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654262_0 | Reporter Disciplined for Reading His Co-workers' Electronic Mail | In a stunning example of growing concern over technology and privacy in the workplace, The Los Angeles Times has recalled a foreign correspondent from its Moscow bureau for snooping into the electronic mail of his colleagues. The correspondent, Michael Hiltzik, a well-regarded journalist who joined The Times's Moscow b... |
654226_0 | SUCCESSFUL WORK ON HUBBLE BRINGS NASA SOME RELIEF | In the first two of five planned space walks, the shuttle astronauts today and on Sunday ministered to the impaired Hubble Space Telescope with skill and effective -- if sometimes brute -- force, much to the relief of watchful mission officials and the astronauts themselves. After a productive day of work on Sunday, wh... |
654205_0 | World Economies | |
656096_1 | THE WORLD TRADE AGREEMENT: THE FRENCH STRATEGY Months of Risk, Moments of Isolation, Now Boasts of Triumph | with the 12-member European Community in November 1992, France said it had achieved a slower reduction in subsidies for farm exports. That was its main purpose in pushing the United States and the community to restructure those provisions of the accord, softening the impact on France's million farmers. The Truculent Fr... |
656085_2 | Personal Health | anyone else who had a son with this condition. The reports she gleaned from medical textbooks painted a grim picture of abnormal social misfits. In desperation, she sent a letter to Ann Landers, and after its publication she was flooded with more than 1,000 responses from parents of XXY sons and from XXY men all over t... |
656127_3 | A Realignment Made Reluctantly | extraordinary European outcry, rooted in but not confined to France. The target was Hollywood, portrayed as a marauder as mindless as the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park," intent on devouring the vestiges of European culture. It was "Dallas" versus Depardieu, culture as commerce versus culture as art -- and the result was ... |
658645_6 | U.S. COMPANIES USE AFFILIATES ABROAD TO SKIRT SANCTIONS | operations. Cargill's lawyers have not denied the roles of Mr. Vigil and other executives. But in hundreds of pages of legal arguments presented to prosecutors, they have contended that the subsidiary in Geneva dominated the transaction, and that Mr. Vigil and other United States executives had no contact with Cuba. Th... |
658639_0 | Preventing 'Inferior' People in China | China's announcement last week of a new draft law to "avoid new births of inferior quality" explicitly refers to "more than 10 million disabled persons who could have been prevented through better controls." The language seems calculated to outrage Americans already upset over the forced abortions, prematurely induced ... |
658621_0 | World Economies | |
658655_5 | Job-Training Program Is Seen as U.S. Model | was hired immediately by a hospital groundskeeping crew. He said he had an edge in his job because he knew how to use landscaping tools and to calculate how much grass seed and shrubbery were needed. He was recently promoted. "I started at $6 an hour," he said, "and I just got raised to $10.35." The business leaders wh... |
658901_0 | Ireland Sees Nothing Heroic About the I.R.A. | To the Editor: In "Why Should We Believe Britain on Irish Peace?" (letter, Dec. 17), Martin Galvin claims that peace in Northern Ireland has been jeopardized because of British intransigence. He implies that the Irish Republican Army is on a quest for peace and has been rebuffed by a self-interested government in Londo... |
658933_3 | With a View of One Hemisphere, Latin America Is Freeing Its Own Trade | end of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule in the early 1800's, are integrating major geographic areas: Central America, the Caribbean, the Andean nations and the Southern Cone, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Idea Already a Success Thus unfettered, intra-Latin commerce has surged. Trade among ... |
658934_0 | Birth to 59-Year-Old Briton Raises Ethical Storm | Three days after a 59-year-old woman gave birth to twins in a London hospital, doctors and politicians have become snarled in a thickening ethical debate: should governments and doctors limit the age at which a woman may become pregnant through fertility treatments? The London woman, who has not been identified but is ... |
657828_2 | On Surprise Visit to Ulster, Major Calls for Peace | Wilson, a former councillor from the Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, turned a protest poster into a paper dart and hurled it at Mr. Major, shouting: "You will live to regret this but the people of Northern Ireland will die regretting it! Shame on you!" He was ignored. The Prime Minister's visit was intend... |
