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561686_4 | NEWS SUMMARY | dig into the mystery of dark matter, the invisible material that presumably accounts for at least 90 percent of the mass of the universe. A17 NEW DATA ON AIDS A new report suggests that nonvirulent strains of H.I.V. continue to be nonvirulent after being transmitted from person to person. A19 REPORT ON ALZHEIMER'S RESE... |
566773_0 | West and East, Dams Threaten Environments; Meanwhile in Japan | To the Editor: Big dams, once presumed the essence of conservation, are no longer in good repute in the United States, but are still much admired by Japan's Ministry of Construction. Japan is driving stubbornly toward the abyss in an ecologically disastrous and hydrologically ruinous river-spoiling scheme, 60 percent c... |
566772_1 | West and East, Dams Threaten Environments | also the Government of Hungary and the stability of the whole region. The Slovak Government of Vladimir Meciar, by seizing the border river and rerouting it onto its own territory, is following in the footsteps of the Milosevic Government of Serbia. It proves by yet another example that aggression and lawlessness pay. ... |
560574_5 | Mitchell-Lamas Going on Sale | you can count on seeing more projects go to owner-occupied housing. This will be particularly true of Mitchell-Lama housing in areas where property values have gone up." There is a benefit to leaving the system after 20 years, Mr. Aponte said, even for owners with no plans to covert to co-op or condominiums. "If a buil... |
560800_0 | Tech Notes; The Ultimate in Tiny Cameras | As remotely monitored electronic security systems have proliferated, so have false alarms, which waste police officers' time and erode confidence in the systems. Now a British company has developed a digital "camera on a chip" that can be integrated into these systems to provide an instant visual verification when an a... |
560765_4 | Staying Safe On the Road | breakdown or flat on the road because their vulnerability multiplies if they get out of the car. The Automobile Association recommends these steps: * Signal and pull off the road onto the shoulder. * Turn on the emergency flashers. * If you feel safe opening the window, tie a cloth onto the driver's door handle or ante... |
560589_4 | In the Footsteps of The Dodo | steady increase in the diversity of species since evolution began, an increase that has accelerated over the last 100 million years. Some of this acceleration is the result of the continents having split into separate landmasses; with the formation of new, smaller continents, the number of sites where species could for... |
560445_1 | Russia Is Now Selling Spy Photos From Space | been selling for years have five-meter resolution. The best commercial images taken by the French SPOT satellites have a resolution of 10 meters and the ones of the American Landsat satellite have 30-meter resolution. The new Russian photographs, said Dr. Peter D. Zimmerman, a reconnaissance expert at the Center for St... |
560453_2 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: James B. Stockdale; Scholar Follows Perot Into Heat of Campaign | to the state." Martin Anderson, another senior fellow and a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, noted that Mr. Stockdale would avoid most of the minefields of politics because Mr. Perot showed no inclination to run a conventional campaign. "I would be very surprised if they got a fleet of 727's and tried to hit ... |
565503_1 | In Ex-Soviet Lands, Gangs Fill Vacuum | seen in "Arkady Meets Moscow's New Mafia" (Op-Ed, Oct. 7), your excerpt from the new Martin Cruz Smith novel. The Red Mafia is taking over many state enterprises, which the state is auctioning to privatize. In some cases the workers may try to get together and buy the enterprise, but they do not have enough money or th... |
565390_1 | USAir Pulling Out of Mercer | of our economy." One disappointed passenger was Eileen Pogo, who lives a 10-minute drive away in Hamilton Square. "I don't understand why they are leaving," she said. She ticked off the advantages of Mercer over a big airport like Newark International, including free long-term parking and the speedy arrival of luggage ... |
565426_2 | Yonkers Plant About to Begin Its Recycling Job | nearly completed plant has been operating on an experimental basis for seven weeks. The county-owned plant, operated by Liberty Waste Management, shares a site adjacent to the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in Yonkers with the transfer station for the Charles Point Resource Recovery Facility in Peekskill. Outside the hug... |
