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364772_1 | 93 NATIONS MOVE TO BAN CHEMICALS THAT HARM OZONE | the earth from dangerous solar ultraviolet radiation. An alarming thinning of the ozone layer in recent years has been caused by pollution, scientists believe, chiefly in the form of chlorofluorocarbons. Danger of Skin Cancer These have been used since their invention in 1930 as refrigerants, plastic foam-blowing gases... |
364780_0 | Herky-Jerky Bang-Bang | LEAD: They say young people don't read the papers anymore. There are scientific studies to prove it. Magnificently calibrated polls. Incredibly accurate laboratory simulations. Everything absolutely sure, statistic-wise. Young people numb. They say young people don't read the papers anymore. There are scientific studie... |
364719_0 | Religion Notes | LEAD: Women Turn to Humor The invitation that came in the mail the other day was for an event on June 31, 1990, a day that does not exist. ''The Women's Ordination Conference,'' the invitation reads, ''cordially invites you not to attend the First Annual Non-Ordination.'' Women Turn to Humor The invitation that came in... |
364744_0 | As Mandela Stumps for Sanctions, South Africa Debates Them | LEAD: Nelson Mandela's plea for Western countries to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa has galvanized the debate over their effectiveness in hastening the end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela's plea for Western countries to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa has galvanized the debate over their... |
359323_1 | 60-MINUTE GOURMET | and a touch of fat and the veal modifies the coarser texture of the beef. Lamb is commonly used in Middle Eastern and Indian dishes. Any meat used should be relatively lean, although a little fat helps keep the loaf moist. In the recipe here, finely diced mushrooms are added to subtly enhance the flavor. One of the mos... |
359141_0 | Book Notes | LEAD: Big Gamble on Art News from the annual American Booksellers' Association convention is often dominated by the major houses, because they have the money to buy, publish and promote the best-selling authors. Big Gamble on Art News from the annual American Booksellers' Association convention is often dominated by th... |
359321_2 | EATING WELL | lessons were learned. The most important: Think grilled; think steamed; think for yourself. And beware of restaurants that mark items on their menu as healthful. A Chinese restaurant had a separate menu of ''diet dishes'': ''no salt, no sugar, no cornstarch and no MSG added.'' The white chicken and vegetables and the f... |
359161_1 | Buwunga Journal; For the Oppressed Sex, Brave Words to Live By | of the crowd, a group of men who had been invited to sit in smiled nervously. A Tradition of Servility These are words rarely heard in rural areas of Uganda, where, as in many parts of Africa, 14-year-old girls are married off for a dowry of cattle. It is the women, not the men, who do the back-breaking physical labor,... |
362063_2 | Business Scene; Reviving a Role For Apprentices | Nevertheless, only 300,000 people are in registered apprenticeship programs, roughly unchanged since 1950. Most programs are the fruit of union agreements, although the military trains 50,000 of the apprentices as an inducement to re-enlist. From colonial times until well into the Industrial Revolution, being an appren... |
362112_0 | Surplus of College Graduates Dims Job Outlook for Others | LEAD: Hundreds of thousands of jobs, once performed creditably without a college degree, are going to college graduates today as employers take advantage of an oversupply of them. Hundreds of thousands of jobs, once performed creditably without a college degree, are going to college graduates today as employers take ad... |
362391_0 | In South Mexico, a Forest and Culture Die | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Loss of Tropical Forests Is Found Much Worse Than Was Thought'' (front page, June 8). We would like to bring to your attention the destruction of a rain forest much closer to the border of the United States. The Major Peten, the forested areas of southern Mexico, the Peten in Guate... |
362495_1 | Goodyear Plans to Cut 1,100 Jobs | offices in North America that will report directly to the headquarters in Akron, rather than the current structure, under which 43 district offices report to five regional divisions, which in turn report to the headquarters. Goodyear has been burdened in recent years by continued sluggishness in North American automobi... |
362511_0 | Fed Up, L.I.'s Young Are Thinking Florida | LEAD: Like many young couples on Long Island, Kenneth and Sharon Jaeger both work, he during the day and she at night. Whoever is home looks after the baby. Like many young couples on Long Island, Kenneth and Sharon Jaeger both work, he during the day and she at night. Whoever is home looks after the baby. ''As I'm wal... |
