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149994_3 | Market Place; Biotechnology Loses Luster | over patents is also casting a cloud over the biotechnology industry. The Cetus Corporation, for example, which is banking heavily on the anti-cancer drug interleukin-2, suffered a setback in April when a United States patent on the substance was granted to the Ajinomoto Company of Japan, which has licensed American ri... |
150078_0 | France to Discipline Soldiers In Caledonia Rescue Assault | LEAD: France's Defense Minister said today that several of the commandos who stormed a cave in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia to free 23 French hostages had committed ''acts contrary to military duty'' and would be punished. France's Defense Minister said today that several of the commandos who stormed a cave i... |
149949_0 | New Test May Predict Recurrence Of Cancer In Breast | LEAD: BRITISH and American researchers are experimenting with what they hope will be the first reliable predictor of which breast cancers will recur or spread. BRITISH and American researchers are experimenting with what they hope will be the first reliable predictor of which breast cancers will recur or spread. If the... |
141572_0 | Population Growth | LEAD: The growth rate of the world's population is higher than many experts predicted only a few years ago, according to a new study. The global population, now more than 5.1 billion, is now growing by about 1.7 percent a year and is expected to reach 6 billion by the year 1998, according to the Population Reference Bu... |
143450_0 | Review/Concert; A Symphony Of Greek Music And Greek Voice | LEAD: Musical expression is related to personality and character, but not in a direct correspondence. Moving embodiment of the highest moral aspirations can spring from the pens of people whose lives are depressing studies in expediency, and witty people can write music that is earnest and bland. Musical expression is ... |
147502_1 | HOW LABOR BROADENED ITS BEACHHEAD IN THE IVY LEAGUE | a letter to employees, ''have typically resisted efforts to reward superior achievement with greater compensation or to allow supervisors and employees to vary the way they work in response to their special needs and capabilities.'' The organizers retorted with such slogans as, ''We can't eat prestige.'' The clerks and... |
147365_2 | DECLINE TO GLORY | nearly 30 years. Fortunately, perhaps, for Athens, she lost the war and went on to become the commercial and artistic center of the Greek world, with a revived form of constitutional democracy that avoided most of the excesses of her imperial days. Sparta was ruined by victory; lucky post-imperial Athens whose chief vi... |
147530_2 | Tighter Federal Drug Dragnet Yields Cars, Boats and Protests | substance and imposing an administrative fine, or none at all, and sending the possessor along his way. In Miami, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union described the new policy as ''selective enforcement of the worst sort'' and moved to take the case of the owner of a confiscated boat into Federal court next... |
147610_2 | Seeking the Elusive Entry-Level Worker | growth,'' he said, ''has collided with the low birth rate of the early 1960's, with the resulting shortage of young people. The high cost of housing doesn't help; it is a contributing factor - young people can't afford to live here.'' Employers are trying everything to find young workers, Mr. Bierman said. ''Some are o... |
147606_3 | A New Direction For the Retarded | and air conditioning, some argue, when this money could be earmarked for supported work staff? Parents, generally, are also favorable to the idea of supported work. They have been present at case reviews through the years where they have been told about the minimal advances of their children. They have seen their child... |
147355_5 | INTELLECTUAL ORGIES WERE NOT FOR HIM | say, outside, upon their enemies. He summons them to liberate themselves from Poland, to give primacy to their humanity over their nationality and to join him, Gombrowicz, an attentive reader of Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, in meeting the problems of human existence head on. He was an atheist and as such had to cope with... |
147517_2 | New Industry Is Growing From Neglected Seeds | sold by larger and more established seed companies. An Eye to Supermarkets Seeds Blum and the other new companies also say the rare varieties they have made available could just as easily be grown by commercial farmers and sold in supermarkets. One of Seed Blum's most popular items is a flavorful tomato as big as a man... |
