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1039538_0 | Ideas & Trends; Armchair Sailors On the Seven Seas | LIKE an armada of tall ships, tales of the sea are sailing onto bookshelves. There are salty soap operas featuring sensitive mariners drawn to the high seas to heal marital heartbreak or cope with terminal disease. There are manly memoirs and survival books by Alaskan crab fishermen and Antarctic explorers. For hard-co... |
1039447_0 | After Tower Collapses, Four Shore Rides Are Closed | The bungee-cord ride at Steel Pier in Atlantic City and three others like it at other shore parks are not open for thrill seekers. The Steel Fear ride in Atlantic City is being dismantled after a 180-foot tower collapsed last week, and others in amusement parks in Wildwood, Ocean City and Seaside Heights are being rein... |
1039277_0 | A 10th-Century Church Is Rescued in Old Cairo | IN a city whose modern sprawl so often threatens ancient treasures, the Egyptian Government has begun an unusual effort to preserve a religious site that has suffered from years of neglect and bungled repairs. The two-year project stands out because it targets not one of the Pharaonic temples or Islamic monuments for w... |
1039574_0 | Mauling the Market | DIARY: THE RUSSIAN BEAR |
1041731_0 | Fending Off the Yangtze | To the Editor: Re ''Managing Flood Waters in China'' (editorial, Aug. 23): As you suggest, it is time to forgo the Three Gorges dam project and devote the estimated $50 billion it will cost to ''more effective flood management strategies'' on the Yangtze River.. While floods are almost always classified as natural disa... |
1041754_1 | Who's Afraid of Genetic Engineering? | United States is not among them) that ratified the treaty. If approved, these regulations would be included in a binding international agreement early next year. But the team has exceeded its mandate. Instead of limiting the agreement to genetic modifications that might threaten biodiversity, the members are also pushi... |
1041794_2 | China Admits Ecological Sins Played Role in Flood Disaster | for thousands of years. Lu Qinkan, a retired Government hydrologist and flood prevention expert, said that in 1980 an important report by the Ministry of Water Resources laid out plans for reinforcing and raising the main dikes along the Yangtze. But by 1987, only $48 million of the $1.2 billion that was called for had... |
1037324_2 | 7 Arrested in U.S. Effort to Stop Cuban-Cigar Sales | where they found lists of clients, including businesses and private clubs, investigators said. According to customs officials, 240,523 Cuban cigars worth an estimated $3.1 million -- or $12.99 per cigar -- were seized in the United States in 1997, more than double the 96,216 cigars seized in 1996. The importation of Cu... |
1038712_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR TUMBLES. Sugar futures fell more than 4 percent after a purchase of sugar by Indonesia was smaller than originally announced, disappointing traders. The October contract dropped 0.39 cent, to 8.66 cents a pound. |
1038655_3 | E-Mail Flaws Make Usually Confident Users Feel Uneasy | Riggins, 24, a computer-science student at Sacramento State University who runs a Web page on West Coast swing dancing and considers himself a fairly sophisticated computer user. ''What was once urban legend is now reality.'' Gary Marx, a sociologist at the University of Colorado who writes about the impact of technolo... |
1038731_6 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Preserving A Heritage Via Bed and Barns; European Governments Subsidize Agritourism | to promote rural businesses as alternatives to farming. Eva Reitzlein, an official in the Bavarian agriculture ministry in Munich, says that about 7,000 of Bavaria's 185,000 working farms take in paying guests, accounting for one-third the total number of farms offering agritourism in Germany. This year, she said, to b... |
1040205_2 | India Taps Into Its Diaspora; Expatriates Buy Bonds for Love of Country, and 7.75% Interest | it this way: ''People who have prospered here,'' he declared from the podium. ''We should try to help the country come up.'' The audience responded with hearty applause. But in the back of the banquet room, a prominent New York City doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, smiled knowingly. No amount of patriot... |
1040116_0 | Business Travel; The I.N.S. is expanding its automated system for clearing travelers into the United States. | THE Immigration and Naturalization Service is expanding its automated immigration inspection system, which speeds up processing time for certain travelers arriving in the United States from overseas. The system is currently available at Kennedy International Airport in New York, Newark International Airport, Miami Inte... |
