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771942_0 | Monsanto to Acquire 49.9% of Biotechnology Company | The Monsanto Company said yesterday that it would acquire a 49.9 percent stake in Calgene Inc., the biotechnology company best known for its development of a genetically engineered tomato, for $30 million. As part of the transaction, Monsanto will turn over to Calgene its 50 percent interest in Gargiulo L.P., the large... |
771893_2 | Atrocity Case In Amazon Is Botched | of the men were away hunting. The miners killed 12 Indians, most children. "It was terrible," said Carlo Zacquini, a Roman Catholic layman who works with survivors from Haximu, the village where the Indians were killed. "One of the miners stabbed a child, then cut his head off." Although the killings took place a few m... |
771881_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | U.S. and Japan Set Deal With Just Hours to Go With just hours left before $5.9 billion in sanctions were to kick in, the United States and Japan found common ground on automotive trade. After long, turbulent talks, the key bargainers proclaimed a new era for two scrapping nations. But a close look shows an accord that ... |
771888_0 | Threat Delays Air Travel And Mail in California | Air travel and air mail deliveries were delayed throughout California today when airport authorities tightened passenger and baggage security in response to a terrorist threat to blow up a California flight. Just as the annual Fourth of July holiday travel crush was beginning to build, scores of plane departures were d... |
767595_2 | In Cuba, Army Takes On Party Jobs, and May Be Only Thing That Works | have got to be made." The army's higher profile over the last year can be traced to a widely quoted remark that Raul Castro made last July, just before the period when 32,000 Cuban boat people left the country, trying to reach the United States. "Beans are more important than cannon," he said in a speech that was regar... |
766255_0 | Ajaccio Journal;France's Wild Isle: Killers for a Cause, or a Racket | A tough Corsican ritual was played out here the other night. A sports car came sweeping past a Government building. From the car, three masked figures sprayed the dark offices with gunfire. As the fusillade echoed around the heavy stone walls of this medieval port, the patrons of the Napoleon Bar hit the floor like a w... |
772141_0 | Bomb Hoax Leaves Los Angeles Airport With the Jitters | Passengers at Los Angeles International Airport found themselves facing disconcerting personal interrogations today as they checked their luggage with blue-shirted skycaps on the sidewalks outside the terminals. In the wake of a bomb threat in the Unabom case on Wednesday, officials said the interrogations and heighten... |
772172_3 | Major Restoration Is Planned for Erie Canal | authority. "Ironically, we were in part responsible for the canal's decline and so there's a symmetry to our taking it over and revitalizing it," Mr. Tufo said. Seven public hearings will be held in August, but so far there has been no groundswell of opposition. One reason is that Mr. Tufo has carefully avoided talk of... |
772076_0 | Men's Graduation Rate In Basketball Is Down | Although student-athletes in Division I sports continue to graduate at a slightly higher rate than the general student population, the graduation rate for men's basketball players dropped for the first time in four years, according to an annual survey by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The study, which in... |
771442_1 | EGYPTIAN LEADER SURVIVES ATTACK | the jeep and sprayed the President's car with automatic-weapons fire. Another three or four gunmen opened fire on the President's car from the street and rooftops. The President's security detail, trailing his limousine, killed the two assailants on the road. The three Ethiopian policemen were struck in the exchange of... |
771443_5 | High Court Upholds Drug Tests For Some Public School Athletes | in San Francisco, ruled last year that the policy violated the Fourth Amendment. "Children are compelled to attend school, but nothing suggests that they lose their right to privacy in their excretory functions when they do so," Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez said in the appeals court decision. In his opinion today, Just... |
771483_0 | Esther Rome, Author, Dies at 49; Sought Better Health for Women | Esther Rome, co-author of the best seller "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and women's health advocate for more than 25 years, died at her home in Somerville, Mass., on Saturday. She was 49. The cause was breast cancer, said a friend, Judith Norsigian. Ms. Rome argued that issues of cosmetic surgery, eating disorders, body imag... |
