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183279_0 | A New Way to Get Rid of Old Tires | LEAD: For several decades America has been struggling with the disposal of old tires. They number about two billion and are growing by 240 million a year. Most methods for dealing with the problem have either been too expensive or have run into environmental barriers. For several decades America has been struggling wit... |
182563_0 | Comforting the Afflicted in an Intolerant World | LEAD: FROM its beginnings just after World War II, United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau has been guiding the helpless toward as normal a life as is possible and teaching them to cope with a largely uncaring, if not intolerant, world. FROM its beginnings just after World War II, United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau has been guidi... |
182435_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-19 INTERNATIONAL/3-19 Iran is becoming more moderate, distancing itself from the aggressive policies that characterized its behavior in the last few years, Iranian officials and experts in Persian Gulf affairs said. Page 1 The dollar's going value was backed by economic officials from the major in... |
182283_0 | Florence's Artistry in Wood | LEAD: FIORENZO BARTOLOZZI, say his friends, is a mixture of Geppetto, the carpenter who created Pinocchio, and Einstein. When the ancient Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino was reduced to rubble by Allied bombs during World War II, it was to the workshop of Bartolozzi & Maioli in Florence that the monks came for help i... |
182227_7 | Conquering Those Killer Queues | Third Avenue. A Chemical branch was on the ground floor. American executives stopped there to cash paychecks and were smitten by the concept. So they copied it at their airport counters. Other airlines then copied American. ''Now we get virtually no written complaints about waiting,'' said Ron Phillips, American's vice... |
182231_0 | Collecting Recyclables For Profits and Grades | LEAD: ON the campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey, students at the business and engineering schools are participating in an unusual experiment: sifting through barrels of discarded plastic garbage. ON the campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey, students at the business and engineering schools are participatin... |
182480_0 | MEDICINE ND ITS DISCONTENTS | LEAD: WORSE THAN THE DISEASE Pitfalls of Medical Progress. By Diana B. Dutton with Thomas A. Preston and Nancy E. Pfund. 528 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press. WORSE THAN THE DISEASE Pitfalls of Medical Progress. By Diana B. Dutton with Thomas A. Preston and Nancy E. Pfund. 528 pp. New York: Cambridge University... |
182522_0 | Security Concerns on the Waterfront | LEAD: DESPITE the security problems of living on a waterfront, people still want houses there and will pay millions of dollars for them, a longtime real-estate agent says. DESPITE the security problems of living on a waterfront, people still want houses there and will pay millions of dollars for them, a longtime real-e... |
182234_0 | Finding Ways to Turn Trash Into Cash | LEAD: IT will soon be harder to get rid of products made with plastic, that substance that has come to symbolize our throwaway society. Discarded plastic bottles, milk jugs and fast-food containers - not to mention the plastic syringes and vials that have washed up on our beaches - are flooding the nation's already-ove... |
182387_2 | Episcopal Diocese Chooses First Woman to Be a Bishop | Archdeacon for urban ministries of the Diocese of Newark, the Venerable Denise Lee Haines. Mr. Hunt was nominated by petitions from the delegates. Ms. Harris, who has long been active in Philadelphia in issues involving peace and justice, fueled the controversy over the ordination of women as bishops last summer when s... |
182340_5 | Space Shuttle Is Poised to Fly With Fragile Cargo of Dreams | for can-do accomplishment plummeted into the ocean with the pieces of the Challenger. Since the accident, space experts say, the agency has been on ''a sad trajectory,'' struggling to rebuild the shuttle program but lacking a clear sense of purpose or the political might to shape its destiny. ''As we go into a new Admi... |
182233_0 | From Bottles to Bathtubs - Sinks and Showers, Too | LEAD: WHAT do bathtubs, boat piers, flower pots and carpets have in common? Answer: they are all products that have been made from recycled plastic bottles. WHAT do bathtubs, boat piers, flower pots and carpets have in common? Answer: they are all products that have been made from recycled plastic bottles. On the face ... |
