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434561_0 | Pressed Private Colleges Reining In Tuition | Squeezed by the recession and a shrinking number of high school graduates headed for college, private colleges and universities are trying to attract students by keeping tuition increases to their lowest levels in more than 15 years. A few colleges are also making novel offers of financial aid. George Washington Univer... |
434828_0 | F.A.A. to Seek Tighter Security at Airports | The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed higher standards in the hiring, training and performance of security employees of airlines and airports. It also proposed Monday that each airport designate a security coordinator to monitor security-related activities and to act as a contact for the Federal agency. Unde... |
440482_0 | COMPANY NEWS; | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, battered by intense price competition and deteriorating demand from auto makers, yesterday reported a first-quarter loss of $90.1 million. The company attributed the results to the downturn in the economy, special charges against earnings for costs associated with the layoffs of em... |
437920_0 | Don't Demonize North Korea | North Korea is fast replacing Iraq as the world's number one nuclear renegade. Evidence suggests it could be a lot closer to building a bomb than Iraq ever came. The solution, say some American policy makers, is to cut off all trade and contact until Pyongyang permits international inspection of its nuclear plants. But... |
437969_0 | Poverty Blamed for Blacks' High Cancer Rate | Poverty, not race, is largely to blame for the higher rate of cancer among blacks than whites, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute. The study, which is being published Wednesday in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, says programs to fight cancer should thus be aimed at poor ur... |
496490_1 | Study Tying Gene to Cancer Risk Draws Fire | Researchers found 19 women who developed breast cancer in the course of the six-year study and compared their statements about radiation exposures to the reported experience of 57 others who showed no signs of cancer. But Dr. John Boice, an expert on radiation and cancer at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md... |
494270_0 | Europe's Bishops Unable to Heal Rifts | With a profusion of ecclesiastical pageant, bishops from Eastern and Western Europe ended an important synod today that did little to heal the Roman Catholic Church's historic rifts with other Christian churches but affirmed the Vatican's commitment to a new crusade for followers after the cold war. Pope John Paul II c... |
494204_0 | CHINA'S INDUSTRIES QUITTING THE HILLS | A postscript to the cold war is being written here: a missile factory has been converted to make refrigerators. Just as important, the refrigerators are rolling off assembly lines not in the company's old location in the mountains of south-central China but in a new industrial zone here in the provincial capital. As th... |
494383_3 | See It Now, Save It Later | place, I've watched as the treasures fall prey largely to human folly: the Parthenon and the Forum awash in pollution, the tomb of Tutankhamun in upper Egypt closed to visitors because the visitors' own perspiration gnaws the frescoes; priceless sculpture in Rome and Florence assailed by deranged attackers; the Sphinx ... |
494179_9 | A Cosmological Event | old man from Ceylon told me he used to resent the British civil servants who lived high on the hog in his native land, retiring while still young to sit on the verandas of their grand homes sipping gin-and-tonics, until he observed that most, having realized their fondest ambitions, were dead within a decade. Statistic... |
494179_14 | A Cosmological Event | allochemical that prompts neighboring firs to produce an insecticide-like substance they will need to ward off the same insects. Consider the enormous number of communications links forged through the long history of evolution, and it may not be unreasonable to suppose that life on earth resonates with internal and ext... |
494371_0 | Creativity in Design as an Urban Survival Skill | Could we stand it if the South Bronx turned around? Could we bear to lose this photogenic symbol of the bleak underside of the American dream? These are not cynical questions. In Hunts Point, many residents believe the Bronx has turned around; they resent being cast as extras in a perpetual remake of "Fort Apache, the ... |
495152_4 | Mexico Ending Church Restraints After 70 Years of Official Hostility | charge that Pope John Paul II was violating Mexican law by wearing his habit during a first visit to Mexico in 1979. Mr. Lopez Portillo offered to pay the 50 peso fine. "In Mexico we have lived a paradox: that of a profoundly Catholic nation that has had to coexist with the most anticlerical Constitution on the planet,... |
490717_0 | Brazil Steps Up Drive to Protect Indian Lands | Ignoring a backlash from Amazon politicians, President Fernando Collor de Mello stepped up his campaign to preserve the culture and sanctuaries of Brazilian Indians this week by reserving 19,000 square miles of virgin rain forest as a homeland for 500 Kaiapo Indians. Slightly larger than Switzerland, the new reservatio... |
