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452902_4 | On Language; Impregnating the Pause | function.) And that's not all, as the man says. ( As the man says , so to speak and as it were are apologies for cliches; for some reason, the man has replaced they . These are self-conscious interjections related to hesitation forms but considered more adult.) Another purpose of hesitation forms is to dissociate yours... |
452836_4 | Graduates Find Road to Jobs Longer and More Difficult | look at New York City as a foreign land. But after confronting reality, many slowly start to open up their horizons." Among the fields cited as having few opportunities are banking, education and engineering. Many of the fields have cycles, Mr. Burke said, adding: "But there are no dead-end fields. A job search largely... |
453126_4 | All About/Car Recycling; An Afterlife for Automobiles | possible that an old Chevrolet or Buick going into Prolerized Schiabo's shredder would come back in a few months as part of a shiny new Toyota or Hyundai. Nationwide, 19 million tons of steel scrap were exported in 1989, the latest year for which figures are available. The Dismantlers Stripping Cars For Spare Parts Aut... |
453179_1 | SEX DISCRIMINATION PERSISTS, U.N. SAYS | women generally continue to be the last to benefit from job expansion and the first to suffer from job contraction, the report says. According to various charts, the workplace almost everywhere is segregated by sex, with women generally in less prestigious and lower-paid jobs. Japan, South Korea and Cyprus were among t... |
453179_2 | SEX DISCRIMINATION PERSISTS, U.N. SAYS | representation -- 28 percent -- in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, although their numbers have declined with the recent political changes. While women in Africa and southern Asia have made some gains in health and education, indicators "are still far from minimally acceptable levels -- and are still very far from ... |
453188_3 | With Its Population Still on Rise, Beijing Pushes One-Child Family | planned to keep the population below 1.2 billion by the year 2000. China's population is now about 1.14 billion, in a territory slightly larger than the United States, but with far less arable land. Will the missed targets prompt a new crackdown? So far, the Government has called for tighter controls, and there seems t... |
453202_0 | Postings: Tenants Win; Preservation of a Cornice | Leaning well over the edge of the roof atop the seven-story St. Agnes apartment building at 41 Convent Avenue, John Contreras, president of Polonia Contracting, stuck his hand inside the 80-year-old cornice and made a remarkable discovery. "The wood bracing was completely clean," said Carolyn Kent, of Community Board 9... |
455470_0 | Brazilian Leader Acts to Protect the Amazon | Facing criticism over Brazil's Amazon policies, President Fernando Collor de Mello has dismissed the head of Brazil's Indian protection agency and has unveiled a program to allow foreign financing of environmental projects here. In another move, he abolished tax subsidies today that had made it profitable to cut down A... |
455514_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Peruvian guerrilla offensive against the Government of Alberto Fujimori has left more than 60 dead in the last week and has been carried out with near impunity. A8 Protection for the Amazon rain forest was the goal behind several recent moves by President Collor, including the dismissal of the head of Brazil's Indian p... |
455411_5 | Study Finds Mysterious Rise In Childhood Cancer Rate | a small area contract the disease than would be expected from chance alone. But even in cases where the population and region under study are limited, scientists have great trouble fingering a definite factor. "Over the years, more than 100 leukemia clusters have been investigated, and no clear causes have ever been fo... |
455423_0 | Democrats Ready to Battle Bush on China | With votes imminent in two important Congressional committees, Democrats in the House and Senate have reached a broad consensus on how to oppose President Bush's decision to renew unconditionally China's preferential trade status. Their inability to agree on a common plan helped the President prevail last year in the s... |
455355_2 | Books of The Times; Shifting Causes: Updates From the American Left | of nuclear war and the endangered environment. At the same time, the feminist movement became a natural ally in political activism for equal and personal rights. New cultural groups developed, willing to take to the streets, engage in nonviolent actions against military and nuclear installations, and go to court or eve... |
