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357622_3 | This Month: Rosalind Creasy, Los Altos, Calif.; Where a Front Yard Is Part of the Pantry | Sierra Club ($35), also the publisher of her ''Edible Landscaping'' in 1982 ($19.95). In an enlightened departure from the usual gardening-for-gourmets tome, Ms. Creasy developed 17 ''theme gardens'' - including Native American, French, Mexican, edible flowers and culinary herbs. Then she scoured the country to find ga... |
357621_1 | Eating Well | complaining that the labeling was misleading. The competitors, Campbell Soup and the California Fresh-Pack Coalition, a group of seven tomato packers, say the word ''fresh'' gives Ragu an unfair advantage. Capitalizing on the enormous interest in fresh foods in this country, Ragu's television commercials for the Fresh ... |
352397_3 | Market Place; Innovation Hurts Cellular Stocks | already have, she said. Tighter credit markets, slowing growth in prices for cellular franchises and various plans for new mobile communications have hurt cellular companies and their stocks, said Frank J. Governali, an analyst at First Boston. In addition to personal networks, there are two other technologies that are... |
352244_0 | Calgene Inc. reports earnings for Qtr to March 31 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Calgene Inc. (OTC) Qtr to March 31 1990 1989 Revenue 14,408,000 10,301,000 Net inc b836,000 c218,000 Shares outst 11,285,000 8,541,000 6mo rev 21,162,000 15,249,000 Net loss b925,000 2,217,000 Shares outst 10,481,000 8,344,000 *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Calgene Inc. (OTC) Qtr to Mar... |
352419_2 | AIRPORT OVERHAUL AT KENNEDY IS CUT | But the proposed central terminal, priced at about $1 billion, and the $126 million elevated monorail were the most visible segments of a project to improve the 40-year-old airport. The central terminal would have been built across the street from the present International Arrivals Building, linked to that building by ... |
357371_1 | In Canton, Investors See Hong Kong After 1997 | the disaster that many predicted a year ago, nor is it enjoying the booming growth of the past. A Chinese Government campaign that started last summer to eliminate ''inefficient'' rural and township enterprises - hundreds of thousands of small companies and production centers in Guangdong alone - greatly slowed the reg... |
357450_0 | As Bias Crime Seems to Rise, Scientists Study Roots of Racism | LEAD: AS racial and ethnic violence erupts throughout the world, psychologists are striving to understand what impels people to acts of hatred, particularly when they act in groups. AS racial and ethnic violence erupts throughout the world, psychologists are striving to understand what impels people to acts of hatred, ... |
355867_1 | U.S. Sees Possible Cancer Tie to Electromagnetism | said available evidence showed only a statistical association between tumors and exposure to electromagnetic fields, not a causal relationship. Neither do the studies explain the mechanism by which such radiation might cause cancer, he said, but the evidence points toward the magnetic field rather than the electric fie... |
355933_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | of Representatives. The legislation would guarantee millions of disabled Americans access to employment, transportation, public accommodations and communications services. A1 The fund that insures bank deposits in the U.S. fell last year to its lowest level of assets, as a percentage of insured deposits, since the fund... |
355790_4 | Terror Creates a Need: Better Bomb Detectors | company's president. Thermedics, a subsidiary of the Thermo Electron Corporation, was making a device that could measure tiny traces of nitroglycerine, a carcinogen, in food and other substances. The chemical also happens to be present in small quantities in nearly all explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Investigatio... |
356043_0 | Gene Engineering Used to Lower Fat and Caffeine | LEAD: Calgene Inc., a plant biotechnology company, says it has isolated and inserted into plants a gene that can help reduce the saturated fat in vegetable oils. Calgene Inc., a plant biotechnology company, says it has isolated and inserted into plants a gene that can help reduce the saturated fat in vegetable oils. Se... |
353809_0 | NEW STEPS URGED FOR AIR SECURITY | LEAD: The Presidential commission that investigated the bombing of Pan American Flight 103 called today for far-reaching new measures internationally and at domestic airports to counter such attacks. But it also sharply criticized a costly bomb-detection initiative already undertaken by the Bush Administration. The Pre... |
