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378647_1 | Scientists Back Smaller, Simpler Satellites for Monitoring Climate | how the global environment is changing. In a report requested by the White House, the panel of the research council found that Eos would leave a critical gap in efforts to measure the heating of the Earth's atmosphere in the 1990's. Looking at Delay for Eos Less elaborate satellites requiring less development could fil... |
378670_0 | Town's Cancer Rate Is Termed Not Unusual | LEAD: State officials say they have definitively ruled out a higher than usual rate of cancer in this town, despite fears that an electric substation has caused illness along one street. State officials say they have definitively ruled out a higher than usual rate of cancer in this town, despite fears that an electric ... |
379982_0 | Yellowstone Journal; Cookout Crasher Rekindles Park Issue | LEAD: Every visitor to this mountainous park is warned not to approach or feed the grizzly bears. But the other night 180 paying customers at the daily Western cookout at Yancey's Hole got a rare close-up glimpse of a grizzly, and promptly abandoned their meals to him. Every visitor to this mountainous park is warned n... |
380127_0 | Nigerians Capture Liberian Rebel Gunboat | LEAD: Nigerian warships have captured a gunboat carrying weapons for a Liberian rebel group, a spokesman for the West African forces trying to impose a cease-fire said today. Nigerian warships have captured a gunboat carrying weapons for a Liberian rebel group, a spokesman for the West African forces trying to impose a... |
380085_4 | SATELLITES KEEP WATCH ON THE DESERT | to shift orbits to cover targets of interest. The craft can see just about everything of military significance, including individual ships, tanks, planes, arms depots and logistics areas, indicating the state of preparedness of a foe. Peering Through Clouds In addition, the American Government in 1988 lofted the first ... |
380042_2 | Efforts to Reshape Teaching Focus on Finding New Talent | put her economics degree to work with the General Accounting Office, analyzing the effects of the Clean Air Act. Both had good jobs, but found them unsatisfying. ''One of the reasons I joined the G.A.O. was to serve the public,'' Mrs. Baden said. ''But it takes about a year for the reports to get out, and I found more ... |
380079_1 | Agreement to Preserve Environment Provides Help for Madagascar | of endangered plants and animals; to make environmental education available to the Malagasy people; to give parks, preserves and other protected areas technical and financial support; to provide information for policy formation and to teach agricultural techniques that are less harmful and more supportive of developmen... |
380091_2 | Alternatives to Oil Move From the Lab to the Road | Environmental Protection Agency have found that it now costs 90 cents to $1.10 to buy methanol that will propel a car as far as a gallon of gasoline. And as part of an attempt to capitalize on this economic fact, the agency's emission-control technology laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., expects in about two weeks to begi... |
375093_1 | A Stroke of Luck in Tumor Research | who also is the medical director for the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation. ''It's a really thrilling advance in terms of understanding how brain tumors develop.'' The new results indicate that the neurofibromatosis gene normally works in the body to stem the growth of tumors. Researchers say the disease develops w... |
374945_0 | CHRONICLE | LEAD: Five people have been awarded the Charles Frankel Prize by the National Endowment for the Humanities. MORTIMER J. ADLER, the philosopher and author; HENRY HAMPTON, a documentary film producer; BERNARD M. W. KNOX, an author and a former director of Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies; DAVID VAN TASSEL... |
314798_1 | Sensory Overload | step toward realism in the way people communicate with one another.'' Successful teachers have been using multimedia techniques for decades. They might employ, in different combinations, lecture, discussion, text, pictures, diagrams, music, laboratory experiments and, perhaps, a filmstrip or videotape. The result is us... |
314680_5 | HEIDEGGER FOR FUN AND PROFIT | what it is to be. The new order needed a new language, or so he thought. Here is a sketch of his attempted putsch. The key idea is his rejection of the notion that man's relation to the world is one of subject to object. He rejected Descartes's model of man as a self that is conscious of the objects that make up the ex... |
