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430881_1 | After Rochester Ice Storm, a Scarred Countryside | Park in Manhattan, created arboretums and urban parks here and carved bridle paths, hiking trails and picnic groves in the thick forests lining the gorge of the Genesee River, which flows through the heart of town. Nearly all of Olmsted's creations have been damaged, including Highland Park downtown and Seneca, Maplewo... |
428896_4 | Route From College to Career Keeps Getting Bumpier | seminars regularly, she said, and takes advantage of a reciprocal job-search program with Boston College to find out what firms are hiring in Massachusetts. "So far, the response has been positive," said Ms. Marchetti, who was recently interviewed for a job as an insurance underwriter and for a training program in mark... |
429213_3 | New & Noteworthy | Stasio said here last year. The author "writes with assurance and humor, in a distinctively English tongue." FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. (Harper Perennial, $10.95.) Flow is defined in this book as the feeling you get when you forget yourself and your apprehensions and become ... |
431879_0 | Justus Buchler, 76, Ex-Professor Of Philosophy at SUNY, Is Dead | Justus Buchler, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former chairman of the philosophy department at Columbia University, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 76 years old and lived in Garden City, L.I. He died of a stroke, his si... |
431885_0 | U.S. to Review Way Overseas Air Fares Are Set | Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner said today that he and his staff would review whether the United States should continue providing antitrust immunity to airlines so that they can fix prices on international routes. Unlike domestic fares, international fares are generally set by airlines as members of the Inte... |
431880_0 | Justus Buchler, 76, Ex-Professor Of Philosophy at SUNY, Is Dead | Justus Buchler, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former chairman of the philosophy department at Columbia University, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 76 years old and lived in Garden City, L.I. He died of a stroke, his si... |
431750_0 | Justus Buchler, 76, Ex-Professor Of Philosophy at SUNY, Is Dead | Justus Buchler, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former chairman of the philosophy department at Columbia University, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 76 years old and lived in Garden City, L.I. He died of a stroke, his si... |
431934_0 | U.S. to Review Way Overseas Air Fares Are Set | Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner said today that he and his staff would review whether the United States should continue providing antitrust immunity to airlines so that they can fix prices on international routes. Unlike domestic fares, international fares are generally set by airlines as members of the Inte... |
431933_0 | U.S. to Review Way Overseas Air Fares Are Set | Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner said today that he and his staff would review whether the United States should continue providing antitrust immunity to airlines so that they can fix prices on international routes. Unlike domestic fares, international fares are generally set by airlines as members of the Inte... |
427336_1 | Surviving a Plane Crash: How to Improve the Odds | prudent car drivers take precautions -- wearing a seat belt, cleaning the windshield, adjusting mirrors -- while the same people get into a plane and presume someone else will take care of it. A message of passivity comes with being crammed in and encouraged to stay seated. But the harsh truth is that in a survivable c... |
427533_11 | The Flowery, Craggy Isles of Scilly | would be again, pointing to the statues boldly dotting avenues and patios, now suddenly exposed to the world. Last summer Princess Diana unveiled a new statue of the three young Dorrien Smith children flying upward against the sky. Just beyond it is Valhalla, Augustus Smith's collection of 27 figureheads from ships wre... |
428748_2 | Religion Notes | an interview in this month's British issue of Reader's Digest, the Bishop said that to exclude women from the priesthood was "devastating and destructive." He added, "The idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy." Bishop Carey's support for women's ordination had been well known ... |
433828_0 | In Trinidad, 'Calypso Diplomacy' With a Beat | When the rebel leader Yasin Abu Bakr and his followers captured Trinidad and Tobago's House of Parliament and broadcasting studios in an attempted coup last July, one of the first things they did -- after taking the Prime Minister and his Cabinet hostage -- was turn Trinidad's television station into a calypso MTV. Unt... |
434014_20 | Dr. Anderson's Gene Machine | To date, the company has provided Anderson with little more than chocolate doughnuts and tea for his Wednesday meetings. (Recently Anderson decided even that looked bad, and started paying, retroactively, for his own doughnuts.) In November, the company wrote its first check to the Government under the CRADA agreement,... |
