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Business Week
Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
April 6, 1998HEADLINE: GOING GLOBAL: IS IT TIME TO TAKE THE PLUNGE?
BYLINE: Christopher Farrell; EDITED BY AMY DUNKIN
For many years, the conventional financial wisdom held that American investors should place 10% to 20% of their portfolios overseas. But over the past year, with the U.S. stock market skyrocketing and many foreign markets blowing up, the maxim doesn't sound very sage-like. Remember the Asian markets' meltdown of last fall or the Latin collapse a few years earlier? Why take the risk of sending your money abroad when there's so much to be made at home?
Despite last year's debacle in the Asian markets, now's not the time to toss aside the advice.
Indeed, Europe's industrial behemoths are restructuring with a vengeance. Mergers and acquisitions are rampant on the Continent. Latin American companies are also slimming down to become more competitive. Even Asia, while still mired in an economic and financial mess, has much going for it -- many world-class companies, a well-educated population, and a disciplined workforce. ''My own view on Asia, rather than throwing up one's hands as investors often do, [is] this is precisely the time that international diversification makes sense,'' says Burton Malkiel, professor offinance at Princeton University and author of Global Bargain Hunting .
TIME
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April 6, 1998HEADLINE: Milestones
DIED. ARTHUR S. LINK, 77, former Princeton University historian and Woodrow Wilson scholar, who authored the meticulous five-volume biography of Wilson and amassed the comprehensive collection of his papers; in Advance, N.C.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
April 3, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
PYLE, JAMES TOLMAN
PYLE-James Tolman. Of Oyster Bay, Long Island and Seal Harbor, ME. Died April 1, 1998. He was an aviation pioneer who is survived by his wife of 60 years, Ann Finlay, 5 children and nine grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Princeton University Chapel, 3:30PM, on May 10, 1998. He will be interred in Seal Harbor, ME.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
April 3, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Everest, and Sherpas, Are in Vogue; New York's Cool New Guys, Thanks to Books and Films
BYLINE: By GLENN COLLINS
The Sherpas are bemused.
When they began settling in New York City, the famously trustworthy mountain people from Nepal who have hefted supplies (and not a few Western climbers) to the summit of Everest, fully expected the immigrant's struggle of hard work and homesickness.
But they never expected to be cool.
"Thanks to the new Everest boom, the Sherpas are very much in vogue," said Dr. Vincanne Adams, a Princeton University anthropology professor who has been studying them since 1982. "After all the books and movies, there is kind of a celebrity aspect to being a Sherpa."
This has provoked no little astonishment and a measure of delight among the nearly 500 Sherpas living in New York City, the largest settlement in the United States. Until now, the city's newest microcommunity had grown so quietly that it was off the scope of most demographers.
But in recent weeks, Sherpas have loomed large in the glow of The Movie, as they call it: the Imax film "Everest," which chronicles an expedition to the 29,028-foot summit of the world's tallest mountain.
Newsday
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April 3, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: TARNISHED CHUTE / URGED BY STATE, OXFORD SUSPENDS WIGGINS GOLDEN DEAL
BYLINE: Carol Eisenberg. STAFF WRITER
At the urging of Gov. George Pataki and insurance regulators, Oxford Health Plans agreed yesterday to suspend a $9-million severance package for Stephen Wiggins, its founder and former chairman, who stepped down five weeks ago in the face of staggering financial losses.
In a letter yesterday, State Insurance Superintendent Neil Levin directed the company to suspend payments to Wiggins until the HMO showed the cost would not be borne by New York customers and that its New York operations had the money to resolve problems with doctors and hospitals.
"When you take shareholders down from 80 to 14, one would assume you wouldn't get a tip -- this is really in-your-face management," said Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt, a shareholder. However, Reinhardt disputed the state's right to tell a private insurer what it can pay its management. "You either believe in free enterprise or, if you don't, then why don't you have government insurance?"
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
April 03, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Deconstructing History and Hitler
BYLINE: Carolyn See
MAKING HISTORY
By Stephen Fry
Random House. 380 pp. $24By Carolyn See, a writer whose reviews appear in Style every Friday.