314788_5 | Reform by High-Tech | we have a managerial tool to do it,'' Mr. Olson said. In the process the classroom teacher becomes the leader of an education team that includes paraprofessionals, teaching aides, computer-laboratory managers and volunteers. The other technological building block, and tool of cultural transformation, at Cougar Valley -... |
314867_3 | The Other City By the Bay | lively amalgam of blues music, cuisines Cajun or Chinese, local crafts. But Lake Merritt serves primarily as an enduring reminder of the area's natural habitability, still a bird watcher's dream home to geese, pelicans and an aviary for migratory birds. Logging provided much of the early impetus for the city's growth. ... |
314627_0 | What the Retarded Need: Social Skills | LEAD: IT has been 30 years since mentally retarded children were removed from seclusion and allowed to participate in public education. IT has been 30 years since mentally retarded children were removed from seclusion and allowed to participate in public education. Initially, this was accomplished guardedly, and for ye... |
314694_0 | Special Today: Education Life/Section 4A | LEAD: Special reports in this issue include: Special reports in this issue include: * Scrutinizing science education. * Treating children's trauma. * Striking textbook gold. * Quizzing quotes: who said what. * Cutting extracurriculars. |
314870_0 | Vermont | LEAD: To the Editor: When one was raised in a place as remote as northern Vermont, it comes as quite a surprise to see an article promoting the area as a base for sightseeing (''Where Vermont and Quebec Meld,'' Travel, Sept. 24). The article, which recently came to my attention, nicely captures the similarities and dis... |
316542_2 | Long Island Journal | the merrier,'' says a Baptist, Phyllis Krilovich of St. James. Dropout Prevention The mothers lined up with their children at the school bus stop. When the yellow school bus arrived, they got on, children and mothers. Teen-age mothers and their toddlers go to school every day in Bellport, part of an unusual program spo... |
316482_0 | OUR ANALGESIC CULTURE | LEAD: THE PRESENCE OF MYTH By Leszek Kolakowski. Translated by Adam Czerniawski. 138 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $19.95. THE PRESENCE OF MYTH By Leszek Kolakowski. Translated by Adam Czerniawski. 138 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $19.95. This book was first published in 1972, in Paris ... |
316749_2 | In Space News Conference, Astronauts Hail Their Good Catch | in Houston, praised the piloting skills of Captain Brandenstein and Lieut. Comdr. James D. Wetherbee of the Navy, saying that their maneuvering of the shuttle in the rendezvous with the satellite was ''even better than we supposed.'' Mr. Pennington said the pilots carried out a surprisingly fuel-efficient rendezvous, u... |
320384_0 | Energy Project Imperils a Rain Forest | LEAD: Bulldozers and drill platforms have come here to the Wao Kele O Puna, the last big tropical rain forest in the United States, where a showdown over the fate of this jungle may ultimately determine the fate of modern Hawaii as well. Bulldozers and drill platforms have come here to the Wao Kele O Puna, the last big... |
320409_0 | FLUORIDE HELD CLUE TO CANCER IN RATS | LEAD: Researchers have found preliminary evidence that fluoride causes cancer in male rats, Federal officials said today. But they cautioned that the study did not suggest that the fluoride in water and toothpaste would cause cancer. Researchers have found preliminary evidence that fluoride causes cancer in male rats, ... |
320382_3 | Security System at Nuclear Sites Adapted for Use at Airports | security has been directed chiefly against the threat represented by a lone outsider. Such a person, she added, often is an irrational passenger who has done little advance planning before trying to hijack or sabotage a plane. Aimed at Sophisticated Attacks The Baltimore/Washington project is intended to guard against ... |
320333_1 | Falmer Journal; When No Detail Is Too Trivial, Write It All Down | and occupation, people can contribute comprehensive daily diaries, one or two lines or anything in between. Their names, addresses and other personal details are confidential. Three times a year, the archive mails to contributors questionnaires or so-called directives, which include one or more topics that volunteers a... |
318888_4 | Gold's Lure vs. Indian Rights: A Brazilian Conflict Sets the Amazon Aflame | Stock Up Several miners have boasted that they flew in enough provisions last month to enable them to hold out in the jungle until March 15, the day Fernando Collor de Mello is to be inaugurated as the next President of Brazil. Mr. Collor, a free market conservative, easily swept the Amazon in the December elections. R... |
