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1018084_0 | In Long Run, Jobs Help Students; Real-World Experience | To the Editor: Your May 13 news article on jobs for teen-agers omitted perhaps the most important benefit. Those who have jobs learn responsibility and acquire a greater understanding of what will be expected of them in the working world. They learn the importance of punctuality, and they learn that they must follow th... |
1018083_0 | In Long Run, Jobs Help Students | To the Editor: ''Experts Take a 2d Look at Virtue of Student Jobs'' (news article, May 13) fails to report strong evidence that students who work while in high school see positive effects on long-term earnings and employment. According to a University of North Carolina study, people who work during their senior year in... |
1018082_0 | Biology Theory Slights Other Fields | To the Editor: Dan A. Oren (letter, May 13) tells us that ''physics is hollow without mathematics.'' Shades of Descartes! There is a centuries-long experience of the effort to reduce human knowledge to a single mode of knowing. Dr. Edward O. Wilson's thinking resembles that of the Greek physicists Socrates criticized i... |
1016405_3 | A Fatal Shift in Cancer's Gender Gap | that the incidence of lung cancer is rising nine times faster in women than in men -- an increase of 4.6 percent for women compared with 0.5 percent for men each year between 1973 and 1991. Death rate figures are similar. Dr. Dresler predicted that within a decade the number of lung cancer cases in women and men will b... |
1016499_3 | TESTS BRING A SHARP OUTCRY | the tests during his year in office, said: ''It was always known that India had the capability to do this. The tests only confirm what was always known.'' But the outcry from outside India was almost universal, with dozens of governments expressing anger that India had broken an informal moratorium on nuclear testing t... |
1016406_0 | Engineers Plan to Send a River Flowing Back to Nature | FOR nearly four decades, levees lining 23 miles of the Snake River here have held high spring runoff from the Teton Mountains in check, allowing lavish homes to blossom amid cottonwood forests in the river's flood plain. But the 15-foot-high levees, serpentine piles of rock originally put together by the Army Corps of ... |
1013815_0 | Film in Review | 'The Ugly' Directed by Scott Reynolds Not rated; 92 minutes Scott Reynolds's wildly pretentious slasher film ''The Ugly'' has more scenes of a straight razor being drawn across a woman's throat than any movie in recent memory. But because the film views the murders through the paranoid eyes of the serial killer who com... |
1021150_2 | The World: Weathering the Storm; The Southeast Asians Did Some Things Right | Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore had at least twice -- in some cases 60 times -- as much income per capita. Led by Thailand, several Southeast Asian nations have also cut birth rates substantially by making safe family-planning methods readily available to most ordinary people. James H. Nolt... |
1021200_3 | Upgraded Drug Traffic Flourishes on Old Route | to state-of-the-art navigation systems that pinpoint a meeting place. The boats themselves are faster than ever, outfitted with three and four outboard engines for extra horsepower and customized to carry up to 2,200 pounds of cocaine for delivery to Bahamian Islands like Bimini and ultimately ports and marinas along F... |
1021108_2 | The Salsa Is Hot, but What About the Stock? | bag, because they were made hot that morning,'' said Michael C. Yeager of Paradigm Capital Corporation, a private hedge fund in Fort Worth that invested in Authentic. As a group, Mexican-Americans also tend to prefer foods that emphasize spices like cilantro and coriander, and heat. The power of peppers is measured in ... |
1020833_3 | When Britain Really Ruled the Waves | example, some of the material used to demonstrate the emergence of a ''sophisticated system of management'' in the Elizabethan Navy. To begin with, during the 1590's the Lord Admiral of England, Charles Howard of Effingham, reinforced his control of the fleet by placing his relatives in many key positions: his brother-... |
1021146_3 | The World; It's a Test, Not a Weapon. But That's Awfully Close. | it tested its first longer-range missile just last month, a test that India cited as provocation when it conducted its nuclear tests. Pakistan's missile is said to have a range of 900 miles, which would bring most of India's major cities within striking distance. Although built with North Korean help, Pakistan named it... |
1020837_0 | Travel | ''IN truth,'' Stephen Minta protests, ''I've never wanted to follow in anyone's footsteps.'' As a boy, when he sang the carol about Good King Wenceslas, Minta focused on the role of the King's page, summoned outdoors at night to accompany his liege ''through the rude wind's wild lament'' -- ''In his master's steps he t... |
