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1007587_3 | Productivity as the Catalyst of Prosperity | electricity spread to become a fact instead of a feature of production. By the 1920's, Maytag was churning out affordable washing machines in Newton, while Ford cars were zipping off the assembly line in Detroit. It takes decades for technology to produce prosperity, the authors say, as they trace similar stop-and-star... |
1007283_2 | Material Man | of sorghum, the impact-resistant strength of carbon fibers and the flexibility and resilience of synthetic rubber might all be ingredients for domestic comfort. But lest one be intimidated by the substances' complex scientific provenances, Beylerian fondly refers to his resource as ''a petting zoo for materials.'' The ... |
1013464_0 | Debate in Ireland Centers on Provision to Free I.R.A. Prisoners | A national debate is under way in the Irish Republic over a provision of the new Northern Ireland peace agreement that would grant early release to Irish Republican Army prisoners convicted of terrorist acts, possibly including murder. The peace agreement, which was approved on April 10 by political leaders of the Prot... |
1013462_0 | Brazil to Set Aside Vast Tract In the Amazon for Conservation | Brazil promised today to set aside 62 million acres of Amazon rain forest for conservation, underscoring the Government's renewed commitment to the faltering preservation of the imperiled tropical wilderness. The pledge, to be carried out with financial and technical assistance from the World Bank and a conservation gr... |
1013546_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-19 Senate Rejects Plan to Add A Tribunal Within NATO The Senate rejected an attempt to create a tribunal within NATO to resolve conflicts before they erupt into full-blown hostilities. The proposal was offered as an amendment to the plan that the Senate is debating to add three Eastern European countri... |
1008228_0 | British Leader Tries To Save Ulster Talks | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain flew into Northern Ireland in an urgent effort to remove a serious snag in the peace negotiations between Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders. ''I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders,'' Mr. Blair said on arriving at a meeting with David Trimble, the Protestant un... |
1008276_1 | Breast Cancer Breakthrough | discovery could affect the medical management of many women at high risk of breast cancer and could lead the way toward a new generation of drugs designed to protect people from a wide range of cancers. But women anxious about the threat of breast cancer would be wise to use caution in demanding access to tamoxifen. Th... |
1008249_0 | Blair Flies to Belfast After Serious Snag in Peace Talks | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain flew into Northern Ireland today in an urgent effort to remove a serious snag in the peace negotiations between Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders in this mostly Protestant British province. ''I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders,'' Mr. Blair said on arriving a... |
1006702_0 | Irishwomen Cry Foul as New Political Rules Leave Them Out | The leader of the Women's Coalition, which for the first time gave women an official, and often bold and provocative voice in the male-dominated Northern Ireland peace talks, said today that the men running the negotiations have acted to put the women back in a subservient role. Monica McWilliams, the leader of the coa... |
1006703_3 | In Brazil Tobacco Country, Conglomerates Rule | companies that include seeds, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, a plastic sheet to cover the soil and protective gear for applying the chemicals. The growers say they do not have the technology to extract seeds in the quantity they need. The growers must not only pay for the kits; they must also pledge to sell th... |
1011763_3 | Irish Parliament Backs Ulster Peace Plan | to Ireland, but to the ''26-county state,'' or ''the Dublin Government,'' which rankles many Irish people. But in citing 1918, Mr. Ahern said, a vote for the Belfast agreement ''will remove any false vestige of democratic self-justification for further acts of violence from any quarter, Republican or Loyalist.'' In the... |
1011696_4 | Behind Headlines on Study, a Couple Married to Their Work | Management at Vanderbilt University in 1993. Soon after their arrival at Vanderbilt, they downloaded Mosaic, an early Web browser, for the first time and were immediately captivated by the potential of the Web. IN 1994 they started Project 2000 to study the marketing implications of commercializing the Web, and the pro... |
