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The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
Copyright 1999 Southeastern Newspapers Corporation
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: ROAD TO COLLEGE BEGINS EARLIER
BYLINE: Peggy Ussery; Columbia County BureauBefore Alex Mundo entered high school, his parents had made financial arrangements for his college education.
But when Alex, 16, started ninth grade at Greenbrier High School in Columbia County, his parents - Jose and Thelma Mundo - went a step further.
In two years, the Mundos have gathered four boxes of college pamphlets and preparation guides. Since Alex's sophomore year, the family has visited 14 campuses such as Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Tech and Princeton University.
Jose Mundo even put together a spreadsheet with information about colleges, including the percentage of students who gain entrance according to test scores. Then there's an inch-thick notebook of Alex's accomplishments with an extra copy for Alex's guidance counselor.
''I think it's really important to start early,'' Mr. Mundo said. ''In order to set up a high school curriculum you have to know what colleges require.'' ...
The Denver Post
Copyright 1999 The Denver Post Corporation
May 5, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: Princeton faces test on shock prof
BYLINE: By Linda ChavezHe believes it is wrong to eat animals but not necessarily immoral to kill disabled human babies or senile adults. He opposes the use of animals in medical experiments but advocates the right of parents to kill their infants if they suffer from a debilitating condition such as hemophilia. He has published several books and scholarly articles arguing his theses, gaining him worldwide recognition.
The man is Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher recently appointed to an endowed chair in bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. His appointment has caused tremendous controversy on campus, including demonstrations from disability rights, anti-abortion and religious groups - but the university shows no signs of rescinding the offer. ...
Christopher Benek, a seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary who heads up Princeton Students Against Infanticide, would like the university's illustrious board of trustees to intervene to stop the Singer appointment. He notes in particular three politicos who sit on the board, two of whom are running for president of the United States - Bill Bradley and Steve Forbes - plus Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate subcommittee on public health. New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman also sits ex officio on the board. ...
The Jerusalem Post
Copyright 1999 The Jerusalem Post
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: German artist snubs Wolf Prize
BYLINE: Judy SiegelA German artist who was chosen to be one of six winners of the prestigious Wolf Prize is not going to get the award after all at tonight's Knesset ceremony - because he is not coming to Israel to claim it and didn't even bother to acknowledge it or explain his decision not to accept the $100,000 award, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Sigmar Polke, known in art circles to be somewhat eccentric, has been sought since January by officials of the Wolf Foundation, who left messages and faxes and called people close to him to find out if he will accept the prize. ...
However, the show will go on. Five eminent scientists are to be awarded their prizes tonight. They are Prof. Eric Kandel of Columbia University (medicine), Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion (physics), Prof. (emeritus) Raymond U. Lemieux of the University of Alberta (chemistry), Prof. Laszlo Lovasz of Yale University, and Prof. Elias M. Stein of Princeton University (sharing the mathematics prize).
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: In School;
In an Ivy League town, a charter school makes strides in academics, with a touch of chess.BYLINE: By Maria Newman
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Stephan Gerzadowicz, master chess player, likes to lace his lessons with maxims that sound like advice about life in general -- for instance, "The easiest way you defend a pawn is with another pawn, and then you can get on with your life."
Mr. G., as students call him, holds forth daily at the Princeton Charter School, where he began teaching chess this year. So quickly have students taken to the game that the school is sending five to the National Elementary Chess Competition in Phoenix from May 14 to 16. But championships are not why the school requires chess. The goal is for children to learn to think logically and sequentially, skills that can help in other subjects. ...
In Princeton, home to the Ivy League university and several research institutions, as well as numerous scholars and scientists, how to educate children is a constant topic of debate. ...
While most charter schools have been created as oases in New Jersey's troubled urban districts, the Princeton school was founded in a town that has among the best public schools in the state, with S.A.T. scores near the top every year. To some parents, they were not good enough.
"The program at my son's school was very mixed in terms of what was going on in the classroom," said Ruth Boulet, who was on the board of the Princeton Regional School District when the charter school was opened and now has two children in that school. "The curriculum was rather vague. Some of the teachers were not so great. There was no specific program for academic excellence."
And while most charter schools can afford only to lease their building, Princeton was able to buy its own because 30 parents signed a note guaranteeing the loan for the building and land, a leafy five-acre site surrounded by tidy houses and a high-end shopping center. The dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture, a parent, drew up the designs to convert the office building into a school. ...
PR Newswire
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May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Peter B. Lewis, Chairman of Progressive, Named Business Statesman of the Year by Harvard Business School Club of Northeast Ohio
DATELINE: CLEVELAND, May 5
Peter B. Lewis, chairman, and chief executive officer -- Insurance Operations, has been named the Business Statesman of the Year for 1999 by the Harvard Business School Club of Northeastern Ohio.
The Business Statesman of the Year Award has been presented annually for 40 years to a Northeast Ohio chief executive officer who combines excellence in business management with civic involvement. Lewis will receive the award during dinner ceremonies at the Marriott at Key Center on Thursday, May 6. ...
Lewis graduated from Princeton University in 1955 and joined Progressive as an underwriting trainee in the same year. In 1965, he assumed his current position, pursuing his vision to reduce the human trauma and economic costs of auto accidents in cost-effective and profitable ways. Under Lewis' leadership, Progressive is revolutionizing the staid auto insurance industry by providing consumers with innovative services, like 24-hour Immediate Response(R) claims service and a free auto insurance rate comparison service available through a toll-free number and the Internet (progressive.com).
Lewis is an arts patron, with an extensive personal collection. He helped create the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, where a gallery is named in his honor. Additionally, he chairs the board of trustees of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and serves on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He also has donated $1 million to Princeton University for a contemporary art gallery at the Princeton Art museum. In 1995, he received an honorary degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art. ...
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1999 The Providence Journal Company
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
MILTON LEONARD SNOW, 68, of Potomac, Md., a research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University for 33 years, retiring in 1992, died Thursday at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, Md. He was the husband of Rita Snow.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Louis and Jennie (Gordon) Snow, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1956.
A graduate of Brown University, he received his doctorate in physical chemistry from Princeton University. ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 1999 Star Tribune
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Learning from the luminaries;
A lecture program at Gustavus Adolphus College is giving students a chance to meet some of the nation's top scientists.
BYLINE: Jim Dawson; Staff Writer
If you want to talk to Philip Morrison about the likelihood of extraterrestrial civilizations or his work on the atomic bomb, you might fly to Massachusetts and drop by his office at MIT. Up the street, at Harvard University, you could ask Margaret Geller to explain her discovery of the soap-bubble structure of the universe.
If you're interested in complexity theory, you might head down to Princeton University in New Jersey, and chat with Phillip Anderson. When you're done, you could head over to the nearby Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old hangout, and have lunch with physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson.
Or you could enroll at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., and wait for these scientists, widely regarded as among the best in the world, to come to you. ...
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Copyright 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT WILL QUESTION AOL EXECUTIVE AS HOSTILE WITNESS
SOURCE: Wire servicesMicrosoft will use testimony from a rival executive at America Online, and an IBM executive will testify for the government among the six final witnesses in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
Microsoft said yesterday it will question AOL Senior Vice President David Colburn as a hostile witness when the trial resumes.
It will ask him about AOL's recent $9.9 billion purchase of Netscape Communications Corp., and the implications of that extraordinary deal on the technology industry and on the trial. ...
The government said it also will call back Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer expert who previously testified it was possible to disable Microsoft's Internet software. ...
The Associated Press
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: AOL executive dropped few hints of secret $9.9 billion deal
BYLINE: By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WriterDATELINE: WASHINGTON
A blunt-spoken executive from America Online described on the witness stand last fall his company's previous failed efforts to forge an alliance with Netscape, the Internet software pioneer.
But what is emerging publicly for the first time is the revelation that even as David Colburn was testifying in the Microsoft trial, AOL was again secretly negotiating with Netscape in a remarkable deal that weeks later coalesced into a $9.9 billion merger.
Microsoft disclosed Monday it will call Colburn, who appeared unshaven and wearing cowboy boots during earlier testimony, back to the trial as a hostile witness. He will be one of the six final witnesses during the upcoming rebuttal phase of the case. ...
The government said it also will call back Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer expert. ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1999 The Atlanta Constitution
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft witnesses named
BYLINE: Andrew J. Glass, Cox Washington BureauBODY: Barring a last-minute settlement, the Microsoft antitrust trial will enter the payoff phase, probably in late May, with both sides seeking to overcome weak spots in their initial arguments.
The Justice Department and Microsoft each named three rebuttal witnesses Monday. They will use them to try to gain the upper hand during the crucial period of the case, which promises to shape antitrust law in the high-tech field for the coming century.
Microsoft will call David Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs of America Online; Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive officer of Oblix Inc.; and Richard Schmalensee, acting dean of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The government witnesses will be Garry Norris, an International Business Machines executive; Franklin Fisher of MIT, who in earlier testimony argued that Windows has given Microsoft monopoly powers the company has used to engage in anti-competitive business practices; and Edward Felten, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an earlier witness. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant CompanyMay 4, 1999 Tuesday
HEADLINE: PROFESSOR RICHARD C. MORRISON
Professor Richard C. Morrison, 61, husband of Patricia Wupperfeld Morrison of West Elm St., New Haven died Saturday (May 1, 1999). He was a professor of physics at The University of New Haven. He graduated from Princeton University in 1959 and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965. ...
Health Line
Copyright 1999 The National Journal Group, Inc.
May 4, 1999SECTION: POLITICS & POLICY
HEADLINE: SHALALA: TACKLES THE ISSUES IN HEALTH AFFAIRS INTERVIEWIn the current issue of Health Affairs, Princeton University economist Uwe Reinhardt interviews HHS Secretary Donna Shalala -- the longest to hold the post in U.S. history (January 1993-present) -- on a range of subjects. Here's a sampling of her views:
o On the nature of the U.S. health care system: "At the top, ours is the best health care in the world. There is no substitute for the great American academic health centers. ... At the low end, though, our system can be lousy, particularly for people who are not treated early enough."
o On Medicare expansion: "Medicare continues to undertake and to propose new initiatives on long-term care and many other issues. ... We would particularly like to find a way to include younger people who can't find a good health insurance plan because of their age or health status. ... It's absolutely risk free. You can make an adjustment so that the payment is appropriate." ...
InfoWorld Daily News
Copyright 1999 InfoWorld Media Group
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to call AOL's Colburn as hostile witnessSun adds muscle to graphic workstation line
BYLINE: By Margret Johnston, InfoWorld Electric By Dan Briody, InfoWorld ElectricWASHINGTON -- Microsoft on Monday released the names of three witnesses who will testify in the rebuttal phase of the government's antitrust case against the company.
The witnesses are David Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs at America Online (AOL); Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive officer of Oblix; and Richard Schmalensee, dean of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The U.S. Department of Justice's witnesses are Edward Felten, assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University; Franklin Fisher, an economics professor MIT; and Garry Norris, former director of software strategy and strategic relations for IBM's PC unit. ...
Felten described how he wrote a program to remove, or hide, the Internet Explorer browser from Windows 98. The testimony disputed Microsoft's contention that the browser is so deeply embedded into the operating system that it cannot be removed without damaging functionality. Fisher testified that the company used predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices to crush competition. ...
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: FINAL MICROSOFT, JUSTICE WITNESSES ANNOUNCED;
COURTS: THOSE TESTIFYING IN SPECIAL REBUTTAL SESSION ARE EXPECTED TO SUPPORT ARGUMENTS MADE EARLIER IN ANTITRUST TRIAL.
BYLINE: JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Sticking mostly with trial-tested experts, Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department on Monday announced their witnesses for the final phase of the landmark antitrust case.
During a special rebuttal session that is shaping up as a reprise of the trial's first four months, six final witnesses will take the stand. They include two economists who previously testified and two new faces--IBM executive Garry Norris and Gordon Eubanks, the former chief executive of Symantec, a leading PC software company.
Besides Norris, economist Franklin M. Fisher and Princeton University computer science professor Edward W. Felten will testify for the government. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: List of Final Witnesses Released in Microsoft Trial
BYLINE: By JOEL BRINKLEYDATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 3
The Microsoft Corporation and the Government both released the names today of the final witnesses each intends to call when the antitrust trial resumes later this month. The list indicates that the Government hopes to shore up its case, while Microsoft's goal, at least in part, is to change the subject of discussion to one that might make the Government's case seem irrelevant.
The most surprising announcement came from Microsoft. The company is summoning David Colburn -- a senior executive for America Online and an important Government witness earlier in the trial -- to testify as a hostile witness in the final, rebuttal stage of testimony. ...
The Justice Department is also recalling its chief economic witness, Franklin M. Fisher, another M.I.T. economist. It will also recall Edward Felten, the Princeton University computer scientist who served as a Government witness earlier in the trial, and Gary Norris, an International Business Machines Corporation executive who was for several years director of I.B.M.'s software strategy division. ...
One witness, Mr. Felten, is being called in part to rebut any technical statements Microsoft might make that Government lawyers find questionable. He and his staff found several of the technical flaws in Microsoft's demonstration tapes played in court earlier. ...
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1999 The Providence Journal Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
GEORGE C. GOULD SR., 77, of Lindenhurst, Ill., died April 30 at the home of his daughter in Lindenhurst. He was the husband of the late Geraldine Gould.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Clinton and Mary Gould, he lived in Mundelein, Ill., for 30 years before moving to Lindenhurst.
He was a retired 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served in the Pacific during World War II and later in Korea. He was a member of the Navy League and the Fleet League. During his military career, he taught astrological navigation at Princeton University. ...
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Copyright 1999 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Copyright 1999 San Jose Mercury News
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to Call Ally, Rival in Trial's Rebuttal Phase
BYLINE: By David L. WilsonWASHINGTON--Microsoft Corp. -- which has built its antitrust defense around the testimony of its own executives -- signaled its intent Monday to launch a counterattack, naming a friendly software CEO and a hostile rival as witnesses in the trial's next phase.
The software giant said it will call America Online executive David Colburn, who testified for the government in the first portion of the trial last year, to discuss AOL's purchase of Netscape Communications Corp. and its competitive impact on Microsoft. Microsoft's lawyers also plan to challenge the "completeness and candor of (Colburn's) prior testimony," according to papers filed with the court late Monday. ...
Professor Edward W. Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton University, will return to the stand with an improved program that he claims safely removes Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsing software, something Microsoft says can't be done. ...
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT TRIAL -- REBUTTAL WITNESSES NAMED; AOL EXECUTIVE TO BE GRILLED
BYLINE: JAY GREENE; SEATTLE TIMES TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
When the Microsoft trial resumes after a long recess, it will feel a lot like old times.
The software giant and the federal government yesterday submitted their lists of three witnesses each to rebut testimony by the other side. Of the six witnesses to be called, four have already testified during the trial, which began in October and is expected to resume this month after a long recess.