1021188_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Pakistan, Spurning Critics, Holds More Nuclear Tests Pakistan said it exploded another nuclear test device, spurning worldwide criticism and calls for restraint after its tests two days ago. But the Government also said that Pakistan was ready to ''talk peace'' with India and that ''it is not our pur... |
1020859_2 | Assisi Restores Churches And, It Hopes, Popularity | Tuscany. ''I know that Siena, San Gimignano are doing a brisk business,'' said Lucio Trapelli, direcor of the four-star Subasio Hotel, perched on Assisi's sloping hillside. ''There is a discreet flux of tourists on the streets, but they aren't staying here. They come in the morning and leave in the afternoon.'' But thi... |
1014211_2 | Building Boats, Building Waterway Travel | indicator of the importance of its maritime tradition, which plays a central role in the history of Southeastern New England, says William N. Peterson, senior curator of the Mystic Seaport. From early Colonial times until the War of 1812, the most important maritime commerce was the West Indies trade. Agricultural prod... |
1014181_5 | Q&A: Jayne Mayer; Distributing Grants to Nonprofit Groups | developmentally challenged kids the language skills they need to be mainstreamed into regular elementary schools. We find that, if we can get these kids before they start kindergarten and work with them, they can usually be integrated into the mainstream school system. We've done similar work with Down syndrome kids, a... |
1014427_0 | Selling Peace Proves Difficult For Already Peaceful Dublin | At first glance, the agreement aimed at ending three decades of street warfare and other violence in Northern Ireland seems like a political winner here in the Republic of Ireland. In contrast to the North, where it is the subject of relentless and often vitriolic debate, in Ireland the accord has the support of every ... |
1014185_2 | More Pupils Taking Prescribed Drugs To Relieve Distress | child psychiatrist and assistant chairman for Training and Clinical Services in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital. ''Of the almost one in five children under 18 who meet the criteria for a psychiatric disorder, disruptive behaviors -- attention deficit, opposition defici... |
1014069_4 | A Master From Germany | belief in the world-historical importance of his own work. In the latter mood, he hoped that he himself would complete the stanza of Being's poem that Plato had begun -- that he would utter a word that would come, as Arendt said both Plato's and Heidegger's did, ''from the primordial.'' When Hitler came along, the prop... |
1014481_0 | April 26-May 2; Reducing Multiple Births | High-tech reproductive medicine has brought thousands of babies into the world, but at costs and health risks unappreciated by many participants when they first sought help. An influential panel of the New York State Health Department urged sweeping regulatory changes aimed at improving the health of the babies by redu... |
1014406_0 | Ellis Island's Other Side | Since 1954, when Ellis Island was closed, its south side has lain untouched and neglected. The buildings have fallen into disrepair, including a hospital and confinement wards for immigrants who were too sick to pass directly through the main entrance on the north side. Water percolates through roofs and along walls. C... |
1014365_1 | Ideas & Trends: Chaos Theory; Unlearning the Lessons of Econ 101 | -- at least for long. But so far in the 1990's, unemployment and inflation have not only been marching in the same direction -- south -- but they are now at their lowest levels in a generation. After seven years of economic expansion, unemployment dropped below 5 percent last fall for the first time since the early 70'... |
1015619_2 | TOUGHER LABELING FOR ORGANIC FOOD | companies. They alerted their customers, and the customers rejected the proposed rules.'' The rules were intended to carry out a 1990 law, the Organic Foods Production Act. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, a co-author of the law, said the Agriculture Department had ''fumbled badly'' on the first try in is... |
1020281_3 | Caruaru Journal; In Brazil, Despair Once Again Feeds on a Drought | organized its first looting. In addition, under Brazilian law, people are permitted to steal food if they find themselves ''in a state of necessity.'' Church officials, who publicly criticized the Government's neglect and supported the looters, warn that the misery here will only deepen. Many subsistence farmers are ra... |
