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473915_5 | Despite Growth, Mormons Find New Hurdles | land where a people distinguished by special dietary and ritual practices would be gathered. But with the growth of a permanent Mormon "diaspora" throughout the United States and now of congregations in over 100 nations, Mormonism may have to recapitulate the kind of adjustments Christianity made during the early centu... |
473852_1 | Beijing's Top Priority: Maintain Communism | avoid the fate of the Soviet Union, Mr. Jiang says, China must adhere to three principles: Communist Party leadership of China, party control over the military and security forces, and disavowal of privatization in the economy. "The private sector can be only a supplement to the state and collective sectors, and it can... |
473856_0 | Satellite Group Plans a Pocket-Phone System | Inmarsat, a London-based international satellite consortium, has announced plans to set up a system to relay calls from pocket-sized wireless telephones anywhere on earth. Industry experts say the Inmarsat plan, announced Friday, makes it likely that when an international conference is held next year, world governments... |
473858_0 | 'Black Athena' | To the Editor: In his review of Volume Two of Martin Bernal's "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization" (Aug. 11), John Baines does not look beyond the colon in the book's title when he claims that Mr. Bernal believes "the roots of our civilization are black, not white." Mr. Bernal's argument is n... |
473659_0 | WESTCHESTER GUIDE | CIVIL WAR SECRETS A secret Civil War military installation comparable to Alamagordo of World War II fame, now buried under more than a century's worth of debris, is the subject of a talk by Dr. Joel Grossman, Saturday at 8 P.M. The lecture is sponsored by the Putnam County Historical Society in Cold Spring. Dr. Grossma... |
475864_0 | Disabled People Gain Roles in Ads and on TV | NBC could easily have promoted the premiere of "Reasonable Doubts" as a recedent-setting event in the struggle of disabled Americans to enter mainstream society. The series, which makes its debut Friday at 10 P.M., Eastern time, arguably breaks new ground by featuring a deaf actor, Marlee Matlin, who plays an assistant... |
475818_0 | World Economies | |
477074_4 | All About/Fat Substitutes; The Long, Hard Quest for Foods That Fool the Palate | The Monsanto Company's Simplesse is probably the best-known fat replacer. The company introduced the product with much fanfare in 1990. Although Monsanto executives are still enthusiastic about Simplesse, it is widely regarded as a disappointment in the food industry. The original version of Simplesse was made by cooki... |
477182_0 | An Era of Change Challenges France's Self-Confidence | FOR three decades after France lost its empire, the cold war enabled successive French presidents to keep alive the myth that it remained a great power. It had an independent nuclear deterrent, it was the political leader of the European Community, it was influential in the Middle East and it had a special relationship... |
476920_1 | Noted With Pleasure | is cultural memory and family, an authentically civilized world. The Secret Partnership It doesn't matter, Walker Percy (1916-90) contends, whether it's a city or a town: writers do their best work when they're rooted in a community and committed to its survival. This is from "Signposts in a Strange Land" (Farrar, Stra... |
477067_2 | France's Site for the Olympics | the slopes, the two little shopping streets of Albertville have a look of prosperity. This summer, many downtown buildings got a new coat of pink or salmon paint, by order of the mayor. Yet this is only a snippet of the great overhaul. On a bluff above town, Conflans, the 12th-century embryo of Albertville, has been fu... |
472988_2 | With Sauces, It's No Longer Better Dead Than Red | label sauce maker in Stockton, Ca. "It is one of the purest products on the market, but some people acted like it was junk food because it comes in a jar." Mr. Sokolov notes that not every commercial tomato sauce is the work of genius but suggests that the utter rejection was more phobic than epicurean. Even after juic... |
472925_0 | Seeking to Use More of the Radio Spectrum | Until recently, most important advances in communications have come from breakthroughs in computer processing and miniaturization: ever smaller and cheaper wireless telephones, satellite messaging systems for truck drivers and global paging networks. But now, a growing number of researchers in government and industry a... |
