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448887_0 | London Journal; Bad Dogs and Englishmen, What's to Be Done? | The debate is sharply drawn. Advocates of tough controls say more must be done to protect the public and discourage the lawless. Opponents warn of Orwellian measures that will trample the rights of responsible people who may want only to protect their homes. Once again, the British are taking sides over one of the nati... |
448900_4 | In Europe, a Boom in M.B.A.'s | the American schools. For example, the 65 graduate business students at I.M.D. come from 30 countries, and the school's 42 full-time faculty members come from 17 countries. An International Perspective The European schools say their chief advantage over American schools is the international perspective they give studen... |
448931_0 | Extradition Agreed To In Achille Lauro Case | Mr. Khaled, described as a top lieutenant to the Palestinian guerrilla Abul Abbas, was arrested on March 5 with three Greeks after the police found a bomb in an Athens house. The police said they had planned to use the bomb against a Barclays Bank branch. In 1987, a court in Genoa, Italy, sentenced Mr. Khaled to life i... |
448895_4 | High-Tech Weapons To Combat Terrorism | field. In the Thermedics system, the air sample is heated and sent through a gas-filled tube. The molecules of any given substance will travel through the tube at a unique speed, with lighter molecules traveling faster. When the particles reach an ozone-filled chamber, they produce measurable flickers of light. The tim... |
448828_1 | Personal Health | dread menopause, which many regard as an end to femininity and sexuality rather than as an opportunity to enjoy their sexuality free from the inconvenience and discomfort of menstruation and concern about unwanted pregnancy. Some women project a self-image of progressive physical and mental deterioration that too often... |
447507_0 | Report Offers New Answer to Gamma-Ray Puzzle | French and Soviet scientists think they have taken a major step toward solving one of the most frustrating enigmas in astrophysics: Where in outer space do brief, intense flashes of gamma rays come from? They concluded, in a report published today in the journal Nature, that the flashes, known as gamma-ray bursters, or... |
447551_1 | Chinese Advocates of Change Reportedly Make Small Gains | of Machine Building and Electronics Industry. No Formal Notification "We still have not received formal notification, so we don't know about that," said a ministry spokesman who was asked for comment. No confirmation was possible of the new assignments, and while an official said Mr. Hu and the others would begin work ... |
447520_0 | Smaller Families, Bigger Futures | A Republican President of the United States once made stirring comments about the importance of birth control. "Governments must act and private citizens cooperate urgently through voluntary means to secure this right for all people," Dwight D. Eisenhower said. "Failure would limit the expectation of future generations... |
447571_0 | Deadlock Over Site for Talks On North Ireland Is Broken | A deadlock over the site for landmark talks about the future of Northern Ireland was broken today. The talks, involving Protestant and Catholic politicians from the strife-torn province as well as the London and Dublin Governments, are to be held chiefly at Stormont, the grandiose local Parliament building in Belfast. ... |
447514_0 | A Rocking Chair to Soothe the Disabled | Some handicapped students can now experience the simple joy of a rocking chair, thanks to five mechanical engineering students at the Rochester Institute of Technology. A chair they made for a senior design course will be used at the Mary Cariola Center for Children in Rochester, a school for about 300 severly handicap... |
444585_0 | The Promise of Peace in Belfast | The telltale figures in Northern Ireland are these: 900,000, 600,000 and 2,875. The first figure represents the Protestant population in the British-ruled province; next is the total of Roman Catholics; third is the number of people slaughtered there in political violence since 1969. The ambitious purpose of talks just... |
444575_1 | Bridal Veil Journal; Town's 9 People Told: Make Way for Nature | going find a house, with this kind of quiet and view, for $320 a month?" He preferred the former owner, the McGriff family of Portland, which ran the sawmill and the town until the sawmill operation moved two years ago. Mr. Parker says he does not know why the people of Bridal Veil cannot just become part of the new pa... |
