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863502_0 | A Birth-Control Pill May Enhance Sexual Desire | The type of birth-control pills a woman uses may enhance her sexual desire and satisfaction, according to a study of sexually active California university students. Researchers at San Francisco State University say the findings, which they called surprising, suggest that different types of birth-control pills have diff... |
863531_0 | Enron Can Resume Big Indian Power Project | The Enron Development Corporation received approval today from the Indian Government to proceed with a controversial $2 billion power project in a western state of India. Clearance by the national Government was the final hurdle for the stalled project 250 miles south of Bombay. Enron Development, a unit of the Enron C... |
863524_2 | Key Anniversary for Protestants Brings Tension in Ulster to a Boil | Unionists want to remain part of Britain, and feel the British Government is making concessions to Catholics and the Irish Republican Army. The people of the province woke up this morning to reports of violence that lasted late into the night, of the hijacking and burning of trucks and cars, and of blocked highways, in... |
868665_0 | Business Travel;An industry executive questions the F.A.A.'s assessment of aviation safety around the world. | WITH air safety uppermost on travelers' minds, the head of one of the world's biggest travel management organizations is questioning the way in which the Federal Aviation Administration assesses the safety of aviation around the world. Because he finds that assessment lacking, Ivan Michael Schaeffer, the chief executiv... |
868688_2 | Slow Walk With Danger In a Cold, Dim Junkyard | 20, arrived on July 19, less than two days after the crash that killed 230 people. They came from Navy bases in New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina. They slept wherever they could find space -- in sleeping bags at the Coast Guard station in Moriches Bay and, eventually, on the ships that later arrived on the scene.... |
868653_0 | India to Block Completion Of Pact to Ban Nuclear Tests | India has decided to block an international nuclear test ban treaty now in the final stages of negotiations, saying it is coercive, the country's chief negotiator said today. India had long objected to certain aspects of the treaty and was not likely to sign it, but its most recent decision raises a new hurdle in the s... |
868595_2 | Tantalizing Data Suggest Estrogen May Prevent or Delay Alzheimer's | Alzheimer's disease usually did not become apparent until the late 60's or 70's, the disease process in the brain often started before menopause. In The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society this month, Dr. Birge summarized the diverse findings that support a role for estrogen as a preventive and treatment for dem... |
863303_3 | For the Sake of Salmon, California Dam Gets an $80 Million Alteration | hum year-round. It will be possible to fine-tune temperatures with a shutter system that will let operators choose the depths from which to draw water, simply by opening and closing huge louvers with the touch of a button. Jeffrey S. McCracken, a spokesman for the Bureau of Reclamation, conceded that the $80 million pr... |
863351_2 | Ulster Protestants in Anti-Police Protests | protesters, getting off work, drove to the church to face the police and the army on a narrow hill road. The army has put down about a mile of waist-high barbed wire to prevent Protestants from running down a steep hill to attack Catholics. Some 1,500 policemen, about 93 percent of them Protestants, are armed with pist... |
863404_2 | Efforts to Alter School System Stall in Albany | had to decide who should take over the local boards' duties. The officials also said if they could not overcome the impasse on mayoral control there was a good chance that they would scuttle the negotiations, leaving the much-criticized community-board system intact. Some advocates of overhauling the system said they w... |
862142_1 | Severe AIDS Effects Seen on Population of Africa | world population growth. If birth rates in some developing nations continue at present levels, world population theoretically could reach 100 billion by the end of the next century, the report said. Carl Haub, a demographer with the research group, said that despite AIDS and some slowdown of population growth in parts ... |
862220_0 | World News Briefs;Canadian Company Invests in Cuban Tourism | A Canadian company has signed a deal with the Cuban state hotel company to build 11 hotels and other tourist attractions, Cuban news organizations reported today. The agreement appeared to be the largest single investment Cuba has secured for its tourism industry. It represented a significant boost for Cuba in the face... |
