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758765_0 | Rare Cougar Attack Is No License to Shoot | To the Editor: Last year's killing of a bird watcher by a cougar in a state park near San Diego was certainly tragic (news article, April 23). But such incidents are as rare as they are tragic. Since 1890, there have been only 13 fatal attacks by cougars on people in North America. Information we have compiled indicate... |
754445_2 | Climate Talks Enter Harder Phase of Cutting Back Emissions | much of this can be politically tolerated is uncertain at best. Any form of energy tax in the United States, for instance, seems a dead issue for the foreseeable future. For poorer countries, the stakes are especially high; they need fossil fuels to develop their economies and raise their standards of living. These cou... |
754955_0 | Allies of U.S. Seek to Block Bill on Cuba | Canada, France, Britain and the 15-nation European Union have started an unusual campaign to block a bill in Congress that would tighten the trade embargo against Cuba, saying the bill would unjustifiably punish foreign companies that have dealings with Havana. These allies assert that the bill, sponsored by Senator Je... |
754922_1 | Britain to Pull 400 More Troops Out of Ulster | Ireland peace talks. The effort has been snagged in recent weeks by a dispute between Britain and Sinn Fein over the agenda for talks that would have Sinn Fein officials meet publicly for the first time with a British official about the crucial issue of disarming of the I.R.A. The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, has ... |
756363_3 | In a Louisiana Bayou Town, 'Uncle Pat' Is the Law | the Chief's insights and influence came earlier this year, when a woman reported that thieves were stripping aluminum siding off her boathouse. "She was riding down the road one day and saw this truck go by, and said, 'That looks like my damn aluminum!' " the Chief said. He had a pretty good idea who one of the thieves... |
756324_0 | China Breaks Ranks With Other Nuclear Nations on Treaty | China, publicly breaking ranks with the other acknowledged nuclear-weapons powers, said today that it could back an extension of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty for either an indefinite period or a series of fixed periods of no less than 25 years' duration. The other four nuclear-weapons powers -- the United States... |
756299_0 | Ancient Mosques Along Silk Road Are Falling Apart | The dazzling mosques, cupolas and minarets of this ancient caravan city, which have helped shape the sacred framework of Islamic life for more than a thousand years, are falling to pieces. So are many of the mosaics and mausoleums of Samarkand and Khiva, this struggling country's two other fabled staging posts for the ... |
756299_1 | Ancient Mosques Along Silk Road Are Falling Apart | the United Nations agreed, placing Bukhara and Khiva, whose fundamental problems are even worse than those of Samarkand, on its small list of architecturally threatened centers of ancient civilization. International experts have begun trickling in, hoping to help slow the decay created by the diversion of huge amounts ... |
756279_0 | Business Travel; How to find an American-operated clinic in the heart of Moscow, day or night. | BUSINESS travelers and tourists alike can avail themselves of Western medicine while in Russia, at the Columbia-Presbyterian/Moscow Clinic in the heart of Moscow at 4 Dobryninsky Lane. The outpatient clinic's staff consists of seven United States board-certified doctors who are on contracts and available 24 hours a day... |
753550_2 | U.S. Aides Say Most Signers Back Lasting A-Ban Pact | they have clinched a majority, they still worry that some developing countries could outmaneuver them in a procedural battle in New York. Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., president of the Arms Control Association, a Washington-based research center on issues affecting the spread of nuclear weapons, said, "This is a once-in-a-lif... |
753463_0 | Christian Pineau, French Hero And Foreign Minister, Dies at 90 | Christian Pineau, a leader of the French Resistance who became one of postwar France's most active Foreign Ministers, died on Wednesday in Paris. He was 90 and had homes in Paris and Vence, a resort in the French Alps. A gentlemanly politician and Socialist, he served as Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1958. During his t... |
755048_0 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; A tiny agency builds a quirky campaign to promote a low-fat milk with national aspirations. | CAN a series of silly bovine spoofs from a tiny agency help establish a national brand of low-fat milk? With its eye-grabbing magenta carton sporting a Holstein wearing sunglasses, and quirky commercials pumped up by jazzy music, the brand, Cool Cow, aims to be hip. Licensed to local dairies, Cool Cow began appearing i... |
