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418879_0 | Survey of College Freshmen Finds a Shift in Priorities | College freshmen continue to show a decreasing interest in pursuing business careers and making money and an increasing concern for the environment and better race relations, a nationwide survey has found. Student activism is also on the rise, according to the 25th annual survey of college freshmen, conducted by the Am... |
417183_0 | Making a Faster Bicycle | Call it reinventing the wheel, but engineers at Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif., and the advanced composites division of Du Pont have created a vision in composite plastics that they say can shave 10 minutes off a cyclist's time in a 100-mile race. The aim was to create a design with the speed adv... |
417352_2 | Fearing Attacks, Americans In Germany Try to Blend In | barriers across roads that run through the American enclave, and officers armed with automatic weapons began patrolling the area. Bomb threats disrupted the routine at several schools and offices, including the French high school and an office of Deutsche Bank. Police protection around key embassies and Government buil... |
417284_0 | Athletes Are a Credit to Higher Education | To the Editor: In "N.C.A.A. Reforms: Barely Eligible" (Op-Ed, Jan. 5), Murray Sperber mentions a proposal that would institute a minimum grade point average for athletic eligibility among his concerns for intercollegiate sports. But not to worry too much. A Department of Education researcher, Clifford Adelman, has repo... |
414400_3 | Books of The Times; Against Those 'Old Male Celibates' | come to recognize sexual pleasure as a positive dimension of married love quite apart from reproduction. Dr. Ranke-Heinemann does her best to deny or minimize such changes. "To date the Church's celibates have not given a single positive thought to intercourse prompted by love" is only one of her more preposterous stat... |
419004_1 | Spread of AIDS Is Worrying Uganda | the research. Uganda's population is now about 16 million. Mr. Stover, who personally explained much of the data to President Museveni, said the predicted loss of 12 million people between now and 2015 was a combination of people who would die of AIDS and those who would never be born. Another wrenching figure was anno... |
413775_2 | Democrats Open Battle On Blame for Recession | table, other Democratic Senators also weighed in against the Republicans. Senator Paul Simon of Illinois said, "The great legacy of the Reagan Administration is that we have forgotten too many Americans." And Paul Wellstone, the new Senator from Minnesota at his first legislative hearing, said he hoped the country woul... |
413951_3 | Profits, and Problems, for Recycler | operation of a pilot plant for a year; Mr. Duff said Dow's move demonstrated the big hurdles facing even the richest would-be recyclers. A Recycling Jumble Still, Wellman concedes that any technological advantage it enjoys may be short-lived. The company is rushing to finish a production line capable of handling a wide... |
413927_1 | 'Recyclable' Claims Are Debated | but might issue general guidelines for how each is used. At issue is whether manufacturers can seek a marketing advantage for their products by labeling them as "recycled" or "degradable" and what the standards should be for using those terms. The Mobil Corporation was sued by seven states last year for saying that its... |
413767_0 | Careers; Vast Growth In Imaging Is Forecast | "THE Genesee River flows north through Rochester, N.Y., and into Lake Ontario, and we can determine the pollutants it carries into the lake through the use of imaging science," Dr. Rodney Shaw said last week. He heads the center for imaging science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a relatively new scient... |
413163_1 | BELIEFS | after which the United Nations has authorized the use of force against Iraq if it does not withdraw from Kuwait -- the moral debate about American policy in the Persian Gulf grows as intense as the military and political debate. Not all religious leaders are critical of the American policy in the gulf. On Thursday, for... |
413175_2 | News Summary | bankrupcty 29 The Bank of New England Corp. moved to the brink of collapse, announcing that it expects a fourth-quarter loss that would exceed its remaining capital. 1 John McCain and John Glenn denied impropriety in their dealings with Charles Keating. In the first questioning by the Ethics Committee, the Senators sai... |
413064_1 | Auf Wiedersehen, Trusty Little Road Companion | are trying to sell rather than to pay. Cheap in More Ways Than One The Trabant looks like a rejection of everything that the German auto industry has learned over the last four decades. Roof, hood, trunk and sides are made of a cheap fiberglass material called Duroplast, attached to a steel frame. There are no buttons ... |
