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1062717_5 | SOVEREIGN ISLANDS: A special report.; On Cruise Ships, Silence Shrouds Crimes | at sea is difficult, agents routinely wait until a ship returns to port, and jurisdictional questions often arise, law-enforcement authorities said. And not all crimes are reported. Cruise ships are required to report only crimes and other incidents that result in serious physical injury, which does not necessarily inc... |
1059706_2 | French Youths Strike for the Right to Study Hard | to have draftees doing alternative service who helped with administrative work and insured security, but the draft ended this year and we don't have them any more.'' So one of the student demands, here as at other schools around the country, was for more supervisory workers and better safety. The Education Minister, Cl... |
1035617_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR RISES 3.8 PERCENT. After languishing near 11-year lows, sugar rallied when Indonesia said it would buy 700,000 tons, helped by an international aid package. The October contract rose 0.32 cent, to 8.84 cents a pound. |
1030454_10 | Can the Internet Cure the Common Cold? | remains in remission. ''Information may not save us all, but it will give more of us a chance,'' she said. Mr. Jordan said the Internet had played an important role in his willingness to help a stranger. The search took him 10 minutes. ''If I'd had to get in the car and drive to a university library, left to my own dev... |
1030514_0 | At Night Ulster Becomes a War Zone | In the daylight hours life follows its usual rhythms in Northern Ireland. In a spell of surprisingly sunny weather, people go to work, shop or sip $3 cups of Viennese cappuccino at cafes like Roscoff on Fountain Street. Shops and deparment stores have plenty of customers. Buses crowd the streets. But at nightfall the t... |
1029120_1 | A Guidebook Lists the Warning Signs of Sexual Abuse | is found to have injured genitals or a sexually transmitted disease. But advocates for children have tried to codify the telltale signs of sexual abuse in a 12-page pamphlet distributed to city social workers, Board of Education employees, foster parents and others. Called ''Child Abuse Alert: A Desk Reference,'' it is... |
1029127_0 | Arsonists Burn 10 Catholic Churches in Ulster | Arsonists believed to be members of a dissident Protestant group set fire to 10 Roman Catholic churches in Northern Ireland late Wednesday and early today, causing fears that wider sectarian violence could return to the British province. The police said the fires were probably the work of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, ... |
1033576_2 | Labor's Peace With G.M. Unraveling at Saturn | dashboards built at other G.M. factories. The nation's only Saturn factory began producing cars eight years ago. The U.A.W. contract with G.M. here calls for substantial participation by workers in everything from how work stations on the assembly line are laid out to the long-range strategy of the Saturn division. The... |
1033628_0 | FOOD STUFF | Read It And Eat It The creaky floors, overstuffed armchairs and dark woodwork give the Housing Works Used Books Cafe, 126 Crosby Street (Houston Street), the look of decades past. It's fitting enough, considering that the shelves lining the walls and balcony of this cool oasis are filled with old books for sale, includ... |
1033562_0 | Better Health Care, Or Big Brother? | To the Editor: The growth and vulnerability of Internet communication (Business Day, July 17) creates new concerns about security and privacy. Indeed, since the beginning of the information age, Americans have lost a degree of privacy, a right protected under Article IV of the Constitution. Privacy ought to be better s... |
1033647_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS 5.4 PERCENT. Sugar tumbled on speculation that a planned increase in import taxes by Russia would curtail demand from the leading importer of sugar. October contracts fell 0.49 cent, to 8.51 cents a pound. |
1034912_0 | Scientists Gain Access to the Navy's 'Deep Ears' on the Oceans | THE NAVY, after years of delay, has agreed to let civilian scientists routinely use its ''deep ears,'' which were built at a cost of $16 billion in the cold war to pinpoint the locations of enemy ships and submarines by tracking their machinery noises. Now, the global network of deep underwater microphones is ready to ... |
1035009_2 | Foreign Affairs; The Little Rain Forest That Could | me that they want to save the rain forest, but their jobs were also endangered species. If I wanted to save the rain forest, I had to help deliver jobs for them.'' So Mr. Alger became an environmental entrepreneur. With one hand he and his Brazilian team fought the loggers in a seven-year battle that ended two months a... |
