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HIGHLIGHTS• As two efforts to find 'dark matter' clash, mystery
• In the dark matter wars, wimps beat machos
• Nothing doing something: lighten up, dark matter
OTHER HEADLINES• Developing country involvement crucial in
• Reaching a conclusion we did not anticipate; we're
• Panel seeks better monitoring of experiments using
• Switched at birth : astronomers are debating how
• Corzine blasts gop as isolationist.
• Highland park high honors alumni; recipients praised
• To be or not to be in the business of benefits
• Greenspan needs to keep inflation at bay, professor
• The tipping point: in this exclusive excerpt from his
• Finding beauty in baskets; cream of retired exec's
• Schools clarify distance learning alliance
• Uc-berkeley refuses to take part in technology
• Republican primaries: u.s. senate; eight in gop press
• John mccain's left face; to the right, he's marching
• Princeton institutes english test for foreign
• Sacred writings returned; manuscript: the johns
• Olivia Dillan, Dennis Moore, and Yarden Malka join
• New jersey: clinton name invoked six times
• Universal display corporation's research partners
• Mccain makes long-private issues public
• Are gop candidates just whistling dixie?
• Study finds less than one in three college students
• A look back a historical vignette
• Eyes on
• Priory left mark on wvu-tech
• Vouchers lift blacks' test scores
• Campaign profile / he's taking the shot
• Uc-davis survey shows low levels of cheating, room
• MIT cuts size of class of 2004 to prepare for housing
• Mentoring program makes pitch to survive
• Using race to divide, not unite; what young americans
• Designers enter market with sleek home gadgets; with
• Novelist has more than look to make good on
• Lower division sports another option
• Economic view
• Map of life
• Stamps
• Keeping our history in print; san antonio historian
• Is certification or degree better for a tech
• Politics as unusual; ambitions of alexander
• Business people; people shaping the metro economy
• You asked us column
• Falling faces watts in district 4 contest
• Male athlete of the week
• The beautiful british isles ...
• Game of life
• Quickly ...
• Lacrosse's look shifts more teams line up in leagues
• Around the state
• U. Press Book Sales And Returns Up In 1999
OBITUARIES
• Irwin II, John Nichol, 86, diplomat and ex-aide
• Donald Graham Ewing, 73
• Meserole, Jere S.
• John Macfadyen, 76, architect of performing arts
• Doing justice to legal legend
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: As two efforts to find 'dark matter' clash, mystery of the unverse remains
BYLINE: By Faye FlamScientists have searched for years for evidence of "dark matter," invisible particles that are believed to make up far more of the universe -- from here to there to everywhere -- than what we can actually see.
Astronomers are sure it exists because they can see its effects millions of light-years away. Out there, a giant sea of dark matter appears to exert a gravitational pull strong enough to move whole galaxies, like so many leaves swept along in a current.
Particle physicists have predicted that it would be found on Earth in the form of new particles that exhibit the requisite slippery properties of the dark matter. They fancifully named them WIMPs, for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Entire careers have been spent trying to find WIMPs caught in devices built for millions of dollars in England, France, German, Italy and the United States.
Friday, a team of Italian scientists reported the first sighting of WIMPs, in a road tunnel deep beneath the surface of the Italian Alps. An American team, having conducted experiments using a similar device underground at Stanford, said it had found no such evidence.
And so the quest for a solution to one of the biggest questions in science _ what is the universe made of? _ goes on.
"Our results are totally incompatible," said Bernard Sadoulet of the University of California at Berkeley, a member of the American team who has spent 15 years developing this experiment.
Both teams reported their findings at the fourth International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe in Marina del Rey, Calif. …
The American group, which includes factions from Berkeley, Stanford University and Princeton University, used as a WIMP detector a piece of exotic metal called germanium the size of a hockey puck. It registers a WIMP as a tiny temperature change. The Americans, too, were concerned about radiation causing false readings - and so located their detector 45 feet down in a lead-shielded sub-basement room.
Their goal, like the Italians', was to try to distinguish WIMP signals from those caused by garden-variety radiation.
They detected no WIMPs -- only 13 hits that are most likely the result of mundane background.
That doesn't mean WIMPs don't exist, said Sadoulet. It's just that the nature of WIMPs makes them hard to see in this type of experiment. …
Favored at the moment are particles dubbed "neutralinos," which would be heavy and ghost-like, moving through matter and through each other. They would carry about 50 times as much mass as the protons and neutrons that make up the bulk of matter as we know it. The Italian findings, if confirmed, give some support to this construct.
Princeton cosmologist Paul Steinhardt has proposed something a little different: particles that can bounce off each other. Those better account for the way the dark matter appears to be distributed in the heavens, he said. …
The New York Times
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February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: In the Dark Matter Wars, Wimps Beat Machos
BYLINE: By JAMES GLANZ
DATELINE: MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Feb. 27The last hopes for a universe filled with familiar stuff behaving in comprehensible ways died here in Los Angeles County last week. It showed in the head-turning attire of at least two of the scientists who carried the news to a major conference on cosmology in a hotel across the street from a restaurant called Killer Shrimp.
But never mind the shrimp. Dr. Joel Primack spoke about the overall contents of the universe while wearing a midnight blue jacket and a tie that bore the likeness of Van Gogh's "Starry Night," in which some ominous presence between the stars overwhelms the visible bodies themselves. In her own talk, Dr. Katherine Freese heralded "The Death of Baryonic Dark Matter" in an all-black pantsuit.
Baryons are the ordinary particles, like protons and neutrons, of which stars, asteroids, comets, planets, people and textiles are made. By measuring the gravitational pull of some unknown "dark matter" on the visible stars and galaxies, astronomers have determined that this mysterious material which seems to permeate the universe has a weight that is 60 times that of the stars and 7 times that of all baryons, including gas and solid material in space.
By combining calculations with observational data, Dr. Freese reported that she had eliminated the last shred of possibility that the dark matter is ordinary, baryonic material. Dr. Primack, his tie providing mute acknowledgment, added that an unknown form of dark energy permeating space is apparently pushing against gravity on large scales. There is so much of this dark energy, sometimes called quintessence or the cosmological constant, that it in effect has a weight almost twice that of all matter, dark or visible.
Cosmologists have seen evidence for the dark matter and dark energy for some time. What has changed is that for now, there seems to be little chance of escaping the conclusion that the stuff of which we are made amounts to no more than cufflinks on the cosmic tuxedo, as it were. …
So what is the dark matter? As tempting as the supposition may be, it could not be killer shrimp, which would presumably be baryonic. Theorists believe it could exist in clouds of nonbaryonic particles called Wimps, for weakly interacting massive particles. At the same conference, two experimental groups -- one based in Rome and one at 10 American institutions -- presented conflicting evidence on whether Wimps have been detected. But that argument remains for the future.
While some astronomers presented fresh evidence that dark energy is filling the space between galaxies, counteracting their gravity and accelerating the expansion of the universe, Dr. Edwin L. Turner of Princeton University pointed out that a few observations can still be found that do not fit the concordance that cosmologists have found with their theories.
And not everyone is impressed with the elegance of the dark new universe. "It's a bit little ugly, isn't it?" said Dr. Turner. "A little of this, a little of that -- I think this would have been considered appalling a decade ago."
The Gazette (Montreal)
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February 26, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Nothing doing something: Lighten up, dark matter. Suck it up, black holes. Stay real, relativity. Anti-gravity, the so-called 'dark energy' thought to arise from empty space, is being touted as the new king of the cosmological forest
BYLINE: KATHY SAWYER
DATELINE: BERKELEY, Calif.Saul Perlmutter ignored his view of a russet sunset backlighting the Golden Gate Bridge and pulled down a blue plastic shade to cut the glare. From his command post here in the bayside hills, the physicist was busy directing a quest to understand a mysterious force that seems to be taking over the universe.
As he consulted urgently by phone and E-mail with a multinational team of sleep-deprived scientists, a phalanx of the world's most advanced telescopes awaited Perlmutter's next instruction. In the basement of his laboratory complex, one of the most powerful supercomputer arrays in the United States was processing cataracts of data streaming in from stars exploding in thermonuclear fury billions of light-years away. …
This is Perlmutter's Supernova Cosmology Project, an intense, single-minded scientific quest for clues about an unknown force that can be summed up in a single word stolen from fantasy fiction: anti-gravity.
Most scientists were convinced years ago that the universe is expanding from a point of genesis known as the Big Bang. But they had assumed that the outward rush was gradually being slowed by the gravitational attraction of all the star-filled galaxies - somewhat like a rubber band stretching ever closer to its outer limit. The only question, they assumed, was ''slowing by how much?''
Two years ago, Perlmutter's group, along with a rival team led by Brian Schmidt of Australia's Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, rocked the scientific world with the announcement that the cosmic expansion is not slowing at all. In fact, something appears to be speeding it up. Ordinary gravity is not in control.
The import of their findings is staggering: that ''empty'' space actually sizzles with some kind of powerful energy that is becoming the dominant influence in the universe, wresting that role away from gravity. Scientists suspect that this energy, which has never been detected directly, takes the form of ''virtual'' subatomic particles that pop in and out of existence. But however it works, its defining characteristic is that it somehow inflates the wilderness of ethereal ''nothingness'' that separates cosmic objects. In other words, while gravity draws objects together, this enigmatic energy acts as a repellent - a negative gravity.
