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941274_7 | In Italy's Piracy Culture, Black Market Is Thriving | like viruses, lack of guarantees, damage to your image,'' said Nuria Vea, a former Microsoft executive and the president of the Italian branch of the Business Software Alliance, an industry group. Mr. Mazza's organization, the Federation Against Musical Piracy, was set up last year by the International Federation of th... |
941313_5 | NEWS SUMMARY | participants demanding to form a union. The group sought to present the 13,000 signatures to Giuliani administration officials, but said the city refused to accept them. B1 Du Pont Settles Pollution Suit More than 400 current and former inhabitants of Du Pont Village near Pompton Lakes, N.J., are sharing in a $38.5 mil... |
941315_4 | Big Study Sees No Evidence Power Lines Cause Leukemia | walls of the house.'' Add to that the fear that ''it does terrible things to children,'' and you have a substance that ''taps into our primal fears,'' he said. Dr. Linet said she did not start the study with her mind made up. ''This was the situation we found ourselves in the late 1980's,'' she said. ''A variety of stu... |
941276_2 | The Ingress And Egress Traffic Cop | there, the principal traffic cop had summoned reporters from three other newspapers to his private precinct house. ''My parking space had nothing to do with it,'' he said. ''I'm always going to have my parking space. Nobody argues with me.'' He was sitting in the V.I.P. lot Tuesday afternoon, he insisted, because he ha... |
942609_2 | 2 Popular Diet Pills Linked to Problems With Heart Valves | drug, ergotamine, for long periods. Ergotamine mimics serotonin. Common antidepressants like Prozac increase serotonin levels, but not to levels anything like that seen with tumors or ergotamine, said Dr. Isner, a cardiology professor at Tufts Medical School. A report describing the new findings was to have been publis... |
942625_1 | Gigante Lawyers Say U.S. Saw Another as Genovese Boss | he has not been linked to the crimes charged by firsthand testimony. But other men whom the agent identified as Genovese family mobsters are heard referring to Mr. Gigante by his nickname, Chin, in connection with various money-making deals and with the chance of arrests. And in an excerpt from a conversation in May 19... |
942164_1 | Are 'synergistic potentiators' one of the four basic food groups? What does it take to sell peaches? | a Diet ought to list as an ingredient ''synergistic potentiators''? *Are the Seagram Company and the TBWA Chiat/Day unit of Omnicom Group aware that a new series of print advertisements for Absolut Kurant currant-flavored vodka, which feature trendy fashions under the headline ''Absolut Au Kurant,'' have led some drink... |
942163_0 | 200 Catholics Hauled Away In Ulster Before Parade | Policemen dragged about 200 Roman Catholic demonstrators off the road in front of their homes early this morning to clear the way for a Protestant parade that had threatened to become a flash point of serious sectarian violence. The parade took place early this afternoon, with some stone-throwing but no major bloodshed... |
943687_0 | End Sugar's Sweet Deal | The House will vote again soon on whether to eliminate loan subsidies that keep sugar prices high while fostering destruction of the Florida Everglades. A bipartisan proposal sponsored by Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Dan Miller, Republican of Florida, to phase out sugar subsidies barely lost last year. It... |
943690_0 | How Giuliani Has Recycled A Trash Battle | OVER the last three and a half years, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has all but accomplished the impossible with curbside recycling. During his tenure, the Mayor has repeatedly cut the program's budget, curtailed the number of pickups and generally pooh-poohed the concerns of anxious environmentalists. Yet, at the same tim... |
946184_0 | Bambi the Pest | When Walt Disney released the animated fable ''Bambi'' in 1942, there were approximately 500,000 white-tailed deer in the United States. Now, with no natural predators, severe restrictions on hunting and an abundance of new habitat on the edges of forest clearings, there are more deer in the U.S. than when the Pilgrims... |
946222_2 | An F.D.A. Panel Approves a New Biotechnology Drug | assumed Rituxan would be approved and had bid up the price in advance. ''A lot of physicians had already seen the data at scientific meetings and they feel comfortable with it,'' said Michael Sheffery, an analyst with Mehta & Isaly. He estimated that the drug would have at least $200 million in annual sales in the Unit... |
