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800252_1 | Cuba, Eager for Tourist Dollars, Dusts Off Its Vacancy Sign | may soon pull even with the slumping sugar industry. "The steady and sustained development of tourism is something that the Cuban Government regards as being of the utmost importance," said Miguel Brugueras, deputy director of Cuba's National Tourism Institute, the Government body that oversees the industry. Government... |
800088_1 | Cuba, Eager for Tourist Dollars, Dusts Off Its Vacancy Sign | may soon pull even with the slumping sugar industry. "The steady and sustained development of tourism is something that the Cuban Government regards as being of the utmost importance," said Miguel Brugueras, deputy director of Cuba's National Tourism Institute, the Government body that oversees the industry. Government... |
800288_0 | For a Few, A Revision Is Working | A fledging program at Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, provides a vivid example of how the special-education system in New York City should work, school officials and education advocates agree. Children with and without disabilities are in class together and learning. In a fifth-grade classroom on a recent mo... |
800086_0 | Argentina, Once a Bitter Foe of Cuba, Mellows After Debt Deal | While the rest of Latin America has come to embrace Cuba in recent years by increasing investment and trade, Argentina has made no secret of its strong dislike for the Government of Fidel Castro. Since the election of President Carlos Saul Menem in 1989, Argentina has been openly critical of Cuba, accusing Havana of vi... |
800248_0 | Argentina, Once a Bitter Foe of Cuba, Mellows After Debt Deal | While the rest of Latin America has come to embrace Cuba in recent years by increasing investment and trade, Argentina has made no secret of its strong dislike for the Government of Fidel Castro. Since the election of President Carlos Saul Menem in 1989, Argentina has been openly critical of Cuba, accusing Havana of vi... |
800241_1 | 3 Men Accused of Stealing Cellular Phone ID Numbers | cloned. The cellular telephone industry is losing about $480 million a year through cloning, although more recent estimates put losses as high as $1 billion, according to Nicholas Arcuri, vice president for fraud control at Bell AtlanticNynex Mobile. Mr. Morgenthau likened it to a techno-war. "This has been a serious a... |
797890_0 | Peace Prize Goes to A-Bomb Scientist Who Turned Critic | In a deliberate slap at the nuclear testing policies of France and China, the Norwegian Nobel Committee today awarded its 1995 Nobel Peace Prize to Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb but subsequently led a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. In awarding the prize to Mr. Rot- blat and the ... |
797819_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | its way to President Clinton, who is expected to veto it. [ 1. ] U.S. Opposes China Project In response to strong opposition from the Clinton Administration, the country's chief export credit agency is not likely to help American companies win work on China's mammoth Three Gorges Dam. The Administration opposes the pro... |
797589_0 | Nobel Prize for A-Bomb Critic | The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 1995 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday to Joseph Rotblat, a Polish-born British physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb but subsequently led a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. In awarding the prize to Mr. Rot blat and the organization he heads, the Pugwash Conferences on S... |
797887_0 | Nobel Prize for A-Bomb Critic | The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 1995 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday to Joseph Rotblat, a Polish-born British physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb but subsequently led a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. In awarding the prize to Mr. Rot blat and the organization he heads, the Pugwash Conferences on S... |
797666_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Clinton, who is expected to veto it. [1.] U.S. Opposes China Project In response to strong opposition from the Clinton Administration, the country's chief export credit agency is not likely to help American companies win work on China's mammoth Three Gorges Dam. The Administration opposes the project because of environ... |
797579_2 | Export Agency Likely to Deny China Dam Aid | be free to bid on contracts, the absence of cheap credits is likely to make American concerns less competitive against their Japanese and other foreign rivals that have access to subsidized government credits. Caterpillar said it was encouraged to submit its request for what is known as a "letter of interest" by Export... |