862067_2 | The Dry Yields to the Droll, the Prosaic to the Provocative in CollegeOfferings | of Learned Societies. "But today if that course has been expanded to include popular culture, the role of women and so forth, the old title is misleading. Some of these new titles are just truth in advertising." Another stimulus is the hotly controversial form of relativism known in academic circles as "pomo," or more ... |
862992_0 | Correction | A brief report on this page last Sunday on Michael Johnson's breaking the 200-meter sprint record in Atlanta misstated the elevation of the city. Atlanta is not at sea level, but 1,050 feet above. |
862821_0 | Parochial Schools' Needs Debated | ALL Violetta Davis wanted was to have her son, Jonah, attend St. Ann's parochial school in Ossining just as his older brother did. "We don't feel we should separate brothers," Mrs. Davis said. "My older boy is constantly watching out for him. He's very proud of Jonah." To navigate the complexities of the school day, ho... |
862759_0 | Commercial Property/Recycling;A New Factory and New Jobs? For New York? Yes | ALMOST in the shadow of the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, a new factory is being built to process part of the city's trash into paper that will be used to make cardboard boxes. The $250 million factory, on 35 acres facing the Arthur Kill, is one the largest industrial investments in the city in recent decades ... |
862841_6 | Elusive Liberalism | of us want to be lawyers, some of us would rather play basketball, some of us want to watch "Aida," some of us would rather listen to the Beatles. To give the thought some bite, we have to add that there is no right answer to the question of which life is the best one for us, individually or generally. This Mr. Gray of... |
864477_0 | Ideas & Trends;The Guy Who Ate a Cow And Other Olympic Stars | A HURRICANE missed Atlanta last week, but of course figuratively the wind will blow hot and heavy this week as the Summer Olympics finally get under way amid what seems an interminable media drum roll. Hype enough for you? In the face of this, it is tempting to hark wistfully back to an ancient Olympic time of simple, ... |
864390_2 | Underfoot, a 750-Foot Test Mixing Ashes and Asphalt | Albany. To reduce costs, incinerator companies have helped sponsor projects to find uses for the ash. At the State University of New York in Stony Brook, Frank Roethel, a chemistry professor at the Waste Reduction and Management Institute, supervised the building of a boathouse in 1990 with 14,000 ash blocks. So far th... |
864776_2 | Advocacy Group Aids Troubled Students | problems. One case dealt with an 8-year-old autistic child who had already been in three different schools when his parents contacted Student Advocacy. His special-education class was situated in an old building where sounds echoed, a major difficulty for autistic children who are extremely sensitive to sound. Student ... |
864684_2 | Connecticut Q&A: John B. Larson;Universal Internet Access, Fall of '96 | of the "digital homeless." Q. What would the benefits be beyond the classroom, economically and socially? A. A group in California did research about the cost of illiteracy and what's going to happen to American businesses that find they're going to have to retrain these people -- something that the public education sy... |
864512_0 | Hurting Canada Over Cuba | When Cuba shot down two small planes flown by a Cuban exile group in February, President Clinton, mindful of his need for support in Florida, signed legislation he had opposed, the so-called Helms-Burton law penalizing foreign companies doing business in Cuba. Last week the State Department informed nine top executives... |
864520_1 | Cable's Gift to Schools | educational resources to schools too poor to provide an advanced Internet hookup on their own. Some schools are already connected to the Internet over telephone lines. AT&T promised last year to help connect all schools by the year 2000. But even for schools connected by phone, the cable initiative provides an exciting... |
864540_0 | Irish Troubles Spill Over to Canary Isles | Hundreds of British and Irish tourists fought on the Spanish island of Tenerife after an argument about Northern Ireland turned into a brawl, the local police said today. The arguments between Britons, Irish Protestants and Roman Catholics in a bar in the resort of Playa de las Americas began late Thursday night and sp... |
864508_0 | Fires of Ulster Orange | In Northern Ireland, the unthinkable often turns out to be inevitable, especially early in July. This is when the tens of thousands from the British province's Protestant majority march in parades to celebrate the victory on July 12, 1690 of William of Orange over his father-in-law, the Catholic King James II. The vict... |
