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468474_1 | For China, a Summer of Diplomatic Triumphs | of an industrial country to visit China since the army crackdown on the pro-democracy movement two years ago. Prime Minister John Major of Britain is expected to visit on Sept. 2, also signifying that the Tiananmen crackdown is no longer a serious impediment to Chinese diplomacy. The Chinese leadership has won praise f... |
469767_3 | As Life Changes, So Does Freshman Orientation | survival rate and are more likely to graduate than those who founder through the first critical weeks on campus alone. Professor Gardner conceded that since participation at orientation often is voluntary, students who joined organizations and did well in high school -- and thus who could be expected to survive well at... |
469871_3 | Phone-Service Theft Surges at Companies | the phone line and made outbound long-distance calls to Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Colombia. Even more surprising to experts, they had managed to log 129,315 minutes of talking time over one line -- a seemingly impossible feat, because it equaled an average of roughly three calls going out simultaneous... |
469810_3 | Turning Waste Plastics Into Fuels | could be used. Industry officials have been quick to label pyrolysis a form of recycling, but some environmentalists say it is similar to incineration, because the material is destroyed and some energy is used. "We do not consider incineration as recycling on this side of the environmental fence, and a lot of people pu... |
466038_0 | Religion Notes | 'Irregular' Ordinations Last year Roman Catholic officials in Czechoslovakia acknowledged that a number of married men had been ordained as priests during the Communist suppression of the church. Now more information has emerged about the clandestine ordinations, some of it startling. Archbishop Miloslav Vlk of Prague ... |
467427_0 | Patents; Magic Wheel Could Have Many Uses | A professor of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico won a patent this week for what he has nicknamed the "magic wheel," a wheel that expands and contracts and looks something like a circular accordion. What good is it? University officials say the strange device could have many applications: as collap... |
467402_3 | BELIEFS | by purpose. It reflects a confidence in reason, in the capacity of humans to ascertain some truth about reality and to agree on it. Neither of these tenets is assured of automatic acceptance today. For all these reasons, natural law has been been regularly declared dead. In 1902, a major volume on jurisprudence noted t... |
467407_0 | Wonder Seeds Now Yielding Profits | Ever since Henry Wallace founded Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. in 1926, the company has prided itself on its scientific research. Wallace went on to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture and then Vice President, and Pioneer went on to become the nation's largest seed company. Today, the biotechno... |
469311_1 | PLAN TO DEVELOP AMAZON A FAILURE | percent of this Colorado-sized state proved capable of sustaining agriculture. Today, Mr. Pereira estimated, about 60 percent of the cleared area is being lost to brush and secondary growth forest. "For the first time, you drive around the colonization areas and see abandoned farms and 'for sale' signs," said John O. B... |
469174_0 | Continental, Still Digesting General Tire, Battles Pirelli | Heinrich Huinink, director of tire research at Continental A.G., boasts about the state-of-the-art computer equipment used to design the company's next generation of tires. And he's proud of Continental's commitment to spend 5 percent of its sales -- more than most tire companies -- on research and development this yea... |
469215_0 | Editorial Notebook; Low-Income Housing That Works | Some of New York City's most decayed neighborhoods -- mostly in the central Bronx -- are bustling with new construction. It's the direct result of a decision taken in Mayor Koch's last years, and renewed by Mayor Dinkins, to spend $280 million annually restoring decayed apartment houses for low-income families. The pro... |
469043_3 | College Football; Life in the Eye of the Hurricanes | suggested the Hurricanes were leading several polls -- U.P.I., F.B.I. and M.C.I. Five years later, the old joke is far less funny. And pointed questions are being asked about a department that could not detect potentially illegal activity until well after the fact. "I try not to take it personally," said Doug Johnson, ... |
