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HIGHLIGHTS• Lincoln's Long Shadow; A Historian Traces The Meaning Of Liberty
• Princeton professor takes national stage to show Lincoln's relevance
• Why Teachers Are Not 'Those Who Can't'
• Economic Scene; A study backs up what George Foreman already said: the Job Corps works.
OTHER HEADLINES• Brains in a Bottle; Brief Article
• What You Won't Learn At Harvard
• Andy Milburn
• Web Venture Sidetracks North Carolina Physics Teacher's Academic Career
• The 'Galapagos Islands' of religion
• 1ST PERSON: Meet David Duchovny
• COLLEGE EXTRA HARD IF PROFS DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH
• UK GOVERNMENT New Adviser appointed to drive forward Government's diversity
• Ivy League defends price-tag increases after Williams freezes tuition
• Possible female running mates not proof of gender equality
• Red Lodge Mountain ski area marks 40th anniversary
• CAMPUSES RIFE WITH PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ralph Nader Wins My Vote
• Revisiting German Physicist's Failure
• Student leaders make the grade
• At U. Pennsylvania, women in power rare
• Applications climb at five Ivies
• EXTRA CREDIT * MONEY MATTERS
• Change of opinion on fetal 'specimen'
• Digital Detective
• The CEO makes what? Return of a fair-pay debate
• Too much swagger? Bush's confidence seen as a liability among some voters
• Princeton chemists refute accepted particle packing theory
• A spectacular farewell to the King
• New Telescopes Fuel Research Nova
• ON TOP OF THE WORLD; without earning a dime;
• BEIJING LIKELY TO CREATE 'CRISES' TO TEST TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT
• A brief dissection of Darwinist politics
• Invasion of Laptops Spurs a Revolution In College Teaching
• Brown is focus of investigation
• Marilyn as she might have been
• Money matters in college quest
• CIGARETTE BLAMED FOR DREW CAMPUS FIRE
• NEW DEAN IS SELECTED FOR VU DIVINITY SCHOOL
• Old bedfellows
• Fighting judged not beneficial
• City Council fills post for District 5
OBITUARIES• BOTTS, JOHN C., 87
• US ARS Pioneering Agricultural Research Service entomologist Edward F.
• MANUEL G. JOHNSON
HIGHLIGHTS
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
March 29, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Lincoln's Long Shadow; A Historian Traces The Meaning Of Liberty
BYLINE: John Pancake , Washington Post Staff WriterMore than 2,000 people packed the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall on a rainy night this week to hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian talk for an hour about Abraham Lincoln's definition of a single word.
The word was "liberty." And although Lincoln himself died on an April morning 135 years ago, his ideas about liberty are still the political line of scrimmage today, Princeton University Prof. James M. McPherson argued in the National Endowment for the Humanities' annual Jefferson Lecture. The address, the federal government's highest honor for intellectual achievement in the humanities, was delivered Monday night. Past lecturers have included Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow and Robert Penn Warren.
McPherson is a small, trim man famous for his intimate knowledge of the Civil War and his defiantly readable scholarship. He began the lecture by saying he believed that Lincoln had a more profound sense of history than any other American president, with the possible exception of Jefferson. And Lincoln himself understood that confusion about liberty, a concept central to American democracy, was one reason the Civil War was fought.
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty," Lincoln said in an April 1864 speech in Baltimore. "We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not mean the same thing."
McPherson said it was typical of Lincoln that he illustrated his profound point with a fable about animals:
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep is a black one."
The shepherd, of course, was Lincoln himself, the black sheep the slave and the wolf the slave owner. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 27, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Princeton professor takes national stage to show Lincoln's relevance
BYLINE: By RALPH SIEGEL, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Princeton University professor James McPherson shrugs when he's told his Monday night lecture will be an auspicious occasion for him, his university and for his home state.
McPherson will step into the spotlight to present the annual "Jefferson Lecture," which the National Endowment for the Humanities regards as "the highest honor that the federal government confers on a humanities scholar." The professor will discuss Abraham Lincoln at the elegant Kennedy Center in Washington.
He downplays it with a friendly and instinctive sense of modesty.
"It is an honor, yes - or so they tell me," he says.
To McPherson shrugs, the glittering venue isn't intimidating. He has lectured at Princeton and nationally at various forums and conferences for 38 years. His books have reached an audience of millions.
The tough part for McPherson is the mission: to bring to this auditorium full of scholars and VIPs a contemporary sense of the mind and soul of Lincoln the man.
"There is a kind of iconic quality to Lincoln that sometimes gets in the way of understanding him as a real human being," McPherson said. …
Newsweek
Copyright 2000 Newsweek
April 3, 2000, U.S. EditionSECTION: MY TURN
HEADLINE: Why Teachers Are Not 'Those Who Can't'
BYLINE: By Emily MooreHIGHLIGHT: As a Princeton graduate, I'm tired of being told I'm wasting my degree. Don't our kids deserve the best?
Naturally, I began teaching for the money. And the prestige. Who wouldn't want to stand around at cocktail parties listening to some puffed-up acquaintance on a six-month consulting stint drone "Yeah, I mean teaching is great and all. But what will you do next?"
Shortly after completing my student teaching last fall, I applied for a summer job outside the field of education. The interviewer lit a cigarette and reviewed my resume. "Phillips Academy. Very good. Princeton! Good schools you've got. Magna cum laude. Thesis prize. Teaching experience: English. Teaching?" She looked up from the paper. "But you have such a good degree! Why waste it teaching?"
I would like to say that nobody has asked me this before. That up until this point, I've had no need to defend my ambition. The truth, of course, is bleaker. So bleak that I am always ready with a response.
"Who would you rather have teaching your children?"
The interviewer sat back and took a long drag. "Well, I never thought of it like that," she conceded. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Economic Scene; A study backs up what George Foreman already said: the Job Corps works.
BYLINE: By Alan B. Krueger; This column appears here every Thursday. Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and editor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Four economic analysts -- Professor Krueger, J. Bradford DeLong, Jeff Madrick and Virginia Postrel -- rotate as contributors.
WHEN the Job Corps, an original antipoverty program from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, was on the ropes and facing deep budget cuts in the mid-1990's, George Foreman came to its defense. "Job Corps took me from the mean streets and out of a nightmare lifestyle into a mode where the most incredible of dreams came true," Mr. Foreman, the two-time heavyweight boxing champion, said.
More scientific evidence is in a study by Mathematica Policy Research quietly released last week. The study finds that the Job Corps measurably improves the education and job prospects of disadvantaged youth. It also offers clues as to why.
