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828989_1 | Bomb Wounds 100 in London As I.R.A. Truce Is Said to End | in Britain and Ireland said it was possible that the statement and the bomb were the work of a hard-line splinter group that was unhappy with the I.R.A.'s role in the peace effort. Political leaders in Britain and Ireland were reluctant to pronounce the peace moves dead. But leaders of the Protestant Unionist parties m... |
828938_0 | In the Words of the I.R.A.: 'Blame Lies With Major' | Following is a statement sent to the Irish television tonight, signed "P O'Neill," the name used on most statements by the Irish Republican Army (in Gaelic, Oglaigh na hEireann). It is with great reluctance that the leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann announces that the complete cessation of military operations will end ... |
829880_2 | Personal Health Sorting out contradictory findings about fat and health. | may not have been well enough represented in the Harvard study to show up as protective. Finally, and perhaps most important, is the possibility that fat consumption may simply be an indicator of other dietary and life-style factors that play a more direct role in protecting against breast cancer. Other Dietary Factors... |
830054_5 | Lawsuit Tests Lethal Power of Words | a causal connection between the pornography and the violence." Censorship is the issue, said Bill Heasty, owner of Newsland, Denver's largest chain of newsstands. "Take these things out of circulation, and you're talking Prohibition, you're talking about Nazi Germany," said Mr. Heasty, who sells about 250 Paladin books... |
830009_0 | At the Nation's Table: Westley, Calif.;Vegetable Snack Mix A Child Can Love | Two-year-old Nicolette Stephens gobbles colorful dried vegetables as if they were M & M's. "She loves them," marveled her father, Scott Stephens, a grocery manager at the Fresh Fields supermarket in Naperville, Ill. Apparently, so do a lot of other people. The store frequently sells out of the snack, Just Veggies, a ne... |
832883_0 | How Other Cities Succeed: Five Ideas to Revitalize New York's Region: Work Force; Better Training In Pittsburgh | New York has assimilated millions of people and dozens of dizzyingly diverse cultures from around the world over the years, but it has never made much effort to borrow or imitate how other places solve their problems. The experience of the city and the surrounding region was always considered singular -- the problems w... |
832860_0 | Family Planning Cuts | To the Editor: When I walk the streets of San Salvador and Guatemala in the early morning hours, I must step around the old cardboard boxes containing dead newborn babies, left there for the police to dispose of them. Your Feb. 16 report on the cutback in funds for family planning and abortion guidance overseas horrifi... |
832740_2 | Commitments, and Questions, on Electronic Newspapers | advertising base, especially the classified advertisements, from the electronic world's point-and-click technology and the ability to search through piles of information and get an answer quickly, complete with pictures and sound. Greed, Mr. Kelsey said, because if a system is ever invented that accurately counts and c... |
832888_3 | Satellite and Plans Are Adrift As a Stringlike Tether Snaps | capsules of experimental material back to Earth or to lower scientific instruments from shuttles for gathering environmental data from hard-to-study atmospheric zones. Tethers could also be used as antennas to transmit extremely low frequency signals able to penetrate land and sea, providing communications not possible... |
832890_0 | Minds of the Elderly May Be More Agile Than Was Thought | The conventional image of the aging brain is that people lose neurons the way balding men lose hair. Brain cells are supposed to start falling away around the age of 20, with everything downhill from there. Some people go bald, or senile, early. Some lucky and unusual ones keep their hair, or their wits, about them int... |
832807_1 | I.R.A. Violence Protested In Rallies North and South | In more than a dozen other cities and towns, thousands of others marched, wearing white peace ribbons and waving white paper doves. The rallies came on a day when Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., said party officials would meet with British officials on Monday to try to get the peace effort back on track. A... |
832800_2 | Metro Matters;Judge Seen As a Symptom Of a Failed Law | not seriously violate his order, nor did she suffer serious injury. "I am not suggesting bruising is nice, but there is no disfigurement," Judge Duckman said in court. "There are no broken bones. There are no serious physical injury charges, are there?" Judge Duckman certainly had enough evidence against Mr. Oliver to ... |
