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991755_0 | Religion Journal; A Portrait Of Those Who Enter Into Orders | In recent years, the most frequently heard news about people becoming priests, brothers or nuns in the Roman Catholic Church has been that, in the eyes of church authorities, there have been far too few of them. Since the late 1960's, seminary enrollments have plunged, threatening a shortage of priests. The number of w... |
991697_0 | When Buildings Tumble | To the Editor: The collapse of an apartment building on the Lower East Side (news article, Jan. 25) shows the consequences of New York City's neglect of code enforcement and housing preservation. This and several other recent structural failures are part of a larger trend of deterioration of the city's rental housing s... |
986577_0 | Official's Prison Visit Defuses Threat to Ulster Talks | Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary appeared to have averted an imminent crisis in the peace effort today as she visited a high-security prison and persuaded Protestant paramilitary prisoners not to try to disrupt the formal peace talks, which are to resume here on Monday. Two hours after the visit of the Secretary, M... |
986530_4 | Beliefs | page of his, and there is a startling phrase, a maxim, an aphorism, a paradox or an illuminating contrast of paired notions. And though every page also seems permeated with his Judaism, this attention to the underlying religious experience helps explain why the works of Rabbi Heschel are used for meditation and inspira... |
986509_1 | In Praise of Uncertainty and Other Underappreciated Concepts | great struggle of the 20th century was between the philosophies of Gandhi and Lenin, between the forces of nonviolent protest and revolutionary violence against an unjust social order. Obviously, he put his money on Gandhi. Much as we all admire Gandhi today, very few people, not to speak of any politicians, are trying... |
989529_3 | Study Challenges Idea of PMS as Emotional Disorder | some degree, a diagnosis of PMS is based on the marked presence of at least five of the above symptoms in the last week of each menstrual cycle and their absence at other times. That ovarian hormones are somehow the cause of premenstrual syndrome was demonstrated more than a decade ago, when several research teams elim... |
989442_0 | Footlights | NEWS An Irish Air Catherine Deneuve, Stephen Frears, Morgan Freeman and Bertrand Tavernier were among the celebrity guests when the 25th European Film Festival began on Tuesday in Brussels. This year's festival has a distinctly Irish air. The Irish director Neil Jordan, who has a film in competition, received an award.... |
989497_0 | I.R.A., in Veiled Threat, Says Proposals Throw Talks Into a Crisis | The Irish Republican Army said today that there is a crisis in the peace effort in the Protestant-dominated British province of Northern Ireland. The statement by the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic guerrilla organization came shortly before a Catholic man was shot dead in Belfast, where the formal peace talks have been ... |
991112_0 | INSIDE | With Violence on Rise, Blair Steps Into Ulster Talks Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain intervened in the faltering Northern Ireland peace negotiations and said that despite rising violence in the province the talks were ''the only democratic way forward.'' Page A3. Immigration Fraud Charges Federal officials indicte... |
991127_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Clinton Tells Iraq To Comply With U.N. President Clinton warned President Saddam Hussein of Iraq against defying the United Nations, and Mr. Clinton sent senior officials to consult with American allies in Europe and the Middle East. A1 Residents of Baghdad, a low-rise city of four million, worried t... |
991083_0 | Obeying Pope, German Bishops End Role in Abortion System | Caught between the doctrine of their church and the laws of their land, Germany's Roman Catholic bishops bowed to the wishes of Pope John Paul II today and agreed to withhold counseling certificates that play a central part in this country's legal procedures for abortion. The decision, announced by Bishop Karl Lehmann ... |
991082_0 | Blair Attends Ulster Talks, Seeking to Combat Killings | Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened in the faltering Northern Ireland peace negotiations today, as a splinter Protestant paramilitary group opposed to the talks announced in Belfast that it would continue to murder Catholics. Mr. Blair went tonight to Lancaster House, where the talks are being held this week, to expre... |
