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195635_2 | Swindon Journal; The Thinker's Pub, With a Resident Philosopher | lectures annually for three years at a salary of about $8,800 a year. Stripped of Citizenship At the pub in Swindon, 90 miles west of London, the philosopher said he was invited by Oxford and Cambridge universities in 1980 to give a series of lectures. He traveled to Oxford but said he soon ''realized that I was not we... |
195716_0 | Indians Rescue Maldives Hostages on High Seas | LEAD: After a two-day chase across the Indian Ocean, Indian warships today forced the surrender of a fleeing vessel carrying gunmen who had tried to overthrow the Government of the Maldive Islands, together with more than 20 hostages. After a two-day chase across the Indian Ocean, Indian warships today forced the surre... |
201653_0 | East-West Trade Rise | LEAD: East-West trade picked up markedly this year thanks to the improved political climate and to economic changes in most East European countries, according to a United Nations report. East-West trade picked up markedly this year thanks to the improved political climate and to economic changes in most East European c... |
201538_2 | Abortions Across Latin America Rising Despite Illegality and Risks | region cite the woman's lowly place in society for official indifference toward maternal illness and death. Government officials argue that the Roman Catholic Church has prevented a change in the laws to provide safe abortions. But women's groups respond that in other Catholic countries like Italy and France, abortion ... |
201552_0 | Many in Church Oppose Naming Woman Bishop | LEAD: Two months after the Rev. Barbara C. Harris was chosen to become the first female bishop in any branch of worldwide Anglicanism, an intense lobbying effort has been undertaken by her opponents and supporters throughout the Episcopal Church in the United States. Two months after the Rev. Barbara C. Harris was chos... |
197968_0 | Lack of Money Threatens a Plan To Restore Six Times Sq. Theaters | LEAD: Financing is nearly complete for the $2.5 billion Times Square redevelopment project, which is believed to be the largest urban renewal effort ever undertaken in this country. But although leases have been signed with the developer that is to build four huge office towers on 42d Street, there is still no guarante... |
197909_0 | Amazon Tree Cutting Better Than Burning | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Public attention has been drawn to the burning of the Amazon rain forest (''Amazon Settlers Turn Forests to Ash in Name of Progress,'' front page, Oct. 11; ''Brazil Acts to Slow Destruction of Amazon Forest,'' news story, Oct. 13). The most viable solution, not yet presented, is econ... |
197964_0 | Bluefields Journal; In a Buffeted Land, the Deadliest Blow Is Nature's | LEAD: From a low-flying plane, southern Nicaragua's tropical rain forest looks as if it had been subject to saturation bombing. From a low-flying plane, southern Nicaragua's tropical rain forest looks as if it had been subject to saturation bombing. What was once a lush and unbroken green canopy is now a wasteland. The... |
197964_3 | Bluefields Journal; In a Buffeted Land, the Deadliest Blow Is Nature's | it because we didn't have 50,000 victims,'' Mr. Tefel said. ''The aid from abroad in these cases is always insufficient.'' Cuba is the first country to respond fully to Nicaragua's appeals for foreign help. Mr. Tefel said that of the 25,000 tons of food, medicine and other necessities received so far, half has been Cub... |
200639_0 | Navy Removes Captain Over Japan Shelling | LEAD: The captain of a United States Navy destroyer that fired a volley of shells near a Japanese patrol boat 12 days ago, touching off a sharp protest from Japan, has been relieved of his command, Navy officials said today. The captain of a United States Navy destroyer that fired a volley of shells near a Japanese pat... |
200641_6 | British Brain Drain Enriches U.S. Colleges | mix that scholars say places it among nation's top schools in French history. C. Duncan Rice, N.Y.U.'s dean of arts and sciences, said the acquisition of scholars like Professor Judt ''makes an extraordinary difference'' in ''the liveliness of our own intellectual community.'' Dean Rice, a Scotsman who came here two de... |
202180_0 | A Priority for Bush | LEAD: In Brazil's great undeveloped Amazon basin, the national Government spent $600 million in tax credits to subsidize the development - between 1965 and 1983 - of 469 cattle ranches averaging 23,000 hectares each (about 57,500 acres). In Brazil's great undeveloped Amazon basin, the national Government spent $600 mil... |
