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June 16, 1999; WednesdayHEADLINE: 7 Schools Join ECAC Lacrosse League
BYLINE: TOM CANAVAN
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.With the NCAA ready to give conference champions automatic invitations to its national lacrosse tournament, seven East Coast schools have formed a Division I men's league that will begin play next year.
Georgetown, Maryland-Baltimore County, Massachusetts, Navy, Penn State, Stony Brook and Rutgers will play in ECAC Lacrosse.
The teams will play each other once in the regular season to determine a champion. A postseason tournament will not be held. …
''We're still going to play Syracuse, Army, Princeton and Yale, teams we've been playing the last 60 or 70 years,'' Hayes said. …
Business Wire
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June 16, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: ATL Products' P3000 DLTtape Library Selected by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for Critical Backup
DATELINE: IRVINE, Calif.Leading Nuclear Energy Research Center Creates High Availability Secondary Storage System with ATL P3000 Library
ATL Products, a leading supplier of intelligent DLTtape(TM) libraries for networked computers, Wednesday announced that Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has selected ATL's P3000 Series Automated DLTtape Library to automate data backup for its Theory Division, and for various CAD, Windows NT and Macintosh computer applications. As part of the U.S. Department of Energy, PPPL operates in collaboration with Princeton University and has created a national center for the development of plasma and fusion science. The primary goal of its Theory Division is to test theories, develop codes and models and apply theoretical data to the realistic proposition of implementing nuclear energy as a safe, clean and economically viable energy source. With computations that can take days to complete, the P3000 tape library provides 24-hour access and protection of critical scientific data given its massive storage capacity, superior performance and high availability design. …
Cox News Service
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June 16, 1999HEADLINE: George W. Bush highlights
July 6, 1946: George Walker Bush is born in New Haven, Conn.
Sept. 24, 1963: Upon returning to prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., George W. Bush gives this report on his summer: "I started off the summer with a bang at Tennis Week in Rye, N.Y. then proceeded to work on a cattle ranch in Williams, Arizona, after which I visited Moondog Kidde and participated in the unexciting sport of surfing."
Fall 1967: Campus cops at Princeton University yell at Bush and other Yalies for bringing down goalpost after football game. …
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
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June 16, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: Gov. Hunt: Better schools, without vouchers
The following are excerpts from a talk by Gov. Jim Hunt upon receiving the 1999 Friend of Education Award from the Association of Education Publishers last Friday in Washington:
WASHINGTON -- These days, it's become fashionable to criticize our public schools; to say that they don't work; that they are broken beyond repair. These critics generally have one thing in common. They've spent little time inside a public school. They've spent less time thinking about the needs of schools. And they've spent even less time trying to make them better. …
Vouchers are like leeches. They drain the lifeblood - public support - from our schools. Leeches didn't work on patients in the Middle Ages and they don't work for our children today. Vouchers aren't helping the children they were designed to help: students doing poorly in low-performing public schools. In Ohio and Wisconsin, the majority of vouchers are going to students already enrolled in private schools. Vouchers aren't helping children do better. Studies in Ohio and Wisconsin by (researchers at) Indiana and Princeton universities prove that students who receive vouchers aren't doing considerably better than their public school counterparts. …
PR Newswire
Copyright 1999 PR Newswire Association, Inc.June 16, 1999, Wednesday
HEADLINE: A. Scott Berg to Write New Biography of Woodrow Wilson For Penguin Putnam Inc.
DATELINE: NEW YORK, June 16A. Scott Berg, the Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh has signed a new contract with Penguin Putnam Inc. to write a full-scale biography of Woodrow Wilson, it was announced today by Phyllis E. Grann, president of Penguin Putnam Inc. The hardcover edition will be published under the G.P. Putnam's Sons imprint, followed by a paperback edition from Berkley Books.
"Since I was a young girl, I have been fascinated by Woodrow Wilson. He is a towering figure, who is waiting to be rediscovered by this generation. He is, without question, one of the most important figures in this century and his influence will continue to resonate into the twenty-first century. No one can better pen this biography with all its personal drama and history than Scott Berg. His award-winning track record certainly speaks for itself," said Mrs. Grann.
Scott Berg said, "Woodrow Wilson captured my imagination at the age of fifteen, and my interest in him has only grown over the years. I am thrilled to be able to devote the next decade to this passion -- studying the extensive Wilson archives, which detail his southern youth, his academic years at Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, and his dramatic Presidency." …
The twenty-eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) is one of the most complex men ever to occupy the White House. The son of a Presbyterian minister in Virginia, he became the president of Princeton University, his alma mater. In 1910, he was elected Governor of New Jersey; and only two years later he was elected President in an exciting three-way contest on the eve of World War I. A decisive leader -- who sent America onto the playing field of international politics -- Wilson also outlined a conclusion to the Great War, complete with idealistic solutions for the future. Hailed as a world savior, his uncompromising nature proved to be a tragic flaw, breaking him politically and physically. …
A. Scott Berg was born in Connecticut in 1949 and raised in Los Angeles. In 1971 he graduated cum laude from Princeton University, where he majored in English. His senior thesis on Maxwell Perkins -- the legendary editor who "discovered" and developed F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Alan Paton, James Jones, and dozens of other important writers -- won the Charles William Kennedy Prize. Berg spent the next seven years expanding that thesis into Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which become a national bestseller and won the National Book Award. He is also the author of the bestselling Goldwyn: A Biography, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was recently elected a Trustee of Princeton University. …
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
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June 16, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: New leader here to push corporate bar on gender and racial diversity
BYLINE: MOLLY MCDONOUGH; Law Bulletin staff writerMembers of the American Corporate Counsel Association's Chicago chapter have elected a president who knows first-hand about issues important to the in-house bar.
Much of Brian A. Loftus' expertise comes from the time he spent on the outside," having practiced for 25 years with a major Chicago law firm.
But he's also been on the other side of the fence, where he experience the flux associated with mergers and acquisitions, having lost a job as general counsel during a corporate buyout two years ago.
Loftus, now vice president and general counsel of Des Plaines-based UOP, will apply his range of experience while serving a one-year term as president of the 650-member organization. Among his goals, he said, is to further diversify ACCA by bringing in more young and minority members, and by getting more such lawyers into the leadership ranks. …
A Connecticut native, Loftus graduated cum laude from Princeton University, where he majored in history. In 1966, he graduated from New York University School of Law and the same year signed on with Winston & Strawn, at the time a 70-lawyer firm.
