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634431_0 | Indonesia Still Caught In Population Squeeze | To the Editor: Your Aug. 27 front-page article on Indonesia states that "Indonesia averted a population disaster" by dropping its annual growth rate from 2.4 percent to 1.8 percent. This drop only means that the population will double in 38 years, rather than 31. The island of Java is the size of New York State and has... |
634420_0 | World Economies | |
635690_0 | Florence Starts Safety Measures For Monuments | In an effort to protect art treasures and historic monuments from terrorist attacks and vandalism, officials in Florence have begun implementing stringent security measures around some of the city's most famous landmarks. Beginning this month visitors will find traffic-free zones and no-parking areas around Florence's ... |
635578_2 | MORMONS PENALIZE DISSIDENT MEMBERS | control struggle between dissidents and church leaders. Church Officials' Fear He said church officials "think the church is fragmenting into different factions and this crackdown is an attempt to keep us together." Mr. Peck said church authorities feared that what they consider false teachings among some members could... |
635510_1 | Revisiting Immigration and the Open-Door Policy | best. Unlike the first decades of the 1900's, when the nation went through a similar influx and debate about immigration, there is now a significant body of research tracking immigrants from the moment they arrive. Most academic and government studies conclude that the presence of immigrants has some overall benefit; f... |
635297_5 | Streetscapes/Wadleigh Secondary School; Renovating a 1902 Novelty | According to Mary Dietz, the project manager for URS, the steel structure of the main tower needed complete reconstruction. The exterior was cleaned reasonably well and copper replaced the original slate roof. "It wasn't an official restoration but we tried to maintain the character," Ms. Dietz said. "Some of the floor... |
635667_0 | Tough Guys | THIS WEEK |
635316_2 | 'In the Shadow of Moloch' | citing their texts incorrectly, even in his letter of response: you don't have to transform hedonistic gods to make them "a loving god" (note the assumption that only monotheistic gods are loving); many polytheistic, hedonistic gods (Krishna, for instance) already are loving. In his book, to take an example at random, ... |
635569_1 | Raids on Miners Follow Killings in Amazon | are tired of being killed." In the Colombian Amazon, the authorities prepared this week to deport 29 Brazilian miners detained in raids. And in Brazil, a hard line toward the miners was voiced on Thursday by the nation's new Minister of the Environment and the Amazon. All miners will be expelled from Brazil's Yanomami ... |
635951_4 | Zoos Find a New Role In Conserving Species | be considered only as "two of many weapons in the arsenal available to zoo biologists" to save species, says Dr. Michael Hutchins, the zoo and aquarium association's director of conservation and science. Preservation Around the World For years, biologists have fanned out from the New York society's headquarters in the ... |
636949_1 | Next Steps for Car Exhaust | that make the bigger converters used on cars are looking ahead to a new generation of technology. Catalytic converters are very good at catching the hydrocarbons that slip unburned through automobile engines. But the converters do not work until they reach 700 degrees Fahrenheit, which generally does not happen until t... |
636892_0 | Sailing Back in Time | |
636793_0 | Oil and Tourism Don't Mix, Inciting Amazon Battle | Standing on a riverbank outside his Amazon tourist lodge, Pieter Jan Brouwer raised his rifle one day last year and shot out the tires, headlights and windshields of a dozen trucks and bulldozers that were dredging gravel for an American oil company road. "I had the disaster of having the hotel full and 14 guests pound... |
633044_0 | METRO DIGEST | ADVANCES FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED Advocates for the retarded say that advances in technology, including switches that respond to eye or head movements, or even a smile or a breath, have the potential to revolutionize the care and education of the mentally handicapped, giving them a new independence and easing their... |
633024_1 | Technology Revolution Reaches the Retarded | making people much more independent than anyone would have thought possible," said Ronald Byrne, a spokesman for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. "It makes it much more likely that a person will remain in the community for their entire life and that the family will be able... |
633040_1 | Finding Gold, of a Sort, in Landfills | of dollars in closing costs. Officials in some states like California, where there are already tough landfill closing laws, have begun to investigate the practice. "This is all about economics," said Randall Forbes, manager of refuse disposal for the Department of Public Works in Mendocino County, Calif., which has beg... |
