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629423_0 | Dangers To Forests Seen From Warming | Global warming poses just as much of a threat to tropical rain forests, which are already shrinking because the land is being cleared for farms and timber, as it does to the polar ice caps, the World Wide Fund for Nature said today. The group, based in Switzerland, issued its opinion in a report as officials from more ... |
629430_7 | Biologists' Deaths Set Back Plan to Assess Tropical Forests | one end of a designated study plot while a bulldozer cutting the path for a road knocked down the other, the felled trees crashing dangerously close by. The job has many risks besides that of a plane crash, most especially to health. Dr. Emmons contracted bubonic plague from forest rats, and Dr. Foster had both malaria... |
968061_1 | A New Approach to Bigger, Juicier Apples | ReTain for the last two years. He said the cost of application was about $300 per acre. Apple watchers say growers will undoubtedly take their time to judge the new product. ''Apples grow slowly,'' said Robert Belding, a pomology expert with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. ''This is a very old business. Apples usual... |
967898_3 | The View From: White Plains; Down Syndrome Proves No Match for Volunteer | that the Marcheses were willing to take in a Down syndrome baby. Someone who had just given birth to one in New Jersey called and begged them to take that baby as well. Mrs. Marchese could not say yes, but she could not quite say no, either. She made dozens of phone calls until she found the child a permanent home. Sin... |
968254_0 | Irish Take Heart as Peace Takes Hold | After 28 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, peace is quietly settling across this British province. The violence -- between Roman Catholic republicans who want an end to British rule and Protestant unionists who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain -- stopped three months ago, when the Irish Re... |
968156_0 | Clean Car's Wrong Turn | To the Editor: Re ''In a Step Toward a Better Electric Car, Company Uses Fuel Cell to Get Energy From Gasoline'' (news article, Oct. 21): Federally sponsored research into this promising technology is veering off course. Fuel-cell vehicles powered by alternative fuels like hydrogen could soon deliver the zero-polluting... |
967855_32 | Pregnant With Complications | 50. ''That is when nature usually shuts down a woman's reproductive system,'' he says. ''We choose to stop there, too.'' Doctors who think like Scott cite three basic reasons for turning postmenopausal patients away. First, these pregnancies risk the mother's health. In 1995, Dr. Mark Sauer, director of reproductive en... |
965083_1 | As Washington's Attention Wanders, Brazil Plays a Quiet Catch-Up Game | America has been a sorely neglected backyard. Mr. Clinton is the first President in a quarter-century to put off his first visit to South America until his second term. Political analysts here said that even though it now appeared that he might well win fast-track authority -- which would allow him to negotiate trade a... |
965049_0 | Blair Meets With Adams, I.R.A. Figure, In Belfast | In a highly charged gesture meant to symbolize his commitment to peace talks in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Tony Blair met today with Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. The meeting, in Stormont in East Belfast, was the first between a British Prime Minister an... |
965057_7 | How to Make Big Rubles? Invest in a Comrade's Debt | money flow of the company is carried out in cash,'' said Sergei Chirkasov, who heads Krasnoyarsk Tire's i.o.u. activities. Over the last 18 months, he said, the company has more than doubled its use of i.o.u.'s. It plans to use them to pay its workers' wages. Because Krasnoyarsk i.o.u.'s are generally redeemable only f... |
963299_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Oil Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, who had several hours of talks with the French Defense Minister, said any action the United States takes against a French oil company's decision to invest in Iran would not disrupt relations between the United State and France. The United States is concerned that the oil trans... |
963242_5 | Breast Cancer Awareness May Carry Its Own Risks | likely to have, and these additional pregnancies further protect her breasts, as does prolonged breast feeding. Reducing the Risk Women do not always have a choice about when -- or if -- they give birth and nurse babies. But there are other factors that can raise the risk of breast cancer over which women do have contr... |
966119_4 | A Latinist Lover and a Hero Who's Lacking in Tact | a hiatus in the syllabus. What Achilles felt for Patroclus, or Theseus for Pirithous, or the poet Horace for an athlete called Ligurinus, or Socrates for dozens of young men, was regarded as criminal ''beastliness'' and bowdlerized or misrepresented. ''IF YOU CANNOT COMPOSE Greek and Latin verse, how can you hope to be... |
