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647992_2 | Hail the Instant Coursepack! | to corporate finance. A paper catalogue is available, and all the selections can also be found electronically through the Internet computer network. Robert D. Lynch, the vice president of Primis, said these custom-designed textbooks were being used on more than 800 campuses in the United States, Canada and Australia. M... |
648159_3 | Mutual Funds; Value Line Steps Into the Data Ring | service, Mr. Ogorek said, is probably a feature showing a fund's performance in the last bull and bear markets. But data covering one cycle is less reliable than data over two or more, and Morningstar's quarterly return data give similar results by showing performance in tough markets like the fourth quarter of 1987 or... |
648125_0 | Dana I. Ruben, Gregory T. Rogers | Mrs. Leon B. Ruben of Bethesda, Md., has announced April wedding plans for her daughter, Dana Ilene Ruben, and Gregory Todd Rogers, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rogers of Armonk, N.Y. Miss Ruben, 28, is also the daughter of the late Mr. Ruben. She graduated from Emory University and is now the assistant director of th... |
647832_3 | THE WORLD: Urger to Splurge; Mexico's Hunger for U.S. Goods Is Helping to Sell the Trade Pact | weak imitations. Under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico has been intent on dismantling its import-substitution economy and opening its markets. The doors were cracked ajar in the mid-1980's by lowered tariffs on imported goods. Nafta, which would end tariffs and other trade barriers among the United States, ... |
648029_6 | Years of Neglect Raise Cost Of Restoring a High School | former Mayor Edward I. Koch pledged to reverse the decline: "Whatever is required to be done, let us commit ourselves to do it." 'Didn't Do Their Homework' Commitments followed. In the School Construction Authority's first five-year capital plan, written for the construction authority by the board in 1989, the Erasmus ... |
647989_0 | China Lacks Water to Meet Its Mighty Thirst | Heaven River dried up 20 years ago. Canals no longer bring water from Beijing's reservoirs. And it has been more than a decade since anyone could afford to fill a rice paddy. But 53-year-old Xing Shuqin gestured over her donkey to the wheat field beyond and said: "We don't have a water problem, because we have a well. ... |
648012_7 | At Kennedy Airport, the Wary Keep the Eyes on the Luggage | cart, Mrs. Zarrouck said she never thought that anything might be stolen from it. Fortunately nothing had been, including the five giant boxes of disposable diapers she brought from Morocco. The Preferred Flights Mrs. Zarrouck and her diapers were waiting in the International Arrivals Building. The building covers thre... |
647987_1 | Soviet Atom Test Used Thousands As Guinea Pigs, Archives Show | A committee of Soviet veterans is seeking Government compensation and special medical treatment for what the veterans say are years of radiation-induced illnesses, and the film provides the first public documentary proof that the test took place. Veterans were recently told by Russian generals that the explosion was an... |
650945_0 | Time to Warm Up to New Zealand | President Clinton's meeting with Pacific heads of government today gives him a superb opportunity to end one of the oddest and most painful diplomatic anomalies of the cold war: the 10-year chill between the U.S. and New Zealand, two countries that by all rights should be the warmest of friends. Until yesterday, it was... |
649495_2 | NATIONS BACK BAN ON ATOMIC DUMPING | which has been dumping nuclear wastes into the ocean for decades, said it would have to resume dumping low-level radioactive garbage after 18 months unless it receives assistance from the West to build more land-based storage areas. The plea for aid was dismissed as unconvincing by the chief American delegate, David A.... |
651229_4 | U.S. Aid Hasn't Stopped Drug Flow From South America, Experts Say | routes. Today the lion's share of South America's cocaine exports slips through countries that are not significant producers, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela. On Nov. 6, the Venezuelan police broke up a trafficking ring that was reported to be shipping one ton of Colombian cocaine a month to ... |
