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119793_2 | Firestone to Sell 75% of Tire Unit In $1 Billion Deal With Japanese | stone and ''bashi'' meaning bridge). The Firestone-Bridgestone deal underscores the dramatic restructuring under way in the American tire industry, which has suffered from overcapacity in recent years. In 1986 Uniroyal and B. F. Goodrich retreated from the business by merging their tire operations into an independent c... |
119757_0 | New Zealand Ponders a 'Nuclear Survival Kit' | LEAD: Isolated in the distant South Pacific and stubbornly free of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, New Zealand has begun examining ways to survive a nuclear war. Isolated in the distant South Pacific and stubbornly free of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, New Zealand has begun examining ways to survive a nuclear w... |
119824_0 | Marcos Property Sold at Auction | LEAD: A pair of shoes being sold yesterday at Christie's East at an auction of items that belonged to the former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda. Many of the people had come out of curiosity; others came to buy something belonging to the Marcoses. The items were recovered from a luxury apa... |
122914_13 | CLOSE-UP LOOK AT POLAR BEARS IN MANITOBA | year to develop guidelines governing the activity for the protection of both the bears and the observers, according to Arthur Hoole, director of wildlife for the department. Currently operators who run the tours, whether they be day trips or overnight camping trips, need only a ''very basic permit'' from the department... |
123175_3 | John Savage Uses Film To Help His Neighbors | my parents.' I said, 'We're a success.' '' The storyline of obnoxious adult authority and young rebellion held the attention of the Manhasset teen-agers, and most said it had some relevance to their lives. There were exceptions, though. Some found the film ''hard to understand.'' ''Kind of strong,'' said one young man.... |
123225_3 | Agriculture Is Learning to Fight Nature With Nature | shrimp. The seven-year-old company developed a process to convert shells discarded by Chesapeake Bay seafood processors into chitin granules. When it is spread on fields, fungi and other microbes convert chitin into enzymes that destroy young nematodes and nematode eggs. The company is expecting the E.P.A. to approve t... |
123187_0 | HARTFORD WEIGHS INSURANCE CURBS | LEAD: Here in this city long synonymous with insurance, women's rights groups have run into their toughest opposition yet in an already difficult struggle to ban what they assert is sex discrimination by insurance companies. Here in this city long synonymous with insurance, women's rights groups have run into their tou... |
123096_3 | THE HOW OF THE WORD | old, and rather formidable, intellectual foes - Plato, radical skepticism and literalism. There is an ancient fault line that runs through the quadrangles of the University of Chicago. To this day Plato and his many friends - yes, Allan Bloom is one of them - occupy the intellectual territory on one side of the line. T... |
123109_10 | Beyond White Rats and Rabbits | for a test to be developed to the point where it becomes a candidate for a validation study and then the validation stage itself is controversial,'' said Mr. Sabourin at the Battelle Institute. Battelle, for example, is using eggs extracted from the South African clawed frog to test chemicals known to produce birth def... |
123109_14 | Beyond White Rats and Rabbits | chemical for $99.50, compared with more than $1,000 for a Draize test of similar scope. ''I am not a staunch animal rightist,'' said Dr. Christopher Kelly, the company's owner, ''but this seemed like a wide-open field.'' THE PROTESTERS SHIFT GEARS THE animal rights movement has long employed a variety of tactics to gar... |
123090_4 | THE EARTH WAS HERE FIRST | department was originally viewed somewhat as a bastard left on the doorstep by the hunting lobby. The University of Wisconsin Press has just tripled the Leopold bibliography by publishing a collection of critical essays and a substantial biography. The essays in ''Companion to a Sand County Almanac'' confront issues ra... |
123086_3 | New & Noteworthy | ''What has previously been consigned to ancient vase paintings and frescoes . . . takes on a new meaning,'' our reviewer, Siegfried Mandel, said when the book was first published in 1958. ''She ventures into the complex pre-Hellenic era confidently and with imagination and insight, takes the myth out of mythology by cr... |
115410_2 | Changes in Special Education Urged | to disabled children in classrooms.'' While Mrs. Will agreed that ''considerable evidence exists'' to suggest that disabled students do better an integrated classes, she was cautious about the call for change pressed by the article's authors. ''We feel we need to see more studies, more models of how integration can wor... |