453620_0 | Help Families Choose, Everywhere | Thirty years ago, barely a tenth of the people in developing countries used some kind of birth control. Today more than half do -- in large part because of America's pioneering efforts to help people choose the size of their families. That choice is important not only for individuals but for countries, some of which ar... |
453677_0 | Accrediting Agency and Seminary Agree on an Advisory Role for Women | The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools has rescinded its threat to take away the accreditation of the Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia because the seminary has agreed to give women a voice in its educational decision-making process. But the seminary will not add a woman to its board, as t... |
452409_0 | Recycling and Incineration Dispose of Different Kinds of Waste | To the Editor: In "Why Dump Recycling?" (Op-Ed, May 29), Barry Commoner makes a good point: we could recycle more than we do. However, he is mistaken in his belief that waste-to-energy plants -- which burn garbage as fuel -- are in economic competition with recycling facilities. As a major supplier of both, we firmly b... |
455276_1 | Military Exports to Iraq Come Under Scrutiny | tracks the spread of nuclear weapons to developing countries, analyzed the list and found discrepancies between internal documents and those presented to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs. Discrepancies in Reports Government agencies routinely edit documents that are meant for the public... |
455331_0 | Ho-Hum No More, Concrete Goes High-Tech | QUIET advances in materials science, coupled with raw inventiveness, are turning the drab, ho-hum stuff known as concrete into a high-technology marvel that has far greater strength and durability than ever before and some surprising new properties, like flexibility. Such materials are desirable for creating structures... |
453319_5 | A Mystery From China's Census: Where Have Young Girls Gone? | informally. Some villagers confirm that this is a common course for households that have unauthorized pregnancies and give birth to girls. A second possible explanation is that parents, unwilling to pay fines for their daughters, send the infants to be raised by relatives in other areas. A third possibility, in areas w... |
453380_0 | World Economies | |
450254_1 | FRANCE WILL SIGN 1968 NUCLEAR PACT | to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The treaty, the subject of intensive negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the mid-1960's, bans the export of nuclear weapons and nuclear arms technology. It emerged after the two superpowers and Britain in 1963 signed the first important arms contro... |
450282_3 | For Tierra del Fuego, It's Time to Consider a Rain Forest's Worth | forest is cleared the soil disappears too quickly to permit regeneration. Last year for example, a small sawmill operator near here began thinning a stand of lenga trees on his land. But because of the poor soil the lenga have very shallow root systems, seldom deeper than 18 inches. The thinning reduced protection agai... |
450235_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-16 Trade benefits for the Soviet Union were extended by President Bush. He was said to be more receptive to inviting President Gorbachev to London during the meeting of the world's leading industrial nations. Page A1 France said it would sign the treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons. France's m... |
450396_0 | Travel Industry Erases Borders in Amazonia | In the magical universe conjured up by travel brochures, an imaginary new land is emerging: Amazonia. Arcing through the heart of South America, this exotic new realm is the home of jaguars, alligators, birds of paradise, rustic river villages, friendly natives and wilderness sunsets. "You have to sell the Amazon as a ... |
450216_0 | Ban Stays on Abortion Funds Abroad | The Supreme Court refused today to hear a challenge to a Federal policy cutting off Federal family planning grants to any overseas organization that spends money, from whatever source, on activities related to abortion. The Court's action, in an unsigned one-line order, came 10 days after a 5-to-4 decision upheld limit... |
450290_0 | Corrections | A chart in Business Day on May 27 titled "Two Major Coffee Producers," about the exports of Brazil and Colombia, misstated the unit of measurement and incorrectly labeled the scale. The chart showed the countries' exports in billions of pounds, not trillions, and the scale should have been labeled from 0.0 to 3.0 billi... |
