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403954_1 | Park Debate Continues | department made a written request that Wechsler's lessees remove their possessions by a certain date, as a preliminary step to removing the structures. The department acted to remove the personal property only after its requests were ignored and the date fixed had passed without action. Department representatives found... |
401561_2 | Legislators Seek Laws to Aid Environment | try to enact legislation for protecting rapidly disappearing tropical forests. Their proposed law would require their Governments to enter negotiations on an international timber agreement. Such an accord would reduce timber cutting, improve economic returns to the the tropical countries and encourage the sustainable u... |
399506_0 | Dangers Can Lurk In Luggage | You've packed for a week's vacation and the luggage you are entrusting to the airline contains some seemingly harmless items: matches, nail-polish remover, a cigarette lighter, a can of hair spray. But in the air, even in a suitcase, vibrations can ignite matches, chemicals in nail-polish remover and even a cigarette l... |
399583_0 | International Monetary Fund Helps Preserve the Environment | To the Editor: Readers alarmed by decimation of tropical rain forests should not be deluded by full-page advertisements of the Rainforest Action Network in your newspaper and others charging that the International Monetary Fund is one of the "world's leading architects of environmental destruction" (Oct. 15). I will re... |
404600_3 | EATING WELL | it is oxidized or damaged by these unstable chemicals. If beta carotene can prevent the oxidation of cholesterol, it might minimize the damage to arteries. Though research with supplements is scarce, there have been a few studies that suggest beneficial effects of beta carotene. Dr. Harinder Garewal, associate professo... |
404701_0 | Trusts for the Disabled Gaining Support; Service Census | To the Editor: In New York State, the providers and consumers of services for people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities have established a system for registering people waiting for services in a single computer data base. This system allows a count of the number of people waiting for service, ... |
404646_0 | Study Links Estrogen to Cancer, but Risk Is Slight | The largest study of its kind ever conducted has found that women who take estrogen after menopause run an increased risk of developing breast cancer. But experts said the findings did not mean that post-menopausal women should stop taking estrogen. The benefits of the drug are great, they said, and the increased risk ... |
402999_1 | Czechoslovak Church's Quandary: Married Priests | full legal status after the collapse of Communist rule. "We must always bear in mind that these religious performed enormous services for the church." The issue poses serious problems for the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican, which does not permit married clergy and bars women from ordination. A recently concluded... |
403003_0 | Women Nowadays Take Pregnancy in Stride; Postmenopausal Puzzle | To the Editor: While some may be excited about the new-found ability of postmenopausal women to become pregnant ("Menopause Is Found No Bar to Pregnancy," front page, Oct. 25), I am much more dismayed than excited by the prospect. As the case of surrogate motherhood in Santa Ana, Calif. (news article, Oct. 23), taught ... |
397719_0 | 43 Nations Agree to Ban Ocean Dumping | The world's largest industrial nations agreed on Thursday to a global ban on dumping industrial waste at sea and then set the stage today for restricting the far greater volume of marine pollution discharged on land. "This is very promising," said Filip Facius, head of the Danish delegation, which co-sponsored the reso... |
399345_0 | PROTEST IN FRANCE GAINING MOMENTUM | High school students demanding smaller classes, greater safety and vastly increased educational spending demonstrated in Paris and other French cities for the fourth straight day today, in a fast-growing movement that has thrown the Socialist Government on the defensive. With a big demonstration planned for Paris next ... |
398830_6 | Mail-Order Eating, From Stew to Nuts | Zebra brownies, a layer of brownies and one of walnut blondies. The blondie part tastes like the bowl lickings. Scrumptious. A 1 1/2-pound box is $10 plus shipping. American Express, check or money order. Cutoff for Christmas orders: Dec. 10. 16. DIRECT MARKETING DE SANTA FE , 630 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, N... |