357910_1 | Our Towns; Cable Ready When the World Is on the Blink | grew complicated. To get the very same services he'd always had, Mr. Kazakeris now needed an extra remote and two converters, at a cost of $7 more a month. ''Look what I do now,'' he said, grabbing three remotes. ''I need this cable remote to turn the converter on. Then I need the TV remote to put on the TV. I raise my... |
358442_4 | Technology; Trying to Make Batteries 'Green' | oxide, so they are used in applications requiring higher voltage, despite the more costly material. In ''cordless'' appliances the rechargeable batteries use cadmium for an anode and nickel oxide for the cathode. Other types of batteries that have come into use include zinc air cells, which use zinc as the anode and th... |
358333_1 | URBAN OASES: A HOST'S GUIDE TO FARMER'S MARKETS | goods they produce themselves) and public markets (in which items may also be sold through a merchant intermediary) are both reliable sources of fresh goods. As more consumers demand food that is neither dried, frozen, nor canned, as well as accurate information about how and where it's grown, established markets, such... |
358643_6 | The Work Week Grows; Tales From The Digital Treadmill | a communications consultant, said many employers arrange generous discounts for their workers to buy computers for their personal use. ''But part of me wonders if that just makes it easier for them to extend the work day,'' Mr. Gordon said. ''You can get creeping expectations on the part of managers that it should be t... |
358300_1 | Juried Show: Best of a Good Lot | it. The most satisfactory arrangement is in the furthermost gallery in the school building, where the mix is roughly half sculpture, half painting and the color generally muted. Facing each other diagonally are two sculptures, both of them out of Cubism - Steve O'Brien's ''Morning, Noon and Night'' and James Jackson Bu... |
358447_0 | Recycled Paper Is Not the Only, or Best, Answer | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Farewell to Those Old Printing Ink Blues, and a Few Reds and Yellows'' (May 13) states: ''The first stage of recycling is to pulp the material [waste paper] in water.'' A common first stage, but not the only one. We are bringing a process to market that turns virtually any grade of... |
358464_3 | Britain Says I.R.A. Appears to Be Stepping Up Its Attacks Outside Ulster | on a van outside a army recruiting center in north London, and seven people were wounded when a bomb exploded in southeast London outside the headquarters of the Royal Army Education Corps. Divisions in the I.R.A. The attacks come amid signs of divisions within the I.R.A. and Sinn Fein over their strategy in Northern I... |
358459_3 | Parents Learn to Accent the Positive | the support group, said she was overwhelmed when her son, Robby, now 8 months old, was born. ''I was devastated from the lack of sleep I was getting. I began thinking things that my friends and family would have been suprised about. For instance, I kept thinking to myself; When are this baby's parents going to come and... |
358506_8 | 5 Museums With a Feel for the Road | over the tires. Another one-of-a-kind custom-coach-built car is Rudolph Valentino's 1926 Tipo 8A Isotta-Fraschini roadster, built by the Fleetwood Body Company of Pennsylvania. The body was painted in two tones of lavender, while the hood was engine turned, to create a kaleidoscope pattern of circles against bare alumi... |
358321_3 | Today's 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle | governmental decision makers. The environmental department is pro-incineration. Certain advisers to the Governor and State Senate advocate incineration. The state has excessively financed incinerators over the three R's. Many in the incinerator business seek understandable self-interest remuneration. That does not make... |
359840_0 | Evolution i Europe; Judge Rules P.L.O. Is Liable In Raid on the Achille Lauro | LEAD: A Federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Thursday that the Palestine Liberation Organization could be sued in United States courts for the October 1985 attack on the Achille Lauro, an Italian passenger liner assaulted by commandos in the Mediterranean Sea. A Federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Thursday that the Pale... |
359900_1 | Affirmative Action Bears Great Moral Costs | black underachievement is caused by white oppression, rather than some endogenous factor - is precisely the sort of things philosophers do. In addition, a central question of the philosophy of science - one of my areas of expertise - concerns the criteria by which scientists accord existence to unobservable, theoretica... |
