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1024841_4 | Chinese Detainee Recalls Life as Smugglers' Cargo | Suriname, in South America. The Asbury Park Press reported today that one of the 23 -- a man named Chen Da Xing -- stashed some mementos near the beach at Bay Head where the boat sputtered to a halt. These included a pair of pants, a jacket, a razor, a spiral-bound notebook with English phrases, and cigarettes made in ... |
1024823_1 | Why India Thinks Atomic Equation Has Changed | club extended its reach to the eastern rim of Asia and the Pacific. This left a huge gap, a vacuum, and that vacuum lies in southern Asia and Africa.'' Experts on India have long assumed that the second most populous country saw itself as a major power thwarted since independence in 1947 from taking its rightful place ... |
1027644_2 | Cornwall Journal; In Tax Debate, a Hero Or a Tobacco Hireling? | all the taxes have not been collected. The tobacco companies deny any complicity. ''There isn't a shred of evidence to support that,'' said Robert R. Parker, president of the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council. ''The accusation has been made as part of a push to raise taxes in the U. S.'' On a sunny summer day, whe... |
1027630_8 | Sunken Treasure's Sinking Fortunes; 'X' No Longer Marks the Spot For Governments or Investors | to better police our activities and establish a certain level of credibility for our operations,'' said Peter Hess, a lawyer coordinating the effort. Salvagers want to preserve the right to sell artifacts to collectors. But the newest wrinkle is the private, for-profit collection. Barry Clifford of Provincetown, Mass.,... |
1025856_0 | Foreign Affairs; Both Sides Now | I came here expecting to hear all about how the Indian nuclear test was meant to cope with the Pakistani threat. What I heard instead was Indians from across the political spectrum insisting that their nuclear sound and light show on May 11 was actually meant to signal America and China that India views their emerging ... |
1025827_1 | French Premier Says West Faces Quandary on Kosovo | we have to do,'' he said, urging the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, ''to come to his senses'' and stop building support for the rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army through his attacks on innocent civilians. ''Milosevic's attitude is irrational,'' Mr. Jospin said. ''The international community accepts Kosovo a... |
1025883_1 | Pushed by U.S., Colombia Plans New Chemical Attack on Coca | and plant coca elsewhere. Last year, Colombia became the world's leading coca grower. The American and Colombian authorities also say tebuthiuron offers greater protection for the pilots who are destroying the coca. Guerrillas have fired on low-flying planes spraying liquid herbicide in the early morning, when winds ar... |
1024001_0 | Trawler Is Held in Immigrant Smuggling | A fishing vessel registered in Venezuela has been impounded by the United States Coast Guard in connection with the smuggling of 23 Chinese men who landed on the shore of an affluent seaside town in New Jersey two weeks ago, Federal authorities said last night. The 120-foot fishing trawler, named Oriental I, was captur... |
1023886_0 | Keep Internet Funding for Schools | With the Internet becoming increasingly important in commerce and education, the Federal Government should be redoubling its efforts to help disadvantaged communities get on line. Instead, some in Congress want to pull the plug on a modest program that is critical for thousands of schools and libraries around the natio... |
1023951_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 NATO Preparing Plans For Attack on Serb Forces NATO defense ministers ordered contingency plans for bombing Serbian military targets in Kosovo and even in Serbia. They said they would also stage a huge demonstration of force just across the border to give the Yugoslav President a taste of the power ... |
1025499_0 | Schools Don't Need Web | To the Editor: A June 12 editorial advocates the Federal Communications Commission's e-rate program and castigates long-distance telephone companies for putting a separate e-rate charge on their bills and threatening to pass the cost on to consumers. You argue that long-distance companies should absorb the $2 billion a... |
1021434_4 | 22 Illegal Immigrants Seized After a Jersey Shore Landing | police officer confided. Normally, the only big news is an occasional traffic fatality, he noted. Everyone seemed to know something about what had happened, even those who saw nothing but the smugglers' boat, Oops II, before the Coast Guard towed it away to its station in Manasquan Inlet. The craft, a 1983 Century with... |
1021406_4 | The White House Dismissed Warnings on China Satellite Deal | completed an assessment of the accident review in May 1997. That is the same month Loral applied for its most recent waiver, for the Chinasat 8 satellite. Company's Concerns Reach White House The first notice to the White House of unusual problems with the Chinasat 8 waiver application came in an early January memorand... |