991187_0 | World News Briefs; Brazil Delays Vote On Environmental Bill | The Congress put off voting today on a bill that would have given Brazil's environmental agency power to enforce environmental protection laws nine years after the agency came into being. The bill, which has languished in the Congress for seven years, was originally hailed by ecologists as a model for the 21st century.... |
990206_5 | Disabled, He Helps Others Beat Handicaps | People with disabilities are our parents and our children and our friends. If a person, because they're getting older and can't walk as well as they used to, or hear as well as they used to or can't hold things as well as they used to because of arthritis, those are disabilities.'' In most ways, the Viscardi school is ... |
990180_6 | Retirees, Refusing to Stand Pat, Infuse Communities | much of a stretch as it seems, at least in other parts of the country. Many universities, including Duke, Yale, Cornell and the University of Virginia, are medically or financially affiliated with retirement communities In part, the growth of continuing care communities across the country is reinforcing the college-ret... |
990193_3 | When Great Ships Came In | Hook, and police launches and fire floats and Moran tugs hastening seaward, and scows full of stinking rubbish for landfill, and even a few genuine fishing boats taking their catch directly to the Fulton Street fish market. Freighters waiting for quarantine inspection hung about dimly at the Narrows, and through it all... |
990499_0 | January 18-24; Deconstructing PMS | Researchers are zeroing in on the biological causes of premenstrual syndrome, with the promise that treatments can be developed to counter its hormonal underpinnings. The latest study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that the brains of women with severe PMS respond aberrantly to changes in bl... |
985233_0 | Russia's Church-Run Campus Has a Secular Goal | In the cozy top floor of the Vysoko Petrovsky monastery, where Russian Orthodox monks once immersed themselves in ancient manuscripts, Natasha Nikolayeva and her classmates were taking their final exams in Russian housing law recently. The icons that adorn the walls of the tiny lecture room comforted Ms. Nikolayeva, wh... |
984909_3 | Beyond the Culture Wars | a century ago before the denominational college was replaced by the science-driven research university. The older system that O'Brien would re-create was led by all-powerful, often demagogic presidents who could fire professors at will, at schools with a fixed curriculum that placed tradition and moral indoctrination a... |
985263_2 | Pope Comforts Italy's Earthquake Victims | Their marriage of 56 years ''is a beautiful marriage,'' she said, adding, ''There have never been words.'' The Pope blessed them and said, ''May you live to be 100.'' John Paul, despite the heavy Christmas and New Year's schedule just behind him, appeared rested. He wore a white coat over his robes in bright sunshine. ... |
984904_0 | Ships Upon Untamed Seas | A MARITIME ALBUM 100 Photographs and Their Stories. By John Szarkowski and Richard Benson. Illustrated. 245 pp. Newport News, Va., and New Haven: The Mariners' Museum and Yale University Press. $39.95. Victorians on both sides of the Atlantic were smitten with their societies' cleverness and audacity, so amply demonstr... |
984983_0 | The Lives They Lived: John P. Snyder; The Earth Made Flat | b. 1926 A gifted amateur with a pocket calculator and a spare bedroom for a study, Snyder solved one of the most vexing map-making problems of the century. John Snyder was a chemical engineer who studied maps as a hobby but ended up solving a key cartographic problem of the space age. In 1972, NASA launched the first o... |
984930_3 | A Pocketful Of Guides | (''Traveling by Air With Your Pet''). The sheet, as well as another, ''Getting the Best Air Fare,'' can be obtained from the Consumer Protection Division, (C-75), Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590. FACTS AND ADVICE FOR AIRLINE PASSENGERS has been reissued by the Aviation Con... |
985182_3 | Managers Wanted: Will Train. Start Immed. Bonu$. | hydraulic, electrical and mechanical skills. Frank E. Curran, a recruiter for Tech Specialists, a division of Office Specialists Inc. in Waltham, Mass., said the shortage of skilled workers was forcing new flexibility on employers. ''Before, they may have wanted 10 out of 10 skills,'' he said. ''Now, people are willing... |
985245_1 | Seeking Water on Moon In New NASA Mission | the poles. We should understand more about the Moon's interior, its magnetic and gravity fields and its mineral resources.'' Compared with the hundreds of millions of miles covered by missions to Mars and far beyond, the spacecraft's journey to the Moon, 240,000 miles away, is like an offshore excursion. But after the ... |