472876_0 | Ashidowa-teri Journal; Venezuela Befriends Tribe, but What's Venezuela? | Two degrees north of the Equator, an American anthropologist stood in a circular Yanomami lodge here recently and asked a hunter what he thought of Venezuela's new Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve. A mystified look crossed the young man's brow, already distorted by designs in ocher paint. He consulted a frien... |
477359_0 | World Economies | |
477467_1 | In Paris Protest, Farmers Sing Blues | rushed to support, the farmers hoped to display a political strength that the Socialist leadership of President Francois Mitterrand dare not ignore just months before crucial local elections. The Government's reaction to the march has stirred interest far beyond France, because on it may also hang the fate of the commu... |
477503_3 | When the Disabled Face Rejection From Churches That Nurtured Them | handicaps. For example Father Joseph Malcrone, who is fluent in American Sign Language, conducts a special Mass for the deaf every Sunday at St. Francis Borgia Church in Chicago. At the Cokesbury Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C., 25 mentally retarded women from a nearby group home attend the regular worship service ... |
477495_4 | Athens Journal; 2,500 Years Old, and My, How the Child Has Grown | countries were made to abandon their cars and climb. "Some democracies are more imperial than others," sniffed a delegate from Spain. Not surprisingly, amid so many legislators there was talk of redefining and reshaping democracy and debate on questions like: how democratic is it, really, to intervene in another nation... |
477473_0 | Goodyear To Introduce 4 Products | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is expected to introduce four new tires today aimed at raising the company's market share and lifting its sagging fortunes. Goodyear, based in Akron, Ohio, is betting heavily on a new type of tire, the Aquatred, which is designed to provide better handling on slick roads. Company of... |
472352_0 | POSTINGS: 2 Days of Seminars and Tours; Care and Feeding of Cast-Iron Buildings | In a workshop that is likely to attract architects, preservationists and building contractors from across the nation, the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the National Parks Service are co-sponsoring two days of seminars and tours that will focus on the maintenance and repair of cast-iron buildings. The workshop is s... |
472037_0 | Fortress Cuba, Lonely Cuba | Stunned by events in Moscow, Fidel Castro now talks of a "zero option": Cuban socialism will carry on alone, even without Soviet aid. "Whatever happens in the Soviet Union," blusters the party newspaper, "we will not move away from the path we have chosen. We will continue with our independent, Cuban, socialist line." ... |
472260_0 | Selling Many Ways for Customers to Save the World | Saving the world by the way you shop, the simple version: household cleaner made from vinegar and citrus juice, cat litter pellets made from recycled paper. The less simple version: a purse made from an old tire. The idea at Eco Expo, the environmental xxposition yesterday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of Ne... |
472158_0 | Making a Difference; Nearing Approval of a Life-Saving Drug | As a teen-ager in the Netherlands, Hubert J. P. Schoemaker turned down a chance to play professional soccer. That decision could ultimately help to save lives. He instead went on to become a co-founder of Centocor Inc., a biotechnology company in Malvern, Pa. Last week, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Admini... |
472246_3 | The World; Will the U.S. Miss Its Partner, The Kremlin? | are few major regional issues pending any longer. In recent months, many American experts had begun asking why Washington should even bother including the Soviets any more in its diplomacy in places such as the Middle East. Wasn't it just a bad habit? After all, the Syrians agreed to take part in the American-inspired ... |
472147_2 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | a boyfriend staying in our room 24 hours a day." Next door Michelle Cunliffe of Rochester was waiting for her roommate, Hazra Rahim of Hempstead. While she waited, Miss Cunliffe and her family rearranged the furniture. The first to arrive receives bed and desk preference. The president of the university, Dr. John H. Ma... |
472359_6 | Clio Has a ProblemCorrections | urgently to our own concerns. How can their sense of the dramatic immediacy be revived? In the first place, history needs to be liberated from its captivity in the school curriculum, where it is held hostage by that great amorphous, utilitarian discipline called social studies. History needs to declare itself unapologe... |
