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572572_2 | or Arctic Data, Ask a Polar Bear | per million that have been recorded in the blubber of Baltic Sea seals. These animals have been practically wiped out over the last two decades. The Baltic is a known dumping ground for materials containing PCB's. Probably reflecting this, adipose tissue of polar bears in the Svalbard islands north of Norway has recent... |
568004_1 | Market Place; Measuring Value Among Biotechs | and development spending for the previous four quarters yields some interesting comparisons. For example, the research multiple at the Amgen Corporation, is 55.2 but only 11.4 at the Chiron Corporation and just 5.0 at Genetics Institute Inc. With the average across 100 biotech companies being 26.1, Amgen is trading at ... |
568118_1 | Foreign Affairs; Who Gets What Jobs | Union, ex-Yugoslavia, the Persian Gulf and China. Any such calamity will drag Mr. Clinton into an international quagmire unless he can rely on his top advisers in a crisis. Finding the right Secretary of State will be a problem. Five hundred Democrats fantasize about being the chief diplomat and believe they are alread... |
573654_0 | World Economies | |
573571_0 | David Sachs, Professor At Johns Hopkins, 71 | David Sachs, a retired professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, died Monday in Stella Maris Hospice outside Baltimore. He was 71 years old and lived in Baltimore. Professor Sachs died of lung cancer, said Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for the university. Professor Sachs, who retired in July and who had entered... |
567295_0 | Pocket Cultural Guide Lists Aids for Disabled | A 160-page pocket guide to the cultural institutions of New York City for people with physical disabilities has been published. The booklet, "Access for All," was published by WCBS Newsradio 88 and Hospital Audiences Inc., with the help of Lincoln Center. It reflects the many architectural and structural changes made s... |
567335_0 | World Economies | |
568891_3 | Edge of the Chasm -- AIDS Comes to Asia/A special report.; After Years of Denial, Asia Faces Scourge of AIDS | that leads AIDS education projects across Asia. "In 10 years time, it will be seen as Asia's disease." What discourages and infuriates many AIDS specialists is that Asian governments, with the notable exception of Thailand and a few others, are doing little to control it. 'Mr. Condom' Program in Thailand "The situation... |
568875_1 | Diverted, Danube Fades, and the Rage Rises | periods, but the well has never gone dry before," Mr. Kosa says. In addition to environmental fallout, Slovakia's decision to divert the Danube River to power the Gabcikovo hydroelectric dam is fueling a confrontation with neighboring Hungary, which has denounced the action as illegal. The celebrated Danube has disappe... |
569010_3 | The Executive Computer; As Piracy Grows, the Software Industry Counterattacks | and Autodesk -- now maintain their own full-time investigators to ferret out copyright violations. Faced with an enormous and difficult-to-police battleground, the Software Publishers Association has asked corporations to take these steps: * Appoint a software manager responsible for keeping records on purchases and so... |
569043_3 | Concern Over Lead In County's Water | in Valhalla, Gerald J. Babski, chief of laboratory services, said he has been "very, very busy lately" answering phone calls from worried residents and testing water for public suppliers, schools and businesses. "There's real concern over this," Mr. Babski said. "People have been alerted." Although water suppliers have... |
568960_0 | Conflict | THIS WEEK |
573222_2 | Ordained Women Gaining Acceptance | of emotional reminiscence as he stood at the altar where he himself had been baptized and later confirmed by his father, the Rev. Aaron Coburn, who was rector of St. James from 1913 to 1928. Male-Only a Catholic Tradition In an historic twist, it might be said that a woman brought about the existence of the Church of E... |
573499_3 | Education for the Gifted, Seen As a Luxury, Faces Cutbacks | By 1988, when Connecticut was contributing $8.5 million a year in state aid to 160 of 166 school districts that had academically gifted and artistically talented programs, the Legislature asked state educators to develop recommendations for future needs of the programs. The next year they were handed a study recommendi... |
573500_3 | Education for the Gifted, Seen As a Luxury, Faces Cutbacks | By 1988, when Connecticut was contributing $8.5 million a year in state aid to 160 of 166 school districts that had academically gifted and artistically talented programs, the Legislature asked state educators to develop recommendations for future needs of the programs. The next year they were handed a study recommendi... |
573305_0 | Even for Ordained Women, Church Can Be a Cold Place | IN the business world, women often complain about "the glass ceiling," that invisible barrier that impedes their progress up the corporate ladder. In the religious world, women call it "the stained glass ceiling," a barrier that many contend is thicker, more opaque and less permeable. The stained glass ceiling, they sa... |