Perhaps the boldest move is Microsoft's decision to call America Online (AOL) executive David Colburn as a hostile witness. The government called Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs at AOL, as its second witness in October. ...
The government also will call two of its previous witnesses: Princeton University computer-science professor Edward Felten and Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Franklin Fisher. Felten will counter testimony from Microsoft executives that it is impossible to separate Internet Explorer from Windows. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to Summon U.S. Witness to Stand; AOL Officer to Be Grilled on Netscape Deal
BYLINE: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post Staff Writer
In a bold but potentially risky legal maneuver, Microsoft Corp. said yesterday that it will summon to the witness stand and interrogate an America Online Inc. executive who testified for the government earlier in the software giant's antitrust trial.
Microsoft said it will grill David M. Colburn, AOL's senior vice president for business affairs, about the Dulles-based online service's recent $10 billion acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp.
Microsoft contends that the deal reshapes the competitive landscape of the technology industry and undermines key elements of the government's antitrust case. Specifically, Microsoft points to AOL's plans to promote Netscape's Internet browser and develop AOL software that will run on electronic devices other than personal computers. ...
The government also said that it will call two professors who testified earlier in the trial -- Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, and Franklin M. Fisher, an MIT economist. ...
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: The oldest trees;
SCIENCE BRIEFS / STEPHEN REUCROFT and JOHN SWAIN; Stephen Reucroft and John Swain teach physics at Northeastern University.
BYLINE: By Stephen Reucroft and John Swain
New antibiotics attack bacteria
A new way to attack bacteria may lead to new antibiotics. The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a pressing concern for anyone undergoing surgery. Until recently, vancomycin, an unusual antibiotic, had been the drug held in reserve to attack bacteria which were resistant to everything else. However, three people in the US have recently died from infections with vancomycin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Now research done by Daniel Kahne of Princeton University and his colleagues suggests a new way to attack bacteria. Vancomycin is made of two sugars attached to amino acids. It turns out that the sugars themselves have antibiotic activity and seem to inhibit enzymes that connect the bacterial cell wall together. The sugars alone turn out to be ten times more powerful than vancomycin against resistant bacteria.
Ref: Science, April 16, 1999.
Financial Times (London)
Copyright 1999 The Financial Times Limited
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: A Second in fund raising: Oxford and Cambridge are the poor cousins when compared with their US counterparts but they are seeking new funds to close the gap, says Simon Targett:
Oxford and Cambridge are British bywords for exclusivity and privilege: rarified medieval cloisters, fine libraries and an educational ethos of effortless superiority.
Given this, it is hard to credit the fact that the two ancient universities are the poor cousins of the elite US Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale. But the financial gap is wide and growing. ...
Forbes
Copyright 1999 Forbes, Inc.
May 3, 1999HEADLINE: Smarter than Herbert's dog
BYLINE: BY DYAN MACHAN
HIGHLIGHT: With recent deals totaling $77 billion and a pivotal role in Priceline.com, Allen & Co.'s Nancy Peretsman is the investment banker of the moment.
WHEN IT BECAME KNOWN around Salomon Brothers four years ago that Nancy Peretsman was leaving, Warren Buffett, a big Salomon shareholder, went to her office to implore her to stay. When she told him she was going to Allen & Co., Buffett reportedly said: "Oh. I won't talk you out of that."
Buffett and Allen & Co.'s chief, Herbert Allen, are friends, but Buffett also knew that Allen's bankers would be able to actively participate in the firm's investments: If Peretsman were good at nurturing deals, she would have the opportunity to make a lot more than a salary. ...
As cookies arrive, I ask her about her beginnings. Peretsman, a native of Worcester, Mass., met Allen in 1976 when, as an undergraduate at Princeton University, she spent a summer babysitting and housewatching for him in the Hamptons. He gave her cash for groceries and other bills and she took it upon herself to create a ledger, mercilessly leaning on other household staff for receipts. At the end of the summer she presented Allen with the remaining cash and a detailed cash flow statement. He put the change in his pocket, and, without so much as glancing at her accounting masterpiece, tossed it into the trash. "I trust you," Allen said simply. ...
Legal Times
Copyright 1999 American Lawyer Newspapers Group Inc.
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: A LESSON IN GRASS-ROOTS LOBBYING
BYLINE: SAM LOEWENBERGAt a time when corporate-generated grass-roots lobbying is all the rage on Capitol Hill, an independent grass-roots campaign that has spread to more than 100 college campuses is grabbing official Washington's attention.
In 1997, a handful of student activists--some of whose leaders were tutored by union organizers--set out to keep their schools from contracting with apparel companies whose goods are manufactured in sweatshop conditions. Now the movement's ranks have swelled to thousands of students across the country, and its mission has expanded to include reforming a White House-backed coalition set up to monitor working conditions here and abroad, and improving work conditions for garment workers.
In doing so, the students have become a cnsiderable irritant to some of the nation's largest apparel companies, while attracting the notice--and respect-- of current and former high-ranking members of the administration. ...
The student activists have even had an impact on some of the schools that agreed to sign on to the FLA, such as Princeton University. Robert Durkee, the school's vice president for public affairs, says the students on his own campus pushed the administration to require the companies making goods with Princeton logos to disclose their factory locations. A rally of 250 students on the small Ivy League school's lawn was the largest such gathering there in a decade, says Durkee. ...
Modern Healthcare
Copyright 1999 Crain Communications Inc.
May 03, 1999HEADLINE: BATTLE LINES DRAWN: MEDICARE FIGHT MAY HINGE ON WHETHER PRIVATE PLANS CAN WIN MARKET SHARE FROM GOVERNMENT
BYLINE: Jonathan Gardner
Congress' upcoming battle on Medicare reform may boil down to not as much a philosophical debate as a clash over whether private health plans can win more market share from the government-run fee-for-service program.
That message has been made clear in the general backing health plans have given to the ''premium support'' proposal from the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and the opposition they have raised to HCFA's experiments with competitive bidding among health plans.
The conflict over Medicare market share probably will take on greater significance when President Clinton introduces his own Medicare reform plan. Clinton is expected to propose giving HCFA wider authority to award contracts based on competitive bidding while protecting the status quo on the Medicare fee-for-service program. ...
Others argue that health plans are partial to the existing payment system-in which health plans are paid capitation fees based on local costs in the fee-for-service program-because it is more predictable than a competitive bidding system and can be influenced politically.
''They like administered prices where the prices can be manipulated with (political action committee) money,'' said Princeton University healthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 3, 1999, MondayNAME: T. Justin Moore Jr.
HEADLINE: T. Justin Moore Jr., 74, Ex-Chief Of the Virginia Power Company
BYLINE: By AGIS SALPUKAS
T. Justin Moore Jr., a retired chief executive of the Virginia Power Company and a founder of an economic development group that sought to break down racial barriers in Richmond, died of cancer on April 24 at his home in Richmond, a family spokesman said. He was 74.
Mr. Moore was as well known in Richmond for his attempts to ease racial tensions in the city in the 1980's as he was for his career at the utility. He had a knack for dealing with different groups, including politicians, consumers, state agencies and his own employees. ...
Mr. Moore served as an officer in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. After graduating from Princeton University in 1947, he attended Virginia Law School, graduating in 1950. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Dr. Jere Lord Jr., 88; Led Heart Association
Jere W. Lord Jr., a retired cardiovascular surgeon, a professor of clinical surgery and a former president of the New York Heart Association, died on April 20 at his home in Bedford, N.Y. He was 88.
Dr. Lord retired from surgery in 1983. He was a professor at the New York University School of Medicine and the author of 182 research papers in his field.
As the president of the Heart Association in the late 1950's, he once performed a heart surgery on a 3-year-old child, Mabel Chin, at University Hospital that was shown on television. His purpose was to raise public awareness of the operation and to allay people's fears about it.
A native of Baltimore, he graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and from Johns Hopkins University Medical School, where his father was a professor of dermatology, in 1937. ...
News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
Copyright 1999 News & Record
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: OLD ACADEMIC JOURNALS GAIN NEW LIFE;
JSTOR DATABASE GIVES OLD ACADEMIC JOURNALS NEW LIFE.BYLINE: BY MARTHA WOODALL; Knight Ridder News Service
Juliana Mulroy, an associate professor of biology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, was curious about which animals besides the desert tortoise eat plants containing psyllium, the active ingredient in Metamucil.
Fred Shapiro, an associate librarian and legal research lecturer at Yale University Law School, was trying to find when the term ''double standard'' was first used.
And the Rev. Joseph Ryan, an assistant history professor at Villanova University, was looking for information about the debate that erupted in the 1980s over efforts to canonize the Rev. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century founder of Catholic missions in what is now California.
They found their information quickly through JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org), an electronic database of back issues of academic journals. ...
JSTOR, which stands for the Journal Storage project, is a nonprofit organization that began at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York. William Bowen, president of the foundation, thought there should be a way for technology to help university and college libraries ease the enormous problems they faced finding shelf space for back issues of academic journals.
Bowen, a former Princeton University president, learned of the scope of the problem when Denison University, where he is a trustee, was considering a $5 million library addition. Librarians said they had no space for new acquisitions because more than a quarter of the shelves were filled with government publications and scholarly journals published before 1990.
Suspecting that other colleges and universities faced the same problem, Bowen thought technology could provide a solution. ...
JSTOR began as a pilot project in 1994 with a $4 million Mellon grant, a handful of journals and seven schools including Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore colleges. Now, JSTOR is working with 117 academic publications and has a subscriber list of 373 colleges and universities in the United States and 48 abroad. The program is independent and self-supporting, with JSTOR's operating costs being covered by fees from participating institutions. ...
The Palm Beach Post
Copyright 1999 Palm Beach Newspaper, Inc.
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: IF SOMETHING WORKS, THROW IT OUT
BYLINE: Tom BlackburnThose who click through life at the pace of a computer mouse may not grasp it, but the new era they talk about rests on a platform of institutions that lasted for a long time and can't be safely abandoned. Two such institutions are public schools and Social Security.
Public schools didn't give us the world's best minds at first. During the 1940s, immigrants built our atomic bombs, and as late as the 1950s, Oxford University in England looked on Princeton University in New Jersey as a prep school. But what we had as an advantage from public schools were smarter, faster, more productive workers than anyone else, including the countries with the brainy physicists.
Today, our graduate schools are filled with their students.
Yet now that the cherry is on the top, we are told that public education has melted into a puddle of failure. Florida is set to abandon it for some of its neediest students and give them vouchers to go where private enterprise is believed to know how to teach them.
Hold that thought for a moment, and turn to Social Security. ...
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 1999 The Hearst Corporation
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Undergraduate research projects move learning out of the classroom setting
BYLINE: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN; Staff writer
It's been almost 20 years, but University at Albany biology professor David Shub hasn't forgotten the student with the transcript that didn't make sense. She had A's in the hardest classes and C's in the easiest ones.
''I looked at her and said, 'What's with you?' '' Shub recalled in a recent interview. ''She told me that if the teacher and the class were interesting, she'd stay. If not, she'd cut. She told me she was thinking of leaving school and becoming a waitress. I almost died.''
Shub suggested an undergraduate research project, and that made all the difference. The student went on to study at Princeton University and is now vice president of a bio-technology firm in California.
Though it is harder and more time-intensive, supporters say, undergraduate research offers students education in its purest form, away from spoon-fed lectures and canned multiple-choice tests. A staple of the sciences for most of the century, it is beginning to take hold in the humanities as well. ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
May 3, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton U. professor collaborates on book about Latin-American life
BYLINE: By Michael Koike, Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.In collaboration with several authors and photographers as well as two production companies, religion professor and Princeton University Mathey College master David Carrasco has helped to organize a book titled "Americanos: Latino Life in the United States" that reached stores last week.
A pictorial overview of Latino life, the book features nearly 200 photographs. Twelve short articles and six poems complement the pictures.
Carrasco became involved in the project - which also includes an HBO Productions film to be released in the fall and a traveling Smithsonian exhibition - when actor Edward James Olmos contacted him last year.
An Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, Olmos is also a social activist who regularly speaks at schools, charities and community institutions. Olmos served as the book's editor and asked Carrasco to be an adviser and to organize several writers for the book.
"As a Chicano, I'm interested in Latin American art and culture and its contributions in the United States," said Carrasco, who also wrote a short article for the book that deals with the ways Latinos view and love their communities. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
May 03, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Eugene Louis Schou
Personnel Management SpecialistEugene Louis Schou, 74, a former Foreign Service officer who spent the bulk of his career working for federal agencies as a personnel management specialist, died of complications from diabetes April 30 at his home in Washington.
Mr. Schou retired in 1986 after about eight years with the Office of Personnel Management. From 1960 to the late 1970s, he worked at various times for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines and the Library of Congress. At those agencies, he specialized in position classification, labor relations and personnel management evaluation. ...
He was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. While attending Princeton University, he entered the Army during World War II and served as a signal corpsman in the South Pacific. He graduated from Princeton in 1948 and served with the Army's 301st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group in Germany during the Korean War. ...
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1999 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
May 2, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: NEW & NOTABLE
BYLINE: BY ANNE STEPHENSONKill Me First
Kate Morgenroth (HarperCollins, $24)
"It's a dark, violent, quirky sort of book, and I wasn't at all sure he'd like it." That's what Morgenroth thought when she showed her manuscript to Larry Ashmead, executive editor at HarperCollins, where Morgenroth had worked as a marketing assistant. Ashmead took the book, Toni Morrison (Morgenroth's teacher at Princeton University) called it "mesmerizing," and we're all left to wish we had friends in such high places. ...
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY.)
Copyright 1999 The Courier-Journal
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: KENTUCKY DERBY 125; The Infield; Rowdy crowd soaks up sun, skin and booze
BYLINE: CHRIS POYNTER and SHERYL EDELEN, The Courier-JournalThe smell was so strong that it could have wilted the flowers in the winner's circle.
''This is straight rum,'' said Keri Rosenbloom, a Louisville native, as she unscrewed the cap of a clear water bottle to serve her pals from Princeton University.
She promised them a wild time - and the infield at yesterday's Kentucky Derby delivered.
It was an orgy of sun, skin and Seagram's where women lifted their shirts and men stumbled around, screaming like barbarians and chugging beer. ...
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 1999 The Dallas Morning News
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Exploosive church growth cuts across many faiths
SOURCE: Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: J.C. Conklin
DATELINE: DALLASDALLAS - Prestonwood Baptist Church, a behemoth among megachurches, opens its new 140-acre campus in Plano on Sunday at the height of an unprecedented regional building boom among places of worship.
Last year, nearly $150 million worth of religious buildings were constructed in the five counties surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth - more than double the previous year and the most of any year in history, according to F.W. Dodge Research Unit. ...
Several trends fuel the construction: The population in general is growing. People are moving from cities and old suburbs to new suburbs. Others are moving from small, old congregations to new megachurches like Prestonwood. There's a boomlet among African-American and Hispanic churches creating what some observers call a "silent revival." Then there is the exploding stock market, which fattens worshippers' portfolios.
