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951030_6 | Drunken Drivers in the Emergency Room | treatment program with some kind of verification process. Q. But isn't it true that many doctors don't want to report people to the D.M.V.? A. There's a lot of resistance. They think it's not up to us to be making reports to a government agency about people's personal lives or medical histories. And I disagree with tha... |
951166_3 | Now, Worries About B.W.I. (Boating While Intoxicated) | be attributed to intoxication,'' said Trooper Bliss, who joined the Burlington City station 10 years ago and has had tours of duty in Atlantic City and Corson's Inlet in Wildwood. ''At the shore, I never saw as much intoxication because boaters tend to have bigger, more expensive boats docked there, and they're aware t... |
951250_3 | Overseas, Smoking Is One Of Life's Small Pleasures | local grass-roots movements. But in many countries, individuals wouldn't consider suing a cigarette manufacturer for what they regard as their own choice to smoke -- or wouldn't need to sue, because national insurance covers their hospital bills. Government Monopolies Outside the United States, anti-smoking groups are ... |
951118_0 | A Delicate Rebuilding Effort | On a warm June night last year, shortly after 11:30, Rafael Ortiz and his 3-year-old daughter were watching a Disney movie on television when Mr. Ortiz heard an odd, loud noise. It sounded, Mr. Ortiz thought, like somebody dropping planks of wood in the hallway, but when he looked outside his apartment door, he saw not... |
953032_4 | Pope Concludes Rally With Display of Vigor | of France,'' he said. ''Christians did things which the Gospel condemns,'' he added, not offering an apology that would make the Church assume responsibility for the event but observing that ''acknowledging the weaknesses of the past is an act of honesty and courage which helps us to strengthen our faith.'' ''I am conv... |
973774_1 | Trying to Use the Saw But Spare the Forests; 80 Years Later, Logging Rebounds | The re-emergence of logging has been driven in part by growing demand for maple and oak, partly because of changing tastes in places like Japan, where the blond wood is now favored over darker, tropical wood varieties, according to several forestry economists. New York and Connecticut have also seen a sharp rise in the... |
975644_1 | Study Traces Key Role Of Caribbean Currents In Shaping Reefs' Life | But until now, scientists have had little hard scientific data to guide them in how and where to best set up such reserves. By tracking the movement of currents, researchers say they can begin designing networks of marine reserves to support one another and support reefs used for fishing and other harvests. ''Marine pr... |
975638_5 | Archeologists Unearth Treasure Buried by the Cold War | through the Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras. Each aspect of life here would be illustrated by a different monument or rural site. The farmlands are in many ways what interest the archeologists most. And by linking them to those in southern Italy, Dr. Carter and other archeologists hope to be able to learn more about th... |
975767_0 | Dubious Estrogen Claims | To the Editor: Re ''Language Barriers Are Hindering Health Care'' (front page, Nov. 23): I agree that using bilingual staff improves care for non-English-speaking patients but would caution that medical interpretation by nonclinician staff members may result in miscommunication of complex terminology and may subtract f... |
975766_0 | Dubious Estrogen Claims | To the Editor: Re ''F.D.A. Panel Endorses Drug That Fights Osteoporosis'' (news article, Nov. 21): The claim that estrogen helps ''keep women's hearts healthy'' is dubious. The studies that purport to show this were observational, not blinded and randomized: this means that the women who took estrogen could have been h... |
975658_6 | Stuck in Traffic? Consult a Physicist | late Dr. Robert Herman, also an adviser to General Motors, who gained fame as a physicist by predicting in the 1940's that a microwave echo of the Big Bang would someday be found. (The echo was found in 1978 by Dr. Arno Penzias and Dr. Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories. The two scientists shared the 1978 Nobel Prize i... |
970470_1 | AIDS Surge Is Forecast for China, India and Eastern Europe | amount of additional funds for such programs. Governments have a fundamental responsibility to prevent H.I.V. infection among people who have multiple sex partners, inject drugs and share unsterile needles because prevention measures aimed at those groups ''will prevent the largest number of infections among all people... |
