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The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times CompanyMay 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: Princeton's Language Program in China Is Forced to Change
BYLINE: By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
DATELINE: BEIJING, May 7When Professor C. P. Chou of Princeton University came to Beijing this March to renew the contract for his university's longstanding summer language program at Beijing Normal University, he was unprepared for the meeting that would ensue.
Unbeknownst to him, a Chinese academic had recently published an essay attacking the program for "infiltrating American ideology into Chinese language teaching," by using teaching materials that sometimes presented China in an unflattering light.
And the nine-year-old program -- one of the most prestigious language courses in China -- was suddenly in jeopardy.
"I was caught totally by surprise," said Professor Chou, the program's director, reached at his office in Princeton, N.J. "A vice president told me there was something 'very serious' taking place and handed me a copy of the article. He said that both Beijing Normal University and my textbooks were under serious attack."
In response, the university demanded that Professor Chou delete eight essays entirely and modify large chunks of other lessons before a contract could be signed. Sections on how the growing use of e-mail promotes free speech and the hazards of walking through Beijing traffic had to dropped, for example.
"I think it definitely has something to do with President Jiang's Three Stresses campaign," said Professor Chou, who is modifying the material and said the program would continue.
The language program's troubles started when Chinese officials noticed the highly critical essay in the academic journal Beijing Social Science and demanded action. Officials at Beijing Normal told the Princeton professor that someone at a much higher level was "in charge of this business, but it was all very opaque," he said.
The partnership between Princeton and Beijing Normal had always had its tensions. Some Chinese instructors who teach in the program have long grumbled about the teaching materials, which have included essays about topics like drug use and freedom of speech in China, and urge students to debate sensitive issues including family planning and the independence of Taiwan. …
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Chinese force Princeton to alter lessons in summer language program
BYLINE: By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.Princeton University is changing its Chinese language textbooks to take out references to the country's traffic, population control policy and cheering at sports events that have offended Chinese educators.
A codirector of the Princeton in Beijing program says the controversial topics were chosen to encourage students to speak in an unfamiliar language, not to change their opinions.
"It's important to have the students want to say something," said Perry Link, a professor in Princeton's East Asian Studies department. "Then you can correct their language."
But officials at Beijing Normal University objected in March to several lesson plans for the 9-week summer language program sponsored by Princeton, including those that referred to the country's family planning policy, Chinese drivers not yielding for pedestrians or yelling boisterously at sports events.
"Basically, things that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people cannot appear in teaching materials," said Chen Fu, vice president of Beijing Normal University's Foreign Chinese Education College.
University officials told C.P. Chou, a professor of East Asian studies at Princeton who runs the 9-year-old program to delete eight lessons and alter large parts of others in textbooks following publication of a faculty member's critical article about the program.
"I was surprised this time because these books were not new ones," Chou said Monday from his Princeton office. "We've been using these books for many years." …
NOTE: Related news stories appear below.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company
May 9, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: DECADE LATER, MATCHES STILL STRIKE ACCORD PRINCETON MENTOR PROGRAM CELEBRATES AN ANNIVERSARY, SOME SUCCESS
BYLINE: By Sandy Coleman, GLOBE STAFF
Anne Swinton Ruggles is white and lives in Weston. Latanya Junior is black and lives in Roxbury. Ruggles is talkative and 33. Junior is shy at 19. Ruggles wears demure pearl drop earrings. Junior wears bold gold hoops, two in each ear.
Yet, they have grown to be the best of friends, finding common ground over dinners, horror movies, and plenty of conversations about boys, family, death, and, of course, school. ("The best advice she ever gave me was to be myself and to stay in school," Junior said.) If the founders of Princeton's mentoring program could take a picture of what they've been trying to achieve for a decade, this was the moment: Ruggles, a Princeton University graduate, and Junior, a senior at Boston's Muriel S. Snowden International School, greeting like best friends - arms wrapped around each other, one's round, mocha cheeks, pressing against the other's peachy, angular ones.
For the upwardly mobile types from Princeton, opening a checkbook to contribute to a cause may be easy. Opening a date book to make room in a busy schedule, every week for a year or longer, can be harder. Yet, that's exactly what organizers demand as they persistently match people who might never cross each other's paths.
"This is not all about helping some poor inner-city kids," said Frederick E. Dashiell, head of the Princeton Association of New England and one of the program's founders. "As educated as [the mentors] may be, this becomes an education for them." …
Last week, mentors and the people they mentored celebrated the program's 10th anniversary over junk food and jazz. Each year, 15 to 50 mentors are matched with low-income students from Snowden School. And it's not just tutoring or planned activities that make it all work, Dashiell said. …
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2000 The Dallas Morning News
May 6, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Study shows progressive issues top list of religious concerns
SOURCE: Religion News ServiceA new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that religious groups, led by mainline Protestant denominations, are more interested in progressive causes than in the conservative issues favored by religious conservatives.
A survey of 5,603 adults found that most people think churches should take the lead in advocating racial reconciliation, environmental protection and advocacy for the poor - all issues that have been central to the mainline message for decades.
While the 1990s saw the rise of conservative evangelicals, the study found that the causes advocated by mainline groups are the issues the public cares the most about.
"The perception that religious groups are really only interested in conservative issues is not true," said Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow, who led the study. "They are not only focused on abortion or prayer in schools. Progressive issues do seem to be of enormous important to people."
Only 40 percent of the respondents said clergy should advocate political issues from the pulpit, and there was little support for organized political lobbying - such as through the Christian Coalition - or for religious leaders seeking elected office.
The study also found that mainline Protestants have a slight edge over evangelicals in following public affairs. Forty-nine percent of mainline Protestants say they follow the news "most of the time," compared with 42 percent of evangelicals, 39 percent of black Protestants, 37 percent of Catholics and 49 percent of Jews.
"We have too often assumed that mainline Protestants are politically dormant," Mr. Wuthnow said. "These results show they are politically interested and active." …
OTHER HEADLINES
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 10, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Loyola of Chicago president announces plans to resign
DATELINE: CHICAGOThe Rev. John J. Piderit, president of Loyola University of Chicago, announced that he plans to resign effective June 30, 2001, although he could step down sooner if a successor is named before then.
Piderit said Tuesday that he will complete eight years as Loyola's president on the June date, which is also the end of the university's fiscal year.
During his tenure, Piderit has overseen a major financial restructuring of the Jesuit university. Also, in 1995, Loyola was split into two units - the medical center in suburban Maywood and a liberal arts university. …
Piderit said he wants to explore new educational outlets for Roman Catholic students, including distance learning. …
Piderit, 57, is the 22nd president of Loyola. He was born and raised in New York City, and joined the Society of Jesus after his high school graduation in 1961. He is a graduate of Fordham University, was ordained at a Jesuit school in Frankfurt, Germany, and has advanced degrees from Oxford University and Princeton University. …
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing SocietyMay 10, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Just say 'no' to dancing-pig e-mail
BYLINE: Tom Regan
DATELINE: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAHIGHLIGHT: 'Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.'-Ed Felten, associate professor of computer science, Princeton University
I thought a lot about dancing pigs last week. True, the e-mail-virus attachment that crashed so many computer systems last week was supposed to be a love letter. But when it comes to computer security, pigs and love letters have a lot in common. And you should avoid both of them at all costs. …
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Columbus DispatchMay 10, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: HOME FREE ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION LANDS THREE IN THE IVY LEAGUE
BYLINE: Lee Stratton, Dispatch Accent ReporterThey aimed high and hit the mark.
Charles Nabrit and his wife, Paula Penn-Nabrit, of Westerville put Ivy League schools in their sites when they began home-schooling their three sons nearly a decade ago.
"We started with the idea that if they would be competitive for Ivy League schools, they could get in anywhere," Penn-Nabrit said.
Evan, their youngest son, will attend Amherst College next year. He also was accepted at Dartmouth. His twin brothers, Charles and Damon, are sophomores at Princeton University.
