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Los Angeles Times
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July 14, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE DAY IN SPORTS;
MOMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: JULY 14, 1951; CITATION STRUCK GOLD BY REACHING $1 MILLION
BYLINE: EARL GUSTKEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Also on this date ... In 1933, before 6,000 at Princeton University, New Zealander Jack Lovelock beat Princeton's Bill Bonthron in the mile by running a world-record 4:07.6. Bonthron, a yard back, also beat the old record of 4:09.2.
The New York Times
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July 14, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Would Tax Cuts Prove Too Stimulating?
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLEFor all the recent talk of cutting taxes, Congress rarely cuts them when the economy is growing robustly, as it is today, and unemployment is low. The worry among economists is that the extra money in people's pockets may make an already strong economy too strong, finally stoking inflation after a long period of relatively stable prices.
Yet that danger is hardly mentioned in the rising public debate over the Republican and Democratic proposals for tax cuts.
Why not? In part, it is because the advocates of the tax cuts, as well as many of the opponents, agree that any reductions will probably be small, at least in the initial years. And few analysts expect any final tax cut to come close to the $864 billion over the next decade that has been proposed by House Republicans. ...
Still, Mr. Gramlich's concern reflects a view widely shared among economists -- that broad tax cuts tend to stimulate spending and therefore should be reserved for recessions or periods of slow growth. IIn the early 1960's, President John F. Kennedy proposed a tax cut in this spirit, and President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, which started during a recession, contributed to the long expansion in the 1980's.
By contrast, President Lyndon B. Johnson's 10 percent income tax cut, carrying through on the original Kennedy proposal, came when the economy had turned from the weak Kennedy years to the much more robust mid-1960's. The Fed responded by raising rates.
And the altered mix was damaging, says Alan S. Blinder, a Princeton University economist who served as Fed vice chairman from 1994 to 1996. The new mix -- higher interest rates to offset more fiscal stimulus from the tax cut and from stepped-up spending for the Vietnam War and for the Johnson social programs -- shifted the economy toward consumption and away from investment. Inflation also got a foothold.
Some economists contend that fiscal policy has lost its punch since the 1960's while monetary policy has evolved to the point that the Fed can regulate the economy through interest rate adjustments, offsetting tax cuts without damage. ...
The New York Times
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July 14, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Is a Teaching Career Catching On?
To the Editor:Just because 20 more students at Princeton University have enrolled in its teacher-preparation program since 1990 and 22 more students have done so at Bennington College since 1997, we should not be lulled into a false sense of security that the teacher shortage is being solved (front page, July 11). In Milwaukee alone, between 800 and 1,000 teachers will need to be hired each year for the next five years.
The real story here is not about who chooses to teach, but who does not. One student cited in your article chose law over teaching because, he said, teaching is not considered "something big." Unlike many other countries, in the United States teaching is still not considered a real profession.
Until teachers' working conditions and pay improve, students, parents, college faculty and our society will continue to devalue teaching as a career; the losers will inevitably be the children.
MARLEEN C. PUGACH
Shorewood, Wis., July 13, 1999The writer is a professor of teacher education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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July 13, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Presidential commission hammers out recommendations on stem cell research
BYLINE: By ROBIN ESTRIN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.A presidential advisory panel moved closer Tuesday to recommending that human embryo research be eligible for federal funds.
But there were some sticking points surrounding the controversial science - who should monitor the research and should private industries be subject to federal regulations?
The medical ethics panel, appointed by President Clinton in November, is proposing that government finance some forms of research on human embryos in the hope of generating medical breakthroughs, according to drafts.
Embryonic stem cells are considered the building blocks of the human body and are found in embryos that are just weeks old. Researchers hope the stem cells could be used to generate new skin, grow new livers or replace cells damaged by Alzheimer's. ...
On Tuesday, the board debated establishing a federal national panel to review and monitor stem cell research. The panel would oversee and approve all federally funded projects.
The 10 recommendations would only apply, however, to research funded with tax dollars and not to private companies using their own money for scientific exploration.
"The real question is to what extent do we want to give advice to the private sector," said Harold Shapiro, chairman of the commission and president of Princeton University. ...
The Associated Press
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July 12, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Tuition bills for NJ college students see small increases
BYLINE: By S. MITRA KALITA, Associated Press WriterDATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.
New Jersey's colleges credit deeper state pockets with their ability to keep tuition increases low this year.
Rutgers University students face a 4.4 percent tuition increase, among the school's lowest this decade. Most community colleges report that they are either freezing or minimally raising tuition rates. Even Princeton University, the state's most expensive college which relies little on state funding, says its 3.4 percent increase is its lowest since the 1960s.
Indeed, this year's increases - which range from 3 percent at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City to 9.6 percent at Rowan University in Glassboro - come after several years of double-digit increases and battles over state funding of higher education. ...