864762_2 | Universal Internet Access, Fall of '96 | of the ''digital homeless.'' Q. What would the benefits be beyond the classroom, economically and socially? A. A group in California did research about the cost of illiteracy and what's going to happen to American businesses that find they're going to have to retrain these people -- something that the public education ... |
864546_0 | Ulster Without a Net | For nearly two years, the Northern Ireland peace effort has been an incredible balancing act, like a team of acrobats bicycling across a high wire. One performer is riding the bike, another sits on his shoulders and two others hang on either side. If any one leans over too far -- or if the bicycle comes to a halt -- th... |
867443_1 | 2 Editors Quit Outdoor Life After Article Is Killed | situations where you either sucked it up and quit," Mr. Bourne said, "or you don't and are forced to live with yourself and represent something that you think is essentially gutless." The article in question had been critical of bear baiting, in which raw fish or meat is set out in heavily timbered areas to attract bla... |
867351_2 | The President's Remarks at Kennedy to the Families of the Crash Victims | wait to alleviate the concerns of the American people about air safety and air security. In the wake of the Valujet crash and T.W.A. 800 that concern has increased. The safety record of the United States aviation is unmatched in the world, and air travel remains the safest means of transportation. But that is of no con... |
867365_1 | Delays for Travelers and Higher Costs for Airlines | half hour to normal schedules. Many airports in Europe and the Middle East have imposed strict security measures for more than 10 years. The industry's concerns are somewhat different. There will be added labor costs, and delays while planes are searched will result in a loss of income. Several travel experts said yest... |
867368_1 | Experts Say Greek Airport's Precautions Against Bombing Are Better Than Kennedy's | as Flight 881 to New York, a security firm that is a subsidiary of T.W.A. searched for bombs, contraband or suspicious items in hidden parts of the aircraft, like the panels that line the luggage compartment and the crevices underneath the toilet or other bathroom fixtures. Such a security sweep was not done when the p... |
867353_0 | METRO DIGEST | THE CRASH Security Measures Announced After visiting with relatives of the victims killed in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, President Clinton announced that he had ordered a number of steps to tighten security at the nation's airports. He said the new security measures were intended to calm the nerves of... |
867370_1 | Despite Warnings, Most Air Cargo Is Unscreened | umbrella," little has been done. In an announcement of various improvements in rules governing aviation security, President Clinton said yesterday that cargo screening would be tightened, a move aviation security experts say is long overdue, whether or not an explosive device hidden in cargo caused the crash of T.W.A. ... |
867369_2 | CLINTON SETS TOUGH RULES FOR TIGHTER AIR SECURITY; TAPE REVEALS SUDDEN NOISE | within 45 days. Mr. Clinton said Mr. Gore would come up with a plan to deploy new machines that can detect sophisticated explosives in baggage, and perhaps cargo as well. After days of mounting anger over the pace of the investigation, family members and even some of Mr. Clinton's harshest critics seemed heartened by t... |
867344_0 | Headaches Ahead | New security measures imposed by the Clinton Administration will confront passengers between American cities with the kinds of long lines, detailed searches and interrogations that international voyagers are used to, and flights out of the country will be scrutinized even more intensively. Article, page B6. |
866128_0 | Ulster Protestants Want Power, Not Peace | To the Editor: "Ulster's Battered Peace" (editorial, July 16) is naive in saying that the Protestant Orange Order's insistence on marching through Roman Catholic neighborhoods at Drumcree, County Armagh, was a result of the Irish Republican Army's return to bombings. Calling this a "return to confrontational tactics" b... |
866102_0 | Behavioral' Problems Are Physical Conditions | I am writing in response to Dr. Thomas E. Stone's letter ["On Ritalin and Prozac for Children," July 14] in which he commented on your interview with Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz ["Helping to Combat Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders," June 16]. When are people going to begin understanding that so-called "behavioral" pro... |
