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1241372_0 | Plague Can Wax When Rats Wane | Bubonic plague, the Black Death that killed a third of the population in 14th-century Europe and millions more worldwide at the turn of the 20th century, is one of the most feared diseases. But when it comes to understanding how plague spreads, researchers in Britain say, it's not about humans, it's about rats. Scienti... |
1241389_9 | Extinction Turns Out to Be a Slow, Slow Process; Some Severely Depleted Species Adapt to Altered Habitats and Hang On for Years, Puzzling Biologists | American suburbs. Extinction and endangerment are not limited to faraway tropics, said Dr. David B. Wake, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who divides his time between the cloud forests of Costa Rica, the suburbs of Southern California and the stream-laced mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Dr. W... |
1241362_2 | OBSERVATORY | are relative newcomers to Antarctica. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, for example, the only permanent station in the Antarctic interior, has only been continuously occupied for a little more than four decades. That is not such a long time, but the station, which is operated by the National Science Foundation, is... |
1239367_4 | Protestant's Slipping Hold Imperils Ulster Peace Accord | by the end of the year proposes the name ''the Police Service of Northern Ireland, incorporating the RUC.'' The British government has said this minimal mention would honor the 303 officers killed and thousands others injured, mainly by the I.R.A. Catholics say it is too much of a concession to the Protestants; Protest... |
1239371_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-15 Clinton Heads for Mideast With More Modest Goals President Clinton will arrive in Egypt for a Middle East summit meeting to try to quell the violence that has left more than 100 people dead. The White House fears that the violence could spill across the region. Mr.Clinton is no longer playing the ro... |
1237953_0 | Pre-1975 Pill Tied to Breast Cancer in High-Risk Families | Women who took birth control pills before 1975 and whose mothers or sisters had breast cancer have a substantially increased risk of developing the disease and should take special care to have regular mammograms and breast exams, researchers are reporting. The warning applies only to women with a family history of brea... |
1237951_4 | News Analysis; State Find Child Health Aid a Puzzle | any coverage.'' Many health policy experts contend that other states would be lucky to have New York's problem. Almost every state in the country has failed to spend its federal allotment, because, among myriad issues, they have local governments that are hostile to the program or have simply been unable to get their p... |
1237859_0 | Caught in Headlights Of the Biotech Debate; A Gene-Testing Lab and Its Critics | In 1984, John B. Fagan, a molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health, left a promising job as a cancer researcher in Washington to come to this sleepy farm town to practice transcendental meditation and begin a new life as a university professor. He took a post at the Maharishi International University he... |
1241303_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on Oct. 11 about Genetic ID, a testing lab for genetically modified crops and foods, referred incorrectly to a press briefing that followed the company's discovery of unapproved corn in a brand of taco shells. Genetic ID announced the briefing in August, the month before the taco-shell findin... |
1241237_5 | Bolivia Wiping Out Coca, at a Price | from cultivating coca, which needs almost no tending, to learning how to deal with fertilizers and pesticides is daunting for many. Coca is also far more lucrative than fruits and vegetables. Moreover, waiting for traffickers to come by and transport their coca harvest is a lot easier than finding credits and ways to g... |
1241290_0 | Affirmative Action: Cost and Benefit | To the Editor: Michael M. Weinstein (''A Reassuring Scorecard for Affirmative Action,'' Editorial Observer, Oct. 17) is right that those of us who object on principle to racial discrimination are unlikely to have our minds changed by one study in the Journal of Economic Literature. The study's finding that preferences ... |
1241287_0 | The Embargo on Cuba: Business and Politics | To the Editor: The Senate has approved a bill easing the embargo on shipments of food and medicine to Cuba (front page, Oct. 19), but from the standpoint of farmers, agribusiness and pharmaceutical companies, it will be a dud. The terms of the bill forbid financing by private and government sources in the United States... |