I must admit that when I pulled this book out of its mailing envelope, my heart gave a few extra bleak and very uneven thuds. In the spirit of disclosure, I must also say that I thought I'd written the novel "Making History" just a few years back. It was pretty good, too. Got good reviews, was optioned for the movies, all that. But here comes another novel, bright as you please, set up for good reviews, probably going to be optioned for the movies. It sure teaches me a lesson, doesn't it? There's every kind of foolish hope and dream and vanity possible around the idea of "making history."
Graduate student Michael Young is really young, so young his nickname is Pup. He's reading history at Cambridge, and he's a bit of a genius, crammed with facts, packed with eagerness and peppy self-love. He's just completed his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler.
Stephen Fry has an absolutely wonderful time with this idea. He's a lot like Michael Young himself here. As an author, Fry is frisky, barking, jumping, trying out this and that. He sends Michael and Prof. Zuckermann back in time to make sure Hitler never gets born. (Whew! That ought to take care of things. Talk about making history!) Then, by reason of this not-too-well-thought-out good deed, Michael finds himself in a parallel Hitler-less universe at Princeton University, traditionally a haven for 20th-century European intellectual emigres. Good grief. What obtains here?
Agence France Presse
April 02, 1998HEADLINE: Global meet calls for 'outreach' program to step up conservation
DATELINE: NEW DELHI, April 2
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Thursday pledged to step up environment conservation across the world and strengthen its links with countries, local communities and business.
The world's biggest non-governmental funder of environmental projects ended the second day of its first-ever global meet with a commitment to remain "at the cutting edge, innovative, flexible and responsive to its recipient countries."
GEF official Robert Williams said a "grand bargain" policy could be adopted by developing countries where they could fine-tune ecologically sound production techniques to suit local conditions.
Williams, an academic at Princeton University's Centre for Energy and Environment Studies, said developed countries could help support such technologies and encourage international collaborative research programmes to make them cheap and popular.
Business Wire
Copyright 1998 Business Wire, Inc.
April 2, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Spielberg Will Bring A. Scott Berg's "Lindbergh" to the Screen for Dreamworks
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
April 2, 1998--Months before its publication, DreamWorks Pictures has obtained the rights to "Lindbergh," A. Scott Berg's much-anticipated biography of American legend Charles A. Lindbergh. The project will be developed for Steven Spielberg to direct, it was announced Thursday by co-heads of DreamWorks Pictures Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald.
When the director learned that an author of the caliber of Berg was writing a biography about Lindbergh, he actively pursued the rights to the book, sight unseen. Berg expressed equal regard for Spielberg, saying, "I felt that a film about a legendary figure called for an extraordinary director."
He graduated from Princeton University in 1971 and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Roll Call
Copyright 1998 Roll Call, Inc.
April 2, 1998HEADLINE: New Jersey 12 Democrats Charge Pallone Fumbled On Pappas's Foe
BYLINE: By Rachel Van Dongen
Some New Jersey Democrats are pointing the finger of blame at Rep. Frank Pallone, who has publicly touted his desire to be the next Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, for a messy Democratic primary contest that has developed in the Garden State's 12th district and could cost the party a shot at winning the seat.
Until recently, wealthy investment banker Carl Mayer had been considered a shoo-in for the Democratic nod to challenge freshman Rep. Mike Pappas (R), one of Democrats' top targets in this cycle.
But over the past two weeks, Rush Holt, a retired assistant director of the Princeton University Plasma Research Center, has won the endorsements of the five major Democratic county organizations in the 12th district. Under New Jersey's electoral sustem, Holt will now be the lone candidate on the Democratic party ballot line in the state's June 2 primary, giving him the advantage.
Sun-Sentinel
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April 2, 1998, ThursdayRAY RECCHI Commentary
HEADLINE: DEFECT CAN'T MASK INDOMITABLE SPIRIT
During Seth Green's regular counseling sessions with children born with cranio-facial anomalies, his main message is, ''obstacles don't confine you.''
Until the Taravella High School senior started ''Esteam'' with Miami-Dade County girl Emily Rose, there was no support group for children born with the defect commonly known as cleft lip and palate. Esteam stands for ''Emily and Seth's Team.'' Both Seth and Emily were born with a cleft lip and palate.
''The idea is to help their self-esteem,'' says Green, 18. ''I was born with the middle of my face missing. My first encounter with it was watching a home video when I was 6. I wondered why my voice sounded like my grandmother's, only more nasal.