117471_2 | A Huge Chunk of Antarctica Is Heading Out to Sea, at a Glacial Pace | Barnett of the Naval Polar Oceanography Center near Washington.''It's also rotated quite a bit counterclockwise.'' Yearly Ice Budget For climate researchers, Antarctica is a focus of concern about the greenhouse effect, the warming of the atmosphere by carbon dioxide and other gases through the trapping of infrared rad... |
117396_0 | Highly Diverse Forest | LEAD: A new survey by botanists has found that the tropical rain forest of upper Amazonia in Peru may well have the greatest diversity of tree species of any place on earth. At two study sites near Iquitos, as many as 300 species were identified per hectare, an area equivalent to about two and a half acres. A new surve... |
117219_4 | For Snow, the Real Action Begins After It Falls | a mechanical engineer here, is working with a computer model that can predict performance of wheeled vehicles in snow of different depths and densities. In research that may be construed to have reinvented the wheel, his studies showed that the already widely used all-season radial tires are superior to all others, inc... |
117388_0 | Children's Rights | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''How Civil Rights Came to Be a 'Special Interest' '' (Week in Review, Jan. 17), you identify the groups that make up today's civil rights movement: blacks, Hispanic people, women and girls, the elderly and the disabled. Curiously absent are children. In the last 15 years, advocac... |
117342_3 | MILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCHED TO TEST ANTI-MISSILE PLAN | space war, and secondarily to detect the exhaust plumes of missiles. Orbiting some 200 miles above the Earth, the satellite used springs to eject the four rocket-powered missiles and 11 other objects, the nature of which the Pentagon has not disclosed. They are thought to include simulations of a Soviet ballistic missi... |
117376_0 | Topics of The Times; Vital Partnership | LEAD: Next month, Towers on the Park, a 600-unit condominium at Central Park West and 110th Street, opens its doors. It's the latest monument to the work of the New York City Partnership, whose founder and chairman, David Rockefeller, stepped down yesterday. Next month, Towers on the Park, a 600-unit condominium at Cen... |
117215_0 | Official Promoting, Too, Went Off Into Space | LEAD: Conflicting desires for secrecy and publicity have been apparent in the military's planning for yesterday's launching of a research satellite as a test of a missile defense in space proposed by the Reagan Administration. Conflicting desires for secrecy and publicity have been apparent in the military's planning f... |
117236_0 | Raw Sugar Prices Plunge; Less Soviet Demand Feared | LEAD: Raw sugar futures prices plunged the limit allowed for daily trading yesterday on indications of weakening Soviet demand, analysts said. Raw sugar futures prices plunged the limit allowed for daily trading yesterday on indications of weakening Soviet demand, analysts said. The contracts for March and May delivery... |
117229_4 | THE KNICK FROM QUEENS | could play in the pros, but you don't really know. There are so many good players in the world. One reason is all the hours I spent practicing. Another reason is that my loving family was 150 percent behind me, and the Good Lord was behind me. I never took anything for granted.'' UNTIL Jackson's senior year, some of us... |
116794_2 | No Headline | bulldozers. But change has come to the basin of the Amazon and its main tributaries as the population of the region has soared from 11 million to 19 million people in 15 years. #3,000 Species of Fish Motorboats and trawlers now work the waterways once dominated by canoes and steam vessels. They ply the currents at nigh... |
116995_0 | Overtired | LEAD: THE PROBLEM HAS ALWAYS been what to do with them. One Minnesota plant turns them into a re-usable rubber compound. And, of course, they make good rope swings. There are an estimated 2 billion discarded tires in this country; about 40 million - the world's largest pile (above) - are near Westley, Calif. THE PROBLE... |
116554_0 | A CHALLENGE FOR HEALTH CARE | LEAD: SEVEN months ago, New Jersey's health-care community received a challenge: to develop innovative and unique approaches to the state's most pressing health-care problems. SEVEN months ago, New Jersey's health-care community received a challenge: to develop innovative and unique approaches to the state's most press... |
