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422912_1 | F.C.C. Acts On Cellular Competition | F.C.C. decision. Charging that the new service would face fewer restrictions than those placed on cellular companies, Mr. Maher said the F.C.C. had imposed a fundamental policy change without holding a public debate. Benefit Seen for Consumers Officials of the company that made the proposal, Fleet Call Inc., based in B... |
426266_0 | New Effort Would Test Possible Coexistence Of Oil and Rain Forest | CITING lifeless streams, deforested wildlife preserves and the degraded health of Indians and settlers, American and Ecuadorian environmental groups are demanding that oil companies abandon plans to expand drilling into the pristine half of Ecuador's Amazon River basin. At the heart of the debate is the question: can o... |
426266_6 | New Effort Would Test Possible Coexistence Of Oil and Rain Forest | "It will be impossible to come in on our road," said Edward J. Davies, the president of Conoco Ecuador. Safeguarding the Indians Along the access road, Conoco says it will build a buried pipeline -- a technique that would prevent breaks from falling trees and would cut in half the cleared right-of-way, to 125 feet. Ins... |
426365_2 | Mexican Debt Deal May Save Jungle | term of Mexico's President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, expires. The primary focus of the conservation efforts contemplated in the agreement will be preservation of the Lacandona rain forest, the largest remaining tropical rain forest in North America. Fifty years ago, the lush, mist-shrouded Lacandona jungle covered mo... |
426310_0 | German Team Shows Eastern Dominance | Less than two weeks from now in Seville, Spain, athletes from a once-divided Germany will compete together in a major track-and-field competition for the first time since the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The German team for the world indoor championships was named yesterday, and it reflects the superiority athletes from Eas... |
426264_5 | The Garbage Problem: It May Be Politics, Not Nature | by private enterprise. Then there is the question of water: where groundwater is easily contaminated, landfill leakage can be a big problem. But in the desert of southern California, Ms. Scarlett notes, room to bury disposable diapers is not as scarce as the water needed to wash the reuseable kind. Recycling Potential ... |
426209_0 | California Hispanic Population Up 70% | California's Hispanic population grew nearly 70 percent in the last decade, the Census Bureau said today, confirming statistically what has been apparent throughout the state's economy, social structure and politics. The bureau said the Hispanic population in California was 7.7 million last year, up from 4.5 million in... |
426247_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | D1. ] Chrysler is yanking a Japanese-made two-seat sports car as its pick to be the pace car at the Indianapolis 500. Union leaders and angry race fans had protested the choice of the Dodge Stealth. [ D1. ] These are bitter times in the fur industry, and the recent closing of Hudson's Bay fur salons was harshly symboli... |
421011_1 | Born on Crack, and Coping With Kindergarten | handle the sometimes unusual needs of these children. Some teachers, unable to manage, are simply referring the children to special-education classes, swelling the size of many of those programs. A few communities are taking steps to help teachers cope. The Hillsborough County school system in Florida, for instance, is... |
424998_6 | WAR IN THE GULF: Washington at Work; Scowcroft and Gates: A Team Rivals Baker | silently. Bush's Personal Adviser That leaves Mr. Scowcroft free to carry out what he sees as his primary function. "Brent looks upon himself as a personal adviser to the President, with an organizational structure to help him be that personal adviser," said Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, an old fri... |
425145_3 | Athens Journal; At the Foot of the Acropolis, a Big Dream Unfolds | He is of course not the first Mayor pledging to clean up the capital. Others have promised but tripped over hurdles that say as much about Greece as about the job. In the land of the ancient city-state, today's metropolis has virtually no power and no income. An administrator said Athens does not even get to keep its p... |
424631_0 | Fortified Foods Could Fight Off Cancer | IF an unusual "designer foods" project under way at the National Cancer Institute here achieves its goals, the label on orange juice might someday read: "Fortified with plant-derived limonoids, monoterpenes, carotenoids and phenolic glycosides to help prevent cancer." The idea, according to Dr. Herbert Pierson, a toxic... |
424643_0 | Mining Dead Cars for Money | Making use of new enforcement authority, New York City is slowly beating the blight of abandoned cars -- adding to the city's depleted treasury in the process. But help from Albany could permit a lot more progress. Plateless hulks, cannibalized by scavengers and vandals, deface every city neighborhood. Last year the Sa... |
