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12607_0 | Johnson & Johnson Has New Sweetener | LEAD: Johnson & Johnson sought approval yesterday to sell a new sweetener that could compete with aspartame, the sugar substitute marketed by the Monsanto Company under the Nutrasweet brand name. Johnson & Johnson sought approval yesterday to sell a new sweetener that could compete with aspartame, the sugar substitute ... |
14341_6 | PERSONAL HEALTH | may become very depressed, regress to infantile behavior (such as thumb-sucking or bed-wetting) or become belligerent. When the offender is someone who is trusted or idolized, the child may lose faith in everyone. According to Maggie Clune and Marsha Heiman, directors of the sexual abuse and incest consultation project... |
14324_3 | Our Greedy Colleges | often our universities leave education to chance -a good professor here and a great course there. There is too little real and sustained attention to education in the broader sense, to making sure that when our students leave after four years they leave as educated men and women. It is also false to assert, as some hav... |
14412_1 | A 'BUG' GOES TO THE AID OF PLANTS | Switzerland and Britain. The Europeans said they had successfully used the bacterium to transport a gene into the class of plants that includes the world's most important food grains, such as maize (corn) and rice. Until now the technique was thought to work only with such broadleaf plants as tomatoes, potatoes and tob... |
9404_0 | CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS | LEAD: THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOLY WAR By Joe Edward Barnhart. 273 pp. Austin: Texas Monthly Press. $16.95. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOLY WAR By Joe Edward Barnhart. 273 pp. Austin: Texas Monthly Press. $16.95. THE Southern Baptists, 14 million strong, are not a happy family. An increasingly bitter schism between the fundamen... |
9412_13 | CUBA'S STRANGE MISSION IN ANGOLA | with the West. But some businessmen here joke that the long-term goal is merely ''to use capitalism to pay for socialism.'' These mixed signals were evident in a news summary issued recently by Angop, the state news agency. One article, entitled ''Portugal -Paradise of Vultures,'' lambasted Portugal for giving shelter ... |
9405_7 | WHEN IS BLACK PAINT MORE THAN BLACK PAINT? | a risky business'') does not suffice, nor can just any intended response (our anxiety or indifference about his possible death) do the trick. Something more must be said about what art intends to express by its use of media and about what responses it intends to achieve. A proper theory of art must explain how artworks... |
9210_3 | THE 'GOOD NEIGHBOR' OFFERS LITTLE AID, LESS TRADE | the Netherlands Antilles. But the chief reason for the disappointing results, trade specialists say, is the waning interest of an Administration with a limited attention span for Caribbean economics. President Reagan, who lobbied actively for C.B.I. in 1982, did not even mention Caribbean trade in last week's State of ... |
9182_0 | HUNGER AND BRUISES, AND A CHILD'S HOPE | LEAD: In 1985 the Human Resources Administration's Department of Special Services for Children put together a book, ''Two Hands,'' described in its subtitle as ''a collection of writing and art work created by human beings under the age of 21 who happen to live within the foster care system of the City of New York. In ... |
9370_4 | DESCARTES, NIETZSCHE AND THE SEARCH FOR THE UNSAYABLE | represents an interpretation of history in terms of the Trinity. As early as the writings of the medieval monk Joachim of Fiore one can detect accounts of the historical process as a progressive movement from the age of the Father through the age of the Son to the culminating age of Spirit. One of the most important fo... |
9788_1 | BOOKS OF THE TIMES | German nose,'' and it would be easy to cite equally ungainly turns of phrase. As the book proceeds, however, the infelicities are less in evidence, and Mr. Rhodes's strengths begin to assert themselves instead - clarity, forcefulness, the ability to marshal complicated facts and arguments without impeding the narrative... |
9792_0 | Pacific Isle Anti-Communists Chase Off Soviet Cruise Ship | LEAD: More than 1,500 anti-Communist demonstrators forced a ship carrying the Soviet Ambassador to Australia to leave the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia today without letting off its passengers. More than 1,500 anti-Communist demonstrators forced a ship carrying the Soviet Ambassador to Australia to leave th... |