116715_4 | SCIENCE FICTION | is self-conscious in a different way. Its protagonist, Sam Meade, is a science fiction reader, his good friend Snaker O'Malley is a science fiction writer, and their responses to a beautiful naked time traveler appear to be influenced by their familiarity with the entire bag of science fiction cliches about time travel... |
116542_0 | Opposites Don't Necessarily Attract | LEAD: Nietzsche Thought he put his finger on it with his distinction between Apollonian and Dionysian personalities. Other thinkers have divided us into such antagonistic camps as Yogis and Commissars, Hedgehogs and Foxes, Yea-sayers and Nay-sayers, Saved and Unsaved. Wagner detected a sharp difference between Day Peop... |
116980_4 | THE CHILDREN OF THE CHILDLESS | to all our intrafamilial traditions. But unusual approaches are called for by these unusually appalling conditions. In May 1986, Education Week produced a special report on the ways in which America's ''population in motion'' is changing the outlook for schools and society. The report states that ''a growing percentage... |
116981_6 | WESTCHESTER BOOKCSAE | a professional. The book provides check lists that can be used to make sure the professional inspection is thorough. At the very least, its information can be used to negotiate with the seller if the potential buyer finds flaws that will require expensive repairs. William J. Klein, who has lived in Larchmont for 10 yea... |
118987_3 | Philadelphians Choosing Sides Over City Hall | of the Criminal Justice Center in 1991 is expected to free up large areas of City Hall, including a courtyard that is now a parking lot for vans used to transport prisoners. The competition is in preparation for the building's 100th anniversary, in 1901. It is sponsored by the Foundation for Architecture, a local nonpr... |
118875_5 | LOOKING AT PICTURES THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY | have both experiences simultaneously. Well, what do we see? Mr. Wollheim claims we see the boy in the painting, and that means we have one experience with a twofold aspect, a boy aspect and a mark aspect. If you wonder what such an experience might be like - an experience that is neither of boys nor of marks but is of ... |
118718_1 | CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH | To lament the shortage of priests and to pray for more ''vocations'' (God's call, supposedly) to the priesthood is to stubbornly reject four solutions not opposed to Catholic theology. First, increase effective lay participation, especially that of women, in all aspects of church governance, from finances to the select... |
118828_2 | HUMAN FIGURES ENSHRINED BY THE EARLY GREEKS | in Florence in 1986, of which ''The Human Figure in Early Greek Art'' is an extension. This exhibition is not large. Most of the works are not life-size stone sculptures, but small bronzes and pots. Despite the spotlighting and a specially designed installation that projects a sense of spectacle, the feeling remains in... |
119016_2 | THE WORLD: Contrasting Birth Rates; Old World Fearful Of Third World's 'Silent Invasion' | contemplate runaway population growth in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, countries with many people pressing to join their relatives who have already moved to France. Demographic Angst France had a population of 33 million when in 1830 it conquered Algeria, which had less than two million inhabitants. At independence in ... |
122409_0 | Laszlo G. Versenyi, Philosophy Professor, 59 | LEAD: Laszlo G. Versenyi, a philosophy professor at Williams College, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Williamstown. He was 59 years old. Laszlo G. Versenyi, a philosophy professor at Williams College, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Williamstown. He was 59 years old. Professor Versenyi, who began teaching a... |
122367_2 | Astoria Journal; Where a River and the Sea Eat Ships | 65-footers are not far from the mark.'' This seaport of more than 10,000 people was founded in 1811 as Fort Astoria by an expedition sent out by John Jacob Astor. It likes to call itself the first permanent American settlement west of the Rockies, but it is better known for the ship-eating sand bar. Tourists come to ga... |
120836_0 | Report Sees Hope for Battered Environment | LEAD: The decline in the earth's environmental health can be reversed, but only with a substantial investment by the rich nations, according to the 1988 State of the World report published by the Worldwatch Institute. The decline in the earth's environmental health can be reversed, but only with a substantial investmen... |
120730_0 | SECRETS OF THE RAIN FOREST | LEAD: It was exciting to read about how Donald Perry has learned to traverse the jungle canopy to explore the secrets of the rain forest (''Secrets of the Rain Forest,'' by Erik Eckholm, Jan. 17). It was exciting to read about how Donald Perry has learned to traverse the jungle canopy to explore the secrets of the rain... |