The Job Corps is the most intensive and expensive of the dwindling number of government programs for disadvantaged youth. The $1.3 billion cost last year amounts to about $20,000 for each participant. Although critics mistakenly argue that the Job Corps is as expensive as a year at Harvard -- ignoring the public subsidy and endowment spending that raise Harvard's true costs for each student well above $50,000 a year -- the costs are high.
The stakes are also high. Each year, the program serves more than 60,000 mostly poor, urban high school dropouts who are 16 to 24 years old. A third of the male participants had been arrested at least once before joining the program; two-thirds of all participants had never held a full-time job. If the Job Corps does not improve the prospects of disadvantaged youths, then less-intensive programs are unlikely to help either. …
OTHER HEADLINES
The Nation
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April 10, 2000HEADLINE: Brains in a Bottle; Brief Article
BYLINE: Williams, Patricia J.In the April issue of Scientific American, Joe Tsien, an assistant professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, writes that his laboratory's successful genetic enhancement of the memory function of mice could one day lead to the commercial production of drugs "to treat brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease or even, perhaps, to boost learning and memory capacity in normal people." Ultimately, Tsien assures the reader, such enhancement, which he explicitly links to greater intelligence, would "extend beyond the individual and transmit our culture and civilization over generations. [Learning and memory] are major forces in driving behavioral, cultural and social evolution."
In the New York Times, Lee Silver, also a professor of molecular biology at Princeton, opines: "The public is understandably nervous about the idea of companies profiting from our genetic code. But if the goal is to make this genetic information useful as soon as possible, the debate should be focused on fair business practices and regulatory issues, not ethics."
Both Silver and Tsien hold interests in companies that are poised to capitalize on the sale of any such patents or drugs.
I suppose that "our culture" could be improved through enhanced memory. Better griots. Optimal maze performance in the great corporate rat race. …
Rather, Silver seems to mean that the distribution of biotechnological data should be regulated only by business values and not by religious, humanistic or social concerns. Under this formulation, genetically engineered or drug-induced superintelligence becomes a product like any other, subject to the same rational economic interests that govern the distribution of blue Jell-O, ball bearings or Britney Spears, but priced as a luxury item. Racial and class superiority in a designer bottle. …
Money
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
April, 2000HEADLINE: What You Won't Learn At Harvard
BYLINE: Penelope WangWhat's an Ivy League degree really worth? According to a new study by Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist, and Stacy Berg Dale, a researcher at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, not as much as you might think.
Krueger and Dale reviewed the 1995 incomes of 14,239 adults who had entered 30 colleges in 1976.
Their findings: Students who enrolled in colleges where the average SAT score was a lofty 1,200 earned about $76,800. Students who were accepted by the elite schools but enrolled in colleges with average SATs of 1,000 earned slightly more--about $77,000. "The most important factor in future success is the student," concludes Dale, "not the school." In fact, bright students who went to the less prestigious colleges may even have had an advantage over elite graduates. "They tended to rank higher in their classes, which helped them get into a better graduate school," says Dale. "And going to the best grad school really does matter."
Clearly, the debate over the value of an Ivy League degree won't end here. "The Krueger-Dale study is a big advance on previous research, but we're still a long way from answering the question 'Is an expensive education really worth it?'" says Williams College economics professor Gordon Winston. After all, for many students, Harvard isn't just about economic statistics. It's a state of grace.
TEXAS MONTHLY
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April, 2000HEADLINE: Andy Milburn
BYLINE: KATY VINE; EDITED BY BRIAN D. SWEANYYou may not be aware of Andy Milburn's work but chances are you've heard it repeatedly. With fellow composer Tom Hajdu, the 37-year-old Houston native has written music for commercials (Nike, Coke, Volvo), television programs (TV Nation, Homicide, Liquid Television), and feature films (Natural Born Killers, JFK, Arlington Road). The pair started collaborating while studying music at Princeton University, and in 1987 they formed the music production company tomandandy, which has offices in New York and Los Angeles. This month you can keep an ear out for Milburn's scores for the film Waking the Dead and the new Barry Levinson television series. The Beat, both of which came out in March. Despite his impressive resume does it ever bother Milburn that his work is never the featured attraction? Not at all. "It's not to say that we don't love music for music's sake, but it's wild the amount of room you have to be expressive white supporting a narrative experience," he says. "You just have to give up the prejudice that the audience is attending for your particular composition and nothing else."
The Charlotte Observer
Copyright 2000 The Charlotte Observer
March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Web Venture Sidetracks North Carolina Physics Teacher's Academic Career
BYLINE: By David BoraksA year ago, Elliot McGucken appeared on his way to a successful academic career. His 1998 doctoral dissertation at UNC Chapel Hill, a design for a computer chip that someday could help blind people see, won a national prize. He landed a job at Davidson College and began teaching physics last fall.
Then another of McGucken's passions -- an Internet literature site called jollyroger.com -- interrupted everything, transforming the professor into an Internet entrepreneur.
"Teaching is really fun; I've really enjoyed it. But I wasn't sleeping too much anymore," said McGucken, 30.
So he decided not to teach the spring semester, concentrating instead on the fledgling Web business, which he runs from his Davidson apartment.
Since he created it in 1995, jollyroger.com and a series of related literary discussion sites with names like killdevilhill.com, Starbuck.com Classical Poetry Port and Businessphilosphy.com, have drawn a global following. …
As his Web traffic increased, the checks grew in size. Advertisers pay $6 to $30 per thousand "impressions" (the number of times an ad banner is downloaded onto users' screens), and he splits ad revenues with Flycast -- 70 percent for him, 30 for Flycast.
Despite the growth of his online literary empire, McGucken remains the lone employee. He pays others to host and maintain his computer servers. And he has about two dozen volunteer moderators who manage hundreds of online discussions. …
Education: Princeton University, bachelor's degree in physics, 1991; UNC Chapel Hill, Ph.D. in physics and engineering, 1998; post-doctoral study at N.C. State.
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: The 'Galapagos Islands' of religion
BYLINE: Marjorie Coeyman, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
DATELINE: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
HIGHLIGHT: Ethiopia: Where Christians and Jews evolved unique relationshipsIt's early Sunday morning, and there's still a chill in the air as Addis Ababa slowly awakens. But behind the seemingly quiet walls of one of the city's sleepy streets stirs a scene of unexpected activity.
There, in a compound comprised of makeshift buildings and a few dusty stretches of yard, several hundred people are gathered. The adults - half-obscured in a sea of white shawls - are bent forward to the wail of morning prayer. The children are joined in a circle, singing a simple song in Hebrew.
