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743116_0 | Canoes Take to Pacific, Guided by Stars and Sun | Testing the vast, wild swells of the Pacific, two specks put to sea on Saturday on a three-month, 6,000-mile voyage to tiny scraps of land and back, guided only by knowledge of the sea and the stars. In about six weeks, the specks hope to be joined in the Marquesas Islands by six more of their kind, double-hulled Polyn... |
742002_2 | Cruising the Web With a Browser | its Windows software. America Online is demonstrating its Internetworks Web browser to analysts this week. Microsoft plans to include a Mosaic-based browser in Windows 95. Netcom, one of the larger Internet service providers, offers a browser called Netcruiser. Browsers come with many books written about the Web. Inter... |
742010_4 | Space Radar to Study Khmer Temples at Angkor | scientists had just processed from radar data gathered in a shuttle pass over Southeast Asia. Targeting Angkor had been a last-minute addition to the mission, after an official of the World Monuments Fund read a newspaper account and sent an urgent request to NASA. Huddling around the picture, archeologists saw all the... |
742087_0 | Help the World's Children and Our Economy | To the Editor: Urging "Foreign Aid, in Moderation" (editorial, Feb. 2), you note how modest programs that fight "poverty, disease, overpopulation and environmental degradation can prevent the sort of political instability and humanitarian disasters that ultimately require more costly American involvement." That is why ... |
741950_0 | Quake-Shattered Japan City Reassembling Pieces | Surrounded by the debris of his home and business, Kanji Ioka spent the weekend in the same way as many other victims of last month's earthquake in western Japan: poking through the rubble of the past and spinning dreams about the future. Mr. Ioka is 64, but his plans have nothing to do with retirement. Instead, he int... |
742009_0 | Secret Sub to Scan Sea Floor for Roman Wrecks | THE Mediterranean was a lake to imperial Rome. Hundreds of ships regularly sailed from its seaport town, Ostia, to the far reaches of the empire, ferrying troops and gathering in the oil, wine, slaves, spices, grains and other resources that fed the city. The pace of transport was so great that inevitably, many ships w... |
743327_6 | Nation's Vital Documents Get Checkups | the Library of Congress in 1944. They were encased in their present enclosures and transferred to the National Archives in 1952. Each case has a pane of glass on the bottom, topped by a sheet of pure cellulose backing paper on which the document rests. Atop the document is a thin glass cover holding it flat, followed b... |
745482_0 | Tech Notes; Innovations on Innovations | EVEN as auto makers promote air bags and seat belt "pre-tensioners" as potential lifesavers in severe accidents, they are contemplating replacements. New "smart bags" and "smart belts," which are supposed to be far more efficient than the current designs, are under development and might appear in cars within the next f... |
745318_2 | Ulster Debates Its Future, but Prefers Talking to Violence | sitting down at a peace table with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, something the British and Irish Governments view as critical to the negotiations. While the opinion poll showed strong support for the talks, respondents were divided on the specific proposals themselves. Channel Four, which ... |
745340_4 | Radioactive Debris in Space Threatens Satellites in Use | to find signs of widespread debris, which were strongly at odds with theoretical predictions of small objects. The band of debris extended from 850 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers from the Earth's surface, or from about 530 miles to 620 miles high. It was most densely packed around 600 miles up, suggesting that it was n... |
745500_10 | A Repulsively Lonely Man | deeply he identified with his protagonist: "To write of such a man, you have to know loneliness, of course, but only of the kind that everyone has experienced at one time or another. It's like the terrible blizzards I once put in a short story. I had never experienced blizzards like that, but I had experienced snow. Yo... |
745548_0 | Selecting a Phone for a Car | MANY people would like to pass time behind the wheel chatting on a car phone, but an idea they like even better is a phone they can take on the sidewalk, too, and into a store or an office. But few people will buy more than one phone. Is it possible to have a model that works both ways? The answer is clear: sort of. Ca... |
745486_7 | Confession, Terminable and Interminable | becoming a Communist after the completion of "Call It Sleep." It is usually understood that accepting the party's charge to write Socialist Realism was the cause of his writer's block. But it seems to me rather that Mr. Roth was not silenced by his Marxism, he was driven to Marxism by a Jewishness that could not be sat... |