633046_0 | Boa Vista Journal; Gold Miners and Indians: Brazil's Frontier War | The center of a white backlash against Indians is found in this Amazon frontier town's central square, a horseshoe-shaped plaza dominated by a statue of a miner in a broad-brimmed hat, panning for gold. "Pseudomassacre," said the Governor of Roraima State in the modern government palace here, long before anthropologist... |
621628_4 | New Wave in Health Care: Visits by Video | is surprisingly easy to diagnose a patient from hundreds of miles away. Barbara Bevins, nurse manager of the emergency department of Dodge County Hospital in Eastman, Ga., said her office regularly does cardiology consultations via video with doctors at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, 152 miles away. "Today ... |
621557_3 | Mexico's Position on Aliens Contradicted by Past Deeds | United States was intercepted by the Coast Guard 200 miles off Honduras. The boat, registered in Honduras, was allowed to land in Honduras, and two lawyers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service flew there to interview the Chinese. The lawyers determined that five of them were political refugees, a former Gove... |
621556_3 | Mexico's Position on Aliens Contradicted by Past Deeds | Frelick, senior policy analyst with the United States Committee for Refugees, an advocacy group based in Washington. In addition to Mexico, the Clinton Administration has enlisted the cooperation of other foreign governments in keeping potential applicants for political asylum from reaching the United States. In April,... |
624577_3 | Rain Forests Seen as Shaped by Human Hand | found corn pollen along with charcoal signatures in mud 300 to 6,000 years old. The researchers have found the evidence in the Darien Gap, as well as other forests in Panama, and along the Amazon River. "In the Darien Gap forest we thought we'd see a long history of no change," Dr. Bush said. "The forests look wonderfu... |
619818_3 | Lawyer Says Sheik Plans Fight Against Extradition | act after Robert H. Pelletreau, the United States Ambassador in Cairo, told them that under American law Mr. Abdel Rahman could abandon his fight against deportation and simply depart for any third country that would accept him. According to senior Administration officials, Mr. Pelletreau said Mr. Abdel Rahman could ev... |
619827_1 | Like Ahab, a Venturer Pursues Destiny at Sea | Indian casino 10 miles north of here. But the greater trial will come with the first six-hour cruise, which will likely feature as many lawyers in dark suits as tourists in floral shirts and Bermudas. If Mr. Graver is not fully in international waters when the casino opens, state officials will pounce. After that Feder... |
618832_0 | Environment Deserves Higher Albany Priority | To the Editor: Re "Goodbye, Adirondacks?" by John B. Oakes (Op-Ed, June 24): To suggest that the Republican Environmental Trust Fund proposal will somehow undo protections for our 100-year-old forest preserve -- which are guaranteed by the State Constitution -- is ludicrous. Our plan is the only one that includes speci... |
618773_1 | Books of The Times; Seeing Prozac as a Success Story With 'Buts' | Sam; he had lost his interest in pornography. This raised a puzzling question in Dr. Kramer's mind: had Prozac removed a biological tic in Sam's makeup, or had it altered Sam's very personality? What follows in "Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self" is a complex... |
622748_2 | Workers of the World, Get Smart | without high school diplomas suffered a drop in earnings of 14 percent. Today, the weekly earnings of full-time workers over 25 who are college graduates are more than 50 percent above the earnings of otherwise similar workers who are simply high school graduates. The pattern of unemployment provides a second clue. In ... |
621108_1 | Protestants Set to March in an Uneasy Belfast | were several incidents of minor violence between Catholics and Protestants, and the police defused at least two bombs planted in Belfast. Today, police and army leaves were canceled and soldiers in armored cars combed the streets of Belfast and other towns in unusual numbers, looking under cars for bombs and questionin... |
621068_0 | World Economies | |
622165_5 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | according to Chet Wilcox, owner of B & B Tackle in Center Moriches. "There's a lot of acrobatic fighting," Mr. Wilcox said. "It's something to see." Joe Schieferstein was trying to see it at the same time that his passengers were trying to hook on him a stand-up harness. "He just had the rod in his hands," John said. "... |
622272_0 | Deep-Sea Scavenging Gets Easier | SPITTOONS. Fine china. Three ship's whistles, each weighing 800 pounds. Last month a salvage ship sailed into Norfolk, Va., heavy with hundreds of artifacts -- the first booty from the sunken luxury liner Titanic to reach American soil. But whether the recovery of treasure from shipwrecks is a high-minded effort at pre... |