797878_2 | Export Agency Likely to Deny China Dam Aid | be free to bid on contracts, the absence of cheap credits is likely to make American concerns less competitive against their Japanese and other foreign rivals that have access to subsidized government credits. Caterpillar said it was encouraged to submit its request for what is known as a "letter of interest" by Export... |
797592_0 | Peace Prize Goes to A-Bomb Scientist Who Turned Critic | In a deliberate slap at the nuclear testing policies of France and China, the Norwegian Nobel Committee today awarded its 1995 Nobel Peace Prize to Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb but subsequently led a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. In awarding the prize to Mr. Rot- blat and the ... |
803500_3 | Miles to Go and Nowhere to Unload | Mr. McIntyre but also to his host in Pound Ridge, who regularly uses the terminal. "I understood completely," Mr. McIntyre said by telephone last week. "In England, when the Irish Republican Army was still planting bombs, you couldn't check anything anywhere in public. But it would have been nice if they had posted a s... |
803540_0 | JAPANESE COMPANIES TO BID ON DAM PROJECT IN CHINA | Hitachi Ltd. said yesterday that it had joined with three other Japanese companies to form a consortium to compete for bids to build hydropower generators for the Three Gorges Dam project in China. Backed by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Export-Import Bank of Japan, the consortium -- Hitachi,... |
803506_0 | Currents;This Surreal Way To Your Table | IT'S just what you would imagine an interior based on the Tower of Pisa would be: very Italian and a little quirky, humorous and, well, leaning. David Rockwell (above), the designer of Nobu and the Monkey Bar, has given Torre di Pisa, a new restaurant at 19 West 44th Street, the look of an Italian piazza where de Chiri... |
794795_0 | Down on the Farm With R2D2; Mobile Robots Leaving Factory Cousins in Dust | A big red harvesting machine cut through a field of alfalfa near here, neatly harvesting the crop. It was a typical fall sight, except for one thing: the machine had no driver. The harvester fulfills no fantasy vision of a robot of the future -- no flashy tricks, no R2D2-type charm. But a robot it is, a robot that uses... |
794696_0 | Coffee Slips on Signs the Accord On Exports May Be Crumbling | Coffee prices fell yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York on signs that a recent agreement by coffee producers to hold back exports may be falling apart. On other commodity markets, cotton prices fell while soybeans rose. The Commodity Research Bureau index of 21 commodities fell 0.83 point, to 2... |
794711_0 | Down on the Farm With R2D2;Mobile Robots Leaving Factory Cousins in Dust | A big red harvesting machine cut through a field of alfalfa near here, neatly harvesting the crop. It was a typical fall sight, except for one thing: the machine had no driver. The harvester fulfills no fantasy vision of a robot of the future -- no flashy tricks, no R2D2-type charm. But a robot it is, a robot that uses... |
805485_3 | A Food Fad's Ripple Effect On Reefs of Pacific: Cyanide | is, says the report, "a vast and expanding ecological tragedy." As fish stocks become depleted and fish get harder to find, the investigators say, fishermen sometimes dump entire 55-gallon drums of cyanide into shallow reef communities, making "aquatic graveyards" of them. Coral reefs are the largest structures created... |
805791_0 | Pataki Moves to Seal Illegal Dump With $250,000 in State Money | Charging that the courts are moving too slowly to clean up an illegal dump here, Gov. George E. Pataki said today that he would authorize spending $250,000 in state funds to seal off the site -- an abandoned warehouse overflowing with garbage. "This site is an outrage and not just because of the tremendous threat this ... |
805751_3 | A Food Fad's Ripple Effect On Reefs of Pacific: Cyanide | is, says the report, "a vast and expanding ecological tragedy." As fish stocks become depleted and fish get harder to find, the investigators say, fishermen sometimes dump entire 55-gallon drums of cyanide into shallow reef communities, making "aquatic graveyards" of them. Coral reefs are the largest structures created... |
805533_0 | Pataki Moves to Seal Illegal Dump With $250,000 in State Money | Charging that the courts are moving too slowly to clean up an illegal dump here, Gov. George E. Pataki said today that he would authorize spending $250,000 in state funds to seal off the site -- an abandoned warehouse overflowing with garbage. "This site is an outrage and not just because of the tremendous threat this ... |