657821_0 | Daughter of Castro Leaves Cuba And Is Given Asylum in the U.S. | Fidel Castro's daughter has fled Cuba and has been granted political asylum in the United States, State Department officials said today. The woman, Alina Fernandez Revuelta, arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday on a flight from Spain after her asylum request was granted by the United States Embassy in Madrid, said David Johns... |
655252_0 | British and Irish Premiers Hold Talks on Ulster Future | British and Irish leaders today discussed the text of a proposed joint statement to encourage peace in Northern Ireland but said they needed to meet again before Christmas to try to finish it. Prime Minister John Major of Britain and his Irish counterpart, Albert Reynolds, met for an hour at a European Union summit mee... |
655267_1 | Security Is Easy to Breach At Airports, Inquiry Finds | and other restricted areas in 15 of 20 attempts at the 4 airports. "Once we gained access, we wandered around aircraft parking areas, baggage processing centers, maintenance areas and ramp administrative offices," the report said. David R. Hinson, who heads the Federal Aviation Administration, minimized the security th... |
655219_0 | Virtuosos in Space | It has been a near-flawless performance by the Endeavour astronauts in the most complex repair job yet attempted in orbit. Late at night, while most of us were sleeping, they installed new gyroscopes on the ailing Hubble Space Telescope, replaced wobbly solar panels, inserted a new camera and installed an array of lens... |
659120_0 | PARENT & CHILD | WHEN she was growing up, Chriss Garlick was jealous of the extra attention that her twin brother, Bill, got from their parents. She was angry that she would be punished for misbehavior he could get away with. But she felt she couldn't express those feelings directly to her parents. She was healthy; Bill was mentally re... |
659099_0 | Re-Use the Trimmings | NOT long ago, the success of the holidays was measured by the size of the trash piles at curbsides on Dec. 26. Christmas refuse was a status symbol. Recycling, except for the school newspaper drive, was rare. Guilt was nonexistent. By law and personal choice, consumers are becoming more environmentally savvy, discardin... |
653337_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-17 U.S. WEIGHS KOREA OPTIONS As President Clinton weighs a decision on sanctions against North Korea, the Pentagon is considering strengthening American and South Korean defenses if tensions increase on the peninsula. A1 BUILDING UKRAINE'S ARMY Among the shards into which the Soviet Union splintered, U... |
654617_2 | One Ireland: In Reach Yet? | Irish would put the constitutional claim to a referendum only as part of an overall solution, but on Sunday he indicated he would put such a guarantee in writing. The political predicaments of the two Prime Ministers also have some bearing. While Mr. Reynolds, with a 37-vote majority in Parliament, has more freedom to ... |
654575_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-17 HOLLYWOOD'S TRADE ISSUE A conflict over France's effort to protect its film industry from Hollywood is becoming a central issue in the GATT world trade talks. A1 JAPAN TO OPEN RICE MARKET Japan plans to open its rice market to imports, removing a major stumbling block to a world trade pact by the de... |
654741_4 | Personal Health; Deciding how, or whether, to treat menopause. | of postmenopausal women than is breast cancer, and hormone replacement appears to cut the risk of a fatal heart attack in half. So even if the hormone therapy slightly increases the risk of breast cancer, there would still be a substantial overall benefit. In weighing the various options, a woman and her doctor should ... |
654525_2 | Editorial Notebook; China and Global Warming | not done an exemplary job of controlling its energy appetite despite furious economic expansion. The Chinese have made astonishing gains in industrial efficiency over the past decade, thereby holding energy growth to half the rate of economic growth. But most analysts think the easy part has been accomplished and that ... |
654667_0 | Terminal Data Corp. (NMS) reports earnings for Qtr to Sept 30 | *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*Terminal Data Corp. (NMS) Qtr to Sept 30 1993 1992 Sales 5,222,000 5,095,000 Net loss b2,400,000 c177,000 Share earns - .03 Shares outst 4,848,000 5,040,000 Yr sales 20,129,000 20,781,000 Net loss b3,270,000 532,000 Shares outst 4,753,000 4,622,000 b-Included a $ 1,282,000 charge in the quar... |
