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582354_1 | Campbell Delays Plans On Biotech Tomatoes | Cinnaminson, N.J., in return for various marketing rights. "We have no current products and we have no plans to market any bioengineered products," said Mr. Stalter of Campbell, which is based in Camden, N.J. He did not rule out such products, but said they would have to have complete Government approval and respond to... |
583909_0 | Patents | AFTER spending a decade trying to turn garbage into energy economically -- but mainly burning money in the effort -- the founders of Waste Conversion Systems Inc. think they've finally got it right. Waste Conversion, which is based in Englewood, Colo., last week patented a "biomass burner," which company officials say ... |
583862_1 | Northern Ireland Talks Are Expected in Dublin | the unrest has killed 3,033 people. Three people, two Catholic and one Protestant, have been shot to death by gunmen from paramilitary groups since Wednesday. Last year, 85 people were killed; so far this year, five have died. Expressions of Hope Talks on Northern Ireland that had taken place intermittently for more th... |
583842_0 | World Economies | |
581067_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Companies Steven P. Jobs may have found a way to move Next Inc., his struggling work station company, to center stage in the desktop computer industry. Next is said to be in talks with Hewlett-Packard about licensing its Nextstep software technology. [ Page D1. ] Citibank is altering its lending rules and procedures in... |
581036_1 | Before We Let World Bank Squander More | $140 billion loan portfolio (led by Willi Wappenhans, World Bank vice president) showed that, according to the bank's own criteria, 37.5 percent of recently evaluated projects are failures, up from 15 percent in 1981. The most alarming aspect is economic: according to the Wappenhans report, nearly four-fifths of the fi... |
581098_0 | Tomato Gene Is Submitted For Approval | Bowing to pressure from consumer advocates and celebrity chefs, Calgene Inc. said today that it had asked the Food and Drug Administration formally to approve as a food additive a gene implanted in tomatoes to retard spoilage. The request came in spite of a May ruling by the F.D.A. that genetically engineered foods do ... |
583130_3 | Islamic Militants, Pushed Aside, Express Anger in Somali Port | they were repressed, along with other dissident groups, under the authoritarian Government of the longtime dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. A Western diplomat here said that intelligence reports indicated that the Somali fundamentalists received "substantial" help from the Islamic Government in Iran, and later from the fu... |
583424_7 | Scenic Byway Links the Past To the Present | growth, in the winter for snowy landscapes, and even summer has its share of traffic. "It's well traveled, that's for sure," agreed Mrs. Patenaude's sales clerk, Laurie B. Blanchette. "There's always a lot of Sunday drivers." "It's one of those roads that really make you feel like you're out in the country," Ms. Blanch... |
583556_0 | Reaffirm Our Commitment to World's Children | To the Editor: Now that the hearts of many Americans have been touched by the devastating images of starving children in Somalia, the release of Unicef's "State of the World's Children 1993" report is a timely reminder of the plight of children around the globe. Approximately 35,000 children worldwide die each day from... |
583705_0 | Linked | THIS WEEK |
583584_2 | Driving Is Safer Than Ever, Since Sobriety Sank In | the steering wheel in one hand and a bottle of liquor in the other," Mr. Dorgan told a hearing of the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee last week. Another improvement reflects the rate of seat-belt use, which increased to 62 percent last year from 12 percent in 1982, partly because of state laws. Only eigh... |
585574_2 | Patents | energy always produces a corresponding amount of infrared radiation, he explained, and the thermometer essentially works like a camera. The handheld device looks like the instruments used by doctors to examine ears, but it has a shutter and a lens. Instead of film, it uses an infrared sensor and a microprocessor to cal... |
585652_0 | World Economies | |
586806_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
586764_6 | COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: The Gulf ands Western Building; Twisting in the Wind On Columbus Circle | is not the only Manhattan office tower to have trouble with the wind, but it is perhaps the one that has received the most notice. Its problem is an unhappy legacy of a change in architectural design that began in the 1950's, when architects started to replace the rigid steel frames of skyscrapers with lighter, more fl... |
