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1197729_0 | April 30-May 6; A Taste for Safety | The Clinton Administration announced it will strengthen its rules on regulating the safety of genetically engineered foods because of growing consumer concerns. Under the plan, biotechnology companies will have to talk to regulators about the safety of their new foods before putting them in supermarkets. That discussio... |
1197692_4 | Being Heard In a Church That's Changed | alienate Catholics. ''If a bishop communicates in a pastorally sensitive way, it will have an impact, and people's minds and hearts will come around,'' Mr. Hudson said. Liberals in the church disagree, arguing that no archbishop in the United States is likely to attain real national influence unless he can somehow clos... |
1197684_5 | Dam in Turkey May Soon Flood A '2nd Pompeii' | ''We were comfortable and prosperous until the government came. Now even old stones are considered more important than we are. People are working to save the stones, but no one's doing anything for us.'' The dam that stands just half a mile from the site is part of the multibillion-dollar Southeast Anatolia Project, wh... |
1197332_8 | What Do We Talk About When We Are Paying Someone to Listen | of marital tensions. I think that is a very important part of our culture. Also the whole question of to what extent libidinal satisfactions are obtained outside of personal realms. Lear: What do you mean by that? Bergmann: Well, let's say a professional whose satisfaction is entirely in terms of her relationship to he... |
1197601_0 | For Biotech Food, We Need Full Labeling | To the Editor: The Clinton administration's new proposal regarding agricultural biotechnology (news article, May 4) is a welcome acknowledgment that current oversight needs improvement, but the proposal is inadequate. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed making consultations mandatory for institutions that are... |
1197614_3 | Ideas & Trends: All Connected; Cellular Phones: The Weapon of Choice for Self-Defense | who are being required to install bulletproof partitions that separate the front seat of the car from the back. A criminal sociologist at San Diego State University, William C. Kennedy, said perception in crime fighting is often as important as reality, noting that cell phones make people feel safer -- whether on highw... |
1197353_1 | 'The Oresteia,' Bearer of Many Agendas | original, undiluted form. Of course, the Greek classics are always in style and always relevant. But ''The Oresteia'' occupies a privileged position in the Western canon, in part because it is the only surviving example of an ancient Greek tragic trilogy. Factor in the work's profound themes -- guilt, the legacy of vio... |
1197673_4 | Charles Boxer, a Legend in Love and War, Dies at 96 | after a long convalescence was sent to a prisoner of war camp for the war's duration. His rare book collection, which centered on the Dutch and Portuguese empires, was sufficiently celebrated in East Asia to be seized by the Japanese for the Imperial Library in Tokyo. He was able to recover most of it after the war. Th... |
1197682_4 | IN BREAKTHROUGH, I.R.A. WILL ALLOW ARMS INSPECTIONS | talks began. ''There is now very little violence, tourism is beginning to flourish, and economic activity is moving up,'' he said. ''People want to move away from the past.'' The British and Irish, who are sponsors of the talks that resulted in the April 1998 peace accord, announced that the promised inspections of the... |
1200661_1 | Disabled Girl Is Found Dead, Amid Signs of Malnutrition | official said. ''We don't know if this was neglectful, if it was a mother incapable of doing the right thing, or if it was a mother who was doing the right thing.'' Late yesterday evening, Alberta Hanley of Harlem, the child's paternal grandmother, whose call brought the police to the child's death bed, provided a copy... |
1200583_0 | Frederick Coggan, an Archbishop of Canterbury, Dies at 90 | Frederick Donald Coggan, a former archbishop of Canterbury and the first spiritual head of the Church of England to support the ordination of women, died on Wednesday night in a nursing home in southern England. He died after a long illness, according to a statement from Lambeth Palace, official home of the archbishops... |
1200620_2 | Southern Baptist Consider Check on Women as Pastors | of faith is a very concrete representation of what Baptists believe,'' Mr. Mohler said, adding that it was ''appropriate that every generation'' be able to consider such revisions. ''One of the issues that is important here is that the opposition to the idea of a woman serving as pastor is not culturally driven,'' he s... |