398867_0 | Outspoken Critic of the I.R.A. Is Named Primate of Ireland | Bishop Cahal Daly, an outspoken critic of the Irish Republican Army, was named Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland today. Archbishop Daly, who had been Bishop of Down and Connor, the diocese that includes Belfast, becomes the spiritual leader of four million Roman Catholics in the Irish Republic and Northern Ir... |
398730_0 | Europeans Reach Accord On Farm Aid | After five weeks of wrangling about the future of small farmers, the members of the European Community agreed tonight that reductions in agricultural subsidies should be part of their negotiating position in the current round of worldwide talks aimed at freer trade. Although purposely vague, the European position gener... |
398768_0 | In Mexico, Machismo Slows Family Planning | Nearly two decades after the authorities here embarked on a sweeping program of public-sponsored birth control, Mexico has become a model of effective third-world family planning. But in a Latin American culture of machismo, where a man's virility is still measured by the offspring he sires, officials say the responsib... |
404269_0 | Europe 1992 Changes Worry Caribbean Banana Farmers | Banana farmers in the Caribbean are worried about the economic changes in Europe, which they fear could kill their industry. With trade barriers among members of the European Community scheduled to end in 1992, St. Lucia and other islands in the Windward chain stand to lose the protection they have long enjoyed for the... |
404140_2 | New Telescope to Enable Mapping Of More Than a Million Galaxies | in space, from as few as 1,000 to more than 100,000. Scientists familiar with the project credit Dr. James Gunn, an astrophysicist at Princeton, with designing the telescope, which would be the first to combine from the outset modern optical, detector and computer technologies. The mirror, for example, will be shaped t... |
400591_0 | Labor Relations Regress to Robber Baron Era | To the Editor: "Striking Out at Public Order" (editorial, Nov. 2) raises an excellent point and focuses our attention on the serious development of violence in our streets as the result of The Daily News strike. Yet you lost an excellent opportunity to question why there has been an increase in strike-related violence ... |
400719_2 | Book Notes | house that specializes in literary fiction and nonfiction. Keitha Capouya, president of New Amsterdam, said "To show the folly we are capable of, we had not even started our publishing house when we bought an option on all Kadare's works." ("We" includes her husband, Emile, the company vice president.) The Capouyas rea... |
400570_0 | As Paris Mends, Students Plan More Protests | With Paris nursing its wounds after looting and violence disrupted a huge demonstration here on Monday, French high school students announced plans today to continue their campaign of protests against overcrowded classrooms, inadequate security and too few teachers. Although the Government responded to Monday's heavy s... |
400405_0 | France Yields to a Huge Student Protest | Bending to pressure from a student protest movement that put more than 100,000 demonstrators onto the streets of Paris today, the French Government announced an "emergency plan" to improve conditions in the country's 4,700 senior high schools. About 150,000 students marched peacefully in dozens of other French towns an... |
400334_7 | Undersea Robots Open a New Age Of Exploration | and an 80-horsepower motor. In 1988, Mr. Mullen said, the robot picked up 10 tons of wreckage from a Boeing 747 that fell into 15,000 feet of water off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. He said South African Airways rebuilt a quarter of the jet to try to find out why the pilot lost control after a fire. Everyone aboard wa... |
400430_0 | Fire Contained at Tire Dump | Using bulldozers and loads of sand, more than 300 firefighters battled a blaze at a tire dump for 10 hours before containing it early today. The blaze, which began among more than 25,000 tires on Sunday near the Pinelands, was contained about 3 A.M. today. The cause was still being investigated. Small mounds of tires c... |
402196_0 | Poles Seek to Reverse Output Drop | Poland's trailblazing economic program to replace Communism with capitalism has slashed inflation, stabilized the nation's currency and made food lines a thing of the past. But the program now faces one of its biggest tests: reversing the huge drop in economic output that Poland has suffered. The program has reached a ... |
402210_5 | Despite Order, U.S. Stalls Aid to Poor Children | because they contain essential information: medical evidence of disability, family income data, and names and addresses that would help the Government track down people eligible for payments under the Supreme Court ruling. But Mrs. Hinckley at the Social Security headquarters said it would be "inordinately burdensome" ... |