945319_0 | The I.R.A. Cease-Fire | The Irish Republican Army's decision to resume its cease-fire yesterday brings Northern Ireland closer than it has ever been to meaningful peace talks that will include all major Catholic and Protestant parties. But that result is not yet assured. The I.R.A. must scrupulously maintain its cease-fire through the start o... |
945296_0 | Belfast Takes Time To Smell the Roses Under I.R.A. Truce | As the new Irish Republican Army cease-fire went into effect at noon today, hundreds of Roman Catholics and Protestants strolled among the fragrant flowers in the Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Rose Garden on the edge of Belfast. Their children, warned not to touch the flowers, did cartwheels on the grass. A string quartet ... |
945275_0 | New Auto Pollution Device To Block Gasoline Vapors | Several million cars will go on sale this autumn with a costly new pollution-control device that will make it harder to fill the gas tank at some service stations and may pose a safety risk. The new device is designed to capture the gasoline vapors that occupy a mostly empty gas tank and are usually pushed out into the... |
945272_1 | To Fight Outlaws, Brazil Opens Rain Forest to Loggers | next. The contracts will run for a year. The environmental agency selected these areas for logging because it has complete inventories on all the trees there. Mr. Martins said that loggers who obtain the concessions would be subject to limits on the amount extracted and other rules that would insure that the same fores... |
943557_0 | Flight 800: Mystery Remains, but Inquiry Has Brought Change | The crash could not have been more horrific: a 170-ton airplane with 230 people aboard exploding, splitting in two and plunging into the Atlantic Ocean within sight of Long Island beaches. But so far investigators have not turned up a definitive cause that matches the enormity of the crash. There was no physical eviden... |
943221_0 | Small Craft Warning | SEA CHANGE Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat. By Peter Nichols. 238 pp. New York: Viking. $23.95. On tropical vacations we've all envied those people who have seemingly perfect carefree lives, sleeping and eating on their boats and making money at odd jobs that more often than not involve sailing boats to and ... |
943559_4 | Plugged-In Nation Goes on Vacations In a New Territory | since I had to disturb him for something as mundane as going to the toilet,'' said Mr. Umashankar. Whatever high-technology civilities vacationers do or do not observe in the presence of others, though, the toughest conflicts are typically within themselves. On a recent trip to Montreal, Cheryl Moreau, 38, who lives in... |
943524_2 | Province Tense, but Protestants March Undisturbed in Belfast | in four towns had agreed, in an unprecedented move of conciliation, based partly on fear of Catholic attacks, not to march through areas where Catholic residents do not want them. The province breathed a collective sigh of relief, hoping that the parade-related violence might abate. A week ago, a Protestant parade thro... |
943307_0 | WESTCHESTER BRIEFS | Indian Point 3 Cleared The New York Power Authority has reported that after two years of sustained improvement, its much criticized Indian Point 3 Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan has been removed from the United State Nuclear Regulatory Commission's watch list of plants that require special oversight. Four years ago, t... |
944648_0 | Technology's Towers Invade the Forest | Of all the emblems of the modern economy now invading rural America -- freeways, strip malls, giant subdivisions -- none seemed so benign as the electronic cottage. Urban professionals who migrated to the country thought they could stay in touch with the urban world through phone, fax and Internet without disturbing th... |
944675_0 | Corrections | A brief report in Business Day on Tuesday about the sale of a unit of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's Engineered Products division described the unit incorrectly. The company is selling its engineered composite business, which makes products like exterior body panels for cars and trucks; it is keeping its busine... |
944655_0 | SINN FEIN LEADER SAYS HE EXPECTS I.R.A. CEASE-FIRE | Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, said today that he had urged the guerrilla group to resume the cease-fire it abandoned last year and that he expected a positive and prompt reply. A credible resolve by the I.R.A. to halt its terror attacks is a condition set by t... |
944693_0 | For Episcopalians, Debate on Women | When the Episcopal Church began a 10-day meeting of the General Convention, its top legislative body, in Philadelphia on Wednesday, its leaders gathered as a church where women are ever more visible. Seven women now sit among the church's 200 bishops; there were none a decade ago. About 12 percent of 11,000 Episcopal p... |