451268_2 | How Business Can Help in Schools | can't afford to make up the difference, the quality of public education suffers. Yet these are the very schools in which the proportion of young people not going to college typically is high. 4. Give summer jobs to high schoolers. Summer jobs provide one of the best means for teenagers to become acquainted with the wor... |
451587_0 | Ideas & Trends; Mediating the Federal War On Wildlife | FEDERAL hunters gunning from airplanes late last month swooped down on the plains of central Wyoming, leaving a trail of dead coyotes. Government trappers in neighboring Montana suffocated coyote pups by igniting gas cartridges at the mouths of their dens. In New Mexico, mountain lions were tracked and dropped by Feder... |
450196_0 | Rise Seen In Hiring in 3d Quarter | Recent graduates and other job seekers may soon find that jobs are not so scarce. A survey of business hiring plans by Manpower Inc., the nation's largest temporary-employment agency, forecasts a notable upturn in the third quarter, which begins on July 1. Such a development is eagerly awaited by economists since a rec... |
450056_0 | France's New Prime Minister Put to the Test | In office for less than three weeks, France's new Prime Minister, Edith Cresson, has suddenly found herself confronted by a wave of strikes, widespread rioting by poor youths and a weak economy that is pushing up unemployment and the nation's budget deficit. On Friday, Paris experienced its worst subway and bus strike ... |
451630_3 | Goodyear Bets on an Outsider | and set up a costly stock-repurchase program. Tire makers are captives of the auto market, where a sales slump has caused auto manufacturers to slash the prices they are willing to pay for new tires. At the same time, competition in the replacement market, which accounts for about two-thirds of the industry's annual wo... |
451745_0 | World Economies | |
451716_1 | From the Smugglers' Coves of Hong Kong, Bourgeois Booty Sails for China | There is a long history of smuggling between China and its tiny hustling neighbor, just 25 minutes away by sea. Much of it was halted after China's Communist revolution in 1949, but by the 1970's independent Chinese smugglers were at work again. As Beijing liberalized economic policies in the 1980's, opening southern C... |
454528_0 | Los Angeles Opens Its Water Tap to the Mountains | Water flowed into the Owens River Gorge today for the first time in more than 40 years as the City of Los Angeles set free a watercourse in the Sierra Nevada that had been dammed in its quest for water and power. Water poured through a pipe and spilled into the 1,000-foot-deep gorge, a once-famous trout fishery, after ... |
454502_1 | The Car Is Dead. Long Live the . . . | the vehicles went into the back of a lumbering second-hand U-Haul truck on the way to a display at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Md. Still, imagination and ingenuity were as powerful as internal combustion. John G. Tetz, a designer at Bell Laboratories, brought his redesigned bicycle, to which he had grafted th... |
454441_0 | Patents; Protein in Corn Called Potential Fat Substitute | Opta Food Ingredients Inc., a start-up company in Cambridge, Mass., has patented a protein derived from corn that it says could serve as a potential fat substitute. The protein is called zein (pronounced zeen), which is abundant in corn kernels and has many characteristics of fat: It coats the mouth and makes many food... |
455995_1 | Pretoria Accepts Atom-Arms Ban And Agrees to Plant Inspections | Cabinet that South Africa should join the treaty leaves China, Israel, India and Pakistan as the major remaining holdouts. France, which had refused for years, announced recently that it would join the pact. Brazil and Argentina, both of which have nuclear industries but are not known to have atomic weapons, agreed las... |
455979_0 | Lockheed Project With Grumman | The Grumman Corporation and the Lockheed Corporation said they would market an airborne early warning system that could monitor 148,000 square miles of ocean surface. The companies said the system would use the abilities of Grumman's E-2C Hawkeye on board a C-130 Hercules or a P-3 Orion vessel. The system has been used... |
455961_0 | The Price Is Right: Many Minds Think Freely; Waterborne Royalty | She glides down the Hudson every 10 days or so at this time of year. New Yorkers, too smooth to stare when Robert Redford walks by, sometimes lose all control and wave. The Queen Elizabeth 2, the last liner on what was once called the Atlantic ferry, looks like no other ship that sails down the Hudson anymore. She is b... |
