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981714_3 | How a Spy Left Taiwan in the Cold | been that it will not use its scientific and technical expertise to build nuclear arms. The Republic of China on Taiwan was established by Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalists, who fled with two million followers after Mao's Communist forces took control of the mainland in 1949. China regards Taiwan ... |
981753_2 | Owner to Dismantle Flawed Madison Ave. Facade | did not learn of the danger at 540 Madison until Dec. 7, when a section of the wall collapsed. Mr. Macklowe said he had not decided whether to erect a new masonry wall, or to fasten an aluminum skin to the side of the tower; the east and north sides of the building are clad in glass. Mr. Macklowe said that engineers ha... |
981710_0 | Newfangled Idea For Old-Fashioned Toy; These Next-Generation Jigsaw Puzzles Take Off in a Direction All Their Own | When he stumbled on a simple way to make jigsaw puzzles in three dimensions, Paul E. Gallant knew he had a good idea. When he looked at the cost of developing that idea, though, he concluded that the Canadian market was just too small -- that his only hope of turning a profit would be to focus on exports. That is what ... |
981734_0 | Editorial Observer; The Celebration of Hanukkah, Then and Now | With a major rift between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews developing in Israel and the United States, it is worth noting that internecine warfare among Jews is nearly as old as Judaism itself. Indeed, the festival of Hanukkah, which starts next week, celebrates a stunning military victory in which strictly observant Jew... |
979704_1 | I.R.A. Figure Meets Blair at No. 10 in 'Moment in History' | obviously highly symbolic, had afforded the two sides a discussion in which they really ''engaged.'' ''We certainly had the opportunity to put forward our view that all the hurt and grief and pain and division that has come from British involvement in Irish affairs has to end,'' he said. The meeting was not, he said, '... |
979812_0 | Don't Ignore Immigration's Benefits to the U.S. | To the Editor: George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, in their Dec. 10 Op-Ed article on the economic impact of immigration, write as if the United States economy operated in isolation and American immigration policy could be constructed as if its major influences stemmed from within our borders. In fact, the United S... |
979786_0 | CLINTON ADAMANT ON 3D WORLD ROLE IN CLIMATE ACCORD | The White House, beginning the arduous task of selling an accord to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases, said today that it would not submit the proposed treaty for Senate ratification until developing countries agree to participate in the global environmental effort. But developing countries at the global clima... |
981348_3 | HEALTH CARE'S GIANT: Artful Accounting -- A special report.; Hospital Chain Cheated U.S. On Expenses, Documents Show | its costs so that its reimbursements could enhance profits in later years. At one Arkansas hospital, the records were ink-stamped: ''CONFIDENTIAL. Do not discuss or release to Medicare auditors.'' *Taken as a whole, the pattern of costs in Texas and Florida that Columbia reported to the Government raises a red flag. Al... |
981355_3 | Fearing Errors, U.S. Will Review Cutoff in Aid to Disabled Youths | rolls in the first years of the Reagan Administration. The number of children on the disability rolls has tripled since 1989, and costs have quadrupled, to more than $5 billion a year. Enrollment grew because of court decisions, an increase in the childhood poverty rate and a loosening of eligibility rules that provide... |
980699_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-12 A Tone of Conciliation From Iran's President President Mohammed Khatami of Iran professed ''great respect'' for the United States and said he hoped that American politicians would ''understand their own time'' and stop trying to isolate his country. A1 Iranian and American diplomats have been explor... |
980679_1 | An Aging Nation Ill-Equipped for Hanging Up the Car Keys | around his retirement community, Sun City Center, waving to his neighbors, some in Cadillacs, others relegated to electric golf carts. To have to give up driving is viewed as a step toward dependency, and even death. Yet that moment will come for more and more Americans as the ranks of the ''old old'' increase. The iss... |
980661_0 | Water-Shy Earth: New Outlook | Predictions that the world's population is growing more slowly than estimated a few years ago are leading experts to take a new look at the potential shortages of forests, water and other natural resources. Today, in one of the first published reassessments, the Washington-based research organization Population Action ... |
