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The New York Times
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April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: The Joy of Gravitons, Hyperspace, Branes and Brainstorms
BYLINE: By GEORGE JOHNSONIn addition to the incredulity of their colleagues, Dr. Lisa Randall of Princeton University and Dr. Raman Sundrum of Stanford University faced a big theoretical challenge in making their theory of space-time work.
They were proposing that this universe is just one of many three-dimensional bubbles (called branes) floating inside a four-dimensional hyperspace. But to explain why things from this world do not disappear into the fourth dimension, they had to be sure that all the particles in this universe were stuck solidly to the brane.
According to string theory, most particles are made from strings that are open-ended, like scraps of thread. It was easy for theorists to anchor the two ends of these strings to the brane, keeping them from escaping and effectively sealing off the extra dimension. But gravitons, the particles that carry gravity, are thought to be generated by little vibrating loops. With no ends to stick to the surface of the brane world, they would be free to wander off into hyperspace.
This would create all kinds of problems. Gravity in the familiar three-dimensional universe obeys what is called the inverse square law. If the distance between two objects is cut in half, the strength of the attraction between them becomes four times as strong. …
Here was the theorists' answer: according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity is simply warped space-time -- bends in the brane on which this universe resides. Popping up an extra dimension, suppose that the hyperspace surrounding the brane is also warped, giving rise to a more powerful kind of "metagravity." …
The New York Times
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April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Physicists Finally Find a Way To Test Superstring Theory
BYLINE: By GEORGE JOHNSONFor a quarter of a century, superstring theory has promised that the universe could be understood more deeply than ever before, with all the forces unified into one, if it were seen in a startling new light -- as a kind of mathematical music played by an orchestra of tiny vibrating strings. Each note in this cosmic symphony would represent one of the many different kinds of particles that make up matter and energy.
But despite heroic efforts to keep this strange vision alive, with one mathematical embellishment after another, a seemingly fatal credibility problem has remained: no one has been able to figure out how to test the idea with experiments.
To give the strings enough wiggle room to carry out their virtuoso performance, theorists have had to supplement the familiar three dimensions of space with six more -- curled up so tiny that they would be explorable only with absurdly high-powered particle accelerators the size of an entire galaxy. It's a fact of life on the subatomic realm that smaller and smaller distances take higher and higher energies to probe.
In the last few months, however, new ideas emerging from the theoretical workshops offer some hope of connecting the airy speculations to reality. Physicists are proposing a revised view in which at least one of the extra dimensions is vastly larger -- large enough perhaps to be indirectly detected with existing accelerators. …
Though human brains are not wired to picture a world beyond the familiar three dimensions of space, one can begin to overcome this myopia by pretending to be antlike creatures in a two-dimensional fantasy world like the one in Edwin A. Abbott's story "Flatland." Confined to the surface of a plane, the Flatlanders can move left and right or forward or backward, but the idea of up and down is inconceivable to them. …
"For the first 25 years, the thinking has been that superstring theory is so difficult to see experimentally that you have to figure it out by its own mathematical consistency and beauty," Dr. Lykken said. "Now that's completely changed. If this new picture is true, it makes everything we've been talking about testable."
But the result is a picture of reality that is no less weird than before. Imagine again the two-dimensional realm of Flatland. Suppose now that it is surrounded by an infinitely large, three-dimensional "hyperspace." And maybe there are also other Flatlands floating around inside the third dimension -- parallel universes separated by what to these two-dimensional denizens would be an uncrossable void.
Take this vision and move up an extra dimension and you arrive at the theory that is currently causing all the intellectual commotion. Dr. Lisa Randall of Princeton University and Dr. Raman Sundrum of Stanford University suggest that what we think of as The Universe may be just one of many islands -- three-dimensional versions of Flatland -- floating inside a surrounding megaverse with four spatial dimensions. …
But what is the source of this mysterious dark matter? Maybe it is just ordinary matter trapped on another island universe, with its gravity but not its light able to cross the fourth-dimensional divide. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
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April 3, 2000HEADLINE: IMAGINING NORMA JEAN/ IN A STUNNING FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY OF MARILYN MONROE, JOYCE CAROL OATES RECREATES THE GIRL BEHIND THE BOMBSHELL
BYLINE: By Dan Cryer. STAFF WRITER
"If her fiction had a central theme, it was the riddling nature of human identity, which she called ...'the phantasmagoria of personality.'"
-Greg Johnson, "Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates"
OBSCURED FROM the road by a thicket of trees, the hideaway house comes into view only at the end of a long driveway. Boxy in design and silvery gray in color, it manages to suggest both the visionary architecture of Richard Gehry and the workaday utility of your grandfather's Winnebago.
Inside is an oasis of quiet and calm. Only one story high, the house follows the clean, uncluttered lines of a Korean design. All the rooms surround a central courtyard open to the sky and ornamented with flowers, bushes and several shoots of bamboo.
The rooms are airy and showered with light. On every wall not chockablock with books-and many are-there are drawings and paintings.
In the woods out back, foraging deer wander by to lap a drink at the pond or paw at the fence around the garden. The only sound to disturb the dwellers within is the pat-pat-pat of the occasional jogger.
The mistress of this idyllic country retreat outside Princeton, N.J., is about 5-foot-10 and very thin, with skin made paler by dark hair fanning out from her face in pre-Raphaelite bounty. The saucer eyes magnify her look of frail vulnerability. …
It's hard to imagine that this is the same Joyce Carol Oates whose fiction often portrays a chaotic realm of violence and psychological torment, whose muscular prose thrives on moments of hallucinatory intensity, whose productivity among serious novelists is legendary.
It's foolish, of course, to equate a writer with her books. The miracle of imagination is that great writers transcend the circumstances of their lives. More than mere inhabitors of worlds, they are creators of worlds.
Novelist Russell Banks, a longtime colleague of Oates' at Princeton University, grants that his friend is indeed "frail and shy, but she's also very tough, tougher than many male writers I know. And funny and mischievous. She can tweak me pretty good." …
At 61, Oates may have created the most important novel of her long career. At the very least, it seems a perfect match between author and subject.
"Blonde" (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.50) is a fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe. Few 20th-Century icons come freighted with so much drama. With Monroe's working-class origins, her virtual orphanhood, her perpetual search for a father, her confusions about identity, her desperation to be taken seriously as an actress, this doomed heroine could have stepped out of any number of Oates novels. …
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International Herald Tribune
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
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April 6, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Theme for White House Conference on New Economy: What Is It?
BYLINE: By Glenn Kessler; Washington Post Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTONThe new economy is turning out to be the economic equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union - a dramatic shift that might have ushered in a long-promised sense of security but instead has brought about a period of messy change. …
For years, economic doctrine held that inflation would rise if unemployment stayed below a ''natural level'' of between 5 percent and 6 percent for a period of time. Alan Blinder, a Princeton University professor who previously served as Fed vice chairman and a Clinton economic adviser, said economists were ''still scratching our heads and grappling with'' the fact that inflation has barely budged even though the unemployment rate has been below 5 percent for three years. ''Most economists find it surprising and miraculous,'' he said. …
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
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April 6, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Good news from Brazil as the economy shows signs of life
BYLINE: By Kevin G. HallRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Pedro Luna poked around the Car Place showroom, checking out the offers on Chevrolets. He had just sold his imported Ford Escort and was ready to buy.
Only a year ago, he and thousands of other Brazilians wouldn't have dreamed of buying a car. The nation's currency, the real, had lost almost half its value against the U.S. dollar, interest rates topped 40 percent and the future looked dark. Sales of U.S. cars, computers and almost every other manufactured product dried up.
But Brazil's economic crisis was not as severe as expected, largely because the federal government kept in check the ratio of debt to gross domestic product, despite the tough times. Now the economy is expected to grow as much as 4 percent this year. Over the next few weeks, as business groups trot out first-quarter results, retailers and automakers will show a Brazil that is getting back to normal, although interest rates may not sink below 15 percent this year.
Also despite 1999's downturn, new foreign direct investment in Brazil last year came to $30 billion, suggesting the nation remains an attractive market for U.S., European and Asian companies. The money continued to flow because of the government's successful efforts at fiscal restraint.
"Overall, that has increased the confidence in Brazil," said Jose A. Scheinkman, a Brazilian who is a professor of economics at Princeton University in New Jersey. "But Brazil still suffers from a very low rate of (domestic) investment, and any type of long-term growth will necessitate an increase there as a share of GDP."
Scheinkman and other economists say the low rate of savings by average Brazilians restricts the amount of capital available for growth and creates dependence on foreign capital for that purpose.
The New York Times
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April 6, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: A Fresco Seen With Fresh Eyes; The Restoration of Piero's Renaissance Masterwork
BYLINE: By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
DATELINE: AREZZO, Italy, April 2The Pieros are back.
After 15 years of arduous, costly and high-tech restoration, the scaffolding has come down in the Church of San Francesco, providing a dramatic new look at one of the art world's splendors, the fresco cycle "Legend of the True Cross" by the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, called simply Piero by his many fans hereabouts.
The dozen 15th-century paintings on plaster are being reopened to the public on Friday in this medieval Tuscan city with a gala celebration attended by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Local officials in particular hope the restored frescos will bring expanded tourism and cultural dividends. …
Promoting Piero as a kind of celebrity, albeit one whose personal life remains sketchy (apart from several sly self-portraits and a historically resonant death date: Oct. 12, 1492), may not be that far-fetched. Rising museumgoing has raised art literacy, some art experts here say, but only in recent decades has Piero been getting his due. His family house in Sansepolcro was bought by the government for use as a museum in 1975. Since then Piero has overtaken contemporaries like Domenico Veneziano, Fra Angelico, Andrea Mantegna and Paolo Uccello to become the 15th-century artist whom people most often name as their favorite, said Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, an art history professor at Princeton University who was a consultant on the fresco restoration project. …
PR Newswire
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April 6, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Louise Nevelson Commemorated on U.S. Postage Stamp
DATELINE: NEW YORK, April 6The U.S. Postal Service today honored 20th century sculptor Louise Nevelson with the issuance of the Louise Nevelson commemorative postage stamp.
Nevelson, one of the most gifted sculptors of the 20th century, introduced a new form of sculpture that consisted of carved, recycled, and painted wood objects arranged in boxes that were stacked to create entire sculptural walls.