455968_0 | Mycogen Obtains E.P.A. Approval | The Mycogen Corporation, an agricultural biotechnology company based in San Diego, said it had received the first approval ever from the Environmental Protection Agency for a new class of genetically engineered microbial pesticides. Mycogen's two pesticide products, MVP and M-Trak, encapsulate proteins that are produce... |
456080_0 | Albany Must Think Again on Hunting Laws | To the Editor: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has signed into law a bill allowing the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to permit hunters to kill unlimited numbers of deer, despite efforts by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other animal protection organizations to defeat the... |
456009_2 | Bad News Pummels French Premier | for the opinion polls. You can't just sweep away problems because you'll eventually find yourself up against the wall." Yet rarely in memory has an incoming French Prime Minister found herself swamped with such immediate difficulties. On Wednesday, the Government announced that 2,688,900 French workers were jobless, an... |
485113_4 | U.S. Aims to Make It Possible to Judge A Food by Its Label | produced a new all-bran cereal, and on its package asserted that the cereal would reduce a person's chance of getting cancer because oats contain large amounts of fiber. Throughout most of its 81-year history, the agency has prohibited such disease-prevention claims on food labels, requiring anyone making such claims t... |
485220_1 | Cultural Links With Chinese Are Eroding | official since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is expected to have some impact on relations with China. But several prominent links between the two countries are now in trouble because of disgruntlement at the political repression in China -- even though those associated with the programs insist that they help ... |
485224_0 | Voters Approve 3 Propositions | New York voters decided yesterday that the state should charge tolls on the historic Erie Canal, increase the bonding authority of the Job Development Authority and authorize a swap of state Forest Preserve land to improve safety at a small airport in the Adirondacks. All three propositions were offered to voters on ye... |
485090_0 | For Lost Explorers, Help From Above | Columbus might have given the Pinta for this. A type of computerized compass known as a global-positioning system is becoming the rage among boaters, recreational aviators, backpackers and other wayfarers. The technology had seen growing use since the mid-1980's for such industrial applications as establishing position... |
485080_0 | Fiber Optics: New Eyes of Industry | Optical fibers, the slender strands of specially treated glass that are rapidly replacing copper wires as the medium for transmitting voices and data, are finding important new applications in the sensing devices used to monitor manufacturing and other industrial processes. Fiber-optic sensors work more effectively tha... |
487096_0 | Cooper Tire and Rubber Picks New President | The Cooper Tire and Rubber Company announced yesterday that Patrick W. Rooney, the president of its tire division, would succeed William T. Fitzgerald, who is about to retire, as the company's president and chief operating officer effective immediately. Mr. Rooney was said to be unavailable yesterday and a company spok... |
487050_2 | Astoria, a Greek Isle in the New York City Sea | occupies a rectangle near the Queens approach to the Triborough Bridge bounded roughly by Ditmars Boulevard on the north, Steinway Street on the east, 36th Avenue on the south and the East River on the west. The N line subway from Manhattan, elevated in Queens, slices through this large neighborhood from north to south... |
489842_3 | Consumer Confidence Is the Lowest Since 1980 | reluctance to spend seems likely to spell tough times for retailers and could act as a further drag on the economy. Dim Outlook for Retailers "These figures come at the worst possible time for retailers, and they put the economy at risk for a renewed recessionary decline," said Richard T. Curtin, the director of consum... |
488188_0 | China, Too, Needs an Independent Judiciary; Cultural Exchange | To the Editor: "Cultural Links With Chinese Are Eroding" (news article, Nov. 6) leaves the impression that the Center for United States-China Arts Exchange at Columbia University, of which I am director, has greatly curtailed its program with China and is just barely in operation. On the contrary, the center is in the ... |
487738_0 | BAKER'S CHINA TRIP FAILS TO PRODUCE PLEDGE ON RIGHTS | Three days of talks between Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and China's leaders ended today with some limited Chinese gestures to curb missile sales but with little progress toward easing China's suppression of human rights. Mr. Baker's talks, which both sides suggested were quite blunt, marked the first public hi... |
