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155047_2 | Education Is the Key To Waste Solution | for the ash, which is far more voluminous and toxic than it would be if we had separated out the noncombustible and hazardous wastes before burning. The ash has to go somewhere. The consensus seems to be that it will go out of state and we'll be paying a premium for the privilege of sending it there. I wonder where thi... |
155164_0 | As Soldiers Die, Talk of Compromise Is Stillborn | LEAD: FROM here in the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland can sometimes seem a place more of relentless torpor than Yeatsian gyre. It can seem to drift alone as a British-ruled jurisdiction ever more frustrating though far from foreign, where the violence suffered and delivered by fellow Irishmen just across the border t... |
154506_3 | Pakistani Women Take Lead In Drive Against Islamization | the 1960's, bar childhood and teen-age marriages and make it more difficult for a man to divorce his wife arbitrarily or to acquire a second wife. Both Pakistan's clergy and the Islamic Party, the country's most powerful religious-oriented political organization, had also backed the legislation and even won a promise f... |
151061_1 | SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ | appear on page 35. 1. This year-old carp is part of a fish story of amazing dimensions. What happened? 2. Although President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, achieved little progress on central arms control issues at the summit meeting in Moscow, each fulfilled a hidden agenda. What did each accompli... |
150827_4 | EASTERN AIRLINES AND CONTINENTAL ARE TERMED SAFE | paralleled the special inspection of all Eastern planes at airport ramps. Secretary Burnley said that the labor-management problems reported by this group ''do raise concerns about Eastern's ability to comply in a full and satisfactory way with our safety requirements.'' Mr. Burnley did note, however, that the current ... |
150858_3 | Thousands of Sugar Workers Reap Bitter Harvest | of New Iberia, 25 miles west of here, that has been aiding southern Louisiana's poor for 19 years. The price support program that has helped speed mechanization is a subject of debate in Washington this year, as in most others, among consumer groups, farmers and lawmakers. Senator Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey, ... |
150857_3 | Trying to Calm a Storm With a New Skyscraper | to develop a building on the Coliseum site. If the lower court's decision is upheld, the city will have to begin the process of evaluating proposals for Columbus Circle anew, and Boston Properties would then be no more than another entrant in another round of competition. So this new design can probably best be viewed ... |
152432_1 | Nairobi Slum: Urbanization As a Cancer | Nations Population Fund warns that within 12 years, developing countries will have to increase their capacity to provide social services by 65 percent just to maintain present living conditions. It says many governments even now cannot cope with the huge demand for jobs, housing, education and other services brought on... |
157324_1 | In War on Coca, U.S. Weapon Is Bogged Down in a Dispute | rushing ahead for political reasons. ''The Republicans want to be able to point to eradication when they're asked 'What have you done about drugs?' '' said Francisco Palacio Rodriguez, the Latin American representative for Greenpeace, the environmental group. ''But I say that we shouldn't ignore essential testing just ... |
157298_0 | London Sugar At 5-Year High | LEAD: Sugar prices hit five-year highs in London today, bolstered by drought in the United States and supply problems in the Caribbean area. Sugar prices hit five-year highs in London today, bolstered by drought in the United States and supply problems in the Caribbean area. The price of raw sugar for delivery in Octob... |
157261_1 | Careers; Less M.B.A. Interest in Wall St. Seen | consulting firms, compared with 19 percent the year before. The median starting salary was $65,000 a year, about $500 above the previous year's level. McKinsey & Company hired 16 Stanford M.B.A.'s, followed by Bain & Company, which took a dozen. Booz Allen & Hamilton hired eight and the Boston Consulting Group six. Ms.... |
155806_3 | Excerpts From Economic Declaration Issued at End of Summit Conference | in the context of non-inflationary growth. Efforts in those directons, including continued reduction of budgetary deficits, will continue. We need to maintain vigilance against any resurgence of inflation. The exchange rate changes in the past three years, especially the depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Japa... |