The growth is great news for believers but raises questions for some.
"Even though a lot of these churches are growing and there's some logic to the boom, you want to make sure it's for the right reasons," said Robert Wuthnow, a leading religion sociologist at Princeton University. "If people are just sitting in a fancy building once a week, that might contribute to the commercialism and materialism in the culture that everyone worries about." ...
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: HER WORLD;
TO HEDGE YOUR BETS AGAINST SIGHTSEEING LETDOWNS, TRY A WELL-CONDUCTED TOURBYLINE: SUSAN SPANO, TIMES TRAVEL WRITER
"Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote.
Anyone who has made a trip to some long-dreamed-of sight and come away feeling let down knows precisely what he meant. I felt that way three years ago when I first saw the Great Wall of China without a good guide to help me take it in.
This would argue for visiting famous sites with tour groups, even when you've done plenty of studying in advance. But some are so bad that they take the pleasure out of seeing a place like Petra in Jordan, which I visited in 1997 with a tour leader who was so busy flirting that he didn't have time to explicate the ruins. And once, just for fun, I took a bus tour of Manhattan (where, at the time, I lived) but bailed out halfway through, horrified by the guide's commentary featuring profundities like "New Jersey is on the other side of the Hudson." ...
There have been exceptions, though; I loved touring the historic campus of Princeton University with a surprisingly urbane student guide, joining a Grand Canyon National Park ranger for a lecture on the canyon's layered rock and seeing the mansions of Puerto Vallarta's rich and famous on a home tour organized by the Puerto Vallarta Friendship Club. ...
The New York Times
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May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: MUSIC/A Composer Freed by Opera To Be Tonal And Tuneful
BYLINE: By K. ROBERT SCHWARZ; K. Robert Schwarz is the author of the book "Minimalists."IT was a signal moment in the rebirth of tonality. When the curtain rose on Tobias Picker's first opera, "Emmeline," in 1996, the orchestra conjured an atmosphere of grim foreboding, circling endlessly around a single, brooding chord. As if to emphasize his immersion in the dark realm of B flat minor, Mr. Picker prefaced the score with a device long scorned by modernists: a key signature.
The 45-year-old Mr. Picker's embrace of tonality, though particularly unambiguous, is hardly unique. Today, it seems, every composer is eager to be portrayed as a lapsed modernist, newly liberated from the shackles of Serialism. For some, this conservatism smacks of opportunism. But for Mr. Picker, it represents another step in a long and unpredictable compositional journey. ...
His transformation into a traditional opera composer becomes even more remarkable when one considers his background. As an adolescent, Mr. Picker came to realize, he said, that one of his prime personality traits was "total irrationality." So he sought out teachers who would encourage compositional discipline and discourage freewheeling self-expression. With remarkable single-mindedness, he studied with three pillars of American rationalism: Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Charles Wuorinen.
Mr. Picker got the discipline he yearned for, along with heady doses of Serialism and systematic atonality. At Princeton University, he absorbed the prevailing modernist esthetic but ignored its scientific trappings. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: SCHOOLS
Campus Tours: The Video and the RealityBYLINE: By Marques G. Harper; The author, Marques G. Harper, is a Rutgers College senior majoring in English.
In the mid-1980's, Sami Kramon, a college-adviser-for hire in Bergen County, asked her husband, Cliff, to videotape tours of campuses near the places he visited for his clothing manufacturing business. The tapes helped the parents she worked with save money and time visiting schools. Her clients continue to use the tapes, but the Kramons also sell them to others. ...
Princeton University
Watching the Collegiate Choice Walking Tours video of a visit to Princeton University took me back to my own first campus tour, in more ways than I would have liked.
It was all there -- with none of the coughing, foot-shuffling or dumb questions edited out. The series' stated goal, "to present to distant families everything they would have seen and heard had they visited the campus on the day we did," sounds good in principle, but some things -- a campus walking tour among them -- are not meant to be filmed in real time.
Entertainment this is not. Some good information about the campus and its traditions and inhabitants could be gained, certainly, but the viewer will have to concentrate hard to stay focused on the jumpy footage, and the thin voice of the student tour guide.
"We have no connection with the colleges themselves, so the narration and visuals are completely candid," says the voice-over.
But watching the Princeton video, I wasn't really sure how the candidness manifested itself. No one on the tour asked particularly provocative questions, and though I'm not sure what the seamier side of a Princeton campus visit would be, this video isn't the place to find it. ...
The author, Katherine Zoepf, is a junior at Princeton, majoring in romance literature and languages.
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Richmond Times Dispatch
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: 'ANGRY YOUNG MAN' SEES CONTINENT AS PLACE OF TIRED, WORN-OUT IDEAS
BYLINE: Robert A. Lincoln;Robert A. Lincoln is a former officer of the U.S. Foreign Service who; lives in Northern Virginia.
DARK CONTINENT: Europe's 20th Century, by Mak Mazower; Knopf; $30.
Dark Continent bluntly attacks the accepted concept of Europe as the model of democracy, and should stir up a political, cultural, and academic controversy. Already published in the United Kingdom, the book has caught the eye of such leading publications of varying political persuasion as The New Statesman, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph.
It deserves close attention in the United States, and by jingoists among others. Author Mark Mazower goes out on a limb by declaring that "not even the murderous [European] record of the 20th Century ... has diminished Europeans' capacity for self-delusion." What he writes raises questions that affect not only the European Union but the composition of the United Nations Security Council as well. ...
Mazower received his higher education at Oxford in England and Johns Hopkins in the U.S. After teaching at Oxford and Princeton Universities, he moved to the University of Sussex in the U.K. Born in 1958, in academic circles he might be looked on as an angry young man. ...
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
Copyright 1999 Stuart News Company
May 2, 1999, SundayBOOKS ON THE BALKANS
BYLINE: Scripps Howard News ServiceWith no end in sight to the bloody strife engulfing the Balkans, and no end in sight to NATO and U.S. involvement in that strife, here is a selective list of books about Yugoslavia, Kosovo, the Albanians and the Serbs and related topics, with reviews. ...
Kosovo: How Myths And Truths Started A War, by Julie Mertus (University of California Press)
Not yet published or priced. Scheduled for release September 1999.
"Julie Mertus has written the most informed, sophisticated, and convincing account of the struggle over the future of Kosovo. Anyone who wants to understand the ongoing Kosovo ordeal, or for that matter the whole class of ethnic conflicts, cannot do better than to read and study this fine book." - Richard Falk, Princeton University
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Co-founder of KryoTech dies on business trip to New York
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.Rob DiGiacomo, a Midlands computer executive who helped found KryoTech, has died in New York City.
DiGiacomo was in Manhattan to unveil a KryoTech Super-G computer capable of running at 1 gigahertz, or 1 billion cycles per second, twice the speed of current chips.
Details of his death Friday were unknown.
A company executive said co-workers were shocked by the news of DiGiacomo's death. ...
DiGiacomo graduated in 1987 with honors from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. In 1993, he received an MBA from the University of South Carolina. ...
Astronomy
Copyright 1999 Kalmbach Publishing Company
May 1, 1999HEADLINE: Clusters In Collision; galaxy clusters may point to fate of universe
BYLINE: Graham, DavidThe big cannibalize the small in galaxy clusters. Yet, dwarf galaxies dart unscathed amid the carnage like small pilot fish in a school of feeding sharks.
Set against the black of space, clusters of galaxies glow like distant schools of silvery fish plying dark ocean currents. These galaxies, denizens of the celestial deep, are shaped like fuzzy footballs, disks, and elegant pinwheels like our Milky Way Galaxy.
Despite their unchanging appearance, neither galaxy clusters nor the galaxies in them are static. Astronomers are finding shredded, distorted, and other highly disturbed forms. Scientists using penetrating, deep-space images and computer models of the motions of galaxies are finding that clusters are vast pools of agitation, hundreds of millions of light-years across. "They are wild places," says Ohio State University astrophysicist Barbara Ryden. Galaxy clusters have become some of astronomy's most studied objects because their evolution may hint at nothing less than the fate of the universe. ....
Collisions are among the most powerful and obvious sculptors of the galaxies within clusters. Galaxies' collisions eject great tongues of stars and gas. Shock waves can precipitate the condensation of hydrogen gas in galaxies and set off a burst of star formation such as that found in NGC 7252 as a pair of galaxies collide. ...
Sleeping Beauty and a Whale
The collisions help explain why there are more ellipticals later in time. "Something in the cluster environment changes normal spirals to ellipticals," says Neta Bahcall of Princeton University. For example, about 50 percent of the galaxies in clusters that exist 7 billion years after the Big Bang are spirals. However, spirals account for only about 20 percent of the galaxies about 12 billion years after the birth of the universe. By contrast, about 70 percent of the galaxies that are not in clusters are spirals. ...
The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
Copyright 1999 Southeastern Newspapers Corporation
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: PLANNERS KEEN ON PROJECT
BYLINE: Brandon Haddock; Staff WriterA project to revitalize the Laney-Walker Boulevard area has attracted attention from the big leagues.
A team of six urban planners and landscape designers will meet in Augusta from May 19 to 21 to make recommendations about proposed redevelopment of the historic district, Augusta Mayor Bob Young announced Friday.
The symposium, to be held at Tabernacle Baptist Church, is one of a handful being sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. Young said. The Laney-Walker project attracted the endowment's attention during Mr. Young's recent visit to a national mayors' conference, he said.
''I'm really thrilled that this attention is being paid to Augusta,'' Mr. Young said. ''It elevates this program to a level of national attention.''
The team will be led by Grover E. Mouton III, director of the Urban Design Center at Tulane University in New Orleans, Mr. Young said. Dr. Mouton spent several days in Augusta this week scouting the Laney-Walker neighborhood, the mayor said.
Other team members include Ralph Lerner, dean of the school of architecture at Princeton University; ...
The Buffalo News
Copyright 1999 The Buffalo News
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: WHAT KIND OF CULTURE HAVE WE CREATED?
I watched the news from Littleton, Colo., with horror as it became clear that another group of children found life so painful that they took up arms to exorcise their demons. But I am not surprised.
As the nation continues its collective hand-wringing over the shootings, attempting to lay the blame occupies the foremost position. We will blame it on easy access to guns, television, rock music and the Internet. We will wonder why nobody noticed these kids had a problem and we will blame their parents. We won't, however, see where the blame really lies -- and that's with ourselves. ...
We hold a grinning madman as the savior of the terminally ill. We say nothing when Princeton University appoints a professor of bioethics who advocates infanticide for babies who are born less than perfect. ...
Chicago Daily Herald
Copyright 1999 Paddock Publications, Inc.May 01, 1999, Saturday
OBITUARIES
George C. Gould Sr. formerly of Mundelein for 30 years
Funeral services for George C. Gould Sr., 77, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Burnett-Dane Funeral Home, 120 W. Park Ave. (Route 176), Libertyville.
Born June 14, 1921, in Providence, R.I., he passed away Friday, April 30, 1999, at the home of his daughter in Lindenhurst. ...
During his military career, George taught astrological navigation at Princeton University in New Jersey. ...
THE HINDU
Copyright 1999 FT Asia Intelligence Wire
May 1, 1999HEADLINE: The Einstein effect
AMONG the great scientists of our times, only a few are remembered for affecting man's understanding of the structure of the universe and his place in it. Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton were two such, who altered humanity's conception of science in their times. Albert Einstein in the 20th century was the most influential figure in the realm of science and he virtually stands alone as a symbol of intellectual power. He discovered the essential structure of the cosmos and the subsequent innovations and discoveries like the bomb, space travel and electronics "bear his fingerprints". ...
In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for providing an explanation of how and why special metals emit electrons after light falls on their surfaces. By the age of 30 he had become a celebrity. In 1914 he had become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences where he could devote his time to research. During World War II he was visiting the U.S. and Einstein denounced Hitler's racist, totalitarian policies. In his native Germany, he had become a target of nationalists and anti-Semites. He decided to accept the professorship in Princeton University. ...
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Copyright 1999 Lewiston Morning Tribune
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Where are the massacres in religious schools?
BYLINE: Michael CostelloOne of the more representative differences between public schools and religious schools is that, in a public school, the teachings of the Bible are forbidden, but the gospel according to Marilyn Manson is not. The ACLU would sue if the words "Thou shalt not kill" were posted in the classroom. But the words "I got my lunch box and I'm armed real well ... wanna go out, gotta get out to the playground, gonna throw down at the playground ... next m-----f----- gonna get my metal, pow, pow, pow," (actual lyrics from a Marilyn Manson song) are embraced as art and legally welcome in public schools.
Another difference between public and private schools is that every incident of school violence that has sickened us over the last few years occurred in a public school. ...
Thanks in large part to the banishment of morality from public education, our culture, as measured by our respect for the sanctity of life, has declined so far that even infanticide is no longer the taboo it should be. In 1997 The New York Times Magazine actually printed an opinion piece which argued that infanticide should not be treated as murder. The author contended that until a newborn baby has accumulated enough life experiences to develop a unique personality, it is little more than a quivering mass of tissue. Princeton University recently hired, in its ironically misnamed "Bioethics Department," a professor who advocates euthanizing "defective infants" (his terminology). That these institutions would lend their prestige to proponents of infanticide shows just how far we've fallen. ...
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Is Chicago U. taking the future too lightly?
BYLINE: Andrea Billups; THE WASHINGTON TIMESThe University of Chicago has long been revered as a place for serious scholarship, attracting academic whiz kids and research wunderkinds from around the globe.
More students and professors from the university - 70 to be exact - have received Nobel prizes than any other school in the world.
But academic changes are under way that some fear may undermine the intellectual heart of the school's identity and its unprecedented record of success.
The university, where President Clinton will speak at the June 12 commencement, is cutting its highly touted and rigorous undergraduate core curriculum. The move has been called a marketing strategy to increase enrollment and attract a different type of student - one who will want more fun and less study. ...
Some of the school's most learned alumni believe the course changes portend much more. Last week, a group including Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, signed a letter to UC President Hugo F. Sonnenschein and the trustees calling for a moratorium on the curriculum cuts. ...
Mr. Sonnenschein, a former provost at Princeton University, has failed to understand the spirit of the institution and continues his push to make it more like an Ivy League school, Mr. Abbott said.
"He's done some good things for this university, but . . . certainly this attempt to normalize the university is a real mistake," Mr. Abbott said. ...
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1999 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
April 30, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Robert Burrows, 84, of Phoenix, died April 8, 1999. He is a graduate of Huns School, Princeton University, Harvard School of Law and Oxford University. Services will be held in Eau Claire, Wis. Maryvale Mortuary and National Cremation Society.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Tops in nonfiction
BYLINE: By Mark Feeney, Globe StaffIs truth more controversial than fiction? The Modern Library is about to find out.
