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329724_6 | All About/Computers Talking to Computers; Fast Modems: All Dressed Up, With Only a Slow Way to Go | Cowell said Europe is likely to be first to offer a digital telephone network, followed by the Japanese; the United States is likely to be the last country in the industrialized world to offer the service. Modem makers also are racing to adapt to facsimile technology, which has hurt their sales. And no wonder: Slipping... |
329883_1 | A PASSENGER FERRY IS HIT OFF LEBANON | army troops loyal to Gen. Michel Aoun. The identity of the gunboat that carried out the dawn attack was uncertain. The Cypriot captain of the ferry reportedly told Lloyd's of London that it was a Syrian naval vessel. But a port official in Cyprus would not identify it. One passenger said the gunboat had no identificati... |
329726_0 | 'Smart' Tires That Read the Road | LEAD: One way to boost a car's mileage is to increase tire pressure, which reduces rolling resistance. But increased tire pressure means a harsher ride on uneven surfaces. Cornering ability suffers as well. One way to boost a car's mileage is to increase tire pressure, which reduces rolling resistance. But increased ti... |
329931_0 | Conflicting Pressures Shape The Future of Brazil Indians | LEAD: RETREATING from encroaching bulldozers and chainsaws, some 45 enclaves of Indians survive in the depths of Brazil's Amazon basin, shunning contact with the 20th century. ''We don't know what language they speak, what their culture is,'' said Sidnei Possuelo, an official of Funai, Brazil's Indian protection servic... |
323274_1 | HUGE NEW RESERVE FOR TIBET WILDLIFE | of the New York Zoological Society. Dr. Schaller, one of the world's foremost field biologists and conservationists, described the agreement in New York last week. The letter of intent is preliminary. Much remains to be worked out, Dr. Schaller said, but the fact that the letter has been signed ''means, really, that bo... |
323346_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-26 INTERNATIONAL/3-26 The Communist monopoly on power in the Soviet Union would end under proposals endorsed by President Mikhail Gorbachev on the eve of a critical meeting of the Communist Party leadership. Page 1 An Armenian-Azerbaijani truce was negotiated by leaders from three Baltic separatis... |
323363_1 | Ex-Offenders Aid World of Disabled | a Thug' ''When I first came here, I didn't feel comfortable around the kids, but now I look forward to seeing them a lot,'' said Alfred, who is a member of a Crips youth gang in the nearby city of Compton. ''I was used to being a thug on the streets, but now when my home-boys come around and expect me to do that kind o... |
323436_2 | IN THE EMERGENCY WARD OF THE MIND | herself for a while, teaching at the University of Oxford, but it didn't satisfy her. I get the impression that she regards most philosophy as a dry sort of fiction and most fiction as a wet sort of philosophy. In fact she has said that good art is philosophy swimming, or philosophy drowning. It may be too that fiction... |
323354_1 | Tribes Get Right to 50% of Colombian Amazon | access is by river.'' The Amazon covers a third of the nation's territory. With the latest addition coming in October, Colombia's President, Virgilio Barco Vargas, has tripled the legally recognized Indian area in the Amazon to cover 69,000 square miles. An additional 23,000 square miles of the Amazon is reserved for c... |
323197_13 | WHEN A PREGNANT WOMAN DRINKS | this age. These shortcomings may add up to a limited ability to learn and to learn from experience. These kids ''have a unique flavor among the learning disabled,'' observes Dr. Claren. ''They seem to be really untrainable.'' Anne Cutliffe remembers her daughter, at 6, making such slow progress in reading that her teac... |
328547_0 | Scientists Report Producing Genetically Engineered Trees | LEAD: Scientists reported today that they had developed the world's first genetically engineered trees: poplars designed to be grown on large plantations for energy production. Scientists reported today that they had developed the world's first genetically engineered trees: poplars designed to be grown on large plantat... |
328464_0 | Sugar Policy Is Debated | LEAD: Members of the House Ways and Means Committee called today for revision of the United States sugar program, saying the current system costs taxpayers and sugar-exporting nations billions of dollars each year. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee called today for revision of the United States sugar progra... |
