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936477_0 | Bluma L. Trell, 94, Professor And Expert on Greece, Dies | Bluma L. Trell, whose unbridled enthusiasm brought ancient Greece alive to a generation of New York University students even as her meticulous research into ancient coins had given scholars their first definitive view of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Englewood, N.J. She was 94 a... |
937867_0 | Estrogen and Alzheimer's | RESEARCHERS in Maryland have found that women who take estrogen after menopause are much less likely than those do not use the hormone replacement to develop Alzheimer's disease. The risk of developing the disease was reduced by more than 50 percent among the hormone users, said the researchers from the National Instit... |
937897_0 | Marching Season in Northern Ireland | The Irish Republican Army's contemptible murders of two Protestant policemen are not only a tremendous setback for the cause of peace in Northern Ireland, they pose an immediate danger to Northern Ireland's people. Every summer, Protestant groups hold marches commemorating a 1690 Protestant victory over Catholics. The ... |
938280_2 | 'You Can't Despair' | last year brought terrible violence. And the policemen were killed not far from Drumcree. The evident design was to arouse a Protestant backlash and strengthen the determination of Protestant ultras to march through Catholic neighborhoods. That in turn would lead more Catholics to give up hope in peace negotiations and... |
938381_0 | Corrections | A chart caption yesterday with an article about benefits of hormone replacement therapy after menopause misidentified the group of women for whom the risk of death was reduced in a study. It was women currently taking hormones, not those who had taken them for 10 years. |
939806_1 | Clinton on the Global Environment: Some Progress but Much More Still to Be Done | stop the advance of deserts. At the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, we reaffirmed the crucial importance of cooperative family planning efforts to long-term sustainable development. Here in America, we have worked to clean up a record number of our toxic dumps, and we intend to clean 500 more over the n... |
939812_0 | Tony Blair's Irish Peace Plan | At a moment of danger and despair in Northern Ireland, Britain's new Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has removed a key obstacle to an eventual negotiated peace. Mr. Blair dropped his predecessor's insistence that the Irish Republican Army agree to a timetable for turning in its weapons before the I.R.A.'s political wing, S... |
937242_1 | One Aim, 2 Methods, Scores Rise | the other third-grade teacher, was a streak of navy blue moving among attentive students she was leading in an ethics discussion that related the preserved seahorse and worm specimens on her desk to endangered species in the Amazon rain forest. The two teachers could not be more different in their methods: Mrs. Collins... |
937115_0 | Baggage Search | To the Editor: On April 15, I had a humiliating experience at the Delta Shuttle at Washington National Airport. The approaching hallway is divided into two lines, one for USAirways and the other for Delta. The staggered X-ray machines are separated by a glass partition. Most of the passengers were not detained. My bags... |
937012_1 | In Venezuela, A Refuge On a Ranch | wildlife here more visible. Had the jaguar been in the forest, not in the grass, the chances of spotting it would have been greatly reduced. Also, when the wetlands, rivers and water holes shrink in the dry season, from late December through April, the landscape may look less inviting, but birds and animals cluster aro... |
937007_3 | Bigger Than the Average Bear | so on. Other attacks occur when someone makes the mistake of getting between a mother and her cubs. Only 2 percent of attacks are unexplainable, she assured me. Still, there had been two fatal maulings by grizzlies just weeks earlier in a state park near Anchorage, and two bears had been shot in a native village on the... |
937008_0 | Learning How To Tread Lightly | RESPONSIBLE tourism does not safeguard only plants and animals. With the boom in eco-tourism (as well as in adventure and educational travel), trips to areas where indigenous peoples live apart from the industrial world are of increasing concern. A number of watchdog organizations have sprung up to offer guidance to to... |
937286_0 | Let Women Be Priests | To the Editor: The irony of the Roman Catholic Church's dilemma over the growing decline in male priests and its concomitant resistance to ordaining women was graphically placed in side-by-side news articles on June 8. One can't help but wonder what it will take for the church to recognize that it was through the faith... |
