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885876_4 | A Psychiatrist Talks About Social Policy | about these breaches, because of what they observe in their own workplaces. Q. Are children getting help they need to cope with violent behavior? A. The amount of juvenile crime is terrifying. Three out of 10 murder arrests involve victims under 18. Victims of juvenile assaults are often children themselves. Politician... |
886066_11 | Bringing Up Citizens | be involved in the presentation. The debaters themselves are all 17, too young to vote Nov. 5. ''Not to brag, but we know more about the election than many people who are eligible,'' one of them said. But what about their classmates, the ones who aren't part of the forensics team that has repeatedly dominated the state... |
886167_0 | So, Smoking Causes Cancer: This Is News? | WAS it really news to anybody, as headlines proclaimed a little more than a week ago, that smoking causes lung cancer? The discovery behind the news stories was a report by a team of scientists showing that benzo$(a$)pyrene, a chemical in cigarette smoke, causes genetic mutations in lung cells that are identical to tho... |
885979_3 | Canon Shots | of Greek elegiacs was useful training for high administrative office. The poems were probably of small interest or originality, but to produce them you needed not only to command a difficult language but to know how to play recondite metrical tricks with it. This practice, calling for some linguistic mastery and much-h... |
885856_10 | The Answer is National Standards | mobility by providing a more uniform system that will make dislocations less disruptive. In order to earn a middle-class income, workers today must have ''hard skills'' in reading and math ''at levels much higher than many high-school graduates now attain,'' Richard Murnane and Frank Levy write in their new book, ''Tea... |
884620_4 | Africa Hears Indifference in a U.S. Offer to Help | was that there had to be some option between direct military intervention and doing nothing at all.'' But many Africans and American specialists in the continent's affairs fear that this approach risks repeating grave mistakes of past African peacekeeping efforts, or setting up political booby traps for the future. For... |
884635_0 | Airlines Test New Scrutiny Of Baggage | To reduce the threat of bombs on domestic flights, several small airlines have recently begun verifying that each bag in the cargo holds belongs to a passenger aboard the flight, and on Nov. 1 larger airlines will begin a major study on what it would take for them to do the same, according to the White House commission... |
884590_2 | A Virtual Secretary Finds You, Even Out of the Office | chirps, ''Got it.'' Systems developed by TPS and by Accessline of Bellevue, Wash., also allow you to store faxes and print them later or view them on your computer. Some systems, like the one from Enhanced Service Providers of Hanover, Mass., offer electronic mail and wireless E-mail as well as message retrieval over t... |
884417_0 | Among the Hellenes | DINNER WITH PERSEPHONE By Patricia Storace. 398 pp. New York: Pantheon Books. $25. Greece, as the Greeks do not tire of reminding us, was the cradle of Western arts and sciences, the wellspring of our civilization. Generations of schoolchildren have been taught to revere this ancient splendor, but Greece and the Greeks... |
880573_0 | Hiring and Holding Teachers | New York City public schools are mainly known for crumbling buildings, crowded classrooms, security problems -- and vast numbers of teachers who quit the profession or leave for more attractive jobs elsewhere. Despite these disadvantages, New York's schools have maintained an edge over comparable systems -- like Los An... |
883628_0 | Focusing on Minorities in Special Education | The University of Virginia will lead a nationwide effort to examine why blacks and other minorities are overrepresented in special education classes. ''So many kids from minority backgrounds are being identified for special education,'' said Daniel P. Hallahan, an education professor at the university. ''But there is v... |
885203_1 | Group of Leading Blacks Urges Campaign on AIDS Awareness | crisis, to mount a campaign against the disease. Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Afro-American studies department at Harvard, told the group: ''In part because of a traditional homophobic tendency in our culture, in part because of ignorant stereotypes about H.I.V. and AIDS, our people, our leaders, our culture, have lo... |
882581_1 | Monsanto Plans to Sell or Spin Off Chemical Unit | in cars, computers, telephones and the like -- for $580 million. Just this year, Monsanto has spent $750 million buying control of the Calgene and Agrecetus genetic engineering companies and Asgrow Agronomics, a soybean seed business. Even though the old feed and seed store might seem like a bastion of country traditio... |
