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542157_3 | For Mazda, the Busy Road to Success | their luggage. Two option packages are available, Leather and Premium, and the latter hides a compact-disk changer behind a panel in the back wall of the trunk. The premium package also adds the solar glass, power adjustments for the front passenger seat and wiring for a cellular phone to the leather interior. Air bags... |
542262_1 | Rural Cuba Speaks Up for Castro | are hard, but I can honestly say that the little food we have tastes better when you know the love and sweat that has gone into producing it." Rights Record Defended At an art exhibit on the same square, an anthropology student in her late teens angrily warned a visiting journalist not to write critically about human r... |
542003_0 | How Customs Keeps Shoppers Honest | IF your bags catch the eye of Paul Mazurkewitz, a senior inspector for United States Customs, on the luggage carousel at Kennedy International Airport, you'd better have filled in your declaration completely, or the conclusion of your trip abroad may be rather unpleasant. At an airport where the Government is focusing ... |
541992_4 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | would I bring a 166-foot yacht?" Later in the week, he took the Big Eagle to Shelter Island and Montauk. Mr. Feld owns Today's Man clothing stores, including one in Carle Place. He does not own the Big Eagle. "He's a frequent guest of the owner," said the vessel's captain and helicopter pilot, Mark Elliott. The "mega y... |
544135_0 | World Economies | |
545713_3 | Though Illegal, Copied Software Is Now Common | their hard disks. "There was a battle over copy protection between the software industry and the users, and the users won," said Kenneth Wasch, executive director of the Software Publishers Association, which is based in Washington. Illegal copying is also a concern in other media. But copying computer data is far easi... |
545767_0 | World Economies | |
545662_0 | Company Invests in Human Assets: Disabled Employees in Regular Jobs | With his one eye, Bert Smith cannot detect anything clearer than large dark forms against bright light. He listens with his fingers, placing a hand over the hands of people who speak in sign language. His voice is strong and emphatic, but his speech is severely slurred. Yet Mr. Smith plays his workbench with the deftne... |
542894_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-6 BAKER FOLLOWING RABIN'S LEAD The Secretary of State, responding quickly to a change of political direction in Israel, is heading to the Mideast, where he is expected to work on peace talks, loan guarantees and the Administration's image. A3 HOW LONG A HONEYMOON? News Analysis: Yitzhak Rabin's first p... |
542733_3 | With Skilled Jobs Unfilled, Vocational Training Changes Course | often command salaries that are competitive with those earned by college graduates. "In one city after another, there is a shortage of qualified applicants for high-skilled, high-paying jobs and a great surplus of people applying for low-skilled, low-paying jobs," said Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center f... |
542859_3 | A Formidable Wrestling Personality | painful for me. After all, Socrates was an Olympic wrestling champion, and we have the right to exist as a sport. When kids play in the sand, they don't run, they wrestle. It's a powerful way to settle things, and only then does it come to war. "As for the spirit, I understand. It is war, but against yourself. Any spor... |
540902_0 | NUCLEAR ACCORDS BRING NEW FEARS ON ARMS DISPOSAL | Federal and private experts say the recent East-West breakthroughs in nuclear arms reduction are replacing one danger with a wide range of new risks as the world's two nuclear superpowers prepare to retire nearly 40,000 warheads. Mutual annihilation is no longer a threat. The new risks are emerging because arms reducti... |
540929_0 | Stoking French Travelers' Misery, Farmers Block Trains to Riviera | With French truckers now in the seventh day of a protest movement that has paralyzed traffic on more than 120 major highways, farmers today brought more chaos to the start of the vacation season by disrupting rail travel between Lyons and the French Riviera. At numerous points along the Rhone Valley, farmers blocked th... |
540892_0 | World Economies | |
541270_1 | French Police Clear Some Roads; Public Fury Aims at Government | would seek compensation for losses resulting from shipping delays across France. Police officers escorted by armored vehicles succeeded in clearing trucks barricading the northern A1 Paris-Lille highway as well as at least a score of other blockades. On some occasions, they were required to use tear gas, but in most ca... |