Princeton spokesman Justin Harmon said the Ivy League institution has made a concerted effort to incrementally lower the rates of tuition increases. Tuition at Princeton for the 1999-2000 academic year will be $24,630, up from $23,820.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
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July 12, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: NO BIRTH IS 'WRONG'
Parents blessed with healthy children should count themselves lucky. There's nothing in nature -- and there should be nothing in law -- to guarantee every mom she'll have a healthy, normal baby.
Pregnancy is a risk, however small, to the mother; childbirth is a risk, however small, to the infant. That's just one of life's unavoidable gambles.
So if a baby is less than mentally or physically perfect, should a doctor have to pay damages for delivering it? ...
Peter Singer, Princeton University's infamous infanticide advocate, would be proud. But this month he would not be pleased with the Georgia Court's 6-1 ruling, striking down ''wrongful birth'' for the second time this decade. ...
Business Week
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July 12, 1999HEADLINE: GENE THERAPY: ONE FAMILY'S STORY
BYLINE: By Ellen Licking in Eugene, Ore.HIGHLIGHT: The first attempts produced flickers of hope -- but failed. For the Frohnmayer family, that left unrelenting grief. Now they're helping researchers fight the killer in theeir midst
For Dave and Lynn Frohnmayer of Eugene, Ore., and their children Mark, 24, Jonathan, 14, and Amy, 12, the joys of family life mingle with anger, denial, and grief. Missing from their portrait are two daughters, Kirsten and Katie, claimed by a rare and poorly understood genetic disease called Fanconi anemia. Kirsten, who responded to a controversial experimental treatment with a male hormone, lived to be 24. Katie, with more serious complications, died at 12.
The shadow of illness has still not left the Frohnmayers. Their third daughter, Amy, who just finished sixth grade, has long, blond, gently curling hair, blue eyes, and a fondness just now for green nail polish -- and is also afflicted. This time, however, the family is hoping they will not, once again, be compelled to watch helplesslyy as a daughter dies.
As researchers perfect current methods of gene therapy, they are preparing for an even more profound development: germ-line gene therapy, in which changes made to a patient's genes would be passed on to all of the patient's offspring.
That possibility poses unprecedented ethical and practical questions. Bioethicists and scientists worry that the technology could be used by those seeking to create superhumans or designer babies.
Lee M. Silver, a biologist at Princeton University, is concerned that the technology could create a divide between genetic haves and have-nots. ''People who can't afford it will be disadvantaged,'' he says. ...
Computer Reseller News
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July 12, 1999HEADLINE: Michael Stonebraker: The Man Behind The Database
BYLINE: Shawn WillettOakland, Calif. - There are thousands of smart developers in the programmers' universe, maybe hundreds who can be considered geniuses.
Michael Stonebraker, by any reckoning, is one of the few who makes the cut. He developed the first relational database back in the 1970s with his Ingres project. Not content to rest, he developed the "object relational" database in the 1980s, currently the model for almost all databases. He is now working on a "federated" database, another would-be revolution in computing.
Stonebraker's contemporaries in the sometimes-small world of database research agree he has been, and continues to be, the driving force behind modern database development. ...
Stonebraker studied the nascent computer science field at Princeton University and the University of Michigan in the 1960s, where he was driven in part by a desire to avoid the draft. "At the time, you had four choices: jail, Vietnam, Canada or graduate school. . . . I preferred the latter," he said. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE
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July 12, 1999HEADLINE: NASA
Third man to walk on moon dies in motorcycle accidentCharles P. "Pete" Conrad, the third human to walk on the moon, died late Thursday night in a hospital in Ojai, CA, of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was 69.
Conrad was on a trip to Monterey, CA with his wife, Nancy, and friends when his motorcycle crashed on a turn, according to the California Highway Patrol. Conrad, who lived in Huntington Beach, CA, near Los Angeles, died later at the hospital of internal injuries.
Conrad made history on Nov. 19, 1969, when, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission, he and Astronaut Alan Bean set their lunar module "Intrepid" down on the moon's Ocean of Storms, the second of six Apollo landings. ...
Conrad was selected in the second class of NASA astronauts in 1962 following a distinguished career as a Navy test pilot and instructor. Following his graduation from Princeton University in 1953, Conrad entered the Navy and attended test pilot school at Patuxent River, MD, where he was assigned as a Project Test Pilot. ...
National Review
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July 12, 1999HEADLINE: The Week; political news
* In a May 28 letter to Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, Steve Forbes condemned the school's decision to appoint Peter Singer, infanticide advocate, to a professorship at the Center for Human Values. "The Singer appointment sends a dangerous and debilitating message that anything goes, that there are no boundaries when it comes to questions of life and death," wrote Forbes. That leaves two other prominent members of Princeton's board of trustees to take the bold step of publicly condemning postpartum baby-killing: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley and Republican senator Bill Frist of Tennessee. We're waiting.