360305_0 | Assessing the 10-Year-Old Facade Law | LEAD: TEN years have passed since Local Law 10 was enacted to protect pedestrians in New York City from falling masonry. Over the decade, not only has it achieved its primary public-safety aim, but it also has preserved the integrity of many building facades. TEN years have passed since Local Law 10 was enacted to prot... |
360237_0 | Letters on Travel; Luggage Codes | LEAD: To the Editor: Kenneth Lahn of New York (Letters on Travel, April 1) wrote about the confusion of luggage codes. In actual fact, there should be no confusion whatsoever, assuming the passenger knows where he/she is going. To the Editor: Kenneth Lahn of New York (Letters on Travel, April 1) wrote about the confusi... |
359958_0 | No One Can Avoid Exposure to Radiation | LEAD: One has to give the residents of West Sayville who oppose the installation of the National Weather Service's new weather radar installation (''Warning Sounded Over Weather Radar Station,'' April 22) the benefit of the doubt that they are generally concerned for their health and are not zealots. In exercising thei... |
360275_9 | BETTING THE FARM ON BIOTECH | parts. They identified those regions of the DNA that produce crown gall and proceeded to remove them. This took the better part of two years. It was now time to devise a system for testing their theory. Using another bacterium, E. coli, Fraley and his colleagues isolated the gene that makes E. coli immune to an antibio... |
360222_4 | What's Doing In; Zurich | tickets and give change. Short tram trips cost $1.05, longer ones $1.40. Taxis are at least 30 percent more expensive than in New York. Radio dispatched taxis, 272-44-44 (cabs for the handicapped 461-55-55). A two-hour sightseeing bus tour with an English-speaking guide leaves at 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. daily from the Zuric... |
360041_1 | Lifestyle; Graduates' Wish Lists and Gift Givers' Actualities | graduation. The survey, commissioned by American Express Gift Cheques, a unit of the American Express Travel Related Services Company, questioned 150 high school seniors from Burlington, Mass., Deerfield, Ill., and San Diego, asking them to name what gift they would like for graduation. Money Is Preferred Forty-one per... |
360206_0 | Campus Life: Radcliffe; Students Organize Campaign to Build A Women's Center | LEAD: Administrators from Harvard University and Radcliffe College will meet this week to review documents submitted by student advocates petitioning for a women's center to be built in or near Harvard Yard. Administrators from Harvard University and Radcliffe College will meet this week to review documents submitted b... |
360320_1 | Seafaring Cook Shares Her Secrets | a recent evening. 'Under Control' ''It's appropriate for a boat, yes, because of its simplicity. But you could do this at home,'' she said, preparing a pate. Ms. Wheeler, 34 years old, demonstrated cooking tips, advising the students to chop food right into the pan, to save a step and extra cleanup, and to make sure th... |
364376_0 | Sugar Prices Rise Sharply; Grain and Soybeans Mixed | LEAD: Sugar futures prices bounced sharply higher yesterday on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange after the Agriculture Department predicted world sugar consumption would outstrip production for the sixth straight year. Sugar futures prices bounced sharply higher yesterday on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa... |
363753_3 | World Follows Bishops on a Retreat | they have to establish church policy. One of the most unusual scenes of the retreat occurred Saturday when the bishops encountered the married priests after a noon Mass. Several of the demonstrators and the bishops recognized one another; some had been seminary students together; others had worked together as priests. ... |
363828_0 | Law Enforcement and Education Both Lose in Police Corps Plan | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The police corps bill, discussed in ''Fresh Blood for the Thin Blue Line'' (editorial, June 3), is a misconceived proposal that would do nothing to advance law enforcement or educational policy. Under the plan, high school students would receive $40,000 in college loans, which would ... |
361591_0 | French Debate Armed Role in Africa | LEAD: Long accustomed to playing keeper of the peace in its former colonies, France hardly blinked last month when the Government ordered troop reinforcements to Gabon in response to anti-Government riots in the tiny West African nation. Long accustomed to playing keeper of the peace in its former colonies, France hard... |
