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1148196_0 | Family Planning Choices Are Still Too Few | To the Editor: The claim by Mary Ann Glendon and Mary Haynes (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) that parents' desire for large families is a fundamental obstacle to reducing fertility is belied by historical evidence that birth rates decline when the economic, educational and legal status of women improves. The ends of family planning c... |
1148194_0 | Family Planning Choices Are Still Too Few | To the Editor: Mary Ann Glendon and Mary Haynes (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) assert that only ''bribes, bullying, threats or outright coercion'' can overcome women's desire for large families. Moreover, they see no ''unmet need'' for contraception in Kenya. Yet an estimated one-third of maternal deaths in Kenya are the result of u... |
1142749_0 | Rio Journal; Where New Rich Adopt a U.S. Kind of Stylishness | This city's most conspicuous symbol has always been the giant statue of Christ that stands atop Corcovado mountain. But out in the Barra da Tijuca, the part of town where Rio's newly moneyed reign, a rival is now being erected: an 88-foot-high replica of the Statue of Liberty made of plastic and fiberglass. In a neighb... |
1142810_0 | The U.S. Should Let Cuba Be Cuba | To the Editor: In his Sept. 29 column on Cuba, Thomas L. Friedman says Communism is ''great for producing missiles, but terrible when it comes to breakfast, lunch and dinner.'' In fact, Cuba had not produced many missiles, but it did double the life expectancy of black men in 40 years by providing nutrition and health ... |
1143139_0 | Foreign Affairs; A Deadly Embrace | Flipping through the room-service menu at my Havana hotel the other morning, I noticed it listed four types of breakfast: American, Continental, Creole and Russian. Now, there aren't too many places in the world where you find ''Russian breakfast'' on the menu, especially this one, which consisted of caviar, smoked sal... |
1143097_1 | FOOD STUFF | A Store Without the Fat Even with ice creams getting richer and steakhouses expanding, Andrea Halperin has opened F3, a big duplex store selling nothing but fat-free and sugar-free foods, more than 5,000 of them, at 770 Second Avenue (41st Street). The high-tech wire shelving holds no produce, fresh meat or fish, but i... |
1145409_3 | A Disputed Study Suggests Possible Harm From Genetically Altered Food | in a review that his data did not support his conclusions. The Royal Society, Britain's senior scientific academy, reviewed Dr. Pusztai's work and earlier this year declared it too flawed to draw any conclusions about the effects of the transgenic potatoes, in part because the experiments had lacked proper controls. Th... |
1145443_0 | Around the World, Dismay Over Senate Vote on Treaty | Around the world today, government leaders and arms experts reacted with dismay and even anger after the United States Senate defeated, without much debate, a nuclear test ban treaty that had been decades in the making. For many, there was a sense that the treaty may now be dead. There are countries that fear American ... |
1145431_0 | Life 101: Useful Skills for College and Beyond | These are the lessons from today's class at Southampton College: *A smart budget has more money coming in than going out. *Do not make the password for your A.T.M. card something obvious, like your birthday. *Pay the full balance on credit cards, if possible, but definitely more than the minimum. ''When I was in colleg... |
1145375_0 | Educating Women | To the Editor: Your Oct. 13 editorial ''The Six Billion Mark'' aimed precisely at the heart of the challenge facing many countries like Canada and the United States that wish to support international population control efforts but face domestic resistance from the anti-abortion lobby. So as not to allow the debate to b... |
1148640_0 | Who Will Care for Our Children? | To the Editor: We were surprised to learn that available financing to assist New York's low- and moderate-income families with the cost of child care is not getting into the hands of the families that need it, mainly because ''there are not nearly enough day care providers to meet the demand'' (news article, Oct. 25). ... |
1146690_0 | Putting Fertility First | There are now six billion people on the planet, we are told, and many characterize humanity's arrival at this milestone as a catastrophe. Family-planning activists responded to it with calls for more financing to address the ''unmet needs'' of hundreds of millions of women. According to many of these groups, supplying ... |
1146309_0 | Weakness in Numbers | The military coup in Pakistan and the news that there are now six billion people on the planet are not unrelated. Pakistan is just one of many countries in which high population growth has fueled urbanization, unemployment and depletion of resources, which have made the state increasingly hard to govern except through ... |