444535_2 | Your Money; School Vacation Tax Advantages | those with a June 30 fiscal year, elections may be possible now, said Mr. Neumark, who is also an adjunct professor at the Fordham Graduate School of Business. An important consideration when the person providing the care is a household employee is that employers must pay their share of Social Security and Medicare tax... |
444597_0 | Fishing Rights for the Few Is Un-American; No to Inefficiency | To the Editor: Your April 22 front-page article on the allotment of fishing rights in coastal waters reports: "State commissions still control fishing within three miles of shore, and some have tried to close entry to new boats. But in every case the action has come when there were already too many boats. Another tacti... |
448990_0 | Pope Names 22 Cardinals; Chinese Prelate Is Identified | Pope John Paul II appointed 22 new cardinals today, including two Americans, and revealed that 12 years ago he had secretly named a Chinese archbishop who spent 30 years in prison for refusing to renounce his loyalty to the Vatican. In his first designation of cardinals since the collapse of Communism across Eastern Eu... |
449043_0 | Policy on Women Hits Vatican Snags | Already assailed by dissatisfied Roman Catholic women's groups in the United States, the eight-year effort by the American Catholic hierarchy to issue a pastoral letter on women's concerns ran into more objections in Rome this week. After a two-day meeting that included Vatican authorities and a dozen bishops from arou... |
449120_0 | U.N. Family Planning Backed by House Unit | A House Appropriations subcommittee approved a measure today that would set aside $20 million for the United Nations Family Planning Agency, the same type of financing decision that drew a Bush Administration veto in 1989. The amendment to a larger spending bill was sponsored by Representative Bill Green, Republican of... |
442449_0 | IN THE IRISH SOUTH, SOME COMPROMISE | The opening of new talks on peace and stability in Northern Ireland has stirred a growing willingness on this side of the border to compromise on one of the most cherished and long-held ambitions of Irish nationalists: a united Ireland. Weary of sectarian violence in the north, and eager to see the new British-Irish di... |
442506_0 | Soviet Catholics | To the Editor: An April 14 Associated Press report on the appointment by Pope John Paul II of Roman Catholic bishops for the Soviet Union states that "the bulk of Soviet Catholics live in Lithuania and Latvia." The bulk of Soviet Catholics, more than five million Roman Catholics of the Byzantine (Eastern and non-Latin)... |
443997_1 | U.S. Mandates Tests for Lead In Tap Water | of lead for a billion parts of water to a two-phase standard of 15 parts per billion at the tap and an average of 5 parts per billion throughout the system. The new limits were set after scientists found that even small concentrations of lead absorbed by the body could cause an array of health problems. Exposure to exc... |
444001_1 | Laissez-Faire Legacy on Jersey Shore: How Not to Do It | 1,000 feet of the ocean subject to state approval. The bill would also require the state to develop a comprehensive plan for future growth in areas near the shore. But a number of environmentalists say that even if such restrictions are passed into law, the state is going to pay a price for the feverish development of ... |
443975_1 | In Fetal-Tissue Research, Caution Is Best; Data Mostly From Rats | on the use of fetal tissues. In support, you provide the emotional appeal of the Walden case, dealing with fetal-to-fetal, in-utero tissue transfer to correct a fatal genetic illness and repeat the advice of several specially appointed (but strongly biased) committees opposing such limitations on fetal experimentation.... |
443945_1 | FRANCE CONCEDES ITS FAULTS IN WAR | publicly about their poor equipment. Further, during the first two weeks of the war, France's forces were under a Defense Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, who made no secret of the fact that he opposed the use of force against Iraq. After he resigned on Jan. 30, he was replaced by Mr. Joxe, who was then Interior Mini... |
443465_3 | Viral Apocalypse | account of some epidemiologists from the Federal Centers for Disease Control visiting a sadomasochistic bar in San Francisco to obtain samples of amyl nitrite "poppers," which gay men would inhale to heighten orgasmic pleasure and which researchers initially considered a possible cause of AIDS. In another attempt to id... |