469012_1 | Silence Reigns in a Sculpture Garden With an Air of Mystery | and paths winding through oaks and maples that are very tall and close together. It was with a sense of something untoward about to happen that this observer proceeded, taking note of everything including the park benches, lest it turn out to be art. In addition to its resident collection, the gallery is showing works ... |
464763_7 | The Manly Art Of Self-Delusion | men, particularly attractive, strong, privileged athletes, would engage in such activity, has yet to be fully discussed. It is something men rarely talk or write about, and women only recently. Professor Sanday touches upon it briefly. Within this team behavior of group serial sex, called "pulling train," are intimatio... |
464764_7 | The Manly Art Of Self-Delusion | men, particularly attractive, strong, privileged athletes, would engage in such activity, has yet to be fully discussed. It is something men rarely talk or write about, and women only recently. Professor Sanday touches upon it briefly. Within this team behavior of group serial sex, called "pulling train," are intimatio... |
464758_4 | After 6 Months of Changes, Haiti Is Surprised by Its Leader's Moderation | our balanced approach. I expect them to complain." Those who remain suspicious of the new Government's intentions point to its early weeks to suggest that whatever its current direction, its instincts are far from conventional. At the outset, fired with idealistic visions of rapid change nourished by Father Aristide's ... |
464775_3 | Catering to a New Crowd | largely because states are mandating more of them within many professions," he said. Not All Schools Are Affected Not all schools have been affected by the rising number of older students. Some officials of smaller, private institutions in smaller communities contend that adults in their 20's and 30's often find their ... |
464863_6 | Late Bloomers Come to Campus | governmental relations for the National University Continuing Education Association, a nonprofit education institute. The College Board study found that three of every five adults taking college courses were pursuing degrees, not self-fulfillment. And those degrees, says Elena Morris, a consultant for the College Board... |
464818_2 | Iranians Steal Into Kuwait, by Sea | with small diesel engines, their design and their central role in Arab trade has changed little over the centuries. During the Iran-Iraq war, the dhows carried millions of dollars in goods to Iran. Dhows, which range from East Africa to the Indian subcontinent, have been used to smuggle drugs, including heroin out of P... |
465136_2 | Learning Disabled For a Day | said. 'I thought it was perfect. I'm so frustrated.' " Then, Mr. Lavoie recalled, "I said the dumbest thing I've ever said to an L.D. student: 'I know how you feel.' " An Acrid Response The response was swift and acrid, he said. " 'The hell you do. Don't you dare say that. You have no idea what it's like.' " Craig stor... |
465128_3 | Spreading The Network | who's cutting class, hourly attendance for each student is available. "We have the most wonderful software package, called Quickmail, from CE Software, that allows anybody connected to the network to send and receive electronic mail," said Jennifer Stamper, information systems officer for the Mesquite, Tex., Independen... |
464812_5 | U.S. TAKING STEPS TO BAR NEW WAVE OF CUBAN EMIGRES | millions of dollars a year that Cuban-Americans send to relatives to help pay their visa fees. Cubans are required to pay up to $1,000 in United States currency to the Cuban Government to process their tourist visa applications. The new controls would require dollars transfered to Cuba to pass through agents licensed b... |
464892_7 | The Manly Art Of Self-Delusion | men, particularly attractive, strong, privileged athletes, would engage in such activity, has yet to be fully discussed. It is something men rarely talk or write about, and women only recently. Professor Sanday touches upon it briefly. Within this team behavior of group serial sex, called "pulling train," are intimatio... |
468441_2 | Food Notes | are to read aloud more than 2,000 scholarly papers, 211 of them related to food and agriculture. The topics provide a glimpse of what consumers can expect in food markets and restaurants of the future. The topics include "Shrimp Heads as Good Protein Sources," "Edible Protective Films for Fruits and Vegetables," "Devel... |