1200683_3 | Scientists Find a Particularly Female Response to Stress | nursing, both with maternal behavior and with social affiliation. And animals and people with high oxytocin levels, researchers have found, are calmer, more social and less anxious. But the effects of oxytocin during stress, Dr. Taylor and her colleagues found in their review, appear to vary between males and females. ... |
1200559_4 | When Americans Awoke to Modern Styles | a designer of productions for the theater, the opera and films, later did streamlined cars for Chrysler and Plymouth and the Futurama Pavilion for the '39 World's Fair. In 1940 he designed what has become the show's icon: the cheerful little ''Patriot'' radio for Emerson, a plastic portable whose grille is striped in r... |
1200618_4 | Scientists Offer a Vision of New Tools to Explore Space | really helps to hear that that is the No. 1 priority of this extremely distinguished group of astronomers.'' The telescope, which Dr. Kinney said could be launched by the end of the decade, would cost roughly a billion dollars and involve gossamer-like materials that would fold up on launching and be unfurled to create... |
1200611_1 | Conflicting Views Hinder Dissidents on China Trade Vote | China stops listening to what the United States says about human rights,'' said Wei Jingsheng, one of China's best-known dissidents, who spent 18 years in Chinese prison before becoming an exile in this country. Mr. Wei, 50 years old, said he moved temporarily to Washington from New York so that he could lobby full-tim... |
1199000_0 | Roundworm Study May Raise Doubts About Cell Phone Safety | British scientists report that microwave radiation can indirectly damage roundworms. Their data, the investigators say, bear on the question of whether cellular telephones are safe. But several American scientists questioned whether the worm experiments had anything to do with cell phone safety. The study, by David de ... |
1198993_3 | Homer Thompson Dies at 93; Led Excavation of the Agora | taught his classes at the University of Toronto. In 1947, he was appointed professor of classical archaeology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where he spent the rest of his scholarly life. He was named director of the Agora excavations the same year. In 1949, with the end of Greece's civil war, ... |
1198984_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA INDONESIA: ACEH TRUCE -- The government and representatives of separatist rebels from Aceh Province signed an agreement described as a ''humanitarian pause,'' resulting in the first cease-fire in more than two decades. While both sides welcomed the truce, signed at an undisclosed location in Geneva, as a milestone... |
1198976_0 | Amid a Thaw, Cuba Studies Get Hot; Suddenly Researchers Are Flocking to Long-Closed Archives | Rebecca J. Scott, a history professor at the University of Michigan, had just finished presenting a paper at a conference in Cienfuegos, a provincial capital in central Cuba, when one of the translators suggested that she might like to meet his grandfather. A few hours later, Ms. Scott was introduced to 96-year-old Tom... |
1201395_2 | The Fresh Air Fund; Weekend Is Interlude For Serenity | at camp was a peek at a very different world. ''In the city you don't have a place to walk to go get breakfast,'' he said. ''Here you do, and they have a pool.'' The families who went to the 25 acres of forest and fields in Camp Hidden Valley visited the arts and crafts cabin, where the children made Mother's Day cards... |
1201277_9 | Spoonfuls of Hope, Tons of Pain; In Brazil's Sugar Empire, Workers Struggle With Mechanization | road on his plantation at 80 miles an hour in his alcohol-powered Volkwagen sedan, one hand on the wheel, the other motioning in the air. ''What do they want us to do, flood the world market with sugar?'' Actually, that is exactly what is happening. As the usineiros wade their way through the free market, many of the 1... |
1201043_0 | An Antique Galley For Lake Geneva | Maritime history buffs and the just plain curious have been trickling into the Lake Geneva town of Morges, Switzerland, for the past four years to witness an odd bit of living history -- the construction of a 17th-century-style galley powered in part by sails and up to more than 200 oarsmen. The brainchild of Swiss shi... |
1202168_0 | Europe Refuses to Drop Ban on Hormone-Fed U.S. Beef | The European Union decided today to extend its ban on beef produced with growth hormones, rejecting demands by the United States and the World Trade Organization to drop the prohibition. The decision reignites an ideologically charged battle between American cattle ranchers, most of whom use hormones to accelerate beef... |
1202182_2 | Economic Scene; Work visas are allowing Washington to sidestep immigration reform. | Going even further, Professor Borjas favors setting the threshold so that the number of immigrants entering the United States falls from about 900,000 to about 500,000 a year. The total number can be debated. If nothing else, this policy would be transparent. Who should become an American? The question is profound, inv... |