When the publisher released its ranking of the century's 100 best novels in English last June, it aroused a storm of debate - and publicity. Last night, it unveiled its nonfiction list at BookExpo America, an annual booksellers' convention, in Los Angeles.
Named the best nonfiction book published in English in the 20th century was "The Education of Henry Adams" (1918), the posthumously published autobiography of America's foremost 19th-century historian and a descendant of two presidents. Rounding out the top five are William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902); Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up From Slavery" (1901); Virginia Woolf's feminist classic, "A Room of One's Own" (1929); and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" (1962), a seminal text in the founding of the environmental movement. ...
Other judges were novelists A. S. Byatt, Caleb Carr, Charles Johnson, and Carolyn See; novelist-historian Shelby Foote; scientist Stephen Jay Gould; Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian; authors Christopher Cerf and Jon Krakauer; biographer Edmund Morris; religious historian Elaine Pagels; and art historian John Richardson. ...
"It wasn't a one-shot, single afternoon of putting this together," Ebershoff cautioned. "We do understand the influence of this list and therefore take it very seriously."
Speaking from her Princeton University office, Pagels agreed, citing the sense of obligation the panelists felt. There was "a great deal of intense discussion" among the judges, she said, with one member of the group humorously likening their service to "literary jury duty." ...
The Independent (London)
Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: SCIENCE: STARS AND PLANETS: MAY
BYLINE: Nigel Henbest And Heather Couper
ON MAY evenings, the large, ancient constellation of Virgo takes centre stage in the southern sky. Shaped like a "Y", it bears little resemblance to a maiden bearing an ear of corn - but within Virgo's mundane outline is a treasure trove of delights. With binoculars, sweep the "bowl" of the Y, and if your skies are clear and dark you should pick out a number of fuzzy patches. These are just a handful of the thousands of galaxies, many much bigger than our own Milky Way, making up the giant Virgo Cluster.
We have known for some time that the basic building-blocks of the Universe are clusters and superclusters of galaxies. These reflect the distribution of matter that came out of the Big Bang. ...More important, they also reveal the location of the mysterious "dark matter" that may make up more than 90 per cent of the mass of the Universe. The visible galaxies ride the dark matter like surfers on a wave.
On the other side of the world at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shares the same technology as the 2dF survey, even down to the size of the area surveyed. At the heart of the instrument - placed at the focus of a 2.5-metre telescope - is an array of optical fibres. By studying existing sky -images, astronomers can position the fibres exactly where the galaxies lie. Plug in the fibres, point the telescope, and light from each galaxy tumbles down its own fibre to a sensitive spectrograph, which measures the distance.
The project leader, Jim Gunn of Princeton University, points out that surveys such as this wouldn't have been possible even 10 years ago. "We've got state -of-the-art detectors - silicon CCDs - which detect 70 per cent of the light that falls on them, instead of the 1 per cent registered by photographic plates. Plus, the database will produce 10 terabytes, something that daunted us when we started planning - but not now." ...
International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 1999 International Herald Tribune
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: A Truly Crucial Chapter In the History of Borders
BYLINE: By Barry S. Strauss; The Washington PostDATELINE: WASHINGTON
Ever since human beings began to give up the nomadic life for the settled condition of farmers around 10,000 years ago, every community has demarcated and defended its territory. So the border was invented.
Borders serve to protect, to provide an area of freedom and autonomy. But as we see in Kosovo today, they can also serve to divide, to exclude, to designate a space where minorities are forced to assimilate, where they are expelled or even killed. ...
The writer, director of the peace studies program and a professor of history and classics at Cornell University, is a Rockefeller visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. He contributed this comment to The Washington Post.
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: U.S. WAGES GROW AT SLOWEST PACE IN 20 YEARS
BYLINE: NANCY RIVERA BROOKS and PETER G. GOSSELIN
DATELINE: WASHINGTONThe wages and benefits of American workers so far this year have risen at their slowest pace in almost two decades, clouding what had been some of the brightest news about the current boom--its recent success at improving the lots of a broad swath of working people.
The government said its employment cost index, Washington's most reliable measure of what employers are paying in wages, salaries and benefits, rose a mere 0.4% in the first three months of the year. ...
Though quarterly data can be volatile, the weak wage gains of the latest quarter suggest an abrupt change. Until this year, most workers' economic condition has been improving because, while wage gains have been moderate, inflation has been even slower, which means that whatever gains people do garner are worth more than in the past.
Indeed, during the last three years, wage gains after inflation have been the best in more than two decades, according to government statistics.
"We are . . . seeing some very impressive real wage growth, which is a big change over what was happening earlier in the 1990s," said Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton University labor economist.
Still, Krueger and others acknowledged they are perplexed by the new figures, given the tight labor market. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE
The Copyright 1999 M2 Communications Ltd.
April 30, 1999HEADLINE: POWERQUEST
Chernobyl Virus no match for PowerQuest's Lost & FoundDATELINE: OREM, Utah
Files infected by the virus can be rescued using PowerQuest's patent-pending data recovery solution
The Chernobyl virus, which was responsible for destroying data from thousands of hard drives throughout the world, has taught everyone a very important lesson: buy PowerQuest Corp.'s powerful data recovery tool, Lost & Found. People throughout the world are using Lost & Found to retrieve files from their Chernobyl-infected computers and, in all known cases, have recovered 100 percent of the lost, deleted or corrupted data. Search & Rescue, the enterprise version of Lost & Found, is also being used to help businesses recover from virus infections. ...
Earlier in the week, more than 100 student computers at Princeton University in New Jersey were wiped out, leaving students scrambling to re-write term papers with less than two weeks left in the school year. ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1999 The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Bradley has message on race rapport; Chides state on Prop. 187 and affirmative action
SOURCE: STAFF WRITER
BYLINE: John MareliusDATELINE: LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES -- Former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley said yesterday he plans to make race relations in America a central theme of his campaign for the White House as he condemned popular California ballot measures on illegal immigration and affirmative action.
"I believe that integration and racial unity are central to our American future," Bradley said in a speech to the Town Hall of Los Angeles. "They are not merely programmatic issues. They are not political trends. They are more than identity conundrums. They are fundamental questions of attitude and action, questions of individual moral courage and the moral leadership of our nation." ...
He was equally critical of Proposition 209. Bradley, who attended Princeton University on a basketball scholarship, said he never would been admitted to college on academic qualifications alone.
"I believe that affirmative action is a positive when it means reaching out to the greatest number of Americans of all races, ethnicities and gender to try to get the best involved," he said. "I also think that to make a decision based solely on a test score ignores the capacity for people to grow. " ...
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1999 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: MATH WHIZ PROVES HIS MEDAL
BYLINE: Peter Calamai
U of T prof wins Canada's top science award
When Jim Arthur tackled the special provincial exam for math whizzes back in Grade 13, he bombed.''I got something like a 10,'' he recalls.
Yet he still launched himself on a lonely, long quest to find a path through a mathematical jungle. And today the 54-year-old University of Toronto math professor became the first Toronto resident to be awarded the nation's top science honour - the Canada Gold Medal. ...
The single-handed nature of Arthur's contribution is a rarity in today's world of science, where research papers sometimes list more than 200 authors. Most of his 50 published research papers are entirely his own work, a feat that astounds fellow theoretical mathematician Steve Gelbart.
''Nothing ever seems to stop him, year after year after year. If he hits a snag he just shifts to a different aspect of the problem,'' says Gelbart who does research at the renowned Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and was a colleague of Arthur's at Yale and Princeton universities. ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
April 30, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton U. panel examines Dewey's impact on American educational theory
BYLINE: By Jennifer Chang, Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Alan Ryan, warden at New College, Oxford, discussed the relevance of the ideas and legacy of noted education reformer John Dewey during a panel discussion in Princeton University's Robertson Hall Thursday night.
Ryan spoke of his research for several papers he wrote on Dewey, describing him as a man who left his mark on American philosophy and education mainly through his focus on "learning-by-doing" rather than the dogmatic instruction used in his day.
"Dewey believed in teacher-centered education," said Ryan, a former University politics professor.
"In his 1895 book, 'My Pedagogic Creed,' he said every teacher should realize the dignity of their calling and their role as social servants."
"He wanted children to see that there is a cycle to the process of production and consumption. The transition from home to school to the outside world could be mediated by this process," he added.
Ryan also said Dewey's vision of utopia did not include schools.
"For Dewey, the school was a microcosm that could link to the outside world," he said. ...
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Small class size tied to high performance
BYLINE: Andrea Billups; THE WASHINGTON TIMESSmaller class size continues to benefit students far beyond the first few years of school, an ongoing study has found.
Students who attended smaller classes in kindergarten through third grade were well ahead of their peers in reading, math and science during the middle years. Their success was sustained all the way through high school, where they stayed in school more, posted better grades and were more apt to plan on going to college, according to Project STAR, a Tennessee-based study of more than 6,500 students. ...
The study found:
* Small-class students - especially those who are black - were more likely to take the SAT or the ACT, standardized tests that are required by most colleges for admission. "Attendance in small classes appears to have cut the black-white gap in the probability of taking a college-entrance exam in half," said Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economist who worked on the research. Classes, he adds, need not shrink to 15 students or below for schools to see results.
* Students in small classes graduate on schedule more frequently, 72 percent vs. 66 percent in larger classes.
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 1999 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: CHERNOBYL VIRUS GIVES HEADS-UP
SUBHEAD: Hard-drive bomb creates new excuse for students late with reports.Considering how so many of us these days can't start work, go to sleep or make a major life decision without first checking our e-mail, the mere thought of the aptly-named Chernoble computer virus should be enough to keep us awake nights.
But the very global success of that virus - it kicked more than 600,000 computers worldwide into meltdown - should be a heads-up that a few basic computer safety precautions ought to be as second-nature as practicing safe sex: ...
* Be choosy about your attachments - as in files attached to e-mail. Viruses so far all have required actually opening such an attachment to activate. If you don't know the sender, don't open an attachment.
Chernobyl, thought to have originated in Taiwan, was timed to strike on April 26, the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It worked so well in large part because the above advice was ignored. The most serious damage also was sustained in Asia and the Middle East but the United States didn't escape entirely. For instance, some 100 computers were wiped out at Princeton University about two weeks before term papers were due. ...
Gannett News Service
Copyright 1999 Gannett Company, Inc.
April 29, 1999HEADLINE: Study: Smaller classes benefit reading, math, science skills
BYLINE: RICHARD WHITMIRE; Gannett News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWASHINGTON -- Fresh research released Thursday showing kids placed in smaller classes advance faster in reading, math and science rekindled the debate here over targeting federal dollars for hiring teachers.
"It costs money to reduce class size, but the results really show a difference," said researcher Helen Pate-Bain. She has tracked roughly 6,500 students between 1985 and 1989 who were randomly assigned small or large class sizes in grades kindergarten through third grade.
That $12 million experiment, called Project Star, for Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio, was conducted in 79 schools in Tennessee. ...
-- Students from the smaller classes were more likely to take the SAT or ACT college entrance exams, although their scores were no higher.
While some of the overall gains are relatively small, the gains are more dramatic for minority students.
"Attendance in small classes appears to have cut the black-white gap in the probability of taking a college-entrance exam by more than half," said Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who worked on the study. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant CompanySECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: ARE BLACK STUDENTS BETTER OFF WHEN THEY BENEFIT FROM PREFERENCES?
BYLINE: Laurence D. CohenYale or jail? That's the little joke circulating in anti-"diversity" circles, responding to the ferocious debate about how many minorities -- and of what quality -- are being admitted under quota systems to elite colleges.
The thrust of the "Yale" joke is that being admitted to a second-tier school where academically frail minorities can thrive makes more sense than force-feeding them into the top schools where they do less well -- and must live with the suspicion that they don't really belong.
Many minority success stories are graduates of non-Ivy, low-prestige schools, the anti-diversity crowd insists. It's not a question of Yale or jail.
It's not much of a punch line, but it represents a piece of the affirmative action battle in higher education that doesn't get much public visibility: the data. ...
First off the starting line was "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions," a defense of racial preferences at top-tier colleges by William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University, and Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University.
The challenge was quickly met with the just-published "America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible," written by Stephan Thernstrom, a professor of history at Harvard, and his wife, Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York, who criticize the racial preferences at top schools in general, and attack the Bowen-Bok book quite specifically. ...
The Independent (London)
Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: LETTER: SIC TRANSIT OXBRIDGE
BYLINE: Steven HillionSir: I'm afraid (and sad) that I was only amused by your report "Oxbridge 'no longer elite universities' " (22 April). Your report was certainly accurate, although I would claim that Yale and Harvard are only two of very many world -class teaching and research institutions in the United States, including Princeton and the University of California; and that in many fields even they cannot easily claim to be the best.
But this is very old news. For many years, even decades, American scholarship has led the world, and the top US universities have been considered centres of research for the sciences, mathematics, classics, linguistics, philosophy and others. ...
STEVEN HILLION, San Francisco
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
April 29, 1999, ThursdayNAME: Pat Schroeder
HEADLINE: PUBLIC LIVES: Out of the House, but Still Focused on FamilyBYLINE: By JANE GROSS
CONSIDER the following tableau, circa 1956.
It is Sunday night in suburbia, and Mom, Dad and the kids are together around the TV. They are watching Ed Sullivan and the featured guest is Elvis Presley. An intergenerational misunderstanding ensues. In our day we had real music, says Mom. In our day, we didn't wear tight jeans, says Dad. The kids roll their eyes. Whatever.
Pat Schroeder, who fled what she called the "food fight" in Congress in 1996 and now runs the Association of American Publishers, paints this picture, as dated as a Norman Rockwell cover, as she sips coffee behind the New York Public Library, under a canopy of budding green.
She is musing on the recent school massacre in her home state of Colorado, asking what had changed in the last 40-odd years to turn children of upper-middle-class suburbia into mass murderers. "How did we get here?" she asks. "Times are good. What is the problem?" ...
She quit Congress in exasperation during the reign of Newt Gingrich, in time to miss the impeachment shambles, and spent a year teaching at Princeton University. Then she wrote a memoir. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: From Chernobyl, Finals Meltdown; Computer Virus Rattles Students at End of Term
BYLINE: Steven Ginsberg; Justin Blum, Washington Post Staff WritersThe dog is so passe. This week, it's the computer that's eating homework.
Such was the case for John Presser, 19, a student at the University of Richmond. When he turned on his computer and tried to log on to the Internet in the wee hours of Monday morning, it froze up. The infamous Chernobyl computer virus had wiped out his 9-page research paper. ...
Some 500 students at Virginia Tech reported computer meltdowns, as did dozens at George Washington and Johns Hopkins universities and the universities of Richmond, Virginia and Maryland at College Park. Similar problems occurred elsewhere, including about 100 reported incidents each at Princeton University and Boston College. ...