These are the members of Beta-Israel (house of Israel), also known as the Ethiopian Jews, or Falashas (foreigners). They've gathered here, at this compound, financed largely by Jews abroad, to worship together, to study Hebrew, and most importantly, to work toward immigration to Israel. …
Yet, it is a strange irony of history that any Jew should feel an outsider in Ethiopia. Of all the countries in the world, there is perhaps no other where Judaism and Christianity have come as close as they have in this sub-Saharan nation.
"In terms of life and customs and culture, Ethiopian Christians are the only ones in the world with this close affinity to Jewish culture and law," says Ephraim Isaac, professor of religion and African studies and director of the Institute of Semitic Studies at Princeton University, N.J. …
Knight Ridder/Tribune
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March 30, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: 1ST PERSON: Meet David Duchovny
BYLINE: By Chuck Myers
Chiseled features and piercing brown eyes have made "The X-Files" star David Duchovny a bona fide sex symbol. Meet the actor who once was headed for a quiet life in academia and became one of Hollywood's hottest stars.Vital Stats
Born: Aug. 7, 1960, in New York
Parents: Father Amram, a publicist and playwright, and mother Margaret, a school administrator, divorced in 1972
Siblings: Older brother Daniel is a director and actor; younger sister Laurie teaches
Family: Married actress Tea Leoni on May 6, 1997; they have one daughter, Madelaine
Education: Bachelor's degree in English literature from Princeton University, 1982; master's degree in English literature from Yale University, 1987 …Change of Heart
Duchovny set his early sights on a career in academia. While working in New York one summer to earn money for school, a friend suggested he give acting in ads a shot. Duchovny followed the advice. Soon he was spending more time at auditions than working on his doctoral thesis. He eventually landed his first job, a Lowenbrau beer commercial, in 1987. …
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Copyright 2000 The Commercial Appeal
March 29, 2000, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: COLLEGE EXTRA HARD IF PROFS DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH
BYLINE: Gary Dorsey The Baltimore SunAt Towson University, Bryan Jablonski hid a tape recorder during class so he could later translate his teacher's broken English.
At Princeton University, Bill Fedyna had four teachers in a math course for engineers. Three of them did not speak English. …
In college classrooms across the United States, many students voice the same complaint: The prevalence of non-native speaking professors and teaching assistants - particularly in math, science and engineering - has become an impediment. …
Student complaints at Princeton became so frequent that the school announced that graduate students will have to pass an English proficiency exam before they can teach. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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March 29, 2000HEADLINE: UK GOVERNMENT New Adviser appointed to drive forward Government's diversity programme
Mo Mowlam, Minister for the Cabinet Office, today announced the appointment of a new senior adviser who will drive forward the Government's programme to increase the number and profile of ethnic minorities, disabled people and women in the Civil Service.
Museji Ahmed Takolia is to take up the role of 'Senior Advisor: Diversity Strategy and Equal Opportunities' on 10 April. His responsibilities will include:
* to drive forward our efforts to increase the diversity of the Civil Service and to tackle the under-representation of ethnic minorities, particularly at senior levels;
* to achieve early progress to demonstrate that faster change is possible; and
* to increase the level of appointments and secondments at senior levels from under-represented groups. …
1. Museji Ahmed Takolia is a Muslim. He was born in Coventry and educated at the Sidney Stringer School and Community College. He is a graduate of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and of the University of Bristol where he was awarded an MSc in Social Sciences specialising in Race Relations. He is also a graduate of Princeton University (Executive Education Fellow). …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
March 29, 2000HEADLINE: Ivy League defends price-tag increases after Williams freezes tuition
BYLINE: By Rob Laset, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Despite recently announcing the smallest annual percent increases in tuition in three decades, Ivy League officials are finding themselves placed on the defensive about the costs of attending their institutions.
Since Princeton announced a 3.3-percent tuition increase to $32,626 in late January, all of the Ivy schools except Columbia University have announced tuition and fee charges for the upcoming year.
For each of the colleges, next year's rate of increase is the lowest in recent history. For example, Harvard University's 2.9-percent increase is much lower than its 20-year average of eight percent, according to a university statement.
All the fee increases announced by the Ivy schools, however, are still above the 2.4-percent inflation rate for 1999 and fall short of Williams College's increase for next year -- zero percent.
Following Williams' decision to freeze tuition, spokesmen from the Ivy universities said the move -- in spite of its popularity with students and parents -- would be unsound for their schools. …
University Wire
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March 29, 2000HEADLINE: Possible female running mates not proof of gender equality
BYLINE: By Julie Straus, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.In the three weeks since Super Tuesday shrunk the 2000 presidential campaign to a two-man race, political pundits have refocused their attention from the question of "Who will make the best president?" to that of "Who will make the best running mate?" Among those publishing speculations, the March 20 Newsweek listed seven possible choices for Al Gore and nine for George W. Bush.
Progressively enough, 25 percent of Newsweek's suggestions were women, a move that appears encouraging to those feminists that see an increase in female candidates as the most expedient route to greater female political representation.
However, appearances can be deceiving. According to Newsweek, two of the three Republican female choices -- two-time cabinet member Elizabeth Dole and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) -- are options only "if Dubya faces a gender gap." Where's the progress there? The assumption that any woman on the ballot automatically pulls in a significant number of female voters is seriously flawed. …
Newsweek's seemingly progressive assertion undercuts the battle for gender equality. I would love to see a woman in the Oval Office as much as the next feminist, but that doesn't mean I would vote for any candidate with two X-chromosomes. Is there a difference between electing a candidate because she is a woman and not electing a candidate for the same reason? The two outcomes are fundamentally the same: Both judge individuals based on gender, not qualifications.
Contemporary feminists can be divided into two groups: those who believe women's abilities are no different from men's and those who believe women's abilities are different from, but just as important as, men's. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 28, 2000HEADLINE: Red Lodge Mountain ski area marks 40th anniversary
BYLINE: By JENNIFER McKEE, The Billings Gazette
DATELINE: RED LODGEBy the winter of 1955, they were sick of skiing on sagebrush.
It was obvious that the meadows above Red Lodge were not cut out for winter sports. The Silver Run Ski Club, a group of pioneer ski devotees from Billings, Red Lodge and the surrounding area, had tried for years to make it work.
They shoveled snow into strips so skiers had enough to snow to make one run. They cut some higher runs in the trees above the flat, put in rope tows and pushed skiing even in the off-season.
But with hundreds of ski club members and a snowless ski area, the club was hurting.
