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HEADLINE: New 'trash' fuel to be tested, produced in
Philadelphia
BYLINE: JONATHAN POET, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA
From the driver's seat, the silver Ford Taurus looks like any other car. The only difference is a small button near the odometer that, when pushed, displays the alcohol content of the fuel in the tank.
Known as a flexible fuel vehicle, two of the cars will use a fuel made partially from organic waste under an arrangement between the New York-based Pure Energy Corp. and Philadelphia officials. The fuel can be made, in part, from paper, landscape refuse, sawdust and construction demolition waste.
"When I see the Fresh Kills dump on Staten Island, I see an oil well," said Dr. Stephen Paul, the research physicist at Princeton University who invented the fuel. "This fuel can help cities with their solid waste problem. No other fuels that I know of have that advantage."
P-Series is now being produced in very small quantities at a Sunoco refinery in Marcus Hook in the Philadelphia suburbs. In the next year, Pure Energy plans to open a small-scale production facility somewhere in the Philadelphia region and plans to evaluate sites for a full-scale plant.
HEADLINE: IBM Supercomputer to Assess Mankind's Impact on
Earth's Climate
DATELINE: BOULDER, Colo.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) took delivery today of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, an IBM RS/6000 SP system that will accelerate researchers' abilities to simulate global climate patterns and determine mankind's impact on them. The new RS/6000 SP system, code-named "blackforest," is five times larger and twenty times more powerful than the system made famous during Deep Blue's historic 1997 victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
UCAR members include:
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
HEADLINE: Private groups' rights, dismissed
BYLINE: JOHN LEO, Universal Press Syndicate
NEW YORK -- Send your get-well and sympathy cards to the ailing members of New Jersey's Supreme Court. All seven members have just comee down again with a bad case of AJD, or Activist Judge's Disease.
This shouldn't be considered normal, even in Jersey, but the seven justices have just issued a classic AJD-related ruling: The Boy Scouts were forced to accept homosexual scouts and scoutmasters, even though the Boys Scouts are a private organization with moral objections to homosexuality.
And if parades are vulnerable to inventive judicial rulings, the same tortured legal logic could turn almost any voluntary association into a public accommodation.
The New Jersey Supreme Court judges seem to be doing exactly this. They managed to turn one small private swimming club and Princeton University's private dining clubs into public accommodations. Given this track record, it may be safe to say that all of the state's private groups are only one judicial whim away from being declared public.
HEADLINE: Incara Announces Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal
1999
DATELINE: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Aug. 11
Incara Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: INCR) today announced the financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 1999, the three-month period ended June 30, 1999. Incara reported revenue of $188,000 and a net loss of $4,119,000, or $.56 per share, for the three months ended June 30, 1999, and $588,000 in revenue and a net loss of $16,416,000 or $2.24 per share for the nine months ended June 30, 1999. In comparison, the Company reported revenue of $577,000 and a net loss of $10,189,000, or $1.42 per share, for the three months ended June 30, 1998 and $1,662,000 in revenue and a net loss of $17,341,000 or $2.46 per share for the nine months ended June 30, 1998. As of June 30, 1999, Incara had cash and marketable securities of $8.1 million.
On August 9, 1999 Incara announced that it had been notified by Merck that Incara has reached the initial milestone in the company's collaboration targeting the discovery and development of a class of vancomycin analogues. The milestone, which requires that compounds synthesized in the collaboration demonstrate specified in vitro and in vivo activity in both resistant and sensitive bacterial strains, triggered a $1,500,000 payment from Merck (of which $500,000 was paid to Princeton University pursuant to a related license agreement).
HEADLINE: Microsoft, Government Officials Submit 'Findings of
Fact'
BYLINE: By David L. Wilson
WASHINGTON--What may be most important in the nearly 1,500 pages of legal filings U.S. Justice Department officials and Microsoft Corp. lawyers dumped on the desk of a federal judge Tuesday is not what's in the documents, but what was left out.
Government lawyers have maintained that Microsoft illegally combined its Internet browser and desktop computer operating system to protect its monopoly power in the market for desktop computer operating systems. They make the point that by not allowing users the option of removing the browser, the company has in some instances increased a user's exposure to security risks, such as computer viruses.
The security claim in the findings, for example, is based on an exchange between a government witness, Edward W. Felten, and Judge Jackson on June 10. Jackson asked Felten whether having a browser on a computer would make it easier for the computer to be infected by a virus, or similar problem. Felten, a Princeton University professor, immediately said browsers can indeed make attacks possible, and suggested that developing an operating system with a browser that cannot be removed -- as Microsoft claims is the case with its software -- puts users at risk.
HEADLINE: James J. Waltke; Was Businessman, Ad Executive
James J. Waltke, a retired advertising executive and business owner in St. Louis, died Thursday (Aug. 5, 1999) at Missouri Baptist Hospital after a brief illness. He was 71.
Mr. Waltke was born and reared in St. Louis. He graduated from St. Louis Country Day School and attended Princeton University and Washington University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1949. He later earned another degree in history from Washington University.
He began his career as an executive with Imperial Oil Co. in St. Louis. In 1965, he founded Universal Rentals Inc. and sold it in 1979 to become a partner in Fisher, Waltke and Hagen, an advertising agency.
Mr. Waltke also was a partner in Top Heat Petroleum Co. He retired in 1996.
HEADLINE: Clinton Names Dan Herman Renberg as Member of Board
of Directors at Export-Import Bank
CONTACT: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug. 5
The President today announced his intent to nominate Dan Herman Renberg to serve as Member of the Board of Directors at the Export-Import Bank.
Mr. Dan Renberg, of Maryland, is Founder and Principal of a consulting/lobbying firm specializing in developing and implementing federal legislative strategies.
Prior to forming his own business, Mr. Renberg was Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Arlen Specter. Mr. Renberg managed a 13-person legislative staff and assisted Senator Specter on Federal appropriations, transportation and general business issues.
Mr. Renberg received his A.B. form Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia.
HEADLINE: Clinton Names Robert S. Mueller, III, as United
States Attorney for the Northern District of California
CONTACT: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100
The President today announced his intent to nominate Robert S. Mueller, III, to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Mr. Robert S. Mueller, III, of San Francisco, California, has served as Interim United States Attorney for that district since August 1998. Between 1995 and 1998, Mr. Mueller was senior litigation counsel and then chief of the homicide section in the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia. Previously, he was a senior partner in a private Washington, DC, law firm, where he practiced both criminal and civil law.
Mr. Mueller received a B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1966, a Masters degree in international studies from New York University in 1972, and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1973. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1967-70 and has been awarded the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
HEADLINE: Teachers given opportunity to learn for the sake of
learning
DATELINE: GRAND FORKS, N.D.
About 120 teachers in Grand Forks County are returning to school this fall to reacquaint themselves with the joys of learning.
The University of North Dakota is one of eight schools in the nation offering a Teachers as Scholars program.
The goal is to provide educators with an opportunity to learn for the sake of learning.
"For teachers, most professional development has to do with the mechanics of teaching, such as classroom management," said Lyn Willoughby, director of the Grand Forks Teacher Center and a coordinator of the project.
The Teachers for Scholars program started four years ago at Harvard. Start-up programs are being organized at other schools this year for the first time. Princeton, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Los Angeles are some of the other schools participating.