1013267_3 | A Mandate to Force Computer Expertise | the computers are equipped with rubberized edges, waterproof trackballs and keypads and a plastic shield to protect the screen. They do not carry a CD-ROM, floppy disk or traditional hard drive but come with a more expensive and durable type of drive known as flash memory. Each student's laptop has an infrared connecti... |
1013353_0 | Health Panel Seeks Sweeping Changes In Fertility Therapy | An influential panel of the New York State Health Department is urging sweeping changes in the regulation of new fertility technologies, including more steps to reduce the incidence of multiple births. In a report being issued today, the panel said doctors providing infertility treatments must think more about the babi... |
1008852_0 | Mitchell Feared the Killing of a Leader | The former American Senator George J. Mitchell, the departing chairman of the Northern Ireland peace talks, said tonight that he had accelerated the pace of the negotiations because he feared that one of the leaders involved in the talks would be assassinated. Mr. Mitchell, who presided today over the approval by Prote... |
1008860_0 | Now for the Hard Part: Making It Work | While politicians put the finishing touches this week on the historic settlement aimed at bringing Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland together, surveyors in a bleak Belfast neighborhood a few miles away from the talks were busy building a new wall separating the two groups. With the peace effort moving into ... |
1008868_0 | In New York, Irish Accord Prompts Skepticism | While officialdom toasted yesterday's peace agreement in Northern Ireland, among Irish and Irish-American New Yorkers there was broad skepticism that seemed to overwhelm the relief. American, British and Irish leaders said the agreement, reached in Belfast, held the promise of bringing peace to a region that has been e... |
1008813_4 | Feminists Nurture a More Tolerant Christianity | to a reading of scripture, an understanding of Gospel and the practice of the liturgy. To put it more dramatically, Daly was suggesting that if God is a man, then God is a lie, and the church, the patriarchal church, is philosophically, morally and socially bankrupt. The effect of all this across the last three decades... |
1008862_0 | An Easter Peace in Ireland | More than 3,000 deaths and 30 years after the Irish Troubles entered their bloodiest era, the political parties of Northern Ireland have signed a peace agreement. The accord, born of a convergence of political courage, perseverance and sheer good luck, will not end the division of Protestant and Catholic. But it will a... |
1008901_6 | IRISH TALKS PRODUCE AN ACCORD TO STOP DECADES OF BLOODSHED WITH SHARING OF ULSTER POWER | predominantly Catholic Republic and the six counties of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland, which is a province of Britain. Taking part in the talks were 8 of Northern Ireland's 10 political parties, some of them admitted only after paramilitary forces that they represented adopted cease-fires. Two groups, the U... |
1008841_0 | For the Long Final Hours, Clinton Coaxed | President Clinton, whose 1994 overture to Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein helped bring the political wing of the Irish Republican Army to the peace table, was deeply involved as the Ulster talks concluded, cajoling and prodding both republicans and Unionists to step out of their parochial interests and take historic risks for... |
1008887_1 | On Brink of Peace, Catholics and Protestants Pray | violence in the hearts of many people. Then, holding a large brown wooden cross in front of him, Mr. Campbell led the group to his church. The area has been racked by violence in recent decades, as Catholics and Protestants killed each other with bombs and guns. And in recent years it has been the annual site of a Prot... |
1009888_2 | Experiments On Children Are Reviewed | fenfluramine, so experts in the use of that drug say it is unlikely their hearts were damaged. The boys who were given the drug were the younger brothers of delinquents. The researchers found them through court records and by interviewing mothers to find those who had what the scientists described as ''adverse rearing ... |
1009907_1 | As First Step in Peace Accord, Ireland Frees 9 I.R.A. Prisoners | years. Hard-line Protestant leaders like the Rev. Ian Paisley, head of the Democratic Unionist Party, which boycotted the peace talks, have voiced strong opposition to the early release of prisoners, saying the accord will free terrorists -- Protestant and Catholic -- to restart the guerrilla war. There are fears that ... |
1009823_3 | Bellapais Journal; Bitter Memories of a Love Affair With Cyprus | abbey, tourists often ask directions to his house, but there is not so much as a postcard of his doorway on sale, much less copies of his book. ''All we know is that this guy never liked us,'' said Ozkan Tatlisulu, a local grocer. ''After we arrived in 1974 he immediately sold his house and moved away. Probably he didn... |
