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812909_5 | GALILEO, PHONE HOME | would collect the thousands of images and 135,000 bits per second of Galilean data. Burned into Gounley's memory is the moment when he was "watching that screen, rather like Apollo 13, and blinking, thinking, 'This can't be right.' Because I was seeing clear indications that the motors were working harder than they had... |
813042_0 | DIARY | CHINA SYNDROME Trade Complaints Renewed "We will not wait forever," Mickey Kantor, the United States trade representative, said as Washington warned Beijing's leaders to end the pirating of software, music and movies or face stiff trade sanctions. American officials said the Chinese were dragging their feet on enforcin... |
814458_1 | Burden of Strikes Increases but France Bends Just a Bit | pension scheme. But the postponement seemed unlikely to have any immediate impact on the strike. Beyond the strikers' specific complaints, there seems to lurk a far deeper malaise. "The Government tells our people that the only objective is to fight against deficits and debt," Charles Pasqua, a former Interior Minister... |
814613_1 | Burden of Strikes Increases but France Bends Just a Bit | pension scheme. But the postponement seemed unlikely to have any immediate impact on the strike. Beyond the strikers' specific complaints, there seems to lurk a far deeper malaise. "The Government tells our people that the only objective is to fight against deficits and debt," Charles Pasqua, a former Interior Minister... |
818804_0 | Theratech Estrogen Patch | Theratech Inc. said yesterday that it had asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its estrogen skin patch and that it planned to make similar applications in Europe early next year. Theratech, based in Salt Lake City, made the announcement with the Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, which has exclusive m... |
818769_0 | Connecting Every Pupil to the World | An advisory council to President Clinton has recommended, after two years of study, that every community connect its elementary and secondary schools to the Internet -- the network of millions of computers around the world that provides a limitless array of on-line information. The council shows that its recommendation... |
818751_0 | France Sets Off 5th Nuclear Test in Pacific | France detonated a nuclear blast in the South Pacific today, the fifth in a series of tests on two remote atolls that has drawn worldwide protests. The explosion came at 12:30 P.M. local time on Mururoa Atoll, the public radio station France Info reported, quoting the Defense Ministry. The blast was the equivalent of l... |
817689_0 | Major Goes to Ulster and Ireland For Support of the Peace Plan | Prime Minister John Major campaigned in both parts of the island today, seeking support for Britain's position on the Northern Ireland peace effort, which has been weakened by a resurgence of vigilante killings widely attributed to the I.R.A. Mr. Major, visiting Belfast and other areas in Northern Ireland as well as Du... |
815162_0 | Travel Advisory;Tours of Costa Rica Emphasize Jungle Life | The jungles and wildlife of Costa Rica are the focus of two educational trips in February. The first trip, Natural Treasures of Costa Rica, Feb. 3 to 15, offered by the American Museum of Natural History and led by Thomas J. Mirenda, a botanist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, will visit the Carara Biological Reserve, c... |
815202_0 | Streetscapes: The Bishop's Crook Lamppost;Some Light on a West Side Preservation Endeavor | WHEN the Landmark West! preservationists put back the old-style streetlights on West 67th Street, a neighbor gave Arlene Simon, the group's president, just the compliment she had hoped for: "They look as if they've always been there." Indeed, the Bishop's Crook lamppost the group has installed is a handsome design -- t... |
814697_2 | Sources of Amazement About Gourds and More | and such. Mary Ann Rood, of the Gourd Village Garden Club, quotes the 90-year-old Marvin: "We got so many gourds in this house, Mary wanted to move them out, so I built a museum." I don't think I'll give directions, because we don't need a lot of curiosity seekers trampling Mary's wildflowers or ogling gourd bonnets wi... |
815025_0 | Incendiary Doings | THIS WEEK |
814782_2 | Female Genital Mutilation by Immigrants Is Becoming Cause for Concern in the U.S. | York and New Jersey. At the national level, two Democratic legislators, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and Ms. Schroeder, have proposed laws similiar to ones in Britain and France making genital mutilation a crime. The Senate version was incorporated into a foreign operations bill in September; the House version is tied ... |