540107_0 | Ulster Protestants to Negotiate With Dublin | In a major step toward finding a political means of ending the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, leaders of the British province's Protestant majority agreed today to begin sustained negotiations with the Irish Republic on the North-South relationship. It will be the first time in more than 18 years that Protesta... |
540118_1 | Abortion Pills Are Confiscated By U.S. Agents | pregnancy. It is accompanied two days later by the hormone prostaglandin in pill form, which encourages uterine contractions. Researchers say the drug is a safe and effective abortion method up to seven to nine weeks after a missed menstrual period, but it must be taken under a doctor's supervision because in rare case... |
546496_1 | CHRONICLE | MOONEN has spent most of his time at the stove, cooking at famous restaurants like La Cote Basque, Le Cirque and, for the last four years, the Water Club, where he is the executive chef. But now he is fighting mad. So on Tuesday, he and 34 other chefs threw off their toques and went to Washington to announce a boycott ... |
541784_0 | Homosexuality to Be a Burning Catholic Issue; Orthodox Deaconesses | To the Editor: I read "As Bishops Meet, Catholics Voice Differences With Church's Doctrines" (news article, June 19), on the debate over women clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, with great interest and some glee. The Orthodox Church, basing its magisterium not on papal pronouncements, but on the first seven ecumenica... |
541826_0 | Patents; Developing Foods That Also Cure | IT looks and tastes like ordinary milk, comes straight from a cow and might someday be sold in supermarkets alongside cottage cheese and yogurt. But this is a dairy product with a difference. Besides the usual compliment of protein, calcium and vitamins, it is also loaded with human antibodies that its inventors say ca... |
541726_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Breeding a Better Ketchup; Tomato Tinkerers Plan Gene-Altered Condiments | The tomato, its reputation for tastiness shriveled by modern agriculture, is a leading target for biotechnology researchers eager to prove that their skills can translate into something that consumers and food processors want. A glimpse of progress came this week in the form of an announcement from the seed division of... |
541785_0 | Homosexuality to Be a Burning Catholic Issue; Orthodox Deaconesses | To the Editor: I read "As Bishops Meet, Catholics Voice Differences With Church's Doctrines" (news article, June 19), on the debate over women clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, with great interest and some glee. The Orthodox Church, basing its magisterium not on papal pronouncements, but on the first seven ecumenica... |
541852_0 | Nigeria's Monumental Steel Plant: Nationalist Mission or Colossal Mistake? | With its sprawling network of pipes and cylinders and immense exhaust towers, the 60,000-acre Ajaokuta steel complex, the biggest industrial project in sub-Saharan Africa, poses a striking contrast to the villages of straw-roofed huts that surround it. Officials hope that once the plant begins pouring metal as schedule... |
541788_0 | In Inner Cities, They're Eager for Work | To the Editor: The successful experience of the Walt Disney Company in recruiting for jobs in Disneyland among black and Hispanic teen-agers in South-Central Los Angeles ("Challenging a Myth in Los Angeles," editorial, June 29) is no surprise to us. We are familiar with the results of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pi... |
541756_3 | Veronese Masterpiece Damaged at the Louvre | see it," he said. "This painting belongs to the community." As museum officials explain it, the painstaking three-year restoration was nearly finished last month when two metal towers were built to raise the painting. The idea was to place it at the same height at which it had hung in its first home, the refectory of t... |
541834_2 | Religion Notes | rabbi on July 23 at the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of the college, called the ordination "historic and symbolic," and said it was taking place at "a hopeful time" for Reform Judaism in Israel. Dr. Gottschalk said the large-scale immigration ... |