424539_0 | Proposals On Genetic Technology | A White House task force on biotechnology policy has recommended that the Government develop regulations that simplify the approval of genetically engineered crops, pesticides and animals. In a report to be released Tuesday by the White House Council on Competitiveness, headed by Vice President Dan Quayle, the panel ur... |
422609_0 | Threat to Cellular Phone Services | In a move that could threaten cellular telephone companies, the Federal Communications Commission may decide on Wednesday to grant a small radio company's request to provide a new form of mobile telephone service in six major cities, including New York. If the request is approved, the action could inject new competitio... |
422628_0 | Monsanto Told to Halt Promotion Of Its Gene-Engineered Milk Drug | The Food and Drug Administration has ordered the manufacturer of a genetically engineered hormone that increases milk production to stop promoting the drug while it is still under Government review. Federal officials maintained that the manufacturer, the Monsanto Company, was promoting the product, bovine growth hormon... |
424189_2 | Yachting; Syndicates Working in Sync | year because Australia II's extraordinary design had been kept secret. Information Is Gathered The PACT clearinghouse gathers its information from photographs taken at launchings, from magazine and newspaper reports, and from comments by sailors who have seen the boats or talked to naval architects with insight on new ... |
424051_0 | Ideas & Trends; A Crack in Japan's Nuclear Sangfroid | AS Japan has rapidly grown more dependent on nuclear power over the last two decades, it has also grown more confident, perhaps even a bit smug, about its prowess at running nuclear reactors. Eager to beat back a growing anti-nuclear movement, the Japanese Government constantly reminds people that this country's reacto... |
424240_0 | The Heydey Of Ocean Liners | William H. Miller's recalling the heyday of the ocean liner ("New Jersey Q & A," Jan. 20) brought back memories of my years of "river watching" from a private nook near Stevens Castle. The majestic liners gliding in and out of port were an awesome sight to a child. I remember promising myself that some day I would be a... |
423941_0 | Cruel and Usual Punishment | SPARE THE CHILD The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. By Philip Greven. 263 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $22.95. A trio of perspectives shapes "Spare the Child," Philip Greven's study of the physical punishment of children in America: the detachment of the scholarly researc... |
424173_1 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | the students do it? They take Mr. Sporney's advanced mechanical-drawing class, three weeks of which is dedicated to building bustable bridges. It is not for the weak of heart. "No, no, don't break it, please Mr. Sporney," Xavier Bolanos cried as the teacher slowly released a 30-pound bucket of sand hanging from a tooth... |
423838_2 | Commercial Property: 712 Fifth Avenue; High Hopes, and Vacancy, for a 4-Building Complex | York headquarters for international companies." The roster already includes Christian Dior and Grand Metropolitan, the British conglomerate. Just what role the Solomons now play seems to be a matter of interpretation. They maintain that they own part of the project. The Taubman Company emphasizes that it has "responsib... |
424084_0 | Under a Tropical Tricolor | THEIR language is French, their currency the franc, their flag the tricolor. They have baguettes, gendarmes and speedy Renaults galore. And those ever-so-practical garbage cans on wheels look as natural there as they do in France. Why not? Martinique and Guadeloupe are, by law, no less part of France than Lyons or Bord... |
424084_10 | Under a Tropical Tricolor | and rough seas have kept away tourist development. Some visitors, though, travel as far as Le Moule simply for the chance to lunch at Chez Lucille, which is said to offer the best lobster in the Antilles. Separated from Grande-Terre by a narrow saltwater canal, Basse-Terre could not be more different. Dominated by the ... |
421660_3 | Recession Is Forcing Many To Lessen Hopes for College | husband own a marketing company with 15 employees. "We don't know if a bigger depression is going to roll in here from the Northeast one of these days and we may be faced with spending $45,000 after-tax dollars or so a year to send two or three kids to college," she said in a telephone interview. "The day when a woman ... |
419949_1 | Stepped Up Airport Security: Reports From Abroad and the U.S. | passengers a day in 1990.The crowds at the main building, the Tom Bradley International terminal, were tense and hushed on a recent evening as they passed through security. Almost every passenger seemed to set off the metal detectors, which one security official said had been so finely tuned that the tiniest piece of m... |
420118_0 | The Executive Computer; What Laptop Users Can Expect to Find at Airports | Airports have tightened their security since the start of war in the Persian Gulf as a precaution against potential terrorist attacks. All those laptop computers carried by business executives, along with portable stereos and other electronic equipment, are coming under particular scrutiny. At the major domestic airpor... |
