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1295369_13 | Before the Big Bang, There Was . . . What? | gravitational field of the other as an energy field in its own three-dimensional space and will begin to inflate rapidly, doubling its size more than a thousand times in the period it takes for the branes to fall together. ''If there is at least one region where the branes are parallel, those regions will start an enor... |
1295464_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | it had agreed to acquire the Clairol hair-care and coloring business from Bristol-Myers Squibb for $4.95 billion in cash. But investors punished shares of Procter, sending them down $2.23, or 3.3 percent, to $65.25. [C4.] E*Trade Plans to Buy Small Rival E*Trade Group said that it planned to buy a small, struggling com... |
1295399_1 | An E-Mail Boast to Friends Puts Executive Out of Work | equity firm. Mr. Chung was given the option of resigning or being dismissed, a Carlyle executive said. The message, which was retitled ''Amazing Cautionary Tale'' by a banking analyst, meandered in and out of e-mail boxes around the world. ''I know I was a stud in N.Y.C., but I pretty much get about, on average, 5-8 ph... |
1297092_3 | Bush Foreign Policy Plans Through Democrats' Prism | on trade issues considerably more constricted. He is seeking authority from Congress to negotiate broad trade accords -- including a Free Trade Area of the Americas -- under which Congress could approve or reject, but not amend, any agreement. Getting that authority has now become much trickier. That is because the Com... |
1297776_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Ecuador: U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Against Texaco | A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a nearly eight-year-old lawsuit brought by Ecuadorean Indians against Texaco. In a ruling yesterday, Judge Jed S. Rakoff dismissed the suit, which accused Texaco of polluting the Indians' land in the Amazon rain forest, on the ground that it should have been brought in Ecuador... |
1297743_0 | Europeans Revoke Patent on Enzyme | The European Patent Office revoked a patent yesterday held by Roche on an enzyme crucial to one of the biotechnology industry's fundamental processes, executives said. The enzyme, known as Taq DNA polymerase, is used in the polymerase chain reaction, a technique to amplify minuscule amounts of DNA for use in medical di... |
1297737_0 | Down East, the Lobster Hauls Are Up Big | Never before in Maine's long memory has there been a lobster boom like this one. Year after year lately, the state's lobster landings have risen to record heights, even as the levels of many fish stocks remain miserably low. The latest figures, issued this spring, put last year's catch at an unheard-of 56.7 million pou... |
1297637_4 | With Phone Headsets, It's So Easy to Gab Away | is more comfortable, though, and the Radio Shack model has a more obtrusive microphone with a foam cushion that can make you feel like a telemarketer or a rock star (depending on your point of view) as you shuffle about the house. A similar headset from Panasonic is designed to work with any 2.4-gigahertz phone. With P... |
1290208_0 | First Pigeons, Now Cars. Assisi Is Up in Arms Again. | Assisi, the medieval hill town that was badly damaged by a 1997 earthquake, is experiencing new tremors over a city ordinance to allow some automobile traffic in front of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. ''This is devastating,'' said Mario Struzzi, the architect who oversaw the restoration of the lower piazza, wh... |
1290451_6 | Mystic, Harpooned for Posterity | for a ''mug up'' at the Spouter Tavern, which offers coffee and snacks year-round and a warm fire and hot cider in the cold months. And we gained an even broader maritime perspective through a more traditional exhibition, ''Voyages: Stories of America and the Sea,'' which chronicles every aspect of the country's histor... |
1290512_1 | Dear New Employee: Welcome, and Goodbye | the investment bank. ''It's not necessarily just technology companies, but companies doing business with or catering to the technology industry,'' said Bill Coleman, vice president for compensation at Salary.com, which tracks compensation paid by various industries. The employers' moves, an abrupt reversal of the head-... |
1294201_6 | ''Where Sender Meets Gender'' | they find liberating. ''The electronic distance that lets men write so freely is akin to their preferred way of speaking -- without a direct face-to-face alignment that makes a lot of men uncomfortable,'' said Dr. Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and a pioneer in the field of sex diff... |
