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921579_5 | Ukraine Staggers on Path to the Free Market | in modernizing the rundown plant, and 1,100 workers now are unemployed. A press spokesman declined to discuss the reasons for the company's departure from Ukraine. The beneficiaries of the decree are domestic sugar beet growers, inefficient state-owned operations, in which Government officials have economic interests, ... |
921594_3 | Chief Seeks Harmony, for Now, As He Tries to Cut Labor Costs | to be calibrated as precisely as a jet-engine blade. And thus far, his actions and words have led to remarkable progress: US Airways is more prosperous than ever, with record profits of $263.4 million last year. Still, it is always easier to get concessions from labor in times of crisis, so the hard part for Mr. Wolf m... |
920143_1 | Business Linked to Berries Is Not New to Controversy | The company said it had learned that Andrew & Williamson inaccurately described some of the strawberries as having been grown and processed in the United States, as required by the Department of Agriculture school lunch program. In fact, some of the berries were grown in Mexico and processed in the United States, Epito... |
920055_0 | Unleashing the Poison That Floods From Anger | BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER Stories By Robert Stone 222 pages. Houghton Mifflin Company. $24. Rage is the wind that blows bitterly through the seven powerful short stories written by Robert Stone from 1969 to the present and collected here in a volume named for the longest piece, ''Bear and His Daughter.'' It is a rage somet... |
924603_2 | After Four Centuries, Still Gaining Devotees | students to take it,'' said James Shapiro, a professor at Columbia University. ''There are two times as many students as there are seats.'' One of Professor Shapiro's students is Nomi Victor, 22, a Columbia senior from the Boston area. Her favorite among this semester's works is ''Troilus and Cressida,'' inspired by Ho... |
926219_2 | Companies Go on Line To Trim Costs and Find Ways to Make Money, Too | economic payoff could be considerable. No wonder companies have come to view Internet technology as a communications tool that can reduce the expense of many transactions, whether buying factory equipment from outside suppliers or processing expense accounts. Various electronic systems for linking businesses have been ... |
921814_0 | No Headline | ''These are really mind-blowing pictures. How often is an ocean discovered? The last one was the Pacific by Balboa, and that was 500 years ago.'' DR. RICHARD TERRILE, a planetary scientist, on new pictures that seem to show liquid water on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. $(A23$) |
922812_0 | Doctor Tests His Prescription for Defeating I.R.A. | Dr. Joe Hendron, 63, an affable, slightly paunchy family physician, is virtually unknown outside Northern Ireland, but he is still famous in the working-class area of West Belfast as the only politician who ever defeated Gerry Adams, the leader of the Irish Republican Army's political wing. That was five years ago when... |
925449_0 | Giving Birth at 63 | The news that a 63-year-old California woman gave birth late last year has prompted calls to set a maximum age limit for women who receive treatment at fertility centers to get pregnant. While individual fertility centers can, and already do, set age limits, this is not an area that requires regulation or other governm... |
925469_1 | Rebels Force 80,000 Hutu to Flee to Jungle | had massacred refugees and even invited an international investigation to determine what had happened. He said the rebels responded with gunfire when they were attacked by armed Hutu guerrillas, and then intervened to stop skirmishes between the refugees and local villagers. ''I will accept independent findings, and if... |
924502_4 | New Plan for Rescuing the Salmon | other efforts to bring back the fish. In addition, the Army Corps of Engineers has proposed spending more than $200 million over the next five years for fish screens, new fish-collection devices, adult fish ladders, new turbines and other equipment on Snake River dams. Despite these efforts, the count of adult salmon o... |
923850_2 | Internet Access Puts Burden of Control on Schools | you set the first kid loose,'' said Dr. Roland Pare, director of information systems for Hunterdon Central, which was among the first public schools in the country to connect to the Internet. ''You can't stop them altogether from making trouble, but you need to let them know what is expected of them.'' In a three-page ... |
