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The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
January 25, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: This is not your father's university
BYLINE: Liz MarlantesIn his first novel, "This Side of Paradise," F. Scott Fitzgerald described Princeton University in New Jersey as "rising, a green Phoenix, out of the ugliest country in the world." With its Gothic architecture, centuries-old social clubs, and famous alums like Fitzgerald, Princeton might seem the epitome of a university untouched by waves of fashion.
But compare the experience of a current sophomore, Perrine Meistrell, with that of her father, Gerry Meistrell (class of 1963), and it's clear that the Tiger, with its orange and black school colors, has indeed changed its stripes.
For one, Perrine wouldn't be there had the school not opened its doors to women - a move it made after Gerry's graduation. Today's students are far more diverse. The physical campus has changed, too. Although Gothic buildings still dominate, "there's been a tremendous amount of building," Gerry observes.
A 1960s grad also wouldn't recognize the course catalog. Offerings have shifted radically, most conspicuously in the sciences. Among the new departments and programs: computer science, biophysics, molecular biology, and operations research and financial engineering. Students have more freedom to design their courses of study, Gerry says: "When I was at Princeton, the concept of a minor was nonexistent." …
Moreover, while Princeton may once have symbolized a ticket to success, students now feel there are no longer any guarantees. "When my dad went to Princeton, there was more of an assumption that if you did reasonably well, you'd get a good job," Perrine comments. …
Gerry says he hopes Perrine will take the time to explore a bit. "I got introduced to opera at Princeton," he says. "I didn't have the sense that I needed a particular course because it was going to mean something to me after college; I saw it as a great opportunity to learn about a lot of different things." …
New Scientist
Copyright 2000 New Scientist IPC Magazines Ltd
January 22, 2000HEADLINE: Total control
BYLINE: Philip CohenHIGHLIGHT: Now you can keep bugs in line with genetic clocks and switches
GENETIC engineers have just got a new set of tools. One group of scientists in the US has designed switches that can flick genes into and out of action, while another group has devised timers that activate genes like clockwork.
Tools like these should shed light on how genes interact. They also open up the possibility of building complex genetic "circuits" to treat disease.
For more than a decade, biologists have had only two ways of activating engineered genes. Either the gene is permanently active and produces a protein all the time, or it is activated in response to some chemical that has to be permanently present to keep the gene switched on. It has not been possible to build from scratch a reliable gene switch with two stable states: on and off. …
But now Gardner and his Boston colleagues Charles Cantor and James Collins have engineered a stable on-off switch into "Escherichia coli"bacteria. …
Meanwhile, Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler, biophysicists at Princeton University in New Jersey, have built a device that makes "E. coli"mark time. In their design, three genes form a cycle of repression. Gene A makes a repressor that shuts off gene B. Gene B's repressor shuts off gene C, which encodes a repressor to shut off gene A.
This creates a cycle in which the three repressors trade dominance in the cell. When gene A's repressor is dominant it clamps down on gene B. Gene B can no longer repress gene C which begins to dominate the cell and repress gene A. Once gene A is shut down the repressor from B starts to take over the cell and shut down gene C. Gene A then ramps up again and the cycle repeats.
The researchers followed this molecular merry-go-round by using the same glowing green protein as a marker and linking its production to gene A. They found that the cells glowed brightly on average every 160 minutes. And this molecular "clock" kept ticking even as it was passed from generation to generation during cell division.
However, it turned out that this synthetic clock lost time more quickly than natural body clocks that keep track of daily rhythm. "That's really interesting," says Elowitz. "Now that we've built a clock, we can tinker with it, and ask why natural clocks are so reliable." …
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2000 The Dallas Morning News
January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: UNCONQUERED SPIRIT
Diagnosed with cancer, triathlete Karen Smyers won't give up on Olympic dream
SOURCE: Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: Cathy HarastaTriathlete Karen Smyers drew strength from the heroics of Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and Canadian rower Emma Robinson when Smyers recently was diagnosed with cancer.
"That had a huge impact on how I've been dealing with this," said Smyers, who underwent surgery Dec. 18 to remove a cancerous thyroid and two lymph nodes. "I'm supposed to have a greater than 95 percent chance of recovery."
Smyers, 38, said she will delay radioactive iodine treatments until after the U.S. Olympic Triathlon Trials this spring. The top U.S. finisher at the test event in Sydney, Australia on April 16 will win a spot on the Olympic team. The other two members of the women's U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team will be decided at the trials in Irving's Las Colinas on May 27-28.
"It really is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me," said Smyers, a two-time world champion. "That's a very big motivation."
Triathlon will make its debut as an Olympic medal sport at the Sydney Games this September. …
In 1995, she became the first woman to win the Hawaii Ironman and the world championship in the same year. In recent years, freak accidents have plagued Smyers, a former swimmer for Princeton University. …
OTHER HEADLINES
XINHUA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
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January 27, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Xinhua World News Summary at 0800 GMT, January 27
WASHINGTON --A computer using the biological molecule RNA to solve complex problems was developed by a U.S. research team, marking a significant advance in molecular computing, the Science Daily reported Wednesday.
The computer, developed by Princeton University researchers, was a test tube containing 1,024 different strands of RNA, a genetic material. (US-Science-RNA Computer)
In These Times
Copyright 2000 Institute for Public Affairs
February 7, 2000HEADLINE: Father Knows Best;
Welfare reformers want to push marriage on poor moms
BYLINE: By Neil deMause
DATELINE: NEW YORKWhen the House passed the Fathers Count Act by a lopsided vote of 328 to 93 on November 10, it was hailed by Beltway conservatives and liberals alike as a landmark step toward dealing with those left out of the welfare debate: fathers. If passed by the Senate, the legislation would provide $160 million over five years to organizations that provide men with job search training, teach them parenting skills and "promote marriage." …
When the National Organization for Women attacked the bill for forcing women into marriages, bill sponsor Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) shot back: "NOW is ignoring what is now broadly accepted by liberals, conservatives and moderates, that children in single-parent families are far more likely to suffer abuse, do poorly in school and have poorer prospects to live above the poverty line in their adult life."
But are they? Feminists and economists have long been critical of twisted statistics on the subject of single parenting. Princeton University professor Sara McLanahan, whose book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps is often used to buttress pro-marriage arguments, has noted that "illegitimate" children whose parents were both present for their childhoods do just as well as those whose parents were married at their births. Furthermore, children whose mothers remarry do just as poorly as those whose mothers remain single. The key, it seems, is not marriage, or even fatherhood, but parental attention and financial and geographic stability. …
San Jose Mercury News
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January 27, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Former Princeton University Student Charged with Hacking
BYLINE: By Howard MintzA federal grand jury in San Jose on Wednesday indicted a former Princeton University student suspected of hacking into the computer system of a Palo Alto e-commerce company and stealing nearly 2,000 credit card numbers.
In the government's latest attempt to hunt down a computer hacker, federal prosecutors brought charges against Peter Iliev Pentchev, a 22-year-old native of Bulgaria who is believed to have fled the United States after school officials confronted him about his computer activities.