1294092_0 | World Briefing | The World: Progress Against Leprosy | The World Health Organization said it had met its target of cutting leprosy by 90 percent around the world in the last decade. The organization, part of the United Nations system, said that 11 million people had been cured over 15 years through a combination of drugs that treat the disease and prevent its transmission.... |
1271367_0 | Navy Stonewalling | More than a week after an American nuclear attack submarine accidentally sank a Japanese fishing boat near Hawaii, the Navy is still suppressing information about the incident. That is a misguided strategy that ill serves the American people and the Navy itself. The names of all 16 civilian visitors in the control room... |
1271332_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE UKRAINE: BACKING FOR EX-OFFICIAL -- Hundreds of protesters chanting ''Yulia!'' marched through Kiev demanding the release of Yulia V. Timoshenko, the former deputy prime minister arrested on corruption charges that she claims are politically motivated. Ms. Timoshenko, left, waged a battle last year to bring tran... |
1273676_0 | Do Cell Phones Belong in the Car? | To the Editor: As a Feb. 18 front-page article demonstrates, many people have been killed by drivers who were talking on cell phones. I own a cell phone but never use it while driving because I find it too distracting, especially if I'm on a highway. Other countries have already recognized this and limited or banned th... |
1273313_0 | Assisi Restoration On View Through April | Every Saturday until April 28, visitors to the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi can take a close look at a unique puzzle. Its pieces are thousands of fragments of the late 13th-century frescoes that fell from the basilica's vault during a 1997 earthquake. Groups of 10 visitors are taken for half-hour tours of the rest... |
1273387_1 | Children's Services Guide Compiled | to help remedy that. The book, a glossy, spiral-bound volume, features information on a variety of services and providers that help children from birth through age 3. ''The intent is to keep babies healthy and safe,'' Dr. Carman said. ''We began to say that it does take a village for all children to live in a healthy c... |
1273281_3 | The Way We Live Now: 2-25-01: The Machine Age; Cellular Metastasis | you are out, and in is life and out is death. When you are linked to the global satellite network, to real-time stock quotations, to instant messages, then you are connected to the vital life force of our age. As Descartes might say, I connect, therefore I am. Which is why the info-claustrophobic would prefer in an ide... |
1267988_7 | In Lieu of Manners | law began to fill the social space previously occupied by manners and mores. The rights revolution of the 1960's had many noble achievements, but in rebelling against hierarchical authority in all of its forms, it arguably threw out the baby with the bath water. In the late 1960's, as the authority of teachers and pare... |
1268224_2 | Waiting at the Gate For Trade With Cuba | people in Havana to protest. Still, American food producers are trying to persuade the Cubans to make some purchases and prove that the country is a viable market; otherwise, the producers say, support for lifting the embargo completely will shrivel. ''We're working very hard to get a shipment into Cuba this year,'' sa... |
1268146_2 | Collages by Chance but Not Accident | Cage's books. ''John Cage was the first person to call me an artist,'' Mr. Mahon said. ''When I met him I was working on a project to photograph poets. That led me to photograph using chance operations -- the way he composed music.'' Like Cage, Mr. Mahon believes that in using chance processes, ''one allows for the une... |
1268275_2 | Ideas & Trends; A Food Fight For High Stakes | Haerlin of Greenpeace dismissed the importance of saving African and Asian lives if it meant unleashing the technology. In fairness, most critics contend that biotechnology won't alleviate hunger in the first place. The world already produces enough food, they say, but the poor can't afford to buy it. And they note tha... |
1268309_2 | Free-Tuition Program Transforms a University | scholarships like the Hope program are becoming increasingly popular around the country, now used in 13 states, but after seven years as the pioneer program of its kind, the Hope system in Georgia is yielding several lessons. Though it has substantially improved the academic quality of the state's top colleges, it has ... |
1268016_9 | SEVEN DAYS ON A FLOATING COLOSSUS | take a half-day, $28 bus excursion to the wet, wonderful Yunque rain forest, which rings with tree frog song, and stroll through beguiling Old San Juan on the way back to the ship. Overcrowding at ports is one of the few problems with traveling in a ship of this size; we can crowd a port all by ourselves, as we do at L... |
