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1048628_6 | Students at B-Schools Flock to the E-Courses | in gathering data but says the field is too exciting to allow that to be a barrier. ''I get data from private consulting firms or through large pension funds or endowments that provide access to their files,'' Professor Gompers said. ''A lot of it is hand-collected. I'm putting together data on 1,300 firms, collecting ... |
1048725_0 | Shower of Bricks Pinpoints Flaws In New York Building Inspections | In the summer of 1996, an engineer using binoculars and a high-powered camera inspected the brick facade of a 44-story office building in midtown Manhattan and declared it safe, satisfying the requirements of a city law intended to guard against crumbling masonry. But out of the engineer's sight and hidden behind the b... |
1048674_0 | Two Political Leaders Ask I.R.A. to Disarm | Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland and David Trimble, the First Minister of the new Northern Ireland Assembly, called on the Irish Republican Army tonight to agree to begin a phased disarmament to allow the Northern peace effort to advance. The leaders, after an hourlong meeting here, sought to end the impasse over... |
1050133_0 | Fighting a Stronger and Meaner Strain of Malaria | YOU may wonder why I would write a Personal Health column about malaria when there is no malaria in the United States. Well, that is only partly true. Malaria is not endemic in this country or to Canada or Europe. But one-third of the world's population lives where the malaria parasite and its carrier mosquitoes thrive... |
1050147_3 | To Actresses, Greek Tragedy Offers Many Happy Endings | women appear in this play compressed and utterly uncompromising,'' Mr. Leveaux continued. ''There is no time for the walk to the mantelpiece, so what you get is pure argument.'' The actresses involved said they were grateful for roles in which they could be direct and assertive rather than resort to stereotypical machi... |
1045405_1 | In a New Sign of Peace in Ulster, Troops Will Halt Belfast Patrols | came as the head of the Protestant Unionist Party, David Trimble, and the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, Gerry Adams, held private talks for the first time. They met for 45 minutes on the issues that still divide them, mainly the timing of disarmament by the I.R.A. On Monday the two men addressed each o... |
1046630_3 | NASA's Learns That Faster And Cheaper Isn't Always So | discovered the hard way that it's not always true. We learned we stepped too far back.'' A $59 million contract for Lewis went to TRW Incorporated of Redondo Beach, Calif., calling for a 600-pound satellite with a three-year design life. It would carry two advanced imaging instruments, called hyperspectral imaging radi... |
1046627_0 | In Nurses' Lives, a Treasure Trove of Health Data | MORE than 20 years ago, a doctor who was curious about the effects of long-term oral contraceptive use sent questionnaires to 370,000 registered nurses. The answers he and colleagues received have turned into the largest and longest repeated follow-up study of a group of women, a fountain of information about health, i... |
1049617_0 | Stunned by Floods, China Hastens Logging Curbs | The trucks are still rumbling through the mountains here, laden with big logs carved from the jagged slopes of western Sichuan. But by the end of October, the trucks now crowding these winding roads will be idle as the timber trade that was the lifeblood of a vast region of western China, abutting the Tibetan plateau, ... |
1049763_2 | The Simple Pleasures of Serifos | solitude, even in July and August, when the more easily accessible beaches close to the harbor are crowded. The meltemi, the wind that whips across the island in July and August, is also a determining factor in the choice of beaches -- beach-goers opting for the rocky Lia or Ganema beaches on windswept days, the sandy ... |
1049559_2 | In America; What Privacy Rights? | the Center for Public Integrity, a highly regarded nonpartisan research organization. The report warned that the privacy of Americans ''is being compromised and invaded from many angles'' and asserted that Congress has not done nearly enough to slow the assault. ''Time and again,'' said Charles Lewis, director of the c... |
1049861_6 | A Killing Refocuses War on Abuse | violate them so the documents do not become ''just pieces of paper.'' Batterers who do not obey the order issued against them are subject to arrest. ''We're not talking about a slap on the wrist,'' the Commissioner said. To help abusers control their behavior, both the Probation Department and the Mental Health Associa... |