According to the U.S. Attorney's office in San Jose, Pentchev left the country in late 1998, shortly after the alleged hacking incident occurred. Law enforcement officials believe Pentchev went to Bulgaria and were unclear Wednesday what diplomatic obstacles there may be to returning him to this country to face charges. …
Princeton University officials confronted Pentchev about the allegations in December 1998, and he disappeared shortly thereafter. If convicted, Pentchev faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 2000 The Atlanta Constitution
January 26, 2000HEADLINE: For the love of politics; He's for Gore, she's for Bradley, but differences don't hurt marital bliss
BYLINE: Ken Foskett, Cox Washington Bureau
DATELINE: Walpole, N.H.Dayton and Dianne Duncan fell in love over politics.
He was the chief of staff to New Hampshire's Democratic governor in 1982. She was the political beat reporter at the Concord Monitor, the state capital's newspaper.
Democratic politics was their passion well before they married in 1986. But this year's New Hampshire primary between Al Gore and Bill Bradley is adding new fire to their relationship. Dayton, 50, is supporting Gore, while Dianne, 44, is supporting Bradley. …
On a recent chilly day, she delivered 700 of Bradley's mailings to local voters. She phones undecided voters from home and buttonholes neighbors in town and at her 12-year-old daughter's basketball games.
She has left no stone unturned. For her local book club this month, she insisted the group read "A Sense of Where You Are," John McPhee's book about Bradley's basketball days at Princeton University.
"I thought it might help with the two undecideds in the group," she explained. She also has been reading passages to her husband in bed at night, but the pillow persuasion hasn't worked. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
January 26, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: TV Previews; On MTV, Candidates' Moments Of Youth
BYLINE: Robin Givhan, Washington Post Staff WriterMTV's expertise with the nanosecond attention span makes it uniquely suited to gauging the amount of time that should be devoted to the men running for president. In its one-hour special "Where Were You at 22?," MTV interviews several of the candidates about their youth. …
The program, which airs at 10 tonight and is the first in a series of "Choose or Lose 2000" news specials, reveals nothing about the candidates' stance on current policy issues. And it's far too short and superficial to provide any real insight into the psyches of these complicated men. Instead, "Where Were You at 22?" is a humanizing poultice. It helps one answer the questions: Which one would you like as a dinner companion? Which would you be willing to do a favor for? And those answers, in turn, say a lot about the person you would be willing to vote for as president. …
And then there is Steve Forbes. He is the only candidate interviewed who surrounds himself with his family. The millionaire publisher's wife and daughters sit there, smiling up at him as if posing for a holiday card. They never speak; they are like animatronic props offering silent adoration.
Forbes says that although he was raised amid great wealth, he was not privileged. He notes that he received an allowance and that, by God, he had to work for it. As a kid Forbes named his stuffed animals after former presidents. In college he launched a successful business magazine at Princeton University. He describes himself as having avoided the political and cultural protests of the '60s. They just baffled him, he says. …
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
January 25, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Democracy puts its thumb print on higher ed
BYLINE: Liz MarlantesLike many longtime academics, Alvin Kernan is nostalgic about the university of the past. He does not, however, believe that it is possible to go back to such a model - nor does he think that the changes have been entirely for the worse.
In his memoir, "In Plato's Cave" (Yale University Press), Professor Kernan points out that despite universities' tendency to claim "that the torch of scientific humanism has passed without a flicker from the Greeks to the present," higher education has in fact gone through several incarnations. …
"Everything [has moved] in a democratic direction," he says. Formerly an English professor at Yale and Princeton universities and now senior adviser in the Humanities at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Princeton, N.J., Kernan has seen this shift manifested in all kinds of ways. For one, there are "many more colleges, and many more people going to them." While the old system was meritocratic and elitist, the 20th century has produced "affirmative action, as well as the movement of women into universities, and [an] emphasis on multiculturalism." Kernan himself benefited directly from this democratization, attending college with funds provided by the G.I. Bill after World War II. …
The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
Copyright 2000
January 25, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Neurogenesis may offer new hope for old brains
BYLINE: YomiuriFlesh wounds eventually heal and broken bones will mend, but there is no way to replace the hundreds of thousands of brain cells that die every day. This widely held view on the regressive nature of our mental capabilities resulted from scientific research that concluded humans are born with a set number of neurons. It was generally thought that no neurons were produced in adults. However, more recent studies have discovered neural stem cells developing into neurons in adult brains, a finding that could help shed new light on possible cures for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, though it also raises new questions about the mysteries of the human brain. …
Daily production
Biologists at Princeton University later discovered that thousands of new neurons arrive daily in the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain controlling higher intellectual functions and personality. Though based on the findings of research conducted on primates, a study by a team led by Prof. Elizabeth Gould suggested the number was constantly changing. Their findings were published in the journal Science in October 1999.
The Princeton team came to its conclusion after injecting macaques with BrdU to spot newly formed neurons. Two hours later, it found a stream of new neurons in the central area of the monkeys' brains.
Over a period of a couple of weeks, the team observed the neurons migrating toward the cortex--the outer layer of the brain--where they matured and developed axons.
The new neurons were detected in three areas of the brain known to store memories--the frontal cortex, where the decision-making process takes place, and two areas of the brain controlling visual recognition.
Though the functions of the new neurons were not examined, the results of the Princeton study suggested they would likely play a role in the formation of new memories and recognition.
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.
January 25, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Jollyroger.com(TM): Flagship of the WWW Renaissance(TM) Sails Forth For Education and Entertainment
DATELINE: CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 25Jollyroger.com(TM) represents a marriage of the timeless truths to modern technology. Rather than striving to be all things to all people, "The World's Classical Portal(TM)" seeks to be the best to everyone while leveraging evolving internet technologies so as to bring the classics to life.
The New York Times deemed jollyroger.com "simply unprecedented," adding that the site "teems with discussion, the kind that goes well beyond freshman lit 101." The Los Angeles Times referred to the classical portal as "a lavish virtual community known as The Jolly Roger(TM)." …
This past November jollyroger.com published the first novel of the WWW Renaissance, The "Tragedy of Drakeraft.com," which is a modern-day Hamlet set on the gothic Princeton University campus. "Jollyroger.com Unplugged," consisting of a compilation of literary works from the site, shall be published in the spring of 2000.
Jollyroger.com was launched in 1995 while Dr. Elliot McGucken was pursuing his physics Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As one of the first websites devoted to the classics, jollyroger.com was started by bootstrapping, and it has since grown organically to where it's currently serving over 100,000 pageviews a day and receiving over 200,000 unique visitors each month. The site is profitable via ecommerce, advertising, and affiliate relationships.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
January 25, 2000HEADLINE: First snowfall at Princeton quiet in wake of Nude Olympics ban
BYLINE: By Katy Zandy, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.In the first test of last year's Nude Olympics ban, the Princeton University campus was conspicuously silent at midnight Friday morning, with no indication of any large-scale attempt to resurrect the now-defunct event.
Equipped with cameras and blankets, Public Safety fanned out across campus Thursday night and prepared to apprehend and identify nude runners.
Nevertheless, Public Safety shift supervisor Lloyd Best said Thursday night he believed the University's threat to suspend participants for one year would deter students from running.
"I hope the kids don't jeopardize their education just to run naked," Best said.