1021356_1 | Abroad at Home; What Might Have Been | assassinated. In his 20 years of adult life -- just 20 -- he grew and changed as few of us do, least of all politicians. He started as the hard-boiled Senate investigator, the supposedly ruthless political strategist in his brother's Presidential campaign. He ended as the man who spoke for the powerless and the abused,... |
1021351_3 | Top U.N. Inspector to Brief Security Council on Iraqi Failures to Provide Information | small country, but we don't have any presence in Iraq, for instance,'' Mr. Amorim, a former Foreign Minister, said. ''I think for the council as a whole this will be very useful. The council is to hold its next major review of sanctions on Iraq in October, when it is expected to move toward declaring Baghdad under long... |
1021323_2 | Technology; For Internet stocks, the fall of overvalued companies can hurt strong companies as well. | mania for Internet companies has been fueled by the succession of mind-boggling stock-for- stock transactions. For example, late last year, Microsoft bought a small company called Hotmail for $400 million in stock. Hotmail is a provider of a free, advertising-supported E-mail service. The company's service allows anyon... |
1021364_2 | India Calls for Talks On a Treaty to Limit All Atomic Arsenals | the fact that they came a day after Pakistan conducted its second round of nuclear tests in 48 hours, without a significant Indian protest on either occasion. The Foreign Ministry statement also drew attention for its conciliatory tone toward Pakistan and China, the two nations India cited as security threats when it j... |
1021428_1 | Crackdowns Have Smugglers Trying New Routes, Officials Say | historian who has written extensively about Chinese immigration. In those alternative ports, Mr. Kwong said, the smugglers are able to procure fraudulent documents and send the immigrants to the United States on a commercial flight. He said the smugglers, known as snakeheads, often chose ports where ''the possibility o... |
1022168_1 | Time to Talk in South Asia | have at least temporarily halted their nuclear tests and toned down their rhetoric, there is an opening for diplomacy aimed at freezing further weapons development. A modest step was taken yesterday in Geneva, where Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Britain and France urg... |
1022230_3 | Catalogue of Sorrow: Belongings of Flight 800 Victims | bags that look as if they have been through something horrible, like an explosion and a fall from 13,000 feet. Frank Carven, whose sister Paula and her 9-year-old son, Jay, were on board, is one of the five relatives who will assist the safety board. ''If you didn't get anything back, if you didn't get any luggage but ... |
1022254_0 | Many Women 60 and Older Abuse Alcohol and Prescribed Drugs, Study Says | When her husband died, leaving her a widow at the age of 77, Genevieve May started drinking to assuage her grief. ''I wouldn't get up in the morning,'' she said. ''I realized I was using alcohol to raise my spirits. It raises your spirits for a little while, and then you become depressed.'' At 83, Dr. May, a California... |
1022206_1 | Five Nations Join in Plea To Pakistan And India | unclear. ''We have no illusions that we will succeed overnight,'' Ms. Albright said. Since the end of the cold war, the United States and Russia do not have as much leverage as they once had in the region, and the three other countries do not have much either. They will evaluate how well today's strategy works, and for... |
1025099_9 | RITE OF PASSAGE: A special report.; Those Seductive Snake Eyes: Tales of Growing Up Gambling | reporter used an undercover camera recently to show that under-age gamblers were easily boarding the more than a dozen casino riverboats docked around the state, state gambling regulators are now threatening to rescind the licenses of casino operators who cannot keep under-age gamblers off their boats. In other states ... |
1025056_9 | RITE OF PASSAGE: A special report.; Those Seductive Snake Eyes: Tales of Growing Up Gambling | reporter used an undercover camera recently to show that under-age gamblers were easily boarding the more than a dozen casino riverboats docked around the state, state gambling regulators are now threatening to rescind the licenses of casino operators who cannot keep under-age gamblers off their boats. In other states ... |
1025029_3 | Fans Set Off Another Day of Violence | including elderly people and parents with young children, were forced to flee. ''A group of English fans charged toward the stands, and there was general panic,'' Dray said. Riot police arrived several minutes later and fired tear-gas canisters into the crowd, and as the match at Stade Velodrome continued, the acrid sm... |