586810_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
586807_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
586813_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
586805_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
586814_2 | Too Many Plastic Pots, Too Few Uses | obvious answer would be reuse. The first application of reuse would be in the home. The pots are essential for raising seedlings, potting up transplants or rooting cuttings. If you have more plastic pots than you need, perhaps a neighbor could use some. Sometimes nurseries will take them back, sometimes they will not. ... |
587141_5 | Shaw, the Eternal Schoolmaster, Can Still Be Wise | had cultural aspirations. By then I was teaching in the department of humanities at M.I.T., and I'd squeeze Shaw into a course whenever I could. Several times I ran a full semester seminar confined strictly to his plays and prefaces. Most of my students, committed as they were to future careers in science or engineerin... |
587029_0 | Is the G.O.P. In Nassau in Disarray? | You have had laudatory articles about the Nassau County Republican Party while the county is drowning in a sea of fiscal red ink and debt. There never seems to be a mention of the political infighting and turmoil, nor of the consequences of the actions of the Board of Supervisors in their handling of the county's fisca... |
580493_2 | Caution: Ants at Work (Watch Your Step) | have wasp waists. In fact, they belong to that great insect suborder Apocrita, which is identified by their wasp waist. Ants, like bees, are social creatures and a great deal of any activity centers on their defense of the home base. In fact, their colony life closely resembles that of the bees, including a wingless qu... |
580495_4 | L.I. Looks to Washington For Revival in '93 | to everything Long Island has seen for three and a half decades. And it will be a different type of job growth, different in the sense that the measurements will be different. They may no longer only be these great units of more jobs, more housing, more miles of highway, and then they go this way with lanes. What we wi... |
580492_2 | Caution: Ants at Work (Watch Your Step) | have wasp waists. In fact, they belong to that great insect suborder Apocrita, which is identified by their wasp waist. Ants, like bees, are social creatures and a great deal of any activity centers on their defense of the home base. In fact, their colony life closely resembles that of the bees, including a wingless qu... |
580583_1 | The Executive Life; Personal Statements Of the Computer Kind | screen savers is that in all but the most demanding office and laboratory environments, these programs are not necessary. "You would have to leave an image on your computer continually for a week before you'd see any real screen burn," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies International Inc., a market rese... |
580400_6 | True Leadership for the Next Millennium | done to ease worries about long-term trends as against simply reacting to regional crises that are their manifestation? No doubt 100 different replies, involving policies, large and small, could be given in answer to those questions. The danger is that in trying to do everything at once an Administration's energies can... |
580647_3 | Iraq Accused: A Case of Genocide | contained in 857 cartons of documents currently stored at a building of the United States National Archives at a location that, for security reasons, cannot be disclosed. The official Iraqi documents -- more than 14 tons of them, totaling more than four million pages -- provide a detailed picture of the day-to-day oper... |
580632_0 | No Headline | Dr. Frank J. Rauscher Jr., a former director of the National Cancer Institute who discovered one of the most-studied of animal cancer viruses, died on Thursday in a Nyack, N.Y., hospital. He was 61 and lived in Weston, Conn. Dr. Rauscher suffered a heart attack, said one of his sons, Dr. Frank J. Rauscher 3d. A scienti... |
584900_2 | British Air Buys 20% Of USAir | strong presence in the United States with the chance to send its passengers into USAir's domestic system even as USAir passengers gained access to British Airways' international routes. The first plan, submitted last July, would have given British Airways an effective veto over major business decisions. Since American ... |
584888_2 | British Air Buys 20% Of USAir | strong presence in the United States with the chance to send its passengers into USAir's domestic system even as USAir passengers gained access to British Airways' international routes. The first plan, submitted last July, would have given British Airways an effective veto over major business decisions. Since American ... |