The New York Times
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July 12, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
FRIEDLANDER, MICHAEL J.FRIEDLANDER-Michael J. 61, loving husband of Michele Trufant Friedlander, father of John Friedlander, brother of Marilyn Cohen, died July 8, 1999, in Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA, after a brief illness. ... He graduated from Deerfield Academy and Princeton University and was a skilled commodities trader from early childhood, ultimately founding and chairing M.J. Friedlander Co., Inc. ...
Newsday (New York, NY)
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July 12, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES / OLIVER GASCH, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
BYLINE: THE WASHINGTON POST
DATELINE: WashingtonWashington - Oliver Gasch, the long-serving U.S. District Court judge whose dozens of high-profile cases included the criminal trial of Senate Secretary Bobby Baker, and who ruled in another case that President Jimmy Carter had violated the U.S. Constitution, died Friday after heart surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 93.
Gasch was appointed to the court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. He was known in legal circles for his long working hours and prolific but concise judicial decisions. ...
Gasch was a lifelong resident of Washington. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, working his way through school by running a picture-framing business. ...
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
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July 12, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: 'NO SWEAT' MOVEMENT GAINS GROUND ON NATION'S CAMPUSES
BYLINE: Mary Deibel Scripps Howard News ServiceMore than 100 colleges and universities have agreed to join the Fair Labor Association, a sweatshop-monitoring group.
Marion Traub-Werner wants the "no-sweat" movement to heat up on campus this fall so colleges can't profit by selling clothes that carry the school name but made under sweatshop conditions.
"This grass-roots movement has spread from traditional activist campuses to schools not usually thought of in that mold," said the 22-year-old University of North Carolina senior and Toronto native. ...
UNC-Chapel Hill was one of a half-dozen colleges to have "sweat-free" sit-ins last spring that started at Duke before spreading to Georgetown, Wisconsin, Michigan, Boston University and Princeton.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Looking up the slippery slope
BYLINE: Paul GreenbergThe news that will shape our culture and therefore our future now tends to be made not by the generals and politicians, but by the scientists and bioethicists. For example:
WASHINGTON (AP)--President Clinton's top advisory panel on medical ethics is recommending government financing of limited forms of research oon human embryos . . . .
The promise of such experiments is breathtaking--new bodies for old!--and so is the danger: We will simply have taken another step toward scientific experimentation on humann beings. Today, research on the embryo, tomorrow on the fetus, soon enough on the old and infirm, the insane or deformed, the imprisoned or maybe just the socially undesirable.
With research on human embryos approved, another border will have been crossed in man's search for the best of all possible worlds, and the best of all possible humans to fill it. The Germans may have given eugenics a bad name, but it's still thriving under different names--research, choice, assisted suicide (aka Kevorkianism) or, in this case, the advancement of science.
It's all a matter of proportion, we're assured, of how you look at it. Of weighing the ends against the means . . . Balance a limited invasion of human life against the potential benefits for Parkinson's patients, a little genetic manipulation against the perfection of the species in general, and who could say No? ...
Some of us who can still remember those boundaries begin to get the distinct impression that we're no longer looking down a slippery slope but up.
Sometimes it seems that nothing has so degraded our ethics in this modern era as our ethicists. The great champion of infanticide at Princeton University, Peter Singer, is after all a Professor of Bioethics. It is astounding what a supposedly civilized society will routinely accept. Last time I checked (June of 1998) the going price of
human fetuses for research purposes varied from $90 to $280, depending on gestational age and whether you wanted yours fresh or frozen. ...
The Canberra Times
Copyright 1999 The Federal Capital Press of Australia
July 11, 1999, Sunday EditionHEADLINE: LENTIL-LED LIFESTYLE REVOLT FLOUNDERS
THE FAMOUS philosopher, ethicist and animal liberationist Professor Peter Singer is much in the news at the moment. One day last week I found myself listening to him on the wireless in the kitchen. As he evangelised about vegetarianism, I cooked a dish made of grisly slices of flesh hewn from the corpse of a calf slaughtered after an artificially shortened life of torture.
Professor Singer is in the news because, as Australia's most famous philosopher and a man with radical, atheistic ideas about life, he is about to become an important philosopher at Princeton University in the Christian, conservative United States.
Listening to him speaking about animals and their rights I was as impressed as ever by the intellectual strength behind his own vegetarianism. Professor Singer not only declines to eat even fish (for we have known for 20 years now that mullet and perhaps even anchovies feel pain and it is possible that they may even experience dread between their captures and their terrible deaths) but also declines to wear or to carry anything made of leather. ...
CNN
SHOW: CNN PERSPECTIVES
July 11, 1999; Sunday 9:00 pmHEADLINE: The Clone Rangers
BYLINE: Eileen O'ConnorHIGHLIGHT: Recently, research labs in the United States and elsewhere have made astounding announcements about the possibility of growing a human embryo. No one is claiming to have produced a human baby clone yet, but suddenly human cloning, once only science fiction, seems within reach. For some infertile couples, cloning may hold out the possibility of having a baby, but others foresee the dark side of this technology.