143670_0 | Redeem New York's Bottle Bill for Litter Control and Recycling | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: New York State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Thomas Jorling's letter (April 6) in support of Governor Cuomo's legislative attempt to claim unredeemed ''bottle bill'' deposits illustrates the in-adequacy of the funding mechanism for solid waste management thus far pursued in... |
143726_1 | Modern Bridge Design Attacked As Too Vulnerable to Corrosion | of the primary cables,'' Mr. Watson said. American bridge designers, however, accuse Mr. Watson and other critics of exaggerating the problems and raising an unnecessary alarm. They say that cable-stayed bridges in the United States, where a half dozen have been built since 1971, use improved technologies that provide ... |
143709_1 | Talking Business with Vasey of Merrill Lynch; New Creativity In Underwriting | a result, we are experiencing a growing number of underwritten deals by companies that are not in dire need of funds but are coming to the market in anticipation of higher rates later on. The general consensus out there is that the economy is going to continue to expand, inflation is beginning to increase and, therefor... |
143707_0 | Careers; High Grades A Corporate Fetish, Still | LEAD: ''WE want only the best and the brightest.'' This has become a cliche whenever corporate personnel directors look for new graduates with a bachelor's or master's degree. ''WE want only the best and the brightest.'' This has become a cliche whenever corporate personnel directors look for new graduates with a bache... |
148336_0 | Ship Seizure Policy Is Revised | LEAD: The Customs Service and Coast Guard have altered part of their aggressive campaign against illegal drugs, a spokesman for the Customs Service said Monday. The Customs Service and Coast Guard have altered part of their aggressive campaign against illegal drugs, a spokesman for the Customs Service said Monday. Davi... |
148580_1 | Students Turning to Nonprofit Companies for Tuition Loans | but have too much income to qualify for the increasingly narrow restrictions of Federal loan and grant programs. These concerns lend money supplied by commercial banks at interest rates that are higher than available for commercial loans but are on terms that are favorable to college students. Borrowers need not put up... |
148415_0 | A French Delegation to New Caledonia Is Rebuffed | LEAD: The most volatile issue inherited by France's new Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, grew hotter today when a French soldier shot and killed a Melanesian in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The most volatile issue inherited by France's new Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, grew hotter today when a French so... |
148362_0 | Corn Pesticide Tests Backed | LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency today approved field tests of a genetically altered corn pesticide, which has the potential to reduce farm use of chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency today approved field tests of a genetically altered corn pesticide, which has the potential to reduce farm use of che... |
141665_0 | BOLIVIAN PEASANTS PIN HOPES ON COCA | LEAD: Despite the increased momentum of anti-drug operations in Bolivia, new plantings of coca bush dot the main growing area for the raw material of cocaine. Despite the increased momentum of anti-drug operations in Bolivia, new plantings of coca bush dot the main growing area for the raw material of cocaine. Drug exp... |
141819_0 | Lessons | LEAD: ''Education,'' wrote Epictetus, ''means this: To be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.'' From the discourses recorded by his student, Arrian, we know that the great Stoic teacher was talking about self-knowledge, the long and difficult journey through the psyche and the soul. ''Education,'' wrot... |
142603_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | for three years. A1 Jacques Chirac welcomed the three freed hostages three days before his participation in France's presidential election, saying the way had been opened for normal ties between France and Iran. A6 An Israeli Army two-day raid into southern Lebanon prompted criticism by some Israelis. Fifty houses in a... |
142571_0 | 17 Die as French Free Hostages in New Caledonia | LEAD: French commandos freed 23 hostages today in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia in an eight-hour siege in which 15 of the hostages' captors and 2 commandos were killed, the Government said. French commandos freed 23 hostages today in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia in an eight-hour siege in ... |
145324_2 | GOINGS ON IN NORTHEAST | tools they used. The museum, on Shaker Museum Road off County Route 13 one mile south of Old Chatham, is open daily from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Admission costs $4.50 for adults; $4 for elderly people, $3 for children 8 to 17 years of age and nothing for children under 8. The charge for a family is $12. Information: (518) 79... |