980702_2 | Senate to Vote on Rejecting Whitman's Abortion Veto | the mother was jeopardized. But the Legislature rejected her plan. Abortion opponents said the exceptions would provide women and physicians with a loophole. Mrs. Whitman, a moderate Republican and a longtime supporter of abortion rights, infuriated members of her party last year when she publicly backed President Clin... |
983281_0 | Cardwell Journal; Mammals on This Coast: The Rare Kind, for Now | Margaret Thorsborne cannot forget the two stone-curlews -- their necks outstretched, their wings beating above the pitiless crunch of steel treads -- trying to chase away the bulldozer on the development site along the southern edges of town. ''Those poor birds,'' said the slight, white-haired Mrs. Thorsborne, the emin... |
978127_2 | A New Journal: A Digest That Feeds on Digests | of the provocative books ''The End of Ideology'' and ''The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.'' ''There is a great degree of specialization in academic life,'' he continued. ''People are involved in their own fields. '' The newsletter is sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., wh... |
978157_0 | Dublin Says It Might Drop Claim to North in Future | Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said today that the Irish Republic was prepared eventually to drop its constitutional claim to sovereignty in the British province of Northern Ireland. He said the change in the Constitution that would be required could be put to a referendum in the republic. But Mr. Ahern's remarks, in The ... |
984012_2 | In an On-Line Salon, Scientists Sit Back and Ponder | include Beethoven's ''Eroica Symphony,'' Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde,'' Schoenberg's ''Erwartung,'' Debussy's ''Apres Midi d'un Faune.'' What is the most that we can ever say objectively about what those composers are discovering? -- PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor, Nature If ethnicity and the human use of biological cues (an... |
984009_1 | Footlights | Irons, the movie is based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel of a middle-aged man's tragic sexual obsession with a young girl. The group, Kim Initiative, denounced the film as ''an attempt to promote pedophilia.'' ''Lolita'' is scheduled for release in Germany on New Year's Day. The film has encountered resistance in Europe f... |
977338_3 | Tight but Quirky Job Market As the New York Area Revives | the City of Stamford, described the current economy as a ''boom with angst.'' ''Even though it's a tight labor market, people don't necessarily feel all that secure,'' he said. ''People know they can still lose their jobs, even though there aren't enough workers to go around.'' Nonetheless, amid the anxiety there are i... |
977224_0 | Whose Yosemite Is It? | To the Editor: You report (news article, Nov. 30) that bears in search of food are breaking into cars in Yosemite National Park and that park management ''has taken steps to curb the problem at its source: humans.'' Yet if the National Park Service continues to modify the environment to suit tourists, it is preserving ... |
977309_6 | Libya's Vast Desert Pipeline Could Be Conduit for Troops | comment, made to its American and British offices. But in the past, news reports have said that it, too, transferred work to its British office after sanctions were imposed. The primary contractor for the multi-billion dollar Great Man-Made River Project is Dong Ah, a South Korean construction conglomerate. South Korea... |
978870_0 | Editorial Observer; Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture | Not long ago a cotton crop failed in the Mississippi Delta. In some fields planted with a new, genetically altered strain called Roundup Ready cotton, most of the bolls, from which the fiber is harvested, simply dropped away. For the farmers, it was an economic disaster. For Monsanto and the Delta and Pine Land Company... |
983919_0 | After Killings, Officials Try To Protect Irish Talks | Political leaders and participants in the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland sought today to keep the talks on track after a weekend of violence in the province aimed at derailing them. A jailed Protestant militant was killed by Catholic inmates Saturday morning, and a Catholic man convicted of the murder of Protes... |
983933_5 | Crew's Powers Go Untapped, Critics Assert | East Side of Manhattan, said he and his colleagues had been reduced to ''window dressing.'' Besides hiring, boards have lost control over district budgets, curriculum and textbooks. Although allowed to set school policy, that policy must be consistent with dictates from the central Board of Education and the Chancellor... |