202189_0 | GLOBAL BRIEFS | LEAD: * Cuba will be the location of a $4 million coconut processing factory to be built by Cimmco Ltd., a subsidiary of India's family-owned Birla conglomerate. Cimmco's president, D. K. Goyal, said the plant in the eastern city of Baracoa would produce edible oil and fiber for carpets, curtains and mattresses. * Cuba... |
202185_1 | On Your Own; Matching Navigational Skills With a Computer | navigation units, automatic direction finder, depth sounder, radio, a steering stand, and a console with such readouts as rudder angle and engine revolutions. On one of the bridges, a visual display screen reproduces landmarks you might see while cruising. Twenty computer data bases recreate segments of offshore New Yo... |
202212_1 | After 2 Years, Ship Dumps Toxic Ash | that it had been dropped in the Indian Ocean. The ship was anchored in international waters off Singapore, the police here and in neighboring Malaysia said. It arrived in the area early last week. A spokesman for the Port of Singapore Authority, who did not wish to be identified, said the vessel had unloaded its cargo ... |
194240_1 | U.N. Says Human Rights Abuses Are Continuing Throughout Iran | rights situation in Iran since 1985, issuing a series of annual reports, all of which have found evidence of widespread absues. The report today drew attention to a ''wave of executions'' that it said occurred in Iran over the summer and were carried out mainly against ''members of various opposition groups'' including... |
194345_0 | Prominent U.S. Bishops Sharply Assail Vatican | LEAD: A panel of prominent Roman Catholic bishops in the United States has issued a scathing rejection of a Vatican document that questions the authority of regional bishops' conferences. A panel of prominent Roman Catholic bishops in the United States has issued a scathing rejection of a Vatican document that question... |
201380_1 | Prague Steps Up Harassment of Religious Groups | order described interrogations by security officers whose aim, they said, was to enlist their services as informers. The stepped-up Government harassment is widely viewed here as part of a broader Government drive to curb independent activity. Roman Catholic advocates of change, human rights campaigners and independent... |
201470_1 | Battered and Abused | is surely coming too late for the millions of Chinese facing starvation this winter. Elsewhere, the deforestation of the earth - at its worst in the developing world -seems to be proceeding inexorably. The World Watch Institute has reported, for example, that ''in less than a decade forest cover within 100 kilometers o... |
198927_5 | Giant Telescope Collapses; Big U.S. Research Setback | the huge antenna at the Crab Nebula, a huge region of incandescent gas known to be the remnant of a supernova explosion in the year 1054. At the heart of the Crab, the big radiotelescope detected a rapidly pulsing radio star, clear evidence that the supernova had forged a spinning, super-dense star consisting mostly of... |
198928_0 | Soviet Space Radiation Hampering U.S. Satellite | LEAD: Radiation from Soviet nuclear reactors in space is hampering the operation of an American satellite designed to measure invisible gamma rays from the Sun, scientists said yesterday. Radiation from Soviet nuclear reactors in space is hampering the operation of an American satellite designed to measure invisible ga... |
198950_0 | U.S. Bishops Reject Bid By Vatican to Curb Role | LEAD: The nation's Roman Catholic bishops sent a powerful message to the Vatican today that they would not sit quietly by while their powers to act as the regional Catholic authority were belittled by Rome. The nation's Roman Catholic bishops sent a powerful message to the Vatican today that they would not sit quietly ... |
199023_1 | Public Workers' Strikes Jolt French Prime Minister | Rocard, eager to demonstrate rigor at the outset of his term in office, has continued to preach the virtues of a certain austerity. An aide to the Prime Minister noted that public-sector strike settlements have so far involved wage increases of 2.2 percent to 2.8 percent, lower than the private sector and below an infl... |
201914_1 | Philadelphia Ash Gone After 2-Year Odyssey | the Indian Ocean. The ship remained anchored today in international waters off Singapore, the police here and in neighboring Malaysia said. It arrived in the area earlier this week. A spokesman for the Port of Singapore Authority, who did not wish to be identified, said the vessel had unloaded its cargo but would not b... |
202049_5 | Not Afraid of Sounding Major | of Hopkins and Auden, is used by Mr. Brodsky in a strangely literal sense: the hawk is taken so high by racing air currents that he cannot come down; as he feels his warmth expire in the icy air he utters a scream, ''like some family crockery being broken,'' and his feathers - ''commas, ellipses, spirals, linking / hea... |
