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1150372_6 | REDESIGNING NATURE: A special report.; Squash With Altered Genes Raises Fears of 'Superweeds' | the field and to abide by a number of safety procedures. If deregulated, the squash could be freely sold or planted anywhere in the United States. So in 1992, Dr. Quemada and Mr. Tricoli petitioned the Agriculture Department, the main government body overseeing genetically modified plants, requesting that the squash be... |
1149962_2 | France Shocks New Zealand to Advance | and it was us,'' said French Coach Jean-Claude Skrela, who looked nearly as stunned as the New Zealand brain trust as the game evolved and then ended with his players' impromptu and improbable celebration. His team had played with passion, with optimism and with that stereotypical but lately quite invisible French flai... |
1149952_7 | Odessa Journal; An Aged Beauty Gets a Face Lift From a Geologist | Dranov, now the keeper of the theater where he sang for 25 years, to figure out what to do. Merely staving off collapse would require drilling 1,800 50-foot holes beneath the foundation into underlying rock, then filling the holes with concrete to create pilings. To avoid future cracks, the width of the foundation woul... |
1154707_2 | Rebuilding the Path to Peace in Northern Ireland | goes to the leaders of the two parties, David Trimble of the Ulster Unionists and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein. The leaders of the other pro-agreement parties, especially John Hume and Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, played critical roles. Demonstrating personal and political courage, they and the o... |
1154734_0 | Army Increases Incentives for Some Who Enlist | Trying hard to fill its ranks in an era of prosperity and relative peace, the United States Army is offering bigger enlistment bonuses and shorter hitches for some recruits. The inducements vary widely, and the Army's Web site encourages prospective soldiers to contact recruiters for more details. But even a cursory vi... |
1154688_0 | Corrections | A letter on Thursday about trade with Cuba misstated Havana's relationship with the World Trade Organization. Cuba is indeed a member; it is not making a bid to join. |
1152678_0 | In I.R.A. Message for Negotiators, a Hint That Accord Isn't Dead | The Irish Republican Army, having submitted a long-awaited message to peace negotiators, has raised a slim, last-minute hope that former Senator George J. Mitchell's rescue mission might still succeed in moving forward the stalemated Northern Ireland peace agreement. The specifics of the statement were not known -- nor... |
1152729_0 | ONE EUROPE, 10 YEARS: Surprising Strengths; In East German Soil, Some Companies Thrive | When the Berlin Wall collapsed 10 years ago, Stephan Schambach was 18 and had never set foot in a capitalist country. Karsten Schneider, then 29, worked listlessly at the bloated Kombinat, a huge Communist-era electronics factory in this small city south of Leipzig. Today, about their only link to Communism is the name... |
1152716_6 | Biotech Companies Take On Critics of Gene-Altered Food | shrill statements and outrageous tactics by people who are attacking biotech foods,'' said Gene Grabowski, a spokesman for the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Alliance for Better Foods. ''Our site is intended to be based on fact; it's decidely pro-biotech but it's not intended to be strident.'' The companies h... |
1152791_2 | At Least 14 Die as Apartment Building Collapses in Italy | construction and even abusivismo, ''abusive'' or illegal construction. ''For now we have no information about a possible case of abusivismo,'' said Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, who went to Foggia today and declared a state of emergency in the city of 150,000 people. ''But in any case, we are fighting abusivismo and ... |
1152650_1 | Driving and Talking Do Mix | a decree of this sort applies to cabbies. In England, Singapore and Brazil, drivers must use hands-free attachments on their phones. New York, Nevada and Maryland have recently considered bans. Does outlawing cell phones while driving make sense? It seems like a no-brainer -- sure, cell phones should be banned if they ... |
1154266_0 | As Northern Ireland Waits | The promises coming out of Northern Ireland this week stirred hope, once again, that 30 years of internecine warfare between Roman Catholics and Protestants could yield to what one negotiator calls simply ''a decent, democratic society.'' As the Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Mandelson, put it, the ordinary Northern... |