145503_0 | Controlling Our Population Growth | LEAD: Susan S. Gold's giddy joy over her third pregnancy (''The Magic of Babies Makes Three a 'Perfect Number,' '' April 10, Opinion page) should not blind her to the demographic consequences of her actions. Susan S. Gold's giddy joy over her third pregnancy (''The Magic of Babies Makes Three a 'Perfect Number,' '' Apr... |
145280_0 | Recapturing The Spirit Of Steamboats | LEAD: In the late 1800's thousands of passenger boats powered by steam plied America's waterways; today there are only a handful, according to David Crockett, president of the Steamship Historical Society of America. Happily, nostalgic travelers can still sample the flavor of the era in the Northeast. Short excursions ... |
145211_0 | Designs in Nature | LEAD: AT A CERTAIN level of speculation about the body and its diseases, medical science begins to sound like myth. Flesh talks, blood listens. The body wants things, genes know things, immune systems see things, diseases have secrets that go back to once upon a time in the primeval forest. AT A CERTAIN level of specul... |
145502_3 | Boat Owners Ahoy! Welcome Ashore | mortgage, a divorce and 18 months in analysis. I rented a mooring at a little dock with a shifty, flabby mode of behavior. The planks dipped and wobbled and undulated. As our boat alongside also dipped and wobbled and undulated, our boarding procedure became overly adventurous. With one foot on the dock and the other a... |
145357_4 | THE REGION: City and State Plans; For Lack of Options, New York Gets Serious About Recycling | percent more for recycled paper products. As a result, as much as 60 percent of the paper bought by the state is at least partly recycled. New York City passed similar legislation last year, but so far the law has had only minimal impact. Promoters of recycling also argue that the state and city should do more to encou... |
145276_1 | Newark's New Terminal: Relief Is in Sight | into the extent of the problem of crowding in Terminal B appears in a table published by Crain's New York Business from Government on-time reports. From the detailed figures for February 1988 - a year after the service disasters that followed Continental's assimilation of People Express - a list was compiled of the 10 ... |
145306_3 | A Beach to Revere | named William Cooper had been fined for drunkenness and for ''absenting himself from the Publick Worship of God.'' Absenting became a Revere tradition: In the years when most of the beach's visitors worked a six-day week, Sunday was the best day for business. THEN in the 1890's, as part of a grand plan to improve Great... |
149168_0 | Automobile Airbags, at Last | LEAD: Special cheers for the Chrysler Corporation for deciding to equip all its new cars with driver-side airbags by 1990. Chrysler's announcement, a dramatic end to a long struggle, guarantees economies of mass production for the lifesaving devices and eliminates the need for dealers to sell them as options. Special c... |
149057_3 | Strict Curb Urged on Drug Linked to Birth Defects | Caused Accutane is known to cause severe birth defects in about 25 percent of the babies exposed to it before birth. These defects include facial malformations, typically missing or misplaced ears, severe mental retardation and serious heart defects. While the drug has been distributed along with strong warnings agains... |
146892_2 | West of Chicago, Waiting for a Dial Tone | described by comparing it to a disaster like the biggest flood of the century. ''We've never had anything happen before on a scale like this,'' he said. Consider some of the these consequences: * At the Argonne National Laboratory, a Federal research facility in suburban DuPage County, the principal contact between sci... |
146809_0 | Sugar Output Forecast | LEAD: World sugar production in 1988-89 is expected to be a record of about 103.9 million metric tons, slightly more than the 103.8 million tons produced in 1987-88, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The latest estimate was revised downward from the department's first forecast issued on May 4, which indicated ... |
146356_1 | Education: The College Reject; Several Factors Are Behind Growth In Number of Disappointed Students | A result has been chaos in college guidance offices, where even veteran counselors concede that they no longer know where to direct students. What is going on? One thing is evident. More Americans view a college education as ''a durable consumer good,'' in the words of Willis J. Stetson Jr., dean of admissions at the U... |