541848_0 | Boston Journal; Captain With a Mission: Making a Yankee Clipper | In the shadow of the procession of tall ships that moved on from New York to Boston this week, the boat yard that produced some of America's first and fastest clipper ships stands abandoned today, its place in history all but forgotten. Donald McKay of the Atlantic Works Shipyard was the most prominent builder of woode... |
546092_0 | Ulster Talks Gain Major Goal: To Keep Going | The latest attempt at a negotiated settlement of the civil strife in Northern Ireland has achieved modest success in the last three months. Leaders of the Northern Ireland political parties, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, and senior officials of the British and Irish Governments have agreed not to discuss the talk... |
545092_2 | After Furor, Americans Are No Closer to Having Abortion Pill | say the import alert has discouraged the company from participating in research in this country. They point, for example, to the company's decision last year to provide RU486 for a breast-cancer trial in Canada, rather than one in the United States. Women's-rights groups are escalating their efforts to make the drug av... |
545103_0 | Senate Panel Opposes Radio-Frequency Shift | The Senate Appropriations Committee moved today to block a Federal plan to assign a big band of radio frequencies for advanced pocket telephones and other emerging technologies. At the behest of Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, the committee inserted language into a financing bill for the Federal... |
540781_0 | Indian-White Rape Case Splits Brazil | With his yellow parrot headdress, Paulinho Paiakan has emerged in recent years as a worldwide symbol of Brazilian Indians' defense of their Amazon homelands. "A new Gandhi," proclaimed Anita Roddick, who purchases Brazil nut oil from the Kaiapo Indian chief for her international cosmetics chain, the Body Shop. "A man w... |
540722_3 | When Gravity Strikes Back | that tilted over by 80 degrees on the saturated soil beneath it in 1964 without breaking up, so the occupants were able to walk to safety down the face of the building; the splendid Tacoma Narrows Bridge at Bremerton, Wash., 2,800 feet between suspension towers, which behaved skittishly from its opening on July 1, 1940... |
540794_4 | Technology; The Sensory Truck Tire | to record data and the potential uses will be far wider. "We also have temperature sensing and air pressure sensing capability," Mr. Kinnamon said. "By being able to monitor that information, a trucking company will be better able to extend the life of a tire and preserve fuel economy." Goodyear executives say that the... |
540526_4 | 'Have You Heard the One About . . . ?' | forcibly, by today's cruise ships and their social directors. In the heyday of the great liners, passengers were drawn gently into the social whirl. People seated at the same dining room tableintroduced themselves the first evening. (I've never seen plane passengers on transcontinental flights bothering with introducti... |
540795_4 | Technology; The Sensory Truck Tire | to record data and the potential uses will be far wider. "We also have temperature sensing and air pressure sensing capability," Mr. Kinnamon said. "By being able to monitor that information, a trucking company will be better able to extend the life of a tire and preserve fuel economy." Goodyear executives say that the... |
540802_1 | It's a Small Show, but It Sends a Signal | towers, which relay signals for television, radio and telephone. Ms. Bertomen is a connoisseur of them. A commuter to her job in Central Islip, where she teaches architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, she can discuss dish, disk and horn antennas with the enthusiasm classicists reserve for Doric, Ionic an... |
545460_4 | County Institutes New Recycling Regulations | and process recycled goods into marketable materials. It is scheduled to open in Yonkers on Sept. 1. The plant, one of a handful in the region, simplifies the recycling process by eliminating the need for residents to sort all the different items and for municipalities to find their own markets. Residents will be able ... |
545440_0 | Income Gains Seen for Minorities in the New York Region | Despite the deep recession that has engulfed the New York region since the end of the 1980's, the boom that preceded it raised incomes faster than in most of the rest of nation and pared down the huge disparities in earnings among whites, blacks and Hispanic residents, new census data show. The data, released last week... |