1020338_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-14 Drastic Action in Russia To Stabilize Its Markets As its financial markets teetered on the brink of collapse, Russia attempted to preserve the value of its currency and stem the exodus of foreign investors. In order to address the economic crisis, Moscow tripled interest rates, announced that it wou... |
1018856_0 | Defense Dept. to Spend Millions to Bolster Germ-Warfare Defense | The Defense Department decided yesterday to spend $50 million to create biological response units in the National Guards of 10 of the most populous states, including New York, as President Clinton prepares to unveil several actions to increase the nation's defenses against germ attacks, Government officials said. The s... |
1018856_1 | Defense Dept. to Spend Millions to Bolster Germ-Warfare Defense | equipment, drugs and vaccines. They also commit the Government to spending more money on research and development to strengthen the nation's public health system so it can respond to germ terrorism and other such emergencies. The White House has asked Government agencies to produce within two weeks estimates of how muc... |
1018844_0 | Setting the Sextant Aside | In a 1942 handbook for merchant seamen called ''How to Abandon Ship,'' there is a terse chapter on navigation. ''If your lifeboat is without a navigator,'' it begins, ''these directions are for you.'' Nautical history is full of stories about small boats guided across the oceans by experienced celestial navigators, oft... |
1018883_1 | Drug for Advanced Breast Cancer Is Also Found Effective in Early Treatment | from it. All of the women in the study received standard chemotherapy, but some received Taxol as well, and the rest, the control group, did not. Of the women who received Taxol, 97 percent were alive after 18 months and 90 percent of them were free of disease. By contrast, 95 percent of the group that had received onl... |
1018868_5 | For Mo Mowlam, at Least, Yes for a Job Well Done | it to her advantage, shaming the tabloid editors and winning converts with her folksy response. Shortly afterward she brought an appreciative gasp from a group of London-based American correspondents when during a briefing about a coming trip to Washington she complained that the wig was hot and itchy and simply took i... |
1016080_0 | Hormone Replacement Therapy | To Sunday Styles: Gloria Steinem suggests (''Bosom Foes Together Again,'' May 3) that hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women denies them the relief of no longer being obsessed with sex or burdened with other miseries like falling in love. I am a feminist, and I am also a medical student who is concerned a... |
1015868_0 | Counseling Sessions At High School Level | A COLLABORATION between the White Plains School District and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center's Westchester division has resulted in a new program for secondary school students 12 through 21, who are having difficulty in school because of emotional or psychiatric problems. The program, which can serve up to... |
1016042_4 | Feeling a Bit Like a Laboratory Mouse? | of gene-splicing. ''There is an engine now, which is genomics,'' said Mr. Casdin, the New York fund manager. Moreover, the big pharmaceutical companies are now treating the smaller biotechnology companies as their research partners and investing in them. And the success rate may be increasing. Kurt von Emster, manager ... |
1016114_0 | Along the Atlantic Coast, A New Schedule for Summer | The changing national weather patterns caused by El Nino are having an unexpected effect along the Atlantic Coast, warming the ocean just enough to bring an early start to the swimming season and attracting fish closer to shore so that fishermen should improve their luck. But scientists are also warning that the early ... |
1015738_0 | Thugs in Bassinets | GHOSTS FROM THE NURSERY Tracing the Roots of Violence. By Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley. 364 pp. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. $25. In the past decade, two notable changes have taken place in two distinct sectors of American society. One has occurred in the laboratories of scientists who study the deve... |
1017579_4 | Q&A/Bishop Peter Rosazza; A Mission in the Archdiocese of Hartford | million people have died as a result. UNESCO says that every month 4,500 children die of malnutrition. There's no potable water outside of Baghdad. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit went over to Baghdad with a group and they talked to Church leaders. There is a sizable Catholic community there too, the Caldeans. They'... |
1017755_2 | Curious Women Are Seeing if Viagra Works Wonders for Them | '' A 42-year-old nurse in New Jersey, who like most women in this article refused to be quoted except on condition of anonymity, said she tried Viagra for the first time last weekend. She wanted to be able to discuss the drug's effects with patients; she also thought it might help with the fact that she is reluctant to... |