"We had this little, bitty ski run with two rope tows," said Bev Wallace, an early Silver Run member. "We had this ski club and there were 300 members. We needed a bigger ski area." …
They found it on Grizzly Peak, six miles from Red Lodge, and nursed their dream of good, local skiing into a full-blown ski resort.
Red Lodge Mountain opened 40 years ago this season. And today, Red Lodge Mountain feels like our mountain. We've all waited out those snowless Novembers and plowed through springtime's wet dumps. But 40 years ago, the resort was just a mountain and a good idea. …
The first ski hill was on Mount Maurice, just south of Red Lodge. A pair of Princeton University professors launched the place, known as the Princeton Camp. Skiing didn't really take off at the site, although university geologists from around the country still use the camp for study. …
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Copyright 2000 The Commercial Appeal
March 28, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: CAMPUSES RIFE WITH PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
BYLINE: Paul Zielbauer The New York Times News Service
DATELINE: HARTFORD, Conn.Unlike the typical array of drugs available to college students looking to get high, the only thing illegal about those that killed Josh Doroff, a Trinity College senior, two weeks ago was that Doroff got them without a prescription.
The lethal combination he took - a cocktail of Xanax, Valium, butalbital and sleeping pills - might have been extreme, but the abuse of prescription drugs is an increasingly common form of drug abuse for college and high-school students across the country, according to drug experts and dozens of college students interviewed at eight universities in the Northeast.
Whether it is stimulants like Ritalin, Aderol and Dexedrine; painkillers like Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin; migraine pills like butalbital; nerve relaxers like Xanax and Valium; or even powerful anti-psychotic agents like Thorazine, the nation's growing list of prescribed drugs is finding its way out of medicine cabinets and onto college campuses at a rate that troubles many doctors and epidemiologists.
Most college students, of course, do not take prescription drugs illegally. But nearly all students interviewed said illicit prescription drugs were available on campus. …
"There's a lot of talk about it in the air now," said Dr. Marvin Geller, a psychologist at McCosh Health Center at Princeton University. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 2000 The Hartford Courant Company
March 28, 2000 TuesdayHEADLINE: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ralph Nader Wins My Vote
As a newly minted supporter of presidential hopeful Ralph Nader, I was impressed by the details in The Courant's front-page story on him [March 19, "Ralph Nader: Homtown Hero Or Heel?"].
The article told me that Mr. Nader is the son of an immigrant who taught his children to work for justice and to accept civic responsibility. I particularly liked the fact that Mr. Nader's "studious afternoons" led to an education at Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Although I knew about Mr. Nader's authorship of "Unsafe at Any Speed," I would have never have known he established a trust in his hometown that finances such projects as a community lawyer who works in the interest of Winsted residents. …
Cathy Itri
New Milford
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
March 28, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Revisiting German Physicist's Failure
BYLINE: By JAMES GLANZThe ghost of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize winner who led the Nazi atomic bomb program, walked again yesterday as historians and scientists met to determine whether his failure to build a bomb during World War II was deliberate or a simple product of his own incompetence.
The meeting, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was stimulated by a play, "Copenhagen," that explores the same lingering question and is soon to open on Broadway. And like the characters in the play, the experts at the meeting came to a seemingly unbridgeable disagreement on Heisenberg's intentions as he led a program that could have given an atomic bomb to Hitler.
Historians at the meeting suggested that there was little evidence that Heisenberg ever expressed moral scruples about building the bomb until the German Reich was smashed and he attempted to patch up his relations with the Allies. But scientists -- some of whom knew Heisenberg and worked on the Allied bomb effort -- suggested that even under intense pressure from the Nazis, he never tried very hard even to understand how an atomic bomb would work. …
Dr. John Wheeler, a professor emeritus at Princeton University who also worked on the Manhattan Project, largely agreed that Heisenberg should not be remembered as a malevolent genius who was stopped by his own miscalculations. But Dr. Wheeler did recall the difficulties that Heisenberg faced in regaining the friendship of other physicists after the war. …
San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-News
March 28, 2000HEADLINE: Student leaders make the grade
They represented their schools, often successfully, in countlessacademic competitions. They played championship basketball and ledtheir football and baseball squads to victory.
They took the values learned in church or home and applied them tothe real world, volunteering to repair or build homes for theimpoverished, leading campaigns to feed the hungry and workingoverall to better the quality of life in their communities. …
Anna Elizabeth Byrne
Incarnate Word High School
Parents : Katharyn and Michael ByrneAnna has taken the maximum number of honors and Advanced Placementcourses allowed at her high school. The National Honor Societymember took first place in a UIL Calculus competition and placed inseveral other academic meets.
When she isn't volunteering with the American Red Cross, she isworking with severely disabled youth through the Children'sAssociation for Maximum Potential program.
"She meets every activity and challenge, whether it is academic,personal or social, with intense fervor and focus," wrotenominating educator Kathy Zeringue Schmidt. "She leads by exampleand continues to be a very positive influence on the community ofIncarnate Word High School."
Anna is looking at several top universities, including Harvard,Yale and Princeton. She hasn't decided on her major, but isconsidering bio-engineering or medicine.
Rebekah Wright
Churchill High School
Parents : Linda and Tom WrightThe valedictorian of Churchill High School is an all-around studentinvolved in numerous extracurricular activities, charity andcommunity efforts.
Among her recognitions are senior student body president, NationalMerit Commended Scholar and Honor Dancer. Some of her outsideactivities include raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation,helping children at different elementary schools, and serving as arepresentative to the Metropolitan Planning Organization.
She juggles her leadership and community service work with a heavyload of Advanced Placement and honors courses.
"Extremely bright, Rebekah has an enthusiasm for knowledge that Ido not often see in many of today's students," wrote counselorEsther Fuller. "She is far more mature than the average high schoolstudent. This young lady is motivated by hard work, success andachievement."
Rebekah is headed for Princeton University to study biology or neuroscience.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Daily Pennsylvanian via U-Wire
March 28, 2000HEADLINE: At U. Pennsylvania, women in power rare
BYLINE: By Lindsay Faber, Daily Pennsylvanian
SOURCE: U. Pennsylvania
DATELINE: PhiladelphiaEach day, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Virginia Clark checks her numbers. With the University typically slated to take in $300 million a year in donations and gifts, Clark and her staff are responsible for a guarantee: that Penn can absorb $850,000 a day for 365 days.
For Clark, the high-ranking job has meant weekly traveling, speaking at functions and meeting with a hefty pool of Penn's 225,000 alumni around the world.
