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Computers Today, July 31, 2000The Humble Origin of Software
The origin of now ubiquitous word "software" has been traced to 1958. John Tukey, a mathematician at Princeton University, used the term in an article published in the 'American Mathematical Monthly'. Tukey was an important figure in 20th century statistics and had a fondness for coining new words and phrases. His greatest contribution to the vocabulary of computing was earlier thought to be his invention of the word 'bit', short for binary digit. But it seems he is also responsible for introducing the term "software" as against "hardware". …
Chicago Tribune, July 23, 2000INTEREST BREWS IN DESIGNER OF WHIMSICAL TEAKETTLE
Michael Graves may be internationally renowned in design circles, but the architect has hardly been a household name.
A whimsical little teakettle he designed for Target, however, may bring fame to a boil. …
The Princeton University architecture professor created a tempest in a teakettle of sorts when the Target line made its debut in February 1999. Graves' sleek $34.95 kettle had a striking resemblance to one he'd designed in the '80s for Alessi, the European housewares giant…
The Deseret News, July 23, 2000Danforth joins Bush's short list
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. John Danforth resurfaced Saturday night as a Republican vice presidential candidate, joining former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney on George W. Bush's short list. Cheney is the leading candidate, a highly placed Republican official said as the Texas governor neared his decision. …
Danforth, a former state auditor and attorney general, is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale's law and divinity schools. …
The New York Times, July 23, 2000ON THE MAP
The Great American Novel, on Dime Store Paper
The Firestone Library at Princeton University is the archive of the manuscripts and correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The library also has other collections relating to the writer, including his personal library; the manuscripts of his wife, Zelda, and her correspondence with Fitzgerald; and the archives of Charles Scribner's Sons. … Don C. Skemer, curator of manuscripts, Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Library, spoke about the collection…
The New York Times, July 23, 2000ART REVIEW
The Puzzle of the Maya and Metaphors of the Chinese
ONE of the wonders of art is that viewers can be magic-carpeted into other cultures. Two such experiences are at hand these days at the Art Museum of Princeton University. One, an excursion into long-ago Mayan culture, might not look like much of a trip at first. It's too bumpy. Yet after seeing the potential held by the sole object in it, a piece of limestone carved in low relief, a viewer realizes that more than an excursion -- an edifying journey -- is possible. …
The New York Times, July 23, 2000BRIEFING: EDUCATION
PRINCETON FUND-RAISING
Princeton University last week announced that it had taken in $1.14 billion in a five-year campaign to mark its 250th anniversary, a university fund-raising record. Three-quarters of all undergraduate alumni contributed, said Van Zandt Williams Jr., vice president of development. Last December, Harvard University set the all-time fund-raising record when it concluded a five-year campaign with $2.6 billion.
Kushanava Choudhury
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, July 23, 2000Review: Books
Revised Editions Which authors, or books, do not enjoy the standing they deserve? Continuing our series on underrated reputations, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates nominates Willa Cather
"UNDERRATED"! - most writers secretly feel themselves in this dismal category, with the exception perhaps of the very few overrated among us (who surely suffer pangs of guilt and an uneasy sense that Posterity will make am ends).
I wonder if Willa Cather is a distinctly American taste, with a limited appeal elsewhere? And whether, in the careening new century, her meticulously crafted, amply developed novels of the American midwest have come to seem dated? My students at Princeton University would seem to be saturated in Virginia Woolf (not to their advantage, for Woolf's precious, cloying prose fiction style is a difficult habit to shake, like removing cobwebs from one's hair), but if one mentions the name "Willa Cather" they are apt to stare blankly. …
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 22, 2000Cheney would bring wealth of experience, some risks
Dick Cheney seems to meet at least two of George W. Bush's requirements for a running mate: He would bring no clear harm to the ticket and the two get along well. …
"Cheney is not a jump-off-the-cliff right winger. He's someone who's been in the center of the action for many years as an honest broker," said Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University. …
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 22, 2000Bush had wide GOP field to choose from
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush had a wide field of candidates to choose from in his search for a running mate. Here's a look at some of those who have been mentioned as vice presidential prospects: …
John Danforth, 63:
Former senator from Missouri and Missouri attorney general. Appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno in September to oversee investigation of the federal government's actions during the siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, and issued his report Friday that cleared Reno and all government agents of wrongdoing. In the Senate, a chief advocate of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings. Retired from the Senate in 1995 and returned home to practice law in St. Louis. Graduate of Princeton University and Yale's law and divinity schools. Heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune. Ordained Episcopal priest. Reportedly told Bush he is not interested in being vice president. Hails from a key state and would help Bush nail down conservative base. …
Bill Frist, 48:
First-term senator from Tennessee. Heart and lung transplant surgeon who saved the life of a tourist who had a heart attack in a hallway near Frist's Senate office. Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. Only senator who is a medical doctor. Father, also a doctor, started one of the nation's largest health-care companies, Columbia HCA. Considered conservative, but prefers to work in the low-key, bipartisan style of the late Sen. Paul Coverdell of Georgia, who died last week and whom Frist called his mentor. Republican point man in Senate on health issues. …
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 22, 2000Bush faces wide array of choices as deadline nears
Former Sen. John Danforth resurfaced Saturday night as a Republican vice presidential candidate, joining former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney on George W. Bush's short list. Cheney is the leading candidate, a highly placed Republican official said as the Texas governor neared his decision. …
Danforth, a former state auditor and attorney general, is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale's law and divinity schools. An heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune, he is an ordained Episcopal priest. …
Austin American-Statesman, July 22, 2000High tech's instant successes leave some rich with envy
It's not that Larry Cordle has anything against people in high tech; his own wife works for Advanced Micro Devices.