318664_5 | 'What It Means to Be a Human Being' | in classic films and in television programing we've seen various human activities explored. Even a well-done sitcom can explore questions of value and behavior, family interaction or the issue of intolerance. But television is certainly not a paragon of virtue. Unfortunately we don't always have a high level of program... |
318835_1 | Airport Security: A Case in Point | out. If some event makes passengers anxious, they may find themselves in a tug of war between saying nothing - and letting the trip continue, presumably without event - or pointing out a problem and creating a fuss. A couple traveling from Kennedy International Airport to Paris last November got caught in this bind. Th... |
318954_1 | UPHEAVAL IN THE EAST: Gorbachev; Soviet Chief's Address On Azerbaijan Fighting | the dead end, and, in the final analysis, to normalize the situation concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. By acting in this way, we proceeded from the conviction that violence, enmity and continuation of the conflict would not result in anything good but would only poison the atmosphere still further and lead to still greater ... |
318661_3 | Wetlands Protection Brings a Backlog to Projects | been plagued with delays because of its small staff and high employee turnover. ''But when it comes to public safety, that's no excuse,'' said Mr. Khona, the Bethel engineer. Order From the State The Bethel bridge, on Old Shelter Rock Road, rests above the East Town Swamp. It serves as the main link between Bethel and ... |
318741_4 | The New Organized Crime | Silverado Savings and Loan into trouble. Those men (and a few women) were paying themselves some of the highest salaries in America even as, it is alleged, their companies were being wildly mismanaged. John Gotti, you poor devil, those savings and loan guys and others like them at some entertainment companies know the ... |
318129_2 | On Land and in Air, Kennedy Delays Persist | Building, which serves 60 airlines and up to 4,000 travelers an hour. The immigration and naturalization hall has been doubled in size, eliminating the ''sheep barn,'' the crowded hallway that served as the introduction to the United States and New York City for millions of confused, tired passengers. Baggage belts and... |
318169_0 | Soviet Press Disrupted By Republic's Violence | LEAD: The Soviet public is receiving only incomplete news reports on the violence raging in the southern Soviet Union as editors in Moscow are asserting that the problems of coverage are similar to those involved in reporting foreign conflicts. The Soviet public is receiving only incomplete news reports on the violence... |
318186_0 | Charles Hernu, Official in France Hit by 1980's Scandal, Dies at 66 | LEAD: Charles Hernu, a French Socialist politician whose time as Defense Minister in the early 1980's was clouded by scandal, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Villeurbanne, a Lyons suburb where he had been Mayor for more than two decades. He was 66 years old. Charles Hernu, a French Socialist politician whose time a... |
316374_1 | Retrieved Craft Tested Stealth Materials | Columbia is a secret military effort to make ''Stealth'' satellites that are difficult to track by radar. The experiment was described in a space agency document in 1984. Stealth technology centers on the use of radar-absorbing composite material and special shapes that reduce radar echoes. The Stealth, or B-2, bomber ... |
316422_0 | Religion Notes | LEAD: John Cardinal O'Connor of New York will ordain a married man with four children to the priesthood today. John Cardinal O'Connor of New York will ordain a married man with four children to the priesthood today. The ordination of Trevor Nicholls, a former Anglican priest, will be performed under a special ''pastora... |
314190_3 | G.M. Displays the Impact, An Advanced Electric Car | motion. Many Technologies Improved General Motors executives said the Impact represented improvements in a variety of technologies and design elements rather than any single breakthrough. Using technical and design experience gleaned from an experimental, solar-powered vehicle called the Sunraycer developed several yea... |
320007_2 | Risk of Hearing Loss Is Growing, Panel Says | with an intensity of less than 75 decibels are unlikely to cause hearing loss even over a long durations of exposure. The sound level of ordinary speech is about 65 decibels, and 75 decibels is equivalent to the noise from a dishwasher or vacuum cleaner. But exposure to sound levels above 85 decibels are potentially ha... |
320047_3 | The Talk of the South Fork; Baymen Find No Warmth This Winter | Fishermen here complain that the restrictions would cover only boats from the United States. Vessels from Spain, Canada and Japan, the other large swordfishing nations, would be free to continue their free-fishing ways and increase exports to this country. ''The fishermen have legitimate complaints,'' said David Cresti... |
