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1052355_1 | Far Becomes Much Nearer As Web Touches an Island | navigator who discovered the island in 1506 and named it after himself, did not stop there. While Tristan does have a library, a weekly dance, a pub, a cafe, a cricket field and a golf course that shares space with grazing cows, it can still get a little lonely on this very far-flung patch of the British Empire. ''The ... |
1057995_1 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; In a Test, the Crashed Car Calls 911 | injuries or exposure before anyone finds them. In a federally sponsored experiment, Mr. Buffum's car was one of about 600 equipped with a cellular phone and a receiver for the global positioning system. Such receivers are now common in car navigation systems. The phone and the G.P.S. receiver -- which fixes its locatio... |
1058095_3 | Preventive Use of Tamoxifen Is Allowed | her doctor about her breast-cancer risk and the use of tamoxifen. Ms. Carver gave these examples of how the risk-assessment system works: *A 45-year-old woman, had her first menstrual period at the age of 12 and her first child at 38. Her mother died of breast cancer, and her sister is being treated for the disease. Th... |
1058079_1 | ADULT BRAIN CELLS SAID TO REPRODUCE | that much more research is needed to learn whether cell creation can be put to work. But, he said, ''the new research should prove interesting.'' The new growth was discovered in the hippocampus, a center of learning and memory in the brain. Dr. Bruce S. McEwen, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University in New York, c... |
1053093_3 | Wrecked Cars and an Epiphany | the chaotic heap of junk I had expected, this breaker's yard was a scene of ordered chaos -- 15 acres of engines, doors, seats, transmissions and electrical parts, all labeled and arranged on indoor and outdoor racks. Grease-stained men (this seems to be the last men-only job on the planet) were rushing around with ham... |
1053344_1 | Costly Machines to Check Airline Bags Mostly Idle, Report Says | through each machine was rising sharply as airlines gained experience. Mr. Flynn and airline representatives said that part of the problem was that the computerized system for choosing which passengers' bags get scanned was still developing, and would not be fully implemented until the end of the year. ''We haven't iro... |
1052972_1 | The March of Time | 1930's, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it fostered a blinkered isolationism that allowed Germany and Japan to fan the flames of world war. The United States next nurtured a muscle-flexing, policemanlike mentality that led to repeated showdowns with nations of differing political ideologies, mainly the Soviet Union an... |
1053106_0 | Company Introduces Snack Made of Pasta | AN unusual little rotini-shaped snack food with a definite crunch has recently joined the potato chip on supermarket shelves in New England and Westchester County. They are Pastos, baked pasta snacks, and they are actually pasta. ''Its best feature is its crunchy taste,'' said Ronald Anderson, chairman and founder of R... |
1057883_0 | Women on the Web | To the Editor: As a new member of Estrolist, I was throughly disheartened by the one-sided view of the network as ''raunchy and sex-obsessed'' (''Women Want It All, and It's All on Line,'' Oct. 22). Estronet provides intellectual conversation on almost every topic, from Afghanistan to problems in universities. JAMILLE ... |
1057873_0 | PCS Antenna Can Avoid Thick Skulls | PCS cellular telephone transmissions would be much clearer if not for one thing: the cellular telephone user's cranium. A Silicon Valley company, Range Star International, contends that the signals coming from PCS phones -- the latest generation of digital wireless phones -- radiate through 360 degrees, which means tha... |
1057881_0 | Women on the Web | To the Editor: In (''Women Want It All, and It's All on Line,'' Oct. 22), Circuits missed the boat in describing the network that I helped found, Estronet (www.estronet.com). I was part of a group that founded the on-line magazine Maxi (www.maximag.com) -- the original and first member of Estronet -- to provide content... |
1057835_2 | Church Debate Over Voter Guides | lobbying group in Washington.'' No church has ever lost its tax-exempt status for distributing coalition voter guides. The coalition itself, however, has been sued by the Federal Election Commission. The lawsuit contends that in previous elections the coalition coordinated the use of its voter guides, telephone banks a... |
1057856_1 | Prayer Vigil Set for Eve Of Election | round of television advertisements shown, the Rev. James A. Forbes Jr., senior minister of Riverside Church, wants voters to turn to prayer -- and to keep at it all night. ''The nation is facing a serious spiritual crisis of hopelessness, insecurity, a retreat from moral and political responsibility, so we are inviting... |
