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639310_1 | Market Place; A new company's process excites investors in waste disposal. | for re-use. The value of the recycled substances is minimal. The market's enthusiasm for the process comes more from its potential ability to help users of the technology avoid a costly liability. Once classified as hazardous, waste must be carefully handled and disposed of under complex government regulations. Thus, t... |
639407_4 | NEWS SUMMARY | canceled by Congressional budget cutters. B12 DISABLED CHILDREN OFTEN ABUSED Disabled children are abused and neglected far more frequently than other children, a Federal study found. A21 Prosecutors may drop charges against Clark M. Clifford. A20 Metro Digest B1 COMMISSIONER TESTIFIES Saying he had been repulsed by th... |
644894_2 | Nova Vicosa Journal; Art From the Amazon's Ashes Is Arousing Brazil | Brazil's agricultural frontier was marching across Parana. "There was such smoke that I never saw the natural sun," he recalled, talking here in lightly accented Portuguese over a dining table fashioned from a single hardwood slab. "I denounced the burning, but I didn't have any impact. At that time, burning the forest... |
644939_1 | Recalling 1968, French Prime Minister Backs Off | first sign of labor union protest, will it be possible to improve the abject performance of state companies like Air France; Groupe Bull, the computer maker, and Aerospatiale, which have been piling up huge losses even as Mr. Balladur has promised to push through their privatization? Labor unions continued their strike... |
644859_0 | 2 Decades After Toxic Blast in Italy, Several Cancers Show Rise | ALMOST two decades after an explosion at a chemical factory released a toxic cloud of dioxin over northern Italy, a team of researchers has reported finding elevated rates of several types of cancer among area residents, but no overall increase in cancer. The study, by Dr. Pier Alberto Bertazzi of the University of Mil... |
644858_1 | Getting Your Feet Wet In a Sea Called Internet | defense contractors, keeps growing; no one really knows how much or how fast. Paul Gilster, in "The Internet Navigator: The Essential Guide to Network Exploration for the Individual Dial-Up User" (John Wiley & Sons; $24.95), writes that by 1985, "approximately 100 networks formed the Internet." He continues: "By 1989, ... |
641098_1 | Irish President Backs New Call for Peace in Ulster | Albert Reynolds. Today, she spoke in a political context in which a well-publicized national debate is under way on the Hume-Adams plan, which deals with allowing Sinn Fein to take part in official peace negotiatons in return for a convincing cessation of violence by the I.R.A. "There are important changes taking place... |
641110_0 | COMPANY NEWS: An Experiment for 1,000 Drivers; Sparking Interest In G.M.'s Electric Car | Want to be the first on your block to try out an electric car? Or, put differently, want to try out an electric car that cost as much as your house did, without having to pay for it? Then watch for an insert in your next utility bill. The General Motors Corporation announced yesterday that it would build 50 Impacts, it... |
640835_2 | Plans for Abortion Pill Stalled in U.S. | Have Other Benefits RU-486 is an antiprogestin that causes an abortion by cutting off blood flow to the embryo, which is then flushed out by contractions of the womb. Along with RU-486, women usually take another drug, a prostaglandin, to speed the ejection of the embryo by inducing stronger contractions. Some research... |
640828_1 | U.S., Praising China, Is Still Wary on Rights | top human rights official emerged from two days of talks with Chinese officials today praising the resumption of dialogue between Washington and Beijing after a two-year hiatus, but reporting no progress on improving China's overall record. At a news conference, the official, John Shattuck, gave a positive account of C... |
642817_1 | NUCLEAR MATERIAL DUMPED OFF JAPAN | scale." But as Mr. Yeltsin was meeting here, a Russian Navy tanker, the TNT-27, was loading 900 tons of radioactive water and other material from a major submarine base in the Russian Far East and heading for a site due west of Hakodate, on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The TNT-27 was tracked first by a ship o... |
638752_0 | I.R.A. Welcomes Ulster Plan; Describes It as Basis for Peace | In a move expected to add impetus to a new plan for peace in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army said today that it welcomed the proposal because "it could provide the basis for peace." The statement was the first indication of approval by the outlawed group since the plan was announced nine days ago by Gerry A... |
