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1005919_6 | Allure of 'Titanic,' Minus Ice, Is Packing Cruise Ship Cabins | not hung up on the tragedy.'' Mr. Jackson is one of almost two dozen travel agents in more than a dozen states who said ''Titanic'' had helped increase their bookings. ''We're having the best year in our history,'' said Vicky Cannavale, owner of Cruise Shops Travel in Albuquerque, N.M. ''In the first three months of th... |
1005909_1 | Thousands March in France to Protest Far-Right Push for Power | Jean de Brichambaut, who was handing out fliers today for the Citizens' Movement, a leftist group. ''They didn't recognize the danger.'' Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders published a joint statement today expressing concern about the National Front's ''racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic ideas'' and... |
1005617_2 | Q&A: Bill Ayres; In Forefront of Fighting World Hunger | made up my life: healing and spirituality, social justice, and media and communications. Q. You blend spirituality with broadcasting? A. Yes. I started doing a radio show on WGSM radio on Long Island back in 1968, when I was still a priest. I was working with Pete Fornatele, and he and I have been friends and partners ... |
1005983_0 | World News Briefs; Peace Talks on Schedule Despite Killing in Ulster | British and Irish officials said today that an outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland would not delay the resumption of peace talks on Monday. On Friday night a retired British policeman, Cyril Stewart, was shot dead by two masked men in a supermarket parking lot in Armagh, southwest of Belfast. Both the Irish Foreig... |
1005585_0 | Security Stepped Up At U.S. Airports | AIRLINE passengers may not notice, but Government officials say that steps taken since the beginning of the year have made travel more secure. On Jan. 1 the airlines began modernizing the system they use to decide which passengers -- and their bags -- deserve closer scrutiny. For 25 years the airlines have relied upon ... |
1005903_1 | Biggest Sender Of Junk Mail On Internet Agrees to Stop | legal battles have ''put Cyber out of the spamming business.'' ''The most important benefit of this judgment is the message we've sent to spammers that illegally tap our resources and clog up the Internet with this trash -- we won't stand for it,'' said Garry Betty, chief executive of Earthlink, which is based in Pasad... |
1005699_2 | Appetite for Talent, Fed With Flexibility | offering flexible hours, telecommuting, job sharing and additional training. ''I tell my clients that they've got to create opportunities for people to reinvent themselves over and over again,'' says Mr. Tulgan. And what do the companies get in return? Increased productivity, experts agree. ''It's really about recogniz... |
1005584_1 | Q and A | Hurbanis, a Mastercard spokeswoman. Cirrus (but not Plus) also publishes a master directory, which you can check at your local bank before traveling. Cirrus also offers a locator service by phone -- (800) 424-7787. Both Visa and Mastercard operate A.T.M. locators on the Internet. A search this month for Santiago, Chile... |
1004357_3 | Belfast Journal; The Chain This Catholic Wears Speaks Volumes | in the peace talks that resume here on March 23 under pressure from the two sponsors, the Governments of Britain and Ireland, to produce a settlement by April 12 that can be put to a referendum vote in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by May 22. The Protestant parties have been begrudging participants in a ... |
1004392_1 | Court to Weigh Whether H.I.V. Is a Disability | carried the human immunodeficiency virus, or H.I.V. At first glance, the question of whether the Americans With Disabilities Act covers people with asymptomatic H.I.V. infections appears an unlikely vehicle for this first Supreme Court test of a law more identified with the image of a public building being retrofitted ... |
1001280_2 | Business Travel; Flying may get more complicated as airlines continue to tighten restrictions for carry-on bags. | briefcases are considered carry-on luggage. CONTINENTAL -- Passengers on domestic flights can board with as many as six different types of carry-on luggage, including laptops or briefcases; however, they may be required to check some of these if flights are full. Rules for overseas flights are more strict and vary by d... |
1001300_3 | It's a Control Thing: Vermont vs. Cell Phone Towers | have a tower taken down in her Vermont town of Charlotte. ''We just want to make sure the towers are appropriately sited.'' But even in Vermont, the Hardwick discussion showed, opinions are deeply split. Most everybody likes the convenience and life-saving potential of cell phones. But they do not trust cellular phone ... |
