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598356_1 | Out in the Hinterlands, Moscow's Din Is Muted | have become increasingly irrelevant. To some extent, this trend is a result of ongoing decentralization, a process blessed by Mr. Yeltsin. A year ago, a new federal treaty that grants greater rights and responsibilities to regional governments went into effect, signed by all but two of the 88 regions, provinces and ind... |
598531_1 | For Hard Times, Masters of Many Skills | the Tuition Designed to fit the schedules of those who work full time, the two-year master's program meets on Fridays and Saturdays for seven alternate weekends in the fall and spring over four years. In addition to the 12 courses, students conduct an in-depth supervisory research project of interest to their companies... |
598493_0 | Yes, We Have No Tomatoes, Yet | IT'S time to start those scrumptious heat-loving tomatoes indoors, if you want some varieties a bit more unusual than Big Boy or Early Girl (both favorites of mine). It's really not that difficult to start plants indoors, as the accompanying tips show, especially if you control yourself and plant just a few seeds. But ... |
598350_0 | Papa Bear | THIS WEEK |
595694_1 | Tech Notes; For Those Lost at Sea, a Beacon to Rescuers | locating device can be used only at sea. The reason is that it operates in conjunction with a global satellite system that uses the 406.025 megahertz frequency designated for distress signals, and the Federal Communications Commission has not approved use of the signal over land for fear of saturating the frequency. F.... |
595713_0 | Additional Services For the Disabled | As the executive director of an agency serving 1,200 children and adults with disabilities, I was pleased to see The New York Times concerning itself with the state of medical and dental services for this population [ "Clinics Try to Close Gaps in Health Care for Disabled," Feb. 21 ] . While it is important to draw pub... |
596030_9 | The Last Days of Castro's Cuba | a degree in civil engineering. Since then, he has worked as a civil engineer on several projects, including the stadium for the 1991 Pan American Games. "I am one of those who doesn't want to leave," he says. "I have a position that's both open and moral, and I will never go. I am a patriot. I'm against the Americans. ... |
595828_4 | A Zeus for the 90's | had disappeared from Sidon while gathering flowers with other girls of her age. Zeus had taken her to Crete, and from there she gave her name to the whole continent of Europe. As Mr. Calasso sees it, Cadmus' marriage marks the beginning of the cycle of the myths that laid out the basic patterns for later European ficti... |
595810_5 | Yarns Spun, Souls Blessed By Old Salt on City Turf | throwing her arm around his shoulders. "Without the sailor, I'd be dead." But there was a dark side to his character, she added, and when it surfaced he could be moody and irascible. "I wish I had a bag of dope for every time he's thrown me out of here," she said. She stood up and announced that she's going out to panh... |
596023_5 | Technology; A Versatile Sponge Made From Oats | chemically synthesized by Advanced Polymer Systems of Redwood City, Calif. These, too, offer sustained release of various substances and are already on the market in products like Every Step, a foot powder; Exact, an acne treatment, and Baby Fresh with Ultraguard, baby wipes from Scott Paper. Microsponge formulations o... |
594373_7 | When Art Takes Wing, The Owners Cross Their Fingers | a work into what you consider a better climate, with stable humidity, that may not be good, because the works get used to seasonal changes over many years. Paintings, for instance, hang in freezing churches in good condition; when heating is added, the rhythm of the climate changes, and the effect can be devastating. I... |
594722_1 | Public & Private; It's A Girlcott | for other conditions, would be more difficult and less tolerated. And RU486 might meet a certain comfort level in this area of public psychic discomfort. While a surgical abortion usually cannot be performed until at least the seventh week of pregnancy, RU486 can be used earlier, when there has been little embryonic de... |
597293_2 | Figuring What It Would Take to Take Down a Tower | by 3 feet 6 inches. The result, engineers say, was a tough structural element presenting only a small face to the blast. The concrete decking, in contrast, acted like a sail, catching the full force of the blast, with a pressure of hundreds of pounds a square foot adding up over many square feet, until it failed. The d... |
597345_2 | Growing Up in the Shadow of the AIDS Virus | and Prevention say most children infected from birth now survive beyond age 5. "Most people still have this picture in their minds of extremely sick, scrawny kids who succumb at age 2," said Dr. Stephen M. Arpadi, director of the H.I.V. Program for Children and Families at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhat... |
597135_8 | America's Newest Industrial Belt | 3,000 people to produce radios and other car components. It is assigning 700 people to the production of dashboard gauges, replacing 400 workers in Michigan by 1995. The alternative would be to automate in Michigan. "When you automate, you get rid of direct labor, but you add indirect labor costs for very skilled peopl... |
