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1074944_5 | Search for Missing Otters Turns Up a Few Surprises | at the university. Through statistical analysis, the researchers determined that the observed increase in attacks could not be attributed to chance alone. Then they compared otter population trends in two places on Adak Island where circumstances had by chance created experimental and control groups. In one place, Clam... |
1074736_5 | Search for Missing Otters Turns Up a Few Surprises | at the university. Through statistical analysis, the researchers determined that the observed increase in attacks could not be attributed to chance alone. Then they compared otter population trends in two places on Adak Island where circumstances had by chance created experimental and control groups. In one place, Clam... |
1074733_1 | Using Magnets on Corners of the Mind | in the body and heart disease. Universities and national laboratories throughout the United States have been experimenting with magnetic technology for more than a decade. Until now, though surgeons have been able to use images of the brain to locate a tumor with precision, they have generally had to push a rigid needl... |
1077464_3 | The Granddaddies of All Hackers | widely available to everyone (though in some cases they could be customized). But before long another advantage of using such nonsecret codes, known as ''commercial'' codes, soon became clear -- to save money. By using a code that replaced several words with a single word, telegrams cost less to send. By 1875, the use ... |
1079957_2 | For Atlantic Clammers, Trying to Weather an Unusual Run of Tragedy | there, Jeffrey M. Wertz, added: ''There's so many things that can happen on boats. When you don't get a broadcast with some detailed description of what's going on on the boat, then it's left to the investigators to find out.'' The first boat to go down was the Beth Dee Bob, an 84-foot steel-hulled clam dredge that san... |
1079506_1 | The Study of Gene Machines, In Situ | species has been kept exclusively in the National Plant Germplasm System. The gene pool was gathered from ex situ collections, a sort of clinically clean environment. Now the researchers are finding that it is far more important to preserve a gene pool in situ, that is in the place where nature put it. One of the staff... |
1079574_0 | Despite Billions Spent, A History of Failures | After decades of neglect and deferred maintenance that left New York City schools crumbling, leaky, shabby and sometimes dangerous, the State Legislature created the School Construction Authority in 1988 with a mandate to resurrect the vast archipelago of 1,100 aging public school buildings by Jan. 1, 2000. Gov. Mario ... |
1079796_0 | Why Eco-Tourists Are Shunning Brazil | BLESSED with a rain forest the size of Western Europe, wetlands where rivers magically swell from 300 yards to 37 miles in the rainy season, and a dazzling string of waterfalls in the south, Brazil would seem to be a natural magnet for ecologically driven travelers. In fact, it was not long ago that eco-tourism represe... |
1079507_1 | The Study of Gene Machines, In Situ | species has been kept exclusively in the National Plant Germplasm System. The gene pool was gathered from ex situ collections, a sort of clinically clean environment. Now the researchers are finding that it is far more important to preserve a gene pool in situ, that is in the place where nature put it. One of the staff... |
1079802_10 | GUATEMALA, ON THE VERTICAL | past year and have occurred in all parts of the country. Tourist vans have been a particularly susceptible target.'' It also says that it is dangerous to climb volcanoes because of the possibility of robbery or attack but that the ruins at Tikal are ''considered to be generally safe, provided that visitors fly to Flore... |
1079773_5 | The Will to Madness | did not particularly wish Nietzsche to set himself up as the philosophical spokesman on Wagnerian themes. Nor did Cosima care for either the person of Nietzsche or the intellectual ambition that drove him so painfully. She had sacrificed herself to Wagner, and she wanted Nietzsche to sacrifice himself to both of them -... |
1079893_4 | Special Education: Mainstreaming to Surge | the state's Deputy Commissioner of Education, said financial incentives have been offered to help school districts that incorporate space for special-ed students. Robert Lupinskie, a member of the board of Nassau Boces, said the issue is not mainstreaming but moving the placement of the students from one building to an... |