882081_1 | Afghans Draw U.N. Warning Over Sex Bias | entering difficult territory. Numerous member nations in the Middle East and Africa with Muslim majorities discriminate against women in various ways, though seldom so totally as the Taliban does. And in some of these countries other practices widely considered to be violations of women's rights, like genital mutilatio... |
881997_2 | Research Uses Grow For Virtual Cadavers | them practice their techniques and test their reflexes, with realistic feedback provided by robotics, before they take a needle or scalpel to the patient. The images are also being used to help plan invasive diagnostic procedures, and, in the future, techniques developed using the Visible Human images might even elimin... |
882024_1 | 2 Blasts on British Army Base in Ulster Hurt 23 and Cloud Talks | that the attacks today were clearly an attempt to provoke retaliatory attacks by Protestant paramilitaries. Protestant paramilitary leaders have said that if the I.R.A. resumed attacks in Northern Ireland, they would retaliate in Dublin and other Irish cities. In recent days leaders of small Protestant political partie... |
882064_2 | With Mixed Feelings, Iran Tiptoes to the Internet | treats internet use like long-distance phone calls, with three or four hours a week billed at $50 to $130. One nightly user said he ended up with a three-month telephone bill for $70,000, which he bargained down to $20,000. And there are large initiation fees. Outside the Government, a few services have established Int... |
880693_4 | Personal Health | during menstruation. The result is commonly much lighter and shorter periods than a woman would otherwise experience. This, in turn, means a woman is less likely to develop iron-deficiency anemia. It also often means a reduction in menstrual discomfort because there is less tissue that must pass through the cervical ca... |
880697_0 | Estrogen May Help Prevent Osteoarthritis | IN addition to protecting against heart disease and osteoporosis, estrogen replacement therapy may have another benefit for postmenopausal women: a large new study suggests that it lowers the risk of osteoarthritis. The finding is important because there is currently no way to prevent the disease, which is the most com... |
880874_2 | Inquiry Into Colombia Jetliner Crash Urges More Automation | plane toward a radio beacon called Rozo, 2.6 miles north of the runway. But he mistakenly entered the code letter for another beacon, Romeo, on the same frequency but 139 miles to the northeast. In its report last week on the crash, prepared with the assistance of the safety board, the Colombian Government attributed t... |
884827_3 | Foreign G.O.P. Donor Raised Dole Funds | the U.S., and the Indonesia situation was a temporary green-card holder.'' Over the years, Mr. Dole has voted to protect the sugar industry and has opposed efforts to phase out sugar price supports. Forbes magazine has estimated that such supports put $65 million a year in the Fanjuls' pockets and are responsible for A... |
883015_3 | A 'Rural Oasis' Pursues Its Destiny, One No at a Time | '' This means no more gas stations, because of concerns about traffic and late-night businesses. No more hotels or motels, to discourage would-be lodgers visiting the newly opened Lucent office complex in nearby Warren Township. Perhaps the touchiest restriction of all is the one that would prohibit more multi-family a... |
882970_0 | ID at Airports | To the Editor: I read Stella Vietrogoski's letter (Sept. 8) regarding her experience with photo ID requirements. My daughter and I had a very different experience flying Midway Airlines from Raleigh, N.C., to La Guardia Airport on Sept. 8. When we checked in at the gate, we were not asked for photo ID. The flights boar... |
884147_0 | Defense Department Condemns Torture Manual | To the Editor: In an Oct. 4 letter, Robert Richter says he is filming a documentary and had spoken to three people from Latin American countries ''who all link torture training to the United States Army's School of the Americas.'' Yet, during an interview with me in July, he presented none of this evidence. In his lett... |
883400_4 | Smuggled Aliens Now Cross Mohawk Land | a year worth of cigarettes was being smuggled, according to the Canadian revenue authorities. Tax Cuts End A Tobacco Trade Those smuggling cigarettes -- and usually alcohol as well -- became rich fast. Big new homes went up and stretch limousines became a common sight in area towns. But with the tax cuts on cigarettes,... |
