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285984_1 | Education and Work: The Missing Link | power will wane. A few weeks ago, a bipartisan Labor Department commission, composed of business and labor leaders and academics, issued a report called ''Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America's Workforce Crisis.'' The commission's report cites many strategies that have been suggested in recent years to re... |
285888_5 | A New Effort to Protect Ozone | the brand name K-Whit Tools. With refrigerant at its present price, he said, his machine would save enough to pay for itself after 300 cars. Commitment by General Motors ''If the price of this stuff gets up high enough, even a junkyard will want to buy one,'' said John Tyson, vice president of the SPX Corporation, Musk... |
285859_7 | Impending U.S. Jobs 'Disaster': Work Force Unqualified to Work | of young adults have skills at the 2 and 3 levels, the needs of farming and transportation work. The Unskilled Will Be Trapped Evidence strongly indicates that these young workers, who are entering the labor force with inadequate skills, will find themselves in an employment backwater. ''Well educated people are not on... |
284811_1 | Environment Dominates 91-Nation Energy Talks | have cause for worry. Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, which scientists believe must be limited to slow global warming, could be 70 percent higher than current levels by 2020, assuming moderate economic growth, according to a major study released today by the World Energy Conference. Changes in the Atmosphere ''... |
284765_0 | News of Hurricane Damage Sends Oil and Gasoline Up | LEAD: Reports of hurricane damage to a major Caribbean refinery sent gasoline and heating oil futures prices surging on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. Reports of hurricane damage to a major Caribbean refinery sent gasoline and heating oil futures prices surging on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday... |
284859_3 | U.S. Fines Pan Am for Lax Security on Day of Jet Bombing | communicated to Pan Am. Aviation security rules have been tightened since Flight 103 exploded over Scotland. For example, United States airlines flying from Europe and the Middle East are now required to inspect by hand or with X-rays baggage checked by passengers. But the special inspection on which the fines were bas... |
284704_0 | Review/Music; Jon Hassell, With Trumpet And Electronics | LEAD: Jon Hassell has taken a long way around to reach basic musical ideas. The trumpeter and composer has studied Asian and African music, and he uses sophisticated electronic gadgets to alter and multiply the sound of his trumpet, turning single lines into phantom choirs. But when the New Jon Hassell Group performed ... |
282863_0 | Rain Forest Defender's Life Story Sold for Film | LEAD: Movie rights to the story of the life and death of the Brazilian defender of the Amazon rain forest Francisco (Chico) Mendes have been sold by his family to Peter Guber and Jon Peters, producers of the summer blockbuster ''Batman'' and of ''Rain Man,'' which won the Academy Award as best picture of 1988. Movie ri... |
282711_0 | U.S. Expands Its Sanctions Against Panama | LEAD: The United States announced today that it has expanded economic sanctions against Panama in an effort to force Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega to relinquish power there. The United States announced today that it has expanded economic sanctions against Panama in an effort to force Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega to relinq... |
282687_0 | Coffee Prices Fall on News Of U.S. Stance on Quotas | LEAD: Coffee futures prices plunged yesterday on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange on indications the United States will not support a return to international export quotas that would raise coffee prices. Coffee futures prices plunged yesterday on New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange on indications the... |
282865_1 | Making the Town Dump Sanitary | include limits on where landfills can be placed and how they can be operated. Although states set landfill standards, they will have to meet the minimums set by the Federal agency. As a result, new landfills are becoming increasingly complex and expensive, costing as much as $400,000 an acre to prepare. Holes in the gr... |
284309_0 | Careers; Fund-Raisers In Demand At Colleges | LEAD: THE weekly Chronicle of Higher Education is filled with persuasive advertisements about jobs for development officials. In collegiate circles, development means fund raising. THE weekly Chronicle of Higher Education is filled with persuasive advertisements about jobs for development officials. In collegiate circl... |