1027064_4 | Parts of Africa Showing H.I.V. In 1 in 4 Adults | has cut its prevalence by nearly 15 percent -- to 2.3 percent in 1997 from 2.7 percent in 1994. A drop in new infections was noted especially among sex workers and their clients. ''Even in the industrialized world, reductions of this magnitude are virtually unheard of,'' Dr. Piot said. Senegal instituted campaigns for ... |
1028303_1 | At AIDS Conference, a Call to Arms Against 'Runaway Epidemic' | negotiated a program in which four million condoms for women were sold in developing countries last year at a cost of 50 to 90 cents, compared with $2 to $3 in the United States. Scores more millions of condoms for men have been sold to combat H.I.V. since the AIDS epidemic was discovered in 1981. Such preventive measu... |
1026744_2 | Scientists are Disputing The Fate of the Grizzly | a status change next year.'' Some environmentalists fear removing the bear from the list would offer it less protection, allowing, for example, more logging and oil and gas development on Federal land. Mr. Servheen, who predicts the bear could be removed from the list by the year 2000, expects to release a draft of a d... |
1023650_3 | SoHo Site Specific: On the Roof | at work on a Holocaust memorial in Vienna, a large concrete casting of an inside-out library, with the books on the outside. Each of these projects is ambitious, and each comes with its share of problems. In planning the water tower, for example, Ms. Whiteread had to find the right tower to cast and the right site. ''I... |
1023698_0 | International Effort Is Pledged to Curb Demand for Illegal Drugs | The General Assembly concluded a special session on the world drug problem today with the 150 participating nations promising to work to reduce their appetites for illegal drugs within the next five years. The effect was to place reduction of demand on par with reduction of supply as an ''indispensable pillar'' in comb... |
1028440_2 | Michelangelo's Heartbreak Comes to Life in New Light; Transforming His Pieta to 80 Gigabytes | special photography equipment, lasers, X-ray machines and the most powerful computers in America, will try to help resolve one of the most intriguing mysteries of Renaissance art. But it will not be an easy task. ''There are many problems here that I realized I would never solve by normal means,'' Dr. Wasserman said. '... |
1028584_4 | President Arrives in Shanghai; Focuses on Talk With Citizens | has not done so yet. In comparison with much of the rest of Asia, however, Shanghai looks healthy. Round-the-clock construction continues on skyscrapers throughout the city, if on fewer than before. The unemployment rate is rising steadily, as state-owned factories downsize, yet average family income is still climbing ... |
1021621_1 | Chinese Men Are Queried In Jersey Shore Smuggling | they are connected to an organized-crime organization of some kind,'' she said, calling the Chinese smuggling business particularly odious because it funnels hapless immigrants into sweatshop jobs where they are abused, exploited and overworked. ''This is a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise played out on a global... |
1021489_1 | The Endangered Species Act Gets a Makeover | how the law should work. It also reflects the realization that the Endangered Species Act's true aim is to protect healthy and biologically diverse habitats, and not just one imperiled species after another. That cannot be done without the involvement of private landowners, any more than a pianist can play with only th... |
1021488_0 | . . . Economists Point To Values Beyond Price | IN the big picture and in the long run, it's true: to paraphrase Yosemite Sam, there is biological gold in them thar rain forests. The active ingredient in roughly one in four prescription drugs comes from plants. And biotechnology companies are eager to gain access to exotic environments containing tens of millions of... |
1023112_2 | Pompeii Journal; A Pagan Gem, and Next Door, the Mob's Dead Hand | neglect, erosion and vandalism. Much has had to be closed: only 20 villas are now open to the public, down from 64 in 1956. Frescoes are fading, walls are collapsing and 2,000-year-old floor tiles unprotected from rain lie jumbled on the ground like Scrabble pieces. The World Monument Fund and Unesco both put Pompeii o... |
1023061_2 | Small Company Builds on Edge Of Microsoft's Real Estate | computer companies and Web programmers prime places on the My Space bar, but the bar can also be customized by individual users -- adding icons, removing others or deleting the bar altogether. Industry analysts who have seen Pixel's software are impressed. ''Instead of just complaining about Microsoft's control of the ... |
985448_0 | Britain Urged to Crack Down on Ulster Prisoners | The outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland has drawn calls for asserting greater Government authority at the province's top-security prison, where paramilitary groups exercise largely uncontested internal control. Protestant politicians have demanded a public inquiry into how a leader of a Protestant paramilitary for... |