881925_0 | Spurred by U.S., Two Sides Open New Talks to Save Mideast Peace | Spurred on by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Israelis and Palestinians sat down today to the urgent negotiations they agreed on at last week's summit meeting in Washington in an effort to salvage their peace after the recent gunbattles in the West Bank and Gaza. The central focus was to reach agreement as soon ... |
881844_0 | U.S. Should Protest Afghan Women's Plight | To the Editor: As you report (news articles, Sept. 28, Oct. 2 and Oct. 4), the Muslim clerics who now rule Afghanistan have closed girls' schools, banned women from working outside of their homes and ordered all women to cover themselves completely when in public. Yet another nation-state is now enforcing what it conte... |
886713_1 | French Said to Know That Official, Now Dead, Spied for Soviets | photocopies of the documents it examined and did not say where the files were now. The magazine said the Soviet Embassy appreciated Mr. Hernu's services in the 1950's so much that it gave him the code name Andre and provided him with $60,000 to help in his campaign for the French National Assembly in 1958. He lost in a... |
880963_1 | U.S. JETS POUNDED IRAQI ARMS DEPOT STORING NERVE GAS | they link to exposure to chemical or biological agents there. Their symptoms, including chronic fatigue, digestive ailments and joint pain, are considered typical of the so-called gulf war syndrome reported by thousands of American soldiers. The Pentagon announced last June, more than five years after the war, that it ... |
882291_0 | INSIDE | I.R.A. Admits Bombings The Irish Republican Army admitted setting two bombs in Ulster, raising fears of retaliation and threatening peace talks. Page A5. New Primary Vote Canceled After a roller-coaster ride of foul-ups and court challenges, officials canceled plans to reopen polls in Brooklyn for additional voting. Pa... |
882161_0 | I.R.A. Says It Set Bomb That Wounded 31 at Barracks in Ulster | The Irish Republican Army acknowledged tonight that it had detonated the two bombs that wounded 21 soldiers and 10 civilians on Monday at the British Army's headquarters in the British province of Northern Ireland. The attack, at Lisburn, 10 miles south of Belfast, was the first the I.R.A. has admitted to in Northern I... |
886255_1 | Two inventors contend that the V-chip is an idea they've seen before -- in their own patent. | ''Each family member has a personal identification number,'' said Brett West, who founded a movie-listing company unrelated to the V-chip called Cinemasource Inc. ''The television is programmed to know who is permitted to see what. You can tailor viewing according to the child and give your 18-year-old more access than... |
886226_1 | Et Tu, Cybernetica Machina User? | hundreds of thousands who log on for Spiderman or Metallica. But the response has encouraged Latinists who want the language -- which, after all, most people think of as dead -- to stay alive. ''There are so few people scattered around the world who have any interest in actually speaking or writing Latin,'' said Jeffre... |
884888_1 | TV Screen Opens Onto Internet | inexpensive way to investigate the Internet and the World Wide Web, without having to mess with a technologically daunting personal computer. WebTV has two major components. One is a $300 piece of equipment, smaller and slimmer than a video cassette recorder, which attaches to almost any television set. The other is an... |
882462_4 | A 12-Year-Old Legend Is Born in Right Field | the base of the wall; he was just trying to get his glove back. ''After I caught the ball, somebody ripped the glove right off my hand,'' he said. ''I don't have the ball.'' While the Orioles raged on the field, the seventh-grade student from the Charles DeWolf School was surrounded by crews from a dozen television and... |
882452_1 | Clinton Signs a Wide-Ranging Measure on Airport Security | the complaints of families that the Federal response to air disasters is too often confused, the bill also designates the National Transportation Safety Board as the sole agency responsible for notifying and assisting families of passengers after air crashes. The bill also authorizes augmenting existing airline compute... |
882431_0 | In His Own Words | BILL CLINTON Speaking yesterday at the signing of an aviation spending bill in Washington: ''Because of this legislation and the budget bill I signed last week, we will install hundreds of state-of-the-art bomb detection scanners in our major airports to examine both checked and carry-on luggage. It will pay for a dram... |
882319_0 | How Did Man Get So Bad? Looking to the Apes | DEMONIC MALES Apes and the Origins of Human Violence By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson Illustrated. 350 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $24.95. Of all the species, only humans deliberately seek out and kill their own, or so it was widely believed among scientists until the early afternoon of Jan. 7, 1974. Then, as Richard... |