565497_1 | Technology; Yes, CD Sound Is 'Perfect.' And Yes, It's Getting Even Better. | now so commonplace, we may not realize how artificial it is." Nevertheless, the popularity of compact disks for home listening means the format is here to stay. After all, for the majority of consumers, who gave up old, misaligned turntables and scratchy records for the silver disks, the new medium is a sonic improveme... |
565806_0 | Men's Style; A Wing and a Prayer | Infrequent travelers don't know any better. They think checking luggage is the convenience it was meant to be. But frequent travelers know otherwise. That's why they stand at the airline check-in counter begging to drag on board the suitcase they could barely dead lift out of their cab. Defeated, they nervously wave go... |
563544_2 | Trade Gap Widens on Export Fall | by the fact that recalculation of July's deficit brought it down to $7.3 billion compared with the $7.8 billion originally reported. Still, August's $9 billion merchandise deficit -- services, tourism and the like are excluded -- was the highest since November 1990, which had been the last of five straight months to re... |
563495_0 | Environmentally, U.S. Leads the World; Dioxin From Autos | To the Editor: It is comforting to learn that a federally appointed panel says dioxin in the tissues of Americans is declining, and what's there may be less toxic than previously assumed (news article, Sept. 26). However, the speculation by the panel about the reasons for this (eating less meat) and the sources of diox... |
558913_1 | Panel of Scientists Finds Dioxin Does Not Pose Widespread Cancer Threat | the panelists said exposure to high concentrations of dioxin, or TCDD, seemed to increase the risk of developing two types of lethal cancers, lung cancer and particularly soft tissue sarcoma, a cancer of connective tissue. The risks, several panelists said, are largely confined to chemical workers and people exposed to... |
556342_0 | World Economies | |
556439_1 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Issues: The Environment; In Timber Country, Bush Will Join Logging War | the three states have 25 percent of the electoral votes needed to win -- show the President trailing Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas by 13 to 22 points. Washington and Oregon were the only states in the West to vote against Mr. Bush in 1988, and California went Republican by the narrowest of margins. Even timber workers,... |
555011_0 | Review/Television; Amid the Fathers, Dissenting Sisters | Three Roman Catholic American nuns in conflict with their church are the heroines of "Faith Even to the Fire," tonight's offering from "P.O.V.," the PBS series of independent productions. In their stories one can detect the influence of Vatican II and Pope John XXIII, of the liberation theology movement in Latin Americ... |
554934_2 | Cuba Cancels Atom Plant, Blaming Costs and Russians | the reactor going. For the people, it had become a symbol of Cuba's entry into the modern era." In his speech, monitored in Miami, Mr. Castro described other ways the Cuban economy had been damaged by the end of Communist aid, saying that the island's imports had fallen 70 percent and that key industries like sugar and... |
555045_0 | Now About Job Training for the Other Workers; Schooling and Earnings | To the Editor: In "Twins Study Shows School Is Sound Investment" (Education page, Aug. 19), you report that Orly Ashenfelter and Alan Kreuger found a 16 percent rise in earnings for each additional year of schooling. Readers should not too quickly conclude that keeping this country's youth in school for ever lengthier ... |
556085_6 | A Life Outside | Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and goes to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco on Nov. 19. One remarkable thing about Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series and his recent abstractions is that even the small works on paper can suggest vast scale, deep space and wide open spaces, and this impression, combined w... |
556084_0 | Points of Departure | A man slips on a Dolce & Gabbana sweater and immediately drowns in a cascade of wool. "My God! What do I do with all this?" he cries to any sales help within reach, as he slowly sinks into Yarn Lake. Another man steps into a pair of Henry Duarte's trousers and discovers they have no pleats and almost skintight legs. "T... |
555987_0 | Europe's Future Hangs on the French Voter's Whim | THE campaign for next Sunday's French referendum on a treaty on European union has become a grim affair. Supporters of the treaty say a French "no" will threaten the survival of the European Community, while opponents contend ratification will strip France of its very identity as a nation. Who should French voters beli... |