179990_7 | HURRICANE ROARS INTO MEXICO AGAIN WITH LESS FORCE | it, and then we realized it was a tornado,'' he said. An estimated 20,000 people were staying at shelters in the Brownsville area, and about that many were at shelters in Matamoros across the border in Mexico, including 3,000 staying in railroad cars, officials said. Matamoros, a city of about 280,000 people, has shelt... |
176757_2 | Protect Your Garbage Cans! Young Bears Are Coming | at about 7,500 and growing, despite an attempt to keep the level stable through hunting. In New Jersey, Patty McConnell, the bear expert of the state's Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, reported a ''dramatic growth'' in the number of bears in the northern part of the state, particularly in Sussex County and western ... |
176880_7 | ELECTION PLACING FOCUS ON THE ISSUE OF JOBS VS. WAGES | of the trauma caused by massive layoffs in the early 1980's. In addition, there has been a sharp increase since the late 1970's in the number of part-time workers who would switch to full-time jobs if they could get them, economists say. Finally, the layoffs in the early 1980's hit hardest at well-paying manufacturing ... |
176802_3 | Windows Into a World of Unshakable Faith | sanctity of the figure whose likeness it bears.'' An icon could stand alone in churches. It could be a narrative of Gospel scenes made for altar screens. It could be portable and serve as a private devotional object. It could be on the apse of a cathedral. It could be a mural. The exhibition includes wall paintings fro... |
176993_0 | Noted With Pleasure | LEAD: The Tired Readers Though she saw all readers as tired a priori - tired by both life and literature - Flannery O'Connor thought that a good story ought to be able to overcome their inertia. This is from her ''Collected Works'' (Library of America). The Tired Readers Though she saw all readers as tired a priori - t... |
176604_4 | If You're Thinking of Living in:; Woodcliff Lake | show that at the time of incorporation - when the area was called Woodcliff - there were only 31 taxpayers. In 1895, a one-room schoolhouse was built, a stone structure that is still being used as the art room at the middle school. It wasn't until 1910 that the borough officially added ''Lake'' to its name, although re... |
180784_4 | Lisbon Journal; A City's Heart in Ruins: Now to Put It Together | in Lisbon is tied to Chiado. What happens there will affect other sections of the city with narrow streets and potential fire hazards. But the main debate is over how a new Chiado should look. Ever since the architect Tomas Taveira designed the ultramodern Amoreiras shopping complex, residents of Lisbon have debated ol... |
180647_0 | Unseal the Records For Adoptive Parents | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The tragedies many adoptive families face as a result of living under the oppression of sealed records was poignantly described in ''Adoptive Parents Ask States for Help With Abused Young'' (front page, Aug. 22), on a class-action suit by seven couples against the Texas Department of... |
180648_0 | China Has Also Been a Dragon of the Seas | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: It is simply erroneous to say that ''China has historically avoided significant maritime activity except for a brief period in the early 15th century.'' ''Along the Chinese Coastline, Economic Dragon Awakens'' (front page, Aug. 13) unfortunately perpetuates a hoary stereotype about C... |
179014_2 | S.A.T. Guide on Disk | Guide for the SAT'' is published by Simon & Schuster Hardware, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., and has a suggested retail price of $39.95. There are also versions available for the Apple II series and Commodore 64/128 for $34.95 and $29.95 respectively. After you've graduated from college, it's job-hunting time. T... |
181225_2 | Teachers Tackle Child Abuse | and Child Caring Agencies, a nonprofit organization representing 140 private agencies in New York State that provide foster care and child-welfare services. The Board of Education has reprinted 200,000 of the manuals for its staff. The manual was designed to help people who work with children recognize the physical and... |
182821_0 | Before It's Built, A Road Suffers Political Gridlock | LEAD: Callers to a new State Transportation Department office on Fifth Avenue are informed that they have reached the ''Route 9A Reconstruction Project.'' Callers to a new State Transportation Department office on Fifth Avenue are informed that they have reached the ''Route 9A Reconstruction Project.'' ''The name is in... |
182791_0 | Advocate Of Equality: Barbara C. Harris | LEAD: On July 29, 1974, when women were first ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church, a young black public relations executive and civil rights worker literally led the way. Holding the crucifix high, she led the procession into Philadelphia's massive Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, where three On July 29,... |