413034_0 | 76ers Trade Gminski to Hornets | The Philadelphia 76ers traded Mike Gminski, a 31-year-old center who has been struggling with his shooting touch this season, to the Charlotte Hornets today for Armon Gilliam and Dave Hoppen. The trade came just two days after Gminski, in his 11th season in the National Basketball Association, had scored his 10,000th p... |
413174_0 | Estrogen's Health Benefits Exceed Risk of Cancer, Researchers Find | Older women who take estrogen tend to live longer than other postmenopausal women, suggesting that the hormone's ability to prevent heart disease outweighs its risk of causing cancer, scientists say. Earlier research indicated that estrogen pills increased the risk of breast and uterine cancer but helped prevent broken... |
415583_1 | CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF: France; Paris Says Its Last-Ditch Peace Effort Has Failed | said the peace initiative included many elements endorsed by Washington and London, and they noted that the Security Council had proposed an international peace conference on the Palestianian question. But political experts said that in risking American and British wrath with its maverick role, President Francois Mitte... |
415684_1 | A Busy Time For Airline Security Firm | international flights. While other businesses also offer such services, I.C.T.S. was the first to spread the El Al system widely. At the heart of I.C.T.S.'s system is the use of profiles based on observation to spot suspicious passengers. Such passengers are then subjected to short interviews to ferret out what on the ... |
415599_5 | CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF: The Mood; Personal Steps in March of History | if war was declared, they telephoned the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors, which advises people on how to qualify for conscientious-objector status. Some church leaders joined forces and appealed to President Bush to postpone military action. "This sacrifice is out of proportion to any ... |
417590_1 | WAR IN THE GULF: The Damage; Assessing Damage Can Be Fettered by the Weather and Pilot Hyperbole | or reconnaissance aircraft. The United States at present probably has six photograph-taking spy satellites in orbit, said John E. Pike, a senior analyst at the Federation of American Scientists, a private group based in Washington. Flying in orbits hundreds of miles above the earth, the satellites can scan the battlefi... |
417421_0 | WAR IN THE GULF: France; French Policy Upsets Friend and Foe, at Home and Abroad | France has yet to experience the pain of losing any planes, pilots or soldiers in combat in the Persian Gulf, but the week-old war has already made itself felt here through political in-fighting, rising social tensions and a crisis in French relations with longtime Arab allies. As a result, while closely following even... |
415144_1 | Weary Residents Fear More Turmoil to Come | mean more publicity, more animosity and more marches. "The incident was really very sad," said Pearl Safti, the owner of Klassi Kids Discount Boutique at 7412 20th Avenue, along the marchers' route. "I'm afraid it's just going to cause more problems, and it's unfair to keep blaming a neighborhood for what a few hothead... |
415150_1 | Dinkins Plans $500 Million in New Taxes in Next Fiscal Year | the State Legislature. Many economists believe that increasing the property tax would do the least damage to the local economy. But the Council hastraditionally resisted increases for small homeowners, and with all 35 exisiting Council seats and 16 new ones at stake in a special election this year, that resistance is n... |
415199_1 | Bensonhurst Protest March Is Peaceful | through bullhorns, some of Mr. Sharpton's supporters compared him with civil rights figures of the past like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi. But some white residents of Bensonhurst jeered as they watched yet another march, with 300 police... |
418017_0 | WAR IN THE GULF: Security; Pan Am Barring All Iraqis From Flights | Pan American World Airways, which lost a jet with 270 aboard from a terrorist bomb two years ago, has refused to carry any Iraqi passengers since the Persian Gulf war broke out last week. A Pan Am employee in Los Angeles said today that a directive had been received from the airline's headquarters in New York through i... |
418025_2 | Religion Notes | Finnell had merely conducted a "show and tell" talk about her faith and had not conducted any kind of ritual. Meeting last week in San Francisco, the University Senate reviewed the charges and concluded that it found "no pattern of events which compromise in any way the institutional integrity of the Perkins School of ... |
