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February 16, 2000
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HIGHLIGHTS• The tuition tamers - after years of sharp increases, some colleges are trying to ease Museum;
• An educator Shines at the planetarium
• Breakthrough seen in flat-screen computer problems
OTHER HEADLINES• Touche; fencing helps two rumson sisters score in competitions and in life
• President Clinton names Alice A. Kelikian to the commission for the preservation of America's heritage abroad
• Kansas state university four k-state truman scholarship nominees go on for interviews
• Design notebook america's design legacy … going, going, going
• Reisner to replace saunders as presiding chancery judge
• Former prof Pradhan seeks resolution from Texas a
• Out of Africa: Ugonna Onyekwe makes a name for himself
• Embattled hospital president leaves post
• Oil technology can deliver a clean environment: ExxonMobil
• Intel targets net infrastructure with appliances, other products
• FSB keeps 'traitorous' scholar jailed
• Leon E. Rosenberg, former head of research at bms, joins board of directors of novalon pharmaceutical corporation
• Princeton Health Commission proposes public smoking ban
• The light at the end of fiber-optics deal low-key investor Gerhard Andlinger turns transformation of tiny Netoptix into a bonanza
• Truesan networks appoints dr. Ed Zschau to the board of directors
• Adviser builds Bush's policy platforms: Josh Bolten's work has helped rebut criticism of the republican hopeful
• Facing a challenge; new technology another obstacle for convergys vp
• Wild, wild web still holds plenty of perils
• Thomas Crow to lead Getty Research Institute
• How prosperity is reshaping the American economy
• Taft shows he's up to the job on foreign grounds
• Queen Noor dines with student club: royal visit in keeping with group's mission
• Uf professor predicts more f schools, more vouchers
• The wet and wild future of computers
• As house candidate, Pappas is vocal about his singing
• Regional week in review
• Who's on the move locally?
• Mutual spotlight; top of field is home for Pilgrim smallcap
• Ottawa team answers greek invitational call: the greek hockey league celebrates its 25-year anniversary by sending 17 skaters to play in
• On the trail of "Mr. Death' filmmaker's goal is to document the eccentrics among us
• Relief for Brooke as stalker jailed
• Russian reactor project troubled; Moscow wants to halt conversion to civilian use
• City: after the hype over the internet bombing it's almost a relief to get back to the real thing . . . New York diary
• Former NAACP official an unlikely defender of confederate flag
• Princeton proposes sweeping smoking ban
• Red Bank's Hession making her own waves
• Irish children; programs to teach tolerance promote peace
• Seeking lessons for development in a global economy
• Black history month; 1808
• Grow your own
• Ditherer's dilemma
• Princeton basketball team in accident en route to game
• Shooting it out on the wild, wild web
• Nashville doctor gets Princeton football honor
OBITUARIES• Theodore von laue, 83, former ucr professor
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith dies at 83; scholar of religious pluralism
• Frederic Lord; pioneer in testing
HIGHLIGHTS
Time
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February 14, 2000HEADLINE: The Tuition Tamers - After years of sharp increases, some colleges are trying to ease the burden on middle-class families
BYLINE: Flora Tartakovsky, Reported by Ann Blackman/WashingtonThese have been the best of times for many of the nation's top universities--and the worst of times for middle-income families struggling to afford them. Thanks to a robust stock market, school endowments have ballooned. Yet few institutions have held down steep increases in tuition. But that may be changing.
Williams College, a prestigious liberal-arts school in Massachusetts, announced last month that for the first time in 46 years, its tuition would remain steady at $31,520. Last week students at Princeton University learned that their annual $31,599 tuition, room and board will rise just 3.3%--the smallest hike in 30 years. …
Williams held its tuition flat by paying more of its bills with the investment profits on its $1.1 billion endowment and with contributions from alumni. But college officials who oppose using endowments to freeze tuition say the students most vulnerable to hikes are not affected by them. "If we were to keep tuition constant, would it change the situation here for students in need?" asks Princeton president Harold Shapiro. "No, because their tuition is fully covered." The school plans to boost scholarships to needy students this year as much as $2,250 a person. …
The New York Times
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February 13, 2000, SundayNAME: Neil de Grasse Tyson
HEADLINE: MUSEUM; An Educator Shines At the Planetarium
BYLINE: By LESLIE KANDELLIF any students from the Astrophysics 203 class at Princeton University had sneaked into last week's preview of New York's renovated Hayden Planeterium, they would have seen their professor, Neil de Grasse Tyson, fielding questions from a clutch of people.
Standing by the Willamette meteorite -- the only stone left unturned in the total revamping -- Dr. Tyson, the planetarium director, conducted an impromptu class about the centerpiece of the Natural History Museum's new Rose Center for Earth and Space, which is to open this week.
Dr. Tyson, a visiting researcher and associate professor at Princeton, where he also did post-doctoral study, turns almost every encounter into an educational experience, expounding passionately to any and all.
Astrophysics is the application of the principles of physics to the study of what is outside the earth. But its practitioners tend to be lively and showy types, in contrast to their relatively staid counterparts in other branches of physics.
The title of Dr. Tyson's popular Princeton course, which has no prerequisites, is "Astrophysics 203: The Universe, for Non-Science Majors." It offers students the opportunity to explore the life and death of stars, relativity, black holes, the Big Bang and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.
In opposition to a new theory that life may be unique to our universe, Dr. Tyson said he believed that life was out there, provided one is not too small-minded about the definition of life.
"Don't presuppose that it is humanoid, like science fiction, or has intelligence, or sci-fi alien technology," he said at the planetarium preview.
"We have life forms on earth that are as strange as science fiction," he said, describing an "armless, legless creature that swallows things five times the size of its head -- it's a snake." …
Agence France Presse
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February 16, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Breakthrough seen in flat-screen computer problems
DATELINE: PARIS, Feb 16American scientists believe they have made a giant's stride towards boosting the efficiency of organic semiconductors, the materials that offer the prospect of flat and even flexible computer and TV screens.
The semiconductors comprise minute light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made up of aluminium or silicon compounds, sandwiched between conductive materials such as magnesium.
The LEDs have to generate the primary optical colours of red, green and blue, the basis for all other tints.
When electricity passes through the sandwich, it generates an excited electrical state called an exciton.
Part of this energy is emitted as fluorescent light.
However, the process is not very efficient. Only 25 percent of the exciton's energy is converted into light -- meaning, in short, that a portable computer that used organic semiconductors would exhaust its batteries very quickly.
Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, writing in Thursday's issue of the British weekly journal Nature, say they have found a way to harness the wasted 75 percent.
Their approach is to add phosphorescent compounds to one of the layers in the LED. This efficiently harvests the energy imparted by the voltage, and hands it on in turn to excite the diode's fluorescent material.
The phosphorescent intermediary has been used successfully on red LEDs, yielding efficiency "as high as 100 percent," the authors write. …
OTHER HEADLINES
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 17, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Touche; Fencing helps two Rumson sisters score in competitions and in life<A6>
BYLINE: PAULA VITAKIS; Staff WriterIT'S not the typical game most parents imagine their daughters playing.
But when Edward and Patricia DeFabio, Rumson, wanted to help get their young girls involved in a sport, Mr. DeFabio pointed them toward fencing.
"It was an individual sport I thought they would enjoy," said DeFabio, a dentist whose practice is located in Colts Neck. "I like the commitment you have to make to do well."
He began taking his daughters, Erica, 17, and Monica, 16, to a club in North Jersey six years ago. While kids their age were kicking around a soccer ball, the sisters were picking up their swords and working toward competing on the Junior Olympic level. …
Monica is working toward attending Princeton or the University of Pennsylvania so she can continue fencing on the collegiate level. She said she finds the training helps in other parts of her life.
"Even when you take tests, you have to be positive and be focused." …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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February 17, 2000HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary - President Clinton names Alice A. Kelikian to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
The President today announced his intent to appoint Alice A. Kelikian as a member of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
Ms. Alice A. Kelikian, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has had a long career in academia.