433794_4 | Across the Pond the Old Way | voyage. I wandered among the containers stacked five high on the deck, making my way toward the stern, and from there watched the vessel's white wake flow to infinity behind us. All this happened without my seeing another soul. At last, perhaps to reassure myself that I had not boarded some modern-day Flying Dutchman, ... |
434131_3 | What Color Is Your Reading List? | one that too often goes unnoticed. Mr. D'Souza simply has not looked for it. The great books are alive and well on college campuses. I know of no responsible educator who would not agree that students should read Thucydides' "Peloponnesian War" to learn about the nature and abuses of power, Milton's "Areopagitica" to a... |
433891_1 | Aid Group Tries to Save Services in Tough Era | restored government funds and increased philanthrophic contributions." The board, one of the largest mental-health and social-service agencies in the country, is a beneficiary of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, but receives most of its financing from the city and state. Its programs are op... |
434164_0 | New? Used? No, Guess Again. | Malcolm Bricklin is back. Or at least he intends to be. The man who brought Subaru to America, who manufactured the Bricklin gull-wing coupe of 1974 and '75, and who created the inexpensive and ill-fated Yugo, has plans to change the face of automobile marketing in this country. "The problem is that new cars are too ex... |
433818_2 | All About/Making Recycling Pay; In Solid Waste, It's the Breakdown That Counts | the National Solid Waste Management Association. Glass, separated by color, is valued at from $40 to $60 a ton. According to the Aluminum Association, a trade group, 54.9 billion aluminum cans totalling 9.65 million tons were recycled in this country last year. That represented a recycling rate of 63.6 percent, the gro... |
433797_2 | Cuba's New Hotels Dream of Dollars | collected speeches of President Castro. Canadian visitors amid the marble and glass of the Sol Palmeras, which opened last year, said their weeklong package deals including air fare and two meals a day cost $700 a week. For a few extra dollars they were also indulging in the sort of activities that vacationers enjoy on... |
434141_1 | Noted With Pleasure | compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited, where its votaries live in confidence, equality, and unreserve." Peace for the Gods This letter, written in A.D. 384 by the Roman senator Symmachus (who was a pagan) to the Christian Emperor Valentinian II, pleading fo... |
434119_1 | Troubled-Mothers Program to End in July | pilot program, Children and Parents Together. The Family Service League of Suffolk County started the program at the request of the State Office of Mental Health. Although the program had been intended to be a model for similar efforts elsewhere, the state has eliminated it and its annual budget of less than $150,000. ... |
428275_0 | Amgen Wins Fight Over Drug | Amgen Inc. has won a stunning victory in a Federal appeals court here over its chief rival in the biotechnology industry in a case involving the patent rights to one of the most lucrative new drugs on the market. The ruling, which reverses a lower court ruling, gives Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a complete pa... |
432815_1 | Amazon Forest Loss Is Sharply Cut in Brazil | the last decade, most recently for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Next month in Puerto Rico, the Brazilians plan to train teams from six other Amazon Basin nations in the skills of tracking rain forest deforestation. For the project, the Pan Amazon Deforestation Study, NASA has purchased regional satel... |
432890_1 | New Orleans Journal; Is Park Saved by Destroying a Part? | Canizaro, has clashed with preservationists in the past, but this is his first duel with post-modern preservationists. In response to the city's search for someone to build a hotel on city-owned land beside the Piazza d'Italia, he has proposed building the 405-room hotel, the Ritz-Carlton, around three sides of the par... |
432819_0 | Despite Gains in Treatment, Asthma Worsens | ASTHMA treatment has vastly improved over the last 20 years. Doctors are more aware of the breathing disorder, are able to diagnose it better and sooner and can provide a larger arsenal of therapies to relieve the wheezing, gasping and struggle for breath that each attack brings. Yet around the world, more people are d... |
432901_2 | Ulster Parties Agree to Hold Broad Talks | could begin in May. The common expectation is that talks will be intense and will take 8 to 10 weeks. Mr. Brooke has banned Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, from taking part in any negotiations until it renounces violence. The Northern Ireland parties that agreed today to talk include these: *... |
430033_0 | Nagashima Journal; As One More Dam Is Built, Japanese Anger Bursts | A foul-smelling epiphany came to Megumi Ohmori a few years ago as she was crossing a bridge and saw construction crews demolishing thick patches of reeds on the riverbank below. Then suddenly she was hit by the stench of rotting fish and birds. "The spirit of the Nagara River took hold of me," Mrs. Ohmori recalled. "I ... |