1040550_2 | On My Mind; The War Against Ireland | to defuse the bomb. Then they tied him to almost six years in jail. Years later, he said, he heard somebody shout, ''David Ervine has been killed.'' It was another David Ervine, but he knew that as long as Catholics and Protestants were killing each other, one day the Ervine who had heard the shout would hear no more. ... |
1040621_1 | Ulster Looks for a Glint of Hope in Reaction to Bombing | of times for the people of Omagh, they must also appear to the be the worst of times for the small but shockingly dangerous splinter groups intent on bringing down'' he peace accord. ''It is thus possible,'' Mr. McKittrick added, ''to hope that the political and moral illiterates are, one by one, realizing that war has... |
1040594_4 | Clinton's Words: 'There Will Be No Sanctuary for Terrorists' | I want the world to understand that our actions today were not aimed against Islam, the faith of hundreds of millions of good, peace-loving people all around the world, including the United States. No religion condones the murder of innocent men, women and children. But our actions were aimed at fanatics and killers wh... |
1040652_2 | A New Worldwide Warning For Americans to Be Cautious | planning for new attacks. ''We had very specific information about very specific threats with respect to very specific targets,'' sais Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser. ''You will have noted over the past week that we have closed certain embassies, we have drawn other embassies down, we have taken other ... |
1040542_0 | Cell Phone Carcinogens? | To the Editor: Jane E. Brody, in referring to cell phones in her Aug. 18 Personal Health column, ''Health Scares That Weren't So Scary,'' notes that the incidence of brain tumors has risen slightly in recent years. Actually, the incidence rates for primary brain tumors have increased by 25 percent since 1973. Moreover,... |
1041527_2 | From Mosque To Museum; Restoring an Object's Surface May Petrify Its Heart | Kutubiyya's, it could also be retired to a museum, though one can imagine it being treated quite differently. For example, in Fez, several hours to the north, city planners have decided to hire local artisans, people from the city's walled center, or medina, who have been strictly trained in an old craft tradition, to ... |
1041548_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SLUMPS. Raw sugar futures fell 3 percent on concerns that demand from Russia, a big importer, would weaken at a time of large crops in Brazil and elsewhere. October raw sugar fell 0.26 cent, to 7.93 cents a pound. |
1039824_6 | NEWS SUMMARY | ARTS E1-8 OBITUARIES A13 Dr. Bennett M. Derby A neuropathologist who specialized in brain injuries suffered by prize fighters and who persuaded New York boxing officials to establish stronger safety standards, he was 69. His efforts resulted in mandatory protective headgear for amateur boxers, softer ring mats to preve... |
1039773_0 | British and Irish Pledge to Hunt Ulster Car Bombers | The British and Irish Republic Governments said today that they would hunt down those responsible for the car-bomb attack on Saturday that killed 28 people and wounded more than 200 in Omagh, a usually quiet town in the center of Ulster. The attack was the deadliest in 29 years of sectarian violence in this predominant... |
1039754_0 | Metro Matters; To the Mayor, This Law Is Garbage | DO you think like the Mayor? If you have ever wondered about this, well, then, here's a chance to test your Rudy-Q against Hizzoner's. What is the most effective step that the city could take to bolster recycling? A: Increase the frequency of pickups. B: Expand public education about the program. C: Install recycling b... |
1039729_0 | Patents; Solving a problem for recyclers, a new method gets the zinc more easily out of galvanized steel. | TWENTY years ago, Honda imported into the United States for the first time an automobile with a galvanized body -- which meant that the car's steel frame had been coated with zinc to prevent rusting. By the mid-1980's, nearly all new cars had galvanized bodies. But in solving the rust problem, galvanized steel has crea... |
1039769_2 | Editorial Observer; The Circle Comes Round at Columbus Circle | serious architect of another era to evoke tradition and modernity as they were then viewed. The architect Robert A. M. Stern has led an unsuccessful campaign to get it designated as a landmark, which would keep it preserved in the face of what he calls the ''ever-present tendency to dismiss, or even revile, the recent ... |
1036671_8 | Gene Therapy's Focus Shifts From Rare Illnesses | vessels in tissues with inadequate blood flow. Some experts say that the search for cancer treatments has increased spending on gene therapy technology, which will eventually help people with genetic diseases. ''Maybe the quickest route to solving cystic fibrosis is to take a detour,'' said Dr. Alan E. Smith, chief sci... |
