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592846_4 | The Art Market | the tax window," she said. Another aspect of Mr. Clinton's proposal would raise the tax rate on high incomes. Diana D. Brooks, the president of Sotheby's in America, said she believed a tax increase could weaken the auction market's middle tier by leaving less discretionary income for acquiring art. "But it's hard to k... |
590349_0 | Topics of The Times; A Crime to Remember | Black citizens of Tampa, Fla., are angered by a city proposal to build a replica of a pirate ship in a new $70 million pirate museum. It appears that the Whydah, which sank in 1717 in New England waters, was used as a slave ship before pirates seized it. Tampa's blacks are right to protest lack of consultation. Their o... |
590223_1 | The Ones That Got Away | and swaying with the waves, temporarily deafened by the loud drone of a 35-foot Bertram's large motors, as the captain sheepishly tried one thing after another, from clownish-looking rubber lures to fresh bait, all to no avail. Back at the boathouse, the traditional trophy photos of impossibly large catches hung upside... |
590435_2 | A Balancing Act for TriBeCa Zoning | did their concern that the very qualities that attracted them to TriBeCa in the first place would be jeopardized by high-intensity development. But owners feared that preservation or rezoning would greatly limit their ability to exploit these trends, leaving them saddled with antiquated, decrepit structures. Two years ... |
590473_0 | Streetscapes: The Cragswold; Deciding to Repair, Not Replace, the Casements | CHECK any building with steel casement windows in New York. If it's not controlled by landmark protection, chances are that its windows are either in a gradual state of decay or are being replaced one by one. To many apartment owners, repair problems with steel casements -- rust, balky mechanics, heat loss -- seem insu... |
588606_2 | Meandering in Burgundy by Barge | cabins with twin beds (sheets and duvets provided) and washbasins. One of the two bathrooms had a shower (with hot water), while the kitchen in the narrow corridor came supplied with crockery, cutlery, stove and refrigerator. We took some food and drink, but stocked up often at little villages. Much of the day was spen... |
588516_6 | As Ethnic Wars Multiply, U.S. Strives for a Policy | said a senior State Department official involved in such operations. "To a large degree, we have to get away from the the idea of total respect for sovereignty that was once sacrosanct." This official said that Cambodia, Bosnia and Somalia were "states not capable of governing themselves," and that in each, the United ... |
588759_0 | There Is Life in Those Old Cars Yet | Dear Sir, Your Jan. 17 column contained a letter from a gentleman who owns a 1974 Oldsmobile with dual air bags. "After almost 20 years," the letter said, "G.M. refuses responsibility as to whether they will actually deploy." While it doesn't surprise me that General Motors would refuse to commit itself, I do think the... |
588558_0 | Crying Wolf Over Elephants | With great sadness I find I must write to tell you that the plight of Africa's wild elephants is far more desperate than I could have ever imagined." So began an "urgent memorandum" from the African Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit conservation organization, to its members and potential donors on Feb. 10, 1988. Signed ... |
588703_0 | Sigrid Armstrong, Ryan F. Keough | Sigrid Elisabeth Armstrong, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Armstrong Jr. of Denver, was married there yesterday to Ryan Francis Keough, a son of Dr. and Mrs. John J. Keough of Smithtown, L.I. The Rev. Marcian T. O'Meara performed the Roman Catholic ceremony at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Mrs. Keough, 26, ... |
588476_1 | The Executive Computer; Beware! The Computer Is Extending Its Reach | edition is expected to reach stores before summer at a suggested price of $149. To take full advantage, users will need a digital scanner and a PC-based facsimile card, as well as a fairly powerful personal computer with lots of storage memory and a high-resolution screen. The version on display here appeared to be an ... |
588526_2 | So You Thought That Computer Note Was Private | Mr. Coffey replied, electronically, "The last time I saw my son, his hair was blond, and I think his ambitions are more socially acceptable." Mr. Coffey remembers the incident as funny and said, "The reporter is still employed here and does good work." Not every e-mail story has a happy ending. Consider the copy editor... |
588424_0 | Close Calls: On the Road and on the Phone | FORGET for a moment that scientists know nearly nothing about whether cellular phones cause brain cancer. The question is complicated, but researchers might some day figure it out. There is a second, far more obvious kind of risk widely attributed to car phones: car crashes. But there is a paradox. While the symptoms m... |