622396_0 | IN SHORT: NONFICTION | CLASSICAL STUDIES A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREECE AND ROME By Michael Grant. Scribners, $20. Michael Grant is one of the English-speaking world's best-known popularizers of classical studies. Like numerous earlier volumes by the author, "A Social History of Greece and Rome" is aimed at general readers and does not pretend t... |
622233_0 | Measuring the Threat of Power Lines | THE looming presence of transmission power lines near a handful of Westchester schools has been an unremarkable fact of life for students and their parents for decades. At worst, they were considered unattractive reminders of the realities of modern life in the suburbs. But in more recent years, those same lines, many ... |
622399_0 | Helping Disturbed Children | To the Editor: Having interned for a year at a not-for-profit child guidance agency where disturbed children are treated, I must take issue with Louise Armstrong and her book "And They Call It Help" (June 20). At my agency -- and I believe it is representative of those throughout the country -- children were assessed w... |
622313_0 | Latin Leaders Ask End of Embargo on Cuba | In a rare display of consensus on Cuba, leaders of Latin America, Spain and Portugal called today for an end to the 31-year-old United States trade embargo against Havana. "We take note of recent resolutions and international forums of the need to eliminate unilateral application, by any state, for political ends, of m... |
622282_1 | The Ph.D.'s Are Here, But the Lab Isn't Hiring | an increase of two-fifths. Among natural scientists like chemists, physicists and biologists, unemployment was low -- 2.3 percent last year. The 2.3 percent figure obscures tensions or changes among individual disciplines; demands for environmentalists, who are also in the category, are strong and likely to get stronge... |
622253_1 | Q and A | 20 partial transits of the canal are made each year. The cost, which includes the services of a bilingual guide and canal pamphlets, is $40 a person, $20 for children 12 and under. Snacks are available on board. A full transit of the canal, lasting usually 8 to 9 hours, up to 12 hours if traffic is heavy, is held when ... |
622456_0 | POSTINGS: After a Collapse; Site Monitored For Vibrations | Much remains of the Federal-style town house at 149 Mulberry Street that was built for Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1816. Its gambrel roof is still there. So are the pediment-topped dormer windows. So, too, was the chimney -- until 10 days ago when it collapsed in a cloud of dust onto the roof of an adjoining building. No... |
621819_0 | RUSSIA MAY CURB FOREIGN RELIGIONS | At the urging of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Parliament passed a measure on Wednesday restricting the activities of foreign religious groups here. The measure was apparently aimed at controlling the activities of foreign evangelical preachers and of sects like the Hare Krishna. They regularly hold mass mee... |
621817_1 | Cuba's Ills Encroach On Health | And in this sense, Santiago de las Vegas may also be typical of the system. The Government has spared no expense on Cuba's 936 AIDS patients, giving them individual housing here and at other centers that is among the best to be found in the country. The sick at Santiago de las Vegas also receive a minimum of 4,500 calo... |
621835_0 | C.I.A. FIGHTS PLAN TO CUT ITS BUDGET | The Director of Central Intelligence is lobbying aggressively to prevent Congress from freezing the nation's secret intelligence budget at about $28 billion, Government and intelligence officials said today. The Director, R. James Woolsey, spent the day buttonholing and telephoning members of the Senate Select Committe... |
623552_0 | Philippines Acts to Protect Environment | To the Editor: Your July 13 Hinunangan Journal inaccurately presents images of the Philippines as a metaphor for the national situation. In the last seven years poverty in the Philippines has fallen from 65 percent to 40 percent. Government programs, supported by the private sector, aim at reducing it to 30 percent tow... |
623595_0 | U.S. Eases Rules Governing Telephone Links With Cuba | In what could be the most significant easing of the economic embargo of Cuba in years, the Clinton Administration has decided to permit American telephone companies to expand communications links to Havana and share some of their revenues with the Castro Government, officials said today. The move is a response to a sur... |
623538_2 | Natural Limits | protein, demands are also straining the limits on every continent. From 1950 to 1990, world production of beef, most of it from grasslands, went from 19 million to 53 million tons. But since 1990, production has dropped more than 2 percent. Mutton, the other grass-based meat, has followed a similar trend. Marine biolog... |
619635_0 | World Economies | |
625062_0 | Stakes High in Apple's Bet on PC | In high-tech country this week, the favorite topic around the water coolers and Stairmasters is whether Apple Computer Inc. has a hit product or a flop in its hand-held Newton Messagepad computer. First announced 17 months ago, with its debut set for a computer trade show in Boston on Monday, the Newton has generated a... |