EILEEN O'CONNOR, HOST: This is CNN PERSPECTIVES. I'm Eileen O'Connor at a newborn nursery in Washington, D.C.
Recently, research labs in the United States and elsewhere have made astounding announcements. Scientists say they have taken a single tissue cell from an adult and started the process of growing a human embryo.
In effect, they have succeeded at the first steps to cloning a human being. No one is claiming to have produced a human baby clone yet. But some scientists have cloned animals. Suddenly human cloning, once only science fiction, seems within reach. ...
NARRATOR: Professor Lee Silver is convinced that cloning will ultimately benefit the human race. He's a distinguished geneticist at Princeton University in New Jersey, but he's worried about the helter skelter speed towards human cloning.
SILVER: It's not going to be controlled by scientists. It's not going to be controlled by doctors or by doctors' societies or committees or by governments or states. It's now going to be controlled by the marketplace. ...
It sounds incredible, but it's been done. For over three years in total secrecy a team of scientists based at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland perfected the nuclear transfer technique. But what they made in a laboratory wasn't human, it was a sheep called Dolly. For the first time, they'd created a lamb genetically identical to the grown sheep from which a cell was taken.
DR. IAN WILMUT, EMBRYOLOGIST: I guess we were just as much relieved that she was, that she had developed to term and that she was a healthy lamb as we were excited and I guess almost over awed by the opportunities which were going to be there as to the power of the technique which we had created.
SILVER: I said, oh, my God, they did it. This is a miracle. All of science fiction is true. Now, of course, all of science fiction is not true, but I was so stunned by this result, which I thought was science fiction, and now it was true, I was just blown away and I was amazed that this could happen.
The Denver Post
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July 11, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: Is there a doctor in the union?
BYLINE: By Al KnightBODY: When the delegates to the American Medical Association's convention voted last month to form a physicians' labor union, it was said the union would primarily be concerned - not with wages - but with the quality of patient care.
That's a hoot almost as big as the one several decades ago when teachers organized amid pledges to improve the quality of education. Since then, as everyone knows, there has been a marked decline in educational quality as the teachers union concentrates on its members' wages and working conditions.
Uwe Reinhardt, professor of political economy at Princeton University, and an expert in medical matters, writing in The Wall Street Journal, dismissed out-of-hand the notion that the AMA's union would have only altruistic motives. "Whatever the AMA's professed rationale," he said, "chances are that a physicians' union sooner or later would devote most of its energy to protecting the pocketbooks of its members by bargaining collectively over fees." This, he warned, would provoke an even greater centralization of power in the hands of a few insurance carriers to the ultimate detriment of us all. ...
The New York Times
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Despite Low Prestige and Pay, More Answer the Call to Teach
BYLINE: By MARY B. W. TABORAfter years of shying away from the field, a growing number of college students, including those from elite liberal arts colleges, now say they want to be schoolteachers.
Just over 10 percent of all freshmen say they want to teach in elementary or secondary schools, according to a new survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California at Los Angeles. The percentages, for 1998, the latest year available, are the highest since the early 1970's and nearly twice what they were at their low point, in 1982.
Students at some of the nation's top universities, like Harvard and Princeton, are also showing a growing interest.
Education and policy experts say these numbers reflect a shift in attitudes about teaching -- from a career plagued by low pay and low prestige to a career that is attracting smart and altruistic people. ...
Recruiters at some teacher-placement organizations say applicant pools are steady or growing. Teach for America, for example, says it has recorded a strong increase in applications in recent years, especially from schools like Spelman College, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Princeton. Last fall, Teach for America, which recruits college graduates to teach in low-income districts for a minimum of two years, received applications from 3,025 people for 500 positions, up from 2,745 applicants the year before.
"We've certainly noticed over the past two years that there is an increase in interest from college students," said Wendy Kopp, president of Teach for America. ...
At Princeton University, for example, the number of students enrolled in its teacher preparation program has risen to 25 from 5 since 1990. (The high was in 1975, when 77 students were enrolled.) ...
The New York Times
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Harry Eckstein, 75, Professor Who Studied Political Culture
BYLINE: By ERIC PACEHarry H. Eckstein, a political scientist who argued that a critically important role in determining whether democracy succeeded in a country was played by the country's political culture, or what he called its authority patterns, died on June 22 in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 75 and lived near Newport Beach.
The cause was heart failure, the University of California at Irvine said in announcing his death.
At his death, Professor Eckstein, who lived in Nazi Germany as a boy, was Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at the Irvine campus, where he had taught since 1980. He previously taught at Harvard and Princeton universities. ...
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: As Campaign Starts Swiftly, Both Parties Are Scrambling
BYLINE: By RICHARD L. BERKEDATELINE: WASHINGTON, July 10
Major candidates in the 2000 Presidential campaign, their assumptions turned upside down in the early going, are scrambling to revise their strategies and retool their political machines for a contest that has opened far more swiftly than either the Democrats or the Republicans foresaw.