1079475_1 | Editorial Observer; Washington Brags as Trade Deficit Sets a Record | if the current recovery was 19 months old when he was elected on a platform that emphasized just how badly the economy was doing under President George Bush. The stock market has been going up almost continuously since 1982, with the 1987 crash remembered as little more than a buying opportunity that was then seen -- w... |
1079505_1 | The Study of Gene Machines, In Situ | species has been kept exclusively in the National Plant Germplasm System. The gene pool was gathered from ex situ collections, a sort of clinically clean environment. Now the researchers are finding that it is far more important to preserve a gene pool in situ, that is in the place where nature put it. One of the staff... |
1079837_4 | Partners Design Sites for On-Line Markets | that it could be easily updated to reflect holiday and seasonal themes throughout the year. ''It allows for the automated rotation of over 6,000 products from our nine catalogue titles,'' Mr. Hochberg said. ''And, it's designed so that the consumer can easily navigate through the site. One special feature is an on-line... |
1079544_1 | State Legislatures Across U.S. Plan to Take Up Internet Issues | unsolicited commercial E-mail, known as spam. But efforts to protect children from indecent material, and even measures involving spam E-mail, often raise constitutional questions regarding free speech. Another problem is that Federal and state laws are aimed at regulating a global medium. Civil libertarians have won v... |
1081020_1 | World Briefing | also carrying a chemical that could be used to make the nerve gas sarin. (AP) POLAND: A DATE FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP -- Poland will become a full member of NATO in the first 10 days of March, Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz said on his return from a visit to the United States. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland we... |
1081043_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR RISES 4 PERCENT. Sugar futures jumped 4 percent on big purchases by Iran and Tunisia that bolstered demand. In New York, sugar for March delivery rose 0.27 cent, to 6.92 cents a pound. |
1076393_1 | Test by F.A.A. Uncovers Holes in Airline Security | any further action and the subject with the handgun in her waistband entered the sterile area,'' and was free to proceed toward the boarding gate, the F.A.A. reported. The documents also recount how an investigator strolled unchallenged into unguarded aircraft. In another instance, Federal employees sent to ticket coun... |
1076388_4 | THE CASTRO DOLLAR: A special report; In Cuba's New Dual Economy, Have-Nots Far Exceed Haves | intended to allow some private employment without dropping the state's commitment to socialism: cradle-to-grave social security, free education and free health care. ''We are not going to convert to a market economy,'' he said. A vast majority of workers still receive low state salaries in pesos. Net profits from hotel... |
1076333_1 | U.S. Now Tells of Much Deeper Damage by Pollard Than Thought | he did not do real damage to American national security and should be pardoned or paroled. Monday is the deadline that Mr. Clinton gave American military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies last month for submitting their views on the question, a response to demands for Mr. Pollard's release made by Israel in Oc... |
1081195_1 | The World Reintroduces Beauvoir to the French | fighting for equality in France today avoid calling themselves feminists for fear of being mocked. ''For years, we have had to preface our remarks with, 'I am not a feminist but . . .,' '' explained one French campaigner for women's rights. The conference's two organizers, Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon, were rem... |
1075520_3 | Watchdog for Abused Children Has Its Own Woes | to monitor New York City closely after a 6-year-old girl, Elisa Izquierdo, was killed by her mother while under the city's watch. Her death, coupled with the dismal results of state audits conducted in 1989 and 1994, made it painfully clear that the failure of city workers to visit Elisa, to identify warning signs of a... |
1075529_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: I.R.A. 'FRUSTRATED' BY DELAYS -- The Irish Republican Army said it was committed to the Northern Ireland peace settlement but felt ''growing frustration'' over delays in putting it into place. In a New Year's message to a nationalist newspaper, An Phoblacht, the I.R.A. complained that the oppor... |
1075529_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | lived in hiding since escaping their homeland. Ms. Kim's husband, a South Korean soldier captured in the Korean War, was forced to work in a North Korean coal mine until he died in 1997. (AP) CHINA: SEX IMBALANCE GROWS -- The sex imbalance in China's huge population is growing worse. Research from the Chinese Academy o... |
