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993092_0 | Brazil Pays to Shield Currency, And the Poor See the True Cost | Edmar Bacha, a Brazilian banker, has a new routine. Every afternoon he logs on to the Internet, reads the next day's issue of The Korea Herald and decides what he will tell the anxious executives from Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments who keep asking him where Brazil is headed. ''I get very worried on days when th... |
995848_2 | At Home Abroad; Violence Or Politics? | than 80 percent of Catholics accept the idea. But will the I.R.A. accept a settlement that recognizes the present status of Northern Ireland? Its historic stance has been that the division of Ireland is illegitimate, that the North must be part of a united Ireland. And the I.R.A. has embraced violence as a proper means... |
995857_2 | U.N. Surveys Paid Leave For Mothers | Mali and Senegal. ''Working women who become pregnant are faced with the threat of job loss, suspended earnings and increased health risks due to inadequate safeguards for their employment,'' said F. J. Dy-Hammar, the study's chief author. The study found that maternity benefits are contingent on a variety of condition... |
995862_4 | Lawyer-Client Intimacy Prompts Death Row Plea | a role in the case. She said that she has been in therapy off and on for about 15 years but was not in therapy at the time of the trial. Mr. Livingston said that in the clemency petition he had tried ''to make a persuasive case that this woman is troubled.'' He said that the petition was accompanied by a videotape of h... |
995889_1 | Metro Matters; Far From Sky, Sandhogs Face Grit and Risk | that has been set up just a few dozen feet from the Mole. Mr. Blaize says he is a sandhog because his father was one. (Other men in the tunnel are third- and even fourth-generation sandhogs.) He describes the lure of the job as a mix of good money, danger and camaraderie. ''We're in a different world by ourselves down ... |
997663_4 | Personal Health; A Tad of Testosterone Adds Zest to Menopause | Dr. Gloria A. Bachmann, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, said testosterone therapy ''may be underutilized because many women don't know that they could feel better.'' She and others believe that the decision to try testosteron... |
997687_1 | No Injuries As Car Bomb Damages Ulster Town | British Army troops in full combat geer cordoned off the center of Portadown, which has been the scene of clashes between demonstrators and police officers during annual Protestant marches. The bomb destroyed two shops, severely damaged several other buildings, including three banks, and left streets for about half a m... |
997715_2 | U.S. Seeks Solution for Byproduct of Uranium | build concrete supports and re-stack them. Recently the Government signed a contract to paint about 10,000 cylinders in the next 5 years. But at that rate it would take more than 40 years to paint them all, and the new paint lasts only 10 to 12 years. The material is what is left after a gaseous diffusion plant removes... |
997671_2 | NASA Must Reignite Research, Panel Says | few priorities and giving them steady support until they prove themselves or not.'' These are the six technological areas in which the panel said additional research and development could produce significant advances for space exploration between the years 2000 and 2020: *High data-rate, wideband communications coverin... |
997677_0 | Ireland and Terrorism | To the Editor: John O'Sullivan's analysis of the Northern Ireland peace process (Op-Ed, Feb. 20) is spot-on that its major achievement has been to give strength and respectability to terrorists at the expense of constitutional politicians. However, I disagree with Mr. O'Sullivan's recommendation for the imprisonment of... |
996657_1 | France Gives Strong Support To U.N. Chief | under the plan arms inspectors would have full access to ''presidential sites'' in Iraq but would be accompanied by diplomats from all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The United States has reserved the right to reject any compromise that sets limits on what the inspectors may visit and wh... |
996662_2 | Ulster Peace Talks: Waiting for a Court | enforce its decision in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland and the main venue for the talks. Politicians and lawyers find the proceedings full of contradiction. Sinn Fein, whose ultimate goal is the end of British sovereignty in Northern Ireland, has long questioned the legitimacy of the independent Irish governm... |