The crowded Republican field has produced a breakaway front-runner, and the Democratic incumbent who seemed like a shoo-in for nomination no longer seems quite so assured. Now the campaigns of many Republican candidates are wondering in disbelief whether the primary season might end almost before it begins -- and what to do if it does. ...
Many political strategists and academics said they had never seen the contours of a Presidential season shift so early and so rapidly. They said it was partly because of a compressed calendar of primaries that virtually guarantees that nominees will emerge by mid-March.
"Conventional wisdom in primary seasons is almost always turned on its head," said Larry M. Bartels, a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. "But there's a feeling of desperation among the minor candidates that if they can't get some traction in the next couple of months, it's going to be impossible for them to carry on." ...
The New York Times
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
SEIBERT, WILLIAM L.SEIBERT-William L. Of Miami, Florida, formerly of Bronxville, New York, died on July 8, 1999 in Charlottesville, VA. Born June 27, 1905 in Brooklyn, NY. He was the son of the late William Hill Seibert and Bernice Eugenia Higbe. He was preceded in death by his wife Marjorie Fell Seibert. Mr. Seibert was a graduate of St. Paul's School in Garden City, NY, Princeton University and Fordham Law School. ...
San Antonio Express-News
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July 11, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: PAPER TRAIL
BYLINE: Barbara HigdonSemites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice by Bernard Lewis (Norton, $14).
In this book first published in 1986, Bernard Lewis, a professor emeritus at Princeton University who has written a score of books on the Islamic and Middle Eastern history, traces the development and evolution of anti-Semitism and how it affects the Arab-Israeli conflict today. This reissue contains an afterword, expounding on the major changes that have taken place in the MiddleEast, particularly with the "Peace Process."
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
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July 10, 1999 SaturdayHEADLINE: Jacksonville Journal
BYLINE: From StaffA NEW BEAT
Chris Scribner is the new City Hall reporter for the Times-Union. Scribner, who has been with the newspaper since April 1998, formerly wrote about transportation for the Business section. A native New Yorker, Scribner previously worked for the Nashville Banner. He graduated from Princeton University in 1988 and received a Ph.D. in American history from Vanderbilt University in 1996.
The Houston Chronicle
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July 10, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Paul Pressler tells his story, conservatively speaking
BYLINE: RICHARD VARA, Houston Chronicle Religion WriterRetired Texas appellate Judge Herman Paul Pressler III is very comfortable being both revered and reviled.
To many Southern Baptists, Pressler is the heroic architect and leader of the "conservative resurgence" that brought the 15.7 million-member denomination to its historical, evangelical, biblical roots.
To others, he is a crafty denominational politician who launched a divisive movement that has led to Southern Baptist Convention fracturing. ...
Pressler details in his book how he became concerned about the theological direction of the convention as a 16-year-old student at prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy and later Princeton University.
The liberal biblical views of Northeastern Baptists were in stark contrast to his own views, he writes. The Bible was considered a human work and not divine revelation. Biblical miracles, the virgin birth, the resurrection were questioned if not discounted, Pressler notes. ...
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
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July 10, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Apollo astronaut Conrad dies in cycle crash
BYLINE: TIM O'BRIEN; Staff writer
HIGHLIGHT: New Lebanon Alumnus of Darrow School was 3rd man to walk on moonGraduates, students and leaders of the Darrow School mourned Friday the death of astronaut Charles ''Pete'' Conrad, who received the school's first distinguished alumnus award three weeks ago.
Conrad, 69, the third man to walk on the moon, crashed his motorcycle on a turn Thursday on Highway 150 near Ojai, Calif. He died five hours later of internal injuries at Ojai Valley Community Hospital. ...
From Darrow, Conrad went on to Princeton University and then to the Navy as a test pilot. ...
The Washington Post
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July 10, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Longtime U.S. Judge Oliver Gasch Dies
BYLINE: Claudia Levy, Washington Post Staff WriterOliver Gasch, the long-serving U.S. District Court judge whose dozens of high-profile cases included the criminal trial of Senate Secretary Bobby Baker, and who ruled in another case that President Jimmy Carter had violated the U.S. Constitution, died yesterday after heart surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 93.
Gasch was appointed to the court by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. He served for 16 years and then went into semi-retirement, remaining on the bench for 14 more years as a senior judge. ...
Gasch was a lifelong resident of Washington and a graduate of Western High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, working his way through school by running a picture-framing business. ...
The Washington Post
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July 10, 1999, Saturday, MondayHEADLINE: Astronaut Charles P. 'Pete' Conrad Jr. Dies; Exuberant Engineer and Pilot Commanded Apollo 12 Mission, Walked on the Moon
BYLINE: J.Y. Smith, Special to The Washington Post
Charles P. "Pete" Conrad Jr., 69, a former Navy test pilot and astronaut who in 1969 became the third man to walk on the moon, died July 8 at a hospital in Ojai, Calif., of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident.