937064_9 | Software Jobs Filling Gap Left by Military Contracts | a variety of approaches to woo recruits. Nine months ago Telephonics built a $20,000 gymnasium at a plant and liberalized vacation time. Standard Microsystems has gradually increased the number of stock options for new employees and is evaluating a program to compensate workers with benefits other than cash like stock ... |
937081_4 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | and members of the Kent Land Trust and Housatonic Valley Association will participate. Admission to each program will be $15. Reservations, directions and more information may be obtained by calling (203) 562-6312. JOLLY ART Jane de Jonge's jolly, jolting art, appropriately titled ''Fun and Games and Telling Time,'' is... |
937015_0 | La Scala to Go Silent Next Year for Repairs | The 1997-98 season of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world's shrines of the lyric drama, will probably be the last before the 219-year-old building is closed for extensive repairs and the installation of new stage machinery. According to city officials, the building will be reopened early in the new millenn... |
935113_0 | To Fit Into Mainstream | To the Editor: Re ''Eager to Bite the Hands That Would Feed Them'' (Week in Review, June 1): I have a physical disability but, unlike the people you profile, I find nothing to celebrate. Many of us who are physically challenged and want to be cured want this so that we can fit into the mainstream of society. You say th... |
934154_0 | Renewed Violence Strikes Ulster As Talks Are About to Resume | The police said today that the Irish Republican Army threatened new violence this weekend in the Roman Catholic area of Poleglass in West Belfast. In a separate incident, the police said, an off-duty policeman was beaten to death early this morning by Protestant men outside a bar in the Protestant town of Ballymoney, n... |
935632_4 | Jobs May Be Plentiful, If Not So Glamorous | the working world in recent months are also making do or even flourishing. Following are four tales from the trenches that offer hope and guidance to those just now trading in their diplomas, caps and gowns for briefcases and business suits. Rental Clerks Joining a Fraternity With 12-Hour Days Few parents who squirrel ... |
935393_0 | Making a Case for Estrogen Replacement | PICK up a newspaper, turn on the television, and someone is discussing menopause. But for all the information available about it, questions remain. How does one decide whether to treat menopause, and if so, how? What are the health needs of menopausal women? Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, an obstetrician and gynecologist in New... |
935707_1 | Catholic Theologians Urge Discussion on Female Priests | Pope's approval; and debate, often impassioned, about the ordination of women has never ceased at many levels of church life. But the precise focus and sober tone of this professional body's resolution lends theological weight to the widespread criticism of the Vatican's ruling. By a vote of 216 to 22, with 10 abstenti... |
935387_1 | Embassy Ban Rekindles Air-Safety Fears in Peru | airplane sensors with colored tape, reducing the chances that it will be left behind. But a report by the United States Federal Aviation Administration said Peru is one of more than 20 nations that fail to meet aviation safety standards for oversight as established by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a Un... |
935766_5 | On the Internet, Term Papers Are Hot Items | found twice as many sites as he did when he first looked in January. Often, the commercial sites charge $6 to $10 a page. Compounding the problem is the number of papers that are posted on academic or personal home pages. Dorian Berger, who just finished his freshman year at Harvard University, said he had posted a num... |
940647_1 | A Baroque Gem Is Restored, And All Italy Celebrates | official opening on Saturday. ''Bureaucratic because we constantly had problems with money: there just wasn't enough,'' said Mr. Strinati, an expert on Italian Baroque art. ''Technical because it was a very difficult restoration: everything here is decorated, painted, stuccoed, and you can't touch anything that isn't p... |
936198_4 | A Longtime Champion of Culture Turns 90 | world.'' ''I still hark back,'' he said some years ago, ''to those long, soft, eminently green gallops stretching to the horizon in the slanting afternoon sun, and the late October sunlight on the warm yellow stone of the old, high stands at Newmarket. . . .'' Does it sound like a privileged life? Certainly it does. Mr... |
