id stringlengths 5 10 | title stringlengths 0 2.44k | text stringlengths 0 2.9k |
|---|---|---|
334675_2 | Rejuvenating Faded Flavor Of 1990's Food | Marion Cunningham found that cooking times have changed dramatically over the decade since the previous edition was published. ''Our basic foodstuff has been altered genetically,'' she said. ''Meats and produce have different weight distribution and density, and the old-fashioned cooking instructions just don't work an... |
336629_0 | Jury Gets Valdez Spill Case After Opposite Portraits of Hazelwood | LEAD: The case of Joseph Hazelwood went to the jury today after a prosecutor portrayed him as a reckless drunk and a defense attorney called the Exxon Valdez skipper a scapegoat of political powers. The case of Joseph Hazelwood went to the jury today after a prosecutor portrayed him as a reckless drunk and a defense at... |
336068_1 | New Bid for Protection By U.S. Textile Lobby | chief economist at the World Bank. ''It would show that the industrialized world is just not serious about these trade issues.'' Curbs on Third-World Imports For 25 years, under the Multi-Fiber Arrangement of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the United States and other developed countries have taken special ... |
336110_4 | New and Renewed: Opera Houses Open in Paris and Brazil; Arias Grace the Amazon Once Again | director, who wore a ponytail and a white spencer jacket. ''This is the opening night,'' Ipojuca Pontes, the secretary of culture in Brazil's new Government, said as liveried waiters circulated during intermission with trays of chilled Champagne and white wine. ''We plan to democratize cultural access.'' Inside, the on... |
336032_1 | Setback for the Cubans Benefits the Dominicans | rejects and that Davidoff's real motive in shifting production is to gain broader access to the United States market. Because of the American embargo on Cuban goods, Davidoff has not been able to sell its Cuban cigars in the United States since 1961. So the shift to the Dominican Republic will let the company sell luxu... |
334401_0 | Heart Tests To Focus On Women | LEAD: The first large study of women and heart disease is being undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and six other medical centers after decades of research devoted solely to heart disease in men. The first large study of women and heart disease is being undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Medical Instituti... |
331594_2 | With Repairs, Rio Shows It Loves Its Symbol | car or by cog-wheel train through thick forest. Standing on a rocky peak 2,329 feet above Rio's Atlantic beaches, the statue's 75-foot wide embrace is visible day and night from most points of Rio's heavily populated Southern Zone. Public-opinion surveys have confirmed a general perception that the statue is this city'... |
331760_0 | Synopsis Of the Plight of the Handicapped | LEAD: Walter McCarthy's article on social skills for the retarded as the key to advancement from sheltered workshop to successful supported employment in the public sector was a well considered one, raising the questions we need to ask about how retarded children and young adults gain these skills. The relationship wit... |
331626_0 | The Budd Company's Different Drum | LEAD: Composites combine the properties of two or more materials to accomplish tasks beyond the capabilities of homogeneous substances. An early example was the addition of straw to bricks to resist breakage. Currently, carbon-reinforced plastics produce lighter, stiffer golf clubs and tennis rackets, and designers are... |
331483_0 | THE POST-MODERN IN NOW | LEAD: COSMOPOLIS The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. By Stephen Toulmin. 228 pp. New York: The Free Press. $22.95. THE LYOTARD READER By Jean-Fran,cois Lyotard. Edited by Andrew Benjamin. Illustrated. 425 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $16.95. COSMOPOLIS The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. By Step... |
331728_0 | Synopsis of the Plight Of the Handicapped | LEAD: Walter McCarthy gives a good synopsis of the plight moderately handicapped people face in their efforts to break from the stereotypical vocational situations. Walter McCarthy gives a good synopsis of the plight moderately handicapped people face in their efforts to break from the stereotypical vocational situatio... |
331560_10 | GAUDY, BAWDY BARCELONA | that in any other city its designer would have been locked up instead of being allowed to bring his extraordinary ideas to life and scatter them across the avenues and parks. Although the church of the Sagrada Familia still has no roof, more than a century after construction started, it is already, with its eight spire... |