HEADLINE: New life for Old Testament language
BYLINE: Gail Russell Chaddock , Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
HIGHLIGHT: Demand for Hebrew is fueled by archeology and desire to explore Bible's roots
Learning Hebrew is not as tedious as James Madison was led to believe.
As a freshman at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1769, the soon-to-be Founding Father was told that mastery of ancient languages, such as Latin and Greek, was critical. However, unless he planned on becoming a minister, he could take a pass on Hebrew, as it had become "unhappily unpopular" with students.
About two centuries later, many mainline seminaries came around to the same conclusion - and started bumping the original language of the Old Testament off their required list.
HEADLINE: Business Briefly
Incara hits milestone
Incara Pharmaceuticals, the Research Triangle Park-based company that was formerly named Intercardia, has reached a milestone in its collaboration with Merck & Co. that triggers a $1.5 million payment.
Incara is collaborating with Merck to discover and develop a class of vancomycin analogues. Some bacteria are able to resist most antibiotics because of widespread use and misuse of antibiotics. Vancomycin is an antibiotic used to treat some of the most severe bacterial infections.
The collaboration is based on research sponsored by Incara in the laboratory of a Princeton University professor. Incara will pay Princeton $500,000 of the Merck payment.
HEADLINE: Senator Polanco Backs Portillo for His Former Seat; Latino Caucus Leader Gives Nod to Prominent L.A. Health Advocate
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10
State Senate Majority Leader Richard Polanco today endorsed Assembly candidate Cesar Portillo to fill the seat he once held in the legislature.
"In 1986, I was given the opportunity to represent the Assembly seat that Cesar is going to ultimately win," said Senator Polanco. "I'm here today to announce my strong support for Cesar's candidacy."
Cesar Portillo is a healthcare advocate, community activist, former public school teacher.
A life-long resident of Los Angeles, he is an alumnus of Princeton University, Santa Clara University and Loyola High School. In addition to being a resident of the district since returning home from college, he was born in the district, attended grade school, lives and works in the district.
HEADLINE: FOR THE RECORD.
Texas judge orders new election for 1997 Houston ballot initiative outlawing racial preferences, following city council meddling that supporters say led to defeat. . . . NR contributor Robert P. George named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, chair once held by Woodrow Wilson. . . . Utah school district apologizes for religious content of Earth Day event that included American Indian prayers and Episcopal bishop's blessing of trees. . . . Air Force spends $268,000 in funds usually reserved for military readiness to renovate kitchen in home used by Air Force Academy superintendent. . . . Media mogul and part-time environmental activist Ted Turner permits oil drilling on New Mexico ranch property.
HEADLINE: Save It
BYLINE: Alan S. Blinder
Alan S. Blinder is a professor of economics at Princeton University and vice chairman of the G-7 Group. He was a member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1994 and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1994 to 1996.
As huge federal budget surpluses rise phoenix-like from the ashes of massive deficits, our natural impulse is to spend more and enjoy big tax cuts. After all those years of nasty budgetary root-canal work--raising taxes and trimming programs--it sure is tempting to use our newfound riches to throw a party. But, as Richard Nixon once said, albeit in a different context, that would be wrong. The best use for most of the looming federal surpluses--not all, but most--is neither to cut taxes nor to finance higher spending but rather to save the surpluses, which means using them to pay down the national debt. ...
First, there's the "don't count your chickens" principle. To date, the overall budget surpluses are completely accounted for by Social Security. All the rest of the budget--the so-called on-budget part--is roughly balanced. The projections show an on-budget surplus developing soon and rising for the next decade and beyond. But those sunny projections are predicated on, among other things, adherence to the aforementioned spending caps. (Indeed, the projections also presume that the government will use the surpluses to pay down debt, thus keeping interest payments low, thus generating even more surplus.) Yet, in truth, the caps are too tight for the comfort of either Democrats or Republicans. They are bound to be breached, and no one knows by how much.
Furthermore, there is one thing we do know. Starting about a decade from now, waves of baby-boomers will begin retiring and making massive claims on the Social Security and Medicare systems--and they will continue to do so for many years. ...
HEADLINE: Dr. Robert Biern, 66, pioneer in heart medicine
BYLINE: Joe Nawrozki
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
Dr. Robert O. Biern, a noted cardiologist, died Saturday at his Annapolis home after a long illness. He was 66.
Dubbed "Dr. Bear" by his patients, Dr. Biern had a major role in creating one of Maryland's early coronary care units at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis in 1967 and was director of that unit for 17 years.
He also directed the hospital's noninvasive cardiac laboratory.
A native of Huntington, W.Va., Dr. Biern received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he later taught.
HEADLINE: Michael Melton, 53; Associate dean of BU law school
Michael W. Melton of Wellesley, associate dean of Boston University Law School, died at home of cancer on Friday. He was 53.
Mr. Melton was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston, Ill., where he attended Evanston Township High School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1973, graduating as a member of the Order of the Coif.
Mr. Melton worked as an associate attorney for Kindel & Anderson in Los Angeles until 1978. He then was an adviser for the Office of Tax Policy with the United States Treasury in Washington, D.C.
In 1981, Mr. Melton became an associate professor at Boston University Law School, where he worked for 18 years. He became a full professor in 1990 and director of the Graduate Tax Law Program in 1991. Mr. Melton was appointed associate dean of Boston University Law School in 1998.
HEADLINE: A Market-Rocking Day
BYLINE: BY KATHLEEN MADIGAN
HIGHLIGHT: The employment report can unleash a frenzy
For Wall Street, labor day comes the first Friday of every month, when the Labor Dept. releases a treasure trove of job-related data called the employment report. Unlike the lazy national holiday in early September, though, Wall Street's labor days are marked by a frenzy of buying and selling. With rare exceptions, stocks are most volatile immediately after the job numbers are released. Goldman Sachs Senior Economist Edward McKelvey calls the monthly statistics ''the undisputed champions of price movements'' in the equity markets. And the employment report's effect on the bond market is equally great.
The employment report also affects interest rates because excessive economic growth typically spawns inflation fears. Using data from 1985 to 1996, Alan Krueger, an economics professor at Princeton University, found that if payrolls jumped 200,000 more than expected, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond rose 7.6 basis points that day, the one-year rate rose 14 points, and the three-month rate edged up 9.4 points. Higher interest rates often have a negative impact on stocks.
HEADLINE: Lawn Love Spreads Across America
BYLINE: Daryn Kagan, Bill Hemmer, Garrick Utley
HIGHLIGHT: As the drought lingers on, watering your lawn has been declared off limits in a lot of communities. However, it doesn't mean all our yards are being neglected. A look at America's love affair with the lawn.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: As the drought lingers on, watering your lawn has been declared off limits in a lot of communities.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: That it has. But it doesn't mean all our yards are being neglected.
As CNN's Garrick Utley explains, we are always looking for greener grass. .
GARRICK UTLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The next time you are mowing your lawn or see others mowing theirs, think of this: There is more lawn in the United States than there are fields growing corn or wheat. Grass is rooted in our national heritage on the South Lawn of the White House; grass as public space on the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park; lawns where we compete on the fields of dreams; and those 18 closely-cropped lawns on a golf course, which often can become fields of despair.
Thirty million acres of lawn seeded, sodded, watered and mowed by Americans.
