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487452_0 | Technology; A Whole New Dimension to Retreads | The discarded tire has been the centerpiece of a number of recycling efforts over the years. Indeed, used tires have been revived as everything from hockey pucks and sandals to mud flaps, running tracks and fishing nets. But these efforts have barely made a dent in the nation's pile of three billion discarded tires. So... |
489483_5 | Japan's Quiet Plan to Import Plutonium Brings a Shudder of Nuclear Anxiety | hurdles and increasing anti-nuclear protests, that center, designed by the French to reprocess up to 800 tons of uranium a year, will not be ready until the end of the 1990's, nearly a decade late. Anti-nuclear activists, who are gaining influence in Japan, have vowed to make sure it does not open at all. To stay on ta... |
489476_3 | Shuttle Atlantis Is Launched With Military Satellite | of the program is estimated to be about $6 billion. The crew is to conduct a series of Earth observations from space for the military. In one experiment, called Terra Scout, Army Chief Warrant Officer Thomas J. Hennen is to use a telescope device called the Spaceborne Direct-View Optical System to observe more than 25 ... |
489453_0 | A Day of Injuries and Upsets | |
489620_0 | World Economies | |
484845_0 | World Economies | |
484781_0 | Teachers Try to Pass On A Zeal for Rain Forests | Unlikely as it sounds, the Garden State better known for pinelands and beaches -- has what is probably the country's greatest talent pool of teachers knowledgeable about tropical rain forests, with expertise in Amazon katydids, the venom-squirting Bufo-Marinus toad of Trinidad and Costa Rica's poisonous fer-de-lance. T... |
461186_0 | Goodyear in Talks On Sale of Assets | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is conducting talks with potential buyers of the company's non-tire assets. Goodyear's new chairman, Stanley C. Gault, the former head of Rubbermaid Inc., has said he wants to sell assets to help bring the debt-laden Goodyear back to profitability. Walt McClenny, a spokesman, said a... |
461772_0 | Campus Life: Johns Hopkins; Sampling a Career In Teaching Before Graduation | Undergraduates from the Johns Hopkins University now have a way of pursuing a career in teaching without switching to another school or attending a teachers' college after graduation. The Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies has introduced an Accelerated Master of Arts in Teaching program this summer t... |
461807_6 | Quandary Created by Gain In Detecting Breast Cancer | cells that may have spread can rarely be be detected at that point. This additional therapy is either with anti-cancer drugs or hormonal drugs that block the growth-stimulating effect of estrogen on tumor cells. Hormone therapy is generally reserved for women whose tumors are found in a biopsy to be sensitive to estrog... |
461643_3 | New Luxury Tax Trimming Boat Sales | she said. "Since our boats take 12 to 20 months to build, business slowed down to the point where we had to let some of our employees go." "With the end of the war," she said, "orders started coming in and we not only rehired all our old employees, but we added additional workers." Ms. Clerkin said Derecktor's customer... |
462869_0 | Economic Scene; Mixed Benefits From Recycling | RECYCLING has moved into the same league as motherhood, the flag and apple pie. A poll taken last year by the Roper Organization found that 74 percent of those who answered favored mandatory recycling to ease environmental problems. But solid-waste disposal problems vary widely across the country. Embracing one disposa... |
462852_0 | Cost Cutting by Goodyear Helps Return to Profitability | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which has in recent months sharply reduced its work force in an effort to regain profitability, yesterday reported second-quarter net income of $22.5 million, or 38 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $9.4 million in the year-earlier period. The earnings improvement was larg... |
459657_0 | The Nation; Groping for Ways to Break the Siege Mentality of the Police | OF the mountains of facts gathered by the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department that issued its final report last week, its chairman, Warren Christopher, said that he was particularly struck by one: officers must pass marksmanship tests every two months, but they face no psychological testing afte... |
459701_0 | The Paradoxes of Help | When I addressed the joint session of Congress in February 1990, I made the following remark: "I often hear the question, How can the United States of America help us today? My reply is as paradoxical as the whole of my life has been: you can help us most of all if you help the Soviet Union on its irreversible but imme... |
459800_0 | Flying Eye Hospital Uses Tact to Reach Cuba | Stepping briskly from his sleek white DC-8 aircraft, Oliver Foot, director of Project Orbis, the flying eye hospital, immediately sought to put a receiving line of Cuban doctors and Government officials at ease. Bringing relieved smiles to the faces of his hosts, Mr. Foot told them, "We are coming to Cuba to share know... |