It may seem taxing, but Clark is just doing her job, one that has secured her a top spot in the University's senior planning committee. Together with only five other senior-ranking females at the University, Clark is one of the most powerful women at Penn.
Currently, women like Clark fill twenty-five percent of the top-ranking posts in the Penn administration -- a statistic similar to that of the other Ivy League schools.
But none of the other schools has taken on the number of search committees Penn has in recent years, where opportunities may have arisen to bring more women to top posts. …
At Princeton University, five out of that school's 24 officers are women. At Cornell University, six of the 23 executives are women, while at Dartmouth College, only one of the 10 senior officers is a woman. And Penn is the only Ivy with a woman as the school's permanent president. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Daily Pennsylvanian via U-Wire
March 28, 2000HEADLINE: Applications climb at five Ivies
BYLINE: By Dana Klinek, Daily Pennsylvanian
SOURCE: U. Pennsylvania
DATELINE: PhiladelphiaAdmissions applications in the Ivy League are up almost across the board, with most of the eight institutions showing increases in the number of applications received for the Class of 2004.
Brown University had by far the largest gain in the number of applications received, with a 14 percent rise from last year. The Providence, R.I., school received a total of 16,784 applications this year.
Penn, whose number of applications increased by 6.6 percent to a total of 18,803 applications, saw the second-greatest increase among the Ivy schools, followed by Harvard, Columbia and Cornell universities.
Dartmouth College and Yale University received slightly fewer applications this year, seeing 0.9 and 3.2 percent drops, respectively.
Statistics for Princeton University were unavailable. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
March 28, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: EXTRA CREDIT * MONEY MATTERS
Brand-name value
Those who think going to an elite college is crucial to their financial success should think again, a new study says.
Researchers from Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation reviewed the earnings of people who were accepted at top colleges in 1976--most of them Ivy League schools--but chose instead to go to less selective colleges.
Twenty years later, those graduates had a slightly higher average salary than a group of their peers who went to the selective colleges. The difference was $77,700 a year vs. $76,800 a year.
The study involved 14,239 graduates and 30 colleges. The average freshman SAT score was 1,200 at the selective schools, and 1,000 at the less selective ones.
The study, released this year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, reached this conclusion: If you're smart enough to get into an Ivy League school, you'll probably do well no matter where you wind up going to college.
The Washington Times
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March 28, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Change of opinion on fetal 'specimen'
BYLINE: Dr. Laura Schlessinger; UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATEIt all began with a letter from a widowed Catholic woman with seven grandchildren. It was a request for me to help (via my radio program) a Christian minister and a high school science teacher get a 5-month-old unborn baby in a jar out of a high school in Deeming, N.M.
According to a Jan. 30 article in the Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal, the fetus was in a jar on a shelf with other animal specimens in a storage section of a classroom.
The grandmother who sent me the article and the request for help also sent a copy of a letter to the editor of the newspaper from a physician defending the presence of this "specimen" as necessary for scientific study within the classroom.
I weighed in. First I talked about the ever-diminishing appreciation, respect and reverence for human life, especially the lives of children, born and unborn. In spite of early protestations to the contrary, abortion has become a commonplace alternative birth-control technique rather than a serious, sad, sometimes necessary, but evil, last resort to terminate a pregnancy resulting from incest or rape or in other dire situations, such as the illness of the mother.
I believe this attitude is the necessary precursor to the general acceptance of Peter Singer's appointment to the esteemed chair of human ethics at Princeton University. Mr. Singer believes families ought to have the right to terminate the lives of a newborn, up to age 1 month, if the child's medical condition is so serious as to compromise fundamentally its own or the family's long-term happiness.
Interestingly, as I began to verbalize these ideas, my position shifted. At first, I also interpreted the display of the fetus in a jar as yet another example of the denigration of human life. Then it occurred to me that part of the problem is that we really don't want to know the truth. We don't want it in our faces.
It's too vivid, too compelling, too raw and upsetting. Instead, to justify the increasingly cavalier attitude toward the unborn, we prefer our truth in the abstract. The fetus in a bottle ends all that. …
Business Week
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March 27, 2000HEADLINE: Digital Detective
BYLINE: By Dennis K. BermanHIGHLIGHT: The Net can be a tough neighborhood. Michael Allison tracks down the bad guys
The shark's bleached teeth are still sharp as carving knives, its glassy stare still menacing. Nine feet long, the stuffed golden hammerhead bolted to Michael D. Allison's office wall is a testament to his skills as a deep-sea fisherman. It's not a bad metaphor for Allison himself, either. A 41-year-old British expat and private investigator, Allison makes his living prowling the murky chambers of the Internet, hunting down Net criminals and other bottom-feeders. ''It's an adrenaline rush when you finally catch someone,'' he says in his well-preserved British lilt. ''I love the thrill of the chase.''
Indeed, the chase never stops at Allison's company, the 10-person Internet Crimes Group in Princeton, N.J. Sleuthing for major law firms and large companies, such as telecommunications giant Ericsson, ICG's mission is to uncover the dirty dealings of the Digital Age. …
There are no film-noir backdrops or trench coats inside ICG's ''war room,'' a cramped, stuffy office in a Tudor-style building 30 yards from the main gates of Princeton University. Four, sometimes five twentysomething male investigators crowd in during the day, their hulking desks pushed side by side, literally close enough to see each other's fading teenage acne. This is no jeans-and-T-shirt Web operation. Allison insists his young staff wear ties and reminds them that ''shaving is compulsory.'' …
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
March 27, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: The CEO makes what? Return of a fair-pay debate
BYLINE: David R. Francis, Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorIt's proxy time for corporate America. That means companies must reveal the earnings of their top executives. Those numbers can be startling.
The new issue of Forbes magazine has an article headlned: "The Age of the $100 million CEO." It profiles a dozen chief executives recruited with salaries, bonuses, plus stock options worth from $130 million to $1.8 billion over a few years.
It lists 50 bosses with total 1999 incomes that range from $3.3 million to $650 million.
Are they worth it?
Pro-capitalist Forbes argues that it is the free market which sets the pay of executives, especially those newly recruited, and that the handsome pay packages do not represent manipulation of semi-helpless corporate boards. …
This executive-pay debate revives each spring as the financial press fills with reports from proxies on fancy executive pay. One new element is a just-published academic study for the National Bureau of Economic Research by economists Marianne Bertrand of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Sendhil Mullainathan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
The two find that executive-pay gains are often as much due to "luck" as they are to performance, that is, a reward for making companies prosper. …
Back to the Bertrand-Mullainathan paper. It uses three different measures of "luck" that a CEO cannot influence.