919482_2 | Electronic Discovery Proves an Effective Legal Weapon | custody of its hard drives. The plaintiff hired a computer expert to pick through the hard drives for anything that could prove the defendant stole proprietary information. The case came to an abrupt halt early this year after copies of internal memorandums were presented as exhibits in depositions of the defendant's p... |
919527_3 | Heaven's Gate Fit In With New Mexico's Offbeat Style | that he believes the cult had planned to build an elaborate commune. He said the group had sold him the 40-acre site in April 1996 without giving a reason, just 10 months after they had bought it. He also said they had told him that they had planned to construct a bakery, pharmacy, lookout tower, ''nutrilab'' and ''con... |
914492_4 | The Age Boom | barely 2.0, and it has been below the replacement rate for 30 years. The figure in China is 1.8. Couples in Japan are typically having 1.5 children, in Germany 1.3 and in Italy and Spain, 1.2. To some people, these are alarming portents of national decline and call for pro-natalist policies. That smacks of coarse chauv... |
914396_0 | Honors for Palazzo, Roof, Preservationist | Its four-story-high mansard roof leaked, its Mission clay tiles were broken and its copper details were corroded. Years ago, its roof might have been replaced with a tacky imitation. But the very visible top of the landmark Guardian Life Building at Union Square has been restored -- and will be honored tomorrow night. ... |
914467_2 | Thailand's Struggling Lenders Put Investors on Edge | last 12 months. One paper described the Government actions as ''panicky half-measures'' and said they were no substitute for long-term planning. Financial analysts called the crisis the worst since 1983, when Thai finance companies lost a quarter of their assets. But the director of the International Monetary Fund, Mic... |
914402_2 | At a Busy Crossroads, 81 Acres Mired in Litigation | of the $1.75 billion bond issue is earmarked for land acquisition statewide. The tract is one of 90 in the state that are on a priority list to be purchased for groundwater and open space protection, and it is one of only seven on the list for Long Island. ''So the importance of acquiring this property has already been... |
914236_1 | 84 Going on 50 | the decline of olfactory cells. SKIN Recent skin-tightening techniques like ''laserbrasion,'' which vaporizes the top layer of skin without harming underlying structures, will be supplemented in the next decade or two by a variety of creams or injections containing molecules that will revitalize the skin. MUSCLES Resea... |
914255_3 | Killers Among Us | catching it are increasing. He points out that, as is well known, every species has viruses with which it is in more or less friendly equilibrium. Herpes simplex in humans is relatively benign, usually producing no more than mild facial ''cold'' sores in a minority of those infected, and most people are infected. Such ... |
914284_3 | Practical Geriatrics for an Aging Nation | If the problems are complex we have the patient return a second or third time. We arrange for all the involved family members to be present and we separate; a case manager will meet privately with the family to discuss issues that they are not comfortable bringing up in the presence of the patient. And we sit with the ... |
918674_0 | Politicians and Children | To the Editor: There is irony in a comparison of two March 24 news articles -- one on budget cuts in long-term care for disabled children and the other a discussion of whether fund-raising for the Clinton campaign broke any laws. How incongruous that while funds are being cut from effective programs for poor handicappe... |
914571_1 | Web Transforms World of Personnel | dealing with topics from the minimum wage to the Family and Medical Leave Act. The pension search feature is a valuable tool for those who believe they are owed a pension by a former employer. A site available off the Labor Department's Web page is that of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It has the l... |
914571_2 | Web Transforms World of Personnel | former employer. A site available off the Labor Department's Web page is that of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It has the latest changes in the law, links to safety and health sites, and an interactive ''asbestos adviser.'' For a more academic approach, visit the site of Cornell University's School... |