320145_1 | Noriega's Trial Not Like North's | pretrial hearing General Noriega need only show the material to be relevant (as broadly defined by Federal Rule of Evidence 401) to his defense. Suppose, for example, that Government documents show that the National Security Council knew of General Noriega's drug activity, but chose to condone it because of his assista... |
319969_2 | Personal Health | A regular workout ''strengthens the body, relaxes the mind and toughens the spirit,'' Ms. Reed said. ''It can prove to you that you have what it takes to do what is necessary.'' For disabled youngsters, physical activities can foster independence and help their parents let go once they see what the children are able to... |
319928_2 | Beijing Journal; With Fish as Bait, the Leaders Troll for Approval | will mark a transition from the last eight months of tensions and antagonisms to a more conciliatory period in which the country can return more to normal. Many Still in Prison The lifting of martial law nearly two weeks ago has had a somewhat soothing effect, and many residents have been able to forget their hostiliti... |
319198_2 | San Francisco Journal; Milestone In Church: Gay Clergy Ordained | and recruit a lesbian candidate at the same time. After a national search, they chose Ms. Zillhart and Ms. Frost, both graduates of the Luther Northwestern Seminary in St. Paul, who have lived together for five years. The two women were certified for ordination but later withdrew so they could live openly as a gay coup... |
320994_2 | At Airports, Can Time Be Made to Fly? | at peak hours, tightened security measures force travelers to check in an hour, or maybe even two, before the theoretical departure time. Many passengers show up early because they had to get out of their hotel at noon or 1 P.M. and don't know where to go with their luggage except to the airport. They will have several... |
320953_0 | All About/Cellular Telephones; A Gadget That May Soon Become the Latest Necessity | LEAD: Once gadgets of the rich and powerful, cellular telephones are moving into the mainstream. Still primarily business tools, the phones are increasingly showing up in the cars, handbags and pockets of the elderly, housewives, outdoor enthusiasts and others who need instant communications. Once gadgets of the rich a... |
321089_0 | Special Care For Special Needs | LEAD: While I do not disagree that education spending can be reduced, such reduction should not and must not target students with special needs. While I do not disagree that education spending can be reduced, such reduction should not and must not target students with special needs. In 1972, P.A.R.C. v. Commonwealth of... |
321347_0 | Obligation to Educate The Handicapped | LEAD: Jane Goldblatt's letter of Dec. 24 is timely in that it addresses an issue that Federal courts have recently decided. The issue concerns the education of all children, regardless of the extent of their handicaps. Jane Goldblatt's letter of Dec. 24 is timely in that it addresses an issue that Federal courts have r... |
321001_1 | Fine Print Governs Your Rights in the Air | requires the skills of a paralegal researcher, if not an attorney. To know your rights on a flight, you must read the fine print of the contract you signed, perhaps without a thought, when you bought your ticket. And the fine print is not on the back of the ticket, but in a detailed document called the ''conditions of ... |
320981_4 | A World Of Butterflies In Florida | average butterfly lives for a week or so, though some do live longer. Most butterflies feed on nectar, which is like sugar, a quick energy source. They expend themselves in a week.'' Beyond the lab is the North American Aviary, which houses species native to Florida and the South, including the zebra, Julia, monarch an... |
321106_2 | Review/Theater; Bonding With the Land In Cather's 'O Pioneers!' | were this a film rather than a play. She does this in two respects, but with apparent hesitation. In several scenes she uses the character of a quirky hired hand as a commentator, and she approaches a few moments silently with choreographic intent, most effectively in the death of the book's two lovers. The adaptation ... |
321140_0 | Other Walls May Fall, But in Fortress Cuba Castro Stands Firm | LEAD: THE changes sweeping Eastern Europe are stirring hopes here and in some quarters of Havana that Fidel Castro's long reign over Cuba may be coming to an end. ''We are sure something has to happen in our sad country,'' a dissident in Havana wrote to a friend in the Miami area, where more than 500,000 Cubans have fl... |