584899_2 | British Air Buys 20% Of USAir | strong presence in the United States with the chance to send its passengers into USAir's domestic system even as USAir passengers gained access to British Airways' international routes. The first plan, submitted last July, would have given British Airways an effective veto over major business decisions. Since American ... |
581974_4 | St. John's Clings to Classics | has led multicultural study groups, believes students can benefit from studying non-Western works. The Japanese novel "Tale of Genji," the Indian epic "Mahabharata" and African-American literature are among the subjects he has explored with students. "These are very interesting and important works and I think it's impo... |
581973_15 | The Morning-After Pill: A Well-Kept Secret | let out. A typical Monday: this was the postweekend date crowd. IN CONVERSATION during a cross-country flight, a woman from Huntsville, Ala., remarked to her seatmate: "Our dog got into some trouble with another dog and my husband just rushed her down to the vet's for a shot, so she wouldn't have puppies. You mean they... |
581741_0 | World Economies | |
581807_0 | Father Earth | About 15 miles west of Taos, a road with no name tapers off into the flat tableland beneath the Tres Orejas, three small volcanic peaks. Soon the road disappears entirely. All that remains is a thick carpet of snow and a set of coyote tracks pitching toward infinity. But if you can envision an Alternative Republic here... |
582044_0 | Accord With Cree Will Allow Quebec Utility to Finish Dams | Hydro-Quebec, the provincial utility that is a major supplier of electricity to New York State, has signed an agreement with the Grand Council of the Cree and two Cree Indian communities on compensation payments for environmental damage, allowing the electric company to finish a giant hydroelectric project in the remot... |
582785_0 | COMPANY NEWS: But a Scant Market for the Empties; P.& G. Downy Bottles Shift to Recycled Plastic | The Procter & Gamble Company introduced a plastic bottle for its Ultra Downy fabric softener yesterday that is made of 100 percent recycled plastic. The company says the bottle will provide a use for at least 15 million pounds of plastic collected for recycling. But once it is empty, the Downy bottle itself will be muc... |
585857_0 | Carbon Monoxide Gas Is Used by Brain Cells As a Neurotransmitter | THE simple gas carbon monoxide is used by nerve cells to signal each other, researchers have found in a discovery that could open the way to a new understanding of how the brain operates. The discovery follows a finding that another simple gas, nitric oxide, can also signal nerve cells. Together the two gases break all... |
585740_3 | Going Undercover in the Computer Underworld | are constantly working at ways to get around our controls. We liken it to a chess game." Bruce Sterling, a chronicler of the computer wars and author of "The Hacker Crackdown" (Bantam, 1992), concluded that while mischievous intrusions into computer networks were declining, "electronic fraud, especially telecommunicati... |
585923_0 | No Mutant Tomatoes For Campbell Soup | To the Editor: In "Tomato Gene Is Submitted for Approval" (Business Day, Jan 6), which reports that Calgene Inc. is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval for its "FlavrSavr" tomato, you erroneously state that the tomato will be marketed "by the Campbell Soup Company in processed forms." Campbell does not market... |
584660_0 | Scientists Set to Give Up on Galileo's Antenna | After repeated failures to jolt free the Galileo spacecraft's stuck main antenna, engineers have abandoned all realistic hope of deploying the antenna on the craft's mission to Jupiter. They have begun preparations to salvage the mission by making the most of a weaker, slower-transmitting small antenna. A disappointed ... |
584182_0 | Rabbits Beware! Some Birds of Prey Hunt in Packs | THE majestic image of the lone eagle may often hold true. But scientists are also beginning to piece together a more complex picture of eagles, hawks and falcons as team players whose hunting tactics and cunning intelligence invite comparison with the wolf and the fox. Eagles, in fact, not only mount concerted and succ... |
584178_4 | Recriminations Follow Debacle of Short First Flight of Earthwinds | help in many of the technical problems, and I had to work them out by myself," he said. "In just a seemingly simple matter, like picking the right color paint for a vital heat exchanger mounted outside the capsule, even the aerospace companies gave me conflicting advice, and I had to solve things on my own." Baron Hilt... |