966059_2 | Dos and Don'ts For Park Safety | many clinic visitors are suffering from chronic illnesses. But the follies mentioned on the T-shirt caused major injuries again this summer: the lake clinic reported two attacks by bison and a mauling by a bear and the Mammoth Hot Springs clinic treated severe burns on the foot of a visitor who left the boardwalk and b... |
966403_0 | Ideas & Trends; Modern Creed For Ancient Church | SOME have called it ''the greening of the Bible.'' In Europe they talk about ''eco-missionaries.'' In the United States, a recent magazine headline asked, ''Science and God: A Warming Trend?'' Across the West an alliance is linking theology and science, two forces that long ago diverged in their search for truth. What ... |
966180_0 | Bears Coming Back In Growing Numbers | CHERYL LAGO and her family were happy to see nature creeping up to their doorstep in rural Wolcott. The residents of quiet Spindle Hill Road tossed out cracked corn for a family of turkeys that regularly wandered into their back yard. Deer and pheasants were frequent neighbors. And then a young black bear rumbled aroun... |
966466_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Danube's Vast Wetlands Are Being Restored At the immense delta of the Danube River, engineers from several countries are trying to reverse one of the biggest land-grabs in recent history, when the previous Romanian Government tried to turn wetlands into farmland. They have punched gaps in dikes and d... |
966248_2 | The High Noon Of Peter Stuyvesant | Stuyvesant was rowed ashore from the ship that delivered him. A local note-taker wrote that he arrived like a peacock with great state and pomp. He was more than a mere mayor, having been given jurisdiction over the whole Dutch colony, New Netherlands, and the island of Curacao, and he immediately styled himself Lord G... |
966510_0 | October 12-18; An Irish Handshake | Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, made a bold gesture in Northern Ireland, where peace talks are seeking a way forward for the troubled province. He met -- and shook hands with -- Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Mr. Blair urged people on all sides of the Iris... |
966409_2 | Citizens; France Confronts Its Jews, And Itself | for pardon have been marked by extraordinary frankness for a country traditionally more inclined to the discretion of a church confessional than the public display of emotion, and which has long wrestled with its ''Jewish question.'' Until 1995 France portrayed Marshall Philippe Petain's Vichy regime as an imposed aber... |
966447_0 | Accusation of I.R.A. Support Jolts a Sleepy Election in Ireland | The presidential election campaign here has erupted in a national debate over the outlawed Irish Republican Army and its political wing, Sinn Fein. Most people here in the Irish Republic fear and abhor the I.R.A. -- which long waged a guerrilla war to end British rule in Northern Ireland -- and are skeptical about Sinn... |
966419_0 | Computers and the Disabled | To the Editor: ''Technologies That Enable the Disabled'' (Sept. 14) offered much-needed information about the valuable tools now available. I would add that computers in our schools play vital roles in helping many individuals with disabilities successfully complete their educations. I would also add two names to the l... |
964819_2 | A major force in marketing to college students steps up its activities on the Internet. | abilities. ''We took a good look at all the ways we use to touch students,'' said Robin Bruen, marketing director for college student marketing at AT&T in Basking Ridge, N.J. ''They're very important to us because they're decision makers right now on all our products and services as well as in the future.'' Student Adv... |
966840_6 | In a Step Toward a Better Electric Car, Company Uses Fuel Cell to Get Energy From Gasoline | of gasoline to the fuel cell, said Jeffrey M. Bently, a vice president of Little, and the fuel cell turns most of that energy into electricity. In contrast, an internal combustion engine loses more than 80 percent of the energy in a gallon, either as heat out the tail pipe or friction in the drive train. One use for a ... |
966824_1 | Hints of a Nuclear Test In Russia Are Disputed | claim we cannot tell if it was a blast or an earthquake.'' Advocates of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty contend that it can be policed; its opponents say it cannot. The treaty's goal is to halt the development of new weapons of mass destruction by imposing a global ban on nuclear detonations. One of the treaty's main... |