1049566_0 | Atlantic Crossing | In the late 19th century, adventurers and explorers were celebrities, hauling in big speaking fees. George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, immi grants from Norway living in the Atlantic Highlands, were making a meager living hauling in claims at Nauvoo (now Sea Bright) and Sandy Hook Bay. So they decided to become adventure... |
1049771_2 | In Athens, A Trove of Antiquities | sections, Cycladic art and Greek art, and an illustrated booklet describing the annex, the 19th-century Stathatos Mansion, used for temporary exhibitions. The Goulandris collection of Cycladic art, with some 230 objects, is the largest in the world after that of the National Archeological Museum. It was amassed, with t... |
1044524_0 | August 30-Sept. 5; Chinese Stranded by Floods | China has declared at least a temporary victory against its swollen rivers, but its authorities are facing a problem more daunting than this year's record-breaking floods: millions of refugees whose homes and belongings were literally washed away. They are a sad lot, now camping out in tents, schools, factories or at r... |
1044491_2 | On the Water, an Uneasy Mix; More Boats, but Few Rules, in Harbor and on Hudson | while hauling nets in a small boat at night as part of a research project. Farther afield, accidents on private and commercial craft are also making headlines. Two weeks ago, near the Tappan Zee Bridge, a water taxi that lacked a valid Coast Guard certificate capsized on its way from Nyack to Tarrytown while carrying e... |
1044127_1 | Salt Air Still Lingers In Hull | sort of authenticity that travelers often seek but only occasionally find. Not far from the Minerva, for example, there is a street called Dagger Lane, and it was not named by the Chamber of Commerce. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe set out from Hull on his star-crossed voyage, and although Crusoe is a figure of romance... |
1044098_3 | Western Civ Fights Back | Puritans fashionable among Northeastern intellectuals after World War I. In fact American religious pluralism and social equality owe far more to William Penn's Quaker Pennsylvania than to the police state of Increase Mather. And Southern thinkers in the tradition of the Enlightenment, from Marshall to Calhoun, were mo... |
1044099_3 | After the Fall | context of the Bible. Measured against Harold Bloom's thesis that the author of the Book of J (one of the textual strands of which the Bible is woven) may have been a woman, the archeologist Carol Meyers, supported by the researches of S. D. Goitein on the poetry of Yemeni women, seems modest but unassailable in claimi... |
1044437_0 | August 30-Sept. 5; Optimism, For Once, in Ulster | Confidence in a more secure future has unexpectedly come to Northern Ireland scarcely three weeks after the most deadly episode in the conflicted province's bloody history. On Aug. 15, former members of the Irish Republican Army unhappy with the organization's 14-month old cease fire and its apparent tactical shift in ... |
1044123_1 | The Robust Charms Of a Yorkshire Port | sent Capt. James Cook to discover Australia. A local skipper invented the crow's nest. In the 18th century Whitby took to whaling with an enthusiasm not surpassed elsewhere outside Nantucket. The Whitby lifeboat is said to have rescued more people on a single day than any other in recorded history when nine ships were ... |
1043174_0 | I.R.A. Denies Link to Bombing in Northern Ireland and Rejects Calls for Disarmament | The Irish Republican Army, which has observed a cease-fire for 13 months, made a rare public statement today, denying any connection to a bombing that killed 28 people two weeks ago in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The I.R.A. also rejected demands that it disarm soon and declare an end to its war against British sovereignty... |
1048117_1 | Access to Clinton Data Aids E Pluribus Unum in the 90's | 48 hours of its release -- reflected a public thirst for instant, unfiltered information driven in part by the technology itself. The sprawling web of chips and fiber strained under its heaviest load ever but did not snap. But as part one of the stampede for the Starr report abates and Webmasters brace for part two -- ... |
1047906_0 | New Coat for Debated Tower | Overriding months of vehement testimony by Todt Hill residents about a 90-foot radio tower they say is an illegally operated blight on their community, the Board of Standards and Appeals voted last week to grant the business a 10-year special permit for continued operation. The board also approved a plan submitted by t... |
1048101_0 | Ideas & Trends; Shaky Crutch for the Learning-Disabled | OVER the last decade, learning disabilities have moved squarely to the foreground of the education world: more than 5 percent of the nation's students now have diagnosed learning disabilities. Hundreds of thousands of students in elementary schools, colleges and graduate schools get accommodations like extra time on te... |