572334_0 | Churchill Journal; Social Season for Bears: Not in the Kitchen, Please | November is polar bear season in Churchill, a town of 800 on the gray and rocky western shores of Hudson Bay. One of the town's busiest men is Laury Brouzes, keeper of the bear jail. "My job is to protect people from bears and bears from people," he said early one recent morning while inspecting traps around the dump w... |
572347_2 | France Asks Other Nations To Rally Round Its Position | the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. But the French Government, finding itself under intense pressure from a powerful farming lobby that enjoys the support of key opposition political parties, has rejected the accord, arguing that it will damage French and European farming and grant unfair advant... |
572425_0 | World Economies | |
569578_5 | Using Spin to Power Electric Cars | overcome, is the possibility that the extremely high speeds would cause the flywheel to break apart, sending shrapnel-like pieces in all directions. Benefits Are Foreseen Should the current bugs be ironed out, flywheels have advantages that make them attractive, at least to theorists. They can produce great acceleratio... |
571791_1 | Mexico's Leader Seeks to Address Clinton's Concerns on Trade Pact | Broad Bilateral Agenda Other officials said Mexico would also renew its demands for permanent assurances that the United States not try to kidnap criminal suspects abroad. President Bush made a personal pledge to that effect in June after Mexicans were enraged by a Supreme Court decision upholding the United States Gov... |
571812_3 | Hong Kong Journal; Out Go the Stolen Cars, On a Fast Boat to China | if it has right-hand steering," said a taxi driver in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou who owns a second-hand Hong Kong van with the steering column on the right. "But if you've got connections with the police, you can get around the new rules." Stopping Theft of the Lexus Perhaps the most innovative approach to ... |
571502_0 | Catholic Bishops in U.S. Reject Policy Letter on Role of Women | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops refused today to adopt a proposed pastoral letter on the role of women in the church and society, a document nine years in the making that had ended up being dominated by traditional church views. The vote marked the first time since the National Conference of Catholic Bishops was fo... |
571507_0 | Alaska to Kill Wolves To Inflate Game Herds | Trying to tip the balance of nature in favor of moose and caribous, wildlife officials have decided to start shooting wolves from airplanes over a huge portion of the Alaska wilderness. By reducing the number of wolves that prey on big-game animals, Alaska wildlife officials hope to produce a bounty for hunters and tou... |
571499_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Germany have arrived this week, reassuring their sensitive hosts that there will not be another fire this time. A3 IDENTIFYING VIETNAM DEAD Documents and wartime artifacts released by the Vietnamese Government have allowed American investigators to determine that four soldiers listed as missing did in fact die, the cha... |
570003_0 | Study Cites Role of Biological and Genetic Factors in Violence | In a sharp departure from traditional criminology, the National Research Council has found that biological and genetic factors should be considered along with environmental problems like poverty in efforts to understand the causes of violence. The findings of the council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sci... |
568598_0 | Doctors Consider a Specialty Focusing on Women's Health | Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, a general practitioner in Washington, says that on her first day in medical school a few years ago, a lab instructor told students to cut off the female cadaver's breasts and discard them. How many of her fellow students, she now asks, took away the message that despite the epidemic of breast c... |
570224_0 | Bit of West Bank's Future in Smooth Campus Vote | At a time when Palestinians are being challenged to show they are ready for self-rule, students at the West Bank's elite university have held a politically charged but peaceful campus election that is being cited as proof that the occupied territories are ready for democracy. To some Palestinians, the student council v... |
570291_0 | COMPANY NEWS: The Petroleum Dividend; Amoco Enlists Aid Of Los Alamos Lab | For Isaiah it was swords into plowshares, but in 1992 that translates, loosely, to nuclear weapons into gasoline. The Amoco Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced a deal under which the lab, for years a principal site for the design of nuclear weapons, will help develop a computer program to simu... |
