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792505_5 | The Right Stuff | by unreality. Mr. Kristol's deeper intellectual journey is conventionally Straussian. Leo Strauss, an immigrant philosopher who taught political theory at the University of Chicago, influenced a whole generation of American conservatives with his often challenging readings of classical texts. Mr. Kristol typically seem... |
791882_5 | The Right Stuff | by unreality. Mr. Kristol's deeper intellectual journey is conventionally Straussian. Leo Strauss, an immigrant philosopher who taught political theory at the University of Chicago, influenced a whole generation of American conservatives with his often challenging readings of classical texts. Mr. Kristol typically seem... |
792377_1 | China: The Squall Passes | issues. But given China's strategic and economic significance it would be a calamity for Washington and Beijing to become adversaries again. The Clinton Administration managed the crisis skillfully, with Secretary of State Warren Christopher leading the way. The quarrel erupted last spring after the Administration, bow... |
791997_1 | Jobs Beyond Piecework for Mentally Disabled | 4,101 clients last year and of those, 700 received job training at Guidance Center Industries. Clients are referred to the Guidance Center Industries by New York State Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals With Disabilites, from hospitals, schools and doctors. Guidance Center has a budget of $7 million a ... |
792420_0 | Correction | The "Sunday" pages on Sept. 17 omitted a picture credit with the report about microscope images. The photographs were from a book, "Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the Electron Microscope," by Dee Berger, copyright $; 1995 Columbia University Press, to be published this month. |
792590_1 | Jobs Beyond Piecework for Mentally Disabled | 4,101 clients last year and of those, 700 received job training at Guidance Center Industries. Clients are referred to the Guidance Center Industries by New York State Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals With Disabilites, from hospitals, schools and doctors. Guidance Center has a budget of $7 million a ... |
792539_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... |
792208_1 | China: The Squall Passes | issues. But given China's strategic and economic significance it would be a calamity for Washington and Beijing to become adversaries again. The Clinton Administration managed the crisis skillfully, with Secretary of State Warren Christopher leading the way. The quarrel erupted last spring after the Administration, bow... |
792138_0 | Vote Compels Episcopal Bishops To Permit Ordination of Women | Episcopal bishops voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to compel four of their colleagues to permit the ordination of female priests in their dioceses. At a conference here, the bishops voted 121 to 15 to force the four bishops to accept female priests; 20 bishops, including Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, abstained. Th... |
792011_0 | Correction | The "Sunday" pages on Sept. 17 omitted a picture credit with the report about microscope images. The photographs were from a book, "Journeys in Microspace: University Press, to be published this month. |
794178_2 | For Some Disaffected Catholics, Visit Is Just Another Day | span this century's American Catholic experience for women. Beneath a crucifix sat a high school senior; a nun who nurses the poor; a mother of eight, and Sister Mary Loyola, who is 87. She is about to commemorate her 65th year working with the lame, the poor, the dying -- and her 20th year challenging the papacy to ex... |
793836_2 | For Some Disaffected Catholics, Visit Is Just Another Day | span this century's American Catholic experience for women. Beneath a crucifix sat a high school senior; a nun who nurses the poor; a mother of eight, and Sister Mary Loyola, who is 87. She is about to commemorate her 65th year working with the lame, the poor, the dying -- and her 20th year challenging the papacy to ex... |
793850_7 | Texts of Speeches at the Airport and Sacred Heart Cathedral | I pray that -- in the words of Saint Paul -- God will make you worthy of his call, and fulfill by his power every honest intention and work of faith. To the seminarians -- and how heartening it is to know that your number is increasing! -- I offer a special word of encouragement. The new evangelization of America calls... |
794186_7 | Texts of Speeches at the Airport and Sacred Heart Cathedral | I pray that -- in the words of Saint Paul -- God will make you worthy of his call, and fulfill by his power every honest intention and work of faith. To the seminarians -- and how heartening it is to know that your number is increasing! -- I offer a special word of encouragement. The new evangelization of America calls... |