331564_5 | OZARKS: SPRING OF BRIGHT WATER | in surprising ways, as dye trace studies have shown. The karst structure, with the water slipping easily from one place to another, has worried local people since they learned last year that Doe Run, a major mining company, hadbought up the mineral rights to much of the area and had gained permission from the United St... |
331734_6 | You Can't Be Too Thin in Economy Class | new types of big passenger airplanes, principally the MD-80 and the MD-11 on the way, must use passenger seats that can withstand an impact 16 times stronger than the force of gravity, rather than 9 times the force of gravity, the previous requirement. For airplanes certified for passenger use before 1988, meaning almo... |
331473_0 | Through the Form 1040 Step by Step | LEAD: Top tax professionals work with their clients year round to draw up financial plans tailored to their goals and means, taking advantage of whatever deductions and opportunities are allowed under the nation's tax laws. Thus, studying an expertly prepared return can help taxpayers understand tax strategies, as well... |
331910_3 | In the Cocaine War ... The Jungle Is Winning | in Lima. And, even as construction continues at the base in Santa Lucia, the United States is planning to build several more just like it. ''The Upper Huallaga Valley is going to be the model for the world,'' says an American official helping to implement the program. ''We're slowly developing a package that can be use... |
335419_1 | Castro Says He May Trade More in Latin America | today that Latin American markets could make up for the loss of trading partners in Eastern Europe. Cheered by his first visit to Brazil in 30 years, Fidel Castro said today that Latin American markets could make up for the loss of trading partners in Eastern Europe. ''If the problems with Eastern Europe get more serio... |
337563_3 | Brazil's Wild West | but the publicity has put the sleepy town on the map. Xapuri is one of the best places to see what the struggle over preserving the forest is really about. Near the town, there are modern ranches and forest reserves that can be visited by arrangement with the rubber tappers' union, which has an office on the main squar... |
337816_0 | E.P.A.'s Objections Give Hope to Critics Of Planned Pipeline | LEAD: FROM its beginning almost four years ago, the story of the Iroquois pipeline has not been pleasant. In meeting after meeting with residents of the towns along its proposed route, the company planning it has encountered a loud and long barrage of verbal and legal opposition. Nevertheless, the project's propects be... |
337647_0 | GENE-ALTERED ITEM APPROVED BY F.D.A. | LEAD: The Food and Drug Administration has approved what it says is the first genetically engineered food product for humans, an enzyme used in making cheese. The Food and Drug Administration has approved what it says is the first genetically engineered food product for humans, an enzyme used in making cheese. The agen... |
337749_4 | A Writing Project Spans the Age Gap | from other subjects, the high school students were ''caught up short,'' Ms. Kava said. This ''took some of the ''mistique away from the 11th grade'' in the eyes of the fourth graders, she noted. At the reception, several 11th graders commented on how ''intelligent'' and how ''much more easy going'' than the high school... |
337828_0 | Matching the Handicapped With Jobs | LEAD: MATTHEW MURPHY, a 24-year-old a page at the Scarsdale Library, recently bought a bicycle with his own money. ''He is so proud of it,'' said his mother, Helen F. Murphy. ''His wheels have made him even more independent. And knowing that he earned the money himself gives him such satisfaction.'' MATTHEW MURPHY, a 2... |
337679_2 | Latin Drug Cartels, Squeezed, Are Turning to Ecuador | 30 to 50 metric tons a year and rising. Cocaine production worldwide is estimated at 776 metric tons a year. Chemical Imports Are Up The increase in chemicals smuggled through Ecuador for the processing of cocaine is more difficult to estimate, officials said. But Ecuadorean Government figures show that chemical import... |
337398_4 | All About/Composite Materials; Light and Tough, New Materials Head for the Mass Marketing Stage | crew of 20 for composites. But new manufacturing processes are being developed. Composite-making machinery is ''probably the fastest-growing industry in the country,'' said W. Brandt Goldsworthy, president of Alcoa/Goldsworthy Engineering, which has developed machinery to assemble composite plies and shape them automat... |
336978_5 | Growing Up Flabby in America | I play a lot of tennis and sometimes jog,'' she said. ''We'd like for Sonya to go with us, but if she doesn't want to, we don't push.'' Fitness professionals acknowledge that changing family habits will not be easy. ''The first focus for parents is to see that their kids get A's, and if they do have spare time, it's us... |
