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255109_3 | Document Opens a Window on Mind of Jefferson | guarded behind closed doors and gates and are inaccessible to the public. Many of Jefferson's books and pamphlets - assembled in his years as Minister to France, Secretary of State, Vice President and President - are still in their original leather bindings. He used his own binder in Georgetown for assembling pamphlets... |
259990_1 | More Study Urged on Electrical Fields' Effects | electric fields. The new study said alternating current, of 60 cycles a second, that of common household circuits, ''and other low-frequency electromagnetic fields can interact with individual cells and organs to produce biological changes.'' ''The nature of these interactions for public health remain unclear, but ther... |
260109_3 | Talking Business with Barrett of Goodyear; The Importance Of Being Biggest | producing a tire. Fifteen years ago, it would have been twice that or two and a half times that. Compared with our competitors, we're good. Q. What kind of tire do you think American car makers are going to have in the next five years? What kind of miles-per-gallon fleet average do you expect in that period? A. They're... |
259928_3 | New Survey Raises Concerns About Recovery of Blue Whale | ships cruise the seas and scientists actually count whales. Using this approach, scientists from a number of nations have been surveying the waters off Antarctica in every Southern Hemisphere summer since 1978-79, systematically covering the area south of 60 degrees latitude. In the summer whales migrate to those latit... |
260129_0 | I. F. Stone's Legacy | LEAD: There's little need to rehearse the merits of I. F. Stone as reporter and advocate. The country discovered during Vietnam what his Washington colleagues had known for years: In a frenzied calling, he was a meticulous craftsman, buttressing unfashionable views with relentless spadework into unread official documen... |
260027_0 | Morgan Move Into Bond Market Approved | LEAD: The revival of the House of Morgan, where banking and corporate finance coexisted under one roof, moved forward yesterday when the Federal Reserve Board yesterday approved an application by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. to begin raising money for corporations in the public bond market. The revival of the House of M... |
259456_2 | Violence In a Man's World | it that. Think of Diane Pikul, killed by her stock-analyst husband when she asked for a divorce. Jennifer Levin and Kathleen Holland, strangled by boyfriends who claimed it was all part of ''rough sex.'' Thir-teen-year-old Kelly Tinyes, slain, allegedly by a neighbor. Theresa Saldana, the actress, whose slasher is sche... |
259302_2 | About Cars; Zipping Along on a Drive to the Future | you miss the feature greatly when you get into a 1989 car that lacks it. The near future also holds other uses for electronics, which currently account for 10 percent of an automobile's sticker price. The tab for those electrons will double by 1995, according to a study done by the University of Michigan, but most of t... |
259399_0 | BISHOPS APPROVE PLAN ON DISPUTES | LEAD: America's Roman Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved today a long-stalled set of guidelines aimed at resolving doctrinal disputes between bishops and theologians. America's Roman Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved today a long-stalled set of guidelines aimed at resolving doctrinal disputes between bisho... |
259361_0 | Fear of Falling | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: It's good to see there are a few happy people in New York these days, and one in Berkeley, Calif. I am referring to the letters gloating over the removal - an undertakers' term for transporting a corpse from the place of death to the mortuary - of ''Tilted Arc'' [ Letters, May 21, Ma... |
258079_3 | Spain Is Transformed Into Builder's Paradise | December it awarded a $740 million contract to the French company Alsthom and West Germany's Siemens to build a high-speed train by 1992, which would reduce the traveling time between Madrid and Seville from seven hours to three. Private initiative, domestic and foreign, has turned to real estate, raising new buildings... |
259056_0 | Cuba Arrests Top General on Corruption Charges | LEAD: Cuba has arrested a top army general on corruption charges. American officials and other experts on Cuba said today that the action strongly suggested dissension at the highest levels of the Cuban armed forces. Cuba has arrested a top army general on corruption charges. American officials and other experts on Cub... |
