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227271_4 | Huge Conservation Effort Aims to Save Vanishing Architect of the Savanna | to crowd more densely onto reservations, the woodlands there are knocked out and the browsers and primates disappear. Something similar appears to happen in dense tropical rain forests. In their natural state, because the overhead forest canopy shuts out sunlight and prevents growth on the forest floor, rain forests pr... |
227394_1 | Decade Of Decision | developing as well as developed, to increase energy efficiency, expand forest cover and curb population expansion - a particularly important subject in the third world. ''We cannot sit on the sidelines anymore,'' said M. S. Swaminathan, president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resourc... |
227381_4 | TOWER PROSPECTS FOR CONFIRMATION SEEM TO BE DIMMER | Mr. Tower last week by an 11-to-9 vote that went along party lines. Conservative Southern Democrats, who might have formed a natural constituency for Mr. Tower, are following the lead of Mr. Nunn. The drinking issue, which has raised particular concerns in the South, has also left Democrats from the region hesitant to ... |
227358_1 | Agreement Set For a Cleanup At Nuclear Site | up Hanford. And they noted that the agreement, now open to public comment, would not be made final for at least 60 days and could be altered. Delays at Other Sites Critics also wondered how difficult it might be to enforce the pact. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have repeatedly criticized the Energy ... |
225488_1 | A Second Life for Plastic Cups? Science Turns Them Into Lumber | has value when recycled. The motive is to curb any widening of sentiment among environmentalists and politicians to ban polystyrene from use as a food container. Technology already exists for recycling the more valuable types of plastics, used in soda bottles and in clear jugs for milk, water and fruit juices. Before t... |
225433_4 | New FM System Is Challenged | from the same source arrive at the receiver at slightly different times, reflected from buildings, weather or other natural objects. Because the signals do not arrive at precisely the same time, they tend to interfere with one another. When multipath occurs, most FM stereo receivers fade in and out or switch over to th... |
221981_1 | The World of 2038 | certain. The Census Bureau insisted that its ''prediction'' was only what its experts considered the ''most realistic'' of numerous possible population paths. The forecast might even be too optimistic; such variables as war, pestilence, immigration restraints, starvation, contraceptive techniques and guns can and proba... |
221997_0 | Aviation Officials Warn of Delays In Steps to Tighten Flight Security | LEAD: Heightened airport security measures ordered in response to the recent bombing of a Pan American jetliner will take many months or even years to put into effect, Government aviation security officials said today. Heightened airport security measures ordered in response to the recent bombing of a Pan American jetl... |
220124_0 | Brazil's Debt Can Save the Amazon | LEAD: Brazil owes the world $115 billion. The world wants Brazil to stop recklessly destroying the Amazon rain forest, an extraordinary natural wonder. Those two conditions invite a deal, a grand debt-for-nature swap that would ease Brazil's burden of foreign borrowing and preserve the Amazon forests. What stands in th... |
220037_3 | Tropical-Oil Exporters Seek Reprieve in U.S. | palm oil, which accounts for 11 percent of the country's gross national product, Mr. Bek-Nielsen said. More than a million people, out of the total population of 16 million, are employed either directly or indirectly by the palm oil industry, he said. Among the most vigorous campaigners against tropical oils in this co... |
220015_1 | Poll Rates Hazards to Air Travel | majority of Americans support increased anti-terrorist measures on international flights. Even so, nearly two out of three say inadequate airplane maintenance poses a greater danger to air travelers than terrorism does, according to a Media General-Associated Press survey. A majority of Americans support increased anti... |
221630_0 | U.S. Needs Data on Drug and Sex Habits to Halt AIDS, Study Says | LEAD: To slow the spread of AIDS, the Federal Government needs to greatly increase studies of AIDS incidence, sexual behavior and drug abuse, the National Research Council said today. In addition, the council said the Government should support more frank and aggressive programs to change risky behavior. To slow the spr... |