470795_0 | Aliens Law Shouldn't Lead to Fear of Hiring | To the Editor: Your Aug. 7 article on recent increased enforcement of sanctions against employers of illegal aliens points out contradictions and challenges of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which aimed to welcome illegal immigrants with histories of residence and employment in the United States throug... |
470795_1 | Aliens Law Shouldn't Lead to Fear of Hiring | law as the only piece of legislation in United States history that institutionalizes employment discrimination against a minority. Much of immigration-related discrimination would disappear with the repeal of sanctions. As long as employer sanctions are with us, however, our best chance of assuring equal employment opp... |
470936_1 | Hong Kong Journal; Monkey Hill's Swinging Crowd Jars the Neighbors | visitors to Monkey Hill that when they need more, they steal. Quick, agile and intelligent, they have learned to travel beyond the trees of the Kowloon reservoirs, leaping onto nearby apartment balconies, darting across the roofs of houses, even dancing along telephone wires, in search of food. Neighbors say the monkey... |
470907_0 | World Economies | |
471437_0 | Third World Ecology Investments Sought | Armed with Federal loan guarantees, a private partnership is seeking investors for third world business ventures with environmental goals that are as green as a dollar bill. But the program is getting a skeptical reception from some environmental groups, who view it with the same suspicion they have long directed towar... |
474171_0 | A New Lease for Estrogen | Twenty-five years ago, estrogen replacement therapy was hailed as a veritable fountain of youth for post-menopausal women. Those who took estrogen were said to look better, feel cheerier and be healthier than those who didn't. In the 1980's, the pendulum swung the other way. Estrogen therapy appeared to offer protectio... |
474236_2 | NASA MOVES TO END LONGTIME RELIANCE ON BIG SPACECRAFT | new blueprint was hammered out in late July and early August by a group of about 60 NASA officials and national space experts who gathered at Woods Hole, Mass., in a tense atmosphere that crackled with disagreement and open conflict. Dr. Berrien Moore 3d, chairman of NASA's space science advisory committee and a Univer... |
474150_0 | World Economies | |
474265_2 | Reviews/Theater; Historical People in a Fabricated Tale | Cameron return from a trip to England, where she saw "Lady Windemere's Fan" a year before it opened, and have supper with "Wilde and Bosie" before the author had even met Lord Alfred Douglas. But there are more serious problems of structure and characterization with "Sublime Lives." Mr. Firestone undermines the moral d... |
475928_2 | Brazil's Environmental Plea Appears to Be Aimed at U.S. | President Bailey Olter of Micronesia to industrialized nations that use tiny South Pacific islands as dumping grounds. "Our region cannot be considered by the larger nations as a convenient empty space for the disposal of toxic and hazardous waste and chemicals and radioactive materials," Mr. Olter said. Leading off th... |
475926_0 | Greek High Court to Decide On Extradition in Hijacking | Greece's Supreme Court is to decide this week whether to extradite to Italy a Palestinian accused of masterminding the hijacking of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985. The defendant, Abdulrahim Khaled, 57 years old, was caught by chance in March in a police raid on an Athens apartment. His appeal again... |
473511_1 | Your Money; Employees Face Shift in Benefits | with the changes. With a flexible benefits package, for example, an employee might have considerable leeway in deciding how much compensation to take as taxable pay and how much to use for benefits like life, health and disability insurance, dependent care or for a defined contribution retirement savings plan. People w... |
473498_0 | Discovery Crew Prepares to Deploy Satellite | Astronauts steered the shuttle Discovery to a slightly higher orbit today and prepared to deploy a 14,500-pound environmental research satellite for a comprehensive study of the upper atmosphere. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is scheduled to be released from the shuttle's cargo bay shortly before midnight Sat... |