1200097_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: GOVERNMENT DELAY -- Britain dropped hopes of restoring the suspended power-sharing government in Belfast on Monday after leaders of the Ulster Unionists objected to proposals for restricting the flying of the Union Jack from government buildings and for changing the Royal Ulster Constabulary's ... |
1200119_3 | Delta joins the war of the carry-on bag by enlarging its overhead bins. | bag they can bring on -- or how many.'' The average business traveler made 21 trips last year and stayed 48 nights in hotels, according to the 1999 OAG Worldwide Business Travel Lifestyle Survey. Both averages are up from the year before. International business travel is also increasing, the OAG says. Focusing on the g... |
1200091_0 | Discovering the Finer Side of Rum | A FELLOW on the Internet says that he has collected 3,688 different rum labels from 81 countries. If he's correct (and he offers to show his collection to anyone interested), then there are probably more rums than there are brands of beer. More conservative accounts put the number of rums around the world at about 1,50... |
1200040_2 | Tread Dread: Solving The Mystery of Tires | want more road grip, better mud-and-snow traction or a longer life span for tires. ''The replacement market is a different animal,'' said Robert Carroll, the vice president of original equipment marketing for Michelin. ''What you're looking at is trying to service a customer to meet his consumer needs.'' Getting a grip... |
1200138_2 | Lessons; The Internet and Schools: A Vision and the Reality | Internet effectively is a truly daunting management challenge -- a lesson that corporate America relearns daily at frightful cost. School districts are in way over their heads. As many of the technology vendors at the show readily agreed, teachers and students need more time and training than they are getting to exploi... |
1200128_0 | Corrections | An article by Reuters in Science Times yesterday about the latest government report on causes of cancer misidentified the cancer that has been linked to the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. It is endometrial, not ovarian. |
1196714_0 | Rural School Is Now Wired to the World | The day began as it always does in Mrs. Wetherbee's third-grade class at Willow Creek Elementary School, and it proceeded routinely, from the Pledge of Allegiance through reading, writing exercises, math, science, geography and phys ed. But the class itself was unusual in a striking way: Nine-year-old Diamond Forbes is... |
1196755_0 | U.S. to Keep a Closer Watch On Genetically Altered Crops | Trying to ease consumer fears about genetically engineered foods, the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it would tighten its review of the products and develop guidelines for companies wanting to label them. The food and drug agency's announcement is part of a broader plan by the Clinton administrat... |
1196658_0 | As Gadgets Shrink, They May Wind Up in Surprising Places | THE standard advice may be ''take two aspirin and call me in the morning.'' But it soon may become ''take these tablets and they will call me in the morning'' -- and in the afternoon and evening. That is what some researchers are predicting for the fast-growing field of embedded computing -- a futuristic place of micro... |
1196722_0 | A Nature Group Contracts to Buy and Preserve One of the Last Pristine Pacific Atolls | In a bid to preserve one of the most pristine places left in the tropical Pacific, the Nature Conservancy has agreed to buy Palmyra atoll, a spectacular cluster of uninhabited coral islets 1,052 miles south of Hawaii, from the Honolulu family that has owned it for nearly 80 years. The conservancy plans to create a natu... |
1196717_0 | Birthrate Dips in Ex-Communist Countries | The collapse of Communism in 1989 produced a sharp drop in the fertility rate throughout Eastern and Central Europe that could reduce the region's population nearly 20 percent by the year 2050, according to a United Nations report issued today. With political collapse and economic uncertainty, many women almost immedia... |
1198185_0 | In Quest of Help for the Autistic | To the Editor: Re your May 6 front-page article about people's moving to places like New Jersey to avail themselves of the generous support given to children with autism: I was in the position for my 30 years on a child study team in New Jersey to take part in these placements. While I acknowledge the high cost to the ... |