1144756_4 | Montredon Journal; French See a Hero in War on 'McDomination' | though his supporters had come up with the cash. It was a stand that lasted only three weeks. He smiles when asked about his change of heart. ''The conditions in there were really bad,'' he said. ''And the food was inedible. And I said to myself, 'If all these people are trying to help me by raising the money, why shou... |
1141934_2 | Japanese Fuel Plant Spews Radiation After Accident | an interview with The Associated Press: ''So much has been made of Japan's sophisticated technology that supposedly makes nuclear energy safe. The accident proves that's absolutely not true.'' In the past, Japan has compounded nuclear accidents with slow and often misleading information given to the public. Commentator... |
1141907_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Accident at Nuclear Plant Spews Radiation in Japan An out-of-control chain reaction at a nuclear fuel plant near Tokyo released high levels of radiation into the air. Thirty-five people were exposed, three of them seriously injured, and 300,000 residents were ordered to stay indoors. Officials said ... |
1141871_0 | Coke in Move Against Bias Suit | Lawyers for the Coca-Cola Company asked a Federal judge yesterday to punish the lawyers for four black employees who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company, saying the plaintiffs' lawyers had falsely accused the company of shredding documents related to the case. The plaintiffs' lawyers submitted a m... |
1142962_1 | Editorial Observer; In Describing Health Care Plans, Less is More | coverage voluntarily. The estimate may be unrealistically low, but it is not daffy. The Clinton staff estimated that it could raise coverage from about 85 percent of the population to the low 90's with tax credits and other carrots. But in the giddy first months of his Administration, Mr. Clinton refused to settle for ... |
1142949_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASYLUM -- A court in Rome granted the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan political asylum. But Mr. Ocalan, who made the request in November, is now in a Turkish prison appealing a death sentence on terrorism charges. Bowing to intense pressure from Turkey and the United States, Italy asked Mr. Ocalan to leave last Ja... |
1143003_0 | Lessons to Apply In Mosquito War | To the Editor: Re ''Mosquito Virus Exposes a Hole in the Safety Net'' (front page, Oct. 4): Stagnant water in discarded tires provides an ideal breeding environment for mosquitoes. A couple of years ago the New York City Department of Sanitation ceased curbside tire collection and announced that tires would have to be ... |
1142893_0 | Will Dam-Busting Save Salmon? Maybe Not | The big hydroelectric dam sits deep in a valley framed by softly rounded, grass-covered mountains that look from a distance as if they have been sanded down and then covered with beige and blond velvet. Great expanses of sun-dappled blue water, more reservoir or lake than river, stretch above and below the concrete-and... |
1143012_2 | MONSANTO TO BAR A CLASS OF SEEDS | consensus in favor of it. Yesterday's announcement closing the door more firmly came in a letter from Robert B. Shapiro, Monsanto's chairman, to Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a leading sponsor of agricultural research in developing nations, where opposition to the Terminator technology has bee... |
1145564_2 | The Mentor Conservatives Turn to for Inspiration; A Gadfly and Confessor To a Harvard Lineage | political philosophy relate to practical political issues today.'' Even Sean Wilentz, a liberal Princeton University historian who drew harsh criticism from Mr. Mansfield for his defense of President Clinton during impeachment proceedings, admitted, ''Some of us would give essential body parts for that kind of influenc... |
1145581_0 | What Causes Brutality? The People Nurturing It | When what was formerly commonplace fades to rarity, we come to think it bizarre. Whose mother still steps behind the house to throttle a chicken for Sunday dinner? Who has seen a goiter or a face ruined by smallpox? Serious private violence used to be routine, a way people settled disputes in the ages before access to ... |
1147724_0 | Refining the Financing For Special Education | I agree with Jane Goldblatt that all children are entitled to ''an equal opportunity to get a good education'' [letter, Oct. 17]. All children should receive an education that will allow them to function independently to the best of their ability. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act states that all children... |
1147635_3 | Q&A/Dr. Mandana Nakhai; Professor Sees Changes in Native Iran | taught at the University of Teheran, and it was a wonderful experience. Q. How hard is it for you to go from the American society, which is generally free for women to navigate, to Iran? A. It was very difficult, of course. Here in the United States we take this freedom for granted -- the freedom to say what we want, t... |