970364_7 | Computers Model World's Climate, but How Well? | of the models in predicting the climate decades ahead is that despite the growing speed of computers, they are unable to calculate climatic changes everywhere in the atmosphere. Instead, they make the calculations only at widely separated points. The points form a three-dimensional grid typically rising 10 or 12 miles ... |
970459_0 | Population Predictor | To the Editor: In ''How to Fix a Crowded World: Add People'' (Week in Review, Nov. 2), you give several reasons that fertility rates are declining but fail to mention that decades of research has identified one reason as clearly the most powerful. The strongest, most consistent predictor of fertility is the educational... |
970228_4 | In Feverish Last Days, Whitman and McGreevey Appeal to Core Voters | their word. As Mr. Salmore noted, ''It's amazing that it's this close, because her record is not bad.'' Mrs. Whitman has received endorsements from the editorial boards of most newspapers around the state, and the Republican National Party has been able to spend much more money on generic advertising and party organizi... |
970195_0 | Patents; Checkout scanners may soon be ringing up fruits and vegetables based on their scent. | IN 1992, President George Bush made headlines when he discovered that he could buy groceries using a bar-code scanner at the supermarket checkout counter. The President apparently did not realize that ordinary Americans had been shopping that way for years. Mr. Bush may or may not have known that bar-code scanners work... |
970193_1 | Increasingly, Electronic Cooks Are Being Used to Keep the Soup From Spoiling | cookies to potato chips were now prepared with electronic assistance. In part, technological improvements have driven the shift. The nettlesome defects that made electronic sensors and other devices unreliable sous-chefs a decade or more ago have largely been corrected. Economics was the impetus for change. Early in th... |
971556_1 | New Danger Tripping Up Wheelchairs | have had similar experiences say the problem is coming from an unlikely source: cellular telephones. They say such phones, and the network of antennas needed to operate them, can make their chairs start and stop uncontrollably. And the more antennas, the greater the risk of accidents, people who use motorized wheelchai... |
971725_0 | Slower Population Growth Won't Last Forever; Literacy and Fertility | To the Editor: I share the conviction of John P. Comings (letter, Nov. 4) that education is one of the most powerful ways of changing and improving our world. But his statement that ''the strongest, most consistent predictor of fertility is the educational level of women'' does not hold up to empirical analysis. Educat... |
971935_4 | What's Really Needed To Help Students | said, often need extra help from specially trained teachers. In interviews, advocates for special education insisted that the numbers of students identified are not alarming, but reflect what studies show as the proportion of people with learning problems in the population. They said Connecticut has the fifth highest p... |
971724_0 | Slower Population Growth Won't Last Forever | To the Editor: In ''How to Fix a Crowded World: Add People'' (Week in Review, Nov. 2), you rightly point to recent rapid fertility declines as the key cause of slower population growth. However, you overstate the implications of declining fertility for future population growth. First, population growth does not stop as... |
971632_4 | Europe Tire Test: Rainbow Hits the Road | he has not sold any, he says it is only because the size Vredestein sells in America is for small cars like the Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sentra, which he said find ''very limited use in the United States market.'' But he added, ''I do think there's a market for it, for people who want to spruce up their cars without s... |
971853_2 | Temps, the New Wave in the Work Force | drive and success to her upbringing. Her father being in the Air Force, the family moved a lot, and ''When you move a lot when you're growing up, you tend to adapt to situations and to some degree are less reluctant to take risks,'' says Ms. Candland. Ms. Candland, armed with a degree in political science and set on a ... |
971778_1 | The Socratic Method | yet another life going astray. He collars Darryl, brings him back to his shack and orders him to pluck the bird. Watching the youth, he intuits that he has something to hide. And indeed he has -- he has been involved in the killing of a retarded boy. As the old Socrates starts to press at him, we pick up some of the rh... |
971684_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-8 House Continues Dealing On Clinton's Trade Power The wheeling and dealing on President Clinton's trade legislation began in earnest as the House of Representatives went into an unusual weekend session, trying to rewrite agriculture provisions to gain more votes. The measure would give the President th... |
