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1084543_4 | Hopes for Improved Ties With China Fade | Clinton about the Geneva conference, which starts on March 22 and runs until April 30. Inconveniently for the Administration, Prime Minister Zhu's visit to Washington is scheduled for the middle of the Geneva gathering. On national security, the Administration faces a confluence of issues that may only intensify the pr... |
1086064_1 | An I.N.S. Hurdle for the Disabled; Promised Exemptions Elude Many Would-Be Citizens | citizenship exam, Mr. Kholchanskiy was refused a waiver from the I.N.S. A 1994 law requires the I.N.S. to accommodate immigrants disabled by conditions like Alzheimer's disease, mental retardation and neurological damage from strokes, and whose doctors attest that they can not retain information sufficiently to pass th... |
1081919_1 | British and Irish Leaders Try to Calm Fears Over Ulster Peace | gave no sign they would change their position that there would be no disarmament in the coming weeks. On Saturday, Mr. Trimble and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland acknowledged that the disarmament issue was threatening to disrupt, if not collapse, the Northern Ireland peace effort. After meeting in Mr. Ahern's o... |
1081946_1 | A Visionary Town in China | economic growth now faltering, Communist Party leaders are worried that the millions of remaining rural and urban poor could become a growing source of political unrest. In recent months there have been protests by workers and farmers angered by unpaid wages, onerous taxes and official corruption, including a large ral... |
1083808_10 | Americans Gamble On Herbs As Medicine | effect. Experts say many patients withhold information about herbal drug use because they fear being ridiculed by their doctors. Although all German physicians must take courses on herbal remedies, only a handful of American medical and pharmacology schools offer courses in this field. The Science Trying to Evaluate Ef... |
1082252_0 | Root and Branch, a Swiss Exhibition Fights Chainsaws | The quiet galleries of the Fondation Beyeler in this prosperous Swiss city may seem a million miles from the chainsaws at work in the Amazon. Yet one of Ernst Beyeler's objectives when he opened his museum 15 months ago was ''to link art with life.'' And the new exhibition here does just that. While illustrating the pr... |
1082382_0 | Corrections | An article in Science Times on Jan. 19 about the debate over a genetically engineered bovine growth hormone to increase milk production in cows referred incompletely to Canada's reason for barring it. The Canadian Government health authorities cited fears that the hormone, made by Monsanto, was unsafe for dairy animals... |
1082300_1 | State Reports Disproportionate Number of Minority Pupils in Special Education | term that includes pupils who are mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed or have learning disabilities. In the fall of 1997, according to the report, which is based on 1997-98 data, black children made up 19.5 percent of the state's public school population but 24.5 percent of the students in special education. Hispa... |
1088570_2 | In America; Staring at Hatred | go out and shoot black folks.'' Ms. Robinson was chosen because the men thought she was biracial. They were mistaken. Ms. Robinson was, in fact, white. In October in Buffalo, N.Y., a group of black teen-agers attacked a 41-year-old white man, Gary Trzaska, as he was walking to his car. Mr. Trzaska, who was gay, was bea... |
1088631_2 | Pataki Plan Would Limit Special Classes | officials contend that a student should be educated in the ''least restrictive setting'' -- ideally a regular classroom -- unless that student cannot succeed there even with additional specialized services, like individual tutoring. In addition, Federal officials have questioned the placement of thousands of black and ... |
1088528_2 | One Luddite Down, but Swinging All the Way | professor at Pennsylvania State University in Abington, has thought a lot about the skills we humans are losing to technology. Mathematics tops his list. ''Simple mathematical skills are just going right out the window,'' he said. Having a tax program do our addition only encourages this. Our returns may be more accura... |
1088291_1 | Ozymandias Endangered In Eastern Turkey | cistern and ruins of columns, as ''one of the most awesome sights in all of Anatolia.'' Another calls Antiochus ''a deluded king and creator of this grandiose folly.'' Until the 1960's, when a rough road was built to the mountaintop, it was accessible only by foot, a walk of two days. The road is now paved, and the sit... |
1088625_1 | To Get a Rig Down, Build a Second One | to the street in stages, starting with the boom. Then the derrick is taken apart into pieces that can fit into a hoist or freight elevator. Down it goes to the ground, and off to the next job. The public rarely witnesses these operations because they are scheduled at night or on weekends when there is the least traffic... |