328601_3 | Brazil's Cooling Alternative To All That Coffee? Fruit Juice | juice is the favorite with determined weight watchers. But a glass of orange juice has 175 calories and cashew juice, from the small, yellowish fruit of the tree that also produces the cashew nut, has about 110 calories. To catch the late-night weekend crowd, Mr. Alves's juice counters stay open until 4 A.M. on Fridays... |
328428_2 | Economic Scene; Fiercer Rivals, Friendlier Skies | as well, increasing the number of competitors on the route from two to four. The report acknowledges that competition is ever more dependent on airline access to major airports. Not every big-league carrier needs a hub in, say, Atlanta. But every carrier with a national route system does need a few gates to link Atlant... |
328145_0 | Estimate of Cancer Peril In Air Travel Is Raised | LEAD: The risk of fatal cancer from radiation in airliners is 17 times greater than reported last week in a Government study, the Department of Transportation has acknowledged after other scientists found errors. The risk of fatal cancer from radiation in airliners is 17 times greater than reported last week in a Gover... |
328067_1 | Bidding for the Best and the Poorest | eating into scholarship money at some colleges. Do major colleges and universities conspire to set the price of tuition and financial aid? The Justice Department's antitrust division has been exploring that question for months, looking at the practices of about 60 institutions. The costly legal fees are eating into sch... |
328116_1 | Londonderry, Burying Strife, Starts to Rebuild | Edward Daly, the city's Catholic Bishop. Nevertheless, there are signs that divisions between Protestants and Catholics, while not disappearing, are narrowing here in Northern Ireland's second-largest city. Belfast, the largest city in the province, is more deeply divided than Londonderry, and historically it has lacke... |
328119_1 | Castro's Last Stand | kept busy an officer corps likely to turn against him. Last year, he executed Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa and other potential coup leaders on trumped-up drug charges. We may one day see, at the trial of the deposed strongman of Panama, how Mr. Castro's regime profited from that drug trade; we will also learn how Cuban fishermen... |
326098_1 | Egypt Asks Help for New Alexandria Library | President Francois Mitterrand of France was there, and so too was Princess Caroline of Monaco, Queen Sofia of Spain and Queen Noor of Jordan. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan of the United Arab Emirates led dignitaries from Arabia, and pledged $20 million toward the project. Saudi Arabia pledged $3 million. As the cel... |
326180_1 | U.S. and Soviets Confident as Trade Talks Open | to a good, fast start,'' said a senior official at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, speaking at the end of the first day of negotiations. The United States team is being led by the Trade Representative, Carla A. Hills, and the Deputy Trade Representative, Julius L. Katz, and includes officials from... |
326272_0 | Brazil Fire Threatens Refuge Of Monkey | LEAD: A forest fire has burned about 30 percent of a Brazilian reserve that represents the last stand for a monkey species on the verge of extinction, the golden lion tamarin. A forest fire has burned about 30 percent of a Brazilian reserve that represents the last stand for a monkey species on the verge of extinction,... |
326554_0 | Colleges Tightening Discipline As Disruptive Behavior Grows | LEAD: Alarmed by an evident increase in violent and disruptive behavior, universities are reviewing codes of student conduct and tightening their disciplinary procedures. In the process, they are running into legal quandaries over how to treat students who have psychological disabilities but whose antisocial acts threa... |
330062_0 | Plan Is Offered to Stabilize the World Birth Rate | LEAD: In a country-by-country report made public today, the Population Crisis Committee estimates that the world population can be stabilized in the 21st century only if countries make birth control universally available by 2000 at a cost of about $10.5 billion a year. In a country-by-country report made public today, ... |
324232_1 | Eating to Heal: Mapping Out New Frontiers | do, like raising blood pressure or cholesterol levels, big food companies are increasingly developing and marketing products with what advertisers call ''pro-active'' health claims, extolling specific health enhancements. ''Pro-active health claims are the hottest food-selling tool today,'' said Martin Friedman, the ed... |
324233_1 | A Catalogue Of the Exotic For Kitchen Or Garden | best tomato for paste (San Marzano); he waxes poetic about Sequoia beans (''a visual as well as a culinary prize'') and Sweet Genovese basil (''the best pesto basil we have found''). ''They are the only market gardeners who have a seed company, which means they've grown and tested hundreds and hundreds of different typ... |