588512_4 | Christianity Is Booming In China Despite Rifts | church. "We control the churches in the cities, but they control all the countryside. The official Catholic Church is becoming more independent, in part because of the pressure from the clandestine church. Thus a growing number of official Catholic churches hold Sunday school services, even though children are not supp... |
589957_0 | The Military Has a Real Flair for Integration; What Plato Says | To the Editor: Plato had an opinion on gays in the military. In the "Symposium," Phaedrus is speaking: "Imagine a man in love being found out doing something humiliating, or letting someone else do something degrading to him, because he was too cowardly to stop it. It would embarrass him more to be found out by the boy... |
590041_0 | Edward F. Conley, Correspondent, 60 | Edward F. Conley, a longtime correspondent and bureau chief for the Voice of America, died on Thursday in George Washington University Hospital in Washington. He was 60 and lived in Tokyo. The cause was a brain tumor, his family said. In his 32 years at the Voice of America, Mr. Conley was in charge of its European and... |
591326_1 | U.S. Trade Deficit Grew 29% in 1992 | energy of this country, we will continue to suffer trade deficits and leave Americans idle," Mr. Kantor said. Stephen L. Cooney Jr., the senior policy director for international investment and finance at the National Association of Manufacturers, said he expects the trade deficit to widen in 1993, as the American econo... |
591226_0 | U.S. and Allies Discuss Sanctions To Force Mobutu to Yield Power | In the aftermath of the rioting and looting this month that claimed hundreds of lives in Zaire, the United States, France and Belgium are considering political and economic sanctions against Zaire and its leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, Western diplomats said today. Such a move would put pressure on President Mobutu, who has... |
591330_0 | U.S. and Allies Discuss Sanctions To Force Mobutu to Yield Power | In the aftermath of the rioting and looting this month that claimed hundreds of lives in Zaire, the United States, France and Belgium are considering political and economic sanctions against Zaire and its leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, Western diplomats said today. Such a move would put pressure on President Mobutu, who has... |
591331_0 | U.S. and Allies Discuss Sanctions To Force Mobutu to Yield Power | In the aftermath of the rioting and looting this month that claimed hundreds of lives in Zaire, the United States, France and Belgium are considering political and economic sanctions against Zaire and its leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, Western diplomats said today. Such a move would put pressure on President Mobutu, who has... |
591208_2 | At Home Abroad; 'What Will Happen?' | claustrophobic. In the mountains of India and Nepal people desperate for fuel have denuded forests, so topsoil is being washed into rivers and out to sea. India has about 880 million people now. It is growing so fast that experts say it will pass China as the most populous country by the year 2035, and the growth may n... |
591852_0 | Clinics Try to Close the Gap in Health Care for the Disabled | FRUSTRATED with what they see as the failure of the medical establishment to provide adequate services for handicapped people, agencies for the disabled are developing new means of delivering the services. Academics, doctors and parents of the disabled estimate that 12,000 handicapped people on Long Island lack access ... |
591892_0 | Helping the Retarded Help Themselves | SUPPORT, not supervision, is the watchword of the Community Living Corporation in Mount Kisco, an agency that maintains 3 group homes and 20 apartments for 100 people with developmental disabilities. The concept that mentally retarded people can successfully live in the community if they receive some support was radica... |
591871_0 | Customs Agents Confront New Crowds at Newark | SOME 200 people, just arrived at Newark International Airport from Jamaica, were milling about the baggage carousel one recent evening when Edward Morera, a 34-year-old senior inspector, strolled over to talk to a young couple with a baby. "Hi," he greeted them. "Did you have good weather in Jamaica?" The woman nodded.... |
591803_4 | Can Tourists Learn to Tread Lightly? | figures. Given the seeming inevitability of growth, what some people in the industry are trying to do is change the way tourists venture out. To a considerable degree, that has already happened with the astonishing growth of what is known as adventure travel. In general, the major tourism interests have shied away from... |
591738_3 | Manaus | the opening of Amazon ports to ships from throughout the world. In the back stands another 1900 neo-classical structure, the Palace of Justice. Taking a swim often comes to a visitor's mind while exploring a humid metropolis that swelters three degrees south of the Equator, 100 feet above sea level but 1,000 miles from... |
591603_1 | Start Worrying, Feel Better | that the deficit must be reduced by steps that will crimp our living for a while but in the long run help us all. Yet every member of the House of Representatives runs for re-election, not in the long run, but next year. These candidates shudder at the thought of facing an electorate denied what it wants at that very m... |