476434_6 | Inventors in Search Of New Must-Haves | gigantic Lego blocks, the modules, made primarily of plastic, are designed to create small, well-insulated buildings as well as complexes of several thousand square feet, said Mr. Bakewell, a builder. Unlike a tent, Hypertat is a permanent, rigid-walled structure that sits on telescoping legs above the ground. There ar... |
471905_1 | Gorbachev-Yeltsin Session: 'Committed to Common Work' | one. There have been dramatic times and there have been normal and businesslike times. There were times when President Gorbachev thought that I was a political corpse. I thought at one time that Mikhail Sergeyevich would not be able to be the President of the country. We have to acknowledge there were such moments. But... |
471816_1 | Study on Cancer Rates Splits Home of A-Bomb | to know about these cancer cases, and what it means," said Mr. Mercier, a 34-year-old sculptor whose wife, Christina, works as a computer specialist at the laboratory. Mr. Mercier said he volunteered for an environmental project last year to place radiation monitors around town. During the project, he said, a scientist... |
475309_0 | Recycling Offers a Cleaner, Cheaper Solution Than Incineration | To the Editor: You report that the administration of Mayor David N. Dinkins is planning to spend $1 billion on building and expanding New York City incinerators (news article, Sept. 5). The city would be much better served if that $1 billion was spent on developing the markets for recycling. You report that the city pl... |
473270_0 | American Home Gets Some Help | A finding that the female hormone estrogen can sharply reduce the risk of heart attacks in middle-aged and elderly women was greeted with cheers yesterday at the American Home Products Corporation, which has a near-monopoly on estrogen treatment for postmenopausal problems. Analysts said sales of Premarin, American Hom... |
473422_2 | U.S. Reluctant to Move To Hasten Castro's Fall | it is the Cuban military and Soviet economic aid, not the Kremlin's uniformed presence, that keep Mr. Castro in power in this post-cold-war environment. The Administration officials rejected proposals to link American economic aid and trade benefits for the Soviet Union to a halt in Soviet aid to Cuba. They argued that... |
473451_2 | Shuttle Is Launched on a Mission to Study Pollution's Effects on Atmosphere | space agency said today that scientists at the South Pole reported Wednesday that the annual appearance of an ozone hole over Antarctica had begun, a week earlier than in previous years. Beginning to Understand Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, NASA's associate administrator for science, said this mission is "where we begin to use ... |
473431_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Markets Long-term bond yields fell to their lowest level since late 1989, as credit market participants reacted to a favorable inflation report and sharp declines in the money supply. [ D1. ] Stock prices got a solid lift from the better-than-expected report on inflation, with the Dow gaining 20.80, to 3,007.83. [ D6. ... |
474761_2 | Weak Phone Link Known for Years | officials said today. Cancellations Continue The cancellations continued today because many planes were not in position after a four-hour ban on flights to and from New York on Tuesday night. The F.A.A. insisted that safety was never compromised, but air traffic controllers, airline officials and independent experts al... |
474838_0 | Recycling Inner Tubes Into Handbags | ABOUT seven years ago, when she was still a college student, Mandana MacPherson ruined one of her leather handbags and looked for one made of rubber to replace it. Then she saw an inner tube in one of her classrooms and a light went off. These days, Ms. MacPherson is the founder and designer of Used Rubber USA, a San F... |
474421_0 | After Breast Cancer, Women Face Dilemma Over Estrogen Therapy | At first glance, Sally Berg looks like a perfect candidate for estrogen replacement therapy. She entered menopause early. She is very thin, so she risks bone loss through osteoporosis. And though her father lived to the age of 65, he had a massive heart attack at 38. So Ms. Berg is just the kind of woman researchers be... |
474425_0 | New Methods Sought To Dispose of Rockets With No Harm to Earth | FOR half a century the wizards of military rocketry have vied to build bigger, better and more deadly missiles armed with warheads of terrifying power. Now they are racing to find innovative ways to tear the missiles apart or divert them to other uses. The sprawling new enterprise of destruction and conversion has been... |