459694_0 | U.S. Is Urged to Speed Progress on Satellites to Study Climate | An expert panel has recommended that the space agency move quickly to develop and deploy a system of Earth-monitoring satellites. But the panel cautioned that management of the program, intended to study the Earth's climate, needed to be flexible to adapt to changes in knowledge and technology over the 30-year life of ... |
459783_0 | Handicapped Children's Families Require Help | I, as the parent of a developmentally disabled youngster, was interviewed for "Disabled Rallying for Budget" [ June 9 ] . As such, I would like to clarify certain points. 1. Family support services are not involved in the educational needs of handicapped children. Therefore, I did not obtain information or services reg... |
457894_1 | Why So Many Children Need Extra Help | in need of any special education services, or need only minimal supports. We know that when early intervention is not provided, school districts and taxpayers are burdened for many more years in trying to support children with disabilities through the school system and many times, well beyond. The fact that so many chi... |
458196_1 | Parents Obtaining Early Help With Down Syndrome | the Marjorie Gibbs Memorial Collection at the Field Library in Peekskill, with books, audio tapes and videotapes on Down syndrome. Early-Intervention Program Mrs. Levitz said it was important for the parent of a newborn with Down syndrome to connect with an early-intervention program for developmentally delayed childre... |
457854_1 | Brave, New 'Cruelty Free' World | news. "Oh, what's that?" I asked. Hearing me, a bystander muttered in theatrical despair, "What are you, cerebrally challenged?" "A zap," the woman explained, enunciating with great care, "is media art in the form of a flyer, created to raise awareness regarding pressing domestic issues." I left feeling put out and put... |
457895_0 | Why So Many Children Need Extra Help | It was with dismay that I read the article on preschool programming for handicapped children. This article presented a somewhat negative, one-sided view of preschool for the handicapped. As an educator with 30 years' experience working with handicapped children, 15 of which are as a teacher-facilitator of a local schoo... |
457867_0 | Senate Can Do More on Court Nominations; A Law of Vengeance | To the Editor: The United States Supreme Court has done more than overturn recent precedent (editorial, June 30) by ruling that relatives of victims of capital offenses may testify to influence sentencing: the Court has legitimized vengeance as a purpose, rather than as a consequence, of criminal justice. The enormity ... |
457884_9 | Savoring Maine's Unspoiled Nature | there are two platforms that invite closer scrutiny of the estuary and the marsh. The overview of the Little River estuary is especially mesmerizing. A broad open field acts as a buffer zone, linking lowland to upland, its thickly matted, spongy grass a natural futon from which to observe the passing cloud formations. ... |
457123_0 | A Simple Chip May Allow Air Bags for Passengers | Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed a simple silicon chip that could allow more auto makers to install air bags for passengers as well as the driver. Most automobiles equipped with air bags have only one, for the driver, in part because designers must plan for the worst case, ... |
457203_0 | Food Notes | Tomatoes for All Seasons For the family of Nancy Distefano, a 30-year-old former fabric designer from Flushing, Queens, as for many Italian-American families, summer meant putting up plum tomatoes by to use all year. Now, capitalizing on a family tradition, she packages and sells tomato sauces commercially. Her company... |
457245_0 | With Jobs Scarce, Many Turn to Graduate School | From the beginning of the academic year, Dana M. Lew, a senior majoring in economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., knew that finding a job after graduation would be a nightmare. So she, like a record number of this year's seniors, kept her options open by applying to graduate school. As the term progres... |
458624_0 | U.S. to Begin Reviewing Claims Of Children Rejected for Benefits | The Government said today that it would begin notifying more than 500,000 children who were denied Social Security disability benefits over the last 12 years that their claims would be reconsidered. The decision was a result of a Supreme Court ruling last year that the Government had unfairly limited benefits for poor,... |
458504_0 | Recovery Gauged in Baby-Formula Deficiency | CHILDREN who as infants were fed chloride-deficient formula appear to have recovered from initial growth failure and attained normal mental development, but some may be at risk for language impairment, a Government study has found. The study, published in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics, was conducted by scien... |
