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932572_0 | Help Workers Compete | To the Editor: In your May 18 front-page article on the National Academy of Sciences immigration report, James P. Smith, who led the study, is quoted as saying that though native-born Americans without a high school education have seen their wages fall slightly, the vast majority of Americans are enjoying a healthier e... |
932207_1 | On a Clear Day, Nary a Sludge Ball | 100 miles out to sea. At the same time, vast coastal development was overwhelming old sewage and storm-drain systems. Not to mention the river of raw sewage and trash launched into the sea whenever rainwater caused New York City's ancient sewers to overflow. Three years later, the ocean ''basically puked,'' said Ms. Zi... |
932166_2 | Q. & A. | the time of the conversion to rental use is substituted for the actual cost if that value is lower. So, Mr. Miller said, if the letter writer bought the house in 1987 for $129,000, and $119,000 of the price was attributable to the structure -- land is not depreciable -- he would have been entitled to a depreciation ded... |
932485_0 | Thanks, Dad -- For Your Job | Along with a new diploma to hang on the wall and old college loans to pay off, most members of the class of '97 are leaving college with something else: a job. Students who entered college when much of the country was still waiting to recover from recession now are graduating into the best job market in memory, especia... |
930416_0 | Blair Makes Offer To Renew Contact With I.R.A. Wing | In a speedy change in London's policy toward Northern Ireland, the new Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, said today that he would allow British officials to resume contact with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Mr. Blair emphasized that renewing official contact depended on an absence of ... |
927388_1 | Revival of the Hudson Remains a Challenge | a long-known pollution problem persisting beneath the great waterway's glistening surface may be more difficult to solve than previously thought. On the positive side, though, 18 other public spaces like Irvington's have been created along the shoreline on both sides of the river from Albany to Irvington through Scenic... |
927637_5 | Deletion of Word in Welfare Bill Opens Foster Care to Big Business | Advoserv, he denied that children had been maltreated or that staff was short and attributed the allegations to disgruntled employees. Two of them, speaking on the condition that their names be withheld, acknowledged that they themselves had at times left severely self-abusive or aggressive children in physical restrai... |
927645_6 | Crews Are Scarce To Put Up Towers For New Digital TV | new one up,'' he said. Once a station finds a large plot of land for a tower, another challenge begins: winning permission to build it. Nobody, it seems, wants a tower in the backyard. ''It's easier to get permission to build a prison,'' Joseph Flaherty, a senior vice president for CBS, said jokingly. David Brotzman, a... |
927606_0 | Breaks for Mental Illness: Just What the Government Ordered | IMAGINE, for a moment, that you are Joe Widgetmaker, chief executive of a small family-owned company. You hire a blind person, you install Braille buttons in the elevator. You hire a paraplegic, you build a ramp and lower the water fountain. You do this because you are a nice guy. Not to mention that Federal law requir... |
906701_6 | Adelphi, a Little University With Big Ideas | was like throwing gasoline on the fire,'' he said. ''But it's important to realize that the fire was already there. It's a fight over university governance and the use of limited resources.'' The Grand Plan Visions of Adelphi As a Little Harvard Peter Diamandopoulos, descendant of an ancient land-holding family in Cret... |
911123_1 | Overseas, Attacks on Corruption | for corruption in the 1950's, especially in its customs office. A new Berlin-based organization called Transparency International, which runs workshops around the world on corruption-fighting, has published how-to manuals on its Web site. The most basic corruption-fighting steps require only firm leadership. Benjamin M... |
911143_0 | Biotechnology Company to Join Those Urging Labels on Genetically Altered Products | One of the world's biggest biotechnology companies is preparing to advocate that all genetically engineered crops and food products made from them be clearly labeled, a practice long demanded by opponents of genetic engineering but strongly opposed by farm and industry groups. The new policy by Novartis, a giant Swiss ... |