260919_1 | About New York; Helping Mothers With Problems Show Their Love | cannot make eye contact. Assuming a position of authority can be achingly impossible. So, for that matter, is doing more than one thing at a time - even if one of the things is watching one's child. The result is seldom the kind of odious child abuse one sees in headlines. It is a matter of too little too late. ''Child... |
260985_1 | Cuba Discloses A Drug Network Of Top Officials | some marijuana into the United States over the last two and a half years. The American officials said they could not immediately provide information about possible connections between Cuban traffickers and people in the United States. Official Cuban newspaper reports and radio broadcasts give extraordinary detail about... |
256161_0 | Genetic Tomatoes Test | LEAD: The Monsanto Company said Thursday that it had begun a research field trial of tomato plants genetically engineered to resist caterpillar pests, like tomato fruitworm and tomato hornworm. The field test follows trials on insect-resistant tomatoes in Mexico, Florida and Illinois earlier this year. The Monsanto Com... |
256314_0 | Hundreds Arrested Over Seabrook Test | LEAD: Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant today to protest the plant's first atomic reaction, and the police said 627 were arrested for trespassing. Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant today to protest the plant's first atomic react... |
256169_0 | France Tests Bomb in Pacific | LEAD: France exploded a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb at an underground site in French Polynesia today, New Zealand Government scientists said. The explosion, the third conducted by France this year, probably occurred on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research said. France exploded ... |
262583_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | the nation's coastline, including, for the first time, off part of Alaska's coast was approved by the House Appropriations Committee. A1 An inquiry into the tanker grounding revealed that local harbor pilots do not always board incoming vessels at the boundary line designated by state law, a boat operator said. A10 A r... |
256945_0 | 21 Aboard Jumbo Jet Injured By Turbulence Over Kansas | LEAD: Turbulent weather buffeted a United Airlines jumbo jet Tuesday, tossing babies in the air and bouncing luggage and a food cart off the ceiling of the plane. Turbulent weather buffeted a United Airlines jumbo jet Tuesday, tossing babies in the air and bouncing luggage and a food cart off the ceiling of the plane. ... |
256921_0 | New Evidence of Mismanagement Found in Internal H.U.D. Report | LEAD: Mismanagement and potential political abuses at the Department of Housing and Urban Development extend far beyond a Federal low-income housing program now under scrutiny by Congress and the Justice Department, an internal report shows. Mismanagement and potential political abuses at the Department of Housing and ... |
256870_1 | Panel Opposes Drug to End Lactation | to suppress painful breast engorgement in non-nursing mothers after childbirth. The agency's Advisory Committee on Fertility and Maternal Health Drugs voted unanimously last week to oppose the use of antilactation drugs and sex hormones like estrogen for this purpose. In a letter today to the Commissioner of Food and D... |
256915_0 | Attacks on U.S. Homosexuals Held Alarmingly Widespread | LEAD: Violence against gay men and lesbians continues to be ''alarmingly widespread,'' a national organization said yesterday in a report outlining more than 7,200 incidents of violence and verbal harassment against homosexuals around the country last year. Violence against gay men and lesbians continues to be ''alarmi... |
256947_1 | MENTAL DISORDERS MEASURED IN YOUNG | relation to child and adolescent mental health issues as it has been in relation to adult mental disorders.'' The Institute of Medicine studies health policy for the National Academy of Sciences, an advisory body to the Government. Unlike that institute, the National Institute of Mental Health is a branch of the Nation... |
255349_6 | Review/Art; In 40 Ways, the Big Picture Of Helen Frankenthaler | like ''Nature Abhors a Vacuum'' (1973), ''Ocean Drive West No. 1'' (1974), ''Tulip Tint'' (1975), ''Sacrifice Decision'' (1981) and ''On the Cusp'' (1985) look better than ever. (So do the titles. We have no trouble believing the artist when she says that ''touring Phoenix today I came up with lots of good titles, but ... |
255412_0 | Seeing Disaster, Groups Ask Ban on Ivory Imports | LEAD: Two leading international conservation groups called today for an immediate worldwide ban on imports of ivory to prevent a threatened catastrophe for African elephants. Two leading international conservation groups called today for an immediate worldwide ban on imports of ivory to prevent a threatened catastrophe... |
