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785274_4 | COMPANIES PRESS CLINTON TO LIFT EMBARGO ON CUBA | who owns Revlon as well as the Consolidated Cigar Corporation, predicted in a recent interview with the magazine Cigar Aficionado that the embargo would be lifted within five years. "We think it's inevitable," said Thomas J. Polski, a spokesman for Carlson Companies, which owns the Radisson Hotel chain and a Caribbean ... |
785234_5 | Watercraft Stir a Mix Of Irritation And Thrills | around for more than a decade, was operated standing up by a single person who needed physical skills to maintain balance and make quick turns. Newer generations like the Yamaha Waverunner are sit-down models carrying as many as three people, requiring no skills other than turning an ignition key and holding on; even a... |
784875_0 | Study Finds Worldwide Decline In Elections of Women to Office | The percentage of women elected to national legislatures worldwide has dropped by nearly a quarter in the last seven years, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said today in a new study of how political power is distributed. The decline followed the collapse of Communism in Europe and the resurgence of democracy there and in... |
785223_2 | Famous Long Ago | her off and killed her. Because she was not a Christian, because she had scientific interests and because she lived toward the very end of ancient civilization, she has been portrayed as a defender of science against religion, as a doomed representative of the values of pre-Christian antiquity and as the last candle of... |
784910_3 | Made in New Jersey | last remaining canner of fresh, vine-ripened New Jersey tomatoes in the country. Most tomato packers -- including the Redpack plant in not-too-distant Cedarville -- don't even start with tomatoes anymore, but make their products from reconstituted California tomato paste. And as the world is discovering, South Jersey's... |
782542_4 | A Year After Boat Exodus, Threat to Castro Dissipates | of the disturbances with a huge march along the Malecon, the boulevard that runs along the Havana waterfront. Thousands of uniformed and plainclothes police officers were stationed in the area just in case, and the theme of the rally was "Cuba Lives." Even the most upbeat officials do not contend that people on the isl... |
782578_1 | No Nuclear Tests | all nuclear tests. The President turned aside the argument that small-scale testing was needed to assure weapons reliability. By doing so he greatly increased the chances that the world's five declared nuclear powers will be able to negotiate a comprehensive test ban treaty by their declared target date of next year. N... |
782602_0 | 5 Greenpeace Leaders Detained at Beijing Protest | Five activists for the environmental group Greenpeace unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square this morning to protest nuclear testing in China and were promptly taken into custody, witnesses said. After posing for photographs, like tourists, under an enormous portrait of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong, the activists opene... |
782532_0 | Calming Stormy Seas With New Kinds of Ship Hulls | FROM the ancient Egyptians onward, ship makers have been relatively quick to change the means of powering their vessels to increase speed and range, going from muscle to wind, steam, oil and eventually the atom. But hulls during those propulsion revolutions remained essentially the same. The great arc known as the mono... |
782517_1 | A Gift To Help Preserve Cultural Sites | by American Express and the largest ever received by the fund, which was founded in 1965 and, with an annual budget of about $5 million, has completed 120 projects in 35 countries, notably in Venice after the 1966 flood and in Mexico City, where murals by Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco and others were endangered by the 1985... |
783232_3 | U.N. Documents Inequities for Women as World Forum Nears | women, and it was timed for release before the conference on women, which is held once in a decade. "The key finding is that gender gaps in human capabilities -- education, health -- have been halved in the last two decades," Mr. Speth said. "There have been huge increases in the capacity of women, including in the Ara... |
783115_0 | Women and Power | |
783229_1 | Trade Deficit Grew in June As Exports Fell | including the fight to win ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it still anticipates charges by Republicans that it has allowed the deficit to balloon at the cost of American jobs. With this no doubt in mind, Mr. Garten distributed to reporters today a chart showing that the trade deficit now am... |