1242745_0 | Bon Voyage | To the Editor: My grandmother used to go to Germany every year for the mud baths in Bad Nauheim. During Prohibition, she was approached by the ship's captain the night before the ship docked in New York. He told her he had a bottle of Champagne for her if she could get it through Customs. Grandma tied the bottle to a s... |
1242956_0 | Women's Health | To the Editor: Simply eliminating the global gag rule on international family planning financing will not repair the damage inflicted on women's reproductive health and rights abroad (front page, Oct. 25). The government's censorship of foreign organizations seeking to reform laws has done lasting harm to democracy in ... |
1242672_0 | The Way We Live Now: 10-29-00: The Ethicist; Pushing the E-Envelope | I discovered that my supervisor routinely reads employee e-mail. Legal issues aside, is this ethical? I can understand doing so if a crime is suspected, but not as a matter of routine. It feels like a violation of my privacy. What do you think? -- Anonymous, New York While it is indeed legal, I agree with you: your sup... |
1242863_0 | Living With Wildlife And Loving It | To the Editor: ''Man Against (Ready. Aim. Fire.) Nature,'' the cover article on Oct. 1, accurately depicted the daily routines of the vast number of New Jersey residents who love living with the state's wildlife and accurately covered the issues. The accompanying article on the Woodlands Wildlife Refuge was a wonderful... |
1237140_1 | Ideas & Trends; Anthropology Enters the Age of Cannibalism | an entire culture? Mr. Chagnon, author of the best-selling 1968 study ''Yanomami: A Fierce People,'' has long been criticized by his peers for just these kind of sweeping interpretations. Mr. Chagnon contends that his detailed observations of Yanomami violence offer proof that human nature is inherently antagonistic. H... |
1237135_0 | The World; How to Succeed in the Kidnapping Business | IN the security business, there is a technical term for the Muslim rebel kidnappers of the southern Philippines, draped in new gold chains, conspicuous in pristine Nike sneakers and Ray Ban sunglasses, racing around on -- and often falling off -- their new motorcycles. The term is ''decadent guerrillas.'' Having taken ... |
1236857_3 | A Hidden Empire in Turkey | inside. King Gagik's wife, Katramide, was the patroness of a nearby church built in 1001. It is perhaps the most impressive of all the structures at Ani, and looks as if it could have inspired Gothic architects in Europe. Four thick columns support the roof, much of which is intact. Rectangular windows look out over th... |
1236833_4 | Up From Heathendom | Asia Minor, a missionary proclaims, ''grants immortality to those who believe,'' and this, then, is topped again by the Isis evangelist, who preaches that Isis not only gives the gift of immortality at death but also that of a transformed life, of salvation, in the present. When the armies of Alexander the Great reache... |
1237167_0 | Justice for Women | To the Editor: Re ''Working for Women's Sexual Rights'' (news article, Oct. 2): Women's human rights violations are not news to the world, but not enough has been done to improve the actual condition of women. There are still societies in which women are murdered for not bringing enough dowry, or treated cruelly for no... |
1237097_0 | Those Gray Boxes on Poles? Fear Not, the Company Says | Gray shoebox-sized radio devices are fastened to light poles around the city, and Metricom, a California Internet company, wants you to feel good about them. The company recently strung up 3,000 radio transceivers on street lamps and traffic lights across the city as part of a wireless Internet network called Ricochet.... |
1237318_0 | India Tries To Reassess Its Measure For Poverty | By nearly any economic measure, India is a country with multitudes of poor people, but precisely how many? The attempt to answer that question has sparked a vigorous debate in recent months among some of the country's leading economists. The question is not purely academic. Recent government surveys -- including a big ... |
1236828_0 | When Philosophy Was King | Hegel A Biography. By Terry Pinkard. Illustrated. 780 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press. $39.95. According to the 18th-century philosopher David Hume, rigorous thinking in the solitude of his study led him ineluctably to the conclusion that neither he himself nor the physical world could be known to exist. But a... |
1235500_0 | Working for Women's Sexual Rights | When Nafis Sadik, an obstetrician from Pakistan, was hired by the United Nations Population Fund more than 20 years ago, family planning in the developing world was largely something bureaucrats foisted on poor women who were targets for meeting fertility-control quotas. ''The world has come very far since then,'' said... |