1154235_0 | Promise of Irish Peace | To the Editor: ''Pledges by Ulster Rivals Break the Deadlock at Talks'' (news article, Nov. 17) demonstrates that each side has achieved more through arduous negotiations than it obtained from a generation of bitter conflict. The revived peace effort is a joint victory. Northern Ireland's nationalist and Unionist commu... |
1154296_0 | I.R.A. Pledges To Help Disarm Ulster Fighters | The Irish Republican Army said today that it ''unequivocally'' backed the Northern Ireland peace agreement, and agreed to appoint a go-between to the panel charged with disarming the paramilitaries. The long-sought statement made no reference to an actual turnover of weapons, and it conditioned the naming of the middle... |
1153541_0 | Label Altered Foods | To the Editor: If genetically modified foods have the advantages that biotechnology companies claim (front page, Nov. 12), why is the biotechnology industry opposed to labeling them? DANIEL SUITS East Lansing, Mich., Nov. 12, 1999 |
1153630_2 | Tight Labor Supply Creates Jobs for the Mentally Disabled | of employment is highest among young adults with mental retardation who have left school in the last five years, with about 23 percent holding ''competitive,'' or unsubsidized jobs, according to Arc, an advocacy group for people with mental retardation. Just last month, President Clinton directed government employers t... |
1156483_4 | A Deft Maestro Who Got Ulster To Harmonize | the failure of marathon talks they had presided over during the summer to break the deadlock. They would stay in the background and give him a free and independent hand, they said. The Ulster politicians were angrier than Mr. Mitchell had ever seen them. ''It really looked hopeless,'' he recalled, but he said he would ... |
1156446_3 | When a Quake Strengthens a Basilica | the work on the cloister, restorers were surprised to uncover a fountain under its floor, directly behind the apse of the church. For more delicate restorations, innovative techniques were used for the first time. Probably the most precarious involved the safeguarding of the badly damaged tympanum near the ceiling of t... |
1150989_3 | Toughen Up the Rules of the Sky | ground. For instance, at many airports intersecting runways are now used simultaneously. And at busy airports, an airplane can be cleared to land or take off on a runway before the plane already on the runway has left it. This has led to at least two near-misses at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and a steady in... |
1151058_1 | Religion Journal; Armenian Church Gets a New Worldwide Leader | assembly of more than 400 lay and clerical delegates representing Armenian communities around the world. (About 50 came from the United States.) Until his election, he was Archbishop Karekin Nersissian. He is 48 and a native of Armenia. The election occurred on the very day that gunmen entered the Armenian Parliament, ... |
1157211_3 | After the Storm, an Ecological Bomb | is turning to next spring's warm-up, and researchers all along the mid-Atlantic Coast are stepping up their monitoring activities, from satellite observations to aircraft surveys to old-fashioned measurements from boats, in an attempt to track what happens. No one really knows how long it will take for abnormal flows o... |
1157314_2 | No Improper Influence Seen on Part of Builder in Fatal Collapse | another set of political supporters of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani last year. The former buildings official said he was ''led to believe'' that he was forced from his job by an aide to the mayor, Bruce Teitelbaum, after shutting down a job site at 26 Heyward Street, also in Williamsburg, that was being developed by a bui... |
1157194_1 | A Romance With a Rain Forest and Its Elusive Miracles | level was almost normal. Within a few days she was well enough to work in her garden again. ''I was knocked over,'' Dr. Plotkin said. ''He literally raised that woman from the dead.'' Alas, the medicine did not pan out back in the lab at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in South San Francisco. And when the Food and Drug Administ... |
1150119_0 | Some Jeep Wranglers to Get New Plastic Roofs | Taking a big step forward in the development of automobiles with plastic bodies, DaimlerChrysler announced today that it would equip 5,000 of its Jeep Wranglers each year with lightweight, low-cost roofs made from a new kind of specially hardened plastic, starting in the 2001 model year. A different kind of plastic, ma... |
1150088_1 | After a Crash, Fear Overtakes Logic | where there are so many details regarding times, dates, locations, manufacturing specifications, grieving relatives, political intrigues and other items of possible relevance, there will undoubtedly be some seemingly unlikely links. Our ability to separate the possible from the probable tends to deteriorate under this ... |
