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1138910_0 | Captain Of Her Fate In Any Seas | FORGET the ''widow's walk'' -- the rooftop platform from which pacing wives scanned the horizon for their seafaring husbands. Now it's the women who might well be taking to the high seas as fishermen. (Fisherwomen? Fisherpeople? No, thank you.) Technology, in the form of lighter, easier-to-control equipment, is the big... |
1138706_2 | Crime and Punishment | ''Pete the Greek,'' who used both his fists and a gun to terrorize his family and others), and went on to earn a Ph.D. in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley, at 26, in 1975. Athens, a streetwise and somewhat combative young academic with a mission - the demystification of crime and criminals - persis... |
1139197_5 | The World; Rethinking Population At a Global Milestone | to us why the image of the average Indian child, 50 years after Independence, is that of a scrawny, spindle-legged, barefoot creature who ekes out an existence by begging at traffic lights?'' she wrote. ''And amid the shameful squalor that is most of India, would they like to explain why our political leaders live in h... |
1138958_1 | Making Disaster Less Disastrous | huge death toll in Central America during Hurricane Mitch. Overcrowding and poverty had forced thousands of poor people to build flimsy housing in river basins and on hillsides. Deforestation had left those areas susceptible to flooding and mudslides. In 1989, in an effort to minimize the human toll, the United Nations... |
1139352_0 | High Blood Pressure and Osteoporosis | Osteoporosis, a loss in bone density that can lead to brittleness and fractures even from everyday activities, is a major cause of crippling disability in women past menopause. Now, a new study of 3,676 elderly women in Britain and the United States has shown that the higher their blood pressure, the more severe their ... |
1140830_0 | Returning River to Salmon, and Man to the Drawing Board | Of all the ways in which Americans have reshaped the land to suit their priorities, none is more audacious than the vast network of hydroelectric dams that stretches across the Pacific Northwest, taming wild rivers, opening shipping passages and bringing the region the cheapest electricity rates in the nation. The cons... |
1140837_0 | North Korean, at U.N., Urges U.S. to Lift Economic Embargo | Following its decision to suspend missile testing, North Korea today demanded that United States respond with its own ''good deeds,'' including an end to Washington's longstanding economic embargo against Pyongyang. ''It is fortunate that the United States has recently decided to partially lift economic sanctions,'' No... |
1140896_8 | Lost Chances to Avert a Disaster; Competing Interests Stalled New Jersey Flood Project | lobbying by residents of Berkeley Heights, pushed through a law prohibiting the corps from building the basins at the upstream end. Over the years, the upstream communities had become more focused on environmental issues and less on the flood threat. That part of the project was put on hold so that construction around ... |
1140550_4 | Unnatural Forces Preying on the Island's Future Geography | manager of Long Beach. The city recently spent millions of dollars on new bulkheads on the bay, and they are several inches higher than before. The city is also preparing to build and protect dunes along its two-mile boardwalk as part of a $72 million beach restoration by the Army Corps of Engineers. At one extreme of ... |
1137697_3 | High-Tech Camera Sees What Eye Cannot | the data to take any number of forms. A few keystrokes can instantly turn all of the vegetation with the same spectral fingerprint in a photograph -- all of the logs, for example -- the same color, telling the researcher how much downed timber there is after a storm. A farmer can see which parts of his cornfields have ... |
1137789_0 | Coast Guard Using Sharpshooters to Stop Boats | Updating a tactic last employed during Prohibition, the Coast Guard is using sharpshooters on helicopters to disable the engines of drug smugglers' boats with rifle fire, the service disclosed today. The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. James E. Loy, said that the sharpshooters were deployed in recent weeks and that... |
1136013_0 | Mitchell Says It's Up to Ulster Political Leaders to Settle Their Feud | Former Senator George J. Mitchell said today that ending the impasse blocking progress in the Northern Ireland peace settlement was up to the feuding politicians of the conflicted British province rather than to him, but that he believed that the stalemate could be broken. ''If I thought otherwise, I wouldn't be here,'... |
611123_1 | Clinton Aides Propose Renewal of China's Favored Trade Status | which would impose conditions by executive order rather than by law. The plan would require substantial progress by Beijing on human rights issues, like a full accounting of the whereabouts of political prisoners. But it would not link renewals to progress on any single issue. The most delicate issue currently arises i... |