She has served as an Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University since 1988. She received an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a D.Phil. degree from Oxford University in England. In addition, Ms. Kelikian has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the European University Institute in Italy.
The purpose of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad is to identify and publish a list of those cemeteries, monuments, and historic buildings located abroad which are associated with the foreign heritage of U.S. citizens from eastern and central Europe. The Commission encourages the preservation of such cemeteries, monuments, and historic sites and buildings by gaining assurances of protection, in cooperation with the Department of State, from foreign governments.
M2 PRESSWIRE
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February 17, 2000HEADLINE: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Four K-State Truman Scholarship nominees go on for interviews
DATELINE: MANHATTANFour Kansas State University students have been invited to participate in the interview stage of the competition for $30,000 Harry S. Truman scholarships. …
Truman scholarships can be used the senior year and for graduate studies. Scholars are selected primarily on the basis of leadership potential, including honesty, vision, sensitivity and communications skills; commitment to a career in public service; intellectual strength, analytical ability, and prospects of performing well in graduate school; and likelihood of "making a difference" in public service.
K-State is first in the nation among public universities in producing Truman Scholars since the program began in 1977 - 23 and one alternate. The Truman Foundation reports that only Yale University, Stanford University, Duke University, Harvard University, Radcliffe College and Princeton University, which are all private schools, have had more. …
The New York Times
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February 17, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: DESIGN NOTEBOOK America's Design Legacy … Going, Going, Going
BYLINE: By JULIE V. IOVINEIN London, Washington and, most recently, New York, attendance at the traveling exhibition on Charles and Ray Eames, the postwar design mavericks, broke museum records. But people filing by to marvel at their plywood molding experiments -- prototypes that didn't cut it and (eureka!) ones that did -- were unaware that nearly every major American institution had passed up the chance to buy the Eameses' legacy of furniture invention. …
THE architect Michael Graves has not been approached by the institutions that are known for going after archives. "The usual suspects don't go after me," said Mr. Graves, whose Tuscan watercolors at the Max Protetch Gallery in 1979 set off the craze for collecting architectural renderings. "My 15 minutes are over. I'm a dinosaur."
His archive is now "in a warehouse somewhere out on Route 1" in New Jersey, said Mr. Graves, who hopes to make his own home an archive open to the public, and might possibly donate it to Princeton University. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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February 17, 2000, THURSDAYHEADLINE: REISNER TO REPLACE SAUNDERS AS PRESIDINGCHANCERY JUDGE
BYLINE: MITCHEL MADDUX, Staff WriterSusan L. Reisner has been selected as the presiding chancery judge of state Superior Court in Paterson and is scheduled to replace retiring Judge Amos C. Saunders on March 1, state judiciary officials said Wednesday.
Reisner is a Superior Court judge currently assigned to the civil division of Superior Court in Paterson. …
She completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University and graduated in 1978 from Rutgers Law School. During 1988-93, she served as a deputy attorney general in the state Attorney General's Office. …
University Wire
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February 17, 2000HEADLINE: Former prof Pradhan seeks resolution from Texas A
BYLINE: From Staff Reports, The Battalion
DATELINE: College Station, TexasFormer Texas A&M endowed professor Dhiraj Pradhan claims Texas A&M still holds on to some of the same racial grudges that he believes to be part of the prejudiced history in the state of Texas.
"Texas A&M had me jailed on trumped-up charges of using the copy machine," Pradhan said. "Bizarre it may sound -- but this is the old South. They don't like me, so they sent me to jail."
Pradhan, who at one time was the highest-paid computer science professor at A&M, said although it has been years since original allegations were brought against him by the University, his case remains unsettled and A&M refuses to offer any kind of compromise. …
Pradhan said two other University professors -- Dr. Richard Wysk and Dr. Ignatio Rodriguez -- felt it was imperative to resign from their positions at A&M and continue their work elsewhere. …
Rodriguez is employed by Princeton University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Rodriguez said since he left A&M, he does not care to comment on what was still taking place here. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 16, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Out of Africa: Ugonna Onyekwe makes a name for himself
BYLINE: By JIM O'CONNELL, AP Basketball Writer
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Check the Penn roster and the name that jumps out is Michael Jordan. The senior guard is the Quakers' leading scorer and even wears the same uniform number as the NBA great.
After Tuesday night's 55-46 victory over Princeton that gave Penn control of the Ivy League race, the name heard more than any other was Ugonna Onyekwe.
The freshman forward had 12 points, six rebounds and four blocks as well as the game's highlight clip - a 360-degree dunk. …
Onyekwe went on a recruiting visit to Princeton but chose Penn. He discussed his choice while trying to hide behind his back two foam rubber Princeton sticks the Tigers fans had been waving all game. They were his souvenirs from his first appearance in the rivalry that dates to 1903.
"I felt more comfortable with Penn being in the city. I like that environment," he said. "And with the academics you can't go wrong, and it has the basketball tradition." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 16, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Embattled hospital president leaves post
DATELINE: TAMPA, Fla.The controversial president of Tampa General Hospital was ushered out of his job Wednesday amid financial troubles that some fear could ruin the venerable city institution.
Bruce Siegel, a Princeton University-educated doctor who had once headed up New York City's public hospitals, lasted less than four years as the head of Tampa General.
Siegel, 39, was replaced by Ronald Hytoff, 54, the hospital's chief operating officer.
Siegel leaves Tampa General with severe financial problems. Since becoming a private, nonprofit institution in 1997 it has lost more than $29 million. …
ASIA PULSE
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February 16, 2000HEADLINE: OIL TECHNOLOGY CAN DELIVER A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT: EXXONMOBIL
IRVING, Texas, Feb 15 PRNewswire-AsiaNet - ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Chairman Lee Raymond and Vice Chairman Lou Noto predicted today that oil industry technology can and will help deliver both the economic progress and a clean, safe environment demanded by an inter-dependent world population.
Addressing separate audiences in London and Tokyo, the executives expressed optimism that the new technology employed today -- and future advances just around the corner -- will continue to produce an amazing array of cleaner and more efficient fuels at prices that can sustain world economic growth. …
Lou Noto, speaking in Tokyo before the Institute of Energy Economics' Symposium on Pacific Energy Conservation, further emphasized Raymond's comments, stating that the best approach to the global climate change issue is one that recognizes both the importance of sustaining economic growth and improving the environment.
Noto said economic studies support that conclusion. He cited a study at Princeton University that found after an initial decline, a nation's environment improved as its economy grew. "In most cases, the turning point occurs before a country reaches annual per capita income of approximately $12,000 -- about the level in Taiwan." …
InfoWorld Daily News
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February 16, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Intel targets Net infrastructure with appliances, other products
BYLINE: By Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld.comPALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Intel will announce here Wednesday at its developer conference the Intel NetStructure brand and the first seven NetStructure Internet infrastructure appliances and communications products.
Products include a Web caching appliance, load balancing equipment, a security authentication accelerator, as well as high-speed switching devices, officials said.
The NetStructure brand fits under the umbrella of a much larger and ambitious strategy by Intel called Internet Exchange Architecture (IXA).
IXA is Intel's attempt to duplicate the success the chip giant has had when it created the Intel platform for desktops, by designing a similar industry standard around Intel chips and components for Internet infrastructure and communications devices, according to Mark Christiansen, Intel vice president and general manager of the Network Communications Group. …
Intel will also fund research projects "to further extend the reach of the Intel IX architecture" at major universities around the country, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University, the Oregon Graduate Institute and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
The Moscow Times
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February 16, 2000HEADLINE: FSB Keeps 'Traitorous' Scholar Jailed
BYLINE: By Sarah Karush
Staff WriterOBNINSK, Central Russia - Until his arrest, Igor Sutyagin lived the quiet life of an academic, doing research on arms control and security issues at Moscow's prestigious U.S.A. and Canada Institute. Occasionally quoted as an expert in the mainstream press, he was mostly known only within a small circle of scholars. More than three months into a stay in a Kaluga jail, Sutyagin, 35, is still largely unnoticed - except by the investigators trying to prove he is a spy, and by a small band of supporters lobbying for his release.