179238_2 | Economic Scene; The Dukakis Plan On College Loans | everyone to educate the children of a few. A more significant concern is practical: students with high earning potential would have an incentive to borrow elsewhere. The payroll tax would then have to be raised to unacceptable levels to keep the system in the black. Such ''adverse selection,'' Mr. Carnes says, forced Y... |
177517_1 | Education; Lessons | to strangle a marshmallow. Public ones have political constituencies that are as tenacious as those of post offices and military installations. Even private colleges that have lost their natural constituencies have a way of surviving by finding new ones. Also involved are some profound trends that have gone largely unn... |
177353_1 | On Disarming, France Opens a Door | 35-nation conference in Vienna that is drafting the mandate for a new forum on conventional disarmament from the Atlantic to the Urals. The two Foreign Ministers appealed for a swift conclusion to the conference, which has been stalled by Rumania's refusal to accept certain texts on human rights. A senior presidential ... |
177496_1 | China Takes Harsh Population Measures | violated China's policy encouraging one-child families'' (news article, Aug. 6). Further, according to new guidelines, the United States may in some cases consider noncompliance with China's population policy ''an act of political defiance sufficient to establish refugee status.'' As the article notes, the Chinese Gove... |
159117_3 | Questions On Health And PC's | is prospective (studying health problems of a test population as they develop) rather than retrospective (taking a sample population and then trying to look back to see what might have happened to them). The Kaiser Permanente study was retrospective. The Mount Sinai study is awaiting Federal funds. The studies seem to ... |
158986_1 | Key Parts of Soviet Plan for Change | the people is under way. New methods of economic management are growing more effective, industrial amalgamations and enterprises are beginning to work on the lines of cost-effectiveness and self-recoupment in compliance with the law on the state enterprise (amalgamation). The law on cooperatives in the U.S.S.R. has bee... |
158955_0 | Gene-Altered 'Vaccine' For Corn Is Tested | LEAD: Scientists have injected 2,200 corn stalks with a microbe effective against the destructive European corn borer in the first approved outdoor test of a genetically engineered ''plant vaccine.'' Scientists have injected 2,200 corn stalks with a microbe effective against the destructive European corn borer in the f... |
164125_3 | Across Lake Michigan On a Deck Chair | freight canoes might not put ashore for days and often ate only pemmican, or dried meat. The first sailing ship to navigate the Great Lakes, the Griffin or Griffon, disappeared on its return voyage from Lake Michigan to Niagara in 1679, and the disappearance has remained a mystery. In April 1849, William Swain, a Young... |
164135_3 | Practical Traveler; Precautions to Take When Children Fly Alone | unaccompanied children - it does regulate the air transport of pets - the rise in the number of unaccompanied child passengers has made the Department of Transportation anxious. In 1986 it pulled together a leaflet called ''Kids and Teens in Flight,'' which some airlines distribute, as does the department. The hope was... |
164241_0 | It's All Greek | LEAD: What's distinctive about the following paragraph? What's distinctive about the following paragraph? Democrat Michael Dukakis is better at politics than economics, better at tactics than strategy, lacks charisma and has an orthodox bureaucratic persona; he can synthesize ethnic blocs, and is a pragmatist, not a de... |
164111_19 | Rough Passage | and false. I had, besides, as I had wished, become better acquainted with Sarah and Stacey; in a 38-foot boat at sea, not much can be hidden. Whether I knew them better, or they me, is something else. I fear my granddaughter may remember mostly a queasy and querulous old man with 10 days of grizzled beard. I will remem... |
161625_0 | COPING: With Lost Luggage | LEAD: Travelers are carrying less luggage onto airplanes this summer, and probably worrying more. Travelers are carrying less luggage onto airplanes this summer, and probably worrying more. Passengers have long been dubious about airlines' abilities to produce checked bags at the end of a flight. But now, because of ne... |
160474_0 | Aid Donors Stress Environment | LEAD: The heads of major international aid organizations pledged today to insure that the projects they finance in the third world will not harm the environment. The heads of major international aid organizations pledged today to insure that the projects they finance in the third world will not harm the environment. Th... |