1269494_2 | As Ex-Theorist on Young 'Superpredators,' Bush Aide Has Regrets | Roman Catholic to one who ''took his religion seriously.'' He was sitting in a church in New Jersey that day, ''and it just became crystal clear to me,'' the 42-year-old Mr. DiIulio said in the interview at Penn, where he is a professor of government policy. ''God had given me a Rolodex, good will and a passion that wa... |
1269461_2 | Newly Discovered Molecule Is a Clue to the Spread of AIDS | applications. One is in developing a chemical that when inserted in the vagina could act as a microbicide, preventing H.I.V.'s entry into the body. With further research, the molecule might become a target in developing a vaccine or drugs for treating infected people. Development of such a microbicide is considered an ... |
1269498_4 | Welcome to J.F.K., Now With Service To Rochester; An International Airport Looks Homeward | Kennedy has always been even farther. La Guardia's entrenched problems appear to be slowly changing domestic travelers' views about Kennedy, Port Authority officials say. But airlines do not seem to be ready to put that to the test, in part because of what aviation officials describe as a vicious circle. ''The airlines... |
1269518_8 | Ex-Wife of Pardoned Financier Pledged Money to Clinton Library | documents also paint a picture of a legal and public relations team that was debating whether to seek the support of various public figures, all while insisting on secrecy. The e-mail correspondence also features several discussions in December about how and whether to approach Mrs. Clinton, who was being sworn in as a... |
1267843_2 | Expert Says Car Weight Was Key in Tire Failures | can safely carry slightly less weight than a Ford Taurus sedan, according to Ford and tests by Consumer Reports magazine. Ford manufactures the Explorer by bolting a large, heavy passenger compartment onto an underbody originally designed for the Ford Ranger pickup truck, a much lighter vehicle. Mr. Govindjee's report ... |
1267898_0 | INDONESIA'S TRADE SURPLUS GROWS | Indonesia's trade surplus swelled 15.4 percent in 2000, to $28.47 billion, the government said, reflecting higher oil prices and strong demand for electrical goods. Indonesia is Asia's only member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. A slowing economy in the United States is beginning to crimp Indo... |
1272759_4 | MOSCOW SIGNALING A CHANGE IN TONE ON MISSILE DEFENSE | to develop it. A diagram in the paper shows the Russian concept of a mobile land-based system that would be cued by satellites and that would destroy incoming warheads. The missile interceptors could reach an altitude of 90 miles, the document suggests. Mr. Putin said on Tuesday that the system could make use of a cent... |
1272666_7 | Excerpts From Supreme Court Opinions on Limits of Disabilities Act | citizens from registering to vote. Congress also determined that litigation had proved ineffective and that there persisted an otherwise inexplicable 50-percentage-point gap in the registration of white and African-American voters in some states. Congress's response was to promulgate in the Voting Rights Act a detailed... |
1274378_0 | In Touch, in the Clouds: Boon, Bane and Business Opportunity | GAZING at the clouds from Seat 4F aboard an Air Canada Boeing 767 somewhere over Quebec, I confront the prime existential question for the modern air traveler -- if I can't be called, can't be paged and can't check my e-mail, do I really exist? It may be impossible to take the angst out of air travel, but that kind of ... |
1274244_2 | Against a Trend, U.S. Population Will Bloom, U.N. Says | a declining growth rate, the survey found. India, with a population about two and a half times that of the European Union countries, is growing much faster than some earlier predictions suggested. ''In 2000, the E.U. had a natural increase of 343,000 people,'' Mr. Chamie said. ''India achieved this in the first week of... |
1269643_1 | Report to Back Forests to Fight Warming | a private environmental group. ''The devil's in the details.'' The report was written by a working group within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a network of hundreds of scientists who advise governments on climate issues under the auspices of the United Nations. The group plans to release it at a meeting... |
1269612_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | tenure. (Reuters) MIDDLE EAST IRAN: PROTESTERS ARRESTED -- The police and members of a paramilitary squad arrested dozens of anti-government protesters and used tear gas to disperse hundreds more from a Tehran park, witnesses said. The official news agency said there were only 300 protesters, mostly young people demand... |