''It's good for the kids to meet someone like me,'' says Green, who will enter Princeton University in the fall. In fact, he wishes he had had a chance to meet someone like him when he was much younger. That's why he and Rose started the support group, which meets monthly to discuss problems and how to handle them.
The Tampa Tribune
Copyright 1998 The Tribune Co. Publishes The Tampa Tribune
April 2, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Deaths elsewhere
BYLINE: Compiled from Tribune wires
John Turkevich, a Princeton University chemistry professor emeritus who helped develop the atomic bomb, died March 25 in Lawrence, N.J. He was 91.
Turkevich was a pioneer in catalytic research. He invented a popular method for preparing toluene, a gasoline additive.
The Virginian-Pilot
Copyright 1998 Landmark Communications, Inc. (Norfolk, VA)April 2, 1998, Thursday
HEADLINE: PRINCETON STAR TRIES TO SHOW NBA BOOKS AND BASKETBALL GO TOGETHER
BYLINE: Tom Robinson
The way Steve Goodrich figures it, a basketball is brown, round and bouncy. You dribble it, you shoot it, you pass it, then you try to keep the guy on the other team away from it. Whether you played college ball at Kentucky or Whohearda U., if you can do all of these things reasonably well, you're speaking a universal language as a player.
Despite his credentials - Ivy League player of the year, three-time All-Ivy - Princeton's Goodrich has a little talking to do at this week's Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, where collegiate stars gather for NBA eyes at Churchland High School.
Mention Goodrich to grizzled NBA talent scout Marty Blake and words like ''scientific,'' ''intelligent'' and ''genius'' leap from his lips. ''He knows how to play team basketball, which is what we're looking for,'' Blake booms. ''We get these guys out of college, they're all pretty good athletes, but they don't know how to play. Princeton gets kids who want to play; it's a team game and they'll beat you.
''It's tough to find smart players. He's a very intelligent player, and there's a place for him in the NBA. This is a scientific game. Not everybody understands that.''
Chicago Tribune
Copyright 1998 Chicago Tribune Company
April 2, 1998 ThursdayHEADLINE: DR. STANDIFORD HELM
Dr. Standiford Helm, 88, of Evanston, a longtime physician, died Saturday in Evanston Hospital. He was born in Exeter, N.H., and moved to Evanston with his family when he was 6 weeks old. He graduated from Princeton University and Northwestern University Medical School
Capital Times
Copyright 1998 Madison Newspapers, Inc. (Madison, WI.)April 1, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: MOSER BREAKS THE MOLD
BYLINE: By Kevin Lynch The Capital Times
Karlos Moser retire? He stuck around to produce opera for a year after he formally stepped down from the UW-Madison music faculty.
Oh, now he'll do some gardening with his wife, he says, ''some simple things.''
But he seems more like a stealthy fox lying in the cabbage patch.
There's still a flash in his eye, little yelps of excitement in his voice.
Moser has spent 36 years as artistic director of University Opera. He exemplifies how intelligent, creative direction can challenge students and stimulate a community while defying the comfortable ruts of academic formula.
The remarkable richness and diversity of Moser's approach come from a man who came to opera somewhat late, in his mid-20s, after establishing himself as a free-lance pianist, conductor and composer in New York in the 1950s. He had earned undergraduate and master's degrees in composition at Princeton and the University of Colorado, respectively.
Copley News Service
Copyright 1998 Copley News Service
April 01, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Morrison living an author's paradise
BYLINE: Terry H. BurnsDATELINE: CHICAGO
Toni Morrison is convinced that the day will come, probably long after she's gone, when black writers won't face the constant questions of race.
It's not that the questions necessarily bother her, it's that they have to be asked at all.
As the first black American (and the first native-born American since John Steinbeck in 1962) to garner a Nobel Prize for Literature, Morrison bristles at those who use her skin color to label her work.
While it might be true that the 67-year-old Morrison prides herself on being a ''black novelist'' who has raised the literary voice of African-American writers, race really isn't the issue, she insists.
''Race is the least reliable information you can have about somebody. It tells you next to nothing about them,'' she says.
In her latest novel, ''Paradise''(Knopf), her first book since winning the Nobel Prize in 1993, Morrison follows the descendants of ex-slaves who establish the self-sustaining, all-black town of Ruby in rural Oklahoma.