The firm's attorney population had swelled to more than 400 by the time Loftus left in 1990 to become the first general counsel of UNO-VEN, a joint venture of the West Coast oil company Unocal Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. …
U.S. Newswire
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June 15, 1999HEADLINE: Clinton Appoints Vikan to Cultural Property Advisory Committee
BYLINE: White House Press OfficeDATELINE: WASHINGTON, June 15
BODY: The President today announced his intent to appoint Dr. Gary Vikan as a member the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.
Dr. Vikan, of Baltimore, is currently Director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Prior to assuming the position of Director, he was Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval Art. Dr. Vikan serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and on the faculty of the University's School of Continuing Studies. Before coming to the Walters Gallery, Dr. Vikan was Senior Associate for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. …
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in 1967 and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976. …
Business Wire
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June 15, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: WIRED COLLEGES: Jenzabar.com Announces Virtual Campus Communities for Students and Faculty
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 15, 1999--
Colleges and Universities Can Leverage the Power of the Web to Provide Convenient, Cooperative and Collaborative Educational Experience
Jenzabar.com, the innovator in intranet portal technology for colleges and universities, today announced the rollout of its flagship product which radically improves information exchange between students, faculty and others. The Company also announced today five new customer wins and a home-run management team. Jenzabar.com dramatically impacts information delivery to students and how they are educated via the Internet by personalizing each student experience and providing access to dynamic content, commerce and the college community. …
Jenzabar.com's service is already in high demand and is in use at colleges nationwide (see accompanying press release "Five Colleges Sign With Jenzabar.com, The Innovator In Personalized College Portal Sites"). Jenzabar.com will soon announce additional customer sites at major universities nationwide where its personalized gateway will enable half a million students to improve their college experience. …
"By enabling around-the-clock access to the data and services critical to their academic success, Jenzabar.com gives students an academic advantage at the push of a button," said Chai Ling, president and CEO of Jenzabar.com.
As part of its launch, Jenzabar.com also announced its management team. Chai, a former associate consultant of Bain & Company and a graduate of Harvard Business School (MBA) and Princeton University (MPA), is the company's principal founder, president and CEO. …
Family Life Matters
Copyright 1999 Network for Family Life Education
Winter 1999HEADLINE: Emergency Contraception: It Can Change Our World
HIGHLIGHT: Interview with James Trussell, author of "Contraceptive Technology," in which he discusses the role that emergency contraception will play in reducing the numbers of unintended pregnancies
An Interview with James Trussell …
The numbers are staggering--one in two American women will face an unintended pregnancy in her lifetime. Does America's new interest in emergency contraception offer hope of reducing these numbers? To find out, Family Life Matters interviewed James Trussell, Ph.D., associate dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an author of Contraceptive Technology, a standard textbook for medical students.
FLM: Just what is emergency contraception and how effective is it?
Trussell: Basically, it's a woman's last chance to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. Most commonly, it involves taking a higher-than-usual dose of regular birth control pills within 72 hours after the encounter and another dose 12 hours later. Emergency contraceptive pills--ECPs--prevent about 75 percent of pregnancies. That means that if 100 women have unprotected sex in the second or third week of their cycles, about eight would ordinarily become pregnant. But if they all used ECPs, only two would get pregnant. …
FLM: How would you respond to people who claim that availability of ECPs will cause women to abandon their regular methods of birth control or take more risks?
Trussell: I'd point out that ECPs are no substitute for normal methods because side effects can be unpleasant and because ECPs are only 75 percent effective. And I'd cite studies showing that risk-taking behavior doesn't increase among women provided with ECPs in advance. …
Astronomy
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July 1, 1999HEADLINE: EINSTEIN'S MEASURE.
General Relativity as a Cosmic Ruler
* If you thought that general relativity had few practical applications in astronomy, think again. British and American radio astronomers have used Einstein's theory as a measuring rod to determine the distance of a binary pulsar from Earth with unprecedented accuracy. "This method is much more accurate than the usual way to find pulsar distances," says Ed van den Heuvel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam.
Last January, at a conference on gravitational waves and experimental gravity in Les Arcs, France, Ingrid Stairs of the University of Manchester and David Nice, Steve Thorsett, and Joe Taylor of Princeton University described their timing measurements of PSR B1534+12, a binary pulsar in Serpens.
The orbital period of a binary pulsar (0.42073729933 days in the case of PSR B1534+12) slowly decreases as it loses energy: The accelerating masses emit gravitational waves according to Einstein's theory of general relativity. The discovery of this effect in the first binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16, earned team member Taylor and his research student Russell Hulse the 1993 Nobel prize in physics. …
Stairs and her colleagues turned the formula around. Assuming general relativity correctly describes the binary pulsar's orbital decay, they estimate the so-called galactic-kinematics correction, and from that estimate they deduce the pulsar's distance from Earth.
The astronomers determined a distance of 3,520 light-years. Earlier measurements, based on the observed dispersion of the radio pulses by interstellar electrons, placed the pulsar between 1,500 and 3,000 light-years away. "It's a very interesting result," says van den Heuvel, "but unfortunately, the technique only works with binary pulsars, of which only three are known." - Govert Schilling
Sky & Telescope
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July 1, 1999HEADLINE: 50&25 years ago.
July 1949"In a remarkable paper which has just appeared in the Astronomical Journal of the Soviet Union, V. A. Ambar[ts]umian has again called attention to . . . stellar associations. . . . Most of them consist of stars of early spectral type."
Stellar associations are loose groupings of the same kinds of stars; the best-known class features young stars of spectral type O and B. Associations are torn apart within a few million years by gravitational effects from other objects in our galaxy.
This article was prepared by Otto Struve, a giant of 20th-century astronomy. It was the first in a series of monthly features he would write for Sky & Telescope until his death in 1963.
"Polarization might be explained, according to Lyman Spitzer, Jr., and John W. Tukey, of Princeton University, if needle-shaped particles comparable in size with the wave lengths of visible light were present in interstellar space and were oriented by some force."
The two scientists proposed that ferromagnetic particles and a galactic magnetic field could do the trick. They were right on both counts. Dust properties continue to be actively studied.
Computer Reseller News
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June 14, 1999HEADLINE: Software Giant Under Attack For Coercion -- IE demonstration a win for Microsoft
BYLINE: Darryl K. TaftWashington, D.C. - With a dramatic courtroom demonstration, a Microsoft Corp. attorney refuted the government's claim that Microsoft Internet Explorer browser functionality can be removed from the Windows operating system.
The demonstration came after a former IBM Corp. executive had delivered some blows against Microsoft, accusing the software giant of coercion.
In his cross-examination of the government's key technical rebuttal witness, Microsoft attorney Steven Holley instructed the witness, Princeton University professor Edward Felten, to attempt to remove IE functionality from a computer with Felten's "prototype removal" program.