The dedication ceremony took place as part of the Postage Stamp Mega Event in New York City at The Show Piers.
"It was a special honor to be able to recognize a woman whose artistic skills and intense dedication to her craft made her one of the foremost artists of this century," said Anita Bizzotto, Postal Service Vice President, Pricing and Product Design, who dedicated the stamp.
"Postage stamps are miniature works of art in their own. I believe that Louise Nevelson would have been proud to find her image on this icon of Americana." …
Among her most important commissioned sculptures are: "Atmosphere and Environment X," for Princeton University, New Jersey; "Bicentennial Dawn," for the James A. Byrne Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia; and "Transparent Horizon," for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 5, 2000HEADLINE: Scholarships to bring students from around the world to U.S. schools
DATELINE: WATERVILLE, MaineTwo Maine colleges are beneficiaries of a new scholarship program aimed at bringing scores of qualified students from around the world to the United States to further their educations.
Shelby M.C. Davis, a mutual fund manager, and his family have pledged to pay 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for graduates of 10 United World Colleges who want to attend one of five colleges in the United States.
Colby College and College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor are among the five institutions selected by the Davis family. The others are Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Princeton University in New Jersey and Middlebury College in Vermont.
Colby President William Cotter said the gift will help the school meet its goal of increasing opportunities for qualified international students. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 5, 2000, WednesdayWith computer crime soaring in Silicon Valley, Northern California's U.S. Attorney's office has promised a new emphasis on catching high-tech criminals. Here are some recent cases from that office:
-Jan. 27: Peter Iliev Pentchev, 22, of Sofia, Bulgaria, indicted for allegedly possessing unauthorized credit card numbers. Pentchev allegedly hacked into a Palo Alto-based e-commerce company and stole 1,800 credit card numbers. He is suspected of having fled the country after being confronted by officials at Princeton University, where he was a student at the time.
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 5, 2000, Wednesday, BC cycleHEADLINE: Astronomy post candidates cut to two
DATELINE: HONOLULUThe University of Hawaii has narrowed its search for the post of director of the school's Institute for Astronomy.
One is Jeremy Mould, director of research in the School of Astronomy at the Australian National University in Canberra.
The other is Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, director of astronomy at the University of Munich in Germany. …
Jeremiah Ostriker, provost of Princeton University, withdrew as a candidate last month, citing personal reasons. Roger Davies of the Department of Physics at the University of Durham in England also cited personal reasons when he withdrew earlier. …
The Boston Globe
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April 5, 2000HEADLINE: LESSON PLAN / DAVID ABEL, SANDY COLEMAN, BETH DALEY, TARA YAEKEL;
WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THESE MATH STUDENTS? A FIELD TRIP TO THE MALL
BYLINE: By DAVID ABEL, SANDY COLEMAN, BETH DALEY, TARA YAEKELHere's a math problem: If someone asked students whether they would rather sit in a classroom to study math or go to the mall to do it, how many would choose the classroom? You don't need to call a friend, ask the audience, or go 50/50 to figure that one out.
Marcie Abramson, math club adviser at Thurston Middle School in Westwood, knows that. Since 1995, she has been taking students on a math spree through the mall to apply skills learned in class. Yesterday, she and 30 students spent four hours at CambridgeSide Galleria Mall counteracting that age-old whine: "When are we ever going to use this stuff again?" "Students need to realize the mathematical power they possess and can use in the real world," said Abramson, who funded the field trip with a grant from the Westwood Educational Foundation. "Kids love being in a mall. They feel comfortable in the mall, and when you feel comfortable and are interested, you like doing things there." …
Beginning this fall, the program pledges to pay 100 percent of the demonstrated financial need - including relief from loans and campus or summer jobs - for all graduates of the United World College movement who attend College of the Atlantic, Princeton University, or Colby, Middlebury, or Wellesley colleges. …
The New York Times
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April 5, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: WATER POLO: From the Ruins of Sarajevo to Stardom at Princeton
BYLINE: By SOPHIA HOLLANDERGoga Vukmirovic heard a strange noise. It was a Monday morning, April 6, 1992, the day of a dreaded biology test that the Sarajevo seventh grader had spent the entire weekend studying for furiously.
She heard voices from outside her room, which made her pause, because her parents were normally at work by the time she crawled out of bed.
Trodding tentatively into the living room, she saw her parents gathered on the couch with her older sister Maja, watching scenes on CNN -- scenes they had seen for weeks in Croatia, other places. Not in Sarajevo. She sat on the couch and saw the war blowing apart in her city.
"Your first instinct is hey, no school today!" Ogjenka Vukmirovic said ruefully, sitting in her dorm room at Princeton University where she is a senior, captain of the nationally ranked women's water polo team and known to everyone as Goga. "But it hits you pretty quick when the bombs start exploding that it may not be such a good bargain."
Vukmirovic, now 21, never went back to school in Bosnia, never went back to seventh grade, or eighth grade for that matter. After fleeing from the war with her mother and sister, she enrolled as a high school student in Venezuela. The next year she was at a Connecticut boarding school to finish high school, where she was introduced to the sport of water polo. …
It doesn't seem as if Vukmirovic needs motivation. A founding member of Princeton's varsity water polo team, which is 18-3 this season, she was the 1999 Ivy League and Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference most valuable player, and a 1999 all-America goalie. She is the only senior in the four-year-old program and was the most valuable player in the E.C.A.C. championships which Princeton won last weekend. The nationals are May 5-7 in Bloomington, Ind. …
The Palm Beach Post
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April 5, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: FOR WWII VET (FINALLY), FIGHT NEVER ENDED
BYLINE: Douglas Kalajian, , Palm Beach Post Staff WriterMorton Deitz, cadet midshipman first class of the U.S. Naval Reserve and Merchant Marine Reserve, got a hero's welcome when he returned home from World War II. He got no time to rest. He had a million-dollar story to tell, and the government made sure it was heard across the land.
Hoisted barely alive from a lifeboat after 31 days adrift in the South Indian Ocean, Deitz served his country a second time by appearing at War Bond rallies with movie stars such as John Garfield and Virginia Grey. His tale of enemy treachery, torpedoes and survival against the odds stirred crowds and helped fill war department coffers.
Deitz didn't ask for thanks, but he did ask for the medical benefits and compensation due to any partly disabled veteran. Suddenly, he was no longer a hero. "I was told that I wasn't even a veteran," Deitz says.
Service in the Merchant Marine, the nation's wartime shipping fleet, entitled him to nothing because mariners weren't recognized as veterans even if they served in combat theaters. His service in the Naval Reserve was also discounted because he'd never been placed on active status. …
More than 250,000 Merchant Marine seamen answered the government's call to deliver troops, tanks, oil, food and whatever else was needed by America and its allies. Nearly 9,000 died at sea, including more than 140 cadets, and 11,000 others were wounded. Most Americans had no idea of the scope. The government didn't want to encourage the enemy - or discourage other mariners from signing up.
When the war ended, Merchant Marine veterans got only a certificate of thanks. Many wound up fighting the government they'd served.
Deitz began his quest for recognition soon after the war, about the time he went to work as an Internal Revenue Service agent. He continued fighting as he went through law school. He was still fighting through his years in private practice and while teaching law at Princeton University.
He finally won partial compensation and recognition as a veteran in 1988 - after more than 40 years of trying - but isn't satisfied. Now 79 and retired to West Boynton Beach, Deitz continues to fatten his file of correspondence with the Veterans Affairs, other government agencies and members of Congress. …
Sacramento Bee
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April 5, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: BEARING DOWN ON THE ISSUE OF MOTHERHOOD
BYLINE: David Barton Bee Staff WriterMothers are nurturing, unconditionally loving, self-sacrificing. A mother -- any mother -- would do virtually anything for her children, and would never do anything bad to them.
This is the cultural ideal we've grown up with, and it is certainly based in the feelings and experience of millions of mothers and children.
But, says Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, it is an incomplete picture.
Hrdy, a professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Davis, aims to expand that picture, to give us a better idea of what motherhood really is.
She has done so over nearly 30 years of study and research into the behavior of a variety of species, and has combined them all into a book, "Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection" (Pantheon, $35). …
The 540-page book has been called "truly monumental," "deep and brilliant" and even "a breathtaking feat of scholarship." It was just published in Dutch, and will soon be available in German, Japanese, Portuguese and French.
She has been invited to lecture at Princeton University and the Museum of Natural History in New York. And Sunday she arrived home from a promotional trip to Holland that saw her doing 21 interviews in three days. …
University Wire
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April 5, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton group urges compliance with environmental protocol
BYLINE: By Arjun Garg, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Joining a campaign sweeping across America, a group of four students from the Princeton Conservation Society is spearheading an effort to convince Princeton University to comply with carbon dioxide emission standards outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
The goal of this environmental compact -- signed in December 1997 at the International Climate Summit -- is to combat global warming. The agreement dictates that the United States must -- in the period between 2008 and 2012 -- reduce carbon dioxide emission to levels seven percent below 1990 levels. Because Congress has not yet ratified the agreement, however, the nation is not bound to fulfill its pledge.
According to Kelsey Jack '03, one of four students involved in the drive, the original impetus for this nationwide effort on college campuses came from an organization called Kyoto Now!, created specifically to advocate student activism on this issue. "Kyoto Now! tries to get students to compel universities to accept the Kyoto Protocol in order to influence the government to comply as well," she said.
Princeton Conservation Society president Melissa Waage '01 agreed that universities can play an important role in securing government compliance. "As the U.S. government has not ratified the protocol, it is useful for universities to sign on to it in order to send an encouraging message to Congress," she said. …
According to Kyoto Now! advocate Liz Bernier '02, students are actively promoting the environmental standards at five other Ivy League institutions -- Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth. …
University Wire
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April 5, 2000HEADLINE: Online lecture sites cause angst in academia
BYLINE: By Amit Anand, The Dartmouth
SOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.Going to class is so last century. After all, what's the use of getting up early and walking across campus when you can get the lecture notes with a few simple clicks of a mouse?
Sounds too good to be true? Not if you're one of the many thousands of students across the country, including many at Ivy League schools, using sites such as Versity.com, studentU.com and study24-7.com, that post notes online.