Sutyagin's friends and family said they are hard pressed to understand why he was targeted by the Federal Security Service, or FSB, and charged with treason.
They said he is certainly not a spy, nor has he attempted to expose government wrongdoing, as did environmentalist Alexander Nikitin and journalist Grigory Pasko, who were charged with treason and acquitted last year. …
The day of the arrest, Oct. 28, FSB agents also searched the apartment of Sutyagin's American colleague Joshua Handler, a Princeton University researcher who was working in Moscow. Handler was questioned about Sutyagin, and his research materials and computer were confiscated. …
PR Newswire
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February 16, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Leon E. Rosenberg, Former Head of Research at BMS, Joins Board of Directors Of Novalon Pharmaceutical Corporation; Additions Position Novalon as Genomics Leader
DATELINE: DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 16Novalon Pharmaceutical Corporation announced today that the company has elected Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., former head of pharmaceutical research and development at Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Thomas E. Shenk, Ph.D., Chairman of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, to its Board of Directors. In addition, Elliott Ross, Ph.D., and P. Frederick Sparling, M.D., have joined the company's Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Rosenberg is the former President of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, NJ as well as the former Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and international Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Shenk is Chairman of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and a co-founder of Novalon. Both Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Shenk are members of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Leon Rosenberg brings to our Board broad experience in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. We are pleased for him to join us," said Dana M. Fowlkes, M.D. Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Novalon. "Tom Shenk, as the scientific co-founder of a number of biotechnology companies, brings significant business savvy, along with the scientific expertise he has already contributed to Novalon as a co-founder and Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board. These two additions position Novalon as a premier drug discovery company on an international scale," Fowlkes said. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 15, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Princeton health commission proposes public smoking ban
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.A Princeton health panel on Tuesday night introduced an ordinance that would forbid smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces and would be the strictest smoking ban in the state.
Under the proposal by the Princeton Regional Health Commission, smoking would be allowed only in homes, cigar shops or outdoors.
The commission oversees public health in Princeton Borough and adjacent Princeton Township. A public hearing and vote will be held next month. …
The two municipalities surrounding Ivy League Princeton University have long been out front on antismoking efforts. They were among the earliest communities to prohibit cigarette vending machines, smoking around schools and smoking in municipal buildings, according to Regina Carlson, executive director of the New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution.
The Boston Globe
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February 15, 2000HEADLINE: BOSTON CAPITAL / STEVEN SYRE & CHARLES STEIN; THE LIGHT AT THE END OF FIBER-OPTICS DEAL LOW-KEY INVESTOR GERHARD ANDLINGER TURNS TRANSFORMATION OF TINY NETOPTIX INTO A BONANZA
BYLINE: BY STEVEN SYRE AND CHARLES STEIN, GLOBE STAFF
Tiny Netoptix Corp. of Sturbridge, down and nearly out after another failed turnaround strategy at this time last year, found a buyer willing to hustle up a stunning $2.1 billion for its fiber-optic business yesterday.
Call it another amazing tale of the new economy: The acquisition agreement, with Corning Inc., drove Netoptix stock up by 20 yesterday to 156. It traded at just 3 3/4 last March. The man behind the comeback, ultralow-profile investor Gerhard Andlinger, was the biggest winner of them all. Andlinger's firm injected $6 million in cash into Netoptix and began calling the shots 13 months ago, in return for 2 million shares plus the right to buy 2 million more at $1.50 each. That stake was worth $624 million yesterday. …
Born in Austria, Andlinger first visited the United States as a high school junior, one of the winners in an English-language essay contest sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to attend Princeton University and later Harvard Business School, eventually landing a job at the company that would be his on-and-off employer for years, ITT Corp. …
Business Wire
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February 15, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: TrueSAN Networks Appoints Dr. Ed Zschau to the Board of Directors; Former General Manager of IBM Storage Systems Division will Aid in Elevating TrueSAN as an Industry Leader
DATELINE: SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 15, 2000TrueSAN Networks, a leader in Fibre Channel disk array and storage-area network solutions for the internetworked enterprise, today announced the election of Dr. Ed Zschau to TrueSAN's Board of Directors. Dr. Zschau brings a wealth of accomplishments to TrueSAN from his longstanding experience within the storage industry and leadership in higher education. With more than 20 years of top management experience with storage system and component companies, Dr. Zschau will help TrueSAN assert itself as a leader within the burgeoning SAN industry. …
Dr. Zschau founded and held the position of CEO at System Industries beginning in 1968. Following his success with System Industries, Dr. Zschau was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, where in Congress, he represented the Silicon Valley for two full terms. Directly after his terms in Congress, Dr. Zschau became a General Partner at the venture capital firm Brentwood Associates. In 1988, he was elected Chairman and CEO of Censtor Corp., a position he held until becoming General Manager of the IBM Storage Systems Division from April 1993 until July 1995.
Dr. Zschau is also recognized as a leading educator in the startup and management of technology enterprises. He began his academic career in the 1960's with an Assistant Professor position at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for five years, including one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Dr. Zschau has been a Professor of Management at Harvard University since 1996 and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1997. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his M.B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. …
He is on the Board of Scholars of the ACCF Center for Policy Research in Washington, DC, a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, in Sacramento, California and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. …
Financial Times (London)
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February 15, 2000HEADLINE: WORLD NEWS: THE AMERICAS: Adviser builds Bush's policy platforms: Josh Bolten's work has helped rebut criticism of the Republican hopeful
BYLINE: By STEPHEN FIDLER
DATELINE: WASHINGTONJosh Bolten does not want to be profiled. The 45-year-old policy director for George W. Bush in this year's Republican presidential race sees little advantage in it.
Publicity helps some people to fulfil their roles in the campaign, he says, but not him. "It doesn't help to do my job," he says.
Colleagues say this diffidence is typical of the man who has helped put together one of the most painstaking platforms of the 2000 presidential election campaign.
Campaign aides say Mr Bolten's work has helped silence critics who claimed last year that the Texas governor lacked policy proposals. Each of Mr Bush's main policy speeches has been accompanied by detailed position papers put together by Mr Bolten's team, based in the Texas capital, Austin, after consultations with Mr Bush's extensive network of policy advisers. …
If Mr Bush wins and Mr Bolten secures a job in Washington, he will return to his birthplace. He started at Washington public schools before attending, like vice-president Al Gore, the capital's elite St Albans boys' school. He went on to Princeton University and Stanford law school. Starting work as a law clerk for a federal judge in San Francisco, he moved back to Washington as a lawyer for the State Department. …
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
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February 15, 2000 TuesdayHEADLINE: Facing a challenge; New technology another obstacle for Convergys VP
BYLINE: Simon Barker-Benfield, Times-Union business writerJim Kutsch and his German Shepherd, Yulland, walk quickly past the desks in the executive area, into a maze of corridors and toward the elevator at Convergys Corp.'s main building on Baymeadows Way.
The computers that are at the center of Kutsch's life and work are massed in cubicles and offices scattered across the 10-building complex.
Computers have allowed him to create tools to help both him and other blind people deal with some of the obstacles they face at work. Ironically, those same computers now threaten to isolate him.
But the evolving marriage of the computer to the wireless phone offers hope, said Kutsch, a top technologist and executive of Convergys Corp. in Jacksonville, who is blind. …
New technology can be a mixed blessing, said Edward Tenner, historian and visiting scholar at Princeton University who is the author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.
'A new technology can have unfortunate indirect consequences because it undermines the base of an older and still valuable technology that it doesn't completely replace,' Tenner said. …
Journal of Commerce
Copyright 2000 Journal of Commerce, Inc.