866061_0 | POSTINGS: Something New, Something Old for TriBeCa;A Fraternal Twin for an Oldtimer | A 15-story Art Deco industrial building overlooking the Holland Tunnel ramps in TriBeCa is to be converted to lofts and linked to a new building to rise on what is now an adjacent parking lot under plans now undergoing New York City's approvals process. The new building is to be a sort of fraternal twin to the 1929 bui... |
866266_1 | Backtracking to Find Reasons for a Tragedy | and vacationers who had innocently boarded the flight to Paris, and the way not a single one survived -- have exposed the fearful unpredictability of modern life, which is usually obscured by routines and institutions. For the investigators, the trail began at least 12 hours and half a world away from the explosion, in... |
865999_2 | Synagogue Seeks a Second Rabbi to Share Rabbinical Duties | of four -- she did not want to do. When Rabbi Winer announced earlier this year that he would retire, Rabbi Milgrom said she suggested the partnership as a new and more realistic arrangement. "In a large congregation, there's no way one person can do everything," she said. "The position ends up making hypocrites out of... |
866261_3 | Tracking and Cataloguing the Wild Flora;A Taxonomist and Volunteers Keep Tabs on Regional Diversity | 20 years, with the first phase -- woody plants -- expected to last six years. Ultimately, all kinds of plants will be catalogued: prickly pear and beach plums on the shoreline, pines in the vast barrens of eastern Long Island and New Jersey, wildflowers on the Hempstead prairie of Southern Nassau County, oak forests th... |
866290_0 | World News Briefs;Police and Rioters Battle In Northern Ireland | Police officers firing plastic bullets fought stone-throwing protesters in Northern Ireland today, after rival parades set off more sectarian violence in this British-governed province. Some 200 people fought running street battles overnight with the police in the town of Omagh, smashing property and setting fire to bu... |
866364_3 | The New Jobs: A Growing Number Are Good Ones | this demand, though, many Americans can still only dream of a better job. They simply do not have the education or the skills to qualify for good jobs. Some are chronically impoverished, while others are white- and blue-collar workers who lost high-paying jobs in corporate downsizings even as new positions have been cr... |
866250_2 | HAUNTED TREASURE -- A special report.;In Brazil, Indians Call on Spirits to Save Land | determined. The state, intent on establishing dominion over the area, has in recent years started projects to build a dam and a road, and to establish a municipal government -- all steps the Macuxi who live here have rebuffed. Helped by the Roman Catholic Church, the Macuxi have become the best organized of Brazil's ma... |
866386_3 | The View From: Stamford;Where Everybody Learns to Sign | of other people, people who are different from them. And it's always good for them to know another language too." Margarite Lipsitz, a speech pathologist who has a hearing-impaired 8-year-old son attending the school, wasn't always so sure that having him learn sign was such a good idea. Her son, Daniel, had learned to... |
866275_3 | To Troubled Airline Industry, Keeping Up With Strict Safety Rules Is Costly Challenge | in only a few sites. It is not in use at Kennedy Airport, but El Al, the Israeli airline, has a model on order. To deploy the equipment widely, Government officials say, would cost billions of dollars and could add hours to the time needed to screen baggage. T.W.A. and Kennedy Airport have followed much the same securi... |
865670_1 | Fix the Air Security System | premature to speculate about its cause. Forensic experts will provide an answer to that question in a fairly short time, unless large parts of the aircraft are unrecoverable, But whatever happened -- a massive structural failure, a bombing or something else entirely -- the current round-the-clock attention to the trage... |
865661_0 | Most Passengers Are Tense, But Take Comfort in Odds | Though things looked normal yesterday in airports around the country, people were unmistakably on edge as they contemplated their own lives -- and flights -- and mused about danger, chance and mortality. Nowhere was the atmosphere more charged than at Kennedy International Airport, where the Port Authority police seeme... |
865757_2 | New Questions About Security For Airports | takeoff, Mr. Kriendler raised the possibility that a bomb might have been meant to explode over the ocean. A Presidential task force and later Congressional legislation in 1990 called for stricter security to prevent bombs from being smuggled aboard in baggage, especially in unaccompanied luggage. A would-be bomber mig... |