651518_0 | SUNDAY, November 21, 1993; TOMATOGATE | It's not quite clear what happened in Chicago. One possibility is that the City Council realized it wouldn't be good for appearances if the city of the big shoulders, hog butcher to the world, seemed to be afraid of vegetables. Another possibility is that Council members remembered the old eggplant scare (the eggplant ... |
651331_0 | Yangtze Gorges | To the Editor: Overbooking of tourist facilities in China, particularly in the busier seasons, spring and fall, continues to be a maddening problem. The better Yangtze River cruise ships are no exception, as our recent experience from Sept. 14 to 22, will illustrate. The travel agency that put together our independent ... |
651329_0 | Yangtze Gorges | To the Editor: Having long admired the journalistic talents of Nicholas D. Kristof, we grabbed eagerly at his account, "The Yangtze's Gorges" (Oct. 10). He seemed to miss the sights that we most enjoyed on a similar voyage in September: tiny farms terraced high along narrow ridges on the deep-walled gorges; ancient pat... |
651297_0 | Outlook for Cuba Grim, Study for State Dept. Says | A new report on Cuba paints a grim picture of the island's future, saying that attempts at economic reform now under way will probably lead to civil strife before the end of the decade. The report, which was commissioned by the State Department, says President Fidel Castro and Cuba's Communist Party leadership are atte... |
651340_1 | To Each Museum, Its Own Most-Likely-to-Befall | in research on disaster control for museums. (Given the Getty's location -- a mudslide-prone, fire-prone canyon not far from a branch of the San Andreas fault -- it ought to be.) Natural calamities, museum experts say, are least friendly to the arrogant. When the violent 1989 earthquake struck San Francisco, the Stanfo... |
649152_1 | U.S. and Others Press Fight for U.N. Rights Chief | freedoms around the world was the main recommendation to come out of a governmental conference on human rights that was organized by the United Nations in Vienna last summer. But many developing countries are opposed to the new post, seeing it as another attempt by Western countries to impose their political values on ... |
652966_0 | Family Planning for All Families | By giving $13.2 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation last week, and by resuming funding for the United Nations Population Fund next January, the Clinton Administration has retrieved a banner America dropped in 1984. Once more the United States has a chance to make a deep impact on family planning ... |
652960_0 | World Economies | |
652987_4 | BRITAIN CONCEDES IT SECRETLY MADE CONTACT WITH I.R.A. | in Northern Ireland and loses about $3 billion there a year. The daily lives of Londoners are fraught with bomb searches in theaters, office buildings and subways and, sometimes, by explosions themselves. An official close to the Prime Minister, speaking before the weekend and insisting upon not being quoted by name in... |
651777_0 | Scientists Seek Warnings of Environmental Problems in Seas | SCIENTISTS say the world's oceans could serve as natural alarm systems for warning of impending climate changes, pollution crises and other global hazards, and they have urged the speedy development of new technologies to monitor the seas. At a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America last month, scientists from se... |
651778_0 | Space-Age Techniques Find New Meaning in Dead Sea Scroll | ISAIAH'S hopeful prophecy that nations would beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks was an early expression of what today is called technology transfer. Now some cold war technologies, transferred to scholarly pursuits, are being applied to the study of people of biblical times -- and cou... |
646713_0 | A Voyage Into the Abyss: Gloom, Gold and Godzilla | FLASHES of light from luminescent creatures swirled in the darkness past our windows as we descended a mile and a half to a fiery gash on the ocean floor, to what scientists increasingly see as a colossal, hidden engine of creation. After falling for more than an hour, we switched on the lights of our tiny, three-perso... |
646613_2 | Study of Women's Health Criticized by Review Panel | in its report, "Thus, the diet-breast-cancer hypothesis is considered to be quite weak." The report also criticized the project's procedures for obtaining the informed consent of participants, describing them as "inadequate.". The National Institutes of Health said it disagreed with some of the report's conclusions abo... |