768937_0 | New Clues in Balancing the Risks Of Hormones After Menopause | Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found in a large study that women who continue to use hormone replacement therapy for five or more years after menopause are 30 percent to 40 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women who have never used menopausal hormones. The finding is the latest in a series ... |
769085_5 | SENATE SUPPORTS SEVERE PENALTIES ON COMPUTER SMUT | of long-distance service -- something they are now forbidden to do. Under the compromise, 10 states, including New York and Connecticut, would be allowed to proceed with efforts to give all competitors equal access to the short-haul market. But the short-haul business of the Bell companies would remain protected for at... |
769557_0 | Moving On Up; The Greening of America's Black Middle Class | WHETHER or not judges and legislators limit affirmative action, its promise is being fulfilled for many blacks who have made striking gains in income and employment in the 30 years since the Government began guaranteeing equal rights to jobs and education. Just how much those gains can be attributed to affirmative acti... |
769586_2 | With Deng's Influence Waning, Privatizing of China's State Industries Stalls | providing 65 percent of national tax revenues. The party's political identity is at stake. "What we are engaging in is socialism, and our final goal is to achieve Communism," Song Ping huffed recently in a commentary in People's Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper. A Clear Challenge To Deng's Policies Mr. Son... |
769478_2 | DIARY | given the huffing and puffing of the great "cola wars," it's a wonder no one has thought up the "premium" angle before. DRUGS The Menopause Market Menopause has clearly arrived as a hot topic. Why? Because all those baby boomers are hitting the relevant age, of course; out of sight, out of mind. And, yes, it's a hot bu... |
769651_0 | French Plans For A-Tests Incite Anger | Governments across the Pacific have condemned France over its plans to resume nuclear testing in Polynesia this fall, with diplomatic protests and calls for consumer boycotts heard from Australia to New Zealand to the tiny island nations of the southern Pacific. Prime Minister James Bolger of New Zealand has described ... |
769593_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-15 RUSSIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS Russian troops failed twice to take the hospital complex where Chechen fighters held hostages, and negotiations with the Chechen fighters resumed. 1 G-7 LEADERS WARN YELTSIN The leaders of the seven leading industrial nations warned President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia concerni... |
768483_0 | Nuclear Commitments | Last month, the Clinton Administration used every diplomatic weapon at its command to secure permanent extension of the treaty limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. The treaty not only commits nonnuclear countries to refrain from developing weapons. It also commits countries that have the bomb to move toward a compre... |
770173_1 | Cuba Tells U.S. It Will Not Extradite Fugitive Financier | to criminal activity. Joseph Sullivan, the head of the American Interests Section in Havana, which serves as a liaison office between the Cuban and American Governments in the absence of diplomatic relations, met with Cuban officials late today in what American officials described as a last-ditch effort to persuade Cub... |
770124_0 | INSIDE | Cuba to Hold Vesco The Cuban Government said it does not plan to extradits Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier, to the United States. Page A8. Gas Guzzlers in the Kitchen Most of the 180,000 refrigerators in New York City public housing are to be replaced over the next nine years for more efficient ones. Page B1. S... |
770084_6 | Does Testosterone Equal Aggression? Maybe Not | and that unhappiness registered itself as a high score on the aggression scale," Dr. Bremner said. What Dr. Bremner's study and other reports found that does conform to stereotypical notions of the male hormone is that testosterone is profoundly important to a man's sex drive, though not to his mechanical abilities in ... |
770121_0 | 50 Years of Catholic Talk: New Faces and New Ideas | Outside Ballroom C and D at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, where the Catholic Theological Society of America was holding its 50th annual meeting earlier this month, hung a photograph of the group's first gathering, in late June 1946 at the same hotel, then called the Commodore. All in the photo were men, all were ... |