638702_0 | World Economies | |
638614_0 | Accous Journal; Highway Hits a Roadblock: France's Last 12 Bears | With their mighty walls stretching from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees hold some of Western Europe's last wild spaces. Royal eagles and great Egyptian vultures dip along glaciers and waterfalls. And amid the rangy pine forests the last few bears in France are fighting for survival. A new truck route li... |
644714_0 | World Economies | |
644645_0 | Bombing Causes Delay in British-Irish Talks | A day after 10 people were killed here by an Irish Republican Army bomb, the British and Irish Governments today postponed a meeting they had planned to hold on Wednesday in Belfast to discuss peace prospects for Northern Ireland. Among those killed in the blast in a Protestant shopping area were two young girls and a ... |
642045_0 | Amazon Tours From Ecuador | Only four hours by jet from Miami, Quito is becoming an increasingly popular jumping-off point for Americans interested in exploring the Amazon jungle. Over the last five years, nature tourism in the Ecuadorean Amazon has doubled, approaching 30,000 visitors this year. But visitors should know that Ecuador informally l... |
642153_1 | Malls Add Services to Keep Customers | for recycling bins in the food court, they got them, said Alice Rosen, Menlo Park's marketing manager. Menlo Park, one of the earliest malls at 30 years old, is in its second year of operation after an 18-month shutdown for rebuilding. Last month, the Quakerbridge Mall, in Lawrence Township, began offering year-round v... |
642376_2 | Conversations: Khaleda Zia; A Woman Leader for a Land That Defies Islamic Stereotypes | primary education is now free and compulsory up to grade five -- and for girls free up to grade eight," she said. "We are experimenting in some areas with a scheme that gives food grains to families who keep their children in school. "Sometimes, a parent will bring a bright girl to me who is too poor to continue her st... |
642376_4 | Conversations: Khaleda Zia; A Woman Leader for a Land That Defies Islamic Stereotypes | Rate Down A population growth rate that was approaching 3 percent has been cut to less than 2.4 percent -- lower than the average rates in Central America, Africa and the Middle East, though still triple the North American rate. Three-quarters of Bangladeshis now have access to some kind of basic medical care, a higher... |
642188_0 | Tech Notes; Computerizing the Clunker | COMPUTERS work well in new cars to reduce air pollution, but what can be done with old ones, especially in third world countries where old models predominate? In those lands, where often the only gasoline is leaded, catalytic converters are not practical. A start-up company in Maryland won a patent last week for a devi... |
642136_5 | When We Build It, Will They Come? | interactive video services. "We think the hardest part in all this is giving people a sense of where they are." To meet that challenge, companies as diverse as Microsoft and TV Guide are working on computer "navigators" or "agents" that help people find their way. Agents are usually software programs that search throug... |
640074_7 | The Yangtze's Gorges | talked on the boat had a similar reaction to the Three Gorges, but we were genuinely impressed by a side trip on the second day to the Lesser Three Gorges. These are on the Daning River, a tributary of the Yangtze, and nearly all cruise boats make the seven-hour side trip. Because the Daning is narrow and shallow, we t... |
640050_0 | Spicier Old Stops, Exotic New Ones | THE fall season is a pronounced one in the cruise industry. The flotilla that cruises to Alaska in spring and summer has relocated to warm-weather ports, there are longer cruises to choose from, and South America and the South Pacific show up on more itineraries. Many veteran travelers prefer fall and winter cruises be... |
640069_2 | A Landmark Manages to Cheat The Wrecking Ball | sprawling city like Los Angeles needed a central library at all. Why not scatter the collection throughout the city, they asked, on the rationale that pro- library voters lived in residential neighborhoods, not downtown office towers. Making the same argument, but for an altogether different reason, were the celebrants... |
639952_0 | Oct. 3-9: Small Bomb, Big Problem; Chinese Explosion Puts Another Dent In Relations With U.S. | At 80 to 90 kilotons, the nuclear bomb tested by China last week is deemed medium-sized. But arms-control advocates worried that the blast could set in motion an international chain reaction as well. President Clinton had urged China not to carry out the test, and the day after it took place he directed the Department ... |