474416_7 | Rare Disorder Reveals Interplay of Cancers And Body's Defenses | to the brain. Neurological Destruction In a number of cases, the cancer of a paraneoplasia victim, once detected, can be entirely cured. But the neurological destruction can be so extreme that it may rival death in its awfulness. "Many end up in wheelchairs, with a mixture of resignation and extreme unhappiness," said ... |
474338_0 | Electricity and Cancer | Preliminary findings from a study of men exposed to electromagnetic fields suggest that they have slightly higher rates of breast cancer. No theory adequately explains exactly why electromagnetic fields may increase the risk of cancer. Some scientists suggest the fields promote tumors or cause cells to proliferate. Sci... |
474343_0 | Observer; After Modern, What? | You thought modern was bad enough. Those paintings, oy vay! And you couldn't even say, didn't dare to say, "My kid in kindergarten can do that," because you knew they were really top-drawer art, and you were stupid, stupid, stupid for trying to find pictures of something real -- you know, real -- hidden in them. You di... |
476194_2 | Personal Health | encouraging findings are these: *In a Swiss study of nearly 3,000 men begun in 1971, cancer deaths were significantly higher among those with low blood levels of carotene and vitamin C. *In women with precancerous changes in the cervix, abnormal tissues were far more common in those with low blood levels of beta carote... |
476159_4 | Bell Atlantic to Buy Metro Mobile | Stock Exchange, off $1.625. Cellular telephones are mobile radiotelephones that can be carried in cars, briefcases or shirt pockets. They connect, through fixed radio transmitters known as cell sites, to conventional providers of local and long-distance service. Hurt by Expansion Metro Mobile has been especially hurt b... |
476256_3 | Milot Journal; Haitian Fortress Is Saved From Nature's Onslaught | madness, but it is not that at all," said Roger Kennedy, director of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He is an architectural historian who has written extensively on early relations between the United States and Haiti. "It is appropriate as a stronghold against vastl... |
476208_0 | U.S. Blockade Is Cuba's Economic Problem | To the Editor: The United States-Cuba policy formula in "Fortress Cuba, Lonely Cuba" (editorial, Sept. 8) seems to be reducible to the proposition, let Cuba rot. I am prepared to accept that your conclusion may be the result of faulty data, and point out mistakes that deserve correction: Cuba has a constitution adopted... |
471137_3 | High Blood Pressure May Pose Less of a Danger for Women | benefits of treating women have not shown up in the studies, said Dr. Ray Gifford, vice chairman of the department of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Most high blood pressure studies only follow patients for five years, and since women are less vulnerable than men to strokes and heart attacks, it may well ... |
472401_0 | World Economies | |
472563_2 | Black Catholics In Splinter Sect Ordain Woman | woman foreshadowed the day when the Roman Catholic Church would do so. In a statement released Friday, the Women's Ordination Conference, a Catholic group demanding that the priesthood be opened to women, called the ordination "a prophetic act" and a reminder of women who have left the Catholic Church to exercise "the ... |
472514_0 | U.S. ASKING EUROPE TO LEND SATELLITE | The United States is borrowing a European weather satellite to fill a potential gap in photography from space that would leave American forecasters without vital pictures to track storms and hurricanes. It is the first time that an operating spacecraft has been lent to avert a possible crisis, and paradoxically, it is ... |
476709_1 | Rash Remedy on Illegal Aliens | to repeal sanctions sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, and Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. That represents a rash remedy for an uncertain ailment. The evidence is mixed and, in any case, proponents of repeal have yet to show why less drastic alternatives won't work. The 1986 law was a compromis... |
475692_1 | In Mexico, Fears of Free Trade Melt | the company has exported half of its sculptures, at a modest $150 or less apiece. And thanks in part to the recent American fascination with all things Southwestern, its furniture division, now a separate but affiliated company called Arexxa, sent almost 90 percent of its output to the States. Sales of the two climbed ... |