545314_0 | Teddy Roosevelt Was No Boor | To the Editor: In "The Candidates as Culture Vultures" [ July 12 ] , Michael Kelly states that "Theodore Roosevelt's chief cultural interest was the shooting of animals caught unaware." This a misstatement of historical fact. Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard graduate, was perhaps the most erudite and literate man ever to ... |
545338_1 | Talks Resume to Complete North American Trade Pact | quota for corn imports that would begin at 2.5 million tons each year and increase by 3 percent annually. Tariffs on other corn imports would be reduced over 15 years, but even that would involve a major transition for the country's 2.4 million corn growers, most of whom farm small plots for subsistence. The Government... |
542584_0 | U.S. PROPOSES DEREGULATING CALGENE'S BIOTECH TOMATO | Calgene Inc.'s genetically engineered tomato, the Flavr Savr, may soon be free of restrictions as a result of the United States Department of Agriculture's proposal yesterday to deregulate the product. The tomato, which is designed to have an extended shelf life of two to three weeks, has been under Agriculture Departm... |
542666_3 | Improved Scanner Watches the Brain As It Thinks | added that one objection raised about blood flow studies was that they just look at the brain's energy supply. Yet what people really want to see are the fine details of delicate interactions between nerve cells. The relationship between blood flow and brain functioning is nowhere near as simple as it is in a muscle, D... |
542330_0 | Books of The Times; A New Risk, Perhaps a New Buckley | Windfall The End of the Affair By William F. Buckley Jr. Illustrated. 296 pages. Random House. $25. As he has sometimes done in his previous oceangoing books -- "Airborne," "Atlantic High" and "Racing Through Paradise" -- William F. Buckley Jr. in "Windfall: The End of the Affair" freely quotes from his shipmates' jour... |
542389_0 | World Economies | |
543975_9 | Skippering a Canal Boat | over. Then I tried to call Mid-Lakes on the two-way radio provided with the boat, but although we had been under way for less than an hour, we were out of range. We drifted from one side of the channel to the other. Eventually, a passing cabin cruiser promised to send help. After another hour, I saw a Mid-Lakes boat in... |
543900_4 | Noted With Pleasure | Invented or Found? Romanticism is far more than a theory of poetry, having profoundly altered the way in which we think about the world, according to "Conversations With Isaiah Berlin," by Isaiah Berlin and Ramin Jahanbegloo (Scribners). For more than two millennia people had believed that every genuine question must h... |
543825_0 | Population Growth Imperils the Planet | To the Editor: "There's Plenty of Room" (letter, June 30) by Sheldon L. Richman, senior editor of the Cato Institute, merits serious questioning on several counts. It is meaningless, if not outright dangerous, to suggest that population density is unimportant and that there should be no concern about population pressur... |
543933_0 | MAJOR SHIFT LIKELY AS LAW BANS BIAS TOWARD DISABLED | A law to ban job discrimination against disabled people takes effect in a week and is widely expected to force changes in employment practices as far-reaching as those that followed the laws that opened jobs to women and blacks. As half a million businesses -- all those with 25 employees or more -- prepare to comply wi... |
543948_1 | C.I.A. Had Warned Bush Over Iraqi Farm Loans | indicates that the agencies either ignored or did not pursue mounting evidence that Iraq was paying for its weapons programs with loans from the Atlanta bank. The report did not discuss such evidence, for example, or point out that the bank was under Federal investigation. At the time, some State and Agriculture Depart... |
543873_1 | At Work; Data on Disabilities, True and False | affecting public accommodation of people with disabilities, began only in January, and there has been so much anticipatory sound and fury over the legislation that there has hardly been time for a dispassionate evaluation. Is Mr. Blanck just another Harvard-educated, Stanford-trained smarty-pants with a sociopolitical ... |
544037_0 | Job Agency Turns Disabilities Into Assets | Last year, after at least a dozen unsuccessful job interviews, Kathleen Roche, a self-described "little person" who is 4 feet tall, snapped at an interviewer who had just told her that she was unqualified for a receptionist's position. "Look at me for what I am," she told him, "Not for the way my feet dangle off the ch... |