645278_0 | Catholic Bishops Proposing Active U.S. Policy Abroad | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have drafted a statement calling for a more active American role on the world stage, including supporting the United Nations, expanding foreign aid and, when necessary, using military force for interventions intended to rescue people from hunger or mass violence. Now in draft form, t... |
645252_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-21 ATROCITIES IN A BOSNIAN VILLAGE Until Saturday, the quiet mountain village of Stupni Do had escaped the horrors of the Bosnian war. Now, many of its Muslim inhabitants have been slaughtered and the village has become a symbol of the nation's madness. A1 Bosnian forces killed a gang leader in Sarajev... |
645338_4 | Expert Tells Of Markings On Van Parts At Blast Trial | the prosecution case is being built in such small increments that Mr. Salameh's name has not yet been mentioned by any of the 58 witnesses who have testified so far. Indeed, once Mr. Fritz brought up the Ford Econoline van, the prosecution turned to a different element in their case, calling to the stand Manuel Zambela... |
645300_2 | Pisa Journal; The Leaning Tower Loses a Tiny Bit of Its Tilt | model towers in miniature, postcards and guidebooks. The alarms have been sounding about the tower's steadily increasing tilt for years, but, usually, it took disasters at other towers to focus attention on what is one of Italy's principal wonders. Committees Aren't Enough People got worried, for instance, when the Ven... |
645298_2 | Belfast Observes a Day of Funerals and Fear | wounding five others. Including Saturday's bomb attack, which killed 10, 14 people have died over the last four days. A paramilitary squad of Protestants called Ulster Freedom Fighters is picking victims apparently at random in Catholic areas. In a statement about Tuesday's attack, the group said, "It is just the start... |
645386_1 | Making Car Theft More Difficult | alert a thief that the owner is doing something about security. ELECTRONIC ALARMS: Usually this system will include a loud siren, a cutoff switch for the ignition, glass and sound sensors, motion detectors (which, when too sensitive, cause the false alarm problems evident on city streets) and remote control features. O... |
638178_1 | Gains Cited at U.N. on Cutting Infant Deaths | children, and insure universal access to clean water, all by the year 2000. After the leaders set the goals for reducing infant mortality, African, Asian and Latin American governments adopted 1995 targets for themselves as a way of measuring progress. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh, the chairwoman of a meeti... |
638183_2 | U.S. REACHES PACT ON PLANT CLEANUP | earlier this year that it could not meet the schedule laid out in a 1989 agreement. When it was announced, that agreement was hailed as a landmark for bringing a Federal weapons plant into compliance with national environmental laws. But as technical problems emerged, the deadlines began to seem unrealistic. The new ag... |
638152_0 | DEBATE FOR PEACE INTENSE IN ULSTER | As the British province of Northern Ireland enters its 26th year of sectarian violence involving its Protestant majority and Roman Catholic minority, a new peace initiative has provoked intense debate in the north and here in the Irish Republic. Two questions are central to the debate on how to end the guerrilla war be... |
638449_17 | Are Women's Hearts Different | their bodies manufacture. Estrogen serves several functions. It boosts a woman's levels of H.D.L. (high-density lipoprotein, the "good" cholesterol that helps carry blood fats out of the body), which helps keep the arteries clear. It lowers L.D.L. (low-density lipoprotein, the "bad" cholesterol, which accumulates as pl... |
638303_0 | Hawaii Check-Ins Behind the Wheel | A typical 10-day family vacation in Hawaii might include five days on Oahu and five on one of the other islands. The annoying part comes when it's time to get from one island to the other -- dragging luggage and other paraphernalia from the rental car to the airline counter for what will be a very short flight. Now Alo... |
638438_1 | Neighborhood Report: Lower Manhattan; 2 Buildings, 200 Years Old, To Be Rubble | Borough President, Ruth W. Messinger, last week asked city officials for a reprieve and urged them to institute a new policy of fortifying landmarks against collapse instead of destroying them. Both buildings are vacant and rickety. On Sept. 21 the roof and top front of 229 collapsed with a boom and a clatter of bricks... |