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1147822_1 | The World; Victoria Would Not Be Amazed by Chile Today | seeking annulment at all, since it is expensive and usually requires lying in court. They simply separate and then match up with new, common-law partners. The practice helps explain why almost half of the couples who live together in this overwhelmingly Catholic country are not married and almost half of the children b... |
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1147889_0 | U.S. Mediator Extends Effort To Rescue Ulster Accord | George J. Mitchell, the former United States Senator turned mediator, extended his attempt to rescue the faltering Northern Ireland peace agreement past its expected end tonight, saying more time was needed ''in view of the gravity of what is at stake.'' In a statement issued after daylong talks with Ulster's feuding p... |
1149041_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE BRITAIN: COURT BACKS HOMOSEXUALS -- England's top court made a major ruling in favor of gay rights, saying a man was entitled to stay in the apartment of his late partner, the tenancy right granted to heterosexual spouses. The Law Lords' ruling, which overturned two court decisions, means Martin Fitzpatrick can ... |
1144528_5 | Seizing the Initiative on Privacy; On-Line Industry Presses Its Case for Self-Regulation | is failing. They note, for example, that the 1999 Georgetown survey also found that only 10 percent of Web sites included the four touchstones of what the F.T.C. calls ''fair information practices'': notifying users of the sites' data collection practices; giving users a choice of opting out; giving them access to pers... |
1144584_0 | On Treaty, Chirac Is Hypocritical | To the Editor: Re ''A Treaty We All Need'' by Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroder (Op-Ed, Oct. 8): I am very much in favor of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and agree with these European heads of state that nuclear testing and proliferation remain a large threat to world security. But Mr. Chirac, the Pre... |
1144531_0 | A.F.L.-C.I.O. Members to Get On-Line Access And Discounts | The nation's labor movement, long a laggard on high-technology matters, is taking a leap into cyberspace with a new A.F.L.-C.I.O. program that will offer heavily discounted computers and on-line service to 13 million union members. The plan, announced over the weekend, aims not only to make on-line service more afforda... |
1149237_0 | Ex-Teamster Official Is Charged With Graft | A board of Federal monitors yesterday charged a top lieutenant of Ron Carey, the former teamsters' union president, with embezzling more than $12,500 and with breaching his fiduciary duty to union members. The board, called the Independent Review Board, asked the union's president, James P. Hoffa, to pursue disciplinar... |
1149236_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: LIFE FOR KILLING 3 BROTHERS -- A 24-year-old farm machinery salesman, Garfield Gilmour, was sentenced to three life terms in Belfast Crown Court for the murders of three Catholic brothers who died after their home in a largely Protestant housing estate in Ballymoney was firebombed in July 1998.... |
1143724_0 | Clinton Plans Move To Preserve Forests | President Clinton has asked the United States Forest Service to draw up a plan to protect up to 40 million acres of national forests around the country from commercial development, a White House official said. The plan would take effect in the form a Presidential directive. A move to keep forests away from loggers and ... |
1143620_0 | A Treaty We All Need | During the 1990's, the United States has made a vital contribution to arms control and nonproliferation. Thanks to the common resolve of the world's powers, we have achieved a substantial reduction in nuclear arsenals, the banning of chemical weapons, the indefinite and unconditional extension of the Nuclear Non-Prolif... |
1143654_2 | Across the U.S., Universities Are Fueling High-Tech Economic Booms | like the comparative study issued this summer by the independent Milken Institute, in Santa Monica, Calif. That study found that the fast-growing high-tech sector was increasingly ''determining which metropolitan areas are succeeding or failing.'' In Milken's analysis, high-tech activity could explain 65 percent of the... |
1141987_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE FRANCE: BEEF BAN STANDS -- The Food Safety Agency recommended that the Government maintain its embargo on imports of British beef because of continuing risks of mad-cow disease. European Union officials, who ruled that the three-year old ban be lifted, said they might take legal action if Paris persists in its b... |