597233_0 | Health Task Force Moving in Right Direction; Physician Scorecards | To the Editor: "Opening Up on Health Care" (editorial, March 7) lists "freedom of choice" in doctors as the first of the "gritty questions" to be answered by the Clinton health proposal. It is important to understand that informed choice is the only useful choice, and that objective criteria and the necessary informati... |
597010_11 | The French Funk | from German occupation to be treated as a victorious ally in 1945. It sold itself as a friend of poor nations and learned to display its independence -- mar quer la difference -- by piquing Washington. More crucially, West Germany bowed to French leadership inside the European Community. And, with Britain ambivalent as... |
597110_0 | The Hoodwink Aspect of Engine Tech | IT is rare when I admit that I don't know something, when I confess to having missed the point or being just generally benighted. But this is one of those times. Color me chagrined. For years, I have wondered silently about the fact that cars seem to perform perfectly well despite horsepower that has been consistently ... |
604958_2 | Patents; Attacking Corn's Big Enemy | functions -- a volatile halogenated hydrocarbon solvent. In the past, that halogenated solvent was typically trichloro ethane, "which has been shown to deplete the ozone layer," said Chiou C. Yau, a program chemist at Gillette. As a result, Gillette has substituted a non-halogenated chemical called cyclohexane as a car... |
604921_1 | As States Rush Into Gambling, Experts See Risks | nation, dropping requirements that boats actually have to set sail or have betting limits or even be true boats with engines. Converted barges are serving as casinos too, tapping into some of the growing national action in legalized card, dice and slot games that have enabled small-town America to exploit what are for ... |
604871_0 | World Economies | |
602164_0 | Auto Makers In Joint Patent | The Big Three auto makers said today that their research consortium had been awarded its first patent. The patent covers technology that one day may permit auto makers to substitute parts made of lighter-weight plastic composite materials for parts made of steel, thus improving fuel economy. The United States Council f... |
602158_5 | Recycling Answer Sought for Computer Junk | team has worked on recycling the plastics used in I.B.M. personal computers. Plastics in old machines are coded by polymer type and, starting this summer, Mr. Kirby plans to begin making housings and parts with a blend of recycled plastic and fresh resin. "The goal we're working toward is to keep all I.B.M. products ou... |
600555_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-15 FRENCH FILES ON WAR INTERNMENT A 72-year-old Frenchman smuggled out of the Toulouse office of France's National Archives thousands of files detailing French involvement in the internment and deportation of Jews and non-Jews in World War II. The files illustrate how the French administration routinel... |
600572_0 | Circuit City Is Trying New Thing: Used Cars | Would you buy a used car from this retailer? Circuit City Stores Inc., the giant home electronics chain, startled Wall Street, auto dealers and much of the retail world yesterday with an announcement that it was going into the used-car business. The news, tucked near the end of a news release detailing the company's fi... |
603334_0 | World Economies | |
603453_0 | Scallopers See a Livelihood Imperiled | Like the 19th-century whalers who lived and labored here before them, scallopers say they fear they may become the next fallen icons of New England, remembered only in museums, books and the tall barroom tales of fishermen. Dwindling stocks of sea scallops, foreign competition and increased enforcement of Federal fishi... |
603488_1 | Tattoo and Sketch Only Clues to an Identity | victims. It is a criminal practice that greatly increases the difficulty of identifying anonymous victims and so of taking the first big step toward identifying the killer. "We're getting so much more dumping on the interstates because the interstates system is a continuous, highly anonymous corridor that gives a kille... |
603446_0 | NUCLEAR DUMP SITE REPORTED IN TIBET | A Tibetan organization today accused China of conducting nuclear-weapons research on the Tibetan plateau and dumping radioactive waste there. At least 50 Tibetans living near research sites and uranium mines have died, said the report, written by the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet. While there have b... |
603489_0 | CHRONICLE | This year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, which has been called the Nobel Prize of the Environment, will be honored today at a ceremony at Herbst Hall in San Francisco. Seven environmentalists from around the world will receive awards totaling $360,000 from the Goldman Environmental Foundation. On Wednesd... |