758112_0 | A-Waste Ship, Briefly Barred, Reaches Japan | In an embarrassing mix-up for Japan's sensitive plutonium-based energy program, a Japanese Governor on Tuesday temporarily barred a ship carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from docking and unloading its cargo. The Governor, Morio Kimura of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, eventually relented after receiving ... |
758216_0 | France Votes for Action | The old European Socialism of nationalized industries and a cradle-to-grave welfare state is a dying creed. But French voters, buffeted by persistent double-digit unemployment rates, seem reluctant to give up entirely on activist government. Lionel Jospin, the candidate of the demoralized, scandal-battered French Socia... |
757113_3 | A Slow and Gruesome Search Through Unstable Wreckage | then sent rappelling down the building's frame to shore up an unsteady beam. "It was faster to train him to put in that bolt than to teach one of us how to rappel," said the man organizing that phase of the rescue effort. But in many areas, bodies were left behind for another day because further work was deemed unsafe.... |
754339_0 | Time to Rethink the Benefits of Chemotherapy | To the Editor: In your April 6 report on breast-cancer treatment an expert is quoted as saying that while chemotherapy prolongs survival it does not necessarily cure the disease. That holds for most types of cancer. You report in addition that researchers found no survival benefits from chemotherapy in postmenopausal w... |
754317_6 | Is the U.N. an Equal Employer? Women Say No | coming from Asia, Africa and other regions of the developing world, countering the argument of governments there that human rights are a Western preoccupation. Gertrude Mongella of Tanzania, as secretary general of the official gathering in Beijing in September, and Supatra Masdit of Thailand will lead the parallel for... |
752803_0 | An Ailey Ensemble Pays Tribute to Its Leader | Unlike Hollywood, the dance world has never promoted the myth of careers by chance. Being discovered at a soda fountain, Lana Turner style, is not the way dancers rise out of the ranks. For 20 years, Sylvia Waters has trained young performers in the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. Although conceived as an apprentice tr... |
752890_1 | Presbyterians, in Peace Forum, Tell Their Fears of Dublin | warfare in Northern Ireland, which has claimed more than 3,100 lives since 1969. They often refer to Catholics as "nationalists" or "republicans," and to Protestants as "unionists" or "loyalists." But Mr. Dunlop set the tone in a 2 1/2-hour discussion in which Catholics were usually called Catholics, Protestants were P... |
754084_3 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | from along the East Coast. Long Island calls, he said, have so far been about illegal clamming. "In New England," he said, "we got calls about bleaching lobsters." It is illegal to take female lobsters with eggs. But dishonest fishermen are scraping off the eggs and bleaching the lobsters to hide their sex. The line is... |
753955_0 | To Reduce Tire Mountain: | There may be two to four million tires on this five-acre Kings Park site; they have been accumulating since 1987. A company that planned to recycle the tires went out of business in 1990. A new plan by Smithtown would send millions of old tires from the Izzo brothers' site in Kings Park to be shredded and burned at the... |
753926_3 | Readying an Auction of Heavy Equipment | new equipment, which is 200 percent. That's a big difference." Unlike auctions of Van Goghs and Picassos, when construction equipment comes on the block, there is never a minimum reserve, Mr. Lyon observed. "We're nothing like the art auctions," he said. "The items we auction go to the highest bidder, period. It's as s... |
754105_0 | Complex Relations | THIS WEEK |
752911_0 | Learning to Live With Cougar Neighbors | To the Editor: Your March 26 news article about the most recent encounter between a human being and a mountain lion in California saddened me because I knew that it would be followed by an article about the mountain lion's unnecessary slaying (news article, March 29). Californians must realize that, unfortunate as it i... |
752985_1 | Helping Children Avoid Mudholes | control over the content they carry and try to build safeguards into their systems. Even so, determined individuals can get around the safeguards, as evidenced by the appearance earlier this year of child pornography on the America Online service. (Alerted by some of its users, America Online notified the Federal Burea... |