744838_0 | CABINETS APPROVE ANGLO-IRISH PLAN FOR ULSTER TALKS | The British and Irish Governments approved a common approach today toward reaching a settlement in Northern Ireland, providing a framework that could bring together Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders in an effort to end 25 years of violence. The joint position, approved separately by the British and Irish Cabinets, ... |
744697_0 | Chevron Settles Sexual Harassment Charges | Chevron Corporation agreed yesterday to pay $2.2 million to settle sexual harassment charges that were brought by four female employees who said they had been the targets of a barrage of offensive jokes, E-mail messages and comments about their clothes and body parts, and, in one case, sadistic pornography sent through... |
745884_1 | Four Telescopes in Neutrino Hunt | these elusive particles, some of which could reach the Earth. The construction of high-energy neutrino observatories gained financial backing and four neutrino telescopes are currently under development. Three of them use huge volumes of water as their detectors -- one of them at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, a... |
745895_0 | South Pole Outpost Is Desired Spot For Probing Heavens | THE South Pole lies in the coldest, driest, highest desert in the world, above most of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, and with a continuous unpolluted nighttime view of the heavens during nearly five months of winter darkness. It is an astronomer's paradise. But the South Pole is not yielding its favors to science w... |
745893_3 | Man's World, Woman's World? Brain Studies Point to Differences | anything. In the study, published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, the investigators found that for the most part, the brains of men and women at rest were indistinguishable from each other. But there was one difference, found in a brain structure called the limbic system that regulates emotions. Men, on av... |
742306_0 | Helms and Cuba Sanctions | Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is to introduce a bill on Thursday tightening sanctions against Cuba by barring most aid to countries that help Havana, Congressional aides said today. The bill would also bar entry into the United States to any foreigner who buys property in Cuba that w... |
742314_4 | Speaker Leads Drive to Undo Term Limits | disaster." In addition to Mr. Adler and Mr. McLaughlin, others involved in the drive include Joni A. Yoswein, once the aide to Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, who has been hired as the director of the Coalition for Voters' Choice, and Joseph Strasburg, the former chief of staff to Mr. Vallone, who now heads the Rent Stabi... |
741205_0 | Ulster Peace: How Fragile? | The furor over a document leaked to a newspaper this week showed just how fragile are the peace efforts in Northern Ireland. The document was a draft being hammered out by British and Irish officials as a starting point for the time when the Catholics and Protestants who have been fighting 25 years finally sit down at ... |
741308_3 | Religion Journal | United States has benefited graduate programs in Jewish studies. In just over a year, the Revel School has received $10 million to help increase the number of fellowships it offers. The most recent gift, $5 million from the Mozes Schupf Foundation, will help the school increase the number of doctoral candidates to 15 f... |
741357_0 | World News Briefs; 5 I.R.A. Convicts Freed by Ireland | In a move to encourage the Irish Republican Army to sustain its five-month-old cease-fire in Northern Ireland, Ireland today granted early release to 5 of the 30 I.R.A. convicts held in Irish prisons. In December, Ireland released nine prisoners early. The early releases are an effort to bolster the cease-fire and a co... |
741426_0 | INSIDE | Floods' Cost to the Dutch Rivers are receding in Europe, but the halt in barge traffic has left economic disruption and fears that dikes may still crumble. Page 4. The Informal Candidate Appearing on the David Letterman show last night, Senator Bob Dole made it unofficial, again: he will run for President in 1996. Page... |
741321_0 | Trump Development Clears Hurdle Despite Objections | Over the strenuous objections of environmentalists, Harlem residents and some elected officials, the city gave Donald J. Trump permission yesterday to connect the first phase of his Riverside South development to the troubled North River sewage treatment plant. With the certification, Mr. Trump clears a major hurdle in... |
745180_0 | Big Picture of Cold War: U.S. Spy Photos Go Public | Their acquisition cost billions. They number in the millions, with hundreds added every day. Thousands of people have labored in secrecy to interpret them. Hundreds of spacecraft, the most advanced ever made, were lofted over the decades to make them. More than one person landed in jail for revealing something about th... |
761436_0 | Lead-Based Battery Used in Electric Car May Pose Hazards | For years, electric cars and vans powered by lead-based batteries have been promoted as a way to reduce health-damaging urban smog. But now the potential risk from production of the batteries, long quietly acknowledged, is drawing more careful scrutiny from scientists, and their findings are alarming. In a forthcoming ... |