601821_0 | Hormone Imbalance Linked to Behavior | CASTING a slender ray of light on a mystifying behavioral syndrome, researchers have linked an inherited defect in the body's thyroid hormone system to attention-deficit disorder, a common psychological problem in children. The work is the first to identify a specific gene associated with attention deficit difficulties... |
601830_3 | Chemists Learn Why Vegetables Are Good for You | be useful, not only as a dietary measure to prevent cancer, but in a concentrated form to treat tumors already in progress. "This is a fascinating report," said Dr. Judah Folkmann of Harvard Medical School, who has worked out many of the details of how tumors become vascularized as they grow. "It's a novel finding. Nob... |
601830_7 | Chemists Learn Why Vegetables Are Good for You | levels of the 16 type in their blood, and researchers have determined that tissue from breast tumors contains more of the 16-hydroxylated form than does surrounding, noncancerous breast tissue. By contrast, the 2-hydrolyxated form is relatively inert and has been found to be elevated in women who are vigorous athletes ... |
601839_2 | U.S. Cracks Door to World Forest Agreement | tropical countries could pledge themselves to a policy of harvesting timber while preserving forests. This goal of sustainable cutting of trees would be achieved by the end of this decade under proposals for revising the timber agreement. "We could agree to those kinds of principles," said one Administration official, ... |
603809_1 | Women's Group Recasts Religion in Its Own Image | reshaping of Christian tradition and what others would call distinctly "post-Christian." Most of the women who came to Albuquerque from 48 states and at least six other countries were simply seeking a spiritual space of their own, and a brief time of renewal before returning to religious institutions that they feel are... |
604554_1 | America's Cup to Scuttle Spy Tactics for 1995 | and Pact 95, led by Kevin Mahaney, of Bangor, Me., are also considering the stricter rules. If the challengers and defenders agree to the same conditions, the restrictions might become enforceable retroactively to March 1, 1993. The new rules would continue to apply through the last race of the America's Cup match, sch... |
604513_0 | Technology; Toting Computers Without Tethers | THE telecommunications industry's oft-whispered promise is that soon, very soon, it will unite telephones, television and computers into a single wireless go-anywhere device. But the industry must first figure out how to send electronic mail, spreadsheets and other data through the air as easily as through phone wires.... |
604578_0 | Possible Other Causes Of Breast Cancer | "Officials Heed Call on Breast Cancer" [ April 4 ] prompts me to point out that one important additional possible cause was not mentioned, and that was radon. Although radon in soil-gas leaking into homes causes 20,000 to 40,000 deaths annually in the United States, about the same number as AIDS, it is not generally re... |
604681_0 | EIGHT TONS OF AID SAILS OFF TO CUBA | In an effort to ease the worsening shortages of food and other necessities in Cuba, the first of a dozen boats set out for Havana today loaded with eight tons of vitamins, food and hospital supplies. Food rationing and the resulting nutritional problems have become severe in Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union ... |
604491_5 | Who Foots the Bill For Recycling? | its recycling operations, while constituting just 3 percent by weight of the material collected. There are hundreds of plastic resins in use, but as a practical matter only two, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), used in large soda bottles, and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), used in milk jugs, are recycled in quantit... |
604632_1 | China's Crackdown on Births: A Stunning, and Harsh, Success | has lowered fertility to by far its lowest level ever here. The statistics for 1992 -- showing many fewer babies even than during the harsh crackdowns of the early 1980's -- amazed population experts, for the family planners achieved targets that they had not expected to reach until the year 2010. Problem for Clinton M... |
604633_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-21 CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON BIRTHS A major crackdown by China's family planning authorities to reduce the number of births appears to have lowered fertility to its lowest level ever. The harsh methods include punishing local officials for failing to meet quotas and forcing mothers to accept abortions. 1 BEL... |
602809_1 | Lowering the Passions Over Trade | Mr. Clinton labeled the deficit unacceptable and warned that it jeopardized cooperation between the two economic superpowers. Also turning up the heat on the trade dispute are powerful industrialists threatened by Japanese exports; U.S. automobile manufacturers took out a full-page newspaper ad yesterday calling the tr... |
600114_0 | THE QUIZ | As humans turned to agriculture, they converted large tracts of woodland and jungle into farmland and grazing areas. Soon trees were being harvested for fuel and building materials, and later to produce pulp for paper and other print products. Most of us, however, know little about the forests and jungles that cover 37... |