1034922_4 | Yet Another Reason to Fight the Fat | is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease for both men and women in the general population, independent of HDL.'' Missing from this impressive set of data is a large long-term study showing that reducing triglyceride levels that are above 100 or even 200 milligrams can prevent serious heart problems. It took studies ... |
1034911_0 | SCIENCE WATCH | The Ice Mass Goeth? THE reason water does not slosh through the streets of Manhattan and Miami is that it is safely locked up as ice in the West Antarctic ice sheet. Whether the ice sheet will forever stay that way no longer seems such a bed-rock certainty. Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that flows into the Am... |
1030794_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''What is happening now has simply never happened before in the history of the world. This is terra incognita. If these trends continue, in a generation or two there may be countries where most people's only blood relatives will be their parents.'' NICHOLAS EBERSTADT, a demographer, on declining birth rates. [A6] |
1030796_2 | THE BABY BUST: A special report.; Population Implosion Worries a Graying Europe | of 20. This year Germany, Greece and Spain will probably all cross the same eerie divide. ''You can look at this in a philosophical way,'' said Jean-Claude Chesnais, director of research at France's National Institute for the Study of Demography. No country has worried more, or more publicly, about the implications of ... |
1030711_1 | A Fear of Violence Hovers Over Ulster's Parade Standoff | they were still willing to agree to a small, token parade without the military fife-and-drum music that Catholics find offensive. Officials continued to try to persuade the Catholics to accept a token march. But the Catholics insist on direct talks with the Orangemen, which they need to save face and gain Orange recogn... |
1032311_2 | A River Ran Through Their Dreams | not, there is no doubt that the Arno project existed. It came in the context of a long war between Florence and Pisa that occupied the Florentine leadership and drained its treasury between 1494 and 1509. In 1503 and 1504, a long military campaign against Pisa having failed, Florence embarked on a plan devised by Leona... |
1034223_0 | Religion Led to Rift Among Mothers of Feminism | To the Editor: You say (Arts & Ideas, July 18) that the partnership of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the mid-19th century won American women the right to vote. I wonder if it was not the example of other countries that won American women that right. Before the United States granted the vote to women in... |
1034201_0 | Beams Studied In Collapse At Times Sq. | Investigators looking into the causes of the buckling of a giant construction scaffold in Times Square on Tuesday are focusing on whether critical support beams at the 21st floor were disconnected by workers just days before the accident. Because the scaffolding is so unstable, investigators have been able to look at i... |
1034189_1 | Making Times Square Safe | has been rerouted around its center. Most New Yorkers merely suffered a loss of time, the irritations of jammed traffic or clogged crosswalks. For those under the site, however, the deprivations are more tangible. Steve Chang, for example, made the fateful choice two weeks ago of opening a new restaurant in the shadow ... |
1033455_0 | Who Is to Blame For Irish Deaths? | To the Editor: Conor Cruise O'Brien (Op-Ed, July 16) and some of his allies in the Unionist leadership have done everything in their power to derail the Irish peace agreement, and so far they have failed. Perhaps it is because the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Roman Catholic, see that they offer no other s... |
1032881_1 | No Hegel: Do-It-Yourself Philosophy | are urged to ''Drop in and philosophize.'' THE BUZZ -- A few minutes before the forum began, Frank Purcell, who looked wise with his gray beard and glasses, sat inside the circle of unfolded chairs that had been set up for participants. ''The last time it got really intense,'' he said. ''One fellow turned purple and fe... |
1032672_2 | Like Meets Like Aboard Ship | cruises aboard sailing vessels in the Caribbean for male-female couples only. She says her October cruise out of Grenada is sold out and she is now well into the 1999 version aboard the Yankee Clipper, a schooner. ''Some people wear all their clothes, some wear a T-shirt, some just pants, some nothing,'' she said. For ... |
1032774_3 | A Provincetown Adjunct Of the New York School | history, philosophy, the universe and his own intellectual and creative impulses, will be published later this year by Provincetown Arts Press. Though Stout's seemingly quick, delicate drawings appear to be the inverse of his snail-paced, obsessive paintings, a 1950 journal entry about the sunrise -- a breathtaking vis... |