487821_0 | World Economies | |
486441_3 | 'Umbrellas' Closing Leaves Christo With Empty Palette | and everything that nature brings." Ms. Christo said solemnly, "Christo's art is like a marriage; it's for better and for worse." The artist and his wife both said they had feared traffic accidents on the Interstate highway that passed the project in California and the possibility of helicopters colliding as they carri... |
486550_0 | An Immigrant's Field of Dreams Transforms a Dingy Patch of the Bronx | Entranced by the vision of an innocent era, a man transforms a field into a shrinelike ball park that attracts hundreds of eager visitors. Kevin Costner acted the role in "Field of Dreams." Astin Jacobo lived it in the Bronx. The 59-year-old school custodian built the Mapes Athletic Field six years ago in Crotona, taki... |
484108_0 | Gorbachev, the Memorist, Agitates France | President Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned home today after talks with President Francois Mitterrand, but he left behind him a continuing debate over whether he criticized the French leader in his just-published account of the failed Soviet coup in August. In a news conference here today, Mr. Gorbachev reiterated that his... |
484098_0 | CHRONICLE | OLGA HAVEL, the wife of President VACLAV HAVEL of Czechoslovakia, became known to the world as the subject of her husband's book "Letters to Olga," a compilation of his correspondence from prison while Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule. She is now in the United States to raise money for a foundation she has estab... |
484981_7 | Stark Data On Women: 100 Million Are Missing | even then, millions of girls were missing. The 1953 census found 107.6 males per 100 females -- a ratio even more skewed than today's, presumably largely because of female infanticide and discrimination against young girls in the first half of the century. The Ultrasound Option The killing of newborn girls was banned i... |
489302_0 | Schools Are Challenged on Programs for the Retarded | A MENTALLY retarded fourth grader in Stamford is in a regular classroom for every subject except math and reading, but his parents say that is not enough. The boy and three other children, who live in West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windham, are providing a test case through which an advocacy group is trying to force a... |
489148_0 | French Right Hits a Nerve With Immigration Plan | After France's ultra-rightist National Front published a plan to halt all new immigration and to repatriate many immigrants already resident here, France's political establishment rushed to condemn the party as xenophobic, racist and even fascist. Among the proposals in the party's 50-point plan, published last weekend... |
489333_1 | Patients Trust Woman-to-Woman Care | more male doctor pats my hand and says, 'Don't worry about it, dear,' I'll scream," said a patient at Women's Care. Dr. Nesbitt cited several patients who said they had sought information during menopause. Their doctors dismissed their difficulties -- like having flushes -- as normal and did not discuss hormone therapy... |
488932_0 | Group Backs Rain Forest | A group has gathered 520 signatures on a petition urging the city not to use Brazilian rain forest wood on the boardwalk, an organizer said today. The organizer, Dan Lowden, said he wants the city to seek other options, like recycled plastic planks or pine from the Northwest. The rain forest wood is cheap because of lo... |
488974_0 | Patents; A New Sweet Pepper Designed as Snack Food | The DNA Plant Technology Corporation of Cinnaminson, N.J., a small company that has used novel plant breeding techniques to develop tomatoes and carrots that stay crispy longer, this week patented a new variety of sweet pepper. The company says its new peppers taste like a large bell pepper but are as small as jalapeno... |
488892_0 | Park Service Backs Demolition on Ellis Island | After fighting for years to save all 32 historic buildings on Ellis Island, the National Park Service has endorsed a plan to demolish 12 small, crumbling structures to provide room for a $140 million conference center with 325 hotel rooms, a restaurant and shops. Federal officials say the buildings, abandoned and decay... |
490315_0 | Review/Art; The Case for Holograms: The Defense Resumes | Whatever happened to holograms? Twenty years ago these strange pictures, which usually take the form of glass plates on which murky photographic images marked by an intense illusion of three-dimensional space can be seen, enjoyed a flurry of attention as a medium for making art. A number of major artists -- Bruce Nauma... |