324085_1 | As Shipments of Soviet Grain Lag, Cuba Reduces Daily Bread Ration | made no secret of its hostility to President Gorbachev's policies, announced that the daily bread ration for Cubans living outside Havana would be cut starting Feb. 1 from 100 grams to 80 grams, or less than 3 ounces. In Havana, where bread is not rationed, the price was raised by about 30 percent. The price of eggs wa... |
324213_0 | Cuba Said to Cut Rations | LEAD: The Soviet Union has fallen seriously behind on grain shipments to Cuba, forcing the Castro Government to cut the bread ration and increase some food prices, Western diplomats and other experts say. Page A10. The Soviet Union has fallen seriously behind on grain shipments to Cuba, forcing the Castro Government to... |
378081_1 | How to Stop Spreading Nuclear Arms | also convert peaceful nuclear facilities to non-peaceful purposes. The Nonproliferation Treaty, signed in 1968, was designed to forestall the spread of nuclear warheads while fostering the development of nuclear power. It has had mixed success. Since 1970, when the treaty took effect, India, Israel, Pakistan and South ... |
378052_5 | Town Astir As Critics Link Cancer To Electricity | John M. Brogden, a general surgeon who is Guilford's director of health. Mr. Hemstock said that neither he nor Mr. Brodeur had called state officials in Hartford because Dr. Brogden, in a telephone conversation in January, ''shut me off cold.'' Dr. Brogden denies having spurned him. Most Families Won't Talk In succeedi... |
375835_4 | The Niagara of Philosophy | after all. It is possible for those who have the right role models. St. Thomas Aquinas, a synthesizer of traditions, is one such role model. Mr. MacIntyre argues that three things are needed to be able to make judgments about and among philosophical systems. First, there must be a sympathetic awareness of rival traditi... |
375601_1 | The Hard Thing About Cutting Infant Mortality Is Educating Mothers | revolutionary. But to be effective, they must be applied more widely, the White House Task Force on Infant Mortality said. ''If we just delivered routine clinical care and social services to pregnant women, we could prevent one-quarter to one-third of infant mortality,'' Dr. Ezra C. Davidson Jr., president of the Ameri... |
375697_5 | When 'Nonrefundable' Air Tickets Are Refundable | for future travel, ''but if that's not good enough,'' Doug Miller, a spokesman for Northwest, said, ''we'll consider the refund on a case-by-case basis.'' Northwest requires death certificates or doctors' notes and tries to verify documents. The first step in obtaining a refund is to call the reservations number: 800-2... |
375842_6 | Bad Genes | And we are notoriously bad at predicting which problems will arise as technology barrels forward. Indeed, the fact that most of us snort in derision at the notion that parents may soon design a perfect Ubermensch child suggests that the real dangers of genetic knowledge are likely once again to catch us by surprise. OU... |
375453_12 | In Grief, Lockerbie Families Are Divided | purpose. Helen Bernstein, who also supports a remembrance day, has been impressed at how people care about what happened, especially after she went shopping recently and returned to her car, which sports a bumper sticker that reads: ''Remember Pan Am 103/Lockerbie - Demand Airport Security.'' There she found a handwrit... |
375794_2 | WITH FUEL PRICES SOARING, MAKE PLANS TO DRIVE FOR ECONOMY | have the engine brought up to spec. And while you're there, or the next time you fill the tank, check tire pressure to make sure it is what the owner's manual recommends. Tires are important to economy as well as to safety, and rolling resistance steals fuel efficiency. You can improve mileage slightly by using higher ... |
375753_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | join Mideast armada 10 U.S. group, including girl, allowed to leave Baghdad 13 Sanctions on Iraq appear effective as neighbors block trade 13 The West's reliance on the U.S. to lead the response to Iraq demonstrates that, in the words of one NATO official, ''only the United States can play the role of global policeman.... |
375753_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | jubilant supporters, the Mayor gave no hint about his future political plans. 1 Trial leaves queasy calm 22 Jurors promised not to discuss their votes 23 A second kind of surrogate mother, one who bears no genetic relationship with the fetus she carries, is becoming especially popular with couples that cannot conceive.... |