781809_5 | President's Call for Birth Control Is Dividing Peru | one-quarter of women in Peru use modern contraception, and adolescents account for 21 percent of all pregnancies in the country. In poor rural areas, it is not uncommon to find many women who have 10 or 12 children. While abortion is illegal in Peru and in many other Latin American countries, family-planning experts es... |
781946_2 | PRESIDENT URGES A PERMANENT BAN ON ALL ATOM TESTS | our nuclear weapons without the ability to test them. These weapons are machines, and will break down despite the intense scrutiny they undergo." On Thursday, France announced that it supported a total ban on nuclear tests and would permanently stop its own testing, once it conducts up to eight tests in the South Pacif... |
783534_2 | Bill to Ease Cuba Suits Faces a Veto By Clinton | to cut off the lifeblood of foreign money to Castro and thereby speed the fall of the Castro regime," one aide said. The bill's sponsors envision lawsuits in which Bacardi, for example, whose rum distilleries were nationalized, might sue Pernod Ricard, a French liquor company that distributes rum made in those distille... |
783760_2 | Protesters Undaunted Over Indian Point 3 | although they acknowledge the improvements that have been made in recent months, they do not plan to remove the plant from the watch list for at least another five months, said Richard J. Urban, a project engineer for the N.R.C. Mr. Urban called Indian Point 3 -- which at full capacity can produce 980,000 kilowatts of ... |
779300_1 | Lawmaker Applies Pressure For Regulation of Nicotine | cigarettes." Last Monday, Mr. Waxman also took the floor to read what he called secret, internal tobacco industry documents into the Congressional Record. He read papers showing that Philip Morris studied hyperactive schoolchildren as potentially "natural smokers" and described experiments in which college students wer... |
779493_1 | Severe Trauma May Damage The Brain as Well as the Psyche | Bremner and including Dr. Charney, at the West Haven hospital. And both combat veterans and and survivors of childhood abuse performed at levels averaging 40 percent lower on a test of verbal memory than did people of comparable age and education, Dr. Bremner said in a report to be published later this year in Psychiat... |
779494_2 | Treaty Partners Study Fate of Birds at Polluted Mexican Lake | the representatives of all three nations have indicated a willingness to develop a comprehensive management plan for nongame species of North American migratory and local songbirds, shorebirds and sea birds. The plan would complement an existing agreement among the three nations that governs the 60 million to 100 milli... |
779769_1 | Mr. Chirac's Nuclear Blunder | end of the cold war, that arsenal no longer has any obvious military use. France's nuclear security today depends not on deterring Soviet attack but on preventing potential nuclear powers like Iraq and Iran from developing weapons on their own. Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons depends in turn on global efforts ... |
779958_4 | The Checks That Got Away | well run, with professional oversight by in-house administrators. The Middlemen Weak Spots That Invite Abuse Mutual Financial is one of the growing number of middlemen showing up on the menus. Also known as third-party administrators, these vendors offer a range of savings options to employees, sometimes placing invest... |
781252_3 | In Supermarkets, a New Kind of Tomato Surprise | bananas. Buy them underripe if need be, and never refrigerate them. Though stores are told not to refrigerate tomatoes -- the 25-pound boxes of New Jersey tomatoes are labeled "Do not refrigerate below 55 degrees" -- many do so anyway. Unfortunately, the best clue to whether a tomato has been kept too cold is its mealy... |
781312_0 | International Briefs; Takeover of Insurer By Axa Is Approved | Policyholders in the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd. brushed aside global politics and agreed to be taken over by Axa S.A. of France for 1.1 billion Australian dollars, or $817 million. The vote drew attention because of friction between Australia and France over French plans to resume nuclear test... |
781374_2 | Brazil Looks North From Trade Zone in Amazon | Brazil either stayed home or flew to Miami. But many corporations remained and sought to raise productivity levels to world standards. They invested in automation, cut payrolls and adopted more efficient manufacturing techniques. Productivity gains have translated into price cuts. Over the last five years, average pric... |