882470_1 | British and Irish Premiers Say Ulster Talks Are Still On | February. The car-bombing at the British base on Monday caused widespread pessimism and fear that regular incidents of violence might soon resume in Northern Ireland and here in the Irish Republic. The anxiety is aggravated by the fact that the political talks that began June 10 in Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital... |
883811_0 | Bargain U. | A recent study by the College Board found that once again the average tuition for four-year colleges in 1996-97 rose above the rate of inflation. Private colleges now cost $12,823 and public institutions, $2,966 -- just under 6 percent more than last year. These tuition increases make news, for good reason. Many famili... |
885471_1 | Zimmer Says Democrat's Vote Raised Prices | own news conference outside the Super Foodtown in Toms River. Josh Isay, Mr. Torricelli's spokesman, criticized Mr. Zimmer for receiving what Mr. Isay said were $24,000 in contributions from tobacco interests since running for the Senate. ''When it comes to voting with special interests, Dick Zimmer is the king,'' Mr. ... |
881155_0 | Netanyahu Reported Ready to Make Gesture to Palestinians | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel today convinced that he had prevailed in Washington and reportedly ready to make some quick gestures to the Palestinians to demonstrate that he was ready to move ahead on peace. Officials traveling with Mr. Netanyahu said the actions might include withdrawing at leas... |
868394_1 | Error Inflated Estimate Of Rising Sea Levels, Researchers Report | Zlotnicki, a participant in the study from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the American portion of the project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said it would take perhaps a century of observing the ocean before any definitive claims can be made about ocean level trends. "Rising sea le... |
868435_3 | China Sets Off Nuclear Test, Then Announces Moratorium | conducted since the first in 1964. The Australian Geological Survey Organization said the test today, held at 9:49 A.M. Beijing time (9:49 P.M. Sunday, Eastern time) measured 4.3 on the Richter scale and yielded an explosion of between one and five kilotons, a relatively small blast when compared with previous tests. C... |
868498_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-6 SOUND AND FURY IN MOSCOW Moscow has announced a crackdown in crime, prompted by the President's new national security adviser, but with the city run by an old-style party boss, some of the effort seems largely for show. A1 A popular mayor with a caliph's style and a hands-on approach. A6 ISRAEL TIGHT... |
868469_4 | Albany to Limit Special Program For Preschoolers With Disabilities | for summer enrollment in the older children's special education program. Only 9 percent of children in that program attend summer school, compared with the more than 50 percent who attend summer courses in the preschool program. Lawmakers are also looking at restricting the role that evaluators representing privately r... |
868466_0 | Britain and Ireland Agree to Revive the Peace Talks on Ulster | Two weeks after violence swept across Northern Ireland, the British and Irish Governments and Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders reported progress today toward reviving talks on the British province. At a meeting in Belfast, the capital of the predominantly Protestant province, officials agreed after six w... |
862010_0 | Figure in Amazon Killing Captured After 3 Years | The cattle rancher who ordered the slaying of an activist defending the Amazon rain forest in 1988 has been arrested after more than three years as a fugitive. The rancher, Darly Alves da Silva, was arrested on Sunday near the remote Amazon town of Medicilandia, about 1,250 miles north of Sao Paulo, federal police offi... |
861840_1 | Anti-Sub Seabed Grid Thrown Open To Research Uses | as well as new ways to save the oceans from ecological harm. "This is a breakthrough in terms of applying top technology developed by the military to solve day-to-day natural resource problems," said Amos S. Eno, executive director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a private group in Washington that pushed ... |
863243_5 | India Suddenly Leads in H.I.V., AIDS Meeting Is Told | Thailand, public education about safer sex practices has led to decreases in the number of sexual partners, increased fidelity and abstinence and dramatically reduced new infections. Such success shows that "countries do not have to be rich to be successful," Dr. Piot said, adding, "If Uganda, one of the poorest countr... |