988853_2 | Antalaha Journal; Vanilla Farming? Not as Bland as You Might Think | -- can be stored for up to 10 years before it is put on the market. So yearly sales figures are not necessarily a reflection of what is really going on. But there is wide agreement among experts that in the last 20 years, Madagascar's vanilla has been losing ground. In the early 1970's, the island supplied 70 percent o... |
988850_1 | Science Triumphant? Not So Fast | a ''war on cancer'' in 1971, the United States has spent more than $30 billion on cancer research. Scientists have taken enormous strides toward understanding how different types of cancer occur, and they have invented sophisticated methods for detecting the disease and tracking its course. But overall mortality rates ... |
988840_2 | Technology to Let Engineers Filter the Web and Judge Content | fact is it also allows a government or an Internet service provider to take on that parental role and decide what anyone downstream is going to be able to see -- and no steps have been taken to prevent that.'' The Microsoft Corporation has already incorporated an early version of the content selection technology into i... |
988875_1 | Renegade Irish Militants Plan Mayhem, Officials Say | peace talks, they say, could feel compelled to stop negotiating and to attack each other, with invective but not indisputable evidence, as allies of sectarian killers. The renegade groups do not recognize the cease-fire being maintained by the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republican Army and the main Protestant parami... |
987307_0 | A 'Road Map' for the Future of Ulster Wins Agreement | For the first time since formal peace talks began here 19 months ago, the Irish and British Governments today agreed on proposals that they hope will result in a lasting settlement of the sectarian strife that has killed 3,233 people in Northern Ireland since 1969. Protestant and Roman Catholic negotiators at the talks... |
987272_0 | An Herb, Yes; a Remedy, No | HORMONE replacement therapy is the standard treatment for hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, but many women turn to herbal remedies in an attempt to get the benefits of estrogen without the side effects, which includes a heightened risk of breast cancer. A new study has found, however, that one herb taken to ... |
987358_11 | VACANT CUBICLES -- A special report.; Software Jobs Go Begging, Threatening Technology Boom | addition, almost one-fifth of all computer science students are foreign nationals, many of whom will return to their native countries after graduating. Already, American technology companies have set up operations in India, Ireland and the Philippines to take advantage of increasingly skilled foreign labor pools. Infor... |
987328_2 | White House Bailouts for Asia Draw Fire | take seriously our concerns, it can break what must look to them like an unholy alliance between liberals and conservatives.'' Mr. Rubin said the interdependence of the American and Asian economies and financial markets and the broader interest the United States has in a stable, prosperous Asia have left the United Sta... |
989294_5 | With Pope Due, the Cubans Wrest Dollars From Heaven | ''There's a lot to say about life style down here,'' Mr. Ortiz added. ''She is not going to do superficial, feel-good stuff, but will make an honest attempt to look at how people live here'' with reports about, for example, paladares, the small private restaurants Cubans are now allowed to operate. Since beginning a dr... |
989220_2 | Journal; Back To the Future | instantly identify what it is. New York Times interviews with women waiting for abortions at clinics last week revealed a recurrent belief that abortion had been legal for most or all of this century. What has been forgotten is not only that abortion was illegal only a generation ago but that it was prevalent in number... |
989203_0 | Eating Well; Serving No Swordfish | FOR several years, Americans have been warned not to eat swordfish more than once a week because of the potential for mercury poisoning. Now, they may have a reason not to eat swordfish at all: population levels are in serious decline, and unless measures are taken, there may not be a commercial swordfish industry in 1... |
990595_2 | No Frills, Just Service With a Screen | centers, is installing chat as a training and advice forum for its 3,000 franchisees, and DuPont is looking at chat as an aid for its corporate customers. As a business tool, chat holds out the promise of reducing a company's dependence on the telephone as a means of conducting customer service, sales and support, as w... |
987647_0 | Victory on the Field Doesn't Help Students; Precarious Futures | To the Editor: The recent survey of students who increasingly see higher education as a gateway to economic security rather than to wisdom (news article, Jan. 12) charts a reality that many of us teaching at public colleges confront daily in our classrooms. What surveys don't show but we can see are the factors behind ... |