315529_0 | Answering the Car Phone When Away From the Car | LEAD: At the Consumer Electronics Show here this week, a company introduced a portable handset system that allows people with cellular car phones to receive calls up to 1,000 feet from their vehicles. At the Consumer Electronics Show here this week, a company introduced a portable handset system that allows people with... |
322014_0 | Sugar Prices Fall Sharply; Grains and Soybeans Drop | LEAD: Sugar futures prices fell sharply yesterday in the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange after a rally, prompted by a forecast of reduced world production, sputtered and failed. Sugar futures prices fell sharply yesterday in the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange after a rally, prompted by a forecast of reduced world pr... |
322084_2 | A New Decoder to Foil Satellite-TV Pirates | has paid the bill. In some instances, the hackers actually removed the secret instructions from the microprocessor in old decoders, copied the instructions and installed them in other decoders. Should hackers try to extract the decoding instructions from the new integrated circuit, the new device will automatically era... |
322176_0 | FOOD NOTES | LEAD: Tomato Juice, Anyone? Tomato Juice, Anyone? ''Orange juice is going to get expensive,'' said Dan Shafer, director of communications for Coca-Cola Foods, which makes Minute Maid Orange Juice products. The freeze in Florida at the end of December reduced the crop by 30 percent, driving prices up. In some Manhattan ... |
321974_0 | Expanding PC Use With Radio Waves | LEAD: rrCommunicating by personal computer has long required a telephone. But yesterday the International Business Machines Corporation and Motorola Inc. announced a joint venture to make it possible for roving employees like sales and repair personnel to reach their computers at headquarters by radio waves. rrCommunic... |
315377_3 | OFFICIALS PLANNING TO MOVE NORIEGA | in his courtroom last week, said he did not know where the defendant would be moved. ''That is something that they do not advise me about,'' he said. ''I'm not really concerned with where he is or how he's being handled, as long as it's done properly.'' Judge Predicts Shorter Trial Judge Hoeveler also spoke about his e... |
315454_4 | Wide Beliefs On Depression In Women Contradicted | health professionals no longer believe this, the belief is still common among the public. ''The old idea of a change-of-life emotional crisis in women is a myth,'' Dr. Pasnau said. ''Women going through menopause are no more likely to suffer depression than are women of other ages, nor than men, for that matter.'' Whil... |
315347_0 | 2 Studies Rate U.S. and States On Meeting Children's Needs | LEAD: The Federal Government and 44 states are not providing adequate programs to help children in need and the nation is falling behind other industrialized countries in reducing infant mortality, the Children's Defense Fund said today. The Federal Government and 44 states are not providing adequate programs to help c... |
315476_0 | Opposition to Nuclear Power Grows Stronger | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Nuclear power may not be inherently unworkable, but it is being rejected worldwide for precisely those reasons you mention in ''Revive the Atom'' (editorial, Dec. 8): bad economics, poorer safety and a lack of trust by the public. You imply that the antinuclear movement is a United S... |
313507_1 | The Freeze In Florida Aids Brazil | hoping to force up the price of futures contracts for juice concentrate on the New York Cotton Exchange. Of Brazil's predicted production of 900,000 tons this season, about 400,000 tons have been sold, giving growers and processors hopes for a windfall. Prices for frozen concentrated orange juice for delivery in Januar... |
313598_0 | Wheels On Cutting Edge | LEAD: A new wheel for cyclists has bypassed conventional spoked designs in favor of aerodynamic blades. A new wheel for cyclists has bypassed conventional spoked designs in favor of aerodynamic blades. Specialized Bicycle Components, a firm based in Morgan Hill, Calif., developed the wheel with engineering expertise fr... |
313521_3 | Longer Lives for Aging Cargo Ships | re-chartered at $14,500 a day. But many people in the industry think shipping rates will have to rise 40 to 60 percent before shipowners feel confident enough to place large orders for new ships. 'It's Too Risky' Shipowners recall that in the past big orders were placed in the middle of an upswing in cargo rates and th... |
318280_0 | Rights and Wrongs In the Marshall Islands | LEAD: Day of Two Suns U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders By Jane Dibblin Maps. 299 pages. New Amsterdam Books. $24.95 hard cover; $12.95 paperback. Day of Two Suns U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders By Jane Dibblin Maps. 299 pages. New Amsterdam Books. $24.95 hard cover; $12.95 paperback. Nuclea... |