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926236_0 | Cuban Scientists Are Still Barred From U.S. | To the Editor: Elizardo Sanchez Santacruz (Op-Ed, April 22) has put forward several practical proposals to accelerate a peaceful transition in Cuba to a democratic and open society, including lifting restrictions on travel to Cuba by Americans. But what about the reverse? In October 1995 President Clinton announced cha... |
926324_3 | Priority on Safety Is Keeping More Children in Foster Care | for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York. ''If you have a child at risk, you have an obligation to do something. But I believe many children are removed because we have not taken the time to determine what the parents need.'' Providing families with intensive services, including therapy and drug-abuse treatm... |
924783_3 | Sharp and To the Point In Amazonia | very passionate about being right,'' he said. The Debate Did Early Americans Live in the Tropics? The early settlement of the Americas is one of the most intractable mysteries of archeology. Despite some arguable evidence for human occupation as early as 30,000 years ago, scholars can agree only that hunters were livin... |
922003_4 | Wages May Be Heading Up, But Prices Hold Their Own | expansion. The shortages that bring on inflation involve shortages of factory and office space, machinery, equipment and labor. But starting in 1994, productive capacity has been growing rapidly, matching a relatively brief spurt in the mid 1980's, and exceeding any other period since the mid-1960's. High levels of inv... |
921937_1 | I.R.A. Gunman in Londonderry Wounds Ulster Policewoman | violence over the last week in this British province has raised fears of more to come in the days before the May 1 elections. The recent violence has included the burning of three Catholic churches by Protestant thugs, arson attacks by Catholic gangs on Protestant Orange Order meeting halls, and sniper attacks on two a... |
922110_0 | Restaurants | Sitting in the silly, theatrical splendor of Torre di Pisa, I watch the man across from me take a sip of his martini. He closes his eyes, leans back and slides slowly down in the silky sofa. Soon he is snoozing at his seat. I sympathize completely: a meal at the year-and-a-half-old Torre di Pisa can be exhausting. To b... |
926522_3 | EMPLOYERS TOLD TO ACCOMMODATE THE MENTALLY ILL | making a job offer, it said, the employer may require a medical examination, including a psychiatric examination, if the company requires all newly hired employees in the same job category to have such examinations. But if the employer uses the results to screen out a person because of disability, ''the employer must p... |
926555_0 | Airlines Must Grapple With Hostile Passengers | On a crowded flight from Chicago to Las Vegas, Nev., last year, Gail Scott, an America West Airlines flight attendant, was punched and pushed to the floor by a female passenger who became irate when told there were no extra sandwiches. While the passenger was sentenced to two years' probation and 200 hours of community... |
921378_1 | Fictitious Learning-Disabled Student Is at Center of Lawsuit Against College | such student as Somnolent Samantha, that the sleeping young woman was someone he had invented to make a point. Even though Samantha is fictional, she and her inventor are at the heart of an academic debate over how much help, and what academic adjustments, learning-disabled college students are entitled to. Lawyers for... |
923217_0 | New automated system for speeding travelers through immigration will be tested in Bermuda. | AT the World Travel and Tourism Council meeting in Washington today and tomorrow, I.B.M. will demonstrate an automated system for speeding passengers through immigration checkpoints at airports. Called Fastgate, the system will undergo testing beginning next month at Bermuda International Airport; by fall it is expecte... |
924354_0 | Ulster Women's Party Tackles Sectarians, and Sexism | Last month, Monica McWilliams was struck in the face with a fist-sized chunk of brick hurled from a Protestant crowd outside a Roman Catholic church in the mostly Protestant town of Ballymena, north of Belfast. The Protestants had been harassing the Catholics for several months and Ms. McWilliams, one of two delegates ... |
924343_2 | Pirates, With Speedboats, Reign in China Sea Port | issues like trade and nuclear nonproliferation, law enforcement is where they fail most miserably. Chiming in with maritime officials like Mr. Mukundan, United States and other law enforcement officials routinely express frustration that their Chinese counterparts are so inflexible and secretive about drug and other cr... |
924180_0 | F.Y.I. | Underground Radio Q. For years, my car radio faded as I entered the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, remaining silent for the duration of the trip. Now it plays from one end to the other. What happened? A. Last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority let Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, a Nynex subsidiary, install somethin... |