971660_1 | Set to Build Dam, China Diverts Yangtze While Crowing About It | today described how the dam will control floods that have ravaged central China for centuries, these experts gushed even more about how the dam's tremendous scale -- 600 feet high and more than a mile wide -- represents the nation's contemporary greatness. By insisting on an enormous size, rather than building several ... |
971784_1 | The Socratic Method | yet another life going astray. He collars Darryl, brings him back to his shack and orders him to pluck the bird. Watching the youth, he intuits that he has something to hide. And indeed he has -- he has been involved in the killing of a retarded boy. As the old Socrates starts to press at him, we pick up some of the rh... |
971726_0 | Slower Population Growth Won't Last Forever; U.S. Undermines Itself | To the Editor: ''House Threat to Family Planning'' (editorial, Nov. 6) rightly criticizes proposed restrictions on international family planning money as harmful to women's health. But the legislation also contradicts United States foreign policy goals as well as international human rights treaties endorsed by the Unit... |
976316_0 | INSIDE | Action Sought on Climate As nations prepare to discuss a treaty on global warming, The New York Times Poll has found that the American people are more willing than their Government to take steps to counter the threat. Page A36. Airlines Tighten Bag Rules With airplanes nearly full and business fares at record levels, a... |
976260_1 | Airlines Test Tighter Rules On Baggage | is acting now is economic. After losing $13 billion from 1990 to 1994, the industry is finally flush, with planes often nearly full and business fares at record levels. So now airlines are betting they can risk angering some of their lower-paying customers by tightening their carry-on regulations, with little fear of l... |
974875_0 | Guerin and Devils Finally Agree to a Deal | Bill Guerin signed a multiyear contract with the Devils today, putting an end to his seasonlong holdout and a dispute with his general manager, Lou Lamoriello, that had broadened into a debate on whether Lamoriello would name Guerin to the United States Olympic team. Guerin, who was a restricted free agent without a co... |
972045_0 | Rebuild CUNY, but Fairly | After a decade of budget cuts and hiring slowdowns, the City University of New York is running with a stripped-down faculty and with poorly paid adjuncts who stand at the very margins of academic life carrying more than half the teaching load. The board of trustees wants to hire more senior, full-time faculty. Administ... |
972821_1 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING ; A Canadian agency group hopes to persuade potential clients to take a look north of the border. | is indicative of the growing globalization of advertising as multinational marketers increasingly look at results rather than passports. ''Where ideas come from is not as important as whether or not they work,'' said Andy Krupski, chairman of the institute's business development committee, who is president and chief ex... |
971135_1 | Havana Journal; Castro's Cigar, a Namesake, and Smell of Trouble | includes tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Cameroon. ''It sounds like a real cocktail.'' Because of the 36-year-old American economic embargo against Cuba, Cohibas made here cannot be legally imported into the United States. But the strategy of both parties to the dispute suggests that they may be ... |
971158_5 | Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher And Pluralist, Is Dead at 88 | North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism'' (1993). This year, another collection edited by Mr. Hardy, ''The Sense of Reality,'' was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States. It will soon be followed by another book, ''The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays.'' Until the p... |
971113_2 | Asia Drop Sends Shivers Through Builders | Fluor as the largest American construction company, counts about 15 percent of its business there. But the Jacobs Engineering Group has little business in Asia. So far, non-American companies have taken the biggest hit. Hopewell Holdings, controlled by Gordon Wu of Hong Kong, took a $647 million charge against earnings... |
974171_0 | Breeding Seeds of Discontent; Cotton Growers Say Strain Cuts Yields | One year ago, Rodney Garrison was a true believer in a breakthrough cotton strain that had been genetically engineered to resist spraying with the Monsanto Company's Roundup weed killer. ''Roundup Ready cotton is going to be as revolutionary to the cotton industry as the cotton picker,'' he proclaimed under a grinning ... |
