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341907_1 | IN SHORT: SCIENCE BOOKS | Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health. By Paul Brodeur. (Simon & Schuster, $19.95.) The thesis of ''Currents of Death'' is that electrical technology is filled with hidden dangers for human health: power lines induce cancer; electric blankets cause miscarriages; computer terminals ... |
341742_5 | A Renaissance Masterpiece | Cardinal Montalto built the second palazzina and continued the work of Gambara. And other prelate-proprietors added, modified, enriched the villa, until it was ceded to the Lante family in 1656. The family remained the villa's owners until after the Second World War. During the war the gardens, which had already suffer... |
341778_4 | Has Catholicism Lost A Chance to Be Our Moral Clearinghouse? | difficulty in defining important moral questions even for its own members, let alone for wider society. The publicists and pollsters will have their work cut out for them. American Catholics are probably the best-educated, most independent-minded laity in the church's history. It is no wonder that many of them chafe at... |
341913_12 | ERRANDS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS | which is devoted to household errands: ''She'll pick up a light dimmer or have the vacuum repaired,'' says Mr. Bierman. ''My bookkeeper will pay my bills, give me an allowance and take care of charitable contributions.'' Even the purchase of such personal items as clothing can be systematized. A prominent woman banker ... |
339967_2 | More Books Offering First Aid for Planet | go head-to-head with books on the murder of Francisco (Chico) Mendes, the leader of the Brazilian rubber tappers' union who was killed in 1988 for his efforts to protect the rain forest. Houghton Mifflin will publish ''The Burning Season'' by Andrew Revkin; Little, Brown plans ''The World Is Burning'' by Alex Shoumatof... |
348913_3 | Harvesting Exotic Crops To Save Brazil's Forest | to a recent study of the Peruvian Amazon by Charles M. Peters of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. Reserve Lands While figures vary according to region and markets, the idea of ''extractive reserves'' - which guarantee long-term harvesting rights, largely to rubber tappers and gatherers... |
348829_1 | City's Heart, in Ashes Now, to Beat as It Did of Old | to peer through the windows and doorways of surviving facades and meditate on the tangled metal and rubble inside. A Feeling of Rebirth But now, after 20 months of planning, debates and arguments among city officials, property owners, shopkeepers and architects, agreement has finally been reached on how Chiado is to be... |
341252_0 | Britain Approves Upjohn Hair Drug | LEAD: The Upjohn Company has received approval from the British Government to begin selling its anti-baldness drug to women, company officials said. The drug, sold as Rogaine in the United States and Canada, is a 2 percent minoxidil solution that is sold by prescription for men in 63 countries. About 20 countries have ... |
347861_3 | Economic Scene; A Global Program For Environment | only for developing safer technologies and other environmental purposes, rather than for other purposes. Even a heavy fuel tax would be only the beginning of an effective global program. The assembly observed that the environmental threat stemmed from three ''indivisibly linked'' global trends: human population growth,... |
347566_0 | A BID FOR SCRAP, TO CUT POLLUTION | LEAD: For years clean air experts, from government officials to academics, have suggested half in jest that the cheapest way to cut pollution was to scrap old cars that do not meet today's emission standards. Yesterday a California oil company said it would spend $5 million to do just that. For years clean air experts,... |
347894_2 | Consuelito Journal; Sugar Harvest's Bitter Side: Some Call It Slavery | ''When this season ends, I'm leaving and I won't be back,'' said Mr. Baillard, an illiterate Creole-speaking worker in ragged clothing who guessed his age as 20. ''See my ticket. I earned only 20 pesos for three days of work. That's nothing; I can't even eat well for a day with this.'' Gathered around their concrete ba... |
343875_0 | So Much for Assumptions About Immigrants and Jobs | LEAD: MOST Americans, it is safe to say, would be worse off without all the immigrants who iron their shirts, grill their hamburgers and staff their hospitals. MOST Americans, it is safe to say, would be worse off without all the immigrants who iron their shirts, grill their hamburgers and staff their hospitals. The ca... |