570212_0 | JAPANESE MAY CUT ATOMIC SHIPMENTS | Yielding to the storm of international protests surrounding their shipment of plutonium from Europe, Japanese officials hinted today that they might scale back plans for 30 more shipments of the nuclear fuel in the next decade. The officials' comments, delivered at a hastily called news conference at the Foreign Minist... |
572037_2 | Teeth on the Sidewalk | picture a shot across the bow has been replaced with the less cautionary, more forthright a shot in the teeth . False teeth are used in dialect as the basis of to drop one's teeth , calling up the picture of gaping in surprise and losing one's dentures. The two strands -- throat and teeth -- combine in the hyperbolic t... |
572093_3 | Badillo Is Considering His 4th Mayoral Race | focusing on her choice of Ms. Gluck as an adviser. "Whitman is trying to make people believe she is an outsider because that is a popular thing to be this year," said the Democratic State Chairman, Raymond J. Lesniak. "In reality, she is the ultimate insider." Take the Bus, Maybe? Cash-strapped New Jersey may have to d... |
572296_0 | Looking for Trouble | THIS WEEK |
571981_2 | Why Did God Make These Debates So Hard? | women by the clergy. But each of the four drafts was judged largely by whether it hinted at possible modifications of church positions -- for example, the condemnation of contraception and, above all, the teaching that women cannot be priests. When as a result of Vatican pressure the final draft emphatically restated t... |
572298_0 | Looking for Answers | THIS WEEK |
572158_3 | Sublime Sculptures in a Dubious Setting | roughly 530 to 390 B.C., even though this stretch of more than a century has no historical integrity or stylistic coherence? Don't ask. Better just to appreciate the gentle expressiveness and softly modeled features of the warrior's head from Munich, which originally came from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia ... |
569265_0 | Guerrillas Are Imperiling Colombia's Oil Bonanza | A recent series of attacks by two left-wing guerrilla armies is spreading anxiety in the Colombian Government, endangering the economic future of the country and clouding its hopes to become one of the Western Hemisphere's major oil exporters in the 1990's. Responding to the threat, the Government has strengthened its ... |
569161_0 | Japan Shipment Of Nuclear Fuel Worries Asians | No country in the world has nurtured so profound a nuclear allergy as Japan, where virtually every schoolchild takes the stomach-knotting tour of the A-bomb museum in Hiroshima, and the Government has repeated time and again its commitment never to build or possess nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, even before 1.3 tons of ... |
569146_0 | World Economies | |
569149_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-9 RIOT DISRUPTS RALLY FOR PEACE Leaders calling for Germany to unite to combat neo-Nazi violence against foreigners became the victims at a Berlin rally attended by 350,000 people when hundreds of anarchists flung eggs and tomatoes at the speakers. A1 JAPAN'S CARGO OF WHISPERS The largest shipment of p... |
567558_3 | Slovaks Finish Much-Criticized Dam on Danube | generally agree with Dr. Selin, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has made credit to Slovakia conditional on closing down the old reactors, known as VVER-440/230's. But Bohunice's director, Robert Gunis, said in an interview that Slovakia not only intended to continue operating the old pressurize... |
567657_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Driving the New York Marathon; Mercedes Battery Car Is True Pacesetter | Thousands came to the New York City Marathon on Sunday to better their previous year's performance. That includes the pace car. The car was a Mercedes-Benz 190 that runs on electricity. The same vehicle, painted fire-engine red, was used to lead and time the runners last year, but this year it had more stamina, with a ... |
567654_6 | Spy-Satellite Unit Faces A New Life in Daylight | and which led to the official disclosure of one of Washington's most open secrets, existence of the reconnaissance agency. "The perfect world is where we have all the information and he, whoever, the adversary is in this context, has none and knows nothing about what we know," said Mr. Faga. When asked exactly what new... |
567767_3 | An Egalitarian Approach Gains in Computing | comparable size, the cost could easily be twice that -- not counting the probable need to hire a consultant to set up the network and the expense of having an expert on hand to keep it running. "The point of peer-to-peer is you can choose how your business works," Mr. Schoof said. "Client-server forces you, as mainfram... |
567737_0 | Yangpu Journal; Months or Millennia After Flood, the Poor Endure | The only solution to her family's problems, Wan Ziyu said glumly, was for her to die. "Every day I live is a burden for my son," said Ms. Wan, her white hair and wrinkled face betraying her 80 years. She looked down at her four-inch long feet, bound and crippled when she was a child, and said, brooding, "It's better fo... |
