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1228970_3 | Safety Agency Wants Increase In Authority | recall is for 14.4 million tires, of which 6.5 million are still believed to be on the road, but the traffic safety agency wants the company to expand that by 1.4 million, of which fewer than half are thought to be still in use. Internal Ford documents continued to dribble out of the Congressional investigations today ... |
1229011_3 | Whitman Seeks New Policy on Bears After Protests About Hunt | diplomats meandered through the lobby, the governor held a news conference on bears. She said that bears in the state had been nearly extinct in the early 1970's, but that the population had recovered to about 1,000. Some bears, she said, were becoming more and more accustomed to the growing number of people in the nor... |
1228986_0 | Bears May Get Reprieve | |
1234255_0 | Techno Fabrics Suffer Red Wine Stylishly | THINK the withdrawal of Scotchgard from the market means being forever careful eating that bowl of cereal in the den? Don't worry. Spill whatever you want -- coffee, ice cream, mustard. We did it on these techno fabrics, all of man-made materials like polyester and plastic, and found that a cloth and hot soapy water re... |
1234270_1 | The College Search Game, Spam Included | did his online research, some sites asked him to fill out registration forms and disclose his e-mail and home addresses. ''Ever since I did that,'' he said, sounding annoyed, ''I've been getting an awful lot of mail about opportunities to join the Army, Navy and Air Force.'' Was this something he was interested in? ''N... |
1234282_3 | O Profligate Youth of Rome, Ye #*!, Ye @#! (See Footnote) | big leather phalluses. The point of the comedy was to shake people up. To expose what was normally hidden, to make fun of it, to take the important people down a peg or two and speak up for the ordinary man.'' For years college professors have shared the earthiness of these writers with their students, or at least chal... |
1234375_0 | Judge Tells Firestone to Release Technical Data on Tires | A federal district court judge here ruled today that the public should have access to extensive information on tire technology that Firestone was compelled to turn over during a lawsuit over a fatal accident. The company said that releasing the documents would amount to giving up trade secrets. Judicial secrecy has eme... |
1234415_0 | Congressional Leaders Approve a Deal to Allow Food Sales to Cuba | The House and Senate leadership today approved a deal to allow the sale of American food products to Cuba, clearing the way for the most significant rollback of United States sanctions against the island in four decades. The agreement on sales, which was brokered between farm-state and anti-Castro lawmakers, was eagerl... |
1232634_2 | Goodyear Is Unlikely to Post Any Profit for Third Quarter | profits squeezed. Slowing automobile production -- exacerbated by the Ford Motor Company's shutdown of several production lines to free up tires to replace 6.5 million Firestone tires that have been recalled -- has hit all of them hard. Other industries that are heavily dependent on oil for materials and Detroit for sa... |
1232661_2 | Cooper Tire May Become Focus of a Safety Investigation | to compel tire makers to send the agency information about safety-related lawsuits. ''Unfortunately, the public often does not know to contact N.H.T.S.A, but we're going to correct that,'' Ms. Bailey said. ''This is the kind of information that could be essential to us.'' In the current climate of concern, regulators a... |
1229177_4 | Call It the Gold Coast | and every other living creature off the coast of New Jersey -- were wiped out in 1976 by a bout of anoxia, or lack of oxygen. While the clams came back by the early 1980's, with them came stricter regulations, which included a moratorium on any new clam licenses and a sharp reduction in the amount of clams that could b... |
1229634_0 | Bandits in the Global Shipping Lanes | Jack Hitt's article (Aug. 20) is a heart thumper, a wonderfully written crime tale. But how piracy relates to ''the inequities of the free-trade economy'' is opaque at best. Kerry Tremain Berkeley, Calif. |
1229635_0 | Bandits in the Global Shipping Lanes | Hitt writes that piracy is ''a troubling symptom of a new world order, one shaped by a fierce Darwinian struggle in the feral markets of modern international trade.'' In so doing, Hitt seeks to assign a rational, and moral, motivation to the acts of these pirates. He says, in effect, that since these people do not achi... |
1229636_0 | Bandits in the Global Shipping Lanes | As an ensign aboard the United States Navy supply ship Pollux (and sailing regularly to and from Manila, Cebu, Taiwan and Borneo), I had the distinction of being ordered to form a squad of heavily armed boatswain and gunners' mates to fight pirates. I still remember our training program, which started with the shrill o... |