1012843_2 | Oh, No, He's Walking Out on Her Again | characters never assume much life beyond their emblematic status as figures in a well-worn social debate. And the work's prose, while gussied up with the splintered speech and repetitions David Mamet made famous, often feels like the considered position statements in symposiums transcribed in women's magazines like Mir... |
1007835_0 | Hope Over Ulster Rises as Leaders Warm Up | Working toward a Thursday deadline, the Prime Ministers of the Irish Republic and Britain and Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders in Northern Ireland continued today to try to reach a historic agreement to end the murderous sectarian violence that has racked this island for 800 years. Since 1969, the violence has kil... |
1007811_3 | Patents; Scientists and engineers working for companies and a university are named inventors of the year. | work at the Ford Research Laboratory in Dearborn, Mich., won praise for two patents that enable cars to run with cleaner emissions. The devices are especially designed for automobiles that run on natural gas. The technology is in use in California, where stringent new low-emission requirements are in place. Exhaust is ... |
1007899_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Fifty Years Later, Israel Seeks to Define Its Identity A remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity has evolved in the half-century since Israel was founded as a Jewish state. But whether that diversity marks the success or failure of the Zionist experiment is a matter of considerable debate among Isr... |
1007883_2 | EMPLOYERS HUSTLE TO FILL JOB ROLLS, WITHOUT PAY RISES | seem likely to happen soon, despite the occasional months, like March, when the work force shrinks instead of expanding. Still, there are big pockets of potential workers that have yet to be reached. Despite the low unemployment rate nationally, joblessness is just beginning to decline significantly for those without h... |
1006483_1 | Joan Lestor, 66, a Crusader In Britain for Children's Rights | actor, was a leading member of the Canadian Socialist Party and later, when the family returned to England, of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Ms. Lestor graduated from London University with a diploma in sociology and went to work as a nursery school teacher, opening a nursery school in her own home six years la... |
1011119_4 | Undoing an Act of God At an Italian Basilica | Paul II, when millions of pilgrims are expected to come to this hill town. ''The real worry is that of time,'' said Mr. Croci. ''The challenge is to do delicate work that requires patience and prudent care very quickly. Usually, something like this would take years to do, and we have just more than a year.'' The restor... |
1011177_0 | Editorial Observer; Going Bankrupt to Get a College Education | This spring, more than two million high school seniors will scan their acceptance letters one last time and decide on a college. Students with stellar transcripts and S.A.T. scores are rolling in scholarships, thanks to a heated competition among elite colleges to attract the hottest freshmen. But young people who fall... |
1011169_3 | FREE-TRADE ZONE OF THE AMERICAS GIVEN A GO-AHEAD | return to democracy in many countries and a restructuring of inefficient economies. Perhaps the most discussed issue of the social action plan was its creation of the position of rapporteur, or monitor, at the Organization of America States to report on freedom of expression. The rapporteur would investigate cases of p... |
1010468_4 | Raw, Relevant History | them, especially those in the water, which was thus immediately spoiled, but which they went on drinking just the same, mud and all, bloody as it was, most fighting to have it. If we're to keep the ideas of Greece alive, we must first rekindle the Hellenic spirit, for the two are inseparable. That spirit, though it may... |
1010516_0 | Russians Oust a U.S. Missionary Under New Law Limiting Church Rights | Dan Pollard, a Baptist missionary from Oregon, settled his wife and teen-age daughters in Vanino, a remote town in eastern Russia, four years ago, built a congregation of local families and a church of local timber. Now Mr. Pollard and his family have become the first American missionaries reported to be evicted from R... |
1009229_5 | The World; Surprises in the Global Tourism Boom | family recently boarded No. 1 Special Tourism Bus in the Chinese capital for their first trip to the Great Wall, about 60 miles away. Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, which told their story, said that Mr. Wang was one of nearly 77 million people who visited tourist sites in or around Beijing last year. They spent, on a... |