458452_4 | Apple Growers Bruised and Bitter After Alar Scare | a 300-acre apple orchard in central Washington, says the panic over Alar broke a bond of trust between farmers and consumers. The growers' lawsuit, seen as a chance to present the farmers' case, is attracting support around the country. "The whole farming community is behind us," said Mr. Clements. "Pesticides, what we... |
463962_0 | Economic Scene; Tuition Aid Without Tears | COLLEGE tuition bills loom like a mountain above the finances of every middle-income parent. And Washington, hard pressed to pay for urgently needed programs like extended unemployment benefits, is obviously in no position to trim them down to size. But Representative Thomas E. Petri, known for his innovative efforts t... |
464106_2 | ADDED PROBLEMS FOR HUBBLE CRAFT | just beginning to consider alternatives," the official said. "There is no emergency now, and it's too early to consider an emergency space shuttle flight to Hubble." Plans for Mission in '93 NASA had previously announced plans to send astronauts to the space telescope in 1993 to repair several problems that have bedevi... |
464074_0 | Nonsurgical Means Used as Alternative To Hysterectomies | A GROWING number of American women are undergoing a nonsurgical procedure to destroy the lining of the uterus as an alternative to hysterectomy. The method, called endometrial ablation, also eliminates monthly periods and makes the womb inhospitable to newly fertilized eggs, and some women are using it as a form of per... |
464061_0 | Soviet Trade Favor Costs U.S. Little | President Bush's announcement that he would submit a trade agreement with the Soviet Union to Congress and reduce tariffs on Soviet imports is unlikely to result in a substantial, immediate increase in Soviet-American trade. But it could encourage foreign investment in the foundering Soviet economy, experts said today.... |
458753_0 | Corrections | A chart in Business Day Monday titled "Growing Trade in the Developing World" misstated export statistics in some copies. From 1980 to 1989, the average annual growth in exports was as follows: 4.9 percent for Chile, 5.6 percent for Ghana, 11.4 percent for Turkey, 12.8 percent for Thailand and 13.8 percent for Korea. |
458718_2 | Condiment Explosion Causes Embarrassment of Mustards | an image of purity and wholesomeness. At this year's International Fancy Food and Confection Show, which ends today at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, nearly 20 percent of the products on display were condiments of one sort or another. "It's definitely the No. 1 category," said John Roberts, the exe... |
463296_1 | The Greeks, With an Accent on the French | a striking yet disciplined flamboyance. The achievement is peculiarly French, for theater in France is the most hospitably cosmopolitan on earth -- inspired by curiosity and enthusiasm for the beauty of ideas beyond Europe. When the tide of empire receded in France, it left behind a legacy of dazzlement and sophisticat... |
463600_0 | Swiss Protester Fighting for World's Forests | By climbing to the top of a lamppost in front of Westminster Abbey and chaining himself there during the recent economic summit conference, a Swiss protester named Bruno Manser has further enhanced his status as Europe's newest environmental celebrity. Mr. Manser sat at his perch for 90 minutes before a poice crane arr... |
463401_0 | Inadvertent Invention in Tarrytown Creates a New Deodorizer | THE chemists and engineers at UOP Laboratories were working on a way to eliminate vapor in automobile paint shops a few years ago, when something serendipitous happened. They noticed that a white powder they had produced out of the process was eliminating not vapors, but odors, said Raymond A. Rieber, a chemical engine... |
462136_0 | World Economies | |
460546_0 | New Pesticides That Nobody Hates | Last month, when the Mycogen Corporation's genetically engineered pesticides became the first to win approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, one element was conspicuously absent: opposition. Normally, the prospect of spraying plants with genetically altered, pesticide-producing bacteria would raise loud prot... |
460735_1 | Avignon Journal; They Stood for France, So Where Do They Stand? | is again an issue. It is their children who are leading the campaign, demanding not only monetary compensation and political recognition for their fathers, but schooling, jobs and an end to discrimination for themselves. Starting last month in Narbonne, near the Spanish border, the protest movement has spread across so... |
460460_5 | Nationwide Revolution in Education Is Giving Handicapped a Headstart | Children May Be Eligible Nationwide, about 10 percent of all school-age children are enrolled in special education programs for the handicapped. Although no official estimates have been given for the number of preschoolers who will be eligible for the new comprehensive programs, if a similar percentage applies, about o... |
457381_0 | Abortion Issue Divides Advocates for Disabled | Barbara Faye Waxman would cringe when she heard her co-workers at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Los Angeles discuss prenatal screening and the need to abort a disabled fetus. For Ms. Waxman, who must use a wheelchair and needs a respirator to breathe because of a neuromuscular impairment, such conversations were painf... |
