and the board of the school resisted his efforts to liberalize the curriculum and admissions policies and to control hazing. Too many people in the United States, h... |
560118_2 | Balance Shifts as Firms Enjoy Buyer's Job Market | a dismal market. "I didn't come in expecting anything better because people out of college were having trouble getting jobs," said Sara Gold, a second-year student who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1991. Ms. Gold smiled, shrugged and added, "That's why a lot of people are here in law school." In the fall... |
566651_2 | Politics of the Trade Pact: A Lawmaker Who Is Torn | him who have not made up their minds on the issue. And while most of his constituents do not know Nafta from a cheese spread, the ones who come to his office to lobby him view the agreement as a matter of life and death. "This isn't a moral issue for me an issue of conscience," Mr. Cardin said. "I'm going to vote for i... |
566540_0 | U.S. Approves Injectable Drug As Birth Control | American women gained another option for birth control today as the Food and Drug Administration approved Depo-Provera, an injectable drug that prevents pregnancy for three months. The contraceptive, which is available in more than 90 countries, has been the focus of a two-decade battle for acceptance in the United Sta... |
566540_3 | U.S. Approves Injectable Drug As Birth Control | program director for the nonprofit women's health group. "We are concerned about bringing a drug linked to cancer into a country where the risk of breast cancer already is so high." In addition, Ms. Pearson said, health advocates for low-income and minority women are concerned about Depo-Provera being pushed on women a... |
562252_5 | The Transit of Woman | sharp drop in hormone production that accompanies menopause. It is on the difficult subject of hormone replacement therapy that the weakness of Ms. Greer's elliptical and fidgety style becomes most evident. On the one hand, she is scathingly critical of the medicalization of middle-aged women and menopause, and she att... |
562213_0 | OCT. 4-10: Shipping Plutonium; Not in Our Backyard, A Tiny Nation Tells Japan | For years, the Japanese Government has refused to say much about its most daring nuclear energy plan: to turn Japanese nuclear waste into plutonium at European reprocessing centers, then ship it to Tokyo to be burned as fuel. The secrecy, the Government says, is needed to keep plutonium from terrorists. But now, weeks ... |
562221_0 | Saving the Children Isn't Half Enough | To the Editor: "Shortchanging the World's Children" (editorial, Sept. 17) reminds us that in September 1990 more than 70 heads of state met at the United Nations about the world's children. They set goals and pledged support to reduce the infant mortality rate by one-third and the child malnutrition rate by 50 percent,... |
562242_0 | Where Are Those High-Paying Jobs? | I read with interest "Welfare Mothers Facing Time Limit for College" [ Sept. 6 ] . It stated that the first graduates of the Mothers on the Move program "moved on to jobs paying $30,000 or more." As a college graduate with many graduate school credits and extensive work experience in the public and private sectors, I a... |
562160_1 | Using Music as a Joyful Tool to Help Disabled Children | and David S. Herman, who are both certified music therapists, get to know children by watching their response to music. The Heartsong sessions, in which groups of 10 to 15 children sit in a circle with student volunteers, move quickly from song to song, as Ms. Goldstein plays the piano and Mr. Herman strums the guitar.... |
562115_0 | Scare Tactics | THIS WEEK |
561906_9 | Squalid Slums Grow as People Flood Latin America's Cities | When water and electricity are rationed, usually as a result of Shining Path sabotage, they are unevenly distributed, with the rich sections getting more than the poor ones. Now Peru, like other countries, finds that its secondary cities are exploding too. Arequipa, Ilo and Cusco are all expanding at 5 to 8 percent a y... |
562122_0 | A Choppy Maiden Voyage | CALAMITY seemed to be scheduled, like bingo. There was The Morning They Made Coffee With Saltwater, The Day the Swimming Pool Emptied Itself, The Evening the Elevators Became Ovens and The Night the Lights Went Out, to name a few. Somehow calamities turn into tales, and what one remembers are the ocean and an endearing... |
562222_0 | What Income Figures For Asians Also Show | To the Editor: "A Census Disparity for Asians in U.S." (news article, Sept. 20) reflects the psychological malaise about money and happiness that is afflicting many people in this society. You report that Asian-American males earn lower salaries than Caucasians despite their higher education credentials. You conclude t... |
562275_0 | The Lesson of the Drunkand the Streetlight | THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND By John R. Searle. 270 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: A Bradford Book/ The MIT Press. JOHN R. SEARLE'S new book, "The Rediscovery of the Mind," could, at a stretch, have been called "The Critique of Cognitive Reason," and indeed one chapter of it is. Just as Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" attacked ... |
565146_2 | Questions Raised on Drug Used in Breast Cancer Study | for use in healthy women," Dr. Fugh-Berman said, "While the benefits of tamoxifen for primary prevention are highly questionable, the risks are well-documented." Tamoxifen is a synthetic hormone that was discovered 30 years ago and has been in clinical use for more than 15 years. The drug competes with the female hormo... |
565101_4 | Dispute Threatens U.S. Plan on Violence | Caucus, said today: "My worst fear is that they will unscientifically correlate race or social class with violent behavior. That would lead to discriminatory policies." Ronald Walters, chairman of the political science department at Howard University and a member of a group called The Committee to Stop the Federal Viol... |
566358_3 | Winds Sweep African Soil To Feed Lands Far Away | set fire to huge areas of Brazil and southern Africa. Scientists here in Namibia also hope that their findings will draw attention to man's own contributions to Africa's erosion and focus on the need for better land management. Specialists have long warned that overgrazing, the cutting of trees and the planting of unsu... |