202075_2 | A Substitute for Road Salt Faces Its First Test in County | acidic acid, sells for $650 a ton. I.B.M.'s salt problem is ''no worse than anyone's,'' Mr. Cox said, but ''we are all looking for alternatives to get rid of road salt.'' For the last two years calcium magnesium acetate has been manufactured for the Federal Highway Administration by the Chevron Corporation, following t... |
201950_5 | A Guide for the Perplexed In the World of Ski Racks | with elastic cords. ''The worst part is you have a filthy bag to handle when you arrive,'' he said. ''But you don't have filthy skis.'' Beyond covers and bags are pods. That's the official term, but to laymen they're rooftop boxes and in the trade they're known as aerodynamic coffins. These are big glass fiber lockers ... |
195245_0 | AN INDUSTRY OF SCIENTISTS TURNS TO VETERAN MANAGERS | LEAD: Centocor is just one of a slew of biotechnology companies going through management transition. Following are sketches of several others. Genetics Institute Inc. Scarcely four months after Thomas Maniatis and Mark Ptashne, two Harvard professors, started this company in 1980, they brought Gabriel Schmergel in as c... |
195488_0 | Reworking the Classics: Homage or Ego Trip? | LEAD: The most controversial issue in the theater today continues to be the reinterpretation or ''deconstruction'' of celebrated classical plays. There is no theatrical activity that more inflames purist sensibilities in criticism and the academy - nothing that stimulates as many caustic generalizations about the debas... |
195501_3 | LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN'S DISCREET PROVOCATIONS | Bordeaux, where the dye was used in the production of French cottons. In a remarkable feat of scholarship, Baumgarten published in 1982 a book in which some 250 different species of tree were studied, together with a vast body of local customs. Quite apart from being a monumental read, the book had a large number of il... |
195511_3 | By Freighter To the Island Of St. Helena | banquettes, perfect spots for an exchange of nautical gossip. A one-armed bandit, patronized primarily by the young, stands by the bar. The ship's informality is evident from the second day at sea when last names are abandoned, and many passengers choose to go barefoot. ''Call me captain or call me Bob,'' the master of... |
195259_4 | A Mind Lost and Found | was the second signpost. Images of the components of words, the letters, were now seen by the occipital lobes, but these symbols could not stream forward into the nearby language centers in the left brain, where word recognition takes place. People with an acquired alexia often write and speak quite well, but cannot re... |
195232_0 | Staying Alive In Biotech | LEAD: Four years ago Centocor Inc., then a fledgling biotechnology company, put the finishing touches on its first product, a blood test for gastrointestinal cancer. Its scientists and managers went into the Food and Drug Administration with a plethora of arrogance but a paucity of tightly documented manufacturing proc... |
195397_2 | India Strives To Safeguard Its Woodland | by organizing villagers to protect trees and wildlife. A Losing Battle Yet, the task of saving the country's forests is a big one, and despite the best efforts of the Government and the volunteer groups it appears to be a losing battle. Officials and environmentalists say that corrupt officials, politicians and loggers... |
195249_12 | TEARING APART EASTERN AIRLINES | and the flight attendants expected Lorenzo to show appreciation for the 20 percent wage concessions they had made and to focus on the machinists, who had given up nothing. ''Instead, he started pushing all of us and wouldn't let up,'' says Jack Bavis, head of the pilots' union. ''He left no room. He gave us no hope.'' ... |
195453_0 | KEAN PLANS TO CURB GROWTH, WITH OR WITHOUT THE LEGISLATURE | LEAD: WHEN their environmental bills are blocked in the State Legislature, New Jersey governors have found a detour around the obstacle: They reach for the pen to accomplish by fiat what they have been unable to do through negotiation. WHEN their environmental bills are blocked in the State Legislature, New Jersey gove... |
195163_1 | A Great Equalizer For the Disabled | would have been dependent on others. For example, 46-year-old Stephen W. Hawking, the brilliant Cambridge University physicist with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a progressive motor-neuron disorder often called Lou Gehrig's disease), lost even his limited ability to make sounds three years ago when doctors performed a... |