766217_0 | Bottling The Stuff Of Dreams | These are busy days at Vical Inc., a small biotechnology company here. Using a second-generation approach to biotech drug development known as gene therapy, Vical is collaborating with industry giants like Merck & Company and Baxter International Inc. to develop everything from a vaccine for hepatitis to treatments for... |
766071_0 | Civilian Uses Are Proposed For Satellites | The military satellite navigation system used to pinpoint the locations of missiles and submarines, as well as soldiers and travelers, should be adapted to emphasize civilian and commercial needs, according to a study released today. Civilian use of the system, the Global Positioning System, now exceeds that of the mil... |
736706_2 | Abidjan Journal; Does Sharing Wealth Only Promote Poverty? | death by 1,000 nicks. Sometimes you ask yourself, why do you even bother to work?" Despite the sense of resignation brought on by family burdens, Mr. Koffi and Mr. Nguessan, like more and more urban dwellers throughout West Africa, are making personal decisions that experts say could have a profound effect on the futur... |
736834_0 | Government Works! 5 Success Stories; Recycling Dumps | State and local governments are increasingly challenged by budget cuts and public skepticism of their ability to perform effectively. To demonstrate that the public sector can solve critical social problems, in 1986 the Ford Foundation and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard established the annual Innov... |
738339_1 | Seer Green Journal; Anglican Reformation: Vicar as Working Mother | the Village Hall," she said. "But they didn't want to hurt my feelings. They were terribly nice about it." Women have long played various supporting roles in the Church of England, and in the late 1980's were given the right, as deacons, to perform ceremonies like weddings, baptisms and funerals. But it was not until t... |
737800_2 | Building a Railroad Deep Into Brazil | public projects to help build the bus station, subway and international airport for Sao Paulo, the nation's largest city and also the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Today, the Constran construction company is Brazil's third biggest. Another key holding of his group is Banco Itamarati, one of the country's larger p... |
736662_1 | Muslim Women's Exclusion Is Target of New Campaign | Senate on Tuesday night. Organizers said they had already written to the International Olympic Committee and to a number of athletes as well as to Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who is from Georgia. The Atlanta Plus group includes women's groups from France, Belgium, Germany a... |
739255_3 | At School, Black Pride In a Seafarer's Exploits | of the United States. For more than 20 years, as he made his annual tours of the Arctic whaling grounds, he saved iced-in crews and shipwrecked sailors and starving settlements. Though a hard-drinking man, he condemned the ravages that alcohol inflicted on Eskimo villages and he vigorously fought the rum runners. But t... |
739223_0 | Brute Strength Couldn't Save Kobe Structures | Many elevated expressways, bridges and buildings collapsed in the earthquake in Kobe, Japan, last week because of fundamental flaws in engineering design, two American experts who inspected the damage said yesterday. The Japanese rely on brute strength in structural engineering, the experts said. Support columns, espec... |
739209_0 | Administration Defends North Korea Pact | Defense Secretary William J. Perry said today that the United States had considered and dismissed the idea of bombing a nuclear reactor in North Korea last year to cripple its ability to develop nuclear weapons. Defending the nuclear agreement with North Korea against a wave of Republican attacks, he told the Senate Fo... |
739175_0 | Crops Holding Promise Beyond Food | Most of the crops America's farmers raise each year are eaten. But the country's agribusiness is hoping that the small portion that is not consumed can be turned into a new wave of profitable nonfood agricultural products. Many of the recent innovations, like corn-based golf tees and biodegradable pens, are relatively ... |
739175_4 | Crops Holding Promise Beyond Food | pound to produce. Cargill has figured out how to make polylactic acid for as little as $3 a pound in Savage. It has designed a production line for its plant in Blair, Neb., that should be efficient enough for Cargill to make up to 300 million pounds annually for sale at about $1 a pound. "It looks and functions just li... |
