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905034_1 | In the Utah Wilderness, A Question of Definition | bulldozers. Volunteers from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance have set out to visit and document these byways, mile by mile, as a step toward legally challenging the claims and preserving the wilderness potential. Earlier this month in Arch Canyon, near the town of Blanding, one such road lay invisible, if indeed i... |
905090_0 | Women Benefit From Breast Screening in 40's | To the Editor: The conclusions drawn by the panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health on guidelines for mammography screening in women between the ages of 40 and 50 are irresponsible (''Mammogram Talks Prove Indefinite,'' front page, Jan. 24). The consensus of no consensus, that ''each woman should... |
900709_2 | Abortion and Gulf War Studies | reporting bias because they relied on women to tell the truth about whether they had had an abortion. The studies typically compared the abortion histories of a group of women who had breast cancer with a group of comparable women who did not. The breast cancer victims, as subsequent research showed, were far more apt ... |
900693_2 | Nile-in-Miniature Tests Parent's Bounty | valley'' behind. An official estimate for the first four years has put the program's construction costs at $810 million, most of it for the pumping station, which must lift the Nile water as much as 175 feet from the surface of Lake Nasser, the world's largest man-made lake, to the starting point of the canal. The rest... |
900694_0 | New U.N. Chief Promises Reforms but Says He Won't Cut Jobs | Secretary General Kofi Annan, who took office last week under intense American pressure to reform the United Nations, told the organization's staff today that he planned to decentralize power but not slash jobs. ''Arbitrary staff cuts that weaken essential capabilities'' do not improve the organization, he said. ''Some... |
904196_3 | G.O.P. Governors Seek to Restore Immigrant Aid | on Feb. 1, say that Congress should restore such benefits for some legal immigrants, particularly those who cannot be expected to work or to become United States citizens because of their age or physical or mental impairments. Republican governors, working with Speaker Newt Gingrich, helped write the welfare bill and l... |
904166_2 | France and Germany to Discuss Joint Nuclear Deterrent | one of confrontation to conciliation. Herve de Charette, the French Foreign Minister, this week described the bid for Naples as a ''proposition'' rather than a ''demand.'' In an interview published Thursday by The Financial Times, he said, ''If we succeed, I don't see the French staging a celebration on the Champs Elys... |
904194_1 | Teaching Johnny to Read | clear strategies for teaching children who struggle to read -- and a cautionary tale for schools that would mainstream learning-impaired children without making careful plans for their instruction. Ten years ago, Congress directed the N.I.H. to increase its understanding of learning disabilities and how reading develop... |
902599_0 | Crazy Critters | THIS WEEK |
901482_3 | 'Like the Bad Old Days' as Fright Revisits Ulster | protectively destroying suspect vehicles with explosions that boomed across the city. Most of the calls proved to be hoaxes, intended, the police say, to terrorize civilians and emphasize that the I.R.A. is still able to place bombs where and when it pleases. Catholic nationalists, who want closer ties with the Irish R... |
901502_2 | 'I Have the Greatest Enthusiasm for the Mission' | - Skylab in the 1970's, the Salyut series in the 70's and 80's, Mir since 1986 - but a giant permanently manned station enscounced in a superstable orbit is still decades away at best. As for the moon, there are no active proposals for colonization or manned visits of any kind. Both NASA and the Russian space program h... |
901545_1 | Betrayed in the Classroom | fixed sum, based on the statewide average. The cost ceiling may be necessary. But New York and other states need to bear in mind that some of the surge in learning-disabled children is genuine -- the result of broad social trends, among them teaching techniques that make it difficult for disabled children to learn in m... |
901647_0 | Irish Peace Process Is Dead, Thanks to Britain | To the Editor: In his Jan. 12 Op-Ed article, Conor Cruise O'Brien missed the point regarding the peace process in Ireland. The peace process is not disintegrating; it is already dead. And the British Government, not the Irish Republican Army, killed it. There was a legitimate peace process going on in Ireland for 17 mo... |