1235480_0 | Aiming for Longer Distance in Electric Cars | In the world of fuel cells and batteries, zinc-air systems get little respect, despite packing plenty of energy in small volumes while using cheap and environmentally benign materials as a power source. They have their niches. Zinc-air batteries, which generate power through a chemical reaction between zinc and oxygen,... |
1235505_0 | 2 Firestone Studies in 1999 Pointed to Tire Problems | Firestone officials in Venezuela conducted at least two studies in 1999 that reviewed patterns of tire problems there while assuring Ford that tire failures in the country were isolated cases resulting from customer abuse and poor maintenance, internal Firestone documents show. The two studies are of interest because t... |
1243233_2 | Latest Battleground In Latin Drug War: Brazilian Amazon | centuries, Brazil was focused on its southern border with Argentina, where the biggest concentrations of troops and military equipment have always been deployed, and largely neglected its northern borders. The key to the beefed-up Brazilian effort in the Amazon, which accounts for 60 percent of the country's territory,... |
1236543_1 | Congress Addresses Importing Medicine and Exporting to Cuba | food and medicine to Iran, Libya, North Korea and Sudan. But it was Cuba that created the most conflict. Cuban-American lawmakers succeeded in barring private or United States government financing of sales to Cuba, forcing Cuba to use cash or to borrow from foreign banks. The financing restrictions can be waived by the... |
1236404_1 | WORLD BUSINESS: A Local Liquor Catches On; But Export Outside Brazil Has Been Fragmented | little as a dollar, has forced the remaining producers in Luis Alves to search for markets overseas, where a bottle of the liquor can fetch upwards of $30. The big producers have more success exporting because of their scale, but the smaller ones have higher quality because their cachaca, which is similar to rum, is ha... |
1242260_4 | The Devolved AT&T: Are 4 Parts More Promising Than One? | And yesterday, WorldCom said it would introduce a new business-oriented structure next week. Sprint is another competitor in the business services market, which may be the most profitable segment of the telecommunications industry. But Sprint cannot match the scale of WorldCom or AT&T, and has had much less success ser... |
1242267_0 | Foreign Affairs; The Five Myths | The U.S. ambassador to China, Joseph Prueher, was answering questions the other day after a lecture at Nanjing University, when an American student rose and asked him something like this: Why is it that whenever I'm back home Americans ask me what it's like to live in a Communist dictatorship that abuses its people, bu... |
1239119_0 | Embargo Seen as Aid To Castro; Canada, Too | The long-running United States economic embargo of Cuba has played neatly into the hands of both the Havana government and Canada, which has become the largest foreign investor in Cuba, Canada's foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy, said in an interview here today. ''It's the one thing that keeps them in power, keeping up ... |
1239008_3 | Huddled Masses of City Statuary Face Eviction | the landfill.'' The goal now is to put as many items as possible on public view, preferably in their original sites. But sometimes those sites have disappeared, been altered or adorned with replicas. So some items will be recycled for parts. Some will stay in storage, as models for repairs for re-creations. Some will b... |
1239167_0 | Sailors' Town Is a Mecca for the Boat Industry | A thin, sporadic drizzle mixed with the chilled northerly breeze did nothing to raise the comfort level of the gathering throng. But this is a sailor's town, and last Monday the blast of unseasonable weather did nothing to dissuade the locals from assembling on the waterfront for what has become an annual boating spect... |
1238866_4 | Multiple Personalities? Yes, on the Radio | hearing his first broadcast. ''I've seen you on the stage,'' James Brannigan told his son. ''I've seen you on TV. You have a great face for radio.'' Heeding the Call When Hope Koski was about 7 years old, she told her mother that she wanted to be an Episcopalian priest. ''Oh honey,'' the Very Rev. Hope Koski recalled h... |
1239127_1 | World's Health Officials Seek Global Treaty to Curb Smoking | their products are deadly and addictive. They made clear, however, that they will resist stringent global rules, insisting that they are free to sell and advertise their wares. ''Today, with near-universal awareness of the health risks, a billion adults choose to smoke,'' said Christopher Proctor, BAT's science directo... |
1239012_0 | Not-Quite Landmark Languishes in Limbo | Last year, a ceiling in the Angelo Petromelis College Point Senior Center nearly caved in under the weight of pigeon droppings. The birds had nested in the roof, and their droppings were eating through the ceiling. The city, which runs the center, repaired the roof. However, Sabina Cardali, president of the College Poi... |
