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847270_0 | Illuminating How Bodies Are Built for Sociability | THE most vicious and mulish winter in memory finally behind us, let us now praise gentleness, in temperature and temperament alike. For as much as people must compete for status or global markets, they need sociability, affection, love. These are not options in life, or sentimental trimmings; they are part of the speci... |
847343_0 | The Decline And Fall Of a Roman Emperor | For centuries, a gilded bronze statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius gazed calmly down from the heights of the Campidoglio, Rome's town hall square, as dictators rose and fell and Prime Ministers came and went. Except, that is, for the last 15 years, when the sculpture, the sole equestrian statue in Rome to survive from an... |
847298_2 | U.S. Strains With China: 1 Exception | such as whether the Export-Import Bank of the United States will subsidize loans to American companies for construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, American officials said. That enormous project has been strongly criticized by environmentalists, and the Administration has recommended against the bank ... |
842321_0 | A New Way to Search for Oil, Via Satellite | Like many a deep-sea fisherman, Richard A. Morneau obsesses about the ones that got away. Take, for example, the whopper off the Angolan coast three years ago -- a big deep water oilfield that Mr. Morneau, a geophysicist for the Chevron Corporation, still suspects was down there. But months had elapsed by the time the ... |
840892_2 | Digitized Fragments Help Decipher Dead Sea Scrolls | future for the study of ancient documents," Dr. Zuckerman said last week in an interview. Dr. Zuckerman and Dr. Marilyn Lundberg, a Hebrew Bible specialist associated with the West Semitic Research Project at Southern California, began to experiment with the technique a year ago, choosing a relatively easy task as a st... |
841512_0 | Ingredients of Artistic Immortality | CULTURAL SELECTION By Gary Taylor 325 pages. Basic Books. $26. In his last book, "Reinventing Shakespeare" (1989), the scholar Gary Taylor offered a provocative reassessment of the playwright's enduring fame: Shakespeare's reputation, he suggested, was less a function of pure esthetic achievement than a byproduct of co... |
844186_4 | E.P.A. Plans Radical Change In Calculation of Cancer Risk | finish your risk assessment? You don't need to analyze everything to death before you begin to take public health decisions about potential carcinogens." Agency officials said that in a few cases, elements of the new approach had already been used to decide how to treat one chemical or another. For example, some time a... |
845965_4 | For Secretaries, E-Mail Beats Typing Pool | higher level of skills that's required now of executive assistants," Mr. Brueckner said. As with virtually all revolutionary changes, E-mail has its downside. In the past, secretaries were the funnel through which all written communication passed, which put them in the thick of things. But now, with their bosses sendin... |
844925_1 | Search for Cause of a Cancer Cluster Yields Fear and Doubt | that affect the central nervous system since 1979, which is 15 more than what is generally expected. But scientists do not know whether there is an environmental problem in the area, or a statistical anomaly. In recent weeks, after published reports about the unusual number of cancer cases, television news crews have c... |
844888_5 | For Ancient Bolivian Tribe, Time Is Running Out | the Urus were living on the water, the world changed dramatically around them," Mr. Pauwels said. "They had no rights to the land anymore and that's why they are so poor today." The Chipaya, who once ruled the high plain, were forced to settle at 13,000 feet on the shores of Lake Coipasa, now a salt lake. Some Chipaya ... |
845002_0 | Matchmakers' Stack College Admissions Deck | To the Editor: As a 1994 graduate of a top-25 college, I found your April 17 news article on "college matchmakers" disturbing. It seems that wealthy parents have devised another way to corrupt an educational system aimed at having America's best students rise to the top. Students of affluent backgrounds (perhaps define... |
844476_7 | From Humble Sources, Earthy Elegance Springs | us such a beautiful home, so cool in the summer and warm in the winter." When the students came back to the Rural Studio in the fall of 1994, three of them -- Mr. Veltman, Mr. Tretheway and Steven Durden -- were so impressed by the chapel-like quality of the Bryant smokehouse that they decided to design and build a cha... |
