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297790_7 | In Pisa, a Jewel of a Museum | Mr. Lucchesi, is a glaze that can be removed if it interferes with proper viewing of the fresco. As for that other ailing monument of the Piazza dei Miracoli, inclining from the base by more than 14 feet and at a rate of about half an inch every 10 years, the tower is a center of controversy. Italia Nostra, the conserv... |
297987_4 | The Highway Collapse: Some Columns and Some Assumptions | the natural vibration frequency of the highway. If that occurred, the ground movement would have reinforced the movement of the highway, just like a child's swing can be made to go higher by pushing it at just the right time. * A previous effort to strengthen the highway by tying adjacent slabs of the roadway together ... |
298153_3 | Power Lines and Battle Lines | dialogue on the issue. (It is interesting to note that, in our case, public hearings were later ordered by an administrative law judge.) But, the devil's advocate says, you've picked a peculiar enemy, in that utilities are public bodies too. A major argument of the power companies is that to bury new lines underground ... |
297901_1 | How the Cocaine Is Coming In This Time | Texas border town and 6 tons aboard a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico. What is going on? United States officials insist that Colombia's drug war is not faltering; the military, they say, has seized 160 drug-smuggling aircraft and so disrupted the business that Peruvian coca growers are selling their harvest at half pri... |
297663_2 | Prospects; An Even Slower Economy | of a fully employed labor force, we can only grow at about 2.5 percent and that is more or less what we've been doing, subject to measurment problems with the statistics. The softening of the manufacturing sector does not reflect any change in underlying demand but instead shows that worldwide supplies are ample and in... |
298007_2 | For the U.N., New Thinking on The Third World | of the poor. Conflicting Interests Of course many efforts launched by the United Nations have suffered because there was no real way to enforce them. The economic plans are guidelines not mandates. Any call for more market-based economies or other changes could run afoul of the interests of some countries' ruling elite... |
297795_1 | Adventuring In the Cloud Forests Of Ecuador | Andean range in the center of Ecuador to its borders with Colombia and Peru. This area, half the size of Colorado, has been opened by the discovery of oil, and by tourism. However, El Oriente also includes La Ceja de la Selva or the Eyebrow of the Jungle. These are the cloud forests of the highlands, which, to the inha... |
297801_0 | Making College Ends Meet: Terms of Endearment A Guide to Useful Tuition Tools | LEAD: THERE'S a wealth of investments available for financing college, and the choice doesn't end with selecting an investment. THERE'S a wealth of investments available for financing college, and the choice doesn't end with selecting an investment. You can buy in your own name or in a custodial account for your child.... |
298172_0 | The Cradle of Western Art (Not Greece) | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: While I concur with your assessment of ''Art of the Western World,'' the new PBS television series, as a ''notable accomplishment'' (review, Oct. 2), I was appalled at elements of the first program that echoed the widespread, but clearly erroneous, view that ''Western'' art and cultu... |
297660_0 | Japan's Foreign Aid Problem | LEAD: Yoshito Kimura has a $23.5 billion headache. Yoshito Kimura has a $23.5 billion headache. As director of development policy at the Export-Import Bank of Japan, that's how much he has to help the Government lend to the third world as part of Japan's ambitious effort to ''recycle'' its cash surpluses to heavily ind... |
301542_1 | Plymouth Rock Is Repaired | Rock, the boulder marking the spot where the Pilgrims are said to have landed 369 years ago, is in danger of splitting in two. But a mason says he will restore it in time for Thanksgiving. Plymouth Rock, the boulder marking the spot where the Pilgrims are said to have landed 369 years ago, is in danger of splitting in ... |
303680_0 | Hot Air and the White House Effect | LEAD: Fearful that waste gases may alter the world's climate, European countries have proposed a deadline for limiting worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide. The Bush Administration was heavily criticized when it resisted that idea at a recent international conference. The criticism is partly deserved: despite Presiden... |
303839_1 | A Face Lift for Mount Rushmore? | that Gutzon Borglum recognized when he carved the mountain was that there were a number of cracks,'' Mr. Wenk said. ''We've never known the long-term impact of those cracks.'' Each fall, workers seal the cracks with a mixture of granite dust, white lead and linseed oil to reduce the damage when cool weather causes the ... |