761436_4 | Lead-Based Battery Used in Electric Car May Pose Hazards | "but it's almost everything." Dr. Silbergeld, the toxicologist, is not mollified. "Lead particles can move long distances," she said. "This is potentially a global problem." She also worries that in their zeal to encourage the recycling of lead batteries, regulators have underestimated the risks from recycling plants, ... |
761320_0 | France's New Regime: Looking Ahead, Not Back | To understand how much the presidential election Sunday represented a generational changing of the guard in France, it was enough to look at this morning's military parade commemorating the 50th anniversary of the German surrender in World War II. There at the Arc de Triomphe was President Francois Mitterrand, a Social... |
759815_3 | Personal Health; Breast scans may indeed help women under 50. | whether or not their cancers are found through screening. The older forms of mammography used in the studies may be less sensitive to cancers in the denser breasts of younger women. Such factors suggest that larger studies and a longer follow-up -- 10 or more years -- using the newest and most sensitive equipment may b... |
759858_1 | Business Travel; Amsterdam's Schiphol is named the best airport in Europe and North America for two straight years. | airport banks. Almost 2.6 million Americans flew to Schiphol last year, up from 1.7 million in 1991, and 20 United States cities now provide direct air service to Amsterdam -- not only from such traditional gateways as New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, but also Denver, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale in Florida and ... |
765405_0 | Corrections | A picture last Sunday with a report about the wedding of Elizabeth Hope Fischer and Dr. Peter Christopher Mabie was published in error. It showed Monica Ilana Fischer and Jay Douglas Rosenbaum. A report about their wedding appears today on page 45. |
765178_1 | An Inventor in a Business Suit, With None of the Usual Angst | themselves. Instead of focusing exclusively on reducing tailpipe emissions, why not enlist cars as active agents in the cleanup of existing pollution? "I've been in the field for 28 years, and this is a completely new way of thinking," said Dr. Haren S. Gandhi, the director of chemical engineering at the Ford Motor Com... |
765590_4 | Q and A | and under the age of 10, calculated at 1,625 lire to the dollar. More information: (39 45) 6449777 or (39 45) 6449555. Airline Safety Q. Is there a source of information that would let one compare the safety records of foreign airlines? -- Peter Leyden, Franklin Park, N.J. A. At least two bodies, the Federal Aviation A... |
765294_0 | Mamaroneck Calls Housing a Success | WITH cedar shingles and New England-style pitched roofs and railings, Hommocks Park, a 53-unit affordable housing complex just off the Boston Post Road here, resembles any other affluent suburban cooperative or condominium development. Many of the two-story apartments have a picture window, a loft, a spiral staircase, ... |
763154_0 | Organic Industry Faces An Ethics Question | ORGANIC food customers have always relied on the good faith of growers, retailers and private certifying companies to assure them that the food they are buying has been raised with the fewest chemicals possible. But now, a class-action lawsuit filed recently in San Diego is shining a spotlight on the ethics and practic... |
763078_2 | Business Travel; Higher airline penalties for changing a ticket hit some travelers harder than others. | all nations to eliminate the practice unless the flight originates in or stops in a territory considered to harbor threats to public health or agriculture. According to the United States Transportation Department, the countries that spray planes while passengers remain on board are Argentina, Barbados, Congo, Costa Ric... |
763160_4 | Personal Health; Weighing evidence for ways to avoid breast cancer. | up to two drinks a day also had a lower mortality rate than abstainers, even though this amount of alcohol has been shown to raise estrogen levels (and therefore, presumably, breast cancer risk) in premenopausal women. Women with various risk factors for heart disease, including being over 50, showed the most benefit f... |
763160_5 | Personal Health; Weighing evidence for ways to avoid breast cancer. | risk) in premenopausal women. Women with various risk factors for heart disease, including being over 50, showed the most benefit from a modest intake of alcohol. Hormone Replacement Even more controversial than alcohol is the role, if any, that taking estrogens during or after menopause plays in breast cancer. Contrad... |
763084_2 | Class Notes; Why employers aren't interested in the high school grades of prospective workers. | legal. In the landmark Griggs v. Duke Power decision, the Supreme Court in 1971 ruled that employers were prohibited not just from overt discrimination but also from practices that "are fair in form but discriminatory in operation." In that case, the Duke Power Company of North Carolina required high school diplomas fo... |