Of course, that's not what the sites are for, at least according to the companies who run them. According to the Versity.com website, the notes are meant to fill in the gaps in their own notes; clarify points that they may have missed; gel their own thoughts." StudentU.com, part of the uzone.com network, has a similar message on its website.
The main controversy, however, has not been that students will stop going to class because of the free notes available online -- although that has been of concern to many people -- but rather that the notes posted on these sites may have been obtained without permission from the professors. …
Although professors nationwide have expressed concern over whether sites like Versity.com should be allowed to post lecture notes, the controversy came under the media spotlight recently after Yale University issued a cease and desist order to the company, demanding that it remove all notes from courses offered at Yale.
The demand at Yale came after Princeton University's decision in the fall to send a campus-wide e-mail reminding students of the university's policy that students may not sell or publish lecture notes after Versity.com began recruiting students at the school, according to a recent article that appeared in The Daily Princetonian. …
University Wire
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April 5, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton U. braces for state-mandated mass sprinkler system installment
BYLINE: By Cason Crosby, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.As the New Jersey legislature continues to debate several bills that would require the installation of sprinklers in campus dormitories, Princeton University is preparing for a massive and expensive renovation project.
If the bill being considered by the assembly passes, the University will have two years to equip all its dormitory buildings with sprinkler systems.
"It's definitely safe to say this is the hot topic," a spokesman for Gov. Christie Whitman said Monday. "More than likely something is going to be signed by the governor. I don't think she'll turn this down."
According to Mike McKay, University general manager of plant and services, the University already had plans to install sprinklers in dormitories as part of its 30-year dorm renovation program, which closes one or two dorms each year for remodeling. …
The University may not even have time to properly cover water pipes in hallways and dorm rooms, Assistant Director for Physical Planning George Olexa said. "If we have to speed through installation, we might have to leave the pipes exposed," he said. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Scholarships to bring students from around the world to U.S. schools
DATELINE: WATERVILLE, MaineTwo Maine colleges are beneficiaries of a new scholarship program aimed at bringing scores of qualified students from around the world to the United States to further their educations.
Shelby M.C. Davis, a mutual fund manager, and his family have pledged to pay 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for graduates of 10 United World Colleges who want to attend one of five colleges in the United States.
Colby College and College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor are among the five institutions selected by the Davis family. The others are Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Princeton University in New Jersey and Middlebury College in Vermont. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Police Report
* RUMSON: Police arrested two salespeople on charges that they misrepresented themselves as solicitors for the Princeton University debate team - a claim that police called a scam used to sell magazines.
Michael J. Brams, 19, of Pennsylvania, and Melissa George, 18, of Louisiana, both employees of World Wide Circulation Inc. and Elite Sales Inc. in Michigan, were arrested Friday and charged with soliciting without a permit and using deceptive business practices, Sgt. Daniel Petrucelli said.
Petrucelli said that Brams went door to door to residents and told them that their magazine purchases would fund an overseas trip for his debate team.
"None of the statements were true and Brams is not affiliated with Princeton University at all," Petrucelli said. …
Business Wire
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April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Dr. Vincent J. Corbo Elected Chairman of Hercules Board
DATELINE: WILMINGTON, Del., April 4, 2000Hercules Incorporated (NYSE: HPC) announced today that Dr. Vincent J. Corbo has been elected chairman of its board of directors.
He now holds the titles of chairman, president and chief executive officer. Dr. Corbo has been president since 1997 and CEO since July 1999.
His expected succession to the role of chairman was announced at the company's April 1999 annual meeting.
Dr. Corbo's career with Hercules has spanned 31 years and a range of leadership assignments. A native of Port Chester, New York, he joined the company in 1969 as a research engineer after earning his doctorate in chemical engineering from Princeton University. …
International Herald Tribune
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 2000 International Herald Tribune
April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: U.S. Angel of Mercy in Beirut's War; Latter-Day Florence Nightingale /She Stayed On
BYLINE: By John F. Burns; New York Times Service
DATELINE: BEIRUTAt the height of Lebanon's civil war in the 1980s, when every other American working at the American University of Beirut had been driven out of the country by hostage-taking, assassinations and threats, a lone American woman remained, earning a reputation among her colleagues at the university's medical center, and among victims of the fighting, as a ministering angel.
But while the American hostages became household names at home, Gladys Mouro, nursing director at the university's medical center, was virtually unknown in her native land, and remains so.
Only in Lebanon has Miss Mouro, a 46-year-old native of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, achieved any recognition for the courage that marked her out in a war that made Lebanon a synonym for mindless brutality. Before she was appointed nursing director in 1983, she had been a staff nurse, nursing supervisor and, from 1974, a nursing student at the university. Thus her early career almost exactly coincided with the war, which began in 1975 and ended in 1990.
Since the hospital lies above the Mediterranean in a part of west Beirut that was in the thick of the fighting and was better equipped than any other hospital in Beirut to treat the wounded, this placed Miss Mouro at ground zero of a conflict that killed 150,000 people, wounded hundreds of thousands of others, and made the hospital itself, frequently, a target for the contending sectarian militias.
A book Miss Mouro wrote about her experiences, ''An American Nurse Amidst Chaos,'' was published in the United States this year by Syracuse University Press but has not attracted wide attention. …
THE SENSE of being without honor in her own land was eased when John Waterbury, president of the American University of Beirut since January 1998, used an address on the university founder's day in December to salute her. Mr. Waterbury, formerly director of Princeton University's Center of International Studies, knows something of the risks Miss Mouro took, having become the university's first resident American president since Mr. Kerr was assassinated. Although there is no fighting in Beirut these days, Mr. Waterbury is still accompanied by bodyguards. …
Ventura County Star (Ventura County, Ca.)
Copyright 2000 Ventura County Star
April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Research building on baffling topic
BYLINE: Kathleen WilsonWith new funding and technology, scientists say they are poised to study autism in ways never before possible.
Brain imaging systems show them how cells process information. Laser technology may help researchers study the genes causing the disorder. Federal funding for autism research has quadrupled. …
Autism was first identified almost 60 years ago, but the record of research has been scant. Iversen blames that partly on poorly coordinated and minimal funding from the federal government. She said the scientific community, misled into thinking that autism is a psychological disorder caused by parental neglect, shares the blame. That theory was not debunked until the 1970s, when autism was associated with maldevelopment in the brain.
Even then, Schutt said, many scientists still considered autism too overwhelming to tackle.
"It's just that there hasn't been a clue," he said. "It's been so baffling."
Schutt, a chemistry professor at Princeton University and the father of an autistic son, still does not think a cure is around the corner. But he's encouraged by the advances in technology and said effective drugs may be developed within five years. …
Business Wire
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April 3, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: UniversityAngels.com Expands Online Angel Investor Network with Launch of 25 Web Sites Dedicated to Top Universities
DATELINE: NEW YORK, April 3, 2000Also Introduces On-campus Representatives Program and Announces $50,000 Business Plan Contest
UniversityAngels.com, the first international angel investor network comprised exclusively of students and graduates of the world's top academic institutions, today announced the launch of its first 25 Web sites as well as other new initiatives.
The company unveiled individual sites dedicated to connecting qualified angel investors with alumni and student entrepreneurs from top academic institutions, including Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, Harvard, MIT, New York University, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford and Yale (see below for a complete list). UniversityAngels.com's mission is to be the leading facilitator of angel funding for students and alumni and the definitive source of high quality deal flow for early stage investors.
In addition, UniversityAngels.com announced that it is establishing an on-campus representative program to develop a more direct "pipeline" of high quality deal flow from student entrepreneurs. The company is hiring and training hundreds of student representatives at top universities whose jobs will be to maintain close ties with entrepreneurial activities taking place at the university level. In return for achieving set goals, campus reps will have the opportunity to earn rewards including cash, stock options and prizes. …
Crain's Cleveland Business
Copyright 2000 Crain Communications, Inc.
April 3, 2000HEADLINE: A driving force;Progressive's open-minded yet firm-handed CEO has propelled insurer into industry powerhouse .
BYLINE: SERRES, CHRISTOPHERFor the first-time visitor, the images can be intimidating.
Covering nearly an entire wall of Peter Lewis' spacious office at Progressive Corp.'s headquarters along Wilson Mills Road in Mayfield Village are eight silk-screen portraits of Mao Zedong, the former Communist leader of China best known for using brutal force to advance his Marxist principles.
But if one looks more closely at the silk-screens, part of a series of famous portraits by Andy Warhol, one will notice a slight grin on Mao's face.
"Art like this is very important to what we do here," said Mr. Lewis, chairman and chief executive officer of Progressive and the company's largest shareholder, with 13% of its stock. "It reminds us to think outside the lines."
Though the Mao portraits may be intended to stimulate (Mr. Lewis removed them from the company lobby when he received too many complaints), it is tempting to draw parallels between the grinning, benevolent authoritarian depicted in Mr. Warhol's silk-screens and Mr. Lewis' personality and management style. …
Bearing his image
After so many of his top executives have come and gone, it should be little surprise that Progressive bears the visible signature of the man who started to work at Progressive 45 years ago, beginning as an agent after graduating from Princeton University with a degree in public/international affairs.
Indeed, the company's 517,000-square-foot corporate campus in Mayfield Village boasts roughly 3,500 pieces of art, much of which has been hand-picked by Mr. Lewis and his ex-wife, Toby, who remains the company's art curator. …
The Houston Chronicle
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April 03, 2000HEADLINE: Getting into college is a hard lesson for some students
SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: MARYLN SCHWARTZTHIS is the time of year when a lot of young people all over the country are finding out for the first time that life isn't always fair.
This is when high-school seniors find out if they've gotten into the college of their choice.
You've dreamed of going to the University of Texas or Southern Methodist University. You didn't get accepted. Your best friend has gotten a scholarship to Yale. You weren't even put on the waiting list. Your sister is already in Harvard. You're only going there to visit.
So you think it's the end of the world. But no matter how bleak things look right now, believe me, they aren't. Here's a little hint that you don't usually hear about.
What's really important isn't getting into the right college; it's staying in the right college.
I know one young man who last year was rejected by Brown. He was on the waiting list at Princeton. He was devastated. He wanted Brown. He just applied to Princeton because his father made him. He didn't want to go to Princeton. That was good because he didn't get accepted there, either.