987540_0 | Seed of Hope In Ulster Soil | While encouraged by the new willingness of both sides finally to grapple with details after 19 months of peace talks here, both Catholic and Protestant leaders fear that the effort remains vulnerable to fringe groups determined to wreck an accord. Most officials agree that the proposals put forward on Monday by the Bri... |
985878_0 | Protestant Threat Imperils Peace Talks in Ulster | The Northern Ireland peace effort was under pressure tonight from two Protestant groups threatening to withdraw from the talks scheduled to resume in Belfast next Monday. The two groups, the Ulster Democratic Party and the Progressive Unionist Party, said today that they believed the British Government was favoring the... |
1065129_1 | Editorial Observer | caused damage anywhere, but there would have been fewer lethal mud slides if the land in Honduras and Nicaragua had been covered with trees. Central America is one of the most deforested parts of the world, losing 118 acres of trees an hour. El Salvador lost only a few people from mudslides. But environmentalists here ... |
1061942_0 | Hurricane Relief Is Just a Band-Aid | To the Editor: Re ''The Life of a Hurricane, the Death That It Caused'' (front page, Nov. 9): The list of Central America's products sounds much like the export cargo from the colonies of the 17th and 18th centuries: bananas, coffee, sugar cane, cocoa and timber. Central America produces these raw materials for export ... |
1061909_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE BRITAIN: TROOP REDUCTION IN ULSTER Because of the improving security situation, British troop levels in Northern Ireland are being reduced to 15,000, 2,000 fewer than this summer and the smallest number since 1970. Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary said that 400 soldiers would be g... |
1063308_1 | Trade Deficit Ebbs, but Asia Toll Is Evident | in its early months. That widening deficit poses what Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley recently called ''a political problem of enormous magnitude.'' This morning, Mr. Clinton said: ''Nothing is more important to restoring stability and growth in Asia than efforts to restore Japan's economy. But it has been stall... |
1063286_7 | Real Queasiness In Virtual Reality | a flight simulator was driving his car when he suddenly saw the world upside down. ''If exposure is sufficiently long, people adapt, then you get post-exposure effects due to the adaptation itself,'' said Dr. Parker, of the University of Washington. ''It's very comparable to being on an oceangoing vessel and coming bac... |
1061772_2 | AS TENSION GROWS, FEW VOICES AT U.N. SPEAK UP FOR IRAQ | very reluctant to get involved again. In the weeks before the February agreement, France and Russia exerted themselves to avert any military action. For instance, President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia sent his Deputy Foreign Minister, Viktor Posuvalyuk, to Baghdad to try to solve the crisis. And President Jacques Chirac... |
1061703_2 | Now Ruined Economies Afflict Central America | Vice President. ''Ninety percent of banana production was affected.'' In 1997 bananas accounted for about $250 million of $1.1 billion in total exports from Honduras, a country of six million people about the size of Pennsylvania. Because of widespread flooding of their plantations, foreign banana producers that have d... |
1063784_1 | Religion Journal; Leaders Offer Guidelines For Life in Larger World | work on Monday?'' asks the document, ''Everyday Christianity: To Hunger and Thirst for Justice,'' which says the church's social mission is ultimately up to the people in the pews. It will be sent to all 19,000 parishes in the United States. With references to statements by Pope John Paul II and to some of the bishops'... |
1064919_1 | Palestinians Walking on Air At Opening of Gaza Airport | retains considerable control over security, flight schedules and routes. Israeli aviation officials, in fact, have described the Gaza airport as a new airport under Israel's jurisdiction. As they do at some of the land crossings into Jordan, Israeli security agents will operate a kind of shadow document-checking system... |
1062924_2 | Report on McCain's Remarks About Tip-Off Angers Paris | that the media was reporting an attack was imminent.'' But Mr. Vedrine said on French radio this morning: ''I find that this is a shameful and completely idiotic accusation. I demand an explanation of this statement from the American authorities.'' Foreign Ministry officials said he had instructed the Ambassador in Was... |