1269592_4 | Orchestras Still Preserve the Myths, but Who Cares Now? | extraordinary collection that will grow, if at all, only fitfully and inconsistently. This is less of a limitation than it seems. The orchestral myths have not lost their importance. This repertory (including grand opera) still recounts the origins of modern society; it still dramatizes the perils and pleasures of publ... |
1273803_4 | Patents; As the flakes fall, snow inspires inventions to mold it, play in it or melt it. | pods touch the ground first and compress under pressure. That compression is designed to absorb the initial impact and increase the area of contact so the shoe has better traction on firm, smooth surfaces. Once the pods are compressed into the ground, the lugs make contact, giving the shoe better traction on irregular ... |
1268999_2 | Of Schools and Crimes, And Gross Exaggeration | Yet data here may reflect only new ''get tough'' policies: prosecutors now allege ''aggravated'' assault in response to teenage behavior that a decade ago was deemed ''simple.'' Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, says that with serious school violence so rare, identifying probable offen... |
1272472_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Iraq build a fiber-optic network linked to radar stations and other targets attacked by American and British jets last week, military and intelligence officials said. A8 U.N. Will Aid Rwanda Pullback Secretary General Kofi Annan said he would send observers to eastern Congo to aid the Rwandans in pulling back troops fr... |
1272068_2 | Federal Panel Warns Bush Of Social Security Problems | Social Security's service delivery problems.'' President Bush has not yet named a Social Security commissioner. Charles P. Blahous, the head of Mr. Bush's transition team at the Social Security Administration, said the problems identified by the advisory board were ''very real.'' White House officials said Mr. Bush mig... |
1270526_0 | Farmers Favor Genetically Altered Crops, Producers Say | Despite growing concerns over the use of biotechnology in agriculture, and the recent controversy over Starlink, an unapproved variety of bioengineered corn that accidentally entered the food supply, American farmers continue to favor planting genetically altered crops, according to surveys conducted by the nation's bi... |
1270473_0 | Foreign Affairs; Space Rangers | It's only a month into the Bush administration and I'm already tired of listening to its foreign policy. Because it seems to be focused on only one idea, which, so far, doesn't work -- building a ''Star Wars'' missile shield -- against an enemy that, so far, doesn't exist. While a day doesn't go by without the Bush tea... |
1270525_6 | CLAIMING THEIR SHARE: A special report.; Women in Sports Cultivating New Playing Fields | more and more women being decision makers.'' Over the last decade alone, the number of women participating in sports at colleges that belong to the N.C.A.A. increased by 58 percent, to 145,832 from 92,472. The comparable increase for men was 14 percent, to 207,592 from 182,833. The number of women offered athletic scho... |
1270449_2 | OBSERVATORY | the Atlas Mountains of Morocco are an important refuge of the Barbary macaque, a species of monkey that, while not endangered, is threatened by loss of habitat. Lately, the monkeys have taken to stripping the bark off the cedars, which can kill the trees. The problem has gotten so severe that the Moroccan government wa... |
1272887_0 | Desperate Farmers Imperil Peru's Fight on Coca | Not long ago, American officials considered Peru a model of success in their fight against the illegal drug trade, one they are seeking even now to replicate in neighboring Colombia. The coca growing that boomed here in the early 1990's had been reduced by two-thirds, after years in which the Peruvian Air Force shot co... |
1269750_0 | The Last Days of Fuling | RIVER TOWN Two Years on the Yangtze. By Peter Hessler. 402 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $26. In the middle of the Yangtze River, at the small Sichuanese city of Fuling, a low ridge of worn sandstone breaks the surface of the water. Covering its surface is an intricate palimpsest of characters and pictures, s... |
1269993_0 | Breast Cancer Link To Abortion Exists | I teach my students to spot emotional verbiage and to separate fact from fiction in regard to any scientific claims. A case in point was a Jan. 28 letter to the editor dismissing a Jan. 4 letter-writer's remarks about a connection between abortion and breast cancer. Saying that to assert such a connection ''saddened,''... |
1270065_2 | Word for Word/Who's Asking?; Everything Researchers Ever Wanted to Know About Sex | * What do you believe to be the true purpose of intercourse? (a) Necessity to man? To woman? (b) Pleasure? (c) Reproduction? (d) What other reasons beside reproduction are sufficient to warrant intercourse? * What, to you, would be an ideal habit? [i.e., how often?] Surveys from the early part of the century reflect a ... |
