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520073_0 | France Suspends Its Testing of Nuclear Weapons | France announced today that it was suspending its 32-year-old program of nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific until the end of this year and suggested that it would extend the moratorium in 1993 if other nuclear powers followed suit. In his first address to Parliament since taking office last week, Prime Minist... |
520045_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-11 ARAFAT SURVIVES PLANE CRASH The chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization was found in the Libyan desert nearly 12 hours after his plane crashed in a sandstorm. Mr. Arafat was bruised but not seriously injured. A1 Celebrations indicated new support for Mr. Arafat. A6 United States officials ... |
520055_0 | Catholic Bishops Retreat On the Roles of Women | After nine years of sometimes bitter debate, a committee of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops yesterday issued a draft of a pastoral letter on women's issues that hews to the Vatican line by condemning sexism but refusing to open the priesthood and other ministerial roles to women. The letter, which will now be debat... |
518842_1 | Bishops Warn on Stopping Life Supports for Comatose | resource paper," the document is not meant to be binding on Catholics, said Bishop James T. McHugh of Camden, N.J., who oversaw the drafting of the statement. "It doesn't reject out of hand all other approaches," he said, "but having considered them, this gives a clear signal in one direction." The committee, which foc... |
518815_0 | Libyans Riot at Embassies; U.N. Protests | Libyan demonstrators, protesting the threat of sanctions over the downing of Pan Am flight 103, today attacked the embassies in Tripoli of Council members supporting the embargo. The United Nations Security Council then issued a statement strongly condemning Libya for the rioting. The protesters set fire to the Embassy... |
518840_4 | Back Home, Miskitos Can Sing Again, but Face Daunting Job of Rebuilding | army to deny hiding places to the contras. The flimsy houses abandoned by the Miskitos were set afire or fell victim to the relentless sun and rain. Entire villages disappeared. The most visible work being done in the region today is the effort to repair the important road linking Puerto Cabezas and Waspan, the main to... |
518833_0 | Court Upsets Physical Test For Children In Sex Abuse | The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that courts may not compel children who are victims of sexual abuse to undergo physical examinations at the request of defendants without first determining that there is a substantial need for the tests. The court overturned lower-court rulings that dismissed an indictment becau... |
520369_2 | A Hard Sell: Students Try to Market Themselves; 5,000 Attend City University Job Fair With Their Hopes High and Expectations Low | to work, and they can't," he said. "I look at a bachelor's now as the same as a high school diploma." Mr. Lynch, who has a master's degree in clinical psychology from Hunter College, said that one advertising company at the fair had said it would consider him for an opening -- as a secretary. Making an Impression In ge... |
520326_2 | A Call for Discipline In the Airline Industry | now norms in the industry, including the frequent-flier program first proposed in 1981 and super saver fares, introduced in 1977, two years before airline deregulation went into effect. Mr. Crandall also pioneered the two-tier wage system in the mid-1980's, under which new employees are hired at lower salaries than tho... |
523269_1 | Economic Scene; As Phoenix Rises In East Europe | rely on what is oddly called the "gravity model" of open trade, a simple but generally accurate predictor of country-by-country import and export flows based on income, population and location. They go back to 1985, a time when the East bloc's output was at its peak, and compare actual trade with simulated flows for op... |
524119_1 | Proposal for U.S. Open Is Sweetened | city's inventory, said Carl Weisbrod, president of the city's Economic Development Corporation. Rather, he said, the proposed College Point park is "just an additional benefit we would include" for the public. He said that the real "intended exchange" for leasing more Flushing Meadows land to the tennis center was $8 m... |
524041_2 | Japanese Live Longer, the U.N. Finds | year, with 252,977 people found to be infected, 80 percent of them in the United States. Africa reported a 60 percent increase in AIDS cases, with the number of infected people rising from 81,019 to 129,066. The worst-affected countries are Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Tanzania. The report, which contains far m... |