120712_5 | From Fathers to Sons on the Waterfront | something I always have in the back of my mind,'' he says. ''One day it could all be over. I could come in and there will be a lock on the gate, like in Howland Hook, like in Hoboken.'' MY FATHER WORKED at the Hoboken piers in 1971 when the gates were padlocked. He was 60 years old then, and had 32 years on the waterfr... |
121040_1 | Tropical Storm in Brazil Leaves at Least 65 Dead | injured and homeless. He also postponed a parade that was scheduled for this evening to close the Carnival festivities. Many Live in Lowlands This city of eight million people is particularly vulnerable to tropical storms because, while a large portion of the population lives perched on steep hillsides, several million... |
120709_0 | FRENCH ACCENT, L.A. LIGHT | LEAD: CITRUS IS THE SAME IN French and English, conjuring up images of freshness, lightness and zesty flavor. The year-old restaurant named Citrus in Los Angeles blends French and American cuisines to produce lively and remarkably healthful dishes. CITRUS IS THE SAME IN French and English, conjuring up images of freshn... |
121033_0 | Atlantic Record Sought for Speedboats | LEAD: The 150-year-old Blue Riband, a trans-Atlantic speed title claimed two years ago by a powerboat team from Britain, is expected to generate two more multimillion-dollar record attempts this June. The 150-year-old Blue Riband, a trans-Atlantic speed title claimed two years ago by a powerboat team from Britain, is e... |
120947_0 | N.Y.U. Names Vryonis Head of Onassis Center | LEAD: Dr. Speros Vryonis Jr., an expert on the effect of Hellenism and Byzantine culture on Asia Minor and the Balkans, has been named the first director of the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University. Dr. Speros Vryonis Jr., an expert on the effect of Hellenism and Byzantine culture on Asia Minor an... |
120774_0 | WESTCHESTER OPINION | LEAD: NEARBY RAFTING North American Whitewater Expeditions Inc., based in Hamden, Conn., offers what it believes is ''some of the best whitewater rafting in the East'' beginning in March and continuing through early May. An eight-mile stretch of the upper Housatonic River, starting at Bull's Bridge Gorge in western Con... |
118617_3 | More Children Must File And the Bill Will Be Higher | that can be sheltered by a child, particularly younger children. For a child under 14, investment income in excess of $1,000 is taxed at the parents' top rate, which can be as high as 38.5 percent on 1987 returns. This tax treatment applies regardless of whether the income stemmed from a gift from the parents, or from ... |
120262_0 | U.S. Official and Africans Confer On Testing AIDS Vaccines There | LEAD: Large-scale tests of potential AIDS vaccines may have to take place in Africa, a senior Federal health official said yesterday, and he has begun discussing the possibility with African officials. Large-scale tests of potential AIDS vaccines may have to take place in Africa, a senior Federal health official said y... |
120345_3 | The Law; At the Bar | law faculty ''a bunch of Communists, Socialists, and P.L.O. sympathizers.'' But until now it has always been buttressed by an extraordinary esprit de corps, one that eased the task of building and sustaining an innovative institution. Now, though, a visitor encounters only indignation and bitterness, demoralization and... |
127886_2 | Food Fit for the Stars, or at Least a Mountaintop | received no formal request from the company to be put on NASA's approved food list and that he was not aware of any particular demand from American astronauts for fine food in space. Mr. Baudry, who is also working on the development of a European space shuttle, recalls seeing food spatter on his spacecraft's walls whe... |
128012_0 | LIMITS SUGGESTED AT MAJOR AIRPORTS | LEAD: The Department of Transportation proposed yesterday that the major airports, which handle 95 percent of the nation's passengers, be required to install card systems to limit access to restricted areas. The Department of Transportation proposed yesterday that the major airports, which handle 95 percent of the nati... |
128021_0 | Soviet Said to Reduce Support for Cuban Economy | LEAD: The Soviet Union is reducing its support for the Cuban economy, according to documents of the Cuban National Bank obtained by a human rights group and made public today. The Soviet Union is reducing its support for the Cuban economy, according to documents of the Cuban National Bank obtained by a human rights gro... |