221843_2 | London Journal; Making It: From Petty Crime to Community Help | he stole to ''keep up with the trends and impress the girls,'' spent several months in a detention center. When he was released, he wanted to become more responsible. His friend, now his wife, was pregnant with their son, who is 14 years old. But he returned to the same environment, the same friends. ''There are so man... |
220404_2 | Patents | signal that an antenna can receive. Taken together, these signals are plotted by computer to create an image. While a researcher at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1970, Dr. Damadian showed that magnetic resonance could distinguish different kinds of human tissue, and that cancerous cells give off signals t... |
220452_0 | Special Camp Fair | LEAD: A Special Camp Fair, from noon to 5 P.M. tomorrow at the Jewish Guild for the Blind, is to feature 70 programs for children and teen-agers with disabilities. The fair is sponsored by Resources for Children with Special Needs, the 92d Street Y and the International Center for the Disabled. Directors from the 70 pr... |
224099_3 | BRITISH CONCLUDE CASSETTE PLAYER HELD PAN AM BOMB | items and what sorts of devices are less likely to be converted into bombs. Mr. Channon, the British Transport Minister, said it was ''not yet firmly established'' where the radio-cassette player, laden with plastic explosives, was first put on board Flight 103. He said the investigation so far ''suggests that the expl... |
224015_0 | Sugar Soars on Rumors Of Purchases by Mexico | LEAD: Sugar futures prices soared to new 1989 highs yesterday on rumors that Mexico had bought 400,000 tons of refined white sugar on world markets because of a domestic shortage. Sugar futures prices soared to new 1989 highs yesterday on rumors that Mexico had bought 400,000 tons of refined white sugar on world market... |
226321_0 | G.O.P. Leaders in Senate Striving To Keep Tower Nomination Alive | LEAD: Senate Republican leaders struggled today to save the nomination of John G. Tower as Secretary of Defense, but they faced an uphill battle against a Democratic majority and the weight of weeks of allegations about the conduct of their onetime colleague. Senate Republican leaders struggled today to save the nomina... |
226395_4 | Health Risks of Used Batteries Prompt Action on Disposal | by jewelers who can salvage silver from them. A few recycling companies can remove mercury and other heavy metals from batteries, but manufacturers say that recycling is neither practical nor necessary. ''Recycling isn't economically feasible,'' said Fred Nicholson, a spokesman for the National Electrical Manufacturers... |
225326_0 | Bees' Threat Arises From Mass Attacks | LEAD: THE threat from Africanized ''killer'' bees arises from their mass attacks rather than their venom, according to research reported in a recent issue of the journal Nature. THE threat from Africanized ''killer'' bees arises from their mass attacks rather than their venom, according to research reported in a recent... |
225200_4 | New Tactics Emerge In Struggle Against Smog | through which exhaust gas from the engine is ducted. The beads are coated with thin films of platinum and two other metals chemically similar to platinum - palladium and rhodium. The metals do not participate in exhaust-cleansing reactions themselves. Instead, they gather molecules of exhaust pollutants together with o... |
222856_0 | Review/Television; Achille Lauro Tragedy | LEAD: The big problem for ''The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro'' is that we all know before we tune our sets to Channel 4 at 9 tonight that a cruise ship will be taken over by Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists, as it in fact was in October 1985, and that one American will be killed. This NBC ''Monday Night a... |
222966_5 | Decision on Tower as Elusive as Facts | issue, he said, was a struggle over who would speak on military matters, the Senate committee or a knowledgable and potentially powerful Mr. Tower as Seretary of Defense. Still, the few Democrats who have spoken about the nomination say they view the F.B.I. material as sufficiently troubling to question Mr. Tower's fit... |
224951_2 | Brazilian Is Looking to Japan To Link Amazon to the Pacific | out, it has triggered protests from environmental groups in the United States, Europe and Japan, who clamor for the protection of South America's great equatorial rain forest because it anchors fragile soil, holds at least half of the earth's animal and plant species and plays a vital role in world climate. Alarm over ... |
224966_2 | New Satellite Channel Opens Computer Link to the Soviets | as little more than a telex, and using it has been frustrating for Americans. Ben Cohen, the chairman of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., a Waterbury, Vt., ice cream maker, said that last year his company established an electronic mail account to promote a joint venture for making the company's product in the Soviet Union.... |