996217_0 | I.R.A. Ally Asks Irish Court to Block Ouster From Peace Talks | Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, said tonight that it would seek an order on Wednesday in an Irish Republic court to block any move to expel it from the Northern Ireland peace talks. Mitchell McLaughlin, the Sinn Fein national chariman, declined to give details on the court action, saying onl... |
996221_0 | El Nino Makes Itself Unwelcome in South America | |
994877_0 | World News Briefs; Britain and Ireland Weigh Sinn Fein Ouster | The Irish Republic and British Governments said today that they would decide in a matter of days whether to expel Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, from the Northern Ireland peace talks. The Protestant-inspired campaign to expel the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Sinn Fein appeared to be gainin... |
994876_4 | Judge Says Disabled Golfer May Use Cart on Pro Tour | judge, who is a magistrate sitting as a District Court judge for this case, heard the case immediately, and without taking testimony from witnesses, issued the preliminary injunction ordering the cart that day. Mr. Martin qualified for the Nike Tour, missing the PGA Tour by two strokes. The judge then extended his inju... |
992231_5 | Ecuadoreans Want Texaco to Clear Toxic Residue | her farm, is just one part of the devastation Texaco left behind after extracting some 1.4 billion barrels of crude. In the oil-drilling region, open flames roar out of pipes jutting over murky pools, burning off gas to separate water from the crude oil. The soil is covered with a salty crust and is green and yellow in... |
991976_0 | VICIOUS CYCLE | THIS WEEK |
992193_0 | Put Labels on Wood | To the Editor: The implications of ''Data Show Recent Burning of Amazon Is Worst Ever'' (news article, Jan. 27) are truly frightening. The Brazilian Government has failed miserably in its global responsibility, but consumers and governments around the world have a role to play as well. Consumers deserve to know where t... |
991939_3 | It's a Long Way From Stem to Stern | to clamp down, and others to consider doing so. Carnival and Royal Caribbean cracked down last year, essentially requiring unaccompanied passengers to be 21 or over, refusing or limiting bookings from student groups and requiring deposits in case of damage. Forewarned, Disney Cruise Line said it would not accept bookin... |
992141_0 | CBS Will Stretch Time With Videotape (and Will Admit It) | In 1994, CBS learned a valuable lesson in time: no matter who knew the fates of Nancy, Tonya & Friends in the figure-skating short program from Lillehammer, Norway, viewers would avidly watch a six-hour-old tape. With a 48.5 Nielsen rating, it was the third-most watched sports event ever. Four years later, CBS hopes a ... |
992282_0 | January 25-31; Painful Questions Again In Northern Ireland | For 16 years the memory of ''Bloody Sunday,'' when 14 unarmed civil rights marchers -- all Catholics -- were killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on Jan. 30, 1972, has been a barrier to trust in negotiations toward peace in the province. Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blairm took a step toward addressing Cath... |
992196_1 | The World; Four Decades of Revolution Bring Cuba Full Circle | and see what the country has come to: Many parents must scramble to feed their children, some sick people die for lack of medicines, young women marry foreigners for a chance to leave the country, old people line up in the morning to buy newspapers they can resell, and children as young as 8 gravitate to tourist spots ... |
993407_0 | Search for Oil Imperils Amazon Rain Forest | To the Editor: We take exception to your Feb. 1 news article on the environmental issues associated with Texaco Petroleum Company's past operations in Ecuador. Texaco was a minority owner with Petroecuador, the state oil company, in an exploration and production consortium. As operator, Texaco made it a priority to min... |
993406_0 | Search for Oil Imperils Amazon Rain Forest | To the Editor: Your Feb. 1 news article on a lawsuit filed to recover damages from Texaco's operations in Ecuador does not mention that since the early 1980's local efforts to protect the Amazon -- public education campaigns, lobbying, community-led investigations and mass demonstrations -- have succeeded in slowing th... |
995703_0 | Pastor's Church Trial Attests To Divisiveness of Gay Issue | Joining a man and a woman before God is standard duty for members of the clergy. But for performing a union of a different sort, the Rev. Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist minister here, will soon be tried in a church court. At issue is Mr. Creech's officiation at a covenant ceremony last September uniting two women in ... |