1057750_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR UP 2.8 PERCENT. Prices rose as concern ebbed that Brazilian growers would flood the market. The March contract rose 0.21 cent, to 7.76 cents a pound. |
1053687_1 | What Do Blue Jays Like to Eat? Ask a Virtual Moth | One popular hypothesis was that the variation results when predators focus on hunting down the most common type until it becomes rare and then switch to hunt whatever has become the common type in its place. By doing so, they would prevent any one color type from being hunted into oblivion. But the hypothesis has been ... |
1055324_2 | Most Chileans React Moderately to Arrest | General Pinochet. Only one candidate in next year's presidential election expressed support for the Spanish and British actions, Gladys Marin of the Communist Party. ''I couldn't be more happy,'' she told local television. ''This Government has been unwilling to bring this genocidal criminal to justice over the last ei... |
1055692_4 | A Look Ahead: Nylon in the Engine, Plastic for the Body | really want to take cost out, let's redesign to free up some real estate under the vehicle for an all-aluminum shaft.'' The aluminum design is now standard. Sometimes new materials become available for use in automobiles because of an advance in another field. That happened with pistons, which lucky drivers never see. ... |
1055711_5 | A Passion for Cars -- Just Don't Make Her Drive Them | a sequence of cars. But do we actually have to drive them? I would argue that there is no natural paradox here, that a great problem in this country is our tendency to imagine that our love of automobiles makes us love driving, a really exasperating, time-wasting and tiring activity that is ruining our society. Convers... |
1055807_3 | World Briefing | to get early release under the region's peace agreement struck last April. The women, Anna Corry and Pat McCool, had served 15 years for involvement in a discotheque bombing in the town of Ballykelly that killed 11 off-duty British soldiers and 6 civilians in December 1982. (Reuters) ASIA -- CHINA: DEADLINE WITH HANOI ... |
1052195_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 U.S. Intensifies Threat To Use Force Over Kosovo The Clinton Administration intensified its threat to use force against Yugoslav military forces as a flurry of diplomacy tried both to persuade President Slobodan Milosevic to end his crackdown in Kosovo and to maintain NATO unity behind the use of fo... |
1052181_3 | France Detects Iraqi Nerve Gas, Experts Assert | it from rebuilding its weapons programs. It was the first American report, in June, that revealed the presence of components found in decomposed VX in missile warheads destroyed by Iraq and dug up in April by United Nations weapons inspectors. That report led to Iraqi demands for laboratory studies outside the United S... |
1057153_3 | Leverage and Folk Memory Keep I.R.A. Armed | for disarmament in the Belfast agreement. Meanwhile, the officials and experts provided an ominous picture of the I.R.A.'s military power. Since 1969, when the sectarian violence erupted in the province, the I.R.A. has killed more than half of the 3,200 victims of the conflict. They have lost about 300 guerrillas. Thei... |
1057158_5 | Trying to Resurrect A Palace of Junk; City Longs for Folk Art of Depression That It Tore Down Long Ago | and wanted to generate headlines. Mr. Kirchner said he would drive past the weedy clearing where the Palace once stood and stop to meditate on the genuine chutzpah of Mr. Daynor's ambition. Alone in his car, he said, he would think to himself, ''Now here's a guy who had to build something with his own bare hands.'' But... |
1057164_1 | Voting in Basque Region Helps Moderates, and Peace | a 6,000 member regional police force. The governing Popular Party won the second highest vote total in the Basque elections and 16 seats. Rosa Diez, a Socialist leader, said election results showed that the Basques ''don't want adventures but a stable framework.'' Each of the competing parties tried to present itself a... |
1053928_0 | No Need for World Rate Cut, European Bank Chief Says | Despite growing anxiety that global financial problems might soon affect Europe, the president of the new European Central Bank rejected demands today to relax monetary policy in an effort to spur economic growth. In a toughly worded message aimed in part at European political leaders, the central bank said there was n... |
1053976_0 | Church Urged To Do More For Women In Leadership | A committee of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops declared yesterday that the church authorities ought to do more to promote qualified women to positions of lay leadership in the church, thereby increasing the ranks of those who serve in such jobs as hospital administrators, school superintendents and even chancellors... |