1073987_0 | Parted Siblings In Foster Care | To the Editor: Your Dec. 29 front-page article ends with the image of a 4-year-old child silently coloring as adults decide his fate. The child's voice is glaringly absent in the story and the process. Yet custody decisions -- if truly to be in children's best interests -- must reflect the particular psychological need... |
1073907_0 | The Stoics Have a Stand on Everything, Even on Dinner Parties and Sex | After being off the best-seller list for nearly 2,000 years, the Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been revived, thanks to Tom Wolfe's new novel, ''A Man in Full'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In prison, Conrad Hensley, one of Wolfe's main characters, requests ''The Stoics' Game,'' a new spy thriller, but receives a copy o... |
1073903_0 | Stripping the Amazon | To the Editor: In a Dec. 26 editorial you paid tribute to Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who ''probably did more than any other person to preserve the Amazon.'' Unfortunately for the rubber tappers and indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, the greed and overconsumption that have threatened their way of ... |
1073971_2 | In City of Castro's Triumph, Most Still Back Him | free education and health care, had been met. His son had become an engineer, something unthinkable for poor people 40 years ago. ''We can't lose faith,'' he said. ''We have problems, but we are going to conquer them.'' But others, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the country's economic fabric had been slowly ... |
1073952_0 | Bringing Cuba in From the Cold | Forty years after Fidel Castro seized power it is time for the United States to reorient its policy away from Fidel Castro and toward preparing for a democratic transition in Cuba. During the cold war, the United States sought to contain the spread of Cuban-supported Communism in this hemisphere. Today, the United Stat... |
1077253_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY /Technology; Cars and Natural Gas: A Better Fit | THE Dodge Charger design study, introduced by DaimlerChrysler last week at the North American International Auto Show here, looks like a modern rendition of the 1960's muscle car from which it got its name. Under its long hood, the Charger concept car, like its predecessor, has a powerful V8 -- in this case, a supercha... |
1078613_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS 8.7 PERCENT. Raw sugar prices tumbled on expectations that Brazil will export more sugar because of its weakened currency. The March contract fell 0.73 cent, to 7.69 cents a pound, the lowest since Dec. 28. |
1078630_1 | Memo From Belfast; Ulsterspeak A to Z: Affronts Spoken With Zest | Annie was a voice in the crowd. Guillotine blades flashed. Macho men were wrecking the peace effort. If this kept up, the members would all lose their jobs and the paychecks they have been getting since the Assembly was created last year. Eventually, the Assembly, by a vote of 74 to 27, accepted a preliminary report fr... |
1078241_1 | Sinn Fein Negotiator Predicts Success of Peace Talks for Ulster | then, he said, his party would have ministers taking part in the return of powers that Britain has exercised directly from London since 1974. Since then, Northern Irish officials have controlled only garbage removal and burial of the dead. In an interview on BBC radio, Mr. McGuinness did not, however, offer a specific ... |
1076458_0 | The Dream of Eternal Flight Begins to Take Wing | Like giant feathers slowing rising on the winds to impossible heights, large gossamer wings made of wispy plastics and light composite materials are flying at altitudes where few airplanes have soared. Following a recent round of successful test flights, engineers are modifying an unmanned flying wing called Centurion ... |
1076471_2 | Sinus Surgery at Edge of the Brain Gets Safer | held in place by a curved headset outfitted with light-emitting diodes, or LED's, that transmit infrared rays that are captured by small cameras in a bar above the operating table. Dr. Metson's instruments, too, are outfitted with LED's. The Stealth Station tracks the placement of Dr. Metson's instruments with an .87-m... |
1076469_7 | Of Mice and Elephants: a Matter of Scale | until reproduction -- all are dependent on body size scaled to quarter-powers. ''As an ecologist you are used to dealing with complexity -- you're essentially embedded in it,'' Dr. Enquist said. ''But all these quarter-power scaling laws hinted that something very general and simple was going on.'' The examples Dr. Bro... |