1239124_4 | Ithaca Journal; Sweet Fishing and a Gorgeous Gorge, if You Don't Mind All That Old Lead | to it for years,'' he said. But the allure was strong, too, Mr. Root said. Under the thundering falls, the fishing -- for brown trout, rainbows and landlocked salmon -- has been ''very sweet'' lately, he said, though he added that he would not think of eating anything that came from these waters now. For him, it is str... |
1239778_1 | Firestone Announces Production Cutbacks in 3 Plants and Layoffs | its overall production by a fifth for the next two months, even though Firestone-brand tires only account for half the company's sales. Firestone also sells Bridgestone tires, which go mainly on Japanese-brand automobiles, and other brands. Firestone's inventory of unsold tires is 50 percent larger than usual now, part... |
1239846_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day last Wednesday about Genetic ID, the laboratory that found genetically modified corn in a batch of taco shells, misidentified the agency that is considering starting a program to certify food as being free of modified ingredients. It is the Department of Agriculture, not the Food and Drug Adm... |
1239716_2 | U.S. Aid to Colombia Worries Hemisphere's Defense Leaders | of the entire Amazon.'' Without mentioning Mr. Chavez by name, Mr. Cohen, who returned to Washington this afternoon in order to attend a memorial service on Wednesday for the sailors who died in the attack on the American destroyer Cole, emphatically denied that any such escalation will take place. ''We do not, under a... |
1239722_4 | MANAGEMENT: Getting Religion On Corporate Ethics; A Scourge of Scandals Leaves Its Mark | Shell has posted on the Internet, identifies initiatives that it is taking to prevent wrongdoing by employees. For example, it said enforcement of its policy against bribe-taking had resulted in four dismissals and one resignation, though it did not provide details. And Shell says it has hired the accounting and consul... |
1238056_0 | Fighting Back Against Spam | Q. Is there anything I can do to stop getting so much junk e-mail? A. Avoiding all spam might be difficult, but there are a number of things you can do to fight back. Although it can be a bit technical for the new user, the Stop Spam FAQ page on the Web (www.mall-net.com /spamfaq.html) provides a thorough background on... |
1238076_2 | E-Mail Gives Students More Choices for Career Advice | on e-mail do make it possible for many people who would not otherwise participate to get involved. One such person is Amy Vernick, a lawyer in New York who is a volunteer for iMentor. She exchanged e-mail notes about once a week last semester with a student who had moved to New York from Venezuela. She said her career ... |
1238227_0 | Clinton Expected to Allow Cuba Food Sales | Despite his previous reservations, President Clinton is now expected to sign a bill that would permit the sale of food to Cuba, the most significant rollback of United States sanctions to the island in four decades, White House officials said today. The House approved the bill today by a vote of 340-75 as part of a lar... |
1240245_6 | New Kind of Vaccine, Made of DNA, Controls AIDS Virus in Early Tests on Monkeys | the last 15 years, scientists have steadily built a case that killer T-cells can hold the AIDS virus in check. They found that the cells could inhibit the AIDS virus in test tubes. Then they found that killer T-cells proliferated in infected monkeys and in humans at the same time as the AIDS virus replication was broug... |
1240294_0 | Reported Plea Bargaining in Turnpike Shooting Causes Concern in New Jersey | Several New Jersey civil rights leaders and black lawmakers said today they are concerned that state officials are preparing to offer a plea bargain to the two state troopers who shot three unarmed minority men during a traffic stop in 1998, in order to avoid a prolonged criminal trial focusing on racial profiling. The... |
1240194_4 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; Checking Tire Pressure From the Driver's Seat | eventually you'll be stranded.'' To prevent that from happening, the company developed a temperature and pressure monitor that is strapped inside the wheel. Like Mr. Zaroor's device, it broadcasts to a monitor in the passenger compartment. But run-flat tires have not yet caught on. And partly because installation of th... |
1240235_1 | Opponents of India Dam Project Bemoan Green Light From Court | country ''more than self-sufficient in food,'' and that ''famines which used to occur have now become a thing of the past.'' It ruled that the height of the dam can be raised in phases from 290 feet to as high as 452 feet, with each major step requiring the approval of forestry and environmental officials. By a 2-to-1 ... |