795991_0 | Protest Over Brazilian Wood | On the Boardwalk yesterday, passers-by were asked to think about the boards they were walking on. About 20 members of New Jersey Rain Forest Relief, a Red Bank conservation group, chanted slogans criticizing municipal officials for using wood from Brazil to reconstruct the Boardwalk. City officials have said wood from ... |
796043_0 | Protest Over Brazilian Wood | On the Boardwalk yesterday, passers-by were asked to think about the boards they were walking on. About 20 members of New Jersey Rain Forest Relief, a Red Bank conservation group, chanted slogans criticizing municipal officials for using wood from Brazil to reconstruct the Boardwalk. City officials have said wood from ... |
793369_4 | With Every Wave of Newcomers, a Church More Diverse | It is a message echoed by officials who keep track of immigrant groups in the church at the United States. Catholic Conference's offices in Washington. "We don't want to ignore national borders, or disrespect them," said Sister Suzanne Hall, director of the Office of Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. "But the pri... |
793102_4 | With Every Wave of Newcomers, a Church More Diverse | It is a message echoed by officials who keep track of immigrant groups in the church at the United States. Catholic Conference's offices in Washington. "We don't want to ignore national borders, or disrespect them," said Sister Suzanne Hall, director of the Office of Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. "But the pri... |
793395_0 | A Degree Doesn't Equal High Pay | To the Editor: In "The Slacker Myth" (Op-Ed, Sept. 27), John Tyler and Frank Levy assure us that "The market for new college graduates is reasonably solid" and conclude that "education is becoming ever more valuable." Perhaps, but relative to what? And what are the policy implications? It is well known that the real ea... |
793076_0 | Britain and I.R.A. Inch Closer to Peace Talks | Ranking Irish and British officials say that they are close to resolving the issue that has blocked the Northern Ireland peace effort for months -- the dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army and the scheduling of full-fledged talks. Up to now, Britain has insisted that the I.R.A. must start disarming... |
793410_0 | New Osteoporosis Drug Wins F.D.A. Approval | The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first of a new class of nonhormonal drugs to treat osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease that cripples millions of postmenopausal women, Merck & Company announced today. The company said the drug, alendronate sodium, not only stops the breakdown of bone characteristic... |
793127_0 | A Degree Doesn't Equal High Pay | To the Editor: In "The Slacker Myth" (Op-Ed, Sept. 27), John Tyler and Frank Levy assure us that "The market for new college graduates is reasonably solid" and conclude that "education is becoming ever more valuable." Perhaps, but relative to what? And what are the policy implications? It is well known that the real ea... |
793138_1 | Freshwater Mussels Facing Mass Extinction | the House Republican leadership has put forward, which is scheduled for votes in committee this month, relies heavily on ideas that would offer little help to mussels: programs to breed species in captivity, for example, or the creation of biodiversity reserves on public lands, mostly in Western states where relatively... |
793143_0 | New Osteoporosis Drug Wins F.D.A. Approval | The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first of a new class of nonhormonal drugs to treat osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease that cripples millions of postmenopausal women, Merck & Company announced today. The company said the drug, alendronate sodium, not only stops the breakdown of bone characteristic... |
793261_0 | Early Violence Leaves Its Mark on the Brain | WITH rates of violence among teen-agers rising precipitously, the argument over the causes of violent behavior has never been more charged. Nature got a hearing last month at a University of Maryland meeting on possible genetic influences on violence. Last weekend, nurture had its day, at a meeting at the New York Acad... |
793405_1 | Freshwater Mussels Facing Mass Extinction | the House Republican leadership has put forward, which is scheduled for votes in committee this month, relies heavily on ideas that would offer little help to mussels: programs to breed species in captivity, for example, or the creation of biodiversity reserves on public lands, mostly in Western states where relatively... |