155714_3 | Food Notes | least fat (26 to 30 percent of total calories) are Aunt Jemima Coffee Cake mix, Betty Crocker Applesauce Raisin Snackin' cake mix, Pepperidge Farm carrot walnut muffins, Weight Watchers strawberry cheesecake and Weight Watchers pound cake with blueberry topping. An American Voice In recent months, Americans have won Fr... |
155866_0 | Genentech Gets Patent For Drug for Blood Clots | LEAD: Genentech Inc. said today that it had received a broad patent for purified tissue plasminogen activator, or TPA, a drug that is becoming the first major product made with genetic engineering. Genentech Inc. said today that it had received a broad patent for purified tissue plasminogen activator, or TPA, a drug th... |
168423_1 | Doctor Describes Bush As 'Active and Healthy' | resulting from vague and unsubstantiated rumors about his mental health. The issue of the Massachusetts Governor's medical past was given further prominence Wednesday when President Reagan referred to him as an ''invalid.'' The President later apologized, terming the comment a joke that had not worked. Asked today why ... |
168411_3 | Changes in Welfare a Boon to Trade Schools | them to sign a sheaf of papers.'' Federal and state reports have found that many of the schools offer little meaningful training or job placement. Instead they make money by taking students incapable of doing the required work, keeping them long enough to collect a share of government tuition payments and leaving the m... |
174496_0 | Cuban Goods Logjam | LEAD: The Cuban Government has announced emergency plans to deal with huge stockpiles of merchandise in Cuban ports. The backlog - 311,000 tons of merchandise on Aug. 15 - is disrupting the country's economy and costing Cuba millions of dollars in penalties to foreign shipowners. The emergency plan calls for dock worke... |
172660_1 | Benvenuto, Pollution! (Ciao, Love in the Air) | miles up the coast from the apartment blocks of suburban Rome. As in the United States, there are forecasts of economic grief because of a huge Government deficit, but even pessimists put the danger over the horizon while in the here and now real incomes are still rising. 'Rambo of the Seas' In the late afternoon a tee... |
172248_0 | Halt Is Planned In Bridge Work Over East River | LEAD: Halfway through an already late and over-budget rehabilitation project for the troubled Manhattan Bridge, state transportation officials are stopping the work to bring in a new contractor and new designs. Halfway through an already late and over-budget rehabilitation project for the troubled Manhattan Bridge, sta... |
172025_2 | Woman Accused of Hijacking Pleads Guilty to Lesser Crime | turning herself in but had never been able to bring herself to. ''She was living in the open as a housewife,'' Mr. Wilford said. ''She wasn't sneaking around.'' ''If he told me to walk off the side of a building I would have done so,'' Ms. Grinage said of Mr. Austin, who married her in the late 1960's, when she was a t... |
172249_0 | Sugar Below 10/ a Pound On Reports of Rising Supply | LEAD: Prices of sugar futures sank below 10 cents a pound yesterday for the first time in two months on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York amid signs of rising world supplies. Prices of sugar futures sank below 10 cents a pound yesterday for the first time in two months on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exch... |
170129_0 | Where Else on Earth Is the Air So Sticky? Try the Rain Forest | LEAD: Trapped under a steamy mountain of stagnant air, the New York region has taken on a climate resembling that of a tropical rain forest, leaving residents sweltering for 40 straight days of unusual heat and humidity. Trapped under a steamy mountain of stagnant air, the New York region has taken on a climate resembl... |
170131_2 | Vast Amazon Fires, Man-Made, Linked To Global Warming | data at the Space Research Center in this south Brazilian city, said smoke clouds from the Amazon fires often rose to 12,000 feet. Their gases and particles were then lifted up higher into jet streams and blown south across the South Atlantic, close to Antarctica. Many scientists now believe that several of these gases... |
166708_0 | Administration Sugar Policy: How Sweet It Isn't | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The thoughtless letter of Joseph R. Wright Jr., deputy director of the Reagan Administration's Office of Management and Budget (''Don't Give Sugar Refiners More Breaks,'' July 1), is riddled with errors. It does no more than add insult to injury. Mr. Wright wrongly writes that a prov... |
166746_3 | Review/Television; Series on PBS Studies Nuclear Arms | ''some stocks are hidden near these homes.'' ''Nobody knows,'' he replies, adding to the slowly building argument that the arms race, and particularly the manufacture of nuclear weapons, is a conspiracy entered into by governments that systematically hide details from their own people. The film, Mr. Watkins says, is ab... |