646627_0 | U.S. to Press for Ban on Nuclear Dumping at Sea | After nearly a year of policy wrangling, the United States has decided to press for a legally binding, worldwide ban on the dumping of low-level radioactive waste at sea, a senior Clinton Administration official said today. The decision, less than three weeks after a Russian tanker touched off a wave of international p... |
646551_5 | Foreigners Find New Ally in U.S. Industry | got bashed for that." What is more, he added, Japanese executives have all but given up on the idea of directly influencing American government decisions. What they look for instead, he said, "are the chances to ally themselves with American political entities that have clout." As a result, members of Congress say they... |
648395_0 | World Economies | |
648302_1 | Patents; From a Culinary Mistake Comes the Latest in Healthy Snack Food; Baked Pasta Chips | cooking. "Jerusalem artichoke flour can clog pasta machines because it's so glutinous," Mr. Lohan said, "but its nutritional value is very high. It's low in fat and good for people who can't eat wheat." And nutrition was the essence of the snack, which Mr. Lohan named Denata's Pasta Chips, after his wife. "We could hav... |
648430_3 | In Poland, Gerber Learns Lessons of Tradition | control. The first rule: no more smoking on the production line. Safety is a primary issue in baby- food preparation, and while the Polish factory had quality control, it was not systemized in a way that allowed codes on a jar label that identified the grower of the fruit or vegetable. "This is one of the biggest achie... |
653163_1 | Mission to Correct Hubble's Flawed Vision Faces Many Pitfalls | much is at stake. The shuttle must rendezvous with the Hubble 360 miles out in space two days after liftoff, and haul it into its cargo bay. Then in a sequence of at least five arduous space walks of six hours each, beginning the following day, which will be Saturday if liftoff goes as planned, astronauts working in pa... |
653181_0 | Eddy Off the Coast | Using satellite images and measuring instruments in the sea, researchers have tracked a large eddy that carried an estimated 100,000 metric tons of sediment from the continental shelf into the ocean off the coast of California in two months. Although eddies in the ocean are common, and it was known that they carried su... |
653061_5 | BRITAIN RELEASES NOTES EXPLORING PEACE WITH I.R.A. | only record is a note provided by the Government of what it says Mr. McGuinness said. Both Mr. McGuinness and Mr. Adams denied their organization had ever said the conflict was over, though they do not deny an interest in a cease-fire that could have led to substantive talks. Mr. Adams insisted today, "Never at any tim... |
653042_0 | Tell the Truth About the I.R.A. | Judging from secret messages made public yesterday, the British Government has no reason to apologize for exploring a peace overture from the outlawed Irish Republican Army. But Prime Minister John Major blundered gratuitously by denying that such contacts had taken place. Now there is a cloud of confusion over what wa... |
647307_0 | Radio Dispatchers Set to Rival Cellular Phones | Offering a potentially cheap and quick way to compete in the cellular telephone market, companies with radio licenses to link taxi and truck fleets have suddenly become hotly sought properties. The trend continued yesterday when Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., the nation's 14th-largest cellular telephone company, with ... |
651966_1 | From the Ashes, a Plus for a Utility | of which still stands. The fine particles of silica and alumina improve cement's strength and resist penetration by water and salt. When water penetrates concrete and freezes, it expands and breaks some of the cement bonds that hold the mixture of sand and gravel together. Chloride ions from the salt that is slathered ... |
652044_1 | Workplace Bias Tied to Obesity Is Ruled Illegal | group home run by the state. But the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals appealed the case, arguing that obesity should not be covered by the law because it was caused by voluntary conduct and was not immutable. Both at trial and in its appeal, the state argued that Ms. Cook was not prot... |
651980_1 | Swedes Fear a Russian Invasion: Crime Gangs | raised the specter that the breakdown of authority in Russia will allow criminal networks there to reach out and prey upon Sweden's well-ordered society. "For years now we've been talking about the Russian mafia, but it's the first time that we've had a crime like this -- well-financed and well-planned," said Rolf Hans... |