611217_6 | Experts Ponder Cuban Epidemic | of the optic nerve known as the macular-papular bundle. Among the other components were these: *Loss of vision in both eyes within a month. *Loss of a certain amount of color vision. *Loss of central vision. *An unusual type of eye movement. When asked to follow a moving object, an individual normally moves the eyes sm... |
611277_0 | Before Skies Become Entirely Barren of Birds; Mass Extinctions Grow | To the Editor: Julian L. Simon and Aaron Wildavsky (Op-Ed, May 13) state that biologists have greatly exaggerated the extent of species extinction. "No one has disputed our documentation," they say. I do so now. They have no documentation. Moreover they ignore the mass of data that accumulates from one month to the nex... |
609519_2 | In Growing Piles, Dead Tires Haunt New York | became clear that traditional ways of disposing of tires, like stacking them in huge piles on vacant land, led to unacceptable environmental hazards, tire disposal experts say. Such hazards became obvious whenever the stacks were set on fire.They burned out of control for days at a time and producing thick clouds of no... |
609551_0 | METRO DIGEST | NEW YORK CITY WHAT TO DO WITH 4 MILLION TIRES? An estimated four million tires are discarded -- legally and illegally -- in New York City each year. As a result, the Sanitation Department is now finishing a survey to determine how many discarded tires are cluttering the city's streets and vacant lots. Once the counting... |
609631_0 | World Economies | |
606566_8 | City Lights and Space Ads May Blind Stargazers | the 100-inch in their historic discovery that the universe is expanding. But by 1985, the lights of Pasadena had washed out the sky to such an extent that the Carnegie Institution of Washington decided to close down the 100-inch. In 1989, however, astronomers and other admirers of the 100-inch created the Mount Wilson ... |
607789_3 | Private School's Computer Network Is Changing Student Life | but even if it doesn't, just the fact that it got people interested is a good thing." Dietrich von Schwerdtner, director of computing services at Peddie, said that he had expected only about half of the faculty to use the new computer system consistently, but that nearly all teachers had found it to be helpful in one f... |
607909_2 | Cuban Groups Seek Lifting of U.S. Embargo | discouraged Havana from considering reforms that would require greater individual liberties. Moreover, they say, the weakening of the Cuban economy increases the likelihood of a chaotic transition when change finally does come to Cuba. "Our position is that we must relax the embargo if we wish to see reforms in Cuba," ... |
607551_2 | Jazz and Politics Meet Over the Keyboard | and two young sons, Joao and Joan. Cuba hardly ever grants artists the right to live outside the country, to decide when, where or with whom they will perform, or to keep the compensation for their services. That policy of controlling "cultural workers" has contributed to embarrassing defections that have robbed the Ca... |
607807_3 | The Flora of the Pine Barrens, Blooming in Watercolors | was an exceptionally good exhibition of African art drawn from the collection of Judith and Leonard Kahan. Lured by Mr. Koenig to Oceanville, the Cahans have lent again -- this time a selection of small to medium-sized figures and heads, together with a case full of carved pipes. They come from the Ibo, Bamana, Dogon, ... |
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610501_0 | What Were They Thinking?; When Yesterday's Clean Fill Is Today's Toxic Waste | Asbestos is old news in this old town on Long Island Sound, where the cancer-causing mineral fiber was used for decades in manufacturing automobile brakes at Raybestos Manhattan Inc. and its successor, Raymark Industries. But for a community that long earned its paychecks from the brake factory on East Main Street and ... |
611706_2 | Bomb Outside Uffizi in Florence Kills 6 and Damages Many Works | the worst-hit building was a medieval tower, Torre Delle Pulci, behind the Uffizi. A family of four were asleep in their third-floor apartment at the top of the tower and their bodies, including those of girls aged 9 months and 8 years, were found at ground level after the building's interior collapsed. Two other bodie... |
611747_1 | Paris Journal; The Barricades of '68: Now That Was Very Heaven | movement has gone almost unnoticed here. It could be because the left feels defeated on all fronts. It could be simply that France's economic and social crisis is so much more serious now than in 1968. "I find the silence very worrying," said Marin Karmitz, a former Maoist who is now a successful film producer. "France... |
611345_0 | Security Council Establishes War-Crimes Tribunal for the Balkans | An 11-judge tribunal was set up tonight by the Security Council to hear charges of war crimes in the former Yugoslav federation. The tribunal will be able to impose prison terms but not to sentence anyone to death. Today's decision, approved unanimously by the 15 member countries, is the first step in a three-part prog... |