974254_0 | CHRONICLE | JACKSON BROWNE, the folk-rock singer and composer, is concerned not only with the sounds produced by the guitars he plays, but also with the logging methods used to obtain the wood from which they are made. Tomorrow evening, Mr. Browne and others, including Roseanne Cash and Levon Helm, will play in a concert at the Os... |
974153_3 | U.S. Appellate Panel Rules Ohio Ban on Late-Term Abortion Is Unconstitutional | on the constitutionality of this definition or the Federal legislation,'' the court said. Other than Ohio, the states that have banned the procedure have used the Congressional language. The majority opinion in the case, Women's Medical Professional Corp. v. Voinovich, was written by Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy with the ... |
974140_0 | United States of Excess? | To the Editor: On your Nov. 15 editorial page, you condemn the Chinese for building the Three Gorges Dam (''Gigantism on the Yangtze'') while Brent Staples tries to explain the American taste for huge, wasteful sport utility vehicles (''Loving and Hating Big Dream Machines,'' Editorial Observer). Whether we consider gr... |
975260_4 | Used Cars: Not Usually A Hard Sell These Days | people were also simply re-leasing their vehicles when their leases expired. ''They've got a car that's only two years old, and they come in, and then they realize that they can keep it and cut their lease payments,'' Mr. Di Feo said. It's still caveat emptor, to be sure, but there are more cream-puff cars and fewer le... |
975339_0 | Carl G. Hempel Dies at 92; Applied Science to Philosophy | Carl G. Hempel, whose rigorously empirical approach to scientific logic was at the center of American scholarly writing on the philosophy of science for several decades, died on Nov. 9 at a nursing home near Princeton, N.J. He was 92. Dr. Hempel, called Peter, taught at Princeton University from 1955 to 1973, becoming ... |
975307_3 | Word for Word/Disaster Do's and Don'ts; From Bitter Experience, New Ways To Handle Aviation Calamities | from a timeliness-of-notification standpoint for the airline to notify family members in person, this fact does not preclude an in-person follow-up notification. This follow-up visit (if the family wants one) should be discussed with the family member during the phone call. Personal Effects To allow survivors and famil... |
976437_2 | Asian Pollution Is Widening Its Deadly Reach | Indonesia's forest fires have released as much greenhouse gas as all the cars and power plants throughout Europe will emit this entire year. Fundamentally, Asia is so huge and is industrializing so quickly and is so dependent on coal and oil -- prime sources of carbon emissions -- that its share of greenhouse gas emiss... |
976437_6 | Asian Pollution Is Widening Its Deadly Reach | be on the countless millions of people who lived in the center of the ashtray for months, breathing in the smoke day after day. To hike through the villages of Sumatra is an eerie experience, the smoke hiding the tropical sun so that even mid-day feels like dusk. The woods are completely quiet, the birds refusing to ch... |
976588_1 | Cancun It's Not, but Cuba Welcomes More Visitors | Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, it has been illegal since 1963 for Americans, with a few exceptions, to spend any money in Cuba. Though the embargo would have to be lifted by the Federal Government to change this, visitors who look, sound and behave as if they are from the United States can increasingly be encoun... |
976888_2 | Greenhouse Gas Issue: Haggling Over Fairness | including Dr. Mwandosya, to contain elements of a constructive approach. One good sign, the third-world countries say, is that they have already lessened the rates at which their emissions are increasing. A recent study by the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based research organization, found that many key thir... |
976916_0 | To Bears in Yosemite, Cars Are Like Cookie Jars | There has never been a human fatality or serious mauling by a black bear in Yosemite, and this year only a few minor injuries. There have, however, been 600 car break-ins by bears this year, causing over $500,000 in damage, up from $300,000 last year. Steve Thompson, the park's wildlife biologist, has catalogued the da... |
976547_1 | Digital Dreams | faith in technological solutions, Dyson looks forward to a world of fulfilling communities in which creativity is rewarded, the powerless become powerful and governments, if not quite withering away, lose many of their teeth. Though an idealist, she is far from starry-eyed: she realizes that these things will not come ... |
976726_4 | 'A Lifetime Dance With God' | take vows. In the late 1980's, she became the first co-director of the program, which now numbers 62 associates. Her connections to the order, a life of prayer and seeking spiritual direction led to the next logical step: seeking to return to the order as a nun. After three years of exploration, she made her return off... |