160471_0 | Singapore Journal; How to Marry Up, and Avoid the Frogs and Nerds | LEAD: Daniel Lim is suffering from hypergamy, a widespread ailment that is causing Singapore's Government serious concern about the future of its economy, social structure and national defense. Daniel Lim is suffering from hypergamy, a widespread ailment that is causing Singapore's Government serious concern about the ... |
165755_3 | In Ulster, a Tale of 2 Funerals: Death Bridges a Fierce Divide | 1985 British-Irish accord on Northern Ireland aimed at reducing the sectarian violence, the Rev. Gordon McMullan, the Anglican Bishop of Down and Dromore, told the crowd that overflowed into the courtyard: ''The spokesmen who represent the killers have made their excuses and expressed their regrets. But the fact is tha... |
163778_0 | At City Hall - Peace, And Yes, Even Quiet | LEAD: Regardless of the outcome of Mayor Koch's peace pilgrimage to Ireland, his trip there this week has brought a good measure of peace to City Hall. Regardless of the outcome of Mayor Koch's peace pilgrimage to Ireland, his trip there this week has brought a good measure of peace to City Hall. The boss-is-away-syndr... |
158362_0 | Corrections | LEAD: An article on the Health page on Thursday about screening for breast cancer gave an incorrect percentage for women over 40 who said they had a mammogram in the last year; the correct figure was 17 percent. The article also imprecisely paraphrased a Federal recommendation for women between the ages of 40 and 50; t... |
159808_1 | PROPOSAL TO EASE CHURCH RIFT VOTED | of women. No woman has yet been consecrated as a bishop. The ''episcopal visitor'' could be invited to perform sacramental services like confirmation or ordination that are the bishop's responsibility. For example, it could be a parish that still has theological doubts about the validity of sacramental acts performed b... |
159645_0 | Cancer in People Near Atom Plants Is Studied | LEAD: The National Cancer Institute has begun a study of cancer deaths among people living near nuclear plants. The National Cancer Institute has begun a study of cancer deaths among people living near nuclear plants. Dr. John Boice, chief of radiation epidemiology at the institute, said on Wednesday that the study was... |
159340_0 | Non-Western Classics Long on U.S. Campuses | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Gautam Adhikari refers to a television dialogue in which William F. Buckley Jr. and Mortimer Adler agreed that ''from Homer to the 19th century no great book has ever appeared from any non-European source'' (Op-Ed, June 10). Whatever qualification of the statement Mr. Adler may have ... |
159258_0 | Anglican Leaders Seek to Avoid Deeper Split on Women in Clergy | LEAD: The governing bodies of Anglican churches meeting on both sides of the Atlantic were struggling yesterday for ways to open religious offices to women without splintering their denominations. The governing bodies of Anglican churches meeting on both sides of the Atlantic were struggling yesterday for ways to open ... |
159190_3 | TV News From the Mouths of Babes | it was going.'' For several years, Children's Express columns were syndicated by United Press International. Today they are self-syndicated, and the organization has bureaus around the world. The television show could help stimulate children's interest in the news. ''We address a primary newspaper concern: literacy and... |
165182_1 | LESSONS | trends have affected not only traditionally high-profile fields like high-energy physics, but new ones like English literature. And it has caused some college presidents to begin sounding like George Steinbrenner. ''We've entered the era of free agency,'' the president of Columbia University, Michael I. Sovern, said. '... |
165037_2 | Castro Foresees Accord Ending War in Angola | Union and other Soviet bloc countries as they experiment with free enterprise and other aspects of capitalism. ''There are no two identical revolutionary processes,'' he said. ''No two identical national characteristics.'' ''If someone has a toothache,'' the 61-year-old leader said as a full moon rose over a sea of str... |
165165_1 | A Warning on Student Directories | in every state, since the companies conduct business nationwide. Mr. Honig said he was particularly concerned about solicitations sent to recent immigrants, who he said did not yet understand the educational system and might believe they were obligated to pay to have their child's name listed in the directories. One of... |