1073800_1 | The Neediest Cases; For Disabled Children, A Respite in the Country | and I won,'' she exclaimed. It was the first time mother and child had been apart, except for hospitalizations. ''I was really scared when she left,'' Ms. Arroyo said. The Children's Aid Society founded Wagon Road Camp in 1956 to offer recreational and therapeutic activities to disabled low-income New York City childre... |
1073784_1 | Brazil Slashes Money for Project Aimed at Protecting Amazon | sustainable development, controlling deforestation and other objectives. In addition, the money would have helped pay for setting aside 10 percent of the rain forest, or 240,000 square miles, as national parks and ecologically protected areas. Amid much fanfare, Brazil's President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, pledged to... |
1113157_3 | 1492: The Prequel | came in the early 1400's, when Admiral Zheng He sailed from China to conquer the world. Zheng He (pronounced jung huh) was an improbable commander of a great Chinese fleet, in that he was a Muslim from a rebel family and had been seized by the Chinese Army when he was still a boy. Like many other prisoners of the time,... |
1113176_0 | Swept Away | GODFORSAKEN SEA Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters. By Derek Lundy. Illustrated. 272 pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $22.95. CLOSE TO THE WIND By Pete Goss. Illustrated. 273 pp. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. $25. MOST people can't truly understand what solo sailors routinely take for... |
1113061_2 | CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: DOING THE DEAL -- A special report.; A Long Struggle That Led Serb Leader to Back Down | the ground. If the peace deal holds up, the curious war comes out this way: The bulky alliance won, but at a savage cost to the people who were supposed to be protected. Much of Kosovo has been razed, more than one million of its Albanian residents have been uprooted, and thousands of innocents have been killed. The We... |
1113153_14 | NOT Because it's There | never the issue. Mountains were, to them, metaphorical as much as they were physical. We, on the other hand, have come to view them as recreation -- and at a cost. They're now like glorified Stairmasters for the upwardly mobile. Jon Krakauer's ''Into Thin Air'' encapsulates our current state: even Everest retains its g... |
1113195_1 | DEALS AND DISCOUNTS | is 24-hour roadside assistance. Insurance is extra, and prices are based on a minimum seven-day stay; for first-class hotels, rates start at $85 a person. Call CIE at (800) 243-8687. NO SINGLE PENALTY -- Two Caribbean all-inclusive resorts, La Source on Grenada and Le Sport on St. Lucia, are waiving their single supple... |
1115594_0 | Debtor Countries Must Pay Up | To the Editor: A June 8 front-page article attributes Mexico's ''tremendous reduction in fertility'' both to a change in Mexican women's attitudes toward birth rates and the Mexican Government's efforts to reduce Mexico's population growth. What your article does not mention, however, is that for many women in Mexico, ... |
1115504_0 | Graduating Into Prosperity | As college graduation season draws to a close, it is evident that the gap between the experiences and expectations of the graduating class and their commencement speakers has never been greater. The speakers for the most part grew up in a world of economic highs and lows. They, or their parents, lived through the Great... |
1115489_3 | Craft to Track Climate-Affecting Link of Sea and Wind | as was planned. Scatterometers are instruments that transmit high-frequency microwave pulses to the ocean surface and measure the ''backscattered,'' or echoed, pulses that bounce back to the originating satellite. These signals give an indirect measurement of the speed of wind near the water in clear or cloudy weather.... |
1115563_3 | Suspect in Loss of Nuclear Secrets Unlikely to Face Spying Charges | on to China any classified national security information. Although the evidence is apparently insufficient to prosecute Mr. Lee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation thought that the case against him was compelling enough to ask the Justice Department in 1997 for permission to eavesdrop on Mr. Lee under the Foreign Inte... |
1118728_4 | How to Succeed In Art | own conceptually driven style. Its invasion of the art world has been abetted by the commercial galleries, where an obsession with novelty and art-as-investment makes every recent graduate a potentially hot property. Many of the students at U.C.L.A. have already exhibited their work in New York or Los Angeles, and it i... |
1119025_0 | The World: Fear of Feeding; Europe Loses Its Appetite for High Tech Food | THE beating of a butterfly's wings in one hemisphere, it turns out, really can cause a hurricane in the other. Last month, researchers at Cornell published findings that genetically altered corn, designed to produce pollen toxic to pests, could also kill caterpillars of the monarch butterflies, whose principal breeding... |
