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895110_3 | Dior's Look, 50 Years Ago And Now | United States just after the New Look was introduced and met with Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus, who tutored him in the concept of marketing and hype. Fashion has never been the same. But within the work of the inventor of fashion's system of outdating and innovating are some of the most intelligent, thought-provokin... |
895134_1 | Panel Recommends Costly Program of Improved Airport Security | House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, and some of the recommendations made today are similar to those of the commission. But the advisory committee called for spending far more, saying the money should come from general tax revenues since attacks on planes were not directed against the aviation industry but... |
895158_1 | Retaliating, Mexico Increases 8 Tariffs on U.S. | control of Congress and the Mexico City government. Among the United States products slapped with higher tariffs for the next three years are wine, wine coolers and brandy, which will be subject to 20 percent duty instead of the 14 percent otherwise levied. This year, only about $1 million in such products will be ship... |
896398_1 | Today's Garden of Eden, Fouled by Adam and Eve | like it,'' said Michael Kaye, an American who operates a company specializing in ecotourism, Costa Rica Expeditions, in the capital, San Jose. ''But that damage has been done, so the thing we have to do now is mitigate its effects.'' The continued well-being of Manuel Antonio and 27 other parks and reserves is of vital... |
896374_3 | Still Waiting for the E-Mail and Faxes to Start Coming In? | ''E-mail directories'' in the search box. (Or you can click on ''electronic mail'' and then ''white pages,'' also from ''computers and Internet.'') Don't be confused by the many Internet and Web site directories in book form that are sold at bookstores. They are as thick as big-city phone books and are good for Web sit... |
896507_0 | Isolating Myanmar Would Only Cause Hardship for Its People | To the Editor: The logic of ''Doing Business in Myanmar'' (editorial, Dec. 16) and its call for Unocal to withdraw from Myanmar escapes me. If history has shown us anything, it is that economic isolation only causes chaos, suffering and hardship for the people it is intended to help. It does nothing to improve living s... |
896711_0 | In Tokyo, Speculation About Role For Castro | As officials search for ways to end the hostage crisis in Peru, one of the more intriguing possibilities is the notion of asking for help from Cuba. It may be anathema to Washington, but officials in some other countries think that a neat solution might involve allowing passage to Cuba for the guerrillas who have seize... |
893417_1 | In the Changed Landscape of Recruiting, Academic and Corporate Worlds Merge | its own new demands: recruits had to arrive ready to start work, and to be able to work in new ways, because the middle managers who once would have trained them were mostly gone. Those forces, in turn, are beginning to influence higher education, which has responded by adding internships, cultivating closer relationsh... |
893402_0 | Questions on Estrogen Therapy and Alcohol | ABOUT 25 percent of postmenopausal women in the United States take estrogen replacement therapy because of evidence that it prevents osteoporosis and heart disease. Even more of these women feel free to have a drink now and then because of research showing that it, too, may protect against heart disease. But a new stud... |
893476_0 | Building Is Booming and California Lawyers Are Massing on State Line | It happened first in California 15 years ago: a housing boom touched off a litigation boom as legions of lawyers filed lawsuits accusing builders of shoddy workmanship. Now it is Nevada's turn. Fueled by Americans' gambling fever, Las Vegas and other Nevada resort cities have seen dizzying economic and population growt... |
897594_3 | Change and Renewal in a Heartland City | motor line that will mean 40 new jobs here, and Mr. Girdlestone says he is looking to add more jobs to offset the 200-plus that went south. Since Hoover was bought by Maytag in 1989, people have watched to see whether the company would continue its century-old business and philanthropic commitment to North Canton, or w... |
896027_0 | Congress Should Act On Women's Rights | To the Editor: President Clinton is correct in rebuking the Senate for not approving the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (news article, Dec. 11). Ratified by 154 countries, this landmark international agreement calls for action to insure the full development and... |