1151737_7 | Now Putting A Big Stamp On the Era Of the Internet; Pitney Bowes Is Updating The Business of Business Mail | not all be Internet related. Unlike the Internet start-ups it now competes with, Pitney has a stable of conventional products that yield a steady cash flow to support its Internet forays. Indeed, although its stock may be slumping, its sales and earnings have been solid. Its 1998 revenues of $4.22 billion were 8 percen... |
1157113_1 | Basque Rebels in Spain Ending Cease-Fire After 14 Months | has been stalled for months. There was only one round of talks between the government and the rebels, last May 19 in Switzerland, but the rebels said in August that they would not attend a second meeting, accusing the government of seeking political gain from the truce. ''The process is blocked and poisoned,'' the rebe... |
1157093_1 | A Carnival of Derision to Greet the Princes of Global Trade | responds to the needs and interests of the very rich and corporations, but it doesn't respond to the needs of the environment, labor, the poor, women or indigenous people,'' said Alli Starr, a dancer in the radical group Art and Revolution, who flew in from San Francisco to protest and do street theater. Borrowing a pa... |
1157079_0 | Trojan War Victims Lie on Normandy Beaches | War is hideous glory in Homer, elevating combatants to achievements that astound them, terrifying them with death and abandonment among the shades below and debasing them with runaway lusts. And the performance of ''The Iliad: Book I'' by the Aquila Theater Company, the first mixed British-American company approved by ... |
1155646_0 | Ways to Tame Menopausal Hot Flashes, Without Estrogen | Hot flashes are a staple of menopause jokes, but there is nothing funny about them, and certainly nothing imaginary. They are experienced by at least 75 percent of American women at some point in menopause, including just before and just after. (They can also be brought on by the popular breast cancer drug tamoxifen an... |
1153741_1 | A Sex Guide for Girls, Minus Homilies | With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a Gurl'' (Pocket Books, $15), written -- or, more accurately, choreographed, produced and emceed -- by Esther Drill, Heather McDonald and Rebecca Odes. Based on a Web site, gURL.com, that the three women started in 1996, the book offers a frank, detailed and... |
1153762_2 | Northern Ireland Talks Get Push Forward | bringing pressure on the Ulster Unionists and their leader, David Trimble, to obtain party backing for the deal brokered between them and Sinn Fein by Mr. Mitchell. When Mr. Trimble presented the outlines of that deal to Ulster Unionist legislators Thursday night, not enough of them supported it to enable him to take i... |
1153740_2 | Tapping Into the Vibrations of the Cosmos | from three separate points. This would allow scientists to calculate the direction from which a gravitational signal reached Earth, and to determine whether the wave coincided with some other kind of signal -- a gamma-ray pulse, a flash of light or some other kind of radiation. One such signal might come from a pulse o... |
1155949_0 | Definition of Abortion Is Found to Vary Abroad | The recipient of the largest amount of American birth control aid is Bangladesh, a Muslim country that languishes among the world's sickest, poorest and most populous. Despite a decision by Congress last week to limit federal spending on groups that promote abortion rights abroad, the way the United States' contributio... |
1155949_3 | Definition of Abortion Is Found to Vary Abroad | a long history. In 1973, Congress prohibited subsidies to foreign nongovernment organizations that used them for abortion, and that law remains in effect. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order prohibiting the organizations that received American financing from using other money -- their own or foun... |
1150745_0 | Looking Backward Toward the Future | BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE 18TH CENTURY How the Past Can Improve Our Future By Neil Postman 213 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $24. It's clear from his previous books that Neil Postman hates our technology-obsessed culture. In such earlier volumes as ''Amusing Ourselves to Death,'' ''Conscientious Objections'' and ''Technopoly,... |
1150786_2 | Zvi Griliches, 69, an Authority On Analysis of Economic Data | Social Security benefits and many other federal expenditures. Mr. Griliches served on the Boskin Commission, which was appointed by Congress to review possible biases in measures of inflation and reported in 1996 that the government's index overstated inflation by 1.1 percentage points a year. His research also refuted... |