1198054_2 | The Pill at 40: New Uses for a Drug That Changed Society | warnings and stimulated research that resulted in safer products containing far smaller hormone doses, less than one-hundredth the amount of estrogen in the original pill. All the oral contraceptives work by suppressing the pituitary hormones that prompt the ovaries to release eggs ripe for fertilization. Most products... |
1196545_1 | U.S. Plans Tougher Stance On Safety of Biotech Food | the safety of such foods, which are now included as ingredients in most processed foods sold in American supermarkets. ''The goal is to increase consumer confidence in the food supply,'' said the official, who would speak only on the condition of not being named. But some consumer groups criticized the plan last night,... |
1196556_1 | Recalling a Victory for the Disabled | meeting the promises it made in the settlement, and no reparations, or even apologies, have been made. The participants acknowledged that the decree had succeeded, to a degree. Only 8 of the state's 20 mental institutions remain, and the number of people in such institutions has decreased to fewer than 1,000 from 25,00... |
1196424_1 | Why Are These Commuters Smiling? | spent an average of 45 hours a year sitting in traffic, up from 16 hours in 1982. Los Angeles had the highest average delay, at 82 hours. Users of mass transportation, though smaller in number, tell horror stories of delayed trains and overcrowded subway platforms. Yet, a breed of worker is flourishing that actually li... |
1196574_0 | Maybe They Should Just Send In a Camera Crew | Keystrokes and phone calls, log-ons and e-mail messages -- increasingly, these workday activities are falling under employers' scrutiny. The number of companies that engaged in at least one form of surveillance of workers surged to 66 percent this year from 45 percent in 1999, according to an American Management Associ... |
1198355_0 | PATAKI PROPOSES A FISCAL BAILOUT OF NASSAU COUNTY | Gov. George E. Pataki went to Nassau County today offering a $100 million state bailout to help one of the nation's wealthiest counties avert financial ruin. In return, the debt-ridden county has to allow the state to monitor its finances and future budgets and agree to make large spending cuts over the next four years... |
1201527_4 | Renting Software and the Skills to Go With It | with USinternetworking to deliver application services over AT&T's planned high-speed networks through an AT&T program called Ecosystem. Eventually, analysts predict, buying a business network computing service will be like choosing a telephone calling plan. ''Businesses aren't going to say, 'I want a D.S.L. line,' '' ... |
1201549_3 | Two inventors honored for seminal work on the balloon catheter and wireless communications. | hooked. By the time he was 12, he had patched together his own ham radio from junkyard parts. At age 16, he earned his amateur radio operator's license. But Mr. Gross was restless being anchored to the desk-bound ham radio. ''I wanted to be able to walk around and talk to other hams,'' Mr. Gross said. He experimented w... |
1201518_0 | Tinkering With Food | To the Editor: ''Crop Genetics on the Line in Brazil'' (Business Day, May 16) points to the need for all countries to ban genetically modified foods quickly. Such a ban should not be lifted until there is proof that tampering with the integrity of food will not adversely affect the health of those who are exposed to a ... |
1201556_4 | Agent's Role In Music Site May Be Shift In Rights War | based in San Mateo, Calif., has been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for reportedly facilitating music piracy in a pending case that many expect to set a precedent. The association, and the five major record labels it represents, say its artists are losing tens of millions of dollars a year becaus... |
1203165_1 | ULSTER UNIONISTS BACK A JOINT ROLE WITH I.R.A.'S ALLIES | disappointment last November, when he won his party's support for agreeing to joint rule with Sinn Fein the first time. That government was suspended by Britain after only nine weeks, when the I.R.A. failed to respond with expected moves to begin disarming. ''We have operated in reliance on promises made by the republi... |
1203163_0 | Cell Phones Proliferate on Highways, Raising Safety Concerns | As millions of Americans travel this Memorial Day weekend they are joined by family, friends and what has become for many an indispensable companion on a car trip, the cellular phone. Tens of thousands of other drivers will also be on the highways equipped with wireless and Internet hookups in vehicles that can deliver... |
1175644_3 | Web Attacks Might Have Many Sources | e-commerce session. The large number of requests overwhelms the victim's servers, preventing customers from gaining access to the site. To prevent any tracing of these requests, the vandals employ a practice called spoofing, which alters the initiating address. The second type, known as a smurf attack, again involves t... |