Morrison, for years a professor in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, envisioned ''Paradise'' as the last installment in a trilogy that includes her 1987 work ''Beloved'' and the 1992 novel ''Jazz.''
All three works explore what Morrison calls ''the single theme of love under duress in various guises.'' In ''Beloved,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize, an escaped slave's love for her daughter forces her to kill the girl instead of subjecting her to a life of slavery. In ''Jazz,'' the love between a man and a younger woman leads to deadly consequences in 1920s Harlem. ''Paradise'' examines the love of community, religion and family and the desire to create a perfect world.
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1998 Times Mirror Company
April 1, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES;
ARTHUR LINK; BIOGRAPHER OF PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
Arthur Link, 77, authority on President Woodrow Wilson. From 1958 to 1983, Link labored to collect, edit, organize and annotate documents of the Wilson era and publish them in a series of volumes as "The Papers of Woodrow Wilson."
While he was at the task, Link also wrote a five-volume biography of the 28th president, wrote more than 30 other books, and taught a full course load at Princeton University.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
April 01, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Ambassador E.A. Gullion Dies at 85
Edmund Asbury Gullion, 85, a retired career diplomat and former ambassador to the Congo who served as dean of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1964 to 1978, died March 17 at his home in Winchester, Mass., after a heart attack.
Mr. Gullion, a Kentucky native, was a 1935 graduate of Princeton University and a 1949 graduate of the National War College.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 31, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Edmund Asbury Gullion, 85, Wide-Ranging Career Envoy
BYLINE: By WOLFGANG SAXON
Edmund Asbury Gullion, one of the country's most accomplished career ambassadors and former dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he trained the next generation of Foreign Officers, died in his sleep the night of March 17 at his home in Winchester, Mass. He was 85.
The cause was apparently a heart attack, the Fletcher School reported.
Mr. Gullion earned his spurs in war-torn Europe and ended his diplomatic career in 1964 as United States Ambassador to the recently independent Congo, a flashpoint of the cold war. As an old hand on Indochina he was also deeply involved in the conflict that tore at Southeast Asia, whose reverberations followed him even after he settled into academe in Medford, Mass.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1935 and from the National War College in 1949. His first diplomatic mission took him to Marseilles as a deputy consul in 1937.
PR Newswire
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March 31, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Seven Researchers Named National Inventors of the Year for Their Breakthrough In Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancers;
Inventors of 'Super Clean' Vehicle Emission Control Technology and Flat Panel Display Also Recognized
Intellectual Property Owners (IPO), an association that serves companies and inventors who own patented inventions, is presenting the 25th annual National Inventor of the Year awards to seven scientists from Oncormed, Inc., a biotechnology firm in Gaithersburg, MD. The team members are Patricia D. Murphy, Antonette C. Allen, Christopher P. Alvares, Brenda S. Critz, Sheri J. Olson, Denise (Schelter) Thurber, and Bin Zeng.
IPO is also honoring four engineers from Ford Motor Company and three researchers from Princeton University with 1998 Distinguished Inventor Awards.
The Princeton inventors received a patent in January 1998 that is thought to be a breakthrough patent in the field of flat panel displays. Flat panel displays are part of the growing $35 billion display market. The invention is based on the concept of placing red, green, and blue sub-pixels in a single vertical stack that takes one third as much space and produces three times greater resolution. Rights are signed to Universal Display Corp., a small Philadelphia firm.
The three Princeton inventors are: Stephen Forrest, chairman of Princeton's Department of Electrical Engineering; Paul Burrows, Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials; and Mark Thompson, former Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Princeton and now an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California.
PR Newswire
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March 31, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: British Researchers Claim Jesus Scrolls are buried in Scotland;
Evidence is Outlined in New Book, "The Second Messiah" Published by Element Books, Inc.
DATELINE: BOSTON, March 31
Biblical scholars believe that they may be close to unearthening ancient scrolls that date back to Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The evidence, put forward by two British researchers, has created great excitement in the academic community because it is anticipated that the documents will shed new light on the origins of Christianity.
In The Second Messiah (Element Books, April 1998), Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas put forward dramatic new evidence that these documents were excavated from below the ruins of Herod's Temple.