901668_1 | As More Catholics Turn Against I.R.A., the Number of Police Informers Rises | end British sovereignty in predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland. ''More people are lifting the telephone,'' said an official in the Northern Ireland Office, which administers the province. ''They are voting with their fingers. They've prevented quite a lot of nasty incidents. There is a tide running against the te... |
904389_2 | A Magazine for All Long Island | contain the following features: Theme Cover: Each monthly cover will show a typical moment of drama in suburban life, such as trying to push a loaded three-wheeled supermarket cart across the ice on a half-plowed parking lot, or putting out the weekly recycling in a thunderstorm. Our models will eschew fake glamour. Th... |
904358_1 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | even heard of it.'' He learned of it a few years ago while reading a wheelchair magazine. ''I saw a picture of a sled,'' he recalled. ''And I decided to get one. My first came from Canada. My second from Minnesota.'' On Long Island there was no team to play with, let alone compete against. ''Everybody knows about wheel... |
904356_3 | Are Apes Naughty by Nature | meeting'') has given de Waal's work an impact outside his specialty, from Congress (where Newt Gingrich included de Waal's first book, ''Chimpanzee Politics,'' on the reading list he gave Republican freshmen in 1994) to psychology and psychiatry. His semipopular books marry data and speculation to compelling narratives... |
904648_1 | Panel on Air Security May End Without Reaching a Consensus | by each passenger on domestic flights, and how often a bag misses the passenger's flight or vice versa. Bag matching assures that no one can check a bag without boarding a flight. The airlines say that requiring bag-matching at busy hub airports would cause chaos. But members of the commission are divided about what de... |
904352_0 | Surviving Freedom After the Wall Came Down | TOTALITARIAN REGIMES, having a lot to fear from photographers, control what can be seen and shown. Democratic regimes, having a lot to fear from photographers, control what they can, stage-managing public life as a set of photo ops. So what happens to photographers when they suddenly slip out of the net of totalitarian... |
899418_1 | A New Year's Look at a Little Good News | problem and banned its distribution. Yet some commercial nurseries still sell the plant. The hope is that the feeding of a leaf-eating beetle, galerucella, may mean the demise of loosestrife. Over the past four years, 25 states have cooperated in a beetle release program. According to a recent issue of Hort Impact, a m... |
899419_1 | A New Year's Look at a Little Good News | problem and banned its distribution. Yet some commercial nurseries still sell the plant. The hope is that the feeding of a leaf-eating beetle, galerucella, may mean the demise of loosestrife. Over the past four years, 25 states have cooperated in a beetle release program. According to a recent issue of Hort Impact, a m... |
899417_1 | A New Year's Look at a Little Good News | problem and banned its distribution. Yet some commercial nurseries still sell the plant. The hope is that the feeding of a leaf-eating beetle, galerucella, may mean the demise of loosestrife. Over the past four years, 25 states have cooperated in a beetle release program. According to a recent issue of Hort Impact, a m... |
899716_12 | Awakening to Sleep | based on increasingly strong evidence, is that in humans, too, the SCN is one of the major centers where circadian rhythms -- although not sleep itself -- are produced. And yet circadian rhythms, even though they appear to originate in the brain, don't affect the brain alone. Nor do the circadian clocks (there is evide... |
899470_0 | In a Job Hunt, It Often Is Whom You Know | CHICKEN soup may or may not cure the common cold. But just in case there are any doubts about another common assumption, ''It's not what you know, but whom you know,'' a new study could dispel them. Stanford and Columbia universities have just released the results of a two-year study that looked at the hiring practices... |
899731_4 | A Hiking Trip Proves Sweat Free | Robinson, from the touring company Hollyford Valley Walk Limited, would be our guide for the first half day. He told us what clothes to bring -- well broken-in boots are essential -- gave us a brief overview of our itinerary, and passed out small backpacks to carry clothes, toiletries and a boxed lunch. The next mornin... |