The parents began educating their sons at home in 1991. They wanted a rigorous, demanding curriculum -- one rich with critical thinking and cultural content. Religious beliefs were not the basis of their decision, although the sons' lessons included comparative religion. …
The couple said they were aware of the standards of select universities. Penn-Nabrit's alma mater is Wellesley; her husband's is Dartmouth. They also knew they would have to be able to prove their sons' alternative education measured up to those standards. The boys' competitive SAT and SAT II scores would not do it alone.
Evan also had some public school grades to submit. After the twins left for Princeton, Evan told his parents that having his brothers as his only classmates had been bad enough. "I can't stand to be here alone with you all the time." He was permitted to enroll in Latin and photography classes at Westerville North High School. …
Damon and Charles said their education at home has affected their choices at Princeton.
Charles is strong in humanities and has decided to major in philosophy, instead of his first selection, computer science. Damon is majoring in religion instead of biology. …
San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-NewsMay 10, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Setting an Example;Edison High graduate prepares successors to succeed
BYLINE: J. Michael ParkerFor many Edison High School students, the distance between their school and Trinity University can seem farther psychologically than geographically.
But it wasn't too far for Melissa Ozuna, Edison's 1996 valedictorian. She'll graduate from Trinity this month with a degree in elementary education. …
Ozuna credits her parents, teachers and counselors for their encouragement. Her older sister, Melanie, now 25, also spurred her on.
Melanie Ozuna was Edison's salutatorian in 1993. She graduated from Princeton University and now attends Seton Hall University Law School in South Orange, N.J.
"We were always competing, and that helped me a lot," Melissa Ozuna recalled. …
The Boston Globe
Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper CompanyMay 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: SCIENCE BRIEFS / STEPHEN REUCROFT AND JOHN SWAIN STEPHEN REUCROFT AND JOHN SWAIN ARE EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICISTS WHO TEACH AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY.;
ESSENTIAL CADMIUM
BYLINE: By STEPHEN REUCROFT AND JOHN SWAINLong considered a toxic metal with no known biological importance, cadmium has now turned up as a key component of some enzymes.
Todd Lane and Francois M. M. Morel of Princeton University have shown that when zinc is scarce, some sea creatures use cadmium in its place to make carbonic anhydrases, enzymes that are needed to handle carbon dioxide. Cadmium now joins the rank of elements that are deadly in large doses, but that can be vital in small quantities.
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
May 9, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: A step off the beaten track
DATELINE: VIENTIANE, LAOSI graduated from college nearly two years ago. It's been a while, but the tumultuous months leading up to my graduation - filled with the intense apprehension that accompanies the transition from college life to the great unknown beyond - remain vivid in my mind.
I had done well academically, and plenty of avenues were available to soothe my uncertainty about the future: the lucrative world of investment banking and management consulting, Internet start-ups that promised to be snapped up, continued student life at graduate school. …
I wanted to do some learning outside of the classroom - before someone sat me right back down in a conference room. I was looking for something that couldn't be ranked.
That something turned out to be a job here in Vientiane, the capital of Laos - a place most of my classmates had never even heard of. …
There is one list, however, that the nation does top: Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the history of warfare. During its "secret war" against the Communists in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s, the US military dropped more bombs on the landlocked country than it did during all of World War II.
I barely knew about it when I first accepted the internship here in Vientiane. Although I was an East Asian studies major, the word "Laos" had never once crossed my lips - nor my professors' - during my four years at Princeton University in New Jersey. Following graduation, I devoured every book on the country I could find. But nothing could prepare me for what I would soon learn about Laos, the war - and America. …
America's presence in Laos was widespread, but when the Communists seized power in Vientiane in December 1975, the US government quickly packed up. There was no way around it: We had lost the battle.
But had they really won the war?
My neighbor in Vientiane, Mon, lives in a one-room house along with her children and her younger sister. Mon is the head of the family. During the day, she and her family convert the living room into a small clothing factory and work together to produce an array of colorful shirts and trousers. I drop by Mon's every once in a while, sit on her floor, and ask, "How's business?"
These days, Mon has more on her mind than fashion: While she can't speak a word of English, she is trying desperately to obtain a visa to visit her brother in the United States. He lives in Wichita, Kan.
When the US pulled out of Laos after the war, hundreds of thousands of Lao citizens - ultimately more than 10 percent of the population - fled the country, fearing the new Communist regime. Most of these refugees, like Mon's brother, ended up in the US. …
Like the relatives of American soldiers still missing in Laos, Mon is a victim of a war that continues to wound. Her story is one that needs to be told, one that all Americans should hear.
It is a story I never would have heard had I not made the decision, almost two years ago, to step off the track - away from college rankings, GPAs, and year-end bonuses - and try something different.
It was a difficult choice, but it was the right one.
*Brett Dakin graduated from Princeton University in 1998 and has worked for the past two years in Vientiane, Laos.
CNN
SHOW: CNN IN THE MONEY 11:00May 9, 2000; Tuesday
HEADLINE: Cisco Trading Down Ahead of Quarterly Report; President Clinton, Bipartisan Leaders Call for Normal Trade Relations with China
GUESTS: Ed Timperlake
BYLINE: Bill Tucker, Bruce Francis, Charles Molineaux, Daryn KaganHIGHLIGHT: Cisco Systems shares trading on the downside today, as investors await the company's quarterly reports. Those numbers are due out after the bell. Technology stocks continue to look weak overall. President Clinton and a group of past and present leaders gather in the East Room of the White House to show support for granting permanent normal trade relations to China, which is part of easing China into the World Trade Organization. …
KAGAN: I'm Daryn Kagan in Atlanta. Welcome back to IN THE MONEY.
Once again, we're talking about normalizing trade relations with China. Before the break, we saw a very esteemed panel of guests at the White House supporting a vote that's coming up in Congress on May 22 that supports opening up trade relations and would ease China's way into the World Trade Organization.
Let's bring in our guest. He's Ed Timperlake. He is an author. Perhaps more important to our discussion here, he served under the Bush and Reagan administrations. Mr. Timperlake's book is called "Red Dragon Rising."
Mr. Timperlake, some of the people who support going -- having China come into the WTO, some very strong names, Alan Greenspan, for instance, the Fed chairman saying it would promote economic development, reduce poverty and push China to provide more individual rights for a billion people.
Hard to argue with that, but I think you see it differently.
ED TIMPERLAKE, AUTHOR, "RED DRAGON RISING": Yes, I do very much so. I'm first and foremost a military national security individual who dedicated most of my life to those issues, and I put this in a much more important context for the American people.
Ten years ago, a man walked out in a square, Tiananmen Square, shopping bags in his hands, and stood in front of a tank. It was a defining moment in the 20th century. We thought freedom was going to break out in China. At that moment, the tank driver chose not to take on that man. Later, late in the evening, they killed a bunch of kids. It has gone downhill since then.
There is life support going into the ruling regime in Beijing. I'm not against wheat and Beanie Babies, but when they take a look at the high-tech, military, duel-use equipment that they tend to get their hands on, or the trade imbalance, the money they get, the hard currency, that they tend to buy high-tech equipment from Russia.
For example, in the last 48 hours, if you believe the press reports, they've tightened up on journalists -- the visas for journalists to go into China. They've stepped on the -- it's been reported they stepped on the academic integrity of Princeton University. They're dragging grandmothers out of Tiananmen Square by the hair. The leaders in China are petrified of their people. And quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with the laying and saying this vote should be stopped for a year and then see what happens. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 2000 Newsday, Inc.May 9, 2000
HEADLINE: HOT ON THE TRAIL OF UNIVERSE'S MISSING MATTER
BYLINE: By Robert Cooke. STAFF WRITERNEW STUDIES of the night sky using the Hubble Space Telescope seem to be solving one of the vexing riddles in astronomy: Where's the missing matter?
For at least a decade, scientists have been trying to achieve balance between how much "stuff" they can see in the universe and what their calculations say should be out there. Now, by analyzing light from distant quasars, they may have solved about half of the problem.
According to astrophysicist Todd Tripp, the new observations "may well solve a long-standing problem -the question of what happened to all of the ordinary matter that we could see in the early universe."
The term "ordinary matter" is important here. It leaves out the truly exotic things like WIMPs (weakly interactive massive particles), heavy neutrinos and other odd things that astrophysicists hope someday to find. They refer to such exotica as "dark matter," as compared to the "missing matter" now being found in the form of hydrogen ions.