1062941_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 U.S. and Allies Foresee Future Crisis With Iraq The United States, its allies and past defenders of Iraq said they did not expect President Saddam Hussein to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors and that breaking his promise would set off a military response without a Security Council deb... |
1060961_2 | On the Trail of Treasure and Tragedy in Lakes' Depths | prefers to photograph and videotape the wrecks and exhibit his findings. But his track record for sniffing out long-elusive shipwrecks is so well established that opportunistic entrepreneurs often try to follow his tracks. At least once this summer, Mr. Trotter and his crew were ''jumped'' by a charter boat trying to s... |
1061028_1 | Expectation Aside, Water Use in U.S. Is Showing Decline | the author of a new study, ''The World's Water'' (Island Press). Whether the decline in water use will continue is unclear. Most of the drop occurred in the 1980's, with a decline of only 2 percent reported from 1990 to 1995, the latest year for which numbers are available. Moreover, the numbers are estimates and there... |
1060967_0 | OBSERVATORY | Microscopic Iron Men Tardigrades are microscopic invertebrates that live among mosses and lichens, and in lakes and oceans. They are sometimes known as water bears, for their roly-poly appearance and ambling gait. But the cuteness is deceiving: Tardigrades are the Iron Men of the animal kingdom. Scientists have been pu... |
1060975_2 | Guidelines Offer an Earlier Blueprint for the Battle Against Bone Loss | a personal history of fracture as an adult, regardless of what caused it; a history of fracture in a first-degree relative (parent or sibling); current cigarette smoking; and having a small, thin frame, defined by a body weight of less than 127 pounds. There is a much longer list of secondary risk factors, secondary on... |
1064234_0 | BUSINESS: DIARY | Northwest Airlines finished buying a controlling stake in Continental Airlines, though in response to regulatory concerns it bought fewer shares than it originally wanted. . . . AMR, parent of American Airlines, agreed to acquire Reno Air, a struggling discount carrier in the West. . . . The threatened pilot's strike a... |
1065530_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | the World Cup in 2006. The proposals include banning known troublemakers from traveling and making the chanting of racist taunts a crime. Warren Hoge (NYT) BRITAIN: AIDS DEATH RATES DOWN -- Medical researchers in London reported that AIDS death rates have fallen 80 percent in Europe in the four years since new multidru... |
1065530_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | study how Pakistan could sell its surplus power to India, which is desperately short of power. The small step in cooperation is the first concrete sign of progress to emerge from recent talks between the two nations. Celia W. Dugger (NYT) PHILIPPINES: ASIAN ECONOMY TO GROW -- The Asian economy, pulled up mainly by Chin... |
1059148_1 | Irish Leader Urges Restarting Ulster Peace Drive | in an attempt to restart the stalled Ulster peace effort. But the daylong meetings were clearly also an attempt to allay fears that the shooting death of the man, Brian Service, apparently by a Protestant splinter guerrilla group, would lead to renewed violence. That would further delay the resolution of political disp... |
1058317_1 | The Quiet Bomb | of a series of improvisations under two Prime Ministers, David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol. Neither man ever brought the issue before his Cabinet, and Israeli parties on both the left and right refrained from discussing it because of their commitment to the ''sanctity of security.'' But Israel's policy was also shaped b... |
1058477_4 | Depression In Children Prompts Concern | her first concerns about her son's behavior. Jason was hyperactive, had difficulty sleeping and had trouble getting along with other children, she said. At school, he would crawl rather than walk to his desk. Despite his problems, Ms. Fredricks said she was told, ''He's just a boy,'' and ''he'll grow out of it.'' ''The... |
1058770_1 | Marxism's True Believers Pay Tribute to an Icon | senior at the Bronx High School of Science who received an award at yesterday's debates from the Brecht Forum, the event's sponsor, for his essay about the relevance of Marx today. ''You have to have a lot of faith, and we have to unite in favor of the human race as a whole.'' That the manifesto retains the power to mo... |
1058782_6 | For One-Child Policy, China Rethinks Iron Hand | certain medical conditions -- from schizophrenia to colon polyps to congenital hearing loss -- they are forbidden to have children. Ms. Cong of the State Family Planning Commission said that family-planning workers would have to change their attitude and, to that end, the commission has been sending officials to course... |