798852_2 | Loporot Journal;Fiercest of Warriors, Crushed by a Savage Land | it with food aid. The issue is too much dependency versus rebuilding the livestock base." The Turkana population has tripled in the last 40 years, reaching an estimated 350,000. It has outstripped the increase of the herds and the capacity of the land, said Nigel Pavitt, a historian and author of "Turkana," a book to b... |
799032_2 | Loporot Journal; Fiercest of Warriors, Crushed by a Savage Land | it with food aid. The issue is too much dependency versus rebuilding the livestock base." The Turkana population has tripled in the last 40 years, reaching an estimated 350,000. It has outstripped the increase of the herds and the capacity of the land, said Nigel Pavitt, a historian and author of "Turkana," a book to b... |
802672_1 | Clamping Down On Airport Security | undergo detailed questioning about their luggage. At a number of airports, parking is no longer available at or immediately next to terminal buildings. Cars left unattended at the curb are much more likely to be quickly towed away. And some airport managers have gone even further. Earlier this month, for example, airpo... |
802723_0 | Satellite Yields First Full Map of Sea Floor: C7 | |
802933_3 | At the Lectern: Defining the Challenges, Reaffirming the Commitment | were the monument for what should not have been. Fifty years after the formation of the United Nations, we meet to affirm our commitment with the founding idea and the common desire to better the life of all human beings. . . . We come from Africa and South Africa on this historic occasion to pay tribute to that foundi... |
802973_1 | Clamping Down On Airport Security | undergo detailed questioning about their luggage. At a number of airports, parking is no longer available at or immediately next to terminal buildings. Cars left unattended at the curb are much more likely to be quickly towed away. And some airport managers have gone even further. Earlier this month, for example, airpo... |
802907_1 | Castro at Lunch: The Usual Fare | terms, and confidently and very specifically, using many numbers, of Cuba's newly diversified economy. During a question-and-answer session, Mr. Castro acknowledged that he might have missed a golden opportunity when Henry Kissinger offered to consider opening up the economic embargo. At the time, Mr. Castro said, he d... |
802625_3 | At the Lectern: Defining the Challenges, Reaffirming the Commitment | were the monument for what should not have been. Fifty years after the formation of the United Nations, we meet to affirm our commitment with the founding idea and the common desire to better the life of all human beings. . . . We come from Africa and South Africa on this historic occasion to pay tribute to that foundi... |
802812_2 | Map Makes Ocean Floors as Knowable as Venus | up of a dozen or so plates that float on a sea of molten rock and grind past one another in earthquake spasms. The intersections of those plates that are now being found sometimes look quite different from what had been envisioned. Dr. Jian Lin, a geophysicist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, sa... |
802930_4 | Before Africans Vote, Men in Charge Rewrite Rules | was Prime Minister at Mr. Houphouet-Boigny's death in 1993, Alassane D. Ouattara. Mr. Ouattara, who Mr. Bedie insists is of foreign extraction, is deputy director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington and was widely seen here as the politician with the best chance of unseating the President in a fair electio... |
802814_0 | Satellite Yields First Full Map of Sea Floor: C7 | |
802621_4 | Before Africans Vote, Men in Charge Rewrite Rules | was Prime Minister at Mr. Houphouet-Boigny's death in 1993, Alassane D. Ouattara. Mr. Ouattara, who Mr. Bedie insists is of foreign extraction, is deputy director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington and was widely seen here as the politician with the best chance of unseating the President in a fair electio... |
804413_2 | PAMPERED IN THE PHILIPPINES | Phuket, the Thai resort island, in 1988, and three others have followed in Bali. Dedicated guests, many of whom proudly call themselves "Amanjunkies," include an assortment of Hollywood stars, Wall Street financiers, Japanese industrialists and European royalty including both the Princess of Wales (who has stayed in th... |
804860_2 | A Homily on Women Priests: 'You See? This Isn't So Bad' | in many Protestant denominations and as rabbis among Conservative and Reform Jews. Not that this makes a difference in Rome. In May 1994, Pope John Paul II, noting that Jesus had called only men as His disciples, declared the subject of women's ordination within Catholicism closed to discussion. "The Pope is a promoter... |