967671_1 | Assisi Holds Its Breath, and Rebuilds Treasures | of dedicated restorers, many of them volunteers, flocked here to start piecing together bits of fallen frescoes, some the size of bread crumbs, to mend the broken faces of saints painted by 13th-century masters like Cimabue and Giotto. For it is here that the most delicate of rescue and restoration efforts has been mou... |
967665_1 | As Turmoil Builds, Thai Leader Shuffles Cabinet | to find a replacement for the Finance Minister, who quit last week. On Tuesday the Prime Minister was reported to have been dissuaded at the last moment by his top general from seizing more powers by declaring a state of emergency that would have sent the country's financial markets into further disarray. Calls for Mr.... |
967690_6 | Internet's Value In U.S. Schools Still in Question | to be first in line,'' said Charlotte Hanna, director of education programs for a local community development group. ''It used to be kids could use the computers to work on resumes and applications,'' Ms. Hanna said. ''Now they can get on a college Web page and get a feel for what the school is like. They really get ex... |
962329_0 | Big Opening Is at Risk In Chicago | The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is to christen Symphony Center, its new $110 million home overlooking Grant Park here, with a gala performance on Saturday night, but a labor dispute has left in doubt whether it will play at all. With the baton of Daniel Barenboim virtually poised in the air, the musicians and the orches... |
962427_0 | Tropical Forests Are Ravaged by Free Trade; Indonesia's Progress | To the Editor: To call for a ban on products from a developing country as you did in your Sept. 27 editorial ''Asia's Forest Disaster'' will hamper the significant progress Indonesia has made in the management of some of the world's largest forest resources. Every possible effort is being made to end the fires burning ... |
962431_4 | Days Before Slaying, Parents Of Suspect Pleaded for Help | institutionalization, his parents had to seek a court order if he was to be committed. ''They were crying out for assistance,'' said a lawyer for the parents, Michael Critchley, of West Orange. ''They were doing what parents who love their children do. They were trying to get him help.'' The parents, identified by inve... |
962375_3 | Vancouver Journal; Over the Airwaves: All-Whale Radio | us, but unfortunately for believers there really is no evidence to support any of that,'' he said. A few years ago Dr. Ford placed a single underwater microphone in Robson Bight. It was hooked to a speaker in the home of a local resident who agreed to record the whale sounds he heard. One night when there was an extrao... |
962426_0 | Tropical Forests Are Ravaged by Free Trade; New York Resolution | To the Editor: ''Asia's Forest Disaster'' (editorial, Sept. 27) mentions North America's involvement in the Southeast Asian forest fires because of our large-scale use of the plywood that results from the logging of rain forests in Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. All of us in North America must restrict all ou... |
962362_2 | Earthquake Damage in Italy Strikes at Its Cultural Heart | Assisi or Florence or Paris or New York. International attention has inevitably turned to the basilica in Assisi, where, in a sense, Italian Renaissance painting began. After the first quake on Sept. 26, four people inspecting damage to the upper part of the basilica were killed by falling debris from a second quake. T... |
963698_4 | Vichy Figure Goes on Trial in Deportation of Jews | that President Jacques Chirac first acknowledged the responsibility of France for crimes committed by the Vichy regime, which his predecessors had always argued was illegitimate and therefore no stain on the postwar Governments. Last month, the French Catholic Church asked God and the Jewish people for forgiveness for ... |
963788_6 | AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes | a possibility to save my daughter, I had to try.'' For other mothers who took part in the test, the confusion was far more profound. Some acknowledged that they understood little. ''I don't remember exactly what they told me,'' said Valerie, a frail 28-year-old seamstress. ''They said that it would help my child, and t... |
962104_4 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Technology; A Chrysler for Developing Nations | its plastic can be turned into more CCV's; the rest can be recycled into products like park benches. Plastics have the long held the advantage over steel of being lightweight, which is crucial for fuel efficiency, and they are resistant to dings and dents. But the material has been expensive, although the cost has been... |
962134_0 | Realism Unvarnished For Gluck's Bonded Males | Paul Kellogg, the artistic director of Glimmerglass Opera, knew he was in for some tough criticism this summer. It was July, and the summer company in Cooperstown, N.Y., had just unveiled its production of Gluck's ''Iphigenie en Tauride.'' With a Greek princess held in captivity by a leering, leather-clad Scythian king... |