443115_0 | FRANCE EVALUATES MITTERRAND YEARS | As the 10th anniversary of President Francois Mitterrand's election approaches, the greatest fear of France's governing Socialists is that it will revive the cry "Ten Years Are Enough!" which so undermined de Gaulle more than two decades ago. There are, they concede, ample reasons for discontent, not the least of which... |
443459_1 | K Mart and Gauguin | have been ruled in turn by the Spanish, Germans, Japanese and Americans. They are diverse, lovely, troubled places now trying to find their own way. P. F. Kluge, the author of "Eddie and the Cruisers" and a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was sent to the islands by the Peace Corps in 1967. He arrived ... |
443013_3 | In New Hampshire, a Move to Test Abortion Pill | Mr. Gilmore said he had been "Looking for a way to show that there are people who support testing RU-486." The resolution calls for the Legislature to write New Hampshire's members of Congress, urging them to put pressure on the F.D.A. to lift its ban on the import of RU-486. In addition, the measure also calls for mak... |
443357_0 | FRANCE EVALUATES MITTERRAND YEARS | As the 10th anniversary of President Francois Mitterrand's election approaches, the greatest fear of France's governing Socialists is that it will revive the cry "Ten Years Are Enough!" which so undermined de Gaulle more than two decades ago. There are, they concede, ample reasons for discontent, not the least of which... |
443358_0 | FRANCE EVALUATES MITTERRAND YEARS | As the 10th anniversary of President Francois Mitterrand's election approaches, the greatest fear of France's governing Socialists is that it will revive the cry "Ten Years Are Enough!" which so undermined de Gaulle more than two decades ago. There are, they concede, ample reasons for discontent, not the least of which... |
443372_3 | In New Hampshire, a Move to Test Abortion Pill | Mr. Gilmore said he had been "Looking for a way to show that there are people who support testing RU-486." The resolution calls for the Legislature to write New Hampshire's members of Congress, urging them to put pressure on the F.D.A. to lift its ban on the import of RU-486. In addition, the measure also calls for mak... |
443373_3 | In New Hampshire, a Move to Test Abortion Pill | Mr. Gilmore said he had been "Looking for a way to show that there are people who support testing RU-486." The resolution calls for the Legislature to write New Hampshire's members of Congress, urging them to put pressure on the F.D.A. to lift its ban on the import of RU-486. In addition, the measure also calls for mak... |
443080_0 | Island-Hopping the Caribbean, Against Drugs | For the crew of the Farallon, a sleek white Coast Guard cutter, dusk signals the start of "stealth" operations, when surprise becomes the crucial weapon in a cat-and-mouse struggle to police the Caribbean against drug smugglers. Operating in darkness, except for the faint red glow of the bridge's instrument panels, the... |
445759_0 | British Chief and Ulster Unionists Agree to Keep Peace Talks Going | Prime Minister John Major and leaders of Northern Ireland's two mostly Protestant unionist parties agreed today to keep peace talks for Ulster going next week while they work out the remaining differences that have imperiled the two-week-old negotiations. The agreement, which came after a meeting at 10 Downing Street, ... |
445791_0 | ABORTION-BAN BILL IS DIVIDING POLAND | Poland's legislators face a wrenching choice this week as they take up a bill that would ban abortion, this country's leading form of birth control. Supporters of the measure say passage of it would be an appropriate welcoming gift for Pope John Paul II, who is scheduled to make a triumphal return on June 2 to the home... |
447783_1 | Vrooom! Live From Indy, It's The 500 | used to listen to the race on radio while they washed their car and now it's a reason for a family reunion where they wash the car and watch it on TV." Radio anchorman Bob Jenkins's voice will be heard (along with those of 12 correspondents around the track) on 600 stations, Armed Forces Radio and shortwave to the pola... |
447597_0 | Education Data Subpoenaed | A House subcommittee yesterday subpoenaed all documents related to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander's decision last month to defer the reauthorization of one of the nation's leading college-accrediting agencies. The House panel, the Government Operations Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relation... |
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446886_3 | French Leader Firm on Japanese | to build a balanced Europe, where France is as strong as Germany," she said. She added that France "needed to have the means" to create an industrial base comparable to Germany's. Computer Chips a Worry Mrs. Cresson said one major worry was the fate of Europe's computer chip industry. She and other French officials hav... |