At stake in the discovery is one of the most profound questions of the ages: how will the universe end? Instead of recollapsing in fire, the evidence suggests, the twinkling firmament will thin to virtual infinity until all is cold and dark. But that's not all. The ramifications ripple all the way through theories of cosmic birth and evolution into fundamental physics, down to the tiniest scales known or imagined. …
Hailed as 1998's ''breakthrough of the year'' by the journal Science, the supernova evidence continues to be perhaps the hottest item in a general onslaught of new information about the universe and our place in it. As the millennium turns, students of the cosmos rejoice that they are alive during a scientific golden age. …
For the first time in history, as Perlmutter's operation illustrates, humanity has acquired the technology and know-how to apply scientific methods to studies of the entire known universe, addressing questions previously left to realms of religion, art and philosophy. In coming decades, researchers will mobilize powerful new instruments to probe as deep into time and space as physics will allow. …
No one knows how this latest wrinkle in the emerging picture of nature will affect 21st-century civilization. It seems unlikely that citizens of this era will find totally alien the notion that something repulsive is causing the pace of change to speed up.
To some, the whole gaudy Big Bang construct sounds arbitrary and suspicious, fraught with weird coincidences and Zen-like paradoxes. It involves realms where our own senses, intuition and common sense seriously mislead us. Everything sprang from nothing, the scientists tell us. Mass and energy are interchangeable. Gravity bends light and can slow a clock. Black holes suck stuff out of the universe forever. Most of the mass in the universe remains unidentified. And now scientists have conjured some miasma of funny energy that thrives in emptiness and threatens cosmic domination.
Understanding the riddle of the dark energy ''will be one of the grand challenges for the millennium to come, '' says astrophysicist Neta Bahcall, of Princeton University. ''If it's there, why is it there? What causes it? And how does it behave? Who knows what we'll learn from it?''
OTHER HEADLINES
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March 2, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: PR Wire: Developing country involvement crucial in climate ...
OUTLOOK 2000 This is a media release carried by PR Wire Australia a service of AAP
Source: ABARE 29 February 2000 Developing country involvement crucial in climate change policy 'The international community must ensure that the opportunities afforded by the Kyoto mechanisms are not squandered by inappropriate mechanism design', Dr Brian Fisher, Executive Director of ABARE, said at OUTLOOK 2000 in Canberra today. Dr Fisher was presenting estimates of the economic impacts of the Kyoto Protocol. He showed that fossil fuel exporters face a reduction in export earnings, while developing country exporters of emission intensive products stand to gain competitiveness in world markets. …Professor Daniel A. Reifsnyder of Princeton University explained the position of the United States in the lead up to the next climate change conference later this year. 'The Buenos Aires Plan of Action is not enough; we need to resolve the question of how much implementation of the Kyoto Protocol will cost, and we need a clear path forward on developing country participation before we can ratify.' He added that aside from the Kyoto mechanisms, the question of building capacity for emissions reductions is critical. 'To comply requires having both the will and the means with which to do SO.' Professor Reifsnyder pointed out that businesses and governments all over the world are taking the issue of climate change more and more seriously. He said, 'even among those who oppose the Kyoto Protocol there is increasing recognition that this problem cannot be wished away'. Professor Reifsnyder's outlook is optimistic. 'If implemented. the protocol will create real incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and unleash the enormous creative potential of nations and individuals'. …
The Canberra Times
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March 2, 2000, Thursday EditionHEADLINE: REACHING A CONCLUSION WE DID NOT ANTICIPATE; WE'RE NOT SURE HOW FAR BEYOND; DARWINIAN RESTRAINTS ON ALTRUISM REASONING CAN TAKE US, PETER SINGER SAYS IN A DARWINIAN LEFT.
A DARWINIAN left would differ from the traditional left that we have come to know over the past 200 years.
I shall first draw together, in point form, some of the features that I think would distinguish a Darwinian left from previous versions of the left, both old and new.
These are features that I think a Darwinian left should embrace today.
Then I will cast a glance at more distant prospects.
A Darwinian left would not: Deny the existence of a human nature, nor insist that human nature is inherently good, nor that it is infinitely malleable; Expect to end all conflict and strife between human beings, whether by political revolution, social change, or better education; Assume that all inequalities are due to discrimination, prejudice, oppression or social conditioning. Some will be, but this cannot be assumed in every case. …
In some ways, this is a sharply deflated vision of the left, its Utopian ideas replaced by a coolly realistic view of what can be achieved.
That is, I think, the best we can do today and it is still a much more positive view than that which many of the left have assumed to be implied in a Darwinian understand ing of human nature. If we take a much longer-term perspective, there may be a prospect for restoring more far-reaching ambitions of change. …
Professor Singer is Ira W. DeCamp professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. This is an edited excerpt from A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and distributed in Australia by Allen & Unwin. RRP: $14.95.
The New York Times
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March 2, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Panel Seeks Better Monitoring Of Experiments Using People
BYLINE: By PHILLIP J. HILTSCiting failures of scientists to report problems, federal health officials and members of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission said yesterday that changes were needed in the monitoring of research on people.
The commission heard testimony as part of its review of the safety and ethics of human research.
It has been working for more than a year, holding hearings around the country, but in that time several problems in experiments involving people have emerged. Federal regulators have halted experiments at several major institutions, citing violations of ethics rules. Certain trials involving gene therapy were halted after a patient died.
After hearing testimony from witnesses representing the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Harold T. Shapiro of Princeton University, chairman of the bioethics commission, said: "One problem we have heard again and again is that, once an experiment is approved, there is a failure to follow what's going on with the patients. I think there is a growing consensus that something must be done." ..
The central issue of yesterday's discussion was the disclosure, after the death of Jesse Gelsinger, a patient in a gene expeirment at the University of Pennsylvania, that scientists had often failed to inform federal agencies of "serious adverse effects" involving patients.
Adverse events can include anything that happens to a subject while an experiment is under way, even things seemingly unrelated to the research. (Sometimes a serious event may not appear to be related to an experiment, but is later found to be related. For example, if a patient falls down the stairs and is injured, that may be a accident, but if the patient was given a drug in an experiment that brought on dizziness, the experimental drug could be considered the cause of the fall.) …
Astronomy
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March 1, 2000HEADLINE: Switched at birth : Astronomers are debating how Jupiter-sized planets come to be.
BYLINE: Sincell, MarkAstronomers once thought that gas-giant planets formed slowly and peacefully. Gravity slowly pulled together debris from the pancake- shaped nebula surrounding a newborn star to form rocky cores several times the mass of Earth. The largest planetary cores swept up vast amounts of the nearby gas, eventually becoming colorful giants. Astronomers thought roughly 1 billion years was needed to make a Jupiter-sized planet by this incremental, core-accretion process.
That view is changing.
Recent computer modeling and discoveries of extrasolar planets suggest that the gas giants we see today are the lucky survivors of a much faster process (see "Hunting Planets Beyond," p. 42). Studies of distant young star clusters suggest that would-be Jupiters and Saturns have only a few million years to grab all the gas they can before most leftover material is ejected from the nascent solar system. Survival is not guaranteed. Once they form, many young, Jupiterlike planets either bounce out of their solar systems or plunge into their parent suns because of complex gravitational interactions with one another and vanish. …
PLANETARY DRIFT
Astronomers found the first planets outside the solar system in the 1990s. The model that seemed to fit our solar system couldn't explain the hot, extrasolar planets one-half to ten times the mass of Jupiter that orbit tightly around their parent stars. Most theorists now believe these planets form in the cold realms of solar nebulae, migrate inward, and get hot. In fact, new models of solar system dynamics suggest that migration is common in newly formed planetary systems. Any other planets, debris, and gas in the disk gravitationally push new planets into new orbits. In some cases, these effects could be dramatic. "The gravitational kicks could cause it to spiral into the star in a million years," says Carnegie Institute astrophysicist George Wetherill.
"This raises a question," says Princeton University astrophysicist Scott Tremaine. "Why didn't Jupiter spiral into the sun and take Earth with it?" If Jupiter formed by the slow accretion of gas, the tiny gravitational tugs of other objects could have slowly dragged Jupiter into progressively smaller and, therefore, faster orbits. Although ample evidence exists that Neptune drifted outward significantly over its lifetime, most astronomers agree that Jupiter stayed put.
One possible explanation why Jupiter didn't move is that it formed too rapidly to be decelerated by the nebular gas. In addition, it may not have a rocky core after all - or at least not a significant one. The uncertainty arises because astronomers can't directly measure the mass of Jupiter's core. …
Until a few years ago, it was impossible to recreate Jupiter's core conditions in a laboratory. But now, by firing a light-gas gun that compresses a sample of liquid hydrogen by imploding it with laser beams, Nellis's team can create metallic hydrogen that lasts briefly - as long as 100 nanoseconds. With so little time to make measurements, Nellis's team can only estimate the true equation of state in the jovian core. …
By comparing their calculations of Jupiter's internal structure to the Galileo probe's measurement of the planet's atmospheric chemical composition and gravitational field, Hubbard and his collaborators were able to refine their estimates of Jupiter's core mass. Allowing for the uncertainty in Nellis's measurement of the hydrogen equation of state, they find that the core mass must be less than 10 Earth masses and could indeed be consistent with no rocky core. …
The Bulletin's Frontrunner
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March 1, 2000HEADLINE: Corzine Blasts GOP As Isolationist.