896046_5 | Storm Swirls Over Aboriginal Salmon In Maine's Rivers | more can be produced than in the wild. Small populations like those in New England are especially vulnerable to overfishing and natural disasters at sea. Curbs have been placed on commercial fishing for salmon, and a decade ago the outlook seemed bright: salmon returning to the seven Maine rivers numbered more than 2,0... |
894655_2 | Monsanto Chooses a Spinoff Of Its Chemical Operations | produce their own pesticides and manufactured hormones that raise a cow's milk production. The food ingredients business includes Nutrasweet, the world's leading artificial sweetener, and G. D. Searle, Monsanto's drug subsidiary, is strong in several niches, including insomnia and arthritis drugs. The three ''life scie... |
894616_0 | Emergency Rule Keeps Ireland's Strife in Check | To the Editor: Norman Dorsen, the chairman of the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights, contends (letter, Dec. 2) that the way to secure a renewed Irish Republican Army cease-fire in Northern Ireland is to end the emergency legislation that, he asserts, has been in effect since 1922. In fact, the current legislation, the ... |
894706_3 | Police Officer Is Run Down At Crash Site | and the other vehicle in the left lane of the three-lane highway, leaving only a single lane between them for traffic. Officer Forster, a Queens resident, and his partner, Stephen Cowan, working a midnight-to-8 A.M. shift, went to the scene and regarded the narrow passing lane as ''a very dangerous condition,'' the lie... |
894641_2 | New 'Evita' Look Is Too Alive and Well | gal not been on life support on Paris runways for the last 50 years. It can never look new again. For instance, Bill Blass had predicted early on that ''Evita'' would be a huge influence on fashion. ''That was before I saw the pictures of Madonna in those clothes,'' he said more recently. ''She looks much older. Honey,... |
894710_2 | NEW LOOK URGED ON GULF SYNDROME | Force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects. ''Un-lead is probably a better word than mislead,'' he said. ''I know what a complex organization we're dealing with, how many different turfs there are,'' Dr. Lederberg said. ''The intelligence units in particular are very jealous of anything they hold. They particularly defy ... |
897145_1 | To Control Cambodia, Rivals Are Stripping It Bare | now range over about 35 percent, said the London-based environmental lobbying group Global Witness. Much of the loss has come in the last five years. Since the start of this year, logging has been officially banned in Cambodia, and an export ban has been in place since April 1995. But the bans have had little effect. '... |
897127_1 | The 'Oldest Old,' 80 and Over, Are on the Increase Globally | the American Association of Retired Persons, whose officials were eager to put their concerns in a global context. Demographers call the 80-plus group the ''oldest old'' and say it is one of the fastest-growing population segments around the world. Traditionally, demographers have divided populations into three major g... |
897044_14 | From Her Lips to God's Ear | mustard seed and. . . .'' Slowly Making Inroads in a Church Hierarchy WOMEN have long been the backbone of black churches, attending, giving and offering their services in greater proportion than men. Yet women are still trying to overcome resistance to their presence as members of the clergy. Although most major relig... |
893363_0 | Jammed Belgrade Radio Defies the Buzz of Power | Bumbling along behind the 100,000 or so protesters who circle the city center each afternoon in Belgrade, his head buried inside the hood of his thick yellow parka and his hands fumbling with a tape recorder, a mobile phone and a walkie-talkie, was a portly and disheveled radio reporter. To look at Aleksandar Timofejev... |
893018_1 | The Battle of Gramercy Park: Chapter 2 | art exhibits and film shoots. Most of Mr. James's critics, however, like to have their cake and dish, too; they tend to be club members who speak anonymously because they so enjoy the crackle and buzz of the place, much thanks to Mr. James's energy and networking. Speaking ill of the club is grounds for dismembership. ... |
892962_4 | Plant a Black Walnut (for Your Grandchildren) | medium, like sphagnum, and put them in the refrigerator for 80 to 120 days. ''Then pull the bag out and lay it in a cool, dark place,'' Mr. Chambers said, ''and keep checking it for sprouting seeds, which you can plant out.'' Squirrels are less likely to go after sprouted nuts, he added. Mr. Chambers mulches his beds o... |