523888_2 | CAMPUS LIFE: Syracuse; An Offbeat Style Draws Students To a Professor | romance, and unrequited love is a deep source of pain." Professor Thomas's anguish has led him to take unusual steps regarding his students, including publicly scolding them last semester in a newspaper advertisement. He had asked his entry-level class how many had completed the reading assignment over a Thanksgiving b... |
524233_0 | For One American, Britain Is the Land of Opportunity | Anne Evans wants to go home. The British Government and tire dealers may be glad to have the 35-year-old American entrepreneur in this industrial city near Birmingham. But to hear her tell it, she was forced to come here to save her family's eastern Connecticut real estate business, which has been pushed to the brink b... |
524112_0 | A Hundred Words for 'Green' | THE ROAD TO EXTREMA By Bob Reiss. 301 pp. New York: Summit Books. AFTER hacking my way halfway through this tangled account of the Amazonian rain forest, I developed a theory about the book's organizing principle. Bob Reiss's plan for "The Road to Extrema" must have been to approximate, in the disorder of his narrative... |
521317_10 | Quake Theory Attacks Prevailing Wisdom On How Faults Slip and Slide | show that faults seem to conduct electricity more readily than surrounding rock, indicating that water may be present. Moreover, he said, ancient fault traces show veins of minerals deposited by water. Upward migration of water pulses could trigger earthquakes, Dr. Rice said, in which case it would be important to unde... |
519712_2 | Careers; Revamping The Training Of M.B.A.'s | as a team in business. The other intensive weeks focus on managing quality and diversity; competitive business strategy, and complex management problems. There is also an exchange program under which students may spend a semester at foreign business schools, including Manchester Business in Britain; Erasmus University ... |
522544_4 | Noted With Pleasure | him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience . . . for, if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound so far as it is in my power to practise what I pray for. . . . And now, let's tune our instruments." City of Words Cities, the scie... |
522728_0 | Networking; Containing the Cost of Communicating | Local-area networks are often like large, rowdy families; too many people trying to use too few bathrooms. In the case of modems, providing one for each person on the network is too expensive since, like bathrooms, modems sit idle most of the time. The only viable option is to provide as many as possible and force peop... |
522560_1 | The Rich Get Richer; And What to Do About It | President. Meanwhile, similar trends showed up in Europe and Canada. Others blame foreign competition and the shift of production from manufacturing -- with lots of high-paying blue-collar jobs -- to service industries. But this argument is contradicted by data showing that most of the growing income inequality occurre... |
522729_0 | Networking; Containing the Cost of Communicating | Local-area networks are often like large, rowdy families; too many people trying to use too few bathrooms. In the case of modems, providing one for each person on the network is too expensive since, like bathrooms, modems sit idle most of the time. The only viable option is to provide as many as possible and force peop... |
522500_0 | Cuba, Long Forbidden, Wins Major Attention Abroad | A growing number of American companies, lured by the prospect of approaching change in Cuba as the island tries to ward off economic collapse, are following their foreign counterparts in showing interest in the island. Located at the United States' doorstep, endowed with resources ranging from strategic metals to rich ... |
522732_2 | Public & Private; Ms. President | power-base building that accrue to men like Bill Clinton or Al Gore. They found that many of them were gingerly negotiating the contradictions between traditional notions of leadership and traditional notions of femininity. But many had been told from childhood that they could do anything, and they still believed it. G... |
522475_0 | Cuba Gets Closer To Tourism Role | Cuba, which enjoys a busy tourist trade from Canada, Germany and other countries -- but not from the United States, whose citizens are prohibited from traveling there -- has moved a step closer in its quest to become a member of the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The organization, which represents 28 islands plus Vene... |