982496_6 | Joined for Life, and Living Life to the Full | author of a paper that appeared last year in the Hastings Center report about the Lakeberg twin case. Like Dr. Dreger, he was disturbed by the ease with which Amy Lakeberg's life was taken. ''I remember during all the debates how quickly people who wanted to intervene could move into the idea that one twin was like a p... |
982501_1 | More Orgasms, More Years of Life? | Caerphilly (pronounced CARE-fill-ee). ''Sexual activity seems to have a protective effect on men's health,'' Dr. George Davey-Smith's team concluded after analyzing death rates of nearly 1,000 men from 45 to 59. The researchers said they undertook the study because few findings existed on any link between patterns of s... |
980855_0 | Ireland Premier Calls Support By Clinton Vital to Ulster Pact | Ireland's Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, said today that he hoped President Clinton would help push for a final agreement on a peace accord with Northern Ireland. Mr. Ahern said he expected participants ''to have the draft of a comprehensive agreement'' by mid-March when he returned to the United States for St. Patrick'... |
980864_1 | Tanjung Puting Journal; In Vast Forest Fires of Asia, Scant Mercy for Orangutans | for Nature Indonesia Program. ''Actually,'' Mr. Manullang said, ''without the fires themselves the orangutans are already under severe pressure from loss of habitat. Now the situation is much more critical. This is, I guess, the worst situation for orangutan life in this century.'' ''Now they really need to escape from... |
980818_1 | Mummies May Be of Incan Elite, After Conquest of 'Cloud People' | their furnishings over the next five years should yield insights into the interactions between the Inca and Chachapoya cultures. Only 5 of the 200 recovered mummies have been examined in detail, and 12 cave burial sites of more bodies have yet to be fully explored. The discoveries were made in northern Peru at a place ... |
982690_0 | Eating Well; Can Pizza Prevent Cancer and Ketchup Cut Heart Risk? | IT has to be cause for celebration when scientists discover that a food people love is also good for them. Unlike broccoli, whose detractors include a former President of the United States, tomatoes are beloved by just about everyone. And recent research indicates that a nutrient found in tomatoes, especially cooked to... |
977992_0 | INSIDE | Pause in Abortion's Decline Since 1990, the number of women having abortions has steadily fallen, with a steep decline in 1995, but early reports show that the trend was reversing itself in 1996. Page A14. Boulder Mystery Endures As the murder of JonBenet Ramsey nears its one-year anniversary with no indictment, concer... |
928008_2 | The Politics Of the I.R.A. | meet with Sinn Fein only when he is convinced that the I.R.A. violence has permanently ended. His actions depend on how strong he feels, and that will be determined in part by how well his party does in local elections on May 21. With Mr. Adams and his No. 2 colleague, Martin McGuinness, both elected to the British Par... |
932752_0 | As Culture Wars Go On, Battle Lines Blur a Bit | Everyone is weary, but the culture wars rage on. On campuses and in concert halls, in art galleries and in libraries, in foundation offices and Government agencies, multiculturalists still lock horns with those who believe in the primacy of Western civilization. The fervor has decreased; the sense of resignation has in... |
932786_1 | Rough Going for Greek Merchant Fleet | crushed under $620 million in debt and declared insolvency. This year, Unimar, an operator of small bulk carriers, and Marcantonakis, an automobile transporter, are in financial straits, and the group led by Menis Karageorgis, a former head of the Union of Greek Ship Owners, is in a dispute with Swiss bankers over loan... |
930000_5 | Competition at Every Turn Has Post Office on the Run | this service so valuable,'' Matthew Lewis, a company spokesman, said. To extricate the Postal Service from its tightening financial noose, Mr. Runyon is asking Congress for greater pricing flexibility, notably the right to offer volume discounts on third-class mail. The Postal Service is also seeking to sell new produc... |
929399_0 | Battling Teen Pregnancy | According to recent Federal surveys, sexual activity among American teen-agers is down -- the first decline in nearly three decades -- and use of contraceptives is up. That is promising news as the nation with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world tries for a 33 percent reduction in teen pregnanci... |
929387_0 | Ireland's Hard-Pressed Premier Seeks National Election in June | Prime Minister John Bruton, his integrity and his Northern Ireland policy under attack and his coalition Government slipping in the polls, said today that he would dissolve Parliament this week so a national election could be held in early June. Mr. Bruton, who became Prime Minister of Ireland in December 1994, said on... |