556098_0 | Hungary, Mobile Bears Are Visiting Suburbs | When a hungry young black bear scrambled up a frontyard holly tree in this affluent community recently, the tree's horrified owner wasted no time calling for help. It was one of many bear alerts that the State Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife has fielded this year. The calls came in at a rate of several each week th... |
556050_2 | In French Town, Unity Is Secondary | Protests Throughout France "No to Maastricht," some signs read, referring to the Dutch city where the treaty was signed last December. Others echo fears of foreign competition: "Japanese cars, Taiwanese electronics, American wheat, French unemployment." And similar protests can now be found throughout France. In Mantes... |
556018_0 | Something to Crow About | |
557971_1 | World Bank Vows to Weigh Environmental Effect of Projects | accusing the bank of negligence toward the environment and the indigenous people affected by bank projects. The bank, which provides more than $20 billion a year in aid to poor countries, said it would give borrowing nations advice on poverty reduction as well as help them set environmental priorities and goals. The Gl... |
557944_5 | FRENCH APPROVE UNITY TREATY, BUT SLIM MARGIN LEAVES DOUBTS | debate in France indicates that the countries have done a poor job of informing their populations of the merits of the Maastricht treaty and reassuring them that it poses no threat to national sovereignty and identity. In France, where 45 million copies of the treaty were distributed in recent weeks, 70 percent of the ... |
557880_0 | World Economies | |
558839_0 | On Matters of Health, Women's Magazines Give Solid Advice | To the Editor: While there is much of merit in Elizabeth M. Whelan's criticism of the print media's coverage of the hazards of cigarette smoking, there is also a good deal of misrepresentation ("Alarm Clocks Can Kill You. Have a Smoke," Op-Ed, Sept. 8). Self magazine has produced major pieces on women and AIDS, women a... |
558821_2 | Senior Navy Officers Suppressed Sex Investigation, Pentagon Says | other." The report issued today by the Defense Department's Deputy Inspector General, Derek J. Vander Schaaf, lays out in blunt, often profane language a withering attack on outdated attitudes toward women that critics say permeate Navy culture. In one incident, the report says, Admiral Williams met with a female Naval... |
556961_0 | F.C.C. Plans New Rules For Pocket Telephones | Hoping to head off a confrontation with Congress, the Federal Communications Commission will propose rules Thursday that would gradually free a wide range of radio frequencies for new pocket-telephone services. The proposal is an attempt to placate electric utilities, railroads and other groups that now use these frequ... |
557015_0 | Shortchanging the World's Children | Two years ago, more than 70 heads of state came together on behalf of the world's children. They wisely pledged to make the next generation stronger and smarter. Now the United States is wavering in its financial commitment to the cause. With an additional $100 million, Congress could set things right. The plight of ma... |
556945_2 | New New Jersey Tomato (Fresh From Tel Aviv) | the way for widespread acceptance of the tomato with a daring display in July 1820. "It was widely and well known that Colonel Johnson was a little eccentric," said Dr. Steve Reiners, a vegetable specialist with Rutgers Cooperative Extension. "So one day when he took a basket of tomatoes and marched through town to the... |
556960_2 | Executives Urge Focus On Deficit | than persistent" deficits. During a news conference today in Washington, committee members said President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had not addressed deficit reduction seriously. The committee includes Harold A. Poling, chairman of Ford Motor; Richard D. Wood, chairman of Eli Lilly; Robert C. ... |
556886_3 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Florida Poll; Florida Emerges As Crucial State In the Campaign | Governor of neighboring Georgia at the time. The Bush campaign attaches so much importance to keeping Florida in the Republican column that the President's son, Jeb Bush, is chairman of the statewide campaign. "Intuitively, I think we are ahead and in a close race," Jeb Bush said today when asked to comment on the poll... |