A highly competent engineer who also was a cheerful and exuberant extrovert who shouted "Whoopee!" when he first set foot on the surface of the moon, Cmdr. Conrad embodied qualities that have been valued by NASA since the first astronauts were chosen in 1959. ...
In 1953, he graduated from Princeton University, where he majored in aeronautical engineering, and then went into the Navy to become a pilot. He was sent to the Navy's test pilot school at Patuxent Naval Air Station. When he graduated, he was assigned to Patuxent as a test pilot and later as a flight instructor and performance engineer. ...
Agence France Presse
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July 09, 1999HEADLINE: Third man of the moon, Charles "Pete" Conrad, dies
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, July 9Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, was killed in a motorcycle accident in California, television networks reported Friday. He was 69.
Conrad, a veteran of four US space flights, died from internal injuries in hospital after his motorcycle ran off the road.
He was riding with friends near Ojai, north of Los Angeles, where he lived.
Conrad, a Princeton University graduate and son of a World War I balloonist, was a Navy test pilot before he joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1962, a few years after the space program began. ...
The Associated Press
July 9, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Apollo 12 moonwalker Pete Conrad killed in motorcycle crash
BYLINE: MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace WriterDATELINE: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon and the only one to shout "Whoopee!" as he hopped onto its dusty surface, was killed in a motorcycle accident, leaving life the way he lived it: traveling fast. He was 69.
The fun-loving, irrepressible Conrad crashed his 1996 Harley-Davidson on a curve along a winding mountain road Thursday near Ojai in Southern California and died at a hospital of internal bleeding from chest and abdominal injuries. ...
Born in Philadelphia, Conrad received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University in 1953. He then joined the Navy and became a naval aviator. He attended the Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Md., and later served there as a test pilot, flight instructor and performance engineer. ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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July 9, 1999HEADLINE: Idea of On-Line Archives of Papers Sparks Debate on Future of Journals
BYLINE: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK and VINCENT KIERNAN
Three months after the director of the National Institutes of Health proposed creating an on-line archive of scholarly papers in biomedical research, the idea continues to roil scientists and scholarly publishers. So far, it has drawn complaints, praise, and even a competitor.
Some observers -- fans and critics alike -- say the two ventures that are now being debated have the potential to reshape not just biomedicall research, but the whole of scholarly publishing.
Many researchers say they would welcome the easy access to new papers promised by the N.I.H. archive, which is provisionally named "E-biomed." But some scholarly societies, along with commercial publishers of scholarly journals, are skeptical -- or flat-out opposed. ...
Stevan Harnad, a professor of psychology at both Princeton University and Britain's University of Southampton, advocates expanding the use of electronic communication in science. But he said in an interview that the N.I.H. should not inject itself into the peer-review process.
"Don't tamper with peer review," he said. "If it's not broken, don't fix it. What we need is free archives." ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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July 9, 1999HEADLINE: NASA Satellites May 'Revolutionize' Earth Sciences
BYLINE: KIM A. McDONALDMost climatologists would agree that the earth has warmed sharply during the past century, and that human activity is responsible at least in part.
But ask them how rapidly carbon dioxide and other gases responsible for the "greenhouse effect" will accumulate in the future, how much those gases will raise global temperatures, and whether the warming can be mitigated by increases in clouds or plant growth, and chances are their responses would vary widely.
According to James E. Hansen, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in New York City, the reason for much of the uncertainty is the lack of detailed measurements of climatic processes and their interactions. Without such information, scientists can't develop reliable climate models to forecast global change. ...
Improvements in ground-based instruments and satellite technology have brought some progress over the past decade. But the situation is now about to change significantly for the better. Over the next four years, NASA plans to build and launch a flotilla of 26 satellites, known as the Earth Observing System, or EOS, to measure the earth's climatic system in greater detail and more comprehensively than ever before. ...
While climatologists are banking on EOS to provide them with such details to predict the course of global warming, they remain confident about one thing: Atmospheric carbon dioxide will continue to accumulate, most likely doubling from pre-industrial levels by 2050 and quadrupling by 2150.
"None of the uncertainties that are remaining, in my view, create a credible case for anything that will make this problem go away," said Jerry D. Mahlman, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University. "You can yell at it, you can scream at it, you can make ideological statements -- it's not going to go away. The simple truth is that the real debate now is on the details and, implicitly, how much climatee change we are willing to bargain for."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher EducationJuly 9, 1999
HEADLINE: Gifts & Bequests
Princeton University. For the Institute for Integrative Genomics and for other programs: $55-million from Peter B. Lewis.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 1999HEADLINE: U.S. Panel Tentatively Approves Use of Federal Funds for Studies on Stem Cells
BYLINE: JEFFREY BRAINARDThe National Bioethics Advisory Commission tentatively approved a draft recommendation last week that Congress allow federal money to be spent on some types of research involving stem cells derived from human embryos.