161513_0 | Slice: Case Study of a Setback | LEAD: When Pepsico Inc. introduced Slice four years ago, the first line of sodas with real fruit juice was a smash success. But Slice, which was originally considered a marketing coup, now seems to be losing its fizz. When Pepsico Inc. introduced Slice four years ago, the first line of sodas with real fruit juice was a... |
161489_2 | Managua Confiscates Sugar Farm, Nation's Largest Private Business | were Myriam Arguello, who heads a faction of the Conservative Party; Agustine Jarquin Anaya, a leader of the Social Christian Party; Luis Alberto Carballo, brother of Rev. Bismarck Carballo, who runs the Catholic radio station, and Carlos Huembes, president of the Democratic Coordinator, the opposition coalition that o... |
160669_0 | Gene is Used to 'Brand' Engineered Creatures | LEAD: A TEXAS research group has patented a genetic ''branding iron'' for indelibly marking strains of laboratory animals to foil would-be mouse rustlers, flynappers and other genetic claim jumpers. A TEXAS research group has patented a genetic ''branding iron'' for indelibly marking strains of laboratory animals to fo... |
160627_1 | A Church United; Episcopalians Avoid Splits at Meeting By Turning to Scripture, Not Ideology | and opponents of legalized abortion that it was time to de-emphasize the conflict over legislation and stress moral and pastoral problems connected with abortion, regardless of its legal status. The resolution approved by the convention underlined the ''tragic dimension'' of all abortions, declared ''all human life'' t... |
160633_2 | Terrorists Kill 9 and Wound 98 On Excursion Vessel Near Athens | 3 Danes, 2 Britons, 2 Norwegians, 1 Moroccan, 1 Swiss and 1 Swede. The nationalities of the other three were not known. No passenger list has been made available. [ Reuters quoted the Athens radio as saying that 78 people, most of them American, French and Swedish vacationers, were wounded when the gunmen opened fire. ... |
160706_1 | Books of The Times; In Defense of the Virtues of Solitude | ''a hub around which a person's life revolves, not necessarily the hub.'' As human beings, we also need interests - interests that we can find in our social life, our beliefs, our leisure activities and (if we are lucky) in our work. This is likely to be no less true for analysts themselves than it is for the rest of u... |
162309_0 | Castro Urges Sugar Gain | LEAD: President Fidel Castro wants Cuba to increase its revenue with a bigger sugar harvest next year, according to the official daily newspaper Granma. At a Communist Party meeting on Friday, it said, he called for an increase to 8 million metric tons, from this year's estimated 7.3 million tons. President Fidel Castr... |
162342_0 | Study Finds Less Bias Against Asian Workers | LEAD: Based on an analysis of income levels, discrimination against Asians has declined dramatically since the 1960's and does not appear to be widespread in the American labor market, according to a study by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Based on an analysis of income levels, discrimination against Asi... |
162416_0 | New Product Plans at G.M. | LEAD: The General Motors Corporation plans to devote a larger part of its capital spending to developing new products and will share more of those costs with high-technology suppliers, the company's president, Robert C. Stempel, said today. The General Motors Corporation plans to devote a larger part of its capital spe... |
162781_0 | To Anglicans, War of Sexes Is Still Lively | LEAD: Seated beside a lily pond and gazing at the leaders of the Anglican Church strolling into a conference center, Edmond L. Browning, the presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, spoke in a quiet, almost melancholy, voice. Seated beside a lily pond and gazing at the leaders of the Anglican Chur... |
162890_5 | No More Guarantees of a Son's Birth | infringe on a woman's right to have an abortion, which has been established by Indian law since 1971. Abortions are permitted only under certain circumstances, but doctors agree that in practice, abortion has become a common means of birth control in a country where rapid population growth is a major problem. Feminists... |
157977_0 | Don't Give Sugar Refiners More Breaks | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: American consumers now pay more than twice what they should for sugar! But Senator Daniel K. Inouye has sponsored a provision in the 1989 appropriations bill for agriculture that would further subsidize a few large sugar refiners under the guise of helping the Caribbean Basin Initiat... |
158090_2 | Parley Urges Quick Action to Protect Atmosphere | of acid rain and destruction of the earth's ozone shield by industrial chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons must also be addressed, the conference said in a statement. Economic Needs Recognized The statement emphasized, however, that steps to halt the deterioration of the atmosphere must be compatible with sustainable ... |