752984_7 | SCIENTIST AT WORK: Terry DeBruyn; Black Bears Up Close And Personal | Carmen. He surmised that this might be an "expression of tension or territorial marking behavior." The relationship began in June 1990 after he caught her in a barrel trap -- two 50-gallon drums welded together -- with bait tied to a trigger attached to a door. After briefly tranquilizing her, he attached a stout leath... |
755878_6 | Discord Is Rising Over Pact On Spread of Nuclear Arms | is Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers and who is now director of Manhattan Project II, a disarmament program at Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington. He said in an interview that cold-war thinking was taking place in important parts of the American polic... |
755896_2 | I.R.A. Leader Faults Dublin And London | lower-level officials, to the talks. Speaking on a visit to Dublin about the lack of a celebration of the Easter Rising anniversary, he said: "It's quite apparent when one comes through the capital city that for the Irish establishment it was as if 1916 was an accident of history which they want to forget. And that's q... |
757886_2 | Chiron to Acquire a Gene Therapy Concern for $95 Million | and Viagene will create a formidable competitor in the emerging field of gene therapy, one that is likely to create a rush for alliances and new capital sources among the other contenders. Mr. Boni noted that Viagene was the first corporation to begin human therapeutic trials of a gene therapy drug. Viagene has initiat... |
757847_0 | Gerry Adams Applauds the British Move | Gerry Adams, the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, said today that he welcomed the British decision to assign a minister to talks about the disarmament of the I.R.A.'s arsenal, estimated at 100 tons of weapons, including explosives. The three-month delay in agreeing to such talks had snagged the Northern I... |
757891_0 | The Explosion Echoes in Cyberspace | Almost before the boom of the explosion that devastated the Federal building had stopped reverberating across downtown Oklahoma City, cyberspace was alive with commentary. It proved to be an illustration of the global web of computer networks at its best and its worst: some people asked what they could do to help and r... |
757882_4 | Bone Weary, Rescue Crews Are Keeping Hopes Alive | evidence. Officials said the fifth through ninth floors have already been cleared, American flags fluttering from each finished floor. Chief Hansen said cranes were picking away some of the larger chunks of concrete that sat atop the mammoth pile of debris in front of the building, while workers picked away at the edge... |
747324_1 | How Brain Waves Can Fly A Plane | person, to change the channel of a television set or perform other simple tasks that are now beyond the reach of many patients. Dr. Jonathan R. Wolpaw, who heads the project at the Health Department's Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, said in an interview that although the technology is in its infancy, ea... |
747276_2 | A Well-Founded Fear | cigarettes -- enough to identify her to the militants as a "prostitute." Yet when an Algerian doctor applied for asylum here this year, saying she had been threatened with death because she supervised male physicians, the I.N.S. case officer said that violence in Algeria was "too random" to support her claim to belong ... |
751155_6 | Despite a New Plan For Cooling It Off, Cybersex Stays Hot | Usenet groups, ostensibly to preserve scarce computing resources for more academic topics. As more elementary schools and high schools connect to the Internet, however, the trend toward filtering at lower grade levels is growing. Siecom Inc., an Internet service provider in Grand Rapids, Mich., supplies 20 elementary a... |
748727_4 | Evolution Of Humans May at Last Be Faltering | have become an evolutionary factor relatively recently, Dr. Jones and others say. Among urban middle-class people, birth rates have dropped in the last two centuries, while they have remained high among many poorer groups, especially the more numerous rural people of the third world. Because the rural poor on average h... |
748482_8 | Enduring Institutions: Care for the Severely Retarded -- A special report.; Plight of Some Retarded Adults Renews Debate on Big Institutions | on a "mat table" -- a king-size mattress on a platform with padded sides -- as an aide massaged their spindly limbs. It was a home for the profoundly retarded, none of whom could walk or talk. The six residents had lived at the Mansfield Training School, and Stephen Lyford, the group home's supervisor, had worked with ... |
748513_0 | Polar Bears, Almost Every One of Them | |