804909_1 | Word for Word/Incredibility at the U.N.; Forget What I Do, World; Listen to What I Say | has not been noted for showing leadership on Somalia, or on any other African nation in trouble. The United Nations pulled its peacekeepers -- though not its relief and development workers -- out of Somalia last year because the faction leaders refused to work for a political settlement. Among the lessons learned in So... |
804645_1 | Word for Word/Incredibility at the U.N.;Forget What I Do, World; Listen to What I Say | has not been noted for showing leadership on Somalia, or on any other African nation in trouble. The United Nations pulled its peacekeepers -- though not its relief and development workers -- out of Somalia last year because the faction leaders refused to work for a political settlement. Among the lessons learned in So... |
804988_2 | PAMPERED IN THE PHILIPPINES | Phuket, the Thai resort island, in 1988, and three others have followed in Bali. Dedicated guests, many of whom proudly call themselves "Amanjunkies," include an assortment of Hollywood stars, Wall Street financiers, Japanese industrialists and European royalty including both the Princess of Wales (who has stayed in th... |
804965_5 | Debating High Costs of Special Needs; The State Board of Regents Is Reviewing the Expense Of Educating Handicapped Children At an Upstate School | the school a big advantage over local programs for the multiply handicapped like the Northern Westchester BOCES, where only three teachers have such training and split their time among several schools. "The primary medium for working with the retarded child is imitation," says Robert J. Seibold, the Batavia school's lo... |
805096_0 | Joan Specter's Tough Race | In four previous election campaigns for an at-large seat on the City Council, Joan Specter never faced more than one other Republican. With registered Democrats outnumbering Republicans by more than 2 to 1 and local regulations guaranteeing two of the seven at-large seats to the minority party, she always won. But Mrs.... |
804385_2 | A Homily on Women Priests: 'You See? This Isn't So Bad' | in many Protestant denominations and as rabbis among Conservative and Reform Jews. Not that this makes a difference in Rome. In May 1994, Pope John Paul II, noting that Jesus had called only men as His disciples, declared the subject of women's ordination within Catholicism closed to discussion. "The Pope is a promoter... |
804679_5 | Debating High Costs of Special Needs;The State Board of Regents Is Reviewing the Expense Of Educating Handicapped Children At an Upstate School | the school a big advantage over local programs for the multiply handicapped like the Northern Westchester BOCES, where only three teachers have such training and split their time among several schools. "The primary medium for working with the retarded child is imitation," says Robert J. Seibold, the Batavia school's lo... |
802511_0 | Patents; Calling all drivers: a car radio that can direct you around traffic jams or keep track of your teen-ager. | LET'S say you've just left work at the end of the day only to find yourself stuck in a traffic jam. You need to know the best alternate route, but even then you're probably going to miss the movie you were going to see. So you've got to find out the time of the next showing and let your husband know he has to pick up t... |
802326_0 | Patents;Calling all drivers: a car radio that can direct you around traffic jams or keep track of your teen-ager. | LET'S say you've just left work at the end of the day only to find yourself stuck in a traffic jam. You need to know the best alternate route, but even then you're probably going to miss the movie you were going to see. So you've got to find out the time of the next showing and let your husband know he has to pick up t... |
802328_0 | Shuttle Water Experiment Soars and Splats | The space shuttle Columbia's chief scientist jiggled cherry tomato-size drops of water today, as the rest of the crew tiptoed around to avoid spoiling the laboratory experiment. One astronaut, Kathryn Thornton, used sound waves to bounce one drop at a time inside an enclosed chamber. The levitating drops quivered and a... |
796785_2 | Public-Employee Strike in France Fosters a Day of Discontent | was Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of supervising city public housing for Mayor Jacques Chirac in the early 1990's. Mr. Chirac became President and appointed Mr. Juppe as Prime Minister in May. Mr. Juppe denied any wrongdoing and dismissed rumors that he planned to resign, but he announced last Friday night that he an... |