336999_3 | PARENT & CHILD | ''The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Learning-Disabled Children'' (McGraw-Hill, 1988; $8.95). ''They're required to evaluate the child, even if he attends a private or parochial school,'' Dr. Silver said. But such specialized teams are expensive. Depending upon a school's budget, it may share an evaluation... |
336796_3 | Health: Personal Health | the new drugs have an ''excellent safety record.'' Still, he said: ''No antihistamine works for everyone. Different drugs are more or less effective in different people, and they produce different side effects.'' Dr. Michael Sly, pediatric allergist at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, said the non-... |
336809_0 | Lebow Treated For Brain Cancer | LEAD: Fred Lebow, the director of the New York City Marathon and the president of the New York Road Runners Club, was told yesterday that he has brain cancer. Lebow, who was to begin radiation treatments immediately, underwent extensive testing after being admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center on Feb. 14 with a growth... |
338657_3 | EATING WELL | ''light'' ketchup cuts the calories and sodium in half, and nutrition information is provided on the label. ''You can find ketchup that has no salt in it, and it tastes much better because you really taste the tomato instead of the salt,'' said Layne Liebman, a registered dietitian and the director of Nutrition Learnin... |
338651_2 | The Din Of Popcorn Fills the Land | than traditional oil-popped popcorn. Some commercial popcorns consist of 50 percent or more fat and have as much as 200 calories in three cups. Al Rickard, director of communications for the Snack Food Association, predicts that more flavors will be introduced in light microwave popcorns in the coming months. ''The int... |
338454_0 | Restoring Old Buildings Takes Special Skills | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The dreadful ceiling collapse, which killed a woman at New York City's once-elegant Ansonia Hotel (news article, March 13), illustrates the lack of training for those who do building conservation as a profession. Schools of architecture, engineering, contracting and trades are simply... |
338483_0 | New Packaging That Spared the Environment | LEAD: New ways of packaging consumer goods are being developed and some old ones revived as environmental concerns grow, the cost of disposing solid waste rises and state and local governments adopt measures to promote recycling and degradability. New ways of packaging consumer goods are being developed and some old on... |
333392_0 | Coffee Exports Spurt | LEAD: World exports of coffee jumped by nearly 25 percent last year after international controls on sales were abolished in July, the International Coffee Organization said this week. Exports to all destinations in the last half of 1989 totaled 39.6 million bags, compared with 31.9 million in the comparable period of 1... |
333542_0 | Ban on Smoking in Airliners Doesn't Apply to the Cockpit | LEAD: Smoke-free air in the cabin of an airliner may be better for the health of passengers, but Federal officials have determined that it is safer to let the pilots keep smoking. Smoke-free air in the cabin of an airliner may be better for the health of passengers, but Federal officials have determined that it is safe... |
339305_0 | Simpler Plan Sought in Congress To Identify All Eligible for Work | LEAD: Leading members of Congress said today that the nation should adopt a simpler, more secure method of identifying citizens and legal aliens in an effort to prevent job discrimination against Hispanic and other minority workers. Leading members of Congress said today that the nation should adopt a simpler, more sec... |
331298_4 | For Specialty Ketchups, A Battle With the Giants | 20 to 22 percent sugar, often corn syrup and the like. Rapid Expansion By the end of 1989, Uncle Dave's sales had reached $100,000, Mr. Lyon said. It is now sold in 1,000 markets, primarily in the Northeast and Canada, but is rapidly expanding. Neither Uncle Dave's nor most of the other new brands have cornered much sp... |
330924_0 | Upheaval in the East; How the Mutiny on 'Red October' Sub Really Happened | LEAD: The Government newspaper Izvestia has confirmed Western news reports of an attempted mutiny aboard a Soviet naval vessel in 1975 that Tom Clancy used as the basis of his bestseller, ''The Hunt for Red October.'' The Government newspaper Izvestia has confirmed Western news reports of an attempted mutiny aboard a S... |