284453_1 | Q&A | Admiral in the British Navy. It has 12 categories, which were originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged British Navy frigate of the 19th century could carry. For example, a gale, defined as a wind of 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour), has a wind force of 8 o... |
281186_0 | Teen-Age Hero in Amazon Jet Rescue | LEAD: Survivors of a jetliner crash in the Amazon attributed their rescue today to an unemployed 19-year-old passenger who proved to be schooled in the ways of the rain forest. Survivors of a jetliner crash in the Amazon attributed their rescue today to an unemployed 19-year-old passenger who proved to be schooled in t... |
281143_0 | Menopause Linked to Cholesterol Changes | LEAD: Women's blood cholesterol levels worsen abruptly after menopause, and this may help explain their increasing risk of heart attacks, a new study indicates. Women's blood cholesterol levels worsen abruptly after menopause, and this may help explain their increasing risk of heart attacks, a new study indicates. Whil... |
286228_0 | Indonesia Takes Steps to Protect Rain Forests | LEAD: Moments after a helicopter lifts off from a forest base camp northwest of here, the scars of development appear among the tumultuous greens of the tropical rain forest: the felled trees, the bulldozers, the bright orange mud of the logging roads, the smudges of smoke alongside, where slash-and-burn farmers have f... |
286189_3 | Companies Step In Where the Schools Fail | function effectively at work, a situation he described as ''a cancer eating away at the American economy.'' Some companies, worried about anemic productivity at home and fiercer competition abroad, are shifting locales just to find larger pools of qualified entry level workers. Some are moving divisions overseas. The p... |
286156_2 | Polish Foreign Minister Pledges No Withdrawal From Warsaw Pact | Poland should have her place.'' The Polish Foreign Minister announced that the coalition Government of Communists, Solidarity supporters and independents, will become the second East European country to accept an international human rights agreement under which individual citizens of countries adhering to it may bring ... |
270995_4 | Restarting Weapons Reactors To Cost 4 Times the Estimate | Robert E. Tiller, the director of the restarting project, and other Energy Department officials in South Carolina and in Washington say they are not authorized to discuss it with reporters. Westinghouse executives and engineers also say they are not authorized to discuss it. In a letter accompanying the plan, James S. ... |
263378_0 | Tanker in Big Spill Typifies Freewheeling Industry | LEAD: The tanker that spilled 420,000 gallons of oil into Narragansett Bay last month after hitting a reef off the Rhode Island coast was made in Greece, registered in Liberia, insured by a Bermuda-based group managed from London and owned by a Greek shipping magnate. The tanker that spilled 420,000 gallons of oil into... |
263378_5 | Tanker in Big Spill Typifies Freewheeling Industry | shipping analyst for County NatWest Securities Ltd. in London. The classic way to cut operating costs in the tanker industry is to register the ship in an offshore nation with few regulatory controls, like Liberia or Panama. These ''flags of convenience'' allow shipowners to sidestep national rules that mandate the use... |
263278_0 | U.S. and Cuba Should Cooperate to Stop Regional Drug Trafficking | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your June 17 news story on the Castro regime's drug arrests in Cuba of a vice minister and other officials missed a key point: the opportunity these actions provide for the State Department to work toward regional antidrug cooperation including Cuba. The Castro regime's arrest of off... |
264657_2 | SHORTAGE OF ENTRANTS TO THE CLERGY CAUSING ALARM FOR U.S. RELIGIONS | ordinations in the decade after World War II means that 42 percent of the church's active clergy is scheduled to retire before 1995. At the same time, the number preparing for the ministry has declined annually for five years. Similar predicaments confront the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Evangelical Lutheran Chur... |
264725_2 | Curbing Violence Before Immunity Sets In | Times on May 2 featured a report on the pack rampage. One comment was: ''There has been an extraordinary resurgence of violence since crack. Violence is up throughout the community, and the types of crimes that are committed are more violent. To be successful in the underground economy, you have to be ruthless and you ... |
264528_1 | Why India Is Still Failing To Stop Its Population Surge | in Pakistan. But while improvements in agriculture have left Indians statistically able to feed themselves, population remains a source of grave concern in a country where food is not evenly distributed, forests are being razed for firewood or furniture, and good drinking water is scarce. Indian experts say large famil... |