420096_0 | Chasing Few Buyers With Too Many Tires | Tom H. Barrett has had a gruelling two-year tenure as chairman of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Since he took over, Goodyear, once known by its rivals as The Gorilla because of its dominance of the world tire business, has lost the lead to France's Groupe Michelin. And the tire business has taken a turn for the... |
419934_0 | Stepped Up Airport Security: Reports From Abroad and the U.S. | On Jan. 2, the first phase of a special security plan known as Vigipirate went into effect all over France, with 200,000 police officers and gendarmes placed on the alert. Phase two, declared on Jan. 17, represents the tightest security France has known since the 1954-62 Algerian war, with 3,000 "sensitive points" give... |
419950_0 | Stepped Up Airport Security: Reports From Abroad and the U.S. | Because the area has three of the busiest and most visible airports in the country, security officials are taking especially strong measures to counter any terrorist threat in New York. About 80 percent of the flights from Kennedy International Airport are international, so security experts view it as a more likely tar... |
419962_0 | Stepped Up Airport Security: Reports From Abroad and the U.S. | With the passengers seated for a near on-time takeoff for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Capt. Kevin Kelly of Pan American emerged from his cockpit to announce the flight wouldn't be taking off so soon after all. "We have a bag somewhere in the hold that was checked by an international passenger who didn't get on th... |
419885_1 | Ideas & Trends; Electricity And Cancer? The Mystery Increases | a risk to human health another concludes that there is no threat at all. But the quality of the studies asserting that a link exists has improved, and the Government seems to be edging closer to an official determination that electromagnetic fields may pose a public health threat. Last month, before a panel of experts ... |
419777_1 | A Dancer, a Choreographer And Their Creative Alchemy | expression in the creation of a new work but an active participant, whose singularity and seemingly boundless capacity for repetition helps to crystallize the choreographer's intentions. Unlike composers or playwrights, choreographers cannot pursue their craft in isolation. Only when face to face with dancers in the re... |
419931_0 | Stepped Up Airport Security: Reports From Abroad and the U.S. | Civil airports turned into instant barometers of national anxieties about terrorism when war began in the Persian Gulf Jan. 16. The bustle of passengers faded and some air terminals became uneasily still as travel overseas dropped off precipitately and domestic travel thinned. Uniformed guards multiplied. Close-in park... |
420126_2 | Managing; Welcoming Those With Disabilities | can hide it for years. "Traditionally, people who felt they could seem quote-unquote normal saw no reason to self-identify," said Angela C. Johnson, chairwoman of Honeywell's council. Still, the Census Bureau estimated that in 1985, the last year for which it has figures, some 43 million adults had disabilities. The Pr... |
425269_0 | An F.D.A. Approval for Amgen | The Food and Drug Administration today approved the use of the first of a new class of genetically engineered drugs that are expected to be of major benefit to people with cancer and could eventually open an era in the treatment of a wide variety of infections. The drug, known as granulocyte colony stimulating factor, ... |
425282_5 | A Disappointing Deal for Browning | Although it is the only permitted site in Colorado under the new regulations and is hundreds of miles from its nearest competitor, the problem for potential purchasers is calculating how much of Last Chance's income can be generated locally where its competitive advantage is strongest and how rapidly that demand might ... |
425337_3 | U.S. Rules Would Force Businesses To Make Alterations for the Disabled | in Berkeley, Calif., said that she was generally pleased with the draft regulations but that lobbyists for disabled groups would seek to toughen some of the proposals to allow more access for the disabled to various businesses and services. 'Fine Tuning' Sought "I think they reflect the spirit of the law," she said. "B... |
421716_0 | 'Mineral Province' Divides Brazil and Venezuela | Brazil and Venezuela are enmeshed in a dispute over gold, Indians and 2,000 square miles of rain forest. In the latest chapter, a Brazilian pilot recounted on Friday how Venezuelan Army soldiers raked his single-engine Cessna with rifle fire as it landed on a dirt strip in the disputed area. "They fired at least 40 rou... |
421982_0 | Sludge: New Focus On Recycling | THE day is near, officials and environmentalists say, when the waste flushed down kitchen sinks, toilets and industrial drains will be filtered, processed, packaged and ultimately sold as fertilizer, ground cover and even decorative mulch to be spread around shrubs and flower beds. Prompted by impending Federal and sta... |