922261_0 | Du Pont Delays Its Plans To Mine Near a Refuge | If government officials and environmental groups remain opposed, the Du Pont Company ''will not go forward'' with plans to mine titanium just outside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia, a company official said today. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced his unequivocal opposition to the ... |
922231_1 | Seminarians Shift Focus From Intellect to Soul | careful focus on ritual observance (he called it behaviorism), a devotion to the study of texts (intellectualism) and the pursuit of a personal relationship with God (spiritualism). ''I think for the first time in about a century,'' he said, ''the seminary has lots of spiritualists.'' The seminary, which is affiliated ... |
923676_0 | Nordic Study Links Dementia To Drivers in Fatal Crashes | A study of the brains of elderly drivers killed in automobile accidents in Sweden and Finland has found that an unusually high percentage, as many as half, showed signs of early Alzheimer's disease, researchers said today. But the condition had not been diagnosed before their deaths, which led the scientists to suggest... |
919645_6 | The Comet's Gift: Hints of How Earth Came to Life | in rocks, sand and semiconductors. Over eons, the molecules coat the silicon grains with icy mantles. Dense clouds of such materials condense in places to form new stars that irradiate nearby grains with bursts of ultraviolet light, transforming the simple molecules into more complex ones like formaldehyde (H2 CO) and ... |
919734_1 | Cloning as an Anticlimax | to health and the environment than does gene splicing, promises fewer benefits and raises ethical issues no more difficult than those grappled with for the past quarter-century. It is salutary to recall the outcry that greeted the advent of gene splicing in the early 1970's. The biggest concern then does not even arise... |
920908_0 | Off the High Seas, A Look at Piracy | THEY may not carry sabers and chant ''Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,'' but pirates still roam some of the world's waters. Nitin Vadukul, a photographer, and Donovan Webster, a journalist, spent time in the South China Sea in 1994 following a band of Filipino pirates who allowed photographs as long as they were masked. T... |
921018_2 | Divining the Sins of the Sinner | the effects of the rupture so lingered that the churches did not reunite until 1983. Some opponents of the Presbyterians' Amendment B, which bars ordination of practicing homosexuals, have expressed satisfaction in warning that it could force open questions that congregants would consider long closed. Although the amen... |
920767_0 | Making a Rush-Hour Battleground High Art | NEW YORK, the great vertical city, must get back to thinking horizontally. There are other boroughs out there besides Manhattan -- four big ones -- and the city cannot afford to regard them as depositories for superstores, landfills, juvenile detention centers and such. Nor will the city happily survive the great sucki... |
920690_5 | Is There Any There Here? | his 76-page essay is ideally suited to this new edition and offers an additional pleasure. As befits the work of an older writer looking back on himself, the introduction is better written; it doesn't suffer from the occasionally confounding and polemical utterances of the original -- for within George Trow's wonderful... |
920728_5 | Exotic Blends From Miami Chefs | might have been, but satisfying with a dipping sauce of aioli enlivened with ancho peppers. The array of main courses is daunting. Seafood is certainly a high point as judged by the beautifully sauteed yellowtail snapper in citrus butter with asparagus spears and wonderfully chunky mashed potatoes. Also excellent are t... |
925682_2 | Study Focuses on the Health of Older Women | are living longer,'' said Dr. Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, lead nutritionist for the study. ''Some women will spend half their lives after menopause.'' Dr. Smoller and Dr. Mossavar-Rahmani said the study is the only clinical trial to assess the effects of hormones on heart disease and bone loss as well as those of diet on ... |
925855_7 | Why U.P.S. Is Flying A New Package Deal | colors, and even airsickness bags in the seat-back pockets. Passengers who fill out evaluation cards are promised a luggage tag embossed with their name and address, with the U.P.S. logo on the back. Other, subtler traits are still pure U.P.S. Just as its trucks are stripped of exterior logos that say Mack or Ford or C... |