1036517_2 | Disturbing Signs Behind Reports of Freud's Demise | who insist that psychoanalysis can't prove ''the cause-and-effect connections it claims between unconscious motivation and its visible manifestations in ordinary life and in a clinical setting,'' a major theme in one of his previous books, ''Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psych... |
1036500_0 | Brazil's Rain Forest | To the Editor: Re ''The Little Rain Forest That Could'' (column, July 28), by Thomas L. Friedman: The Brazilian Government could learn a lot from Costa Rica, which has opened its natural wonders to tourists and used the revenue to protect its rain forests. Some 25 percent of all of the species of flora and fauna on the... |
1037844_3 | The World; How to Bypass Sanctions and Do Business | amount of oil to buy food and medicine for humanitarian purposes. In the program's first year, Iraq bought 817,000 metric tons -- about $114 million worth -- of hard red winter wheat, which placed that country eighth among foreign buyers of American wheat. At a time when wheat prices are at 10-year low, and orders from... |
1037604_4 | In the Realm of Bears | camp, Paul Bosnich, a Canadian environmentalist, led a hike up a nearby hillside. Those who accepted the challenge were rewarded with a vista of the Sheslay's looping path through steep mountain slopes, velvet green meadows and dense, endless stands of aspens. That night, after a hearty dinner of spaghetti with meat sa... |
1037914_1 | The World: A Conservative Surge Surprises; In England With the Anglicans in Full Cry | advisory resolution on human sexuality. Its original text, written in committee, affirmed a traditional position on marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman. It also condemned homophobia. But when the document was brought before the whole conference, socially conservative bishops toughened its language with ... |
1037548_4 | Demolition Derby | of messy, weedy corners. We have to cure suburbanites of their passion for ''tidying up.'' Eldredge movingly describes how a neglected corner of Chicago has regenerated a postage-stamp morsel of prairie. Natural ecology has a memory longer than human cupidity. In the tropical rain forests the situation is both worse an... |
1037996_1 | Floods Now Imperiling Big Cities, China Says | reported, and 200,000 more are expected to be moved. Local governments will compensate families whose homes are destroyed, the agency promised. Flooding occurs virtually every summer in China. In the past, official statistics on flood casualties have sometimes been unreliable because local officials have exaggerated co... |
1043018_0 | Scandal-Tarred Army Gets Chance to Do a Good Deed | It had been a bad year for the army. First, it faced accusations in the United States that it was involved in a plot to funnel contributions to the Democratic Party in exchange for easier access to American satellite technology. In July, President Jiang Zemin subjected the army to a rare public scolding, charging it wi... |
1043027_3 | E.P.A. to Hunt Dangers in Everyday Products | affect either people or wildlife by acting on three primary endocrine systems, those governing estrogen, androgen and thyroid hormones. (In the endocrine systems of nearly all animals, glands located throughout the body synthesize hormones and secrete them into the bloodstream. Receptors in the cells of various organs ... |
1042159_0 | F.D.A. Approves a Drug That Blocks a Gene | The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug that works by blocking the action of a gene. Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company in Carlsbad, Calif., said it had received approval late Wednesday for its drug, fomivirsen, for the treatment of CMV retinitis, a virus that can cause blindness in... |
1040719_0 | After Air Strikes, City Tightens Security | The heightened security measures at public buildings in New York City went almost unnoticed yesterday. Around town, the security alert ordered by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir manifested itself in small, all but imperceptible ways. At midday, five Metropolitan Transportation Authority o... |
1040742_3 | As Floods Rage, Relief Efforts Just Beginning in China | has been far less coverage of the human displacement, in part because the Government has restricted access to the more severely affected areas. The Chinese Public Health Bureau and the Chinese Red Cross have nearly doubled the number of public health teams out in the field, to 10,000, over the past four weeks. It is un... |