865717_1 | METRO | to begin a 10-day trip to France. Hugs, kisses and farewells were traded. Less than 24 hours later, buses donated by the company made the same trip, this time to carry grief-shattered relatives to the airport to identify the bodies of the travelers. [A1.] Security Called Into Question After a terrorist bomb disintegrat... |
865696_0 | Trade Deficit Jumps Again, Particularly With China | The nation's trade deficit surged in May for the third consecutive month, to $10.88 billion, the Commerce Department reported today. It said that China nearly supplanted Japan for the first time as the country with the biggest surplus in trade with the United States. The overall deficit rose by 13.2 percent, from a rev... |
864123_1 | Ulster March By Protestants Passes Calmly | allow a Protestant Orange Order march to pass a Catholic area in Drumcree, 30 miles southwest of here. Tens of thousands of Protestants blocked roads and attacked the police until Thursday, when the police reversed the decision and allowed the march. That immediately detonated a night of Catholic violence. The five day... |
875713_0 | Measures for Aviation Security | The Presidential commission on aviation safety and security has moved with surprising speed to develop recommendations to make airports and airliners safer from sabotage and terrorism. The panel, formed under the chairmanship of Vice President Gore after the Trans World Airlines explosion in July, held its first public... |
877070_1 | Profiles to Spot Airline Bombers | candidate for more thorough screening -- to detect drug couriers and hijackers, for instance -- has been the single passenger with a one-way ticket paid for with cash. Customs officials pay special attention to travelers to and from countries that engage in the drug trade and destinations known for terrorist activity. ... |
879447_4 | Chinese Artists Exalt Their Yesterdays | China might have with its own history.'' But today's economic drive has also been ''catastrophic,'' he said, with ancient towns being wiped out by the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River and historic architecture being razed by rapid urbanization. No less alarming, though, is the apparent public indifference ... |
879444_3 | Is Hikers' Shop A Paradise Lost? | 110-ton monolith is to the store what a bell tower is to a cathedral. Called the R.E.I. Pinnacle, it accommodates 15 climbers at a time, belayed by rope, of course, for safety and lawsuit reasons. Some of the routes are rated Class 5 or above, which means that a bit of Spiderman-like athleticism is needed to ascend. ''... |
878425_0 | A Paradise (and Hell) Regained | After seven years of restoration work, this craggy Umbrian hill town is about to unveil the most glorious of its artworks, the vast depiction of the Last Judgment by Luca Signorelli. The frescoes, particularly endangered by moisture in the three outer walls of the San Brizio chapel in Orvieto Cathedral, where Signorell... |
878200_0 | James F. Bonner, 86; Studied Gene Regulation | James F. Bonner, a molecular biologist whose interests ranged from the intricacies of gene regulation to ways in which agriculture could better provide for the world's needs, died on Friday at a nursing home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 86 and lived in South Pasadena. Dr. Bonner, professor emeritus of biology at the Cali... |
875198_0 | From Allies, U.S. Hears Mild Applause or Silence | The rest of the world, including most of America's NATO allies in Europe, made it clear today that the United States was on its own in taking military action against Iraq. Britain expressed strong support in words but kept the planes it has in the region out of the operation. Prime Minister John Major said the attack t... |
875230_5 | Good Pay, Perks and Constant Calls From Headhunters | and I realized that working on the other side would give me more satisfaction,'' he said. ''In the everyday life of the corporation, you see how much you can help the corporation. Here, I take care of the scope of the problem, the analysis of the problem and who can solve it.'' Even without the benefit of working in th... |
877817_4 | AGENCY TIGHTENS AIRPORT SECURITY IN NEW YORK AREA | require airline security employees to obtain an identification card from the authority. The authority also will now reserve the right to revoke the identification cards of airline employees who violate security procedures. While Mr. Haley said yesterday that the airlines had yet to agree to the new security changes, he... |
877786_1 | Task Force Report Says Technology May Help U.N. Cut Red Tape | today. Joseph E. Connor, Under Secretary General for Administration and Management and chairman of the efficiency board established late last year by Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, said that one of the keys to reform is the introduction this month of a new United Nations site on the Internet's World Wide Web,... |
