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958479_3 | San Pablo de Cantesiaya Journal; Across Jungle Iron Curtain, Cousins Yearn to Meet | communal kitchen: three cooking stoves, three water pumps with solar panels and tin roofing, along with an outboard motor and three first-aid kits. Criticism has come from the nearby Sioni tribe and international environmental groups like the Rain Forest Action Network, which asserted that Occidental took advantage of ... |
958890_0 | Battle of What May Be the West's Last Big Dam | Two years ago, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund objected to a $700 million water diversion project planned for the Animas River here and proposed a $264 million alternative. This summer, Ute Indian leaders, the project's proponents, reluctantly bent to Washington's budget-cutting mood and announced a $257 million pla... |
958908_0 | RUSSIANS PASS BILL SHARPLY FAVORING ORTHODOX CHURCH | Defying Western objections that it was restricting religious freedom, Russia's Parliament today passed a bill that protects the Russian Orthodox Church from competition from other Christian denominations. Passed by an overwhelming vote of 358 to 6 in the legislature's dominant lower house, the bill was warmly received ... |
958947_1 | Barbara Munk, Child Psychiatrist, Dies at 72 | infant will not do,'' she wrote in a 1993 article for the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs. ''We need programs designed to provide a safety net for the parent with mental illness, the offspring at risk and the family under stress.'' Her program accepted referrals of pregnant women and parents with emotional... |
954509_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | test is likely to set off a race for new space weapons that will ultimately endanger the nation's own satellites. A1 Dispute Over Medieval Text For more than half a century, the whereabouts were unknown of a rare 12th-century compendium of medical knowledge that was once in the possession of the National Library of Med... |
955425_0 | High Cancer Rates Reported | The rate of cancer of the brain and central nervous system for women living near hazardous waste sites in Bergen County was nearly double the state average over a 17-year period, according to a joint Federal and state study released yesterday. The study focused on 15,000 residents living in Maywood, Lodi and Rochelle P... |
955401_1 | Cubans Blame Exiles in U.S. for 4 Bombings in a Single Day | made famous by Ernest Hemingway, said there were no injuries from the small bomb, which damaged furniture. The Cuban Foreign Ministry said that bomb attacks were part of a campaign of terrorism organized by Cuban exiles living in the United States, with the intention of damaging the Cuban economy. There were two bombin... |
960724_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | of Israel said he would continue building in the Jewish enclaves in the West Bank and Gaza to accommodate natural population growth. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright had asked him to freeze such settlements until relations with Palestinians improved. A3 NATIONAL A7-10, A16 Senate Debates the Limits Of Campaign-... |
960685_1 | Asia's Forest Disaster | the fires coincide mainly with areas of commercial logging on Borneo and Sumatra. Indigenous farmers use the same environmentally sound farming methods they have for centuries, rotating between plots of family land. The problem is the logging companies, which often show up unannounced, cut the trees, burn the stumps an... |
960677_2 | Religion Journal; A Times Square Religious Landmark | traces its inspiration to July 14, 1833. On that date, when the Rev. John Keble preached a sermon at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford, England, calling on the Church of England (and, by extension, the Episcopal Church, which grew out of it) to rediscover its Catholic heritage. Father Keble's sermo... |
960704_0 | Irking U.S., Yeltsin Signs Law Protecting Orthodox Church | Spurning appeals from the United States, President Boris N. Yeltsin signed a new law today that protects the Russian Orthodox Church from competition with other Christian faiths. Western church leaders deplored the law, saying it threatens religious freedom in Russia. Mr. Yeltsin's move was also a setback for the Clint... |
960268_2 | College Tuitions Climb 5 Percent, Survey Finds | $1.6 million. A graduate with a law degree or a Ph.D. takes in $2.1 million. Daniel Cheever, president of Simmons College in Boston, said he was pleased to see institutions moderate tuition rates but disturbed that the cost had increased at a rate higher than inflation or the growth in average family income, which is e... |
