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215469_0 | Corrections | LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article in Science Times on Tuesday about risks and benefits of the female sex hormone estrogen misidentified the group of women in which the incidence of breast cancer is increasing most rapidly. It is those over age 50. Because of an editing error, an article in Science Times on ... |
215295_0 | U.S. Bishops Say Vietnam Eases Religious Curbs | LEAD: The Government of Vietnam has significantly reduced, though not eliminated, repressive policies toward religion, a delegation of American Roman Catholic Bishops said this week. The Government of Vietnam has significantly reduced, though not eliminated, repressive policies toward religion, a delegation of American... |
213818_2 | Cold Brown Fields | for Western Europe, the next-largest exporter. The world already would be in a ''food emergency'' had there not been record stocks of grain on hand at the beginning of 1987, to replace harvesting shortfalls that year and in 1988. As it is, Mr. Brown and Mr. Young estimate, ''World carryover stocks will drop to 54 days ... |
215845_2 | For Goodyear Chief, the Heat Is On | the way the company must operate,'' he said, adding, ''We must cut costs and become even more efficient.'' Mr. Barrett, 58 years old, must contend with other pressing matters. After an earnings slump in the third quarter of 1988, Goodyear's stock price slid as low as $48, far below its summer level of $61. [ The stock ... |
212117_1 | Cancer Experts See A Need for Caution On Use of Birth Pill | reasons to believe that the estrogen in oral contraceptives could promote breast cancer, said in interviews yesterday that they believed that the new findings along with previous hints of a link to breast cancer were worrisome enough that they would advise women who know they are at high risk of breast cancer to avoid ... |
217604_0 | Brazil Stirred By a Manhunt In the Jungle | LEAD: As dawn filtered into the forest around this jungle village, policemen once again fanned out along rutted roads and trails, trying to solve a murder that has mesmerized Brazil. As dawn filtered into the forest around this jungle village, policemen once again fanned out along rutted roads and trails, trying to sol... |
217682_0 | Rebels Disrupting the Eradication of Coca in Peru | LEAD: A surge of leftist guerrilla activity is bringing new difficulties to a United States-backed campaign to eradicate coca production and break up drug trafficking gangs in Peru's main coca-growing region. A surge of leftist guerrilla activity is bringing new difficulties to a United States-backed campaign to eradic... |
217606_0 | Poaching Operation Found Killing Bears For Aphrodisiac Use | LEAD: Ten people have been arrested in an undercover operation against poaching in the Northeast that turned up the slaughter of more than 400 black bears for their gall bladders, which are prized as aphrodisiacs in the Far East. Ten people have been arrested in an undercover operation against poaching in the Northeast... |
217687_0 | Woman Who Will Be Bishop Acts to Avoid a Radical Image | LEAD: The Rev. Barbara C. Harris sought yesterday to soften her image as a political and theological radical as she prepared to become the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Barbara C. Harris sought yesterday to soften her image as a political and theological radical as she prepared to become the fir... |
214003_1 | Computer-Imaging and a Satellite To Aid Search for Pan Am Dead | computer-image analysis we will be able to automate the search and do this much more efficiently,'' said John McBrearty, a computer specialist at Donard United Kingdom, a subsidiary of the Donard oil and gas exploration company in the United States. The satellite, known by its French acronym SPOT, is orbiting more than... |
213983_0 | 'Black Book' Tells Tale of Jobs and Politics | LEAD: The highest-paying jobs allocated through Mayor Edward I. Koch's Talent Bank - an office set up in part to promote the hiring of black and Hispanic applicants - went overwhelmingly to whites, a review of city records shows. The highest-paying jobs allocated through Mayor Edward I. Koch's Talent Bank - an office s... |
212877_0 | Pioneering Studies Find Surprisingly High Rate Of Mental Ills in Young | LEAD: AS many as one in five children suffer from psychiatric problems serious enough to impair their lives in some way, according to the surprising findings of several new surveys of the mental health of children. AS many as one in five children suffer from psychiatric problems serious enough to impair their lives in ... |