193485_7 | Major New Studies Near Nuclear Plants Seek Health Effects of Radiation Leaks | professionals will study all those cases by detailed research at the scene to see what cause and effect can be proved. In this study the scientists will be looking at all cancer deaths, but will be particularly interested in leukemias, because they are the most easily induced by radiation. Leukemias are uncommon enough... |
199147_4 | Female Sex Hormone Is Tied To Ability to Perform Tasks | birth control pills, which mimic the hormonal effects of pregnancy. Dr. Kimura also hopes to study women who take drugs to combat endometriosis, a condition in which uterine tissue migrates elsewhere in the abdomen. These drugs artificially reduce estrogen. Dr. Kimura said men might also experience fluctuations in cogn... |
199207_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | women between estrogen and their ability to perform verbal and spatial tasks has been demonstrated for the first time by two Canadian psychologists in two studies involving 200 women. A1 A move to support the falling dollar was made by the United States and 10 allies as they intervened in currency markets, but their co... |
199980_0 | China's Urbanization Is Bureaucratic Fantasy | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In your Nov. 2 news story on China's admission that it has eased restrictions on new births, the head of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in Beijing is quoted as calling China's recent urbanization rate ''fantastic.'' It appears that the urban population has jumped f... |
200094_2 | GOING TO EXTREMES | ''that Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas loved Maggie Fox of the spirit rappings.'' In that direction, at least, Kane had no illusions; Miss Fox produced her effects by cracking her double-jointed toes. Far from the world of spirit rappings, there is the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, finally navigating the Northwest Passage ... |
199998_0 | A MOTHER'S FURY | LEAD: Richard Selzer describes the ferocity of a mother elk's desperate struggle to protect her calf from three predatory coyotes, in his article ''A Mother's Fury'' (Oct. 23). Richard Selzer describes the ferocity of a mother elk's desperate struggle to protect her calf from three predatory coyotes, in his article ''A... |
200042_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-22 INTERNATIONAL/3-22 A Canadian sense of national identity that differs markedly from the United States' is at the core of opposition to a trade agreement with Washington. Page 1 A new Sony walkman is being tested in Japan by the Sony Corporation. It is a miniature television and video-cassette r... |
199615_5 | Criticism on Halting Of Microwave Study | to assess microwave exposure needs to be addressed further.'' He said that ''although there are potentially large errors inherent in analytical methods, the fact is that assessment can be accomplished to any degree of accuracy provided one is willing to spend enough money.'' Omissions Criticized Another panelist, Dr. W... |
199931_5 | Civilization's Cancer | Japanese should catch up to this country soon, and we should get still worse. But the puzzle remains. Dr. Stanley G. Korenman of the University of California at Los Angeles has tried to embrace many aspects of risk with his ''estrogen window'' hypothesis. It holds that unopposed estrogen - that is, estrogen whose adver... |
198565_2 | At Vatican's Bidding, Bishops Set Aside Dispute Procedures | last few years hammering out declarations against the spread of nuclear weapons and in support of more assistance to the poor. The procedures on resolving differences between bishops and theologians were set out in a document called ''Doctrinal Responsibilities,'' developed by a committee headed by Bishop Raymond W. Le... |
195011_0 | Letter Bomb of the Computer Age | LEAD: The electronic networks that distribute mail between computers are as vulnerable to sabotage as the Postal Service. The letter bomb of the computer age is a program that clogs up or damages recipient computers. This week, one closed down thousands of computers at universities and Government laboratories from coas... |
194027_0 | Beijing Admits Easing of Birth Limits | LEAD: A Chinese official acknowledged today that the country is not strictly applying a policy limiting each couple to one child, and that as a result it will not meet its target for restraining population growth. A Chinese official acknowledged today that the country is not strictly applying a policy limiting each cou... |
193817_5 | Fresh Food: Today It Has Staying Power | loath to use preservatives and still define their food as fresh, preservatives do protect against stores or shippers that fail to keep fresh foods at the proper temperatures. The Orval Kent Food Company in Wheeling, Ill., sells prepared salads to supermarkets and restaurants. It has seen sales increase to $175 million ... |