828253_0 | Combining Hormones Lowers Estrogen Risk | Menopausal women who take estrogen alone run a higher-than-normal chance of developing cancer of the uterus, but combining estrogen with the hormone progestin can counteract the risk, a study confirms. The study is the largest and most rigorous to explore how hormone replacement therapy, whose benefits include vastly r... |
828346_1 | New York City Settles Lawsuit On Mob Ties | Corporation Counsel, said: "This is a rare occurrence because the city is settling a case for something the D.A. is alleged to have done." Mr. Kahn, who supervised the case for the city, said the city decided to settle because a State Appellate Court ruled in 1993 that Mr. Rodrigues could sue on the claim that his civi... |
831509_0 | U.S. Mediator on Northern Ireland Will Try Again | Former Senator George J. Mitchell, who sought and failed to make peace in Northern Ireland last month, left the United States tonight to try to salvage the bomb-shattered peace effort and ease a political problem for President Clinton. Mr. Mitchell will talk with the leaders of Britain and Ireland at their request. He ... |
831622_5 | BUCHANAN A NARROW VICTOR OVER DOLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE | cloudy but snow-free New England day. That turnout was equal to some 23 percent of this state's voting-age population, an increase of more than a tenth above the total who voted in the primaries here in 1992. This was the first time in which same-day registration allowed the people of New Hampshire to vote in their pri... |
831472_0 | Eating Well | THIS is not a trick question: If you had a choice between feeding your baby a jar of mashed bananas that contained 80 to 90 percent bananas and one that contained 50 percent bananas, which would you choose? And this is not a trick answer: The vast majority of parents in this country choose the jar with 50 percent banan... |
831534_0 | Research Links Writing Style to the Risk of Alzheimer's | Alzheimer's disease, the dreaded affliction of old age, might show its first subtle effects when its victims are as young as 20. In a study based on the autobiographies of young women about to join an order of nuns, researchers have reported that the women's writing styles when they were in their 20's predicted with un... |
831150_1 | Taking In the Sites;High-Tech Job Hunting, Even for Low-Tech Positions | He found about 20 sites related to on-line recruiting and decided to put the list on the Web. It now includes more than 200 sites and continues to grow. The Job Hunt page is far from flashy but it is well organized. (Incidentally, Dr. Spearing is still in the same job he had when he started the list. "I'm still looking... |
829726_0 | After the I.R.A. Bomb, Reviving the Peace Effort | In the three days since the Irish Republican Army resumed its campaign of violence by detonating a huge bomb in East London, political leaders in Britain and Ireland have fallen all over themselves reiterating their continued dedication to achieving peace in Northern Ireland. "We are not at the end of the road for peac... |
829743_1 | College Gets Tougher on Verifying Learning Disabilities of AidApplicants | or hear. It feels like they're trying to make us uncomfortable because they don't believe learning disabilities are real." What is happening at Boston University reflects a broader debate being played out nationwide, as colleges and universities grapple with the growing population of students with learning disabilities... |
833443_0 | Reviving the Peace Effort in Ireland | The Irish and British Prime Ministers took a welcome and much-needed step yesterday in announcing a plan to rescue the beleaguered effort to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army, seemingly fed up with waiting for all-party talks to begin, irresponsibly resumed its terror campaign earlier this mo... |
833436_1 | PRESIDENT AGREES TO TOUGH NEW SET OF CURBS ON CUBA | don't expect our allies will be pleased with this legislation, but we believe it advances an important part of our foreign policy," the official said. Another provision would allow American citizens whose property was confiscated by the Castro Government to file suit in the United States against any foreign company usi... |
833426_1 | Talks on Ulster Set for June 10 By 2 Premiers | new cease-fire. There was no immediate reaction from the I.R.A. But Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein's president, responded cautiously, welcoming the setting of a date for talks but criticizing other elements of the proposal. While today's plan sets forth a blueprint for talks and meetings, it does little to resolve the underlyi... |
831967_0 | Cold War Over, France Plans a Slim, Volunteer Military | Announcing the most sweeping military changes since development of a nuclear deterrent almost 40 years ago, President Jacques Chirac said tonight that France's armed forces would shrink by about a third and become an all-volunteer force within six years. To replace the military draft for young men, a hallowed instituti... |