221119_5 | For Many, Turmoil of Aging Erupts in the 50's, Studies Find | were noticeably less agile or had less endurance during sports - signs that begin in the 30's and 40's - but that they had suffered serious illnesses or knew people their age who had become seriously ill. Several of those studied had had heart attacks, others had undergone major surgery, and others had problems, like a... |
221146_3 | A Political Philosopher Ruminates on Society And Its Contradictions | is that capitalism produces modernism in culture, which, with its stress on the ''untrammeled self,'' on personal pleasure and life style, undermines capitalist values, in particular discipline, restraint and calculation. ''The argument still holds in the basic sense,'' he said. ''On the level of culture, meaning the p... |
223328_0 | Cuba Sugar Production | LEAD: Cuba announced a campaign today to increase sugar production to an all-time high over the next couple of years, mostly for export to socialist bloc countries. Cuba announced a campaign today to increase sugar production to an all-time high over the next couple of years, mostly for export to socialist bloc countri... |
223264_0 | Making Learning Fun | LEAD: WHAT do you do when you see a grizzly bear? Keep quiet, make noise or run? WHAT do you do when you see a grizzly bear? Keep quiet, make noise or run? The proper answer to that, and to many other fascinating questions about the beasts, can be found in Grizzly Bears, the first in the new Wildlife Adventures series ... |
226529_2 | Just Give Me a Ring (And No More) | over a distance that exceeded shouting range. The utilitarian nature of the phone was evident in its clumsy construction and drab color. The phone wasn't even yours; it belonged to Ma Bell, the telephone goddess to whom we were supposed to prostrate ourselves in gratitude for the gift of vocal projection to order late-... |
226685_2 | Taking Toys Seriously: Mini-Movement or Sideshow? | distortion, an object often designed to look ''so real it's almost alive'' as well as a vehicle for unrestricted fantasy. Dolls impart the nostalgia of childhood, along with the pathos and comedy of the artificial. In his essay ''A Philosophy of Toys,'' Baudelaire wrote: ''The toy is the child's earliest initiation int... |
226571_2 | Can a Kinder, Gentler Fed Do the Job? | many industries after six years of economic growth make the economy ripe for still-higher inflation. Against this backdrop, some economists have been wondering exactly how much of a compromise the Fed will accept as it seeks to stabilize prices. After all, they reason, consumer attitude surveys do not show inflation as... |
226483_0 | Colleges Report Rise in Minority Students | LEAD: COLLEGES in the state are accepting and graduating more minority-group students than ever, but state education officials said they were worried that the students were not pursuing teaching careers and not reaching their potential. COLLEGES in the state are accepting and graduating more minority-group students tha... |
226739_4 | THE AMAZON'S SAVVY INDIANS | of this century. The clearing of large areas of the rain forest and the fate of the Indians are also rapidly becoming an issue of international concern. Interest in the region has risen as ecological concerns, such as ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect and other changes in the global environment become political is... |
226845_1 | Global-Warming Panel Urges Gas Tax in West | changes and hurt agricultural and other economic activities. Such changes could flood low-lying island communities or delta populations and ruin crops. The conference here marked what a top Indian scientist described as an end to ''finger pointing'' by third world countries against the industrialized world about global... |
226752_2 | Italy Feels The Pangs Of Drought | to church to pray.'' Which is exactly what Italians are doing. Sunday Mass in many Roman Catholic churches now includes an ancient, rarely used prayer for rain, and Pope John Paul II has pleaded that ''the waters of the sky break the danger of drought.'' Unfortunately for Italians, this has also been a winter of unansw... |
226706_3 | In Borneo's Wilds, Legend Takes Root | of commission by entering his body through the soles of his feet because he insisted on roaming the jungle as his character would have - barefoot. Why? ''I'm a storyteller,'' shrugs Mr. Milius again, pacing the cliff in his safari jacket and World War II Anzac campaign hat. ''I'm a modern technology version of the Born... |
226508_8 | WESTCHESTER BOOKCASE | in three printings. '' 'Hawkwood' is a basic adventure story,'' Mr. O'Rourke said the other day in describing how his second novel came about. ''I've always been interested in history, and somewhere along the line I was fascinated with Hawkwood as a character in the Renaissance.'' John Hawkwood, a hero of his time, was... |