195806_1 | Anglican Church Bars U.S.-Ordained Woman | members would be regarded as trespassers if they continued to use the Chapel for Ms. Fageol's services. Ms. Fageol celebrated Communion last week in a parking lot outside St. Benet's, the chapel of Queen Mary's College of London University, using a folding table as an altar. Attempts to open the Church of England's pri... |
195749_1 | New Space Beacons Replace the Compass | milestone. Guided by the system, a missile traveling to the opposite side of the world could hit within a few dozen feet of its target, Pentagon officials say. The system could infallibly lead an assault team through trackless jungle to an enemy stronghold, a bomber to a single enemy building or a boat to a gap in a da... |
202721_0 | Sugar Prices Rise on Fear Of a Developing Shortage | LEAD: Sugar futures prices surged yesterday despite a lack of news, a sign of the market's increasing concern about the possibility of a supply shortage, analysts said. Sugar futures prices surged yesterday despite a lack of news, a sign of the market's increasing concern about the possibility of a supply shortage, ana... |
202713_2 | Talking of Terror | attention to our cause.'' Of course, the threat is still terrorism. In 1970 he took part in the hijacking of three airliners that were kept in the Jordanian desert for a week and then blown up. He notes that there were no casualties, and says his role was to explain the cause to the passengers. Bassam says a New York r... |
202769_0 | Ban Sought on Drugs to Halt Flow of Milk After Childbirth | LEAD: Two health advocacy groups petitioned the Food and Drug Administration today to ban the use of hormones and drugs for stopping milk production and breast engorgement that is sometimes painful in women who do not breast feed after giving birth. Two health advocacy groups petitioned the Food and Drug Administration... |
202729_1 | Minor Gains in Ecology And Major Challenges | and present, as well as scientists, environmentalists and other experts interviewed in recent months generally agreed that the effort to clean up the environment has made some progress and certainly has held the line against what would have been much worse environmental degradation in the face of population growth and ... |
202716_1 | Education; School Trouble-Solvers To Win Cash Awards | The first 10 winners, who can be either individuals or teams, will be announced March 15. Those who came up with the winning program will receive $5,000 awards. Reader's Digest will donate an additional $10,000 to the school to help carry on the award-winning project or program. Only programs that have proved effective... |
202353_3 | The Star Wars Program Prepares for a Year of Reckoning | find and track speeding missiles and warheads. A key question is whether it can sort warheads from hundreds of thousands of decoys and bits of debris, which an attacker would scatter to try to defeat any defensive system. While Boeing is the project's main contractor, the 5.5-ton sensor was built by the Hughes Aircraft... |
202417_3 | Pervasive Chemical, Crucial to the Body, Is Indicted as an Agent in Brain Damage | compounds - a servant of life - to act as an agent of destruction under certain circumstances. Something necessary to life turns into a murderous agent.'' The new research builds on the accepted model of how neurons communicate with one another. Neurons are cell bodies with long extensions, called dendrites, that lie a... |
200753_3 | Newest Incubator for Philosophers Is Third Grade | thoughtful air more appropriate to graduate scholars than to third graders. ''How do you know that?'' Maia Steward challenged Karl Hilton when he said his desk was real. ''I disagree and I agree!'' declared Kim Perillo when Karl offered his reason. At one point, Karl argued that his desk was real because ''you can put ... |
200768_2 | Withstanding 3,000-Degree Heat | containers to store nuclear wastes, which can generate high temperatures, and as laser shields in ''Star Wars'' space-based systems where the heat of high-powered laser beams would be used to destroy satellites and other space vehicles. The substance's strength and the benign behavior of carbon in the body might also m... |
177074_0 | Foundations Expand Family Planning Aid Abroad | LEAD: Two of the wealthiest foundations in the United States are starting multimillion-dollar programs to curb unwanted population growth in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Two of the wealthiest foundations in the United States are starting multimillion-dollar programs to curb unwanted population growth in Asia, Africa... |