British scholars from Cambridge and Sheffield Universities have studied the curious medieval building and confirmed that it appears to be a copy of the ruined Jerusalem Temple. Dead Sea Scroll expert, Professor Phillip Davies has called in Professor James Charlesworth of Princeton University, who has been searching for missing Jerusalem scrolls for several years. He believes the evidence is very powerful and has recently gone to Scotland to investigate the options for an archaeological excavation to recover the priceless artifacts.
Crain's New York Business
Copyright 1998 Crain Communications Inc.
March 30, 1998HEADLINE: ANDREA JUNG
President, Avon Products Inc.
Age: 39Brains behind the beauty
In retail circles, Andrea Jung has what is known as ''star power.'' And it's not just because of her striking grace and penchant for Chanel suits.
Ever since she was recruited into Bloomingdale's retail training program in 1979, Ms. Jung's career has been on a meteoric rise. While still in her 20s, she was running entire businesses for top retailers like I. Magnin and Neiman Marcus. At Neiman, she served as an executive vice president with responsibility for women's apparel, accessories, cosmetics, intimate apparel and children's wear. This year, her impressive career at Avon Products was topped off with a promotion to president, making her the global giant's second in command. Since joining Avon in 1994, Ms. Jung has helped revitalize the direct marketer's image as a beauty company. The magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University has overseen the launch of several global brands -- products which already make up more than 20% of Avon's worldwide sales.
Crain's New York Business
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March 30, 1998HEADLINE: LEONARD COLEMAN: PITCHING IN: HELPING OTHERS VIA BASEBALL
Leonard Coleman was a successful investment banker with Kidder Peabody & Co. when he got a call about an executive position at Major League Baseball.
If Mr. Coleman had any doubts about changing his career, they were wiped out as he sat with the commissioner watching the 1991 World Series from the front row. ''I'm a baseball fanatic and I thought, I'm going to have to take this job,'' he remembers, ''because I just can't imagine changing seats.''
Mr. Coleman's own impressive career path has not always been easy. Born in Montclair, N.J., he went to Princeton University as an undergraduate and then to Harvard University for one master's in education and social policy, and another in public administration.
Electronic Engineering Times
Copyright 1998 CMP Publications, Inc.
March 30, 1998HEADLINE: Molecular building technique inches closer to mainstream -- At birth of nanotechnology, Web sites abound
BYLINE: Chappell Brown
Richardson, Texas - Need a job? Zyvex LLC is looking for a candidate who has five to10 years' experience in nanomanufacturing. Billing themselves as the world's first nanomanufacturing firm, Zyvex management is prepared to compromise on background experience: A solid track record in industrial chemistry or perhaps 10 years in cutting-edge DRAM design could be the ticket.
Nano service
Cornell University's Nanofabrication Facility has been around for more than 15 years, offering nanofabrication services to research projects. The center has strongly developed areas such as integrated optics and micro- electromechanical systems (MEMS). Stephen Chou's recently formed research group at Princeton University is pursuing Chou's strategy for building single-electron devices. Chou developed the technique at the University of Minnesota's Nano-structure Lab, where he and his colleagues developed a nanoimprint lithography technique that some semiconductor companies are eyeing as a possibility for 0.1 micron and beyond.
PR Newswire
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March 30, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Research Fellowships in Autism Announced; Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to Fund Autism Research
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J., March 30
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced the establishment of a unique Research Fellowship Program in Autism Psychopharmacology. Autism is a serious developmental disability that affects about one in 700 children regardless of racial, ethnic or socioeconomic background; it typically appears before the age of three. Children affected by this disorder exhibit unusual behavior, sensory impairment and significant deficits in communication and social interaction. Through the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, a fellowship grant of $240,000 over four years has been committed to the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR).
"This generous grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the largest of its kind by a pharmaceutical company on behalf of autism research, represents an important milestone in autism research funding," commented Clarence Schutt, Ph.D., executive vice president of NAAR and professor of chemistry at Princeton University. "It demonstrates a joint belief in the critical importance of attracting the best and brightest young scientists to autism biomedical research. By doing so, Bristol-Myers Squibb is investing in the future with the recognition and hope that effective treatments of the autism spectrum disorders are not only urgently needed but indeed possible."