734999_4 | Part-Time College Teaching Rises, as Do Worries | they use part-time faculty because they want greater flexibility," she said. "But the reality is that these people are just hired over and over again. What they really want is not to pay health benefits and life insurance and so on. It's just exploitation." Professor Schuster said the nationwide proportion of part-time... |
735019_0 | At Last, a Psychiatric Manual On Children Too Little to Talk | PSYCHIATRY is reaching into the cradle, with the publication in November of the first mental health diagnostic manual for problems in infants and toddlers up to 3 years old. The manual, its authors say, fills a gap left by the focus of other diagnostic systems on older children and adults. It allows psychiatrists and p... |
734961_0 | Why Must Congress Pick On Disabled Kids? | To the Editor: I was horrified to read that Republicans are drafting a bill to switch cash grants of up to $446 a month for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities to a less flexible medical voucher system (front page, Dec. 29). So many expenses in raising children with disabilities cannot be categorized as me... |
740654_3 | U.S. IN NEW PLEDGE ON ATOM TEST BAN | Nigeria, those nations had pointed to the combination of American insistence on a right of withdrawal from a comprehensive test ban and the demand that the Non-Proliferation Treaty be made permanent as evidence of the nuclear powers' hypocrisy. A conference at which the 170 signers of the treaty are to vote on its exte... |
740583_5 | Smugglers Shipping Drugs From Asia Through Canada to U.S. | of its waters. Last November, the Canadian Pacific Fleet assigned a destroyer to carry out surveillance of the coastal waters and to make seizures and arrests. None have yet been made. Anti-submarine planes have broadened the sweep of the surveillance. And later this year the fleet is to be augmented by six marine coas... |
740689_9 | Wolf's Howl Heralds Change for Old Haunts | prey early in a chase, an ungulate easily outruns themup. "They've got to work for their living, no question," said Dr. Mech. Wolves also must deal with competition from other big predators. Coyotes tend to follow wolves and move in on their kills, for which the penalty is usually instant death. Both Dr. Mech and Mr. B... |
735923_0 | World Economies | |
734750_0 | When America Chased Its People Off the Land | Indians are prime-time subjects tonight, as PBS focuses on the dire condition of a few native South Americans and the Discovery Channel looks back at the bitter histories of native North Americans. "The Tribe That Time Forgot" refers to the Arara people of the Brazilian Amazon. Long thought to be extinct, they made the... |
738621_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | rebels; the mountainous area has a long history of resistance to Russia. 6 TOUGH LEGACY IN BOSNIA The commander of the United Nations forces in Bosnia has finished his stint, leaving behind a somewhat safer capital but difficult relations with the Bosnian Government. 6 PEACEKEEPING IN SINAI The role of American peaceke... |
738398_1 | Peace: Unimaginable or Unstoppable? | But future journalists with an interest in Israel and historians who want to understand a crucial period in its history would be well advised to read it. Mr. Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and The Washington Post's man in Jerusalem from 1986 to 1989, owes part of his success to the intrinsic fascination of the countr... |
738562_3 | The World: Japan's Nature; A People Tremble in Harmony With the Land | islands and onto the mainland a dozen miles away. If global warming leads oceans to rise a few feet, much of Bangladesh may simply disappear. China is the great historical chronicler in the region, and its records go back for thousands of years in recording hundreds of thousands of people at a time killed by earthquake... |
738700_1 | Progress Is Reported In Irish Talks For Peace | independent analysts say that the disruption in Irish politics that resulted in the ouster of Albert Reynolds as Prime Minister in December has not slowed the effort to find a peaceful settlement to the 25-year-old struggle in the British province of Ulster. The immediate goal of the Irish and British Governments is to... |
738589_0 | 'The Tomato in America' | To the Editor: I was delighted that Laura Shapiro bothered to review only a few pages of my book "The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery" ("Book Salad: Sometimes Food Is a Character, Sometimes Just a Fashion Accessory," Dec. 25). As she evidences no knowledge about the introduction and adoption of t... |