781374_3 | Brazil Looks North From Trade Zone in Amazon | of videocassette recorders have fallen to $300 from $1,000, color television sets to $380 from $780, faxes to $360 from $2,500, and 18-speed bicycles to $180 from $500. "In 1992 we almost closed. Today we are producing twice as much with less than half the number of employees," said Cristovao Marques Pinto, resident di... |
785928_0 | Rebels Hijack Civilian Ferry In Sri Lanka | A Sri Lankan ferry carrying 128 passengers was riding at anchor off the island's northeast coast today, apparently under the control of Tamil Tiger rebels who hijacked the ferry then sank two Sri Lankan naval gunboats that went to investigate. All 28 of the gunboats' crew members were believed to have been killed. Sri ... |
781524_3 | Security Is Tightened at Nation's Airports | agents in New York said. Last week, Hamas leaders in Damascas and the Gaza strip said the group would attack Americans if Mr. Marzook is deported to Israel to stand trial for conspiracy and murder there. In addition, intelligence officials said yesterday a guilty verdict against Mr. Abdel Rahman and his co-defendants c... |
784049_1 | First to College, Then the Mill | more automated, workers' skills have had to increase. And the streamlining of corporate America has cut the number of entry-level office positions, making a good factory job look a lot better. "In this economy, $19-an-hour jobs with good benefits are a lot more desirable than a few years ago" for college-educated worke... |
784102_1 | Q&A | independently re-analyzed the raw data from the Lieber study said that his conclusions were invalid. Mr. Sanduleak found no correlation between moon phases and murder when he did a similar study for greater Cleveland, using Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office statistics for 3,370 homicides in the 11 full years from 1971 t... |
784654_0 | Vatican Picks U.S. Woman As Delegate to U.N. Parley | Taking a shrewd new tack in its international diplomacy, the Vatican has chosen an American woman, Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard law professor, to lead its delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing next month. The Vatican, which found itself nearly isolated on issues of abortion, contraception and the... |
784694_0 | Patients Abuse Other Patients At Nursing Home, Report Says | Several patients at a county-owned nursing home in Westchester have inflicted physical or sexual abuse on at least 10 other patients since December, the State Department of Health has charged. In a report, health officials put the blame on administrators at the Ruth Taylor Geriatric and Rehabilitation Institute in Hawt... |
782979_0 | Community Treatment for the Retarded | The Clinton Justice Department has joined the effort to move mentally retarded patients out of large institutions and into community facilities. It is a potentially worthy undertaking, putting the Federal Government, once again, behind a policy carried out in many states and supported by experts and advocates for 20 ye... |
782955_1 | China Sets Off Second Underground Nuclear Test in 3 Months | to the test, which was expected. The activists were expelled from China yesterday after long questioning by the police. The tests also occurred during the same week that China conducted a second round of missile tests off the coast of Taiwan, a move widely interpreted as a show of force against the island state after T... |
783088_1 | Cairo Journal; The 'Tower of Power': Something to Babble About | has become a magnet for facts, fiction, envy, social commentary and politics. "This is not for Egyptians, not for our kind of people," said a 38-year-old taxi driver, who would give only his first name, Khalid. "I think you have to steal to live in there," said Khalid, who lives with his wife and six children in a slum... |
780115_1 | France Describes U.S. 'Anglo-Saxons' as Nuclear Test Foes | of President Jacques Chirac, wrote in Le Figaro today. Mr. Seguin said that with American isolationism growing stronger every day in Congress, relying solely on the United States for security would be illusory. "By developing its nuclear deterrent to a modest but effective level of performance," he wrote, "France is wo... |
782183_1 | E-Mail Puts Officials In Reach | good books, the idling buses and the fumes they gave off invaded the peace and quiet she had hoped for that week. "Dear Supervisor Cavanaugh," she wrote in her E-mail note, describing the problem and her thwarted plans. "Please explain to me how these buses are allowed to sit along the side of the street (in back of pr... |
782142_1 | U.S. Scrutinizes Air-Ticket Ads | "guidance" was not prompted by consumer complaints. Overall, he said, advertising provokes less than 2 percent of the complaints the department receives, and complaints about prices in ads would hardly register on the meter. He said that the effort was part of the department's project to help consumers, begun in Januar... |