(on camera): And for what? to look nice? Yes, of course, but that is only the beginning of an explanation for this national obsession with lawns.
Professor Georges Teyssot of Princeton University edited a scholarly study of the American lawn.
PROF. GEORGES TEYSSOT, EDITOR, "THE AMERICAN LAWN": And the idea associated with the texture and the color and the feeling of the lawn is happiness. It is a place of happiness. UTLEY: Lawns were originally symbols of class and status. George Washington personally took care of the verdant carpet around Mount Vernon.
It was only with the development of the mower following the Civil War that lawns became truly democratic. Anyone with a home and a little land could have one.
The rise and spread of the American suburb turned lawn care into civic virtue. In Levittown, the sales contract prohibited fences between front lawns, and obligated home owners to cut the grass at least once a week in summer.
HEADLINE: Broadband radio developers demonstrate new concepts
at Rawcon -- Designers apply advanced coding to wireless
BYLINE: Loring Wirbel
DENVER - Broadband radio developers are taking more risks at using advanced modulation and coding methods to achieve more efficient use of bandwidth, as evidenced by several sessions at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (Rawcon) here last week.
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, a coding scheme at the center of a recent Wireless Local Loop announcement from Canadian radio specialist Wi-LAN Inc. (see June 28, page 1), was demonstrated in several Rawcon papers. Turbo codes, an academic curiosity for the last six years, also are finding new homes in applications such as Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) .
The buzz over new coding concepts is tied to a larger realization in the wireless community: that more creative use of DSP power can serve voiceband interests, in moving to software-defined radio to handle multiple air interfaces in one platform; as well as broadband radio, allowing faster error correction, better channelization and greater bandwidth for emerging access systems like wireless local loop and LMDS.
In optical CDMA systems, a team at Princeton University's EE department, under Jin Young Kim, used turbo coding in conjunction with binary pulse position modulation to significantly improve coding gains. The Princeton work has gone only through software simulation, but Kim hopes to work on implementations of turbo-coded optical CDMA in the future.
HEADLINE: Basketball chums bolster Bradley's jump through
presidential hoop
BYLINE: DEBORAH KALB; Gannett News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON -- From giving money to hosting fund-raisers -- even to shooting some hoops at campaign events -- Bill Bradley's former baskettball colleagues are providing added muscle to his presidential bid.
Bradley, a former three-term Democratic senator from New Jersey, may be better known to some Americans as a star player for the New York Knicks and Princeton University basketball teams in the 1960s and 1970s.
His basketball fame, including two championship seasons with the Knicks in 1970 and 1973, has allowed the 6'5" Bradley to tap into the well-heeled world of professional sports -- and stage some unusual campaign events, like last month's basketball-shooting "Hoopla" in Chicago.
That event -- which raised more than $400,000 for the campaign -- featured such luminaries as ex-teammates Phil Jackson, Dave DeBusscheree and Willis Reed, ex-rival John Havlicek, the former Boston Celtics star, and former Philadelphia 76er Billy Cunningham.
HEADLINE: Developments in Employer Liability Since Faragher and
Ellerth
BYLINE: By Alan D. Berkowitz and Carrie Y. Flaxman, Special to the
Legal
Last year, the Supreme Court decided two cases, Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 118 S. Ct. 2257 (1998), and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 118 S. Ct. 2275 (1998), which redefined and clarified the scope of employer liability for sexual harassment committed by supervisory employees.
In the year since those decisions, federal courts, including those in the 3rd Circuit, have applied the framework articulated in Ellerth and Faragher, dealing with some of the questions left unresolved by those decisions, including the scope of the term "supervisor," the meaning of "tangible employment action," and the scope of the affirmative defense established for employers by those decisions. Despite these decisions, many issues remain, leaving difficult questions for employers attempting to avoid liability for sexual harassment in their workplaces.
Alan Berkowitz is a partner in Dechert Price & Rhoads, with a practice focusing on labor and employment law representing management. Berkowitz graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (B.S., 1977) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 1980). He has published widely on topics in employment law and taught a variety of employment and labor courses at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.Carrie Flaxman is an associate in the labor and employment practice group at Dechert Price & Rhoads. She graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1993) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1996).
HEADLINE: Rockmore Captures Heritage
BYLINE: DAVE ANDREWS; The Morning Call
Team Rockmore defeated Amato Bros. 52-42 in Sunday's first semifinal, and the game showcased the best matchup of the tournament as McChristian and ex-Central Catholic High and Princeton University star Gabe Lewullis hounded each other on defense.
"That's why I like this tournament the best," McChristian said. "It's because of the competition here.
"The tournament's players are tough and good here. It reminds me of playing back at home in Chicago where the games get real competitive."
Lewullis, who is heading to Lithuania Friday to hopefully sign a pro overseas contract, failed to score in the first half. His 10 second-half points proved a little too late.
HEADLINE: Multiple Choice And Margaritas; Tutors Basking in the
Hamptons To Coach Students for S.A.T.'s
BYLINE: By JANE GROSS
DATELINE: SAG HARBOR, N.Y.
As dusk falls on a sticky summer night in the Hamptons, Brendan Mernin, Alex Schaffer and Jack Schieffer toss a football across a vast backyard swimming pool. On the deck above them, Alex Weiner tends a grill piled with steaks and freshly picked corn.
A boom box in the living room plays Lyle Lovett. Jean Lichty rushes in, the latest refugee from the stifling city. She is just in time for margaritas.
The scene would pass for just another weekend in a group house on the East End of Long Island. But these are not standard-issue 30-something renters, here to get rowdy after a week of work.
They are, instead, top-of-the-line tutors, in such demand among New York City's elite that they command $300 an hour to prepare private school students for college entrance examinations like the S.A.T. Usually, they work in Manhattan apartments on Sutton Place or Park Avenue. This summer, their places of business are waterfront estates and 100-foot yachts from Quogue to East Hampton.
Their residence for the summer, rented by the Princeton Review, is a striking example of the college admissions frenzy that has gripped well-to-do families, especially in the New York metropolitan region, where competition for Ivy League slots is the most intense.
A second house for tutors is planned for Martha's Vineyard. Beginning this fall, a White Glove counseling service will walk families through the college admissions process, from choosing schools, to completing applications, to learning tax tricks to lighten the financial load. The service will cost $5,000 for four years of one-on-one hand-holding.
Hand-holding is a big part of what the tutors do, and few are better at it than Mr. Mernin, a Columbia graduate with a master's degree in creative writing from the New School. He begins with the irreverent mantra that has distinguished the company, founded in 1981 by John Katzman, a Princeton graduate and bored investment banker, from its rivals.
The test is rigged, Mr. Mernin and his fellow tutors say. It does not measure intelligence. It's us against the big, bad test writers. And we will teach you how to outsmart them.
HEADLINE: Incara Pharmaceuticals Awarded Initial Milestone in
Merck Anti-Bacterial Collaboration
DATELINE: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Aug. 9
Incara Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: INCR) has received notification from Merck & Co., Inc., (NYSE: MRK), that Incara has reached the initial milestone in the company's collaboration targeting the discovery and development of a class of vancomycin analogues. The milestone, which requires that compounds synthesized in the collaboration demonstrate specified in vitro and in vivo activity in both resistant and sensitive bacterial strains, triggers a $1,500,000 payment from Merck.