925662_1 | Of Towering Concern: The Cellulars' Antennas | are needed to service cellular phone users. Cellular transmission is based on line-of-sight technology. Each phone call is sent to a transmitter, which in turn transfers it to a processing computer called a switch, then to an exchange or interexchange carrier, and finally to the receiving phone. If there is a break alo... |
925696_2 | Preschoolers Face Program Losses | and then receive reimbursement of up to 59.5 percent from the state. ''There are people who think that if the school districts have to pay for preschool special education, they wouldn't classify as many children,'' said Dr. Donald R. Kusel, Superintendent of the public schools of the Tarrytowns. ''Our committees for pr... |
925991_4 | Childbirth at 63 Says What About Life? | he said. And, he added, ''once you go that route, there's absolutely no limit.'' ''Nobody wants to stand around and point a finger at this woman and say, 'You're immoral,' '' Dr. Kass said. ''But generalize the practice and ask yourself, What does it really mean that we don't accept the life cycle or the life course? T... |
925635_5 | A Victorian Gem Restored | the manager of the Conservatory, who masterminded the plant reinstallation, points out the Euterpe oleracea that has crossed the Pacific by barge from Hawaii to take its place here among the slender columns and umbrella canopies of at least 100 species of sister palms and cycads. A pond has been added, and along with r... |
925914_2 | Sugar's Sweet Deal | The support program has kept some marginal producers in business while producing big profits for more efficient companies. The most conspicuous example of the latter is Flo-Sun, a huge operation north of the Everglades controlled by two brothers, Alfonso and Jose Fanjul, Cuban exiles who fled Castro and rebuilt their s... |
978668_2 | In Ulster, New Calls for the Truth of Bloody Sunday | they had not been fired upon.'' It said there was a ''strong suspicion'' that the marchers had handled bombs and fired weapons even though none were ever recovered or detected in the many photographs of the episode. Campaigners believe the moment is crucial because hundreds of accounts by witnesses, recordings of army ... |
978380_11 | Faith Is an Option; Religion Makes a Comeback. (Belief to Follow.) | (or anything else) really exists. ''Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them,'' Immanuel Kant wrote 200 years ago, ''the starry heaven above and the moral law within.'' Judeo-Christian morality has linked these two sources of wonder through G... |
980529_0 | December 7-13; Sinn Fein Leader Meets Blair | Gerry Adams went to 10 Downing Street to see Prime Minister Tony Blair, becoming the first Irish republican to visit the British Prime Minister's official residence since Michael Collins met David Lloyd George there in 1921. That meeting led to the partition of the six Northern counties from what is now Ireland and con... |
980081_0 | The Population Explosion Is Over | Even Wattenberg concedes that the world is still growing, just not as fast. A birth dearth? I don't think so. Wattenberg does make two worthwhile points. First, he notes that environmentalists and population activists, long at the forefront of providing family-planning services, can appropriately claim much credit for ... |
980261_0 | No Shields, Please, for E-Mail | To the Editor: For employers, there can be legal dangers in granting privacy to E-mail. The specter of messages being used by plaintiff's lawyers as evidence of a hostile environment in a sexual-harassment or race-discrimination case is only the tip of an iceberg. Unlike phone mail messages, which can be erased after b... |
980083_0 | The Population Explosion Is Over | Analysts and policymakers in the industrialized North tend to see reduction of populations in the North as a detriment to global economic prosperity and political democracy. They are increasingly calling for pronatalist policies in the North while at the same time continuing to support strong anti-natalist policies for... |
980078_1 | The Population Explosion Is Over | Population Explosure Is Over,'' Nov. 23). What delicious irony! Birthrates are certainly declining around the world. Not a world made lonely by fewer children, however, but one with better access to education and health care for women, and with families who are choosing to have fewer kids in order to give each child a ... |
980439_0 | No Shields, Please, for E-Mail | To the Editor: Re ''Some Privacy, Please, for E-Mail'' (Viewpoint, Nov. 23), in which the author, Amitai Etzioni, suggests that employers provide an avenue for their workers to send confidential messages. Wouldn't it be more bearable for employees to assume that none of their memos, E-mail messages or telephone convers... |