1047681_0 | Ithaca's Gorges | To the Editor: Having visited nearly 90 countries (thanks to work in the airline industry), I know a worthy site when I see it. Joseph Siano missed two in his ''What's Doing in the Finger Lakes'' (Aug. 30). The Cornell University campus in Ithaca, complete with waterfalls, gorges, a suspension bridge and panoramic view... |
1047308_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS 4.9 PERCENT. Prices for raw sugar plunged on rising exports from Brazil and weakening demand in Russia, the leading sugar importer. The October-delivery contract dropped 0.36 cent, to 6.95 cents a pound. |
1045682_0 | Religion Journal; Homosexuals Reassured by Bishops | The Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops that took place in England earlier this summer, had several themes, not least of which was the opportunity for bishops from places as far apart as Alaska and Zimbabwe to meet and confer. But if there was an issue that seemed to dominate n... |
1045595_14 | Full Text of Findings Sent to Congress -- Part Eleven of Thirteen | said, ''I don't remember a specific gift.''(268) Indeed, unless the President knew that Ms. Lewinsky had not complied with the subpoena, it is unlikely he would have risked lying about the number and nature of the gifts he had given her. In analyzing the evidence on this issue, it also bears mention that President Clin... |
1045647_0 | New British Law Could Sabotage Irish Peace | To the Editor: In Northern Ireland President Clinton criticized groups seeking to sabotage the peace agreement, but he remained silent about one group's bid to undermine it: the British Parliament this week rushed through repressive measures that contravene the human rights provisions of the agreement (news article, Se... |
1045600_14 | Full Text of Findings Sent to Congress -- Part Eleven of Thirteen | could not have said, ''I don't remember a specific gift.''(268) Indeed, unless the President knew that Ms. Lewinsky had not complied with the subpoena, it is unlikely he would have risked lying about the number and nature of the gifts he had given her. In analyzing the evidence on this issue, it also bears mention that... |
1045757_14 | Full Text of Findings Sent to Congress -- Part Eleven of Thirteen | said, ''I don't remember a specific gift.''(268) Indeed, unless the President knew that Ms. Lewinsky had not complied with the subpoena, it is unlikely he would have risked lying about the number and nature of the gifts he had given her. In analyzing the evidence on this issue, it also bears mention that President Clin... |
1045596_14 | Full Text of Findings Sent to Congress -- Part Eleven of Thirteen | could not have said, ''I don't remember a specific gift.''(268) Indeed, unless the President knew that Ms. Lewinsky had not complied with the subpoena, it is unlikely he would have risked lying about the number and nature of the gifts he had given her. In analyzing the evidence on this issue, it also bears mention that... |
1050046_0 | Top Catholic Leader In North Faults I.R.A. | The highest-ranking Roman Catholic in the Northern Ireland Assembly today accused Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, of impeding the peace effort in the British province. In rare criticism of Sinn Fein, Seamus Mallon, the First Deputy Minister of the Assembly, said Sinn Fein was being ''too pat... |
1048388_6 | Essay; Science Squints at a Future Fogged by Chaotic Uncertainty | the other. Dr. Thom and his followers proposed that mathematical models based on catastrophe cusps could be used to predict the reproduction of bacteria, the behavior of the stock market, heart attacks, biological evolution and the outbreak of war, among many other things. To some, Dr. Thom's theory seemed to offer an ... |
1043625_3 | Sinn Fein Says It Will Try to Halt Arms | two days and the presence in Belfast on Thursday of Mr. Clinton, an active party to the Northern Ireland negotiations, there is still only a slim expectation that Mr. Trimble will use the occasion to end his snub of Mr. Adams. What would be a simple gesture in most societies constitutes one of great risk for Mr. Trimbl... |
1043563_0 | A Misguided Missile | North Korea is backing itself into a dangerous corner by showing off its ability to make and market advanced weapons. Just two weeks after American intelligence agencies noticed construction work on an underground complex suitable for developing nuclear bombs, North Korea fired a missile into the Pacific beyond Japan. ... |
1043597_0 | For 3 Drug Makers, F.D.A. Makes Their Day | Yesterday was a boon for investors in three makers of cancer drugs. After an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended the approval of taxmoxifen as a means to reduce the risk of breast cancer, the shares of Zeneca Group P.L.C., which makes the drug, and Barr Laboratories, which sells its gener... |
