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869778_1 | Patents | and flights can be delayed.'' To gather a sample, one grazes a surface with a 10-inch-long wand, which sucks in an airstream filled with vapors and particles. The sample airstream passes through a tube to a filter, where the vapor and particles become trapped. The machine then mechanically rotates the filter into an an... |
871680_0 | Estrogen May Reduce Alzheimer's Risk in Women, Study Says | Taking estrogen after menopause may reduce a woman's risk of developing Alzheimer's or delay onset of the disease, scientists said yesterday. In a study of 1,124 elderly women being published tomorrow in The Lancet, a British medical journal, and announced at a news conference at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in... |
871284_4 | Canadian Youths Born Prematurely Reveal Rosy View of Quality of Life | a book about premature babies, and the mother of a 21-year-old son who has severe mental and physical disabilities resulting from prematurity, questioned whether children with disabilities or their parents could realistically rate the quality of their lives. ''It's a very threatening question, to rate your own quality ... |
871334_0 | A security consulting company has begun a monthly bulletin on air travel safety issues. | IN the wake of last month's T.W.A. crash, Kroll Associates, a security consulting company based in New York, has begun publishing a monthly bulletin that reviews air travel safety issues worldwide. The bulletin covers security-related incidents at specific airports and airlines as well as government warnings and alerts... |
870044_0 | Improving Preschool Special Education | New York's Governor and State Legislature, though often incapable of working together on the most innocuous of issues, have quietly agreed to make dramatic changes in the sensitive matter of preschool education for handicapped children. The news has alarmed parents who fear loss of services and some of the private scho... |
872630_1 | INDIA VETOES PACT TO FORBID TESTING OF NUCLEAR ARMS | nuclear options open, though in the test ban negotiations it has waged its opposition in the form of more technical objections. The Clinton Administration is expected to lead a campaign to take the treaty directly to the 185-member General Assembly in the fall. The Assembly, where support for the nuclear test ban is wi... |
872613_0 | A victory may be near in efforts to end the liability limit for international airline passengers. | VICTORY finally appears in sight after a decades-long battle by United States airlines to raise or eliminate the $75,000 liability limit for passengers killed or injured on international flights to and from this country. If the Department of Transportation approves, as expected, beginning Nov. 1 plaintiffs will be able... |
872340_1 | A pharmacist offers an alternative to progesterone injections for treating infertility. | to the target organ, the uterus, and not into the general blood stream,'' Mr. Bologna said. ''With a low dose of progesterone, we can prepare the lining of the uterus for the successful implantation of an egg.'' Mr. Bologna said that in a clinical trial at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the Eastern Vi... |
871244_15 | In Bid for Airline Security, Echoes of Unmet Promises | F.A.A. officials have once again intensified their efforts. The agency also has created an array of tests to check the work of other airport personnel, like whether ticket agents and guards are using Government-supplied profiles of suspicious travelers to decide when to make detailed baggage checks. Undercover agents h... |
871163_1 | A Peaceful Weekend in Ulster | with only minor incidents. All three sides -- the British authorities, the Protestant Unionists and the Catholic Nationalists -- behaved more responsibly after reflecting on last month's violence and the strong public backlash against it. The prospects for peace in Northern Ireland remain uncertain, at best. The Irish ... |
871858_0 | Taiwan Company Suspends China Project | Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest business group, suspended a planned $3 billion power project in China yesterday under pressure from Taiwan's Government. Formosa Plastics signed a contract in May with the southern Chinese province of Fujian to build a thermal power plant before applying to Taiwan's for approval... |
871782_1 | News in The Nick Of Time | What nonsense. The Republicans nominated Bob Dole last winter, using a system of assorted primaries. I had watched it happen with my own eyes, which had little worthwhile to do at the time, having finishing Proust's ''Remembrance of Things Past'' but not yet discovered Homer. Dole and Clinton had already been campaigni... |