444777_0 | District in TriBeCa Wins Historic Designation and Elbow Room to Flaunt and Flex | Gritty and lovely by turns, still evoking the power and pretense of 19th-century commercialism, a portion of lower Manhattan has been designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as the TriBeCa West Historic District. Within the irregularly shaped area between Greenwich Street and West Broadway are 17 blocks and... |
445110_2 | If You're Thinking of Living in: Rye Brook | Rye Brook to Mr. Cortese's accounting firm, where both work. "We watched Rye Brook grow and develop," Mrs. Cortese said, "so that by the time we moved here three years ago we knew what we were getting: a nice, clean, extraordinarily well-run village." Christopher J. Russo, the village administrator, believes a lack of ... |
446205_0 | Abortion Ban, Sought by Church, Is Rejected by Polish Parliament | The Polish Parliament today rejected legislation that would have banned abortions, dealing the Roman Catholic Church here its first political setback since the fall of Communism in 1989. The decision closed the door on Poland's bishops and other Catholic leaders, who had been lobbying energetically to have a comprehens... |
442378_0 | Recycled Trash Is Put To Use in Construction | The country's first building that uses blocks made from recycled incinerator ash is being built in Stony Brook, L.I., on the campus of the State University of New York there. The 8,100-square-foot building, a boathouse for the university's Marine Sciences Research Center, has 300 tons of blocks made of 67 percent ash a... |
443539_1 | On Amazon Frontier, Brazil Keeps Cholera at Bay | Colombia and Ecuador have each reported several dozen deaths. Chile has reported 35 cases, virtually all occurring in Santiago, the capital and largest city, and non-fatal. Brazilian health officials avoid predicting that they can keep cholera bottled up in this remote river outpost, two time zones west of Brasilia, th... |
443505_0 | Entry-Level Jobs Remain Out There | To the Editor: Re "Degrees and Stacks of Resumes Yield Few Jobs for Class of '91" (front page, April 22): Yes, employers are conducting fewer visits to the college campus this year. Even Harvard's cancellation rate by companies that schedule on-campus recruitment was 11 percent to 12 percent as against 6 percent in the... |
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443518_1 | Market Place; Investing in Farm Biotechnology | it is time biopesticides received more respect. George S. Dahlman, an analyst at the Minneapolis brokerage firm of Piper, Jaffrey & Hopwood, invited a group of investment advisers and fund managers to a Manhattan hotel recently to hear presentations by Mr. Caulder and representatives of four other companies. "I think y... |
445493_2 | Manaus Journal; For the Rubber Soldiers of Brazil, Rubber Checks | and put on life jackets." The submarine scare passed uneventfully for Mr. Alencar. Indeed, more debilitating than Nazi submarines was the United States War Department's underestimation of the Amazon. Snake bites, tropical diseases and Indian attacks ravaged "forest battalions" soon after they arrived in the unfamiliar ... |
445566_0 | Include Sinn Fein in Ulster Talks | To the Editor: In your coverage of the initial limited talks at Stormont in the northern six counties of Ireland (May 1), some points call for clarification. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his speech at Christ's Church in Dublin recently, correctly stated that for talks to be meaningful and complete all parties must be in... |
445526_2 | Deadline Today on Picking Site for Ulster Talks | is believed he wants the parties to agree to open the session in London, then move to Belfast for major part of the talks, with a final session in Dublin. Catholic political leaders in Belfast have already agreed to the formulation, and the Dublin Government has said it wanted at least some part of the meeting to be he... |
445535_0 | Despite Rights Issue, Chinese Hope U.S. Trade Status Stays | As a battle looms in Washington over whether to end normal trade relations with China, many Chinese are finding themselves reluctantly siding with their hard-line rulers in hoping that the status is maintained. While they appreciate the concern for human rights in their country and hope that the debate will force the G... |