792775_0 | Savusavu Journal;Cousteau Sues Son, Churning Fiji Waters | If Jacques Cousteau could be persuaded to dive into the newly fashionable word of eco-tourism, the famed French oceanographer might want to consider lending his name to just the sort of environmentally friendly beach resort that opened on April 22, World Earth Day, on a honey-colored stretch of sand in the idyllic Sout... |
793009_0 | New Word of Advice for the Graduate: Software | A few years ago, Orion Letizi, an English major who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, would probably have become a teacher, journalist or graduate student. But just three months after leaving behind Milton and the metaphysical poets, Mr. Letizi is up to his ears in computer software. He has a job... |
792780_0 | New Word of Advice for the Graduate: Software | A few years ago, Orion Letizi, an English major who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, would probably have become a teacher, journalist or graduate student. But just three months after leaving behind Milton and the metaphysical poets, Mr. Letizi is up to his ears in computer software. He has a job... |
792774_0 | France Detonates A Second Atom Test | France detonated a nuclear device on Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific late Sunday night, the second in a series of tests that have brought international condemnation. The Defense Ministry announced the test early today in Paris, saying the test measured less than 110 kilotons. The first French test on Sept. 5 was ... |
792773_3 | CLINTON TO EASE COMPUTER SALES | machines 24 hours a day. Administration officials said the plan before Mr. Clinton would create a multi-tiered system that would determine the appropriate treatment for a country based on its history, the state of its nuclear and missile programs and the identity of the customer planning to use the computer. Officials ... |
792823_2 | Clergy of All Faiths Find a Message, Social or Spiritual, in the Pope's Visit | own words for a similar message. "The poor of the United States and the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ," he recalled the Pope saying in a speech Oct. 2, 1979, in Yankee Stadium. "You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs of the feast. You must take of your substance and not just of your abu... |
793050_2 | Clergy of All Faiths Find a Message, Social or Spiritual, in the Pope's Visit | own words for a similar message. "The poor of the United States and the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ," he recalled the Pope saying in a speech Oct. 2, 1979, in Yankee Stadium. "You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs of the feast. You must take of your substance and not just of your abu... |
793005_0 | Savusavu Journal; Cousteau Sues Son, Churning Fiji Waters | If Jacques Cousteau could be persuaded to dive into the newly fashionable word of eco-tourism, the famed French oceanographer might want to consider lending his name to just the sort of environmentally friendly beach resort that opened on April 22, World Earth Day, on a honey-colored stretch of sand in the idyllic Sout... |
793004_3 | CLINTON TO EASE COMPUTER SALES | machines 24 hours a day. Administration officials said the plan before Mr. Clinton would create a multi-tiered system that would determine the appropriate treatment for a country based on its history, the state of its nuclear and missile programs and the identity of the customer planning to use the computer. Officials ... |
795498_0 | Developmentally Disabled Are People, Nothing Else | To the Editor: Last month a member of my staff attended the annual Italian Festival in Scotch Plains. It was an enjoyable outing, but it was marred by a shocking sign posted near a ride: "No pregnant women or mental retards allowed." Fortunately, a member of Unico, one of the festival's sponsors, saw the sign and told ... |
795697_8 | IN FRANCE, A BOAT OF ONE'S OWN | On other stretches we passed boats, some of them spiffy cabin cruisers with gaily colored parasols unfurled on their top decks, some peniches like ours, some small outboard motor craft, and some great, black-hulled transport barges carrying cargo down to the Mediterannean or up to the Benelux countries and the English ... |
794969_8 | IN FRANCE, A BOAT OF ONE'S OWN | On other stretches we passed boats, some of them spiffy cabin cruisers with gaily colored parasols unfurled on their top decks, some peniches like ours, some small outboard motor craft, and some great, black-hulled transport barges carrying cargo down to the Mediterannean or up to the Benelux countries and the English ... |