543821_2 | Public & Private; The Fourth Wall | call with ears. Mario Cuomo, when he was trying to convince reporters of why he need not run for President, used to say that it was not the messenger that was important, it was the message. In the case of the Perot phenomenon that shoe fits. He was limited, this talk-show wonder who got going when the going got tough. ... |
540457_0 | Oiapoque Journal; Perilous Jungle Passage Leads Poor to 'France' | After a few shots of sugar cane rum, fishermen who gather nightly on a riverside wharf here often say that, peering through the tropical haze of the Eastern Amazon, they can see the bright lights of France. Indeed, 15 minutes downriver by motorized canoe lies a thinly populated corner of Europe: Saint Georges de l'Oyap... |
540457_3 | Oiapoque Journal; Perilous Jungle Passage Leads Poor to 'France' | construction has progressed slowly, largely because of French fears that the road will become a highway for Brazilian immigration. In town, sun-faded posters from France's recent regional elections serve as reminders that French Guianese are full-fledged French citizens. Attracted by social benefits befitting a Europea... |
540474_0 | Better to Stop Missiles on Ground Than in Sky; Test Moratorium | To the Editor: "Look Who's Adding Missiles" (editorial, June 19) expresses dismay that France and Britain are "increasing their nuclear arsenals." Leslie H. Gelb's column the same day states that Israel is militarily secure, but "What most troubles Israeli generals, and civilian hawks and doves alike, is Arab nuclear p... |
540446_0 | Editorial Notebook; Not Just a Mobile Museum | Operation Sail 1992 is billed as the largest fleet of tall ships ever. Officially it celebrates Columbus's first voyage to the Americas 500 years ago. But it's much more. As training ships for yet another generation of ocean sailors, those stately vessels celebrate five thousand years of sail. The first Op Sail, in 196... |
540489_1 | Truckers Vex France With Protest . . . | through shortages of gasoline and fresh food. Many oil refineries and storage depots have been surrounded by trucks, while fruit and vegetables are beginning to spoil in trucks and warehouses. Further, production in plants owned by Renault, Citroen and Peugeot has been disrupted by the lack of parts. Even a Peugeot Tal... |
540472_0 | Getting Their Sea Legs: Windjammer With a Crew of Girls | THE Milky Way is spilled across the sky like powdered sugar, while the Big Dipper hangs huge, forever poised to pour out dreams. The air is getting cooler. The wooden masts creak in the wind. It is a little past 2 A.M. and we are slicing through salt water that was once home to the America's Cup race. Newport, R.I., tw... |
543375_2 | Ranking Law Schools by Faculty Publishing Rate | and his school's fourth-place ranking, up from 12th place in the 1989 survey, he acknowledged the criticism it has drawn. "I think some of the methodology is questionable in terms of how they picked the journals they considered the best," he said. "But as a crude tool for measuring quality scholarship, I suppose it's a... |
543289_0 | Amid Vichy Storm, Paris Honors Jewish Dead | The French observed the 50th anniversary today of the first major roundup of Jews in Nazi-occupied France amid growing demands that President Francois Mitterrand publicly recognize the responsibility of the Vichy Government for crimes against Jews. In recent weeks, a flurry of newspaper articles and television programs... |
541601_2 | At Home Abroad; Hope Turned to Dust | the drought. Zimbabwean troops protect a corridor from the port of Beira, in northern Mozambique, through which a highway and rail line run to Zimbabwe. Hundreds of thousands of starving refugees from Renamo-held areas to the north are now camped out along the Beira highway and are getting some relief food. Efforts beg... |
545876_7 | NASA Unveils A Satellite On a Tether 12 Miles Long | the flow of current in the tether and use the energy to boost the orbits of space platforms or satellites." Another possible use would be to dangle capsules with instruments below a shuttle, down into the upper atmosphere. This is a region, above 60 miles, where airplanes do not fly and balloons and sounding rockets ca... |
545841_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Disarming the Utility Poles; An Acquired Taste For Creosote | To the companies that have to replace them, telephone poles are a nuisance. To the Environmental Protection Agency, they may be a source of toxic wastes. But to Dr. Ralph Portier's bacteria, they're dinner. There are an estimated 120 million poles on which electric utilities and telephone companies around the nation fe... |