868356_2 | Limited Checks on Workers Who Have Access to Planes | food and beverages, cleaning the cabin of debris from the previous flight, checking mechanical equipment and laying out fresh blankets and pillows. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have interviewed all of them, investigators said. "We're looking at anybody that touched that aircraft," said James K. Kalls... |
868264_2 | Recycling Without Tears | need to be taken into account. Depending on the material, the city pays between $10 and $40 a ton to vendors to accept its plastic, paper, metals and glass for recycling -- less than the $42 per ton it costs to dump garbage at Fresh Kills. The balance favoring recycling is actually likely to grow, at least for some mat... |
868228_1 | Bridge | in English history concerned the arrival of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Word that the Armada had been sighted was brought to the British Admiral, Sir Francis Drake, who was known as the first ship's captain ever to sail around the world. At the time he was pleasantly occupied playing bowls -- lawn bowls with heavy wood... |
868283_2 | Taking In the Sites;From Tips on Air Travel To the Fear of Flying | its home page. One notice announced that employees were wearing white ribbons in memory of the 230 people who had perished. From there, T.W.A.'s site remains unchanged, including a Real-Time Global Flight Simulator, "giving you interactive control as you explore some of the cities served by T.W.A." Other carriers let y... |
866788_0 | Village in Finland Faces a Gold Rush Fed by Margarine | If a 57-year-old farmer-owned company here, Raisio Group, a maker of french fries, wheat flour and pet food, plays its margarine right, it may produce one of those success stories usually associated with California software companies or, say, the maker of Nutrasweet. Raisio's new margarine, Benecol, contains an extract... |
864966_3 | A Catholic Protester Is Mourned in Ulster | amount of bomb making equipment," including "components to make 36 devices," according to Scotland Yard, which also reported finding maps, false identity papers and other documents. In Parliament in London today, Sir Patrick Mayhew, the British official directly responsible for Northern Ireland, defended the Government... |
865080_0 | New Approach Needed to U.S.-Cuba Relations;Shades of McCarthyism | To the Editor: The United States Government has informed Sherritt International, a Canadian company, that its executives and their families will be barred from entering the United States because the company operates in Cuba (news article, July 11). In the McCarthy era, irrational Government practices in the name of pat... |
865048_0 | Ulster's Battered Peace | The bombs, barricades and bombast of sectarian strife have returned to Northern Ireland after a 22-month grace period that once seemed likely to bring a lasting peace. Primary blame for this tragic retreat from sanity belongs with the Irish Republican Army, which broke a 17-month cease-fire in January with a deadly Lon... |
864964_0 | Europeans Agree On Steps to Retaliate For U.S. Cuba Curbs | European nations angry over a law passed by the United States that punishes other countries for doing business with Cuba agreed today on possible steps to retaliate, including blacklisting American companies and requiring visas for business travelers. The countermeasures approved by European Union foreign ministers wil... |
866862_0 | A Major Step for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | The United States and Russia agreed today to press for international ratification of a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty though they said it does not fully satisfy either of them. The agreement, announced by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, was an... |
866938_0 | Food-Pesticide Overhaul Wins House Passage | On a vote of 417 to 0, the House of Representatives today approved an overhaul of laws regulating pesticide residues in food. A central feature of the bill is elimination of the Delaney Clause, a 38-year-old provision of Federal law that bars even trace amounts of pesticides in processed foods, no matter how small the ... |
866815_0 | Business Travel;The Regional Airline Association touts the improved safety record of commuter carriers. | SHORTLY after a Valujet plane crashed in the Florida Everglades on May 11, killing all 110 people aboard, the Regional Airline Association started a campaign to educate travel agents and the public about the steadily improving safety record of the commuter airline industry. The timing, it turns out, was a coincidence, ... |
866838_0 | Security, and the False Sense of It | Whether or not the crash of T.W.A. Flight 800 was caused by terrorists, Americans are demanding heightened airport security to insure against another tragedy. Yet while there's no question that security measures at airports must be enhanced, we are deluding ourselves if we think that is the way to prevent terrorist att... |