591701_9 | Where the Ecotours Are | has academic training in environmental management and ecotourism, and her husband, Jim. The Pattersons have developed each of their tours with a local organization. Newfoundland: Journey to the Land of Cain, July 25 to Aug. 2. The Quebec-Labrador Foundation and Wildlands and Oceans Limited, a Newfoundland company speci... |
591772_0 | Japan's Satellite to Peer at Far Corner of Universe | Japan launched a satellite today that is expected to peer with unprecedented acuity into the farthest reaches of the universe, giving scientists a new vision of stars formed in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, considered by many to have created the universe. The launching seems likely to be the l... |
591887_3 | The County Will Keep Its 3-Day-a-Year Waste Plan | charge, with a limit of two batteries a person a month. The Environmental Conservation Law requires gas stations and automobile repair shops generating 500 gallons or more of used oil yearly and retailers selling 1,000 gallons or more of motor oil each year to accept used oil from the public. Up to five gallons a perso... |
591650_2 | New Caution, and Some Reassurance, on Vasectomy | or their partners can safely discontinue other forms of birth control. Vasectomies can be reversed through tedious, costly microsurgical techniques that take much longer than the original procedure. But even when the tubes can be reconnected, there is only about a 50 percent chance that the patient will become a new fa... |
591575_0 | FEB. 14-20: Environmentalist's Killers; Escape From the Law In the Rain Forest | The convicted killers of the environmentalist Francisco (Chico) Mendes escaped from a remote Amazon jail last week, taking with them the wider world's hopes for an end to criminal impunity in Brazil's Amazon. In a region where the murders of hundreds of unionists, peasants and Indians went unprosecuted during the 1980'... |
589480_1 | Books of The Times; Peering Into a Dismal 21st Century | English country curate Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) and his dire observation "that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." Mr. Kennedy reflects that what allowed the British people to escape the fate Malthus predicted for them was first, emigrati... |
589627_0 | Somalia's Population | To the Editor: According to the Johns Hopkins Population Report on Environment and Population Growth, Somali families have an average of 6.6 children, among the highest fertility rates in the world, at that rate doubling their population in 24 years. Somalia's cropland per capita in 1990 was about one-third acre, criti... |
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588874_1 | Patents | traffic monitoring systems are timely but often do not indicate whether the heavy traffic is eastbound or westbound. By contrast, police reports provide a much fuller picture, but they quickly become dated. To bring order to this chaos, Mr. Sumner invented a "data fusion" system that ranks data by its accuracy and time... |
588843_5 | G.M. Set To Fight On Pickups | gas tanks on their son's 1985 pickup made them vulnerable to puncture during a crash. G.M. said it was ordered by the court not to discuss publicly any matters relating to the case. G.M. has already filed a lawsuit against an Indianapolis consulting company, the Institute for Safety Analysis, that performed the crash t... |
587424_2 | ANTI-WOMAN BIAS MAY BRING ASYLUM | Rights and Democratic Development in Montreal, called Canada's action "a clear move in the right direction," adding, "There is no turning back on the principle that our refugee policy must recognize the full equality of men and women." A year ago Canada broke ground with a similar action regarding homosexuals: A gay ma... |
587372_2 | Cellular Phone Scare Discounted | had used their phones hours every day. Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist in Naples, Fla., who has cared for two of the patients, expressed alarm at the coincidence of the tumor sites. Effects of Microwave Radiation "I'm not blaming their brain tumors on cellular phones," he said. "I'm saying there's a possible danger... |
587372_5 | Cellular Phone Scare Discounted | American Journal of Epidemiology, Dr. Samuel Milham Jr. of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services in Olympia, found that ham radio operators, whose microwave equipment works at about 100 watts, a level much more powerful than that of cellular phones, suffered from significantly elevated rates of ... |
587482_0 | H. H. Beverage, 99, Research Scientist And Radio Engineer | Harold Henry Beverage, a radio engineer and RCA scientist whose research advanced communications technology, died on Wednesday at the John T. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, L.I. He was 99 and lived in Stony Brook. Mr. Beverage held more than 40 patents in his field. He was a co-inventor of the wave antenna and the ... |