1180293_5 | Return Passage to India: Emigres Pay Back | magnetic pull on Indian students and other Indian professionals. Last year, a third of the 115,000 visas the United States issued to skilled workers went to Indians. ''Can I be frank?'' asked Suman Kar, a 20-year-old senior at the Bombay institute, as he explained why he has accepted a job in Silicon Valley. ''It's the... |
1180165_1 | New Method of Altering Plants Is Aimed at Sidestepping Critics | over the role of genetic engineering in agricultural biotechnology. Dr. Jefferson argues that the high degree of genetic overlap between the plants -- indeed, among all living things -- suggests that much of the gene swapping among species that has stirred up so much opposition to genetic engineering may be unnecessary... |
1180275_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | pages in a prison cell as he awaited execution. (Reuters) ISRAEL: ENVOY GOES HOME -- With negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians still at an impasse, the State Department's chief Middle East peace negotiator, Dennis Ross, said he was returning to Washington to consult with the White House. His week of meeting... |
1178710_2 | City's Rules For Shelters Held Illegal | today isn't about whether work is good or bad for people. It's clearly in no one's interest to have New Yorkers who suffer from mental or physical or social dysfunction on the sidewalks of the city, and that's what today's decision prevents.'' Lawyers for the city had argued that safeguards would distinguish between pe... |
1178772_0 | Women's Earnings: What a Difference a Degree Makes | For women, the pay gap between the educational haves and have-nots has widened inexorably over the last two decades. In 1980, high-school dropouts earned 57 percent as much as college graduates, but by 1998 that ratio had slid to 40 percent. Minority women are catching up in education: in 1998, almost as many Hispanic ... |
1178664_2 | MANAGEMENT: Joy for Second-String M.B.A.'s; Elites and Internet Change Face of Campus Recruiting | last year as the booming economy has kept in the work force people who might otherwise have taken time off to give their careers an M.B.A. boost. Many deans also fret about the long-term threat of the top schools' cutting into the second-tier schools' revenue by offering programs over the Internet. The prestigious addi... |
1173262_1 | British, Irish and Americans Scramble to Save Ulster Power-Sharing | a midnight deadline Monday night. But he said that whatever language General de Chastelain used could not mask the fact that no destruction of weapons had taken place. The I.R.A. issued a statement in Belfast tonight that made no mention of arms turnovers but pledged its belief in a ''permanent peace.'' The clandestine... |
1173259_0 | A Wedge in the Cuban Embargo | Cubans have been told for many years that the decades-long American trade embargo against their country prevents them from buying even aspirin from their northern neighbor. President Fidel Castro has long used American restrictions on the sale of medicines and medical supplies to Cuba as an example of Washington's appa... |
1173328_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-13 House Votes to Expand Military Ties with Taiwan The House voted overwhelmingly to expand military ties between Taiwan and the United States, a move that China and the Clinton administration warned could exacerbate regional tensions and jeopardize a landmark trade agreement. A1 Austrian Coalition For... |
1173328_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | two-month-old government was inevitable. The crisis developed when the I.R.A. signaled its unwillingness to begin disarming. A13 Fighting New French Workweek French subway and bus workers joined truckers in protests that disrupted transportation systems across France, in a dispute over a shorter workweek. A10 Denial by... |
1173278_0 | Consecrations of U.S. Bishops by Episcopal Officials Overseas Challenge Church Hierarchy | In a highly unusual challenge to the Episcopal Church's leadership, the top officials of two Anglican church provinces overseas, in Africa and Asia, have consecrated two conservative American priests as bishops to minister to Episcopalians who feel alienated from the denomination in the United States. The action, which... |
1174882_0 | Another Setback for a Much-Delayed Road | Dealing a new delay to a proposed highway link in central New Jersey that has been stalled for decades, the Army Corps of Engineers said today that the much-studied Route 92 plan would require still more study: an environmental impact review that could take up to a year and a half. The proposed road, a high-speed, $300... |