989910_0 | Illusions of a War Against Cocaine | Panama is debating whether to let Washington keep American troops there to combat drug trafficking after the 1999 pullout date set by the canal treaties. The proposal, called the Multinational Counternarcotics Center, is one of several efforts to broaden the role of Latin American militaries in fighting drugs. It is di... |
989867_1 | New Killing in Belfast Adds to Doubts on Ulster Peace Talks | fears that the peace effort may collapse. In a statement in Belfast this afternoon, the Ulster Freedom Fighters said they had killed the three Catholics to retaliate for the killing of two Protestants by the Irish National Liberation Army, a splinter group that is not observing the cease-fire declared on July 20 by the... |
989884_5 | Sailing the High-End Seas; Luxury Craft Are Back and Prices Are Bigger Than Ever | 5,000 pleasure boats larger than 100 feet exist, double the number of a decade ago, said Jim Gilbert, who edits Showboats International magazine. Every year for the last three, 200 boats -- six miles of yachts -- have been under construction in boat yards around the world. Nearly half of the orders are from Americans. ... |
988016_0 | Ireland's Blueprint for Peace | The bold and risky effort that Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain has put into energizing Northern Ireland peace talks is showing encouraging results. After months of preliminary haggling, Northern Ireland's Protestants and Roman Catholics have before them the outlines of a broad political settlement. With luck and h... |
987978_1 | Critic's Choice/Television; 'A Day Like All Days,' Says a Voice From the Old Days | of Socrates,'' Mr. Cronkite sees Aristophanes (E. G. Marshall) and says, ''He has just come from the theater, where his play 'Lysistrata' is in rehearsals.'' Straight out of the time capsule, ''You Are There'' can be a hoot today. But in historical terms, the series, which ran from 1953 to '57, is fascinating and impor... |
986813_0 | January 4-10; Cleaning Up Sport Vehicles | Worried that sales might be hurt by growing public awareness of light truck pollution, the Ford Motor Company said that all of its sport utility vehicles, including the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Navigator, would be low-emission vehicles for the 1999 model year. This will make them roughly as clean as new cars, at a cos... |
987042_0 | University Seeks Older Women For Study of Their Health | The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey needs to find 1,000 women who are aged 60 to 79 and are willing to commit some time for the next eight years to help further the knowledge of the effects of hormone treatments and other factors on the health of older women. The study is part of a look at 67,000 pos... |
986789_3 | It's a Tree! It's a Cactus!; Phone Companies Try to Soften a Suburban Antenna Invasion | can typically result in more than $1,500 a month in payments. In urban areas like New York City, the expansion of the wireless antenna network has gone smoothly, with residents hardly blinking at the addition last year of hundreds of inconspicuous antennas erected by telecommunications companies amid the visual clutter... |
986959_0 | New Security Checks On Domestic Flights | Checking in for domestic flights may take longer beginning this month because some passengers will be selected for inspection of their baggage and identification papers based on a secret screening formula adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration. The new procedures will make check-in for domestic flights more lik... |
986973_2 | A School Teaches Students to Accept Those Who Are Different | less tolerant of others who are different and may react by ignoring them or picking on them. Both behaviors are equally painful.'' Last year, while working with a developentally disabled student in the middle school, Mrs. Stutz and Ms. Sabo recognized that the youngster was being scapegoated by other students and that ... |
987018_4 | At Your Service, at Your Door | canal.'' And then he recommended a crown. ''She said, 'Sonny! I'm 103. Do I need this crown?' '' His response was: ''The reason you come to me is I'm not going to tell you you're too old for anything. And the truth is, you're probably not going to live past 137 . . . but I'd say, get the crown.'' It's a Dog's Life, Jus... |
986759_1 | Ulster Is Downcast as New Violence Clouds Talks | army and huge Saxon armored vehicles back on the street. The people of West Belfast, where much of the killing has taken place over the years, say that they hope it will not happen, but that they expect more bombs and shootings, even as Mo Mowlam, the Northern Ireland Secretary, appeared on Friday to have persuaded Pro... |