"So," explained the now 19-year-old, "I went to the University of Texas. My two best friends were in Ivy League schools. I was such a snob I thought a state university was beneath me.
"I got to Austin with a bad attitude. I found out quick this wasn't any snap. This was a good school that I couldn't just ace my way through until I could somehow transfer to Brown.
"My SATs were only average, and I had not developed really good study habits. I went to a high school where people kind of took me by the hand all the way.
"I was a snotty kid, and I got what was coming to me."
He has already washed out of UT. Next year he's going to a junior college until he grows up. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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April 3, 2000HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary - President Clinton names seven Members to the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council
The President today announced his intent to nominate, Edward M.Bolen, Geoffrey T. Crowley, Robert W. Baker, Debbie Branson, Kendall W.Wilson, Robert A. Davis, and Jerome Randolph Babbitt to serve as Members of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council.
Mr. Kendall W. Wilson of Washington, D.C., currently serves as the President of First Financial Management Services, Inc., a firm he founded in 1981 specializing in business development, planning and financing of early-stage businesses, primarily in the high-tech area.
From 1977 to 1981, Mr. Wilson served at the Department of Energy in the Offices of Commercialization and Transportation Programs. Prior to this service, from 1974 to 1977, Mr. Wilson worked at the Department of Transportation in the Office of the Secretary. Formerly an active pilot, he also served in the U.S. Navy as an Engineering Duty Officer.
Mr. Wilson received his B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University and his M.S. degrees in Management Systems and Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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April 3, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: SPEAKER ON ETHICS WAS OFFENSIVE
BYLINE: The Morning CallTo the Editor:
I was appalled when a girlfriend of mine, who has a child who is handicapped, told me about a speaker at Lehigh University (The Morning Call, March 8). My friend's daughter was born with spina bifida and, like thousands of other children, is able to overcome her handicap.
Peter Singer, Princeton University's first professor of bioethics, spoke about how parents should be allowed to kill with a painless lethal injection their seriously disabled infant children --especially if the child was born without a brain because, Singer said, "Clearly, that infant doesn't have as much intelligence as a chicken does."
My friend, whose daughter is a very bright child, was extremely upset that Lehigh University would allow somebody of this type to speak about ethics at the university. My suggestion to Lehigh: Though people have the right to free speech, maybe next time the university can find a better speaker, and also invite a handicapped child and family to be there to defend themselves against a monster who should learn more about the accomplishments handicapped children can overcome.
Lisa Kovach
Upper Macungie Township
The New York Times
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April 3, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: DUEL FOR THE LIMELIGHT: A special report; Behind Gun Deal, 2 Ambitious Democrats Wrestle for the Credit
BYLINE: By ERIC LIPTONEliot L. Spitzer had arranged quite a celebration to mark his first anniversary as New York State's attorney general. He planned a trip to Las Vegas, as the leader of a negotiating team that with a bit of luck, he figured, would soon deliver a landmark gun control deal.
He booked his plane ride and a hotel reservation at the luxurious Bellagio. But the intervention of another New York Democrat, Andrew M. Cuomo, spoiled Mr. Spitzer's party.
The trip was called off. The talks with gun dealers canceled. And within days, Mr. Cuomo, the United States housing secretary, had secretly managed to restart negotiations, without the attorney general.
A deal ultimately was reached, but when the announcement came two weeks ago in Washington that the nation's oldest and largest handgun manufacturer had agreed to change the way it designs and sells handguns, it was Mr. Cuomo, 42, the eldest son of the former governor, who stood at the podium. Mr. Spitzer, 40, an intense, Harvard-educated lawyer, sat with his hands on his lap, in the background. …
Mr. Spitzer, the son of a successful real estate developer, grew up in a rarefied world, attending Riverdale Country Day School, Horace Mann School, then Princeton University, before getting his law degree at Harvard. Mr. Spitzer was 35 in 1994, when he first ran for attorney general, and his entire public service consisted of six years as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan and one year as a federal court clerk. Despite an infusion of money from his father, Mr. Spitzer lost that race. Running again in 1998, he was carried into office with one of the narrowest political victories in the history of New York State.
Since then, Mr. Spitzer has been quick to inject himself into state issues, from air pollution caused by trash trucks to a battle by New York City neighborhood activists to save their community gardens. …
Traffic World
Copyright 2000 Journal of Commerce, Inc.
April 3, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: End Games
BYLINE: By Ken CottrillRed lights to trade could be turning green in key foreign markets, opening up new routes for importers and exporters. The changes signal not only increased trade volumes but shifts in global and regional trading patterns as well.
With a combined population of more than 2 billion people, China and India alone could provide the pulling power needed to sustain recent growth rates in global trade. "Trade has been growing at twice the rate of GDP for 30 years," said Professor Gene M. Grossman of Princeton University, an international trade expert. "I would be surprised if it speeded up from that pace. On the other hand, that's a pretty good pace." …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Daily Texan via U-Wire
April 3, 2000HEADLINE: U. Texas graduate schools garner high ratings
BYLINE: By Kathryn A. Wolfe, Daily Texan
SOURCE: U. Texas-Austin
DATELINE: Austin, TexasThe University of Texas made a strong showing in the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings, with numerous master's and doctoral programs placing in the top 10 nationwide.
Consistently ranked in the top 20 in a broad range of disciplines, the University held its own against institutions such as Harvard University and Princeton University.
UT President Larry Faulkner said he isn't surprised by the rankings, which he called "a general positive trend," and added that an effort to build a broad base of quality faculty is the reason that the University is consistently ranked highly in diverse fields of study. …
The Boston Globe
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April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: MONEY MATTERS
HIGH-TECH LAG COLLEGES, FIRMS STEP UP EFFORTS TO LIFT RANKS OF MINORITIES IN INDUSTRY
BYLINE: Diane E. Lewis, Globe StaffIt was almost dusk when 75 African-American, Asian, and Latino seniors from colleges around the country filed into a banquet room at the Boston Seaport Hotel last month for dinner and a chance to meet Al Zollar, president and chief executive of Cambridge-based Lotus Development Corp.
At 45, Zollar is among a small but growing number of African-Americans nationwide who hold influential positions in technology. "I really want young people to understand that there are opportunities in technology right now," he said. "But they must be prepared." In fact, opportunities abound. Faced with a shortfall of more than 100,000 information technology professionals in the industry each year and a dearth of engineering graduates, companies and colleges are vying for talented students. …
For African-American students who do pursue bachelor's or advanced degrees in computer science, engineering, or mathematics, the future seems particularly bright.
Take Peter Onyisi, a 17-year-old physics major at the University of Chicago. Last year while still in high school, he was ranked among the top 100 math students in the country. After scoring 800 on the quantitative portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and 780 on the verbal portion, Onyisi was accepted to Harvard, Princeton University, MIT, and the California Institute of Technology. He settled on the University of Chicago, which awarded him a full four-year scholarship. …
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: THE SUBTLE SLIDE OF HUMAN LIFE
BYLINE: Vincent CarrollPay no attention to that slippery slope you see dropping off before us. Our state lawmakers say it doesn't exist, and their vision is sublime. Just ask them. They have given parents the green light to abandon newborn babies - no questions asked - and they insist that this will not cheapen human life or send a confusing moral message regarding parental responsibility.
Quite the contrary, our lawmakers tell us. The policy will save lives.
The truth, of course, is that we'll never know for sure. We'll never know whether a baby abandoned with a firefighter or a nurse under the proposed law (which the governor wants amended slightly before he'll sign it) would have been left in a field or on a doorstep in years past, or never abandoned at all. We'll never know whether the law reduces the number of babies placed at risk, as its supporters hope, or cultivates a more casual attitude toward child welfare. We'll never know because such things cannot be measured. But now that Senate Bill 171 appears on its way into the statute books, there is a more interesting question to consider - namely, why now? …
Another author in that same issue, John Harris of Manchester University, also rejects the idea of newborns as full persons. And Wesley J. Smith, who is writing a book on medical ethics and follows such publications carefully, tells me that the downgrading of newborns' status is fairly standard in the professional literature. While Smith hasn't taken a position on the new abandonment laws, he has no doubt that they reflect a shift in how this society values human life.
"Peter Singer is at Princeton University advocating that people should be allowed to kill their babies within 28 days," with the decision "based on utilitarian principles of whether the child is going to cause the family problems," Smith notes. And yet media coverage of Singer, he argues, has been generally favorable. …
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
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April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Microsoft offers antitrust remedies
BYLINE: By Joel Brinkley New York Times ServiceWASHINGTON -- Over and over again for the past several years, Microsoft Corp. has asserted that separating its Web browser from Windows was impossible. And yet, in settlement talks with the government, the company has reportedly offered to do just that.
One possible reason for this change of heart, some experts say, is that it doesn't matter anymore.
"It's closing the barn door after the horses are already out," said Stephen Houck, who was the chief lawyer for the 19 states that filed suit against Microsoft.
Trial evidence showed that Microsoft built its browser, Internet Explorer, into Windows as a tactic to put its chief competitor, Netscape Communications Corp., at a disadvantage.
But the browser war is over. Microsoft won.
Industry studies show that Netscape's share of the market -- about 50 percent when the antitrust trial opened two years ago -- has precipitously declined since then, though the precise estimates vary. …
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. …
THE HINDU
Copyright 2000 The Hindu.
April 2, 2000HEADLINE: There will be no second time
Being nuclear capable does not end with sabre rattling. It also means being able to understand the perils of command and the control of atomic weapons. But if the track record of the leading nations is anything to go by, the capacity for human and mechanical failure is limitless. It reveals that the world is always on the brink of disaster. There is much the newest nuclear powers - India and Pakistan - have to learn, says ZIA MIAN.