871783_0 | Match Those Bags | To the Editor: The European system of computer matching bags with passengers who actually get on board a plane seems an improvement over ours. But perhaps we could learn something from North Africa about airliner security. More than a dozen years ago I was at the Casablanca airport bound for Paris. All the passengers w... |
873286_2 | Group Says A Woman Should Get Top U.N. Job | public awareness of qualified women who could be candidates for Secretary General in United Nations member-countries where it has affiliates. Surita Sandosham, the group's executive director, said the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing last September, had made a special point of noting that ''the United ... |
873421_4 | An Angel-Crested Mystery Solved | the top, where angels spread their arms as if they were poised for a swan dive back to earth. The lobby has been redone, although sympathetically: Go inside the Blackthorn furniture store in the building to see the surviving panels of glass tile decoration and interior column capitals. It has not been redone, but has b... |
873312_1 | Trip to France By Pope Faces Objections At Many Stops | Catholics who disagree with the Pope on birth control and the ordination of women to renounce their baptisms in a protest against the visit. ''I haven't had time to do it myself, I've been too busy running the campaign against the visit,'' said Eric Sionneau, a postman who said the protest, backed by groups that defend... |
869376_1 | Democracy and Its Malcontent | own journeys to a conservative middle age. The most recent of these reflections was ''The Promise of Pragmatism,'' published in 1994. Its theme was the failure of pragmatism to provide America with a persuasive public philosophy. In Mr. Diggins's account, the chief failing of pragmatism was that it could not take autho... |
869581_2 | A Passenger Lands Safe, And Sorry | 727 from a DC-10, and who, as a pilot's daughter, did not hesitate to signal a flight attendant when the flaps weren't lowered on an MD-80 preparing for takeoff, was for the first time frightened boarding a plane. People who fly a lot figure they can protect themselves by avoiding planes with troubled safety records or... |
869600_0 | Bombed Church Is Resurrected in Rome as Testament to Faith | The church of San Giorgio in Velabro is a Roman testament to faith. It started with the walls of an ancient Roman dwelling, columns and an apse were added in late antiquity, and in the 13th century a wealthy deacon added a glorious columned porch. On the night of July 27, 1993, a powerful bomb shattered the porch, ripp... |
869636_2 | Medical Cargo on Planes Poses Airline Safety Gap | difficult to know how often organs are shipped by plane in the United States, though organ-transplant specialists say it is not uncommon. But it is highly unusual, though not unheard of, for corneas or other transplantable organs to be shipped overseas, because of the great demand in this country. Although T.W.A. has d... |
869669_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-13 RISING DEFIANCE IN INDONESIA Megawati Sukarnoputri, the leader of Indonesia's emerging opposition, is refusing a summons to a police interrogation as she battles a Government crackdown. 3 NEW BURUNDI KILLINGS REPORTED A United Nations report says the Tutsi-led army of Burundi killed 2,100 to 3,000 Hu... |
869281_37 | Next Target: Nicotine | of the country. Bovine Growth Hormone: The F.D.A. is awaiting a follow-up report on bovine somatotropin (BST), an artificial hormone used to increase the milk output of dairy cows. The F.D.A. has already approved the drug, but because consumer advocates and scientists feared that BST might harm humans, the agency deman... |
869595_0 | Greek Lawyer Pleased To Defend Serb Leader | When criminal lawyers are asked how they can represent unsavory clients, they often say that everyone has the right to counsel. But Alexandros Lykourezos, one of this country's most prominent and flamboyant lawyers, does not resort to that cliche when asked about his work for one of the most wanted men in the world tod... |
869630_1 | Report Blames Poor Farmers For Depleting World Forests | are fighting to protect the remaining very few indigenous forests from some of the richest people in the country.'' Economists do not disagree that traditional farmers have used land carefully, but they say that with poverty and population pressure forcing people to venture deeper into woodlands or follow openings made... |
869631_0 | After Fatal Mauling in Canada: Too Many Bears? | In the wilds of the Yukon and northern British Columbia, the dominant mammals have long been bears and humans -- now roaming the bush in about equal numbers. The killing of an experienced backpacker by a grizzly bear on July 5 in a big national park near here has raised some questions about this coexistence -- and also... |