303795_0 | Clamor in the East; Smuggling Curbs By East Germany | LEAD: The East German Government announced a series of measures today that are intended to combat widespread smuggling and speculation with this country's severely battered currency. The East German Government announced a series of measures today that are intended to combat widespread smuggling and speculation with thi... |
303778_0 | Fourth Woman's Body Found in River Gorge | LEAD: The body of a woman was found today in the Genesee River Gorge, where the bodies of three other women who were slain have been found in the last month, the police said. The body of a woman was found today in the Genesee River Gorge, where the bodies of three other women who were slain have been found in the last ... |
303739_2 | China's Frontier: The Search for Development | interview. Professor Lardy said that the central government is no longer redistributing resources among regions the way it once did, and that this will limit Gansu's ability to bridge the gap. Under Mao, China's economic planners milked rich areas such as Shanghai for the benefit of other parts of the country. The plan... |
300978_4 | Scientists Test Radical Accelerator Technology | charged electrons, positively charged protons, or their antimatter equivalents - using devices called radio-frequency cavities. Each cavity is an empty space between a positive and a negative electrode; a charged particle entering such a cavity is drawn toward the electrode with an opposite electrical sign, and can be ... |
300990_0 | Saving Scraps of the Rain Forest May Be Pointless, Naturalists Say | LEAD: FROM Central Africa to Indonesia to Brazil, the world's rain forests are under attack by chainsaw and by fire. But a study under way here in the heart of the Amazon may help naturalists preserve representative parcels of rain forest for the 21st century. FROM Central Africa to Indonesia to Brazil, the world's rai... |
304453_0 | In a Dry China, a Huge Grain Crop Is Not Enough | LEAD: When severe drought threatened his crops this year, Qu Binshen stretched a hose up a dry mountainside and pumped water onto the parched wheat on his allocated land. But the drought was so severe that despite his efforts, he lost a third of his grain crop this year. When severe drought threatened his crops this ye... |
304421_6 | By Train to the Middle Of the Amazon Jungle | but to the jungle. This is because of the environmental destruction inflicted by settlers who have flocked to Rondonia in recent years over BR-364, the highway connecting Porto Velho to central Brazil and the industrialized south. Indiscriminately felling trees and burning the land, they have already destroyed almost 2... |
304405_0 | 18th-Century Law Snares Vietnamese Fishermen | LEAD: Each morning, hundreds of Vietnamese-born fishermen cast off in refitted wooden boats from piers here and in the harbors of Monterey and Los Angeles to sail far out into the Pacific to cast their nets for kingfish and rock cod. Each morning, hundreds of Vietnamese-born fishermen cast off in refitted wooden boats ... |
304175_0 | Streetscapes: U.S. Rubber Company Building; Restoring Luster to a 1912 Lady | LEAD: The 20-story headquarters Carrere & Hastings created in 1912 for the U.S. Rubber Company at 1790 Broadway, at 58th Street, is a building of discreet qualities. It cannot claim any superlatives, and most of the guidebooks omit it, but it has what many better known buildings lack, good manners. The 20-story headqua... |
304194_0 | Light Mayonnaise, Light Dogfood, and Now Light Ice Cream | LEAD: Food manufacturers and diet marketers are seeing to it that the demand for low-calorie foods does not go unsated. The selection of ''light'' foods is limitless: mayonnaise, canned fruit, popcorn and dog food. Even Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., usually a super-rich ice cream, recently announced a new light version.... |
298726_0 | Finding of Fifth Force Questioned | LEAD: SMALL variations in the density of the ground could account for the results of recent geophysical experiments that seemed to produce evidence for a fifth force in nature, scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Nature. SMALL variations in the density of the ground could account for the results of ... |
298529_3 | Careers; Europeans Seek M.B.A. Candidates | the teaching will be in English - a move to attract more English-speaking students. They are expected to pick up sufficient Italian late in the program to be literate in Italian. He also mentioned a new master's program for those not wanting an M.B.A. but needing management background for jobs with organizations like t... |