980080_0 | The Population Explosion Is Over | Somewhere deep in Wattenberg's missive is a monumental story of vision and hope that he has wrongly framed as a jeremiad. The real story is that the environmentalists and family-planning advocates that he derides as ''alarmists'' were right 50 years ago when they predicted a world population explosion. The world is now... |
980079_0 | The Population Explosion Is Over | What seems to worry Wattenberg most are the demographic changes that must inevitably accompany reducing population growth: an older population and a higher proportion of single people and an end to the chain-letter economics that he has promoted over the years. (Existing businesses tend to do better when their potentia... |
980330_0 | Agencies That Need a Hand | Here is a list of some organizations around the five boroughs that can use your help. THE MAYOR'S VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER -- 49-51 Chambers Street, Suite 1231, Manhattan. A volunteer clearinghouse that uses a database listing more than 3,000 volunteer jobs in the five boroughs to match people with agencies that could m... |
980474_0 | Catholic Bishops Finish Survey of Challenges to the Americas | A special synod of Roman Catholic bishops from North and South America convened here by Pope John Paul II has concluded a monthlong survey of the moral, social and economic challenges confronting the Western Hemisphere, from foreign debt to broken families. The participants in this Special Assembly for America, which e... |
980152_3 | Q&A/Dr. Seamus O'Cleireacain; Professor's Spin on Global Trade Policies | may be a moral argument for sanctions, but they may not work. Q. Are you thinking of Cuba? A. Sanctions on Cuba are a mistake. They've been a mistake for years. They've had no impact on the Cuban economy, but they're politically great for Fidel Castro and his Government to argue that the reason that the country has bee... |
980082_0 | The Population Explosion Is Over | While it is evident that some European countries may face more deaths than births in the coming decades, immigration, even at less than the rate in the United States, is one obvious solution to labor shortages. This is a remedy that these countries are less than enthusiastic about. It is interesting that it is just as ... |
983089_1 | Education Peril Is Seen in Increase of Part-Time College Teachers | driven colleges and universities to hire graduate students and part-time instructors to teach basic courses. These temporary teachers are paid only a fraction of the salaries of full-time faculty members, and commonly juggle several jobs in order to make a living. One result of the hiring of part-time instructors is th... |
983109_3 | Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life And in Work | In the early days of this century, philosophy was thought of as fundamental to a well-rounded liberal arts education, Mr. Hoffman of the American Philosophical Association said. Considered more than just the teachings of Socrates, Aristotle and Plato, philosophy was regarded as a broad search for knowledge, encompassin... |
982122_13 | The Silence | with Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God. ''It's my Isaac,'' she said. Images of leave-takings remain unblurred. Marie Anatrella said goodbye to a little sister that she had been ''a little mother to.'' Anne Marie left her ailing father listening to the 1947 World Series on the radio. Mary Vincent left h... |
982056_0 | Disability as Field of Study? | Phyllis Rubenfeld, a professor of social work at Hunter College in Manhattan, plans to propose a disability studies department for undergraduates next year, which would be the first of its kind in the nation. Ms. Rubenfeld, who uses a motorized scooter because of childhood polio, is among a number of scholars around th... |
981913_6 | Can the Common Cold Cure Cancer? | of an important cell-signaling system known as the Ras pathway. The pathway's ordinary role is to accept messages from outside the cell indicating that the body needs the cell to divide into two. But when genes in the Ras pathway become mutated, the signaling system can get jammed in the on position. Under continual in... |
981892_5 | Crackdown On Carry-Ons | Buttafucco of Valley Stream, N.Y., the director of flight safety for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said in an interview that airlines were reluctant to offend passengers by forbidding heavy objects in the overhead or forcing them to leave their bags for checking. Mr. Buttafucco's un... |
982191_1 | Caribbean Nations, Ignoring U.S., Warm to Cuba | are their neighbor, only 90 miles away, we think there can be collaboration and cultural exchange that works both ways.'' With that notion firmly implanted here, Jamaica, the largest English-speaking nation in the Caribbean, is once again leading efforts to reach out to Cuba. Jamaican policy, like that of a growing num... |