490844_54 | Notable Books of the Year 1991 | ample history, frankly partisan but generously comprehensive, of the nonviolent activists of the 1960's and their opponents. FREEDOM. Volume One: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. By Orlando Patterson. (Basic Books, $29.95.) The first of a projected two volumes on the origins of the idea of freedom focuses prim... |
490795_0 | In the Amazon | THIS WEEK |
491623_2 | For Disabled Women, A Time For Sharing | younger, they used to say, 'You stay home.' " Ms. Caballero-Ho, who lives in Yonkers, and Ms. Mahmud, who lives in the Bronx, talk regularly on the telephone and go to movies and restaurants, calling ahead to check on wheelchair access. Last summer, they went to an amusement park, where Ms. Mahmud went on virtually all... |
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496947_3 | Volunteers of America Assisting in AIDS Care | care givers come from populations that cannot afford other home-care services." Urban Centers Hardest Hit The disease is taking the largest toll in the urban centers of Westchester -- in Mount Vernon, Yonkers, the White Plains-Greenburgh area, Ossining and Peekskill, said Karin L. Rhines, a Health Department program ad... |
496950_1 | Hope Dims for Saving a Millbrook Mansion | group organized to save the Hall, maintains that such feuding has not only held up the nomination but also has resulted in fewer attempts to stabilize the structure. "It's already open to the elements and anyone can just walk in," said David Sloan, the group's executive director. Similar clashes are occurring over hist... |
496946_3 | Volunteers of America Assisting in AIDS Care | care givers come from populations that cannot afford other home-care services." Urban Centers Hardest Hit The disease is taking the largest toll in the urban centers of Westchester -- in Mount Vernon, Yonkers, the White Plains-Greenburgh area, Ossining and Peekskill, said Karin L. Rhines, a Health Department program ad... |
492500_1 | CZECH HIERARCHY BARS SOME PRIESTS | church officials. Fridolin Zahradnik was a "bishop" in the non-Vatican wing of the underground church. His status is recognized by establishment church officials here, but he is one of about 25 whose cases have been sent to Rome for a ruling. "The underground priests were persecuted for many years," he said in an inter... |
492217_3 | Do Employees Have a Right to Electronic Privacy? | say they wouldn't hire a programmer who couldn't break into any system." But as computers and networks extend their reach into global business, such attitudes may no longer suffice. "Information systems people should be held to a higher level of ethics than the general population, just as doctors and lawyers are," said... |
492396_0 | Handbag or Bag? | To the Editor: Women who plan to travel on Air France with carry-on luggage only should be aware that Air France counts a woman's handbag as one of the two pieces of luggage permitted aboard. Thus, on a recent flight to Paris from Kennedy Airport, a man with two full sized carry-ons was permitted to board while I, who ... |
490960_0 | World Economies | |
491070_2 | Stores in London Firebombed, Raising Fears of I.R.A. Christmas Campaign | that they were small devices well hidden." So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the firebombings, a police spokesman said. The police have not said whether there is any connection between the bombings and the discovery of weapons and explosives in Wanstead, in the East End about a mile and half from Piccadilly... |
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493714_0 | Oldest Pottery in Americas Is Found in Amazon Basin | The earliest pottery ever found in the Western Hemisphere has been excavated in the Amazon basin of Brazil, providing strong evidence to overturn the standard assumption that the vast tropical forest region was too poor in resources to have supported a complex prehistoric culture. The discovery was seen by archeologist... |
494984_0 | Preschool for Disabled Struggles for Survival | In a few weeks, workers will begin packing up the blocks, the beads and the elephant mobile that hangs in a large playroom at the Pre Kindergarten Center on the campus of Teachers College at Columbia. Down will come a row of paper horses inscribed with the names and birthdays of fragile children to whom doctors gave li... |
495401_0 | PRETORIA IS READY TO NEGOTIATE PLAN FOR INTERIM RULE | Addressing a conference of political parties convened to begin charting the end of white minority rule in South Africa, President F. W. de Klerk said today that he was ready to negotiate constitutional amendments that would create an interim government and an expanded Parliament that included blacks. Mr. de Klerk said ... |
495438_4 | A Move to Break World Trade Deadlock | and hammer out the unresolved details. GATT officials hope to schedule a final meeting in April, possibly in Morocco, where trade ministers would sign the trade agreement. The draft accord would help developing countries by phasing out over 10 years the multifiber arrangement, which allows wealthy industrial countries ... |