1052856_0 | Bill to Punish Nations Limiting Religious Beliefs Passes Senate | The Senate today unanimously approved a compromise bill that would require the Government to deal with countries that persecute citizens for religious beliefs by using measures ranging from the mildest private rebuke to tough economic sanctions. The bill, the International Religious Freedom Act, would not force the Pre... |
1057530_5 | Wolfe Turns 'The Bonfire' Upside Down | neck ''a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch.'' And there's Fanon's accuser, Inman Armholster, the sort of ornery ''fat white man who exists only in Georgia.'' But if these characters are thorough stereotypes, Mr. Wolfe's main men (Charlie Croker, Conrad Hensley a... |
1057545_2 | Business Travel; An international arrivals hall at Kennedy will soon be replaced by a temporary structure. | Kong on Dec. 1. Air New Zealand is giving passengers who buy a full-fare first- or business-class ticket from Los Angeles to Sydney, Auckland or London a 3Com Palm III organizer. Travel must begin before Nov. 15. Virgin Group's Virgin Atlantic has opened a 2,200-square-foot lounge for first-class passengers in the sout... |
1057650_0 | Don't Fear the Moose | To the Editor: An Oct. 27 Science Times article, ''Make Way for the Moose, They're Heading South,'' reports that more people are killed by moose than grizzly bears. I have no desire to minimize the danger to man of a 1,200-pound bull moose in rut, but it is important to point out that while there are a million moose in... |
1057589_2 | AIDS Is Slashing Population Of Africa, U.N. Survey Finds | through Africa, experts said, it is changing the demographic profile of the continent, the daily rhythm of life, and the outlook for tens of millions of people. Experts also stress that AIDS is making its way through large countries like India, China and Brazil, where the huge populations result in a faster spread of d... |
1057649_0 | Turn Off Your Phones | To the Editor: Re ''Cell Phones Are Everywhere, but Good Manners May Not Be'' (news article, Oct. 25): In addition to the discomfort they inflict on others, people who cannot disconnect themselves from their businesses inflict an equally sorry violence on themselves. One feels sorry (a little) for these people who have... |
1055978_2 | Clinton Vetoes Measure to Pay $1 Billion in Late U.N. Dues | far larger payment the United States, a founding member of the United Nations, continues to owe the organization $1 billion in the face of harsh criticism from other nations. ''Great nations keep their word,'' Secretary General Kofi Annan said last week in a speech here. Continued delinquency by the United States, Mr. ... |
1055924_0 | On the Edge (and Over It) | ESTRONET.COM THIS hormone-pumped network is not the place to look for thinner thighs in 30 days or a recipe for chocolate cupcakes. Estronet.com is one of a half-dozen or so raunchy sites aimed at the 20-something woman interested in, well, sex. (Last week, the network merged with the Chickclick network, which is orien... |
1051045_2 | Got Cause and Computer? You Can Fight City Hall | council representative, 26 state representatives, 8 state senators and 20 agency officials with specific responsibility for the environment). Then, the resident can compose a message that is automatically sent as E-mail to whichever officials are selected, or as a fax, if the recipient has no E-mail address. It is all ... |
1052597_1 | France Seeks Talks on Iraqi Chemical Tests | Nations to lift sanctions imposed after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. Although French diplomats have denied withholding results, and said they expected that the final French tests would show no traces of VX, today's statement by the French Foreign Ministry neither confirmed nor denied the reports. Instead, a French Foreig... |
1058161_1 | Sidi Saye Journal; The Thirsty Lift a Glass To a River And Qaddafi | lakes, with geysers spewing water into the air from corroded Italian-made iron pipes. And though the Tripoli branch of the project is supposed to carry 660 million gallons of water a day, the amount flowing now is still a relative trickle. Libyan engineers say the current volume is just 106 million gallons, only two-th... |
1051172_2 | Who's Counting | appalling ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Others are more rarely discussed but undoubtedly more important for the United States, like the possible fissuring of Canada because of conflicts over the rights of regional and ethnic populations. And some are simply startling, like the revelation that Romania'... |