911103_1 | Closure On Vince Foster | Park Police and the F.B.I. concluded that he had committed suicide. His widow and his son were of the same view. But that did not settle the issue for some people on the extreme right. They have made the Foster case the centerpiece of an attack on President Clinton for a host of alleged crimes, from drug-smuggling to m... |
911095_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | a small biotechnology company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has the rights to technology for the production of genetically altered mammals that could produce therapeutic proteins in their milk. $(B8.$) Technology Spreading, Study Finds Disputing earlier conclusions that the Information Revolution is bypassing much of r... |
909083_1 | Middle Manager | center of the war-and-peace business, could easily make a living as an author, of fiction or fact. For this reason, among others, his book ''After the Dawn'' is a disappointment. There are frequent flashes of good writing and political insight. But to many of the questions arising naturally about him and his life's wor... |
909363_0 | Port Authority to Help Commuters Drive Smarter | The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is spending $24 million to reduce delays on and around the George Washington Bridge. This month, the Port Authority board approved installation of an ''intelligent transportation system'' to speed information about accidents, bridge jumpers and other reasons for delays to t... |
909454_0 | E-Mail Is Becoming a Conduit of Prejudice on Many Campuses | The first sign of trouble came in a nighttime phone call. Joon Park, a junior at Indiana University in Bloomington, listened as a frantic student told him on Jan. 31 that a hate message had been sent via electronic mail to 700 members of the Asian Students Association, the group of which Mr. Park is president. The obsc... |
909442_0 | Cuba's Bridge to the United States | GUESTS at Havana's old Hotel Nacional who watch television can now choose between grainy black-and-white films extolling the glory of the 1959 Communist Revolution or feature films on HBO like the cold war thriller ''The Hunt for Red October.'' The hotel's new telephone service enables quick computer links with New Yor... |
909463_3 | Bishop's Quiet Action Allows Priest Both Flock and Family | the former Soviet Union to be ordained by bishops operating outside the scrutiny of Communist authorities. The new priests, nominally under the authority of those European dioceses in which they were ordained, returned to the United States and Canada to serve immigrant Eastern Rite communities, he said. The Rev. John F... |
909077_7 | There's Nothing Conservative About the Classics' Revival | taking shape -- another form comparatively neglected by the canonists, though there has been an explosion of interest in it recently. Athens was one of the few Greek cities to boast that it had no forebears, that it literally sprang from its own earth -- was ''autochthonous.'' Perhaps that helps explain the short caree... |
909513_2 | Disputed Conservation Plan Could Be Model for Nation | environmentalists question whether the approach would serve any ecosystem well enough to be built into Federal law. The biggest sticking point, say these critics, is the plan's central feature: absolving landowners of further responsibility for protecting endangered species once the preserve system was in place. The Cl... |
909288_3 | The Classic Moment | as early as kindergarten. ''With the focus on multiculturalism, all sorts of people rise up out of the classical past,'' says William Mayer, lecturer in classics at Hunter College in New York. ''The ancient world -- Rome especially -- was multicultural for good and bad. Twenty-five years ago we looked at big events, da... |
908193_2 | For France, Sagging Self-Image and Esprit | swept to a series of victories in municipal elections, including the southern town of Vitrolles on Sunday. It has gained support precisely by attacking globalization -- portrayed as the death of national culture -- and the high unemployment said to stem from untrammeled market forces and immigration. With left and righ... |
908223_1 | New Vistas Open for Earthbound Astronomers | The images and data returned to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope since its 1993 repair -- a comet hitting Jupiter, a storm raging across thousands of miles of Saturn's surface and a nursery where stars are born, for example -- have amazed and delighted nonscientists as well as astronomers. And in the last two years,... |
910742_0 | No Longer an Island (Musically), Cuba Adds to Caribbean Mix | THE FIRST THING THAT ONE hears in Issac Delgado's voice is how distinct he is from other Afro-Cuban singers. Most of his notes don't seem to start anywhere; they fuzz into being. And though he can coo, he can also chant, hard and strong. Mr. Delgado is widely considered one of the best young singers in Cuba, and his ju... |