638233_0 | On the Scent of Lawbreakers | AS a swarm of jet-lagged passengers from Alitalia Flight 600 out of Milan fought for their baggage recently at Kennedy International Airport in New York, one woman found herself with a new four-legged friend. He was a peppy little beagle by the name of Bamboo, and he showed a keen professional interest in her carry-on ... |
638172_1 | China's Fix for Runaway Economy Is Falling Short | an unpredictable mess nonetheless. Partly as a result of the new austerity measures combined with the effects of unabated inflation, some of China's state-owned factories are having trouble meeting their payrolls, and others have been forced to cut production drastically. A General Motors Corporation joint venture to b... |
639692_0 | After China's Nuclear Blast | President Francois Mitterrand of France had the right response to China's reckless test of a nuclear warhead this week: he urged other nuclear-armed states to "keep their cool" and not follow suit. President Clinton would be wise to take his advice. The spread of nuclear arms to states that don't yet have them would po... |
646174_1 | 7 DIE, 11 WOUNDED IN ULSTER ATTACK | in a village in the western part of the British Province, police said. A Protestant paramilitary organization, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, claimed responsibility for the killings, which it said were in retaliation for the deaths last Saturday of nine Protestants in a bomb detonated by the Irish Republican Army in Belf... |
645934_56 | David Gergen, Master of THE GAME | ring." When he speaks of the men he admires, he speaks of the legends of the city, the political players who became insiders' insiders and finally reached the apogee of success, the special status known as wise man. The names roll off his tongue -- Robert Strauss, the consummate deal maker; Bryce Harlow, the lawyer-lob... |
646252_3 | Baggage Check: Weighing Risks | line had 32,093,224 passengers and said it had 3,031 claims for theft, one for every 10,588 passengers. Airline B had a higher rate. For 80,088,900 boardings in 1992, it said it had 12,809 claims for theft, one for every 6,253 passengers. For 1993 up to Aug. 31, it had 56,991,800 passengers and 8,486 theft claims, or o... |
645981_1 | Finding Out What Happens To All That Recycled Material | the plant, which features three high-speed baling machines, a magnetic metal separator, a forced-air separation system and a vibrating screen for the removal of small contaminants. Mr. O'Rourke said that next year metal jar tops and aerosol spray cans would also be recycled here. Visitors to the education center can se... |
637798_2 | Cuban Officials Don't Foresee a Thaw With the U.S. Anytime Soon | improving limited cooperation in areas like immigration, narcotics control and telecommunications. He also said that the Cuban Government was studying ways of expanding "cultural, scientific, sports and journalistic" exchanges. A Three-Pronged Strategy Increasing cooperation in areas like these appears to be one part o... |
642713_0 | Palmas Journal; Brazilians Rush West, to Citadel of Self-Reliance | Blueprints in hand, Walfredo Antunes de Oliveira Jr. watched officials lay this frontier city's founding stone and wondered nervously: What if we build a capital and no one comes? Then, looking across the table-flat savanna on that day in May 1989, he noticed dust plumes in the distance. Slowly, they converged on this ... |
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640617_6 | U.S. Prepares to Unveil Blueprint for Reducing Heat-Trapping Gases | would send the wrong signal to other countries. "It tells the Europeans you don't have to deal with your emissions from energy production, that you can offset that by measures on the sink side," said Alden Meyer, director of the program on climate change and energy of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which focuses on... |
643053_0 | Estrogen and Breast Cancer | To the Living Section: In "Eating Well" (Sept. 8), Marian Burros correctly notes that many experts believe that the female hormone estrogen plays a role in raising a woman's risk of breast cancer and that the link between a high-fat diet and an increased risk of breast cancer may be that the diet increases estrogen lev... |