1235031_9 | Man Against (Ready. Aim. Fire.) Nature; As the Line Separating the Suburbs and the Countryside Blurs, the Wildlife Gets Squeezed. Or Worse. | was first moved near a shopping center, then near a senior citzens' center and then a school before finally ending up on a back road. ''I was out hunting a dead deer,'' Mr. Griggs said with a laugh. Princeton Township, he said, is one of his most frequent pickup zones. ''In Princeton you have calls all the time about d... |
1235364_0 | Sept. 24-30; Deal on Food Sales to Cuba | After months of bitter negotiations that pitted the American farm lobby against enemies of President Fidel Castro of Cuba, Congressional Republicans agreed to allow the sale of food products to Cuba. The deal, which was brokered by Representative Roy D. Blunt, Republican of Missouri, would allow Cuba to buy American gr... |
1235273_4 | Graft in China Flows Freely, Draining the Treasury | case of the water resource ministry, Niu Maosheng, the minister under whose watch the corruption occurred and who was implicated by the auditors, was reassigned as governor of Hebei Province, hardly a severe reproof. Increasingly, aggrieved people are banding together to fight corruption, either physically or legally b... |
1234947_2 | Bon Voyage Doesn't Mean What It Used To | -- where they would be called staterooms -- or tourist class, which was the cheapest), and the relief if it had a porthole. If you were traveling alone in cabin class, you would all arrive and wonder if it was cricket to reserve the lower bunk with a coat before your cabinmate showed up. Often there would be telegrams ... |
1235022_2 | The Way We Live Now: 10-01-00; Female Troubles | seem to work equally well) can diminish symptoms within days, sometimes within hours. The medications may be effective taken intermittently, for two weeks a month. And when the medications work, they affect not only emotional symptoms, like irritability, but also physical symptoms, like bloating and breast tenderness. ... |
1235375_0 | California's Freeway to Learning | To the Editor: Re ''California Makes College an Entitlement'' (Op-Ed, Sept. 26): Perhaps Abigail Thernstrom is correct in asserting that the main beneficiaries of California's new education entitlement are likely to be middle-class students. But the entitlement benefits all Californians by encouraging the best students... |
1234949_1 | River touring from the Nile and Irrawaddy to the Snake and Willamette | the Irrawaddy River is September to April, and one of the vessels making the trip is the 126-passenger Road to Mandalay, operated by Orient Express Trains and Cruises and marketed in the United States by Abercrombie & Kent. A three-night cruise from Mandalay to Bagan, including sightseeing, costs $1,780 to $3,590 and i... |
1230359_0 | Cell Phone Radiation Levels Now Published on the Web | Do-Mode, a search engine company in Los Angeles, has published a list of specific absorption radiation, or SAR, levels for many cell phone models. In 1996, the Federal Communications Commission mandated a requirement limiting SAR levels on phones sold in the United States to less than 1.6 watts per kilogram of human ti... |
1230384_1 | French Farmer Is Sentenced to Jail for Attack on McDonald's | attack on the American fast-food giant had tapped into a deep well of public discontent and a feeling of powerlessness on subjects ranging from genetically modified foods to the power of the American economy. His particular protest was prompted by the United States' decision to levy high tariffs on Roquefort cheese, pa... |
1233861_0 | Labeling Genetically Altered Food Is Thorny Issue | The discovery of an unapproved variety of genetically engineered corn in a brand of store-bought taco shells is prompting new calls for the labeling of bioengineered foods. But the case, which led Kraft Foods to announce a nationwide recall on Friday, also offers a foretaste of some of the practical difficulties involv... |
1233816_1 | Rome Journal; In This Gladiators' Arena, Even Nero Is Bloodless | on the Via Appia Antica, the ancient Appian Way, the road where legend has it that St. Peter saw an apparition of Christ, and asked, ''Quo vadis, Domine?'' (''Whither goest thou, Lord?'') The society has a Web site (http://digilander.iol.it/sergioiac/), a clubhouse and a yard littered with helmets, shields, pikes, nets... |
1233773_0 | Biotech Corn Isn't Serious Threat to Monarchs, Draft U.S. Report Finds | In a finding that is being hailed by the biotechnology industry and denounced by environmentalists, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued a preliminary report concluding that genetically modified corn is unlikely to pose a serious threat to monarch butterflies. The report, which was made public last week and f... |