588118_1 | France, After 50 Years, Plans Memorials to Jews Sent to Die | Vel d'Hiv, a cycling stadium where the first detainees were taken in Paris, as well as at one of the camps where Jews were concentrated and at a house in the Rhone valley where Jewish children were held before deportation. Further, commemorative plaques would be placed in every French department. A special committee he... |
588208_12 | The Shop as the Mirror Of a Museum's Soul | small, peaceful shop at the Studio Museum in Harlem avoids overstimulation, instead cultivating a clean, almost sparse look that makes everything easy to see. The books and crafts for sale are honed to the museum's mission, which is to document and analyze the art of Africa and the African diaspora. The children's book... |
588119_0 | Underfunded Pension Plans Raise Benefits, G.A.O. Says | Some of America's largest corporations are expanding their pension benefits, even though their current plans are already underfunded, with the knowledge that if the plans fail the Federal Government will pay the bills, Congressional auditors said today. The General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, found that 18 o... |
592445_0 | Personal Health | THE steady stream of well-publicized reports ascribing horrendous health risks to nearly every aspect of modern life, from electric blankets and cellular phones to post-menopausal hormones and now vasectomy, can fill otherwise rational people with feelings of panic and paranoia. Such reports can leave people longing fo... |
590676_0 | Archeologists at Odds on Restoring Statues | IN its time, Tongariki was the glory of Easter Island and its cult of ancestor worship. Overlooking a gentle bay on the south side of the island, it was the largest religious site in Polynesia. On its giant ahu, or temple platform, stood 15 immense stone statues, called moai, some weighing up to 70 tons. Hundreds came ... |
590676_5 | Archeologists at Odds on Restoring Statues | a halt, turning into a society ruled by warriors that eventually became known for its Birdman cult. Islanders toppled the moai and tore down the ahus throughout the island. Although there are 300 ahus on Easter Island, and several have been restored, Tongariki is by far the most important, archeologists say. Islanders ... |
590726_0 | U.S. Can Learn From Cuba's AIDS Program | To the Editor: Your "AIDS in Latin America" special report (front page, Jan. 25) grossly misrepresents the situation in the only country that has successfully held the virus in check. You dismiss the successes of Cuba's AIDS control and prevention program with the irrelevant comment that Cuba "is the region's only nati... |
590735_4 | For Children of Cocaine, Fresh Reasons for Hope | the University of California at San Diego, found brain damage in a third of the children, but signs of central nervous system disturbance in 80 percent of them. A few were seriously damaged, she said, but none were "bedridden or in a vegetative state." Some Degree of Disturbance "It's just not the case that these kids ... |
590687_1 | Protective Ice Flow in Antarctica Linked to Warmth of Volcanoes | radar altimeter, the scientists surveyed the ice sheet from the air to determine the contours of both the ice sheet and the rocky base underneath, along with the magnetic and gravity fields associated with the rock base. From the resulting data, collected in the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1991-92, they concluded tha... |
591117_2 | Reality and Anxiety: Crime and the Fear of It | at risk. "One of the worst things affecting our feeling of safety was probably the development of the video camera," said Dr. James Fox, dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston. Walking Near One's Home It is hard to quantify fear. For the last 30 years the only measure of national an... |
591133_3 | Car Need Freon? Better Fill Up Soon | are less damaging to the ozone and whose production will be allowed far longer than the equipment will last. In contrast, a car air-conditioner is virtually guaranteed to leak every few years. It has a shaft that draws power from the engine to run the compressor. The seal around the shaft, subjected to wear, tear and t... |
591156_1 | Books of The Times; An Imaginary Round Table on Social Concerns | and behavior that was considered criminal or scandalous. Whenever she ran across any of these, she cast them as precepts: "Respect contracts," "Be efficient," "Shun force." By subtracting what she calls "universal virtues" -- cooperation, courage, patience and so on -- she eventually ended up with a list of 30 precepts... |
589718_0 | A Plan for Close-Up Images of Earth From Space | A small California company formed by a scientist who worked on the military's so-called Star Wars program has been licensed by the Government to launch a series of photo satellites that will make it possible for customers to directly dial up high-resolution images of earth and view them on their personal computers. The... |