144354_1 | When Will Rome Let Women Be Priests? | end to discrimination in the church. The first draft of a pastoral letter released by the U.S. Catholic Bishops last month, ''Partners in the Mystery of Redemption: A Pastoral Response to Women's Concerns,'' admits that women have, in the bishops' words: ''Led us collectively to a profound examination of conscience. Se... |
144406_0 | Parks Book Aids the Disabled | LEAD: ''ACCESS AMERICA,'' the most ambitious project to date of Northern Cartographic, a small Vermont publishing house, is a much-needed reference work that describes in text and full-color photographs, charts and maps the facilities and programs for the disabled at 37 national parks. ''ACCESS AMERICA,'' the most ambi... |
144444_0 | Two Forks Journal; Coloradans Anxiously Await Decision Over a Proposed Dam | LEAD: While the construction of Two Forks Dam on the South Platte River 25 miles southwest of here has been on the drawing board for decades, Coloradans have spent the last few weeks debating whether Denver and its suburbs need the 550-foot-high dam, now or ever. While the construction of Two Forks Dam on the South Pla... |
144296_2 | A GARDENER'S WORLD | it seems. Surface tension in dry soil causes water to run off, not to penetrate deeply. The result is that roots, attempting to absorb the available moisture, stay at the surface, where they can easily be damaged by exposure. A few years ago, the preferred method of watering to overcome these obstacles involved somethi... |
144297_2 | Into the World With a Learning Difficulty | because there are so many, including programs at junior colleges and universities, vocational schools and apprenticeships. ''You feel very inadequate about the issues unless you have some guidelines,'' said Dr. Dane, an associate professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work. Like other young people, the learni... |
140932_0 | Asking Some Questions About Special Education | LEAD: I read the letter from Jane Goldblatt to the Long Island editor on March 6 and was disturbed by her attitude toward educating the handicaped. I would like to offer a rebuttal, strictly addressing her need for defining education. I am a speech therapist working in special education in the public domain and have be... |
140822_1 | The False Promise of Burden-Sharing | U.S. defense budget, Europe about $150 billion. NATO must be the focus of this debate. And examination of burden-sharing within NATO shows that the debate turns on four fallacies. We're doing it just for them. The idea that the U.S. is selflessly defending the territory of others is unlettered. Today's international or... |
140611_2 | Business Forum; INCOME DISTRIBUTION: A GROWING GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR | for the college graduate versus $17,250 for the high school graduate. A second force increasing income inequality is the growing number of families headed by single women. In the early 1970's, one in nine families under the age of 65 was headed by a single woman. Today, one family in six is headed by a single woman. In... |
140833_0 | WHERE THE JOBS WILL (AND WON'T) BE | LEAD: Listed below are selected career possibilities that, from the standpoint of availibility, will provide the most and least security through the end of the century, according to projections by the United States Labor Deptpartment's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The percentage growth in the number of jobs expected thr... |
140828_3 | AS JOBS INCREASE, SO DOES INSECURITY | are not sure how safe it is in the private sector,'' said Jean Ross, research director at the Service Employees International Union. Still, whatever the insecurities of the American jobholder, some are far better off than others, particularly the college-educated. The salaries they command, even if they have to switch ... |
140771_1 | FRENCH NAVY PARTROL BOAT FIRES ON NEW CALEDONIA SEPARATISTS | in more than a week of ethnic violence in this French-administered South Pacific territory. A French Navy patrol boat shelled a Melanesian separatist camp during a reconnaissance mission today, in the first intervention by the navy in more than a week of ethnic violence in this French-administered South Pacific territo... |
140685_0 | South Africa - A Terrorist Nation | LEAD: On April 7, Albie Sachs, a white South African lawyer who had been an active opponent of apartheid, was seriously injured in a bomb explosion as he opened the door of his car outside his home in Maputo, Mozambique. One week earlier, the African National Congress's chief representative in France, Dulcie September,... |
140793_0 | New Policy on Illegal Drugs Permits U.S. to Seize Boats | LEAD: The Reagan Administration has toughened its drug enforcement by allowing the Coast Guard to seize any boat or ship on which even a small amount of contraband is found, Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley said today. The Reagan Administration has toughened its drug enforcement by allowing the Coast Guard to seize... |