969285_6 | Reconsidering A Trade Equation; Why a Stronger Dollar Hasn't Brought a Drop in Exports | only trade but the nation's other overseas transactions -- tourism, investments, services, brokerage fees, international phone tolls, even dollars sent by immigrants to families back home -- reached $148 billion last year. And this year, it could exceed $150 billion. That is close to the record current-account deficit ... |
963914_5 | Review/Fashion; A Versace Looks Ahead, Through Tears | the thinnest patent leather bra straps peeking from sheer knits; the straps like G-strings holding up low-slung trousers. Skirts were demure, to the knee. Luxury was often hidden -- a coat lined in glistening crystals, for instance. Taking a slatternly pose, models walked on the straps of sling-back shoes, as if the sh... |
967042_0 | Educational Testing Service Opens a Security Review | Educational Testing Service officials said yesterday that the company would hire an international corporate investigations concern to conduct the first outside review of its security procedures for tests. Kroll Associates, a leading investigations company based in New York City, will take a broad look at security matte... |
967067_0 | Sports of The Times; Amateurism: The Myth Is Upheld | AFTER Mike Utley broke his neck playing for the Detroit Lions in a National Football League game in November 1991, he received workers' compensation for his injuries, which have rendered him a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. He gets $533 a month, nurse's care five days a week, and rehabilitation paid for. Kent Wal... |
966930_0 | Critic's Notebook; Intense, Artistic, All the Rage? Must Be Disgusting | It is almost impossible to write about disgust without being disgusting. Words like squishy, sticky, squirmy and slimy can hardly be used without hints of a grimace. Others, like pus and phlegm, bring on anticipations of full-scale offense. So reader, be forewarned. The disgusting is our subject: items that cause us to... |
967043_0 | 3 Buildings Are Declared Landmarks | One has just turned 30. Another is slightly older, and the third is comfortably middle-aged. All are old enough to have the last laugh, winning recognition in circles that once maintained they had ruined the skyline. The three buildings -- the Ford Foundation Building at 321 East 42d Street, the CBS headquarters buildi... |
968538_2 | Saving the Salt Flats to Make Utah Safe for Drag Racers | then filtered for potash, lithium and magnesium carbonate, which are primarily used for fertilizers. The process leaves behind a huge amount of salt, which is considered useless and is left to accumulate in the ponds. Some of that salt will be returned to the flat once the restoration plan gets under way in mid-Novembe... |
968515_3 | Cyberspace and You: The Golden Rules of Order | communities can exist sealed away from reality'' -- she consistently underplays its perils, while celebrating its utopian possibilities. The Net offers people the chance ''to design a world that is more open, more accessible to everyone and just a nicer place to live in,'' she writes. By facilitating communication and ... |
968597_0 | Science in the Rough: Bears, Winter Dark and Bitter Winds | ONE blast on the Des Groseilliers' powerful horn announces meal time and brings scientists in from the surrounding ice camp for a tasty French Canadian meal. But five short blasts warn that a polar bear has been sighted from the icebreaker's bridge. Bears are among the complications of conducting a multinational scient... |
968535_4 | Spy Tools Let Civilians Eavesdrop On Earth | site but rather dozens of miles southeast of it, in the Kara Sea, an arm of the Arctic Ocean. Moreover, the scientists found that its seismic signature matched those of known earthquakes in the region. The pivotal evidence for that finding came from a seismometer operated by the Incorporated Research Institutions for S... |
964255_1 | Thrill-Seekers' Natural Wonder | the dock, an elephant looms in the dusk, ripping branches from a tree at the river's edge. As several captains maneuver so their guests can get a closer look, there is a near-collision. The signs of a booming tourist industry in Victoria Falls are easy to see, from the crowd around the Wimpy's fast-food restaurant, whi... |
964708_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Two Orthodox Churches Fight for Place in Russia Russia is undergoing a religious war, pitting the Russian Orthodox Church, the dominant faith in Russia and an ally of the Yeltsin Government, against the small breakaway Free Orthodox Church, which describes itself as the true heir of Russia's religiou... |
