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1723975_0 | Taking Out the Trash | Long Island has a garbage problem. It is producing trash in ever larger amounts, with no place to put it all -- not around here, anyway. We have no landfills, no more room at our incinerators and no realistic chance of ever building new ones. But the amount of waste we produce keeps rising, year by year, ton by ton. Fr... |
1728171_2 | Muslim Women in Europe Claim Rights and Keep Faith | of Muslim women, like that of Western women before them, is often slow and sometimes deeply painful when women feel they must break with their families. But nowhere is this quiet new form of Islamic feminism more evident than in the realm of religion, the centuries-old domain of men. Young women are increasingly engagi... |
1728189_3 | Anti-Drug Forces Follow Traffickers to Sea | military exercises had already begun to pay off. Capt. Celvin Castro Alvarado, commander of Guatemala's Caribbean Naval Base at Puerto Santo Tomás de Castilla, said that on June 14, Guatemala captured about 3,300 pounds of cocaine after forcing a speedboat to run ashore. The capture, he said, was a result of a joint ch... |
1727076_0 | Japan's Population Fell This Year, Sooner Than Expected | Japan's population declined this year for the first time since the country began keeping demographic records in 1899, according to preliminary figures released by the government this week. The decrease, which specialists say signals the start of an era of shrinking population, occurred two years earlier than had been e... |
1727060_1 | The Neediest Cases; Keeping Her Son Going, Through Music and Love | of cerebral palsy, a condition that results from faulty development of or damage to the brain and includes impaired mobility, spasticity and, in many cases, seizures, hindered mental development and difficulty swallowing. Either way, ''They said he would be like a baby all his life,'' Ms. Borbon said. Physically, thoug... |
1727052_1 | Irish Playwright Speaks From Hideout | Troubles, which have claimed 3,500 lives on all sides. This year, Robert McCartney, a 33-year-old Belfast Catholic, was killed in a barroom Tattack blamed partly on members of the Irish Republican Army. Rival Protestant gangs fought battles in which four people died last summer. The sectarian strife has touched Mr. Mit... |
1727097_0 | Biotech Company Closes After Running Out of Cash | In a setback for a controversial area of biotechnology, the company that led the way in trying to produce pharmaceuticals in genetically modified crops ran out of money and shut its doors yesterday. The company, the Large Scale Biology Corporation, based in Vacaville, Calif., said in a statement Thursday that all of it... |
1725361_0 | Old Habits | After decades of drug addiction, Adriane Allen believes she has finally grown too old to smoke crack. At 57, she has chest pains, has lost most of her teeth and has trouble moving her arms. Lately, she worries about how her grandchildren will remember her when she is gone. ''I definitely do not want them mourning me as... |
576417_1 | For All the Bombs, the I.R.A. Is No Closer to Goals | several points: *Neither force can achieve victory in the field. *There is no serious public or parliamentary pressure on either the British or Irish Government to arrange a peaceful settlement. *The peace talks, which collapsed last month, are unlikely to make any progress until after local elections here next spring.... |
576290_2 | Silence of the Frogs | England, the first World Congress of Herpetology was taking place. On the agenda were esoteric and, to the non-herpetologist, faintly ridiculous-sounding presentations like "Belly Pattern of Triturus Carnifex and Triturus Vulgaris in Two Ponds of Ligurian Apennines, Northern Italy." But to many of the 1,300 participant... |
576219_0 | Business Diary/December 6-11 | THE ECONOMY Clinton's Team Looks a Lot Like Cuomo's Aside from Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, whom President-elect Clinton tapped for Treasury Secretary, and Representative Leon E. Panetta of California, his choice for budget director, Mr. Clinton's dream team of economic advisers all have the same pedigree: they were... |
576149_0 | Seeing Beats Reading | To the Editor: In "Sublime Sculptures in a Dubious Setting" [ Nov. 22 ] , Michael Kimmelman berated the National Gallery of Art in Washington for its Greek loan exhibition because he doesn't feel that "the occasion is worthy of the objects." He went on to insist that "major loan shows are supposed to make a contributio... |
576291_7 | Tackling Problems We Thought We Solved | high degree of academic productivity, with 135 research papers and 47 abstracts published by department members during the 1991-92 medical year. That productivity, while testimony to the energy and versatility of people who carry a heavy clinical load, is also the department's collateral for future grants. The grant mo... |