330910_2 | Shifts in U.S. Policy Sought To Spur Caribbean Trade | began to flow to many countries in the region. Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida and a sponsor of a bill to extend the program, said, ''The impact of C.B.I. has been significant but diluted by other events, like the declining quota of sugar entering the U.S. from C.B.I. nations, which occurred around and independ... |
336261_7 | Lost on Earth: Wealth of Data Found in Space | programs run, and a host of other factors used to analyze the data, so the tapes will be preserved in their full context. Easy-to-Store Disks To begin the project, four researchers are poring over 135,000 old magnetic tapes saved from lunar and planetary missions throughout the 1960's and 1970's. Another 50,000 tapes f... |
334035_0 | Chronicle | LEAD: For the opening of the opulent Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, MARCIA HAYDEE, the Brazilian ballerina and director of the Stuttgart Ballet, will dance in ''Amazon Forest.'' The Villa-Lobos ballet, along with excerpts from a Brazilian opera and a symphonic work written by CLAUDIO SANTORO, a... |
335567_2 | Technology; A State-of-the-Art Plant Refines Newspaper Recycling | about one-sixth. Southeast has had to push for efficiency to survive. (About 40 percent of Southeast's output goes to its three owners, Media General Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc. and Cox Enterprises Inc.) Environmental considerations, not economics, are driving recycling today. Every ton of old newspapers taken out of the ... |
335555_2 | Business Diary: March 11-16 | on Thursday that the company he founded has ended relations with Cuba. Davidoff International plans to produce cigars elsewhere. Mr. Davidoff said that the quality of Cuban cigars had fallen off. Some blame Castro's decision to quit smoking. Davidoff's Havanas, costing as much as $60 each, are forbidden in the United S... |
335668_0 | For an Off-Season Taste Treat, Roasted Tomatoes | LEAD: IF you yearn for the taste of tomatoes but are unimpressed by their quality at this time of year, try roasting them. Ripe hothouse or hydroponically grown tomatoes taste wonderful when cooked this way. They look a mess but they develop an intense flavor, sweet yet sharp, and almost carmelized. They are good with ... |
335667_0 | For an Off-Season Taste Treat, Roasted Tomatoes | LEAD: IF you yearn for the taste of tomatoes but are unimpressed by their quality at this time of year, try roasting them. Ripe hothouse or hydroponically grown tomatoes taste wonderful when cooked this way. They look a mess but they develop an intense flavor, sweet yet sharp, and almost carmelized. They are good with ... |
335669_0 | For an Off-Season Taste Treat, Roasted Tomatoes | LEAD: IF you yearn for the taste of tomatoes but are unimpressed by their quality at this time of year, try roasting them. Ripe hothouse or hydroponically grown tomatoes taste wonderful when cooked this way. They look a mess but they develop an intense flavor, sweet yet sharp, and almost carmelized. They are good with ... |
335505_0 | For an Off-Season Taste Treat, Roasted Tomatoes | LEAD: IF you yearn for the taste of tomatoes but are unimpressed by their quality at this time of year, try roasting them. Ripe hothouse or hydroponically grown tomatoes taste wonderful when cooked this way. They look a mess but they develop an intense flavor, sweet yet sharp, and almost carmelized. They are good with ... |
335908_4 | A DURABLE HERESY | to reject this approach and to develop the alternative philosophy of monism, or immanentism. The Marrano environment and experience had very little to do with this. In the second volume of Mr. Yovel's study the focus shifts to the history of modern thought, especially the major figures from Kant through Freud. Mr. Yove... |
335776_2 | Problems Are Reported With New Spy Satellite | was pulled apart by centripetal force. The Washington Post today quoted unidentified intelligence and Congressional officials who were briefed on the problem as saying the satellite malfunction was a ''serious setback'' and of ''major concern.'' But other experts said the problem was more serious from the standpoint of... |
335632_2 | Pastimes; Camera | about the expanded recycling program. A North Carolina recycling firm picks up the store's empties and delivers them to a plant that grinds them up into reusable chips. Other labs now in the recycling stream include Wal-Mart in Texas, Guardian Photo in Slippery Rock, Pa., Crest Photo in Elgin, Ill., Photo Service of Ci... |
335673_0 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | LEAD: Storm-Struck Forest Reopens In Puerto Rico Storm-Struck Forest Reopens In Puerto Rico The 28,000-acre Caribbean National Forest known as El Yunque in Puerto Rico has reopened for recreational use after repairs to roads, trails and visitor centers that were damaged when Hurricane Hugo pummeled the island last Sept... |