The Trenton Times (2/29, Stile) reported, "US Senate candidate Jon S. Corzine yesterday declared himself a post-Cold War warrior against the 'new isolationism' of the Republican- controlled Congress and vowed to pursue a policy of 'constructive engagement' with China and Russia." Corzine "also depicted himself as an internationalist in the mold of President Clinton, whose name he invoked six times yesterday in a foreign policy speech at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University." Corzine said, "I support President Clinton's sensible and essential increases in our defense budget," adding, "National security is not a pork barrel issue." …
The Dallas Morning News
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March 1, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Highland Park High honors alumni; Recipients praised as role models
BYLINE: Lee ZethrausThe founder of a nonprofit teaching organization, the executive of a telecommunications company and a Park Cities mayor are the Highland Park High School Alumni Association's distinguished alumni for 2000. …
Those selected for this year's honors are: Wendy Kopp, class of '85, founder and president of Teach for America; L. Lowry Mays, class of '53, founder and chief executive officer of Clear Channel Communications Inc.; and Gifford Touchstone, class of '54, Highland Park mayor and a commercial and industrial real estate developer. The service award winner, the late Floyd R. Hightower, coached football and track. ..
Ms. Kopp established Teach for America, which encourages college graduates from all academic majors to commit to two years of teaching in the nation's most disadvantaged urban and rural public schools. Her idea was to infuse classrooms with dynamic, energetic and dedicated educators, according to her nomination information. Since its inception 10 years ago, more than 5,000 people in the program have taught in classrooms across the country.
Teach for America has been supported by $60 million in grants from foundations, corporations, individuals and the federal government. Ms. Kopp earned a degree in public policy at Princeton University. Among numerous awards, she was honored as one of Time magazine's most promising leaders under age 40 in 1994 and as one of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year in 1990. …
Employee Benefit News
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March 01, 2000HEADLINE: To be or not to be in the business of benefits
BYLINE: Richard QuinnEmployers became involved in the insurance business through an event of history: To counter wage freezes during World War II, unions and companies found noncash ways of improving compensation.
Employer-sponsored benefits did not begin during this period (the oldest pension plans date to 1875, life insurance was modestly popular in the 1920s and even medical benefits predate the 1940s), but they surely took off.
Now, the fundamental question is not how employers became involved in benefits, but why they remain. And, even more basic, should they be in the business of benefits? If the answer is yes, what must happen to keep benefits sponsorship viable for employers? If not, what are the alternatives? …
Those who argue that benefit plans are none of employers' business and take the "just another form of compensation" view consider personal and family security issues to be the sole responsibility of the individual. Their concerns with respect to employer involvement are related to both the cost of the benefits and the administration borne by the employer.
"Benefits have taken on a life of their own between tax laws, ERISA and other legislation. While they originally may not have cost employers much, it now takes a large staff to keep up with changing legislation, administer plans and to keep the computer systems up to date," notes Sandi Bravman, benefits systems specialist at Princeton University. …
Japan Economic Newswire
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March 1, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Greenspan needs to keep inflation at bay, professor says
BYLINE: Kazuaki Otsuji
DATELINE: BOSTON, March 1 KyodoReserve should continue to curb inflation in order to prolong the current period of economic prosperity, according to Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard University.
In a recent interview with Kyodo News, Mankiw praised Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's credit-tightening monetary policy, saying his efforts to nip inflation in the bud helped the U.S. economy enter a record 107 consecutive months of expansion.
But Greenspan needs to continue with the policy in coming months, he said, adding that in the short term, keeping inflation under control is 'the most important.' …
After graduating from Princeton University in 1980, Mankiw served as an adviser on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1982 to 1983.
Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was one of his colleagues on the CEA.
After earning his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, Mankiw became an economics professor at Harvard in 1987, at the age of 29. …
National Post
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March 1, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: The Tipping Point: In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Malcolm Gladwell explains why fads, trends and ideas are all like epidemics: From tiny beginnings, they can quickly grow to giant proportions. But only if you know how to breed them
BYLINE: Malcolm Gladwell;Excerpted from The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Copyright (c) 2000 by Malcolm Gladwell. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
In 1996, a sometime actress and playwright by the name of Rebecca Wells published a book entitled Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Its arrival in the bookstores was not a major literary event. …
A year later, Ya-Ya Sisterhood came out in paperback. The first edition of 18,000 copies sold out in the first few months, exceeding expectations. By early summer, total paperback sales had reached 30,000, and both Wells and her editor began to get the sense that something strange and wonderful was about to happen. …
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was not yet on the bestseller lists. That wouldn't happen until February 1998, when it would hit the charts and stay there, through 48 printings and 2.5 million copies. The national media attention -- the articles in the big women's magazines and the appearance on television shows that would turn Wells into a celebrity -- hadn't started yet either. But through the power of word-of-mouth, her book had tipped. 'The turning point for me was probably in northern California, the winter after the paperback came out,' Wells said. 'I walked into a situation where all of a sudden there were 700 and 800 people at my readings.' …
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomenon of word of mouth or any number of other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do. …
These three characteristics -- one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment -- are the same three principles that define how measles move through a grade-school classroom or the flu attacks every winter. …
This natural limit shows up again and again in simple tests. If I make you drink twenty glasses of iced tea, each with a different amount of sugar in it, and ask you to sort them into categories according to sweetness, you'll only be able to divide them into six or seven different categories before you begin to make mistakes. Or if I flash dots on a screen in front of you very quickly and ask you to count how many you saw, you'd get the number right up to about seven dots, and then you'll need to guess. 'There seems to be some limitation built into us either by learning or by the design of our nervous systems, a limit that keeps our channel capacities in this general range,' the psychologist George Miller concluded in his famous essay 'The Magical Number Seven.' This is the reason that telephone numbers have seven digits. 'Bell wanted a number to be as long as possible so they could have as large a capacity as possible, but not so long that people couldn't remember it,' says Jonathon Cohen, a memory researcher at Princeton University. At eight or nine digits, the local telephone number would exceed the human channel capacity: there would be many more wrong numbers. …
The San Francisco Chronicle
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MARCH 1, 2000, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: Finding Beauty in Baskets; Cream of retired exec's collection of Japanese bamboo at the Asian
BYLINE: Peter Stack, Chronicle Staff WriterIn the late 1950s, Lloyd Cotsen -- who was to become CEO and chairman of Neutrogena Corp. -- fell in love in San Francisco. The object of his infatuation? A small, dented Japanese bamboo basket he bought in North Beach for $34.
"I just loved the look and feel of it," said Cotsen, who, as a boy growing up in Boston, collected everything from stamps to marbles.
Cotsen is a collector who likes to share, and he's shared his collections of textiles by putting them on display. The Cotsen Gallery at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M., has more than 3,000 pieces. The Cotsen Children's Library at his alma mater, Princeton University, houses one of the world's largest collections of illustrated children's books, and Cotsen glows over the fact that kids can see them there.
Today, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco gets to show off items from Cotsen's vast collection of Japanese bamboo baskets -- marvels of sculptural form, intricate design, complex texture and surprising colors.
"Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets From the Lloyd Cotsen Collection" runs through May 7 at the museum in Golden Gate Park. …
University Wire
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March 1, 2000HEADLINE: Schools clarify distance learning alliance
BYLINE: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, Harvard Crimson
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.In three identical statements issued Tuesday, representatives from Yale, Princeton and Stanford universities released select details from their high-level talks about a possible distance learning alliance targeted at alumni.
And although Harvard reiterated that it does not plan to participate in the discussions, at least one official at Princeton said it may be easier for Harvard to think about joining once details are clearer.
"I've talked with all of the various participants and I think Harvard just needs time to consider," said Princeton University Provost Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Harvard Class of 1959). "We may make it easier for Harvard to decide when we know what the 'it' is."
Ostriker said the cooperative agreement between the universities would be in the area of arts and sciences and would not include professional schools. …
Ostriker said the Princeton trustees have urged that university to move forward in the area of distance education focused on students and alumni. …
University Wire
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March 1, 2000HEADLINE: UC-Berkeley refuses to take part in technology survey
BYLINE: Jon Krauss, Daily Californian
SOURCE: U. California-Berkeley
DATELINE: Berkeley, Calif.UC-Berkeley officials said Tuesday they are rejecting participation in a ranking of the nation's most computer-savvy colleges, claiming that the evaluation standards are "flaky."
The university is one of at least 11 leading schools declining to take part in "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" survey, compiled annually by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
Various universities have accused the Yahoo! survey of using a subjective ranking system.
Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley vice chancellor of information systems and technology, said the survey is not a reliable measurement of technological proficiency.
"Several major research universities decided that the Yahoo! survey is so unreliable and flaky that we would not respond until they cleaned up the act," he said.
He added that the university should not participate in the survey because it is careless with its data collection and therefore produces inaccurate results. …
Schools that have refused to be in the survey, including Princeton University, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Stanford University and Yale University, all ranked in the top 20s and 30s in the nation in 1999. Several of those same universities, however, were ranked in the low 80s and 90s in last year's report.