902020_1 | Swiss Bank Cannot Identify Papers in Cache It Shredded | sought to mend its strained ties with Jewish groups worldwide. Jean-Pascale Delamuraz, the Minister of Economics, apologized today for his comment last month that Jewish groups had engaged in ''blackmail'' when they demanded that the Swiss set up a fund for Holocaust survivors. Mr. Delamuraz, who was President last mon... |
901945_7 | Sometimes a Great Notion | from catalogues like Neiman Marcus, Miss Vernon says some of them ''remind me of the things you could get in the notions department at B. Altman.'' Gone are the days when Miss Vernon's home would double as a warehouse. She will never forget the shipment of woks from China that she stored in her basement -- until the ho... |
905196_0 | C.I.A. Taught, Then Dropped, Mental Torture in Latin America | The Central Intelligence Agency taught techniques of mental torture and coercion to at least five Latin American security forces in the early 1980's, but repudiated the interrogation methods in 1985, according to documents and statements the agency made public today. A 1983 C.I.A. manual sought to teach foreign agents ... |
905165_0 | Protein May Be Heart Risk Factor | Just when it may have seemed that all the important risk factors for heart disease had been identified, researchers are puzzling over what appears to be another one: a blood protein that, in some people at least, may indicate that their chances of suffering a heart attack are two or three times the normal rate. The pro... |
903746_3 | A Top Canadian Visits Cuba, Nettling Washington | had been taken over recently by a Canadian company, Sherritt International. A huge American-made Caterpillar motor sat there, along with several mud pumps that were clearly marked as having been made in the United States, all in Cuba in violation of the economic blockade. Cuba's Vice President, Carlos Lage, seemed to b... |
900944_0 | Bomb Hoaxes in Belfast Disrupt the Nervous City | A day after the Irish Republican Army formally declared that it would continue its campaign of violence to end British sovereignty in Northern Ireland, false reports of bombs kept the police busy today cordoning off sections of the city and destroying cars suspected of carrying explosives. In recent weeks, the I.R.A. h... |
900824_2 | Australia Rescues Sailors, But Is Wincing at the Costs | Jacques Chirac, for the Australian efforts to save sailors in the French-organized race. The gesture came after months of strain between the two countries over French nuclear testing. Australia had been a leading critic of France's six nuclear blasts in French Polynesia from September 1995 to last January. Yet despite ... |
900823_2 | Cuba Measure Strikes Back At the U.S. | book ''Cuban Foreign Policy.'' ''But the fact they are talking about compensation at all is a significant concession, and sets a bilateral agenda for opening the door on the issue of claims,'' she added. The Clinton Administration's closest allies and trading partners in Europe and the Western Hemisphere have erected b... |
905337_1 | With Talks Fragile, Book Embitters Ulster's Mood | violence in recent years. ''People's attitudes have hardened, they have polarized,'' Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said in unusually frank remarks on BBC television last Saturday. ''I'm afraid that we are on a sharp downturn at the moment. Because a harder attitude of a sectarian kind is the mater... |
905310_0 | Bicycle Parts Are Lovely. Who Knew? | A DESIGN company was born one morning six years ago when Graham Berg had a flat tire on his bike. ''I changed the inner tube, took the old one home, and used it to hang my speakers,'' he said. ''That led me to play with alternative uses for tubes and other bike parts.'' His company, Resource Revival, in Portland, Ore.,... |
905317_4 | Writing That Can Strengthen The Fraying Threads of Memory | joining the class, Dr. Dienstag said, ''they did have to have an intact ability to write.'' He added, ''I asked them to write something for me.'' The class now varies in size from three to five members. ''For some people, probably the largest group, the actual ability to write is impaired,'' he explained. ''They might ... |
898924_0 | Cambodian Forests | To the Editor: I take exception to your report (news article, Dec. 22) on the deforestation of Cambodia's forests as a result of the illegal export of timber. Contrary to your assertions that the Government colluded in such activities, it has taken strong actions against illegal logging by shutting down sawmills, arres... |
898956_1 | Crackdown On Fraud Intensifies | $43 million this year to beef up its enforcement staff and improve its monitoring technology. Securities regulators are increasingly using technology to their advantage by, for example, setting up World Wide Web sites that make it easy for investors to alert them about suspected fraud. The S.E.C. is getting between 30 ... |