343908_2 | Delays at Kennedy Airport: Summer Outlook | do it anymore'' with the expedited procedures. Ernest Davis, chief of passenger processing for the Customs Service at Kennedy, said that the service was discussing with British Airways and American Airlines ways to pinpoint further high-risk passengers or flights for intense Customs inspection while speeding still more... |
343593_2 | Sadists in Their Midst | its barbaric activities under an amnesty that it has forced upon its political foes. But many human-rights activists within Brazil reject the generals' self-immunity proclamation. These dissidents, aided by liberal churchmen, spend the next five years working to expose the army's terrorism by secretly photocopying a mi... |
343652_2 | For Youths On the Edge of Trouble | happening.'' State guidelines specify that any program receiving funds must be a ''nonrecreational intervention'' effort, Dr. Collarini said. That means they must provide either counseling, tutorial help, remedial education, employment readiness, nonfinancial family support or parenting education. 'Kids Sometimes Get L... |
343905_2 | A COMMISSION THAT HAS ITSELF BECOME A LANDMARK | other outdoor places. It has also designated 52 neighborhoods as historic districts, which contain nearly 15,000 buildings, placing a remarkable amount of New York City's real estate under its control. This control has been exercised, for the most part, with intelligence and respect. There are plenty of horror stories ... |
343867_2 | Struggles Over The Ancient Trees Shift to British Columbia | is left of Canada's once-vast rain forest. In British Columbia, timber companies cut nearly 600,000 acres last year, more than was logged in all the national forests of the United States. Nowhere have the woods been so depleted as on Vancouver Island, where miles appear barren, a stumpland where 250-foot-high trees use... |
344739_3 | Modest University in Florida Is Blazing a Trail For Blacks to Careers in the World of Business | Wharton, Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon and FAM U. FAM U. is providing the same caliber of student the others are.'' Among this year's objects of recruiters' blandishments is Seralyn Pink, a 23-year-old master's degree candidate. Ms. Pink said she was juggling four offers at salaries ranging from $40,000 to $60,000 - right ... |
344715_3 | Scientists See a Link Between Alcoholism And a Specific Gene | in part because the new study was necessarily small. Dr. Gordis said in an interview that the newly reported gene ''may not be specific for alcoholism but it might have a more general influence on appetite, personality and behavior.'' Dr. Noble agreed, saying, ''The good Lord did not make an alcoholic gene, but one tha... |
344835_3 | Eating Well | of these, captan and folpet, are listed by the E.P.A. as probable causes of cancer in humans. Two others, benomyl and thiophanate-methyl, are listed as possible human carcinogens. The E.P.A. permits their use because it says the risks are outweighed by the benefits. As part of a larger concern about the environment, st... |
342914_1 | Boeing Still Negotiating Japanese Tie | is to be called the 777 as soon as the airlines place orders. The status of the three companies, which already build large portions of Boeing's current 767 aircraft, has been the subject of speculation. In late March, reports circulated that the Japanese concerns were not likely to take an equity role in the new aircra... |
342938_2 | U.S. Pilots in Peru Join Battle Against Forces of Coca Trade | Assistance Unit visit the base to supervise operations. The United States has also sought to fight drugs in Colombia and Bolivia. Since August, Washington has sent equipment and helicopters to Colombia to fight drug traffickers and also military personnel for short-term tours to teach the Colombians to use the equipmen... |
345282_2 | TV and the Environment | Senator who suggested the idea of Earth Day in 1969 and who is called the father of Earth Day, to the National Press Club in Washington. SUNDAY ''THE EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY,'' Home Box Office, 9 to 9:30 A.M., animated dinosaurs and other creatures unite to save the planet. ''STEAM-PIPE ALLEY,'' Channel 9, 10 to 11 A.M., ch... |
339563_0 | Flying Unscreened | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your article on commuter airlines (''Deregulation Left Only the Strong,'' March 18) left out information that might be of interest to readers concerned about airline safety: if an airplane has 60 or fewer seats, there is no requirement that passengers, or their luggage, be electronic... |
339858_0 | POSTINGS: Repairing a Landmark; Church to Study Water Damage | LEAD: The 160-foot-high granite tower of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which has been a fixture at the northwest corner of Central Park West and West 96th Street since the turn of the century, has been extensively damaged by water leaks in recent years and is in need of repair. To help, the New York Landmarks ... |