The dark matter and the missing matter-though both are elusive - are different things to physicists. The missing matter is the stuff scientists know got made when the universe was born. The dark matter is more of a puzzle, because scientists don't know what it is, where it is, or even whether it exists. They suspect dark matter exists, because of the way gravity is moving the galaxies around. But it has not been found.
The new discovery of missing matter-the invisible hydrogen ions - helps show that theories about how the universe was born in a Big Bang 15 billion years ago are probably on track. Much of the hydrogen that should exist apparently does exist, though unseen.
Still, finding this major amount of hydrogen doesn't answer the far bigger riddle of whether the whole universe is "open" or "closed," Tripp said. That fundamental question asks whether enough matter exists to generate strong enough gravity to control the ultimate fate of everything. …
Tripp, at Princeton University, explained that by looking far enough out into space-equivalent to looking far back in time-astronomers can see that a lot more matter was visible in the past than is visible now in the nearby universe. So if large amounts of matter-mostly hydrogen-got made in the Big Bang, and was detectable earlier, where is it now?
The answer, according to the new findings, is that the missing hydrogen still is afloat among the stars and galaxies, but is invisible because it's extremely hot. …
NOTE: This story also appeared in The Houston Chronicle.
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.May 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Latino Youth Inc., Launches Graphic Arts Career Program
DATELINE: BANNOCKBURN, Ill., May 9Latino Youth, Inc., a comprehensive youth services organization in Chicago, has launched a graphic arts career-training program for students ages 14 to 21 with the support of corporate funding led by H&S Media, Inc. of Bannockburn, Illinois, and participation by the W.P. and H.B. White Foundation of Northfield, Illinois.
The graphic arts program follows Latino Youth's mission of providing services to youth who need a second chance. Highlights of projects include a school yearbook for Latino Youth Alternative High School (LYAHS) and an article for PoJo's Unofficial Pokemon News & Price Guide Monthly magazine, published by H&S Media.
"Our goal is to turn the graphic arts career program into a student-run business," said Stephen Bonzak, program manager for LYAHS. Harvey Wasserman, chief executive officer of H&S Media, added, "I believe it's important that youth have opportunities to develop skills in areas that interest them. I feel privileged to be able to participate in offering these opportunities." …
Programs that make a difference
David Prado and Robert Mendoza, both 18, are prime examples of young people who have excelled in Latino Youth programs. Prado represented the United States as a facilitator of Play for Peace games at the World Conference of Churches in South Africa. One of five LYAHS recipients of the Tammy Wasserman Scholarship Award, Prado is attending Northern Illinois University. Mendoza, a participant in the graphic arts program, came to Latino Youth through its runaway and homeless shelter. A senior at LYAHS, Mendoza will be attending Princeton University in fall 2000.
United Press International
Copyright 2000 U.P.I.May 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Stories of modern science...From UPI
BYLINE: By JIM KLING, UPI Science WriterTHE FLAT UNIVERSE: An aerial balloon experiment -- called the Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array (MAXIMA) -- seems to confirm that the universe is 'flat.' Scientists believe that only a small fraction of the cosmos is made up of ordinary matter like stars and galaxies. The new data comes from an experiment which measures ripples in the background radiation believed to have been created by the Big Bang explosion that created the Universe. The data support a model called 'inflation,' which postulates that the Universe experienced rapid growth in the first second of its existence, and that as a result space is now flat rather than curved. The results imply that the Universe will continue to expand forever, rather than collapsing in a Big Crunch that perhaps will lead eventually to another Big Bang cycle. "It's very plausible, both from the observations and on theoretical grounds, that we do live in a flat universe," said Jeremiah Ostriker of Princeton University. The evidence is "pretty compelling."
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Dartmouth via U-WireMay 9, 2000
HEADLINE: Schools use different types of judiciary committees
BYLINE: By Alice Gomstyn, The DartmouthSOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.With last term's Computer Science 4 cheating scandal and this term's Initiative announcements by the Board of Trustees, the makeup of Dartmouth's judicial board is now in the spotlight.
While Dartmouth may soon have a two-part judicial system, with one committee -- the Committee on Standards -- overseeing cases of individual misconduct while another, yet-to-be-created body handling cases involving all organizational misconduct, other schools have found different ways to handle disciplinary matters. …
Princeton University has a two-part judicial system. According to the university's "Rights, Rules and Responsibilities" guide, cases of student misconduct are heard by the Residential College Disciplinary Board, composed of the five administrators and the Associate Dean of Student Life.
The Committee on Discipline -- comprising five students selected by Princeton's student government, four elected faculty members, the dean of student life and the dean of undergraduate students -- handles cases of alleged academic infractions. …
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
Copyright 2000 Multimedia Publishing of North Carolina, Inc.May 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: COMMUNITY BRIEFS Asheville native named to Emory post
ASHEVILLE - A professor of church history at Duke University's divinity school, Russell E. Richey, has been named the dean of Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Richey, a native of Asheville, served as associate dean for academic programs at Duke Divinity School from 1986-1997 and taught for 17 years at Drew University's theological and graduate schools before that. He received master's and Ph.D degrees from Princeton University.
He is an ordained elder in the N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church and serves as seminary liaison to the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns.
Candler is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun CompanyMay 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: Lacrosse seeds grow on teams
Hopkins, Loyola, UM all get their wish in field lacking surprises
BYLINE: Gary Lambrecht
SOURCE: SUN STAFFJohns Hopkins got the first-round bye it was expecting, Loyola got the potential rematch it wanted, and Maryland is back in the hunt after missing the party a year ago.
The NCAA unveiled the 12-team field for the 30th annual Division I men's lacrosse championship tournament last night, and the selection commitee produced no surprises.
As the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, Syracuse and Virginia were set on a course to meet in a rematch for the Division I crown on May 29 at Byrd Stadium, where Virginia beat the Orangemen to claim the championship in 1999.
Along with No. 3 Princeton, Johns Hopkins also earned a first-round bye as the No. 4 seed. Right behind the Blue Jays are Loyola and Maryland. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun CompanyMay 8, 2000
HEADLINE: Locator system draws bead on better accuracy; GPS: The federal government has stopped scrambling the signals, rendering devices using the navigation system far more precise.
BYLINE: Kevin Washington
SOURCE: Sun StaffThe federal government gave hikers, boaters, truckers and other navigators a surprise present last week when it made their Global Positioning System receivers 10 times more accurate than they were the week before.
On May 1, the military stopped scrambling the GPS signals broadcast from a constellation of 27 satellites orbiting the Earth from a little more than 12, 000 miles away. The Defense Department, which had been adding fuzz to the signals to keep enemies from using them in operations against U.S. forces, now says it can rescramble the signals on a regional basis if war breaks out.
Before the switch, GPS devices, which help sailors find their locations and ambulance crews locate accident scenes, could usually pinpoint their location within 325 feet -- a variation larger than a football field.
With the scrambling gone, GPS units will be accurate to between 48 and 60 feet.
People who sell and use GPS devices are ecstatic.
"This was one of those things that was a no-brainer," says Alain L. Kornhauser, a professor at Princeton University and CEO of TravRoute, which makes GPS-based navigation systems used in cars, trucks, boats and other vehicles. "This is a realization that we've been making a mistake. ... The Cold War is over. Why not let the public that has paid for this get the full benefit of it?" …
Business Wire
Copyright 2000 Business Wire, Inc.May 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: Incorporate This! Gives College Students Chance To Fulfill Dot-com Dreams; CollegeClub.com Awards Cash Scholarships and Review by Internet Incubator campsix
DATELINE: SAN DIEGO, May 8, 2000CollegeClub.com today announced the finalists for Incorporate This!(SM) -- a scholarship contest created to promote Internet business start-ups and entrepreneurship among students.