1051514_0 | Names of Next of Kin Requested for Flights | Passengers boarding flights to foreign countries or returning to the United States on nonstop flights from foreign countries will now be asked for a name and telephone number for next of kin. The new rule, which was created by a 1990 law but opposed by the Air Transport Association as too expensive to carry out, finall... |
1051326_1 | WORKING | in the top 20 percent of your class, you might enjoy the same marketability as if you graduated in the top 10 percent at a lesser-known school. ''From a name recognition standpoint, we would be more attracted to someone in Columbia, even if the person was not at the top of the class,'' said Diane Ross, the recruitment ... |
1056623_1 | Playing God in the Garden | rapidly changing the American food chain. This year, the fourth year that genetically altered seed has been on the market, some 45 million acres of American farmland have been planted with biotech crops, most of it corn, soybeans, cotton and potatoes that have been engineered to either produce their own pesticides or w... |
1056940_3 | New Technology Turns Useless Agricultural Byproducts Into Fuel for Autos | fuel in tractors that plant, fertilize and harvest the corn, and in petroleum-based fertilizer. But using waste for fuel -- especially waste that might otherwise be burned and in the process dump carbon dioxide back into the air -- could allow production of seven gallons of ethanol from one gallon of oil. And whatever ... |
1056580_1 | University Presses; The Examined Life | and thus he left his interlocutor with an experience of a gap in understanding where once he felt he had something. In short, Socrates had an uncanny gift for bringing others to the brink of anxiety. In the give-and-take of a short exchange, he was able to lead his conversational partners to a recognition that although... |
1056677_1 | Victory In Variety | want to work,'' said Mark Oldman, managing director of Vault Reports, a New York company that provides job seekers with detailed information on internships and employers. It would be unrealistic, he added, for companies to expect college students to know their exact career paths. Besides, your internship choices hardly... |
1056682_2 | Q&A/Isidore Tepler; Making Strides Against Breast Cancer | A. In many situations, the drug is not new, but has been used in a new setting. Tamoxifen has been used in the treatment of breast cancer for 25 to 30 years. It is an estrogen-like compound that in some tissues blocks the effect of estrogen and in other tissues works in a similar way to estrogen. In some tissues, it st... |
1054620_5 | 2 Ulster Peacemakers Win the Nobel Prize | said ''how very pleased'' he was, ''personally and as President, that the Nobel Prize Committee has rewarded the courage and the people of Northern Ireland by giving the Nobel Peace Prize to John Hume and to David Trimble.'' He added ''a special word of thanks'' to Mr. Mitchell, who issued a statement praising Mr. Hume... |
1054570_0 | Catholic Scholars Call Message a Timely Critique | When the Vatican released Pope John Paul II's latest encyclical on Thursday, it published a document by a trained philosopher who explores and amplifies a historic church position that faith and reason cannot be separated. He does so in a style that some Roman Catholic scholars say might even make it a useful text for ... |
1054606_0 | Beliefs | In a decade when frantic and information-sodden people must rely on handy aids like ''Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes'' and ''Dating for Dummies,'' can't someone do the same for the Pope, who at the age of 78 keeps producing long and idea-packed encyclicals? ''Wojtyla in 90 Minutes''? ''John Paul II for Dummies''? If such a... |
1054625_8 | Brandeis at 50 Is Still Searching, Still Jewish and Still Not Harvard | Reinharz, who took over the presidency in 1994. Dr. Reinharz, 54, born in Israel, is fiercely devoted to Brandeis, where he earned his Ph.D. Traveling around the country, often with his wife, Shulamit, a Brandeis professor of sociology and women's studies, Dr. Reinharz has given a new face to the institution. He has al... |
1039949_4 | Not Your Father's Postage Meter; Pitney Bowes Survives Faxes, E-Mail and the Internet | good opportunity,'' said Thomas J. Dolan, president of Xerox Business Services, Xerox's $2 billion outsourcing arm. ''Pitney wants to get into documents, we want to get into mail, so the competition is going to be intense.'' That threat has not stopped numerous analysts from posting strong buy recommendations on Pitney... |
1039899_5 | Preserving A City's Soul; Fez Repairs Monuments And Nurtures Its Residents | a team from the Unit for Housing and Urbanization at Harvard's Graduate School of Design to help. The Moroccan Government then donated land outside Fez that the agency would be able to develop and sell to raise money for its operations. Now the World Bank is providing the Moroccan Government with a loan of more than $2... |