157976_0 | What's Wrong With the New Law on VDT's; A Source of Concern | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: There is more than meets the eye in the report correlating miscarriages with the use of video-display terminals (news story, June 5). The VDT problem is only one aspect of a much larger story. A great deal of experimental evidence indicates that extremely low-frequency electromagneti... |
158044_0 | Book on Greek Leader Stirs Diplomatic Dispute | LEAD: It started out last year as a harmless sounding project: a book by American and Greek authors about the administration of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece, edited and published by Greek-Americans. But now, two months before publication, the project has created a stir involving the State Department, the... |
158643_0 | PLAN FOR AMAZON BACKED IN BRAZIL | LEAD: A patch of undisturbed jungle in the Amazon has been chosen for an experiment that could bring about a revolution in the way man deals with the largest remaining tropical rain forest on earth. A patch of undisturbed jungle in the Amazon has been chosen for an experiment that could bring about a revolution in the ... |
158712_0 | Are Homosexuals Facing an Ever More Hostile World? | LEAD: A FLURRY of recent studies have confirmed what many gay-rights groups say they already knew: Harassment and crimes against homosexuals are increasing. Moreover, gay-rights advocates say, the incidents are becoming more violent. A FLURRY of recent studies have confirmed what many gay-rights groups say they already... |
158602_0 | C.C.N.Y. Students Had an Advantage | LEAD: I was highly pleased by Sherman Tufel's comment that ''any student who flunked out of C.C.N.Y. and went to another college automatically improved both colleges'' in his June 12 letter to the Long Island editor, in which he discussed hiring practices affecting graduates of state colleges. This statement echoes the... |
158549_2 | Chastened by Floods, Venice Seeks Alliance With Nature | was accomplished. The saving of Venice became a periodically hot topic among local politicians as well as scientists with divergent ideas. The new approach that has emerged is being billed as the first postmodern public works project. Instead of erecting monuments in concrete - as was the rule in eras less skeptical of... |
158633_3 | When a Choreographer Settles Into a Formula | a rock-music rhythm box. This is not the Forsythe represented by ''Love Songs,'' re-staged for the Joffrey Ballet in the 1980's and that was, in the recent season at the City Center, performed with admirable if more violent power by the Frankfurt dancers (some of whom are Americans familiar from American companies). Th... |
166452_1 | Experts See a Time Bomb in the Rapidly Exploding Philippine Population | as the Government struggles with a welter of immediate crises. Those planners who have recognized the problem say that if it continues, the population will swamp all the efforts being made to deal with such challenges as unemployment, economic revival and the Communist insurgency. One foreign aid official said, ''It ma... |
166323_3 | BUSINESS FORUM: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FOR THE 1990's; Long Leaves Hurt Small Companies | way to do it. What doesn't make sense is to mandate that every company provide child care. Besides, the costs will be proportionately greater for small businesses to bear. Q. How should the issue of parental leave be handled? Mr. Dunkelberg: We should leave it to private negotiations between workers and companies. Let ... |
166571_13 | An Automobile Enthusiast's England | them or bought them, the Heritage Museum offers a glimpse at all sorts of British lives. The museum is operated as a trust of the British automaking industry. It is in a former garden shed in Syon Park, a walk down a lane from Syon House, famous for its 18th-century interiors. To the right of the lane are the neatly cl... |
166431_2 | A Drug Problem for All the Americas | have been shaken by events in Panama, where Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the military leader, has been accused of involvement in trafficking, and in Colombia, where billionaire cocaine chiefs have emerged as a state within a state. Peru, for example, has stepped up police operations in the Upper Huallaga Valley where m... |
166633_2 | At the Kouros in ridgefield, Art Complements Nature | plaster, including the nails that attach the bits of wood to the frames. On the whole, the collection abides by the same rules as pebbles on a beach: the small ones closest to the source of energy (in this case, the house and its occupants) and the larger are the farthest away. Dimitri Hadzi, who scores high in both ca... |