Though the system broke connections with Windows 98, Felten got the system to launch a new window with a fresh version of the IE browser when the lawyer instructed him to press "control+N." …
Computerworld
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June 14, 1999HEADLINE: Judge Questions BrowsersSecurity in Antitrust Case; Asks government witness if bundling Internet Explorer raises security issues
BYLINE: Patrick ThibodeauWashington
Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson acknowledges that he approaches computers like any other consumer. But last week in court, he asked a question that hit on a key concern for corporate IT departments and that also raised troubling questions for Microsoft's defense.
The question was simple, but its implications for the trial are profound. "Are there any security issues involved in this choice of a browser or whether to get a browser at all?" Jackson asked computer expert and government witness Edward Felten, a professor at Princeton University.
Some companies, Felten responded, don't want browsers on their desktops in order to reduce the risk of security problems, such as viruses.
Jackson's question is important because it focuses on the issue of consumer harm. The government argues that Microsoft's decision to make its browser an inseparable part of Windows 98 has hurt consumers -- including corporate users -- by limiting choice. …
Los Angeles Times
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June 14, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: WHAT'S IN A NICKNAME? FOR SOME, A REAL STENCH
Re "We're Rough, We're Tough, We Are the . . . Little Nippers" by Joel Greenberg, May 25:
Having married a BUG (Boston University Girl, the former Michele Mandell, B.U. '62) and met many other BUGs (B.U. gals and guys), I sympathize with your terrier plight. My lot is not so much better: I'm a graduate of the "cow college" of the Ivy League, Cornell.
Cornell's "Big Red" nickname didn't help during the McCarthy terror.
Then again, better Cornell than the two Ivy PUs (Princeton University and Pennsylvania University, which calls itself the University of Pennsylvania to avoid the stench of the P.U.).
So we all have our alma mater problems. And FDR did make terriers popular for almost four terms in the White House.
SID TURKISH, Beverly Hills
M2 PRESSWIRE
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June 14, 1999HEADLINE: UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Eight honoured by University of YorkProfessor David Lewis is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20 th century and has made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, language, mathematics and metaphysics. He is professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1970. He has written many books, including Convention, Counterfactuals and Parts of Classes, each of which has had a major impact in its field. Professor Lewis also has a close connection with York: two staff members studied under him whilst they were graduates at Princeton; and another two have published papers about his work. …
National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
June 14, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: RECENT SUCCESS OF INTERNET STOCKS AND HOW IT COMPARES TO THE 'TRONICS BOOM IN THE 1940S
ANCHORS: NOAH ADAMS
REPORTERS: JIM ZARROLINOAH ADAMS, host:
High tech is no longer hot on Wall Street. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average rose sharply today, high-tech stocks fell again. …
JIM ZARROLI reporting:
The years after World War II were a time of big leaps forward in science and technology, changes that would touch many people lives. The invention of the transistor was one of them.
Unidentified Man: (From vintage radio broadcast) These tiny transistors are destined to play a big part in our electronic age. They will make possible, smaller, more compact electronic devices that will need less maintenance and have a longer life.
ZARROLI: At first invented by two scientists at Bell Labs in 1947, the transistor greatly increased the speed and efficiency of electronics products, and within a decade it was being used in a wide array of goods such as radios, early computers and even weapon systems. Wall Street was somewhat slow to see the industry's potential, but by the late 1950s electronic stocks were hot, reaching prices that were 50 or 60 times earnings. Princeton Professor Burton Malkiel called this period the 'tronics boom' in his classic, recently reissued book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." Malkiel said just as people today have been snapping up stocks in companies that have any connection at all to the Internet, investors back then bought anything having to do with electronics. Often just sounding like an electronics company was enough, Malkiel says.
Professor BURTON MALKIEL (Princeton University): Some of them had only the most tenuous connection with electronics because the name was the game. And as long as you could even say that at some point you might get into the electronics business, you'd put your name and the stock price would just rise apparently to the sky. …
National Post
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June 14, 1999 MondayHEADLINE: Global warming dinosaur
BYLINE: Janet DavisDATELINE: TORONTO
Re: WWF Becoming the New Greenpeace, June 10.
Isn't there a 'fuzzy wuzzy' dinosaur logo that you could append to Terence Corcoran's bizarre rants against sober scientific data that warn of the consequences of man-made global warming?
According to a 1998 report from scientists at Princeton University's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), since 1900 the earth's temperature has increased 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit, with one quarter of that increase occurring in the three years prior to the report's release. That increase is too great, the scientists state, to be explained away by the sun getting brighter or other natural causes. The GFDL scientists went on to note that 1997 was the hottest year in recorded history, and the first five months of 1998 were one half a degree higher than 1997's average. …
Janet Davis, Toronto
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Copyright 1999 The News and Observer
June 14, 1999 MondayHEADLINE: Death Notices
CHARLES G. HERBERMANN
RALEIGH - Charles G. Herbermann of Springmoor Retirement Community formerly from Bronxville, NY died Saturday, June 12, 1999.
He was born December 14, 1918 in New York City. He received his B.S. degree from Fordham University in 1941 and his J.D. degree from Fordham Law School in 1948. …
Newsweek
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June 14, 1999HEADLINE: From Both Sides Now
BYLINE: By Sharon Begley; With Thomas HaydenHIGHLIGHT: Women do research the same way men do, but the questions they ask nature may be different. Has feminism changed science?
One story from the annals of science seems destined to become a minor classic among certain biologists, and it is no coincidence that it concerns sex. Out on the Western plains, biologists were studying herds of mustangs, in which the reigning stallion was believed to have the sole right to procreate. Then a researcher got the bright idea of running DNA tests on the horses. As paternity tests often do, these proved embarrassing: fewer than one third of the herd's foals had been sired by the resident stallions. Instead, mares had snuck over to other herds, mating with males there. Blinded by the harem metaphor of mustang social structure, researchers had not even looked for such female behavior.
As such examples accumulate, more and more scholars are wondering whether cultural forces such as feminism affect the direction and results of research. …
Feminism has also changed ideas about how humans evolved from quadrupedal apes to toolmakers, thinkers and talkers. In the 1960s the answer was unquestioned: hunting. The story was that men who learned to cooperate, communicate and make weapons in order to hunt stimulated their brains and drove evolution. Women tagged along and pushed out babies every few years. But female anthropologists now have other ideas. In Lucy's Legacy, to be published in November, Alison Jolly of Princeton University argues that behavior where females excel (language and forming social bonds) or roles that fall to females (forging links between generations) played the key role in human evolution. …
Roanoke Times & World News
Copyright 1999 The Roanoke Times & World News
June 14, 1999, MondaySECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: BRIEFLY PUT ...IN THE How-Times-Change Department: Princeton University's salutatorian this year, a classics major, used the occasion of his commencement speech to propose marriage to a classmate, graduating with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Unusual today, both in venue for proposal and in the fact the prospective groom is the classics major and the bride-to-be the newly minted engineer.