898976_1 | Church Aids Families Refused by City | are more vibrant here. The staff is nice. They make you feel like a person again. ''But this is temporary help. The longer we stay here, the more time it will take for us to get the permanent help we need.'' A coalition of clergy members and private citizens opened the church shelter on Friday in response to a Giuliani... |
900320_4 | Former Cold Warrior Has a New Mission: Nuclear Cuts | just have taken 1,500 weapons out of the long-term arsenal of the former Soviet Union.'' At his Washington speech last month, General Butler was joined on the rostrum by Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, the retired head of the United States European Command. Since then, General Butler said, he has received letters and calls ... |
900225_0 | On Cuba Policy, U.S. Isolates Only Itself | To the Editor: We fail to see the emerging international effort to isolate Cuba that the Clinton Administration reports in announcing its suspension of aspects of the Helms-Burton law that would penalize Canadian and European companies doing business in Cuba (front page, Jan. 4). The country that remains internationall... |
899864_0 | Radio Free Asia's Signal Reaches the Chinese | To the Editor: A Dec. 27 front-page article on Radio Free Asia says our broadcasts are not heard in China. Our signals are tracked daily by unmanned remote monitoring systems in Beijing and Shanghai. Contrary to the diplomats you cite, the existence of the monitors, which are operated by the International Broadcasting ... |
901848_3 | C. B. Huggins Dies at 95; Won Nobel for Cancer Work | He is credited as a pioneer in understanding the physiology and biochemistry of the male urological and genital tract and for bringing a new level of scientific inquiring to the neglected surgical specialty of urology. Dr. Huggins applied his surgical skills to do what Science magazine called ''an ingenious'' operation... |
904807_4 | Now Playing in Limited Release: Internet, the Next Generation | that even scientists cannot understand it without visualization. Thus, video will be integrated with on-line computing on the new Internet. For example, people can walk around inside visualizations of, say, a molecule in ''the Cave,'' a three-dimensional virtual reality stage invented by Thomas A. DeFanti and Daniel J.... |
903054_1 | The Therapist and the Patient, When the Emotional Temperature Rises | full and natural expression of love?'' Seeking answers to these questions, Ms. Baur, a clinical psychologist, explores the literature of patient-therapist relations and finds mostly cases of sexual exploitation and misunderstanding. Books about Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein; the diaries of Anais Nin and Etty Hillesum;... |
903109_1 | In Japan, Phones on Go And Talk Is Cheaper | slightly higher rate than in the United States and, indeed, the highest in the world outside of Scandinavia. For Japan, the rapid growth of cellular phones and P.H.S. stands as a prime example of the changes that can be wrought by telecommunications deregulation, something that is being contemplated for other parts of ... |
903116_0 | U.N. Report Warns of Problems Over Dwindling Water Supplies | Water shortages in the next century are likely to restrain economic and social development and to be a source of potential conflict between countries, according to a new assessment by United Nations agencies. The report, prepared for a meeting in April of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, is the... |
901176_1 | In Ridgewood, a Private School Within a Public School Aids the Autistic | and residential programs, defined autism as a nonprogressive disability that interferes with ''normal development of brain functions in areas of communications, social interaction and learning.'' By the time a child is 3 years old, autism will manifest itself in a variety of problems, from ''cognitive to social to mobi... |
901230_2 | Job? Kids? A Sad Route To a Happy Balance | and speaks at industry trade shows. He also remains a member of I.B.M.'s Worldwide Management Council -- 40 senior executives who meet several times a year with Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the chairman and chief executive, to discuss broad strategy. I.B.M. executives who need to meet with Mr. Zisman apparently don't mind si... |
901216_4 | A Home-Grown Revival Of the Sports Car | foot side to side. Increased dimensions for shoulder, hip and leg room eliminate the cramped airline-coach-seat effect. Moving the transmission rearward improves handling, too. Weight is almost equally divided, 51 to 49 percent, between the front and rear tires. Enthusiasts will delight in the poised feel and straight ... |