641533_1 | Report Finds 20% of Students In New York City Carry Arms | were attacked. The study also found that those who carried weapons to school were more likely than others, by 48 to 20 percent, to believe that having a weapon was an effective deterrent to violence, and were more likely, by 68 to 43 percent, to believe their families wanted them to defend themselves, even if that mean... |
641493_4 | Breaking Down an Arms Buildup | developed a technique to use jets of water, exerting pressures of up to 10,000 pounds a square inch, to remove the fuel. Depending on the degree of the fuel's explosiveness, it can then be burned in an incinerator to produce energy or be processed back into ammonium perchlorate, a component of solid rocket fuel that ca... |
641382_0 | Diagnosing Realities of Health Care Reform; Parity for Mental Care | To the Editor: Health reform measures unveiled by the Clinton Administration offer real hope for better medical care for people with mental and emotional illnesses, but they will have to wait until the year 2001 for comprehensive coverage to become available. We applaud the Administration's bold movement toward coverag... |
639169_0 | Women Seeking Asylum | Do women who have been raped or have suffered other gender-related violence deserve special treatment when being considered for political asylum in the U.S.? Their claims ought to be heard with more sensitivity than they often get now. But increased sensitivity is possible without making gender a special category for a... |
639195_6 | Tremors in Cuba Bending Exiles' Hard Line | more, ship packages of food and medicine to Cuba. Under American law, exiles are permitted to send up to $300 worth of such items to close relatives in Cuba every three months, a loophole in the embargo that exiles exploit with a combination of relief and guilt. "You don't want to help Fidel, but you feel sorry for you... |
639042_0 | Initiative on Northern Ireland Stirs Optimism | A new initiative by two of the most influential Roman Catholic leaders in Northern Ireland has led to a feeling of optimism among many that fresh negotiations could get under way soon to try to resolve the sectarian violence that has killed more than 3,000 people in the last 25 years. Ten days after the initiative was ... |
639197_3 | WORLD MORATORIUM ON NUCLEAR TESTS IS BROKEN BY CHINA | any other nation detonated a nuclear device. Russia and Great Britain have said they would not resume testing unless the United States did. President Francois Mitterrand of France is awaiting a report from a panel of experts on whether French adherence to the moratorium would compromise France's nuclear weapons. Early ... |
639107_1 | What It Will Take to Develop the Super-Car | in America's, and his own, mythos. As Vice President Al Gore, the chief executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler and the heads of the nuclear weapons laboratories looked on, Mr. Clinton fondly recalled his youth as the stepson of a Buick dealer and remembered his own first car, a 1952 Kaiser Henry J. He also con... |
639466_0 | No Headline | A highly fortified air base deep in the Upper Huallaga Valley that serves as the center for United States counter-narcotics operations here has become obsolete and should be abandoned, American narcotics experts say. The base, which is known as Santa Lucia, has cost American taxpayers more than $100 million over the la... |
639485_0 | Albert Smith Bigelow, 87, Pacifist Who Tried to Halt Nuclear Tests | Albert Smith Bigelow, a pacifist who tried several times to sail into a nuclear testing area near the Marshall Islands in 1958 in a protest against nuclear weapons, died on Wednesday at a retirement home in Walpole, Mass. He was 87. His family said he had had a long illness. Mr. Bigelow, who served as a Navy lieutenant... |
639501_1 | Irish Chief Backs Peace Plan and Will See British | government," he said. "We'll consider how in our discussions with the British Government this can contribute to the building of a peace process." Mr. Reynolds's endorsement was crucial because, without it, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, would have been under little pressure to consider it. Pr... |
637995_1 | As Mormon Church Grows, So Does Dissent From Feminists and Scholars | Voices In the last decade or so, a flurry of independent Mormon publications and groups have emerged in Salt Lake City, including the Mormon Women's Forum, a feminist group that says it has about 2,000 members. Its president, Lynn Kanavel Whitesides, was one of the six disciplined by the church authorities. She was "di... |
637993_1 | Japan Hails Clinton's Approval of Tokyo's Plutonium Project | are currently scheduled. The initial shipments from France were intended to fuel a $5 billion prototype breeder reactor that both consumes and produces plutonium. By the end of the decade Japan plans to open a large reprocessing facility of its own that would convert nuclear waste into more plutonium. U.S. Sold Nuclear... |