166828_4 | Officials Split On Inquiring About AIDS | die of AIDS-related illnesses without ever formally qualifying as AIDS or ARC cases. Mr. Stoddard said he fears an AIDS or ARC diagnosis could prompt the automatic rejection of applicants who are able to work, based on sometimes erroneous assumptions that they will become sick. Court Decisions Cited ''These definitions... |
168048_4 | Reviews/Art; Provocative Exhibitions at Museums and Galleries That Are Near New York City | exploration of ''as many contemporary points of view as possible within the limitations of our space.'' The prominence of the column, she says, reflects the postmodern interest in realism, figurative art and antiquity. The strength of the show is its ability to point us toward the column motif. The weakness is that we ... |
171292_1 | U.S. Ship in Soviet Waters Points to New Era | and the nature and causes of fragmentation of the earth's crustal plates. Outgrowth of Treaty In an announcement of the expedition, Dr. Edward A. Frieman, director of Scripps, a branch of the University of California at San Diego, said the agreement to work in Soviet waters followed months of quiet negotiations among d... |
171262_6 | Scientists Dream Up Bold Remedies for Ailing Atmosphere | It is not known to what extent such actions might offset global warming. Some dream of blocking sunlight before it ever reaches the earth. Giant orbiting satellites made of thin films could cast shadows on the earth, counteracting global warming. Scientists have calculated that a series of satellites with areas equival... |
173814_0 | Cuba Data Curbs Ended | LEAD: Restrictions on importing and exporting books, films, phonograph records and other informational material to and from Cuba are eliminated by the trade bill signed into law yesterday by President Reagan. The ban also applied to newspapers, posters, photographs, microfilms, microfiche and tapes. Restrictions on imp... |
173689_0 | Mixing Tomato Varieties Adds Zest to a Summer Table | LEAD: UNTIL about two years ago the standard supermarket tomato came in one variety: UNTIL about two years ago the standard supermarket tomato came in one variety: Hard. And one color: Washed-out red. This was as true in the summer, when superb vine-ripened tomatoes might be growing around the corner, as it was in the ... |
173758_0 | Education; Lessons | LEAD: If computer programming colleges, truck driving academies and other profit-making trade schools did not exist, politicians and journalists would have to invent them. If computer programming colleges, truck driving academies and other profit-making trade schools did not exist, politicians and journalists would hav... |
173819_0 | After Surviving Razing Plan, Brooklyn Building Gets Grant | LEAD: Eight months after New York City officials sought to tear it down, the Vendome, a distinguished but ravaged old apartment house in Brooklyn, yesterday was awarded a $225,000 grant from New York State to help in its reconstruction. Eight months after New York City officials sought to tear it down, the Vendome, a d... |
173517_1 | I.R.A. Shifts Tactics, and the Results Are Deadly | and a display of effectiveness for the organization that just a year ago was widely regarded as a war-weary band whose members were considering putting more of their movement's energies into political activity instead of violence. #1985 British-Irish Accord At that point the I.R.A. was faltering in the aftermath of the... |
175257_1 | The Burning of Rondonia | NASA satellite sensitive to heat sources. Scientists at Brazil's Space Research Center, Marlise Simons has reported in The Times, have counted 170,000 fires last year in the western Amazon. The fires contribute twice over to the greenhouse effect, the feared warming of the world's climate that may already have begun in... |
169968_0 | Health; Personal Health | LEAD: Sexual impotence is becoming increasingly common as more men live to reach ages and develop ailments that, one way or another, interfere with their ability to achieve or maintain an erection. Since this ability depends on a complex interplay of both mental and physical factors, there are many ways in which it can... |
169943_0 | For Blind Children, A Place to Have Fun | LEAD: WHEN Cornell Williams first came to Camp Wapanacki 14 years ago he was terrified of boating, a fear camp counselors say is shared by many 5-year-olds. But for Mr. Williams, who is legally blind and ''rather fond of solid ground,'' learning to row made him feel, he says now, that he could ''conquer the world. WHEN... |