CollegeClub.com, with support from universities and professors, invited college students to submit plans for businesses that can be launched on the Internet to win a $10,000 scholarship and a $5,000 cash donation to his/her school. In addition, the winning student will receive an all expense paid trip to San Francisco for a rare opportunity to meet with campsix, an e-business incubator that provides start-ups access to funding, facilities and on-premise support. …
The Incorporate This! finalists developed business plans and submitted their entries via the Web through www.incorporatethis.com. A panel of expert judges evaluated the plans in the following areas: concept viability, marketing, projected financial return, market share and other relevant metrics over a three-year period. Following are the finalists and their ideas: …
-- Waine Tam, 20, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. ServiceBee.com is an online community where local businesses would competitively bid for service requests in a reverse-auction format. …
The Detroit News
Copyright 2000 The Detroit News, Inc.May 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: Michigan's Top 20 high school seniors
Sara Jane Fox
Grosse Pointe South High
Category: Against All Odds
GPA: 3.88Achievements: Cancer survivor; youth group mission trip and work camp in Israel; Grosse Pointe Memorial Church Parish Life and Session member; Moondance OutdoorLeadership course; AAA Women's Travel Ice Hockey state champion; First Team All-State Michigan Metro Girls Ice Hockey League; Detroit News and School Sports Athlete of the Week; National Honor Society; Phi Beta Kappa.
Parents: Bill and Jane Fox
College: Princeton University
Major: Pre-med, environmental science
Career plans: Doctor, medical missionary
The Gazette (Montreal)
Copyright 2000 Southam Inc.May 8, 2000
HEADLINE: Foreign-policy background not crucial
BYLINE: L. IAN MACDONALD
DATELINE: WASHINGTONIf foreign-policy experience were a prerequisite for the White House, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton would not have been elected U.S. presidents in the 20th century.
Wilson, a former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey, only led America into World War I, was an architect of the Treaty of Versailles and a founder of the League of Nations, which the United States, in the end, did not join. …
National Public Radio (NPR)SHOW: MORNING EDITION
May 8, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: INCREASING INTEREST IN STUDYING THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
ANCHORS: BOB EDWARDS
REPORTERS: WENDY KAUFMANBOB EDWARDS, host:
Mandarin Chinese is the world's most widely spoken language. And as the number of Asian immigrants to the US has grown, so has interest in Chinese. American corporations see economic gold in China's markets. And to do business in China, it's helpful to speak the language. The number of American schoolchildren studying Chinese has more than doubled in the past four years. It's not an easy language to master. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports some Seattle area schoolchildren are having a good time trying.
WENDY KAUFMAN reporting:
The sixth graders in Su Chen Wang's class can't wait to show off their knowledge of Chinese. They start singing even before they are told to begin.
Group of Schoolchildren: (Singing in Chinese)
KAUFMAN: These students at Odle Middle School in Bellevue, Washington, have been studying Chinese since the beginning of the school year. They're part of a growing trend to teach American students Chinese and to begin teaching them at a relatively young age. …
KAUFMAN: Wang like other teachers of Chinese is encouraged by the rise in the number of American schoolchildren now studying the language. It's now about 22,000, according to a survey done by Princeton University. That's two and a half times what it was in the mid-1990s. But it's still a fraction of those who study Spanish or French.
Professor Perry Link of Princeton says Americans have a long way to go.
Professor PERRY LINK (Princeton): It's one of the big embarrassments of the modern world that so many Asian people, in general--and Chinese, in particular--are studying English and are learning English. So very, very few are studying Chinese in our country. …
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.May 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: UDC Announces Three New Materials Patents For Organic Light Emitting Devices (OLEDs)
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J., May 8Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: PANL; PHLX: PNL), developer of an innovative flat panel display technology based on organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), announced today that its Research Partners, Princeton University and University of Southern California (USC), have received three new patents for unique materials used to produce organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). UDC has the exclusive worldwide license for these and other associated patents.
"These three materials patents add additional depth and breadth to our portfolio, which now exceeds 20 US patents issued and more than 50 pending. The OLED industry is in its infancy and acquiring protected broad based intellectual property is key to our business strategy as we develop innovative OLED materials, architectures and devices," said Steven V. Abramson, President of Universal Display Corporation.
One patent, "Materials for Multicolor Light Emitting Diodes," relates to a family of molecules that can function as either host materials or dopants and can emit light in the blue region. Another patent, "Red-Emitting Organic Light Emitting Devices," relates to compounds that enable the generation of saturated red light emissions. …
UDC has been developing OLED technology with Princeton University and The University of Southern California (USC) since 1994. This partnership continues to be committed to the innovative research and commercialization of this proprietary OLED technology.
Universal Display Corporation is located only 20 minutes away from the Company's research partners at Princeton University, having recently moved into a new 11,000 sq. ft facility which includes a pilot production line as well as technology development and technology transfer facilities. With over 2,500 square feet of clean room space, this state-of-the-art facility is ideal to further technology development, transfer technology to manufacturing partners and work with customers to develop products to meet their needs for electronic flat panel displays. …
Roll Call
Copyright 2000 Roll Call, Inc.May 8, 2000
BYLINE: By Lauren W. Whittington
WENDY WAVES GOOD-BYE: Wendy Selig, formerly administrative assistant to Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), left the Hill last week after 11 years to become managing director of federal government relations for the American Cancer Society.
In addition to being Goss' top aide, Selig also served as counsel to the House Rules subcommittee on legislative and budget process and was a professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Selig began her career as a member of the fourth estate, spending four years as a journalist before making the leap into politics in 1988, when she became press secretary for Joe Azzolina's (R) unsuccessful campaign against now-Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.). …
Selig, 35, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1986 and in 1987 received a master's in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 1994, she participated in the Senior Managers in Government Program, part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 2000 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.May 8, 2000, Monday
HEADLINE: ST. LOUIS PLAYS A ROLE IN BOOK OF MEMOIRS BY LADUE NATIVE ELIZABETH KENDALL
BYLINE: Allecia Vermillion; Of The Post-DispatchAuthor Elizabeth Kendall describes St. Louis society of old as a sort of character in her new book, "American Daughter: Discovering My Mother."
Her memoirs focus on coming of age in St. Louis during the 1940s through 1960s. "American Daughter" (Random House, $23.95) begins with the death of Kendall's mother in a car accident in 1969 when the author, who was driving, was a senior in college.
Kendall retraces her mother's life and her own childhood as they were shaped by the cultural currents of upper crust St. Louis in the days before civil rights and strides toward equality for women.
Kendall, who now lives in New York, returns to her native city infrequently. To-night, she will be reading from her memoirs at Left Bank Books. She felt it was appropriate to begin her battery of promotional visits and book signings in the city that is such a player in her story. …
Kendall remembers cheering her mother's efforts. One anecdote in "American Daughter" recalls Betty Kendall informing her children that "eating TV dinners on her meeting nights was their way of helping Negroes."
Kendall now teaches dance at Princeton University and Bard College. Her previous books have been about dance and romantic comedy.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-WireMay 8, 2000
HEADLINE: Student demand prompts renewal of Princeton Swahili course
BYLINE: By Rob Laset, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Reversing a decision that drew heated criticism, Princeton University has reinstated an introductory Swahili course that it had previously announced would not be offered again in the fall.
The disclosure by Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin in an interview Sunday that the class would make an encore appearance next year follows weeks of protest by outraged students against the University's initial decision to stop offering the class.
Dobin previously cited lack of funding as the reason for canceling the course, which was offered for the first time this year. But he said yesterday that additional funds from the Provost's office would enable the University to offer the course for a second time.
"We found the resources and there seemed to be student demand," he said. "With the additional funds, there was really no reason not to do it."
Religion professor Ephraim Isaac, who teaches the Swahili course, said he was pleased with the University's final decision. He explained that students were primarily concerned about the message discontinuation of the African language course would send to others.
"It is important that we have some sort of respectful attitude to [African] cultures. Otherwise it might seem we are disrespectful of them," Isaac said. "Princeton can become a greater institution only when its door is open to African cultures as well as other cultures." …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
May 8, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Parents' Push Gives Students More SAT Time
BYLINE: Jay Mathews , Washington Post Staff WriterDeLante Penn-Andrews, a track and football star at the District's Eastern High School, yearns to go to college, but his low SAT scores have stood in the way. Recently, however, his mother discovered that because he has a learning disability, he is entitled to extra time when he takes the test.