522733_2 | Public & Private; Ms. President | power-base building that accrue to men like Bill Clinton or Al Gore. They found that many of them were gingerly negotiating the contradictions between traditional notions of leadership and traditional notions of femininity. But many had been told from childhood that they could do anything, and they still believed it. G... |
521233_1 | PENSIONS COVERING LOWER PERCENTAGE OF U.S. WORK FORCE | Fall in Private Pension Coverage in the U.S.," that is about to be published in the proceedings of the American Economics Association. William E. Even, associate director of the Center for Pension and Retirement Research at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, said, "The decline increases the likelihood that these workers... |
521108_0 | World Economies | |
521197_2 | Contemporary, but Largely Invisible | under $1,200 apiece, he had to sell his collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1963 for $1.2 million. The museum opened the following year in an 18th-century white clapboard house that was once a general store and a Christian Science church. Its backyard became a sculpture garden. In 1986, a wi... |
522983_9 | As China Looks at World Order, It Detects New Struggles Emerging | from facts and adopting a serious attitude." Diplomacy Shedding Status As Pariah in West For all of China's diplomatic difficulties in the 1990's, most diplomats and scholars say the Government has made great strides in improving its position lately. Just a couple of years ago, for example, China seemed to face an intr... |
523055_2 | Using Natural Sounds, System Tries to 'See' Objects Deep in Ocean | mirrors used in astronomical telescopes. Some four feet in diameter, it is parabolically shaped and coated with thick neoprene. A microphone, shielded against sound coming from directions other than the reflector, is mounted at the focus of the parabolic dish to measure the intensity of sound concentrated at the spot. ... |
523072_1 | Bid to Save Rare Crane Advancing | last nation where the cranes are believed to flock in large numbers, has joined an international effort to save the birds, which have long been objects of adoration and mythology in Eastern culture. Several hundred are left. The Department of Forestry in Cambodia recently signed an agreement that may be the first step ... |
523058_1 | Hibernating Bears Emerge With Hints About Human Ills | bones waste away, and from kidney failure, in which life-threatening urinary toxins accumulate. "Working with hibernating bears you only get one chance each year to see what's happening, but we're slowly putting it all together," said Dr. Ralph A. Nelson, research director of the Carle Foundation in Urbana, Ill., who h... |
523074_0 | Q&A | Solid Tires Q. Why can't tires be made of solid rubber, so they can't be punctured? A. They can be made of solid materials, and sometimes are, said William E. Egan, chief engineer for product design at the Akron Technical Center of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. However, such tires are made only for special low-... |
513816_0 | TakeCare Inc. reports earnings for Qtr to Dec 31 | *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*TakeCare Inc. (OTC) Qtr to Dec 31 1991 1990 Revenue 75,838,000 71,761,000 Net inc 4,764,000 3,303,000 Share earns .51 .44 Shares outst 9,374,000 7,481,000 Yr rev 287,419,000 266,813,000 Net inc 16,875,000 11,748,000 Share earns 1.88 1.58 Shares outst 8,954,000 7,449,000 |
513820_1 | Villa Victoria Journal; In the Drug War, U.S. Sows Dollars, Reaps Hate | Bolivia develop altenative crops to cocaine and to pay farmers $800 for every acre of coca they agree to cut down. Officials say that this year the Government has arrested more than a dozen high-level drug traffickers, shut down several big laboratories and seized almost two tons of cocaine base, an intermediate step i... |
515335_1 | In Brooklyn, the General Store Recycled | a desk; on the box is information on what paper can be recycled. For $1.95, he got his receptacle and an environmental lesson. Earth General is a result of a change in careers for its owners. Until last May, Mr. Geeslin, 31 years old, was a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly magazine in Manhattan. "All the stories s... |
515286_2 | President's Plan Seeks to Create a Market for Cars That Pollute | however, which is patterned on one conducted by the Unocal Corporation in California in 1990 and 1991. Under the Government program, a power plant or other "stationary source" could buy the right to continue polluting by reducing pollution from vehicles. The idea is that the new cars that would replace the old ones wou... |