653828_0 | Airline Luggage | To the Editor: I am writing in response to your article "Baggage Check: Weighing Risks" (Practical Traveler, Oct. 31) The last paragraph advising against packing valuables in checked luggage should have been the first paragraph. As a frequent traveler I am amazed how often people forget the simple precautions. I also b... |
653882_1 | NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: Mott Haven; After Arrests, a Security Push | security and stability to the 1,200-apartment complex, which is scattered between East 138th and 143d Streets and St. Ann's and Jackson Avenues. They and local community leaders say violent, small-time drug dealers remain in and around the 38-building complex. "There are incredibly hard-working people who tried to rais... |
653977_0 | NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: Upper West Side; Efforts on Town House Fail | Community groups opposing additional social-service centers on the Upper West Side lost another round recently when they failed to find developers for a town house at 11 West 103d Street. Control of the building is now likely to fall to the Bridge, a nonprofit organization that treats the mentally ill. The Bridge, whic... |
653952_2 | Indian Point 3 Rekindles Energy Debate | allowed to restart until his agency is satisfied that the problems leading to the shutdown have been remedied. John H. Garrity, resident manager of Indian Point 3 since April, said that despite the negative performance reviews, there has never been "a degradation of safety" at the plant. "From an equipment point of vie... |
653929_4 | With Holidays Coming, It's Time to Save | and when the rubber becomes brittle enough, engine vibration will cause it to crack. Softening also occurs, caused by accumulations of oil, power-steering fluid or grease. If in doubt, replacement is the way to go. The windshield-wiper blade is another component that yields to variations in temperature. A hard or defor... |
654044_3 | Gambling, Pariah No More, Is Booming Across America | in annual profits. Eighty more court-protected sovereign tribes have gambling plans in a dozen other states. They were inspired by the industry's phenomenon, the Foxwoods casino in Ledyard, Conn. Since being opened 21 months ago by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, which was once nearly extinct amid urban poverty, it has ... |
654160_0 | FORBIDDEN SUN, AND SIN, COMMUNIST STYLE | Your author comments on Ernest Hemingway's prodigious consumption of daiquiris in Old Havana's Floridita bar, and wonders "how anyone, even a Nobel Prize-winning boozer, could down that much sugar in a sitting." Hemingway himself provided the answer, in the Cuba chapter of "Islands in the Stream," much of which takes p... |
654006_2 | The Municipal Navy | also deals with "jumpers" and "floaters," in police vernacular. Jumpers are people who leap off bridges and ferries. Floaters are dead bodies. Officer Church remembers answering one radio call about a man who was about to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge. The officer was waiting near the bridge when the man hit the water ... |
653974_0 | Airline Luggage | To the Editor: While visiting in Atlanta recently, we read an article (Travel Advisory, Oct. 17) telling of a 43 percent increase in baggage thefts at Kennedy Airport and of the improved means of security being planned and some plans that have already been implemented. On Oct. 19, we flew back to La Guardia Airport fro... |
653887_1 | Art | along briskly, with never a word wasted. The nearly 400 plates are as attentive to findings of recent date, whether they are now in Beirut or in Malibu, as they are to the celebrated equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. In every case, moreover, the plates are keyed by number to what is... |
654090_0 | Peace Is Topic, but Doubts Are the Issue in Ulster | In Dublin and London, the talk these days is about peace, and the best hope yet for a settlement to end the years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland. But down at Brown's appliance store, on the Protestant side of Dungannon's business district, Ralph Brown stood alongside the blinking displays of Christmas lights Friday a... |
654024_0 | Trying to Breach the Walls of Hatred | AT the Vietnam peace talks, the first argument was over the shape of the table. If "talks about talks" ever get under way on Northern Ireland, there will probably be fights not just about the shape of the table but about what it's made of, whether it's level, where it should be and of course who should sit at it. In th... |