But he's bothered by the adulation of the young high-tech millionaires, whose sudden fortune has become the talk of the town. …
The end of the 19th century --the Gilded Age -- was a tremendous period of innovation, with the advent of the telephone, the automobile and electricity. These were the days of the Morgans, Rockefellers and Carnegies, who made their fortunes off steel, coal, oil and the railroads.
"These were the entrepreneurs who helped build industries and became wealthy in the process -- wealth like society had never seen," said Marcia Cantarella, an assistant dean at Princeton University who teaches a course called The Big Money: America's Ambivalence Toward Wealth.
There have been other periods of explosive wealth -- the 1920s, with its stock market boom and land speculation, and the "greed is good" 1980s, Cantarella said. …
The Washington Post, July 22, 2000Rent or Buy? It All Depends
In Deciding Where to Live, Balance Costs, Convenience
If you've ever rented an apartment or a house, you've probably had people tell you that you're making a mistake. Paying rent, they say, is just like throwing money down the drain.
The truth isn't so simple, however. …
… investing in real estate can be a smart move. As Princeton University economist Burton Malkiel has explained: "The real estate market is less efficient than the stock market. There may be hundreds of knowledgeable investors who study the worth of every common stock. Perhaps only a handful of prospective buyers assess the worth of a particular real estate property. Hence, individual pieces of property are not always appropriately priced." …
U.S. Newswire, July 21, 2000More Than 40 Prominent Economists Urge Supreme Court to Let EPA Consider Costs and Consequences of Clean Air Regulations
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THE ECONOMISTS SIGNING THE BRIEF ARE: …
William J. Baumol Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University Director, C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University
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David F. Bradford Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University Former Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers
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Paul R. Krugman Professor of Economics, Princeton University …
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, July 21, 2000PETE CONRAD REMEMBERED
"Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."
Those were Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.'s first words on Nov. 19, 1969, when he became the third man to set foot on the moon. His spoof of Neil Armstrong's famous remark was typical Conrad. …
Born in Philadelphia, Conrad graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and immediately joined the Navy. …
Fulton County Daily Report, July 21, 2000Does Judicial System Target Blacks?
Studies Showing Bias in Law Enforcement Prove Unpersuasive
Over the last few months there has been a spate of studies purporting to show racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system. They marshal evidence of "over-representation" of some minority groups among the persons stopped, arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. But the studies are uniformly unpersuasive in both their conclusions of bias and in their proposed solutions. …
If indeed blacks commit crimes at a higher rate than whites, then we must ask why. And here again, the answer will not be to the left's liking. The single most critical factor is illegitimacy. …
Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara McLanahan of Princeton University tracked a sample of 6,000 males aged 14 to 22 from 1979 to 1993, and found that boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated, even when other factors-such as race, income, parents' educations, and urban residence-were held constant. …
Investor's Business Daily, July 21, 2000SEC, ICI Press For More Independents On Boards Of Mutual Fund Directors
The people who oversee mutual fund companies are supposed to be an independent lot. And the government wants to make them even more so. … Directors tend to be prominent folks. Take Vanguard. Of its seven directors, only Chairman and Chief Executive Jack Brennan is an interested - that is not an independent - director. The others include Bruce MacLaury, former head of the Brookings Institution and former president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Director Burton Malkiel is a Princeton University Economics professor and author of the popular book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." The rest are corporate brass. …
The New York Times, July 21, 2000Beyond the City Limits: Art for the Summertime
THE fresh crop of shows in museums outside New York City this summer include several about artists prominent around the same time. …
Yayoi Kusama arrived in the United States from Japan in the late 50's and spent a dozen years at the front edge of American art, cheerfully scandalizing people with nude happenings and installations of polka-dotted fabric phalluses. At Princeton University's Art Museum her luminous works on paper, which she made before coming to New York, are intensely colored meditations about the mysteries of the universe. …
The New York Times, July 21, 2000New Jersey Revisits the Decade of Nude Happenings
The highlights of the summer in New Jersey are retrospectives of artists who happened to be in or around New York more or less in the 1960's. They had nothing whatsoever to do with one another. The New York art world is really different coexisting but independent worlds, as these exhibitions remind us.