318342_2 | Using 2 Ways to Run One School System | Chancellor last fall came when the school system was under fire not only for poor academic performance but for a two-decade-old system of decentralization, which appeared to be producing a slew of scandals. In New York City, the board's central headquarters runs the city's high schools while 32 local school boards have... |
318360_1 | U.S. Is Told to Preserve Noriega Data | seized in Panama. He also declined to say what specific documents he had in mind in making the request. ''We want to see everything they have,'' he said. But he added, ''There are things we have in mind.'' Despite objections by the prosecutors, General Noriega was excused by the magistrate from attending the hearing, w... |
316118_1 | Customs Is Testing Plan To Ease Airport Delays | wait for their luggage and single out people for an interview and a luggage search, rather than having all travelers line up for individual questioning and baggage checks. Officials also select passengers on some flights for extensive interviews and luggage searches. The system, introduced so far in Detroit, Los Angele... |
317804_1 | Turning the Tables | those who have just been hit with an increase, to 7.65 percent, in payroll taxes deducted from their earnings. This would be a tax cut, moreover, in what can plausibly be termed - as it has been, repeatedly, in this space - the most regressive U.S. tax. All workers pay the same rate, whether they make $20,000 a year or... |
317783_3 | Trade Gap Widened in November | 18 percent, to $4 billion, from $4.9 billion. Contributing to that decline, imports of Japanese cars fell to $1.6 billion, from $1.9 billion in November, apparently reflecting the broad weakness in the United States car demand. There was an even sharper drop in the United States deficit with the newly industrialized co... |
317066_3 | Rage Over a Gas Pipeline Appears to Cool in Connecticut | York. But in Connecticut and New York the project still must receive final approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers, which have held several public hearings over the last four years, including four in Danbury and Albany last week. Iroquois officials are confident of approva... |
317034_0 | Mid- and Low-Income Minorities in Decline on College Rolls | LEAD: The percentage of low- and middle-income black and Hispanic youths entering college from high school declined sharply in the past decade, the American Council on Education reports. The percentage of low- and middle-income black and Hispanic youths entering college from high school declined sharply in the past dec... |
313656_5 | Upheaval in the East: The Dossier; Rumanian Finds His File: 12 Years of Being Watched | the Interior Ministry, which ran the Securitate and the Department of State Security. The wiretaps were requested, according to the documents, to determine ''with what persons the target has telephone contacts, their telephone numbers, if there are discussions of a hostile character toward the policy of the party and o... |
315097_2 | In Northeast, a Battle Over Fuel | amount would be 578 million cubic feet a day. 'Last Stronghold' for Oil ''This area is the last stronghold for heating oil,'' said Robert J. Reid, a Canadian pipeline engineer who is president of Iroquois Gas Transmission System, a consortium of 21 Canadian and American companies. One reason is that oil from Gulf Coast... |
315248_1 | The Lethal Fist | team that killed a dozen Black September terrorists, unfortunately including an innocent Arab; he infiltrated Idi Amin's Uganda to advance the rescue of hostages at Entebbe; then he became the Mossad's key man in Central America, harassing aid to P.L.O. terrorists by Cuba and Nicaragua. In the mid-1980's, he apparently... |
319295_0 | Using the Toxin From Tiny Frogs, Researchers Seek Clues to Disease | LEAD: THE tiny dart-poison frogs of the American tropics are helping scientists understand nerve and muscle cell functions that play a central role in a variety of devastating disorders, from abnormal heart rhythms to Alzheimer's disease. THE tiny dart-poison frogs of the American tropics are helping scientists underst... |
319437_2 | Polish Crew Tells of 3-Week Ordeal After a Red Sea Attack | weaponry of the rebels, who in the last several years have captured divisions worth of Soviet weapons from the demoralized Ethiopian Army and are said by Western military analysts to have recently acquired a fleet of up to 24 high-powered speedboats for patrolling the Red Sea. Three Speedboats Attack Capt. Andrzej Siko... |