576138_0 | 'The Change' | To the Editor: I took the thyroid-replacement medicine, the anti-inflammatory for what might be arthritis, the calcium tablets and the vitamin D to help process the calcium. Now I can settle down and reply to Natalie Angier's review of "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause" (Oct. 11). Right on, Ms. Angier! When I... |
577547_2 | SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES TO CONDEMN ISRAELI EXPULSIONS | a shape as we can between now and when Clinton comes in." He said he understood why the Israelis felt the need to reply to procovations they have suffered. The slain border policeman was abducted by the militant group Hamas within Israel proper, enraging and spreading fear among the country's citizens. But Mr. Eaglebur... |
578077_1 | Reshaping Pacifism to Fight Anguish in Reshaped World | more such conflicts are inevitable, as are the agonizing questions they raise. The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, an adviser to the American Catholic bishops on international affairs, said, "People are calling for reinterpretations of the concepts of both national sovereignty and nonintervention, saying that the way we've unders... |
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574984_0 | Home Health Care Policies Need to Be Refined | To the Editor: "Home Care in New York, a Model Plan, Awaits Cuts" (front-page article, Nov. 20) presents a picture of home care issues that is both incomplete and simplistic. First, presenting New York's system of allocating Medicaid-funded home attendant service as a "model plan" would seem to imply endorsement of a s... |
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578984_0 | Alaska Journal; Reality Destroys a Fairy-Tale Image | Reindeer farms and petting zoos lure tourists. A pet reindeer, Star IV, won the designation "official civic attraction," and leads two children's parades each year. But Alaskans also enjoy their reindeer in snack form: reindeer-burgers are popular at luncheonettes, and pizza parlors substitute slices of reindeer for pe... |
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575572_1 | Going Above and Beyond the Call | make a career of helping children with handicaps, she says, when she was about 8 years old and discovered that an older cousin had a disability that kept him from reading. She sat down to teach him. Now, as principal of the Hungerford School on Staten Island, one of the city's special education schools, she offers an i... |
575529_0 | French Fault 'Circus' Coverage of the Arrival of U.S. Troops | As the first French troops arrived in Somalia to join the United States-led relief mission there, French politicians sharply criticized the televised landing of American marines near Mogadishu early today as a media event and "charity show." French newspapers also said the decision to send 2,100 French troops to Somali... |
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579530_1 | Shortage of Trained Caseworkers Imperils Young Victims of Abuse | 30. Advocacy groups and public commissions have consistently documented how staff problems undermine the government's ability to protect children from abuse and even death. Record Number of Homicides A city-appointed panel of doctors, social workers and experts reviewed last year's record number of homicides of childre... |
574133_1 | Shuttle Is Lofted In a Final Flight For the Military | "was a good way to end the launching season," Mr. Sieck said at a news briefing. The 10th military shuttle mission in 11 years puts an end to the Defense Department's routine use of the manned spacecraft to carry its payloads, although military officials held open the possibility of requesting a shuttle should a specia... |
574157_0 | A Director Is President At Calgene | Calgene Inc., a leading agricultural biotechnology company, today named Roderick N. Stacey president and chief operating officer. Mr. Stacey, who has been a director of Calgene since 1990, will be responsible for the company's newly formed oils and cotton divisions, as well as for corporate finance and administration. ... |
575401_2 | London Journal; With Its Bombs, Will the I.R.A. Steal Christmas? | the I.R.A.'s use of tactics imported from the campaign in Northern Ireland, like the deployment of large and powerful truck bombs, the use of small incendiary devices to start fires and the hijacking of a taxi driver who was forced at gunpoint in October to drive a car bomb to the curb outside 10 Downing Street, where ... |
575450_2 | Personal Health | rugs, poorly lighted stairs, slippery bathtubs, electrical cords and the like -- that can cause a person to trip and fall, particularly if that person has physical limitations that impair vision, gait or balance. A study by doctors at Yale University of 336 elderly people living at home found that 108 of them fell with... |
580069_1 | Argentine's Art Delivers Ecological Messages | in 1968, long before the environment was a popular subject for artists, his works have included the East River in New York, the French Riviera port of Nice, the Seine in Paris, the fountain in Trafalgar Square, London, and more recently the Pyramid fountain in the Louvre and the fountain in the Hara Museum in Tokyo. Hi... |