140943_3 | Floating Garages Off Hudson Proposed | the vessels. Mayor Dennis Collins of Bayonne, who called the proposal ''an exciting idea,'' has been trying to talk the Port Authority out of paving over the peninsula and turning it into a parking lot for the delivery of foreign cars. ''There are so many better development uses it could be put to,'' he said. ''Placing... |
142118_5 | Business Spending Rises Sharply, But Imports Get Much of the Gain | less than $100 billion. And for every billion dollars earned in exports, the gross national product rises by about $2 billion. In part, the capital goods now being imported include foreign equipment no longer made here or considered superior to products made in this country. But a large portion is the foreign parts now... |
148251_1 | Commitment to Minorities Fading in U.S., Study Says | the nation,'' the group wrote. Call for Rededication ''In education, employment, income, health, longevity and other basic measures of individual and social well-being, gaps persist - and in some cases are widening - between members of minority groups and the majority population,'' said the report, ''One-Third of a Nat... |
148266_0 | Policy on Ship Seizures Is Altered | LEAD: The Customs Service and Coast Guard today altered part of their aggressive campaign against illegal drugs, a spokesman for the Customs Service said. The Customs Service and Coast Guard today altered part of their aggressive campaign against illegal drugs, a spokesman for the Customs Service said. David Hoover, th... |
148093_2 | Personal Myths Bring Cohesion to the Chaos of Each Life | myth that has special meaning for the patient's problems. In the new studies, researchers are examining how the identity a person chooses shapes the course of life. The new data, gathered by non-Jungian researchers, lend credibility to the methods long used by Jungian analysts, and to the view expressed by the mytholog... |
147943_0 | New Air Terminal, but Old Problems | LEAD: Continental Airlines, seeking to regain consumer confidence, today opened its new terminal at Newark International Airport, calling it the most technologically advanced airline terminal in the world. Continental Airlines, seeking to regain consumer confidence, today opened its new terminal at Newark International... |
147926_1 | Bitter Trade Debate Near in Ottawa | their backs on the cautious protectionism espoused by their nation since the 1870's or whether, by pulling down most of the remaining economic barriers between Canada and the United States, to commit themselves to a continental economy in which this nation of 25 million people competes on level terms with the 242 milli... |
149402_0 | What a Difference A Digit Makes | LEAD: IT happens at least once a week, sometimes once a day or more. The phone rings. I answer it. The person on the other end asks me to send a taxi to such and such an address. IT happens at least once a week, sometimes once a day or more. The phone rings. I answer it. The person on the other end asks me to send a ta... |
149769_0 | No Reason to Believe That Astrology Is True; Stellar Myth | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In discussion of matters celestial (letter, May 15), an interest in astrological divination should be distinguished from an appreciation of man's universal heritage of stellar myth (based on astronomy), which underlies the history of art, religion, literature and philosophy. Although... |
149505_3 | Setting the Standards For Literary Masterpieces | as the sole legitimate heirs to the values of their great cultural predecessors. In Alexandria, the Ptolemies founded a library, in which the scattered and diverse written remains of Greek literature could be finally gathered together and systematized as if they had always formed part of a single harmonious whole. They... |
149703_0 | Useful Lives for Obsolete Factories | LEAD: IN the old Manchester factories where workers once toiled to produce the rolls of material that gave the town its nickname as ''The Silk City,'' swimmers now do laps in a pool. In Stamford, where rolls of wallpaper once were produced, diners now eat duck liver pate. In Deep River, residents relax in cozy apartmen... |
149411_2 | Room With a Nurse: Cuba's 'Health Tourism' | according to Dominican doctors and patients. Cuban officials did not respond to a request for statistics on the volume of foreign patients. But Dominicans who were in Cuba recently said they saw Spanish, Italian, Chinese and even a few American patients at the Cira Garcia Clinic, the main clinic for foreigners in Havan... |
149655_2 | Health, Too, Is Part Of Planning a Trip | a lot about precautions against bites, bad food, bad water or unsafe hotels. Airlines do not see it as their job to let their passengers know the dangers in the place they elect to go to. The official airline of a nation is reluctant from the standpoints of pride and commerce to be associated with some health hazard. T... |