554345_4 | Theft of Food Aid Is a Business in Starving Somalia | said, with the armed Somali guards whom the relief agencies feel compelled to hire to protect their food convoys from looters. Often, Mr. Togane and relief officials said, the looting is done by the guards themselves, in league with relief truck drivers. When a convoy of trucks moves from a humanitarian agency's wareho... |
555368_0 | Food Notes | Baby Foods With Meat Baby foods made from organically grown ingredients by Earth's Best in Middlebury, Vt., are now available in meat and vegetable combinations. Vegetable turkey, vegetable beef and sweet potato with chicken have been added to the company's line of fruits and vegetables for babies. Organic yogurt-based... |
555203_0 | Calcium and Health | To The Living Section: In the Eating Well column of Aug. 5, Densie Webb presents the results of a recent study showing that preadolescent children who consumed about twice the recommended daily allowance of calcium developed denser bones than those who consumed just the recommended amount. She suggested that such a reg... |
554065_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-15 THREAT TO DIAMOND CARTEL De Beers of South Africa may be losing its tight grip on the world diamond trade, partly because of a flood of Angolan diamonds that have begun to pour onto the normally orderly world market. A1 PRESSING AHEAD ON IRAQ AID Despite Baghdad's attempts to end an international re... |
554222_0 | Indonesia's Puppeteer May Seek a New Term | Indonesian politics are often compared to the ancient shadow puppetry known as wayang, with the role of the mysterious, all-controlling puppeteer assigned to the nation's leader for more than 25 years, President Suharto. President Suharto's performance, which even his critics concede has been that of a masterful politi... |
558250_3 | A Strategy to Survey The Vast Unknowns Of Life on the Earth | conservation efforts. Beyond this assessment, Dr. Wilson and Dr. Raven propose an intermediate effort aimed at a more systematic exploration of threatened areas that are especially rich in species, like tropical rain forests. More complete inventories would be made, taking in smaller, more prevalent creatures like ants... |
558245_2 | After 17 Years, NASA Prepares for a Return Trip to Mars | irrigating their dying civilization. Two Viking spacecraft, launched in 1975, reached Mars a year later for the first successful landings and automated experiments examining Martian soil for signs of biological activity -- and finding none. The most recent probes to Mars were two Russian spacecraft launched in 1988; on... |
558155_0 | Talks Are Resumed on Ending Violence in Ulster | Senior officials of Ireland, Britain and the British province of Northern Ireland met here today in talks aimed at ending 23 years of violence that has killed more than 3,000 in the six counties of Northern Ireland. This round of talks was the first in which a leader of one of the main Protestant parties demanding cont... |
558166_1 | Mexico and the Catholic Church Restore Full Diplomatic Ties | rebellious liberals, eager to curb the vast power of the Catholic Church, severed the country's ties to the Holy See. While some powers were reinstated by the dictator Porfirio Diaz before his overthrow by the revolutionaries, Mexican leaders and the Pope continued to exchange only temporary or lower-level envoys. Mr. ... |
559521_0 | World Economies | |
555875_2 | Orwellian Dream Come True: A Badge That Pinpoints You | luggage in airports or raw materials in factories, to track their progress. Olivetti officials say active badges were initially developed about four years ago as a means of making telephone communication more effective. Scientists at the laboratory found that with a badge emitting an identification code every 15 second... |
555878_2 | More Range, Less Static in New Cordless Phones | local and long-distance networks. It searches for the best-sounding channel among 10 channels. The user is charged regular calling fees, say, 25 cents for an unlimited local call and more for long-distance calls. A cellular phone also broadcasts a radio signal, but at a different wavelength and to dozens of huge base s... |
557133_2 | Charges Could Hurt Him, Teamsters Head Concedes | he heads, to conduct its own investigation. Ron Carey, international teamsters' president, is sending an auditor to examine the union's books, a spokesman said. Longstanding Practices The labor leader and his lawyers portrayed the charges as misrepresentations of longstanding union practices that had been approved by t... |