Downright impossible a generation ago, when Princeton was still all-male.
The Boston Herald
Copyright 1999 Boston Herald Inc.
June 13, 1999HEADLINE: SOLO TRAVELER; Web sites prescribe safety tips
BYLINE: By Robert KahnIndividuals on the road by themselves can never have too much medical advice at their fingertips.
The following Web sites, recommended by the editors of Fodor's travel publications and the Lonely Planet guides, contain practical suggestions in planning your next trip. …
Hypothermia and Cold Weather Injuries, www.Princeton.edu-(tilde)oa-hypocold.html: For information on how your body regulates its temperature and for a complete discussion of symptoms and treatment, see this page by Princeton University's Outdoor Action Program.
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 1999 The Dallas Morning News
June 13, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Rising complaints, calls for overhaul leave HMOs with uncertain future; Insurers say changes have cut costs, expanded preventive care
SERIES: MANAGING HEALTH CARE: AN EVOLVING SYSTEM
BYLINE: Charles OrnsteinIt seemed like a dream come true.
When managed care catapulted to prominence a decade ago, it promised to improve medical care, build relationships between physicians and patients, stabilize employers' costs and keep consumers satisfied.
It also pledged to eliminate the unnecessary care and runaway inflation plaguing the traditional indemnity, or fee-for-service, system.
Supporters say managed care has kept its word, curbing medical costs and shifting the focus of medicine toward preventive care.
But many consumers are frustrated, doctors are disgruntled, and even some employers are coming to doubt the cornerstone of managed care's appeal - its cost savings.
"Right now, in 1999, my HMO is actually costing me more per person than my indemnity plan," said Sherry Miller, human resource manager for Global Industrial Technologies Inc. of Dallas. "I am not a believer at this point in time that I can save that much money in managed care." …
Despite its problems, managed care is unlikely to disappear.
"You simply cannot ditch it, because we have no alternative," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health-care economist. …
The Denver Post
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June 13, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: Brave new economy
BYLINE: E.J. DionneThe United States has been conducting a great economic experiment. It involves keeping unemployment rates at a historic low, over a long period.
The results are in: Sustained low unemployment achieves the good results its advocates have always claimed it would. Not only that: We've kept unemployment low without experiencing a surge of inflation.
Until the last few years, economic policy assumed that was impossible. Yet the jobless rate fell Friday to 4.2 percent, a 29-year low - and inflation still seems at bay.
Just as important, those who argued for years that the plight of the poor owed more to what was wrong with the economy than to what was wrong with the poor have been proved right. Tight labor markets have led employers to offer jobs to people who were described as "unemployable" only a few years ago. …
"Poor blacks never lost faith in work, education and individual effort," Jennifer L. Hochschild of Princeton University told Nassar and Mitchell. "What's different now is that they can do something about it." …
NOTE: This column first appeared in The Washington Post.
The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
Copyright 1999 Lakeland Ledger Publishing Corporation
June 13, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: BAPTISTS STRUGGLE TO PUMP UP ROLLS; CONVENTION SUFFERS FIRST DROP IN MEMBERSHIP IN 70 YEARS IN 1998.
BYLINE: CARY McMULLEN The Ledger
In the South, it is said, there are more Baptists than people.
Besides a bit of humor about how numerous they are, the saying is a sly reference to the well-known Baptist practice of padding the church roll, yielding a larger total in the local Baptist association than there is in the census.
But far from being a provincial denomination of rural churches, the Southern Baptist Convention has evolved into an organization that has asserted its political clout and has claimed its prominence as the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, with 15.7 million members.
Now, convention leaders admit that figure is inflated by as much as a third. And since more reliable figures show that membership has remained flat throughout the 1990s, they are searching for ways to start growing again. …
The core of the church's membership -- white and middle class -- is aging, said Robert Wuthnow, professor of sociology of religion at Princeton University.
Changes in demographics in the South in the past few decades also have affected the church, including migration from the more religious rural areas to cities, and from other, less religiously inclined regions into the South, Wuthnow said.
"For a while, they were doing pretty well keeping up, but it seems to be diminishing, especially among younger people," he said. …
The Times-Picayune
Copyright 1999 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
June 13, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: PERSONAL BRIEFING
BYLINE: From wire reportsNot totally inconceivable
Safe sex? Contraceptives fail for 9 to 12 percent of women using them after a year, researchers report. Two studies of U.S. women by the nonprofit Alan Guttmacher Institute and a team at Princeton University found that on average, a woman has a 10 percent chance of getting pregnant despite using contraception in any given year. As might be expected, contraceptive methods that require the user to remember them regularly, such as the pill or a condom, have the highest failure rate, while hormone implants or IUDs have the lowest.
CBS News Transcripts
SHOW: CBS EVENING NEWS (6:30 PM ET)
June 12, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: MESSAGES IN GRADUATION SPEECHES
ANCHORS: JOHN ROBERTSGraduation speeches come so thick and fast this time of year that most of them go by us in a blur. So we thought we'd slow down for a moment and give a listen to some of what the class of 1999 is hearing before marching out into the world.
Every graduation season comes with a lot of film, a little confusion, and some outright ecstasy. Relief is in the air, and happiness is the order of the day. Decorated mortarboards send a message: What message, exactly, can be a little hard to figure out. …
ROBERTS: One speech started in Latin but ended in English with a question.
Mr. T. W. SCHMIDT (Latin Salutatorian; Princeton University): Anastasia (Rohrman), I'd like to ask you to marry me?
ROBERTS: The answer, also in English, was yes. Not every speech was equally moving, but every speaker touched emotions. …
The Des Moines Register
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June 12, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Microsoft challenges browser 'eliminator'
Associated PressWashington, D.C. - The judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial offered the government another reason why Microsoft should not bundle its Internet browser within its popular Windows operating system: computer viruses.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who will rule on the case without a jury, interrupted the testimony of a computer expert Thursday to ask whether the expert believed a browser increased the chance a virus could infect a computer.
Yes, said Edward Felten, a Princeton University professor.
Some companies, he said, may not want computers with Web browsers because it could allow employees to roam freely on the Internet. That could be risky for more inexperienced users.
"It seems self-evident to me that the presence of a browser increases the risk of penetration of a virus," Jackson said.