SOUTH ASIA'S nuclear hawks have a pretty dismal record. First, they claimed that simply having a "nuclear option" would be a convincing deterrent. This belief, that being able to build the bomb would be enough and there would never be any need to actually test it, was exploded in May 1998. Having tested their bombs, they claimed that there would be peace between India and Pakistan - cold, bitter and squalid, but still recognisably peace. Kargil put paid to that. Now the same set of do-it yourself nuclear strategists are thinking out loud about how to manage and to use these weapons. Failure here will make their past mistakes seem small. …
If they deploy nuclear weapons, Pakistan and India will risk accidents caused by "human and mechanical failure" and "human misunderstandings". There are instances enough in both countries, of accidents involving the very institutions that may have responsibility for these weapons. One need look no further than the accident record of the Indian and Pakistani air force, which as the most hi-tech of the armed services, are the most familiar with having to handle complex systems. Moreover, given how few tests there have been of ballistic missiles by both countries, planes are still the most likely way they would try to use their nuclear weapons. …
The writer is with the Centre for Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, U.S..
The London Free Press
Copyright 2000 Sun Media Corporation
April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: THREE CHEERS FOR SELA WARD
BYLINE: ELI WITMER, SPECIAL TO THE FREE PRESSQuestion: Can you please give me some information on Paul Anthony Stewart, who plays mobster son Danny Santos om Guiding Light? What else has he done? Thank you.
Sue D. Toronto
Answer: 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 1998. His other credits include the daytime series Loving, the telefilms Dream On and Inheritance and Woody Allen's feature film, Shadows & Fog.
Los Angeles Times
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April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: A ROOM OF HIS OWN;
MARCEL PROUST: A LIFE BY WILLIAM C. CARTER; YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: 946 PP., $35BYLINE: VICTOR BROMBERT, Victor Brombert is the author of, most recently, "In Praise of, Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature 1830- 1980.", He is Henry Putnam university professor of romance and comparative, literature emeritus at Princeton University
The life of Marcel Proust is a supreme example of what distinguishes a vocation from a career. Who could have predicted that this pampered and chronically self-indulgent social sycophant would one day affirm himself, after years of self-punishing labor, as one of the greatest novelists of all time, the creator of a unique poetic universe? …
Even his school friends at the Lycee Condorcet in Paris were put off by his emotional vulnerability, his cloying possessiveness, his undisguised advances, his affectations, his "Proustifications," as his ways of expressing himself came to be called. …
William C. Carter, author of "The Proustian Quest," director and co-producer of the well-received documentary film "Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life," is especially well-prepared to give us this detailed new biography, "Marcel Proust: A Life." To write a biography of Proust is not an easy matter. There are rules and problematic conventions to any literary biography. The reader expects that everything contributes to a total effect, that every minor fact somehow foreshadows the great masterpiece, as though daily existence came loaded with preparatory rehearsals and secret omens.
The temptation to view life from a posthumous vantage point seems particularly strong in the case of Proust, partly because of the themes of time lost and time regained but also because of the lure of identifying various friends, lovers or acquaintances as specific models for the gallery of snobs, decadent aesthetes, bigoted chauvinists, social climbers and tragicomic victims of passions and vices that people "In Search of Lost Time." The game of identifications has often been played without regard to the artist's ability to amalgamate and transmute. Carter resists the facile sport of one-to-one identification. …
The New York Times
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April 2, 2000HEADLINE: Art/Architecture;
How the Renaissance Got to Know the AncientsBYLINE: By THEODORE K. RABB; Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of history at Princeton University. A new edition of his "Renaissance Lives" is due out this year.
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIAIN a famous letter he addressed to the Roman historian Livy in 1350, Petrarch expressed a longing that was to become central to Renaissance culture: "I would wish either that I had been born in your age, or you in ours. I should thank you, though, that you have so often caused me to forget present evils and have transported me to happier times."
Reading Livy, the Tuscan man of letters could feel himself join the company of Scipio, Cato and the other ancient heroes he regarded as the only models of virtue worthy of imitation.
Over the next 50 years, Petrarch's advocacy of a return to antiquity captured the imagination of Florence's intellectual leadership, and soon reached all the courts of Italy. But the campaign was not only in the realm of ideas; beginning with a visit to Rome by Donatello and Brunelleschi around 1409, the buildings and other relics of the ancient world also inspired a revolution in the visual arts. …
Not until the printing press made cheap multiple copies of a picture available -- in woodcuts, engravings, drypoints, etchings and aquatints -- could Europe's artists, few of whom could travel to Rome, see for themselves the masterpieces of antiquity. Thereafter we hear regularly of prints as the inspiration for particular images, but it is not often that we focus on the source of the information that now flooded through Europe. Put simply, what was it that printmakers chose to show when they depicted the ancient world?
That is the question the exhibition "Revivals, Reveries and Reconstructions: Images of Antiquity in Prints From 1500 to 1800," on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art until April 16, seeks to answer. Through 93 prints and 16 illustrated books, the show reveals the role played by great masters and obscure engravers alike in the dissemination of the ancient prototypes that were essential to Renaissance and Baroque art. The show is intended as introduction and background to the enormous survey of Rome in the 18th century, comprising more than 400 works and titled "The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome," which is the museum's main attraction this spring; but the prints have their own fascinating story to tell as they proceed through three centuries of an intensifying engagement with antiquity. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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April 2, 2000, SUNDAYHEADLINE: CHANGE OF HEART;
ANTICIPATING LIFE AFTER 'THEX-FILES, DAVID DUCHOVNY ADDS A ROMANTIC COMEDY TO HIS RESUME
BYLINE: AMY LONGSDORF, Special to The RecordIt just goes to show that everybody's a critic. A couple of weeks ago, David Duchovny's year-old daughter Madelaine rendered her opinion of Daddy's work on"The X-Files."No sooner did the actor's mug flash on the screen than the toddler tried to change the channel.
"She hates my acting,"moans the man who has takes paranoia to new heights every Sunday night."But she loves the evening news. She likes Tom Brokaw much better than me."
The truth isn't out there. It's here in the Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, where Duchovny is setting the record
straight about fatherhood, his impending departure from"The X-Files," and his first romantic comedy, the bubbly "Return to Me," which opens Friday. …
Weirdness comes naturally to the actor. The son of a Russian-Jewish father and a Scottish mother, Duchovny was so withdrawn as a child that his older brother enjoyed telling people he was retarded.
Duchovny was, in fact, anything but slow. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's degree in English from Yale. When the acting bug bit, he was a thesis short of his Ph.D. …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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April 2, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: HARRY HAMLIN SAYS NEW SITCOM HAD A LOT OF DOUBTERS TO WIN OVER
BYLINE: Ellen Futterman; Post-Dispatch Critic-At-LargeActor Harry Hamlin appeared in town Thursday with his hair moussed and gently spiked, wearing tight black jeans, black leather high-tops and a brown, long-sleeve polo. He looked tan and fit and a lot more LA than any other guy walking the streets of St. Louis. He looked, come to think of it, a lot like a movie star.
Seems logical, especially since he plays one in the WB half-hour sitcom "Movie Stars," which begins a 13-week stint Sunday night on Channel 11. His character is Reese Hardin, father of three, who also stars in blockbuster action movies that gross billions at the box office. His actress-wife in the series is played by Jennifer Grant, the real-life daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. The show depicts the two as the picture-perfect Hollywood power couple trying to raise their kids amid the glitz, glamour and sheer craziness of "the industry." …
Listening to Hamlin, he sounds almost Zen about his career and life these days, which includes a marriage to actress Lisa Rinna and a 21-month old daughter, Delilah. Hamlin also has a 19-year-old son, Dimitri (with actress Ursula Andress), who is a sophomore at Princeton University.
"I've been lucky because I've always been able to work as an actor," he said. "I've been able to support my family and send my kids to school, and let me tell you, tuition at Princeton is no small thing. …
Employee Benefit News
Copyright 2000 Securities Data Publishing
April 01, 2000HEADLINE: A whole new team: Former pro basketball player Kevin Mullin brings his own slant on training regimens to the evolving arena of HR
BYLINE: Karen LeeKevin Mullin remembers the days when the human resources profession was not really looked on as, well, a profession.
Those were the mid-1980s, when the mantra was "Greed is good," and his contemporaries and classmates from Princeton University, where he was a basketball star, had careers in investment banking and on Wall Street. Mullin, meantime, had just spent more than a year playing basketball, first with Larry Bird's Boston Celtics and then in Sweden, and had turned down a lucrative contract to play in Australia.
A newspaper advertisement led him to his first human resources job, as a recruiter for Shared Medical Systems Corp. (SMS), in Malvern, Pa. It was a step that would lead him toward fresh applications of training, discipline and teamwork not only for the changing demands of a profession, but for the needs of an evolving work force. .
Depleted talent
At the time, however, Mullin viewed the job more simply as a good fit with his interests.
"I liked human resources," says Mullin, who, since December has been vice president of human resources at PR Newswire, where he is responsible for creating employee training and development programs and policies. "It seemed like a position in corporate America where I could have an impact on people and their work lives and make a pretty good living at it."
However, he recalls, "there was not as much talent in the field at that time. Most of my contemporaries...didn't view HR as a profession, as an attractive place. I found myself, a very aggressive, ambitious person, in a field where I didn't have a lot of competition." …
Financial Times (London)
Copyright 2000 The Financial Times Limited
April 1, 2000HEADLINE: BODY AND MIND: Unlocking secrets of our body's repair kit: WEIRD SCIENCE: Scientists hope that humans may one day be able to regenerate damaged tissue, writes Victoria Griffith
BYLINE: By VICTORIA GRIFFITHThe regenerative capacity of other animals has long been a source of human envy. Flatworms quickly regrow severed body parts. Fish regenerate fins and lizards regain tails. Even a baby opossum can partly remake a limb if it is lost before a certain age. Yet if people lose a leg or suffer a serious stroke, the damage is permanent.
Scientists want to change this. By gaining a better understanding of the way tissues regenerate, they hope one day to coax the human body into repairing itself.
Other animals may provide insights. But humans - who have some regenerative capacity - might furnish some answers themselves. Hair and fingernails are quickly replaced after they are cut off. If we break a leg, the bone will eventually heal; if we are cut, new skin will cover the opening. And as foetuses, we are capable of building an entire body from scratch. …
While some tissues - such as skin and blood - seem to have more stem cells in reserve than others, it is now thought they exist in every part of the body. Even the brain, once thought to have no regenerative capacity, probably has some ability to repair itself, as shown in a recent Princeton University study. …
Information Today
Copyright 2000 Information Today, Inc.
April 1, 2000HEADLINE: Requiem for a Database.