375460_6 | Lockerbie Aftermath: Split Among Families | commission, which was headed by Ann Dore McLaughlin, a former United States Labor Secretary, also proved false a general belief that airline and Federal Aviation Administration security measures were tightened after the bombing, the report said. ''Pan Am's apparent security lapses and F.A.A.'s failure to enforce its ow... |
377194_0 | Patents; A New Bacteria Strain To Produce Proteins | LEAD: The Repligen Corporation, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass., obtained a patent this week for a new strain of bacteria that was genetically engineered to produce valuable proteins more efficiently. The Repligen Corporation, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass., obtained a patent this week for a ne... |
377473_0 | Letter: On Puerto Rico; Forests Suffer for the Drug War | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Preaching to Brazil From Hawaii'' (editorial, July 24) places the blame for destruction of Puerto Rico's tropical forests on apathy -the passivity of the Federal and Commonwealth administrations in the defense of our natural heritage. What endangers the wildlife of Puerto Rico, how... |
377448_2 | Oil Shock Squeezing Third World | or more in Brazil's annual oil bill, while for the poorest African nations, it could mean less money to buy crucial imports to build industry or improve living standards. Secondary Effects These nations will suffer not only the direct effect of higher prices but also a cascade of secondary effects. The jump in oil pric... |
377429_1 | Emance Journal; Welcomed in France, Albanians Reply: 'America' | so only those with relatives in America have much chance of making it there. ''There's no evidence these guys were being persecuted,'' an American official said. ''They just wanted out.'' Already, though, many are impatient to leave France. On Wednesday, 50 young Albanians housed at a school here demonstrated outside t... |
377249_0 | CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF: France; Paris Stressing Independent Role | LEAD: While strongly backing United Nations sanctions against the Baghdad Government, France has quietly distanced itself from the American response to the Iraqi crisis, apparently in the hope of protecting its influence and interests in the rest of the Arab world. While strongly backing United Nations sanctions agains... |
373002_0 | Besieged Amazon Unionists Say Phoned Death Threats Are Collect | LEAD: Osmarino Amancio Rodrigues, secretary of the National Council of Rubber Tappers, said here today that he and his associates were getting phoned death threats collect. Osmarino Amancio Rodrigues, secretary of the National Council of Rubber Tappers, said here today that he and his associates were getting phoned dea... |
372956_1 | Prisoners in France Protest Freeing of Pro-Iran Terrorist | pro-Iranian terrorist who was serving a life sentence on murder charges has touched off a wave of protests in French jails, with prisoners complaining that they were not given similar treatment. The protests, which began Sunday night, have so far affected 15 jails all over France. Most of the demonstrations have ended ... |
376253_4 | Congress Acts to Admit More Skilled Immigrants | jobs will be in professional, technical and sales fields requiring the highest education and skill levels,'' it said. Under current law, the United States annually admits about 23,000 immigrants chosen on the basis of their job skills. Demetrios G. Papademetriou, director of immigration policy and research at the Labor... |
376350_0 | Loss Posted At Turner Broadcasting | LEAD: Turner Broadcasting System Inc. said today that it lost $44 million on the Goodwill Games, which caused the company to post a second-quarter loss of $8.3 million. Turner Broadcasting System Inc. said today that it lost $44 million on the Goodwill Games, which caused the company to post a second-quarter loss of $8... |
380225_1 | Civil War in Liberia Threatening To Divide West African Neighbors | electing not to join the five-nation effort spearheaded by Nigeria, the richest and most powerful country in the region. The five-country force was assembled after leaders of the 16-member West African economic community endorsed the sending of troops to try to halt the civil war, in which at least 5,000 people, mostly... |
378839_0 | Currents; A New Life Is Found For Dairy Byproducts | LEAD: MATHEW RUBIN, a Vermonter who is an engineer by training and an environmentalist by temperament, has found a good use for cheese products' residue. Concerned about landfill space, he persuaded the Vermont Whey Company of Montpelier to dry the 50,000 pounds of whey byproducts left each day to be reused as garden f... |