793157_0 | Early Violence Leaves Its Mark on the Brain | WITH rates of violence among teen-agers rising precipitously, the argument over the causes of violent behavior has never been more charged. Nature got a hearing last month at a University of Maryland meeting on possible genetic influences on violence. Last weekend, nurture had its day, at a meeting at the New York Acad... |
793348_0 | Britain and I.R.A. Inch Closer to Peace Talks | Ranking Irish and British officials say that they are close to resolving the issue that has blocked the Northern Ireland peace effort for months -- the dispute over the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army and the scheduling of full-fledged talks. Up to now, Britain has insisted that the I.R.A. must start disarming... |
801488_0 | Health Officials Warn On Re-emerging Fever | A COMEBACK in Latin America and the Caribbean of dengue fever, a disease once thought to have been nearly eliminated, has prompted health officials to warn travelers to those areas to take some simple precautions to reduce the risks of contracting the disease. First, the officials stress, visitors should carry insect r... |
801761_0 | Western Nuclear Powers To Sign Pacific Accord | The United States, Britain and France have announced that they will sign the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty in a move to help reduce tensions between the region and the Western nuclear powers. France said, however, that it will continue its present series of nuclear tests in the South Pacific, begun in Septembe... |
802303_0 | Western Nuclear Powers To Sign Pacific Accord | The United States, Britain and France have announced that they will sign the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty in a move to help reduce tensions between the region and the Western nuclear powers. France said, however, that it will continue its present series of nuclear tests in the South Pacific, begun in Septembe... |
802145_0 | Health Officials Warn On Re-emerging Fever | A COMEBACK in Latin America and the Caribbean of dengue fever, a disease once thought to have been nearly eliminated, has prompted health officials to warn travelers to those areas to take some simple precautions to reduce the risks of contracting the disease. First, the officials stress, visitors should carry insect r... |
804059_0 | France, Defying Protests, Holds Another Nuclear Test in the Pacific | Defiant in the face of international condemnation, France said it conducted a third underground nuclear test this afternoon at its site in the South Pacific. The test took place beneath Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia, the Defense Ministry said tonight. It said the explosion was equal to about 60,000 tons of TNT. Thi... |
796257_4 | In Dust Cloud, Rare Glimpse Of New Star Aborning | process of star birth." Hydrogen constitutes the preponderance of the gas in these globules, but there are also sufficient traces of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and sulfur to form dozens of complex molecules. One of these, the chemical dicarbon monosulfide, served as the tracer in determining the motion of gases falling t... |
796222_0 | Adelphi's Curriculum | To the Editor: Your Oct. 6 news article on Adelphi University's president states that he has sponsored a core curriculum based on the classics. The core curriculum, developed by a committee of faculty and administrators, has a modern focus. The two courses required of all students are called "The Modern Condition." The... |
796333_6 | Sexual Harassment: Why Even Bees Do it | across the phylogenetic scale. The grim tally is presented in the Clutton-Brock and Parker paper, which also offers complex game theories to give the various behaviors a mathematical and evolutionarily dynamic framework. They suggest that the relationship between the sexes is a so-called war of attrition, with the male... |
796341_0 | Raising Aggression to an Art Form | LIKE their baboon and orangutan counterparts, male humans have been known to harass their females, but as always, they are considerably more refined in their approach. After all, even a wolf does not know how to wolf-whistle; and what baboon could figure out that if he stands next to a female in a crowded subway car an... |
796256_0 | Raising Aggression to an Art Form | LIKE their baboon and orangutan counterparts, male humans have been known to harass their females, but as always, they are considerably more refined in their approach. After all, even a wolf does not know how to wolf-whistle; and what baboon could figure out that if he stands next to a female in a crowded subway car an... |