255304_0 | Sugar Complaint Is Backed | LEAD: An international panel has backed a contention by Australia that the United States violated trading rules by limiting its sugar imports, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said today. An international panel has backed a contention by Australia that the United States violated trading rules by lim... |
260768_1 | Airlines Ordered to Tighten Security Measures | aviation agency and airline officials warned that passengers might expect more delays if they travel with electronic goods, whether carried aboard or packed in checked luggage. In some cases, airlines might refuse to carry devices that are considered suspicious. The Federal Aviation Administration, which enforces aviat... |
260779_0 | Sugar Quotas Of U.S. Cited As Violation | LEAD: The 96-nation council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade found today that American sugar import quotas violate world trade rules, and the United States said it would seek to bring its program into compliance. The 96-nation council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade found today that American ... |
260742_0 | Reports of Soviet Purchases Spur Rally in Sugar Prices | LEAD: Reports of sugar purchases by the Soviet Union created a frenzied rally in the sugar futures market, with prices reaching an 11-month high on speculation that the surprise transactions implied further buying. Reports of sugar purchases by the Soviet Union created a frenzied rally in the sugar futures market, with... |
260789_2 | Cellular Phone Growth Starts Investor Rush | and consolidation. The analysts said that cellular companies were trying to gain control of the franchises in specific regions, where they could concentrate their efforts and gain greater operating efficiencies. ''The high prices that people are willing to pay for cellular are mainly a function of expected subscriber g... |
257618_0 | In Peru's Lush Rain Forest | LEAD: ONCE over the snowy peaks of the Andes, all that can be seen on the flight to Puerto Maldonado, in the Amazon's southern headwaters, is an enormous dark green sea of forest. The only breaks are small clearings, increasingly frequent near the city, and rivers, gleaming silver in the tropical sun. Puerto Maldonado ... |
257616_5 | When the Kids Must Fly Solo | may be important. Canada and Mexico If children are going to Canada or Mexico, and 64 percent of all United States foreign travelers do, they need a notarized parental letter giving permission for the specific trip. If it's Mexico, both parents must sign the letter. (Incidentally, Guadalupe Martinez of the Mexican Cons... |
257910_0 | Does U.S. Nuclear Aid to France Even Now Comply With Law? | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your May 28 news story and June 1 editorial (''The Nuclear Version of 20 Questions'') on my Foreign Policy article on covert American assistance to France's nuclear weapons program are more sanguine than my article on whether or not the assistance now complies with United States law.... |
257657_1 | Whatever Happened To Music? | status and security that might be expected to promote artistic fecundity? In the last 40 years, especially, sages of every philosophical persuasion have addressed such questions, sometimes with stimulating results. Marxists and Freudians like Walter Benjamin (''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'') a... |
257648_0 | Shipboard Music Becomes Shipshape | LEAD: When the king of England wanted a little water music, he loaded Georg Friedrich Handel on a barge, along with a bunch of other musicians, and shipped out on the Thames. Considering the enduring score composed for the occasion, it was worth the effort, but nowadays the pleasures of music afloat are more easily obt... |
257454_1 | RETAILERS TAKE ON NEW STRATEGIES - AND CHRYSLER IN COURT | have continued to chart record aggregate sales despite their plummeting market share. But many are concerned about the growing inroads of auto makers. Last year, only 7 percent of American cars sold lacked sound systems, compared with about 17 percent in 1978. Similarly, 70 percent of all foreign cars now come with ste... |
257601_0 | Special Education: Promise, Not Privilege | LEAD: Jane Goldblatt's letter (''Special Education Isn't Sacrosanct,'' May 14) gives new meaning to the words ''misguided'' and ''cynical.'' In describing funds spent on special education students, she writes, ''I don't think it is in the interest of any country to create a privileged group of children. Jane Goldblatt'... |