964330_1 | A Tropical Rain Forest Provides the Setting | waitress appeared out of the mist of hanging vines, flowers and Spanish moss. She shouted a warm greeting to us ''guys'' and apologized for being hoarse ''tonight and every night.'' She is one of an army of 400, many equipped with walkie-talkies and headsets, who effectively control the nightly crush of patrons that po... |
964233_3 | Malling the Amazon | rain forest cause.'' Time and again, O'Connor is struck by how differently the Amazon is seen from the inside and from the outside. In the northern city of Boa Vista, a wealthy frontier boss tells him that the Yanomami Indians welcome the gifts of food and knives brought by the gold miners; in the Yanomami villages, he... |
964286_0 | Special Education Is Not A Scandal | Special education is a scandal and Brent Staples points to why. When the ''whole language'' craze jettisoned the drill-and practice component that 40 percent of American children need to learn reading,'' the growing ranks of poor readers created a huge pool of learning-disabled ''customers'' that has become increasingl... |
964747_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Two Orthodox Churches Fight for Place in Russia Russia is undergoing a religious war, pitting the Russian Orthodox Church, the dominant faith in Russia and an ally of the Yeltsin Government, against the small breakaway Free Orthodox Church, which describes itself as the true heir of Russia's religiou... |
964334_5 | A Look at Perils The Internet Poses to Children | and businesses that say they have training and software to enable parents to protect their children, and even themselves, from the worst of the Internet. The group, which uses a double ''r'' because a computer search using an ''i'' accessed a pornographic site, offers low-cost classes. Ms. Berke said one easily learned... |
964678_1 | France's Bishops Apologize | myth was felled as France's Roman Catholic bishops gathered in the Paris suburb of Drancy -- once an internment camp from which 76,000 Jews were deported east to their deaths -- and made a full and anguished apology to the Jewish people for the church's silence during French collaboration with the Nazis. The Declaratio... |
965967_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Review Algerian Killings The French Government announced that it would open secret archives relating to the killing of dozens of Algerians in Paris in October 1961 after Maurice Papon, then the police chief in Paris, denied that police were responsible for the bodies fished from the Seine and city canals. Mr. Papon is ... |
965960_0 | At Syracuse, Ivory Tower Gets Wired for Cable | To the Editor: Congratulations to Syracuse University and its S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communication on establishing the Center for the Study of Popular Television (Arts pages, Oct. 15). Critics of the center must never have studied history. When philosophers were the only teachers -- before knowledge was specia... |
966661_0 | Amazon Rain Forest Is Global Responsibility; Fast-Track Destruction | To the Editor: Your Oct. 15 editorial on the fate of the Amazon rain forest doesn't expose the paradox of the situation. President Clinton is touring South America to promote expansion of international trade and investment, but rules guiding those activities make it impossible for countries to manage their resources su... |
966555_0 | Many users of commercial on-line services are getting a steady diet of 'spam.' | Make Money Fast By Sending Unsolicited Commercial Advertisements on the Internet! Explore Your Sexual Fantasies, Wearing Only a Credit Card! Learn How YOU Can Make $$$ Running Pyramid Schemes Via E-Mail! Such is the tenor -- or nearly so -- of millions of unsolicited, commercial E-mail messages sent each day to the ele... |
966660_0 | Amazon Rain Forest Is Global Responsibility; What City Can Do | To the Editor: Your Oct. 15 and Sept. 27 editorials have done much to publicize the ongoing destruction of the world's tropical rain forests. New York City uses rain forest timber in its boardwalks, park benches and other structures. I have introduced legislation that would prevent New York City from purchasing rain fo... |
966659_0 | Amazon Rain Forest Is Global Responsibility | To the Editor: ''A Rain Forest Imperiled'' (editorial, Oct. 15) speaks of national responsibility. Yet many of the forces you mention operating in Brazil have an international component. Demand for agricultural products in the West encourages the conversion of Brazil's forests. Development and logging are financed with... |
966596_3 | Cuba's Unwanted Refugees: Squatters in Havana's Teeming Shantytowns | here, but also are subject to immediate deportation and hefty fines if they are found to be living in the capital without authorization. At the same time, new restrictions have been placed on the ability of those legally residing in apartments or houses here to supplement their income by renting out rooms to the newcom... |