995359_4 | Preaching to the Converted | fall easily into dangerous hands,'' the book often sounds as if it had been written in a hot tub. Consider the commission's insight that ''decent living standards are a universal human right,'' or that ''peace and equitable development will require not only effective institutions, but also greater understanding and res... |
995643_3 | Tomato, From Pretty Poison to Contestant | fungus that also stunts growth and causes the leaves to yellow from the bottom up. N denotes plants that are not troubled by the root knot nematodes. TMV denotes that the plant resists tobacco mosaic virus, one of the worst as it is spread by insects feeding on other infected plants and by gardeners who smoke near thei... |
995644_3 | Tomato, From Pretty Poison to Contestant | fungus that also stunts growth and causes the leaves to yellow from the bottom up. N denotes plants that are not troubled by the root knot nematodes. TMV denotes that the plant resists tobacco mosaic virus, one of the worst as it is spread by insects feeding on other infected plants and by gardeners who smoke near thei... |
995642_3 | Tomato, From Pretty Poison to Contestant | fungus that also stunts growth and causes the leaves to yellow from the bottom up. N denotes plants that are not troubled by the root knot nematodes. TMV denotes that the plant resists tobacco mosaic virus, one of the worst as it is spread by insects feeding on other infected plants and by gardeners who smoke near thei... |
995480_0 | Out of the Junkyard And Onto a Pedestal | THE Pelham-based insurance agency Eifert, French & Ketchum, whose clients include junkyards, recently helped the Friends of Art and Design at Purchase College mount ''Recycling the Wheel,'' sculptures of used parts seen in the Visual Arts Gallery through March 4. Students in the School of Art and Design considered the ... |
995463_5 | For a Growing Region, a 'Nassau Hub' | money from a passenger ticket tax to build a light-rail link from the L.I.R.R. at Jamaica Station to Kennedy International Airport. The $1.5 billion project would be partly financed by the $3 Passenger Facility Charge that is added to tickets for flights at Kennedy. The Nassau study does not have proposals for taxes or... |
995625_0 | Ideas & Trends; Today's Cars and Drivers Can Grow Old Together | JUST a quarter century ago, a car that stayed presentable for 100,000 miles was a marvel. By the time the zeros rolled around again on the odometer, the bodies of most cars were scarred by rust and their engines rattled ominously. And each year, it seemed, Detroit ordered up cosmetic changes that made the previous year... |
995688_4 | Using Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Poor Women | in 1995. Last year they also performed 10,000 free vasectomies on men, a slight increase over 1996. However, women remain the main focus of the Government's program because men are less likely to agree to sterilization, on the mistaken ground that the procedure could impair their virility. Health Ministry officials est... |
995425_5 | Where the Displaced Find Training for Jobs | an individual, and even the heads of departments took an interest in me and encouraged me to succeed. The second semester I was in a group of seven students all of them younger, and we worked and studied together. There was a real esprit de corps. In June 1997, we all graduated together, and my daughter graduated from ... |
998311_0 | Chirac Wary of Quick Attack If Iraq Breaks Inspection Deal | President Jacques Chirac, his popularity soaring in public opinion polls because of the credit given to French diplomacy in avoiding an attack on Iraq, said in an interview published today that France would not support calls for an automatic military response if Iraq failed to live up to its latest agreement on weapons... |
998349_4 | Bid to Save Fish Puts West on Notice | farmers applauded the effort today, though runoff from their farms has been blamed for fouling salmon streams. Commercial fishermen, some of whom will be bought out under the proposal, backed the idea. Some Republicans, who have decried past environmental efforts as an infringement on private property, also expressed s... |
998310_1 | Residential Real Estate; Middle-Income Complex Planned for Rockaway | modest homes and hotels from Beach 32d to Beach 73d Streets in 1965 as part of city urban renewal plans that never materialized. But in the last three years, as the economy revived, planning resumed. Jonathan L. Gaska, district manager for Community Board 14, which helps guide growth in the area, said that in that time... |
996007_0 | Bridget Jones? She's Any (Single) Woman, Anywhere | She is a 30-something single Londoner with a messy life who dates losers, can't quit smoking and drinks too much but still managed to lose 72 pounds last year. The same year she gained 74. Her diary has made her the best friend of hundreds of thousands of British women who recognize her closet drawers crammed with a fu... |