960265_1 | London and Dublin Reject Demand to Bar Sinn Fein From Talks | violence. Sinn Fein was admitted to the talks as a result of an I.R.A. cease-fire in July, and Mr. Adams's pledge that his party was committed to nonviolence. Mr. Trimble said that the cease-fire was merely a tactic and that Sinn Fein had not truly renounced violence. But the unionist leader said he and his party would... |
958294_2 | A Creaky Vote System In the Computer Age | a bipartisan board to conduct and monitor elections was considered a significant reform. Under a provision that was added to the State Constitution, the two major political parties were to run the agency. The idea was that such an arrangement would prevent election fraud. But many election specialists have come to beli... |
958360_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-14 Thailand Ponders Reform In Midst of Economic Crisis A draft constitution stressing government accountability and civil liberties has become a flash point in Thailand, fueled by the nation's economic discontent. This frustration with the Government reflects an emerging social conflict in a nation whe... |
958281_1 | Bomb Explodes Near Belfast, Rattling New Peace Talks | last week that it was not bound by the nonviolence pledge. David Trimble, head of the Ulster Unionist Party, the largest party in this predominantly Protestant British province, accused the I.R.A. in the blast. ''The overwhelming probability,'' he said, was that ''there's I.R.A. involvement.'' Referring to Mo Mowlam, t... |
954992_8 | Dr. Viktor E. Frankl of Vienna, Psychiatrist of the Search for Meaning, Dies at 92 | prisoners would remind the despondent that life expected something from them: a child waiting outside prison, work that remained to be completed. Prisoners taught one another not to talk about food where starvation was a daily threat, to hide a crust of bread in a pocket to stretch out the nourishment. They were urged ... |
954995_0 | Shackling Family Planning Abroad | Congress faces another battle on international family planning, which is still mired in domestic abortion politics. The House is scheduled to consider a foreign appropriations bill today that includes an ill-advised amendment to restrict funding for overseas groups that provide abortions or abortion counseling. Sponsor... |
956292_2 | High Technology Could Add New Life to an Old Product | a daily basis,'' said John Hunter, chief operating officer of Solutia Inc., a maker of nylons and other high-grade plastics that just spun off from the Monsanto Company. Even the biggest fans of the new process acknowledge that such worries are premature. ''We're all still on the steep part of the learning curve,'' ack... |
956231_2 | First Gene for Social Behavior Identified in Whiskery Mice | Dr. Wynshaw-Boris decided to knock out disheveled-1; he expected its absence to make the mice develop abnormally, as do fruit flies that lack the gene. He was surprised to find that the mice looked normal when they grew up. But after colleagues noticed the unusually bushy whiskers of the knock-out mice, a battery of be... |
956222_3 | Another Spacecraft Nears Mars For Orbiting Survey of Planet | for future biological exploration,'' said Dr. Michael H. Carr, a specialist in Martian geology at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. ''Right now, there is virtually no information about the global mineralogy, so all this is going to be brand new.'' Although two Viking spacecraft orbited Mars for ... |
954835_0 | Too Often, Cougars and People Clash | The 4-year-old French boy was waving to his parents on a path here in July when a 70-pound cougar pounced from the underbrush and dragged him off by the head. The boy was saved -- one ear had to be sewn back on -- and the cougar was shot. But three days later, a cougar attacked and killed a 10-year-old boy who had run ... |
954869_6 | Blue-Collar Jobs Gain, but the Work Changes in Tone | between. ''What about the guy who comes in and fixes the coffee machine?'' Mr. Kosters wondered. What about computer technicians? ''Does it depend on whether he fixes hardware or software?'' he asked. The Government reports quarterly on compensation of various occupations, dividing them into three categories -- white c... |
956462_0 | What's Left for AOL? | America Online's acquisition of Compuserve's customer base is a smart strategic move because it allows America Online to expand its reach while eliminating its chief rival. But the deal, which also includes the sale of America Online's transmission network, doesn't address looming hurdles. The most serious of these may... |
956500_1 | Ulster Talks Resume With a Promise of Peace by Sinn Fein | on July 20 restoring its unilateral cease-fire, the I.R.A. spoke of a ''cessation of military operations,'' but did not say that the cessation was permanent, or that it would be maintained regardless of the outcome of the talks. Mr. Adams was not pressed on this apparent difference at today's meeting in Castle Building... |