257807_25 | BOOKS FOR VACATION READING | University, $29.50.) A ''major biographical and literary study'' of the 17th-century nun who was also ''a poet, playwright and essayist who was without peer in any of the Spanish dominions during her lifetime.'' THE WARRIOR QUEENS. By Antonia Fraser. (Knopf, $22.95.) The British biographer turns her attention to powerf... |
257883_1 | Hudson Museum Names New Chief | county had contributed to her selection. 'A Tremendous Find' ''Barbara is the personification of the museum,'' Mrs. Greene said. ''She has followed my best philosophy: If you want to be someplace, go there and work your way up. She did an absolutely wonderful job as curator, she has the right background and she's very ... |
214258_0 | New Exhibit Examines South America's Tribes | LEAD: Just past the stuffed bird displays and behind the Aztec statues, a new exhibition on South American tribes will open this Friday at the American Museum of Natural History. Just past the stuffed bird displays and behind the Aztec statues, a new exhibition on South American tribes will open this Friday at the Amer... |
214251_0 | PROGRAM HELPING YOUNGER REFUGEES | LEAD: When Ila Roy asked a group of 8-year-old Central American immigrants to draw a scene from their lives, she got some surprising results. When Ila Roy asked a group of 8-year-old Central American immigrants to draw a scene from their lives, she got some surprising results. One child drew a sun that looked typical e... |
214386_7 | RUSSIANS DISCLOSE SATELLITES CARRY NEW REACTOR TYPE | that the Soviets were developing advanced radar satellites that ''will utilize improved nuclear power sources.'' 'More Accurate Targeting' Such technical progress, he said, ''will provide longer-lived, more reliable satellite operations'' and ''more accurate targeting'' of the American military from space. Admiral Stud... |
214381_3 | G.M. Executive Is Expected To Get No. 2 Pentagon Job | in efforts to clean up the military procurement process in the wake of a fraud scandal last year. Mr. Atwood has been with General Motors since 1961, working his way up through divisions of the automotive giant until he became executive vice president in 1984 and vice chairman in 1987. An engineer by profession, he has... |
214145_0 | Flight 103 Explosive Didn't Need Sophisticated Trigger Device; Send Bags Separately | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: A method of protecting passengers on international flights against terrorist baggage bombs is to ship baggage separately from passengers. Baggage security remains essential, but passengers would be assured a more secure aircraft. Baggage can be carried by a companion cargo plane that... |
214341_0 | WINTER WARMTH | LEAD: The descent of winter on the garden and the produce market colors everything green, brown and ivory. People shopping wear looks of resignation. They may fill their baskets with bright red tomatoes or strawberries, knowing that lively color disguises something that tastes more like styrofoam than food. The descent... |
211947_3 | U.S.-CUBA ENMITY MAY BE RELAXING | States has eased its demand that Cuba diminish its strong ties with the Soviet Union. In the last few years, Mr. Castro has been emphasizing nation-to-nation relations with countries in Latin America while continuing to support old guerrilla friends. According to reports of a recent visit by United Nations inspections ... |
211946_2 | F.D.A. Panel Finds No Need for Change In Taking of the Pill | Concern' Dr. Louise Brinton of the cancer institute, who is not a member of the advisory committee, said in an interview at the meeting that she has ''a high level of concern'' about a possible association between use of the pill and breast cancer and that ''based on the evidence today, most of the concern is in younge... |
212037_0 | Into the Woods | LEAD: With Congress in recess until Jan. 20, it is junket time again and one of the more unusual journeys will take five Senators and two Representatives into a tropical rain forest next week. With Congress in recess until Jan. 20, it is junket time again and one of the more unusual journeys will take five Senators and... |
210794_5 | Planfor First Mall Divides a Town | tons of garbage a month, 90 percent of which would be cardboard and would therefore go to a recycler, not the town's landfill. Members of the anti-mall group say they do not believe assurances about road improvements. They say the developers are asking Hamden and the state for the more than $10 million that would be ne... |