264579_2 | American Team Gets Close Look At Soviet Laser | a Soviet Navy cruiser in the Black Sea, a venture intended to demonstrate the possibility of arms control at sea. Yevgeny P. Velikhov, a vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and organizer of the tour, said Mr. Gorbachev personally approved the visits. #2 American Physicists The American visitors included tw... |
269901_1 | Castro Begins to Talk of a Decline in Crucial Aid From Soviets | forced to work and to do miracles with respect to support coming from the socialist world,'' he said in the address in the farm center of Camaguey, 300 miles southeast of here, marking the 36th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution. When President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Cuba four months ago, there ... |
268197_0 | Patents; Vegetable Oil Waste Is Used for Fertilizer | LEAD: Ralph S. Daniels, an inventor in Shrewsbury, Mass., has patented a method for making fertilizer from the waste generated by refiners of vegetable oil. Ralph S. Daniels, an inventor in Shrewsbury, Mass., has patented a method for making fertilizer from the waste generated by refiners of vegetable oil. About 60 mil... |
268017_1 | Saturday News Quiz | on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 48. 1. Despite appearances, these may be a cool smile and a warm frown. Explain. 2. George Bush's debut in the international economic arena differed significantly from the approach of Presidents who had attended the 14 previous economic summit conferences o... |
264854_0 | After Amazon Slaying, Deals Abound | LEAD: The killing of a rubber tapper in the Amazon rain forest last year has set off a stampede among film makers and book publishers in the United States, Europe and South America to be first with his life story. The killing of a rubber tapper in the Amazon rain forest last year has set off a stampede among film maker... |
266535_2 | Doctors See Gap in Blacks' Health Having a Link to Low Self-Esteem | large percentage of his patients have been victims of family or gang-related violence or witnesses to it, putting them at risk for many psychological disturbances, including that of acting out of violent tendencies. Violence Affecting More Children Dr. Bell said he was especially concerned about the increasing number o... |
266517_0 | Key Sections of the Paris Communique by the Group of Seven | LEAD: Following are key sections of the communique issued today by the Group of Seven major industrialized democracies: Following are key sections of the communique issued today by the Group of Seven major industrialized democracies: 1. We, the heads of state or government of seven major industrial nations and the pres... |
266517_13 | Key Sections of the Paris Communique by the Group of Seven | use of suitable substitute substances and technologies. . . . 40. We strongly advocate common efforts to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which threaten to induce climate change, endangering the environment and the economy. . . . 41. We agree that increasing energy efficiency could make a s... |
266537_0 | Building Reactors the New Way | LEAD: In the waning days of the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States, supporters of nuclear energy say that if a new generation of plants is ever ordered, the Limerick 2 plant here could be a model for pricing and planning. In the waning days of the construction of nuclear power plants in the Unite... |
269064_0 | Industry Fights Use of Animal Tests to Assess Cancer Risk | LEAD: THE chemical industry is challenging the way the Federal Government classifies substances as a potential cause of cancer in humans. THE chemical industry is challenging the way the Federal Government classifies substances as a potential cause of cancer in humans. Industry associations and companies contend in a l... |
269079_1 | NASA Plans a 'Mission to Planet Earth' | with the fragmentary measurements from existing satellites and ground stations. Using a wide array of remote-sensing instruments, more than half of them of new and more advanced design, the system is intended to gather detailed information and measurements about the Earth's climate and weather, its land, its crops, its... |
263652_1 | Rain Forest Worth More if Uncut, Study Says | rate of deforestation it is projected that several countries, including El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, will have destroyed all their forests in 30 years. ''The study indicates that deforestation is a bad investment,'' said Charles M. Peters of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Bota... |