898770_1 | Class Notes | what is behind it.'' The goal on a recent day was to get his students to judge whether the tattooed man was fit to stand trial, whether he was legally responsible for his behavior, or whether he might be considered legally insane, and whether he is in need of treatment. Dr. Berrill had evaluated the man and knew the co... |
898742_0 | Psychiatric Research | To the Editor: Your Dec. 27 front-page article describing the New York State ruling on research in psychiatric patients who lack the capacity to consent misses a crucial point. By definition, all children lack the capacity to consent, whether or not they suffer from a mental disorder. Therefore, in the case of children... |
935233_0 | Taking a Fresh Look at Sacred Texts | New translations of Scripture and new editions of prayerbooks tend to be group efforts, the work of official bodies appointed by some larger organization or higher authority. King James I, to cite a famous example, rounded up 47 scholars who spent nearly a decade translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into what ha... |
939580_0 | Blair Offers New Ulster Deal; Key Is Disarming Both Sides | Prime Minister Tony Blair disclosed a new plan today for all-party peace talks on Northern Ireland coupled with simultaneous negotiations on disarming Catholic and Protestant gunmen. He challenged Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, to make an ''absolute commitment'' to nonviolence so it could t... |
938094_0 | Airlines Are Cracking Down on Delayed Departures | Three Milwaukee-bound passengers on a stopover in Phoenix got an unpleasant surprise recently after slaking their thirst in the terminal cocktail lounge. Returning to the gate, they could only watch forlornly through the window as their plane taxied to the runway, having unceremoniously dumped their luggage in a baggag... |
938099_3 | Hormone Use Helps Women, A Study Finds | 10 years faced a 43 percent increase in their risk of death from breast cancer. Despite this increase, those who continued on hormones had a significantly lower overall mortality rate 16 years later. Surprisingly, having a family history of breast cancer did not affect the mortality risk associated with hormone use. Am... |
938513_0 | Ellis Island's Ruins Are Far From Romantic | To the Editor: Thank you for bringing public attention to the dire need for financing to restore the southern half of Ellis Island (front page, June 16). The Building Conservation Branch of the National Park Service, for which I am an architect, has been involved with developing a program to mothball the southern build... |
938516_0 | Failed Conference Center | To the Editor: Re ''Trying to Save Ellis Island'' (front page, June 16): In conjunction with the National Park Service, we developed a plan in 1990 to create a conference center on Ellis Island's south side. It would have preserved the buildings, except for less than 10 percent of the existing square footage, and a min... |
934638_0 | Ulster Talks Resume With Warning That Violence Can End Them | The stalled Northern Ireland peace talks resumed today in an atmosphere of renewed sectarian violence. The chairman of the talks, former Senator George J. Mitchell, warned all sides that continued violence and political intransigence could undermine the effort toward a settlement of the conflict that has killed 3,214 p... |
934583_1 | Russia Sputters On, Patched Up by the Tire Man | time to fix their own. I help them get where they need to go. It's always been very satisfying.'' People used to wait years for the opportunity to buy a bad, overpriced Soviet car. Now they can get them on demand. They are still constantly in need of repair, though, and even newly manufactured cars become old fast here... |
934661_0 | Genetically Altered Food | To The Living Section: Marian Burros's article on the lack of labels on genetically engineered food in the United States (''Eating Well: Trying to Get Labels on Genetically Altered Food,'' May 21) highlighted a number of shortcomings in the Food and Drug Administration's biotechnology food policy. Here is another. The ... |
939382_0 | Hormone Therapy Risks | To the Editor: After reading ''Hormone Use Helps Women, a Study Finds'' (front page, June 19), I had more questions than before. We are told that hormone replacement therapy can reduce a woman's risk of death as long as she continues it. But then we learn that after 10 or more years of hormone use women face a 43 perce... |
939476_0 | Identified Flying Objects | |