1001223_0 | Gliding Serenely Across a Pond, or Paddling for Your Life | I GET a little fatigued listening to some of my adventuring pals -- whether daredevil whitewater kayakers, strong-armed polar women or round-the-world sailors -- mock sea kayaking as boring. A quasi-sport, they call it, requiring fitness levels equivalent to what's needed for riding a rocking chair on the front porch. ... |
1001355_0 | Passengers Rebel Over Tower Air's 12-Hour Flight Delay | Tower Air Flight 30 from Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv was delayed on Sunday night by mechanical difficulties. But this was more than just a routine delay. First, passengers were told to wait a half-hour. Then another half-hour. Then an hour. And so on, for 12 hours, as more than 400 passengers took up temp... |
1001221_2 | For Adventures of the Mind, Establish Base Camp in an Easy Chair | risk getting skunked when the fish were always biting in Bergman's pages? These habits held fast for the next half-century. I have spent some wonderful vacations sailing, but you cover ground faster and learn a lot more by reading ''The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast'' by Roger F. Duncan and John P. Ware, or o... |
999271_1 | Rochester Parents Fret, and Sue, Over Cancer | on Wednesday, experts in epidemiology from the Federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said they had determined that past local studies, which had found no evidence of a link, were scientifically sound, but they called for further review. The problem may be part of a national trend, they said. Brain ca... |
1000414_0 | Bear Facts | In BEARS!, a National Geographic Explorer special, the veteran host of the series, Boyd Matson, introduces three separate stories of the fearsome beasts while Coco, a brown bear, toys with his hand like a domestic pet. The first story, ''Lights! Camera! Bears!,'' focuses on the Seus family , who train animals for telev... |
1000644_0 | The Nation: I Bill, Therefore I Am; Philosophers Ponder a Therapy Gold Mine | WHEN he was starting out as a standup comedian in the 1960's, Woody Allen joked about being expelled from college for cheating on a philosophy exam: ''I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me,'' he said. Three decades (and 30 years of personal psychotherapy) later, Mr. Allen still sprinkles his movie scri... |
1000484_1 | Cellular Tower Is Opposed in Muttontown | be installed in communities and that towns could not deny access because of health concerns. The law poses a problem, said Richard Cameron of Muttontown, an opponent of the tower. Because of the law, Mr. Cameron said, if a village opposes a tower because of health concerns, the utility can sue. ''We can't deny a tower ... |
1000578_0 | Pipeline Review | Westchester has applied to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission for intervenor status in the review of the proposed Millennium Pipeline Project, County Executive Andrew J. Spano said last week. Columbia Gas Transmission Company has applied to the regulatory commission for permission to build a 24-inch-diameter pipe... |
1000335_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths CURRY, PHILIP J., JR. | CURRY-Philip J., Jr. Of Bristol, RI. Formerly of New Canaan, CT. On Friday, March 6, 1998. Survived by his wife Maureen Cohalan Curry; six sons, Philip of Easton, Conn., Michael of Barrington, R.I., Christopher of Orlando, FL., Sean of Boston, MA., Edward of New York City, and David of Charlottesville, VA; a daughter M... |
1000447_2 | The View From/North White Plains; Group Helps Open Homes to Belfast Children to Further Peace | are Catholic or Protestant, do lasting harm. He is Catholic, and he does speak of the ''800 years of oppression'' during which Catholics in Northern Ireland were ''not allowed to have their culture or religion.'' But he also decries the transition the Irish Republican Army made from ''relatively peaceful'' to ''downrig... |
1000509_0 | Carry-On Bags | To the Editor: In her essay, Anne Bernays tells us blithely that ''only five out of every thousand travelers submit official missing luggage claims.'' What this means is that on a typical international jet flight with, say, 400 passengers, two will submit a claim. Look around you. Will it be your neighbor? The haughty ... |
1000689_0 | Women See Key Gains Since Talks In Beijing | Two and a half years after the United Nations international conference on women in Beijing put forward proposals for government action on women's rights, representatives of organizations from around the world are meeting here for two weeks to take stock of progress. Even skeptics say they are impressed at the extent to... |