615879_7 | After a Bombing, the Uffizi Begins Recovery | image were ruined. This is the case with the Sebastiano, where the damage is much more troubling because of the quality of the picture. There are gashes through the landscape in the background of the painting and less serious cuts across the main figures, but only one minor cut crosses a face. In the coming days, these... |
615938_1 | Charting a Course After Graduation | Review. "This book is holding people's hands through the process of doing what they have to do. Most of them haven't a clue." "How to Survive" joins more traditional views of life after college, such as "The Smith College Job Guide" by Elizabeth Tener (Penguin, 1991, $10.95) and "The Harvard Guide to Careers" by Martha... |
615857_0 | Topics of The Times; Taming Toxic Goop | Who says New Yorkers don't recycle? On a recent blustery Sunday, 275 Brooklynites bearing hazardous waste arrived by car and on foot at an exquisitely appropriate site -- a parking lot overshadowed by the blackened smokestacks of the Greenpoint incinerator and sandwiched between the settling tanks of the Newtown Creek ... |
615908_1 | Bishops Step Into Furor Over Translation of Mass | not to Jesus, the commission tries to avoid masculine pronouns for God; thus, the "glory of His name" and "the good of all His Church" becomes "the glory of God's name" and "the good of the Church." Critics Blame Feminists No votes on either the proposed language or the commission's operation are to be taken at the bis... |
617519_0 | City Begins Effort to Clean Up Tire Dumps | |
617544_0 | Inquiry Will Check Air Quality on Airplanes | Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena today ordered a preliminary inquiry into the air quality of airplane cabins. Airlines in the United States have been circulating less fresh air into the cabins of many newer airplanes to cut costs. As a result, flight attendants and passengers have complained of headaches, naus... |
612999_1 | Finding the Rhythm of the Road, at 10 Miles an Hour | but actually a little run-down. And more to the point, the closest motel is almost 20 miles away, in Enfield, at the exit off Interstate 91. Now, if you are in a car and tired of driving, 20 more miles to go is an irritation. On a bike, it is evil itself, the essence of unfairness. So. As if on cue, a beautiful afterno... |
614173_4 | Costly Relic, Nuclear Unit Sits Ready for Atmospheric Tests | The tests created some of the worst radioactive contamination in the world. Most children born in the Marshalls in the 1950's suffered serious health problems, Mr. Ray said, including thyroid abnormalities and cancer. Poisoning the Land In the era of atmospheric testing, 125 smaller blasts north of Las Vegas sent radio... |
614077_0 | Review/Theater: Playland; South Africa's Conflict, Boiled Down to 2 Men | "The whole world is me and you. Here! Now!," says the white man to the black man in "Playland," the new drama written and directed by Athol Fugard. "Forgive me or kill me. That's the only choice you've got." With those few sentences, Mr. Fugard not only delivers the crux of his play at the Manhattan Theater Club Stage ... |
612914_0 | Schools Can't Segregate Handicapped Children | To the Editor: As the parent of a handicapped child, I was gratified by "When Disabled Students Enter Regular Classrooms" (front page, May 19). However, you omit a problem I have seen time and again in my local schools. There still are quite a number of school principals who shun the presence of multiply handicapped ch... |
616992_1 | Are Gene-Altered Plants an Ecological Threat? Test Is Devised | prototype of a general method for testing the ecological impact of transgenic plants, thereby transforming an argument that has often rested more on assertion than evidence. Test Seen as Milestone By providing a rigorous way to assess the ecological risk posed by transgenic plants, the pioneering British study will bri... |
616915_5 | Pope Endorses Bishops' Attempts To Rid Clergy of Child Molesters | Catholic Church in Canada as well in the United States. During the past year, the bishops of England and Wales issued a letter lamenting such behavior. Many experts in sexual disorders and church leaders, too, feel that the apparent frequency of cases coming to light in these countries, as opposed to continental Europe... |
617046_0 | China Breaks Ground for World's Largest Dam | THE bulldozers are scooping out the yellow earth along the Yangtze River in preparation for the world's largest hydroelectric project, a dam that will create a lake 350 miles long, fuel China's industrial revolution and save millions of people from the constant threat of flooding. Or perhaps the project will simply cre... |
618374_0 | World Economies | |
614344_2 | Administration Rethinking Mental-Health Coverage | Detroit, said: "It's just too painful. Most people with serious emotional problems avoid long-term psychoanalytic treatments because they find it too disturbing to confront unconscious conflicts that originated in early childhood. They prefer short-term treatments that provide support, counseling and advice." Richard C... |