BYLINE: Jacso, PeterWhy do inferior databases survive while good ones often perish?
Do you know the feeling you get when you realize that you never took the time to tell the gardener, the supermarket clerk, or the nurse what a good job they were doing after learning that they have retired or passed away? That's how I feel, because I never took the time to fill out the survey for the Population Index database (http://popindex.Princeton.edu). Looking at my printouts from late January, I see that the editorial body and host of the database, Princeton University's Office of Population Research, requested that users fill out the survey because its funding was being reviewed by its sponsoring agency, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). I passed up the opportunity and went on searching so that I could finally sing the praises of this database. Instead, I am now singing a requiem for it. Although the free Population Index database was discontinued after the March update was added, it was not removed from the host, so you still may go and visit it. Discontinued or no t, I will still pay homage to it. …
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Copyright 2000 Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.
April 2000HEADLINE: Ahead
BYLINE: Melynda Dovel WilcoxEducation : Working hard at school is a better guarantee of future earnings than attending a brand-name college.
Go for the Ivy?
It's that time of year when nervous high school seniors weigh their college correspondence--fat or thin?--and parents weigh their options--elite private or more affordable public? In the long run, it may not make much difference in terms of economic success.
Students who attend more selective colleges do not earn more than students who are accepted--or rejected--by comparable schools but choose to attend less-selective colleges, according to a recent study by Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale, a researcher at the Mellon Foundation.
Krueger and Dale examined the incomes in 1995 and 1996 of a large sample of college students in the mid '70s who applied to a set of schools with comparable average SAT scores. It turns out that the standing (as measured by the average SAT score) of schools that reject a student is a better predictor of that student's economic success than the standing of the school a student winds up attending.
It's a phenomenon the researchers dub the "Spielberg effect," after Steven Spielberg, perhaps the most successful movie director of all time. Spielberg applied to USC and UCLA, both of which have famous film schools and both of which rejected him. He ended up at California State University, Long Beach. …
The National Journal
Copyright 2000 The National Journal, Inc.
April 1, 2000HEADLINE: Bush And Gore's Positions On Social Security
BYLINE: Julie KosterlitzSocial Security reform may not be the poison for politicians it once was, but it could still prove to be pretty toxic. Sure, baby boomers, Generation X-ers, and all the little IPOers now coming of political age are probably aware that the nation's retirement system-unless it is reformed-will fail to live up to its full promises beyond the year 2034. In theory, they want that fixed.
But proposed solutions that carry even a whiff of risk or Democratic and Republican front-runners largely sidestepped Social Security reform during the primaries. But now the two presumed nominees-who have strikingly different approaches to reform-have signaled they are girding for battle.
At issue is whether Social Security needs merely an extra cash infusion from general revenues, as Al Gore proposes, or a complete overhaul, with some Social Security funds diverted to private accounts, as George W. Bush suggests. By embracing the more radical, and sketchier, of the two approaches, Bush potentially leaves himself more politically exposed. Social Security, moreover, has long been an issue that favors Democratic candidates.
That helps explain why Bush chose to strike first in mid- March, when he made change itself the issue and accused Gore of being too partisan and too much a defender of the status quo to make reform happen. …
Allies and Advisers
Bush
* Michael Boskin, economist, Stanford University
* Martin Feldstein, economist, Harvard University
* Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise InstituteGore
* Gene Sperling, director, White House National Economic Council
* Alan Blinder, economist, Princeton University
* Henry Aaron, Brookings Institution
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
April 1, 2000 SaturdayHEADLINE: GENTLE JUDGE BRINGS HAMMER DOWN ON PHS
BYLINE: By DIANE SOLOV and HARLAN SPECTOR; PLAIN DEALER REPORTERSRep. Dennis Kucinich has often championed the cause of the little guy, but not even he would have wagered a soft-spoken judge guided by pro-business laws in a state with a pro-business bent would be the one to hand neighborhood health care a victory.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary F. Walrath signed the order yesterday giving St. Michael Hospital and Mt. Sinai Medical Center East a second chance.
"In that courtroom, you really had a sense of the power and the majesty of the justice system at work, where you really saw that it can work in an impartial way for plain folks," Kucinich said. "That's why it was awesome to watch."
Walrath stunned a packed courtroom Wednesday when she coolly scolded the lawyers who seemingly had cornered her into an 11th-hour approval of a private deal.
She threw out the deal and ordered a public auction of the Primary Health Systems facilities, scuttling what had looked like a fait accompli to close the hospitals and sell them along with the Integrated Medical Campus in Beachwood to the Cleveland Clinic.
As a bankruptcy judge, Walrath's job is to protect bankrupt companies from creditors and to help them squeeze out whatever dollars they can to salvage their businesses and repay their debts. In the PHS case, she put integrity at the top of the list.
"In bankruptcy court, the court protects the debtor and then the debtor is honest with everybody," said Mary Whitmer, a Cleveland bankruptcy lawyer. "She's protecting this debtor and this debtor is not making honest statements to people, and essentially she's going to feel ill-used. That's why the judge is upset."
Walrath graduated in 1976 from Princeton University, where she was captain of the women's basketball team, and graduated cum laude from Villanova School of Law. …
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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April 1, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Merit replaces need in more college aid awards
BYLINE: Rick Karlin; ALBANY TIMES UNIONALBANY, N.Y. -- One of the 15 or so college scholarships that Heidi Schumacher is pursuing is the Seth Hokanson Memorial Scholarship for students of Scandinavian extraction who have a musical bent.
She read about the $1,000 scholarship in the Swedish American Newsletter, which her parents receive, and figured her Swedish lineage and her participation in traditional Scandinavian music pageants made her well-qualified.
Yelena Biberman, a fellow Albany High School senior and Jewish immigrant from Belarus, is applying for about 10 scholarships, including a $1,500 award from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. She also is hoping for money from the Chinese American Alliance, which she heard also tries to help immigrants.
Both of these students have high grade-point averages and are near the top of their class. They also are seeking berths in Ivy League schools, with Biberman hoping to go to Princeton and Schumacher looking at Yale. For their second choices, Schumacher wants to attend Duke University, and Biberman is looking at Wellesley and the State University of New York at Binghamton. …
Schumacher's parents are physicians, and while she has a sister in college and a younger brother in private school, she says her family could probably afford to pay most if not all of her college costs.
Biberman is part of a single-parent family -- her mother works as a nursing home clerk and studies English in most of her spare time. She has virtually no money for college and will be relying heavily on grants and scholarships to get her through. Princeton may be farther off for her than Yale is for Schumacher due to the simple fact that Ivy League schools tend to dole out less grant money.
That is a change from the way things used to be. …
South China Morning Post
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April 1, 2000HEADLINE: Schizophrenics ban under attack
BYLINE: MO PUI YEEA government ban on children of schizophrenics joining the disciplinary forces was "totally intolerable", a psychology professor said yesterday.
Irving Gottesman, from the University of Virginia in the United States, said it was wrong to apply a blanket policy to people who come from more vulnerable genetic backgrounds.
Each person must be assessed individually, he said.
Professor Gottesman is testifying in the District Court on behalf of three men who claim they suffered discrimination because of the ban.
The trio, barred from jobs by the Fire Services Department and the Customs and Excise Department because they each had a schizophrenic parent, are suing the Government for a total of $7 million. …
He told the court that having a schizophrenic parent does not mean a person will develop mental illness.
Even those with schizophrenia could still attain high career achievements and prestigious social status, Professor Gottesman added, citing Nobel Prize winner John Nash, now a professor of Economics at Princeton University. …
The Times-Picayune
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April 1, 2000 SaturdayHEADLINE: UNIVERSITIES FIGHT FOR FOREIGN FACULTY; CONGRESS CONSIDERS RAISING VISA QUOTAS
BYLINE: By Steve Chambers Newhouse News ServiceIn the high-tech laboratories of Rutgers University, Johannes Khinast of Austria is training the next generation of American chemical and biochemical engineers.
His students someday may develop ways to solve vexing pollution problems or harness more environmentally friendly forms of energy.
The fact that he is a foreigner underscores the need to turn out more American scientists, but also puts him in the center of one of the hottest debates on Capitol Hill this year.
So far, the debate over whether to raise quotas governing H-1B visas, which is the type Khinast holds, has focused on labor shortages in the high-tech industry.
But a little-discussed side of the argument is the impact on U.S. college campuses. Last year, universities employed some 13,000 overseas professors and researchers holding H-1Bs, which are reserved for highly skilled workers. The computer industry is hiring record numbers of such foreign workers, and colleges say they are finding it increasingly difficult to secure their share of the visas. …
Colleges have other visas at their disposal, such as the J-1 for visiting scholars or the O, reserved for top scientists akin to Nobel Prize winners, but the H-1B is the favorite for bringing aboard faculty and researchers on a tenure track.
"It's become more labor-intensive because it's a race," said Mary Idzior, director of Princeton University's Office of Visa Services. "You have all this planning, and you have to file six months ahead."
The New York Times
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March 31, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: In Search Of Loopholes In the Offer By Microsoft
BYLINE: By JOEL BRINKLEY
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 30Over and over again for the last several years, the Microsoft Corporation has asserted that separating its Web browser from Windows was impossible. And yet, in settlement talks with the government, the company has reportedly offered to do just that.
One possible reason for this change of heart, some experts say, is that it does not matter anymore.
"It's closing the barn door after the horses are already out," said Stephen Houck, who was the chief lawyer for the 19 states that filed suit against Microsoft.
Trial evidence showed that Microsoft built its browser, Internet Explorer, into Windows as a tactic to put its chief competitor, the Netscape Communications Corporation, at a disadvantage. But the browser war is over. Microsoft won. Industry studies show that Netscape's share of the market -- about 50 percent when the antitrust trial opened two years ago -- has precipitously declined since then, though the precise estimates vary. …
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system. …
NOTE: This story also appeared in The International Herald-Tribune
The Seattle Times
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March 31, 2000HEADLINE: For designer of Kingdome, its demise blows him away
BYLINE: Erik Lacitis; Times staff columnist"Several years ago I had this exotic dream," said the man who designed the Kingdome, and who tried to save his misunderstood creation, "that they wouldn't know what they were doing when they set off that bunch of explosives."