302894_3 | Tourists Threaten Buddhist Murals in Ancient Chinese Caves | carved during the Ming Dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Local monks guarded the caves continually, but the treasury was only ''discovered'' by the world in 1900, after a Taoist monk accidentally found a sealed-off cave containing 40,000 to 50,000 documents from eight dynasties. Foreigners made their way to the ... |
302922_1 | A President Beholden | items. So it's fair to ask: Is there no limit to what George Bush will do to placate the zealots peering over his shoulder? Ironically, the bill he vetoed with such disastrous consequences did not contain even one dollar for abortion, in any country or under any circumstances. What produced Mr. Bush's veto was only $15... |
302536_2 | Lifestyle; Buildings of Marzipan, Not Marble, For a Show of Edible Architecture | genoise cake and butter cream. ''I love it,'' Mr. Drake said. ''Those blue-blue heart-shaped swimming pools, that glistening, spun-sugar Niagara Falls.'' Architects, whose projects often take years to move from the drawing board to real life, are not used to such immediate gratification, or such simpatico interpretatio... |
302503_0 | Preserve the Classic Balance . . . | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The proposed addition to Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum [ ''Sincerest Flattery or the Subtlest Form of Dishonor?'' Sept. 24 ] must be reconsidered. No building designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed during his lifetime better reflects his genius, and surely no building in the Unite... |
302399_0 | U.S. CHAMBERMAID, POLISH QUEEN | LEAD: David Margolick exaggerates the contrast between American and Polish perceptions of Basia Johnson (''Lech's American Angel,'' Oct. 8). He writes that ''to Americans she may always be a chambermaid.'' Why would anyone, besides the stepchildren and their lawyers, consider such a highly educated woman always to be a... |
302511_0 | The World Has Room for African and Greek Achievements | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: William B. Branch's letter (Nov. 5) arguing African origins for Western civilization is the latest entry in a campaign to expropriate the achievements of Caucasians by Negroes. Much of his argument depends on the precise racial category of the ancient Egyptians, who were one of sever... |
302192_8 | London Embraces the Thames Again | newly developed wharf. Rejoin the river to your left and the museum is the large white building straight ahead. The river bus does not run from Butler's Wharf pier. You can either retrace your steps to London Bridge City Pier, or else take the ferry to Tower Pier (the pleasure cruise boats run from here) and then walk ... |
302182_0 | In Case of Fire: Why All Hotels Aren't the Same | LEAD: WHEN Hurricane Hugo struck inland North Carolina, I was in bed in a snug new motel along I-85 listening to the wind build up and tiny branches strike the window. After one howling burst near dawn, the lights on the highway went out, the restaurant in the parking lot went dark, alarms went off in the motel corrido... |
302352_0 | Supersensitive Satellite Starts Search for Echoes of the Universe's Birth | LEAD: A robot spacecraft swinging high over the earth's poles today began a search for the beginning of time. A robot spacecraft swinging high over the earth's poles today began a search for the beginning of time. Pushed into space by the thrust of a Delta rocket launched flawlessly today from Vandenberg Air Force Base... |
302385_15 | ART'S OFF-THE-WALL CRITIC | Perhaps most extraordinary, he shows no interest in wielding the kind of direct influence that Greenberg had, and that so many contemporary critics so clearly covet. ''I'd hate to have any power,'' he says, and you can tell he means it. ''I really don't want any at all.'' The abstract painter David Reed, who sometimes ... |
303951_0 | Sugar Quota Is Increased | LEAD: The United States Agriculture Department increased the nation's sugar quota today by 13.5 percent, the second time in three months that the Government has increased imports to combat tight supplies and high domestic prices. The United States Agriculture Department increased the nation's sugar quota today by 13.5 ... |
304022_1 | Salvador Moves Toward Broad Curbs on Dissent | also could be used to ban the publication here of foreign news reports, films or photographs deemed harmful to the public order. And it would impose terms up to 20 years in prison for participating in transportation boycotts or other common forms of civil disobedience. ''We are back to a totalitarian Government,'' said... |
303937_0 | Farm Exports At $39.7 Billion | LEAD: The nation's exports of farm products in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30 came close to the $40 billion forecast by Agriculture Department experts three months ago. The nation's exports of farm products in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30 came close to the $40 billion forecast by Agriculture Departmen... |