February 15, 2000, TuesdaySECTION: EDITORIAL/OPINION
HEADLINE: Wild, wild Web still holds plenty of perils
BYLINE: BY MARY DEIBELThe bushwhackers who hit the Internet's top commercial sites served notice that, despite widespread enthusiasm for electronic business, the World Wide Web still has its Wild West qualities.
President Clinton struck back by calling an Internet security summit in hopes government and industry leaders can work together to head off attacks.
Commerce Secretary William Daley says the assaults are a "wake-up call'' and a reminder that e-commerce is not without risks.
Attorney General Janet Reno vows to hunt down the varmints and bring them to justice - even though the Web intentionally promotes anonymity, letting those who want to remain anonymous mask their electronic identities. …
Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, the former Federal Reserve vice chairman, says the Internet may be the engine of growth that's finally speeded up the U.S. economy after 20 years of computer investments.
Yet Blinder contends the latest round of Internet vandalism is a reminder that ""the great virtue of the Internet is also its chief vice: its openness. ''
"On the scale of openness and freedom - both commonly held virtues in the Western world - the Internet scores an A-plus,'' Blinder says.
But he adds that global openness is bound to clash "with a capitalist system that relies on well-defined property rights,'' including the right to buy and sell what you own. …
Los Angeles Times
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February 15, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: THOMAS CROW TO LEAD GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE; THE HEAD OF YALE'S ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT IS EXPECTED, IN HIS NEW POST, TO STRENGTHEN TIES TO AREA UNIVERSITIES.
BYLINE: SUZANNE MUCHNIC, TIMES ART WRITER
Thomas Crow, an internationally renowned art scholar and critic who heads Yale University's art history department, has been named director of the Getty Research Institute. The appointment, announced Monday, ends a yearlong effort to fill one of the most prestigious positions at the Getty Center in Brentwood.
Crow, 52, will take charge of one of the world's largest research centers for art history on July 1. Housed in a sleek, cylindrical building in the hilltop complex designed by architect Richard Meier, the institute offers an 800,000-volume library and special collections of primary source material. It also publishes scholarly resource books, operates a visiting scholars program and presents public exhibitions, lectures, seminars and conferences. …
Born near Chicago in 1948, Crow moved to San Diego with his family in 1961. He was graduated from Pomona College in Claremont in 1969 and completed his PhD in art history at UCLA in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale in 1996, he held teaching positions at CalArts, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Sussex in England. …
Business Week
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February 14, 2000HEADLINE: HOW PROSPERITY IS RESHAPING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
BYLINE: By Rich Miller, Laura Cohn, Howard Gleckman, and Paula Dwyer in Washington, with Ann Therese Palmer in ChicagoHIGHLIGHT: Confidence is up, jobs are everywhere, and there's a new breed of entrepreneur
Leo Danushevsky arrived in New York City from Ukraine in 1979 with $900 and not much else. He worked as a machinist until 1989, when he borrowed $85,000 to start L.C. Mold Inc., a tool-and-die company in suburban Chicago. Last year, L.C. Mold did $5 million in sales. Danushevsky and his wife own $500,000 in stocks and just moved into a new home on 2 1/2 acres, complete with a spa. What's more, almost all of his 37 employees -- most of them fellow immigrants -- own their own homes and participate in a profit-sharing plan. ''Everything I read about America turned out to be true,'' marvels Danushevsky. ''If you work hard enough, you can get somewhere.''
Danushevsky is the embodiment of the Roaring '90s. He's an entrepreneur. He's creating jobs. And the stock market has treated him very well. Multiply Danushevsky by millions and you see why the U.S. is celebrating the longest period of continuous growth in its history. At 107 months in February, this expansion surpasses the record set during the Vietnam War years of 1961-69. ''I think people really feel that something has changed,'' President Clinton -- one of many people eager to claim a share of the credit -- said in a Feb. 1 interview with BUSINESS WEEK.
The expansion that began in March, 1991, has raised real gross domestic product by more than a third, minted 100,000 more people earning a million dollars a year, thrust the federal budget into a surprising surplus, and given jobs to people who were once outside the working world -- welfare mothers, the handicapped, people who had been pushed into early retirement. GLOOM BEGONE. Best of all, it has transformed the psyche of millions of Americans. The pervasive gloom at the beginning of the 1990s is gone. No longer are Americans afraid that the Japanese will overwhelm them with superior technology or that they will saddle their children with government debt. ''What this expansion has done is give the American public its self-confidence back,'' says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
After a near-decade of progress, other countries look at America with awe, envy, and, sometimes, fear. ''In 1990, the concern was whether U.S. companies could compete in global markets,'' says Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. ''Today, the concern is whether the U.S. is a hyperpower.'' …
The U.S. economy is so vibrant that even a big tumble in the stock market might not be enough to knock it off-kilter. Sure, worried consumers might retrench. But with the economy growing at an annual rate of nearly 6% in the last quarter of 1999, any slowdown in consumption would simply do some of the Federal Reserve's work by putting the economy on a safer, slower path of growth. ''I could easily see this economy growing right through a stock market decline of 1987 proportions,'' says Alan Blinder, professor of economics at Princeton University and a former Fed vice-chairman. …
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Columbus Dispatch
February 14,2000, MondaySECTION: EDITORIAL & COMMENT
HEADLINE: TAFT SHOWS HE'S UP TO THE JOB ON FOREIGN GROUNDS
BYLINE: Alan Johnson, Dispatch Staff ReporterRating governors, whether on their home or foreign turf, is never easy. But here goes -- at least on the overseas front:
(1) Richard F. Celeste
(2) Bob Taft
(3) George V. VoinovichGoing back to James A. Rhodes, Ohio's governors have trekked overseas to drum up business for companies in this state. Rhodes began the tradition by luring Honda to the Marysville area, sparking a tsunami of Japanese businesses to Ohio that now amounts to 255 companies employing more than 67, 000 people.
Taft was the latest to get the travel bug, visiting Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, recently as head of a 52- member state trade and investment mission that nicked taxpayers for at least $100,000. It was his first trade mission since becoming governor in January 1999.
Viewed as awkward and uncomfortable at times in his inaugural year, Taft seemed destined for trouble in Japan as Ohio's spokesman-statesman.
Not so, as it turned out.
In fact, Taft seemed more at ease on foreign soil than in Ohio. …
Maybe this shouldn't be that surprising. Taft is Princeton University-educated, served in the Peace Corps and has traveled the world. He's no bumpkin; he's been around. …
The Detroit News
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February 14, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Queen Noor dines with student club: Royal visit in keeping with group's mission
BYLINE: Lynne Meredith CohnSTERLING HEIGHTS -- Bryan Kassa, 17, never thought he would meet a real queen, let alone the widow of a Middle Eastern king who once held great sway in the region.
But that's what happened when Bryan, a senior at Stevenson High School and president of its Cultural Diversity Club, was invited to a dinner on Dec. 4 with Queen Noor of Jordan, the widow of King Hussein, who died last year.
"This was the experience of a lifetime," said Bryan, who was one of 13 kids from the club who met with the queen at a banquet sponsored by the Arab American and Chaldean Council.
"We learned a lot about her in class. Thinking that I'd ever meet her was beyond reality. As soon as she walked in, she had a smile on her face and she shook our hands. She was a really down-to-earth person. She just seemed like a regular person. You'd just want to sit and talk to her forever. It was exceptional." …
They learned about Queen Noor's American background (she was born Lisa Halaby, the daughter of an airline executive) and her undergraduate education at Princeton University. …
The Tampa Tribune
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February 14, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: UF professor predicts more F schools, more vouchers;
BYLINE: MARILYN BROWN, of The Tampa Tribune;TAMPA - State vouchers tied to the new school grading system are not imminent in most places around Tampa Bay.
A University of Florida professor beginning a six-year analysis of the state's voucher program predicts he soon will have plenty of 'F' schools to study.