515252_2 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Congress; The Rumble of Discontent Rattles Illinois Incumbents | entered the race against Mr. Dixon after he voted to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court last fall. If she wins in November against Richard S. Williamson, a conservative former assistant secretary of state who was recruited to run in the Republican primary, she would be the first black woman to serve in the Se... |
515612_2 | 'Bolder Approach' Is Urged for China | January. Mr. Deng has engineered the latest push for more economic liberalization as the best way to preserve Communism in China. 'Emancipate Our Minds' "We must further emancipate our minds, dare to innovate and take a bolder approach to reform and opening up," Mr. Li said. He called for more stock markets and for sta... |
516848_1 | For an Answer to a Roman Riddle, Find Pi | Professor Brilliant's letter reached Mr. Skalsky, Arion, a thrice-yearly journal devoted to the classics and humanities, had accepted the article and now plans to publish it with a special color fold-out in its May issue. Two Intriguing Scenes The elegantly crafted frieze on the Portland vase, so named after it was pur... |
513962_0 | Bear-Repellent Spray Joins The Arsenal Against Crime | A late-night encounter with a grizzly bear has become the mother of invention for William Pounds, an outdoor equipment retailer who has developed a hot pepper spray for use by wilderness hikers. The success of the spray in warding off bear attacks has prompted Mr. Pounds to repackage the product recently for use agains... |
513888_2 | Gunshots Fired at Congressional Candidate in Bitter Chicago Race | church. The two men, both of them black, are in the middle of an impassioned, neck-and-neck campaign for the state's newly drawn Second Congressional District, once a mostly black, working-class district that has now become whiter and more affluent with the addition of suburbs to the south. It is the third time the two... |
512203_3 | Jobless Rate Increases to 7.3% In a Mixed Report | the latest recession started in July 1990. So while it appeared from one set of statistics that the economy was no longer throwing people out of work in recent weeks, neither was it generating enough jobs to absorb an ever-larger pool of people seeking them, including the hard-core unemployed. At the same time, however... |
511286_0 | Talks Seek to Prevent Huge Loss of Species | AS the world approaches the day of decision on a treaty to deal with the threat of global warming, separate negotiations on another overarching environmental question, maintaining biological diversity, are moving toward their own denouement. The object of these less prominent but nevertheless high-stakes talks is to fo... |
512846_3 | Spy vs. Spy in the Hunt for America's Cup | be arrogant." The challengers have objected to the Koch team's tactics for months. Last Tuesday, the Coast Guard met with challengers and defenders to discuss on-the-water activities. All but Koch's syndicate agreed that intelligence gathering had gone beyond acceptable limits, Taylor said. Koch's actions may be unspor... |
512823_0 | World Economies | |
517935_1 | A Hands-On Approach to Nature | virgin patch of mature forest in New Jersey was set aside as a nature preserve on the assumption that, in Dr. Pickett's words, "protecting the forest, but otherwise leaving it alone, would be an adequate and appropriate conservation strategy." Three decades later, exotic species from other continents, including Japanes... |
517862_0 | Seagram Plans to Market New Diet Drink | The Seagram Company plans to re-enter the soft-drink business with a diet drink called Quest. The product will be sweetened with Nutrasweet and have two calories for each bottle. It is aimed at one of the only fast-growing areas in the lackluster soft-drink business, the "new-age" beverage market. That market includes ... |
517870_0 | I.R.A.-Linked Party Faces Test With Ulster Voters | Sinn Fein, the civilian wing of the Irish Republican Army, is struggling in the British parliamentary election to maintain credibility as a political force in Northern Ireland. The campaign refocuses attention on the personal background of Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein's president, and his No. 2, Martin McGuinness, both of wh... |
517939_1 | Class Act For Home Or School Is Updated | be incorporated into the products, as well as charts, and documents can be formatted in multiple columns, with multiple type fonts, suitable for newsletters, flyers or just plain fun. Some features are aimed specifically at the classroom. To take but two examples, a teacher can write a message that will appear when the... |