457379_0 | Ulster Talks Collapse as Four Parties Fail to Agree | Talks among leaders of four of Northern Ireland's major political parties collapsed today without making significant progress toward agreement on a form of regional government. The collapse killed any immediate possibility that the British Government might be able to return a large degree of home rule to Northern Irela... |
457376_1 | Receding Ice on Arctic Sea Hints at Global Warming | at Greenbelt, Md., and by Dr. William J. Campbell of the United States Geological Survey Ice and Climate Project at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. In contrast to the Arctic, the study found no significant changes in the extent of Antarctic Sea ice. The authors of the study said they did not know the rea... |
457802_4 | Coming to Stores Near You: New and Improved Labeling | become the first ingredient. *Labels will be required to include a statement explaining that ingredients are listed on a package in descending order of predominance by weight. The F.D.A. found at public hearings and meetings last year that many consumers do not know this. *Artificial colors will be listed by specific n... |
463171_0 | Letter: On Foreign Aid Senate Bill Respects Latin Priorities | To the Editor: "Forgive Debt, Finance Nature" (editorial, July 16) misleads on the action taken to date by the Senate on the President's Enterprise for the Americas Initiative and misses the central point of the legislative provisions included in the Senate's version of the foreign aid bill. In my view, E.A.I. is the m... |
463125_0 | Bush Praises Rules Aimed at Protecting Disabled Workers | President Bush today urged Federal agencies to lead the way in removing employment obstacles for disabled people, saying the Government "must serve as a model employer" in putting into effect the 1990 law outlawing discrimination against them. "Now the world is watching to see how we use this act, how we remove the phy... |
460087_0 | Sculptor Preserves Amazon Images | On a recent morning, this river port's sagging docks offered a mural of life on the Amazon: white-uniformed sailors from a Brazilian Navy hospital ship mixed with the crew from a scientific research vessel, while migrant families lounged in hammocks on a ferry whose departure time was listed as "Today." Only slightly o... |
459986_2 | Venice Journal; Dying Art: Building a Crooked Boat to Go Straight | who began working in this same boatyard in 1884. For the Tramontins, as for many other Venetians, the gondola is still a time machine. Once, more than 10,000 of the flat-bottom crafts plied the canals of Venice, and for more than 10 centuries they were crucial to the city's life. Like limousines today, companies sent t... |
459986_4 | Venice Journal; Dying Art: Building a Crooked Boat to Go Straight | to build one at a cost of some $20,000, without trims and furnishings. Gondoliers blame the motorlaunches now serving as buses and taxis for the decline of their trade. The noisy launches have not only replaced the silent but slow gondolas, but they also make waves that rudely bounce the delicate vessels against moorin... |
460048_0 | France Backs U.S. on Using Force If Iraq Pursues Nuclear Weapons | President Bush won strong public support today from President Francois Mitterrand for the use of military action against Iraq if it persists in efforts to develop nuclear weapons. In a television interview broadcast just before Mr. Bush's arrival in France for talks in advance of the economic summit meeting in London, ... |
459949_0 | World Economies | |
461135_5 | Summit in London; Excerpts From Group of Seven's Declaration: Progress, Policies and Plans | follow their example. Good governance not only promotes development at home, but helps to attract external finance and investment from all sources. Africa deserves our special attention. Progress by African governments towards sound economic policies, democracy and accountability is improving their prospects for growth... |
460809_0 | China Mobilizes Flood Relief as Rains Let Up | Some 200 million people have reportedly been affected by the severe flooding in central China that has already killed 1,729 people, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are mobilized along the swollen Yangtze River system to prevent the dikes from collapsing. But relief may be in sight, as no severe rain... |
460806_1 | Breast-Implant Maker Releasing Data to Back Safety Claim | implants are safe, or to stop selling them. The agency has 180 days to rule on the company's evidence. Dow Corning said the studies it was releasing, along with others in the public domain, show that breast cancer is no more common in women with implants than in the population at large. This conclusion has been sharply... |
461591_1 | Roadside Tire Inflaters Can Be a Risk at Garage | to expand and further inflate the tire. The repair is only temporary; the driver should take the car to the nearest gas station. Most aerosol inflaters contain propane, butane and isobutane, which are flammable gases. These inflaters usually have labels reading "Danger: Extremely Flammable." But last year one brand adv... |