339797_1 | TOO MANY, TOO RICH, TOO WASTEFUL | deforestation. By environmental standards, wealthier countries are at least as guilty of overpopulation as are poorer countries because, although their populations may be smaller and growing less rapidly, they consume more resources per capita, and they rely on more disruptive technologies. They are more likely, for ex... |
339712_0 | Ernest DeMaio, 81, Electric Union Official | LEAD: Ernest DeMaio, a union organizer and former official of the United Electrical and Radio Workers Union, died of brain cancer on Thursday at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut. He was 81 years old and lived in Norwalk. Ernest DeMaio, a union organizer and former official of the United Electrical and Radio Workers Unio... |
339642_0 | Cruises | LEAD: To the Editor: Your special cruise issue on Feb. 4 brought back memories of voyages spanning 47 years. It seems that old ships, like old soldiers, never die, but merely fade away (some no longer in service, others refurbished and renamed). To the Editor: Your special cruise issue on Feb. 4 brought back memories o... |
339795_3 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | . I have never come across it in Sophocles or the News of the World. This is worse than the love that dare not speak its name; this is the love that doesn't even have a name to speak. Somewhere in common or statute law there must be a distant parallel; illicit sexual relations with a reigning monarch, perhaps. Lethal P... |
340382_0 | Hasty Hysteria on Aliens | LEAD: According to Congress's investigating agency, employers subject to sanctions for hiring undocumented aliens under a 1986 law have engaged in a ''widespread pattern of discrimination'' against people who look and sound foreign. That finding has led critics of sanctions to demand their repeal. According to Congress... |
340486_2 | Ecologists Act to Save Ancient Fores in Chile From Industry | the Equator, climate and physical features. A century and a half ago, Charles Darwin plowed the frigid waters of the region aboard H.M.S. Beagle. Today, wood and paper companies from around the world, which already have large operations among the pine forests in the Concepcion region closer to Santiago, are bidding up ... |
340491_0 | Indian Youths Said to Lack Mental Care | LEAD: THE Federal Government is failing to meet the mental health needs of American Indian adolescents, a Congressional agency said. THE Federal Government is failing to meet the mental health needs of American Indian adolescents, a Congressional agency said. The Office of Technology Assessment said in a report release... |
340487_1 | Q&A | previous fall and winter,'' said Dr. Steven K. Tim, vice president for science at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Buds of Spring Q.Do tree leaves bud in the spring because of changes in temperature or in light? A.''Both, but many of the processes of spring are primed in the previous fall and winter,'' said Dr. Steven ... |
340464_0 | America's Catholic Bishops Move Closer to Pope on Women's Issues | LEAD: A committee of Roman Catholic bishops in the United States, revising a major statement on the Catholic Church and women's concerns, has retreated from the liberal tone and content of important sections in a draft issued two years ago. A committee of Roman Catholic bishops in the United States, revising a major st... |
340492_1 | Research in 'Virgin' Amazon Uncovers Complex Farming | at a time when expanding populations and growing poverty are overwhelming third world economies, they believe, the system could enable millions of poor peasants to make a good, secure living based on self-renewing resources. Beyond that, the scientists say, the techniques can be used to tap the tropical forests - while... |
340482_4 | A Question of Ethics: Should Alcoholics Get Transplanted Livers? | to give new livers to alcoholics. Such critics raise the specter of skid row bums swamping transplant registries. There has also been concern that successful transplant surgery would stress costly therapies over less costly prevention and discourage alcoholics from stopping drinking before they develop cirrhosis. Medic... |
340493_0 | Auto Pollution Has Decreased for a Decade | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Big Wheels: How Dreams of Clean Air Get Stuck in Traffic'' (Week in Review, March 11), about the involvement of automobiles in urban air pollution, is far too pes-simistic. Because of the very substantial reductions that have been made in pollutants from automobiles the air in this... |
