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1825516_1 | If Four Years Is an Eternity, Maybe Start With Two | degree? A. Only about a quarter of all jobs in the United States require a four-year degree, and jobs are plentiful for people who have completed only high school. The problem is, they are generally lower-paying jobs, noted Roger Moncarz, a supervisory economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a rule, ''the high ... |
1825572_2 | New Episcopal Leader Braces For Gay-Rights Confrontation | Williams, had accommodated the conservatives because he also presides over the Church of England, where the conservatives are a more substantial presence than in the United States, and are increasingly assertive. Bishop Jefferts Schori, who is 52, exudes a cool presence, sitting erect in a crimson shirt and white cleri... |
1825596_1 | Spitzer May Try to Save Beloved Staircase at Ground Zero | who was appointed by the new governor, Eliot Spitzer, said: ''Those who are distressed by the reluctance of others to incorporate the staircase into the towers or the memorial should take comfort in the fact that we have not made a decision. We continue to invite public comment.'' The Lower Manhattan Development Corpor... |
1828145_2 | Venezuela Rivals U.S. in Aid to Bolivia | the weekend of Feb. 17-18 said President Hugo Chávez had approved a $100 million assistance fund for Bolivia, though it was not clear whether that included assistance for military or petroleum projects. [''What we are doing in Bolivia is the same that Cuba has done in Venezuela,'' Mr. Montes told El Nacional, referring... |
1828185_0 | Profiteering Colleges | The Democratic leadership in Congress plans to make college affordability a central theme of this legislative session. The pending bills that would increase federal aid to low-income students and lower the costs of student loans are good, as far as they go. But Congress must do more to ensure that scarce federal aid do... |
406377_0 | Campus Rape Is Usually Fraternity-Related | To the Editor: Your Nov. 12 report on an allegation of rape at a University of Rhode Island fraternity house, and an aftermath that included the suicide of a student who was to meet the police and discuss what he saw on the night in question, was disturbing but unsurprising in many respects. Along with the event, some ... |
406183_0 | On the Danube, Unbuilt Dams but Pent-Up Anger | Last year, with the fall of Communism, the mammoth Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam on the Danube River seemed doomed. Prompted by nationwide protests, Hungary struck the first blow in October 1989 with a unilateral decision to stop work at Nagymaros, one of the project's two main sites. A month later, after Pragu... |
406354_0 | Cuba Flirts With Capitalism to Stave Off Collapse | Even as a severe oil shortage brings oxen back to agriculture and darkens many office buildings by midafternoon, the Cuban Government is forging ahead with a crash effort to create world-class industries in tourism and biotechnology. With trade and aid from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union quickly drying up, Cuban l... |
406218_0 | Pepsi and Coke to Offer Recycled-Plastic Bottles | Coke and Pepsi took their long rivalry to the environmental arena yesterday, with each company saying it would be the first to sell soft drinks in plastic bottles made with materials recycled from used bottles. The recycling programs are set to begin next year and if successful might eventually reduce the amount of the... |
408736_2 | Salsas of the Southwest | explained another fine point in salsa definitions: the difference between traditional salsa and traditional New Mexican red or green chili sauces. While New Mexican chili sauce is served hot and on top of dishes like enchiladas (half red and half green is known as Christmas), salsa is served separately and cold. Also, ... |
408731_0 | Travel Advisory | Alamo Starts Auto Coverage At 3 Levels Alamo Rent A Car is now offering its customers three levels of collision-damage coverage. The new line, called Waiver Savers, allows customers to purchase only as much coverage as they need, instead of being forced to choose between buying full coverage or none at all. For those n... |
408892_0 | About Cars; Getting From Here to There -- Safely | USING the secret formula doped out by its founder in 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has divined this winter's weather, and the picture is bleak. Frigid temperatures are forecast for much of the country, with snowfall "well above normal in the Atlantic states and western Great Lakes" and slightly above normal in the nor... |