976913_0 | A Lush Park Woodland, the Way It Used to Be | In a shed in Prospect Park, Curtis Barnhart uses hand tools from another age -- a log peeler, chisels, planes -- to shape hard-as-stone white oak logs into the elements of a rustic bridge. A wood fire crackles in an iron stove. The man squints, then, ever so tentatively, begins to smile, straining to visualize a strate... |
976657_0 | 'The Piano Man' Becomes 'The Boat Man' | BILLY JOEL and his partner are in the midst of a million-dollar venture that is really taking off. No, it is not ''The Piano Man Tour'' with Elton John, although the two are planning an international tour for next year. The venture is building boats, thought up by Mr. Joel and Peter J. Needham, co-owner of the Coecles ... |
976920_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | challenge, in shootouts that killed as many as 18 people. 15 Germany's Melting Pot Almost 9 percent of Germany's population are foreigners, but Germany resists talk of a melting pot. 3 NATIONAL 20-43 Plans to Test Medicines In Children Draws Dissent Opposition has erupted over a proposal by President Clinton that would... |
971381_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | several years have tried to promote the rights of indigenous peoples in the state. A3 French Strike Nears End A five-day siege of France's highways by striking truck drivers began to wind down as members of the largest union approved a wage accord with trucking companies providing a 6 percent raise and setting a minimu... |
971372_0 | DIVIDING LINES: A special report.; Colleges Look for Answers To Racial Gaps in Testing | Universities around the country are facing an agonizing dilemma: If they retain their affirmative-action admissions' policies they face growing legal and political challenges, but if they move to greater reliance on standardized tests, the results will be a return to virtual racial segregation. Test scores by black and... |
970066_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-19 Jiang Ignores Protests During a Talk at Harvard President Jiang Zemin of China, basking in the prestige of Harvard University, ignored silent protests in the hall where he spoke and much louder demonstrations outside. He deflected tough questions about human rights, Tibet and the protesters with humo... |
969998_3 | Rising Fires Renew Threat to Amazon | threats of cash fines and prison will open the way for corruption. For now, not surprisingly, the agency is usually ignored by the people it is supposed to monitor. While permits are required for burning, the agency has reportedly issued licenses to clear a total of only about 24,700 acres this year -- an area seemingl... |
969624_7 | Father of the Sexual Revolution | in research financing today, is masterly and demonstrates what this biography might have been had his provincialism not obscured his view of Kinsey and his work. With the publication of ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,'' Kinsey found himself under relentless attack. The most vicious assaults came from the psychiatr... |
969888_0 | Planning Boards And the Environment | In his environmental commentary (''The Environment: Worth Fighting For,'' Oct. 5), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes that sprawl is northern Westchester's most significant environmental issue of the day. All if not most county planning and local municipal officials involved with land-use decisions would agree with this asse... |
969977_0 | Big, if Not Quick, Rewards From College Internships | To the Editor: Re ''Glamorous Internships With a Catch: There's No Pay'' (Earning It, Oct. 19): There is no catch to engaging in a new and interesting learning experience without being paid. Call it delayed compensation if you must, but the payback from a well-chosen and properly managed internship is both immediate an... |
969986_1 | Ulster Ex-Militants Press New Cause: Nonviolence | traditional leaders who remain wary of joining the current peace talks. Officials can point to only two cases of a return to political violence. ''In terms of energy, drive and commitment, it is the ex-prisoners who are driving the peace process forward the most vigorously,'' said Michael Ritchie, Information and Resea... |
969969_4 | The World; How to Fix A Crowded World: Add People | 1.87 by 1995. ''Socially and economically, Ireland has changed substantially in recent decades,'' say James McCarthy and Jo Murphy-Lawless, who prepared a study for the conference here. They cite higher Irish education levels, a new, less isolationist world view fostered by membership in the European Union, economic gr... |