Felten agreed, saying there was less chance of introducing a virus into a system if it did not have a browser than if it did.
Felten took the stand as the government's final rebuttal witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. He had testified previously; last December he described a program he wrote that took Internet Explorer out of Windows 98. A modified version of that program was introduced as evidence Thursday shortly after Felten testified.
Microsoft attorney Steve Holley immediately challenged the program's effectiveness, arguing that the program did not remove the browser from Windows, but simply hid it. To prove his point, Holley presented Felten with a laptop computer and asked him to install his new "removal" program. …
He ultimately installed the program and, afterward, followed a series of instructions by Holley, at the end of which another Internet Explorer browser appeared on the screen. …
NOTE: Versions of this AP story appeared in more than a dozen major U.S. newspapers.
National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY (12:00 Noon PM ET)
June 12, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: IVY LEAGUE CLASSICS PROFESSOR TALKS ABOUT THE VESTAL VIRGINS AND THE ROMAN GODDESS WHOSE TEMPLE THEY TENDED
ANCHORS: SCOTT SIMON
(Technical difficulty) ...celebration in honor of Vesta, the Roman goddess of hearth and home. Now in Roman mythology, every household made sacrifices to Vesta. The young women who tended the sacred fires of her temple were accorded enormous respect. Elaine Fantham teaches the classics at Princeton University. She joins us from her office in Princeton. Thanks for being with us again, Professor.
Professor ELAINE FANTHAM (Classics Professor, Princeton): Oh, it's good to talk to you, Scott.
SIMON: And these were the original vestal virgins?
Prof. FANTHAM: Oh, yes.
SIMON: What kind of life did they have?
Prof. FANTHAM: Well, for 30 years they took turns. There were six of them, and they would be girls with the same kind of background, taken at the age of 10 and doing round-the-clock duty, two at a time, nursing the sacred flame. It was OK, of course, provided that the sacred flame didn't go out, and if it did, I think you would try to conceal the fact. …
The New York Times
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June 12, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Hoping the Web Will Rescue Young Professors;
In the Publish-or-Perish World, Can They Live on the Internet?
BYLINE: By DINITIA SMITH
Gregory S. Brown, an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is by almost any standard an outstanding young scholar. His dissertation adviser at Columbia University, Isser Wolloch, called him "certainly one of the very best students I've had." The dissertation committee, Mr. Wolloch said, judged Mr. Brown's thesis on the status of French writers during the Enlightenment as "extremely original, creative, insightful."
But Mr. Brown is in trouble. His pioneering monograph, based on new sources, has been turned down for publication by several university publishers because, they said, its focus is too narrow and it would not sell.
Mr. Brown is not alone. Caught between growing pressures on university publishers to make money and shrinking library budgets, young professors in fields ranging from military history to ancient Near Eastern studies can't get their work turned into books.
Now help is on the way. Over the past five years, the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has spent $20 million and teamed up with university presses, colleges and influential scholars to try to publish monographs on the Internet as a way of disseminating research and providing a new place for young scholars to publish that would count toward their getting tenure. …
"We are going to, I hope, create a new kind of scholarly book," said Robert Darnton, the president of the American Historical Association and a leader in the effort to publish books on the Web. "The whole landscape is being transformed, the landscape of scholarly life in general." …
Mr. Darnton said he intended to publish a book and archival material on 18th-century France on line as part of the council's project. Princeton University, where Mr. Darnton teaches, has contributed some money to putting his research on the Web. "What I think is crucial is for scholars to take the initiative in setting standards and basically mastering this new medium so that it works to the general advantage of scholarship." …
The New York Times
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June 12, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths NICHOLS, DOUGLAS R.
NICHOLS-Douglas R., 104. Of Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, NJ died June 6, 1999. Mr. Nichols was the son of the late Mr. & Mrs. E. Remington Nichols of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey. His maternal grandfather was Mr. James Mitchell, the first Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Nichols was the oldest Alumnus of Princeton University, Class of 1917, at the time of his death. He is survived by his son & daughterin-law, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Nichols, Jr. of Gulf Stream, Florida and a granddaughter, Mrs. Susan N. Ferriere of New York City.
AFX News
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June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: RPT: Microsoft trial: Program fails to remove Explorer from Windows 98
WASHINGTON (AFX) - A program which a government computer expert says will remove Microsoft's Internet Explorer internet browser from the Windows 98 operating system seemed to fail to work when the expert tried to demonstrate it at the antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp.
The government contends that Microsoft can deliver IE separately from Windows and that it should do so in order to give consumers more choice.
Microsoft argues that IE is an integral part of its underlying operating system.
Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten has testified on three occasions, most recently today (Thursday), that the so-called "prototype removal program" he has developed proves that Microsoft can separate IE from Windows.
Then, during cross-examination, Microsoft attorney Steven Holley placed a Toshiba laptop computer on the witness stand in front of Felten and began to walk him through the steps of connecting to the internet. …
Associated Press
June 11, 1999; FridayHEADLINE: Kosovo Gives Clinton Win-Win Moment
BYLINE: TOM RAUM
DATELINE: WASHINGTONPresident Clinton, addressing the nation as commander in chief, got to deliver the best possible news to Americans: The war is over, and not a single American died in combat.
Even many Clinton detractors are giving him credit for a remarkable political achievement capping a risky, 11-week military campaign against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
If ever there was a win-win moment for the president, who only months earlier stood on impeachment trial in the Senate, this clearly was it. …
Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University, said Clinton is now ''standing tall, having suddenly played commander-in-chief.''
That said, Greenstein added that it's hard to know what the impact of the achievement will be, coming so late in Clinton's presidency.
''We don't know how it's going to fit into the obituary,'' Greenstein said. ''Will it replace Monica?''
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
Copyright 1999 Multimedia Publishing of North Carolina, Inc.
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
ELEANOR B. LIGHTWILLIAMSTON, Mass. - Eleanor Bird McElrath Light, 89, of 1611 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown, widow of William Underhill Light, died Friday, June 4, 1999, at her home. …
In the 1940s, she was a librarian in the Princeton University Art Library. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Princeton student wins Miss New Jersey pageant
DATELINE: OCEAN CITY, N.J.
A Princeton University student was crowned Miss New Jersey on Friday night and will represent the Garden State in the Miss America Pageant in September.
Victoria Andrews Paige, 20, who competed as Miss Watchung Valley, was crowned at the Ocean City Music Pier.