409090_13 | Birth Control Backlash | . . . we did discover what would be safer. But principally we discovered what it was like to take control of our reproductive lives." For some, the experience with the pill was the catalyst to organization. By the time Senator Gaylord Nelson held hearings on the safety of the pill in 1970, early pamphlet editions of "O... |
409090_18 | Birth Control Backlash | 100 percent of the whole population as it gets older who will need these other products." After 45 minutes of explaining some details of the situation to a reporter, MacKenzie paused. "Look," he said, "you must bear in mind that there were billion-dollar single entities out there, like Tagamet for ulcers. Immunotherapy... |
408685_1 | Wobble Disrupts Solar Probe, but Solution Is Cited | to transmit scientific data. If the maneuvers are successful, the officials estimated, the mission's return of data might be reduced by only 20 percent. If they are not able to work around the wobble, Ulysses might be unable to transmit from 70 to 90 percent of the information it collects on solar physics. "We feel we ... |
409025_0 | Editors' Notes | An article about El Salvador in The Week in Review on Nov. 11 described human rights abuses there over the years. Recalling a violent period in the early 1980's, the article said soldiers "regularly" disemboweled pregnant women and threw their fetuses into bonfires. The report of those atrocities was based on accounts ... |
409051_6 | The World; Adding Up the World Trade Talks: Fail Now, Pay Later | -- everything from the European Community to the Canada-United States free trade pact. Indeed, Bush Administration spinmasters are already putting new emphasis on the idea of a free trade zone for all the Americas as an alternative to global liberalization. As the world's largest exporter and the world's largest import... |
410814_0 | I.R.A. Announces a Three-Day Cease-Fire | Irish Republican Army guerrillas fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland announced a three-day cease-fire today. It will run from midnight Sunday, and will be the I.R.A.'s first suspension of hostilties in 16 years. A statement said active service units had been told to "suspend all offensive military action i... |
410604_10 | Unseen Sentinels in the Workplace/A special report; Workers Using Computers Find 'Big Brother' Inside | hysterical." Ms. Ternipsede said that in Chicago this year workers have started leaving anyway. For doing so, she said, they get letters of reprimand, which can lead to dismissal. Mr. Morrison said: "When we have a situation that if for what we believe are emergency conditions it is necessary to ask employees to remain... |
410694_4 | Are We Cracking Under the Strain? | enough not to live in their own times, the essay in its essential incertitude can have little point. But for those who have confronted or been confronted by the issues with which these essays deal -- moral relativism, cultural difference, Eurocentrism, the role of the intellectual, the value of the intellectual life, t... |
410398_2 | Newcomers on Mexico's Pacific | of efficient, knowledgeable service that is virtually unknown elsewhere in the country, particularly in Mexico City. The sense of quality is reinforced by an equally rare and gratifying attention to detail, from precise white marble tilework to the artistic arrangement of fish and octopus in the mixed ceviche, a marina... |
410398_3 | Newcomers on Mexico's Pacific | 1974, it was virtually alone on its peninsula, looking across the water to the lights of Manzanillo. But the growth of the local tourist industry, which now includes several large, less distinguished chain resorts, has begun to crowd Las Hadas and its adjoining golf course and 70-slip marina. The creeping claustrophobi... |
410576_4 | Iraq's Shadowy Quest for Atom Arms: Tentacles in Four Continents | and knowledge," Mr. Stemmler told The Times. "I have not seen anything like that in Iraq." First Effort Frustrated But Iraq has shown an ability in the last decade to overcome repeated setbacks to its nuclear program. Its initial effort, a venture with French assistance in the 1970's and early 1980's to build and opera... |
410540_0 | Learning Center's Success at Rutgers | I am writing in response to Ruth H. Gottdiener's letter to the New Jersey editor on Nov. 18 under the heading " 'Recycled Solutions' at Rutgers." She says resource centers with peer tutoring, computer-assisted instruction and workshops on learning skills are "tired ideas" at Rutgers with (high) price tags. She describe... |
410321_4 | Deaf-School Head Is Like Her Students | a disadvantage because right now, people are very interested in deafness. It's different from many years ago. For example, when it was announced that I would be superintendent of the school, I got a call from a television station in California which is interested in doing a one-hour show on me and deaf people. So I thi... |