1000645_0 | March 1-7; A Pepper a Day Keeps Germs Away | Variety may be the spice of life, but spice may be, in part, what makes life possible in the tropics. The flavorful folklore that surrounds the abundant and creative use of spices in hot climates ranges from the persistent notion that the hot stuff triggers a cooling sweat to the intriguing thought that heavy seasoning... |
1000549_3 | In the Region/Connecticut; For Stamford, a New Way to Preserve Greenspace | The Rockefellers conveyed 44 Stamford acres to the Mianus Gorge Preserve and created four 25-acre lots on the North Castle portion with the approval of North Castle's planning department. If the property ever leaves the family, one lot will go to the Mianus Gorge Preserve and one 25-acre lot that gives access to the 36... |
999865_0 | In Trenton, Progress on Special Education Code | The State Board of Education today moved closer to a final version of new rules defining which students will be included in special education programs, which now cover 15 percent of all students in the state. State officials vowed that the new rules, expected to be completed next month, will not exclude any children no... |
999772_3 | New York to Teach Deaf in Sign Language, Then English | the same failures that had left hearing-impaired students behind both academically and socially nationwide. For instance, a 1988 report by the Council on Education of the Deaf, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve educational opportunities for deaf and hearing-impaired children, found that by the end of 12th ... |
1002663_6 | Decades After Midlife Mark, A Frontier for Mental Health | memory loss. But selecting the correct medication from among 20 different antidepressants involves walking some painstakingly fine lines. For example, Dr. Jean Schultz, a geriatric specialist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., explained: ''If you have an agitated patient, you want to choose one with... |
1004521_0 | Key Phase of Belfast Talks Begins With 2 Sides at Odds | The make-or-break phase of negotiations on the political future of Northern Ireland began today with Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders still sharply divided on how to end the sectarian warfare in this predominantly Protestant British province. The leaders continued to needle each other as the British and Irish Gove... |
1004525_1 | F. Cecil Brenner, 79, Scientist Who Devised Tire Ratings | are three quality ratings, one that grades tread life, another that rates traction and a third that grades a tire's ability to dissipate heat to avoid blowouts. The tread wear, traction and temperature labeling is required by the Uniform Tire Quality Grading system championed by Mr. Brenner, and allows consumers to qui... |
1068802_0 | Regents Seek Change in Special-Education Policy | For the second year in a row, the New York State Education Commissioner and the Board of Regents proposed a sweeping plan yesterday to overhaul the state's increasingly costly and much-criticized program for educating children with disabilities. In general, the proposal would revamp the state's special-education progra... |
1068755_0 | 2 Ulster Leaders Accept Nobels And Trade Remarks at Ceremony | The Protestant leader of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, accepted his share of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize today and warned militant Roman Catholics against delays in turning over their arms caches. Mr. Trimble acknowledged that splinter groups on the pro-British side had weapons, too. But he said the Irish Republican ... |
1071987_2 | France Seeks New U.N. System for Monitoring Iraqi Weapons | question of personalities has been posed by several members of the Security Council, particularly by Russia, quite clearly, but I think you have to consider the question of personalities as a function of the job that has to be performed,'' he said. ''Second,'' he went on, ''our thinking is that if we can agree on an ef... |
1073213_3 | Konya Journal; Festival of Rumi, Poet of Life's Dance | apologized and insisted, perhaps ingenuously, that he was seeking only to reflect Rumi's ideals. General Sumer refused to accept the apology and retorted, ''Whatever is necessary will be done about you.'' At the museum here, which houses not only Rumi's tomb but also his robes and original manuscripts of his poems in g... |
1068041_7 | Pushing the Limits Of an Irreplaceable Resource | irrigation gear to water-stingy toilets. Sometimes, as in the Western states, the switch was inspired by the prospect of water shortages and the increasing costs of irrigation. At the same time, the best sites for dams had long since been exploited, and building new ones had become increasingly costly. Dam construction... |