The Record
Copyright 1998 Bergen Record Corp. (Bergen County, NJ)
March 30, 1998; MONDAYHEADLINE: THE ONLY SURE THING ABOUT SCIENCE IS UNCERTAINTY
SOURCE: Wire services
BYLINE: KEITH DEVLIN
FACTS ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE DON'T often crop up at cocktail parties.
Indeed, there is only one that I know of, and that's the well known tidbit that our brains do not grow any new cells after we reach adulthood. I'll bet that, like me, you have known for years that, as far as the brain is concerned, it's all downhill from the moment we get our driver's license. Every day, another 10,000 cells die. Or is it a hundred thousand? A million? No matter, it's a bunch, right?
Unfortunately, scientists have just discovered that this old stalwart piece of scientific knowledge isn't true after all. In an article just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Elizabeth Gould of Princeton University and her colleagues present evidence showing that our brains continue to generate new cells throughout our lives.
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1998 Times Mirror Company
March 29, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: What Makes a Parent? Courts Often Decide;
FAMILY: O.C. Ruling finds biology less important than intent in surrogacy cases.
BYLINE: DAVAN MAHARAJ
Here in the '90s, everyone seems to be having babies: Infertile couples. Homosexual couples. Transsexuals. Even dead people.
Only a few months ago, a retired Anaheim couple sought to grant their dead daughter's wish to leave them a grandchild.
They hired a surrogate to carry embryos their daughter bequeathed them after she learned she was dying from leukemia and had some of her eggs fertilized with sperm her father helped her purchase from a Westwood sperm bank.
The surrogate chosen by the would-be grandparents miscarried and the effort to produce a child was finally abandoned in December. But the incident left ethicists scratching their heads and wondering: What next?
In his acclaimed book "Remaking Eden," Lee M. Silver, a science professor at Princeton University, describes scenarios where children in the future would distinguish between their "bio-dads" and "social-dads" and between their "gene-moms, birth moms and social moms."
Because there is a dearth of law dealing with the many new birth scenarios, some children end up in legal limbo when relations between their contract parents sour.
The New York Times
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March 29, 1998, SundayNAME: Scott McVay
HEADLINE: IN PERSON;
The Money Man for Inspirations
BYLINE: By LAURA MANSNERUS
DATELINE: MORRISTOWN
IT SUITS an intellect that careens in a hundred directions, this painting in the conference room at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. It's a trompe l'oeil that shows two shelves of books from the late 20th century. The man who chose them for the painter is Scott McVay, the foundation's executive director, who from time to time whirls around to point to the works that animated the passions he is spinning out.
There's "Biophilia" by Edward O. Wilson ("probably the lead advocate for the biological integrity of the planet," Mr. McVay says) and "Against Our Will" by Susan Brownmiller ("more important than de Beauvoir"). There's "The Death and Life of American Cities" by Jane Jacobs.
The books were Mr. McVay's way of trying to capture and honor some of the more arresting ideas he has encountered, since ideas are the Dodge Foundation's main business. "We seine for talent," Mr. McVay said, in "an immensely humbling experience" of selecting inspirations to be financed.
He uses them often in describing New Jersey, where he has lived, minus a few years in the intelligence service in Germany and scientific work in Florida and Alaska, since he reported to Princeton University as a freshman in 1951. Two-thirds of the foundation's grant money is awarded in New Jersey, and Mr. McVay unquestionably enjoys a sense of place.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 29, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Rough Sailing for South Street Seaport
BYLINE: By BERNARD STAMLER
THEY came by the thousands on that bright day in July 1983, eager to take part in the event: the opening of the Fulton Market Building, which was built above the still-operating Fulton Fish Market and was to be the centerpiece of the long-awaited rehabilitation of the South Street Seaport.
Gov. Mario M. Cuomo quoted Walt Whitman. Mayor Edward I. Koch urged the crowd to have a bite at one of the market's dozens of food stalls. There were cheers as confetti rained down from gloriously sunny skies. Blue and orange balloons rose on breezes that flapped the sails of the tall ships anchored nearby.
What a difference 15 years can make.
Today, the four-story, 75,000-square-foot Fulton Market Building is nearly empty. At Pier 17, the nearby East River shopping mall that opened in 1985, one finds mostly chain stores like the Gap, Express and Sharper Image, along with souvenir shops and generic food court vendors.