656284_1 | More Joining Quest for Cleaner Cars | Advanced Battery Consortium. The consortium, comprising General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, has $262 million to spend, half of it from the Department of Energy. The deal for the battery, a two-year effort to develop a lithium-polymer battery big enough for a car, is the biggest contract it has awarded so far. Hybrid Tec... |
656402_0 | BRITISH-IRISH PLAN GIVES I.R.A. ALLIES TERMS FOR TALKS | Britain and Ireland produced a set of principles today to encourage peace negotiations on Northern Ireland, and Britain pledged to start talks with political representatives of the Irish Republican Army within three months if the I.R.A. renounced violence in the province. The declaration of principles, signed by Prime ... |
656405_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-15 PEACE PLAN FOR NORTHERN IRELAND Britain and Ireland produced a set of principles to encourage peace negotiations on Northern Ireland, and Britain pledged to start talks with the I.R.A. within three months if it renounces violence. A1 RUSSIAN ANXIETY ABATES Anxiety over Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky's stro... |
656225_0 | The Call For Peace In Ulster | Following are excerpts from a declaration of principles intended to bring about peace talks on Northern Ireland, issued today by John Major, the Prime Minister of Britain, and Albert Reynolds, the Prime Minister, or Taoiseach (pronounced THEE-shakh), of Ireland: The Taoiseach, Mr. Albert Reynolds T.D., and the Prime Mi... |
657911_2 | CLINTON TO YIELD ALL OF HIS FILES ON LAND DEALINGS | authorities at the Department of Justice with all documents relating to the Whitewater Development Corporation, including those in the files of Vincent Foster which were turned over to their personal attorney after Mr. Foster's death." White House officials said that Mr. Gearan's statement was meant to apply to any doc... |
657959_1 | In Battling for Biotech, Monsanto Is the Leader | erosion by killing weeds with chemicals. In addition to other herbicides and its Ortho line of products, Monsanto also makes high-quality polyesters, specialty plastics used widely in the automotive, appliance and medical products industries, Nutrasweet sweeteners, and, through its G. D.Searle subsidiary, a range of dr... |
658279_0 | Stakes Reach Beyond Boat Race | Stuart Hayim says his championship powerboat Recovery, "is energized by a lot of horsepower, but a lot more emotion." Hayim, who has crested the highest wave of powerboat racing over the past 15 years while battling cancer, could use those very words to describe his own existence on a daily basis. "No one goes across t... |
658267_5 | Labs Conjure Up Fragrances And Flavors to Add Allure | nature alone." Presenting a Concept The flavor and fragrance industry garners its clients by presenting a concept or by specific requests from a company to create, improve or fortify a product. Both approaches recently took place at Ungerer & Company, a 100-year-old fragrance and flavor concern in Lincoln Park. Gary Vo... |
654404_0 | Ancient 'Starting Pistol' Turns Out to Be 2 Cords | AT the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece, as early as the fourth century B.C., runners would crouch and lean forward at the ready, their naked bodies glistening with oil. They were restrained against a premature start by two cords stretched tight across the starting line. One cord held them at their waist and another... |
657401_0 | Far Under Icecap and Ocean, Teams Seek Sign From Stars | HOPING to capture ghost-like neutrino particles that reveal hidden features of black holes, galactic cores and other cosmic enigmas, astrophysicists have begun installing a pair of peculiar "telescopes" -- one at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and the other under a half-mile of ice at the South Pole. Unlike convention... |
657344_1 | Child-Killer Diseases on Decline, Unicef Reports | against the biggest killers of small children in the world. Its annual report, titled "The State of the World's Children," says that the press tends to dwell on bad news from the third world rather than the good. The report notes that infant deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, tetanus and whooping cough are all i... |
657318_3 | North Korea's Nuclear Program Provokes No Panic in the South | pouring into Seoul. "Does anybody in here want to risk that?" he asked, looking around. "South Koreans feel that the only bad guys are Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il," he said, referring to the North Korean leader and his son and heir apparent. "To the South Koreans, everyone else in the North is fine." So far the biggest... |