1068048_2 | Will Humans Overwhelm the Earth? The Debate Continues | In his presentation last week, Dr. Hern argued that in many parts of the world the increase in human numbers is rapid and uncontrolled, that it invades and destroys habitats, and that by killing off many species it reduces the differentiation of nature. All of these features are characteristic of cancerous tumors, he s... |
1068048_3 | Will Humans Overwhelm the Earth? The Debate Continues | said, ''and it will do so again. The only question is the nature of the human demise that has already begun.'' Dr. Margulis quoted a line from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: ''The Earth is a beautiful place, but it has a pox called man.'' A different but complementary perspective was offered by Dr. Compton... |
1068045_1 | Weak Bones Among Men Are Linked To Estrogen | research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who has found that estrogen naturally falls in men after about age 65. ''Three years ago, none of us would have thought that estrogen loss was a factor in male osteoporosis.'' Although men and women have estrogen, it is more abundant in women and plays a central role in ... |
1068168_0 | Punishment for Clinton: What's Meaningful?; Fairness Denied | To the Editor: By scheduling the impeachment proceedings for the week of Dec. 14 (news article, Dec. 6), the House Judiciary Committee is refusing to put off the vote until the new Congress -- which will have five more Democrats -- is seated. Doing so allows five defeated Republican Representatives to cast a party-line... |
1066499_0 | The Road to Cookbook Independence | IF you feel you have become a slave to Julia or Jacques, don't abandon your recipes all at once. And remember: the road to freedom begins with a familiar dish. Choose a favorite recipe, one you have enjoyed preparing, and think about how you might vary it by substituting ingredients or changing the proportions. (Do not... |
1066536_0 | Business Travel; U.S. airlines are in a bit of a dust-up over 'sizers' for passengers' carry-on luggage. | UNTIL recently, the baggage ''sizers'' used at airports to determine whether luggage can be carried aboard planes or must be checked were often little more than adornments. But increasing emphasis on on-time performance has led many airlines to draw a harder line against oversized carry-on luggage, contending that it s... |
1066582_0 | A Special-Ed Warning for New York | The Federal Government has warned that New York City could lose Federal aid if it continues to shunt disproportionate numbers of black and Latino children into special education. The city is a legitimate target. But the segregation that has raised red flags in Washington is common throughout the state -- and is due in ... |
1066526_4 | Lumbini Journal; Buddha's Birthplace Hopes for a New Incarnation | and a space for tourist accommodations. To get moving, the project needed infrastructure, something hard to come by in a nation where most people still earn less than $1 a day. It also required political leadership, which many would say has also been in short supply. Before democratic reforms, Nepal was ruled by its ro... |
1073346_0 | A Little Medicine With Your Food? | WHEN the first loaf of white bread enriched with three vitamins and a mineral appeared in the grocery store in 1943, only a mad scientist could have imagined where the manipulation of food would lead. Today, the fastest-growing category of foods is made up of those that contain not just added vitamins and minerals, but... |
1072060_1 | Arthur Is Mostly Just Fun | several children wanted to know when they could start playing with it. While the box says it is for children 3 to 7, it was clear from my students' responses that children as old as 10 enjoy the program. After exploring the activities section of the game, which stars the Arthur character of the books by Marc Brown and ... |
1070084_2 | THE MARKETS: Market Place -- Weed-Out Time in Biotechnology; Once-Hot Industry Feels the Impact of Corporate Darwinism | innovation will continue but more of the work will shift to academic laboratories and big drug companies. Congress has vowed to double the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health the next five years from last year's $13.6 billion. This year's budget is already up to $15.6 billion. And big pharmaceutical comp... |
1070523_0 | Inside Art | A Digital Dialogue With Michelangelo Pushing the boundaries of what computer technology can do to help art historians, a team of four I.B.M. scientists at the company's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have joined with Jack V. Wasserman, professor emeritus of art history at Temple University in P... |