468266_1 | Third Attempt Fails to Free Antenna on Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft | 1995 as planned but will not be able to communicate discoveries to scientists. There is no backup mission. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Galileo project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The project's problems are seen as adding to the troubles of the space agency, ... |
468260_1 | Excerpts From Bush's Talk: 'You Don't Set Back Democracy Very Easily' | and President Gorbachev. The situation concerning President Gorbachev's status is still unclear, and I have twice tried to reach him by phone, including within the last hour, but have so far been unsuccessful. We continue to closely monitor this situation. Our new, and I might add very able Ambassador to the Soviet Uni... |
468349_2 | From a Pollutant, a Cleaner Fuel | vapor. The technology disposes of a hazardous pollutant; the methane is flammable and adds to global warming. The United States Environmental Protection Agency in May proposed regulations that would force controls on methane emissions at more than 10 percent of the 6,000 landfills now operating. Mr. Yakobson said the t... |
468412_3 | A Nation Hungers for Farm Stands And a Harvest Without Cellophane | said Perry Kozlowski, a berry grower in Forestville, Calif., in Sonoma County. A small farmer who sells directly to customers can make up to three times the amount that one who sells to a wholesale broker can make, he said, adding that brokers also impeded a farm's "natural diversity." "When my parents started this ran... |
468402_0 | New Look at Birth Control Choices | THERE has been a dramatic jump in the number of women using birth control pills, with more women staying on the pill longer and an increasing number remaining on the pill into their 40's, a new study has found. Among the other surprising findings in the study, a large survey regarding the contraceptive choices of Ameri... |
468290_0 | Cuba Seeks U.N. Debate on U.S. Trade Embargo | Calling the nearly 30-year-old United States economic embargo against Cuba illegal, unjust and a violation of the United Nations Charter, Cuba's mission to the United Nations said today that it had asked for a General Assembly debate on the issue. Taking the matter before the General Assembly is seen as an attempt by H... |
468413_1 | Excerpts From Bush's Talk: 'You Don't Set Back Democracy Very Easily' | and President Gorbachev. The situation concerning President Gorbachev's status is still unclear, and I have twice tried to reach him by phone, including within the last hour, but have so far been unsuccessful. We continue to closely monitor this situation. Our new, and I might add very able Ambassador to the Soviet Uni... |
467928_2 | As Science Gauges Life's Perils, More Can Be Less | potential. For example, if 10,000 people had to cross a river 10 feet deep and 1,000 people drowned, this model would predict that if the same group crossed a river half as deep, or 5 feet, then half as many people, 500, would drown. If the river was one-tenth as deep, or 1 foot, then 100 people would drown. And if it ... |
467985_0 | America West Plans to Join Northwest in Some Services | Northwest Airlines and America West Airlines said yesterday that they had reached a broad marketing agreement that is intended to encourage passengers on one airline to use the other as well. It will enable passengers to book flights on both airlines by calling either Northwest or America West. The highlight of the agr... |
467921_0 | World Economies | |
467981_2 | New Delhi Journal; Bereft of Dancing Bear, A Master Feels Abused | in Pandav Nagar. Blames a Gandhi Mr. Deen argues that Munna's problems and those of her master began when Maneka Gandhi became Environment Minister in the short-lived government of former Prime Minister V. P. Singh. Mrs. Gandhi, the widow of Sanjay Gandhi, one of Indira Gandhi's two sons, made animal protection one of ... |
466831_5 | Cocaine Is Again Surging Out of Panama | unit that specializes in drug investigations has 80 members who share seven vehicles and a handful of radios. The Maritime Service has 10 vessels, including two shrimp boats, a confiscated speed boat and an 82-foot cutter that the United States Coast Guard delivered in early August. There is no air patrol. The commande... |
467005_1 | Like the Lusitania That Left It, A Pier Is Heading for Oblivion | and developers have come forward with alternatives that include turning the pier into a community center, a ferry terminal or even a museum, workers have begun the demolition, removing asbestos from the building in preparation for its razing. Among preservationists, there is a sense that time has run out. "There's a se... |