340397_1 | Chicago Journal; Gigantic Face Lift (Headache To Match) | sturdier granite. It will take 18 months and cost about $70 million to replace the facade - more than half what it cost to build the tower in the first place. But stripping the building is only the beginning. The company then has to figure out what to do with 5,900 tons of beautiful but deformed marble. Requests have b... |
342505_4 | For a Space Visionary, Persistence Nears Payoff | what was called Project Stratoscope. In 1957, a 12-inch telescope was lofted by balloon to 80,000 feet to make revealing studies of the Sun. The information gathered by the telescopes, recorded on spectrographs, was recovered when they were brought back to earth. That was a few months before Sputnik was launched in Oct... |
342340_2 | A Hit Songwriter Is About to Become A Cabaret Performer | subject, Mr. Harnick is willing to talk cautiously about the break, which came when the collaborators disagreed over the replacement of Derek Golby by Michael Kidd as the director of ''The Rothschilds.'' 'We Have Ongoing Business' ''Jerry felt that Derek had gotten a raw deal and I felt that he hadn't had enough experi... |
348155_0 | Patents; A Process to Extend Carrot Sticks' Shelf Life | LEAD: The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., a young company working on ways to make better-tasting vegetables, obtained the latest in a series of patents this week on methods to extend the shelf life of fresh carrot sticks. The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., a young company ... |
346184_0 | Tour Shopping With a Computer | LEAD: A KNOWLEDGEABLE traveler with a personal computer stands at the threshold of an electronic shopping mall of advice and travel services that go well beyond booking an airplane ticket. The services make available information about adventure travel, cruises and other special interests. And one program harnesses the ... |
346195_3 | How Physicist's Weapons Genius Led Him to Greed and Then Death | developed there, according to legal documents and former associates. Long-Range Howitzer That weaponry includes a highly accurate long-range howitzer, which is a staple of armed forces in Iran, Iraq, Israel and South Africa, and which also may have been used in Beirut's war between Christian and Muslim factions. It als... |
346178_2 | Wild Places, for a While | I were returning to Lima from a camping trip along the Rio Manu in Amazonian Peru. It was the end of the dry season, a time when farmers and ranchers work double time to clear and burn the forest. We were stranded in Cuzco for two days. Our plane couldn't take off because of poor visibility caused by the smoke from the... |
346145_2 | LITHUANIA CLOSES MOST INDUSTRIES | threat we are facing is very great.'' He said at an opening session of a congress of the nationalist movement Sajudis that Lithuania was searching for a compromise with Moscow, but that there were no proposals on the table. But Mr. Landsbergis did say some compromise proposals have been raised in talks with the Kremlin... |
346199_3 | Earth Day at 20: How Green the Globe? - A special report: Guarding Environment: A World of Challenges | who carries a business card of brown recycled paper, is himself a symbol of the ascent of environmentalism, if not the environment. A former president of the World Wildlife Fund-United States, he is likely soon to be elevated to the Cabinet. Suddenly, Many Environmentalists Seventy-six percent of all Americans now call... |
346249_1 | EDUCATORS CHEER ENROLLMENT GAINS | that many more high school graduates have identified career goals that can only be realized through college studies,'' he said. Paul Siegel, chief of the education branch of the United States Census Bureau, said 58.9 percent of 16- to 34-year-olds who said they obtained a high school diploma in 1988 reported that they ... |
346187_5 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | register with the American Embassy, the department warns. 300 More Taxis Planned for Boston Hailing a cab on the streets of Boston should become easier in the coming months with the planned addition of 300 new taxi medallions. But the decision to add the cabs is expected to be challenged in court. Growth in the city's ... |
345850_0 | Are You Your Planet's Keeper? | LEAD: DESIGN FOR A LIVABLE PLANET By Jon Nair FIGHTING TOXICS Edited by Gary Cohen and John O'Connor. CLEARER, CLEANER, SAFER, GREENER By Gary Null SAVING THE EARTH By Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster. EARTHRIGHT By H. Patricia Hynes. THE GREEN LIFESTYLE HANDBOOK Edited by Jeremy Rifkin. DESIGN FOR A LIVABLE PLANET By J... |
345875_3 | clergy and marital satisfaction to argue that married Catholic women are happier when they can talk with celibate priest confidants. Lest the structure of this argument seem too abstract, Father Greeley fleshes it out with a seven-page scene from one of his novels -always more didactic than ribald - wherein an attracti... | |