375158_2 | Craft Poised to Start Mapping Venus | the General Motors Corporation, is to undergo its first test next Thursday, penetrating the perpetual cloud covering with microwave radio signals and then receiving their reflections off the Venusian surface. A more elaborate test a week later could produce the first detailed images, which could be processed and releas... |
373141_0 | Curionopolis Journal; Is Gold Worth This? Amazon Is Being Poisoned | LEAD: Slipping a .38 revolver into the waistband of his blue jeans, Norberto Neves de Sousa led fellow environmental agents down a forest path to an Amazon gold-mining camp. Slipping a .38 revolver into the waistband of his blue jeans, Norberto Neves de Sousa led fellow environmental agents down a forest path to an Ama... |
373197_0 | Nynex Plans Pedestrian's Mobile Phone | LEAD: The Nynex Corporation plans to spend at least $100 million to build a second cellular telephone network in Manhattan by Christmas of next year, company officials said yesterday. The Nynex Corporation plans to spend at least $100 million to build a second cellular telephone network in Manhattan by Christmas of nex... |
373136_1 | Health; Personal Health | women who are 40 to 49 years old are urged to have a mammogram every year or two, and women 50 and older are urged to have one annually. For women from 35 to 39, a single exam is recommended as a baseline for use as a comparison with results of X-rays after age 40. A Test Often Avoided But all is not sanguine with scre... |
374648_0 | Food Notes | LEAD: Tomato Relish With Clout Tomato Relish With Clout Last year Paul Hagen, a potter who lives in Ogunquit, Me., began commercially producing the green tomato relish he'd been giving away to friends for years. He now calls it Bush Sauce, in honor of the illustrious politician who happens to have a house in Kennebunkp... |
374648_3 | Food Notes | local white peaches, fragile at best but in reasonably good condition for $2.29 a pound. And there is no salad bar. T.L.C. for Salad Makings Summer is salad season. Here are some pointers to remember when preparing salads with grain products, vegetables and lettuces. Always rinse cooked pasta for salad in cold water to... |
374534_3 | A New Mirror Problem for NASA May Stall Vital Weather Satellites | satellite craft by using less maneuvering fuel, and being ready to increase reliance on less capable weather satellites. Advanced satellites have operated continuously since 1974, beaming pictures to earth that appear in newspapers, are viewed on television weather shows and are used by meteorologists to forecast the w... |
374503_3 | A Stronger Future for Composites | the manual system that used an epoxy composite material. ''In the previous method, 75 percent of the cost of the product was labor and every part was laid by hand,'' said Michael L. Basehore, director of engineering for Quadrax. Using the new method, Quadrax can produce the wing part for as little as $150 a pound, comp... |
373701_2 | Low-Income Leap to College | school they will be attending, receiving counseling, taking remedial courses and some college courses and working at a job that is held for them there. Later they will be teamed with business and academic mentors, whose mandate is to help with their studies and social life, and assist them in starting careers. Sean Gre... |
373747_4 | A Dedicated Sentry Guards a Watershed | Energy Regulatory Commission met and decided to postpone an expected decision in order to hold further hearings on the need for the pipeline and its rate structure. Last week, the commission said it will hold its next hearing on the project on Aug. 13; a decision is expected on Sept. 14. ''We are very happy there will ... |
374103_17 | What's so Funny About Washington? | Ann, who is not at home. His three children by a first marriage - after a divorce, he remarried seven years ago -are grown, but Oliphant likes the work space in the attic. For years, Oliphant has drawn cartoons five and six times a week, plus taking on odd jobs like the ill-fated stint at Regardie's. But now he wants t... |
373955_0 | Our Animal Rites | LEAD: The bear had the adenoidal breathing of an elderly man with a passion for cigars and a tendency toward emphysema. My first thought, when I saw him contemplating me through tiny eyes from a rise just beyond the back porch, was that he looked remarkably bearlike, like a close-up shot from a public television nature... |
373692_3 | Travel Advisory | of dollars. On display in the new museum are 90 Schiele designs, watercolors and oil paintings, a hitherto unpublished 1906 sketchbook and old family photos and documents. The museum, at 26 Donaulande, is open daily, except Monday, 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. and 2 to 5 P.M. Admission is about $2.50. Frequent local and express t... |