335707_0 | LISTENERS PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR LOUD MUSIC | LEAD: Hearing loss is not a reportable disease. There are no official statistics. But doctors suspect that this incurable ailment is becoming epidemic and that the willful or ignorant misuse of audio equipment is a major cause. Hearing loss is not a reportable disease. There are no official statistics. But doctors susp... |
335856_0 | The Disabled Find a Voice, And Make Sure It Is Heard | LEAD: THE pictures were striking, just as they were intended to be: Children paralyzed from the waist down crawling up the steps of the Capitol, and more than 100 protesters, most in wheelchairs, being arrested by police officers in riot gear after a raucous demonstration in the Rotunda. THE pictures were striking, jus... |
335733_1 | ADDING UP THE COSTS OF CHANGES AT THE TOP | of the Whitney Museum of Art. In all these instances, power was in the hands of board members, managers or moneymen. The same situation prevailed in Paris, where Dominique Bozo had no sooner made the Musee National d'Art Moderne in the Pompidou Center into one of the world's great modern museums than life there was mad... |
335511_9 | The Struggle To Preserve Old Churches | historic adobe structures have been catalogued, most in need of repair. The principal problem, she said, is that adobe, a mix of soil, sand, water and straw, disintegrates when left to the elements without routine maintenance. Since organizing a restoration campaign two years ago, she said, her group and others involve... |
334948_0 | Recycled Paper Spurs a New Debate: What Is It? | LEAD: The American paper industry has pledged to recycle 40 percent of its output by 1995 to reduce the amount of waste paper now being buried in landfills. But the president of a company specializing in selling recycled paper said much of what the industry calls recycled paper was mill scrap that had never been used b... |
334971_1 | Crayons Fill Gaps On Illness | Dawn Zarzano, a fourth grader, sits down with her crayons at Public School 95 in Brooklyn, chances are that she is not coloring the latest Smurf character. She is more likely to be coloring in a new book that deals with epilepsy, diabetes, mental illness and hypertension. The book, titled ''Helping Each Other,'' is bei... |
338363_3 | BRAZIL IS MOVING TO RESCUE TRIBE | want Mr. Collor to revoke decrees issued by his predecessor, Jose Sarney, that permit miners to re-enter about 5 percent of the Yanomamis' 35,000-square-mile homeland. But Roraima's settler population, which depends on mining for its livelihood, is overwhelmingly opposed to further limitats on their access to the land.... |
338272_4 | Bishop Weakland, Critic of Vatican, Lends Women His Ear on Abortion | women's role in the church; he led efforts to remove what was considered sexist language in the liturgy. Six years ago, Archbishop Weakland headed the bishops' committee that drafted a pastoral letter on the moral strengths and shortcomings of the American economy. His influence in the church was on the rise. Then, in ... |
338290_2 | Protestant Militant Seeks a Way Through Ulster Deadlock | demonstrated in protest. But these days, the passions have cooled somewhat as many Protestants in Northern Ireland have begun to despair that anything will be done about ending the continuing violence. They have turned their anger on the politicians they see as having done little or nothing to break the stalemate. Afte... |
332214_0 | Breaking the Ice With Japan, Again | LEAD: President Bush's weekend talks with Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu produced yet another Japanese pledge of economic reforms that could ease the two nations' tension over trade. Previous Prime Ministers have been unable to deliver as much as they seemed to promise but Mr. Kaifu introduced a welcome new element. Pres... |
332285_2 | Careers; A New Look At M.B.A. Education | would be more recognition of the value of a multi-disciplined faculty. In the past, when he was dean of the Rutgers University Graduate School of Management, he hired psychologists, sociologists, philosophers of science and even an art historian. ''It forces faculty members to think more broadly and talk to each other,... |
332359_0 | Defender of Rain Forest Is Named Secretary of Environment in Brazil | LEAD: A pioneer conservationist is about to become Brazil's new Secretary of Environment. A pioneer conservationist is about to become Brazil's new Secretary of Environment. The official, Jose Antonio Lutzenberger, was named last Friday by Brazil's President-elect, Fernando Collor de Mello. He will assume his new dutie... |