874402_1 | Effort to Raise Part of Titanic Falters as Sea Keeps History | had been raised to about 200 feet below the ocean surface. The initial plan, which was reported yesterday in The New York Times, was to lift the hull plate onto a ship on Friday for transport to shore and eventually to New York Harbor, symbolically ending the doomed voyage that began 84 years ago from Southampton, Engl... |
870380_3 | As Sugar Fades, Hawaii Seeks a New Cash Crop | coffee and Bird of Paradise. Others are testing tea, patchouli, spices and tree farming, because the warm, damp climate makes trees grow faster than just about anywhere else. ''It's all economics,'' Mr. Vriesenga said of the end of sugar. ''The sugar price hasn't risen since 1981 and labor costs have gone way up. The p... |
872741_2 | Another Push for Airport Security | is a bomb placed on board the aircraft. But they have not completely ruled out a missile attack or a catastrophic mechanical or structural failure, perhaps triggered by a fuel tank explosion. With much of the plane still to be recovered, there is hope that investigators will eventually pinpoint the cause. But even if n... |
873906_0 | Despite increased security at airports, there have been surprisingly few long lines or delays. | AIRLINE passengers have been pleasantly surprised that their trips to the airport have been more or less routine, even in the aftermath of the crash last month of Trans World Airlines Flight 800. Despite heightened security procedures, there have been few long lines or delays. More passengers are being questioned more ... |
873866_5 | Shop and Chop: A Tomato Challenge | Heinz and Campbell Soup. Trial and error are still very much part of the tomato grower's lot. Mr. Stark's display of tomato marvels -- from tiny currant tomatoes to pear- and lemon-shaped ones to huge wonderfully misshapen orbs -- is one of the largest at Union Square. Average prices at the market range from $1 to $1.5... |
870505_0 | Economic Worry On South Africa Again Hits Rand | The South African rand is getting its second hammering of the year as foreign investors and currency traders worry that President Nelson Mandela's Government may be losing its will to force through the economic-liberalization measures it has proposed to increase growth and curb the country's mounting social ills. The r... |
860125_0 | Decision Time for Gerry Adams | This month's bombing in Manchester, England -- presumed to be the work of the Irish Republican Army -- decisively changed the chemistry of the Northern Ireland peace effort. It demonstrated that the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, has failed to persuade militants in the I.R.A. to pursue their goals by talking rather tha... |
860133_0 | It's Indians vs. Loggers in Nicaragua | On the official map of Nicaragua, the lands where the Sumo Indians dwell show up as a solid swath of rain forest interrupted by a few dots that seem to signal tentative human forays through the jungle. In the minds of the Sumos, the same territory is set off by conspicuous landmarks and vivid boundaries traced by ances... |
860192_5 | As a Pampered Generation Grows Up, Chinese Worry | "It turns out that most Chinese don't even like the food, but what they are buying is culture. They are buying connectedness to the world system. "The idea is that if these kids can connect with McDonald's, they are going to end up at Harvard Law School." One of China's most popular amusement parks, Window on the World... |
860176_3 | Virtual University Will Offer Authentic Degrees by E-Mail | At the same time, the university would be integrated with traditional educational settings -- libraries, high schools, community colleges and state university systems, along with training programs in the private sector and even county agriculture extension agents. Neither the teachers nor the students would need to be ... |
860185_1 | Metro Digest | the world's most famous neighborhood. Avowed fans of the neon, overwrought commercialism that made Times Square a notorious cavern of garishness and excess, they promise that as time goes on, it will be the same only more so. [B1.] Guilty Plea in Elisa's Death Prosecutors laid out the details of their charges in a clin... |
860203_5 | Public Supports Political Voice For Churches | is increasingly accepted by their congregations. "It's becoming almost routine or conventional activity of many evangelical churches and pastors in election years," he said. Nancy Ammerman, a professor of the sociology of religion at Hartford Seminary, said evangelicals were gaining in numbers nationally because an eve... |