149369_0 | Preserving - and Profiting From - the Past | LEAD: HISTORY is making a comeback. HISTORY is making a comeback. For two decades, the discipline suffered as baby boomers searched for relevance or chased their fortunes. According to the American Historical Association, the granting of Ph.D.'s in history peaked in 1972 at 1,215, dropped to 543 by 1985, then edged up ... |
149656_0 | Q and A | LEAD: Going to Cuba Going to Cuba Question: Is it possible for an American tourist to travel to Cuba on an American ship and a United States passport? If so, where would one get a visa? - H. T. M., Greenwich, Conn. Answer: Travel by Americans to Cuba is possible, subject to United States Treasury regulations. While the... |
144066_1 | Official Says Arafat Ordered Attacks Against U.S. | his top aide, Abu Jihad, the Palestine Liberation Organization's military commander. Abu Jihad was killed by unknown assailants, widely assumed to be Israeli agents, in Tunis last month. Reports Were Discussed ''We discussed some reports which we heard about possible P.L.O. intentions to retaliate for Abu Jihad's assas... |
143936_3 | Lessons | have in a place that the ancient Greeks believed was supposed to be devoted to the search for truth and justice? Here the social system of fraternities and sororities serves nearly 65 percent of the student body and there is concern that if it is put asunder, chaos will follow and, as one professor said, ''the cost not... |
144057_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: International A3-15 International A3-15 Polish workers ended their strike at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. The Government did not give in to the workers' main demands; the strikers acknowledged that they had not triumphed. Page A1 An exiled Soviet director returned to Moscow for 10 days to help stage a play at th... |
149887_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | issues. 1 The failed effort to oust Noriega resulted from a series of miscalculations and a fundamental lack of coordination among the agencies responsible for policy toward Panama, according to American officials and diplomats. 1 Peace seemed possible in Nicaragua as three days of negotiations brought the Sandinista G... |
143237_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-15 INTERNATIONAL/3-15 Pope John Paul II approved of strikes in Poland and insisted that the crisis can only be solved by fundamental political changes leading to democracy. The remarks were the Pope's strongest since the unrest beagn. Page 1 American support for a Polish plan for economic recovery... |
143205_1 | Canada-France Fishing Dispute Runs Deep | Newfoundland, prompting similar outrage among politicians in France. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has suggested that the issue is being exploited by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac of France as part of Mr. Chirac's campaign for the French presidency. Both Mr. Chirac and his opponent in Sunday's runoff vote, President Fr... |
142988_0 | American Gothic Rides High In Atlanta's I.B.M. Building | LEAD: ATLANTA ATLANTA It has finally happened: A truly wonderful skyscraper from Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Ten years after these architects hurled a Chippendale-style split pediment atop a granite tower to create the A. T. & T. Building in New York - effectively changing the rules for skyscraper design in our tim... |
143298_2 | To Avoid Dengue Fever, Take Grandma's Advice | some figures showing the contour of the increase. In 1986, he said, the last year for which totals have been made, 88,750 cases were reported in the Americas; for 1985, the figure was 68,998 and for 1984, it was 43,435. The number of unreported cases is much higher, Dr. Gubler said, citing a ''reliable'' estimate of ov... |
143149_0 | French Campaign Ends With Flurry by Challenger | LEAD: Despite a spectacular last-minute offensive to turn the tide against him, President Francois Mitterrand, a Socialist, heads into Sunday's presidential election favored to win a second seven-year term. Despite a spectacular last-minute offensive to turn the tide against him, President Francois Mitterrand, a Social... |
141199_5 | Thai Fishermen Again Brutalizing Vietnam Refugees, Survivors Say | on a boat with 35 people that left Vietnam's Rachgia Province for Malaysia on Feb. 20. Their boat caught fire on the second day out, and they decided to beach it on a Thai island. Three days later, Thai fishing boats arrived and their crews rounded up the Vietnamese, robbed them, raped the women and sent them all back ... |