373928_2 | Amazon City With a Taste Of Wood Fire | the pasture land in the 131-square-mile municipality of Paragominas has been abandoned, said Daniel C. Nepstad, an American biologist who is studying forest regeneration here. Selective logging, in which choice trees are felled leaving most other growth intact, is considered less damaging than clear-cutting by saw or b... |
373921_1 | Technology; Lining Up for Potential Gene Therapy Profits | the Food and Drug Administration for gene therapy is still required, but is expected to follow the advisory committee's recommendations. This paves the way for Dr. Anderson to continue research aimed at developing genetic treatments for disease. It also brings the company he is associated with, GTI Inc. of Gaithersburg... |
374106_0 | Food; Oh Sweet Poison! | LEAD: The first culinary reference to the tomato, as far as I know, is to its use by the Aztecs as an accompaniment, along with squash blossoms and peppers, to their cannibal feasts - a detail observed by one of Cortes's companions and reported by the anthropologist Marvin Harris in his book ''Cannibals and Kings. The ... |
373995_4 | San Francisco Limps In Repair of Damage Months After Quake | quakes. Because of cash-flow problems, the work must be done in phases, port officials said. Ultimately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State Office of Emergency Services are expected to pay for all but the retrofitting. But the city must lay out the money first and apply for reimbursement after each s... |
376702_0 | Conservation Vessel Rams 2 Ships in Pacific | LEAD: A conservationist vessel deliberately rammed two Japanese fishing boats in the North Pacific on Monday, disabling equipment used to recover drift nets, a crew member said. A conservationist vessel deliberately rammed two Japanese fishing boats in the North Pacific on Monday, disabling equipment used to recover dr... |
376723_3 | Return of an Ex-Wonder Drug | cells on which it acts,'' Dr. Weissmann said. ''When activated, these cells produce proteins, which can prevent the replication of a virus.'' Alpha interferon also modulates the immune response, which can contribute to the anti-viral effect, and inhibits cell growth, which explains its role in anti-cancer treatments, h... |
379009_2 | Cancer Rates Are Rising Steeply For Those 55 or Older, Study Says | rates varied widely for the different countries, tumor types and age groups, a few patterns stood out. She said that among people 65 and over in all countries in the study, the rates of brain cancer and multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, increased by 50 percent to 600 percent from 1968 to 1988, depending on... |
379048_2 | F.D.A. Defends Milk-Producing Drug in Study | public relations efforts and attempts to convince physicians and pediatricians that the hormone is safe, according to the board's internal documents obtained by the Foundation on Economic Trends, a Washington-based group that opposes the hormone. $500 Million in Development This week, The Journal of the American Medica... |
376140_0 | As Track Creeps South, Slow-Paced Provence Fights Fast Trains | LEAD: France's growing network of high-speed trains may be the envy of many Europeans, but plans to extend it to the country's southern Provence region are stirring more protests than pride. France's growing network of high-speed trains may be the envy of many Europeans, but plans to extend it to the country's southern... |
376056_0 | Poland's Public Schools to Offer Classes in Religion | LEAD: Despite objections from the nation's tiny Protestant minority and qualms among senior Government officials, Poland's public schools will begin voluntary classes in religious education this fall. Despite objections from the nation's tiny Protestant minority and qualms among senior Government officials, Poland's pu... |
376180_5 | Books of The Times; A Man's Fight for the Rain Forest | before his death, as he leaps up in anger while watching a documentary on the greenhouse effect and the carbon dioxide spewing from the burning forests of the Amazon. ''I'm not protecting the forest because I'm worried that in 20 years the world will be affected,'' he said. ''I'm worried about it because there are thou... |
376019_3 | Antarctica Sheds Ice and Scientists Wonder Why | of further polar ice melting, forecast a rise of roughly 1.5 to 3.5 feet in the next century. Participants at the NASA meeting said much of West Antarctica's marine ice sheet is vulnerable to collapse and dispersal into the oceans when sea water penetrates it, causing it to break into icebergs. The proposed multidiscip... |