As four inches of snow blanketed Princeton Thursday afternoon, most sophomores agreed that the appeal of running naked was overshadowed by the University's policy.
"I'm not going to run," David Volk said. "I think the consequences are just too severe. I guess the administration has won, but I think they're being incredibly harsh and unreasonable about it. We proposed all kinds of alternatives to the event." …
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA.)
Copyright 2000 Capital City Press
January 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Southern, LSU plan to honor Mandela
A visit to the United States this year by Nelson Mandela will include a stop in Baton Rouge, where LSU and Southern University will confer honorary doctorates on the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Mandela's visit will include fund-raising events for his foundation benefiting the children of South Africa, where he was president until June, 1999. …
Mandela's visit will include public addresses and tours of both university campuses. While in the United States, he will make several speeches elsewhere and receive another honorary degree - he has a lot of them - from Princeton University in New Jersey. …
ARMED FORCES NEWSWIRE SERVICE
Copyright 2000 Phillips Business Information, Inc.
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: HASTERT NAMES THREE TO HELP IN REVIEW OF NRO
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has named Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), Eli Jacobs and Larry Cox to serve on the National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
The commission is to begin its review by the end of the month. The FY '00 Intelligence Authorization Act established the commission "to evaluate the roles and mission, organizational structure, technical skills, contractor relationships, use of commercial imagery, acquisition of launch vehicles, launch services, and launch infrastructure, mission assurance, acquisition authorities, and relationship to other agencies and departments of the federal government of the NRO in order to assure continuing success in satellite reconnaissance in the new millennium."
Cox is vice president and director of special programs at Orincon Corp., an Arlington, Va.-based firm that works on intelligence programs, and is a former division vice president of the David Sarnoff Research Center at Princeton University. …
Business Week
Copyright 2000 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: THE CASE FOR A SOFT LANDING
BYLINE: By Rich Miller in Washington
HIGHLIGHT: Greenspan believes consumption is coming under controlIf anyone should be worried about where the economy and financial markets are headed, it should be Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. After ending the millennium with a bang, the economy shows scant signs of slowing despite three interest rate hikes by the central bank last year.
But even as the yield on 30-year Treasuries is being pushed to levels not seen in 2 1/2 years, confidants say the central bank chief is serene, even optimistic. ..
Perhaps. But no matter which way the market goes, steering the economy to a soft landing won't be easy. Princeton University Professor Alan Blinder, who was at the central bank when the Fed engineered a soft landing for the economy in 1994-95, says the Fed has to be both lucky and good to pull it off a second time. ''Coming into an airport, a pilot can do all the right things, but if he gets a severe downdraft the plane is still going to hit the runaway very rudely,'' Blinder says. ''You both have to get the settings right and be lucky.'' But so far, it looks like the Fed will be able to get the economy home safely again.
Fortune
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: Battle of the Business Plans; a new march madness
BYLINE: Eric NeeAs everyone knows, some of the most successful technology companies were started by university students. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to join Paul Allen to pursue their software programming efforts full-time. The result was Microsoft. And Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo were Stanford University graduate students when they decided to turn their Website directory into a company. …
Now Hummer Winblad is creating a worldwide tournament modeled after college basketball's March Madness--complete with Final Four playoffs. The winner gets an unspecified amount of funding. (The model is no coincidence: Partner John Hummer played center for Princeton University in the 1969 NCAA tournament before going on to the NBA with the Buffalo Braves and Seattle Supersonics.)
Here's how it works. Any student at an accredited school can submit a business plan by Feb. 4. The 64 best plans, a limit of one per school, make it into the playoffs two weeks later. Hummer and his partners will choose the 16 finalists, who will then make presentations to Hummer Winblad partners beginning in late February. The Final Four showdown will take place on March 23, with the winner announced the following day. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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January 24, 2000HEADLINE: WORLD BANK World Bank announces six new managerial appointments
DATELINE: WASHINGTONThe World Bank today announced six new management appointments covering a broad range of responsibilities across the institution.
Announcing these appointments to staff, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn said, "To succeed, the Bank must nurture the development of its staff and management, including encouraging and promoting greater fluidity of staff, particularly senior managers across the Bank Group. Not only can such movement foster a better understanding of the Group's business among all managers and staff but, most importantly, it can enable the Bank to be more effective in meeting our clients' needs." …
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network
Kemal Dervil, currently Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, is appointed Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network. Mr. Dervil, a Turkish national, joined the Bank's Research Department in 1977. He was promoted to his current position of Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Region in January 1996, retaining responsibility for the Bosnia program until the middle of that year from his previous position as Country Director of the Central Europe Department. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Dervil taught at the Middle East Technical University and at Princeton University. Mr. Dervil' appointment will be effective no later than June 1, 2000. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
Copyright 2000 The Morning Call, Inc.
January 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: EMMAUS SENIOR IS SCHOLAR- ATHLETE
BYLINE: ERNIE LONG; The Morning CallWhen Eric Wang wants to communicate with someone, he can do it in a number of ways.
At home, the Emmaus High School senior speaks mandarin to his Taiwanese parents. At school, Wang speaks English. He can even speak Spanish.
Or Wang, an award-winning violinist, can choose to speak through his music.
When the humble Wang does communicate, you won't find him speaking about himself. But then again, he doesn't have to -- his achievements speak for themselves. …
Keynote speaker for the ceremonies was Princeton University women's soccer Head Coach Julie Shackford, who talked about the traits that all of the gathered scholar-athletes shared.
'You have all become successful by showing that you can take responsibility for yourselves (developing ) your technique so that it becomes second nature and by being self motivated and embracing pressure," she said.
Roll Call
Copyright 2000 Roll Call, Inc.
January 24, 2000SECTION: CAMPAIGNING
HEADLINE: Iowa Caucuses Have An Inescapable Pull For Political Trench Warriors
BYLINE: By Stuart RothenbergThis is a big day for a lot of Iowa political activists. But it's no bigger for anyone than it is for Luke Roth.
Roth, who rooted for Ronald Reagan over Gerald Ford in the 1976 GOP presidential race and has more than his share of conservative credentials, is the executive director of the George W. Bush for President operation in Iowa. But he's more than that.
The 46-year-old St. Louis native is an example of veteran political operatives from Iowa to New Hampshire, and on both sides of the political aisle, who have spent years fighting it out in the trenches of American politics. His story, as well as his insights about the changing caucus process, are worth noting.
Roth's father was an independent insurance agent, and his mother a homemaker. After graduating from Princeton University in June 1976, he went to Iowa to become the youth coordinator and field representative for then- freshman Rep. Chuck Grassley (R).
Grassley won re-election, but with the campaign over, Roth found himself out of work. He took a job as executive director of the Conservative Coalition of Iowa, a distinctly right-of-center, pro-Reagan political group, but less than a year later entered law school at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
"It wasn't for me," admitted Roth, who left law school after a year and a half and returned to St. Louis to work with his father.
But it wasn't long before Roth returned to Iowa to become organization director for Grassley, who was running for Senate in 1980, first against a moderate Republican opponent, and then against incumbent John Culver (D) in the general election. …
The Star-Ledger
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
January 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Princeton, N.J., Internet Startup Moves to a Prestigious Address
BYLINE: By David SchwabIt may be a little too soon to proclaim Princeton eCom Corp., one of those budding Internet companies, a guaranteed success. But from all outward appearances, it certainly has arrived.