815893_0 | France Attacks European Allies Over Nuclear Vote in the U.N. | France today sharply criticized its European Union partners who voted for a United Nations resolution urging an immediate end to nuclear tests and said it had no legal impact. "We have observed -- and it is not surprising -- that there has been an insufficient show of unity in the E.U. on a subject concerning the secur... |
815865_2 | Mayor Delays Decision On Water Filtration Plant | a three-year-old agreement with Federal and state health and environmental officials, the city had promised to build the plant by June of 2000 -- a date already pushed back from earlier deadlines. But with the location and design thrown into question once again, the plant is unlikely to be operating any time near that ... |
818405_0 | G.I. Bridge to Bosnia Is Unbuilt And the Muddy River Is Rising | When the commander of United States forces in Bosnia, Gen. William L. Nash, visited the muddy river site here today where the Americans are to build the pontoon bridge that will carry American troops into Bosnia, it was, he said, "just to make sure we're reading from the same sheet of music." It is not at all clear tha... |
818432_2 | A Rocky Mountain High: Twin Polar Bears | zookeeper. Given only a 50-50 chance of survival, the tiny cubs were kept alive in incubators and fed with eyedroppers. With the city hanging on every setback, Klondike's belly swelled up like a balloon because he could not digest the man-made milk formula. That drama was barely surpassed when Snow developed rickets, d... |
814067_0 | World News Briefs;French Set Last A-Test For February, Not May | France will conduct its last nuclear test in February, months earlier than planned, Defense Minister Charles Millon said today. France has conducted four tests at a remote South Pacific atoll since September, when it broke a three-year moratorium. It has pledged to sign a nuclear test ban treaty as soon as six to eight... |
814096_0 | Incendiary Doings | THIS WEEK |
817426_0 | Jetliner Mishap And Snow Foil Holiday Travel | Thousands of travelers hoping to spend the holidays in the tropics or amid the warmth of home and family were thwarted yesterday as snow and wind lashed the New York area again and an accident involving a 747 jetliner shut down Kennedy International Airport for several hours. The mishap, which injured several dozen pas... |
817456_0 | In U.S. Policy Change, Fordham Radio Station to Get Grant | In a settlement that could affect Federal support of public radio and television stations nationwide, the United States Commerce Department said yesterday that it would not deny a grant to Fordham University's radio station because it broadcasts Mass for an hour each week. The university station, WFUV-FM, which broadca... |
815604_0 | STRIKES IN FRANCE SURGE AS DEMANDS BY UNIONS STIFFEN | Hundreds of thousands of French demonstrators filled the streets of cities around the country today, while union leaders, sensing that they have caught the wind of revolt, hardened their demands. The demonstrators demanded not only a total abandonment of Prime Minister Alain Juppe's comprehensive welfare reform plan bu... |
815609_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-16 FRENCH STRIKERS TOUGHEN STANCE Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of French cities as strike leaders, appearing to sense they had gained the upper hand, hardened their demands. A1 RUSSIAN COMMUNIST IN SPOTLIGHT As Russia's parliamentary elections near, increasing scrutiny has ... |
815719_2 | U.S. Agency Denies A Drug Approval Gap | all the new drugs put on the market in the United States, Germany, Britain and Japan from 1990 through 1994. The four countries account for more than 60 percent of the drugs sold in the world, and each has a somewhat different drug-approval system. During the five-year period studied, there were 214 drugs that came on ... |
817035_0 | Critic of Attack on Homesteaders By Brazil Police Is Gunned Down | A local politician who had openly criticized military police and local landowners for an attack that killed at least 11 rural homesteaders and wounded hundreds more in August was shot dead on his doorstep Saturday night. Manoel Ribeiro, a councilman from the left-wing Worker's Party and a mayoral candidate in the city ... |
817120_7 | NASA Plans New Series of Cheaper Spacecraft | Wild-2 comet and bring them back in a capsule. In a few weeks, Mr. Goldin, the NASA administrator, is expected to announce an ambitious plan for using ground-based telescopes and a network of small spacecraft to search for Earth-like planets around other stars. The final phase of the program, sometime early in the next... |