608802_1 | Choice of Vatican Envoy, Abortion Foe, Is Opposed | On Tuesday, Timothy E. Wirth, the State Department Counsel, delivered a speech at a population conference at the United Nations where he stated that the Administration's policy, both domestically and internationally, is to support "reproductive rights for women, including access to safe abortions." The Wirth speech rep... |
608810_0 | Brazilian State Leads Way in Saving Children | In the dim, smoke-stained interior of a sharecropper's shack, 1-year-old Maria sat quietly on the dirt floor, her infant spark dulled by diarrhea and malnutrition. With seven other children to care for, Maria's mother, Antonia Souza Lima, explained that she could not afford the time -- an hour-and-a-half walk -- or the... |
607248_0 | Review/Film; The Threats to Creatures of Amazonia | "Amazonia: Voices From the Rain Forest," a documentary about life in the Amazon River basin, is a handsome, well-meaning film that is overwhelmed by the scope and complexity of its subject. The 70-minute film, which opens today at the Cinema Village on a double-bill with "Anima Mundi," a nature documentary, explores th... |
610046_0 | Punishing China on Trade Hurts Wrong People; Population Control | To the Editor: I share Prof. John H. Herz's concern in his May 6 letter on population control that "it would be a tragedy if the excesses connected with the Chinese effort jeopardized President Clinton's intended reversal of American policy that denied funds for family planning abroad." But what is "the path of radical... |
610055_0 | When Disabled Students Enter Regular Classrooms | Merari Vazquez's fellow second and third graders are learning about perimeters. Measuring is hard for Merari, who is mentally retarded and does not speak. But she is part of the group, and her classmates need to find a way she can work with them. They coax her to lie down on a big pad, using her to do their measuring. ... |
609974_0 | Personal Health | THERE are few dispassionate voices when it comes to opinions about genetically engineered foods, and the dispute over crops redesigned in modern biotechnical laboratories instead of farmers' fields is likely to continue to simmer. Do such foods represent valuable improvements or safety threats to consumers? Lest a nove... |
608602_2 | Citing Safety, Airline Curbs CD and Computer Use | players at any time during a flight. These have been given this special attention because some pilots suspect that the circuitry of CD players emits signals that are more likely to affect a plane's instruments than, say, a cassette player. Imposing even stiffer restrictions, the Jordanian national carrier prohibits the... |
608602_4 | Citing Safety, Airline Curbs CD and Computer Use | that of a bus manufacturer explaining that its vehicles are absolutely safe, only to have the bus drivers say that the steering occasionally feels mushy. "There's a real perception issue here," Mr. Walen said. To date, that perception has been spurred by the pilots, who have reported their unusual experiences to their ... |
610265_0 | China's Cruelty and Women's Rights | China is a very big country with a very big problem: it has 7 percent of the earth's arable land -- and more than 20 percent of all its people. Today they number 1.17 billion. In several decades they will probably number 1.9 billion. So what's a government to do when its vision of a rich new future is occluded by the p... |
611889_0 | U.S. Studies Expansion Of Phone Links to Cuba | The Clinton Administration is considering allowing American telecommunications companies to expand service in Cuba. The move would allow private American companies to do business with Cuba for the first time since 1961, when the United States imposed a trade embargo. Administration and Congressional officials said othe... |
611863_1 | Italians Try to Place Blame For Bomb Damage at Uffizi | protests seized Milan, Bologna, Naples, Rome and Brescia. Picture of a Suspect The police, meanwhile, issued a composite picture of a dark-skinned young man with narrow eyes and a narrow mouth, said to have been seen fleeing the area in central Florence where the car bomb was placed just before it exploded at around 1 ... |
611854_0 | Observer; Like Lead To the Romans | Happening more or less simultaneously, Michael Jordan's midnight visit to the gambling hell of Atlantic City and the bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence dramatize the modern quarrel about how best to destroy civilization. Some say fire will do the trick, and some say ice, or so the poet wrote. The modern dispute,... |
611826_0 | The Inventor and the Salesman: Taking a Bright Idea to Market | Stuart Ford of Manakin, Va., said the idea for his combination chipper, shredder, vacuum and blower came to him when he realized more and more states were closing landfills, forcing people to dispose of their own lawn debris. While market research found this type of machine was available, they cost around $2,000 and le... |
610762_0 | Empire Theater | To the Editor: I was pained by your inaccurate description of the condition of the Empire Theater's roof [ "A Film Restores a Bit of 42d Street -- in Faux Decay," March 28 ] and its comment that the theaters on 42d Street "have continued their slide into decay." In fact, the Empire roof is in good condition and all the... |