456684_0 | World Economies | |
457625_2 | Review/Art; Two American Moderns in Shows at the Met | temperas on paper that were given to the museum in 1984 by William C. Dove, the artist's son. These works, made in the last six ailing years of Dove's life -- he died in 1946 at the age of 66 -- have the intimacy and transparency of illuminated manuscripts. Their patches of hills and sky seem filled with the warmest li... |
457616_7 | Ellis Island: All Too Like The Old Days | was a feeling of helplessness mixed with hope because of the uncertainty of not knowing whether one would make it to America. After downing a grilled chicken teriyaki sandwich at the restaurant (fast-food only) and ducking into the (somewhat schlocky) souvenir shop (an "I Love New York" troll or official Ellis Island r... |
457527_0 | France Spurns Iranians Over Uranium Request | France has rejected an Iranian demand to obtain enriched uranium as part of a final settlement in a financial dispute between the two countries. The dispute dates from 1979 when France suspended its nuclear cooperation with Iran under Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi. The request came as a surprise, , particularly since Iran... |
462407_0 | Goodyear Reports Fuel-Saving Tire | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said it had developed a new automobile tire that would help the environment by reducing fuel consumption and related exhaust emissions. Goodyear said the new tire, called the "Invicta GFE," for greater fuel economy, employed a new rubber chemistry that allowed a 4 percent reduction ... |
462503_1 | Anti-Japan Din in France Softens a Bit | the latest survey, just 18 percent said they were satisfied with her performance. Many women who welcomed the appointment of the first woman to serve as France's Prime Minister now express disappointment. But by all accounts her problems stem less from what she has done. Even her political foes concede that she inherit... |
462502_0 | Schools Redesigning Themselves Get a $2 Million Grant | The Coalition of Essential Schools, an organization of nearly 200 schools committed to radically redesigning themselves, has received $2 million from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, one of the largest amounts received by the coalition in its seven-year history. The three-year grant will help establish up to 15... |
460329_2 | Issue of Homosexuality Reveals Deep Divisions at Episcopal Meeting | a requirement that all clergy be committed to abstaining from sexual relations outside marriage. Although this traditional teaching was affirmed in 1979 by the General Convention in a resolution declaring that it was not appropriate to ordain a practicing homosexual, the resolution "has been deemed advisory by a number... |
460393_0 | Chemicals in Food Raise Children's Cancer Toll | To the Editor: "Study Finds Mysterious Rise in Childhood Cancer Rate" (news article, June 26) understates the problem and overstates the mystery. Scientists, it says, are "just now learning of the latest statistics" that show a 4 percent increase in childhood cancer from 1973 to 1988. Last year, the National Cancer Ins... |
460382_0 | Forgive Debt, Finance Nature | Latin America owes the world billions of dollars -- much of which it can't repay. The world wants Latin America to stop destroying its priceless rain forests, ancient nurseries of life that also serve as a natural sink for greenhouse gases. These two conditions invite a deal -- debt-for-nature swaps that would channel ... |
459137_2 | Giza Journal; Insults for a Falling Idol (With Feet of Concrete?) | years by a rising water table beneath it that has now apparently receded. "The head of the Sphinx will not fall down," said Rainer Stadelmann, head of the German Antiquities Organization in Cairo. "It is in a much better condition than most people think." The suggestion that it might tumble, he said, had more to do wit... |
459143_1 | Tough Adoptions: New York Tries 'Hard Sell' | Perales. The catalogues have been mailed to thousands of churches, community groups and adoption agencies. They exhort prospective parents to call 1-800-345-KIDS. Homes were found for 11 of the 14 children featured in the first volume last January. The second volume came out last month. Adoptive parents and advocates f... |
459131_1 | France Unveils Strict New Rules on Immigration | under attack from other Socialists, President Francois Mitterrand rallied to her defense, saying that the Government "was not changing course" and that her actions were "a matter of applying the law." At a Cabinet meeting today, Mrs. Cresson proposed a series of measures to reduce illegal immigration. Legal immigrants ... |
462298_1 | 'Catastrophic' Cholera Is Sweeping Africa | epidemic, the W.H.O. said it was sending emergency supplies of oral rehydration solutions to the affected areas. The health agency has also called regional meetings to intensify surveillance of cases, foster collaboration between countries, and improve the water supply and sanitation. Cholera is spread by improper disp... |