1142043_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Iran's Chief Cleric Acts To Heal Rift With President Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, moved decisively to head off a fresh confrontation with the reformist President, Mohammad Khatami, instructing hard-line clerics and their loyalists in the police not to ''take matters ... |
1142039_4 | Nuclear Peril Is Over but Japanese Anger Isn't | in the minority though, because officials were able to convince people that accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island could never happen here. Japan's safety precautions were in fact perfect, they said.'' In Tokyo today, independent nuclear experts and civic groups ridiculed the Government's contention that the un... |
1131989_2 | 2,800 Years Old And Still Relevant | is one of his main themes: Odysseus ''saw the cities of many men and understood the way they thought.'' When I first started teaching, 35 years ago, I talked a lot about the archetypal journey of the hero. Twenty years ago, I concentrated on plot development -- on how Odysseus's newfound knowledge of others helps him r... |
1130271_0 | The Costs of Staying Connected; Too Much Information | To the Editor: I completely agree with Thomas L. Friedman (column, Aug. 10): We are way too connected with each other. I don't want cell phone calls, I want messages. I don't want E-mail, I want real mail. Too much information is, well, too much! Today, on my way to work on the bus, a man was on his cell phone calling ... |
1130283_0 | Colombian Quagmire; Success in Peru | To the Editor: In a July 31 editorial you suggest that Bolivia and Peru have had some success with a ''mixed strategy'' of fumigation of coca crops ''combined with help to bring roads and electricity to coca areas, so peasants have alternatives.'' The Peruvian Government does not spray coca fields or use any chemicals ... |
1131649_0 | Peru's Drug Successes Erode as Traffickers Adapt | The days when drug dealers flew freely in and out of this little tropical town in the Apurimac Valley with thick wads of cash ended four years ago, right after President Alberto K. Fujimori ordered the armed forces to shoot down planes suspected of trafficking. Once the ''air bridge'' was broken, the demand for coca le... |
1131611_8 | Too Many Phones, Too Little Service | expanded wireless data services on the horizon, mobile phone use will only increase. Will a time come when the digital wireless network fills up entirely? ''The potential for that exists, but it's not any kind of a reality at this point,'' said Mark Desautels, managing director of the Wireless Data Forum, a Washington-... |
1128808_1 | Religion Journal; Lutherans to Vote Again on Link to Episcopalians | on Aug. 19. Although less than a merger, an agreement to enter into full communion binds churches closely. They agree to recognize one another's sacraments and clergy members and to collaborate in missionary work and social service projects. One effect, cited by supporters of the current proposal, is to allow churches ... |
1128826_0 | I.R.A. Denies Role in 2 Gun Cases Delaying Progress on Ulster | The Irish Republican Army said today that it was not responsible for two incidents that have led Protestant officials in Ulster to call for the expulsion of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A. political wing, from the Northern Ireland Assembly. The two issues involved a gun-running operation between the United States and Northern Ir... |
1128805_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SLIPS. Sugar fell after a London trading house raised its estimate of the global market surplus because of higher-than-expected production in Brazil. Sugar for October delivery fell 0.21 cent, to 5.99 cents a pound. |
1130411_5 | For the Discontented, A Message of Hope; Appeal of Buddhism Grows in U.S., Where Dalai Lama Attracts Crowds | In the early 1980's, when he appeared in his monk's robes, passers-by looked at him askance, he said. ''Walking around 14 years ago in these robes and walking around today is a totally different experience,'' he said. ''I feel people support me.'' But when asked about Buddhism's growing popularity here, the Dalai Lama ... |
1133234_3 | Mending America's Acropolis | dome, for safety's sake. But about a decade ago, it became clear that the site that former Gov. Pete Wilson of California called the American Acropolis could not survive without a major effort. Mr. Miller arrived in 1992 to help the nonprofit organization that runs the mission figure out how to repay an earlier $3 mill... |
1133243_0 | Basic E-Mail Service, Cheap and Lightweight | If millions of Americans are spending thousands of dollars for computers primarily for E-mail, will they spend less than $100 just for E-mail? It sounds like a shaky premise, but several companies are banking on it and producing E-mail-only devices. The latest company is Vtech Industries, the manufacturer of electronic... |