879290_3 | No Long-Term Link Is Found Between Pill and Breast Cancer | breast cancer than women who had not. The finding held true regardless of hundreds of variables, including a woman's age when she started and stopped with birth control pills, the number of years she took them, her family history of breast cancer, the type of pills used and the dose. The analysis did find a slightly in... |
879334_0 | I.R.A. Cache Of Arms Sets Back Ulster Talks | The discovery of a huge stock of I.R.A. explosives and weapons by the police in London on Monday has seriously wounded the peace effort in Northern Ireland, but did not kill it, Irish and British officials and independent analysts said today. Most agreed in interviews with the assessment of David Ervine, head of the Pr... |
879789_0 | Informed Without Mercy | The doctor says I am being communicated with to death. He wants me to cut back. I have a 4,000-a-day habit. It will finish me, the doctor says. Scientific studies show -- well, you know what they always show. Whatever it is, it's killing you. With me it's being communicated with. Four thousand times a day I get communi... |
878911_1 | Max Manus, 81, Dies; Fought Nazis in Occupied Norway | a day that the Germans did not feel their sting. Although his chief target was German shipping in the Oslo harbor, Mr. Manus, who sometimes spent days under stinking piers waiting for cargo ships to tie up and who claimed even a battleship among his prizes, blew up virtually any German military or industrial target he ... |
878574_1 | Envisioning Electra Anew, as a Heroic Figure | ''Electra,'' opening Wednesday at City Center for a five-day run. ''If she forgets what's happened, she will lose her humanity. We all face these dilemmas, whether to turn our head aside and forget terrible things.'' The new production of ''Electra'' marks the first time in 20 years that the National Theater of Greece,... |
878658_2 | What's on the Internet? Here's a Start | well as access to Internet provider services. The integration of the medium into more and more facets of American life, say observers, indicates that the ambivalence or dread of the last few years over the Internet's impact has to some degree subsided. ''The Internet mirrors and magnifies life around us in all of its d... |
878636_0 | Riding a Business Crest by Making Products Tamper Proof | EVER since the Tylenol tampering incident in 1982, consumers have been more aware of tamper-proof packaging. For Sharon Lobel, who had been working in the packaging industry since 1980, the well-publicized incident prompted her to research methods that would make it difficult to tamper with packaging. Four years later,... |
878545_1 | Paradise Recycled | vaguely understood way, help save the forests. And since many attractive media heroes have identified themselves with the cause, these products also share in the aura of the globally aware elite. Within this tangled growth of misty feelings exists a subtext of truth, beginning with the rain forest's abundance of as yet... |
878920_0 | Michio Hoshino Dies While Filming Bears | Michio Hoshino, a photographer known for his pictures of bears and other wildlife, was mauled to death by a brown bear last month on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. He was in his mid-40's and lived in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi reported that Mr. Hoshino -- who moved to Alaska from his... |
878895_3 | Today's Tactics for Yesterday's Terror | to detect, in what shape, and with what rate of false alarms and false clearances. This seems a typically American approach, relying on high-tech scanners and computers to measure the density, texture and homogeneity of objects in a closed suitcase, to model them in three dimensions and to sniff them to detect parts pe... |
876501_2 | CLINTON SUGGESTS AN ARRAY OF STEPS TO FOIL TERRORISM | criminal background checks for airport workers with access to secure areas, starting a test program to match each piece of luggage with its passenger on all domestic flights (as is already done on international flights), making the National Transportation Safety Board the agency responsible for dealing with the familie... |
876471_0 | Seeking Escape Among Bulls and Bears | |
876391_3 | Radio Days Are Here, but Not on Broadway | The manual mentions ''poor environments'' like windowless offices with steel-reinforced concrete walls. Large metal objects like file cabinets can affect communications, and so can the leaves on trees outside your window. For me the modem was able to stay connected to the network even in a closed car in a garage. Drivi... |
875018_1 | An Oddly Shaped Molecule Is Used To Switch New Genes On and Off | doses, researchers said, because scientists purposely focused on genes that can simply be turned on all the time. These include genes needed by patients with a rare disorder that results in a nonfunctioning immune system or by those few patients whose cells are genetically unable to take up cholesterol. But, said Dr. M... |