1033019_3 | In Ulster, Still Horror, Still Hope | with bombs and missiles every night since the standoff began July 5. Only small numbers of Orangemen will be permitted back, and this year's siege of Drumcree, the fourth in a row to provoke violence across the province, has ended. There is evidence that the religiously polarized politics of the province may be breakin... |
1032975_5 | The Nation; Tales From the Front Line of Sexual Harassment | several other executives overhears the conversation. She is scandalized. After a time, the manager offers to show her the photographs. She says no thanks, so he removes them from sight. There is more. The administrative assistant knows through the grapevine that the manager belongs to an in-house group whose members ex... |
1033079_0 | At Least 600 Drown In Papua New Guinea | A 23-foot-high wave crashed into the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, washing away villages built on beaches, killing nearly 600, most of them old people and schoolchildren, and leaving hundreds of others missing, disaster officials said. Thousands were without food and shelter after the wave hit the southwest Pacif... |
1032845_1 | Lawyer Aids in Adoptions From Hungary | Hungary seemed to fare better in adoptive homes than do children from other Eastern European countries, Ms. Nichols said: ''The wonderful part about Hungary is that they keep good records and supply us with accurate information. There are few surprises. We are aware, up front, about the physical and mental health of ea... |
1032684_7 | Brush Up Your Aeschylus | Penn translators are intent on their superficial gussying up of these works that they miss out on substantive issues in the texts that really are contemporary and fresh. An example: despite its title, much of Sophocles' ''Philoctetes'' revolves around the moral quandary faced by Achilles' young son, Neoptolemos. Ordere... |
1031578_4 | 3 Catholic Brothers Killed in Fire, Stunning Ulster and Raising Fears | the boys' deaths help end the violence that has been spreading in the province or only worsen it? The violence has threatened to undermine the Northern Ireland peace agreement and the new Assembly, which is to enact political reforms to give the province's Catholic minority greater power. At Drumcree, where the Orangem... |
1031832_0 | Thousands of Protestants March Peacefully in Ulster | Tens of thousands of Orange Order Protestants walked peacefully today in several hundred parades throughout Northern Ireland, after a week of Protestant violence over the issue of patriotic marches in Roman Catholic neighborhoods and the death of three young Catholic brothers in an arson attack. In what was taken to be... |
1031746_4 | Second Time Around, and Around; Remanufacturing Is Gaining Ground in Corporate America | looking ''on a test basis'' at whether it should use remanufactured parts in printers, a spokesman said. The General Motors Corporation's Saturn division is working with the University of Tennessee to develop a software program that tracks the energy and environmental impact of every part of a car, from manufacture to ... |
1031766_0 | Clinton Seeks Power to Lift India-Pakistan Sanctions | The Clinton Administration asked Congress today for more flexibility in its dealings with India and Pakistan, saying that current sanctions against the two countries for their nuclear weapons programs are too rigid and limit Washington's ability to halt a South Asian nuclear arms race. The Administration is not calling... |
1031752_0 | Calm Ulster Marches After Violent Week | Tens of thousands of Protestants paraded peacefully in Northern Ireland. The marches followed a week of Protestant upheaval over the issue of patriotic marches in Roman Catholic neighborhoods and the death of three young Catholic brothers in an arson attack. In what was taken to be a reaction to the killing of the boys... |
1034679_4 | First Helpmates | A Draconian chapter devoted to medical matters features excessive blistering, marathon enema sessions, bloodsucking leeches and a whole lot of castor oil. Regimens traumatic enough, Druett speculates, to pale the original ailment. Women were not necessarily passive players as various sea dramas unfolded. Boredom sent s... |
1034346_4 | Giving Salmon a Helping Hand | says. citing the case of Middletown, where a fuel-burning electrical plant is required to cool the water it uses before discharging it back into the river. Gradually the restoration project workers hope, salmon will become a fish that people can recognize in the Connecticut River. But it will take years. Salmon spend t... |