795756_2 | Towers of Power: The Cell Phone Frenzy | technician who drives 25 miles to work each day, without a cell phone. "I don't see a need for one, myself. Well, O.K., maybe in a snowstorm. But man, not at the risk of getting a brain tumor in 10 years." Concerns about possible health hazards from cellular microwaves are usually a key complaint in the suits against n... |
795700_0 | A Sailor, a Gypsy, a Pirate at Sea | ONE December afternoon in the 1950's four people and a trunk squeezed into a single stateroom on a ship bound for the Caribbean. The trunk was bigger than any of us. My mother and I had crammed it full of cruiseworthy garments. Her evening gowns were modest enough for her role as a doctor's wife; she had also packed ne... |
795156_0 | Developmentally Disabled Are People, Nothing Else | To the Editor: Last month a member of my staff attended the annual Italian Festival in Scotch Plains. It was an enjoyable outing, but it was marred by a shocking sign posted near a ride: "No pregnant women or mental retards allowed." Fortunately, a member of Unico, one of the festival's sponsors, saw the sign and told ... |
794967_0 | Atomic Tests and Rioting Scare Off Tahiti Tourists | THE resumption of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and the rioting it sparked last month on the French-administered island of Tahiti have frightened away thousands of foreign travelers from French Polynesia. The rioting began on Sept. 6, the day after France conducted the first of a planned series of nuclear t... |
794960_1 | In a Bygone Day, This Was the Look Of the Future | of movement, the exhilaration of speed, ideas not easily conveyed by a building planted firmly on the ground. Designed by Angiolo Mazzoni, the power plant was built in 1932, long after Futurism had collapsed. Antonio Sant'Elia, the most prominent architect in a movement that embraced painting, sculpture, music and, abo... |
795045_3 | New York School for the Deaf Stresses Need for Early Training | handicapped children in the same schools they would attend if they were not handicapped. While this was perceived by many as a civil-rights victory for the handicapped, it was vehemently opposed by many members of the deaf community. Most had had frustrating experiences in mainstream education and by this point the dea... |
795678_0 | Atomic Tests and Rioting Scare Off Tahiti Tourists | THE resumption of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and the rioting it sparked last month on the French-administered island of Tahiti have frightened away thousands of foreign travelers from French Polynesia. The rioting began on Sept. 6, the day after France conducted the first of a planned series of nuclear t... |
794972_0 | U.S. Airlines Expand Ticketless Travel | Several United States airlines are expanding their use of "ticketless" travel, in an effort to reduce costs, cut down on fraud and improve efficiency and convenience for passengers. With ticketless travel, passengers make reservations as usual, either directly through the airline or with a travel agent who has access t... |
795687_10 | 125,000 Join Pope at Mass In Central Park 'Basilica' | the United States Coast Guard Choir, the West Point Cadet Choir and the Boy's Choir of Harlem, with solos by Kathy Triccoli and Jon Secada as well as Mr. Domingo, Ms. Flack and Ms. Cole. The altar at the south end of the lawn was huge, perhaps 100 feet across. From a distance, it appeared to be the kind of stage that i... |
795200_10 | 125,000 Join Pope at Mass In Central Park 'Basilica' | the United States Coast Guard Choir, the West Point Cadet Choir and the Boy's Choir of Harlem, with solos by Kathy Triccoli and Jon Secada as well as Mr. Domingo, Ms. Flack and Ms. Cole. The altar at the south end of the lawn was huge, perhaps 100 feet across. From a distance, it appeared to be the kind of stage that i... |
794970_0 | A Sailor, a Gypsy, a Pirate at Sea | ONE December afternoon in the 1950's four people and a trunk squeezed into a single stateroom on a ship bound for the Caribbean. The trunk was bigger than any of us. My mother and I had crammed it full of cruiseworthy garments. Her evening gowns were modest enough for her role as a doctor's wife; she had also packed ne... |
795611_1 | In a Bygone Day, This Was the Look Of the Future | of movement, the exhilaration of speed, ideas not easily conveyed by a building planted firmly on the ground. Designed by Angiolo Mazzoni, the power plant was built in 1932, long after Futurism had collapsed. Antonio Sant'Elia, the most prominent architect in a movement that embraced painting, sculpture, music and, abo... |
