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615749_3 | Survey Finds Major Gains In Cutting Blood Cholesterol | part to the white population being older, on average, than the other groups. Cholesterol levels tend to rise with age. There has been a 54 percent decline in deaths from coronary heart disease in the last 30 years, he said, which has coincided with the drop in cholesterol levels, as well as declines in high blood press... |
615618_3 | No-Smoke Ways to 'Burn' Wastes | walls of reactor vessels. The acids can be neutralized by adding a base, like sodium hydroxide, but this does not completely solve the problem, because the resulting salts are sticky and tend to gum up the system. Nevertheless, agencies of the Defense Department are intent on perfecting supercritical water oxidation to... |
615675_0 | Women at the Top | Two more countries elected women as their Prime Ministers last weekend, but that's hardly news anymore. The list of women who head or have headed their governments grows by the year, and notably in countries where feminist movements are weak or nonexistent. Following in the giant footsteps of Israel's Golda Meir, Brita... |
615635_1 | Personal Health; For Many, Air Travel Means a Trip to the Doctor. | start with the fact that passengers quickly disperse to many distant points. Also, it is often hard to separate the effects of forced contact with airborne infectious organisms from the immune-suppressing effects of travel-related stress, which leaves people more vulnerable to infection. But in 1979, influenza struck 7... |
617378_0 | A Convenience Born of Intolerance | WERE remote controls always so complicated? No, says the inventor of the first practical unit, Dr. Robert Adler. Dr. Adler, 79, retired as vice president for research at the Zenith Electronics Corporation in Glenview, Ill., and is a technical consultant to Zenith. "People accuse me of creating the Couch Potato, and I s... |
616681_8 | Where Chinese Yearn for 'Beautiful' U.S. | to nearly everyone interviewed, the procedure for boat people who are returned is to detain them for a few days to make sure that they are not wanted for some crime. Then they are normally fined, based on what the police think the market will bear: a wealthy entrepreneur may be fined thousands of dollars, while an impo... |
612513_6 | Scanner Pinpoints Sites of Thought as People See or Speak | of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, is exploring the auditory cortex, one of the least understood areas of the human brain. Using plastic air tubes to transmit sound to subjects, he plays pure tones, speech sounds and a mixture of sound frequencies called white noise just to see which cells are activated. In other experiments, ... |
612581_0 | China Makes Population Control an Ism | To the Editor: "China is a very big country with a very big problem: it has 7 percent of the earth's arable land -- and more than 20 percent of all its people. Today they number 1.17 billion. In several decades they will probably number 1.9 billion." Thus begins "China's Cruelty and Women's Rights" (editorial, May 21).... |
612551_11 | Forsaken Frontier: Revisiting the Oregon Trail -- Last of three articles.; 150 Years Later, Indians Bitterly Cope With Results of Whites' Arrival | would allow it. "We're sitting here in what is probably the Mormon capital of the world and let me tell you they are dead-set against gambling," he said. Battling for Salmon The Snake River, traditional home of these people, used to teem with salmon that swam nearly 800 miles inland to spawn in the far reaches of Idaho... |
613360_1 | Current Crop of College Graduates Finds Job Market Painfully Tight | engineering, health or other vocations. But college and university job placement officials say the outlook is grim. "In the past, there would always be some fields, like engineers, that did well, regardless of the economy," said Thom Rakes, assistant director of the planning and placement center at the University of Mi... |
613383_40 | Books for Vacation Reading | argues that the secular opposition to Communism must reconsider the reflexive anticlericalism of the left. DAKOTA: A Spiritual Geography. By Kathleen Norris. (Ticknor & Fields, $19.95.) A deeply moving book that is itself an act of devotion by a poet who is a married Protestant and also a lay member of a Benedictine co... |
613472_7 | Sailing to the Icy Top of the World | lightly can kill them. BACK on board, our entire group, binoculars in hand, was searching the rugged earth for polar bears. About 4,000 bears -- or about 10 percent of the world's polar bear population -- are to be found in Svalbard. We had finally entered territory where they might be spotted, and one member of the cr... |