402160_1 | Metro Matters; Is Panel Set Up To Curb Bias Itself Unlawful? | against a grocery store in Brooklyn owned by Korean immigrants. "The most elaborate and sophisticated plans for districts have come from Asians in Queens and Manhattan," Mr. Macchiarola said. The lawsuit, though, is about principle, not process; about means, not ends. The lead plaintiff is Richard Ravitch, who resigned... |
402184_0 | Censure Vote May Topple Government in France | France's Socialist Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, today faces the most serious political challenge since he took office 30 months ago -- a censure vote in the National Assembly in which conservatives and Communists are expected to combine against him. If his opponents win a no-confidence vote related to a social securi... |
402229_0 | Two Crewmen From Trawler Are Held After a Disturbance | Two crewmen from a trawler were being held by the Federal authorities today on assault charges after a shipboard disturbance over unpaid wages. The skipper of the 205-foot Arctic Hero had barricaded himself inside the wheelhouse and the chief engineer had locked himself in engine room, after about seven of the 45 crew ... |
402630_1 | To Quiet Its Own Critics, China Aims at Japan | protests in 1985 "reactionary" -- and the students decided not to hold an illegal protest, the teacher said. Tensions with Japan came to light last month, over Tokyo's plans to send troops to the Persian Gulf and over a territorial dispute about some uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The dispute about ownershi... |
402700_4 | Cutting the Computer Wire Snarl | of frequencies with each computer decoding only the signal of the computer with which it is communicating. This system divides and distributes the signal across many different frequencies, with only a little data on any one frequency at a time. NCR was forced to use this technique because its product uses radio frequen... |
399632_2 | Recycling Polystyrene Is the Best Solution | conserve energy and valuable resources, the National Polystyrene Recycling Company was started in June of 1989. It is the nation's first network of polystyrene-recycling centers. By 1995, the company's goal is to recycle 250 million pounds of polystyrene annually -- a goal consistent with the United States Environmenta... |
399672_0 | Responding on the Learning Disabled | Your report on the learning disabled was a disservice to both parent and professional. How it missed the landmark study, a veritable watershed, the study of a sample of 35,000 children tested at 7 years of age in the 1970's by Broman et al ("Low Achieving Children") is baffling. There, in plain English, is the most inc... |
399888_0 | A Gentle Smile And the Art Of Ancient Greece | A MINOAN BRONZE HEAD of a gently smiling youth, wearing a pigtail on the top of his shaved head, exudes enormous charm out of all proportion to its inch-and-a-half height. The Lilliputian study is the centerpiece of "The Art of Prehistoric Greece," an exhibition at the gallery of Michael Ward, 9 East 93d Street in Manh... |
399958_0 | About Men; How Sweet The Sound | I ride an old motorcycle. It breaks down regularly, and the guy who used to do the repair work went bankrupt and left town. I called around, and the only place willing to do the work now is about an hour away, a chopper shop where the local motorcycle gangs get their bikes fixed. The inside of the shop is black. Everyt... |
399816_0 | Small Hellenistic Sculptures And a Painter's Rebellion | THE Art Museum at Princeton University is a major exhibition in itself, particularly now that it has been refurbished -- and enriched by new acquisitions. Custom dictates, however, that temporary installations get the ink, and the two currently on view are certainly worthy of attention. One is "The Coroplast's Art," wh... |
399746_0 | SETI, PHONE HOME In our human infancy, we may think that interstellar communication is possible only by means of our present technology -- specifically, radio waves. But what if extraterrestrial civilizations have developed means of communication far more subtle and advanced than ours -- communication through telepathi... | |
399602_2 | Flood Tunnel Plan: A State-U.S. Split | today, the major objections were cost and environmental factors. In 1976, Congress directed the corps yet again to study flooding in the basin. After reviewing more than 150 alternatives, the corps singled out 35 economically feasible plans, and in 1984 state officials selected the tunnel option for further development... |
399738_1 | All About/Cruise Lines; A Deluge of Growth in the Floating Vacation Market | PLAYING THE RECESSION More Berths, but Higher Air Fares Through the last decade, the outlook for the cruise business has been as sunny as the Caribbean skies. Although most companies are private and need not release figures, analysts say industry revenues and profits have been growhing consistently. Industry executives... |