749839_3 | What? Pork Bellies Back in Fashion? | on CNBC and the author of a financial guide cum travelogue called "Investment Biker." As in the 70's, he said, there is too much money floating around in the world -- a sure recipe for inflation, some economists say. But another crucial factor in the inflation of the 70's, he added, was that the supply of raw materials... |
749692_3 | Cuba's Financial Crisis Erodes Sports Programs | have defected are "deserters." Good riddance, he said. "I'm very happy about it," Mr. Balceiro said. "There will be fewer Cubans angry with the government inside Cuba." Families, along with teams, have been torn apart by defections. Emilio Lara, an Olympic weight lifter, sought political asylum in Puerto Rico in 1993, ... |
749668_0 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS CHALLENGE PIECES OF WELFARE BILL | As the House prepares for debate on welfare legislation next week, the leaders of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops today denounced parts of the Republican bill that could end cash assistance for many children born out of wedlock, unmarried teen-agers who have children and legal immigrants. The bishops said they were... |
749639_0 | Rebels in Mexico Welcome New Law to Advance Talks | Little more than a month after Government troops recovered territory controlled for more than a year by peasant rebels in the south, efforts at peace talks between the two sides are gathering momentum. In a communique published on Friday, rebel leaders from the area, in Chiapas state, welcomed the promulgation of a new... |
749185_2 | As Automotive Air Bags Become Common, So Does Stealing Them | a growing problem. The insurance industry says that claims for air bag thefts have increased significantly in the last year, with the first theft reports appearing in 1992. Fifty-two air bags were snatched from cars parked in Co-Op City parking garages in the Bronx over the Columbus Day weekend. In a sting last summer,... |
749347_0 | U.N. Talks On Women Under Fire | Six months before an international conference on women opens in Beijing, the Chinese Government and the Vatican are maneuvering to silence critics by asking the United Nations to deny them credentials to attend the meeting. At least 200 and possibly 300 nongovernmental groups have been affected, American officials and ... |
747909_3 | Palermo Journal; After the Mafia, a Sort of Children's Crusade | as the Italian police hunted for him. "No one really cared about monuments because people were interested in their own lives," said Davide Ratti, a 13-year-old student at the Vivona school who was busily sketching an architectural plan of the villa's east facade on a recent day. His friend Lorenzo Tramuto, 12, said he ... |
747936_3 | Justice Dept. Awarding Grants to Develop Gun Detectors | camera, hand held or mounted on a police cruiser, to detect metallic and nonmetallic weapons at a distance of up to 12 feet. Jeremy Travis, the director of the National Institute of Justice, said police officers who stopped a car and then ordered suspects out would be able to scan them for concealed weapons without lea... |
750368_2 | The I.R.A.'s Political Strongman | the talks, for trying to negotiate the early release of I.R.A. prisoners and for the reform of the overwhelmingly Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force. Mr. Coogan, who has many friends in Sinn Fein, and other experts said that Northern Catholics and Protestants want negotations that could bring their ... |
750232_2 | The $20 Million Question | cannot be to intervene and try to control the market by other means. Indeed, generations of donors have given in the hope and trust that Yale would promote freedom of thought and learning. To accept Mr. Bass's additional condition would have been to violate that trust. Finally, one did not have to be in the grip of any... |
746536_0 | Representative Bliley's Double Talk | Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr. speaks with a forked tongue when he talks about the Food and Drug Administration. In one breath he accuses the agency of pokiness and nitpicking: "It breaks my heart when I think of American citizens having to go to Switzerland or Mexico to get the drugs or devices they need to stay ... |
747692_1 | Economic Scene; Managing the airwaves for productivity and profits. | Federal Communications Commission to grant maximum feasible flexibility to how the licensees use the rights. The legal framework for spectrum allocation dates from a time when Americans clustered around the radio to listen to Jack Benny. And it shows. The F.C.C. is charged with identifying the uses for the spectrum tha... |
752053_0 | Is Top Dissident Even Alive? Beijing Will Not Say | China said today that it would not respond to international appeals for the release of the country's most famous political prisoner, Wei Jingsheng, who has been detained without charges for a year. Chen Jian, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a news conference that the arrest of Mr. Wei on April 1, 1994, was a matt... |