226824_1 | Investigation Is Expected to Focus on Cargo Door Latch | its 25 planes affected by the order, Mr. Mack said. The location and shape of an immense hole in the fuselage of the United plane has led aviation experts to suspect that it appeared when the cargo bay door on the right side of the plane opened upward, pulling the plane's skin away vertically and exposing the passenger... |
226800_0 | Brazil Indians Meet on Protecting Amazon | LEAD: Environmentalists are hailing a Brazilian Indian meeting that united former enemy tribes as a landmark event in the campaign to save the Amazon rain forests. Environmentalists are hailing a Brazilian Indian meeting that united former enemy tribes as a landmark event in the campaign to save the Amazon rain forests... |
223898_2 | U.S. and Britain Call for Stricter Aviation Security | the plan that drew direct criticism in the meeting today, with the French representative, Tony Dreyfus, expressing reservations. The proposals were presented to the organization's 33-member executive council in remarks made separately by the United States Transportation Secretary, Samuel K. Skinner, and by Paul Channon... |
223841_3 | Lasting Costs for Child Found From a Mother's Early Drinks | a fetus.) Individual Effects Not all children whose mothers drank had problems. The study found that while there is a strong relationship on average between drinking while pregnant and the child's intellectual development, there is no certainty that a given child will show negative effects. ''The effects vary greatly i... |
226206_2 | Testing Urged for Airliner Safety Device | they would provide some protection against planes with only the beacon and no altitude-reporting ability. The research agency's report was put together after a request last fall by Senator Wendell H. Ford, a Kentucky Democrat who is chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio... |
220834_1 | Brazil Agrees to Accept Aid to Save Rain Forests | four months ago, is floundering because of severe budget cuts. The cuts are expected to include sharp reductions in personnel in the main institutions responsible for researching and monitoring the Amazon. The policy change also comes amid a growing international outcry over the ongoing destruction of forests by farmer... |
220658_3 | When the Law Becomes Big Business | instances of a firm unwittingly suing or otherwise opposing its own client. The stress on profitability and retaining clients has also led to enormous pressure to close deals and win cases. In this crush, principles and ethics may be compromised. Law firm growth has made employment for superior law school graduates a s... |
220807_0 | Ulster Protestants and Catholics Talk Secretly | LEAD: Leading politicians from four Protestant and Catholic parties in Northern Ireland have acknowledged secretly talking to each other since October about resuming a dialogue on ways out of the violence that has killed 2,700 people since 1969. Leading politicians from four Protestant and Catholic parties in Northern ... |
220458_0 | INSIDE | LEAD: Brazil Yields on the Amazon Brazil Yields on the Amazon Faced with mounting debt problems and international criticism of its environmental policies, Brazil says it will no longer refuse international aid to protect its rain forests. Page 3. Sex and a Philippine Town Pagsanjan, the Philippines, is known for the pr... |
220828_2 | Census Bureau Demographer's Unqualified Prediction: 'We Will Be Wrong' | P. Sloan Foundation, a New York-based group that supports scientific research. ''A projection done adequately is likely to be plausible as much as 20 years into the future.'' Such has been the case with the Census Bureau. In its projections released in 1964, for example, the bureau projected that the United States popu... |
220883_1 | Travel Is Safer, and Federal Rulemakers Take Credit | ordered airlines to inspect more than 700 Boeing passenger jets built in the last eight years, checking for installation faults. Boeing officials supported the inspection order. But many new Government safety rules are hotly contested. That was the case with a proposal that four million transportation workers - includi... |
220667_1 | Computers That Help Skippers Navigate and Ferret Out Fish | portable unit for $35,000 that includes an antenna, satellite receiver, processor and a high-resolution color video monitor. The Science Applications International Corporation, a military contractor in LaJolla, Calif., is marketing much larger weather consoles, priced at $100,000 and up, mainly to the Government. The c... |