1269252_0 | Mental Decline Is Linked To Heart Bypass Surgery | Five years after heart bypass surgery, 42 percent of patients show a significant decline on tests of mental ability, probably from brain damage caused by the surgery, doctors from Duke University say in a new study. Older patients and those with a drop in test scores soon after surgery were most likely to show declines... |
1269146_4 | Fighting Crime Online: Who Is in Harm's Way? | modems into the e-mail and Web pages that a criminal suspect sees. But it can monitor only a standard modem. If a criminal suspect has, like millions of other Americans, decided to trade up to high-speed Internet access through a cable modem or the telephone service known as D.S.L., ''it's worthless,'' Mr. Thomas said.... |
1269146_6 | Fighting Crime Online: Who Is in Harm's Way? | pieces of commercial software and modified them in an effort to allow the kind of selective data retrieval that the law requires, and where they have worked to upgrade the system in response to the criticism of Carnivore. The engineers have added auditing features, for example, that the bureau says will help insure tha... |
1269186_0 | Stopping Child Abuse | To the Editor: The chilling odyssey described in ''3,000-Mile Trip for 2 Boys and a Nightmare of Abuse'' (front page, Feb. 2) is not an isolated incident. Thousands of children suffer horrendous physical abuse each year. Those required to report abuse, like doctors, social workers, teachers and day care providers, must... |
1268518_2 | A New Trick Gives Snoops Easy Access To E-Mail | clear that JavaScript could be used to create a more powerful Web bug so that not only can someone find out when a message is read, but also what is being said about it. Because many e-mail users continue to hit ''reply'' during long e-mail exchanges rather than initiating new messages, the JavaScript code could enable... |
1271144_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | AFRICA LIBERIA: PLEDGE ON REFUGEES President Charles Taylor pledged to help the United Nations move thousands of refugees caught in a conflict in Guinea, while denying that Liberian soldiers were involved in the fighting. Mr. Taylor offered the help to Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Mr... |
1272208_3 | Moose Must Relearn Lessons in Survival | Dr. Berger lacked was hard data showing that that is exactly what happens. He got that data from independent work by biologists in Norway and Sweden, who studied moose kills in areas where they were being exposed to recolonizing grizzlies. That work, Dr. Berger said, showed that the moose ''were getting nailed pretty h... |
1272274_0 | National Park Status Sought For Paterson Waterfall Site | New Jersey's two United States senators and one of its House members opened a campaign today to create a national park around the Great Falls, Paterson's landmark and the essence of its birth as a major manufacturing center after the Revolutionary War. ''You're standing on hallowed ground; it's precious land,'' Represe... |
1272225_1 | Under Icy Arctic Waters, A Fiery, Unexpected Find | Dr. Alfred S. McLaren, a retired Navy submariner who pioneered deep Arctic mapping and is president emeritus of the Explorers Club of New York City, which is sponsoring the expedition. The opportunity to see it close up, Dr. McLaren added, ''is the realization of a dream.'' Nearly landlocked, the Arctic Ocean is about ... |
1272198_5 | As Diabetes Strikes Younger, Children Get Lessons in Defense | the program and measure their weight and body fat composition to assess the success of the program. Two years ago, Dr. Trevino's team studied eight schools in San Antonio. Four were in the nutrition program and the rest served as control groups. Among the schools in the program, scores on physical fitness tests increas... |
1270282_1 | Charities Find a Gray Area on the Net | in Washington, which promotes the participation of nonprofit groups in policy making. ''It's a good sign that they're seeking input.'' But she also said restrictive applications of tax laws could create problems. ''A lot of organizations still remember the days when the I.R.S. was used as a political tool, especially d... |
1270299_0 | Compressed Data; Divided Opinions About the Risks From Cell Phones | For an entrepreneur, timing is everything. Unfortunately, Lawrence Kessler's timing was not ideal. On Jan. 31, Mr. Kessler's year-old company, E.G. En Guard Cellular, based in Montreal, announced the results of a survey that indicated 41 percent of Americans were concerned about potential health risks from cell phone r... |