544736_0 | Sailors Mutiny and Take a Ship to Ukraine | A coast guard frigate of the Black Sea Fleet raised the Ukrainian flag today and set off from a naval base in the Crimea for the Ukrainian port of Odessa, chased by other warships. Negotiations with the mutinous crew continued tonight. Russia and Ukraine have been squabbling over how to divide the Black Sea Fleet, whic... |
544733_0 | I See Memos in My Crystal Ball. I See the Boss on Line 1. | Time for another adventure in Conceptland, where all cars are sleekly sculptured and solar-powered, all televisions have immediate access to every movie ever made, and all houses vacuum themselves. Today: a visit to the executive office to peer at the future phone (or at the "Future:Phone," as the makers would write it... |
540200_1 | Of Time And the Sea: A Majestic History | its last. In recent years, majestic sailing ships have decorated the harbor on special occasions, smiling anachronisms calling attention to the past, the 200 years of the United States or the 100 years of the Statue of Liberty. More than at any other time, Operation Sail focuses on the ships themselves and the role of ... |
540375_5 | Celebrating Columbus And the Age Of Sail | can't wear gloves," said Cynthia Rugart, a crew member, referring to the iron lines that stabilize the mast. "Also, when the sail billows, it can blow you right off the foot ropes." Ms. Rugart, a student nurse, also mentioned the difficulty of climbing past the foretop, a wooden platform about halfway up the mast. To n... |
540308_2 | Post-Apartheid Hopes Stained by Bloodletting | when over two-thirds of white voters agreed to share power with blacks, has also been dimmed by the deadlock in the talks on a new nonracist constitution. As early as last March, the International Commission of Jurists concluded after surveying the violence that month, "It is clear that it would not be possible to hold... |
540217_0 | Celebrating Op Sail and Columbus | Here is a schedule of events in New York City this weekend that are part of Operation Sail '92 and the New York City Columbus Quincentenary , along with a sampling of related activities. For more information, call the number for the individual event. There is also a general information number set up by the New York Cit... |
540333_1 | Gen. Pierre Billotte, 86, Who Led French Forces Into Paris, Is Dead | on issues ranging from Algerian independence to nuclear weapons. Captured by the Germans General Billotte was a leader in the French Resistance and Free French movements. In 1940, he was wounded by the Germans and captured. He escaped from a German prisoner-of-war camp into the Soviet Union, where he represented France... |
541541_0 | Financial Documents Reveal Winners and Losers | |
541417_0 | Court Expands Pesticide Ban To Cover Many Used in Food | Seeking to resolve one of the most difficult scientific and legal conflicts involving the nation's food supply, a Federal Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency must remove from the market any pesticides that both have the potential to cause cancer and leave residues in processed foods. A... |
541369_0 | Foreign Affairs; Cuddling Saddam | Did President Bush's policy toward Iraq before its invasion of Kuwait involve law-breaking? Maybe. And maybe some official cover-up afterward. In any event, it would take far too long for an independent counsel to get to the bottom of the matter, and the results would be problematic. Was the policy merely a "mistake," ... |
541460_2 | Police Clear Protesters' Trucks Off French Roads | backed by armored cars and occasionally using tear gas ordered truckers to move on. By this morning, it was possible to drive unimpeded from Lille in the north to Marseilles in the south. By this evening, only a handful of the original 160 blockades were still in place. Rather than gratitude, however, many French have ... |
546714_0 | Japan and Ecology: Room to Improve | At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro last month, Japan pledged more than $7 billion to help other nations fight pollution. But halfway toward the summit of Mount Fuji, a four-story parking garage is being planned. The difference between the summits shows how far this industrial powerhouse has come in environmental awa... |
570610_1 | Abortion Pill's Sale Unlikely Soon Despite Change of Administration | this case is not real, but you can't argue with the top management of a big company." American Partner Needed Dr. Ulmann also said Hoecht needed to find an American company willing to buy a license to market the drug here. He said that Roussel officials had offered several large American corporations the chance to lice... |