574306_1 | Population Growth Outstrips Earlier U.S. Census Estimates | the 1988 report. One such trend is rapid growth of the Hispanic population. The report says the Hispanic population will surpass the black population in 2013, when there will be 42.1 million Hispanic Americans and 42 million blacks. Overall population growth has outstripped earlier projections for two reasons: the shar... |
578930_0 | Ask Episcopal Church About Women Priests | To the Editor: My old friend Rembert Weakland, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee, seems to read the Catholic Church amiss in "Out of the Kitchen, Into the Vatican" (Op-Ed, Dec. 6), his plea for admitting women to the priesthood. I suspect this is due to his overweening romanticism regarding modern culture -- polit... |
577158_0 | France Opposes Air Strikes | The French Government said today that it favored enforcing a ban on flights over Bosnia and Herzegovina and using military force to close prison camps run by Serbians, but it opposed allied air strikes on Serbian artillery positions. A Government spokesman said Georges Kiejman, a Deputy Foreign Minister, told a Cabinet... |
579265_6 | Hawaii's Gentle Throwback | macadamia nuts, arugula, bamboo shoots, ginger root, shitake mushrooms, fresh goat milk cheese, as well as flowers and snacks. The market, protected under awnings from the inevitable rains, fills two empty lots on either side of Mamo Street at Kamehameha Avenue. Not far away, on Hilo Bay, there is a seafood version of ... |
579485_6 | Hawaii's Gentle Throwback | macadamia nuts, arugula, bamboo shoots, ginger root, shitake mushrooms, fresh goat milk cheese, as well as flowers and snacks. The market, protected under awnings from the inevitable rains, fills two empty lots on either side of Mamo Street at Kamehameha Avenue. Not far away, on Hilo Bay, there is a seafood version of ... |
579299_2 | Older and Skilled, New Nuns Are Working to Widen Roles | home." A few weeks later, she would put her plans in motion. Far from docile, many of these women are quiet revolutionaries who stand in loving opposition to the church. Many support the ordination of women. They want nuns to have a visible role at the alter. And they are impatient with the church's failure to make con... |
579157_5 | Challenge to the Faithful | as the church's Eastern European stronghold. In Czechoslovakia, Communism's fall unearthed a network of 300 secretly ordained priests who had kept the faith alive during decades of repression, but whom the Vatican is now attempting to purge because of what is seen as their unacceptable status. Some are married. Some ar... |
579484_6 | Hawaii's Gentle Throwback | macadamia nuts, arugula, bamboo shoots, ginger root, shitake mushrooms, fresh goat milk cheese, as well as flowers and snacks. The market, protected under awnings from the inevitable rains, fills two empty lots on either side of Mamo Street at Kamehameha Avenue. Not far away, on Hilo Bay, there is a seafood version of ... |
579369_2 | Technology; Turning a Stew of Old Tires Into Energy | chain of processes took a new twist in early December when Texaco successfully tested a device that cooks old tires into a liquid. It does so in a bath of waste oil, like old lubricating or transmission oil or even antifreeze from cars. At a laboratory in Montebello, Calif., in Los Angeles County (and, appropriately en... |
579321_0 | Immigration's an Effect Of Population Growth | To the Editor: "Calls to Restrict Immigration Come From Many Quarters" (The Week in Review, Dec. 13) shows immigration as the thorny issue it is, though you barely explore the complexities of immigration and its chief cause -- global overpopulation. Also, you incorrecly state that the Sierra Club is a member of the Coa... |
574669_4 | Gifts of Gab for '93 | and somewhat overpriced paperback "If I Had a Hi-Fi" by William Irvine (Laurel, $5.99), which includes We panic in a pew and Desserts, I stressed and the ambitious Some men interpret nine memos . (Gary Muldoon of Rochester, in the course of explaining to me that the word mnemonic comes from the Greek goddess Mnemosyne,... |
574870_2 | As Americans Adjust Nature, Wolves Get Pushed Around | postponed the kill and invited conservation and wildlife groups to a "wolf summit" in Fairbanks next month. Rearranging the Neighborhood The wolf, whether in the Arctic tundra or outside a Montana cattle ranch, is no mere spectator in the natural world. Efficient meat-eaters, a pack of wolves can rearrange the order of... |
574938_0 | Are Disabled Just Regular People? | In response to reading "Coram Housing Project for Disabled Imperiled" [ Nov. 15 ] , I propose the creation of a new organization entitled Nimby, for Negative Insensitive Mistrusting Biased Yahoos, to combat this frightening trend of warm community acceptance of housing for people with disabilities. This organization sh... |