615288_0 | World Economies | |
617807_2 | Beliefs | years ago, he wrote an article pointing out that as the numbers of priests and nuns decreased, the religious future of these institutions would depend on whatever consensus emerged among the next generation of lay faculty. To help forge that consensus, Mr. Landy persuaded the Lilly Endowment to support the first three ... |
617806_2 | Beliefs | years ago, he wrote an article pointing out that as the numbers of priests and nuns decreased, the religious future of these institutions would depend on whatever consensus emerged among the next generation of lay faculty. To help forge that consensus, Mr. Landy persuaded the Lilly Endowment to support the first three ... |
617738_0 | PANEL ON ECOLOGY SHOWING PROGRESS | The commission created to translate the environmental accords of last year's Earth Summit into action wrapped up its first substantive session on an upbeat note today, with tension between rich countries and poor ones uncommonly relaxed and the United States winning praise for leading a new effort to bridge the gap bet... |
613888_3 | Kenya, Calling for Aid, Fights Falling Economy | out reforms. "The rules of the game have changed," said Stephen O'Brien, the World Bank's chief of mission in East Africa. "There is less aid money out there, and if the developing countries want to continue to play the game, they have to comply. The rules are tougher now." The situation was not always so grim. Until t... |
613830_0 | World Economies | |
613752_2 | SMUGGLED TO NEW YORK: The Homeland; High Hopes, and Stakes, For China's Boat People | migrants come from Fujian province, a hilly coastal region opposite Taiwan. The boldest people of Fujian have been emigrating since the 17th century, when the first waves began sailing for Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Even today, Fujianese dialects are common in Singapore and Hong Kong, and the southern Fujianese dialect... |
616830_0 | Health Agency Investigates Airplanes and TB Infections | Concerned that ventilation systems for airline cabins may contribute to the spread of contagious diseases, Federal health officials are investigating whether some passengers with tuberculosis have infected fellow passengers on long flights. The Government is seeking to determine whether the recirculation of air in the ... |
616825_0 | At Old A-Plant, One Sure Thing Is the Volatility | On a windswept patch of desert plateau here, a barbed-wire fence surrounds the hole where workers are supposed to be building a factory to solve what could be the most serious environmental problem in the country. The plant would take radioactive and explosive wastes from nuclear-bomb production out of leaking tanks an... |
616807_0 | World Economies | |
616835_3 | Bolivia's Rain Forest Falls to Relentless Exploiters | the rivers each year. In southern Peru, migrants panning for gold have stripped entire river systems of vegetation and sent untold amounts of silt downstream. Hundreds of tons of toxic mercury, used to extract bits of gold from the sand, are dumped into the waters. But perhaps the most destructive element in Colombian,... |
616840_2 | PART OF THE UFFIZI IS BEING REOPENED | Scores more were nicked or torn by shards of glass. About 250 more were removed for safe-keeping after the sky-lights blew out, exposing them to the weather. Many Works Still in Storage So what visitors saw today was limited to the gallery's first 24 rooms, including the Botticellis, and the Leonardos and the Giottos. ... |
616276_1 | Bishops Pass Resolution Warning Against Abortion in Health Plan | specialized care. "In communities across our land, we serve the sick and pick up the pieces of a failing system," the bishops' resolution said. Emphasis on Universal Care The resolution did not offer any specific health-care plan but proposed broad guidelines for evaluating what emerges from the Administration and Cong... |
616251_2 | Airlines' Passengers Waging Guerrilla War to Trim Fares | executives say that such gamesmanship is difficult to measure, but they contend it has added tens of millions of dollars to their recent annual losses. And travel agents agree that the flying public is hunting for deals with more determination than ever. "Consumers always wanted to get the lowest possible fare," said D... |
614933_0 | Learning More About Learning Disabilities | I want to commend the article ("What 'Learning Disability' Means," May 30) and Beryl Kaufman for further informing the public about learning disabilities. Because those individuals with learning disabilities are of at least average intelligence, it should be emphasized that they can learn as well as their average intel... |