216376_0 | The Environment as Local Jurisdiction | LEAD: AS part of the legacy of the Reagan Administration's New Federalism, states and local communities are taking on many responsibilities for protecting the environment that were once largely the province of the Federal Government. While many state officials are glad to have more power, they complain that the AS part... |
216524_0 | FROM ALPHA TO OMEGA | LEAD: CIVILIZATION OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: Greece and Rome. Edited by Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger. (Scribners, $225.) That price is not a typographical error. What you get here is 1,980 double-column pages in three volumes containing 97 chapters by 88 authorities on everything from farming and cooking to t... |
216305_7 | A Spot of Paint Won't Hurt This Lily | see from just in front of the Plaza on Fifth Avenue or Central Park South, it could be seen from across the street on Central Park South, or from within Central Park, so it would affect the most famous vistas of the Plaza. Does this mean that permission to build it should be denied? Not at all: this part of the plan, t... |
216266_1 | Child Abuse: Education Is Key | and neglect is unfortunately ''more common and complex'' than the public realizes. While solving the problem will undoubtedly require complex and creative approaches, there is one currently recognized remedy that is fairly simple, that of educating people in the art of parenting. I am the executive director of Child Ab... |
216531_1 | STILL THE GREATEST | narrative is old-fashioned, too bland. Solon was not in fact a Secretary of the Treasury who juggled with interest rates; he was a revolutionary who abolished debt. We may not like the idea that our heroes were extremists, but we must accept that they were. Mr. Grant has, however, imposed on his traditional story a new... |
216415_0 | Brazilians Tell Of the Forest And the Fears | LEAD: In a stifling hall in the heart of the Amazon, a group of American legislators sat listening to the people of the rain forest -Indians and rubber tappers, who appealed for help from abroad to save their jungle habitat. In a stifling hall in the heart of the Amazon, a group of American legislators sat listening to... |
216465_0 | U.S. Using Exchanges' Disciplinary Records in Commodity Inquiry | LEAD: Government prosecutors investigating possible fraud on the nation's two largest commodities exchanges are using documents from disciplinary proceedings conducted by the exchanges against traders to help build the criminal inquiry, people involved in the case said today. Government prosecutors investigating possib... |
218175_1 | Customary Law of Sea Allows a 12-Mile Limit; Trawler Encounters | States justified much in its actions by the ''Soviet threat.'' Since then, the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, agreements on settling the situation in Afghanistan and other progress have broken the ice of longstanding stereotypes. But suddenly, quoting Administration officials, you say that the extension of territo... |
211225_0 | Rome Journal; How Is Marcus Aurelius? As Right as Acid Rain | LEAD: They have made it more difficult to toss even one coin into the Trevi Fountain, let alone the Hollywood allotment of three. They have made it more difficult to toss even one coin into the Trevi Fountain, let alone the Hollywood allotment of three. The problem is that the 18th-century Baroque vision of gods and tr... |
211341_0 | No Big Airline Tie-Ups | LEAD: Heavy new security measures at European airports last week produced no major passenger snarls at check-in counters or delays in flights to the United States over a long New Year's weekend of light but growing trans-Atlantic air traffic. Heavy new security measures at European airports last week produced no major ... |
219145_0 | Pope Urges Catholics To Be More Active In and Out of Church | LEAD: Pope John Paul II appealed today to Roman Catholics to become more active participants in church and social matters, but he urged greater caution in allowing lay people to perform duties that have generally been carried out by priests. Pope John Paul II appealed today to Roman Catholics to become more active part... |
218970_1 | Italy Embarks on Bold Effort To Save Fabled City of Venice From Threatening Tides | experiments are to end by mid-year and give way to a new phase of testing. If no problems develop, officials then expect to begin full production and installation of all the gates, a process likely to take until 1997. The effort to protect the 2-square-mile speck in the 212-square-mile lagoon is arguably Venice's most ... |
211532_0 | Way Cleared for Woman to Become Bishop | LEAD: The first woman named to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church cleared a major obstacle to the position today when she received the necessary votes from church committees across the country. The first woman named to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church cleared a major obstacle to the position today when she ... |