1034554_2 | Searchers Say They Have Found Elusive Hull of Pirate Ship | only pirate ship to come to light in modern times whose authenticity is certain, established by the bell, inscribed ''The Whydah Gally 1716.'' In March 1997, archeologists found what they believe may be the remains of Blackbeard's flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, off North Carolina. But the evidence so far is circumstan... |
1034715_27 | Going Where A Lot of Other Dudes With Really Great Equipment Have Gone Before | taken nips out of one another). The victim was Hans Hageman, the 40-year-old administrator of a high school in East Harlem who was training to lead students in an expedition to the North Pole commemorating Matthew Henson, the black explorer who accompanied Peary. Hans was careening down a valley covered in slick green ... |
1034598_0 | July 19-25; Construction Tower Falls In Times Square | Times Square got far more excitement than it bargained for when a temporary elevator tower collapsed at the Conde Nast building construction site, raining down tons of steel on surrounding streets. The accident, in which more than 300 feet of tower fell, killed an 85-year-old woman and created days of chaos. Worried th... |
1034516_0 | R. Gerwe, 94, Chemist and Food Scientist | Raymond D. Gerwe, a chemist and developer of two United States patents, died July 12 of congestive heart failure. He was 94 and lived in Lakeland, Fla. Mr. Gerwe was born in Cincinnati on May 28, 1904. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1927 and a doct... |
1034629_0 | Education Ends Welfare | To the Editor: Re ''Ending Welfare'' (editorial July 21): As a former welfare mother currently pursuing a Ph.D., I know that the best kind of job training is a college education. A college education allows single mothers to buy some time for the important work of mothering. Unlike the American workplace, which is hosti... |
1034593_0 | July 19-25; Europe Shuns Altered Food | In contrast to Americans, European consumers are rejecting genetically altered foods for pragmatic as well as philosophical reasons. Prince Charles gave voice to a common sentiment with his recent announcement that no genetically altered food would ever pass his lips. ''That takes mankind into realms that belong to God... |
1030079_1 | British to Allow March, This One in Belfast | Officials and experts said the decision was a weak, if not disingenuous, attempt to make the Government appear evenhanded, alternating permissions and denials to weaken opposition. In Ulster, pleasing one side usually outrages the other. The decison against the Drumcree Protestants produced Protestant violence; the dec... |
1030036_9 | If These Stones Could Talk . . . A Polynesian Mystery Tale; Easter Island Giving Up Its Secrets, But Only Grudgingly | were abandoned in the 1600's and the people increasingly had to subsist on the produce of small household gardens. Their numbers diminished. As an example of the struggle to live on an island denuded of vegetation, Dr. Ayres said, one of his graduate students, Joan Wozniak, looked under the rocky landscape and detected... |
1029779_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | last 24 hours to calm down the fires in Florida. While the forecast called for more thunderstorms and light rain, officials said shifts in wind also threatened to spread the fires to populated areas as long as drought conditions remained. 1 No Unity on Teachers Merger Supporters of the proposed merger of the National E... |
1029812_0 | June 28-July 4; Arson in Ulster | A rash of arson in Northern Ireland provided a reminder of the depth of divisions there despite a historic peace agreement signed in April. There were 10 arson attacks on Catholic churches followed by attacks on Protestant institutions in apparent reprisal. |
1029671_0 | PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | BATTERY PARK CITY Sailing With Capt. Cook For Less Than 3 Years Calling old salts, and new ones too. The Endeavour, a three-masted bark weighing in at 550 tons and stretching 109 feet, sailed into New York Harbor last week. The ship, a full-scale replica of Capt. James Cook's 18th-century vessel that circumnavigated th... |
1029750_0 | The Courts' Great Expediter; A Social Worker for Hire Solves Problems With Flair | Hillel Bodek hurtled through the interstices of 100 Centre Street, the voluminous State Supreme Court building in Manhattan where criminal cases are heard, muttering to himself his signature refrains, ''It is what it is'' and ''What can I tell you.'' Even at his fleet pace, he never gets far before someone flags him do... |
1029506_3 | Q&A/Dr. Jeffrey A. Lederman; How to Travel and Maintain Good Health | is a very good chance you will not come down with yellow fever even if you are bitten by a mosquito that has it. Certain countries require you get this vaccination and carry with you a yellow fever certificate showing you've had this vaccination. Another very important disease -- much more important than yellow fever c... |