819074_0 | MAJORITY STAKE IN POLISH TIRE MAKER TO BE ACQUIRED | The shareholders of Debica S.A., a tire maker based in Poland, have approved a plan for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company to acquire a majority stake in Debica. The plan calls for Goodyear to buy 3.7 million shares, for $60 million, in addition to the stake that Goodyear bought from the Polish treasury earlier this ... |
818892_3 | On-Line Service Blocks Access To Topics Called Pornographic | viewed on a personal computer. In many of the groups hundreds of computer users post comments of a sexual nature. Of the more than 200 groups that Compuserve has banned, most are identified by the prefix "alt.sex" and range from the broadly commercial -- alt.sex.erotica.marketplace -- to the specific, like alt.binaries... |
818969_0 | India's Nuclear Temptation | With chances improving for completion of a nuclear test-ban treaty next year, France and China have arrogantly defied world public opinion and conducted more nuclear tests to get in under the wire. Now comes word that India, which conducted its one and only nuclear test in 1974, is considering some testing of its own. ... |
819083_2 | 4th Slaying In 4 Weeks In Ulster | strong, since the predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, usually avoids these neighborhoods. Between Sept. 1, 1994, when the I.R.A. cease-fire began, and Dec. 20 of this year, the police recorded 167 punishment beatings by the I.R.A. In the same period there were 92 punishment beatings by... |
815313_0 | Protestant Calls I.R.A. Stand a Setback for Peace | The leader of the largest Protestant political party in Northern Ireland said today that the peace effort in the British province had been set back by the Irish Republican Army statement that it would not cooperate with a new panel on disarming paramilitary groups in the North. On Saturday, the overwhelmingly Roman Cat... |
819086_3 | Beliefs | investors claiming more than $700 million in losses. In the same month the Episcopal Church accused its former treasurer of embezzling $2.2 million. Last month the United Methodist Church accused a former comptroller of its General Board of Global Ministries with embezzling $400,000. Both cases, which made the lists, a... |
814185_0 | Strikes Spread Across France With Protests | The French Government named a mediator today and offered discussions with labor unions representing public employees on its plans to overhaul the social security system and the railroads. But hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in scores of cities, and the state-run rail network, as well as mass transit in Par... |
814391_0 | Strikes Spread Across France With Protests | The French Government named a mediator today and offered discussions with labor unions representing public employees on its plans to overhaul the social security system and the railroads. But hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in scores of cities, and the state-run rail network, as well as mass transit in Par... |
812719_0 | STRIKE TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT CUTS WIDENS IN FRANCE | France's embattled Government struggled today with a powerful challenge to its economic austerity program as postal, electric utility and airport workers joined tens of thousands of striking transport employees in protests that have immobilized much of the country. The worst labor unrest in a decade began a week ago wi... |
813483_0 | As Strike Intensifies, French Government Stands Firm | The 11-day-old strike over social service cuts that has paralyzed France's capital intensified today as air transport workers, telephone and public finance employees and truck drivers prepared to join in the protests while the Government vowed it would not retreat from its austerity plans. After an emergency meeting of... |
813585_0 | Preening and Whirling In an Old-Fashioned Revue | Ivy Grows," which the Donna Uchizono Company presented on Saturday night at Dance Theater Workshop, was divided into two works -- "Polynesian Shorts (A Polynesian Review Revue)" and "Quietly Goes a Giant Jane" -- that were separated by a brief pause. Each piece in turn was subdivided into smaller segments. What Ms. Uch... |
813590_7 | Making Room on the Couch for Culture | Falling out or blacking out Southern United States and Caribbean Sudden collapse; eyes remain open but sightless; the victim hears but cannot move. Ghost sickness American Indian tribes Preoccupation with death and the dead, with bad dreams, fainting, appetite loss, fear, hallucinations, etc. Hwa-byung ("anger syndrome... |
813524_0 | Irish Peace Talks Won't Succeed Yet | To the Editor: Re "A Break in the Irish Impasse" (editorial, Nov. 30): You are wrong to claim it is "Britain's unreasonable insistence" that the Irish Republican Army hand in some of its weapons that is the main impediment to progress to all-party talks. The British Government is in favor of all-party talks. But these ... |