570601_1 | Progress Is Slow In New Efforts To Find Bombs | on the street than we would like, but it is very developmental, and much of this equipment is state of the art." Elizabeth Philipps, whose 20-year-old daughter Sarah was killed in the Pan Am bombing, said the victims' relatives were monitoring the Federal Aviation Administration's research programs closely, sitting in ... |
570618_2 | Belize, Marketing Its Beauty, Fears Its Ruin | the care taken to preserve the surroundings. Hunting and fishing are prohibited. The number of guests is strictly limited by the availability of only 12 thatched-roofed cabanas. Here, guides accompany visitors on hikes over miles of jungle trails that wend their way around 1,500-year-old Mayan burial mounds. But elsewh... |
570664_2 | New & Noteworthy | of her sprawling family of sufferers and strivers." IN SEARCH OF HUMAN NATURE: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought, by Carl N. Degler. (Oxford University, $13.95.) Mr. Degler gives an overview of the nature-versus-nurture debate in the social sciences from the late 19th century to the presen... |
570446_0 | November 8-14: Clergy Is Divided; Church of England Approves Priesthood for Women | The vote by the Church of England last week to ordain women as priests provoked such a level of anger and anguish that there seemed little chance that the deep rift over the issue could be healed soon. In narrowly approving the change, the Church of England joined 12 of the 28 self-governing provinces of the worldwide ... |
570607_7 | All Over State, Latin Redux | Alden Smith, the director of the department of classics, credits the enormous interest in the classics in the last five years to the students themselves. He said: "They question: 'What was it like 2,000 years ago? How have people changed?' And the best way is to read about the culture in the Latin literature." Mr. Doog... |
570552_4 | The View From: Mystic Seaport; A National Landmark With a Penchant for Moving Around | accustomed to landmarks staying in one spot. There is also the question of authenticity. If the landmark is a house that has always been maintained, it will be mostly original. But shipwrights are always replacing rotted timbers or rigging. Ms. D'Estang said there was great effort at the seaport to maintain a ship's in... |
570604_1 | Taxpayer Revolt in Colorado Vote Raises Alarm About Lost Services | limit government's taxing power say the state measure will serve as a model for similar efforts around the country. With a few exceptions, voters around the country this year voted soundly against new taxes. South Dakota rejected a state income tax. California repealed a tax on snack foods and rejected a proposal to in... |
573021_0 | W. J. Campbell, 62, Meteorologist Who Was an Expert on Polar Ice | Dr. William J. Campbell, a ranking meteorologist for the United States Geological Survey and an internationally known expert on polar ice, died last Friday. He was 62 years old and lived in Gig Harbor, Wash. The agency, which reported the death late Wednesday, said he had suffered a heart attack. At the time of his dea... |
573026_2 | United in Love for Homemade Songs | diners at the nearby Interlaken Inn and appear tomorrow evening at West Hartford's First Church of Christ Congregational (the basement, of course). After the 1960's folk scare when the Kingston Trio and other awfully clean groups in pressed pants and striped shirts took folk songs to unprecedented heights of slick, pac... |
573038_1 | For Disruptive Students, a Chance to Succeed | of mission: saving someone from dropping out is saving a life. "Some people feel that we cater too much to the students, that with the foul language, for example, we don't throw the book at them," said Ruth Klein, the high school's principal. "But what we're looking for is improvement. We have to be aware they don't co... |
573022_2 | Group Plans New Effort to Defy Ban on Cuban Aid | allowed to cross into Mexico with most of its cargo after a customs declaration form was filed. During negotiations with the caravan's leaders, the leaders said, Federal agents first requested a manifest of the cargo, and after an inspection, removed some prescription medicines and computer equipment. The cargo was the... |
566830_0 | LATIN BISHOPS SET NO NEW DIRECTIONS | Latin America's Roman Catholic bishops reaffirmed last week that the needs of the region's poor should continue to have first call on the attention of the church. But unlike previous gatherings of this scope, the latest meeting of the Latin American Episcopal Conference proved to be primarily a holding action on church... |