650285_3 | The Free Trade Accord: The Mood; Americans Split on Free Trade Pact, Survey Finds | And 67 percent said that buying and selling products through trade with other countries "is good for the U.S. economy," suggesting strong support for the President's arguments against economic isolationism. The White House has emphasized the Nobel Prize winners, economists and former Presidents who support the trade ag... |
650446_0 | Britain Said to Confer With I.R.A. Political Wing | British Government officials and officials of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, have met to discuss ways of ending the violence in Northern Ireland, The Belfast Telegraph reported today. The front-page article in the Telegraph, a vehement opponent of the I.R.A. and Sinn Fein, was supported by ... |
650759_0 | U.S. Bishops Urge Men to Share in Work at Home | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops today unanimously voted to urge husbands and wives to treat one another as equals and men to share fully in child rearing and household duties. The bishops also voted to ask the Vatican to make it easier to dismiss priests who sexually molest minors and passed a lengthy document on t... |
650797_0 | MCI Joins Wireless Telephone Venture | The MCI Communications Corporation said today that it had joined four wireless communications suppliers and a leading research laboratory in the development of what are known as "personal communications services" using new kinds of wireless phone devices. The companies said they plan to establish specifications for sys... |
650667_1 | Economic Scene; Evidence contradicts common sense in the trade tug-of-war. | at current exchange rates between the yen and the franc, Toyota may be able to sell cars profitably in France for fewer francs than Renault can. But at the end of the day (well, year or decade) French exports must equal French imports, unless foreigners are willing to hold French i.o.u.'s indefinitely. And consumers in... |
650767_3 | Manama Journal; The Old Men and the Sea, Still Lusting for Pearls | left." The divers can see what relics they have become by glancing ashore. The gleaming skyline of glass and concrete, the highway ramps and gaudy neon signs that beckon families to doughnut, hamburger and pizza shops are all reminders, if ones were needed, that this is a new world. Many grumble that, despite the wealt... |
650784_0 | Hard Words for China in Seattle | Insisting that China has yet to make enough progress on human rights to insure the renewal of preferential trade tariffs, Administration officials said today that they had told China time is running out. Senior State Department officials said that during four hours of talks today, John Shattuck, the Assistant Secretary... |
651013_1 | American Airlines' Pilots Decide To Fly Empty Jets to Back Strike | passengers. American workers who were certified as flight attendants in shortened 10-day courses were helping to staff flights, sometimes without uniforms, a company spokesman said. The Federal Aviation Administration said nearly 500 workers graduated from the course a week ago, and nearly 1,000 more are taking the cou... |
651052_2 | Religion Notes | a generation, Orthodox schools have taught women Jewish texts and Jewish law, known as halacha. Many of these students have become major teachers of Jewish law but teach without the title rabbi. "Having opened to them the learning enterprise -- interpretive keys to the tradition -- ordination will come as a natural hal... |
646335_0 | World Economies | |
647633_2 | Job Seekers Outpace Hiring Rise | of 20,000 in finance, insurance and real estate and 29,000 in health services, the Labor Department's survey of payrolls found. Largely offsetting these gains, however, were declines in military aircraft and instruments and in various industries producing nondurables, particularly apparel. Traditionally, ever-rising am... |
647610_0 | French Workers Protest Layoffs | |
647771_1 | Religion Notes | Republicans are somewhat more likely to be church members than Democrats (79 percent to 71 percent), and members of both parties were about equal in their agreement with the statement that religion is "very important" in their lives (65 to 63 percent). Republicans and Democrats had roughly the same number of people who... |