892874_2 | Hopping to Who Knows Where | late, while your outgoing is invariably on time. In the central control room of the terminal, ground traffic controllers crouch over their screens tracking the rush of passengers trying to find their onward flights. As each sweating group of victims gets within 20 feet of the gate, they tell the pilot GO, GO and sit ar... |
892786_2 | Plunging Down River | that it is subject to closing during the flood season in July and August, when the swiftness of the current is such that even the most tenacious boatmen with their shrieking diesels cannot make progress against the tide. Today the river has just reopened and the current is still powerful. A backlog of Chinese and Weste... |
893084_1 | I.R.A.'s Political Wing Still Hopes to Join Talks | policy.'' He added that British officials were still prepared to talk to Sinn Fein privately about the situation. Some officials and analysts in Dublin and Belfast said Mr. Major's statement could provoke the I.R.A. to new attacks like the series of bombings that broke the 17-month cease-fire in February. ''Nothing is ... |
892779_2 | Adding Reading to the Health Care Plan | a new book written in English, Spanish or both languages. (About half the patients at the clinic speak Spanish.) Then Dr. Shader incorporates books into examining the children. ''It's the developmental lesson of your dreams,'' said Dr. Shader. ''We use the book to do a developmental assessment. At six months, the child... |
896551_2 | Treasures Trickle Back to a Plundered Cambodia | next month of a 10th-century Angkorean head of Shiva that is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Six bronze pieces sent to the Guimet Museum in Paris for cleaning and safekeeping in the 1970's could also be returned in the coming months, he said. ''There are many ongoing projects to recover artifacts,'' Mr. Cav... |
895461_0 | Fliers Suffer Identity Crises | JIM LANGLEY, owner of the Travel Agency in Chiefland, Fla., near Gainesville, has since Oct. 16 been printing an additional message on the bottom of every itinerary he sends to customers. It says: ''Due to security regulations, all passengers over age 18 must have a federal, state or locally issued photo ID that matche... |
895798_1 | Irish Protestants Feeling More Irish | priests, 26 of whom are women. ''In earlier times, the majority of the Church of Ireland would have a presumed link with the United Kingdom,'' he said. ''There was among us a certain timidity, a keeping of the head down, a consciousness of being a minority. We would have been quiet. The Catholic Church was very triumph... |
895746_2 | The Man at the Helm of Fashion's Future | have two core-customer sets, and we have terminology for these: one is ''Fashion Guard,'' and this is our core customer who tends to be 45 to 55 years old, typically married and typically does not work. Their children are out of the house, again highly educated, very mobile, wealthy, and they demand very high-end produ... |
895523_0 | On Radiation And Breast Cancer | How much radiation would it take to cause cancer, especially breast cancer? Should comprehensive studies of breast cancer on Long Island examine radiation sources? These are questions in which I, as a Long Island-raised woman and as a physician specializing in radiation-induced malignancies, have great interest -- both... |
893778_0 | Pope's Talk With Anglican Leader Appears to Stall | As they prayed together this evening in a small chapel on one of Rome's hills, Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, head of the world's Anglican community, tried hard to cast a harmonious glow over one of the most contentious dialogues in the Christian world. Yet at the end of the Anglican ... |
894126_8 | Travel | after buying the last available food from a starving family, he observes, ''I couldn't shake off the feeling that I had done something terrible.'' Ms. Logan, a former aerospace scientist who had studied martial arts in California as well as languages, works a fair amount of karate mysticism into her tale, but in spite ... |
894433_8 | Legally, Now, Venezuelans to Mine Fragile Lands | groundwater supply. But the trees that surround the banks of Minerven's silver pond are dead, presumably because the cyanide has reached them. ''The theory that the tailings seal up the pores is not a reliable safeguard,'' said Philip M. Hocker, president of the Washington-based Mineral Policy Center. ''It's a long-ter... |
894314_4 | The Gay Party Planet Moves Into a Wider Orbit | to ballet and hospital benefits. ''We're getting married here in March,'' said Shelley J. Kravitz, a Dade County judge, who was with her fiance, Jose Garcia-Pedrosa, the City Manager of Miami Beach. ''I'll be wearing ivory, not white.'' Nearby, Michael Aller, the tourism and convention coordinator for Miami Beach, was ... |