One is the price of oil. This is set by the market, as influenced by OPEC production constraints. If the price of oil goes up, the price of oil companies' stocks go up and its executives with their options get more "lucky dollars." Another is the foreign-exchange rate of the US dollar, relevant to firms heavily into trade. The third looks at yearly average performance in specific industries. …
The Dallas Morning News
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March 27, 2000HEADLINE: Too much swagger? Bush's confidence seen as a liability among some voters
SOURCE: Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: Todd J. Gillman
DATELINE: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Gov. George W. Bush has emerged from the GOP primary fight both tested and scarred, as more and more voters tell pollsters he comes across with more swagger than he's earned.
"I don't know about arrogant, but I'd probably say cocky," said restaurant executive Larry Keltner, a 58-year-old political independent from Mississippi, when asked to describe Mr. Bush's image. "I think he connects more in Texas than he does on a national level," he said, adding that he'll probably vote Republican next fall despite reservations about Mr. Bush.
Those more firmly entrenched in the Bush camp find it hard to swallow, but the fellow they see as charming, charismatic, energetic and brimming with integrity irritates a big chunk of the electorate - including many independents who had backed rival John McCain. …
Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University, said Mr. Bush risks being labeled "a non gravitas wise guy. That is something he has got to put some effort into working on or walking away from."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
March 27, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton chemists refute accepted particle packing theory
BYLINE: By Lee Williams, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Princeton University scientists in the chemistry department have made a discovery that refutes a 40-year-old belief about how particles behave in a vessel.
Their discovery may offer new insights into the nature of non-crystalline materials and granular materials, according to chemistry professor Sal Torquato, who is a member of the team that made the breakthrough. "Knowing how particles pack in space is very important in understanding material microstructure," he said.
Torquato and two colleagues -- chemical engineering professor Pablo Debenedetti and graduate student Tom Truskett -- published their findings in the March 6 issue of Physical Review Letters.
An earlier theory, known as "random close packing," maintained that spheres pack in a way that always fills 64 percent of the space in the vessel.
"That idea is plain wrong," Torquato said. Depending on the protocol used, values can range from 58 percent to 74 percent of the vessel, according to Torquato. …
The team has now advanced a theory it calls "maximally random jammed state," which makes the concept of random packing far more precise mathematically, Torquato said. In the maximally random jammed state, particles are so tightly packed that none of them can move, he explained.
"To me the most interesting part of the work is that it has forced us to ask the question how to quantify disorder," Debenedetti said. "We proposed -- and seem to have found -- a quantitative description on how disordered a system is. Basically we were able to come up with measures of disorder that vary between zero and one. It is a very powerful technique for looking at a system." …
USA TODAY
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March 27, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: A spectacular farewell to the King
BYLINE: Patrick McMahon
DATELINE: SEATTLESEATTLE -- Twenty-two miles of detonation cord and 5,900 gelatin dynamite explosives reduced the world's largest concrete dome to rubble Sunday in 16.8 seconds.
The 24-year-old Kingdome -- once home to baseball's Mariners and football's Seahawks -- was demolished to make way for a $430 million, open-air football and soccer stadium.
Once an engineering marvel, it was deemed too small for football and not cozy enough for baseball. …
Princeton University engineering professor David Billington, author of a book on concrete structures, believes the building should have been saved.
"I think it's dreadful what's happening," Billington says. "This is the only one of its kind in the world. If it were able to stand longer, it would be a national landmark." …
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 2000 Albuquerque Journal
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: New Telescopes Fuel Research Nova
BYLINE: John Fleck Journal Staff Writer* Hawaii's W.M. Keck Observatory helps drive astronomical renaissance
Fourteen years ago Mark Marley could only imagine what a brown dwarf must be like.
Astronomers thought the failed stars must exist. But if they did, they would be far too small and weak to shine, too faint to see with even the most powerful telescope.
As a young graduate student, all Marley could do was theorize about what a brown dwarf might be like.
How times change. How astronomy has changed.
In the midst of an astronomical renaissance, the New Mexico State University astronomy professor made a pilgrimage of sorts in January to Hawaii.
There, at the base of a volcano, Marley and 26-year-old graduate student Denise Stephens huddled over computers in what might be considered the altar of 21st century astronomy the control room of the W.M. Keck Observatory.
On the mountain above them, the most powerful telescope on Earth tracked once trackless reaches of the galaxy.
On their computer screen, an image of a brown dwarf appeared.
And another. And another. …
From bold new ideas about the formation of planets to insights about the big bang and the expansion of the universe, astronomers are gaining new understanding wherever they look.
"The field is just absolutely blossoming," said Princeton astrophysicist Jim Gunn, one of the deans of deep-space astronomy. …
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 2000 The Atlanta Constitution
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: ON TOP OF THE WORLD; without earning a dime;
WHILE AMAZON.COM'S GROWTH HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL, THE COMPANY STILL HASN'T TURNED A PROFIT. NOW WALL STREET WANTS SOME RESULTS.
BYLINE: Frances Katz, Staff
DATELINE: SeattleThere is a woman in Amazon.com's Seattle distribution center who --- all day long --- runs the machine that shrink-wraps the books, CDs and videos that are packaged and sent to Amazon's customers around the world.
Any of Amazon's 16 million online shoppers who have ever had to pry open an Amazon package knows how artfully wrapped and carefully packaged one is.
Amazon's network of distribution centers --- including the one in Henry County --- combines sophisticated technology and good old-fashioned elbow grease to pluck orders off the Web site and drop them at the customer's front door. Getting the order and delivery process down to a science was the reason Amazon could boast a 99 percent order delivery rate during the 1999 holiday shopping season --- unlike a number of Amazon's online competitors that caused some Christmas nightmares with failed deliveries. …
It's always nice for shoppers to get what they've bought, but investors who've bought stock want to see profits, and that hasn't happened yet.
Wall Street analysts still don't know what to make of (Jeff) Bezos and Amazon. In December, Time magazine dubbed him Man of the Year. In January, Wall Street analysts were wondering how the company could post sales figures in the hundreds of millions of dollars and still not be profitable. …
Such plans do not come cheap.
Bezos, a Princeton University graduate and former hedge-fund manager, isn't afraid of risks and is not scared of Wall Street. Beneath his easygoing manner and hearty laugh is a serious businessman who wants it all --- to build the ultimate online retailing site, make a profit and keep investors happy. …
Central News Agency
Copyright 2000 Central News Agency
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: BEIJING LIKELY TO CREATE 'CRISES' TO TEST TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT
BYLINE: By K. C. Huang and Sofia Wu
DATELINE: NEW York, March 25Beijing is likely to "create some crises" to test the new Taiwan president's possible reaction after he assumes office on May 20, Columbia University professor Andrew Nathan predicted on Saturday.