1133663_2 | Religion Journal; Georgetown U. Names First Muslim Chaplain | criteria the committee looked for in a candidate, Father Bunnell said, was someone who would ''fit into Georgetown's interfaith climate,'' while also being ''respectful of the Catholic tradition.'' Mr. Hendi, who was born in the West Bank city of Nablus, has a bachelor's degree in Islamic law and theology from the Univ... |
1133724_0 | 'Don't Ask' Violates Free-Speech Rights | To the Editor: An Aug. 24 news article reports that bishops representing the Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church, passed a resolution in August of last year strongly critical of homosexuality. This report does not reflect the attitudes prevalent among the laity and clergy in the Episcopal Church in ... |
1132203_6 | Exploring 'Place' Can Be Tricky When the Place Is Someone Else's | make environmental concerns part of her examination of the meaning of place is ''Map,'' a 25-by-48-foot arrangement of clear marbles by the Beirut-born artist Mona Hatoum; in the shape of the world, it dominates the floor of the main hall. The loosely situated marbles are easily disturbed by the vibrations set off by p... |
1132154_8 | Vancouver's Lush Landscapes | the cool Sino-Himalayan region -- birches, camellias and rhododendrons. Tucked away near the entrance to this well-tended forest is a small Chinese medicinal garden featuring 55 herbs that form the basis of Chinese pharmacology. As for the cross-pollination, it's everywhere -- in the arrangement of dwarf conifers seeki... |
1132440_2 | Ideas & Trends; A Back Door View Of Airline Safety | Mary Lou McHugh, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Transportation Policy, and uniformly applying those standards, derived from F.A.A. rules, ''has impact for travelers worldwide.'' The six carriers will review crew training, cockpit procedures, maintenance systems, procedures for calculating a plane's wei... |
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1132339_0 | Special Services Head | The Southern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services has named Frank L. Owens -- himself a former special education student who suffered from a speech impairment -- as director of special services. Mr. Owens, 42, began his career as a school psychologist at the New York School for the Deaf in Greenburgh, ... |
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1129620_2 | Beijing Journal; A Glorious Ruin and a Face-Lift Furor | The portion salvaged in a public park includes tacky carnival games, a dismal zoo and an island given over to a ''Primitive People's Totem Park.'' The only overt reminder of former glory is the sector of the Western-style palaces, built of stone that survived the conflagration. There, amid chaotic rubble, some walls ha... |
1129593_6 | Pain at Work: Startling Images and New Hope | in the small of his back started to slip down on another. Doctors told him he had better stop lifting heavy things and consider changing jobs. ''But I didn't listen,'' he said. ''The lesson from me is that if somebody tells you not to lift things, don't lift things.'' Four years ago, when the pain became unbearable, Mr... |
1129646_1 | Foreign Affairs; The Y2K Social Disease | is spreading daily, and it has no known cure. I was recently in a restaurant with my daughter and found myself seated between two families, both of whose fathers were speaking loudly into cell phones, as if they were in their offices. I wanted to scream: ''Look, I'm on vacation. I'm trying to get away from my office. I... |
1134456_1 | World Briefing | jail Mr. Zibben for 26 years, one year for each victim. Sentencing was deferred until later this year. (Reuters) IRAQ: CONGRESSIONAL VISIT -- Aides to five United States members of Congress are in Iraq to try to assess the effect of nine years of international sanctions on civilians. The delegation, drawn from the staf... |
1134508_3 | Editorial Observer; Helping Embattled Children in America's Cities | high schools, there has been a trained mental health counselor, with a master's degree or doctorate in psychology, and with a private office, a computer and a phone. And each week a psychiatrist, able to review the case files and prescribe medications, visits each school. What they have found, says Gayle Porter, the Jo... |
1134457_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SOARS. Sugar rose almost 9 percent after a warehouse fire at a Brazilian port destroyed 15,000 metric tons of sugar waiting for export. In New York, sugar for October delivery rose 0.54 cent, to 6.7 cents a pound. |
1134514_0 | Microsoft Shuts Security Breach in E-Mail System | The Microsoft Corporation scrambled today to close a security breach that had left tens of millions of personal E-mail accounts freely accessible through Web sites that were created to exploit the vulnerability. It was not clear how much private information might have been compromised and for what length of time. And w... |