267718_6 | Auto Makers' Plea on Pollution | half the time it would if it used gasoline. A much bigger fuel tank could alleviate the problem, but there is not much unused space in today's cars. Engineers have developed special plastic that resists methanol's corrosiveness and can be molded to take advantage of unused nooks and crannies. But eventually, fuel tanks... |
267098_3 | Import Rise Worsens Trade Gap | was stronger, but the goods not delivered until May when the transaction is counted in the official trade numbers. Strikes Overseas In addition, some economists noted that the increase could result from a catch-up in May from the April dock strikes in Japan and Italy. The strikes temporarily delayed shipments by export... |
267115_1 | Meeting Mobile Phone Demand | of 0's and 1's and transmit them as a pattern of radio pulses. At the receiving end, the conversation will be reconstructed. Today's analog systems transmit calls on electromagnetic radio waves that in essence mimic the wave pattern of the voice. The digital technology is expected to provide three times the capacity of... |
265753_2 | Cuban General and Three Others Executed for Sending Drugs to U.S. | at the trial of General Ochoa and 13 co-defendants provided abundant new evidence to support longstanding American charges that Cuban officials were involved in drug smuggling. Mr. Castro had long denied such charges. Although many experts on Cuba say they believe the court-martial was a show trial staged for political... |
265730_2 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; The Value Of a Seal Of Approval | celebrity.'' Although the heart association has not announced which categories of processed foods it will review first, it has already received hundreds of inquiries from manufacturers, said Tim Elsner, a spokesman for the association. The first endorsements will probably be made in early 1990, he said. ''Our studies h... |
265712_0 | For the Globe's Sake, Debt Relief | LEAD: Two years ago, the leaders of the Group of Seven nations offered invaluable support to the Central American peace initiative. Today I ask them to devote their attention to another set of urgent problems: the threat of tropical deforestation and the need to redirect development strategies toward a sustainable cour... |
265703_0 | Reality at the Summit | LEAD: The earth's capacity to support a rapidly expanding population is declining ominously. So the $2.25 billion Japan is offering the third world for environmental purposes is too little and dangerously near too late. The earth's capacity to support a rapidly expanding population is declining ominously. So the $2.25 ... |
264188_0 | Government Issues Directive For Airport Bomb Detectors | LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration issued a rule today to require airlines to install bomb detectors capable of spotting plastic explosives in checked baggage at 40 American and foreign airports. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a rule today to require airlines to install bomb detectors capable of spot... |
264171_2 | Prison In the Sand | is probably the least offensive jail in the Middle East and that the Israelis treat Arab prisoners much better than Arab jailers treat Arabs - to say nothing of how they might treat thousands of Jews jailed for rebelling against Arab rule. These comparisons do not excuse any mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners by Isr... |
263715_2 | GORBACHEV LIKENS SOVIETS TO FRENCH | Mitterrand conducted a broad review of the global political situation and, according to their spokesmen, agreed to issue a joint declaration tomorrow on the situation in Lebanon - a particular concern of the French president. Gennadi I. Gerasimov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, told journalists that Mr. Mitterr... |
266321_0 | HOW 'HEALTH FOOD HIPPIES' BECAME SERIOUS MARKETERS | LEAD: Before introducing his line of New Morning cereals in 1982, Jean Fialkoff conducted a taste test with a small group of consumers he knew quite well. He gathered his four children - ages 2, 3, 5 and 6 - around the kitchen table one morning for a sampling. They approved and a company was born. Before introducing hi... |
266204_4 | The Antiquities Boom - Who Pays The Price? | of glamour to a field that traditionally has been the province of a low-profile group of specialists and dedicated collectors. ''Antiquities was always the poor sister to every other department at Sotheby's and Christie's,'' says Harmer Johnson. Five years ago, however, collectors priced out of the Impressionist and co... |
266269_0 | Beethoven's Ninth, Bottom of the Ninth | LEAD: ''DADDY, do you yell at your orchestra as much as you yell at our baseball team?'' asked the blue-eyed fielder of the Dad's Club Darlings. A legitimate question given the fact that after each loss and cliff-hanging victory my vocal chords sound and feel like I have gorged on sandpaper canapes. ''DADDY, do you yel... |