221453_0 | Keeping the Pickle Crunchy | LEAD: Since man first tossed cucumbers in brine - and savored the sour results - the pickle business has not exactly sparkled with technical innovation. But now a researcher for the Department of Agriculture has developed a patented process to make kosher dills keep their crunch. Some say the development could amount t... |
221511_2 | Palestinian Group and Iran Tied to Pan Am Bomb | Pan Am Flight 103 disaster. But ''the general sense is that's the most commonly accepted theory,'' one Administration official said. ''That does match up with some intelligence that U.S. agencies have available.'' United States officials say American and British investigators are also examining the possibility that the... |
221407_3 | Economic Scene; Saving the Forest In Costa Rica | of just 14 cents on the dollar. For another, conservation groups could not possibly raise 14 percent of $560 million from private donors. Then there is the problem of diverting scarce local resources to conservation. Costa Rica would be reluctant to raise taxes sufficiently to cover the interest on $170 million worth o... |
219559_5 | Personal Health | rises rapidly. Hormones taken for birth control or as postmenopausal replacement can significantly affect a woman's coronary risk. Oral contraceptives may raise blood pressure, blood sugar or blood fats. The risk of ill effects on the heart is greatest among pill users who smoke cigarettes. The newer low-dose preparati... |
219635_5 | HAZARD REPORTED IN APPLE CHEMICAL | be permitted. But because daminozide was sold before that date, the burden of proving that a chemical is unsafe falls on the Government. Tests Conducted by Agency Dr. Moore said large doses of daminozide had produced both malignant and benign tumors in the mice used in tests. Extrapolating from the test results, he sai... |
225754_0 | Washington Talk: Briefing; Bitter Over Chocolate | LEAD: President Bush's chief trade negotiator, Carla A. Hills, accepts all the help she can get in trying to pry open foreign markets for American products. President Bush's chief trade negotiator, Carla A. Hills, accepts all the help she can get in trying to pry open foreign markets for American products. Her newest a... |
222390_0 | An Emergency Cradle for Flat Tires | LEAD: A tire cradle designed to end the hazards and dirty work that have long made ''flat tire'' two of the nastiest words to drivers is being sold by a Connecticut company. A tire cradle designed to end the hazards and dirty work that have long made ''flat tire'' two of the nastiest words to drivers is being sold by a... |
223524_1 | Waves on Airwaves: Power to the People? | mobilizing.'' For Mr. Coelho, government by talk show could turn out to be government by the most alienated sectors of the electorate. Representative Marvin Leath, a Texas Democrat, called the talk show hosts ''radio freaks'' and ''jerks.'' 'This Tricky Pay Grab' But for foes of the pay increase who saw their cause tri... |
227106_1 | 5 Republicans Are Wavering On Tower Vote | Grassley of Iowa, Jesse A. Helms of North Carolina and Dave Durenberger of Minnesota. It is not clear in each instance why the Republicans are not solidly behind Mr. Tower, although Mr. Helms is known to object to Mr. Tower's uncertain stance on the Strategic Defense Initiative. Meanwhile, a number of Democrats were al... |
219407_2 | CENSUS PREDICTS POPULATION DROP IN NEXT CENTURY | current 246 million. The bureau said the population would then begin a gradual decline, to 292 million in 2080. The Census Bureau's study also pointed to a decline in the proportion of the white population and a rapid growth in other racial groups. Several analysts warned that a smaller population could damage the Amer... |
219451_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: International A2-10 International A2-10 Changes in Britain's health service announced by the Government would apply free-market methods to the state-financed system. The changes would be the most far-reaching since the service was founded. Page A1 News analysis: In Nicaragua, cutbacks announced by the Sandinista ... |
225089_0 | Searches Could Delay Overseas Air Travelers | LEAD: Passengers flying overseas on United States airlines may have to learn new habits to avoid inconvenient searches for bombs in common electronic devices like coffeepots with electronic timers, cameras and lap-top computers. Passengers flying overseas on United States airlines may have to learn new habits to avoid ... |
224344_0 | Don't Imagine Brazil Wants to Burn Its Future; Debt-Relief Tradeoff | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Brazil's Debt Can Save the Amazon'' (editorial, Feb. 3) emphasizes the environmental dimensions of the third world debt problem and the interest of the United States and other industrial countries in preserving rain forests. As you suggest, one option is for donors to raise $4 bill... |