Incara's collaboration with Merck is based on research sponsored by Incara in the laboratory of Professor Daniel Kahne, Ph.D., of the Chemistry Department of Princeton University. Incara will pay Princeton $500,000 of the $1,500,000 milestone payment.
HEADLINE: SoftCom Taps Douglas Warshaw - Veteran of NBC, ABC, ESPN and Classic Sports Network - as Senior Vice President, Content Programming; Award-Winning TV Producer to Spearhead SoftCom's Content Acquisition and Partnerships to Digitize and Monetize Video
DATELINE: NEW YORK, Aug. 9
SOFTCOM, INC., which makes video an interactive viewing experience for the Internet and other broadband platforms, today announced the addition of Douglas Warshaw to its executive management team. Warshaw will serve as Senior Vice President, Content Programming.
Mr. Warshaw, a founding member of Classic Sports Network and multiple Emmy-winning veteran news and sports producer for ABC, ESPN and NBC Sports, will spearhead SoftCom's content acquisition efforts and work to develop partnerships between SoftCom and leading broadcast, cable, film and other video content providers.
Warshaw, who holds a B.A. from Princeton University, began his career at ABC News, where he first worked in the network's Special Events & Political Coverage units.
HEADLINE: Non-Ivy League colleges win top ratings in education
value; Rice University in Texas heads Kiplinger list of 100
schools
BYLINE: Andrea Billups; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Parents who want their children to attend a good private college, but are concerned about costs, might consider smaller schools like Houston's Rice University or tiny Grinnell College, tucked away in the heartland of Iowa.
Those schools join the California Institute of Technology, Virginia's Washington and Lee University and Cooper Union in New York City at the top of the list of 100 great values in private education, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, which will publish the findings of its first-ever study in its September issue.
"The usual suspects," like Princeton (No. 12), Harvard (No. 19) and Yale (No. 23), "are way down on the list," notes Kristin Davis, a senior associate editor at Kiplinger's who put together the study. Beating them out for a slot in the Top 10 were smaller schools like Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College, both in California.
Winfield J.C. Myers, who edited a guide to top schools called "Choosing the Right College" for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, agrees that lesser-known schools like Rice are a true bargain for the cost-conscious, and in some cases, a better value than some of the Ivy League schools.
"A degree from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton is probably worth the extra debt for most ambitious, driven students," he said. "Such pedigrees open doors throughout a person's life - the alumni networking and name recognition are unmatched. But if the choice is, say, Brown University or Rice, and finances are an issue, then the latter is probably the smarter choice, since Brown - while a hot school in some circles - doesn't evoke the same respect as the top three Ivies."
HEADLINE: Noted cardiologist Biern dies at age 66
BYLINE: By MARY P. FELTER, Community News Editor
Dr. Robert Oscar "Bob" Biern, 66, a cardiologist and physician with Anne Arundel Medical Center, died yesterday morning at his home in Annapolis following a lengthy illness with lymphoma.
Dr. Biern was known affectionately as "Dr. Bear" by his patients, who often showered him with teddy bears in appreciation of his caring concern and dedication.
"Bob has always been an inspiration to every physician at the hospital," said Dr. Stanley Watkins, director of the Oncology Initiative at Anne Arundel Medical Center. "He set the standard for cardiology in our community for many, many years."
Proud of what he called "a true community hospital" at Anne Arundel Medical Center, he played a role in the establishment of one of its early coron ary care units and was director of the unit for 17 years.
Born in Huntington, W.Va., he was the son of the late Dr. Oscar and Charlotte Egri Biern. After gradu ating from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
SECTION: EDITORIAL
HENRY T. Edmondson III Guest Column
HEADLINE: Putting the Fix In Georgia Public Education
(Editor's note: The writer, Henry T. Edmondson III, is associate professor of political science and public administration for Georgia College and State University.)
WOODROW WILSON was once asked why he left the presidency of Princeton University to seek the U.S. presidency. ''I couldn't stand the politics,'' he explained.
He could have been talking about the Georgia Board of Education. It is hard to discern any motive behind Gov. Roy Barnes appointments to the eleven-member State Board of Education other than his desire to satisfy constituencies essential for his re-election. Almost everyone was surprised at his controversial choices except maybe Barnes himself. I wish I could discover better reasons for the disappointing Board appointments. If they exist, though, they are too well hidden.
HEADLINE: Honors for busy Andover visitor
BYLINE: By Diana Brown, Globe Correspondent
It wasn't easy but Elizabeth Roldan moved away from her family in the Bronx and started her junior year at Andover High School.
"It was a shock going to Andover from New York City," said the 16-year-old aspiring politician, who feared that her high school career might suffer as a result of such a big change. But she made short work on that possibility.
As a participant in A Better Chance, a national program for minority students, Roldan lives in a house with eight other scholars on the campus of Phillips Academy but attends the public high school.
Last year, she worked hard to keep up her grades in all her honors and advanced-placement courses, while joining the varsity gymnastics team, the student advisory committee, and a Phillips Academy gospel choir.
For her efforts, Roldan was named to the ABC program's prestigious 11-member Mosser Leadership Council, named for Thomas J. Mosser, an advertising executive who was among the people killed by Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber. During her senior year at Andover High, she will serve as a national liaison for the program and five of its member boarding schools on the East Coast.
The ABC program aims to give minority students living in disadvantaged school districts an opportunity to attend private boarding schools, independent schools, or the top 25 public schools in the country. Tuition is paid by donations, mostly from large corporate sponsors. Other local participants include the Winchester public schools.
Roldan spent five weeks this summer at Princeton University in a political science program. Two years ago, she also spent time at Columbia University in a pre-medical program. She intends to apply to Columbia University, New York University, and Georgetown University.
HEADLINE: Memories of nurse inspire scholarship
BYLINE: By Anne Driscoll, Globe Correspondent
Before an aneurysm cut her life short on March 12, 46-year-old Jody LaLonde of Marblehead always seemed to inspire those around her with her enthusiasm, smile and zest for life. Friends who want to see that inspiration live on have set up a scholarship in her name.
LaLonde, a nurse-turned-realtor, was the mother of three daughters and wife of Steve LaLonde. After a skiing accident, she was diagnosed with an aneurysm. She went into a coma while awaiting surgery and died several days later. "After Jody died, I was struggling with coming to terms with losing her and put some meaning to her life," said Jody's friend Dale Methven, who along with her husband, Ned Brady, both of Marblehead, established the scholarship fund and organized its first fund-raiser, a golf tournament.
Under the aegis of the Gerry 5 in Marblehead, the benefit was held at the Far Corners Golf Course in Boxford with 116 participants. The scholarship committee includes Don "Toot" Cahoon, coach of the Princeton University hockey team and Marblehead High hockey legend. Other committee members were Jeff Howlett, Kerri O'Shaughnessey, Dave Tremblay and Darnell and James Vipperman. The first college scholarship will be awarded to a Marblehead High School senior next spring.
Donations may be sent to the Jody E. LaLonde Scholarship Fund, c/o Dale Methven, chairperson, 15 William Road, Marblehead, MA 01945. For more information, call 781-631-7308.