610781_3 | As China Leaps Ahead, The Poor Slip Behind | nation as "China's third world." Rich Get Richer Guizhou belongs to this other world. For the past dozen years, while provinces like Guangdong and Jiangsu were given economic privileges to develop, Guizhou was asked to supply its coal, timber and other raw materials at fixed state prices. The logic was that economic ac... |
610859_0 | By Windjammer Around Penobscot Bay | THE windjammers, a fleet of sailing schooners that offer cruises under canvas, made no haphazard choice in settling into Penobscot Bay, a wedge of the Atlantic in the central Maine coast. With sunrise over Mount Desert and sunset behind the Camden Hills, the bay, defined by highlands that run down into the sea, enfolds... |
606144_0 | Updating Air Travel Security | ALTHOUGH the air traveler might as well try to influence the weather as to affect airline and airport security, there is something to be said for keeping informed about the risks of crime and terrorism while traveling. Big corporations, after all, try to protect their employees who must sometimes travel in risky places... |
606112_0 | Women In Combat: How Other Nations Rank | The walls restricting women to non-fighting roles in the United States military cracked last week when Defense Secretary Les Aspin lifted bans against women in aerial combat and said the Administration wants the law forbidding women on warshops repealed. The United States is not blazing the trail; other countriles have... |
606152_0 | Too Much of a Good Thing on Long Island Sound; Resurgence of Lobsters Lowers Prices, Brings More Fishers and Spawns Tensions | Running with the morning tide, Arthur Fodera cleared the entrance to Huntington Harbor, powered up the diesel engine in his 35-foot fishing boat and headed across the bay toward Long Island Sound to check the catch in his 700 lobster pots. With fresh bait fish in buckets at the stern and sea gulls trailing in a cloudle... |
612258_0 | Kimon Friar, 81, Translator of Greek Literature | Kimon Friar, a prolific American scholar, poet, critic and translator of modern Greek literature, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Athens. He was 81 years old and had made his home in Athens off and on since the 1960's. The cause was complications from head injuries suffered in a fall at his home, said Michael Tobias, ... |
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611029_1 | I.R.A. Bombs Won't Stop Talks, A Catholic Leader in Ulster Says | province have criticized both men as the I.R.A. detonated three car bombs since Thursday, the day the vote count started after local elections in the province. More than 20 people have been wounded, none gravely. The I.R.A. justifies violence as a way to force the British to relinquish power. Sinn Fein declines to cond... |
609468_5 | Omaha | Omaha in 1925. Impromptu observances are often held at the site of his childhood home, 3448 Pinkney Street. For an overview of black history, the nearby Great Plains Black Museum, 2213 Lake Street, (402) 345-2212, housed in the old Webster Telephone Company Building, is well worth a visit. Monday through Friday, 8:30 A... |
609201_0 | Needed: More Research On Women's Health | The National Institutes of Health's recently announced medical study on postmenopausal women to be conducted at the New Jersey Medical School among other sites nationwide ("A Medical Study on Older Women," April 4) is long overdue. As the chairwoman for the Medical Society of New Jersey's Committee on Women in Medicine... |
609252_0 | What the World's Women Want | The staple image of overpopulation is a ravaged landscape: rivers thick with pollutants, land on which there is no topsoil, forests denuded of trees, and sad migrations of people looking for more space, more food, more chances. What you won't see -- unless she's starving, and thus a cynosure for cameras -- is a woman w... |
609314_0 | A Reader's Guide to the Balkans | To the Editor: Robert D. Kaplan's suggestion that one should read the poems of C. P. Cavafy, Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis to understand the Greek psyche is misleading, for while these poets are certainly great in their own right, their poetry often deals with topics that have little to do with Greece and that are... |
609121_0 | Carving an Identity Niche on the East End | THE front of WEHM-FM, the newest radio station in East Hampton, is a giant window on Main Street. But it is a Hamptons main street. "I always honk and wave to them as I drive by," said Christie Brinkley, the model. "I'm not sure if they recognize my car yet." Recognizing the prominent has become a daily activity at WEH... |
609368_18 | The Telephone Transformed -- Into Almost Everything | used to call it news, Al. With changing telephones are coming profoundly altered relationships to information of all sorts. Someone who logs onto the Internet has instant access to something else called news -- news in its rawest and most ancient sense, messages between users, either broadcast or one to one, in thousan... |