657346_0 | Science Group Asks Delay on Gene-Altered Foods | With the first two genetically engineered crops a few months away from American food stores, a scientific policy organization called on the Government yesterday to delay commercial approval until the United States better understands the potential risks the plants may pose to the environment. In a study intended to prov... |
656873_0 | Professional Pay Disparity | To the Editor: It is Derek Bok who is naive to suggest that professional compensation is not the result of market forces. No one is guaranteed anything regardless of personal goals, drive and abilities. No politicians, film stars, athletes, doctors or business people are assured success. The field for which they traine... |
656887_0 | Dec. 12-18: Squaring a Circle; Britain and Ireland Set Forth Hopeful, if Rather Vague, Principles for Peace Process | By the week's end, a dramatic peace initiative by Britain and Ireland to break the 25-year-long logjam and bring about peace talks in Northern Ireland won plaudits and accolades from just about everyone -- except those on both sides who are doing the actual fighting. The peace "process" -- it is too amorphous to be cal... |
655759_1 | Clinton Seeks to Narrow a Growing Wage Gap | on lifting the skills of the non-college-educated, is desirable not only because it is good politics, but also because it will reduce income inequality and help make the nation's work force -- and its economy -- more competitive with those in Japan and Europe. But many economists say the effort will be able to offset i... |
655827_0 | World Economies | |
656447_2 | In Belfast, Life Returns to Tension and Suspicion | disappointment." Still, many analysts and officials said they thought that Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, would try to persuade the I.R.A. that the proposals provided an honorable way for them to agree to end their attacks and start full-scale negotiations. Outside the Falls Road post office, waiting for a bus, ... |
656585_0 | Why Should We Believe Britain on Irish Peace? | To the Editor: The ballyhooed Dec. 15 British-Irish declaration (front page, Dec. 16) is not a step toward peace but a disappointing recipe for more bloodshed in Ireland. The British seem to be hyping the same time-worn policies that have cost so many Irish lives, in the hopes of escaping blame. Irish victims of Britis... |
658089_4 | London Journal; For the Troubled Anglicans, Peace Is Still Elusive | Britain since the times of Henry VIII, when he severed the nation's ties to Rome over his marriage to Anne Boleyn, it has found itself serving an increasingly secular nation. Much of the current tension within the church revolves around what some describe as a question of marketing. "If I am going to serve my own paris... |
653747_0 | ULSTER TALKS FAIL TO MAP PEACE DEAL | After seven hours of apparently heated discussions, the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland failed today to reach agreement on a new formula that could lead to an end to violence in Northern Ireland and pave the way for formal peace talks involving the Irish Republican Army. But both John Major of Britain and Albert... |
653755_3 | U.S. Seeks to Bring France Into Trade Pact's Fold | of France, Mr. Legras was particularly well placed to coax the French Government toward a compromise, a process reflected in increasingly conciliatory statements about the GATT standoff by Mr. Balladur over the last two weeks. Both Mr. Balladur and Mr. de Silguy are also graduates of the same school. The essence of the... |
659236_0 | I.R.A. Sniper Kills British Soldier, Raising Doubts on Peace Initiative | An I.R.A. sniper shot and killed a British soldier on patrol in Northern Ireland today, raising doubts over prospects for a British-Irish initiative aimed at bringing peace to the province. The killing, for which the I.R.A. took responsibility, was the first in Northern Ireland since Britain and Ireland started their p... |
659276_2 | Paris Journal; Frenchwomen Say It's Time to Be 'a Bit Utopian' | and 15.7 percent of the lower house of the Spanish Parliament. But women have a higher political profile in northern Europe. In their countries' main legislative assemblies, women hold 21.6 percent of the seats in Germany, 27.3 percent in the Netherlands, 32.6 percent in Sweden, 33.5 percent in Denmark and 38 percent i... |
659251_2 | Indian Pt. 3 Poses Threat, N.R.C. Warns | 10 worst in the nation. Peter W. Eselgroth, the N.R.C. official in charge of regulating Indian Point 3, said recent problems "raise the question as to whether performance has really bottomed out." The commission made its report to plant officials in a meeting on Dec. 10 that was supposed to be about re-starting the rea... |