413681_0 | The Nuclear Priority | The Persian Gulf crisis has focused our minds again on the danger of proliferating atomic weapons. The idea of Iraq with nuclear missiles is worrying enough. But that development would surely also encourage other third world countries to try to join the club. In the context of the gulf crisis, President Bush has spoken... |
413697_0 | Outdoors: Sea Duck Shooting Has Rough Rewards | Late-season sea duck shooting, which is taking place right now in some Northeast coastal states, is not for those who wish to hunt in comfort. The sea ducks, scoters, eiders and old squaws will not, with rare exceptions, be taken from sheltered, conventional shore-based blinds. My own sea duck shooting, which has been ... |
413600_0 | Prague Will Stop Representing Cuba in U.S. | Czechoslovakia has decided it will no longer represent Cuba in Washington, forcing the Cuban Interests Section to scurry in search for a new sponsor in another sign of Havana's growing isolation. The United States and Cuba do not have formal relations, but officials of the two nations consult regularly through their in... |
416827_0 | Episcopal and Lutheran Churches Propose a Union Just Short of Merger | Leaders of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have proposed a plan to bring their churches into a close union, just short of merger. If the proposal is carried out, the two denominations, while retaining separate organizational and governing structures, would eventually recognize their ... |
416199_1 | Latin Redux in Our Schools? A Risible Notion | as well as philosophy. The response to my search was worse than what I previously found from university philosophy departments. Most philosophy departments at least answered, even if only with a formula note and after a wait of many weeks or months. Secondary schools, however, rarely responded at all. And when I follow... |
415014_0 | Parks That Preserve the Old Hawaii | MILES -- and sometimes centuries, it seems -- from the posh resorts with swimming pools measured in fractions of an acre, which have been rising near almost every sandy beach in the state recently, another Hawaii is surviving, preserved by state and Federal park agencies. During the last two decades or so, as its basic... |
414979_1 | Colombian Rebels Unleash Wide Counteroffensive | cut off from the rest of the country. "The escalation of violence isn't only unusual, it's much worse than anything we have seen in a long time," said Jesus Antonio Dejarano, a Government official dealing with counterinsurgency efforts. "It is also violence of a different form, where we're seeing terrorist acts by the ... |
415140_0 | Crowds in European Cities Protest a War in Gulf Area | Mobilized by leftist, environmental, pacifist and trade union groups, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of major West European cities today to demand that force not be used against Iraq in Kuwait. As part of an international day of action coordinated with antiwar groups in the United St... |
414759_1 | Rising Personal and Public Toll In New England Economic Plunge | New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. While the rest of the nation has just entered what many economists believe will be a mild recession, New England has been in an economic slump for nearly two years and has now plummeted into what regional economists say is a severe... |
415764_0 | Romania Seeks to Reduce Abortions | The scarcity and high cost of contraceptives here as well as a lack of easily available information about birth control have left abortion as the primary means of family planning, slowing the country's recovery from the harsh population building policies of its former Communist dictator, health officials here said. In ... |
415832_0 | FRANCE'S TROOPS NOW AT U.S. CALL | A few hours before war began in the Persian Gulf this morning, the French Government won strong parliamentary backing for French participation in military action to evict Iraq from Kuwait. After assuring the National Assembly that France had done everything in its power to avert a war, including efforts at a last-minut... |
412937_4 | In Test of Federal Rail Law, U.S. Moves to Bar Engineer | increased from the late 1970's through the early to mid-1980's. But in recent years, the numbers of train accidents and fatalities have reached plateaus or even increased. And the rate of accidents for every million miles of train travel was higher in 1989 and 1988 than in the previous two years, after declining steadi... |
419155_2 | The Domestic Front | opportunity to rally people united behind a war abroad around an equally horrible war at home. Rerouting traffic patterns to discourage loitering, opening a drop-in center for the homeless, hiring social service workers -- she's had to deal with issues no one running a bus terminal ever had to consider before. "We didn... |