996006_3 | NASA Readies a 'Mission to Planet Earth' | it does now,'' said John M. Logsdon, the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. So the way ahead appears clear for the launching of AM-1, now scheduled for June 30. And despite the nervousness of Mr. Goldin and others, an air of excitement is building at the Lockheed Martin Astro Space ... |
996038_1 | Britain Takes Step Toward Ousting I.R.A. Ally at Ulster Talks | do it at the historic Castle, would be a discomfort, if not an embarrassment, to the Irish Government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who has long been a strong supporter of Sinn Fein's participation in the talks. Mo Mowlam, the British Northern Ireland Secretary, addressed the meeting today and surprised many delegate... |
997910_5 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Smoother Road From Lab to Sales; DNA Technique Aims to Predict Whom a Drug Will Benefit | are really to be found in patients' genes. ''I don't think you can avoid doing it, if you can,'' said Paul L. Herrling, head of research at Novartis A.G. of Switzerland, referring to pharmacogenomic analysis. ''But it's not clear that the information on responders and nonresponders is visible in the genotype. It may be... |
992797_0 | Cuba Humanitarian Aid | To the Editor: Senator Jesse Helms's announcement that he endorses a plan to permit more humanitarian aid to the Cuban people, including United States Government assistance, should not be mistaken as a shift in his hard-line position on the Cuban embargo (news article, Jan. 30). The level of aid allowed by the United S... |
992609_0 | Beating Victim Testifies in Murder Case | She was walking by the East River on an early summer evening when an arm curled around her neck and pulled her back into the dark. She fought and kicked and tried to scream, but the arm cut off her breath. Losing consciousness, she thought she was going to die. ''I was terrified, I was so terrified,'' Shelby Evans Schr... |
992547_3 | Behind the Hoopla Over a Hormone | closely monitored for ill effects. The researchers also caution against doses higher than 50 milligrams a day. For, despite its over-the-counter availability, the hormone may indeed have risks. As indicated by studies in animals and people, the possible hazards include stimulating the growth of prostate and breast canc... |
992613_1 | Ulster Faction Issues Threat Of Attacks On Catholics | has taken responsibility for four of the recent killings, and is suspected in a fifth. Last week, the group said it had suspended its attacks on ordinary Catholics, but retained the right to kill active Republican agents. Today, in a message to Belfast newspapers establishing its authenticity with a recognized codeword... |
992595_0 | France Closes Nuclear Reactor | |
994107_1 | E-Mail Alerts Show Growing Potential | Me's creator, Philip Greenspun, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ''But you'd lose all of your reminders if you didn't back up your hard drive or if you dropped your laptop. ''More importantly,'' he added, ''if they're traveling, the one thing my friends do is check their E-mail. So tha... |
994155_2 | New Political Structure for Northern Ireland Emerging at Talks | cooperation between his Government and the British was now ''excellent,'' a sign that the peace issues that have often divided London and Dublin had been resolved in discussions with Mo Mowlam, the British Northern Ireland Secretary. She stood by his side in Dublin, smiling in approval. [On Saturday, Prime Minister Ton... |
994153_0 | A Look at Religion in China by 3 U.S. Clerics | A high-profile delegation of American religious figures began arriving in Beijing today for a three-week tour of China to examine the state of religious freedom here, one of the most volatile human rights issues in American diplomacy. While it is being described as private, President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin o... |
998543_0 | New Respectability For Manners; Scholars Tackle a Topic Long Thought Too Trivial for All but Fussbudgets | The subject of manners once seemed worthy of serious attention. The authors of the Talmud took up such topics as burping, yawning and bad breath. Erasmus wrote the 16th-century equivalent of a best seller on civility and Edmund Burke considered manners more important than laws. But somewhere between the Renaissance and... |