961740_0 | Colina Journal; Latin America's Disabled: Unsafely Hidden Away | At a morgue in this suburb of Santiago, 20 bodies lay unclaimed today, a poignant illustration of how this society treats the mentally and physically handicapped. They were among the 30 children and adults who died when fire engulfed Los Ceibos home for the mentally retarded. By late today relatives of only 10 of those... |
961670_0 | FOOTLIGHTS | NEWS Heartache Greece was buzzing yesterday with reaction to a much-anticipated memoir by Dimitra Liani, the widow of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, a towering figure in his country's politics for more than two decades. Some 6,000 copies of the 400-page book, ''10 Years and 54 Days,'' were snapped up within ... |
963054_2 | Computers Let Japan's Drivers Play in Traffic | for car navigators. Golf programs provide tips on the game and guide a driver to the course of his choice. A program called ''Places where Girls Choose to Feel Romantic'' offers information about and directions to dating spots and hotels. Some disks offer quiz games. But the newest effort is in transmitting information... |
963056_6 | France Amasses Bitter Evidence Five Decades After the Holocaust | when a German guard at the zonal boundary turned to light up a cigarette instead of checking their papers as they drove through. The Vichy police made French Jews wear the yellow star in the occupied zone, and they carried out deportation orders on 74,721 of the 330,000 Jews who were living in the country before the wa... |
968388_2 | Mount Athos Monasteries Unveil Hidden Treasures; Byzantine Works Displayed for the First Time | are the classic, flattened figures, suspended on a gold background, yet vivid and direct and possessed almost with a magnetic force. It is this emphasis on the spiritual rather than the historical that most distinguishes ''Treasures of Mount Athos'' from the ''Glory of Byzantium'' show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art... |
968374_3 | Patents; An algae food rich in omega-3 fatty acids is fed to chickens so they pass it up the food chain. | So Mr. Barclay said his company had devised a way to provide the elements of sea water the algae need to thrive while eliminating its corrosive effects. Mr. Barclay recently presented a paper on research done by his company, Omega Tech of Boulder, at a conference on the fatty acids last month in Washington. Another com... |
968456_1 | Conundrum at Cornell: Pumpkin's Lofty Perch | has been abuzz with speculation about the skill, technique -- and, arguably, bravery -- needed to place it there. ''This is much better than a prank,'' said Gould Colman, who recently retired after 26 years as Cornell's archivist. ''This is first-rate stuff, the best that I've seen. What a clever accomplishment to get ... |
968462_0 | Air Couriers Face Changes In Regulations | The Transportation Department has announced a review of controls over baggage shipped via air courier services after an incident earlier this month in which pesticide shipped as passenger baggage leaked aboard a jetliner. The department announced the review on Friday, two days after Federal agents in Miami raided an Am... |
965231_2 | A Rain Forest Imperiled | The fires are increasing despite Brazil's efforts in the past few years to protect the forest. The Government ended its ruinous subsidies to the cattle ranchers, and now requires that settlers keep 80 percent of their land forested. Brazil has also set aside about 20 percent of the forest as parks, protected areas and ... |
965305_0 | Topics of The Times; Historic Handshake In Belfast | Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was right Monday to confer the legitimacy of a meeting and a handshake on Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, despite complaints from Ulster Protestant Unionist politicians. Though Mr. Adams and Sinn Fein have a history of condoning I.R.A. terrorism, they have met the reasonable con... |
964152_2 | Iranians Warily Await Reforms They Voted For | died in 1989. But in exercising power, he faces competition from the religious establishment, whose dominant role in politics has been constitutionally guaranteed since the revolution. Mr. Khatami formally took power on Aug. 3. So far, as the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other powerful conserva... |
964149_4 | THE FINE PRINT: Of Arms and Cruise Ships; In a Bill's Shipbuilding Provision, Some See a Floating Pork Barrel | appear hopeful the provision will pass. Analysts who follow American Classic's stock said its 70 percent rise since August was due in large part to Congressional passage of Senator Inouye's proposal. But Mr. McCain is not alone in criticizing the prospect of granting a lengthy monopoly to a company. Lawrence J. White, ... |