609368_20 | The Telephone Transformed -- Into Almost Everything | designed to sort incoming mail and news according to personal preference, forwarding it to one's pocket pal, or e-mail, or voice mail (after automated conversion to speech), or fax machine or wastebasket. There are reasons to worry about such systems. One is that they require a huge amount of machine intelligence; as P... |
609171_0 | The Blizzard | To the Editor: My experience at the time of the blizzard does not bear out the information given in the chart. I was booked on Flight 1165 from Kennedy Airport to Costa Rica on March 13. I arrived at the airport three hours before the flight was due to leave at 9:59 A.M. for Miami. We were informed that the plane was d... |
609076_1 | In the Region: Westchester; Dealing With Cellular Phone Antennas | proliferation of antennas, radio towers and satellite dishes, all transmitters that some say pose a health risk and detract from a community's overall appearance. "This is also a real estate issue," said Ms. Lederer-Plaskett, a broker with Icon Realty Corporation in Scarsdale. "For the last two or three years people ar... |
609313_0 | A Reader's Guide to the Balkans | To the Editor: Robert D. Kaplan's suggestion that one should read the poems of C. P. Cavafy, Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis to understand the Greek psyche is misleading, for while these poets are certainly great in their own right, their poetry often deals with topics that have little to do with Greece and that are... |
608380_0 | U.S. SET TO CHANGE ABORTION POLICIES | Declaring that it wanted to help lead a new global effort to address the issue of overpopulation, the Clinton Administration said today that efforts to stabilize world population growth must concentrate on providing more opportunities and rights for women, including abortions. In a speech to a United Nations committee ... |
608326_3 | Record Store of Near Future: Computers Replace the Racks | sitting around, unused," said Robert Delanoy, vice president of retail record sales for Tower. Personics, Mr. Delanoy said, had trouble getting licensing rights from record companies, and thus had a limited selection. And most customers preferred to just buy tapes rather than compile their own. For his part, Mr. Delano... |
609740_1 | Doing Science on the Network: A Long Way From Gutenberg | other types of communication. All it takes is a personal computer and a phone line. "It's the most fundamental shift since Gutenberg," said Dr. Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist who directs the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. "The Internet is basically a space and time destro... |
609740_4 | Doing Science on the Network: A Long Way From Gutenberg | said Dr. Radziszowsky of the Rochester Institute of Technology. "They were not that popular a few years ago, but now more and more people are realizing their tremendous power. They're a tool of greater capability than anything before." Barring Electronic Junk Mail Indeed, so many people are now putting so much material... |
609881_3 | Medical Schools Gaining An Unexpected Popularity | do good for the community. An additional attraction is the excitement of new technology, like gene therapy. And many students are optimistic that things will somehow improve for doctors, though most offer little in the way of specific predictions. Applicants are also realistic. In a generally inhospitable job market, t... |
609893_0 | Rival Catholic Politicians Talking Peace in Ulster | The two most influential Roman Catholic political leaders in Northern Ireland, who have long been vehement enemies, have begun to discuss the possibility of a framework for peace that would end the violence here between the Irish Republican Army and British forces. More than 3,000 people have been killed by civil strif... |
606995_1 | Third World Population Explosion Demands Western Response | confronting humankind at this juncture: the ongoing population explosion. I refer to the report on the Chinese effort to control it, and the article on our immigration service's being swamped by a seemingly uncontrollable influx of asylum seekers. In either case we risk drawing wrong conclusions. It would be a tragedy ... |
607074_0 | ARABS TO EXTEND TALKS WITH ISRAEL | In a signal of possible progress in the Middle East peace talks, Arab delegates to the negotiations have decided to extend the discussions with Israel at least into the latter part of next week, a Syrian official said today. Mowaffak Allaf, head of the Syrian delegation to the talks, told reporters that the decision to... |
608965_0 | CLINTON EXPECTED TO ORDER RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR TESTS | With a Congressional moratorium on nuclear testing due to expire on July 1, President Clinton is expected to approve a plan that would allow underground blasts to resume by the end of the year, Administration officials said today. But the officials said Mr. Clinton was likely to emphasize that he intended to call a fin... |