613393_0 | Update; Cleanup of Abandoned Tires Beginning in New York City | New York is beginning a $200,000 program to collect and dispose of thousands of abandoned tires as mounds of them continue to grow in some of the city's neglected neighborhoods. Called the Waste Tire Management Program, the plan calls for the city's Departments of Transportation and Sanitation to collect junk tires fro... |
613515_1 | Orff: Two Second Thoughts | with veiled antifascist allusions. In any case, Orff's experimentalism could not fully express itself until after the war. And here he encountered his second stigma: he did not play by the rules of the aggressively modernist composers who emerged in central Europe after Nazism, eager to make up for lost time. The entry... |
613365_0 | Woman Is Voted Vermont's Episcopal Bishop | The Rev. MaryAdelia R. McLeod of West Virginia was elected today to serve as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, making her the first woman in the nation, and the second in the world, to hold the office of diocesan bishop. Bishop-elect McLeod, 54 years old, was elected on the third round of balloting by both th... |
615521_4 | Valuable Diploma or Meaningless Piece of Paper? | to do no better financially than someone with no diploma at all, and significantly worse than those with high school diplomas. "It amounts to nothing in labor-market earning," James J. Heckman, a University of Chicago economist who co-wrote a series of research papers on G.E.D.'s last year. Referring to the test itself... |
615577_1 | U.S. Rejects Notion That Human Rights Vary With Culture | win United Nations approval for a delay of democracy and political freedom. Foreign Minister Ali A. Alatas of Indonesia, the only representative of this group to speak today, rejected the charge that some countries were promoting a concept of human rights "based on some nebulous notion of 'cultural relativism,' as spur... |
615556_3 | Havana Journal; 43,412 Stricken Cubans, and Not a Single Answer | burns or smoke inhalation. Hoping to slow the spread of the disease, Cuban public health officials say they are distributing ordinary multivitamins to the entire population at a cost estimated so far at $40 million. The vitamins are not thought to be a cure, but rather seem to improve general health and increase resist... |
615401_1 | Gore Promises U.S. Leadership On Sustainable Development Path | of new actions and positions taken by the Clinton Administration on the international environmental front, Mr. Gore told the delegates that the United States was creating a 25-member President's Council on Sustainable Development to create new approaches for combining economic development with environmental protection ... |
617857_3 | A Therapeutic Program for Troubled Students | to be on a prescribed medication for their problem." One parent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her family's privacy, said: "I know that these people have done tremendous things with my son. He was a wreck when he came out of Stony Lodge, and he would have relapsed if it hadn't been for the teachers... |
617950_0 | Its Competitors Distracted, France Gets to Be a Power | PERHAPS the only thing that France dislikes more than bowing to American leadership is having to recognize Germany as Europe's main power. The collapse of the Soviet bloc thus gave it good reason to worry: The United States was left as the sole superpower, while united Germany seemed destined to dominate the new Europe... |
617935_4 | The Church Faces the Trespasses of Priests | and future. Church attitudes of the 1960's, when bishops kept accusers at arm's length and then reassigned priests after stern warnings and a bout at a retreat center, reflected the same cultural attitudes that shrouded rape and incest victims in silence and shame. In the 1970's and early 1980's, the church lagged when... |
618240_0 | Now a Round of Applause: And the Loser Is . . . | We all remember what Vince Lombardi, Leo Durocher and Billy Martin thought about losers, particularly good ones. Perverts, social retrogrades, drooling embodiments of Communistic values was what they were. "If there is such a thing as a good loser, then the game is crooked," is what Billy said. Today, yours truly, a br... |
617852_1 | Graduates Bring Their Ideals to a Battered World | High School in Bedford last week, described as "a generation of children of working parents, kids who had to learn early on to be independent." But Jennifer, who plans to attend Columbia University, and other members of the class of 1993 rejected the notion that they were a nameless or faceless generation. They said th... |