781952_0 | Something New for America's Attic: An Old Machine With a Neat Pedigree | As soon as Lewis Neuman saw it, he fell in love. It was solid and beautifully proportioned, not too tall, not too wide: an air compressor built more than 75 years ago to power industrial equipment. To Mr. Neuman, a mechanical engineer, it was a work of art. Through serendipity, the object belonged to him. Two and a hal... |
782161_0 | Aug. 6-12: Ground Zero; Clinton Endorses A Ban on A-Bomb Tests -- And That Means None | President Clinton took a big step last week to end a deadlock in talks to create a treaty to prohibit nuclear tests worldwide. Fifty years after the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb, he became the first President to call for a ban on all atomic tests, including the small-scale tests that his and previous Ad... |
782159_0 | POSTINGS: Former Warehouse on 41st Street Under Renovation; A Homeless Shelter For Times Square | The Times Square area is about to get a new homeless shelter -- the nine-story, 45,000-square-foot Isaiah House, a former warehouse at 260 West 41st Street. The shelter will accommodate 400 people and includes dining facilities, dormitory-style rooms, two chapels, counseling offices, full laundry facilities and a comme... |
783389_1 | Giant Projects Don't Conserve World's Water | Ahead for Poorest Nations" (news article, Aug. 10) quotes Ismail Serageldin, vice president for Environmentally Sustainable Development at the World Bank. He is right to sound an alarm over the sorry state of the world's water resources; however, he has left out the significant role of his employer in helping create th... |
783913_2 | 'An E-mail' by Any Other Name Might Sound Better | wrote Marcy J. Gordon, Esq. "Since I am a highly opinionated individual with many opinions on a diverse range of topics, please feel free to contact me directly if you want any more opinions on anything," added Ms. Gordon, whose Manhattan firm is called Psychic Planner Inc. But it was a close vote, and the no's passion... |
783968_0 | Ban Nuclear Tests, in Virtual Reality Too | To the Editor: President Clinton's welcome announcement that the United States will seek a permanent ban on all nuclear tests (news article, Aug. 12) and France's proposal to ban future tests (after seven more under the fragile coral atoll at Mururoa) are reasonable steps toward limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. ... |
784764_0 | Rays of Hope in the Watershed | Under Federal pressure, New York City has drawn up ambitious plans and set aside millions of dollars to clean up pollution in the 2,000-square-mile watershed that supplies drinking water to seven million city dwellers and one million suburbanites. Failure to carry out the task will force the city to build a $6 billion ... |
784832_0 | Britain Offers to Cut Terms for 400 Irish Convicts | Seeking to give new momentum to peace talks in Northern Ireland, the British Government said today that it would grant early release over the next few years to 400 people convicted of terrorist offenses in the embattled province. The decision would mean shortened prison terms for roughly equal numbers of Catholics and ... |
784759_0 | The Road Not Taken | It is hard to believe that the Westway highway and development project, which died 10 years ago next month, was New York City's last grand dream for its future. It was an urban renewal project the likes of which cities have rarely seen. It is high time that we dare to dream again -- of development on Manhattan's West S... |
784820_0 | Vatican Attacks U.S.-Backed Draft for Women's Conference | Saying it feared the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing next month could result in a "step backward in the field of human rights for women," the Vatican today made a detailed attack on positions endorsed by the United States and other participants in preparatory meetings, saying that they promoted abortion and... |
784820_2 | Vatican Attacks U.S.-Backed Draft for Women's Conference | agreement between the Clinton Administration and the Vatican while seeking to avoid open clashes on divisive issues like abortion. At a news conference, Dr. Navarro-Valls said there was "no cause for a pessimistic attitude" about the conference and that the Vatican will go to Beijing "to achieve a consensus." But his a... |
784794_1 | Religion Journal; Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Catholic Recants | the Catholic Church did," he said in a telephone interview. Instead, he said, he had succumbed to a "growing unease" about his original decision. "I had simply lost any sense of peace," he said. His unease, Bishop Pope said, lay in his feeling that he could not give up his status as a bishop, which he would have to do ... |