304069_1 | The Editorial Notebook; Burning the Book of Nature | humans burn, pave or drain their habitats. The World Resources Institute of Washington has begun a campaign to slow the destruction. It aims to develop by 1992 a worldwide strategy for identifying and conserving the planet's plant and animal kingdoms. The losses of living species are heaviest in the world's rapidly dwi... |
297640_2 | Iran Notes Anniversary Of Fall of U.S. Embassy | Iranian affairs in London. ''It could be strengthened only if he dramatically improves economic conditions by improving relations with the West, something that militant clergy members are blocking. Being the pragmatist he is, Rafsanjani may move in the end to become the leader of the radicals intead of sinking.'' Plan ... |
299177_0 | HEALTH: Radiation Safety; Childhood X-Rays Linked to Breast Cancer Risk | LEAD: New breast cancer studies show that exposure to radiation in infancy significantly increases a woman's risk of later developing the disease, but that chest X-rays after the age of 35 pose little risk. New breast cancer studies show that exposure to radiation in infancy significantly increases a woman's risk of la... |
299077_6 | Personal Health | for an emergency can usually be left with the school nurse. The other children at school can be helped to understand the problem through puppet shows, films and books. Invite healthy children and their parents to your home to play after school or on weekends. The sick child should be warned about possible teasing, good... |
297178_3 | Athens Journal; Woman in Mourning Proudly Picks Up a Banner | part more in keeping with the traditional role of Greek women, who often assist a father or husband but get little personal credit or recognition of their work. Although laws now protect women's rights in Greece, feminism here has made little headway. Of the 300 members of Parliament, 13 are women, and the Greek press ... |
304892_0 | Land Is Losing to the Poor's Fight for Short-Term Survival | LEAD: ACTING out of desperation, many of the poorest people in the world are cutting down forests, razing grasslands and slowly destroying fragile ecosystems to survive, environmental researchers say. ACTING out of desperation, many of the poorest people in the world are cutting down forests, razing grasslands and slow... |
304866_0 | French Conduct Nuclear Test | LEAD: France today set off its largest underground nuclear blast this year, at Fangataufa in French Polynesia, New Zealand Government scientists said. The 90-kiloton explosion was the fourth since testing resumed on Oct. 24. It brings to 111 the number of underground tests at sites near Tahiti. France today set off its... |
299438_0 | Review/Music; Djavan's Brazilian Pop-Jazz | LEAD: Brazil borders on California in the music of Djavan, a leading Brazilian songwriter, who performed last Friday night at the Ritz. Djavan has pitched his recent repertory at the place where jazz-influenced Brazilian pop overlaps jazz-tinged, Brazilian-influenced American pop - the glossy, gently percolating pop-fu... |
283451_0 | Unknowns Abound In Hormone Therapy | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Dr. Selig Strax (letter, Aug. 25), disagreeing with the headline conclusion ''Menopause Hormone Linked to Breast Cancer'' (front page, Aug. 3), presents one-sided information. It is true that most of the women in the Swedish study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine used ... |
283421_0 | Patents; Diet Pills Said to Curb Fat and Cholesterol | LEAD: Jackie R. See and William E. Shell, two cardiologists who founded See/ Shell Biotechnology Inc. in Los Angeles, won a patent this week for what they call ''Fat Magnets'': diet pills that prevent the body from absorbing some of the fat and cholesterol in food. Jackie R. See and William E. Shell, two cardiologists ... |
285587_1 | An Increasing Need For Special Education | ''Plan to Revamp Special Education Draws Criticism,'' Aug. 6: The article about proposed changes in New Jersey's special-education program made clear the complex issues that have to be addressed in educating perceptually impaired, handicapped and emotionally disabled students. However, it largely ignored the positive i... |
285499_2 | Mixed-Race Generation Emerges but Is Not Sure Where It Fits | Blood'' for 11 years, is himself the child of a white mother and a Potawatomi Indian father. Over all in 1987, about 39 percent of the mixed-race children were born of black-white unions; 36 percent were born of Asian-white unions and about 18 percent were born of Indian-white unions. The remaining 6 to 7 percent were ... |