429942_5 | Major U.S. Study Finds No Miscarriage Risk From Video Terminals | a "substantial problem" with the Kaiser-Permanente study. Some of its subjects were questioned by mail. Among that group, she said, no excess miscarriages were found. But some of the subjects were questioned by telephone, she said, and the interviewers knew that the subjects had had miscarriages. The interviewers "may ... |
430052_1 | Tough Airport Security Measures May Remain Despite End of War | commercial airlines. Some air travel officials interviewed this week said they supported the measure regarding unattended cars and luggage and the ban on curbside check-ins. But there was sharp disagreement on restricting people who are not airline passengers, because that policy has financially hurt terminals' concess... |
429810_2 | Friendlier Skies? | such expedients -- they seem to have had no attractive alternative -- is not encouraging. Pan Am, in fact, was founded and flourished for decades as an international airline, which makes its withdrawal from Atlantic service particularly ironic. Nevertheless, the reprieve is welcome, particularly since the British-Ameri... |
431156_2 | Careers; Students Find Job Search Much Harder | 120 students and 28 companies at the day-and-a-half event. "We send the resumes ahead," Dr. Fair said. Last year, at least a dozen students took jobs as a result," he added. Companies that attended included Chevron, E & J Gallo Winery, Pacific Telesis, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Bank of America and Valley Nation... |
431233_0 | Convictions in Killing of Agent Are Upheld | The convictions of four men for the killing of an American drug agent in Mexico were upheld today by a Federal trial judge, who rejected arguments that the jury acted improperly. Lawyers for one defendant, Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, argued that before reaching the verdict the jury read newspaper articles that said M... |
431096_0 | Books of The Times; A Humane Philosopher Argues for Pluralism | The Crooked Timber of Humanity Chapters in the History of Ideas By Isaiah Berlin Edited by Henry Hardy. 277 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $22. The title of Isaiah Berlin's latest book comes from a paraphrase of a remark made by Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made." It's a fitting titl... |
431145_1 | The VDT Miscarriage Scare | ubiquitous office machines have been the object of widespread apprehension, especially since a reputable study in 1988 found that women who worked on them for long periods had more miscarriages than women who did not. But now an even more persuasive study has concluded the opposite. Women who worked on VDT's ran no mor... |
431528_3 | Cuts Loom in Classes For the Handicapped | used for all children in a school. But the program would not be as focused on needy children as had been intended under state law. City school officials also want to be able to use the program money for kindergarten, asserting that some children have fallen behind when they start school, not just in first grade. The pr... |
441133_0 | British and Irish Move on Talks | Making way for what they called a historic opportunity to address the future of Northern Ireland, the British and Irish Governments suspended their own six-year-long consultations over the troubled province today in favor of new negotiations beginning next week in Belfast. At a meeting here, Peter Brooke, the British S... |
441324_0 | Beliefs | The title of the lecture was provocative: "The Soul of Man Under Secularism." Christopher Lasch, the distinguished historian from the University of Rochester, had taken it from an earlier provocateur, Oscar Wilde. A century ago, in February 1891, the British playwright and poet published a slim volume called "The Soul ... |
441232_2 | Plea for College Aid Refused? An Appeal Could Win a Grant | precision, however, aid determination is an art about which reasonable people can differ -- and negotiate. "Your success in appealing an award depends on a great number of factors: your timing, whether the college does or does not have discretionary funds, how badly the college wants you, how skillful and diplomatic yo... |
441163_0 | New World for Disabled Preschoolers | Joanne Ovalle was born with multiple defects, and medical specialists concluded she was unlikely to talk or walk normally. But with therapy, she has developed into a playful, assertive 3-year-old. Beatriz Alvarez, who has Down syndrome, was a listless, withdrawn toddler until a few months ago, but she now dances and jo... |
441325_0 | Beliefs | The title of the lecture was provocative: "The Soul of Man Under Secularism." Christopher Lasch, the distinguished historian from the University of Rochester, had taken it from an earlier provocateur, Oscar Wilde. A century ago, in February 1891, the British playwright and poet published a slim volume called "The Soul ... |