1088285_10 | Fear Itself | other creatures that prowl the earth. Fear and its fellow traveler, anxiety, in some ways represent a hard-wired alarm system in the brain in search of genuine life-threatening dangers. We tend not to encounter mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and other predators that prowled the earth eons ago, and yet we, like all mam... |
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1088656_0 | As Ulster Peace Effort Stalls, Eyes Turn to U.S. | Irish and British officials are looking increasingly to President Clinton for another intervention in the Northern Ireland peace effort, hoping he can end the dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army. The dispute threatens to end attempts by Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders to achieve lasting peac... |
1084113_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 German Holocaust Fund Is Approved in Principle The German Government said it had agreed in principle to establish a compensation fund, financed by the biggest names in German industry and banking, for victims of Nazi horrors. The proposal appears to be an effort to short-circuit a wave of lawsuits i... |
1087781_0 | U.S. Sidetracks Pact to Control Gene Splicing | Attempts to forge the world's first global treaty to regulate trade in genetically modified products failed this morning when the United States and five other big agricultural exporters rejected a proposal that had the support of the rest of the roughly 130 nations taking part in the talks. The treaty would have requir... |
1087680_4 | Will the 2000 Bug Gobble the Veggies? | Patrick D'Acre, 43, a technology consultant, plans to turn a steep hillside behind his home into a terraced fruit-tree orchard and vegetable garden and to chronicle its development on his Web site, www.y2kupdatereport.com. ''It will be therapeutic, practical and timely,'' said Mr. D'Acre, who describes himself as an on... |
1087843_1 | World News Briefs | a Belfast house where five Catholic children were playing. The children, ranging from 13 months to 9 years old, were unhurt. Warren Hoge (NYT) ASIA SINGAPORE: 2 POLITICIANS JAILED -- Two opposition politicians were jailed for violating a law requiring police permits for political speeches, effectively barring them from... |
1082462_0 | Going My Way, Birnam Wood? | That's no ordinary 2,908-ton landmark rolling across Minneapolis this week. It's ''the world's heaviest single building ever moved on rubber tires,'' according to Artspace Projects Inc., a nonprofit real estate developer in Minnesota known for moving logistical mountains. (Yes, the Empire Theater on 42d Street in Manha... |
1082623_0 | Free E-Mail Site Cuts Back On Services for Some Users | Juno, a New York company that pioneered the concept of free E-mail, recently announced that thousands of its users would be able to check their E-mail only once a day. The reason, the company said, is that those users live in regions of the country where telecommunications costs are more expensive. Users affected by th... |
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1086616_1 | The Way We Live Now: 2.21.99 -- The Ethicist; Other People's E-Mail | of fiction, if you deal with actual people, trust is required. Coworker, soldier, spouse: each stakes a claim to privacy; each tacitly agrees not to abuse it. No embezzling, no stealing military secrets, no adulterous liaisons. (The shock of infidelity, after all, is as much the anguish of trust violated as it is outra... |
1086651_0 | 'Last Supper' Site To Close for 3 Months | The refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie housing Leonardo da Vinci's ''Last Supper'' in Milan will close from March 1 to May 27 for completion of a restoration that began two decades ago. The painting can be seen by visitors during Holy Week from March 30 to April 4. The delicate operation on the fresco was necessary ... |
1086593_0 | In Battle of Bags, Confusion Rules | THE airlines are all driven by the same need: to get passengers aboard smoothly, latch the luggage bins and take off on schedule, without alienating the customers who are dragging their belongings aboard. In addition to the unarguable safety problems created by overloaded luggage bins and obstructed aisles, late flight... |
1086983_0 | On Campus Today, Boys Can't Be Boys | To the Editor: Your Feb. 19 editorial ''Rethinking Fraternities'' ignores the larger context in which colleges are eliminating fraternities and sororities. Throughout the country colleges have changed their focus from merely providing a strong liberal arts education to viewing their students as charges whose lives and ... |
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1086549_5 | Space-Time: The Final Frontier | appeared to be five different string theories competing to describe the same world. Greene shows how, in the past few years, physicists have made a strong case that these are simply different views of a single underlying theory -- five blind men looking at the same elephant. This more than anything is what has impresse... |
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1086191_4 | Sargent's Dazzling Sensuality | now: a fop with an uneven tan line. But who was he to Sargent? Certainly not a joke. The picture pays homage to portraits of arrogant young men by the great Mannerists Bronzino and Pontormo, and it is elevated beyond caricature by the sheer brilliance of Sargent's handling, his smooth application of translucent layers ... |