469428_4 | A Peril Reborn: Mercury in the Environment -- A special report.; Ancient Hazards of Mercury Re-Emerge | single meal of fish containing one-thousandth of a gram of mercury per kilogram to be dangerous, and bars commercial sales of fish that have more. The events in Minamata spurred a global investigation that yielded evidence in the 1960's of rising mercury levels in game fish caught in American waters. In 1972, Congress ... |
469452_0 | World Economies | |
469429_1 | Using Credit Cards, Students Learn a Hard Lesson | waiving some of the usual requirements, like credit histories, income requirements or parental signatures. The credit card companies are aiming at college students because they are a growing new market, with 3.68 million spenders having brought the major card issuers at least $3.5 billion in 1990, according to an estim... |
465563_3 | The Hot Rods of the 90's Go Crash! Crunch! Crush! | and utility vehicles. "I think everyone who has been in a traffic jam likes the idea of being able to roll over and crush all the cars ahead of them," said Robert Chandler, an auto-parts salesman from Hazelwood, Mo., who is generally credited with building the first monster truck in 1974. That jacked-up pickup with ove... |
465520_2 | Many Call, But Few Cancel After Cruise Ship's Sinking | no cancellations. "It's nothing like after the Achille Lauro, when we got a lot of the 'tell me about the security' inquiries," he said. Agents said that this time, most customers seemed to be making a distinction between an act of nature and an act of terrorism. "An act of terrorism suggests a pattern of behavior, but... |
465566_0 | The Behind-the-Scenes Wizard Who Brought You the Lean Potato | TO most of the corporations that promote food, anything edible is Eden's new apple, any taste-maker is a potential Eve, and the telephone line twines the two. But to the woman who promotes more tons of food a year than anyone else in the country, the telephone plays second fiddle to the taste buds. "I'm calling to tell... |
465257_0 | World Economies | |
465193_4 | Cabinet Backs Shamir on Peace Talks | demand that Israeli settlement in the occupied territories must stop no later than the beginning of a peace conference, which is sought for October. "They rob the land under my feet," said Hanna Siniora, editor of the newspaper Al Fajr, who is considered a spokesman for moderate nationalists. Mr. Siniora, who just retu... |
470005_0 | HUNGARIANS EASE STAND OVER DAM | Officials from Czechoslavakia and Hungary are trying to resolve their differences over the future of an almost completed hydroelectric dam that threatens to alter the flow of the Danube and roil relations between the two formerly Communist countries. Hungarian officials have withdrawn earlier threats to block all river... |
470050_3 | Blue Rose? Why, of All Bloomin' Things? Because of Its 'Mystery' | only one stage of a complex, little-understood game. "Flower color is a very complex phenomenon," Mr. Griesbach said. "Most people on the street think that one pigment gives you one flower color, but that is simply not true." Cyanidin is the pigment in the red rose, for example. But it's also the pigment in blue cornfl... |
468754_0 | Radio Talk About TV Anchor's Disability Stirs Ire in Los Angeles | A Los Angeles talk show host has angered advocates for the disabled by discussing on the radio the pregnancy of a local television news anchor and suggesting that she was irresponsible in taking the genetic risk of passing along a physical abnormality to her child. Groups representing the disabled are demanding an apol... |
468728_0 | Pocone Journal; An Exaltation of Alligators, in a Swamp of Trouble | Crocodiles slither off river banks. Marsh deer crash through the brush. At sunset, trees fill with a primeval profusion of tropical birds. Flooding an area nearly the size of Britain, the Pantanal (the name means great swamp) is the world's largest wetland. Ever since 16th-century colonists introduced cattle with rot-r... |
466222_2 | Come the Revolutions: Cuba Is Bowling Again | bar right behind the middle lanes, although the Pan American bowlers cannot have drinks during competition. The price for the entire project, including a fascinating Museum of Cuban Sport upstairs, is put at 4 million pesos, which could be anywhere between $600,000 and $1 million, depending on how much value is given t... |
466439_0 | Consumer Groups Warn Tires May Explode | Two private safety groups contend that millions of tires used on light trucks may explode if mounted on the wrong-size wheels, and they accuse the tire industry of failing to eliminate a potentially fatal risk. Firestone, which was singled out by the groups, says no problems have occurred except when people mounting ti... |