1118962_2 | FIVE QUESTIONS for RAY GOLDBERG; Under the Food Scares, A Credibility Problem | of its way to hide the information, so there wouldn't be a scare. But then the immediate reaction of other nations, when they find out about it, is that the problem must be worse than they say. And in the case of genetically modified foods, especially, Europe seems to be much more sensitive. It goes back to World War I... |
1119111_0 | From World's Radio Astronomers, a Simple Plea: Shhh!!! | Scientists studying the heavens have long been bothered by the more mundane activities of other earthlings. They have fled to remote mountaintops to escape the light of the cities. They have adjusted their radio instruments to cope with the growing avalanche of television towers, cell phones, pagers, microwave ovens, g... |
1119024_0 | Insuring Women's Gains | To the Editor: Neither Arab ''honor killings'' (front page, June 20) nor resistance to women candidates for public office in Indonesia (news article, June 20) is a matter of religion, and certainly not solely of Islam. For instance, across Roman Catholic Latin America, until recently, laws exonerated men who murdered t... |
1118735_3 | Beating the Lines At Crowded Airports | in the line for first class passengers even if you expect to be told that no seats are available. * Security gates. Standing and waiting to have yourself and your luggage screened can be especially frustrating as people unfamiliar with the process fumble with their gear. In Orlando, where long lines are frequent becaus... |
1119141_0 | June 20-26; Loan to China Approved | It seemed like a no-brainer for the World Bank: Give China a loan to move 58,000 poor farmers -- volunteers only, please -- to more fertile land in western China. But there was a hitch: The land was partly settled by Tibetans. Congress and the Administration protested that the project would help China dilute the presen... |
1117201_0 | Planning Our Population | To the Editor: A June 13 editorial rightly salutes the family planning campaigns in Mexico and Colombia, which were aided by the Agency for International Development, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Population Fund. Not all Latin American countries are as fortunate. In Guatemala, ... |
1117109_4 | Grand Canyon Blazing Trail With Light Rail Line | Traver, the park's chief planner. At the rim's edge, where tour bus drivers now idle engines to keep air-conditioning running, a maximum of 4,200 people an hour will arrive by train, then shift to bicycle and pedestrian trails or to buses powered by electricity or natural gas. ''If we run diesel-belching monsters for b... |
1117018_1 | The Nation; Beyond the Trail Of Breadcrumbs | down 30,000 stolen cars. People also frequently ask about using LoJacks for an elderly relative who might be suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other disorienting ailments, said Mr. McMahon: ''Our answer is no, our technology is not appropriate for that.'' But why not, exactly? We're willing to put positioning devic... |
1117202_0 | Planning Our Population | To the Editor: Your June 13 editorial ''Latin America's Birth Surprise'' underscores the critical importance of family planning worldwide. Right now, about a billion people living in the developing world are in the prime childbearing years of ages 15 to 24. There are two billion more future parents right behind them. R... |
1116762_2 | Q and A | ''the fairest city of men,'' and even after several decades of indiscriminate 20th-century urban planning, the hilltop Sicilian city and its nearby ruins merit more than a half day. But since your time is tight, start with the Valley of the Temples, about two miles from the city proper. There are remains of 10 temples ... |
1116853_4 | Diocese Feels Shortage of Priests | Island Council of Churches, a Protestant umbrella group. ''The fact that the Protestant and Orthodox churches welcome married clergy is certainly a large part of why we don't have a shortage. And we are still benefiting from a large influx of women, many of whom are entering the ministry as a second career.'' Rabbi Bru... |
1116364_5 | Coyotes, Turkeys And Bears, Oh My!; Suburbs' Spread Flushes Wildlife Into Populated Neighborhoods | Jersey's environmental department. ''They're cosmopolitan now.'' Normally, coyotes eat rabbits, squirrels and other small wild animals. But Mr. Eriksen and other experts cautioned that pet cats left out at night are becoming a favorite prey. Dr. Weber said that coyotes are starting to ''behave like wolves'' and form hu... |