HEADLINE: JEFF BEZOS: At Amazon.com, he's the mouth that
roared
BYLINE: Michael Cranberry
DATELINE: SEATTLE
SEATTLE - As the sun sets over Puget Sound, it's business as usual at Amazon.com, where Jeff Bezos is playing with toys.
That's right, toys. How many CEOs do you know who work in an office the size of a small closet, and have on their desk a Nerf gun with Nerf bullets, a toy tank driven by remote control and a Super Soaker to wet down employees as they walk to their cars on the ground below?
Of course, at this point, Mr. Bezos, 35, can afford to have fun. This Texas-bred graduate of Princeton University presides over the world's largest online bookseller, as well as being the online king of videos and CDs. In a quest for more, he recently took on auctions, pharmaceuticals and household electronics.
Recent estimates put his personal wealth at $9.1 billion and the worth of his company at a staggering $22 billion. It's all on paper, of course - Amazon.com has yet to show a profit since he and his wife set up shop in a Bellevue, Wash., garage in 1994 - but Mr. Bezos (pronounced BAY-zoes) is brimming with confidence.
HEADLINE: 8 executives funneling cash to Bush campaign
BYLINE: Jim Saunders, Times-Union staff writer
TALLAHASSEE -- After raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to help elect Gov. Jeb Bush last year, a group of eight Jacksonville-area exxecutives has emerged as a key Florida backer of the governor's brother, presidential front-runner George W. Bush.
The group of eight executives has raised about $200,000 in Northeast Florida for George W. Bush and put two members, CSX Corp. Vice Chairman Pete Carpenter and CSX Transportation Vice President Marty Fiorentino, on a list of the Republican's top national fundraisers.
The coming together of such a group to back a candidate is hardly unique. For example, a group of Princeton University alumni in the Jacksonville area helped Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a Princeton graduate, raise $151,000 during the second quarter of the year.
HEADLINE: Shifting Into First?: A Bold New Management Team Has Positioned Ford ... To Overtake GM in Annual Revenue
BYLINE: DONALD W. NAUSS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DEARBORN, Mich.
Shortly after William C. Ford Jr. and Jacques Nasser were anointed in September to run Ford Motor Co., a top company executive surprisingly voiced publicly what is driving the new management team.
"We plan to be the best auto company in the world," said Peter Pestillo, the company's vice chairman. "And we haven't ruled out being the biggest."
Such bluntness is uncharacteristic of Ford, a conservative, tradition-bound, family-controlled company that has played second fiddle to General Motors Corp. for nearly 70 years.
Bill Ford is an American blueblood, educated in private boarding schools and at Princeton University and MIT.
Since taking over in January, Ford and Nasser have forcefully articulated a vision of making Ford Motor the "world's leading consumer company for automotive products and services." The strategy combines obvious steps with bold strokes and has at times caught the competition off-guard.
HEADLINE: Presidents before Washington; There were - count 'em
- 14 before George Washington was inaugurated, and Tacoma's
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum has documents written by each
of them
BYLINE: Bart Ripp, The News Tribune
He was on the blacklist of patriots that the redcoats wanted to hang.
Seeking refuge in Williamsburg, Va., after presiding over the Continental Congress in 1775, he was offered protection by local militia. An officer gave a rousing speech that concluded, "May heaven grant you long to live, the father of your country, and the friend to freedom and humanity!"
The father of our country was a Virginian who did not sign the Declaration of Independence.
George Washington, right?
Wrong. It was Peyton Randolph. He was the first president of the Continental Congress.
Before these United States were sufficiently organized and financed to hold a public federal election in 1788, the president ran the Continental Congress that governed America. There were 14 presidents of the United States before the people turned to another Virginia hero - Washington.
The 14 U.S. presidents before Washington:
9. Elias Boudinot (1740-1821): Served in Congress 1789-95 after his presidency in 1782 and 1783. From New Jersey, he was the U.S. Mint's first director. He founded the natural history department at Princeton University. His religious tolerance and opposition to slavery led Boudinot to found the American Bible Society. He also wrote a book suggesting that American Indians were the lost tribes of Israel.
HEADLINE: Tired and True: Pike to Pen Last Bits of Prose
BYLINE: JULIE AUTUMN LUSTER Press Journal Staff Writer
August will be month number 457 in a career spanning 38 years and also the last time columnist Otis Pike will have regular columns
If you ask columnist Otis Pike why he's going to retire his computer and no longer worry if his column has been transmitted properly, he'll tell you he's tired.
The answer seems far too simple, but Pike, 77, will remind you that he's been writing for 38 years and seven months with the taunt that he'd like to see you do something that long.
August will be month number 457 and also the last time he will have eight regular columns. "I'm going to wrap up writing about my views in general," the Vero Beach resident said. "War, marriage, children. Just the big things that happen to a person in his life."
Pike grew up and moved to Vero Beach from River Head, Long Island, N.Y. He was raised by his uncle's widow after his father died when he was 2 and his mother passed away when he was 6. A Princeton University graduate, Pike went to Columbia University for law school.
"I guess I became a Democrat because I learned to read. My sympathies have always been with the underdog," said Pike, who won in 1960. "The year I was elected, (John F. Kennedy) was elected president and he lost my district by 40,000 votes."
It was during his 18 years in Congress that he began writing a weekly column for all the weekly papers in his area. When Pike left his office, he had a job already lined up: To write a nationally syndicated column twice a week.
HEADLINE: The Naval Academy's ethical Mill
Bioethicist Peter Singer, known as "Professor Death," for his radical views advocating the killing of physically handicapped infants, has taken up residence at Princeton University, where he will begin teaching this fall. His appointment to an endowed chair in "human values" drew angry protests from disabled persons, right-to-life advocates and religious groups (The Washington Times, July 23: "Forbes doesn't sway Princeton on radical Singer").
Mr. Singer's teachings include the suggestion parents should have the right to kill their infants up to 28 days after birth if the children have severe disabilities. At that age, he says, children don't understand what it means to be alive. "Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person," Mr. Singer has written. "Very often, it is not wrong at all."
Oddly enough Mr. Singer's views have a direct connection to the U.S. Naval Academy's teaching in its new "Leadership and Ethics" program through a misinterpretation of John Stewart Mill - the 19th century philosopher, who gave us "utilitarianism" as a guiding moral principle.
HEADLINE: YOUR VIEWS
Merit award opened doors
Two years into college and I have realized that I am experiencing the best years of my life. I go to Princeton University. Deciding to accept this university's offer of enrollment was the best decision I have made, although not the easiest. Through hard work and diligence, I had earned the right to attend this distinguished university. It was an opportunity of a lifetime, one that I could not pass up. However, I almost did; I almost had to.
The escalating and prohibitive costs of college tuition almost prevented me from attending the college of my choice. Although it may sound as if I am asking for empathy, my real purpose in writing is to thank the National Alliance for Excellence, an organization composed of professionals who understand this dilemma. As a result, they go out of their way to award scholarships based simply on merit.
I cannot even imagine what might have happened had it not been for the merit-based scholarships that I was awarded. I don't want to. And I am sure that the many other young scholars that have been assisted by this outstanding organization feel the same.
The National Alliance rewards students for their hard work and expertise by offering monetary awards that are based solely on ability and achievement. There must be more of this in today's society.
As the world turns into a new era, the qualities that are rewarded by this organization are the ones that will be most needed. We will need the best and the brightest to become tomorrow's pioneers. It is only by rewarding diligence and a desire to succeed, that the nation's continued prosperity will be assured.