1039886_2 | Science Watch | on his brain in preparation for surgery to control seizures. The 22-year-old patient agreed to participate in Dr. Hart's study, which involved naming and categorizing images of everyday objects, while the grid of 174 small electrodes was still in place. A mild electric current applied between two electrodes temporarily... |
1039937_0 | Campaigns for supplements for that midlife event contend that Mother Nature knows best. | AN upstart Australian company hopes to capitalize on two trends -- the aging of female baby boomers and the growing popularity of dietary supplements -- to promote a new herbal treatment for the symptoms of menopause. Novogen Ltd., a medical research company based in Sydney, introduced Promensil, a supplement for menop... |
1039892_3 | Personal Health; Health Scares That Weren't So Scary | modest increase in cancers in children whose mothers had used electric blankets during pregnancy and a lesser increase in children who had used such blankets. This prompted a warning label on all electric blankets and a redesign of the product that reduced EMF exposure to the background level produced by household wiri... |
1039895_0 | The Tale of Three Bad News Bears Who Became Killers | ALMOST exactly three months ago, Craig Dahl, a 26-year-old park concessions worker, took his last hike, setting out on a steep, winding trail above Two Medicine Valley in the southeast corner of Glacier National Park in Montana. He never returned. Three days later, on May 20, rangers discovered the grisly scene: Mr. Da... |
1038517_0 | Another Flurry of Falling Bricks | New Yorkers praying for rain these last few weeks have instead been deluged with falling bricks and flying scaffolding. On Monday morning, three weeks after Times Square was tied up by a scaffolding collapse at the Conde Nast building, a section of masonry popped loose from the 40th floor of a building on Lexington Ave... |
1040358_1 | Ulster Buries Bomb Victims, Fearful for Peace Accord | of Donegal, Seamus Heggarty, said in his funeral sermon. ''Both of you are very welcome.'' He added that the peace agreement approved by a large margin in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic was ''the only alternative.'' ''There is no other,'' he said. Mr. Trimble has refused to talk to Mr. Adams or his Sinn Fein c... |
1035768_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths SHAPIRO, REBECCA | SHAPIRO-Rebecca (Mandel). On July 31 (Ab 8). Devoted wife of the late Rabbi Solomon K. Shapiro Z'l. Beloved mother of Eli, Vivian, Harold, Stanley, Abraham and Moshe. Cherished by eleven grandchildren. Also survived by sisters and brothers, sister-in-law and brothers-in-law, son-in-law and daughters-in-law, nephews and... |
1035841_2 | Foreign Affairs; Surfing the Wetlands | world soybean market. Pesticides and silt runoff from their farms are fouling the rivers and wildlife. At the same time, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia have formed a trading bloc to make them more globally competitive. To better get their soy products to market from this region, they want to dredge an... |
1037117_0 | Anglican Conference Takes Tough Line on Homosexuals | The world's Anglican bishops voted overwhelmingly today to endorse a resolution declaring homosexual activity to be ''incompatible with Scripture'' and advising against the ordination of homosexuals. The resolution, adopted by 526 votes to 70, represented a victory for an international group of conservative bishops, pa... |
1041954_0 | Ulster Accord Will Survive Terror, Premiers Say | Prime Ministers Bertie Ahern of Ireland and Tony Blair of Britain said today that the Northern Ireland peace agreement would succeed despite a terrorist bombing 10 days ago and that the new security measures they propose would help curtail future attacks. The bombing, by a Roman Catholic splinter group calling itself t... |
1041972_0 | Economic Turmoil in Russia Takes Toll in Latin America | Russia's effective devaluation of the ruble last week has sent panic throughout the world's emerging markets, with the Latin American economies likely to be among those that suffer the most. The crisis has pummeled the region's markets, caused currencies throughout the region to drop and forced interest rates so high t... |
1042035_0 | A Different Type Of Computer Monitor | Better watch what you type. A new generation of software is emerging to permit employers to record not just which Web sites employees browse, but also which programs they use, memos they write, E-mails they send -- in short, every keystroke. Win What Where, a software company in Kennewick, Wash. (www.winwhatwhere.com),... |