Last month, the 18-year-old senior with a C average took the Scholastic Assessment Test again, this time with 90 minutes added to the usual three hours and with a counselor reading him some of the questions. "It helped a lot. I think I did much better," said Penn-Andrews, who has dyslexia. "I had time to think through each answer carefully."
This accommodation would have been business as usual at a private school or a suburban school. At such schools, which cater to affluent, college-conscious families, many students take the SAT with extra time because of disabilities. …
Federal law bars colleges from discriminating against applicants because of disabilities, and admissions officials say they treat all SAT scores the same regardless of the testing conditions.
Nevertheless, some college administrators are openly skeptical about some disability claims. "Sometimes when I am reading applications, I feel like I should put on rubber gloves so I won't catch all the disabilities students from affluent families seem to be getting," Princeton University's dean of admissions, Fred A. Hargadon, said at the annual conference of the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling in Virginia Beach last Monday. …
SUNDAY NEWS (LANCASTER, PA.)
Copyright 2000 Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.May 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: He's running with the best in the nation; MU's Jim Carney has won All-American honors twice this year. He'll try to add to that in 5,000 and 10,000.
BYLINE: Jim HershAfter taking a year off from college competition, Millersville's Jim Carney wasn't sure what awaited him when he returned to Millersville's cross country and track teams last fall.
"I didn't expect this," he said with a laugh the other day. "I wasn't even sure the coach would let me be on the team. It's a privilege to be on the team, not a right."
Remarkably, Carney, a very good performer in his first two years with the Marauders, turned into one of NCAA Division II's best distance runners as a senior.
Among his achievements, Carney:
Finished 13th in the nation in cross country last fall and fourth in the 5,000 meters in indoor track this winter, earning All-American honors in both events. In cross country, he was second in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and NCAA Division II East Regional championships and won the Kutztown, Dickinson and Gettysburg invitationals. …
Set MU indoor records this winter in the mile (4:13.92), 3,000 meters (8:23.91) and 5,000 meters (14:00.73). He won the 5,000 at the Delaware Invitational and the 3,000 at the Bison Open at Bucknell.
Finished second overall (by .24 of a second) and was the first collegiate finisher in the 5,000 (14:23.75) at Princeton's Sam Howell Memorial Invitational on April 1. He won the 3,000 (8:31.12) at the Lafayette Invitational on April 22. …
Chapel Hill Herald
Copyright 2000 The Durham Herald Co.
May 7, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Provost leaving UNC without his steady hand: Armed with humor, Dick Richardson rose from a nervous associate professor to an indispensable leader
BYLINE: ERIC FERRERI The Chapel Hill HeraldCHAPEL HILL - Ever since he began teaching, Dick Richardson knew he wanted to retire at age 65.
There was no particular reason, it just sounded like the right age to let go of one part of life and move into another.
Consider then, what might have happened around UNC had Richardson, the university's provost, turned 65 in 1999 rather than this year.
Last year was perhaps the most tumultuous in the history of the state's flagship university. Over the course of the year, UNC dealt with the death of its chancellor, other key staff departures, a near-crippling budget shortfall and a failed attempt to get adequate funding for facility improvements.
Through it all, Richardson remained a constant, steadying force. With interim administrators filling key posts throughout the South Building, all eyes turned to him for guidance.
Of course, had he turned 65 last year, Richardson wouldn't have left his beloved university in the lurch.
"I wouldn't have left [if that were the case]," he said recently, reflecting on the past year. "I feel I can leave now."
Richardson will retire next month, closing a 31-year UNC career during which he has won a pile of teaching awards while earning the respect and admiration of colleagues and students. …
Richardson wasn't the only organizer of the bicentennial observance, but he kept nerves steady during a long and arduous planning process, said Richard Cole, dean of UNC's school of journalism and mass communication. Cole was chairman of the observance's planning committee and worked closely with Richardson. …
Steven Tepper, a 1989 UNC grad who was executive director of the observance, credits Richardson with keeping the staff on a steady course.
"He really kept all of us afloat, the whole staff," said Tepper, now a doctoral student in arts and cultural policy at Princeton University. "We were under a lot of stress, and he kept our spirits high. I like to think the whole bicentennial reflected his character; serious and reflective, but also with a touch of levity." …
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Copyright 2000 The Deseret News Publishing Co.
May 7, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Scientists uncover interstellar matter
BYLINE: Associated PressWASHINGTON -- The search for much of the matter that makes up the universe has been like looking for a wall in a dark room -- you know it's there holding up the ceiling, you just can't see it.
But now astronomers have flipped on a light switch, using the brilliance of a distant stellar object to detect tendrils of hydrogen in the vast dark between galaxies. The discovery of the mysterious matter, long predicted but undetected, could reveal much about the large-scale structure of the universe, astronomers say.
Scientists determined the presence of invisible matter years ago by measuring the motion of stars within galaxies. They found that stellar objects visible from Earth did not contain enough mass to provide the gravitational force that keeps the galaxies from flying apart.
So there had to be more stuff out there somewhere.
Astronomers believe at least 90 percent of the matter in the universe is hidden in an exotic dark form that still hasn't been seen directly.
The other 10 percent consists of baryonic, or ordinary, matter -- everything from stars to skyscrapers to people. And it has been embarrassing to scientists that, until now, they have only identified about half of this ordinary matter.
But now, using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have uncovered the missing half, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. The discovery confirms previous predictions of how much hydrogen was created in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, the universe's birth.
"This is a successful, fundamental test of cosmological models," said Todd Tripp, a Princeton University researcher who worked to find the missing hydrogen. "This provides strong evidence that the models are on the right track."
The results of Tripp and his collaborators are being published in the May 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times CompanyMay 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: ART REVIEW; Revealing the Strength of Segal as Sculptor and Draftsman
BYLINE: By FRED B. ADELSON
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIAGEORGE SEGAL, a master of 20th-century figurative sculpture, has been living and working on what was once a poultry farm in South Brunswick for more than 50 years. His tableaux of contemporary American life made in his studio, a former chicken coop, bring together elements of both sculpture and painting, high art and consumer culture. No history of the Pop Art movement could be complete without a discussion of his assemblages. …
Eight sculptures and 16 drawings by Mr. Segal are presently on display here at the Locks Gallery. With works from 1983 to 1999, the show becomes an intimate retrospective exhibition of the artist in his late years. …
Mr. Segal's involvement with bronze casting began in the late 1970's as a result of commissions he received for public sculptures. Several of his outdoor bronze works may be seen around New Jersey: "In Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State: Abraham and Isaac" (1978) at Princeton University; "Toll Booth Collector" (1980) at the Newark Museum; "The Constructors" (1987) at 200 West State Street in Trenton; and "The Depression Bread Line (1999) at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times CompanyMay 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: New Questions On Drug Plans As Costs Soar
BYLINE: By MILT FREUDENHEIMAmericans took home some 2.8 billion prescriptions last year, obtaining some of the newest, most heavily advertised and most expensive drugs. They bought many of those medications as members of managed care drug plans run by pharmacy benefit managers, companies that arrange discounts from retail drugstores and often operate mail-order pharmacies on behalf of employer health plans.
Now the pharmacy benefit management companies, or P.B.M.'s, which handle drug benefits for 200 million Americans, are being assigned an important role in widely discussed proposals to add a drug benefit to Medicare.
Supporters of a Medicare drug benefit, including President Clinton, believe that the pharmacy benefit managers could obtain discounts from pharmacists and rebates from drugmakers for all Medicare beneficiaries, just as they are expected to do for employer health plans and Medicare health maintenance organizations. The managers, sponsors suggest, would help rein in the costs of the new Medicare program. …
The drugmakers' prices are flexible, depending on the buyer. "They set a price that they think they can get away with," said Uwe Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University. …
News & Record
Copyright 2000 News & Record (Greensboro, NC)May 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: THE CANTERBURY SCHOOL WILL BUILD NEW CHAPEL
Canterbury School, Greensboro's only Episcopal kindergarten through eighth-grade day school, will undertake the construction of a school chapel.
Kermit and Monica Phillips have pledged the largest, single commitment of financial support the school has received to date. This seven-figure gift wil initiate the construction of the Phillips Chapel.