The Sparta resident sang "Birth of the Blues" for the talent portion of the competition. The blonde-haired Paige beat 20 other contestants to win the crown. …
At Princeton, she is on the varsity crew team, varsity tennis team and the lacrosse team. She held the lead in "Chorus Line," and is chair of the Pan Hellenic association. …
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE)
Copyright 1999 Bangor Daily News
June 11, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: Wal-Mart vs. PREVEN
BYLINE: George A. Hill and Ruth L. LockhartWalk into any Wal-Mart in Maine and you are immediately overwhelmed by consumer choices: shoes, socks, shirts on one side; bikes, basketballs, bathroom fixtures on the other; and everything else in between.
What you will not find in Wal-Mart's pharmacy section, however, is the FDA-approved emergency contraceptive PREVEN. In the fall of 1998, shortly after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved emergency contraception, Wal-Mart ordered its pharmacistsnot to stock, order or dispense PREVEN.
The impact of this corporate decision is devastating. Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world -- more than 90 million customers shop at Wal-Mart each week. …
Research conducted by Princeton University shows that roughly half of the 3.5 million unintended pregnancies in the United States could have been prevented by wider use of emergency contraception. …
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Computer program fails in test at Microsoft trial;
BYLINE: APA computer expert asked by the government to create a program that would remove Microsoft Corp.'s Internet browser from its Windows operating system watched his program fail during a courtroom demonstration. Edward Felten, a computer science professor at Princeton University, was the government's final rebuttal witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
In December he described a program he wrote that took Internet Explorer out of Windows 98. Microsoft attorney Steve Holley immediately challenged the program's effectiveness, arguing that the program did not remove the browser from Windows but simply hid it. Holley presented Felten with a laptop computer and asked him to install his new "removal" program. Felten resisted, saying he couldn't vouch for its effectiveness since the computer he was given was loaded with multiple Internet browsers. The computers on which he had tested his removal program were loaded only with Windows 98. He ultimately installed the program and followed instructions by Holley, at the end of which another Internet Explorer browser appeared on the screen. Felten's testimony - that there is no technical reason for Microsoft to bundle its Web browser into the popular Windows operating system - touches on a central claim in the government's antitrust case.
NOTE: Versions of this AP story appeared in major newspapers throughout the United States.
CNNfn
SHOW: STREET SWEEP
June 11, 1999HEADLINE: Nasdaq-Amex Update, CNNfnBYLINE: Tony Guida, Charles Molineaux
TONY GUIDA, CNNfn ANCHOR, STREET SWEEP: The Nasdaq is now down 35 points. That's on top of yesterday's 34-point slide. Charles Molineaux's been watching all the action at that market for us. Hi, Charles.
CHARLES MOLINEAUX, CNNfn CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Tony.
Yes, we are off the lows for the day, but once again not by much, and somehow we seem to keep finding new lows to not be close to. …
Microsoft for example, has lost 1 7/8 on the day, almost $2 a share, and it's taken another hit in its antitrust trial on yesterday.
Princeton University testified that a built-in browser to an operating system such as Windows 95 or Windows 98, in which the new Microsoft's Internet Explorer is very closely tied, would increase the risk of penetration by a virus by users out surfing the Internet. …
Jiji Press Ticker Service
Copyright 1999 Jiji Press Ltd.
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Ex-MOF Official Points to Crisis Potential in 21st Century
DATELINE: New York, June 10
A former senior official of Japan's Ministry of Finance Thursday pointed out that currency crises are possible in the 21st century as far as investors in advanced countries seek lucrative investment opportunities.
It is better to think that panics or currency crises could be triggered in developing countries in the coming century by massive flows of overseas funds, Takatoshi Kato, former vice finance minister for international affairs, said in a seminar sponsored by Jiji Press.
This is because hedge fund and mutual fund managers, pension fund operators in the United States and Japanese investors will continue looking for profitable investments despite developing countries' efforts to stabilize their currencies, he said. …
Kato served as vice finance minister for international affairs for about two years until the summer of 1997. He is guest professor at Princeton University.
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Microsoft Again Duels With Web Browser Witness
BYLINE: By JOEL BRINKLEYDATELINE: WASHINGTON, June 10
With the Government's final witness on the stand in Federal court this afternoon, lawyers for the Microsoft Corporation were obviously eager for an opportunity to mount a demonstration of how it was impossible to remove the company's World Wide Web browser from its Windows 98 operating system.
"The demonstration is so dramatic that I think you will appreciate it," Steven Holley, a Microsoft lawyer, told a clearly amused Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
"Mr. Holley really wants to run this program," the judge said with a smile and a shake of the head. So he told the witness, Edward W. Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, to "click on whatever he tells you to click on," using the laptop computer Mr. Holley had supplied.
At issue was a program that Dr. Felten had written to strip Windows of its Web-browsing capability -- something Microsoft insists cannot be done. Central to this antitrust case is the Government's assertion that Microsoft included its Internet Explorer Web browser with Windows to trump its main competitor in the browser business, Netscape Communications, now part of America Online. …
Microsoft representatives bought a Toshiba laptop computer at a local store. They placed it on the witness stand with Dr. Felten, hooked up a phone line and asked him to run his removal program.
Dr. Felten objected, asserting that Toshiba had loaded a dozen additional programs on the machine, including some that offered Internet access. "There's more than one browser on this machine," he said. 'My program is not intended to run on this configuration. Whatever behavior Mr. Holley is asking me to create, I don't know what effect all of this will have on it."
Earlier in the trial, this sort of assertion would have been likely to bring an angry reaction from the judge. But often now, as testimony winds toward a close, Judge Jackson seems simply amused by the foibles of the lawyers and witnesses. So he asked Dr. Felten to proceed, in a manner suggesting that none of it was likely have much effect on the case.
With the browser theoretically removed, Mr. Holley asked Dr. Felten to press the control key and the N key -- a combination that brings up a new Window in Microsoft programs. When he did, Internet Explorer appeared on the screen. …
The New York Post
Copyright 1999 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc.
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: IS M'SOFT JUDGE A CLAIRVOYANT?
BYLINE: BETH PISKORAThe judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial was prophetic yesterday, asking if Microsoft's product bundling strategy increased the danger of computer viruses.
On the same day, a new virus was being spread by Microsoft's e-mail applications, and was crippling computers throughout the United States and Europe.
Are there "any security issues involved in the choice of a browser, or whether to get a browser at all?" U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson asked.
"It seems self-evident to me that the presence of a browser in the operating system increases the chances of penetration by a virus," the judge added.
Browser software can pick up viruses, because it is built to reach the Internet.
"If you are a corporate system administrator, you might well choose not to have a browser in order to prevent that means of spreading a virus," answered the expert witness being addressed by the judge, Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist. …
Newsbytes
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June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Professor Fails IE Removal Test At Microsoft Trial
BYLINE: RajivChandrasekaran; Special to NewsbytesDATELINE: WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A.