937659_6 | A Once-Mighty Radiotelescope Moves Back to the Cutting Edge | six months or more for the same object to reappear over the telescope. Most newer radiotelescopes are elements in arrays of relatively small dish antennas that can be pointed anywhere in the sky. Computers combine the signals received by all the antennas in an array to yield data and radio images. But none of these arr... |
937666_0 | 5 Years After Environmental Summit in Rio, Little Progress | FIVE years ago, in the largest gathering of its kind in history, world leaders meeting at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro signed binding treaties designed to prevent dangerous human interference with the earth's climate system and to protect living species. They also adopted a nonbinding blueprint to guide countries... |
937666_1 | 5 Years After Environmental Summit in Rio, Little Progress | resources, and the world population as a whole is expected to reach 11 billion before stabilizing some time in the 21st century. It now totals about 6 billion. At the same time, according to the United Nations assessment, food production continues to rise, and most people are living longer and healthier lives. These ga... |
937666_2 | 5 Years After Environmental Summit in Rio, Little Progress | population as a whole is expected to reach 11 billion before stabilizing some time in the 21st century. It now totals about 6 billion. At the same time, according to the United Nations assessment, food production continues to rise, and most people are living longer and healthier lives. These gains are threatened, howev... |
937737_1 | I.R.A., Killing 2 Policemen, Cripples the Irish Peace Talks | hopes that Britain's new Labor Government will be able to recharge the peace effort in Northern Ireland are all but dashed. For the last year, representatives from all sides of the Irish question -- except Sinn Fein -- have been holding formal talks on how to end the violence and improve prospects for Northern Ireland.... |
936034_0 | 'Golden Age' of Wages | To the Editor: Thomas Geoghegan's anachronistic premises about college education are best revealed in his closing reference to a ''Golden Age'' when wages were tied to manufacturing, not education (''Overeducated and Underpaid,'' Op-Ed, June 3). The most valuable economic resource is no longer the land or labor of an i... |
936058_1 | Gerry Adams Runs Out of Excuses | Ireland. His own party, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, did well in the recent Irish and British parliamentary elections. More significantly, the new British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the probable new Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, are likely to push for a Northern Ireland peace settlement. ... |
938597_1 | Paired Up for Summer: Boats and Gardens | in ''U.S.S. Pennsylvania Off Gibraltar,'' painted decades after the fact in 1870. Such a painting brings in its wake items like an enlisted man's hat from the U.S.S. Constitution and a nonnautical sterling silver box presented to the captain of the H.M.S. Cherub on the capture of the U.S.S. Essex. Everyone is fascinate... |
938862_0 | Deaf Ears in Ireland | To the Editor: Your call for an end to the use of plastic bullets in Northern Ireland (editorial, June 18) is welcome. Their use has been condemned by the European Parliament, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups. The victims of these deadly bullets include not only the 16 killed but also the dozens wh... |
938548_4 | Women Want Control, Just Not All of the Time | '' Dr. Henderson said. ''But the message is, 'It will work equally badly.' '' Most patients, he said, ''want a sense that there is something their doctor believes in.'' Dr. Albert Mulley, who is chief of the general medicine division at the Massachusetts General Hospital, said it would be a mistake to assume that patie... |
939018_0 | The I.R.A. Shuts the Door On Itself Again | When two police officers were killed in Northern Ireland and a caller to a Belfast radio station said the attack was the work of the Irish Republican Army, the British Government retaliated by calling off all further contact with Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political arm. The officers, members of the Royal Ulster Constabul... |
938559_3 | Is There a Doctor in the House? Whatever Kind You Need | Bodies, Ourselves'' and demanding information, not a pat on the head by a condescending male doctor. When these women were in their 20's and 30's, their primary-care doctor was generally a gynecologist, but their needs have changed as they have moved into middle age and beyond. There is the hormonal turbulence that pre... |