496334_0 | Prince Rupert Journal; In Nuclear Age, Canadians Adopt '54-40 or Fight' | They sail out for 10 days at a stretch in seiners and trawlers with names like Nemesis, Leslie Ellen and Eliza Joye to catch the sole, perch, cod, halibut, salmon, yellowmouth and rougheye rockfish that abound in some of the world's richest fishing grounds. They are men like Kelvin Mark, 31 years old, who began his fis... |
496355_0 | Private Group Leading Angkor Restoration | After a generation of war, looting and environmental damage that has ravaged the historic Cambodian city of Angkor, plans to restore the huge complex of 8th-to-14th-century temples will finally start to take shape next month, when the first members of an international conservation team arrive in the Cambodian jungles. ... |
496355_2 | Private Group Leading Angkor Restoration | Jewish religious and cultural significance, and last year the fund opened a preservation-study center in Mexico. The fund's annual budget of about $2 million, which comes largely from corporations and foundation grants, is principally earmarked for about half a dozen high-priority projects each year. Although organizat... |
491991_0 | Patents; New Process Cuts Cost of Real Vanilla | Vanilla, with its smooth facility for blending with other tastes and fragrances, eclipses even chocolate as the most heavily consumed flavor. Despite that, most people rarely taste the real thing. The reason is its expense. Natural vanilla, extracted from the bean, costs about $1,200 a pound. The beans themselves are $... |
491263_4 | Sugar Growers Seek Cleaner Image | growers tell visitors that sugar is a bargain, one of the few products that does not cost more in 1991 than it did a decade earlier. The growers also tell visitors how the industry was repeatedly blamed for environmental problems like pollution of Lake Okeechobee that later proved to be primarily the fault of others, n... |
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497267_5 | Birth Rates Plummeting in Some Ex-Communist Regions of Eastern Europe | environmental contamination, including the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, and the low level of health care and scarcity of medicine. It is not clear if the same factors are at work in eastern Germany, but the demographic situation is similar. In September, a German researcher, Klaus Klemm, told fe... |
497394_6 | Relax, It's Almost Over | more important (to us) than our paying occupations. I want to say I saw it. I want to say I looked it in the eye. I called in sick during the Iraq war, I called in sick during the Thomas hearings . . . and, watching, I soon found I was, in fact, quite sick. Can you catch, from proximity to a televised ethical sewer, a ... |
492792_2 | Museum By Venturi Opens In Seattle | really exciting is that the museum reflects the changing attitudes," he said. "It is a museum that does not try to be elitist. I thought we ought to make it likable, to children and passers-by." If the first-day crowds are any indication, Mr. Venturi has succeeded; more than 10,000 people stood in a driving rainstorm w... |
492892_0 | U.N. Passes Voluntary Register to Curb Arms Sales | At a time when the international arms trade may be starting to grow again after a sharp decline, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly today to establish the first register of international arms sales. The aim of the register, which won strong support in the wake of the Persian Gulf war, is to curb t... |
492908_3 | Johannesburg Journal; Mean Streets Swallow the Orphans of Apartheid | described the conditions of the families she visited as appalling for children. "They feel they have to leave their home and fend for themselves out in the streets," Mrs. Rakau said. "They feel the streets are warmer and more secure than their homes." Some fare better as vagrants. Rael Strous, a physician who volunteer... |
496638_0 | Venture Set With Du Pont On Pesticides | Crop Genetics International, a small agricultural biotechnology company, and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, one of the world's largest agricultural chemical producers, said yesterday that they had formed an alliance to develop naturally occurring insect viruses into pesticides. Du Pont, based in Wilmington, Del., ... |
496611_1 | Iceland Plans to Withdraw From International Whaling Agreement | mean that commercial whaling would begin again next year. But Tomas Tomasson, Iceland's Ambassador to the United States, indicated today in an interview that his country was planning to resume whaling soon. 'We Depend on Fishing' "Nobody knows what will happen after 1992," Mr. Tomasson said. "But we depend on the fishi... |
495569_0 | We Need National Standards for Those Who Give Child Care; Training Programs | To the Editor: Parents concerned about the sad state of child care, as portrayed in your Dec. 9 article on the nanny business, may get in touch with the American Council of Nanny Schools, Delta College, University Center, Mich., for a list of approved schools. Founded in 1984, it is the only organization in the United ... |