Art Museum, Princeton University
Yayoi Kusama arrived in the United States in late 1957 for a show of her drawings at a gallery in Seattle. She stayed six months, moved to New York, canceled her return ticket to Japan and spent the next 14 years, having overcome various obstacles at the front edge of American art. Those obstacles, apart from being a woman, included the restrictive culture of postwar Japan, in which she matured and outside of which she had to establish an identity; her parents' opposition to her becoming an artist; and her mental instability. …
The New York Times, July 21, 2000Study Finds Region of Brain May Be Key Problem Solver
Addressing a longstanding debate among scientists over how much of the brain is activated to perform a difficult task like taking an I.Q. test, researchers have found that a surprisingly small and specific region of gray matter may be the brain's master problem solver. …
Dr. John Duncan of the Cognition and Brain Science Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England, and his colleagues report in today's issue of the journal Science their brain imaging studies of people who were asked to solve I.Q.-type questions, including spatial problems that required looking at four geometric images on a display monitor and trying to figure out which did not fit with the others; and verbal tasks that involved finding a pattern to complex sequences of letters. …
"It's an intriguing study," said Dr. Jonathan D. Cohen, a professor of psychology and director of the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior at Princeton University. "Duncan asks the question, is there some kind of underlying common mechanism that is 'intelligence,' or is intelligence a fractionable set of cognitive processes that differ according to different skills, domains, or talents."What he found was very similar brain areas were engaged in what appear to be very different problem-solving tasks," Dr. Cohen said. "This draws our attention to a relatively well-defined area over the vast expanse of the brain." …
Ventura County Star, July 21, 2000Detection of elusive particle a milestone in understanding matter
Scientists find first direct evidence of ghostly subatomic tau neutrino
In what is being hailed as a heroic achievement in physics, scientists have found the first direct evidence of the tau neutrino, an elusive and ghostly subatomic particle that was thought to be the last missing piece in the architecture of matter. …
"No one doubted the existence of the tau neutrino, but finding it is a heroic accomplishment," said astrophysicist John Bahcall of Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Studies. …
Africa News, July 20, 2000South Africa
Universities prepare to fight for their turf
Johannesburg - UNIVERSITIES and technikons are preparing to defend their turf in the wake of a report that proposes that many of them be downgraded or merged with other institutions. …
Rhodes University vice-chancellor David Woods questioned the criteria that would be applied, and said Rhodes did not want to be "downgraded".
Woods said: "I disagree that the number of students is a criterion. Princeton University in the US, which is a highly recognised research university, has 6350 students." …
Evening News, July 20, 2000DOUBLE HONOURS
Prof Bernard Shapiro, principal of McGill University in Montreal, and Prof Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University, flew across the Atlantic to receive identical accolades at the graduation ceremony in McEwan Hall.
Federal News Service, July 20, 2000PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ROBERT P. GEORGE
MCCORMICK PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
My name is Robert P. George. I am McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. …
My basic philosophy of civil rights is simple. It is the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and, I believe, the Constitution of the United States. At its core is the self-evident principle that all human beings are created equal. …
Our most basic rights--including the right to life--are inherent and in no way contingent on a grant from the state or any other merely human source. …
If my philosophy of civil rights were uncontroversial, there would be no need for me and the other witnesses to be here today or for you to trouble yourselves with this hearing. Infanticide would be unthinkable. …
I could go on with examples. For now, though, suffice it to say that people who wish to destroy an "unwanted" child have today in the academy--here in the United States--influential scholars who are willing to say that the baby they seek to have killed is not, in fact, a "person" with an equal right to life. Some of these scholars promote the idea that killing an infant at the request of its parent-- presumably a father as well as a mother in view of the fact that the physical separation of the child from the mother seems to confer on a father an equal right to command the death of the child--is morally acceptable and ought to be legally permitted.