Removing Internet browsing functions from Microsoft Corp.'s [NASDAQ:MSFT] Windows 98 software could benefit consumers by saving computer memory and making the machine run faster, a Princeton University professor testified at the Microsoft antitrust trial yesterday. But in a live courtroom demonstration, the company showed that a program the professor devised to remove the browser from Windows does not necessarily prevent users from browsing.
Microsoft intended the demonstration, to which government lawyers strenuously objected, as a "gotcha" moment that would discredit the professor's testimony. But the judge conducting the trial showed little sign of being impressed, and refused a request by the company to present additional evidence about flaws in the removal program. …
To make its argument that the Explorer and Windows are separate, the government called Princeton computer scientist Edward W. Felten to the witness stand. Felten had testified for the government earlier in the trial, and his one-day appearance in court yesterday largely was intended to rebut the subsequent testimony of several Microsoft executives, who asserted that the browser and operating system are inexorably intertwined and that Felten's browser-removal program slows down Windows. Yesterday Felten said he conducted several tests comparing Windows computers with and without Internet Explorer. The results, he said, showed that the browser-less Windows machine ran somewhat faster and required significantly less computer memory.
In a potentially significant exchange, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson asked the witness if a browser might make a computer more vulnerable to electronic viruses. The judge suggested that he could see a benefit from allowing consumers to get Windows without a browser. …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1999 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
June 11, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: ALEXANDER 'SANDY' GINN, TAX LAWYER, CONSERVATIONIST
DATELINE: ORANGEAlexander "Sandy" Ginn grew up in Gates Mills and loved the Chagrin Valley area. During the 1970s, he was a leader in the establishment of the Land Conservancy in Hunting Valley to preserve undeveloped land. …
He graduated first in his class at University School, then earned a bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1934. …
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Copyright 1999 San Jose Mercury News
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Judge Bolster Government's Position in Microsoft Trial
BYLINE: By David L. WilsonWASHINGTON--Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson electrified the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial Thursday morning when he interrupted a government witness to ask if a computer user's choice of Web browsing software affects the security of the user's computer.
The pointed question stood in sharp contrast to the arcane discussion of software integration that had dominated the day's session in the Microsoft antitrust trial. The witness, Edward W. Felten -- a renowned expert in browser security matters -- said there are indeed security issues related to Web browsers.
With that one question, Jackson appears to have offered the government something its lawyers have failed to obtain on their own: An argument that a Web browser that cannot be removed from the operating system -- as Microsoft says is the case with Windows 98 and its Internet Explorer Web browser -- can put a user at risk. …
Felten heads up the Secure Internet Programming Laboratory at Princeton University, which studies the security risk of software tools like Java, JavaScript and ActiveX. But in this case, he's been testifying more as an expert on computer code, appearing as the last of three government rebuttal witnesses, having testified as a government witness last year. For the most part, in his appearance Thursday he simply reiterated points he'd made before.
Under cross-examination Thursday afternoon, Felten defended a program he built in order to remove Microsoft's browser from Windows 98.
Microsoft says the "integrated" browser provides advantages to consumers and offer capabilities that could not be achieved if the browser were not integrated. The government claims that Microsoft "welded" the browser into Windows 98 to marginalize a competing Web browser made by Netscape Communications Corp.
Holley loaded Felten's program on a computer in the courtroom, and found what appeared to be a functional version of Internet Explorer.
Felten said that there was more than one browser initially loaded on the test computer, and the system contained other anomalies that the program was not designed for. And, he added, it was possible that there was a bug in his removal program. "But," he said, "the presence of a bug in the removal program, if there is one, does not demonstrate that Microsoft cannot remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98." …
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT TRIAL -- DAY 73
A summary of yesterday's events in the case of the United States vs. Microsoft:
Players: Edward Felten, Princeton University professor; U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
Summary: In one of the more unusual moments in the trial, Jackson, who's not much of a computer user, wondered if using an Internet browser jeopardized a computer's security. Despite the fact that tens of millions of consumers use browsers, Jackson said that it seems "self-evident to me that the presence of a browser in the operating system increases the chances of penetration by a virus." Felten acknowledged that information-systems administrators might worry about novice users introducing a virus through a browser. The exchange could suggest that Jackson is dubious of Microsoft's decision to include a browser in its Windows operating system.
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT TRIAL -- DEFENSE, EXPERT SPAR OVER REMOVING BROWSER
BYLINE: JAMES V. GRIMALDI; SEATTLE TIMES WASHINGTON BUREAUDATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON - For the first time in the long Microsoft antitrust trial, the Redmond company's lawyers triumphed yesterday with what they thought was a theatrical "gotcha" in questioning a computer expert testifying for the government.
Connecting to the Internet during a live demonstration in a U.S. District courtroom, Microsoft attorney Steve Holley was convinced he had debunked Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten's program to remove the Internet Explorer Web-browsing software program from Windows 98.
The federal judge hearing the case was clearly amused with the dramatics. But U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson indicated he wasn't buying it and declared the dispute a standoff. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 1999 Gannett Company, Inc.
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Judge: Net browser promotes viruses
BYLINE: Paul DavidsonDATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON -- The judge overseeing the Microsoft trial hinted Thursday that he is concerned the company's inclusion of its Internet browser in Windows might harm consumers by increasing the risk of viruses….
Jackson voiced his concern about viruses during the testimony of Princeton University professor Edward Felten, the government's technical expert. "It seems self-evident that the presence of a browser increases the risk of the penetration of viruses," Jackson told Felten, who agreed. Viruses can be downloaded from the Web. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
June 11, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Professor Fails Test At Microsoft Trial; Defense Shows Browser Resists Removal
BYLINE: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post Staff WriterRemoving Internet browsing functions from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 98 software could benefit consumers by saving computer memory and making the machine run faster, a Princeton University professor testified at the Microsoft antitrust trial yesterday. But in a live courtroom demonstration, the company showed that a program the professor devised to remove the browser from Windows does not necessarily prevent users from browsing. …
To make its argument that the Explorer and Windows are separate, the government called Princeton computer scientist Edward W. Felten to the witness stand. Felten had testified for the government earlier in the trial, and his one-day appearance in court yesterday largely was intended to rebut the subsequent testimony of several Microsoft executives, who asserted that the browser and operating system are inexorably intertwined and that Felten's browser-removal program slows down Windows.
Yesterday Felten said he conducted several tests comparing Windows computers with and without Internet Explorer. The results, he said, showed that the browser-less Windows machine ran somewhat faster and required significantly less computer memory.