907371_1 | As Rebels Gain in Zaire, Army Morale Is Declining | Zaire, which by virtue of its size, population and mineral wealth is one of Africa's most important countries. Although Zaire, which is one-third the size of the United States, has never been stable, the catastrophic breakup of the country would be deeply troubling to many of the country's nine neighbors. Western alarm... |
906016_0 | Deflating an Inflation Worry | IN testimony before Congress two weeks ago, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, discussed his worries about the danger of wage inflation. Specifically, Mr. Greenspan is concerned that shortages of qualified people for job openings may lead to excessive wage offers to fill those jobs. Some people take this une... |
905856_5 | By Sternwheeler Along the Columbia | three-part tour. At our first stop, the Bonneville Dam Visitor Center, we viewed the enormous turbines as well as salmon and steelhead migrating up the fish ladder. The next sight, Multnomah Falls, was scenic, but a cloudburst discouraged exploration (in any case, the tour schedule left no time for the walking trails).... |
905858_4 | Not Just Cruise Ships Anymore | from $200 to $699, the last of which includes a treatment with a seaweed soap shower, medicinal mud pack, herbal steam bath and massage. Holland America is using an unusual approach to combining the vacation experience with additional revenue: Last month it bought an uninhabited, 2,400-acre island in the Bahamas, which... |
906086_0 | Remembering | To the Editor: Your article brings up the central issue of ''preserving'' ruins -- particularly concentration camps -- as historic monuments and memorials to the atrocities of World War II. To stabilize the inevitable process of decay, repairs must continually be undertaken. Consequently, the ruins are increasingly no ... |
906043_0 | F.Y.I. | Wind Breaker Q. I've heard that the Citicorp building at 53d Street and Lexington Avenue has some sort of giant concrete block on the roof to keep it from swaying too much in strong winds. How does it work? A. By sitting still. When the building sways in one direction, the 400-ton block of reinforced concrete doesn't. ... |
906106_1 | Potus Aurelius | was reading, the answer stayed comfortingly the same, year in, year out: Paul Johnson's ''Modern Times,'' a conservative history of the 20th century. (I wonder if he ever finished it.) Bob Dole was blunt about literature as P.R. accessory. Asked what book he'd like to curl up with on a free evening, he replied, ''Unlim... |
905868_2 | How to Find a Fit in the New Job Market | institutions throughout the country. He is looking for support from corporations, foundations and other sources, specifically $150,000 to hire sales, marketing and training staffs. Connecticut Department of Labor funds, which helped launch the program at Quinnipiac in Hamden, have run out, and he would also like money ... |
907019_3 | Lawmaker Sees a Gain for His Fight Against Abortions Overseas | members to vote on Mr. Smith's resolution. ''They probably are not going to be tied together in any way,'' Mr. Boehner said. Representative James C. Greenwood, Republican of Pennsylvania, an abortion rights supporter and a leader of the moderates on the issue, said they would not support a rule that simply allowed both... |
907022_0 | Disabled Adults Unshutter the World | John Bromley waits with childlike impatience for the arrival of his photography teacher, who has printed Mr. Bromley's latest roll of film -- exuberant images of friends at a local disco -- and is stopping by with contact sheets. Mr. Bromley, 39, has the sweet nature, garbled speech and facial distortions of Down syndr... |
906987_1 | Russia Is Selling Nuclear Reactors to India; U.S. Protests | military action, the Clinton Administration began a furious round of diplomacy to soothe tensions in the area. But Russian nuclear officials are unrepentant about their drive for foreign sales and say the sale of power plants to India will not enhance its military potential. ''We must expand our exports,'' Viktor N. Mi... |
907073_0 | New and Improved | To the Editor: By linking outdated criticisms of an expired tax credit program to an initiative from President Clinton, your Jan. 30 editorial almost ignores a year and a half of bipartisan effort in Congress to create a public-private tax credit program, the Work Opportunities Tax Credit, which is just getting under w... |
906989_1 | 4 Britons Recalled From Nigeria in Visa-Selling Investigation | well organized criminal rings. The United States and European countries are reluctant to grant visas to Nigerians out of the concern that they will remain in the country they visit. Nigerian newspapers have reported with delight the allegations that British citizens are involved in the illegal sales. A number of newspa... |