625017_0 | Cuba's H.I.V. Quarantine Takes Toll in Liberty; Medicine From U.S. | To the Editor: "Cuba's Ills Encroach on Health" (news article, July 16) errs in reporting that United States laws, "recently tightened through new legislation . . . prohibit trade with Cuba by American companies and their subsidiaries, even in medicines." Recent changes in United States laws have greatly expanded the a... |
620114_1 | Washington at Work; A Switch From Hill to Foggy Bottom Offers a Suddenly Expanding World | declared that his Government now believed that abortion should be made safe and available worldwide. Mr. Wirth calls that speech "the most important thing I have ever done." Mr. Wirth's appointment last winter was widely seen in Washington as a consolation prize: the 53-year-old former Democratic Senator from Colorado ... |
624855_1 | Cuba Will End Restrictions On Exiles Wanting to Visit | in three decades, Risks for the Government The new measures, broadly hinted at in a speech by Mr. Castro on Monday, were first reported in The Miami Herald today. Many experts say that while the measures may quickly generate vital new revenues for the island's Communist Government, they also carry incalculable risks. "... |
623423_0 | China, Barreling Along the Capitalist Road, Now Posts Strict Speed Limits | China's new economic program may or may not succeed in bringing down inflation, but it is already having one far-reaching effect: it is making many ordinary workers spitting mad. When millions of Chinese collected their June salaries, they found most or all of their pay docked. The money went to purchase Government bon... |
620705_0 | Terrorism's New Threat Tests Airports' Security | With each fresh eruption of terrorism in the United States this year -- the car-bomb explosion at the World Trade Center in February, the bombing plot aimed at the United Nations and the Hudson River tunnels -- the nation's major airports have gone on security alert. Some parking lots have been closed, metal detectors ... |
620726_0 | U.S. to Bar Calls to Cuba Through Canada | The Clinton Administration plans to close communications services that allow people in the United States to make telephone calls to Cuba through Canada, Administration officials say. In preparation for the move, State Department officials said, they have asked the Treasury Department to determine whether the service of... |
620853_4 | Criticism Without Machinery | And there is nothing old-fashioned about his essay from 1981 on Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon." In an apparently leisured but in fact penetrating study of the importance of names in black literature, Mr. Lewis distinguishes between the desire, associated with the 50's, to lose nam... |
620744_3 | Technology; Coaxing More Miles From the Electric-Car Battery | far less than nickel-cadmium or other battery systems. ANOTHER key measurement for batteries is the speed with which they can deliver the power they store, a measurement akin to the size of a faucet attached to a tank of water. Lead-acid is a rather small tank with a large faucet; it can deliver stored electricity quic... |
620743_4 | Technology; Coaxing More Miles From the Electric-Car Battery | create zinc oxide in ways that prevent some of the zinc from reacting. Then there is the recharging problem. As zinc oxide is turned back into zinc through a process that reverses the chemical reaction, it tends to form structures like giant snowflakes, called dendrites, which tend to cause short-circuits. Quick rechar... |
621004_2 | Power Lines Raise Fears in Home Buyers | nobody wants them." Ms. Bradbury had passed around a petition, which 30 of her neighbors signed, asking the Westchester County village to hold an informational meeting on the health concerns related to electromagnetic fields. The meeting, held in May, was attended by local residents, politicians and representatives of ... |
620751_1 | Dispute Over Danube Dam Threatens Hungarian Wetlands | into the Danube in northwestern Hungary. Some smaller branches of the river have dried out completely, and the groundwater level has dropped by a yard in some places, and by two and a half in others. After Czechoslovakia split into two nations on Jan. 1, Slovakia inherited the power station linked to the dam and the le... |
620851_0 | Sex, Triads and Chromaticism | BENJAMIN BRITTEN A Biography. By Humphrey Carpenter. Illustrated. 677 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $30. "PERSONAL causes have as much or as little to do with a work of art as the soil with the plant that springs from it," C. G. Jung once wrote. "The plant is not a mere product of the soil; it is a living, sel... |
620706_4 | Clinton in Korea: A Call for a Pacific Community Based on 'Shared Strength' | withdrawals and are modernizing Korean and American forces on the peninsula. We have deployed to Japan the Belleau Wood amphibious group and the U.S.S. Independence battle group, the largest and most modern in the world. These are not signs of disengagement. These are signs that America intends to stay. The Threat of N... |