15453_4 | WESTCHESTER GUIDE | at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday. The two-hour sessions include instruction for both novice and advanced students in navigation, knotting, sailing regulations, safety, problems of the Hudson River, proper clothing and all aspects of handling the 32-foot replica of a 19th-century sloop that has no modern mechanical equipment. After... |
15703_0 | When the Jungle Turns to Wasteland | LEAD: FROM New York's Columbus Avenue to the world's tropical forests, the life and death of trees occupied the attention of many scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week in Chicago. They assessed the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks, issued dire updat... |
15638_4 | West 122d Street: Where Theologians Past, Present and Future Hold Sway | from a Bible and photocopied it alongside the rendering. One night, together with friends, he posted the flier around the school. * * * Recognition for Women Jewish Theological was founded in 1886 and became the forerunner of Conservative Judaism, in the middle ground in American Judaism, between the Orthodox on the ri... |
15473_0 | Care of Retarded: Other Views | LEAD: Only in New York State are policy-makers still intent on building a system of institutional care for people with mental retardation. In other states, most institutions have been replaced by family-scale accommodations that foster personal development and promote social integration. Only in New York State are poli... |
15445_6 | HIGHER EDUCATION: ONGOING CHALLENGE | form of a traditional short-answer exam, but would possibly involve essays or even videotaping a student's performance. To improve access to New Jersey's public institutions, Dr. Hollander has concentrated his efforts on two main fronts: increasing financial aid and removing barriers for minority students seeking a col... |
15383_0 | WHERE DECONSTRUCTION BEGINS | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In his essay ''Descartes, Nietzsche and the Search for the Unsayable'' (Feb. 1), Mark C. Taylor presents an excellent description of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's deconstruction: ''In deconstructive criticism one attempts to open a gap in every work by teasing out the repr... |
17458_1 | COASTAL DRUG RUNNING IS LURING ADVENTURERS | shot to death in what the police described as a slaying characteristic of drug traffickers, although his death is still under investigation. 'A Game Out There' ''The lure of smuggling, the challenge of the chase may have drawn some of these people in,'' said Leon Guinn, assistant regional commissioner of the Customs Se... |
11976_2 | THOSE STODGY SAILORS | people went out in a little boat and sat there watching billowing sails in the distance. Nearby boats were filled with spectators, but from what I observed, they weren't watching the boats. They had their heads thrown back and were downing something in a bottle or glass. What could they see, anyway? There's no way to t... |
12058_0 | DESIGN CHANGE OF SKYSCRAPER PROVOKES DEBATE ON HEARING | LEAD: Is the skyscraper planned today over the former Rizzoli and Coty buildings on Fifth Avenue essentially the same structure that won approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1985? Is the skyscraper planned today over the former Rizzoli and Coty buildings on Fifth Avenue essentially the same structure ... |
11997_4 | LOST PAPER SHOWS FREUD'S EFFORT TO LINK ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTION | of the missing manuscript deepens the hopes of some scholars that other lost Freud papers may yet turn up one day. The manuscript was among documents belonging to Freud's daughter Anna, who died in 1983. The documents were found in a trunk containing the papers of Sandor Ferenczi. Freud had sent him a copy of the manus... |
14046_1 | DOZENS OF FACTORS CRITICAL IN BONE LOSS AMONG ELDERLY | are much more important than calcium deficiency. He said an estimated 10 percent to 20 percent of hip fractures can be attributed to cigarette smoking, reflecting in part the relative deficiency of estrogen in women who smoke. Other contributing factors include heavy alcohol consumption, lack of physical activity and l... |
14088_0 | POSITION OF MOON AND EARTH OFFERS RARE CHANCE TO PROBE MILKY WAY | LEAD: An unusual alignment of the Earth, the moon and the core of the Milky Way galaxy is giving astronomers a rare opportunity to study that core, a mysterious region hidden from sight where processes not found elsewhere in the galaxy are at work. An unusual alignment of the Earth, the moon and the core of the Milky W... |
14049_1 | Careers; Engineers Find Wide Job Choice | and Drexel Burnham Lambert plus banks, such as Marine Midland, Morgan Guaranty, Connecticut National, Westminster, Citibank, Chemical Bank and the Bank of New York. ''What one recruiter told me was that Wall Street firms are looking at people not paid quite as much as Harvard M.B.A.'s but who are bright, disciplined an... |