600004_4 | With Europe in Flux, No More Politics as Usual | in Germany today to the Nazi SA paramilitaries, drew a strong protest vote in the first round of the two-stage French elections. "I voted Le Pen in the first round because no other party came out and said what's really rotten in France today," said Francois Barbey, an unemployed real-estate salesman in Fontenay-sous-Bo... |
599863_0 | MARCH 28 - APRIL 3: Ireland; A Cry of Protest Against Violence | Officials in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic agree adamantly on one point: that, although they have been unable to end the civil war that has killed more than 3,000 people in the predominantly Protestant North since 1969, this does not mean there is an officially acceptable level of killing. But to many Ir... |
601216_0 | Sant'Angelo Journal; Corrupt Quake Aid Effort Is Disaster Italian Style | It might seem a curious question to ask: What do a derelict potato-processing plant and an empty highway have in common? The answer, equally curious, is that they both form part of a web of fraud that turned one of Italy's saddest catastrophes into a vast pork barrel. Since an earthquake struck the Irpinia region, inla... |
604045_0 | Economic Scene; The U.S. could regret getting its way on trade with Japan. | ANYONE for Japan-bashing? It has long been a riskless sport in Washington. Labor approved, as did most big businesses. And Japanese leaders, loath to tamper with the alliance, have carefully confined their contemptuous ripostes to domestic audiences. But the tone of the relationship is changing. While President Clinton... |
603954_0 | Saved by April Fool's | To The Home Section: I'm glad your article on Helen Gurley Brown and her survival guide for women over 50 appeared on April 1; otherwise, I might have thought we were to take seriously her instructions to spend our remaining years in a relentless pursuit of thinness and sex, not for any inherent pleasure, but to stay y... |
601718_1 | Patents | are put down to indicate the boundary of the brain's language areas. But it can take from half an hour to 40 minutes, lengthening already delicate and complicated surgery. With Mr. Salb's patent, the patient still has to talk or move a finger to stimulate his brain, but the electrodes and pieces of paper are replaced w... |
603205_0 | Unwelcome Aboard | THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. Edited by Paul Stillwell. Foreword by Colin L. Powell. Illustrated. 304 pp. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. $21.95. IN 1943 the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, sniffed at the idea of having blacks serve as naval officers. They are perfectly ... |
603224_12 | A Reader's Guide to the Balkans | the book is more relevant now than ever. In one of many telling observations, Holden noted that "fashionable Greeks . . . still unconsciously acknowledge their Eastern heritage by saying they are off to 'Europe' when they visit Rome, Paris or London." Holden's unstated premise was one I share: that the 20th century has... |
603160_0 | A Rain Forest Grows in Texas | A 40,000-square-foot rain forest housed within a 10-story glass pyramid opened late last month in Galveston, Tex. The Rain Forest Pyramid is part of Moody Gardens, a 142-acre complex whose other attractions include elaborate gardens and nature trails, a petting zoo, an IMAX theater showing nature films on a huge screen... |
599241_4 | A Challenge to Cellular's Foothold | of dollars from the public and venture capitalists to buy numerous licenses in big cities. Each license provided enough radio signal for only a few hundred subscribers, but by buying scores of them, Fleet Call amassed enough radio signal capacity for a few thousand subscribers. In 1991, it successfully lobbied the F.C.... |
599397_0 | Boulogne Journal; For Unhappy French Fishermen, the Seas Go Dry | The fish of the sea, it could be argued, have no particular nationality, but the 200 angry fishermen who stormed the Unipeche warehouse here on the night of March 14 had no doubt that their slippery foe was foreign. Under the lights of a television crew that had been tipped off, they broke windows, knocked over desks, ... |
599218_0 | U.S. Trade Survey Calls Japan Most Restrictive | In a survey of unfair trading practices, the Clinton Administration charged today that 44 countries had established significant tariffs and other barriers, and it identified Japan as the biggest offender. The Administration said Tokyo ran a $49.4 billion trade surplus with the United States last year at a time its impo... |
599384_1 | Clinton Seeks to Restore Aid For Family Planning Abroad | Wirth, the former Colorado Senator, who has been nominated Counselor of the State Department, where he would direct population policy. "There is an awareness in the Administration that if the United States does not aggressively re-enter the population battle to try to level off the world's population, and doesn't do it... |
600501_0 | New Brain Scanning Technique Can Show Strokes in Progress | STROKES are responsible for killing or disabling half a million Americans every year and are the third leading cause of death in this country. Until now, doctors have had neither a really safe and reliable method of diagnosing stroke, other than clinical observation, nor any way to treat the disabling effects. Now neur... |