1039060_2 | Religion Journal; Women Smash Yet Another Barrier | present church) and began ordaining ministers. Over the years, Moravians have become known for their music and hymns, their widespread missionary work and a focus on ecumenism. Lately they have been growing outside Europe and North America. Of the more than 730,000 Moravians in 19 provinces worldwide, about 40 percent ... |
1039076_0 | Religious Groups Mount a Campaign To Support Pact on Global Warming | The political debate on global warming, long dominated by arguments over science and economics, is spilling over into pulpits and pews as religious organizations speak out about morality, faith and the Kyoto Protocol. Major church groups in the United States are mounting an unusually broad and active campaign to persua... |
1039066_2 | Balloon Nears Halfway Point on Global Flight | hazard came on Thursday, when a strong wind began nudging Mr. Fossett farther northward, toward the ''parking lot.'' As an emergency measure, Mr. Rice asked Mr. Fossett to climb to about 29,000 feet, the height of Mount Everest. Even at that altitude, the balloon was only 7,000 feet higher than the northward current th... |
1039074_0 | Crucial Maneuver Completed In Repairs at Times Square Site | Three weeks after the scaffolding collapse at the Conde Nast building, the most critical part of the repair effort was completed yesterday. About 9:30 A.M., workers extricated an elevator cab on the 24th floor from the twisted wreckage of exterior elevator tower and scaffolding and lowered it to the ground. An 8-ton, 3... |
1039047_0 | Think Tank; At the End of a Century of Philosophizing, the Answer Is Don't Ask | The cameras flashed and clicked. People stood on tiptoe to get a better look over the crowd. It was the last World Philosophy Congress of the 20th century, and some of the most important philosophers were onstage Wednesday evening in the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel: Willard Van Orman Quine, Peter Strawson and Donald... |
1038261_3 | Personal Health; A Study Guide to Scientific Studies | diseases, for example, high cholesterol as a risk factor for heart disease or vitamin E supplements to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Epidemiological studies are best at identifying very powerful associations, like the one between smoking and lung cancer. When the relationship between factors is weaker, like the link bet... |
1038269_5 | Scientist at Work: Dr. Patricia Wright; Saving Madagascar's Bounty for Its Lemurs and Its People | the people,'' said Dr. Alison Jolly, a primatologist at Princeton University who studies ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar. ''It's so easy to say that what matters is the animals or what matters is the people. Pat has been able to say that what matters is both.'' Among her many prized honors is the Knight of the Nationa... |
1038259_1 | The Melding of Mind With Machine May Be the Next Phase of Evolution | -- in this case, data transmitted by wireless networking. This area of research may seem farfetched, but it is really the logical extension of devices like pacemakers, implants that simulate hearing for the deaf, and neuro-stimulators, which send small electrical charges through nerves to alleviate certain kinds of pai... |
1038346_4 | In Midtown, Yet Another Shower of Bricks; Panic on Lexington Avenue, but No One Is Injured; Streets Are Closed | safety harnesses dangling 35 stories above the street. The workers were pulled into a lower window by firefighters. Despite that accident, city officials said yesterday, Horn Exterior has an excellent safety record and is a sought-after exterior repair company for tall aging office buildings. Earlier this year, the com... |
1038246_1 | Study Finds More Fraternal Twins in Lands of Plenty | by the highest twinning rates for Caucasians anywhere, on the archipelago of Aland and Aboland in southwestern Finland. On the nearby mainland, twins were far less common. The researchers analyzed the birth records from pre-industrial times of 81 mothers of twins from the archipelago and 86 mothers of twins from the ma... |
1040904_1 | Tobacco Can Be Good for You | in development are new antibiotics, biodegradable plastics, a tooth-protecting solution and cancer drugs. All are being created and produced inside the ''evil weed.'' This is possible because tobacco is an ideal natural factory for recombinant techniques. Classic recombinant technology uses genetically altered bacteria... |
1041269_1 | The Joy of a 'Girl Racer' and a Wish for More | along the shore, I have encountered a wide variety of sailors, crew and boats. Sure, there are vessels whose bills for new sails alone would pay my annual mortgage. But there are smaller, older boats owned and crewed by people just as passionate and skilled as those with bigger wallets. The deal in racing is pretty str... |