831951_0 | Rich Nations Urge Action to Cut Dangers of Lead | Industrialized nations have reached the first international agreement on measures to reduce the dangers posed by lead in the environment. After a two-day meeting in Paris this week, the environment ministers of 26 nations committed their governments to fight the noxious effects of lead through cutting back use, tighten... |
829408_0 | February 4-10;Peace in Northern Ireland Explodes With a London Bomb | For several months now, the prospect of a permanent peace in Northern Ireland has looked bleak. There have been reports that the Irish Republican Army -- or at least hardline factions in it -- were ready to turn back to violence. Friday night those dire warnings looked prescient. A Dublin radio station received a state... |
829285_0 | As Europe's Borders Fall, the Old Art of Bootlegging Thrives | On the docks at Calais, just across the wintry water from here in France, a line of innocuous white vans with British license plates waited the other day to board the Pride of Dover car ferry for the 90-minute trip to England. Waiting at Dover's customs department, Steve Clements knew exactly what was afoot. In most of... |
829434_3 | State Would Make School Boards Pay Some Costs for the Disabled | school year the totals were 3,021 and 5,945, respectively. The increase can be attributed to socioeconomic and demographic factors that have resulted in the growing numbers of births of babies with higher risks for problems and to medical advances that help the children live, said Valerie Krizel, assistant director of ... |
829104_0 | As Funds Shrink, Is Special Ed Too Special? | IN a class full of squirming, chattering children, Ryan Lamson is a quiet exception. Born with limited muscle coordination, he cannot speak and depends on a walker. But rather than send him to a special program, his parents wanted Ryan to attend regular kindergarten at the Village School here. With help, he is thriving... |
829459_2 | Tarrytown Church Acts on Bell Tower | lawyer, sought grants, preservation funds and other financial support from outside organizations and members of the congregation. Floyd Hoffman, a retired engineer, supervised contractors doing the immediate work of reinforcing the bell tower and its structural supports. Barbara Turk Leeper, wife of Mr. Leeper, who is ... |
829361_4 | I.R.A. ISSUES CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR LONDON BOMB | Adams said, referring to the British Prime Minister. "We need to get involved in urgent talks to try to move the situation out of the abyss that is facing us all at the moment." Protestant unionist leaders said the bombing vindicated Mr. Major's insistence that the I.R.A. begin turning in its arms before negotiations, ... |
829432_0 | How a Girl Became An Ordinary 4th Grader | LINDA and JAMES CARROLL of Miller Place noticed that their daughter Jenny had problems when she was as year old. "She just wasn't reaching the milestones she was supposed to," said Mrs. Carroll. When Jenny reached 15 months and was treated for a heart ailment, doctors found that she had a chromosomal abnormality. The c... |
829396_1 | A Calm Passenger With a Cellular Phone Guided the Police to the Wreck | said Mr. Cardinal, 29, a supervisor at the advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather in Manhattan. "The dispatcher put me on hold and a police officer came on who asked me what had happened and if there was a number where they could call me back." Mr. Cardinal did not know the number. He got the cellular telephone only about... |
829149_0 | Through the Gorge to Petra | DON'T rush to reach Petra. The approach is what establishes the mystery of the city carved from rose-red rock: the endless, winding, sometimes eerie passage. It was this forbidding corridor that struck awe into the ancient traders whose caravans paused here on their trek across the deserts, and it is this gorge that st... |
829117_2 | The Bulldozer Hits a Roadblock | though, is heading for bankruptcy, and Chirac vows to hold firm on his plans to avoid that debacle. But he urges Juppe to sit down with the unions and do a better job of convincing them this time of the need for reform. Abrupt shifts in strategy are nothing new for Chirac. While the "Bulldozer" can be bullheaded, he al... |
829349_0 | The Bombing in London Revives Old Fears in Belfast | On the day after the Irish Republican Army ended its 17-month cease-fire with a lethal bombing attack in London, anxiety has returned for the people of Belfast. Many residents said today that they fear the sectarian warfare that killed hundreds of their neighbors and loved ones may start again on the streets and in the... |