441343_0 | Patents; A New Way to Deal with The Pothole | Two structural engineers in New York City patented a product this week that they said could relieve an urban problem as persistent as traffic jams and rudeness: potholes. The product is a seemingly flimsy sheet of wire mesh that is designed to reinforce asphalt patchwork and prevent it from sinking and cracking. The me... |
441369_0 | Beliefs | The title of the lecture was provocative: "The Soul of Man Under Secularism." Christopher Lasch, the distinguished historian from the University of Rochester, had taken it from an earlier provocateur, Oscar Wilde. A century ago, in February 1891, the British playwright and poet published a slim volume called "The Soul ... |
437587_0 | World Economies | |
435309_2 | U.S. REPORTS DROP IN INFANT DEATHS | The drop in infant mortality in this century has been one of the most striking statistics in medicine. In 1915, 99.9 infants died for every 1,000 live births in the United States. By 1940 the rate was down to 47 for every 1,000, by 1970 it was down to 20, and by 1988 it was down to 10 for 1,000. Though the decrease was... |
435307_0 | Violence Imperils Talks in South Africa | The African National Congress warned President F. W. de Klerk today that it would pull out of discussions on South Africa's future unless his Government moved within five weeks to stop the violence afflicting black townships. An open letter from the congress to the Government was presented by Nelson Mandela, the congre... |
434316_0 | World Economies | |
434219_0 | Tower of Pisa Update | The tower of Pisa has leaned an extra four hundredths of an inch in the last three months, nearly as much as it usually leans in a year, experts said on Saturday. |
438132_0 | Review/Theater; Speaking, in Mamet's Words, to the Subconscious | David Mamet has demonstrated his affinity for Chekhov in his own work and in his adaptations of "The Cherry Orchard," "Uncle Vanya" (recently presented on WNET) and "Three Sisters," which opened last night at the Atlantic Theater. While each playwright is certainly localized within his time and environment, they share ... |
436769_0 | Job Prospects for Graduates Seen as Bleak | After investing tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours in legal education, a substantial number of third-year students at law schools nationwide may graduate this year without job offers. Though the situation is most acute in New York and other major cities in the Northeast, law firms are being forced by the ... |
438764_1 | Avoid Airport Delays by Packing Carefully | do not check luggage; you won't have to wait for it to be unloaded. "If you can travel light enough to use a carry-on, you're obviously way ahead of the game," said Ed Perkins, editor of The Consumer Reports Travel Letter, a newsletter. Travelers have been using only carry-ons in increasing numbers, the airlines say. N... |
438624_0 | Patents; A Composition for Use In Food and Cosmetics | Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology obtained a patent this week for a composition produced by bacteria that has possible uses in food and cosmetics as well as in waste-water treatment. Called Zooglan, the composition is essentially a long string of sugar molecules that is secreted by a bacteria str... |
438634_0 | CHRONICLE | With pomp and pageantry, GEORGE CAREY, a son of the working class, was enthroned yesterday as the 103d Archbishop of Canterbury. In a ceremony blending medieval splendor and gospel songs that was witnessed by 2,200 people, including QUEEN ELIZABETH II, Archbishop DESMOND TUTU of South Africa and the American evangelist... |
438608_0 | U.S. Will Conduct Vast Study Of Women's Health Problems | The Government said today it would launch the most far-reaching study of women's health ever undertaken, one involving hundreds of thousands of women. The study will be coordinated by the Office of Research on Women's Health of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bernadine Healy, the new head of the N.I.H., said the... |
438781_1 | Kigali Journal; AIDS Outweighed by the Desire to Have a Child | tried, largely unsuccessfully, to curb soaring populations across sub-Saharan Africa. But it is the sort of judgment that is beginning to confound AIDS researchers as well. At the AIDS center here, Miss Siyapata and 1,500 other women in this capital city have been studied and have received counseling and medical servic... |
438652_2 | A Way Out of the CUNY Impasse | to $1,450 per year, somewhat lower than many public universities but extremely costly given the situtation of most CUNY students. Financial aid programs assist the most needy, but part-time working students are seldom eligible, and subsidies for those above the poverty line fall off sharply. And now the state and city ... |
437814_3 | Debate Flares Over IUD Challenge | were considered carefully designed. Although the studies "certainly were a strong piece of evidence in support of our cases," Mr. Bragg said, he won two cases before they were completed. Now a team headed by Dr. Richard A. Kronmal, a biostatistician at the University of Washington in Seattle, has raised serious questio... |