956524_0 | Peace Talks Resume; Sinn Fein to Join In | As peace talks opened in Belfast, Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, committed itself to peaceful methods in efforts to reach an agreement on Northern Ireland, and the Clinton Administration suspended deportation proceedings against five I.R.A. veterans who have settled in the United States. Ar... |
956516_2 | On a Beach Lined With Ferry's Dead, Haitians Mourn | Miami two decades ago to seek his fortune, prospered, and recently decided ''to do something good for his home community'' of La Gonaives, as one official put it today. His 61-foot boat, air-conditioned and with a television, began service between his home island of La Gonave and this fishing and market town late late ... |
959643_2 | In the Balance, the Future of a Lake; Arizona Town Battles Environmentalists Over Drainage Plan | the nation's most popular camping area. The lake fuels an annual local tourist economy of half a billion dollars. Lulled by these numbers, few people took it seriously last year when David Brower, the founder of the Sierra Club, proposed that the lake be drained. If that were done, he said, the flooded scenery of Glen ... |
959665_0 | On the Office PC, Bosses Opt For All Work, and No Play | Just how personal is the personal computer? A little too personal, when it comes to using the PC on the job these days -- at least in the eyes of many bosses. Employers, whether in the Federal Government or the private sector, are cracking down on the use of computer games, personal E-mail and recreational Web surfing,... |
959664_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Asian Crisis Likely to Slow Economic Liberalization American officials at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were confronted by angry Asian leaders who contended that foreign investors set off Southeast Asia's financial crisis. The most extreme accusation came from Malaysia's Prime... |
961155_0 | Old Ulster Enemies Face Each Other for First Time in Talks | After 75 years of sporadic sectarian violence between Northern Ireland's Protestant majority and its Roman Catholic minority, political leaders from both sides will face each other for the first time on Monday in formal negotiations over disputes that have divided the British province into mutually suspicious, often ho... |
960813_13 | Technology Makes Us Better; Our Oldest Computer, Upgraded | decentralized machines. As these personal devices proliferate, it's becoming impossible for political leaders to censor information. Africa's leaders can control newspapers, but citizens in remote villages are now getting uncensored news from Africa Online. And as information becomes central to economies, the incentive... |
961164_0 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; You're Not Bad, You're Sick. It's in the Book. | EXPERTS warn that road rage is at epidemic levels on America's highways. In a recent study, the American Automobile Association found a 51 percent increase since 1990 in incidents of motorists behaving in an overtly hostile manner. Crazy drivers, one might say. Precisely, says Dr. Arnold Nerenberg, a clinical psycholog... |
960946_5 | Streetscapes/The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Staten Island; 4-Room Tribute to the Hero of Italian Independence | and vandalized, with broken glass and graffiti. In 1914 vandals tried to burn it, and 300 demonstrators, led by the anarchist Carlo Tresca, tried to take over an annual celebration of Garibaldi's birth and put up a red flag before they were arrested. Such strife was apparently common; according to a 1940 account, in 19... |
960806_0 | Technology Makes Us Closer; The Intimate Reach of Remote Control | There's an argument to be made that the defining characteristic of human life is not language or tool use but the development of remote control. Not in the narrow sense, of course. Only a true misanthrope would argue that channel surfing is what distinguishes us from other animals. Besides, there's no solid experimenta... |
961066_1 | Guides for Making the College Try | the process -- to make a list, to make quick comparisons about location, size or majors.'' That is just how the guides should be used, according to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, which represents 6,400 high school counselors and university admissions people. ''The handbooks have a great val... |
961022_1 | Where the Need for Mr. Chipses, and Ms. Chipses, Is the Greatest | their first language.'' Ms. Earley advised potential teachers to look for programs accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and by their state education agencies. Although each state has its own licensing requirements, graduates of approved programs, she said, are more likely to be ... |