1041244_0 | Irish North and South Mourn Terror Bombing | Tens of thousands of people here in Northern Ireland and in the Irish Republic to the south observed a painful minute of silence at 3:10 this afternoon, the exact time a week ago today that a terrorist bomb killed 28 people in the center of this small market town. The bomb, which left 220 wounded, 75 of whom are still ... |
1041188_0 | Managing Flood Waters in China | This summer's floods on the Yangtze River in central China and the Songhua River in northeastern China have already left nearly 14 million people homeless, indirectly affected 240 million more and damaged more than 50 million acres of land. The flood season is not yet over, but the death toll, estimated at 2,000 by Chi... |
1041140_4 | Studying the Fine Print In Tuition Saving Plans | family will owe taxes and a 15 percent penalty on the account's investment growth. And though financial aid rules vary from college to college, many count state plans as scholarships or a child's property -- treatment that can compromise eligibility for grants. Still, for many people, the tax benefits may outweigh thes... |
1042404_0 | Even as Latin Markets Plunge, Drastic Remedies Are Avoided | The recent panic in world markets has weakened Latin American currencies and drastically reduced the wealth of many Latin corporations, raising prospects that governments in the region may be forced to take Draconian measures to contain the crisis. Financial authorities in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina and other nations... |
1037527_0 | Corrections | An article on July 20 about problems consumers face when seeking to determine if food has been genetically modified misstated the practices of one supermarket chain, Whole Foods Market Inc. of Austin, Tex. It does not require suppliers to guarantee that products they sell to the company are free of gene-altered ingredi... |
1036289_5 | Cool to U.S., Caribbean Hails Castro All the More Warmly | regional conference. Capping a year of unusual diplomatic activity, Mr. Castro is also to visit Portugal and South Africa before the end of 1998. But there is much more than mere political symbolism involved in Cuba's rapprochement with the English-speaking Caribbean. Despite severe economic problems of its own, includ... |
1035916_0 | Our Crowd | FROM PLATO TO NATO The Idea of the West and Its Opponents. By David Gress. 610 pp. New York: The Free Press. $28. Where is the West? Even if the question is confined to America, the answer is not easy. Practically all parts of the United States except for those with their toes in the Atlantic have been included in ''th... |
1036206_3 | 'So, Like, What Do I Do Now?' Some of the Alternatives | programs. Advantages: Going to remote locations teaches self-reliance and provides immersion in other cultures. ''Those students who travel and see the world learn a lot about themselves,'' said Diane Anci, associate director of admissions at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. ''They come back with an unbelievable... |
1036220_6 | Catching a Whiff of the Future; For a 'trend trekker,' if SoHo is today's destination, its aroma might be tomorrow's perfume | A super grapefruit. Something crazy in the mix, like disco lemonade,'' she sang. Like designers trying to anticipate what hemlines or colors will appeal a year from now, Ms. Smith and her colleagues have their eyes fixed over the horizon of what is currently in stores. If Mount Everest was yesterday's destination, its ... |
1036257_2 | The Nation: Delusions; Paranoia Is Universal. Its Symptoms Are Not | psychiatry at the University of Western Australia who helped evaluate the research. The study -- which focused on Japan, Denmark, Colombia, Nigeria, India, the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Britain, Ireland and the United States -- found that schizophrenics generally responded better to treatment in less develop... |
1036058_3 | Restoring Mitzvah To the Traditions Of the Bar Mitzvah | significance of the religious ceremony itself. In part to temper that feeling, many synagogues now insist that children complete a community service project as part of their bar mitzvah training. Rabbi Herbert Brockman of Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden tells a story of a boy who refused to get dressed on the mor... |
1036080_4 | CONNECTICUT GUIDE | homes in Norfolk -- a modular cape of 1,290 square feet that gets most of its heat and electricity from the sun, and an Adirondack-style camp built for the Yale School of Forestry in 1941 within a 6,800 acre forest. Its cabins use the sun for energy and hot water. In Lakeville a modern house that is underground uses th... |
1036064_2 | Volunteers Join a Study of Women Over 50 | seven years. Investigators have many questions. For example, can estrogen and progesterone slow bone loss and prevent fractures? Why is it that women seem resistant to heart disease before menopause but vulnerable afterward? (According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, heart disease is the N... |