376110_2 | Unequal Pay Widespread in U.S. | in New York that paid similar salaries. Today, wage surveys show, the top salary is $110,000 and the bottom $42,000, a spread of $68,000. Electrical engineers in their early 30's, holding jobs in Silicon Valley, in California, earned within $12,000 of each other in 1980. The spread has grown to $25,000, greatly outstri... |
376052_1 | Tucurui Journal; In an Amazon Lake, Underwater Logging Blooms | biggest scandals of the military Government that ruled Brazil until 1985, a group of retired military officers received a contract to clear all timber from the area to be flooded by Tucurui, Brazil's second largest dam. Lacking business experience, the group harvested only 5 percent. Obeying a construction timetable, E... |
379542_0 | Caution: Tomato Season Nearing End | LEAD: WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indulge in enough of them, to become sated now so they will not be missed as sorely after the season? WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indu... |
379753_1 | Security, Passenger Delays and the Gulf Crisis | use in the emergency. The Air Transport Association said it was not allowed to say which airlines were involved and that the impact would depend upon how many were normally in North Atlantic serivce. The best advice for those traveling now is to be early and well prepared. For an international trip on a United States c... |
379540_0 | Caution: Tomato Season Nearing End | LEAD: WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indulge in enough of them, to become sated now so they will not be missed as sorely after the season? WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indu... |
379383_0 | Caution: Tomato Season Nearing End | LEAD: WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indulge in enough of them, to become sated now so they will not be missed as sorely after the season? WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indu... |
379541_0 | Caution: Tomato Season Nearing End | LEAD: WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indulge in enough of them, to become sated now so they will not be missed as sorely after the season? WITH only a few more weeks of summer on the calendar, tomatoes top the shopping list. Is it possible to indu... |
379425_2 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | In this world, conversations are negotiations in which people try to achieve and maintain the upper hand if they can, and protect themselves from others' attempts to put them down and push them around. Life, then, is a contest, a struggle to preserve independence and avoid failure. I, on the other hand, was approaching... |
379674_0 | Taiwan Accused in Deaths of 25 Refugees at Sea | LEAD: Late last month, Chinese fishermen spotted a small oceangoing fishing boat that was stranded and seemed to be in trouble. Upon boarding they discovered the problem: the boat contained 25 corpses and a few more gasping passengers locked in several cabins below deck. Late last month, Chinese fishermen spotted a sma... |
379762_0 | Cuba | LEAD: To the Editor: Cuba's achievements - the eradication of illiteracy, the low rate of infant mortality, increased longevity and free education through the university level - are rarely the focus for reports in the U.S. press. Space is allotted to Cuba, however, when problems occur in Havana or when Cuban expatriate... |
374463_0 | Magellan Nears Venus in Trip to Map Surface | LEAD: AFTER a 15-month voyage from Earth, looping the Sun one and a half times, the Magellan spacecraft is approaching Venus. Scheduled to arrive Friday, it is primed to conduct the first detailed mapping survey of the planet's mysterious surface, which lies beneath a perpetual covering of dense, acrid clouds. AFTER a ... |
374464_7 | For More Drugs, First Test Is Abroad | explaining why he took his device for reaming heart arteries overseas. ''That was impossible here. The preclinical evaluation it had to go through was unbelievably elaborate and expensive.'' In West Germany, he said, he simply needed permission from the hospital, which was quickly obtained. The F.D.A. subsequently appr... |
378381_0 | Landmark Challenge: West Side Story | LEAD: New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission surely means to do good on Manhattan's West Side - but so far its good intentions risk paralyzing the welcome development in the large area bounded by Central Park West and Amsterdam Avenue and 62d and 96th Streets. New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commissio... |
378496_0 | Breast Cancer Drug May Benefit the Heart | LEAD: TAMOXIFEN, a hormonal drug taken by thousands of women to help prevent recurrence of breast cancer, may also protect them against heart disease, according to a study reported in the current issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The two-year study, conducted among 140 women past menopause, showed ... |