911820_2 | France Blasts European Parliament for Attacking Immigration Bill | conservative majority in the French Parliament to propose new regulations. That allowed the National Front to claim that it had the right position all along. One of the National Front's favorite arguments is that France cannot keep unwanted immigrants from Africa and Asia from sneaking into the country, because France ... |
908991_1 | Making Air Travel Safer | Lockerbie disaster. It need not happen again if the Clinton Administration has the will to follow through. The report aims to reduce the rate of fatal accidents by 80 percent within the next 10 years. It addresses three main areas -- safety, security and the air traffic control system. It would upgrade safety through m... |
909031_3 | Gone to Junkyards, Almost Every One | abandoned car. In 1989, the city got about $15 a car for 146,880 derelict cars, which added up to about $2.1 million. Last year, the average price had risen to $128 a car, so that even though the number of vehicles had dropped by 90 percent, to 17,218, the city still collected $2.2 million. In the 1980's, car owners wo... |
909027_1 | Amrom H. Katz, 81, Early Expert on Space Reconnaissance | he resigned in 1976. John Pike, an authority on space policy who is the director of the space policy project at the Federation of American Scientists, an organization that is based in Washington, said on Thursday that Mr. Katz's ''early studies made possible the reconnaissance satellites that were a mainstay of intelli... |
909871_0 | Can I.R.S. Be Far From Classroom Door? | To the Editor: Re ''Six Figures of Fun; It's Bonus Season on Wall Street'' (news article, Feb. 12): What a sad commentary when young men drop out of universities because they recognize their ability to make megabucks. Pity this country if some of our brightest individuals have lost the real reason for obtaining a colle... |
909748_0 | Amazon's Depths Yield Strange New World Of Unknown Fish | SINCE the middle of the last century, the Amazon River and its tributaries have provided passage to many an intrepid adventurer heading into South America's interior rain forests. But despite the fact that scientifically minded explorers have been floating down these waterways for more than 100 years, life in the river... |
908445_1 | Family Planning and Foreign Policy Are Linked, Albright Tells House Panel | environment and promoting economic growth.'' The family-planning programs have come under fire from anti-abortion forces, who contend that they are actually conduits for what many of them call President Clinton's worldwide ''abortion crusade.'' In addition, some opponents of the Administration's measure, like Steven W.... |
908395_2 | Panel to Recommend Steps For Cutting Air Crash Rate | against airplanes. *Randomly checking for explosives in packages of 16 ounces and more sent by mail. *Improving the identification of passengers at airports so airlines know whom they are flying. Identity checks now consist mostly of a glance at a passenger's driver's license. The commission also made some points that ... |
910129_2 | Trade Deficit Grew Sharply Last Year | latter, at least, subsequently subsiding. Exports, which hit a record in November, eased $1.1 billion, much of the decline reflecting lower foreign sales of soybeans and corn at the end of a year when early prospects of tight supplies gave way to bountiful harvests. But even as the overall deficit widened by nearly 30 ... |
910105_0 | Report Foreign Guests? French Tempers Flare | Even by the standards of an angry, sullen France, an unusual uprising is in the making: hundreds of French actors, film directors and cartoonists have said they are ready to go to jail if a new immigration bill is passed. More defiant still, many Government officials have publicly announced that they would ignore the p... |
910108_0 | International Terminals To Drop Airport Cart Fee | After endless complaints from airline passengers, self-service luggage carts will soon be available without charge in the international arrival terminals at the three major area airports. Passengers on domestic flights, however, will still have to pay $1.50 for a cart. The changeover is expected this spring, after the ... |
905641_0 | I.R.A., Not Britain, Sabotages Irish Peace | To the Editor: It is ironic that Edna O'Brien (Op-Ed, Jan. 25) accuses Prime Minister John Major of Britain of damaging the peace process in Northern Ireland because of his personal biases while her own article is a masterpiece of partisan rhetoric and one-sided reasoning. She criticizes David Trimble, the Ulster Union... |