574927_3 | Scientists Alarmed Over Plan to Launch Reactor Aboard a Satellite | more than 30 small nuclear reactors in orbit, mainly to power spy satellites designed to monitor Western naval operations. In 1978, one of these satellites crashed in northern Canada, spreading irradiated debris over the desolate region. While scientists have recognized the problems from orbiting reactors for several y... |
574920_60 | Notable Books of the Year 1992 | 800 to the late 11th century. CHINA: A New History. By John King Fairbank. (Belknap/ Harvard University, $27.95.) A grand ambition, grandly achieved in Fairbank's final book: the analytic narrative is full of intelligent ideas, original contributions and up-to-date scholarship. THE CIVIL WAR IN THE AMERICAN WEST. By Al... |
574920_67 | Notable Books of the Year 1992 | as a prototype for the developing war. Medicine & Psychology THE "ABORTION PILL": RU-486, a Woman's Choice. By Etienne-Emile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. (Simon & Schuster, $22.) The discoverer of the antihormone RU-486 lucidly explains the discovery and its workings, his views on social responsibility and the politica... |
574763_0 | Need Tires? The Writing's on the Wall | FOR the average driver -- and even for a driver who is avidly interested -- tires are the most boring part of an automobile. As long as they are round and not too flat on the bottom, they don't get a second look. But they should. Air bags and antilock brakes and side-impact protection in the doors are all well and good... |
574563_0 | Smoking Ban on All Flights Near | THE world's nonsmokers should find flying less bothersome in the years ahead as a result of action by the International Civil Aviation Organization. In an action taken by consensus, that is, agreement without a vote, it decided to bring about an end to all smoking aboard airplanes by July 1, 1996. The Assembly of the o... |
573813_8 | Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic | these compressed messages you fill in the blanks and think you've met your soulmate, but in fact a lot of these people have trouble functioning normally." The world of the message boards breeds rumor and conspiratorial thinking. Many users will speculate that an important writer or producer is "lurking": reading messag... |
573759_0 | U.N. FOLLOWING UP ACCORDS FROM RIO | After difficult negotiations between industrialized and developing countries, the two sides have agreed on the make-up and the powers of an agency to monitor how governments live up to the promises they made in June in Rio de Janeiro at the first Earth Summit. Under an informal agreement reached by assembly delegates l... |
577308_2 | BUSINESS DIGEST | withdraw from the passenger car business, it said, reversing earlier pronouncements. Such a withdrawal would allow it to concentrate on trucks and recreational vehicles. [ D3. ] Police in Los Angeles arrested 22 people and seized equipment as part of a nationwide investigation into the theft of millions of dollars of a... |
577737_1 | Technology; Improving Safety When Removing Lead-Based Paint | alternative to that disposal, the company, which has been moving into environmental businesses as it gets out of its disastrous involvement with financial services, has developed a process to remove almost all the lead from sand after it has been used in blasting. The mobile system, which is mounted on a 24-foot-long f... |
577717_9 | Japan's Nuclear Fiasco | customers for the European reprocessing centers. Officially, the Japanese say they are unfazed. "Were Japan to be the only nation working in this area," the Foreign Ministry said last month, the country would "view its responsibility as even greater and redouble its efforts to contribute to the international community ... |
577808_4 | What Has the World Done for Bosnia?; A Diary of Disgrace | the Serbs an ultimatum: Stop shelling Sarajevo and put all heavy guns under U.N. control or face military action. A senior American official said, meanwhile, "No action is imminent." July 3 -- The Serbs temporarily withdrew from the airport but without relinquishing their heavy guns. The airlift began, but only fitfull... |
578708_2 | CHINA SAYS FRANCE MUST CLOSE OFFICE | quarreling with three major powers: France, over the fighter sale; Great Britain, over the pace of political change in Hong Kong; and the United States, over various matters including the sale of F-16 fighters to Taiwan. High-Level Visit to Taiwan President Bush announced the F-16 sale in September, and he further anno... |
574530_2 | Religion Notes | and Presbyterian, respectively, two groups that often take politically liberal positions. On Violence in the World This weekend has been set aside as a "Sabbath of Prayer and Petition" in mosques, synagogues and churches for human tragedies in two different parts of the world: one in Europe and the other in Africa. Ame... |