752109_3 | A Surprise German Rate Cut Propels the Dollar Up by 2% | the bank's outlook in domestic terms," said Hermann Remsperger, chief economist at the BHF Bank in Frankfurt. "The domestic scenario gave room for a cut. If there are effects in other countries, that is fine. But the bank is concerned about Germany." Analysts said today's move was exceptional because it marked one of t... |
746103_2 | Food Notes | N.Y.; at Sprouts Towne, Route 22, Brewster, N.Y., and by mail from Adriana's Caravan in Brooklyn, (800) 316-0820, and Country Cottage Savories, Jefferson Valley, N.Y., (914) 228-1584. Off the Menu Chef Celebration A gaggle of top French chefs flew into town last weekend to put the icing on a yearlong celebration of Le ... |
746152_0 | Renewal Built on Used Cars | In 1911, the Johns-Manville Corporation built a 1.8-million-square-foot roofing-products plant in a 216-acre field and lent its company name to the town that sprang up nearby. But in 1986, beset by asbestos-lawsuit problems and filing for bankruptcy protection, Johns-Manville closed the plant and dealt a huge blow to t... |
746147_4 | Finally, 16 Months Late, Denver Has a New Airport | plan was but the grandiose scheme of ambitious politicians, greedy business executives and dreamy civic boosters. The doubters also warned that even though bonds would be sold to pay for the project, it nevertheless would end up costing the average citizen money because air carriers would have to raise fares to meet hi... |
749370_3 | Catholics and Protestants Parade Together in Ulster for St. Patrick | In I.R.A. strongholds like Crossmaglen, in South Armagh, where British soldiers once moved about only in helicopters, police officers now give out traffic tickets. Gradually the sense built that what began as two slippery cease-fires could be turned into something permanent. Now what is needed is for representatives of... |
749403_1 | Beliefs | religious forces -- the Vatican, the World Council of Churches and an array of Muslim, Buddhist and other religious groups -- were represented at both gatherings. But this time the forces of faith agreed, with each other and their secular counterparts. Muslim leaders, the Vatican and Hillary Clinton, who spoke at the m... |
748264_1 | Access Gets New Meaning In Local Politics | get involved with the process." Stephen W. Lewis, who set up his own computerized bulletin board service for information about the legislature last year, said allowing people to access information electronically would also save copying, paper, postage and other costs associated with traditional forms of disseminating i... |
748289_0 | Reconstructing a Spanish Ghost Ship and a Tale of Slavery | WELL into the last century, piracy was still a matter of great concern, and several sightings of a mystery ship off the Atlantic coast in the summer of 1839 both fascinated and bothered sailors and newspaper readers alike. The ship, described as a "long, low, black schooner," would be seen and then disappear, only to r... |
748251_0 | Canada and Spain Face Off Over Fishing Zone | Canada, acting unilaterally to protect depleted fishing stocks, has seized a Spanish trawler just outside Canadian territorial waters, in a confrontation with the European Union over North Atlantic fishing rights. "You have chosen a government in Ottawa that will stand for Canadians," Prime Minister Jean Chretien told ... |
748259_2 | The Safety Zone; Coast Guard Tries to Rid Waters of Deficient Foreign Ships | should accidents occur. As a result, it is rare for them to be detained because their owners take precautions not to run afoul of the rules. And tankers have come under intense scrutiny since the Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in 1989. The big change involves freighters. Nationally, 303 foreign-flag ships were cited b... |
748171_0 | Monsanto Has Its Wonder Hormone. Can It Sell It? | THIS is the ultimate test for Monsanto. It was no mean feat to genetically alter bacteria so that they produce a cow hormone that increases milk output. And in the face of fierce objections from opponents of biotechnology, it took nearly a decade to win Food and Drug Administration approval to market the hormone. But a... |
748220_1 | Innovative Plans Fill Pulpits In America's Rural Churches | involve training lay people in ministerial duties, sometimes with a visiting minister or priest acting as mentor; creating "yoked" churches, with two or more congregations served by an itinerant minister, or trying some combination of both concepts. "Among all the denominational leaders I talk with," said John Bennett ... |