916282_2 | BellSouth leads the way as local telephone companies step up spending on campaigns. | the long-distance companies, when they come into the region, are going to spend a lot of money in advertising,'' Mr. Pate said. ''We are going to make sure those companies can't come in and buy our customers.'' BellSouth has already signed three-year sponsorship agreements with the Atlanta Braves, the Florida Marlins a... |
918121_1 | After Accident, Japan Rethinks Its Nuclear Hopes | Suzuki, professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Tokyo. A seeming comedy of errors in responding to the fire and informing the public was more disturbing to some than the amount of radiation released. The missteps were committed by the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, a Government-ru... |
913222_1 | Nuclear Waste Convoy Stirs Angry Protests in Germany | the occasion as a pretext for violent confrontation. Nonetheless, the protest against the train and road convoy, which carried nuclear waste from several German power stations and from a reprocessing plant at La Hague in France, is also depicted by environmentalists as a reflection of broad opposition in Germany to nuc... |
913118_6 | Drug Researchers Working To Design Customized Estrogen | an estrogen, simply by changing the levels of co-activators and co-repressors. The relative amounts of co-activators and co-repressors in a given tissue can vary from woman to woman, affecting each woman's sensitivity to the stimulatory effects of estrogenic substances, Dr. O'Malley said. Thus, tamoxifen may protect th... |
913258_2 | Keeping Cocaine Resilient: Low Cost and High Profit | the trail sprouts new paths, means of transport and markets when the old ones are attacked. Donald Ferrarone, the special agent in charge of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration field office in Houston, has seen cocaine flowing in for years. ''The only difference,'' Mr. Ferrarone said, ''is the intensity is more... |
916711_2 | U.S. Says Mental Impairment Might Be a Bar to Citizenship | Committee, said yesterday that proposals to restore benefits are simply too costly. He said he favors a two- or three-year block grant to states to help elderly and disabled immigrants who lose their Federal benefits. His spokeswoman, Donna Boyer, acknowledged: ''It would be a Band-Aid approach. It would not permanentl... |
916776_0 | NASA Plans to Study Forests and Global Gravity | The space agency announced today that it would sponsor two low-cost satellite projects to study the distribution of Earth's forests and provide a detailed map of the planet's gravity field. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said the new economical projects, part of the agency's Mission to Planet E... |
916683_3 | New Jersey Is Seen as a Model for the Success of Immigrants | of New Jersey,'' he said. The high education levels of New Jersey's immigrants has helped them adapt successfully to the job market and win rapidly rising wages in the 1980's. Seven out of 10 Asian immigrants in the state have attended college, compared with slightly more than 5 out of 10 Asian immigrants nationally. A... |
918343_3 | In Cellular Phone Era, Receivers Are Hidden All Over | that had placed the antenna. Since the purpose complied with the health standards set by the 1996 Federal Telecommunications Act, city officials told them, the contract was purely a matter between the landlord and the wireless company. At the Manhattan co-op, Sprint has declared that its contract is valid and that it w... |
913419_1 | An Atomic Age Eden (but Don't Eat the Coconuts) | of islands scattered in the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Some 19 ships, including the only divable aircraft carrier in the world, lie at the bottom of the lagoon, where they sank after the United States tested what would happen to big ships when an atomic bomb exploded nearby. (They sink.) Most atolls in the Pacif... |
913347_4 | Alzheimer Studies Thwarted | in the brain, including its role in regulating the proteins that end up as brain-destroying plaques in Alzheimer patients and its ability to increase cerebral blood flow and the use of glucose, brain energy source. Even in a healthy brain, estrogen can improve cognitive function, Dr. Henderson said. Dr. Buckwalter repo... |
913387_2 | Kingsley Davis, 88, Who Told Of 'Zero Population Growth' | settling down at the University of California at Berkeley in 1955 for a 22-year run followed by 13 years at the University of Southern California with a parallel appointment at Hoover, and then his retirement in 1992. His 1947 book ''Human Relationships,'' was long a standard sociology text. But Dr. Davis established h... |
915885_5 | Citizenship Wars | has argued that nothing matters but his foreign conviction and his failure to note it as a crime on his tourist visa in 1990. ''We expect individuals to answer questions truthfully,''said Russell A Bergeron, a spokesman for the agency. ''The determination of whether that conviction is a crime or an act of political opp... |