960452_7 | Dispute in Italy Is Conjuring Up Its Terrorist Past | him a murderer and warning that justice for Mr. Pinelli's death would be meted out not in the courts, but ''on the streets.'' When Mr. Calabresi was gunned down, it was not surprising that many thought the blame lay somewhere in Lotta Continua. And yet until Mr. Marino came forward 16 years later, there was nothing to ... |
957604_0 | Architecture of an Irish Peace | After years of fitful preparation, negotiations for peace are set to begin in earnest tomorrow in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army has declared a new cease-fire, the British and Irish Governments seem committed to ending the violent conflict and the largest unionist party, though hesitating, seems likely to ... |
957537_3 | The Nation; Wide Open Spaces, but Hardly Untouched | years after becoming the world's first national park, Yellowstone was a battleground as the Nez Perce fled Army troops. Had the park been established during the war, perhaps Indian wars could be claimed as a traditional use. When Teddy Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon a monument in 1908 -- on the very site Mr. Cli... |
957484_1 | City May Grow More Wired Still | around, we have some holes we need to fix,'' a Bell Atlantic spokesman, Howard Waterman, said in a cell-phone interview. ''We're not establishing some huge network. We've already got that.'' He said that, pending approval, installations could begin as early as next spring. Each antenna will be three feet long and conne... |
957575_0 | Unionists, Stung by I.R.A. Move, Hesitate on Attending Talks | Prospects for the Northern Ireland peace effort were clouded today when the largest Protestant party refused to say whether it would attend talks scheduled to start in Belfast on Monday. The hesitation of the Ulster Unionist Party, led by David Trimble, was caused by the refusal of the Irish Republican Army two days ag... |
957242_0 | Tom Morris | Morris, a former philosophy professor turned corporate consultant, is the author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors. Q: You've spoken to companies like Merrill Lynch, Coca-Cola and Bayer about using Greek philosophy in big business. How does that work? A: I tell people to use the four foundations of excellence -- truth... |
955982_0 | Cougars and Humans Can Peacefully Coexist | To the Editor: Re your Sept. 3 news article about the attacks by cougars in Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.: We are experiencing a painful growth here, building additional homes and commercial projects in the mountains. Because of the rash of construction, cougars and black bears have been forced from their natural hab... |
955855_0 | Big Cats Make a Comeback | Faced with a 150-pound cougar, what is a 50-pound child supposed to do? In Denver's mountain suburbs, children are learning the answers in school from pamphlets like ''Living with Wildlife in Lion Country.'' After years of explaining cougar attacks on humans with tut-tutting about people intruding into cougar habitat, ... |
955751_1 | The Case of the Ghostly Answering Machine | talking is so loud she cannot hear her messages. And while the speech is distinct, the language used by the speakers is unknown to her, so that she cannot understand what is being said. Perplexed and also a bit annoyed, Ms. Lagunoff recently decided to do a little detective work, logging the times when most of the inte... |
955775_0 | They Shut Down My E-Mail: Diary of a Virtual Prisoner | FIVE years of work -- writing, producing, directing and selling my independent feature film, ''Delinquent'' -- was finally coming to fruition early last month. Just a few weeks remained before the premiere, barely time to complete a distinguished site on the World Wide Web, conduct interviews and begin grass-roots prom... |
955899_0 | The Peaceful Face-Off in Ulster | Three years ago, the Irish Republican Army put into effect the cease-fire that eventually led to the British Government's historic decision last week to invite Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, to take part in formal peace talks. The invitation to the talks, which are to resume Sept. 15, was immedi... |
955647_4 | With a Fine Eye for Trends in Electronics | features that can make the door locks pop up and and the trunk pop open remotely, from the outside, then you've got something. The ability to start your engine remotely is also becoming very popular. You can stand up to 50 feet away from your car, push a button, and the engine starts itself. In the winter, when your ca... |