764747_1 | Gerry Adams and Briton Discuss Ulster Peace in Washington | was still a long way to go before the British Government would allow Sinn Fein to take part in full-fledged peace talks. The meeting was expected to clear one of several obstructions to the peace moves that have been advancing sporadically since the I.R.A. declared a cease-fire last Aug. 31. Mr. Adams had been demandin... |
764780_1 | Government Is Urged to Act Quickly in Protecting Habitats | an industry group, said the report was neither a total endorsement of the law nor a repudiation of an industry-supported bill to revise the law. The panel, convened in 1992 by the scientific advisory council at the request of Congress, included 17 experts from various disciplines. It was headed by Michael T. Clegg, a g... |
760276_0 | Pattern of Brutality in the Bronx Is Asserted | |
760027_1 | Editorial Notebook: The Boat Builders of Bristol; America's Cup - A Century of Victors | the races that start Saturday off San Diego represent today's most advanced. Dennis Connor's crew won the trials in Stars & Stripes, but will defend the cup in Young America, which seems faster. Such is the margin of perfection in modern boat-building. America's Cup boats play a role like the racing machines that compe... |
764138_6 | Passengers Play The Airlines' Bumping Game | frequently oversold at the end of a weekend. Most recently, the Escobars each got a $300 United travel credit in San Francisco, expecting to spend the night there and get home in the morning; actually they flew home two hours after the oversold flight. The Escobars, who fly monthly, frequently travel "almost free" by t... |
764070_0 | Tighter Rules Proposed On Ferry Transport | Far more than in the United States, ferries are a common means of transportation in Europe. So it was not surprising that the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea last fall, with the loss of more than 900 lives, sent shudders of fear across the Continent and the islands arrayed around it. Investigations into ... |
763891_2 | Creating a 15-Mile Human Chain, Torch by Torch | Merle Baer, a volunteer recruited through a computer users' group. His programming expertise has been essential in keeping track of who gets what spot along the route. ("I'm a computer novice," Ms. Tegley said. "And Barbara doesn't type, a deliberate decision she made years ago so she wouldn't be categorized or stereot... |
763817_4 | Who's the Enemy Now? | Let me ask you about women in the military. The armed forces are a beacon to the rest of society in race relations. Why can't they be the same in creating an atmosphere of tolerance in these other areas? A: They are. Some 25 to 26 percent of all our R.O.T.C. cadets are women. That's enormous. Point me [ out ] any other... |
763449_1 | G.O.P. Poses Serious Threat To Tax Fund for Campaigns | strongly supports the proposal, a spokesman said. Many Republicans defend the proposal as a way to pare the budget, saying it would save between $100 million and $300 million out of the $1.6 trillion in cuts needed to balance the budget by 2002. They also offer an ideological argument: that Government should stay out o... |
762139_2 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS PREPARE TO FIGHT PATENTS ON GENES | is that life is a gift from God," said Bishop Kenneth Carder, who is in charge of the United Methodist Church's task force on genetic science. "The patenting of life forms reduces life to its marketability. Gone is the fundamental principle that life is a gift that ought to be shared and nurtured." Indeed, the breadth ... |
762189_0 | A Use for the Useless Yugo | The Yugo flopped as a cheap compact car, but it makes a smashing work of pop art. Students and graduates of the School of Visual Arts in New York City have converted 28 dead Yugos into 28 lively creations on display through May 26 in the spacious old waiting room at Grand Central Terminal. The concept of the show was t... |
762187_0 | Disney on 42d Street | The Times Square redevelopment plan, now 14 years old, has had its share of setbacks. But the dream of restoring glitz and glory to the seedy west end of 42d Street came another step closer to reality this week when the Disney Development Company and a New York partner committed to building a mammoth hotel, entertainme... |
762355_7 | A Safer Society -- A special report.; Japanese Say No to Crime: Tough Methods, at a Price | associated with crime as in the West -- particularly broken families. When a group of counselors was asked what they noticed about the juvenile offenders they worked with, they pointed to family backgrounds. "It's common among those who come here that they have family problems when they grow up," said Yai Horie, a volu... |
762524_0 | Just a Damn Minute | YOU ARE SHORT of time. Technologists know this and are trying to help -- in their fashion. First, your symptoms: * A 60-second television commercial (these dinosaurs do turn up on some obscure cable channels) feels like a full-length feature film. You can't believe how it goes on and on. * Before you reheat leftovers i... |