224343_0 | Don't Imagine Brazil Wants to Burn Its Future; Plants and Oxygen | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Brazil's Debt Can Save the Amazon'' (editorial, Feb. 3) might have argued more strongly by showing the link between the destruction of rain forests and our daily lives. For instance, walk into your local drugstore: 25 percent of all those pharmaceuticals are derived from tropical f... |
224417_0 | Hopes for Thaw in Ulster Politics Appear Dim | LEAD: Hopes for a political thaw here appear scattered by the icy winds of sectarianism that have made Northern Ireland a synonym for violence and despair. Hopes for a political thaw here appear scattered by the icy winds of sectarianism that have made Northern Ireland a synonym for violence and despair. Hopes in some ... |
224342_0 | Don't Imagine Brazil Wants to Burn Its Future | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I would like to comment on issues you raise in ''Brazil Burns the Future'' (editorial, Dec. 28). The Brazilian people and Government were shocked and deeply saddened by the assassination of Francisco Mendes Filho, a leading trade unionist and environmentalist in the state of Acre. Hi... |
222772_2 | Woman Is Consecrated as Episcopal Bishop | in His name,'' she said. The Long Road to Reality The Episcopal Church has been debating the role of women for decades. In 1970 it agreed to ordain women as deacons. Then it debated ordaining women as priests, and the question was decided by the church's General Convention in 1976. Two years before the General Conventi... |
222434_0 | NEW &NOTEWORTHY | LEAD: LIVES OF THE TWINS, by Rosamond Smith. (Avon, $3.95.) After Molly Marks moves in with her psychotherapist, she embarks on a secret affair with his estranged identical twin. Written pseudonymously by Joyce Carol Oates, this is ''a marvelous metaphysical novel,'' Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said here last year. LIVES ... |
222523_0 | NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Essex, Vt.; For Starters, A Condo Hotel | LEAD: A 97-ROOM condominium hotel is rising in this rapidly growing suburb of Burlington, Vermont's largest city, as part of the first phase of the ongoing Lang Farm development. A 97-ROOM condominium hotel is rising in this rapidly growing suburb of Burlington, Vermont's largest city, as part of the first phase of the... |
222602_8 | Impressionism Revisited: Context Is King | ''but we are justified in making the broad equation: as Le Havre displaced Marseilles, so Constable displaced Poussin.'' In defining the shift of interest among French artists from the south to the north, the remark is fundamentally true, but Poussin remained a major presence in French art throughout the second half of... |
222643_0 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | LEAD: Tourist Rates To Go Up In China Tourist Rates To Go Up In China China's State Tourism Administration has announced steps to improve the quality of tour guide service and plans to standardize hotel ratings over the next two years. As a result of these changes, tourists are likely to have to pay more for their visi... |
222439_3 | Towns Are Adding Required Recycling | no longer accept glass or metal food containers, newspaper, cardboard, office paper, used engine oil, vehicle batteries, yard waste and scrap metal. Other categories could be placed on the list, including plastic containers, scrap tires and dry cell batteries. The rules are likely to become tougher. Last week, several ... |
222620_0 | Yes, Socrates, Ethics Can Be Taught | LEAD: The corporate and Wall Street communities are wrestling not only with the issue of profitability, but also with the more difficult and subtle issue of ethical behavior. A number of tools have been designed to bring ethics to the forefront of business development training. The corporate and Wall Street communities... |
222765_0 | Why the Garbage Is Never Really Gone | LEAD: ACROSS much of the United States, trash is still disposed of in the old-fashioned way, with bulldozers and open landfills. But the metropolitan areas of the Northeast were forced by geography to move farther and faster toward large-scale incineration and, more recently, recycling. ACROSS much of the United States... |
252948_1 | Environment Is Security | than the old ideological theories with a simple formula of defining the enemy and opposing him. They are coming into mainstream politics now, not only in established democracies but in countries like Hungary, Poland, even the Soviet Union. The pattern has been to take up environmental questions, inevitably linked to th... |