437805_1 | Careers; M.B.A. Study Is Urged for Some Jobless | tend to be older than the typical recent graduate. "We don't admit many right from undergraduate school," said Debra Felix, director of admissions at Columbia's business school. Recent graduates are admitted if they can show good summer or other work experience and campus leadership qualities. This might include a succ... |
437825_0 | Market Place; Sweetener Patent Lifts Biospherics | WHEN it comes to stirring the public imagination in late 20th-century America, few ideas can compete with the vision of eating and eating without growing fat. It was just such an idea that propelled the stock of a little-known company, Biospherics Inc., into the stratosphere last week. Even after a sharp fall yesterday... |
435204_0 | Fixing World Crises Isn't Just a Job for Diplomats | As delegates from more than 160 governments negotiated the new environmental measures being prepared for signing at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June, they were being watched, bullied, cajoled and lectured by an increasingly important group of actors on the international stage. More than 1,200 private environm... |
435030_0 | Fixing World Crises Isn't Just a Job for Diplomats | As delegates from more than 160 governments negotiated the new environmental measures being prepared for signing at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June, they were being watched, bullied, cajoled and lectured by an increasingly important group of actors on the international stage. More than 1,200 private environm... |
436052_0 | World Economies | |
434439_0 | Electromagnetic Fields Are Being Scrutinized For Linkage to Cancer | BIRDS and bees do it. So do some bacteria, salmon and whales. But whether the human body can detect extremely faint electromagnetic fields, and whether those fields play a role in diseases like cancer, is one of the most intensely debated issues in medicine today. If the risks exist, scientists say, they probably are e... |
442028_9 | Costly Special Classes Serving Many With Minimal Needs | reading and mathematics skills -- and to be interviewed by social workers who come to the children's homes. Three-person evaluation teams catalogue children in two dozen groupings. But critics wonder how essential and meaningful the sorting process is. "You can't tell the difference between low-achieving students, lear... |
442042_2 | Amazon Advocate's Unsettling Vision | may have to address increasing criticism at home that his only achievement so far has been cosmetic: improving Brazil's image overseas. Accused of Wasting Time His critics say Mr. Lutzenberger often wastes time and energy on minutiae, berating gardeners at the environmental institute over the use of pesticides or feudi... |
442144_2 | De Klerk Sees Danger of Civil War | 183 wounded in fighting that broke out over the weekend in Johannesburg's two largest black townships, Soweto and Alexandra. Threat to Halt Talks The events fed speculation that the congress would carry out its threat to break off talks with the Government on the country's future unless the violence stopped before the ... |
436514_3 | Quick Steps Urged on Warming Threat | Daniel J. Evans, the chairman of the panel, called population "the biggest single driver of atmospheric pollution." Mr. Evans, a Republican, is a former Governor and Senator from Washington. The panel encouraged development and testing of a new generation of safe, efficient nuclear power plants to replace those that bu... |
439562_0 | Why Economy Pinches the College-Educated | To the Editor: One cannot help feeling sorry for Julia Carlisle ("Young, Privileged and Unemployed," Op-Ed, April 4). Unfortunately, she is just one representative of a generation of college graduates who have been marginalized by our educational system. The stress we, as a nation, have laid on a college education as a... |
441909_0 | World Economies | |
441855_0 | U.S. PLAN TO BURN CHEMICAL WEAPONS STIRS PUBLIC FEAR | Hampered by flaws in design and operation, the Army's program to incinerate the nation's enormous stockpile of chemical weapons is falling years behind schedule, experiencing huge cost increases and stirring public protests in six states and the South Pacific. Taxing in equal measures the nation's technological know-ho... |
438498_1 | Sugar Plunges in Busy Day, With Heavy Supply Seen | of rising supply projections. World sugar futures settled 0.34 cent to 0.45 cent lower on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, with the contract for delivery in May down 0.45 cent at 8.06 cents a pound. May deliveries traded as low as 7.94 cents during the session, breaking the 8-cent barrier for the first ti... |
438433_3 | The Bell Tolls for Rain Forests | for planting 10 billion trees in the next decade is successful, the effects of the destruction of the world's equatorial rain forests would be scarcely diminished. The Intangible Loss One of the losses sometimes overlooked in discussions of the rain-forest problem is that of the beautiful mystery that haunted the world... |