654793_2 | International Report Card Shows U.S. Schools Work | the 24 nations surveyed. Describing the report as "full of pluses and minuses," Education Secretary Richard W. Riley said yesterday that the study "illustrates why the American habit of being comfortable with just being average comes up short in the new global economic environment." Mr. Riley said the report "confirms ... |
653539_4 | Reporter's Notebook; For Cuba, Mixed Scores In Games and in Politics | other fans chanting "Fidel No! Cuba Si!" but the flashy Cubans seemed far more at home than the earnest contingent of big-league scouts dutifully charting pitches and scouting prospects. In the end, the fans got both a good show and a good game, which the Senators won 4 to 3 when Mr. Ajete gave up a two-run, ninth-inni... |
653483_2 | What's What In The World Trade Talks | products made more efficiently elsewhere. The Basics TARIFFS These are taxes that Governments collect on imports from other countries. The overall goal of the Uruguay Round is to reduce average tariffs by at least one-third. Previous GATT negotiations have cut average tariffs on manufactured goods to 5 percent from 40 ... |
657523_0 | I.R.A. Leader Calls for Dialogue; Britain Balks at 'Unconditional' | The leader of the Irish Republican Army's political arm made his first substantive response today to the overtures by Britain and Ireland last week for peace in Northern Ireland, calling for unconditional talks with London and Dublin. But the Northern Ireland Office of the British Government rejected the proposal. In t... |
657487_0 | Chinese Seek a Halt To 'Abnormal' Births | A Chinese official has proposed giving the Government the authority to use sterilization and abortion to prevent the birth of children who might be considered "abnormal." The official's report cited the existence of "more than 10 million disabled persons who could have been prevented through better controls." The move ... |
657514_5 | As Free Trade Draws Nations Together, Campus Becomes 'Mexico Think Tank' | the San Diego campus invited him to establish the center. While he was teaching at M.I.T., Professor Cornelius had a particularly bright graduate student from Harvard who took advantage of cross-registration privileges between the two institutions. His name was Carlos Salinas de Gortari. "At that point I couldn't tell ... |
657503_0 | China Weighs Using Sterilization and Abortions to Stop 'Abnormal' Births | China's Minister of Public Health has proposed national legislation to halt the birth of "abnormal" children, using Government-ordered sterilizations and abortions if necessary. The Minister, Chen Minzhang, has presented draft legislation on "eugenics and health protection" to the National People's Congress and said Ch... |
657567_2 | The Presents Food Experts Cook Up | trip to Tunisia, where she was researching a book, Ms. Wolfert gave each local woman who shared cooking secrets one of her favorite kitchen gadgets: the rolling mincer, a $5 item that looks like a little plastic snail and is sold by Signatures in Perris, Calif. Ms. Wolfert, who suffers from arthritis, uses it to chop t... |
658777_3 | New York's Puerto Ricans Split in Economic Success | children live below the poverty level. One in three Puerto Rican households relied primarily on public assistance in 1989, reporting no earnings. All three of the city's 59 community districts in which real income declined during the 1980's, all of them in the South Bronx, have large Puerto Rican populations. The analy... |
658764_2 | DEADLY FLOTSAM ON FRENCH SHORES | specify what rules he had in mind, nor did he explain how these would have affected the spill of pesticides from the Sherbro. Environmentalists have also renewed their warnings that while the virtues of international free trade are widely sung, too little attention is paid to the dark side of such trade, notably the ri... |
655108_1 | British and Irish Prime Ministers To Confer Again on Ulster Today | least one more meeting between Mr. Major and Mr. Reynolds is likely to be necessary, probably in London, if a deal is to be reached before Christmas, a senior official at Downing Street said this week. The two sides are searching for language in a joint statement that would reassure both the I.R.A. and the Ulster Union... |
652104_12 | F.B.I. Shaken by Inquiry Into Idaho Siege | man rushed through the cabin's opened door. "I decided to neutralize that male and his rifle," Mr. Horiuchi later recalled. The Weaver's teen-age daughter screamed, but the agents said they did not know whether the shot had hit its target. In fact, the second shot crashed through a door window through the skull of Mrs.... |