361744_0 | In Job Interviews, Both Sides Have Rights | LEAD: THE thousands of college graduates who start touring personnel offices this month should know their rights as employees as well as the rights of their prospective employers, says Felix J. Springer, an employment litigation specialist in the Hartford law firm of Day, Berry & Howard. THE thousands of college gradua... |
361727_3 | Q and A | might find that a coat will come in handy, especially at night. The weather for both places is practically identical. In Buenos Aires the average high temperature in August is 60 degrees and the average low is 43. There are nine rainy days in August, and afternoon humidity averages 74 percent. In Montevideo the August ... |
361770_6 | SPEAKING THE TRUTH | incantations.'' Those systems, powers and incantations are not just to be found behind what used to be called the Iron Curtain. Mr. Havel's sense of crisis is global and embraces Western civilization, too - the people of London and New York as well as Prague and Moscow, the workers at America's I.B.M. as well as Czecho... |
361593_0 | More States Trying to Curb Teen-Age Pregnancies | LEAD: Fearing the high long-term costs of adolescent pregnancies, more than two-thirds of the states have taken steps to reduce their incidence and enhance the lives of teen-age mothers and their children, according to a new study by the National Governors' Association. Fearing the high long-term costs of adolescent pr... |
361830_3 | The Executive Computer; A Program That Harnesses Other Software's Strengths | developers to re-use parts of programs that are valuable and to add new programs and features incrementally. Using objects as building blocks, software can be developed relatively easily, quickly and inexpensively; it can be fixed and upgraded more easily, and it can be re-used, said Christopher M. Stone, president of ... |
358739_1 | Outdoors: Boating With Eye on Safety | 100,000 boats to less than 6, or about 1,000 deaths annually. But estimates for the number of accidents are far more elusive. James Ellis, chairman of the National Safe Boating Council, a non-profit organization that organizes safe boating week, says that less than 10 percent of accidents are reported. Coast Guard figu... |
358857_1 | High Cost of Fighting Drugs Strains U.S.-Colombian Ties | A. Hills, the United States trade representative. Many officials in this nation of 32 million people have become bitter toward the United States. ''If President Bush is offering cooperation, why doesn't it filter down to the bureaucracy?'' the economic minister asked in an interview before she left for Washington on Th... |
360829_1 | Next Challenge for Solar Power: Cheaper Cells | growing sales volume is encouraging progress. Primarily by using industrial robots, the Solarex Corporation's factory here turns out cells with one-third the manpower of three years ago. Another Solarex plant is automating the complicated task of producing ''thin film'' cells that use less costly materials in small amo... |
362220_1 | Careers; Rethinking Business Education | of an intensive 11-month program and the 15-month program offered at some American graduate schools. Dr. Rosenblum said there are some creative alternatives. ''A few of us on the commission discussed a year program right after college, a second year about six years later in a person's career, followed by a two-month pr... |
362198_0 | Alaskan Brown Bear Faces Greatest Peril | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your article on Alaskan natives whose poverty may force them to sell land they were given by Congress to make them self-sufficient (front page, June 1) sheds needed light on a grave threat to Alaskan wildlife. Politically blocked from conveying their aboriginal lands to Federal refug... |
362356_11 | Huge Space Platforms Seen as Distorting Studies of Earth | a separate satellite for all the instruments.'' Nevertheless, in response to the concerns, NASA planners are re-examining the wisdom of grouping the instruments, although they still plan to do so on the first series of three platforms. With five-year lifetimes each, these will monitor the globe for 15 years. In a repor... |
362209_1 | Jiucun Journal; In a Chinese Desert, Once-Barren Lives Bloom | it was sad to leave my old village,'' Chen Wenxue, a wiry 25-year-old man, said as he showed off the plain mud hut into which he moved a year ago with his wife and infant child. ''Even though it wasn't a good place, and it was poor, it was still home. But this is better for the child.'' A Better House Is Next A short w... |
362755_1 | British Hope for Talks on Ulster Rule | Government could eventually end direct rule, which was imposed in 1972, three years after the sectarian strife known as ''the troubles'' began. The talks about talks are not expected to involve Sinn Fein, the political arm of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The British Government's current position is that it will ... |