127972_1 | LESSONS | of a large hall at Rutgers University was the complainant himself. He had been invited to give a short speech and take part in two forums. But what promised to be a day of scholarly Sturm und Drang turned into nothing more than a mild disagreement, which left some in the audience wondering if Professor Bloom had been r... |
130231_0 | Health: Medical Paradox; Asthma Doctors Puzzled As the Death Rate Rises Despite Improved Drugs | LEAD: Despite a growing arsenal of powerful drugs to relieve asthma and a deeper understanding of asthma attacks, more people are dying from the ailment than ever. Despite a growing arsenal of powerful drugs to relieve asthma and a deeper understanding of asthma attacks, more people are dying from the ailment than ever... |
124665_2 | Along the Amazon, Conservation of Fish Could Be Harmful | in the Rio Negro; Corydoras species, which is a miniature catfish that barely reaches 4 inches maximum and is inedible, and the third fish is a tiny, 2-inch fish, Petitella georgiae, the Rummy-nose Tetra. None of these are edible, nor do even the poorest Indians eat them. I have been intimately involved with collection... |
131826_1 | LESSONS | like William J. Bennett, the Secretary of Education, have complained repeatedly about the absence of the classics in college curriculums. The Great Books program here at St. John's has its critics, of course. There are those who hold that the Hellenic genius of the Republic cannot be appreciated or even understood with... |
131927_1 | Small 'Intelligent' Sensors That Are Affordable in Cars | can be reduced. Traction controls that prevent wheel spins is another technology the smart sensors will popularize. Today these are installed only on a few expensive models. Also possible are ''active'' suspension systems. Conventional springs and shock absorbers would be replaced with motorized adjustment devices that... |
131906_1 | Balbina Journal; On Amazon Noah's Ark, All Aboard (Even Wasps) | that swim well are left alone,'' he said. ''Some we keep for study or for the zoos. All threatened species are released.'' As the boats swerved among palms, rosewood and wild fruit trees, the rescue team kept ducking to avoid vines and aerial roots, dangling like dangerous nooses overhead. Invisible birds screeched lik... |
131906_2 | Balbina Journal; On Amazon Noah's Ark, All Aboard (Even Wasps) | and the cost of the project are so enormous that the dam should never have been built. But here in the heart of the Amazon Basin, arguments have been overtaken as the Uatuma River is backing up and irrevocably flooding 600 square miles of jungle land. Racing ahead of the tides, archeologists have collected potsherds, s... |
124010_0 | Hacking Back the Trade Bill Weeds | LEAD: What the House and Senate passed separately added up to 2,000 pages of trouble. The trade bill, it's called, but anti-trade is more like it. Now the conference committees charged with reconciling the two versions have, encouragingly, started to hack away much of the blatant special-interest mischief. What the Hou... |
123838_0 | An Operation For The Sphinx | LEAD: Experts started work today to see if they could repair the damage to the Sphinx. Experts started work today to see if they could repair the damage to the Sphinx. Zahi Hawass, the archeologist in charge of the pyramids area, said samples were being taken of rock from the exposed interior of the Sphinx's shoulder a... |
123945_2 | U.S. FINDS OUTPUT OF DRUGS IN WORLD GROWING SHARPLY | for example, the heroin addiction rate on a per capita basis is about two-and-a-half times that of the United States. Despite the dire tones, the accompanying actions by the Administration today were rather mild. Although empowered by law to impose sanctions against drug-producing countries that are not fully cooperati... |
123926_1 | Cairo Journal; Now, After 4,600 Years, Time Adds a New Scar | of human and lion whose worn and wind-whipped face is thought to depict the Pharaoh Chephren. As the wisdom goes, the huge monument is thought to guard the three pyramids of Giza close by, or to simulate the Pharaoh offering sacrifices to the sun god. Either way, it has stood since 2600 B.C., weathering excavations fro... |
125627_0 | The Sun Nears a Period of Intense Activity | LEAD: A STEEP and surprisingly early increase in magnetic disturbances on the Sun in the last few months may herald a cycle of exceptionally intense solar radiation, and astronomers have warned that satellites in low orbits could face premature destruction as a result. A STEEP and surprisingly early increase in magneti... |
125655_1 | Pirelli Bids To Acquire Firestone | a joint venture. The talks collapsed in March 1987. Acquiring Firestone would give Pirelli a significant presence in the United States, something it has unsuccessfully sought for several years. The United States is attractive because it makes up nearly 45 percent of the world market. The push to obtain an American foot... |