894428_0 | Gas Pipeline Gives Critics Of Myanmar New Focus | When the big white company helicopter settled onto the sand here on the shore of the Andaman Sea recently, almost the entire fishing village hurried out to watch, with scores of children waving from under the shade of a banyan tree. This is where a 415-mile natural gas pipeline will rise up from deep under the ocean an... |
894442_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-27 SERB REBELLION ON THE INTERNET When President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia tried to shut down independent news media, he spawned a movement that may undermine his hold on power -- the use of Internet web sites for news. 1 In Bosnia, a group of Serbs went home to a Muslim area. 20 CHINA'S NEW THROWAWA... |
894106_2 | Architecture | Athena Polias -- more familiarly known as the Parthenon -- is among the most exhaustively studied of ancient monuments. Thus yet another monograph on the largest Doric shrine (and, the book says, the only Greek temple made wholly of marble) seems at first superfluous. But the 11 essays assembled by Panayotis Tournikiot... |
894048_22 | The Internet's Arrested Development | and making them less vulnerable to attack -- and its greatest virtue may still be its capacity to become a repository for our more presentable side. If the Net is a basement in need of cleaning, it's also the library at Alexandria rebuilt or a permanent, distortion-proof version of that archive maintained by the band o... |
894057_2 | Touring China's Past, and a Bit of America's | enough to see the army of 6,000 terra-cotta warriors surrounding the tomb of the founder of the short-lived Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shihuang. But when I landed in the Chongqing Airport on a warm Saturday afternoon in mid-October (the flight from Xian on China Northwest Airlines cost $72), it did me good to see a woman... |
894150_1 | In New Castle, Recycling Comes Easily | 300 to 400 cars in on Wednesdays and Saturdays when we're open,'' said Mr. McHugh, who has been in charge of the recycling center since it was started six years ago. ''On Saturdays, we have to direct traffic at the gate because the place is so packed. Neighbors who haven't seen each other in years meet one another. Pol... |
894149_2 | New Way to Treat the Holidays, As the Environmentalists See It | be used for packing material; shred them and use them instead of little styrofoam bubbles. And brown paper grocery bags can be used to wrap packages for mailing instead of going out and buying rolls of brown paper just for that purpose. When it comes to energy, people can save gasoline by shopping at home by means of t... |
894080_1 | How Landfills Could Light Up Houses | the emerging technology,'' said William L. Stillinger, Northeast Utilities' director of research and environmental planning. First used in spacecraft, fuel cells are being used increasingly as power plants for electricity. The cells, also found in experimental cars and buses, operate with few moving parts, minimal exha... |
893198_1 | At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre | the Scituate Reservoir, the state's major water source, remains an ''environmental time bomb waiting to go off,'' in the words of Michael Blumenthal, executive director of the Scrap Tire Management Council, an industry group. Mr. Davis did not return numerous phone calls seeking comment. The events that led junkyard op... |
898470_1 | Ringing in Recycling | Rudolph Giuliani seems to be backing away from his longstanding coolness toward the city recycling program. Instead, the city is embracing the concept of recycling as a potential jobs-creator. A paper mill in Staten Island could be one of many new businesses dedicated to making use of the city's unlimited supply of tra... |
894850_0 | INSIDE | Hope for Cerebral Palsy Researchers are uncovering data suggesting that cerebral palsy and possibly mental retardation might be largely preventable in very premature infants with a well-known and inexpensive drug. Page C13. Sex Offender Law in Court The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a state can legally keep ... |
897302_1 | Disabled Children's Families Brace for Benefit Cuts | a witching hour is fast approaching. As part of the new welfare bill signed by President Clinton this year, eligibility requirements are being tightened in an effort by Congress to trim the costs of welfare programs and to eliminate fraud. More than 700,000 of the children in the disability program are not threatened b... |