422114_0 | Henry James Among the Philosophers | LOVE'S KNOWLEDGE Essays on Philosophy and Literature. By Martha C. Nussbaum. 403 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. In "Love's Knowledge," Martha C. Nussbaum's main thesis is that there is no sharp distinction between literary criticism and philosophy. The book consists of a long introduction and 14 essays, 12 of w... |
422054_5 | Supersensitive Machines Help The Disabled Communicate | serves 1,350 school-age children, 400 preschool children and 50 infants in 28 central Suffolk districts. "Even with severe limitations, the kids can do anything," Mr. Wood said. For the visually impaired, computer screens enlarge texts, and printed material can be scanned and instantaneously translated into Braille. Co... |
421777_2 | Managing; Mastering the Language of Disability | are employees with disabilities themselves -- particularly those who have risen to high levels. Two years ago, Honeywell Inc.'s Council of Honeywell Employees With Disabilities -- a group that, despite its name, includes nondisabled people among its members -- sponsored a symposium at which management-level people with... |
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480416_0 | Rain Forest Project in Africa Stirs Debate at World Bank | The World Bank is financing a forestry project in West Africa that could lead to the eviction of several hundred thousand people from their homes in a tropical rain forest, a memorandum from the bank's environmental policy section says. The memorandum, obtained from a person critical of the institution's environmental ... |
480447_1 | Gregory Vlastos, 84, Philosopher Who Analyzed Classical Works | at both Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Vlastos was widely respected as a teacher and thinker in philosophy. His studies culminated in his final book, "Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher," published in June by Cornell University Press to widespread acclaim. A review in The Ne... |
480450_2 | A Patented Berry Has Sellers Licking Their Lips | chain of 3,000 supermarkets based in Minneapolis. "They do research and development, they maintain strict quality control, they cull the fruit more and grade it more stringently. So it's a little more expensive, but you get more." Mr. Campbell estimated that the percentage of brand-name fruits and vegetables had double... |
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481339_5 | News Summary | office and the courts. 27 Robert Garcia was convicted on one count of extortion in a second trial related to the former Bronx Congressman's role in the Wedtech scandal. But because of a misunderstanding between judge and jury, the jury was dismissed without reaching a verdict on two other felony counts. 26 A student wa... |
481377_1 | Researchers Halt Ripening of Tomato | Oeller, graduate student; Dr. Lu Min-Wong; Dr. Loverine P. Taylor, and Deborah A. Pike, at the Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, Calif. The center is a cooperative venture run by the United States Agriculture Department and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Theologis said that the Agriculture Departme... |
481327_2 | Religion Notes | in the Roman Catholic Church are vigorously promoting the work of an Italian scholar who argues that women served in the priesthood at various points during the first 1,000 years of Christianity. In opposing the ordination of women, the Vatican cites as one major reason a lack of precedent: from the beginning, Jesus ca... |
480175_13 | The Struggling Writer: Gissing Had It Right | me as much as this one, though there should be nothing very inspiring about a novel that says "Fail or sell out!," and that leaves me feeling I've done both. Few writers are all Reardon or all Milvain -- most have elements of both, which is why "New Grub Street" can make you feel crass and defeated. In life the choice ... |
480317_4 | Tightening the Standards for Cruise Ship Safety | ships back into service. We already see an aging of the fleet, and a resurgence in refurbishment without safety upgrading." However, the casualty rate on cruise ships has been low in recent years. The National Transportation Safety Board in 1989 published a study of 36 accidents in 15 years on vessels that touched Unit... |
480342_0 | CAMPUS LIFE: Bates; Indexing Manuscripts Of the Byzantine World | A Bates College faculty member is opening a long-shut window through which scholars interested in Byzantine civilization may peer. Robert W. Allison, an associate professor of religion, is completing work on the first of three volumes of a catalogue that will provide detailed descriptions of about 400 rare Greek manusc... |
480094_0 | Beware of Batteries | To the Editor: James J. Donahue Jr., a Duracell spokesman, misses the point about discarding batteries in claiming that "in the absence of recycling there is no better method of disposal than the household trash." ("Keeping a Gadget-Mad Nation Charged Up -- and Safe," Sept. 22.) Improperly discarded batteries are a sco... |
480227_5 | From Quirky Little Gallery to Behemoth | that might not otherwise happen?" Based partly on the answers he got, Mr. Williams developed the trust's programs. Some critics feel that his corporate background has shaped the way the trust functions. George Marcus, a cultural anthropologist teaching at Rice University who was a visiting scholar at the trust in 1988,... |