929425_0 | The Internet as Commerce: Who Pays, Under What Rules? | Names and handshakes, it would seem, are simple matters of identification and etiquette. But the digital equivalents of names and handshakes are now subjects of fierce debate, international negotiations and accusations of corporate skulduggery. The bedrock issue is who will determine the commercial rules of the road on... |
929441_1 | A Great Wee Place | very well.'' The dirty little secret of Ulster is that while it has become a metaphor for civil war, that war is actually confined to a few very small areas in Belfast and Derry, and the rest of Northern Ireland is downright beautiful. For those who know the secret, Ulster is now a metaphor for a ''great wee place'' to... |
930853_4 | Jetliner Is Bombed in Test to Counter Terrorism in the Air | of another 747, T.W.A. Flight 800 last July. The F.A.A.'s hopes are highest for the hardened container made of Spectra, a Kevlar-like material that forms an extremely strong fabric. Mixed with a resin, it becomes rigid and feels like hard plastic. It is made by the Jaycor Corporation, a San Diego company that uses Spec... |
930962_11 | Women's Health Stocks Try to Be Darling Again | Initiative, a 12-year, $628 million study that is now in its fourth year, is expected to provide previously unknown details about the effects of nutrition and hormone-replacement therapy, for example, on osteoporosis and heart disease in women. The study will examine 164,000 women in 40 centers around the country -- in... |
930810_0 | Cuba Sees a New Threat to Recovery: A Weak Sugar Harvest | In a severe blow to efforts to revive the Cuban economy, this year's sugar harvest, the country's largest source of much-needed foreign exchange, will fall considerably short of the Government's target, President Fidel Castro has acknowledged. ''In my opinion, the harvest will not reach the same quantity as last year,'... |
930834_3 | ACADEMY'S REPORT SAYS IMMIGRATION BENEFITS THE U.S. | is positive because they tend to arrive as young workers and ''will help pay the public costs of the aging baby boom generation.'' Thus, it said, ''state and local investments in education pay off in higher tax payments later in life.'' Those revenues include Federal taxes for Social Security and Medicare. The report a... |
931173_0 | Magnetic Fields on Distant Moons Hint at Hidden Life | WHEN scientists wonder about the hidden depths of a moon or planet, they often look for signs of a magnetic field. On Earth, the lines of magnetic force that envelop the planet indicate the hot churning of a molten core. At the surface, geologic effects of this deep commotion help make Earth a habitable place, constant... |
931174_1 | Explorer of Aging Process Is Lighting Candles in the Dark | the direct connection of inflammation to Alzheimer's has not been demonstrated, this finding prompted a search for evidence that anti-inflammatory drugs might protect against Alzheimer's. And indeed, large long-term studies found that women who regularly took aspirin, ibuprofen or other anti-inflammatory drugs had a re... |
926742_1 | Study Bolsters Idea That Exercise Cuts Breast Cancer Risk | a woman's exposure to estrogens. The idea is that the more estrogen a woman is exposed to, the greater her risk for breast cancer. That may be why, for example, women who begin menstruating late are at a lower risk, as are those who enter menopause early. Exercise, researchers have found, reduces the amount of estrogen... |
926637_1 | Green, and Mostly Real | Agriculture Department, which stakes its very existence on keeping foreign insects outside the borders. But then, who ever said a jungle in a glasshouse was real? After being closed for four years for a $25 million restoration that ripped out the old leaky plumbing, blasted the lead off the iron frame and replaced 17,0... |
926671_1 | Gerry Adams Expected to Win Commons Seat | now has no seats in the British Parliament, and its candidates will not actually take the seats if elected because this involves an oath of loyalty to the British Crown, which they consider an illegal occupier of the province of Ulster. The Social Democratic Labor Party has four seats. The remaining 13 are held by Prot... |
927775_4 | For Black Scholars Wedded to Prism of Race, New and Separate Goals | Reason'' (Oxford University Press), a forthcoming book that challenges critical race theory, suggested in an interview that the movement was the result of increasing frustration among black intellectuals over the failure to eradicate racism. ''The problem with denying any objective reality,'' she said, ''is that there ... |