The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
Copyright 1999 Southeastern Newspapers Corporation
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: ROAD TO COLLEGE BEGINS EARLIER
BYLINE: Peggy Ussery; Columbia County BureauBefore Alex Mundo entered high school, his parents had made financial arrangements for his college education.
But when Alex, 16, started ninth grade at Greenbrier High School in Columbia County, his parents - Jose and Thelma Mundo - went a step further.
In two years, the Mundos have gathered four boxes of college pamphlets and preparation guides. Since Alex's sophomore year, the family has visited 14 campuses such as Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Tech and Princeton University.
Jose Mundo even put together a spreadsheet with information about colleges, including the percentage of students who gain entrance according to test scores. Then there's an inch-thick notebook of Alex's accomplishments with an extra copy for Alex's guidance counselor.
''I think it's really important to start early,'' Mr. Mundo said. ''In order to set up a high school curriculum you have to know what colleges require.'' ...
The Denver Post
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May 5, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: Princeton faces test on shock prof
BYLINE: By Linda ChavezHe believes it is wrong to eat animals but not necessarily immoral to kill disabled human babies or senile adults. He opposes the use of animals in medical experiments but advocates the right of parents to kill their infants if they suffer from a debilitating condition such as hemophilia. He has published several books and scholarly articles arguing his theses, gaining him worldwide recognition.
The man is Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher recently appointed to an endowed chair in bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. His appointment has caused tremendous controversy on campus, including demonstrations from disability rights, anti-abortion and religious groups - but the university shows no signs of rescinding the offer. ...
Christopher Benek, a seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary who heads up Princeton Students Against Infanticide, would like the university's illustrious board of trustees to intervene to stop the Singer appointment. He notes in particular three politicos who sit on the board, two of whom are running for president of the United States - Bill Bradley and Steve Forbes - plus Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate subcommittee on public health. New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman also sits ex officio on the board. ...
The Jerusalem Post
Copyright 1999 The Jerusalem Post
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: German artist snubs Wolf Prize
BYLINE: Judy SiegelA German artist who was chosen to be one of six winners of the prestigious Wolf Prize is not going to get the award after all at tonight's Knesset ceremony - because he is not coming to Israel to claim it and didn't even bother to acknowledge it or explain his decision not to accept the $100,000 award, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Sigmar Polke, known in art circles to be somewhat eccentric, has been sought since January by officials of the Wolf Foundation, who left messages and faxes and called people close to him to find out if he will accept the prize. ...
However, the show will go on. Five eminent scientists are to be awarded their prizes tonight. They are Prof. Eric Kandel of Columbia University (medicine), Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion (physics), Prof. (emeritus) Raymond U. Lemieux of the University of Alberta (chemistry), Prof. Laszlo Lovasz of Yale University, and Prof. Elias M. Stein of Princeton University (sharing the mathematics prize).
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: In School;
In an Ivy League town, a charter school makes strides in academics, with a touch of chess.BYLINE: By Maria Newman
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Stephan Gerzadowicz, master chess player, likes to lace his lessons with maxims that sound like advice about life in general -- for instance, "The easiest way you defend a pawn is with another pawn, and then you can get on with your life."
Mr. G., as students call him, holds forth daily at the Princeton Charter School, where he began teaching chess this year. So quickly have students taken to the game that the school is sending five to the National Elementary Chess Competition in Phoenix from May 14 to 16. But championships are not why the school requires chess. The goal is for children to learn to think logically and sequentially, skills that can help in other subjects. ...
In Princeton, home to the Ivy League university and several research institutions, as well as numerous scholars and scientists, how to educate children is a constant topic of debate. ...
While most charter schools have been created as oases in New Jersey's troubled urban districts, the Princeton school was founded in a town that has among the best public schools in the state, with S.A.T. scores near the top every year. To some parents, they were not good enough.
"The program at my son's school was very mixed in terms of what was going on in the classroom," said Ruth Boulet, who was on the board of the Princeton Regional School District when the charter school was opened and now has two children in that school. "The curriculum was rather vague. Some of the teachers were not so great. There was no specific program for academic excellence."
And while most charter schools can afford only to lease their building, Princeton was able to buy its own because 30 parents signed a note guaranteeing the loan for the building and land, a leafy five-acre site surrounded by tidy houses and a high-end shopping center. The dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture, a parent, drew up the designs to convert the office building into a school. ...
PR Newswire
Copyright 1999 PR Newswire Association, Inc.
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Peter B. Lewis, Chairman of Progressive, Named Business Statesman of the Year by Harvard Business School Club of Northeast Ohio
DATELINE: CLEVELAND, May 5
Peter B. Lewis, chairman, and chief executive officer -- Insurance Operations, has been named the Business Statesman of the Year for 1999 by the Harvard Business School Club of Northeastern Ohio.
The Business Statesman of the Year Award has been presented annually for 40 years to a Northeast Ohio chief executive officer who combines excellence in business management with civic involvement. Lewis will receive the award during dinner ceremonies at the Marriott at Key Center on Thursday, May 6. ...
Lewis graduated from Princeton University in 1955 and joined Progressive as an underwriting trainee in the same year. In 1965, he assumed his current position, pursuing his vision to reduce the human trauma and economic costs of auto accidents in cost-effective and profitable ways. Under Lewis' leadership, Progressive is revolutionizing the staid auto insurance industry by providing consumers with innovative services, like 24-hour Immediate Response(R) claims service and a free auto insurance rate comparison service available through a toll-free number and the Internet (progressive.com).
Lewis is an arts patron, with an extensive personal collection. He helped create the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, where a gallery is named in his honor. Additionally, he chairs the board of trustees of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and serves on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He also has donated $1 million to Princeton University for a contemporary art gallery at the Princeton Art museum. In 1995, he received an honorary degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art. ...
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1999 The Providence Journal Company
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
MILTON LEONARD SNOW, 68, of Potomac, Md., a research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University for 33 years, retiring in 1992, died Thursday at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, Md. He was the husband of Rita Snow.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Louis and Jennie (Gordon) Snow, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1956.
A graduate of Brown University, he received his doctorate in physical chemistry from Princeton University. ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 1999 Star Tribune
May 5, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Learning from the luminaries;
A lecture program at Gustavus Adolphus College is giving students a chance to meet some of the nation's top scientists.
BYLINE: Jim Dawson; Staff Writer
If you want to talk to Philip Morrison about the likelihood of extraterrestrial civilizations or his work on the atomic bomb, you might fly to Massachusetts and drop by his office at MIT. Up the street, at Harvard University, you could ask Margaret Geller to explain her discovery of the soap-bubble structure of the universe.
If you're interested in complexity theory, you might head down to Princeton University in New Jersey, and chat with Phillip Anderson. When you're done, you could head over to the nearby Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old hangout, and have lunch with physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson.
Or you could enroll at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., and wait for these scientists, widely regarded as among the best in the world, to come to you. ...
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Copyright 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT WILL QUESTION AOL EXECUTIVE AS HOSTILE WITNESS
SOURCE: Wire servicesMicrosoft will use testimony from a rival executive at America Online, and an IBM executive will testify for the government among the six final witnesses in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
Microsoft said yesterday it will question AOL Senior Vice President David Colburn as a hostile witness when the trial resumes.
It will ask him about AOL's recent $9.9 billion purchase of Netscape Communications Corp., and the implications of that extraordinary deal on the technology industry and on the trial. ...
The government said it also will call back Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer expert who previously testified it was possible to disable Microsoft's Internet software. ...
The Associated Press
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: AOL executive dropped few hints of secret $9.9 billion deal
BYLINE: By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WriterDATELINE: WASHINGTON
A blunt-spoken executive from America Online described on the witness stand last fall his company's previous failed efforts to forge an alliance with Netscape, the Internet software pioneer.
But what is emerging publicly for the first time is the revelation that even as David Colburn was testifying in the Microsoft trial, AOL was again secretly negotiating with Netscape in a remarkable deal that weeks later coalesced into a $9.9 billion merger.
Microsoft disclosed Monday it will call Colburn, who appeared unshaven and wearing cowboy boots during earlier testimony, back to the trial as a hostile witness. He will be one of the six final witnesses during the upcoming rebuttal phase of the case. ...
The government said it also will call back Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer expert. ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1999 The Atlanta Constitution
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft witnesses named
BYLINE: Andrew J. Glass, Cox Washington BureauBODY: Barring a last-minute settlement, the Microsoft antitrust trial will enter the payoff phase, probably in late May, with both sides seeking to overcome weak spots in their initial arguments.
The Justice Department and Microsoft each named three rebuttal witnesses Monday. They will use them to try to gain the upper hand during the crucial period of the case, which promises to shape antitrust law in the high-tech field for the coming century.
Microsoft will call David Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs of America Online; Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive officer of Oblix Inc.; and Richard Schmalensee, acting dean of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The government witnesses will be Garry Norris, an International Business Machines executive; Franklin Fisher of MIT, who in earlier testimony argued that Windows has given Microsoft monopoly powers the company has used to engage in anti-competitive business practices; and Edward Felten, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an earlier witness. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant CompanyMay 4, 1999 Tuesday
HEADLINE: PROFESSOR RICHARD C. MORRISON
Professor Richard C. Morrison, 61, husband of Patricia Wupperfeld Morrison of West Elm St., New Haven died Saturday (May 1, 1999). He was a professor of physics at The University of New Haven. He graduated from Princeton University in 1959 and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965. ...
Health Line
Copyright 1999 The National Journal Group, Inc.
May 4, 1999SECTION: POLITICS & POLICY
HEADLINE: SHALALA: TACKLES THE ISSUES IN HEALTH AFFAIRS INTERVIEWIn the current issue of Health Affairs, Princeton University economist Uwe Reinhardt interviews HHS Secretary Donna Shalala -- the longest to hold the post in U.S. history (January 1993-present) -- on a range of subjects. Here's a sampling of her views:
o On the nature of the U.S. health care system: "At the top, ours is the best health care in the world. There is no substitute for the great American academic health centers. ... At the low end, though, our system can be lousy, particularly for people who are not treated early enough."
o On Medicare expansion: "Medicare continues to undertake and to propose new initiatives on long-term care and many other issues. ... We would particularly like to find a way to include younger people who can't find a good health insurance plan because of their age or health status. ... It's absolutely risk free. You can make an adjustment so that the payment is appropriate." ...
InfoWorld Daily News
Copyright 1999 InfoWorld Media Group
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to call AOL's Colburn as hostile witnessSun adds muscle to graphic workstation line
BYLINE: By Margret Johnston, InfoWorld Electric By Dan Briody, InfoWorld ElectricWASHINGTON -- Microsoft on Monday released the names of three witnesses who will testify in the rebuttal phase of the government's antitrust case against the company.
The witnesses are David Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs at America Online (AOL); Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive officer of Oblix; and Richard Schmalensee, dean of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The U.S. Department of Justice's witnesses are Edward Felten, assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University; Franklin Fisher, an economics professor MIT; and Garry Norris, former director of software strategy and strategic relations for IBM's PC unit. ...
Felten described how he wrote a program to remove, or hide, the Internet Explorer browser from Windows 98. The testimony disputed Microsoft's contention that the browser is so deeply embedded into the operating system that it cannot be removed without damaging functionality. Fisher testified that the company used predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices to crush competition. ...
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: FINAL MICROSOFT, JUSTICE WITNESSES ANNOUNCED;
COURTS: THOSE TESTIFYING IN SPECIAL REBUTTAL SESSION ARE EXPECTED TO SUPPORT ARGUMENTS MADE EARLIER IN ANTITRUST TRIAL.
BYLINE: JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Sticking mostly with trial-tested experts, Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department on Monday announced their witnesses for the final phase of the landmark antitrust case.
During a special rebuttal session that is shaping up as a reprise of the trial's first four months, six final witnesses will take the stand. They include two economists who previously testified and two new faces--IBM executive Garry Norris and Gordon Eubanks, the former chief executive of Symantec, a leading PC software company.
Besides Norris, economist Franklin M. Fisher and Princeton University computer science professor Edward W. Felten will testify for the government. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: List of Final Witnesses Released in Microsoft Trial
BYLINE: By JOEL BRINKLEYDATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 3
The Microsoft Corporation and the Government both released the names today of the final witnesses each intends to call when the antitrust trial resumes later this month. The list indicates that the Government hopes to shore up its case, while Microsoft's goal, at least in part, is to change the subject of discussion to one that might make the Government's case seem irrelevant.
The most surprising announcement came from Microsoft. The company is summoning David Colburn -- a senior executive for America Online and an important Government witness earlier in the trial -- to testify as a hostile witness in the final, rebuttal stage of testimony. ...
The Justice Department is also recalling its chief economic witness, Franklin M. Fisher, another M.I.T. economist. It will also recall Edward Felten, the Princeton University computer scientist who served as a Government witness earlier in the trial, and Gary Norris, an International Business Machines Corporation executive who was for several years director of I.B.M.'s software strategy division. ...
One witness, Mr. Felten, is being called in part to rebut any technical statements Microsoft might make that Government lawyers find questionable. He and his staff found several of the technical flaws in Microsoft's demonstration tapes played in court earlier. ...
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1999 The Providence Journal Company
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
GEORGE C. GOULD SR., 77, of Lindenhurst, Ill., died April 30 at the home of his daughter in Lindenhurst. He was the husband of the late Geraldine Gould.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Clinton and Mary Gould, he lived in Mundelein, Ill., for 30 years before moving to Lindenhurst.
He was a retired 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served in the Pacific during World War II and later in Korea. He was a member of the Navy League and the Fleet League. During his military career, he taught astrological navigation at Princeton University. ...
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Copyright 1999 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Copyright 1999 San Jose Mercury News
May 4, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to Call Ally, Rival in Trial's Rebuttal Phase
BYLINE: By David L. WilsonWASHINGTON--Microsoft Corp. -- which has built its antitrust defense around the testimony of its own executives -- signaled its intent Monday to launch a counterattack, naming a friendly software CEO and a hostile rival as witnesses in the trial's next phase.
The software giant said it will call America Online executive David Colburn, who testified for the government in the first portion of the trial last year, to discuss AOL's purchase of Netscape Communications Corp. and its competitive impact on Microsoft. Microsoft's lawyers also plan to challenge the "completeness and candor of (Colburn's) prior testimony," according to papers filed with the court late Monday. ...
Professor Edward W. Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton University, will return to the stand with an improved program that he claims safely removes Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsing software, something Microsoft says can't be done. ...
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT TRIAL -- REBUTTAL WITNESSES NAMED; AOL EXECUTIVE TO BE GRILLED
BYLINE: JAY GREENE; SEATTLE TIMES TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
When the Microsoft trial resumes after a long recess, it will feel a lot like old times.
The software giant and the federal government yesterday submitted their lists of three witnesses each to rebut testimony by the other side. Of the six witnesses to be called, four have already testified during the trial, which began in October and is expected to resume this month after a long recess.