738507_0 | In Totalitarian Cuba, Ice Cream and Understanding | IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE Cuban revolution, Havana's landmark Coppelia ice cream parlor served 54 flavors. Fidel Castro boasted that this impressive array surpassed even the selection offered by that Yankee capitalist enterprise Howard Johnson's. But with Cuba now in severe economic straits, visitors to the open-air Co... |
739936_0 | Benefits of Recycling Are Not Mythical | To the Editor: Robert M. Lilienfeld and William L. Rathje offer a holy grail with no road map ("Six Enviro-Myths," Op-Ed, Jan. 21). Exhorting us to "use less," they suggest that recycling is "one of the least important things we can do" for the environment. To the 6,500 communities with curbside recycling programs, rec... |
736158_0 | Exploring New Soapboxes for Political Animals | THE personal computer has become the modern equivalent of the soap box, reference library, bully pulpit and town hall, allowing anyone with access to a modem and a phone line to participate in politics to a degree never before possible on such a scale. The convening of the 104th Congress last week appears to have accel... |
736099_0 | Takeover Report Spurs Lotus Shares | Shares of the Lotus Development Corporation shot up yesterday after a trade publication reported that the company was holding discussions with AT&T about a possible acquisition. The shares jumped as much as 7.5 percent, before settling at $42, up $2, in Nasdaq trading. The activity was set off by a report in PC Week th... |
736119_5 | Curtain Falls on Opera Radio Show; Listeners Mobilize After the Loss of Their Favorite 'Fanatic' | length of the show was cut, and it was frequently pre-empted. And he was required to alternate with student hosts (at least one of whom he accused of playing a tape off-speed). Then last spring, he was badly injured when he fell through a trap door in a health-food store. For several weeks, he was host of the show from... |
736019_5 | NEWARK AIRPORT IS CLOSED AS CREW CUTS POWER LINES | Newark had to go to Philadelphia or other points in the Northeast to take on fuel because the pumping machinery at Newark was knocked out.Some American flights were sent to Kennedy, where passengers were put on buses. One passenger, Ted Horoschak of Los Angeles, was calm as he contemplated the cancellation of his 3:15 ... |
738074_0 | Pope, in Sydney, Defends Vatican's Ban on Ordaining Women | Nearing the end of an 11-day journey through Asia and Oceania, Pope John Paul II sought today to quell a debate among Catholics here over the ordination of women and said women's role in society was specially tied to motherhood. But while accusing his many feminist critics of misunderstanding the Vatican's views, he to... |
736514_0 | Biogen's Share Price Drops In a Running Patent Battle | Firing a volley in a war over biotechnology patents, Schering A.G., the German drug maker, said yesterday that it had been awarded exclusive rights to a process being used by Biogen Inc. The announcement sent shares of Biogen tumbling. A spokesman for Schering in Frankfurt said the company and Stanford University had r... |
736417_0 | New Study of Electromagnetism Clouds Hunt for Cancer Link | In a study that further muddies the issue of whether electrical transmission lines affect human health, researchers have found that electric utility workers exposed to high levels of magnetic radiation face a greater risk of dying from brain cancer than workers exposed to lower levels. But no general association was fo... |
737599_0 | Hormone Replacement Study Answers Questions, but Not All | THE recently reported finding that various forms of hormone replacement therapy can lower the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women has answered many concerns about the safety and effectiveness of taking estrogen and progesterone in middle age, but it has also raised important new questions, according to Dr. Be... |
737751_0 | Pedro Juan Caballero Journal; Where Contraband Has Thrived, Cocaine Arrives | Well-stocked stores in this border town seem to support the official fib that Paraguay, a thinly populated farming nation, is Latin America's largest per capita consumer of scotch whisky, American cigarettes and French perfumes. But Paraguay has a long and open tradition of smuggling, and nowhere is it more prevalent t... |
737563_0 | A Man Reviled and Revered; Family and Friends Fete Joseph Bonanno on 90th Birthday | He is retired now -- no more of the murderous gangland mayhem the Federal Government says he used to mastermind. He is, his son says, "somewhat frail." But not too frail to put on a trimly tailored tuxedo and celebrate with 300 friends and relatives: Joseph Bonanno is 90 years old today. Actually, Mr. Bonanno had his r... |