438503_2 | Trade Gap Narrows to 7-Year Low | converging trends in trade -- shrinkage both in German and other European surpluses and in American deficits --the United States should not count on selling increased amounts of goods overseas. "We are not going to have robust exports," Mr. de Vries declared. The $800 million decline in February exports, to $33.5 billi... |
438810_0 | The Executive Computer; Trying to Assess the Potential Hazards of Video Terminals | Several recent studies have provided more information about the health effects of computer use, and one of them included what appears to be reassuring news about the effects of electromagnetic fields on pregnant women. Previous studies of video display terminal use among women have yielded conflicting and inconsistent ... |
438806_1 | Technology; New Techniques to Turn an Oil Spill Into a Collectible | the oil companies. One interesting approach is a mix of chemicals called Elastol, made by General Technology Applications Inc. of Manassas, Va. The principal ingredient is a synthetic rubber, polyisobutylene. Sprayed on an oil slick, Elastol dissolves in the oil and increases its viscosity, or thickness. Since the addi... |
438924_0 | Brazil's Chief Revokes Orders That Cut Tribe's Amazon Land | President Fernando Collor de Mello has revoked a series of decrees that had sharply reduced the Amazon lands reserved for the Yanomami Indians, one of the world's largest traditional tribal peoples. President Collor also prohibited non-Indian men from entering the mineral-producing region inhabited by the Yanomamis, wh... |
438845_1 | Q and A | of International Education, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017; payment must be included with a request. Three books published in Britain by Vacation-Work are sold in the United States by Peterson's Guides, Post Office Box 2123, Princeton, N.J. 08543; (800) 338-3282 or (609) 243-9111. Each is $13.95. One is... |
435459_4 | SPECIAL REPORT: Ex Machina; The Electronic Edge | one topic to related topics, including texts of documents, bibliographies, biographies of key individuals and more. The video monitor will likely be connected to computers, video camcorders, videocassette recorders, laser disks, compact disk players, cable TV, satellite dishes and other classrooms for live, two-way tel... |
435459_5 | SPECIAL REPORT: Ex Machina; The Electronic Edge | and video is called multimedia and is already used to convey information. The next step is to give more students than the few now using them the tools to produce their own multimedia presentations. OPTICAL DISKS: This category includes intriguing technologies with names like CD-ROM, CD-V, laser videodisks and CD-I. Mos... |
435472_4 | Going On-Line | computer-literate staff members, which decided that the priority would be integrating computers into the curriculum. I.B.M. Offered a Computer Network Deal At the same time, the International Business Machines Corporation, which is trying to wrest control of the school market from Apple Computer Inc., offered Suffern o... |
435866_6 | What If This Is a 50-Year Drought? | Clear Car Wash in Santa Rosa. "But we've got it down to 15 gallons per car." They use fresh water for final rinses. Tom Harrison, the owner of Peninsula Plating Works, a silversmith business in Palo Alto, cut his company's water use by 60 percent after installing a recycling and collection system -- which cost about t ... |
440818_2 | Space Center or Not, Some Say It's Still a Jungle | where few dark-skinned residents venture, while most other clubs here are either exclusively French or operate on an informal ethnic rotation, Brazilian one night, Creole the next. The population of Kourou was recently put at 14,000, but with its sprawling squatters' quarters and other makeshift neighborhoods housing c... |
437186_0 | Brazil's Amazon Basin Becomes Cocaine Highway | A small airplane loaded with cocaine-refining chemicals crashes and explodes along Brazil's border with Bolivia. Another plane runs out of fuel and lands on a dirt road near Brazil's border with Peru. The police seize chemicals and $858,690 in United States currency. A plane from Colombia misses a smuggling connection ... |
437147_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | parenting for their children's children 18 News analysis: Research grants are coming under scrutiny after years of going unnoticed. Several universities have begun pre-emptive audits to head off disclosures of embarrassing, and possibly illegal, charges. 23 The White House tries to scuttle compromise on civil rights bi... |
437196_0 | Pope Appoints New Bishops in Soviet Union | Pope John Paul II today named spiritual leaders for Roman Catholics in Russia and two other Soviet republics, fulfilling a major condition for a possible papal visit to the Soviet Union. The Pope appointed the first Roman Catholic archbishop to serve in Moscow, named bishops in Siberia and the republic of Kazakhstan an... |
437250_2 | They Rarely Leave a Note | his exhaustive research, the text darts nimbly among scholarly theories, literary and fine-arts references, personal experiences, striking statistics, bizarre facts and the jarring rhythms of innumerable suicide notes. (Only one in five or six suicides leaves a note, Mr. Colt reports, and the notes rarely tell the surv... |