997328_0 | I.R.A. Is Eyed As Bombing In Ulster Casts Pall on Talks | The police chief of Northern Ireland said today that the bomb that ripped the center of a predominantly Protestant village west of here late on Friday night had been planted by ''Republican extremists.'' But the chief, Ronnie Flanagan, who was instrumental in the expulsion of the political wing of the Irish Republican ... |
997280_4 | Retirement Foresight From the Younger Set | Under certain conditions, the new tax law also permits penalty-free withdrawals from I.R.A.'s to pay for higher education. In this respect, as in some others, children's I.R.A.'s are treated no differently than their parents'. And given that the growth in education costs continues to outstrip inflation, such tax-advant... |
997036_4 | Turkey Skimps on Its Great Monument | Empire, which fell when Mehmet the Conqueror captured this city for Islam in 1453. The Haghia Sophia was a mosque for nearly 500 years, until the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a militant secularist, decreed that it would become a museum. Some Muslims have never accepted that decision, and they demand... |
997010_1 | Curiosity Is Destiny | in life. For Freud, Phillips writes, ''psychoanalysis was essentially about the fate of interest,'' a fate that Freud found inescapably tragic: ''It is the function of culture,'' as Phillips sums up Freud's pessimistic analysis, ''to kill curiosity.'' This recognition that ''the viable self is a diminished self'' is Fr... |
997108_2 | The View From/Mystic; Deep Sea, High Tech And a Beluga's Smile | multi-media program, the doors open into a water column where artifacts from wrecks will be exhibited. ''This is not a ride, a ride is a made-up thing. You're going to experience reality,'' Dr. Ballard said. ''We want people to walk out of that experience and completely change the way they think about the ocean. There'... |
994345_1 | Study Questions The Usual View Of Downsizing | relations specialists, financial officers, analysts, buyers, personnel managers and data processors who occupy America's ubiquitous office towers. Their annual pay averaged a healthy $46,000 in the mid-1990's. ''The decision structure in a global economy demands these people,'' said Steven Rose, senior economist at the... |
995206_0 | Ulster Police Link 2 Deaths to I.R.A., Casting Pall Over Talks | In a statement that pushed the Northern Ireland peace effort further toward crisis, the chief of police there has asserted that the Irish Republican Army was involved in two killings of civilians this week in Belfast. The British and Irish Governments, who reported the finding today, immediately said they would now hav... |
998075_1 | A Welter of Wireless Choices | considerably since the first cellular networks were switched on in the 1980's. In 1988, the average monthly cellular-phone bill was $95; last year, it was $44, according to the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, a trade group in Washington. Those lower prices, of course, are a result of clamorous competition. Con... |
993503_4 | Clinton and Blair Warn Iraq It Must Obey U.N. on Arms | if United Nations inspectors cannot do their job, as is the case now. ''I think the precise question should be -- that I should have to ask and answer, is -- could any military action, if all else fails, substantially reduce or delay Saddam Hussein's capacities to develop weapons of mass destruction and to deliver them... |
993499_1 | Mix-Up Leads to Shredding of Valuable Records From Naval Lab | technology, in the development of American radar, astrophysics and radio astronomy, the study of underwater sound, the invention of sonar, the investigation of matter under enormous pressures like those found within giant planets, and the chemistry of carbon cage molecules, among other fields. Among the lost documents ... |
996901_0 | INSIDE | Expulsion From Irish Talks The Irish and British Governments temporarily expelled the I.R.A. political wing from peace talks. Page A3. Indonesia Blinks on Currency Indonesia has retreated from a sharply criticized plan to strengthen its ravaged currency. Page D1. New York Court Shift A liberal judge on New York's highe... |
996886_0 | British and Irish Governments Suspend Sinn Fein From Northern Ireland Talks | The Irish and British Governments today expelled Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, from the Northern Ireland peace talks at least until March 9. The two Governments, in an obvious move to stave off violent reactions from Roman Catholics in the British province, said the suspension would be limited to 17 days if t... |
996409_0 | Sinn Fein Argues for Ban on Ouster From Talks | Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, argued in the Irish Republic's High Court here today for an order to forbid the Irish and British Governments to expel the party from the Northern Ireland peace talks, but the hearing was adjourned until Thursday with no decision. The Government of Britain and... |