Brian Hawkins, an employee at Educause, wrote an e-mail to several university officials around the country which explained some of the reservations his organization had with the survey. Educause is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving education through the use of new learning resources and technology. …
The Washington Post
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March 1, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES: U.S. Senate; Eight in GOP Press Uphill Senate Bids; Candidates, Seeking a Chance at Sarbanes, Cite Patriotism, Education, Lower Taxes
BYLINE: Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post Staff WriterOne says he owes his life to the Army.
Another says he was partly disabled by Agent Orange in Vietnam.
A third says he was once held hostage in Beirut.
There is also a former police chief, a retired surgeon, a former legislator, the editor of a newsletter and a retired nuclear physicist.
Diverse in background, all have a common goal: winning the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate from Maryland.
Whoever wins probably will face a daunting task: defeating the likely Democratic nominee, four-term incumbent Paul S. Sarbanes. …
Howard David Greyber
Age: 76.
Residence: Potomac.
Education: PhD, MS physics, University of Pennsylvania; BSME, Cooper Union.
Occupation: Retired from Defense Intelligence Agency.Elected offices/civic activities: Engineer, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; wartime volunteer; U.S. naval officer, Pacific theater; thermonuclear weapon design, Princeton University and Livermore National Laboratory; Republican candidate for U.S. House, 8th Congressional District, Massachusetts; physics professor, Northeastern University. …
Why should the voters elect you? "Science high schools are a tiny shining facet of American public education. Let's revolutionize our educational system by having the federal government fund and build 435 high schools of science over seven years, one in each congressional District, locally controlled. Building 63 schools per year is affordable today, costing about $3.8 billion per year for seven years, thus stimulating the excellence we need for strong economic growth. Parents would demand elementary and middle schools improve their courses. Great Republican presidents like Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower have enriched public education. We can do no less." …
The Washington Post
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March 1, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: John McCain's Left Face; To the Right, He's Marching the Wrong Way
BYLINE: Kevin Merida, Washington Post Staff WriterCampaigns are known for taking a candidate's identity and twisting it like licorice, for making fuzzy what had seemed plain before. And so it is fascinating to watch what is happening to John McCain as he runs for president. McCain the closet Democrat? McCain the anti-Republican?
McCain the lefty?
For most of his 13 years in the Senate, he was John McCain the card-carrying, true-blue conservative. That's what you call someone who is anti-abortion and pro-gun, a defense hawk and a deficit hawk, an opponent of minimum-wage increases and a supporter of Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America." …
But it is not as if McCain is standing idly by. Campaign transformations don't happen all by themselves. The waves may be pushing him along, but he is swimming hard with the tide. When you take a sledgehammer to Pat Robertson's kneecaps, and then say, what the hell, let me club ol' Jerry Falwell while I'm at it, you are not inviting devotion among the religious right, a core conservative constituency within the GOP. …
Fred Greenstein, a presidential scholar at Princeton University, says the phenomenon reminds him of the courting of Dwight D. Eisenhower by both parties after World War II. "Everybody seemed to conclude, 'I don't know what he stands for but it must be something good.' The image of him out there was a lot more centrist than he was, especially on economic policy." …
The Associated Press
February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Princeton institutes English test for foreign teaching assistants
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.After hearing complaints for years that some foreign graduate students were impossible to understand, administrators at Princeton University are making them pass an English proficiency test.
Beginning this summer, graduate students will have to pass the test to be course preceptors or lab instructors.
If they fail, they must take a yearlong English class. Native English speakers and foreign students who were undergraduates in the United States will be exempt.
Princeton's 1,750 graduate students usually lead the small class discussions that complement lectures given by professors. They also run laboratory sessions.
Math and science graduate students are notorious for their poor English. Bill Fedyna, a senior economics major, remembers having four preceptors in a class called Mathematics in Engineering. Three of them did not speak English. …
Since 1990, Princeton has offered foreign graduate students a three-week English course in the summer before their first year, but the class is not mandatory.
NOTE: This story appeared in The Record of Hackensack and other New Jersey newspapers.
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Sacred writings returned; Manuscript: The Johns Hopkins University sends back a portion of the ninth-century Gold Koran that disappeared at least a century ago from Istanbul.
BYLINE: Holly Selby
SOURCE: SUN STAFFWASHINGTON -- A century or more since the manuscript disappeared from Istanbul, the Johns Hopkins University returned to the government of Turkey yesterday part of a ninth-century Koran, the holy book of Islam, written entirely in gold.
Known as the Gold Koran, the illuminated manuscript is considered by scholars to be a rare and extraordinarily beautiful example of Islamic art. The university's portion -- which has been in its library collections for nearly six decades -- includes the first 18 suras, or chapters, of the Koran. When it arrives in Turkey, it will be be reunited with the remainder of the manuscript that for centuries has been kept in Istanbul's Nuruosmaniye Library.
"Johns Hopkins acknowledges the rightful home of the Gold Koran is in the Nuruosmaniye Library in Istanbul. We are pleased to restore the manuscript to the people of Turkey," said William R. Brody, university president. "We are losing, in a sense, a child, but by reuniting it with its sister document, we are gaining another child." …
A 1942 bequest
The Johns Hopkins University acquired its portion of the Gold Koran with about 30,000 other rare books as part of a bequest made by Baltimore businessman John Work Garrett when he died in 1942. Some years later, the Garrett home -- the Evergreen House at 4545 N. Charles St. -- also was given to the university.
Garrett had purchased the manuscript from Princeton University in 1942, a few months before he died, says James G. Neal, dean of the university libraries.
Princeton, in turn, had received the book as a gift from Garrett's brother, Robert, an avid collector, who had purchased it from a dealer about 1904. Who the dealer was or how he acquired the portion of the Gold Koran is unclear, Neal says. …
Business Wire
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February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Olivia Dillan, Dennis Moore, and Yarden Malka Join Zack Rinat at Model N; Team Attracts Powerhouse Talent in Record Time
DATELINE: REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 29, 2000Model N today announced that Olivia Dillan, Dennis Moore, and Yarden Malka have joined Zack Rinat to found a new company.
The four executives have worked together previously at Sun, NetDynamics, Oracle, and Ingres. The management team will complete the first phase of hiring the team, developing the product, and acquiring customers prior to a formal launch of the company. This new approach to forming a company will enable Model N to accelerate time-to-market, overcoming the shortage of management and engineering talent. …
Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore has more than ten years experience marketing software and services in the business-to-business market at Oracle, Progress, and Exemplary Software. During his nearly eight years with Oracle, Mr. Moore held a number of senior management positions, with responsibility for running Oracle.Com and marketing Oracle's industry-dominating Tools products.
Prior to joining Oracle, Dennis held a number of product development and management positions with Ingres Corp., Dendrite International, Progress Software, Exemplary Software, and Procter and Gamble. Mr. Moore graduated from Princeton University, earning a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis on computer science and economics.
The Hotline
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February 29, 2000SECTION: SENATE REPORT
HEADLINE: NEW JERSEY: CLINTON NAME INVOKED SIX TIMESEx-Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine (D) yesterday "declared himself a post-Cold War warrior against the 'new isolationism'" of the GOP-controlled Congress and he "vowed to pursue a policy of 'constructive engagement' with China and Russia." Corzine "also depicted himself as an internationalist in the mold of President Clinton" -- invoking the president's name six times in the foreign policy speech at Princeton Univ. Corzine: "I support President Clinton's sensible and essential increases in our defense budget. ... National security is not a pork barrel issue" (Stile, Trenton Times, 2/29).
PR Newswire
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February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corporation's Research Partners Develop; New Organic Materials For Higher Efficiency OLED Flat Panel Display
DATELINE: EWING, N.J., Feb. 29The Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: PANL; Philadelphia: PNL), a developer of flat display technology, announced today that its research partners have discovered a variety of new, energy efficient organic materials to be used with organic light emitting diodes (OLED's) for the manufacture and production of the next generation of electronic flat panel displays. Their achievements were reported in the February 17 issue of Nature, the prestigious peer reviewed journal of science.
UDC's research partners, led by Dr. Stephen Forrest of Princeton University, have found that combining two different methods for emitting light, fluorescence with phosphorescence, can create more efficient sources of light. The findings by Dr. Forrest and the research team including Dr. Mark Thompson of The University of Southern California and Marc Baldo, a graduate student at Princeton University, demonstrate UDC's proprietary material system which involves co-mingling phosphorescence with fluorescence to improve the efficiency of the other OLED systems. Fluorescence, which has been used in OLEDs, can potentially provide a wider range of colors.
Dr. Forrest said electronics manufacturers could use the new techniques within six months in certain applications such as car stereo displays. Eventually the technique could lead to ubiquitous use of OLED's in products such as palm pilots, cell phones and laptops. "It offers manufacturers exactly what they want," said Forrest. "You want a laptop that doesn't run down the battery in three hours; you want a battery to last 10 hours." …
USA TODAY
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February 29, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: McCain makes long-private issues public
BYLINE: Jill LawrenceSen. John McCain closed out a sharp speech Monday with a touching anecdote about a prisoner, a guard and a cross scratched in the dirt. It was the most striking example of how a presidential candidate who once refused to talk about religion and dispensed with his POW ordeal with a quick joke is now using both to underscore his patriotic, character-oriented appeal.