And there are those who think the combination of historic preservation, tourism and shopping was problematic from the outset.
"How much shopping can you do?" asked M. Christine Boyer, a professor in the architecture department at Princeton University who has studied the Seaport. "There's nothing special about attractions based on shopping." She pointed out that by the time South Street Seaport opened in 1983, stores occupied three-quarters of the space that was originally supposed to go to the museum.
The Sun
Copyright 1998 The Baltimore Sun Company
March 29, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Stephen Fry makes a bit of history
BYLINE: M.G. Lord, SPECIAL TO THE SUN
"Making History," by Stephen Fry. Random House. 382 pages. $23.
No one who has read "The Liar," Stephen Fry's 1991 novel, would accuse Fry of being a sloppy stylist. The book is one long word game, exhausting if somewhat hollow.
"Making History," Fry's new novel, has all the strengths of this earlier work, with a significant addition: substance. Without sacrificing his lightness of touch, Fry takes on weighty issues - guilt, destiny and the problem of evil. He even rewards the reader with something truly unexpected: a sweet, romantic ending.
The book's second half takes place at Princeton University, where Young finds himself in a different academic field and a very different world.
The Sun
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March 29, 1998, SundayC. Edgar Smith Jr., 81, bank, mortgage executive
C. Edgar Smith Jr., retired president of Central Savings Bank, died of heart failure Thursday at his home in the Charlesbrooke section of Baltimore County. He was 81.
A Baltimore native, Mr. Smith graduated from Gilman School in 1933 and Princeton University in 1938. After college, he studied law for a year at the University of Maryland.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
March 29, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Pachelbel's Canyon; What do you get when you cross a white-water rafting trip in Utah with a string quartet? Listen to this one.
BYLINE: Christopher Corbett, Special to The Washington Post
Twelve passengers boarded the Redtail Aviation planes at Grand Junction, Colo., to be deposited an hour's flight away on the top of a barren mesa in Utah. One of those passengers was a cello. When you travel with a cello, you buy the cello a seat.
Hannah was the cellist. She admitted later that she didn't actually mention to the clerk in the Denver music store that she was taking the cello on a 100-mile white-water rafting trip on Utah's Green River, one of the most remote and inaccessible places in the continental United States. Well, she figured, he didn't ask.
The rented cello, which cost $35 for the week, plus $3 to insure it against any calamity, wasn't exactly worthy of Yo-Yo Ma. "It's a really, really cheap cello. It has no power steering, no power brakes and it's hard to drive," Hannah said much later, after we had dragged it halfway across the back country of eastern Utah in an inflatable raft.
This was all Bill Dvorak's idea. Dvorak, a wilderness outfitter who runs a rafting and kayaking operation in Colorado, describes himself as composer Anton Dvorak's fifth cousin, a fact that would be difficult, and perhaps unnecessary, to verify. Although he's got parties of rafters strung out over half a dozen states and 35 guides working for him, every year he takes a string quartet rafting down the Green River for his own musical diversion and for the pleasure of select customers.
"I want to be Bobby Short when I grow up and play the piano at the Carlyle Hotel," Paul, a Harvard MBA, suddenly confessed. Doug allowed that he knew all the words to satirist Tom Lehrer's songs. And then Van, a vice president at Princeton University, spontaneously assembled a quartet with his wife, Myra, and Doug and his wife, Carol, to sing an old Princeton song.
Chicago Tribune
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March 29, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: TUBE STAKE;
MINORITY MORTGAGE OUTREACH PROGRAM TARGETS BET VIEWERS
BYLINE: By Lew Sichelman. Special to the Tribune.
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
The Fannie Mae Foundation has entered into a new outreach program with Black Entertainment Television that, together with other efforts targeted at all minorities, will reach a minimum of 90 percent of African American adults with information about qualifying for a mortgage.
African Americans watch more television than any other ethnic group, according to BET Chairman Robert Johnson, whose network reaches 95 percent of all black households wired for cable.
But the campaign with BET is Fannie Mae's largest single outreach initiative to date, and "the most aggressive in history focused on reaching black Americans," said James Johnson, who was Robert Johnson's student adviser at Princeton University 30 years ago.