399627_2 | Recycling Polystyrene Is the Best Solution | conserve energy and valuable resources, the National Polystyrene Recycling Company was started in June of 1989. It is the nation's first network of polystyrene-recycling centers. By 1995, the company's goal is to recycle 250 million pounds of polystyrene annually -- a goal consistent with the United States Environmenta... |
399665_0 | Responding on the Learning Disabled | The article "The Learning Disabled: Challenge to Identify" [ Oct. 7 ] points out the need for independent, comprehensive evaluation of children who pose problems to the school. This is especially true in the Riverhead district, where the Superintendent's wishes are expected to be exactly affected by clinical as well as... |
399670_0 | Responding on the Learning Disabled | The article is unfortunately typical of journalistic naivete (blindness?) in catering to the educational establishment party line about treatment of kids who aren't learning as fast as their peers. The entire focus of the article assumes that all problems reside in the child. The teaching-learning dialogue is a two-way... |
400040_6 | New Yale Program Treats Breast Cancer | child and her synthetic hormone intake. Studies have shown that women over the age of 30 who take birth-control pills in low doses for short periods of time probably don't have any higher risk of developing cancer. But if taken in high doses for more than 5 or 10 years, it may predispose women to developing breast canc... |
400023_0 | Ideas & Trends; Fighting for Control of America's Hinterlands | A VAST wilderness preserve in Indiana may seem unlikely as corn fields in the northern tundra, but that is just what Representative Don Young of Alaska proposed -- seriously, he said -- in the waning days of the Congressional session. Mr. Young, a Republican who is the lone Congressman from the 49th state, was trying t... |
399666_0 | Responding on the Learning Disabled | I am a parent of a dyslexic child. If the New York State Department of Education had its way, he certainly would have been labeled as "learning disabled." Over the years I have grown to hate that term. The term "learning disabled" has no meaning. It was created as an umbrella term by the Federal Government in the mid-1... |
404777_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about a study of estrogen and breast cancer omitted the name of the medical journal that reported the research. It is The Journal of the American Medical Association. The article also misidentified a cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School. He is Dr. I. Craig Henderson. Because of an editing er... |
404810_3 | Graduate Schools Fill With Foreigners | study. It is far easier, they say, to go directly into the work force with a bachelor's degree. The Wages of Poor Schooling Recognition is growing that many American students cannot make the grade in the demanding graduate and postgraduate levels because they have not received adequate training and motivation, especial... |
403594_1 | Still Cheating the Disabled | reassuring A 1974 law provides monthly Social Security stipends and Medicaid coverage to adults too disabled to work and poor children with handicaps "of comparable severity." The agency evaluates adult applicants by comparing their impairments with a list of common disabilities. It then follows up with examinations fo... |
403637_0 | Japanese Portables Threaten American Lead in Computers | It happened in cars and in office copiers. Now the computer industry, a star of the American economy, is being threatened by a new wave of small Japanese products. In the last two years, lightweight portable computers have become the fastest-growing part of the computer business. And as the machines get smaller and sma... |
401434_2 | Peru's Church Battles a Contraception Plan | planning techniques. Playing on racial fears of a largely Indian population, a military Government in the late 1960's shut down foreign-financed family planning clinics, asserting that they were outposts of imperialism. The clinics reopened in the 1970's, but Peru retained one of Latin America's highest growth rates --... |
401241_1 | Bishops Prefer Problems on Outside | issues of our time." A Distant Agenda? But Wednesday's meeting provided another image -- of Bishop Kenneth E. Untener of Saginaw, Mich., pleading with his colleagues not simply to repeat, no matter how gently, the papal condemnation of contraception but to grapple candidly with the objections raised by many Catholic la... |