266056_1 | Economic Watch; Forces in Society, and Reaganism, Helped Dig Deeper Hole for Poor | draw much interest, let alone fire, from politicians. But this year House Republicans were infuriated by a letter accompanying the Ways and Means Committee report on Government programs that said ''the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer.'' So the Republicans prepared an analysis accusing ''liberal Demo... |
269015_0 | Chicago Schools Agree to Revamp Programs for Handicapped Pupils | LEAD: The Chicago school board and the Federal Department of Education have announced an agreement on a plan to end a four-and-a-half-year impasse over the city's educational policies toward physically and mentally handicapped students. The Chicago school board and the Federal Department of Education have announced an ... |
268736_5 | Presence on Jet of Many Children Prompts New Push for Safety Seats | take-off and landing. But a United Airlines spokesman, Rob Doughty, after discussing the question with an airline safety official, said the airline does allow the seats to be used during takeoff and landing, and that the F.A.A. does not prohibit it. Three factors in this crash have focused attention on the issue. First... |
268389_0 | Church Must Look at Causes of Clergy Shortage | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: A July 9 front-page article portrays the problem facing this country's main religious groups, with the numbers and quality of priests, ministers and rabbis on the decline, and fewer and fewer recruits in the pipeline. As a resigned priest, now married and the father of four, I'd like... |
268585_0 | Mellow Manley Steers Jamaica to Quiet Days | LEAD: Michael Manley promised a quiet Jamaica and, so far, that is what he has delivered. Michael Manley promised a quiet Jamaica and, so far, that is what he has delivered. Nearly six months after his return to power as Prime Minister, there have been no shocks, no surprises, none of the wild excitement that kept the ... |
268262_0 | Works in Progress; From the Ground Up, Warily | LEAD: >TEN MILES EAST OF SPITAK, the Armenian town closest to the epicenter of last December's cataclysmic earthquake, the city of Kirovakan still has a skyline. All 100 or so of the 9- and 10-story apartment buildings there remain erect. Meanwhile, in Leninakan, 30 miles west of Spitak, most of the equivalent structur... |
268350_0 | A Group Show at Bronx Museum LBy VIVIEN RAYNOR | LEAD: ''ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE,'' a yearly event at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, is no ordinary group show but the end product of a 16-week-long program addressed to selected artists. The program consists of seminars led by curators, dealers, critics, lawyers and other professionals equipped to convey the facts of ... |
268350_3 | A Group Show at Bronx Museum LBy VIVIEN RAYNOR | from its owner. There is also Debra Goldman's beautiful if somewhat obscure still life in sepia tones that involves what appears to be a black pebble in a scallop shell surmounted by an engraving of a snake. On view through July 30, the show comes with an $8 booklet that has a short introduction by its organizer, Joan ... |
268587_5 | A Literary Corner Of Cornwall | Cornish coast, crowded with bays, coves, creeks - and wrecks - offers superb if sometimes extremely demanding sailing. For able sailors, the Channel Isles and Isles of Scilly, as well as the coasts of southern Ireland, Wales and northern France, are within reach. For novices, the Fowey estuary and harbor are generally ... |
268394_0 | Church Must Look at Causes of Clergy Shortage; Beginning of the End | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Viewing with alarm the declining number of ordained members of the clergy in the country is only one possible perspective on the issues raised in your front-page article of July 9. Other perspectives view the shortage as the beginning of the end of priestly control, as the inevitable... |
268540_1 | An Avalanche of Information Is Coming to Video Screens | optical disks that store reams of information. An encyclopedia can be recorded on a disk the size of a musical CD. A small library can be contained in an optical jukebox. Experts agree that merely presenting information on a screen instead of on paper is not going to attract a wide following. Rather, they say, electron... |
270354_2 | Navy Missile Test Is Scuttled By Anti-Nuclear Protesters | was canceled, the Navy said, ''because of intentional interference from foreign flag ships in a designated hazardous operating area.'' ''Concern for the safety of the personnel of the interfering ships precluded launching the test missile,'' the Navy said. Shannon Fagan, a Greenpeace spokeswoman at the organization's c... |