970008_0 | U.N. Finds Corruption Is Difficult To Root Out | Three years after the United Nations established an inspector general's office to combat waste and fraud, a clearer sense of the scope and style of corruption in the organization is beginning to emerge. So is an understanding of why it is often difficult to detect and stop. On Thursday, Under Secretary General Karl T. ... |
973400_1 | A Book on China Dam | journalist, the book, ''The River Dragon Has Come: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People'' is being published by M. E. Sharp Company, a small social sciences publisher in Armonk. Promoting the Three Gorges dam project in Hubei Province, Chinese officials will speak Thursday at the Wa... |
973662_2 | U.S. Mistakenly Cuts Benefits For Many Disabled Children | 236,586 children and cut off disability benefits for 60 percent of them, or 142,395. In addition, the Government has denied 225,578 new claims, or 68 percent of those filed since Mr. Clinton signed the law in August 1996. But data collected in Mr. Apfel's review show that children often prevail on appeal, winning in 57... |
973343_1 | Disabled Find Jobs Through United Palsy | best way to train people for the work force is to put them in a real business environment,'' said David Ackerman, the coordinator of vocational services. ''The store is run along the lines of any other retail business. Wages are paid at the prevailing rate. But the size of staff and our payroll is outsized because our ... |
975523_0 | San Antonio Journal; Symbol of Texas Liberty Faces a Relentless Siege | The graceful limestone mission has withstood one of the most fabled military sieges of all time, as well as subsequent decades of relative obscurity and neglect, to assume its modern identity as the shrine of Texas liberty. But esteemed as the Alamo is today, it remains under relentless attack: the enemy is water. Like... |
975458_0 | 'Improved' Plants Can Threaten Gene Pool | To the Editor: ''Breeding Seeds of Discontent; Cotton Growers Say Strain Cuts Yields'' (news article, Nov. 19) recounts the problems farmers have had with the Monsanto Company's genetically engineered cotton. Agricultural biotechnology companies need to be held to product-testing standards, as are drug companies. As th... |
975552_1 | Shaky Asia, New Shivers | out of economic success,'' one of Mr. Clinton's senior foreign policy advisers said as the President left for Vancouver to attend the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. ''If Korea is going to be under the strictures of the I.M.F. for the next few years and Japan is consumed with cleaning up ... |
974403_3 | For Many Physicians, E-Mail Is the High-Tech House Call | of the home computer. And more than any other computer application, many doctors and patients say it is E-mail that has the potential to change the texture of their relationship. ''The whole concept of our practice is to take the edge off medicine, to get rid of the alcohol smell,'' said Dr. Rick Abbott, a pediatric ne... |
973928_0 | Ice Shifts May Be Tied to Warming | WEATHER satellites operating over an 18-year period have revealed an increase in the ice covering Antarctic waters and a decrease in the extent of Arctic sea ice. This asymmetric trend, a team of scientists says, is consistent with one theory of what would happen if a gradual increase of carbon dioxide in the atmospher... |
973918_0 | Chemists Find Ways to Save Monuments From Pollution | WHAT if there was a way to rescue decomposed stone, particularly the marble and limestone that make up some of the world's best-loved monuments? Many of them, like the Parthenon, the Taj Mahal and even the Lincoln Memorial, have long been threatened by acid rain and other effects of airborne pollution. In fact, liquid ... |
973972_0 | U.S. Penalizes Israeli-Owned Company for Dealing With Cuba | The Clinton Administration said today that it would punish an Israeli-owned citrus company for doing business in Cuba on land expropriated from Americans. The announcement marks the third time that the Administration has invoked a law passed by Congress last year mandating penalties against foreign companies that inves... |
969557_0 | Tax-Free Accounts Imperil Public Colleges; Working Students | To the Editor: An Oct. 28 news article reports that new teaching positions are to be awarded to City University of New York colleges on the basis of graduation rates. As any educator in public higher education knows, our students are not upper-income children routed from private schools or middle-income children who ha... |
969492_1 | Hillary Clinton Sees Hope in Ulster, Too | sectarian violence, ran a center that brought Catholic and Protestant women together to promote peace. In a moving address, Mrs. Clinton spoke of the important role that women like Mrs. McCartan can play in helping to solve the world's most intractable problems. ''An extraordinary power is unleashed when women reach ou... |