1128011_2 | Wondering About a Wonder Drug Susan Love, a breast surgeon, is the author of ''Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book.'' | women with breast cancer. It was known that many cancers were sensitive to estrogen, and he hypothesized that an antiestrogen agent might help. Indeed it did. Doctors then proved that it worked in women with advanced breast cancer, and then in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. As its use increased in the early ... |
1129503_2 | Streams Dry. Berries Dead. What's a Black Bear to Do? | will be reduced.'' In the Shawangunks, the bear migration has changed life for Mr. Bradley and his six tenants on the Awosting Reserve, his private tract. Mr. Bradley has spotted seven bears near the houses in the last month. The last time he saw a bear below the mountain range -- just one -- was during the severe drou... |
1129528_0 | Children Who Are Disabled, or Just Immature? | To the Editor: Re ''Reforming Special Education'' (editorial, Aug. 4): My son is one of the youngest in his class. Last year he was slow to adapt to kindergarten. He'd wander away from meetings. Midway through the year he scribbled indecipherably and seemed to waffle about which hand to use when writing. His teacher, e... |
1129456_4 | TECHNOLOGY: E-Commerce Report; For Internet retailers, personalized E-mail advertising offers relatively low costs and a high response rate. | E-mail messages to specific client segments -- unless the companies want to risk alienating recipients with misguided recommendations. For that reason, companies that conduct E-mail promotions on behalf of Internet retailers have reported brisk demand for their services in recent months. These companies, like Messageme... |
1128257_0 | Pediatricians Suggest Limits On TV Viewing by Children | Children under 2 years old should not watch television, older children should not have television sets in their bedrooms and pediatricians should have parents fill out a ''media history,'' along with a medical history, on office visits, according to recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Saying televisi... |
1128234_1 | Experts Unsure of Effects of a Type of Contaminant | and their possible influences in people. ''This field is rife with uncertainty,'' said Dr. Ernst Knobil, who was chairman of the panel. Dr. Knobil, a professor in the medical school at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, added, ''It's an exceedingly complex environmental issue and there are no easy a... |
1128221_1 | U.S. Undercuts Arms Control Efforts, Global Panel Finds | way reward the nation, which wants a permanent Security Council seat and which, the study says, ''considers the possession of nuclear weapons an attribute of great-power status.'' The southern Asian tests tempt others to break restraints against nuclear development, the experts added in a sweeping survey of worldwide d... |
1128203_0 | Reforming Special Education | The United States Department of Education threatened earlier this summer to withhold more than $300 million in aid unless New York State changed a funding formula that encouraged school districts to dump as many children as possible into special education classes. The formula gave districts extra money for putting chil... |
1131198_5 | Choosing to Test for Cancer's Genetic Link | ovaries for more than 10 years. I am still awaiting the results of the test. But I have already decided that if I test positive for a BRCA mutation, I will have my ovaries removed. At age 58, they are not doing me much good anyway, and I have just learned that the surgery can now be done through a laparoscope, with two... |
1130843_4 | Phone Fee for School Internet Service Seems to Be Too Popular to Overturn | part of American life early in this century, some telephone users have subsidized others. Businesses have subsidized residential users. Urban customers have subsidized those in rural areas. The affluent have paid more so that poor people could afford telephones. The theory has been that everyone benefits from universal... |
1130870_3 | Basque Separatists Trade In Weapons for Words | a harsh critic of the central Government in Madrid, said in an interview at his party's headquarters here, ''I think the E.T.A. has decided to stop the armed fight, but that doesn't mean it couldn't act again in situations it considers provocations.'' Whether the guerrillas have moved closer to the moderate nationalist... |
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1130826_0 | A Higher (Tech) Calling | New graduates of the Harvard Business School, traditionally able to pick and choose in the job market, are increasingly drawn to technology and the Internet. Not that the old ways are gone. Consulting, the top career choice for the school's new graduates since 1988, kept its place this year. But only 22 percent chose i... |