A "very large proportion" - as many as 60 of the 80 public schools now at risk of being graded failures for a second year - probably will become eligible for vouchers this summer, economics Professor David Figlio said last week.
His statistical analysis has found the schools scoring lowest last year on the test that drove the first-ever statewide report card are likely to fail again. The new school grades determine eligibility for vouchers, which provide state money for students from the weakest schools to pay private school tuition. …
Three other researchers from Princeton University and the national nonprofit Urban Institute are working on the study with Figlio. They hope to discover who chooses vouchers and why, how public and private schools respond, and the possible benefits of the program. …
U.S. News & World Report
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February 14, 2000HEADLINE: The wet and wild future of computers
SERIES: TechnologyBYLINE: By John S. MacNeil
HIGHLIGHT: DNA strands may replace chips and electrons;The element silicon is so closely identified with computers that most people would be likely to associate it more readily with California's high-tech valley than with the periodic table. But such thinking may soon have to be radically revised, as high-speed computation moves beyond chips and machines to include the tools of biochemistry and genetics: test tubes, slides, solutions--even DNA.
DNA is present in every living organism, and the appeal of the molecule as a supercomputer mechanism lies in its demonstrated ability to store a vast amount of information--indeed, all of the instructions for replicating life. Although the chemistry set won't be replacing your PC anytime soon, two groups of scientists demonstrated last month how these information-laden molecules might perform calculations in future computers.
Instead of using zeroes and ones to encode information using electrical current, the "memory" in a DNA computer takes the form of thousands of DNA strands that are synthesized in a lab. Each strand contains a different sequence of the chemical bases--symbolized by the letters A, C, T, and G--that make up all DNA molecules. To sift through all these strands, scientists subject the DNA memory to various enzymes that eliminate certain strands of DNA, leaving only the strands of bases that represent correct answers (graphic).
In January, scientists at the University of Wisconsin reported in the journal Nature that they had found a way to perform a simple calculation using strands of DNA that had been attached to a gold-plated surface. Previous experiments with DNA computing had allowed the DNA to float freely in a test tube, but Lloyd Smith, a chemist and leader of the Wisconsin research team, hopes his method will allow the wet chemical steps required for a calculation to be automated. "It's a route to scaling up DNA computing to larger problems," says Smith of his experiment.
Chess and chemistry. Another group, led by biologist Laura Landweber at Princeton University, reported on a way to use RNA--a chemical cousin of DNA--to perform a similar calculation. To demonstrate that their technique works, Landweber's team calculated the answer to a simple version of a classical chess dilemma called the "knight problem." The computer must determine in which positions a chess player can place the knights on the board so that none can attack another. The scientists encoded each strand of RNA to represent a possible configuration of knights. Then, they performed a series of steps in a test tube with chemicals designed to eliminate RNA strands representing wrong answers, and then they analyzed the remaining RNA strands to see if they all corresponded to correct answers. Almost 98 percent of the supposedly "correct" strands did in fact correspond to correct chess configurations--a surprisingly high success rate for a preliminary experiment. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: As House candidate, Pappas is vocal about his singing
BYLINE: By LAURENCE ARNOLD, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTONIn launching his campaign to regain a seat in Congress, Republican Michael Pappas did not wait for others to bring up The Song.
Addressing supporters, he volunteered that he regrets singing "Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth Starr" - a ditty saluting the independent counsel - on the House floor during the impeachment battle of 1998.
He meant no disrespect for the institution of the president or Congress, he told them.
"I bring it up because people do think about it," Pappas said in an interview. "It's important just to tell people that I'm aware that people think about it, recognize the effect it had at least for many people, and to address it and move on."
Whether Pappas can move on from what seemed like a lark, but turned into an albatross, is a major question for New Jersey's June 6 primary.
Pappas is seeking to regain the 12th district seat he held in 1997-98. He was upset in his first re-election bid by Democrat Rush Holt, who played snippets of "Twinkle, Twinkle Kenneth Starr" in radio and television ads. …
After losing to Democrat Robert Torricelli in the 1996 Senate race, Zimmer returned to a law career. He is also teaching graduate students in public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
"I've learned that teaching is harder than it looks," Zimmer said.
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Regional Week in Review
OCEAN COUNTY: Former Lacey football star Keith Elias and Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet of Colts Neck were arrested Sunday and charged with disorderly conduct after an early morning scuffle at the Bamboo Bar in Seaside Heights, police said. Also arrested were two of Elias' brothers, Gregory and Brian.
The disagreement took place at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, said Bryan Huntenburg, manager of the bar, at Lincoln Drive and the Boulevard.
"Keith and Chrebet were virtually out the door when they turned and saw the commotion. A girl not with them took a swing at a girl with them," Huntenburg said.
"It happened right in front of our security people and they quickly separated them. Keith and Chrebet were only looking out for him (Greg). After everyone left and moved out to the sidewalk, some pushing and shoving took place," he said.
All four men were ordered to appear in municipal court on March 2.
Keith Elias is a running back for the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts. He starred at Princeton University and played with the Giants from 1994 to 1996.
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Who's on the move locally?
MICHAEL GREENBLATT, Long Branch, has been named fitness supervisor for the Princeton University Fitness Center at Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton. Greenblatt, a model and a former Mr. New Jersey from 1992 to 1994, has appeared in the soap opera "All My Children" as well as several movies and television commercials. Before joining Princeton, he worked for the Monmouth University Fitness Center, West Long Branch.
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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February 13, 2000HEADLINE: MUTUAL SPOTLIGHT; Top of field is home for Pilgrim SmallCap
BYLINE: KATHIE O'DONNELL, Bloomberg NewsMary Lisanti got into stock picking because she couldn't afford law school. Plenty of investors are glad she did.
Lisanti's $570 million Pilgrim SmallCap Opportunities Fund returned 146 percent last year, putting it in the top 1 percent of small-cap growth funds tracked by Chicago-based Morningstar Inc.
Aiming to keep returns up, Lisanti said the fund is closing to new investors Feb. 29.
Lisanti, who took over the fund from Louis Navellier in July 1998, bet big on a rebound in Asia, buying companies whose shares were hammered by the economic slide there that began in 1997. She bet right.
"I think we took advantage of the concerns about Asia," said the 43-year-old Princeton University graduate. "We bought a lot of technology stocks, semiconductor, semiconductor capital equipment, telecom, datacom companies that were selling at very cheap prices. " …
The Ottawa Citizen
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Ottawa team answers Greek invitational call: The Greek Hockey League celebrates its 25-year anniversary by sending 17 skaters to play in an Athens tournament. Chris Yzerman reports.
BYLINE: Chris Yzerman
As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, Ottawa's Greek Hockey League will embark this week on something of a Herculean task.
A 17-member team will represent the league in the first Hellenic International Invitational Hockey Tournament at Athens, Greece, where it will try to raise the profile of the sport in a country where hockey rates low.
Hellenic Team Canada will compete against the Boston-based Hellenic Team USA and the Greek national team in a week-long event, starting Saturday. …
''Hockey's not one of the high-level sports between soccer and basketball (to the Greek government)'' Hellenic Team Canada captain Jim Sourges says. ''This tournament is indicative of how hockey has become a popular sport world-wide. We are hopeful that, within five years, Greece will have a strong grassroots minor hockey program based in Athens, and possibly a professional league similar to that in neighbouring Italy. …
Sourges, a 32-year-old graduate of the Nepean Minor Hockey Association and Central Junior Hockey League's Nepean Raiders, played defence for Princeton University of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He'll lead a team that ranges in age from 17 to 38. …
Sacramento Bee
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: ON THE TRAIL OF "MR. DEATH' FILMMAKER'S GOAL IS TO DOCUMENT THE ECCENTRICS AMONG US
BYLINE: Dixie Reid Bee Staff Writer
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCOErrol Morris, a documentary filmmaker, was awaiting his grilled salmon at the posh Postrio eatery the other day. He was amused by the young waiter who straightened Morris' silverware each time he passed the table. Morris appreciates idiosyncrasies; he often makes movies about them.