749919_9 | Buying Excellence: How N.Y.U. Rebuilt Itself -- A special report.; A Decade and $1 Billion Put N.Y.U. With the Elite | aid, totaling $109 million. Others were lured by the new sense of urgency and growth that emanated from the university. The infusion of money also made possible the energetic, decade-long recruitment of a stellar faculty to fill 88 new chairs. The hunt and capture was supervised by Duncan Rice, a Scotsman who was himse... |
749999_1 | A Youth Program That Worked | who participated from 1989 to 1993 graduated from high school, went on to college, avoided child-bearing and escaped involvement with the criminal justice system at a greater rate than did a comparable control group. The program's success offers hopeful lessons for budget-cutting politicians and pessimists who think no... |
750020_0 | Xerox to Announce Technology To Make Remote Printing Easier | The Xerox Corporation, continuing its strategy of seeking growth through the computer industry, is set to announce technology today that will make it easier for customers to use their corporate computer networks to send electronic documents to printers and copiers in remote offices. Xerox, the Hewlett-Packard Company a... |
749956_3 | Major, Taking CLinton's Call, Maintains Tough Stand on I.R.A. | to try to soothe British sensitivities. It also took a firmer line on the question of arms. Testifying before the House International Operations Committe, Richard C. Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, said, "Nonviolent constitutional parties cannot be expected to sit at a table with the polit... |
751399_1 | Self Takes Its Own Route To the On-Line Newsstand | and a former manager of digital information distribution at the Oracle Corporation, to be the magazine's first interactive editor. Ms. Nelson decided on a practical approach to interactive services, focusing not on new technology but on readers' ability to respond to the magazine through any medium with which they felt... |
751381_3 | U.S. Copters Are a Target in Colombia | importing their raw materials from Peru and Bolivia, where the biggest drug crops are grown. As a fine mist of glysophate settled over a poppy field here, Col. Jose Leonardo Gallego, director of Colombia's anti-narcotics police, said, "The peasants don't cooperate." In mid-December, guerrillas trapped Colonel Gallego f... |
747068_1 | Belfast Journal; A War Widow's Thoughts at Peace's Dawning | The bombings often shut it down, putting her out of work, sometimes for months. The I.R.A. declares that it is fighting for Northern Ireland's Catholics. Mrs. Hegney, who is Catholic, said she prays for them, and for the Protestant guerrillas too. She told her children that "a sick man" had killed their father and that... |
747072_2 | Chinese Leader Says 'Mistakes' By Government Fueled Inflation | greater vigilance against corruption were focused on local party officials, not the ranks of senior party officials and military officers where corruption is believed to be endemic. His emphasis on "mistakes" in economic management seemed aimed at Mr. Zhu, whose power over the economy has vaulted him above Mr. Li in in... |
747133_4 | For a European Best Seller, a U.S. Taste Test | Mr. Gaarder, a former high school teacher, had intended to write a philosophical primer for young adults but abandoned the effort when his prose bored even him. He decided to take his idea -- the history of philosophy from the natural philosophers of ancient Greece to Freud and his pleasure principle -- and encase it i... |
747458_0 | British Official Appears to Ease Terms for I.R.A. Role in Talks | Britain's chief official on Northern Ireland appeared today to ease his Government's conditions for the political arm of the Irish Republican Army to enter into all-party peace talks on Ulster's future. During a visit to Washington, the official, Sir Patrick Mayhew, suggested that Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing... |
747414_0 | A Visionary Cuba, When Believers Still Believed | The island of Cuba has never looked as fantastically exotic as it does in "I Am Cuba," a nearly 2 1/2-hour swatch of cinematic agitprop that aspires to be the "Potemkin" of the Cuban Communist Revolution. Completed in 1964, during the headiest days of the romance between the Soviet Union and Cuba, this Russian-Cuban co... |
746232_0 | Gunmen Race For the Spoils In Somalia | The grab for Somalia's most prized piece of real estate began just before dawn today as looters clambered over the walls and gates of Mogadishu's airport while United Nations forces pulled back. If the Pakistani brigade's withdrawal behind American lines was well-rehearsed, the Somali clan fighters, and the army of loo... |