177120_3 | Heavy Workouts Can Be Damaging | therapies for menopausal women. Most young women shy away from this possibility, and rightly so, because estrogen replacement opens up the possibility of side effects. Little is known about side effects in young women, but in menopausal women estrogen replacement therapy has been associated with endometrail and breast ... |
177102_6 | Tradition Makes Way For an Unorthodox Series | Fay has asked the jury to rule on issues in the sailing instructions that he hasn't been able to resolve with the San Diego Yacht Club. Among them is disagreement over the penalty for violating a racing rule, and a question about the way the crew on Stars & Stripes tacks the hard sail during a race. Conner conceded tha... |
182115_1 | From Afar, Both Candidates Are Environmentalists . . . | * Encourage recycling and the reduction of wastes at the source on a national level, and assist states and regions to establish stable national markets for recycled material. We must manage Federally-owned lands in the long-term public interest. This means protecting national forests and grazing lands from excessive gr... |
179923_5 | A Revival for the Rear-Wheel-Drive Car | ones that compete in the Indianapolis 500, have the engine mounted near the middle of the car, driving the rear wheels. The Challenge of Braking Weight transfer has the opposite effect on braking. When the brakes are applied, weight shifts to the already heavily loaded front wheels. The lightly loaded rear wheels canno... |
178298_10 | Breaking Out of the Biotech Pack | The three companies are locked in a tangled patent infringement litigation with suits piled upon countersuits. But when a letter signed only ''Pimpernel'' arrived at Genetics' Cambridge, Mass., offices in June, containing secret Amgen information and promising more in return for $150,000, or 10,000 shares of stock, Gen... |
178277_1 | On College Costs: A Presidential Idea | family income since 1980. Government hasn't filled the gap. Adjusted for inflation, aid has fallen by 6 percent and more is in loans, forcing more students and families to take on big debts. Washington could increase aid above the current $15 billion level, offering more grants to the poor and easing eligibility restri... |
178270_7 | Under a Roof Of Thatch In the Jungle | tree whose great trunk is used as a local form of communication. (A whack to its side makes a noise that can be heard nearly a mile away.) And by cutting and slicing palm fronds, he showed us how our lodge's own roof had been made. One afternoon, however, I passed up both expeditions in order to remain alone in the lod... |
178245_1 | Chosen and Given | But his and other studies of adoptees are reaching some surprising conclusions about the ramifications of being adopted. Even people like my geometry student, adopted as infants, go through troubled periods in their lives when they grieve for the unkown parents who gave them away. ''A lot of the behavioral problems see... |
181845_1 | POPE TO KEEP BAN ON WOMEN PRIESTS | anthropological meditation on the roles that women play in the Roman Catholic Church and in secular society. In a long-awaited document on women's issues, Pope John Paul II will reaffirm his opposition to the ordination of women as priests, Vatican officials said today. The text is to be issued next week. The Pope also... |
177696_0 | Move to Curtail Textile Imports Gains in Senate | LEAD: A bill to limit the growth of imports of textiles, clothing and shoes cleared a major hurdle in the Senate today, virtually assuring its passage and setting the stage for another election-year trade confrontation between Congress and the Reagan Administration. A bill to limit the growth of imports of textiles, cl... |
183921_0 | Mitterrand Urges Sanctions Against Users of Poison Gas | LEAD: President Francois Mitterrand told the United Nations General Assembly today that a wide range of international trade sanctions should be imposed on any nation using poison gas or other chemical weapons against its own citizens or another country. President Francois Mitterrand told the United Nations General Asse... |
177169_0 | Estrogen Reduces Risk of Stroke After Menopause | LEAD: WOMEN taking estrogen after menopause were half as likely to die from a stroke as women who had not taken the female hormone, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. WOMEN taking estrogen after menopause were half as likely to die from a stroke as women who had not taken the female hormone, accor... |
177161_0 | Q&A | LEAD: Q. If osteoporosis occurs more often in postmenopausal women because of estrogen deficiency, why don't men get it even more often, and at younger ages? A. It is true that men don't have as much of the hormone estrogen as women, but ''the male hormone androgen, which normal men have in considerably supply, appears... |