905642_0 | Canada, Cuba and Rights | To the Editor: Last week's visit of Canada's Foreign Minister, Lloyd Axworthy, to Havana has evidently touched a nerve with you (editorial, Jan. 25). Since Cuba's Communist revolution in the late 1950's, Canada has combined normal diplomatic and trade relations with development assistance and low-key human rights work.... |
906373_1 | Pentagon to Help Peru Stop Drug Traffic on Jungle Rivers | Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the senior United States military commander in Latin America, ''and riverine interdiction is the heart of the next important step in disrupting the supply.'' The officials are proposing that Peruvian security forces do the actual interdicting, stepping up their incipient program of intercepting fr... |
906281_0 | Cyberspace Resumes Fit the Modern Job Hunt | A recent help-wanted newspaper advertisement instructed job seekers to send their resumes to hireme@concretemedia.com. Ads like this are proliferating and suggest it is time to dust off the electronic resume -- or hurry and write one. Many places on the World Wide Web offer simple forms for just that purpose. Electroni... |
907522_4 | In Celebration of Jackie Robinson | coins valued at $200 each. It's a process that usually takes 18 months, but we got it through in six weeks. People across the political spectrum, including Senators Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, signed on. Q. Are there a lot of special events for the anniversary year? A. Yes. There are events sponsored by some other ... |
907498_11 | Wilderness Deluxe | resort Getting There El Questro is in the East Kimberley, 55 miles from the city of Kununurra. Ansett Airlines flies into Kununurra from Darwin, Perth or Broome. Both Ansett and Qantas fly to Darwin and Perth from Australia's major cities. Chartered flights into El Questro run from about $40 a person, at a rate of 1.24... |
907524_3 | 30 Years Later, Florence Warily Watches the Arno | a greenhouse at the Boboli Gardens to provide a safe, controlled environment to slowly dry the hundreds of soaked panel paintings. In the 12 months that followed, Florentine restorers removed 27,000 square feet of wet and stained frescoes from their supporting walls, thereby preserving a significant part of Florence's ... |
907706_4 | A Quick Guide to Big Ideas, if You Didn't Get to Davos | its own risk: nearly everyone will be at risk for some disorder. How genetic profiles will be used -- including by insurance companies -- and who will have access to them remains a huge question. True confidentiality is unlikely. And what will happen if courts accept the idea that some criminal behavior has a genetic b... |
907938_17 | In a Golden Age of Discovery, Faraway Worlds Beckon | planet is passing across its face. If the project wins Federal approval in the next few months, the spacecraft, called Kepler, could be launched in March 2001; within a few weeks, it could detect some 2,400 new planets, including perhaps 100 that might have a size and solid surface like Earth's. A more ambitious concep... |
907988_2 | Data Service's Users Not Told Of Other Lines | AOLnet across the country, and still relies on Sprintnet for coverage in some rural areas. The company does volunteer Sprintnet access numbers in areas where AOLnet does not exist. But America Online volunteers no information about the usable Sprintnet numbers in area codes that cover cities like Atlanta, Boston, Chica... |
908032_3 | PRIVATE VENTURES HOPE FOR PROFITS ON SPY SATELLITES | to predict, but experts say at least a half-dozen are likely to be introduced in the next two or three years. ''Soon these won't just be applications on paper,'' said Michael Mignogno, head of licensing coordination at the Commerce Department. ''They'll be real assets in the sky.'' Makers of the satellites say the mark... |
912169_3 | In China's Far West, Tensions With Ethnic Muslims Boil Over in Riots and Bombings | is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a large irrigation project that would allow one million Sichuan immigrants to move into the region. None of the funding will benefit Uighur lands, he said. Last week, residents interviewed in the border town of Khourgos near Yining said that Muslims living in Xinjiang had... |
910505_0 | World Forestry Talks End in Division on Whether to Curb Logging | With the world's forests continuing to shrink, more than 70 governments ended two years of talks today deeply divided over whether to propose binding steps to curb overlogging. Senior environmental ministers meeting in April might yet breathe life into the proposal when discussions continue at a commission monitoring p... |
911354_1 | Study Faults President's Plan for Tuition Aid | would be more effective, the report says, to focus on Pell Grants, a program based on need. Mr. Clinton has proposed that the maximum available from Pell Grants be increased to $3,000 from $2,700. ''Tax policy is very useful in promoting affordability for higher education -- we think that is a good thing,'' said Jamie ... |