605013_1 | Bombed Again by I.R.A., London Goes to Work Undaunted | video film from security cameras that showed the street where the truck containing the bomb was abandoned. The bomb, made from nitrate-based fertilizers and hidden inside a construction truck, killed one man -- a newspaper photographer sent to the area after the police reported receiving bomb threats -- and wounded mor... |
602367_0 | Satellite Finds Growing Threat to Ozone | Satellite measurements indicate an abundance of ozone-destroying chemicals remained in the atmosphere over the Northern Hemisphere much longer this winter than last, researchers said today. They said the finding could portend even greater ozone loss over highly populated parts of the world than in the past. Data from t... |
602319_0 | Population Control Doesn't Cure Poverty | To the Editor: "Birth Control 'for All People' " (editorial, April 2) draws attention to the opinions of two Republican Presidents on international population control programs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, you remind us, favored such programs on the ground that without them "the expectation of future generations" would be lim... |
601479_0 | F.A.A. Bars 3 Foreign Lines | Budget-conscious air travelers have long coveted seats on foreign airlines that offered fares and travel packages at prices far below those available from the major domestic airlines. Many of those travelers may have assumed that any foreign airline that flew into American airports met the Federal Aviation Administrati... |
601585_2 | Fighting the Odds, and the F.C.C., He Got His FM Station | station in 1939, a time when AM radio was America's dominant broadcast medium. But the F.C.C. has never granted Bergen its own full-time commercial FM-dial allocation; listeners rely on stations in New York and other New Jersey counties for their community news. "Bergen County has never truly been served by the New Yor... |
601502_1 | Over the Sea to Skye | the old song "The Skye Boat Song." For all that, Skye's isolation is more perceived than real. When Dr. Samuel Johnson, the author, wit and compiler of the first English dictionary, left London for the Highlands in 1773, he came as a traveler, not a tourist. The journey from Edinburgh took him three weeks and both he a... |
601403_0 | John M. Morris, Who Developed a Birth-Control Pill, Dead at 78 | Dr. John McLean Morris, a leading gynecologic researcher who discovered the "morning after" birth-control pill and made important contributions to cancer treatment, died on Thursday at his home in Woodbridge, Conn. He was 78. The cause was prostate cancer, his family said. For 35 years Dr. Morris was a professor and ch... |
601475_0 | Electronics Use Aboard Planes Debated in U.S. | As passengers carry more and more electronic devices onto airplanes, the airlines and the Government are debating measures to restrict their use for safety reasons. While there is no known instance of a crash caused by a passenger's radio or other device, many pilots have reported that they believed their planes' contr... |
601475_1 | Electronics Use Aboard Planes Debated in U.S. | While there is no known instance of a crash caused by a passenger's radio or other device, many pilots have reported that they believed their planes' controls had been impaired by interference from consumer electronics. Adding to the concerns is the increasing use of computerized controls on the planes themselves, whic... |
601501_1 | Over the Sea to Skye | the old song "The Skye Boat Song." For all that, Skye's isolation is more perceived than real. When Dr. Samuel Johnson, the author, wit and compiler of the first English dictionary, left London for the Highlands in 1773, he came as a traveler, not a tourist. The journey from Edinburgh took him three weeks and both he a... |
601587_1 | Over the Sea to Skye | the old song "The Skye Boat Song." For all that, Skye's isolation is more perceived than real. When Dr. Samuel Johnson, the author, wit and compiler of the first English dictionary, left London for the Highlands in 1773, he came as a traveler, not a tourist. The journey from Edinburgh took him three weeks and both he a... |
605378_2 | Study Says a Blood Fat Alone Rarely Hurts Heart | to the simpler carbohydrates in their diets, like sugars and alcohol, and tend to develop high triglycerides when they consume these foods. Triglyceride levels can also be raised by estrogen-containing medications, steroid drugs, pregnancy and poorly controlled diabetes. Unlike high blood levels of cholesterol, which r... |
605451_0 | Books of The Times; Putting In a Word for Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Etc. | The Oldest Dead White European Males And Other Reflections on the Classics By Bernard Knox 144 pages. W. W. Norton & Company The title of Bernard Knox's stimulating new book, "The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections on the Classics," is a bit of a tease. Since its author is a classicist and the dire... |