608970_0 | A U.N. Agency May Leave China Over Coercive Population Control | Alarmed by indications of a harsh family planning crackdown in the Chinese countryside, the United Nations Population Fund is considering withdrawing from China and ending its work in the most populous country in the world. The fund's withdrawal from China would end a fierce decadelong controversy about the role of the... |
608952_0 | Alcohol's Benefits | To the Editor: Re "Study Finds 2 Drinks a Day Keep Heart Fit" (news item, May 3): The conclusions of Dr. J. Michael Gizano's clinical study have been suggested in other research trials as well. However, it is imperative that the millions of postmenopausal women who have had endometriosis, growth of tissue, as on the ov... |
592705_0 | George Town Journal Their Prison Island: U.S. Policy Maroons Cubans | When Angel Garcia set out recently for Florida from the southern coast of Cuba in a stolen, overcrowded lobster boat, he figured that if he was picked up at sea it would be by the Cuban authorities, who would arrest him, or by the United States Coast Guard, which would rescue him. Instead, with the rotting 60-foot wood... |
592628_0 | Protectionism Doesn't Help Balance of Trade; We Must Manufacture | To the Editor: In "Car Import Duty Can Only Hurt U.S. Economy"(letter, Feb. 7), Michael May seems to argue that America's economic position is improved if it imports automobiles without some form of control. The consumer will save $1 billion (no basis provided for that number), the trade deficit will help pay the Feder... |
592591_0 | Corrections | A chart yesterday with the Personal Health column, about ways to assess a treatment's risks and benefits, incompletely stated the assumptions underlying an estimate of changed life expectancy for a woman given estrogen replacement therapy. The figures were for a woman who had had a hysterectomy and who received estroge... |
590911_0 | Brazilian Sequel: A Jailbreak, a Bitter Widow | With the killers of Francisco (Chico) Mendes apparently on the run in Bolivia, the widow of Brazil's slain Amazon defender asserted today that the authorities had ignored repeated warnings that security was dangerously lax at the Amazon jail. "The authorities knew about the conditions, but they didn't take any measures... |
590806_0 | For the Lowly Radio, New Tricks Are in Store | The radio industry has a long history of confounding skeptics, from those who thought the advent of car radios in the 1920's posed an unacceptable driver distraction, to the gloom mongers of the early 1950's who saw television silencing radio forever. And when the first palm-sized transistor radio went on sale in 1953?... |
587712_1 | Moscow Insists It Must Sell the Instruments of War to Pay the Costs of Peace | buyers is essentially our list of nasties." Of even more concern, the diplomat suggested, is the danger that dangerous new technologies will spread as Russian factories win more freedom to seek customers and as highly trained military scientists and engineers are offered large amounts of money for their expertise. Russ... |
587694_0 | Tenneco's Ailing Chairman Says Therapy Is Going Well | The chairman of Tenneco Inc. today provided his first medical update since announcing Jan. 19 that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Speaking before 120 Wall Street analysts in New York this morning, Michael H. Walsh said his initial chemotherapy treatments last week had gone "exceedingly well." "I feel very, ve... |
587520_1 | U.S. Resumes Granting Patents On Genetically Altered Animals | of human health. Near term, scientists expect to see such developments as laboratory mice made genetically suited for research on AIDS and other human diseases; genetically altered pigs that produce human hemoglobin for use in blood substitutes, and bioengineered cows that produce milk with the proteins found in human ... |
587556_2 | Treating Ills in Childhood Cancer Survivors | oncologist, both at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, and Dr. Donna R. Copeland, a pediatric psychologist at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, recently summarized the various physical, educational, psychological and social consequences that can afflict children cured of ca... |
587556_6 | Treating Ills in Childhood Cancer Survivors | that are meant to reduce long-term adverse effects." Dr. Louis Costine, childhood cancer specialist at the University of Rochester's Strong-Memorial Hospital, emphasized that in developing safer treatment strategies, oncologists must always be careful not to compromise a child's chances of cure. Still, he outlined many... |
587719_1 | Market Place; In cellular telephone stocks, perception is everything. | at Josephthal Lyon & Ross Inc., also recently downgraded to "sell" his rating of the stock of Pacific Telesis. The regional Bell company in California announced that it would spin off its cellular telephone business and sell stock to large investors or the public. The cellular industry's stocks seem to be undergoing as... |
587588_3 | Food Notes | midnight, will feature drinks, dancing and hors d'oeuvres prepared by a number of New York chefs. Tickets, $30, are available at the door. Tie and jacket are required for men. A New Mayonnaise Hellmann's has introduced a reduced-fat, cholesterol-free mayonnaise. With 3 grams of fat and 40 calories in a tablespoon, it i... |