1068949_1 | World Briefing | from the Moscow apartment and offices of Sergei Lisovsky, an advertising mogul with close ties to the financier Boris A. Berezovsky. The investigation is seen as another sign of the plummeting political fortunes of Mr. Berezovsky, the most visible of Russia's so-called oligarchs, and a sign of more aggressive tax colle... |
1071023_16 | The Anti-Trump | who prefer to do their investing close to home. Speyer, however, was a much more worldly figure; he had traveled widely, and his German was fluent. He tried at first to build in China, and when that didn't work out he turned to Germany. He completed the Messeturm in 1990 and a building in Berlin last year. Speyer now h... |
1071271_1 | The World; In Cuba, the Grinch Takes a Holiday | go a year ago. ''The Pope's visit was a factor in a process, and we have yet to see where and how it will end,'' said Marifeli Perez-Stable, a professor of political sociology at the City University of New York who is writing a book about Cuba in the 1950's. ''The visit itself was possible because the Government had al... |
1071279_0 | The Right Tools | To the Editor: Re ''The Wall Street Recruiting Bowl'' (Nov. 29): As my own plunge into the working world looms closer, I've grown increasingly appreciative that I attend a college that makes internships financially feasible for students by providing a stipend. For the future investment bankers in the article, this bene... |
1071203_2 | The Gospel, With Sugar on Top | and I knew that they only hired until about age 40, and so the window was narrowing,'' he said. ''I went for a prayer walk. And though it wasn't quite like Saul on the road to Damascus, I felt a sense of assurance that Testamints was going to happen.'' He turned down Continental's offer and, with $130,000 in capital ra... |
1066315_1 | Ex-Senator Returns to Ulster As Peace Effort Starts to Stall | northern capital, and Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic, said Mr. Mitchell's discussions with Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders had indicated that the Clinton Administration was worried about the possible breakdown of the agreement. The accord has reached a standstill over several issues. They include disar... |
1066328_1 | China Says It Has Not Wavered on Plans for Industrial Overhaul | enterprises out of difficulty in three years is absolutely achievable,'' Mr. Sheng said. It remained unclear, though, whether the plan remains realistic. Many Chinese are already suffering economically from the severe floods last summer, from the huge slump in the rest of Asia and from the growing unemployment problem.... |
1066282_5 | Even in Death, Carl Sagan's Influence Is Still Cosmic | plant life. But he and a graduate student, James Pollack, proposed that the variations were instead caused by wind storms and blowing Martian dust, which turned out to be right. Dr. Sagan went to Cornell in 1968 and stayed there until he died. His influence grew as he edited a leading journal and helped found the Ameri... |
1067423_37 | Fighting for Jacob | University Hospital, in Philadelphia, where During and Leone now work, was also doing the procedure. That month, nine therapists and social workers gathered to discuss the new program Jacob was starting at the Saint Agnes rehabilitation center, where the typical disabled child receives $33,000 a year in government-fina... |
1067653_2 | The World; The French Aren't Alone in Having Gall | France. FRANCE did indeed have to overcome sympathies for Serbia that date from World War I, but as recently published memoirs by a British commanding general of the United Nations peacekeepers in Bosnia, Sir Michael Rose, confirm, Britain was strongly opposed to heavy NATO bombing raids that the Americans kept wanting... |
1067643_0 | Smoke Signal | |
1069832_1 | OBSERVATORY | Sloan Survey, a collaboration of researchers at eight institutions, plans to create a three-dimensional map of a quarter of the sky. It uses two telescopes at an observatory in southern New Mexico, one that performs the initial scans and another for follow-up studies. Among other things, the project aims to determine t... |
1069877_2 | Suburban Librarian's Off-the-Wall Bonanza | Park,'' a genteel 18-inch-by-22-inch oil on canvas, painted around 1892, of a mother and child at Conservatory Water, otherwise known as Central Park's model-boat pond at 72d Street, just off Fifth Avenue. Nobody knows how Mr. Burt acquired the painting, but the view in Bronxville is that it no doubt went well in his l... |
1069868_0 | London and Dublin Tackle Dual Threats to North's Pact | The British and Irish Governments moved today to deal with rising tension between the Protestant majority and the Roman Catholic minority in this British province. The hostility stems from the lagging peace effort and from an old dispute about a Protestant parade through a Catholic area. The police fear new violence. T... |