Presidential scholars call it a tactical masterstroke enabling the Arizona Republican to bludgeon "agents of intolerance" and at the same time reinforce his own character and spirituality. But they also note the contrast with McCain's reticence in previous campaigns. …
"It's a very powerful way of taking an important piece of his background and raising its profile," says Fred Greenstein, a presidential scholar at Princeton University. "It's a marvelous ploy. He positions himself, if anything, in a more deeply spiritual mode and at the same time distances himself from these religious extremists." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Are GOP candidates just whistling Dixie?
BYLINE: By ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.Texas Gov. George W. Bush helped raise funds for a ball where couples dressed in Civil War garb and danced where slaves once toiled. Sen. John McCain hired a campaign manager who edits a magazine seen by critics as a home for racist views.
Both Republican presidential contenders have come under fire for their ties to people in what has been called the neo-Confederate movement. Both have sought to distance themselves from the controversy.
But the issue is still simmering as they approach Tuesday's primary in Virginia, home of the Civil War rebel capital and of Appomattox Courthouse, site of the South's surrender.
"A president must be president to all the people," Ralph Neas, head of People for the American Way, wrote to McCain last week in demanding he fire South Carolina campaign aide Richard Quinn. Quinn is editor-in-chief of Southern Partisan magazine. …
Meanwhile, Southern Exposure, the journal of the Institute for Southern Studies, a civil rights think tank in Durham, N.C., criticized Bush for writing letters in 1996 on behalf of Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. …
Noted Civil War historian James McPherson said Bush should not be ashamed to have supported the Museum of the Confederacy, whose home is the so-called "White House of the Confederacy."
"The Museum of the Confederacy is a highly professional and valuable museum and research institution," said McPherson, who teaches at Princeton University. …
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State & Local Wire
February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Study finds less than one in three college students have sprinklers in dorm rooms
BYLINE: By RALPH SIEGEL, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.Two in three students living on New Jersey college campuses occupy dorm rooms without fire suppression sprinklers, according to a state study done in the aftermath of last month's fatal fire at Seton Hall University.
The New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, the state's lead agency in the construction of new college buildings, released the results Monday to a Senate committee. The lawmakers were considering legislation to mandate sprinklers in every dorm room in New Jersey and provide $50 million in state financing to pay for their installation.
The study found only about 15,290 beds in student dormitories in New Jersey were in rooms equipped with sprinklers. That's about 29 percent of the total of 51,913 beds in the dorms at colleges and universities, both public and private. …
Rutgers University has sprinklers in 32 percent of its dorm rooms, Princeton University in 14 percent. Of other large schools, The College of New Jersey had the highest percentage of its rooms equipped with sprinklers, 82 percent. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 28, 2000, MondayA LOOK BACK A HISTORICAL VIGNETTE
HEADLINE: A LOOK BACK A HISTORICAL VIGNETTE
War shadows an election BY: JON BLACKWELL/STAFF WRITERTHINK this year's election is nasty? Check out what happened the last time a New Jerseyan was president.
It was 1916, and Woodrow Wilson was running for re-election while staying at a rented summer home at Shadow Lawn in West Long Branch. Overseas, World War I had already taken millions of European lives, and Americans felt happy to stay neutral and out of it.
Wilson's Democrats had a simple slogan: "He kept us out of war!" But they also had to defend the president against harsh - at times vicious - attacks from the opposition.
Some called him a megalomaniac secretly plotting to plunge America into war; some called him a weakling too afraid to take America into war.
Rumormongers spread false stories about the death of Wilson's first wife, Ellen, in 1914. They whispered that she had died of a broken heart because he was seeing other women; they spread a story that he had pushed her down the White House stairs, killing her. …
A Virginia-born academic, Wilson took New Jersey as his adopted state when he became president of Princeton University. He had enjoyed a meteoric rise, within two years, from college head to governor of New Jersey to president. And his first term had been a success in many ways as he pushed through bills to ban child labor, tax incomes and regulate unfair business practices. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Eyes On
Spring Lake Heights teen has winning way with words BY: KAREN HAMMERDORFERDELANCEY/CORRESPONDENT GLEN SPOVIERO, 18, of Spring Lake Heights recently placed second in the American Legion District 3 Oratorical Contest.
Spoviero attended the Boys State Conference last summer at Rider University. He is the editor of the school newspaper, president of the Academic Bowl and a member of the National Honor Society. The senior has also written numerous letters to the editor and essays for numerous newspapers and was recently published in Princeton University's political magazine, Princeton Tory. …
Charleston Daily Mail
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Priory left mark on WVU-Tech
BYLINE: GEORGE HOHMANNStafford Thornton, associate dean of engineering and professor of civil engineering at West Virginia University Institute of Technology, made a lasting impression on Rick Priory when Priory was a student at the Montgomery school.
It was Thornton who recommended in 1966 that young Priory re-take calculus 1 - a class the student had already taken and paid for at Beckley College.
"I was afraid he wasn't going to be able to pass the next class," Thornton said. "I thought he didn't have the background for it. But he persuaded me that he did."
Priory recently recalled that after he and Thornton clashed, he went on to ace not only Calculus 2, but Calculus 3 as well. …
Priory graduated magna cum laude from what is now WVU-Tech in December 1969 with a degree in civil engineering.
After a short stint at Union Carbide Corp. in Charleston, Priory enrolled at Princeton University. He graduated with a master's in engineering in 1973. …
Dayton Daily News
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: VOUCHERS LIFT BLACKS' TEST SCORES
SUBHEAD: Students left Dayton public schools and learned more in private ones, a study says
BYLINE: Tom Beyerlein Dayton Daily NewsDAYTON - A study released today by Harvard University reports that black elementary students who left the Dayton Public Schools last year to attend private schools under a voucher system scored better on math and reading tests than those who remained in the public schools.
The study, School Choice in Dayton, Ohio: An Evaluation After One Year , also found that parents of private school children are more satisfied with their children's schools and less concerned about discipline problems than their public school counterparts. A study of the Washington, D.C., schools, also released today by the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, reached similar conclusions.
"Many people think that equal opportunity will not be achieved until we eliminate differences in education performance between blacks and whites," said program director Paul Peterson, co-author of the study. "If the initial findings from Dayton and D.C. hold up over time, vouchers for students beginning in elementary school may help eliminate the black-white test-score gap." …
Asked to respond to the survey results, interim Dayton Superintendent Jerrie Bascome McGill declined to be interviewed. But in a written response McGill said alternatives to public schools are part of the current competitive environment and the "challenge for us as an urban district is to refine our program offerings in such a way that we are perceived as a viable competitor." In previous studies of voucher programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee, the Harvard team reached more optimistic conclusions than other researchers about the academic impact of vouchers in those cities. Peterson said he feels Harvard's method of calculating the impact on test scores was more valid than those used by Indiana University in the Cleveland study, and by the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Princeton University in the Milwaukee study. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: CAMPAIGN PROFILE / HE'S TAKING THE SHOT
BYLINE: By Deborah Barfield. WASHINGTON BUREAUThey were in line at the Port Authority bus terminal waiting to return to Princeton University after a day in the city - Bill Bradley at a basketball game to watch his idol Oscar Robertson and Daniel Okimoto at an Asian film festival.
The two juniors barely knew each other, but soon struck up a conversation about home, life and family. Then, the topic shifted to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Okimoto, who was born in an internment camp, told of how his family was rounded up and shipped to camps where months turned into years. He remembers his new friend's outrage.
"He was engaged, asking me so many questions. He wanted to know, how could something like this happen in the United States . . . the showcase of democracy in the world," said Okimoto, recalling the moment more than 35 years ago that planted the seed of a lifelong friendship. "As long as I've known him, he has been on the side of the underdog, the discriminated against . . . He's championed their cause," said Okimoto, now a political science professor at Stanford University.
That exchange at the bus station defines in part who Bill Bradley is and one of the reasons he wants to be president. In his bid for the Democratic nomination, the former New Jersey senator has taken on the volatile issue of race relations, holding it up as a symbol of one of America's greatest shames. …
University Wire
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February 28, 2000HEADLINE: UC-Davis survey shows low levels of cheating, room for improvement
BYLINE: By Cameron Jahn, The California Aggie
DATELINE: Davis, Calif.In a survey conducted this fall, UC Davis students' attitudes toward cheating were compiled in order to improve upon the academic honor codes of schools across the nation.
UCD was one of 21 universities to participate in a survey that examined schools with traditional honor codes, those without honor codes and schools whose policies fall somewhere in the middle.
According to the results of the study conducted by the Center for Academic Integrity, UCD's modified honor code makes it part of a new trend among large universities that encourages students and faculty to collaborate to prevent cheating. …
Unlike schools such as Princeton University and Rice University where any breach of the honor code results in expulsion, a student who is caught cheating will not automatically fail the class. Instead, students at UCD may receive a failing grade on the assignment in addition to being referred to SJA for a counseling session with an adviser such as Wilson. …
University Wire
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February 28, 2000HEADLINE: MIT cuts size of Class of 2004 to prepare for housing crunch
BYLINE: By Rima Arnaout, The Tech
SOURCE: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.MIT decided last week to limit the freshman class of 2004 to one thousand students, in preparation for a housing crunch expected when all freshmen move on campus in 2001.
"We decided to keep the class size small this year as a way to address the crowding issue. Students have complained quite a bit about crowding, and we're trying to be responsive," said Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow '72.
"We've actually lost some housing capacity [with the] renovation of Baker House," Bacow said, "and we've lost two fraternities in the past few years ... we certainly hope we will not lose more," Bacow said.