1032101_1 | Banderas Quits Ataturk Film After Protests | Greek community here tell us that this campaign only involves a small number of people. It's motivated by a feeling of hatred not only toward Ataturk but toward Turkey in general. I'm very much hoping that we can make him see this, and that we don't get into a situation which undermines freedom of speech and freedom of... |
1035222_2 | Zbigniew Herbert, 73, a Poet Who Sought Moral Values | Soviet Union, which retained control over the Baltic republics. Mr. Herbert wrote his first poems during the Nazi occupation of Poland. As Stanislaw Baranczak, a critic who teaches at Harvard University, has observed, ''The image of a city under siege, one of the several symbols that constantly recur in his work, has a... |
1035251_0 | Software Flaw Lets Computer Viruses Arrive Via E-Mail | A serious security flaw has been discovered in popular E-mail programs published by the Microsoft Corporation and the Netscape Communications Corporation that would permit a malicious person to send a message containing a virus that could crash a computer and destroy or even steal data. So far, security tests have show... |
1035190_2 | Ex-Im Bank Chief, in Asia, Urges Priority on China Lending | the Chinese to buy everything from medical equipment to water-filtration systems. He predicted that China would be hungry for loans, as it starts a campaign, orchestrated by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, to spend $750 billion on new roads, bridges, hydroelectric projects and other public works. Mr. Harmon said he also wan... |
1033797_2 | Giant Net to Enclose Scaffold To Keep Debris From Streets | Beginning Tuesday night, construction workers and firefighters -- using the building's internal elevators to ascend -- threaded lengths of steel cable around the lacy network of metal pipes and tied them to sturdy perimeter columns on the side of the building itself, floor by floor. That work was completed yesterday. T... |
1033840_0 | Can Bioengineers Feed the Planet? | To the Editor: Your July 20 front-page article on genetically engineered food ignores a major reason why Consumers Union and others seek labeling of such food: to address the problem of food allergies. When genes are moved from one species to another, allergens may be moved as well. Potentially life-threatening food al... |
1033834_0 | A Place for Cell Phones? | To the Editor: While I enjoyed ''In Many a Desk, a Cell Phone Grave'' (July 16) about old cellular phones in the drawer, you overlooked an important recycling program that already exists for the nickel-cadmium batteries that power many cellular phones. Through a program set up by battery or battery-powered-product comp... |
1033838_0 | Can Bioengineers Feed the Planet? | To the Editor: Europe's decision to block genetically modified food is a lesson in democracy (front page, July 20). Indeed, even though experts and corporations claim that such food is harmless, the public perception is that this may not be true. There are unfortunate precedents: when chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, wer... |
1030887_7 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Swamped by Asia's Wake; Nations That Export Commodities Feel Shock Waves | been spread over most commodity groups, led by softwood lumber. In the first quarter, exports of coal and related products to Japan fell 84 percent. There also have been significant declines in commodity exports to South Korea and Taiwan. Over all, the value of agricultural and fishing exports are down 8.5 percent sinc... |
1030924_0 | Ulster Parade Talks Planned | Protestant and Roman Catholic officials agreed today to begin negotiations on Saturday to end the rising Protestant violence over a disputed Protestant parade through a Catholic neighborhood west of here. The talks were proposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair this afternoon in London. He was acting to try to end the viol... |
1035428_0 | Flaw in E-Mail Programs Points to an Industrywide Problem | The security flaw reported this week in E-mail programs produced by two highly respected software companies points to an industrywide problem -- the danger of programming languages whose greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Much of the power and flexibility of C and C++, the computer languages most common... |
1035350_4 | Internet-Fluent M.I.T. Students Teach Basics in China | he said. ''It was finals week at M.I.T. this week, and I still get E-mail from them at 3 in the morning. I look at them and say, 'Why don't I take care of this problem? You go and study.' '' The months before the trip are filled with incessant E-mails, faxes and phone calls. (The translators have the worst of it, they ... |