1271605_0 | Islip Takes Off | THERE was time for talk but not much tension on a recent weekday morning inside the control tower at Long Island MacArthur Airport, where the morning rush, such as it was, had subsided by 9 a.m. There had been no conga line of commercial planes awaiting their turn for takeoff, no jets loitering overhead somewhere, wait... |
1271892_3 | Deaths Spur Laws Against Drivers on Cell Phones | not deal with the primary problem, preoccupation. ''It's not where your eyes are, it's where your head is,'' said Frances Bents, a traffic safety consultant with Dynamic Science Inc., in Annapolis, Md. Ms. Bents emphasized the mental preoccupation of phone calls to rebut industry arguments that cell phones are no worse... |
1271515_0 | Grand Canyon Plans Are Now In Limbo | BY litigation, by legislation and by referendum, plans to control the development and use of Grand Canyon National Park have been put on hold in recent months. The plans -- which affect visitor access to the main vantage points at the canyon's rim, air-tour companies, and construction of housing and hotels -- are all p... |
1271501_0 | Books in Brief: Nonfiction | Brunelleschi's Dome How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture. By Ross King. Walker, $24. Even in an age of faith, it was a proposition designed to test a man's confidence, not just in divine providence but in human ingenuity. For more than a century, Florence had been constructing a lavish cathedral, Santa Mari... |
1271937_0 | February 11-17; Modified Crops for Europe | If strict control of a new technology implies consent to its use, then the European Union Parliament has opened the way for genetically modified crops to be planted in European fields again. The body passed what were described as the ''toughest regulations in the world'' on biotech organisms. Fourteen are waiting for a... |
1267386_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE KOSOVO: VIOLENCE CONTINUES -- The commander of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo ordered extra troops and two special police units into the divided town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo as violence continued for a third day. Eleven French soldiers and several ethnic Albanian demonstrators were wounded by grenades... |
1268677_0 | A New Look At Estrogen And Stroke | For women trying to decide whether to take hormone replacement after menopause, a study being published today offers new information about strokes. In one group of women, those who already have heart disease, researchers have found that hormone therapy has no effect at all on the risk of stroke. But it is not yet known... |
1268683_4 | It Takes Training and Genes To Make a Mean Dog Mean | dog. Perhaps more significant, a statistical analysis by researchers at the Humane Society, the C.D.C. and the American Medical Veterinary Association and published in the Sept. 15 issue of The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association shows that between 1977 and 1998, pit bulls and Rottweilers accounted f... |
1270947_0 | EUROPE APPROVES STRICT FOOD RULES | The European Union Parliament passed a measure today that establishes strict rules on genetically modified organisms, preparing to end Europe's unofficial moratorium on bioengineered seeds and food. The overwhelming 338-to-52 vote was cast despite intense suspicions about genetically modified foods. But the strictness ... |
1270904_1 | World Briefing | The measure comes after a 1999 police raid on a university hostel in which dozens of students were injured. The state news media said deputies approved the bill, setting stiff jail sentences for forcible entry into campuses, allowing police intervention only in emergencies. It still needs to be approved by the Guardian... |
1273949_0 | OBSERVATORY | Strong as a Sleeping Bear Imagine you are a top runner, in prime physical condition, and you decide to take six months off. Really off -- curled up somewhere with no physical activity, not even eating or drinking. At the end of those six months, those legs of steel would no doubt have turned to mush. Black bears, which... |
39280_2 | A RUBBER REVIVAL FOR LIBERIA | use of latex is good news for Liberia's faltering rubber industry. Its current depressed state is a far cry from the optimistic days in 1926 when Harvey Firestone Sr. leased 220 square miles of forest here and named the future plantation and company town ''Harbel'' - a contraction of his own name and that of his wife, ... |
43010_0 | Columbia Also Has an Asian Studies Tradition | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: John K. Gillespie (''Learning from Asia,'' letter, May 4) is right in noting the absence of Asian works in Columbia College's ''Humanities A'' book list (news article, April 12) and in emphasizing the need to include more Asian material in American education. But the article was abou... |