141102_2 | Belfast Journal; The Laurels of Peace Were Green (for a Season) | Mix There are only about 50 regular members now, bolstered by a few hundred occasional supporters in the barely noticed work of simply trying to get Protestant and Catholic children to mix and breach the barriers of their respective bastions. More than 150 are provided two-week summer vacations together each year finan... |
115195_0 | In the Quiet World of Fruit-Eating Fish, a Biologist Feels Too Alone | LEAD: MICHAEL Goulding works in what he calmly describes as ''the greatest evolutionary theater in the world.'' One of the few scholars to study the rivers of the Amazon basin, he spends months sifting through muddy streams in a region where a single river holds more species than all the waters of North MICHAEL Gouldin... |
121383_3 | Careers; Wider Skills Needed in Accounting | at the relative security offered by accounting firms. Price Waterhouse wants to tap this liberal arts college market. Mr. Bonsignore is an example of a broader background that the firm now wants. A graduate of Cornell University with a major in labor relations, Mr. Bonsignore earned a master's degree in public administ... |
123401_0 | Israelis Sink a Dinghy, Thwarting P.L.O. Raid | LEAD: An attempt by Palestinian guerrillas to infiltrate Israel from Lebanon by sea was foiled today when an Israeli naval vessel intercepted their rubber dinghy and sank it. An attempt by Palestinian guerrillas to infiltrate Israel from Lebanon by sea was foiled today when an Israeli naval vessel intercepted their rub... |
117943_0 | Tilting Skyscrapers | LEAD: To The Home Section: To The Home Section: If Deconstructivism is to be the architectural wave of the future, with its chaotically slanting walls and angling doorways [ 'The Limit of Chaos Tempts a New School of Architects,'' by Joseph Giovannini; Feb. 4 ] , can a Deconstructivist skyscraper be far behind? Can't y... |
117908_0 | Itinerant Painter Only Does Ceilings | LEAD: THE itinerant ceiling painter Larry Boyce has arrived in New York City after clocking 8,600 miles across the Canadian Rockies on his bicycle. Mr. Boyce may be identified by his zebra-striped tights and his tendency to color-coordinate his clothes with his ceilings. THE itinerant ceiling painter Larry Boyce has ar... |
118053_5 | U.S. Declares Japan in Violation On Whaling and May Curb Trade | slaughtering hundreds of whales in open defiance of its 1984 agreement with the United States and the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whaling. It is doubly outrageous that Japan is attempting to justify these actions in the name of science.'' Dean Wilkenson, wildlife legislative director for... |
119485_2 | New Studies Link Exercise to Delays In Menstruation - and Less Cancer | as the less active. Severe exercise seems to reduce body levels of the highly active form of estrogen, according to analyses of body fluid by Rachel Snow, a graduate student under Dr. Frisch. She used the method of analysis developed by Dr. Jack Fishman of Rockefeller University, who also appeared at the Boston meeting... |
119458_4 | Translation of Ancient Tao Text Brings $130,000 | epic poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey,'' while Thomas Merton worked from an English and French version for his translation of ''The Way of Chuang-Tzu.'' ''Samuel Johnson said in his 'Lives of the Poets' that the only way to judge the value of an English translation,'' Mr. Mitchell noted, ''is to judge it first of... |
119500_2 | Careers; Employees, Benefits and Computers | use in 1986. ''In the first year the employes had the use of 161 I.B.M. personal computers in 26 key locations,'' she said. ''We were surprised that 74 percent of our 22,000 salaried employes in six states went to the PC's to learn about their individual benefits.'' In the open enrollment period last July, she said, 50... |
119434_1 | With So Much Known, Exploration Evolves | mold of the 19th century dies hard and can obscure reality. Some answers did emerge, however, in discussions with explorers and their observers and at a recent symposium, ''Changing Geographic Perspectives,'' convened in Washington by the National Geographic Society as part of its 100th anniversary. ''In the 1980's, ex... |
119434_2 | With So Much Known, Exploration Evolves | has written, of a ''new great age of discovery.'' Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University biologist, insists that life on earth ''is still very incompletely mapped'' and so is an opportunity not to be overlooked by explorers. No one knows how many species exist, from bacteria to insects to the larger creatures, but the ... |
121752_1 | Florence Journal; The City's of Two Minds on Digging Up the Past | of monuments. Mr. Nicosia's shovels hit pay dirt just as the city was experiencing one of its periodic identity crises, and the piazza's fate is becoming a fixation. In the past, Florence's capacities for self-examination and dissent have contributed mightily to Western civilization. Although the stakes this time are n... |