131564_0 | Boron Said to Be Crucial to Bone Formation | LEAD: BORON, an element best known for its use as an eye wash and a roach killer, plays a critical role in the body's ability to use calcium to form bone, new research indicates. BORON, an element best known for its use as an eye wash and a roach killer, plays a critical role in the body's ability to use calcium to for... |
129975_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | extract plutonium, a main ingredient in nuclear weapons, according to Administration officials. The move came following pressure from the United States. A1 An Armenian reporter for Pravda has disavowed an article published in the official Soviet newspaper over hissignature, an article that dashed Armenian hopes for a f... |
129874_1 | Education; Manhattan College Seeks a New Kind of Student | at a modest price. The school began admitting women in the early 70's. This year's tuition and fees remain relatively low at $6,450, up from 6,100 in 1986. Next fall the cost will be $6,900. But as its former pool of students has dwindled, the college has been left trying to adapt to the tastes and pocketbooks of the n... |
127638_0 | Global Defeat of Polio Is Feasible, Experts Say | LEAD: A campaign to eradicate polio, which remains a crippler and killer in many developing countries, gained new impetus this weekend at a global meeting on child health. A campaign to eradicate polio, which remains a crippler and killer in many developing countries, gained new impetus this weekend at a global meeting... |
127653_6 | Genetic Engineers Prepare to Create Brand New Proteins | But when exposed to industrial conditions, they tend to degrade. Scientists at Genentech Inc., the South San Francisco biotechnology company, have modified subtilisin, a bacterial protein used in detergents, to make it last longer in the presence of bleach. One amino acid, known as methionine, which is in a crucial pos... |
127646_1 | Ambitious Project Will Buy Land To Preserve the Connecticut River | the world. The project marks the first time a private environmental organization has tried to preserve land in an entire river valley running through different states. ''These lands are the remnants of lands that have never been touched, lands that look like they did 300 or 400 years ago,'' said David L. Reynolds, dire... |
127701_1 | Review/Film; Japanese Psychotic Gets His Wish: Return to Jail | jail and suggests that all countries and, indeed, all families are barriers to the true brotherhood of man. The bride and groom listen with eyes lowered, as if this were the sort of thing every bride and groom expected to hear on their wedding day. ''The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On'' will be shown at the Museum of ... |
127623_0 | Scientists to Seek 'Shadow Bands' During a Total Eclipse of the Sun | LEAD: AS a total eclipse of the sun sweeps across the Pacific Ocean Saturday, astronomers aboard two cruise ships will try to record images of ''shadow bands,'' a phenomenon that has often been reported during eclipses but never photographed. AS a total eclipse of the sun sweeps across the Pacific Ocean Saturday, astro... |
127791_3 | City Steps Up Fight for $4 Million In Back Rent From Port Authority | Authority,'' Mr. Huerta said. The Port Authority spent $17.5 million to purchase huge new cranes and demolish outdated storage sheds. U.S. Lines remained in New York. But when oil prices dropped and competing lines offered shippers faster service on smaller but speedier ships, the company was badly hurt. By November 19... |
130845_3 | The Airlines Tackle Pilot Error | fatal crashes. This was in contrast to 1980 and 1986, when there were no fatal accidents. But one year plagued with airline accidents doesn't mean the skies are becoming less safe. Indeed, aviation experts report that air travel has grown steadily safer since the dawn of the jet transport age in 1959. When statistics a... |
131036_1 | The Perfect Tool for Killing | fertilizer. Little is heard now of the concerns expressed by scientists in the early days of biotechnology. Citing potential dangers, leading scientists in 1974 called a halt to certain experiments involving cancer viruses and disease organisms, and a meeting of researchers the following year at Asilomar, near Monterey... |
130905_0 | STREETSCAPES: General Tire Building; 'Gas Station' Style: An Overlooked Gem of the 1930's | LEAD: FOR the last several years, only an architectural detective would have noticed the building. Since the early 80's it has been boarded up, completely concealed under a uniform coat of white paint. But in the last year or so, the paint has peeled off, revealing a minor masterpiece of the 1930's, the Art Deco Genera... |