The closing of Phi Gamma Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon alone have taken 80 beds out of the housing system. …
The fact that the deciding factor in the freshman class size this year is housing issue and not the ratio of faculty to students, for example, may point to a commitment on the administration's part for improving the lives of students outside the classroom as well as academically. …
The decision to keep the class size low goes against what some of MIT's peer institutions are doing. A trustee committee at Princeton University has recently elected to increase the undergraduate student body by 10 percent, from 4,600 to 5,100 members.
"Princeton has the capacity to provide its distinctive educational experience to a somewhat larger number of students, and therefore to make an even greater contribution to the society it serves," said committee member President Harold T. Shapiro in a press release. …
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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February 28, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: MENTORING PROGRAM MAKES PITCH TO SURVIVE
BYLINE: BY VANDANA SINHA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACHIt made Noelle fine-tune her dreams of being a pediatrician five years before she enrolled in the Old Dominion University biology department.
It made Ernesto call the six weeks of summer he spent attending classes and doing three hours of nightly homework his fondest memories.
And it made Rasheem switch lanes from a failing report card into advanced classes in the space of one ninth-grade year.
Noelle M. Gabriel, Ernesto M. Vera and Rasheem D. McMillian are apt spokespeople for a middle school program that organizers fear could be in jeopardy if they can't find the money to keep it thriving.
Learning Bridge is a partnership between Norfolk Academy and the Norfolk public school system, but neither institution pays the bills. Academy Headmaster John H. Tucker started the program here eight years ago, and has helped find donations and grants for it ever since. Now, its supporters hope to create a permanent fund so it won't be uprooted with Tucker, who retires in July.
They are knocking on Norfolk's corporate and university doors to raise at least $1 million for an endowment that would keep the college preparatory program alive and growing well beyond Tucker's departure. …
''It made me a better person as a whole,'' said Vera, a Lake Taylor High School senior who, five years after finishing the program, has applied to U.Va., Stanford University, Princeton University and the U.S. Naval Academy. ''It exposed me to community service. It better prepared me for a heavier workload.'' …
The Washington Times
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February 28, 2000, Monday, Final EditionHEADLINE: Using race to divide, not unite; What young Americans think about race
BYLINE: Nat Hentoff; THE WASHINGTON TIMESWhile Al Gore and Bill Bradley compete for the black vote, the racial divide remains - often encouraged by those who say they want to repair it. And reactions to these confusing and confused separatists adds to the tension.
Hamilton College in upstate New York commissioned a survey last year - "The Racial Attitudes of Young Americans" - from John Zogby. Since he is the only national pollster to whom I pay serious attention, I find the results illuminating and important, but also disturbing.
The questions were asked of 1,001 randomly selected 18- to 20-year-olds around the country. Among the somewhat more heartening results was that 56 percent said that government should ensure fair treatment of blacks in the workplace.
The majority also accepted interracial dating and marriage. And 61 percent agreed that "the government in Washington should see to it that white and black children go to the same schools." …
Vinnie Tong, a student at the University of California in Berkeley, told The New York Times: "When you first get here, they give you this talk about diversity - what kind of place did you come from? What kind of people did you live with? They really shove that down your throat. I come from a predominantly white, Republican town in Northern California, and all of a sudden, I'm an Asian girl, whether I like it or not. I really resented it."
Not surprisingly, in a report on affirmative action at the University of Michigan, the widely respected Chronicle of Higher Education noted, "Most students' close friendships tend to be with people of their own race." Teaching at Princeton University two years ago, I was given similar responses by black and white students. …
The Houston Chronicle
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February 27, 2000HEADLINE: Designers enter market with sleek home gadgets; With houseware sales hot, high-end items turn up at Target
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
BYLINE: EILEEN DASPIN, JUNE FLETCHERThe millennium is only three months old, yet one home-furnishings trend already is clear: The class market will continue to invade the mass market.
High-end designers of all stripes - interior, industrial and architectural - who once catered only to the elite denizens of Greenwich or Newport Beach are stepping up their production of humble household products such as vegetable peelers, plastic chairs and even toilet brushes, hoping to become household names in return.
Such branding already has proven profitable for both designers and stores. Target Corp.'s line of toasters, tea kettles and other trinkets by architect Michael Graves, introduced in 1998, has been "so successful, we're expanding it this year," says Patty Morris, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis chain. The line will be more than doubled to 500 items. "I just sit down at my drafting table and turn them out," Graves says. …
Michael Graves
One of America's best-known architects, Graves teaches architecture at Princeton University and has designed everything from the scaffolding around the Washington Monument to picture frames.
His pick: A chess set for Target that will be introduced in June. Graves, who doesn't play chess, created the minimalist, wooden game board and smooth, egg-shaped playing pieces "only because Target asked me," he said. From the competition: Stackable fiberglass chairs by Italian designer Mario Bellini. These skinny injection-molded chairs "don't have a lot of personality, but they're elegant," says Graves. They are also fairly inexpensive - $80 a pop - and come in charcoal, dove gray and pistachio.
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
Copyright 2000 The Indianapolis Star
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Novelist has more than look to make good on ambition
BYLINE: DAN CARPENTER; STAFF WRITEREverything about Greg Hrbek says Young Writer -- the T-shirt and sweater, the earring, the buzz-cut hair that seems an extension of the chopped beard, the quiet but cut-to-the-nut manner of conversing.
Yet the 30-year-old novelist's preoccupation is with points of view even younger than his generation's, and he has drawn from an old master in pursuing them.
"I was interested in childhood as a theme," he says of his current book, The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, "and what Henry James said about kids and literature, and how their perceptions outstrip their verbal ability. Children have a rich mental existence that can't be communicated, but fiction can exploit young characters and give voice to the inexpressible."
As a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Butler University, Hrbek can lay down such challenges of craft and claim some authority. Reviewers have bestowed badges like "lyrical debut," "wise and austere" and "a subtle, inventive, moving portrayal of contemporary angst" upon his 1999 novel (Bard/Avon, $23), even if Hrbek isn't the kind to flash them. …
Hrbek will be freed from teaching responsibilities, at least for next academic year, as he toils to finish his prison novel. Raised in Connecticut, he'll return to the East as an Alfred Hodden Fellow at Princeton University, where he can write full time. …
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
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February 27, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: Lower division sports another option
BYLINE: Emily Macy
BODY: By Emily MacyR-Jeneration
Requirements for playing college athletics:1. Have at least a 40-inch vertical jump.
2. Run a mile under 4 minutes.
3. Be an All-American athlete.OK, so your vertical is about 25 on a good day, running the mile under 7 minutes is impossible, and you haven't quite achieved incredible athletic honors. But you want to play, so what do you do?
Like college academics, collegiate athletics aren't for everyone. Amazing athletic talent is not always necessary to move onto the next level after high school. Athletes who want to play can participate in college with a little sacrifice and compromise. …
Injuries and time constraints make a student athlete's future uncertain.
Matt Mullins, a junior at Princeton University, played varsity tennis for the Tigers during his years as an underclassman. After finding the need to devote more time to studying instead of practicing, Mullins was demoted to junior varsity level.
'Once I was bumped down, I turned to a different sport, wrestling, and now I'm on the varsity team,' said Mullins. 'I still love to play tennis, but I don't have the time or the desire to play in the cold.' …
The New York Times
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February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: ECONOMIC VIEW
Subjecting Greenspan's Theories to Peer Review
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLEECONOMIC theory is wonderfully pliable. Just when the Federal Reserve seemed to be running out of reasons to slow the economy in anticipation of a rising inflation rate that is taking forever to rise, Alan Greenspan has in the last 10 days come up with a new theory that requires the Fed to act, and quickly.
Mr. Greenspan's thesis makes productivity both a blessing and a curse: a blessing, because it raises the supply of goods and services, and a curse, because -- working through the stock market -- it increases the demand. The demand, in fact, outstrips the newly augmented supply. Shortages then raise prices and the inflation rate.
That is quite a mouthful of a theory, but one hard to ignore when coming from the Fed's august chairman. The same proposition, offered by an ordinary economist, would end up buried in an economics journal, peppered with challenges from peers.
Listen to peer review from Robert M. Solow, a Nobel laureate at M.I.T.: "You cannot say that the Greenspan thesis is nonsense or cannot happen. But it is not enough to say that it is happening. You need a lot of numbers work to convince a person that what he says represents a clear and present danger."
Alan S. Blinder of Princeton University, a former Fed vice chairman, makes a similar point. "This is sound economic theorizing," he said, " but does it fit the facts?" …
The New York Times
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February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Map of Life
BYLINE: By Lee M. Silver; Lee M. Silver, a professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University, is the author of "Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family."GENOME The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.
By Matt Ridley.
344 pp. New York:
HarperCollins Publishers. $26.Thousands of years ago, a tribe of Asiatic people with an unusual language invaded the land that is modern Finland. This prehistoric event is manifest in the language spoken by Finns today. Yet linguistic analysis cannot tell us how the invaders treated the indigenous people. Remarkably, that detail of the ancient invasion is revealed in the DNA of Finnish boys alive today. The foreigners killed all the local men and settled down to have babies with the local women.
On a Long Island playground this morning, a Jewish child carries a different message in her DNA -- one from the overcrowded Eastern European ghetto her ancestors called home a few centuries ago. Her ancestors used this very same DNA message to ward off tuberculosis even as their neighbors succumbed to the disease.