1228591_1 | Debating Detailed Plans for Hypothetical Money | grow over the long term. Reducing the national debt, while an important goal, is not a singular priority. After spending much of the past several months campaigning as a corporation-bashing populist fighting for working families, Mr. Gore presented himself today as the embodiment of fiscal responsibility, brushing asid... |
1228633_7 | MORE INDICATIONS HAZARDS OF TIRES WERE LONG KNOWN | possibly including second-degree manslaughter, for the executives of companies that knowingly sell defective products that kill consumers. Automakers narrowly turned back a similar measure in 1966, when the nation's auto regulatory system was set up. Violations of federal auto safety rules are currently punished with a... |
1228585_1 | Congress Takes Up Defective Tires | of concern that it would have to be reported in the United States, a contention that was vigorously denied by Firestone officials testifying before Congress yesterday. In Venezuela, Ford and Firestone face the prospect of a criminal investigation over the tires. Ford's failure to share news of recalls overseas with Ame... |
1228482_5 | The Future Is Here, and It's Ugly; A Spreading Techno-blight of Wires, Cables and Towers Sparks a Revolt | towers. Property values play a big role, too. The Dunn Foundation, in its research on utility lines, has found that real estate prices increase in places where lines have been buried. Mr. Kreines has seen real estate values drop when cell phone towers have been installed nearby. In a case in Ho Ho Kus, N.J., he said, a... |
1228505_2 | Choosing A Salary Or Tuition | Steve Hipple, an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said one of the reasons may be the hot economy and its technology engine. The computer fields are growing at a torrid pace, according to government figures. In the last decade, there has been a 17 percent annual employment growth among computer systems anal... |
1228536_1 | Basalt Journal; This Land Is Their Land: Bears Are Everywhere | been reported, all of them minor. The encounters have been worse on the bears, more than 25 of which have been put to death this year under Colorado's two-strikes-and-you're-out policy for those that forage too close to people. Over the same period last year, the state killed only six. Biologists and state officials sa... |
1232309_1 | E-Mail You Can't Outrun | no matter where they are. Which is more important? The answer may not matter. The BlackBerry is the forerunner of a set of tools that offer constant contact without the need to actually talk to anyone. About a million Americans use a wireless e-mail service, with BlackBerry leading the pack, according to the Yankee Gro... |
1232387_2 | Ford Tested Firestone Tires On Pickup, Not on Explorer | chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection, said: ''It might resemble an Explorer, but it's not an Explorer. That's the whole point.'' He added, ''We will have legislation to solve that problem in the future.'' Mr. Johnson also said that investigators had found reco... |
1230221_1 | Black Bear Hunt Is Canceled After the Governor Intervenes | vote suggested that the dissidents took a dim view of the governor's request. Over the years, the council, an obscure, part-time panel with unpaid members, has enacted the state's hunting regulations with little political interference. But a coalition opposed to hunting mounted a campaign after the council first propos... |
1230118_0 | Now on the Small Screen: The Scent of a Kitchen | I HAVE been to the future and it smells. It smells like . . . But I'm getting ahead of myself. For centuries, technology has struggled to catch up with human perception. The eye perceives motion, but until the 20th century, mankind made do with static representations of the visual field. The ear hears, but the first re... |
1230165_2 | In Akron, the Talk Is About Treads | with the tires. Many industry officials stressed how complicated the tire-making process was and how sophisticated tires had become. In the exhibition hall, industry officials talked about how far the industry had come from the days when Charles Goodyear invented vulcanization, which helped transform Akron into the ind... |
1230218_4 | Rancor Grows Between Ford And Firestone | Firestone tires. They did not specify what programs would be cut. Mr. Slater said his department wanted the authority to require auto- makers and related companies to report on foreign recalls. But he acknowledged under questioning that the information could also be obtained from foreign governments, though the United ... |
1230134_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | near the Romanian border. Mr. Milosevic, addressing some 10,000 supporters, praised his country's resilience and attacked the West and its supporters. ''This is the answer to violence and injustice, a proof of the civilizational superiority of our nation, undefeated and unconquered by evil,'' he said. Steven Erlanger I... |