780876_0 | The Black Bear Rebounds | The black bear seems to be making a comeback in New Jersey. Naturalists say there are now at least 375 black bears in the state, and possibly as many as 600, the Associated Press reported. New Jersey's bear population had dwindled to fewer than 50 in the early 1970's. State officials have fielded nearly 200 complaints ... |
780913_0 | In Florida, a Lobster for Every Pot | Aboard his 25-foot motor boat, Officer Mack Clark of the Florida Marine Patrol recently scanned these waters as vigilantly as a Customs agent would for drug shipments. But it was not cocaine that Mr. Clark was after, but crustaceans, specifically lobsters. "How are you doing?" he called out as he circled a boat flying ... |
780898_4 | A Cyberspace Front in a Multicultural War | its use of complex Chinese characters, Japanese has always been more difficult to type than Latin-based alphabets, making personal computers less of a convenience here than in Western countries. But PC technology has largely overcome those barriers. People can now type in either English letters or simplified Japanese c... |
766534_0 | Thomas F. Gould, Classicist, 67 | Thomas Fauss Gould, a scholar of Greek literature and philosophy who was a professor emeritus of classics at Yale University, died on May 13 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Conn. He was 67 and had lived for many years in New Haven. In announcing the death last week, the university reported the cause as a liver ... |
767834_2 | Robert Vesco, Fugitive Financier, Is Arrested in Cuba, the U.S. Says | legal problems resolved. In 1974, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Stans were acquitted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice. One American official said the Administration was certainly happy about Mr. Vesco's arrest, but said he was reluctant to discuss details of the case for fear of spoiling talks with Cuba about the po... |
767837_0 | Disturbing the Peace | |
767895_0 | For Mercy College Teachers: Recruit a Student, Get a Raise | Like many other businesses facing a fiscal crunch, Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., decided this spring that it had to boost sales -- namely the number of students it enrolled. And so the college came up with an audacious incentive system unheard of in academia: it ties the salaries of its professors to their abilit... |
771689_4 | Congressional Proposal Adds Element of Risk to Sugar-Growing Business | revenue of $5 billion to $6 billion, officials said. Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, supports the Federal sugar program, as does Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture, Bob Crawford, who argues that it would be "economically suicidal" for the nation to remove protections while other nations continue to subsidize their s... |
770452_0 | Panel Says Crumbling Schools Pose Hazard to Students | From crumbling brickwork to rotting windows, many of New York City's public schools are in such disrepair that they pose an immediate safety hazard to students, teachers and staff, an independent panel contended in a report released yesterday. The deterioration of the city's school buildings is so severe, said the pane... |
770521_1 | Guggenheim Hopes to Open Three Branches in Venice | Piazza San Marco. The Castello Gardens are about a mile from the piazza, and the salt factory is in the Dorsoduro neighborhood on the Giudecca Canal, about half a mile away. The plan for additional museum sites emerged several weeks ago during previews of the Venice Biennale. "This is a collaboration in the best sense ... |
770928_3 | The Great Escape | the Titanic," by Lawrence Beesley, was widely praised as one of the most accurate accounts of the disaster. The shipwreck was a blow to the confidence of the age, and I think it also shook my grandfather's trust in science and technology. In postgraduate research at Cambridge University he had discovered a rare alga, w... |
771278_3 | The World: ...Or Else; Hostage-Taking Is a Weapon Of War Whose Time Is Now | wars of the Balkans and the Caucasus for hundreds of years. Two centuries ago, a hostage crisis marred George Washington's second term as pirates operating off the coast of Africa seized more than 100 American sailors. An outraged Congress declined to pay ransom -- the custom at the time for dealing with pirates -- and... |
771168_0 | Security Stepped Up At Manila Airport | The Philippines Government has tightened airport security in recent months, resulting in delays for travelers passing through Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Filipino officials said that passengers should arrive at the airport about two hours before their outbound flights and also expect delays when they a... |