796351_4 | In Dust Cloud, Rare Glimpse Of New Star Aborning | process of star birth." Hydrogen constitutes the preponderance of the gas in these globules, but there are also sufficient traces of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and sulfur to form dozens of complex molecules. One of these, the chemical dicarbon monosulfide, served as the tracer in determining the motion of gases falling t... |
796451_0 | Adelphi's Curriculum | To the Editor: Your Oct. 6 news article on Adelphi University's president states that he has sponsored a core curriculum based on the classics. The core curriculum, developed by a committee of faculty and administrators, has a modern focus. The two courses required of all students are called "The Modern Condition." The... |
796129_1 | 5 Million Strike in France to Protest Pay Freeze | air travel to buses, mail, schools, hospitals and weather forecasts, France's vital functions are expected to be reduced or suspended completely for more than a day. The strike is the first major labor challenge to the conservative Prime Minister, Alain Juppe, who came to power in May with promises to cut France's huge... |
796254_6 | Sexual Harassment: Why Even Bees Do it | across the phylogenetic scale. The grim tally is presented in the Clutton-Brock and Parker paper, which also offers complex game theories to give the various behaviors a mathematical and evolutionarily dynamic framework. They suggest that the relationship between the sexes is a so-called war of attrition, with the male... |
799127_0 | T-Shirts and Lese-Majeste Collide in France | President Jacques Chirac was surprised and baffled by worldwide protests against his decision to resume French underground nuclear testing in the Pacific last month, his aides say, but what really hurt was the feeling that France's partners in the European Union did not like the tests. Just how much some French officia... |
799457_0 | T-Shirts and Lese-Majeste Collide in France | President Jacques Chirac was surprised and baffled by worldwide protests against his decision to resume French underground nuclear testing in the Pacific last month, his aides say, but what really hurt was the feeling that France's partners in the European Union did not like the tests. Just how much some French officia... |
803177_0 | PFIZER TO SELL FOOD SCIENCE GROUP TO FINNISH COMPANY | Pfizer Inc. said yesterday that it planned to sell its food science group to Cultor Ltd. of Finland. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Pfizer, based in New York, said the sale of the unit, which develops specialty food ingredients, was part of the company's plan to refocus on its health care businesses. Sales o... |
803052_1 | U.N. Warns Against Delay in Cutting Carbon Dioxide Emissions | emissions reductions can be achieved without big changes in life styles. The report comes at a time when 142 countries that are parties to the 1992 climate treaty signed in Rio de Janeiro are negotiating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The emissions come mainly from the ... |
803075_0 | Prices for Wheat Fall on Fears That Exports by U.S. May Slow | Wheat prices fell sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday as traders grew concerned that high prices were deterring sales for export. On other markets, crude oil and sugar prices rose. The Commodity Research Bureau index of 21 commodities slipped 0.07 point, to 241.66. An expected large Russian order for Americ... |
803351_1 | U.N. Warns Against Delay in Cutting Carbon Dioxide Emissions | emissions reductions can be achieved without big changes in life styles. The report comes at a time when 142 countries that are parties to the 1992 climate treaty signed in Rio de Janeiro are negotiating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The emissions come mainly from the ... |
793506_0 | Foreign Affairs;The French Ostrich | A few weeks ago I attended question hour at the Australian Parliament, a raucous weekly event when the opposition questions the Prime Minister, Paul Keating. Mr. Keating was asked about France's claims that it was entitled to test its nuclear weapons in Polynesia because these colonies were actually part of France. His... |
793665_0 | Foreign Affairs; The French Ostrich | A few weeks ago I attended question hour at the Australian Parliament, a raucous weekly event when the opposition questions the Prime Minister, Paul Keating. Mr. Keating was asked about France's claims that it was entitled to test its nuclear weapons in Polynesia because these colonies were actually part of France. His... |
794196_0 | Clinton Signs Order Easing Travel, Aid and Money Transfers Between U.S. and Cuba | President Clinton has signed an executive order that would ease restrictions on travel to Cuba by Cuban-Americans, academics, artists and members of the clergy, and allow American relief agencies and human rights groups to greatly expand their work in Cuba, Administration officials said today. In a speech on Friday, Mr... |