858406_0 | In Debris of a Bombing Laid to the I.R.A., the People of ManchesterCarry On | The day after a bomb suspected of being planted by the I.R.A. wounded more than 200 people here, there was little evidence of trauma today in Manchester. A large area downtown was cordoned off by the police, but this city in northern England otherwise seemed to have resumed a normal rhythm. On a warm, sunny day, hundre... |
858413_2 | Blow to Peace in Ulster | "a slap in the face to people who have been trying, against perhaps their better instincts, to give Sinn Fein a chance to show that they could persuade the I.R.A. to reinstate the cease-fire." At the same time, the explosion stiffened the resolve of unionists -- the Protestants who want Northern Ireland to remain Briti... |
858414_2 | Income Found to Predict Education Level Better Than Race | challenge for us as a society," he continued, "is to insure that a greater proportion of young people share those opportunities." At least in theory, he said, financial aid could be used to help level the economic playing field to provide some of those opportunities. In the study, eighth graders were asked how much the... |
855235_2 | For Some Women, Losing Pounds Could Add Up to a Hip Fracture | lean women -- those who at 50 had the lowest body mass as measured by their weight in relation to their height. For example, Dr. Harris says, a woman standing 5 feet 4 inches tall who weighed 110 pounds at 50 would fall into this category. The lean women in the study who lost as little as 5 percent or more of their wei... |
855316_0 | Factories That Never Close Are Scrapping 5-Day Week | Tony Moreno is an outgoing, churchgoing man and the father of three. But for most of the last five years, Mr. Moreno put in 12-hour workdays, including all of his Sundays, as a machine operator here at Lucent Technologies. Some of his colleagues at the immense, windowless microelectronics factory relish the schedule, i... |
855213_0 | Advocates of Sustainable Mahogany Harvests Counter Boycott | THE mahogany tree, with its dark and beautifully grained wood, has become a lightning rod for environmental activists committed to saving the tropical forests of Latin America. The Rainforest Action Network, based in San Francisco, says the bigleaf mahogany, which grows from southern Mexico to Brazil, is in danger of e... |
855314_1 | China Confronts Retardation Of Millions Deficient in Iodine | of mental retardation in China are a result of iodine shortages during brain development. This figure includes hundreds of thousands of cretins, who suffer the worst physical and mental handicaps caused by the lack of iodine. But even more alarming is the recent evidence that for want of this simple chemical in their d... |
856552_4 | News Can, but Sometimes Doesn't, Influence Choice of College | it is beginning to do now, our applications go up." But many involved in admissions say mention in popular entertainment seems to do wonders for college applications. Ted O'Neill, dean of admissions at the University of Chicago said that in the late 1980's "an astounding number" of applicants said they became aware of ... |
856273_0 | Teacher Whose Students Have a 'Thirst to Learn' | A SIXTH-GRADE teacher in Yonkers, Joseph L. Vicari, who has taught for 25 years, says pronouncements from Albany do not affect how he teaches. In his room at the Museum School, the walls are decorated with students' interpretations of Greek friezes, three-dimensional Greek vases and reports on figures from Greek mythol... |
856227_4 | Outsourcing, or Farming Out Work | real estate property-management company," Mr. Perez said. "My only requirement is that companies I take on have been in business for two to three years. That is so the business owner has enough information and a perspective about his business." Ms. Hoag, who was formerly the director of public relations and marketing a... |
856488_4 | What's 55 Pounds, Pricey And Runs on 2 Wheels? Answer: A Schwinn Black Phantom | but you can restore a $200 bike found at a garage sale for about $1,000. Although it is getting tougher to find a good one, it is still possible, Mr. Hurd said. He estimated that bicycle manufacturers made 38 million balloon-tire bicycles between 1933 and 1959 and that some 8 million of those were top quality and thus ... |
856509_0 | Whose E-Mail Is It? | To the Editor: Regardless of one's interpretation of "employee rights," it is wrong to send personal E-mail messages on the employer's time and equipment ("Who's Reading Your E-Mail? Maybe the Boss," Earning It, May 12). For those of us who started our working lives during the Depression, the issue is a sad commentary ... |
855089_4 | Hope, and Pragmatism, for U.N. Cities Conference | billion to 9 billion, will be in cities, most of them in poor countries where local governments are usually underfinanced and badly run. The consequences are staggering in almost every field, say dozens of experts who have issued reports before the Istanbul conference. The environment goes first. Ninety percent of raw ... |