973026_1 | Gigantism on the Yangtze | to the vitality of the political system. The Three Gorges Dam, which will cost at least $25 billion, will be 600 feet high and more than a mile wide, creating a lake nearly 400 miles long. More than 1.2 million people will be forced to move. The project will generate 18,200 megawatts of electricity, supplying a tenth o... |
976143_0 | Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Is Treatable by a New Drug | The Food and Drug Administration today approved a new genetically engineered drug for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The drug, Rituxan, was approved for treating low-grade or follicular B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a slow-growing but fatal and incurable cancer of the immune system. It will be made and marke... |
956757_0 | Protestants Criticize U.S. for Halting Deportation of 6 in I.R.A. | Protestant political leaders attacked the Clinton Administration today for its decision to suspend deportation action against six former Irish Republican Army convicts now living in the United States. The American decision was announced on Tuesday night within hours of the acceptance by Sinn Fein, the I.R.A. political ... |
961286_1 | High-Technology Job Fair Is Now an Industry in Itself | is also getting cutthroat. Some job fair entrepreneurs seem to wait until a competitor has advertised a fair, then schedule theirs a day earlier. And corporate recruiters report that when they participate in one fair, they inevitably are offered a steep discount at competing ones. The ploy can work. Manpower Technical ... |
961375_0 | Hearings Set on Bears | With the number of black bears and people -- in New Jersey continuing to grow, state environmental officials are holding a series of hearings this week on how to keep the two populations from colliding. The State Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife is considering a number of options, including permitting a limited hunt... |
961326_0 | U.S. Reshaping Cancer Strategy As Incidence in Children Rises | The rate of cancer among American children has been rising for decades. Although the reasons remain unclear, many experts suspect the increase may be partly the result of growing exposure to new chemicals in the environment. That suspicion, while still unproved, is beginning to shape Federal research priorities and env... |
959816_0 | The Ingredients of Peace | This is a bewildering moment for the cause of peace. In Northern Ireland, all-party talks are starting for the first time. But the current state of the Middle East peace process, now breathing only with the diplomatic equivalent of a heart-lung machine, shows how hard negotiations can be. Other than surrender, talk may... |
959808_0 | Menopause Advantage | To the Editor: I read with interest your Sept. 16 Science Times article on the evolutionary advantages of menopause to society. Medical research, however, shows that there is no advantage of menopause to the individual. The latest mortality study, part of the 20-year Nurses' Health Study of 121,700 women between the ag... |
954672_0 | Microwave Myth | To the Editor: Richard Rhodes (Op-Ed, Aug. 28) commits a cardinal sin when he says that ''gamma rays are similar to microwaves.'' An enormous gulf separates these two bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. He thus feeds the public's misperception that ionizing electromagnetic energy, like gamma rays, which are harmful ... |
954655_2 | Summer in Woods Hole: Sea, Science and Synergy | laureates, slouching about in shorts, T-shirts and boat shoes, say the informal atmosphere contributes to a flow of information across disciplines and ranks that serves as a further catalyst to learning and discovery. ''When I was a child in school,'' said Jurgen Theiss, a German doctoral candidate who spent the summer... |
956129_4 | Heavy Hand of Beijing Dampens a Panama Canal Fest | list of those attending, but have announced panels to discuss issues like ''Long-Range Canal Traffic Projections'' and ''Locks Modernization.'' Even after achieving its political objective, though, China has continued to threaten conference participants. On August 28, a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing called on P... |
961613_0 | France Scoffs At U.S. Protest Over Iran Deal | Lionel Jospin, the French Prime Minister, said today that he rejoiced in a $2 billion contract signed between a leading French oil company and Iran to explore natural gas fields and rejected what he called American attempts to impose its laws on the world. ''Nobody accepts that the United States can pass a law on a glo... |
961479_4 | Personal Health | in women with osteoporosis who had not yet suffered spinal shortening. And at a recent meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in Cincinnati, Dr. Steven R. Cummings reported that Fosamax reduced the risk of spinal fracture by 44 percent among 2,214 healthy women with thin bones. Dosing rules must ... |