794249_0 | Labor Party Votes to Keep Nuclear Arms | After years of opposing nuclear weapons, the opposition Labor Party voted today to retain Britain's powerful Trident nuclear missiles. The vote at the party's annual conference was a triumph for the Labor Party leader, Tony Blair, and underlined his success in shedding the remains of the party's socialist tenets since ... |
794195_4 | In Foothills of Rockies, Neighbors Are Bears | "ripped door off freezer locked with hasp." Another read: "Bear tore car apart looking for remains of toasted cheese sandwich." In another report, an upcountry resident complained that a bear "bent the side of the trailer." Although black bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, last year a black bear attacked and ki... |
794213_4 | In Foothills of Rockies, Neighbors Are Bears | "ripped door off freezer locked with hasp." Another read: "Bear tore car apart looking for remains of toasted cheese sandwich." In another report, an upcountry resident complained that a bear "bent the side of the trailer." Although black bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, last year a black bear attacked and ki... |
794214_0 | Clinton Signs Order Easing Travel, Aid and Money Transfers BetweenU.S. and Cuba | President Clinton has signed an executive order that would ease restrictions on travel to Cuba by Cuban-Americans, academics, artists and members of the clergy, and allow American relief agencies and human rights groups to greatly expand their work in Cuba, Administration officials said today. In a speech on Friday, Mr... |
798753_0 | Looking to Software for Help | How can the Government better inspect the nation's growing aviation industry? Federal Aviation Administration officials point to new computer software that it will use to analyze records that inspectors have been feeding into a national computer database for several years. The software -- developed by the F.A.A., unive... |
798732_5 | MARGINAL SAFETY: A special report.; F.A.A.'s Lax Inspection Setup Heightens Dangers in the Sky | on matters like pilot training. Working from 90 domestic and 4 international offices, they oversee 7,298 airline aircraft and 184,434 general aviation aircraft, 682,959 active pilots, 4,817 repair stations, 656 pilot training schools and 192 maintenance schools. Besides all that, inspectors do such things as issuing pe... |
798732_7 | MARGINAL SAFETY: A special report.; F.A.A.'s Lax Inspection Setup Heightens Dangers in the Sky | aviation safety in the foreign countries to which many Americans fly. The agency's inspectors must also keep up with rapidly advancing technologies like electronics for cockpit controls. David R. Hinson, the F.A.A. Administrator, announced in July that the agency would "take a fresh look at the way we do things," inclu... |
798231_5 | MARGINAL SAFETY: A special report.;F.A.A.'s Lax Inspection Setup Heightens Dangers in the Sky | on matters like pilot training. Working from 90 domestic and 4 international offices, they oversee 7,298 airline aircraft and 184,434 general aviation aircraft, 682,959 active pilots, 4,817 repair stations, 656 pilot training schools and 192 maintenance schools. Besides all that, inspectors do such things as issuing pe... |
798231_7 | MARGINAL SAFETY: A special report.;F.A.A.'s Lax Inspection Setup Heightens Dangers in the Sky | aviation safety in the foreign countries to which many Americans fly. The agency's inspectors must also keep up with rapidly advancing technologies like electronics for cockpit controls. David R. Hinson, the F.A.A. Administrator, announced in July that the agency would "take a fresh look at the way we do things," inclu... |
798243_0 | Looking to Software for Help | How can the Government better inspect the nation's growing aviation industry? Federal Aviation Administration officials point to new computer software that it will use to analyze records that inspectors have been feeding into a national computer database for several years. The software -- developed by the F.A.A., unive... |
803704_0 | Reshaping Hong Kong's Face | The Kwoks had just sat down to a meal of steamed fish and stir-fried pork. With a roar, the floor shuddered and the chopsticks in Kwok Tai-ming's hands clattered against his rice bowl. Overhead, seemingly skimming the roof of the tiny seventh-floor apartment, a Cathay Pacific 747 screamed past, banking amid apartment b... |
803695_0 | On My Mind;How to Trade With Cuba | American businesses eager to do business with Cuba are pushing every pressure point they can to end the U.S. embargo, except the one that might work. They refuse to use their economic influence to pressure Fidel Castro to give Cubans political and human rights. All these businesses achieved their wealth through the Ame... |