911364_4 | Success in Cloning Hardly Insures Profit | altered animals, and its purported advantages in relation to alternatives. James McCamant, editor of the Agbiotech stock letter, had written on PPL before last weekend, but he does not recommend buying the stock. ''This announcement doesn't increase the value of the company significantly; it just attracts attention,'' ... |
911286_1 | A Dam Open, Grand Canyon Roars Again | the experiment really panned out? The formal reports from a corps of scientists are only now coming in, and the picture is decidedly mixed. The flood did build many new beaches, sand bars and backwaters. Some of the beaches made superb camp sites for the canyon's abundant river rafters. But the deluge was not strong en... |
911317_6 | In Trump Revision, Highway Stays and Park Goes | the worst of both worlds: the highway is still elevated, there is no unimpeded access to the river, and the buildings, while smaller than originally proposed, are far from demure. Mr. Nadler does not mourn the passing of the park, however, calling it a $10 million-an-acre ''private backyard for the people who live in t... |
909592_0 | Driven to Distraction Seems to Be Rule | To the Editor: The study of the relationship between accidents and cellular-phone use (news article, Feb. 13) doesn't surprise me. Personally, I find I have more trouble dialing than talking. Hitting the 7 key seems to be difficult unless I'm making a left turn, for example. I think the cellular equivalent of being rea... |
909667_3 | U.S. Sours on Flowers From Andes | million in campaign funds from drug traffickers. President Samper has repeatedly denied the charges. Robert S. Gelbard, the Assistant Secretary of State for Narcotics Matters, said on Friday that ''the Government of Colombia has failed, in our view, to follow through on promised counter-narcotics action,'' and had not ... |
909660_4 | In a Culture of Hysterectomies, Many Question Their Necessity | and that it continues to perform essential functions even after menopause. Not only does it respond to hormones -- as everybody who has menstruated is well aware -- it creates a few compounds of its own. Among these are beta-endorphins, the body's innate painkillers, and a type of prostaglandin called prostacyclin, whi... |
909699_0 | Driven to Distraction Seems to Be Rule | To the Editor: The study on the potential hazards of using a cellular telephone while driving (news article, Feb. 13; editorial, Feb. 14) may obscure the nature of the problem. Rather than concluding that cellular telephones are hazardous when used while driving, as if they were directly responsible for altering the dr... |
909619_0 | Recycling Advocates Don't Take Less News Coverage Lightly | If recycling rules are revamped, and no one writes about it, will consumer behavior change? It is not as profound as the noise value of falling trees in forests, but the news value of recycling has become a sore topic among the practice's advocates. ''Los Angeles expanded its program last year, and the best we could do... |
906479_0 | Unlock Family Planning Funds | Responding to pressure from anti-abortion activists, Congress has put so many restrictions on spending for international family planning programs that, according to the Clinton Administration, millions of people in developing countries are being denied access to contraceptives. America's role in population planning has... |
908660_0 | French Are Right to Question Changing World | To the Editor: As a French-American, I was saddened to read your Feb. 11 front-page article. France's right-wing National Front does not offer solutions, only illusions. It promotes censorship by removing books from libraries and xenophobia by blaming foreigners for all the country's ills. The French must accept the tr... |
908585_0 | Researchers Warn Driving and Phone Chats Don't Mix | Talking on a cellular telephone while driving may not cause brain cancer, as was once suggested, but two Canadian researchers have evidence that it is hazardous to health. In fact, the investigators report, talking on a cellular telephone while driving is as dangerous as driving while at the threshhold of legal intoxic... |
908595_7 | In Era of Belt-Tightening, Modest Gains for Workers | and front-end loaders, Donald Benton, an electrician, reported that other offers were his most useful tool. He joined the project last May to win a modest raise -- electricians average about $17 an hour -- and escape a new manager he did not like. About two months ago, he and two friends announced they were ready to qu... |