131171_2 | OFFICIAL BELFAST BUSIES ITSELF WITH THE SIDE ISSUES OF STRIFE | turning over to the authorities any unused tapes of the soldiers' slayings. Even more dominant was the attention invested in what to do about the paramilitary flourishes at I.R.A. funerals. The Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force, finally decided to end its low-profile experiment and move back ... |
131057_5 | MIND OVER DISEASE: CAN HAPPY THOUGHTS HEAL? | the psychic medicine, as well as with medically naive readers who carry the message to unwarranted extremes. It is likely that these are the same people who, upon learning that nutrients in certain foods may protect against cancer, would start taking megadoses of the nutrients instead of eating the right foods. What, t... |
131110_0 | SCHOOL FOR HANDICAPPED WORKS MIRACLES OF HOPE | LEAD: The Feb. 21 article about the Little Village School did a pretty good job of portraying all handicapped children as being helpless and without any hope for a normal life. While it started out as sounding positive with the title ''Here, Small Steps of Hope,'' by the time one was finished reading it, it seemed like... |
131064_15 | THE DANGEROUS MARQUIS DE SADE | this kind, if too insistently and successfully reiterated - ''Justine'' sold six editions in its first two years in print - Sade today, I am afraid, would not remain a free man indefinitely. Suppose we could bring back some of Sade's contemporaries. Rousseau the novelist would still thrill us if he could work among us,... |
131172_0 | THE POLITICS OF CUOMO'S COLLEGE AID PLAN | LEAD: WITH audience after audience in recent months, Governor Cuomo has wasted little time getting to one of his favorite topics: Liberty Scholarships. ''It can catch on all over the U.S.,'' Mr. Cuomo said in a speech to 350 Hispanic leaders earlier this month, ''and everywhere I talk about it, I have people say to me ... |
130846_1 | Where The Cactus Meets the Sea | the vultures were reassuring. Baja's tip used to be known as a sparsely populated place where cactus dramatically meets the sea. But I'd heard that Los Cabos, as the area surrounding Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, the two small cities near this land's end, is sometimes called, was changing rapidly, that se vende... |
124829_4 | For African Island Nation, Foreign Aid Is a Lifeline | out since December,'' said Martinho Tavares, a reporter for the newspaper. ''The Soviet Union gave us printing machinery, but it never worked.' At Sao Tome's colonial-era ''mercado municipal,'' the picturesque scene of market women tending wooden stalls is actually an African facade masking extensive foreign aid. Despi... |
125070_1 | Flying Courier Class: How to Save a Bundle With Someone Else's | being caught when I arrived at my destination. The truth is that there's nothing shady about flying as a courier. No drugs, bombs or guns are involved. Courier companies are subject to strict trade rules and regulations. It's simply the means by which respectable corporations and small businesses quickly transport docu... |
125059_0 | CUTTING CORNERS | LEAD: FOR YEARS, I WAS A ''pe-riphery shopper,'' buying only fresh produce, meat and dairy products that lined market walls. Occasionally, I navigated up and down the aisles displaying staples and frozen foods, adding imported canned tomatoes, orange juice concentrate and ice cream to my basket. But I was convinced tha... |
123645_2 | Baltic Journal; Archives Offers the Global Picture | imagery comes from the Landsat series of earth resource satellites. The first of five Landsat satellite was orbited in 1972. Only two of the Landsat series are still active, and about 20,000 new images a month are relayed here for cataloging and storage. Over the years, African relief agencies have used the imagery to ... |
128877_1 | Old and New Collide on the Waterfront | waterfront community, is a shining example of what the future holds for the river's edge. But, like any new neighbors, these two waterfront entities have had their differences, and the conflict that has arisen between them brings into focus an issue often overlooked as broad changes sweep over the Hudson River waterfro... |
129245_1 | Portobello Art Festival | Yet for all its gentrification, Notting Hill is still a place where West Indians, Moroccans, Portuguese and Brits live in harmony, though not necessarily side by side. It's still funky enough to attract young people, but filled with such long-standing residents as Martin Amis and Harold Pinter. Last year nine of the ne... |