1116310_1 | China Resettlement Plan Starts Debate Over Tibetan Culture | that has been attacked by critics abroad as a threat to Tibetan culture, saying that many objections reflected misinformation. The plan, for which the World Bank proposes lending China $40 million, resettling 58,000 people from an overcrowded, eroded area in the northeastern corner of Qinghai Province to a sparsely pop... |
1116304_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR RISES. Sugar prices climbed on expectations that increased buying by Russia and other importers would soak up some of the excess supply. In New York, sugar for July delivery rose 0.23 cent a pound, to 5.52 cents. |
1116395_0 | Resegregation in the Schools Hurts All Students | To the Editor: The federally mandated changes that would give school systems more money to return children to regular classrooms pose grave concerns (''Under Federal Threat, Albany Seeks to Overhaul Special Education,'' news article, June 12). My 4-year-old son has pervasive developmental delay, which falls under the a... |
1114582_0 | Under Federal Threat, Albany Seeks to Overhaul Special Education | Legislative leaders are nearing an agreement on overhauling the state's special education program to discourage schools from placing disabled students in segregated classrooms, legislative aides from both parties said today. The state's special education program has come under increasing criticism in recent years for p... |
1114584_4 | College Applicants Of '99 Are Facing Stiffest Competition | Hartford. Many other schools -- Vanderbilt in Tennessee, Pomona in California, Wabash in Indiana -- have had record years. ''I have been in this business for 30 years and I can't remember a time when there has been such a shift,'' said Carl Bewig, director of college counseling at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., on... |
1111778_0 | New Therapy Builds Bone Without Unpleasant Side Effects | A new study suggests that low-dose hormone replacement therapy combined with calcium and vitamin D supplements may increase bone mineral density in women over 65 by at least as much as the higher hormone doses now recommended but without unpleasant side effects. The study, conducted by researchers at Creighton Universi... |
1111830_2 | Editorial Observer; Why Should Day Traders Have All the Fun? | That is why medieval towns had market days. It is also why 24-hour trading has never caught on for professional money managers, even though it is available because major stocks trade in markets around the world. The pros know that they will get the best price if they trade when and where a lot of others are also tradin... |
1111775_0 | In Time for the Beach, New Sunscreen Rules | The Food and Drug Administration recently issued new regulations for labeling, testing and manufacturing sun protection products. The rules do away with terms like ''sun block,'' ''waterproof'' and ''all-day protection.'' All over-the-counter sun protection products will be called ''sunscreen.'' Those that resist water... |
1111781_7 | For Good Health, It Helps To Be Rich and Important | whites: 28.4 percent of blacks fell below the poverty line in 1996, compared with 11.2 percent of whites, according to Government data. Death rates for African-Americans from all causes are 1.6 times higher than for white Americans, Dr. David R. Williams of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, sa... |
1111790_4 | Steroid Use by Teen-Age Girls Is Rising | Pope Jr., chief of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory of Harvard Medical School's McLean Hospital, and colleagues referred to a similar disorder in male weight lifters as ''reverse anorexia'' after it was observed in 1993. The researchers recently updated the work with a study of 32 women bodybuilders, 17 of whom sho... |
1115750_0 | Drug Slashes Breast Cancer Risk, Study Shows | Final results of an international study reported yesterday show that a drug approved to fight the bone disease osteoporosis significantly decreased the risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women. Women who took the drug, raloxifene, for three years reduced the risk of breast cancer by 76 percent compared with tho... |
1118069_2 | Plotting Corporate Futures; Biotechnology Examines What Could Go Wrong | descriptions of how consumers and countries might react to oil shortages, for example, were better equipped than many of their competitors to deal with the shock of the oil crisis of 1973 and its aftermath. Biotechnology companies see plenty of reason to worry about unpredictable setbacks these days. While genetically ... |
1117839_0 | Loan for a Land Grab | The World Bank's board of executive directors ought to reject a loan package to China that would be used to relocate about 58,000 impoverished Chinese and Hui Muslim farmers to a remote area on the Tibetan plateau traditionally inhabited by Tibetans and Mongolians. In the past, China has used migration policies to tigh... |