587573_2 | Eating Well | ready by next year. (Time-release and chewable supplements aren't covered.) So now you can look for the disintegration standards and buy only those products that include them on the label. On another topic, Nutrition Action says that checking expiration dates is only partly useful because manufacturers can choose arbit... |
589142_1 | Scientific Treasures Are Being Uncovered In Peat 'Wastelands' | As technology improves, he said, clues from bogs could be used to model future climates. Archeological Marvels Over the last 20 years peat lands have produced spectacular archeological finds, dating to the Neolithic. But instead of merely preserving the skulls and bones found in dry sites, oxygen-poor peat bogs preserv... |
589126_0 | Basel Solves Problem Of Too Many Pigeons | BY using slogans like "Feeding pigeons is animal cruelty" and nursing controlled flocks whose eggs were periodically removed, the city of Basel, Switzerland, sharply reduced its pigeon population in four years. In a report in the Jan. 21 issue of the journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Haag-Wackernagel of the department of medi... |
589430_0 | Food Notes | A New Roasted Garlic Oil Of the few garlic-flavored oils on the market, none have the mellow, slightly smoky pungency that characterizes the new Consorzio roasted garlic oil created by Michael Chiarello of Tra Vigne Restaurant in St. Helena, Calif. This is a golden olive oil that packs an enormous amount of aroma and f... |
589384_2 | Personal Health | that DES can render certain aspects of the immune system hyperactive, prompting them to turn against the body's own tissues. Preliminary research in DES daughters suggests that related immune problems may include a thyroid condition called Hashimoto's thyroiditis, pernicious anemia, myasthenia gravis (a nervous disorde... |
593293_3 | ECONOMIC PULSE: Florida; Florida Is Acting Like a Sunbelt Economy Again | Florida mainly with tourism and oranges, foreign trade has rapidly grown to rival those economic mainstays. The most recent statistics show that the state's exports totaled more than $18 billion through October last year and that they now contribute to the state's economy three times as much as agriculture. Exports are... |
593183_1 | Estate of the Art | a shingle-style house with all the modern conveniences, he knew just what the client wanted. The site was spectacular, right on the Connecticut coastline, but at three-quarters of an acre, the lot was compact, verging on cramped. Further complications arose when it was discovered that the new house, in order to comply ... |
593294_0 | Wilderness Tale | THIS WEEK |
593339_1 | U.S. URGES NATIONS TO SPEED GROWTH | of Seven had committed itself to jointly addressing the world's economic and trade problems, and that they hoped for more specific proposals at the group's next meeting in Washington in late April. In addition to the United States, Germany and Japan, the Group of Seven includes France, Britain, Canada and Italy. "We ha... |
593327_1 | Weather Disruption to Last a While, Data Show | warm current that flows along the Pacific coast of South America and, among other things, has given California its rainy and snowy winter, will persist into the spring and maybe the summer, scientists said Friday. The measurements, made by sensitive altimeters aboard the Topex/Poseidon satellite, which was launched by ... |
593338_5 | Chinese Suffer From Rising Pollution As Byproduct of the Industrial Boom | provoking concern. The seven major rivers that flow through cities are choked with sewage, and the abundance of prawns and scallops in coastal waters has dropped markedly. In 1991, factories dumped 25 billion tons of industrial waste into the country's waterways, aggravating an already-strained water supply that leaves... |
593087_1 | The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services | sharing data, using remote computers and exchanging electronic mail. Now it contains large and small, commercial and nonprofit networks that offer a remarkable array of services. Many companies both small and large have found that using the Internet is good business. At the low end, a small business could use the Inter... |
593088_4 | Technology; From the Rugged Outback, A Quick-Fix Modular Tire | the actual shape into tool steel. The finishing detail in the mold tooling is added using electric discharge machining whereby a high current is passed through a shaped electrode of the positive of the piece being molded. As it is plunged into the roughed-out shape of the tool steel, it burns out a precisely formed neg... |
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591981_0 | A Little Girl Speaks, and a Nation Listens | For years, Mary Somoza has been an advocate for disabled people, lobbying elected officials, speaking before a Congressional subcommittee and serving on various task forces. But she marveled yesterday over how much attention the cause has received since her 9-year-old daughter met President Clinton on national televisi... |
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