1084688_3 | Hunk, He-Man, Mensch, Milquetoast: The Masks of Masculinity | pressures influenced what Mr. Cohan calls ''the masculine masquerade'' he finds in movies of the 1950's, which he examines in the on- and off-screen images of actors like Grant, Bogart, Brando and William Holden. ''Though men have supposedly been invisible, looking at how their bodies appear in film can reveal the same... |
1085105_0 | A New Way To Get a Grip | OUR-wheel-drive systems have been around about as long as there have been cars. Until recently, they have pretty much worked on the same principles. But these systems have been changing as four-wheel drive has become more popular even while great strides have been made in sophisticated electronics. The latest innovatio... |
1084839_1 | The Crisis Is Within | blame rests squarely on the shoulders of black men, who seduce and abandon black women, do not take seriously the vows of marriage and fail to accept responsibility for their children. Drawing on earlier sociological studies and two recent surveys of Americans' social lives and sexual behavior, Patterson offers a dazzl... |
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1084946_0 | Falling Luggage | To the Editor: Airlines should consider providing passengers with reduced ticket prices or some other benefit (such as free movies or drinks) if they opt not to carry on any luggage. In addition, there should be better security for checked luggage. Anyone getting off a plane can walk off with someone else's luggage fro... |
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1085096_1 | Big Stakes In On-Line Job Listings | content providers like C-Net are crowding into the business. Newspaper classifieds provide the model, but with many added twists. On the Internet, employers generally pay the sites to list their openings, which candidates can search free. Job seekers can also post resumes for potential employers to peruse. Among the ad... |
1088089_0 | National News Briefs; Direct Phone Service To Cuba Is Cut Off | Cuba suspended direct dial telephone service connections with the United States today, saying it would not restore the link until a Cuban telephone provider received money it was owed by five American telephone companies. A spokeswoman for AT&T, which operates over half of the 1,020 circuits affected by the cut-off, sa... |
1088087_0 | Where to Try Texaco | To the Editor: You are to be applauded for your opinion that Texaco should be tried in a United States court rather than an Ecuadorean one (editorial, Feb. 19). Of course, Texaco would prefer to settle the matter in Ecuador, a small country that relies heavily on oil production for 60 percent of its income. Texaco and ... |
1088030_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE RUSSIA: YELTSIN MEETS CHINESE PREMIER -- Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, far left, and President Boris N. Yeltsin met in Moscow and discussed ways to improve trade between their two countries. It was the first visit to Moscow for Mr. Zhu, China's key figure on economic policy. Russian officials conceded Moscow would ... |
1083129_7 | The Cybercompanion | screen will present the user with hundreds of topics, often organized into specific groups and sometimes focused with astonishing specificity: travel information for seniors, for backpackers, for motorcyclists and so on. On a site maintained by the travel book publisher Rough Guides (www .roughguides.com), a recent top... |
1083236_6 | Puppets and Camps Keep Away Boredom | home. Feb. 20 from 1 to 3 P.M. $18; members, $16. Registration required for each program. Teatown Lake Reservation, 1600 Spring Valley Rd. 762-2912. PURCHASE -- Greek storyteller, Barbara Alaprantis, shares stories with children 4 through 8 about her homeland and talks about Greek mythology. Participants can attend the... |
1083350_2 | Watching the Clock | F. Pike, the rector of St. George's, and one of his parishioners, Anne S. Eristoff, saw us off on on our journey. Ms. Eristoff is a descendant of J. P. Morgan, a founder of the church. We followed Louis Torres, the church custodian. It was an exhilarating climb. Chill drafts swept through the broken windows. Once Mr. T... |
1083301_0 | Special-Ed Mainstreaming Carries Disadvantages | Stephen Berman, supervisor of the Long Island office of special education for the State Education Department, is quoted as saying about the plan to mainstream special-education students, ''This is absolutely an educational plan'' [''Special Education: Mainstreaming to Surge,'' Jan. 24]. I totally disagree. It will not ... |
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1146966_0 | Population and Anarchy | To the Editor: Re ''Weakness in Numbers'' (Op-Ed, Oct. 18): I disagree with Robert D. Kaplan's argument that high population growth makes many countries ''increasingly hard to govern except through tyrannical means.'' Why, despite the tremendous growth in world population, has the standard of living of most people in t... |