270365_0 | In Sorting Trash, Householders Get Little Help From Industry | LEAD: When it comes to recycling, manufacturers of consumer products are doing what comes easily. Impressive amounts of their readily reusable products are being recycled: 25 percent of all paper, 25 percent of glass bottles, 55 percent of aluminum cans and 66 percent of all steel. When it comes to recycling, manufactu... |
265011_3 | An Audubon Group Finds Its Interests Extend Far to South | of the conservation project would be set aside for wildlife, sustainable logging for mahogany and cedar would be permitted in other areas. Sapodilla trees will be tapped for the chicle used in chewing gum, Mr. Burley said. The area is rich in Mayan ruins, which will be opened to tourism. Mr. Burley said conditions for ... |
265023_6 | Scientists Debate Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields | That assertion is now being challenged by laboratory experiments on living cells and animals, and by the epidemiological studies that have shown a statistical association - but no cause-and-effect relationship -between cancer and exposure to electromagnetic fields from wires that carry electricity through neighborhoods... |
270697_5 | Italy's Endangered Treasures | by regions, municipalities and - especially for prestige projects - by business corporations. Yet Antonio Cederna, a leading environmentalist, charged that because of bureaucratic bungling the Government actually spent not more than $215 million a year on maintenance and restoration of the cultural patrimony - the cost... |
270746_0 | THE WORLD: An Update on the Destruction of Species; Where the Planet Is Losing Its Life Forms | LEAD: A SYMPATHETIC world keeps careful watch on elephants, pandas, whales, whooping cranes, California condors, blackfooted ferrets and other highly visible endangered species. For scientists, the fates of these animals is of great concern, and environmental groups have been able to rally parts of the public to the ca... |
270458_3 | ALCOHOL'S CHILD: A FATHER TELLS HIS TALE | damage could not be undone. In the next few years Mr. Dorris learned a lot about fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition that was being identified and explored by the international medical community in the 1970's, just when Adam's medical and learning disabilities were baffling his father. Medical news doesn't always trave... |
270763_4 | AIRBORNE DRUG WAR IS AT A STALEMATE | appear as if he was flying his family home from a Caribbean vacation. While cocaine smuggling is largely controlled by the South American drug gangs, the pilots are mainly American, the Federal drug agents say. Most are over 35 years old and have thousands of hours of flight experience. John Fernandes, a Federal drug a... |
270780_3 | Ex-Reagan Aide Helped Project Gain at H.U.D. | Kitchin ''told me he would talk with somebody in Washington, that he was up there frequently, that he knew all of these people.'' He recalled discussing Ms. Dean with Mr. Kitchin. ''It was pretty plain that Deborah Dean was the power in the Secretary's office,'' the developer said in an interview. The project was finan... |
270740_0 | Widening the Margin of Safety in Flying | LEAD: THE relatively high survival rate of passengers in the July 19 United Airlines crash in Sioux City, Iowa, has focused renewed attention on ways to make airplanes safer. In recent years the Federal Aviation Administration, under pressure from groups representing pilots, passengers, flight attendants and even the i... |
270715_6 | FOR TV, IT'S OUT OF THE TUXEDO AND BACK TO REALITY | his most recent efforts on ''Nightingales,'' in which nurses spent most of their time tending to sexual antics, and ''Heartbeat,'' about a group of women doctors, one of them a lesbian. Neither series was renewed for next season. Not too long ago, a special report on one network's evening newscast focused on a small gr... |
264285_0 | Soviets Cut Back Nuclear Testing As Hazards Become a Local | LEAD: The Soviet Union has scaled back its nuclear testing program, possibly to ease concerns of Soviet citizens that the blasts are contaminating the environment, Bush Administration officials say. The Soviet Union has scaled back its nuclear testing program, possibly to ease concerns of Soviet citizens that the blast... |
264283_1 | Egyptian Population Growth Strains Resources and Society | land, the jobs, the food. The issue has raised tensions between secular authorities favoring birth control and some religious leaders opposing it as contrary to the Islamic faith, and has caused differences within Islam itself. ''We increase by about one million and a half every year,'' President Hosni Mubarak said rec... |
262951_0 | 780 West End Ave. | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your Streetscapes article about 780 West End Avenue on May 14, headed ''Making a Tall Building Taller,'' was of particular interest to the Friends of Terra Cotta/New York State because the New York State Council on the Arts and the J. M. Kaplan Fund have recently provided us with fun... |