557068_0 | U.S. Hasn't Given Up Linking Genes to Crime | To the Editor: "Faced with complaints of veiled racism, the National Institutes of Health," you report (front page, Sept. 5), "withdrew financing of an academic conference on the search for a genetic basis for criminal behavior, forcing its indefinite postponement." However, you overlook the main thrust and context of ... |
557178_1 | Herbal Ambassadors Discuss Natural Medicine | goddess of medicine) near San Ignacio, Belize. Public Discussion Both Ms. Robinson and Dr. Arvigo will be at the conservatory tomorrow and Sunday afternoon, from 1:30 to 4 P.M., discussing the medicinal uses of many of the plants that can be seen at the "Green Treasures" exhibition, which features more than 100 plants ... |
557571_0 | Making a Difference; 'Labor Peace' In Florida's Sugar Fields | Most employers of foreign migrant farmworkers figure they have about as much chance of winning kudos from representatives of the impoverished laborers as they do of seeing the crops harvest themselves, but J. Nelson Fairbanks, president of the United States Sugar Company, did not take poor relations with the workers' a... |
557804_0 | A CENSUS DISPARITY FOR ASIANS IN U.S. | Americans with roots in Asian countries and the Pacific Islands continue to stand out in educational achievement, but this advantage does not translate into higher per capita income, according to newly released Census Bureau data. The latest data from a periodic survey of American families reveal that Asian-Americans c... |
557500_5 | Dialogue Amid the Deluge | which my Jewish friends cannot be Germans or by which the Swiss and the Dutch, Erasmus and Spinoza and Rembrandt and Burckhardt, are not Germans." In 1959 he still wanted to claim Arendt as a German who happened to be a Jew. He appointed her the executor of all translations of his work into English. The circle of schol... |
557773_0 | Frequent Fliers, 12 and Younger | What do children want when they fly? That question was asked in an informal survey of passengers under age 12 who frequently travel by air unaccompanied by adults. Uniglobe Travel International, a franchise network of travel agencies that is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, commissioned the survey -- it said the t... |
557686_3 | EUROPE IN TURMOIL: Europe Awaits Verdict on Treaty by French Voters; At Stake: Stable Money, Economic Recovery and Social Peace | the treaty. At the time, it seemed like a riskless gamble. Polls indicated that over 60 percent of French backed the treaty. A strong French "yes" would bolster Mr. Mitterrand's flagging popularity at home and increase his prestige in Europe. And France's political leadership in the community would be confirmed. Since ... |
553776_2 | France Is Stepping Up Campaign To Build Support for Unity Vote | would be to stay out of the pro-treaty campaign. More significant, while few French have studied the treaty, it is already being blamed for an assortment of problems. The Communist Party, for example, says it will raise unemployment, the extreme rightist National Front says the country will be flooded by immigrants, an... |
553814_9 | Hyenas' Hormone Flow Puts Females in Charge | newborn mammal. The combination of exposure to testosterone and their mature weaponry is often deadly, and though hyenas are generally born as pairs, one often ends up killing the other, particularly if the two cubs are the same sex. Among other mammals, such sibling murder is extremely rare. "Most neonates root around... |
553773_3 | Shanghai Journal; Chinese Are on Notice: The Giant's on the Move | New Vision for the City In the last few months, the streets have filled with private motorcycles that function illegally as taxis. If the driver has an extra helmet, that means he is probably looking for a fare. "There's nothing that the police can do," a local businessman said. "If they interfere, then both the driver... |
554761_0 | MCMILLAN'S MILLIONS | As chairman of the fiction panel of the 1990 National Book Award, I must amend the account of our work in your article about Terry McMillan, one of our five panelists ("McMillan's Millions," by Daniel Max, Aug. 9). Like most panels that award prizes, we had our disagreements, and they received a portion of publicity. H... |
554737_4 | Bishops' Struggle on Role of Women Yields Little | women. Later drafts expanded the statement of the church's prohibition, and in place of the request for more dialogue, they suggested that more female participation in programs on sexual morality would render the current teaching more convincing. ORDINATION. All the drafts have acknowledged, though with diminishing emp... |