211429_0 | Plant Grows Own Pesticide | LEAD: Using biotechnology methods, a Maryland company has created an innovative corn plant that grows its own pesticide to combat the destructive corn borer. Using biotechnology methods, a Maryland company has created an innovative corn plant that grows its own pesticide to combat the destructive corn borer. The compan... |
217242_3 | Tougher Airline Security Steps Debated | your authority to insure that more stringent security measures are exercised by all air carriers.'' Measures for Checked Baggage But Mr. McArtor did not specifically recommend that foreign governments adopt the aviation agency's new security standards, which include requiring X-ray inspections of all checked baggage an... |
217270_2 | Woman Wins Approval To Be Episcopal Bishop | majority of the other committees and of the bishops, criticism quickly followed. Opponents complained about her pastoral experience, which was brief compared with that of most candidates for bishop, and her theological education, which had bypassed study at a seminary or a divinity school in favor of a program of indep... |
217255_0 | Cellular Phone Pact Reached | LEAD: A cellular phone industry group announced yesterday that a disagreement over transmission standards had been settled, helping to clear the way for the next generation of cheaper, more secure mobile phones. A cellular phone industry group announced yesterday that a disagreement over transmission standards had been... |
214821_5 | Excerpts From East-West Agreement on the Protection of Human Rights | the global AIDS strategy of the World Health Organization. Reuniting Families They will decide upon applications relating to family reunification or marriage between citizens of different states, in normal practice within three months. They will pay immediate attention to applications for travel of an urgent humanitari... |
214912_0 | The Pill: What's a Woman to Do? | LEAD: American women fear breast cancer, and with reason: one in ten can expect to get it someday, and it will kill 30 percent of those that do. Now comes evidence that using birth control pills might increase the risk. What's a woman to do? American women fear breast cancer, and with reason: one in ten can expect to g... |
214855_0 | 35 Nations Issue East-West Accord Assuring a Broad Range of Rights | LEAD: Thirty-five nations today made public a new East-West agreement that includes commitments for the protection of human rights, including freedom of association, religion, travel and emigration. Thirty-five nations today made public a new East-West agreement that includes commitments for the protection of human rig... |
214744_7 | Cancer Fears Throw Spotlight on Estrogen | the total postmenopausal bone loss comes in the first seven years after menopause, but many doctors are now starting to prescribe estrogen to women who went through menopause more than a decade ago, Dr. Brinton said, adding that the questions the wisdom of such actions. Can Estrogen Reduce Risk of Heart Disease? The de... |
273054_15 | IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND CAUDILLO | eight pesos a day. ''They bought rice for 45 centavos a pound and they could eat well. Now, rice is 1.8 pesos. I am paying them twice as much, 15 pesos a day, and they still can not buy enough to eat.'' The Government controls the price of rice and other basics, such as beans, bananas and cornmeal, and its willingness ... |
272893_0 | Disaster Leads to Safety on the High Seas | LEAD: Until 10 years ago, the fatalities in post-World War II sailboat races could be counted on four or five hands. Occasionally, a sailor might fall overboard and drown, and a boat would disappear with all hands. Never was it said that sailing was as predictably risky as mountain climbing or powerboat racing. Until 1... |
272738_2 | Sharing a Screen - Long Distance | has a ''chat feature'' that allows colleagues to exchange messages along with screen images. Ted's boss might type: ''Where is the report on your meeting with National? I need it NOW!!!'' Ted might reply: ''It's being spell-checked. Wait a minute and you can get it from my files.'' On special telephone lines known as I... |
272660_7 | Plan to Revamp Special Education Draws Criticism | Mr. Margolis said. ''We've surveyed both the handicapped and nonhandicapped students, and the results were overwhelming that nobody sees anybody as being different. It all has become very natural. We have all the options open to us that we always had, but now we have new ones. No one is getting less; if anything, peopl... |