856804_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on May 20 about the job prospects of recent college graduates with journalism degrees misattributed an estimate of where the graduates are seeking work. The statement that three-quarters of journalism graduates will seek jobs in print, radio, television and Internet journalism was based on in... |
856683_2 | Where Old Computer Parts Are Given New Lives | piece of equipment that the owners want to keep operating," he said. One example of older hardware would be the control unit of an automated tool, like a lathe or drill press. Since original-equipment dealers have long since stopped stocking parts, buyers have to look to the equivalent of automotive junkyards for piece... |
856733_0 | Gerry Adams, Ulster Pivot, Sees 'Best Bet' for Peace | Gerry Adams sat in a patch of sunlight in the tiny front yard of Connolly House, headquarters of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. The white stucco building on Andersonstown Road is caged by a double barrier of metal fence as a defense against attack, but on a recent relaxed Saturday afternoon... |
859375_1 | Troops Patrol Belfast Again, Raising the Tension | killing in the quarter-century of sectarian violence has occurred. Catholics and Protestants are afraid that the city, the capital of the predominantly Protestant British province of Northern Ireland, is again edging onto a wartime footing. In part, the show of security is to warn the population that a return to guerri... |
859332_0 | The Bear in the Woods, the Bear in Us | Late one dark night in Oakland, Calif., I was leaving a movie theater, after watching every last credit roll, when I noticed that my car was the only one left in the parking lot. I stepped around a homeless man sitting on the theater steps. He asked me for money, and I told him, honestly, that I had none. As I headed f... |
859344_0 | The Asylum System Needs Work | The recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals to grant political asylum to Fauziya Kasinga, a young African woman who feared genital mutilation, was both a personal victory and a broader acknowledgment that many women are victimized by cultural practices that violate human rights. Ms. Kasinga's case has raise... |
860820_0 | Sinn Fein Belongs At Irish Peace Table | To the Editor: "Decision Time for Gerry Adams" (editorial, June 25) suggests that on condition that I make my "disapproval clear" of the actions of the Irish Republican Army, I "should be seated with other leaders in Belfast" in the talks process. The history of conflict in Ireland and of stating disapproval of violenc... |
860284_2 | Foreign Affairs;A Time For Anger | I.R.A. has to make is to restore the cease-fire. The I.R.A. wanted the U.S. to have a formal role in the negotiations, so the Irish nationalists wouldn't be left at the mercy of the British. It got it. Former Senator George Mitchell, a man trusted by the Irish nationalists, has been allowed by Britain and the Protestan... |
860358_1 | U.S. Finds Oldest Ally Is Renewing Friendship | Madeleine K. Albright, the American envoy to the United Nations, said during a recent visit, "I think that life changed a lot when Mr. Chirac became President." That view could soon be put to the test over Mr. Clinton's decision to oppose the re-election of Boutros Boutros-Ghali as United Nations Secretary General when... |
860306_2 | A Sophisticated $14 Million Travel Information System is Having a Trial Run in Atlanta. | completed. According to Shelley Lynch, an Atlanta-based engineering systems manager for the Federal Highway Administration, at least six other cities in the United States -- including Los Angeles, Houston and Minneapolis -- already have systems like Atlanta's to collect traffic information; what is needed in each city ... |
855921_1 | Test Hints at New Risk in Mixing of Environmental Pesticides | fertility of various wildlife populations and even of humans. Others regard the hypothesis as unlikely because there is a much greater profusion of estrogen-like substances that are made by plants, and that animals have long learned to defuse. An ingenious laboratory experiment that bears on this debate has now been pe... |
855812_0 | World's Population Is Growing Less Fast | To the Editor: In your June 3 news article on the Habitat conference in Istanbul, you mention the widely circulated statistic of world population growing at the rate of 86 million a year. The estimate of world population growth by the Census Bureau has been modified downward since November 1995 to a current low of a 79... |