1117860_2 | HIGH COURT LIMITS WHO IS PROTECTED BY DISABILITY LAW | Corporation. The sisters flew as pilots for regional airlines and met Federal vision standards for airline pilots, but were turned down by United because they did not meet its standard for uncorrected vision of 20/40. Justice O'Connor said three provisions of the disability law led to the conclusion that people with re... |
1117823_0 | States Limited on Institutionalization | Isolating people with disabilities in big state institutions when there is no medical reason for their confinement is a form of discrimination that violates Federal disabilities law, the Supreme Court ruled today. The 6-to-3 decision, in a case brought against the State of Georgia by two women with mental impairment, w... |
1117788_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR RISES. Sugar prices rose as stronger-than-expected demand from Russia absorbed increased exports from Brazil, the world's biggest grower. In New York, sugar for July delivery rose 0.16 cent, to 5.98 cents a pound. |
1119489_2 | Ulster Foes Rebuff Call for Compromise as Deadline Nears | Clinton's intervention last year helped win approval for the peace agreement. The atmosphere around the talks, in the Stormont complex on the edge of Belfast, was further complicated, if not soured, by a decision of the Government-appointed Parades Commission to forbid Orange Order Protestants to march next Sunday thro... |
1119487_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE FRANCE: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS -- Members of Parliament and senators, fewer than 10 percent of them women, approved a constitutional amendment stipulating that men and women should share elective jobs equally. The amendment to the 1958 Constitution says ''The law favors equal access by men and women to e... |
1119473_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS. Sugar prices fell on signs that demand from Russia may be drying up at a time when growers in Brazil are harvesting a bumper crop. In New York, sugar for July delivery fell 0.14 cent, to 5.95 cents a pound. |
1114463_0 | Don't Blame Birth Control for Society's Ills | To the Editor: Francis Fukuyama omits a key point in his attempt to prove that the pill will unleash behaviors bound to destroy the Japanese family (Op-Ed, June 9). Japanese women are already trying to control their fertility, but with limited success. Rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion have been high for decad... |
1119733_0 | At Midnight in Belfast | The issue of disarmament has long been the most important obstacle to peace in Northern Ireland. The insistence of Protestants that the Irish Republican Army turn over its weapons, and the I.R.A.'s refusal, have wrecked previous chances at peace. The Good Friday peace agreement postpones the problem, simply committing ... |
1119792_2 | Canada's Close Ties to Cuba Fraying Over Human Rights | a nationalist, and he decides what he thinks is best for Cuba.'' When Mr. Chretien visited Cuba in 1998, he presented a list of four political prisoners that he wanted Mr. Castro to release. But in March the four were convicted of ''counterrevolutionary activities'' and sentenced to up to five years in jail. Canada-Cub... |
1119828_0 | U.N. Meeting Splits Sharply On Limiting Population | With time running out, a 180-nation conference struggling to repair a shattered consensus on limiting world population growth was still divided today over issues ranging from abortion and family planning to sex education in schools. The conference is supposed to present an updated action plan to a special session of th... |
1119745_3 | A Glimmer of Hope in Ulster As Peace Deadline Looms | pledge. Mr. Blair has already put forward the notion, intended to reassure the Unionists, that Sinn Fein's participation in the Government would forcibly end if the I.R.A. failed to disarm in the allotted time. The de Chastelain report and the role it might play in reconciling the Catholic and Protestant sides emerged ... |
1113645_2 | Smaller Families to Bring Big Change in Mexico | rates fell dramatically, the population has kept surging. For now, unemployment will remain high, since even when the economy is robust it cannot provide jobs for the 1.3 million new workers who enter the job market each year. Many of the jobless will continue to emigrate to the United States; during the next decade, s... |
1111999_0 | Fruitless Search for Body of I.R.A. Victim Frustrates Family | The family of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 who was killed by the Irish Republican Army in 1972 because she comforted a dying British soldier, waited and hoped today that her remains would be found by Irish police. The police were excavating a beach in the Irish Republic near the Northern Ireland border. Seven other ... |