1017282_3 | Sold China 'Spirit Tree' May Have Been Stolen | Mr. Black the seller was a reputable Hong Kong dealer and that the item came with all the proper papers. No one has suggested that Mr. Black did anything illegal or improper in buying the object in New York. Mr. Black came into public view in the 1980's as co-head of corporate finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the def... |
1017268_2 | Godzilla, Present And Past | saw this as calculated indifference. Anger increased when one crew member, Kuboyama Aikichi, died on Sept. 23. Large demonstrations in Tokyo called for an end to American nuclear tests in the Pacific. Against this backdrop, ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' was released in late 1954, the first of more than 20 Godzilla... |
1017324_2 | Bomb Scanner For Airports Is Underused, Audit Finds | said he was allowed to board the plane only after one Congressman said he would not board until Mr. Zogby was allowed to. The audit of the machines described at the hearing found that while they were designed to process up to 225 suitcases an hour, most did not see that many in a day. After the explosion of Trans World... |
1017299_0 | 8 World Leaders Urge Suharto to Show Restraint in Handling Indonesian Turmoil | The leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies and Russia called on Indonesia's leader today to show restraint in responding to the country's growing unrest, and said a solution would have to involve political as well as economic changes. President Clinton said President Suharto should ''open a dialogue with a... |
1019211_7 | Echoes Of Ancient Lives | which now proved strong enough to support my weight if I leaned into it at a 45-degree angle. Farther on, the trail divided and I lost the markings and backtracked, did the same thing again, then decided to wait for the others, one of whom had trekked to the gorge before. When I greeted them with the topographical map,... |
1019531_2 | Eloquent And Elated: 'Great Day For Ireland' | than 3,200 people have been killed in 30 years of sectarian warfare. ''It's a great day for Ireland,'' people repeated. The first public official to say it, on an early morning radio program, was Mary O'Rourke, a legislator representing Longford, County Westmeath, whose family has had members in Parliament for decades.... |
1019536_3 | Nicole Maxwell, a Bold Seeker Of Medical Herbs, Dies at 92 | arranged for her to continue her studies at Ohio State. But when her husband was transferred to Washington a couple of years later, her unofficial formal education came to an end because Georgetown University would not admit women. In the decade after her machete experience, Mrs. Maxwell made dozens of expeditions to t... |
1019646_6 | Kennedy Family Values | plunged, against the advice of the prematurely sobered, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, into saving Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section. It was to be done by -- how anachronistic the phrase now seems -- ''urban renewal.'' But it was to be renewal from the bottom up, renewal by ''participation'' that would produce ... |
1019547_0 | Clinton Leads Americans' Cheers on Irish Vote | An elated President Clinton today offered a warm message of congratulations to the voters in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland after their approval of a wide-ranging peace accord. ''It is the culmination of a springtime of peace and it must be the beginning of a long season of happiness and prosperity,'' Mr.... |
1019570_0 | Fast Times for Engineering Graduates, as a Slump Ends | With the economy booming, college graduates are facing the best job market in years. And for students in engineering and computer science -- a small group who chose their majors when companies were downsizing and engineers were being tossed aside like used Kleenex -- the market is sizzling. Most have multiple job offer... |
1019325_0 | If You're Thinking of Living In/Westport, Conn.; Close to Manhattan, Rich in Resources | WIDELY known as a favorite hideaway of the rich and famous, Westport has a celebrity-driven cachet. And young families are attracted by the town's exceptional school system, a wide range of recreational opportunities and a strong sense of community. Westport's popularity and its location just an hour from Manhattan com... |
1019519_0 | Peace Advances in Northern Ireland | With Friday's historic referendum on the peace accords, voters strongly endorsed a new politics for Northern Ireland, one in which differences are settled by political institutions instead of guns. It will take years to construct a permanent peace, but the vote was a vital down payment. Even though exit polls showed th... |