285712_0 | The Bridges Between Able and Disabled | LEAD: I AM a 40-year-old physically disabled woman. I've been disabled since birth and get around on crutches or in a wheelchair. I have an undergraduate degree in sociology and a graduate degree in education, and I'm employed as a switchboard operator at the headquarters of a local bank. I enjoy going out with friends... |
280816_4 | Suit Over Care for Retarded May Bring Wider Challenges | while simplifying Federal subsidy programs. A bill in the United States Senate would try to make current spending more efficient, but it would not increase overall Federal spending. . It has 54 sponsors, including its initiator, Senator John H. Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island. A House version of the bill, sponsored ... |
280767_5 | For Dieters With a Sweet Tooth, Scientists Offer New Choices | has been able to duplicate all of them.'' Sugar adds bulk and texture to baked goods and caramelizes at high temperatures to add a distinct color and fresh-baked aroma. In addition, scientists said, sugar has a preservative effect and helps to prevent spoilage, helps determine the freezing point of ice cream, and serve... |
287019_0 | Books of The Times; Two Accounts of What It Means to Be Disabled | LEAD: Seeing Voices A Journey Into the World of the Deaf By Oliver Sacks Illustrated. 180 pages. University of California Press. $15.95. I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes A Memoir By Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan Illustrated. 225 pages. A Richard Todd Book/Houghton Mifflin. $17.95. Seeing Voices A Journey Into ... |
287049_0 | Letter: On Ecology; Help Brazil Preserve the Amazon | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your editorial ''Forest Murder: Ours and Theirs - Brazil's Season of Shame'' (Sept. 20), on the burning of the Amazon forest, is inaccurate, naive and does not help the serious efforts that are being made in Brazil to stop it. What has taken place in that area in the last 15 years is... |
281514_0 | Senate Adopts Sweeping Measure To Protect Rights of the Disabled | LEAD: The Senate approved sweeping legislation tonight that would prohibit discrimination against disabled Americans, including AIDS victims, in employment, access to public accommodations, transportation and communication services. The Senate approved sweeping legislation tonight that would prohibit discrimination aga... |
281495_2 | Our Towns; Jodi's in School And, You See? Not So Different | retarded teen-agers in Orange and Ulster Counties. The children will attend homeroom, gym and lunch with the rest of the school's 735 students. Integrating handicapped children into regular classrooms is a national trend that most New York schools have resisted. Of the 3.1 million school-age children in the state, abou... |
281455_1 | Excerpts From Iowa Blast Findings | procedures, and adherence to safety procedures were found within the weapons department, the exhaustive tests and duplication of the type of blast that occurred have conclusively demonstrated that these shortcomings did not cause the explosion. Accountability for the identified shortcomings will be addressed in the cas... |
281509_0 | Making of Gas for A-Bombs Scheduled to Resume in 1990 | LEAD: The Department of Energy announced yesterday that it will reopen one of its crippled nuclear reactors late next year, resuming the production of tritium, a perishable gas vital to nuclear weapons, after a two-year hiatus. But the department refused to commit itself to completing safety testing or an environmental... |
285289_1 | Michelin to Acquire Uniroyal Goodrich | taken private in 1987 by its owner, the New York investment firm of Clayton & Dubilier Inc. Under antitrust laws, the transaction must be approved by American and Canadian regulators. In buying Uniroyal Goodrich, Michelin is adding to its expanding sales and marketing muscle in the United States and strengthening its c... |
285287_0 | Rights Panel Is Critical of Care of Disabled Newborns | LEAD: A report issued today by the United States Commission on Civil Rights asserts that children born with severe disabilities ''continue to be denied'' adequate medical treatment in violation of Federal anti-discrimination law. A report issued today by the United States Commission on Civil Rights asserts that childre... |
282437_1 | Medicaid Rationing Will Cost More in the End; Rescind the Program | for outpatient rehabilitation. Most are physically disabled from causes such as fractures, sprains, musculoskeletal and connective-tissue diseases, cardiovascular disease, paralysis and amputation. Our clients include those who have suffered stroke, head injury, spinal cord injury, visual and hearing impairment, and me... |