272651_2 | Driving Mobile Billboards | on - a ribbon, that is. We have gone from utilizing trees to car antennas and side-view mirrors in order to state our furor over some of society's ills, like drunken drivers. With the aid of the back windshield, we are able to boast about our alma maters all the way from prep school to college. It has become our conven... |
272734_0 | NOW, FOOD GIANTS FARM FISH, THREATENING SMALL GROWERS | LEAD: Food companies like Geo. A. Hormel & Company and ConAgra Inc. have been processing farm-raised fish for years. But few have been eager to farm fish because it is riskier and more capital intensive than processing. Over the years, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Kraft, United Fruit and Weyerhaeuser have all jumped in and... |
273006_2 | Getting Your Tuition's Worth | ''Peter finished classes at the end of April, and he doesn't go back until August 25,'' Mr. Motelson said. ''That's three and a half months away from the academic environment - and that doesn't count all the vacations during the year. I'd like to get more for my $20,000.'' Fueling some consumer expectations is the desi... |
272996_7 | Child's Play | in New York. Hi Tech Expressions (telephone 212-941-1224) is appealing to the younger crowd with recognizable titles, such as Sesame Street 1-2-3 (list price $34.95, for Nintendo) and Sesame Street A-B-C (available in September, also at $34.95). The game cartridges come with learning guides for parents. The 1-2-3 title... |
272990_0 | Say It in EdSpeak: Word for Word | LEAD: HERE is a report written by a school psychologist in California about a 9-year-old boy in the third grade whose teachers were concerned about his serious lack of academic progress. His name has been withheld. HERE is a report written by a school psychologist in California about a 9-year-old boy in the third grade... |
278849_4 | Islands of Evergreen and Granite | Frontenac and Henry - happily no longer kept as garrisons (though visitors to Fort Henry can watch colorful reenactments of military maneuvers by the uniformed Fort Henry guard, and can enjoy the annual outdoor concert of Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture,'' complete with Fort Henry cannon). Then there's Whiskey Island, wh... |
278578_0 | Judging 'Post-History,' The Theory to End All Theories | LEAD: FIRST came postmodernism, which stems from the idea that there can no longer be anything newer in the arts than what has already been created. Now a State Department official, Francis Fukuyama, has caused a stir among intellectuals with his thesis that the period of ''post-history'' has arrived. With the decline ... |
278531_3 | Career-Counseling Seminars Focus on Building Confidence | from 11 because of a shortage of funds. The program has received $64,000 a year from the state without an increase for four years. A two-hour public-information session precedes each seminar. Those who register are then divided into groups of about 15 that are ''balanced'' by age, sex and education, Ms. Sozzi explained... |
278468_4 | ARE YOU A PERSON? | was a muddle from the start. The mistake was to try to make a distinction, among human beings, between being the same person and being the same man. The concept of human being - an animal of a particular kind with particular capacities - provides us with the only concept of person that we can really understand. I belie... |
278591_2 | Why Training Is Worth the Cost | how to use a $495 software package. The expense can often be justified in terms of increased productivity, but the question remains: Why is the training necessary? Many people say it is because the documentation and training aids that accompany today's packaged software are inadequate. Yet the manuals for some of the n... |
275478_3 | Shishi Journal; Dispatches From a Chinese Frontier of Capitalism | look a bit uneasy when the conversation turns to the question of how so much private enterprise can be allowed in a Communist country that is now trying to reassert a measure of ideological orthodoxy. Wu Wenliang, who has prospered by selling electronic goods from a thriving retail shop, suggested that ideological labe... |
276422_3 | U.S. TRADE DEFICIT NARROWED IN JUNE TO A 4 1/2-YEAR LOW | of Commerce, also took a positive view of the trade data. Record exports, he said, showed that ''industry can compete effectively in the face of a stronger dollar'' as a result of improvements in quality, cost control and service. ''It is important to note that capital-goods exports increased while their imports decrea... |
274659_0 | Patents; An Oral Contraceptive Without Estrogen | LEAD: Michael Cohen, scientific director of Applied Medical Research Ltd., a start-up company in Washington, patented a proposed oral contraceptive this week that the company believes could replace current birth control pills. Michael Cohen, scientific director of Applied Medical Research Ltd., a start-up company in Wa... |