14163_1 | UNITED STRUGGLES IN THE PACIFIC | to expectations, United did not make an operating profit on its Pacific division in 1986. It does, however, expect a profit this year, and it has taken steps to get back the travelers who had switched to other carriers out of frustration. United executives concede that it has taken most of a year to improve service eno... |
16429_2 | NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1987 | testing. A1 A stellar explosion closer to Earth than any observed since 1640 is being studied, astronomers reported. This supernova may significantly increase understanding of how they come about. A1 Harold Washington won renomination as the Democratic candidate for Mayor in Chicago. Mr. Washington, the city's first bl... |
16397_2 | PERSONAL HEALTH | result has been a return to favor of long-term E.R.T., at least for the large proportion of postmenopausal women who face rapid bone loss, and a shorter-term treatment for women who experience disruptive menopausal symptoms. Among the developments are these: * Studies have strongly indicated that cancer risk is greatly... |
10101_1 | Running Uphill On Eggs | the stock market know what it is doing -sensing much stronger economic growth and rising profits ahead? Does the bond market know what it is doing - smelling inflation? Are these expectations consistent or is one rational and the other irrational? David Ranson, a partner in H. C. Wainwright & Company, Economics, a Bost... |
10016_0 | The U.N. Today: Feb. 4, 1987 | LEAD: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Organizational session - 10:30 A.M. and 3 P.M. Population Commission - 10:30 A.M. and 3 P.M. |
14593_10 | THE GLOW OF WOOD PANELING: DESIGNERS EXPLORE ITS VARIED USES | columns and capitals was done by Dennis Collier of Bangor, Pa. Mrs. Berry found Mr. Collier through an article on recently renovated State Department rooms in Washington. The cabinetmakers at Acorn Woodwork chose the mahogany from Centre Lumber in Ridgewood, Queens, and Mrs. Berry worked closely with them to match the ... |
12981_2 | THE PLAGUE IS PART OF A BRAZIL CRISIS | Bank for health and eradication campaigns. Priorities include the rapidly spreading malaria and yellow fever in the Amazon. Brazil had reduced malaria to 100,000 cases in 1975, officials said, but by 1986 the disease had jumped to 430,000 cases. Two recent disclosures have caused particular shock becase of the social s... |
12926_0 | Corporations Can Play A Role in Education | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I am concerned about declining educational standards and the youngsters who don't study because they see no future in the workplace. Since my company is dependent on having educated, intelligent workers who communicate well, we have developed a corporate response that I am encouragin... |
13178_2 | AT TOY FAIR, CHATTING DOLLS AND GHOSTLY KNIGHTS | a tropical pool and patio set, a red Ferrari, a new best friend named Whitney, a jeweled necklace that changes colors and an evening gown that can change into a purse. Who could ask for anything more? Jem, that's who: Hasbro's answer to Barbie has a waterbed that converts into a piano and a guitar case that becomes a r... |
13209_2 | THIRD-WORLD CONCERN: DEATHS DURING CHILDBIRTH | an adviser to the World Bank. ''I asked them what happened to the children. They said, 'The older ones went to the city to beg, and the younger ones died.' '' In Latin America and in urban Africa, about half of maternal deaths are a result of complications arising from illicit abortions, experts said. Mortality could b... |
16674_0 | BOOKS OF THE TIMES | LEAD: GEORGE SANTAYANA: A Biography. GEORGE SANTAYANA: A Biography. By John McCormick. Illustrated. 612 pages. Knopf. $30. IT seems to this reader that George Santayana (1863-1952) keeps popping up everywhere, which is why one is attracted to this impressively detailed new biography of the poet-philosopher-novelist. Hi... |
16769_2 | NEED TO WIDEN AIDS TESTING SEEN AS HEALTH FORUM ENDS | after further discussion with state health officials, he would decide whether to submit recommendations for changes in Federal policy to the Reagan Administration. The participants said wider testing for AIDS would require more Government financing to provide the medical, psychological and social counseling needed for ... |
22174_5 | ASTRONOMERS COME IN FROM THE COOL NIGHT AIR | is, the less it moves. Thus cooled, C.C.D.'s can measure the very faint infrared radiation that has been traveling from objects since not long after the ''Big Bang'' explosion thought to have brought the universe into being between 10 billion to 20 billion years ago. The power of the C.C.D. has been enhanced still furt... |