1174820_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | families. Carlotta Gall (NYT) FRANCE: MAD COW REPORT -- France, which defied a European Union decision to lift a ban on British beef, has come under fire for its own efforts to prevent mad cow disease. A European Union report found that France has failed to properly impose controls on cattle feed agreed to in the wake ... |
1174915_0 | Assessing Risks | To the Editor: The article ''Hormone Replacement: Weighing Risks and Benefits'' (Feb. 1) repeats the oft-quoted statistic -- heart disease ultimately kills six times as many women as breast cancer -- as a main argument in favor of hormone replacement therapy. I am 59. In the last 10 years, dozens of friends and relativ... |
1174875_1 | Palestinians Freeze Peace Talks And Release a Militant Leader | or Party of God, in retaliation for fighting that left five Israeli soldiers dead in the last two weeks. According to the news service reports, warplanes made three strikes on a power station in Baalbek city in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon. Eighteen Lebanese civilians were wounded, one of them seriously, and 11 ... |
1174824_0 | Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish Innovator of Beverage Containers | A milk carton made Dr. Gad Rausing, who died on Jan. 28 at the age of 77 in Montreux, Switzerland, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The Swedish-born Dr. Rausing, along with his younger brother, Hans, helped develop their father's idea for a new type of paper carton that extended the shelf life of milk into a glo... |
1174787_2 | At Yellowstone, an Ecosystem Teetering on a Tree | of winter fat, and research shows they are important for fertility. Humans have become an integral part of this ecological relationship between bear and tree. When the nut crop is poor, the bears search out alternative sources to tide them through the winter's sleep. Instead of climbing into the high country, they ofte... |
1173970_0 | I.R.A. and the Arms Principle | The Irish Republican Army, now in the third year of a cease-fire, is trying to convince people of its peaceful intent by not using its guns. But it has cast doubt on that objective by insisting on keeping them. The power-sharing Northern Ireland government, only two months old, faces being suspended next week because t... |
1178929_2 | Cramped Gaza Multiplies at Unrivaled Rate | a challenge, although one that has not been publicly acknowledged. Officially, Palestinian leaders have long advocated population growth as a way to outnumber the Israelis on the land the two groups share. On the ground, however, Palestinian health and education officials, working with foreign donors and international ... |
1178984_0 | Directing Traffic in the Radio Spectrum's Crowded Neighborhood | IT is a growing, although invisible problem. In the past decade, an explosion in the number of wireless devices -- cellular telephones, satellite television dishes and pagers, to name just a few -- has led to crowded airwaves. So far, the range of radio frequencies, which lie between audible sound and infrared radiatio... |
1178900_0 | Disarmament Deadlock in Ireland | The peace that has prevailed in Northern Ireland for the past two and a half years will not be truly secure until the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary forces give up their weapons. But bitter differences over disarmament, which may take months to resolve, should not be allowed to upend the rest of the ... |
1178998_0 | All's Not Fair in E-Mail | To the Editor: The frustration experienced by Dina Dudarevitch in not being able to excise her husband's name from her e-mail account after he moved out because so many people know that e-mail address for her is not necessarily a new phenomenon. I remember back in college (more than 20 years ago) when the first A.T.M.'... |
1176807_1 | Hey, You Gotta Be Philosophical, Plato | charged with ''corrupting the young by spinning lies and fables'' and is put on trial. Mr. Ackroyd, in other words, winks at the reader with references to the history of classical philosophy: Plato, for example, discovers Plato's cave, the world of shadows whose inhabitants believe they dwell in the world of reality. S... |
1176918_0 | In New Blow to Peace in Ulster, I.R.A. Quits Arms Talks | The Irish Republican Army retaliated tonight for Britain's shutdown of the power-sharing Northern Ireland government by ending its contact with disarmament mediators and withdrawing newly offered proposals to abandon its weapons. It was a dismaying development for supporters of the peace plan who had been holding meeti... |
1176968_0 | INSIDE | New Blow to Peace in Ulster The Irish Republican Army ended its contact with disarmament negotiators to protest Britain's suspension of self-rule government. PAGE A12 Vatican-P.L.O. Accord The Vatican signed an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization to protect the legal status of the Roman Catholic Church... |