346272_0 | In Brazil: Miners vs. Indians | LEAD: Symbolic of the economic and environmental problems confronting Brazil, the airstrip shown at left is among the 100 or so clandestine landing strips in the northern state of Roraima ordered destroyed late last month by the newly inaugurated President, Fernando Collor de Mello. The strips, constructed by miners, p... |
346089_1 | Responses to Opinion: How Best to Heal Psychic Wounds? | intervention. A crisis brought on by a disaster in the life of an individual can disturb equilibrium, impair judgment and tax an individual's ability to function. In a time of crisis, greater demands are placed on the individual just when one may feel overwhelmed, unstable, emotionally depleted and at times abandoned a... |
340544_0 | Economic Scene; Cellular Phones: Room for Three? | LEAD: EVER wonder why cellular mobile telephones, the communications miracle of the 1980's, cost so much to use? One corporate maverick, Federal Digital Cellular, claims to know the answer: monopoly power. It is asking Federal regulators to make room for a third cellular phone competitor in each city. EVER wonder why c... |
343165_1 | Computer Networks Open New Worlds | Need Editing. No They Don't'' (Week in Review, March 11). You end with a quotation from Ithiel de Sola Pool, the late Massachusetts Institute of Technology political scientist, that ''networked computers will be the printing presses of the 21st century.'' We believe that this fails to stress the two most important feat... |
345185_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | is the first report that scientists can precisely swap one form of a gene for another in mammals. B8 Scientists identify sex of three-day-old embryos A19 New drug found helpful in treating rare cancer A17 New drug treatment for colon cancer is approved B8 A road to better air for Los Angeles D1 REGIONAL B1-9 A portion ... |
345640_0 | Patents; Producing Healthier Fried Foods | LEAD: In the continuing search to indulge people who want to improve their diets while satisfying their tastes for artery-clogging foods, inventors this week patented methods for making healthier potato chips and french fries, as well as a method for making eggs with the purported benefits of fish oil. In the continuin... |
345690_5 | Newsprint Gamble Proving Costly | three newsprint manufacturers in the United States, Augusta News Print, North Pacific Paper and Bowater, have announced plans to install new ink-removal machinery. And Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd. has announced similar plans for two of its mills in Canada. Even Garden State must decide whether to expand with a... |
345686_1 | Environmentalists Gain Partial Pesticide Victory | to long-marketed chemicals its virtual ban on residues of cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods. Under pressure from environmentalists and the State of California, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is extending to long-marketed chemicals its virtual ban on residues of cancer-causing pesti... |
345705_0 | On Earth Day, Plans to Make a Point | LEAD: From Arizona to the Washington Zoo, from Brazil to Uganda, 140 countries and the United Nations have plans for marking Earth Day on its 20th anniversary tomorrow. The common enemy worldwide: pollution in all its manifestations. From Arizona to the Washington Zoo, from Brazil to Uganda, 140 countries and the Unite... |
345792_1 | The Editorial Notebook; For Children of Chaos | is only 16 months old, and quite happy with his toy-filled playpen. The most demanding of Mrs. Butler's charges, however, are two little girls whose speech is poor and whose hands are clumsy at even the simplest tasks. They are developmentally disabled, and participants in an Infant/Toddler Intervention Program run by ... |
347451_0 | U.S. Increases Sugar Quota | LEAD: Agriculture Secretary Clayton K. Yeutter announced today that American sugar processors could import 9.7 percent more sugar from 40 countries. Agriculture Secretary Clayton K. Yeutter announced today that American sugar processors could import 9.7 percent more sugar from 40 countries. Mr. Yeutter said the sugar i... |
347309_3 | Rome Journal; Marcus Aurelius Rides Again, but Behind Glass | view it in its glass cage. Yes, they said with satisfaction, Marcus Aurelius sparkled, in civil robes instead of a warrior's armor, his right hand extended in what some see as a gesture of peace. Rome Is Divided But how to keep him sparkling has divided the city council, art restorers and ordinary citizens. Some tradit... |
347444_0 | Goodyear Net Tumbled 77.9% in First Quarter | LEAD: The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that its first-quarter earnings plunged 77.9 percent because of severe price competition, the slowdown in automobile production and higher costs. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that its first-quarter earnings plunged 77.9 percent because of ... |