410591_5 | France Questions Its Identity As It Sinks Into 'Le Malaise' | their lives. In part, this is a question of economics. While the economy has grown steadily over the last three years, the visible prosperity of Paris and other large cities, including Lyons, does not accurately mirror the state of most ordinary households and urban areas. Yet the Government was caught off guard in Nov... |
410472_1 | The Executive Computer; On Electronic Bulletin Boards, What Rights Are at Stake? | its customers as members, it is a public service in the sense that it is open to anyone who pays a monthly fee. Among its services are electronic mail, in which computer users can exchange private messages, and public forums, in which members can post messages on what is, in effect, an electronic bulletin board. And Pr... |
407762_2 | Tiny Bubbles Explain the Babble of Undersea Noise | on the surface of water. When a raindrop hits the water, Dr. Medwin said, the impact makes a sound that lasts for about one thousandth of a second. The sound of many raindrop impacts blends together as a kind of hiss, or "white noise." But after a delay of 20 to 40 one-thousandths of a second, he said, the crater left ... |
407815_1 | What Social Security Is Doing to Assist Disabled Poor Children | 19) and "Still Cheating the Disabled" (editorial, Nov. 24) leave readers with the mistaken impression that the Administration has not moved swiftly to implement the Zebley Supreme Court decision that benefits many low-income disabled children. Unfortunately, both lack the facts to support such a conclusion. Thousands o... |
407754_1 | Sharp Rise in Brain Cancer Rates Found Among Americans Under 45 | made it far easier for physicians to detect brain tumors at the earliest stages. Debate Over Findings "What is being proposed as a change in frequency is simply an improvement in diagnostic methods," said Dr. Leonard T. Kurland, an epidemiologist and neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. But Dr. Devra Lee ... |
407627_2 | Careers; Accounting Education Broadened | for the five-year program envisioned by the accounting institute, Dr. Diamond agrees that "many students will exit after four years." Some will work for corporations, management consulting firms or the Government, and others might work for major accounting firms that will give them additional training and send them to ... |
407676_0 | New G.M. Plan For Car Phones | The General Motors Corporation is expected to announce today that it will install mobile telephones in a much wider range of car models and that it has developed a higher capacity system for handling calls from such phones. The cost, size and complexity of cellular telephones have been reduced in the last several years... |
411795_0 | Taking Exception To Flood Tunnel Plan | The recent article "Flood Tunnel Plan: A State-U.S. Split" contained several statements that call for comment. The Army Corps of Engineers continuously belabors the fact that it studied "150 alternatives"; however, it fails to explain that 147 were some variation of a tunnel or structural project. It also forgets to po... |
411926_0 | The Executive Computer; More Companies Are Producing Low-Emission Monitors | Several companies that make video display terminals have recently introduced, or said they would produce, models that emit reduced levels of very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic radiation. Going even further, several American computer makers, including the International Business Machines Corporation, have promised ... |
412104_1 | A Decade Under the Spell of Technology | will hear more about all of this. Another technology for the 90's is traction control, with names ranging from the clever "Traction Control" (Cadillac Allante) to ASD and ASR. The latter two come from Mercedes-Benz and stand for the German words for automatic locking differential and automatic slip control. Infiniti an... |
411808_2 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | from "Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence" (Arcade/Little, Brown). The Greek mind was fuelled by an overwhelming curiosity, avid for truth rather than for gain, and superstitious to the core. . . . The Greeks were headlong about things, whether in exploration or adventure. They did not fear the injudicious, for th... |
411811_11 | Modern Long Ago: The Comeback of Russian Constructivism | The massive catalogue (to be published in three languages) will contain two dozen essays by Russian, English, German and American scholars, and the show will travel to Frankfurt, Moscow and Leningrad. And the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture has just published a catalogue, "The Logic of Fantasy," for... |