862469_2 | Greek Orthodox Church Is Poised for Change | Vresthenis, currently an auxiliary bishop of Athens. Born in Greece, he earned a doctoral degree at Harvard Divinity School and was Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins from 1982 to 1993 at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass., the church's major seminary and cen... |
861759_1 | U.S. AGENCY WANTS THE PILL REDEFINED | we've declared that they're safe and effective, the approval process for a manufacturer would be very simple, just a matter of making sure that what they're selling is the bio-equivalent of what we've approved." Birth control pills have been used to prevent pregnancy post-coitally for more than a decade in countries in... |
861759_5 | U.S. AGENCY WANTS THE PILL REDEFINED | and up to a million abortions -- every year in this country. "The experience in Europe is that the abortion rate does go down when emergency contraception is available," she said yesterday. "This is a prime example of how American women are being held hostage to a climate controlled by the anti-abortion movement and fe... |
865860_4 | Airport Sweeps Leave One Thing Unchecked: The Planes | officers patrol the area. But the patrols are not foolproof. In 1993, the inspector general's office of the Federal Aviation Administration sent agents to five airports to see if they could enter restricted areas. They made 20 attempts and were successful three-quarters of the time, getting into the cockpits of planes ... |
865942_0 | Saving a Cable Factory | Founded in 1848, the Roebling Company in Trenton designed and built the steel cables for such famous structures as the Brooklyn, George Washington and Golden Gate bridges. This week, a private group was awarded a $1.25 million matching grant to turn the 106-year-old machine shop at Roebling's Trenton complex -- which s... |
865828_0 | 9 Caribbean Nations Open Waters to U.S. Drug Pursuit | In what American officials describe as a significant advance in the effort to combat drug trafficking in the Caribbean, the United States has negotiated "hot pursuit" agreements under which nine nations have opened their territorial waters to Coast Guard vessels. In addition, discussions are under way with half a dozen... |
865990_0 | Panel Advises F.D.A. To Allow Abortion Pill | Meeting in a windowless building here amid unusual security precautions, a committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended today that the agency approve for marketing the abortion-inducing drug RU-486, or mifepristone. The recommendation follows more than a decade in which American abortion protes... |
865990_5 | Panel Advises F.D.A. To Allow Abortion Pill | or placards were permitted. Yet the hearing was muted. Its audience was dominated by women, and the roster of 34 speakers dominated by those who favored mifepristone's marketing. There were no outcries, and there was only one instance of applause -- for a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Newhall, an Oregon physician who, particip... |
865989_0 | Panel Advises F.D.A. To Allow Abortion Pill | Meeting in a windowless building here amid unusual security precautions, a committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended today that the agency approve for marketing the abortion-inducing drug RU-486, or mifepristone. The recommendation follows more than a decade in which American abortion protes... |
865847_2 | Spanish Companies in Crossfire of U.S.-Cuba Battle | although it is not clear how many of them might be using confiscated property. The companies are attracted to Cuba mainly by low wages, but also by close ties between the two nations, even in the post-colonial era. Mr. Castro's father was born in Spain and immigrated to Cuba early in this century, seeking opportunity. ... |
865851_4 | High-Tech Rubber Hits the Road;Tire Makers Struggle to Stand Out From the Crowd | thus promote fuel economy. Several have attacked the wet-weather skidding problem. The tread design of Goodyear's Aquatred, for example, shoots water out the grooves, rather than letting it accumulate. Similarly, Michelin's X One has wide, deep grooves that wrap straight around the tire to maximize water removal, as we... |
863979_3 | Police Lift Ban on March By Ulster Protestant Group | annual celebrations of the victory of the Protestant William of Orange over his Catholic father-in-law, King James II. The victory established for centuries the English Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. [Indeed, the violence continued in Belfast early Friday when three police officers were wounded by gunfire in Catholi... |