183069_1 | Meadowlands: Studies Dispute Link to Cancer | and the cancers. ''They were pretty outrageous stories,'' he said. ''So we took the best three people we could find and asked them to do whatever is necessary to study the situation and make the results public.'' The three-member panel was headed by Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, director of the environmental and occupationa... |
182971_2 | Curb on Bear Watching Leaves Uneasy Truce | maulings in national parks that once had garbage dumps that bears become most dangerous when they associate people with food. ''We think we have a bomb there and it's ticking,'' said Ken Mitchell, the United States Forest Service's director for the Admiralty Island National Monument. Mr. Mitchell supports a plan that F... |
182944_1 | Researchers Detect Chemical Differences In Muscle Fatigue | complexities of fatigue and then perhaps even design treatments or diets to combat it,'' said Dr. Robert Miller, chief of clinical neurology at Children's Hospital of San Francisco. Few Spectrometers in U.S. Dr. Michael Weiner, director of magnetic resonance studies at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical ... |
182980_1 | Shuttle's Giant Payload Aims to Broaden Links to Space | Earth, far above the path of the shuttle, which orbits at about 184 miles up. The two giant satellites together will be able to relay messages from spacecraft, including future shuttles, traveling over the far corners of Earth, for the first time allowing nearly continuous communications with a single ground station in... |
183017_2 | In Goshen, Challenge on Power Line's Effect | of a health risk and, therefore, be willing to pay less.'' The authority argues that there is no an adequate scientific basis for fearing cancer or other harmful effects. ''You can find some studies in modern science today to support any proposition you can dream up,'' said a lawyer in Washington who represents the aut... |
179659_5 | U.S. TRADE DEFICIT IMPROVES SHARPLY AS IMPORTS PLUNGE | data - one including freight and insurance and the other without - on the same day. This change, mandated by the comprehensive new trade legislation and long urged by economists, is intended to put exports and imports on the same footing. The trade law undid a measure sponsored in the mid-1970's by Senator Russell B. L... |
179550_1 | Health; Breast Cancer Drug Therapies Compared | from symptoms of breast cancer and in reducing the death rate from the disease. But these studies failed to resolve questions about which drugs to use, the best time to begin treatment, how long to continue it and the theories for such choices. The new study was undertaken in part to address the questions of timing and... |
179504_1 | China Has Humane and Fair Birth Policy | story, Aug. 13). I have twice been to China and have studied China's birth policy in cities and rural areas. Only about 20 percent of Chinese families choose to be one-child families. As such, they have certain privileges. No one prevents the others from having two or more children. Indeed, those who choose one child a... |
178862_0 | U.S. to Complete Emergency Radio Network | LEAD: The Air Force has quietly approved the final construction phase for a nuclear ''doomsday'' radio network, concluding that the project can be expanded without harming the environment. The Air Force has quietly approved the final construction phase for a nuclear ''doomsday'' radio network, concluding that the proje... |
180555_1 | 5 Cities to Get Help With Recycling | in the Bethanys and the Woodbridges.'' Mr. Selden said working with apartment dwellers, retailers, big corporations, hospitals and others was not as easy as enlisting the aid of homeowners. A small city, he added, might work with one or two haulers on recycling and a large city might work with a dozen or more. And wher... |
180404_1 | Hit the Worst, Yucatan Begins a Long Cleanup | the casualties included fishermen drowned at sea and washed ashore, and two women and two young girls crushed when a wall fell on the house in which they had taken refuge from the storm. Three days later, the hurricane's handiwork is visible everywhere. But perhaps the most stunning reminder of the storm's tremendous f... |
180181_2 | Navigating Through a Job Hunt | treasure and are almost guaranteed a high-paying job in any business that has two or more computers.) Through a series of interactive exercises, Career Navigator can help job seekers identify their skills, values, interests and personal style. The program is especially easy to use, and the documentation actually adds t... |
180508_0 | Family is Aim of Clergy Group | LEAD: A COALITION of the clergy and conservative legislators will hire a lobbyist and encourage the General Assembly next year to pass legislation promoting ''a societal return to godliness,'' leaders of the group have announced. A COALITION of the clergy and conservative legislators will hire a lobbyist and encourage ... |