1017846_0 | Nuclear Programs Built on Deceit and Fear | India and Pakistan have been working to build a bomb for decades. Until this week, their nuclear programs were powerful symbols of modernity for two poor nations. They are not mere symbols anymore. Today, with India having tested its bomb and Pakistan openly threatening to conduct nuclear tests, there are real weapons ... |
1017810_1 | Voting on Peace in Northern Ireland | excise the intolerance and division that have too long characterized Northern Ireland's politics. The plan carves out common ground acceptable to pro-British Unionists, who are mainly Protestants, and the mainly Catholic nationalists who want to unite the region with Ireland. It would keep Northern Ireland in Britain a... |
1017586_0 | Taking the Helm Is Not All Plain Sailing | SAILORS are a breed apart. They are able, it seems, to deal with whatever comes up -- a sudden gust, a tangled rudder, a twisted halyard, even an improperly welded thingamabob that breaks in a gale, sending the sail down the mast. All of them are Mr. Fixits. I even know a 10-year-old sailor who can do almost anything. ... |
1017506_3 | Plastic Gaining on Traveler's Checks | hazards, and in a couple of cases, I have been glad that I had traveler's checks as backup. Ms. Handwerk said a recent American Express survey of 1,950 travelers -- 150 in 13 countries -- found that 1 in 9 had trouble using an A.T.M. Performance is certainly affected by how much traffic a machine gets: Those in isolate... |
1019751_3 | U.S. May Have Helped India Hide Its Nuclear Activity | conventional wisdom went, it would not provoke a crisis by testing a nuclear weapon. And in classified reports this year, analysts at the C.I.A., the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency even discounted the new Indian Government's vow to go nuclear. So the White House did not order a new broad intellige... |
1019752_1 | Memorial Day Menace | in New York and New Jersey in recent years, the National Transportation Safety Board has undertaken a study of the hazards. Preliminary findings released last week showed that more than 2,500 known accidents involving PWC's occurred in 1997, causing 84 deaths, up from only 26 in 1994. Most of the victims are the driver... |
1019755_4 | Wary Mood in Ulster After Vote: Trials Still Ahead | the issue of disarmament of the I.R.A. and Protestant paramilitary groups. For years, it was put forward as a condition for starting talks, and for that reason parties like Sinn Fein could not gain entry to negotiations. Under Prime Minister Tony Blair, disarmament, or ''decommissioning'' as it is called, was assigned ... |
1014622_2 | Gore, in Mideast, Prods Sides Before Talks | Mr. Arafat: ''You've got to make an effort.'' Mr. Gore has been in the Middle East on a journey timed to coincide with Israel's 50th birthday. He was flying back to Washington tonight, and his aides have been careful to say that he was not trying to insert himself into the tense and complicated relationship between Isr... |
1014667_0 | Infertility Panel Missed on Insurance | To the Editor: Your April 29 front-page article reports that the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law has expressed concern about the physical well-being of children born through new fertility technologies. But the panel does not take into account the psychological needs of these children. While the panel gran... |
1014637_0 | Chocoholics Take Note: Beloved Bean in Peril | An unusual alliance of manufacturers and environmental groups has formed to try to prevent what for many people around the world would be a disaster of gigantic proportions: a shortage of chocolate. For while the world's appetite for chocolate grows more voracious each year, cocoa farms around the globe are failing, un... |
1018628_4 | Drama Off the High Seas; Lawsuit Rages Over a Decaying, and Historic, Tugboat | Beach, Ore., for ownership of the Mary D. Hume, a century-old Arctic whaler that he claims had been given to him by the society. Nearly bankrupted by the cost of litigation, the organization finally gave Mr. Dluhos the boat. A decade later, however, the Mary D. Hume remains partly submerged a few yards off the town's p... |
1018627_1 | Memo From Belfast; Gerry Adams Blunders, and Peace Drive Stumbles | Ireland were obsessing about marauding prisoners taking over Northern Ireland and terrorists in black masks holding high Government positions. Mr. Adams's unionist partners were livid -- some publicly attacked him -- and the accord's opponents gleefully mocked the cocky tableau. They also used it to stoke fears over th... |