Phillips, owner of Phillips Management Group, has grandchildren enrolled at the school.
The Phillips chapel will house the entire school community and will be flexible in its use. In the cathedral tradition, in which space may be used in many ways, seating will be with cathedral chairs rather than fixed pews. The chapel's primary use will be worship, and the building's cathedral design will make that fact obvious. …
Hoyl, Doran and Berry, successor firm of Cramm & Ferguson, owns the designs of famous cathedral architect Ralph Adams Cramm, who designed The Cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York City and Princeton University Chapel. Cramm & Ferguson designed St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. …
The Post and Courier
Copyright 2000 The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)May 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: Parish is focusing on sacred spaces
BYLINE: Dave Munday Of The Post and CourierOne of the dangers of trying to design a modern worship service is losing the sense of God's transcendence, says the Rev. Jay Scott Newman, pastor of Divine Redeemer Catholic Church in Hanahan.
Transcendence is a theological word that means beyond the limits of ordinary experience. In Christian experience, it's that feeling of awe that separates creatures from the Creator.
Newman recalls his first sense of transcendence when he was a young atheist at Princeton University.
Princeton has a grand Gothic-style chapel made of stone and glass, designed to impress those who enter with a sense of their mortality. Newman says he got his first real taste of God while sitting alone in that building in the spring of 1981.
"Although I was an atheist, I felt myself drawn there by the beauty of the place," he says. "It touched something in my soul." …
St. Petersburg Times
Copyright 2000 Times Publishing CompanyMay 07, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: Ridgewood's Seels picks E. Tennessee State
BYLINE: JOHN C. COTEYCiting the "family atmosphere", Ridgewood basketball player Cory Seels has signed with Division I-A East Tennessee State.
"I just felt real comfortable there," said Seels, who visited the school last weekend. "I was real comfortable with the coach and the players. After my visit, I just knew it was the place for me, definitely."
A transfer from Robinson, the 6-foot-9, 265-pound center anchored the Rams middle this season, helping the team to a 20-10 record. He averaged 16.5 points and a county-best 10.2 rebounds, and was an all-Sunshine Athletic Conference pick as well as the Times Pasco County Player of the Year.
Seels was ranked among the Top 100 players in America by the Bob Gibbons All-Star Scouting Service. Last summer he attended the National Basketball Association Players Association camp at Princeton University, where he ranked 18th out of 45 seniors. …
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 2000 The Hearst CorporationMay 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: Study says church groups favor progressive causes
BYLINE: Religion News ServiceHIGHLIGHT: Findings debunk perception that faiths care only for conservative issues
A new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that religious groups, led by mainline Protestant denominations, are more interested in progressive causes than conservative issues favored by the religious right.
A survey of 5,603 adults found that most people think churches should take the lead in advocating racial reconciliation, environmental protection and advocacy for the poor -- all issues that have been central to the mainline message for decades.
While the 1990s saw the rise of conservative evangelicals, the study found the causes advocated by mainline groups are the issues the public cares the most about.
''The perception that religious groups are really only interested in conservative issues is not true,'' said Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow, who led the study. ''They are not only focused on abortion or prayer in schools. Progressive issues do seem to be of enormous important to people.'' …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington PostMay 7, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: The Silent Treatment
BYLINE: Ian ShapiraPHOENIX
A Brother's Life
By J.D. Dolan
Knopf. 192 pp. $22Back in the summer of 1985, a large, high-pressure pipeline carrying superheated steam--at temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit--ruptured at Southern California Edison's Mohave generating station; afterward, "sixteen people had been cooked alive; six finally died from thermal burns. The story was largely forgotten."
So writes J.D. Dolan in his memoir Phoenix: A Brother's Life, a brutally honest account that tells the vivid, wrenching history of his relationship with his older brother John, who lost 90 percent of his skin in the explosion only to languish speechless, practically motionless and, as we understand early on, hopeless, in a Phoenix hospital's burn unit.
For the most part, the first-time author exudes a veteran's confidence--an achievement in an often sappy memoir market. He recalls with detailed precision and blessed humor growing up in post-World War II Los Angeles, where sleek automobiles, desert motorcycle races and sweet-looking sunglasses mattered most. For J.D., these amenities and rituals were handed down by his cool brother, 11 years older, who "smelled of Old Spice, or sometimes motor oil, or sometimes both." The author's writing, lean and exacting, complements his boyish and often perceptive sentiments. Dolan opens the book by recalling how he admired his brother's abilities: "He could stay up late. He could shave. He had a Remington .22 rifle." …
Ian Shapira is a senior majoring in English at Princeton University, where he is writing a thesis on Michael Herr.
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
May 07, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Protestants keep an eye on politics, new figures show; Outdo outspoken evangelicals
BYLINE: Larry Witham; THE WASHINGTON TIMESThe nation's 20 million mainstream Protestants pay more attention to politics than the more outspoken evangelicals who seize headlines as the so-called "Religious Right," a new study shows.
Americans who attend mainline Protestant churches, which lean toward moderate-to-liberal social issues, are more likely than conservative Protestants to follow government and public affairs "most of the time."
"We have too often assumed that mainline Protestants are politically dormant" when they are actually "politically interested and active," said Princeton University sociologist Robert Wuthnow, who directed the in-depth survey of 5,603 American adults between January and March. The findings were released last week. …
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Duke professor named dean of Emory's Candler School of Theology
DATELINE: ATLANTA
A professor of church history at Duke University's divinity school, Russell E. Richey, has been named the dean of Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Richey, a native of Asheville, N.C., served as associate dean for academic programs at Duke Divinity School from 1986-1997 and taught for 17 years at Drew University's theological and graduate schools before that. He received master's and Ph.D degrees from Princeton University.
He is an ordained elder in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and serves as seminary liaison to the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns.
Candler is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church.
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Target to donate $1 million for bandshell on St. Paul's Harriet Island
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLISTarget Corp. will donate $1 million to build a bandshell as part of the $13.5 million renovation of Harriet Island on the Mississippi River across from downtown St. Paul.
The bandshell, designed by internationally known architect Michael Graves, is expected to be ready for use by spring 2001, Target spokeswoman Patty Morris said Friday.
It will have an open-air framework with a rectangular 1,904-square-foot limestone stage and a 46-foot copper canopy suspended between steel towers.
Construction of the bandshell will complete the first phase of the city's extensive effort to restore the underused park to its former elegance and popularity.
The bandshell will be used for variety of community events and will be available for private parties as the schedule permits, city officials said.
"It will be an impromptu picnic shelter, a favorite place for weddings, recitals, school band performances and graduations," said Chris Oshikata, marketing director for the nonprofit Riverfront Corporation, which has worked with the St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department on the island makeover.
The bandshell proposal won approval from the city's Planning Commission in late March.
Graves, a Princeton University professor acclaimed for his contemporary architecture, also recently designed a line of avant-garde housewares sold by Target and created the temporary scaffolding used during the Target-funded restoration of the Washington Monument.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 2000 The Atlanta ConstitutionMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: AmenCorner;
News and notes of interest to the religious, spiritual and volunteer communities of metro Atlanta
BYLINE: StaffRichey named dean of Emory's Candler School of Theology
Russell E. Richey, professor of church history at Duke University Divinity School, has been named dean of Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Candler is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church.
"Dr. Richey's commitment to and knowledge of the United Methodist Church, his strong administrative abilities, his expertise in theological education, and his excellence as a scholar of Wesleyan and Methodist studies make him well qualified to lead Candler at this stage of its history," said Emory President William M. Chace.
Richey served as associate dean for academic programs at Duke Divinity School from 1986-97. Prior to that, he taught for 17 years at Drew University in the theological and graduate schools and served for three years as assistant to the president at Drew. …
Richey, a native of Asheville, N.C., holds a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University, a bachelor of divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and master's and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. …
Chicago Daily Herald
Copyright 2000 Paddock Publications, Inc.May 6, 2000, Saturday
BYLINE: Kent McDill Daily Herald Sports Writer
Language problems: There are dozens of languages spoken among the 20 players on the Fire roster. One them is "southern Wisconsin English".