411919_0 | Technology; A New Way to Carve Out Space For Ever-Expanding Piles of Trash | When John and Jane Q. Public drive by a sanitary landfill, they see no more than a neatened-up mountain of trash. But, oh, what a difference a vested interest makes! Environmentalists and landfill operators see a rapidly depleting land resource that may soon be harder to find than a buyer for a high-priced apartment. R... |
406818_1 | Panel Examines Acts of Violence In News Strike | violence has been waged against replacement workers and distributors of The News. No independent agency has sustained the conspiracy charge, which the nine striking unions deny. "There have been a number of fires and uses of explosive devices in the strike," Mr. Maloney said. "I'm talking of scare devices, not anti-per... |
406887_0 | Old Flaws Seen in New Teacher-Licensing Rules | The Board of Examiners, New York City's 92-year-old teacher-licensing agency, will go out of existence at the end of this month, but some education monitors who had called for its elimination are already saying that its replacement may become almost as cumbersome, complicated and Byzantine as the board. The board's dup... |
405523_6 | Preparations For a Showdown On the Fault Line | of San Francisco museums today reveals just how far research has come. At the de Young, in Golden Gate Park, the power of the October 1989 quake is still evident from huge floor-to-ceiling cracks along several key joints between wings of the building. But the conservator Elisabeth Cornu says the de Young's extensive us... |
405394_1 | About Long Island; Behind the Door, Help for Disturbed Youngsters | over coffee in her office. "And in those days, if you had a -- what we call an emotionally disturbed person today -- in your home, or an alcoholic or a drug abuser, you didn't let on about it." The center, a state-licensed mental-health program, now provides therapeutic treatment for "emotionally disturbed children" fr... |
405609_13 | Betting on the Planet | Population Bomb." Yet somehow the average person is healthier, wealthier and better fed than in 1968. The predicted rise in the world death rate has yet to materialize -- infant mortality has declined and life expectancy has increased, most dramatically in the third world. There have been famines in countries afflicted... |
405755_1 | Japanese See Opportunities In U.S. Sludge | of environmental sciences at Tulane University, who is sponsoring a conference on sludge management this winter. "They want to see what the operation costs are like in America. We do the same thing in Japan." Burn, Bury or Purify Local governments now have three basic choices for disposing of sludge, which is composed ... |
405628_0 | Lessons From Ancients Who Plied the Waves | IN a converted tavern near the waterfront, George Dyson designs ocean kayaks and ponders the mysteries of an earlier age of Native American boat builders, the Aleuts. Legend says they built lightweight craft capable of tremendous speed, and some of the mysteries from that earlier age, when revealed, may help modern des... |
406583_0 | Seeking a Full Life For Disabled People | The walls of Rachel Hurst's office are decorated with posters reading "Liberty, Equality, Disability." A different disabled person is pictured in each one: a dancer, a guitar player, a photographer, each leading a useful, responsible life. Mrs. Hurst, the manager of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons Global ... |
406507_0 | Sunlight and Breast Cancer: Danger in Darkness? | Women who live in northern cities where towering buildings block what feeble winter sun there is may have a higher risk of breast cancer than women in southern regions where sunlight abounds, a new study suggests. Researchers theorize that the women in these darker cities are not exposed to enough sunlight to allow the... |
408513_0 | INSIDE | Woman Gains Right to Die; No Prosecution in Suicide In Missouri, a judge authorized the halt of chemical feeding that keeps Nancy Beth Cruzan alive. Page 10. In Michigan, prosecutors are abiding by a judge's dismissal of murder charges against a doctor who assisted in a woman's suicide. Page 10. A Change in Government ... |
408613_0 | Patents; New Air Bag Called Cheaper and Safer | Stern & Stern Industries, a small company in New York City that makes products using specialized woven fabrics, obtained a patent this week for an automobile air bag that it said was cheaper and safer than the bags now in use. Because air bags need to inflate in about one-tenth of a second, they employ propellant gases... |