283187_0 | N.Y.U. Offers a Boost Toward Public Service | LEAD: One-third of the new graduates of New York University Law School have decided to donate part of their income to a fund to enhance salaries of law graduates who take public service jobs. One-third of the new graduates of New York University Law School have decided to donate part of their income to a fund to enhanc... |
283274_3 | Bronx Suspect Died From Cocaine, Not Injuries, Autopsy Report Says | were on the front and back of the body. ''Among other possibilities,'' the report stated, ''the foregoing bruises are consistent with causation by impacts with a nightstick or similar instrument or some other modality of blunt trauma.'' Commenting on the autopsy, the commander of the inspectional services bureau of the... |
286396_8 | Schools Trying to Link Good Jobs and Skills | career programs, to give them a clearer picture of the work place. ''A lot of students here just need someone to look up to,'' said Trina Williams, a 16-year-old junior at Redford High School, where she is a member of the varsity tennis team and a good student. ''I went back to my eighth-grade class one day and saw the... |
280934_1 | STUDY DISCOUNTS PILL-CANCER LINK | findings may not apply to younger women who took the pill throughout their teens and early 20's. The researchers also noted that the women in their study are only beginning to enter the years when breast cancer is most common. Some experts worry that taking the pill during the early reproductive years may somehow incre... |
280976_1 | U.N. Critical of I.M.F. Austerity Plan | official of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, referring to the reductions in social spending and the drop in living standards the austerity measures have caused. That is one of the conclusions of the conference's annual report, scheduled for release Wednesday. The Geneva-based body is the main Uni... |
279780_1 | Excess Alarms Feared From Bomb Detector | detection device, defended the false alarm rate. He said spotting such small amounts of explosives in a suitcase would result in a rate of false alarms of about 10 to 15 percent. The normal false alarm rate of the device when used with an associated X-ray machine is about 2 percent, and, he said, ''the system is usable... |
284520_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The Vatican supported relocation of a Carmelite convent from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. It said it was willing to pay part of the cost of a new interfaith prayer center outside the camp. Page A1 INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The Vatican supported relocation of a Carmelite convent fr... |
284628_0 | Economic Scene; Fighting Cocaine, Coffee, Flowers | LEAD: EVEN as President Bush cheers Colombia's brave effort to stamp out exports of cocaine, others in the Administration are making it more difficult for Colombians to profit from exports of coffee and cut flowers. EVEN as President Bush cheers Colombia's brave effort to stamp out exports of cocaine, others in the Adm... |
284654_0 | Forest Murder: Ours and Theirs; Tongass Trees Aren't Cheeseburgers | LEAD: When visiting U.S. senators urged President Jose Sarney of Brazil earlier this year to stop the burning of the Amazon's wondrous rain forest, he asked: ''But what about Tongass?'' When visiting U.S. senators urged President Jose Sarney of Brazil earlier this year to stop the burning of the Amazon's wondrous rain ... |
284565_0 | Our Sugar Protectionism Spurs Coca Growing | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Orange Juice, Not Cocaine'' (Editorial Notebook, Sept. 3) observes that our protectionist policy actually protects the raw material for cocaine and proposes that we make oranges a more attractive crop to Bolivian farmers. Protectionist American farm policies have not only damaged t... |
284650_1 | Forest Murder: Ours and Theirs; Brazil's Season of Shame | evolve are destroyed in a day. Moreover, the fires emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide, contributing to the feared warming of the atmosphere known as the greenhouse effect. The horrifying destruction does not even have the excuse of economic necessity. Most of the burning is by ranchers turning the forest to cattle pas... |
284178_2 | Hurricane Pummels Resort Islands of Caribbean | mobilized. Somber Warning Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon, in a somber radio broadcast this afternoon, said Puerto Rico's fate lay ''in the providence of Almighty God.'' Information was sketchy from the islands already struck by the storm, which the Weather Service called the worst to strike the Caribbean since 1979. And w... |
284172_3 | Biotechnology's Harvest: Plants That Stay Healthy | produces a protein that binds with poisonous heavy metals like cadmium and renders them harmless. Dr. Wagner said the system could be used with lettuce and other vegetables to counteract the effects of fertilizers with high concentrations of heavy metals - municipal sludge, for example. But some environmentalists sugge... |