413979_1 | Archbishop of Milwaukee Would Ordain Married Man | Milwaukee parishes have been asked to plan for an anticipated 26 percent decline in archdiocesan priests by the turn of the century. The 6,000-word pastoral letter is part of this planning, which began over a year ago. Archbishop Weakland will issue a final version in six months after receiving responses from the archd... |
414000_0 | A Company Is Finding The Good in Pollution | A radically different approach to air pollution -- converting harmful combustion waste products into something useful -- is being tested here at New England's only cement plant. A geochemist has found a way to combine the acid and ash emissions from the plant to produce fertilizer, distilled water and limestone for the... |
412785_3 | Personal Health | do not necessarily need to be removed. Fibroids apparently grow in response to estrogen and commonly shrink once a woman reaches menopause and estrogen production falls. The small dose of hormone used in postmenopausal estrogen therapy does not stimulate the growth of fibroids. The latest rage in treating fibroids is t... |
417091_0 | Washington Offers Mountain of Debt To Save Forests | COULD foreign debt be the lever that moves poor countries to save their rain forests? President Bush apparently thinks so. The White House is backing a bold program to channel billions of dollars that Latin American governments owe Washington into local conservation projects. "Debt for nature" swaps are not new. Privat... |
416996_5 | U.S. Proposes Rules to Bar Obstacles for the Disabled | of a bell or a siren. In any bank of two or more public telephones, at least one must be equipped with volume controls to help people with hearing difficulties, the rules say. In addition, in any building with six or more pay telephones, at least one must be equipped with a telecommunication device for the deaf, which ... |
414332_0 | Recycled Refrigerators in New England | OLD refigerators are a problem. Sanitation departments don't want them. Junkyards won't take them. Charities won't go near them. When older units are placed in landfills, the PCB's (polycholorinated biphenyls) in their capacitors can contaminate groundwater. Moreover, chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants (CFC's) are believe... |
452166_0 | Presbyterians Adopt Guidelines To Curb Sex Misconduct by Clergy | The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) today adopted its first detailed policy on sexual misconduct by the clergy, a problem that church leaders said had reached critical dimensions. The policy, adopted on a vote of 491 to 26 by elected delegates who together make up the General Assembly, the highest governing body of the 2.... |
452180_0 | Staley Develops Starch Substitute for Fat | The pursuit of guilt-free food continues. The A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company said yesterday that it had developed a low-calorie fat replacement made from corn starch that was smoother, less likely to curdle and better tasting than products currently on the market. Called Stellar, it has slightly more than 10 percen... |
452218_3 | After Boom and Bust, Denver Enters Big Leagues | them. Many of the high rollers who came to Denver in the boom, including Bill Walters, the developer, and Marvin Davis, the oilman, left town soon after the party ended. In Denver, boom has become a four-letter expletive, at least the kind of boom associated with quick growth and flimsy financing. The economic gospel o... |
453480_0 | Four Parties in Northern Ireland Begin Talks | After seven weeks of haggling over procedural issues, leaders of four parties in Northern Ireland began negotiations today aimed at agreeing on a form of regional government for the strife-torn British province, which has been ruled largely from London since 1972. The talks began in Belfast after the politicians agreed... |
449561_2 | Religion Notes | for a national audience and financial independence. Special Music for Women The Cantors Assembly, which recently admitted its first female members, announced this week that it planned to commission special music for women to sing in the synagogue. According to Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum, executive vice president of the Co... |
449470_1 | Dourados Journal; For Brazil's Indians, a Final Way Out | or Big Forest. "When I came here, Dourados had six inhabitants," recalled Irenio Isnard, a wizened Kaiowa man of 91 years who sat on a stool, protected from the shade by a crumpled hat. Today, Dourados is an agro-business center of 150,000 people. But over the years, the adjacent 8,819-acre reservation has become a dum... |