495749_2 | Try 'Plastic Lumber' On Expressway | that it is the accumulative effects of many small seemingly insignificant sources of pollution that are ever so slowly degrading the air, land and waters of the Island? Almost any individual project can be justified, if the pollutant issue is examined in the context of existing pollutant concentrations in the environme... |
495474_0 | It's a Rain Forest Out There | WHAT'S HAPPENED to the jungle ? It's disappearing. This once-popular word was first used in 1776 in Nathaniel B. Halhed's translation of a code of Hindu laws: "Land Waste for Five Years . . . is called Jungle." It is respectably rooted in the Hindi jangal and the Sanskrit jangala , "wasteland, desert." After a century ... |
496188_0 | U.S. Plans Scholarships To Push Foreign Studies | When the Soviets challenged the United States' technological prowess with the launching of their Sputnik satellite in 1957, America responded by pumping more money into the study of science and mathematics. Today, the dawning of a new, more multicultural world order has spawned a similar anxiety within the intelligence... |
494763_4 | Brazilians Take Pains To Save Sea Turtles | sun shining on the ocean. Brazil adopted a shielding law last year. To build up good will among adults, some of whom depended on turtles for extra income and nutrition, workers distribute free turtle T-shirts and posters, and offer jeep rides and radio communication. At seven of the beach hatcheries visited by tourists... |
494732_2 | Giving Users the Gift of Comfort | in front of the keyboard, are inexpensive (typically under $15 in the stores) and practical. We have seen some delightful home-made wrist rests that use colorful fabric filled with pellets, foam or dry beans and attached to a wood base. A telephone head set can prevent the Quasimodo syndrome that afflicts people who of... |
491438_2 | Economic Scene; Radio Waves Can Be Solid Gold | data transfer services drew 60,000 applications in just two days. Nor have the lotteries satisfied critics like the former F.C.C. chairman, Mark Fowler, who asks why the Government gives away the spectrum when it sells rights to extract oil, harvest timber and graze cattle on public land. The Commerce Department estima... |
491474_0 | Tapping the Young for Messages to Their Peers | By blending the conventional wisdom of advertising executives with the creative impulses of young minds, a Boston-based advertising agency has generated award-winning public interest advertisements that have been appearing this fall. In one newspaper advertisement, the young people wrote the slogan, "If you thought the... |
445924_2 | Study Says U.S. Rejected Safer Nuclear Test Site | to giving the public a correct understanding of this matter in order that the hysterical or alarmist complex now so prevalent may be corrected." The Government, the memo went on, should avoid pronouncements that create "an unhealthy, dangerous and unjustified fear of atomic detonations." The documents also discuss the ... |
447959_3 | A Restoration Becomes a Criminal Case in Italy | a decorated band, rests on two puffy pillows. Beneath her, a free-standing Roman-style sarcophagus is richly decorated with carved putti, or cherubs, holding heavy garlands. Mr. Caponi cleaned the monument in August 1989 and charged nearly $16,000. He maintains he was qualified because, although he has no formal traini... |
447862_1 | Question Time for New York's Educators | University of New York and 130 independent colleges and universities. To close the budget deficit, Gov. Mario Cuomo recommended 10 percent cuts at SUNY and CUNY. The cuts were to be partially offset by $500 tuition increases. He also proposed to cut aid to private colleges by 33 percent. The Legislature now says it wil... |
447969_0 | 'Recycled' or 'Reprocessed Industrial Material'? | A group of 11 state attorneys general issued a set of guidelines last week regulating the use of such terms as "recycled" and "compostable." The move was intended to restrain the use of environmental claims to promote consumer products. The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it will hold hearings July 17... |
442843_0 | Patents; Plastic Wrap Allows Vegetables to 'Breathe' | Researchers at Hercules Inc., a diversified manufacturing company in Wilmington, Del., obtained a patent this week on a "breathable" plastic wrap that they said could extend the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. The advantage of the new wrap is its ability to let air and carbon dioxide pass through without let... |
442839_0 | Patents; Tobacco Plant Is Source of Chemical | Using modern techniques of plant breeding, a researcher at DNA Plant Technologies Inc. has developed a tobacco plant that produces relatively large volumes of a scarce chemical used in both food and fragrances. The chemical, called sclareol, is a principal source of the musk fragrance in men's deodorant and after-shave... |