129258_0 | Narita Airport | LEAD: To the Editor: How is it possible that the country that produces Hondas and Toyotas has produced Tokyo's Narita, the Edsel of airports? To the Editor: How is it possible that the country that produces Hondas and Toyotas has produced Tokyo's Narita, the Edsel of airports? I was unfortunate enough to have to spend ... |
126838_3 | Lisbon Journal; In Old Section of City, A Ghetto With a View | of Sts. Estevao, Miguel and Tiago, the Museum of Decorative Arts, streetcars reminiscent of San Francisco's cable cars, and a spectacular view of the water. But for Mr. Esteves and his architects and designers and social workers operating out of small offices on one of the steep inclines, the reality is a poverty-stric... |
128428_0 | Bridgestone In Deal for Firestone | LEAD: In a stunning move intended to shut out the unsolicited intentions of Pirelli S.p.A., the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company agreed last night to be acquired by the Bridgestone Corporation of Japan for $80 a share, or $2.6 billion. In a stunning move intended to shut out the unsolicited intentions of Pirelli S.p.A... |
128394_3 | Toll of 2 Cancers Is Up Among Elderly | included such factors as nutrition, life style, stress, workplace and housing in her definition of environment. She said ''we need to move away from the notion of single causes'' of cancer and ''need to ask new questions.'' ''When something changes so much in such a short period of time, it is imperative for researcher... |
128517_3 | At The Movies | own for the bulk of the story. Mr. Morton speculated that the creators of the 1949 ''D.O.A'' had been aware of its 1931 ancestor. And, he said: ''I'm sure the German writers got the idea from somewhere else. It goes back to the first person poisoned by another human being.'' Out of Ugliness, Comedy Racism, drug addicti... |
129603_2 | Economic Nationalism Shapes Democratic Campaign Debate | they know the Japanese build better cars and television sets. They have a sense that America is not as competitive as it once was.'' Among Republicans, the topic has mattered less. Senator Bob Dole uses it most directly, saying, ''It is time we took control again.'' Vice President Bush does not complain about current c... |
131322_1 | Chile's Growing Trans-Pacific Ties | New Zealand conglomerate Fletcher Challenge bought a newsprint plant near Concepcion and 100,000 acres of forests for $133 million. Earlier, another New Zealand company - Carter, Holt, Harvey - bought half of an oil company, a wood paneling plant and 39 percent of a fishing company, an investment of about $300 million.... |
126175_0 | Sugar Import Plan Blocked | LEAD: The Agriculture Department announced this week that it lacks the legal authority to carry out a program passed by Congress in December that would subsidize the re-export of foreign-produced sugar. The Agriculture Department announced this week that it lacks the legal authority to carry out a program passed by Con... |
126215_2 | Personal Health | through education or sex therapy. Even when emotional factors - in the remaining 15 to 20 percent of cases - are the sole problem, most can be resolved through sexual, marital or psychological therapy. It is also now widely recognized -among professionals, at least - that pain in intercourse is not just a woman's compl... |
126139_5 | Global Fight in the Tire Industry | firm. The only other significant American producer, the General Tire and Rubber Company, was acquired by Continental A.G., the German tire maker, in 1986. Pirelli's recent bid follows unsuccessful attempts in the last few years to establish a joint venture with Firestone as well as another with the Armstrong Tire and R... |
132107_0 | More Cigarette Exports Seen | LEAD: Cigarette exports are expected to rise sharply this year, largely because of growing demand in some Asian countries, according to an Agriculture Department analysis. Cigarette exports are expected to rise sharply this year, largely because of growing demand in some Asian countries, according to an Agriculture Dep... |
125778_1 | Business Technology: Advances; Building a Wider Market For Unrefrigerated Milk | consumers won't accept UHT milk with the curd on it because they assume it has gone bad, even though it hasn't,'' said Suzanne Nielsen, a professor of food science at Purdue University. She and her colleagues are hoping to isolate the enzymes that control the process. Producers of unrefrigerated milk want to quadruple ... |
124072_1 | Summer Programs for a Disabled Child | of the camps and summer programs - in both English and Spanish - there is a list of summer jobs, both paid and volunteer, for young people with disabilities. ''These facilities are not easy to find,'' said Ruth Rosen of Brooklyn, whose 17-year-old son, Mark Wolf, is autistic. Through the agency's guide, she has twice f... |
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