1150846_6 | A Long-Distance Tether to Home; New Technology Binds College Students and Parents | Ms. Coburn said most of the calls were initiated by the students and there was ''very little complaining about parents being intrusive.'' One of Ms. Coburn's freshman advisees, for instance, described making a quick call to Mom on the cell phone while a dinner companion was in the restroom. The constant chitchat is ove... |
1150833_3 | An F.A.A. Study Shows Few Gains In Improving Security at Airports | costing about $1 million, have been deployed at 80 airports. In addition, about 600 machines that are used to detect traces of explosives in carry-on luggage are also in use. But an audit by the Department of Transportation's inspector general published earlier this year found that the machines were vastly underused by... |
1124956_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: FOCUSING ON PEACE Former Senator George J. Mitchell will conduct a ''tightly focused'' review of the halted Northern Ireland peace settlement, Prime Minister Tony Blair said. Mr. Mitchell will meet with party leaders in Belfast this week, then break for August and resume talks in September. The... |
1124936_0 | FOOD CHAIN | Dissolving Yeast in Milk or Water Q. Why does yeast dissolve in water but clump in milk? A. Yeast will clump in any liquid that is cold, whether water or milk. The temperature must be about 105 degrees to dissolve it. But milk, unlike water, needs to be scalded first, or heated to 198 degrees, to break down enzymes tha... |
1123041_2 | Picking Apart Manners, Morals and Misbehavior | that this would lead to raising the quota, the workers used an elaborate protocol to keep their output a little below it. This included craps games, gossip and resting and was enforced by a ''bing'' (a painful arm-poke) to anybody who worked too fast. The binged one was allowed a bing in return (in those days the notio... |
1123092_0 | British Putting More Pressure On the I.R.A. To Disarm | With only days left before a make-or-break decision on a new government for Ulster, Britain today proposed rush legislation aimed at obtaining Protestant support by requiring the Irish Republican Army to follow an enforceable disarmament timetable. The issue of when and how the largely Catholic I.R.A. will disarm has b... |
1121555_3 | World Briefing | military and the Government had a ''complete understanding'' about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's promise to seek a withdrawal of Pakistani-backed forces from the Indian side of Kashmir. He said the Islamic militants would be asked to leave their bunkers, and, ''It is to be seen what will be their reply.'' Barry Bearak ... |
1121595_5 | U.S., Avoiding Castro, Relaxes Rules on Cuba | extended soon to others like students, artists and representatives of religious groups. In March, the Administration moved to streamline the sale and donation of medicines to Cuba, and next month, a Florida pharmaceutical company is to start shipping medicines to Cubans from benefactors in the United States. Under Fede... |
1121534_0 | At Last, a Vitamin Pill Wrapped in a Tortilla | AT last, we know what Dilbert's nameless corporation produces: burritos. But not just ordinary burritos. Dilberitos can lay claim to the title of the first fast-food nutraceutical. Nutraceuticals, foods that have been fortified with healthful ingredients, are among the hottest marketing segments of the food and drug in... |
1123294_0 | Business Travel; The growth of electronic ticketing among the big airlines could signal the arrival of paperless skies. | ELECTRONIC tickets may account for no more than about 10 percent of all airline tickets worldwide, but they are beginning to make enormous strides in the United States. In recent months, USAirways and Northwest Airlines joined the ranks of major carriers whose passengers travel more often on E-tickets than on paper tic... |
1123377_0 | Asia's Future, and Ours | To the Editor: Re ''A Need for Foreign Aid'' (editorial, July 11): When foreign assistance is funneled into programs that reduce population growth, provide health and education for the world's poorest people and contribute to the fight against the spread of infectious diseases, we all benefit. A classic example is poli... |
1123316_0 | U.S. Plans Long-Term Studies on Safety of Genetically Altered Foods | Acknowledging the worsening trade tensions with Europe over genetically engineered foods, the Clinton Administration said today for the first time that it would conduct long-term studies on the safety of altered farm products. But in a speech the Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman, insisted that the Administration ... |