1058563_0 | 2 Teachers Tear Down the Wall | Allen Milford is extra protective of his son Steven, who has Down's syndrome, so he was hesitant to place him in a class with mainstream students. But when the teachers knocked the walls down, he didn't have much of a choice. ''The way I thought about it was, how is my son going to hold back this class?'' said Mr. Milf... |
1058775_0 | King Hussein Ails. His Brother Waits. | When King Hussein of Jordan appeared at the White House to place his personal seal on the Palestinian-Israeli agreement last week, it was a moment of pathos and pride for many of his distant people: his presence magnified his prestige as a peacemaker; his appearance, made spectral by chemotherapy, drove home to many fo... |
1061425_0 | Linking the Computer and the World, the Clever Modem | PICK up a phone while your computer is connected to the Internet, and you hear what sounds like the braying of an electronic donkey. Somewhere inside that set of squawks might be a picture of your grandmother, an E-mail to your boss or perhaps the newest version of Doom slowly downloading to your computer. Bits and byt... |
1063140_1 | Disarmament of the I.R.A. Losing Some of Its Priority in Ulster | early in recent months. The day before, in an unusually conciliatory statement that was clearly intended to help break the deadlock over disarmament. Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary said that the 16-month cease-fire being observed by the I.R.A. could help bring permanent peace in the pr... |
1063088_1 | Business Travel; United Airlines is installing new passenger-friendly equipment at several domestic airports. | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines or Continental Airlines where passengers could be accommodated. These screens will be installed first at O'Hare, then at other airports that have not yet been determined. Finally, since the beginning of November, United has installed metal templates on X-ray machines at O'Hare and Los... |
1065266_2 | Eliminating the Distance Between Two Points | the armchair kind or the fairground kind, rachets up as well. The 19th-century views tend to be elegant, extremely still and unpeopled, though the century also had its share of pictures of tourists viewing Niagara or climbing pyramids with a strong hand up from the guides. The immense grandeur and dignity of pictures l... |
1065345_0 | In Ireland, Blair Declares End to Centuries of Enmity | Speaking as the first British Prime Minister ever to address the Parliament of the Irish Republic, Tony Blair today declared an end to centuries of British-Irish hostility and said that London and Dublin must now work together to rescue the stalled Northern Ireland peace effort. Mr. Blair, addressing a joint session of... |
1065304_2 | Suddenly Within Reach, Millions in Sunken Treasure | pieced together a chronicle of Spanish exploitation, tracing the routes of sailing ships between the New World and the Old. Of the estimated 13,000 Spanish ships that sailed over a two-century period, perhaps as many as half sunk before reaching their destination in Seville, many close to Cuba, leaving what, at today's... |
1062398_1 | The Nation: Dreams of Fields; The New Politics Of Urban Sprawl | their communities, and to tax themselves to buy open space as a hedge against future development. For Vice President Al Gore, who has been ratcheting up the sprawl issue as a top green concern, edging aside more contentious and somewhat abstract environmental concepts like global warming, the votes are seen as the star... |
1062471_6 | Moynihan Reflects on Career As Scholarly, Puckish Power | be best remembered for his writings on race, ethnicity and social policy. It was as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson that Mr. Moynihan wrote a famous report warning that rising illegitimacy rates among inner-city blacks would deepen their poverty. Though Mr. Moynihan was accused then of blaming the victim, his th... |
1062065_2 | We Have Liftoff | trying to discern the capabilities of the Soviet antisatellite program. Michael A. Minovitch, a doctoral student in mathematics and physics, spent a summer internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing a theory of ''gravity propulsion'' that revolutionized deep space exploration, an achievement for which Burro... |
1062122_1 | Taking the Starch Out of Status | makers on the East Coast. New Money was grasping and crass (think: your typical Texas oilman); Old Money was refined (think: David Rockefeller). New Money yearned for respectability; Old Money had it. New Money flaunted its wealth; Old Money believed there was no greater sin. Old Money had status that New Money could o... |