378499_2 | New Method of Analyzing Health Data Stirs Debate | methods of review authors who often reach a conclusion by intuition, or by tallying the number of studies showing benefits and those failing to do so or on the basis of subjective biases. ''The issue is the increasing recognition that scientists don't apply the rules of science when they do traditional reviews,'' said ... |
377716_0 | Recycling Measure: A Pleasant Surprise | LEAD: I recently returned to New Jersey after an absence of about 10 years. It won't come as a surprise to anyone that I was met with utter amazement every time I told people where I was going, and that I was doing it by choice. ''But why New Jersey? It is so dirty,'' was the general message. I recently returned to New... |
377796_0 | In the Brazilian Jungle They Have a Story to Tell | LEAD: Working in the jungle one degree south of the Equator, the heat on the set repeatedly hit 108 degrees. At dusk, tropical downpours washed out key shots day after day. Exotic ailments felled several of Hollywood's finest. During one week of night shooting, the call sheet warned actors of ''insects and crawly thing... |
377852_7 | Cory Aquino's Downhill Slide | the affluent themselves employ servants. The income gap is visible in statistics showing that the top fifth of the population receives half of the national income. In 1988, the World Bank reported that half of the population lived in ''absolute poverty,'' their income unable ''to satisfy basic needs.'' The poverty is m... |
377943_4 | Why They Killed Chico Mendes | organizing. While Mr. Revkin has culled the slightest wisp of the first person from his text, Mr. Shoumatoff crashes around in ''The World Is Burning'' like a third-world Hunter Thompson. His account winds confusingly through time, switching back and forth like an Amazon tributary. But Mr. Shoumatoff, a student of Braz... |
377827_7 | A Polar Bear's Picnic | mitts, periodically checking us out, then did an ungainly belly flop back into the water. Polar bears are the largest land carnivores in the world, with adult males hitting 800 to 1,000 pounds. They are big and impressive, striding through that ice world of theirs. Over the next few days upwards of 30 or 40 bears were ... |
375880_0 | Business Scene; Airlines in Pull Of Global Magnet | LEAD: THE changes wrought by airline deregulation since 1978 go on and on. Many fares were cut drastically. Routes within the nation were revamped. The industry became concentrated in the hands of nine major carriers. And now globalization is bringing a new upheaval. THE changes wrought by airline deregulation since 19... |
377037_0 | Vandal Vessels Invade the Atlantic | LEAD: International outrage has squeezed drift-net fishing fleets out of the South Pacific and forced them to accept supervision in the North Pacific. But there are signs that these vandal vessels are now shifting to Atlantic waters. The fleets' host nations, Taiwan in particular, need to monitor their boats' behavior ... |
379205_0 | Religion Notes | LEAD: Woman to Head Alliance An American Presbyterian scholar has become the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches. Dr. Jane Dempsey Douglass was elected president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, an association of churches rooted in the 16th-century Reformation theology of John Woman to Head... |
380626_0 | Scientists Question Methods Used in Animal Cancer Tests | LEAD: A growing number of experts are questioning the usefulness of the animal tests used to decide whether chemicals cause cancer. These animal tests, they say, can themselves cause conditions that give rise to malignancy. A growing number of experts are questioning the usefulness of the animal tests used to decide wh... |
374784_2 | Food Supply Is Vital in Embargo | had 16.1 million people, while Kuwait's population totaled 1.87 million in 1987. Neither embargo is total. The United Nations action allows food shipments to Iraq only under ''special humanitarian circumstances,'' while the American embargo permits food shipments only if they are ''donations of articles to relieve huma... |
373428_2 | For Italians, Some Horrors Will Not Die | in the Vatican Non-leftists, including the Vatican through its newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, expressed dismay over the verdict and the fact that four terrorist bombings, responsible for 122 deaths from 1969 to 1980, now remain unresolved. Today, on the 10th anniversary of its disaster, Bologna shut down for three ho... |
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