618241_0 | Now a Round of Applause: And the Loser Is . . . | We all remember what Vince Lombardi, Leo Durocher and Billy Martin thought about losers, particularly good ones. Perverts, social retrogrades, drooling embodiments of Communistic values was what they were. "If there is such a thing as a good loser, then the game is crooked," is what Billy said. Today, yours truly, a br... |
617927_0 | New Approaches To Menopause | All too often Long Island women with troubling menopausal symptoms, and even those with no symptoms at all, are automatically advised by their physicians to begin hormone-replacement therapy, in effect, a lifelong program of medication. As the article points out, there are healthful alternatives. Why are so many physic... |
618072_6 | Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Shock Therapist | to economic regulation that protected the elites and blocked the free market. "If you think you can do it," challenged one official, "come to Bolivia and prove it." He did, and quickly persuaded the newly elected Government to go along. Within weeks, hyperinflation was only a bad memory. And after months of tense negot... |
618059_4 | In Cleaner Harbor, Creatures Eat the Waterfront | D. Turner, the curator of mollusks at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, who wrote her first paper on the worms almost 50 years ago.) The creatures claimed two of Christopher Columbus' four wooden galleons in Panama during his last voyage to the New World. And in 1833, the New York City Board of Alderm... |
629074_2 | With Talks Idle, Sinn Fein Stumps in Ireland | denounce such violence in his speech at a Dublin Hotel, his first public appearance in Dublin in eight months, but declared that people in the 26 counties of the Irish Republic had nothing to fear from the I.R.A. Using the I.R.A. euphemism for the violence, he said: "Armed struggle has no place in the 26 counties, and ... |
629062_1 | Spies in the Battle for the Environment | police revolvers handy because they never know when a harmless-looking dumper may turn out to be someone more menacing. From the time the sanitation police force was established in 1937, no officer has been wounded in the line of duty, sanitation officials said. Every year thousands of tons of garbage, from heaps of au... |
628908_2 | In America; Violence And the Young | two young men riding around on a bicycle (one was on the handle bars) shot two people to death and wounded a third on Tuesday night. Over and over we are hearing the lament of Joanne Ackie, who cried out, "I can't believe this is happening" after her 17-year-old son Kareem was shot in the back and killed in Harlem last... |
629083_3 | Bosnian Sees His Hope For West's Help Vanish | at a news conference Friday, Mr. Izetbegovic sounded ready to reach a peace accord, though he stressed that the constitutional structure of the new "Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina" would be valid only if a "fair" agreement is also reached on the borders of the three republics. The constitutional document seeks to guar... |
629066_3 | Brazil Seeks to Return Ancestral Lands to Descendants of Runaway Slaves | deeper into the forest, portaging their possessions around river rapids. Today, these same rapids attract the attention of companies that want to build two hydroelectric dams in the area, and descendants of these Amazon quilombos are fighting for titles to lands used by 7,000 people in 25 villages. "Community represent... |
631134_0 | Nor Will Trade Pact Aid Mexicans Much | To the Editor: "The Trade Pact Is Our Best Deal" (Op-Ed, Aug. 17) by Carla A. Hills makes highly questionable assertions in support of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ms. Hills says that we sold almost $41 billion in goods to Mexico last year and that per capita purchases from the United States amounted to $47... |
631121_1 | Death in the Rain Forest | their ability to communicate with outsiders remains limited. But Brazilian authorities believe that earlier this month gold miners illegally prospecting on the Yanomami reservation sadistically massacred 73 Yanomami men, women and children with machetes and guns and burned down their village -- Brazil's worst such inci... |
626757_1 | Test Sales of New Tomato Called a Success | today at $5, up 37.5 cents, in Nasdaq trading. More Stores and More Acreage DNA Plant said its tomato, sold under the brand name Freshworld Farms, achieved an average 15.8 percent market share during its first three months of test sales in Philadelphia and Columbus, Ohio. The sales began in April. DNA Plant said this a... |