1043632_3 | Drugs to Fight Breast Cancer Near Approval | directs the breast cancer program at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, said that ''more and more women are calling me,'' about the drug and that other doctors have had the same experience. Cancer experts had long hoped that tamoxifen might prevent breast cancer. Its biochemistry was promising, because it p... |
1043603_1 | First Lady Draws Cheers at Women's Conference in Belfast | secured the new Northern Ireland peace settlement. ''Wives. Mothers. Sisters. Daughters,'' she told the 450 delegates to the ''Vital Voices: Women in Democracy'' conference. ''Few were household names. But having seen their lives and communities torn apart by violence, women came together as women have always done -- a... |
1043569_4 | Rongcheng Journal; As Floods Rage, Bitter Choices Over What to Save | the villagers were up in arms,'' the article said. ''They rushed to the breach, dragging sandbags brimming with sand, shovels and spades with them.'' ''The police again closed in to stop them,'' the newspaper reported, ''holding them back less than three meters from the breach.'' The hardships resulting from this geogr... |
1043668_0 | Telnet: Old Friend Offers High Speed | YOU log onto the Internet one day, and it's blazingly fast; no more World Wide Wait. Pulling up Web pages is instantaneous. Your E-mail soars by more quickly than you can read it. Information is at your fingertips with hardly a pause. A dream of the future? No, it's telnet, a tool of the Internet of yesterday: no graph... |
1045004_1 | A View on the Meaning of 'Merit' From 'The Shape of the River' | gain. Substantial additional benefits accrue to society at large through the leadership and civic participation of the graduates and through the broad contributions that the schools themselves make to the goals of a democratic society. These societal benefits are a major justification for the favored tax treatment that... |
1045025_1 | Study Strongly Supports Affirmative Action in Admissions to Elite Colleges | in a liberal counteroffensive to recast the debate over affirmative action, which in the last two years has been rolled back in California and Texas and is under serious challenge in Michigan and Washington. The counteroffensive, involving books, articles and academic conferences, seeks to broaden the notion of merit b... |
1044980_1 | When Art Becomes A Metaphor For Identity | catalogue about the Armenians, ''a people of diaspora,'' making, in addition to khatchkars, small decorative objects ''which in every war, persecution or exodus could be easily transported and saved from the hands of the infidels.'' And even if she hadn't said so, the inclination would have been to see these works thro... |
1043813_5 | Clinton Promotes Accord In Ulster, With a Warning | distrust,'' Mr. Trimble said pointedly, ''but deeds will.'' Mr. Clinton, noticeably buoyed by the audience's prolonged ovation and speaking on an issue close to his heart, said Northern Ireland had chosen to break with its anguished past by accepting the April agreement. ''Now you must prove that the passion for reason... |
1043814_2 | After 3 Violent Decades, Hope in Northern Ireland | the victims, said he felt that in a horrible way the Omagh bomb could end up being a ''catalyst for peace.'' He said, ''I have a feeling this was the end of the violence and the beginning of a new era.'' The group that planted the bomb, which calls itself the Real I.R.A., is made up of disaffected members of the Irish ... |
1043837_0 | North Koreans May Be Preparing Another Missile Test | North Korea may be preparing to test another missile, American and Japanese officials said today, even as North Korean diplomats met in New York to discuss their missile and nuclear programs with American officials. The United States has detected a flurry of activity at the same military base along North Korea's northe... |
1047116_6 | Articles Question Safety Of Dietary Supplements | is also used in paint remover. ''There's no way it promotes muscle growth,'' Dr. LoVecchio said. The chemical depresses the central nervous system by acting on the same parts of the brain as alcohol and the drug Valium, he said. The label on RenewTrient warns that one ounce will induce deep sleep for three to six hours... |
1049140_1 | Presenting News in a Time of Scandal Becomes a Delicate Balancing Act | the events could lead to impeachment hearings. ''You're talking about changing presidents,'' said Al Ortiz, the executive producer of the ''Evening News with Dan Rather'' on CBS. ''It's hard to imagine anything more important as that. My intention has been to devote as much time to this story as possible, to explain wh... |