987041_0 | A Trail Leads From the Past Into the Future | A block from her office in the United States Custom House in Philadelphia, Helen Mahan Forester, a community planner with the National Park Service, stands on the western bank of the Delaware River. Gazing north, she can see not just smokestacks, abandoned industrial plots, nightclubs and marinas, but also a continuous... |
991368_0 | Independent Counsel Act Is Two-Edged Sword; Philosopher Presidents? | To the Editor: Anthony Lewis's concluding comment in his Jan. 26 column -- that ''the correlation between our leaders' puritanism and their statesmanship is zero'' -- neatly sums up the central malady of our time: the widespread belief that a human being is not an organic whole. We have come to accept the idea that an ... |
991361_0 | Study of Brains Alters the View On Path of M.S. | Medical scientists thought they understood multiple sclerosis. Its central feature, they said, was a relentless loss of the insulation that sheathes nerve cells, causing a short-circuit in the electrical signals passing through the cells. But now it turns out that this loss of nerve cells' insulator, a fatty substance ... |
991346_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Albright Says U.S. Is Ready To Act Alone Against Iraq Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said the United States was ready to act alone if necessary to punish Iraq for its efforts to develop chemical and biological weapons. Though Ms. Albright reiterated the warning that President Clinton delive... |
991275_0 | Mexico City Journal; Capital's Downfall Caused by Drinking . . . of Water | In a plaza next to one of this city's most important shrines, the colossal Monument to the Revolution, a humble water pipe has become a curious monument of its own to what is, literally, Mexico City's continuing collapse. Flush with the ground in 1934 when the Monument to the Revolution was built, the water pipe now so... |
991307_1 | Brazil, Its Forests Besieged, Adds Teeth to Environmental Laws | the ground that it lacks statutory authority. ''The law isn't out to put everybody in jail,'' said Eduardo Martins, head of the agency, the Brazilian Environment Institute. ''These elements will be sufficient for an efficient management of the environment.'' A Senate version of the bill, passed unanimously last July an... |
989721_3 | Where's the Joy of Life? The Dirt Poor in Cuba Wonder | to sugar cane. He must prepare the fields, plant the cane, water it and fertilize it. When the cane is ready, the Government sends a brigade of men to cut it and haul it away. For his efforts, which take about a year, he was recently paid 266 pesos and 99 cents, about $12 at the current rate of exchange. On the rest of... |
984687_0 | 'Mainstreaming' Disabled Students Has a Price; Why Be '12th Man'? | To the Editor: ''Where All Doors Are Open for Disabled Students'' (front page, Dec. 28) reports that Jeron Fox, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, ''serves as '12th man' for the high school football team, cheering from the bench.'' Full inclusionists advocate a one-size-fits-all philosophy regarding school placement. T... |
984689_0 | 'Mainstreaming' Disabled Students Has a Price; At Expense of Gifted | To the Editor: According to your Dec. 28 front-page article on the costs of providing disabled children with ''an appropriate'' educational program, Vermont's special education budget has grown from $3.6 million in the early 1970's to $110 million today; such services account for 20 percent of Woodstock's elementary sc... |
984688_0 | 'Mainstreaming' Disabled Students Has a Price; A Case in Vermont | To the Editor: Your Dec. 28 front-page article says Vermont ''is singular in its commitment to integrating severely disabled students into regular classrooms.'' As a lawyer, I have represented such young people in Social Security disability claims and had to overcome the presumption in the disability regulations that a... |
984686_0 | 'Mainstreaming' Disabled Students Has a Price | To the Editor: Re ''Where All Doors Are Open for Disabled Students'' (front page, Dec. 28): As the parent of a special-education student, I believe that New York City and state should take a lesson from the Vermont inclusion experience. New York's special-education reform proposals assume that inclusion will produce a ... |
984591_2 | Spate of Killings Puts Cloud Over Talks on Ulster Peace | talks of their political representatives along with those of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., who joined the negotiations in September after its fighters declared their own cease-fire in July. The talks, sponsored by the British and Irish Governments and headed by a former United States Senator, George S. M... |
984626_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Israel's Foreign Minister Threatens to Resign Post Foreign Minister David Levy threatened to resign in the midst of a dispute over the 1998 budget, creating a crisis for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and forcing him to delay the budget vote until Monday. A1 One Dead in Belfast Shooting Tensions r... |