599477_0 | New Hostilities Threaten Azerbaijan Peace Talks | Fresh fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over ethnic enclaves is imperiling international negotiations on a cease-fire, Administration officials said today. The dispute began in 1988 when ethnic Armenians, complaining of persecution in the Azerbaijan enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, asserted the right to secede and to... |
599503_2 | German Labor Police Round Up Illegal Workers | legally allowed to. But there are also tens of thousands more workers from East Europe who come here ostensibly as tourists -- but who end up painting ceilings, repairing washing machines, and doing carpentry, charging far less money than German workers because they do not pay health or social security benefits. Worker... |
599443_1 | On My Mind; Clinton's Bank Account | help for it. I lived in India for four years. On my desk is a book I bought in New Delhi long ago -- Murray's Handbook. It tells me the population when I first saw India in 1954 -- about 360 million. All over the world people knew then that India was being choked by its people. I returned often, drawn by affection for ... |
599440_1 | Birth Control 'for All People' | right-wing supporters, promulgated the so-called Mexico City policy in 1984, which banned Federal aid to any family planning agencies that so much as mentioned abortion. When population experts protested that such a ban held poor countries' efforts hostage to America's abortion controversy, Mr. Reagan's advisers had a ... |
599488_1 | Market Place; Calgene gets the regulations it wants, but takes a hit anyway. | disallow a trial if it finds cause. Former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness had called for eliminating the advance notification, essentially deregulating the process altogether. "The worst thing that ever happened to agricultural biotech was the Council on Competitiveness," Roger Salquist, Calgene... |
600758_0 | Morada Nova Journal; In Brazil, Too, the Withered Land Cries for Rain | Standing in the doorway of her mud-and-wattle farmhouse, Maria de Lourdes Oliveira Lima surveyed rows of bean plants wilting under the noonday equatorial sun. "Those clouds don't carry rain," said the 42-year-old sharecropper and mother of seven children, casting a practiced eye up toward a few frivolous tufts in a rob... |
600342_2 | Good News Garage Leads to Radio Laurels | a lot like a truck running over vowels. Usually, at least 10 of their 60 minutes of air time are given over to their unrestrained delight in their own humor, maniacal laughter that is often just as funny as their jokes. The format of "Car Talk" varies little from week to week. The show usually begins with a short, scri... |
600185_0 | World Economies | |
600227_3 | Military Cuts: A Millstone for Ex-Workers | the Clinton Administration's preferred antidote, training in new skills, pays slim rewards. Industries requiring the new skills are hard to find. Where jobs are available, the workers discover that they have to compete with kids who have learned the same skills. Like the kids, they must start on the bottom rung, at kid... |
600229_3 | A Forbidden Fruit in Europe: Latin Bananas Face Hurdles | percent. "If Ecuador does not cut production quickly and sharply, there will be a price war," John M. McMillin, a food industry analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., predicted in a telephone interview from New York. "Everyone is wondering: what's going to happen to the millions of excess bananas that can't go into Eu... |
600197_2 | Ireland's Troubled Sleep | rush to "modernize" has largely been an effort to replace its past with the anesthetic sameness of European capitalism. History, to misquote Joyce, is the nightmare from which Ireland is pretending to awaken. In the American media's presentation, the rally bore none of this agonized complexity. Instead, the rally and t... |
600206_0 | Data for Discussions | To the Editor: A March 29 news article labels the 1993 Kids Count Data Book "an example of the many public campaigns now selling a vision of activist government beneath the face of a child," adding: "The movement's thesis is that American children as a whole are imperiled and in need of special help, especially Federal... |
602416_0 | As Catholic Feminists Meet, Some Question Their Faith | Five months ago, Roman Catholic feminists formed a united front and succeeded in helping to persuade the church's bishops to set aside a pastoral letter upholding traditional limits on church roles for women. But as Catholic feminists gather for a meeting today in Albuquerque, N.M., many are questioning the direction o... |
602451_2 | Dr. Denis Burkitt Is Dead at 82; Thesis Changed Diets of Millions | to discover what is now known as the Epstein-Barr virus. It has been linked to Burkitt's lymphoma, infectious mononucleosis and cancer of the nose and mouth. Dr. Burkitt received the highest scientific honors in many countries, including the Lasker Award in the United States. Friends described him as a modest and deepl... |
602421_0 | Robertson Trying Again To Put Prayer in Schools | At Blue Ridge High School in Farmer City, Ill., 63 of the 66 members of the Class of 1993 recently voted to say prayers during their graduation ceremony next month. School officials in the tiny farming community turned them down. But Pat Robertson, the television evangelist, is hoping to use Farmer City, 90 miles south... |