927853_1 | A company says it has a method of determining which people are more likely to get skin cancer. | gene that can cause breast cancer (and has patents pending for that gene, BRC-1, and a companion, BRCA-2) is working on a similar detection method for the skin cancer melanoma. Myriad Genetics has won a patent for the gene it says can cause melanoma and for a method of finding if a person carries the gene. ''What we ha... |
932023_7 | Half Full or Half Empty? | the two biggest job engines in the city's economy over the year -- both outperformed the national economy in percentage increase in employment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Both industries also tend to recruit nationally and pay high salaries for high skills. By contrast, national growth outstripped New York's ... |
932057_0 | F.C.C. Staff Says Tower Would Harm Bronx Garden | The staff of the Federal Communications Commission ruled yesterday that the 45-story radio tower that Fordham University wants to build on its Bronx campus would have an adverse effect on its immediate neighbor, the New York Botanical Garden, and it asked both sides in the three-year dispute to help work out an alterna... |
932014_1 | U.S. Clergy Counsel Swiss on Atoning for War Past | with leading Swiss Catholics, Protestants and Jews, ''we could encourage them to take a more pro-active role in helping'' their nation take account of what it is learning about its history. Not that such a process will be easy. ''It goes against the ego of man to admit failure, or mistakes,'' Rabbi Schneier said. But w... |
930129_0 | Western Thought, Bound By Greek Book Designers | The Greeks who fled to Europe, manuscripts in hand, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 were impressively quick to take advantage of the new invention of printing. Emigre scholars and scribes, especially in Italy, became printers, type founders and book designers, imitating manuscript traditions and modeling delic... |
930159_0 | Facing the Rubicon, Italy's Separatists Start to Test the Water | The eight men who stormed the bell tower in St. Mark's Square in Venice last week in support of secession for northern Italy appear simply to have put into action the program of the region's small but boisterous separatist movement. But the episode came as the separatist movement, with its improbable challenge to Itali... |
930159_1 | Facing the Rubicon, Italy's Separatists Start to Test the Water | his own followers. But at separatist rallies over the weekend across northeastern Italy, evidence emerged of a grass-roots split, as the followers of Mr. Bossi debated whether to follow his interpretation of the incident, or to show solidarity with the arrested men. In the early hours last Friday, the men hijacked a fe... |
929269_14 | Into the Past At China's Edge | ahead of time. In Dali we stayed at the Old Dali Inn, a pleasant hotel arranged around a traditional courtyard garden. We paid $3 for a simple three-man room, and there was hot water from 8 A.M. until 11 P.M. A basic double room cost $6, and singles were $4. The inn also had nicer doubles with television and private ba... |
929227_17 | The Philosopher-King Is Mortal | a proper and efficient political democracy. Only how do we talk about these spiritual or religious notions -- with what language or set of ideas? Havel was right to notice that the founders of American democracy knew how to speak about these things, in a duly 18th-century manner. In the 19th century, too, there was a g... |
929316_2 | Easing the Flow of People and Products | needs of Long Island businesses. We are using their expertise and connections in the community to give us a better understanding of what needs are strongest in Long Island. Q. Do you think Long Island businesses could best import or export with the Nafta countries? A. Actually, we're talking both imports and exports. I... |
933152_0 | Restoring the Fertile Crescent to Its Former Glory | From the ruins of the ancient citadel that towers above this remote and dusty town, the plains of Mesopotamia stretch in every direction. Many great visionaries have reigned here, but perhaps none has had grander dreams than a 40-year-old engineer who stood atop the windswept bluff on a recent afternoon and surveyed hi... |
931817_1 | Stored Records Destroyed By Fire, Bear Stearns Says | the continuing investigations of the failed firm, A. R. Baron & Company, which cleared its trades through Bear Stearns at the time of its collapse. The West Pittston facility and its contents were severely damaged in a spectacular two-day fire that began May 5. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Since ... |
927032_0 | Veiled Discrimination | To the Editor: Marcia Angell's reasoning persuaded me to change my mind regarding in vitro fertilization for postmenopausal women (''Pregnant at 63? Why Not?'', Op-Ed, April 25). When I first glanced at the headline, I reacted with disapproval. My objection to postmenopausal pregnancy stemmed from a concern that it is ... |