24473_2 | SPEEDING TRAVEL THROUGH THE TERMINAL | digital signs. An elevated dual-track rail system will link remote parking lots to the three main terminals as well as to a new international terminal. The computer-controlled people mover, expected to be ready by 1991, will initially carry as many as 2,400 passengers an hour at 50 miles an hour. It will transport 30 t... |
24462_0 | NEW U.S. RULE FOR AIR SAFETY TO TAKE EFFECT | LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday put into effect a new rule on crash recorders that will speed many investigations and should improve chances of pinpointing causes and averting similar accidents. The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday put into effect a new rule on crash recorders that will spe... |
24410_0 | TESTS RAISE HOPE ON BRAIN CANCER | LEAD: A new form of therapy is providing ''some hope'' for the first time for victims of the most common form of brain cancer, which until now has been quickly and relentlessly fatal, a researcher says. A new form of therapy is providing ''some hope'' for the first time for victims of the most common form of brain canc... |
24427_1 | NICARAGUAN COFFEE AVAILABLE | before the embargo. The United States imported only 1,917 metric tons of Nicaraguan coffee in 1984, compared with 131,000 tons of Colombian coffee and 253,000 of Brazilian coffee (a metric ton is 2,205 pounds). Today, less than 1 percent of the coffee that comes into this country is from Nicaragua, said James F. Goetsc... |
24413_0 | Joint Satellite Effort Planned | LEAD: The United States and France agreed Monday to launch a satellite into space in 1991 to watch how water flows in the oceans and how the tropical seas affect the weather. It will mark the first time that the Ariane launching vehicle of the European Space Agency will send up a satellite supplied by the United States... |
24477_2 | TIFFANY'S NEXT SALE: ITS STOCK | than $1 million. They include William R. Chaney, Tiffany's chairman and chief executive; Thomas A. Andruskevich, senior vice president and chief financial officer; John R. Loring, senior vice president for design; Paloma Picasso, the jewelry designer, and Suzanne McMillan, vice president, marketing. Targeting Affluent ... |
24399_1 | THE RAIN FALLS, THE BAMBOO BLOOMS, HOPES WILT | spirit worship mingles with Buddhism, remain the focus of public life. But beneath the surface, there have been changes. The Government of Ne Win, spreading its official ideology, ''the Burmese way to socialism,'' has brought schools and medical clinics to the countryside, the latter supported by United States aid. Bot... |
18623_0 | THOSE WITH AIDS COULD BENEFIT | LEAD: The Supreme Court ruled today that recipients of Federal money may not discriminate against people who are physically or mentally impaired by contagious diseases. Although the decision involved a schoolteacher suffering from tuberculosis, it could benefit many victims of AIDS. The Supreme Court ruled today that r... |
18608_3 | EXCERPTS FROM OPINIONS ON CASES OF CONTAGION | include not only those who are actually physically impaired, but also those who are regarded as impaired and who, as a result, are substantially limited in a major life activity, Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitat... |
20083_3 | POLAND SEEKS CURE FOR BURDEN OF LONG-TERM DEBT | reschedule $2.6 billion owed in 1986 and 1987. It was the second time that the debt payments - owed to some 600 Western banks - were rescheduled, having been restructured in 1981 and 1982. One European diplomat who monitors Poland's economy noted: ''In the matter of debt repayment as with so many other aspects of the P... |
20089_3 | OVERNIGHT FLIGHT: BARGAIN FOR SPONTANEOUS TRAVELERS | $258 roundtrip moonlight flight to Newark. ''Sleep is not the most important thing in my life.'' Since Eastern began the moonlight service two years ago, about three million passengers have embarked on the predawn journeys. ''It's almost a cult,'' said an Eastern spokeswoman, Paula Musto. 'Aliens and Weirdos' What kind... |
18218_2 | CANADIAN EFFORT TO KILL WOLVES RAISES FEARS ABOUT THE SPECIES | Rifles In Canada, the drive to eradicate the species is older than the country itself. In 1793 the parliament of Upper Canada, now Ontario, passed ''An Act to Encourage the Destruction of Wolves and Bears.'' Since then, Canadians intent on protecting farm and game animals that are the wolves' natural prey have pursued ... |