813480_0 | Clinton's Role for Northern Ireland Talks: Restoring the Focus on the Big Picture | In the aftermath of the near-euphoria created by President Clinton on his visit to Northern Ireland and to Dublin last week, hopes have never been higher among ordinary people and officials for lasting peace in the North since sectarian violence erupted there in 1969. There are still serious obstacles to be faced in th... |
816274_0 | French Rail and Other Workers Ending Their 3-Week Walkout | French railway workers voted today to end their three-week-old national strike, signaling an end to the country's most serious labor unrest in a decade. Still, the sour mood of widespread discontent remained. The crisis eased after the Government, which has been pressing for a broad austerity plan, made significant con... |
818222_1 | For Clergy, Christmastime Means Overtime | the 62-year-old Dr. Caliandro, whose Fifth Avenue church draws thousands of worshipers from all around the city. "My system can't take it." At Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., 11 performances of a special Christmas program have just drawn more than 20,000 people. "It's very exciting, but the net result is exhaust... |
817367_2 | Personal Health | present with physical symptoms rather than psychological symptoms." To help remedy the situation, the team of seven mental health specialists devised a simple diagnostic tool called Prime-MD, for "primary care evaluation of mental disorders," to help primary care doctors detect mental disorders even when the symptoms a... |
817227_3 | Reserve Board Cuts Key Rate; Markets Climb | -- weaker retail and auto sales, an erratic housing market and some signs that the worldwide demand for semiconductors is winding down after a frenetic year -- it clearly does not view a recession as a real danger. Economic growth, in fact, was not even mentioned in Mr. Greenspan's statement. What gave the Fed a bit of... |
817316_0 | Business Travel;United States airlines, flush with business, are cracking down on passengers who bend the rules. | WITH airplanes filling up and profits improving, United States airlines are beginning to crack down on some rule-bending passengers to whom carriers often turned a blind eye when they were bleeding red ink. An informal survey among carriers turned up these examples: Passengers who come running up to the gate at the las... |
817217_5 | For French, Solidarity Still Counts | afford. The strike and the protests were a defense of a way of life that brought cohesion and social peace to France for decades. With the strike now slowly winding down, sociologists, labor union leaders and most politicians agree that the three weeks of unrest will remain a decisive moment that political leaders can ... |
816854_0 | Female Models Try to Sell Rain Forest Issue on Disk | Multimedia is still a new field, so it is not surprising that many offerings combine video, sound and text in ways that seem experimental or downright zany. Still, even by the eclectic standards of this infant industry, "Supermodels in the Rainforest" has to qualify as one of the more curious combinations of material t... |
815434_1 | Panel Faults Education Of Disabled | the new Schools Chancellor, Dr. Rudy Crew, have called for reform in special education. Yesterday, Peter J. Powers, the First Deputy Mayor, described the plan as a "creative but feasible way" to stem the growing population of special education students, who now number more than 130,000. "We think it's a good proposal,"... |
815392_0 | France Finds a Reading Test Incomprehensible | People of the land of Racine and Moliere, of Hugo and Balzac, of Proust and Sartre, frequently can't grasp what they read, according to a new study that concludes that some literacy skills in France are far worse than those in the United States. But the French need not worry about being embarrassed by the report. When ... |
815412_0 | In Peru, a Fight for Fresh Air | Every night before she goes to bed, Anna Gilapa gets down on her knees and stuffs cloth in the cracks around her doors and windows to protect her family from the acrid smoke released by the nearby smelter of the Southern Peru Copper Corporation. Mrs. Gilapa fears for the health of her 1-year-old son, Brian, who suffers... |
815399_0 | Sensing Victory, Striking Unions in France Press Challenge | France's leading unions repeated their calls for large demonstrations across the country on Tuesday after apparently rejecting offers of compromise by Prime Minister Alain Juppe to end an 18-day strike by rail and other public transport workers that has paralyzed much of the country. After meetings with union leaders, ... |