466133_2 | CHINA BACKS PACT ON NUCLEAR ARMS | Japan, which has been more eager than Western countries to re-establish normal ties with China. Ties 'Returned to Normal' In the last two years, Japan and China have rebuilt strong economic, commercial and even diplomatic ties, without focusing on the Tiananmen crackdown or human rights abuses. Some Western countries, ... |
466411_3 | The Challenge in Peru: Drugs and Disarray | new funds is that they will be used not only in antidrug training, but for training in anti-terrorist warfare, to combat what is now called "narcoterrorism," an alliance that has developed in recent years between Colombian drug traffickers and the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Western experts say that the Peruvian mi... |
465762_1 | Reading Up on Childhood Disabilities | The company recently added a Children With Special Needs Collection to the shelves of its 715 B. Dalton and 41 Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide. The collection, made up of more than four dozen titles, includes books about disabilities like autism, cerebral palsy, dyslexia and speech and hearing impairments. There a... |
465792_1 | Sports of The Times; Cuba Moves Forward On 2 Wheels | when I asked him where he will obtain parts in the future, he gave an expressive shrug. The Soviets have problems of their own these days. But Cuba will keep moving. On all the main roads are signs that say: Atencion! Ciclos en la Via " (Careful! Cycles on the Road.) Bicycle lanes are being marked. At first, I thought ... |
465311_2 | Careers; Flaws Seen In Campus Recruiting | waste of recruiting, a waste of training dollars and a psychological setback. She makes some suggestions. If companies do not have jobs to offer, she thinks they should say so up front, but provide students with information sessions, perhaps offer scholarship dollars, work with campus clubs, and maintain faculty relati... |
465365_2 | Q&A | in periods of partial awakening in the first half of the night or in periods of deep sleep without rapid eye movements. The cause of night terrors is not fully known, according to the report, but some families have a higher incidence, suggesting a genetic predisposition. One study reported that a third of adults who ha... |
465361_9 | Men, Women and Heart Disease: More Than a Question of Sexism | surprised that the longer term outcome is not as good" for women who have had emergency surgery, said Dr. Wenger, the Emory cardiologist. Another unknown is the degree to which unrecognized and untreated angina harms women's hearts. "The plea is for more data" from studies to determine whether performing bypass surgery... |
465368_0 | Village Committees Learn to Guard Endangered Forest in Bangladesh | A GRASS-ROOTS environmental movement is growing in this overcrowded, climatologically vulnerable South Asian country, bringing awareness and strength to villagers struggling to subsist on the fringes of vanishing forests. Radhakantha Burman is one of its local heroes. For two years Mr. Burman, a tribal village leader, ... |
467132_0 | U.S. May Use Smaller Satellites to Study Earth | Instead of launching a few giant satellites in a major program to study the Earth's environment, the space agency is considering using numerous smaller spacecraft, the agency's chief scientist said today. The official, Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's associate administrator for ... |
467190_0 | Some Chinese Provinces Forcing Sterilization of Retarded Couples | With the aim of improving the "population quality," a number of Chinese provinces are banning mentally retarded people from marrying unless they are sterilized first. If they evade sterilization and become pregnant, abortions are obligatory. Gansu Province in northwestern China in 1988 became the first to adopt a law o... |
469714_1 | Coast Experts Debate Tide Gauges' Findings | obscured by the 'noise' caused mainly by movement of the land beneath tide gauges," they said in their new book, "Sea Levels, Land Levels and Tide Gauges" (Springer-Verlag). But other researchers say tide gauges can offer reliable indications of global sea level rise, if they are used correctly. For example, Bruce Doug... |
469685_2 | Faster Recharge Time For Nissan Electric Car | said the four-passenger car, which will be displayed at the Tokyo Auto Show in October, has a top speed of 81 miles an hour, with a crusing range of 100 miles at 45 miles an hour or about 70 miles at 60 miles an hour. Its acceleration is comparable to a small subcompact, the company said. The car's most noteworthy feat... |