1036338_2 | A Top M.B.A. Is a Hot Ticket as Salaries Climb | brightest are headed to business school instead of law school. A graduate of New York University Law School who joins a leading firm will make $91,000 a year, not precisely peanuts but nearly $30,000 less than a counterpart from the university's Stern School of Business. At Stanford, law school and business school grad... |
1042569_2 | In 'Rugrats,' Babies Know Best | and adults don't always have all the answers. In that sense, it's a manifesto of the Nickelodeon philosophy.'' The rugrats are led by Tommy, a bald, scrappy underdog, and fretful Chuckie, who sports a tangle of orange-red hair and Buddy Holly-esque square-framed glasses. The twins Lil and Phil function as a Greek choru... |
1042779_1 | To Save Rain Forests, a Call for Plastic in the Parks | from tropical hardwoods. By continuing to buy large supplies of the woods to repair and build these and other structures, the city, environmenalists say, is helping to destroy the tropical rain forests. Protesters have called for the Parks Department to stop buying the wood, and a bill before the City Council would req... |
1042776_1 | Showdown Coming Over Radio Tower | quiet residential neighborhood of the 90-foot radio tower operated by Highpoint Enterprises of Staten Island. At more than 300 feet above sea level, Todt Hill is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard, and thus ideal for a radio antenna. ''But we've always found it ugly, disruptive and a health risk,'' said Elaine R... |
1042881_0 | August 23-29; Chinese Leaders Vow To Mend Ecological Ways | In his heyday in the late 1950's, Mao Zedong called a mass campaign to kill sparrows, accused of eating too much grain. The result was disastrous as insect populations soared. Since then, awareness of ecology in China has changed, to say the least. But it took this summer's disastrous floods and an unusual public outcr... |
1036962_0 | National News Briefs; A Satellite Lost in June Is Sending Signals Again | A $1 billion satellite that went dead and disappeared six weeks ago while observing the sun has begun transmitting brief signals, and NASA officials said yesterday that they hoped the spacecraft could return to duty. The satellite, the Solar and Helio spheric Observatory, was launched in 1995 as a joint project of the ... |
1036897_2 | Business Travel; Airlines are beginning to offer special fall sale fares to Europe, but travelers will need to act fast. | expected long-term traffic growth. Signing Once and For All Budget Rent a Car is joining the ranks of other rental companies with ''paperless'' express service. The Budget service, called Fastbreak, is being phased in over the next few weeks at major United States airports. Other rental companies, including Hertz and A... |
1039257_2 | Fast Forward; What the Beep Is Going On? | the field test, in Crystal Lake, Ill., mostly found the new sound ''pleasant,'' after taking a week or so to get used to it. Strangely enough, an advantage was that they could easily distinguish their new telephones from ringing doorbells, alarm clocks and fire alarms. In 1956, ovens, wristwatches and the contents of p... |
1039638_3 | Bomb in Ulster, Exploding Among Shoppers, Kills 28 | ''to crush these people.'' Mr. Ahern added that the Irish Government would ''ruthlessly repress'' the terrorist group, which is believed to comprise about 100 Catholic dissidents splintered away from the main Irish Republican Army. The splinter group is believed to have ties with a political party, the 32-County Contin... |
1039357_1 | For the Blind, a Camp Leader Who Can Relate | have to be more careful.'' While serving as a role model for the teen-agers, she has also learned from them, she said. ''Most of these kids have never seen,'' said Ms. Wurzer, who lost her sight only four years ago, to complications from diabetes. ''I've learned from them how they deal with that.'' Camp Helen Keller is... |
1039670_0 | Ideas & Trends; Armchair Sailors on the Seven Seas | Size has gradually become the guiding principle in commercial and naval shipbuilding. Take the $450 million Grand Princess, which made her maiden voyage in May. She is the world's most expensive cruise ship and the largest in sheer tonnage. In silhouette, though, she looks like a Dustbuster. And the Jahre Viking, an oi... |
1039375_2 | Meeting Big Challenges With Small Steps | the next rung. At lunch, most youngsters fully or partly feed themselves because a slatted table provides grasping room for a hand to steady their balance. The theory is that by using the intellectual part of the brain to move and repeat small steps helps the brain find fresh paths to accomplish what most individuals c... |
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