166573_10 | It's Jungle 101 On a Voyage Up the Amazon | river banks. The brilliant red eyes of the crocodile-like reptiles reflected the light, which hypnotized the caimans and enabled a catcher in the bow to grab them by the neck. All creatures above three feet in length were avoided as potentially dangerous. The caimans were photographed and returned to the water. We lear... |
166395_2 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | be confronted with, at least once in a lifetime. The only honest answer is, of course, yes. School as a Symbol of Fatality In 1875, George Santayana entered the legendary Latin School in Boston, which was then held in ''a vast, rattling old shell of a building.'' These somber reflections, prefiguring the philosopher in... |
160106_2 | WHAT LANGUAGE DOES YOUR DOCTOR SPEAK? | here than there. American surgeons perform coronary bypass surgery at six times the rate of their British colleagues. Blood pressure levels considered high enough to require treatment in the United States are considered normal in England. Blood pressure in the low-to-normal range is considered desirable in the United S... |
160218_18 | GENERATIONS OF TORMENT | and Connaught keeps popping up. Significantly, the present Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Charles J. Haughey, does not dismiss the thought. But, he says, many other issues must first be resolved at the negotiating table, a table so far with a lot of empty chairs. On the surface, attitudes in the Irish Republic a... |
160412_0 | Metal House Becomes Case Study | LEAD: EFFORTS to save a historic landmark have resulted in practical experience in restoration for architecture students at the New York Institute of Technology, who since the end of February have been disassembling the Aluminaire house in Huntington for its move to the school's Central Islip campus. EFFORTS to save a ... |
163607_1 | A.T.&T. REASSIGNS WORKERS AND IMPOSES HIRING FREEZE | a message broadcast to A.T.&T.'s 315,000 employees on the company's private communications network. In his address, Mr. Allen said administrative costs had reached unacceptable levels and the company needed to focus its efforts on increasing sales through greater customer contact, Burke Stinson, an A.T.&T. spokesman, s... |
165500_0 | Seamanship, Not One-Upmanship | LEAD: Imagine Mike Tyson fighting an exhibition match against a kangaroo - or, to take a real example, Bobby Riggs playing Billie Jean King. Entertainment value? Sure. A meaningful contest between comparable opponents? No. Imagine Mike Tyson fighting an exhibition match against a kangaroo - or, to take a real example, ... |
165350_1 | Experts Tell NASA It Must Better Its Ability to Forecast the Weather | and accelerated space flight program,'' said the panel, which was assembled by the National Research Council. After receiving the report, the space agency said it would give ''careful consideration'' to the recommendations and had already taken steps to improve its forecasting capabilities. The agency noted that it set... |
165362_0 | Many Nations Pass Laws Against Those Afflicted With AIDS | LEAD: A growing number of countries are enacting discriminatory laws and travel restrictions to fight the spread of AIDS, according to a Harvard study. A growing number of countries are enacting discriminatory laws and travel restrictions to fight the spread of AIDS, according to a Harvard study. ''We're seeing an incr... |
165258_0 | Currents; Jungle Will Come Alive At New Amazon Habitat | LEAD: IN 1992, visitors to the National Zoological Park in Washington will be able to enter the Amazonia/ Aquatics Habitat, and find anacondas hovering on branches 10 feet above their heads, see snake birds dive into a river for fish, and watch piranhas bare their tiny, deadly teeth. IN 1992, visitors to the National Z... |
164525_0 | Increase in Sugar Quota Will Benefit 39 Nations | LEAD: A 40 percent increase in the United States' sugar quota will benefit the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Brazil and 36 other countries and is bringing praise from large United States sugar users. A 40 percent increase in the United States' sugar quota will benefit the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Bra... |
164572_1 | Pay Offers to College Graduates Rise | This year's college graduates received higher salary offers than last year's graduates, especially in business fields, but the number of offers declined slightly, according to a survey made public today. This year's college graduates received higher salary offers than last year's graduates, especially in business field... |
161888_3 | Out of Chaos, Alternative Orders | fit into it. That makes the information subservient to the structure - which is not the way it ought to be. Agenda, in its test form, has been used in some novel ways. George Goodwin, an employee at the Royal Bank in Canada, in Toronto, said he used Agenda as a filter for incoming reports from news services. He instruc... |