812652_3 | Furiously Treading Water | books on tape, untimed tests and some tutoring. "I tell every coach that's trying to recruit me that I'm learning disabled, and I want to visit their office for learning-disabled students," said Ganden. The N.C.A.A. has made concessions to the new wave of learning-disabled students. "We try to accommodate learning-disa... |
812518_2 | On a Day of Peace in Belfast, Faiths Join to Cheer Clinton | that caused him to cast aside the fears of other Presidents that a trip here might fray relations with the British. Expressing amazement at the changes that have taken place, Mr. Clinton said that crossing the border with the Republic of Ireland to the south, once an ordeal of search and delay, "now is as easy as cross... |
813745_0 | The Doomsday Clock Is Alive and Ticking | To the Editor: "How Many Minutes to Midnight 50 Years After the A-Bomb's Birth?" (Week in Review, Dec. 3) left me wondering where The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and its subscribers have been since the end of the cold war. Given that the nuclear nations have "tested" hundreds of nuclear weapons aggressively again... |
813652_0 | French Clash On Cultures | History shows that often the French cannot think about the future before bringing the present crashing down around them, as Prime Minister Alain Juppe must have known before proposing to reshape the deficit-ridden French state to fit 21st-century financial realities. The response from France's powerful public-sector la... |
816198_2 | Inquiry Into Carolina Slayings Turns to Meaning of a Tattoo | "to mess with blacks and drug dealers," the affidavit said. When the police searched the trailer where Mr. Burmeister rented a room, they found a Nazi flag, white supremacist literature, and a 9 millimeter Ruger that they believe was used in the slayings. The killings have prompted a criminal investigation by the Fayet... |
816222_1 | A Few Strikers Return to Work in France, but Effect Is Small | make France eligible to participate in a unified European currency. But many people say they have come to regard the austerity plan as not only a retreat on social benefits but a change in the whole life style France had become accustomed to since World War II. Government officials said they were pleased with today's d... |
816116_0 | PFIZER TO SELL FOOD GROUP TO FINNISH COMPANY | Cultor Ltd. of Finland agreed yesterday to buy Pfizer Inc.'s Food Science Group business for $352.5 million. Pfizer said on Oct. 24 that it was in negotiations to sell the group to the Finnish food-products company. The New York-based drug maker first said Food Science was for sale in July. Food Science provides specia... |
818536_5 | Deng's Economic Drive Leaves Vast Regions of China Behind | in report issued in May. Reducing poverty further will require a much greater commitment from the central Government, which has mobilized many small-scale antipoverty projects with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and numerous charities, but the main task of poverty reduction remains largely unadd... |
818545_4 | Fears, Suits and Regulations Stall Contraceptive Advances | Health International. Work is proceeding, albeit slowly, on a new vaginal sponge, a new cervical cap, and other barrier methods that might include not just spermicides but chemicals that could block viruses like herpes and H.I.V. And several injectable hormones similar to Depo-Provera have gone into use in other parts ... |
818683_1 | There Is Nothing to 'Fix' in Homosexuals | desire is a "neurotic adaptation" that can be traced to "smothering mothers and abdicating fathers" has been refuted in many scientific studies. Dr. Richard C. Friedman, in his book on homosexuality, extensively reviewed the attempts to ascertain common personality characteristics and family backgrounds for male homose... |
818690_0 | Emmanuel Levinas, 90, French Ethical Philosopher | Emmanuel Levinas, a philosopher and religious thinker who made ethical responsibility for "the Other" the bedrock of his philosophical analyses, died of heart failure in Paris on Monday. He would have been 90 within a few days. His thought influenced several generations of French philosophers and, bolstered by his refl... |
743442_1 | Fewer Women Are Said to Use Contraceptives | from 1982 to 1990, the latest year for which data have been analyzed. The figures show that overall, contraceptive use declined to 59 percent of American women ages 15 to 44 in 1990, from 60 percent in 1988. The report also shows that among those who use some method of contraception, condoms have become much more popul... |