982265_0 | Corrections | A Galleries listing on page 43 of the Arts and Leisure section today was published in error. ''Early Sculpture,'' a show of work by Donald Judd, will not open at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery on East 57th Street until Jan. 28. A group show, featuring works by Giacometti, de Kooning, Picasso and others, is now on view at... |
982029_7 | Shake Hands With a Corporate Recruiter | describe an uncomfortable situation or to tell him about a creative project that student has done. ''It makes it difficult for a candidate to lie,'' said Mr. Greene. Mr. Greene has seen the recruiting move from a system where students had to wake up early in the morning to sign up on an interview list posted outside th... |
981567_2 | Writer Who Cried Plagiarism Used Passages She Didn't Write | on methods of castration. The section begins: ''It would seem that there are several kinds of eunuchs, quite apart from those born entirely impotent. The early Christians naturally followed Matthew.'' Ms. Chase-Riboud continues with the relevant quote from the Book of Matthew. In a chapter called ''The Black Eunuchs,''... |
979933_0 | Rev, Rev, Rev Your Boat: The Evolution of an Ungentle Weekend Sport | When Trey and Jennifer Urbahn moved from Washington, D.C., to a house dotting one of the many inland waterways here in the self-styled ''Venice of America,'' they expected a year-round cool breeze and a view of cruising boats. They did not expect the noise of revving engines day and night on weekends, or constant splas... |
977697_0 | Study Says Designed Estrogen May Be Risk Free | A custom-designed estrogen recently endorsed by a Federal advisory panel can strengthen bones and may protect the hearts of postmenopausal women without fostering cancers of the breast and uterus, a large study has found. If the drug, raloxifene, is cleared for marketing by the Food and Drug Administration, it is expec... |
977731_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | new report warning that so-called mad cow disease might be carried by beef bones and bone marrow by banning the sale of most cuts of beef on the bone, including ribs, T-bone steaks and oxtails. The beef covered by the ban represents only about 5 percent of the total beef sold in Britain each year. A24 NATIONAL A18-28 C... |
977736_4 | TECHNOLOGY IN WAITING: A special report.; Long Quest for Safer Food Revisits Radiation Method | to be identified. Moreover, he added, ''the bigger they are, the more they want to be second.'' If it catches on, irradiation might end up being used as the ultimate insurance for the vulnerable products, like ground beef and poultry. But in the end, many experts say, no one method is likely to be a panacea. ''Irradiat... |
981071_0 | Looking Upward, With Anxiety | New Yorkers live out their lives under towers of brick and concrete, walking and sitting and playing next to buildings so tall that even a tiny object plummeting from their heights could maim or kill a human strolling at ground level. It is a wonder, really, that so few tragedies occur beneath the soaring, sometimes ag... |
981060_0 | Business Travel; An experiment by United Airlines to further limit carry-on baggage is well received by passengers. | TWO weeks ago, UAL's United Airlines began a one-bag carry-on policy experiment for passengers in Des Moines who buy the lowest-fare tickets, and other carriers also tightened their carry-on policies. Since then, airlines say, there appears to be both more rigorous enforcement of the policies and wider compliance with ... |
982939_2 | First Civilian Spy Satellite Soars Into Space, Launched in Russia by a U.S. Company | include battlefields, bases, arms factories and missile fields. Public interest groups hope to use the photos to monitor arms control treaties and to police the world's intelligence services. Foreign governments that cannot afford their own satellite systems are also expected to be big customers. The Federal rules unde... |
982936_1 | Behind Bars, Reaching Out to Others; Inmates Restore Castoff Wheelchairs for Third World's Disabled | group that runs Wheels for the World from Agoura Hills, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb. Disabled people are often carted around in wheelbarrows, or parked on street corners to beg. ''In Poznan, Poland, we found a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who was being pushed around by his parents in a rusty, beat-up baby carri... |
982997_0 | A World of Christmases, Not Just for Christians; In Baghdad, Far Less Fizz | Christmas in Baghdad this year was heralded by the arrival of a giant fir tree in the lobby of Al Rashid Hotel. Then gardeners carried in a large Frosty the Snowman. Surveying the scene was the ubiquitous portrait of President Saddam Hussein. But Baghdad's eighth Christmas under sanctions, imposed after Iraq invaded Ku... |