250395_0 | Doctors Concerned About Unpublished Results | LEAD: Doctors and medical researchers are expressing concern that many clinical studies have never been published because they produced negative results. They warned that this practice has deprived physicians of information crucial to proper treatment of patients. Doctors and medical researchers are expressing concern ... |
250423_0 | Antelope Valley Journal; Urban Sprawl Has Plans For a Move to the Desert | LEAD: This is one of the last frontiers of American settlement, a barren place populated by crickets, lizards and rattlesnakes, where the wind bends the Joshua trees and sings in the electric lines along a lonely two-lane highway. This is one of the last frontiers of American settlement, a barren place populated by cri... |
252628_6 | For Cheap, Versatile Spacecraft, Designers Discover Less Is More | build a constellation of eight ''microsats,'' extremely small ultra-high-frequency communication satellites meant to relay data. These are to be launched on the second Pegasus flight, now scheduled for October. More recently, the Navy has joined the field, starting construction of four 150-pound satellites scheduled to... |
254518_0 | France Confirms U.S. Helped Its Nuclear Weapons Project | LEAD: France today confirmed a report that it had received technical help from the United States in its nuclear weapons program, but stressed that its nuclear deterrent remained totally independent. France today confirmed a report that it had received technical help from the United States in its nuclear weapons program... |
248154_0 | France Stands by Nuclear Power | LEAD: The accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have set back the nuclear industry in many nations, but not in France, where reactors supply 70 percent of the electricity, the highest proportion in the world. The United States figure is 18 percent. The accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have set back t... |
246057_0 | Critic's Notebook; Television and the Attack in Central Park | LEAD: With everyone casting about for explanations for last month's gang assault on a jogger in Central Park, attention has, as usual, turned to television, which often receives a share of the blame for dismaying social ailments, including crime, illiteracy and general sloth. The blame-television-first reaction is inst... |
246049_3 | When the Trash Leaves the Curb: New Methods Improve Recycling | movement could be aborted in disillusionment if the market fails to expand. Others say that if a steady, stable supply of high-quality recyclable materials is achieved, the market will respond and industry's investment in recycling will grow. If it does, experts say, environmental pollution would be reduced and the cou... |
246049_4 | When the Trash Leaves the Curb: New Methods Improve Recycling | dump or incinerate it. The result is that economics is forcing the country to face up to recycling in a way idealism could not. A broad consensus among government, industry and environmentalists now places recycling at the top of a hierarchy of measures that, taken together, make up what is widely referred to as a deve... |
246055_0 | Grim Seeds of Park Rampage Found in East Harlem Streets | LEAD: IN seeking to explain the savage pack attack in Central Park last month, anthropologists and sociologists who have studied East Harlem outline a chilling picture of how the street culture there could have fostered a rampage that otherwise appears senseless. IN seeking to explain the savage pack attack in Central ... |
254732_2 | New Research Links Depression With Asthma Deaths in Children | I am less enthusiastic but have an open mind.'' Dr. Miller cautioned that he did not want to alarm or mislead anyone. ''For most asthmatics, these are nonissues,'' he said. But if parents notice that an asthmatic child has become despondent or hopeless, he said, ''I would become alert to the possibility of an asthma at... |
254657_0 | Hijacking Raises New Questions On Los Angeles Airport's Security | LEAD: After an attempted hijacking of an American Airlines jet, the authorities are asking how a Cuban exile wearing green military fatigues and a bomber-style jacket and carrying a starter's pistol and two knives was able to elude X-ray devices and other security measures at Los Angeles International Airport After an ... |
254601_1 | Women to the Fore! (What Would Franco Say?) | the past, cases like these would have been normal,'' said Carmen Martinez Ten, head of the Government's Institute of Women. ''But this time there was an outcry. Society is no longer willing to accept them because, over the past 10 years, we've seen a revolution in the role of women here.'' If anything, in fact, as thro... |