743510_1 | Class Notes | It's not exactly a return to the turn of the century, when more than 50 percent of public secondary school students studied Latin, or to the 19th century, when the University of Georgia admissions requirement for 1843 included "a correct knowledge of Cicero's orations, Virgil, John and the Acts in the Greek New Testame... |
745786_0 | I.R.A. Leader Conciliatory on Pace of Talks | Gerry Adams, the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, indicated today that he wants to allay fears that the I.R.A. might resume its campaign of violence if progress toward peace negotiations in Northern Ireland falters. Although Mr. Adams said in an interview on national radio that he wants peace negotiations... |
741869_5 | Is China Stumbling?; Some See Mishandling of Ties With U.S., Raising Questions About Deng's Successor | note cards. Mr. Deng's youngest daughter and biographer, Xiao Rong, who insists that her father is "content" with his choice of Mr. Jiang, recently stated in an interview the blunt reality of Mr. Jiang's exposure. "The real question," she said, "is not whether my father's health is good or bad right now, but rather whe... |
741813_0 | Patents; Three Professors Have Found a New Way to Help Buildings Withstand the Shock of an Earthquake | AFTER the great earthquake of 1923 struck Tokyo, virtually the only significant downtown building left standing was Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Because Wright had built the hotel essentially on a foundation of floating pads, its base acted as a shock absorber, soaking up seismic motion without transmitting it ... |
741802_0 | Peru and Ecuador Wage Guerrilla War as Talks Break Off | With peace talks collapsing in Brazil today, Peruvian and Ecuadorean soldiers tried to settle on a rugged Amazon battlefield what diplomats failed to settle at a negotiating table. After six days of talks in Rio de Janeiro, diplomats from South America and the United States broke off talks in frustration today after Ec... |
740859_1 | Cancer Cases Up, but Future Isn't Bleak | the numbers of cancers of the breast, prostate and brain that are diagnosed. *Smoking, which has resulted in a rise in related cancers, especially lung cancer in women and bladder cancer in men. *Increased exposure to the sun, with an accompanying increase in melanomas. *The AIDS epidemic, which has led to a rise in ca... |
740859_3 | Cancer Cases Up, but Future Isn't Bleak | that "patterns among blacks generally resembled those among whites." During the time span studied, cancer incidence, adjusted for age, rose by 18.6 percent among men and by 12.4 percent among women. Prostate cancer contributed most heavily to the increase in cancers among men. The researchers attributed all or nearly a... |
740858_1 | Cancer Cases Up, but Future Isn't Bleak | the numbers of cancers of the breast, prostate and brain that are diagnosed. *Smoking, which has resulted in a rise in related cancers, especially lung cancer in women and bladder cancer in men. *Increased exposure to the sun, with an accompanying increase in melanomas. *The AIDS epidemic, which has led to a rise in ca... |
740858_3 | Cancer Cases Up, but Future Isn't Bleak | that "patterns among blacks generally resembled those among whites." During the time span studied, cancer incidence, adjusted for age, rose by 18.6 percent among men and by 12.4 percent among women. Prostate cancer contributed most heavily to the increase in cancers among men. The researchers attributed all or nearly a... |
742802_2 | At Work; Stalking the Useful Career Guide | I saw were fairly current -- within the last two weeks -- and if I were young, mobile and willing to live in parts of the country where Starbuck's is never likely to open franchises, I might actually have some possibilities. There were some listings in my chosen field, Writing/Editing/Reporting/Narrating, as it is call... |
742937_4 | Behind Mexico's Harder Line On Rebels, a Political Shift | to "return to the road of negotiations for a political solution." Where Mr. Salinas and Mr. Zedillo agreed on Chiapas, one official who has worked for both of them said, was that the problems created by the rebellion were far more political than military, and that the politics of the situation were changing. In the eig... |
742947_1 | Ecuador and Peru Trade Air Strikes Along Border | three Peruvian attack jets and a helicopter Friday afternoon, Peru's President acknowledged today. "Yesterday, we lost two Sukhoi, one A-37 and a helicopter," Alberto K. Fujimori, told foreign correspondents gathered at the Presidential Palace here. Peru's President said that one Sukhoi pilot and the two-man crew of th... |