462247_0 | Brain Cancer Cases in Los Alamos To Be Studied for Radiation Link | The New Mexico Department of Health and the United States Department of Energy said today that they would seek to determine whether a cluster of brain cancer cases in Los Alamos are linked to radiation released into the environment by the nuclear laboratory there. The first phase of the state's study, to end in Septemb... |
462336_5 | Telescope on Sea Floor Will Peer Through Earth at Black Holes | this, a system of sonar beacons and hydrophones will be installed, as well as laser calibration beams. The hydrophones may do more than act as position indicators. Certain kinds of nuclear particle collisions actually heat the molecules in which they occur, producing tiny shock waves that can be detected as sound. The ... |
462231_0 | U.S. Rules Will Let Employers Reject Disabled Over Safety Issues | In a setback for the disabled and their advocates, the Bush Administration says it will allow employers to reject job applicants with disabilities if the companies believe that the applicants' conditions might pose a threat to their own safety. But under the Federal regulations, which are scheduled to be published Frid... |
462167_0 | France Drops Plans to Build New Nuclear Missile System | In a significant change of military policy brought on by the end of the cold war, France announced today that it had scrapped plans to build a new system of mobile nuclear missiles to replace a 20-year-old battery of ballistic missiles fired from fixed silos. The step marks the first time that France's carefully nurtur... |
463620_0 | World Economies | |
463726_2 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Publishing; Hold the Drinks and Shrimp: Book Parties Are Waning | gossip and exchange ideas. John Sterling, the editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin, suggested that a good party could give a publishing company "a strong sense of who we are." Beyond this, the party could be justified as a publicity stunt. During the 1980's, Crown Publishers established a reputation for being the best a... |
458366_0 | World Economies | |
456880_0 | Bravo, Brazil | The reckless destruction of the Amazon rain forest is surely among the saddest of the world's environmental disasters. Encouraged by past Brazilian governments, cattle ranchers and landless settlers have set fire to huge sections of Rondonia, in western Brazil, fouling the air and laying waste to a precious natural res... |
457048_1 | Oil Drilling Weighed In Peru Nature Area | Antonio Brack, a Peruvian biologist with Asociacion Amazonia, a private group here that opposes the oil contract. In April, Peru's official gazette published an executive decree granting Texas Crude exploration rights to a 2.4-million-acre tract in Peru's northern Amazon. Almost 75 percent of the exploration block is i... |
456987_0 | Shaping a Role in South Korea | When President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea arrives at the White House on Tuesday for a three-day state visit, he and President Bush are expected to turn to the most delicate military question in Asia: Does it still make sense to keep 43,000 American troops and hundreds of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula? The for... |
457004_0 | Ortho Wins Damages In Dispute Over Drug | A private arbitrator in a contract dispute between Amgen Inc. and its leading marketing partner for the drug erythropoietin, the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, has ordered Amgen to pay $164 million in damages. As a result, Amgen said yesterday that it would record a charge of approximately $88.5 million after taxes ... |
457038_0 | Key Signal of Cells Found to Be A Common Gas | A SIMPLE and familiar chemical best known as a precursor of acid rain and smog is emerging in a surprising new role, as one of the most powerful known substances in controlling bodily functions. It has escaped physiologists' attention until now because it survives in the body for a mere five seconds or so, and because ... |
457039_1 | Engineers Teach 'Smart' Buildings To Foil Quakes | percent of their gross income in research and development, said Dr. S. Chi Liu, program manager of the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Project at the National Science Foundation in Washington. They are particularly interested in active and passive control systems to resist earthquakes and wind. U.S. companies invest virtu... |
474478_0 | Powerful Hormone to Be Tested In War to Prevent Breast Cancer | FOR some time, a few doctors have quietly been offering a few frightened women a powerful drug they hope will prevent breast cancer. Now the National Cancer Institute is poised to begin an enormous study to see if the treatment works. The drug is tamoxifen, a synthetic hormone that blocks the action of the female hormo... |
474479_0 | Powerful Hormone to Be Tested In War to Prevent Breast Cancer | FOR some time, a few doctors have quietly been offering a few frightened women a powerful drug they hope will prevent breast cancer. Now the National Cancer Institute is poised to begin an enormous study to see if the treatment works. The drug is tamoxifen, a synthetic hormone that blocks the action of the female hormo... |