1147103_0 | In Third World, Unwanted Fertility | To the Editor: ''Putting Fertility First'' (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) ends by posing the wrong question: that ''population controllers must decide whether their desired end -- reducing fertility in the third world -- justifies the coercion that would be required.'' Answer: Of course not. The real question is, By what authority d... |
1147102_0 | In Third World, Unwanted Fertility | To the Editor: Mary Ann Glendon and Mary Haynes (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) argue that since nearly all childbearing in the developing world is the result of the desire by parents for large families, only forced birth control will bring fertility rates down. They dismiss as flawed the concept of ''unmet need.'' Yet the experience... |
1146972_1 | Jack Lynch, 82, of Ireland; Eased North-South Tensions | aid gradually helped Ireland become one of the world's 25 richest nations, with an unemployment rate half the European Union average. Mr. Lynch was Prime Minister, or Taoiseach (TEE-shuck), from 1966 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979. In 1969 he resisted pressure from his party, Fianna Fail, and from many people in Ireland... |
1147051_3 | A Drought, a Flood And High Water Bills, Too; Service Complaints and Land Feuds Plague New Jersey's Biggest Water Company | and Lake Tappan. Three towns -- Old Tappan, Haworth and River Vale -- are preparing to spend $6 million in local, county and state taxpayers' money to buy 58 acres to block housing development. In past campaigns by preservationists, the company agreed to preserve about 400 acres in exchange for a $25 million increase i... |
1144904_1 | The Six Billion Mark | opportunities. Without such modernization, population growth would have been higher than it is now. In a single generation, fertility rates have declined in virtually every nation. Industrialized countries have seen birthrates fall from 2.8 children per woman in the 1950's to roughly 1.6 today. In the developing world,... |
1144932_0 | Workers Rescued After Fall From Scaffold | Two construction workers were knocked off scaffolding in midtown Manhattan yesterday and left to dangle 70 feet above the ground in their safety harnesses until firefighters rescued them. But the rescue was marred by a behind-the-scenes dispute between firefighters and a police officer over who should handle the rescue... |
1146446_7 | How the Church Aided 'Heretical' Astronomy | rings that still bear his name, as does a $3.4 billion spacecraft now speeding toward the planet. Around 1655, Cassini persuaded the builders of the Basilica of San Petronio that they should include a major upgrade of Danti's old meridian line, making it larger and far more accurate, its entry hole for daylight moved u... |
1146501_0 | Warner-Lambert Signs Up a Partner to Work on Cancer Drug | Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. said today that it had entered a collaborative agreement with the Warner-Lambert Company to jointly develop and market a new cancer drug. Warner will pay Onyx, a biotechnology company based in Richmond, Calif., up to $155 million. Onyx has developed a novel therapy that uses a genetically modi... |
1146438_2 | Brain Tumors: Elusive, Varied and Not Always Deadly | elsewhere in the body -- although, as in Kathleen's case, the primary cancer is sometimes not detected until after the metastatic brain tumor has been found. Lung, breast and colon cancers, as well as melanomas, often spread to the brain. There has been much speculation about the possible causes of brain cancers, and e... |
1146461_2 | Manual Addresses Needs Of Children in Disasters | nutrition, psychological stress and children's vulnerability to land mines. Dr. Errol Alden, deputy executive director of the pediatrics academy, said children have such particular needs that they should be addressed early in a relief process, ''not as an afterthought.'' Dr. Olness also says there has been more awarene... |
1145094_3 | Private Eyes in the Sky Go to Court | and nations race to launch satellites that can offer 1-meter resolution. In the past, most civilian services offered 10-meter resolution. (The resolution figure is a rough measurement of the size of the object that can be seen on an image.) ''It's going to be fantastic,'' Mr. Johnson said. Dr. Landgrebe said he was loo... |
1145129_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE TURKEY: FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE -- A woman from a religion-oriented party was forbidden to leave the country while a prosecutor draws up charges of subversion against her. The politician, Merve Kavakci, was elected to Parliament this year but forbidden to take the oath of office because she insisted on wearing her Mu... |
1148305_0 | World Briefing | MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL: EX-TERRORIST TO MOVE -- At Yasir Arafat's request, Prime Minister Ehud Barak is permitting the former terrorist leader of a militant Palestinian political faction to move from Damascus to the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Nayef Hawatmeh, 63, left, who as head of the Democratic F... |
1148282_2 | Celestial Gamma Rays Open Window on the Heavens | ''People didn't realize that in the classical astronomy.'' The new instruments go beyond Swift and Milagro, a $3 million detector whose name means ''miracle'' in Spanish. NASA has scheduled a launch in January of the $20 million High Energy Transient Explorer, or HETE-2, which is intended to detect gamma ray bursts and... |