1016640_2 | About New York; CUNY Cure That Lacks A Disease | to 1997 accounted for an additional $700 million in taxes. In Yankee-mania money, that's enough for a stadium and a few overpriced hot dogs. The report also said that graduates who would not have qualified for college before open admissions earned $67 million more in one year during the 1980's than they would have with... |
1016691_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-15 U.S. to Impose Sanctions On India for Nuclear Tests President Clinton decided to impose economic sanctions on India's Government for detonating three underground nuclear explosions, senior Administration officials said. A1 The United States' inability to foresee India's nuclear tests was a failure o... |
1016691_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | would step down. Public protests have been growing over the activities of kidnapping gangs and drug traffickers. A10 NATIONAL A16-21 Senate Restores Food Aid To Legal Immigrants The Senate voted to restore food stamps to a quarter of a million legal immigrants and refugees, retreating from some of the provisions of the... |
1016671_3 | North Korea Says It Will Unseal Reactor | site, although not the country. Two hundred of the reactor's 8,000 rods have not yet been prepared, he said. ''We are keeping up our progress in implementing the nuclear freeze agreement, but the U.S. is behind,'' Mr. Kim told Mr. Harrison, who spoke with reporters in Beijing en route back to the United States. ''So we... |
1016695_2 | A Nuclear Threat From India | reconsider. India might still clear the way for a useful visit if it stopped testing and signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. It could justify such a step by citing China and France, which tested nuclear weapons a few years ago, provoking an international outcry, and then declared they would sign the treaty. It wa... |
1016736_1 | India Glows With Pride As Outrage Rises Abroad | to eliminate nuclear weapons and to ban computer-simulated tests -- conditions already rejected by the United States and other established nuclear powers. Endorsement of the tests came from most of India's most influential newspapers, from leading opposition politicians, from student groups, and even from Tushar Gandhi... |
1016728_2 | CLINTON TO IMPOSE PENALTIES ON INDIA OVER ATOMIC TESTS | Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, did not address the proposals but simply offered an unrepentant justification for the tests. Although Pakistan has long been India's chief rival, Mr. Vajpayee cited its fears of China, stemming from border disputes, as well as China's support to Pakistan. ''Although our relations w... |
1018214_2 | Genetically Altered Virus Kills Some Cancer Cells in Tests | it are encouraged so far. ''I have treated people for 25 years and have never seen anything quite like this before,'' said Dr. James Arseneau, a medical oncologist at the Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany. Dr. Arseneau began using Onyx-015, as the genetically engineered virus is called, in January in treatment p... |
1018287_0 | Silent Night Therapy | PEOPLE with severe snoring problems sleep better and feel more rested after radio wave energy is used to shrink their soft palate tissue, a doctor has reported. In the treatments, a doctor inserts a probe into the back of the roof of the mouth and aims energy into the palate. That generates molecular action -- as in a ... |
1018216_1 | To Clear Air With Europe, U.S. Waives Some Sanctions | destruction and continues to sponsor terrorist acts.'' Marc Thiessen, a spokesman for Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, said: ''The Europeans offered the Administration absolutely nothing in exchange for this waiver. This sends a signal to Iran that the United States is not serious about isolating thei... |
1016871_1 | Japan Freezes Some Grants; Other Nations Seem Doubtful | at a time when many countries have condemned the three nuclear tests conducted on Monday. He said he would call upon the Group of Seven leading industrial nations meeting in England this weekend to condemn India for the tests. The Japanese Government said it would consider halting part of its lending program, but that ... |
1016882_0 | Next-Door Neighbor Demands That World Powers Shun India | Pakistani leaders demanded today that the United States and other world powers act decisively to isolate India after its five nuclear tests this week. They strongly hinted that the strength of the world's response would shape their decision on whether to detonate nuclear bombs of their own. ''The invoking of mandatory ... |
1016817_2 | A Family Links Up, But United We Fall | connected directly to the Internet. Because of these technical barriers, the ownership of mailing lists has largely been limited to big corporations and academic institutions. For someone running a Windows-based PC or a Macintosh connected by a modem to the Net, running a list has been a difficult task. Shareware versi... |