1125143_0 | Imaging: From Daguerreotypes to Satellites | WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV HAVE you ever wanted to see ''The Perfect Storm''? I am referring not to a film version of the book by Sebastian Junger but to the storm itself, which ravaged the Eastern Seaboard in 1991. A color-enhanced infrared photograph of the storm is just one of the many striking images you can find scattered ... |
1125142_0 | Imaging: From Daguerreotypes to Satellites | ONE of technology's recurring effects is to offer new ways of seeing. In the 18th century, travelers used a mirror called a ''Claude glass'' to enhance the painterly aspects of what they saw as ideal landscapes. The stereoscope, invented in 1832 by the British scientist Charles Wheatstone, was an attempt to convey thre... |
1125188_1 | Let's Not Get Too Wired | confidentiality on the Internet. People regularly give up Internet connections because of expense or disappointment -- ''temporary'' files accumulate on hard drives if not removed, innocuous search queries land the user at a pornographic link, malicious programs are outpacing anti-virus software, and so on. In fact, th... |
1125156_1 | Imaging: From Daguerreotypes to Satellites | through the help of satellite photography. In this world, the only way to get off the grid is to go down into a sewer. High-altitude satellite imagery is being put to a more benign use. The Internet offers imagery to geologists, news-gathering organizations, people involved in zoning disputes and just about anyone inte... |
1125301_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 China Expected to Issue National Ban on Sect The Chinese Government is expected today to announce a nationwide ban of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to reports in three Hong Kong newspapers. Earlier, protests erupted in Beijing and other Chinese cities as thousands of followers vented t... |
1125149_0 | Attachments #@%&#@ Are Full #+@&* cents# of Surprises | IMAGINE receiving an envelope that just will not open, or a sheaf of papers folded so intricately that they require an instruction manual to unfold, or a letter containing nothing but gobbledygook -- symbols and letters that are completely unintelligible. The situations may sound far-fetched in the physical world, but ... |
1126553_0 | After Affirmative Action | In a continued effort to demonstrate the worth of affirmative action, University of Michigan professors have issued a preliminary study saying minority graduates of the university's law school have careers that are just as successful as those of its white graduates. For the study, researchers sent surveys to the 750 bl... |
1126529_0 | FOOTLIGHTS | NEWS Whither Marbles Britain quashed speculation yesterday that the Elgin Marbles would be returned to Greece. A Culture Department spokesman denied reports that Chris Smith, Culture Secretary, was weighing a proposal to compromise with Greece's claim of sovereignty over the 2,500-year-old figures from the Parthenon by... |
1126598_2 | North Korea Urged Again Not to Test New Missile | range of up to 3,750 miles, making it theoretically able to reach Alaska or Hawaii. The new rocket is described by officials as an advanced version of the Taepodong 1, which North Korea fired over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean in August. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Masahiko Komura, said at a news conference here ... |
1126565_2 | Business Travel; Corporate travel managers win an important victory from Delta Air Lines on Internet fares. | to other carriers, and we believe they'll follow suit.'' Electronic Books Beginning next Monday, British Airways passengers in first-class or business-class lounges at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be able to pick up an electronic book filled with the equivalent of 400 pages of daily newspapers, current ... |
1122228_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR TUMBLES. Sugar fell for the fourth time in five days, as buying from Russia dropped after shippers rushed to beat an Aug. 1 increase in import duties. In New York, sugar for October fell 0.12 cent, to 5.52 cents a pound. |
1122262_1 | World Briefing | disruption to community relations.'' Warren Hoge (NYT) IRELAND: TRIAL FOR EX-PREMIER -- Former Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey must stand trial on charges of obstructing justice, a Dublin court ruled. Mr. Haughey, 73, who made a rare public appearance in court but did not comment on the case, is accused of conspiring... |
1122297_0 | Soccer's Move: Grass Roots to Grand Stage | When Julie Foudy attended the 1994 men's World Cup final at the Rose Bowl, the 1999 world soccer championship for women was five years on the horizon and was still being planned for small stadiums on the East Coast. ''We were saying, 'No, that's not what this deserves; that's not what it is worth,' '' Foudy, the Americ... |