284091_1 | Seeking Relief, Sri Lanka Turns to the Land | to lure small investors who are being given cash grants in a national antipoverty program to invest in small industries. Education Seen as Key Factor ''We feel we can do this because we have an educated population,'' Mr. Athulathmudali said. The country's literacy rate of about 88 percent is South Asia's highest, and i... |
282578_1 | New Machines Can Detect Terrorists' Bombs, Usually | around the world that handle flights to or from the United States to meet the new standards. But even these new machines have weaknesses and blind spots that could limit their effectiveness. In one series of tests in California, they detected 95 percent of the simulated explosives that passed through them, a high rate ... |
282622_0 | 5 Supermarket Chains Open Effort Against Pesticide Use | LEAD: Five supermarket chains in the United States and Canada and a food distributor in California announced today several efforts to reduce the levels of toxic pesticides on fruits and vegetables. Five supermarket chains in the United States and Canada and a food distributor in California announced today several effor... |
286662_1 | 3 More Airports to Get Advanced Bomb Detectors | Scotland in December, killing 270 people. The Government is paying for the first six machines, which bathe suitcases in radiation and measure the distinct chemical signature of bomb ingredients. Airlines must pay for future purchases, although Congress is considering making more money available for the machines. #95% o... |
285025_2 | Bush, the U.N. and Too Many People | such exploding numbers of people, particularly as they crowd into megacities such as Mexico City, Calcutta and Cairo. Moreover, the growing numbers of desperate poor implied in these figures will accelerate the ferocious assault on the environment under way in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Unless these population tre... |
282134_1 | HE SAW HIS CHANCE AND HE TOOK IT | the same thoroughgoing techniques to analyzing the event. The result is a book rife with detail, but unfortunately drained of mystery. ''Exit the Rainmaker'' begins with a brief, vivid portrait of the college president awakening at his country estate, readying himself as if for an ordinary morning at the office. It is ... |
281933_1 | ALASKA OIL CLEANUP NEAR END, BUT BEACHES REMAIN FOULED | eagles, of the estimated 5,000 that live in and around the sound, have been found dead. But that number, as with 33,000 dead seabirds and 980 sea otters, may represent only 10 to 30 percent of the amount poisoned by the spill as the oil has made its way up the food chain, Federal biologists say. Salmon fishermen, kept ... |
281931_1 | Birth Control Making Inroads in Populous Kenya | Development's mission in Kenya. The agency financed the survey conducted by the Kenyan Government's Council for Population and Development. Mr. Sinding said the results should help demonstrate that Africa is not the ''hopeless case'' many demographers suggest it is. More Data Needed It was hoped that the results of a n... |
281739_0 | Old Newspapers Hit a Logjam | LEAD: Hour after hour, around the clock, bundles of old newspapers rumble along a conveyor until they drop into a large vat at the Garden State Paper Company's recycling mill here along the Passaic River. In a few hours they will emerge as rolls of blank newsprint, ready to be used again. Hour after hour, around the cl... |
280464_2 | Will Biotechnology Finally Deliver? | and introduce the product in 1990 into a worldwide market pegged by analysts at about $250 million. Chiron should earn $1.33 a share in fiscal 1991, up from a loss of $1.32 a share in fiscal 1988, said Ms. Gilbert, who recommends buying the stock at any price up to $33 a share. On Friday, Chiron closed at 24 3/4. Bioge... |
280182_1 | LIFE STYLE: Sunday Outing; Southeastern Connecticut: Old Melds With New | 1781, a British fleet under the command of Benedict Arnold attacked and burned New London. The city was rebuilt and has since experienced a rocky ride through prosperity and hard luck. After its summer tourism was eclipsed by Newport, R.I., in the late 1800's and the casino was closed in 1900, New London fell into a pe... |
280352_0 | Who Is Going to Pay For Airport Security? | LEAD: BY ordering the airlines to begin screening passenger luggage with a new type of bomb detector, the Government hopes to prevent terrorist attacks like the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people last December. But the new procedures, which were announced last week, are also e... |
280428_1 | Non-Superpowers Are Developing Their Own Spy Satellite Systems | could produce the opposite result, helping a malevolent nation to plan and carry out an attack on hard-to-find targets. The spread of space surveillance technology is also expected to alter the diplomatic equation, freeing many nations from reliance on the current space powers for data. Analysts say many nations are al... |