353690_0 | Quotation of the Day | LEAD: ''We've got a Department of Environmental Conservation that gives out a lot of advice on the outer atmosphere and the Brazilian rain forest - why can't they get the PCB's off the river in Glens Falls?'' - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. [B4:6.] ''We've got a Department of Environmental Conservation that gives ou... |
353722_0 | Fund Family Planning For the Third World | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: With regard to ''More in China Willingly Rear One Child'' (front page, May 9), China has now eliminated coercive abortions and is actively prosecuting families where female infanticide is suspected. In India, 1.6 million people are added monthly. If India replicated China's one-child... |
353823_0 | Hubble Telescope Able to Focus | LEAD: After three troubled weeks trying to steady a wiggling spacecraft and fix its sights on the heavens, ground controllers said yesterday that the Hubble Space Telescope was responding reliably to commands and was for the first time focusing on guide stars. This apparently clears the way for the telescope to take it... |
353698_0 | Can Good Food Fly At 35,000 Feet? | LEAD: KEVIN GREENE hates jokes about airline food. And as director of catering services for Pan American World Airways at Kennedy International Airport, he's heard them all. KEVIN GREENE hates jokes about airline food. And as director of catering services for Pan American World Airways at Kennedy International Airport,... |
353755_2 | The Race to Develop the Pocket Telephone | Scanning, also have license applications pending with the F.C.C. for field tests. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Northern Telecom Ltd. of Canada, LM Ericsson of Sweden and the NEC Corporation in Japan have each separately been researching personal networks. Personal networks, so called because the phones... |
353770_2 | Plea for Peace at Irish Prelate's Burial | in Toulouse, France, on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Lourdes a week ago. Blessing on the Peacemakers In the cathedral today, Peter Brooke, the British Government Secretary for Northern Ireland, sat next to Charles J. Haughey, the Prime Minister of the Republic, as Bishop Cahal B. Daly of Down and Connor said: ''To tho... |
350330_1 | Your Money; A Word of Advice For Class of 1990 | five years of graduation, most people will want to go to graduate school or buy a house or condominium or get married and start a family, he said. All these things require money. Mr. Mason told of former students who had come to see him, seeking advice a year or so after graduation.''Many are not happy with their first... |
350513_0 | Contraceptive Chaos: Theirs, Ours | LEAD: Humankind has survived famine, pestilence and innumerable battles. But according to the World Population Committee, another kind of disaster could lie ahead, unless population growth stabilizes in the 21st century. Humankind has survived famine, pestilence and innumerable battles. But according to the World Popul... |
350381_0 | Signs of Easing Demand Send Sugar Prices Down | LEAD: Sugar futures prices plunged yesterday more than a penny a pound on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange amid heavy selling by frustrated speculators on signs of slack global demand. Sugar futures prices plunged yesterday more than a penny a pound on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange amid heavy s... |
350504_0 | CONSUMER'S WORLD: Coping; With Auto Pollution | LEAD: One piece of advice that is being recycled these days is to tune up the car to reduce pollution. One piece of advice that is being recycled these days is to tune up the car to reduce pollution. Traditionally, that meant checking the points and the mechanical timing of the sparkplug firing and adjusting the carbur... |
351177_5 | Befouled to Its Romantic Depths, Danube Reaches a Turning Point | is rapidly diminishing the river's capacity to cleanse itself. The contaminants come in small and large doses, some easily absorbed in the great volume of water, others permanently polluting its environment. The Danube, at the center of Europe, may appear to have no obvious guardian. But tens of thousands of people hav... |
353209_1 | Review/Art; After a Much-Debated Cleaning, A Richly Hued Sistine Emerges | Judgment'' is a brilliant blue. The public scrutiny that has accompanied the restoration so far is heartening testimony to the enduring significance of monuments like the Sistine. But the nature of the scrutiny has at times been alarming. A handful of critics of the project have managed to keep debate alive by focusing... |
353265_0 | Thousands in France Rally Against Anti-Semitism | LEAD: Addressing thousands who came on a pilgrimage of protest and penitence to the Jewish cemetery where 34 graves were desecrated last week, the Chief Rabbi of France appealed to his compatriots today to stand against anti-Semitism before it spreads through the country. Addressing thousands who came on a pilgrimage o... |