1009272_0 | A Census of Botanical Risk | Reminders of the global threat to botanical diversity surround us, but we tend to think of them as disparate events rather than parts of a broad pattern. The forest fires in Indonesia and the Amazon seem unrelated to the spread of purple loosestrife, an invasive wetland plant, across the Northeastern United States. The... |
1009317_2 | Can-Do American's Patience Paid Off With an Ulster Pact | stems from the attribute most often cited for his success: his patience and his willingness to listen. Since beginning to come here regularly three years ago as an economic adviser to President Clinton, a mission that grew into his assignment as chairman of the peace talks, Mr. Mitchell has become a popular figure in B... |
1009372_5 | The World; Surprises in the Global Tourism Boom | family recently boarded No. 1 Special Tourism Bus in the Chinese capital for their first trip to the Great Wall, about 60 miles away. Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, which told their story, said that Mr. Wang was one of nearly 77 million people who visited tourist sites in or around Beijing last year. They spent, on a... |
1009201_0 | April 5-11; A Death Toll, Truce and Now . . . | Officials from Northern Ireland, Britain, the Irish Republic and the United States announced a comprehensive agreement designed to bridge centuries of hatred and end three decades of harrowing violence. After the announcement on Good Friday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair cautioned that real peace is yet to come. Wh... |
1009009_3 | Fast Forward; The Digital Attic: An Archive of Everything | them,'' says Danny Hillis, co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation and now vice president of research at Disney. ''Now copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them.'' It's scary. And yet. . . Anyone wandering through the Internet might begin to feel that ... |
1002001_0 | Pastor Found Innocent in Lesbian Ceremony | In a decision likely to reverberate through America's major Protestant churches, a jury of United Methodists clergy members voted tonight to acquit a fellow minister of a charge that he violated church law by performing a same-sex union for two women in his congregation last September. After deliberating three hours, t... |
1004939_5 | Guess Who's Going On Line | Ms. Aitel-Thompson's sisters prints out the weekly correspondence and sends it by express mail to her brother, a dairy farmer in Vermont, the one remaining off-line sibling. Whether this new mechanism for family intimacy has some sort of therapeutic effect on those who take advantage of it is unclear. But at a time whe... |
1004920_1 | On Line, Universities Link To Alumni and Their Wallets | in the long term.'' Farrokh K. Captain, a 1967 M.I.T. graduate who lives in Karachi, Pakistan, said his university E-mail had helped him keep in touch with classmates. ''Previously, I was quite disconnected,'' he said via E-mail. And Tor Jakob Ramsoy, an M.I.T. graduate and strategy consultant in Oslo, took a negotiati... |
1005072_1 | Belfast Talks Kept on Course By Ducking Issue of I.R.A. Guilt | two months, in which no one was killed but there was substantial property damage, were probably carried out by members of I.R.A. dissident groups. If the British and Irish Governments, sponsors of the talks, were to find that the I.R.A. had broken the cease-fire it called in July, they would be under heavy pressure to ... |
1000228_0 | 300,000 FIND WORK | After seven years of economic growth, the American job juggernaut has not even begun to slow down. In February, for the fourth consecutive month, employers added more than 300,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported yesterday. And as it has month after month, the surge in hiring far exceeded the expectations of economi... |
1000193_1 | Not to Bury Homer but to Update Him | and literature; it comes from the Greek words philein and logos) warned it would not publish articles lacking ''rigorous scholarly methods'' or based on ''mere speculation.'' The editorial was widely seen as a declaration of war by traditionalist scholars on the modernists or ''theorists,'' who apply modern analytical ... |
1003680_3 | Fugitive Cuban Athletes Are Said to Reach Safety | conflicting or unspecific reports about what kind of boat it was, where it had left Cuba and in what direction it was headed. The five were banned from baseball in Cuba last July precisely because the Cuban authorities suspected that they were planning to defect. In fleeing, they joined a steady exodus of talented Cuba... |
1003184_4 | Design Notebook; A Star To Swing On | hard. While the mesh is industrial strength, it creates optical patterns as sumptuous as moire silk. Though the mesh has practically no resilience, the chair is not torture to sit in. In fact, it is functionally superior to Le Corbusier's Grand Confort, an alluring plush leather club chair that delivers a surprise kara... |