445648_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | ruler have been excavated by archeologists in Guatemala. They say the ruler began the policies of militarism and expansion that led to the collapse of the Maya civilization. A8 Cali earns a new reputation: world's No. 1 cocaine seller A8 Manaus Journal: For the soldiers of Brazil, rubber checks A4 Rivals in the Norther... |
448516_4 | King Coffee Bean vs. King Coffee | percent" in dollars, said Roberto Junguito Bonnet, president of the Coffee Exporters Association, a private group. Only 7% of Brazil's Exports Coffee's percentage of Brazil's overall export earnings dropped from 70 percent at the turn of the century to 7 percent today. As recently as the 1950's, Brazil produced half of... |
448508_3 | BATTLE IS LOOMING ON U.S. COLLEGE AID TO POOR STUDENTS | the Senate side, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, would increase the grants to $3,000 and classify the program an "entitlement," which would guarantee its automatic financing from year to year. Figuring out how to pay for the programs is a major stumbling block for those who would expand it to the ... |
448436_4 | King Coffee Bean vs. King Coffee | percent" in dollars, said Roberto Junguito Bonnet, president of the Coffee Exporters Association, a private group. Only 7% of Brazil's Exports Coffee's percentage of Brazil's overall export earnings dropped from 70 percent at the turn of the century to 7 percent today. As recently as the 1950's, Brazil produced half of... |
424843_0 | Women Challenge Church Council Assembly | Some of the most striking moments of the World Council of Churches' seventh assembly here have been about women, underlining their increasing influence and inspiring a sort of backlash. The Rev. Lois M. Wilson of the United Church of Canada, one of the council's seven departing presidents, electrified this gathering of... |
424813_1 | New Age (Relax!) Comes to Turbulent Poland | few years, holistic healing centers, massage-therapy studios, gyms, natural-food stores, "breathing clinics" and other establishments intended to promote well-being have sprung up throughout the country. Many who visit such centers, as well as those who run them, say the clinics offer solace to Poles who have broken wi... |
424802_1 | The Latest in Marketing? Start With Store Brands | stores in Southern California, has introduced the Tianguis line of products, including salsas and tortillas, a line initally developed for its six Tianguis Supermarkets, which specialize in Hispanic foods. The line is now available in some Vons and Pavilion stores. * Topco Associates , a company in Skokie, Ill., that m... |
424875_0 | Business Technology; Old Cans Get a New Life, In Sleek Automobiles | Discarded tin cans are being reycycled into automobile parts at the Budd Company's foundry in Waupaca County, Wis., about 55 miles west of Green Bay. Tin cans are actually made of steel with a thin coating of tin on the inside to prevent the contents -- everything from soups to vegetables -- from chemically reacting wi... |
424725_1 | I.R.A. Bombs And Motives | transportation. A Feeling of Revulsion If the I.R.A.'s intent has been to disrupt London, it is clear their strategy is paying them dividends. But the reports of maimed civilians, including children, and the scenes of the grisly devastation at Victoria Station -- shown over and over on television newscasts and displaye... |
422348_1 | SWISS TO SPONSOR CUBA'S DIPLOMATS | will continue to have diplomatic representation in each other's capitals. Czechoslovakia, once a close ally of President Fidel Castro's Government, said last month that it intended to drop its sponsorship of the Cuban mission later this year, to protest Cuba's poor human rights record. That decision sent Havana scurryi... |
424419_2 | Reconstructing St. Ignatius Loyola's World | gravity and geometry. A Time of Anniversaries This has been an important commemorative period for the Jesuits. Last year was the 450th anniversary of the official blessing given to their religious order by Pope Paul III in 1540. This year is the 500th anniversary of Ignatius's birth in Spain. Besides the restoration of... |
424434_1 | What's Creepy, Crawly and Big in Movies? Bugs | turns out to be a rare Asian species, and serves as a clue that helps lead to the killer. The insect also doubles as a symbol for metamorphosis: from the repulsive to the lovely, from one sex to another. Large and Aggressive In "Meet the Applegates," a family of enormous cockroachlike creatures from the Amazon assumes ... |