354688_0 | A Product Dead-Ended By Liability Fears | LEAD: It seemed like a dream come true: a virtual miracle fiber touted as being as tough as asbestos but completely safe and versatile enough to be used in products ranging from roofing materials to spackling compounds to brake shoes. It seemed like a dream come true: a virtual miracle fiber touted as being as tough as... |
354674_8 | Adopting Drug Babies A Special Report; Child-Rearing Is Stormy When Drugs Cloud Birth | exposure. It may be that the quantity of drugs used by the mother was less than that of other addicted mothers, whose children were severely damaged. But Muffin, too, has been hyperactive and reacts badly to changes in routine. Her teachers complain about her occasional temper tantrums. ''I don't know what to expect in... |
352959_0 | The Mortal Sphinx | LEAD: THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX, UPDATED: is it falling down or not? During the replacement of masonry on the paws and flanks in the last decade, speculation has been ongoing about the ultimate fate of the monumental man-lion hybrid at Giza, Egypt. Dating from approximately 2550 B.C., the 66-foot-high Sphinx was fashion... |
352964_0 | Spain: Spires in the Sky | LEAD: SCAFFOLDING HAS BECOME an integral part of Spain's urban landscape. So have construction crews, churning up clouds of dust and dirt. On almost every major street in cities like Madrid and Barcelona, buildings shrouded in green plastic resemble giant packages waiting to be unwrapped. SCAFFOLDING HAS BECOME an inte... |
352924_4 | CORPORTE DESIGN THAT STAYS ONTHE SAFE SIDE | pride in its research being at the very cutting edge of technology; if it did not do so, the company would never have been able to hold its own in the technological revolution of the last generation, and would have sunk rapidly to the status of a has-been. Yet I.B.M.'s architecture is a few steps behind: the company is... |
353133_2 | Communities Are Recycling Tires in Clean-Energy Program | value to the buyer'' than traditional fuel, at one-third to one-half of the cost. Integrated Tire has the sole tire-collection permit in New Jersey because ''we have a market,'' Mr. Battaglia said, adding that the company has ''back orders for 115,000 tons of tires,'' representing 11.5 million passenger tires, from cem... |
352949_3 | Some Computer Conversation Is Changing Human Contact | retirees and Go players. Over the computer they get acquainted, trade anecdotes and exchange and debate ideas. The growth of these electronic communities is difficult to measure precisely, but by all accounts the increase has been striking in the last few years. At work or at home, there are several million Americans n... |
352893_3 | Boston Ballet Opens a Door, Illuminating a Bygone Russia | the air - are ruins. In the distance a leaning cylinder is part Tower of Pisa, part Russian Constructivist tower. Act II, the first lakeside scene, makes this tower - Rothbart's castle - larger in a watery Nordic environment; turbulent clouds meld into the icy floes below. These first two acts are so terrific that the ... |
350252_0 | Buenos Aires Journal; Billions Flow to Dam (and Billions Down Drain?) | LEAD: A giant hydroelectric power project conceived in a time of big dreams and easy credit for Argentina has turned into a nightmare of delays and cost overruns that President Carlos Saul Menem says make it ''a monument to corruption.'' A giant hydroelectric power project conceived in a time of big dreams and easy cre... |
350213_0 | In Colorado, a Furor Over Computer Mail | LEAD: For more than a year, the Mayor of Colorado Springs read the electronic messages about city business that members of the City Council sent to one another from computers at their homes. For more than a year, the Mayor of Colorado Springs read the electronic messages about city business that members of the City Cou... |
356405_6 | CHILDREN OF CRACK: ARE THE SCHOOLS READY? - A SPECIAL REPORT: Crack Babies Turn 5, and Schools Brace | developed a detailed booklet outlining teaching strategies. They suggest that these children stay with the same teacher for more than a year, to help them trust adults, and that teachers work with a team of psychologists, social workers, and doctors, as well as with parents. Problem of Inattention Many children are wha... |
352041_0 | Lufthansa in Talks On DHL Holding | LEAD: The West German state-controlled airline, Lufthansa A.G., said it and other parties were discussing the possibility of taking a minority stake in DHL Worldwide Express Inc., the courier service. A Lufthansa spokesman declined to provide any further details. He also would not identify the other parties involved in... |