449409_0 | U.N. CHIEF RATES IRAQI REPARATIONS | The United Nations Secretary General recommended today that the Baghdad Government pay up to 30 percent of its annual oil revenue as reparations for the invasion of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf war. Iraq agreed to pay reparations out of current oil revenues as part of the terms of the gulf war cease-fire. But in a lette... |
449557_1 | Highway Project May Bring Boston to a Standstill | It will also extend the Massachusetts Turnpike into a new third tunnel to be dug under Boston Harbor. All of this will involve moving 12 million cubic yards of dirt and installing 200,000 tons of steel and 4 million cubic yards of concrete. 150 Acres of Open Space If all goes according to plan, designers say, the arter... |
449473_0 | Milk-Derived Protein May Help Fight Cancer | Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University this week patented a protein derived from milk that they said might help fight cancer. The protein appears to block cancer cells from reproducing by curbing their ability to synthesize cholesterol. "Cancer cells have an abnormal requirement for cholesterol, because they ... |
450715_2 | An Urban Start-Up's Rural Twist | to head was hazy. It took the arrival in 1985 of Peter Blackburn, a British biochemist who had taught at Rockefeller University and worked for Enzo Biochem Inc. to focus Applied Microbiology on the institute's work with bacteriocins. The following year, the Datek Securities Corporation of Brooklyn underwrote a stock of... |
450801_0 | LESBIAN ORDAINED EPISCOPAL PRIEST | In an action that is certain to provoke new debate over homosexuality and the clergy, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington today ordained to the priesthood a woman openly living in a lesbian relationship. The ordination, occurring in a denomination that holds a particularly prestigious place in American society, comes as... |
455751_0 | A.T.& T. Planning New Mobile Phone | The American Telephone and Telegraph Company has asked Federal regulators for permission to test a system of personal mobile phones that could be used at home and on the street. It said that by using radio channels for which it already holds licenses and now uses for maintenance tests, the system could help relieve cro... |
452811_0 | Cubatao Journal; Signs of Life in Brazil's Industrial Valley of Death | After school let out one recent afternoon here, Cleiton Celio Silva Araujo grabbed hooks, line and a bamboo pole and scrambled down a bank of the Cubatao River. Within an hour, the gangly 13-year-old was filling a plastic bag with fish. Out of place in this tableau was the background: metal chimneys and ducts of a rive... |
452798_3 | Stricter Checks of U.S. Passports Produce Long Lines at Kennedy | started surveying people to find out what citizens were being inspected, we found that only 10 percent were being checked by customs," said Duke Austin, a spokesman for the immigration service. "Customs said they couldn't do 100 percent, but the law requires that all persons entering the country be checked." The Custom... |
452002_0 | Presbyterians Reject Report on Sex | The governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) today overwhelmingly rejected a report urging the church to relax its traditional strictures against sexual relations among homosexuals and unmarried heterosexuals. By a vote of 534 to 31 at their meeting here, the elected delegates of the church's annual General A... |
451868_2 | Pessimism Is Growing on Saving Pandas From Extinction | it died. One problem is that China's reserves and zoos do not work together to share specialists, resources or even good breeding pandas. Specialists at the Chengdu Zoo have not been welcomed at Wolong, and panda experts from Beijing have been turned away, researchers say. Part of the reason is that pandas in the wild ... |
451902_0 | France's Timely Turnaround on Arms | France used to assert its independence by refusing to join in cooperative arms control efforts, but no longer. Now it is preparing to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. And President Mitterrand has answered President Bush's quavering call for supplier states to curb Middle East arms sales with full-throated asse... |
451893_8 | Shamans and Their Lore May Vanish With Forests | are ineffective or unusable in the body. But all the plants that showed promise in this test will go through further testing. "The 1990's may be the last chance to preserve what native healers know about the rain forest," said Dr. Balick. "We're in danger of losing this knowledge in the next generation. There's already... |