574377_0 | Lev Zetlin, 74, an Expert on Structural Disasters | Lev Zetlin, an internationally known civil engineer who helped to design innovative buildings and was an expert on structural disasters, died yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee. He was 74 years old and lived in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. He died of cardiac arrest, his family said. Dr. Zetlin worked with ... |
575233_2 | Sexual Behavior Levels Compared in Studies In Britain and France | to 69 were randomly selected from lists of households with telephones and interviewed by telephone. The French researchers found that more than 56 percent of men and 43.7 percent of women said they used a condom during intercourse at least once in the past year. The most widespread use of condoms was among 18- and 19-y... |
575223_2 | Planetary 'Slingshot' Aims Craft At a Rendezvous With Jupiter | failed. Beginning Dec. 28, engineers plan to make a last-ditch attempt to open the stuck antenna. As well as they can determine from a distance, engineers think three of the 18 graphite-epoxy ribs remain stuck to the antenna's central shaft. This has prevented full deployment of the molybdenum mesh that should stretch ... |
573946_2 | New System Lets Computer Identify Pictures and Images | bytes, of information each day, Sarnoff researchers said. To cope with this flood of information, researchers at Sarnoff, which was the research arm of the RCA Corporation until the General Electric Company acquired RCA in 1986, have devised ways to ignore most of the data. "Much like the human visual system, Smart Sen... |
573945_0 | Europe's Farmers Protest Trade Agreement | With France busily trying to win allies in its fight against a United States-European Community farm trade agreement, tens of thousands of farmers from across Western Europe filled the streets of the French border city of Strasbourg today to protest the pact. French farm unions, which contend that the farm trade accord... |
579776_0 | BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY: A Year of Transitions; Planning a Future of Telephones Without Tethers | In 1992, the telecommunications industry was not so much on hold as on continuous call-waiting, with the forces of new technology, industry consolidation and government regulation piling up like so many urgent telephone messages. The industry's most visible story involved something that cannot be seen: radio frequencie... |
575693_0 | A New Microwave System Poses Threat to Cable TV | The Federal Communications Commission approved a new microwave technology today to transmit simultaneously dozens of channels of television, telephone calls and large amounts of data. The system, which would use superhigh-frequency radio signals to deliver up to 49 television channels, could pose a threat to the virtua... |
578344_0 | A (Nearly) Presidential Call for Care in Holiday Imbibing | A SOUTHERN BAPTIST, described as a social drinker who has a beer now and then, hardly seems the ideal spokesman for a national public-service announcement warning holiday revelers about the perils of drunken driving. It makes sense, though, when he turns out to be Bill Clinton. Between Christmas and New Year's Day, the... |
579641_2 | Guns at Airports: a Common Problem | hijackings in 1969, there has been only one attempted hijacking in the last two years, and it failed. Still, there are gaps in the security system that worry some experts. Frank G. McGuire of Silver Spring, Md., the editor of a security intelligence newsletter, said a lawyer he knows broke his leg not long ago and had ... |
524661_0 | U.S. Informally Offers to Cut Rise in Climate-Warming Gases | The Bush Administration has for the first time offered to curb the increase in climate-warming gases released into the atmosphere by American factories, trucks and automobiles as part of a proposed agreement being prepared for a top-level international environmental conference to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June. This... |
523422_4 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Environment; Clinton Links Ecology Plans With Jobs | environmental protection and asserted it was time for "Congress and the Democratic Party" to step up to the challenge. Some Bush campaign strategists have begun speculating that Mr. Clinton's environmental record can be held against him by showcasing sites like the polluted White River region in northwestern Arkansas, ... |
523441_2 | Teheran Journal; From the Back Seat in Iran, Murmurs of Unrest | any educational level has become the home." Even women whose careers have soared with the revolution complain about discrimination. Fatemeh Karrubi, the 44-year-old director of the powerful Martyrs' Foundation Hospital Center, and her husband, Mehdi Karrubi, the Speaker of the Parliament, both of them so-called hard-li... |
523470_0 | I.M.F. Trims Global Growth Forecast | The International Monetary Fund sharply reduced its forecast for the world economy today, saying growth would be only a sluggish 1.4 percent this year. Last October the I.M.F. predicted 2.7 percent growth for 1992. Fund officials said today that they cut that forecast largely because the United States had taken longer ... |