1148284_1 | Cell Phones: Questions but No Answers | and $27 million in spending, was just completed by Wireless Technology Research, an independent research group in Washington under the sponsorship of the wireless phone industry's trade association. This project supported studies by private research organizations and universities, and while it generally found little to... |
1148259_1 | OBSERVATORY | Research Letters, say the new photographs show that the border between the two land forms is clearly not a wave-cut cliff, or a cliff of any kind. And there is not a beach or dune in sight either. Deeply Seeking Silicon Siliceous sponges used to be contenders. With their rocklike skeletons made of microscopic spikes of... |
1148281_0 | New Way Of Looking At Diseases Of the Brain | A highly respected neuroscientist has developed a provocative new theory of how the brain is organized which, if confirmed, would explain how and why the mind produces symptoms found in several seemingly unrelated disorders. According to the theory, the deep sadness in severe depression, the hand wringing in obsessive ... |
1143350_6 | Reality Hits Singers In the Home Stretch; On a Real Stage, Bracing for an Audience | made perfect sense.'' They are helped as well by the very Americanness of the work. Not only does Mr. Bolcom draw on an identifiably American musical idiom (the influence of pop and show music is intermittently felt) but the play, of course, is a standard repertory piece from the American theater. The language is Engli... |
1149468_0 | After Merger, a Study of Employee Attitudes | WHEN Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York University Medical Center merged last year, the combined health center consisted of five campuses and four hospitals. ''One of our major concerns after the merger was our employees -- how can they be comfortably integrated into the new workplace?'' said Gary Rosenberg, senio... |
1149386_1 | Sometimes a Great Notion | and Dostoyevsky to the historiography of the cold war. Now comes a companion volume, ''Views From the Other Shore,'' and at first glance it appears to be forbiddingly arcane. It includes articles on Chekhov and Bakhtin (the former a small gem of biographical explication), but its central figure is the 19th-century jour... |
1149755_1 | With Victory Still Elusive, Ulster Talks To Continue | that the Irish Republican Army begin disarming before its political representatives, Sinn Fein, can take seats on the 10-person executive that will run the new Northern Ireland Assembly. There was little of the customary accusatory tone in the public remarks by representatives of the two parties today. ''We fully under... |
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1149424_1 | Y2K Travel: Still Questions in the Air | are available to the Department of Transportation.'' At the other end of the scale, in Britain, the Web site says, ''a comprehensive and thorough program to attempt to identify and correct potential aviation-related Y2K-related programs will have been implemented by Dec. 31.'' The department anticipates little chance o... |
1149524_16 | How a Speeded-Up Society Trickles Down to Children; From Infancy to Academics, the Race Is On | reeling. Because so many people no longer grow up with mom around the corner to answer questions or a grandmother in town who can remind them about when they walked or talked or read, parents look to their friends and their friend's children to measure progress. ''There's a lot of benchmarking going on,'' said Lora Car... |
1149873_1 | The Last Tribal Battle | As she later reported, she knew right then she would never see him alive again. An hour later, a posse of rubber tappers headed out to the spot. They found de Souza's body and saw that arrows were only part of the ordeal that had ended his life. Gashes covered his legs, chest and head; all that remained of his eyes wer... |
1149417_1 | The Last Tribal Battle | his back. As she turned around, Francisca saw the Indians closing in on her father. As she later reported, she knew right then she would never see him alive again. An hour later, a posse of rubber tappers headed out to the spot. They found de Souza's body, and saw that arrows were only part of the ordeal that had ended... |
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1149749_0 | SOVEREIGN ISLANDS -- A special report.; Getting Sick on the High Seas: A Question of Accountability | Shortly after midnight last Feb. 25, James Curtis, a 59-year-old retired businessman from Maryland, was found unconscious in a public restroom aboard the Sensation, one of the 14 ships of Carnival Cruise Lines. He was revived by the ship's nurse and taken to the infirmary. Over the next six hours, Mr. Curtis drifted in... |
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1142188_4 | Art Deco on the Amazon | meant more security for me. I needn't have worried. The Belem tourist police have read the travel guides, too. Just at the entrance to Ver-o-Peso, a huge indoor-outdoor market that spreads along about a half mile of the riverfront (Belem occupies a peninsula that juts into the Amazon), a man and woman in uniform approa... |