908661_0 | French Are Right to Question Changing World | To the Editor: In your Feb. 11 front-page article, President Jacques Chirac of France is reported as speaking dismissively of the Internet as ''an Anglo-Saxon network.'' The original remark, ''un reseau anglo-saxon,'' seems more intelligent when translated as ''an English-language network.'' GERARD MRYGLOT New York, Fe... |
908596_1 | Dispute at American Airlines Draws Clinton Plea | have to say about it.'' Airline and union negotiators continued to meet throughout the day here, after the pilots rejected management's latest pay offer. An American spokesman said that the airline had canceled its overseas flights for Friday night, except for flights to London, to assure that its planes would not be s... |
908659_0 | French Are Right to Question Changing World | To the Editor: You argue (front page, Feb. 11) that much of the despair and unemployment in France's ghetto-suburbs, as well as the country's perceived loss of its commanding position in the world, can be traced to a prevalent anti-business attitude and fear of the cyber culture. How then do we explain the horrifying c... |
908506_0 | A Rescue Plan For a Mansion Dying of Neglect | IN 1931, Villa Cavrois, a low-slung, yellow-brick mansion in Croix, a suburb of the French city of Lille, was heralded as the masterpiece of Robert Mallet-Stevens, an architect who built extravagant Cubist follies for avant-garde aristocrats. Today, humbled by graffiti and rust, it looks like an abandoned factory. Rich... |
908658_0 | French Are Right to Question Changing World | To the Editor: ''For France, Sagging Self-Image and Esprit'' (front page, Feb. 11) suggests that France has committed the unpardonable error of ignoring marketing lessons learned at Stanford University by a new generation of French. And France compounds the error by a less than enthusiastic embrace of the Internet. Mor... |
910364_1 | U.S. WON'T OFFER TRADE TESTIMONY ON CUBA EMBARGO | though an Administration official briefing reporters today said, ''We do not believe anything the W.T.O. says or does can force the U.S. to change its laws.'' The central issue in the increasingly bitter dispute is Europe's claim that the United States has violated international law by imposing penalties on foreign com... |
911589_0 | The Drug-Certification Dance | This week President Clinton will decree which countries the United States deems uncooperative with American anti-drug efforts. The decision has been dominated by the question of whether Washington will be honest and deny full certification to Mexico, a close ally with a big corruption problem. The politicization of the... |
911684_0 | Cuba Embargo No Longer Makes Policy Sense | To the Editor: Your Feb. 21 front-page article on the upset between the United States and the World Trade Organization mentions Havana's expropriation of the American-owned Cuban telephone system. This historical example is frequently used to justify United States economic sanctions on Cuba. The Cuban Telephone Company... |
908770_1 | British Soldier's Death in Ulster Raises Fears of New Violence | should stay away. Prime Minister John Bruton of Ireland said after the shooting, ''The I.R.A. campaign is anti-Irish and contrary to the interests of all in Ireland.'' Mr. Bruton, who faces a national election later in the year, has already been attacked by political opponents as head of a Government that lost the peac... |
908840_0 | Shut Up and Drive | Sometimes it takes real effort and ingenuity to prove the obvious. Such is the case with the work of two University of Toronto researchers who have published a report in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating that driving while talking on a cellular phone is a bad idea. The Toronto study examined 699 drivers... |
907224_0 | North Korea Agrees to Take Taiwan Atom Waste for Cash | Facing famine and desperate for hard currency, North Korea has agreed to accept up to 200,000 barrels of nuclear waste from Taiwan, in exchange for tens of millions of dollars. The deal has enraged South Korea, which is less than 40 miles from the reported disposal site in North Korea. As a result, the arrangement is a... |
907249_1 | 135,000 Children to Be Struck From Disability Benefit Rolls | tandem with Mr. Clinton's budget today, set standards to be used in evaluating disabilities under the new law, which allows disability benefits only for people with ''severe functional limitations.'' Advocates for the disabled said the rules were more restrictive than necessary. But Administration officials said even m... |
1255849_2 | U.S. Approves Part of Plan for a Gas Pipeline in New Jersey | Transcontinental originally wanted to install the entire project by the end of this year, but later asked for the four-year delay to finish its biggest piece. ''We take that as a signal they're going to need a long time to get those contracts or may not be able to get them,'' he said. Transcontinental executives, howev... |