936188_2 | HEALTH WATCH | Caffeine and Bones In recent years, women have been repeatedly warned that drinking too much coffee and other beverages with caffeine can contribute to bone loss and increase their risk of osteoporosis. But a new study, which involved careful assessments of the caffeine intake of 158 healthy postmenopausal women, showe... |
940470_2 | Embracing a Right to Die Well | a Zen Buddhist priest who founded the Project on Being With Dying in Santa Fe, N.M. ''By the time a kid gets into high school, he has seen 20,000 homicides on television,'' she said. ''Death as a mystery to be embraced, entered into and respected has been profaned in our culture.'' Courtesy of the assisted-suicide deba... |
940487_0 | Cost of Wide Phone Service May Be Astronomer Static | By the end of 1998, anyone with a mobile telephone will be able to place and receive calls to or from almost anywhere on Earth -- even the Tibetan plateau, the Patagonian pampas or a central African rain forest. But the price of this convenience may be high for radio astronomers charting the mysterious ebb and flow of ... |
940168_7 | 35 and Mortal: A Breast Cancer Diary | cruelest part is that, since the disease tends to be the most virulent in its younger victims, few have prognoses as favorable as mine: cancer is the No. 1 cause of death among women in their 40's. This is not a trend I want to be a part of. Nima said her practice has shifted from mostly postmenopausal to mostly premen... |
939107_0 | Replacing steel wheels with rubber tires may be the road to making high-speed railways a reality. | ABE HIRSCHFELD, the parking magnate and real estate developer, is known for his quixotic political campaigns and for his brief, eccentric reign as the publisher of The New York Post. But now Mr. Hirschfeld has distinguished himself in yet another way. He has received a patent at the age of 77. Mr. Hirschfeld's idea is ... |
939134_0 | For Some Women, Estrogen Has Only Benefits | To the Editor: While we have known for some time that hormone replacement therapy is medically useful in women (front page, June 19), there has been little recognition of its benefits on a major quality-of-life issue. There is preliminary evidence that the daily estrogen dose taken before bed improves sleep quality. Wi... |
939133_0 | For Some Women, Estrogen Has Only Benefits | To the Editor: It was gratifying to read (front page, June 19) that a report from The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed the benefits of estrogen replacement therapy for postmenopausal women. The therapy significantly decreases the overall mortality rate and the mortality rate from coronary disease, and it lesse... |
939131_0 | Pay for College Learning, Not Bureaucracy | To the Editor: I was surprised to see that the report on college tuition (Education page, June 18) focused largely on cutting a college's operating costs. If I were a college president, I'd find it hard not to cut the very costs that create opportunity: expensive programs for returning adults whose high school educatio... |
939112_2 | Dropping a Sure Path to the Top To Follow a Technological Dream | companies that view fixed-wireless technology, as it is known, as a sure bet to steal customers from local phone providers. These companies have snapped up little-used licenses for frequencies at the upper end of the radio spectrum, which they say will enable them to beam voice, data, and video signals at extremely hig... |
939256_6 | New Respect For Estrogen's Influence | receptor abounds in the urogenital tract. ''This is exciting because it addresses the longstanding puzzle of why estrogen helps treat incontinence in postmenopausal women, when the bladder has so few alpha receptors,'' said Dr. Gustafsson. ''So it might be estrogen receptor beta that's important here.'' Equally strikin... |
939294_1 | Excerpts From Opinions On Status of Sex Offenders | a sexually violent offense because of a mental disease or defect. . . . Hendricks appealed, claiming, among other things, that application of the act to him violated the Federal Constitution's due process, double jeopardy, and ex post facto clauses. The Kansas Supreme Court accepted Hendricks's due process claim. The c... |
937579_0 | Students Would Lose | To the Editor: Your news article on the tax-cutting plan (''Pressured, House Chairman Modifies Tax Plan,'' June 12) mentions ''a package of tax breaks for college costs.'' What the article does not mention is the disastrous ramifications of the plan for graduate students. This effect would come from the proposed elimin... |
937491_0 | Waiving Our Freedom | Senator, we're sitting here drinking coffee and having a peaceable discussion about the draft amendment to the Constitution, just passed by the House, that would allow states to ban the burning or other desecration of the American flag. I'd like to show you that such an amendment is not just mistaken -- counter to the ... |