1229209_3 | IN THE WORKSHOP WITH/Ker Berdimurat-Beckley; Helping Children in Need Talk It Out in Pictures | a more in-depth investigation. Q. In one of your clients' drawings, there are two figures, one in total shadow and one facing forward with the eyes shaded over. What does that tell you? A. This is a self-initiated drawing. That means that he took charcoal and paper and just started drawing. It's interesting that he sai... |
1229637_0 | Bandits in the Global Shipping Lanes | Only in Gilbert and Sullivan operas are people forced into a career of piracy. Richard H. Howarth Reston, Va. |
1232149_1 | More Deaths Are Attributed To Faulty Firestone Tires | replacement tire market. Most of the deaths cited in complaints to regulators have occurred in Explorers, and almost all of them involved a rollover after a tire shed its tread during high-speed driving. As the inquiry continued, Continental A.G., Germany's leading tire maker, announced today that it would replace 160,... |
1232034_0 | He Still Doesn't Sell Beans, But the Page Keeps Perking | DAVE WOLFF now has a computer (sort of), which puts him ahead of where he was a year ago, when we followed his first steps into the world of e-commerce. With help from me, a high school friend and an avid but amateur Webmaster, Dave put his small-town Main Street coffee shop, The Fine Grind, online. He hoped to sell co... |
1232113_2 | Suave Rival Has Words For the U.S.: 'En Garde' | State Madeleine K. Albright, with whom he converses in French, by making France the only country of 107 attending nations to refuse to sign a declaration on democracy that she had organized in Warsaw. (''Democracy is not like instant coffee where you can just add water and stir,'' he says). In his book, ''France's Asse... |
1232185_0 | School Laptops Paid With Ads Called Feasible | The Board of Education is pushing ahead on a proposal to provide portable computers to most New York City students as well as Internet access over a new Web site that would include commercial advertising, all at a cost that has now been put at $900 million over the next 10 years. The new cost estimates, which would mak... |
1231601_2 | Six Events That Show a Brutal Century Wasn't All Bad | the end of apartheid. General Pinochet's willingness to allow a plebiscite followed an attempted assassination (which left five of his bodyguards dead), and the discovery of a guerrilla group's arms cache in the desert. The Danes hid Jews and carried on shipyard strikes to slow the Nazi war effort, but also blew up fac... |
1229995_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | center of Brussels. A3 New Details on Mideast Talks Senior Clinton Administration officials provided details of a critical 90-minute meeting between the president and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, in Manhattan last week that was intended to aid the badly flagging Middle East peace talks. Yesterday, Mr. Arafat f... |
1229874_4 | Added Sugars Are Taking a Toll on Health | of added sugars also had the lowest intake of the five food groups (grains, fruits, vegetables, protein foods and dairy products), which are critical to normal growth and health maintenance. The caloric difference between the lowest and highest consumers of added sugars -- 190 calories a day -- can add up to a weight d... |
1229959_2 | A West African Monkey Is Extinct, Scientists Say | gorillas, and a variety of monkeys. The last sightings of Miss Waldron's red colobus were in the 1970's, and a concerted seven-year effort to visit every last scrap of the swampy rain forests the monkey preferred ended late last month in the Ivory Coast without even a hint of its presence, said W. Scott McGraw, an anth... |
1229886_1 | Monarch Butterflies Lose Much of Their Wintering Grounds | forest entirely removed. The researchers estimate that in 50 years, at the current rate of deforestation, nearly all the original forest will be similarly degraded. ''From what I've seen there year after year, I predicted it would be bad and getting worse,'' said Dr. Lincoln P. Brower, a monarch biologist at Sweet Bria... |
1229941_2 | Table Shows Ford's Stance On Tire Limits | be regulated more like cars. Although the document does not provide tire speed ratings for vehicles in the United States, these tend to be fairly similar to the speed ratings for exported models, which are often produced in the same factories. The steps taken in Venezuela are significant because as Firestone proceeds w... |
1229997_0 | A Hormone Therapy Benefit | To the Editor: The recent article on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal and post-menopausal women discusses its perceived benefits and drawbacks (''Hormone Replacement Therapy: Why They Do It, or Avoid It,'' Sept. 5). Hardly mentioned, but important, is how H.R.T., either in pill or cream form, helps women rega... |
1229889_5 | New Homes for the 'Charters of Freedom'; A Challenge for the Engineers: Protect the Documents but Display Them Too | aesthetic reasons, the gray-colored titanium is nickel-plated to bond an outer coating of 24-carat gold. Inside each enclosure is a thin, perforated aluminum document platform that stands about an inch high on three, snap-out posts. This platform is detachable so that it and the attached document can be removed from th... |