1040684_1 | U.S. Rejects Visa Request From Woman Linked to Real I.R.A. | American refusal was another serious setback for the group, the 32 County Sovereignty Committee. The committee opposes the new Ireland peace accord and the participation in the new Northern Ireland Assembly of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. The committee and the Real I.R.A. left the I.R.A. ... |
1025999_1 | Older, Wiser, Stronger: Grandmas Head for the Weight Room | six children and was widowed last year. ''I stayed home and did the housework.'' Back then, when it was assumed that older women would do little more than rock and knit their days away, no one was talking about osteoporosis, a condition in postmenopausal women in which bones become so porous they easily break. These da... |
1026098_3 | Revamping Emergency Treatment Of Children | hospital to be a tertiary care center, or even right below that level,'' said Dr. Joli Yuknek, director of pediatric emergency medicine at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and a member of the committee. ''But you do want some policy to expedite things because time is of the essence. What we don't want to happ... |
1025965_0 | Looking at What Works | A woman in the rural Midwest and a woman in an East Coast city receive identical breast-cancer diagnoses. Yet the East Coast city dweller has a lumpectomy, removal of just a part of her breast, while the entire breast of the rural woman is surgically removed. Why did the treatments differ? Questions like this involving... |
1026356_0 | Suriname's Example | The world's forests have been under siege since the turn of the century, but this year has been calamitous. In Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, Africa and Indonesia, fires have destroyed nearly 40 million forested acres, an area as large as New York State. The easy explanation is El Nino, a perverse weather sys... |
1025975_0 | If You Liked the Movie, You'll Probably Love the Hormones | IN the last three decades, the fortunes of hormones, like the wages of sin, have risen and fallen. Or should I say hormone-replacement therapy, or H.R.T., in the ultimate testosterone-oriented analogy, has become the political football of feminism. We of Gen BBB (Baby Boomers and Beyond) have been through this before -... |
1025969_0 | With Alternative Medicine, Profits Are Big, Rules Are Few | EVERY day Marcie Rothman, who is 51, takes three Body Wise Female Advantage nutritional capsules -- an arsenal of 22 ingredients marketed as the natural answer to menopause. Soy protein is a selective estrogen-response modifier meant to stabilize a woman's suddenly dwindling supply of estrogen; along with black cohosh ... |
1025978_1 | Behind the Buzz on Designer Estrogens, Questions Linger | much about designer estrogens remains unknown. Just last month, a two-year trial conducted by Eli Lilly was completed and reportedly showed that raloxifene reduced the risk of breast cancer up to 70 percent in 7,700 healthy women. This was similar to a smaller study published in December in The New England Journal of M... |
1025963_3 | Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men | in the body. Assigning such an important role to the reproductive organs is not new to our belief system. In ancient Greece, women who were classified as having nervous or ''hysterical'' disorders were thought to be suffering from an upward dislocation of the womb. Treatment for nervousness and hysteria entailed, among... |
1025984_3 | Word & Image; Nuclear Reactions | when Congress decreed economic punishment for nations caught building the bomb, whether they were foes like Iran, Iraq, South Africa, Libya and North Korea or friends like Argentina, Brazil, India and Pakistan. Over the years, more than 40 nations acquired the reactors needed for nuclear research or power and probably ... |
1025939_0 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea By Sebastian Junger. Harper Paperbacks, $6.99. In 1991, a 72-foot swordfishing boat and its crew of six were hit in the Atlantic by a violent nor'easter with 120-mile-per-hour winds and waves up to 100 feet high. The ensuing tragedy is reconstructed in harrowing fa... |
1026398_1 | Turks Fume Over Stance By French On Armenia | for a new generation of military helicopters. The Mayor of Izmir, Turkey, where a French consortium is a leading candidate for a billion-dollar contract to build a new subway, said he would veto any French participation if the genocide resolution became law. Another French consortium is bidding to build a nuclear power... |
1026242_0 | Fighting for the Right To Swing With the Crowd | When Cory Henkel pushed her daughter, Kyra, in the baby swing at Bleecker Playground in Greenwich Village, they would draw a sea of stares from children and adults alike. ''Their awkwardness was understandable,'' Ms. Henkel wrote in a letter to the Department of Parks and Recreation, asking that at least one special sw... |