Perhaps the boldest move is Microsoft's decision to call America Online (AOL) executive David Colburn as a hostile witness. The government called Colburn, senior vice president for business affairs at AOL, as its second witness in October. ...
The government also will call two of its previous witnesses: Princeton University computer-science professor Edward Felten and Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Franklin Fisher. Felten will counter testimony from Microsoft executives that it is impossible to separate Internet Explorer from Windows. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
May 04, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Microsoft to Summon U.S. Witness to Stand; AOL Officer to Be Grilled on Netscape Deal
BYLINE: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post Staff Writer
In a bold but potentially risky legal maneuver, Microsoft Corp. said yesterday that it will summon to the witness stand and interrogate an America Online Inc. executive who testified for the government earlier in the software giant's antitrust trial.
Microsoft said it will grill David M. Colburn, AOL's senior vice president for business affairs, about the Dulles-based online service's recent $10 billion acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp.
Microsoft contends that the deal reshapes the competitive landscape of the technology industry and undermines key elements of the government's antitrust case. Specifically, Microsoft points to AOL's plans to promote Netscape's Internet browser and develop AOL software that will run on electronic devices other than personal computers. ...
The government also said that it will call two professors who testified earlier in the trial -- Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, and Franklin M. Fisher, an MIT economist. ...
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: The oldest trees;
SCIENCE BRIEFS / STEPHEN REUCROFT and JOHN SWAIN; Stephen Reucroft and John Swain teach physics at Northeastern University.
BYLINE: By Stephen Reucroft and John Swain
New antibiotics attack bacteria
A new way to attack bacteria may lead to new antibiotics. The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a pressing concern for anyone undergoing surgery. Until recently, vancomycin, an unusual antibiotic, had been the drug held in reserve to attack bacteria which were resistant to everything else. However, three people in the US have recently died from infections with vancomycin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Now research done by Daniel Kahne of Princeton University and his colleagues suggests a new way to attack bacteria. Vancomycin is made of two sugars attached to amino acids. It turns out that the sugars themselves have antibiotic activity and seem to inhibit enzymes that connect the bacterial cell wall together. The sugars alone turn out to be ten times more powerful than vancomycin against resistant bacteria.
Ref: Science, April 16, 1999.
Financial Times (London)
Copyright 1999 The Financial Times Limited
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: A Second in fund raising: Oxford and Cambridge are the poor cousins when compared with their US counterparts but they are seeking new funds to close the gap, says Simon Targett:
Oxford and Cambridge are British bywords for exclusivity and privilege: rarified medieval cloisters, fine libraries and an educational ethos of effortless superiority.
Given this, it is hard to credit the fact that the two ancient universities are the poor cousins of the elite US Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale. But the financial gap is wide and growing. ...
Forbes
Copyright 1999 Forbes, Inc.
May 3, 1999HEADLINE: Smarter than Herbert's dog
BYLINE: BY DYAN MACHAN
HIGHLIGHT: With recent deals totaling $77 billion and a pivotal role in Priceline.com, Allen & Co.'s Nancy Peretsman is the investment banker of the moment.
WHEN IT BECAME KNOWN around Salomon Brothers four years ago that Nancy Peretsman was leaving, Warren Buffett, a big Salomon shareholder, went to her office to implore her to stay. When she told him she was going to Allen & Co., Buffett reportedly said: "Oh. I won't talk you out of that."
Buffett and Allen & Co.'s chief, Herbert Allen, are friends, but Buffett also knew that Allen's bankers would be able to actively participate in the firm's investments: If Peretsman were good at nurturing deals, she would have the opportunity to make a lot more than a salary. ...
As cookies arrive, I ask her about her beginnings. Peretsman, a native of Worcester, Mass., met Allen in 1976 when, as an undergraduate at Princeton University, she spent a summer babysitting and housewatching for him in the Hamptons. He gave her cash for groceries and other bills and she took it upon herself to create a ledger, mercilessly leaning on other household staff for receipts. At the end of the summer she presented Allen with the remaining cash and a detailed cash flow statement. He put the change in his pocket, and, without so much as glancing at her accounting masterpiece, tossed it into the trash. "I trust you," Allen said simply. ...
Legal Times
Copyright 1999 American Lawyer Newspapers Group Inc.
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: A LESSON IN GRASS-ROOTS LOBBYING
BYLINE: SAM LOEWENBERGAt a time when corporate-generated grass-roots lobbying is all the rage on Capitol Hill, an independent grass-roots campaign that has spread to more than 100 college campuses is grabbing official Washington's attention.
In 1997, a handful of student activists--some of whose leaders were tutored by union organizers--set out to keep their schools from contracting with apparel companies whose goods are manufactured in sweatshop conditions. Now the movement's ranks have swelled to thousands of students across the country, and its mission has expanded to include reforming a White House-backed coalition set up to monitor working conditions here and abroad, and improving work conditions for garment workers.
In doing so, the students have become a cnsiderable irritant to some of the nation's largest apparel companies, while attracting the notice--and respect-- of current and former high-ranking members of the administration. ...
The student activists have even had an impact on some of the schools that agreed to sign on to the FLA, such as Princeton University. Robert Durkee, the school's vice president for public affairs, says the students on his own campus pushed the administration to require the companies making goods with Princeton logos to disclose their factory locations. A rally of 250 students on the small Ivy League school's lawn was the largest such gathering there in a decade, says Durkee. ...
Modern Healthcare
Copyright 1999 Crain Communications Inc.
May 03, 1999HEADLINE: BATTLE LINES DRAWN: MEDICARE FIGHT MAY HINGE ON WHETHER PRIVATE PLANS CAN WIN MARKET SHARE FROM GOVERNMENT
BYLINE: Jonathan Gardner
Congress' upcoming battle on Medicare reform may boil down to not as much a philosophical debate as a clash over whether private health plans can win more market share from the government-run fee-for-service program.
That message has been made clear in the general backing health plans have given to the ''premium support'' proposal from the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and the opposition they have raised to HCFA's experiments with competitive bidding among health plans.
The conflict over Medicare market share probably will take on greater significance when President Clinton introduces his own Medicare reform plan. Clinton is expected to propose giving HCFA wider authority to award contracts based on competitive bidding while protecting the status quo on the Medicare fee-for-service program. ...
Others argue that health plans are partial to the existing payment system-in which health plans are paid capitation fees based on local costs in the fee-for-service program-because it is more predictable than a competitive bidding system and can be influenced politically.
''They like administered prices where the prices can be manipulated with (political action committee) money,'' said Princeton University healthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 3, 1999, MondayNAME: T. Justin Moore Jr.
HEADLINE: T. Justin Moore Jr., 74, Ex-Chief Of the Virginia Power Company
BYLINE: By AGIS SALPUKAS
T. Justin Moore Jr., a retired chief executive of the Virginia Power Company and a founder of an economic development group that sought to break down racial barriers in Richmond, died of cancer on April 24 at his home in Richmond, a family spokesman said. He was 74.
Mr. Moore was as well known in Richmond for his attempts to ease racial tensions in the city in the 1980's as he was for his career at the utility. He had a knack for dealing with different groups, including politicians, consumers, state agencies and his own employees. ...
Mr. Moore served as an officer in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. After graduating from Princeton University in 1947, he attended Virginia Law School, graduating in 1950. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Dr. Jere Lord Jr., 88; Led Heart Association
Jere W. Lord Jr., a retired cardiovascular surgeon, a professor of clinical surgery and a former president of the New York Heart Association, died on April 20 at his home in Bedford, N.Y. He was 88.
Dr. Lord retired from surgery in 1983. He was a professor at the New York University School of Medicine and the author of 182 research papers in his field.
As the president of the Heart Association in the late 1950's, he once performed a heart surgery on a 3-year-old child, Mabel Chin, at University Hospital that was shown on television. His purpose was to raise public awareness of the operation and to allay people's fears about it.
A native of Baltimore, he graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and from Johns Hopkins University Medical School, where his father was a professor of dermatology, in 1937. ...
News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
Copyright 1999 News & Record
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: OLD ACADEMIC JOURNALS GAIN NEW LIFE;
JSTOR DATABASE GIVES OLD ACADEMIC JOURNALS NEW LIFE.BYLINE: BY MARTHA WOODALL; Knight Ridder News Service
Juliana Mulroy, an associate professor of biology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, was curious about which animals besides the desert tortoise eat plants containing psyllium, the active ingredient in Metamucil.
Fred Shapiro, an associate librarian and legal research lecturer at Yale University Law School, was trying to find when the term ''double standard'' was first used.
And the Rev. Joseph Ryan, an assistant history professor at Villanova University, was looking for information about the debate that erupted in the 1980s over efforts to canonize the Rev. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century founder of Catholic missions in what is now California.
They found their information quickly through JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org), an electronic database of back issues of academic journals. ...
JSTOR, which stands for the Journal Storage project, is a nonprofit organization that began at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York. William Bowen, president of the foundation, thought there should be a way for technology to help university and college libraries ease the enormous problems they faced finding shelf space for back issues of academic journals.
Bowen, a former Princeton University president, learned of the scope of the problem when Denison University, where he is a trustee, was considering a $5 million library addition. Librarians said they had no space for new acquisitions because more than a quarter of the shelves were filled with government publications and scholarly journals published before 1990.
Suspecting that other colleges and universities faced the same problem, Bowen thought technology could provide a solution. ...
JSTOR began as a pilot project in 1994 with a $4 million Mellon grant, a handful of journals and seven schools including Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore colleges. Now, JSTOR is working with 117 academic publications and has a subscriber list of 373 colleges and universities in the United States and 48 abroad. The program is independent and self-supporting, with JSTOR's operating costs being covered by fees from participating institutions. ...
The Palm Beach Post
Copyright 1999 Palm Beach Newspaper, Inc.
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: IF SOMETHING WORKS, THROW IT OUT
BYLINE: Tom BlackburnThose who click through life at the pace of a computer mouse may not grasp it, but the new era they talk about rests on a platform of institutions that lasted for a long time and can't be safely abandoned. Two such institutions are public schools and Social Security.
Public schools didn't give us the world's best minds at first. During the 1940s, immigrants built our atomic bombs, and as late as the 1950s, Oxford University in England looked on Princeton University in New Jersey as a prep school. But what we had as an advantage from public schools were smarter, faster, more productive workers than anyone else, including the countries with the brainy physicists.
Today, our graduate schools are filled with their students.
Yet now that the cherry is on the top, we are told that public education has melted into a puddle of failure. Florida is set to abandon it for some of its neediest students and give them vouchers to go where private enterprise is believed to know how to teach them.
Hold that thought for a moment, and turn to Social Security. ...
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 1999 The Hearst Corporation
May 3, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Undergraduate research projects move learning out of the classroom setting
BYLINE: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN; Staff writer
It's been almost 20 years, but University at Albany biology professor David Shub hasn't forgotten the student with the transcript that didn't make sense. She had A's in the hardest classes and C's in the easiest ones.
''I looked at her and said, 'What's with you?' '' Shub recalled in a recent interview. ''She told me that if the teacher and the class were interesting, she'd stay. If not, she'd cut. She told me she was thinking of leaving school and becoming a waitress. I almost died.''
Shub suggested an undergraduate research project, and that made all the difference. The student went on to study at Princeton University and is now vice president of a bio-technology firm in California.
Though it is harder and more time-intensive, supporters say, undergraduate research offers students education in its purest form, away from spoon-fed lectures and canned multiple-choice tests. A staple of the sciences for most of the century, it is beginning to take hold in the humanities as well. ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
May 3, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton U. professor collaborates on book about Latin-American life
BYLINE: By Michael Koike, Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.In collaboration with several authors and photographers as well as two production companies, religion professor and Princeton University Mathey College master David Carrasco has helped to organize a book titled "Americanos: Latino Life in the United States" that reached stores last week.
A pictorial overview of Latino life, the book features nearly 200 photographs. Twelve short articles and six poems complement the pictures.
Carrasco became involved in the project - which also includes an HBO Productions film to be released in the fall and a traveling Smithsonian exhibition - when actor Edward James Olmos contacted him last year.
An Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, Olmos is also a social activist who regularly speaks at schools, charities and community institutions. Olmos served as the book's editor and asked Carrasco to be an adviser and to organize several writers for the book.
"As a Chicano, I'm interested in Latin American art and culture and its contributions in the United States," said Carrasco, who also wrote a short article for the book that deals with the ways Latinos view and love their communities. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
May 03, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Eugene Louis Schou
Personnel Management SpecialistEugene Louis Schou, 74, a former Foreign Service officer who spent the bulk of his career working for federal agencies as a personnel management specialist, died of complications from diabetes April 30 at his home in Washington.
Mr. Schou retired in 1986 after about eight years with the Office of Personnel Management. From 1960 to the late 1970s, he worked at various times for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines and the Library of Congress. At those agencies, he specialized in position classification, labor relations and personnel management evaluation. ...
He was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. While attending Princeton University, he entered the Army during World War II and served as a signal corpsman in the South Pacific. He graduated from Princeton in 1948 and served with the Army's 301st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group in Germany during the Korean War. ...
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1999 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
May 2, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: NEW & NOTABLE
BYLINE: BY ANNE STEPHENSONKill Me First
Kate Morgenroth (HarperCollins, $24)
"It's a dark, violent, quirky sort of book, and I wasn't at all sure he'd like it." That's what Morgenroth thought when she showed her manuscript to Larry Ashmead, executive editor at HarperCollins, where Morgenroth had worked as a marketing assistant. Ashmead took the book, Toni Morrison (Morgenroth's teacher at Princeton University) called it "mesmerizing," and we're all left to wish we had friends in such high places. ...
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY.)
Copyright 1999 The Courier-Journal
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: KENTUCKY DERBY 125; The Infield; Rowdy crowd soaks up sun, skin and booze
BYLINE: CHRIS POYNTER and SHERYL EDELEN, The Courier-JournalThe smell was so strong that it could have wilted the flowers in the winner's circle.
''This is straight rum,'' said Keri Rosenbloom, a Louisville native, as she unscrewed the cap of a clear water bottle to serve her pals from Princeton University.
She promised them a wild time - and the infield at yesterday's Kentucky Derby delivered.
It was an orgy of sun, skin and Seagram's where women lifted their shirts and men stumbled around, screaming like barbarians and chugging beer. ...
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 1999 The Dallas Morning News
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Exploosive church growth cuts across many faiths
SOURCE: Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: J.C. Conklin
DATELINE: DALLASDALLAS - Prestonwood Baptist Church, a behemoth among megachurches, opens its new 140-acre campus in Plano on Sunday at the height of an unprecedented regional building boom among places of worship.
Last year, nearly $150 million worth of religious buildings were constructed in the five counties surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth - more than double the previous year and the most of any year in history, according to F.W. Dodge Research Unit. ...