169788_2 | E.P.A. Proposes Rules to Reduce Lead in Water | the acidity of water and therefore its ability to pick up lead from pipes, mains, solder and fittings. No Safe Level of Lead Mr. Thomas said there does not appear to be any safe level for lead in drinking water and, therefore, the agency could not set a numerical goal other than zero. The current Federal maximum contam... |
175512_1 | Careers; Physicists Find Many Fields Open | than at the applications end,'' he said. ''Today's electrical engineers are doing things that physicists were trained to do 10 years ago.'' Among the recent projects of physicists are: testing materials for superconductivity of electricity; exploring the effects of radiation on human cells; developing containers to hol... |
175340_4 | Challenging the Billboard Industry | companies have successfully drawn a broader range of clients in recent years, including companies selling food, soap and beauty products. Helping the medium's image have been innovative, attention-grabbing campaigns from advertisers such as Nike Inc., the athletic shoe company, and bigger and more versatile signs that ... |
175513_4 | Plastics Industry, Under Pressure, Begins to Invest in Recycling | being used to turn post-consumer plastics from bottles, bags and automotive parts into new products. GE Plastics, a division of General Electric is studying the possibility of cars with recyclable plastic parts and houses built from recycled plastics. In the major commercial recycling operation today, 150 million pound... |
175336_0 | U.S. Reports Significant Rise In Education of Work Force | LEAD: One of every four workers in the United States is now a college graduate as against just one in every five 10 years ago, the Labor Department said today in a report showing significant increases in education levels in the American work force. One of every four workers in the United States is now a college graduat... |
168987_4 | Mauritius Envoy Makes a Study of American Life | no household help, and I mow my own grass and do my own filing,'' said the Ambassador, who studied at Oxford and has a graduate degree in history from Georgetown University. Envoy to 11 Nations He also serves as envoy to Canada and nine Latin American countries, including Cuba. ''I have 11 kites in the air and I have t... |
168983_0 | Anglican Leader Praises the American Church | LEAD: Preaching this morning at the closing ceremony of a world meeting of Anglican bishops, the head of the Episcopal Church in the United States reinforced sensitive themes that have been identified with the American presence here - the role of women and the transformation of the church. Preaching this morning at the... |
169004_6 | JUICES FLOW IN CHICAGO AS WRIGLEY LIGHTS UP | day after the second night game. The irony of the most dreaded night for the anti-lights forces is that the hysteria surrounding the demand for tickets may help pay for their legal effort. After 1.5 million phone calls were made in an attempt to buy the remaining 13,000 seats, Newfeld won 2 tickets. She said a check wi... |
167149_0 | Chemicals Affecting Ozone Face Limits on Production | LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency today announced final regulations for cutting production and use of chemicals widely believed to be depleting the earth's protective ozone layer. The move would bring the United States into compliance with an international agreement to curb the substances. The Environmental Pro... |
167174_2 | Careers; Finding Jobs In Smaller Specialties | Lynn, director of the career development center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, noticed that securities firms were interested in hiring engineers as investment bankers, in part because of their analytical, mathematical and computer abilities. Wall Street's interest in engineers continues despite the October st... |
167074_0 | Ordination of Women Fine With Thatcher | LEAD: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a move that startled and angered traditionalists in the Church of England, has spoken in support of the ordination of women. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a move that startled and angered traditionalists in the Church of England, has spoken in support of the ordination ... |
167204_0 | Anglicans Avoid Outright Split on Role of Women | LEAD: Bishops from Anglican churches around the world endorsed a compromise plan today for maintaining their ties, despite continuing divisions over the consecration of women as bishops. Bishops from Anglican churches around the world endorsed a compromise plan today for maintaining their ties, despite continuing divis... |
167120_1 | John Cardinal Dearden, 80, Dies; Leading Liberal Voice in Church | the spirited debate between conservative and progressive factions, Archbishop Dearden was a central figure, siding with the progressives. Earlier, he was an active participant in his community, backing equal employment opportunities and encouraging Catholic lay people to improve Detroit's racial climate. In 1966 Archbi... |