1231777_1 | Experts to Pepper Seas for Clues to Climate and Weather | the oceans might sop up some of the energy accumulating in the air as levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases rise. Until now, scientists have only nibbled at such problems, using temperature and salinity records and other data gleaned over the decades by instruments mainly dropped along shipping routes. ''There are h... |
1231887_7 | Fatal Explorer Accidents Involving Bad Tires Soared in '99 | 11 in 1996 and 20 in 1997 and 25 in 1998, but last year the rate doubled to 52 per 1,000 accidents. Other utility vehicles of similar vintage had tire-related rates fluctuating around an average 6 per 1,000 fatal accidents during the period. There were 40 Explorer tire-related fatal accidents last year, compared to 23 ... |
1231888_2 | Ford and Another Tire Maker Facing New S.U.V. Problems | is certain to increase regulators' scrutiny of other brands of tires as well. While tire makers have long blamed customer neglect or abuse for tire failure, and have said some tires inevitably fail, Firestone's admission last week that it ''made bad tires'' appears to have opened the floodgates for lawsuits and regulat... |
1231330_1 | Firestone's Crisis Is Other Dealers' Opportunity | Mark Durant, the assistant manager. In fact, the reports of tread problems on tires produced by Bridgestone/Firestone, whose Japanese parent, the Bridgestone Corporation, is the world's biggest tire maker, have given Les Schwab and other retailers a unforeseen chance to pick up business. Statistics out last week show t... |
1231226_0 | Be More Clear On What's in Soup Cans | To the Editor: No biotech foods contain fish genes. Several years ago, a company investigated whether a gene from a cold-tolerant fish would allow frozen tomatoes to thaw without turning to mush. The public was uncertain about the transfer of genetic codes from fish to fruit, so the project was dropped. since few if an... |
1231115_2 | From MacArthur, a Bonanza in Business Travel | to Long Island for business through La Guardia or Kennedy airports. Obviously, they still do. But more and more they're coming through MacArthur and want to stay within a few miles of where they're working.'' John Tsunis, the managing partner in Long Island Hotels, is putting up two hotels near the Long Island Expressw... |
1231095_0 | The View From/Stamford; Center Aims to Educate On Long Island Sound | THE brown ducks swimming in the inlets, the gulls swooping low in the sky, the herons stalking fish in the shallows -- all are testimony to the diverse ecology of Long Island Sound. They could also be advertisements for the environmental center about to open in a 200-year-old converted house in Cove Island Park in Stam... |
1231066_5 | The Air-Conditioned Reverie of a Fundamentalist | the face. The blast of heat is only part of the shock. There is also the abrupt transition from the visual to the physical, from the sphere of retinal experience to a world where eye and brain are but two organs in a wholly constituted body. This is what an art museum is supposed to do, you might say: create a space ru... |
1231331_2 | Ideas & Trends: Don't Tread on Me; A Road to Truth Paved With Fingerpointing | the problem worse. As John Lampe, Firestone's executive vice president, has mentioned over and over, vehicles are supported mostly by the air in a tire, although the structure of the tire itself plays a role. Lousy tires with little air in them -- the tires also seem to have been prone to leaks -- are a doomed combinat... |
1231121_2 | Faces in Photographs; A Region Vividly Portrayed | whose work is familiar and who specialize in people are included. Works by Lee Friedlander strategically show up numerous times. The work of Helen Levitt is described in wall text as lyrical and does seem to be counterpoint to other more hard-edged work. Some younger photographers, a couple of them recent Yale graduate... |
1231319_1 | A Biotechnology Sprout In Arid Market Ground | Messenger not only reduced or eliminated the need for traditional chemical pesticides but also improved crop yields by 10 to 20 percent, without leaving harmful residues in the environment, according to its prospectus. Industry analysts say Eden crossed an important hurdle last April, when the Environmental Protection ... |
1231051_0 | Second Chances: A Roundup of Revisits | THINGS change, to quote the title of a David Mamet movie, and in the restaurant business change is virtually built in. That is why from time to time we like to look in at places that provided memorable dining experiences in the past. Following are observations from several of our most recent revisits. It was five years... |
1231072_1 | Mobilizing to Stage an Epic, Brutal Trojan War | of productions all over the world, including operas and Greek and Shakespearean drama cycles. Now, at age 70, he is undertaking another bold venture, one that follows the trend in recent decades of marathon productions by master directors. If the theatergoing public's response to such lengthy, and inventive, presentati... |