18398_0 | Wildlife Strategies | LEAD: Efforts to save endangered animals may fail unless they are accompanied by detailed scientific study, according to an anthropologist at Harvard University who said that the woolly spider monkey of Brazil is a case in point. Efforts to save endangered animals may fail unless they are accompanied by detailed scient... |
18253_0 | POPULATION CURE? MUSIC TO COOL TEEN-AGE ARDOR | LEAD: At first glance, Tatiana Palacios and Johnny Lozada Correa appear to be just one more of the many pop music duos that have emerged in Latin America in recent years: an attractive teen-age couple clinging tightly to one another and casting ardent glances each other's way. At first glance, Tatiana Palacios and John... |
18313_1 | PROSECUTOR ASKS COURT TO DISMISS NORTH SUIT | a hearing on Mr. Walsh's motion for next Monday. Lawyers for Colonel North said in the suit last week that the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which authorized the appointment of special prosecutors, infringed on the President's constitutional responsibilities for law enforcement. In his court motion, Mr. Walsh descr... |
23476_0 | COUNTRIES MOVING IN BATTLE ON AIDS | LEAD: As the number of AIDS cases grows around the world, scores of nations outside the already highly infected areas of North America and Western Europe are beginning to gear up for a battle against what is increasingly being described as a modern-day plague, according to World Health Organization officials. As the nu... |
23495_2 | U.S.-SOVIET TALKS PULL EUROPEANS TOGETHER | strategic environment. The British and the French are being drawn together by the logic of an assumed Soviet-American arms deal that might first eliminate Europe-based medium-range missiles - the so-called ''zero option'' - and then move to 50 percent cuts in strategic forces. At that point, the pressure would inexorab... |
23512_4 | AIRLINES IN QUANDARY OVER REQUEST TO DO MORE TO STEM DRUG FLOW | this. The carriers have a social responsibility to prevent narcotics from coming in on their flights.'' The authorities praised Pan Am for its help in the investigation that led to the latest arrests at Kennedy but criticized Delta Airlines as refusing to cooperate. Delta officials said they were puzzled by the critici... |
23720_2 | STATUE GETS HELP OFFER | through some old documents and find out what is what,'' said Mr. Martin, adding that the problem should resolve itself soon. The statue, officially known as ''The Seated Lincoln,'' is in front of the courthouse steps, near the intersection of Market and High Streets and 13th Avenue. Museum officials and restoration exp... |
23572_2 | Shifting Gears at an Old Plant | structures were too narrow for modern trucks. Then came urban renewal and with it a Federal grant to Dr. Johnson to study the economic impact of the mills' closing and the potential for putting them to other uses. Following his study and with the help of Federal funds, canals were filled in and improvements were made o... |
23910_4 | A BRANFORD CLERGYMAN REMEMBERS THE FORGOTTEN SEAMEN | Yemen Pride sailing from Tanzania. He said there were three stowaways on board who had no clothes other than those they wore. He said he bought the men sweatshirts, jeans and underwear. ''When I got to the ship, the captain threw his arms around me like I was his long lost friend,'' said Father Burdick. The captain loc... |
23756_2 | Madrid's Other Museums | visitor is confronted with an enormous painting depicting the ''Family of King Charles IV.'' While this is not the famous picture by Goya (that's just down the street at the main building), it was painted two years later, in 1802, by Vicente Lopez, Goya's most illustrious contemporary at the Madrid court. Here the king... |
23835_0 | THE INVOICE IS IN THE ETHER | LEAD: PERSONAL computers have been touted as the linchpins of the paperless office, still presumed, against all the evidence, to be imminent. The catalogues I receive, however, are resplendent with paper products to feed these hungry machines. Mountains of press releases are still deposited in my mail, and the tractor ... |
25107_0 | CHIRAC TO ASK CONDITIONS ON U.S.-SOVIET MEDIUM-RANGE PACT | LEAD: Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who is going to Washington next week, will ask the United States to attach stiff conditions to any accord with the Soviet Union that will remove medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe, French officials said Thursday. Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who is going to Washington next ... |
20324_4 | RESEARCHER REPORTS PROGRESS AGAINST AUTISM | a pre-treatment I.Q. averaging about 60 and a final I.Q. averaging 105. Contact With Other Children The treatment usually began by the age of 3. Its aim was to get the children to stop their more bizarre and disruptive behavior, make contact with other people and begin to imitate what they saw others do. The second yea... |