840812_2 | Editorial Notebook;Revisiting Marco Polo | Yule fought in the Sikh wars, designed fortresses, laid out irrigation systems, built railways and took time out to compile a definitive glossary of Anglo-Indian vernacular, entitled "Hobson-Jobson." But what won Yule his cluster of geographical gold medals was a superb, annotated edition of Marco Polo's travels, hands... |
840748_0 | Venice Opera's Rebirth: As It Was or Might Be | When the 300-foot-high Campanile that dominates Venice's Piazza San Marco collapsed without warning on July 14, 1902, the city fathers immediately decided to build an exact reproduction of the 800-year-old bell tower "dov'era, com'era," where it was, how it was. Ten years later, to the delight of its citizens, Venice's... |
841813_6 | New U.S. Curbs Sound Alarm for Cuba Investors | is between 4 and 5 percent, depending on the sugar harvest, now under way. The stakes are high for Mexico, which has taken a lead in Cuban investments. It was during a state visit by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, then the President, in June 1994 that the Domos deal was announced. A project to rebuild the Cienfuegos refine... |
841831_0 | U.S. Cash Keeps Children of Poor From Leaving Special Education | In the last four years, New York City's Board of Education and the Human Resources Administration have aggressively steered thousands of poor students classified with learning difficulties or emotional problems off municipal welfare and onto Federal disability payments, saving the city and state $5.2 million. But now, ... |
843904_0 | Hans Blumenberg, Philosopher, 75; Studied Modernity | Hans Blumenberg, a wide-ranging German intellectual known for his writings on modernity, died on March 28 in Altenberge near the northwest German city of Munster. He was 75 and lived in Altenberge. After teaching at several universities in what was then West Germany, Dr. Blumenberg took the post of professor of philoso... |
838164_1 | Monsanto Receives Gene Patent; Files Lawsuit Against 2 Rivals | that it had received a patent covering the synthetic genes that it and other companies have been inserting in plants to get them to produce their own insecticide. Monsanto, which is based in St. Louis, also said that it had filed a suit in Federal District Court in Wilmington, Del., accusing the Mycogen Corporation and... |
837826_4 | Chemicals That Mimic Hormones Spark Alarm and Debate | "There are people who insist on direct cause-and-effect linkages," Dr. Colborn said. "But if these things can get to the embryo, you have to worry." A prime exhibit in "Our Stolen Future" is the reported decline in human sperm counts. Another argument is that endocrine-disrupting chemicals could be causing an epidemic ... |
837830_2 | Anthropology Group Takes Activist Stand to Protect Cultures | the Yanomami Indians in Brazil and Venezuela by gold miners. Last month, Dr. Yolanda T. Moses, the president of the association, issued a report protesting a January decree by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil that reopens to land claims the protected reserves of an estimated 344 tribal societies in the Ama... |
837685_1 | Sperm Counts: Some Experts See a Fall, Others Poor Data | counts and so no basis for proclaiming that they are declining. The paper that first raised alarms about sperm counts was published in The British Medical Journal in September 1992. In it, Dr. Niels E. Skakkebaek of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and his colleagues reviewed data from 61 papers published from 1938 to 1991... |
836329_0 | For Irish, a Mix of Pride and Discomfort Over the I.R.A. | Plates were cleared from the linen tablecloths, rounds of coffee and drinks were ordered. It was time for the evening show at the Westchester Broadway Theater. It was time to sing about hunger strikes, oppressive British rule and the Irish Republican Army. In the stage's spotlight appeared four Irish balladeers known a... |
836469_0 | Canada, Backed by Mexico, Protests to U.S. on Cuba Sanctions | In a sign of the growing tensions between the United States and its trading partners over stepped-up American sanctions against Cuba, Canada said today that it had lodged a trade protest with the Clinton Administration, and Mexico immediately asked to join Canadian-American discussions on the issue. Responding to a new... |
836505_2 | Census Sees a Profound Ethnic Shift in U.S. | the nation was about to embark on a sharp slowdown in the rate of its population increases. Indeed, the report said that after 2025, the United States would grow at a slower rate than any time in its history, mainly because of declining birth rates and an increased number of deaths as the population ages. But with that... |
836470_0 | Genetic Engineering of Crops Can Spread Allergies, Study Shows | Researchers said today that they had the first solid evidence that proteins that can cause potentially serious allergic reactions could be transferred to crops through genetic engineering. Scientists at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln said tests proved that soybeans modified with genes from Brazil nuts to produce... |