1025650_0 | Turks Hope General Will Lead Army Pullout From Politics | Turks who believe that the military has become too deeply involved in politics here are hoping that the emergence of a new military commander in August will have a profound effect on national life. The five-year term of Turkey's Chief of Staff, Gen. Ismail Hakki Karadayi, who has led the military deeply into politics i... |
1024071_3 | Pakistani Rebuff for India, But Talks May Be Closer | fact that both Governments had signaled that they wanted talks to begin soon. ''After all that's happened, you'd have to expect that they'd play cat-and-mouse,'' a Western envoy in New Delhi said. ''But it's clear that both sides recognize the need to start talking about nuclear weapons, and to do it soon, for their ow... |
1024132_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-5 NATO and Russia Set Deadline for Yugoslavia The United States, Russia and six other major industrial nations that are meeting in London gave President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia until Tuesday to call off Serbian attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. A1 The United States and its allies are relu... |
1024081_1 | Key Industrial Countries Demand Serbs Halt Offensive in Kosovo | grave mistake if he imagines the international community will be as slow to respond in Kosovo as it was in Bosnia,'' the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, said after the meeting today, which was originally called to coordinate the international response to nuclear weapons tests last month by India and Pakistan. Th... |
1024624_1 | In Ulster, a Feeling That Peace Has a Chance | were doing all that killing,'' she said, ''my wee Zoe asked, 'Why has that man been killed?' '' after another tit-for-tat killing between Protestant and Catholic paramilitary groups. ''I realized then,'' Mrs. Purdy said, ''that I'm 30 years old and I have never known peace in my lifetime. The agreement means peace for ... |
1024667_0 | Nation of Caregivers Needs Greater Foresight; Patients' False Hopes | To the Editor: A June 9 Science Times article reporting on a study of cancer patients showing that false hope can lead patients to choose aggressive therapies that increase suffering raises issues encountered by those who are unprepared to face them. Doctors often try to soften the blow, sometimes with the thought that... |
1024362_2 | In the Region/Connecticut; Towns Implementing Ridge Development Limits | series of parallel basalt ridges, which at one time were lava. One side is a sheer scarp, the other side is a slope, but rocky and difficult to develop.'' The name trap rock, she believes, evolved from a Swedish word trappa, meaning step, describing the configurations that formed layers of basalt in the Jurassic and Tr... |
1024568_2 | Religion, With A Grain of Salt | were clearly reacting against the growing number of women who have entered the labor force, for when a woman works, she also earns and therefore would be less likely to submit to her husband's will. While few Americans call themselves feminists, most have accepted this change and are reluctant to undo it. Today, in fac... |
1024650_6 | BENEFITS DWINDLE ALONG WITH WAGES FOR THE UNSKILLED | workers rarely do. A union may be able to even the playing field by tracking health and safety issues and negotiating improvements. Another explanation, favored by Mr. Hamermesh, is that all unskilled workers -- union and nonunion -- have lost much ground over the last two decades as skilled workers added so much more ... |
1027519_3 | 108 Elected To Assembly For Ulster | the first time next week. But its order of business will be brief. It will formally select its two leaders and then move into a ''shadow'' existence in the fall, creating rules and committees and selecting other members of the 12-member executive that will in effect be Northern Ireland's Government. That will almost ce... |
1027393_0 | FAMILY FARE | A Voyage Back in Time Unlike the youth of the 18th century, today's youngsters don't have the option of running away to sea. But after H. M. Bark Endeavour sails into New York Harbor today, they will feel as if they do. An Australian vessel, the Endeavour is an exact replica of the British ship in which Capt. James Coo... |
1027449_3 | Excerpts From Supreme Court Opinion on H.I.V. Infection as a Disability | responsible for coordinating the implementation and enforcement of 504. The H.E.W. regulations, which appear without change in the current regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, define ''physical or mental impairment'' to mean: ''(A) any physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigur... |