Midfielder Jesse Marsch is from Racine, Wis., and although he attended Princeton University, he has a lot of Wisconsin left in him.
Marsch was describing how tired the Tampa Bay players were when they played at Soldier Field last Friday after playing at home on Wednesday.
"Yeah, they were knackered,'' Marsch said.
CNN
SHOW: CNN YOUR MONEY 07:00May 6, 2000; Saturday
HEADLINE: Making Your Money Go Further When Taking Care of Loved Ones; How to Ask the Boss for More Money; Is Paying Cash for a New House a Good Idea?
GUESTS: Suzanne Woolley
BYLINE: John Metaxas, Casey Wian, Allan Dodds Frank, Laura RowleyJOHN METAXAS, HOST: Taking care of elderly parents can cost you thousands. We'll tell you how to make your money go further when taking care of loved ones. Suzanne Woolley of "Money" magazine joins us with some tips.
Blood, sweat, and tears is what it takes to do your job, and now you want a raise? We'll tell you how to ask the boss for more of your money.
You didn't get into Harvard, but believe it or not, you might be better off without an Ivy League education, at least as far as your money is concerned. We'll explain. …
LAURA ROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Taylor Spearnak is a standout in this accelerated chemistry class at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. An ambitious achiever, Taylor applied to eight colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth.
Only the Ivy League schools rejected her.
TAYLOR SPEARNAK, STUDENT: I sort of just said, You know what? I got into six other schools, I have a great choice of where I want to go. And I really don't think it's where you go to school now, it's how you apply yourself.
ROWLEY: A recent study confirms that. Two economists looked at an equally talented group of students who started college in 1976. They applied to the nation's most selective schools, and some were rejected. Two decades later, the graduates were earning roughly the same income.
ALAN KRUEGER, ECONOMIST, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Students have to invest the effort to see what the strengths are of the college that you're considering. There's just not a uniform rank based on schools that are more prestigious, which are better for everyone. …
ROWLEY: The study's authors conclude that students should do what Taylor did, find a school with academic strengths that matched their interests and a campus environment that's a good fit.
KRUEGER: It's the student's own personal motivations, ambition, talents, what they will get out of college, that will influence their success, not the name on their degree.
ROWLEY (on camera): The name on a diploma may not make a difference, but the diploma itself clearly does. On average, students who earn an undergraduate degree make twice the money of those who don't. …
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Columbus DispatchMay 6, 2000, Saturday
SECTION: EDITORIAL & COMMENT
HEADLINE: UNCHANGING CONSTANT: GOOD CAN'T BE ACHIEVED THROUGH EVIL"Even though three of his grandparents perished in the Holocaust, editorial writers have likened him to the Nazis.'' Thus wrote Kathi Wolfe of the Religious News Service in a recent piece published in The Dispatch Faith & Values section referring to Peter Singer, professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Of course, this is a nonsequitur. His grandparents may also have been devout religious Jews but the article says that Singer is an atheist. Which goes to say that the views of his grandparents are not necessarily Singer's views.
According to the article, "Singer holds a view of ethics known as preference utilitarianism, which judges right or wrong by the long-term consequences of actions.'' An obvious limitation of this view is that we do not know what the long-term consequences of our actions will be. Adolf Hitler, for instance, thought that Jewish influence in Germany was an impediment to the glorification of the German nation. He then set out on a radical elimination of the Jews. According to Singer's views, then, Hitler would have been an upright, moral man, since he thought "the long-term consequences of his actions'' would be the glorification of Germany, which for him would have been the supreme good. …
The wisdom of the ages attests to this truth; Mosaic law and Christian doctrine attest to this truth. We disregard this truth at our own risk, because "the long-term consequences'' of evil actions cannot, of necessity, be anything but evil. The assignment of a man like Peter Singer to be chairman of bioethics at Princeton is an ominous sign of the tolerance of, and even indifference to, evil that we witness all around us today.
Luis F. Caso
Worthington
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2000 The Dallas Morning NewsMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Is life sacred? This ethicist says no
SOURCE: Religion News Service
BYLINE: Kathi Wolfe
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.PRINCETON, N.J. - Ethicists aren't rock stars or politicians. Outside academia, they rarely arouse much passion. This decidedly isn't the case, however, with Peter Singer, the 53-year-old DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Mr. Singer, best known as an animal rights advocate, questions the conventional wisdom - especially in religious communities - that human life is sacred.
His views outrage some religious leaders. Demonstrators in wheelchairs protested his appointment to Princeton, where he began teaching last fall. Editorial writers have said he's Nazi-like.
Yet Mr. Singer is a natural hero to followers of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights group, and many ethicists - even those who disagree with him - say he is a moral man.
Mr. Singer reaches a popular audience through the books he has written on such topics as Animal Liberation and Rethinking Life and Death.
The most contentious of his views, however, center on euthanasia. He believes euthanasia should be an option for terminally ill people and supports it, in some instances, for severely disabled infants. …
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Copyright 2000 Denver Publishing CompanyMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: ASIAN-AMERICANS SEEN AS FOREIGNERS, AUTHOR SAYS
ACTIVIST CALLS FOR MORE UNDERSTANDING OF GROUP
BYLINE: By Bob Jackson, News Staff WriterAsian-Americans are still looked upon as being perpetual foreigners but have made significant contributions to this country, said Helen Zia, a long- time activist who is in Denver today.
"Little progress has been made in people's understanding of who Asian- Americans are," said Zia, a second-generation Chinese-American. "It all stems from this view and attitude that Asians don't belong in America, that we are the evil foreigners."
Zia, who lives in San Francisco, is here to read from and sign her book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. The reading is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Inverness Hotel and Golf Club in Englewood. …
Zia, who is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, said through her book she wants readers to learn that Asian history is very much American history. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times CompanyMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Lonely Bowlers, Unite: Mend the Social Fabric;
A Political Scientist Renews His Alarm At the Erosion of Community Ties
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLERobert D. Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard University, is a big, red-faced, enthusiastic man with the Amish whiskers and explosive gestures of a 19th-century fundamentalist preacher -- useful characteristics for the "hell will get us if we don't mend our ways" thesis that has taken over his life in the last five years.
His message, familiar to millions of Americans, is that the civic engagement -- the neighborhood friendships, the dinner parties, the group discussions, the club memberships, the church committees, the political participation; all the involvements, even the street protests, that make a democracy work -- has declined over the last 30 years. Trust and reciprocity, which Mr. Putnam calls social capital, have been damaged, he says, and the nation has grown cantankerous and less efficient.
Being a spiritual man, deeply committed to his own findings, he proselytizes. Tapping foundations for funds, Mr. Putnam organizes seminars, surveys "social connectedness" in numerous cities (the hope being that local groups will then fix the shortcomings), speaks tirelessly, and generally tries to recreate a modern version of the community bonds that flourished at the turn of the 20th century and again after World War II. …
"He is definitely right that a lot of our connections with one another are more tenuous than they used to be, and he is right, in his final chapter, to call us to task," said Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton University sociologist. "But he has a single-minded thesis that fails to paint the complex picture that actually exists."
He ignores, for example, the proliferation of nonprofit groups, "from soup kitchens to private schools to foundations to think tanks to social welfare organizations," Mr. Wuthnow said. "These are mostly small, and they function like the civic groups that Putnam says are declining." …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times CompanyMay 6, 2000
HEADLINE: 2 Faces of Beauty: Timeless and Timely
BYLINE: By EDWARD ROTHSTEINThere was once a time, says the cultural historian Sander Gilman, when Irishmen had their noses surgically altered to look more like Englishmen so they could seem more American. Later many Jews had their noses surgically altered to look more like Irishmen so they could seem more American. Such are the knotty ways in which different cultures pursue visions of beauty, proclaiming timeless ideals while succumbing to the tastes of their time and place.
In even more knotty ways, contemporary culture is doing the same thing. As an ideal, beauty has been taking quite a beating. It has been viewed as an ideology that is as culture-bound as the taste and distaste for Irish noses. It has come to seem irrelevant to artworks preoccupied with race and gender. And claims for its superiority and moral stature have been beaten down by the memories of how artistic mastery cohabited with evil in regimes like the Nazis'. So beauty is often treated as merely a matter of taste.