839401_3 | Nebraska Bishop Threatens Excommunication for Dissenters | her views on abortion, the politician, Lucy Killea, went from an underdog in her race to victory. Groups calling for change within the church noted that surveys had consistently shown that a clear majority of American Catholics support legal abortion, the ordination of women and lifting on the marriage ban for priests.... |
834932_1 | Ex-Vichy Aide Says He Is Scapegoat for French Guilt in Holocaust | death camp during World War II, a former French Cabinet minister said in an interview published today that he was a scapegoat for French complicity in the Holocaust. Maurice Papon, 85, who was secretary general of the collaborationist Vichy regime in the southwest Gironde region, told the daily Liberation that he had h... |
840351_3 | School for Disabled Fears a Shift | or muscular disorders like muscular dystrophy. About 85 percent are in wheelchairs. Many students have multiple disabilities, as well as poor vision or hearing. "We estimate that in a public school 160 of our 220 students would require personal aides," Mr. Rothstein said. "Here, only five students have personal aides, ... |
840373_1 | A Change In Funds Affecting Disabled | 21 and were supposed to be placed in a local group home, supported by the state's Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. "When a child ages out of school at 21, he is supposed to be placed in a local group home, but these adults have been maintained at the school. The transitional funds were there... |
840729_2 | Monuments in Peril: a Top 100 Countdown | can hear the echoes of feet pounding over ancient petroglyphs in the Philippines, hear the jackhammers setting to work on a new marina on the site of ancient Tyre. The image arises of a moment, perhaps not far off, when every landmark has come to resemble Leonardo's "Last Supper," the blackened ghost of a legendary mas... |
840319_5 | If You're Thinking of Living In/Pound Ridge, N.Y.;Affluent, Rural and Very, Very Private | or three acres." He moved to Vista in the next-door Town of Lewisboro, which has one-acre zoning. John A. Robertson, chairman of the zoning board, credits the town's zoning for preserving its rural atmosphere. "We have grown, but the growth has been modest," Mr. Robertson said. "It's still a small town with a lot of pr... |
840540_7 | At Funds, They're Down But Not Out | in the bottom quarter in 1991 and 1994, according to Morningstar. Mr. Fetch is now investing a tenth as much money as portfolio manager at Lord Abbett Equity 1990. Lord Abbett would not comment on its decision to hire him, stating a policy of not discussing a manager's history before joining the firm. Mr. Fetch did not... |
835350_6 | Pulp Mills Turn Over a New Leaf;Some Companies See Green as Just Good Business | of this year. Likewise, the Champion International Corporation has installed equipment at its pulp and paper mill in Canton, N.C., to recycle water used in the first two stages of its three-stage bleaching process. Champion has not said when it will be ready to "close the loop" altogether, but it has joined with Wheela... |
835331_0 | Keep College Open to the Poor | During the last 20 years, the incomes of college graduates have risen while workers with only high school educations have seen earnings and job opportunities evaporate. New York State, with its vast numbers of poor, cannot afford to worsen the trend. Given that imperative, one of the signal issues in Albany this spring... |
833968_7 | Curtain Calls With No Help From Uncle Sam | which they operate on a budget of about $40,000 a year. Ms. Gigante is an office manager for a company that sells theater tickets; her husband, Mr. Todaro, works as a data processor at an investment research company. They have no children. "The theater is our baby," Ms. Gigante said. A "for sale" sign hangs on the outs... |
834142_2 | Out of the Lab, A Revolution On the Farm | won't build up resistance to them as easily. Leaders in the new technology are hard at work to expand their range to other crops, including rice and wheat. Moreover, genetically engineered products still in the pipeline should generate higher revenues for farmers instead of simply giving more business to companies with... |
834220_0 | Feb. 25-March 2;Irish Peace Talks On Again | More than two weeks after the I.R.A. ended its 17-month cease-fire with a scattering of bombs in London, the leaders of Britain and Ireland last week tried to put the battered Northern Ireland peace process back on track. On Wednesday, Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and John Bruton of Ireland said talks between ... |