614887_7 | French Movies Offer Tickets To Controversy | to know." One of my more arresting moviegoing experiences was seeing Jean Marboeuf's "Petain" in the afternoon and Claude Chabrol's "Oeil de Vichy" ("Eye of Vichy") the same evening. Both deal with France during the German occupation but in entirely different ways. "Petain" is historical fiction of the sort that demand... |
614916_1 | The Creative Ferment Behind the Glass Boxes | Though many recall this period chiefly for producing tall glass boxes and short concrete bunkers, these writings reveal a time seething with creative ferment. As World War II winds down, the modern movement regroups under the leadership of CIAM (the Congres Internationale d'Architecture Moderne). But now, instead of pr... |
614976_3 | Running Away to Sea: A Brief but Shipshape Trip | that it is dangerous to ignore tradition at sea, so with the rest of the passengers, I scaled pancakes, missing badly. The man on the bridge threw his own pancakes and came closer. Once we reached Long Island Sound, Captain Eginton gave orders to hoist the Clipper's 5,000 square feet of sail. The passengers joined in h... |
614861_0 | U.S. Pushes for a Smoking Ban on Flights Abroad | Responding to complaints and new worries about the effect of second-hand smoke, the Clinton Administration is working to speed the day when smoking is banned on all international flights into and out of the United States. Currently, United States airlines allow smoking on all international flights, except to Canada. An... |
615181_2 | Rum's Punch | to make more rum. French privateers competed with American and British vessels, using rum made in Bordeaux. Some rum is still made in New England. It is heavy, dark and pungent, and rarely drunk elsewhere. Bordeaux, too, still deals in rum, but theirs comes from Martinique and the African island of Reunion. American to... |
615015_3 | Two Areas Fight Radar-Tower Sites | for the Kennedy tower. "It is being considered," he said. "But in order for the radar to work effectively it needs to be 8 to 12 miles from the runway, and Floyd Bennett Field is closer to Kennedy than that. That is why we zeroed in on these particular sites in Roslyn and Bellmore." In 1990 in West Sayville the Nationa... |
615103_0 | IN SHORT: NONFICTION | INTELLECTUAL HISTORY THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe. By Jamie James. Grove, $20.95. Jamie James, the New York music critic for The Times of London, argues in "The Music of the Spheres" that music and science were born of an ancient Greek obsession with understanding the o... |
618445_0 | Loss of Species Is Worse Than Thought in Brazil's Amazon | THE destruction of habitat and loss of living species as a result of deforestation in the Amazon basin of Brazil is much greater than had previously been believed, according to a new analysis of satellite photographs. But the same photographs also show that the annual rate of deforestation is lower than had been though... |
618443_5 | Researchers Track Pivotal Pathway That Makes Cells Divide | I ever was, if not more so." The initial work on the ras gene began around 1980, when scientists realized that the gene could contribute to cancer and thus merited a designation as an oncogene. Like most of the 50 other known oncogenes, the ras gene was named after the animal species and tumor type in which its nefario... |
617173_7 | Suburban Visionary Has Big Plans To Improve Another Man's Project | the development of the rest of Long Island, before it's too late," said James Carroll, a Valley Stream man trained in suburban design who helped organize the conference. Nice but Unworkable The designers of Mr. Breslin's proposal say that while Mr. Blankman's design may look nice, it is unworkable. "A lot of what Norma... |
617174_7 | Suburban Visionary Has Big Plans To Improve Another Man's Project | proposal say that while Mr. Blankman's design may look nice, it is unworkable. "A lot of what Norman addresses are fundamental issues that we all should be addressing," said Ralph J. Martin, Mr. Breslin's project planning consultant. "Creating open space and pedestrian connections, those are all wonderful fundamentals.... |
617201_0 | Food Notes | Tropical Tastes A muggy 85 degrees gave Monday, the first day of summer, a tropical feel. Inside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where 1,000 exhibitors were installed at the International Fancy Food and Confection Show, the temperature may have been cooler, but the taste was tropical. Mango, passion fruit, pinea... |
617201_1 | Food Notes | flavored dried tropical fruits like bananas from Timber Crest Farms in Sonoma, Calif.; mangoes from La Samaria in Santa Marta, Colombia, and cape gooseberries from Caramba in Bogota, Colombia. The rain forest is a hot button. New candies using rain forest nuts are being made by From the Rainforest in New York and Rainf... |