401219_3 | Brazil's Remote Amazon Oil Effort | Mr. Teixeira, a free-market economist, startled many Brazilians by proposing a long-term solution: ending the company's monopoly, which under Brazil's 1988 Constitution encompasses exploration, production, refining, importing and exporting. Later, Mr. Collor seemed to endorse this idea, suggesting that a revision of th... |
401219_4 | Brazil's Remote Amazon Oil Effort | to get the oil out. From November through June, tropical rains swell the Urucu River, allowing barges to bring in provisions and to ship out oil. During the rest of the year, the river is low, the barges stranded. To allow year-round pumping of oil, Petrobras built a 23-mile pipeline to the Tefe River, which is always ... |
398404_0 | Sao Paulo Journal; The Pollution Is Horror Enough. Now Alligators. | It could be the script for a Grade B movie -- "Reptile Revenge of the Rain Forest." Wild alligators rise from the polluted waters of Brazil's coastal cities and terrorize boaters, joggers and children's birthday parties. But here in this steel-and-glass metropolis of 12 million people, South America's largest city, the... |
398337_0 | For Skilled Foreigners, Lower Hurdles to U.S. | Responding to warnings that the United States is running short of skilled professionals, a new immigration measure is about to open the nation's doors to people like Kap Pyo Kwon, master of a rare and specialized computer art that is vital to the airline and banking industries. "It was very difficult to come over here,... |
397310_0 | D.E.A. to Review Claims of Role By Agent in the Pan Am Bombing | The Drug Enforcement Administration said today that it would review persistent claims that an American who died in the terrorist bombing of Pan American Flight 103 in 1988 was an agency informant who smuggled the bomb onto the aircraft in the mistaken belief that it was a shipment of heroin. In a written statement, the... |
397250_0 | Intense Exercise Safe for Women, Study Says | Women who exercise, even those dedicated women who run marathons, are no more likely to have menstrual disturbances than women who do not exercise, a new study has found. For more than a decade, female athletes have been warned that intense exercise can disrupt their menstrual cycles, stopping them from ovulating. As a... |
402013_1 | WOMAN IN THE NEWS: Joan B. Campbell; 'Seasoned Ecumenist' Takes Charge | suburb of Shaker Heights. "My mother's reaction was: 'Clean up under your beds. The police will be looking for bombs, and I don't want them to find any mess under there.' " Ms. Campbell, currently the head of the American office of the World Council of Churches, will take the helm of the National Council in March. She ... |
402042_4 | Peru Suggests U.S. Rethink Eradication in Land Where Coca Is Still King | refugees from the left-wing terrorism that plagues the Peruvian Andes. Peru's Government calculates that one million people of the nation's population of 22 million depend on coca harvests for their livelihood. Probably the nation's largest export, Peru's coca-leaf harvest annually sells for $1 billion to $1.5 billion.... |
401939_3 | A Thanksgiving Celebration Of the Communal Spirit | that might cast a negative light on Jews, some people have questioned his own Christian faith, Mr. MacLennan said. He stressed, however, that his intention was to develop a wider understanding and appreciation of the "integrity, importance and value" of both religions. Rabbi Stern said he agreed with the minister that ... |
401932_1 | 'Recycled Solutions' At Rutgers | a strong sense of public relations, and his remarks, as paraphrased in the Sept. 30 article, seem calculated toward this end. He wants to do something for students and if he cannot, the budget crisis is set up to be blamed. For example, "he would like to see a resource center for students with peer tutoring, computer-a... |
402516_5 | Shaping Floods of Data, Computers 'See' the Unseen | property of having infinitely many parallel lines passing through a point. One of the characteristics of ordinary space is that there is only one line that is parallel to another and goes through a given point. The space, called hyperbolic, on Dr. Gunn's computer screen, can be completely filled by packing it with docd... |
402549_2 | A Standout in a Crowded Field | world's smallest desktop 386SX." When the user goes on the road, the auxiliary monitor and keyboard are simply disconnected. AST Research can be reached at (714) 727-4141. The Compaq LTE 386s/20 has one big advantage over the AST and most of the other notebooks, however: it is available now. With few exceptions, the ot... |
402552_2 | Ideas for Making Ocean Trap Carbon Dioxide Arouse Hope and Fear | plants, sinks into the ocean or remains trapped in the atmosphere, he said. The rest is unaccounted for. Despite not knowing where the missing carbon goes, scientists say there are two fundamental ways to balance the carbon budget. One, discussed at a recent international gathering in Geneva, is to decrease carbon emis... |