517943_1 | Designers Plan Drones To Probe Atmosphere | engines, airframes and materials to the task of operating routinely in the harsh environment of the upper atmosphere. One company is developing a gasoline engine that recycles its exhaust and mixes it with oxygen carried aboard the plane to maintain the pressure and power needed to turn a large propeller and operate at... |
513021_0 | Sphinx Poses Riddle About Its Own Fate | THE Sphinx, ravaged by time and the crush of human beings who come to gaze or settle near its great stone paws, has coughed up a new riddle for the modern age: What can be done to save the ancient monument? In an effort to curb the effects of erosion, pollution and sewage creeping into the water table, 70 international... |
513085_0 | French Socialists Look to Rightist Discontent | By condoning a series of stormy demonstrations against the far-right National Front, France's faltering Socialist Government has turned the front's leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, into the central figure of the campaign for crucial regional elections this month. Even after protesters clashed with the police in several Frenc... |
512988_0 | Careers; Early Start To Job Study In Colleges | BIG or small, universities and colleges are worrying more about the job outlook for their students. Perhaps surprisingly though, their concern is not so much for those graduating this recessionary year, but for those who are now just freshmen and sophomores. Some college administrators say that juniors and seniors are ... |
513000_0 | Lofty Instruments Discern Traces of Ancient Peoples | WITH lofty perspective and vision no human eye can match, advanced technologies for surveying the landscape from satellites, the space shuttle and airplanes are changing the practices of archeologists and paleontologists exploring the buried remnants of past life. Not that these explorers will be throwing away their sp... |
517148_1 | Maker of USAir Plane Urged More Frequent De-Icing Plan | which is regularly distributed to airlines, were offered in stronger terms such as a formal advisory or warning. It was also unclear if the Federal Aviation Administration was provided with the information. Bob Hawk, a spokesman for Fokker, a Dutch manufacturer, said that the recommendations were based on information f... |
517167_0 | Plastics Unit Is Being Sold By Goodyear | Moving to reduce its debt sharply, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that it had reached an agreement to sell its polyester resin business to the Shell Chemical Company, a division of the Shell Oil Company. Neither company would not disclose the purchase price, but analysts said Goodyear was likely to... |
517144_0 | Yurimaguas Journal; Fighting the Drug War In the Skies Over Peru | Peru's inability, or its unwillingness, to cut exports of semi-refined cocaine is as real as the nighttime droning of small planes taking off from this Amazon village for laboratories in Colombia. "The cocaleros block a stretch of road, light it with cans of kerosene and the planes land for a quick pickup," a mahogany ... |
515839_1 | The Latest Technology Fuels the Oldest of Drives | exchange intimacies by typing messages back and forth. Unlike telephone conversations, however, which convey some information about age and sex, the computer permits people to hide their identity entirely. At a computer keyboard it is possible to assume any identity and change roles on a whim. The user of a computer co... |
515860_0 | INSIDE | Angry French Voting Today Frustrated by rising unemployment and abruptly uncertain of their place in the world, the French appear ready to register a big protest vote. Page 3. Rep. Dwyer Drops Out One of two Democratic Congressmen thrown into the same New Jersey district said he would retire. Page 26. Brazil Ousts Ecol... |
516168_0 | Southbury Training School | Robert Hamilton's interview with Cathy Juni, "Speaking Out for Disabled People" (Feb. 2), was informative and constructive in many ways, but it presented a very unfair and inaccurate picture of Southbury Training School. Your readers deserve to know what Southbury Training School is really like. Our current population,... |
515827_1 | CAMPUS LIFE: Cornell; Religious Studies Are Upgraded To a New Major | religion affects so many aspects of modern life," Professor Adams said. Long-Term Endowment A short-term $50,000 gift and an undisclosed long-term endowment from H. Stanley Krusen, who graduated from Cornell in 1928, will be used to pay for academic and administrative duties, according to the university. "Along with so... |