955964_0 | Where Are Brewster And Buffy? | THE United States Tennis Association is preparing to play Robin Hood, taking $31.4 million of its profits from the corporate shrimp-eaters in the luxury boxes and teaching the masses to play. The officials hope to play Johnny Appleseed to segments of the American population not normally associated with tennis. The word... |
958772_1 | Federal Doctors' Report Appears to Say Gigante May Be Mentally Ill | that Mr. Gigante, 69, is mentally competent to be sent to prison and that he has long feigned insanity. The 18-page report on Mr. Gigante's mental condition was prepared by Dr. Peter M. Barboriak, a staff psychiatrist at the Federal prison hospital in Butner, N.C., where Mr. Gigante, who was not at the hearing in Distr... |
958675_2 | Clowning Inventively With Stuff Of Beauty | erase all the old dividing lines: between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art, not to mention art and life. That said, change in art never really comes about because barrie... |
957058_0 | Mercy for Disabled Children | Under the old law, children could qualify for disability payments if they suffered from a single extreme disability, like an I.Q. below 60, or from a combination of less extreme problems, like an I.Q. in the 60's along with cerebral palsy, rendering the child incapable of functioning like other children of the same age... |
959127_0 | Special Education Is Not A Scandal | Before congress intervened, public schooling for disabled children ranged from dismal to truly barbaric. As recently as the 1970's, they could be found strapped into their chairs and screaming, in conditions reminiscent of the Dark Ages. The picture changed with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 --... |
947139_0 | Personal Health | FROM 1948 to 1971, nearly five million pregnant women in this country were treated with a synthetic estrogen-like drug, DES (short for diethylstilbestrol), in the mistaken belief that it would help prevent miscarriages and premature deliveries. The legacy of this misguided treatment for the girls born of such pregnanci... |
945633_1 | Diplomacy and Religious Tyranny | is a new State Department report on the persecution of Christian groups abroad. The study's emphasis on religious intolerance is heartening. But the purpose of the project has less to do with changing American policy toward repressive countries than scoring political points at home. The suppression of Christian groups ... |
942957_2 | Protestants in Ulster Call Off Parades in Catholic Areas | given the opportunity to create a situation resulting in major civil disorder with a possible loss of life.'' Tonight Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, said of the Orange statement, ''I welcome this decision; I wish it had been made sooner.'' In Dublin, the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, said that the decision... |
944057_0 | Sugar Families Plan Merger Of Flo-Sun and Savannah | In a deal that allies two of the most influential families in the nation's sugar industry, Savannah Foods and Industries announced yesterday that it would merge with the domestic sugar operations of Flo-Sun Inc., the private holding company of the Fanjul family of Florida. The resulting public company, to be called Flo... |
944035_0 | Oedipus Complexities: Filling In Sophoclean Gaps | OEDIPUS ON THE ROAD By Henry Bauchau 240 pages. Arcade. $24.95. In this novel, translated from the French, the Belgian writer Henry Bauchau imagines the chapter in the story of Oedipus left unwritten by the divine Sophocles. The Athenian playwright, of course, carved two great plays from the Oedipus story: one, the sea... |
944132_0 | White House Begins Push for New Global Warming Pact | After tinkering with computer models for more than a year, the Clinton Administration predicted today that measures to combat the growth of global warming by limiting the emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat from the sun would have a far less dramatic effect on the economy than had been projected ... |
945814_0 | Ulster Protestants Reject Disarmament Bid | The main Protestant political parties voted today to reject a proposal by the British and Irish Governments on the methods and timing for disarming the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary groups. But British and Irish officials, who expected the decision, said that the setback would not kill Northern Irel... |
940780_1 | As the Wolf Turns: A Saga of Yellowstone | wolves in Yellowstone National Park. He solidified his reputation soon after arriving here by leading the Druids in a territorial raid on a longer-established wolf family, the Crystal Creek pack. The Druids killed the opposing alpha male and all his young offspring, banished the bleeding adult survivors to another part... |