1072301_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE FRANCE: BRIBERY INQUIRY ENDS Investigating judges have completed their inquiry into Roland Dumas, head of France's highest administrative tribunal, the Constitutional Council, and his relationship while he was Foreign Minister with Christine Deviers-Joncour, a lobbyist for Elf-Aquitaine, the oil company. The two... |
1070278_1 | Awash in All These Words, Will We Forget How to Talk? | (the structure and content of what we say) and its function, that is, the way that talking, through inflections, gestures and eye movements, creates social relationships. He calls that ''the fundamentally nonlinguistic nature of talking'' or ''intimate talking.'' Village gossip and a baby's cooing are examples. Neither... |
1067016_0 | Ulster Negotiations Stall Again, Unraveling This Time on Details | After a day of negotiations and statements that compromise was imminent, Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders apparently failed today to agree on several important issues in the Northern Ireland peace effort. Agreements said this morning to have been all but clinched began unraveling this evening. The damage to the ef... |
1066767_1 | Paper Dolls Going Digital, Tabs and All | to start is the home page of the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild (www.opdag.com), an organization of doll fans that prints a quarterly newsletter for members and has links to many doll pages. One such site, Marilee's Paperdoll Page includes links for a wide variety of paper dolls -- teen-age dolls, animals and toys, ... |
1066807_1 | 3Com to Offer A Palm Pilot With Wireless Capabilities | III, will be named the Palm VII. The company said its numbering strategy left room for other new models but that none would be available this holiday season. The Palm VII's will allow only limited access to the World Wide Web and E-mail through specially designed Web sites. In an effort to turn this handicap into an ad... |
1068306_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | and did not involve embezzled Ukrainian money. (Reuters) AFRICA COMOROS: LOOTING AND BURNING BY MILITIAS -- Looters ransacked the main town, Mutsamudi, and burned houses on the breakaway island of Anjouan as African nations discussed sending an outside force to end battles between rival militias. (Agence France-Presse)... |
1068273_2 | Chefs Join Effort to Label Engineered Food | It took 20 years to see that Rachel Carson was right: DDT was not a cost-free miracle. And neither is biotech.'' Already 38 percent of the soybeans and 25 percent of the corn in the United States and 35 percent of the canola oil from Canada and the United States have been engineered either to produce their own pesticid... |
1068254_4 | New Ice Creams: Many Are Cold, Few Are Chosen | launched, then my job is to guarantee uniformity of taste. When we have new products with no set standard, then my job is to figure out what about these products consumers like or dislike, so when we launch it, it's at its best.'' Well, what about the emotional taste, the way you feel lying in bed with a pint at the en... |
1068276_1 | Report Sees Media as Source of New Jobs | without any specific government policies,'' said Charles Brecher, the commission's research director and an author of the report. The findings are significant because the number of jobs on Wall Street, which ''was the driving force behind the city's economic growth in the 1980's,'' the report says, has been stagnant an... |
1073539_2 | Carry-On Skirmishes | part of efforts to curb ''bin hogs.'' It protested when United added templates at the airport in San Diego -- and benefited from the resulting publicity. The Flight Attendants Association, its members tired of dealing with passengers whose anger at carry-on policies is one element of the wider phenomenon known as ''air... |
1068643_0 | Cars That Open Up To Computers, Literally | Like it or not, computers are on a collision course with cars. On Dec. 5, the British journal New Scientist reported a new automotive use for the infrared port on the popular Palm Pilot handheld organizers. After modifying the Pilot to capture and retransmit infrared signals from a television set, in an attempt to use ... |
1068477_2 | Tracking the Evolution of E-Mail Etiquette | ever since. According to the International Data Corporation, a market research company, roughly 2.1 billion E-mail messages are sent each day in the United States, nearly double the volume at the end of 1997. That number is expected to reach 8 billion by 2002. E-mail mores and faux pas matter most in workplaces where a... |