482645_0 | Transport Strike Adds to France's Woes | With France's Socialist Government already reeling from a sharp drop in its popularity, rail, sea, air and road transportation was badly disrupted today by a 24-hour general strike of state employees protesting low wages and increased unemployment. The strike itself fell well short of paralyzing the country, with most ... |
478280_0 | Goodyear Shifts Staff To Stress Marketing | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, in an effort to increase its market share in the United States and Canada, yesterday announced a series of management changes for its North American operations. The company, the world's second-largest tire producer after Michelin, said it had appointed John F. Fiedler, who is presi... |
483862_2 | Palm Beach Rape Trial Faces Test: Finding Jury | has assaulted several other women and that his accuser has a history of psychological instability have already been splattered worldwide. Unpredictable Factors The impact of the hearings on Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, in which the issue of sexual misconduct loomed large, is unpredictable. Moreove... |
483863_2 | Palm Beach Rape Trial Faces Test: Finding Jury | has assaulted several other women and that his accuser has a history of psychological instability have already been splattered worldwide. Unpredictable Factors The impact of the hearings on Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, in which the issue of sexual misconduct loomed large, is unpredictable. Moreove... |
483852_2 | Palm Beach Rape Trial Faces Test: Finding Jury | has assaulted several other women and that his accuser has a history of psychological instability have already been splattered worldwide. Unpredictable Factors The impact of the hearings on Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, in which the issue of sexual misconduct loomed large, is unpredictable. Moreove... |
482080_0 | Careers; Engineers At Company Start Fast | THE International Paper Company has a training program it calls MAP to guide young engineers it hires to success within the company's packaging business. "MAP," says Dr. Nelson M. Fraiman, the program director, "stands for our manufacturing associate program, which we began about three years ago." Including this year's... |
482139_0 | Brooklyn Stabbing Death Linked To the Exporting of Animal Parts | Detectives at the 68th Precinct in Brooklyn who thought they had seen everything say it is a New York City first: a killing apparently committed for bear gallbladders, which have sold for as much as $45,000 in Asia. The 39-year-old victim, identified by the police as Haeng Gu Lee of 170 72d Street in the Bay Ridge sect... |
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479487_2 | With No Chicken in the Pot, Cubans' Faith in Castro's Revolution Is Waning | the recent, rampant spread of shortages of foods and consumer goods, caused in large part by the collapse of Cuba's trade with its former allies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The shortages have come well before the full impact of the Soviet Union's recently announced disengagement from the island could be fel... |
479500_2 | Bush Said to Order China Import-Barrier Inquiry | year. The Chinese Ambassador, Zhu Qizhen, said at a news conference this summer that weak Chinese imports of American goods reflected a slowdown in the Chinese economy, and not discrimination against American exports. China is one of the largest foreign markets for American grain and agricultural pesticides, and senato... |
481770_5 | Norman Hill Towns of Sicily | windswept and chilly, was any consolation to Roger during the four terrible months he spent here with his bride in 1062, besieged by the Saracens from the surrounding countryside and by the Greek-speaking inhabitants of the town itself. The latter, weary of Muslim domination, first welcomed and then turned against thei... |
481570_4 | Helping Hyperactive Children Fit In | at the Sid Jacobson Y for 5-to-7-year-olds and Tuesday afternoons for 8-to-12-year-olds, the focus is on the development of social skills and interpersonal relationships. "The purpose is to model positive behavior and rechannel negative behavior," Ms. Goldberg said. "It is also an opportunity to provide a social group ... |
481580_5 | A Developer's Big Gamble on the New Hong Kong | and construction was halted for three months after the 1989 military crackdown in Beijing. Because of political demonstrations in China, and jitters in the financial community toward the mainland, Mr. Wu had to cancel plans to raise almost $500 million through a stock rights issue scheduled for May 1989. Instead, Mr. W... |
479782_1 | Impending Talks Rack Israeli Nerves | are increasingly resigned to not getting all the assurances they had expected from the United States on basic matters like the makeup of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks and the interpretation of United Nations resolutions calling on Israel to give up occupied land for peace. As they see it, the Bush Admin... |