The commission is not expected to issue the proposal formally until late this month, when it plans to meet in Cambridge, Mass., to refine a draft report about stem-cell research, said Harold T. Shapiro, chairman of the panel and president of Princeton University.
The anticipated changes include new language encouraging privately financed researchers who study stem cells to follow the same ethical guidelines that the panel will recommend for government-supported scientists. ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 1999HEADLINE: The Risks of Good Teaching: How 1 Professor and 9 T.A.'s Plunged Into Pedagogy
BYLINE: ELAINE SHOWALTEREveryone complains these days that we don't train graduate students to teach, but no one ever seems to do anything about it. Indeed, according to The New York Times, part of the reason that graduate students in the University of California system were unionizing this spring was to protest being thrown into classrooms without preparation. "It was scary," said one. "I knew the material, but I felt like I needed a lot more help."
I've always believed that graduate faculty members are responsible for preparing their students to teach -- and that they shouldn't relegate the task to other teaching assistants -- but I also can understand why professors are reluuctant to step forward as pedagogical experts. ...
Last fall, I decided to take the plunge and start a weekly teaching seminar for the nine graduate students assisting me in a large (more than 350 students) undergraduate course on contemporary fiction. In the beginning, my primary goals were to coordinate the 28 discussion sections ("precepts," as they are called at Princeton) that the graduate students and I were teaching, and to pass on to graduate students such wisdom as I had garnered from 30 years of teaching. In addition to meeting each Monday, each of us -- including me -- compiled teaching portfolios of our lesson plans and ideas, kept journals about our precepts, and posted exxcerpts on an electronic bulletin board. ...
There's no question that my own approach to teaching has changed, even after all my years as a professor. Thinking about pedagogy has made me both a more critically reflective teacher and a more courageous one. This spring, for the first time, I dared to have my undergraduates write a midterm evaluation of one of my courses. Before, I had always worried that it would be like asking the audience at the interval how they liked the play so far. One student said on the midterm evaluation that my course "kicks ass!" Not a ballet, exactly, but I'm going to keep trying. And this fall, we're making the graduate-student teaching seminar part of our regular English graduate program, open to all T.A.'s in the department.
Elaine Showalter, a professor of English at Princeton University, just finished a term as president of the Modern Language Association. Her most recent book is Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (Columbia University Press, 1997).
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton Alumnus Pledges $55-Million
BYLINE: JOHN L. PULLEYA member of the Class of 1955 has pledged $55-million to Princeton University, $35-million of it for the new Institute for Integrative Genomics, to help pay for the study of complex interactions among the genes of living organisms.
Peter B. Lewis, chairman and chief executive officer of the Progressive Corporation, one of the United States' largest automobile insurers, made the donation to celebrate the impending 45th anniversary of his class's graduation. He is a Princeton trustee.
The contribution pushes Princeton nearer to its capital-campaign goal of $900-million. The Anniversary Campaign, which began in 1995, has raised more than $800-million, including Mr. Lewis's gift.
CNN
SHOW: CNN MORNING NEWS
July 9, 1999; FridayHEADLINE: Former Astronaut Charles 'Pete' Conrad Dies in Motorcycle Crash
BYLINE: Bill Hemmer, Miles O'BrienHIGHLIGHT: Former astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad died yesterday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in southern California. The third man to walk on the moon, Conrad, before his death, was working on methods to commercialize space.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We begin with the sudden loss of one of America's space program legends: former Apollo astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad. The third man to walk on the Moon died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash yesterday in southern California. The 69-year-old Conrad was thrown from his bike as he rounded a curve near the town of Ojai. ...
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Capt. Charles Conrad Jr., we all knew him as "Pete." A short man, he took a big step into the history books in November, 1969, becoming the third person to walk on the Moon. He commanded Apollo 12, along with Alan Bean, executing a precision landing on the Moon's "ocean of storms." ...
CHARLES "PETE" CONRAD, ASTRONAUT: Whoopie! That may have been a small step for Neil but that's a long one for me.
O'BRIEN: Conrad graduated from Princeton University, became a Naval aviator and joined the Astronaut Corps in 1962.
THE HINDU
Copyright 1999 FT Asia Intelligence Wire
July 9, 1999HEADLINE: Undying passion for Carnatic music
'KARAHARMONYPRIYA' IS a Western classical music composition based on the notes of the classical Carnatic raga, Karaharapriya. This piece was originally conceived by K. S. Subramanian as a melody, to which David Reck, Chairman, Department of Music, Amherst College, Massachussettes, USA, added another line to create harmony. And David Claman added another line and rounded it off into an attractive composition containing the major elements of a Western classical composition. This was presented recently at Brhaddhwani. ...
The programme was conducted by David Claman, who is doing his Ph.D. in music composition at the Princeton University, USA. Reck also presented some verses from Shakespeare's 'Tempest'. Here too the tunes had a strong Indian flavour. Shoba, one of the musicians of Brhaddhwani, too had composed a piece with the guidance of Claman, using all the elements of Western music. ...