897249_2 | Relic Brings Clout and Miracle Seekers to a Queens Church | only known relic from the body of St. Irene, a ninth-century abbess who preferred the austere life of a convent to marriage and whose name is Greek for peace. ''We think she will bring us good things,'' said Archbishop Paisios Loulourgas, leader of the Genuine Orthodox Christians in America. ''We feel blessed and renew... |
898355_5 | Lacking Barricades, France Is in a Funk | French foreign policy decisions -- including initial resistance to German unification and to Boris Yeltsin, and support for Slobodan Milosevic and for Rwanda's Hutus -- have given an impression of disarray or cynicism that is hard to square with the ambition, expressed by Mr. Chirac, of being ''an example to the world.... |
898094_3 | A Decision to Save a Lump of Terra Cotta and Brick | Lefcourt, the clothing manufacturer who later built much of the present garment district, moved from the old Hotel Majestic, at 72d Street and Central Park West. PERHAPS they gathered on the roof in September 1909 to watch the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, commemorating the 300th anniversary of Hudson's trip up the river ... |
898085_10 | Trend-Spotting: It's All the Rage | AS IN ENTERTAINMENT, SO too, in intellectual life. The controversy over the canon in the universities -- questioning whether the great books of the West should still be required reading -- is a controversy over whether this tradition (which is actually a multiplicity of traditions) will be a presence in the future. But... |
898102_6 | Phones of the Future Tested in Garden City | her phone bills were smaller since her son began E-mailing friends in France and Norway. She said she planned to use it to keep in touch with her son Christopher when he travels to Japan next year to teach. Ms. Wainwright told of an elderly woman who learned about E-mail while she was at the high school getting a flu s... |
898062_3 | Italy Braces Itself for Holy Year | backpacking students, but also Eastern European visitors on shoestring finances who clog the city but spend little in its restaurants, museums and high-priced shopping streets. Thus, the problem is not one confronting the luxury hotels -- the Danieli and Gritti Palace in Venice or the Excelsior and Hassler in Rome -- t... |
898439_8 | Urban Sprawl Strains Western States | Jersey metropolitan area has better air quality than the Salt Lake Valley when measured for carbon monoxide, one of the main components of unhealthy air. City officials say that unless Salt Lake acts to limit sprawl and curb auto emissions, the face it will present to the world during the 2002 Winter Olympics could be ... |
897362_0 | Gene Trigger Discovery May Help Protect Crops | IN a discovery that could help in the effort to guard agricultural crops from blight and reduce the need for pesticides, scientists have identified a genetic trigger that protects plants from disease. Researchers found that it could be used like a vaccine and injected into plants across family lines, immunizing them fr... |
897360_5 | Pronghorn's Speed May Be Legacy of Past Predators | for their offspring on the basis of vigor and athletic prowess, which is exactly what females do. When the mating season begins, males work to herd groups of females. But as soon as a female is ready to mate she begins to attempt escape, leading the male on sprinting chases and drawing the attention of challenging male... |
897440_2 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Biotechnology Drugs Advance Two biotechnology drugs moved closer to market. Teva Pharmaceutical of Israel received marketing clearance from the F.D.A. for Copaxone to treat multiple sclerosis. And Agouron Pharmaceuticals of California filed a request with the agency for permission to market Viracept to treat H.I.V. inf... |
893600_2 | Embarrassed, France Halts Thomson Sale | denounced the idea of giving away part of the national patrimony in the name of market efficiency -- and to foreigners, to boot. Prime Minister Alain Juppe only intensified the fury by pointing out that the company, long the pride of French high-technology industry, was worth not even a franc because it had 14 billion ... |
844274_0 | The High Cost of a Fine Smoke | The fall of the Soviet Union and rising American animus toward one of Marxism's last bulwarks are taking a sharp toll on an illicit pleasure: the consumption of Cuban cigars. Though illegal to import, buy or sell here since President John F.Kennedy imposed a trade embargo on the Castro regime in July 1963, Cuban cigars... |