623009_0 | Top Chefs Try to Develop Taste for Amazon Fish At Rain-Forest Benefit | FOR the last few years, we've been inundated with rain-forest products, especially fruits and nuts, to highlight the plight of threatened tropical regions. Now, along come fish. An exotic contingent consisting of tucunare, filhote, tambaqui, pescada, piramutaba and dourada were recently flown to this country for a bene... |
622973_0 | E-mail Is Becoming A Cheap-Fax Network | The dividing line between paper facsimile documents and electronic mail is vanishing. Thanks to the volunteer efforts of a group of computer network designers, the network of networks known as Internet now permits users to send an e-mail message to be printed out on fax machines at a growing number of sites around the ... |
622835_0 | I.R.A. Deserves Place At Ulster Peace Table | To the Editor: Your July 12 news article on Northern Ireland says that "the peace talks sponsored by the British Government seem to have collapsed beyond any chance of resumption this year." That's for sure. Peace talks take place between people who are doing the fighting. The British Government is very emphatic that t... |
622490_2 | Patents | doctors have long debated whether expectant mothers should wear them at all. Trying to reconcile the need for belts with the risk of potentially injuring a fetus, Dr. Ethel Grene has patented a safety restraint that straps around a woman's thighs and chest. "It's a question of preventing the lap belt from riding up and... |
622559_0 | World Economies | |
622460_3 | Cheap Beeps: Across Nation, Electronic Pagers Proliferate | consumers. Once sold mainly through specialized shops, pagers are now widely available, not just in telephone and consumer electronics stores, but also at Wal-Mart, Service Merchandise, Walgreen's and their rivals. Operating Costs With $2.2 billion in revenue last year, the paging business is still dwarfed by the $8.8 ... |
621322_3 | Ocean Pioneer Mines Energy That Is Cool, Clean and Free | Craven sees the mix of cold water electrical production, air-conditioning, aquaculture and agriculture as a boon to the developing world, much of which lies in the equatorial band of the planet where strong sunlight generates big temperature differences between the ocean's upper and lower reaches. "Deep ocean water is ... |
621335_1 | A Living Time Bomb? The African Crocodile Finds a Home in Brazil | transfer of Africa's largest and most violent crocodilian to South America has created a biological time bomb comparable to storing plutonium at Grand Central Station. According to the ecologists' nightmare scenario, crocodiles will eventually escape from the ranch, which is only 200 yards from a major inland waterway ... |
621176_1 | Life's Sweeter on the Electronic Superhighway | he asks. "To get a message a few minutes sooner?" Yes, I would prefer to have my written correspondence in three minutes, rather than three days, and with a confirmation notice, to boot. "To play more games?" Yes, I like games. Games are fun. "Will we eat better?" Yes. Consumer Reports, for example, is on line with foo... |
620061_2 | Why Just Drive, When You Can Fax, Dial, Shave, Eat and Brush? | consider activities in their cars like talking on the phone, brushing their teeth or drinking coffee to be private behavior. "Even though most drivers are exposed, there is an assumption of being alone in private space," he said. Cindy Yorks, a freelance writer in Tustin, Calif., remembers the time she decided to catch... |
620006_2 | World Bank Reports Major Health Gains for Poor | likely to be overwhelmed by new threats from drug-resistant forms of malaria and tuberculosis, growing consumption of tobacco in third-world countries and AIDS, the report said. The malaria death rate could double, to 2 million a year within a decade, the report said, and tobacco-related deaths from heart disease and c... |
621374_4 | Personal Health | become porous and weak. Activities like weight-lifting that involve high loads and high stresses (and consequent muscle strengthening) are more effective at building bone than activities that involve many repetitive cycles, like running, walking or swimming. Strength training like lifting weights or working out on resi... |
621485_4 | Personal Health | become porous and weak. Activities like weight-lifting that involve high loads and high stresses (and consequent muscle strengthening) are more effective at building bone than activities that involve many repetitive cycles, like running, walking or swimming. Strength training like lifting weights or working out on resi... |
621375_4 | Personal Health | become porous and weak. Activities like weight-lifting that involve high loads and high stresses (and consequent muscle strengthening) are more effective at building bone than activities that involve many repetitive cycles, like running, walking or swimming. Strength training like lifting weights or working out on resi... |