347415_6 | HAILS A NEW ERA | and other close allies of Mrs. Chamorro were able to recoup only slightly, winning places on the assembly's executive directorate, apparently with support from Sandinista delegates. Another obstacle faced by Mrs. Chamorro is the possible effect that the retention of General Ortega will have on the foreign aid that her ... |
343425_0 | Israelis Are Reported to Sink Dinghy Carrying 4 Guerrillas | LEAD: The Israeli Navy sank a dinghy carrying four Palestinian guerrillas trying to enter northern Israel from the Lebanese coast, members of the Lebanese and Israeli security forces said today. The Israeli Navy sank a dinghy carrying four Palestinian guerrillas trying to enter northern Israel from the Lebanese coast, ... |
343481_1 | Tiananmen Protest Leader Credits 'Lots of People' for Escape to West | the French port of La Rochelle on March 17 with several exiled Chinese dissidents on board. Secret Groups Aid Dissidents Beijing was rebuffed this week when it asked France to outlaw A Boat For Democracy, the foundation that is financing the broadcast ship. China also formally protested the French Government's decision... |
341508_1 | U.S. Is in Middle of 33 Nations in Death Rates | in the other 32 developed countries. Throughout the 33 countries, heart disease accounted for 30 percent of the deaths, with cancer accounting for 21 percent and strokes for 14 percent. Fourteen percent of deaths in the 33 countries, about 1.5 million people a year, are attributed to smoking, the centers said. Fewer Am... |
349417_3 | Ritter Inquiry Leading Many To Quit Board | Hospital. Covenant House, its officials say, is making a concerted effort to increase representation of women and minorities on its board, which has responsibility for approving the budget and determining policy and major programs. Only one member, Mr. Lopez, is Hispanic; only one, Clarence N. Wood, director of the hum... |
349052_7 | After Hubble: NASA Aims to Decode Babel of the Cosmos | Contrary to claims of some overzealous supporters, Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror will not necessarily be able to collect light from any deeper in the universe than can some of the best ground-based telescopes. But it should see those most distant object with 10 times greater clarity and detect especially faint objects that... |
349062_1 | Boom in Poaching Threatens Bears Worldwide | countless other bears are being killed or rendered homeless when people take over their jungle and forest habitats for living space, agricultural land and raw materials. In encounters between bears and humans, experts say, it is almost always the bear that loses. ''The fate of bears in many areas of the world will be d... |
352559_0 | INSIDE | LEAD: Anti-Semitism in France Anti-Semitism in France The desecrations of more than 50 Jewish graves at two French cemeteries in the last two days have caused an outpouring of condemnation and soul-searching. Page 3. Frustration in South Korea Many South Koreans are angry over their Government's economic and political ... |
354985_3 | Software Offers Solid Future | you didn't have to be a computer-science major to use them.'' While much of the software industry focuses on high-technology centers like Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128, the 1980's personal-computer boom has created other high-growth software regions. In Washington State, for example, there are now 552 software ... |
354954_0 | WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE! | LEAD: HEY! GET OFF OUR TRAIN Written and illustrated by John Burningham. Unpaged. New York: Crown Publishers. $14.95. (Ages 5 and up) THE GREAT KAPOK TREE A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. Written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry. Unpaged. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. HEY! GET OFF OUR TRAIN Written and illustra... |
354876_7 | HIS HEAD IN THE STARS | science.'' Ed Stone has been putting experiments on spacecraft for almost 30 years - as long, one guesses, as many NASA men have been in long pants. He is today one of his profession's most productive experimentalists in space; the three missions he is involved in, in addition to Sampex and Voyager's long-range interst... |
354938_0 | TALES OF AN ITALIAN ANCHORAGE | LEAD: In the crowded months of July and August, sailing yachts at Porto Ercole's small public quay (no dock fee, but little fresh water) are tied up eight-in-line, rather the way souvenir Indian elephants are linked, an arrangement that encourages new friendships and a lazy reluctance to put out to sea. In the crowded ... |