519944_3 | Nutrasweet's Race With the Calendar | by Accident Aspartame was discovered in 1965, when a scientist researching proteins for an ulcer drug licked his finger and noticed a sweet taste. Twenty-seven years later, Nutrasweet sweetens nearly 5,000 different products, ranging from sugar-free gum balls to Ultra Slim-Fast shakes. Monsanto began preparing for the ... |
519817_0 | Reviews/Film; Engaging in Conversation on the Normandy Coast | In Bernt Capra's "Mindwalk," opening today at the Film Forum, an alienated scientist (Liv Ullmann), a losing candidate for the United States Presidency (Sam Waterston), and an American poet (John Heard) who lives in self-imposed exile in France meet by chance at Mont-St.-Michel and spend the day walking and talking. Th... |
524870_0 | Curb on Population Growth Needed Urgently, U.N. Says | After revising upward its forecasts for world population growth, a United Nations agency called today for "a sustained and concerted program starting immediately" to curb the expansion. It said such action was needed to reduce poverty and hunger and to protect the earth's natural resources. Releasing its latest populat... |
524898_1 | Large Study Will Test Whether Drug Prevents Breast Cancer | estimated 180,000 American women this year, and there will be 46,000 deaths, authorities said. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women aged 40 to 45, and the risk of developing the disease rises with age. Heart disease is the leading killer of women above age 65. Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pit... |
519106_0 | Draft of Environmental Rules: 'Global Partnership' | Following is the draft text of a declaration of principles for encouraging environmentally responsible development that is to be considered in June by leaders attending an environmental summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro: THE CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, Having Met at Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14 1992, ... |
519106_3 | Draft of Environmental Rules: 'Global Partnership' | be provided. Principle 11. States shall enact effective environmental legislation. Environmental standards, management objectives and priorities should reflect the environmental and developmental context to which they apply. Standards applied by some countries may be inappropriate and of unwarranted economic and social... |
519188_4 | East Orange Journal; Volunteers Make Textbooks That Open the World to the Blind | books that were already Brailled here often come from other states with which the bindery has a reciprocal arrangement. Sold on a cost-recovery basis, these books help finance the bindery, Mrs. Bente said. Each transcriber must be certified by the Library of Congress after a nine-month training course. The Red Cross of... |
519018_0 | What Aristotle and Cicero Tell Us About the Fate of the Mafiosi | To the Editor: Robert Stone decries the decline of an ancient code of honor and self-sacrifice shown in betrayals by Mafiosi. He states: "a Mafioso's self-image as a Man of Honor bound him to a tradition with some heroic pretensions, one deeply rooted in the Mediterranean past" (Op-Ed, March 15). Mr. Stone's analysis, ... |
519281_0 | Technology; A View of Earth Never Seen Before | Imagine floating 500 miles above Earth in a glass-bottomed spaceship. The ship is traveling 100,000 miles an hour as it circles the planet in less than three minutes. The view is perpetually in sunlight and cloudless, so passengers can see Earth as if the continents were lifted from the pages of a gigantic atlas. With ... |
519123_0 | Bracing for Worst in West Coast Salmon Country | Faced for the first time with a possible shutdown of all salmon fishing off the West Coast, the coastal communities dependent on the seasonal returns of the legendary fish are bracing for a season of despair. Anticipating the worst, owners are boarding up their fresh fish markets instead of preparing to open. Big troll... |
519370_2 | In Florida, Testing Road to the Future | from Orlando's traffic management center. The information, in turn, comes from highway video cameras, road sensors, emergency vehicles and construction reports. Each car's location is pinpointed by the satellite and through compasses and wheel sensors on a computerized dashboard map that operates with a database provid... |
519061_0 | ENVIRONMENTAL AID FOR POOR NATIONS APPROVED AT U.N. | Representatives from more than 160 nations agreed early today on a document that commits the industrial nations of the Northern Hemisphere to help the poorer countries of the South develop in a way that will not damage the environment. The document, in draft form, was the only full accord to come out of five weeks of n... |