1176860_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA BANGLADESH: STRIKE LEADER The opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia began the latest of the dozens of strikes she has led in recent years to try to bring down the government of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina Wajed. The latest started as a new law takes effect that would impose jail terms of up to 14 years for blocking ... |
1176860_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | to buy weapons for Sudan's government in its 16-year war with rebels. Ian Fisher (NYT) THE AMERICAS COLOMBIA: REBELS AT VATICAN In their latest stop on a tour of Europe, leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have met with Vatican officials in an effort to obtain greater involvement of the Catholic Churc... |
1175841_0 | Northern Ireland's Reversal | The Irish Republican Army's delays in spelling out a clear plan for turning in its vast store of hidden weapons led Britain to take the regrettable but necessary step yesterday of suspending Northern Ireland's 10-week-old power-sharing government. The launch of that promising experiment in local self-government last De... |
1175844_3 | BRITAIN SUSPENDS SELF-GOVERNMENT IN NORTH IRELAND | hands of people determined to bring down the peace settlement. Sinn Fein has argued that the deadline for a start to disarming was an artificial one, outside the terms of the peace agreement that put into motion the creation of the assembly. But Mr. Trimble's gamble provoked a widespread expectation of a matching move ... |
1175829_2 | New Violence Ends Lull in South Lebanon | time shelled civilian targets in retaliation for attacks on its soldiers in the war zone. Since Israel occupied the zone, a nine-mile-deep swath of southern Lebanon, to protect its northern border from attack, guerrillas have been seeking to oust its forces. Indeed, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Army chief of staff... |
1177347_0 | Excerpts From Greenspan Remarks at Congressional Hearing | Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, presented his semiannual report on the economy to the House Banking Committee yesterday. Following are excerpts from his testimony and an exchange between Mr. Greenspan and Representative Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa and the chairman of the committee, in a question-... |
1177347_3 | Excerpts From Greenspan Remarks at Congressional Hearing | and the F.O.M.C. [Federal Open Market Committee] will have to stay alert for signs that real interest rates have not yet risen enough to bring the growth of demand into line with that of potential supply, even should the acceleration of productivity continue. Achieving that alignment seems more pressing today than it d... |
1178013_1 | The Invisible Children | made by exploited children. But these efforts will backfire if children kicked out of these factories drift to more hazardous occupations. Helping children in these dangerous jobs -- where they are isolated and invisible, and have no champions overseas -- is far more complex than keeping them out of factories. Fortunat... |
1177771_18 | The Second Sexual Revolution | we passed through a number of security checks. We stepped into a recovery room, where two surgeons were working on one of Dr. Berman's projects. Five white New Zealand rabbits had just undergone oophorectomies to surgically induce menopause. A sixth was feeling the anesthesia take effect. Her head was flopped forward, ... |
1178032_0 | Health Is the Issue In Cell Tower Dispute | As an adamant opponent of the cellular antenna to be placed at Ossining High School, I feel compelled to respond to one of the letters on Feb. 6 [''Questioning the Aims of Tower Opponents'']. It is true that many people who oppose the antenna have cell phones. There was no need to ask this question, as this has never b... |
1177860_0 | How to Add New Dog To Resident Dog's Turf | THERE can be repercussions when another dog or puppy enters an existing dog's household. How best to deal with them? Coexistence is complex. Appropriately timed eye contact, words spoken and mutually recognized can bridge the gap of understanding, but mystery overlays each relationship between the person and a pet. A l... |
1177855_5 | Shared Activities Bridge the Chasm Between Generations | woman's college,'' said Donna Sangi-Vallario, executive director of Just Like Home. ''She was playing with a small child and right away got down on her knees and tried so hard to be understood. She spoke more clearly than ever, asking, 'Want me to get you a cookie?' You can see what kind of parents and grandparents the... |