211013_2 | Europe's Old Colonies Are Getting Anxious as 1992 Nears | transition to the post-1992 world for these third-world countries. The talks are already grappling with how to cope with the impending standardization. In addition, the entry into the European Community of Spain and Portugal in 1986 and Greece in 1981 presents a threat of new competition for the tropical agriculture of... |
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211010_0 | 1988 Was, at Long Last, the Year of the U.N. | LEAD: THE United Nations enjoyed a spectacularly successful 1988, surprising its critics with its effectiveness as an international peacemaker. But with that success comes a new challenge for 1989: strengthening world confidence in the organization so it can keep up the momentum. THE United Nations enjoyed a spectacula... |
210675_2 | At European Airports, More Searching and More Questioning | said Vasilis Sakelaropoulos, an Olympic Airways official, of the passengers' reactions. ''They'd rather be safe than sorry. Experience so far shows that the resulting delays in flight departures are no more than 10 to 15 minutes.'' Sailor Is Stoic ''They've got a job to do, and it's pretty important, I guess,'' said an... |
210658_0 | About Cars; Some Leftovers That Bear Reheating | LEAD: The holidays are a good time for leftovers, and 1988 has more than its share. Here are some of them, along with a helping of late-breaking notions. The holidays are a good time for leftovers, and 1988 has more than its share. Here are some of them, along with a helping of late-breaking notions. For instance, it o... |
210763_0 | SO WHAT HAPPENED? | LEAD: More things get started than get finished, and thus the notion of process carries with it a whiff of uncertainty. Ambition, dreams, vision - these are great human motivations. But, of course, between motivation and achievement a lot can happen. More things get started than get finished, and thus the notion of pro... |
210908_4 | I.B.M.'s New System Is Put to a Test | systems to corporations, and until now the lack of a comprehensive way to connect all those computers has been a strategic weakness. (Companies that use big computers made by the Digital Equipment Corporation, I.B.M.'s main rival, have had systemwide ''connectivity'' for some time.) OS/2EE is a crucial component of I.B... |
210987_0 | As Neighborhood Sinks, Residents Wait to Leave | LEAD: When hundreds of residents were told they would have to leave their houses in the Logan area of the city, the structures already posed a hazard: the row houses listed at angry angles, sidewalks were crumbled and the ground seemed no more steady than the nerves of the residents. It was a situation, city officials ... |
211019_1 | Hormone-Treated Beef Termed Generally Safe | an expert on cattle nutrition at Cornell University, said, ''We in the industry don't support that because it suggests we have a problem.'' The hormones, including natural and synthetic sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone, make animals gain weight rapidly. Feed lot operators implant capsules of hormone behind t... |
210999_1 | THE REGION: Licenses and Tests; The Making of the Principals In New York City Schools | elusive goal of identifying people with the skills to evaluate teachers, schedule classes and develop curriculum as well as the character to lead a school. Prospective principals in New York State must first obtain a permanent administrator's certificate. Besides having to earn 30 graduate school credits, the aspirant ... |
211024_6 | Pan Am Blast: An Inquiry in Hot Pursuit | Washington, where they will work with the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. to direct the inquiry. The F.B.I. has assigned agents in Scotland and London to perform similar tasks with Scotland Yard. Luggage From Frankfurt What those agents are doing, for the most part, is not the stuff of spy novels. From Pan Am, they have received... |
210823_3 | Hello. Yes, It's Your Dial-a-Mom. | time to help. One Christmas I gave her a special pair of pantyhose, and she ran them the first time she put them on. She called to ask if I thought she could return them. I told her probably, but not right then. That seemed reasonable since she was at school, three hours away, and the store was closed anyway. But the '... |
211008_2 | THE NATION: Boom in Spy Craft; The Military Has A Fleet of Satellites In Line for Takeoff | be specific. But civilian experts said that satellites critical for reconnaissance, secret communications and early warning of missile attack were either operating on final backup systems or had already been lost from the orbital fleet. ''We were very badly crippled in photo intelligence,'' said William E. Burrows, aut... |