1068600_0 | In North Korean Hunger, Legacy Is Stunted Children | More than five years of severe food shortages and a near-total breakdown in the public health system have led to devastating malnutrition in North Korea and probably left an entire generation of children physically and mentally impaired, a new study by international aid groups has found. The study, the first scientific... |
1071768_0 | Reduce Population | To the Editor: Re ''Will Humans Overwhelm the Earth?'' Dec. 8: Humans have already overwhelmed the earth. The solution to poverty, hunger, water shortages, global warming, immune system breakdowns (resulting from stresses of crowding), species extinction and other ecological, social, psychological and health disasters ... |
1071692_1 | World Briefing | believe that he carried stigmata and had miraculous healing powers, began venerating him as a saint before he died in 1968. Beatification is the last major step before canonization. Alessandra Stanley (NYT) ASIA INDIA: PRIMAKOV PROPOSES NUCLEAR TRIANGLE -- Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov of Russia became the first h... |
1072478_0 | Chico Mendes's Legacy | Chico Mendes was not an environmentalist in the traditional sense. It was only three years before his murder, which was 10 years ago this week, that he met environmentalists and learned with amazement that the Amazon Forest mattered to those far away. As head of Brazil's National Council of Rubber Tappers, his concerns... |
1069697_0 | Violence in Northern Ireland | |
1069689_0 | Crusader Thwarts Invaders of the E-Mailbox | If David Farber is noteworthy for the number of people who want to be included on his influential E-mail list, Paul Vixie is famous -- some would say notorious -- for publishing an on-line list that companies desperately want to avoid being on. Mr. Vixie is the creator and keeper of the Realtime Blackhole List, a frequ... |
1069720_0 | Polygamy Keeps a New African Church From World Council | As an organization dedicated to promoting Christian unity, the World Council of Churches has been a fairly spacious body for those who would affirm the fundamentals of the Christian faith. But during the last week, the Council has found itself in the unusual position of balking at accepting a new member. The resulting ... |
1069327_0 | A Captain In Rough Waters | FIFTY years ago, my father was appointed principal of an elementary school near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was 44. It was his first command. That's how he has always regarded being a principal; it was like being captain of a ship, he said. This may be why, while waiting for my mother to emerge from life-support, he urg... |
1069213_1 | The Importance Of Internship | Ark. ''These people are a very hot commodity. Alltel basically has a standing offer: You come to us and we'll hire you.'' The competition for qualified employees is intense, Mr. Smith said, noting that companies like his have had to resort to aggressive recruiting tactics and offer tempting starting salaries. ''You can... |
1070786_1 | Everyone Is Always on Nature's Side; People Just Can't Agree on What's Natural and What's Not | at all. They are descendants of domesticated Spanish animals brought to the upper Rio Grande Valley more than 400 years ago. So who has nature on their side? Glacier National Park in the northern Rockies may soon be without any glaciers. Is it a victim of a globe warmed by industrial society on hyperspeed, or just furt... |
1070819_0 | Robert C. Johnston, Engineer, Is Dead at 85 | Robert C. Johnston, who spent almost half a century shaping Manhattan's skyline from below street level and its map from below the water line, died on Dec. 4 at his home in Milbrook, N.Y. He was 85 and had been the foundation engineer in charge of building the 92-acre landfill addition to Manhattan that became Battery ... |
1070821_0 | Boat Capsizes Near Miami; 8 Cubans Die | At least eight people were killed late Thursday night and nine were still missing today after a pleasure boat carrying 26 Cubans capsized off one of the keys that make up Biscayne National Park, Coast Guard officials said. The officials described the incident as a probable case of immigrant smuggling. Coast Guard and i... |
1071512_3 | F.C.C. Mulls Wider Commercial Use of Radical Radio Technology | cellular phones. In contrast, Time Domain's devices can currently transmit 1.25 million bits a second up to 230 feet using just 0.5 milliwatts, or one-thousandth the power used by Bluetooth. These transmission are being achieved with the first working prototype chips the company has received from I.B.M., which fabricat... |
1071540_1 | 2 Arrested as Cuban Refugee Rescue Ends | a Coast Guard spokesman, Paul Henley. Both men charged, Francisco Gomez, 34, who owned the boat, and Pedro Guevara, 32, are natives of Cuba who live in Florida. Border Patrol officials said they had been investigating Mr. Guevara for previous smuggling incidents. The survivors included a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old. Th... |