803896_0 | Reshaping Hong Kong's Face | The Kwoks had just sat down to a meal of steamed fish and stir-fried pork. With a roar, the floor shuddered and the chopsticks in Kwok Tai-ming's hands clattered against his rice bowl. Overhead, seemingly skimming the roof of the tiny seventh-floor apartment, a Cathay Pacific 747 screamed past, banking amid apartment b... |
803886_0 | On My Mind; How to Trade With Cuba | American businesses eager to do business with Cuba are pushing every pressure point they can to end the U.S. embargo, except the one that might work. They refuse to use their economic influence to pressure Fidel Castro to give Cubans political and human rights. All these businesses achieved their wealth through the Ame... |
800584_0 | Curb on Trade With Cuba Is Tightened | Stripped of its most controversial provision, a bill that would moderately tighten the United States embargo against Cuba was approved overwhelmingly today by the Senate. The vote was 74 to 24. The bill would insure that a country that buys Cuban sugar and molasses does not resell either product to the United States. I... |
796969_1 | Saving the Galapagos | protection for the ecosystem. It passed in the Congress, but on Sept. 1, President Sixto Duran Ballen vetoed it. A few days later, protesters wielding machetes and supported by the mayor of the largest town, Puerto Ayora, seized the Charles Darwin Research Station and the national park headquarters. They closed two air... |
797238_0 | Hunting's Not Answer For Bear Nuisances | To the Editor: Re "In Foothills of Rockies, Neighbors Are Bears" (news article, Oct. 6): In 1992 Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to ban three repugnant bear-hunting practices: luring bears to piles of rotting meat and jelly doughnuts and shooting the feeding animals at point-blank range; chasing bears with pa... |
797137_0 | Amazon Is Burning Again, as Furiously as Ever | Three years after Brazil was host to the Earth Summit, shepherding ambitious international accords on biodiversity and climate change, burnings in the Amazon region appear to be approaching the worst levels ever, while information on the country's most explosive ecological issue -- the extent of forest clearing in the ... |
797260_2 | Children's Software for Navigating Tropics and Alphabet; Discovering the living delights of a rain forest | Try to put it in the wrong category and it bounces out. When the sorting is done, the results are displayed as a bar graph, showing how many in each category, with pictures of those sorted. Zurk also has a feature in which children can wander about snapping "photos" for an electronic scrapbook they can save and view or... |
797102_0 | Will America Take Pope's Message to Heart?; Progress for Women | To the Editor: It was heartening to read (news item, Oct. 5) that Reina Ramos, a senior at Mother Cabrini High School for Girls in Manhattan, would participate as an altar server at the Central Park papal Mass. At the time of Vatican II in the mid-1960's, my wife, the daughter of an American diplomat in Rome, was a stu... |
797230_1 | Saving the Galapagos | for the ecosystem. It passed in the Congress, but on Sept. 1, President Sixto Duran Ballen vetoed it. A few days later, protesters wielding machetes and supported by the mayor of the largest town, Puerto Ayora, seized the Charles Darwin Research Station and the national park headquarters. They closed two airports that ... |
796977_0 | Hunting's Not Answer For Bear Nuisances | To the Editor: Re "In Foothills of Rockies, Neighbors Are Bears" (news article, Oct. 6): In 1992 Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to ban three repugnant bear-hunting practices: luring bears to piles of rotting meat and jelly doughnuts and shooting the feeding animals at point-blank range; chasing bears with pa... |
797067_0 | Will America Take Pope's Message to Heart?;Progress for Women | To the Editor: It was heartening to read (news item, Oct. 5) that Reina Ramos, a senior at Mother Cabrini High School for Girls in Manhattan, would participate as an altar server at the Central Park papal Mass. At the time of Vatican II in the mid-1960's, my wife, the daughter of an American diplomat in Rome, was a stu... |
796899_0 | Amazon Is Burning Again, as Furiously as Ever | Three years after Brazil was host to the Earth Summit, shepherding ambitious international accords on biodiversity and climate change, burnings in the Amazon region appear to be approaching the worst levels ever, while information on the country's most explosive ecological issue -- the extent of forest clearing in the ... |