213432_0 | Anti-Sandinistas Say U.S. Should End Embargo | LEAD: Leaders of the political opposition in Nicaragua are virtually unanimous in urging the United States to end its four-year-old trade embargo against the Sandinista Government. Leaders of the political opposition in Nicaragua are virtually unanimous in urging the United States to end its four-year-old trade embargo... |
213431_4 | HEALTH: Birth Control; For Those Concerned With Pill's Risk, a Look at the Choices | take the pill when they are teen-agers or in their 20's and continue taking it for at least several years could at least double their risk of breast cancer, which is rare in women before 50. But previous studies had not found such a risk and experts said the new studies were inconclusive. It is not known whether women ... |
213527_0 | Scientists Find A Fault in Earth At Atomic Plant | LEAD: A previously unknown fault in the ancient rock layers beneath the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina has been detected and mapped by geologists, the Energy Department announced today. A previously unknown fault in the ancient rock layers beneath the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in Sout... |
214983_1 | Luggage Holder in Pan Am Bombing Found | placed. The police investigating the explosion that destroyed a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Scotland last month said today that they had identified the luggage container in which the bomb was placed. They said the luggage container, recovered from 10,000 items of debris found by crews searching the Scottish countryside, cou... |
215148_0 | Confusion Renewed Over Pill and Risks | LEAD: CONCERNED and confused, sometimes angry or, by now, numb to bad news about breast cancer: that is how gynecologists are describing patients' reactions to three recently released studies linking prolonged exposure to the estrogen in oral contraceptives with increased risk of breast cancer. CONCERNED and confused, ... |
215623_0 | Getty Trust And Chinese | LEAD: China and the Getty Conservation Institute today announced a joint effort to preserve two of China's largest and most significant cultural sites, where statues and paintings dating from the fourth century are decaying from harsh weather, pollution and damage by earthquakes. China and the Getty Conservation Instit... |
215692_0 | San Francisco Journal; Chilling Answer to Life After Death | LEAD: Everyone knows that you can't take it with you. But if members of the American Cryonics Society Inc. have their way, they are going to come back and get it. Everyone knows that you can't take it with you. But if members of the American Cryonics Society Inc. have their way, they are going to come back and get it. ... |
217176_0 | To Treat Child Abuse, Let Pediatricians Identify High-Risk Cases | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The greatest obstacle to pediatricians treating abused children is the lack of access to records. For example, say an infant is brought to Hospital A's emergency room for treatment of a minor burn. The mother reports that her cigarette ash accidently dropped on the child's skin. A pl... |
216940_0 | Choosing a College | LEAD: MUCH of the excitement in the personal computer industry revolves around the introduction of new or upgraded major software and hardware: a new word-processing or database program, a faster computer or modem, a bigger hard disk. For many users, especially in large companies, a slight improvement in speed or conve... |
217117_0 | Work at Atom Plant Goes On | LEAD: Construction projects worth more than $80 million are in progress at the Federal Government's uranium-processing plant in nearby Fernald despite recommendations that the operation be closed by 1994. Construction projects worth more than $80 million are in progress at the Federal Government's uranium-processing pl... |
214550_0 | Deep Cut Is Reported In Soviet-Cuba Trade | LEAD: The Soviet Union reduced its trade with Cuba by 12 percent in the first quarter of 1988, according to documents of the Cuban National Bank made available here. The Soviet Union reduced its trade with Cuba by 12 percent in the first quarter of 1988, according to documents of the Cuban National Bank made available ... |
214591_2 | Turkish Economy at a Turning Point | short-changed on American aid when compared with what is given to its archrival, Greece. But in the 1988 and 1989 fiscal years the Turks have received $92 million in economic assistance, while the Greeks got nothing. Moreover, United States military aid to Turkey was $990 million for the two years, against $693 million... |
211730_0 | Plan by Hoffmann | LEAD: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., an afiliate of the Swiss pharmaceutical concern F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Company, said it would build a $60 million plant in Freeport, Tex., to produce beta carotene, a nutritional supplement and food-coloring agent found naturally in carrots, broccoli, squash and other vegetables. Hoffmann-... |