262892_0 | Celebrating the New World | LEAD: WITH as amorphous a subject as entrepreneurial studies, what better way is there to house an institute for it than in a structure that is partly a Greek temple with Doric porticos and partly a basilica with arched, door-sized niches instead of windows? And what better material to sheathe it in than Styrofoam carv... |
263898_3 | Economic Watch; For Sandinistas, Newest Enemy Is Hard Times | out the early gains and leaving production in 1988 below 1979 levels. Exports were hit especially hard, with output of traditional products (coffee, cotton, meat, bananas) down 40 percent and manufactured goods for the Central American market down 84 percent. Imports are now four times greater than exports. Last year's... |
263909_0 | Test of Genetically Altered Pesticide Allowed | LEAD: For the first time the Federal Government has approved open-air test spraying of a genetically engineered virus as an insecticide, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. For the first time the Federal Government has approved open-air test spraying of a genetically engineered virus as an insecticide, ... |
263967_1 | No Headline | effort to take the lead on environmental issues. A9 China accused the Voice of America of lying about an incident last month in which Chinese troops opened fire on a diplomatic compound. It was the New China News Agency that accused the radio station. A8 No further steps to isolate China should be taken now, the United... |
265959_0 | Athletes' Cancers a Coincidence, Study of Meadowlands Site Finds | LEAD: A study has concluded that nothing peculiar to the Meadowlands Sports Complex poses an increased risk of cancer to athletes, fans or employees. A study has concluded that nothing peculiar to the Meadowlands Sports Complex poses an increased risk of cancer to athletes, fans or employees. The study, released today,... |
266698_1 | To Halt Climate Change, Scientists Try Trees | dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil. The combination, many scientists believe, is making the greenhouse effect more intense, future global warming inevitable and major climatic disruptions more likely. But growing trees absorb carbon dioxide, storing the carbon part of the gas and releasin... |
265276_0 | Corrections | LEAD: An article in Science Times yesterday about possible health hazards of electromagnetic fields misstated the amount the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry group, is spending this year for research on the issue. It is $5.5 million, not $5.5 billion. An article in Science Times yesterday about possible h... |
265283_0 | Fresh Produce Bringing Fresh Choices | LEAD: THIS time of year at the Union Square Greenmarket is the most exciting for me because of the arrival of Jersey tomatoes and corn picked the day it is sold. Jersey tomatoes are the only commercially produced tomatoes worth eating, and corn any older isn't worth the calories. THIS time of year at the Union Square G... |
262839_0 | The Global Bonfire | LEAD: Alarming amounts of acid rain and ozone have been found for the first time over the rain forests of central Africa. These are not industrial pollutants, as in the United States and Europe, but stem from the annual burning of thousands of square miles of grassland by African farmers. This may be yet another seriou... |
262778_3 | Gender Gap in Aptitude Tests Is Narrowing, Experts Find | document differences in mathematics and verbal abilities. ''Girls were higher in verbal abilities and boys, starting in junior high school, were better in quantitative abilities,'' Dr. Jacklin recalled in an interview. But now, she added, ''those differences have been diminishing.'' The most comprehensive recent analys... |
262669_0 | Australia's Sugar Trade Hurt by U.S. Quotas | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your May 23 editorial on sugar put the fundamental issues clearly and succinctly. But John C. Kingery, former associate general counsel in the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, makes a number of misleading points in his June 3 letter in connection with Australia's complaint under t... |
262708_1 | STAURDAY NEWS QUIZ | a tanker that went aground off the Alaskan coast three months ago. Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 46. 1. A televised taped interview of this man may have international ramifications. Who is he and what are the circumstances? 2. Scientists said the oil spill from a tan... |
295188_0 | Singapore's Example | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Unchecked population growth threatens the earth's environment, as Prof. Richard N. Gardner states in his eloquent plea for United States and United Nations support of family planning programs (Op-Ed, Sept. 22). Unprecedented demands on the world's resources can lead to hunger, violen... |