915980_7 | Blowing the Whistle, and Now Facing the Music | hiring and promoting minorities, he said he came to believe that the company's policies seemed designed to fail. A trip to a convention sponsored by a national association of black M.B.A.'s held promise, but nothing came of it. ''We came back with a stack of resumes that would knock your socks off,'' Mr. Lundwall said.... |
916057_0 | T.W.A. Inquiry Explores Likely And Farfetched | With the most promising explanations for the mid-air explosion of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 becoming increasingly difficult to prove, the eight-month investigation has turned into a nationwide scientific exploration of all conceivable theories, including such remote possibilities as the plane being destroyed by d... |
916033_6 | Pollution Drives Away Neighborhood and Trust | kitchen tables and in church parking lots than in doctors' offices, fueled more by doubt and fear than medical science. Doctors who interviewed residents last year did not find any firm connection between exposure to PCB's and health problems. ''We just don't know,'' said one of the physicians, Dr. Michael Mueller, an ... |
915844_0 | THERE'S NOTHING CONSERVATIVE ABOUT THE CLASSICS REVIVAL | Garry Wills's splendid article vividly recalled my experience teaching Euripides in the early 1960's (''There's Nothing Conservative About the Classics Revival,'' Feb. 16). I was fresh out of graduate school, where of course we had studied Euripides. For most of us, though, he evoked less enthusiasm than did Aeschylus ... |
916001_1 | Better Schools, Uncertain Returns | is,'' said Mike Rose, an education professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. ''If you look at 100 years of industrial history, there's nothing close to the one-to-one link between education and the economy that we assume today. I think the way we think about education is terribly constrained by the assu... |
917956_0 | Long-Term Care Is Reduced Under Managed Care Programs | Three-year-old Samantha can say about 10 words. She can say ''stuck,'' as she tries to slide out of her wheelchair on her powerless legs. Peppy and playful now, Samantha started coming to the Children's Therapy Clinic here in the winter of 1996 with a range of disabilities that seemed to preclude any thought that she w... |
917967_0 | Schumer Criticizes Pataki's Plan to Increase Tuition at Public Colleges | Already pressed for money, Harry Daguizam, a student at Hunter College in Manhattan, says that Gov. George E. Pataki's proposed $400 tuition increase for New York's public colleges may force him to delay plans to attend law school. ''The City University of New York was created for students who couldn't afford to go to ... |
917449_3 | A Hip-Swaying State-Sponsored Export | 10 years is a result of these schools. The world, except for the United States, is catching on. Magic Music's growth is doubling yearly, and one of its artists, Lucretia, who now lives in Spain, has been snapped up by MCA, the multinational label. Another small label specializing in Cuban music, Caribe Records, which i... |
917683_5 | Tour de New York | to the rider's exact body type. Among cyclists, ''fit'' continues to be a subject of much academic debate, with esoteric theories and arcane mathematics used to determine the perfect relationship of frame, seat and handlebars to legs, neck and back. But the wrong fit will mean a far-from-academic reduction in performan... |
918887_3 | Honeymoon's Over For the Marrying Man | last week that they misspoke earlier: they had not required visas before March, but started doing so because they suspected many of the weddings they were performing were fraudulent, arranged for immigration purposes. He said the clerk's office simply sought to require what at least two other city and state agencies re... |
918903_0 | I.R.A. Admits It Planted 2 Bombs in England | The Irish Republican Army acknowledged today that it had detonated two bombs on Wednesday in northwestern England. The incidents were widely seen as an I.R.A. effort to remind the public and political leaders that it was still capable of violent attacks during the British parliamentary campaign leading up to the electi... |
914770_0 | No Headline | ''The finds are opening up a whole new world of real piracy that belies the stories. Pirates were nowhere near the monsters they were made out to be.'' PHILIP MASTERS, the head of a team that recently discovered the remains of a pirate ship. $(C1$) |