875049_2 | Satellite Radar Unveils Subtle, Slow Wrinkling Of the Planet's Surface | Europe, Japan and Canada. One aim is to increase the precision of change measurement to less than a centimeter, or about a third of an inch. Although the United States pioneered the technology of space radars in the late 1970's, it now has no civilian radar satellites, a void that American scientists are increasingly e... |
874880_10 | SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE RICH | need-blind and meet the full need of all admitted students; but if its applicants come mainly from schools like Choate or Brearley or Scarsdale High, chances are the bill won't be too big, no matter which candidates one takes. There is talk that median family income among financial-aid recipients at some Ivy League sch... |
874532_2 | Back to School | those who reside outside the academy, the canon wars of the past decade may appear arcane and inconsequential. Within the academy, men and women perceive themselves as fighting for their professional lives. How relevant, it has been asked, are Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey,'' Plato's ''Republic,'' Aristotle's ''Nicom... |
874812_1 | Air Safety Plan Calls for Selective Inspections of Baggage | terrorism, safety from accidents, and the modernization of the air traffic control system. Already, the Administration has decided to speed the deployment of the latest bomb-detecting equipment, which has been under development for many years but has proven more difficult than expected to perfect. The question is how m... |
874813_0 | In India, Attacks by Wolves Spark Old Fears and Hatreds | When the man-eating wolf came to this tranquil village toward dusk on an evening in mid-August, it was every child's worst nightmare come true. The wolf pounced while Urmila Devi and three of her eight children were in a grassy clearing at the edge of the village, using the open ground for a toilet. The animal, about 1... |
878353_6 | Backlash of Intolerance Stirring Fear in Iran | most arguing that the times were too dangerous. Iranian writers and publishers said none of the estimated 1,500 novels submitted to the censors in the last year had been approved. Spring Crackdown On Debauchery Supporters of the more puritanical clergy argue that outsiders should not judge freedom in Iran by Western st... |
877916_0 | Family Planning Aid Is Worth Our Dollars | To the Editor: Republican attempts to revive a ban on assistance to international birth control efforts that include abortion and abortion counseling are misguided (news article, Sept. 12). Such programs do more than help women and couples avoid unwanted pregnancies. They allow them to plan births and spacing of childr... |
877932_1 | Personal Health | depend on prompt recognition of a developing behavioral problem, exploration of its cause and intervention to modify it, if possible, before a disaster ensues. Dr. Randall Lockwood of the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, who has been studying the dog bite problem for 25 years, said: ''Many people have... |
876766_3 | U.S. Aid to World Birth-Control Efforts Faces Cuts | Reagan Administration announced at a population conference in Mexico City that the United States would no longer contribute to family planning groups it felt were promoting abortion. That policy was reversed by President Clinton on his second day in office in 1993, and now the Administration and family planning groups ... |
876768_1 | Burning of Amazon Picks Up Pace, With Vast Areas Lost | from 4,296 square miles in the 1990-91 burning season to 5,750 square miles a year by 1994. Analysis of the data for 1995, which have not yet been released, is expected to show an even greater increase in deforestation, since the number and location of fires detected last year showed many raging in virgin rain forest, ... |
876865_0 | U.S. Has Vital Interest in Stopping Hussein | To the Editor: The tragedy of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 has resulted in calls for more extensive airline security and now President Clinton's acceptance of recommendations from a national commission (front page, Sept. 10). ''Measures for Aviation Security'' (editorial, Sept. 7) highlights the question of who pays... |
876811_2 | Steelmakers plan to polish their product's image to compete with aluminum and plastics makers. | group spokesman, said. And last year, the aluminum industry started a campaign about recycling. Three television spots, created by Adworks Inc. of Washington, D.C., promote aluminum cans as convenient and recyclable, Yvonne Folkerts, a spokeswoman for the Aluminum Association, a trade organization, said. Aluminum has a... |