173118_0 | France Announces Accord on New Caledonia | LEAD: The French Government announced an agreement today on the future of New Caledonia that offers amnesty for many jailed Melanesian separatists and sets rules for a referendum in 1998 on independence for the South Pacific territory. The French Government announced an agreement today on the future of New Caledonia th... |
173023_4 | Unmasking the Frailties of Stone and Steel | Mark, pacing his Princeton office on a recent morning. ''To understand precisely where Boston's trouble-plagued 1970's Hancock Tower went wrong, for instance, we need to look backwards, analyzing the structural track records of great monuments like Chartres, or London's 1708 St. Paul's - or even the Pantheon, which was... |
172930_0 | George Sand, New and Old | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Marilyn French, in her review of a George Sand biography and a newly translated Sand novel (July 17), describes Sand as a writer who ''created images new to literature, of love between people of different classes and backgrounds.'' In fact, Sand was not the first French writer to add... |
173094_1 | IDEAS & TRENDS: Help for farmers; Africa's Push To Become Self-Sufficient | slowest rate in the world and its population at the fastest. In per capita terms, harvests declined about 10 percent in the last decade. ''The situation is actually getting worse,'' said Kevin M. Cleaver, a World Bank economist who specializes in African agriculture. Bank figures show that Africa's food production incr... |
173069_0 | ROUGH PASSAGE | LEAD: As one who has sailed tens of thousands of miles on many of the oceans of the world, I read with great interest Tom Wicker's article ''Rough Passage'' (July 24). The central theme of relinquishing control of one's life to the unpredictable and, perhaps unready, younger generation was beautifully delineated. As on... |
170516_0 | It's a Jungle Out There | LEAD: New York City really is a tropical rain forest. The National Weather Service says so. For forty days and forty nights, the temperatures along the Hudson have been comparable to those along the Amazon. So has the humidity. Small wonder the natives talk more frequently than usual about thinking they are going mad. ... |
170434_1 | Along the Chinese Coastline, Economic Dragon Awakens | on inexpensive labor to manufacture cheap products for export, and later through integrated, highly developed economies that compete worldwide in a vast array of goods and services. This is the pattern that China wants to copy, and it intends to do so along the 1,800-mile littoral that protrudes into the China Sea. The... |
170849_4 | Millions Flee Life's Toils To Risk Lives on Rafts | mobile restaurant and amusement park.'' Some people even forget they are in a wilderness. ''We've had people come here and ask if there was any way they could telephone their office,'' said Mr. McDonnell, who tells his clients that once they arrived, they're on river time: no watches needed. ''When we tell them 'no way... |
170757_1 | Sending a Telex From Your Desk | Federal Express, when electronic mail can instantly link every desk in the office with the outside world - who uses an anachronism like telex? About 1.7 million subscribers worldwide, it turns out. Apparently the system does not know that it is extinct, and even though modern electronic message systems are reducing the... |
170884_1 | The Anglicans' Non-Universal Church | the papacy in 1534. ''We have no intention of developing an alternative papacy,'' Robert A. Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said. That would contradict the very impulse that gave birth to Anglicanism in the first place. And it would become a new obstacle to any eventual reunion with Rome. The question of how to b... |
170902_0 | Brazil Accuses Scholar Of Aiding Indian Protest | LEAD: The Brazilian federal police have brought charges against an American anthropologist who accompanied two Amazon Indian leaders on a visit to Washington earlier this year. The Brazilian federal police have brought charges against an American anthropologist who accompanied two Amazon Indian leaders on a visit to Wa... |
170807_0 | GENERATIONS OF TORMENT | LEAD: Coverage by the press of events in Northern Ireland has produced an unintended, and unwelcome, consequence for British authorities - the awakening of conscience among Americans of Irish descent. Non-jury trials, detention without cause, mistreatment of prisoners, official cover-ups and sanctioning of police and m... |