751664_1 | Gloomy Reports to the Contrary, 87% of Americans Feel Healthy | gave themselves the highest overall health rating; the self-reported health of West Virginians was the poorest in the nation. While 91.6 percent of Alaskans rated their health as good to excellent, only 76.6 percent of West Virginians gave their health status such high marks. When the researchers looked at the number o... |
751809_1 | Conner Wins on Water, But Has Problems on Land | Wednesday. At issue in the protest is whether it was legal for the Stars & Stripes crew to replace its boat's damaged keel with an older version of its fin and ballast bulb. Bill Koch's America syndicate asked the event's five-member international jury to review the action. But by this evening, it was not clear whether... |
751773_4 | Signs of a Power Struggle Come to Light in China | such as Qiao Shi and Li Ruihuan have made speeches recently that put perceptible distance between them and the comments or policies of Mr. Jiang's Government. Mr. Qiao has emphasized the need to democratize the party and Li Ruihuan has indirectly criticized the hard-line approach Beijing has been taking toward Hong Kon... |
750661_0 | Trade Won't Make Cuba More Democratic | To the Editor: Re "Cuba: Time to Change Direction" (editorial, March 19): The claim that trade and contact will bring about the end of the Castro regime ignores facts that make the argument inapplicable to Cuba. Fidel Castro has taken no steps that would allow increased trade and contact to lead to political or economi... |
750657_0 | Fencing Off the Women's Conference | The United Nations Secretariat is tarnishing a forthcoming conference on women's issues by denying credentials to a slew of non-governmental organizations, possibly more than 200, without explaining why. The action has bred suspicion that the Secretariat is responding to political pressures from the conference's Chines... |
750662_0 | Trade Won't Make Cuba More Democratic; Is Embargo Justified? | To the Editor: Having much admired A. M. Rosenthal's recent articles on Mexico, I was taken aback by the vehemence of his March 17 column on Cuba. Isn't it possible that Danielle Mitterrand was motivated (to the point of inaccuracy about Fidel Castro's regime) less by romantic ideology of the left than by simple distre... |
748990_5 | I.R.A. Backer Leaves Shadows for the Crystal Chandeliers | The first step in the healing process is to recognize the hurt you have done. But the British must acknowledge the hurt they have done." His speeches left some in tears and others hopeful but cautious. Sandra Kelley in Albany said her son had returned ecstatic from seeing Mr. Adams, embarrassed at his inability to spea... |
746993_4 | THE NATION: A Leg Up; My Equal Opportunity, Your Free Lunch | to overcome the effects of prior discrimination." This means seeking the best candidates from excluded groups even if their qualifications on paper don't always match those of white men. White males have long benefited from unstated preferences as fraternity brothers, golfing buddies, children of alumni and the like --... |
746910_3 | Peter Brook Voyages To Inner Space | to call spirit or soul. All his recent work, from "La Tragedie de Carmen" to his similarly spare version of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande," has attempted to penetrate beneath the surface of things, intuit human mystery, and find ways of embodying life's invisible, inscrutable aspects. "The worst disease today is redu... |
746919_2 | Countdown for Trips Along the Yangtze River | and cliffs will shrink from their current grandeur to something that most certainly will still be beautiful, but perhaps more on the scale of the lower Hudson. "River traffic will be disrupted only briefly," said Zhen Xiaoli of the Chongqing press and culture office. "But there's no doubt that as the water rises, the m... |
816633_2 | Claiming Victory, Strikers Rally in Cities Across France | In Roanne, a Loire valley town of 40,000, the police, whose estimates tend to be on the low side, counted 10,000 demonstrators. Mr. Juppe, 50, a graduate of the elite National School of Administration, where President Jacques Chirac also received his training as a civil servant, became the focus of widespread public an... |
816465_0 | When Bears Get Too Close for Comfort | NO way would I want to go into court to defend the bears of New Jersey. Not with this rap sheet: KILLED BY BEARS 1993 1 lamb. 1994 4 chickens, 16 rabbits, 2 goats. 1995 30 rabbits, 21 chickens, 1 goat, 8 pheasants. 1996 (First four months of fiscal year, which began in July) 29 rabbits, 24 chickens, 2 goats, 1 lamb, 1 ... |
816644_0 | Northern Ireland Disarmament Panel Convenes | Stating that there was no assurance that it would succeed, former Senator George J. Mitchell has begun the work of the new international panel that is to deal with the dispute over disarmament of the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. Mr. Mitchell, head of the International Body on disarmament, said on Friday i... |