38195_2 | The Inscrutable Americans | Reagan not knowing what his White House was up to and forgetting when he approved some of its actions would be seen as a great deal more damaging than a deliberate cover-up by a European leader's electorate. As Le Monde commented on the Iran-contra hearings, ''What would have been the ultimate consequences of the Green... |
38158_0 | TESTING OF GENE-ALTERED BACTERIA TO BE FIRST UNDER CHEMICAL LAW | LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a Massachusetts biotechnology company preliminary approval to release gene-altered bacteria in Wisconsin. The decision marks the first time a living organism has been regulated under Federal laws that were intended for controlling toxic chemicals The altered bacteri... |
44761_0 | REPORT RECOMMENDS INCREASE IN SECURITY AT BROOKLYN ZOO | LEAD: A report to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation yesterday recommended that security be increased at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, where an 11-year-old boy was killed last week by two polar bears. A report to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation yesterday recommended that secu... |
37365_0 | CHILD DEVELOPMENT: LANGUAGE TAKES ON NEW SIGNIFICANCE | LEAD: RESEARCHERS are focusing with new intensity on the earliest stages of children's language acquisition as a key indicator of normal - and abnormal - development. RESEARCHERS are focusing with new intensity on the earliest stages of children's language acquisition as a key indicator of normal - and abnormal - devel... |
37092_0 | REAGAN APPROVES SPECIAL AIDS PANEL | LEAD: The White House announced tonight that President Reagan had approved the formation of a special commission to advise him on the public policy aspects of the AIDS crisis. The White House announced tonight that President Reagan had approved the formation of a special commission to advise him on the public policy as... |
37377_1 | STAGE: 'FILM IS EVIL: RADIO IS GOOD' | Tisch Mainstage 1 into a cavernous radio studio of the imagination - the Foreman equivalent of a Louise Nevelson environment lined with Joseph Cornell boxes. The stage is gewgawed with gargoyles and curios, including clocks and flashing signs indicating that the author's ego is active (the word ''ego'' lights up when t... |
37407_0 | EUROPEAN FAILURES LEAVE SPACE EFFORT MIRED IN FRUSTRATION | LEAD: LESS rain than usual has fallen during the current rainy season, but clouds far more ominous have settled over this tropical backwater on the shoulder of South America. LESS rain than usual has fallen during the current rainy season, but clouds far more ominous have settled over this tropical backwater on the sho... |
43690_0 | GRADUATES: DIMMER FUTURE? | LEAD: GRADUATION time - the grand finale of the school year. It's a heady time, a strong brew of final exams, proms, plans, and pomp and circumstance. GRADUATION time - the grand finale of the school year. It's a heady time, a strong brew of final exams, proms, plans, and pomp and circumstance. For high school faculty ... |
43522_3 | PROTECTIN 'NEW' SISTINGE CEILING: A DEBATE FLARES | was conducted to determine the extent or rate of the damage; the restorers simply concluded that there was an overall danger because there was varnish all over the vault. ''It is no longer good enough for us to be able to say what we know,'' said Fabrizio Mancinelli, curator of Byzantine, medieval and modern art at the... |
43286_1 | YOUTHFUL PRESS CORPS LEARN ROPES IN NEWARK | rap music's effect on children. These and other stories will soon be produced at Children's Express's newly opened office at the Boys' and Girls' Club's Central Ward Unit at 1 Avon Avenue. Children's Express is a national independent print and broadcast news service staffed by youths 8 to 18 years old. Their articles h... |
43427_3 | THE SOVIET MISSILE STRATEGY MAKES THE FRENCH NERVOUS | Britain, France has embarked on a major strengthening of its nuclear forces. Britain is buying the American-designed Trident missile system, which will increase the number of its warheads to 512 from 192, with enough range to hit Soviet cities. Britain's present nuclear weapons, like those of France, are not covered by... |
43445_1 | NOTED WITH PLEASURE | was often on his lips) who openly disliked his predominantly Jewish students. My loving description of carrying ice in partnership with my mother seemed to him, as he tightly put it, ''impossible to comprehend.'' AN OVERBEARING ANIMAL Lying heart to heart with a bear is one way of acknowledging the power of nature. Ian... |