330988_0 | A Sampling of Events On Women's History | LEAD: Women's History Month is being celebrated with a variety of events around New York City. Here is a sampling of events this weekend. For more information, consult the Women's History Month Calendar published by the New York City Commission on the Status of Women, 52 Chambers Street, Suite 207 (566-3832). Women's H... |
331117_2 | WORLD DRUG CROP UP SHARPLY IN 1989 DESPITE U.S. EFFORT | testimony on the report to a House Foreign Affairs task force on drugs today, Melvin Levitsky, the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, defended the Administration strategy against lawmakers' attacks and explained that it had only been in effect a ''very short time.'' He attributed the rise... |
330963_3 | At the Movies | 30's will be examining the effects of his great-grandfather, and he comes to understand that it was his great-grandfather who accomplished this. And he figures - he's living in America; he's American born - it's in the genes: If he could do it, why can't I? ''And we just do the whole story. Only trying to get the 'Mona... |
331108_0 | Worst Tire Inferno Has Put Focus on Disposal Problem | LEAD: The largest tire fire ever in North America is serving as a reminder that one of the most significant waste disposal problems facing the United States and Canada is far from being solved. The largest tire fire ever in North America is serving as a reminder that one of the most significant waste disposal problems ... |
332983_3 | After Large Study of Abortion Pill, French Maker Considers Wider Sale | in the United Kingdom, we have more than 1,000,'' she said. Results of Larger Study Dr. Hodgen said he was in Paris two weeks ago and saw a company presentation of 38,000 cases, confirming the drug's safety and giving even greater evidence that it was effective. In this much larger group of women, the drug caused abort... |
338756_2 | Cleansed of Centuries of Grime, Sistine Ceiling Shines Anew | experts from half a dozen countries gathered for a symposium in several halls in Rome. For a week in the rooms the people are coming and going, talking of Michelangelo. New Controls Are Considered Behind closed doors, they will examine technical and historical data related to the project, which the Nippon Television Ne... |
333637_5 | Development Slowdown Offers Planners a Breather | long overdue. But many developers believe that what the region needs now that there is a slump is not more, but fewer, planning constraints. ''The real estate sector has already been pummeled by public policy,'' said Pat O'Keefe, executive director of the New Jersey Builders Association. ''The question is no longer man... |
333915_0 | Electronic Bulletin Boards Need Editing. No They Don't. | LEAD: MORE than a decade after computer networks have become well traveled highways for data, deals, ideas and information, lawmakers and computer users are still trying to define the rules of the road. MORE than a decade after computer networks have become well traveled highways for data, deals, ideas and information,... |
333600_0 | New & Noteworthy | LEAD: CONNECTIONS TO THE WORLD: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, by Arthur C. Danto. (Perennial/Harper & Row, $7.95.) In a recasting of his book ''What Philosophy Is,'' Arthur C. Danto now proposes that it can be thought of as ''the effort to understand the relationships between subjects, representations, and reality.... |
335110_1 | Seller of Expensive Cigars Stops Buying From Cuba | defective cigars. Cubatabaco has insisted that it has always been ready to replace defective cigars. Cuba exports 80 million to 100 million cigars a year and last year earned $75 million in hard currency through their sale, Roberto Yaech, the commercial director of Cubatabaco, told Agence France-Presse last month. Davi... |
335095_0 | Plan Milk Production, Then Make Cow | LEAD: Two scientists here have developed a technique to identify genetic traits in livestock in advance, making it possible to plan with unheard-of precision the milk or meat production of animals before they are born. Two scientists here have developed a technique to identify genetic traits in livestock in advance, ma... |
335095_4 | Plan Milk Production, Then Make Cow | in his laboratory here. ''They are very powerful tools that are changing how we view and apply breeding methods for production characteristics.'' Critics of such tools say decreasing the number of breeds and requiring maximum production put farm animals under a great amount of stress that causes illness and other physi... |
335039_1 | Soybean and Sugar Prices Rise on Rumor About Brazil | Analysts linked some of the buying to rumors that President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil, who took office yesterday, planned to seek an export tax on soybeans and soy products as one of many measures aimed at stabilizing the country's foundering economy. Such a tax would put the cost of Brazilian soybeans closer ... |