984615_0 | Killings in Ulster Jar Planned Peace Talks | Tensions over the future of the fragile peace talks in Northern Ireland grew yesterday after Protestant paramilitaries killed a Catholic man and wounded five others in a pub on New Year's Eve. It was the third sectarian killing in the province in a week. At the Clifton Tavern in North Belfast, two men, one carrying a h... |
984655_0 | Must Sexuality Be a Radical Subject? | To the Editor: In ''Study of Sex Experiencing 2d Revolution'' (front page, Dec. 28), Richard A. Posner, chief judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, describes Plato's ''Symposium'' as a defense of homosexual love. That is like describing ''Hamlet'' as a defense of dueling. Although in... |
986055_0 | AT HOME WITH: Valdir Cruz; A Fragile World Through a Lens | FOR anyone looking at Valdir Cruz's beautiful, silvery photographs of the remote Indians of the Amazon rain forests, it is difficult to shake the notion that they are images of ghosts populating ghost towns. In these images, the product of visits to northern Brazil and southern Venezuela over the last three years, chil... |
986055_4 | AT HOME WITH: Valdir Cruz; A Fragile World Through a Lens | outside but open on the inside. Within the ring is a disk of land swept of trees and underbrush, for dances and for children to play. But because villagers must rely intimately on one another for survival, families have no separate dwellings, not even curtains as partitions. Their hammocks are simply draped around thei... |
991588_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Blair Opens an Inquiry Into Irish 'Bloody Sunday' Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said he was opening a new judicial inquiry into the ''Bloody Sunday'' killings of more than a dozen unarmed civil rights marchers by British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 1972. The event became a focus of Roman C... |
991541_0 | Two 'Bloody Sundays': Catalysts for Change | Jan. 30, 1972, was not the first day in the 20th-century history of Irish conflict to have gained the name Bloody Sunday and become a rallying cry for political change. The first occurred on Nov. 21, 1920, at the height of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain, and led to more than two dozen casualties, half... |
991516_0 | Saving Brazil's Forest | To the Editor: It is difficult to comprehend what it means to destroy about 11,200 square miles of rain forest as occurred in Brazil in 1995 (news article, Jan. 27). That area is equivalent to 6.5 million football fields. Furthermore, it isn't lack of money to prevent forest destruction that is the problem. At the 1990... |
991583_4 | The Leaning Tower of Flushing; Evacuated Condo Owners Want Years of Ordeal to End | quiet, slightly built man, he teaches music appreciation in the public schools. His great love is the piano, but his hands now occasionally shake like the needle on an electrocardiograph. His eyes are tired, his complexion pale. Some days, he looks as if he's been turned on a spit until all his juices have run out. Mr.... |
991584_2 | BRITAIN TO REOPEN ITS INQUIRY OF '72 IN ULSTER KILLINGS | to accompany political progress in five-month-old peace talks that are aimed at settling the conflict by May. These steps have included the early release of prisoners, the transfer of inmates from jails in England to jails in Ireland and the granting of holiday leaves to imprisoned guerrillas. Producing a credible acco... |
985699_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | Government with finding a way to protect the 800-year-old marble leaning Tower of Pisa have announced a plan to brace the structure as a first step in halting its tilt. A4 NATIONAL A10-14 Clinton Plans to Introduce Balanced Budget for 1999 President Clinton said he would propose a balanced Federal budget for 1999, thre... |
985685_10 | Detective Work and Science Reveal a New Lethal Bacteria | epidemics kept ticking away, usually going unreported because they were sporadic and few doctors thought to test for E. coli. But some outbreaks were hard to miss. In September 1984, 34 out of 101 people living in a Nebraska nursing home became ill with E. coli infections. They had eaten contaminated hamburgers. In Oct... |
985739_2 | Pisa Journal; A Long List on How to Stop a Tower's Slight One | where the best-laid plans often fall victim to procrastination or politics, skeptics abound. Over the years, some Pisans point out, the tower has shown greater stability than, say, Italy's governments, of which there have been more than 50 since the end of World War II. Others, like Rina Staderini, one of 101 stallhold... |