834253_0 | Keeping a Museum Afloat | At first, all sides proclaimed victory in the Battle of the Guadalcanal, the fight that ended with the city agreeing to change course and abandon its plan to anchor the aircraft carrier Guadalcanal next to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in the Hudson River and use it as a heliport, mainly for sightseeing flights. Pl... |
834143_0 | Corporate America Is Courting Agricultural Biotech | WALL STREET has been bitten by this bug before. Back in 1992, investors loved agricultural biotechnology stocks. Even as drug-related biotech stocks were getting hammered, excitement over Calgene's Flav'r Sav'r tomato sent the group, then composed of a half dozen or so companies, soaring. But disappointment over produc... |
834141_3 | Pushing Goodyear To Focus Abroad | of the long recession there, Japanese customers are willing to consider foreign products if they are more affordable." Indeed, offshore is where the money is already. In 1995, Goodyear's sales outside the United States amounted to 45 percent of sales and 56 percent of its gross profits. Mr. Gibara wants to set up more ... |
834165_0 | Dams for Water Supply Are Altering Earth's Orbit, Expert Says | The insatiable thirst of the world's burgeoning billions has caused a spurt of dam building in temperate regions in the last 40 years, and a scientist with the space agency has found that the reservoirs are affecting Earth's orbital rotation. Although Earth's rate of spin is gradually slowing because of the tidal drag ... |
834233_1 | Escape to the Azores | where there are only a few dozen bathers on summer weekends. In the towns, you find an ethnic, 1950's world in which the men all drink and smoke, and crime, even pickpocketing, is extremely rare; the wine and coffee are strong, heavily flavored and cheap, and the food is wholesome, even a bit crude, because designer cu... |
838306_1 | Election Set to Pick Delegates for Ulster Talks | repeated the demand of his Government and that of the Irish Republic that the I.R.A. must first restore its cease-fire, which it ended on Feb. 9 with a bombing in London, before Sinn Fein could qualify for the talks. The process will go on with or without Sinn Fein," Mr. Major said in a speech in the House of Commons i... |
835488_3 | Towns Battle Phone Towers, but the Towers Have the Edge | recent years, the number of cellular phone users has soared at a rate of 40 percent a year. In New Jersey, there are now 1.1 million subscribers, or 14 percent of the population. And while there are already 500 towers throughout the state, phone companies say more are needed. Cellular phones use low-powered FM signals,... |
835816_0 | Giants in the Earth | UNDAUNTED COURAGE Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Illustrated. 511 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $27.50. For almost 200 years, the explorers Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) have stood among the first ranks in the pantheon of A... |
835487_4 | Many Laurels, but No Rest | they would have to start over. When Listerine decided to sponsor the couple on their own television show, they agreed to move east if the company would find a house with its own studio. They moved into a 7-room home in the Ramapos and enlarged it to 24 rooms. Much of Les Paul's memorabilia covers the floor of the studi... |
835803_2 | On the Ferry in Winter: Poetry in Motion | could all be forced to walk the plank, and the ferry would plough on like the Marie Celeste until she ran full-speed into the Connecticut shore. Or we might raise an enemy ship -- perhaps the Orient Point Ferry -- and lay alongside, yardarm to yardarm, to fight it out with hamburger buns. Like every passenger on every ... |
837370_3 | Emotions Were of Many Hues Under Parade's Banners of Green | John Wayne-Maureen O'Hara movie "The Quiet Man." Around the corner from the reviewing stand at St. Patrick's, a celebration of Irish dance known as "Riverdance," is being staged at the Radio City Music Hall. Uptown, at the Museum of the City of New York, an exhibit called "Gaelic Gotham" has just opened. In bars everyw... |
837254_5 | Taking Promises of Profits With a Bigger Grain of Salt | who formerly worked as a college administrator, says that "if colleges say they aren't willing to negotiate, their noses are growing." Need some coaching? Kiplinger's suggests that families try these "diplomatic" approaches: Play competing offers against each other; inquire about money available directly from the schoo... |
837118_3 | Special-Needs Children Face Education Cuts | you give remediation and support now, you can prevent delays. If we do not provide services at a young age, you will continue to have to provide services to the child later on. You may be eliminating children initially, but you won't be in the long run. Within the district, many of our children who were provided these ... |