1048330_2 | Public Clamor Puts Focus on 'Clusters' In Cancer Research | humans. In addition to the investigation of certain childhood cancers in Dover Township and breast cancer on Long Island, there are statewide studies of cancer and chemical use in Connecticut and California, a Federal study of elevated breast cancer deaths in mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, and Federal studies of ch... |
1046234_1 | Most Consuming More, and the Rich Much More | where families tend to be much larger than in industrial societies, the average life span has risen from 46 to 62 in the last 36 years. Richer nations, on the other hand, are reducing population growth while increasing consumption. The 20 percent of people in high-income countries account for 86 percent of private cons... |
1046097_0 | A Day When Wooden Boats Rule the Waters Once Again | MORE than 40 classic schooners and yachts will compete in the South Street Seaport Museum's 32d Annual Mayor's Cup Race at noon on Saturday. None of the competition's boats were built after 1970, and some of the classic vessels, including the museum's own schooners, Pioneer and Lettie G. Howard, are more than a century... |
1046256_0 | Fires Posing Greater Risk As Amazon Grows Drier | A year after the Brazilian Government dismissed studies warning that parts of the Amazon rain forest were becoming so dry they could burn uncontrollably, fires have become a greater threat than ever to intact rain forest and to indigenous peoples, according to environmental groups that monitor the Amazon. The fires are... |
1047536_1 | Beliefs | In the United States and Western Europe it continued to grow in numbers but, as elsewhere, to shrink slightly as a percentage of the population. Of course, all these numbers are approximations that blend local reports of varying precision. Comparisons are further complicated by the fact that halfway through John Paul's... |
1047568_0 | Clinton Likely To Delay Trip To Pakistan And India | President Clinton will probably postpone traveling to India and Pakistan because both countries tested nuclear devices in May and have shown little inclination to defuse their arms race, officials with knowledge of plans for the trip said today. ''A Presidential trip to South Asia remains on hold,'' a White House aide ... |
1044692_0 | Editorial Observer; The Politics of Remedial Education at CUNY | Heavy-handed politics at the City University of New York has demoralized both faculty and administrators and led to a legal battle over an initiative that has made CUNY the first university of such historic importance to forbid remedial education on four-year campuses. A court ruling has blocked the plan, scheduled to ... |
1044668_0 | I.R.A. Cannot Guarantee Disarmament, Adams Says | Gerry Adams, the leader of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, said today that he could not guarantee that the I.R.A. would agree to disarm during the negotiations in the new Northern Ireland Assembly. The I.R.A. said last week, timing its statement for President Clinton's three-day visit to Ireland, that ... |
1044614_1 | Technology; At many computer companies, the most candid criticism emerges from employee E-mail forums. | will find evidence -- or whether a Federal court will even permit access to Netscape's archives -- remains to be seen. What is certain is that Netscape's ''Bad Attitude'' files are typical of the level of candor that high-technology employees often are allowed. Netscape adopted the ''Bad Attitude'' concept from Silicon... |
1046499_0 | Guidepost From Country's Pulpits: The Power to Judge Belongs to God | In historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem yesterday, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts 3d drew embarrassed titters from his congregation as he urged the men and women in the pews who may be having extramarital affairs to sidle up to their paramours on the sidewalk after services, end the relationship and ask for forgivene... |
1046508_2 | After 29 Die in Bombing, Old Haven Of I.R.A. Turns Its Back on Bloodshed | week, the first time that leaders of the two traditions had done so in more than 75 years. On Monday in Belfast, the Northern Ireland Assembly will sit for the first time, a major step in the fulfillment of the Northern Ireland peace settlement. Structured under a power-sharing formula, the legislature was created by t... |
1046489_1 | Prospect Park's Ravine Inching Closer to Past | it has a meandering stream, steep gorges and glistening pools -- all intended to give the impression of a walk in the Adirondacks. Like the Ramble in Central Park, the Ravine is the dark, secluded, mysterious counterpoint to adjacent open vistas. All this was fashioned in the 1860's and 1870's from nondescript farmland... |