354770_2 | Faded Glory of Syracuse | in 413 B.C. The passage of time has preserved the monuments of Ortygia from this period in an unusual fashion: the Fountain of Arethusa, a freshwater spring at the sea's edge, which the Greeks believed was connected to their homeland by an underground river, is still a favorite meeting place for the youth of Syracuse, ... |
354736_1 | Engineering Fields Fertile For the Rest of the Century | and manufacturing. Meanwhile, the number of students studying science and engineering is expected to decline as the college-age population shrinks. Meanwhile, competition for technical graduates should expand rapidly as financial-services companies and other sectors seek engineers and computer scientists to help utiliz... |
356937_0 | On Radiation, A Need for Facts | LEAD: The Nimby-obsessed ladies of West Sayville, who are trying to block the National Weather Service from installing one of its new Nexrad weather radar stations on Federal property in the community because of possible health effects from electromagnetic radiation, bring to mind the similar arguments being used by en... |
357053_0 | China | LEAD: To the Editor: China's airline, Air China (C.A.A.C.), has never been particularly user friendly, but judging by my experience the carrier has given a whole new meaning to the concept of nonrefundable ticket. We are accustomed to thinking that this means that if the passenger's plans change, the fare paid is lost.... |
356903_0 | Lifestyle; Bounding Main Is Getting Crowded | LEAD: Did you hear the story about the man who bought a $100,000 boat on Friday, set sail on Saturday without the foggiest idea of how to operate the thing, and ended up adrift on Long Island Sound out of gas? Did you hear the story about the man who bought a $100,000 boat on Friday, set sail on Saturday without the fo... |
356713_5 | GLOBAL TRADE: THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS | have, and companies ''harvest'' their market positions by not continuing to invest enough to insure their survival. The problem is that no one can say when or why a country stops increasing productivity and enters the wealth-driven stage of decline. From Mr. Porter's perspective, Britain has been in this stage for most... |
356999_0 | A Surge of Racism in France Brings a Search for Answers | LEAD: With immigrant children crowding school playgrounds and with nearby apartment blocks gradually turning into high-rise slums, French residents of this dormitory town outside Paris talk of little else but the ''colonization'' of Clichy-sous-Bois. With immigrant children crowding school playgrounds and with nearby a... |
357050_6 | Paradise, of a Kind, Lost | even they felt comfortable about dumping in the sea, which is what they've done for centuries, confident the fish would eat most of it. Tourists were hard on the rest of us too. Sure, we resented their discovering our well-kept secret, but it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd made some effort to blend in quietly. Ins... |
357100_0 | A Call for Data On Auto Insurance | LEAD: In a letter to the New Jersey editor on April 22, John A. Karanik laid most of the blame for high auto insurance premiums in New Jersey on automobile design, the high incidence of auto theft and the New Jersey driver. Despite the fact that costs from these sources would primarily fall under comprehensive and coll... |
356856_0 | ROSES ARE RED, ROSES ARE BLUE ... | LEAD: There's the yellow rose of Texas. Next there might be the blue rose of Australia. There's the yellow rose of Texas. Next there might be the blue rose of Australia. An Australian affiliate of Calgene Inc., a California biotechnology company, has formed a joint venture with Suntory Ltd., the Japanese liquor company... |
353510_0 | WORLD POPULATION WILL TOP 6 BILLION | LEAD: Efforts are faltering to limit population growth in developing countries, and the 1990's will see the greatest increase in human numbers of any decade, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities says in its latest annual survey on the world's population. Efforts are faltering to limit population growth in ... |
353632_0 | Despite Many Shifts, Oath as Old as Apollo Endures in Medicine | LEAD: AS America's newest physicians receive their degrees, many will swear to the Hippocratic oath, one of the most enduring documents in history. AS America's newest physicians receive their degrees, many will swear to the Hippocratic oath, one of the most enduring documents in history. The oath is attributed to Hipp... |
353546_3 | Singapore Aim: High-Tech Future | Development Board. ''But now our plants are more automated and our skills much higher. What we need is production technology. We need to learn how to design integrated circuits; we need companies willing to do serious R.& D. that will train our people.'' As Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have learned, it is exactly ... |