521685_0 | New Study Bolsters Skin Cancer's Link To Halogen Lamps | Scientists said today that they have more evidence that halogen lights may increase the risk of skin cancer, a risk that apparently can be eliminated by using simple glass or plastic covers over the bulbs. Researchers at the University of Genoa in Italy, in a letter published in the current issue of the journal Nature,... |
520940_0 | Editorial Notebook; The Horror Files | People throughout Eastern Europe struggle with the question of how to deal with the contents of Big Brother's files. Is there a middle ground between total amnesty and wholesale purges in post-dictatorial societies? What seems to be a morally defensible answer emerged at a conference I attended recently in Salzburg. Po... |
520941_0 | Editorial Notebook; The Horror Files | People throughout Eastern Europe struggle with the question of how to deal with the contents of Big Brother's files. Is there a middle ground between total amnesty and wholesale purges in post-dictatorial societies? What seems to be a morally defensible answer emerged at a conference I attended recently in Salzburg. Po... |
520656_2 | Soviet Collapse Endangers Indian Power Projects | variety of additional factors could well delay that goal, including slow work, widespread corruption, the theft of power cables and diversions of electricity. The Tehri Dam is expected to produce 2,400 megawatts of power. Officials say that India has tapped only 13 percent of its total hydroelectric potential, estimate... |
520624_5 | 116-Year-Old Company Thrives on Innovation | previous year the company established a foothold in Europe by buying a United Technologies plant in Brescia, Italy, and a business owned by Altecna, a division of Fiat. "So if 'Fortress Europe' slams closed, which is looking less likely but could still be possible, we're now inside the European Economic Community and r... |
522289_0 | Patents; Potential Drug To Fight AIDS | Genelabs Technologies Inc., a biotechnology concern in Redwood, City, Calif., has patented the genetic code to reproduce a potential drug to fight AIDS that is derived from a Chinese flowering plant called Trichosanthes kirilowii. Alpha-trichosanthin, the compound isolated from the plant, has been used in China to indu... |
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522865_2 | I.R.A. Candidate Says Vote Loss Is Temporary | small boys, hugged three old women who spoke to him in Gaelic, then replied: "I see no evidence of that. I don't expect that to happen." During the campaign, Mr. Adams emphasized that Sinn Fein advocated a peaceful settlement, not violence. But he held to his party's refusal to condemn I.R.A. attacks, which have caused... |
518045_1 | Computer Tests Pump More Miles Into Tires | XH4, is available for a wide range of wheel sizes, and is priced between $60 and $120, depending on size. Tire industry experts say that the tire represents a breakthrough in durability, although they consider it unlikely that many customers will collect on the warranty because of strict rules for tire maintenance. For... |
518156_0 | Ulster Catholic Hopes Vote Advances Peace | John Hume, viewed as the most effective Roman Catholic political leader in Northern Ireland, wants the British election campaign to be a referendum on the violence that has killed some 3,000 people in Ulster since 1969. For the time being, the violence has subsided while politicians compete for the 17 seats Northern Ir... |
518186_1 | After 16 Years as President of Tufts, Scientist Counts His Achievements | Mr. Freedman said, Dr. Mayer has used his own "well-established reputation to give Tufts a higher public profile." Last Friday, for example, Mr. Freedman and Dr. Mayer announced an agreement to establish an innovative program under which students at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Dartmouth's Amos Tuck ... |
518051_0 | Harriet Mandelbaum, Children's Lobbyist, 79 | Harriet Mandelbaum, who spent decades of her life working in behalf of autistic and other mentally impaired children, died on Thursday at Caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn. She was 79 years old and lived in Brooklyn. Her family said a cerebral hemorrhage caused her death. She was active both in her community and on the n... |
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524315_2 | Chattanooga Journal; 4,000 Specimens in a 12-Story Bottle | the same time, would help downtown Chattanooga," said William Flynn, the president of the aquarium. "I've been working with aquariums in various cities for the better part of 35 years, and this is truly one-of-a-kind," he said. "In effect, you can follow a drop of rain from the point that it falls into the headwaters o... |
521670_0 | French Angered at Ruling on Nazi Collaborator | French politicians, newspapers, human rights groups and a chorus of other voicesexpressed outrage today over a Paris court's decision to drop charges of crimes against humanity against a Frenchman accused of killing Jews in Nazi-occupied France in World War II. The decision on Monday, which is to be challenged before t... |
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