554668_0 | Got a Flat? Keep on Rolling | Anyone who has suffered through the wearisome chore of changing a flat tire on a highway in the late hours of the night will be heartened by the introduction of a tire that, when depleted of air, will hold up for at least another 50 miles traveling at a speed of 55 miles an hour. The Bridgestone Corporation of Japan an... |
554893_1 | Imperatives Of Recycling Are Gaining On Detroit | among the few automakers to build a pilot "auto disassembly" plant to study ways to increase the amount of salvageable material. In this country, the company offers $500 toward the purchase of a new model to anyone bringing a junked BMW to its salvage centers in the Bronx, Los Angeles or Orlando, Fla. About 80 percent,... |
554894_1 | Imperatives Of Recycling Are Gaining On Detroit | among the few automakers to build a pilot "auto disassembly" plant to study ways to increase the amount of salvageable material. In this country, the company offers $500 toward the purchase of a new model to anyone bringing a junked BMW to its salvage centers in the Bronx, Los Angeles or Orlando, Fla. About 80 percent,... |
554631_4 | Technology; A Lab to Renew the Vineyards | they are most excited about is its promise to be able to "clean up" their vine material to insure it is free from latent viruses. It is envisioned that a vineyard would deliver its scions to Agritope, which would test them for viruses and bacteria and then reproduce nodes of plants that are certified as healthy. The co... |
554709_0 | Ecuador Gives Indians Title to Big Amazon Area | To defuse tension over the 500th anniversary of Spain's arrival in the Americas, Ecuador's Government is preparing a present for its Indian minority: stewardship over a swath of Amazon rain forest nearly the size of Connecticut. Land titles are the fruit of a two-week, 160-mile march that brought 2,500 Indians out of t... |
554718_2 | Colombia Moves to End Vatican's Special Role | itself in Government. It had little choice given the new constitution's injunctions separating church and state and declaring all religions equal. "What we are trying to do is reform the treaty to adjust it to the new constitution," Foreign Minister Noemi Sanin said in an interview. The adjustment also fits another Col... |
554850_0 | Wheeled Beach Chair for Disabled | Wheelchair users who enjoy the beach may find it more accessible with the Surf Chair, a balloon-tired conveyance that allows them to ride across the sands. Provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act encourage shore resorts to provide wheelchair access to beaches, and ramps and walkways are going up in many seasi... |
554646_1 | The Executive Life; Forget Doing Lunch -- Hollywood's on E-mail | agents here and in New York. I can also send a message from my car phone via voice mail that the computer will distribute to any group of agents I designate across the network." Last year, when John Ptak, a Morris agent, joined Creative Artists, Hollywood's top agency, he told Mr. Simpson with some horror that runners ... |
559298_0 | Calls for Mitterrand to Go, Gracefully | If France had rejected a treaty on European union in a referendum last Sunday, President Francois Mitterrand would have faced loud demands for his resignation. Now, with the treaty narrowly approved, he is instead hearing calls to retire. It was not how he had planned things. He had argued that defeat would not force h... |
559404_1 | Crusading Clergy Shape the Course of Dance | the Judson choreographers of the 60's -- among them, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton -- revolutionized dance. A few of their productions even included nudity, which was shocking at the time. Today, when strait-laced pastors denounce unconventional art, it is heartening to recall that crusad... |
559388_2 | Mental Health Forum To Address New Trends | will discuss treatment trends in developmental disabilities. All the sessions will take place at the Jewish Community Center of White Plains at 252 Soundview Avenue. Each of the three sessions runs from 9 to 11:30 A.M., with a question--and-answer period after each speaker's presentation. The Latest Information "There ... |
559405_1 | Crusading Clergy Shape the Course of Dance | the Judson choreographers of the 60's -- among them, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton -- revolutionized dance. A few of their productions even included nudity, which was shocking at the time. Today, when strait-laced pastors denounce unconventional art, it is heartening to recall that crusad... |
559221_1 | Crusading Clergy Shape the Course of Dance | the Judson choreographers of the 60's -- among them, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton -- revolutionized dance. A few of their productions even included nudity, which was shocking at the time. Today, when strait-laced pastors denounce unconventional art, it is heartening to recall that crusad... |