276920_3 | THE NEW YORK TIMES POLL | telephone interviews conducted June 20 through 25 with 1,497 adults around the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The sample of telephone exchanges called was selected by a computer from a complete list of exchanges in the country. The exchanges were chosen so as to assure that each region of the country was r... |
277004_2 | Professor Tries to Stir Interest in the Humanities | what to talk about.'' Group members could not agree on what the humanities were or should be, he said. Professor Proctor notes that the Oxford English dictionary defines the humanities as ''learning or literature concerned with human culture, especially the ancient Latin and Greek classics.'' That, he said, is what the... |
276889_0 | NEWS SUMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-19 A Solidarity official was designated by President Jaruzelski to be the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland since the first years after World War II. The official is Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Page 1 Poles on the bread line look to Solidarity in skepticism INTERNATIONAL/3-19 A Solidarity offic... |
271323_2 | New Breed of Robots Have the Human Touch | the Human-Machine Interactions Laboratory at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, said, ''There are certain applications where telepresence makes the most sense: where you need high levels of human judgment, inventiveness and precision, but where it's too dangerous to go.'' Some of the strongest intere... |
271092_1 | House Asks Bush to Report on Reactors in Space | the Congressional Space Caucus. Rep. Brown said the move was part of a campaign to curb the use of space reactors by both the Soviet Union, which has them now, and the United States, which plans to use them in the future. Data Become 'Useless' ''We should not on the one hand spent hundreds of billions of dollars to sup... |
271160_0 | New York Court Upholds Howard Beach Convictions | LEAD: A New York State appeals court yesterday upheld the manslaughter and assault convictions of three young men in the Howard Beach attack and refused a defense request to reduce the prison sentences imposed on them. A New York State appeals court yesterday upheld the manslaughter and assault convictions of three you... |
277918_0 | Sugar Prices in Late Rally On Rumor of Yugoslav Plan | LEAD: Rumors of new foreign interest in American sugar took traders by surprise yesterday and prompted a flurry of late buying that raised prices. Rumors of new foreign interest in American sugar took traders by surprise yesterday and prompted a flurry of late buying that raised prices. Dealers, studiously watching for... |
277888_0 | 5 Big Chains Bar Milk Produced With Aid of Drug | LEAD: Five of the nation's largest supermarket companies announced today that they had taken steps to make sure that dairy products that carry their stores' brands do not contain milk from cows treated with an experimental genetically engineered drug. Five of the nation's largest supermarket companies announced today t... |
275638_1 | ARCO Offers New Gasoline to Cut Up to 15% of Old Cars' Pollution | Washington, D.C. Industry experts said other companies were likely to follow ARCO's lead in introducing fuel formulated for low pollution, known as ''designer'' gasoline. The proposals in Washington and California would force auto makers to design and sell large numbers of cars using methanol, compressed natural gas an... |
277648_0 | Sugar Moves Up Sharply On Rumor of Indian Buying | LEAD: Sugar futures prices rose sharply yesterday amid rumors that India had made a long-expected purchase of refined white sugar on the world market to offset partly its projected shortfall of nearly a million metric tons. Sugar futures prices rose sharply yesterday amid rumors that India had made a long-expected purc... |
277783_0 | Companie Compete to Put Products on Market | LEAD: SEVERAL companies are developing calorie-free and calorie-reduced fat substitutes that could be available in 5 to 10 years. SEVERAL companies are developing calorie-free and calorie-reduced fat substitutes that could be available in 5 to 10 years. Calorie-free fat substitutes are artificial products that are not ... |
277660_1 | THAT 'CLEANER FUEL' MAY BE GASOLINE | to promote cleaner burning. ''The answer is doing more of the same,'' said Richard A. Rykowski of the Environmental Protection Agency's Motor Vehicle Emissions Laboratory, in Ann Arbor, Mich., referring to the ARCO product. He said the oil companies were being vague about how much emissions could be reduced in newer ca... |
279133_3 | New Jersey Factory to Create Coffee Cups and Industrialists | modest scale, efforts by governments like Japan's to assist private industry. Most economists believe some assistance is sorely needed. A 20-year exodus of manufacturers has sapped much of the state's traditional strength in development of consumer products. 'The Sick Man' In 1950, nearly half of all jobs in New Jersey... |