770943_0 | A Businesslike Balancing Act | To the Editor: Your article on May 7 about the Landmarks Preservation Commission, headed "At Landmarks, a Businesslike Balancing Act," truly reflects the unenlightened and self-interested resistance that continues to be held by the old-line traditionalists in our real-estate industry. I applaud the new chair of the com... |
771272_0 | With Coast Guard Help, Peace Threatens the War of the Harbor Pilots | Standing on the bridge of an 800-foot Norwegian oil tanker that had just pulled out of the Bayway Refinery along the Arthur Kill, Charles White and James Tuthill did not look much like rivals as they chatted about their families and traded maritime anecdotes picked up over years of guiding ships in and out of the harbo... |
770908_2 | Birth Control in China: Coercion and Evasion | for sterilizations, their houses would be blown up. It was not the first time such a threat had been made, or carried out, around here. Population Policy: Trickle-Down Terror The story of Tongmuchong is the story of millions of Chinese peasants who have by accident or design slipped the net of a Communist system that s... |
770908_5 | Birth Control in China: Coercion and Evasion | squalid shantytowns, shifting children among relatives, all part of the human shell game to evade the system. Others take to boats and get "lost" in the labyrinth of riverine China. "They are going back to China's original lifestyle," said Li Shuren, a factory worker in Beijing who lives near a shantytown of migrant wo... |
766777_0 | Work Moves to Keep The Leaning Tower Up | The long-running battle to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over has entered a new phase. Last month workmen poured liquid nitrogen into 178 holes around the 12th-century tower to freeze the ground, helping to prevent vibrations as they begin removing the meter-deep layer of cement and mortar under its base... |
766668_0 | Airline Security | To the Editor: I returned from a trip to Korea and Hong Kong on April 7 from Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong. I would like people who will be leaving through that airport to be aware that the security people there are rude and offensive. After I went through two X-ray machines and a metal detector, and then a hand-held me... |
766828_0 | Traction Control Learns Some New Tricks | SMART cars cannot prevent dumb driving, but sophisticated new systems may help to keep awkward maneuvers -- and ugly weather conditions -- from causing accidents. Electronic traction control systems -- now common on large cars, and increasingly on midsize models as well -- keep wheels from spinning, help to prevent ski... |
766865_0 | The World;French Annoyance At the U.S. Comes In Several Courses | THE French have always been prickly allies good to have on your side in a fight but ready to pick one as well, particularly if you come from an Anglo-Saxon country like Britain or the United States. These days, Britain is on France's side in the European-American disagreement over what to do about the war in Bosnia, bu... |
766699_1 | Scientist Should Stop Being an Apologist | Statistic Review, published by the National Cancer Institute in 1993. Cancer is now the No. 1 disease killer from late infancy to early adulthood in the U.S. Despite these facts, Dr. Ames calls cancer a degenerative disease of aging and claims that "people don't really start to get cancer until after they are 40," tryi... |
768607_0 | Power Lines and Cancer: Is There a Connection? | "Currents of Fear" begins where television news-magazine stories tend to end: several mothers in Omaha whose children have cancer blame electric power lines. Tonight's "Frontline" report goes beyond the emotions ("There's too many 17-month-old bald-headed babies in the neighborhood, and we're going to scream until some... |
768620_0 | Radar Captures Image Of Cigar-Shape Asteroid | PROBING the heavens with a big radar system, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have captured the image of the asteroid Geographos as it recently sped close to Earth. It turns out to be a cigar-shaped rock about three miles long, the most elongated object known in the solar system. Asteroi... |
769851_1 | Taking In the Sites; Mapping Out Specific Destinations to Faraway Places | intrepid souls might have second thoughts after seeing such friendly, if not reassuring, advice as "the volcano on the island of Fogo in the Republic of Cape Verde erupted and continues to spew lava, ash, rocks and smoke from its crater," or "conditions are stable under a military government except in remote border are... |