1046512_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Irish Border Town Finds A New Faith in Peace Dundalk, an Irish town near the border with the North, once harbored so many I.R.A safe houses that the police called it ''El Paso.'' But it is rejecting its violent past and is being cited as an emblem of what is happening throughout the island, where pe... |
1046513_2 | Suspicious Fire Burns Exhibit On Ulster Strife | any more acts of violence. In some ways, the fire caught many by surprise, offering a reminder that even the most foreign of conflicts can sometimes be felt closer to home. But tonight, it remained a mystery who might have wanted to make a political statement about Northern Ireland in a small, sedate New Jersey gallery... |
1046479_0 | The Facts About Affirmative Action | A new study of elite colleges provides striking confirmation of the success of affirmative action in opening opportunities and creating a whole generation of black professionals who are now leaders in their fields and their communities. No study of this magnitude has been attempted before. Its findings provide a strong... |
755281_1 | Small Satellite May Read Atmospheric Temperature | expects to know within a few weeks whether the data can be used to reveal global climate conditions. Dr. Michael L. Exner of the atmospheric center, the project manager, said the new satellite would look for G.P.S. satellite radio signals grazing Earth at the moments when the satellites sending and receiving signals we... |
758426_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | of the French presidential election on May 7 has taken a sharp turn to the right. A8 Argentina is trying to come to grips with its tortured past. A5 Hutu refugees in Rwanda expressed hope for the future. A9 Turkey said its military operation in Iraq was a success. A13 La Laguna Journal: A proposed salt plant threatens ... |
758489_0 | International Briefs; Toyota to Step Up Purchase of U.S. Parts | The Toyota Motor Company said yesterday that companies in the Toyota group would increase purchases of tires and batteries from the United States but denied that the decision was made because of pressure from the White House. A spokesman for the company, which is Japan's largest car manufacturer, said 33 of the Toyota ... |
753280_3 | New Catalytic Process Would Let Cars Eat Ozone | on existing equipment that moves huge volumes of air already. Ms. Nichols of the E.P.A. said it might be possible to paint the catalyst onto the radiators of existing cars, rather than apply it only as new cars are built. To work best, though, it would require some changes in cars. Radiators and compressors come into c... |
753351_0 | U.N. Council Seeks Support for Nuclear Pact | Hoping to broaden support for the indefinite extension of a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the Security Council is expected to adopt a resolution early next week pledging help to countries threatened or attacked by a nuclear power. The five permanent Security Council members want to approve the resolu... |
753356_2 | 2 Studies Equate Treatments Of Early Breast Cancer Cases | be equally valid for patients treated with less extensive surgery. The results of both studies, being published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, are in line with the findings of other similar investigations. The largest of these, a very large multicenter government-sponsored trial, was found to contain som... |
752258_4 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: An Eyewear King's U.S. Push; In a Hostile Bid, Luxottica's Head Sees Retail Gold | tackle production glitches. Michele Casaril, a 24-year-old machinist, marvels at his mastery of high technology. Mr. Casaril says his boss is nearly as proficient as he is at operating a $125,000 laser device that carves the forms for stamping the Luxottica logo onto the temples of metal frames. Others describe Mr. Del... |
756484_4 | Some Action, Little Talk | hiring. Since 1993, Allied Signal Inc. has sought women and minority applicants for 60 percent of the 300 university graduates it hires each year. In the past, the company had no targets, and the number of women and minorities it hired varied greatly from year to year. AT&T Network Systems, meanwhile, has no numerical ... |
756673_4 | Monthly Deficit In U.S. Trade Falls Sharply, Lifting Dollar | exports were up. Trade with the industrialized countries -- Japan and Western Europe -- improved." Mr. Sinai said that normally such strong improvement in trade figures would have produced a sharp rebound in the dollar. But he said that the dollar had been weighed down by fears that a trade crisis could erupt over Wash... |