626774_2 | U.S. and Cuba Team Up Against a Pilot | that is much beyond his reach." The Government's decision to proceed with the case has enraged Cuban-Americans here, many of whom risked their lives aboard boats, rafts or planes to flee the Communist regime of President Castro and consider Mr. Cancio a hero. His arrival here in December was greeted with jubilation in ... |
626685_0 | Sleuths at Sea | Many weekend sailors would sooner put into shore than toss a beer can or plastic cup overboard. Regrettably, no comparable sense of environmental stewardship burdens the corporate managers and captains of some of the huge cruise ships that ply America's offshore waters. Conservation groups estimate that of the seven mi... |
626739_2 | Theodore Parker, Alwyn Gentry, Biologists, Die in Airplane Crash | firsthand what others only theorized." Peter Seligmann, chairman of Conservation International, said both scientists were "pioneers" who together constituted "an unmatchable reservoir of knowledge." The nonprofit organization, which specializes in research in tropical countries, seeks to find ways in which nature and p... |
625315_4 | A Woman's Ordeal Helps Her Become A Better Pastor | are 19, 20 and 21, live with Ms. Crewdson, a massage therapist, in Tolland. The women share a covenant union, described by Ms. O'Donovan as a commitment before God and the community of faithful that was celebrated in 1984 in a service at the Storrs Congregational Church. The couple have known each other for 23 years. T... |
625363_2 | Cruising the St. Lawrence, Era by Era | passengers diverted themselves with a scavenger hunt, bingo, cards and the seemingly eternal shuffleboard tournament. The flat green farmland of the shore was distant and unremarkable until the hazy blue outline of the Adirondacks appeared in the south. At Coteau du Lac, pylons of a hydroelectric power plant dwarfed a ... |
625479_4 | Technology; A Better Way for the Wireless Caller? | so that conversations do not overlap. With C.D.M.A. as many as 20 conversations can occur simultaneously on a channel, because each is coded with an electronic label that allows the call to be broken into fragments and reassembled on the receiving end. In C.D.M.A., in short, the radio channel is a multi-lane freeway, c... |
629875_2 | Long-Secret Navy Devices Allow Monitoring of Ocean Eruption | the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Navy system that the scientists relied on is known as the Underwater Sound Surveillance System, or Sosus, which for decades has been used exclusively to track the ships and submarines of potential enemies. Started in the 1950's, it now girdles the globe with a va... |
629884_2 | Miners Kill 20 Indians in the Amazon | unable to locate the camp in the remote, mountainous rain forest. Today, a Funai offical, Wilt Celio da Silva, reached the village and radioed a report back to Boa Vista, the nearest city. Concerned that the toll could mount, Justice Minister Mauricio Correa and Attorney General Aristides Junqueira flew to Boa Vista to... |
629123_0 | World Economies | |
629281_0 | Cellular Phone Had Key Role | Much like regular phone calls, cellular phone calls can be traced by law enforcement authorities, only faster and more easily in some instances. In announcing the arrests of two men for the murder of James Jordan, Michael Jordan's father, the local authorities in North Carolina said yesterday that phone calls made from... |
629232_1 | Brazil Opens Its Borders to Goods From Abroad | here. Brazil "is becoming increasingly attractive to United States companies," he added, with inquiries by United States exporters up by an estimated 40 percent this year over last. For decades, American exporters wrote Brazil off as a closed shop. In the 1960's and 1970's, successive Brazilian Governments sought to st... |
630708_3 | Female Gerbil Born With Males Is Found To Be Begetter of Sons | up affecting the sex ratio of the gerbils' offspring when they reach adulthood. Scientists propose that an excess of androgens or estrogens somehow influence the character of the female's eggs, changing the thickness or permeability of their membranes and making them more susceptible to penetration either by sperm bear... |
630629_0 | Consider What Star Wars Accomplished | At a meeting not long ago, I asked Ambassador Vladimir Lukin, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980's, what role U.S. policy in general and the Strategic Defense Initiative in particular played in the Soviet Union's collapse. His answer was straightforward: "You accelerated our catastro... |