His latest film is "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr." It opens Friday in Sacramento.
Leuchter (pronounced "loo-chur") was a Massachusetts engineer who once marketed himself as a sort of angel of mercy. He advocated the death penalty but thought the tools of execution -- electric chairs, lethal injection apparatus, gallows and gas chambers -- were inhumane to both the executed and the executioner. So, during the 1980s, he contracted with various American prisons to repair or build them new death machines.
His reputation as a self-styled gas chamber expert got the attention of a defense attorney in Canada, where it is an indictable offense to publish "false history" with the intent of inciting racial hatred. Ernst Zundel, a German national, was on trial for writing, among other tracts, "Did Six Million Really Die?" …
By now, finished with his fish, Morris had requested a little orange sorbet. It arrived on a base of pomegranate granita, topped with a thin wafer cookie. He likes the so-called California cuisine, and he likes California. In 1972, after graduating from Princeton University, he came to the University of California, Berkeley, to do postgraduate work in history. It was there that he fell in love with the movies. The University Art Museum, which houses the vast Pacific Film Archive, screened three movies each day. Morris saw most of them. …
Sunday Mercury
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: RELIEF FOR BROOKE AS STALKER JAILED
BYLINE: Frank DurhamADERANGED ex-accountant is behind bars, accused of stalking Brooke Shields and carrying a loaded gun.
Bespectacled Ronald Bailey, who has been tracking the actress for years, was arrested near the studio where she works.
Bailey, 41, believes the star of the hit TV sitcom, Suddenly Susan, will rescue him from jail.
But Brooke's friends say she is desperately hoping her fanatical admirer, who has sent her a flood of love letters and nude pictures of himself, will stay behind bars. …
Bailey first began bugging Brooke in 1985 when he drove a stolen truck from Texas to New Jersey to be close to her while she was studying at Princeton University.
Soon after leaving his accounting job in Houston, Texas, Bailey started sending the love letters and nude pictures and was arrested for breaking a window at her home. …
The Washington Post
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February 13, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Russian Reactor Project Troubled; Moscow Wants to Halt Conversion To Civilian Use
BYLINE: Michael Dobbs, Washington Post Staff WriterThe Russian government has told the Clinton administration it wants to abandon a joint project to convert its remaining military atomic reactors to purely civilian use because of delays, sharp cost overruns and warnings by nuclear experts of a possible Chernobyl-type catastrophe.
The project, announced as a "historic" achievement in 1997 after it was negotiated between Vice President Gore and then-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, has formed a centerpiece of the Clinton administration's arms control efforts. The agreement committed Russia to halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium by the end of this year, ridding the world of enough fissile material for nearly 400 new nuclear weapons every year.
Under the plan hammered out by Russian and American experts, the United States was to help Russia convert the cores of three atomic reactors so they would no longer produce plutonium. The relatively low cost of the project--around $80 million--enabled the administration to sell the plan to a Congress skeptical of foreign assistance.
But two weeks ago, with costs spiraling and an increasingly unrealistic deadline approaching, Russian atomic energy officials informed a visiting U.S. delegation of a surprising change in their position. Instead of converting the reactor cores, Russia now proposes to shut them down entirely. Energy needs for the cities in which the reactors are located would be provided by conventional sources at a total cost of $230 million, the bulk of which, under the Russian plan, would be paid by the United States. …
American nuclear experts who had earlier championed the moratorium on plutonium production started worrying that the conversion of the plants would create large-scale commerce in Russia in HEU fuel elements, which can themselves be used for building nuclear weapons. Some experts believe that the proliferation threat posed by the production and transportation of hundreds of thousands of HEU elements to the converted facilities would have been as serious as any threat posed by the continued production of plutonium.
One of the leading opponents of the core conversion plan was Frank von Hippel, a physicist at Princeton University who had served as a science adviser to President Clinton. At a White House meeting last December, von Hippel told Gore foreign policy adviser Leon Fuerth that converting the reactors to HEU would "probably be worse" in terms of proliferation than doing nothing. He called instead for the reactors to be converted to low-enriched uranium, which cannot be used in nuclear weapons. …
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON)
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February 12, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: City: After the hype over the internet bombing it's almost a relief to get back to the real thing . . . NEW YORK DIARY
BYLINE: By Andrew CaveCOMMUNICATION lines are down; there is panic on the streets, millions of people have been left stranded and a crimewave has begun. The FBI is on the case and attorney-general Janet Reno is on television, vowing to catch the perpetrators. Has the millennium bug arrived a month late? No it is worse than that. The internet is under attack.
Anyone who thinks this is a minor matter has no idea of the internet hysteria which grips America. Pundits are on television, saying gravely that anything that can black out the nation's top internet portal Yahoo! for three hours by flooding it with more traffic in one second than most sites see in one year could only have been caused by a serious international criminal . . . or maybe a 15-year-old boy.
Yahoo! itself says that it has lost no money from the attack but analysts are not so sure, saying that 100m pages would have been viewed during the three hours and Yahoo! could have lost $500,000. This is cyber-terrorism, a serious hack attack. ..
Tuesday
FROM Yahoo! to Boo-hoo. This is not a good time to be online. For large chunks of today, New Yorkers can't buy books online at Amazon.com, bid for Beanie Babies on eBay or check their stock prices on CNN.com. Nobody so far has targeted online food shops like webvan.com or netgrocer but, hey, you'd still be able to go to a restaurant. The papers are full of tedious advice such as not to use days of the week as your computer password and Michael Allison, of the Internet Crimes Group, is having a busy day.
Englishman Mr Allison, whose company and its affiliate International Business Research, are self-styled "cybersleuths" operating from offices off the campus at Princeton University, is under no illusions about the severity of the situation. "This is the Achilles heel of the internet," he tells me. "No access, no eyeball count, no real revenue and dot com goes out of business."
Mr Allison's group has already notched up a record in sleuthing, tracking down an internet hoaxer spreading false rumours about impending mergers by trapping him into playing one of its special agents at chess on Yahoo! Tracking down today's villains will be harder, he concedes, especially since the Yahoo! chess game may not be available, but it can be done, as long as the cybercriminals are based in the US. Meanwhile, there is some advice on how to cope on Internetcrimesgroup.com. I click on but get a busy signal. I just hope the password is not Tuesday. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 12, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Former NAACP official an unlikely defender of Confederate flag
BYLINE: By RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press WriterBranded a traitor by fellow blacks and viewed as an oddity by some whites, H.K. Edgerton proudly defends the Confederate flag, to his mind a symbol of the love that bound blacks and whites during the Civil War.
"I'm a free man," says the former head of the Asheville NAACP. "I'm an equal opportunity fighter for the people."
Edgerton has protested in defense of the flag in several Southern cities, including Atlanta and Columbia, S.C., where the flag atop the statehouse led to an NAACP tourism boycott and became a debate issue for Republican presidential candidates. The issue could resurface in South Carolina's Feb. 19 GOP primary race.
"It represents my heritage, my culture, my people's participation in this thing," he says of the flag. ".... That doesn't make me an Uncle Tom or lackey because I stand behind my heritage, because I understand the Confederate flag."
"If it hadn't been for the sweat of the black man, the Confederate army would have quickly come to a halt," said Edgerton. He denounces slavery but says blacks played an unmistakable role in the Confederacy. …
But James McPherson, a Princeton University professor and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War history "Battle Cry of Freedom," is skeptical of anyone who plays up the support blacks showed for the Confederacy.
"I don't think any single generalization that 'The slaves did this or the slaves felt that' is accurate," he says. "History is not that neat and compartmentalized."
McPherson said most slaves who had a chance to run away either did so, thought about it, or wanted to. …
The Associated Press
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February 12, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Princeton proposes sweeping smoking ban
BYLINE: By KATHLEEN CANNON, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.Your house. Outside. The cigar shop.