756148_1 | The Rich Get Richer Faster | in Western Europe. In Germany, high-wage families earn about 2.5 times as much as low-wage workers; the number has been falling. In America the figure is above 4 times, and rising. Interpreting these trends requires caution. Inequality rose here in the 1980's in part because the United States created far more jobs -- m... |
754734_1 | Shanghai Journal; Free Now to Build, China's Biggest City Binges | project, as Beijing siphoned off virtually all of its earnings. But around the same time Shanghai began work on its subway, the city was permitted to begin spending a large part of its revenue. The city's leaders have responded with a burst of stunningly ambitious projects. In addition to the subway, two river bridges ... |
754557_0 | Bears Shouldn't Learn to Trust Humans | To the Editor: Re your April 4 Science Times article on Terry DeBruyn's work with American black bears: Mr. DeBruyn's decision to hunt black bear with electronic monitoring devices and data collecting equipment, rather than with a lethal weapon, is to be applauded. Game commissions in the North Central states, as well ... |
755466_2 | As Earth Day Turns 25, Life Gets Complicated | to pollute almost at will. Columbus, Ohio, documented how a simple plan to pave a parking lot behind its maintenance garage turned into a more than $2 million toxic waste cleanup after trace levels of antifreeze and other contaminants were found in the soil. Such examples became the fuel for a political freight train t... |
755442_2 | It's a Despicable Attitude. Good Thing It's All Around. | taught that virtue was life's only good, and that all Greeks except the Cynics were immoral and corrupt. To underscore the point, his successor, Diogenes, shunned his house to live in a big tub, and strode around Athens all day holding a lantern and looking for an honest man. He never found one, but of course, that was... |
755653_0 | On Recruitment In Basketball | I would like to commend the well-written, balanced and generally accurate article on March 19 about the Tuckahoe-Dobbs Ferry-Mark Blount incident at the Section 1 Class D basketball finals and its aftermath ("After Star Players Collide, Angry Talk and Lawyers"). However, the claim of the Tuckahoe supporters that the Do... |
755529_5 | From Egypt to the Vatican: Giving Old Art a New Cast | a comparable relocation? It helped, of course, that in Domenico Fontana the Pope had an engineer of genius. Following some of Pliny's detailed account of the original transportation of the columns, Fontana had a huge wooden cradle constructed, along with an elaborate system of pulleys, to lower and then move the column... |
755569_4 | Basques Find Inspiration as I.R.A. Talks of Peace | that killed 28 people, mostly suspected terrorists, between 1983 and 1987. The scandal over the death squads is reaching high into the Government, with a former top security official, Rafael Vera, who led the Government's campaign against the Basques for nine years, awaiting trial on a variety of charges. E.T.A. has lo... |
755722_5 | A Summation From the Patron Saint of Sociology | will write the introduction." The book came into being quietly, in 1965, only to be republished in a 20th-anniversary edition and to have a further revival in 1991, when it excited the attention of the novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who wrote the foreword for the Italian edition; of the critic Denis Donoghue, wh... |
755419_0 | What's in a Road Project: Improvement, or a Highway? | A series of 11 projects -- some planned, some already built -- along the Hudson River waterfront in Hudson County have some environmental activists wondering: Is it a string of local road improvements, or an unannounced "stealth highway"? The activists, including members of the Hoboken Sierra Club, say the road widenin... |
757668_3 | Pendeli Journal; From Greek Church, a Louder Nationalist Voice | say they expected nothing less than a strong stance from a church that helped form the national identity and is still an intrinsic part of it. Others argue that the church role in politics belongs to the past and should stay there. All the same, the clergy's activism has not filled empty church services. While 98 perce... |
758955_0 | Preserving the Shrines of an Age, Not the Spirit | "UNTIL THE FIRST BLOW fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism. . . . We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.... |
758964_0 | A Pollution Danger To Burning Tires | I have lived in Northport on its harbor since the middle 1960's. Gradually, as time has progressed, we are suffering from more and more pollution. Unfortunately, we can no longer swim in our harbor. I read "Smithtown's Plan for Tires: Incineration" [ April 9 ] and became rather upset. You state that we have a "mountain... |