816703_0 | For Disabled, An Embrace | There are hundreds of severely ill or disabled children whose parents are unable or unwilling to care for them. Michael Rodriquez, at school with his physical therapist, Kara White, is one of the fortunate ones: He has a foster family. Article, page 61. THE NEEDIEST CASES |
816645_0 | Birth Control Pill Risk Affirmed but Called Low | New research by the World Health Organization provides more evidence that some newer birth control pills may double the risk of blood clots compared with older types. But two studies by the organization, published today in The Lancet, a British medical journal, agreed with earlier studies that the risk is very low for ... |
816666_0 | Devoted Parents Help Children With Special Needs Flourish | The woman was not a saint, but she said she wanted to be the foster mother of a child with special needs. She was given Vadim -- a 2-year-old boy with severe brain damage. He had a seizure disorder and was unable to suck or swallow. He could not walk or talk. He spit up. And he cried all weekend long. On Monday morning... |
818326_0 | Protests Hurt Wine's Sales | International anger over French nuclear testing in the South Pacific cut deeply into sales of Beaujolais nouveau this year, a wine trade association reported today. Eighteen percent less of the trendy young wine was sold during this year's primary marketing period, compared with the same period in 1994, the National In... |
818316_0 | Technology: CONNECTIONS;Miss Manners has been keeping an eye on cyberspace, and she is not amused. | THE imagery of surf now seems permanently attached to the Internet, but Judith Martin, who writes the syndicated column Miss Manners, has suggested that one might hark back to the world of 19th-century ships to evoke the social dynamics of cyberspace. On such a vessel, a group of strangers would book passage and become... |
818316_2 | Technology: CONNECTIONS;Miss Manners has been keeping an eye on cyberspace, and she is not amused. | and are thus somewhat impervious to commonly used sanctions of the on-line world: flaming, or giving an offender as good as he gave through electronic mail; and bozo filters, which keep the messages of selected parties from one's own electronic mailbox. Even these sanctions are problematic. Sanctions imply the existenc... |
813417_0 | Schools Aren't Alone in Tumbling Down | To the Editor: Your description of the poor condition of New York City schools (editorial, Nov. 27) applies not only to the public school system but also to the public and private nonprofit agencies that provide the bulk of educational and social services in the city. The bill for deferred maintenance among nonprofit s... |
813344_1 | The Rand Corporation salutes E-mail as the new foundation of democracy. | effort and expense to (almost) everyone in the United States" -- much as telephone and postal services are inexpensive and easy to use. Based on Rand's study of on-line communities (like Latino Net in San Francisco and the Blacksburg Electronic Village in Virginia), and what it discovered about how citizens use E-mail ... |
819563_1 | Fighting a Paralyzer of the Face and Eyes | public, finance research and offer support for other moebius families. Mrs. Campbell got free legal help from a law firm and pro bono aid from a medical advertising agency. Her friends in the Larchmont Newcomers Club supplied her with fund-raising ideas and manpower. Mrs. Campbell, an M.B.A. formerly involved in pharma... |
813132_1 | In Cuba, a Tax On Capitalism | prosperous by Cuban standards -- to workers in industries like mining and sugar who receive small hard-currency bonuses on top of peso salaries that amount to as little as $5 a month. This summer, the Government also made it legal to open small privately run restaurants, known as paladares, that do business in dollars.... |
813135_0 | France Slows to a Crawl | In a country that likes to claim to be the cradle of revolution, the sight of strikers marching or youths taking on riot police looks familiar enough. But the anti-Government movement that has shaken France over the past 10 days is anything but revolutionary: civil service workers are fighting to prevent change. With p... |
812975_1 | Q. & A. | check the proprietary lease to determine whether the issue is addressed there. If the lease contains no provision for use of the garage space, however, and there are no other written documents giving use of the space to the shareholder, then under most circumstances the matter is subject to the discretion of the board ... |
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