490386_0 | More Troops in Belfast Don't Mean Peace | To the Editor: I am concerned that your news articles about Northern Ireland of Oct. 29 and Nov. 19 are incomplete and encourage hasty conclusions by the news media and the public. The slant of your articles seems to follow a particular pattern, leading inevitably to a more militarized state in Northern Ireland. For in... |
486380_0 | Serving in Military May Cut Later Earnings, Studies Say | A study by two economists has concluded that "the earnings soldiers sacrifice are greater than first appears," continuing a debate over the impact of military service on income. Joshua D. Angrist of Harvard University and Alan B. Krueger of Princeton University have been comparing the economic fortunes of veterans and ... |
486262_0 | At Least 8 Wounded In Siege of Dubrovnik | At least eight people were wounded here today, including a London journalist, during more than 10 hours of heavy shelling and small-arms fire as the Yugoslav Federal Army tightened its noose around this historic Croatian port. A sniper's bullet grazed the leg of Phil Davison of The Independent, and fragments of the sam... |
484235_0 | Patents; Cell Advance May Help Bone Marrow Problems | In a development with potentially revolutionary implications, Systemix of Palo Alto, Calif., a small medical research company, obtained a patent this week on isolated human stem cells, which are bone marrow cells that serve as the progenitor for all other kinds of red and white blood cells. The cells could make it easi... |
487912_1 | Fisherman's Torpedoed Career Is Refloated | prevent an explosion that could injure residents of nearby Hampton Bays. Captain Hand, a fisherman for 38 of his 54 years, said that when they sank the 80-foot craft on March 13, Navy officials assured him that the Government would pay to replace the Shinnecock I. The vessel was insured, Captain Hand said, but the insu... |
488006_1 | Researchers Report Cloning of Gene for Key Brain Protein | that traffic in glutamate, a chemical that binds to nerve cells and transmits signals between them. NMDA, or N-methyl-D-aspartate, is a synthetic form of glutamate. The gene was cloned by Dr. Shigetada Nakanishi and colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, who described their work in the Nov. 7 issue of the journal Nat... |
487920_0 | Brazil Creates Reserve for Imperiled Amazon Tribe | Overriding mining interests and military protests, President Fernando Collor de Mello has moved to reserve a stretch of Amazon rain forest as a homeland for the Yanomami Indians, a tribe virtually untouched by modern civilization whose ways date from the Stone Age. The new reserve, coupled with a slightly smaller park ... |
488000_1 | Ultraviolet Radiation Tied to Gene Defect Producing Skin Cancer | needed to foster a full-blown malignancy. The new report appears in the current issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The ability to correlate individual carcinogens with specific defects in genes, a specialty called molecular forensics, is growing ever more powerful. Several months ago, researc... |
487918_0 | Florence Journal; Over Masterpieces, Protection Vies With Access | Ever since a crazed Sicilian took a hammer to Michelangelo's "David" recently, the statue has been cordoned off from viewers by a rope that next year is supposed to give way to a high glass screen. The idea is to shield the statue -- its damaged toes repaired since the September attack -- without barring all access to ... |
488013_1 | Chemists Make 'Smoke' As Solid As Plastic | windows and skylights that are virtually impermeable to heat. The lone American manufacturer of aerogels, Thermalux L.P. of Richmond, Calif., is preparing to make commercial quantities of these materials. And two national laboratories supported by the Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Law... |
486910_1 | Suit Charges Pennsylvania Failed To Meet Medicaid Plan for Youth | to cover many more working families, including pregnant women and up to 900,000 more children. Until then, coverage had been primarily reserved for children in families on public assistance. In low-income families, children up to age 7 are now covered, and, by the end of the decade, children up to age 18 will be covere... |
485325_0 | THE 1991 ELECTION: Term Limits; State of Washington Rejects A Plan to Curb Incumbents | A tide of negative sentiment against incumbent politicians gave way to fear of losing influence in Congress as voters in this state on Tuesday turned down the most severe term-limits measure ever to go before a state electorate. After leading by as much 30 points in the polls, the ballot measure, which would have throw... |