589919_0 | Social Programs Give Retarded a Safe Outlet | To the Editor: As a professional dedicated to improving the social lives of those with mental retardation (and other developmental disabilities) and to supporting efforts by their families to raise them as active participants in our society, I read with great interest "Sex Adds to Fears of Parents of Retarded" (front p... |
589742_1 | Post Suitor Has Completed Payment, Lawyer Says | partly because the S.E.C. had expressed concern that Mr. Hoffenberg might thwart the agency by buying The Post before the S.E.C. had the opportunity to argue its case that a freeze is necessary to protect Towers investors. The S.E.C. is essentially asserting that Mr. Hoffenberg is using The Post as a vehicle to shelter... |
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588336_2 | Hans Jonas, Influential Philosopher, Is Dead at 89 | ethics seriously back in the mid 1960's," Daniel Callahan, the director of the Hastings Center, a research organization in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. that is devoted to biomedical ethics, said yesterday. "He made important contributions on the question of the definition of death and on the moral problems of the use of huma... |
592973_0 | 'Star Wars' Test in Hawaii Brings Demonstration | The Navy began a series of missile launchings today to test the "Star Wars" defense system, firing a modified Polaris missile from the Barking Sands range on the western island of Kauai. The missile traveled 2,200 miles west to a splashdown near the Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A small coalition of demonstrato... |
590545_2 | Latin America's Regional Trade Boon | that Latin America was the world's fastest-growing market for American goods. In the first quarter of 1992, United States exports to Latin America and the Caribbean increased 32.5 percent from the corresponding quarter a year earlier. Meanwhile, American exports to the rest of the world grew only 4.4 percent. In 1991, ... |
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598879_2 | 20,000 Rally in Dublin for Peace in North and Against I.R.A. Killing | the predominantly Catholic I.R.A. operating in the North, where 650,000 Catholics are a minority in the British province. The demonstrations coincide with increasing calls from public officials here and in the North for the governments of Ireland and Britain to end their refusal to talk to the I.R.A.'s political affili... |
597531_1 | A Mini-Hong Kong, From Scratch | really view Yangpu, they often switch to English in the middle of their Chinese conversations and call it the "free port" project. Yangpu has not yet been given permission to be a free port like Hong Kong, where almost all goods imported would be available duty-free to the population. But it has received a wide variety... |
593590_2 | CRISIS AT THE TWIN TOWERS: Repairs; Damage to the World Trade Center Is Called Limited | Robertson, whose Manhattan firm, Leslie E. Robertson Associates, did the design engineering for the Trade Center when it was built -- the F.B.I. will remove cars, plaster, concrete and other material that might yield clues. Then some of the bulk debris will be removed, and more columns will be braced, Mr. Robertson sai... |
593622_3 | Grappling With Fear Of Magnetic Fields | in September. "I'm not going to let something like this force me to move out of this town." No one knows whether the magnetic fields created by electric currents cause or promote cancer. But studies are suggesting a link, if minimal, and so now the fears, at least, are undeniable. "What effect does this have on our chi... |
594813_4 | THE TWIN TOWERS: The Structure; Aided by Computers, Repairs Are Charted | some spots this is like trying to make a grid out of spaghetti: the lines inevitably cross and twist. Bracing the columns that used to be held in place by the parking garage floors can be divided into two groups. The first seven columns are on the critical path, because they must be braced before workers can begin larg... |
594792_0 | BRAZIL IS EVICTING MINERS IN AMAZON | Determined to reverse a gold rush of 11,000 miners into the Amazon lands of the Yanomami Indians, the Brazilian police and military have evacuated 3,000 miners by air in the last 10 days, many of them forcibly. The operation, which continued today with helicopters and transport planes, is the second drive since 1990 to... |
594789_0 | Rebuffing Premier, China Eases Growth Curbs | The Communist Party leadership today approved a revision of China's five-year plan, setting more ambitious growth targets and thereby snubbing Prime Minister Li Peng. It also endorsed a reshuffle of Government leaders. The Central Committee released a communique this evening, after the close of its three-day plenary se... |
594791_1 | British Say I.R.A. Bombing Effort Is Set Back by Arrest of 5 Suspects | Taylor, who was also charged separately with assault for shooting at officers who stormed their north London home, led to a series of raids across the city that resulted in three more arrests and the seizure of a large quantity of plastic explosives, firearms and ammunition. A judge ordered that the men remain in custo... |