451890_1 | Space Errors Share Pattern: Skipped Tests | budgets must be ample enough to end the epidemic of corner cutting. Otherwise, experts warn, the embarrassing spate of space failures is likely to continue, crippling major projects and thwarting efforts to understand the Earth and the universe. "The heart of the problem is getting adequate funding to do things right,"... |
451850_0 | Advances on 2 Fronts Are Reported in Fight On River Blindness | A NEW technique to diagnose river blindness and a promising drug to treat the pernicious parasitic disease have been developed. The disease, formally known as onchocerciasis, afflicts more than 18 million people in tropical Africa and Latin America. It is called river blindness because tiny black flies that breed in fa... |
451989_0 | BAGHDAD REBUILDS BUT HAS FAR TO GO | Three months after the cease-fire in the Persian Gulf war, Iraqi engineers have produced a tally of achievement that says something about their ingenuity in rebuilding some of their land -- and more, possibly, about the precision, extent, and ambiguities of the allied bombing campaign. As the summer heat builds along t... |
456199_0 | 2d Hole Made by Bullet, Teaneck Lawyer Says | A New Jersey prosecutor disclosed today that a second hole in the jacket of a black teen-ager fatally shot by a white Teaneck police officer was caused by a bullet. It was unclear at the pre-trial hearing today what bearing the second bullet hole had on the principal issue in the case: whether the slain youth, Phillip ... |
456189_0 | An Escape Beckons 'Prisoner in Queens' | To the Editor: To Victor Triola, author of "A Prisoner in Queens" (Op-Ed, June 15), who describes himself as a "non-college-educated, single, white male in his late 20s," who is writing a play and feels trapped in a hostile and violent New York City: I can liberate you. You do have a choice. You can pick yourself up an... |
456183_0 | Options Studied in Case Weather Satellite Fails | Because of newly disclosed flaws in weather satellites under construction, a Federal agency said today that it was forming a group to examine options in case the nation's main weather satellite fails before its troubled successor can be launched. Dr. John Knauss, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat... |
454749_1 | Grimly, Graduates Are Finding Few Jobs | staffing only with part-timers. "We told the college graduates that we tried to think of the part-time jobs as an opportunity to learn banking. And we've also told them that they'll be considered for full-time positions when such positions become available, as our policy is to promote from within." At Manhattanville Co... |
454833_0 | Technology; Plugging the Gap Between E-Mail and Video Conferencing | Call it software for brainstorming. In an attempt to mimic the process of solving problems by throwing people together in a room, a start-up company here has developed the first computer program that lets people in far-flung locations work simultaneously on a single problem. Created by Group Technologies Inc., the prog... |
454887_2 | U.S. Opposes Antarctic Mining Ban Now | treaty signers with full voting rights. The Antarctic Treaty, which went into effect in 1961, was originally signed by 12 nations, of which 7 still claim territorial rights to the region. It prohibits any military bases or nuclear and other weapons tests and insured freedom of scientific research. When the meeting open... |
454922_0 | IMMIGRANT UNREST ALARMING FRENCH | Mantes-la-Jolie, Sartrouville and Vaulx-en-Velin were little-known towns and boroughs until television cameras recently brought them abruptly into French homes as the scenes of violent clashes between the police and young, mainly Arab immigrants. Today they have become symbols of growing French fears of a larger mutiny... |
454923_0 | Appeals Court Returns Achille Lauro Case | Overturning a lower court's decision that the Palestine Liberation Organization could be sued in New York, a Federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the issue needed further study. The case arose from lawsuits filed in 1985 and 1988 by former hostages who were aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Medi... |
449903_0 | North Korea to Earth: Coming Back | North and South Korea are now both set to assume full United Nations membership this fall, following Pyongyang's reluctant decision to submit its own separate application. That's a welcome sign in one of the last corners of the cold war. By responding promptly, the U.S. can help encourage a wider thaw. The North's move... |
449852_0 | Ideas & Trends; The Invasion Of the Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria | AMID many passages complaining about the weather and the mood of his men, there are a few sentences in Christopher Columbus's diary that read as if penciled in later to meet contemporary rules of political correctness. Take an entry from December 12, 1492, describing Columbus's discovery of a "very young and beautiful ... |