645753_0 | Ireland and Britain Offer Plan for I.R.A. Talks | The Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland conferred today in Brussels on Northern Ireland and issued a statement promising that "new doors could open" for peace talks on the British province if the Irish Republican Army ended its campaign of violence. The Prime Ministers -- John Major of Britain and Albert Reynolds of... |
645723_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-5 GLOOM AS EUROPEAN CHIEFS MEET A meeting of the European Community was intended to celebrate the start of its treaty on unity, but instead it was dampened by anxiety about the economy. 1 TALKS ON BELFAST: OFFER TO I.R.A. After talks on Northern Ireland, the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland said "... |
640281_4 | CLINTON CARE PLAN MAY CUT BENEFITS TO SOME CHILDREN | of thousands of New York children will lose the specialized services they now get under Medicaid. These children do not get cash assistance now, but as Medicaid recipients they receive an enriched package of benefits far more comprehensive than the basic benefits package offered under the President's plan." 'Some Gaps ... |
640413_0 | World Economies | |
640319_0 | British Statement Restarts Debate on Ulster | The debate over a new peace initiative for Northern Ireland accelerated today after the British Secretary for the north, Sir Patrick Mayhew, explained the conditions under which he would negotiate with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. In the first elaboration of British policy on the... |
645517_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-11 MEXICAN SUGAR AND TRADE PACT Fears of sugar imports from Mexico illustrate the kind of pressure Congress faces in the trade accord, because if Mexicans switch from sugar to corn syrup in their soft drinks, they could export more sugar. A3 ARISTIDE URGES A TOTAL EMBARGO The exiled President of Haiti ... |
645585_2 | Engineers Give Shape to Tire and Vehicle Fragments at Trade Cente Trial | but nothing has been reported so far that would be unmistakably exculpatory. The portions of the transcripts made available to The New York Times show Mr. Salem talking of Mr. Salameh and Mr. Abouhalima in connection with the World Trade Center bombing plot. Over the last few weeks, the prosecutors in the trade center ... |
645538_3 | Trade Pact Passage May Hinge on Mexican Sugar | allowed to export to the United States would rise to 25,000 tons six years after of the pact goes into effect. The quota would disappear entirely after 15 years. But the accord says that if Mexico can produce more sugar than it consumes for two consecutive years, it can start shipping as much sugar to the United States... |
644440_3 | Airline Seats: Not Always First Come First Served | September showed 17 of the unsold seats in a cabin of 137 seats were marked "preferred." Mr. Monroe said that three or two weeks before a flight, particularly one popular with vacation travelers, as this one is, virtually all the preferred seats should still be available. But 17 seats represent 12.4 percent of all the ... |
644193_3 | Debate on Race And Adoptions Is Being Reborn | placements. A similar measure is pending in the United States Senate. Authored by Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, Democrat of Ohio, the bill states that while same-race adoptions are preferable, race cannot be the sole consideration in making foster care and adoption placements. Any agency found to be unduly delaying or ... |
644153_3 | Airline Seats: Not Always First Come First Served | in September showed 17 of the unsold seats in a cabin of 137 seats were marked "preferred." Mr. Monroe said that three or two weeks before a flight, particularly one popular with vacation travelers, as this one is, virtually all the preferred seats should still be available. But 17 seats represent 12.4 percent of all t... |
644441_3 | Airline Seats: Not Always First Come First Served | September showed 17 of the unsold seats in a cabin of 137 seats were marked "preferred." Mr. Monroe said that three or two weeks before a flight, particularly one popular with vacation travelers, as this one is, virtually all the preferred seats should still be available. But 17 seats represent 12.4 percent of all the ... |