273473_2 | Growth of Tourism Is Benefiting Fragil Environment | Amazon, the world's largest rain forest. On a recent morning, a Manaus tour boat, the Uruna, nosed through the silt-laden waters of an Amazonian tributary. Watching the lush riverbank foliage slip by, Dionisio Borghi, the boat owner, spoke of the growing economic argument in favor of greenery. 'You Hear Chainsaws' ''Yo... |
273499_0 | A-Bomb Anniversary Draws Wide Protests | LEAD: Hundreds of nuclear arms protesters marched on the Tennessee plant where the first atom bomb was produced to mark the 44th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing Sunday while thousands demonstrated at some of the nation's troubled nuclear weapons plants. Hundreds of nuclear arms protesters marched on the Tennessee ... |
273554_0 | Births in Brazil Are on Decline, Easing Worries | LEAD: In one generation, Brazil's fertility rate has been cut almost in half, and in the words of one expert, the country's ''population bomb has been deactivated.'' In one generation, Brazil's fertility rate has been cut almost in half, and in the words of one expert, the country's ''population bomb has been deactivat... |
273493_1 | New Threat To Maya Ruins: Acid Rain | by the handsful and stucco surfaces and stone inscriptions are corroding and crumbling. A black crust of acid deposit coats one wall of the Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza. Archeological treasures at Coba, Chicanna, Uxmal and other sites are also showing acid's devastating effects. ''We've been struggling with this pr... |
271437_1 | Focus on The Main Issues | trade for three Israeli prisoners. Kidnapping is always despicable, but Sheik Obeid was not exactly an innocent bystander. He is part of the band that held Colonel Higgins, a United Nations observer, and uninvolved civilians in Beirut. I cannot condemn Israel, against which Sheik Obeid's group has proclaimed holy war, ... |
279400_5 | From Luftwaffe, a New Idea for Steel | He purchased Rolls-Royce Aerospace Ltd.'s metallurgical library when the engine maker put it up for sale during a period of financial troubles. Before he turned to mean steel, Mr. Taylor invented a method of using polystyrene in his molds. The ''lost foam'' process - the name comes from the fact that the polystyrene va... |
274939_4 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Saturday Afternoon in Crisis; Colleges Fight To Pay for a U.S. Tradition | the success of Bobby Dodd's Rambling Wreck made Georgia Tech football the dominant source of Atlanta's sporting identity. Kevin Bryant, the department's director of marketing and promotions, recited a list of current competitors that goes beyond the Georgia Bulldogs and the Duke Blue Devils. ''I'm competing with Bon Jo... |
274712_2 | Lower Fares, More Service - It Works | by a single carrier. I oppose its resurrection, however, because it is unclear that ceilings would do more good than harm. The non-discretionary travelers who pay the full coach fares, travel disproportionately at peak times and so are more costly to serve on average. They have their fares, most of them, paid by their ... |
274831_5 | PERUVIAN FARMERS RAZING RAIN FOREST TO SOW DRUG CROPS | terraces. Shade trees and intercropping with yucca further prevented topsoil erosion. ''Today, the ancestral practices have been abandoned with deathly results,' said Mr. Ponce, president of the Peruvian Foundation for Nature Conservation. He and other Peruvian environmentalists interviewed said they believed the core ... |
274840_1 | The U.S. and Cuba Do An Anti-Drug Tango | to the American accusations has been simply to accuse the United States of slandering him. Now, experts on Cuba say, he is trying to certify his anti-drug credentials. If his offer is accepted, he will make progress toward a far more basic goal: a less antagonistic United States that might end its trade embargo, which ... |
274707_7 | Good Times Again for Carbide? | is providing seed money for employees who want to investigate new ideas. The new-business program, which has a goal of creating 30 $50 million businesses in 10 years, has yielded at least one success: supercritical carbon dioxide, which Carbide is pushing as a substitute for environmentally problematic solvents used to... |
274834_0 | Power Lines And Cancer Risks | LEAD: Readers of the recent article on residents' opposition to Jersey Central Power and Light's transmission project in Monmouth County could easily be led to false conclusions on cancer risk (''Neighbors Oppose Plan for Power Lines Along Railway''). Readers of the recent article on residents' opposition to Jersey Cen... |