475390_3 | Suit Aims to Halt Hunt of Imperiled Grizzly | and worry about protecting their livestock. A few weeks ago, a mother bear in Glacier National Park mauled a hiker who came upon the bear and its cubs. Such incidents occur about every other year in the popular park. In early September, two hunters shot and severely wounded a man who had been in a car accident and was ... |
475696_0 | All About/Batteries; Keeping a Gadget-Mad Nation Charged Up -- and Safe | From boom boxes to camcorders, Walkmen to cordless drills, portable power means batteries -- lots and lots of them. Americans now consume 2.7 billion of these household batteries a year. Most end up as trash in landfills and incinerators. But many environmentalists and governmental officials are concerned that the meta... |
475725_5 | Airlines Relaxing Policy On No-Refund Tickets | getting on a particular flight through the wait-list system may not be high, according to airline customer service officials, particularly during peak times like holiday periods or early morning and late afternoon. Standby Seats Passengers who are willing to risk a little time hanging around the airport can sometimes g... |
472790_0 | Satellite Has Mission To Gather Urgent Data About Ozone Depletion | WITH widening concern over the steady loss of the upper atmosphere's life-protecting ozone, scientists and policy makers are awaiting with a sense of urgency the flow of data from a scientific satellite scheduled to be launched late this week. Its mission is the first systematic study of the stratosphere, probing the c... |
472663_0 | Goodyear To Sell Unit To Cut Debt | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which has recently begun another round of sales of assets to lower debt, said yesterday that it was putting its polyester business up for sale. Analysts estimated that Goodyear might receive as much as $300 million for the business. The polyester unit makes resin for a variety of p... |
472592_1 | Gulag Comes to Haunt Chinese Area | 1984, where he suffered from altitude sickness. Mr. Wei, now serving the 13th year of a 15-year sentence, is believed to be in a prison in Hebei Province, and no one connected with the 1989 democracy movement is known to have been sent to Qinghai. An Embarrassment to Officials For officials in Qinghai Province, who are... |
872190_5 | The Johnny Appleseed of a Biotechnology Forest | companies have done better than average,'' said Edmund Debler, an analyst at Mehta & Isaly Worldwide Healthcare Investments in New York. Jacqueline G. Siegel, an analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison in New York, singled out one of the companies, Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing drugs to treat leukemia and ... |
871951_0 | Security a Patchwork At Europe's Airports | The crash of T.W.A. Flight 800 off Long Island last month has set off a new round of security discussions, inside the United States and on the international level after a meeting of G-7 countries on security held in Paris at the end of last month. From Rome to Athens, London to Paris, terrorism has taken a deadly toll ... |
872263_2 | Quietly, Officials Seek Clues In Lives of Flight 800's Dead | that not one of these people is now viewed as a potential suspect or target of a bomb attack. But the scope of the investigation is no more focused. Could someone on the plane's previous flight from Athens to New York have hidden explosives in a seat cushion? Was a passenger the victim of an insurance scam, an enemy or... |
871906_0 | Was the Plague of Athens Really Ebola? | MORE than 2,400 years ago this summer, a mysterious plague swept through ancient Athens. In five years flat, it killed perhaps a quarter of the population of the city-state, then under siege by Sparta. Thousands of Athenians died a dreadful death -- first suffering a maddening fever, then bloodshot eyes, inexplicable v... |
871990_5 | Slogans and Images, With Talking Heads Bending Your Ears | they are listening to.) If you look at the billboards with the headphones on, a strange thing happens: the words on the billboards start mixing with the voices on the tape, and the effect is numbing. You may be looking at a billboard of a tunnel of Deutsche marks that has switchblades flying out of it and nun-chucks (a... |
872107_4 | In Newark, a Hard Look at Special Education and Social Workers | disabled. ''Clearly, if a child is entitled to special education, we want them there in a timely fashion,'' Dr. Hall said. ''But there is also a tremendous need to intervene so that students who don't need special education don't end up there.'' Union members interviewed last week took the same position, saying that fr... |