657260_0 | World Economies | |
657206_1 | Prize for School Project Bridges Old Gender Gap | of Public School 147, comprised of the five girls until June, when they graduated from the elementary school, at 325 Bushwick Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and moved on to intermediate school. Their winning entry was a six-foot-long suspension bridge with a span of about four feet, an impressive creation cons... |
655410_1 | Religion Case May Broaden Disabilities Law | a Federal law, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, which guarantees a free and appropriate public education for all children with disabilities. Under the law, such children have a right to a state-financed special education program. No similar Federal law, or even the Constitution itself, guarantees other ... |
655573_6 | NASA Success in Hubble Mission Gives Space Station Plan a Boost | its planners, "gives us experience, and experience gives us ideas on how to design for the future." One lesson, engineers said, is the value of building space equipment in modules that are accessible for repairs or installing new instruments. The Hubble telescope was the first large spacecraft designed this way, and en... |
655634_4 | Zaire Is in Turmoil After the Currency Collapses | 1991, Zaire Army soldiers mutinied because they had not been paid. A week of looting and violence spread throughout the country, eliminating most of what remained of the modern productive sector, outside of mining. In the Kinshasa area alone, 90,000 jobs were lost and at least 240 people were killed. The rioting also l... |
655413_0 | Recent Job Gains Conceal a Harsh Truth | To the Editor: Your description of recent hiring trends (Business Day, Dec. 2) requires an important caveat. As you note, job gains have been concentrated among managers and administrators, a category that experienced heavy layoffs in this "white-collar recession." But accumulating evidence indicates that the people be... |
655340_0 | A Rain Forest Comes to Colorado | Colorado is hardly rain forest country, but the calls of jungle animals can now be heard amid lush tropical growth in Denver -- in the Denver Zoo, to be specific Tropical Discovery, a 22,000-square-foot structure that houses 240 tropical animal species and about 150 types of plants. In addition to a jungle inhabited by... |
655341_0 | Resort on St. John Uses Sun and Wind Power | Called the world's first luxury resort to use sun and wind power exclusively, Harmony at the Maho Bay Campground on St. John in the United States Virgin Islands is scheduled to open to the public this Wednesday. The resort is being constructed primarily of such recycled materials as plastic bottles, crushed glass, news... |
655638_0 | NATIONS MOBILIZE TO LIMIT DESERTS | Africa's recurrent cycle of drought and famine is driving an international effort to halt the accelerating spread of deserts, a complex environmental phenomenon that is destroying agriculturally productive regions in drylands around the world. The process, known as desertification, left indelible memories in the United... |
655667_5 | The Executive Computer; A Growing Internet Is Trying to Take Care of Business | and as increasingly powerful computers and software make it possible to hide the Internet's Unix command system behind graphical, point-and-shoot interfaces like Mosaic (a free software program developed with Federal financing by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications) or even Microsoft Windows. The catch ... |
655404_2 | Shopping for Ideas | 'The Scarlet Letter' provides less commentary on the nature of moral transgression or social indiscretion, depending upon one's own point of view, than upon the grimly nonmoralistic interpretation of an offense or act like Hester's as a psychologically traumatizing experience for participant or, even, unobservant bysta... |
656706_0 | Tears Enough in Northern Ireland | Much of what Northern Ireland calls "the Troubles" is rooted in words. The search for the right phrases is what delayed the welcome joint declaration agreed upon Wednesday by the British and Irish Governments. Its principles are not new, but in proposing a framework for peace, the declaration breaks fresh ground. Words... |
653273_0 | Hormone Clue to Breast Cancer Risk | RESEARCHERS at the Strang-Cornell Breast Center in New York have found that the varying ways estrogen is processed in different women's breast tissue may be an indication of their relative risk of developing breast cancer. The preliminary finding, published in today's issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institu... |
653272_4 | Personal Health | points out that one postmenopausal woman in three is developing or already has severe bone loss, a silent, preventable $10-billion-a-year problem that results in 1.3 million fractures and thousands of deaths each year. The most rapid bone loss occurs in the first five years of menopause, and close attention to preventi... |
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