485330_1 | Photos by Radar Hint at Ice on Poles of Mercury | a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Muhleman acknowledged that the interpretations were preliminary and that other explanations could be postulated to explain the bright polar structure. "But we regard these alternatives as farfetched," he said. Dr. B... |
485329_2 | A Special Risk for Leukemia Patients | didn't have the tools to look at potential genetic risk factors in this study," said Dr. Louise C. Strong, chief of genetics in the experimental pediatrics unit at the University of Texas's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "But given what we know about childhood tumors in general, predisposition often does play ... |
485352_0 | Guarding a City's Terra Cotta Haven | THE hearts of the Friends of Terra Cotta were broken two years ago when the Marine Grill was razed. The majestic ceramic walls at the restaurant on Avenue of the Americas at 34th Street in Manhattan bore Art Deco harbor scenes. Without warning, its owners reduced it to a storage space for a Gap store. But the Friends, ... |
485304_0 | Aiding Amazon Forest Gains Support in West | Western countries, including the United States, are becoming more favorable to the idea of a major international program to protect Amazon forests and jungles, diplomats in Bonn and Washington say. For the last several years, the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, has been the only leader of a wealthy industrial country w... |
484719_2 | All About/Genetic Engineering; Biotech's Biggest Sales So Far Are on Wall Street | ago, but the current revolution dates from the first successful efforts to splice genes from one organism into another, which occurred in 1973. The second breakthrough came two years later when researchers figured out how to fuse antibody-producing cells to fast-growing cancer cells in mice. That allowed them to make q... |
484411_0 | Himalayan Quake Reignites Dispute on Dams | The earthquake that recently killed hundreds of people in the Himalayas has rekindled a sharp debate within the Indian Government on whether to build big dams throughout the quake-prone mountain range. While advocates of the dams say they are needed to satisfy India's energy needs, critics say that earthquakes will mak... |
484369_0 | THE WORDS THEY CAN'T SAY | We are parents of a child who was diagnosed, at one time or another, as being autistic, retarded, emotionally disturbed, brain damaged or developmentally disabled (depending on which physician we were talking to). We, too, discovered, through trial and error, that various audio-visual aids like tape recorders, typewrit... |
484285_2 | Naked Young Men and Little Green Trees in Tubs | has to be said that, on one pretext or another, a large majority among the contributors to "Viewpoints: European Sculpture 1875-1925" was preoccupied with the beauty of naked young men. Whether the result is entitled "Mercury," "Orpheus," "The Young Sophocles," "The Sluggard," "The Dancer" (after Nijinsky), "Perseus," ... |
484430_5 | Looking for New Fashion Markets, Designers From America Go Global | need someone to go into the hills of Austria, not just to Vienna." Complicated Logistics Mr. Ruzow of Donna Karan said that he had been setting up a computer network to handle orders and distribution and that he expects to have a distribution center in Europe by the end of next year, when the European Community's remai... |
484288_1 | Toward Defining Free Speech in The Computer Age | -- is certain to generate even more rancorous controversies in the future. "There's just a huge number of legal and ethical questions that come up with the new information technology," said Gerard Van der Leun, spokesman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Cambridge, Mass., a group concerned with the civil libert... |
484372_60 | What's New Under the Sun | Mount Nevis Hotel but available to anyone, makes about two trips a day in each direction. ST. LUCIA ST. LUCIA TOURIST BOARD 820 SECOND AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 (212) 867-2950 Overview Two hotels offering an additional 390 rooms to St. Lucia's tourist accommodations are scheduled to open this winter, the Pullman nex... |
485696_2 | Hold the Phone! (If It's Cordless) And Watch What You Say. Eavesdroppers Are Tuning In. | of snooping appealing for the same reason that neighbors train high-powered binoculars on the people next door. "Americans are very nosy," Mr. Kneitel said. There is nothing new about this, of course. In the days of party-line phones, Mr. Kneitel said, "if there were four lines, you knew all about the lives of the peop... |