1062072_5 | Loving the Unlovable Greeks | by Spartan brutality or Athenian recklessness. Contraction of the sphere meant that ''internally, the polis was implacable toward any individual who ceased to be totally absorbed in it.'' Burckhardt can be considered the discoverer of the polis only if that rather sour picture of it is the true one. Historians like Geo... |
1059943_3 | Bethlehem Journal; John Updike Returns to His Source | traces of psoriasis, a condition he painstakingly described in the essay, ''At War With My Skin.'' On incest, he replied: ''All love comes from the family. Yet it is an effort to break out of the familiar, to become intimate with another, to reconstruct the cuddling, the tickling and the comfort. It is part of being hu... |
1059876_2 | France Offers To Lead Force Sent to Kosovo With Monitors | disclosure in Washington was followed by near-total silence in Paris. French officials said then that the officer had only been following orders in pursuing contacts with the Bosnian Serb leadership. They conceded that perhaps he had been a little too zealous in trying to persuade Dr. Karadzic to surrender, rather than... |
1059962_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Security Council Condemns Intransigence by Iraq The Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Iraq and to demand that President Saddam Hussein cooperate with United Nations arms inspectors. But the Council did not authorize or even mention the use of force to back its demand. A1 The United State... |
1058955_0 | Sinn Fein Leader Says He'll Urge I.R.A. Not to Retaliate for Killing | Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, said today that he would appeal to the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic guerrilla organization not to retaliate for the killing, apparently by Protestants, of a Catholic man in Belfast early Saturday morning. The death heightened ten... |
1058920_3 | Antitrust Case Is Highlighting Role of E-Mail | there was an explosion of documentation fueled by the new technologies of electric typewriters, photocopying and fax machines and then personal computers. And E-mail, they add, has played an important role in legal inquiries for years, like the Iran-contra case in the 1980's when E-mail found in Oliver North's computer... |
1058989_1 | Limits on Parole Dash Refugees' Hopes | realizing that the officials are not giving us any opportunity of being heard,'' said the man from Congo, 34, an engineer who identified himself only by his first name, Ideda. ''I could not control myself.'' If the extreme -- and ultimately futile -- measures to which he and his fellow detainees turned last month signa... |
1060500_0 | PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | UPPER WEST SIDE Recycled Knowledge In a Gigantic Book Sale The basement of the St. Agnes branch of the public library will be turned into a bookstore on Friday as more than 40,000 donated books and other items go on sale to benefit the library. The eclectic selection includes everything from what's readily available at... |
1060647_5 | Fighting H.I.V., but Their Way; Group Shuns New Treatments, Despite Doctors' Pleas | in some cases where there is very little virus in the blood.'' The case for delaying treatment has gained strength as optimism has faded that the new therapies are a cure, and as people have become more concerned about dangerous side effects and the appearance of drug-resistant H.I.V. strains. ''The whole 'hit early, h... |
1060294_24 | Is Solitary Confinement Driving Charlie Chase Crazy? | confinement would argue for its abolition; they admit that prison officials have few options in coping with recalcitrant inmates. But they want it to be applied far more judiciously, with stays limited to 10 to 15 days and hospitalization for prisoners who, like Charlie, are suffering severe psychological problems. For... |
1060385_3 | Soaring Cost for Young Disabled | to assign a case manager to evaluate the child. While the overall cost of the program has risen since 1990 as the number of children served has gone up 13 times, the average cost per child has dropped to $7,500 from almost $16,000. This has been accomplished mainly by having children served in their homes or by mainstr... |
1066130_1 | Patents; When Mom says, 'Eat your vegetables,' she may soon mean, 'Make sure you get your protein.' | construct a gene and put it into a plant under conventional genetic transformation methods, and have the plant express the missing amino acids,'' Richard Ekstrom, the president of Demegen, said. ''It also enables us, and we don't completely understand why, to see an increase in total protein.'' The gene can be tailored... |