211760_1 | U.S. Airports Told to Use Computer-Card Security Systems | jumbo jet over Scotland last month in which all 259 people aboard were killed. Problem of Access In a section of the rule justifying its action, the F.A.A. said currently used identification badges ''provide a means of control once an individual has gained access to a restricted area.'' ''The F.A.A. is concerned,'' it ... |
211706_4 | New Data on the Pill Find Breast Cancer As a Possible Risk | pills protect women against cancer of the uterine lining and the ovaries, studies have shown. The panel is a standing committee that is convened periodically by the Food and Drug Administration to consider important issues in maternal or child health. It is headed by Dr. Schlesselman. The other 10 members include pedia... |
211622_0 | Personal Health | LEAD: Premenstrual syndrome, now widely known, discussed, diagnosed and even used as a legal defense, is still a biomedical mystery whose cause and proper treatment have yet to be established. Premenstrual syndrome, now widely known, discussed, diagnosed and even used as a legal defense, is still a biomedical mystery w... |
211622_4 | Personal Health | inconsistent findings. She said a proper diagnosis and description of the syndrome in each woman under study was the first critical step. For such an assessment, she added, a women must be asked about her medical history, and she must keep a record for two months in which she rates about 20 possible manifestations of t... |
211185_1 | Thirty Years of Fidel Castro | Castro himself resembles one of those crabbed caudillos in the novels of his Colombian friend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Last week, an open letter from an international group of 170 writers, actors and artists urged Mr. Castro to hold a plebiscite on his rule. ''Absurd and inconceivable,'' retorted the Cuban Foreign Mini... |
211145_3 | Cuba's 30 Castro Years: Pluses, Minus the Gaiety | being threatened. Economically, Cuba has not prospered under Mr. Castro. He has been unable to diversify from sugar, which sells for less on the world market than it costs to produce, and he has been unable to remedy inefficiency and low productivity. Even with aid from the Soviet Union running at $14 million a day, th... |
211054_0 | Tariffs Lifted By Venezuela | LEAD: Venezuela on Friday sharply increased the import tariffs on about 500 consumer goods, including liquor and electronic items, to curb imports and stem a drain of foreign reserves. Venezuela on Friday sharply increased the import tariffs on about 500 consumer goods, including liquor and electronic items, to curb im... |
212586_1 | Ambivalence Over Pill Grows With Risk Data | A. Perlman, chief of the contraceptive evaluation branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md. Estrogen and Breast Cancer Many cancer experts say their concern is heightened by the biological plausibility that the estrogen in oral contraceptives might contribute to breast canc... |
212230_0 | Melding Design and Disability | LEAD: THE EXTERIOR of a school can be deceptive. From the outside, two public schools, the Frederick J. Gaenslen School in Milwaukee, Wis., and the Mercer Junior-Senior High School in Trenton, N.J., look like any other new schools. They are both low-slung, modern brown brick structures. The American flag flies in front... |
212551_5 | BONN TO REVIEW AMERICAN EVIDENCE ON LIBYAN PLANT | died. ''Why did this conference not meet after Iranian cities fell prey to chemical weapons?'' asked Dr. Velayati. American officials said they understood and shared France's interest in preventing the conference from degenerating into a name-calling match. By not specifically mentioning Libya, Iraq or any other nation... |
212234_10 | The Everlasting Autodidact | of a degree in the job market?'' Luckily for this autodidact, my chosen profession cares very little about a degree. Writers are rarely asked if they have one, probably because most of the great ones don't. I can think of many more interesting ways to spend $100,000 than on four years of classrooms and cafeteria food. ... |
212308_2 | IN PARIS - MINISkIRTS OF THE MIND | year. It was 1968 and there were other things to do. Yet a footnote to the essay informed the reader that Lacan had originally presented his syllables and run-on sentences as a lecture, in the Descartes Amphitheater of the Sorbonne. I just couldn't shake the image of Rene Descartes, dressed in 17th-century habit, sitti... |