I will always feel indebted to this organization for the
opportunity that was afforded me through their merit scholarship
program. Hopefully other organizations will follow their lead.
Stephen Anen DOVER TOWNSHIP
HEADLINE: Lawton UM's new head trainer
BYLINE: Andrew Neff Of the NEWS Staff
Robert J. Lawton, ATC, CSCS, will replaced Charlie Thompson as the University of Maine's head athletic trainer. Thompson recently took a similar position at Princeton University.
HEADLINE: Study points up evangelical 'paradox'
SOURCE: Religion News Service
BYLINE: Holly J. Lebowitz
A study by Princeton sociologists reports that evangelical Christian families are far more progressive in action than the words of their leaders might suggest.
"The Evangelical Family Paradox: Conservative Rhetoric, Progressive Practice" is the latest study in a research endeavor by W. Bradford Wilcox, a doctoral student at Princeton University, and John P. Bartkowski, a professor of sociology at Princeton. It was published in the summer issue of the nonsectarian, nonpartisan quarterly journal Responsive Community.
Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Bartkowski call their findings a paradox because they found that "evangelical family practice does not match evangelical family rhetoric."
Rhetoric from evangelical leaders, such as the Southern Baptist Convention's 1998 resolution that called on wives to "submit graciously" to their husbands, is often disconnected from the day-to-day experiences of evangelical families, the researchers say.
The researchers find that evangelical men and women often share in parenting and household duties. Mr. Wilcox said evangelical women often are "relieved" when their husbands take the lead in getting their families to church or having a home Bible study.
HEADLINE: Periphery Is Out; Russia and China, In
BYLINE: James Kitfield
As a Southern Governor running for the White House in 1992, Bill Clinton chastised President George Bush for ''coddling dictators'' in China. In one of the ironies of next year's presidential campaign, Bush's son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, may well get a chance to return the favor if his opposition is Clinton's hand-picked successor, Vice President Al Gore. Already Bush has made a hard-nosed reappraisal of U.S. relations with China and Russia the centerpiece of his nascent foreign policy platform.
Indeed, in a short time, Bush has assembled a brain trust that reads like a Who's Who of the Reagan and Bush foreign policy establishments.
Richard N. Perle
Like almost all of Bush's foreign policy advisers, Perle is a strong and longtime proponent of a national missile defense system. A respected intellect, Perle served as the assistant Defense secretary for international security policy under Reagan and as a member of that President's Senior Arms Control Group. Before that, he was a longtime aide to the late Sen. Henry M. ''Scoop'' Jackson, D-Wash., and to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Perle has degrees from the University of Southern California and Princeton University.
HEADLINE: Gene fix-it
GENETICISTS have found a cunning way to repair the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia.
Jacques Fresco of Princeton University in New Jersey and his colleagues designed a DNA strand that hooks onto the mutant beta-globin gene. When exposed to radiation, a chemical called psoralen attached to the strand attacks the mutant gene, triggering DNA repair enzymes to fix it ("Journal of Biological Chemistry", vol 274, p 21763).
So far experiments have been done only on pieces of DNA in the laboratory, but Fresco hopes one day to apply the technique to human patients. "Using existing methods, it should be possible to use this approach with blood stem cells," he says.
HEADLINE: Caldwell Decendants to Gather: The Family of a Busy Man, David Caldwell, is Returning for a Reunion
BYLINE: BY JIM SCHLOSSER; Staff Writer
Members of the Caldwell clan better not act like they own Guilford County when they hold a family reunion today and Sunday in Greensboro. They never owned it, they only civilized it.
They are descendants of Dr. David Caldwell, who has been called the county's first citizen, and of Alexander Caldwell, his brother.
Although most of the Caldwell kin no longer live in Guilford County, the name stays visible in Greensboro because of a park named after David Caldwell; a school; various businesses and the Rachel Caldwell DAR Chapter, named after Caldwell's wife.
Caldwell came to the Piedmont wilderness in 1765 after finishing at what's now Princeton University. That was six years before Guilford County was formed and 43 years before Greensboro's founding.
HEADLINE: After-hour rules waylay some HMO members; Often they
have nowhere to go but to emergency rooms
SOURCE: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BYLINE: Nancy Ann Jeffrey
DATELINE: SEATTLE
SEATTLE -- On a recent weekend, the emergency room at Swedish Medical Center here was busy treating serious medical problems: a carpennter with a deep gash in his hand; an elderly man felled by a heart attack.
Soltane Christophe, 32, had a swollen ear lobe. He didn't think it called for a visit to the ER, but he couldn't wait to get some relief from the pain that was keeping him awake at night.
His wife tried to call his doctor at First Choice Health Network, the preferred-provider organization he belongs to, but the office didn't return her call. So Christophe reluctantly headed to the ER.
Three hours later he emerged, his infected lobe drained and his head wrapped in an Ace bandage. "I thought: I didn't need to come here for this," he said.
Part of the cost-cutting, quality-boosting promise of the HMO movement was to divert patients from needless emergency-room visits and send them to primary-care doctors. But on evenings and weekends, many managed-care plans have left their members no place to go but the ER.
Uwe Reinhardt, a health-care economist at Princeton University, defends HMOs' practice of sending people to the ER after hours, arguing it is more efficient than building a new system.
"Efficiency very often doesn't please consumers," he says. He also says that by challenging coverage in some situations, HMOs make people think twice about going to the ER. "By threatening not to pay for it, you create what I call a 'psychological co-payment,' " he says. "The jawboning and bullying reduce the use."
HEADLINE: A game plan for the White House
BYLINE: Ben Macintyre
A basketball wizard aims to slam-dunk the presidency In 1964 the American writer John McPhee set out to research an article for the New Yorker about a basketball player at Princeton University by the name of Bill Bradley. McPhee swiftly reached the conclusion that there was something very remarkable, even uncanny, in the way this young man played the game: he seemed to know exactly where he was in relation to the net and every other player; his mental map of the court was so exact that he could throw a ball over his shoulder without looking, from 20ft away, and put it through the hoop without touching the rim, time after time.
McPhee persuaded the student to undergo testing by an eye specialist, who duly declared that where a "perfect" eye can see about 47 degrees upwards from horizontal, Bradley could see 70 degrees, which explained his eerie ability to catch a lobbed pass while staring at the floor.
But there was more to Bradley's skill than peculiar eyesight and a 6ft 5in frame, McPhee discovered. A star student who would become a Rhodes Scholar, Bradley had somehow thought himself deep inside the sport. His basketball was not so much an instinctive gift as an intellectual exercise: every play was minutely analysed, every shot rationalised, every potential permutation anticipated. His positioning was the result of control and endless practice.
Thirty-five years on, Bradley has his eye on the presidency, and that description of his sporting technique applies equally to a methodical, quietly analytical campaign that has turned a supposed pushover into a contest.
The former Senator for New Jersey has positioned himself superbly to challenge Al Gore for the Democratic nomination and, once again, he has thought himself into the game.
HEADLINE: Basic Research Key to Creating Knowledge
ORILLIA
THE WORLD we inhabit today is healthier, wealthier and wiser than our grandparents could have imagined, Sir John Maddox says, and indeed the statement is rather self-evident.