180276_0 | NORTHEAST JOURNAL | LEAD: Rice Grows On the Anacostia Rice Grows On the Anacostia ALONG the Anacostia River, which ecologists have called virtually dead, some hardy plantings of wild rice are raising hopes for the river's future. The Anacostia, a tributary of the Potomac that was once a marshland with lush aquatic plants, has suffered the... |
180237_1 | Recycling Equipment Is User-Friendly | I can understand that some consumers still feel threatened by 20th-century technology - there must be plenty of people who still prefer going into their banks to get cash from a teller over dealing with a 24-hour cash machine - the Redeemers are being used by tens of thousands of Connecticut and New York shoppers each ... |
180541_1 | Graduates Need Marketable Skills | told them - not parents, friends, or teachers throughout their 16 years of schooling - that without marketable office skills, they are virtually unemployable. Fundamentally, what these newly minted liberal arts graduates are suffering from is reality shock [ ''Brand-New Degree and No Place to Go,'' Aug. 28 ] . For the ... |
181022_2 | Israel Launches Space Program And a Satellite | the actual techniques,'' but he did not discount the possibility that future satellites would have military applications. Israeli crowds at a Mediterranean beach broke into cheers as they saw the rocket rise into a clear blue sky from an undisclosed launching site at 11:32 this morning. ''That's it!'' exclaimed a repor... |
180900_0 | Auto Wrecks Yield to Computer Analysis | LEAD: APPLYING new computer programs and long-known laws of physics, scientists have become increasingly adept at recreating and analyzing car crashes, providing a powerful tool for improving automotive safety and resolving legal disputes. APPLYING new computer programs and long-known laws of physics, scientists have b... |
180929_1 | Daggers of Debt, Drugs Aiming At the Americas | region has already lost a whole decade of development and its recovery remains blocked by a massive burden of unpayable debt. The partial measures taken so far have kept most of these countries on a treadmill of painful austerity, economic stagnation and rising debt. Fragile democracies throughout the region are losing... |
180971_1 | Blacks Gain Again in College Admission Tests | students took the American College Tests this year - an increase of 8 percent. The Scholastic Aptitude Test consists of two sections, verbal and mathematics, with a maximum score of 800 for each section. The overall national average in the verbal section was 428 this year, while the overall average math score was 476. ... |
175954_0 | I.R.A. Syas 3 Slain Were on Mission | LEAD: The Irish Republican Army said today that three men killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on Tuesday were I.R.A. members ''on active service.'' The group uses the phrase to refer to a guerrilla mission. The Irish Republican Army said today that three men killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on ... |
175866_0 | Santiago Journal; Can Cuba Be Fun Again? Yes, but No Sex Please | LEAD: Out on the Caribbean coast east of here, a new resort is gearing up for its first winter season. In the capital, the old Havana Hilton, now called the Havana Libre, is being remodeled. At the glorious white-sand Varadero Beach a new airport for jumbo jets is nearing completion and several more hotels are going up... |
178015_1 | Flood-Ravaged Bangladesh Seeks Plan to Control Rivers | Officials there think it will be three to six months before something resembling a normal existence returns. 'A Terrible Human Tragedy' Brig. Gen. Subed Ali Bhuya and his infantry brigade there are feeding and housing nearly 30,000 people, 12,000 head of cattle and innumerable chickens and goats. ''Their houses were wa... |
176540_0 | CONSUMER'S WORLD: Guidepost; Keeping Children's Records | LEAD: The start of the school year is a good time to establish a system for the records - academic, medical and legal - that will be needed as your child advances. The start of the school year is a good time to establish a system for the records - academic, medical and legal - that will be needed as your child advances... |
181601_2 | Archdiocese to Hold Synod And Give Laity a Voice in It | the archdiocese's sheer size. With 1.8 million Catholics, New York City is not only the third-largest archdiocese in the nation, after Los Angeles and Chicago, but it is also spread out geographically. Its 4,700 square miles take in Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster Counties as well a... |
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