408518_2 | Defense Witness Assails Lawyers in Rochester Serial Murder Case | letter said that, among other things, the lawyers had failed to pursue her suggestions that, in addition to psychiatric problems, Mr. Shawcross may have had physical brain impairments. The brain impairments, she said, could have caused seizures and other symptoms that might in part have caused Mr. Shawcross to commit t... |
408546_2 | Study Says Electrical Fields Could Be Linked to Cancer | to the agency's Scientific Advisory Board is scheduled for Jan. 14. The draft report examines work that has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals in recent years and was carried out by E.P.A. staff scientists and outside consultants. The main points of the draft were described by agency officials last May... |
408640_0 | Two Drugs in a New Class Pass a Major F.D.A. Hurdle | An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration has recommended for approval the first two members of a new class of infection-fighting drugs that medical experts say could open a new era in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. "This represents a change in medicine that is of a similar magnitude to wha... |
411263_0 | PARENT & CHILD | ELLEN FOLEY tries to shield her 5-year-old daughter, Kaitlin, from violent television shows and news reports about violence. She and her husband are considering removing all the television sets from their house. "We try to limit her viewing to the Disney Channel and public television," said Ms. Foley, a newspaper repor... |
411382_0 | SHIP WITH IRAQ AID IS SEIZED OFF OMAN | An Iraqi cargo ship carrying more than 50 self-described pacifists and tons of food bound for Iraq was seized in the Arabian Sea early this morning after crew members tried to grab the weapons of a boarding party made up of American and Australian sailors, Defense Department officials said. The incident near the Omani ... |
409360_1 | Taiwan Investor Plans Chemical Plant in China | follow Mr. Wang. Still, it is not clear that the investment will be made, even though a Chinese official said that the Government had agreed in principle to the project. Mr. Wang had planned to build a petrochemical complex in southern Taiwan, but growing environmental concern has led to stiff opposition. Some financia... |
409381_4 | Economists Start To Fret Again About Population | not a social ill, governments need not spend money in support of family planning or abortion -- and there would certainly be no rationale for Chinese-style coercion. At the 1984 World Population Conference in Mexico City the Reagan Administration broke ranks with other affluent countries, abandoning Washington's long-h... |
407862_2 | Brooklyn College Examines Its Core | on "MTV Culture" or "The Media and the Mind." Rather, what is sought now is more accessibility, the 1990's version of relevance. The focus of change now is the Western civilization requirement, with its heavy reliance on classic literature. Responding to criticism from some students, the classics department at Brooklyn... |
407870_0 | Saudis With U.S. Ties Tell Americans of Homeland and Gulf They Know | In his younger days, Mohammad A. Mulla spent nearly a decade as a student in the United States. Now with the threat of war looming over his country, his knowledge of American ways is suddenly in demand. Mr. Mulla is one of 12 Saudi businessmen, academics and Government officials, all of them with close connections to t... |
405283_0 | Cuba, Hurt by Falling Soviet Imports, Makes Field Hands of Office Workers | The Government sent several hundred office workers to plant potatoes and sugar cane last week in the first phase of a program that envisions thousands of urban dwellers working for 21-day shifts in the countryside to increase food production in the face of the severest economic crisis since Fidel Castro took power 32 y... |
405288_0 | Religion Notes | The Score in Congress There are many ways to analyze this fall's Congressional elections, but one of the more unusual views arrived the other day from Religious News Service, an independent news agency in Manhattan. The analysis went like this: Roman Catholics gained 3, Methodists lost 1, Episcopalians lost 4, Baptists... |
412206_1 | A Lesson In History Of Old Ships | with one of the world's largest collections of historic ships. To historians like Norman Brouwer, curator of the South Street Seaport Museum, it "is a tableau of the history of shipping in New York." Like many waterfront artifacts, however, the old ships in the yard are disappearing. There were up to 400 vessels, some ... |
405914_3 | Kapoto Journal; Rain Forest Indians Holding Off Threat of Change | responded by ordering a new study, the fifth. On a visit to the park in November, Brazil's new President, Fernando Collor de Mello, promised Mr. Raoni a more efficient study group. Raoni Takes Offense If preserved, the Mekragnoti area would link the Xingu and another Kaiapo area in 44,246 square miles of Indian reserve... |