Nathan, who had traveled to Taiwan to observe the Republic of China's March 18 presidential election, made the remarks at a seminar on the island's post-election developments, with particular emphasis on its relations with mainland China.
In last Saturday's vote, Chen Shui-bian of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) captured the presidency in a victory that marks an end to the Kuomintang's 54-year grip on power and the first peaceful transition of power from a ruling party in Taiwan.
The seminar, co-sponsored by the US-based Spring of Beijing magazine and the Association of Chinese Study at Princeton University, has brought together many Chinese affairs experts and exiled mainland Chinese dissidents to discuss the possible effects of Taiwan's recently concluded election. …
The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
Copyright 2000 The Yomiuri Shimbun
March 26, 2000, SandayHEADLINE: A brief dissection of Darwinist politics
BYLINE: Mark Zimmermann Special to The Daily Yomiuri ; PC3A Darwinian Left--Politics, Evolutionand Cooperation
By Peter Singer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 70 pp. 5.99 poundsEver since the publication of "The Origin of Species," political conservatives have assiduously staked out Darwin's theory of natural selection as the "ethical" basis for principles of might equals right. Whether selectively cited to justify colonialist schemes or to castigate the poor for their own plight, Darwin's nonpartisan scientific findings have been applied to fields far beyond those of his landmark research and writing; hence the spread and longstanding international currency of Social Darwinist pseudoscience.
Peter Singer, a professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, will have none of this rightist deception. Unfortunately, much of what he counters it with is equally constrained by his own ideological doctrines. His "A Darwinian Left--Politics, Evolution and Cooperation" is, firstly, a brief exploration of the left's historical--and neglectful--misreadings of Darwin. Secondly, it outlines how to reclaim evolutionist thought for a renewed, post-Marxist politics of the left.
Showing that Darwin's work is not in its essence the exclusive property of rightists, Singer's book is, in this respect, merely a restatement of the scientifically obvious. But it is also a handy and readable summary of a longstanding ideological conflict over a compelling body of scientific knowledge and speculation. …
The New York Times
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March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Invasion of Laptops Spurs a Revolution In College Teaching
BYLINE: By JODI WILGOREN
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.During his economics seminar the other day, Sean Leary, a freshman at Wake Forest University, scanned stock prices, browsed basketball updates from ESPN, checked his e-mail, and perused pictures of "beautiful girls" on www.acewallpapers.com in search of a new backdrop for his laptop computer screen.
It seems Mr. Leary, who had already taken one economics course in the fall, was bored by the discussion of marginal benefit and cost. But no matter. This is a laptop classroom, where each student sits behind an open machine, sometimes posting answers to the professor's queries on a virtual chalkboard, sometimes, well, doing something else.
"I haven't skipped this class once," noted Mr. Leary, 18. "Even if there's something in class that's boring, there's other stuff you can do."
Wake Forest is one of more than 100 colleges and universities across the country where a computer is now required to matriculate. Not only has this created new forms of in-class distraction and revolutionized campus communication, but it has begun to transform teaching itself. …
At Clemson, English classes keep their compositions in electronic portfolios posted on the Web. At Western Carolina University in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, literature professors are able to use primary source documents in their lectures, displaying Web images of the handwritten notes of a minor British poet from an archive hundreds of miles away at Princeton University. In Jonathan Zittrain's class on Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, students respond each week to a question posted on the Web, and the answers are automatically routed to another student -- or, perhaps, the author of the pertinent article -- for comments. …
Providence Journal
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Brown is focus of investigation
BYLINE: By Mike SzostakPROVIDENCE _ Officials of Brown University and the Ivy League are investigating allegations of improprieties in financial aid awards to Brown athletes.
Officials from the school and the league declined to elaborate.
"Some allegations were brought to our attention, and the Ivy League and Brown are looking into the matter," said David Roach, Brown's director of athletics.
"There has been an inquiry under our direction and with our involvement," said Jeffrey H. Orleans, executive director of the Ivy League. …
As the cost of an Ivy League education has soared to more than $30,000 per year, less-endowed institutions like Brown have had to increase the loan portion of their packages while well-endowed schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton have been able to increase the amount of grants. A grant does not have to be repaid.
In recent years, Brown coaches have lamented losing athletes to rival Ivy schools that have awarded more attractive aid packages. …
Sunday Times (London)
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Limited
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Marilyn as she might have been
BYLINE: John SutherlandBLONDE. By Joyce Carol Oates. Fourth Estate Pounds 17.99 pp738
Blonde occupies the no man's land, increasingly fashionable nowadays, that lies between fiction and biography. Joyce Carol Oates, in her author's note, instructs us that Blonde is a radically distilled "life" in the form of fiction, and for all its length, "synecdoche is the principle of appropriation". Oates, we apprehend, is no mere romancer; she is also a professor of literature at Princeton University. Reach for your dictionary, reader (in case you're wondering about that word, it means "part standing for the whole").
Oates recycles the by-now famous facts of Norma Jean Baker's shoddily tragic life. The mad mother; the orphanage upbringing; the first marriage to an average Joe; her "discovery" in Schwab's drugstore (the actor, Richard Widmark, was mesmerised by her backside - what man wasn't?); the studio makeover, new teeth, new name, platinum blonde hair; the de rigueur couch-casting (by the time she made it to the top Marilyn had, she said, been on her knees to all the moguls in Hollywood - she was not praying); superstardom; the marriages to those other American superstars, Joe DiMaggio (who beat her up physically) and Arthur Miller (who humiliated her intellectually); the abortions, prescription drugs, and always the sex; the second-rate movies, only watchable nowadays for her astonishing eroticism; and finally - at the end of the line - her role as President John FKennedy's "blonde whore". …
Oates is, after some 30 novels, a practised technician. She has chosen as her instrument in Blonde a cold, lens-like narrative manner. The novel looks at Marilyn, sometimes close up, sometimes with the intimate internal probe of laporoscopy, sometimes - as in this vignette of Marilyn's archetypal pose - with the appraising gaze of the pin-up photographer: "A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft, undulating folds of the fabric. …
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
March 26, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Money matters in college quest
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.
March 25, 2000, SATURDAYHEADLINE: CIGARETTE BLAMED FOR DREW CAMPUS FIRE
SOURCE: Wire services
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: MADISONA carelessly tossed cigarette is blamed for a fire that damaged the historic main administration building at Drew University, a fire official said Friday.