Several trends fuel the construction: The population in general is growing. People are moving from cities and old suburbs to new suburbs. Others are moving from small, old congregations to new megachurches like Prestonwood. There's a boomlet among African-American and Hispanic churches creating what some observers call a "silent revival." Then there is the exploding stock market, which fattens worshippers' portfolios.
The growth is great news for believers but raises questions for some.
"Even though a lot of these churches are growing and there's some logic to the boom, you want to make sure it's for the right reasons," said Robert Wuthnow, a leading religion sociologist at Princeton University. "If people are just sitting in a fancy building once a week, that might contribute to the commercialism and materialism in the culture that everyone worries about." ...
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: HER WORLD;
TO HEDGE YOUR BETS AGAINST SIGHTSEEING LETDOWNS, TRY A WELL-CONDUCTED TOURBYLINE: SUSAN SPANO, TIMES TRAVEL WRITER
"Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote.
Anyone who has made a trip to some long-dreamed-of sight and come away feeling let down knows precisely what he meant. I felt that way three years ago when I first saw the Great Wall of China without a good guide to help me take it in.
This would argue for visiting famous sites with tour groups, even when you've done plenty of studying in advance. But some are so bad that they take the pleasure out of seeing a place like Petra in Jordan, which I visited in 1997 with a tour leader who was so busy flirting that he didn't have time to explicate the ruins. And once, just for fun, I took a bus tour of Manhattan (where, at the time, I lived) but bailed out halfway through, horrified by the guide's commentary featuring profundities like "New Jersey is on the other side of the Hudson." ...
There have been exceptions, though; I loved touring the historic campus of Princeton University with a surprisingly urbane student guide, joining a Grand Canyon National Park ranger for a lecture on the canyon's layered rock and seeing the mansions of Puerto Vallarta's rich and famous on a home tour organized by the Puerto Vallarta Friendship Club. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: MUSIC/A Composer Freed by Opera To Be Tonal And Tuneful
BYLINE: By K. ROBERT SCHWARZ; K. Robert Schwarz is the author of the book "Minimalists."IT was a signal moment in the rebirth of tonality. When the curtain rose on Tobias Picker's first opera, "Emmeline," in 1996, the orchestra conjured an atmosphere of grim foreboding, circling endlessly around a single, brooding chord. As if to emphasize his immersion in the dark realm of B flat minor, Mr. Picker prefaced the score with a device long scorned by modernists: a key signature.
The 45-year-old Mr. Picker's embrace of tonality, though particularly unambiguous, is hardly unique. Today, it seems, every composer is eager to be portrayed as a lapsed modernist, newly liberated from the shackles of Serialism. For some, this conservatism smacks of opportunism. But for Mr. Picker, it represents another step in a long and unpredictable compositional journey. ...
His transformation into a traditional opera composer becomes even more remarkable when one considers his background. As an adolescent, Mr. Picker came to realize, he said, that one of his prime personality traits was "total irrationality." So he sought out teachers who would encourage compositional discipline and discourage freewheeling self-expression. With remarkable single-mindedness, he studied with three pillars of American rationalism: Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Charles Wuorinen.
Mr. Picker got the discipline he yearned for, along with heady doses of Serialism and systematic atonality. At Princeton University, he absorbed the prevailing modernist esthetic but ignored its scientific trappings. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: SCHOOLS
Campus Tours: The Video and the RealityBYLINE: By Marques G. Harper; The author, Marques G. Harper, is a Rutgers College senior majoring in English.
In the mid-1980's, Sami Kramon, a college-adviser-for hire in Bergen County, asked her husband, Cliff, to videotape tours of campuses near the places he visited for his clothing manufacturing business. The tapes helped the parents she worked with save money and time visiting schools. Her clients continue to use the tapes, but the Kramons also sell them to others. ...
Princeton University
Watching the Collegiate Choice Walking Tours video of a visit to Princeton University took me back to my own first campus tour, in more ways than I would have liked.
It was all there -- with none of the coughing, foot-shuffling or dumb questions edited out. The series' stated goal, "to present to distant families everything they would have seen and heard had they visited the campus on the day we did," sounds good in principle, but some things -- a campus walking tour among them -- are not meant to be filmed in real time.
Entertainment this is not. Some good information about the campus and its traditions and inhabitants could be gained, certainly, but the viewer will have to concentrate hard to stay focused on the jumpy footage, and the thin voice of the student tour guide.
"We have no connection with the colleges themselves, so the narration and visuals are completely candid," says the voice-over.
But watching the Princeton video, I wasn't really sure how the candidness manifested itself. No one on the tour asked particularly provocative questions, and though I'm not sure what the seamier side of a Princeton campus visit would be, this video isn't the place to find it. ...
The author, Katherine Zoepf, is a junior at Princeton, majoring in romance literature and languages.
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Richmond Times Dispatch
May 2, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: 'ANGRY YOUNG MAN' SEES CONTINENT AS PLACE OF TIRED, WORN-OUT IDEAS
BYLINE: Robert A. Lincoln;Robert A. Lincoln is a former officer of the U.S. Foreign Service who; lives in Northern Virginia.
DARK CONTINENT: Europe's 20th Century, by Mak Mazower; Knopf; $30.
Dark Continent bluntly attacks the accepted concept of Europe as the model of democracy, and should stir up a political, cultural, and academic controversy. Already published in the United Kingdom, the book has caught the eye of such leading publications of varying political persuasion as The New Statesman, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph.
It deserves close attention in the United States, and by jingoists among others. Author Mark Mazower goes out on a limb by declaring that "not even the murderous [European] record of the 20th Century ... has diminished Europeans' capacity for self-delusion." What he writes raises questions that affect not only the European Union but the composition of the United Nations Security Council as well. ...
Mazower received his higher education at Oxford in England and Johns Hopkins in the U.S. After teaching at Oxford and Princeton Universities, he moved to the University of Sussex in the U.K. Born in 1958, in academic circles he might be looked on as an angry young man. ...
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
Copyright 1999 Stuart News Company
May 2, 1999, SundayBOOKS ON THE BALKANS
BYLINE: Scripps Howard News ServiceWith no end in sight to the bloody strife engulfing the Balkans, and no end in sight to NATO and U.S. involvement in that strife, here is a selective list of books about Yugoslavia, Kosovo, the Albanians and the Serbs and related topics, with reviews. ...
Kosovo: How Myths And Truths Started A War, by Julie Mertus (University of California Press)
Not yet published or priced. Scheduled for release September 1999.
"Julie Mertus has written the most informed, sophisticated, and convincing account of the struggle over the future of Kosovo. Anyone who wants to understand the ongoing Kosovo ordeal, or for that matter the whole class of ethnic conflicts, cannot do better than to read and study this fine book." - Richard Falk, Princeton University
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Co-founder of KryoTech dies on business trip to New York
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.Rob DiGiacomo, a Midlands computer executive who helped found KryoTech, has died in New York City.
DiGiacomo was in Manhattan to unveil a KryoTech Super-G computer capable of running at 1 gigahertz, or 1 billion cycles per second, twice the speed of current chips.
Details of his death Friday were unknown.
A company executive said co-workers were shocked by the news of DiGiacomo's death. ...
DiGiacomo graduated in 1987 with honors from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. In 1993, he received an MBA from the University of South Carolina. ...
Astronomy
Copyright 1999 Kalmbach Publishing Company
May 1, 1999HEADLINE: Clusters In Collision; galaxy clusters may point to fate of universe
BYLINE: Graham, DavidThe big cannibalize the small in galaxy clusters. Yet, dwarf galaxies dart unscathed amid the carnage like small pilot fish in a school of feeding sharks.
Set against the black of space, clusters of galaxies glow like distant schools of silvery fish plying dark ocean currents. These galaxies, denizens of the celestial deep, are shaped like fuzzy footballs, disks, and elegant pinwheels like our Milky Way Galaxy.
Despite their unchanging appearance, neither galaxy clusters nor the galaxies in them are static. Astronomers are finding shredded, distorted, and other highly disturbed forms. Scientists using penetrating, deep-space images and computer models of the motions of galaxies are finding that clusters are vast pools of agitation, hundreds of millions of light-years across. "They are wild places," says Ohio State University astrophysicist Barbara Ryden. Galaxy clusters have become some of astronomy's most studied objects because their evolution may hint at nothing less than the fate of the universe. ....
Collisions are among the most powerful and obvious sculptors of the galaxies within clusters. Galaxies' collisions eject great tongues of stars and gas. Shock waves can precipitate the condensation of hydrogen gas in galaxies and set off a burst of star formation such as that found in NGC 7252 as a pair of galaxies collide. ...
Sleeping Beauty and a Whale
The collisions help explain why there are more ellipticals later in time. "Something in the cluster environment changes normal spirals to ellipticals," says Neta Bahcall of Princeton University. For example, about 50 percent of the galaxies in clusters that exist 7 billion years after the Big Bang are spirals. However, spirals account for only about 20 percent of the galaxies about 12 billion years after the birth of the universe. By contrast, about 70 percent of the galaxies that are not in clusters are spirals. ...
The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
Copyright 1999 Southeastern Newspapers Corporation
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: PLANNERS KEEN ON PROJECT
BYLINE: Brandon Haddock; Staff WriterA project to revitalize the Laney-Walker Boulevard area has attracted attention from the big leagues.
A team of six urban planners and landscape designers will meet in Augusta from May 19 to 21 to make recommendations about proposed redevelopment of the historic district, Augusta Mayor Bob Young announced Friday.
The symposium, to be held at Tabernacle Baptist Church, is one of a handful being sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. Young said. The Laney-Walker project attracted the endowment's attention during Mr. Young's recent visit to a national mayors' conference, he said.
''I'm really thrilled that this attention is being paid to Augusta,'' Mr. Young said. ''It elevates this program to a level of national attention.''
The team will be led by Grover E. Mouton III, director of the Urban Design Center at Tulane University in New Orleans, Mr. Young said. Dr. Mouton spent several days in Augusta this week scouting the Laney-Walker neighborhood, the mayor said.
Other team members include Ralph Lerner, dean of the school of architecture at Princeton University; ...
The Buffalo News
Copyright 1999 The Buffalo News
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: WHAT KIND OF CULTURE HAVE WE CREATED?
I watched the news from Littleton, Colo., with horror as it became clear that another group of children found life so painful that they took up arms to exorcise their demons. But I am not surprised.
As the nation continues its collective hand-wringing over the shootings, attempting to lay the blame occupies the foremost position. We will blame it on easy access to guns, television, rock music and the Internet. We will wonder why nobody noticed these kids had a problem and we will blame their parents. We won't, however, see where the blame really lies -- and that's with ourselves. ...
We hold a grinning madman as the savior of the terminally ill. We say nothing when Princeton University appoints a professor of bioethics who advocates infanticide for babies who are born less than perfect. ...
Chicago Daily Herald
Copyright 1999 Paddock Publications, Inc.May 01, 1999, Saturday
OBITUARIES
George C. Gould Sr. formerly of Mundelein for 30 years
Funeral services for George C. Gould Sr., 77, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Burnett-Dane Funeral Home, 120 W. Park Ave. (Route 176), Libertyville.
Born June 14, 1921, in Providence, R.I., he passed away Friday, April 30, 1999, at the home of his daughter in Lindenhurst. ...
During his military career, George taught astrological navigation at Princeton University in New Jersey. ...
THE HINDU
Copyright 1999 FT Asia Intelligence Wire
May 1, 1999HEADLINE: The Einstein effect
AMONG the great scientists of our times, only a few are remembered for affecting man's understanding of the structure of the universe and his place in it. Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton were two such, who altered humanity's conception of science in their times. Albert Einstein in the 20th century was the most influential figure in the realm of science and he virtually stands alone as a symbol of intellectual power. He discovered the essential structure of the cosmos and the subsequent innovations and discoveries like the bomb, space travel and electronics "bear his fingerprints". ...
In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for providing an explanation of how and why special metals emit electrons after light falls on their surfaces. By the age of 30 he had become a celebrity. In 1914 he had become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences where he could devote his time to research. During World War II he was visiting the U.S. and Einstein denounced Hitler's racist, totalitarian policies. In his native Germany, he had become a target of nationalists and anti-Semites. He decided to accept the professorship in Princeton University. ...
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Copyright 1999 Lewiston Morning Tribune
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Where are the massacres in religious schools?
BYLINE: Michael CostelloOne of the more representative differences between public schools and religious schools is that, in a public school, the teachings of the Bible are forbidden, but the gospel according to Marilyn Manson is not. The ACLU would sue if the words "Thou shalt not kill" were posted in the classroom. But the words "I got my lunch box and I'm armed real well ... wanna go out, gotta get out to the playground, gonna throw down at the playground ... next m-----f----- gonna get my metal, pow, pow, pow," (actual lyrics from a Marilyn Manson song) are embraced as art and legally welcome in public schools.
Another difference between public and private schools is that every incident of school violence that has sickened us over the last few years occurred in a public school. ...
Thanks in large part to the banishment of morality from public education, our culture, as measured by our respect for the sanctity of life, has declined so far that even infanticide is no longer the taboo it should be. In 1997 The New York Times Magazine actually printed an opinion piece which argued that infanticide should not be treated as murder. The author contended that until a newborn baby has accumulated enough life experiences to develop a unique personality, it is little more than a quivering mass of tissue. Princeton University recently hired, in its ironically misnamed "Bioethics Department," a professor who advocates euthanizing "defective infants" (his terminology). That these institutions would lend their prestige to proponents of infanticide shows just how far we've fallen. ...
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
May 1, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Is Chicago U. taking the future too lightly?
BYLINE: Andrea Billups; THE WASHINGTON TIMESThe University of Chicago has long been revered as a place for serious scholarship, attracting academic whiz kids and research wunderkinds from around the globe.
More students and professors from the university - 70 to be exact - have received Nobel prizes than any other school in the world.
But academic changes are under way that some fear may undermine the intellectual heart of the school's identity and its unprecedented record of success.
The university, where President Clinton will speak at the June 12 commencement, is cutting its highly touted and rigorous undergraduate core curriculum. The move has been called a marketing strategy to increase enrollment and attract a different type of student - one who will want more fun and less study. ...
Some of the school's most learned alumni believe the course changes portend much more. Last week, a group including Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, signed a letter to UC President Hugo F. Sonnenschein and the trustees calling for a moratorium on the curriculum cuts. ...
Mr. Sonnenschein, a former provost at Princeton University, has failed to understand the spirit of the institution and continues his push to make it more like an Ivy League school, Mr. Abbott said.
"He's done some good things for this university, but . . . certainly this attempt to normalize the university is a real mistake," Mr. Abbott said. ...
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1999 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
April 30, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Robert Burrows, 84, of Phoenix, died April 8, 1999. He is a graduate of Huns School, Princeton University, Harvard School of Law and Oxford University. Services will be held in Eau Claire, Wis. Maryvale Mortuary and National Cremation Society.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Tops in nonfiction
BYLINE: By Mark Feeney, Globe StaffIs truth more controversial than fiction? The Modern Library is about to find out.