If the Princeton Regional Health Commission has its way, those will be only three places a smoker will be able to light up.
The commission, which oversees public health in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, on Tuesday will introduce the most far-reaching municipal smoking ban in New Jersey. A public hearing and vote will follow next month. …
The two municipalities surrounding Ivy League Princeton University in leafy northern Mercer County have long been out front on antismoking efforts. They were among the earliest communities to prohibit cigarette vending machines, smoking around schools and smoking in municipal buildings, according to Regina Carlson, executive director of the New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution.
So it didn't surprise her when the two communities became the first in New Jersey to propose such an exhaustive ban, given the affluence and education of residents there.
"Those kinds of places provide more protection (for nonsmokers) than poor, struggling towns," Carlson said. "Smoke-free air is a luxury when you can't afford to eat." …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 12, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Red Bank's Hession making her own waves
BYLINE: DEBBIE WALDEYER; STAFF WRITERCRISTINA HESSION remembers her early days, swimming one length of the Monmouth College pool before getting out, walking back down to the starting blocks, and doing it again.
Of course Hession, now a 14-year-old freshman making a splash for Red Bank Regional High School's swim team, was only 7 years old at the time. And 25 yards is a long way for a 7-year-old.
But when her mom, Cathy Hession, was 7, people spoke of her with an Olympic twinkle in their eye. Cathy, formerly Cathy Corcione, was the Shore's swim darling out of Shore Aquatic
Club and later Long Branch High School. At age 15, Cathy was on the 1968 Olympic swim team, spending seven weeks in Mexico City as an alternate for the 400-meter freestyle relay team, but never getting the chance to compete. …
Sports for women were in their infancy in the late 1960s and early '70s. There wasn't a swim team at Long Branch when Cathy made her fame. Nor was there a team at Princeton University when she enrolled in 1970 - at least, not a women's team.
A year earlier Princeton ended its 222-year tradition of being an institution strictly for men. By her sophomore year, Cathy said she needed to be back in the water, she "needed the structure of the sport." So she started training with the Princeton men's team. Initially there were five women who joined her. By her junior year, there were 11, six of whom went to the NCAA national meet. They placed third out of 79 teams there. …
The Dallas Morning News
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February 12, 2000SECTION: EDITORIALS
HEADLINE: Irish Children; Programs to teach tolerance promote peaceThe two years of relative peace in Northern Ireland afforded by the 1998 Good Friday peace accord may be coming to an end. With Catholics and Protestants now warring over the lack of progress toward the disarmament that was scheduled for completion in May, Northern Ireland's miraculous two-month-old power-sharing arrangement is falling apart. The miracle of shared administration could not hold.
With hundreds of years of animosity between the sides, more than one miracle is needed to change the future of Northern Ireland. The group Project Children believes that maybe those miracles are alive today.
Project Children began in 1975 when two brothers, New York City police officers, brought six boys and girls from Belfast to the United States for a summer holiday away from the Irish "troubles." Last year, Project Children, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, brought nearly 700 Protestant and Catholic children, ages 10 to 15, from Northern Ireland to the United States. North Texas participated for the first time last year - families here hosted 15 children for a six-week stay. …
Investing in future peace by investing in children today is a cause that deserves support in many areas of the world. The Middle East, the Balkans, Rwanda …
Commenting on Greek-Turkish tensions over Cyprus, Constantine, a former king of Greece, lamented in a talk at Princeton University in December, "I had to become a teenager before I found out that Turks were OK. I would like from a young age people to be taught that their neighbors are not awful people."
Maybe if others give them hope and teach them tolerance, children in these countries will be the miracles needed for lasting peace.
International Herald Tribune
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
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February 12, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Seeking Lessons for Development in a Global Economy
BYLINE: By Rubens Ricupero; International Herald Tribune
DATELINE: BANGKOKAsia has now emerged from its crisis and is back in force on the world stage, thanks to its resilience and toil, and the cooperation of the international community. From this experience, we have learned a hard lesson: that development will not necessarily make countries less vulnerable to external shocks. The reason, paradoxically, is that which made development possible in the first place: integration into the global economy. Thanks to integration, some Asian countries have been able to grow through exports. It is due to integration, though, that they became victims of the ''herd'' behavior of financial markets.
Interdependence, in other words, is here to stay and it works in both directions, for better and for worse. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is an appropriate arena for an in-depth reflection on the experience of development over the last few decades, and on the challenges ahead. …
Last year, the UN Trade and Development Report found that the average trade deficit of developing countries in the 1990s was 3 percentage points higher than in the 1970s, while economic growth was 2 points lower. Part of the blame must be laid on the imbalanced way in which trade liberalization has proceeded. Harold James of Princeton University wrote in an IMF publication in December that the global trading system had been allowed to succeed because of the deliberate exclusion of the agriculture and textile industries. The task for the UN trade conference is to help developing countries build the institutions and develop the skills to formulate trade, investment and economic policies, to negotiate successfully with their partners and to take advantage of the resulting concessions. …
The writer is secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development. This comment was adapted by the International Herald Tribune from a speech to be delivered this weekend at the conference in Bangkok.
Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)
Copyright 2000 Wilmington Star-News, Inc.February 12, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Black History Month; 1808
John Chavis, a free black teacher and preacher, opens his first school in North Carolina. For the next quarter-century, he will operate schools in Wake, Granville and Chatham counties, teaching white students by day and blacks by night.
Prominent white leaders entrust their sons to Chavis' care. Charles Manly, a future governor, and Willie P. Mangum, a U.S. senator, were former students.
Born in Granville County around 1763, Chavis served three years in the 5th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War. He was tutored privately by John Witherspoon, president of Princeton University.
Ordained as a "riding missionary" for the Presbyterian church he preached to black and white congregations.
Chavis' career was cut short in 1832 by state laws passed after the Nat Turner rebellion, which forbade blacks to preach to other blacks and made it illegal to teach slaves to read.
-- Ben Steelman
New Scientist
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February 12, 2000HEADLINE: Grow your own
BYLINE: Alison MotlukHIGHLIGHT: Great news, brain cells don't have to last a lifetime. We can always grow a few more. Alison Motluk explains
FOR so long, it was an article of faith: adults don't grow new brain cells. Unlike your skin, blood and most other parts of the body, where old cells die and are replaced, the adult human brain simply doesn't get refreshed. The neurons you learned to walk with will be the very same ones you'll use to master the Zimmer frame.
Even when researchers discovered that mice, birds and some monkeys routinely produce new brain cells in adulthood, the hardliners still clung to the notion that people were different. To protect all the things we learn and remember, we'd had to sacrifice that ability, they contended (see "Long memories").
But now this orthodoxy has been overturned. In November 1998, Fred Gage of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California and his colleagues there and at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden published proof that humans are not unique. We too are producing new brain cells well into adulthood. …
All the neuron growth that Gage saw was in a region of the brain called the dentate gyrus, which is part of the hippocampus, a region that is involved in learning and memory. Most neuroscientists agree that in many species new neurons form in the olfactory bulb, too, the part of the brain that senses smell. And while Gage found labelled cells in other parts of the brain, he didn't think that they were neurons. But whether neurogenesis happens anywhere else in the brain is still a matter of heated debate. Elizabeth Gould, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, claims to have found evidence of neurogenesis in the brain's outermost shell - the neocortex - of adult macaque monkeys, although it isn't at all clear what this means for humans. …
New Scientist
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February 12, 2000HEADLINE: Ditherer's dilemma
BYLINE: Peter AytonTHE gravity of the problem hit me in a bar in New Mexico. On offer were no fewer than 24 beers, all described in glowing terms, all bewilderingly unfamiliar.
So there I was, fresh from the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and behaving like Buridan's Ass - the imaginary creature which starved midway between two troughs of hay because it couldn't decide which to go for. Then, a reprieve. At the bottom of the menu was an invitation to try a "sampler tray" - 24 whisky glasses, each with a splash of one of the beers. Perfect. But as I worked through them, tension mounted. Which would I choose for the next round ?