Albuquerque Journal
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March 28, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Peace Activists Demand Access To LANL Sites
BYLINE: Ian Hoffman Journal Northern Bureau
SANTA FE -- A self-styled "citizen verification team" of nuclear abolitionists this week declared Los Alamos National Laboratory in violation of international law and human morality for its nuclear weapons work.
"It's clear to me today the United States is not moving toward nuclear disarmament," said peace activist and Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. "We can say U.S. policy on nuclear weapons is illegal and is in violation of moral law, the law of God."
The bishop joined a handful of blue-jacketed peace activists in demanding access Thursday to three of LANL's most sensitive nuclear-weapons facilities.
"We're happy you were able to make it to Los Alamos anyway," lab community liaison chief Leroy Apodaca told the team. But, he said, "you are uncleared visitors to our laboratory, and by law are not allowed access to our facilities."
"That's exactly what Iraq says," replied Zia Mian, a Princeton University arms-control researcher and Pakistani-born physicist.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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March 28, 1998 Saturday WaukeshaHEADLINE: Book lover exchanges ideas with Winfrey and Morrisom
BYLINE: LAUREL WALKERDATELINE: Waukesha
When I sat down with Marianne Blunck to talk about her love of books, a love that got her on the Oprah Winfrey show with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, I was reminded of something.
A loyal and literate reader had sent me by e-mail a parody that tweaked our fixation with things technological. It announced "a new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device called BOOK," a revolutionary breakthrough in technology without wires, circuits, batteries or switches. Easy enough for a child to operate. Powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disc. With optical scanning, a browsing function, indexing and optional bookmarks.
"Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is being hailed as the entertainment wave of the future."
Earlier this month, she was among 20 people flown by the Oprah Winfrey show to Princeton University for a book discussion. Pulitzer Prize-winner Morrison, the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1993, talked with the group about her newly published "Paradise."
Blunck found Winfrey warm and personable and Morrison, who teaches at Princeton, "regal." The discussion lasted about 90 minutes. Only about 12 minutes of it was aired.
The New York Times
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March 28, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: This Weekend: Summer
GRAPHIC: Photos: In a season of weather confusion, children tried to ice skate yesterday at the refrigerated Wollman Rink in Central Park, as the ice melted under their blades during the record March heat. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times); At Princeton University, two students put up their feet at their dorm room balcony to catch a brilliant day's rays. (Laura Pedrick for The New York Times)
NPR
SHOW: WEEKEND SATURDAY
MARCH 28, 1998, SATURDAYHEADLINE: Roman Spring Rituals
GUESTS: Elaine Fantham
BYLINE: Scott Simon, Washington, DC
HIGHLIGHT: Scott speaks with Princeton University's classics professo Elaine Fantham, about Roman rituals to usher in spring.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Scott Simon.
Spring is thought to bring the scent of flowers, the warm caress of sunshine and the symphony of pale, green buds bursting open on the trees. For the ancient Romans, the onset of spring was a time to beat the tar out of their enemies.
Joining us to talk about springtime in the Roman Empire is Professor Elaine Fantham, our friend from Princeton University's Classics Department. Professor, delightful to talk you again.
ELAINE FANTHAM, CLASSICS PROFESSOR, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: It's good to hear you, Scott.
SIMON: So, what is it? Do people just get their dander up in Rome this type of year? -- this time of year?
FANTHAM: Well, you know the thing is that most rituals, particularly the more entertaining ones, go back to a very early time, a very primitive time.
And the one which I think is particularly entertaining for us in March is the military -- the opening of the campaigning season, you might call it, which goes back to the time when I guess Rome was a little bitty place, and there were tribal wars between Rome and her neighbors.
And you would wait until the spring and then you would have a nice, fierce campaign to get back your land or take some of their land and get their cattle.
The Record
(Bergen County, NJ)
March 28, 1998; SATURDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON OUSTED ON FLUKE GOAL
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: ANN ARBOR, Mich.
Mark Kosick scored a fluke goal on an intended pass, lifting host Michigan to a 2-1 win over Princeton in the NCAA West regional hockey tournament Friday night at the Wolverines Yost Ice Arena.
Chris Fox also scored for second-seeded Michigan (31-11-1), which advanced to tonight's game against defending champion North Dakota (30-7-1), the No. 2 seed.
Jeff Halpern scored the lone goal for Princeton (18-10-1), which was making its NCAA tournament debut.