1255957_32 | What's Tab Turner Got Against Ford? | of discovery documents collected in the course of hundreds of lawsuits, he knew that one of Ford's biggest worries in designing both the Bronco II and its successor, the Explorer, was the rollover problem. Turner knew from Ford's own road-test results that one factor affecting rollover was the tires' size and air press... |
1255798_0 | In a First for Swiss, Women in Geneva Gain Maternity Benefits | Working women in Geneva canton will be the first in Switzerland to receive mandatory maternity benefits, raising hopes among advocates that Switzerland will not be the only country in Western Europe without such paid leave for much longer. Cantonal lawmakers approved the legislation this week; it is to take effect in J... |
1256096_0 | Commercial Property/Connecticut; Housing Is Replacing Planned Stamford Offices | ALL through the 80's, office buildings popped out of the ground in Stamford like crocuses in spring, but no one gave much thought to where the employees would live. As the housing supply shrank and prices rose, they settled in communities up the line, their vehicles flooding the highways, railroad parking lots and Stam... |
1252492_0 | Negligence Suit Is Filed Over Altered Corn | A class-action lawsuit accuses the developer of StarLink, a variety of bioengineered corn that accidentally entered the food supply, of harming American farmers through negligence. The suit, filed on Friday in United States District Court in East St. Louis, Ill., on behalf of farmers, is the first to seek damages. It c... |
1252542_0 | Neagle Leans to Rockies Despite the Mets' Efforts | The Yankees did not make much of an effort to keep pitcher Denny Neagle in New York, but the Mets did, making a strong offer to the veteran left-hander. But Neagle is close to signing with the Colorado Rockies, he said last night, and he will be in Denver today for a medical examination that seems to be the last hurdle... |
1253649_0 | Cuba Threatens to Cut Off Phone Service to the States | In a season when Cubans traditionally reach out to one other across the Florida Straits, the Cuban government announced today that it would cut off phone service with the United States next week unless American phone companies paid a new 10 percent tax. President Fidel Castro of Cuba first announced the surcharge in Oc... |
1253625_3 | Analysts Turn to P.R. To Market Themselves | with patients by e-mail and conducts psychoanalytic sessions by telephone with patients who are traveling, as psychotherapists long have. He says that using such technology is not such a big departure for psychoanalysis. ''There are some aspects of e-mail communication that strikingly replicate some aspects of the psyc... |
1253733_0 | GREEN LIGHT FOR PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX | BASF of Germany and Sinopec of China said they had set up a joint venture to build a $3 billion petrochemical complex in Nanjing in eastern China that will begin production in 2004. The project had been tied up in China's complex approval process for years. Craig Smith (NYT) WORLD BUSINESS BRIEFING: ASIA |
1253615_0 | U.S. Academic Research | To the Editor: A Dec. 2 letter, commenting on the right of graduate students to unionize at universities, criticized the quality of American academic research. If American research universities produce low-quality research and have minimal economic impact, why are they the envy of the world? By any measure of success, ... |
1253627_3 | World Briefing | wall that divided the city. Checkpoint Charlie was featured in many spy novels and became known for its ''You Are Leaving the American Sector'' sign. A development company said the wall's destruction was ordered because new office and business premises are to be built there. Victor Homola (NYT) BRITAIN: CELL PHONE STUD... |
1252100_1 | Reading, Writing and . . . Work? Not Always | the Wesleyan University library in Middletown are longer because fewer students have applied to work there. And Albertus Magnus College in New Haven has turned to temporary employment agencies to fill clerical jobs traditionally held by students. ''We've offered cash and other incentives,'' said Janet Freniere, manager... |
1252058_4 | A Renovation Causes Trouble in Paradise | commission is considering. Mr. Kimmerle said that as an architect he frequently appears before zoning agencies and historic commissions and is used to working toward a compromise. But in the borough, he said, the commission, the historical society and some neighbors have repeatedly rebuffed his attempts to meet and agr... |
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