468073_1 | Careers; When You Can't Get In Front Door | for a graduate was taking much longer, perhaps six months now, compared with three months or so last year. Another placement director, Vicki B. Lynn of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., reports that in past years she has had good luck in helping graduating seniors find good jobs with good companies. M... |
468236_0 | I.O.C. Eyes Soviet Republics | Officials of the International Olympic Committee met with sports officials in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia last month about the possibility that those three Soviet republics could field their own national Olympic teams, it was revealed today. Richard Pound, an I.O.C. member from Canada, told a news conference that des... |
468226_10 | Species Loss: Crisis or False Alarm? | deforestation statistics can be misleading, that in the Amazon, for instance, more than a third of the region that is considered tropical forest is not rain forest but savanna and semi-desert. They say also that some of the forest is not virgin forest, which is richest in species, but secondary growth. In reply, Dr. Wi... |
466612_1 | NASA Tries to Salvage Space Mission | the 10-mile-wide asteroid. Scientists will have to settle for several thousand fewer images. Officials said they remained confident that the problem would somehow be solved. They said engineers now felt sure they understood the source of the jamming: three or four of the 18 ribs in the umbrella-like mechanism stuck in ... |
466619_0 | World Economies | |
467701_2 | Violence Escalates in Northern Ireland | is nowhere near what it was in the 1970's, when the number of dead was counted in the hundreds, the pattern of killing this week reflects a level of activity not seen in years. Gerrard McGuigan, a Belfast city councilor and a member of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, said in a telep... |
467547_0 | The Executive Computer; Philippe Kahn of Borland, in His Own Words | PHILIPPE KAHN was born in Paris 39 years ago. He tended goats in the Pyrenees, set sailing records from San Francisco to Hawaii and plays several musical instruments. He is also chief executive of Borland International Inc., which he founded in 1983 after moving to the United States. Borland now has annual sales of $20... |
467892_2 | Caramoor Opens Doors to Young Patients | in writing this play?" Ms. Chapin asked -- soon gave way to Renaissance dancing and a chance to cavort. Four or five young people volunteered to do "The Washerwoman's Brawl," shaking their fists and wagging their fingers in rhythm as Mr. Shipper and Ms. Chapin called instructions. Masks and Mime Then Mr. Shipper showed... |
467669_4 | The Stone Fortresses of Loches | of Norman towers, including the keep at Loches, which was completed by his son, Geoffrey Martel. Fulk Nerra's descendant, Henry Plantagenet, inherited the English throne in 1154 and became one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe. Faced with the task of defending his possessions, he strengthened the fortifications... |
467895_3 | Crash Stirs Concern at Watkins Glen | three-step approach to improving turn five. "Put in an extensive gravel pit and move back the present barrier and add 10 times the tires you now have," he said. "We've had a Formula One car go into an eight-deep tire barrier and the guy has raced later in the day," Gorsline said. "And he's gone in at 140 m.p.h. Two row... |
416648_0 | Cuba Puts It All On 1991 Games | A substantial number of construction workers seemed busy as usual at the new aquatics center on a gray and unusually cool morning here last week. But for all their efforts, one of the walls had still not been erected, a major support beam for the roof sat unattended on the ground, and not a shovelful of dirt had been r... |
416746_1 | A Winter of Abnormal Happenings | the best chroniclers of weather lore is Eric Sloane whose book "Folklore of American Weather" has become a classic. He notes that "when there is nothing else to attribute a hearsay belief to, it so often becomes branded as genuine folklore." In this light, he has compiled a dictionary of American weather folklore, bran... |
416748_1 | A Winter of Abnormal Happenings | the best chroniclers of weather lore is Eric Sloane whose book "Folklore of American Weather" has become a classic. He notes that "when there is nothing else to attribute a hearsay belief to, it so often becomes branded as genuine folklore." In this light, he has compiled a dictionary of American weather folklore, bran... |