617163_1 | For Some Catholic Girls, Dreams of Serving at Altar Are No Longer Just Dreams | visited Catholic churches around the nation for research on a book called "Holy Siege" (Harper San Francisco, 1992). By his estimate, 1 of 4 Catholic churches nationwide uses girls at the altar for at least some Masses. Even in a church where many women accept that they cannot serve as priests, Mr. Briggs said, they wa... |
614540_0 | China's Population Concerns the World | To the Editor: As Chinese scientists committed to research and training in population and health in the world's most populated country, we are seriously concerned by pressure to withdraw international assistance to China's family planning and research programs. China has made an unprecedented effort in the last two dec... |
614606_0 | Sagunto Journal; Architects? They Could Be Thrown to the Lions | Over the centuries, as it lost sculpted columns and stone blocks to newer construction sites, the Roman theater in Sagunto slowly took on the appearance of a ruin. But, though badly scarred, its fine semicircular auditorium survived to remind people of 2,000 years of history. Today, the theater still stands on a hillsi... |
612753_0 | Genetically Altered Foods Need Regulating | To the Editor: The "cool look at genetically altered foods" in Jane Brody's May 19 Personal Health column is in our view a naive look. She describes much of genetic engineering's potential to benefit humankind. However, she mischaracterizes the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory approach, on which it is now seek... |
612679_0 | Wieden & Kennedy Co-Founder Resigns | David Kennedy, who co-founded Wieden & Kennedy 11 years ago and helped turn the iconoclastic agency into one of America's largest and most honored, will retire at the end of the year, the Portland, Ore., agency said yesterday. In a statement that confirmed a report this week in the trade publication Adweek, the agency ... |
612692_2 | Riding Salsa's Coast-to-Coast Wave of Popularity | the market is nowhere near its peak. He projects that sales of Mexican sauces, which were $730 million in 1992, will double by the end of 1996. As the salsa market grows, so do the choices. The simplest salsas are based on chopped fresh tomatoes. Salsas are usually labeled according to the amount of firepower generated... |
612712_1 | Books of The Times; The Disabled Come Out Fighting | News & World Report, provides a useful history of the effort to give the disabled equality of access and opportunity. Its most original passages disclose the private feelings of the disabled in their own frequently bitter, and occasionally uplifting, words. Although some of the material in the book is needlessly repeti... |
614002_1 | Immigrant Dream of Plenty Turns to Misery and Regret | bountiful life all too often find themselves trapped in a bleak existence under the watchful eyes of criminals ready to resort to brutality against those who don't pay their full fare. The hundreds of Chinese who washed up on the shores of Queens early Sunday morning, following a horrifying journey aboard a rusting fre... |
613228_0 | Squaring Off Over Cigarette Taxes | Never friends, seldom respectful of each other, the tobacco industry and antismoking forces have renewed their hostilities over industry claims that a higher excise tax on tobacco products, as part of the Clinton Administration's health-care plan, would devastate large parts of the economy. Braced for the current tax o... |
613218_0 | Religion Notes | Studying Lifting a Ban Contrary to official policy, girls serve as, well, altar boys in many Catholic parishes around the United States, helping priests at mass with tasks like distributing the communion bread. Now there is talk that the Vatican may lift the prohibition against girls serving at the altar. The Vatican's... |
615708_2 | Irish Begin to Liberalize Laws on Sex and Family | economic ones, with women fearing they would be deprived of property if their husbands left. Now, the Government is preparing laws that would guarantee wives' rights to property and pensions in the event of divorce. Once these laws are in place, Parliament is expected to put the divorce issue to the public. This month ... |
615735_0 | Adobe Ships Acrobat Amid High Hopes | Adobe Systems Inc. said today that it had begun shipping copies of Acrobat, a new software program that the Silicon Valley company hopes will have as broad an impact as its Postscript desktop publishing software had when it was introduced eight years ago. Acrobat is intended to let users transmit newsletters, annual re... |
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