352001_3 | Personal Health | They include a delayed reaction of the clitoris to stimulation, delayed or absent vaginal lubrication, lessened expansion of the vagina during intercourse, and fewer and sometimes painful uterine contractions during orgasm. All these changes reflect alterations in sensory stimulation and blood flow. Another common prob... |
352053_6 | A Phone in Your Pocket? Tryout Set for New Service | found quickly enough if the handset is in a fast-moving car. The new systems must hunt faster and more often because they use many more transmitters. J. Shelby Bryan, the chairman and chief executive of Millicom, said urban auto traffic sometimes moved fast enough to create such a problem for users of his company's sys... |
352130_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | the earth's ozone layer. A1 News analysis: Israel has emerged as the beneficiary of changing times in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, while the Arab world confronts the losses. A6 U.S. and Iran in accord on 2,500 small claims A6 A murder trial in Johannesburg is focusing unsolicited new attention on Winnie Mandela... |
355694_0 | E.P.A. Draft Report Cites Studies Linking Cancer to Electricity | LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a draft report that says there may be links between cancer and electromagnetic fields created by common electrical current, an official of the agency said. The Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a draft report that says there may be links between cancer a... |
357150_2 | Luyendyk Wins in Fastest Indianapolis 500 Ever | Penske-Chevy, said the tires provided by Goodyear, the exclusive supplier here, weren't faulty but were just too soft for today's weather. ''If we'd've had this kind of weather early in the month, we'd've been on the backup compound,'' Mayer said. He was alluding to a slightly harder tire that Goodyear had available if... |
357159_3 | Fake Fat: Another Sweet Deal? | is trying to establish a brand identity for Simplesse just as it did for its sweetener, the world's first ''branded ingredient.'' Pursuading Consumers The strategy is designed to pursuade consumers to ask for the brand rather than the chemical, generic name. The generic name for Nutrasweet is aspartame, a combination o... |
351792_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | 48 years ago to set in motion the Nazi genocide. A12 The fight against AIDS in Romania has been hampered by a lack of equipment and slowed by a sluggish bureaucracy. Children, concentrated largely in the country's crowded and unsanitary orphanages, have been hit hardest by the disease. A10 A revolution of attitudes in ... |
351776_1 | Shrinking the Old-Tire Mountain: Progress Slow | landfills, in processes that burn tires as a fuel in place of coal, oil or wood, and in breaking up old tires into raw materials. Those materials can then be used in new rubber and plastic products or as substitutes for concrete in road paving. The problem: none of the recycling methods have been attractive enough econ... |
351718_5 | More in China Willingly Rear Just One Child | women now travel away from their hometowns when they become pregnant, and give birth without ever registering their baby. And because of the decline in control, it is also possible for women to bribe doctors to remove their intrauterine devices, or IUD's, the most common form of birth control in China. Misguided Short-... |
349830_0 | Brazil Blows Up Miners' Airstrip, Pressing Its Drive to Save Indians | LEAD: Launching an operation to destroy 110 airstrips built by gold miners in Indian lands, Brazilian Army explosives experts dynamited a dirt strip in the northern Amazon jungle today. Launching an operation to destroy 110 airstrips built by gold miners in Indian lands, Brazilian Army explosives experts dynamited a di... |
349896_1 | New Treatment Found to Reduce Bone Fractures From Osteoporosis | in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Tommy Storm, of Sundby Hospital in Copenhagen, and his colleagues reported that women who were treated with etidronate disodium and calcium for three years had far fewer fractures of the spine than women who took a dummy drug and calcium for comparison. ''I think it is an imp... |
349889_0 | World's Legislators Urge 'Marshall Plan' For the Environment | LEAD: Legislators from 42 countries called today for a ''global Marshall plan'' under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment. Legislators from 42 countries called today for a ''global Marshall plan'' under which industrial nations would help... |
349810_0 | Guilin Journal; China's Arms Wide Open for Army From Taiwan | LEAD: For years, Chinese have treated Western visitors to a glimpse of the Li River, which spills through a landscape of jutting mountains and misty skies that have inspired poets and painters for centuries. For years, Chinese have treated Western visitors to a glimpse of the Li River, which spills through a landscape ... |