846121_0 | For Schools and Business: Radio Hookup to Internet | In a move that could sharply cut the cost of hooking up schools and companies to the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce on Thursday a proposal to set aside a portion of the airwaves for free and unlicensed high-speed communications over short distances. Under the proposal, the Government ... |
846225_2 | Constructing Both the Musical Language and the Music | a world reconfigured in Pythagorean numbers, as if all those teeming chord textures were colored illustrations for a novel. Rejecting recent musical history, Mr. Xenakis sought connections with much earlier Greek ideas of musical proportion. It was a congenial world for him, one where science and music, rationality and... |
846088_0 | In France, Socialized Medicine Meets Gallic Version of H.M.O. | The French Government today announced sweeping changes in the national health care system that are intended to curb spending and help tame the budget deficit. The new measures, among other things, will use computers to monitor every patient's costs and penalize doctors who surpass budgets for the care and prescriptions... |
841240_0 | Car Phones Tied to Accidents | Are cellular phones and cars a dangerous combination? A study by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that the accident rate for drivers with car phones was 34 percent higher than the rate for drivers without phones. State Senator Byron M. Baer, Democrat of Englewood, said yesterday that he had introduced a bill... |
841174_1 | Sports of The Times;Pitino Ball Leaps Front And Center | seat on the left side, his copy of USA Today opened to the college scores, and a notebook perched on his lap. Day after day, he would carefully copy the scores into his book. He once explained why he didn't simply cut and paste, something to the effect that he had his own structured system. To his credit, Pitino was no... |
841147_1 | An African Forest Harbors Vast Wealth and Peril | in the headquarters of European logging companies, plans are already being laid for the forest's exploitation. At the same time, groups from the World Wildlife Fund to the World Bank are racing to mount efforts to inventory the huge catalogue of plant and animal species that live here and to identify areas for strict c... |
841147_4 | An African Forest Harbors Vast Wealth and Peril | reasons for this increasing scarcity seem simple: their hunting has thinned game populations. "Wherever the barrel of the gun belches, the animals will try to avoid," said Hilarion Mikou. "After a time, if all is quiet, the animals will come back." For environmental experts, however, the picture is more complex. "These... |
842471_0 | Spy Plane Aids in Cleanup | A HIGH-ALTITUDE NASA research plane is gathering data to hasten the cleanup of hazardous waste at the California Gulch Superfund site in Leadville, Colo. The ER-2 plane carries a spectrometer, which is used to map minerals and other substances on the ground. Several Federal agencies are using the maps to detect sources... |
846831_0 | Corrections | A picture caption on Feb. 4 with an article about dealing with children who break the law misstated the name and mission of a residential treatment center in Hackensack. It is the Holley Child Care and Development Center, not Holly House, and it treats children with emotional handicaps, not youthful offenders. A letter... |
846919_2 | wit's end: Coping With E-Mail Overload | its E-mail system for four hours a day, between 10 A.M. and noon and again between 2 P.M. and 4 P.M. "People were spending too much time on E-mail," said Marc Sokol, vice president of advanced technology. "We said, 'Use it intelligently, don't use it spuriously.' " Until employees got used to the restrictions, Mr. Soko... |
845507_0 | Juno would be delighted to handle your E-mail free, but she would like something in return. | JUNO, the principal Roman goddess, wants to extend her hegemony into cyberspace. But even her husband, Jupiter, might evoke another mythological figure by describing her task as Herculean. This Juno is Juno Online Services L.P., which offers free electronic-mail service to computer users. To send and receive messages w... |
845519_0 | Shuttle Found Lost Sections of Great Wall in '94 | Segments of the Great Wall of China that have been lost in centuries of desert sand were discovered in radar images taken from the space shuttle Endeavour in April 1994, says a scientist with the space agency. The images show that two parallel sections of wall were built centuries apart, said the scientist, Diane Evans... |