449983_2 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | when poets take too lively a theoretical interest in language and make it into a constant subject of meditation, when they confer upon it an exceptional status that derives less from aesthetics than from theology. The obsession with language, always intense in France, has never been so virulent, and so sterilizing, as ... |
449955_4 | The Executive Computer; A Sleek and Powerful Portable From A.T.& T. | over telephone lines by voice or return E-mail. A.T.& T. officials said they designed the Safari to work with emerging technologies, including radio and cellular modem technologies, which would make it even more of a mobile information device. The cellular and radio technologies would allow the executive to send and re... |
449868_11 | Pursuing Al Sikes's Grand Agenda | of business. And the National Association of Broadcasters is pushing Eureka 147, a land-based transmission system developed in Europe. To insure that its members survive the digital transition, the association argues that the F.C.C. should give each existing station an additional channel in a new section of the radio s... |
449951_4 | Can Prodigy Be All Things to 15 Million PC Owners? | impressive," said Steven Sieck, an analyst with the Link Resources Corporation, a research firm in New York. Nonetheless, he added, "the million number could be rather misleading," since many customers receive Prodigy software and a three-month free trial when they buy I.B.M. and other computers. About 90 percent of th... |
449600_4 | The Most Talked-About Philosopher | view" of the world or learn to speak "nature's own language" (as opposed to the many languages that we invent). This liberation will make us better liberals in the broadest sense of the term: we shall be able to appreciate a diversity of views and thus be in a healthier position to continue the conversation of mankind.... |
449859_1 | Ideas & Trends; What God Really Thinks About Who Sleeps With Whom | in America will complete a theological and scriptural study of human sexuality and the first draft of a statement that the 5.2 million-member church will consider at its Churchwide Assembly in 1993. The Presbyterian report states that American society is undergoing a "deep-seated crisis of sexuality" caused by a "patri... |
449859_2 | Ideas & Trends; What God Really Thinks About Who Sleeps With Whom | relationships," extending to gay and lesbian couples the medical and pension benefits now available to married church employees, and incorporating sections of the report into the church's sex education program for young people. The report has caused a furor among the 2.9 million members of the Presbyterian church. Hund... |
449648_6 | Bars; It's Evening. It's Sultry. It's Time for a Tall One | tube of toothpaste in the world. Steamers Landing On the Esplanade, between Liberty and Albany Streets, (212) 432-1451. Late on weekend afternoons, a procession of cruise ships glides down the Hudson. One cannot get much closer than Steamers Landing: two small sheltered patios attached to a bar and restaurant, the only... |
449972_4 | Old Age, With a Fresh Wrinkle | get her son to move with her from Chicago to Florida. Even her priest wonders if she realizes she's living in the 20th century. Mr. Columbus has said he modeled Rose on Mary Kate Daniher, the character Miss O'Hara played in "The Quiet Man." But unlike Mary Kate, Rose leaves the audience guessing whether her good nature... |
449959_0 | Technology; Separating Plastic Wheat and Chaff | Plastic bottles rush along a conveyor belt here at Rutgers University's Center for Plastic Recycling Research. They are a diverse mix: clear, green, translucent, opaque; some are intact, some partially crushed. As they whiz along at 150 to 200 feet per second, they pass between light sources and sensors. Blasts of comp... |
449894_1 | Compromise Clears Way for Virginia Power Plant | may construct a new coal-fired generating plant in south-central Virginia so long as there is a reduction in pollution flowing from an old plant situated north of Shenandoah Park in West Virginia. The reduction is to be 1.1 times greater at the old plant than emissions from the new plant, and discussion may be reopened... |
451224_0 | Patents; 'Harvesting' Drugs Made By Bacteria | Most of the publicity in biotechnology usually concerns the discovery of another gene or the development of genetically engineered bacteria that produce a valuable new drug. But there is a more mundane side that is also important: finding efficient ways to "harvest" a new drug from the bacteria or animal cells that pro... |