990822_1 | Menopause Begins Silently, Before Its Symptoms | may become somewhat irregular -- shorter or longer, lighter or heavier -- or she may experience premenstrual syndrome, menstrual cramps or headaches that are showing up for the first time or worse than in the past. Hot flashes may become bothersome during the day, and night sweats may disrupt her sleep, resulting in in... |
990810_3 | New Translation of Aesop Finds a Still Beastlier Side | the sixth century B.C. and belonged to a citizen of the Greek island of Samos. Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle all make references to Aesop in their writings. But many of the fables which are considered ''Aesopian'' are in fact stories that were added well after his supposed death. There are at least three ... |
990896_0 | Small Group Of Protestants Quits Talks On Ulster | Pressed by other participants in the precarious Northern Ireland peace talks, a small Protestant party with links to a paramilitary group that admitted killing three Catholics this month pulled out of the negotiations today. While the withdrawal added another note of instability to the already fragile talks, it was not... |
990958_1 | Menopause Begins Silently, Before Its Symptoms | may become somewhat irregular -- shorter or longer, lighter or heavier -- or she may experience premenstrual syndrome, menstrual cramps or headaches that are showing up for the first time or worse than in the past. Hot flashes may become bothersome during the day, and night sweats may disrupt her sleep, resulting in in... |
990884_1 | Data Show Recent Burning of Amazon Is Worst Ever | destroyed from 1995 to 1996, less than in the previous year, but sharply up from the average annual levels in the rest of the decade. ''It shows the situation was not under control as the Government kept insisting over the last two years,'' said Garo Batmanian, head of the Brazilian office of the World Wildlife Fund. '... |
987155_3 | Think Globally, Focus Locally; Seeking 'Cruising Speed', Washington Post Editors Prefer Stability to Sizzle | been put back into coverage. In recent months, the paper has begun publishing suburban tabloids two and three times a week for distant counties from a ring of new suburban bureaus, using 30 new reporters, editors and photographers. Perhaps because the changes have been so sweeping, when the paper's top editors and its ... |
987166_0 | With U.S. Team Set, Thoughts Turn to Nagano and Another Sort of Triple | Now that Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski and Nicole Bobek have finished 1-2-3 at the Olympic trials, many in the figure-skating community believe that they can also sweep the medals at next month's Olympic Games. ''We can be 1-2-3,'' said Christa Fassi, who coaches Bobek. ''I really think we have the Dream Team for these ... |
987174_0 | Kinsman of Sinn Fein Chief Killed at Protestant Club | On the eve of resumption of formal peace talks aimed at ending the long history of political violence in this British province, Northern Ireland was shocked today by a particularly bizarre sectarian killing. A Roman Catholic doorman, Terry Enwright, 28, was shot dead outside a Belfast night club. He was a nephew-by-mar... |
987148_3 | It Isn't Just Big Brother Who Is Watching | said. ''I like the attention.'' Her previous employer, a mom-and-pop publishing company, ordered her to remove any reference to the company, and she did, but felt violated and quit. ''It upset me that someone was spending so much time digging into my personal Web site and reading everything and giving it to my boss,'' ... |
987163_3 | Baena Journal; No Olive Branch in the Embattled Olive Groves | kilos from one olive tree and 150 kilos from another,'' said Francisco Tarifa, a burly farmer who also heads the local cooperative. ''How can you subsidize a tree? Some have one trunk, some four. They behave differently if you prune them or water them or kill the weeds.'' Any remaining respect for the officials in Brus... |
988654_1 | ON THE CASE -- A special report.; Child Welfare Foot Soldier Treads Fine Line | and neglect. ''What they do is not rocket science,'' said Michael Petit, deputy director of the Child Welfare League of America. ''It's way harder than rocket science.'' On the front lines of calamity, caseworkers like Ms. Diaz-DeJesus have no energy for debating the age-old conundrum of child welfare: to preserve biol... |
988309_2 | Is the Golden City Taking On Too Many Colors? | to pour into Prague after the collapse of Communism. The old structures are still there, and in some cases have been well restored. But the context in which they are seen is being inexorably changed by signs, billboards, vast expanses of outdoor cafes, fast-food joints and souvenir shops. Mr. Spicka is particularly out... |
988612_1 | Word for Word / Mayhem on the Tube; Television's Most Violent: It's Payback Time | Another Fox special, ''Close Call: Cheating Death,'' exhibited a curious sense of decorum: One scene shows a member of a bomb squad leaning over a chamber where a possible explosive is stored, only to have it detonate in his face. The explosion itself is repeated seven different times throughout the program. Many of th... |