567915_0 | Many Teachers, Required to Make Do With Less, Are Giving Less in Return | Upset by Spartan pay increases and the effect of budget cuts on schools, many teachers are venting their frustrations in a way that has angered students and parents: They are refusing to write letters of recommendation for college-bound students, to tutor after school or to perform other duties not specified by their c... |
567947_0 | At Sarajevo Zoo, the Last Survivor Dies | After surviving the siege of Sarajevo for more than 200 days, a bear, the last surviving animal in the zoo here, has died. "We took her some bread and an apple last week, but she was too weak to eat them," Pal Takac, a zoo employee, said today. "She died the next day. I was sad to see her go after all these months, but... |
571090_0 | U.S. Bishops Discuss Women | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops opened a meeting in Washington to take a stand on a long-awaited pastoral letter on women. Page A16. |
570878_0 | Irish and British Report the Collapse of Talks | Irish and British officials today acknowledged the collapse of nearly two years of talks aimed at a peaceful settlement of the 23 years of civil war in the British province of Northern Ireland. The talks, a major British initiative started in early 1991, were held intermittently until last week by the two Governments a... |
571095_0 | BISHOPS MAY AVOID STAND ON WOMEN | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops gathered here today to take a stand on a long-awaited pastoral letter on women in society and the church, but it was far from certain that the document they have been working on for nine years will actually come to a vote. Rather than trying to achieve consensus on a sweeping documen... |
572756_0 | Public & Private; Six for Women | So much is contained in a small story Bishop P. Francis Murphy recounted recently in Commonweal magazine. The Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore asked a class of first graders the number of sacraments, a question as elementary to Catholic schoolchildren as the ABC's. "One little girl promptly responded: 'Six for women and s... |
572781_12 | New Challenge for States: Making, Not Taking, Jobs | of them a minute. A few inches farther along, another layer of plastic is laid on top, a punching device cuts the sheets into individual two-inch squares. And then these little patches of medication are dumped into a basket ready for packaging -- the first products in a new market with an estimated potential value of $... |
1013034_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR NEAR 5-YEAR LOW. Raw sugar fell on expectations of a bumper crop from Brazil at a time of waning global demand. May contracts fell 0.11 cent, or 1.2 percent, to 9.04 cents a pound. Prices have fallen 26 percent this year. |
1011516_1 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Wish You Were Here; Marxist Cuba Beckons, And U.S. Capitalists Champ at the Bit | represent a small but growing movement by American companies to prepare for the day when doing business with Cuba is not trading with the enemy, as most such transactions are now legally defined. In spite of the 36-year-old United States embargo that prohibits all but a narrow range of commercial activity, and in spite... |
1008711_1 | Jury Tells N.B.A. to Pay Female Referee $7.85 Million | down.'' During the six-day trial, the league's lawyers strongly disputed the discrimination allegations, and called as witnesses Violet Palmer and Dee Kantner, who made history this season when they became the first women to officiate regular-season games in the N.B.A. or any other major professional team sport. Palmer... |
1008623_12 | SPARE TIMES | display, is ''A World of Plants,'' an ecotour of the world, from tropical rain forests to African deserts. Visitors can get close-up views of the rain forests, the deserts of Africa and the Americas and the tropics. Weekend activities include a bird walk with a naturalist, Debbie Becker, on Fridays at 1:30 P.M. and on ... |
1008730_0 | Britain and the Irish, North and South, Work Toward Ulster Accord | Negotiators in the Northern Ireland peace talks missed their midnight deadline for a settlement but worked feverishly into the morning hours. ''Peace is in our grasp,'' said Brid Rodgers, the chief negotiator of the Catholic mainstream Social Democratic and Labor Party, standing outside the Stormont Castle Buildings, w... |
1008375_0 | NEWS WATCH | A NEW TEMPLE -- built by the Hare Krishna movement in New Delhi opened this week with nine robots, or ''mechanical gods,'' built by a special-effects company in Los Angeles. The robots move their heads and arms, the British Broadcasting System reported, and they recite Hindu scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita and the Ve... |