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599030_2 | Time May Be Ripe for Discovery of Elusive Gravity Waves | spacecraft to Earth, and by the solar wind, a blast of electrically charged particles streaming outward from the Sun. But scientists hope that after both are taken into account, there may be some small excess frequency shift attributable to a passing gravity wave. All the spacecraft are very distant from Earth, so they... |
599041_0 | Brazilian Rain Forest Yields Most Diversity For Species of Trees | BOTANISTS studying a surviving patch of the dwindling Atlantic rain forest in Brazil have recorded the highest known tree diversity in the world. Packed into a two-and-one-half-acre plot, 450 different tree species were identified by an American-Brazilian team led Dr. W. Wayt Thomas, a researcher for the New York Botan... |
596241_9 | New Finds Suggest Even Earlier Trade on Fabled Silk Road | and remote-sensing experimenters have been eager to apply the technology to identifying buried settlements on the Silk Road. The imaging radar system tested on space shuttle flights is capable of penetrating the desert to reveal everything from ancient river beds to city ruins. Parts of the Taklamakan were surveyed in ... |
596227_1 | Magnetic Resonance Gives Better Images Of Nerves in the Body | in a report in the current issue of The Lancet, an international medical journal published in England, the researchers said they were able to picture nerves by filtering out the image signals of various other tissues until only the signals of nerve tissue were left. By changing signal sequences to block emissions from ... |
596242_0 | Women's Bones Appear to Have Become Weaker | A STUDY of old human bones, unearthed after two centuries in a church crypt, offers a possible clue to the mystery of why so many elderly women today suffer hip fractures associated with osteoporosis. Millions of people develop osteoporosis, a condition in which bones lose calcium and become thinner and more susceptibl... |
596279_0 | Equator's Breadbasket of the Sea | FROM 15 million to 4.4 million years ago, periodic "blooms" of microscopic ocean life erupted in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean on a scale undocumented anywhere in more modern times, scientists say. This prodigious production of marine life, described in the current issue of Nature, ended at about the time that C... |
595453_1 | Review/Art; Ancient Greeks at the Met: Matter Over Mind | a jingoistic promotional title meant to perpetuate cliches about art and its meaning that recent art history has been trying to dislodge. To be sure, the brochure is gorgeous and the eye is captivated from the start. The first images to greet the visitor are the Metropolitan's own rose-tinged marble statue of a standin... |
595438_0 | Greeks At the Met: Matter Over Mind (C20) | |
596554_0 | Clinton Delays Taking a Role in Ulster Talks | President Clinton, who promised during the Presidential campaign to help solve the civil unrest in Northern Ireland, indicated today that he would not send a special envoy there anytime soon. Mr. Clinton did announce his nomination of Jean Kennedy Smith as Ambassador to Ireland, and said he would consult with her befor... |
593523_3 | CRISIS AT THE TWIN TOWERS: The Garage; Panel Warned in 1985 of Vulnerability of Center's Parking to Bombing | that her husband was not at home and could not be reached for comment. Mr. O'Sullivan said an independent engineering firm from Virginia hired by the Port Authority had agreed with their recommendations. But, he said, only about one-third of the proposed changes were adopted, including additional security patrols and m... |
593530_0 | CRISIS AT THE TWIN TOWERS: The Building; Repair Crews Struggling To Revive Vital Systems | As they gained a clearer sense of the obstacles they face, from the lack of heat to the 1.8 million gallons of water in the basement, officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday that it would be more than a week before they fully revive what amount to the heart, lungs and nervous system of... |
598243_0 | Preservation Panel Slams Two Deviant Windows Shut | FOR ROBERT Bernstein the boiling point came when he stood before the Landmarks Preservation Commission last month and heard there was nothing to discuss or negotiate, that he simply had to remove and replace the nonconforming windows in his kitchen. That is when Mr. Bernstein, the 70-year-old former chairman of Random ... |
598221_1 | Clinton, Planning Forest Conference, Hopes to Free Logjam in Northwest | under consideration by the White House, and favored by some Congressional leaders, is to put thousands of people to work restoring the land hit hardest by logging. The intent is to repair watersheds and streams that nurture salmon, one of the forests' most valuable species. The timber industry wants trees, not new jobs... |
596077_0 | If Clothes Make a Man, Esquire May Make a Hit | Men may indeed be deeply en sconced in the Nesting Nineties, the Daddy Decade and family fun. But here's a little secret: the Nineties Man is absolutely hooked on fashion. At least, that's what Esquire, which considers itself expert when it comes to men, is betting its hat on. Next week, it will introduce Esquire Gentl... |