407390_1 | The World; In South America, Bush Finds Warmth And Restiveness | Americas Initiative. But it remains doubtful that Mr. Bush will have any more success than his predecessors unless Latin Americans manage to create workable economies and democracies for themselves. Mr. Bush's highly publicized campaign to halt Latin American drug trafficking has failed to make even a dent in the flow ... |
407306_3 | Japan's Mythical Trade Surplus | home life in Japanese. But most Americans trying to do business in Japan cannot speak the language at all. These Americans live in Tokyo in the equivalent of the Trump Tower and even though they are middle-level managers, they'll be chauffeured to and from their offices. These Americans will also spend all their time a... |
407040_0 | Learning Disabled Are Like 'Normal' Students | As a teacher of learning-disabled students and parent of a learning-disabled child, I believe that the letter [ Nov. 11 ] from H. Blau, a retired educator of learning-disabled children, was a disservice to parents, professionals and, most of all, to learning-disabled students. How does she explain that the fifth of my ... |
406987_2 | Streetscapes: St. Peter's Episcopal Church; A Battle for Basic Survival | and the pine pew boxes, on the original organ screen and especially the vast plaster vaulted ceiling hung from the roof trusses. An inverted mountain range of ribs and pendants, it will make any architectural pilgrim stop and gape. According to research by Christopher Jenks, a preservationist with the New York Landmark... |
407008_3 | Japan's Mythical Trade Surplus | home life in Japanese. But most Americans trying to do business in Japan cannot speak the language at all. These Americans live in Tokyo in the equivalent of the Trump Tower and even though they are middle-level managers, they'll be chauffeured to and from their offices. These Americans will also spend all their time a... |
407407_2 | New Boom; No Panic | all in their childbearing years. But they are having babies at a much lower rate than their mothers. If they maintained the rate of their mothers, there would now be not four million births a year but six or seven million. The other reason for the rise in births is timing. The proportion of childless women remains high... |
407275_1 | Homeless Make Libraries a Refuge | many of the homeless are unable to join the county's system because of mental impairment or because of drug and alcohol abuse. Although they may find room overnight in already overcrowded shelters, when morning comes these people have few destinations available. "If they are relatively quiet and can put themselves in a... |
407272_0 | SPACE GARBAGE | SETI's use of radio telescopes to search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a brave attempt in the face of enormous odds ("SETI, Phone Home," by Howard Blum, Oct. 21). However, there may be another way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life. We know that all creatures, from viruses to Homo sapiens, have the tendenc... |
411506_1 | Sainthood Bid for Queen Isabella Stirs Debate | commissions. Father Gutierrez, representing the Spanish archdiocese of Valladolid, near the site of Isabella's death in 1504, said the church in many Latin American countries has given its support. The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints must decide if there is merit in a cause for a candidate's heroic virt... |
407487_3 | Test for Aviation: Coping with Human Shortcomings | an environment where team performance is vitally important, as the accident statistics testify," says a new Federal report on research into human factors in aviation safety. "But they tend to possess social and personality characteristics less often associated with team performance." Areas of Concern All these issues w... |
409104_3 | Free Trade Imperils a Free-Trade Zone in Brazil | Brazil and goods sold in the United States. Color television sets, videocassette recorders, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners and washing machines were 50 percent to 275 percent more expensive in Brazil than in the United States. On Nov. 19, the Government appeared to meet one of the complaints by abolishing the domesti... |
409140_2 | 2 Convicted of Killing Amazon Environmentalist | was shot to death Thursday in the Atlantic coastal state of Pernamubuco. The unionist, Jose Helio da Silva, had ignored several written death threats, including one that said: "Chico Mendes sleeps because he talked too much." The murder of Mr. Mendes, a mild-mannered, mustachioed man who would have turned 46 last Satur... |