650539_4 | Personal Health | with BST. The hormone itself is not the cause; rather, mastitis is more common in cows that are high milk producers, and the frequency of this infection in BST-treated cows is about the same as in naturally high producers. The problem, however, is not the infection itself but the antibiotics that are used to treat it, ... |
650604_2 | THE FREE TRADE ACCORD: A Hard-Won Vote; Voting Yes on Trade Accord Is Folly in Rust Belt. Or Is It? | than any vote I've ever cast." Pain and Opportunity "He wins the award for most tortured," said one White House official who watched as Mr. Clinton wooed Mr. Sawyer in two White House meetings and at least four telephone calls. That official described Mr. Sawyer as looking "awfully pale" after the final session. The ag... |
650463_0 | Panel Seeks Stronger Role in Future of Ellis Island | Ellis Island was designated a historic district yesterday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The designation comes at a time when the island is the center of two unrelated disputes between New York and New Jersey over which state has jurisdiction over the island, and whether a $15 million bridge, a... |
647230_1 | Drug Flow Through Haiti Cut Sharply by Embargo | military or its supporters that have been hurt by the embargo. Only oil and arms are currently on the list of items barred by the embargo, but as oil dries up manufacturing and transportation are collapsing, cutting incomes across the board. Representative John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, who ordered a General A... |
647214_0 | Ecuadorean Indians Suing Texaco | Maria Sanchez, who lives in the rain forest of Ecuador, said she cannot bathe in the river and lagoons near her house. She and her son are reluctant to walk on the road because oil stains her feet and clothing, she said tearfully at a news conference yesterday in New York, and she is also allergic to the gasoline used ... |
647262_1 | Administration Sweetens Trade Agreement Terms | there," the President told reporters. "We've had a real movement in the last 10 days or so, and I think you'll see more and more progress in the next few days." The trade accord would gradually abolish all tariffs and other trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, creating a free-trade zone in North... |
647247_3 | Dublin Journal; Nemesis of I.R.A., and No Friend to Protestants | from jail, where he was interned as an I.R.A. commander, and flew him to London for talks that failed. Mr. Hume believes that Mr. Adams is the only political leader who might persuade the I.R.A. to lay down its arms. The most Mr. Hume has said publicly about the Hume-Adams proposals is that they "can lead to a dialogue... |
648651_2 | Arabs Accusing Israel On Handling of Protests | spokesman said. "The army can't be everywhere, and in many cases the settlers dispersed on their own." One official said that while the Government was determined to insure law and order, it was up to the army to decide how to best restore calm and prevent an increase in violence. 'No Change in Policy' Oded Ben-Ami, a s... |
648488_0 | Books of The Times; With Flux Everywhere And Meaning in All of It | The Protean Self Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation By Robert Jay Lifton 262 pages. Basic Books. $25. As events like the fall of the Berlin wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the splintering of Yugoslavia and the recent signing of a peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization so ... |
648447_3 | Scientists Propose Novel Explanation For Alzheimer's | that one reason for the widespread deaths of nerve cells is the gradual accumulation in brain tissue of a tough, fibrous protein called beta-amyloid. Dr. Roses believes that beta-amyloid buildup is a side effect of the disorder, rather than the key to the disease. Instead, he and his colleagues at Duke postulate that a... |
648593_0 | Motorola Radio Deal For Nextel | In a move that could hasten new nationwide competition for cellular telephone service, Motorola Inc. has agreed to sell its vast patchwork of "specialized mobile" radio services to Nextel Communications for an estimated $1.8 billion. People familiar with the plan said last night that Motorola would announce the sale to... |
648542_0 | Repairing New York's Schools | It took a crisis over asbestos to call widespread attention to the appalling physical deterioration of New York City schools. Now it is inescapably clear that the school system must find ways to repair and maintain its physical plant before the deterioration becomes terminal. Schools Chancellor Ramon Cortines has propo... |