982981_5 | More Toys Are Reflecting Disabled Children's Needs | specific toys because it does not want to limit the choice for such children. Toys ''R'' Us, the nation's largest toy retailer, promotes modified toys and traditional ones for this market. Its latest specialty toy guide includes Tickle Me Elmo because the retailer says the toy stimulates touching and listening. It also... |
982363_5 | Only Severely Impaired Children Need Apply | their central disabilities were losing benefits. On the other hand, the officials said, only 28 percent of those claiming mental retardation were being cut. In Southside and its surrounding neighborhoods, 185 children have been ordered cut from benefits, threatening cash that has helped prop up entire households. With ... |
982386_1 | Poor Oversight Said to Imperil World Banking | in Asia, officials around the world see obvious parallels to past experiences like the American savings and loan debacle as well as complicated new problems. National systems intended to supervise banks in their home countries have proven unable to keep pace with the rapid development of a global financial marketplace ... |
982353_2 | An Exile's Dream: To See Cuba and the Pope | be closed and people will not have to work on Christmas Day. The announcement came as an unexpected early Christmas gift for Cubans on the island and abroad. Many Cubans in the United States have always celebrated Christmas with a twinge of guilt and sadness, knowing that their relatives and friends on the island were ... |
983516_0 | Company Plans Return of Paddle Wheeler | RICHARD HAYMAN and Arthur Adams plan to reinvent the wheel -- the paddle wheel, that is. By building paddle wheelers to ply the Hudson River daily from Manhattan to Albany, the two men hope to re-create an industry whose last whistle was heard more than a half-century ago. ''It looks old, but it will have modern marine... |
983709_0 | Family Tests Law on the Meaning of Inclusion | When Joseph and Roxana Hartmann moved to Loudoun County, Va., four years ago, they enrolled their autistic son, Mark, in second grade at Ashburn Elementary School, where officials took many steps to accommodate him in a regular classroom. They hired a full-time aide and trained both the aide and Mark's teacher in a spe... |
983629_0 | Beyond Self-Serve: Robots and Magic Wands | BUYING gasoline is a chore; drivers want to get in and out of the gas station as quickly as possible and be on their way. To help ease the process, some big gasoline retailers are experimenting with new gadgets, including radio transmissions, robot arms and scanner technology. All are intended to move motorists along -... |
983413_3 | Nowhere Man | nature transposed across time,'' our Horace explains. Despite himself, he can't help feeling attracted, in different ways, to two people in town, each an outsider like him. Mohr, the head librarian, is a gaunt 60-ish scholar with a bad wig and ''an air of chemotherapy'' whose ''mouth makes a clacking sound, a labial, d... |
983739_1 | ALL IN ONE: A special report. ; Where All Doors Are Open for Disabled Students | who has Down syndrome, serves as ''12th man'' for the football team, cheering from the bench. As the debate over how and where to educate the nation's six million children with disabilities has become increasingly polarized -- and litigious -- Vermont is singular in its commitment to integrating severely disabled stude... |
979265_0 | Business Travel; Fliers can make their trips during the holidays easier if they take advantage of some airline tips. | WITH air traffic back to normal after Thanksgiving, but with Christmas only two weeks away, the airlines have issued tips for business and leisure travelers to help make their flights more bearable. While some of the tips are self-evident, such as leaving early for the airport, others are less familiar. These include m... |
984217_1 | The Neediest Cases; A Respite for Children, and a Break for Parents | N.Y., about 35 miles north of New York City, is a 50-acre retreat, run by the society, that welcomes disabled children for long weekends over school holidays. The camp's dual mission is to provide joyous days for children and a break for their beleaguered parents. Camping costs are subsidized by the Neediest Cases Fund... |
984248_3 | China Cracks Down on Dissent in Cyberspace | received no response. But the pages of many other foreign news sources, including The Washington Post, were accessible, as were many X-rated sites reached via a common Web browser. Controlling Web sites is a Sisyphean task because so many new ones are constantly being created, and people with skill and determination ca... |