1028887_0 | Ulster Foes Trade Barbs Instead of Bombs | In another significant step in the peace effort in this British province, Protestant and Roman Catholic members of the Northern Ireland Assembly began today to discuss a new political structure for the province that is designed to give the Catholic minority more power. The daylong debate produced the usual attacks by e... |
1028852_3 | Critic's Notebook; I Think, Therefore I Am, but There's So Little Time | but also a pretentious windbag, which is reason enough to like his series.) Sartre, for example, spent 1933 in Germany studying the ''phenomena'' of existence. That was the year Adolf Hitler came to power, but Sartre was too busy pondering existence to take much notice of reality, a condition that stayed with him for t... |
1030280_3 | Benefits of School-Business Alliances | tight job market, we have seen a continuing trend of companies worrying about the pipeline of future workers. Given their ongoing anxiety about what high schools are producing, they are realizing that they have to get more involved.'' She added that companies were also motivated to help improve local schools because po... |
1030270_0 | Business Travel; The American Society of Travel Agents is giving airline passengers a new avenue for complaints. | PASSENGERS with a gripe about airlines have a new way to complain, courtesy of the American Society of Travel Agents, which has issued an Air Traveler's Bill of Rights and is inviting feedback on flights at a new Web site. The society plans to publish the results of the Web surveys periodically. Among the ''rights'' de... |
1029874_0 | We Got Your E-Mail; Just Don't Expect a Reply | Some dare call it electronic commerce. A major consumer products company logged 264,000 telephone calls to its customer service center in a recent month and handled 225,000 in what it considered satisfactory fashion -- a ''close'' rate of 85 percent. And during the same period, the center's service representative recei... |
1029901_1 | John Prescott, 63, Ex-Director Of New England Aquarium | a model for other aquariums around the world, and it is now widely considered one of the top institutions of its kind in the United States. In November 1994, Mr. Prescott retired and set up the Prescott Group for consulting on conservation and aquarium development. He joined the team of scientists that converted the se... |
1029912_0 | Northern Ireland Relatively Calm as Protestant Marchers Are Kept From Catholic Area | The British Government used hundreds of combat-ready army troops and Northern Ireland policemen today to prevent several thousand Protestants from marching, as Protestants have since 1807, through a small Roman Catholic enclave in this town. The Government acted to prevent clashes between the Catholic minority and the ... |
1031996_0 | A Shrinking Europe Is Good for the Rest of Us | To the Editor: Re ''Population Implosion Worries a Graying Europe'' (front page, July 10): Europe is overpopulated. Virtually none of the great European forests survive. Roads, railroad corridors and urban sprawl have fragmented all wildlife populations that cannot fly. Ancient cities are crammed; beaches are jammed. L... |
1031955_0 | British Panel Disputes Risks Of Implants Using Silicone | An independent group of scientists charged by the British minister of health with reviewing the safety of silicone breast implants reported yesterday that there was no credible evidence that they caused disease. Unlike the United States, which imposed a moratorium on the sale of silicone breast implants in 1992, Britai... |
1032031_0 | Court Agreement Revises Requirements on Schools | Under a court settlement announced yesterday, waivers granted by the state's Department of Education exempting hundreds of school districts from special-education requirements are no longer in effect. At the same time, officials said that sweeping revisions relaxing the requirements mean that many of those same distric... |
1033210_5 | Europe, Bucking Trend in U.S., Blocks Genetically Altered Food | breed crops to make sure that the biggest and best survive. It has been more than 500 years since people realized that rennet from calves' stomachs turned milk into cheese. At the time nobody knew why exactly. An enzyme called chymosin does the job. Nevertheless it was a use of biotechnology that prevails today in mode... |
1033162_0 | Testing to Begin on System to Fight 'Spam' | A company with perhaps the most ambitious commercial attempt yet to combat junk E-mail plans to announce on Monday that it has begun distributing a test version of its system, which is intended to intercept unwanted messages as they travel through the Internet. The system has been designed by Bright Light Technologies ... |