515844_3 | Q and A | open sea. Vessels available for rent, most without a crew, include traditional fishing boats, canoes, motorboats and yachts, including catamarans. Small wonder, then, that the Netherlands Board of Tourism promotes the country as Holland, Land of Water, and has set up an annual Aquatic Recreation Open Day (May 30 this y... |
515911_0 | BRAZILIAN REMOVES ENVIRONMENT CHIEF | Ten weeks before this city is to be host to a mammoth international conference on environment and development, Brazil's President today dismissed his top two environmental officials. Citing a need for "only one line of thought and action in the area of environmental protection," President Fernando Collor de Mello dismi... |
515986_0 | Protest Sentiment Is Expected to Hurt Mitterrand in French Regional Voting | Frustrated by a stagnant economy and rising unemployment, troubled by the new strength and size of their neighbor Germany, abruptly uncertain of their place in the world, the French appear ready to register a vote of overwhelming protest on Sunday in regional elections likely to deal a major setback to the governing So... |
516643_1 | Jews Debate the Issue of Gay Clergy Members | other that would enable them to serve. The debate will start at 10 A.M. at the Jewish Theological Seminary, at 3080 Broadway at 122d Street in upper Manhattan. A Divisive Issue The issue is the most divisive to confront Conservative Jews since the movement's decision in the early 1980's to ordain women as rabbis. Argui... |
514729_1 | Hydropower Under Review In Albany Bill | go ahead with a $19 billion, 20-year contract it signed in 1989 to buy 1,800 megawatts of hydropower a year, roughly enough to supply 10 percent of the state's demand. The bill passed by the Democratic-led Assembly today, on a vote of 122 to 17, would require the state to delay the decision again, because the review it... |
514836_1 | Study Finds One Cell Can Provoke Many Tumors | lungs, mouth and throat. "Everyone just talked about field defects like they were God's word and there was no other way around it," said Dr. David Sidransky, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Oncology Center and principal author of the study. "But now we've been able to actually test these things... |
514960_3 | North-South Divide Is Marring Environment Talks | destruction of its Amazon rainforest, lobbied to serve as host for the meeting and won enough backing. Brazil's purpose, officials said at the time, was to improve its image. Brazil and other developing nations also said that holding the conference in the third world was symbolically important and would help them put t... |
514960_5 | North-South Divide Is Marring Environment Talks | that you can have cleaner economic growth. If you can't do it there, where can you?" One way to dissolve the acrimony, Marjan van Giezen of the Netherlands said, is a pledge from the West to keep separate budgets and not to send eastern Europe any aid funds earmarked for the developing world. United Nations officials h... |
514688_2 | Orthodox Warn Other Christians on East Europe | church property that Communist governments often turned over to the Orthodox. The Eastern Orthodox churches have regarded these groups as beachheads of Catholic proselytizing, while Catholics have seen them as victims of both Communist and Orthodox persecution. Last year, the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Ch... |
511477_1 | Market Place; Finding Money In Old Freezers | which shields the earth's surface from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, is deteriorating more quickly than previously thought. A family of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, is generally regarded as the culprit. The primary use for CFC's is in refrigeration, both as the liquid refrigerant and as a compo... |
511454_0 | Sears Will Sell Goodyear Tires | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company said yesterday that it would sell its name-brand tires through Sears, Roebuck & Company. The move is a shift for the nation's largest tire producer, which has avoided distribution pacts with large retailers. Goodyear, which has a big network of its own dealers, will sell seven tire ... |
511532_3 | A School for the Deaf That's Founded on Speech | Higginbothams chose Clarke for the individual attention it provided. Other Parents Help Although it is hard living without her husband, Mrs. Higginbotham said a support group for new Clarke parents had eased the transition. "They just took us in and made us a part of their family right away," she said, adding that Lind... |