940775_0 | Rain Forest Fringes May Harbor the Engine of Evolution | WHILE conservationists have long worked to protect rain forests, they have tended to ignore their ragged edges, where scattered clumps of woodlands give way to neighboring habitats. But researchers have found evidence that these patchy transition zones between habitats, known as ecotones, may have an unrecognized value... |
940862_0 | Lake Yields a Benedict Arnold Gunboat | Under the cover of an October night in 1776, Benedict Arnold led a daring escape by a tiny colonial fleet that had been pounded hard by the British during a battle on Lake Champlain. Oars muffled with greased rags, his men rowed between blockading British vessels. One of the 15 ships, ''missing in action for 221 years,... |
944779_6 | Yo, Achilles | is the poem's subject. Not all of Lombardo's gambles pay off, and his attention-grabbing colloquialisms sometimes undermine the force of the original. In a famous speech that is crucial for delineating Achilles' character -- and hence for defining the whole heroic code -- this straight arrow par excellence expresses hi... |
944773_2 | Traffic Jam | the elderly and the young, who are unable to drive, have been transformed into virtual prisoners; that the United States gives automobiles at least seven times the subsidies it earmarks for public transportation; that improvements in emission controls have been canceled out by an increase in miles driven; that salt use... |
944864_0 | New Uses for Old Sites in Clifton and Nutley | FOR decades they stood as familiar, and largely empty, landmarks along the stretches of Route 3 and the Garden State Parkway that run through Clifton and Nutley. Now plans are advancing to turn the commercial complexes, or their sites, to new uses, ranging from housing to retail and office space. Most of the properties... |
944797_0 | Market Analysis | To the Editor: My review of ''The Big Ten,'' Jeffrey E. Garten's study of big emerging markets, observed that one of its central arguments is based on a wildly inaccurate claim about the markets' current economic importance to the United States. In his response (Letters, June 29), Garten counters my ''highly misleading... |
945040_8 | A Dog's Luxe Life | other cities. Rosanne Aratoon, of Brooklyn, is one, though she prefers the term ''animal communicator.'' For $60 an hour, she says, she will tell you what your pet is saying. ''It is mental telepathy,'' Ms. Aratoon explained. ''I translate whatever the animal wants to say through the human.'' While many people think it... |
945109_2 | I.R.A. ANNOUNCES A NEW CEASE-FIRE BEGINNING TODAY | barred Sinn Fein from the talks until there is a new cease-fire. On Friday, Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, said he had asked the I.R.A. to restore the cease-fire. Today, Mr. Adams and British and Irish officials said that they hoped the cease-fire would lead to Sinn Fein's participation in the talks when they re... |
944482_2 | Middleman of Waste Material, Mistakes and Leftovers | enough to save the mostly small companies here an average of $900,000 a year in waste disposal costs, and to become the model for a citywide waste and product exchange program now being set up by the city's Department of Sanitation, with Mr. Okun as consultant. It also evolved, from its early focus on traditionally def... |
943084_0 | New Carnegie Director | Bruce Coppock, executive director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed deputy director of Carnegie Hall, effective Dec. 1. Mr. Coppock, 46, previously served as manager of the St. Louis Symphony. He was a founder of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and was director of orchestra activities and chairm... |
943846_0 | Marching Lessons in Ulster | Northern Ireland is two weeks into its annual marching season, a ritual of confrontation commemorating 17th-century Protestant military victories over Catholic forces. These martial parades, which pass provocatively through Catholic neighborhoods, have often ignited sectarian violence. This year's season started out fo... |
946360_7 | Eclectic Mix Of Ontario Inns | collection of oatmeal-colored stone buildings clustered along the Grand River just as it dives into the Elora Gorge. Now that its river-powered mills are no more, the village's 20th-century raison d'etre is the beauty of the 1.8-mile limestone gorge, which is lined with trails, varied by pools and rapids and surrounded... |
946394_2 | Internet Provider Emphasizes Service | to a line, so customers rarely get a busy signal. Nor are they put on hold for an hour, before they get to speak to a trouble-shooter. We have developed a strong customer support department to prevent that from happening. Our 7 technicians not only know a lot, they are trained to communicate well with customers.'' When... |