Other messages from the past are hidden in all of us. You and I carry faint echoes of the pugnacious little protolife form that existed for a moment four billion years ago, and spawned everything that lives on the planet today. …
All this may sound like the plot of a Stephen King novel, but as Matt Ridley explains in his new book, the reality of our genes is much stranger than fiction. To appreciate how ancestral messages can be written in our DNA, only a little background understanding is required. The idea that living things contain hereditary information that is passed on to offspring is at least as old as human civilization. …
The hereditary information in each human being -- the genome -- can be viewed as a "book" containing about three billion characters of text written into molecules of DNA. This is no metaphor. The text of my genome is as real and discrete as the text of this review (which, as I write, exists only as a string of bits on a computer disk). Over the last two decades, scientists have created machines that automatically "read" text from DNA and "write" it into computer memory. The Human Genome Project is a scientific effort to read the whole book of three billion characters (the human genome) and place them all in the right order. It will soon be completed. Ridley points out that each human being carries a slightly different text. The first "human genome" to be posted on the Web will be a random composite from many individuals.
That's all the science you need to appreciate Ridley's "Genome," which is unlike any other popular book about genes. It is not about the Human Genome Project or the way research is carried out. Ridley, a British journalist with a doctoral degree in zoology, does touch on the incredible potential of genetics for alleviating human misery, and he can't help releasing regular salvos at the antigenetics crowd. But much of his remarkable book is focused on a higher plane of pure intellectual discovery. It is a nearly jargon-free expedition that hops from one human chromosome to the next (23 in all) in search of the most delightful stories. Even practicing geneticists -- apt to view the genome as a boring research tool -- will come away with a greater sense of wonder at the hidden secrets in the text. …
The Palm Beach Post
Copyright 2000 Palm Beach Newspaper, Inc.
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: STAMPS
BYLINE: Fred LeeOn Monday, the 150th anniversary of the University of Utah will be commemorated on a special 20-cent card. First day ceremonies for the Historic Preservation series postal card will be held on the university campus in Salt Lake City.
When founded on Feb., 28, 1850, it was named the University of Deseret, and was the first university west of the Missouri River.
Artist Allen Garns of Messa, Ariz., depicted the neoclassical John R. Park Building used on the card. Completed in 1914, the Park Building is one of several historic buildings located around Presidents Circle. The Park Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1978.
They're going ... Stamped cards being dropped on the March 31 deadline set by the Stamp Fulfillment Services include the Princeton University card of 1996 as well as the Fort McHenry and City College of New York cards released in 1997. …
San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-News
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Keeping our history in print; San Antonio historian Fehrenbach enjoys a revival of his work
BYLINE: Sterlin Holmesly
The three words a book author most dreads hearing are "out of print." But San Antonio historian T.R. Fehrenbach has escaped that fate and is enjoying a revival of sorts that is keeping his work alive.
Many of Fehrenbach's historical works - some written nearly 40 years ago - are in bookstores or online, either for sale in traditional format or to download. New hardcover editions of two of his classics, "Lone Star" and "This Kind of War," are being issued.
In all, eight of Fehrenbach's titles are available again this year.
The San Antonian has published 18 nonfiction books, mostly
histories, which have been printed in 10 languages.
Fehrenbach made his most lasting mark with "This Kind of War," a history of military actions in the Korean War, 1950-53. It has scarcely been out of print since its initial publication in 1963 and has become required reading for U.S. Army and Marine ground-force officers. The new edition has a glowing cover endorsement from Gen. Colin Powell.
Fehrenbach, a graduate of Princeton University, served as a sergeant in World War II and a tank officer in the Korean War. He retired as an Army reserve lieutenant colonel in the early 1960s. …
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 2000 Star Tribune
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Is certification or degree better for a tech career?
BYLINE: Bob WeinsteinAnyone pursuing an information technology (IT) career knows that relentless education is an asset that will keep you employed and ahead of the pack. Just staying abreast of the latest thinking isn't enough. If you hope to move onto a fast track, you had better stay on the "bleeding edge."
What's the best way to succeed? By being up on the hot technologies. But does this mean certification, a computer science (CS) degree or a business degree with a concentration in IS (information systems) or MIS (management information systems)?
The general rule is that if you want fast, job-specific information, the certification path makes sense, said Steve Gilbert, president of Washington, D.C.-based TLT Group, a nonprofit organization that helps colleges teach technology. But if you want general theoretical knowledge about the inner workings of computers, a CS degree is preferable, he said.
There's more to it, said Dennis Scheil, chief technologist at Delta Corporate Services, a Parsippany, N.J., computer consulting company. Scheil used to run a training program for Delta and boasts more acronyms after his name than most techies compile in a lifetime.
Scheil, 45, has several certifications: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer), MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer), CNE (Certified Novell Engineer), OS/2 Certification, CLSE (Certified Land Server Engineer), CNP (Certified Network Professional) and Citrix Certification.
But he is more than a supergeek. He also has a master's degree in German literature from Princeton University. …
The Tennessean
Copyright 2000 The Tennessean
February 27, 2000HEADLINE: POLITICS AS UNUSUAL; AMBITIONS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTION, AARON BURR CULMINATE IN 'DUEL'
BYLINE: ELLEN DAHNKE STAFF WRITERDUEL: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America By Thomas Fleming Basic Books ($30)
Scandalous affairs. Impeachment trials for entirely political reasons. A nasty journalist. Intrigue by foreign agents.
If there's nothing new under the sun in the study of history, there are fresh and exciting ways to tell stories like the events that led two of a young America's most visible politicians to meet in Weehawken, N.J., on July 11, 1804.
Thomas Fleming captures that freshness and excitment in Duel, the story of the events that cost Alexander Hamilton his life and marked Aaron Burr forever as a scoundrel. Fleming's account races across the pages to its inevitable climax. The story with its dramatic backdrop of the Louisiana Purchase and the politics that went with it provides a nice complement to Stephen Ambrose's account of Lewis and Clark's expedition, Undaunted Courage.
Along the way, readers are treated to a story as rollicking as it is tragic. And they'll also learn of the kind of back-stabbing and political chicanery that makes the founding fathers of this country little different from their modern-day counterparts. …
Burr's pedigree was the more imposing. He was the son of an early president of what became Princeton University and the grandson of the revered Puritan icon, Jonathan Edwards. Yet he died, remembered not only for his duel with Hamilton, but as a traitor for grand visions of his own about empire-building. …
The Times-Picayune
Copyright 2000 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
February 27, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: BUSINESS PEOPLE; PEOPLE SHAPING THE METRO ECONOMY ACADEMIA
TULANE UNIVERSITY: Jonathan Riley, a faculty member of Tulane's Murphy Institute of Political Economy and the Department of Political Science, has been awarded a $35,000 Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Riley to spend the 2000-2001 academic year in residence at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.
The Toronto Sun
Copyright 2000 Sun Media Corporation
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: YOU ASKED US COLUMN
BYLINE: ELI WITMER, TORONTO SUNQ. Can you please give me some information on Paul Anthony Stewart who plays mobster son Danny Santos on Guiding Light? What else has he done? Thank you.
Sue D., Toronto
A. Paul Anthony Stewart was born and raised in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Princeton University. He began his career in live theatre and originated the role of Danny Santos on Guiding Light in November of 1998. His other credits include the daytime series Loving, the telefilms Dream On and Inheritance and Woody Allen's feature film Shadows & Fog.
TULSA WORLD
Copyright 2000 The Tulsa World
February 27, 2000HEADLINE: Falling faces Watts in District 4 contest
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. …
To regain our competitiveness with visitor and convention business, Tulsa needs a larger arena downtown and convention center improvements. Visitor attractions developed adjacent to the Arkansas River could complement our popular River Parks. We should encourage more entertainment development in the Brady District and develop transit and trail connections among entertainment centers. Public funding should be matched with private resources. 3. I have supported past utility rate increases to fund essential improvements, such as the new Mohawk Water Treatment Plant and to meet federal mandates for sewer improvements. I have also advocated rate reductions for low users resulting in lower rates for several thousand low refuse users and water and sewer rates that are fairer to low users.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERCopyright 2000 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 26, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Name: Taylor Croonquist.Sport: Wrestling.Weight: 171 pounds.Height: 6 feet.Age: 18.School: Blanchet.Year: Senior.Croonquist was the top Metro League performer at the Class 3A state wrestling tournament, finishing second overall. The senior took sixth at 158 pounds last year.
FAVORITES Musical artist: Roxette.Soft drink: Coca-Cola.Entertainer: Jackie Chan.Radio station: KYPT-FM (96.5).Outdoor sport: Cross-country.Home-cooked meal: Pot roast, potatoes with cheese and brussel sprouts.Professional wrestler: Dan Gable, a real wrestler.
QUICK HITS School I love to compete against: O'Dea - everyone thinks they're the best. If I could have any car, I'd take a . . .: Dodge Viper. Moment that stands out at state: Pinning Kip Jones of Burlington-Edison in the semifinals.Gatorade or PowerAde: PowerAde - Arctic Shatter. Prime time or quiet time: Prime time - I like competing in the spotlight. Best fast food: Red Robin - Bonzai burger with swiss cheese. Place I've always wanted to visit: Africa - maybe see some elephants. Ultimate sports fantasy: I'd love to wrestle for Princeton and help them win the Ivy League title. In 10 years I'll be: Out of college and living near the water.Most embarrassing moment in sports: I got tossed into Green Lake by the girls varsity cross-country team.