938965_3 | Patient's Quest for Normal Life, at a Price | were exposed in the early 1970's, some kind of independent life has become the accepted norm for the developmentally disabled -- because it is more humane but also because it tends to be cheaper. (Developmental disability is a vague catchall term for a physical or mental impairment -- often mental retardation -- that b... |
938949_0 | WOMEN'S HEALTH | From women's clinics to breast cancer treatments to medical experts for the teen-age set, women have become the focus of medical care and health care marketing as never before. Today in Section 14, a national New York Times-CBS News survey on women's attitudes toward health, an essay by Anna Quindlen on (shhh!) menopau... |
938547_0 | Estrogens au Naturel | No medicine is prescribed more often in the United States than Premarin, the most common form of hormone replacement therapy. But some women, concerned about links between extended use of drugs like Premarin and some forms of cancer, have been trying something else: foods like soy, flax, yams and herbs that contain est... |
938889_0 | Jennifer Wallace, Billy Dobbs Jr. | Jennifer Anne Wallace, the daughter of Anne M. Wallace of Brookline, Mass., and Caleb E. Wallace of Sanibel Island, Fla., was married yesterday to Billy Dean Dobbs Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs Sr. of Madera, Calif. The Rev. David D. Holroyd, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony at St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Chap... |
938617_2 | A Bright Job Outlook for the Class of '97 | three years,'' Ms. Ganz said. ''But students don't even need to come into our office. For example, 50 percent of our seniors serve internships. Of those, 90 percent have been offered full-time jobs after graduation.'' The job fair that Manhattanville holds in cooperation with Marymount, Sarah Lawrence and Purchase ever... |
938567_0 | Personal Health | WHAT do women want to know about their health, the possibilities of losing it and the ways of preserving it? As the recipient of dozens of letters each month from readers of this column, and as a frequent lecturer on health to large audiences of women throughout the United States, I am regularly besieged by queries abo... |
938560_0 | Life: Start Here . . . | A woman's life cycle can sometimes seem like an obstacle course in which she must dodge an increasing number of health threats. In reality, as medical experts point out, every stage in a woman's life has its health benefits. Indeed, women typically pass through long periods of essentially good health. Risks can be redu... |
938555_2 | As Drugs for Depression Multiply, So Do the Hard Questions | least $43 billion. Questions and worries about depression in its myriad guises are of particular concern to women. By one estimate, about 25 percent of women display at least some symptoms of dysthymia or mild depression at any given time, which is hardly surprising given that the symptom menu includes low self-esteem ... |
938543_2 | A Dozen Who Have Risen to Prominence | Care of Women,'' and was co-author of ''The Harvard Guide to Women's Health.'' ''Pay attention to the simple things: healthy diet, getting exercise, managing stress.'' Dr. Marianne J. Legato 61, Cardiologist Her 1991 book, ''The Female Heart,'' helped bring public attention to the danger that heart disease poses for wo... |
938556_2 | For Hot Flashes, See Chapter 7 | most books in the field, with more than 300 A-Z entries on diseases, domestic violence and eating disorders. THE NEW OUR BODIES, OURSELVES Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Simon & Schuster, 1992; $20. 751 pp. This updated version of the original on its 25th anniversary, includes firsthand accounts, detailed illus... |
938561_4 | The Contraception Conundrum: It's Not Just Birth Control Anymore | of anemia. There are two kinds of pills: One contains estrogen and progestin; the other, the ''mini-pill,'' contains only progestin. It can thus be taken by women with a history of estrogen-dependent cancers (uterine or breast) but is less effective as birth control. Although both pills can cause irregular bleeding and... |
938568_0 | For a Real Page-Turner, Check Out the Joy of Soy | A DECADE ago, the health section of any good-size bookstore featured a shelf of titles for women on pregnancy, premenstrual syndrome and dieting. Today, that shelf is groaning with books on menopause, the mind-body duality -- and dieting. As the 38 million women of the baby-boom generation begin to move out of their 40... |
938570_4 | They Talked and Talked, and Then Wrote a Classic | ''Women and Their Bodies,'' in which they distributed photocopies of their research. Seventy-five women showed up. A number of them eventually started their own sessions, while others joined the original group. Demand for the research material increased. Group members approached The New England Free Press, a nonprofit ... |