795031_2 | Towers of Power: The Cell Phone Frenzy | technician who drives 25 miles to work each day, without a cell phone. "I don't see a need for one, myself. Well, O.K., maybe in a snowstorm. But man, not at the risk of getting a brain tumor in 10 years." Concerns about possible health hazards from cellular microwaves are usually a key complaint in the suits against n... |
795702_0 | U.S. Airlines Expand Ticketless Travel | Several United States airlines are expanding their use of "ticketless" travel, in an effort to reduce costs, cut down on fraud and improve efficiency and convenience for passengers. With ticketless travel, passengers make reservations as usual, either directly through the airline or with a travel agent who has access t... |
795391_0 | Portrait of The American Child, 1995 | THERE ARE ABOUT -- 57 milion children under 15, about 22 percent of the population. About 79 percent are white, 16 percent blck and 5 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, America Indian, Eskimo or Aleutian. About 12 percent of the population is of Hispanic origin. IN 1994, THERE -- were an estimated 3,949,000 births. Thi... |
794900_3 | New York School for the Deaf Stresses Need for Early Training | handicapped children in the same schools they would attend if they were not handicapped. While this was perceived by many as a civil-rights victory for the handicapped, it was vehemently opposed by many members of the deaf community. Most had had frustrating experiences in mainstream education and by this point the dea... |
784445_4 | Pirates Are Circling the Good Ship Windows 95 | ago, Microsoft began placing white, oval-shaped stickers on its boxes. The stickers are treated so that under a special light, a distinctive pattern appears. Microsoft, as the industry leader, has made the most aggressive push to thwart software pirates. The antipiracy team, headed by Mr. Curtis, has doubled in the las... |
784475_0 | The Mentally Retarded Live Productively Outside Institutions | To the Editor: "Community Treatment of the Retarded" (editorial, Aug. 17) requires clarification. "Total deinstitutionalization is not realistic," you state, based on your assertion that deinstitutionalization "became a cruel hoax" since thousands of people, presumably with retardation, "were left to fend for themselve... |
782737_0 | World Bank Cancels Nepal Project Loan | The World Bank's new president, signaling that the institution is taking a more cautious approach to lending, has withdrawn $175 million in credits promised to a hydroelectric project in Nepal, canceling the $1 billion development. James D. Wolfensohn, who has been the international lending agency's president for about... |
782692_1 | Bristol-Myers and Biogen To Invest in Gene Therapy | in gene therapy include Bayer, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Baxter International and Merck. By treating disease with the body's own genetic material, gene therapy holds the potential to correct genetic defects and, in theory at least, treat almost every known disease. The therapy, barely five years old, involves the injection ... |
781689_2 | France to Back Ban After Its Atom Tests | test site is in Nevada. China has supported an absolute ban but said it would go along with a low threshold if the other nuclear powers wanted one. In Washington today, President Clinton said at his news conference that he welcomed a pledge by France that a series of nuclear tests in the South Pacific would be its last... |
781629_8 | Ships, Old Inns and Seafood: A Family Explores Mystic | a few twisting miles east along the coast. This was indeed a gem of a town, with Water Street and adjacent lanes lined with attractive shops and pristine Colonial clapboards in a palette of luscious hues. Historical markers identified one house as the birthplace of Capt. Edmund Fanning, a late-18th-century trader and e... |
784278_1 | Peace, Terror and Dissent in Israel | to internal Israeli politics, declaring that the main goal of its present campaign is to defeat Mr. Rabin, the chief sponsor of the peace agreement, in Israel's next national election, scheduled for November 1996. Hamas would rather see power pass to the opposition Likud Bloc, which has consistently opposed the deal wi... |
784216_0 | Ilheus Journal; Where Cocoa Was King, the Weeds Take Over | In the city that chocolate built, the news was not even bittersweet. Protesters picketed the port. Editorial writers railed. But, armed with a court order, stevedores here unloaded African cocoa beans, the first since Brazil banned cocoa imports in 1934. Sixty years ago, this tropical version of coals to Newcastle woul... |
785609_0 | Mr. Clinton Acts on Yellowstone | President Clinton is vacationing this year in western Wyoming, playing golf and reveling in the wonders of Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. Last Friday, too late for the evening news shows, he took a crucial first step toward protecting Yellowstone and much of the adjacent wilderness from an environmental ca... |