The legitimization of infanticide constitutes a grave threat to the principle of human equality at the heart of American civil rights ideals. If weak and vulnerable members of the human family--and infants are surely among the weakest and most vulnerable--can be defined out of the community of "persons" whose fundamental rights must be respected and protected by law, the constitutional principle of equal protection becomes a sham. We must begin now putting into place bulwarks against this threat. I therefore respectfully urge passage of H.R. 4292, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
The Star-Ledger, July 20, 2000New Jersey's Princeton University Fund Drive Reaps In Record $ 1.14 Billion
With its alumni riding high on the good economy and feeling generous, Princeton University announced yesterday it raked in more than $ 1.14 billion in donations in a record-breaking fund-raising campaign to mark the school's 250th anniversary.
More than 50,000 donors, including three out of every four living Princeton alumni, got out their checkbooks when the university asked, school officials said.
The Anniversary Campaign for Princeton is the most successful fund-raising effort in the Ivy League university's history and ranks as one of the highest-grossing drives ever in higher education. …
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 19, 2000Princeton University raises $1.14 billion over five years
Princeton University said Wednesday it has raised a record $1.14 billion over the past five years as part of a fund-raising effort to commemorate its 250th anniversary.
The Anniversary Campaign for Princeton, which began in July 1995, raised money to launch interdisciplinary programs in the natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities.
It will also support teaching and research programs, enhance campus life and expand the school's ability to provide scholarships to both graduate and undergraduate students. …
Asbury Park Press, July 19, 2000Rollin' on the 'River Queen'
BIG wheel keeps on movin' . . . Ed Polcer keeps on groovin'. …
"The Magic of Swing Street" will get under way with departure promptly at 8 p.m. Aug. 18 and is limited to 110 passengers. It is not a benefit. It is just a blast. Featured will be Polcer on cornet, Allan Vache, clarinet, Tom Artin, trombone; Mark Shane, piano; Dick Waldburger, bass, and Tootsie Bean on drums. …
Polcer, now of Westchester County, N.Y., went to Princeton University after Hawthorne High and while at Princeton played with Stan Rubin's "Tigertown Five." They performed in '56 in Monaco at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. …
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July 19, 2000GEORGIA: New director appointed
A statewide advocacy group for mothers and infants has a new executive director. Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia has hired Monica Herk. Herk has a doctorate in public policy from Princeton University and was senior policy analyst for Gov. Zell Miller's office of planning and budget. …
PR Newswire, July 19, 2000Conference Program Reflects Growing Diversity of Signal Processing Applications; Eleventh Annual International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology; (ICSPAT) Features Hundreds of Presentations, Special Events
The producers of the International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT) today announced that the program for the 11th annual event will feature hundreds of scheduled presentations and poster sessions. …
A variety of special events complement the technical program. … A second special guest lecture, on Thursday, October 19 at 11:00 a.m., features Vincent Poor, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University speaking on, "The Wireless Revolution: Signal Processing as the Great Enabler." …
USA TODAY, July 19, 2000Israeli settlers seem unable to rally U.S. Jews
Groups appear detached from the peace process
THURMONT, Md. -- As the countdown headed toward breakthrough or breakup at the Camp David summit Tuesday, demonstrators stood outside the press center for journalists covering the Middle East peace talks.
Split between supporters and opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, they included residents of Jewish settlements in the West Bank who had flown here to try to rouse American Jews to their cause. They didn't seem to be having much luck. …
But next to her in the hot sun stands Michael Cwikel, 52, wearing a T-shirt saying "the majority has decided for peace -- me, too." A mathematician from the Israeli city of Haifa on sabbatical at Princeton University, he says: "We've got a very serious guy working for an agreement. Peace is worth a try."
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, July 18, 2000KILLING FOOD GERMS, BUT KEEPING FLAVOR
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Some viruses may get a head start in the infection process by sending RNA as well as DNA into cells. Thomas Shenk and Wade Bresnahan of Princeton University found that in human cytomegaloviruses, the RNA transcripts for four different genes are injected into the host cell along with the virus's DNA genome. While the DNA travels to the nucleus to be read, the RNA molecules can direct the production of proteins right away. …
The Associated Press, July 18, 2000Refugee official says U.S.-led debate over internal refugees obscuring real challenges
The top U.N. refugee official weighed in Tuesday on the U.S.-led campaign to better care for the world's "internally displaced," saying the debate sparked by U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was obscuring the real issues.
Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said she welcomed the new spotlight that Holbrooke has placed on the plight of the internally displaced - people who flee their homes but don't cross borders to seek asylum as refugees do.
But she said the debate has been "too narrowly focused" on the disparity in care between the internally displaced and refugees - as well as the responsibilities of the various U.N. agencies in helping them.