437489_1 | Campus Life: Harvard; Death of a Tree: Who Killed It? Are More in Peril? | environment. We recycle paper. We just don't like the tree." Shortly after the tree was damaged, Archie C. Epps, the dean of students; the City of Cambridge, and a Lampoon trustee agreed that The Lampoon would pay for a replacement and a few more trees, university officials said. The death of the tree fueled an ongoing... |
437337_1 | Developer's Suit Is Ruled Retaliatory | mandated public review of environmental impacts. But similar suits have been filed against citizens and public officials active in civil rights, health and consumer-protection issues. The suits are particularly dangerous, Attorney General Robert Abrams has warned, because their object is to "stifle legitimate political... |
441805_0 | Talks on Northern Ireland: Optimism Is Avoided | In churches throughout the north and south of Ireland on Sunday, Roman Catholics and Protestants will join in a special prayer that political talks about to start here will bring peace to the land, where 2,872 people have been killed in civil strife since 1969. The talks here between the Protestant Unionists, who want ... |
441704_4 | The World; Italy's Political Circus Maximus Is Becoming A Luxury the Nation Finds Harder to Afford | so and, yes, Italy has had 50 Cabinets since the end of World War II. No. 50 was formed this month by Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, basically by remolding No. 49, which he also led. But governments have been allowed to fall so frequently because Italians know that lo spettacolo -- the spectacle or show -- is a luxur... |
441795_3 | About Cars; Mercury Applies Conventional Wisdom | by wood that was either real or better, and the front bench was split 60-40 so that both driver and passenger could use the power controls to tailor individual comfort. Beyond the Mercury's steering wheel with its standard air bag, digital gauges dominate the instrument pod. There is a trip computer that tells, among o... |
441804_0 | Talks on Northern Ireland: Optimism Is Avoided | In churches throughout the north and south of Ireland on Sunday, Roman Catholics and Protestants will join in a special prayer that political talks about to start here will bring peace to the land, where 2,872 people have been killed in civil strife since 1969. The talks here between the Protestant Unionists, who want ... |
441552_2 | Grounded: When Your Flight Is Canceled | of scheduled flights. Taking 5 percent of the 18,000 daily flights by United States airlines from United States airports would mean that 900 flights a day are delayed or canceled for mechanical problems. As airline fleets age and airlines operate under bankruptcy court protection, that figure is likely to edge up. Unti... |
441495_0 | Talks on Northern Ireland: Optimism Is Avoided | In churches throughout the north and south of Ireland on Sunday, Roman Catholics and Protestants will join in a special prayer that political talks about to start here will bring peace to the land, where 2,872 people have been killed in civil strife since 1969. The talks here between the Protestant Unionists, who want ... |
441739_1 | Slur Accusation Imperils California School District | and football at nearby Lassen Union High School until 1989. Both schools were under the administration of the same superintendent, Marshall Leve, until last year when the high school selected its own superintendent. Parents Report Harassment Mr. Murin is accused of using derogatory terms for black and American Indian s... |
441422_0 | POLES FACE ISSUE OF STATE RELIGION | In the face of growing anti-clerical sentiment in Poland, the Roman Catholic Church is calling for an end to this nation's constitutional separation of church and state. The proposal, made this week by the nation's bishops, puts President Lech Walesa in a potentially awkward position. Mr. Walesa, a devout Catholic who ... |
441418_1 | Mandela Calls West Europe Racist on Sanctions | enter the much-heralded 21st century." Lifting sanctions to reward Mr. de Klerk, Mr. Mandela said, would delay South Africa's economic recovery by delaying resolution of political problems. Mr. Mandela spoke a day after returning from a trip to Japan and Britain, having found little support for his pleas to hold the li... |
439357_0 | Degrees and Stacks of Resumes Yield Few Jobs for Class of '91 | America's spring crop of college graduates -- a million young people who matriculated in the booming 1980's with rosy visions of abundant and lucrative career choices -- face the bleakest job market in a decade or more, especially in the New York region and the rest of the Northeast. Caught in a recession that has stri... |
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439300_0 | Be Healthy, Make Money, and Scorn the Sick | To the Editor: Re "Medical Insurers Vary Fees to Aid Healthier People" (front page, March 24): Yes, the health-care packages you discuss are attractive to the younger consumer at first glance, but they carry a deeper message, which can change health care in the next century. Basic to these plans is monetary reward for ... |
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