1019550_5 | IRISH VOTERS, NORTH AND SOUTH, GIVE RESOUNDING 'YES' TO PEACE | killings of Catholic marchers in Londonderry by British paratroopers and a one-day series of car bombings in Belfast by guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army, which killed 11 people. In a protest that drew world attention in 1981, 10 I.R.A. prisoners starved themselves to death in an effort to obtain the status of pr... |
1019530_3 | Gandhi's Voice Summoned to Condemn India's A-Tests | within India was slow in developing, but it has already shown signs of building. At first, even some veteran Gandhians endorsed the blasts, hunting through their own recollections for examples where Gandhi approved the use of force, as when ''freedom fighters'' from Pakistan rushed into Kashmir in the fall of 1947 in a... |
1019102_2 | Irish Turn Out in Large Numbers; Exit Polls Show a Vote for Accord | of 70 to 75 percent'' of the 1.18 million eligible voters. ''Things will never be the same here again,'' Michael O'Neill, 30, an unemployed Catholic, said after he voted for the agreement in strife-ridden West Belfast at a primary school where the facade is pocked with bullet holes. ''It's about the future.'' John McCa... |
1019032_0 | At the End of a Long Trek, Ulster's Apostle of Peace Is Still Trekking | In the last days before the referendum on the new Northern Ireland peace agreement, John Hume was still trudging through the towns and villages, continuing his life's work: trying to persuade Catholics and Protestants that a negotiated peace is better than endless sectarian warfare that leaves their loved ones dead in ... |
1020551_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Pakistan, Answering India, Conducts Nuclear Tests Pakistan responded to India's nuclear tests with underground nuclear tests of its own. Within hours, Pakistan's Prime Minister declared his country a ''nuclear power,'' fulfilling a secret plan made by a predecessor nearly 30 years ago that it would ... |
1020501_2 | Wealthy Nations Cut Aid to Pakistan Over Nuclear Tests | $45 million. Otto Hauser, the Government spokesman, said Bonn ''sharply condemns this action,'' which he described as unacceptable. Klaus Kinkel, the German Foreign Minister, joined a number of officials around the world in saying it was ''unfortunate'' that Pakistan had disregarded the international calls for restrain... |
1020442_0 | Immersion In the Amazon | No matter how hot and humid New York City gets, you don't expect to encounter a tropical rain forest on the Upper West Side. This year, however, you can be enveloped by one, right on Central Park West. The experience comes courtesy of ''Amazon,'' a new Imax film examining the mighty river. Shown on the four-story-high ... |
1020555_1 | China Voices 'Regret,' but Still Faults India | to be something of a disappointment to China, whose officials had privately urged Pakistan to restrain itself to preserve regional stability, even though many people suspected that a test was probably inevitable. ''We knew there was a great possibility that Pakistan would follow because of the internal pressure its lea... |
1020443_5 | Showing Why a Rain Forest Matters | discovered by the expedition and will soon be given a formal scientific name and description. Working with leaf casts, designers fabricated some 500,000 leaves of different sizes and shapes. Water flows through the vegetation; model creatures scamper up tree trunks; the air smells of jungle, and deep in the background,... |
1016266_0 | For Jeter, A Potent Pace at Bat | Derek Jeter does not have a naturally beautiful swing or approach, like Will Clark of the Texas Rangers or Ben Grieve of the Oakland Athletics. Jeter looms over the plate, tilting forward, sometimes even as he swings the bat. Imagine the Leaning Tower of Pisa with a bat. But Jeter swings hard and, when he makes contact... |
1016268_3 | Sinn Fein, Almost Unanimously, Approves Peace Pact | jail since 1980 for a bombing in England, said the approval would ''enhance our struggle, provide fresh possibilities for the demands of the people.'' As the prisoners walked about the convention hall chatting with other Sinn Fein members who have served sentences for bombings and shootings, Sinn Fein security monitors... |
1016331_10 | Dominican Drug Traffickers Tighten Grip on the Northeast | advertisement in the Spanish-language edition of The Miami Herald, offering to sell the company for $1.6 million, and waited for a response. Dominican officials say they believe that the advertisement caught the eye of powerful Colombian traffickers who made Mr. Knipping an offer: Join the drug trade and save your busi... |