829210_1 | The Airwaves as a Toll Road | But there is a better free-market option, one that can preserve flexibility for the future: an open-entry spectrum system. The current auction system compares the spectrum to land. But that is based on today's relatively primitive state of technology in which information is basically coded onto a single frequency to pr... |
829310_1 | The London Bombing | by returning to violence. They cannot gain more through terror than they can through the patient pursuit of peace. If anything, a new campaign of terror will only set back their cause and wound their people. If the bombing was the work of a faction within the I.R.A., the commanders of the overall organization must pers... |
829437_3 | The State of Politics and the Baileys | and England by Routledge, a British company, is described as a "controversial study." It details a phenomenon of the second century A.D. in which people began to think of themselves as being in pain, gradually supplanting the Greco-Roman idea of the soul or the mind being able to control the body. "It was a culture of ... |
827168_1 | Chirac Offers a Vision of NATO; Few in Congress Come to Listen | promote economic development among the world's poorest countries. While the United States gives about $9 billion a year in development aid, he said, the European Union, with an economy of similar size, gives more than $30 billion. Welcomed by President Clinton on the first state visit by a French leader in nearly 12 ye... |
828532_2 | No Link Seen Between Fat and Breast Cancer | 20 percent fat, there is no protection against breast cancer," said Dr. Hunter, the executive director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. "There is no doubt that a diet that is low in red meats and high-fat dairy products and high in fruits and vegetables is beneficial with respect to other diseases," Dr. Hun... |
828035_3 | Chinese Tiptoe Into Internet, Wary of Watchdogs | Telecommunications on computer networks, estimates that fewer than 30,000 Internet users in China have an e-mail address, mostly university professors and students, and scientific researchers. Others familiar with the Internet assert that 50,000 to 100,000 in China may be using it, many of them university students with... |
827970_2 | Metro Matters;Spinning a Tale That Spins Out of Control | Ms. Trotti's resume to the Environmental Department in September with a handwritten note: "Please let me know the result. Thanks." The documents also show that Mr. Powers interceded to boost Ms. Trotti's salary by 28 percent. An internal memo in the Environmental Department states, "Deputy Mayor Peter Powers's office d... |
830362_0 | U.S. Aid Cutbacks Endangering Population Programs, U.N. Agencies Say | In the latest tactical victory by a resurgent anti-abortion movement in the United States, Congress has forced a drastic cut in aid that is the mainstay of family planning programs around the world. Recent legislation, intended to punish the Clinton Administration for allowing aid for family planning groups involved in... |
832093_0 | Chirac Reaps Glory, and Grumbling, on French Military Cutbacks | President Jacques Chirac, denounced around the world only a month ago for conducting underground nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific, reaped praise today for his decision to phase out the land-based third of the French nuclear deterrent and to stop all further production of weapons-grade fissionable material. But his ... |
832170_2 | Havana Journal;Needing Cash for Bread, Cuba Tries a Circus | for citizens to let off steam. With food and basic items like soap or toothpaste still in short supply and power blackouts a part of daily life, Carnival is a welcome diversion for people who are used to enduring Lenten privations year-round. "They're still not really able to give the people bread," one diplomat here s... |
832089_0 | Arakis Stymied In Sudan Plans | The Arakis Energy Corporation said today that it had terminated its arrangement with the Los Angeles businessman Walid al-Omar and his company, Rosscape A.I.D., for financing a proposed Sudan oil pipeline project. Arakis said there had been no evidence of progress on potential financing for the deal, which was announce... |
831365_0 | Dubliners Fear Protestant Raids From North | Protestant paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland indicated today that they were seriously considering ending the cease-fire they called in October 1994 and there were fears that they would carry out attacks here in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Irish Republic. Gary McMichael, the political leader of the largest P... |
829516_3 | Patents;Where less can be much more: invention and technology's race to devise lower-fat junk food. | in low-calorie and low-fat foods. Inventors are hard at work creating the guilt-free french fry and potato chip. Joey Petelle and Karen Stoesz of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Lisa Williams of Chandler, Ariz., have patented a method of baking potato chips so they are fat free. A single layer of thinly sliced potatoes is place... |