934866_0 | Lift Education Standards, and Wages Will Rise | To the Editor: Thomas Geoghegan (Op-Ed, June 3) did an excellent job challenging conventionally held wisdom that getting a college degree guarantees its holder a well-paying job. However, he ignores an essential element in the equation. Instead of artificially raising wages for non-college jobs, as Mr. Geoghegan argues... |
948793_1 | A Column That Was Only Written, Never Delivered | some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remem... |
950707_3 | After a Review, 95,180 Children Will Lose Cash Disability Benefits | of all cases reviewed in Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Texas. But the comparable figures are less than 35 percent in Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota and Nevada. Ms. Daniels rejected the criticism, saying, ''We monitor the quality of decisions. We have no indication that they are inaccurate.'' President ... |
953290_0 | Questions on Estrogen | To the Editor: Jane E. Brody (Personal Health, Aug. 20) asserts that the common objection to hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women -- ''it's not natural'' -- should be laid to rest because the 77-year life expectancy of women today is equally unnatural. It is this misuse of demographics that should be la... |
953280_2 | Personal Health | studies of phytoestrogens in menopausal women, it may be necessary to consume as much as a cup of soy protein powder (or its equivalent in other soy products) a day. Furthermore, the isoflavone content of soy products and other beans can vary widely depending upon how they were grown and processed. Without a laboratory... |
951719_0 | Personal Health | WOMEN of a certain age are justifiably confused. One day they hear that taking postmenopausal estrogen may cut their risk of Alzheimer's disease by more than 50 percent. The very next day, another study links the long-term use of postmenopausal hormones to a 50 percent decline in deaths from heart disease but also a 43... |
951791_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | the city's financial control board. But Dr. Brimmer, the son of a sharecropper who went on to teach economics at Harvard and to serve on the Federal Reserve Board, is not inclined to explain himself. ''I don't engage in public debate,'' he said. ''Why should I produce drama when I can produce action?'' A1 A Failure of ... |
951721_5 | The Tomato, Singing Its Siren Song | can have the best coffee or ice cream or tomatoes.'' If the country finds itself in the grips of an all-out tomato mania, it will not be the first time. In the 1830's, amid claims about its miraculous health benefits, the largely ignored tomato suddenly became the ''queen of the vegetable market,'' said Andrew F. Smith... |
951413_0 | Biotechnology Company Says It Has Cloned a Cancer Gene | The Geron Corporation, a small California biotechnology company, says it has cloned a gene believed to play a key role in cancer and age-related diseases, raising hopes about possible new treatments. The news, which came late last Thursday, caused the company's stock price to more than double the next day. In an articl... |
951416_2 | A dark horse has scored a victory in the race to commercialize a gene linked to breast cancer. | from this version of the gene. Therapeutic treatments based on BRCA1 (gene therapy, for example) are expected to be based on healthy versions of the gene. Leslie Alexandre, Oncormed's vice president for corporate affairs, said the BRCA1 sequence patented by Oncormed was important because it was prevalent in the general... |
950104_1 | A Settlement With P.L.O. Over Terror On a Cruise | of their father and mother, Marilyn, who died of cancer several months after the killing, were ''pleased that the long-standing litigation has been settled amicably.'' The P.L.O. also settled litigation with a New Jersey tour operator, which brings to an end litigation that also lasted nearly 12 years and included disp... |
948590_1 | China's Resistance to Fair Trade | Chinese out of work before a well-functioning labor market could steer them into new jobs. It is uncertain how many market-based rules that govern tariffs, quotas, subsidies and other trade barriers China is willing to swallow. So far the Chinese have made only timid offers to the United States, which has assumed the l... |
948566_1 | Australia's Prolific Crocodiles Throw Their Weight Around | mounting livestock losses in areas where cattle and horses venture too close to the water, and rising demands from the public to reinstitute at least limited forms of the crocodile hunt. Twenty-two species of crocodile are distributed among 100 equatorial and subtropical countries. They include the American alligator, ... |