1226857_3 | Despondent Parents See Foster Care as Only Option | camps -- the stresses are exacerbated,'' said Karen Freedman, executive director of Lawyers for Children, a nonprofit group that provides lawyers and social services for children who are voluntarily placed. ''A lot of what these parents are feeling is fear for their children.'' In Family Court, where despair competes d... |
1226779_0 | How an Irish Mother Became a Warrior for Peace | ''Titanic Town'' is by no means the first film to portray the profoundly disruptive effects on everyday life of the long-running troubles in Northern Ireland. But in its harshly realistic scenes of British Army tanks rolling across the lawns of a middle-class housing development in West Belfast, it stirs your blood. As... |
1226804_0 | A French Protest Ends | |
1228334_1 | Lawrence Fellows, 75, Foreign Correspondent for Times and Editor | all but one of them members of the Nilotic tribe, well over 6 feet tall, with deep-black skins.'' The article described the bitterness among black Africans over the slave trade and their resentment of the Arabs of northern Sudan. It was the first article to appear in the United States press on what happened in the sout... |
1228325_0 | Where Time Lay Frozen | To some ears, the Northwest Passage still sounds like an old-fashioned geographic fiction, an article of faith for which men died rather than a real path through real waters. Victorian England never showed its true colors more truly than in its fervent response to the disappearance of Sir John Franklin's last Arctic ex... |
1228332_0 | How to Create a Shortage In a Skilled-Labor Market | TO alleviate apparent shortages of computer programmers, President Clinton and Congress have agreed to raise a quota on H-1B's, the temporary visas for skilled foreigners. The annual limit will go to 200,000 next year, up from 65,000 only three years ago. The imported workers, most of whom come from India, are said to ... |
1228355_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE VATICAN: CATHOLICISM'S ROLE -- The Vatican issued a strong statement seeking to affirm and ''clarify'' Roman Catholic teaching on the uniqueness of Christianity and the Catholic Church. The document, written by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, says that salvation is available only through Jesus Ch... |
1228344_0 | Questions on Tire-Defect Data Arise as Hearings Draw Near | The Bridgestone/Firestone tire defect now blamed for 88 deaths, mainly in Ford Explorers, eluded detection for so long because it occurred infrequently, even though it proved deadlier than many problems that occur more often in vehicles, Ford Motor and Congressional investigators said today. The deadliness of the tire ... |
1230662_2 | Ford Chairman Speaks Out On Tires for the First Time | problems as resulting from customers' neglect of the tires. C. Tab Turner, a lawyer in Little Rock, Ark., who specializes in tire failure and vehicle rollover cases and who has filed some of the many lawsuits against Ford and Firestone, said that he had seen during litigation many of the Firestone test results that Mr.... |
1230695_6 | Firestone Workers Cite Lax Quality Control | supervisors and newly hired employees were often called on to master highly skilled jobs to keep the plant running. When workers returned in May 1995, they said many problems lingered, partly because many seasoned workers retired. The company also started operating seven days a week. Employees began working 12-hour shi... |
1234054_1 | Congress Weighs Limiting State Food-Safety Measures | the federal government barely regulates dietary supplements. In July the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said consumers may be buying potentially unsafe ingredients because the Food and Drug Administration has never issued safety standards for dietary supplements. A law passed by Congress ... |
1234087_0 | Companies Act to Keep Bioengineered Corn Out of Food | Moving to address safety concerns, agribusiness companies took steps yesterday to limit the chances that a strain of bioengineered corn not approved for human consumption could end up in food products. The corn, approved for use only in animal feed, was found last week in a sampling of taco shells sold in stores under ... |
1232893_5 | Ford Raises Recommended Tire Pressure | and they want Firestone to start recalling 16-inch Wilderness tires as well. Safetyforum.com, a research firm for personal injury lawyers, released today a review of all complaints to regulators about Firestone tires that can be mounted on Explorers. For those complaints in which the tire's size and place of manufactur... |
1232844_2 | French Flight Tests Ban Against Iraq | French gesture perplexed diplomats here and deepened divisions on the Security Council at a critical moment in its relations with the government of Mr. Hussein. France has considerable oil industry interests in Iraq, but French diplomats have always argued that those interests are not its motivation in seeking changes ... |