829538_2 | Irish Peace Effort Is Stalled In Aftermath of Bombing | Bruton said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation. "I think it would be a serious mistake." Mr. Bruton restated Ireland's proposal for a Bosnia-style peace conference in which all parties would be present but would not necessarily negotiate directly. Mr. Bruton also criticized Mr. Major's refusal to... |
830943_0 | The Top Colleges Are Reporting Record Numbers of Applications | The nation's prestigious colleges are being flooded with record numbers of applications as high school seniors increasingly worry about getting into the top tier, admissions officers say. Admissions officers from the Ivy League schools, Georgetown, Tufts, Stanford and other colleges are reporting that the number of app... |
830939_6 | A Test Case for Special Education | and that school boards are paying increased premiums for liability insurance because of them. Some insurers are no longer even providing coverage, said Perry Zirkel, a Lehigh University professor who has recently completed a study of trends in education lawsuits. Professor Zirkel said suits charging discrimination agai... |
831014_0 | World News Briefs;I.R.A. Says It Planted Bomb Found in London | The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility today for planting a bomb in London on Thursday, less than a week after a bomb attack ended its 17-month cease-fire. In a telephone call to the BBC, the I.R.A. said it had planted the bomb, found in a telephone booth in the heart of London's theater district. The device ... |
830895_0 | Alcatraz House, a Timeworn Landmark, Cries Out for Help | Alcatraz was never known for its accommodations, but the warden's house was an exception: 3 floors, 17 rooms, built in 1929 in Mission Revival style, with a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay from the summit of the prison island. Although a fire gutted the house in 1970, the hulking ruins soon became a favorite phot... |
830705_6 | Notable Quotables: Why Images Become Icons | than as a work of art. WHICH WORKS BECOME icons is, to some degree, accidental. With paintings and sculptures, those in large or much-visited cities clearly have an advantage, though inclusion in a standard textbook can overcome an obscure location. Use in a memorable context makes a big difference. The opening fanfare... |
826817_0 | Beyond the Grecian Formula: Grandeur on a Small Scale | WHEN his ceiling collapsed with a thunderous crash during a recent dinner party, John Woodrow Kelley, a classical painter, claims he was undaunted. "That's what you get for living in an old brownstone," he said with a grin. Order has since been restored to his small floor-through apartment in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, wh... |
830077_0 | What I.R.A. Achieves | To the Editor: The Irish Republican Army's murderous bomb attack in London (front page, Feb. 10) was also a terrorist strike against the people of Ireland. During the 17-month cease-fire, and efforts to initiate all-party peace talks, the Irish had hoped for a permanent end to the centuries of violence spawned by Brita... |
830115_0 | In Wary London, 'Here We Go Again' | The disruptions had gone on for so long, most London residents were used to them: bomb threats in the subways, police officers searching cars in the financial district, theaters evacuating audiences, train stations without garbage cans, lest they be used to hide explosives. Since 1969 more than 100 people have died in ... |
832898_0 | Texas Balancing Act Is Succeeding | AS Southern California's experiment in balancing development with wildlife preservation approaches a critical juncture, another ambitious program may have turned the corner to success -- contrary to some recent expectations. Seven years in the making, the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan is an effort to carve out... |
833033_1 | CLINTON SEEKING WIDER SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBANS | officials acknowledged that Cuba had been greatly exercised in recent weeks about flights by the anti-Castro group and that such flights had continued despite American warnings against them. Last fall, the Administration moved to let more scholars and artists and family members wishing to visit sick relatives in Cuba d... |
832902_0 | Act Now to Prevent More Oil Spills at Sea | To the Editor: Re the refloating of the supertanker Sea Empress near the port of Milford Haven, Wales, and the start of efforts to clean up 65,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the sea (news articles, Feb. 22 and 25): Built in Spain, the ship is owned by a Norwegian corporation but managed by the corporation's Glasgow... |