168716_3 | LEARNING TO WRITE CAN BE FUN | screenwriter and critic. Mr. Garrett expanded the graduate class to its present size (about 12 to 15 a year, evenly divided between fiction writers and poets), added an emphasis on film that the program still retains and organized a memorable conference on literature and film. Mr. Garrett also made Hollins a place wher... |
168687_10 | The Social Factor | our school-improvement approach. Teachers selected by other teachers, parents selected by parents and representatives of the school's other programs serve on the governance and management team. Step by step, the team identified the most pressing problems and the greatest opportunities, developed specific plans and impl... |
168563_1 | For Anglicans, Things Stay Bright and Beautiful | independence of the 27 national or regional churches historically rooted in the Church of England. Charges of Fostering Terror The enthusiasm Archbishop Runcie conveyed in the closing session came only 24 hours after the 500 Anglican bishops found themselves facing the unlikely accusation of encouraging Irish Republica... |
168563_2 | For Anglicans, Things Stay Bright and Beautiful | Two out of every five Anglican bishops here came from the third world, and Africans outnumbered those from elsewhere. Simultaneous Translations The fact that the Anglican Communion is no longer an appendage of the Church of England or even of the English-speaking nations was underlined by the simultaneous translation o... |
168553_0 | There's Always a Catch | LEAD: COMMIT A CRIME, they say, and the world is made of glass. I have long believed it. As a teen-ager in the Navy, I walked off my ship one shore liberty with half-a-dozen blank notebooks, property of Uncle Sam, hidden beneath the civilian clothes in my bag. At the end of the gangway, a crusty master-of-arms singled ... |
168686_10 | A Landed Degree | of the most important things we learned in this program.'' Good Job Placement If job placement is a measure of the worth of real-estate programs, they are an unqualified success. Schools report their real-estate graduates have little trouble finding positions. ''Virtually every student has a job within three months of ... |
168712_2 | ON THE ROAD TO THE QUAGMIRE | before the Suez crisis. There is also an excellent chapter on how Washington's perception of the Korean War further clouded its understanding of the nationalist dynamic of Vietnamese resistance and reinforced the stereotype that Communism was an undifferentiated, global force projected from and controlled by Moscow. Th... |
175655_6 | Biotechnology Dispute Is Rekindled | another group of reseachers who used the . . . approach to achieve the first synthesis of a human protein in bacteria.'' A footnote attached to the remark identifies the ''other researchers'' as Mr. Itakura and his group, and cites their article detailing the production of the hormone somatostatin. Scientists and lawye... |
175593_4 | Getting Vital Drugs Into the Brain | of the first human testing of its brain delivery system, using estradiol, a type of estrogen, a female sex hormone. The research was conducted in Britain with Gynex Inc., a Deerfield, Ill., company that studies contraceptives. ''We showed that the brain could accept elevated doses of estrogen without adverse reactions,... |
175577_0 | Rescuing the Refrigerated Tomato | LEAD: As most anyone who grows tomatoes will tell you, the tomato tastes and smells best if it is picked, sliced and served - all within a few minutes. Such empirical knowledge has passed down through generations of gardeners, cooks, and tomato eaters. Now, chemists at the Department of Agriculture have confirmed this,... |
169231_1 | Careers; Hong Kong 'Brain Drain' Aids Canada | Toronto, which already had substantial Chinese communities, creating real estate booms as they buy land and homes. While waiting to become citizens, many establish their families in houses - not condominiums because they like the idea of owning land -and schools, and then commute to businesses in Hong Kong. ''It has af... |
175077_7 | A Kentish Countryside Possessed | followed by a hail of bullets. The smugglers were called owlers, after the hoots by which they communicated at night. They bribed the magistrates, they terrorized their enemies, they fought a pitched battle with the revenue men at the village of Brookland in 1821. But their most fearsome days were rather earlier. Danie... |
174754_0 | NONFICTION | LEAD: YANGTZE: Nature, History, and the River. By Lyman P. Van Slyke. (Addison-Wesley, $14.95.) The Yangtze River flows 3,900 miles through China from its glacial source at 20,000 feet on the Tibetan-Qinghai plateau to the East China Sea, watering regions where nearly 350 million Chinese live. Yet sections are so rugge... |