21304_2 | Sweet Deal for Moscow | a brutal 48 percent, to 160,200 short tons, from 302,000 in 1986 - and from 800,000 in 1981. That means a six-year drop from $333 million to $60.9 million this year in the Dominican Republic's sugar earnings from the United States; last year, those earnings were $112 million. So the Soviet purchase was welcome to Presi... |
24639_1 | POPE CALLS VIRGIN MARY SPUR TO CHRISTIAN UNITY | significance to the modern church. It is a philosophical and religious document that does not examine Mary's potential relevance to such contemporary issues as the place of women in the church or the validity of recent accounts of Marian apparitions. Cites Russian Anniversary While avoiding explicit political statement... |
24653_3 | A THREAT IS SEEN TO TWO MAYA SITES | A.D. 250 to A.D. 900. 'Sites of the Highest Rank' Because of their remoteness and the presence of leftist guerrillas on the Guatemalan side, neither site has become a tourist attraction like Tikal or Palenque. But finds made over the last decade have excited archeologists and convinced them that the sites rival more ce... |
19371_1 | SHORTAGE OF DATA IS SAID TO HINDER REVIEW OF CRASH | the crash scene, Mr. Burnett said he would favor Congressional action to require recorders if adequate rules were not promulgated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Since 1981 the safety board has repeatedly urged the aviation administration to require two types of recorders on all multi-engine turbine planes lice... |
23394_1 | FRANCE ACCUSES 6 OF ROCKET SPYING | campaign of disinformation and lies.'' Few Details Given on Case Mr. d'Allest said other countries, including India and Brazil, were interested in the rocket engines being developed in France, though he said he did not ''want to suggest a false trail.'' And French officials, who gave few details, did not disclose the c... |
22718_3 | AUSTRALIANS COOL TO VATICAN PAPER | they rely on their own judgments as well as church doctrines in making decisions about such questions as contraception, sexual relations and abortion. Two years ago, the Australian state of Victoria became the first jurisdiction in the world to pass comprehensive legislation governing fertilization in test tubes and ot... |
25394_6 | 3 LATIN COUNTRIES AWAITING THE POPE | able to go into the streets and cry out without fear of being repressed.'' On the Government's side, the religious experience surrounding a papal visit is being stressed. Government promotional material describes the Pope as the ''messenger of peace'' while the church is calling him the ''messenger of life.'' Divorce B... |
25600_0 | Exotic Abundance From the Amazon | LEAD: When Ana Maria Martins decided to open a restaurant that serves the best of Amazon cooking, she began her search for recipes in the heart of the Brazilian rain forest, not far from Belem. She traveled upstream to the family farm in Alenquer, on the bank of the mighty river. There, in the large, traditional kitche... |
25711_0 | By About That Job On Tiger's Teeth | LEAD: A news report from Los Angeles last month described root-canal work that two dentists had done on a tiger at the Wildlife Waystation in the Angeles National Forest. The report said: A news report from Los Angeles last month described root-canal work that two dentists had done on a tiger at the Wildlife Waystation... |
25603_4 | Luggage Lost, Stolen or Strayed? | a burglar that you are away. Also, mark the bag on the outside to distinguish it from other bags of the same make, and lock it. When the bag is checked at the ticket counter, read the tag the agent puts on it to make sure it is headed in the right direction. This is especially important when checking a bag at the curb.... |
25324_1 | WISDOM OF THE MODERNS | speculation, from ''Aesthetics'' to ''Zionism.'' The editors, Paul Mendes-Flohr and the late Arthur A. Cohen, report conceiving the volume in 1982, in the cool, verdant ''charmed gardens'' of the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, a calm environment in which ''God talk'' could take place even while the Israeli Ar... |
23950_1 | BOOKS OF THE TIMES | today. ''Openness -and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings - is the great insight of our times,'' he writes. But this openness has had the paradoxical effect of closing the American mind. So the reader is bound ... |
20578_0 | Some U.S. Dissent | LEAD: Some Roman Catholic theologians in the United States dissented sharply yesterday from parts of the Vatican's new document on human reproduction, especially its opposition to the use of artificial means to fertilize a woman's egg with her husband's sperm. Some Roman Catholic theologians in the United States dissen... |