832921_0 | Corning Introduces System to Cut Emissions as Vehicle Is Started | Corning Inc. introduced an automobile pollution-control system today that it said would cut emissions far in excess of the strict limits to be in place by the year 2000. Also today, Allied Signal Inc. said it expected to have a similar system ready later this year. Both systems are aimed at cold-start emissions, the hy... |
832912_0 | Salvation at Hand for a California Landscape | HERE in the sharply defined hills and steep canyons of Southern California, the nation's biggest and boldest attempt to reconcile urban development with the natural landscape is approaching a make-or-break point. It is an enterprise of high ambition and, if successful, of immediate importance for conservation efforts i... |
853568_0 | Travelers' Boon Is Smugglers' Bane | Many a jet-lagged traveler has felt the joy of journey's end dampened by the exasperation of having to line up at the Customs counter for a uniformed inspector's standard question, "Have you anything to declare?" The United States Customs Service did not like it any better. Despite the often futile searches of suitcase... |
853621_1 | Florence Journal;Overrun by Tourists, 'David' Puts His Foot Down | small revolution. And even though it will be small -- we are not talking Leningrad 1917 after all -- it will require some adjustments." The plan, adopted by the city Council in April, is already running into protests from tour operators, who point out that it has not been properly advertised, that it will be introduced... |
853552_4 | Wireless Systems Put Out Their Antennas | F.C.C. chairman from 1981 to 1987. The United States Postal Service said Unisite had been chosen over 13 other bidders mainly because of its expertise in clustering several antennas at one site without interference. Dennis E. Wamsley, the Postal Service's realty asset manager, said that although he did not have precise... |
850718_4 | The Gift These Greeks Bore: Western Culture | lands because they were skilled at first pacifying and then coexisting with the indigenous population. But their most significant import to the west was the concept -- relatively new also to Greece -- of the polis, or city-state, in which for the first time the rule of law prevailed. Although occasionally city-states f... |
850771_2 | Business Travel;Corporations respond to the Florida crash with concern but no hasty changes in flight policies. | said, "is that it's time for each corporation to address the questions that were raised by the Inspector General." Unwanted Bubbles Orange juice, white wine and mineral water are offered in Swissair business class before takeoff, but not champagne. An economy move? Not according to the airline, which said that test off... |
851337_2 | Import Surge Raises Deficit In U.S. Trade | that the sanctions should meanwhile be regarded "as a step that could lead to a successful outcome." Over all, today's Commerce Department tally showed that imports rose 1.7 percent, to a peak $77.7 billion in March, while exports eased eight-tenths of 1 percent, to $68.8 billion. But the comparisons were misleading, a... |
850230_4 | Minimum-Pay Rise Could Have Vast Effects on the Northeast | out parts of shifts, instead of whole people." Economists predict that some employers who pay the minimum wage will dive into the underground economy rather than fork over 90 cents more an hour. And since documented workers would demand $5.15, a higher minimum might encourage some companies to search all the more for u... |
849979_0 | Show of Three Perfections: Poetry, Painting and Calligraphy | Charles Chu eyed the painting "The Wu Gorge," by Lu Yi-fei. "I like the flow of the brush, because it's so free," he said. He also admired a landscape by Yu Chien-hua, with its inscription beginning, "A westerly breeze rises in the mountains . . ." Born in Hopeh, China, in 1918, Mr. Chu has long had American citizenshi... |
850211_0 | Women's Rights Gaining Attention Within Islam | In Iran, Azar Nafisi, a professor of English, writes about the strong and clever women in Persian classical literature and the pallid female characters in contemporary Iranian fiction. In Bangladesh, Yasmeen Murshed, chairwoman of an Asia-Pacific network for women in politics, teaches women how to run for office and wr... |
849944_3 | The Timeless Glory of High Wheels and Handlebars | with the introduction of the chain drive on bicycles, which made it possible to use wheels of equal size. John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic tire in 1888, which improved the ride and handling of the bicycle, before turning his attention to the automobile. "As soon as cars needed tires, he was making them," Mr. Dod... |
852098_1 | For Journalism Graduates, Opportunities in New Media | while demand for reporters is greatest in the South and Southeast, the advisers say. At Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, "things are pretty healthy in the entry-level job market for journalism, thanks to on-line publications and the network news magazines," said Melanie Hough, the placement director... |