424283_0 | Florence Journal; Art With a Perfect Past, but an Indefinite Future | A rare spell of snow was blowing past the windows of the Florence workshop and, inside, the restorer looked just as white, his face and tools dusted in powder used to clean polluted works of art. It had taken Ernesto Tucciarelli six weeks just to lift the crust of paint and grime from a grand statue of St. Peter, carve... |
424483_2 | Reconstructing St. Ignatius Loyola's World | gravity and geometry. A Time of Anniversaries This has been an important commemorative period for the Jesuits. Last year was the 450th anniversary of the official blessing given to their religious order by Pope Paul III in 1540. This year is the 500th anniversary of Ignatius's birth in Spain. Besides the restoration of... |
424484_2 | Reconstructing St. Ignatius Loyola's World | gravity and geometry. A Time of Anniversaries This has been an important commemorative period for the Jesuits. Last year was the 450th anniversary of the official blessing given to their religious order by Pope Paul III in 1540. This year is the 500th anniversary of Ignatius's birth in Spain. Besides the restoration of... |
419558_0 | CHRONICLE | The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. ROBERT RUNCIE, retired yesterday after 11 years as the spiritual head of the world's 70 million Anglicans. In his speech of resignation at a meeting of the Church of England's General Synod, Mr. Runcie, who is 69 years old, touched on his heartache over TERRY WAITE , his envo... |
420576_0 | Terrorists Get Early Release | Two Palestinians convicted of helping the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship have been released from prison early and expelled from Italy, their lawyer said today. The men were identified as Issa Abbas, a cousin of the fugitive Palestine Liberation Front leader Abul Abbas, and Youssef Saad, said Gianfranco Paga... |
420768_1 | Economic Scene; Keeping Chicken In Every Pot | younger workers clamoring for position at the post, presumably start at a disadvantage. Thereafter, average incomes are influenced by a variety of factors: growth in overall business productivity, changes in unemployment rates, average education levels and, for workers who do not go to college, the availability of manu... |
420540_3 | War Spurs Navigation by Satellite | earthquake fault line, said Thomas P. Yunck, deputy manager for tracking systems and applications at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. A market starting to develop is for ship navigation. The satellite system is more accurate than Loran-C, a system of radio transmissions from land-based towers that is a... |
420659_2 | Cleanup of Nuclear Waste At Arms Plant Is Postponed | what it acknowledged was 40 years of rapidly producing bomb fuel with scant attention to radioactive contamination of the land, water and air in the area, in south-central Washington state. The new factory is supposed to convert the highly radioactive liquids held in the tanks into solids by mounting the most radioacti... |
423299_2 | Peru's Neighbors Halt Food Imports | since the 1880's. But since Feb. 4, the disease has been reported in cities up and down the nation's Pacific Coast and most recently in the nation's Andean highlands. 3 Cases Reported in Ecuador According to news reports, there have been three cases in neighboring Ecuador, but these have not been confirmed by Ecuadorea... |
423402_2 | New Life for Rechargeable Battery | a Gainesville, Fla., battery maker that introduced its line of Millennium rechargeables for consumers last year, says in its promotional material, "All of us are learning we haven't been as kind to our planet as we should have been." No Recycling Center Sanyo and Gates will accept used rechargeables for recycling, if c... |
423337_2 | Peru's Neighbors Halt Food Imports | since the 1880's. But since Feb. 4, the disease has been reported in cities up and down the nation's Pacific Coast and most recently in the nation's Andean highlands. 3 Cases Reported in Ecuador According to news reports, there have been three cases in neighboring Ecuador, but these have not been confirmed by Ecuadorea... |
423336_2 | Peru's Neighbors Halt Food Imports | since the 1880's. But since Feb. 4, the disease has been reported in cities up and down the nation's Pacific Coast and most recently in the nation's Andean highlands. 3 Cases Reported in Ecuador According to news reports, there have been three cases in neighboring Ecuador, but these have not been confirmed by Ecuadorea... |
426579_5 | Greek Diners, Where Anything Is Possible | in Westbury. He is the chef, his father, Steve, greets customers and his brothers, Stavros and Savvas, work the grill. Jimmy Kaloidis, from the Georgia, came to this country in 1955 from Sparta. He first worked as a busboy, eventually as a counterman and by 1958 had saved enough money to buy a luncheonette with several... |