834352_0 | Australia Pushes Compromise For Treaty to Ban Atom Tests | With only a month left to finish most of the drafting of a treaty banning nuclear testing worldwide, the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva has been given fresh momentum by Australia, which proposed a compromise text that tries to close gaps on several important issues. "Concern is widespread in Geneva and in capitals... |
834410_3 | Critics Attack Pataki Formula for Helping Disabled Students | example, most special education students are not deaf, blind or classified with any other readily defined disability. Rather, 70 percent are labeled "learning disabled" or "emotionally handicapped," terms that many education experts say are so loosely applied that they provide cover for teachers who want to get rid of ... |
834657_2 | Personal Health | women). And many experts say the rate should fall even lower as more women become aware of their options and as additional conservative therapies are developed. For example, clinical trials have just begun in the United States to test the effectiveness of a simple doctor's office procedure to stop excessive menstrual b... |
836750_3 | Ire and Votes: U.S. Vents Its Rage at Cuba In Trade Law | Cuba is now enjoying, denying it badly needed foreign exchange and in the process trying again to bring about the downfall of President Fidel Castro. For other countries, however, the bill represents an attempt to export the United States' longstanding trade embargo against Cuba. "The extraterritoriality of this act is... |
836759_1 | Supai Journal;Flooding Tests a Village's Endurance | house has a horse tied up in front, and dogs roam free. The late-afternoon sun burnishing the sandstone walls around Supai is the kind of sight that people design photography expeditions around. The problem is water. But unlike the rest of the arid Southwest, here in Supai there is too much of it. The town is built on ... |
836688_2 | Havana Journal;Cuba's Home Cooking Hooks Tourists | become Cuba's second currency. Foreign tourists, businessmen and diplomats eager for a peek at Cuban family life make up the bulk of the clientele at most private restaurants, but Cubans with access to dollars also patronize them. By law, private restaurants are allowed to have only 12 seats, a measure intended to prev... |
839551_4 | With Plenty of Jobs, Nebraska Goes to Lengths to Lure Skilled Labor | other companies are even turning employees into headhunters, paying cash bonuses for each referral hired. For more competitive professions, like systems analyst, companies pay hiring bonuses as high as $5,000. "Raiding companies will offer 50 percent raises if you go work for them," said Jan Isom, information systems r... |
839604_0 | Artificial Flood Created to Rejuvenate the Grand Canyon | Four huge arcs of foamy white Colorado River water shot out of a dam with a roar today as the Federal Government began a weeklong flood designed to turn back the clock on the Grand Canyon. As the Colorado River below the dam crept higher up the salmon-colored, sandstone canyon walls, several dozen scientists in hard ha... |
839526_2 | Americans Attached to Traditional Roles for Sexes, Poll Finds | strong international consensus that having more women in politics would lead to better government, but those views did not extend to the workplace. El Salvador was the only country in which people were evenly divided about whether the country would be governed better or worse if more women were in office. Even the men ... |
837869_1 | Estrogen Supplements for Women Could Help To Prevent Tooth Loss | they did not have any information on the dental health of the participants. They also warned that there was not much supporting evidence. The only other major study, of a California retirement community, found estrogen users had a 36 percent decrease in the risk of tooth loss. The lead researcher, Dr. Francine Grodstei... |
837960_5 | Walter Sullivan, 78, Dies; Showed Science at Its Most Daring | of world politics and the world of science, Mr. Sullivan definitively shifted to science writing with his comprehensive reporting on the International Geophysical Year, which involved most of the world's nations in coordinated studies of Earth's interior, atmosphere and, as it turned out, the space above. The Soviet Un... |
836083_0 | Looking to Cuba for an Issue | BODY This is a new 60-second radio advertisement for Steve Forbes that has been broadcast in Florida in the days leading up to today's primary there. ON THE AIR An announcer says, "Ten years ago, the Soviet nuclear reactor at Chernobyl suffered a core meltdown. Now, national news media report, the Russians are helping ... |