Maddox, of course, knows what he is talking about. For 22 years he edited one of the world's most important science publications, the weekly magazine Nature. And he is the author of an important recent book, What Remains To Be Discovered.
Likewise, the scientific breakthroughs achieved by British scientist Fred Griffith in 1928, American scientist Oswald Avery in 1944 and the British team of James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 paved the way for the biotechnology revolution. But none of these scientists envisaged a biotechnology industry as they pursued fundamental research.
Art McDonald, director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a major Canadian- based initiative to explore fundamental questions on the nature of matter, told the Couchiching audience that ''what has made all of the advances in technology possible in this century is the tremendous advances in our basic understanding of the universe.''
From his own career as a scientist, McDonald was able to personally describe how pure scientific research can surprisingly yield commercial benefits. As a researcher at Princeton University in the 1980s, he worked on a project that developed polarized helium gas to test certain laws of microphysics.
But this research has now led to a new method of MRI lung imaging.
HEADLINE: Capital idea for a novel; Nonpolitical story plays
out on Hill
BYLINE: Patrick Butters; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Louis Bayard, whose first novel, "Fool's Errand," came out in June, owes his writer's ear partly to family dinners in Springfield, where he grew up. The Battle of the Bayards revolved around getting in the last word.
"We have always been a verbal family," says Mr. Bayard, 36. "My father will spout Shakespeare at the drop of the hat.
"I remember him going into the basement shouting, 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!'
Coasters on the coffee table are from Northwestern University, where Mr. Bayard studied journalism. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1985. At Princeton, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates was Mr. Bayard's senior thesis adviser. He recalls writing down earthy dialogue among fellow students as part of his assignment.
"I was so pleased with myself," he says. "She said, 'Just because you got it down accurately doesn't make it interesting.' "
HEADLINE: Universal Display Signs Agreement with Flat Panel Display Manufacturer
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.
Aug. 6, 1999--Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ: PANL; PHLX: PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced todayy the execution of a letter of intent to license its revolutionary Transparent Organic Light Emitting Device (TOLED) technology to Canadian flat panel manufacturer Luxell Technologies Inc. (LUX: Alberta Stock Exchange). This agreement compresses the timeline for production of flat panel displays with UDC's TOLED technology and further positions the Company to penetrate the $40 billion electronic display market.
"The partnership with Universal Display Corporation is an important step in our plan to grow our business and to see our technology become a significant force in the expanding global flat panel display industry," stated Brian Kennedy, President and CEO of Luxell. "UDC has some of the best OLED technology in the world which it has developed with its research partners at Princeton University and the University of Southern California. The agreement positions us to be one of the world's leading suppliers of OLED-based flat panel displays for demanding high-end industrial applications and further enables us to broaden our product lines to eventually include low cost, full-color organic electroluminescent displays."
HEADLINE: Trash Fuelling Energy Idea
BYLINE: SUN NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: NEW YORK
Grass clippings, leaves, sawdust, cardboard, banana skins, junk mail and other trash could become fuel for the family car.
Pure Energy, a New York-based company working with Princeton University, has created a fuel that's a blend of ethanol, natural gas liquids, a solvent and up to 70% "cellulosic" wastes -- trash with fibres that create energy when burned.
It can be used in flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on gasoline or ethanol.
Such vehicles are sold primarily for government and business fleets but also are available for consumers. Models currently available include the Ford Taurus sedan and Ranger pickup and all Chrysler minivans.
Philadelphia has agreed to a one-year test of the fuel, called P-Series, in its municipal flexible-fuel vehicles.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy approved P-Series as an alternative fuel. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson estimated it could replace about one billion gallons of gasoline annually by 2005.
HEADLINE: '100 percent down' learned without book
BYLINE: Jack Mabley
I was surprised to read that an average middle-class family today has an income of about $50,000 and has a hard time getting by on that.
I was more surprised that I think I understand why they have a hard time, and I sympathize with them.
Credit cards didn't exist in my early adulthood, and I wonder if my personal economics would have suffered in the face of the plastic temptation.
Burton Malkiel, finance professor at Princeton University, declares:
"All of this stuff is psycho babble. It's dangerous to say there's an easy way, and that once you find a spiritual angle, wealth will follow."
Going back to the family struggling on $50,000 a year, don't waste money on books. What they say, basically, is:
"100 percent down, nothing more to pay."
HEADLINE: Running the ball is only part of the job; Protecting
passer also comes with territory.
BYLINE: MIKE CHAPPELL; STAFF WRITER
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Keith Elias, who earned a degree in history from Princeton University, learned early in his professional football career that being an NFL running back involves more than running the football. His teacher: Raiders owner Al Davis.
"I remember the famous Al Davis quote: 'Early in the game, the quarterback must go down and go down hard,'" Elias said.
Davis' point was that the surest way to tip a game's momentum is to rattle and ransack the opposing team's quarterback.
The running backs play a major role in preventing that.
That point was driven home to Elias by Dan Reeves, the New York Giants' head coach in 1994. It has been reinforced, even magnified, since Elias joined the Colts as a free agent before the 1998 season.
Protecting Colts quarterback Peyton Manning isn't something to be taken lightly, or left to the offensive linemen and tight ends.
HEADLINE: Lehigh University Promotes Deans
* THE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES TWO PERSONNEL CHANGES.
BYLINE: The Morning Call
Mark H. Erickson, Lehigh University's dean of students, has been appointed associate vice president at Lehigh and assistant to Lehigh President Gregory Farrington, the university announced.
In his new role, Erickson will focus on developing and implementing strategic initiatives and offer administrative support to the president's office. He will represent the president on university committees.
Erickson also will work directly with students, parents, faculty, staff, trustees, and other members of the community.
Erickson is a 1977 graduate of Princeton University and received doctorates at Harvard University in 1981 and Lehigh in 1991.
HEADLINE: Market Alone Won't Help Exploited Workers
To the Editor:
Thomas L. Friedman's July 30 column about the Fair Labor Association noted that colleges and universities have affiliated with this new anti-sweatshop organization. Many of the 113 schools that have joined have licensing agreements with hundreds of companies to use their names on products ranging from sweatshirts to coffee mugs. As they require their licensees to participate in the association, the schools will extend the reach of the association well beyond apparel and shoes.
The schools are seeking to strengthen the F.L.A. They have secured clarification that its standards encompass specific provisions regarding women's rights and have helped finance a program to train nongovernment organizations to participate in monitoring.
ROBERT K. DURKEE
Vice President for Public Affairs
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J., Aug. 2, 1999
HEADLINE: Kiplinger's study ranks best values in private
colleges
BYLINE: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, Harvard Crimson
SOURCE: Harvard U.
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard is famous for the quality of its academics--and infamous for its cost. But a recent report in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine says an Ivy League education might nnot be worth the expense.
In a report titled "Private Colleges Worth the Price," Kiplinger's ranked 100 private colleges and universities for value, using criteria that includes admission rate, student/faculty ratio and cost.
Harvard came in at 19, tied with MIT and Carleton College of Minnesota. Dartmouth and Princeton, tied at 12, are the highest ranked Ivy League schools on the list.
Houston's Rice University led the pack, boasting small classes and a high graduation rate along with relatively low tuition and generous financial aid.
SECTION: Washington Dateline
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
NAME - Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke.