When the publisher released its ranking of the century's 100 best novels in English last June, it aroused a storm of debate - and publicity. Last night, it unveiled its nonfiction list at BookExpo America, an annual booksellers' convention, in Los Angeles.
Named the best nonfiction book published in English in the 20th century was "The Education of Henry Adams" (1918), the posthumously published autobiography of America's foremost 19th-century historian and a descendant of two presidents. Rounding out the top five are William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902); Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up From Slavery" (1901); Virginia Woolf's feminist classic, "A Room of One's Own" (1929); and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" (1962), a seminal text in the founding of the environmental movement. ...
Other judges were novelists A. S. Byatt, Caleb Carr, Charles Johnson, and Carolyn See; novelist-historian Shelby Foote; scientist Stephen Jay Gould; Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian; authors Christopher Cerf and Jon Krakauer; biographer Edmund Morris; religious historian Elaine Pagels; and art historian John Richardson. ...
"It wasn't a one-shot, single afternoon of putting this together," Ebershoff cautioned. "We do understand the influence of this list and therefore take it very seriously."
Speaking from her Princeton University office, Pagels agreed, citing the sense of obligation the panelists felt. There was "a great deal of intense discussion" among the judges, she said, with one member of the group humorously likening their service to "literary jury duty." ...
The Independent (London)
Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: SCIENCE: STARS AND PLANETS: MAY
BYLINE: Nigel Henbest And Heather Couper
ON MAY evenings, the large, ancient constellation of Virgo takes centre stage in the southern sky. Shaped like a "Y", it bears little resemblance to a maiden bearing an ear of corn - but within Virgo's mundane outline is a treasure trove of delights. With binoculars, sweep the "bowl" of the Y, and if your skies are clear and dark you should pick out a number of fuzzy patches. These are just a handful of the thousands of galaxies, many much bigger than our own Milky Way, making up the giant Virgo Cluster.
We have known for some time that the basic building-blocks of the Universe are clusters and superclusters of galaxies. These reflect the distribution of matter that came out of the Big Bang. ...More important, they also reveal the location of the mysterious "dark matter" that may make up more than 90 per cent of the mass of the Universe. The visible galaxies ride the dark matter like surfers on a wave.
On the other side of the world at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shares the same technology as the 2dF survey, even down to the size of the area surveyed. At the heart of the instrument - placed at the focus of a 2.5-metre telescope - is an array of optical fibres. By studying existing sky -images, astronomers can position the fibres exactly where the galaxies lie. Plug in the fibres, point the telescope, and light from each galaxy tumbles down its own fibre to a sensitive spectrograph, which measures the distance.
The project leader, Jim Gunn of Princeton University, points out that surveys such as this wouldn't have been possible even 10 years ago. "We've got state -of-the-art detectors - silicon CCDs - which detect 70 per cent of the light that falls on them, instead of the 1 per cent registered by photographic plates. Plus, the database will produce 10 terabytes, something that daunted us when we started planning - but not now." ...
International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 1999 International Herald Tribune
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: A Truly Crucial Chapter In the History of Borders
BYLINE: By Barry S. Strauss; The Washington PostDATELINE: WASHINGTON
Ever since human beings began to give up the nomadic life for the settled condition of farmers around 10,000 years ago, every community has demarcated and defended its territory. So the border was invented.
Borders serve to protect, to provide an area of freedom and autonomy. But as we see in Kosovo today, they can also serve to divide, to exclude, to designate a space where minorities are forced to assimilate, where they are expelled or even killed. ...
The writer, director of the peace studies program and a professor of history and classics at Cornell University, is a Rockefeller visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. He contributed this comment to The Washington Post.
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: U.S. WAGES GROW AT SLOWEST PACE IN 20 YEARS
BYLINE: NANCY RIVERA BROOKS and PETER G. GOSSELIN
DATELINE: WASHINGTONThe wages and benefits of American workers so far this year have risen at their slowest pace in almost two decades, clouding what had been some of the brightest news about the current boom--its recent success at improving the lots of a broad swath of working people.
The government said its employment cost index, Washington's most reliable measure of what employers are paying in wages, salaries and benefits, rose a mere 0.4% in the first three months of the year. ...
Though quarterly data can be volatile, the weak wage gains of the latest quarter suggest an abrupt change. Until this year, most workers' economic condition has been improving because, while wage gains have been moderate, inflation has been even slower, which means that whatever gains people do garner are worth more than in the past.
Indeed, during the last three years, wage gains after inflation have been the best in more than two decades, according to government statistics.
"We are . . . seeing some very impressive real wage growth, which is a big change over what was happening earlier in the 1990s," said Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton University labor economist.
Still, Krueger and others acknowledged they are perplexed by the new figures, given the tight labor market. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE
The Copyright 1999 M2 Communications Ltd.
April 30, 1999HEADLINE: POWERQUEST
Chernobyl Virus no match for PowerQuest's Lost & FoundDATELINE: OREM, Utah
Files infected by the virus can be rescued using PowerQuest's patent-pending data recovery solution
The Chernobyl virus, which was responsible for destroying data from thousands of hard drives throughout the world, has taught everyone a very important lesson: buy PowerQuest Corp.'s powerful data recovery tool, Lost & Found. People throughout the world are using Lost & Found to retrieve files from their Chernobyl-infected computers and, in all known cases, have recovered 100 percent of the lost, deleted or corrupted data. Search & Rescue, the enterprise version of Lost & Found, is also being used to help businesses recover from virus infections. ...
Earlier in the week, more than 100 student computers at Princeton University in New Jersey were wiped out, leaving students scrambling to re-write term papers with less than two weeks left in the school year. ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1999 The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Bradley has message on race rapport; Chides state on Prop. 187 and affirmative action
SOURCE: STAFF WRITER
BYLINE: John MareliusDATELINE: LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES -- Former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley said yesterday he plans to make race relations in America a central theme of his campaign for the White House as he condemned popular California ballot measures on illegal immigration and affirmative action.
"I believe that integration and racial unity are central to our American future," Bradley said in a speech to the Town Hall of Los Angeles. "They are not merely programmatic issues. They are not political trends. They are more than identity conundrums. They are fundamental questions of attitude and action, questions of individual moral courage and the moral leadership of our nation." ...
He was equally critical of Proposition 209. Bradley, who attended Princeton University on a basketball scholarship, said he never would been admitted to college on academic qualifications alone.
"I believe that affirmative action is a positive when it means reaching out to the greatest number of Americans of all races, ethnicities and gender to try to get the best involved," he said. "I also think that to make a decision based solely on a test score ignores the capacity for people to grow. " ...
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1999 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: MATH WHIZ PROVES HIS MEDAL
BYLINE: Peter Calamai
U of T prof wins Canada's top science award
When Jim Arthur tackled the special provincial exam for math whizzes back in Grade 13, he bombed.''I got something like a 10,'' he recalls.
Yet he still launched himself on a lonely, long quest to find a path through a mathematical jungle. And today the 54-year-old University of Toronto math professor became the first Toronto resident to be awarded the nation's top science honour - the Canada Gold Medal. ...
The single-handed nature of Arthur's contribution is a rarity in today's world of science, where research papers sometimes list more than 200 authors. Most of his 50 published research papers are entirely his own work, a feat that astounds fellow theoretical mathematician Steve Gelbart.
''Nothing ever seems to stop him, year after year after year. If he hits a snag he just shifts to a different aspect of the problem,'' says Gelbart who does research at the renowned Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and was a colleague of Arthur's at Yale and Princeton universities. ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
April 30, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton U. panel examines Dewey's impact on American educational theory
BYLINE: By Jennifer Chang, Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Alan Ryan, warden at New College, Oxford, discussed the relevance of the ideas and legacy of noted education reformer John Dewey during a panel discussion in Princeton University's Robertson Hall Thursday night.
Ryan spoke of his research for several papers he wrote on Dewey, describing him as a man who left his mark on American philosophy and education mainly through his focus on "learning-by-doing" rather than the dogmatic instruction used in his day.
"Dewey believed in teacher-centered education," said Ryan, a former University politics professor.
"In his 1895 book, 'My Pedagogic Creed,' he said every teacher should realize the dignity of their calling and their role as social servants."
"He wanted children to see that there is a cycle to the process of production and consumption. The transition from home to school to the outside world could be mediated by this process," he added.
Ryan also said Dewey's vision of utopia did not include schools.
"For Dewey, the school was a microcosm that could link to the outside world," he said. ...
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
April 30, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Small class size tied to high performance
BYLINE: Andrea Billups; THE WASHINGTON TIMESSmaller class size continues to benefit students far beyond the first few years of school, an ongoing study has found.
Students who attended smaller classes in kindergarten through third grade were well ahead of their peers in reading, math and science during the middle years. Their success was sustained all the way through high school, where they stayed in school more, posted better grades and were more apt to plan on going to college, according to Project STAR, a Tennessee-based study of more than 6,500 students. ...
The study found:
* Small-class students - especially those who are black - were more likely to take the SAT or the ACT, standardized tests that are required by most colleges for admission. "Attendance in small classes appears to have cut the black-white gap in the probability of taking a college-entrance exam in half," said Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economist who worked on the research. Classes, he adds, need not shrink to 15 students or below for schools to see results.
* Students in small classes graduate on schedule more frequently, 72 percent vs. 66 percent in larger classes.
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 1999 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: CHERNOBYL VIRUS GIVES HEADS-UP
SUBHEAD: Hard-drive bomb creates new excuse for students late with reports.Considering how so many of us these days can't start work, go to sleep or make a major life decision without first checking our e-mail, the mere thought of the aptly-named Chernoble computer virus should be enough to keep us awake nights.
But the very global success of that virus - it kicked more than 600,000 computers worldwide into meltdown - should be a heads-up that a few basic computer safety precautions ought to be as second-nature as practicing safe sex: ...
* Be choosy about your attachments - as in files attached to e-mail. Viruses so far all have required actually opening such an attachment to activate. If you don't know the sender, don't open an attachment.
Chernobyl, thought to have originated in Taiwan, was timed to strike on April 26, the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It worked so well in large part because the above advice was ignored. The most serious damage also was sustained in Asia and the Middle East but the United States didn't escape entirely. For instance, some 100 computers were wiped out at Princeton University about two weeks before term papers were due. ...
Gannett News Service
Copyright 1999 Gannett Company, Inc.
April 29, 1999HEADLINE: Study: Smaller classes benefit reading, math, science skills
BYLINE: RICHARD WHITMIRE; Gannett News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWASHINGTON -- Fresh research released Thursday showing kids placed in smaller classes advance faster in reading, math and science rekindled the debate here over targeting federal dollars for hiring teachers.
"It costs money to reduce class size, but the results really show a difference," said researcher Helen Pate-Bain. She has tracked roughly 6,500 students between 1985 and 1989 who were randomly assigned small or large class sizes in grades kindergarten through third grade.
That $12 million experiment, called Project Star, for Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio, was conducted in 79 schools in Tennessee. ...
-- Students from the smaller classes were more likely to take the SAT or ACT college entrance exams, although their scores were no higher.
While some of the overall gains are relatively small, the gains are more dramatic for minority students.
"Attendance in small classes appears to have cut the black-white gap in the probability of taking a college-entrance exam by more than half," said Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who worked on the study. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant CompanySECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: ARE BLACK STUDENTS BETTER OFF WHEN THEY BENEFIT FROM PREFERENCES?
BYLINE: Laurence D. CohenYale or jail? That's the little joke circulating in anti-"diversity" circles, responding to the ferocious debate about how many minorities -- and of what quality -- are being admitted under quota systems to elite colleges.
The thrust of the "Yale" joke is that being admitted to a second-tier school where academically frail minorities can thrive makes more sense than force-feeding them into the top schools where they do less well -- and must live with the suspicion that they don't really belong.
Many minority success stories are graduates of non-Ivy, low-prestige schools, the anti-diversity crowd insists. It's not a question of Yale or jail.
It's not much of a punch line, but it represents a piece of the affirmative action battle in higher education that doesn't get much public visibility: the data. ...
First off the starting line was "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions," a defense of racial preferences at top-tier colleges by William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University, and Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University.
The challenge was quickly met with the just-published "America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible," written by Stephan Thernstrom, a professor of history at Harvard, and his wife, Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York, who criticize the racial preferences at top schools in general, and attack the Bowen-Bok book quite specifically. ...
The Independent (London)
Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: LETTER: SIC TRANSIT OXBRIDGE
BYLINE: Steven HillionSir: I'm afraid (and sad) that I was only amused by your report "Oxbridge 'no longer elite universities' " (22 April). Your report was certainly accurate, although I would claim that Yale and Harvard are only two of very many world -class teaching and research institutions in the United States, including Princeton and the University of California; and that in many fields even they cannot easily claim to be the best.
But this is very old news. For many years, even decades, American scholarship has led the world, and the top US universities have been considered centres of research for the sciences, mathematics, classics, linguistics, philosophy and others. ...
STEVEN HILLION, San Francisco
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
April 29, 1999, ThursdayNAME: Pat Schroeder
HEADLINE: PUBLIC LIVES: Out of the House, but Still Focused on FamilyBYLINE: By JANE GROSS
CONSIDER the following tableau, circa 1956.
It is Sunday night in suburbia, and Mom, Dad and the kids are together around the TV. They are watching Ed Sullivan and the featured guest is Elvis Presley. An intergenerational misunderstanding ensues. In our day we had real music, says Mom. In our day, we didn't wear tight jeans, says Dad. The kids roll their eyes. Whatever.
Pat Schroeder, who fled what she called the "food fight" in Congress in 1996 and now runs the Association of American Publishers, paints this picture, as dated as a Norman Rockwell cover, as she sips coffee behind the New York Public Library, under a canopy of budding green.
She is musing on the recent school massacre in her home state of Colorado, asking what had changed in the last 40-odd years to turn children of upper-middle-class suburbia into mass murderers. "How did we get here?" she asks. "Times are good. What is the problem?" ...
She quit Congress in exasperation during the reign of Newt Gingrich, in time to miss the impeachment shambles, and spent a year teaching at Princeton University. Then she wrote a memoir. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
April 29, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: From Chernobyl, Finals Meltdown; Computer Virus Rattles Students at End of Term
BYLINE: Steven Ginsberg; Justin Blum, Washington Post Staff WritersThe dog is so passe. This week, it's the computer that's eating homework.
Such was the case for John Presser, 19, a student at the University of Richmond. When he turned on his computer and tried to log on to the Internet in the wee hours of Monday morning, it froze up. The infamous Chernobyl computer virus had wiped out his 9-page research paper. ...
Some 500 students at Virginia Tech reported computer meltdowns, as did dozens at George Washington and Johns Hopkins universities and the universities of Richmond, Virginia and Maryland at College Park. Similar problems occurred elsewhere, including about 100 reported incidents each at Princeton University and Boston College. ...
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