855823_0 | Former U.S. Senator Picked to Head Northern Ireland Peace Talks | Ireland and Britain today appointed former Senator George J. Mitchell, who headed an international commission on disarmament of paramilitary forces in Northern Ireland, to be the chairman of the broad-based peace talks scheduled to start on Monday in Belfast. The appointment, announced in London by the Irish Foreign Mi... |
855911_2 | H.I.V. Is Still Spreading Rapidly, U.N. Says | Piot. "One factor is that the disease was introduced later there than in other parts of Africa." In the last few years, he said, reporting from South Africa had improved, which may partly explain higher figures. "But there is also a really steep climb in the infection rate," he added. "This is happening even though the... |
855841_0 | A Nuclear Test Ban Within Reach | For the past 40 years, diplomats have dreamed of negotiating a treaty that would ban all nuclear weapons tests. Such an accord could significantly slow the nuclear arms race, which has diverted hundreds of billions of dollars from civilian needs and heightened the risk of nuclear warfare. That dream is now closer to re... |
858788_1 | Gerry Adams Says He Asks For a Truce From I.R.A. | Sinn Fein, but few officials seem to believe that a permanent peace agreement can be achieved without the I.R.A.'s representatives at the negotiating table. Mr. Major said that "an unequivocal cease-fire" was still necessary for Sinn Fein to be admitted to the talks. Mr. Bruton called the bombing in Manchester and the ... |
858800_0 | Thomas Kuhn, 73; Devised Science Paradigm | Thomas S. Kuhn, whose theory of scientific revolution became a profoundly influential landmark of 20th-century intellectual history, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73. Robert DiIorio, associate director of the news office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the scholar, who held th... |
857390_2 | No Victory Yet for Crumbling Schools | the spending out over nearly five years, as opposed to the Speaker's three-year program. That means fewer schools will get critical repairs before the buildings deteriorate further. Perhaps most problematic, it requires the State Legislature's permission to raise the local debt limit, making the city captive to Albany'... |
857365_0 | SHIP TO SHORE WITH: Joseph Wambaugh;Still a Bit Paranoid Among The Palms | NEATLY, if not altogether politely, Joseph Wambaugh summed things up. "Freedom?" the 59-year-old police novelist said, talking loudly over the engine noise of his cabin cruiser. He dismissed the concept with a mild profanity. He was seated in a comfortable chair, slowly sipping a vodka in the stern of Bookworm, his 27-... |
857398_4 | U.S. Mediator Survives Political Crossfire in Ulster | emphasis was on America, on being American. I can't remember my father ever mentioning Ireland. He was a janitor; she worked nights in the textile factory." Mr. Mitchell, who can still speak some Arabic, said he has never been to Lebanon and had been to Ireland only once before he became officially involved. His father... |
857496_1 | Canada and Mexico Join to Oppose U.S. Law on Cuba | Mr. Chretien said this morning that even tougher measures are being considered. Mexico, which has more money invested in Cuba than any other country, is considering adopting a law similar to that of the Canadians and perhaps imposing retributive tariffs. "Mexico and Canada consider inadmissible every measure that, rath... |
859187_0 | India Warns It Won't Sign Test Ban Pact As It Stands | India told a disarmament conference in Geneva today that it would not sign a nuclear test ban treaty unless the agreement required the destruction of existing nuclear weapons within a prescribed period. Although Indian officials in Geneva and New Delhi said that they did not intend to block the treaty, called the Compr... |
859192_1 | Spinning Myths Without Sentimentality | -- an accomplished image that in its compactness and lack of anecdotal detail was unlike any art coming out of the war -- to the seascapes he painted toward the end of his career, Homer comes across as an original. You see where, along the way, he echoed Monet or Tissot, Turner or Bocklin, and where he borrowed from Ja... |
856940_3 | Toll of Childbearing: 585,000 Women Die Per Year | former representative in Tanzania, and Jon Rohde, the agency's representative in India. They concluded that while poverty, overcrowding and low levels of hygiene may be factors in South Asia, a more important underlying cause of poor nutrition is poor treatment of women. When women have low status in the family and in ... |
856922_0 | Broad Ulster Peace Talks Begin, But Without I.R.A.-Linked Party | Broad-based peace talks on Northern Ireland lurched into existence today, involving the British and Irish Governments and all the major northern political parties except Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Sinn Fein was excluded by the two Governments, which insist that the party can enter the ne... |