914749_0 | Archeologists Revise Portrait Of Buccaneers As Monsters | PIRATES are often pictured as inhuman devils, quick to maim and kill in pursuit of treasure. They fired broadsides into hapless merchant ships, sent captives down the plank and took grim pleasure in torturing victims and even one another. Blackbeard was said to discipline his crew with his bare fists and to have forced... |
914758_4 | I'm a Hot Potato,' Says a Cuban Who Found a New Career (and Old Politics) in the U.S. | Castro, always the fundamental issue in Cuban Miami. Hecklers would shout, ''How many times did you play that one for Fidel?'' and she would answer: ''One time too many. That's why I'm here.'' One recent day, Manuel Trinidad, 29, an airport shuttle driver, spied one of her albums and broke into a rendition of an Albita... |
914722_2 | As More Sharks Wind Up on Plates, Need for Protection Rises | National Marine Fisheries Service, which is expected to issue a final rule within weeks, the fishing industry has argued that the tightening is premature because populations of these sharks may have already stabilized or even begun to recover since quotas and other controls were first imposed in 1993. ''Patience is tru... |
914719_1 | Q&A | if the building was swaying. Is this an illusion? A. The building does move, but the motion is a very slight bending, only about a quarter of an inch, in winds of more than 75 miles an hour. The illusion of a larger motion probably has to do with wind-whipped clouds; an observer on the ground can see a tall building ap... |
919330_0 | The West's Debt to Byzantium | Although not intended by its sponsors, and not noticed by most visitors, there is a fascinating political subtext to ''The Glory of Byzantium,'' the Metropolitan Museum's sumptuous new show about Byzantine culture at its peak, from the 9th century to the 13th. (The show ends in July.) You might think this celebration o... |
919267_0 | Biotechnology: Ways to Rein in the Risks | LAST month's successful cloning of a sheep immediately sent the stock of PPL Therapeutics, the start-up company in Edinburgh that has the technology rights, up more than 16 percent in London. And the stock of Genzyme Transgenics, which, like PPL, wants eventually to extract valuable drugs from the milk of genetically p... |
919034_1 | Salonika | 15th century, settling in such large numbers that for a time the city was known as a ''second Jerusalem'' -- until World War II when the Jewish community was annihilated by Nazi occupiers. A fire in 1917 and an earthquake in 1978 did much to destroy the city's multicultural character to the point where now, with the ex... |
919079_4 | Caring for the Grandchildren | interest in a project involving children and the elderly, and at about the same time, Ms. Banquer read in a publication of the American Association of Retired Persons that an estimated 3.2 million children in the United States live in their grandparents' homes. She wondered if the local situation would mirror the natio... |
913995_3 | Beliefs | technically unfeasible. Ethicists also shied away from the question because in scientific and medical circles, cloning was often viewed more as a plot device for B movies about mad scientists, than as a legitimate pursuit. In setting the issue aside, bioethicists seemed to be deferring to a view long nurtured among sci... |
914026_2 | Michael Manley, Ex-Premier of Jamaica, Is Dead at 72 | in December 1951, Mr. Manley quickly became involved in the trade union movement, focusing his efforts on improving salaries and living conditions for the island's sugar and bauxite workers. In 1962, when Jamaica achieved independence from Britain, he was appointed to the Senate; five years later, he was elected to Par... |
912521_3 | On the Neptune, Three Years Under Sail | reports of ''Sandwich Island girl disease.'' An engraving by the British artist John Webber, who had sailed with Captain Cook in the 1770's, shows Hawaiian canoes meeting a ship, just as the American logs describe it. Canton was the next and most important stop, the only Chinese port open to Westerners. Their trade was... |
912842_2 | China and Red Cross Agree To New Talks on Jail Visits | to April 18. In six out of the last seven years, the United States has co-sponsored a resolution calling for an investigation into China's human rights record. Each time, China has defeated the resolution in the 53-nation forum. Other elements of the deal would require that China release a list of eight political priso... |
912462_1 | A Brazilian Wetland, Burgeoning With Wildlife | natural bounty belongs to the Pantanal, a vast wetland stretching over Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay - in Brazil it occupies more than 50,000 square miles in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. From Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, the Pantanal might seem the kind of place one would go to find tranquillity: on... |