1016934_2 | Clinton Calls Tests a 'Terrible Mistake' And Announces Sanctions Against India | the Indian tests ''clearly create a dangerous new instability in their region.'' He said that in a telephone conversation this morning he had urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan not to respond to India with tests of its own. But although the Administration continues to press Pakistan not to act, officials sai... |
1016856_2 | Belfast Journal; 'Silly Cows' of Ulster Take the Bull by the Horns | two were widely credited with bringing a much-needed dose of practical consensus-building to the fractious talks, which ended with a peace agreement on Good Friday. On May 22, people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will vote on whether to accept the agreement, and the Women's Coalition is campaigning hard fo... |
1016858_0 | Kremlin Soft-Pedals Its Rebuke to India, and Opposes Sanctions | Russia today reaffirmed its refusal to join other countries in punishing India for resuming nuclear tests, and has so far failed to register an especially strong diplomatic protest. President Boris N. Yeltsin still plans to visit India later this year. And some top officials at Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy want t... |
1016898_0 | Pakistan Looks Ready to Test Its Own Bomb | Pakistan is preparing for an underground nuclear test that could take place as early as Sunday, American officials said today, citing clear signs from spy satellites, foreign agents and Pakistan's political leaders. Diplomatic, military and intelligence officials said Pakistan could test a nuclear warhead sometime next... |
1016923_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-15 India Conducts More Tests Despite Sanctions Threat The Indian Government carried out two more underground nuclear tests to add to the three blasts it conducted on Monday. The Government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee approved the new tests knowing that the United States, Japan and other coun... |
1019956_0 | SOWING DEATH: A special report.; How Japan Germ Terror Alerted World | In repeated germ attacks in the early 1990's, an obscure Japanese cult tried to kill millions of people throughout Tokyo and, a cultist has now testified, at nearby American bases where thousands of service people and their families live. The biological strikes were not detected at the time, and their significance has ... |
1019872_0 | Genetic Pawprints Are Leading Game Wardens to the Poachers | THERE was not much of a crime scene left by the time the game warden arrived -- just some blood and hair in the dirt of a windswept patch of Wyoming range. But through the use of DNA tests, the evidence may be enough to link an accused poacher to the site. Wildlife officials are increasingly turning to the tools of hum... |
1019944_0 | Editorial Observer; Blocking Promising Students From City University | California's decision to outlaw the use of race in public college admissions has barred most black and Latino students from the elite campuses and raised the specter of a whitening professional class in a steadily browning state. Politicians elsewhere have recognized the potential for harm and have backed away from pro... |
1019931_5 | NEWS SUMMARY | and they have filed or announced plans to file multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the city. Those warrants were based largely, or solely, on the word of confidential informers. A1 Fiscal Warning for New York Wall Street's boom continues to feed the budget surplus in New York City but experts say City Hall remains dan... |
1019879_4 | Good News From the Front in the War Against Cancer | a news release issued at the meeting, involved work by scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles. The university said that its scientists had helped to develop an experimental drug, Herceptin, for a particular type of cancer that involves 30 percent of breast cancers. The F.D.A. has not approved Hercept... |
1015185_1 | Peacetime Police for Ulster | Catholics as an enemy oppressor. The force requires profound change if it is to win the trust of all Northern Ireland's citizens. Most Catholics will not join the R.U.C., often because of pressure from their own community. As a result, the force is 93 percent Protestant, which reinforces its insensitivity to the Cathol... |
1015157_3 | After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing | says. ''Warren Beatty is onto something.'' His wife loved it, too, which convinces him that it is a great film, because they often disagree about movies. ''She can find a reason to enjoy a movie that amuses her or entertains her,'' he says. ''She doesn't get all in high dudgeon if people are not engaging their full est... |