769848_2 | Patents; New Cartridges For Videocassettes Offer Fewer Parts and A Plastic That Can Be Recyled | two would take little away from Chinese companies that manufacture nearly all of the 900 million videocassettes sold in this country every year. Still, Mr. Wischerath pointed out, all those tapes are made with non-recyclable plastics like polystyrene. He emphasized that he did not want to be misleading. "The law says w... |
770224_1 | Senate Votes To Let States Set Car Speeds | and they rejected an amendment that would have weakened Federal legislation requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets and automobile drivers and passengers in private vehicles to wear seat belts. Critics says these laws are intrusive. The bills are part of a package of legislation, the National Highway System Designation... |
770212_0 | Vatican Will Champion Role of Mothers at a U.N. Parley | A year after its bruising battle over the abortion issue at the United Nations population conference in Cairo, the Roman Catholic Church is gearing up again, this time to defend motherhood at the United Nations conference on women. Without identifying its foes by name, the Vatican clearly considers itself at odds with ... |
770337_1 | Personal Health | The superficial skin cancers -- basal and squamous cell carcinomas -- are the most common of all cancers, with more than one million new cases a year, according to new data from the American Academy of Dermatology. And the more serious and potentially deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, is now the fastest growing can... |
771371_0 | When Women Suffer Testosterone Deficit | To the Editor: "Does Testosterone Equal Aggression? Maybe Not" (front page, June 20) does a good job of making the point that testosterone is not only a "male" sex hormone and recognizes the beneficial effects on mood of adequate levels of this hormone. But you miss the still-too-little-known fact that testosterone def... |
768880_2 | North Korea To Get Plants From Rival | improving relations between North and South. Mr. Gallucci said that the implementation of the Geneva accord "will be accompanied, we hope, by a rapprochement between North and South, a dialogue between the two and, ultimately, the reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula." The provision of the reactor is expected ... |
768887_0 | John H. Finley Jr., 91, Classicist At Harvard for 43 Years, Is Dead | John H. Finley Jr., the classicist who brought ancient Greece alive and taught a generation of Harvard men how to live, died on Sunday at a Exeter Health Care Center in Exeter, N.H. He was 91 and a resident of Tamworth, N.H. There were close to 300 years of Harvard before he came along, and the university has continued... |
768786_2 | Foreign Affairs; Blurring Lines in Belfast | 25-year-old street war. Too many Protestants and Catholics are now enjoying no longer having checkpoints around every corner. Too many are enjoying the fact that the daily bomb scares have been replaced by a "buzz" in the business community from all the foreigners poking around here for investments. And too many are en... |
768898_0 | France Planning Nuclear Tests Despite Opposition, Chirac Says | President Jacques Chirac of France, defying international opposition to resumption of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific, said tonight that France would resume underground weapons tests in September but would stop them once and for all by the end of May 1996. Mr. Chirac's predecessor, Francois Mitterrand, decl... |
767453_1 | An Attack on Disabled Children | has uncovered no systematic abuse. Eligibility rules could be tightened to eliminate mistakes. But there is no justification for widespread evictions. The G.O.P. backlash against the program has been triggered by soaring enrollments since 1990. Some of the increase can be traced to a Supreme Court decision that sensibl... |
767149_0 | Drug Smuggling Growing In Ex-Communist Lands | Acting on a tip from a Western anti-drug agency, Polish officials searched a Greek freighter when it docked at Gdansk on May 28. Lashed to the keel beneath the waterline were watertight bags containing almost 480 poinds of cocaine, worth $30 million on the street. It was the second-largest cocaine seizure in Polish his... |
767051_0 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; Computer screen savers are becoming the new billboards. | EVEN if marketing on the Internet ends up a cyberflop, Madison Avenue is downloading dollars another way: making computer screens an advertising medium. Screen savers, the software programs that fill otherwise idle monitors with images, are attracting sponsors and licensers eager for an efficient, inexpensive way to pi... |