416751_1 | A Winter of Abnormal Happenings | the best chroniclers of weather lore is Eric Sloane whose book "Folklore of American Weather" has become a classic. He notes that "when there is nothing else to attribute a hearsay belief to, it so often becomes branded as genuine folklore." In this light, he has compiled a dictionary of American weather folklore, bran... |
416517_2 | Catholic Order Helps the Homeless | what we're dealing with some of the time." Emmaus's philosophy focuses on addressing the spiritual alienation of homeless people by empathizing with them and acknowledging that every person is in some way lost. "I feel personally in my life that I am homeless until I find myself with God," said Pat Kral, a 40-year-old ... |
416687_2 | Ideas & Trends; As Recycling Becomes A Growth Industry, Its Paradoxes Also Multiply | tons, by 1993. The plastics recycling industry confronts a different set of problems: mainly, increasing demand and constricted supply. New technology enables manufacturers to transform old plastic bottles into new ones at a price equal to or, in many cases, lower than making them from a raw source. With 14 million ton... |
416752_1 | A Winter of Abnormal Happenings | the best chroniclers of weather lore is Eric Sloane whose book "Folklore of American Weather" has become a classic. He notes that "when there is nothing else to attribute a hearsay belief to, it so often becomes branded as genuine folklore." In this light, he has compiled a dictionary of American weather folklore, bran... |
414590_4 | Fears Grow of Terror Attacks if War Erupts, and Nations Tighten Security | distributed to airports and airlines on Dec. 31 and reported today in USA Today, shows that domestic and international passengers are likely to notice tighter security even before any outbreak of war, and that if there are open hostilities passengers could be noticeably inconvenienced. The plan envisions several stages... |
416081_1 | Allied Backing, But Protests Too | many German, French and Spanish cities. In Rome, Pope John Paul II expressed "deep sadness" over the outbreak of war, which he called a "grave defeat" for the world. Foreign and defense ministers of the Western European Union, a nine-national military organization, held an emergency meeting in Paris today to be briefed... |
412317_1 | Gaudi's Church Still Divides Barcelona | church that is taller than St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, was only a quarter done when Gaudi was killed by a streetcar in 1926. But that quarter included a facade, an apse and a crypt that have enchanted hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. So distinctive is the building's silhouette that it has come to symbolize B... |
412421_1 | Transforming the Decade: 10 Critical Technologies; Genetic Redesign A New Ark Of Beasts and Crops | research and development. Only a trickle of products emerged during the 1980's; a steady stream is expected in the next decade. Only a small percentage of the more than 100,000 genes that define humans have been definitively mapped. Work on plants and most other animals is not much further along. Genetic engineers are ... |
412442_0 | Make Way for Bicycles, a Cleaner Way to Go | To the Editor: This is a good time to reconsider bicycles as a supplementary but important means of transportation. Their widespread use would make a perfect fit with two pressing concerns: pollution (bicycles cause none at all) and how to save on the use of oil (two-thirds of our oil goes to gasoline, of which bikes u... |
412444_0 | Brazilian Indians Try To Save Forest Gently | To the Editor: Your excellent "Kapoto Journal: Rain Forest Indians Hold Off Threat of Change" (Dec. 3), on the Kaiapo, ends with a joke about Brazilian government fears for the killing of white people uttered by Chief Raoni with an "ambiguous chuckle." This might leave the impression that Raoni and the Kaiapo rely on v... |
412450_1 | For New Year, New Laws and Taxes | legislate morality in the divorce process have been unsuccessful," State Representative Allen Bradley said. Hawaii is opening its adoption records to adoptees who are at least 18 years old, unless one of their biological parents does not want to be identified. The new law requires the birth parents to restate every fiv... |
413359_2 | The Region; All the City's Crumbling Roadways Aren't Over Rivers | to conduct an environmental impact study that would consider other proposals, aside from an $85 million plan by the State Transportation Department to reconstruct the highway where it stands sometime this year. The groups, including such organizations as the Municipal Arts Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council... |