758932_1 | Evacuating A Plane Safely | reported to the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates them if serious injury or major damage has occurred. The initial reports are not compiled, according to Nora C. Marshall, a board investigator, because the agency is small, the task would be large and most reports qualify as "incidents" only. Roug... |
759299_1 | Overseas, Oklahoma City Bombing Is Seen Through Prism of Experience | violent than the rest of the world. If Americans have tended to view terrorism as a foreign phenomenon, they noted, much of the rest of the world has often seen the United States as a nation that indulged a passion for guns and an addiction to violence. Russians commonly blame the proliferation of American movie violen... |
758933_0 | Parents Starting School for the Autistic | IT is a scene that would not normally be remarkable. Brett Schaffran, who will celebrate his sixth birthday next week, sits at a small white wooden table in his room, surrounded by dozens of stuffed animals and toys, and carries on a conversation. "What's your name?" he is asked. "My name is Brett," he answers, in a so... |
752348_0 | Tinkerer, Bailer, Sculptor, Sailor, And Now What? | Nobuhiru Yamauchi prefers to be called simply Yama. He likes simplicity -- every day for three years, he has been stepping off his 21-foot sailboat, which is laden with his sculpture and paintings and moored at the 79th Street docks, and walking the 10 feet to his workplace: the lineup of wooden sculptures against the ... |
752429_2 | Embargoed Fuel Sent To Serbs via Albania | of its military uses, Mr. Napolitano said. The sanctions were intended to punish the Serbs for "ethnic cleansing" and for Yugoslavia's refusal to recognize Croatia and Bosnia. The fuel comes to Albania from Italian and Greek companies and enters Yugoslavia through Montenegro. The border between Albania and Montenegro r... |
752447_6 | Don't Be Lulled by Easy Loans | applications stuffed in your bookstore bag or posted on a bulletin board. Sure, a card will make it more convenient to buy that plane ticket home. But it will also make it just too easy to buy more CD's and meals out than you can afford. Many students today wind up graduating with college loan obligations plus unpaid c... |
752383_1 | The World; 2 Feuding Nations With Fish Stories | as Greenland halibut, taken by Spanish vessels in the Grand Banks' famous "nose" and "tail," which are in international waters. Under a law passed last May, which no one else recognizes, Canada in early March seized one Spanish trawler and diverted it to St. John's, Newfoundland, and cut the net from another. Spain sen... |
752462_3 | A Foreclosed Co-op in Brooklyn Becoming a Rental | taxes, repairs, cash reserves and operating expenses. If a co-op falls behind in mortgage payments, the holder of the underlying mortgage can move to foreclose on the building. Generally, though, co-ops are not foreclosed on, even if they have been in default for months, because they would revert to rent-stabilized sta... |
757286_20 | HOW THE SOUL IS SOLD | us of the burdens of self. "You get the feeling you're not trapped in your own mistakes -- there are larger things at work," he says. "You can see you are caught in a love story like Eros, or you are being a hero in some terrible myth of cleaning the stables." Unlike Joseph Campbell, who intellectually roamed the globe... |
757265_3 | South Africa Emerges as a Force for Extending Nuclear Arms Pact | experts are watching the meeting carefully for signs of how the South African proposal will be received. The Bandung meeting is one of several events outside the conference that could influence deliberations. Another unpredictable factor is the collapse of talks on Thursday between the United States and North Korea on ... |
757313_4 | The One Left Behind | feelings are more important than hers. Actually, I do feel like that archetype of female patience, Penelope, the loyal wife, "wasted with longing," whose lot in "The Odyssey" is to worry, to hope, to tend the home fires and keep the wanderer's place ready. Being a mythic creature and no mere human being, she persevered... |
757488_0 | Troubles Waters | SEA CHANGE A Message of the Oceans. By Sylvia Alice Earle. Illustrated. 361 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $25.95. WHEN Sylvia Earle was 3 years old, she stood on a New Jersey beach and fell in love. Fifty-six years later, glorious encounters like that are still in her dreams: "A monstrous wall of green water races... |
758743_1 | Cellular Phones May Affect Pacemakers | chests experienced a temporary disruption in the pulse generator of the pacemaker. No such interference was noted with cellular telephones that use conventional analog signals. Patients who used digital cellular telephones but did not place them in close proximity to their pacemakers also did not experience any interfe... |
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