1016243_0 | The Passions and Obsessions of a Magus, of Sorts | WORMHOLES Essays and Occasional Writings By John Fowles Edited and introduced by Jan Relf. 404 pages. Henry Holt & Company. $25. The title ''Wormholes'' may not seem the most appealing or appropriate label for this often lively collection of John Fowles's essays and occasional writings, suggestive as the word wormholes... |
1020675_0 | Council Chides Pakistanis and Indians, Too | The Security Council strongly deplored Pakistan's nuclear tests today, but also repeated its criticism of India and urged both nations to stop testing and take steps to reduce the tensions between them. The action by the Council was stalled for 24 hours by China, which two weeks ago sought a much tougher condemnation o... |
1020668_1 | U.S. Fears That Calm Talk Is Masking Harsher Reality | technically capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to targets 900 miles away, or a shorter-range missile of lesser prowess. While Pakistan proposed today that both nations sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and India suggested that both pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons, Administration officials... |
1013866_6 | Thought For Food: Cafes Offer Philosophy In France | or discredit a debate as not philosophical. It is the opposite of what we were trying to do: getting people to enjoy thinking together and listen to each other. I believe we can question anything.'' The cafes themselves, inevitably, have become a subject of debate and analysis. Some commentators have said philosophy no... |
1013873_5 | Getting Biotechnology Set to Hatch; As Science Gathers Speed, Monsanto Leads Pack | biotechnology, the current ace in the hole in Monsanto's life sciences strategy is Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide. It is widely used even by farmers who are not growing soybeans, cotton or corn that has been altered to tolerate spraying with it. And Monsanto's drug subsidiary, G. D. Searle, has a strong po... |
1013919_0 | Baptist Gets Visa to Return to Russia | Dan Pollard, an American missionary who was evicted from Russia in March under a new law that restricts minority religious groups, has been granted a visa for three months to return to his church in Vanino, a remote port town in the Far East. He received the visa on Thursday from the Russian Consulate in Seattle, and p... |
1017132_0 | House Votes to Bar Religious Abuses Abroad | The House overwhelmingly approved a bill today to punish foreign countries that persecute people for their religious beliefs. The lopsided vote, 375 to 41, masked many lawmakers' ambivalence toward a popular bill that aims to champion religious liberties worldwide, but which critics say will imperil religious minoritie... |
1017151_5 | Drug Is Found to Fight Return of Breast Cancer | the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in England, Professor Peto said. Zeneca Pharmaceuticals of Wilmington, Del., which sells tamoxifen as Nolvadex, paid for satellite transmission for the simultaneous news conference. The analysis confirmed earlier findings that tamoxifen was most effective against a type of breast cance... |
1017154_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Indonesia's Capital Shaken By Third Day of Unrest The death toll rose to more than two dozen as rioting and looting broke out in virtually every quarter of Jakarta. President Suharto cut short a visit to Egypt when anti-Government student protests erupted into a mass uprising after the police killed... |
1017077_1 | Pakistan Is Under Growing Pressure Not to Respond to India With Atom Test | to try to match India ''tit for tat.'' [Jim Steinberg, the United States' deputy national security adviser, said in a briefing in the eastern German town of Eisenach during Mr. Clinton's visit there that a nuclear test would destabilize South Asia. He signaled a willingness to address issues that Pakistan may bring up,... |
1020074_2 | Words of Wisdom for the Nation's Graduates | world. . . . The world may seem to be shrinking, but that's just an illusion. Every image we see excludes the thousands of others that have been edited out.'' TRINITY COLLEGE JIMMY CARTER Former President ''We're inclined to live in an encapsulated world of our own creation. We like to be with people who are just like ... |
1018318_1 | Food Stuff; It's All Systems Go for Cookout Season | 338-3232. Three Varieties of Sauce It looks like a designer barbecue sauce and it is nicely complex, but Lize Jamaican-Style Barbecue Sauce comes without a designer price tag: it is around $1.79 for 10 ounces. Lize (pronounced Liz-EE) was created by Hyacinth Wright-Thomas, who is from the island of Jamaica, and it is s... |
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