630705_0 | The New-Age Mailbox Now Sits on Your Desk | ELECTRONIC mail, messages sent from computer to computer directly or through a company network or commercial intermediary, is becoming an indispensable tool of business, education and government. In a strong indication of the role that E-mail is taking, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the ... |
631805_3 | U.S. Tries to Restore the Once-Friendly Skies | carriers is threatening their continued success," said Kenneth P. Quinn, a Washington lawyer and former chief counsel to the Federal Aviation Administration. Shift in Traffic Officials at foreign airlines note that when the bilateral agreements were written, most international passengers were American. That is no longe... |
631739_0 | World Economies | |
627056_3 | This Just In: We're Not as Wise as Plato | be puzzled, too, by Bloom's apparent endorsement of Montaigne, who thought friendship, because voluntary, a far higher connection than those of blood and marriage, both of which the French philosopher, like many moderns, regarded as a big nuisance. The reader who sticks with "Love and Friendship" will note that in exal... |
627281_2 | Even Castro Sees the Possibilities of Enterprise in Cuba | and food. Beyond those, the Cuban economy presents a long list of needs waiting to be filled by longer-term investments in areas from housing to manufacturing. Many of the best deals, however, are already being locked up by competitors in Europe, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. Plums Already Plucked "Almost all of the hote... |
627092_4 | Tragedy Highlights Perils of Croton Dam | surrounding valley. "It's a very popular dam," Sergeant Wisker said. "People do visit it quite frequently in the day and evening, but like any secluded spot you're going to get teen-agers congregating, and on any summer night you're going to end up with a handful of teen-agers around the spillway. Our view on this is b... |
627093_0 | Gunk-Holing in the Pacific Northwest | OFF the coast of Washington and British Columbia, tucked away like so many hidden jewels, are the San Juan and Gulf Islands, at once civilized and untrampled. To explore them in a way that was free of structure and ferry schedules, last summer we chartered a sailboat and set out for a week of gunk-holing. Gunk-holing i... |
625875_0 | World Economies | |
630523_0 | World Economies | |
630573_0 | Starting the Climb -- A periodic look at summer interns; Career Preview Also Works As Mirror for the Job Hunter | As the time to return to classes fast approaches, summer interns, seasoned by two or three months of working at jobs in New York, share two realizations: it's a tough world out there, but they are a step ahead of the game. "A job isn't going to fall in your lap," said Brett Grossman, an intern with the Avrett, Free & G... |
630566_1 | Navy Listening System Opening World of Whales | cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly unveil its global network of underwater listening gear built over the decades to track the ships and submarines of potential enemies. The system is estimated to have cost $15 billion. Geologists announced at a news conference last week that they had used the system for cl... |
631704_0 | Questions Raised in Amazon Killings | Brazilian gold miners relentlessly pursued the inhabitants of two Indian lodges through the Amazon jungle, killing dozens in a series of ambushes and skirmishes from early July through early August, according to survivors' accounts compiled here. But 10 days after the first reports of the massacre filtered out of the f... |
631668_0 | Brazilian Justice and the Culture of Impunity | ACCORDING to Brazilian legend, a 16th-century Portuguese bishop coined a novel recruiting pitch to lure skeptical colonists to settle in faraway Brazil. Addressing his devout flock, the cleric decreed: "No sin exists south of the equator." Almost five centuries later, modern Brazil at times seems to have incorporated t... |
628111_1 | Food Notes | New York City residents) to Callaloo Press, P.O. Box 845, Brooklyn 11230. A Melon Debut For years, the only Galia melons sold in America were imported from Israel, where the variety was first developed about 15 years ago. These delectably sweet, fragrant melons with golden netted skin and pale green flesh were small an... |