647567_2 | U.S. APPROVES USE OF DRUG TO RAISE MILK PRODUCTION | future on inventing other biotechnology products. "This is really a banner day for agricultural biotechnology," said Richard J. Mahoney, the chairman and chief executive of the chemical company, which is based in St. Louis. "This is the first of the major new products that has been approved. A lot of people in this fie... |
652365_3 | Belfast Journal; British Soldiers: Friend or Enemy and to Whom? | it different, it is still a war." His sergeant and fellow soldiers agreed. "Sometimes you don't know who you're fighting," said Sgt. Peter Woods. "One day you may speak to a guy in the streets; the next day he will try to kill you. It's very frustrating. We have been blown up three times, had one wounded so he can't pa... |
652450_0 | Come Monday, Hunters Add to Black Bears' Woes | When hunting season opens on Nov. 29 for the Florida black bear -- "the biggest, meanest animal on the face of the earth," says the state's top game commissioner -- hunters will be pursuing an animal that has been listed as threatened in most of the state since 1974. Although hunters say the woods here in the heart of ... |
650219_0 | Piracy or Just Insolvency? Women's Saga Continues | The crew shake-up last week aboard the 60-foot sailboat, U.S. Women's Challenge, was as brutal as it gets in yacht racing. But the real hardships are likelier to surface during the next few weeks as the fragmented crew tries to regain its sea legs. The newly named boat, Women's Challenge, left Punta del Este, Uruguay, ... |
650215_0 | World Economies | |
650128_0 | LAND MINES CALLED A WORLD MENACE | Thousands of men, women and children in more than 60 countries are killed or maimed each month by land mines, a panel of experts has reported, and unless drastic international action is taken, the casualty rate promises to grow far worse. According to a 510-page report published last week by the Arms Project, a branch ... |
632619_4 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | jamboree will be held, and woodchopping contests are slated for Saturday at 3 P.M. Saturday, Sunday at 1 P.M. The fair will also feature the traditional array of horse, pony and ox pulls; livestock and produce exhibits; baked goods, maple syrup, dairy products and canned goods to buy. A midway, rides and machinery disp... |
632888_3 | Perhaps This Universe Is Only a Test | on their own discipline but on other sciences as well. In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) declared that the world was only 100 million years old, much to the consternation of the geologists and biologists who thought the world needed much more time than that for the development of continents and the ani... |
634905_0 | Coffee Group's Export Curb | Latin American, African and Asian coffee producers completed their ambitious plans today to hold back up to 20 percent of their coffee exports to push up depressed prices. Jorge Cardenas, general manager of Colombia's National Coffee Growers Federation, said at a news conference that the retention plan, as it is known,... |
634861_2 | Rome Journal; They Still Try to Make a Turbulent Tiber Behave | now call the Ponte Cestio, but also the Ponte Fabricio, spanning the Tiber's opposite channel. That bridge was first erected by the consul Lucius Fabricius in 62 B.C. Troubled too are what, by Rome's standards, may be called modern structures: the ruined chunk of a 16th-century bridge that Romans call the Ponte Rotto, ... |
634867_0 | Eye on Olympics, China Pursues Air Safety | Worried that its effort to become the host to the 2000 Olympic Games could be undermined by safety concerns among foreigners who fly on China's airlines, Chinese aviation authorities have announced a major crackdown on safety violations. For anyone who has flown in China, the new safety drive is much overdue. China's e... |
634834_4 | Environment Groups Are Split on Support For Free-Trade Pact | oversee each country's enforcement of its own laws. And the White House has agreed to establish a $4 billion fund for environmental cleanup along the border with Mexico. The plan's critics in the environmental movement said the provisions were too vaguely worded to have real impact if a dispute over environmental issue... |
633750_3 | Adrift in the Market for Health Insurance | his affiliation with the American Association of Retired Persons. Membership costs $8 a year. The quarterly premium for his new policy is $355, versus $400 for his employer's plan, and Mr. Kelly managed to lower his deductible to $100 from $1,200. As the low cost indicates, both policies are supplemental to his Medicar... |