912616_0 | The Height of Absurdity | DEAR CONCERNED CITIZEN: Brooke Astor and her Park Avenue friends hope you don't read this letter. The don'ts want you to hear this message because it just might make you stand up for what's right! I know you're tired of fund-raising letters. I'd rather not add to the pile, but I have no choice. An enormous radio twoer ... |
912683_0 | Innovations for Cars of the Near-Future | WHAT does the future hold for the automobile? Bits and pieces of tomorrow's technologies were on display here last week at the conference of the Society of Automotive Engineers, whose members determine the direction of personal transportation here and abroad. The conference draws nearly 50,000 automotive engineers, aut... |
912490_3 | Zipping Through Customs Check | computer checked in advance 201 names of the 240 passengers from Hong Kong and Tokyo. This APIS, or Advance Passenger Information System, works by comparing biographical details with the record, said Vincent DiGilio, a supervisory Customs inspector in the passenger analysis unit at Kennedy. This advance-information sys... |
912564_0 | Students Off to See Costa Rica Rain Forest | WENDY WELSHANS, a woman with an adventurous spirit, is taking 11 students from Litchfield on a 12-day expedition to Costa Rica's rain forest on Friday. Ms. Welshans, an environmental science teacher at the Forman School, says that ''educating people about rain forests is an important mission'' and that ''the kids can r... |
912652_2 | The Anatomy of a 'People Building' | since 1993. People dine out on the ground floor, work out on the second floor, rebuild antique violins or peruse contemporary art on the third floor, sell furniture on the fourth floor, archive countless hours of film and video on the fifth floor and devise marketing campaigns or give out $14 million a year in grants o... |
913639_0 | U.S.-Canadian Split on Cuba Tangles Wal-Mart's Pajamas | The battle to undermine the only Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere -- Fidel Castro's Cuba -- has spread to the pajama department at the Wal-Mart in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Late last week, a Canadian customer rummaging through the store's racks discovered that the Arkansas-based retailer was trafficking in Cuban-ma... |
918507_4 | Gore in China: Still No Break in the Political Wall | China's heavily policed one-party state, ''democracy'' is a valid description of the village chief selection process, or that the Communist Party leadership is inclined to allow democratic rule in any locality for the foreseeable future. Indeed, the debate among scholars is whether village elections represent a progres... |
918572_0 | Hip Fractures Kill | To the Editor: Dr. Susan Love's diatribe against the evils of estrogen and the conspiracy of the greedy drug companies (Op-Ed, March 20) requires a response. I am board certified in internal medicine with extra credentials in geriatric medicine. Do I have an agenda? You bet. Is it as informed as Dr. Love's? I think so.... |
918459_1 | What to Do When a Child Should Do Better but Can't | is part of the reason so many are not identified. Smart children who lag in school are often labeled underachievers, behavior problems or just lazy. The disorder itself is imprecisely understood. There is no simple way to identify a learning-disabled child, and once the diagnosis is made, there is often disagreement ov... |
918570_0 | Soy Milk, Anyone? | To the Editor; All praise to Dr. Susan Love (Op-Ed, March 20) for her balanced consideration of the estrogen replacement therapies. When drug companies and complacent physicians push them with the gusto of crack dealers, women's health care is in grave trouble. Equally culpable is a media only too happy to pass along n... |
918539_0 | U.S. Rebuffed in Global Proposal For Eavesdropping on the Internet | In a setback for the Clinton Administration that demonstrates the difficulty of setting global policies for the Internet, the leading industrial nations have declined to embrace a United States proposal to allow computer eavesdropping by the world's law enforcement agencies. The United States proposal, backed by Britai... |
918568_0 | Women Who Use Estrogen Reduce Cardiac Risk | To the Editor: Dr. Susan Love (Op-Ed, March 20) presents a distorted picture of the health effects of postmenopausal hormones. She quotes as ''definitive'' the findings of an increased risk of breast cancer from the Nurses' Health Study, for which I am a researcher. However, she fails to point out that the same study a... |
918571_0 | Acceptance as Medicine | To the Editor: Dr. Susan Love's March 20 Op-Ed article on menopause reminds me of how lucky I was when I went through that phase. My doctor told me that he could give me estrogen but that there were side effects and, in his words, ''I'd rather see you tough it out.'' I did that, albeit with some of the usual uncomforta... |