961557_0 | Editorial Notebook; Man and Beast in Botswana | While international alarms have sounded over the slaughter of elephants and rhinos by poachers and the killing of male lions by trophy hunters, wildlife in Botswana is facing a more subtle threat. An expanding cattle industry and hundreds of miles of new veterinary cordon fences are robbing some of the last free-roamin... |
955312_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about a visit to Washington by the Irish republican leader Gerry Adams referred imprecisely to the history of contacts between the British Government and Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Mr. Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, took part in secret talks with Britain that led to a... |
960054_1 | At First Meeting, Ulster Unionist Leader Blasts Sinn Fein | Stormont area of Belfast, the Ulster Unionists asked the British and Irish Governments, sponsors of the talks, to expel Sinn Fein on the ground that the I.R.A. had not renounced violence and had been involved in the bombing of a police station last week in a town west of here. A Republican splinter group claimed respon... |
960039_0 | Campus Journal; Final Volume of Study Documents a Central Role for Black Colleges | The number of black students taking the Scholastic Assessment Test increased by nearly a third from 1980 to 1996, according to the third and final reference book in a series of three devoted to African-Americans and their educational experiences. And, in a development that suggests the importance of historically black ... |
958025_1 | Theorists See Evolutionary Advantages In Menopause | baobab and berries, Grandma who keeps them alive. She is not a sentiment, she is a requirement. As Dr. Hawkes, Dr. James O'Connell of the University of Utah and Dr. Nicholas Blurton Jones of the University of California at Los Angeles report in the latest issue of Current Anthropology, a nursing Hadza woman always has ... |
958048_3 | Researchers Find a Concentrated Anticancer Substance in Broccoli Sprouts | if sprinkled onto a salad or sandwich by themselves. Nevertheless, scientists admitted there is nothing wrong with the idea of people adding broccoli sprouts to an otherwise healthy diet. Unlike other products under development known variously as designer foods or so-called nutraceuticals, broccoli sprouts are in no wa... |
958049_4 | Tiniest Terror Plaguing Los Angeles | kill other desirable insects as well, and they require monthly applications at a cost of $25 to $35 each in the hot season. For the longer term, scientists are studying the possibility of using an exotic South American fly, part of a family known as phorids, which preys on Argentine ants in the wild. The flies are para... |
958098_0 | Sinn Fein Joins Ulster Talks But Protestants Stay Away | For the first time since Ireland was divided in 1922 into the independent Irish Free State and the British province of Ulster, Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, entered formal, broad-based peace negotiations today. The talks are aimed at ending the sectarian violence that has killed 3,225 in N... |
958047_0 | WebTV Introduces a System Linking Live TV and Internet | WebTV Networks, designers of set-top boxes that bring Internet services to the television screen, introduced an upgraded version yesterday that melds live television programming with related pages on the World Wide Web. For the last year, WebTV, a subsidiary of the Microsoft Corporation, has been selling boxes that all... |
958104_2 | Observer; The Poor Get Poorer | governments to ravage maybe 50 percent of their salaries. This means they have to earn about $54,000 before taxes just for tuition and board. That's for one child. For two, it's $108,000 a year. For three -- But let us draw the curtain. If you have tears you are probably shedding them now. What do colleges do for this ... |
956876_0 | I.R.A. Offers Support (of a Sort) for Nonviolence | The Irish Republican Army said today that it approved of the pledge by its political wing, Sinn Fein, to adhere to principles of nonviolence when Sinn Fein enters formal peace talks on Ulster next week. But, in a rare statement of the I.R.A.'s own intentions, a spokesman said the outlawed guerrilla organization ''would... |
956860_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Collecting; 100 Candles for Olds And Cars That Shine On | AS its 1998 models arrive in dealer showrooms, Oldsmobile begins its second hundred years. For those who love vintage autos, Olds is significant for more than being the oldest surviving American nameplate, and the first to celebrate its centennial. The General Motors division has built some merry and memorable cars, a ... |
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