1003305_0 | Recycling Cybercarcasses | To the Editor: In your article (''Where Do Computers Go When They Die?'' March 12), your list of 10 alternative uses for old computers contained one notable omission. Most desktop computers, once retired, make excellent barbecues when filled with charcoal briquettes. Their enormous girth insures that even the thickest ... |
1003170_3 | User's Guide; Hunting the Elusive Spammer | figured I needed help from an experienced spam fighter, so I called Matt Korn. As America Online's senior vice president in charge of network operations, he has to sort 26 million E-mail messages a day, culling them for spam. Although spam is a universal problem for on-line services, America Online's huge population ha... |
1001830_0 | Plan on Immigration Misses Point | To the Editor: Bill McKibben (Op-Ed, March 9) argues that in the Sierra Club's environmental debates over immigration, ''numbers count.'' True, but he overlooks an important aspect of the issue: population numbers count not just in the United States but also in the countries from which immigrants come. As we debate the... |
1001833_0 | Plan on Immigration Misses Point; Thinking Globally | To the Editor: We can, as the Sierra Club proposes, limit immigration in the hopes of decreasing the United States population, the number of people with access to wealth and hence the number who inflict planetary harm (Op-Ed, March 9). But what about an individual who might have five children in his or her native count... |
1001832_0 | Plan on Immigration Misses Point; Time to Act Now | To the Editor: As one of the national leaders of the Sierra Club effort to restore an immigration component to the club's population policy, I agree with much of what Bill McKibben writes (Op-Ed, March 9). We stress that only a comprehensive approach to environmental problems can succeed. We must reduce United States c... |
1001757_0 | Cornell Plans to Rescue Pumpkin Stuck on Tower | In an unexpected change of heart, Cornell University officials have decided to take down the mysterious pumpkin that has been perched atop the school's 173-foot bell tower since early October. For months, professors, students and campus visitors have traded theories about the skill and technique required to impale the ... |
1002778_7 | Battered Women Face Pit Bulls and Cobras | shorter danger period because cobras generally stop trying to pursue them and go on to new conquests. The histories of cobras and pit bulls also tend to differ. Cobras often had violent, traumatic childhoods, criminal records and a personal history of alcohol and drug abuse. Pit bulls, on the other hand, are less likel... |
1002767_1 | Studies Find Brain Grows New Cells | of Rockefeller University in New York and their colleagues. ''It means that there is a new mechanism for changing the organization of the adult brain,'' said Dr. William Greenough, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who studies learning and memory in rats. Dr. Fred Gage, a neurobiologist a... |
1002715_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths CHESNER, BERNARD | CHESNER - Bernard. Temple Beth-El of Great Neck records with profound sorrow the passing of its member. We extend heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved family. Shelley M. Limmer, President Jerome K. Davidson, Rabbi |
1002842_0 | VATICAN REPENTS FAILURE TO SAVE JEWS FROM NAZIS | The Vatican issued a document today that it described as an ''act of repentance'' for the failure of Roman Catholics to deter the mass killing of Europe's Jews during World War II. But the document skirted the painful issue of the Vatican's long silences during the Nazi reign of terror. The document, under preparation ... |
1002837_2 | Internet Is Expanding Arms Race With Junk E-Mail | the rising deluge of junk E-mail. The problem is becoming serious for some of the nation's largest Internet service providers. For example, officials at UUNET, the big Internet provider that is now part of Worldcom Inc., said that at the end of 1998 they had seen their mail volume double, and they estimated that at cer... |
1002800_0 | A Peace Sprint in Northern Ireland | The parties negotiating peace in Northern Ireland are in Washington this week, in what has somehow become a yearly St. Patrick's Day politicians' pilgrimage. This year the ritual is particularly useful. The parties are due to resume formal negotiations next Monday, and have only until about Easter, April 12, to reach a... |
1002887_1 | China Nears Completion of Leadership Moves | Party -- the core of his power -- remains first among the country's leaders. [On Tuesday, the congress ratified Zhu Rongji, the guiding hand in recent economic policy in recent years, as the new Prime Minister by a vote of 2,890 in favor to 60 no votes or abstentions, The Associated Press reported.] On Wednesday, the n... |