174742_0 | Brand-New Degree And No Place to Go | MY DAUGHTER recently graduated from one of those Boston-area colleges that half the high- school valedictorians, editors in chief and Merit Scholarship finalists would kill themselves to get into. Now that she is home, we have all had some time to reflect on the following facts: (1) - While the world applauds a liberal... |
174961_5 | Brazil Now a Vital Crossroad For Latin Cocaine Traffickers | Amazon. With Colombian traffickers apparently still in control, processing laboratories were set up inside Brazil to take advantage of the easier access to chemicals, principally ether and acetone, used to turn coca paste into pure cocaine. The chemicals are manufactured in Brazil but not in the neighboring countries. ... |
174731_0 | Millville Journal; Turmoil Eases on Barge Plan for Quiet River | LEAD: JANICE BURCHAM delivered nine lambs while her sister Jeanette was in China for three weeks in April. It was nothing unusual for the twins, who farm 35 acres on the banks of the Maurice River here, where they were born 62 years ago in the big red brick house their grandfather Amaziah Burcham built in 1865. JANICE ... |
175024_0 | Canadian Church Approves Homosexual Ministers | LEAD: In a move that threatens to split the country's largest Protestant denomination, the governing council of the United Church of Canada has voted to admit homosexual men and women into the clergy. In a move that threatens to split the country's largest Protestant denomination, the governing council of the United Ch... |
174906_4 | Sorting Out Who Was Who in Rome | collaboration still in formation. Neither the labels that accompany the objects nor the well-illustrated catalogue, with its unfortunately inelegant essay in English by Ms. Nista, provides information adequate for the uninitiated viewer. Yet even a cursory perusal of the busts rewards a visitor with a survey of Roman p... |
173386_5 | Adoptive Parents Ask States For Help With Abused Young | her hand down their blouse.'' They do not go out to dinner because, she said, ''We had to remove the candles, so she didn't burn herself, the flowers, which she would throw or try to eat, and the sugar packets, which she would eat with the paper.'' Two years of residential psychiatric care did not help her daughter, Mr... |
169548_3 | Market Place | of the passage of an interstate banking bill. Even though the drought may be having little impact on these banks now, there could be more serious problems if it persists as part of a long-term climatic trend. That might be the final blow for such troubled banks as Hawkeye. But, Mr. Granger said, ''if the drought lasts ... |
169544_0 | Metro Datelines; Nuclear Protesters Are Arrested on S.I. | LEAD: Nearly five dozen protesters were arrested yesterday morning on Staten Island and on the West Side of Manhattan in anti-nuclear demonstrations on the 43d anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Nearly five dozen protesters were arrested yesterday morning on Staten Island and on the West Side of Manhattan i... |
171825_9 | Excerpts From Platform: 'For Our Children and Our Future' | urge states to suspend eligibility for a driver's license to anyone convicted of a drug offense. * We will strengthen interdiction of foreign drugs and expand the military's role in stopping traffickers. * We will work with foreign governments to eradicate drug crops in their countries. Rural Community Republicans see ... |
171723_0 | Direct Pharmaceutical reports earnings for Qtr to June 30 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Direct Pharmaceutical Qtr to June 30 1988 1987 Sales 597,953 234,299 Net inc 40,164 b502,905 Share earns .01 - 9mo sales 1,399,831 1,834,467 Net loss 10,795 1,032,752 b-Net loss *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Direct Pharmaceutical Qtr to June 30 1988 1987 Sales 597,953 234,299 Net inc 4... |
174026_0 | 43 Are Accused of Poaching Black Bears For Body Parts | LEAD: A three-year undercover operation has resulted in charges against 43 people accused of poaching black bears for their gall bladders, which are prized in Asia as aphrodisiacs and medicine, it was announced Tuesday. A three-year undercover operation has resulted in charges against 43 people accused of poaching blac... |
173978_0 | Parent & Child | LEAD: CASEY GORKA has come to expect the responses children have to her 7-year-old daughter, Julia, who is retarded and has problems with her vision and sense of touch. CASEY GORKA has come to expect the responses children have to her 7-year-old daughter, Julia, who is retarded and has problems with her vision and sens... |
167894_0 | Goodyear Realignment Focuses on Flexibility | LEAD: In a sweeping realignment of its businesses, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said it would consolidate its operations into two divisions, tires and general products. In a sweeping realignment of its businesses, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said it would consolidate its operations into two divisions, ... |