743009_1 | British and Irish Chiefs to Meet on Peace Plan | at formal negotiating sessions that are to include all the parties in the North, including Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. The peace effort is now moving in two sets of meetings, one called "exploratory talks" between officials of Sinn Fein and British civil servants, the second between Dubl... |
745147_0 | Audit Cites Mismanagement In Water Tunnel Project | State Comptroller H. Carl McCall said yesterday that the construction of New York City's third water tunnel, the largest capital project in the state, had been beset by mismanagement, citing a lack of competitive bidding on materials and millions of dollars spent on items not related to the project. In an audit release... |
745024_0 | For a Family, the War at Home | The tough, muscular characters in Lee Tamahori's ferocious "Once Were Warriors" are primed for fighting. And they need no battlefield: their hostilities are played out in the bedroom, in front of the children or in crowded bars. In his visceral first feature, Mr. Tamahori offers social realism with a savage kick, depic... |
745066_0 | The Hidden Question; Beyond the Northern Ireland Framework, What Do Ordinary People in Ulster Want? | Behind the bluster and the pages and pages of legalisms rained down on Belfast this week was a crucial question that has never before been posed to this divided island: do the people of Northern Ireland want to remain citizens of Britain or create a new united Ireland? It was presented as a choice, but it was clear fro... |
741639_0 | Experts Focus On Stagnating Food Supplies | Confronted with the expectation that the world's population will grow by at least 2 billion people in the next two decades and the reality that demands for basic foods are already outstripping supply, international experts will meet in Switzerland on Thursday to discuss urgently needed advances in agricultural technolo... |
741761_0 | Clearing the Air A Bit in the Skies | THERE is good news for air passengers yearning to breathe free. Mexico, yielding to pressure from the United States, is dropping its requirement that the cabins of arriving planes be sprayed with insecticide. This means that at least 5.1 million air passengers who travel there each year from the United States -- the to... |
741477_0 | Airlines Tighten East Asian Security | Because of recent bomb threats, airlines have tightened security measures at about three dozen airports in east Asia, resulting in delays of up to one to two hours or more for travelers flying to and from that region. The heightened security for an indefinite period that was imposed by the Federal Aviation Administrati... |
741571_0 | Newton Still in a Heel Period | H ELMUT NEWTON has prided himself on being the bad boy of American fashion photography since the 70's, when he spread androgyny, lesbianism and sexually voracious women across the pages of Vogue. He has had plenty of company in the interval and this month has finally met his match on the score of outrageousness and mis... |
741737_0 | What Hollywood Doesn't Know About Money | "SHOW BUSINESS," AN OLD Hollywood saw has it, "is high school with money." In an industry motored by equal parts ego, envy and status lust, a Hollywood player's coffer has always been of interest to voyeurs of excess. But now wages for stars and studio bosses have spiraled toward the gross national products of several ... |
740941_0 | A Leak in Ulster Peace Plan Stirs a Storm | Prospects for peace negotiations in Northern Ireland hit a snag today when details of a British-Irish plan to guide the talks were leaked to the press and published, provoking a storm of protest from unionist politicians of Ulster. The Protestant unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain, said the ... |
742170_1 | Bujumbura Journal; In the Chimps' Sad Fate Is an Omen for Burundi | in Burundi there is no life for Burundians," said Aly Wood, the co-director of the Goodall Institute, "The Kibira is its own watershed. Without it there is no rain, no water, no crops, no life. We have to start teaching this in first grade." Though the Government says it is committed to forest conservation, it is hardl... |
742170_2 | Bujumbura Journal; In the Chimps' Sad Fate Is an Omen for Burundi | than 90 percent of Burundians are farmers, and they have been cutting away at the forest to increase their land. Officials here say the symbiotic relationship between animal, forest and human is often lost on the mostly uneducated Burundian farmers. Many of the farmers see the animals as predators that destroy their cr... |
744921_0 | Internet Warning Is Issued | Computer security officials issued a warning yesterday to hundreds of thousands of Internet network administrators, alerting them to a potentially serious flaw in a program used to handle electronic mail sent by millions of people each day on the global network. If exploited by skilled programmers, the flaw in a progra... |