1177750_0 | Warm Welcome in the Jungle | SURINAME'S rain forest, one of the least traveled places in the world, spread out beneath my airplane like a great green sea with island mountain ranges and gray granite outcrops rising like surfacing whales. Water glinted through the trees. Few people had been here, and the immensity of it was exhilarating and dauntin... |
1173052_0 | Hospital That Suspended Doctor Met Him Later About Joint Project | Two months after an obstetrician was suspended from Beth Israel Medical Center for carving his initials into a patient's belly, hospital officials met with him to discuss sending nurse midwives to work at a Queens clinic where the doctor had a new job, the hospital acknowledged yesterday. The obstetrician, Dr. Allan Za... |
1173068_1 | Dangerous Stall by the I.R.A. | completely, a monitoring panel is expected to report that the I.R.A. has yet to turn in a single gun or bomb. By failing to take that modest but symbolically important first step, the I.R.A. has pushed Northern Ireland's mainstream Catholic and Protestant parties, along with the Irish and British governments, into an e... |
1173137_0 | Estrogen Offers Hope Against H.I.V. | Estrogen strongly protected against infection by the simian AIDS virus in experiments with female monkeys, offering hope that it might be used to protect against the human AIDS virus in women, researchers have reported here at a meeting on the disease. In the study, estrogen injected into a small group of female monkey... |
1172983_0 | Trying to Reproduce Engineering Feats of Long Ago | In a five-part series beginning tonight, ''Nova'' applies a technological spin to some celebrated engineering accomplishments of centuries long past. The ingenuity of engineers well before their profession had been accredited is brought back with explorations, explanations and demonstrations of what the program calls '... |
1172980_1 | Hormone Replacement: Weighing Risks and Benefits | conducted among 46,355 postmenopausal women, found that in lean (but not in heavy) women, taking estrogen with progestin was associated with an 8 percent increase in breast cancer risk with each year of use, as opposed to a 1 percent increase when estrogen alone was taken. Likewise, a study conducted in Los Angeles Cou... |
1174329_0 | Cell Phone Cautions | Recent studies in The New England Journal of Medicine show that drivers using mobile phones are four times more likely to be involved in a collision, the county's Office of Consumer Protection reports. Elaine Price, the office's director, is urging Westchester motorists to limit cell phone use while driving, especially... |
1174138_0 | Sailing the Caribbean With a Few Pals | THE name tags scared me. They were the first thing I saw -- lined up neatly in alphabetical order on a table -- when I entered the observation lounge of the Nantucket Clipper on Sunday afternoon. Uh-oh. I was here to cruise the Virgin Islands for the beaches, for the swimming and snorkeling in jewel-blue waters, for th... |
1174497_3 | India Tries to Plug a Cash Drain: Its Power System | there would be no real money for education, health and poverty programs unless the financial hemorrhaging of power could be stopped, nor could the reliability and adequacy of the power supply be improved. The state had no money of its own to invest in upgrading its power services, and private companies were unwilling t... |
1174439_0 | Jobs Outside the Ivory Tower | To the Editor: In the last 25 years, I've hired an average of 10 postgraduates a year for investment and securities positions. I'm sorry, but humanities graduates simply cannot compare to finance/business graduates in credentials. Most of the latter also bring related experience to the table, too. Every year, universit... |
1174415_1 | We Can Engineer Nature. But Should We? | offer the promise of increased food output and of vaccines incorporated into bananas rather than syringes, making them cheaper and easier to deliver. Swiss researchers have already used genetic engineering to develop a strain of rice with vitamin A, a lack of which now causes millions of cases of blindness. So far, the... |
1174324_0 | Questioning the Aims Of Tower Opponents | In presenting the view of Ossining cell tower opponents (''Suit Filed Over Plan for School Antenna,'' Jan. 30), your article failed to ask if the opponents themselves used cellular telephones. You would have discovered that many of them do. These opponents are urging the Ossining Board of Education to break its contrac... |
1174325_0 | The Health Hazard From Cell Phones Is Real | The general public is unaware of the significant weaknesses underlying the wireless industry's claims that cell phones and their base station antennas are safe. The industry's current safety standards are based on a ''thermal standard,'' which presupposes that radio frequency radiation too low to heat tissue is, by def... |
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