1015190_0 | Irish Island Unites, in Commerce, Even Before an Accord | While Northern Ireland's politicians have been taking forced first steps to bring the two parts of the Irish island closer together, the province's business people have been virtually razing the long-disputed border. Members of the predominantly Protestant commercial establishment have set aside the sectarian tensions ... |
1015147_1 | The American Way of Spam | make a daily delivery of about a half-million E-mail promotions. ''I'll never work for a big company again. The Internet is an opportunity for people like us. That's why the big companies are nervous.'' Joe Melle, 31, who runs his part of the operation from Norristown, Pa., said, ''We're just trying to put food on the ... |
1057319_5 | Global Thermometer Imperiled by Dispute | were considered especially sensitive to the pitch of the ATOC sound, which has a rumbling frequency of 75 hertz (cycles per second). Humpback whales communicate using sounds that low, but dolphins and many other animals can hear only higher-pitch sounds. Dr. Frankel and his colleagues reported the results of their inve... |
1054190_0 | U.N. Votes, 157-2, in Referendum to End U.S. Embargo of Cuba | In a General Assembly vote a record 157 countries today favored an end to the United States economic embargo of Cuba. Only the United States and Israel objected. Twelve countries abstained. Although the resolution is not binding, it reflected what experts described as ''astonishing unanimity'' by many of America's alli... |
1054179_1 | Group's Letter To Cardinals Offers Advice On Next Pope | on the Vatican, the Rev. Thomas Reese, who is editor of the Jesuit magazine America, said that in the past some Catholics, either as individuals or in small groups, tried to influence the cardinals during papal elections. But for the most part, these tended to be modest efforts, like letters or petitions signed by a fe... |
1051907_0 | Legal Journal; Scandal Is Grist for Law School Grind | The students' pens in the classroom at the University of Maryland School of Law were poised the way law students' pens often are. The topic of the lecturer, Alan I. Baron, seemed dry enough to be the usual law school fare: compliance with subpoenas seeking documents. But the point of the lesson was not from the usual s... |
1051887_6 | Ion Propulsion of Science Fiction Comes to Life on New Spacecraft | months in an extended mission when extra energy is not needed as the spacecraft shapes its orbit around the Sun. To provide the electrical power to run the engine, Deep Space 1 will use a new type of solar power array never before flown in space that concentrates and focuses sunlight onto 3,600 electricity-producing so... |
1050580_0 | Clinton Putting Off Visits to India and Pakistan | The White House said today that President Clinton had put off a visit to India and Pakistan, whose tests of nuclear devices in May set off alarm around the world. ''The President has decided to postpone his visit to India and Pakistan, which had been under review, which also means he will not be making a separate visit... |
1050700_0 | Some Stanford Students Go Deeper Into Cyberspace | Students entering the electrical engineering master's degree program at Stanford University last week may hold some future class reunion in an Internet chat room. That would seem about right, given that some of the students will take all their classes, turn in all their homework and hold all class discussions on line. ... |
1050685_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-19 Security Council to Meet On Massacres in Kosovo The United Nations Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for today to consider how to respond to massacres of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces in Kosovo. Diplomats condemned the attacks, as NATO completed planning for possible air strikes. ... |
1055042_2 | A Passport to Dreams | the grand fashion gesture in, for instance, the kimono coat. And Mme. Gres perfected the drapes and cascades of Greek-like gowns. Mr. Lagerfeld, for his part, is an unapologetic champion of Coco Chanel, who ushered in to dressing an ease and sports influence. But Mr. Lagerfeld is much more a forward thinker than Mr. Ga... |
1054858_1 | Landlubber Sets Sail On Sound | Articles of War,'' which recommended flogging or death for the slightest infringement of discipline. In 1998, the rules were far less terrifying. We must not sit down, block the gangways, or get under the feet of the regular crew. We must obey orders, haul on ropes and let go when told. We must not fall overboard and m... |
1055197_0 | Nobelist Put Focus On Population, Too | To the Editor: Re your Oct. 15 Topics item ''Nobel Oblige'' commending the Nobel economics committee for its selection of Amartya Sen as the recipient of this year's prize: It is said that economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Professor Sen's economics is rooted in ethics and true values. On... |