997539_0 | New Attacks Will Not Halt Irish Talks | The British and Irish Governments have decided that terrorist attacks by sectarian splinter groups will not be allowed to derail the Northern Ireland peace talks, which are working toward a May 1 deadline for an agreement on the future of the British province, officials close to the negotiations say. They call the deci... |
994559_0 | New Killings Again Disrupt Peace Talks in Northern Ireland | Protestant leaders, citing two killings attributed to Roman Catholic guerrillas in 24 hours, moved today to have Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., expelled from the Northern Ireland peace talks. The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, denied that his party was involved in the killings, but declined to say whet... |
994599_2 | Business Travel; Bucking an industry trend, Thrifty Car Rental is increasing mileage rewards for its customers. | no change of planes. Requirements include round-trip travel by Aug. 4, an overnight stay and seven-day advance purchase. Other major airlines, including UAL's United Airlines and US Airways, matched Southwest's rates for their own nonstop service on these routes, but imposed additional restrictions. Continental Airline... |
994526_2 | Just Who's Stirring the Pot in the White House? | here,'' he said with studied modesty. ''We are just facilitators.'' Of the Blair dinner, he said: ''These are not Escoffier dinners. You tell the President to wait 10 minutes, and he'll tell you to find another job. You can spin it any way you want -- it's still a banquet. How you serve 240 people and have them not thi... |
993731_2 | Where the Old Boy Always Gets the Girl | their age, what is it exactly? Advanced middle age? Youthful old age? In real life, both sexes benefit equally from a prolonged spirit of youthfulness, but in movies men live on in perpetual daylight savings time while women are pushed not so gently into the good night, and this double standard has worsened as the age ... |
993722_4 | The Noank Fishery, Before Technology | desperate at one point, with little hope of getting a new boat on the water. A neighbor saved the day, with a handshake. While Captain Rathbun commends many Noankers for their good deeds over the decades, he also notes a few other things that they did. Mr. Eldridge, for instance, was famed for practical jokes; an espec... |
993709_0 | Food Technology Unit Comes to Ardsley | VELTROL, Litesse and Xylitol are hardly household words, yet they are everyday products found in the food and beverages on the shelves of the bakery, dairy, confectionery, processed meat and poultry, seafood, vegetable, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage departments of supermarkets across the United States. For the un... |
993839_2 | Bringing God on Deck | calls to relatives. ''Sometimes what we do is as simple as finding an Egyptian newspaper or the person who can get the seaman's last $10 out of a defective phone card machine,'' Mr. Borner said. ''We'll meet a mother from Hamburg at the airport and drive her to the hospital,'' Mr. Padgitt said, ''so she can see her son... |
993890_7 | Charting A Course To Ethical Profits | and ''staying at supplier's beach house'' (say no to either), ''transporting Air Force officials'' (also a no-no, even if they are headed to the airport or even if it is on your way home) ''wearing a pro-choice T-shirt'' (no; too incendiary) and ''dealing with dropped gyroscope'' (confront the person who dropped it, an... |
992459_5 | Many Schools, in Disrepair, Pose Hazards | a 73-year-old brick behemoth that spans three city blocks in Washington Heights and whose illustrious alumni include Henry A. Kissinger. The building began to take a beating in the mid-1970's, its original wooden desk furniture battered by fighting and its classrooms swollen with 4,000 students, nearly double the numbe... |
992470_3 | As Heir to Fidel, Raul Castro Assumes Bigger Role in Cuba | of China to acquaint himself with economic changes there and, with details of the Pope's visit here then being worked out, stopping in Rome on his way back to meet with Vatican officials. Certain other officials close to Fidel Castro have also seen their roles gradually expand in recent times. The economy czar, Carlos ... |
992405_0 | Half-Measures to Protect the Amazon | Brazil's President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, now has on his desk new legislation that finally gives the country's environmental agency a modicum of power to enforce environmental laws. A coalition of ranchers and industrialists managed to strip the bill of some of its toughest provisions, and is trying to persuade Mr... |
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