1008555_3 | One in Every 8 Plant Species Is Imperiled, a Survey Finds | Tennessee, who was not involved in producing the report. While 1 plant in 8 may not seem like much, Dr. Pimm said, ''that's what's threatened now, as a consequence of what we've done so far; but all the evidence is that the destruction is continuing at an accelerating pace.'' With 4,669 of its species judged to be thre... |
1008453_3 | One in Every 8 Plant Species Is Imperiled, a Survey Finds | listing of threatened plants is one more piece of evidence that ''a whole chunk of creation is at risk,'' said Dr. Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, who was not involved in producing the report. While 1 plant in 8 may not seem like much, Dr. Pimm said, ''that's what's threatened now, as a conseq... |
1008411_0 | With a Deadline Tonight, Ulster Negotiators Study Compromises | Straining to meet a midnight Thursday deadline for a peace agreement in Northern Ireland, the British and Irish Prime Ministers sought today to work out compromises on disputed issues between Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders. At the start of a day full of meetings with Catholic and Protestant leaders, Pr... |
1007123_0 | Rejecting Racism in France | France's President, Jacques Chirac, is waging an admirable campaign to resist cooperation between his supporters and the racist and xenophobic National Front. He may not fully succeed. But his efforts set a good example for conservative parties elsewhere in Europe, where extremist parties of the far right are also gain... |
1010234_1 | Laws Aside, Some in Clergy Quietly Bless Gay 'Marriage' | and political battles are fought over whether gay men and lesbians should be allowed a right to civil marriage. Lawsuits filed by gay couples seeking marriage licenses have reached the supreme courts in three states, Hawaii, Alaska and Vermont, said Evan Wolfson, an official with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education ... |
1012219_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about Caspian Sea oil referred incorrectly to the status of a pipeline project under construction in Myanmar, formerly Burma, by Unocal and Total. Because the project began before the United States imposed a ban on investments in Myanmar last year, it is exempt from the American restrictions, and U... |
1012149_0 | Jean-Francois Lyotard, 73, Dies; Philosopher of the Post-Modern | Jean-Francois Lyotard, an eclectic post-modern French philosopher and prolific author who most recently taught at Emory University in Atlanta, died on Tuesday at Necker Hospital in Paris. He was 73 and divided his time between Paris and Atlanta. The cause was leukemia, the university reported. Mr. Lyotard was one of se... |
1012146_0 | Thucydides Is Cool | To the Editor: Victor Davis Hanson's April 18 Op-Ed article on teaching college students without jargon and the excesses of scholarship provides a strong argument for insuring that the classics remain a fundamental component of a liberal arts curriculum. Students respond well to the universal messages of the classics w... |
1012173_3 | Doctors Debate Use of Drug to Help Women's Sex Lives | The Woodlands, Tex., a drug that is now under consideration, in pill form, to be a competitor to Viagra. Dr. Rosen gave the pills to six women who said they had difficulty becoming aroused. Then he had them wear special tampons to measure their blood flow while they watched a pornographic movie. Blood flow to the women... |
1011337_3 | Studies Show Another Drug Can Prevent Breast Cancer | Oncology released summaries but ordered the researchers not to discuss the findings until they are reported at its meeting in Los Angeles next month, in part because the numbers may change. The findings of one study were first reported in The Wall Street Journal yesterday. Though the F.D.A. has not approved raloxifene ... |
1011401_0 | Protecting Patients, Not Society; Thucydides on Therapy | To the Editor: In his diatribe against professors of history and classics, Victor Davis Hanson seems sure that Thucydides, if he were alive today, would feel contempt for a student who turned to psychotherapy rather than accept his problems ''as evidence of the tragic nature of our existence'' (Op-Ed, April 18). Mr. Ha... |
1009460_2 | Abroad at Home; Solving The Insoluble | role was made possible by maturing political attitudes among American politicians of Irish origin. The old tendency toward pro-Republican sentiments and suspicion of Britain faded. Senator Edward Kennedy spoke for many in his strong support of a negotiated settlement. But in the end it was the feeling among the people ... |
1009479_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Did Powerful Businesses Compromise U.S. Policy? A secret Pentagon report says that two American aerospace manufacturers turned over expertise to China that improved the reliability of its nuclear missile program. An examination of the Administration's handling of the case illustrates the tug-of-war a... |
1009465_3 | For Most in Belfast, an Easter of Joy and Hope | paramilitary prisoners would be eligible for early release within two years. Near the Clonard Monastery church today, British soldiers patrolled checkpoints, protecting the Catholics from potential attacks by Protestant guerrillas. The inside of the church is decorated with marble columns with leafy capitals, stained g... |