621369_4 | Personal Health | become porous and weak. Activities like weight-lifting that involve high loads and high stresses (and consequent muscle strengthening) are more effective at building bone than activities that involve many repetitive cycles, like running, walking or swimming. Strength training like lifting weights or working out on resi... |
624373_0 | World Economies | |
624209_1 | Panel to Study Quality of Air In Plane Cabins | were circulating less fresh air into the cabins of many airplanes. Flight attendants, as well as some passengers, complain that the practice causes headaches, nausea and other health problems, especially after long flights. The Transportation Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also begun... |
624230_0 | Patents | THE debate among new parents, environmentalists and diaper manufacturers never seems to end: Which is better -- cloth or disposable? Dana L. Watson, of Wichita Falls, Tex., adds a new dimension to the diaper debate with a newly patented invention that he says will recycle disposable diapers at a profit to the recycler.... |
624213_4 | Illegal Angle: Inertia Mires New Schools | school. Science and Neighborhood The team sketched out plans for a school with grades 7-12 that would combine a focus on science and technology with neighborhood rehabilitation projects. In September, their proposal won one of 14 planning grants, financed by the Aaron Diamond Foundation, as well as a preliminary go-ahe... |
623114_0 | Ulster Talks Are Moribund; Growing Violence Is Feared | Eight months after the suspension of the British-sponsored talks to end the civil strife in Northern Ireland, British and Irish officials say the negotiations to end the violence that has killed 3,066 people since 1969 are moribund and quite unlikely to resume this year. In Northern Ireland the attacks by the Roman Cat... |
624693_1 | Market Place; When Free Marketers Turn Their Faith Over To Central Planners. | performance in share price. Shares have slid since the first day after hitting a high of $18.75. The shares closed yesterday at $12.875, down almost 30 percent from their high. What happened? Some bulls argue that the share price is just under pressure from the flippers, who profit by purchasing pieces of new offerings... |
624706_2 | Wheelchair Warrior Lays Siege to Schools | the disabled, from how far water fountains should be lowered to where signs for the visually impaired should be installed. "The parents of disabled children are increasing their demands to an outrageous extent," said Gwendolyn Gregory, deputy general counsel for the National School Boards Association. "They are asking ... |
620574_0 | It's Johnson Against Reynolds, With the 400 Mark in Danger | Michael Johnson, two sprinters in one, has rebounded from the ignominy of Olympic failure by taking charge of the 400 meters and making it this year's marquee event in track and field. Johnson won the national title three weeks ago in Eugene, Ore., in 43.74 seconds, the fastest 400 ever run in the United States. He def... |
625231_2 | South Africa in the Open | black communities. Of all those victims, according to a statistic the police will provide on request but do not publish, 630 were white. A white South African's chances of being killed last year were one in 8,000, about double the risk faced by white Americans. A black South African's chances of being killed were one i... |
625227_1 | Vacationers Go Undercover at Sea to Film Dumping | be dumped, and no dumping may take place within 12 nautical miles of shore. Until recently, cases were nearly impossible to prosecute because of lack of evidence. But public concern over the environment is playing a role in the increased reporting of illegal dumping, said Heidi Lovett, a spokesman with the Florida offi... |
625212_2 | Pachmarhi Journal; The Hills Are Still Alive, but Face New Intruders | state. When the practice of changing the capital in summer ended, the effect was most obvious on the sprawling mansions built for top officials. The ballrooms and dining rooms that once echoed to dances and dinners under the British are empty except for occasional visitors. In fact, the ballroom at the Governor's House... |
619182_2 | Pope Issues Censure Of 'Nature Worship' Among U.S. Women | not to disrupt the busy schedule, during which he met with the American bishops and used the occasion to mention the Vatican's conflict with some American Catholic feminists. The Vatican's differences with American Catholics -- feminists and others -- cover an array of issues ranging from the ordination of women as pri... |
619151_0 | Aid for Owls, Trees and Loggers | President Clinton's plan to manage and protect 800-year-old forests and spotted owls in the Northwest won't end the tension between loggers and environmentalists, but he has taken a giant step in the right direction. He shields not just a bird, but a rich, irreplaceable ecosystem of timber, water, fish and fowl, while ... |
619517_0 | Where the Emphasis Is Italian | THE spotlight of Newark's International Cultural Festival is now on Italy, and for an exhibition at the Public Library here, William Dane and Charles Cummings have joined forces. Keeper of prints for special collections and assistant director of the same department, respectively, the two scholars have combed the librar... |