734526_0 | At Work; Toning Those Moral Muscles | MOST people ponder the cosmic, big picture issues early in life, at least by the end of high school or college. Certain questions -- Does Bigfoot make a noise in the forest when there's no one around to hear? Does God exist, and if so, how do you explain velvet paintings? -- just don't seem to come up once you move out... |
734527_0 | At Work; Toning Those Moral Muscles | MOST people ponder the cosmic, big picture issues early in life, at least by the end of high school or college. Certain questions -- Does Bigfoot make a noise in the forest when there's no one around to hear? Does God exist, and if so, how do you explain velvet paintings? -- just don't seem to come up once you move out... |
736926_0 | Latrobe Journal; Bringing In Some MIG Fighters From Cold War | Growing up amid the quiet farm lands of Grafton, W.Va., David Austin remembers lying on his back in fields near his house, listening and watching for airplanes. He had no idea where they were headed or what kind they were. With a well-developed interest in World War II aircraft and the Korean War still under way, he le... |
737161_0 | Sailing in the 90's | To the Sports Editor: Anna Huntington's "Women's Team Swears Like . . . Well, Sailors," (The Times, Jan. 8) was an interesting insight into the life and times of a modern America's Cup crew. Aside from having a women's team, which I applaud, much of what she reports seems strange to this alumnus of three America's Cup ... |
736931_2 | An Elusive Picture of Violent Men Who Kill Mates | through data, including a yearly survey by the National Institute of Justice on domestic crime, Dr. Gelles has distilled 10 factors most common in the profile of men whom the surveys define as "severely abusive." Many of the factors are economic. Severely abusive men are more likely than their nonabusive peers to be un... |
736916_4 | Protestant and Paranoid in Northern Ireland; By John Darnton | of Belfast newspapers, he is "familiar with the thinking" of one of the major Protestant paramilitaries, which means that he functions as their above-ground counselor. He worked long hours to bring them around to the idea of their own cease-fire. "Naturally, Protestants are frightened. Up to now, they've been left out ... |
736906_0 | Getting to Pisa | To the Editor: My wife and I have been commercial airline passengers since the DC-2, but never had this experience. We purchased round-trip tickets on Delta from Los Angeles to Kennedy International to Pisa, Italy. We left the West Coast on Delta Flight 1982 on Sept. 25, 1994, and arrived in Rome on Delta 148 on Sept. ... |
739814_0 | Episcopal Church Reveals Sexual Misconduct by Bishop | In an extraordinary statement reflecting the deep concern in many religious circles over sexual misconduct by the clergy, leading officials of the Episcopal Church disclosed yesterday that Bishop David E. Johnson of Massachusetts, who committed suicide two weeks ago, had been involved in several extramarital affairs th... |
740165_1 | Balancing Space, Variety and Vegetables | to truck farmers, many of whom make field-fresh produce available at local vegetable stands all summer. Home gardeners can concentrate on the crops they can grow best. Catalogue pictures are ever so tempting. Every year more new vegetable varieties are offered with promises of better flavor, higher yields and that wond... |
740207_0 | A Corporate Lawyer Is Ordained and Doubles as a Priest | ON a raw Saturday morning last month, Marsha Bacon Glover left her home in White Plains and drove to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. When she walked into the cavernous Gothic church, Ms. Glover, a corporate lawyer at Kraft General Foods in White Plains, was a part-time Episcopal deacon. When she step... |
740059_0 | In the Region/Westchester; Peekskill Council Approves Razing Girls' School | THE City Council voted last week to allow a developer to raze most of what remains of what once was Mount St. Florence, a Roman Catholic convent and girls' school that has been in the city since 1874, to make way for a 174-unit single-family-home development. Sitting high on a hill overlooking the city, with a view of ... |
740206_3 | The Nation; A Very Unlikely Villain (or Hero) | minds" can be known "only through the great books." But Professor Strauss's appeal to conservatives also comes from his being what they describe as a democratic elitist. The Straussians cite one sentence of his as a key to his thinking: "Democracy," he wrote in a 1959 essay, "is meant to be an aristocracy which has bro... |
740164_1 | Balancing Space, Variety and Vegetables | to truck farmers, many of whom make field-fresh produce available at local vegetable stands all summer. Home gardeners can concentrate on the crops they can grow best. Catalogue pictures are ever so tempting. Every year more new vegetable varieties are offered with promises of better flavor, higher yields and that wond... |