1004779_0 | Editors' Note | The Eating Well column last May 21 reported on the presence of genetically engineered ingredients in some commercial food products, including three Frito-Lay snack foods and two baby formulas, from Similac and Carnation. Frito-Lay challenged the finding, which had been made for The Times in tests by Genetic ID, a compa... |
1004764_1 | Business Travel; T.W.A. overhauls its frequent-flier program in a move aimed at luring more corporate passengers. | we've tried to make it attractive to leisure travelers, too.'' Leisure travelers are not likely to be overjoyed that their frequent-flier miles will now have a three-year expiration date. But they will remain valid if members fly at least once during those three years on T.W.A. or Trans World Express, the carrier's com... |
1004718_0 | Temptation; Summer's Sweet Taste Captured for March In Some Bright Small Tomatoes | PRODUCE snobs alert: there is a tomato on the market, here in March, that actually tastes like a tomato. And, ahem, more painful news: it comes in a plastic net sack. It is a vine-ripened cherry tomato, grown on a ranch just north of Culiacan, in west central Mexico. The James K. Wilson Produce Company in Arizona has b... |
1004735_4 | Eating Well; U.S. Proposal on Organic Food Gets a Grass-Roots Review | consumers on how to register complaints. Also fueling citizen participation was the publication of the rules by the Agriculture Department on the Internet (http:// www.ams.usda.gov/nop). Ms. DiMatteo said she hoped there would be 50,000 comments by the time the comment period expires, on April 30. And then the review p... |
999722_0 | New State Proposal For Special Education | In an effort to teach special education students more of the curriculum that mainstream students learn, the Department of Education will propose rule changes today that range from how students are classified to the kinds of staff that guide their education, officials said. The changes could go into effect as early as S... |
1006296_0 | 2 Strong Antagonists Hold Ulster's Fate | As Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders met here today with a deadline of 11 days for finding a settlement of Northern Ireland's 29 years of sectarian warfare, two skilled, powerful and antagonistic politicians will determine whether the talks lead to peace, or to more violence. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, th... |
1006230_6 | Scientists Find New Ways To Break Into the Brain | Dr. Glatstein also cautioned that more research is needed. Dr. Keith Black, a neurosurgeon at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, discovered that a naturally occurring substance in the body, bradykinin, can open capillary walls in the brain, but only around tumors. About 80 patients have been treated with a syn... |
1006261_0 | Supreme Court Considers if Disabilities Act Covers H.I.V. Case | The Supreme Court took up its first case under the Americans With Disabilities Act today, and the argument over whether the law covers people who have H.I.V. but who show no symptoms of disease served mainly to underscore the statute's complexities. The 1990 law forbids discrimination against anyone with a disability, ... |
1006285_1 | Norway Pledges to Take Part In Worldwide Oil Supply Cuts | in trading on exchanges that were open at night. ''Most people don't think it's enough,'' Doug Stetzer, a broker at ED&F Man International in New York, said of the proposed cuts. All OPEC members have pledged their support of the effort, which began a week ago with an agreement by Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Mexico. Ma... |
999373_8 | Scientists Are Turning to Trees to Repair the Greenhouse | land, altering forest management practices to speed growth of existing timber, increasing the use of renewable wood fuel, and planting trees in cities and near houses, where they can reduce energy consumption for air conditioning. In Congress, pro-logging lawmakers have suggested that the best way to maximize sequestra... |
1004252_2 | Sisterhood Is Historical | accompanied by anxieties (not necessarily their own) about sex. Conservatives routinely fear that any new choice or change will lead to promiscuity, but concern about women's chastity can also be found on the left. Sir William Beveridge, author of the famous report that laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, o... |
1003897_3 | At the Ramparts of the 'Year 2000 Problem' | The catastrophe that would have been cheap and easy to fix in 1969 is now a budget-busting, Apocalyptic crisis. Those who feel the way I do about computers can only say, ''Good, the sooner the better.'' There's no evidence that computers help us to work more efficiently. Office productivity has actually gone down in th... |