In a potentially significant exchange, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson asked the witness if a browser might make a computer more vulnerable to electronic viruses -- small programs that spread surreptitiously from machine to machine. The judge suggested that he could see a benefit from allowing consumers to get Windows without a browser.
Felten, who heads the Secure Internet Programming Laboratory at Princeton, replied in the affirmative. "You might well choose not to have a browser in order to prevent that means of spreading a virus." …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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June 10, 1999,Thursday ARUNDELHEADLINE: Rebel statue offends some; Confederate hero was Owens' ancestor
BYLINE: Matthew MoskSOURCE: SUN STAFF
In the hometown of Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens, where residents have roots that stretch back three centuries, the Civil War still feels recent enough that there's room to honor its heroes with monuments.
So next week in Lothian, in a private ceremony next to a small white- clapboard church, a group of her friends and closest advisers will do just that. …
Those who have studied the war say Americans may never decide whether commemorating Confederate heroes serves to honor the institution of slavery, or even agree why Southerners were fighting.
Princeton University Professor James McPherson tried to unravel those questions by studying 25,000 letters and 250 diaries written by Civil War soldiers. His research found that only one-fifth of Southern troops explicitly said they were fighting for slavery. …
"By the 1850s, a lot of Southerners felt they had a culture and ethnic identity different from the Yankees. Northerners were seen as materialistic, money grubbing, inhospitable, humorless Puritans," he said. "But certainly, the one concrete, palpable institution that could be identified as purely Southern was slavery." …
Business Wire
Copyright 1999 Business Wire, Inc.
June 10, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corporation Announces Major Development, Demonstrates World's Highest Efficiency OLED
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.
June 10, 1999--Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ; PANL; PHLX; PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today that its research partners, Princeton University and The University of Southern California, have demonstrated a new high efficiency, bright green-emitting Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) for flat panel display and other opto-electronic applications. Recently announced by Dr. Stephen R. Forrest, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, at the International Symposium on Functional Dyes in Osaka, Japan, this record-breaking device employs a new iridium-based dopant molecule that emits light based on the mechanism of OLED electrophosphorescence. …
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BILL GRIFFETH
June 10, 1999HEADLINE: - Interview CNBC- POWER LUNCH
SPEAKER: HAMPTON PEARSONBILL GRIFFETH: The Microsoft antitrust trial continues today. Government is recalling its computer witness, Princeton University professor, Edward Felten, is telling the court today that Microsoft could give consumers more choices by distributing its Windows operating systems with and without its browser. And apparently, Judge Jackson has taken an interest in that point. Hampton Pearson standing by to bring us the latest from Washington. Hampton?
HAMPTON PEARSON: Bill, right you are. You may recall that Princeton University computer scientist, Edward Felten, is the person who when he testified earlier in this trial, demonstrated his own software program for removing the internet explore browser from the Windows operating system. Microsoft argued it doesn t really remove Internet software functions, it merely hides them. Now, the judge, however, based on some of the testimony from Mr. Felten this morning, seems to be developing his own shopping list of reasons why you might want to have the browser separate from the operating system. He asked a question of Mr. Felten, would you consider doing it for security reasons? And Felten agreed that that is one possibility, but for security reasons or antivirus reasons. …
International Herald Tribune
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 1999 International Herald Tribune
June 10, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Librarians' Challenge: How to Catalogue a Fast-Moving Digital Age
BYLINE: By Pamela Mendels; New York Times Service
DATELINE: NEW YORK
Swedish librarians are trying to take periodic snapshots of all Swedish pages on the World Wide Web.
In the Netherlands, librarians are working with their counterparts in other European nations to try to develop a standard way to preserve scientific journals and other modern works that exist only in electronic form.
And in France, a project is under way to digitize items including the complete works of Balzac and documents from the French Revolution, and to preserve them on highly durable compact disks.
Around the world, research librarians are devoting much of their attention to thinking through the complexities of how to preserve humanity's cultural patrimony in an electronic age.
At a conference on virtual libraries last week in New York, representatives of major research libraries from the United States, Canada and 10 European countries gathered to discuss how to continue to fulfill their historical role despite changing technology. …
Robert Darnton, an award-winning author and professor of European history at Princeton University, told the audience that no copy of a work can replace the real thing. To get the feel of a document, one needs not only to read the original, but to handle it, he said.
''The researcher interested in epistolary exchange,'' Mr. Darnton said, ''comes across letters that smell of perfume, letters written in blood, letters with marks of tears - or even with fake tear drops done by dripping water on the pages.'' …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
June 10, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: INK / MAN OF MYSTERY NO LONGER / COVER STORIES GIVE MIKE MYERS' MOP TOP 'YEAH, BABY'' POWERS
BYLINE: Paul D. Colford. Paul Colford's e-mail address is paul.colford£ newsday. com
Hannibal Lecter returned on Tuesday in "Hannibal," Thomas Harris' long-awaited sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs." Meanwhile, another serial killer, named Merec, has come to diabolical life in "Kill Me First," a debut novel by Kate Morgenroth that has generated a buzz of its own and prompted the first critics to praise the compulsive readability of its dark story.
"Not since Hannibal Lecter has there been quite so seductively, sanely evil a killer as Merec," Entertainment Weekly observed in its review. So evil is this guy that the thriller is set in motion with a mass slaying at a Virginia nursing home. A video of the event is left by Merec and his cohorts for the evening news, and they kidnap a grief-frozen widow for further mayhem.
"Kill Me First" explores the gray area between good and evil and looks at how the media can indulge the perverse fascination that people often have with the gruesome accident by the side of the road.
Where did this story come from? "It's a fair enough question," said Morgenroth, who studied writing at Princeton University with John McPhee and Toni Morrison.
"At some point in a person's life, particularly in middle age, it seems that his life is set, or he figures it's impossible to change it. I thought this was an illusion, that there's always a chance that something could come into the picture and whack a person into a different life and take him to an extreme."…
University Wire
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle via U-Wire
June 10, 1999HEADLINE: Foreign policy expert may soon direct Duke U. Public Policy Institute
BYLINE: By Jamie Levy, The Chronicle
SOURCE: Duke U.
DATELINE: Durham, N.C.Two years after the director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy stepped down, the center's search committee has finally settled on a new leader. Administrative formality is the only thing remaining between Bruce Jentleson, director of the University of California at Davis' Washington Center, and the Sanford directorship, Interim Director Philip Cook announced Tuesday. …
Fritz Mayer, associate professor of public policy studies and chair of the search committee, said a focus on improving the graduate program will help make the Sanford Institute competitive with rival programs at Harvard and Princeton universities. …
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