928491_1 | Along Rutted Streets, Few Mourn Departure | that he is going to come back Friday. I have also heard on the radio that the Americans say he is not coming back.'' The man was getting his hair cut, examining the barber at work in a mirror hanging on a towering palm tree; a piece of cloth from a large wholesale food bag protected his bright tie. The man, who did not... |
931054_3 | ERA OF DOWNSIZING CREATES JOB BOOM FOR CLASS OF '97 | salaries of this year's M.B.A. graduates at investment banking firms jumped to $75,000, from $61,000 last year. *At Columbia University, companies that usually finish recruiting by January were still posting new jobs in May. Also showing up were some businesses that have not recruited in years: public relations, commun... |
931010_1 | A detector to let flight crews know if passenger 24C really turned off his computer for takeoff. | The F.A.A. cited dozens of reports of interference with navigational, fuel and flight systems from laptop computers, electronic games, compact disk players and recorders, video cameras and cellular phones. The aviation industry is even more concerned about newer technologies like personal satellite communications, comp... |
931041_2 | For Adelphi, Graduation Follows Turbulent Year | the 860 graduates today's heroes and heroines. An additional 625 students received their degrees at a ceremony later in the day. Judge Bellacosa of the State Court of Appeals, a 1959 St. John's alumnus, used his commencement address to quote from sources ranging from the Roman philosopher Virgil to Lou Carnesecca, the ... |
931109_0 | Belfast Might Be Cozy, but Rest of Ulster Isn't | To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman (column, May 12) paradoxically suggests that Belfast may be too cozy for peace. He asks whether Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, and David Trimble, leader of the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party, are willing to make tough compromises while afflu... |
929536_1 | Logging Sets Off an Apparent Chimp War | by Dr. White. And no other large animals like elephants or gorillas appear to have suffered. But chimps, the animals most closely related to humans, are known to be highly jealous of territory, patrolling and defending borders constantly. Even without logging, violent clashes are known to erupt in which chimps kill eac... |
931384_0 | Exercise May Not Curb Depression | ALTHOUGH exercise is widely promoted as good for both body and mind, a new report casts doubt on one benefit that has been claimed for it. In a long-term study done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, working up a sweat a few times a week did not prevent depression, a result that has surprised and puzzled some ... |
931395_0 | Time to Get Big Sugar Off the Public Dole | To the Editor: Alfonso Fanjul and J. Pepe Fanjul, owners of a Florida sugar company, claim that ''there is no subsidy'' for American sugar growers (letter, May 14). This may come as a surprise to American consumers, who are forced by our Government to pay the Fanjuls almost twice the world price for their sugar. The pr... |
931379_5 | Eating Well | that the company supports ''labeling of genetically engineered raw products when there is scientific evidence that requires it.'' How prevalent is transgenic food? This column asked Genetic ID, a company in Fairfield, Iowa, that tests food for genetically engineered ingredients, to test four soy-based baby formulas and... |
932633_6 | On the Information Highway, E-Mail Litter Problem Grows | be a selling point in a competitive market, are going after junk E-mailers in the courts. Earlier this month, Earthlink in Palo Alto, Calif., won an injunction against Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia, one of the biggest junk E-mailers. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge found that Cyber Promotions had trespassed upon ... |
932701_0 | VOTERS IN FRANCE, REBUFFING CHIRAC, SWING TO THE LEFT | French voters gave a stinging rebuff today to President Jacques Chirac's call to renew the huge conservative majority in the legislature for another five years, voting heavily instead for the leftist opposition and protest parties. Mr. Chirac called the vote a year early to try to win a mandate for deficit-cutting poli... |
932624_4 | At Commencement, Insights and Asides | of life that calls for consistent and sincere hard work and fair play. And it is never done alone. We always need a team.'' UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND FREEMAN DYSON Scientist/Writer ''I want science to do something to help the billions of poor people all over the earth. Too much of science today is making toys for the r... |
929796_0 | Push for School Safety Led to New Rules on Discipline | Almost every school district has a story about the problems of disciplining children with disabilities -- the wild kindergartner who disrupts classes for everyone else but cannot legally be removed from class, or the gang of youngsters caught selling drugs in which all are expelled except the one diagnosed with a disab... |