797000_2 | Children's Software for Navigating Tropics and Alphabet;Discovering the living delights of a rain forest | Try to put it in the wrong category and it bounces out. When the sorting is done, the results are displayed as a bar graph, showing how many in each category, with pictures of those sorted. Zurk also has a feature in which children can wander about snapping "photos" for an electronic scrapbook they can save and view or... |
799938_0 | Reminders of Dangers of Guns | |
799538_0 | Reminders of Dangers of Guns | |
799936_0 | Britain Hints at a Shift in Policy Over I.R.A. Disarmament Issue | In an apparently significant policy shift, the top British official for Northern Ireland suggested today that the Irish Republican Army might not have to disarm before its representatives are permitted to take part in talks on a peace settlement in the British province. For months the peace effort has been stalled by B... |
799642_1 | Personal Health | the more than 1,100 members of the American Dance Therapy Association are celebrating the organization's 30th anniversary. And at an annual conference this week in Rye Brook, N.Y., they will convene to discuss the ever-widening uses of their approach to communication and expression. Just as talk psychotherapists vary w... |
799552_0 | No Headline | France will not allow itself to be intimidated, will not flinch under pressure, and will not capitulate to barbarism." -- PRIME MINISTER ALAIN JUPPE of France. [A1:6] |
799967_0 | No Headline | "France will not allow itself to be intimidated, will not flinch under pressure, and will not capitulate to barbarism." -- PRIME MINISTER ALAIN JUPPE of France. [ A1:6 ] |
799549_1 | On the World Stage, Homosexuals Are Seeing Advances | Julie Dorf, executive director of the commission, as she opened the session in a hall across First Avenue from the United Nations. Few human rights issues are as contentious as the treatment of homosexuals, since the cases frequently involve behavior that societies regard as immoral and governments classify as criminal... |
799956_1 | On the World Stage, Homosexuals Are Seeing Advances | Julie Dorf, executive director of the commission, as she opened the session in a hall across First Avenue from the United Nations. Few human rights issues are as contentious as the treatment of homosexuals, since the cases frequently involve behavior that societies regard as immoral and governments classify as criminal... |
799535_0 | Britain Hints at a Shift in Policy Over I.R.A. Disarmament Issue | In an apparently significant policy shift, the top British official for Northern Ireland suggested today that the Irish Republican Army might not have to disarm before its representatives are permitted to take part in talks on a peace settlement in the British province. For months the peace effort has been stalled by B... |
799825_1 | Personal Health | the more than 1,100 members of the American Dance Therapy Association are celebrating the organization's 30th anniversary. And at an annual conference this week in Rye Brook, N.Y., they will convene to discuss the ever-widening uses of their approach to communication and expression. Just as talk psychotherapists vary w... |
792472_0 | As Mortgage Rates Drop, Choices Rise | THE menu of mortgage options is becoming a buffet, with nearly every variation conceivable. While mortgage rates are bouncing around near historic lows, a few home buyers are forgoing the promise of a low fixed-rate loan for 15 or 30 years. This group of borrowers, albeit a small one, is choosing adjustable-rate loans ... |
792689_3 | New World; What the Pope Sees (and Doesn't) in America | the 49-year-old bishop of Cracow -- that America, for him, was terra incognita. "He knew then that in his intellectual formation there was something substantial missing," Dr. Navarro-Valls explained. "He came from Poland, but practically speaking, he grew up within the European tradition; he studied Sartre and the Germ... |
791954_1 | In the Region: Westchester;Greenburgh Drafting a Cellular-Antenna Ordinance | Town of Harrison is now involved in similar litigation. It has imposed a 90-day moratorium as it tries to write new zoning. Greenburgh decided to take pre-emptive action and craft an ordinance with no court case looming. "I wanted to get the community involved in drafting a new law with the support of the phone company... |
792135_3 | New World;What the Pope Sees (and Doesn't) in America | the 49-year-old bishop of Cracow -- that America, for him, was terra incognita. "He knew then that in his intellectual formation there was something substantial missing," Dr. Navarro-Valls explained. "He came from Poland, but practically speaking, he grew up within the European tradition; he studied Sartre and the Germ... |
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