290864_2 | Schoolchildren Ponder Over Where the Garbage Goes | of so much paper. ''All this will just be thrown out,'' said several mothers. ''You're just taking it because it's there!'' one teacher said to his students. Concrete Turns Into Crumbs Still, there was much that impressed the students at the exposition, the second to be held by the county. Many came away wide-eyed from... |
291113_5 | Town Fights With Neighbors Over Burning of Tons of Tires | the plant poses no environmental hazard. Connecticut and Rhode Island environmental officials agreed, after analyzing data on the emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and hydrocarbons from a smaller incinerator that Oxford operates in Modesto, Calif. The Sterling plant has ''complied with all the state and Feder... |
287425_2 | If Your Line Is Cellular, Give a Ring | and demand grows for services like toll-free 800 numbers, computer-data lines, facsimile transmission, international calling and private telephone networks. Industry analysts expect the market to grow at double-digit rates for the next five years. However, telephone companies have installed a variety of automated and d... |
287228_0 | THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE'S | LEAD: Beginning in 1801, when Greece was still part of the Ottoman Empire, the British Ambassador to Constantinople, the seventh Earl of Elgin, acquired from Turkish authorities much of the sculptural ornament of the Parthenon in Athens. Known as the Elgin Marbles, the sculptures are generally recognized as the most su... |
287609_0 | Anglican Head Prays With the Pope in Rome | LEAD: Making his first official visit to the Vatican, the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed alongside Pope John Paul II today as the two spiritual leaders discussed future reunification of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. Making his first official visit to the Vatican, the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed alongsi... |
287424_4 | In 1990's, What Price Scarce Labor? | as industries decline or companies move some of these jobs overseas to countries with lower wages. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the biggest drop in job openings will be for electronic assemblers and electronic semiconductor processors, as more companies automate these jobs or subcontract them abroad. Ot... |
287432_1 | Episcopalians Compromise on Women's Role | on the podium. ''It has been a joy to be here,'' declared Bishop Clarence C. Pope Jr. of Fort Worth, who heads the Episcopal Synod of America, a traditionalist group formed last June. Many church leaders feared that the group, led by six bishops and organized as a shadow version of the Episcopal Church itself, was the ... |
287485_0 | Shortwave Makes News | LEAD: The Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan used to speak of a ''global village'' as the likely result of the electronic age. The Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan used to speak of a ''global village'' as the likely result of the electronic age. What Professor McLuhan didn't sufficiently take into account is ho... |
287175_6 | Sailing Fiji's Far Waters | the marker just before dark. We slip inside the reef to safety. In the morning, we see a circle of white water that marks the reef behind us, as if we've passed through a ring of fire to reach an island under a spell: Dravuni. ''TAKE OFF YOUR HAT,'' I urge as we climb out of the dinghy. ''Only a chief is allowed to wea... |
287539_0 | At Home in Tuscany | LEAD: IT all seemed very Italian, renting a house in Tuscany with my husband, our two sons and my mother, all five of us piling in and out of the car wherever we went. The two women collecting money for the use of the public toilets at Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli thought it was terrific. They laughed when my husband kept... |
287346_3 | Power From Space Is Pollution Free | 1980's. At the time, these power systems were judged to be too expensive because of the high cost of transporting propellants, materials and space structures into orbit from earth. Since Mr. Bush's recent speech, there appears to be an opportunity for the United States, and other nations, to develop a lunar base and th... |
290166_1 | The End of Forever | reports are there, day after day: tropical rain forests cut and burned, lakes dead from acid rain, a hole in the protective ozone layer, thousands of plant and animal species heading for extinction. The richness and variety that poets have celebrated in nature are steadily diminishing. I find myself turning away from s... |
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