856937_0 | INSIDE | Peace Talks Open on Ulster Broad-based peace talks on Northern Ireland lurched into existence, including all major parties except Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Page A8. Women Who Die Giving Life Unicef reported that about 585,000 women worldwide die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, ma... |
860906_4 | Resorting Priorities And Doing It in Bulk;Winners and Losers as Postal Service Changes the Rules for Business Mail | president of the Advertising Mail Marketing Association, a Washington-based group that represents more than 400 companies in the bulk-mail industry. A bid by his group and two others to block the so-called 150-piece rule was rejected on Monday by the Postal Rate Commission, which approved the changes. Still others in t... |
860972_3 | Beliefs | years she has visited about 500 mission projects in 108 of the 114 countries where the Presbyterians have mission activities or have turned over their endeavors to local people. This year, as Moderator, she visited churches, seminaries, colleges and conferences in 40 states across the country. She also went to the Ivor... |
859655_0 | Their Moment;To the victor - 9 cattle, 16 sheep and dignity | Tegla Loroupe, 23, began running for the same reason that many children in her small Kenyan village did: if she was late for school -- 10 kilometers away -- she'd be beaten. But running for sport was hardly encouraged. Girls were groomed to marry, work the fields and have children. Even at play, they wore skirts down t... |
859675_0 | Identity Crisis At the Airport | ONE last thing before you dash out the door to the airport: are you carrying something to identify yourself to the gate agent? It's a good idea, to judge by reports from readers and airlines. Last August, the Federal Aviation Administration put out a directive telling airlines to verify by photo identification that any... |
859518_2 | In Israel, Fears for Reform in Judaism | But they are still fighting for full recognition. Such services have become a pressing need for many of the 700,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union who have settled in Israel in recent years. For more than 100,000, many of them products of mixed marriage, their claims of Judaism are not even recognized by the C... |
859524_4 | DIARY | and as it happens, the average never did hit $20,000. In fact, the agency says, average prices have actually fallen in the last year or so, to about $18,000, as more people choose cheaper cars and prices rise less frequently. Feel better? MOVIES 50.5 Dalmatians? Blockbusters here, blockbusters there. No, it isn't your ... |
854941_0 | In the Tradition of Bigfoot and Elvis, the Goatsucker | THE goatsucker is rampaging across Mexico, leaving dread and panic as it goes. Dozens of attacks have been reported: farmyard goats, sheep and turkeys have turned up dead and drained of blood, their flesh punctured by strange tooth marks. Lately the flying fiend has begun to assault humans as well. Or so go the reports... |
854857_0 | DIARY | CHINA RELATIONS Ex-Im Bank Won't Back Dam Accepting a recommendation from the Clinton Administration, the Export-Import Bank refused to finance a large dam in China that is planned as the centerpiece of the country's hydroelectric system. The Administration and the bank expressed concern about the environmental impact ... |
854868_0 | Better Contraceptives for a Better World | To the Editor: Re "Obstacles Are Said to Block New Kinds of Contraceptives," (news article, May 29): The only real solution to the highly charged abortion issue is to offer people affordable, safe and efficient birth control. By continuing to block the research and production of new methods, we perpetuate painful decis... |
856090_3 | A Surge in Jobs Shows Strength In the Economy | percentage of companies reporting at least one opening they have been unable to fill. The 348,000 payroll expansion last month was not only about twice as large as expected by most economists but it came on top of a sizable upward revision of figures for April. The revised figures lifted the April gain to 163,000 from ... |
856071_1 | An Auspicious Day for Ireland | purposeful fashion, the people of the British Isles have a chance to put the violence of this ugly conflict behind them. Prime Minister John Major of Britain made a wise decision in giving a former United States Senator, George Mitchell, a pivotal role in the talks. In doing so he overcame a traditional British relucta... |
861292_0 | New Salvage Option for Foundered Racing Boats | Long-distance yacht racing is expanding as fast as the number of professional sailors who are making a living out of their adventures. But what to do when one of the high-priced race boats capsizes, as happened twice recently on the Atlantic Ocean? Can anyone really afford to leave a $2 million boat behind? Enter Tom B... |