479872_1 | Polish Pirates' Booty: Bootleg Tapes | bootleg versions. The issue has roiled relations between Washington and Warsaw, and could conceivably lead to trade sanctions if it is not resolved. The United States Commerce Secretary, Robert A. Mosbacher, met today with President Lech Walesa, and the piracy issue dominated their discussions. Mr. Mosbacher was accomp... |
481121_0 | GERMAN STUDY TIES DIOXIN TO CANCER | Exposure to high levels of dioxin-laced herbicides substantially increased the rate of cancer deaths among workers at a German chemical plant, a new study has found. The study, being published in tomorrow's issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal, is the latest round in a continuing debate about the relative tox... |
477516_1 | EGYPT DENOUNCES WEST BANK SITES | Hosni Mubarak that called for a halt in the building of settlements in exchange for an end to the Arab economic boycott against Israel. "The continuation of the policy and practice of the construction of settlements on the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories has a negative effect on the prospects for peace," Mr. ... |
477716_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was ousted in a violent military coup that claimed 26 lives. President Aristide was arrested and taken to the airport to be deported to France. Page A1 Ethnic strains in Yugoslavia are tearing at the one remaining federal institution, the armed forces. With ... |
477519_5 | For Babies, an Ounce Can Alter Quality of Life | problems eating, digesting food and absorbing nutrients. Far more severe and irreversible complications can result from hemorrhages that occur in the brains of many of the tiniest babies. These "brain bleeds," as they are called, can, if severe, cause disabling movement disorders like cerebral palsy or serious intellec... |
477730_0 | Cree Chief Asks New York To Drop Hydroelectric Plan | A Cree Indian chief from Quebec's sub-Arctic came to New York City yesterday to urge the state to cancel huge contracts for hydroelectricity that would be generated on his native land, but state officials strongly suggested that they favored moving ahead with the purchase. The 20-year, $19.5 billion contracts were rece... |
478675_3 | Toughest Fight Yet For Hydro-Quebec | is believed to have a hydroelectric potential of about 50,000 megawatts, equivalent to the output of about 60 traditional power plants. The company has already developed about 25,000 megawatts, with plans for 20,000 more. Noting that hydropower is "cheaper to develop and bring to major load centers than any other gener... |
478881_0 | Parents Vie With Schools Over Helping Handicapped | AT Commack High School, Christopher Brown, who has a severe neural hearing loss, attends classes with a full-time interpreter who signs all his lessons. The district pays $16,000 a year for the service. At Syosset High School, Louis Ambrosio, who uses a wheelchair because of spina bifida, has a full-time special-educat... |
478677_0 | Bag Inspection | To the Editor: In late July, I returned to the U.S. at San Francisco airport, only to experience obnoxious and racist behavior by Customs officers. Immigration officers directed some passengers to a special Customs line, with an X-ray scanner. In line for some 45 minutes, I noted that only one person in line was white.... |
478671_5 | All About/Musical Instruments; In Search of the High-Tech Chord | an all-acoustic show called "MTV Unplugged." Sales figures reflect the new interest in traditional instruments. Acoustic guitar sales, which plummeted from 2.5 million a year in 1972 to a low of 875,000 in 1983, have climbed back up to 1.5 million last year, according to the Guitar and Accessories Music Marketing Assoc... |
480593_4 | Cellular Network's Big Step | discuss snow. "If you just said the word 'snow,' the Eskimo, who has many different words for different kinds of snow, would not know what you mean," he said. McCaw technicians developed a new kind of computer patois. New York posed another kind of problem. In Manhattan, with its many skyscrapers, a cellular telephone ... |
483151_4 | Technology; Mouse! Movie! Sound! Action! | of its modular design, it permits the addition of a variety of hardware-based image compression technologies, including industry standards developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group and the Motion Picture Experts Group. The flexibility of the Quicktime standard was demonstrated last week when the New Video Corpo... |
483145_3 | The Executive Computer; The New OS/2: Impressive Rival for Windows | is essentially three operating systems rolled into one. It will come on 13 diskettes, and will consume anywhere from 18 to 30 megabytes of hard disk space, depending on which features are installed. In other words, it needs half the hard disk space on a PC equipped with a 40- or 60-megabyte hard disk -- a demand that m... |
483113_0 | Scribe | THIS WEEK |
482930_2 | Streetscapes: The Spiegel-Cooper Building; No Restoration in Sight for 'The Big Store' | New York Tribune said that it served 180,000 people each day and used 40 million square feet of wrapping paper each year but also that the main shopping district now began at 18th Street, reaching up to the new Macy's store at 34th Street. B. Altman began its new store on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in 1904, but no ot... |