968856_0 | Routine Flight Information Is Sought for Study on Safety | The Federal Aviation Administration will soon propose a rule under which airlines that voluntarily provide detailed data on routine operations will be given immunity from prosecution for minor violations that data reveal, the Administrator of the agency, Jane Garvey, said today. Ms. Garvey said a second rule, which wil... |
968874_2 | Rescue Plan for Neglected South Side of Ellis Island | two-story building housing pharmaceutical laboratories, a pharmacist's apartment and a doctor's office had been chosen for the demonstration repair project because it was damaged in ways typical of the other buildings. The repairs should take two weeks, she said. Representative Nita M. Lowey, a Democrat from Queens on ... |
968866_1 | Panel on Aviation Disasters Calls for Emergency Data | say they will issue a dissent from the recommendation on emergency contacts. In a test in May and June of this year, several airlines tried asking passengers for that information but encountered problems, said James L. Casey, the vice president and deputy general counsel of the Air Transport Association, the trade asso... |
968852_3 | What to Make of Wave That Started Over There; U.S. Businesses Can Shrug Off Asian Tumult | amounted to just $30 billion in the first eight months of this year, less collectively than exports to Canada, Japan or the European Community individually. And some of the nation's largest consumer products companies say the turmoil in the Asian markets will have little effect on their businesses. The companies, inclu... |
967258_1 | I.B.M. Gives More to Put Technology In Schools | research capabilities to the task of reinventing public education, Mr. Gerstner said. Over the last year, Bell South, the local telephone company for most of the Southeast, has donated $25 million worth of Internet hookups, World Wide Web access and E-mail service to 6,300 schools, said Pat Willis, president of the Bel... |
967248_3 | The French Memory and the War | and gained a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Similar arguments over contemporary judgments of the past have surfaced in the courtroom in Bordeaux, where one question rises repeatedly: Whether a jury made up largely of people born after the war can judge the decisions a man, like Mr. Papon, made under the e... |
967308_3 | Whitman Seen Gaining Favor Of Black Clergy | in the clergy were upset that Mr. Jackson was leaning toward endorsing Mrs. Whitman. ''There is a political sophistication running through our ranks that says we should not put all our eggs in one basket,'' Mr. McKinney said. ''But I feel we're obligated to stand for what is right and what is righteous.'' Mr. McKinney,... |
961966_2 | Paris Journal; Gasping for Air, the City of Light Takes a Breather | buildings and monuments, and even private landlords are obliged by law to clean their facades every 20 years. But debates about clean air, separating one's garbage or using detergents without phosphates are widely seen as newfangled ideas that get in the way of normal, civilized routine. To be sure, compared with that ... |
963522_2 | Business Travel; A special cell phone lets users far away tap into data from their own PC's and the Internet. | Called Golden Circle, the program has three levels of participation, with the top two levels requiring 10 and 25 annual stays, respectively. All participants stay on designated floors and have special check-in and checkout procedures. The amenities include continental breakfasts; fresh fruit; newspapers; free stays by ... |
963518_1 | Surprising Voices for Irish Peace | men who have served time in prison. Their members and leaders are not part of Northern Ireland's white-collar class that has dominated Protestant politics. All these factors could have helped tie the two parties to violence, but instead have increased their commitment to peace. The parties began as armed groups formed ... |
963427_1 | Eating Well; For Organic Food, a Moment of Eloquence | -- less than 1 percent -- but the business is thriving, having grown at least 20 percent each year in the last seven years, estimates agree. In 1996, annual sales were approximately $3.5 billion. Even Wall Street is taking notice. Katherine de Matteo, the executive director of the Organic Trade Association, said most m... |
969107_4 | Study Discounts DDT Role in Breast Cancer | skeptical of the hypothesis from the beginning. They noted that DDT and PCB's are very weak estrogens present in minuscule amounts in the body. Studies on animals led to contradictory results: in some the compounds were found to cause breast cancer, in others they protected against it. Moreover, plants have so many nat... |
962537_2 | One Hundred Years of Adolescence | is likely to be sexually active before the age at which her great-great-grandmother began to menstruate. Yet since there has been no equivalent acceleration in psychological development, these sexually mature youngsters are still little girls, children who are given scant help in coping with such a confusing mismatch. ... |