517028_2 | For the Environmentalists, Hurdles on the Road to Rio | will all come together." Last week, Muslim nations complained that the June 1-12 conference dates coincided with an Islamic festival. Brazilian organizers now say the conference will run from June 3 to 14, but the United Nations has yet to confirm the new dates. Today's newspapers also carried a new worry: Rio de Janei... |
514346_0 | Technology; Next for the Cellular Phone | Nature created an abundant electromagnetic spectrum, which ingenious scientists have exploited for radar, television and lasers. But that is small comfort to cellular telephone operators. The Federal Communications Commission has been stingy with the radio frequencies that make wireless telephone calls possible. But th... |
514117_1 | Drought Shrivels Farms and Hope in Zimbabwe | ordinarily thrive, dead hippopotamuses slump on the parkland and buffalo carcasses rot in the sun. Zimbabwe has been among the handful of African nations able to feed itself and to export to its often hard-pressed neighbors. But this year, this country of nearly 11 million is at the center of a southern African regiona... |
514184_0 | Mexico Moves Ahead With Embattled Dam Project in Mayan Area | After years of public protest and delay, the Mexican Government is moving ahead with a hydroelectric dam project that some environmentalists and archeologists say could damage an ancient center of the Mayan civilization and the ecology of North America's largest surviving rain forest. A spokesman for the Federal Electr... |
514432_6 | TOURS | columnist for the Real Estate section of The New York Times. Today the tour "GERRYMANDERED CARNEGIE HILL" explores the historic district along Madison Avenue from 90th to 94th Street; meets at the southwest corner of 92d Street and Madison Avenue. On March 28, the tour "HALF A BABY IS BETTER?" focuses on the Metropolit... |
514394_3 | Brazil's Pristine Playground | was an international byword, Mr. Peters and his brother, Manfred, bought a 25,000-acre coconut plantation that fronted on seven and a half miles of beach. The purchase gave him title to the fishing village of Praia, the castle ruins and the rain forest. He created a foundation to administer the castle and turned the fo... |
515108_0 | When U.S. Helped Poor College Students | To the Editor: Proposing that President Bush should increase Government programs to help needy students attend private colleges, Samuel Hynes (Op-Ed, Feb. 29) cites the G.I. Bill, which provided one month's college tuition for each month a World War II veteran served on active duty. He could have mentioned National You... |
515097_4 | A Flood of Illegal Aliens Enters U.S. Via Kennedy | passengers arrive without documents, and airlines are liable for all detention costs of any transit passengers who ask for political asylum. Sames Stories, Word for Word Airlines insist they canot be responsible for passengers who destroy their documents druing the flight or hand them off to smuggling couriers. In Janu... |
515055_2 | 2 ISRAELIS KILLED IN TEL AVIV ATTACK | killed by a policeman who happened to be at the scene. Witnesses said that passers-by cursed and spat on the attacker after he was gunned down, and that an angry crowd tried to prevent his evacuation, rocking the ambulance taking him away. Palestinians identified the assailant as Raed al-Rifi, 22, from Gaza, and said h... |
515045_4 | U.N. Demands an Iraqi Plan By March 26 to Scrap Arms | U.T.A. plane. But so far Libya has refused, but has offered to put them on trial and has asked the accusing Western Governments to provide evidence against them. Libyan Expresses Outrage In a news conference this afternoon at the United Nations, the Libyan representative condemned the proposed resolution. The envoy, Al... |
513588_0 | Questions of Ethics Confront Hospitals Facing Inspections | Only two miles from the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, which last year was racked with disputes over the rewriting of critical internal analyses of patient care, a battle was playing itself out over the very same issue in an even more hard-pressed medical setting -- sprawling and beleaguered Kings County Ho... |
510651_4 | Q and A | are recommended for those traveling to the Brazilian states of Acre and Rondonia, the territories of Amapa and Roraima and in rural areas of Amazonas, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso and Para states. The Centers for Disease Control say that there is a problem in Brazil with dengue fever, a virus spread by mosquitoes that ... |