740182_6 | Lowly Banana Has a High Profile in a Trade Dispute | colonies like Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadaloupe. But a quota was set on bananas grown in the United States and Latin America, called dollar bananas. The quota limited duty-free imports to two million tons a year, a level that has since been raised to 2.56 million tons. Beyond that amount, heavy duties are ... |
739969_1 | Tomato Talk: You Say Big Beef, I Say Brandywine | mention of the old classics had us smacking our lips -- in December! She's tired of my experiments with green, striped, purple, white and red-and-yellow tomatoes. "Let's just have some regular tomatoes," she said, waving the new Burpee catalogue in my face. Mr. Ball, of course, falls head over heels for a new hybrid ev... |
740167_1 | Balancing Space, Variety and Vegetables | to truck farmers, many of whom make field-fresh produce available at local vegetable stands all summer. Home gardeners can concentrate on the crops they can grow best. Catalogue pictures are ever so tempting. Every year more new vegetable varieties are offered with promises of better flavor, higher yields and that wond... |
740260_0 | Ireland and Britain at Odds Over Ulster Talks | The Irish and British Governments failed this week to resolve serious differences on a plan they hope will eventually allow representatives of the Irish Republican Army to take part in full-fledged peace negotiations on Northern Ireland. But Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., which ... |
740168_1 | Balancing Space, Variety and Vegetables | to truck farmers, many of whom make field-fresh produce available at local vegetable stands all summer. Home gardeners can concentrate on the crops they can grow best. Catalogue pictures are ever so tempting. Every year more new vegetable varieties are offered with promises of better flavor, higher yields and that wond... |
738843_1 | Thousands Protest the Dismissal of a Leftist French Bishop | Normandy 55 miles northwest of Paris, and named him to a inactive one in Mauritania. The act stirred up Gallic passions against Rome and aroused the French left at least as much as the campaign for the presidential elections next spring, in which the leftdoes not yet have a candidate who appears to have a chance of win... |
738870_0 | Patents; A Biotechnology Company Uses Bacteria to Make Crops Unappetizing to Certain Insects | FOR more than a decade, agricultural scientists have been tinkering with the genes of plants in hopes of making them more naturally resistant to diseases and pests. Now a San Diego-based biotechnology company has received what appears to be a broad patent covering a method for making crops unappetizing to insects. The ... |
738741_0 | World Economies | |
738746_0 | Mammoths in the Rabbit Hole | In this instance the White Rabbit was a draft of air coming out of the ground in the gorges of Ardeche, nearly 100 miles north of Avignon, France. Two men and a woman exploring the gorges promptly started clearing the debris covering a small hole leading to a larger space. Six days later, on Dec. 24, the three crawled ... |
740406_1 | Air Fares For Denver Will Rise | fares on flights starting or ending in Denver by an average of $40, to offset the much higher costs of operating at the new Denver International Airport. The increases will take effect on March 6. Frontier Airlines has said it will raise round-trip fares by $30 beginning on March 1. The Denver airport, which cost $4.2 ... |
735806_21 | Assessing Effects of Impending Cuts in Government Services | competitive. But so does New York State. And both are trying to squeeze down to be competitive with the region to keep jobs and expand what we have. And the only way of getting there is by having clear priorities about what we have to do, not what we want to do, and then try to boost productivity, so we can do more wit... |
735546_0 | Irish to Delay Vote to Allow Divorce | The new Irish Government, formed last month under Prime Minister John Bruton, is expected to delay action on two of this Roman Catholic country's most emotional issues: divorce and abortion. The Government of Albert Reynolds, deposed in a scandal over the handling of the extradition of a Catholic priest accused and lat... |
735688_4 | For Learning Disabled, New Help With College | comfortable announcing his disabilities: "You're a misunderstood minority, and you have to deal with people who have some strange ideas about what it means to be learning-disabled. But there is a movement now, and it helps to know that you are not the only one." It may help affluent students more than poor ones, though... |