767053_0 | A Call for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms | |
770851_0 | Innsbruck Journal; A National Church Faces a Challenge From Within | For most of this year, a quiet insurgency has been building among Austrian Catholics, prompted by doctrinal differences with the Vatican and by scandal surrounding Hans Hermann Cardinal Groer, the 75-year-old primate of the Austrian church who was accused of sexual abuse 20 years ago. The results have been startling: I... |
769133_3 | In Trade Talks, a Duel of Statistics | last year. In calculating import market share, the United States calculates imports as a share of all vehicles sold in Japan. Japan, though, counts only passenger cars, excluding commercial vehicles and mini-cars, an extremely small vehicle for urban use, arguing that foreign auto makers do not really compete in those ... |
768105_1 | Children With Disabilities Get a Chance at Camping | is geared to the needs of disabled children as well as those without disabilities. "The kids would play in the streets, sit on the stoop and be bored if they were in the city," Yvonne Dunn, Charles's grandmother, said. "Out here, they have a life and can do different things with other children." The weekend was the fir... |
768077_1 | Amazon Indians' Battle for Land Grows Violent | demarcation through presidential decree. Brazil's new President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, depends on votes from Amazon congressional representatives to make free-market changes to Brazil's Constitution. In a Brazilian "sagebrush rebellion," the politicians and the press of Roraima, the nation's northernmost state, ar... |
768111_6 | For Now, the Job Outlook Is Brighter | remained conservative about hiring, and many reported that jobs obtained by college graduates were not guaranteed, according to Career Development and Placement Services of Michigan State University. "On the negative side of the ledger were corporate right sizing, potential layoffs, potential consolidation of business ... |
768257_1 | Norplant Complaints: Legitimate or Concocted? | with their reproductive needs. Legions of women and their children have been injured or killed when manufacturers kept dangerous products like DES, the Dalkon Shield and Copper-7 I.U.D.'s on the market. Like Norplant, each of these products was considered cheap, safe and effective when first marketed. Like Norplant, DE... |
768080_1 | Crash Focuses Attention On Equipment Conditions | the signals are in "a state of good repair"; meaning, among other things, that they are no more than 50 years old, according to the engineers who run the system. Modernization is expected to be completed by 2020, but that date is far from certain. "That's provided we get the same level of funding we anticipate, and it ... |
768135_2 | Rapping and Politicking: Show Time on the Stump | Public Enemy, like Ms. Tucker, believes that it perpetuates degrading stereotypes and self-destructive behavior. Meanwhile, a recent article in Billboard magazine showed that rap's popularity is dipping, in part from its predictability. Gangsta rap may have peaked both commercially and creatively, though there's nothin... |
768190_1 | When a Good Cigar Is More Than a Smoke | countries accounted for about 85 percent of the 125 million handmade cigars sold in the United States, with Jamaica and Mexico supplying most of the rest. But domestic demand -- and prices -- have been going through the roof, with no corresponding increase in production. Industry experts say back orders for the most po... |
770630_0 | Paris Journal; Is It a Cigarette War, Or Just a Lot of Smoke? | "I am just outraged," a young woman said by way of introduction to two people smoking at coffee hour after services at a Paris church recently. "Your smoke is going right upstairs to the nursery and I am simply outraged." "You're outraged," nodded one of the smokers, and kept puffing right along. Tobacco lovers in Fran... |
770589_2 | France Held Secret Talks With Serbs | on June 4 in Zvornik but refused to go. Tensions have been growing between General Smith's headquarters in Sarajevo and those of General Janvier in Zagreb, Croatia. The terms of the deal hammered out by the French generals are now clear. The meeting on June 4 in Zvornik, which took place just over a week after the host... |
770624_4 | Mismanagement and Waste Erode U.N.'s Best Intentions | two years ago. When the payroll was computerized last year, there was no record of valid appointments for more than 1,500 of some 7,000 Secretariat employees. Programs Are Born But They Never Die Over the years, the United Nations has accumulated programs that overlap or were devised for an earlier era, but are rarely ... |
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