1232889_1 | Kraft Recalls Taco Shells With Bioengineered Corn | Taco Bell Home Originals packages containing 12 shells and 18 shells as well as the Taco Bell Home Originals Taco Dinner, which contains 12 shells plus sauce and seasoning. Kraft, a subsidiary of Philip Morris, said consumers should return the product to where it was purchased for a full refund. Michael Mudd, vice pres... |
1232800_0 | China and Cuba | To the Editor: You report that the Senate voted overwhelmingly to give permanent trade benefits to China ''despite the State Department's recent conclusion that China's human rights violations have, if anything, grown more egregious this year'' (front page, Sept. 20). Isn't it time we recognized Cuba, a small nation wi... |
1232922_0 | Sprint Ends Suit Over Limits On Car Phones | A month after officials in Marlboro Township, N.J., approved the state's first ban on the use of handheld cellular phones while driving, Sprint PCS sued to challenge the ban -- and then withdrew the suit yesterday. Sprint filed the lawsuit in State Superior Court in Monmouth County on Aug. 25, seeking to overturn the b... |
1234608_0 | E.P.A. Says Lead-Paint Law May Increase Risks to Children | The federal Environmental Protection Agency has notified New York City officials that it believes changes made in the city's lead-paint law last year are critically flawed. It said the law is now likely to result in more lead poisoning of children and called on the city to close the loopholes. The agency acted after pl... |
1234582_1 | OPEC's Unity Is Undercut By the Saudis | have tripled during the last 18 months, was a production cutback agreement that Ali Rodriguez Araque, Venezuela's minister of energy and now the president of OPEC, negotiated early last year with Saudi Arabia and Mexico. But the Saudi statement suggested that the three nation's singleness of purpose may now be fraying.... |
1229830_4 | Documents Portray Tire Debacle As a Story of Lost Opportunities | government report on Firestone tire production by serial code, it can be calculated that less than four-tenths of a percent of the recalled tires were replaced under warranty in 1998 and 1999. By a comparison, 17 percent of the tires were replaced under warranty in 1978 before Firestone's last major recall, of model 50... |
1234798_1 | A 2nd Front In the Inquiry Into Firestone | had been produced, when or where. Safety defect investigations by regulators are common, and many end with no finding of a defect. This is the 40th investigation regulators have opened this year. Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., a unit of Bridgestone of Japan, said that it had only learned today of the new investigation. Th... |
1234757_0 | Hear the One About the Goofy Robot? | Machines have always seemed to possess imposing and threatening powers. Their clanking, humming energy and inhuman abilities have promised utopia -- a world of leisure and convenience and plenty. But they have also threatened apocalypse: a world in which their brutish, infernal mechanisms demolish everything we cherish... |
1228804_4 | Link Between Tires and Crashes Went Undetected in Federal Data | yet of all fatalities in Explorers -- about 1 per hundred million miles. Among the limitations of the federal database, Mr. Grush and others noted, is that it records only vehicle type, not tire type. The data points to a problem with Firestone tires only because the vast majority of new Explorers were equipped with Fi... |
1228869_0 | 'New York Classicism Now' | Hirschl & Adler 21 East 70th Street Manhattan Through next Friday Maybe there is an important exhibition to be done about the classical impulse in contemporary art. ''New York Classicism Now,'' inspired in part by the best-selling author and crusading anti-Modernist Tom Wolfe, is not it. This confusing mix of represent... |
1228787_1 | Documents Show Firestone Knew of Rising Warranty Costs | share. For this reason, he said, ''I'm not aware of any discussion that took place about the number of'' warranty claims. Mr. Lampe said that warranty claims, known as adjustments in the tire industry, had not risen in comparison with the number of tires in use. The Congressional investigators' documents include charts... |
1228801_1 | Use of Breast Cancer Drug Questioned in Dutch Study | the study and a professor of cancer epidemiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. ''It's very important.'' But cancer experts from Holland and the United States disagree on whether healthy women at high risk for breast cancer should take tamoxifen for prevention. Tamoxifen has been used to treat breast... |
1227277_3 | Warning Issued On More Tires From Firestone | with Arizona officials, Firestone tried to satisfy all customers with concerns. Today's consumer advisory is the strongest action that the government can take if it has some indications of a problem but lacks the extensive body of engineering and statistical analysis needed to justify forcing a company to carry out a r... |