426439_1 | COLOMBIAN LEADER IS HAILED BY BUSH | Trade Concessions Sought Administration officials, however, expressed some skepticism about the plan in recent weeks after a Colombian judge released one trafficker after he served only six weeks in jail. Mr. Gaviria is being attacked relentlessly by the political opposition, which has accused him of making his offer o... |
426416_2 | Making Steel Faster and Cheaper | on any one customer," said F. Kenneth Iverson, Nucor's chairman. "So we are more interested in smaller customers whose orders are for smaller quantities of steel." Some of Nucor's best customers now are tube makers and manufacturers of auto parts and construction and agricultural equipment. So Nucor's steel goes into s... |
426550_0 | France Sends Reinforcements to Riot-Torn Island | France sent a Cabinet minister and more police officers to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion today after eight people were killed in an outbreak of violence in the French territory. Reunion's capital, St.-Denis, has been shaken by three days of riots touched off by the closing of a popular pirate television station th... |
425523_0 | Patents; A Treatment To Reverse Osteoporosis | A gynecologist in Massachusetts obtained a patent this week on a treatment program using hormones that he said appeared to reverse the bone-weakening condition known as osteoporosis, which primarily affects elderly women. More than 15 million American women are afflicted with osteoporosis, which makes them vulnerable t... |
422224_0 | More Poor Children Eligible for Disability Benefits | The Government has approved regulations expanding by tens of thousands the number of poor children entitled to disability benefits each year, Administration officials said today. The regulations were scheduled to be made public on Monday and will be effective immediately, according to a description obtained by The Asso... |
422234_3 | Engineers Cite Design Flaw In Bridge Woes | dangerously close to the tracks on the north side of the bridge. Transit officials said the wooden planks, which were being used to inspect the upper roadway, could have caused a serious accident if struck by a train. *Subway service on the N line was halted on the south side of the bridge on Dec. 27, when state inspec... |
422230_2 | Easing War Stress in the Workplace | brought in a psychologist to offer advice on what to say to anxious children. Employee counselors say dozens of companies are planning similar programs. Employee counselors say discussions of children's problems also give parents an opportunity to deal with their own feelings. Some of the help is more informal. Manager... |
422220_8 | New Challenge of Youth: Growing Up in Gay Home | stronger," said Ms. Lowe, now a lawyer for the gay rights group, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. "I had to struggle very hard for who I am. But this is the source of my vision, my range, my compassion." Her daughter agreed. "I have a gift of world experience I never could have gotten otherwise," she said. ... |
419593_0 | Grand Canyon Haze Plan Is Disputed | One owner of a giant coal-burning power plant in northern Arizona accused the Environmental Protection Agency today of basing a pivotal decision aimed at reducing haze in the Grand Canyon on flawed scientific research. "The evidence we have collected suggests that we are being blamed for a large part of the haze proble... |
421195_0 | Electric Currents and Leukemia Show Puzzling Links in New Study | Preliminary results of a new scientific study show that childhood leukemia is not associated with normal household exposure to electromagnetic fields. But, in a finding that scientists say is baffling, the cancer is associated with proximity to power lines and the use of certain appliances like hair dryers. In a break ... |
420495_0 | Employers Favor Student 'Warranty' | To the Editor: We commend Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's proposal to provide a warranty of employability to high school students. As "A 'Guarantee' for Graduates" (editorial, Jan. 15) points out, New York City employers complain that many graduates often lack the skills and the basic performance standards of ... |
420321_0 | RURAL UNION CHIEF IS SLAIN IN BRAZIL | Underlining the volatility of Brazil's Amazon frontier, a rural workers' union buried its slain president today, a day after an American human rights group issued a report calling for his protection. The union leader, Expedito Ribeiro de Souza, was known for his defense of peasant homesteaders. With powerful local land... |