353561_2 | Parisians Join in Protest Against Hate | everyone. Respect for the living depends on respect for the dead.'' Others marching included the Chief Rabbi of France, Joseph Sitruk; the Roman Catholic Primate of France, Albert Cardinal Decourtray; Jacques Chirac, a former conservative Prime Minister, and Georges Marchais, chairman of the Communist Party. An Educati... |
353639_1 | Experimental Propulsion System Has No Moving Parts | economically power commercial ships and cargo submarines. And it might pave the way for a new generation of military submarines that are quieter than ever, helping them elude foes. ''It's provocative in its simplicity,'' said Dr. Michael Petrick, a scientist who directs research on the idea at the Argonne National Labo... |
350656_1 | Technology; Sensing the Presence Of Potential Problems | Douglas Electronic Systems Company, part of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Researchers also believe smart skins could improve the research on and manufacture of structural parts made with advanced composite materials. Engineers could bury sensors in experimental materials while they are being constructed, then plug the... |
350796_0 | A New Caribbean Generation Sets Listeners to Swaying | LEAD: Fusion - of rhythms, ethnic groups and cultures - has vitalized Caribbean music for hundreds of years. A generation ago, the musical import-export trade proceeded at a steady but gradual pace. A Haitian group would tour Cuba and return with Latin songs in their set. Cuban records trickled down to Trinidad, influe... |
350834_8 | Crumbling Cuba Still Loves to Rumba | that hot Caribbean sun. On this day, however, they must all have been home in Toronto, for the shore was almost deserted. Varadero, with its stunning lack of development, is often cited as a potential tourist mecca, Cuba's most available quick fix for a moribund economy. Yes indeed, the tourists will come, but the pric... |
350841_1 | Where the Darker Myths Live | to Poros will sometimes cross the narrow strait separating the island from the Peloponnesus and catch a bus inland, to Mycenae or Epidaurus. But they very rarely seem to turn west, and go along the mainland coast for the mere five or six miles it takes to get to Damla. They are right in a way, because the village is sc... |
350839_12 | A Greek Island That Resists Change | Monastery of St. John the Theologian, in his magnum opus Christodoulos wrote, ''My ardent desire was to possess this island at the edge of the world, for there were no people, all was tranquillity; no boats dropped anchor here.'' We are in the later half of the 20th century, and Patmos is far different than when the Ho... |
351046_6 | Jobs Program for Students Is Lagging | of unfilled openings were anticipated, but the recent downturn has meant fewer jobs and greater competition. ''When you're dealing with an expanding economy, the job opportunities are greater, but with the leveling off of the economy here in New Jersey, the preparation of those students should be more intensive so they... |
349575_0 | U.N. GROUP SEEKS MONEY FOR HEALTH | LEAD: Many of the 40 million deaths caused by disease around the world each year could be prevented by a small shifting of resources to health care, the World Health Organization says. Many of the 40 million deaths caused by disease around the world each year could be prevented by a small shifting of resources to healt... |
351455_2 | Review/Dance; In Boston, a 'Swan Lake' Without the Gimmicks | too preoccupied with his partnering, never became a prince. His solos, however, were danced better than anyone else's and were unforced. Miss Ananiashvili has developed into a major ballerina. Her long, tapered legs are part of a blazing and dynamic silhouette, with a sparkling Odile that charms as she seduces. Miss Te... |
351493_0 | A Tire Maker Outdistances Rivals | LEAD: At a time when most tire companies are merging in the face of global competition and shuttering many factories, the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company is thriving as an independent and expanding its capacity. At a time when most tire companies are merging in the face of global competition and shuttering many factorie... |
357558_0 | China Gets One Loan, but Another Is Put Off | LEAD: The World Bank today approved a $300 million loan to help China combat deforestation but indefinitely postponed a second loan of $150 million for roads and waterways that had been opposed by the Bush Administration. The World Bank today approved a $300 million loan to help China combat deforestation but indefinit... |
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