1228142_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Chronic Flight Delays Tied to Deregulation Most experts now believe that delays in the nation's air traffic system, which have risen nearly 50 percent in the last five years, will get worse, not better. The Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the air traffic system, predicts that by 2010 the number of airline p... |
1228155_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | CHINA: CHRISTIANS CHARGED -- Formal criminal charges were brought against 85 of the 130 evangelical Christians arrested during an illegal worship service two weeks ago in central China, a human rights monitor in Hong Kong said. The large-scale prosecutions could not be independently verified but, if they proceed, they ... |
1228156_0 | Bridgestone Agrees to Recall 62,000 Tires in Venezuela | Facing the threat of criminal and civil actions here, Bridgestone/Firestone agreed today to recall 62,000 tires that the Venezuelan government says had defects that appear to have played a role in the deaths of at least 60 people in automobile accidents. Samuel Ruh Rios, director of the Consumer Defense and Education I... |
1228090_1 | Hormone Replacement Therapy: Why They Do It, or Avoid It | risk getting another one that you don't have and might otherwise never get?'' Mrs. DuMont wondered. She stopped her first hormone treatment because of a bad reaction but is considering a second. Estimates of the number of women who take or have taken hormones for the symptoms of menopause range from 10 percent to more ... |
1228110_3 | Los Angeles Journal; The Battle of the Hollywood Bowl | up the sky over the Bowl when the city comes together every Fourth of July to celebrate. With all that in its past, ''we believe this is a very, very serious step to lose the shell that has defined the Bowl for 71 years,'' Mr. Bernstein said. In the last few days, the conservancy has had its first chance to study the p... |
1230880_6 | Questions Raised About Ford Explorer's Margin of Safety | and DaimlerChrysler, too, although tires on these companies' models were subject to far fewer claims over all, he said. While the Explorer's gas tank is near the left rear tire and is heavy when full, Ford does not believe that the concentration of problems on the left rear tire reflects the weight distribution, Mr. Ba... |
1230869_2 | OPEC States Want to Be Paid if Pollution Curbs Cut Oil Sales | few days at the peak of the conference. Some representatives of industrialized countries said they were determined to fight language that would provide payments to oil producers. OPEC members said they, too, were prepared to fight. Muhammad al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation and senior economic adviser to the Saud... |
1233059_4 | In Bologna, A Grand Plaza Defines the City | lean at an ominous, Pisa-like angle, but unlike the one in Pisa, their stability does not seem in question. Eight hundred years ago, there were more than 100 such towers peppering the Bologna skyline, like so many clunky red-brick reeds growing skyward. A few others still exist, scattered throughout the center, but onl... |
1233280_2 | Preserving the Forest By Leasing the Trees | through job-creation or education programs. ''Unless the local people are committed to it, it just isn't going to work,'' Mr. Seligmann said. ENVIRONMENTAL groups have had limited success with other approaches to protecting wilderness areas. While countries have created some national parks, the process of convincing go... |
1233477_0 | Sept. 17-23; Now, the Navigator | The scandal over defective Firestone tires prompted Congress to approve money for rating vehicles' tendency to roll over. This follows evidence that most of the 103 deaths blamed on defective tires occurred in Ford Explorers that flipped over when their tires lost their treads. Meanwhile, another tire maker, Continenta... |
1233003_1 | Crashed | his voice mail. As he does, his eye is caught by a digital display promising ''stock quotations on your pager, minute by minute'' and he tries to copy down the Web address before it disappears. He finds that he has three unplayed messages but can't retrieve them because the system is down. Suddenly, he's faced with a p... |
1233348_5 | The World: Movement; Growing Up and Getting Practical Since Seattle | billion people still living on less than $1 a day, another 1.3 billion people on $2 -- and the diverse protests stirred by such numbers are now so vigorous that dialogue and compromise have become essential. ''If we do not succeed in making clear to citizens that globalization is to their benefit, we run a big politica... |
1212605_0 | Rethinking Special Needs Without Losing Ground | UNTIL Congress enacted a special-education law in 1975, schools often ignored children with disabilities. Millions of special-needs children, in homes or quasi-medical institutions, got no schooling at all. Others, in schools, got only token help; many failed or dropped out. To end this scandal, federal law gave parent... |