644294_2 | Actions of Japan Peacekeepers in Cambodia Raise Questions and Criticism | forces asked for -- and usually received -- in exchange for their participation in the 22,000-member peacekeeping operation, which was sent here under a 1991 United Nations peace treaty intended to end Cambodia's long civil war. Many Abandoned Posts They were angrier over the fact, largely unpublicized until now, that ... |
644250_1 | I.R.A. Bombing Kills 9 in a Shopping Area of Belfast | since the latest round of violence began in 1969. Police Patrol Streets The Ulster Freedom Fighters said it was calling all its units to active duty. By nightfall the streets of Belfast were heavily patrolled by the police and British Army troops. The attack's political effect was believed certain to impede seriously i... |
644442_0 | Neighborhood Report: Harlem; The Playground That Plastic Built | A new school playground on 134th Street has 20,000 plastic containers and 34,000 aluminum cans, according to its donor. But it is a proud count: recycling has turned the castoffs into the makings of a jungle gym and slide. Even the mats to cushion children's falls are fashioned from old tires. The playground, at P.S. 1... |
641901_1 | PRESIDENT ORDERS SIX U.S. WARSHIPS FOR HAITI PATROL | missile crisis in 1962. But as in his speech on Somalia earlier this week, the President's manner was more subdued than his words. Haiti's defiant military and police leaders, who were scheduled to step down today under an accord brokered earlier this year by the United Nations, refused to do so. A White House aide sai... |
641864_0 | The Politics of Food | The old view of U.S. farm policy is that it strikes an unconscionable blow to the poor: It jacks up food prices so that Congress can funnel billions to a rich and well-organized constituency. The new view of farm subsidies -- which follows from a series this week in The Times -- is that the old view was much too kind. ... |
638986_1 | A Snapshot of the Continent's Flora, Invaders and All | are hundreds of botanists at 30 institutions in the United States and Canada. The work, consisting of 14 volumes to appear over 12 years, is being published by the Oxford University Press and will also be made available on Internet, the global computer network. The first volume traces the epic evolution of North Americ... |
586552_0 | L. Van Norden, 78, Lawyer Who Led Opera Association | Langdon Van Norden, a lawyer and a former chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association, died on Wednesday at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. He was 78 and lived in Greenwich. He died of a heart attack, said his son, Langdon Jr., of Manhattan. Mr. Van Norden, who joined the opera association board in 1... |
586461_0 | Scientific Evidence Doesn't Tell Whole Story | To the Editor: The Supreme Court has decided to rule on what scientific evidence juries can hear, you report (front page, Jan. 2). Your account gives much attention to Peter Huber and his book "Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom," which contends that courts are awash in crackpot testimony and unproved cla... |
582125_6 | China Builds Its Military Muscle, Making Some Neighbors Nervous | Chinese leaders are trying to assuage the concerns. China's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ma Yuzhen, declared last month that it is "absolutely not true" that China is "filling the vacuum left by the superpowers." For now, China's military forces are still regarded as second or third rate by Western experts. Fighter pil... |
582148_1 | Amgen and Miles Sign Small Biotech Concerns | purchased a 10 percent stake in Sugen, which is privately held. Sources close to the deal said the price was about $10 million. The announcement of the alliance is planned for the Hambrecht & Quist Life Science Conference, an annual event where biotech companies make presentations to analysts and industry experts, to b... |
582167_3 | Patents; Increasing Production Of a Virus | the only way to harvest these proteins is to crack open the genetically engineered cells and then laboriously separate them through elaborate filtering processes. Or, if the cells are programmed to secrete the proteins, they get mixed up with the rich nutrients used to feed the cells and must also be separated through ... |
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582102_8 | Castro's People Try to Absorb 'Terrible Blows' | sugar (four pounds), although it usually took more than one trip to find even that. Monthly rations of cooking oil (about two cups), soap (half a bar per person), coffee (four ounces) and Chinese toothpaste, which is sometimes used as a detergent substitute, rarely seem to arrive on schedule. Since the 12-ounce monthly... |