For five years, the company -- which is developing the technology to enable consumers to pay their bills over the Internet -- operated from cramped offices in what resembled a garden apartment complex alongside Route 206 in Montgomery. The site was just over the border from Princeton, but lacked any of its trendiness.
Last month, the company packed 150 PCs and countless boxes of documents into three tractor-trailers and moved its 150-plus employees uptown to hip new quarters taking up the second floor of a sleek office building still being finished.
Moving to keep pace with a growing business is a big step in the life of any company, but perhaps more so for this Internet startup. It has doubled its work force in just the last year and hopes to sell itself to the nation's credit card companies, utilities and banks, among others, as a key player in the high-stakes competition to get consumers to receive and pay bills over the Internet as routinely as they trade stocks via the Web. …
The building of glass and reddish stone is one of several grouped between woods and carefully landscaped grounds in an office park five miles away in the Middlesex County town of Plainsboro, just off Route 1. Princeton eCom joins neighbors like PNC Bank and Merrill Lynch and gets a prestigious address in the Princeton Forrestal Center, which is being developed by Princeton University, where the company's founders once taught. …
Time
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: Letters
PERSON OF THE CENTURY"Albert Einstein's contribution was more than a mere scientific discovery; it was a major leap forward in understanding." MARINUS J. WIJNBEEK Amersfoort, the Netherlands
It was an honor to share the century with such a person. A thousand years from now, people will still look upon Einstein with wonder. (Professor of Astrophysics) J. RICHARD GOTT Princeton, N.J. …
EINSTEIN IN ACTION: ANSWERING QUESTIONS
When Bertram Wolfe, a retired nuclear-energy physicist who lives in Monte Sereno, Calif., saw TIME's Person of the Century issue [Dec. 31], he recalled his first meeting with Albert Einstein at Jewish religious services at Princeton University in 1947. Wolfe, then a 19-year-old freshman, wrote to his parents and described his thoughts about meeting the 61-year-old genius. Extracts from Wolfe's letter:
"He is a very old-looking man with a tremendous amount of hair and a big mustache. He seems so old that one gets the feeling of physical lack of power. He spoke with a thick accent, but slow enough and clearly enough so that no one had any trouble understanding him. He explained that he had been invited to speak, but now that he was here, he wanted to know what we wanted him to speak on. The rabbi asked him to comment on religion. Einstein outlined his thoughts about God (he didn't believe in one), religion and morals. Then he suggested that we ask him questions. The meeting was supposed to last from 8 to 8:30 p.m. It was 10 p.m. when it broke up. I am firmly convinced that I spoke to one of the greatest people alive. I have never heard a man who could explain his point of view so expertly, find the core of the questioner's query and so logically and satisfyingly give an answer." …
TULSA WORLD
Copyright 2000 The Tulsa World
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: District 4 Demo hopefuls respond
The Tulsa World asked Tulsa City Council candidates to provide biographical information. The candidates also were asked to answer the following questions, with a 150-word limit:
1. If elected, what would be your goals and how would you go about accomplishing them?
2. City of Tulsa elected officials' salaries have not changed since 1990. The annual salary for a city councilor is $12,000, while the city auditor and mayor are paid $49,000 and $70,000, respectively. Do you believe those salaries should be increased? If so, by how much?
3. On what areas of city government would you like to see more emphasis? Less emphasis?
Name: Gary Watts, 52
Party: Democrat
Address: 1564 S. Gillette Ave.
Occupation: AttorneyEducation: 1977 graduate University of Tulsa law school, 1971 University of Pennsylvania and 1969 graduate Princeton University Prior political service: Tulsa School Board, 1980-1986; Tulsa finance commissioner, 1986 to 1990; Tulsa City Council, 1990 to 1998.
1. We need to support revitalization of Tulsa's residential neighborhoods by implementing existing neighborhood redevelopment plans and enabling new neighborhood planning efforts with citizen participation and emphasis on infill business and housing development. The city utility boards and council should develop rate structures that are fairer for low users. Specific neighborhood safety issues, including speeding, criminal activity and intersection safety should be addressed. I will work to achieve each goal in cooperation with neighborhood residents, businesses, the city administration and other councilors as I did while councilor for eight years, including: the redevelopment of the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood; implementation of new zoning laws to remove nuisance bars from neighborhoods, and lower trash rates for low user households.
2. I support the council-authorized review of elected officials' salary.
3. We need to support improvements for our streets and for mass transit. I do not support recent increases in City Council staffing.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Dartmouth via U-Wire
January 24, 2000HEADLINE: Residential life takes center stage at Dartmouth
BYLINE: By Rachel Osterman, The Dartmouth
SOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.When the President of Dartmouth College, James Wright, announced the Trustee Initiative on social and residential life last winter, most community members focused not on a promise for a revamped residential system, but on his pledge to fundamentally change the nature of greek life. …
Though student opinion remains varied about the proposals to create freshman-only housing units and residential clusters similar to East Wheelock, the concept of fundamental residential change is now, more than ever, a viable option.
In a broader context, this is not surprising. Across the Ivy League and among other elite northeastern colleges, many campuses have moved toward a decentralized housing system. …
The University of Pennsylvania, for example, is in the beginning stages of a college system, as is Middlebury College in Vermont. Although Cornell University, whose greek system closely mirrors Dartmouth's, has made no decision to provide cluster housing options, even Princeton University looks more like Harvard and Yale when it comes to residential life than does the current Dartmouth. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
January 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Author looks inside celebrities' pocketbooks
BYLINE: Teresa McUsicThe remnants of the holidays are over and the January bills are on their way.
As consumers begin to dig their way out of their millennium hangover, some might contemplate the finances of the rich and famous of the past.
While it might not provide great financial insight into your own money woes, looking into the pocketbooks of Lucille Ball, Albert Einstein, Babe Ruth, Warren Harding and other celebrities does provide some entertaining January reading.
Their accounts are chronicled in a new book called "Money Secrets of the Rich and Famous" (Allworth Press, 272 pages, $24.95), by Michael Reynard. …
Albert Einstein might have been the greatest mathematician in the world, but his skills were woefully undervalued until his second wife, Elsa, began to serve as his business manager. In 1932, when the couple immigrated to the United States, she got his salary of $3,000 a year from Princeton University changed to $16,000 annually for life. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: University fired up public relations within hours of dorm fire
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.Within hours of last week's dormitory fire that killed three students and injured 62, Seton Hall's public relations team was holding strategy meetings to discuss preserving the university's reputation, according to a published report.
At least one public relations firm was contacted within 24 hours of the fire to prepare a plan to deflect charges that the university had been negligent in its fire safety training, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported Sunday.
Seton Hall officials said in a news release that they hired a marketing communications firm one day after the fire to poll colleges and universities about dorm sprinkler systems. The poll, which surveyed 37 colleges in seven states at random, showed 45 percent of campus dormitories were not equipped with sprinklers.