946607_0 | Protests Over Amazon Logging Are Too Hasty | To the Editor: Your July 21 news article on the Brazilian Government's decision to open the Amazon rain forest to logging presents valid aspects of the forestry challenge in the Amazon, but misses some key points. We tend to oversimplify forestry issues in terms of either destroying forests or saving them by keeping pe... |
946635_4 | Elsewhere in the World, the Right To Worship Freely Hasn't a Prayer | churches and a Buddhist temple on the East Java coast, to protest the leniency of a sentence given to a Muslim by an Indonesian judge for slandering Islam. In the course of the riots a Protestant minister, his wife and child and a church worker were burned to death. Iran. Non-Muslims may not proselytize Muslims. Muslim... |
946398_3 | A Librarian Who Puts the Fun in Reading | I would go to play with her -- she lived across the street -- she would make me wait outside her house and not allow me to step foot into her house because she was afraid that I would find a book on her shelf and that would be it for the rest of the day. We wouldn't be able to play. I loved ''Nancy Drew.'' You have to ... |
946436_3 | Disabled People Count Some Gains | ''but we will take the legal route if necessary.'' The organization also sued Pergament Home Center in Port Chester to comply with the 1990 requirements, and that action, like the one involving Larchmont, was settled out of court, with the retailer's being forced to make architectural changes. According to statistics f... |
946636_1 | Selling Alcohol Disguised As Punch | of Bevmark L.L.C., a management consulting company. For every pitch on radio or television, there's a public-service announcement reminding the public to drink responsibly. ''They're stepping on the gas pedal and the brake at the same time,'' Mr. Pirko said. Not that there aren't plenty of alcohol innovators out there ... |
942049_1 | It's Awful! It's Terrible! It's . . . Never Mind | of our attention is placed on that, we're not understanding the full problem.'' The tale of the predatory males is just one example of what has become a disquieting trend. Call it the ''whoops factor,'' a phenomenon that starts with shoddy research or the misinterpretation of solid research, moves on quickly to public ... |
942035_0 | Education, Not Glamour | To the Editor: There are at least three lessons in all the data about today's job market for college graduates: First, parents do not complain when their child graduates into a job paying $30,000 to $40,000 a year, considering that four years earlier, that child's skills were worth only $5 an hour. Second, most univers... |
941750_1 | For Richer, for Poorer | professional football players, 241 baseball players and a collection of inventors, entertainers, entrepreneurs, financial wizards and heirs. Just under them come America's richest professionals -- the top 1 percent of all earners, with yearly incomes starting at $200,000 -- featuring not only star doctors and lawyers b... |
941815_4 | The Bygone Romance Of Taming the Rivers | stretched 4,290 feet across the Columbia River and created a 150-mile-long lake as its reservoir. It opened in 1942 and for some time was the world's single most powerful source of electricity. Woody Guthrie wrote a song in its praise. It is now hard to imagine a folk singer waxing rhapsodic about the control of nature... |
942034_0 | Education, Not Glamour | To the Editor: ''For This We Sent You to College?'' (June 8) showed that there are a lot of jobs out there for a college graduate, although they may fall below expectations in regard to glamour and remuneration. But what should we expect from our institutions of higher learning, and what is our collective notion of ''w... |
942117_2 | British Troops Deploy in Ulster Town for a Protestant Parade | and Protestant leaders together to work out a compromise. At Drumcree, soldiers of the British Army, which has 18,000 troops in Northern Ireland, patrolled roads and hills in full-combat uniform, some in armored vehicles. They were assisted by the police, who were not yet wearing the new flame-resistant uniforms purcha... |
941866_0 | Yes, Electric Boat's Giving Stuff Away | THE newest additions to the Mystic Seaport Museum are not whaling ships or sidewheel steamers, but models of some of the most modern ships in the world: the nuclear submarines Hartford, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, which represent the latest classes of ship constructed by Electric Boat in Groton. ''We'll be putting t... |