648689_3 | At Haiti-Dominican Border: Barrier or Loophole? | trucks pass through in the 15 minutes soldiers allowed him to linger. One of the trucks appeared to be carrying oil, though the nature of its cargo could not be confirmed. Steady Flow of Trucks During a five-hour drive on the main highway from Santo Domingo to Jimani recently, only one truck with Haitian license plates... |
648788_4 | Personal Health | why women are relatively protected against heart disease before menopause, with their risk rising sharply when their bodies stop producing estrogen. Estrogen helps to keep HDL levels high, and available evidence strongly indicates that women who take estrogen replacement hormones after menopause see a 50 percent reduct... |
648736_0 | Studies Suggest Estrogen Lowers Alzheimer's Risk | Women who take estrogen after menopause appear to reduce their risk of getting Alzheimer's disease and, if they do get it, to have milder symptoms, scientists reported today. The findings were among several results on aging and the brain presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience here. In another r... |
651697_0 | Trying Again in Ireland | If Israel and the P.L.O. can talk directly, then why can't Britain do the same with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army? The I.R.A. seemed to give its answer in October when it bombed a fish shop in a Protestant area of Belfast, killing 10 people. When Protestant gunmen retaliated by kil... |
652710_1 | A Broader Base for Corporate Hiring | in the Corporate World "Our goal is to prepare talented minority youths for careers in corporate America by training them through internships in area companies during their college years," Mr. Holmes said. "It's a two-fold program: at the same time we are helping young people, we are also helping corporations find high... |
652722_4 | The Ancient Road to Hypertext | of guaranteed global interchangeability may well be restrictive market domination and technical stagnation, neither conducive to democratic development. Nor will increasingly user-friendly access to on-line networking modify the dominant model of separate individuals logging in to a curiously abstract fellowship of spe... |
652469_2 | A COLOMBIA REGION FIRST IN VIOLENCE | popular commandos. Their former E.P.L. rebel colleagues have since accused them of acting in concert with rightist paramilitary groups. After a particularly brutal period of violence early this year, President Cesar Gaviria made a highly publicized visit to Apartado in March, pledging $162 million in public works proje... |
652337_0 | New Churchill Papers, but No Pearl Harbor News | The Government has begun releasing documents from Winston Churchill's secret wartime intelligence archive, but so far they do not shed light on one of the war's greatest mysteries -- whether Churchill knew in advance of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. One document, dated Dec. 4 -- three ... |
652353_3 | Body of Man Is Recovered From Tunnel | killed since the overall project began. Closed Pending Inquiries After the recovery of his body, the site was closed pending the start of inquiries today by the city's Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. A spokesman for OSHA could not be reached yesterda... |
652290_2 | Calvin and Hobbes and John Paul | as right or wrong -- whatever their intentions and whether or not they help or harm others. In mathematics, we begin with assumptions and deduce conclusions; in ethics, as Aristotle pointed out, we begin with the conclusions -- specific moral sentiments and rules -- and infer general principles. Those principles, Arist... |
652359_0 | Tomato Gene That Resists Disease Is Cloned | Using a technology developed for the Human Genome Project, scientists at Cornell University have for the first time isolated and cloned a gene responsible for disease resistance in a major crop: tomatoes. Transferring the gene into susceptible tomato plants through genetic engineering gave them the same protection poss... |
649626_1 | Gowanus Deadline Spurs Alternative Plan | with residents in communities that would be affected by the $500 million reconstruction project, scheduled to begin in 1997, said Phyllis Hirschberg, a spokeswoman for the State Transportation Department. So far, the meetings have not shifted the department's plan. "The alternatives are by no means our favorite," Ms. H... |
649723_3 | M.B.A. Programs Fight for Shrinking Pool of Students Interested in Business | career has already shown up in the number of people taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test, which most graduate business schools require applicants to take. In the last two years the number of applicants taking the test has dropped nearly 18 percent. This year, the Graduate School of Business at Stanford Univer... |
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