Despite the public relations firm's hiring, Seton Hall spokeswoman Lisa E. Grider told the newspaper it's too soon to worry about the school's image when five students remain hospitalized. …
At Seton Hall, many students said they didn't leave when the alarm sounded early Wednesday because they thought it was another false alarm - there have been 17 this school year.
At Princeton University, undergraduates get fire education booklets, two seminars a year, four inspections and two fire drills, said spokesman Justin Harmon.
"They get it handed it to them," Harmon said. "But you know ... an alarm goes off and some kid is in the middle of writing a paper and he doesn't want to be bothered because he's sure it's somebody's toaster." …
AAP NEWSFEED
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: People and Places
People and Places STORIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES AROUND THE WORLDUS NUDE PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan 21 AP - Call it the "Nearly-Nude Olympics."
Princeton University students, heeding warnings from university officials that streakers would be suspended for a year, refrained from running in the nude Thursday night to celebrate the season's first snowfall - an annual event that had come to be known as the "Nude Olympics."
Only a few students clad in boxer shorts and T-shirts ventured outside into the cold to carry on a semblance of the tradition. A large contingent of campus security and emergency medical personnel kept a close watch on the campus.
There was one report of a streaker, but the individual wasn't caught, university spokesman Justin Harmon said today. No one was charged with violating the ban.
The Nude Olympics tradition began in the 1970s when students ran nude - or streaked - across the campus on the year's first snowfall. It became an annual event confined to one of the school's oldest courtyards.
University trustees called for the event's end after 10 participants were hospitalized with alcohol poisoning last year.
Proposals for an alternative to the naked run - including a tropical party, an outdoor dance and a snowball fight - were all turned down by administrators. Students decided against the only plan that was approved - to burn an administrator in effigy.
Chicago Sun-Times
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January 23, 2000HEADLINE: Success started at age 6
SOURCE: BOB BLACK
BYLINE: BY BRYAN SMITHAt 6 years old, Dennis J. Keller hawked tomatoes out of a little red wagon.
When he was in high school, he started a parakeet breeding business -- though it was to the dismay of his mother.
As a student at Princeton, he started a pizza delivery agency and became the campus' biggest plier of pepperoni.
So it shocked no one that he made a fortune as an entrepreneur, building DeVry Institute and Keller Graduate School of Management into highly successful endeavors.
When it comes to business, "his mind works in ways that (others don't)," said Bill Hart, Keller's classmate at Princeton and longtime friend. "I think it was only a question of where he would make his contribution."
Last week, his contribution was made to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The $25 million donation is among the largest gifts ever to the school. …
A graduate of Princeton University in 1963, then U. of C.'s business school in 1968, and a vice president of marketing for Bell & Howell, Keller saw the number of students hungry to learn at universities and how much they were willing to pay for an education. …
Copley News Service
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Committed or just curious, Illinoisans come to Iowa for caucuses
BYLINE: To Eckert
DATELINE: DES MOINESGeorge Pomeroy can't even vote in tonight's (Monday's) Iowa caucuses, but he's been here for three weeks, driving from one end of the state to the other for Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley.
Becky Carroll can't take part in the caucuses either. But she's been here a week, burning up half her vacation time fielding press calls at the headquarters of Vice President Al Gore, Bradley's rival for the Democratic nomination.
Both are among a pack of Illinoisans, numbering 500 or more, who have crossed the Mississippi River to volunteer for the candidates battling it out in the state that launches the presidential nomination battle. Others have come merely to observe the spectacle that puts Iowa on the political map every four years. …
On Sunday, Pomeroy was at Bradley headquarters, a ramshackle den of cubicles squeezed between a pizza parlor and a cellular phone store. Usually, he is chauffeuring stand-in campaigners for Bradley around the Iowa countryside.
That includes Bradley's wife, Ernestine, and basketball legend Bill Russell. It was basketball that first drew Pomeroy to Bradley, who was a student at Princeton University when Bradley was a standout on the court there.
''It's a long time to be here,'' Pomeroy said of his volunteer stint, ''but not when you can help someone you respect and admire so much.'' …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
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January 23, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: BERGLAND, CHARLES BEALE
BERGLAND, Charles BealeCharles Beale Bergland slipped gently away on Friday, (January 21, 2000) after a long illness. He was born on December 20, 1926, the son of William Scott Bergland and Eloise Beale Bond, in Wilmington, DE. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and attended Princeton University, where he was a member of the Ivy Club. …
The New York Times
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Power in the Polls: Colleges Bolster Images
BYLINE: By IVER PETERSON
IT was 1971, and Rutgers University -- wedged between New York University and Columbia to the north and Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania to the south -- wanted to make a statement. How could New Jersey's state university gain national attention, and a modicum of respect?
What Rutgers came up with -- and what half a dozen other colleges and universities in New York and Connecticut have also done -- was to begin a public opinion polling operation.
Today, such endeavors are thriving at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie; Quinnipiac College, in Connecticut; the University of Connecticut, and Siena College, outside Albany. Yet on Long Island, home to C. W. Post, Adelphi, Hofstra and the State University at Stony Brook, campus polling operations have yet to catch on, though not for lack of trying. …
The Plain Dealer
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January 23, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: 'ALLY' CREATOR HITS SOME ROAD BUMPS
BYLINE: By MARK DAWIDZIAK; PLAIN DEALER TELEVISION AND RADIO CRITIC
DATELINE: LOS ANGELESHe had supplanted his one-time mentor, Steven Bochco, as the most powerful, prolific and influential writer-producer in television. Any lingering doubts about this were swept away last September when shows created by David E. Kelley claimed the Emmys for both best drama (ABC's "The Practice") and best comedy (Fox's "Ally McBeal").
Clutching a golden statuette in each hand, the former Boston lawyer stood at the pinnacle of the TV world that night. A third Kelley series, "Chicago Hope," was starting its sixth season on CBS. He had movie studios pelting him with offers. And helping him tote those shimmering Emmys home was his glamorous wife, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Things couldn't get any better than this. And they didn't. Setbacks rocked Kelley's world throughout the fall, leaving his golden-boy image looking a little tarnished.
Mauled by critics, Kelley's rookie series about private investigators, "Snoops," was canceled by ABC after less than three months on the air. Ignored by viewers, his half-hour repackaging of "Ally McBeal," titled "Ally," was quickly axed by Fox, proving there was a limit to McBeal appeal. And two ill-advised forays on the big screen, "Lake Placid" and "Mystery, Alaska," were bombs. …
The 1979 Princeton University graduate received his law degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1983. He made the jump from Beantown lawyer to Tinseltown writer in 1986, when Bochco invited him to join the "L.A. Law" team. …
Sacramento Bee
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: HEALTH CARE PROPOSALS COMPARED
Al Gore and Bill Bradley share the goal of health coverage for all Americans but disagree on how to get there, and how rapidly.