But they knew what they were doing. After all, they had access to Jack Christiansen's original plans, the ones that showed the Kingdome columns had some of the thickest reinforced steel bars in the industry, and had been built to exceed all building codes.
The structural engineer who designed the Kingdome, now 72 and retired on Bainbridge Island, couldn't bear to be here when it happened. He and his wife Sue went to Aspen to visit friends. His answering machine kept filling up with calls from media around the world, wanting a quote about: "How do you feel?" …
And the Kingdome was an engineering marvel. It wasn't until the building's death countdown began that most Seattleites probably even had an inkling of the technological feat in their midst. Around the world, other engineers knew.
One of them is David Billington, professsor of engineering at Princeton University. On Sunday, he made sure he didn't watch the news. "It was much too painful. It's a wanton act of urban vandalism to tear down a perfectly good structure. If it had lasted 50 years, it would have become a national historic landmark."
Billington had even nominated the Kingdome to the Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, in what turned out to be another futile attempt to save it.
"The Kingdome is unique; there is no other concrete dome in the world comparable to it in scale, in form, or in appearance," he wrote in the application.
Just this week, Billington had been explaining to his wife the uniqueness of a "hyperbolic paraboloid form." That's what the Kingdome was - a curved structure that allows it to be thin, and extremely strong. …
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)
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March 31, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Who will take control of the baton?
BYLINE: Ken SweeneyOne opinion: Kenney gets reviewer's nod
I don't know what would cause more apprehension - standing on a podium in a strange city and helping make a group of unfamiliar musicians sound good, or naming your favorite among five conductor finalists.
Nevertheless, my colleagues at the TH have asked me to walk to the end of a tree limb and offer my pick for permanent music director/conductor of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.
I don't have a vote on the Conductor Search Committee. This is simply the informed - or uninformed, if your ideas differ - opinion of one reviewer who has watched the finalists in rehearsals and at concerts. I have also interviewed each one informally.
The task of picking the person to replace Maestro Nicholas Palmer will be a difficult one. Palmer was a superb conductor, but each of the finalists could fill the bill. Here are my picks in order of preference:
* Wes Kenney, associate conductor of the Virginia Symphony. Kenney demonstrated great confidence and skill with the baton. More importantly, perhaps, he displayed an assertiveness on the podium that commanded the respect and attention of the musicians. During the final rehearsal, he showed efficient use of time by not going over sections of the music that the musicians could play or sing easily.
* (Tie) Miriam Burns, conductor of the Kenosha (Wis.) Symphony and two New York orchestras. I liked that she is a Midwesterner. Her work ethic during rehearsals was impressive. She used personal time to work one-on-one with the soloist and musicians to iron out questions. She also might well have been the most skilled pure conductor of the group.
* (Tie) William Intriligator, conductor of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Minnesota and a guest conductor of the St. Paul (Minn.) Chamber Orchestra. Intriligator has Midwestern roots, having grown up in Madison, Wis. He is an outstanding pianist. His knowledge of the repertoire was obvious. He could be the most experienced of the finalists. …
Candidates
William Intriligator:
Address: Minnetonka, Minn.
Education: Doctor and masters of musical arts in conducting, University of Minnesota; bachelor of arts in music, Princeton University
Experience: Guest conductor, St. Paul (Minn.) Chamber Orchestra, 1995 and 1998
Occupation: Music director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis
Dubuque performances: Oct. 23-24Comment: "I like choosing exciting soloists and exciting repertoire and discussing the repertoire in the public and the media, talking to music students and grade school students about the music."
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March 31, 2000HEADLINE: Indiana State U. speaker discusses pride, Civil War
BYLINE: By Milissa Martin, Indiana Statesman
DATELINE: Terre Haute, Ind.Ethnic and civic national pride fueled the creation of the Confederacy and eventually the Civil War, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson said in his presentation Thursday.
McPherson's delivered his lecture "Was Blood Thicker Than Water? Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War" to the ISU community in a crowded Dede I.
Ethnic nationalism, McPherson explained, is a sense of identity based on similar language, religion, and culture and belief in a common genetic decent.
Ethnic nationalism "may be easier for us to grasp (than civic) because we see it every day," he said. Ethnic disputes in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have pervaded the 20th century.
Civil nationalism differs distinctly from ethnic nationalism, the Princeton University professor said.
It involves a "common citizenship," he said, held together by law rather than roots. …
University Wire
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March 31, 2000HEADLINE: Palmer House at Princeton in business after two-year renovation
BYLINE: By Emily Gopstein, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.
On the corner of Nassau Street and Bayard Lane stands Palmer House, the official guest home of Princeton University. In early October, the University reopened the house after an extensive two-year period of renovations. Now, professors, trustees and other guests of the University can be accommodated in its elegant and comfortable surroundings.
In 1990, the University asked Holt Morgan Russell to undertake the renovation of Palmer House. The main purpose was to upgrade the building to meet current accessibility and life-safety codes and to meet current hotel and inn standards, including the installation of a central air-conditioning system and private baths for each room, Ehrler said.
The yellow brick house holds nine newly designed guest rooms with double beds, private baths, voice mail, e-mail connections, cable, TV, fax capabilities and other amenities. It also holds a formal dining room, a solarium where guests can enjoy a continental breakfast and a library reserved for their use.
Palmer House offers overnight accommodations only for official guests of the University, but hosts many private catered events for staff and faculty as well as non-University groups. Academic departments also use the historic building as the site for all-day conferences.
Designed and built by Charles Steadman in 1823, Palmer House was a wedding gift to Henrietta Marie Potter from her father. The house remained in the Potter family until 1880, at which point it was sold. The property then changed hands several times until 1923 when it was purchased by Edgar Palmer, Princeton Class of 1903, according to Marilou Ehrler, an architect with Holt Morgan Russell who managed the renovation. …
Business Wire
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corporation Announces 1999 Financial Results
DATELINE: EWING, N.J.March 30, 2000. Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ:PANL; PHLX:PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today its audited results of operations for year ending December 31, 1999.
Universal Display had a net loss of $5,125,00 (or $.0.42 per share) for the year ended December 31, 1999 compared to a loss of$2,793,842 (or $0.27 per share) for the year ended December 31, 1998. The increase in the net loss was primarily due to the increase in research and development expenses, and to an increase in general and administrative expenses.
Research and development costs were higher in 1999 because the Company opened its 11,000 square foot Technology Transfer Facility in Ewing, New Jersey and research was performed by employees of the Company and Princeton University, compared to 1998, in which most of the research and development was performed by Princeton University. …
Chattanooga Times / Chattanooga Free Press
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Griffith To Discuss Diet, Religion Link
BYLINE: Emily McDonald Staff WriterCountless Christians have made a firm connection between diet and religion, Dr. Marie Griffith has discovered.
"When you look throughout the 20th century, even the 19th century, you are seeing strong links between religion and beliefs or obsession about the body and thinness," said Dr. Griffith, a lecturer in the department of religion at Princeton University.
Dr. Griffith, a Chattanooga native and 1985 graduate of Girls Preparatory School, will give a public lecture at 3 p.m. today in the UTC University Center. Her topic is "Abstinence, Discipline and Bodily Perfection: Christianity and the Modern American Diet Obsession."
Dr. Griffith became interested in the connection between diet and religion while doing research for "God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission."
"The women would talk about needing to lose weight. They were talking about weight loss from a Christian perspective," she said. They felt that losing weight had special spiritual significance.
"There is a long history in Christianity of being opposed to gluttony," Dr. Griffith said. "You shouldn't make food an idol."
Dr. Griffith sees some danger in linking weight loss and religion. …
PR Newswire
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: EarthCare Announces Two New Board Members
DATELINE: DALLAS, March 30EarthCare Company (Nadsaq: ECCO) today announced that William M. Addy and Philip S. Siegel have been appointed by the Board of Directors to fill vacancies created by the resignations of two Board members, which were announced yesterday. Both new directors will stand for election to the Board of Directors at EarthCare's 2000 Annual Meeting.
Bill Addy graduated with an honors degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1982. After graduation, he worked for Chevron Corporation in a variety of positions, including dealing with liquids management and environmental agencies. …Bill joined EarthCare in April 1999 and is currently Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Corporate Development. …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: St. Louis County (Voters's Guide)
The following are contested candidates in West County municipalities and special districts in the April 4 election. Incumbents are indicated with an asterisk(*).
Ladue
COUNCIL MEMBER, WARD 1
CHARLES RICE II
AGE: 53
OCCUPATION: President, Rice Money Managers
ELECTED POSITIONS: None
TOP THREE PRIORITIES: 1. To continue Ladue's tradition of government by the residents, for the residents.2. To protect our existing zoning and be sure that it is fairly administered. Strong zoning is the hallmark of Ladue and has played a big part in producing Ladue's high property values and outstanding quality of life. However, because our zoning laws are strict, we must make every effort to ensure they are administered fairly, impartially, expeditiously and consistently.
3. To enact a strong and meaningful conflict of interest and ethics code for elected and appointed officials, and to strictly enforce existing state law on these subjects. The only possible agenda should always be public service.
QUALIFICATIONS: City government -- served on Ladue's traffic committee in 1993 and on zoning and planning since 1994. Education -- granted a master's degree in public policy in 1973 and a law degree in 1974 from the University of Michigan. Undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1968. My only involvement in Ladue is as a resident and a homeowner. I am not involved in commercial real estate or real estate development in Ladue or anywhere else.
University Wire
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March 30, 2000HEADLINE: Census officials will visit campuses to count students
BYLINE: By Michael Jenkins, The Daily PrincetonianDATELINE: Princeton, N.J.
With the 2000 census underway, the U.S. Census Bureau has sent out forms to all American households, aired commercials urging people to respond and tried to account for every detail -- down to the last college student.
To ensure that college students who live on campus are not overlooked, the bureau will be sending representatives this spring to every college in the nation to tally the students who live on campus, census bureau representative Carl Anthony Money said.
According to Princeton University Acting Registrar Joseph Greenberg, the census bureau has not yet contacted the University, but he expects that it will do so soon.
College students represent something of a gray area between dependent children and independent adults. According to the census bureau, households completing the census form are required to include any persons living or staying in the home for the majority of the year, such as foster children and boarders.
But this does not include students who live on college campuses.