404480_0 | Home-Computer Network Criticized for Limiting Users | The Prodigy Services Company, an in-home shopping and information service for personal-computer users, has issued guidelines restricting its electronic mail service. The move, made last week, was in response to criticism from users that restrictions Prodigy placed earlier this month on the use of its electronic bulleti... |
404303_1 | Freer World Trade Falls Victim to Its Own Success | Developing countries, which are being asked to open their markets in high technology and services, are pressing for greater access in textiles and food in the markets of the industrial countries. The world's trade rules were written 43 years ago and codified as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, known as GATT.... |
404303_5 | Freer World Trade Falls Victim to Its Own Success | unsuccessful, leaving a wide variety of import barriers and subsidies, including export subsidies, that make farm trade the most protected and distorted of any sector in the trade panoply. $250 Billion Farm Cost The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that it cost taxpayers and consumers in ... |
404304_13 | Youths Lacking Special Skills Find Jobs Leading Nowhere | benefits and the grant run out, he said he will try to work part time. The college prepares about 5,000 of its 10,000 students to transfer to universities, although only about half of the 5,000 do, and the rest for jobs that require skills: accounting, hotel management, computer services and a variety of medical specia... |
404494_4 | Thailand Is the Capital of Pirated Tapes | of the police. Unfortunately, enforcement varies with the part of town and the susceptibility of the officers to outside inducements. To be fair, Western diplomats say, the police can also be sued for wrongful prosecution. But the federation has started 3,000 cases in the last two years, and nearly 1,000 violators have... |
404493_0 | F.D.A. Ruling Sought For Engineered Crops | Concerned about the public's acceptance of the use of genetic engineering in producing fresh and processed foods, a California company today became the first in the agricultural biotechnology industry to ask the Food and Drug Administration to study the safety of a new tomato and two other gene-altered crops. The three... |
404471_0 | Corrections | An article on Friday about animal rights advocates and their confrontations with hunters referred incorrectly to hunting regulations in California. For two years there has been a moratorium on bow hunting of black bears; bow hunting in general has not been outlawed. |
401065_1 | Bishop Issues Warning on Birth Control | includes a reassertion of the official condemnation of contraception. Bishop Untener acknowledged that the condemnation was expressed "with much sensitivity." But taking issue with the document's assertion that "God's spirit is acting" through the official teaching, he said the spirit was also found in the minds of Cat... |
400899_0 | PROTESTERS DELAY TEST OF ATOM BOMB | An underground test of a British nuclear weapon was delayed today when four members of the environmental group Greenpeace were sighted near the detonation site minutes before the bomb was to go off. The protesters were arrested by security officers at the desert site, 105 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and the blast too... |
398530_0 | Anti-Abortion Bill Prompts Poles To Debate the Church's Influence | Under heavy pressure from the Catholic Church, including personal intervention by Pope John Paul II, the Polish legislature is moving toward banning abortion, a major means of birth control in this overwhelmingly Catholic country. The proposed ban is the focus of a fierce debate in Poland over the role of the Church, w... |
398480_0 | EFFORTS AT AMITY FALTER IN ULSTER | A two-and-a-half-year-old power-sharing arrangement between Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders here has been held up as proof that the division between the two religious groups in Northern Ireland can be bridged. But recent events highlight the difficulties in building such bridges and then preventing them... |
302672_0 | Topics of The Times; Congress Steps Ahead | LEAD: Last week, Congress acknowledged what President Bush will not: that galloping population growth merits attention. It voted to contribute to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities. Last week, Congress acknowledged what President Bush will not: that galloping population growth merits attention. It voted to contrib... |