444274_0 | Education's Reward | To the Editor: "A $100,000 Degree: Where's the Payoff?" asks a subheading in "Degrees and Stacks of Resumes Yield Few Jobs for Class of '91" (front page, April 22). Whatever happened to the traditional answer that the payoff is learning intellectually exciting things and improving one's mind? Colleges and universities ... |
442817_1 | 'Star Wars' Satellite Is Retrieved After Space 'Ballet' With Shuttle | The satellite's infrared sensors and television cameras captured the event from 111 miles away. Satellite Gets a Clear View The Discovery, orbiting two miles behind the satellite at a speed of 17,500 miles an hour, swung out of plane when the fuel was released to give the satellite a clear view. The fuel was discharged... |
442763_0 | Fernandez Is Planning an Overhaul for Special Education | Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez will propose an overhaul of New York City's expensive and much criticized system of special education to reduce the number of children wrongly assigned to classes for the handicapped and to channel more money to children in regular classes. The aim is to stem a problem that has be... |
447208_0 | Better Identity For Nutrasweet | A new campaign gives a little red gum ball a big job: recasting the image of Nutrasweet. A $25 million campaign for the Nutrasweet Company, the first created by Chiat/Day/ Mojo of Venice, Calif., begins appearing next week. Five zippy television commercials represent a substantial departure from the more traditional wo... |
447325_0 | These Psychiatrists Make House Calls For Trapped People | A RETIRED teacher became so depressed when illness left her weakened that she drew the blinds, stopped eating and refused to leave her apartment. Once proud and independent, she was headed for a nursing home. Though she needed therapy, she could not get to a therapist. So Dr. Darwin Buschman came to her. With an old ca... |
447171_0 | Who's in Charge Here? Chances Are It's a Woman | The Prime Minister of Norway is a woman, and half her Cabinet are women. So are the leaders of two of the main opposition political parties. So are the two candidates running next fall for Mayor of Oslo. And so are 59 of the 165 members of the Norwegian Parliament. "Sometimes I meet some men who think that women have t... |
448625_2 | A Resort in Hibernation Attracts 2 Who Are Not | in the mountains. But mountain life poses some challenges that four-wheel-drive vehicles cannot surmount. In the past winter, five people were crushed to death in avalanches. A teen-ager who was jogging was killed by a mountain lion. And now the bear scare has jolted the tranquillity for some in Aspen, who treasure the... |
448696_0 | Joining Forces to Protect a Paraguayan Forest | SINCE 1989, when a military coup ended the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, there has been a democratic awakening in Paraguay, and interest in safeguarding the country's natural resources has blossomed. A major focus of this attention is Mbaracayu, a 225-square-mile extension of Brazil's Atlantic Forest syst... |
448755_3 | Making Disposal Easier, by Design | automobiles is introduced in this country in June, all the plastic parts will be stamped so they can be grouped by type for recycling. The increasing use of plastics has complicated the task of recycling cars or appliances. When cars were mostly metal, they were ground up and sold as scrap to be made into new steel. Th... |
448695_1 | Brainy Parrots Dazzle Scientists, But Threat of Extinction Looms | communicate with people, understand questions and make reasoned replies rather than merely, well, parrot human speech. But even as some of the parrot's wonders and secrets are yielding to new scrutiny, nearly a quarter of the world's 300 parrot species -- and nearly a third of Western Hemisphere species -- are at risk ... |
448615_2 | Suit Asserts Dinkins Errs In His Policy On Recycling | residents the impression that recycling comes and goes and is not to be taken seriously, he stressed. Leland T. Jones, the acting press secretary for Mayor Dinkins, said he could not comment on the particulars of the lawsuit because he had not seen it. He added, "If what Mr. Cerullo and Mr. Leffler want to do is file a... |
448637_1 | Excerpts From Bush's Remarks on China | less moral, less just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it. . . . This same approach guides our policy towards the People's Republic of China, home to fully one-fifth of the world's people. China can -- easily can affect the stability of the... |
448621_1 | Family Planners Wooing the Master of the House | "Man Is His Own Worst Enemy" featuring a fictional character named Jonas, a reckless father with a wife, mistresses and too many children whom he is unable to support. Even before tackling the men, the council had achieved some success in lowering the fertility rate -- the number of children a woman will have in her re... |
444335_0 | Abroad at Home; Abusing The Law | American law offers numerous examples of vexatious litigation -- abusive, inflated, meritless lawsuits. But my candidate for the prize in outrageousness is a libel suit still making its way through the courts. It is called Immuno A.G. v. Moor-Jankowski. The case began in 1983 with a letter to the editor of the Journal ... |