1009506_0 | Questions Remain on Cancer Test | To the Editor: Your April 8 editorial on the drug tamoxifen notes that ''for the first time, scientists have demonstrated that breast cancer can not only be treated but actually prevented.'' The same day, the Daily Telegraph of London reported that British breast cancer experts criticized American scientists for releas... |
1010752_0 | Expert to Study Ethics of Hospital Hiring | IN the aftermath of a legal opinion that could have major ramifications on its future, the Westchester Medical Center is hiring an outside lawyer who specializes in ethics issues to help determine if the center's two top lawyers did anything wrong when they took jobs with the hospital after helping to negotiate its spi... |
1010977_1 | With 2 Takes on One Tale, Sinn Fein Chief Bargains | Adams has been assisted in his campaign by the way the peace agreement was approved on April 10. It was announced in Belfast by George J. Mitchell, the former United States Senator who was chairman of the peace talks. Although Mr. Adams and seven other Northern Irish party leaders conveyed their verbal support for the ... |
1010660_11 | Steal This Burger | time, the beef patty was old hat. ''It was a McDonald's-flavored burger that didn't satisfy,'' he says. Ryan's paradox summed up the problem: competition between McDonald's and Burger King is intense not just because the American market is mature but also because the American palate is beyond mature. It is senescent. T... |
1010978_3 | Ulster Peace Accord Wins Backing of Protestant Party | job is to try and make this thing fail -- but what an epitaph.'' The peace document was agreed to eight days ago by the leaders of 8 of Northern Ireland's 10 political parties and the Governments of Britain and Ireland after 22 months of negotiations. The plan emerged 17 hours after a midnight deadline and with three f... |
1010976_0 | EF Language Tames the Seas, and Rivals | Mark Rudiger's voice resonated from the deck intercom on EF Language, the leading 64-foot sailboat here on its stopover in the Whitbread Round the World Race. ''Now hear this, now hear this,'' the voice said. ''Drinks will be served on the Lido deck.'' Wry laughter filled the cockpit. They were no tourists, and their y... |
1010918_0 | The World; In Ireland, Courage and Good Timing | THE Northern Ireland peace agreement, framed with such difficulty out of so many years of hatred and mistrust, was itself an accident of timing. Its implementation will require a similar mixture of bravery and luck. Some sort of settlement was going to happen sometime, as it will also happen, sometime, in the Middle Ea... |
1010762_4 | Change Is Part of Temporary Worker's Job | ''I was very conscious of the kind of work I wanted,'' said Ms. Bartels, who operated her own sculpture studio while working as a temporary. ''Advantage was very considerate of whether the work was challenging enough for me, and they had a good body of clients. I stayed with clients for several months at a time, which ... |
1008067_0 | Ulster Talks Get Urgent Compromise Plan | With only three days left until the deadline for a Northern Ireland peace settlement, the American former Senator George J. Mitchell, chairman of the talks, gave Protestant and Roman Catholic negotiators early today a set of urgent compromise proposals for ending the province's sectarian warfare. The details of the pro... |
1008008_1 | 2 Brazil Towns Fight for Road Closed for a Wildlife Park | the protected wildlife to its first human contact in a dozen years. At the end of the road, the ferryboat is back at work, also illegally. A federal judge has ordered the residents removed from the entrance, but in a presidential election year the Government is reluctant to force a showdown. At one point, demonstrators... |
1008010_3 | Managua Journal; Life Flickers Weakly in a Ruined Movie House | priority since then. It is impossible for Ms. Jaugey, the film's director, to ignore the people who live in the Cine Alcazar. As she steps out of her building and looks across a parking lot and a barren field, the still impressive hulk of the old theater faces her. From a distance, the theater seems abandoned. Closer, ... |
1008064_3 | Researchers Find the First Drug Known to Prevent Breast Cancer | of those effects did not exceed expectations. One unexpected finding was that tamoxifen did not reduce the number of heart attacks. Tamoxifen is a synthetic hormone that blocks the action of the female hormone estrogen in the breast, presumably depriving many cancers of a fuel that feeds them. It has long been prescrib... |
1009594_2 | Drug's Champion Defied Skeptics | discovered it. The company had no further plans for it. But Dr. Jordan did, and in 1972 when he finished his doctorate and began a research career, he called Dr. Arthur Walpole, one of the Zeneca scientists who had created tamoxifen. ''I said I wanted to turn it into a breast-cancer drug,'' Dr. Jordan recalled, adding ... |