865566_0 | Precaution Measures at Airports Were Already on Increase | Airline security has been higher than usual in recent months for several reasons, including the Olympic Games, the trials of domestic and international terrorism suspects and the bombings in Saudi Arabia, industry security experts said today. On the scale of 1 to 4 used by the aviation security authorities, large inter... |
865351_2 | Even in Eden, It Seems, War Was Hell | during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival (circa A.D. 1325)." Moreover, he argues, primitive cultures were rarely contaminated by contact with more civilized cultures. If anything, the influence occurred in reverse, as in the case described by a New Englander in 1677: "In our firs... |
865555_0 | Wetland Rule Halts Rail Job | The United States Army Corps of Engineers has ordered New Jersey Transit to temporarily halt work on a $448 million rail transfer station because of a permit violation. Last week, an inspector noticed that a contractor building an embankment had illegally filled in a small area of the adjacent wetlands, said Steve Cole... |
865444_0 | Politicians Resume Ulster Peace Effort Halted by Week of Riots | As Northern Ireland remained quiet for a third successive day after last week's riots, politicians met in various forums today to assess the political damage the disorder caused, to repair frayed relations and even to try to get the peace efforts back on track. It was a tough job, with little prospect of success. In Be... |
865367_0 | Preventing AIDS Is Still the Best Investment | To the Editor: Gabriel Rotello, in "The Risk in a 'Cure' for AIDS" (Op-Ed, July 14), misses the point when he writes that prevention efforts have "faltered." There is powerful evidence, much of it reported at the international AIDS conference in Vancouver, of the effectiveness of prevention strategies developed in the ... |
865525_0 | Pesticide Measure Advances In House, Without Rancor | With a remarkable absence of rancor, long-divided factions on the House Commerce Committee voted unanimously today for fundamental changes in the regulation of pesticides in food. The bill's authors said it would strengthen Federal restrictions on chemical residues in the food that people buy. In approving the compromi... |
864812_2 | U.N. Survey Finds World Rich-Poor Gap Widening | of women and other aspects of life that give what the authors believe is a truer picture of day-to-day existence. This year, Canada leads the index with the most advanced overall human development, followed by the United States, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway. On a list of 174 countries, Russia ranks 57th, China 108... |
864864_0 | BOMBING OF HOTEL DIMINISHES HOPES FOR ULSTER PEACE | A luxury hotel here was ripped apart early this morning when a bomb in a silver-colored jeep exploded only moments after 250 guests and wedding party revelers were evacuated. Although there was no loss of life and injuries were slight, the device -- the first terrorist explosion in Northern Ireland since tentative stab... |
867446_0 | Registered Partnership' | To the Editor: In his letter of July 18, Michael Kavey incorrectly asserts that four countries -- Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark -- recognize "gay marriages." These countries do not permit marriage between two men or two women. Rather, they extend the same-sex couples legal benefits that resemble those accorded ma... |
867531_0 | Hijacker Seizes Airliner And Forces It to Miami | A man claiming he had a bomb hijacked a plane bound for Cuba today, forcing it to land in Miami, where he eventually surrendered, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. None of the plane's 217 passengers or 14 crew members were injured. The man, identified by the F.B.I. as Saado Ibrahim, was arrested immedia... |
862620_0 | Religion Journal;Presbyterians Choose a Leader Favoring Diversity | This week, the Rev. John M. Buchanan stepped into a religious job that bears more than a little resemblance to top-flight diplomatic service. As the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he has joined the world of the high-profile frequent flier, holding a position devoid of administrative power, but requi... |
862589_0 | Schools' Disability Evaluations Need Reform | To the Editor: In his June 29 letter, Thomas Gelb, executive director of the Children's Center for Early Learning, says that my office's review of a special education program for disabled preschool children was "oversimplified" and that children are not getting more care than they need. While many children are receivin... |
862358_0 | Study Finds the Pill Safer | The birth control pills now on the market do not appear to increase the risk of a stroke, a study has found. The pill was linked to strokes in the 1960's and '70's, when it contained considerably more estrogen. The study, by Dr. Diana B. Petitti and colleagues from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, is being p... |