363974_2 | Reform Judaism Votes to Accept Active Homosexuals in Rabbinate | as rabbis must approve that which the present culture proclaims.'' Rabbi Berger implored his colleagues to reject the resolution saying, ''Do not desecrate all of that for which I stand.'' ''For the life of me,'' he added, ''I cannot see how homosexual rabbis can be the role models our people need and want.'' Rabbi Yoe... |
363946_0 | Careers; Minority Opportunity Programs | LEAD: THE New York City Human Resources Administration held a graduation ceremony on Friday for nine women moving from public assistance to private employment with wages of $13,000 to $19,000 a year. They completed a five-month course that taught them the computer, telephone and clerical skills needed to work in debt c... |
363902_3 | Science Fiction Nears Reality: Pocket Phone for Global Calls | disappears. The company plans in 1994 to begin launching inexpensive 700-pound satellites, up to 11 per rocket, that are built to last five years; it will own the satellites but will license the right to build handsets that use them. Motorola has named the project Iridium, after the element iridium, which has 77 electr... |
363902_4 | Science Fiction Nears Reality: Pocket Phone for Global Calls | calls from their soil. ''Whether it'll be delivered on time, I'm not sure,'' said Michael J. Zuliani, the president of Telesat Mobile Inc., a Canadian satellite company that has agreed to work with Motorola on the system. The technical issues represent ''a challenge, but we're up to it,'' he said. Mr. Zuliani said that... |
361057_0 | Senate Passes Measure to Protect Alaskan Forest | LEAD: Seeking to strike a compromise between environmentalists and the timber industry, the Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation today to prohibit logging on 673,000 acres of pristine Alaskan land in the Tongass National Forest. Seeking to strike a compromise between environmentalists and the timber industry, the... |
359382_0 | A Search to Bar Retardation in a New Generation | LEAD: Pediatricians throughout the 50 states are rejoicing at the remarkable success of a once-revolutionary screening program and diet therapy to prevent mental retardation in the nearly 300 American babies who are born each year with an inherited metabolic disorder called phenylketonuria. Pediatricians throughout the... |
394340_1 | Patterns | stood amid metal tree sculptures and hanging fisherman's nets, which framed a series of exotic limited-edition items. There was a "basket" coat that was woven from straw; a silk flower bustier that was done in the manner of the dried-flower arrangements that are popular today, and a fluid shrug jacket that was in the G... |
396612_3 | Books of The Times; Further Grim Reflections on the American Mind | that consistently illuminated the earlier book. In the middle section, "Teachers," Mr. Bloom pays tribute to three mentors: Leo Strauss, a philosopher who taught at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md.; Raymond Aron, the French intellectual whom the author calls "the last of the liberals"; and Alexandre Kojeve, a brill... |
396747_0 | Rules on Whales | |
396873_2 | DEVICE IN AIR BAGS PROMPTS RECALLS | Torrance, Calif., said the company believed about 36 1990 Acura Legends used the bags. Jay Amestoy, a spokesman for Mazda Motor of America in Irvine, Calif., said the company knows thus far of only one 1990 RX-7 convertible involved in the recall. A spokesman for Chrysler Corporation, the country's largest user of air ... |
396898_0 | Careers; Popularizing Accounting For Students | IN this time of recession concerns, the accounting profession, like many others, is undergoing cutbacks in pay or staffing. Yet accounting might be one of the best careers for the future. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, reporting on occupations with the largest growth prospects, says that the army of 963,000 accountant... |
388259_0 | Instead of Nuts, Bears Gather Foes in Trenton | LEAD: Of all the special interests battling for political advantage here, perhaps the group giving its supporters the biggest public relations headache is 225 or so black bears who have appeared in force on suburban streets just as animal-rights adovcates are trying to plead the bears' case before the Legislature. Of a... |
388991_2 | Review/Art; Where the Physical and the Spiritual Both Meld and Clash | in no fewer than four of the current Mexican shows, which may not speak well for the number of strong critical voices in Mexico.) From this exhibition and the one at the Exhibition Space, it is possible to make some generalizations about contemporary Mexican art. There is no stylistic or ideological orthodoxy. The body... |