876824_0 | INSIDE | Anti-Terrorism Questions Some airline industry officials and members of Congress are questioning the practicality, usefulness and cost of some of the Clinton Administration's proposals for preventing terrorism. Page A18. Catholic School Plan Limited Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew said the Board of Education would not aid... |
876741_0 | Airlines and Others Question Aspects of Anti-Terrorism Plan | Airline representatives, airport operators and members of Congress expressed reservations today about the Clinton Administration's plans for preventing terrorism. They said they favored re-evaluating aviation security, but raised questions about the cost, practicality and usefulness of many of the proposed steps. Match... |
877544_2 | China's Endless Task to Stem Centuries of Floods | said. ''I can't farm. I have no money. I have no house and winter is coming. Please tell the Government. We want some support.'' A few dozen miles away, Liu Yueyi sat among a pile of bricks that was once her home, scraping mortar off the reusable ones. ''Look at me,'' she said. ''Here I am, over 70 years old, and I no ... |
877601_1 | In 4 Reports Over 10 Years, Issues of Security at J.F.K. | of the major recommendations brought up in the security studies have been put into place, others, such as more rigorous procedures for X-raying luggage, have not been implemented. In addition, the former director of aviation for the Port Authority, who left the agency last year, said Kennedy's system to keep unauthoriz... |
875546_3 | Paris Offers Scant Backing But London Is Supportive | patrol the north; seven, including two refueling planes, patrol the south from a base in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Chirac, a Gaullist and a nationalist, has been eager to define a special French role in the Middle East and renew ties to old clients like Lebanon and Iraq, which still owes France money for arms sales. The French... |
875525_3 | White House Seeks $300 Million for Airport Bomb Detection and Other Safety Measures | The role of the commission, beyond approving recommendations by the staff, was not completely clear; some members were added only in the last few days as their security clearances were approved. The commission's members include relatives of victims on Pan Am Flight 103, which was brought down by a bomb over Lockerbie, ... |
880460_3 | An astrological quirk brings fear and trembling to some corners of the Internet. | turn backward, before heading forward again on its journey. The problem, in every cosmological theory before Copernicus, was to explain that peculiar motion which takes place three times a year. How could such motion be accounted for if all the planets were thought to move in a regular, circular fashion around the fixe... |
876000_3 | Jersey Tomatoes Are Hitting the Road, Seeking Markets Away From Home | and New Jersey tomatoes can presently be bought for as little as 79 cents a pound.) Some tomato connoisseurs say there has been a tradeoff for the Jersey tomato's newfound consistency: to a very small extent, it has fallen prey to the curse of genericness that made the Garden State product such an attractive alternativ... |
875874_1 | Chemical Reactions | lose the circuitry that lets them see vertical lines. Rats raised in boring environments suffer from a shortage of synapses, the connections that pass messages between brain cells. More recently -- as Ronald Kotulak, a reporter for The Chicago Tribune, shows in ''Inside the Brain'' -- scientists have discovered that ot... |
876175_0 | U.N. Assembly to Consider A-Test Ban Tomorrow | Using a maneuver never tried before to win adoption of a major international arms control treaty, Australia and more than 115 other countries will go to the General Assembly on Monday and seek approval of a pact banning all nuclear explosions worldwide. The treaty could be adopted and ready for signing by individual co... |
876110_0 | F.Y.I. | Hydrotherapy? Q. Recently, as I was walking from the South Street Seaport to the Staten Island Ferry, I saw the Floating Hospital. Is it actually a working hospital? If so, who does it serve? Does it stay within the city? A. It is a working hospital on a boat, and you don't have to be a sailor to use its free services.... |
875956_2 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | in the Shadow of History, by Robin Hirsch (University Press of New England, $16.95). The author describes how his parents were able to flee Germany, but not the emotional effects of the Holocaust. Writing in The New York Times last year, Richard Bernstein said Mr. Hirsch ''has written a charming, sometimes very funny p... |
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