319299_0 | Britain Exempts Hong Kong From Ivory Ban | LEAD: HONG KONG, a leading center for the manufacture and export of ivory objects, has been exempted by the British Government from a worldwide ban on the trading of ivory that went into effect last Thursday. HONG KONG, a leading center for the manufacture and export of ivory objects, has been exempted by the British G... |
315997_0 | From Nissan, The Future On Wheels | LEAD: THOSE taking the pulse of future automobile design often look beyond industry soothsayers to concept cars. If Nissan Design International Inc.'s Gobi concept car, introduced last week at the North American International Automobile Show in Detroit, is any indication, trends for the 1990's will include soft squeeza... |
315834_4 | Children and Their Pets: Unexpected Psychological Benefits | the children care for or come in contact with include not just dogs and cats, but also farm animals, hawks and falcons. In one program, children travel with some of the farm animals to inner-city neighborhoods. There the children act as handlers for the animals while other children, most of whom have never seen a farm ... |
315983_0 | Looking Back for Designs of the Future | LEAD: THE National Endowment for the Arts has published a resource for designers, ''By Design 2,'' that describes all the design projects it sponsored from 1977 to 1987. THE National Endowment for the Arts has published a resource for designers, ''By Design 2,'' that describes all the design projects it sponsored from ... |
317273_4 | Human Genes Turn Plants Into Factories For Medicines | genes. This attachment protects the antibody from the hostile enzymes and guides it to a cell membrane where the assembly of the antibody is completed and is then secreted. If the plants are grown in liquid, they will secrete the protein into it; from there the protein can be extracted. A Dutch company, Mogen, used a s... |
317378_2 | Opera Is Ready for a Comeback in the Amazon | will be easier to attract European talent than it was a century ago when opera companies had to travel almost 1,000 miles by steamship from the mouth of the Amazon to this city on the Rio Negro. The Hope for Tourists Mr. Bicudo hopes that new air routes combined with a boom in Amazon tourism will draw American audience... |
319681_1 | A Drug Dealer Finds Many Eager To Launder His Drug Money | ways - often with the connivance of legitimate businesses - to hide their assets. ''He probably did the best job of all dealers out here of getting his money into legitimate businesses,'' said Sgt. Michael McGuiness of the Queens Narcotics Division. ''Tommy's a smart kid.'' Mr. Mickens made most of his purchases in cas... |
319791_2 | Why There's No U.S. Market for Electric Cars; Experimental Models | vehicles will be in fleet use. Mr. Mauldin refers to electric energy from the sun. Probably the best concept for solar energy in personal transportation is the Sunraycer developed by Paul B. MacReady's staff at AeroVironment and General Motors engineers. It contains voltaic cells, which transform solar power to electri... |
319604_1 | IRISH LEADER BACKS TALKS ON ULSTER | indicated a willingness to modify the agreement but not to suspend it. Virtually all unionist leaders still insist that some form of suspension is a precondition for talks. Attacked by Paisley Indeed, the Rev. Ian Paisley, who heads the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, immediately attacked Mr. Haughey's p... |
319636_1 | U.N. Women's Rights Convention, 10 Years Old, Gets Mixed Review | detailing actions taken to improve the lot of women. But some speakers Monday said that while 101 countries had ratified the treaty, few had made any significant efforts to eliminate discrimination against women. Broader Recognition Sought At a three-day seminar held in conjunction with the United Nations session at th... |
319627_0 | Colombia Envoy Angry About U.S. Trade Policy | LEAD: Recent Bush Administration trade decisions are squeezing Colombia's earnings and making its war against cocaine trafficking more difficult, the country's Ambassador, Victor Mosquera Chaux, said today. Recent Bush Administration trade decisions are squeezing Colombia's earnings and making its war against cocaine t... |
359057_1 | Higher Incomes, U.N. Finds, Do Not Assure a Better Life | of this century over why some nations, however poor in resources, make life better and others fail. ''People cannot be reduced to a single dimension as economic creatures,'' William H. Draper, administrator of the Development Program, says in an introduction. In an age of democratic urges, he says, factors like longevi... |