1054890_0 | A Grand River Widens Its Circle of Friends | THE 410-mile Connecticut River was recently designated an American Heritage River under a Clinton Administration initiative. The designation should give a boost to as many as 29 projects in natural resource and environmental protection as well as in economic revitalization, historic and cultural preservation. The river... |
1055125_0 | Peace Laurels Refresh Ulster Protestant's Optimism on Progress | One day after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, David Trimble, the most powerful Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, said today that he was distinctly optimistic about prospects for advancing the peace effort in this predominantly Protestant British province. Mr. Trimble, who is First Minister of the new Northern Irelan... |
1055072_1 | A Nobel for Peace-in-Progress | together they were justly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. But peace is by no means assured, and Mr. Trimble is right to hope the prize is not premature. The Nobel committee pointedly and wrongly omitted Gerry Adams, perhaps because of his tolerance for terrorism over the years. But he had the courage and visio... |
1055472_2 | Two Satellites to Study Sun During Discovery Mission | out of control because of ground control errors and the failure to adequately monitor the spacecraft. The Spartan, being carried by Discovery, is a 3,000-pound, battery-powered satellite that has been flown on four previous shuttle missions. The satellite, which is deployed from the shuttle's cargo bay by an astronaut ... |
1055448_3 | The Pill at 40: Renewed, Improved and in Its Prime | from the symptoms that may accompany a rocky transition to menopause. Because the early versions of the pill were most dangerous in older women, they were generally never used after age 35. In women who do not smoke, however, the new versions are often prescribed through age 50 and even beyond. ''There are several enco... |
1055618_3 | The Pill at 40: Renewed, Improved and in Its Prime | from the symptoms that may accompany a rocky transition to menopause. Because the early versions of the pill were most dangerous in older women, they were generally never used after age 35. In women who do not smoke, however, the new versions are often prescribed through age 50 and even beyond. ''There are several enco... |
1056471_1 | World Briefing | Minister, Bertie Ahern, will take time out of a European summit meeting in Austria this weekend to discuss ways to keep Northern Ireland's peace deal on track. The accord in April set a two-year deadline for completing the disarmament of paramilitary groups. (Reuters) GERMANY: SUSPECTED TERRORIST -- The United States h... |
1056403_3 | Istanbul Journal; Fearless Turks' Big Fear? Oil Tankers | the edge of Asia. Jason and his Argonauts are said to have passed through the Bosporus in pursuit of the legendary golden fleece. The Byzantine and Ottoman empires were governed from its shores. Four hundred years ago a French historian called it the ''strait that surpasses all straits, because with one key it opens an... |
1054411_13 | John Paul's Words: '2 Modes of Knowledge Lead to Truth in All Its Fullness' | immense expansion of humanity's technical capability demands a renewed and sharpened sense of ultimate values. If this technology is not ordered to something greater than a merely utilitarian end, then it could soon prove inhuman and even become potential destroyer of the human race. The word of God reveals the final d... |
1054484_2 | Pope Calls on World to Reunite Faith and Reason | acknowledgment of God. John Paul, who taught moral philosophy at the University of Lublin in Poland and still meets regularly with scholars to debate ideas, has long railed against the ''crisis of rationalism'' in today's culture. He has deplored the advances of science and technology unbound by ethics, and he has also... |
1052318_3 | Cyberagencies Match Families With Modern Mary Poppinses | of 300 readers in Nanny News, published by Apple Pie for nannies and their employers. Salaries in the New York metropolitan area and in other major cities can reach $800 to $1,000 weekly. Salaries and job standards are well advertised on the more sophisticated sites, which attract college graduates who, like Ms. Johnso... |
1052453_0 | Potential of the Internet | To the Editor: These days we read daily that the Internet is the most powerful educational tool the world has ever seen. Yet, the uses on which most people have focused are its massive storage capability and its role as a research tool. These uses will not transform education. To take advantage of its power, the Intern... |
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