337315_0 | In Chicago, Renewed Uproar on Bigotry | LEAD: Days after winning a bitterly fought primary election here, Representative Gus Savage is back in the trenches, this time in a battle over remarks he made in the closing days of the campaign. Days after winning a bitterly fought primary election here, Representative Gus Savage is back in the trenches, this time in... |
332098_3 | World Bank's Lesser Role in China | supports American exports, announced two loans totaling $32.85 million. Many foreign banking analysts and diplomats say the decision to halt lending to China was motivated more by political protest than by economic changes. In turn, the suspension of loans made China more cautious and less willing to discuss radical ch... |
340991_1 | Miss Piggy, Kermit, Meet Meep | a room. In his hand he has a horn to honk, and his teeth are party blowouts that roll out when he opens his mouth. Mr. Henson said: ''Meep was a fun solution. We loved his balloon. It was a good graphic design, well-rendered and well thought out.'' Debra Seddon, a sophomore at the Fashion Institute of Technology, won s... |
340864_1 | U.S. Panel Is Told of Pan Am Security Flaws | baggage that was put aboard its flights from Frankfurt. Instead, the company examined such baggage using X-ray equipment. Pan Am officials, including the board chairman and chief executive, Thomas G. Plaskett, who testified today, have told the commission that the company had been given special permission by the agency... |
340757_0 | A Sugar Quota For Nicaragua | LEAD: The United States said Tuesday that it planned to restore preferential treatment for Nicaraguan exports, including a quota for sugar exports to the United States. The United States said Tuesday that it planned to restore preferential treatment for Nicaraguan exports, including a quota for sugar exports to the Uni... |
346682_10 | Clouds Are Yielding Clues to Changes in Climate | others, illustrate what Dr. Rossow of the Goddard Institute calls ''the variety of styles of cloudiness that occur on the globe.'' Dr. Rossow has been analyzing data from weather satellites as part of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project. This variety has been underscored by the emerging research resul... |
346480_0 | Soviet View on Cuba | LEAD: The Soviet Union and Cuba are trying to improve their economic relations and can expand them further despite the diverging economic and political paths taken by their Governments, the Soviet Deputy Prime Minister, Leonid Abalkin, said here last week. In a weeklong stay in Cuba, Mr. Abalkin, the Soviet Union's lea... |
342807_5 | A New Generation Begins Computing | family left and friends begin to drop by the way,'' said Joan Elswit, 66, of Oakton, Va., a Seniornet user. ''There are all the contacts you want on the network.'' Computer use can be the ''basis for forging a lot of friendship ties,'' said Tora K. Bikson, a researcher at the Rand Corporation who did a yearlong study o... |
342801_0 | At Easter, Classic Greek Fare, Made Anew | LEAD: AT St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Hempstead, L.I., precisely at midnight on Saturday, all the lights will go out and members of the congregation, each holding a white candle, will watch in the darkness as the priest lifts one solitary flame and proclaims: ''Receive ye the light from the light that never w... |
346364_2 | Nigeria Reports It Foiled a Coup By Army Rebels | federation until they prove their loyalty to a new government. And he described the Babangida leadership as ''dictatorial, corrupt, drug-baronish, inhumane, sadistic, deceitful, homosexually centered and unpatriotic.'' Another radio broadcast from Lagos monitored here called on students, workers, lawyers and shopkeeper... |
346390_1 | Candy Maker Dealt Blow on Sugar Quotas | Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher. Brach, which was taken over in 1986 by Jacobs Suchard, based in Zurich, has said that if it did not receive the exemption to buy the lower-cost sugar, it would move the Chicago operation, which employs up to 3,500 people, to either Canada or Mexico. The company's request was endorsed by C... |
346466_1 | Tough Going | run an auto rally through South America, the organizers went broke before the race ever began. But it took more than that to stop the intrepid drivers in the Trans-Amazon Rally of 1988. THE last time anyone tried to run an auto rally through South America, the organizers went broke before the race ever began. But it to... |