There were no injuries.
Morris County authorities said a sprinkler system prevented the spread of the fire. …
A fire also was reported Thursday at Princeton University.
Fiberboards on concrete slabs on the roof of the Frist Campus Center ignited at 8:30 p.m.
The Tennessean
Copyright 2000 The Tennessean
March 25, 2000HEADLINE: NEW DEAN IS SELECTED FOR VU DIVINITY SCHOOL
BYLINE: ELIZABETH MCFADYEN-KETCHUMJames Hudnut-Beumler, a religious scholar at a seminary in Atlanta, has been named dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Hudnut-Beumler will take over as dean on Aug. 1.
"He has the zeal and dedication needed to lead the Divinity School during a time when more questions are being asked about the role that religion is playing, and should play, in today's increasingly complex society," said Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe Wyatt. …
Hudnut-Beumler, a religious historian, author and church consultant, is the executive vice president and professor of religion and culture at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta. He has written numerous books on church history, including Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and its Critics and Generous Saints.
He is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and has graduate degrees from Princeton University. …
The Times (London)
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Limited
March 25, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Old bedfellows
BYLINE: Tim TeemanThe surface calm of author and academic Edmund White belies his history of indulging in a lifetime's feverish pursuit of men. His latest work, however, is a loving tribute to just one man. Tim Teeman hears what lay behind it
Edmund White appears to lead a fairly quiet life. Two days a week the New York-based novelist, 60 in January, teaches creative writing at Princeton University: some of the students are "good", some "terrible" and one aspiring dotcom entrepreneur asked to miss an exam "because he's starting up some sort of corporation".
The rest of his time is taken up with research, writing and feeling out of step with a city that was once "so friendly to artists" and is now - his tone darkens - "sicker, expensive, more greedy, riddled with class divisions. Everyone's 35 and making a killing on Wall Street."
A quiet anger rumbles beneath the fogeyness. The story of White's life officially ended with The Farewell Symphony (1997), the third part of a stunning trilogy of fictionalised autobiography. Following A Boy's Own Story (1982) and The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), it brought to a close the tale of an unnamed narrator who, having grown up gay in Forties and Fifties Middle America, and having experienced the hedonistic, slutty delights of Sixties and Seventies New York, finds his circle of lovers, friends and acquaintances ravaged by Aids in the Eighties. …
The Vancouver Sun
Copyright 2000 Pacific Press Ltd.
March 25, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Fighting judged not beneficial
BYLINE: Gary RowlesRecently I was surprised and disappointed to discover I could still be surprised and disappointed by anything our community leaders say or do. My first disappointment was that in this day and age, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Provincial Court Judge George Angelomatis could believe that physical violence can solve social, psychological and emotional problems (Fighting Man, Feb. 26).
My second disappointment is that the writer, Alex Rose, inaccurately and unfairly characterized his and the judge's Lord Byng schoolmate as a cross-dresser. To set the record straight, not only was the young man not a cross-dresser, he was in fact, among many other positive things, captain of the rugby and basketball teams, on the honour roll, president of the student council, and at the time of the onset of his illness, attending Princeton University on a full academic scholarship -- no doubt working hard toward becoming a community leader of whom we would all have been proud.
Gary Rowles
Vancouver
San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-News
March 24, 2000HEADLINE: City Council fills post for District 5
BYLINE: Matt FloresThe City Council appointed lawyer David Andrew Garcia to become itsnewest member Thursday, replacing District 5's Rick Vasquez, whoresigned earlier this month.
Garcia, a general law attorney and former prosecutor, was sworn inmoments after council members selected him on a voice vote.
No members voted against the appointment.
"I'm here because I want to give back to the community everythingthat it has given to me," Garcia said. "As a prosecutor, I had tomake tough decisions and that has prepared me well for today." …
Garcia, who turns 36 next Thursday, was one of seven people seekingto fill Vasquez's 14-month unexpired term.
Before starting his own general law practice in January 1998,Garcia was a prosecutor for the Bexar County district attorney'soffice for three years and for the Kings County district attorneyin New York for five years. He received his law degree from Tulane University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. …
OBITUARIES
St. Petersburg Times
Copyright 2000 Times Publishing Company
March 28, 2000, TuesdayBOTTS, JOHN C., 87, of St. Petersburg, died Sunday (March 26, 2000) at Bayfront Medical Center. Born in New York City, he came here in 1973 from Bronxville, N.Y. He retired as an advertising executive in New York. He was a graduate of Lawrenceville School and received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University. He was a former president of Anthonians at St. Anthony's Hospital, a trustee for St. Anthony's Hospital for eight years, a former director of the United Way and a 20-year member of Service Corps of Retired Executives, all in St. Petersburg. He was also a member of International Executive Service Corps and served in Sri Lanka and India. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Priscilla F.; two sons, John Botts, London, and Ted Botts, Greenwich, Conn.; a daughter, Priscilla B. Ditchfield, Marion, Mass.; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes & Cremation Tribute Center-Ninth Street Chapel, St. Petersburg.
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 2000 M2 Communications Ltd.
March 24, 2000HEADLINE: US ARS Pioneering Agricultural Research Service entomologist Edward F. Knipling dies
DATELINE: WASHINGTONCelebrated entomologist Edward F. Knipling, who pioneered research to develop pesticide-free ways to protect livestock and crops from the devastating effects of insects, died March 17 at his home in Arlington, Va., from cancer at the age of 91. Knipling retired from USDA's Agricultural Research Service in 1973 after 42 years with the Department, but had continued to work with ARS as a research collaborator. ARS is the chief research agency of USDA.
Working with ARS colleague Raymond C. Bushland, Knipling pioneered the sterile male insect technique to suppress insect pests. This technique involves irradiating male insects, then turning them loose to mate with wild fertile female insects. These matings do not produce fertilized eggs, so numbers of insect offspring plummet dramatically. …
In 1967, President Johnson awarded him the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest recognition for contributions to science. In 1966, Knipling was selected by Princeton University for the Rockefeller Public Service Award for distinguished public service in the field of science. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
March 24, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: MANUEL G. JOHNSON
BYLINE: The Morning CallManuel G. Johnson, 81, of Hanover Township, died Thursday, March 23, in St. Luke's Hospital, Fountain Hill. He was the husband of Georgiana (Hazard) Johnson.
He was a purchasing manager for the former Aldrich Pump Co., and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Co., Phillipsburg, for many years until retiring in 1973. He was a 1941 graduate of Princeton University. …
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