941480_3 | With the Old Hatreds, Ulster Faces New Marching Season | of the two policemen here. The gunmen's choice of a village in the midst of the major marching activity was seen as an effort to provoke a violent response from the Protestants, or loyalists as they are called in Northern Ireland, in the same way Catholics are referred to as nationalists. In last year's confrontation t... |
941398_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths DAUER, ALICE CHAPMAN | DAUER-Alice Chapman. President of the Mark Twain Assoc. of NY passed away Tuesday, July 1, after a short illness, regretfully leaving brothers, nephew and sister-in-law and many good friends. |
946047_2 | In Ulster Drama, a U.S. Player Is Hopeful About Peace | talks, even though it didn't agree with the Governments' proposal on decommissioning,'' as disarmament is called here. The Unionists wanted the I.R.A. to start to disarm once the talks reconvened. The proposal they rejected on Wednesday said only that disarmament would be discussed during the talks, with no guarantee t... |
946013_5 | France Snips at the Old Ties That Bind It to Africa | personal contacts at the top level.'' But this view has not been universally shared. In 1990 another expert, the writer Erik Arnoult, wrote in a memorandum for Mr. Mitterrand that the results of French policy in Africa had been ''catastrophic'' in all but one of the 35 French-speaking countries on the continent, the ex... |
946797_0 | Ancient Library Yields History, Not Gossip | To the Editor: Your July 23 editorial ''The Lost Vesuvian Library'' describes the majority of the scrolls found at Herculaneum as ''the dull treatises of an obscure Greek philosopher, Philodemus.'' O.K., so finding the treatises of Philodemus might not compare to unearthing a lost play of Aeschylus, but it's still not ... |
946820_0 | Basque Web Site Suspended After Protests | An Internet service provider that specializes in working with human rights, peace and labor groups came under a barrage of electronic protest earlier this month, a protest that culminated in computerized sabotage, forcing the organization to suspend a client's World Wide Web site. The Web site provided a sympathetic ac... |
945454_1 | New Truce, New Questions | process. Martin McGuinness, the chief negotiator of Sinn Fein, said on Sunday that the I.R.A. would not surrender ''a single bullet.'' It was this concern that took David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, the largest Protestant party in Northern Ireland, to 10 Downing Street today for a tense meeting with Tony B... |
945461_2 | Moderate Bishop Elected To Lead Episcopal Church | be open to everyone, absolutely everyone.'' Bishop Griswold is known as a supporter of the ordination of women as priests. When he was elected as Chicago's bishop in 1985, the diocese had no female clergy members. It now has 41, out of a total of 146 priests. He has also said that his diocese has a number of gay priest... |
945413_4 | Scientists Explore the Remotest Frontier, Just Off New Jersey | ship. Eugene C. Pollard, the ship's drilling superintendent, helps the co-chiefs sink their holes in sensible places. The current voyage has had its share of technical problems. The topdrive, which spins the drill string, has acted up twice. Fat wedges of sand, New Jersey's missing beaches of millions of years ago, lie... |
945489_5 | U.S. ASSAILS CHINA OVER SUPPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS LIFE | In Iran, the report says, official oppression of evangelical Christians increased in 1996, while four Bahais remain in prison under death sentences, convicted of apostasy. In Israel, Jehovah's Witnesses have been harassed and attacked, and they and the Unification Church are banned in Singapore. In Saudi Arabia, freedo... |
945450_0 | Hurricane People | For two days at our home on Mobile Bay we have watched Hurricane Danny's winds thrashing the oak trees, pounding the wharves, turning walls into instruments that whistle and moan. Power gone, we eat sandwiches by candlelight, play board games and listen to our transistor radio, that lowliest of technological devices. M... |
947421_2 | Building on a Shaky Foundation | drags on into the fall. He wants the project to flourish in the long run. The authority, on the other hand, is worried that if it does not sell the site quickly, the surging real estate market could falter, forcing it to accept a lower price. Even when state and city grudgingly get along, others -- particularly develop... |
941334_3 | Most Radio News of Roads Comes From 2 Services | 1995, the latest year available, from 971,000 in 1986. In the first three months of 1997 alone, some 850,000 more cars used the six crossings managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey than in the same period in 1996. Officials ascribe the change to improved economic activity. ''If we can increase the lev... |
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