358989_1 | 'Dip' on Earth Is Big Trouble In Space | anomaly's threat has affected planning for the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope now orbiting the Earth, for the $150 million Astro-1 mission now awaiting a ride into orbit on the space shuttle Columbia and for a host of other advanced telescopes scheduled for launching in the 1990's. To offset the effect, scientists... |
359087_1 | U.S. Taking the Highroad on the Big Question | Koloskov, the president of the Soviet Union Football Federation, announced recently that each Soviet player would be rewarded $30,000 if the team won the World Cup. Asked Again and Again And because Azeglio Vicini, Italy's coach, has announced he would not allow his players to have sex during the tournament, just about... |
363262_6 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | rid of, like gifts that people sent and you don't know what they are,'' Mr. Rosegarten said. ''I also have three grown sons. That means three footballs, three baseball gloves and three pairs of hockey skates.'' The only problem facing Mr. Rosegarten, he said, ''is how to get all this stuff down to the garage sale.'' ''... |
363655_1 | Staying on the Safe Side | in 1980 to 7,654 last year. And even in Tokyo, which has extremely low crime rates per capita (there were 121 murders last year), police are worried about increasing numbers of larcenies by foreign visitors against foreign visitors. Nonetheless, some world cities have enviable safety records. In Tokyo, passers-by leave... |
363627_0 | Q and A | LEAD: Bumped From a Flight Bumped From a Flight Q. My husband and I were recently ''bumped'' from an Alitalia flight to Rome. We arrived at the ticket counter 40 mintues before the flight, because of delays in traffic, and were advised that our seats had been sold. We took a later flight to London and a connecting flig... |
363460_5 | The Elbowing Is Becoming Fierce For Space on the Radio Spectrum | would force the Government to give up usable frequencies totaling 200 megahertz. The Bush Administration has refused to support the bill, although it has not actively opposed it. Political debates over frequency allocations have moved slowly in part because of their technical complexity. The electromagnetic spectrum is... |
361498_2 | Author Is Told To Pay Millions For '81 Slaying | came seven years after Mrs. Adan had won a judgment against Mr. Abbott, only to see him block a trial to set an award through legal motions filed from his cell in Auburn State Prison. The award caused Mr. Abbott to peer at the jurors with a quizzical look. Then, shaking his head, he told Acting Justice Carol H. Arber, ... |
361449_1 | NATO A la Francaise | difference has crept in: ''so long as the military structure remains what it is today,'' as Prime Minister Michel Rocard noted afterward. Fudging to presage a reversal is also part of de Gaulle's heritage, as when the general told French colonists fighting Algerian independence, ''I have understood you.'' Suggestive ph... |
364635_1 | Frohnmayer Said to See Peril to Theater Grants | advocacy organization, who was at the meeting. Mr. Mendoza said Mr. Frohnmayer had referred to ''things beside artistic quality that had to be taken into consideration'' and that he had said ''it is our job to recognize the political realities.'' Ms. Finley was attacked in a recent syndicated newspaper column by Rowlan... |
359753_0 | Violence, as American as Apple Pie | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Anthony Lewis's column ''A Rage to Kill'' (May 18), on the death penalty in the United States, touches on a cultural attitude that appears in many areas of American life, and not just the popular sentiment about criminal justice. An obsession with killing appears in the popularity of... |
359667_2 | Loss of Tropical Forests Is Found Much Worse Than Was Thought | that in nine major tropical countries, the estimates of total annual losses of tropical-forest acreage were about four times as high as estimates from the years 1981 to 1985. The nine countries were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Cameroon and Myanmar (formerly Burma). Dr. Hamm... |
359659_0 | Texas Researchers Develop 4 Gene-Altered Calves | LEAD: A team of scientists here has produced the nation's first genetically engineered calves, a new milestone in using advanced genetic technology to alter food-producing animals. A team of scientists here has produced the nation's first genetically engineered calves, a new milestone in using advanced genetic technolo... |
358119_6 | Kennedy Still No. 1, but Slipping | $80 million to improve its terminal at Kennedy in cooperation with United Airlines, which formed a marketing alliance with British Airways under which they feed each other passengers and jointly market their flights. Mr. Falkner and Mr. Murphy both believe that Kennedy will continue to see its share of international pa... |
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