1112044_11 | POISON ISLAND: a special report; At Bleak Asian Site, Killer Germs Survive | the Administration is encouraging Uzbek and Kazakh officials to work on jointly with American experts. And all three countries have been pressing Russia to provide more information about what happened here. Milton Leitenberg, a professor and expert on Russia's unconventional weapons, said that in 1987 Moscow listed Ara... |
1117431_2 | Panel Confirms No Major Illness Tied to Implants | issued last July by scientists in Britain who had been charged by the British minister of health with reviewing implant safety. Scientists appointed by Judge Robert E. Jones of Federal District Court in Oregon, reached a comparable conclusion. Meanwhile, Dow Corning, a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, which file... |
1114687_3 | Scientists Now Envision Life Without Menopause | the ovary produces other beneficial hormones that stop after menopause. Despite those gaps in understanding, it is increasingly common for menopausal American women to take estrogen to replace what they lose. But such therapy has drawbacks, including a lack of effectiveness in some women and fears of increased cancer r... |
1115149_0 | For Poor Nations, Debt Is Bondage | To the Editor: Re ''Smaller Families to Bring Big Change in Mexico'' (front page, June 8): The decreasing size of Mexican families has occurred because the Government has made a long-term commitment to family planning education and services. Yet while Mexico is committed to its family planning program and population st... |
1114833_0 | Choosing Colors By Historic Accuracy | FOR most homeowners, choosing the color for interior walls, ceilings and moldings is largely a matter of taste. The only considerations are whether a color may look good or where a particular hue might be used to create a desired effect. The decision is more complicated for homeowners who live in historic houses if the... |
1114756_4 | The Hermitage Sees The Future, and It Works | Coca-Cola and supporters in Japan and the Netherlands. It was Dutch money that paid for the recent renovations in the room housing the Hermitage's stunning Rembrandt collections, improving the lighting and fixing the ceilings. ''We sometimes joke that we should move the Rembrandts from room to room,'' Mr. Piotrosvky sa... |
1114790_0 | The Hurdles of Teaching the Deaf | SHANNON WEESE, a 17-year-old student at the New York School for the Deaf here, is studying journalism and drama at Woodlands High School in nearby Greenburgh. In turn, 12 Woodlands students are meeting their foreign language requirements by studying American Sign Language taught by an instructor from Shannon's school. ... |
1114880_0 | Enhancing a House Through Color | FOR most homeowners, choosing the color for interior walls, ceilings and moldings is largely a matter of taste. The only considerations are whether a color may look good or where a particular hue might be used to create a desired effect. The decision is more complicated for homeowners who live in historic houses if the... |
1114683_1 | Words of Caution About a Hot Potato | uterine cancer. Natural progesterone is widely perceived as safer than progestin, its synthetic cousin and a common ingredient in hormone replacement therapy. This conviction was bolstered by the debut last December of the first prescription natural progesterone for menopausal women. But do these products live up to th... |
1115038_0 | Latin America's Birth Surprise | Four months from now, the world's population is expected to hit six billion. Although it will continue to soar for decades to come, the population would be far higher if the last 30 years had not brought a significant drop in fertility in many regions. The drop is not surprising in rich countries and newly wealthy East... |
1114994_1 | The World; The Spark of Hope In an Ancient Hate | in recent months, following the capture of the Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan. Mr. Ocalan, who is reviled in Turkey as a terrorist responsible for thousands of deaths, was found to have been living under the protection of Greek diplomats in Kenya. Turkish leaders accused Greece of supporting a mass murderer i... |
1114878_0 | Enhancing a House Through Color | FOR most homeowners, choosing the color for interior walls, ceilings and moldings is largely a matter of taste. The only considerations are whether a color may look good or where a particular hue might be used to create a desired effect. The decision is more complicated for homeowners who live in historic houses if the... |
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