862359_1 | Giuliani Says Recycling Law Is Already Met | landfill's roads. And since it is being put to a new use, even if it is at the landfill, Mr. Giuliani said it should be considered recycled. About 30,000 abandoned cars were towed from the city's streets last year and sold to junkyards, which in turn crushed the cars and sold them as scrap metal. Sanitation officials h... |
862425_1 | Economic Scene;Some second thoughts arise on the benefits of immigration. | 10 percent less than similarly educated native-born Americans. But after 13 years the gap had closed. And after 23 years in America, immigrants were actually earning 6 percent more than their counterparts -- testament to the view that immigrants, who tend to be more energetic than those who stay behind, enrich America ... |
865259_0 | Placement Offices Leave Old Niches To Become Web-Surfing Job Bazaars | In this era of corporate downsizing, colleges are being pressed as never before to insure that their students can slide into jobs when they graduate. Parents -- some of whom have been laid off themselves and are paying hefty tuition bills -- want reassurance that they are making a good investment. Colleges everywhere h... |
865299_0 | Peace Talks Resume In Ulster, but in Anger | After a week of riots, Northern Ireland's politicians returned to peace talks today but spent the day denouncing one another. As each side challenged the other's right to be at the negotiating table, the British said it was a sign of success that no one walked out. Foreign Minister Dick Spring of Ireland, who sharply c... |
866479_0 | On Continent, Crash Is Seen As Debunking Security Myth | In the opinion of some European newspapers, Americans can no longer afford to be smug about the effectiveness of security precautions at airports in the United States. "After Oklahoma City and Twin Towers," wrote the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Friday, referring to the World Trade Center bombing, "the probable b... |
868141_2 | The Lighthouses of Long Island Sound | scare for the so-called Spanish American War -- a war that we started in the Carribbean,'' said Captain Rathbun, whose research has led him to question the wisdom of many government actions over the years. He's definitely dubious about the government's current use of Plum Island, as a closed-off center for research on ... |
867930_5 | While Cause of Crash Is Sought, Parallel Criminal Inquiry Goes On | said. Moments before it pushed back from the gate at Kennedy, Flight 800 was designated a "lifeguard" flight because it was carrying the corneas. That entitled it to priority departure status and special routes. Investigators wondered whether the urgency in placing the corneas on the plane had allowed the cargo to bypa... |
867845_1 | Ideas & Trends;The Smallest Olympians Face the Biggest Risks | of the authors of the journal article. Elite athletes train for 45 hours a week. "I've seen gymnasts and former gymnasts with a high incidence of back deterioration, wrist problems and knee problems that can be quite debilitating and limit their activity as adults," Dr. Micheli said. Girls' intense training suppresses ... |
868023_2 | The Lighthouses of Long Island Sound | scare for the so-called Spanish American War -- a war that we started in the Carribbean," said Captain Rathbun, whose research has led him to question the wisdom of many government actions over the years. He's definitely dubious about the government's current use of Plum Island, as a closed-off center for research on a... |
867937_1 | Samuel A. Kirk, 92, Pioneer Of Special Education Field | time, but they were often little more than custodial, and there were none for other children whose special needs had not even been recognized. Dr. Kirk's observations and insights at those early jobs informed his later research, which among other things led to his discovery that many failing students who were clearly n... |
867917_2 | New York Shows Its Dismay And Increases Its Vigilance | insure a safe day for everyone," said Rick Cerrone, the team's director of publicity. The Transit Authority, Fire Department and Police Department reported no unusual incidents. At Kennedy International Airport, where Flight 800 left for Paris on its final and fatal journey on July 17, passengers yesterday passed diffe... |
867840_0 | What Not to Drive to the Recycling Center | WHEN a large family gathered for a barbecue last Sunday in Westwood, Mass., the inevitable jabs were made at several smokers in the group. But rather than defending themselves, they came up with a quick and unusual riposte: their cigarettes were not nearly as bad for the environment as the Jeeps and other sport utility... |
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