300234_2 | Bishops Endorse Rite for Parishes Without Priests | The American bishops authorized the news service not only to regularize some existing practices but also to provide for the future. Almost a third of the nation's dioceses have parishes already holding Sunday services without a priest, the bishops reported, and seven out of eight dioceses will have some parishes facing... |
300100_2 | And Now, the Aftershock | wreaked havoc on roadways in the region, including Interstate 880 and the Oakland Bay Bridge, and devastated the Marina section of elegant homes. But only two hotels closed as a result - the Presidio Travelodge on Lombard Street and the San Franciscan Hotel on Market Street. Both are undergoing structural assessment; t... |
296510_0 | Palestinian Suicide Bombing Wounds 3 on an Israeli Boat | LEAD: A Palestinian guerrilla blew up his booby-trapped fishing boat in a suicide attack on an Israeli patrol boat on Monday night, killing himself and wounding three Israeli soldiers, the Israeli military reported today. A Palestinian guerrilla blew up his booby-trapped fishing boat in a suicide attack on an Israeli p... |
296466_0 | In Seattle Mayoral Race, a Sense of the Possible | LEAD: If this city is America's most livable metropolis, as two publications recently concluded, there is scant evidence in its first wide-open campaign for mayor in 12 years. If this city is America's most livable metropolis, as two publications recently concluded, there is scant evidence in its first wide-open campai... |
298238_5 | After Death, a Writer Is Accused of Anti-Semitism | -Christians, Communists, liberals, Jews, even such Greek philosophers as Plato and Aristotle whom Campbell charged with sapping the Greek spirit of preclassical heroic virtue. ''Joe tended to lump people together,'' Professor Finch said. ''So, for example, if he's criticizing Communists, he might be inclined to lump th... |
301138_1 | Sugar Prices Reach Highs On Lagging Global Output | in New York. The yearlong rise in prices of free-market sugar also exerted upward pressure on the controlled domestic market. At the close of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York, the March 1990 world sugar delivery, the most actively traded contract, soared 37-hundredths of a cent a pound, to a contract hi... |
301205_0 | Israeli Missiles for Pretoria: No. | LEAD: Washington protested when it learned that Israel was helping South Africa develop missiles with a range of 900 miles. But Israel rebuffed the protest. President Bush would serve his nonproliferation policy well if he renewed and strengthened his objections today when he talks to visiting Prime Minister Yitzhak Wa... |
301227_0 | At Last, a Practical Electric Vehicle? | LEAD: In the quest for clean air, the utility industry today introduced a high-technology entry to curb pollution from autos: an electric van that speeds along at up to 72 miles an hour, and can run for more than 100 miles without having to be recharged. In the quest for clean air, the utility industry today introduced... |
301123_1 | EDUCATION: Lessons; Trying to develop a way to reward good students who don't go to college | with better trained workers. ''Colleges and universities now have a virtual monopoly on awarding credentials,'' said Jerry W. Miller, director of the Washington office of American College Testing, which administers college admission tests. ''It's time to develop a system to serve the other half of the population - thos... |
301140_0 | Nonaligned Nations Seek Total Nuclear Test Ban | LEAD: Frustrated by the slow pace of nuclear disarmament, a group of nonaligned countries at this year's United Nations General Assembly is seeking to push the United States and Britain toward the Soviet position in favor of a total ban on nuclear testing. Frustrated by the slow pace of nuclear disarmament, a group of ... |
304686_0 | East Berlin Fills Void: Road Map of the West | LEAD: East Germany is about to publish its first road map of West Germany since the 1950's. East Germany is about to publish its first road map of West Germany since the 1950's. The Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland said on Saturday that demand for West German road maps since East Germany lifted travel curbs on N... |
305121_3 | Small College Shifts Focus To Minorities and the 90's | a multi-cultural contemporary institution serving the surrounding population. The most direct way of helping those students was to help them find work in New Jersey's new economy, which may need as many as 100,000 more workers by 1995. A Lot of Hiring The tight labor market has been building. According to recent Federa... |
305109_3 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; The Past Is Now the Latest Craze | Company's Lincoln-Mercury division. These tentative pokes at the past have lately become a flood. ''I thought nostalgia was a fad at first, but I'm convinced it's a phenomenon,'' said Michael D. Drexler, an executive vice president at the Bozell advertising agency. ''The size of the market is big enough now to capitali... |