"All the talk of mandates and comparative advantages obscures certain hard realities," Ogata said in a speech sponsored by the Center for the Study of International Organization, a joint project of New York University and Princeton University. …
The Jerusalem Post, July 18, 2000Genesis 2 Fund raises $ 260m
The Genesis Partners Fund of Tel Aviv said it has closed a $ 260 million round of financing for its venture capital fund, Genesis 2.
The Genesis 1 Fund, established in 1999, has $ 90m. under management, bringing founder Eddy Shalev's two Genesis funds to a total of $ 350m.
Among the prominent overseas investors in the new fund are: CIBC, the second-largest bank in Canada, and the owners of investment bank Oppenheimer; BankBoston Capital; IBM Worldwide; the Government of Singapore; Sofinov, the Province of Quebec Pension Fund; the GE Pension Fund and Princeton University. …
Mainichi Daily News, July 18, 2000BOJ's zero-interest policy
The "zero-interest-rate" policy of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) represents a bold challenge to the empirical rule that has governed mankind for thousands of years: Money bears interest. Our central bank has continued the policy for a year and a half in what amounts to an action without precedent in human history. …
Allan Blinder, a professor at Princeton University, has made intriguing remarks. When proposals are put forward by competing economists, the noted economist says, chances are that the worst is adopted.
PR Newswire, July 18, 2000Global 'Digital Divide' Will Grow Larger Unless G-8 Encourage Investment, Expert Says; Shrinking Gap Between 'Information 'Haves' and 'Have-Nots'' In Developing Countries Requires Financial Incentives and Inclusive Policies, Scholar Writes
At the same time that the Internet and new information technologies are boosting global electronic commerce and accelerating international communication, "the very features bringing communities and nations closer together may unleash other societal forces that risk pulling them apart," Ernest J. Wilson III writes in a new policy paper published by the Internet Policy Institute. …
The complete paper, and the most recent Briefing by authors Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, as well as papers by AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong, Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, WorldCom senior vice president Vint Cerf, Corporation for National Research Initiatives chairman Robert Kahn, Covad Communications Co. chairman Robert E. Knowling, Jr., University of California at Berkeley economist Hal Varian, and IPI Co-chairman Jim Barksdale, are available to the public online at the Internet Policy Institute's Web site, at http://www.internetpolicy.org. …
Business Wire, July 17, 2000Xenogenics Corp. Elects Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia and Dr. Scott Brassfield to its Board of Directors
Exten Industries Inc. (OTCBB:EXTI) announced today it has made organizational changes in its majority-owned subsidiary, Xenogenics Corp., the developer of the patent-pending Sybiol(R) synthetic bio-liver.
Gregory F. Szabo was elected chairman and chief executive officer, Dr. Donald Cramer and W. Gerald Newmin will remain on the board, and two new directors were elected, Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia and Dr. T. Scott Brassfield. …
Brassfield, MD, an investor in Xenogenics through Kestrel Equity Partners Ltd. and a practicing physician in Colorado since 1980, has invested in and served as an advisor to or member of several medical, technical and cultural Boards of Directors. Brassfield holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from Princeton University, an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine, and has completed a family practice residency at University of California, Irvine. …
EIU Crossborder Monitor, July 17, 2000Indonesia: The crisis in the Moluccas
The Molucca islands have become the focus of international attention since fighting broke out in 1999 between their Christian and Islamic inhabitants. Over the past several months the death toll has risen to over 3,000 as members of militant Islamic group Laskar Jihad have arrived from their base in Java. …
Many in Indonesia believe that the violence is being fuelled by elements in the military seeking to regain the powers Abdurrahman has slowly been stripping away from them since he took office. John MacDougall, an Indonesia analyst from Princeton University stated: "The military is trying to manoeuvre itself into a better bargaining position by demonstrating that they have the power to engineer economic and political destabilisation." …
Insight on the News, July 17, 2000Fur Flies in PETA's Fight for Animals
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TEXT: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, has a dream of equal rights for animals. No more lab rats in cages, whether for testing cosmetics or cancer treatments. No more circus performances by lumbering elephants. No more zoos in U.S. cities. No more chickens in boiler pots or cows on farms or milk in refrigerators. No more animal companions curled up on American hearths. …
"We don't mind taking off our clothes or tossing a pie if that's what it takes," says Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's longtime president. …
But Newkirk "didn't realize animals were in trouble in the West" until she was an American grown-up and working in a brokerage on the East Coast. …
This led to a job inspecting laboratories for the city government in Washington. Later, she tells Insight, she read the new book that was becoming the bible of animal-rights activists, Animal Liberation, written by Peter Singer, now a professor at Princeton University. …