346449_8 | Colombian Cocaine: Tracking Down Dealers - A special report.; A Covert and Major Victory Is Reported in the Drug War | cocaine were tossed aboard, and the Naut-For-Fun headed for Fort Lauderdale. But the drug transporters had unwittingly hired a crew made up of F.B.I. agents. The agency's plan was to intercept the craft at sea, making the Colombians think the seizure was just bad luck. But three days out of Panama, the Naut-For-Fun ran... |
348598_3 | Change on the Horizon for Landmarks | landmarks commission since 1975. ''Their acceptance helps their clients accept it. And the general support from the architectural community has been very impressive.'' Acceptance would have been hard to predict in 1965. At the time, the Real Estate Board of New York adamantly opposed the commission, saying it would ''s... |
348292_0 | Is Overpopulation Too Grim a Tale? | LEAD: NO problem facing the earth looms larger than the growth in the reproductive rate of the human species. Virtually all degradation of the environment, all exhaustion of natural resources and substantial human suffering can be attributed to the crushing effect of a population that is too numerous for our planet. NO... |
348688_0 | A Better Blip | LEAD: EXPERTS IN AERONAUTICS WILL recognize the shape on the computer screen at right as that of an L-1011 aircraft. The image was generated as the plane approached Philadelphia International Airport by the radar dish shown above, more than a mile and a half away, at the University of Pennsylvania's Valley Forge Resear... |
348475_4 | The Medical Assault on Stroke | bloodstream, turning the flow into a turbulent whoosh, just as a kink in a garden hose can do. The bruit is a warning signal that blood flow through a carotid artery may be partially blocked. In time, the mound may thicken and completely cut off blood flow to a part of the brain, causing a stroke. Or a small piece of a... |
348303_0 | Enhancing Life For the Disabled | LEAD: In the March 25 Westchester Weekly there was an article entitled ''Matching the Handicapped With Jobs.'' This piece seemed to portray a positive idea about persons with disabilities. Throughout the article, however, terms such as ''the autistic'' and ''the more severely handicapped'' were used to describe the stu... |
341640_4 | A SPECIAL REPORT: Numbers Please!; Moving Targets | in college are down. Another trend few foresaw was that as the college population shrank, its enrollment rates grew. The ''cohort effect'' is largely the theory of Richard A. Easterlin, an economist at the University of Southern California. As he charts postwar generations, their size and college-enrollment rates gener... |
341632_0 | Access Roads | LEAD: PERSONAL computers can now be found in almost every school in the United States, the Government reports, although the ratio of students to computers varies widely. Some elementary schools have only one; some universities thousands. No matter how many computers a school has, however, almost everyone agrees that th... |
341772_0 | Legalizing Drugs: Other Viewpoints | LEAD: While Bill Mathesius is correct in supporting individual rights, he fails to consider how drug use violates the welfare of others. Has he thought about the children of drug-using parents? This would be a sizable population. While Bill Mathesius is correct in supporting individual rights, he fails to consider how ... |
341832_15 | THE PRISONERS OF TIANANMEN SQUARE | for her essays detailing the horrors of the previous crackdowns on intellectuals. Early last year, Dai Qing published a long account of the experiences of Chu Anping, an advocate of a free press who had been labeled a ''rightist'' during Mao Zedong's 1957-58 campaign against intellectuals. Dai Qing has also pushed for ... |
342065_0 | With Deregulation, Everybody Gains | LEAD: One of the most enduring policy debates of the 1980's concerns the wisdom of deregulating the airline industry. Although more than a decade of evidence is in, the jury is still out. Last month the debate was rekindled by a blast from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research organization in Washington. On... |
341876_0 | Corrections | LEAD: An article on March 25 about Federal approval of a genetically engineered enzyme used in making cheese misidentified the enzyme. It is rennin. An article on March 25 about Federal approval of a genetically engineered enzyme used in making cheese misidentified the enzyme. It is rennin. |
341939_3 | BIG SCIENCE IN THE SKY | the Space Telescope History Project. They had unusual access to the people making the space telescope through an agreement with NASA, as well as to many closed meetings and briefings. But under the agreement their conclusions, and the account Mr. Smith has written, were not interfered with by the agency. The history pr... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.