938542_0 | More Research, More Profits, More Conflict | NEVER before have women meant so much to so many. Recognized as the health care system's biggest customers, they are being treated as such: researched and marketed to, tracked and talked about. Consider: Premarin, an estrogen replacement, is the most widely used prescription drug in the United States. From 1991 to 1992... |
940037_1 | Prosecution Says Spy Pictures Show Gigante as a Mafia Boss | he was cleanly shaved, in line with an order Thursday by the judge, Jack B. Weinstein. Prosecutors say Mr. Gigante has headed the Genovese crime family since the early 80's. His lawyers and relatives insist that he was so impaired by mental illness that he could not possibly have been a Mafia kingpin. They also say he ... |
935886_0 | D. H. Fender, 78; Studied Sight and Brain | Dr. Derek Henry Fender of the California Institute of Technology, a biologist who studied eyesight and the functioning of the brain, died on May 28 at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 78. He suffered a lengthy illness, said a spokeswoman for the institute, where Dr. Fender taught from 1966 until his retirement 20 ye... |
934316_4 | A Ruined Church Laments Stones Left Unturned | blunder. ''They didn't see the problem at the time,'' said Biagio Gennaro, a surveyor for the local Catholic diocese. ''But now they realize that the roof they put in was too heavy. This time it wasn't the cupola that fell, but the roof over the nave.'' What makes the latest collapse so compelling is that it did not ha... |
934291_3 | Storm Warning: Bigger Hurricanes and More of Them | were severe. The Colorado group's forecast applies to an area encompassing the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is to be updated on Friday, but Dr. Gray said the update was not expected to depart substantially from the April prediction. The forecasters do not attempt to predict whether or wh... |
933770_0 | U.S. Toughens Program On Unruly Air Travelers | With complaints by airlines about disruptive passengers on the rise, Government efforts to prosecute offenders are being expanded. A test program was begun at Honolulu and Los Angeles International Airports on Nov. 1, 1996, and the Department of Transportation plans to extend the program to the three major New York air... |
934025_3 | Eager to Bite the Hands That Would Feed Them | ourselves as people with disabilities,'' said Steven E. Brown, co-founder of the Institute on Disability Culture in Las Cruces, N.M. ''We claim our disabilities with pride as part of our identity. We are who we are: we are people with disabilities.'' The consciousness shift can be traced back to 1962 when Edward V. Rob... |
933728_3 | Trying to Reach Out to Chronically Ill Children | chief of the division of child development and human genetics at North Shore. The conditions include AIDS, the after-effects of premature births and the rarest of genetic syndromes, Dr. Meryash said. For all pediatric residents at North Shore, Project DOCC has become a mandatory part of a one-month rotation in developm... |
933699_0 | The Amazon Celebrated At the Peabody | GROWING concern over the survival of the rain forest has focused new attention on the Amazonian people and their culture. At the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, ''Rather than concentrate on the biological impact of deforestation, we're focusing on cultures whose traditional life ways depend on the ... |
933808_4 | Private School Plans New High School | percent of the cost of education, school officials say, and has no bearing on the capital needed for the new project. Rippowam Cisqua recently hired a new headmaster, David Blanchard, to oversee the expansion. In Mr. Blanchard's previous job, as headmaster of the Wellington School in Ohio, he completed a similar projec... |
933834_2 | Cream and Sugar? Philosophical Discourse? | (are there any that we all share or are all values subjective?) ultimately led to the question of whether lions are violent (or is violence an attribute that can only apply to humans?) and whether humans are being violent when they swat mosquitos. A self-described ''free spirit,'' who has never held a full-time job or ... |
936523_8 | Personal Files Via Computer Offer Money and Pose Threat | practice in the United States. Many people, especially in business, feel that is all to the good. They credit an unrestrained market in personal information as one reason for the United States' lead in the information economy. ''It's beneficial to the economy, it's beneficial to consumers,'' said Chet Dalzell, a spokes... |
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