1027449_4 | Excerpts From Supreme Court Opinion on H.I.V. Infection as a Disability | cause of AIDS until 1983. . . . In light of the immediacy with which the virus begins to damage the infected person's white blood cells and the severity of the disease, we hold it is an impairment from the moment of infection. As noted earlier, infection with H.I.V. causes immediate abnormalities in a person's blood, a... |
1027516_0 | Casino Deal With Indians In California Is Ruled Void | A California judge today voided a gambling agreement that had been set up by Gov. Pete Wilson without legislative approval or the support of state Indian tribes, who argued that they would lose much of their revenue because of the compact's restrictions on slot machines. ''The Governor has the authority to negotiate bu... |
1022542_3 | Where Airlines Learn Safety | the ''un'' syllable will be lost in the confusion. ''Leave your baggage behind'' is preferred over ''Don't take your baggage.'' Students said they wished they got better attention from the passengers while giving safety instructions, but the teachers said passengers who thought they knew everything were probably still ... |
1022813_1 | Word for Word / Rover Rage; Chomp: A Dog's Breakfast About Dog Bites | on the topic. TOM KUNTZ In January, the Journal of the American Medical Association raised alarums with ''Incidence of Dog Bite Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments,'' a study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. They began with a long historical perspective: The close association between humans and dom... |
1022612_6 | New Golf Courses Face Vocal Opponents | said, say that the Branford Land Trust might want to buy the property at a fair-market price, even though Trust officials have given no indication they would do so. He also recalled suggestions he reduce his proposed course to nine holes, or even six, in the latter case with three different sets of tee boxes. The Giord... |
1022874_2 | In America; At What Cost? | -- with the multinationals and other wealthy foreign investors ready to snap them up at fire-sale prices. ''What does this mean to the people on the ground in these countries?'' asked Randall Robinson, the president of TransAfrica and an opponent of the Crane-Lugar bill. He noted that I.M.F. structural adjustment progr... |
1022857_1 | The World; Even the French Hate This Strike | supported holding a transportation strike during the World Cup. In December 1995, 62 percent of those surveyed sympathized with striking rail and transport workers; in November 1996, 74 percent supported striking truck drivers. A Christmas Present ''I feel sad and almost ashamed,'' said Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Ch... |
1022878_3 | DIARY | & Poor's also warned recently that it might cut both nations' credit ratings. That, The Nation contended, would hurt Pakistan more than India. POLLUTION Flipper's Revenge Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the world's second-largest cruise line, agreed to plead guilty to Federal charges of dumping oil at sea, lying to the C... |
1022717_1 | The Good Shepherd | with them. Among Conservative Jews, who are told by their rabbis that a child's Jewishness is defined through the mother, 67 percent do not agree, asserting that it should be through either the mother or father. Recently, in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., a teacher was dismissed from a Catholic parochial school because she had... |
1023301_0 | Sinn Fein Enters Campaign For New Ulster Assembly | The campaign for the new Northern Ireland Assembly began in earnest today as Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, abandoned its traditional policy and announced formally that it would field candidates even though the assembly is almost certain to have a Protestant unionist majority. Sinn Fein, a ... |
1023306_0 | Commemorating a Discovery in Radio Astronomy | His assignment from his bosses at Bell Laboratories in 1931 was simple: Build a 100-foot-long rotating antenna to find out what was causing the static that interfered with trans-Atlantic telephone calls. His discovery was anything but simple: The static was the first evidence that stars and galaxies were emitting radio... |
1023332_3 | Mayor Wants To Privatize Pupil Reviews | The privatization plan alarmed some school officials and education experts. Mark Alter, a New York University professor who focuses on special education, called the privatization plan ''scary.'' ''That would make me nervous,'' he said. ''The key is not to separate out instruction from assessment.'' The city's special e... |