1212584_1 | Misery Index Of U.N. Panel Finds Africa Is Worst Off | from life. This year, 30 of the 35 countries at the bottom of the index were in sub-Saharan Africa. In that region, where the spread of AIDS and other diseases has begun to shorten life spans after decades of slow improvement, people can no longer expect to live beyond their 40's or 50's. Fewer than half go to school a... |
1212627_0 | A Misguided World Bank Project | Tomorrow the World Bank's board of executive directors will consider how to proceed with a $40 million loan to China. The loan would underwrite a dam and irrigation projects in a remote part of western China and resettle 58,000 impoverished Chinese and Hui Muslim farmers in lands that have traditionally been home to Ti... |
1212618_0 | Learning Problems of Low-Weight Infants Are Broader Than Once Thought, Study Finds | Babies born weighing less than five and a half pounds are almost four times more likely not to graduate from high school by age 19 than their normal-birthweight siblings, according to a study in the June issue of the American Sociological Review. The findings of the study, apparently the first to follow low-birthweight... |
1212581_2 | MANAGEMENT: Battle of the Graduate Schools; Law Gains Edge on Business, and No One Knows Why | the strong economy has given them many alternatives. Law schools have managed to defy the demographics, though. Unlike many business schools, they accept students directly from college, before the students have employers who are desperate to keep them. The law schools also seem to be benefiting both from corporate Amer... |
1212587_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE BRITAIN: CURBING HOOLIGANS The government proposed emergency laws to give the courts and the police power to restrict suspected soccer hooligans from attending domestic matches and prevent them from traveling to games outside England. With expected Conservative support, the bill should become law before the end ... |
1212587_2 | World Briefing | condoms to the poor in Sao Paulo. (Reuters) ASIA SRI LANKA: CENSORSHIP BACK President Chandrika Kumaratunga, invoking an emergency decree, has reintroduced censorship on local and foreign news media three days after a landmark Supreme Court ruling that censorship was illegal. The decree will cover whatever the governme... |
1217405_9 | SHIFTING WORKPLACE/A special report.; Renewed Corporate Wanderlust Puts a Quiet Brake on Salaries | recruits graduates of the University of North Florida, whose campus, with 12,000 students, is only three miles away. Recent graduates are among the 25 ''profilers'' stationed at Merrill's suburban campus. Merrill developed profiling at its Somerset, N.J., office, using the profilers to build a database of biographical ... |
1215422_0 | Ulster Discord | To the Editor: Re ''Northern Ireland Paralyzed by Unionist Demonstrations'' (news article, July 11): Radical elements in the Protestant communities of Ireland have again shown their unwillingness to compromise for the sake of peace. The ''marching season'' is an affront to Roman Catholic families, serving merely to fue... |
1215493_0 | Despite Efforts, Airport Delays Are Worsening | A collective groan rose from the United Airlines check-in line at La Guardia Airport at 8 a.m. Monday as the announcement sounded from a loudspeaker. Because of heavy thunderstorms in Chicago, the disembodied voice intoned, flights to O'Hare International Airport would be delayed one to four hours. For Sharon Mantel, a... |
1215491_1 | Africa's AIDS Crisis: Finding Common Ground | have yet to emerge from laboratories in the developed world. Just 10 miles from the plush surroundings of the conference center, many South Africans live in squatter camps and earn meager incomes as migrant workers. As they have traveled seeking jobs in mines and other industries, they have brought H.I.V. home to their... |
1215310_0 | Art Appreciation for the Blind | The Venus de Milo and the Parthenon are part of humanity's artistic heritage. But appreciating that heritage has been harder for the blind. Drew University is offering a class on ''The Art of Ancient Greece'' for blind and visually impaired students, from July 31 to Aug. 4 at Concordia House, part of the St. Joseph's S... |
1215429_3 | The World; Ulster and Israel Look In a Mirror at Each Other | two longest-running conflicts since the second world war,'' said Mr. Beilin, who visited Belfast in January. ''In both cases we now seem close to a solution, but in Northern Ireland this week we saw the fragility of the process. Good Friday can be followed by Bad Sunday.'' In April, Mr. Beilin convened a workshop here ... |
1215141_4 | Losing the Present While Waiting For the Future | the PBS series ''Great Performances'' at some future date. Then, in December 1999, Deutsche Grammophon suddenly pulled out. Mr. Venza and PBS quickly followed suit. The sticking point? ''Several changes impacted the potential marketing and related commercial viability of the record,'' Deutsche Grammophon announced in a... |