247478_1 | New Link Between Pill and Cancer Reported | a significantly higher risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. Young women who take birth control pills for more than four years run a significantly higher risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers in England reported that among women 35 or younger, they had found a 43 percent increase in the risk o... |
253879_0 | Patents; A Recipe to Breed Higher-Yield Corn | LEAD: The Sungene Technologies Corporation of San Jose, Calif., won patent approval for a recipe of nutrients to help breed higher-yielding corn. The Sungene Technologies Corporation of San Jose, Calif., won patent approval for a recipe of nutrients to help breed higher-yielding corn. The recipe is used to promote soma... |
250161_1 | Fighting Infant Mortality With a Coupon Campaign | anemia and sexually transmitted diseases. Programs in Chicago and Washington hope to reach these women, and consequently their babies, in time. Chicago has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. In 1987, the figures were 16.6 deaths for every 1,000 live births, or 914 deaths out of 55,216 live births... |
250053_2 | Books of The Times; Architect Adapts Reality to His Changing Dream | dance of theory and practice proceeds, we realize that the author is working out a variation of his previous book, ''Home: A Short History of an Idea.'' In that book, Mr. Rybczynski faulted modern architecture for failing to provide human comfort. The solution he proposed was to rediscover what is comfortable by diggin... |
250179_2 | U.S.-Soviet Trade Seen Increasing | American consumers. But the action would represent another advance in improving the trading climate and could encourage more Soviet-American joint ventures, which could lead to substantially increased trade in the future. The two countries exchanged slightly more than $3 billion of goods last year, up from $2 billion i... |
251083_1 | Gorbachev's 'Gift' to Bush in Nicaragua | as a political windfall but a strategic luxury. Even before Mr. Gorbachev, Soviet officials concluded that Nicaragua was not worth a confrontation with Washington. Though Mr. Gorbachev probably would not risk lying about Nicaragua, the Administration is right to raise probing questions, especially while military shipme... |
251057_0 | Polish Regime Gives Legal Status to Church | LEAD: Parliament approved laws today that guarantee freedom of worship and give legal status to the Roman Catholic Church, formally ending the Communist Government's four-decade struggle with the church. Parliament approved laws today that guarantee freedom of worship and give legal status to the Roman Catholic Church,... |
245811_2 | In Africa, Pope Smiles on Local Custom | nation off the African coast protect its dwindling wildlife preserves. Their steady destruction over the years has become a high priority for conservationists. The Pope also sent a message of greetings and prayer to imprisoned men and women here. Although he said nothing about prison conditions, Vatican officials said ... |
245874_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-11 London and Bonn agreed to differ on NATO disarmament strategy and declared that they were looking to the alliance meeting at the end of May to restore a common front. Page A1 INTERNATIONAL A3-11 London and Bonn agreed to differ on NATO disarmament strategy and declared that they were looking t... |
246281_1 | Ringold Journal; A Stretch of River That Time Forgot | the free-flowing stretch of water is open to the public for the first time since World War II. And residents of the high plateau of central Washington are divided over whether that stretch should be entrusted to nature or put to industrial use. The Army Corps of Engineers at first planned to spend $200 million to dredg... |
246270_1 | LESSONS | a function of spending and that more Federal aid would assure better schools and a more secure nation. In the 1960's economists like Theodore W. Schultz began writing about the importance of investing in ''human capital.'' But it was not until the 1980's, with its debates over reindustrialization and economic competiti... |
246588_1 | Plastic Trash: 'Silk Purses' Sought | into insulating board by Amoco for use in construction and into hard plastic products, like office in-baskets and cafeteria trays, by Rubbermaid Inc., a participant in the project. Faced with increasing public hostility toward throwaway plastic packaging, and legislation banning its use in places as diverse as Suffolk ... |
248715_3 | Real Estate; Stamford's Waterfront Is Discovered | that construction can begin on the Hoffman Fuel site next year, but he would not predict a date for the start of the Strand. A significant part of the approval process involves Stamford's planning and zoning boards. A few years ago zoning officials changed the application and approval process to give them a stronger vo... |
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