40757_1 | AS HAVE-NOTS WATCH, THE HAVES GET TANNED | and others for Melanesians. Critics of French rule in the island group east of Australia compare the social separation to apartheid in South Africa, but there are huge differences. Even many Melanesians stress that it is their choice as well as the choice of the Europeans to live in different worlds. Nevertheless, the ... |
40702_0 | FOODS: LATEST IN FADS | LEAD: Clark Gable's Single-Serving-Ultra Whole-Wheat Cajun Pasta Salad With Calcium-Enriched Low-Fat Cream Sauce could be an advertising agency's dream of the perfect prepared food, containing all the elements that appeal to today's in-a-hurry, affluent, health-conscious, status-conscious shopper. Clark Gable's Single-... |
39659_4 | REACTOR IS REVIVED AS CANCER TOOL | delivering it and the method for verifying the location of the boron-10 before the clinical tests begin, he said. To help the Tufts and M.I.T. scientists improve the technique, the Department of Energy has contracted with the Brookhaven National Laboratory to head a $900,000 research project that will also involve the ... |
39666_0 | Thousands Stage Protest | LEAD: More than 1,000 anti-nuclear activists participated in a Mother's Day protest at the Nevada Test Site, and the police made at least 746 arrests. An Energy Department spokesman, Jim Boyer, said there were 1,000 to 1,200 protesters, but Nancy Hale, a spokeswoman for the anti-nuclear American Peace Test group, estim... |
41603_2 | NASSAU COUNTY GIRDS FOR RULES CURBING WATER USE | to open a new site in Glen Cove was denied because it would use as much water as 12 homes. * Swimming pool builders are seeing orders dry up. ''My business is already off by 20 percent in Nassau County,'' said Donald E. Faraci, sales manager for the Tri-County Pool and Spa Corporation in Hicksville. He attributed this ... |
41556_2 | FIJI TENSIONS GROW IN WAKE OF COUP | her speak with her son, Nitya Reddy, for 20 minutes this afternoon. She quoted him as saying that the kidnapped Cabinet members had started a hunger strike that would continue until the soldiers returned to the barracks. General Strike Anticipated Tensions were rising as the country braced for a general strike anticipa... |
41619_2 | GOETZ'S LAWYER PRAISES THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS | for revised local gun laws by J. Warren Cassidy, the executive vice president of the N.R.A., a series of award presentations to local hunters and a raffle in which winners received black powder pistols, a 20-gauge shotgun, survival knives and game dressing kits. The guests dined on antipasto and veal parmigiana and dan... |
41572_3 | We Are Five Billion Now | disturbing figures on Mexico. It was the first country to launch the green revolution, tripling its grain production from 1950 to 1970. But population grew so fast that its agricultural output is now going down and it is importing huge amounts of food. Even with its oil bonanza, import needs forced Mexico into debts th... |
42083_0 | Libya's Moves Incite Fear | LEAD: Libyan overtures to the South Pacific are provoking fears of a new front of Libyan-sponsored terrorism, in a region unaccustomed to anything more violent than a free-falling coconut. Libyan overtures to the South Pacific are provoking fears of a new front of Libyan-sponsored terrorism, in a region unaccustomed to... |
42263_3 | POLAR BEARS KILL A CHILD AT PROSPECT PARK ZOO | Stern said that the dead boy's rib cage had been torn open. He said the bears had apparently devoured the child's legs before being shot. ''They were not executed,'' Mr. Stern said, referring to the bears. ''There seems to be no question but the police did the right thing in the circumstances.'' When asked what might p... |
35764_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1987 | LEAD: International A3-11 2,,q>U.S.-Japanese efforts to ease tension over trade were announced. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said he had ordered the Bank of Japan to lower interest rates, in an effort to spur Japanese consumption, especially of foreign goods. Page A1 News analysis: An accord to remove medium- and s... |
35956_1 | Nixon, Kissinger and a Super-Chernobyl | it must be initiated on behalf of distant allies and after we have withdrawn our strategic missiles across an ocean.'' But even if the United States accepted with equanimity the destruction of its 300,000 troops and its forward bomber bases in Western Europe, and did not respond either with our ICBM's or with our nucle... |
35681_0 | AT THE NEW GARBAGE DUMPS, TECHNOLOGY AND STRICT RULES | LEAD: It was not long ago that the town dump was nothing more than a convenient hollow where trash was indiscriminately discarded. Modern environmental rules and waste-management technology have changed that. It was not long ago that the town dump was nothing more than a convenient hollow where trash was indiscriminate... |
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