842673_5 | 100 Days To Get Ready For Atlanta | and, at the same time, increasing difficulty if they are to crack the medal standing. Li Xiaoshuang led the Chinese men's team to a convincing victory over Japan in the 1995 world championships. Vitaly Shcherbo of Belarus, winner of six gold medals in the 1992 Olympics, is expected to be a major factor despite a should... |
843500_0 | College Bills and Rewards | To the Editor: In "Scrimping on College Has Its Own Price" (From the Desk Of, March 3), Amy Wu detailed the financial reasons for graduating from college in three years instead of four. Twenty-something years ago, when I graduated third in my class in a small Catholic high school, I was armed with a strong desire for a... |
843711_0 | Flood Is Called Right Tonic for Grand Canyon | An effort to help restore the Grand Canyon to a more natural state by inundating it with water released from an upstream dam "worked brilliantly," Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said on Thursday. "The flood is over; the waters have receded," Mr. Babbitt said. "What we have found is really quite extraordinary." He spo... |
843488_0 | Killer Instincts | THIS WEEK |
842286_3 | A New Turn in Brooklyn in Housing for the Elderly | states are called assisted-living developments have tended to avoid New York State as inhospitable from a regulatory standpoint. For one thing, public companies cannot be the provider of personal-care services for the elderly, a carryover from the nursing-home scandals in the 60's. New York State has its own termfor as... |
841946_3 | The Anatomy of Melancholy | distinctively modern about the new memoirs. Perhaps that is because their proliferation is as much a product of the literary marketplace as it is of the Zeitgeist. The inspiration is the unexpected best seller of 1990, William Styron's "Darkness Visible." Mr. Styron's goal is less autobiography than a literary tour de ... |
841898_6 | Connecticut Q&A: Dr. Terrell Ward Bynum;The Internet: In Need of a Value System | Not one way, but lots of ways. For example, the government could do what it did with the phone companies years ago -- give a monopoly in a particular region, but only if the service is made cheaper, so that anyone can afford it. In public libraries, it used to be that even the poorest person could go in and read the ne... |
842053_2 | . . . But a Summer Fresh Tomato, in Winter, Is Worth Waiting For | be fairly expensive to produce. But he is confident it will find a market, especially in the colder months when shoppers are forced to choose between cardboardlike artificially ripened Californian or Mexican tomatoes at about $1.50 a pound and passable tomatoes from abroad that cost at least twice that. He said the New... |
842045_8 | Preserving the Legacy Of Modernist Design | said the firm had not yet made any recommendations. And a lawyer for Unilever, Gordon J. Davis, said the company would have no comment -- not about future plans, the withdrawn application or even existing conditions. B UT two notable neighbors of Lever House give a glimpse at how complicated it can be to maintain a bui... |
842054_0 | A Man and His Tower Made Radio Sing | Edwin Howard Armstrong loved heights. When he built the 425-foot radio tower on the Palisades here in the late 1930's, he would climb it and swing from its 150-foot arms in a specially rigged deck chair. From the top of the tower, he could see the far tip of Long Island. It was from this tower, which still dominates th... |
842282_0 | Printed Matter | |
841944_0 | Moral Fiction | POETIC JUSTICE The Literary Imagination and Public Life. By Martha C. Nussbaum. 143 pp. Boston: Beacon Press. $20. IS reading fiction good for us? The novel came in with the modern world, the cocky young upstart among literary forms, and there have always been detractors skeptical of its social value. In the 18th centu... |
842204_0 | First Crop | |
842269_0 | Corrections | A brief report in the Blackboard pages of the special Education Life section last Sunday about Flashpoints, flashcards to help students study for the Scholastic Assessment Test, omitted part of the publisher's name. It is National Academic and Licensing Study Aids. |
842292_0 | Cellular Antenna Law Draws Suit on Legality | THE increasing popularity of cellular telephones, which in recent years have become essential tools for commuting executives and car-pooling parents, have created a dilemma for municipalities: where to place the antennas, towers and satellite dishes that telecommunications companies need to provide service. Some reside... |