357801_2 | Law Allows Banks to Sell Insurance | by a Citicorp unit in South Dakota in the 1980's, even though the state had passed laws to allow the practice. Bankers see insurance the agency business as a low-risk activity that could be profitable. Agents generally earn a fee of 5 to 10 percent of the insurance premium. Mr. Sebrik of Chase said he would not rule ou... |
357846_1 | Teach for America | the idea into her senior thesis. (She received an A.) Then she wrote to big corporations. Union Carbide gave her office space in its Manhattan headquarters; its chairman, Robert Kennedy, was the first recruit on Teach for America's board. Mobil Oil gave a $26,000 seed grant. Since last summer, Ms. Kopp has collected mo... |
357721_0 | Sugar Prices Off on Report Of Production and Surplus | LEAD: Sugar futures prices fell yesterday for the second consecutive day on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York in reaction to a report of increased sugar production and a supply surplus. Sugar futures prices fell yesterday for the second consecutive day on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York ... |
323641_3 | Headaches in China for Investors | dwindle since the crackdown. From January to June last year, there were 133 new projects worth $260 million by American investors, a Western diplomat estimated. The diplomat said that from July to December, only 66 projects worth $150 million were started, and most of these were begun before the crackdown. The first ha... |
323591_0 | The Editorial Notebook; Lessons of Nuclear Winter; Impassioned Experts Blow Hot and Cold | LEAD: The horrors of nuclear war are hard to exaggerate. That hasn't stopped proponents of the ''nuclear winter'' theory, who announced in 1983 that the soot from a large nuclear war would blot out sunlight and create weeks of icy darkness. The result could be ''global environmental changes sufficient to cause the exti... |
323575_0 | Japanese Bid Seen in Brazil | LEAD: A group of Japanese businessmen has offered to buy Brazil's $115 billion in foreign debt in exchange for mining rights for gold deposits in the Amazon, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo said today. A group of Japanese businessmen has offered to buy Brazil's $115 billion in foreign debt in exchange for mining rights... |
323635_8 | After the Boom, Tough Times for Dance | possible to have a successful dance career outside New York City. Dancers have been the poorest paid performers in the arts, a fact borne out by the 1980 census, which found dancers' salaries to be 45 percent below the average for all artists. But the standard of living has risen somewhat for dancers performing in majo... |
329051_2 | Japan Backs Cheney's Troop-Cut Plan | American forces. In response, Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama was said to have called the American proposals ''prudent and appropriate.'' But Japanese officials said Mr. Kaifu and Mr. Nakayama stressed that it was premature to think that East Asian and the Pacific were places of defused tension like Europe. In a larger ... |
329062_0 | Monsanto Shares Up Sharply On Hopes for Fat Substitute | LEAD: Even though frozen desserts made with Nutrasweet's new fat substitute will be in grocers' freezers this summer, the Monsanto Company subsidiary is unlikely to find itself gorging on profits for years. Even though frozen desserts made with Nutrasweet's new fat substitute will be in grocers' freezers this summer, t... |
325472_11 | THE SEARCH FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME | be operated in conjunction with the telescope, each capable of making different but somewhat overlapping observations. Two of these will be cameras, which will produce the mission's most tangible results. The wide-field-and-planetary camera developed at the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion L... |
325567_1 | 40-Year Countdown Is Seen for Environment | the next 40 years. ''If we have not succeeded by 2030,'' he said, ''environmental deterioration and economic decline will be feeding on each other, causing social structures to disintegrate.'' The report suggests elements of an economy that could be sustained over the long run. In general, these include cutting the gro... |
325286_1 | All About/The Tire Industry; Decreasing Demand and Global Competition Propel Consolidation | the smaller Cooper Tire Company remains independent. Goodyear, the leader for decades, is contending for second place with the Bridgestone Corporation of Japan, which two years ago bought Firestone. Next come West German Continental A.G., which bought General Tire; Pirelli S.p.A. of Italy (Armstrong), and the Sumitomo ... |
325714_0 | Room Service at Home (and It's Healthy) | LEAD: TWO former General Foods executives and a personal fitness trainer think they know what the future of food technology holds - and they have formed a company based on their belief. TWO former General Foods executives and a personal fitness trainer think they know what the future of food technology holds - and they... |