762398_0 | Cancer Fear Is Unfounded, Physicists Say | The world's largest group of physicists, the American Physical Society, has taken a stance on a contentious public health issue by saying it can find no evidence that the electromagnetic fields that radiate from power lines cause cancer. The group's statement, issued recently after years of quiet deliberation, appears ... |
762537_0 | Airlines Getting Worse, According to Survey | An annual survey that sets out to rank the nation's airlines by quality has picked American Airlines as the best and Continental as the worst, but has also concluded that as a group, the nine major airlines are getting worse. The ranking, by Wichita State University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, counts 19 fa... |
762273_3 | The World: The Refugee Deal; Clinton and Castro Buy Some Time | It would also allow Americans to sue foreigners who have invested here in properties the Cuban Government confiscated from Americans. Fearing a Compromise Officially, the Clinton Administration opposes the legislation on ground that it could conflict with broader United States interests. But Cuban officials and diploma... |
762286_0 | Turning the Tides At Mont-St.-Michel | For most of its history, the island of Mont-St-Michel off Normandy, with its magnificent Benedictine abbey, has towered above the sea amid the perpetual motion of tides rolling up and receding. Part of its mystical beauty was the illusion that the cone of granite and its fine buildings were afloat. But man's tinkering ... |
762348_2 | Study Ties Educational Gains To More Productivity Growth | at different times. He plans to repeat the survey in three years. Various studies over the years have documented the degree to which education correlates with higher wages for employees. Recent research indicates that employees gain an 8 percent average increase in income for each additional year of schooling they rece... |
764969_1 | Reforming Special Education | to children with physical, mental, emotional or behavioral problems. Currently, about 130,000 students in New York City schools are classified as disabled and about 25 percent of the school system's $8 billion budget is spent on special education. These numbers are so large that they mock the idea that this is "special... |
764975_0 | Clinton Urges Investment In Ulster | President Clinton urged American companies today to invest in Northern Ireland, saying jobs created by new factories and businesses there would "lift the despair that breeds violence" and help turn a nine-month-old cease-fire into a permanent peace. "We must make hope real," Mr. Clinton said, addressing 300 business an... |
760973_2 | On Sunday; Blast Echoes: When Atrocity Makes Politics | in speaking against human-rights abuses in Northern Ireland," said the priest. He used it again last week before a Senate hearing in warning against new Presidential deportation powers dependent on the sort of informers he knows well from Britain's "special powers" crackdown in Northern Ireland. "It's very sad for me t... |
760704_0 | When the Radio Was New, And Voices Took to the Air | IN the early 1920's, when radio was new, one of the first to glimpse its possibilities was A. C. Gilbert of New Haven, inventor (of the Erector set, among other things) and manufacturer. He stayed in the radio field for only a few years; it would present patent battles, and he had other operations to tend to. But durin... |
760714_2 | Flood Control On the Saw Mill Raises Concern | the Army Corps of Engineers, it's not a river anymore. It's just a drainage ditch." The corps, along with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Yonkers, began dredging a two-mile section of the river from this village south to Yonkers earlier this year to prevent flooding along the highway and... |
760971_7 | DOING BATTLE ON TWO FRONTS | us were to share and told the conductor that we had the food chits for our meals and that we'd eat in the dining car. The next morning, this white woman and her husband were sitting in the diner. And when we came in and they set us down, she asked her husband out loud, "What are they doing here?" And he sort of shushed... |
760380_0 | Research Hints of Immunization via Food | Scientists say they have taken the first steps toward developing genetically modified plants that can be used to vaccinate people against disease when eaten. The research raises the possibility that vaccines delivered by fruits and vegetables might eventually replace those given by needle against human diseases like he... |
760368_1 | CLINTON OPPOSES MOVE TO TOUGHEN EMBARGO ON CUBA | topple the Castro Government. Among other things, the bill would carry out these provisions: *Ban American imports of sugar from any foreign country that buys sugar or molasses from Cuba. *Deny visas to foreigners who use, manage or profit from property in Cuba that was expropriated from Americans. *Reduce American con... |
760490_2 | Audit Findings by State Assert Mismanagement at Javits | he routinely disregarded internal control procedures," Mr. McCall said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. "Personnel was hired and fired without standard documentation, salary increases and reductions were made unilaterally by the C.E.O., purchases were made without competitive bidding; in short, the C.E.O. ... |