20513_4 | LAW FIRMS ADD SECOND TIER | - others come to Jones Day after being disappointed in the kind of legal practice available to them elsewhere. For unless they were among the top students in their classes or went to one of the nation's leading law schools, most law-school graduates find they cannot even get an interview at elite corporate law firms su... |
20647_0 | Revised Tower Plans Approved by Panel | LEAD: Revised plans for a 49-story skyscraper behind the former Rizzoli and Coty Buildings on Fifth Avenue were approved yesterday by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission. Work on the project is to begin immediately, the president of the development company said. Revised plans for a 49-story skyscraper behind t... |
20589_4 | EMPLOYEES OF 3 AIRLINES CHARGED IN COCAINE SMUGGLING AT KENNEDY | American passenger service representative in New York before quitting in 1984 and returning to his homeland. Investigators said they were told of Mr. Vanwort's profits by his brother, Christianus Vanwort, 38, when an undercover Federal agent and a police officer befriended him in Brazil. Both brothers were arrested at ... |
20480_2 | FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER, AN ''NBC NEWS SPECIAL' | No new nuclear plant has been ordered in the United States since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. The program doesn't quite say so, but nuclear energy in the United States is almost a dead issue. * In France, however, it is a national cause. The political left and right are united. Extraneous matters do not intr... |
25890_0 | Vatican Wages a Costly War Against Women | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The demand by the Vatican that governments put strict limits on medical interference in human procreation (front page, May 11) shows an alarming disregard for pluralistic religious-ethical standards among citizens of these governments and a renewed arrogance on the part of the Roman ... |
25786_1 | A SPECIAL CAMP FOR SOME VERY SPECIAL CHILDREN | from 7 to 17 who are mentally retarded or deaf or who have muscular dystrophy or other moderate and severe disabilities. Some are experienced campers who have attended the society's summer camp at Wagon Road, while others have never hiked through the woods or sung songs around a campfire. ''We started the winter camp b... |
18185_1 | When Government and Religion Are Partners in Public Service | 13) and John Cardinal O'Connor's support (news story, Feb. 16) selectively to exclude from the use of certain facilities groups that ''condone'' homosexuality, provoke questions regarding the excessive reliance of state and city governments on organized religion in the provision of public health, social welfare and cou... |
18097_1 | STERN APPRAISALS IN OTHER NATIONS | nations of the West,'' said Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese daily. Among United States allies, there were expressions of betrayal. ''As the Tower Commission pointed out,'' said Yomiuri, a Japanese national daily with close ties to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, ''it was a blunder for the Reagan Administration - which had... |
18125_0 | Cuba Slides Downhill | LEAD: Cuba's problems and sharp new austerity program are driving it toward more complete integration into Comecon, the Soviet economic bloc. Already, a staggering 85 percent of its total trade, and 89 percent of its exports, is with Communist countries, one of the highest proportions of any bloc member. Cuba's problem... |
19643_4 | FRESHMAN O FTHE WORLD, UNITE! | premises and subverts claims to authority. In composing a curriculum, we cannot deny the force of the theory of relativity, the uncertainty principle, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology and feminism, to cite only a few of the modes of thinking that have profoundly unsettled old assumptions about universality and aut... |
19643_6 | FRESHMAN O FTHE WORLD, UNITE! | before - into the curriculum, so that students may both read the ''great books'' and know what it is to think about them in ways that do not repress the challenges of contemporary modes of analysis. Mr. Boyer sometimes seems to confuse specialization with vocationalism. About the latter, however, he is right on target:... |
19966_12 | The Men Who Hold Colombia Hostage | flocked to the region to cut down trees, plant coca and then transform its bright-green leaves into a brown powdery substance called coca base. No traditional crop was so remunerative. And San Jose, where growers made their sales, spent their money and sorted out their differences, reflects this boom. It has grown tenf... |