445297_0 | South Africa Needs Loans for Democratization | To the Editor: The imminent elimination of repressive racial laws in South Africa is, as you state in "The Last Days of Apartheid" (editorial, April 24), only a part of the job of establishing a truly democratic society. Few can be more aware than South Africans of the tremendous challenges ahead. As has been recognize... |
445401_4 | Flawed U.S. Weather Satellite May Be Lofted to Avert Crisis | some temperature readings but at a slower rate than originally desired and with far less precision. For instance, it might take hours rather than minutes to gather critical temperature data on a certain part of the country. An expert at the atmospheric agency, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sounder "i... |
448383_1 | Polish State Keeps Its Distance From Church | few steps toward institutionalizing the Christian values outlined by the Pope in his recent encyclical on social justice. Just last week, the Parliament refused to pass the restrictive abortion bill personally endorsed by the Pope. Recent calls to rewrite the Polish Constitution and omit clauses that guarantee the sepa... |
448036_3 | France Places Its Bets On High Technology | of protection that some people call her a prime minister for producers rather than consumers. Her critics say quotas on Japanese goods hurt consumers by reducing competition. She replies that when Japanese companies capture a market and wipe out local jobs, they then jack up prices, and the consumer is worse off. Many ... |
448335_1 | Too Many People and Not Enough Places to Go | park owners. Disney World, for one, attracted more people than Britain last year. Last year, 28.5 million visited the park, making it the fourth-largest tourist destination after France, the United States and Spain. Many vacationers figure they can escape pollution, if not the crowds, yet get an enriching experience in... |
448058_0 | Food; King Sugar | "EVERYTHING IN THE CARIBBEAN IS sweeter," declares my Havana-born friend over dessert, gazing into my eyes just long enough to make me wonder if he's referring to something other than the rich Cuban vanilla-egg custard that's just arrived at our table. The natillas quiver in their cone-shaped aluminum cups, so milky ye... |
448365_2 | In a Sign of the Times, a Smaller Job Fair | college. But this year, said Guy Mathews, a guidance counselor at White Plains High School, many students said they were planning to attend local colleges and had come to the fair seeking information about part-time jobs. 'A Sign of the Economy' "Again, it's a sign of the economy," Mr. Mathews said. "More kids are goin... |
447994_0 | All About/Automobile Testing; The Test Track Is King Of the Road No More | To the auto makers, a skilled driver sensitive to every nuance of a vehicle's performance is still a valued resource at the proving grounds. But increasingly the leading role in automobile testing is being played by computer experts who generate and interpret data from high-tech wind tunnels, simulators and other stati... |
448023_3 | On Language; 'Explicit' Is Not a Dirty Word | what has happened to the old-fashioned noun swinger and the participle wife-swapping , which many assumed would change to spouse-swapping . That did not happen; according to reporter Hinds, "Mary Lou said she and her husband attend conventions around the country of people interested in swapping sex partners, which part... |
443755_0 | Genetics Institute In New Offering | INVESTING in a young and still unprofitable technology company is always betting on the future. But in the case of a new stock offering by Genetics Institute Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology company, investors are also being encouraged to forget troubles in the recent past. The offering comes as Genetics Institu... |
443766_0 | Dispute Delays Ireland Talks | A new round of Northern Ireland peace talks was postponed at the last minute because of a dispute over the site of future negotiations, British officials said today. Peter Brooke, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, was to have brought together political leaders for talks in Belfast on Tuesday, but officials here say... |
443693_0 | What if We Outgrow Our Environment? | To the Editor: In "Baby Boom Boom" (editorial, April 24), you call last year's 4.179 million birthrate modest compared with the post-World War II birthrates of the Baby Boom era, and thus no cause for alarm. The birthrate may not be cause for alarm, but net population increase certainly is. Have you forgotten your own ... |
443639_3 | An Oceanic Indication That Earth's Climate Might Regulate Itself | made of ice crystals. Together, at their maximum extent, the cirrus clouds covered nearly four million square miles of the earth's surface. Normally, cirrus clouds help trap heat in the atmosphere. But the thicker they become, the more sunlight they reflect. Eventually, said Dr. Ramanathan, "the cirrus becomes so thick... |