847447_0 | Estrogen Patch Appears to Lift Severe Depression in New Mothers | NO ONE says new mothers have it easy. Nights spent waking up every two hours and days spent trying to figure out just why the baby is crying so much leave about 80 percent of new mothers physically exhausted, emotionally drained and despondent over their seeming inability to do anything well. Call it the baby blues. Mo... |
847596_0 | World News Briefs;Europeans Seek Talks On U.S. Cuba Embargo | The European Union said today it was taking the first step toward involving a World Trade Organization panel in a dispute over a new American law that strengthens trade sanctions against Cuba. The European Commission, which represents the 15-nation European Union in trade matters, said the bloc was calling for formal W... |
848268_0 | Recycling' Replacing Office Construction | RENOVATION and retrofitting may best describe the activity in the county's commercial real estate industry. "Commercial buildings are now being adapted for change," said William V. Cuddy, senior vice president of Rostenberg-Doern, a real estate concern in Purchase. "Nothing new is under construction. So the existing in... |
848258_8 | A Bit of the Old-Fashioned Riviera | rises and the waves beat the rocks the view is spectacular, as wild and romantic a landscape as you're likely to find anywhere around the Mediterranean. To Porquerolles, by ferry or taxi boat Logistics Only local merchants and those providing services can drive on Porquerolles; visitors to the island must leave their v... |
848239_1 | The Moon, This Time Around | Its messages are sliced up and wrapped inside small electronic packets, all of which pick their way along the best available Internet routes to an electronic postal station, where they reassemble and wait in storage for an addressee -- like frankel@times.com -- to check in to read them. E-mail travels as fast as a fax ... |
848468_0 | Peaceful Return for Casa Italiana | Three years of restoration have ended for Casa Italiana at Columbia University, which officially reopened last week. And so apparently has the controversy over its design. Preservationists had expressed concern over the renovations to the neo-classical Florentine palazzo, built in 1927 as a center for study of Italian ... |
848403_0 | Postings: 'Have Faith in Your Equipment and Your Knowledge, and Don't Look Down'; High-Level Church Inspection | Kent Diebolt has dangled with the angels and saints -- Augustine, John Chrysostom and Jerome, to name a few -- all in the interests of divining the location of cracks, leaks, deteriorating mortar and steel girders within the stonework of towering structures. Mr. Diebolt and his colleagues at Vertical Access of Ithaca, ... |
852788_0 | Anger at French Troops Grows in Central Africa | A mutiny by unpaid soldiers in the Central African Republic showed signs today of turning into a popular uprising against French intervention in the country, after French soldiers came to the aid of the Government. With Paris sending mixed signals about its intentions in the Central African Republic, a former colony st... |
849751_0 | The Problems of Special Education | Special education has been taking some hits recently. In New York and other big cities, classes for disabled children have been described as dumping grounds for the unruly, particularly black and Hispanic boys. Critics say the special classrooms have been turned into welfare annexes rather than places for education, de... |
852568_7 | China's Fickle Rivers: Dry Farms, Needy Industry Bring a Water Crisis | out of control from an overall planning standpoint," said Arthur N. Holcombe, director of the United Nations Development Fund in Beijing. Chinese officials in charge of the river seem to agree. "The management of our water supply is very poor," said Wu Zhiyao, the chief engineer of the Yellow River Conservancy Commissi... |
853937_1 | Obstacles Are Said to Block New Kinds of Contraceptives | it more likely that people can find something that works for them with the fewest adverse side effects, the committee said. Despite this unmet need, panel members said, regulatory, political, legal, financial and social factors have all but stalled research and development on new contraceptives. In the United States, i... |
849110_4 | Personal Health | periodic food diaries to be sure they are still following the recommended diet and to assess changes women in the control group may be making on their own. About 27,500 postmenopausal women are being recruited for the hormone replacement study. They will be randomly assigned to receive estrogen and progestin (if they h... |