785501_5 | Behind the Veil of Thought: Advances in Brain Research; In Brain's Early Growth,Timetable May Be Crucial | Chicago, who measured the brains of children killed in car accidents, and on brain images from PET scans that Dr. Chugani performed on infants for health reasons. Concurrent with the explosion in the growth of synapses is a rapid pruning away of those that do not get used, Dr. Chugani said. There seems to be as much sy... |
780973_0 | Caesarean Delivery Can Mark a Child's Psyche; Cancer and Light | To the Editor: Re your Aug. 2 news article on how moving to a different country alters a woman's risk of breast cancer: Having lived in rural Taiwan as a lactating housewife during the early 1970's, when modern technology first crept into the lush and welcoming countryside, I feel qualified to comment on environmental ... |
781039_1 | U.S. Joins Effort to Transfer Retarded Into Group Homes | view them as an ally." At the heart of the new policy is an argument that large institutions are inherently more dangerous to residents than smaller settings in the community and that they represent a form of illegal segregation and discrimination against the disabled. Indeed, today an expert on the medical care of the... |
780976_2 | Animal Studies Hint at Ways To Treat Spinal Cord Injuries | the regeneration of nerve fibers called axons in the damaged spinal cords of chickens. The proteins temporarily suppress the formation of myelin, a protective covering on normal nerve fibers that also appears to inhibit the regrowth of nerves and axons, he said. In a report presented last month in Toronto at the Third ... |
779586_1 | Plunging Life Expectancy Puzzles Russia | trying to restructure its society and economy after years of despotic rule. Despite the common belief that the world is overpopulated and that fewer people are usually better, no country can afford a trend in which its most productive citizens die in huge numbers while they are in their prime. But that is just what is ... |
779614_0 | Excerpts From Manuscript Linked to Suspect in 17-Year Series of Bombings | Following are excerpts from a manuscript sent to The New York Times in June by the suspect in the Unabom case, a 17-year string of bombings. The manuscript, which has been authenticated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is titled "Industrial Society and Its Future" and is attributed on its title page to a group c... |
779682_0 | Moving to Different Country Alters Risk of Breast Cancer | It may be something in her diet, or the air and water of her new home, or the vigilance of her doctor, or stress or exhilaration or none of the above. Whatever the cause, when a woman moves to a new country, her risk of dying from breast cancer will either rise or fall to match that of women native to her adopted land,... |
785665_1 | A Forum on Women Is Vexed By Chinese Security Officials | questions from journalists about when and where the demonstrations are going to begin," she said. The reason for the questions is that many of the women arriving here are angry. The Chinese Government held up some visas; denied visas to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others; separated the nongovernmental forum from th... |
785765_0 | Foreign Affairs; Australia Goes Pacific | Sometimes a government has to totally misread the mood of its own people to fully appreciate where the soul of the nation is on an issue. That was certainly the case here when, after the French announced plans for seven nuclear tests in the South Pacific, the Australian Foreign Minister said the decision was "unfortuna... |
785749_1 | Japan Throws The Switch On Reactor | part of this strategy because it can produce more plutonium than it consumes in generating electricity. But the United States and some other countries have abandoned breeder programs because they contribute to the spread of plutonium, which can be used to make bombs. France's breeder has had technical problems. Japan's... |
785655_0 | Personal Health | ALTHOUGH a decade ago specialists were still insisting that men retain the sex hormone levels reached in young adulthood throughout life, there is now no longer any doubt that starting at about the age of 40 or 50, blood levels of the so-called male sex hormone testosterone gradually fall, dropping to a third to a half... |
780714_0 | SUNDAY, August 6, 1995; SMARTS: Air Bags That Think? | Safety sells, and the people who put Morton salt on your table also want to put air bags in your car and maybe even on your motorcycle. "Automobile air bags are now being treated more like a commodity than before," says George Kirchoff, vice president of automotive programs at Morton International, which has sold 40 mi... |