510623_4 | Chugging Down the Amazon | a tour of his property. The Amazon rain forest is a frontier. Any Brazilian resident can homestead legally, Mark told us; ownership requires only that the pioneer improve upon some portion of the land. Unfortunately, "improvement" usually means slash and burn. This brings nitrogen to soil so poor it can only sustain a ... |
510718_0 | Lisbon: Reliquary of Portugal's Golden Age | In the Belem Tower, a 500-year-old stone bulwark in Lisbon, near the point where the Tagus River gets lost in the iron-gray nothingness of the Atlantic, a disk symbolizing the celestial sphere revolved slowly in the middle of a blackened room, illuminated by a spotlight. It was a stormy day. I was the tower's only visi... |
510650_2 | Gauging Fitness For Active Trips | tour company has been running this particular trip; judgment on rating the difficulty of a trip is developed through experience. Ask who will lead the trip because it helps if the people who screen the participants will have to live with their choices. Listen to how hard the telephone sell is. Nonprofit companies do no... |
510606_2 | Public & Private; To Defray Expenses | edge. Teen-age mothers. Child abuse. Crowded schools. Homes without fathers. Projects lousy with drugs, vermin, crime, and always, the smell of urine in the elevator. I have never been in a project that hasn't had that odor, and I have never smelled it without wondering: If your home smells like a bathroom, what does t... |
510782_5 | Charismatic Movement Gains Among Catholics | to co-exist after all these years. Recently, he recalled, he attended a wedding Mass in which some charismatics began speaking in tongues. Those, like Mr. Zwilling, who do not consider themselves charismatics, continued to worship in their own more subdued way. Evidence of Growth While Mr. Zwilling said that parishione... |
511619_1 | Photo File Of World's Wonders | provide the digital expertise and France Telecom, the French national telephone and communications corporation, will handle transmission of the project's images by satellite and digital telephone lines. Averting Wrong Impression The venture's title is "Projet Patrimoine 2001" ("Project Patrimony 2001"). Unesco official... |
511794_0 | Not Without the Rain Forests | With rain forests disappearing and species becoming extinct, many possible sources of drugs may vanish in coming decades. "Nature is still full of all these compounds that no one really knows what they do," said Thomas Eisner, a professor of biology at Cornell University. "Species are disappearing faster than we are lo... |
516509_5 | U.S. Under Fire In Talks at U.N. On Environment | developing world." Chile's delegate, Vincent Sanchez, said: "This conference could fail. We've agreed absolutely nothing of real significance so far." Already, an important attempt to draft a convention to save the world's rain forests has collapsed because mainly northern, industrial countries and southern, undevelope... |
516352_0 | Political Doubt in France: Challenges to the Status Quo | By rebuffing France's traditional political parties and giving new support to far-rightist and environmentalist alternatives, voters have deepened the political uncertainty that has slowly taken root here in the last year. The stunning defeat of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party in regional elections on S... |
516392_0 | Unlocking the Secrets Of a Mysterious Plate | OF all the giant plates of the earth's surface whose motions cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, none is more mysterious than the Philippine Sea Plate, the one bounded by southern Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and the chain of islands from Iwo Jima to Guam. Now scientists from countries bordering the plates, as ... |
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513165_0 | Cuba Seeks Friends and Tourists in Caribbean | For many in the Caribbean, the most readily visible face of Cuba was long represented by olive-green military advisers, or young bearded doctors sent abroad from Havana to share the fruits of the revolution in the hopes that others might deecide to emulate it. But as leaders of the English-speaking Caribbean gathered h... |
513286_7 | New Mainstream: Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Salsa | Foods Company in Minneapolis) to Thai pizza (seasoned with mint, basil and coriander, which the Satay Company of Austin, Tex., will introduce next year). But even these concepts aren't as limitless as the Salsa Concept, which borrows the familiarity of ketchup but smacks of exotica and health and is adaptable to myriad... |
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