1752855_1 | Study Finds No Cancer Link to Sweetener | which represent beverage companies, hailed the study as further evidence that aspartame is a safe food additive. But some scientists and consumer advocates have criticized the National Cancer Institute study as having weak methodology. To get information on people who consume aspartame, the study culled from broad-base... |
1752862_1 | News Summary | Iran Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the United Nations' nuclear monitoring agency in Vienna, will visit Iran to conduct high-level talks on the country's nuclear program, a senior agency official said. A4 Brazil Space Program Criticized Brazil fulfilled a longstanding ambition last month when it sent its first astr... |
1751457_0 | Mourning Becomes Lockerbie | THE phrase ''good grief'' can be an expression of exasperation. But taken another way, it is perhaps even more confounding. After all, can grief ever be good? In Deborah Brevoort's drama ''The Women of Lockerbie,'' based on the 1988 terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103, it is possible. She explores the many personal p... |
1751580_1 | Immigrants and the Economics of Hard Work | work force. While it might be a challenge to find an American-born cab driver in New York or parking lot attendant in Phoenix or grape cutter in the San Joaquin Valley of California, according to Mr. Camarota's study of census data from 2000-2005, 59 percent of cab drivers in the United States are native born, as are 6... |
1751627_3 | INTERNET INJECTS SWEEPING CHANGE INTO U.S. POLITICS | through the Internet, through e-mail, through talk radio.'' Michael Cornfield, a political science professor at George Washington University who studies politics and the Internet, said campaigns were actually late in coming to the game. ''Politicians are having a hard time reconciling themselves to a medium where they ... |
1751598_2 | In a Wired South Korea, Robots Will Feel Right at Home | broadband connections. South Korea, perhaps more than any other country, is transforming itself through technology. About 17 million of the 48 million South Koreans belong to Cyworld, a Web-based service that is a sort of parallel universe where everyone is interconnected through home pages. The interconnectivity has c... |
1758237_1 | What's Inequality? Ask a Former Doorman | And think about the cost of all that capital. I have to acknowledge that in those days, I resented the wages of Teamsters and sanitation workers almost as much as I did hereditary wealth. Much has been written lately about the enormous earnings advantage conferred by a college education, but what's striking to me is th... |
1758011_5 | Roots of Faith | shatters neat, rationalistic theology,'' she writes toward the end of the book. ''Ezekiel's terrifying, confusing vision was very different from the more streamlined ideology of the Deuteronomists. Auschwitz, Bosnia and the destruction of the World Trade Center revealed the darkness of the human heart. Today we are liv... |
1758277_0 | Opening Classroom Doors | Suppose Colin Powell tires of giving $100,000-a-pop speeches and wants to teach high school social studies. Suppose Meryl Streep has a hankering to teach drama. Alas, they would be ''unqualified'' for a public school. Elite private schools would snap them up, of course, but public schools that are begging for teachers ... |
1753668_4 | Growth Hormone: The Secret of Youth or a Cautionary Tale? | is being conducted as to whether HGH could help stabilize or reverse declining cognitive function. In cyberspace, HGH is promoted as a way to shed weight, build muscle, smooth wrinkles, promote healing, relieve chronic pain and restore youthful energy. These promises can be seductive for maturing baby boomers. ''Their ... |
1753640_2 | Anxiety About Anxiety Saved a Patient's Life | zebra instead of a common horse. Dead wrong. Mark, it turned out, was throwing pulmonary emboli to his lungs -- explaining why he was breathing rapidly. And the emboli were large enough to impair the transfer of oxygen in his lungs, meaning that he was being deprived of oxygen. Hypoxia, or a low blood oxygen level, if ... |
1753734_0 | DuPont and Syngenta Join In Modified-Seed Venture | DUPONT and the Swiss company Syngenta said yesterday that they would join forces in a venture that could present a more formidable challenge to Monsanto's dominance of the business for genetically modified seeds. DuPont, which owns the Pioneer Hi-Bred International seed company, will become an equal partner in an exist... |
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