918569_0 | No Super-Babes | To the Editor: Hurrah to Dr. Susan Love for taking the hype out of hormone replacement therapy! Twenty years ago, when I went through premature menopause, I decided not to take hormones. I've never regretted my decision. Contrary to what pharmaceutical companies maintain, I haven't turned into a prune, my bones haven't... |
916880_0 | Sometimes Mother Nature Knows Best | Just as the baby boomers hit middle age, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession have discovered a new disease: menopause, or as it is called clinically, estrogen deficiency disease. That this diagnosis automatically applies to the 40 million women turning 50 over the next decade doesn't seem to bother t... |
916920_0 | Sleeker Design for Staten Island Ferry Terminal Is Unveiled | The gigantic clock is out. The electronic message board, no more. Instead, the city's Economic Development Corporation has proposed that the new Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan be a sleek, simple glass-walled building. The new design calls for a 19,000-square-foot structure to replace the existing build... |
916518_3 | Not All Presidential Advisers Talk Politics | focuses ''almost exclusively'' on policy issues. The sermons Mr. Clinton hears most often these days are preached by the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, which the President and his wife frequently attend. Despite the attention that Mr. Schuller has drawn since the State ... |
914971_3 | Japan Worries About a Trend: Crime by Chinese | and is a very worrisome situation now.'' For the first time, too, boats from China are boldly making their way to the eastern Japanese shores near Tokyo and are undertaking the weeklong journey in winter, when the seas are particularly rough. Japanese coastal patrols are increasingly spotting small, rusty boats slippin... |
923389_1 | America's trade gap is (1) a disaster (2) a sign of success. | eye. In part, it follows from Beijing's desire to amass foreign currency reserves on the eve of the takeover of Hong Kong. More important, suggests Nicholas R. Lardy of the Brookings Institution, it comes when China is inheriting export markets from the more productive, higher-wage economies of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South... |
923393_0 | China Jails Audio and Movie Disk Pirates | As part of a nationwide crackdown on the illegal copying of movies and music, the Supreme People's Court of China has announced heavy prison sentences in two prominent cases of copyright piracy, the country's official news media reported today. China's previous failure to prosecute copyright pirates has been a sticking... |
925313_0 | Needless Import Quota | To the Editor: Your April 20 editorial ''The 50-Year War on the Everglades'' may actually understate the factor by which United States sugar prices are inflated by the Government's import quota, and leaves out the price that consumers must pay for this ''welfare for the rich'' program, in addition to whatever damage is... |
925261_0 | Pregnant At 63? Why Not? | To any middle-aged mother, having a baby at age 63 probably seems like a colossally bad idea. Imagine the constant backache at that age, the 2 A.M. feedings and the endless diaper changes. Didn't nature arrange for us to stop doing this sort of thing after our mid-40's? But nature has been overruled. It has recently be... |
925219_1 | Using Cellular Phones May Add to Road Risks | to be safer than hand-held telephones,'' it found. Cell phones may not cause crashes, but talking on one may reduce the ability of a driver to compensate for the mistakes of other drivers, researchers said. If true, that would contradict years of efforts by cellular companies, which have built telephones with speakers ... |
925233_0 | France Signals Its Displeasure At U.S. Over Cuba Trade Policy | France's conservative Government may be facing elections May 25 and June 1, but today it left no one in doubt about what it thought of American legislative attempts to discourage investments in Cuba. Franck Borotra, the country's Minister of Industry, Posts and Telecommunications, sent out invitations to selected guest... |
920380_7 | A Felon's Donation to Democrats Was Sought in Cuba, Inquiry Says | extremely few exceptions. The embargo was strengthened in 1992 to prohibit subsidiaries of American companies from doing business in Cuba, and it was tightened again last year to, among other points, punish foreign companies that use property that the Government confiscated after President Castro seized power in 1959. ... |
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