1021708_0 | What's Green And Has Stripes? A Zebra Tomato | TAKE heart, all ye who harbor a taste for green tomatoes. No longer do you need to wish in secret that the sun will dim and the winds will blow, so that regular tomatoes will not ripen but will fall to the ground prematurely. No longer must your hankerings for fried green tomatoes leave you dependent on the unkindness ... |
1021783_0 | Canadian Colleges Look Across Border to Fill Their Classes (and Coffers) | ''You can study here and be home for supper,'' declared an advertisement for the University of Windsor published recently in The Detroit News. But just in case that was not inducement enough, officials of the university -- in Windsor, Ontario, on the Detroit River opposite Detroit -- are lowering tuition for Americans ... |
1028125_0 | Ethics Panel Urges Easing of Curbs on AIDS Vaccine Tests | Responding to impassioned pleas from developing countries desperately seeking a vaccine to fight the AIDS epidemic, an ethics panel convened by the United Nations is recommending major changes in the way experimental vaccines are tested in people. Earlier guidelines, intended to prevent exploitation, called for testing... |
1028080_4 | The World: What Went Wrong?; Mexico Can't Fathom Its Rising Crime | has lost control of the criminals, he said. ''The old rules no longer apply and new ones haven't emerged,'' he said. Lucio Mendoza, a former analyst at the national security agency who now runs a research organization, said the authorities have not only lost control but that members of the police are now the main organ... |
1027725_4 | Willing Executioners? | be made by comparing it to other forms of anti-Semitism. If one claims that only Jews were treated in a special way, one has to analyze the treatment of other victims; if one claims that only Germans committed certain deeds, one has to compare them to the deeds of non-Germans. If one claims that all Germans acted in a ... |
1027989_4 | Radical! New York is Adventure-Sport City | waiting. He steered his small ocean boat, the Airgasm, toward lower Manhattan, while a crewman hooked one of the Wall Streeters to a large yellow parachute. The Airgasm raced ahead, and the woman was lifted into the air until her chute was soaring 300 feet over New York Harbor. Mr. Santoriello turned in the direction o... |
1028155_2 | Vote for Assembly Realigns Northern Ireland Loyalties | steps in the assembly called for in the peace accord, though it insured what Mr. Trimble called ''a bumpy ride.'' The settlement, the product of 26 months of negotiations in Belfast, sets up a number of councils intended to balance opposing desires: the Catholics' wishes to form a closer association with the Republic o... |
1028120_1 | Mexico Squeezes Rebels, Provoking New Grief | even though the rebels were vastly outnumbered and outgunned. The episode showed both Mexicans and international observers how volatile the civil conflict in Chiapas has become and how far President Ernesto Zedillo has moved toward open military confrontation with the Zapatista rebels, more than four years after the In... |
1028139_2 | Cruising Along the Turkish Coast, Comfortably | this size, you make friends the moment you walk up the gangplank and remove your shoes, as is required. You don't want to scuff the wood, which is what you'll be on virtually every moment out of your room. In fact, you'll spend most of the day barefooted. Not even deck shoes are permitted. The boats are hand-built of c... |
1027727_0 | Zero Option | THE GIFT OF TIME The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now. By Jonathan Schell. 240 pp. New York: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt & Company. $25. In 1982 Jonathan Schell published a vivid and eloquent book on the likely consequences of a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. ''The Fate of the Ear... |
1023488_0 | Signing Bonus Now a Fixture Farther Down the Job Ladder | Unable to hire enough teachers, the Dallas school board voted last month to lure them with $1,500 signing bonuses. Corporate recruiters paid out much larger bonuses -- averaging $17,500 -- to Cornell's business school graduates. Even Burger King has got into the bonus game, offering $5,000 in some cities to hire away r... |
1023425_0 | Broccoli's Short, Sweet Cousin | A NEW sprout in the enchanted broccoli forest is causing semantic chaos in specialty produce markets and leaving adventuresome retailers and cooks searching for words. The diminutive hybrid -- mild, peppery and slightly sweet -- is basically a baby broccoli. The pale stems are as slim as spears and rarely exceed six in... |
1023471_0 | From Palau to Kyrgyzstan, Leaders Agree: The Scourge Is Drugs | Palau's President describes his nation as an island paradise, with the world's best scuba diving in pristine South Pacific waters, abundant seafood, safe streets and a growing economy. ''One might think that our paradise is free of drug problems,'' President Kuniwo Nakamura said in a statement to the General Assembly's... |