1142510_0 | Foreign Affairs; Hazy In Havana | Walking through the Partagas cigar factory in Old Havana is like smoking a box of Cohibas without ever having to light up. You just breathe deeply as you follow the raw tobacco leaves from the lower floors where they are separated into different qualities, to the upper floors where they are rolled into different brands... |
1143836_3 | Recurring Patterns, The Sinews Of Nature; Interest in Design Pulls Science Closer to Art | it as if it had a particular purpose, as if each of its elements were created for a reason, as if nothing about it were accidental. Kant argued that man treats nature ''after the analogy of art.'' He might have added that in constructing interpretations of nature, man also applies standards that have evolved for judgin... |
1143807_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE RUSSIA: SCIENTOLOGY LOSES LICENSE -- A Moscow city court has revoked the license of the Church of Scientology, saying the organization violated registration laws, and perhaps tax laws, by listing bogus founders of the sect's local branch. Tax police raided the sect's center this year. Scientology officials said ... |
1148786_0 | Teen-Age Birth Rate | To the Editor: ''Teen-Age Birth Rate in U.S. Falls Again'' (news article, Oct. 27) makes clear that the challenge is how to lower these numbers even further. The solution is in a combination of the factors that have led to the decline: more teen-agers choosing not to become sexually active, more consistent use of contr... |
1147234_0 | Survey Says 78.7 Million Own Stocks in United States | The number of stock owners in the nation soared to 78.7 million people early this year, 85 percent more than in 1983 when the long bull market was getting under way. Among households, 48.2 percent now own stock directly or through mutual funds, more than double the 19 percent with such a stake in 1983, according to a s... |
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1144294_0 | By Building a Coalition, a Utility Resolves Prickly Issues on Dams | FOR decades in the Pacific Northwest, hydroelectric dams have generated as much conflict as electricity. Many environmentalists, sports fishermen and Indian groups have opposed the relicensing of such dams and have succeeded in getting a few small ones taken down. The utilities, of course, backed by many of the busines... |
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1144250_1 | A Gloomy View of Immigration | certainly gloomiest -- experts on immigration. Mr. Borjas himself is a shining example of the classic immigrant rags to riches story. A refugee from Cuba who grew up in a Miami ghetto, he wound up with an Ivy League education and today holds a Harvard professorship. But in ''Heaven's Door,'' Professor Borjas calls for ... |
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1143974_3 | Look Who's Modern Now | reported this supposedly premodern syndrome faithfully, without using the word ''retrograde'' except in quotes. By then it was 1988, and my 200-page essay was finished. Unaware of the coming hiatus -- my Cambridge history was optimistically marked as ''forthcoming'' on my vita for each of the past 11 years -- I went to... |
1144018_0 | Q. & A. | Landlord's Liability in Dog Attack Q. I live in a luxury high-rise rental building on the Upper West Side. Recently, a family moved in with two vicious dogs, one a pit bull. On several occasions, these dogs have tried to attack my dog in the lobby, only to be restrained with difficulty by their owner's housekeeper. Wha... |
1146078_0 | October 10-16; A Bird's Eye View, for a Price | Backyard sun bathers and lovers on the beach have nothing to fear. The resolution of the world's first private spy camera, now orbiting 400 miles overhead, is insufficiently sharp to spot individuals. But it can see much else, including buildings, roads, pipelines, bridges, tanks, ships, jets and missiles. Space Imagin... |
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1145822_10 | Terra Incognita | is a clue that science needs to start over again from scratch and carve up the world in a whole new way. ''The physical structure of the world -- the exact distribution of particles, fields and forces in space-time -- is logically consistent with the absence of consciousness,'' he recently wrote, ''so the presence of c... |
1146145_0 | Population Growth Is Our Problem, Too | To the Editor: The world's population growth has indeed slowed (editorial, Oct. 13), but the projected population of nearly 9 billion by 2050 is nothing to cheer about. The earth is experiencing the largest species extinction since that of the dinosaurs, mostly the result of human population pressures. According to the... |
1148106_3 | You've Got Mail, Indeed | the United States Navy and Western Union. ''Americans receive more unsolicited mail than any other people in the world,'' Mr. Baer said. ''They're jaded. They lack the time and patience and inclination to go through mail they didn't ask for. ''So to get them to open a piece of mail, we have to take our efforts to a who... |
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