962773_3 | Those Shiny New M.B.A.'s Get Signing Bonuses, Too | expanded. Investment banking and consulting firms have offered bonuses during the last decade, but the incentives are also popping up in the automotive, consumer goods and chemical industries, said Mr. Adams of the Wharton School. When Mr. Kanarios graduated from Duke, he had offers with signing bonuses from Procter & ... |
962678_0 | The Task of Finding Viable Alternatives To the Automobile | THE signs are as clear as a flashing neon light or a brick wall signaling the end of the road. The equation of the suburbs with the automobile is as out of date and self-defeating as a wobbly old tire on a new Mercedes. Westchester County is undergoing a painful separation, if not yet a divorce, from its relationship w... |
962990_1 | Singles | hagiographer's fiction; that the hermit life (provided one is truly called to it) can heal body, mind and spirit, dissolve selfish fixations and make one better able to serve others. A convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, France takes the eremitic tradition at face value. He refrains from hunting for subtexts, letting the her... |
962575_1 | A Floating Playground | the subculture of the cruise boat itself. Cruising the Caribbean with kids -- and there were hundreds of children on our trip over the spring school vacation -- was at times noisy, chaotic, frustrating and full of wondrous charms. The scenes of island and shipboard life -- from the villagers in St. Lucia who paddled ou... |
965413_5 | From the Land of Private Freeways Comes Car Culture Shock | of these Macintosh-mobiles. Salvation, if that's what it is, is not just around a smart corner. ''Most of this stuff is 25 to 30 years away,'' said Christopher W. Cedergren, the managing director of Nextrend, a consulting firm to the auto industry and based in Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles. ''Plus, people see... |
965485_0 | Aghalee Journal; The Story of Bernadette: Ulster's Ultimate Victim? | Drive up and over the bowed stone bridge, pass by Ballycairn Road on the left and the Lock-Keeper's Inn on the right, and you are in a blink's bend in the lane called Aghalee. It has a store, a gas station, a pub and the unwanted distinction of being the last place where someone died in the sectarian violence that has ... |
965511_1 | Vichy on Trial | like members of Vichy's ''militia,'' a parapolice squad. In general, civil servants and businessmen, who had cooperated with the Germans on a day-to-day basis, were spared punishment, because they also claimed to have worked for the French Resistance. In reality, the Vichy Government helped the Nazis. In 1940, the Nazi... |
965489_1 | Director of Ban on Chemical Arms Warns Russia to Ratify Pact | along Ukraine, Iran, Pakistan, others. It would have an impact in the Middle East.'' If Russia is not part of the organization, he added, other critical countries might not join, a fear expressed during Senate debate on approval. The treaty, which the Senate approved in April, is stalled in the Russian Parliament, whic... |
965501_2 | With Cool Energy, Ex-Vichy Official Defends His Past | promises to be a significant and singular history lesson for the French, and it was a day rich in insights into the character of this eminently successful bureaucrat. Mr. Papon is the first, and in all likelihood will be the last, ranking official of the Vichy government, which ruled France at the sufferance of its Ger... |
900498_0 | Big Study Finds No Link In Abortion and Cancer | In a study that may put to rest a longstanding concern, Danish researchers who reviewed the fates of more than 1.5 million women found no overall increased risk of breast cancer among those who had had induced abortions. The Danish study, being published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, is far larger, more... |
903586_0 | Experts Take Up Divisive Issue: Mammograms for Women in 40's | Hundreds of people doctors along with advocates for women who have breast cancer -- crowded into a basement auditorium at the National Institutes of Health today to hear the opening arguments in a two-day meeting on one of the most divisive issues in women's health: Should women in their 40's have mammograms? The quest... |
905057_3 | Tax-Free Savings Plans Urged in Albany for College Tuition | said. ''They're escalating beyond the reach of many families.'' Mr. Bruno said he hoped that it would be possible to reach a compromise with Democrats who have offered similar measures and to pass the bill this year and make it effective on Jan. 1. ''I think the chances are very good,'' he added. Such tuition savings p... |
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