629957_0 | Tax Changes Shake Reliability of Trusts | The new tax law sharply increases income taxes on the trust funds commonly used by families to set aside money for minors and young adults. The change, which has received little attention, raises questions about whether it makes sense to create a trust and how existing trusts should be managed. For many years, trusts c... |
628494_2 | Sailing's New Course: Multihulls | a bow in a wave, or sail like a hobbyhorse over choppy seas. And they still tend to be faster than a monohull of equal size. Hugh Taylor of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., had sailed monohulls for 32 years, then switched to a 50-foot catamaran last year. His brother, the singer James Taylor, still sails a traditional wooden ... |
629779_0 | Third World Economic Gains Give a Lift to U.S. Exporters | The third world is giving the American economy an unexpected and much-needed lift, by increasing its imports of American goods by almost one-third over the last two years, with another large jump anticipated this year. American sales to the nonindustrialized world rose to $167 billion last year, up 14 percent over the ... |
629777_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | Prudential Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, Time Warner, McDonald's and Nationsbank -- announced they will study ways to use recycled paper. A1 JUDGE GRANTS TEEN-AGER'S WISH A Florida judge ruled that Kimberly Mays, the teen-ager who was switched at birth with another child, has no obligation to maintain contact with her ... |
629677_1 | Russian Hardball: Rutskoi Accused of Corruption | who has been Acting Justice Minister, said Mr. Stepankov and his office were "responsible for complete failure in the struggle against crime" and could not be trusted. So commission documents would be turned over to the Moscow city Prosecutor General instead. Mr. Makarov, a lawyer who led the Government's case defendin... |
629684_0 | Brazil's Army Casts U.S. as Amazon Villain | If Brazilian newspaper headlines were to be believed last week, the United States Government was plotting the biggest land grab since the Louisiana Purchase. "U.S.A. Builds Two Military Bases in the Amazon Region," one headline read. Another announced, "U.S. Bases Surround the Amazon." What was really going on, politic... |
629667_0 | U.S. Embargo of Cuba Has a Human Cost | To the Editor: Cuba's epidemic of optic neuropathy, which has resulted in the visual and neurological impairment of thousands of Cubans, marks a new and dangerous point in the United States embargo of Cuba. As of June, total reported cases had reached 45,584, which is considerable for Cuba's population of 11 million. A... |
629640_5 | Schools Try to Tame Violent Pupils, One Punch and One Taunt at a Time | researchers who have examined the childhood path that is typical of violent youths. It is already showing signs of paying off, although the program, which is meant to continue through middle school, now extends only up to third grade. Children in the program who had been disruptive when they entered first grade showed ... |
629687_3 | New Era in Design Materials | if the materials feel cold, the colors are subtle, complex and warm. Imagine glass in 600 colors. A year and a half ago the Monsanto Company in St. Louis introduced Saflex Opticolor, a lamination system that can create 600 different colors in glass by combining four plastic layers chosen from three primary colors plus ... |
629686_2 | Vatican Hopes to Widen Influence With U.S. | the Administration would welcome a move by the Vatican to bring its "moral authority" to bear in pursuing common goals. "Both sides are pretty keen on a new relationship," said one United States official, who spoke in return for anonymity. The upbeat tone marked a shift away from the strains caused by the Vatican's cri... |
631003_1 | Dow Gains 13.13 to Reach Another High | at record highs yesterday, withstanding a bout of selling near the end of trading. Buying momentum from Tuesday, when the Dow gained 32.98 points, supported prices, analysts said, but some profit taking tempered the carry-over. Nasdaq Index Off Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was strong, with 301.7 million shares... |
630946_0 | Terrorist Acts Can't Stop Quest for Peace; Israel and Dublin | To the Editor: Regarding Ireland's reluctance to let an Israeli embassy open in Dublin (news article, Aug. 17): Ireland's legitimate concerns regarding its troops in southern Lebanon have been misdirected. The Irish soldiers in the United Nations peacekeeping force remain there because Palestinian, pro-Syrian, pro-Iran... |