121795_2 | PAROLE BY BRITISH STIRS IRISH FUROR | newspaper report a year ago in which Mr. McAnespie complained of repeated checkpoint harassment, declaring that the police searched him and his car 10 times in 11 days. An Unannounced Pardon The anger of Irish nationalists at his crowded funeral near the border with the Irish Republic was compounded by the news from un... |
121706_0 | A Bug to Help Out On Gravy Stains | LEAD: The latest news from the detergent industry's never-ending war on stains is that biotechnology has produced an enzyme that will split fatty acids. This means that those troublesome gravy spots that won't come out in the laundry (not to mention the lipstick stains on a collar that a teen-age heartthrob sang about ... |
115987_2 | One Step Forward | no blank check from Moscow. Officials and economists here who know their neighbor well believe the civil war has hurt Nicaragua's economy, but not nearly so much as the Sandinistas' own mismanagement and terrible policy. They point out that El Salvador is doing much better although its civil war has been far more destr... |
116013_0 | CANCER CLUSTERS PROMPT U.S. STUDY | LEAD: The National Institutes of Health have quietly initiated a study of cancer deaths among populations near nuclear power plants, according to a letter released today by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The National Institutes of Health have quietly initiated a study of cancer deaths among populations near nuclear power p... |
120574_10 | Excerpts From Papal Encyclical on Social Concerns of Church | and technology, including the computer sciences, bring freedom from every form of slavery. On the contrary, the experience of recent years shows that unless all the considerable body of resources and potential at man's disposal is guided by a moral understanding and by an orientation toward the true good of the human r... |
120571_1 | SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ | news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 50. Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 50. 1. Some public libraries across the country are taking measures to outlaw this activity. What are the circumstances? 2. The State Department has hinted at a deal that th... |
120096_1 | Study Finds Most Health Insurers Screen Applicants for AIDS Virus | health insurers to test for the AIDS virus. But several states, including New York, have taken action to prohibit such tests. At least nine states have adopted rules or policies forbidding insurers to use sexual orientation as a factor in writing insurance. Benjamin H. Schatz, a lawyer with National Gay Rights Advocate... |
118220_1 | Badolato Journal; He Tried to Sell the Town In More Ways Than One | to halt the decay by zealously publicizing the idea that Badolato wanted to sell itself to someone who would convert it into a tourist village and create jobs for all. Creating the Facts ''Badolato is a classic case of how the media can create facts,'' Mr. Lanciano said. Italian television news has shown more than 30 r... |
122685_0 | U.S. to Offer Proposals to Fight Piracy | LEAD: The Reagan Administration, estimating that American business is losing more than $60 billion a year from the piracy of patents and intellectual property, said today that it was pressing for an international mechanism to suppress the practice with economic deterrents. The Reagan Administration, estimating that Ame... |
122650_4 | Rio Journal; A City Awash in Beauty and Deluged With Peril | noted that life on the steep hills is never far from disaster. They pointed to containment walls that had long been cracked and boulders barely poised above the neighborhood of Tijuca. ''More than 200,000 people presently live in high-risk areas,'' Mr. Anastassakis said. Another aspect of the problem, he continued, is ... |
122681_1 | Drug Smugglers Used Cuban Base For U.S. Shipment, Jury Charges | drug official said the operation apparently had official cooperation in Cuba. ''This does not make a statement that the Cuban Government has an official policy of assisting drug traffickers,'' said the Federal official, Jack Hook, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. ''What it does say is that when a dr... |
115845_0 | BELL, W & CO reports earnings for Qtr to Dec 26 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*BELL, W & CO (OTC) Qtr to Dec 26 1987 1986 Sales 48,906,000 53,305,000 Net inc b3,808,000 c1,577,000 Share earns 1.25 - 6mo sales 69,067,000 76,676,000 Net inc b3,381,000 c2,158,000 Share earns 1.11 - *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*BELL, W & CO (OTC) Qtr to Dec 26 1987 1986 Sales 48,906,0... |
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