1127231_3 | Security Flaws In Software Are Reported | be used to trigger low-level operating system commands -- including commands that erase files or entire hard drives. Because of the extensive integration between Office applications and Windows, such a query can be sent on behalf of a cell in a spreadsheet, a field in a word document or other portions of an Office appl... |
1127257_0 | Risks of Electric Power | To the Editor: According to a July 24 front-page article, the withdrawal of two cell biology papers on the link between electric power and cancer out of the hundreds of scientific studies reviewed ''appears to strengthen the case that electric power is safe.'' But the controversy is primarily a result of epidemiologica... |
1127146_2 | Evolving Answers to the Why of Suicide; Is It a Medical Problem? A Moral or Social Failure? An Assertion of Freedom? | heart disease. We see it less as an illness than as a consequence of social and relationship issues.'' In his ''History of Suicide,'' the French scholar Georges Minois traces the way attitudes toward suicide have evolved from the classical period into the modern era. Suicide seems deeply threatening at least partly bec... |
1122052_2 | Oshima Journal; Ah, When Nets Were Full, and So Was Life at Sea | Japanese prices down to international levels. Moreover, Japan's distribution system is so unwieldy and expensive that it costs more to transport fish to the markets in Tokyo from here in southern Japan than from China. ''We can see what's ahead for fishing, and as a parent I've no regret that my sons aren't doing this,... |
1122129_0 | Old Buildings Had Ways of Keeping Cool | To the Editor: Re ''Answers Are Sought on Blackout's Causes'' (news article, July 8): While power was failing in upper Manhattan, my hands were going numb from the cold in my office. Instead of pointing blame, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani should be looking at ways the city can encourage and legislate energy conservation. ... |
1122152_1 | Reservists a Crucial Factor In Effort Against Milosevic | 31, a conscript who served for 65 days in Kosovo, while listening every night with his friends from Leskovac to American, British and German short-wave radio broadcasts about the war. ''We were in the field and we could see that Serbian radio was telling us lies about the war. We believed BBC. And now we are not afraid... |
1122039_4 | Props Take Off In Internet Sales | old Mafia essentially collapsed in the early 1960's. It is that old Mafia that he defends as trustworthy, at least to its friends. Today, he added, the mob hews to none of the old principles. ''I'm not defending the life style of what is known as the Mafia today,'' he said. ''I am defending a tradition of what is right... |
1122110_0 | Residential Real Estate; A Rental Neighborhood Along the Hudson's Edge | From Port Imperial Boulevard, which parallels the nearly milelong Hudson River waterfront in West New York, N.J., the view is of a changing landscape. What was an industrial wasteland is being reborn as a $700 million residential community, called Port Imperial North, which is to have 4,300 residences on 100 acres hugg... |
1120501_0 | Conference Adopts Plan On Limiting Population | A United Nations conference reached agreement today on a plan to curb the world's population growth that includes recommendations that have drawn objections from several conservative Muslim and Roman Catholic countries. The 179 nations that met to assess progress toward goals set at the 1994 Cairo population conference... |
1120497_0 | Did Tarzan Use a Tire? | |
1120499_0 | Preserving Peace in Belfast | Five days of intense negotiating in Northern Ireland have not yet produced an agreement to let the historic peace plan signed last year go forward. To fill the dangerous vacuum, the British and Irish Governments yesterday offered a public proposal for Northern Ireland's politicians to take back to their constituents fo... |
1120532_0 | Ulster Is Given An Ultimatum To End Impasse | The British and Irish Governments delivered an ultimatum Friday night to the feuding politicians of Ulster: resolve the impasse that threatens the Northern Ireland peace settlement or see their hard-won new legislature shut down. Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern issued their formal program after having perso... |
1120463_1 | Lirong Journal; Tibetans, and Vultures, Keep Ancient Burial Rite | like sky burial every day. It bespeaks a timeless adherence to old ways of life, and death, unaffected by the changes that are so rapidly affecting the rest of China. Sky burial may seem barbaric to outsiders. Yet in a desperately poor region dominated by nearly impassable mountains, where many Tibetans live without el... |