474480_4 | PHONE BREAKDOWN IN NEW YORK CITY SNARLS AIR TRAFFIC | U.S. Sprint, and 3.2 percent for a handful of other companies. It was difficult to judge last night to what extent the phone failure had affected business in New York City. But a spokeswoman for the New York Stock Exchange, Sharon Gamsin, said trading was not affected, nor had it been affected by past disruptions. A sp... |
473116_1 | Soviet Move Could Heighten Pressure for Change in Cuba | going to start making changes in our society?' " Economic Support Declines The direct economic impact of the withdrawal is difficult to gauge, for it is unclear whether the Soviet Union pays Cuba for garrisoning its troops there. But the Soviet force provides jobs to Cubans, either directly or through off-base establis... |
473087_0 | Estrogen After Menopause Cuts Heart Attack Risk, Study Finds | A large-scale, 10-year study of nurses indicates that women who take the female hormone estrogen after menopause can cut their risk of heart disease almost in half. Medical experts say the new findings should help answer a question that has troubled millions of middle-aged and elderly women: Are the benefits of estroge... |
473177_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-17 The removal of Soviet troops in Cuba will soon be discussed with Fidel Castro, President Gorbachev said, in an effort to eliminate a major obstacle to increased American aid to the Soviet Union. Page A1 Soviet move could heighten pressure for change in Cuba A12 The Cuban-Soviet connection: 31-year i... |
473176_0 | Mitterrand Urges Talks on A-Arms | Eager to show that France is not losing influence in Europe, President Francois Mitterrand called today for an early meeting of the four countries with nuclear weapons in Europe to tackle nuclear security problems raised by developments in the Soviet Union. He said Paris had already discussed the idea with Washington a... |
473183_5 | GORBACHEV SAYS HE'S READY TO PULL TROOPS OUT OF CUBA AND END CASTRO'S SUBSIDIES | in hidden subsidies through the oil-for-sugar barter. The new relationship with Cuba will be worked out in the "immediate future," Mr. Gorbachev said, and should not take "many months" to begin. The more desperate the Soviets become, and the more they meet Washington's conditions for aid, the greater the pressure on th... |
470713_4 | Stay Tuned for the Opera at 11 | real world was either better than that, or at least no worse. Today's audiences are inured to horror. We have seen bodies plowed into mass graves at Auschwitz, nuclear devastation in Japan and fields stacked high with human skulls in Cambodia. Pictures of mobsters murdered over lunch scream from the front pages of tabl... |
470644_1 | Waltrip Profits From Being His Own Boss | with 81 race victories. His Own Boss This isn't the first time Waltrip has been his own boss. From 1972 through 1975, he owned his own car on the Winston Cup tour. But for his start in racing, he relied on the same car owner who gave many of us our first ride: Dad. As a 12-year-old in Owensboro, Ky., Waltrip would ride... |
470479_3 | Lighter Bags, Shorter Trips | in padding and placed in both types of bags. Then the bags were tumbled in a rotating drum intended to replicate the sort of bouncing around that bags get from airlines. The eggs in the soft-sided bags survived better than those in the hard bags, which transmitted the impact of the falls. However, when the bags were la... |
470458_1 | Industry Fails as Cure-All for Western China | standards in western China. In one indication of the remoteness of the region, the conference, which attracted about a half dozen Americans, is the first international gathering ever held in Qinghai Province. As many of the speakers noted, the lag in western China is of special concern because the region is largely inh... |
470547_2 | Off Course | airliner that's been stuck for more than a quarter of an hour on the Tarmac. Such irritations have undoubtedly contributed to the erosion of public support for deregulation that the Roper Organization, in its national opinion polls, has found over the years. A decade ago, only 17 percent of Americans polled expressed d... |
473914_4 | Study Ties Dyslexia to Brain Flaw Affecting Vision and Other Senses | appeared smaller in the dyslexic brains, he said. Overall, the magnocellular system was 27 percent smaller in this crucial area of the visual system. Smaller cell bodies are likely to conduct impulses more slowly, Dr. Galaburda said. Auditory Similarities Dr. Tallal said her research supported the idea that fast compon... |
473684_0 | Technology; Sensors That Tell Just How Good the Packaging Is | A package on its way from a warehouse to a store may encounter bumps that can cause profound damage to its contents. To measure such jarring events, the International Paper Company is using a new sensor that fits inside a package and records the level of shock, vibration, temperature and humidity the parcel encounters ... |
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