872115_6 | 4-H Clubs Move Beyond 'Cows and Cooking' Image | She first learned about it as a social worker in a substance abuse program in Middlesex County. Now, in densely populated Bergen County, she wants 4-H to reach out to ''at-risk kids, wherever they are.'' The problem, she says, is that the term ''at risk'' is divisive. ''People are polarized by it,'' she said. ''Sometim... |
868810_4 | Designed to View Subs, Scanner Details Sea-Floor Debris | the bottom, you can run side-scan over that until you're blue in the face and you won't see it,'' Dr. Palowitch said, referring to the sonar device used to map the crash site. With the laser, he said, ''I'll tell you if it's an Adidas or Nike.'' As the scanner is slowly pulled through the water, 15 to 30 feet above the... |
869949_1 | Luggage Spotted in Debris Trail Suggests an Explosion to Experts | officials said. The new debris area strongly suggested to investigators that chunks of fuselage, presumably from the Boeing 747's underbelly, may have been the first parts of the plane to hit the water after a catastrophic explosion on board. Although investigators said yesterday that they did not know when they would ... |
871446_0 | Achilles Wasn't Trojan War's Yuppie | To the Editor: With all due respect to Russell Baker in his attempt to put a modern spin on Homer's ''Iliad'' (column, Aug. 13), he misinterprets the character of the pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy. Achilles' refusal to fight on behalf of the Greeks is a reaction to the hypocrisy of Agamemnon; ... |
873797_4 | Ban Bear Hunts? Trends Converge to Force a Vote | when a young girl was killed, said Tim F. Reis, the black-bear management specialist at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. While bears that attack people may be rare, bears that destroy gardens and raid garbage bins are not. Since 1990, when Michigan began limiting the number of bear-hunting permits issued a... |
873792_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-8 PILGRIMAGE TURNED TO PANIC Survivors in Kashmir told how about 50,000 Hindu pilgrims in the Himalayas made their way in a panic through a blizzard and rain with little shelter to try to escape a storm that struck their route. A1 The pilgrimage in Kashmir is an important one for Hindus. A3 PEACE EFFOR... |
874108_0 | U.S. Finds Mexico Is Adamant on Cuba Trade | An envoy of President Clinton swept through Mexico today on a mission to defend the Helms-Burton Act, which punishes foreign companies for doing business in Cuba. It promises to be an extraordinarily unpopular diplomatic pilgrimage. Mexico is so dead set against the legislation, which it regards as a violation of inter... |
872908_2 | Dole's Plan for Economy Could Be Hard to Fulfill | grow much faster than 2.5 percent a year over the long run without igniting inflation. Mr. Dole's target is not just to increase growth for a quarter or two. Indeed, the economy grew 4.2 percent this spring, and it could well grow at a 3 percent rate or higher during the current quarter. In growing at those rates, howe... |
872899_0 | Effort in U.N. To Salvage Test-Ban Pact | Australia, taking the lead in an international campaign to keep alive the hope of a nuclear test-ban treaty, asked today that a special session of the United Nations General Assembly be convened on Sept. 9 to act on the agreement. This plan, which circumvents formal conference procedure, could allow the treaty to be op... |
870575_1 | Seat Selection: Musical Chairs | Airlines in June began offering a new system it calls AAccess, which allows users of personal computers to book flights, pay for tickets directly and select seats from a diagram, a big help in understanding what you are getting. But at the moment, frequent fliers using this electonic wizardry, according to Tim Smith, a... |
870896_1 | March Route Altered, Averting Sectarian Clash in Tense Ulster | surrender'' slogan. The event brings Protestant militants from all over Northern Ireland to march through predominantly Catholic neighborhoods. A similar march in 1969 ignited 25 years of conflict over British rule in Northern Ireland, and in recent days Catholics had threatened counterdemonstrations. Martin McGuinness... |
870597_0 | Children Meet Children in Toy Making | IMAGINE colorful spinning wheels, gold bells, buzzers and bears that bounce. Toys with names like Elastic Rattler, Bell Spinner and Back and Forth Thing-a-ma-jig. No television shows or cereal boxes carry their names. They aren't even for sale. After all, you can't put a price on the components -- like compassion and f... |