1004017_0 | Developmentally Disabled Want Institutions Closed | To the Editor: Andrea Kannapell's cover article ''Into the Outside World'' (March 15) deals with the closure of two different kinds of institutions, one for people with psychiatric disabilities, and the other for people with developmental disabilities. They were set up to do entirely different things for people with en... |
1004209_0 | March 15-21; U.S. to Ease Cuban Curbs | Pressed by Pope John Paul II to be generous toward Cuba, President Clinton announced a softening of American restrictions. He reversed a ban on direct humanitarian flights to Cuba, allowed Cuban-Americans to send $1,200 a year to their relatives and simplified licensing for the sale of pharmaceuticals. The economic emb... |
1004016_0 | Tomatoes? Farmers Consider Growing Jersey Echinacea | Medicinal herbs and natural products that can help fight disease or just make a person feel better are all the rage now, and the New Jersey Farm Bureau is encouraging local farmers to cash in. The Farm Bureau, in cooperation with Cook College of Rutgers University, wants to start a farmers' cooperative, to grow medicin... |
1005406_1 | A Road Warrior of Innovators; Tires a Slow-Growth Industry? Don't Tell Goodyear's Chief | with inflation, the only way to do that is to increase market share. Acquisitions will account for some of that, Mr. Gibara concedes. But most, he insists, will come from home-grown innovation. Whatever the route, he vows that Goodyear, now trailing the Bridgestone Corporation of Japan and Michelin of France in global ... |
1005474_0 | Black Bears Off Limits To Hunters This Year | Black bears roaming the forests of New Jersey can breathe a collective sigh of relief. The state's Fish and Game Council voted yesterday not to have a bear hunting season this year. Although New Jersey has not had an official bear season since the 1970's, the issue arose because the black bear population has increased ... |
1005398_2 | China Turns Blind Eye to Pirated Disks | is believed to be controlled by organized crime, no effort is being made to quell the booming industry. Although industry executives estimate that American businesses lose more than $2 billion a year to piracy in China, it is impossible to accurately estimate how many Chinese customers would actually purchase nonpirate... |
1001002_3 | Test at Onset of Menopause Can Avert Bone Loss | director of the center, said that failure to build strong bones through a calcium-rich diet in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood leaves one with a slender bank account of bone mineral when the withdrawals start exceeding the deposits after age 35 and especially when those withdrawals accelerate greatly at meno... |
1003500_0 | Alumni to Give Brooklyn Tech Huge Donation | A group of alumni led by the chairmen of Barnes & Noble booksellers and the Red Apple supermarket chain committed itself yesterday to raising $10 million in the next five years for Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the city's most selective and prestigious public schools. The gift, which would be used to establish... |
1003479_1 | Motorola and Astronomers Agree to a Time Share in Space | assurances from Motorola and other cellular-telephone operators that interference would be controlled. Radio astronomers throughout the world, at Jodrell Bank in England, the Nancay Observatory in France and the Giant Meter Wave Radio Telescope in India, among many other observatories, are deeply worried about the incr... |
1003482_1 | U.S. TO EASE CURBS ON RELIEF TO CUBA AND MONEY TO KIN | Cuba from the United States. These flights might carry goods for relief purposes or passengers in emergencies, like funerals. The President will also announce a streamlining of the licensing procedure that allows nonprofit organizations to export and sell pharmaceuticals to Cuba, while letting the organizations themsel... |
1001532_0 | Tower Travelers Tell of Another Ordeal | This time, it was an eight-hour delay; and then no running water for an 11-hour flight. Just two days after 400 people were stranded overnight at Kennedy International Airport while waiting for a Tower Air flight to Tel Aviv, more than 400 people going the other way were forced to spend the night at Ben Gurion Airport ... |
1001536_1 | Relocations for China Dam Are Found to Lag | Minister gives them new hope that the project, expected to cost more than $25 billion, might eventually be scaled back or even abandoned. The dam has been an obsession of the outgoing Prime Minister, Li Peng, a Soviet-trained engineer, while Mr. Zhu has shown no enthusiasm, said Dai Qing, a well-known Beijing journalis... |