388957_0 | On Environment, Cuomo Goals Still Elusive | LEAD: The section on environmental protection in Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's first State of the State message, in 1983, was barely a page long and included proposals to modernize fish hatcheries and build more boat launches. The section on environmental protection in Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's first State of the State message, in... |
392200_0 | Taiwan Sees Trade Growth | LEAD: Taiwan expects to be among the world's 10 largest trading nations by 1996 when its foreign trade is expected to hit nearly $200 billion, the Board of Foreign Trade said Sunday. Taiwan expects to be among the world's 10 largest trading nations by 1996 when its foreign trade is expected to hit nearly $200 billion, ... |
392356_1 | The Wanderings of a Gigantic Iceberg Uncover Polar Currents | the Bay of Whales. From a sheltered mooring in this ice-girt bay, Roald Amundsen set out in 1911 on his successful dog-sled trip to the South Pole, and in the 1930's and 1940's, Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd of the Navy based his Little America camps on the ice shelf near the bay. B-9's immense size attracted scientific in... |
392231_0 | Soviets Expel the Crew Of a Greenpeace Ship | LEAD: A Greenpeace crew detained by the Soviet Union for nearly a week was expelled on Saturday after their ship was seized off an Arctic island, State Department officials said today. A Greenpeace crew detained by the Soviet Union for nearly a week was expelled on Saturday after their ship was seized off an Arctic isl... |
394784_0 | Frederico Westphalen Journal; In Footsteps of Apostles: Married Priest's Story | The Rev. Ivo Schmitt, a Roman Catholic priest here, was discussing celibacy when his wife, Adulina, walked in from the vegetable garden carrying the couple's clean laundry. "From what we know, at least 10 of the apostles were married," the priest said as his wife heated water for a pot of tea. Long nurtured in a cozy b... |
393415_0 | Pirelli in Talks On Soviet Deal | LEAD: Pirelli of Italy is negotiating a joint venture to produce car tires in the Soviet Union, a Moscow-based Pirelli official said. Finding quality tires is difficult in the Soviet Union, where motorists drive on poorly maintained streets full of bumps and potholes. Soviet-made tires have a reputation of shredding ea... |
393567_2 | Debate Over Federal Tire Ratings Just Keeps Rolling Along | tire marketing, ordered Federal regulators to develop a tire-rating system to help consumers. The results are the present Uniform Tire Quality Grading System, which rates tires on two safety factors, traction and temperature resistance, and one economy factor, tread wear. For traction, measured by a tire's ability to s... |
393589_0 | Don't Let Redwoods Fall to Corporate Greed; A Global Resource | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The attempt to ''save the rain forests'' is largely a futile campaign owing to a confused idea of property rights. Having collected medicinal plants in some tropical regions since 1969, I write with the knowledge that independent countries do not want outsiders like United States env... |
393565_2 | Cellular Phone Deals for Alert Buyers | buyer could be locked in with one service provider and cannot change to another to get better service or a lower price until the period ends. Because cellular phone owners pay for both incoming and outgoing calls, providers are offering a slew of service plans encompassing the monthly charge and the per-minute use char... |
392672_1 | Conferees Back Stiff Curbs on Chemical Emissions | conferees. ''It's the first time we've dealt with cancer-causing chemicals.'' The agreement to control emissions of toxic substances would broaden the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate thousands of businesses and hundreds of pollutants that have never before come under Government restrictions... |
392711_0 | Vatican Approves 2 Married Priests in Brazil | LEAD: A Roman Catholic Cardinal attending the worldwide synod of bishops has disclosed that two married men in Brazil became priests with papal approval. A Roman Catholic Cardinal attending the worldwide synod of bishops has disclosed that two married men in Brazil became priests with papal approval. The disclosure by ... |
392883_4 | For Adobe, Whether Humble or Fashionable, It's Mud to Mud | of a ''control'' wall that has had no special protection or treatment - ''amendments,'' as they say in the adobe game. These techniques are being explored as ways of preserving historic adobe buildings, but they might eventually be found useful in new construction. Mr. Taylor has found, for example, that it does not he... |