861251_2 | Archbishop Seeks Reform In the Papacy | back as the 15th century, he said, the Council of Constance decreed that councils of bishops should be held every 10 years. Archbishop Quinn said his criticism of the Vatican and his proposals for reform were "a response to an invitation from Pope John Paul II to bishops and theologians to probe ways in which the exerc... |
861047_22 | Recycling Is Garbage | plus the home labor costs, added to what the city already spends on its collection program, totals more than $3,000 for a ton of scrap metal, glass and plastic. For that price, you could find a one-ton collection of those materials at a used-car lot -- a Toyota Tercel, for instance -- and drive home in it. LAST YEAR, A... |
855502_0 | Voluntary Rules Are Proposed For the Privacy of Internet Users | The on-line and direct marketing industries today proposed voluntary guidelines intended to protect Internet users against unauthorized collection of personal information. But the proposal, made at a Federal Trade Commission hearing on personal privacy in the information age, drew fire from civil liberties groups and o... |
855483_0 | Excerpts From Address To Princeton Graduates | Following are excerpts from President Clinton's speech at Princeton University yesterday, as transcribed by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency: If we really want Americans, all Americans, to participate in the future that is now at your fingertips, we have got to increase the quality and the level... |
859968_1 | The Special Education Nightmare | required by law and by longstanding consent decrees. It was recently sued again for maintaining special education preschoolers in segregated classes instead of mainstreaming them, as required by the Federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. The act requires grouping children with their nondisabled peers, and... |
858018_0 | Gay Travel: Books and Tours | ONE last thing before you dash out the door to the airport: are you carrying something to identify yourself to the gate agent? It's a good idea, to judge by reports from readers and airlines. Last August, the Federal Aviation Administration put out a directive telling airlines to verify by photo identification that any... |
858357_0 | June 9-15;Mr. Mitchell Goes to Belfast | During his triumphal visit to Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic last December, President Clinton seemed prescient about what the future held for his friend, former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. "Well, George," the President said, "like the song says, 'I got the mine, but you got the shaft.' " Mr. Mit... |
857946_0 | Vietnam Plans to Rebuild The Imperial City of Hue | THE Imperial Citadel here on the banks of the Perfume River, symbol to the Vietnamese of the poetry and art of their past, is one of the few places where the destruction of the Vietnam War can still be seen. Its thick and mossy walls are chipped from American tank and artillery fire during the 1968 Tet offensive, when ... |
858030_2 | Cornell Offers Lifeline for Disorder | peers and relationships. The hyperactivity piece can accompany all of this. A.D.H.D. is no respecter of intelligence. Very bright kids can have it." Besides receiving individual therapy, the youngsters who take part in the Cornell program attend a 10-session after-school clinic of group therapy, which is meant to enhan... |
858328_5 | Bomb Believed Set by the I.R.A. Leaves 200 Hurt in British City | she said. Then, she said, an explosion ripped through the area, sending glass flying in all directions. "A few people got hit by glass and were cut, and later there were about four people who we saw injured," she said. Throughout nearly two years of on-again, off-again peace discussions, the I.R.A., a highly secretive ... |
858242_0 | Ideas & Trends;Putting City Sprawl On a Zoning Diet | IN the sci-fi film "Demolition Man," Sylvester Stallone wakes up from a deep freeze in the year 2032 to find that the Los Angeles metropolitan area has devoured the southern third of coastal California, spreading seamlessly from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The strange thing is how unremarkable this prophecy seems. Citi... |
858202_0 | The Car at 100 Owes It All to the Bike | To the Editor: The bicycle receives no credit for ushering in the automobile ("For Better or Worse, the Car Turns 100," Automobiles, June 9). Charles Duryea himself, the producer of the two-cylinder runabout, began as a bicycle manufacturer. An advocate of women's rights, Duryea also pioneered the drop-frame design for... |
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