636238_2 | New Gun Takes Aim at Tailpipe Pollution | Md., offers the RSD 1000 van, with a little hatch that swings open for the infrared beam and a video camera on a boom on the back. The Hughes Corporation, of Santa Barbara, sells the Smog Dog, with components that are transportable by van but designed to be operated from outside the vehicle. New York has not put the pr... |
637488_0 | Welcoming Fall With Peak-Season Flavor | SEPTEMBER is usually the month when tomatoes are most plentiful in the Northeast and, therefore, at their lowest price. They have also reached peak flavor and are at their nutritional best. Understandably, then, the first course, a cold tomato soup, takes advantage of the market. Likewise, hake, my choice for a main di... |
637556_1 | Defying President, Senate Votes To Keep Medicaid Abortion Limit | who favors abortion rights appear not to have changed the temper in Congress as much as some proponents of such rights had hoped. "Certainly I will oppose having abortion offered in any standard health benefit package," said Senator Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma. Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, sai... |
637540_2 | A Curb on Imported Tobacco Aids Farms and Philip Morris | support on the budget measure when the Federal cigarette tax of 24 cents a pack could quadruple. A Link Is Seen The budget squeaked by both in the Senate and the House by one-vote margins. Among the 34 Democrats from House districts dependent on the tobacco industry, 30 supported the budget package. So did the five Dem... |
637478_0 | Return Of Booty Protested In France | It seemed like a reasonable exchange. After France won a multi-billion-dollar contract to supply its high-speed train to South Korea, President Francois Mitterrand this month made the good-will gesture of returning a 19th-century Korean manuscript seized by French troops in 1866. For the guardians of France's national ... |
633284_2 | Eating Well | that there is a link, because animal studies and epidemiological evidence indicate it: women who live in countries where total fat and saturated-fat consumption are low -- less than 20 percent of total calories -- have much less risk of breast cancer than women in America, where fat consumption is high. Bolstering the ... |
633166_2 | In America; No Job, No Dream | The study confirms previous findings that "an unprecedented number of the new jobs created in the recovery have been either temporary or part-time," and that "well over 60 percent of the new jobs created between January and July 1993 were part-time jobs." The job crisis has been brutal to the poor and is putting a trem... |
637674_0 | Why Women Need U.S. Estrogen Study | To the Editor: As a medical journalist completing a book on gender bias in health care and health research, I take issue with "Estrogen Trials -- and Errors" (Op-Ed, Sept. 17) by Carol Ann Rinzler. Ms. Rinzler makes it sound as if researchers are secretly and intentionally exposing thousands of women to cancer risks in... |
637699_4 | Government Dream Car; Washington and Detroit Pool Resources To Devise a New Approach to Technology | Washington shown a remarkable ability to choose which technologies will pan out for commercial use. "Washington has never ridden to the rescue of anybody," said one skeptic, Maryann N. Keller, an auto industry analyst at the investment bank Furman Selz Inc. and the author of a recent book, "Collision: G.M., Toyota, Vol... |
632911_0 | World Economies | |
637230_1 | Asking for Asylum in U.S., Women Tread New Territory | Lawyers and immigration officers often follow their standard line of questioning about politics, and the personal stories of the women never come out. Many judges and immigration officers treat rape and battery -- even at the hands of government officials -- as private acts. And many interpret a woman's transgression o... |
637203_0 | World Economies | |
634729_2 | Campus Journal; For Learning Disabled, a Door Opens | a 22-year-old from Kenosha, Wis., was a junior at Morehouse College in Atlanta when his condition was diagnosed as dyslexia after he had seen a guidance counselor about poor grades. He came to Landmark for a summer session and is staying on this fall. "With the tutors and the small classes I'm finally able to zoom in o... |