456262_0 | Making a Difference; Duplicating Yew Bark in a Lab | Until last week, the Escagenetics Corporation was known as an agricultural biotechnology start-up company with technology for producing clones of food flavors like vanilla and strawberry in a test tube. Now the San Carlos, Calif., company is in the limelight for harnessing this technology to produce taxol, a promising ... |
456274_2 | Technology; Fuel Cells: Finally Coming of Age or Too Good to Be True? | positive side of the cell, grabs the two electrons, replenishing the electrolyte with carbonate ions. The movement of the electrons from the anode to the cathode generates the power. "In effect, the carbonate ions migrate across the electrolyte and carry the charge with them, just as in a battery," said Mr. Kimball. Li... |
456310_0 | The World; Cocaine Manufacturing Is No Longer Just A Colombian Monopoly | IN rural Peru, in the heart of the world's biggest coca-growing area, a police squad recently stumbled onto a big, elaborately equipped laboratory for refining high quality cocaine, a disheartening discovery in a country that has historically been almost exclusively a source of raw material for the drug. The discovery ... |
456510_0 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | The Universal Passion Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, reflects in his acceptance speech on the elusive meanings and broad influence of the concept of modernity. This is from "In Search of the Present" (Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, paper). What is modernity? It is, first of all, an ambig... |
450456_0 | ATTACKS IN ULSTER CLOUD PEACE TALKS | An ambush by British commandos that cut down three Irish guerrillas in a rain of bullets on Monday has inflamed tensions among rival political groups in Northern Ireland and cast deepening shadows over peace talks now under way in Belfast on the future of Ulster. The attack by an undercover unit of the British Special ... |
450492_0 | Goodyear Gets New Chairman | Stunning the tire industry, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that Tom H. Barrett, its chairman and chief executive for the last two years, had resigned. His successor is Stanley C. Gault, a Goodyear director who retired one month ago as chairman and chief executive of Rubbermaid Inc. Many in the tire... |
454964_0 | World Economies | |
455057_2 | Pomp, Circumstance and Pessimism: Awaiting Hard Knocks After School | workers in the United States, including college graduates, was $6,845, according to the Census Bureau, a figure that is $26,786 when adjusted to 1990 dollars. In 1990, the average salary was $29,912, only slightly better and still far behind the rise in the cost of housing, medical care and some other living expenses. ... |
455018_0 | Market Place; A Vision of Profits In a Better Mouse | WITH so many young biotechnology ventures and so few successful products, most companies in the sector are still evaluated as much on their visions as on their track records. One company benefiting from that attitude is tiny American Biogenetic Sciences Inc., which owes its existence to a strain of mice raised at Notre... |
452848_5 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | a softball game, and a tug-of-war between the seventh and eighth grades. Forty teachers volunteered to chaperone for the day. Companies and individuals donated the food for 1,000 people, Miss Eskin said. "We even have a teacher, Sandy Dick, baking individualized pieces of cake and wrapping them up," Miss Eskin said. "I... |
452851_0 | Users of Cellular Phones Put Privacy at Risk for Convenience | Graduate students in electrical engineering do it for fun. Some cellular telephone company workers do it for quality control. And repair technicians do it inadvertently when fixing cellular telephones. They all listen secretly to other people's cellular telephone calls. Although illegal in many cases, the practice has ... |
453209_0 | Perspectives: Landmarks Appeals; Fashioning the Role Of a Review Panel | IN 1989, New York City's voters endorsed a change in the City Charter requiring the Mayor to appoint a five-member panel to review denials of hardship applications to nonprofit institutions by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The City Council was given the task of implementing the requirement with legislation by ... |
453240_3 | If You're Thinking of Living in: Croton-on-Hudson | making. It was incorporated in 1898. The Croton Dam, built between 1892 and 1907, was at the time the second-largest hand-hewn masonry structure in the world, surpassed only by the pyramids of Egypt. In the spring and summer, people still gather on a grassy plaza at the foot of the dam to watch the water cascading into... |
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