735118_1 | Student Loan Program Tells a Success Story | percent default rate. The default rate among graduates who took loans is about 6 percent and did not increase appreciably during the recession. The more education individuals receive, the less likely they are to default. The doubling of the default rate in the 15 years before 1992 was due almost exclusively to the incr... |
737238_0 | Los Angeles's Steel-Frame Buildings: Quake-Proof or Not? | In the year since the deadly Northridge earthquake, this disaster-hardened city has become aware of a frightening new danger: the fragility of the steel-frame buildings that at first seemed to have survived the shaking unscathed. And despite months of urgent laboratory testing as the extent of their mostly hidden crack... |
737336_0 | World Economies | |
739084_3 | Making It Easier to Enter the Web | common. The real key to the magic of the Web, though, is hyperlinking. It works like this: a person is browsing through a document on the Web -- on Civil War battles, for example -- and comes across a highlighted reference to a related document. It does not make any difference whether the document is stored on the same... |
739064_3 | Laser at South Pole to Track Ozone Depletion | of ice, droplets and trace chemicals like sodium, a small part of the beam's light is scattered back toward the earth, where a 14-inch-diameter telescope in the laboratory gathers it and pipes it to an array of detectors. Substances differ in how well they scatter different wavelengths of beam light, so multicolored la... |
809261_0 | Cornell Charges 4 Students in E-Mail Prank | A computer E-mail message listing "75 reasons why women should not have freedom of speech," which was sent as a prank by four freshmen at Cornell University to 20 friends, has ricocheted through the Internet, provoking thousands of angry messages to Cornell from campuses around the country. Cornell has charged the stud... |
809260_2 | Wall St. Tries To Handicap Budget Fight | too drastic in the Republican plan and that some of the savings would go to a tax cut for the wealthy. But as the year progresses, interest rates would probably reverse direction, Mr. Crandall and others said, as the effects of a slight reduction in Government spending and the absence of off-setting tax cuts worked the... |
811857_2 | Editorial Notebook;China's Golden Shovels | scores of unopened tombs, plus the vast tumulus, 260 feet high and built by 700,000 workers, that encloses the emperor, his wives and architects (buried there to assure their silence about its treasures). Old records say the mausoleum contains a throne room, a copper dome showing the sky, a relief map of China with riv... |
811815_2 | U.S. WILL DEPLOY ITS SPY SATELLITES ON NATURE MISSION | available a lot of relevant information," Dr. Gordon J. MacDonald, Medea's chairman and a geophysicist at the University of California at San Diego, said in an interview. The new reconnaissance effort is run for Medea by the National Reconnaissance Office in the Pentagon and is coordinated by the Central Intelligence A... |
807183_0 | Finding On-Line Distractions, Employers Strive to Keep Workers in Line | From her Silicon Valley office, a 30-year-old graphic designer frequently uses her company's Internet access to look for a new job, perusing the listings on the World Wide Web as she would the newspaper classified ads. She then clicks her way from one favorite home page to another, including a brief stop to check out s... |
810302_0 | F.A.A. Lets Airports Ease Some Security Measures | The Federal Aviation Administration authorized airports across the nation yesterday to ease parking bans and vehicle inspections imposed last month to guard against terrorist attacks. But New York's major metropolitan airports did not immediately do so, and other measures in the tightest airport security since the 1991... |
808408_12 | To See Ourselves As Writers See Us | Mr. Roth is, of course, in many ways, the state's reigning laureate, with New Jersey -- particularly Newark and its environs from the 1940's and 50's -- serving as the background for many of his self-mirroring characters, if not the setting for the books. Indeed, the progenitor of the current spate of Jersey fiction is... |
808601_0 | Expert Panel on Catholic Church Law Backs Women as Deacons | An influential group of experts in Roman Catholic church law has concluded that ordaining women as deacons in the church would be in keeping with Catholic theology and past practice. The group, the Canon Law Society of America, gave a cautious endorsement of such a step as "desirable" for the United States. Catholic Ch... |
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