304981_1 | Severely Disabled Gain School Aid | they may not be able to benefit from such services. The Supreme Court has refused to let public schools cut off educational help to severely handicapped children even though they may not be able to benefit from such services. The Court, without comment, on Monday rejected an appeal by the Rochester, N.H., school distri... |
303565_1 | Man is Guilty of Murdering Florida Decorator | not face the death penalty. The Australian Government has not decided if it will seek a role in the penalty phase of the trial, said the Australian consul, Ira Lindeman, who attended the week-long trial. Mr. Savage was adopted in Australia when he was 4 months old. His biological mother, Beverley Moore Whyman, who lear... |
299885_0 | Crop Genetics | LEAD: Crop Genetics International, an agricultural biotechnology company in Hanover, Md., said plants inoculated with its genetically engineered corn vaccine had reduced corn borer damage by more than 80 percent in greenhouse tests. The company said it was the first time that a plant had been able to grow its own pesti... |
299892_3 | Ferocity of Youth Violence Is Up, a School Official Says | attention to their children's behavior; the polarization produced by the mayoral election, and such subtle factors as the violence in rap and other popular music. The growth of crack, weapons and gangs have rendered that mixture explosive, he said. A Racial Perspective There is a ''racial component'' to the violence, h... |
299901_2 | Marriage Study That Caused Furor Is Revised to Omit Impact of Career | a 40-year-old woman had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than of getting married. By the time the Newsweek cover and other press reports had permeated the public consciousness, the Bennett-Bloom-Craig study had, in effect, become two studies. One, known to sociologists and demographers, was an academic an... |
305369_0 | Study Finds Possible Link Of Cancer and Power Lines | LEAD: A new study has found a statistically significant link between cancer and human exposure to electromagnetic fields from the network of electrical wires that crisscross the nation. A new study has found a statistically significant link between cancer and human exposure to electromagnetic fields from the network of... |
296804_3 | PERSONAL HEALTH | these children share a determination to make the most of their lives. For example, 14-year-old Ryan Martin, was paralyzed when a bullet shattered his spinal cord. He now plays competitive tennis in a lightweight wheelchair. Rachel Demaster, 10, who has insulin-dependent diabetes, has won trophies for swimming and socce... |
296839_0 | Sugar at 15-Month Highs; Brazil Weighs Export Halt | LEAD: Sugar futures prices exploded to 15-month highs yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York on news that Brazil, the world's fourth-largest producer, is considering suspending sugar exports. Sugar futures prices exploded to 15-month highs yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New ... |
298897_3 | Pisa Journal; Rome Leans on the Tower; the Tower Just Leans | for the privilege. That money goes to help Mr. Toniolo administer not only the tower but also the Romanesque cathedral, the circular baptistry and other buildings in the square. Sometimes, though, Pisa's 100,000 residents feel ill at ease in the tower's long shadow. They want to be more than just a tour-guide oddity. T... |
298872_1 | Checking Your Watch For Messages, Too | because it would appeal to everyone from the busy professional who does not like clipping a beeper on a belt to working parents who want to reach their children at all times. But other industry analysts and paging-company executives wonder whether the devices will really be used far more widely than existing paging sys... |
298868_0 | Education: Lessons | LEAD: Bryan Mayhann, a 16-year-old senior at Wewahitchka High School, had always imagined that a college education was beyond his reach. ''My father works in the paper mill, and it seemed like there was no way to pay for it,'' he said. Bryan Mayhann, a 16-year-old senior at Wewahitchka High School, had always imagined ... |
297824_1 | Making College Ends Meet: Gayle and Sally Fitzsimons | less expensive school, in 1996, when both boys are in college, the cost could easily exceed $40,000. With the breadwinner in a new job, it's sensible to keep a conservative, liquid investment like a money-market fund, the experts said. But the family should move from the O.T.C. stock fund into a more conservative inves... |
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