836112_0 | State to Study Ocean County Over Cancer | State Health Department officials said today that they would begin a detailed examination of all childhood cancer cases in Ocean County to try to learn the causes of an elevated rate of cancer among children there. Although the overall rate of juvenile brain and central nervous system cancer in the Toms River section o... |
836140_1 | President Is Given Award, Then Raises Money for Party | Smith, who Mr. Clinton named ambassador to Ireland three years ago. It was Mr. Kennedy who introduced the President, recalling how his brother, President John F. Kennedy, had visited Ireland in the spring of 1963, and come home with plans to return the following spring. "He never had that opportunity," Mr. Kennedy said... |
836018_0 | Navigation Satellites Have Rival: the Sea Turtle | SEA TURTLES, those crusty old mariners that ply the oceans, may, like their human counterparts, use a kind of global positioning system to perform their navigational feats, scientists say. But unlike humans, who rely on signals beamed from satellites, turtles appear to sense the earth's magnetic field. A husband-wife t... |
837551_0 | Patents;Changes in meat inspection rules prompt innovations to deal with contamination. | THE Federal meat inspection system is about to undergo its first major modernization in 90 years, with more stringent regulations to be announced in a few weeks. The long-anticipated changes have spurred a wide range of technological innovations among meat and poultry processors, which are searching for ways to reduce ... |
833605_3 | Irish Nationalists Starting to Agree Among Themselves | view, he cannot appear to be grabbing at crumbs from the British masters' table by immediately accepting the British-Irish invitation to attend the June talks. The I.R.A. is already divided: One faction holds that an honorable political settlement is still possible, and supports Mr. Adams. Another is said to favor more... |
834517_1 | New Talks Begin in Belfast, But Adams Is Turned Away | in the nine days of scheduled talks unless the I.R.A. restored the cease-fire it ended on Feb. 9 by resuming bomb attacks in London. The Irish and British Governments have said that while Sinn Fein representatives will be not be permitted to take part in the formal talks with Irish and British ministers, they will talk... |
836907_1 | Toward Talks in Ireland | the talks must be set. The ultimate goal should be to create an inclusive forum and to pull the Irish Republican Army back into civilized political dialogue. Any hope for a reasonable outcome requires a cessation of bombing by the I.R.A. It would be best if the I.R.A. openly declared a new cease-fire, but the absence o... |
838692_1 | When Children Simply Need Families | 2." "The proverbial healthy baby is usually handled by the private agencies," said Ms. Watson. "Some of our children may have been abused or neglected. Their age, sibling groups and other factors make them 'special needs' children and this is not a first choice for some people." The Adoption Resource Exchange has a pho... |
838707_2 | The Mark of the Beast | careful counting of when and how frequently animals share food, groom one another, confront one another aggressively or perform other significant actions. Can morality be described statistically? Initial skepticism is challenged by examples like a table showing how, in the two minutes following an act of aggression, th... |
838698_1 | The Sum of Circles and Rectangles Is Equal to the Building Blocks of Life | a singular entity of unlimited potential that is located in a place but has no definite dimension." For the iris, that point is a seed. This viewer was reminded of the definition of God as one whose center is nowhere and whose circumference is everywhere. The exhibition has the effect of multiplying from simple school ... |
839898_2 | Abroad at Home;Thumb on the Scales | state welfare rules. * Representing prisoners, such as those who claim they have been systematically assaulted or sexually abused, or aliens such as those seeking political asylum. Another provision forbids Legal Services to get attorneys' fees when it wins a case, even if a statute requires payment. Still another says... |
835999_0 | Child-Cancer Study Planned | The Federal Environmental Protection Agency plans to conduct a study examining why children in Toms River have been stricken with cancer of the brain and the central nervous system at four times the rate that might have been expected, The Associated Press reported yesterday. From 1979 to 1991, eight children were diagn... |
835887_1 | Cancun Tells Its Spring-Break Visitors to Behave Themselves | appropriate behavior when visiting a foreign country without you." Many American parents might consider it a compliment that someone thinks they have much influence on their children at college, besides, as a practical matter, most students are scheduled to be in Cancun through March 30, and therefore will be back on c... |