631334_1 | Religion Notes | The church, given air time to respond, called Mr. Exoo's commentary "uninformed, inappropriate" and "meddlesome." Ceci Sommers, a radio station vice president, says some churches take the criticism to heart. For example, Mr. Exoo applauded one church for offering great music and great preaching but faulted it for not r... |
631295_2 | Low Birth Rate Is Becoming a Headache for Italy | 15 million retirees, some of whom legally draw more than one. Italy is not the only European country confronting the repercussions of an aging of society. But, according to Italian Government figures, the strains are already greater here than elsewhere on the Continent: for every retiree drawing a pension in Britain, f... |
631277_1 | Observer; Man Here Can't Jubilate | fiber doesn't matter after all? Too many scientific studies going on. Scientists always complaining the country doesn't give science enough money to keep up with Japan, or someplace like that. So where's the money come from for all these scientific studies? Why is this newspaper story so excited about a revolution in c... |
630076_1 | A Multitude of Sins and Egocentric Traits | raises some interesting questions: Why are these quintessentially human traits labeled as sins? Why was despair added to the list? Actually, the deadly seven can be construed as derivatives of primitive adaptations of our ancestors to prehistoric conditions in the wild. In the competitive struggle for limited resources... |
630127_0 | A MILD CASE | My husband and I recently returned from Israel, where we visited our 16-year-old daughter, who is attending a summer high-school program, along with 250 teen-agers from across the United States. She, too, was diagnosed as having mild cerebral palsy when she was 7 months old, and we experienced many of Jack Hersch's fea... |
630432_6 | 2 Months of Downpours and Surging Rivers Redraw Map of Midwest | the Mississippi River changed channels in 1881. It has been an island village, with a population of 125 people protected by a 52-foot-high levee, until last month, when it went underwater. State officials are not ready to say if they will try to bring the town back in some form. If not, Kaskaskia will become another of... |
630482_0 | IN SHORT: NONFICTION | CIVIL RIGHTS NO PITY People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. By Joseph P. Shapiro. Times Books/Random House, $25. "No Pity" is a quick-paced, informative series of reports from the most recent civil rights front: the campaign to insure that the estimated 43 million disabled Americans have the help... |
630390_2 | Environmentalists Try To Move the Markets | likely to be built unless a business sees potential customers for the products and figures a way to make money producing them. When a company that produces one billion magazines a year, as Time does, says it wants to buy recycled paper, that represents a business opportunity for the paper mill that installs recycling e... |
627848_0 | Ecologists Improve Production in Chinese Farming Village | BY examining the flow of nutrients and energy in a typical Chinese farming village, scientists have found ways to increase production while reducing dependence on synthetic fertilizers. In a paper published recently in The Journal of Applied Ecology, the scientists described an experiment conducted by Dr. James Y. Guo,... |
627670_0 | Biomechanics Corp. reports earnings for Qtr to June 30 | *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*Biomechanics Corp. Qtr to June 30 1993 1992 Revenue 548,000 253,000 Net inc 48,000 b325,000 Shares outst 9,913,000 9,366,000 6mo rev 1,071,000 613,000 Net inc 71,000 b769,000 Share earns .01 - Shares outst 9,733,000 8,661,000 b-Net loss and incliuded a loss from discontinued operations of $ ... |
627853_0 | Q&A | Distant Channels Q. Why can you occasionally get a television signal from a very distant city? A. A wide range of conditions, mostly in the upper atmosphere, affect how far a television signal travels. The carrier signal for the television picture is in the AM range, and the sound signal travels by FM. When the signal ... |
631954_1 | Basic Gear Gives Access To Network of Networks | telephone network. The most basic Internet service is electronic mail, and many commercial on-line services now offer electronic mail gateways to the Internet. An electronic letter sent from your on-line service will be automatically routed to any other Internet user anywhere in the world. All of the leading on-line se... |
626038_0 | Court Bans Impropriety In Promoting a Drug | In an attempt to combat corrupt practices among drug company salespeople, the Food and Drug Administration went to court today and got an injunction barring a New Jersey pharmaceutical company from illegally promoting one of its drugs. The company, Kabi Pharmacia of Piscataway, agreed to pay $85,000 to the F.D.A. to co... |