443855_0 | Early Sibling Rivalry Among Spotted Hyenas | CARRYING sibling rivalry to an extreme, hour-old spotted hyenas routinely attack their younger siblings just moments after birth, University of California scientists say. Spotted hyenas normally give birth to litters of two, about an hour apart. Both cubs are born with open eyes and a full set of incisors and are immed... |
443777_0 | A.I.D. Is Criticized on Population Control | The Agency for International Development, a primary force in shaping the world's favorable attitude toward population control, is now in disarray on population matters, a private organization says in a new report. The group, the Population Crisis Committee, said in a report issued Sunday that "over the past decade the ... |
443800_2 | U.S. REPORT FINDS COSTS WERE HIDDEN AT AN ARMS PLANT | was. The Energy Department commended the company's performance last year. The report is also critical of P. W. Kaspar, the Energy Department's manager at the plant, who authorized the money transfers and is responsible for overseeing the conduct of Westinghouse and Bechtel executives. Mr. Kaspar did not respond to repe... |
446325_3 | The Annapurna Experiment | "This is not a living museum," said Chandra P. Gurung, a geographer and acting director of the Annapurna project. "The idea is to empower people in the villages, give them some economic benefit and make them accountable for the environment." Environmental experts say a key element of the project is that it makes human ... |
446325_5 | The Annapurna Experiment | a village near the Annapurna tree line, solar panels have been installed to generate heat in several lodges, with part of the cost paid by the project. More important, many experts on third-world development maintain, is a Nepali form of grass-roots political clout that the project is trying to foster in Annapurna vill... |
446359_0 | Ecotourism: Can It Protect the Planet? | EAGER to see unspoiled natural habitats, threatened animal species and rare birds, travelers have forsaken loafers for hiking boots and surged into the world's game preserves, remote rivers and jungles. Statistics are not readily available, but by some estimates as many as five million Americans took a trip last year w... |
446627_2 | Americas' Game | teaches sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, calls Dominican baseball "sugarball"; baseball grew as sugar grew there, and most amateur teams are still sponsored by sugar refineries. "The bonds between American and Dominican baseball came increasingly to resemble other economic and political relations ... |
446431_13 | A Sampling of Expeditions | and environmental organizations. Tanzania-Kenya Tent Safari A 14-night Abercrombie & Kent safari that includes game watching at Ngorongoro, Serengeti National Park and the Masai Mara, where the Friends of Conservation has undertaken a community conservation project to help ease conflicts between the tourism industry, i... |
446432_2 | Brazil's Forests in the Balance | economic slowdown, an increase in rainfall, making it more difficult to clear the forest and to burn trees, and a new Brazilian Government policy that discourages burning. However, many people versed in the Realpolitik of environmentalism say green tourism does help conservation. Forming the embryo of a powerful lobby,... |
446353_3 | The Everyday Disaster of Life in Bangladesh | will reach 219 million by the year 2025 -- in a country that is the size of Wisconsin. The Government encourages family planning, and the birth control pill and injectable contraceptives are free, while condoms are available at a subsidized price equivalent to one-eighth of a penny each. One-third of Bangladeshi couple... |
446773_1 | Hundreds in Preschool Special Education | County agencies last year enrolled 912 infants in special-education programs. Nassau enrolled about 600 children under the age of 3. South Huntington, which says it has thge only such program, sent its plans to the County Handicapped Children's Program for review before a determination in Family Court. The court has fi... |
446425_4 | The Executive Computer; For Macintosh Users, a Very Long Wait Is Over | System 6.07, the previous version of the operating system, will work with 7.0. Some utility programs and some "extension" programs will not work with the new operating system. Either they may not work at all or they may be subject to frequent crashes. Further, only a couple of current Macintosh business applications we... |
446480_0 | Recycling? Try Reverse Shopping | The recent article "Recycling: No Longer If, but How" prompts these thoughts: Recycling will shift into high gear across the nation and the world with reverse shopping, the wave of the future. Shoppers will take usable items (even those needing repairs or painting) to compartments at shopping-center parking lots at cer... |
446610_2 | Pill Politics | have reached this conclusion, Mr. Lader's readers have a right to know. If carcinogenicity tests have not been done, his readers have a right to know that too. The power of any substance to cause cancer is measured in time as well as numbers exposed. Most of the European women who have used RU-486 started taking it in ... |
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