835943_0 | At Lunch, Belfast Women Talk of a Hunger for Peace | The four Roman Catholic women from working-class areas of Belfast met on a recent afternoon for lunch downtown in the Europa Hotel, which claims with bitter pride that as a target of the Irish Republican Army it is the most-bombed hotel in Europe. The women, all in their 30's, noted with nervous laughs that the menu de... |
830549_3 | Tax Plan Spurs New Sugar Battle in Florida | Everglades Coalition say that taxpayers should not bear the burden of paying most of the restoration and cleanup costs. "We don't suggest taking the whole sugar production out of business," said Eric Draper, vice president for policy for the National Audubon Society in Florida. "Let's just use some of the profits they ... |
830547_1 | Fearing Reprisal, Publisher Drops Book on Greece | anthropology, who charged the publisher, one of the most prestigious in the world, with violating the author's freedom of speech and caving in to a threat that was largely hypothetical. But what in the old days might have remained a controlled protest by a small group of disgruntled academics has now expanded into a fu... |
832447_0 | Yes, There Is Such a Thing As Mind Over Matter | EVEN Hippocrates knew that a blow to the head can leave bruises on the mind. By studying the effects of brain injuries, he demonstrated that the mind is centered not in the heart, as some romantics believed, but right behind the eyes. It has taken centuries and the invention of brain-scanning to show that the connectio... |
832563_0 | Don't Neglect Refugees' Reproductive Health;Misguided Legislation | To the Editor: Representative Christopher H. Smith, sponsor of a measure to cut aid to worldwide family planning programs, asks, "Is there really a population crisis?" (news article, Feb. 16). Please refer him to your Feb. 21 front-page article on the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire, where babies are being born faster t... |
832511_2 | No End Seen to I.R.A. Power To Wage a Campaign of Fear | a political myopia that gave all other parties valid reasons to delay the peace effort. "It's like the Rubik's cube," she said. "The I.R.A. can't see that when you change one side, that changes the other faces." The I.R.A. council acted, she said, in part to avoid being supplanted by leaders who favored an even harder,... |
832540_0 | February 18-24;A Blast Stirs New Fears And Efforts for Irish Peace | For 17 months, a cease-fire held out hope for a peaceful solution to Northern Ireland's troubles. Last weekend, nine days after the Irish Republican Army announced an end to the cease-fire, any remaining hope was severely shaken by a blast on a double-decker bus in London's theater district. The bomb went off without w... |
832408_1 | On Its Web Site, The I.R.S. Shows It Has a Softer Side | a rate of 700,000 a day. THE global nature of the Internet and the Web allows taxpayers to gather forms and publications easily, even if users are in rural areas far from tax offices, or overseas. "We've got people calling in from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, even ships at sea," Ms. Wallace said. The 24-hour... |
832724_6 | The Nile in High Style | and fly south from Cairo to Aswan or Abu Simbel, to resume their tour, about an hour's flight by Egypt Air, sailing down the Nile from there to Luxor. Others fly from Cairo to Luxor, then sail up the Nile to visit the main pharaonic sites in reverse order. We took the 6 A.M. flight to Abu Simbel, where we were standing... |
832425_0 | Rescuing the Greeks | NOT OUT OF AFRICA How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. By Mary Lefkowitz. 222 pp. New York: A New Republic Book/Basic Books. $24. BLACK ATHENA REVISITED Edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers. 544 pp. Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press. Cloth, $55. Paper, $19.95. THE... |
832493_1 | Cuba's Nuclear Plant Project Worries Washington | economic austerity both here and in Russia. But Cuban officials argue that they must plunge ahead to bring down their energy costs, end their almost complete dependence on expensive imported oil and alleviate the power shortage that has resulted in rotating blackouts in Havana and other areas. "Our country needs energy... |
827771_0 | The Neediest Cases;For Family in Need, Rough Road Is Smoothed | Robin Mitchell's daughters occupy almost all her time and thoughts, but she can think of no better way to spend her days. Cree, 6, began speaking as a toddler and has been a chatterbox ever since, but until very recently, Amber was nearly mute. Amber is a sturdy and tall 2 1/2-year-old, while Cree is diminutive and fra... |
827476_2 | A Sense of Where You Are | the time errors into distances and triangulate a precise location. With these clock beams in place, electronics for performing the necessary arithmetic is becoming cheaper fast. When the Air Force started developing G.P.S. in the 1970's, its goal for an inexpensive receiver was $10,000. People have been taking G.P.S. b... |