1033179_1 | Shoppers Unaware of Gene Changes | they do not contain rBGH. With only a few consumer groups seeking wider labeling, the greatest awareness of genetically engineered food comes from the organic-food industry. Whole Foods Market Inc. of Austin, Tex., which has 91 supermarkets in 18 states, requires its suppliers to guarantee that none of the products tha... |
1031392_0 | Ulster Foes in Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid a Parade Clash | Protestant and Roman Catholic officials, refusing to meet face to face, began negotiating through intermediaries today to try to prevent more violence over the insistence by Protestants that they be allowed to march through a Catholic neighborhood in Portadown. The march by the Orange Order, down the Garvaghy Road in t... |
1031099_1 | Study Links Bone Loss to Progesterone Use | ''because it is absorbed transdermally through a route to the blood stream that avoids absorption by the liver and several unwanted side effects.'' Dr. Robbins's interest in bone loss was piqued when he found that older bone density X-rays taken vertically showed only a partial view of the bone. Newer machines, which a... |
1031034_3 | Fantasy Island | on Crete that distort a 1944 commando raid by British forces into the glorious exploit of a local bandit. On the ruins of such Platonic castles in the air, the modern Atlanteans have sited their imaginary city and then proceeded to search for it in geological and archeological records. Had they instead read more Plato,... |
1031324_0 | Ideas & Trends; India's Arms Race Isn't Safe Like the Cold War | THE potential nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan is an uneasy and unwelcome test of how to get along in a world where non-proliferation appears to have failed. When the United States and the Soviet Union confronted one another at the beginning of the nuclear age, they faced a similar test. With time, they stu... |
1031149_4 | For Police Officers on the Water, It's More Than Sun and Surf | little personal watercraft that they wouldn't dream of doing in a car.'' Of course, boaters get in trouble, too. The harbor police deal with everything from tiny kayaks to huge cabin cruisers; they intervene when people are going too fast or too close to other boats, when they run out of gas or when they've had an acci... |
1031316_0 | Too Few Priests | To the Editor: It is easy for Pope John Paul II to urge Roman Catholics to attend Sunday Mass (news article, July 8), especially in Rome, where one can be surrounded by hundreds of priests. Out here in the real world there is a serious shortage of male priests; those who remain increasingly preside over lackluster litu... |
1032533_0 | Peace Prevails in Northern Ireland | When a television interviewer asked Chrissie Quinn yesterday if she thought the firebombing that killed three of her sons last weekend in Northern Ireland would change anything there, her answer was no. Her pessimism is understandable but unwarranted. The death of her sons, for which seven Protestants have so far been ... |
1032544_3 | New Standards May Worsen New York Teacher Shortage | the dilemma in New York City is not that its colleges fail to produce enough qualified teachers -- the state graduates more teachers than it hires each year -- but rather it is who those teachers are and where they choose to teach. The Board of Regents and the Department of Education recognize that in the near term, at... |
1028689_1 | Belying the Legend of the Crusty Old Salt | Are there adequate life jackets?' Then -- if it's not an emergency situation and they don't have insurance: 'This is commercial marine assistance. You have to be billed for this service.' '' The waves lap gently against the boats of the weekend sailors; the sky is blue and life is good -- though not as good as it was y... |
1028743_3 | JOHN PAUL MOVES TO STIFLE DISSENT ON HEATED ISSUES | a profession of faith and a short reconciliation statement. In 1989, the Vatican added a category of fundamental truths like the ban on contraception and on the marriage of priests. At the same time, it broadened the doctrine to require theologians teaching in church-sponsored schools and universities to pledge that th... |
1046914_1 | U.S. Court Upholds Aid for the Disabled On State Bar Exams | large wave of students diagnosed with learning disabilities moved beyond college and into the professions, those who administer the law, medical and accounting examinations have become mired in the same murky legal questions that high schools and colleges grapple with when faced with claims of learning disabilities. In... |
1048966_2 | Soccer Fans Find New Ways To Root for Faraway Favorites | all hooked up through an Amsterdam-based list-serve for fans of the team,'' he wrote via E-mail. ''I started a Web page called Ajax USA (www.ajax-usa.com/ajax), and that quickly turned into more of a supporters' club.'' He added, ''It was amazing how many people joined our club, even though we offered no real benefits ... |