1120498_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-6 NATO Blocks Increase In Russian Kosovo Forces The United States and its NATO allies blocked Russia from flying hundreds of troops into Kosovo this weekend, saying that details of Russia's role in the NATO peacekeeping force had to be worked out first, Administration officials said. A1 About 10,000 pe... |
1120512_2 | In Just One Town, Phoning and Driving Don't Mix | Administration, although some countries do so. Mr. Hurd said the safety agency, while cautioning that phones could be a distraction for some drivers, had not focused on them as a particular danger. ''In general, you should pay attention to driving,'' he said. ''If you're going 55 miles an hour and you make a mistake, t... |
1120477_1 | Despite a recent report, the question of authority still divides Roman Catholics and Anglicans | ministry. The knottiest of those questions has been authority, and most specifically the authority of the Pope. That was the question, after all, that lay beneath the split between Rome and the English church when Henry VIII and the Pope clashed over the English king's desire to dissolve his marriage to Catherine of Ar... |
1120470_0 | Clinton and South Korean Leader Warn the North Against Testing Missile | President Clinton and President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea used a brief meeting in Washington today to make a show of solidarity against North Korea and to warn it against testing another long-range missile in coming weeks. ''We are maintaining close coordination on all issues, on economic issues as well as security i... |
1120871_10 | Now, AOL Everywhere | Until a recent promotion, his job was to run the AOL service, and he used his designer's eye to help give it a cleaner, more consistent look. The latest version of the software, called 5.0, is to be introduced this fall. Instead of simplicity, its focus is the addition of new features intended to keep users on line. On... |
1120727_1 | Slowly but Surely Charting the Waters | gather data electronically, by a combination of sophisticated forms of sonar: side-scan and multibeam. Almost instantaneously, they produce picturelike images of objects on the sea bed, and can reveal sunken ships, unexploded munitions, boulder fields and many other unseen and previously uncharted features of the deep.... |
1120939_0 | The Dirt on a Dig | When Chris Ricciardi and his fellow archeologists found two glass eggs while excavating the grounds of the Hendrik I. Lott House in Marine Park, which was a family farm in the 18th century, they were clueless. Mr. Ricciardi, a graduate student and a director of the Lott House Archaeological Project, listed the glass eg... |
1120977_0 | Roadblock to a Peace Pact: Irish Mostly Say 'No' | John Hume, a 1998 Nobel Peace Prize winner who heads the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, nodded toward the lumpen brick Stormont Castle Buildings where talks to keep the Northern Ireland peace agreement alive were in their fifth grinding day. ''If you took the word 'no' out of the English language,... |
1120672_1 | The Way We Live Now: 7-4-99: Salient Facts: Computer Surveillance; Software to Watch Over You | being monitored, but employers who choose to can simply switch off that warning. The cost to corporations is $5 per computer per year, but Websense lends a version of the software to schools in exchange for data on students' surfing habits. Message Inspector (Elron Software) This program inspects all outgoing and incom... |
1120776_0 | A Market for Used Car Parts That Detroit Never Dreamed Of | IT would be hard to miss Jim Gary's modest house on a big corner lot here. It's the one with the 25-foot-tall purple dinosaur in the backyard, the 6-foot-long red and yellow ants near the front walk, and a pink, yellow and green pterodactyl holding the mailbox at the end of the driveway. Last Christmas, all the animals... |
1120902_0 | Filling Priest Gap By Ordaining Women | Regarding your June 20 coverage of the priest shortage in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, when women are included rather than excluded, there will be an abundance, rather than a shortage, of priests. Failure to sever the connection between ordination and gender discrimination worsens the shortage with every passing da... |
1120616_5 | The Postindustrial Revolution | be found, but the suspicion must remain that the concept is too vague to mean much. Having described and analyzed the malaise of the mid-60's to the early 90's, Fukuyama steps back in Part 2 of his book to consider ''the genealogy of morals'' -- a Nietzschean title for a most un-Nietzschean account of social order. Alt... |