485943_3 | What Really Goes On in There | stupid enough and it's easy to imagine that each can be replaced by a machine -- a circuit made of neurons. But from the collective behavior of all these neurological devices, consciousness emerges -- a qualitative leap no more magical than the one that occurs when wetness arises from the jostling of hydrogen and oxyge... |
485890_0 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | Thinking Like a Mountain Scott Russell Sanders, while tracing the history and uses of limestone, reflects on the peculiar solace a contemplation of stone offers. This is from "In Limestone Country" (Beacon, paper). There is nothing like geology to take the urgency out of the morning's news. If we could watch events fro... |
485846_4 | U.N.'s Nuclear Inquiry Exposes Treaties' Flaws | point was Iraq's ability to produce enriched uranium by an electromagnetic separation method using technology developed by the United States for the Manhattan Project and widely available for decades. Despite such difficulties, international political support for the nonproliferation treaty seems to be growing, with se... |
486206_3 | Chileans Pay Dearly For Economic Growth | of the environment," said a recent report issued by the Government. "You can say that the so-called export 'boom' was based in the use and abuse of natural resources, permitting a degradation of the ecosystems greater than the ability to regenerate." And if Chile is having a hard time facing such problems, how much har... |
485917_3 | At Tiny Airport, Even the Ground Is Friendly | name." The airport now accommodates 140,000 passengers a year, Mr. McDill said. The three commercial carriers that operate at the airport -- Business Express, Continental Express and USAir Express -- account for about 35 percent of the overall business. The rest is "general aviation" -- a catchall phrase encompassing a... |
487523_1 | Noted With Pleasure | the desire to inscribe. Learning How to Think Lewis Thomas argues that the most important lesson we can draw from the revolutionary concepts of modern mathematics isn't in them but in the fact of their existence. This is from "Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher" (Penguin, paper). The great lesson to be learn... |
487647_0 | Technologists Sniffing for Food Trends | ON a recent morning in Mineola, inside the Comax Flavor Laboratory, David Straus and his assistant, Paul Calabretta, dressed in white laboratory coats, mixed a few grams of vanilla extract, a trace of St. John's bread, several grams of fenugreek and oak chips to make a 100-gram sample of "natural" vanilla flavor. They ... |
487561_7 | Despite All the Talk of Tax Cuts, People Can Expect to Pay More | which resist growth in productivity. General Electric may be able to triple the number of clothes dryers a worker can make by automating its production lines. But gains for nurses and kindergarten teachers are far harder won -- indeed, the quality of education is often measured by the teacher-pupil ratio. As a result, ... |
487436_0 | How Helping Handicapped Helps All | "Parents View With Schools Over Helping Handicapped" (Oct. 6) speaks to an important issue, the real cost of providing as dignified, independent and productive life as possible for our chronically ill citizens. Applauds and awards have gone for generations to our scientists for introducing new and improved technologies... |
487437_0 | How Helping Handicapped Helps All | "Parents View With Schools Over Helping Handicapped" (Oct. 6) speaks to an important issue, the real cost of providing as dignified, independent and productive life as possible for our chronically ill citizens. Applauds and awards have gone for generations to our scientists for introducing new and improved technologies... |
487322_6 | Fiddling With History in a Cause That Seemed Just | Roosevelt, convinced that Indians represented an earlier stage of evolution, professed no guilt whatever over their destruction. Curtis had learned the racist lessons of his time, as is evident in occasional remarks in his books, but he also wrote about Indians as "one of the great races of mankind." Possibly a subtler... |
487311_5 | Liberty for Whom? | father, and in Petronius' novel "Satyricon" the nouveau-riche Trimalchio has on the walls of his palace a mural that depicts the story of his life, including his beginnings as a slave. As Mr. Patterson observes, such open references to their slave origins are best understood as declarations of the value of independence... |
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