634793_5 | YACHT RACING: Sailing on Troubled Waters; First U.S. All-Female Crew Is Challenged by a High-Tech Boat and a Low Budget | City for Southampton July 3 in the Gold Cup Trans-Atlantic Race, on the boat's transom, in bold letters, was: "Florida Keys & Key West." Frank says she doesn't know why Annapolis is sniveling. "We have done millions of dollars worth of top-notch press for Maryland," she said. In the end, all the money problems come dow... |
634637_5 | AT LUNCH WITH: Betty Friedan; Trying to Dispel 'The Mystique Of Age,' at 72 | she began testing her new feminist theories by talking to older women who had combined motherhood and career to see how they had fared. "The few women who had been able to combine those things were in their 50's or 60's, and they looked wonderful and were very vital," she says. "When I asked them about menopause, they ... |
634674_0 | Public Lands Belong to All Americans, Pardner; Maligned Black Bear | To the Editor: While hunters routinely kill about 21,000 black bears a year in the United States for the frivolous purpose of sport or trophy collection, in "Too Many Bears" (Op-Ed, Sept. 2), Alston Chase blames the victim and argues that bears are guilty of an invasion into human-occupied areas In noting two nonfatal ... |
633820_0 | Finding Better Health on Horseback | Karoline Martin saddled her horse and rode into the indoor arena for a class in dressage, the equivalent of ballet on horseback. As she and her horse danced around, the only hint that the 29-year-old woman was blind was her instructor's occasional warning about the location of other horses. Ms. Martin's performance was... |
634105_0 | Putting Tomatoes to the Taste Test | THE Brandywine tomato is what started the whole thing. "That is the ugliest tomato," said Cousin Janice the last time she dropped by with a couple melons, a jar of pickles, three zukes, some peppers and a bag of her favorites. "Celebrity," she said, pulling a perfectly round red tomato out of the bag. It was big, too. ... |
633771_3 | CLINTON SCRAMBLES TO FIND FINANCING FOR HEALTH PLAN | say the proposed cutbacks in the growth of Medicare and Medicaid are too big, and lobbyists for the elderly note that Medicare was already trimmed in the budget package just enacted. On Thursday, Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress that the White House was willing to reconsider these proposals. Capping Health Costs Th... |
635760_0 | Cuba Gives U.S. 2 Drug Suspects | Two Americans suspected of trying to smuggle cocaine were handed over by Cuba to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration this weekend and flown to Miami for prosecution. United States law enforcement officials said the case marked the first time that the Cuban authorities had handed over suspected drug traffi... |
635702_0 | World Economies | |
635730_7 | America Unplugged: Entering a Wireless Era -- A special report; F.C.C. Clearing Airwaves For Phones of the Future | handle voice, video and data." The Technology Computer Clarity From Cell to Cell Like today's cellular telephone systems, P.C.S. networks will consist of radio relay stations or "cell sites" -- each typically a few short antennas and a receiver-transmitter -- scattered across many locations in a city. These antennas pi... |
632074_1 | A Cancer Drug May Help Heart Ills | in more than 1.5 million American women in this decade, the National Cancer Institute estimates. In the study, scientists examined the medical records of 2,365 postmenopausal breast-cancer patients taking part in a randomized trial of tamoxifen. The researchers, from the Stockholm Breast Cancer Study Group, found a sig... |
632064_1 | Tribe Cautioned on Request for U.S. Recognition | authority over its members. The documentation of all three points -- historical continuity, community life and political authority -- is required for Federal recognition. Recognition a First Step But a lawyer for the Paugussetts, Bernard Wishnia, said much of the information had already been collected, including geneal... |
632236_0 | Agency to End Use of Drug That Halts Breast Milk Flow | The Food and Drug Administration responded to a petition it received from a consumer health group today by saying that it would begin steps to end use of a prescription drug to treat breast engorgement after childbirth. The group, the Public Citizen Health Research Group, which is affiliated with Ralph Nader's Public C... |
632288_4 | CLINTON CUTS AIMS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND DENTAL COSTS | care in that year, and hospital coverage for mental illness would be increased to 90 days, from 60 days. In addition, the documents say, the Administration hopes to eliminate limits on the number of outpatient psychotherapy visits in the year 2000. But such improvements are contingent on "savings from reform" of the he... |