626060_4 | Despite Gaps, Data Leave Little Doubt That Fish Are in Peril | and working on the population dynamics of the target stock, let alone relating it to interrelationships with other species and oceanographic changes," Ms. Harwood said. "Since then, we've learned that there's more and more information that you need to make an intelligent decision about what the natural resilience of th... |
625948_0 | Cuban Dissident, in the U.S., Says Embargo Is a Mistake | In ardently spoken five-minute bursts, Cuba's most prominent political dissident often finds himself railing these days against the disaster he says is looming over his country. But rather than attacking the Government of Fidel Castro, a target of his criticism for more than two decades, the dissident, Elisardo Sanchez... |
626047_7 | SCIENTIST AT WORK: Graham Hawkes; Racing to the Bottom Of the Deep, Black Sea | changed abruptly when he met Dr. Earle. She was scheduled to dive off Oahu, Hawaii, in one of his suits for the filming of an ABC television special, "Mysteries of the Sea." Mr. Hawkes was hired as a consultant to oversee the dive. She hotly criticized the suit's clumsiness, not knowing he had designed it. He politely ... |
627424_0 | World Economies | |
627546_0 | Recycling Then Cycling: Youths Rebuild Old Bikes | For many children here, the price of a brand-new bicycle is just too high. But in a makeshift workshop supported by the city and community groups, they can get their wheels by working. Since 1990, an organization called Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles has collected unwanted bikes, matched them to prospective owners and, afte... |
627584_0 | NewTel Enterprises reports earnings for Qtr to June 30 | *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*NewTel Enterprises Qtr to June 30 1993 1992 Revenue 73,127,000 72,068,000 Net inc 8,877,000 6,842,000 Share earns .49 .38 Shares outst 16,453,000 15,782,000 6mo rev 144,365,000 143,705,000 Net inc 15,088,000 11,768,000 Share earns .81 .68 Shares outst 16,381,000 14,809,000 Results are in Can... |
626176_0 | When Britain Forced Partition on Ireland | To the Editor: Re "I.R.A. Deserves Place at Ulster Peace Table" (letters, July 21): Reading your letters about the fighting in Ireland over the last years, I am always amazed at how each side presents its view. What the history books and all the letters I have seen published fail to mention is the election of 1918. On ... |
626182_0 | No Need for More Unemployed College Grads | To the Editor: "Workers of the World, Get Smart" by Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich (Op-Ed, July 20) perpetuates the dangerous myth that demand for college-trained workers is limitless. Mr. Reich argues that if we can simply train enough workers with "problem-solving skills," we can have both high wages and high emp... |
626291_2 | With Pennants and Prayer, Denver Awaits the Pope | a gunman firing at random. Gov. Roy Romer has called a special session of the state Legislature on Sept. 7 to discuss violence. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service will guard the Pope, who was shot in Rome in 1981. More than 200 Army National Guard troops will patrol the park grounds du... |
626281_1 | Filipino Preaching Safe Sex Stirs Church's Ire | Dr. Flavier, a 57-year-old former country doctor, has been vigorously promoting a population program that seeks to curb the Philippines' 2.48 percent annual population growth, the second highest in Asia after Pakistan. By all indications, the Health Secretary is winning his crusade. He remains the most popular member o... |
626306_1 | COMPANY NEWS: On Track; Nike Finds a Use For Worn-Out Soles | into running tracks and tennis courts. Nike plans plans a two-day pilot recycling program for old Nike sneakers that will begin Saturday in Fort Myers, Fla.; an extended version of the program -- called Reuse-A-Shoe -- will start in Seattle on Aug. 12. Igloo-shaped bins will be installed in the Foot Locker shoe store i... |
629418_9 | 5,000-Mile Radio Telescope Set to Probe Depths of Time and Space | launch an orbiting radio telescope in 1996, and the observations of that instrument will be combined with those of the ground-based network. Russia is working on a similar project. Allure of Radio Waves Astronomers who once confined themselves to optical telescopes have become fascinated with radio-emitting objects, pa... |
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