1023526_1 | Special Education Evaluation Teams Have Few Backers | in the hope that they could evaluate students and decide on placement more efficiently. The school-based teams have long been criticized for simply rubber-stamping a teacher's referral, and for funneling a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic boys into dead-end, segregated classrooms. Once assigned to special ... |
1025231_11 | WARY FLOCK: A special report.; China's Churches: Glad, and Bitter, Tidings | other sacred duties -- ''valid but not licit'' is the tortured phrase used by the Vatican to describe their status. The Vatican has even granted secret approval to some official church leaders, Dr. Madsen says. For many years, to help meet the acute shortage of theology teachers, China has allowed groups of Vatican-ord... |
1025200_2 | After Unrest, The Fans Are Quiet | to avoid the sort of altercations that occurred at the Prado beach on Monday during the England-Tunisia game. An additional 180 police officers will supplement the 1,300 who were already scheduled to be in Toulouse for the match. Reinforcements also will be sent to Lens. But it is not just a question of numbers. Severa... |
1027263_0 | Aid Colombian Military, But Attach Strings | To the Editor: Re your June 20 front-page article on United States efforts to push Colombia to use tebuthiuron, a herbicide, to kill coca plants: You note opposition by the manufacturer as well as by environmentalists, who predict groundwater contamination and increased deforestation. Yet the Government insists that th... |
1027207_2 | Files Focus on Salvador Colonel in U.S. Women's Deaths | seek to have the order overturned, however.] The three men, who would be released on Tuesday, have been given credit for good behavior.] Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright ordered the release of relevant American documents in response to requests by members of Congress and representatives of the Lawyers Committee... |
1027154_7 | Only Disconnect (For a While, Anyway) | wild areas,'' said Mr. Spring, who does not miss his E-mail when he's out of town, and whose co-author, Harvey Manning, graduated to an electric typewriter from a manual one just two years ago. But Dr. Heim, who has written about information fixation, said what people do while unplugged was more important than the leng... |
1027129_0 | Saving Endangered Art and Architecture | Each spring, starting in the 15th century, the Chinese Emperor went to Jufu Hall, above left, the temple of agriculture in the Forbidden City in Beijing, changed into farmer's clothes and briefly plowed the land, a ritual to bring good luck. ''But it's no mere changing room,'' said Bonnie Burnham, president of the Worl... |
1027239_7 | Voracious Computers Are Siphoning Talent From Academia | get a jump on things.'' Another attraction is the anti-conventional nature of an industry, many of whose giants -- Steven P. Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, the founders of Apple computers, in addition to Mr. Gates, -- are college dropouts. Job opportunities at computer companies often emphasize loose dress codes and strange... |
1027192_0 | The H.I.V. Plague | The latest figures on the global AIDS epidemic are frightening beyond expectations. A country-by-country analysis by the United Nations AIDS program has found that H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, is running wild through many parts of the developing world, especially the impoverished nations of Africa south of the S... |
1022380_0 | Cuts Are Urged In Internet Fund Clinton Praises | While President Clinton was speaking enthusiastically yesterday in favor of a program to help schools and libraries connect to the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission, under pressure from Congress, was preparing to scale back the program, officials close to the commission and to Congress said yesterday. Som... |
1022392_0 | U.S., in Shift, Drops Its Effort to Manage Internet Addresses | The Clinton Administration renounced the last vestige of control by the United States Government over the Internet's basic structure yesterday, acknowledging that the computer network had grown too big, too global and too commercial to be overseen by any one nation. That last vestige is the distribution and management ... |
1024802_1 | Busy Signals Too Common on Cancer Phone Line, Report Says | with 19 organizations, including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center in Durham, N.C., the University of Texas and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles. Florida had the highest busy rate, with half the callers getting busy signals last year. ''We... |
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