633335_2 | Study Says Half of Adults in U.S. Lack Reading and Math Abilities | schooling and even in fundamental literacy. But the demands of the workplace simultaneously have vastly increased. We simply are not keeping pace with the kinds of skills required in today's economy." The study found that older people tended to have lower test scores and attributed this trend to the fact that they gene... |
633544_0 | Women Notably Absent At Religions Parliament | To the Editor: I was fascinated (and disheartened) to read about the Parliament of the World's Religions held in Chicago (news article, Aug. 30). Surely, a few women might have attended, if only to put up a good front. And if there were women in attendance, they were certainly in the silent minority, since you didn't m... |
637367_1 | Pollution in China Sets Off a Battle Fatal to Two | "frightened and moved" by its intensity. The incident is notable because it reflects the seeming powerlessness of China's environmental authorities to respond to public health hazards created by industrial concerns with substantial local backing. In this case, a chemical factory subsidized by the Lanzhou Chemical Compa... |
637266_0 | Migrating Birds Set Compasses By Sunlight and Stars | SCIENTISTS have known for more than two decades that birds and many other animals navigate with help from the earth's magnetic field. It now appears, however, that birds must frequently calibrate their sense of magnetic direction using many nonmagnetic cues, including the natural polarization of daylight. New research,... |
637266_6 | Migrating Birds Set Compasses By Sunlight and Stars | "Seeing" Magnetic Fields In a comment published in Nature about this paper, Dr. Gould said the experiment provided "dramatic evidence" supporting a theory advanced in 1977 by M. J. M. Leask of Oxford University in England, which was widely discounted at the time. Dr. Leask proposed that in some birds, at least, visible... |
636128_1 | Scientists Trace 'Voices' in Schizophrenia | in a living person with schizophrenia." The study used single photon emission computed tomography, an imaging technique that offers a snapshot of blood flow in the brain of a person who has been injected with a brew of short-lived radioactive isotopes. The isotopes, swept along with the blood, quickly flow to the parts... |
634996_1 | U.S. Altering Tactics in Drug War | Legal Action Center, a national drug policy organization based in New York. The preoccupation, she said, is "What do we do about the supply of drugs?" as opposed to "What are we doing about demand, consumption?" She added, "Prevention and treatment must be equal partners with law enforcement." Senior Administration off... |
635082_0 | At the Airport, Immigration Wants to See Your Palm | In an experiment under way at Kennedy and Newark International Airports, Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors are asking a growing number of travelers to, one might say, lend them a hand. The experimental program, called Inspass, is meant eventually to automate the immigration inspections that every travel... |
635076_0 | Zanzibar Journal; Where Ghosts Dwell, Free Enterprise Moves In | In the last few years, multiparty democracy, freedom of speech and plenty of tourists have come to Zanzibar, but in the town's twisting narrow alleys and crumbling buildings the ghosts still refuse to rest. Like many Zanzibaris, Ahmed S. Ahmed says he has seen people possessed. His uncle died of a mysterious illness --... |
632484_0 | Observer; Besides The Pencil Box | For children about to start school here are words of wisdom to ease the long path toward living happily ever after: First, because the Michael Jackson matter is dramatizing the American press's descent into swinishness, hear the French poet Baudelaire's thought on journalism: "I am unable to understand how a man of hon... |
632421_0 | Brazil Shows Concern For Indigenous People | To the Editor: "Brazil's Guilt in the Amazon Massacre" (Op-Ed, Aug. 26) by Terence Turner, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, is grossly misleading, to say the least. The investigations of the alleged massacre of Yanomami Indians are still under way, and not a single corpse has been found so far th... |
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