162109_1 | Greek Cruise Ships: 'Easy Targets' for Terrorists? | case of a terrorist attack, but in practice there is nothing one can do but call for help.'' 'We Are Sitting Ducks' ''It would be impossible to provide the number of staff and equipment required to develop airport-type security across the Greek seas,'' Captian Loukisas said. ''Furthermore, passenger boats are easier ta... |
161939_0 | At 17 State Street, High Tech Passes Into the Vernacular | LEAD: There is no airplane on the roof of the new office tower at 17 State Street in lower Manhattan, and there are no neon tubes in the lobby, or gigantic clocks, funny benches or umbrellas out front. Why, at first glance one might almost think that this sleek, thin skyscraper could have been put up by just any builde... |
158820_0 | Global Briefs | LEAD: South Korea's trade surplus with the United States between January and May shrank by 15.5 percent from the period last year, the Trade and Industry Ministry reported. The decline, to $3.16 billion, from $3.65 billion, came as growth of Korean imports from the United States outpaced the growth of Korean exports to... |
158868_0 | Washington Talk: Trade Representatives; A Difference in Societies That Can Give U.S. an Edge in Talks | LEAD: Sermet Pasin, an international trade official from Turkey, remembers watching an American trade delegation, four young women, walking into a room in Geneva to face more than a dozen negotiators from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry in a dispute over food import restrictions. Sermet Pasin,... |
158861_2 | Church Sees Postal Project as Threat | by Minard Lafever and completed in 1848, with subsequent additions. The parish is perhaps best known now for its soup kitchen, which feeds 800 to 1,000 people a day. ''We're not out to destroy the church,'' said John Ghisoni, director of marketing and communication for the Postal Service in New York City. ''We're out t... |
158902_2 | GUNMAN OF THE I.R.A.: A 5-YEAR WAIT | Doherty has attracted an international following of admirers, who send him an average of 15 to 20 letters and postcards of support each day, including more than 700 on his birthday last January. Over the last year, prominent visitors to his cell have included Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and Jo... |
162685_1 | AFTER WHITE PLAINS HIGH, JOBS, NOT COLLEGE, BECKON | school's graduating seniors. At a time when the national unemployment rate is at its lowest level in 14 years -5.2 percent - and New York State's is at 3.5 percent, job prospects for these students are far better than they were a few years ago. As recently as 1982, unemployment among recent high-school graduates who di... |
160990_2 | Greece Issues Photos of Suspects in Ship Siege | jailed in Athens on an American extradition request. Wanted in the U.S. Mr. Rashid, who is scheduled to go on trial Wednesday on charges of entering Greece on a forged passport, is wanted by the American authorities in connection with an explosion aboard a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu in 1982. The explosion kil... |
161000_0 | DEBATE ON AIRBUS POSTPONED AT U.N. | LEAD: A Security Council debate on the American downing of an Iranian passenger plane was postponed today as diplomats said Iran was having difficulty lining up support for a resolution condemning the United States. A Security Council debate on the American downing of an Iranian passenger plane was postponed today as d... |
160845_3 | Food Notes | are round chips embedded with flattened sunflower seeds. The chips, made by Garden of Eatin' in Los Angeles, are organiccally grown and prepared, according to the label. They are available in lightly salted and salt-free versions. Another deliciously irresistible chip made by the company is the rich-tasting triangular ... |
163188_3 | Sailboat Haven Groans as Motors Growl | Ounce That Costs Last week, as part of its ballyhooed ''zero tolerance'' program, the Coast Guard made its first catch on the Connecticut River. Five miles south of Essex, at Long Island Sound, the guard arrested two men from Bristol and seized their 26-foot cigarette boat, the Piece-a-Cake, after discovering half a ma... |
164783_2 | Reporter's Notebook; Panic in Teheran, a Judicious Silence in Baghdad | months ago, when it relented, the Government required Iranians to pay for their tickets in United States dollars, which they had to buy at the exorbitant black-market rate and also risk a penalty for breaking the law, which forbids dealing in foreign currency by foreigners and Iranians alike. An Elastic Currency A crav... |
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