929740_0 | Sugar Industry Isn't the Villain in Everglades | To the Editor: Your editorials on Florida's Everglades (April 20 and 27) perpetuate myths about the sugar industry. The ''sugar barons'' myth: Barons are granted land by a king; we lost ours at the hands of a dictator. In 1959 we fled Fidel Castro's Cuba for the United States, where we started from scratch. It was a mo... |
929801_3 | HOUSE PASSES BILL ADDING RESOURCES TO TEACH DISABLED | it was considered under a procedure making all amendments out of order. In the Senate, Trent Lott, the majority leader, whose staff worked hard to negotiate widespread agreement on the bill, put heavy pressure on his troops not to vote for any amendments, including efforts to provide more money or to allow expulsion of... |
928135_3 | Personal Health | protect against breast cancer mainly by decreasing the amount of estrogen a woman produces in her lifetime. Exercise may delay menarche, reduce the frequency of ovulation, curb obesity in general and especially the accumulation of abdominal fat (which produces estrogen), reduce insulin levels and activate the immune sy... |
928581_1 | Trade Storm Imperils Caribbean Banana Crops | labor force in this country of 145,000 people is employed in the banana industry, either growing, processing or shipping the fruit. In contrast to Central America, where workers paid as little as $2 a day grow most of Chiquita's bananas, Caribbean banana workers are mostly independent growers who own the small plots th... |
927111_2 | In Best Tally Ever, Sinn Fein Wins 2 Seats in Westminster | showing to argue that Sinn Fein should be invited to join the formal peace talks when they resume in Belfast on June 3 under the chairmanship of George J. Mitchell, a former United States Senate majority leader. The Irish and British Goverments have said that Sinn Fein should be excluded from the talks until the I.R.A.... |
933574_1 | By Hook or by Crook, a Fishing Village Gets By | here as the Chutes des Wagenia -- have none of the drama of Niagara Falls in New York or Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. They are really a series of rapids with drops of eight feet or so. Their historical importance is that they made the River Congo impassable, so the town of Stanleyville had to be built as a terminus for ... |
933558_2 | Spinning on 2 Wheels of Fortune | BUILDING bicycles in this corner of north Brooklyn is a sly protest against the trucks that rumble constantly down the side streets belching puffs of diesel smoke. The traffic streams from the factories and the many junkyards and waste transfer stations near the school. Some of those are burial ground for bikes dumped ... |
933622_0 | In Search of Gratitude | To the Editor: Gerald L. Zelizer (Op-Ed May 27) points to a contradiction for the clergy: prestige without respect. When I was a director of a national rabbinic organization, I learned that the best, most fulfilled rabbis were those who considered it a blessing to serve and who found the greatest satisfaction in even i... |
933643_2 | Special Education Practices In New York Faulted by U.S. | students, fearing that their performance would bring down the average scores of their schools. Parents and politicians often view the tests as a barometer of a school's effectiveness. The Chancellor, underscoring an overhaul of special education that he started last fall, also agreed to intervene earlier in the educati... |
933636_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-6 Far Right May Decide Winner of French Vote As France prepares to vote on Sunday, swing voters who support the far-right National Front are emerging as a force that could determine who governs France for the next five years. There are signs that the party's supporters, in their distaste for the establi... |
928743_0 | A Fresh Start in Northern Ireland | Britain's elections have given a lift to the possibility of peace in Northern Ireland. Six months ago the stalemate between the Irish Republican Army, the British Government and Northern Ireland's Protestant Unionists seemed overwhelming. Today the I.R.A. may be more inclined to declare another cease-fire. Britain's ne... |
928783_4 | Quarter for His Thoughts: Saroyan Memorabilia | together, then he takes a brush and he goes, and it's got to be just right.'' Saroyan usually sat at the typewriter with just the story and the title in mind and wrote with no revisions or rewriting. Only some of his plays were rewritten and revised, the professor said. It remains an open question whether a Saroyan rev... |