Everywhere you look, choice is on the increase and getting more complex. We spend hours surveying ever-expanding ranges of pensions, mortgages and mobile phones, fearful that if we don't make the effort we will live to regret it. And worst of all, this form of low-grade torture is, according to the politicians, supposed to make us happy. …
Clearly, we need help. We need to be taught at a young age how to narrow the options down rationally, eliminating those we are prepared to forgo. That way we're bound to end up choosing the products whose qualities we like best. Aren't we ?
Sadly, it's not that simple - as Princeton University psychologist Eldar Shafir discovered when he offered people pairs of options. One of each pair always had both good and bad points, for example an ice cream with a delicious flavour and lots of cholesterol (call it X). The other option was always middling on all measures - a pleasant though unspectacular ice cream lower in cholesterol (Y). When asked which one they preferred, most people selected X, they seemed to focus on the flavour. Bizarrely, however, people also nominated X when asked which ice cream they didn't want. …
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February 11, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Princeton basketball team in accident en route to game
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.The Princeton University women's basketball team was involved in a traffic accident Thursday night on the way to New Hampshire for a Friday night game against Dartmouth. No one was injured.
The Princeton bus was traveling north on I-95 in Connecticut when a car and an 18-wheel truck bumped, sending the car in front of another 18-wheeler that was in front of the Princeton bus. That truck slammed on its brakes and the Princeton bus collided with it.
"It was pretty scary right when it happened, but it was over pretty quickly," said Jennifer Garrett of Princeton's Office of Athletic Communications, who was on the bus. "After that, everybody was a little shaken but pretty much OK."
The front end of the bus was tangled with the truck and the team waited several hours for the two vehicles to be separated. A replacement bus was sent from New Jersey and the team arrived at their hotel in Hanover, N.H., at 7:15 a.m. Friday, the school said.
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February 11, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Shooting it out on the wild, wild Web
BYLINE: MARY DEIBELThe bushwhackers who've hit the Internet's top commercial sites served notice that, despite widespread enthusiasm for electronic business, the World Wide Web still has its Wild West qualities.
President Clinton struck back by calling an Internet security summit in hopes government and industry leaders can work together to head off attacks.
Commerce Secretary William Daley says the assaults are a "wake-up call" and reminder that e-commerce is not without risks. Attorney General Janet Reno vows to hunt down the varmints and bring them to justice, even though the Web intentionally promotes anonymity, letting those who want to remain anonymous mask their electronic identities.
Even before the attacks, digital-age leader Esther Dyson, who normally praises the Internet's openness, told a gathering of industry leaders that she wonders "if its frontier culture is compatible with the rules required to make e-commerce work." …
Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, the former Federal Reserve vice chairman, says the Internet may be the engine of growth that's finally speeded up the U.S. economy after 20 years of computer investments.
Yet Blinder contends the latest round of Internet vandalism is a reminder that "the great virtue of the Internet is also its chief vice: its openness."
"On the scale of openness and freedom - both commonly held virtues in the Western world - the Internet scores an A-plus," Blinder says. But he adds that global openness is bound to clash "with a capitalist system that relies on well-defined property rights," including the right to buy and sell what you own. …
The Tennessean
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February 11, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: NASHVILLE DOCTOR GETS PRINCETON FOOTALL HONOR
BYLINE: JOE BIDDLERandom ruminations while wondering whatever happened to Gus Williams ...
It would be quite an honor to be remembered as one of Princeton's top football players of the past century.
But Dr. Josh Billings exceeded that, being named the Ivy League school's top scholar-athlete for the football program.
Billings arrived in Nashville in 1939, specializing in internal medicine at Vanderbilt until his retirement in 1995. Billings, who will turn 88 in a week, played guard on offense, linebacker on defense.
After graduation he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford three years, then finished his medical training at Johns Hopkins.
At Princeton, Billings played for four head coaches. They had freshman teams at that time. One coach.
"Our sophomore year we had Bill Roper, who was also mayor of Philadelphia. The next year, Roper quit and we had a dreadful coach who ended up in an insane asylum and later died there," Billings recalled.
As captain of the 1932 team, Billings was on the school's search committee. They visited the famous Amos Alonzo Stagg, who steered them toward Fritz Crisler.
"Crisler was great," Billings said. "We led Michigan, who won the national championship that year, at halftime. They blocked a kick and we lost 9-7." …
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February 17, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Theodore Von Laue, 83, former UCR professor
BYLINE: Gail Wesson; The Press-EnterpriseFormer professor Theodore H. Von Laue, who taught history in the early years of UCR, died Jan. 22 of pneumonia at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, Mass. He was 83.
At the University of California, Riverside, he specialized in Russian history, but his wide-ranging interests included West African history and global history in the 20th century.
Dr. Von Laue took a world view of history and progress toward a better world.
"He was always discontented with historians who saw things in narrow ways instead of looking globally," said Robert Hine, a UCR professor of history emeritus who co-taught a philosophy of history course with him. "Human relations were terribly important to him."
A native of Germany, he came to the United States in 1937 to escape Adolf Hitler and studied history at Princeton University, where he received a doctorate in 1944. He served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps two years during World War II. …
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February 11, 2000, FridayNAME: Wilfred Cantwell Smith
HEADLINE: Wilfred C. Smith Dies at 83; Scholar of Religious Pluralism
BYLINE: By GUSTAV NIEBUHRWilfred Cantwell Smith, a scholar of Islam and comparative religions who took an early lead in urging intellectual understanding of religious pluralism and dialogue among faiths, died on Monday in a hospital in Toronto. He was 83 and lived in Toronto.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son, Brian Cantwell Smith, of Bloomington, Ind.
A native of Toronto who twice held professorships at Harvard University, Professor Smith had a career that crossed cultural and religious boundaries in a life that reflected the encounter of different faiths. …
In 1949, after receiving a doctorate in Islamic studies from Princeton University, he was hired by McGill University in Montreal, where he established its Institute of Islamic Studies, recruiting a faculty of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars, an unusual endeavor at that time.
His sensitivity to religious and cultural currents in the Middle East was reflected in his second book, "Islam in Modern History" (Princeton, 1957), in which he said Muslims would regain a sense of regional self-confidence when they felt there was a revival of their faith. …
Los Angeles Times
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February 11, 2000, Fridayheadline: WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH; RELIGION SCHOLAR
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, a scholar of comparative religion and a leading proponent of interfaith dialogue who once headed Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. Born in Toronto and ordained as a Presbyterian minister, Smith earned a doctorate at Princeton University.
He taught in India, England and Egypt before establishing the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where he taught from 1949 to 1963. While at McGill he recruited Muslim scholars to participate in research formerly carried out primarily by Westerners. He headed Harvard's World Religions Center from 1964 to 1973 and taught there from 1978 to 1984. He believed that religion is best understood as a living faith, rather than as an abstract set of ideas. "A lot of people say, "Respect other religions,' from a sentimental point of view," said Robert Bellah, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley. "Wilfred brought a serious degree of scholarship. He wanted to understand other religions not only as modes of feeling, but modes of thought." Smith donated more than 500 books and other scholarly papers on Islam to Cal State Northridge in 1998 to form the basis of a center for Islamic studies. On Monday in Toronto.
Los Angeles Times
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February 16, 2000HEADLINE: FREDERIC LORD; PIONEER IN TESTING
Frederic Lord, 87, a researcher whose work laid the theoretical foundations of modern educational testing. Lord was best known as the author of "A Theory of Test Scores," which was based on his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University in 1951.
It is considered a landmark in the history of the science of measuring human mental performance, or psychometrics, providing an elegant mathematical model that enabled developers of tests such as the SAT to create items and scales that allow meaningful comparisons of students' performances and gauge the technical quality and difficulty of questions. His research also influenced the Graduate Record Exam, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Law School Admissions Test. …
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