559005_0 | . . .And a Forecast for the Future | As fuel economy and recycling become increasingly important, more and more lightweight -- and different -- materials will find their way into the cars of the future, according to a recent survey by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute. The study, based on responses from domestic auto manufactu... |
559026_3 | Don't Think for Yourself Unless You Can | making those things happen in the first place. The way medical technique has made dying even more alarming than it used to be is a case in point; we have become very clever at keeping the dying body alive a little longer, but have forgotten how to care for the patient. We have lost the sense of the meaning of life and ... |
556507_4 | Satellite Woes Undercut U.S. Hurricane Forecasts | save lives. Hurricane forecasting relies heavily on the comparison of a number of different satellite images taken over time, which disclose the storm's pace and suggest its future route. That information is tempered by whatever data can be gleaned about prevailing winds and nearby weather patterns. Weather airplanes c... |
559615_1 | Manufacturers Urged to Make Environmentalism a Goal | Carnegie-Mellon University said a lot had been done to regulate pollution and waste but not enough had been done to prevent it. "We have addressed the waste problem after it occurs," Dr. Nair said at a hearing Friday on environmental technology held by Mr. Brown's committee. "Waste prevention is a relatively new concep... |
559560_0 | Missing Archival Records Set Back Highway Repairs | Reconstruction of three blocks of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive that hang partly over the East River on a platform had to be halted two months ago after workers found that more than half of an old, 400-foot timber retaining wall under the roadway was missing, state transportation officials said yesterday. Because the... |
559628_2 | Radical Brain Surgery, The Earlier the Better, Offers Epileptics Hope | the unknown causes of mental retardation and learning disorders. But some experts criticize the methods used at U.C.L.A. "They do a spectacular job with surgery and helping families," said Dr. John Freeman, director of the pediatric epilepsy center at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. But the radioactive imagi... |
558325_4 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Truth's Several Sides; Bush's Attack on the Clinton Record Is Accurate, at Least as Far as It Goes | and it was defeated. Even without that, more blacks and women have been appointed to state boards, commissions and government departments under Mr. Clinton than under any of his predecessors. And as Mr. Clinton's campaign likes to point out, Mr. Bush's record on this issues has long been a subject of criticism. As an u... |
553890_1 | Cuba Sharply Reduces Its Overseas Phone Links | calls were then conveyed by satellite to Cuba. A.T.& T. said that it was told on Monday by Cuba that only calls routed through Italy would be accepted, effectively reducing by two-thirds or more the number of calls received in Cuba; Italy is negotiating with Cuba to provide satellite links for telephones. Telex communi... |
553892_4 | No Pressure? No Problem. New Tires Run Flat. | making the system much less expensive, although it will not disclose the likely price. Donald L. Knight, director of devlopment for original-equipment tires at Goodyear, said, "Our tire has been designed to maintain itself to the wheel at zero-inflation pressure." He said the wide design of the tire and the modified de... |
555160_0 | World Economies | |
555084_1 | European Treaty Evokes Fear and Suspicion at Grass-Roots Level in France | majority of voters would also say no, although more recent surveys have shown a slim majority in favor of the treaty, which commits the European Community to adopt common foreign and security policies and to create a single regional currency by 1999. The referendum is crucial because the treaty, which was negotiated in... |
555140_0 | Scientists Using Plants to Clean Up Metals In Contaminated Soil | A forest once grew here in the bend of the Delaware River. Now a multibillion-dollar plant where the Du Pont Company manufactures 750 different chemicals sprawls under the span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. After 75 years of manufacturing toxic materials like tetraethyl lead, an anti-knock gasoline additive, at the ... |