847688_0 | Dietary Vitamin E Found to Help Women's Hearts | Postmenopausal women who get lots of vitamin E in food cut their chance of heart disease by almost two-thirds, a study has found. Vitamin E "is the most exciting, interesting area in diet and heart disease at the moment," said Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. "We don't have the final word yet,... |
854045_0 | Currents;A New Web Site For Coping Parents | PARENTS of children with disabilities now have a central clearing house on the Internet. Last month, the Waisman Center, a research center for mental retardation at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, introduced its Family Village Web site. Designed to put parents in touch with one another, it has resources for 400... |
854071_0 | Captain Held On Suspicion Of Hurling 3 Men in Sea | Canadian policemen stormed a Taiwanese ship today and arrested the captain, who has been accused along with his officers of throwing three Romanian stowaways overboard on the high seas, Government officials said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police boarded the ship, the Dubai, to arrest the captain after he refused to le... |
850485_0 | New Jersey Daily Briefing;Too Much Flounder Caught | Summer is more than a month away, but for commercial fishermen, the summer flounder season is already over. From May 1 until Aug. 1, these fishermen, who operate from about 30 boats, are allowed to catch 312,000 pounds of flounder off the New Jersey coast, according to limits set by the National Marine Fisheries Servic... |
850431_1 | The Web is a star in soap operas that appear on it. | a cybermaniac. And in "Ferndale," a group of disturbed psychiatric patients undergoes "Net therapy," submitting themselves to public scrutiny on the Web; surfers are invited to join the encounter sessions by posting their own most intimate secrets for Web display. And so, each week, and sometimes twice a week, these se... |
850372_0 | In America;Banana Bully | The United States, acting on behalf of the multinational Chiquita banana operation, has initiated a proceeding in the World Trade Organization that poses a major -- and wholly unnecessary -- threat to the economies of several banana-producing nations of the Caribbean. Chiquita Brands International is upset because of a... |
850389_0 | Information Highway Hits the Road | John Krachenfels, the manager of business development at the Oracle Corporation, was cruising through Silicon Valley not long ago. He was going a "few miles over the speed limit," he acknowledged, and glancing at his electronic mail at the same time, when a California Highway Patrol officer pulled him over. Spotting th... |
851935_4 | Calling Long Distance, on a PC and the Internet | cannot work with a connection over America Online, Compuserve or Prodigy. What is needed is a direct line to the Internet, like a dial-up connection to a full Internet service provider. And some corporate computer networks, with so-called firewalls installed for security reasons, will often block Internet voice communi... |
851527_0 | Rise in Tuberculosis Reported to Be Halted | PUBLIC health does work for tuberculosis," said Dr. Richard Greifinger, former chief medical officer of the State Correctional Services Department. Westchester County says it has halted an increase in tuberculosis cases, mostly through therapy. In some cases public health nurses go to patients' homes or workplaces twic... |
851881_0 | William Dick, 86, A Retired General | Lieut. Gen. William W. Dick Jr., whose 37-year Army career ended in 1968 with his retirement as commander of allied land forces in southern Europe, died on May 8 at a retirement community in Fort Belvoir, Va. He was 86. The cause was pneumonia, his family said. In World War II, he fought on Guadalcanal in the South Pac... |
851893_6 | URBAN PARALYSIS -- A special report.;While a Dying City Languishes, A State Battles to Take Control | Ferrari, a retired chief of police in Camden. Mr. Ferrari, 66, was born and reared in Camden, and as a police officer he says he "walked every beat" in the city. "What this city used to be and what it has become makes me sick to my stomach," he said. "And now some people are fighting over how to resurrect it." Local Po... |
851852_0 | Adventure Puts Novices In Dangerous Waters | Andrew Fernandez, a technician at a photo shop in Newport, R.I., is about to set off on an adventure that he never thought would get past the daydream stage. Along with 12 other amateurs, Fernandez plans to race a 67-foot sailboat around the world. The trip comes at a time when sports adventures are taking a decidedly ... |
852108_1 | Getting Your Mail Sent to a New Virtual Home | and the Microsoft Network, missives meant for you may eventually go to someone else, because after a year or so, your E-mail handle will be made available to anyone who wants it. If you come to depend on E-mail, you may amass a substantial collection of electronic correspondents, including automatic mailing lists. If y... |
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