1048831_2 | China Plans to Spend $1 Trillion on Big Public Projects | falling growth rate -- which declined to 7 percent in the first half of this year from 8.8 percent in 1997 and is the slowest since 1991 -- Chinese leaders plan to expand highway and railroad construction, build bridges, upgrade electricity service in the provinces and start water-conservation projects that are needed ... |
1049006_0 | Meeting Fails to Reach a Compromise on Disarming the I.R.A. | Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland and Mo Mowlam, the highest British official in Northern Ireland, tried but failed today to devise a compromise in the growing dispute over disarming the Irish Republican Army. After an 80-minute meeting this morning Mr. Ahern and Ms. Mowlam, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said th... |
1044012_0 | Corrections | The Personal Health column on Aug. 18 about unfounded health scares referred incompletely to Government action on Alar, a chemical once used to make apples ripen uniformly. In May 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency announced steps to prohibit the use of Alar on apples and other foods, but allowed the chemical to... |
1050429_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Underlying France's concern is fear that it may have difficulty steering the Germans on a European course of French design. A4 Clinton Meets With Arafat President Clinton met with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and emphasized the work that the Palestinians need to do to combat terrorism as the Israelis withdraw ... |
1050348_2 | FOOD STUFF | all'ortolana with vegetables, and slightly sharper capricciosa are each $7.99 for 26 ounces at Citarella, 2135 Broadway (75th Street) and 1313 Third Avenue (75th Street). They are also sold at Kings Super Markets in New Jersey. From Spain comes Ferrer Catalonian-style fried-tomato sauce: silken and ruddy, on the thin s... |
1044789_4 | A New Twist on Air Mail For Unplugged Travelers | writer can be turned off completely when boarding aircraft (required by Federal law) and can be set to receive-only mode for hospitals, clinics and other environments in which radio transmissions can interfere with sensitive equipment. When the Pagewriter is turned off or is unable to receive signals, the Pagenet syste... |
1044799_0 | Personal Health; Weighing the Pros and Cons of Hormone Therapy | MAKING an informed decision about whether to take replacement hormones during and after menopause is hard enough for women with no prior health problems. It is far more difficult for a woman who has had breast cancer or who has a strong family history of this most common cancer in women. Because estrogen can stimulate ... |
1044860_2 | Two Old Foes in Ulster Wars Speak Directly in First Meeting | Sinn Fein and the disarmament issue. Essentially, Mr. Trimble, as chairman of the Assembly, is insisting that there be some I.R.A. disarmament before the next step is taken. That is the creation of a Cabinet to enact the provisions of the peace agreement that party leaders and referendums here and in the Irish Republic... |
1044785_0 | Science Watch | Flying Solo, Minus One IT has taken seven decades, but the aviation world has at last done Charles Lindbergh one better: An airplane has flown nonstop across the Atlantic, not with just one person on board, but with no one. The airplane in question is a 29-pound propeller-driven pixie, with a 10-foot wing span and a ga... |
1043325_1 | How Sweet It Is: A Moderate Indulgence | wines are made by stopping fermentation before all the sugar has been converted. What's left is called residual sugar. In this country, some inexpensive dry table wines are permitted to retain a small amount of residual sugar because of the wine industry's belief that Americans, raised on soft drinks and fruit juice, '... |
1043361_0 | Sinn Fein Calls Violence in Northern Ireland 'a Thing of the Past' | Gerry Adams said today that his party, Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, now considered violence in Northern Ireland to be ''a thing of the past.'' In a statement promptly welcomed by the British and Irish Governments and timed to precede the visit here on Thursday by President Clinton, Mr. Ada... |
1043328_1 | FOOD STUFF | loaf shapes and serve at least six, are $45. Mr. Le Gac says that, refrigerated, they will keep for two to three days. In the cafe, slices of the cakes and other pastries, like macaroons, are $5. The shop also has ice creams and sorbets. Another confectioner, Black Hound, formerly at Ninth Street and First Avenue, has ... |
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