870581_2 | Tighter Airline Security Will Add Inconvenience | Airport administrators and airlines are usually reluctant to talk about specific security procedures, for fear of tipping their hand. In a rare breaking of this custom, United Airlines -- on the day before Mr. Clinton issued the new rules for airports -- said it would not accept small packages without opening them firs... |
870922_1 | Spirits Are Willing, but Buildings Are Weak | by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a private group that works closely with the city to preserve its historical buildings. The conservancy's Sacred Sites and Properties Fund concentrates on religious buildings, offering financial and technical resources to help preserve them. It had aided the Staten Island church tw... |
870755_0 | Counseling Needed In Addition to Ritalin | While I understand Thomas E. Stone's assertions $(Letters, ''On Ritalin and Prozac for Children,'' July 14$), there is a glaring omission. Nowhere in Mr. Stone's letter does he mention the necessity for counseling in conjunction with medication. Mr. Stone is correct in stating that medication can modify the presenting ... |
870644_0 | Industrial Biology | MAKING PCR A Story of Biotechnology. By Paul Rabinow. 190 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $22.50. Just as life is great subject matter, but plotless, this ''story of biotechnology'' is not really a tale revealed but exotic territory, biomedical research, explored. The book's anthropologist author, Paul Rabino... |
870669_2 | Rules Do Count Out on the Water | fishing boat. They know the power and danger of water and it upsets them that many boaters do not share their respect for it -- indeed, sometimes show derision. ''We get a lot of lip,'' said Mr. Healy. ''People ask us what we really do for a living. We've been called water Nazis.'' The big problem in enforcing regulati... |
870965_4 | Security at Kennedy Airport Called Porous, Even After Crash | no doubt that there is a difference,'' said Mark Abels, a company spokesman. ''Generally, the security procedures in Europe are much tighter. There are a lot more armed guards roaming around, and a lot more stringent security, which is reflected in the amount of time it takes to load a plane and operate a flight.'' Mr.... |
870737_1 | Computers and Therapists Open the World to Children | Enstrom, a speech pathologist, evaluated Nicole, the youngest of six children, who has a congenital disorder that prevents her from speaking and from making normal cause-and-effect connections. Nicole, who attends Hudson Day Training Center in Secaucus, a school for the severely disabled, was being tested to determine ... |
869042_3 | U.S. Considers Larger Role In Airport Security System | office report reviewed proposals made by the aviation agency to the National Security Council, and the specific steps were not disclosed. But air officials have recently discussed the expanded use of bomb-detecting equipment and measures to increase the scrutiny of passengers and baggage on both domestic and foreign fl... |
869089_0 | Senate Stalls Forest Bill | A measure to preserve Sterling Forest from development appears to be stalled in the United States Senate, leading some supporters to worry that the legislation -- greeted with euphoria when it passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday -- might lose momentum. Action on the bill is unlikely before the weekend, when ... |
870211_3 | On the Trail of Peru's Maoist Rebels | fight the Shining Path in these isolated regions,'' General Varela said. ''To do this, we have learned to respect the rights of the population. This is a new mentality.'' The military has persuaded dozens of villages to establish civilian patrols to guard against the Shining Path. Soldiers help the villages organize th... |
870196_0 | Throwing Out The Disabled, Or the Fraud? | SECTION 212 can be found about a quarter of the way into Washington's omnibus new welfare bill, under the numbing title ''Eligibility Redeterminations and Continuing Disability Reviews.'' It is, literally speaking, about assistance to disabled children. But it is also about something much more. Embodied in Section 212 ... |
869753_5 | Slowness in Listing Passengers Deepens Air Security Doubts | companies in Europe. At major European airports, security guards are posted at points where luggage is collected or might get mishandled, said Mr. Baum, formerly manager of training and auditing for the T.W.A. subsidiary that handles security overseas. Mr. Abels said that every piece of luggage checked by an internatio... |
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