Bradley: A more ambitious plan
Bradley would move quickly to expand insurance by requiring all parents to cover their children. He would move low-income families out of the federal government's Medicaid program by offering them subsidies to buy private health insurance. Bradley claims his plan would cover 85 percent of the 11 million children currently uninsured. He also proposes tax credits for individuals and limited drug coverage for seniors, who would continue to receive Medicare benefits. Gore has attacked this plan, which has a price tag Bradley puts at $550 billion to $600 billion over 10 years, as reckless, too costly and unworkable. *
Health economists say:
Bradley's more ambitious plan relies on the private market, which conservative economists believe could promote efficiency and reduce costs. More liberal experts praise the plan for setting a national goal of covering all Americans but fault it for relying on private insurance markets, which they believe have failed to control costs or promote equitable distribution of benefits. Economists across the political spectrum have said Bradley's cost estimates are likely too low to accomplish his goals. …
Sources: The Gore and Bradley campaigns, Princeton University Professor Uwe Reinhardt, the Heritage Foundation's Jim Frogue, the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Sacramento Bee
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: GORE, BRADLEY FIERCELY DEBATE MODEST HEALTH PLANS
BYLINE: Tom Hamburger Bee Washington Bureau
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWith polls showing health care among the top concerns of Democratic voters, it's not surprising that the party's two presidential contenders are discussing how best to expand coverage to the uninsured.
The surprise lies in the ferocity of their exchanges.
"He's only tinkering around the edges," growls Bill Bradley of Vice President Al Gore's plan to gradually expand existing federal health insurance programs.
Gore counters that Bradley's plan to subsidize private insurance coverage is reckless, endangers long-standing federal programs and will require tax increases, spending cuts or, worse, more out-of-pocket expenditures for American families.
Both candidates' criticisms have some merit. But the tenor of the exchange belies a significant reality: Their proposals are modest when compared with the size of the problem and past proposals made by both parties. …
Bradley disputes those figures, but even those whom Bradley consulted with, like Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt, think Bradley may have underestimated the cost.
Gore's plan would cost only about $312 billion over 10 years to make what Reinhardt calls "small but not trivial" additions to the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance programs. The expansion would cover an additional 12 million to 15 million citizens, Gore claims. Bradley's more expensive proposal would cover at least twice that number.
Reinhardt thinks Gore's more modest plan might be "better because it is politically feasible."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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January 23, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: BRADLEY'S SENATE RECORD REFLECTS THE CAUTION HE ATTACKS AS GORE'S WEAKNESS
BYLINE: Jon Sawyer; Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief
DATELINE: WASHINGTON* And his writings reveal a man who is emotional and open about his personal beliefs, belying his image as an aloof patrician.
An examination of Bill Bradley's career in the Senate and as a writer suggests a person who is not nearly so bold or single-minded in focus as the leader he portrays himself to be on the campaign trail -- but also an individual who is far more candid and emotional in his opinions than the aloof patrician he is sometimes caricatured as being today.
As a presidential candidate, Bradley scores Vice President Al Gore for sticking to small, safe incrementalism on issues like health care reform. But back in 1994, when Gore was pushing Bill Clinton's ambitious plan for mandatory national health insurance, Bradley opted for slow and incremental -- pushing a moderate alternative that would have delayed mandatory coverage for nearly a decade. …
Although reluctant to talk about his religion now, Bradley faced the subject head-on in his book. There, he provides a poignant description of his own religious journey, from the strict Presbyterianism of his youth in Crystal City to the high-school infatuation with the Fellowship for Christian Athletes to the emotional crisis of his freshman year at Princeton University when "I had convinced myself that this was my 'personal experience' with Jesus. I had 'converted' to Christianity." …
Bradley's role in formal organized religion came to an end at a church in Oxford, England, during his first year as a Rhodes Scholar. "The minister preached a sermon that blatantly defended white Rhodesian power," he writes. "I walked out, never to return." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Survey: N.J. colleges reluctant to add sprinklers due to cost
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.Many New Jersey colleges and universities have not added sprinklers to their buildings because of the cost.
In the wake of Wednesday's fire at a Seton Hall freshman dormitory where three students died, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported in Saturday's editions that retrofitting older buildings with sprinklers is a cost that most were reluctant to incur.
"Retrofitting is very difficult to sell because building owners and the real estate interests are a powerful lobby and they object to the costs," said John A. Viniello, president of the National Fire Sprinkler Association, a trade group based in Patterson, N.Y.
For example, out of the 12 residence halls at the College of New Jersey, two did not have sprinklers. At Montclair State University, four of the seven residence halls did not have sprinklers.
At Princeton University, only seven of the school's 41 residences had sprinklers.
Justin Harmon, a spokesman for Princeton University, said the school has begun a major dormitory renovation, aimed at gutting and upgrading every dorm on campus to include sprinklers as required by the state fire code.
One 240-bed dormitory is under construction this year and will get sprinklers; another will get sprinklers in 2001.
Harmon said when the state placed a fire suppression requirement into their code around 1988, Princeton estimated it would cost $20 million to retrofit their older buildings with sprinklers.
"It's not easy to retrofit them," Harmon said. "It's a huge price tag and we, like others, have taken the approach that we're going to maintain safety with the current smoke detector program, and that we'll bring everything up to code but we will do it in a gradual way."
Princeton's dormitories, most of which were built in the early 20th century, are equipped with smoke detectors instead of pull alarms and extinguishers. …
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.)
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Lancaster County Bar members honored for 50 years of service
Senior Judge Wilson Bucher received a standing ovation and enthusiastic applause Friday in recognition of the 50th anniversary of his admission to the Lancaster County Bar.
He was honored during a Lancaster County Court and Lancaster Bar Association ceremony in the Lancaster County Courthouse where 21 new members of the association were presented to the court. …
The attorneys, their schools and affiliations are:
Rodney S. Fluck, Princeton University and Dickinson, Kegel, Kelin, Almy & Grimm; Anita J. Hanna, Eckerd College and Stetson University College of Law, Gibbel, Kraybill & Hess; Matthew L. Homsher, PSU and Roger Williams Law School, Dell & Associates. …
The Houston Chronicle
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: The Church Without Walls;
HOUSTON PASTOR BRIDGES STYLES TO BUILD MEGACHURCH
SOURCE: Staff
BYLINE: RICHARD VARA, Houston Chronicle Religion WriterSWEAT beads broke on the Rev. Ralph Douglas West's forehead as he brought 4,000 excited, applauding worshipers of the Church Without Walls to their feet.
West was concluding a high-powered, 30-minute sermon in the finest African-American preaching tradition, exhorting his congregants at the top of his voice and bringing them to a spiritual fever pitch. That preaching style gained him entry into Morehouse College's Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers in 1998.
"I am fixing to sit down, but let me tell you what to do," West yelled in his sermon on idolatry, to the responding waves of "Amen!" and "Preach on!" from his flock. "Go get the job! Get the promotion! Make the money! Get the house! Buy the clothes! Get the jewelry! God don't care anything about that as long as you don't make that represent who he is! …
West became pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Brookshire for 18 pleasant months. Many of his congregants were faculty members at nearby Prairie View A&M University and supported West's summer leaves for courses at Princeton University. …
The New York Times
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: A Rebel Flag Solution
To the Editor:There is a simple solution to the Confederate flag problem (news article, Jan. 19). Keep the battle flag flying over the South Carolina Statehouse, since many whites attribute positive symbolism to it, but fly next to it, displayed with equal prominence, a specially designed civil rights flag commemorating the abolitionist and civil rights movements.