280624_2 | Hatred and Social Isolation May Spur Acts of Racial Violence, Experts Say | in America, said Robin M. Williams Jr., Henry Scarborough professor emeritus of social science at Cornell University. 'Pressing in on Their Turf' Dr. Williams, who has studied and written on racial violence since the 1940's, said such killings typically occur when ''young lower middle-class men who are themselves strug... |
280630_0 | Developing Nations Benefit As Service Exports Grow | LEAD: Tens of millions of television viewers in more than 100 countries have followed the adventures of a sultry 19th-century Brazilian slave named Isaura who endures all sorts of adversity after falling in love with her master's son but eventually triumphs. Tens of millions of television viewers in more than 100 count... |
283878_14 | Snapshots of Hope and Hopelessness | in bridging the social and cultural chasms between Old World and New. A girl falls behind in her studies because, an administrator finds, her parents are threatening to send her abroad for an arranged marriage. A boy defaces a bulletin board decorated with photographs of Leningrad with the lone word ''Infidels!'' A boy... |
283719_2 | With Striking Fashions, Gigli Reaches New Heights | black lace top over snug stretch pants. Helping the Rain Forests ''We've carried Gigli since he started four years ago, but he has peaked this season,'' Miss Mello said. Conservation International, which is concerned with preserving the rain forests, was the beneficiary of the show. With tickets at $300 each, about $10... |
283757_1 | On the Plan to Revise Special Education | As a former member of the New Jersey Special Education Study Commission, which drafted the Plan to Revise Special Education in New Jersey, I would like to call attention to erroneous allegations in the article ''Plan to Revamp Special Education Draws Criticism'' (Aug. 6). As a former member of the New Jersey Special Ed... |
283733_3 | How the Disabled Sold Congress on a New Bill of Rights | disability rights movement go back to the years after World War II, when thousands of handicapped veterans returned. Leaders of the movement count the reaction to the polio epidemic of the early 1950's as the first real awakening of society to the needs of a sizable disabled population. Convinced at one time that insti... |
283874_8 | Body and Mind; DIFFERENT BUT DEADLY | average woman between 2 and 92 necessarily be eating this diet? I don't know.'' I T IS ALSO UNCLEAR whether women should take an aspirin every other day to help prevent a heart attack. A much-publicized study using 22,000 healthy men has shown that doing so decreases the heart attack rate. But cardiologists are uncerta... |
283801_3 | U.S. FOUND PAN AM LAX ON SECURITY SOON AFTER BLAST | of its security regulations. The disclosures could also play an important role in lawsuits brought by relatives of the bombing victims. In those suits, lawyers for the plaintiffs said, Pan Am is being accused of neglecting to insure the security of its flights from Frankfurt. The new audit was intended to determine whe... |
283963_0 | On the Plan to Revise Special Education | LEAD: I would like to offer my reactions on the Plan to Revise Special Education as a principal of a pilot high school. The Bergen County Vocational-Technical Schools district was one of 10 districts selected to pilot new special-education initiatives. Of the 650 students in the high school, probably 20 to 25 percent h... |
283914_0 | THE BUZZARDS ABOVE, THE CANE BELOW | LEAD: BIG SUGAR Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida. By Alec Wilkinson. 263 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $18.95. By Richard J. Margolis IN 1951, President Harry S. Truman's Commission on Migratory Labor examined farm worker conditions nationwide and concluded that what held the system together was human misfortune.... |
283773_0 | Rain and Fines, but Mostly Rain, Slow Burning of Amazon Forest in Brazil | LEAD: Plumes of gray smoke are once again rising over the green sea of Amazonian rain forest surrounding this city. But preliminary survey figures from this year's dry season point to a new trend: a marked drop in burning. Plumes of gray smoke are once again rising over the green sea of Amazonian rain forest surroundin... |
285926_2 | Old Red Hunts Another 98 Yards | can still hunt. The more Anderson resents people harping on his age, the more determination he'll have to show he's not really that old. And the more yards he'll gain. ''Bill has told me, 'When you're done playing for the Giants, there won't be nothing left of you' and I'm starting to believe him,'' Anderson said. ''I ... |
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