984223_1 | Global Crisis in Population Is Far From Over, a Group Warns | *At least 74 countries -- including Nigeria, Iran, Ethiopia, Iraq, El Salvador, Guatemala, Syria, Honduras and Nicaragua -- will probably double their populations in 30 years. *Thirty-three countries, 25 of them in Africa, still have a fertility rate of 6 children per woman. *About three billion women -- the equivalent... |
984296_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 New Internet Rules in China May Be Aimed at Dissent China has introduced new regulations criminalizing the use of electronic mail and the Internet in ways that defame Government agencies or promote separatist movements. Officials cited a need ''to safeguard national security and social stability.'' A... |
984303_3 | Soft Shot, Soft Voice: Harper Can Still Lead | my experience because it was the second round of the playoffs. ''I like to think that I brought that experience when I was there. It's hard to make it up. I don't think anything takes the place of stability in the league. That's the thing that stands and can be a mainstay with any team.'' Harper has always been solid, ... |
984205_2 | Masoala Journal; Rare Fauna, Flora and Human Want | fishing, butterfly ranching, a contract with the Zurich Zoo and a plan for ''eco-certified'' logging -- activities that CARE, the private aid agency which is managing this new park, hopes will provide income to the local population and keep them from encroaching on Masoala. For instance, the fishermen of Ambodirafia at... |
978990_7 | In a World of Good Causes, Beware Waste and a Few Crooks | links charity and commerce -- saying, for example, that buying a certain handmade craft will help American Indians, or that a magazine subscription will help save tropical rain forests -- determine how much money goes to the charitable cause (usually far less than with a direct donation). * Investigate before donating.... |
979019_6 | Fire, Water and, Maybe, Life in Jupiter's Realm | heat and a liquid ocean.'' In the closer encounters, the spacecraft just might photograph any frozen lakes that exist, suggesting recent seepage to the surface, or perhaps watery geysers. ''That would say there's water right there, right now,'' Dr. McKinnon said. Galileo's magnetometers might also contribute suggestive... |
977433_6 | From Merely Loving Sushi, to Knowing It | of landscape painters for inspiration, attention to order and arrangement in the case is an index of quality. Fish isn't everything. The word ''sushi'' refers to the rice cake that the fish sits on, not the fish itself, and sushi chefs can spend two years learning how to turn out perfect rice, chewy with a glossy sheen... |
977035_1 | For Old Films, the Ending Almost Always Comes Out the Same | three hours, will require 9 or 10. Reels from first- and second-run theaters are eventually shipped to what the industry calls a rejuvenation center, like Hollywood Film in Los Angeles, which each year turns more than two million feet of scratched, chipped and smudged film into one million feet of film that is like new... |
977049_2 | Delete, Delete, Delete: Trying to Keep an 11-Year-Old's E-Mail Smut-Free | back with ''remove'' in the subject and text fields. Done. The volume eased; the problem was not solved. Most of these services are at least honest enough to identify the nature of their business in the subject line. But a few weeks ago, E-mail whose subject line read ''testing. . .'' was left untouched. Molly opened t... |
977022_1 | GLOBAL WARMING: Around the Globe, Big Worries and Small Signs of Progress; In Brazil, a Struggle To Save Rain Forest | years after playing host to the 1992 Earth Summit here, Brazil claimed that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest -- home to the world's richest trove of bacterial, plant, animal and insect species -- was on the decline. But when it finally released data last year on the period through 1994, the figures showed prec... |
977045_0 | Captives Who Confront Presidents and Gods | As recent events surrounding the new Steven Spielberg movie have borne out, the Amistad affair is and was a debate about who owns history. The facts were never in dispute. In 1839 a group of West African captives took over their ship, the Amistad, tried to sail her back home from the Caribbean, ended up off Long Island... |
981702_1 | U.N. Agrees to Create Position Of Deputy Secretary General | said. The new post and other measures approved by the Assembly are not related to reforms demanded by the United States Congress. The naming of a Deputy Secretary General will be one of several appointments the Secretary General will make in the coming weeks. Apparently bowing to pressure from the third world, the Unit... |
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