The likenesses of Frederick Douglass, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the South Carolina-born Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, who spoke on behalf of abolition, could constitute the heart of such a display.
The two flags flying side by side would serve as a powerful symbol of reconciliation -- between blacks and whites, between Old South and New, between those who sing "We Shall Overcome" and those who stand for "Dixie."
RUSS NIELI
Princeton, N.J., Jan. 20, 2000
The writer is a lecturer in politics at Princeton University.
News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: THE INSIDE SCOOP
BYLINE: Staff writers Joby Nahas, Eric Dyer, Tim Thornton, Stan; Swofford and Parker Lee Nash contributed to Inside Scoop.
Capitol Hill babe
Baby news from Washington: The state's new millionaire senator, who made his fortune trying personal injury cases, and his 50-year-old wife are expecting their fourth child in June.
John and Elizabeth Edwards have a 21-month-old daughter, Emma Claire, and a 17-year-old daughter, Kate, who plans to attend Princeton University in the fall. The Edwards' son, Wade, was 16 when he died in a car accident four years ago.
The Edwards' baby will get a head start in the world from the family's new $2.2 million D.C. mansion, just off ''Embassy Row'' and around the corner from Al Gore's secluded compound. …
The Washington Post
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: FDA Halts Experiments On Genes at University; Probe of Teen's Death Uncovers Deficiencies
BYLINE: Rick Weiss; Deborah Nelson, Washington Post Staff WritersThe federal government yesterday halted all human gene therapy experiments involving a prominent researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, saying an investigation into the September death of a teenager there found the school's prestigious program in serious disarray.
Investigators at the Food and Drug Administration said they found numerous violations of federal research regulations and shortcomings in the protection of human subjects at Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, which is led by researcher James M. Wilson.
Penn could not provide investigators with proof that any of the volunteers in the fatal study had been eligible to participate or had been adequately warned of the risks of the research, FDA officials said. They also said Penn had not properly monitored the health of volunteers after the experiment began, and lost track of several lots of the experimental genes that had been infused into patients' livers.
The findings go beyond FDA revelations in December that the Penn researchers had not stopped the experiment as required after four successive volunteers suffered serious side effects, then allowed 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger into the study even though he was not healthy enough to qualify. Gelsinger died from the treatment Sept. 17, in what is believed to be the first death caused directly by gene therapy. …
"If Gelsinger was never told that four people before him had Grade 3 [serious] toxicities and that monkeys had been killed by this kind of treatment, then you have to ask, did he really give informed consent or did he just give consent?" asked Leon Rosenberg, a geneticist at Princeton University who pioneered research on Gelsinger's disease.Staff researcher Alice Crites contributed to this report
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 21, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Triathlete fights against cancer and for a spot on Olympic team
BYLINE: By LAURA VOZZELLA, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: LINCOLN, Mass.Triathlete Karen Smyers is in the fight of her life. Two fights, in fact.
She's trying to win a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. At the same time, she's battling thyroid cancer.
A month after undergoing six hours of surgery, she is working out three hours a day. With permission from her doctors, she is putting off further treatment so she can better train for the Olympic trials in April and May.
Smyers hopes to compete in the 2000 Olympics, the first time the triathlon will be included in the games as a medal sport. At 38 years old, Smyers figures this is her only chance to go to the Olympics.
"If this is my last shot, I've got to go for it," she said. …
A swimmer at Princeton University, Smyers started competing in triathlons after she graduated and began work at a Boston computer company. She was a strong amateur, but she blossomed into an international standout when the computer company faltered and her work hours were cut in half. …
Business Wire
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January 21, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Four New Patents Issued In UDC'S Organic Light Emitter Project
DATELINE: EWING, N.J., Jan. 21, 2000Patents Cover Fabrication Methods Using Ink Jet Printing, Photolithography, and Increased Efficiency of OLED Devices
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ: PANL; PHLX: PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today that it's research partners, Princeton University and the University of Southern California, received four new patents for the Organic Light Emitter Project, bringing the total number of US patents issued in the project to 22.
UDC has the exclusive worldwide license to all patents issued in the Project.
"These patents cover methods of fabricating OLED devices using ink jet printing and photolithography, as well as methods to increase the efficiency of OLED devices. Said Steven V. Abramson, President and Chief Operating Officer of UDC. The 22 patents issued and more than 45 patents pending in the United States, and additional patents pending worldwide, give us a very strong innovative position in the emerging OLED marketplace." …
UDC has been developing Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) technology with Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC) since 1994. The partnership is committed to the innovative research and commercialization of this proprietary OLED technology for applications such as flat panel displays, lasers, and light generating devices. …
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
Copyright 2000 The Indianapolis Star
January 21, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Politics expert watches election in Taiwan closely/ Professor will monitor voting, write a report after another visit to his island homeland.
BYLINE: DANA KNIGHT; STAFF WRITERFRANKLIN, Ind. -- When Franklin College Professor Yu-long Ling talks politics, his voice is heard around the world.
The American political process is Ling's forte in the classroom.
But in a country thousands of miles away, it's his scholarly insight into Taiwanese politics that resounds.
Ling, 60, returned this week from a 14-day excursion to Taiwan, where he mingled with the country's five presidential candidates and learned the ins and outs of their platforms.
When election day comes in March, Ling again will be in Taiwan, watching from behind the scenes. …
Ling was born in mainland China and raised in Taiwan.
He graduated from Soochow University, a law school at Taipei, then left Taiwan to study in America.
He studied at Princeton University in 1965, the same time current American presidential hopeful Bill Bradley attended the college.
"I didn't really know him. He was a basketball star . . . " Ling said.
After Princeton, Ling attended Indiana University and earned a doctorate in law. …
The New York Times
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January 21, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Questions About Fire Safety After Deaths at Seton Hall
BYLINE: By DAN BARRY and ROBERT HANLEY
DATELINE: SOUTH ORANGE, N.J., Jan. 20Seton Hall University administrators defended their fire safety procedures today as investigators continued to search for the cause of the dormitory fire that killed three freshmen and injured dozens more early Wednesday.
On the Roman Catholic university's campus here, questions swirled with the gently falling snow: How did the fire in Boland Hall start? Why have false fire alarms plagued the dormitory for so many years? Why doesn't the dormitory have a sprinkler system? Why weren't there fire drills at Boland Hall?
Lisa Grider, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall, acknowledged today that there had been no fire drills at Boland, at least during this academic year. But she said the university's lawyer, Katherine Kiernan, had assured her that the university had been in compliance with state fire safety laws. In addition, resident assistants are taught how to evacuate the dormitories, she said. …
At Felician College in Lodi, N.J., administrators have been considering installing sprinklers in its Milton Court dormitory, which houses 50 students. But a college spokeswoman, Nancy Haidock, said the Seton Hall fire would probably expedite the decision-making process. Justin Harmon, a spokesman for Princeton University, said that some of its older dormitories did not have sprinklers, but added that the university had a policy of installing them whenever buildings were renovated. …
The Times-Picayune
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January 21, 2000 FridayHEADLINE: MANDELA PLANS VISIT TO BATON ROUGE AREA;
SOUTHERN, LSU TO GIVE HONORARY DOCTORATES
BYLINE: By Ed Anderson Capital bureau
DATELINE: BATON ROUGEFormer South African President Nelson Mandela will visit Baton Rouge in March to receive honorary doctorates from Louisiana State University and Southern University, officials of the two schools said Thursday.