212291_2 | Steinberg Case PromptsRise in Abuse Reports | obligation to public attention, she said, adding that the Steinberg case is in the category of domestic violence because, when an adult in a house is being battered, there are often also children at risk. According to Joan Sculli, director of education and community services for the Nassau County Coalition Against Dome... |
212250_1 | A Family Affair with Bikes | learning disability. Sarah, who placed 15th for 8-year-old girls, in the Grand Nationals, said her interest began a year and a half ago and stemmed from a purely feminine issue. ''I felt it wasn't fair that my brother, a boy, got to race and I couldn't,'' she said. 'Feels Kind of Neat' Bicycle motor-cross racing is on ... |
218832_0 | Soviet Photos of U.S. Were for Spying | LEAD: Government and private experts who analyzed close-up photographs of the earth sold by the Soviet Union have concluded they were taken by satellites placed in orbit for military spying rather than scientific research. Government and private experts who analyzed close-up photographs of the earth sold by the Soviet ... |
213178_1 | CASTRO SCORNING GORBACHEV MODEL | Union's strategy for dealing with its often difficult Caribbean ally. With the Soviet Union spending $5 billion a year to keep the inefficient Cuban economy going when Mr. Gorbachev wants to channel more money into domestic development, the Soviets are clearly irritated by Mr. Castro's criticism and rejection. But for ... |
213128_3 | Blue-Chip Job Recruits With Short-Term Goals | accounting. The salaries for the jobs that consortium members have available range from $20,000 to close to $40,000 if all benefits are included. Mr. Johansson said these were some annual starting salaries: * Investment banking, $30,000 plus bonus. * Commercial banking, low $30,000. * Retailing, $20,000 to $23,000. * C... |
213298_3 | No Headline | It sounds basic, but apparently basics are what the students want. Take resume writing. ''I thought you had to be really specific about your objectives on a resume, but they pointed out you could be broader,'' said Mr. Horsfall, a 22-year-old senior who hopes eventually to own his own manufacturing business. Yet Hillar... |
218456_0 | Recasting The Mold In Theater | LEAD: BOSTON, Jan. 24 - As a boy, Daniel Kim dreamed of becoming an actor but was afraid his Asian background would bar him from many of the parts to which he aspired. BOSTON, Jan. 24 - As a boy, Daniel Kim dreamed of becoming an actor but was afraid his Asian background would bar him from many of the parts to which he... |
218473_4 | A Fire Unit Counsels Troubled Young Arsonists | in a Bronx blaze started by a 4-year-old boy in 1985 that prompted Mr. McSwigin to start the program. 'Old-Fashioned Outreach' Shortly after the program was approved, staff psychologists at Bellevue Hospital Center pored over applications from more than 70 fire marshals. The 18 men selected work in shifts around the cl... |
218416_8 | The Legacy Of Nikos | whoever they are!'' (Tennessee visibly blinked.) Regarding some undivulged news: ''If I don't want them to hear what I'm saying, I will not.'' And a personal favorite: one day he dashed into my office, lowered his voice conspiratorially, and murmered, ''Vairy, vairy important we think about . . .(long pause) . . . thin... |
218508_0 | Joy and Pain | LEAD: In a church where bishops are considered the successors to the apostles of Christ, and where some members are still unreconciled to the 1976 decision to ordain women as priests, naming a woman as bishop was not done lightly. But last week, after months of debate that sometimes verged on schism, the Episcopal Chur... |
218658_3 | Cancer: Trying to Get An Honest Answer | alter this impression. ''Call your surgeon on Monday; he's the expert,'' he said, sounding frustrated. ''I don't know any more than you do, just what's in today's paper.'' My fear that I would be trapped by the system intensified. Fortunately, this feeling passed, thanks to a half-dozen phone calls to friends of friend... |
216709_2 | Rates Expected to Remain Steady | to intermediate-term paper will not help matters,'' said Paul L. Kasriel, vice president and monetary economist at the Northern Trust Company. Effective Intervention Concerted action by the Federal Reserve and other central banks seemed, by the end of last week, to have stemmed the dollar's rise. But even if the dollar... |
216787_1 | Rice's Subtle Touch Shows | final half-minute of the game, his presence helped create the game-winning touchdown. Rice went in motion toward the left side of the San Francisco offense, then turned upfield to run his pass pattern to the left of John Taylor, another wide receiver. Ray Horton, the Cincinnati safety, was forced to hesitate for a deci... |
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