827536_3 | He Tends the Green Stuff at the Zoo | the 1960's, needs attention. "We're looking to reinstate a budget for horticulture at the zoo," Mr. Dancho said. "The greenhouse needs repairs and reconstruction." Mr. Cortucci also looks forward to visits by school children on field trips. He leads groups of 15 to 20 through the greenhouse, pointing out the banana tre... |
827486_3 | Commercial Property/Cinderella Buildings;In New Jersey and the Region, the Old Is New Again | retail market and the bankruptcies of some national discounters. Among the reasons, he said, is that retail space commands higher rents than industrial uses, and some retailers, like supermarkets, are still hungry for space. That was part of the rationale behind the decision of United States Land Resources, a Morristow... |
827475_0 | Nana and the Anchormen | As the V-chip legislation makes its way through Congress -- requiring televisions to come equipped with devices enabling parents to block out violent programs -- I would like to propose an addendum: the C-chip, which would prevent CNN, C-Span and all other news and public affairs programming from appearing on my grandm... |
827824_0 | Jan. 28 - Feb. 3;La Bombe Est Fini | Denounced around the world for his decision to resume French nuclear testing last year, French President Jacques Chirac stopped it for good last week after six underground tests in French Polynesia. Mr. Chirac said that only six tests had been needed, instead of seven to eight as originally planned, to ensure the relia... |
828715_0 | Coffee Surges as Brazil Receives Top Price for Decades-Old Beans | Coffee prices surged yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York after auctions of Government stockpiles in Brazil drew high prices, showing an internal shortage in the world's largest coffee producing country. On other markets, cotton prices gained while wheat fell. The Commodity Research Bureau inde... |
827299_0 | Calgene Upheld In Patent Case | Calgene Inc.'s genetically engineered Flavr Savr tomato does not infringe patents held by Enzo Biochem Inc., a Federal judge ruled today. The ruling by Federal District Judge Joseph J. Farnan also held that the patents that Enzo had contended were being infringed were invalid. Calgene, a biotechnology company based in ... |
831688_0 | Terrorism and Ireland | The renewed bombing campaign of the Irish Republican Army has already caused senseless deaths, injuries and property destruction in London. No matter how frustrated the I.R.A. became with the political process, its return to terrorism is inexcusable and self-defeating. The bombings have swiftly transformed the organiza... |
831846_2 | Short of Money, the French Face Cuts in Their Cherished Military | continue to buy the tank and that the Government would help improve the efficiency of production lines so that it could be sold abroad profitably in the future. France, unlike Britain, Germany and the United States, has long delayed responding to the industrial consequences of the end of the superpowers' arms race and ... |
833242_0 | Britain and Ireland Move to Restart the Peace Effort in Ulster | The Irish and British Governments announced early this morning that they had agreed on a new initiative aimed at reviving the Northern Ireland peace effort. The agreement, announced at 12:20 A.M., was reached by Prime Ministers John Bruton of Ireland and John Major of Britain, who are to meet in London later today to d... |
833312_2 | Canned Foods? Never! Well, Hardly Ever. | But among consumers the two containers evoke different reactions. In a national telephone survey of 1,006 shoppers, 18 to 64, conducted last August for can manufacturers by National Family Opinion of Toledo, Ohio, poor flavor was cited as a primary disadavantage for food in cans, but not for food in jars. Sales of food... |
828898_2 | NATO's Plans Threaten Start II | to be answered. In particular is the question of the role to be assigned to Russia in the so-called Partnership for Peace. Disarmament continues to follow the logic of the negotiations begun in Geneva and Reykjavik from the reduction of medium-range missiles to Start I. This approach had a positive effect on all the ot... |
828980_2 | In the Unraveling of a 17-Month Peace Effort, Disappointment, but Not Surprise | its opposition to entering direct talks with Sinn Fein. Britain had refused direct negotiations until the I.R.A. disarmed, but the commission proposed that talks begin while an incremental disarming was under way. To many, it seemed to be just the political cover Mr. Major needed to make a concession that was sure to b... |
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