988744_1 | Tobacco Industry, Conciliatory in U.S., Goes on the Attack in the Third World | in the third world to convince the media, the public and policy makers that similar changes are not needed. The tobacco companies have long lobbied policy makers here and abroad to prevent passage of antitobacco measures. But in the last three years they have sharpened their campaigns overseas to influence how tobacco-... |
988439_1 | New Focus on Attention Deficit Disorder | parents of the children one evening a week. One mother from Merrick, whose 9-year-old son attended the course, said the one to two ratio of instructor to child was what made her son learn transitional and communication skills that he had found difficult with other teachers and counselors. ''They didn't just play ball,'... |
988672_2 | Australian Crucible: Blowflies, Heat and Teen-Agers | anything except rainy conditions. They did not, they protested, train for air-conditioning. They did not train to test themselves against the cartoon generation, either, but this year, there is a veritable teen-age invasion. No matter that Martina Hingis, the women's defending champion, is still a mere teen-ager hersel... |
988561_2 | The 100,000-Mile Tuneup: Just Make Some Pit Stops Along the Way | service.'' The traditional tuneup started to become obsolete with the Clean Air Act of 1970, which required the installation of P.C.V. valves to keep oily emissions inside the engine. Changes in the rules in 1972 forced the use of catalytic converters and unleaded gasoline to reduce emissions of unburned hydrocarbons, ... |
988651_1 | Tobacco Industry, Conciliatory in U.S., Goes on the Attack in the Third World | in the third world to convince the media, the public and policy makers that similar changes are not needed. The tobacco companies have long lobbied policy makers here and abroad to prevent passage of antitobacco measures. But in the last three years they have sharpened their campaigns overseas to influence how tobacco-... |
988984_0 | Gerry Adams, Meeting Blair, Objects to New Ulster Blueprint | Gerry Adams and a delegation from his Sinn Fein party voiced their strong objections today to a new British-Irish negotiating blueprint in a ''frank'' meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. But they said they remained committed to participation in the current peace talks in Belfast. They also said they would not be dr... |
984404_0 | Na Tao Journal; Asia's Wealth Ebbs, but Laos Is Too Poor to Care | This is one Southeast Asian country that has mostly dodged the economic crisis that is sweeping through the region. It is too poor to feel the pain. Here in this settlement of thatched homes and parched fields, a good year is a year without drought or flood, when the harvest is just enough to feed the villagers. The la... |
984463_3 | Airlines Criticized for Plans to Flag Suspicious Travelers | by a passenger. The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Jane Garvey, said in a statement that the changes would ''bring security for air travelers in this country to a new level of effectiveness.'' The changes follow the recommendation of an aviation safety and security commission, headed by Vice Pres... |
984449_1 | That Flurry of Falling Brick? It's Coincidence, Chicken Little | ''It's not unusual when we get these northeasters or similar types of storms that we get a lot of incidents of parapets, parts of balconies or other parts popping loose,'' said Gaston Silva, the city's Buildings Commissioner. ''What is unusual is that this all happened at the same time as Madison Avenue, which was very... |
986360_2 | File Suggests A Possibility Of Deception On Tobacco | they might have supported some academic research on the genetic engineering of tobacco, F.D.A. officials have said. But internal cigarette company documents clearly show that top executives of both Brown & Williamson and B.A.T. were involved in plans to both develop genetically engineered tobacco with high nicotine lev... |
984767_1 | In New Jersey, a Delicate Industry Unravels | will eventually succumb to the same forces that have killed off other manufacturing trades in the area. In the last 15 years, New Jersey's share of the domestic market for embroidery has declined to 70 percent from 90 percent, according to a 1996 report by the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Foreign and dom... |
991779_2 | Backing U.S., France Warns Iraqis to Yield on Arms Inspections | are open, and this is why it is necessary to intensify the search for a diplomatic solution.'' Yves Doutriaux, a spokesman for Mr. Vedrine, said before the conversation between the two Presidents today that ''there has been no change in France's position.'' But American officials said France had now made clear that it ... |
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