390570_0 | Church Leaders Voice Doubts on U.S. Gulf Policy | LEAD: Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders are beginning to raise moral questions about American policy in the Persian Gulf, edging away from the general support they voiced for it two months ago and opening up a gap with their Jewish counterparts. Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders are beginning to raise moral que... |
390556_2 | Quebec Indians Ponder True Cost of Electricity | plans in Federal and provincial courts and through a public relations campaign. Hydro-Quebec, which had hoped to complete work in 1998, also faces government environmental reviews that could delay construction for several years. In the meantime, the company wants to start building a 100-mile-long road north to Great Wh... |
387999_1 | Vatican Meeting Studies 'Burnout' Among Priests | of how to reinforce the regulation. Their goal would be to help seminary students and priests overcome, as one senior official put it, ''any hidden frailties, poor motivation or deep resistance'' that they may have. Nonetheless, church leaders acknowledge that the issue of sex and the clergy cannot be ignored if they a... |
388043_0 | World Leaders Endorse Plan To Improve Lives of Children | LEAD: Leaders from more than 70 nations came together here today in an extraordinary show of concern for the world's poorest children. They adopted a declaration and a plan of action committing them to drastically improving the lives of those children. Leaders from more than 70 nations came together here today in an ex... |
388050_0 | Excerpts From the United Nations Declaration on Children | LEAD: Following are excerpts from the declaration on children issued here today: Following are excerpts from the declaration on children issued here today: We have gathered at the World Summit for Children to undertake a joint commitment and to make an urgent universal appeal - to give every child a better future. The ... |
388050_9 | Excerpts From the United Nations Declaration on Children | as enumerated in the World Summit Declaration and this Plan of Action. (iii) Each country is urged to re-examine in the context of its particular national situation, its current national budget, and in the case of donor countries, their development assistance budgets, to ensure that programs aimed at the achievement of... |
388080_1 | Will the Children Really Be Helped? | this extraordinary gathering,'' said Dr. Rosenfield, an obstetrician-gynecologist. ''I think we will see greater allocation of resources for child protection and survival in some countries.'' Skeptics asserted that world leaders would carry out the commitments made here today only if they were held strictly accountable... |
389074_2 | Give Me Your Tired, Your Rusty . . . | area to offset the pollution they generate by purchasing old vehicles. Offer to Aerospace Companies In Southern California, the air quality district has instituted a similar program in which aerospace companies can earn credits toward meeting clean-air regulations by buying and junking old cars. No company has yet take... |
392076_2 | Bronx Woman Killed as Shots Erupt on Street | jarring drumbeats of salsa screamed from passing cars. The outpouring of affection for Ms. Rodriguez, whom neighbors described as the heartbeat of their Puerto Rican community, stood in sharp contrast to the brutality of the neighborhood. Residents say dealers hustle crack, cocaine and heroin, and drug turf wars are we... |
392077_2 | Bronx Woman Killed as Shots Erupt on Street | jarring drumbeats of salsa screamed from passing cars. The outpouring of affection for Ms. Rodriguez, whom neighbors described as the heartbeat of their Puerto Rican community, stood in sharp contrast to the brutality of the neighborhood. Residents say dealers hustle crack, cocaine and heroin, and drug turf wars are we... |
391971_1 | 5 Years After Duvalier, Haiti Is Still in Shambles | run from incidents of Government mismanagement and outright thievery to the flight of customers and investors alike in the face of violence, neglect and decay. ''We have had a succession of Governments without economic plans,'' Raymond Lafontant, president of the Haitian Industrial Association, said of the five regimes... |
395911_2 | Ethicizationism | Professionals have subjected the question to excruciatingly complete analysis. The entire issue has undergone thorough ethicization. What blessings progress has brought us. Remember back when Susskind was relying on dollar-a-head amateurs to guide America along the treacherous path between the good and the bad? Talk ab... |