413460_0 | Tax Change Altered Graduate Studies | To the Editor: I am distressed by the implications in "Foreign Graduate Students Know Hardship" (letters, Dec. 13), on research universities in the United States. Increasingly, the students in technical areas are not United States citizens. The letters state that Americans are ill prepared for the graduate student's ac... |
413295_0 | Civil War Games for Modern-Day Lees | THE climactic battle for the Shenandoah Valley, General Pickett's headlong charge at Gettysburg and the first and second battles of Manassas are the stuff Richard Berg has fashioned a business from. Mr. Berg, 47 years old, a former New York City criminal defense lawyer, is the inventor of more than a dozen Civil War ga... |
413458_3 | An Author I'd Walk the Plank For | I might have been reading the prose of Jane Austen's seafaring brothers (two served in the Royal Navy), had they shared her gifts. Before I finished the book, I was convinced it was the best historical novel I'd ever read. "Master and Commander" ended happily; was there a sequel? Yes. I was delighted to find the story ... |
413203_0 | Technology; The Tough Business of Recycling Newsprint | As newspapers rethink their futures and search for ways to cut costs, increase readership and prevent further erosion of their advertising revenues, new government regulations confront them with one more dilemma: recycling their newsprint. So far, eight states have imposed taxes or regulations to encourage newsprint re... |
415457_0 | Church's Bane: Madonna and Other Temptations | Only a few sounds are audible at the main office of the seminary here: the swishing of cassocks as priests glide across the marble floor, and the chirping of swallows that inhabit the lush inner courtyards, thick with ferns and poinsettias. For decades, the daily routine of priests here has borne little resemblance to ... |
415462_1 | Careers; Colleges Help Alumni Who Lose Jobs | the job market that increasing numbers were applying to professional schools. At the same time, he said, the alumni were not going to professional schools as often. "Their problem is primarily economic -- mortgages, children in school at a time they are out of work or expect to lose their jobs," he said, adding that "t... |
418322_6 | Decreasing Our Word Power: The New Newspeak | action, lest it leave the impression that "minorities are generally unqualified." "Token" is acceptable only on a bus or subway; there is no entry for "quota," but it can't be recommended. And, incidentally, don't use "soulful" unless you are referring to whites. Likewise, no non-white should be described as lazy, whic... |
418387_4 | Novo-Nordisk Rides the Enzyme Tide | pedigree products as Camembert, Cheddar, Edam, Emmental and Tilsit. One primitive, but effective technique to unearth an enzyme for breaking down a particular compound is to pour a bit of the compound on the ground -- and then examine the soil and find the microorganisms that have degraded the chemical. "Some people wi... |
418088_0 | Malaysia | To the Editor: Simon Elegant's evocative description of Malaysia's Taman Negara park (Travel, Nov. 11) revived memories of our visit in 1988, but while he refers to the logging outside the park and the importance of preserving the park, he did not mention the devastating logging taking place in the Malaysian state of S... |
418487_4 | Shaping U.S. Goals on Mental Retardation | from the deputy chairman when I got home." David Felner, Ms. Felner's son, has pronounced phyical disabilities and has been considered mildly retarded. The family found, however, that when he was helped to sit more comfortably in a wheelchair, he began to communicate better. Several days after the meeting in Dr. Osman'... |
418863_0 | Tucked Above a Rudder: 2 Men and Cocaine | Police scuba divers inspecting the hull of an oil tanker in New York Harbor made an unusual discovery Thursday, and it was not only 366 pounds of cocaine hidden under water in the rudder compartment, but the people who were guarding it: two shivering and louse-infested Colombians who had survived five stormy days in a ... |
418759_0 | Tougher Rubber | A University of Maryland researcher has invented a rubber-like compound he says is "virtually impervious to environmental damage" and costs only slightly more than the most commonly used synthetic rubber. In research financed by the Army, Dr. Joseph Silverman studied various ways of heating and hardening the most commo... |
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