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Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Entertainment briefs PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - The Art Museum at Princeton
University has reached an agreement allowing it to keep
an Italian Renaissance painting that was taken from the
collection of a Jewish resident of Nazi-occupied France
during World War II. The university announced the agreement with the heirs of
Frederico Gentili di Giuseppe on Wednesday. Financial terms
were not disclosed… The Baltimore Sun, June 14, 2001 Study reveals common traits of Internet users Internet users are more tolerant, trusting, optimistic
and literate than nonusers, but not always more liberal in
personal beliefs, according to a study to be revealed at the
University of Maryland, College Park today… The study, a joint effort by College Park and
Princeton University scholars, attached Internet use
questions to the 2000 General Social Survey, the annual
study by the University of Chicago that tracks changes in
social trends, public opinion and behavior… Paul J. DiMaggio, a Princeton University sociology
professor who helped develop the additional survey
questions, likened Internet users to the museum-goers he
studied through a similar survey in 1993. "Museums and the Internet are really similar in that they
are places you can explore and explore on your own
schedule," he said. "Both groups of people are open to
cultural experiences of all kinds and are looking for
information…" Telegram & Gazette, June 14, 2001 Fitchburg seeks boost in image The new Millennium Community Committee has high hopes of
accentuating the city's positive qualities while promoting
community pride, prosperity and goodwill... Among its various projects and grants, REACH Fitchburg is
best known for commissioning Princeton University
composer Barbara White to write Raging River, Rolling
Stone,'' a musical interpretation of the heritage and
culture of Fitchburg… Evening Chronicle, June 13, 2001 Honour for leading poet An award-winning poet will be presented with an honorary
degree this weekend. Paul Muldoon gets an honorary doctorate from the Open
University at their degree ceremony at Newcastle City Hall,
on Saturday, at 2.30pm. Mr Muldoon, professor of poetry at Oxford University, was
born in Armagh, in Ulster. He now lives in the United
States, where he is Howard GB Clark professor in the
humanities and director of the creative writing programme at
Princeton University… AScribe Newswire, June 12, 2001 Old Census Categories Don't Fit New Families, Researchers
Say NEW YORK, June 13 -- The new data on family forms and
living arrangements being released each week by the Census
Bureau may leave headline writers, reporters, and members of
the public scratching their heads, researchers at the
Council on Contemporary Families cautioned today... A large proportion of children in "single mother"
families actually live with both biological parents, reports
researcher Sarah McLanahan of Princeton University.
The majority of the increase in births to "single" mothers
during the 1990s took place to women who were living with
the child's father... The Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2001 CRASH SCENARIO A new theory proposes a mind-bending trigger for the Big
Bang: A parallel universe whacked ours… The ekpyrotic challenge to inflation began with a paper
posted on the Internet in March. Shortly thereafter one of
the authors, Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University,
presented the idea at a scientific meeting in
Baltimore… But in early April, physicist Andrei Linde and colleagues
at Stanford University posted a severely critical analysis
of ekpyrosis. Dr. Linde presented his critique at a physics
meeting in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr. Steinhardt, who arrived at
the meeting after Dr. Linde's talk, declined to participate
in an informal debate. ... The Seattle Times, June 11, 2001 Insurer's voucher plan first in state With health-insurance premiums paid by employers rising
like helium-filled party balloons, employees grumbling
"Honey, my boss shrunk the benefits package!" and lawsuits
and legislation insisting that insurance cover everything
from chiropractors to contraceptives, who could blame
employers for wanting to try something new? ... Uwe Reinhardt, a health-care economist at Princeton
University, worries that healthy yuppie employees, if
given choices, will eventually find ways of freeing
themselves from the burden of sharing a risk pool,
actuarially speaking, with those less careful about their
cholesterol levels and body-fat ratios... The Hindu, June 10, 2001 Imagination on the prowl BACK in 1938 in the United States, Orson Welles produced
a realistic live radio enactment of H.G. Wells' novel, The
War of the Worlds, featuring an invasion of Earth by
Martians. A farm near New Jersey was the supposed Martian
landing site. The play included references to real places,
buildings and streets, vivid eyewitness descriptions,
convincing sound effects and realistic special bulletins. It
was so credible that tens of thousands of people rushed into
the streets, made hysterical phone calls to authorities,
prayed in churches, and scrambled madly for bus and train
transportation. Princeton University psychologist
Hadley Cantril (1940) estimated that about 1.2 million
listeners became excited or panic stricken by this
episode... The New York Times, June 10, 2001 Up front: by the way The struggle of downtown movie theaters to hang on in the
shadow of 18-plexes at the mall has been largely a losing
one. But when the downtown is Princeton and the owner of the
the building is Princeton University, the theater has
a better than fighting chance. The university has paid more
than $1 million to redo the interior of the Garden Theater,
which opened in 1920 on Nassau Street -- the exterior is
protected by rules of its historic district -- and it
reopened this month… The Recorder, June 7, 2001, Thursday EFF takes up fight aginst copyright act The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit Wednesday
on behalf of a Princeton University professor and his
colleagues, seeking an order that they be allowed to publish
their research and also challenging the constitutionality of
a federal copyright law. The suit was filed in New Jersey federal court against
the Recording Industry Association of America, the Secure
Digital Music Foundation, Verance Corp. and U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft. At issue is Princeton
professor Edward Felten's research on technology intended to
block consumer access to digital music... Electronics Times, June 4, 2001 Tiny moulds make 3D structures Engineers at the NanoStructure Laboratory at Princeton
University have developed a lithographic printing
technique to produce 3D structures smaller than 40nm. The
method involves the creation of a mould on a silicon wafer
using e-beam lithography and etching. Publishing in Applied Physics Letters, Professor Stephen
Chou, Mintao Li and Lei Chen define the mould structure
using a 35keV e-beam in a delicate process which takes weeks
to complete... The Hindu, June 1, 2001 India: Mishaps involving n-arms can kill thousands If nuclear weapons were to be deployed in South Asia and
there was to be an accident involving one of them on the
outskirts of a large metropolis, for instance, New Delhi or
Lahore, several thousands could die of plutonium inhalation,
according to a paper in the latest issue of the journal,
Current Science. The paper authored by Dr. Zia Mian and Dr. M.V. Ramana of
Princeton University and Dr. R. Rajaraman of the
School of Physical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University points out that nuclear weapons and their
delivery vehicles contained highly combustible, explosive
and hazardous components. At least 230 accidents involving
the nuclear weapons of the U.S., the erstwhile U.S.S.R. and
the U.K. were believed to have occurred between 1950 and
1980…
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