420457_7 | As Antimissile Era Dawns, Planners Eye Panoply of Weapons | high-speed interceptor with a visible sensor that tracks super-hot warheads streaking through the earth's upper atmosphere. A crucial challenge is cool its sensor window, which can become quite hot due to atmospheric friction and induce blindness. The prime contractor is McDonnell Douglas. A year ago, Hedi's first test... |
423611_0 | Latin Meeting on Bananas | Presidents and other officials of Latin American countries that produce 70 percent of the world's bananas arrived today in the Caribbean island of San Andres to discuss expanding sales in Europe as well as stepping up production. The talks, the first by Latin American banana producers in 17 years, will consider how to ... |
423815_1 | Don't Use Export-Import Bank for Arms Sales | into the bank's resources to finance these exports, limiting their department's role to a repayment guarantee of the bank's loans. The articles provoked extended Congressional hearings, where the technique was referred to as "backdoor financing" and an evasion of the appropriations process. The result of these hearings... |
425760_2 | Stamps | deadline for sending envelopes to Washington has been extended to May 23. Combination covers should be sent to the Washington address above, ZIP code 20066-9995. F Is for Foreign, Too The nondenominated F for Flower stamp, worth 29 cents to pay the first- class rate, effective Feb. 3, is supposed to be limited to domes... |
425985_1 | The Goat Smugglers Were Cordial | deck: "It was a dorado, a shimmering, electric, yellow-green water jewel. . . . Its sides were so outrageously opalescent and liquid that I thought the color might come off on my fingers." When the first of a series of storms hit, Mr. Hansen struggled to control the boat and discovered that he could actually "steer by ... |
425792_1 | Out of the Shadows, Briefly, Papa Haydn | became a cultural hero in his own lifetime. He was also a clever -- at times ruthless -- businessman, with none of Mozart's inexplicable cash-flow difficulties (inexplicable because Mozart made plenty of money). Notwithstanding their genuine and heartfelt mutual admiration as composers, the notion that Haydn and Mozart... |
425579_0 | Rice Plays a Mysterious Role in the Inscrutable West | To the Editor: The story of rice, a water-loving, small-cash crop, has byzantine ramifications that go well beyond the drought in California you discuss in The Week in Review for Feb. 10. Most of the rice grown in the United States is exported to non-Western countries, where it is consumed as a staple food. Because man... |
425916_3 | Noted With Pleasure | pleads for the preservation of a sense of the sacred in our increasingly denatured lives, in the title piece from his essay collection "The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (St. Martin's). It is difficult . . . to retain the sense of the sacred without the collective ritual which compels us to listen to the voice of the spe... |
425849_2 | The Executive Computer; Radio Waves That Really Bind, From Motorola | spread-spectrum radio technology and operates at slower speeds, as well as several infrared networking technologies. The latter require line-of-sight communications, which limits their appeal to large, open work spaces. Altair's radio, in contrast, can penetrate office partitions and even office doors -- but, helpful t... |
425880_1 | A Big Win-Win on Trade | will commence this week. Having won the principle, however, negotiators need not be so concerned with the actual amount by which farm subsidies will now be cut. Once agricultural trade is included in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, subsidies will eventually fall to insignificance. The European Community has... |
425616_0 | Chances for Political Talks Again Fading in Ulster | Even as the rail-station bombings in London this week have shown that the Irish Republican Army is stepping up its campaign of violence, hopes have all but faded that the British Government will be able to persuade political leaders of Northern Ireland to enter into talks aimed at finding a solution to the problems in ... |
423007_0 | Genetic Flaw Tied to Common Type of Retardation | Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet to explain how a genetic defect causes the most common inherited form of mental retardation in a study that could also lead to a better diagnostic test for the condition. Often undiagnosed, the condition accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the nation's cases of mental retard... |
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