1130958_0 | Poetic Politics | DISOWNED BY MEMORY Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s. By David Bromwich. 186 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $25. OVER a hundred years ago, in Lahore, which was then at the edge of the English-speaking world, the poet and critic Altaf Husain Hali set himself the task of reforming Urdu poetry. Hali's projec... |
1130873_0 | As Protestants March, Police And Catholics Clash in Ulster | Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary clashed in cities across Northern Ireland today with Roman Catholics protesting Protestant parades through their neighborhoods. There were at least five arrests and scores of injuries, most of them slight, as protesters confronted policemen seeking to clear them from the parade... |
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1133498_1 | Britain Rules For the I.R.A. On Truce, Inciting Furor | is sufficient basis to conclude that the I.R.A. cease-fire has broken down,'' she said. ''Nor do I believe that it is disintegrating or that these recent events represent a decision by the organization to return to violence.'' Nonetheless, Ms. Mowlam said, ''we are very close to the edge'' of a breakdown in the peace e... |
1133588_0 | Commercials in Class | To the Editor: Genetically modified food comes from organisms that are artificially constructed by transferring genes from an otherwise genetically incompatible organism (news article, Aug. 23). These organisms are not synonymous with hybrids. Second, genetically modified organisms are patented. With patenting, the tra... |
1128655_1 | Accord on Developing Land Beside the Grand Canyon | which the United States Forest Service is expected to endorse. Spokeswomen for Grand Canyon National Park and the Forest Service said details of the project would be revealed at a news conference on Friday morning in Flagstaff, Ariz. But Mr. Simon, other environmentalists and associates of the development group's gener... |
1128654_0 | Study Finds That Rare Cancer in Amoco Employees Is Probably Work Related, Company Says | After a three- year study, medical investigators working for the BP Amoco Corporation said today that an unusually high incidence of a rare brain cancer among some employees at a research center near here was most likely work related. The investigators, who were hired from the University of Alabama and Johns Hopkins Un... |
1127293_2 | Please Don't Eat the Doctor | folksy and conversational as he champions the cause of the W.C.S. He is not deeply introspective. All mountains are lush, all plains are grassy and all his fellow conservationists are unique and special. What draws you in are his stories of the animals. His most vivid descriptions are saved for them. Peccaries, wild pi... |
1127723_0 | July 25-31; New Reporting Rules For Shipboard Crimes | Facing rising concerns in Congress and elsewhere about crime on ships, the cruise-ship industry adopted a uniform standard for dealing with the investigation and reporting of crimes. The International Council of Cruise Lines, which represents 90 percent of the cruise business in the United States, said its members agre... |
1127640_0 | An Eye on Your E-Mail | To the Editor: Re: ''You've Got Mail. You're Being Watched.'' (The Right Thing, July 18), which looked at company monitoring of workers' E-mail: Employees should have the first line of responsibility for doing something about offensive E-mail messages. In fact, in accepting the use of company E-mail, employees should a... |
1127619_1 | The Worker's Just Reward | growing international trade, the loss of the work ethic and assorted other factors, is now narrowing. Lower rates of unemployment and rising wages may also be contributing to declining crime rates. It is well documented that as unemployment rates have fallen in inner cities recently, so has the incidence of crime. The ... |
1127706_0 | Youth Camp Is Ordered Closed After Mistreatment Is Charged | Connecticut authorities have suspended the license of a youth camp in East Haddam after substantiating five instances of what they are calling the neglect or abuse of campers, who are mentally retarded or have other special needs. Officials of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, which regulates youth camps, be... |
1127319_9 | Who's Afraid of China? | hope for, Mao realized, would be one stinging shot back at its foe. China's nuclear doctrine has certainly advanced since then, but with a no-first-use policy and adherence to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, China is not (nor has it ever been) the nuclear rogue that Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon once feared.... |
1127685_5 | IN ECLIPSE -- A special report.; Empty Isles Are Signs Japan's Sun Might Dim | chickens and ducks, and I'm so healthy here.'' ''I just hope young people come back,'' she continued. ''When I was a kid, there was a store over there,'' she said, pointing to a collapsed building peeking from the thick brush. ''And over there. And there. And down by the cemetery as well. And now they're all gone.'' In... |
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