274817_2 | Cuba Dreams of Tourists and Better Service | he said, will be staffed with foreign experts. ''We are also sending people abroad to a few countries for training,'' Mr. Maciques added. He said Cuba's foreign partners were taking responsibility for helping to attract tourists to the island. ''This will enable us to guarantee hotel occupancy,'' he said, adding that t... |
276580_0 | Police Are Unjustly Accused of Excessive Force in Thorpe Case | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''The Killing of Kevin Thorpe'' (editorial, Aug. 8), about the death of a disturbed man in Brooklyn, the title alone conveys a blatantly prejudicial inference that has the force and effect of a criminal indictment. To suggest that ''the police respond more brutally when the suspec... |
276710_0 | Information On AIDS Tests | LEAD: Several organizations provide confidential information about AIDS and tests for the disease. Among such services in the New York area are these: Gay Men's Health Crisis AIDS Hotline: (212) 807-6655; staffed from 10:30 A.M. to 9 P.M., Monday through Friday, and noon to 3 P.M. on Saturday. New York City AIDS Hotlin... |
276656_3 | About New York; Eric, 13, Adapts To Summer Days In East Harlem | guy, he admits that sometimes he feels afraid. ''You could get caught in a shootout concerning drugs,'' he said. The other morning he avoided Madison Avenue as he made his rounds. He stopped at a pizza parlor to play a video game with a borrowed quarter. At a store on 125th Street, he ran his hand wistfully over the si... |
277247_13 | Poll Finds Women's Gains Have Taken Personal Toll | telephone interviews conducted June 20 through 25 with 1,497 adults around the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The sample of telephone exchanges called was selected by a computer from a complete list of exchanges in the country. The exchanges were chosen so as to assure that each region of the country was r... |
278353_1 | Technical 'Magic' Converts A Puny Signal Into Pictures | shown on American household television sets, which assemble images from only 525 lines. Each of Voyager's scan lines is then divided into 800 cells, called pixels. Sensors in the imaging system measure the light content of each pixel in each image, then record the result in terms of a numerical scale, in which 0 repres... |
275321_0 | Census Takers Count Trunks, Not Heads | LEAD: A new kind of census taker took to the streets of Manhattan yesterday, one armed not only with pencils and enumeration sheets but with measuring tapes and a book showing how to tell an oak leaf from an elm leaf and a bark shedder from a fungus victim. A new kind of census taker took to the streets of Manhattan ye... |
275288_0 | In Ulster After 20 Years, Hopes Are Nearly Gone | LEAD: Twenty years after British soldiers were deployed to restore order to the riot-torn streets of Northern Ireland, deep sectarian divisions and devastating violence appear to have a stranglehold on faint hopes of peace. Twenty years after British soldiers were deployed to restore order to the riot-torn streets of N... |
271923_1 | Menopause Hormone Linked to Breast Cancer | average of 5.7 years, and 253 of them developed breast cancer. One-third of the women in the study took progestin as well as estrogen. Among the women taking both drugs for four or more years, the rate of breast cancer was four times as high as the rate among women who took no hormones at all, Dr. Bergvist concluded. A... |
271969_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | menopausal women that is taken in combination with estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer, a new study has found. A1 On abortion, the American public would like to see abortion available, but harder to get, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. About half the public takes this view, while the rest seem e... |
273674_0 | PPG-China Talks | LEAD: PPG Industries has made progress in negotiations for a joint venture with a Chinese company and a Government agency, an executive of the Pittsburgh glass company said. But the executive added that a recent Japanese news report that PPG had reached an agreement to start the joint venture was ''extremely premature.... |
273654_2 | Join With Castro To Fight Drugs | small aircraft found it safe and convenient to drop drug cargoes near the island for recovery by fast boats. The Cuban route was vital because the U.S. has effectively closed off Bahamian air space. Transfer to boats is necessary since smugglers' planes are virtually precluded by U.S. air defenses from reaching the mai... |
273784_0 | 71 Boat People Feared Dead In Pirate Attack Off Malaysia | LEAD: A group of pirates who stormed a boat carrying 84 Vietnamese stole valuables, raped women and sunk the vessel, and 71 of the refugees were feared dead. A group of pirates who stormed a boat carrying 84 Vietnamese stole valuables, raped women and sunk the vessel, and 71 of the refugees were feared dead. The attack... |