322733_1 | Congressman in Sex Case Bitterly Attacks Critics | motivated attacks by the ''white media'' and ''co-consipiring government agents.'' He described the three Congressional colleagues who had asked the committee to investgate the ethics complaint against him as ''self-appointed guardians of personal morality'' and questioned their ''sensitivity to racism.'' The ethics co... |
324505_0 | Reviews/Theater; A Cool Medea Lashes Back At the Man Who Jilted Her | LEAD: Among the classic Greek tragedies, Euripides' ''Medea'' probably strikes the brightest sparks in contemporary imaginations. Its story of a woman who lashes back at the man who betrayed her after she had saved his life and engineered his ascent to power is one of the most potent revenge fantasies of all time. Amon... |
323972_2 | Field Biologist With Daunting Mission: Saving a Corner of the World | gazelles, blue sheep and, in the higher elevations, snow leopards. Some of the animals are found nowhere else on earth. Dr. Schaller, who is the only Western biologist working in the region, disclosed last week in New York that he and Chinese officials had agreed to create in the Qian Tang what they say will be the wor... |
323968_2 | Bioengineering Points to Better Rice Plant | already be used as an analytical tool that will speed up the process of conventional genetic breeding by enabling scientists to crossbreed plants in half the ordinary time. The map enables breeders to identify an individual plant containing a specific trait without waiting for the plant to mature. With the regeneration... |
326866_0 | Plan to Free Tropical Trade | LEAD: World trade negotiators agreed today on a plan of action to liberalize trade in the $100 billion tropical products market, ending months of stalemate. World trade negotiators agreed today on a plan of action to liberalize trade in the $100 billion tropical products market, ending months of stalemate. The agreemen... |
326805_0 | U.S. Is Decades Behind Europe In Contraceptives, Experts Report | LEAD: A panel of experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences said today that the United States had fallen decades behind Europe in the development of contraceptives and called for Government action to stimulate research on birth control. A panel of experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences said toda... |
326805_3 | U.S. Is Decades Behind Europe In Contraceptives, Experts Report | to prescribe the pills to nursing mothers. The new contraceptives offer the possibility of long-term action and far lower, safer doses of hormones than current birth control pills, the report said. Sterilization Is Most Popular About 95 percent of sexually active women of reproductive age, 15 to 44 years old, have used... |
330332_5 | As Guard Changes in Brazil, the Rain Forest Loses a Protector | Mesquita credits with cutting the amount of forest burned by 30 percent, from 50,000 square miles in 1988. ''Last year, for the first time in years, no Amazon airstrip was closed from the smoke of forest fires,'' he said. Mr. Mesquita hopes the World Bank will shortly approve a $150 million three-year loan for environm... |
328199_0 | Black Studies Meets Classics Department | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The African contribution to Egyptian and Greek civilization is an idea to be welcomed (''Africa's Claim to Egypt's History Grows More Insistent,'' The Week in Review, Feb. 4). Those of us who have been unwaveringly committed to the vitality of the Greco-Hebraic elements in our civili... |
328335_0 | Scientists Confront An Alarming Mystery: The Vanishing Frog | LEAD: A panel of experts met here today to assess an alarming number of reports that amphibians are rapidly disappearing from many ponds, rivers, mountains and rain forests around the world. A panel of experts met here today to assess an alarming number of reports that amphibians are rapidly disappearing from many pond... |
328341_2 | Putting Disabled In Touch | and Rehabilitation maintains what may be the most extensive data base of information describing hardware, software, organizations and publications for disabled people. Every authorized Apple dealer can gain access to it electronically on behalf of customers. Apple also coordinates a nationwide network of neighborhood c... |
328352_0 | Making the New Serve the Old | LEAD: New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote today on a proposed 12-story office building in the South Street Seaport Historic District in lower Manhattan. The vote raises a large issue: whether the Landmarks Commission and the city will embrace a balanced approach to development in hist... |