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Prudential offers to arrange financing for Nets' Newark arena
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.An effort by the New Jersey Nets to move to the state's largest city is getting a helping hand from the nation's largest insurance company.
Newark-based Prudential Insurance this week offered to arrange up to $170 million in private financing for the basketball club's proposed new arena in Newark.
"On the basis of what we've seen this looks like a good project," Matt Chanin, a director of Prudential's commercial capital group, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Thursday's editions. ...
Michael Danielson, a Princeton University professor who has researched the relationship between pro sports teams and their host cities, said the state remains "a key actor in this game."
The vote of confidence from the influential insurance company's investment experts can only help the Nets' plan, Danielson said. Prudential has provided financing for the First Union Center in Philadelphia and the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore.
"It strengthens the Nets and Newark's position," Danielson said. "It gives them a lot more clout."
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 1999 The Dallas Morning News
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Bradley still drawing on basketball lessons
BYLINE: Carl P. LeubsdorfDATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
CONCORD, N.H. - Time was when Bill Bradley avoided talk of his fabled basketball past, lest it detract from his more serious present as a U.S. senator.
But now, the onetime Princeton and New York Knicks star is applying the virtues he learned on the court to a low-key but pointed Democratic primary challenge to Vice President Al Gore. ...
"I never wanted to lose because I didn't make the effort," Mr. Bradley said. "And so I recognized that the work you put in breeds tremendous rewards, kind of a virtuous circle."
That lesson helped him through Princeton University.
"My first year was not easy. . . . I didn't know if I was going to make it," he said.
"And what happened is that I went back and drew on the phrase of the old coach at basketball camp who said, 'Remember, if you're not practicing, somebody else is practicing, and if you have equal ability, he's going to win.' . . . So I spent more time studying." ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
WELCH, MICHAEL TAFT
WELCH-Michael Taft. Former Chairman of the Credit Policy Committee of Citicorp, now part of Citigroup, and a member of its Policy Committee died July 3, 1999 after a long illness. Mr. Welch of Scarborough, New York and Bray's Island, South Carolina was a well known international banker in the energy industry working in this country and abroad. ... Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942, Mr. Welch was a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University and earned an MBA from Harvard University. ...
Seattle Weekly
Copyright 1999 Stern Publishing, Inc.
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: BOOK BRIEFS
Many Pretty Toys by Hazard Adams (SUNY Press, $24.50)
In our multimedia age, it's refreshing to be reminded how literature on its own, and without being written for TV, can compellingly define the watershed events of the century. The events at issue in Hazard Adams' brilliant fourth novel are the student anti-war and anti-establishment protests of the late 1960s and early '70s, which forever altered our world view of how those coming of age matriculate into society. ...
The venues that he alludes to are more than coincidentally identifiable with the University of Washington, where Adams is a professor of comparative literature; to Princeton University, from which he took his baccalaureate; and with the University of California at Irvine, where he served as chancellor. ...
THE STAR-LEDGER
Copyright 1999 The Star-Ledger
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Prudential Insurance Offers Financing for Newark, N.J., Basketball Arena
BYLINE: By Joseph R. PeronePrudential Insurance Co. has offered to arrange up to $170 million in financing so the New Jersey Nets can build a pro basketball arena in Newark.
In a move Nets officials hope will attract more private investors, Prudential says it would set up a consortium of lenders to finance much of the arena's construction as long as certain conditions are met. ...
Details that must be worked out include studies on the feasibility of the arena and the infrastructure needed to support it, Chanin said. However, the company's preliminary backing is expected to give momentum to the Newark project, which is favored by the new owners of the Nets, because Prudential is a powerful and conservative firm with a long history of financing commercial development.
"It strengthens the Nets and Newark's position," said Michael Danielson, a Princeton University professor and author of a book on how professional teams affect the cities in which they play. "It gives them a lot more clout." ...
USA TODAY
Copyright 1999 Gannett Company, Inc.
July 8, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Utilities wage power struggle in hot East Electrical grids taxed by nature, record demand
BYLINE: Fred Bayles
DATELINE: BOSTONBOSTON -- For 24 stress-laced hours, William Balet and otherswho manage power distribution along the Eastern Seaboard were riveted too phone lines, the Internet and banks of readouts, conserving power to beat this week's heat wave.
It wasn't until drenching rainstorms rolled across upstate New York, dropping temperatures nearly 20 degrees Tuesday afternoon, that Balet felt he could relax.
"It was a psychological moment," said the executive director of the New York Power Pool, which manages power distribution for New York. "The tension let up a bit after that."
Balet was among a cadre of utility officials from New England to Virginia who waged a constantly shifting battle to meet record demands for electricity in the face of sizzling temperatures. ...
Some employers told workers to stay home. In New Jersey, Princeton University shut administrative buildings. ...
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