586679_4 | Health Claims Cause Turmoil In the Cellular-Phone Market | to cause cancer and birth defects, like X-ray radiation. Making a Comparison A researcher on radio frequency hazards suggested an analogy: Imagine someone going to the top of the Empire State Building and firing a high-powered rifle into a street crowded with passers-by. The probability of a bullet fatally striking a s... |
581432_0 | Trump Project Adds to Sewage Problem | To the Editor: Although the fate of Donald J. Trump's Riverside South project on Manhattan's West Side has been resolved with a favorable vote in the New York City Council (news article, Dec. 18), the question of what happens to the project's sewage has not. The plan calls for the more than 1.4 million gallons a day of... |
581514_2 | Poland Acts to Curb Abortion; Church Seeks Ban | to open a Catholic chapel at Parliament have stirred similar debate, and Cardinal Glemp energetically attacked Church critics this week as purveyors of "contemporary paganism." With the advent of democracy, the church hierarchy began to push for a social agenda that included religious education in the schools and the e... |
580988_0 | Nuclear Waste Crisis Grows in Our Backyard | To the Editor: "Shoreham Fuels Nuclear Proliferation" (editorial, Dec. 13) criticizes the decision by the Long Island Power Authority to ship Shoreham's contaminated fuel to France for reprocessing for future use in other nuclear power plants. While your concern for reprocessing is understandable, your criticism misses... |
580855_0 | With Hint of Scandal, New Social Values Are Sold | A 13-year-old bride in India refuses to consummate her marriage, saying she wants to become a lawyer before she has children. A Filipino man crouches over the grave of his wife, who died delivering their 13th child, and apologizes for not helping to plan their family better. A Pakistani doctor tells a woman who has had... |
585185_1 | Hussein Rebuilds Iraq's Economy Undeterred by the U.N. Sanctions | industrial complex bombed by the allies show the damage inflicted and how it has been mended. But the most powerful symbol of Iraq's determination to rebuild after the Persian Gulf war and keep the country from collapsing into starvation, economic chaos and rebellion under the weight of sanctions is the Third River. Th... |
585245_0 | Paris and Bonn Wrestle With New Roles in Post-Cold-War Europe | Early in 1963, with the wounds of World War II still healing, President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met in the Elysee Palace to sign a French-German cooperation treaty that the French leader predicted would put an end to "centuries of rivalry." Yet this week, when they met to mark the 30th annivers... |
585205_1 | SETTLING IN: Abortion Policy; Protest and Praise Over Clinton's Orders | United Nations said the President's reversal of the ban on Federal aid for domestic and foreign programs that provide abortion counseling would result in more family-planning services for low-income women. Abortion-rights advocates said the new Administration's actions would have profound effects worldwide, and would a... |
585449_3 | Building the Electronic Superhighway | only to elite scholars. Someone with a personal computer could ask a supercomputer far away to help solve a complex problem. Health care could become more efficient because computerized patient records, containing not just words but X-rays and other medical images, would be instantly available to any hospital or clinic... |
584288_0 | Ocean Traffic Control Would Reduce Spills | To the Editor: Re: "Scottish and Labor Officials Fault Government on Oil Spill" (news article, Jan. 7): Navigation by supertankers is a scandal that requires urgent attention. Every day, tankers attempt the equivalent of landing on a fog-bound airport without airport lights, without air traffic control and with only th... |
584296_0 | CHRONICLE | Dr. WALTER H. MUNK, a geophysicist whose research has led to new understanding of the oceans, waves and tides and the rotation of the earth, will receive the Vetlesen Prize at Columbia University tomorrow evening. The $50,000 award, which has been called the Nobel Prize of earth sciences, was last given in 1987. It is ... |
582273_2 | Cuba's Economy, Cast Adrift, Grasps at Capitalist Solutions | that a similar proportion of the work force holds only marginal jobs. By some measures, Cuba's per capita national product now ranks just above that of some of the poorest nations in Latin America. At the end of the 1980's, Cuba was counting on Communist-bloc countries for 85 percent of its imports and sending them 81 ... |
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