1231225_0 | Be More Clear On What's in Soup Cans | To the Editor: The Soapbox ''Mmm, Mmm, Genetically Engineered'' (Aug. 27) by Jerry Flanagan assures us that yellow journalism is alive and well in New Jersey. Are we to believe that, as this patchwork of innuendo and less-than-half-truths implies, that Cambell Soups are harmful, in spite of their certification for soun... |
1233636_1 | If Cell Phones Were Sport, A Platinum Medal for Aussies | a tunnel,'' Mr. Comley said as he punched up her number for the umpteenth time. Many of these calls are flowing over the newly upgraded digital network of Telstra, Australia's publicly traded but still state-controlled phone company, which has prompted company executives to strain for superlatives. ''For telecommunicat... |
1228036_0 | Stricter Rules for Tire Safety Were Scrapped by Reagan | After the last huge recall of Firestone tires in 1978, when tread separation problems resulted in hundreds of crashes and dozens of deaths, Congress and regulators made a series of proposals to tighten federal tire standards. But the standards were not revised, and many of the same problems, including some that the pro... |
1227929_0 | Congress's Part in the Firestone Crisis | As Congress begins hearings this week on the recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires, questions will be raised about why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration didn't take action sooner against Firestone and the Ford Motor Company over tire blowouts and resulting rollovers of Ford Explorers. One answer is the... |
1227982_5 | FOREIGN WORKERS AT HIGHEST LEVEL IN SEVEN DECADES | that workers brought in under such programs drive down wages and essentially are easy-to-exploit captives restricted to working for one company. The Clinton administration, mindful of Silicon Valley's political contributions and organized labor's political muscle, has signaled that it favors increasing the number of hi... |
1227721_1 | Bumper Crop From the Middle Ground | effectively did the same thing. We do not invest in midcaps for diversification. We think the real opportunity for investing in midcap companies is that you have a population of companies with revenue and earnings growth rates that are very similar to smaller companies, but with proven managements, and which can go thr... |
1227770_0 | Near Beijing, Three Bears Find Rescue And Refuge | For years, the woman heard the moaning of animals. Finally last month she could not stand it any more. She called a newspaper to report that a restaurant nearby was keeping three black bears in tiny cages, milking their gall bladders of bile to sell for its reputed medicinal value. After a sensational account in The Be... |
1227770_2 | Near Beijing, Three Bears Find Rescue And Refuge | One of the bears recovered was found to have a tube dangling from an open sore; its other end was inside the animal's gall bladder. After being taken to the Beijing Wildlife Rescue Center, a specially experienced foreign veterinarian was invited in to remove the tube. Traditional Asian medicine holds that bear bile can... |
1227424_0 | Books in Brief: Nonfiction | The End of the Past Ancient Rome and the Modern West. By Aldo Schiavone. Harvard University, $45. Modern history begins with the Renaissance, a period that thought of itself as bringing back to life the classical culture nearly extinguished during the Dark and Middle Ages. But why this near-death experience of a civili... |
1227835_0 | The French and Corsica | A plan by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of France to give limited self-rule to the island of Corsica has caused turmoil in France's political class and led Interior Minister Jean Pierre Chevenement to resign in protest. Any degree of regional autonomy is a deeply sensitive constitutional issue in France. But the plan ha... |
1227791_4 | Dealers Struggle to Cope With Rush to Replace Firestone Tires | on replacement tires and had not pointed it out to regulators. G.M. officials were dismayed by the advisory, which included 40,000 tires installed at the plant on 1991 Chevrolet Blazers in addition to off-road tires sold by Firestone dealers. As Ford has stepped up the pressure on Firestone, it has also done so indirec... |
1227580_5 | In the Paperless Era, the Problem Is Too Much Paper | with our existing staff. It was just a nightmare trying to keep the inventory straight, not to mention it cost a fortune between leasing and personnel resources. So we contracted.'' As Dr. dt ogilvie, associate professor of strategic management at Rutgers University School of Business, put it: ''If you are going to kee... |
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