928766_1 | Police End Armed Protest for 'Free Venice' | which amounted to a miniature invasion of Venice. Men in jumpsuits, their heads shrouded by ski masks, burst through the bronze doors of the Campanile, reappearing minutes later on the columned balcony near the top of the huge brick bell tower, where they unfurled the golden pennant with the lion of St. Mark, the symbo... |
928789_1 | Furry Hazard: Bear Caught on Golf Course | interrupted their game. ''We heard there was a hazard,'' said one golfer, Richard Sporn, with a smile. Two agents from the Environmental Conservation Department dangled the bear from a pulleylike scale and found that it weighed 195 pounds. They took its temperature, gave it a shot of penicillin to ward off infection an... |
931689_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | new cease-fire that would allow Sinn Fein to participate in peace talks. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Mo Mowlam, and the head of the Sinn Finn delegation, Martin McGuinness, both doubted a cease-fire could be arranged by June 3, when formal talks resume. A9 New Party in South Africa Roelf Meyer announced that ... |
931604_2 | I.R.A. Wing And British Hold Meeting | Northern Ireland politicians and strategists on both sides in this Protestant-dominated province by inviting Sinn Fein to renew contacts with the British Government. ''The settlement train is leaving,'' he said in a speech here last Friday. ''I want you on that train.'' But he warned that if the I.R.A. violence continu... |
933053_0 | Label Engineered Foods | To The Living Section: Marian Burros's article on genetically engineered foods (Eating Well: ''Trying to Get Labels on Genetically Altered Food,'' May 21) should be a wake-up call to consumers to demand labeling of such foods. While agribusiness claims to be furthering productivity and nutrition, the reality is that th... |
933052_1 | Genetically Altered Food | Section: The article ''Trying to Get Labels on Genetically Altered Food'' by Marian Burros (Eating Well, May 21) misrepresents various aspects of the food labeling issue. The Food and Drug Administration has said that food labeling must be both accurate and ''material.'' The agency has emphasized that the genetic metho... |
932519_1 | Blair's Undaunted Envoy to Ulster: Devil or Angel? | to the Clinton Administration to help draw all parties into peace talks and reiterated calls for an I.R.A. cease-fire before Sinn Fein can be allowed to join the formal peace negotiations, the Associated Press reported. ''We need that cease-fire before progress can be made,'' she said. Sinn Fein and British officials m... |
932573_0 | Better Birth Control | To the Editor: A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences (front page, May 18) assessed the costs and benefits of immigration. It is useful to place immigration in the context of domestic population growth. The 1.5 million births resulting from unplanned pregnancies will have a greater population impact this y... |
932498_3 | Sharing Ganges Waters, India and Bangladesh Test the Depth of Cooperation | East will be over water, not politics,'' Mr. Boutros-Ghali said. Many of the world's great rivers flow across national frontiers, and over the centuries there have been disputes. These have only sharpened as environmental issues have compounded age-old conflicts over water-sharing. In a 1993 study, Population Action In... |
932128_3 | Mob Metaphysician | all night in my library. Machiavelli said some interesting things about the practical necessity of breaking promises, but I couldn't ignore what Socrates said about fidelity to your superiors. Finally at dawn I came across something in Kant's ''The Metaphysics of Morals'': ''A categorical imperative would be one which ... |
932544_4 | MODERATE LEADER IS ELECTED IN IRAN BY A WIDE MARGIN | said one of the first priorities would be legalizing political parties, which have been effectively outlawed since the revolution. ''Of course Mr. Khatami will not continue the present restrictions on the press and media,'' Mr. Borghani said. ''He will have an open policy toward them.'' Mr. Borghani also suggested that... |
932209_0 | Familiar Enough, in Religion It's the Stained-Glass Ceiling | WOMEN in the church refer to it as ''the stained-glass ceiling.'' They are gaining acceptance as pastors, priests and spiritual leaders in many denominations, but women in religion cope with career barriers remarkably similar to those of their sisters in corporate America. Women now comprise between 40 percent and 50 p... |
932571_0 | Report Oversells Immigration's Meager Benefits | To the Editor: Anyone who reads beyond the first two paragraphs of ''Academy's Report Says Immigration Benefits the U.S.'' (front page, May 18) has to wonder, What benefits? The alleged benefit appears to be a $10 billion annual increase in gross national product in a $7 trillion economy. That is a one-seventh of 1 per... |
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