392445_1 | EATING WELL | diets provide less than half the Recommended Dietary Allowance. That recommendation, set by the National Academy of Sciences, calls for 800 milligrams of calcium a day for adults older than 24. In the study, 301 postmenopausal women, none of whom were taking estrogen, were given either a placebo or one of two kinds of ... |
395267_0 | Give Tax Incentives to Hire the Unemployed | To the Editor: Figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics through August 1990 show 1.842 million white-collar workers unemployed, an increase of 364,000 in 12 months. With an average wait between jobs of 7 months, the prospect for most of an early return to employment is not good. These figures show a large con... |
395143_1 | by Goodyear, the nation's largest tire maker. It came despite an 8.2 percent increase in sales and a 3.8 percent rise in the number of tires sold. The company reported sales of $2.9 billion for the quarter, compared with $2.68 billion in the corresponding period last year. The quarter's results underscored the deep fin... | |
395051_0 | Menopause Is Found No Bar to Pregnancy | In a remarkable advance, researchers have shown that older women who have gone through menopause can easily become pregnant using donated eggs. The results, being published today, give women who have been considered hopelessly infertile an unexpected second chance, the researchers said. "It turned their lives around," ... |
395065_0 | Skills-Training Policy Opening Doors to Jobs | For the last eight years researchers have clocked and gauged the experiences of several thousand single mothers here and in three other cities, trying to answer one of the most elusive questions in social policy: how to turn welfare recipients into workers. As a result they are praising the approach of a San Jose progr... |
388787_4 | Thailand's Cigarette Ban Upset | States Cigarette Export Association estimates that the Thai market, once open, could produce $150 million in sales for United States companies. Bootlegged American cigarettes already have a share of the Thai market estimated to be 5 percent. The trade representative's office is now considering what retaliatory action w... |
397010_0 | Women Priests? Rome Would Sooner End Celibacy; Reformation Needed | To the Editor: In "Sex Asks Its Due at Vatican Synod on Priests" (news article, Oct. 7), you quote Bishop Valfredo Bernardo Tepe, a Brazilian, pleading the need for married priests in an area and at a time when "needs and expectations exceed all human possibility." In the 1971 Roman Catholic synod, under a different po... |
397111_0 | Genetics Institute | The stock of Genetics Institute fell $2.50 a share yesterday, to $34.125, and the company attributed the drop to the fact that one of its products would not be reviewed by a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Dec. 12 and 13. The committee is expected to review two similar products by its competitors. Ge... |
397011_0 | Women Priests? Rome Would Sooner End Celibacy; Eastern Rite Priests | To the Editor: Your otherwise judicious article on the prospect of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England (Oct. 14) states that Anglican traditionalists oppose ordination of women partly on the ground that such ordinations would inhibit Anglican reunion with the Roman Catholic Church; you th... |
397147_0 | CENSUS BY CHINA FINDS 1.13 BILLION | China announced today that the most thorough census in the nation's history had found that the country's population is 1.133 billion. The official New China News Agency announced a precise figure -- a population of 1,133,682,501 -- as of July 1, "zero hour" for the fourth national census. But in the four months since t... |
397002_0 | Women Priests? Rome Would Sooner End Celibacy | To the Editor: An interview with Dr. Graham Leonard, Anglican Bishop of London, who sees the ordination of women as inevitable (news article, Oct. 14), gives the impression that the ordination of women and the marriage of the Anglican clergy are equal obstacles to eventual reunion with Rome. This is not the case. Cleri... |
388402_1 | Corral Journal; Chile's Woodmen Fret at Cry 'Spare That Forest!' | resources of our area,'' said Sergio Campos, a retired businessman and president of the local committee supporting the project. ''We want the right to work and improve our standard of living,'' he said, pointing out that at least half the male labor force of Corral has no steady source of income. ''If they are not goin... |
390054_4 | As Its Virtues Emerge, The Potato Goes Global | the most modern methods of genetic engineering: the introduction of synthetic genes that can improve the already high nutritional value of the potato and confer resistance to a wide range of diseases and pests. In collaboration with Dr. Jesse Jaynes at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Dr. Dodds of the Lima ce... |
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