483536_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-16 Boris Yeltsin offered drastic reforms and proposed to take charge of the Russian republic in a grim speech to legislators. He said he intended to lift price controls by year's end and to speed up the privatization of agriculture and light industry. Page A1 News analysis: The vote in Poland has incre... |
483563_1 | Protestant Gunmen Step Up the Violence in Northern Ireland | Police Are Criticized In interviews at the headquarters of the Ulster Defense Association, a legal organization that serves as an umbrella group for Protestant paramilitaries, men who were described, without name, as members of the group's inner council said they knew nothing specifically about the recent Loyalist kill... |
479614_1 | Water Squatters' Rights | Basin ought to be an amenity; instead it's an embarrassment. Physical dilapidation is one problem. The other is that boat owners have turned a marina into a private housing project. During the 1970's, New Yorkers began renting slips at the basin and setting up boats as permanent residences. For an average rent of $233 ... |
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483745_2 | Manager Shuffles Insure Nothing | because you fail to have success in a given year, you can't put that totally at the doorstep of the manager. We view it more as an organizational matter." Recognizing Blame Somehow owners and general managers who constantly hire and fire managers never understand that when they make such frequent changes, they are ackn... |
477800_0 | Older Women Face Estrogen Profiteering | To the Editor: The day "A New Lease for Estrogen" (editorial, Sept. 16) extolled the good news about estrogen replacement therapy for post-menopausal women, I received notice from my American Association for Retired Persons pharmacy that I will no longer be able to buy estrogen in generic form: "the sole manufacturer o... |
479222_0 | Homer Jensen, 77, Aerial Mapper And Pioneer in the Search for Oil | Homer Jensen, a pioneer in aerial searches for oil and minerals hidden underground and beneath the seas, died Saturday at his home in Wyncote, Pa. He was 77 years old. His family said he died of cancer. Mr. Jensen joined the Aero Service Corporation in 1946 and spent the next four decades directing surveys of every con... |
478407_0 | Letter: On Women's Health; The Gender Gap in Drug Tests | To the Editor: The lack of data on women's health and drug response is a serious problem. However, "Toward Healthy Women" (editorial, Sept. 9), along with most other coverage of this issue, implicitly attributes this lack to the failures of earlier research. Another very important cause of the data gap, especially on d... |
480725_4 | Getting Computers to Accept Poor Penmanship | for later retrieval. "The real power of the pen comes when you combine it with the computer," said John Rizzo, a Momenta executive. "The big leap for us is when you can find a handwritten note that you wrote months ago by using a computer data base." At the Comdex computer exhibition, which begins Monday in Las Vegas, ... |
482366_1 | For Cleaner Air, Scrap Dirty Cars, U.S. Is Told | qualify. "It is somewhat off the beaten track," acknowledged Bernard G. Campbell, director of the consulting firm DRI/McGraw-Hill. But he said that for the next 10 to 20 years, it is by far the cheapest and fastest way to cut pollution and oil imports. More and more, economists are taking control of the pollution debat... |
470341_0 | Patents; New Uses For Hulls Of Peanuts | Americans consume well over a million tons of processed peanuts every year, in forms from peanut butter to peanut candies and oils. But the hulls, which constitute about a quarter of a peanut's weight, are largely discarded and create a significant waste-disposal problem. A company in the heart of Georgia's peanut coun... |
465921_0 | Free-Trade Accord Is Enticing Canadian Companies to U.S. | In 1847, Daniel Massey left New York State for Newcastle, Ontario, where he created the small farm implement company that became Massey-Ferguson Ltd., one of Canada's industrial giants. Now the company, which changed its name five years ago to the Varity Corporation, has won Government and stockholder approval to move ... |
465934_0 | UTILITIES TO TAKE STEPS TO CUT HAZE AT GRAND CANYON | After two decades of court battles and regulatory skirmishes, the owners of a giant coal-burning power plant in northern Arizona agreed today to a series of expensive measures to control air pollution and reduce haze in the Grand Canyon by the end of the decade. The agreement, between the owners and two environmental g... |
464588_0 | Patents; White Petunia Produced By Genetic Engineering | The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., a small biotechnology concern that specializes in techniques to improve fruits and vegetables, won a patent this week on a genetically engineered white petunia. The new petunia is derived from a purple variety in which the gene producing the purple pigment has ... |
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