952801_0 | Parks Succeeding in Program To Keep Bears From Humans | In the middle of the night on Aug. 13, 1967, two backpackers were killed in their sleep by grizzly bears in the rugged back country here. So Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, the only two Federal parks that have large populations of grizzly bears, decided to make the bears back off. A decline in the number of inj... |
952517_5 | Promoting Nutrition During Menopause | and helps with hot flashes during the day and night sweats. The problem with evening primrose oil is that if a woman has a history of breast cancer, then evening primrose oil can actually make that worse. Q. Are there double-blind controlled studies that prove that these things work, or is it at this point anecdotal --... |
952462_0 | Airline Clubs: Worth the Cost? | WHEN flights are delayed and the airport concourse looks like the subway at rush hour, children crawling among luggage and lines winding to pay phones, anxious travelers yearn for surcease. Alas, an airline club may not be the haven it is supposed to be. An on-the-fly examination of airline clubs in the United States s... |
952458_4 | Flotillas in the Mist | by God.'') But I confess to the odd daydream of meeting up with the captain of the Whydah, which went down off Wellfleet in 1717, and astonishing him with my deft swordplay. If the past holds mystery and romance, the present holds real and constant danger for seashore communities like the ones on Cape Cod and the islan... |
952578_5 | A Premium Crop From the Shade | Mother Nature is very kind, tobacco growers can turn a profit of $5,000 or more an acre. In a golden year -- no hail, wind or disease to harm delicate leaves -- farmers could realize double that amount. But growers are skittish about divulging details of acreage, crop sizes and profits. ''Even we have trouble getting s... |
952455_3 | How to Tell Men From Women | and women's brains both have receptors for testosterone, but beyond signaling a fetus to develop a male body, no one knows what testosterone does in the brain. Men's and women's brains also have receptors for the estrogens, which have a huge variety of effects, making estrogen-replacement therapy for post-menopausal wo... |
952555_0 | The Rising Costs of Romance on the Sea, at Full Throttle | LONG ISLAND has a great seafaring tradition. Our ancestors arrived by ship, a perilous three-week voyage in the old days of sail. Most were heading for Spain or South Carolina. But navigation was an imperfect art in those days, and many ships were blown off course. Having set foot on dry land the passengers refused to ... |
952284_1 | U.S. to Let 1,000 Sail From Miami to Cuba for Pope's Visit | visit, scheduled for five days beginning on Jan. 21. The approval is expected to be the first of several granted to Roman Catholic groups around the country -- including the archdioceses in Newark and New York City -- for the visit. In a statement, however, the State Department said it would consider more applications ... |
952278_0 | Drumming Up Business to Survive in a World Without Cold War | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company wanted to predict, without weeks of test drives, how its tires would perform under various conditions. So it went to the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., for help. ''Their computer models show how a nuclear weapon will react to different conditi... |
952291_0 | DuPont to Buy Ralston Purina Soy Protein Unit | In a move that underscores its fervent push into agricultural biotechnology, the DuPont Company announced yesterday that it would acquire Protein Technologies International from the Ralston Purina Company for $1.5 billion in stock. Protein Technologies supplies about 75 percent of the worldwide market for soy proteins ... |
953753_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | ceding the Golan, a former Israeli official said. Mr. Rabin's purported willingness to discuss such a plan went well beyond what has widely been understood to have been his position. A3 Suspicious Blast in Russia The Clinton Administration said Russia may have detonated a nuclear weapon on a remote Arctic island in spi... |
953665_7 | The Science Center Keeps Things Buzzing | area,'' Dr. Koster said. ''They may be drawn by that, but we end up succeeding in immersing that guest in a variety of other experiences.'' These include several movies as well as 60,000 square feet of exhibitions. In addition to its 3-D features, ''Web of Life'' and ''Brain Trek'' (a journey through the brain), the ce... |