780552_4 | Washington's Ancient Rain Forest | moss that hangs in tremendous swags like seaweed. A rain forest is a titanic lung. Photosynthesis happens almost palpably; your own blood seems to rise like sap. On the Hall of Mosses trail, one of the rain forest's two loop trails, Ken walked a few paces ahead of me to examine a mushroom -- and vanished. He returned, ... |
780380_2 | Salt Substitute From Tarrytown Company | company was founded in 1983 to commercialize bacteriocins, which are naturally produced weapons one bacterial strain uses against a competitive one. "We developed Nisin technology," Mr. Benoit said. "Nisin is a peptide, which is a naturally occurring small protein that acts as a powerful agent capable of killing a wide... |
780600_6 | The American Dream Glitters Still -- in Foreign Countries | a job in Bombay, India, instead, because the domestic offers were either boring or didn't pay enough. "You get hooked," he said. "Going overseas kind of spoils you for regular work." That goes for children, too. After cruising the Nile and doing other exotic things during Mr. Connelly's stint in Saudi Arabia, his three... |
780368_0 | Navigating The Risks of Estrogen Therapy | JUST one month after a much publicized study proclaimed that women who had hormone-replacement therapy faced an increased incidence of breast cancer came more front-page news -- this time a new study that revealed no such effect. The conflicting reports only added to women's uncertainty and anxiety as they confronted w... |
780406_7 | Recycling Banks: Some Debits, Some Dividends | "It's just awesome," said Robert Mirafiore, the owner, "especially the 40-foot ceilings.". The restaurant uses the former vault as a bar and service area. "People go up to the vault to get their drinks," Mr. Mirafiore said. One of the most difficult tasks in retrofitting a bank, particularly an older one, is dealing wi... |
780751_1 | Japanese Leaders Call for Bans on Nuclear Arms and Tests | perhaps more than 200,000, and some are still dying of cancer and related illnesses. Three days later, another atomic bomb devastated Nagasaki, killing about 100,000. Mr. Murayama called on nuclear powers to reduce their arsenals and used the occasion to criticize China for conducting nuclear tests and France for annou... |
780776_4 | Self-Help For Students | your first job's salary. Although "Majoring in the Rest of Your Life" is a handy reference guide, Ms. Carter's tips can hardly be called "secrets." Essentially the book is an abridged version of many more detailed, topic-specific books (she also provides a list of additional reading). Still, Ms. Carter provides clear a... |
785092_0 | Land of Thrills and Bounces for Helen Keller Campers | AN amusement park is a land of sights and heights. When there is no sight, there is little perception of height. So the park becomes a land of vibrations. "I want to go on rides," Sarah Badillo, 9, said, before entering the Adventureland amusement park in Farmingdale for the first time earlier this month. "But I don't ... |
784868_0 | A Pacific Cruise Ship Is Switching to Cuba | The 480-passenger Pearl, owned by Costa Crociere of Genoa and currently cruising in the Far East, will change her name to the Costa Playa and begin sailing to Cuba from the Dominican Republic starting Nov. 28. Costa Crociere will advertise the seven-night cruises only in Europe. Treasury Department regulations forbid A... |
784970_2 | Foreign Affairs; The Bomb and the Boomerang | Mr. Chirac says that France, as a self-proclaimed Great Power, must maintain an independent nuclear option, and an independent military identity. Therefore, it will test the newest weapons in its nuclear arsenal, because that is the French national interest. And if the rest of the world doesn't like it, well, all the b... |
785342_5 | DISNEY'S TOKYO KINGDOM | by Japanese to Tang Dynasty China, well over 1,000 years ago, and speeds through such events as the arrival of the Black Ships to open up Japan to the rest of the world in 1853. This is not a place where Japan dwells on the dark side of its past. The presentation pretty much ends with the Meiji era at the end of the 19... |
784984_0 | Seles Turns a Dark Corner And Heads for Center Court | She has survived a vicious stabbing meant to punish her for being a better tennis player than the rest of the pack. She has been to a place she calls the black hole, and because she failed to figure out what would possess a man she didn't know to plunge a knife in her back and what would possess her peers on the circui... |
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