760474_0 | Market Place; The case of the missing tire factory: Will Goodyear pay? | DID the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company steal a tire factory in broad daylight? Absurd as the question sounds, two details make it the beginning of a potentially important, cautionary tale. First, Goodyear is being sued, accused of having stolen the factory, and if it loses it faces a ruinous penalty of as much as $3 ... |
762853_3 | The Mystery Of Music: How It Works In the Brain | Bharucha, a psychologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. But the left hemisphere also contains regions that specialize exclusively in language and the right has some regions that exclusively serve musical perception, he said. In the brains of musical idiot savants -- individuals who are talented musicians despite... |
762878_6 | An Airborne Telescope Risks a Look At Mercury | been visited by only one space probe, that of Mariner 10, in 1974 and 1975. Mariner's instruments revealed a face somewhat similar to that of the Moon, but disclosed no clues as to the planet's chemical composition. Radar measurements over the last four years suggest that Mercury may have ice caps at its poles, despite... |
762876_2 | Using the Internet the Netcom Way | there is a $25 set-up fee to establish a Netcruiser account, plus $20 a month for the use of one of Netcom's 200 local connections to the Internet. The monthly fee is a bargain, as it includes 40 hours of "prime time" connections and unlimited "after hours" Internet connections. Netcom defines prime time rather expansi... |
762875_1 | A Resume Road Map, On Floppy or CD-ROM | to prepare a resume for a professional print shop. A contact manager is provided for keeping a list of companies, names and phone numbers. There is also a spelling checker, but those programs do not catch usage mistakes like "complimentary." The CD-ROM version adds about three hours of video and sound on job hunting. W... |
762808_0 | Confrontation Over Fur | |
764517_1 | Personal Health; Children at play: name of the game is safety. | bruise or sprain in an adult can be a serious injury in a child and result in impaired bone growth. Children are more susceptible to the effects of heat and dehydration. They are, by definition, mentally and emotionally immature. Under the stress of competition or facing pressure from parents and coaches, they often fa... |
764682_0 | Alastair Pilkington, 75, Inventor Of a Process to Make Flat Glass | Sir Alastair Pilkington, who developed the flotation process that revolutionized the way flat glass is formed, died in London on May 5. He was 75. The cause of death was a brain tumor, said Elaine Frater, a friend of the Pilkington family Pilkington P.L.C. became the largest flat glass company in the world, mainly as a... |
765655_3 | FRANCE DEMANDS REINFORCEMENTS | an arrangement that United States officials say has proved highly unsatisfactory in launching air strikes so far. The French Prime Minister was also critical of the United Nations decision to call in NATO bombers against the Serbs last week, though France supported the decision at the time to force the Serbs to stop bo... |
765681_2 | 2-Edged Sword: Asian Regimes On the Internet | mail, over computer networks. Their economic vitality may depend on having a population that is computer literate and, more specifically, Internet literate. And so China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, which strictly censor every other form of information available to the public, have been forced to open t... |
764420_1 | Congress Move on Cuba Irks Canada and Mexico | the Commons. The bill, which has strong backing in both houses of Congress, is sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who heads the Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who heads the the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs. Canada and M... |
764485_0 | New Studies Confirm Pesticide-Cancer Link | To the Editor: Jane Brody, in her column on evaluating evidence for ways to avoid breast cancer (Personal Health, May 17), writes that "anxiety prompts many women to overreact to poorly documented reports about things like breast cancer risks from exposure to pesticides." Ms. Brody's remark incorrectly diminishes the i... |
765720_1 | For Europe, Echoes of Vietnam War | sent about 22,500 soldiers from France, Britain, Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Sweden and 11 other countries to Bosnia for "humanitarian" aims. But it has not authorized them to impose an end to the fighting, and they are in any case too lightly armed to do so. That has condemned their mission to frustrat... |
765746_4 | Family Decay Global, Study Says | that pay enough to support a family." Even among rural people in less developed countries, she said, the need for a cash income is becoming more pressing. "Parents all over the world have an increasing awareness that their children will need literacy and numeracy," Ms. Bruce said. "That means that instead of having the... |