1123991_2 | Irish Need Comply | powers from the British Parliament to the Assembly on Sunday. That step represented to the sponsors of the peace accord -- Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern -- the assurance of an irreversible stabilizing of public life in Northern Ireland. In the last 30 years violence in the... |
1124019_0 | On Altered Food, Let Market Rule; Too Little, Too Late | To the Editor: The recent announcement by the Clinton Administration that it would conduct long-term studies on the safety of altered farm products (news article, July 14) gave me little comfort as a consumer wary of the human health and ecological hazards of our food supply. Considering that a large and growing portio... |
1125784_2 | Restoring a Century-Old Glass Tower in Chicago | we thought, 'My goodness, you could lay this out in pretty darn good hotel modules.' '' The result -- already apparent on floors where major reconstruction is nearing completion -- will be a remarkable interior, with public hallways looking much the way they did a century ago; not like a hotel at all but like a well-ap... |
1125709_0 | Scenic Tourist Trains Return to the Rockies | A CENTURY ago, it was the busiest train route through the Rockies: a ribbon of rail down a 1,000-foot-deep canyon, a granite gorge so narrow that at one point, engineers hung a bridge from the walls to suspend the rails over the rushing waters of the Arkansas River. This May, for the first time since 1967, passenger tr... |
1125719_28 | Getting The Girl | nation,'' warns Lori Knowles, the associate for law and bioethics at the Hastings Center, in Garrison, N.Y. Although the limited experience of Microsort shows a preference for girls within the United States, she says, ''it will be used in cultures where women are oppressed, and it will be used to select for male childr... |
1125716_9 | Nature Is Served At a New Resort | Holiday Inn in Phoenix-Tempe, where employees themselves have focused on putting into practice more environmentally sensitive management practices in guest rooms, lighting, laundry and recycling. The Cheeca Lodge has also won an industry award. In April, the United Nations sponsored a conference on sustainable developm... |
1125950_2 | Global Food Fights: The Worst Are Yet to Come | to see our black helicopters?'' one official of the organization asks, mocking the conspiracy theorists) will force changes they have long resisted. So the Japanese are trying to torpedo the talks before they start, saying they won't give an inch on rice or other products crucial to their ''food security.'' The Europea... |
1123547_1 | ACCORD IN ULSTER HITS A ROADBLOCK OVER DISARMAMENT | that the guerrillas' cease-fire, now more than two years old, proves their commitment to nonviolence. The 1998 agreement contained a general commitment to disarmament but did not spell out the timing or methods. Mr. Blair had insisted that deadlines for carrying out different aspects of the agreement, including Thursda... |
1123460_6 | In the Tour de France, Information Can Become Power | is no less crowded. In addition to the three Radio Tour planes and the three television helicopters, five airplanes fly overhead to relay live commercial radio and television signals. The biggest danger now facing the Tour is that its communications system will turn into an electronic Tower of Babel. Because local cell... |
1123529_0 | Family Planning Under Fire | Last year Congress disgracefully cut off funding to the United Nations Population Fund, an agency that supports voluntary family planning services, maternal and child health initiatives, and AIDS and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs in 150 countries. In April the House International Relations Committee ... |
1123493_0 | Experimental Food | To the Editor: Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman says the Administration may ask the biotech industry to voluntarily label genetically altered foods (news article, July 14). But such a request would be no change from current regulations. Public confidence will not be assured by voluntary measures. Furthermore, Mr. ... |
1126472_20 | Discord Undermines Efforts to Repair and Build Public Schools | by the board found that almost one-third of the city's schools had their windows or roofs replaced, their exterior masonry shored up or some combination over the last five years. But that survey also found that one out of four city schools had seriously deteriorated roofs or exterior walls, and two out of five had dete... |
1121323_5 | A Pragmatist on What Computers Can Do | at the millennium. Why is it this time so focused on technology with Y2K? A. You gave your answer by asking your question. It is in the nature of human beings -- to go crazy about potentially apocalyptic events that have no basis in rationality. Now, Y2K is a fully rational bug. We know it's going to be trouble. So now... |
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