1061261_7 | Corporate Delete Keys Busy As E-Mail Turns Up in Court | ''What the Microsoft trial has done is to say that if people are using this as an electronic filing system, it could be a dangerous medium,'' said David Zaccagnini, Polk's vice president for information technology. ''That's what the Microsoft trial really means to corporate America.'' Even without formal policies, exec... |
1061253_2 | Effort to Halt Blinding Disease Worldwide With Single-Dose Drug | when needed, can be carried out in villages with rudimentary places for health care. Another feature is once-a-year administration of a long-acting antibiotic, azithromycin. In 1993 Dr. Robin L. Bailey and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England and in Gambia found, in a study report... |
1061224_3 | Questions About Future Of Those Many Ph.D.'s | view is that there is a continuing crisis of underemployment in the humanities and the humanities-oriented social sciences,'' said Robert Weisbuch, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton. The new report by the Committee on Graduate Education at the American Association of Universiti... |
1061181_2 | A Man in Tune With His Heritage; In His New Novel, Tom Wolfe Unearths His Southern Roots | coffee), like the refined Richmond boy he still is at heart. But if his red dog tends to run loose in his writing and not, not publicly anyway, in his life, ''A Man in Full'' presents an intriguing window for looking beneath Mr. Wolfe's familiar urban dandy exterior. In the book, his second novel, Mr. Wolfe goes south ... |
1065676_0 | A Passion for Old Bicycles Spun Into a Museum | Most people don't give a second glance to the rusty old bicycles offered at garage sales. To David Metz, however, a discarded bicycle is a piece of history. This antiques collector has 137 bicycles, the oldest dating from 1851. Museums from the United States and Europe have asked to purchase many of his pieces. Last mo... |
1065955_0 | November 22-28; A British First | Tony Blair became the first British Prime Minister to address the Parliament of the Irish Republic, declaring an end to centuries of hostilities between Ireland and Britain. Mr. Blair said the two countries must now work together to rescue the stalled Northern Ireland peace effort. ''So much shared history,'' he said, ... |
1066035_3 | The Lady and the Tramp | largely unsuccessful films, he would look to Oona, sitting off to the side, for a nod of approval after every take. They spent the bulk of their marriage living in a manor in Vevey, Switzerland, where they moved after Chaplin's leftist leanings made him a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Oona cared... |
1065801_7 | An Inspector Calls, With Rock-Climbing Gear | about rope access persists. Stephen Varone, director of operations for Rand Engineering in Manhattan, said he was approached a few years ago by a rope access company, but wasn't interested. Without his engineers doing the hands-on work, looking, touching and sounding the masonry, ''I wasn't sure what we were gaining,''... |
1065822_1 | The Wall Street Recruiting Bowl | of the class emerged with multiple offers and five-figure bonuses for jobs that typically encompass the grunt work of basic research and support. But now, with the markets' tumultuous summer and fall bringing cutbacks on Wall Street, the competition among the students has heated up. To land jobs, the class of '99 is le... |
1064729_0 | Long a Leader, U.S. Now Lags In High School Graduate Rate | A major new international study shows that American high school graduation rates, for generations the highest in the world, have slipped below those of most industrialized countries. The report, released yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, which helps coordinate policy for 2... |
1064692_2 | World Briefing | (Agence France-Presse) NORTH KOREA: PRISONERS REPORTED HELD North Korea is still holding some 136 Korean prisoners of war, a South Korean military official said. An Byong Kil, Deputy Defense Minister, told the National Assembly that the Government estimated some 136 prisoners from the 1950-53 war were still alive in th... |
1062692_2 | A Trial Will Test China's Grip on the Internet | who moved from China after the 1989 military crackdown on student-led demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. ''I don't think there's any way they can stop us.'' Another, similar publication is Tunnel, a self-described ''webzine'' of commentary written in China and sent electronically to the United States from whe... |
1062748_0 | When E-Mail Shows Up in Court | To the Editor: Re ''Corporate Delete Keys Busy as E-Mail Turns Up in Court'' (front page, Nov. 11): Exploiting a witness's prior statements is a time-honored trial tactic. Statements made in E-mail, faxes, recordings from telephone answering machines and even deposition transcripts are all likely to surprise an ill-pre... |
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