566358_7 | Winds Sweep African Soil To Feed Lands Far Away | Asia is of such magnitude, the scientists maintain, that it may account for as much as half the iron in the oceans. Some of the most exciting recent findings, according to Dr. Garstang, show that breeding grounds of fish and dense marine life in swaths of the Atlantic Ocean coincide with the main dust paths coming off ... |
566340_2 | Study Documents Lead-Exposure Damage in Middle-Class Children | them as well, the intellectual impairments induced by lead often mean they cannot keep up in a regular classroom and instead require remedial education. While a loss of five I.Q. points may not impede a child with a high I.Q., say 125, it could make the difference between success and failure in school for a child on th... |
566431_4 | Vietnam's Scars Reach a New Generation | But she said, "We already have evidence that PTSD creates lasting changes in the nervous system." So she is studying the possibility that, if someone had children after being traumatized, those biological changes could "in some way be inherited." But researchers say that some of the problems are clearly a response to t... |
562645_4 | U.S. Output Per Worker Called Best | freedom from heavy-handed regulation has allowed many industries, but especially in the service sector, to function more efficiently. In fact, the second surprising conclusion is that America's biggest advantage consists of Washington's relatively hands-off attitude, compared with Tokyo or Bonn. This means, for example... |
562706_6 | Astronomers Start Search For Life Beyond Earth | waves to carry the round-trip messages. As for the telescope itself, the Arecibo observatory has been used since the 1960's to bounce radar signals off Venus and detect diagnostic radio signals from all kinds of celestial phenomena, from the cores of galaxies to the remnants of exploded stars and collapsed stars spinni... |
564137_0 | World Economies | |
564729_0 | Mighty Menopause | "Be useful as well as ornamental" was one of my father's favorite sayings when I was growing up. And it looks as if I wasn't the only girl who heard it. As we all know by now, it's "the year of the woman." More women than ever are running for political office. Experts commonly attribute the rise in women's political pa... |
564669_0 | Personal Health | MY brother and I never regretted that our parents' limited finances precluded a hefty dose of after-school lessons in this, that and the other activity. After school for us meant play time. Alone, with each other and with friends on the block, we played with dolls, pets, marbles, stamps, Erector sets, trucks, puzzles, ... |
565932_0 | World Economies | |
562936_5 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Surrounding Scene; Did Not, Did So: Debate Offers Proof Young Are Better Seen Than Heard | Carthage, Tenn. For luck's sake, his advance men brought the country with them to Atlanta, setting up a facsimile of a barn in Mr. Gore's off-stage holding room. Among the props was a saddle, a cow's skull, a scarecrow, several pumpkins, wooden barrels, bales of hay, and red-and-white checkerboard cloths. Also, back in... |
562772_4 | Personal Health | baby boom reaching middle age and by the relatively new openness in talking about the disease. In decades past few women with breast cancer were willing to go public. Gains in Survival At the same time, oncologists have been developing new ways to treat breast cancer, and the latest study results demonstrate that posto... |
562918_27 | Excerpts From the Debate Among Quayle, Gore and Stockdale | City for an example. They are shutting down factories right now, not because of their economy but because they're choking to death on the air pollution. They're banning automobiles some days of the week. Now what they want is not new laser-guided missile systems. What they want are new engines and new factories and new... |
561777_4 | At Columbia, the Classics' Olympian Reign Is Challenged | the course with decisions from the United States Supreme Court," Professor Smit said, "decisions in which the justices quote Thomas Aquinas and John Locke and St. Augustine and Plato and Aristotle." Professor Mirollo said the teaching method now relates the works to contemporary life. "We stress gender," he said. "We s... |
566169_0 | Exports by U.S. Aided Iraq 'Super Gun,' House Banking Chief Says | The Bush Administration in 1989 approved the export of American computers and missile-design software that were used to develop a high-powered Iraqi weapon known as the "super gun," the head of the House Banking committee said today. The chairman, Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, charged that the computers and softwar... |
566218_1 | Sauce Makers Smile At the Rage for Pasta | their son, Ralph, is the company's chairman. Starting in the mid-1970's, sales of pasta sauces grew by about 20 percent a year, creating what is now a $1.2 billion industry. While annual increases have dropped to the single digits for most big commercial brands, the growth is expected to continue. The producers of past... |
565022_4 | Serbs and Croats Now Join In Devouring Bosnia's Land | an effective military alliance with Croatian forces, or perhaps a coup in Belgrade that might have toppled Mr. Milosevic's nationalist government. A Tour of the Front Mr. Izetbegovic has turned recently to a clandestine tour of the few patches of territory his Government still controls, usually to proclaim that the bat... |
564918_0 | No Green Jackets. How About Gold Medals? | There would be a mini-Olympic Village for the athletes, and men and women on the course of Augusta National under a plan proposed today by the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, which formally announced its intention to push for the inclusion of golf. "We wouldn't be here if we didn't think our chance... |
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560307_0 | Religion Notes | Conflict on Ordaining Women A popular auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Bishop P. Francis Murphy, has joined a handful of Roman Catholic prelates in declaring that he is in favor of the ordination of women. "Justice demands it," Bishop Murphy wrote in the current issue of Commonweal, a biweekly magazine... |
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