567077_0 | Menopause Has No Part in Year of the Woman | To the Editor: Menopause, Helen E. Fisher argues (Op-Ed, Oct. 21), unmasks women's testosterone levels, contributing to increased numbers of women running for political office. A few scientific studies have found a relationship between elevated testosterone levels and positions of dominance, but it is not clear from th... |
566931_5 | Profile/Wallace Steinberg; Laying Pipe for the Fountain of Youth | where medicine is going before anyone else thinks of it and to have a fund that produces above-average returns by creating whole new categories of companies." The concept, he added, "is very, very bold and obviously risky." The trick, of course, is to hit on the right ideas. Mr. Steinberg reads voraciously and, as he s... |
569760_0 | Anglicans in Britain Vote to Let Women Be Priests | After a bitter and exhausting debate that divided both the clergy and laity, the Church of England voted narrowly today to ordain women as priests. While the decision cheered liberals and the church's ruling hierarchy, who had pushed to bring women into the pulpit, it also brought warnings of resignations and deepening... |
569723_7 | Fear in the Mail -- A special report.; Alarmed by Fund-Raiser, The Elderly Give Millions | not to let their contributors be flooded with directly competing requests. In this case, Mr. Viguerie gained total control over his client's donor list, which was gathered at the client's expense. The fact that these people had recently made a donation made their names valuable commodities in the mailing-list marketpla... |
569722_0 | INSIDE | Anglicans to Ordain Women After a bitter debate that divided the clergy and the laity, the Church of England voted narrowly to ordain women as priests. The decision cheered church liberals. Page A3. Environmental Fight at Hand The Vice President and his staff are planning a last-ditch attempt to loosen rules that preve... |
569746_0 | Airline Passengers Help Crew Smother A Suspected Bomb | The fax said a bomb had been stowed in the luggage bin above seat 25A on United Airlines Flight 46 from Los Angeles to Kennedy International Airport. It said the bomb would detonate when the plane descended below 10,000 feet or landed, unless a $600,000 ransom was paid. Five miles above the Midwest yesterday afternoon,... |
569781_0 | World Bank War on Pollution Faces Ever Sharper Criticism | The World Bank's request for a special $5 billion grant for environmental projects is running into trouble from donor countries critical of the bank's environmental record. Twenty donors are to meet Thursday and Friday in Paris to consider the grant, along with the bank's proposed three-year, $18 billion budget. The ba... |
571111_0 | Khmer Rouge Should Not Delay Cambodia Vote, U.N. Says | Cambodia's national elections, scheduled to be held in May, should proceed whether the Khmer Rouge take part or not, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said today in a report to the Security Council. Under terms of a peace accord signed in Paris last year, the Khmer Rouge and the three other warring factions in Ca... |
571120_0 | Ordination of Women Puts New Fire in Bishops' Debate | Even as they considered a compromise on a proposed pastoral letter about women in the church and society, the country's Roman Catholic bishops today opened one of the sharpest debates that the document has produced in its troubled nine-year history. The church's opposition to the ordination of women, which the Vatican ... |
571171_1 | Accuser's Mother Testifies In Sexual Assault Trial | lawyers objected that the daughter's responses were hearsay. Judge Cohen said that anything the daughter said to her parents will have to come directly from her when she takes the witness stand. The mother's appearance in state Superior Court today was her first courtroom encounter with the four former Glen Ridge footb... |
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570744_4 | Flow of Vietnamese to Hong Kong Seems Over, to Hong Kong's Relief | In recent years, many were "bus people" who traveled by land through China before taking a boat for the final hop to Hong Kong. The Vietnamese Government initially encouraged the flight, seeing it as an opportunity to confiscate the wealth of the emigrants and to rid the country of its ethnic Chinese minority. Now Hano... |
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