555135_6 | HIGH LEVEL OF IRON TIED TO HEART RISK | he said. "This is something that they could and should do." Dr. Salonen said his team had been bleeding 14 Finnish men with high iron levels to determine the effects of such purging on their lipids and metabolism. The one-year study is due to be completed in December. The most crucial studies will be those that measure... |
559849_2 | Environmental Politics Is Making the Kitchen Hotter | the Pure Food Campaign. Mrs. Child says genetic engineering is good. Rick Moonen, the chef at the Water Club in Manhattan, was the first to organize his fellow chefs against genetically engineered foods. He has joined forces with Jeremy Rifkin, an environmental advocate who has been fighting certain aspects of biotechn... |
559847_2 | Personal Health | least three people with strong suicidal feelings who required immediate hospitalization. In addition, more than half the people screened, who, of course, were self-selected, were found to score positive for depression. Size of the Problem The magnitude of depressive illness in this country dwarfs many other major healt... |
554515_1 | Patents; New Lawsuit On Magnetic Resonance | a suit against the General Electric Company and Hitachi Ltd. The suit accused the companies of infringing not only the basic patent on the use of magnetic resonance to detect cancer but also three more recent patents covering the design of his iron-core magnets. He is being represented by the Minneapolis law firm of Ro... |
558624_3 | Jerusalem Journal; Write 100 Times: The Schools Need Shaking Up | distraction with her calls for direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization and her readiness to accept an independent Palestinian state. Today, she declared that under international law the Golan Heights belonged to Syria. Some Israelis react almost reflexively to her as many American conservatives s... |
558560_0 | Auto Emissions Aren't Lead Pollution Source | To the Editor: Your Sept. 4 Metro Section news article reporting that New York City will add the chemical calcium orthophosphate, a relative of baking soda, to the city's water supply to lower lead contamination in older buildings states that this is advantageous because water tainted with lead can pose an added risk f... |
556808_0 | POPULATION POLICY IN ASIA IS FAULTED | Serious flaws in family-planning programs in China and India make it unlikely that the world's two most populous nations will be able to stabilize growth until well into the next century, by which time they may have added more than 1.5 billion people to the world's population, according to findings published this week ... |
556852_0 | Vote for Incinerator Let All New Yorkers Down | To the Editor: Re "Clean, Courageous Politics" (editorial, Aug. 28): The New York City Council vote on the city's solid-waste-management plan was neither clean nor courageous. Overwhelming and honest constituent opposition to incineration marked the process. Only political horse-trading and middle-of-the-night arm-twis... |
556792_0 | French Vote Puts Eurocrats on Trial | It was not long ago that Margaret Thatcher, when she was British Prime Minister, was being dismissed by her European partners as an eccentric nationalist for her fierce attacks on the unelected bureaucrats who run the European Community's executive commission here. Yet suddenly her message has struck home in France. An... |
539912_0 | Tiny Cancer Risk in Chlorinated Water | Chlorinated drinking water has been linked to small increases in the rates of rectal and bladder cancer in a new analysis by researchers at Harvard University and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The findings, reported today in The American Journal of Public Health, are drawn from a combination of 10 previous studies.... |
539820_0 | PATENT OFFICE TO REVIEW GENETICALLY ALTERED TOMATO | The Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the patent process undertaken by Calgene Inc. and ICI Seeds, an American unit of Imperial Chemical Industries P.L.C.,in their pursuit of protection for a genetically altered tomato, ICI said. The news brought a drop in Calgene's stock, which fell $1.125, to $11.50, on a b... |
539873_0 | Northern Ireland Protestants Hold First Talks With Dublin Since '75 | Leaders of the two parties supported by most of Northern Ireland's Protestant majority met here today with officials of the Irish Republic. It was the first such meeting in more than 18 years. The purpose of the talks, which included British officials and other Northern Ireland leaders, was to try to breathe life into ... |
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