Mandela, an internationally acclaimed civil rights activist and the first black man to head the South African government, will visit March 1-3 and will receive the honorary degrees at a fund-raising banquet March 2 at 7 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel.
Both Southern and LSU officials are expected to approve the honorary degrees in the next few days, said Leon Tarver II, president of the Southern University system. …
Tarver said Mandela will be elsewhere in the United States a few days before his trip to the South and is expected to be honored with a degree by Princeton University. …
OBITUARIES
The New York Times
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January 27, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
NELSON, RICHARD H.NELSON-Richard H.., 60, died on Monday, January 24, 2000, at his home in the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in Wellington, FL. Mr. Nelson was the President, CEO and Director of US Energy Systems, Inc. He received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1961. The same year, he went to work in Washington, D.C., as special assistant to Bill Moyers, deputy director of the Peace Corps. …
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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January 26, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Obituaries
SARASOTA COUNTYJ. Baird Atwood
J. Baird Atwood, 75, Englewood, died Jan. 25, 2000.
He was born Aug. 1, 1924, in Pittsburgh and came to Englewood a year ago from Deep Creek Lake, Md. He had been a winter resident of Englewood since 1990.
He earned his bachelor's degree in 1950 from Princeton University. He retired in 1986 after more than 36 years as vice president of human resources for Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II, serving as a P-47 fighter pilot. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Wall Street media analyst J. Kendrick Noble Jr., 71
DATELINE: RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif.J. Kendrick Noble Jr., a Wall Street analyst known for his insight on the publishing industry, has died. He was 71.
Noble died early Saturday of a heart attack at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, said his daughter, Anne Noble.
Noble was born in New York in 1928 and attended Princeton University before graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Before his career on Wall Street, Noble, who was often looked to for his expertise in media properties, was a director at Noble & Noble Publishers Inc. …
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA)
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January 24, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: Robert Buckler
POWNAL, Vt. -- Robert E. Buckler, 70, of Pownal, Vt. and formerly of Cohasset, a retired supply clerk, died Friday at home.
He worked for the Princeton University Buildings and Grounds Department for 30 years. He retired in 1994. …
The Associated Press
State & Local WireJanuary 22, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: U.S. District Judge D. Brook Bartlett dead at 62
DATELINE: KANSAS CITY, Mo.U.S. District Judge D. Brook Bartlett, chief federal judge for Missouri's Western District, has died of cancer at the age of 62.
His wife, Karen Iverson, said the judge died at their home at 1:10 p.m. Friday. She said he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in January 1997, with the cancer going into remission after he received bone marrow transplants.
The symptoms returned in September, and the judge was getting ready for another transplant, but his condition deteriorated. After being hospitalized recently for a variety of problems, he was brought back home Tuesday night when it became clear treatment options were limited, his wife said. …
Bartlett, a Kansas City native, was appointed to the federal bench in 1981 by President Reagan and he became chief judge in 1995. He was a graduate of Princeton University and earned his law degree from Stanford. …
The New York Times
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January 22, 2000, SaturdayNAME: Clifford Truesdell
HEADLINE: Clifford Truesdell, 80, Master Of 2 Disciplines of Mechanics
BYLINE: By SARA ROBINSONClifford Truesdell, a mathematician and historian of mathematics who also was an authority on European art and culture, died on Jan. 14. in Baltimore. He was 80 and lived in Baltimore.
Dr. Truesdell was best known for developing the mathematical underpinnings of continuum mechanics, work that started in the 1960's and continued for the rest of his life. Continuum mechanics includes the study of elasticity, the bending of beams and bridges as well as the vibrations of drums, and the study of fluids, including water, air and more exotic forms like liquid crystals, which are found in laptop displays.
More broadly, Dr. Truesdell helped popularize rational mechanics, a field devoted to developing a mathematical framework for mechanics as broadly defined to include mechanical systems like robotics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. …
Turning to science in college, Dr. Truesdell did his undergraduate and master's work at the California Institute of Technology, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1943. From 1944 to 1950 he was a member of the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chief of the theoretical mechanics subdivision of the United States Naval Ordinance Laboratory and head of the theoretical mechanics section at the Naval Research Laboratory. …
Los Angeles Times
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January 21, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: ROBERT WILSON; PHYSICIST DESIGNED FERMI ACCELERATOR
BYLINE: MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITERRobert Rathbun Wilson, a nuclear physicist active in the Manhattan Project who later designed and directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago, has died. He was 85.
Wilson, a UC Berkeley-trained nuclear physicist who had taught for much of his career at Cornell University, died Sunday in Ithaca, N.Y., of complications from a stroke he suffered last year.
A wunderkind who helped Enrico Fermi and others develop the atomic bomb and later had a distinguished teaching career, Wilson probably will go down in history as not only the expert on particle accelerators, but also as the man who built Fermilab cheaply and aesthetically. …
Born in Frontier, Wyo., Wilson taught, in addition to Cornell, at the University of Chicago, Columbia and Princeton universities. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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January 21, 2000, FridayOBITUARY
HEADLINE: ARTHUR TUDEN;POPULAR PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
BYLINE: LAWRENCE WALSH, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITERProfessor Arthur Tuden would stride into the large lecture room at the University of Pittsburgh at the beginning of each semester, boom a cheery "OK charming people" greeting to about 300 students and enthusiastically introduce them to the subject of cultural anthropology.
Attired in his trademark turtleneck and corduroy pants, and imbued with boundless energy, he would capture the students' attention with an anecdote-laden overview of what they were going to learn during the next few months.
"It's a lot of work to educate 300 students in an entertaining way, but he did it semester after semester," said Richard Scaglion, chairman of the university's anthropology department. …
Dr. Tuden, one of the founding members of the anthropology department, a prolific writer and dedicated peace activist, died Wednesday of pancreatic and liver cancer at his home in Squirrel Hill. He was 73. …
He started his teaching career at Princeton University in 1955. In 1958, he was hired as a research associate at Pitt's Administrative Science Center. …
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* J. KENDRICK NOBLE JR.; MEDIA BUSINESS ANALYSTJ. Kendrick Noble Jr., 71, a Wall Street analyst known for his insight on the news media and publishing industries. A New York City native, Noble attended Princeton University before graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy.
He began his career as a director at Noble & Noble Publishers Inc., the New York textbook publishing company founded by his grandfather, G. Clifford Noble, and his father, J. Kendrick Noble Sr. He switched to advising investors about publishing industry stocks, becoming senior media analyst for Paine Webber Inc. Noble was annually ranked as a member of Institutional Investor magazine's "All American Research Team" from its inception in 1972 through 1990. In addition to investors, major news reporters consulted Noble, quoting his views in their stories and telecasts about various media mergers, downsizing and other major trends. In 1991, Noble founded Noble Consultants, a private firm focused on strategic planning for media companies. On Saturday in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., of a heart attack.