19570_5 | FOR TALL EXECUTIVES: TWO BUMPS A DAY, $600 AN INCH | a professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh, found a correlation between the height and income of businessmen. The study discovered that among 1,200 graduates of the school's M.B.A. program, individual income rose by an average of $600 for every additional inch of height. Somebody 6-foot 2, f... |
19564_1 | FIRST, SET HIGHER ETHICAL STANDARDS...BUT NEW RULES ARE NEEDED, TOO | talk to traders and arbitragers for an assessment of tactics. Soon, lawyers, accountants, and specialized consultants join the team. Committees at banks and financial intermediaries are approached for financing. And each strand of this widening web is accompanied by secretaries, messengers and printers. Despite the hon... |
19974_0 | Tanzanian Treasures, New Wing in Boston | LEAD: Rock Art From The Stone Age Rock Art From The Stone Age Two hundred miles to the southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, a steep line of cliffs in central Tanzania is the repository of an artistic treasure - thousands of rock paintings, perhaps 29,000 years old, portraying life in the Stone Age: the hunting of lions, peo... |
19573_0 | NEW YORK PROJECT SEEKS TO CUT COYOTE DAMAGE | LEAD: The mournful howl of the coyote is being heard more frequently in upstate New York. The population of the wild canines has grown so much that they have become a menace to sheep farmers throughout the state, according to agricultural officials here. The mournful howl of the coyote is being heard more frequently in... |
19740_1 | NORTHEAST JOURNAL | the wrecks. The ships they are most interested in finding are those with historical significance, particularly six-masted schooners, rare ships the size of a football field, and four-masted schooners, popular trading vessels in the last century. Mr. Fish said two of the group's most notable finds have been the Wyoming,... |
19613_2 | RESIDENTIAL UNITS FOR THE RETARDED | the public is not aware of the problems that have constantly plagued the mentally retarded in New York State (many even equate the mentally retarded with the mentally ill), we ask the surrounding communities to allow our children their rights as citizens and as human beings to improve their quality of life. It is time ... |
19948_0 | CHANGE IN THE LAW ON PRESCHOOLERS | LEAD: The accurate report ''New Rules Affect Preschoolers'' [ Feb. 8 ] provided a great deal of complex information of value to all those concerned with the needs of these children. The article will be very useful for parents, agencies and legislators who are not yet familiar with the Federal Amendments of 1986 to the ... |
22043_0 | The Real Test Is At Hand | LEAD: The question on the cover of the French news weekly Le Point is ''Can we believe Gorbachev?'' Indeed, it is everybody's question now and nobody can answer. Even if the Soviet leader is taken at his word, which many Russians do not do, can he deliver? Can he be ousted, and then what would be Soviet policy? The que... |
20825_0 | REPORT FEARS OVER-EXPLOITATION OF ANTARCTIC MARINE RESOURCES | LEAD: Despite an international effort to avert over-exploitation of Antarctic marine resources, heavy commercial fishing, particularly by Soviet vessels, appears to have radically depleted some species, according to a newly completed American-Polish survey. Despite an international effort to avert over-exploitation of ... |
20749_1 | As Landfill Runs Out, Composting Becomes a Better Solution | of the solid waste advisory committee for Somerset County, New Jersey, I can only report that after nearly four years of deliberations we are no closer to a solution than when we organized. As a member of a university research community exploring an alternative to the crude solution of putting it in the ground, I am di... |
20763_1 | FRENCH PRESS PLAN FOR CHEMICAL ARMS 881> | the Continent, 'Rumblings From Paris' ''We've been hearing rumblings of discontent from Paris on the chemical ban talks for some while,'' said Robert O'Neill, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London. ''France is always afraid of being dragged into disarmament negotiations because ... |
20848_0 | AT CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, LEGACY OF WOES | LEAD: People Express is gone, but its haunting legacy of lost luggage, lengthy delays and canceled flights lives on - at Continental. People Express is gone, but its haunting legacy of lost luggage, lengthy delays and canceled flights lives on - at Continental. Since Feb. 1, when Continental absorbed People Express and... |
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