279611_2 | Shifting Rules on Ethics | institute that trains politicians, corporate officals and journalists on how to apply ethical standards to their jobs. ''I don't want to see the line lost between those two types of improprieties.'' Details Are Different The details of each of the sex cases are different, and in some cases the committee will have to re... |
279709_0 | A Vote for Bicycles | LEAD: To The Home Section: To The Home Section: Thank you, thank you, thank you for your ground-breaking article on recycling at home [ ''Space for Trash: a New Design Frontier,'' July 27 ] . This kind of progressive reportage will aid the recycling movement immeasurably. I would just like to add one tangential but nev... |
279661_4 | AIRLINES ORDERED TO INSTALL DEVICE TO DETECT BOMBS | use suitcases typically used on international flights. She said she has scheduled Congressional hearings for next month on the effectiveness of the machine. Detection of Nitrogen The machine, a thermal-neutron analyzer, bombards luggage with neutrons and analyzes the response for nitrogen, which scientists think is com... |
279694_2 | Cities Cite Need for Child-Care Funds | have much solid information about our children and families. They are the social infrastructure of our cities and towns.'' Mr. Moran said the new study could help fill this gap in information. ''The needs portrayed in this report are both local and national,'' he said. ''We need help, and we need it now. We also need r... |
277403_0 | A Plan to Save Iguanas, and the Rain Forests in the Bargain | LEAD: DESPITE their forbidding appearance, iguanas have been hunted as a delicacy in Latin America for thousands of years. But the herbivorous lizards have become one more victim of the deforestation and overpopulation that are ravaging the region's rain forests. DESPITE their forbidding appearance, iguanas have been h... |
277472_12 | Struggle for Work and Family Fueling Women's Movement | telephone interviews conducted June 20 through 25 with 1,497 adults around the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The sample of telephone exchanges called was selected by a computer from a complete list of exchanges in the country. The exchanges were chosen so as to assure that each region of the country was r... |
277379_2 | In Battling Dengue Fever Mosquitos, Expert Enlists Public's Assistance | yards to prevent dengue-carrying mosquitos from breeding around their homes, additional devastating epidemics will occur, Dr. Gubler wrote in the journal. He also urged health officials to step up surveillance for the disease. Two factors are most responsible for the spread, said Dr. Gubler, who heads the Centers for D... |
278186_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | whose first language is Russian are angered and frightened. Non-Estonians living there wonder what their place will be. A30 The cease-fire in Angola declared two months ago is crumbling, and American officials expressed concern about increased fighting between Government forces and guerrillas there. A3 Syrian-backed Mu... |
278012_0 | Study Doesn't Support Estrogen-Cancer Link | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Menopause Hormone Linked to Breast Cancer'' (front page, Aug. 3), reviewing a report in The New England Journal of Medicine, presents a distorted picture of the risk of breast cancer after estrogen replacement in postmenopausal women. The headline is not supported by the original r... |
276068_4 | New York Medicaid to Limit Number of Visits to Doctors | Financing and Insurance, said New York's move reflected in part a new direction by states to reduce Medicaid costs. In the past, he said, many have tried to cut costs by reducing the number of eligible recipients - by not raising income requirements to keep pace with inflation, for instance. Those moves have proved pol... |
272393_0 | Corrections | LEAD: An article yesterday on hormone treatments for menopausal women referred incorrectly to Cynthia Pearson. She is acting director of the National Women's Health Network. An article yesterday on hormone treatments for menopausal women referred incorrectly to Cynthia Pearson. She is acting director of the National Wo... |
227295_1 | Conflicting Studies Cloud Development of an Osteoporosis Drug | is used to treat osteoporosis in other countries and two earlier American studies had shown benefits when higher doses were given. But the American manufacturer, Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. of Nutley, N.J., has withdrawn plans to seek marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration to use the drug for osteoporosis. T... |
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