409201_2 | At Brooklyn Museum, an Artist Surveys the Objectionable | theories of art that prevailed, and also as a political criticism of art as a marketable object. One of the movement's most prolific theorists, he creates art as well as writing and teaching about it. His own work questions the nature of art itself by means of deadpan manipulation of words and images, and has influence... |
409240_0 | Sanity or Suicide on Trade? | The Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations collapsed 10 days ago in Brussels when the European Community refused to cut back its protectionist food policy. Denied access to European markets, negotiators from third world food-exporting nations were left with no option other than to pack their bags. The fallou... |
410874_1 | Books of The Times; In Search of Seafaring, Or What's Left of It | are off on a 42-day voyage to the west coast of South America from Charleston, S.C., touching Valparaiso, Chile; Callao, Peru; Buenaventura, Colombia; the Panama Canal, and other points along that long and mountainous coast. By the time he and we have debarked, we have come to know the crewmen and the routine aboard a ... |
411035_1 | The Group and the Self: New Focus on a Cultural Rift | Narrol, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, found in a 1983 study that such societies have among the lowest rates of homicide, suicide, juvenile delinquency, divorce, child abuse and alcoholism. They also tend to have lower economic productivity, though as countries like Japan be... |
410900_1 | Letter: On Social Security; How Disability Claims Are Handled | of the Social Security Admnistration, I wish to state that "Still Cheating the Disabled" (editorial, Nov. 24) contained a gross misstatement of factsw concerning the processing of disability claims, both of adults and children, by the Social Security Administration. Your description of that process, to put it bluntly, ... |
411002_0 | Charlottesville Journal; Patching Up the Flaws In Jefferson's Legacy | Let us now consider Thomas Jefferson's legacy: one Declaration of Independence. One university. One Louisiana Purchase. And several leaky roofs. That is why the scaffolding is up at the University of Virginia here, and why it is expected to go up next year at Monticello, Jefferson's white-columned home a few miles away... |
406168_0 | Consumer Group Questions Milk Hormone's Safety | Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, today questioned the safety of an genetically engineered growth hormone that is used to increase milk production in dairy cows, and urged the Food and Drug Administration to immediately halt sales of milk in which traces of the drug are found. Spokesmen for the manufa... |
405964_4 | Bush Begins His Latin Tour in Brazil Amid Worry Over Argentina Strife | America. Ricardo Fiuza, a Brazilian legislator, asked that the region not be viewed "only as debtors, as producers of drugs and exporters of immigrants," but as partners in commercial enterprises. Before traveling here, Mr. Bush had warned in a press interview that talks on Brazil's $115 billion foreign debt would not ... |
406117_0 | Corrections | Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the Cuban economy included one crop incorrectly among those in an emergency program to increase food production. Sugar cane is not part of the program. |
409985_0 | Abuse Is Seen as a Leading Factor In Children's Aggressive Behavior | Physical abuse of young children at home is more powerful by far than any other home influence on the development of aggressive behavior, a study has found. John E. Bates, a psychology professor at Indiana University, said today that the study followed 309 children from 4 years of age into kindergarten. It found that a... |
408147_0 | Cuba Pioneering in Energy Conservation | To the Editor: "In Cuba, Swapping Bulls for Tractors?" (Op-Ed, Nov. 19) by Roger Fontaine and William Ratliff argues that it is not too farfetched to assume that the key to easing the transition to a post-Fidel Castro regime is joint United States-Soviet support "for a democratic, free-market Cuba." To someone who has ... |
408248_1 | Defendant Says He Killed Amazon Union Leader | forest. He organized other rubber tappers in a campaign to save the forests from the encroachment of cattlemen and farmers, whose slash-and-burn conversion of jungle into pasture and cropland has destroyed vast tracts of the Amazon rain forest. Many people close to Mr. Mendes assert that both da Silvas were carrying ou... |
408148_0 | Foreign Graduate Students Know Hardship; Good Deal for U.S. | To the Editor: You assert (front page, Nov. 29) that foreign graduate students who return home "benefit their countries, but deprive American industry of scientists and American universities of professors." This statement leaves the false impression that enrolling foreign graduate students constitutes a net gain for fo... |