Derby Evening Telegraph
Copyright 2000 Derby Evening Telegraph
February 26, 2000HEADLINE: The beautiful British Isles ...
BYLINE: Chris Ward Goes Cruising - Not In The Med Or The Caribbean But Around Our Native IslesIT is quite amazing that it took an American professor to re-awaken my dormant interest in the history of our homeland.
But Theodore Rabb, professor of history at Princeton University and guest lecturer aboard the Seabourn Legend during its Beautiful British Isles cruise last summer, did just that.
The cruise, starting from Amsterdam and concluding two weeks later at Tower Bridge, is an ideal introduction to cruising and can conveniently be split into two parts. …
There's a choice of dining rooms, the more formal restaurant on the Gourmet Deck or the Verandah Cafe on the Spa Deck with the chance to dine al fresco if you wish and all under the watchful eye of Maitre D' Gerald Mosslinger who on my first night aboard discreetly inquired if I wished to receive dinner invitations during the cruise and duly obliged.
That was how I met Ted Rabb and his charming wife Tamar, dining with them after a fascinating day ashore in historic Londonderry.
Next morning he was up on the bridge giving us a historical commentary as we passed the Hebrides and later I joined the audience for his lecture on the heritage of the Tudors and the Stuarts. …
New Scientist
Copyright 2000 New Scientist IPC Magazines Ltd
February 26, 2000HEADLINE: Game of life
BYLINE: Jonathan Knight (San Francisco)HIGHLIGHT: Biocomputers take their first step with a little chess puzzle
A COMPUTER built from RNA has solved a chess problem. Its success is a step forward for nucleic acid computers, which are increasingly being touted as a future alternative to silicon chips.
DNA-based computers have caused a stir because unlike normal computers, they can, in theory, test massive amounts of solutions simultaneously (New Scientist, 13 July 1996, p 26).
Laura Landweber and her colleagues at Princeton University decided to build a computer based on RNA, which is made up of strings of bases similar to DNA's. The task they chose for it was a chess problem: list all the possible arrangements of any number of knights on a chessboard so that no knight is threatening another. There are more than 1019 possible arrangements of knights on a normal board, so the researchers started with a nine-square board, for which there are only 512 arrangements.
To represent these arrangements, they designed an RNA molecule with 10 unique 15-nucleotide sequences, separated by short spacers. Each sequence encodes the state - "knight on" or "knight off" - for one of the nine squares, along with information specifying which square it refers to. …
The Ottawa Citizen
Copyright 2000 Southam Inc.
February 26, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Quickly ...
BYLINE: Martin ClearyLuc Paquin of the CJHL's Cornwall Colts will be playing next season in the Ivy League for Princeton University. ...
The Capital (Annapolis, MD.)
Copyright 2000 Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
February 25, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Lacrosse's look shifts More teams line up in leagues hoping for automatic berths
BYLINE: By BILL WAGNER Staff WriterLACROSSE POLLS
Face-off magazine's preseason collegiate men's lacrosse polls:
DIVISION I: 1. Virginia; 2. Syracuse; 3. Johns Hopkins; 4. Princeton; 5. Duke; 6. Georgetown; 7. Loyola; 8. Maryland; 9. Hofstra; 10. North Carolina; 11. UMBC; 12. Navy; 13. Penn State; 14. Notre Dame; 15. Massachusetts; 16. Hobart; 17. Delaware; 18. Cornell; 19. Towson; 20. Brown; 21. Butler; 22. Penn; 23. Army; 24. Harvard; 25. Rutgers.
Omaha World-Herald
Copyright 2000 The Omaha World-Herald Company
February 25, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Around the State
Crawford native Roger Hughes, who played basketball at Nebraska Western and football at Doane, is the new Princeton University head football coach after eight seasons as offensive coordinator at Dartmouth.
Professional Publishing Report
Copyright 2000 Simba Information Inc.
February 25, 2000HEADLINE: STM/Business, U. Press Book Sales And Returns Up In 1999
Sales and returns for STM/business books as well as university press hardcovers and paperbacks increased in 1999 compared with 1998 sales, according to data tracked by the Association of American Publishers. STM/business book sales increased 20.3% in 1999 as university press hardcover sales increased 6.1%.
Sales of university press paperbacks rose 4.2%.
Returns of STM/business books increased 20.4% in 1999 compared to 1998. Returns of university press hardcovers increased 10.1% and returns of university press paperbacks increased 3.8% in 1999. …
The data reflects results from 12 professional publishers, including McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Brace and John Wiley & Sons, and results from 38 university presses, including Cornell University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press and the University of Chicago Press.
OBITUARIES
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
February 29, 2000, TuesdayNAME: John Nichol Irwin II
HEADLINE: John N. Irwin II, 86, Diplomat And Ex-Aide to MacArthur
BYLINE: By NICK RAVOJohn Nichol Irwin II, a Manhattan lawyer and diplomat who served under General Douglas MacArthur during World War II and later became ambassador to France, died yesterday at a hospital in New Haven, Conn. He was 86.
Mr. Irwin, who lived in New Canaan, Conn., held numerous government positions starting in 1947, when he was appointed a member of the staff of the joint Philippine-American Finance Commission during the Truman Administration.
From 1958 to 1961, Mr. Irwin was deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under President Eisenhower. President Johnson appointed him as the United States representative for Panama Canal negotiations from 1965 to 1968. President Nixon appointed him as his envoy to Peru in a nationalization dispute in 1969. …
Mr. Irwin was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on Dec. 31, 1913 and graduated from the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University. He received a master's degree from Oxford University and a law degree from Fordham University in 1941. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
March 2, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths IRWIN II, JOHN NICHOL
IRWIN II-John Nichol of New Canaan, CT. Died Monday, February 28, age 86. Attorney with Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and former diplomat serving the Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson and Nixon Administrations. Mr. Irwin was Deputy Secretary of State from 1970-73 and Ambassador to France 1973-74. Born in Keokuk, IA, graduated Lawrenceville School, Princeton University, Oxford University and Fordham University. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Guy Gannett Communications, Inc.
March 1, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Donald Graham Ewing, 73
DATELINE: KENNEBUNKDonald Graham Ewing, 73, formerly of Towne Street in Kennebunkport and Upper Montclair, N.J., died Feb. 27, 2000, at Kennebunk Nursing Center. …
He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University in 1948. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
February 27, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths MESEROLE, JERE S.
MESEROLE-Jere S. Of Burlington, VT, and Boca Raton, FL, died February 24, 2000, at home in Boca Raton with his family. Born May 19, 1922 in Englewood, NJ, son of Clinton and Ida Meserole, graduated Princeton University ('44), decorated veteran of WW II, lived in Burlington, VT, and ran several small businesses and was a Vice President of Chittenden Bank. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
February 26, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: John MacFadyen, 76, Architect of Performing Arts Center
John Hayter MacFadyen, an architect who designed several of the nation's premier performing arts centers and was the founding executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts, died on Feb. 18 at a hospital near his home in Damariscotta, Me. He was 76.
The cause was complications from pneumonia, his family said. …
Born in Duluth, Minn., Mr. MacFadyen earned his undergraduate and master of architecture degrees from Princeton University. After World War II he served with the Army in Japan. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 2000 Newsday, Inc.
February 25, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: DOING JUSTICE TO LEGAL LEGEND
BYLINE: Ed LoweAttorney John Kraft buttonholed me twice last month at Runyon's. Buzzing with the kind of amphetamanic (my coin) purpose that reminded me of the black flies of summer's end, he insisted that he had a worthy, seasonal story for me to retell. I promised I would call one day soon but then procrastinated until I had no other chore to distract me nor anyplace to go, nor enough energy for further excuses.
So, yesterday, he tells me about a funeral for his neighbor, a well-respected lawyer from Massapequa Park, Victor Regan. He recites a litany of prominent judges and lawyers present at the funeral. He mixes in weird stories about the deceased. He gushes about the eulogy. For the coup de grace, he describes the final hymn at the funeral.
Until I am laughing and applauding.
I had read the obituary in the newspaper a month ago. It began, "Victor M. Regan, who was considered one of the most respected and knowledgeable law secretaries in Nassau courtrooms, died Sunday Jan. 16 at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre after a brief battle with cancer. The longtime Massapequa Park resident was 61." The obituary told how Regan's original family had moved to Long Island from Maine in 1950 so his father could accept an assignment as rector of St. George's Church in Hempstead. It chronicled Victor's education, from St. Paul's School in Garden City, to Princeton University, to New York University School of Law. …
"Not the whole story," Kraft began, never stopping for a breath. "Victor was a character. He never drove, you know. His wife, Mary, drove him everywhere, or we did-everybody. He took a driving lesson once but decided mid-lesson to stop the car and get out. He just said, 'I'm not doing this anymore.' Know where he was at the time? He was in the center lane of Southern State Parkway. Once, he decided to become a gentleman farmer. He put six chickens in the back of the station wagon and headed upstate with Mary and their three kids and a dog and a gerbil. Somewhere, like four hours north of New York, the chickens escaped at a rest stop. The whole family had to chase after them. …
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