845062_4 | BENDING THE RULES -- A special report.;Where a Zoning Law Failed, Seeds of a New York Revival | The effort to keep manufacturing jobs was built on rules; the new growth is premised on flexibility. City officials say the vaguely countercultural flavor of much of the new media businesses -- a broad category that includes everything from software developers to computer-graphic artists to video production companies -... |
845438_22 | ON THE TOWNS | history at Rutgers University, discusses recent American art depicting the Holocaust. Tomorrow at 8 P.M. Free. 222 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. (908) 545-6484. ART MUSEUM OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY "A Museum for Princeton: The Architecture," by Sara Bush, a graduate student in art and archaeology. Today at 3 P.M. "A ... |
845208_3 | The Rules of Extinction | book: the extinction of species in a world that has been hacked into pieces." On the mainland, drought, disease or a glut of predators may kill many members of a species, but rarely all. Large populations, widely spread, absorb the damage. Ultimately, they bounce back. Sheer abundance gives species a better chance of l... |
845393_0 | Life at Sea Is Lonelier If You Want Insurance | AN ill wind is buffeting pleasure boaters this year as they prepare to launch their craft for the spring. Devastating hurricanes out of the Caribbean in recent years have given insurance companies the jitters -- making boat insurance harder to find and more expensive in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean.... |
845079_0 | SUMMIT IN MOSCOW URGES A-TEST BAN | Concluding their summit meeting, President Boris N. Yeltsin and the leaders of major industrialized nations called today for a speedy enactment of a nuclear test ban and announced measures to stop the smuggling of nuclear bomb ingredients. But the session was also noteworthy for its warm embrace of the embattled Mr. Ye... |
844857_0 | BRISTOL-MYERS IN ANOTHER BIOTECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT | The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company said yesterday that it planned to make a $10 million investment in the Somatix Therapy Corporation, a biotechnology company, bringing its total investment in the company to $20 million. In exchange, Bristol-Myers, the pharmaceutical concern, has first rights to collaborate with Somatix ... |
844766_0 | About Real Estate;Residents Getting Action At an Embattled Building | Apartment life has not always been easy at the Chatsworth. On and off for the last three decades, the rent-stabilized building on the West Side of Manhattan has been the scene of major landlord-tenant battles, pushing it into financial and physical decline and since the late 1980's into the hands of a court-appointed r... |
844715_0 | In an Amazon Cave, Light Is Shed on Early Americans | Digging in a cave near the Amazon River in Brazil, archeologists have found stone weapons, rock paintings and other traces of what may have been one of the earliest human cultures in the Americas. The discovery could revise thinking -- and stir more controversy -- about the lives and migrations of the first Americans. ... |
845740_0 | 85 Achille Lauro Killing 'a Mistake' | To many Americans, the killing of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled passenger, by Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 stands as a uniquely brutal episode in the history of terrorism. To Mohammed Abbas, the leader of the band that committed the crime, it was a regrettable mistake. Mr. Abbas... |
845762_3 | SCIENTIST AT WORK: Anna C. Roosevelt;Sharp and To the Point In Amazonia | very passionate about being right," he said. The Debate Did Early Americans Live in the Tropics? The early settlement of the Americas is one of the most intractable mysteries of archeology. Despite some arguable evidence for human occupation as early as 30,000 years ago, scholars can agree only that hunters were living... |
842983_0 | Du Pont and BASF To Build Asian Plant | The Du Pont Company and BASF A.G. said yesterday that they had agreed to form a joint venture to build a $750 million plant, most likely in China, to make nylon ingredients for the Asian market. The companies will each own half of the venture. China is a "leading candidate" for the plant but "sites in other locations i... |
842870_1 | Early Report on Cell Phone Users Finds No Rise in Death Rates | and receive signals through antennas held near the head. Investigators from Epidemiology Resources Inc., of Newton, Mass., a private research organization that did the studies, cautioned that their results were preliminary and did not resolve the overall question of whether cellular telephones cause adverse health effe... |
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