408059_2 | Books of The Times; Psychoanalysis as a Step in the Evolution of Love | the author of "Aristotle: The Desire to Understand" and "Aristotle and Logical Theory." His thesis is so closely reasoned and rigorously worded that in a footnote in Chapter VI he feels compelled to remind us that "I began to discuss the distinction between accepting responsibility and holding responsible in Chapter II... |
409576_0 | UNICEF SEES DEATH OF INFANTS EBBING | Falling rates of infant mortality in much of the developing world now point to a significant reduction in the poverty and environmental damage caused by rapid population growth in the next decade, the United Nations Childrens Fund said in a report issued today. In many developing countries, the report said, the death r... |
409639_0 | For Some Cars, 'Clean' Gas Is Found to Raise Emissions | Some "reformulated" gasolines may be a mixed blessing. While several changes made by oil companies do make new cars run cleaner, they make 1983 through 1985 models run dirtier, according to a comprehensive study sponsored by 14 oil companies and the Big Three domestic auto makers. It is "a riddle," one researcher said.... |
408384_0 | Theologians Criticize the Vatican for Rigidity | More than 400 American and Canadian theologians have endorsed a statement by a committee of the Catholic Theological Society of America accusing the Vatican of obstructing changes in the Roman Catholic Church, inhibiting freedom of expression and wrongly restricting the role of women. The theologians, in a statement ma... |
408396_1 | Philosopher Goes That Extra Mile To Fight Fires | who more than two millenniums ago separated the mind from the body in Greek thought. While Dr. McCluskey joined the Fire Department only three years ago during a shortage of volunteers, he finds his strenuous hobby complements his somewhat esoteric job. "I don't know which is primary," he said. "With philos ophy, it's ... |
411077_2 | ANTI-RACISM GROUP AIDS 'NEW FRENCH' | above a fraying courtyard, young law students or volunteer lawyers give advice, help write letters, suggest legal steps or, in cases that are not clear-cut enough, offer sympathy. A Sri Lankan student who held a night job in a modestly priced hotel reported that nonwhite guests were systematically refused rooms. A youn... |
406784_1 | HOMICIDE RATE UP FOR YOUNG BLACKS | though it was "not a disease in the classic sense," because it was ravaging the community of young black men. And, he said, the figures showed that the rate among black males was rising fastest among those of ages 15 to 19, indicating that violent death was becoming increasingly a problem among adolescents. 'An Endange... |
406667_0 | Blood in the Streets | |
332546_3 | Economic Scene; Global Warming: China Perplex | absence of a similar commitment to conservation from the third world, where the rate of growth of energy use is double the world average, would be modest. If, for example, China and other poor countries agreed to limit carbon emissions to just double the current level, total carbon dioxide emissions would increase by 1... |
332572_1 | Upheaval in the East; Where Nazis Took Fierce Revenge, French Hatred for Germans Recedes | men and women view Germany. Today, even in a community of 20,000 inhabitants with ample reason for resentment, past animosity has largely given way to good will, particularly among young people. 'No Hate for the Germans' This town 310 miles south of Paris also helps explain the paradox that, while government, intellect... |
332556_0 | Women's College Struggles to Keep Its Identity | LEAD: The official T-shirt of the small liberal arts college here reads: ''Mills College: Not a girls' school without men, but a women's college without boys.'' The official T-shirt of the small liberal arts college here reads: ''Mills College: Not a girls' school without men, but a women's college without boys.'' But ... |
332576_1 | Rights Panel Scolds Cuba, Not China | the Cuban-born writer and poet who is the head of the United States team here, called the outcome ''a great day for Cuba and a great victory for the human rights fight around the world.'' But he also said the defeat of a motion that avoided any direct criticism of China but merely provided for the commission to maintai... |
334619_0 | India to Shake Up Birth-Control Bureaucracy | LEAD: Prodded by social scientists' fears of impending demographic catastrophe, the Indian Government is preparing to decentralize the administration of population control programs, which have failed to curb runaway growth in the world's second-most-populous nation. Prodded by social scientists' fears of impending demo... |
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