328336_0 | Study Hints Of Harm In Heart Operations | LEAD: PRELIMINARY results of an international study show that coronary bypass surgery produces subtle, long-lasting impairment of mental performance in nearly one in five people who undergo the operation, researchers say. PRELIMINARY results of an international study show that coronary bypass surgery produces subtle, l... |
325771_0 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; Recycled Paper Gains Favor In Move to Avert New Laws | LEAD: IN the last year, the newspaper industry has shifted from having a relatively mild interest in using recycled newsprint to a near obsession with increasing the recycled material in the paper they use. IN the last year, the newspaper industry has shifted from having a relatively mild interest in using recycled new... |
325851_0 | Collor Receptive to Criticism Of Brazil's Policy in Amazon | LEAD: Facing foreign criticism of Brazil's treatment of the Amazon region and the Indians living in its rain forest, Brazil's President-elect has been surprisingly conciliatory. Facing foreign criticism of Brazil's treatment of the Amazon region and the Indians living in its rain forest, Brazil's President-elect has be... |
327984_5 | Conable's World Bank: Finding Fault (and Praise) | personal friendship with President Bush, with whom he served for four years on the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Conable is also close to Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d, who as Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, picked Mr. Conable for the job. The current harmony between the Bush Administration and ... |
327930_3 | Our Greatest Asset: Educated Workers | York at Stony Brook, and Polytechnic University, both in Brooklyn and in Farmingdale. We asked faculty members we knew to recommend their best students. We built a team consisting of the best students, a highly motivated, dedicated group. We also taught as adjunct faculty at all the schools named above and once again m... |
327866_1 | 'The Fate of the Forest' | geopolitical vision. The reviewer chides us for calling the Sarney regime, now ended, a nominal democracy. For the inhabitants of the Amazon it has most certainly been such. The regional plans for the Amazon during the presidency of Jose Sarney were developed in secret. Other projects - dams, roads, vast industrial pro... |
327981_1 | The Quest for Synthetic Blood | one true substitute has yet won Federal approval, and many once-plausible candidates have been discarded. Nevertheless, commercial research is now running at an all-time high, with at least a dozen firms working on products they say have commercial possibilities. Last December, for example, the Food and Drug Administra... |
327800_0 | Children's Cancer Tied to British A-Plant Workers | LEAD: Researchers have found a higher risk of leukemia in the offspring of men who worked at a nuclear plant on the northwest coast of England than among the children of men who worked at other jobs in the area. Researchers have found a higher risk of leukemia in the offspring of men who worked at a nuclear plant on th... |
322502_0 | Cloth Diapers, Brought to Your Door | LEAD: ''THE past year has been a boon for diaper services,'' said John A. Shiffert, the executive director of the National Association of Diaper Services, a trade group based in Philadelphia. Why? ''Because disposable diapers are a symbol of the solid-waste crisis,'' Mr. Shiffert said. ''Cotton diapers are the original... |
322418_1 | Heart Group Begins Food Labeling Amid Outcry | former director of the F.D.A.'s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, termed the Heartguide program ''a reflection of the anarchy that exists in food labeling and health claims.'' The program is the latest in a series of health claims that food producers have made since 1985, when the F.D.A. dropped its opposit... |
322312_0 | Now New York Mass Transit Practices Height Discrimination | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Though the news media did a commendable job in publicizing a proposed 25-cent fare increase on New York City subways and buses, and perhaps played a minor role in keeping the fare increase to an outrageous 15 percent, the news media failed to mention the changes regarding children ri... |
322385_2 | Cuba Accuses U.S. of Firing on Freighter | board and the request is granted without incident. The use of force is rare. The last time a Coast Guard crew fired on a vessel was in December 1988. Gene Maestras, a Coast Guard spokesman, said the Coast Guard had every reason to believe that the freighter was Panamanian. The ship's master told a Coast Guard captain b... |
322911_2 | Beliefs | abortion laws. In contrast to that decision, which largely removed abortion from the reach of Congress or state legislatures, European courts, whether by choice or from constitutional tradition, left the abortion question in the lawmakers' hands. In any case, Ms. Glendon says, the result was not the chaos feared in the... |