949911_0 | E-mail's personal impact makes it a fertile medium for perpetrating hoaxes. | THE ability of E-mail to zap messages to and from anyone, anywhere in the world -- into your face, whether you like it or not -- is inspiring some distinctly unpleasant conduct in the infosphere. E-mail is unique as a communications medium because it is faceless and voiceless but at the same time very personal. And it ... |
949943_0 | Arab-Americans Protest 'Profiling' at Airports | Last May 24, Dr. Hassan Abbass, a Veterans Affairs Department surgeon, and his wife arrived at Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland at daybreak to leave for a long-awaited Caribbean vacation. At the check-in counter, the couple were pulled aside by a US Airways official and told they would have to submit to a car... |
953864_1 | SINN FEIN IS INVITED BY BRITAIN TO JOIN NEW PEACE TALKS | Buildings, in the Stormont area of Belfast, where the talks are to start on Sept. 15. ''In reaching it I have considered carefully all of the evidence available to me about the restoration of the I.R.A. cease-fire and about Sinn Fein's commitment to exclusively peaceful methods and their wish to abide by the democratic... |
949140_0 | Space Shuttle Blasts Off and Deploys a Scientific Satellite | The space shuttle Discovery and a crew of six astronauts blasted off today on a mission to deploy a scientific satellite that tracks atmospheric pollution and to test a new kind of robotic arm that one day might aid experimenters on the international space station. The 11-day mission got off to a flawless start from th... |
949084_0 | Gulf War Data on Internet Harmed U.S. Spy Efforts, Report Says | An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency has found that the release of hundreds of intelligence reports on the Pentagon's Internet site for veterans of the Persian Gulf war did ''serious damage to intelligence sources and methods,'' a new Congressional report says. The report by the House Intelligen... |
951903_4 | Despite Restrictions, the Island's Arts Find a Growing U.S. Audience | independence from Spain but exerted a dominant economic interest of its own there. From cigars to literature, Havana and New York were long regular trading partners. The Cuban poet and patriot Jose Marti spent time early in this century in New York City. And Cuba was a fabled spot for Americans like Ernest Hemingway. T... |
950259_0 | Northwest's new luggage system uses 17 identifiers to try to reunite bag and owner. | HIGHER passenger loads have helped make the airline industry profitable, but have also added to travelers' woes. A good example is the rise in misplaced baggage, the Transportation Department's term for luggage that has been lost, stolen, delayed or damaged. Last year the 10 biggest United States airlines reported almo... |
950261_1 | Partial Justice for the Klinghoffers | coast with 400 people on board. When the terrorists received no response to their demands they executed Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish passenger from New York City. The youngest of the hijackers shot Mr. Klinghoffer in the head and back as the American, who had suffered two earlier strokes, sat in his wheelchai... |
951625_0 | U.S. Considers Easing Travel to Cuba During Visit by the Pope | Weighing its aversion to Fidel Castro against its regard for Pope John Paul II, the Clinton Administration is leaning toward easing restrictions on travel by Americans to Cuba during the Pope's scheduled visit there in January, officials said today. The temporary easing would allow hundreds and perhaps thousands of peo... |
950463_0 | Dr. Reuben Abel, 85, Professor Of Philosophy at the New School | Dr. Reuben Abel, a writer on humanism and a professor emeritus of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, died on Friday at New Rochelle Hospital. He was 85 and lived in Larchmont, N.Y. After he received his Ph.D. from the New School in 1952, Dr. Abel taught for 40 years in the Graduate Faculty o... |
950508_2 | One More Police Victim | who didn't like where Mr. Campbell had parked. The officer, Richard D. DiGuglielmo, has been charged with second-degree murder. * The near-fatal attack on Lebert Folkes, a 29-year-old Queens man who was dragged from his sister's car by police officers and shot in the face at point-blank range. The cops said they though... |
950479_13 | India's 5 Decades of Progress and Pain | continues to grow by 18 million a year. Although populous northern states like Uttar Pradesh, with 140 million people, have been reporting lower growth rates in recent years, the absence of effective government birth-control programs has put India on track to surpass China as the world's most populous nation sometime i... |