1009629_1 | THE MARKETS: Market Place; Venture capital for an orphan: agricultural biotechnology. | giant companies like Monsanto and Dow Chemical. Monsanto in particular has bought many of the smaller agricultural biotechnology companies and has licensed genetics technology from several companies in that area working mainly toward drug development. ''You have massive consolidation going on, and there is not a genera... |
1009621_0 | Putting Women's Rights in Population Policy | WHEN all the international development policy-speak common to her tribe is set aside, Joan Dunlop's essential achievement is simple. This woman who began her career as a white-gloved secretary, with parents who forbade her to go to Vassar, has helped transform the world's view of overpopulation from that of problem to ... |
1009616_1 | Foreign Affairs; Help Wanted | still be engineers in their home countries, only instead of working for us they will be working for Hitachi or Samsung, and they will compete with us from overseas and take away our wealth.'' The facts: Since 1990, there has been a cap of 65,000 H-1B visas per fiscal year (Oct. 1 to Sept. 30) for foreigners coming into... |
1009586_4 | Breast Cancer Drug Dilemma: Who Should Take It, and When? | offered four more years of treatment with the drug, she said, but hopes never to take it again. It is already clear that not every woman can take tamoxifen. Because it can increase the risk of blood clots, it may not be safe for women with other conditions that add to that risk, like previous blood clots, hypertension,... |
1012268_8 | Unter den Linden | guide nor an analytic interpretation, but has features of both. Some subjects are treated at length; others, often of comparable importance, are summarized or barely mentioned. When the author allows himself space to discuss a particular artist or stylistic development he can be informative and interesting. The 100 pag... |
1012269_5 | Designing Man | late-Pleistocene ancestors some 30,000 to 50,000 years ago. Perhaps it was a small neural change, fed by a comparably small genetic alteration. But with all the other exaptations in place, that small change would have completely transformed our ancestors. Self-reflection and symbolic consciousness, Tattersall argues, w... |
1012681_1 | INDUSTRIAL GROUP PLANS TO BATTLE CLIMATE TREATY | the climate treaty. It is a daunting public relations task. Whenever the treaty's advocates, including the Clinton Administration, discuss global warming, they present the science as essentially settled and unchallengeable, and they compare dissenting scientists to discredited apologists for the tobacco companies. That... |
1012309_4 | Once Burned, but Not Shy | selected one adorned with a photo of languid models advertising Armani underwear. Some of these have become collector's items. A 1989 card depicting the Leaning Tower of Pisa is valued at $1,000 if used, or $1,250 if still in its cellophane wrapper. This has encouraged crooks to switch from currency counterfeiting to p... |
1012549_0 | Random Bear-Hunting No Way to Stop Encounters | To the Editor: Suppose you have been asked to reduce the crime rate in New Jersey. If the state police suggested shooting 10 percent of the citizens in our state at random to weed out the criminals, you would probably say they were insane. Yet that is exactly the strategy recommended by the state Division of Fish, Game... |
1010031_0 | NEWS WATCH | A NEW SOFTWARE system in Singapore allows people to call for a taxi by E-mail. The system, introduced last week, sends a request to an automated cab dispatcher system and returns a confirmation by E-mail. But does the system actually get cabs faster than hailing one on the street? COMPAQ, WHICH SELLS more PC's than any... |
1011928_1 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Technology; Steel Tries to Shed Its Heavy-Metal Image | argue, is not a mature technology. Advanced alloys, borrowed from other applications, can be used to save weight and money. The unibody example, built by Porsche Engineering Services, was assembled with a combination of spot welds and laser welds and was then galvanized, all conventional techniques. But it weighs only ... |
1011997_2 | Oilfields in Mind, White House Woos Turkmenistan's Chief | his silence today when the subject turned to his iron control over his country. ''The President and I raised our concerns about democracy, human rights and the rule of law,'' Mr. Gore said. A communique issued after the meeting committed Turkmenistan to ''free and fair elections for parliament and the presidency'' in 1... |
1007340_3 | Q and A | to reach this area. In the tiny seaside Maya village of Punta Allen, 35 miles south of Tulum, at the tip of the Boca Paila peninsula, several local entrepreneurs have opened small seasonal hotels and restuarants. At The Cuzan Guest House, which has a dozen or so cabanas with mosquito-netted beds and communal bathrooms,... |
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