322938_5 | Company News; U.S. Biotechnology Leader to Sell Swiss 60% Stake | by selling minority stakes to larger companies or arranging joint ventures with them. Genentech was founded in 1976 by Mr. Swanson, a venture capitalist who has headed the company since its inception, and Herbert Boyer, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco and a developer of the gene-splicing te... |
328774_2 | Outside China's Cities, the Crackdown and the Outrage Are Watered Down | arrested, and lives and jobs were disrupted by the subsequent wave of political indoctrination as well as by the presence of martial-law troops. Despite the Government's public-relations efforts, such as the ''love the people month'' proclaimed by the police, the hostility to the leadership in Beijing seems as great as... |
328819_0 | France Selling Nuclear Plant To Pakistan After Long Ban | LEAD: France ended a 14-year ban on sales of nuclear energy to Pakistan today, announcing a commercial venture that would set up a nuclear power plant in the country. France ended a 14-year ban on sales of nuclear energy to Pakistan today, announcing a commercial venture that would set up a nuclear power plant in the c... |
328728_1 | Norbert Schimmel, Collector, Dies; Specialist in Antiquities Was 85 | Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Near Eastern cultures. 'He Did It Without Fanfare' ''As a collector he was an inspiration to the antiquities field, in the sense that he quietly and devotedly promoted the appreciation of ancient art through sage collecting and through the generosity he manifested to several collect... |
330469_0 | Review/Television; Halting Time's Ravages So Art May Endure | LEAD: The ravages inflicted by time, nature and man on some of the world's most treasured monuments and works of art have received belated and somewhat panicky attention in recent years. If you've wondered what is going on behind the scaffoldings and tarpulins that keep tourists from seeing what they came to see, tune ... |
330542_0 | Catholic Group Urges Sweeping Change in Church | LEAD: A group of Roman Catholics from Chicago is seeking 100,000 signatures on an appeal for major changes in the Catholic Church. They would include the ordination of women and married people to the priesthood, widespread consultation with believers in developing church teaching about sexuality and the participation o... |
330615_3 | The Easily Handled Phyllo Pastry Challenges Its Puffy Rival | Mr. Pierre-Jerome said. He also uses phyllo to make purses filled with snails and cups to hold fennel-flavored ratatouille. Alfred Portale, the chef at the Gotham Bar and Grill in New York, also finds it more successful than puff pastry for en croute dishes. ''It is thinner and has a more delicate crust,'' he said. Fiv... |
330570_3 | Lenders Say Managua Has a Long Road Back | economy is based on exporting commodities, mainly bananas, coffee, sugar, cotton, beef, shellfish, sesame, forest products and a little gold. It imports machinery, consumer goods and petroleum. Until now the gap has been filled by credits from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and some aid from Nordic countries. A So... |
325095_0 | U.S. and 3 Latin Lands Agree On Plan to Fight Drug Traffic | LEAD: The United States and three South American countries have reached tentative agreement on a plan to cooperate in combating drug traffic throughout the hemisphere, Administration officials said tonight. The United States and three South American countries have reached tentative agreement on a plan to cooperate in c... |
329606_3 | TO BE BETTER, THINK HARDER | of moral philosophy may be called vices, aware though I am that the author is not vicious and that only the moral duty of candor requires such stern evaluation: He gives almost no biographical information. We are told at the start that at the age of 16 or 17 he was distressed by the sight of the unemployed in England. ... |
329725_6 | Business Graduates: Shying Away From Wall Street | been slashing management layers for a decade - for middle managers, a disastrous trend for middle managers, but for young M.B.A.'s, a quicker chance at a job with meaningful responsibilities and less competition for the top spots. Simultaneously, companies have been expanding their international operations at a rapid r... |
329900_1 | China Acts to Restrict Study Abroad | been one of the most remarkable aspects of China's former open-door policy. The basic change in the new rules is a requirement that university graduates work for five years before they go abroad to study, although students with relatives overseas can pay for an exemption from the work requirement. The regulations seem ... |
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