953101_4 | The Cosmic Search For Signs of Alien Life | received in New Mexico, but that is artistic license. SETI scientists never use the network of dish antennas there because they are not suited for their aims. It is West Virginia where the search is reaching a new level of seriousness, nearly four decades after the Ozma project. The hunt, SETI's most sensitive and comp... |
953090_0 | Japan, Long a Holdout, Is Ending Its Quest for Cold Fusion | The idea that cheap, bountiful energy can be produced by so-called cold fusion suffered another blow today when the Government of Japan said it would terminate its research, which has failed to confirm that the phenomenon exists. Japan had pursued the quest for cold fusion, room-temperature nuclear fusion, long after m... |
948983_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, and the Bosnian Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic. The two men ''reaffirmed the right of all refugees to return to their homes,'' a vital part of the peace accord. A3 29 Survivors at Guam Rescuers managed to pull 32 of 254 passengers alive from the wreckage of Korean Air Flight 801, b... |
948917_1 | For Tuscans, How Can You Copyright Paradise? | nature for centuries, so it is up to us not to destroy it.'' But there are always threats, like a 380,000-watt power line, strung across giant orange and white pylons 220 feet high, that recently sprang across the hills to the southeast of Florence like a huge ski lift. Aghast at the prospect of losing views that had r... |
948947_1 | Excerpts From Clinton's News Conference at the White House | believe that as we pass through this period of remarkable change, the future holds far greater rewards than risks if our people, our government, and our other institutions are ready for tomorrow. In these past months, we have seen how the politics of the vital center can work to make progress on many of our most diffic... |
954311_0 | Riot Flares in Belfast, but Cease-Fire Still Holds | Rioting broke out this morning at a police station in a Roman Catholic part of West Belfast as about 100 people threw gasoline bombs at the police, who responded by firing several rounds of plastic bullets. There were no injuries reported, and a spokesman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary said the reason for the violen... |
954387_0 | Failure and Avoidance | To the Editor: As a child psychoanalyst and psychiatrist with an interest in learning disabilities, I object to Robert J. Sternberg's assertions (''Extra Credit for Doing Poorly,'' Op-Ed, Aug. 25). While any disability assistance program can be subject to abuses, such abuses do not have any bearing on the legitimacy of... |
954185_1 | Siting Cell-Phone Towers | to make the phones work near them. What should be done? Add 'Trees' to Forests While driving through New Jersey this summer, I noticed many undeveloped areas. I like the idea I read about disguising them as pine trees. So why not build ''pine trees'' in those areas? DEE HICKMAN Belle Mead A Necessary Evil I recognize t... |
954384_0 | Soft Diagnoses | To the Editor: Since both my oldest daughter and I have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, I must respond to Robert J. Sternberg's Aug. 25 Op-Ed article about the disorder. He is right to be skeptical. The psychologist who diagnosed my daughter recommended that I invoke Section 504 of the 1973 Civil Rights... |
954195_2 | A Kitchen Garden's Legacy, Saved Year to Year | calyx (the leaflike structure at the tomato end of the stem), wrinkling skin and a color that is deep and more intense than when picked table ripe. If they have dropped off, they are probably ready. (But don't pick them and expect the seeds to mature off the vine.) If you are a hit-and-miss picker like me, you will fin... |
954391_0 | Everything's an Illness | To the Editor: Robert J. Sternberg (Op-Ed, Aug. 25) inadvertently identifies the major cause of the problem that the United States faces in learning disabilities: the American Psychiatric Association and its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (fourth edition). According to D.S.M.-IV, just about any human behavior is ''m... |
954237_0 | INSIDE | INVESTING IT/Page 3/ An already well-educated couple wants to go back to school, without wrecking their finances. By Sana Siwolop. INVESTING IT/Page 4/ You might call them the Beardstown Ladies for the well-to-do, and they have the sad, miss-and-tell stories to prove it. By Reed Abelson. EARNING IT/Page 8/ A new law wi... |
954238_1 | On Payday, Union Jobs Stack Up Very Well | a home or otherwise making more of what they earn. Here is how the equation works, said Prof. Richard B. Freeman of Harvard University: ''For an existing worker in a firm, if you can carry out an organizing drive, it is all to your benefit. If there are going to be losers, they are people who might have gotten a job in... |