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597855_1 | South Africa Says It Built 6 Atom Bombs | an atomic weapons program -- Mr. de Klerk said South Africa never tested the bombs, and never intended to use them. Instead, its strategy was that if South Africa came under attack, it would detonate a test device to demonstrate its ability, and threaten to use the weapon unless the United States came to its aid. Mr. d... |
597937_1 | F.D.A. Ends Ban on Women in Drug Testing | assure that women would be included in nearly all tests and that their numbers would be sufficient to tell differences in how men's and women's bodies reacted to a drug. The chief effect of not having such data has been that drug doses for women were sometimes wrong, to the point that they made the drugs useless or wor... |
596446_3 | Mental Disorders Common, but Few Get Treatment, Study Finds | close to 14 million people having the problem in a given year. And many people have more than one disorder at the same time; for example, six million Americans have a substance abuse disorder along with one or more other mental disorders, the study found. The totals reported in the study may be a slight undercount of t... |
594981_1 | Into the Abyss: New Robots Probe the Deep | were enormous. "The abyss is the last frontier on this planet," he said. "We know almost nothing about it. These remote tools have the potential to synoptically explore, study and characterize its properties, whether biologic, geologic or chemical. We're on the threshold of a new era." Robots are seen as crucial for su... |
593835_1 | The Cleanup; Repair and Investigation: Dual Tasks in Conflict | than a month. Officials say that 2 World Trade Center, which has less smoke damage and less damage to elevators, is likely to reopen first. But the big problem is safety systems common to both buildings, like smoke detection and communications systems. Some problems will require individual efforts by the hundreds of wo... |
593849_1 | Cellular Telephone Industry Counts 11 Million Customers | 11,500 a day in the second half of the year. But the industry's latest figures, for the six months ended December 1992, were for a period before a widespread health scare in January. The panic followed a lawsuit by a Florida man who said that his wife's fatal brain cancer was a result of persistent use of her cellular ... |
593831_3 | Dublin Journal; On the Kingmaker's Agenda, Ulster Looms Large | be brought to an end." "There's no such thing as an acceptable level of killing," he said, despite the inability of the Dublin and London Governments to negotiate a peaceful settlement. He praised the "determination" of the British Secretary for Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Mayhew, to persuade the Catholic and Protest... |
599193_1 | India Cancels Dam Loan From World Bank | than good. But Indian officials emphasize that they intend to complete the project on their own, adhering to the bank's environmental and resettlement requirements. World Bank officials said privately that India preferred to complete the project without interference from multinational lending institutions. The Indian G... |
599054_0 | Detecting Disastrous Air Leaks in Orbit | Air leaking from a tire or basketball can be troublesome. But that could be disastrous for a space vehicle, particularly the proposed space station Freedom, which is to remain in orbit for years after it is launched later this decade. So researchers at the Battelle Company's Pacific Northwest Laboratory are developing ... |
599171_1 | Irish Debate How to End Strife in the North | the north. "But if at the end of the day," he said, "all the parties still don't come to the table, then those proposals should be put to the people in the north and south by referendum over their heads." Peace talks stalled last summer and some hard-line Protestant leaders, including the Rev. Ian Paisley of the Democr... |
595209_1 | The Pop Life; Two Cities That Want Grammys | added that other considerations included each city's ability to organize businesses, the government and the entertainment industry to make the event exciting and to "create a lasting presence after the Grammys have gone, in terms of human-service and education initiatives, like our Grammys in the Schools program." New ... |
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598689_0 | Taking Skybus | To the Editor: Over the Christmas holiday my wife and I had several experiences with Skybus, assessed in your Practical Traveler column (Nov. 22), that might interest your readers. We were scheduled to fly out of Newark at 8 P.M. on Dec. 24. We arrived at the airport at 6:45 P.M. and had to wait in a line of over 100 p... |
598356_0 | Out in the Hinterlands, Moscow's Din Is Muted | When people in Moscow raise the specter of the breakup of Russia, they talk about places like Bashkortostan, an oil-rich region in the southern Ural Mountains where contempt for the once-heavy hand of the Kremlin is open and withering. Ask political leaders here whether the feud between President Boris N. Yeltsin and h... |
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