AGE-BIRTH DATE - 58. Born April 24, 1941.
BIRTHPLACE - New York City.
EDUCATION - B.A., Brown University, 1962; postgraduate work at
Princeton University, 1969-70.
EXPERIENCE - Foreign service officer in Vietnam, 1963-66; member President Johnson's Vietnam staff and aide at Paris peace talks, 1966-69; Peace Corps director in Morocco, 1970; edited Foreign Policy magazine, 1972-77; assistant secretary of state for Asian and Pacific affairs, 1977-81; managing director, Lehman Brothers, 1993-94; ambassador to Germany, 1993; assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs, 1994-96; resigned from State Department in February 1995 to become vice president of the investment banking firm Credit Suisse First Boston, his current job; architect of 1995 accord that ended the war in Bosnia; special envoy to Greece and Turkey over Cyprus in 1997; unpaid White House envoy to the Balkans in Kosovo conflict.
SECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: E. Brooke Lee's Montgomery County; The Colonel: All politics was local, and foresighted, when he was the man to see in Washington suburbs.
EVERYONE called him "The Colonel." Some thought of him as "The Boss." But Edward Brooke Lee was acknowledged as the Founding Father of modern Montgomery County.
A man of energy and vision, Lee was Mr. Democrat in Montgomery when its governmental structure was built and refined. One of the county's principal cities, Silver Spring, took its name from his family's farm.
His lineage included two signers of the Declaration of Independence: Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee. The Robert E. Lees of Virginia also were part of the family.
Lee's father, Blair, was Maryland's first popularly elected U.S. senator -- helped into office by the son's shrewd campaigning.
Brooke Lee left Princeton University without a diploma but got a law degree at George Washington University. When he returned from World War I with a chest full of decorations, the handsome war hero was recruited by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie.
Realizing his bucolic precincts would be coveted homesites, Lee put in place the county's first zoning and land-use plans. He helped form the Maryland National Parks and Planning Commission and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission -- key factors in the orderly growth of Prince George's and Montgomery counties.
SECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: THE ORANGE GROVE: Sprawling out; There are good reasons
why cities grow outward -- not upward
BYLINE: DENIS BINDER
The central planning elite, led by Vice-President Gore, is mounting a renewed crusade against urban sprawl. It is easy to buy into the anti-sprawl rhetoric. The sprawl is evident as you fly into the region's airports, or drive along the myriad freeways. Tentacles of cookie-cutter tract subdivisions extend ever-farther out into farmland and desert, up slippery slopes and down into floodplains, into Corona and Lancaster and Norco and Palmdale and Rancho Cucamonga. Orange County has seemingly never met a developer it didn't like.
The anti-sprawl vision is a city of high-rises surrounding a vibrant, central business district. Mass transit lines will serve as the central arteries that supply the lifeblood of the city.
This nostalgic vision of America has been a failure for almost the entire Twentieth Century. It was doomed by Henry Ford and the Model T. Ninety years ago, President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University denounced the automobile: "Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the automobile. They are a picture of the arrogance of wealth, with all its independence and carelessness. " Little did he foresee that the automobile would, in fact, become the great instrument of democracy.
While the automobile became the vehicle of suburban development, the actual cause is a burgeoning population.
HEADLINE: Nycomed Amersham Imaging Acquires Magnetic Imaging Technologies, Inc.; New Technology Strengthens Company's Leadership in Imaging
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 5
Nycomed Amersham Imaging, the leader in in-vivo diagnostic imaging and a leading provider of radiotherapy products, today announced the acquisition of Magnetic Imaging Technologies, Inc. (MITI). MITI, located in Durham, NC, is a world class developer of hyperpolarization technology that could lead to a new class of imaging agents for improved visualization of lung function and other body organs. This acquisition further broadens the company's technology base to compete in all imaging modalities. Nycomed Amersham Imaging previously held a minor equity stake in MITI.
In addition to MITI's hyperpolarization technology, the acquisition will also transfer to Nycomed Amersham Imaging the exclusive commercialization license, held by Princeton University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Princeton University is the owner of the original patents on the hyperpolarization process and is responsible for the development of this specialized technology. According to John F. Ritter, Director of the Princeton University Office of Patents and Licensing, "It is exciting and rewarding to know that this technology is now in the hands of Nycomed Amersham Imaging, a company with the expertise and strength essential to make it a reality. The true beneficiaries of this technology will be patients."
William Happer, Chairman of the MITI Board and Professor of Physics at Princeton, noted, "This agreement with Nycomed Amersham Imaging brings the promise of this imaging technology a step closer to the world's medical community. Already a strong partner with us, Nycomed Amersham Imaging's ownership will focus the power of their global leadership to effectively commercialize this exciting technology process."
HEADLINE: Man's place in the universe
BYLINE: Bob VanWagoner
The phrases "alien creatures" or "alien world" have never frightened me, nor seemed repugnant.
Perhaps because I never really believed in the stories from which they came.
Many of us can remember the late actor Orson Welles frightening a good part of the radio-listening world with a broadcast in the late 1930s about a group of Martians - huge disclike creatures on long menacing legs - landing in New Jersey. It was a takeoff on H.G. Wells' tale "War of the Worlds," but because the radio show failed to feature a disclaimer, it sounded authentic. The next day in the newspaper there were pictures of New Jersey farmers racing out with shotguns and pitchforks to battle the creatures.
Then it all calmed down and become a classic put-up.
But as a newspaper reporter in the late 1940s, I was assigned to monitor a file of flying-saucer sightings that was being accumulated by the government. They remained sightings, and the story fizzled out.
However, even as some scientists look within the very molecular building blocks of our universe seeking to understand and harness its powers, others look outward and seek the preservation of our species.
Princeton University astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, interviewed in The New Yorker magazine of July 12, 1999, confidently and with stunning logic based on the classic principles of Nicolaus Copernicus, predicts: Our species, Homo sapiens, which has been around only 200 thousand years to now, most probably will exist for at least another 5,100 years but not more than 7.8 million years! There's more:
To increase the odds for our species' survival, the physicist also thinks we need to renew the manned space program of 30 years ago and colonize Mars. " I'm not saying Mars isn't dangerous," he told the interviewer, "but colonizing Mars would increase our survival prospects by giving us two chances in the casino of life."
If Orson Welles were alive today, we could say thanks, but we've decided to invade Mars before they invade us.
HEADLINE: Stroke of luck or genius? Ahrens glides along Rowing
prodigy goes with flow in life, makes waves at work
BYLINE: Denise Kersten
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
PRINCETON, N.J. -- When Chris Ahrens arrived at Princeton University in 1994, the freshman rowing coach, Mike Teti, didn't know what kiind of an athlete he was getting.
"He wasn't one of our top people," Teti says. "We didn't really know him."
Ahrens was nervous about being coached by Teti. "I was scaredof him," he admits. "The first day I got yelled at, and I thought to myself, 'If this keeps up I don't know if I can hang in there.' "
Hang in there, indeed. Five years later, Ahrens and Teti are still working together. Teti, now the U.S. national team coach, said he expects Ahrens to stroke the eight at the World Championships, which will be Aug. 22-29 in St. Catherines, Ontario.
Ahrens, 23, stroked the USA to consecutive victories at Worlds in 1997-98, a first for the USA.