744843_1 | Britain and Ireland Issue a Plan for Full Talks on Ulster | its constitutional claim to sovereignty over the North. Both Prime Ministers emphasized that those two proposals were a good starting point toward a political agreement to end a conflict that has killed more than 3,100 people since 1969, when the Irish Republican Army opened its violent campaign to end British rule of ... |
744908_3 | Still Married to Christ, and Never Happier; As Fewer Women Become Nuns, Sisters Say the Calling's Rewards Have Expanded | its own demise," said Sister Elizabeth Johnson, also of the St. Joseph order, commenting on the richness of the modern nun's life even as it fades. A professor at Fordham University, she was one of the first female theologians permitted to receive a doctorate by the church authorities in the liberalization decrees that... |
744990_3 | The Cars Supply The Drive | Chrysler donation of $30,000 for the fall 1994 term supported a student project critiqued by Chrysler's design team three times, the final time at the end of the semester, in mid-December. Chrysler's investments apparently pay off: 30 of the 300 members of its design team are graduates of the center. This project calle... |
742683_0 | Sailing Into Motherhood | In 1993, when the United States Navy reversed its policy of banning women from serving on combat ships, it moved into uncharted territory. The questions flew: Would women and men living in close quarters for long stretches lower or lift morale? Would they distract each other from their duties and interfere with readine... |
742684_0 | Sailing Into Motherhood | In 1993, when the United States Navy reversed its policy of banning women from serving on combat ships, it moved into uncharted territory. The questions flew: Would women and men living in close quarters for long stretches lower or lift morale? Would they distract each other from their duties and interfere with readine... |
744672_0 | Outboard Marine Gets New Chief | The Outboard Marine Corporation replaced its chairman, chief executive and president today, abruptly ending James C. Chapman's tumultuous five year's at Outboard's helm. Succeeding Mr. Chapman is Harry W. Bowman, a top Whirlpool Corporation executive with a strong marketing background. Mr. Chapman had downsized Outboar... |
744610_4 | U.S. Navy's Attack Subs to Be Lent For Study of Arctic Icecap | has been particularly interested in the Arctic because of its potential for delivering insights into the magnitude of global environmental change. The freeing of the Navy's attack subs comes as the force shrinks in response to lessening global threats. Norman Polmar, a naval expert and author in Alexandria, Va., said t... |
744589_0 | Nations to Consider Toughening Curbs on Global Warming | AFTER world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro nearly three years ago and signed a treaty to prevent human interference from causing dangerous changes in the earth's climate, the question quietly slipped down the international agenda. It was drained of urgency not least by an interruption of the global warming trend that ha... |
744569_2 | For U.S. Energy Industry, Big Barriers in China | major projects have been approved, that tells you a logjam is still there," said Roger W. Sant, chairman of the AES Corporation of Arlington, Va., an independent power producer. "But you always think you're going to be the exception." Mr. Sant hopes that his plans with five Chinese partners to build a 2,100-megawatt po... |
744246_0 | On Sunday; Budget Scythe Poised to Slash Autism Center | JOSIAH CUNNINGHAM seemed on the verge of breaking into dance as he savored the word "normal" and lavished it upon his son, Jeremiah. "Normal," he exulted, three years after he first plunged into nightmare suspicions that his eerily withdrawn, uncontrollable toddler might grow up autistic. "I work with mentally retarded... |
744407_6 | Confronting Head On the Face of the Afflicted | visions were surely not private ones; their art is anonymous, for the concept of "individual" did not yet exist. At the point at which the individual begins to detach himself from the collective, the artist begins to achieve what we call "identity"; art may still be in the service of the nation or the tribe, but it has... |
744215_0 | Ulster Threat To Peace Bid Seems to Fade | A threat by moderate Protestant Unionist leaders to disrupt the peace effort for Northern Ireland appeared to recede today, as high-ranking Irish and British officials agreed on the text of a new framework document intended to lead to a permanent political settlement of the sectarian warfare in the British province of ... |
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