"If a college student is living at a residence . . . they get their own census form," census representative Wade Hann said. He added that counting college students residing on campus is mainly the responsibility of the college or university that they attend. …
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March 30, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton prof refurbishes telescope to investigate stellar mysteries
BYLINE: By Anna Rose Poole, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Since 1971, the telescope in Princeton University's FitzRandolph Observatory has seen little use. The equipment simply gathered dust, used by only the occasional amateur stargazer.
But beginning last summer, a team of University students and faculty headed up by physics professor David Wilkinson began a massive effort to change the dilapidated telescope into a state-of-the-art instrument that could help bring mankind one step closer to contact with extraterrestrial life.
Wilkinson's project was prompted by an experiment coordinated by Harvard University professor Paul Horowitz to detect and catalog unexplained polarized light pulses observed in the night sky.
Horowitz and Wilkinson had first met years before when Horowitz was still a graduate student at Harvard. When Wilkinson heard about Horowitz's research, he looked into furthering the study.
Along with a team of Princeton professors and students, Wilkinson launched a campaign to refit the obsolete University telescope to detect light pulses and perform experiments similar to those Horowitz was conducting. …
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March 30, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton students make the grade in mathematics competition
BYLINE: By Jennifer Yeh, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Imagine a cold, wintery Saturday morning. Imagine waking up early and trudging through the snow to the basement of the Princeton University Jadwin physics building to take a three-hour mathematics exam. Now imagine, after lunch, going back to take another three-hour mathematics exam.
Now imagine you are doing this voluntarily.
That is exactly what about 30 Princeton students did Dec. 4 when they participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition -- the nation's best-known mathematics contest for undergraduates. The contest draws more than 2,000 participants nationwide, all of whom each year gather simultaneously at their respective schools on the first Saturday in December to take the exam.
This year's contest consisted of "self-contained questions involving elementary concepts from group therogy, set theory, graph theory, lattice theory, number theory and cardinal arithmetic," acccording to the competition Website. …
"The competition is fun and challenging," Stefan Hornet '03 said. "I have had a passion [for math] ever since seventh grade and I've kept it." As a result of his high marks in the competition -- he finished in the top 25 nationwide -- Hornet, along with Radu Mihaescu '03, took home $250 in prize money. …
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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March 29, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: A DAUGHTER'S SINGLE-MINDED MISSION TO SAVE HER FATHER'S REPUTATION
BYLINE: BY GWEN FLORIOPrinceton University student Shara Pradhan spends much of her time trying to clear name of her father, Dhiraj Pradhan, Texas A&M University computer scientist accused of misusing funds.
Maclean's
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March 27, 2000HEADLINE: The power of talk
Professional scholars have traditionally disdained popular history, whether in print or on the screen. So it comes as a surprise to find Natalie Zemon Davis, a professor emeritus at Princeton University and one of the most distinguished social historians in North America, praising Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic, Spartacus, as an "insightful" film that engages "spectators in fresh dialogue with the past."
But 71-year-old Davis's thought-provoking "Slaves on Screen," her Frum lecture on the value of historical films, is of a piece with previous talks in what has become a major academic and cultural event.
After journalist Barbara Frum died of leukemia in 1992, her husband, Murray, established an annual history lecture in her name in conjunction with the University of Toronto. In the five years since British military historian John Keegan kicked off the series with "The Battle for History," CBC Radio has taped the lectures for broadcast, while Random House publishes them in expanded form. Open free to the public, the talks now draw such crowds that the university -- which last year turned away about 200 people after filling a 450-seat hall -- has moved the March 21 event to its largest space, the 1,500-seat Convocation Hall.
Publishers Weekly
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March 27, 2000HEADLINE: WOODROW WILSON Review; book review
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS. Penguin, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 0-670-88904-0This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried.
As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and subject is inspired. Auchincloss, the highbrow novelist and biographer of such bluebloods as Edith Wharton and Henry James, is perfectly suited to chronicle the exploits of the most academic and idealistic man ever to have lived in the 'White House. In i8 breathless pages, Auchincloss covers Wilson's life from birth to his first executive office -- resident of Princeton University. It was at Princeton that Wilson caught the eye of Democratic Party bosses, who saw in the bookish professor a man they believed they could manipulate. They were wrong. As a political candidate, Wilson proved to be fiercely independent as well as a master orator. His commanding presence got him elected governor of New Jersey and then, after a fortuitous split in the Republican Party, president of the U.S. Auchincloss does a fine job of detailing the successes and failures of the Wilson administration. His only real misstep is a crude resort to pop psychology; Auchincloss invents something very close to a split personality for the president and makes constant reference throughout to the "two Woodrow Wilsons." That is only a minor flaw, however, in what is otherwise an engaging, informative introduction to one of our greatest leaders. (Apr.)
OBITUARIES
St. Petersburg Times
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April 05, 2000, WednesdaySECTION: OBITUARIES
KARDOS, JULIUS, 80, of Spring Hill, died Sunday (April 2, 2000) at home. Born in Trenton, N.J., he came here two years ago from Yardley, Pa. He was head of painting maintenance at Princeton University in New Jersey and was an Army veteran of World War II. He was Catholic. Survivors include his wife, Rose Marie; one son, Thomas J., Orange City, a daughter, Rose Marie Schwarz, Spring Hill; and two brothers, Elmer, Cathert, Ontario, and Frank, Trenton. Merritt Funeral Home, Spring Hill.
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
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April 3, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Westport
ROBERT S. WICKS, 77, of Main Road, Westport Point, a former teacher, died Friday at home after an illness.
He was the husband of Barbara (Bruce) Wicks. Born in Holyoke, Mass., a son of the late Robert R. and Eleanor M. (Haill) Wicks, he had been a summer resident of Westport all his life until he moved there in 1986.
Mr. Hicks had been a teacher in Lawrenceville, N.J., and a teacher and house master at Newton (Mass.) South High School.
He served on the Westport School Committee from 1989 to 1998 and attended Westport Friends Meeting. He was a 1945 graduate of Princeton University and had attended Union Seminary in New York. …
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April 4, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Dyslexia psychologist dies at age 77
DATELINE: DEVON, Pa.Milton Brutten, an expert on dyslexia who founded one of the nation's first private schools for children with learning disabilities, has died at age 77.
Brutten, who lived in Philadelphia, was a clinical psychologist and an early leader in the field of special education. He also collected contemporary art.
He died of complications from a stroke at an assisted-living center in suburban Philadelphia on March 16, said his wife, Dr. Helen M. Herrick, a retired teacher of hearing-impaired children. …
His 1973 book, "Something's Wrong With My Child," written with Charles Mangel and Dr. Sylvia Richardson, was widely considered one of the premier books on learning disabilities of its time.
Brutten was born in Manhattan and grew up in Brooklyn, where he graduated from Brooklyn College. He did graduate studies in Spanish literature at Princeton University, then served in the Army during World War II. He eventually earned a doctorate in speech and language audiology from Northwestern University. …
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA)
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April 3, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: Cameron Mackenzie
HINGHAM -- Cameron Mackenzie, 82, of Hingham, former New England district manager for American Cyanamid Company, died Saturday after a brief illness.
During World War II he served as a field artillery captain and was stationed in England and Germany.
Prior to going overseas, he was stationed on the West Coast, where he met and married the late Peggy Austin. …
He was born in Providence, attended Providence Country Day Schooland the Lawrenceville School, and was a graduate of Princeton University. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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March 31, 2000, Friday ,FINALHEADLINE: William R. Mueller, 83, Humanities Institute founder, author, cleric
BYLINE: Jacques KellyWilliam Randolph Mueller, Humanities Institute founder and former chairman of Goucher College's English department, died Wednesday of a stroke at Roland Park Place. He was 83.
In 1972, after a lengthy stint teaching English literature to college undergraduates, he struck out on his own and founded the Humanities Institute, a continuing-education program initially tailored to women who had finished raising their families. His eight-week courses flourished for 15 years here and are offered as literary seminars in England, Scotland and Ireland. …
He received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1939 before obtaining a doctorate in literature at Harvard University. After a year as a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Divinity, he also received a master's in theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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March 31, 2000Thomas B. Robertson III, 74, businessman, Realtor
Thomas Bolling Robertson III, a retired Realtor and businessman, died Wednesday of emphysema at his Roland Park home. He was 74.
Known as Bolling, he retired in 1984 from Grempler Realty Inc., where he had worked for 12 years. Earlier, he was a businessman in Wilmington, Del. From 1951 to 1966, he managed Candle Craft's candle-making plant in Los Angeles.
Born in Haymarket, Va., he moved to Short Hills, N.J., and graduated from high school in Milburn, N.J.
He joined the Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a lieutenant. He returned to Princeton University, where he was a member of the varsity football team, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1947. …
Chicago Daily Herald
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March 31, 2000, FridayJohn Stone formerly of Wayne and Geneva
Memorial services for John Stone, 35, of Old Greenwich, Conn., formerly of Wayne and Geneva, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at the Little House Church by the Wayside in Wayne. The Rev. Pamela Pendexter will officiate.
Born April 12, 1964, in St. Charles, he died Sunday, March 26, 2000, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Mr. Stone graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., in 1982 and went on to earn a degree in English from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., in 1986. While attending Princeton, he was a member of the Ivy Club and the Water Polo Team. After graduation, Mr. Stone worked in the advertising and marketing field in the New York City area. Most recently he was employed by the Dukane Corporation as their strategic planner. …
Chicago Daily Herald
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Stone enjoyed volunteer work
BYLINE: Kathryn Grondin Daily Herald Staff WriterJohn Stone had a short life but one filled with great compassion.
The former resident of Wayne and Geneva died Sunday after a sudden, short illness at the age of 35.
"He was a very compassionate person," recalled his mother, Hays Stone. "He cared very much about reaching out to people in crisis and people in need."
In his spare time, he volunteered at various times for the American Red Cross, St. Luke's social service agency in Connecticut and most recently for Kids in Crisis, an emergency shelter for children also in Connecticut.
"He was looking for the right place to do the most meaningful work," his mother said. "He had a sensitivity to other people, a desire to make things better for other people.
"It was something that was very important to him." …
He swam with Geneva's swimming club as a youth before heading off to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. He later was a member of the water polo team at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. …
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