1003028_1 | Clinton Urges Irish to Grab 'The Chance of a Lifetime' | who have already been killed by the sectarian violence of the last three decades, but you can do it and you must -- now,'' he said, adding that his message was the same to all the parties. The British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, echoed Prime Minister Tony Blair, who called an agreement on a fram... |
1003065_0 | Population Of New York Rises Slightly | More than a million New Yorkers moved out of the city during the 1990's, but new immigrants and children born to them have more than replaced those who left, according to Federal Census figures released today. The city's total population in 1997 reached 7,342,636, half a percentage point higher than the lowest point of... |
998736_2 | A Man Who Loved Women | just one of the many services Goffen has performed for Titian scholarship over the years -- and it shows one of her principal strengths, her skill as a social historian reconstructing the conditions of patronage, gift-giving and market pricing that affected Renaissance Venice. Now, after a series of learned articles on... |
1000079_2 | Polygraph Test Results Offered in Baby Death Case | give birth to a baby?'' Answer: ''No.'' ''Before the baby was born did she and Brian ever discuss killing the baby?'' Answer: ''No.'' ''The entire time she was at the motel did she then believe she had had a miscarriage?'' Answer: ''Yes.'' ''At any time at the motel did she and Brian discuss killing the baby?'' Answer:... |
1000085_1 | China to Prime Economic Pump With Mammoth Building Outlay | in recent months. Aware that China's banking and industrial troubles were at least as serious as those of other Asian nations, the leadership began searching for measures that could counteract an economic downturn. Huang Qifan, deputy secretary general of the Communist Party in Shanghai, said in an interview that the l... |
1002304_6 | Into the Outside World | Services: the Division of Developmental Disabilities, which deals with people with mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spina bifida, autism and other physical or neurological impairments; and the Division of Mental Health, which administers psychiatric hospitals and other programs for the mentally ill. Alan G... |
1002326_3 | Radical Pragmatist | pain, he applied a galvanic battery to his spine. To combat depression and insomnia, he consulted mind-cure therapists and faith healers. To gain insight into abnormal mental states, he tried mind-expanding drugs like hashish, mescal and opium. Simon recounts such wide-ranging experimentation on James's part without ev... |
1002512_6 | Into the Outside World | Services: the Division of Developmental Disabilities, which deals with people with mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spina bifida, autism and other physical or neurological impairments; and the Division of Mental Health, which administers psychiatric hospitals and other programs for the mentally ill. Alan G... |
1002334_2 | No Incest, and Only a Little Drink | each other. . . . How much of an acquaintanceship would there have been if I hadn't slept with him?'' The pain underlying her own brush with alcoholism in her 40's, or her one miscarried pregnancy, at the age of 39, is acknowledged but not dwelt on. O'Faolain was reared in a hard school of stoicism. When, as a student ... |
1002111_2 | Planting the Seeds for a Crop of Lean, Green Machines | and diesel engines, vastly reducing emissions while bolstering performance and economy. Others are directing their investments into particular types of research, like advanced batteries and fuel cells. But the biggest companies are hedging their bets by developing a portfolio of alternative vehicles; if one technology ... |
1002191_0 | For Britain and Ireland, One Goal: Peace in Ulster Now, Imposed if Necessary | Fearful of losing the best chance in three decades to forge a settlement of the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Governments of Britain and Ireland have decided on the risky strategy of driving the lagging peace talks to an early conclusion. To many people in the two countries, with their booming economies, youthful, ... |
1002319_3 | The Troubles | him until an I.R.A. gunman arrived to kill him. Among the revelations in the book is the fact that unknown to its own Parliament, Britain maintained direct communication with the I.R.A. leadership over a 20-year period through an unnamed man from Londonderry. Taylor discloses through the minutes of clandestine I.R.A. m... |
1002386_4 | Cost of Staying In Touch Abroad | a dial tone, allowing you to make calls at the rates charged by domestic long-distance companies, which generally are lower than rates abroad. Telegroup, a Fairfield, Iowa, long distance company, will examine rates between countries to customize a calling plan, Stan Bierbrier, the company treasurer, said. Information: ... |
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