947975_0 | A Traditional Career Gains New Class | As school enrollments continue to swell and the nation's teaching force continues to shrink (increasingly through retirements), teaching jobs are becoming readily available. And the situation hasn't gone unnoticed by college students. Throughout the country, more and more are entering teacher education programs, partic... |
948244_0 | New Leader In Ireland Is Reviving Peace Effort | Five weeks after the election of a new Government led by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Ireland is playing a more vigorous, but less contentious, role in the Northern Ireland peace effort. Until the recent changeover -- following one in Britain, where Tony Blair became Prime Minister in May -- the Irish Government was of... |
948256_4 | On Normandy's Coast, an Image Disaster, or the Nuclear Kind? | while thousands of German protesters tried to block the movement of fuel to France for reprocessing, and the German Army mobilized thousands of troops to protect the shipment, nobody here raised a peep. The plant's own published measurements indicate that it releases much less radioactivity into the environment now tha... |
953484_0 | Food Safety's Waiting Weapon | It's a good rule of thumb that technological solutions work better than increased regulation. Before 1920, thousands of babies died annually in New York and other large American cities from drinking contaminated milk. The solution wasn't more Federal dairy inspectors or a merger of Government agencies. It was pasteuriz... |
952101_2 | Half a Million Fans Help the Pope Beat the Heat in Paris | societies associated with the church around the world. Beatification will put Mr. Ozanam one step short of sainthood in Roman Catholic practice. Many of the young pilgrims wore souvenir T-shirts designed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, a couturier who is one of many official sponsors of the week-long World Youth Day pr... |
952097_0 | Quick Fix Ignores Future Disabled Children | To the Editor: Your Aug. 15 front-page article on the cutoff of disability checks to 95,180 children fails to mention that those determined to be disabled and eligible for Supplemental Security Income are automatically eligible for Medicaid. As you say, children must also be from low-income families for S.S.I. Therefor... |
952104_1 | A Tale of a Roman's Dip and a Lost Tail | this one not about the city's monuments but about its street life, about men like Mr. Intili and his two 33-year-old friends, Giovanni Pisano and Mario Giorgini, all three unemployed, who spend their summer days either on the piazza or at the beach. ''We wanted to take a dip, just like we did when we were kids,'' Mr. P... |
949720_2 | Socking It Away for College, With Uncle Sam's Help | individuals to lower-tax individuals,'' said Joan Vine, the national director of employee benefits tax services for Grant Thornton, the accounting firm. There is a penalty for people who do not use all the money accumulated in the account for college expenses. Such money would be considered income and taxed at ordinary... |
949797_0 | Adams Discusses His Agenda for Ulster Talks | The British military helicopter circled noisily high above the West Belfast office where Gerry Adams, president of the Irish Republican Army's political wing, discussed the Northern Ireland peace talks he expects to attend next month. ''Do you hear that chopper?'' he said. ''That helicopter's been up there four or five... |
949586_0 | Christo Would Be Jealous: How to Hide a 140-Foot Cellular Tower | Drive to the St. John Baptist convent in Mendham where eight Sisters of Mercy of the United States maintain a ministry of hospitality and you can't help but notice the new bell tower on a hill, 140 feet tall with a gold cross on each side. Although the Episcopal sisters welcomed the addition to their property last mont... |
949408_4 | Talking Heads | poorly appreciated. Since it is correct but unintuitive, let me illustrate it here through recipes: Anyone asking for a copy of a recipe ought to realize the donor has long since stopped consulting it; he or she just improvises from memory and, over the years, has improved the cake considerably. Still, the original ver... |
951270_7 | Chinese Happily Break the 'One Child' Rule | another sign of the old system breaking down. Yet the notion of traveling families gained wide currency a few years ago when a skit was performed on the Chinese New Year celebration on television, the most-watched program of the year, with 600 million estimated viewers. The skit coined the term ''population guerrillas'... |
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