1214059_2 | Northern Ireland Paralyzed By Unionist Demonstrations | the volatility, Protestant paramilitaries are themselves at loggerheads, with one group, the Ulster Volunteer Force, accusing the Ulster Freedom Fighters of being behind gun attacks last week against officers of the province's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary. At highway junctures across Ulster, some of the ... |
1217135_0 | Corrections | Because of an editing error, an article last week about comparisons between the Israeli-Palestinian and Northern Ireland conflicts misstated the date of the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland. It was 1998, not 1988. |
1217259_0 | A Hard Look At Soft Ice Cream | MISTER SOFTEE, 39th Street at Broadway, northwest corner The vanilla flavor is pronounced and fairly genuine. The ice cream has some weight to it and a silky texture. The pale yellow cone, embossed with the word Mellow, seems to be standard issue for all soft ice-cream trucks. It resembles thin particle board, has no f... |
1217175_1 | Ideas & Trends; The Latest Fashion: Fear-of-Crime Design | was interested in spiky jewelry that would be painful to wear and light switches with sharp edges. And Mr. Hannah sees the same extremism at work in young people's fashion. ''There are these big, black, chunky almost storm-trooper shoes and crisp trousers; there isn't the rumpled look of the 60's and 70's,'' he said. S... |
1217248_0 | July 16-22; Plan to Breach Dams Delayed | A plan that could have led to the breaching of four dams on the Snake River in the Pacific Northwest has been postponed. The plan was aimed at easing the way for endangered species of salmon to return to spawning grounds. But the White House chose instead to embrace an alternative course. Trying to balance voters' supp... |
1217062_1 | Things That Go Beep In the Day and the Night | as president of Pro-Tec Mobile Communications, a wireless communications company in Casa Grande, Ariz., Catherine E. Sutter has heard a lot. Her supply of anecdotes about communications equipment doesn't stop with the one about the fellow who, while installing a two-way radio in a new John Deere tractor, drilled four p... |
1217020_0 | Now, a Permanent Record | You work abstractly with sounds in your head on pieces you may never hear. The fruition of your art largely depends on others, for a cost you can barely afford. To make matters worse, no one is longing for your finished product -- indeed, your audience clings to masters of the past. You are a classical composer, swimmi... |
1217177_2 | The Nation; Learning to Live With Big Brother | replacing these illogical distinctions with a uniform, rational set of standards. Civil liberties and privacy groups support this idea in principle, but are highly critical of the administration for refusing to explain how broadly it intends to use Carnivore or to describe what safeguards are in place for preventing it... |
1216832_0 | As Travel to Cuba Grows, Limits Gain Support | CUBA has been off-limits for American tourists for almost 40 years, or ever since President John F. Kennedy imposed an economic embargo on the island in 1962, and each of the next seven Presidents has maintained it in varying degrees. But unless President Clinton changes his mind, the ban on United States tourist trave... |
1217145_3 | The Nation: The Classroom Ceiling; Making Sense of a Stubborn Education Gap | longer sends that message to employers. Education has always raised incomes. For more than a century, the college educated have been at the top of the earnings pyramid, the masters of each new, complicated technology. High school prepared hundreds of millions of ordinary workers for the modern workplace and helped to l... |
1217237_0 | Lowering the Global Thermostat | To the Editor: Bob Herbert (''Global Cooling,'' column, July 17) could have mentioned another way to reduce global warming: policies that slow tropical deforestation. The destruction of rain forests causes approximately 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. By helping interested countries conserve their for... |
1212228_15 | A Day in the Life Of Newark Airport | the water supply on board from a panel on the front of the plane's wing. Then he moves on to the nose wheel. Taking a pin from his tool box he slips it into a joint on the gear, enabling the wheel to pivot freely. Now a tow bar and tug can be used to push the plane from the gate at departure. It takes two men to attach... |
1212018_0 | June 25-July 1; Softening Cuban Embargo | After weeks of negotiations, House Republican leaders agreed to language that would weaken the economic embargo against Cuba for the first time in four decades. The bill, pushed by Representative George W. Nethercutt Jr., a Washington Republican, would permit the direct sale of food to Cuba, similar to a policy allowin... |
1211987_2 | Shift in Presbyterian Debate on Gay Unions | for it to become part of the denomination's constitution. The question of how major religious organizations should relate to gay men and lesbians in their pews has become one of the most contentious issues they face. And the responses of religious bodies show how widely divided they are, one from another, on such quest... |
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