619214_1 | Cuba Cutting Direct Phone Service From U.S. | the number of calls from the United States that are routed through Canada, which allows Cuba to share the revenue. Because of the United States trade embargo on Cuba, revenue from telephone calls placed through the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is not shared with Cuba. But Canada has maintained trade relatio... |
619551_6 | Boom in Boating Crowds the Summer Sea | Standards This spring, the National Transportation Safety Board urged the states to enact uniform pleasure-boating standards to reduce the number and severity of accidents. It recommended the mandatory use of life jackets or similar equipment for children, tougher laws on alcohol consumption while operating a boat and ... |
619476_8 | In East Europe, Minimalism Meets Mysticism | as a constant struggle. "I feel distanced from my early work," he said. "It's as if it's by another person. I don't own a computer, but there is a computer in my mind and heart. I don't call my music computer music, but it is strict music. One could call it formal music, very exact. "I'm in search of what has meaning f... |
619332_0 | France and Its Farmers Are in No Mood for Compromise | GATT has become a four-letter word in France, where any world trade agreement is widely viewed as threatening the livelihood of farmers, exporting jobs to developing countries where labor is cheaper, and caving to pressure from the United States. With more than three million unemployed, the economy in recession and fur... |
619544_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-13 AGREEMENT BY HAITIANS Haiti's Army commander and the ousted President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, signed an accord that returns him to power. 1 Haitians are skeptical as they follow news of an accord. 12 DOUBTS ON SUMMIT PROGRESS There are doubts that the world's seven richest nations will make... |
619374_0 | By Windjammer | To the Editor: Your article "By Windjammer Around Penobscot Bay" (May 23) brought back fond memories of what was called a "dude cruise" that I joined over 50 years ago. In September 1939, I spent a delightful six days aboard a 64-foot gaff-rigged 19th-century converted fishing schooner. The amenities were minimal: no r... |
619542_0 | Indian Point 3 on Federal Watch List | THE Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added the Indian Point 3 installation here to its list of problem-plagued plants. The Federal regulatory commission on June 22 cited a problem with declining performance at Indian Point 3 and its August 1992 report card on the 17-year-old plant, which showed inadequate management c... |
619529_8 | Stockholm | been renovated, with an airy, marble-floored lobby and 241 Art Deco rooms. A double comes to $150 ($100). Hotel Anno 1647 is a friendly, small hotel at 3 Mariagrand, 644 04 80, fax 643 37 00, in a cul-de-sac on the South Side. There are three ground-floor rooms for those who can't face the stairs (there's no elevator).... |
621974_4 | A Recovery That's Too Weak Results in Too Few New Jobs | economic growth remains the priority. Their insistence on linking weak job growth with weak economic growth could focus more attention on the Administration's current economic policy. The White House is relying on low interest rates as the principal incentive to get consumers and companies to borrow and spend, hoping t... |
622016_0 | China Backs Off Halting Ships Owned by Russia | The Government apologized today for two recent incidents in which Chinese patrol boats seized Russian vessels in international waters, and it pledged to take steps to avoid further such confrontations. The authorities still have not explained the attack this week on a North Korean cargo ship that had left Hong Kong and... |
623757_3 | The Cannibals Have Got Potential | threads, as in this sentence about "The Odyssey": "Great dramatic moments, a one-eyed giant, cannibals, even some drugs, but nothing illegal, because as far as I know the lotus isn't on the Narcotics Bureau's list." This laboriousness is paradoxically mitigated by extension in a couple of longer pieces. "Industry and S... |
623659_1 | Finish-Line Test for 'Running Doc' | years before his prostate cancer was diagnosed. The first time we met, a few hours before the 1968 Boston Marathon, he said he regarded the race as a Greek tragedy. "There is hubris and there is nemesis. The beginning of the course is downhill and everyone is charged up. They run too fast and their pride destroys them.... |
623692_7 | The Deadly Sins/Despair; The One Unforgivable Sin | vision of a debased 20th-century civilization, is secondhand. That this is a profound if dismaying truth, or an outrageous libel of the human spirit, either position to be confirmed by history, seems beside the point today, in a country in which politics has become the national religion. The literature of despair may p... |
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