759512_1 | Billions Suffering Needlessly, Study Says | promising news, infant mortality has fallen by 25 percent in the last 15 years and polio has been eradicated in the Western Hemisphere in the last three years. But such gains could easily be reversed, officials said. "For many millions of people for whom survival is a daily battle, the prospect of a longer life may see... |
759538_3 | Safe, Friendly, Small Neighborhood | invariably compared with America Online, with which it shares core technology. (One can expect Eworld's World Wide Web and Internet features to be similar to those of America Online's Macintosh features.) "Eworld is America Online with nicer artwork, no content and no users," said Adam Schoenfeld, vice president of Jup... |
759640_2 | French Rightist Withholds Endorsement | and medals, crew-cut young toughs in black leather jackets and middle-class families, cheered his attack on Mr. Chirac. They even enjoyed the spectacle put on by anti-Le Pen demonstrators in death masks who hung a white banner proclaiming "No to Fascism and the racism of the National Front" from a nearby hotel, and the... |
759525_1 | Diesel Link To Cancers In Humans Is Doubted | the late 1980's, although these will take time to show much effect, experts say, because older diesels will be on the road for years to come, and because the number of diesel engines is growing. Much of the current consensus about the cancer-causing effects of diesel emissions is based on animal studies. But only rats ... |
761197_6 | Rifle Association Has Long Practice In Railing Against Federal Agents | election was all about." The election was a triumph for Republicans, most of whom, she said, hold views favorable to the N.R.A. EXCERPTS Bearing Arms, and Harsh Words "The semi-auto ban gives jack-booted government thugs more power to take away our Constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our ... |
760691_0 | 22 Held in Ring That Traced And Sold Mobile Phone Codes | Federal agents said yesterday that they had broken up a ring of high-tech bandits who were stealing cellular telephone codes off the airwaves and installing them on other telephones illegally. Secret Service agents arrested 22 people in raids at an electronics store and several homes on Thursday, closing down what they... |
760638_4 | Proposal for a Bridge Intrudes on Island Life | five minutes across the brown, tannen-stained waters of the Waccamaw River to a parking lot on the mainland where he and others keep their cars to travel to and from work and school. Most residents would not need the proposed bridge, Mr. Weathers said, because they work on mainland areas south of the island. Nonetheles... |
765155_0 | Asuncion Journal; A 2,000-Mile Highway of Water for Commerce | Entranced by visions of barges piled high with sugar, soy and wheat, Latin American businesses are pressing for construction of a 2,000-mile-long waterway that they say would be South America's liquid spinal cord. The project, called the Hidrovia, or waterway, would speed shipping by straightening and deepening the Par... |
765155_2 | Asuncion Journal; A 2,000-Mile Highway of Water for Commerce | and Shipping Authority say the environmentalists are alarmists. "For a long time, we have been dredging the river, from 5 feet down to 15 feet, and nothing has happened," said Eugenio Sanabria Cantero, director of the agency. He said the new project would benefit 17 million people in the region. Some scientists challen... |
765163_0 | Beliefs | It was unlike any other event associated with the White House Conference on Trade and Investment in Ireland: A diminutive, rosy-faced Irish Archbishop and a bearded Presbyterian official joined in a conversation that veered wildly from the nuts and bolts of fair employment practices and investment opportunities to abst... |
763702_0 | We Can't Ignore Magnetic Field Studies; Ozone Connection? | To the Editor: The American Physical Society states that public fears about power lines and cancer are groundless (news article, May 14), based on measurement of magnetic fields near power lines, and comparison of values with those emitted by household appliances and the earth. But are electromagnetic fields the only p... |
763639_0 | SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS REVAMPING, PANEL CONCLUDES | An independent panel yesterday released a proposal that recommends dramatically restructuring New York City's special-education system. The plan would take thousands of children who are currently segregated in separate schools or classrooms and return them to regular classrooms, where they would receive extra help. The... |
763736_0 | We Can't Ignore Magnetic Field Studies | To the Editor: Re "Cancer Fear is Unfounded, Physicists Say" (news article, May 14): The American Physical Society's statement about the risk of cancer from electromagnetic fields radiating from power lines flies in the face of conventional science. Epidemiologists are trying to understand and explain the patterns of c... |
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