Yet during the last 10 years or so, there has also been a movement in the other direction. The philosopher and classicist Alexander Nehamas has suggested that beauty is once again becoming an academic obsession as philosophers and critics resuscitate the beautiful as an ideal, recasting old philosophical arguments and forecasting new variants.
These two opposing perspectives have led to a tense mixture of politics and aesthetics, reflected in recent books reinterpreting beauty. Four of their authors gathered under the auspices of the Vera List Center at the New School for Social Research on Wednesday night to discuss their views. They included Mr. Gilman, a professor at the University of Chicago; Mr. Nehamas, a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton University; Elaine Scarry, a professor of aesthetics at Harvard University; and Jed Perl, the art critic for the New Republic. (Full disclosure: this writer moderated the discussion). …
The Post and Courier
Copyright 2000 The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)May 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: 'Millionaire' shows that stars can be dumb people, too
BYLINE: Lisa Lipman Of The Post and CourierCelebrities may be rich, beautiful and famous, but they can be just as stupid as the rest of us.
At least that's how it appeared during "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" celebrity week.
Sure, most of them got up to the $32,000 level (some with a few hints from their fellow famous contestants). And Drew Carey and Rosie O'Donnell won $500,000 for their favorite charities. But they still managed to reveal their lack of smarts while sitting in the hot seat during their banter with the show's host, Regis Philbin.
Take "X-Files" star David Duchovny, for example. Yeah, we've heard the guy went to Princeton and Yale. But an Ivy League education didn't stop him from coming off as cocky and unlikable.
Duchovny openly showed his scorn during the easy, opening questions. When asked which substance makes a person inebriated, Duchovny cried "Oh, no!" and put his face in his hands in mock despair before correctly answering that the substance was alcohol. …
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 2000 Star TribuneMay 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Target donating $1 million for St. Paul bandshell
BYLINE: Kevin Duchschere; Staff WriterTarget Corp. is donating $1 million to build a bandshell designed by internationally known architect Michael Graves at Harriet Island Park on St. Paul's Mississippi riverfront.
The bandshell, a striking structure with a limestone stage, steel towers and a copper canopy, will "not only reflect the history of Harriet Island and its evolution, but be a current representation of St. Paul and the neighborhood," Patty Morris, spokeswoman for Target Corp., said Friday. The corporation is the parent company of Target, Dayton's and Mervyn's California stores.
Its construction will complete the first phase of Harriet Island's $13.5 million renovation. …
The drive to build the bandshell had stalled until Target offered to pay design and construction costs, city officials said.
(Michael) Graves' involvement, which gives the bandshell project special luster, also can be traced to Target. The Princeton University professor is acclaimed for his contemporary architecture, but he also recently designed a line of avant-garde housewares sold by Target.
Moreover, Graves created the temporary scaffolding used during the Target-funded restoration of the Washington Monument. Target offered to reconstruct part of that scaffolding near the Minneapolis Institute of Arts but changed its mind last month due to escalating costs and community ambivalence. …
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: New telescopes fuel astronomy renaissance
BYLINE: By JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal
DATELINE: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.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. …
"The field is just absolutely blossoming," said Princeton astrophysicist Jim Gunn, one of the deans of deep-space astronomy.
Until the middle ages, astronomy was about watching stars and mapping their position in the sky. …
Edwin Hubble, in 1949, took the first photographic image with the new giant. The telescope is known to this day simply as "the 200-inch."
At twice the diameter of the Hooker, the 200-inch had four times the light-gathering area. More than 20 years later, it was still the dominant instrument in astronomy when a young Jim Gunn began his career as an astronomer at Caltech, which owned the telescope.
"That was an exceedingly lucky thing, to come to Caltech," recalled Gunn, now at Princeton University. …
The Associated Press
State & Local WireMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: In Yale-Harvard rivalry, presidential politics is the big game
BYLINE: By DIANE SCARPONI, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEW HAVEN, Conn.It's been 88 years since a Yalie and a Harvard man squared off for the ultimate Ivy League bragging right - president of the United States.
Both lost.
That embarrassing outcome is unlikely this year as the schools dust off their pennants for the contest between Yale grad George W. Bush and Harvard alum Al Gore.
The rivalry between the prestigious universities has always been intense. Sometimes silly, too. Witness this Harvard newspaper headline about a football game in 1968: "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29." …
The last time the two schools faced off in a presidential election was 1912, when Harvard grad Theodore Roosevelt and Yale alum William Howard Taft were both candidates.
They were beaten by Princeton's Woodrow Wilson. …
The Boston Globe
Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper CompanyMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: MUSIC;
ANDREA MATTHEWS RELAXES AT HOME SOPRANO MOVIES BACK TO AREA TO SING AND TEACH CALMING TECHNIQUES
BYLINE: By Ellen Pfeifer, Globe Correspondent"Barber's vocal lines reveal a lot about the characters. You can even tell when a character is lying or telling the truth."
Soprano Andrea Matthews, a Needham native who has returned home after a career in New York and Europe, was speaking with admiration of the theatricality of Samuel Barber's music for the opera "Vanessa." Based on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti about the tormented triangulated relationship among a mature woman, her niece, and the young man they both love, the opera is full of important musical cues for the performer, Matthews said. …
Graduating from Needham's high school, she had no plans for a musical career when she left for Princeton University and a history degree.
But, in her junior year, after singing in the chapel choir, the glee club and the madrigal society, "it occurred to me to check out" the implications of all this vocal activity, she said. She began taking lessons in New York City with Shirlee Emmons. By her senior year, she "wasn't sure I wanted to be in history anymore." …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.May 5, 2000 Friday
HEADLINE: HISTORIAN HAS GRIPPING WAR IN GRASP;
BYLINE: By DEBBI SNOOK; PLAIN DEALER REPORTERSuch a dirty little subject, war. Who can stand talking about it? You wonder about that on a sunny Saturday afternoon as green leaves dance against tall, shapely windows at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Yet that's the discussion here: war. The bloody, brother-against-brother Civil War.
Up at the lectern is James McPherson, a tweed-clad, 63-year-old Princeton University historian who is among the most important people earning a living from an event that took place 135 years ago.
He's won a Pulitzer Prize for a best seller ("Battle Cry of Freedom"), helped make a popular film documentary (Ken Burns' "Civil War") and led the successful charge to stop Disney from building a history theme park on the border of a battlefield in Manassas, Va. This year he gave the Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the government's equivalent of an Oscar for "Best Brain."
Even McPherson has called the North-South conflict "the war that won't go away." Given his boardroom baritone, it's not likely he said it for a laugh. …
The Salt Lake Tribune
Copyright 2000 The Salt Lake TribuneMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: Altruistic Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest Meets the Golden Rule; Altruism Helps Givers As Well As Receivers
BYLINE: LEE SIEGEL, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEEvolutionary theory predicts survival of the fittest and has trouble explaining why people often help one another.
Now, a study completed in Utah suggests people can do good deeds for selfish reasons.
Evolutionary biologists devised a game in which 79 Swiss students could donate money to one another. But recipients could not return the favor by donating to someone who gave money to them. Nevertheless, the most generous players ended up with more money at the end of the game because other players rewarded their altruism.
"The idea is that helping someone, or refusing to do so, has an impact on the individual's image score within a group," the researchers wrote. "This score reflects an individual's reputation and status, which are constantly assessed and reassessed by others." …
Recognition may help spur generous acts because of "our obsession with reputation and status, which is widespread in human and animal societies," said a commentary by Martin Nowak of Princeton University and Karl Sigmund of the University of Vienna, Austria.
"An ongoing concern in evolutionary biology is 'to take altruism out of altruism,' that is, to explain how helping others can emerge in a Darwinian world of 'selfish genes,' " Nowak and Sigmund said. …
The Tampa Tribune
Copyright 2000 The Tribune Co. Publishes The Tampa TribuneMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: Littleton, Canino ready for state meet;
BYLINE: BILL WARD, of The Tampa Tribune;PLANT CITY - Bloomingdale junior Amber Littleton set herself up for redemption at the state championships by capturing first place in the 1,600- and 800-meter run at Thursday's Class 4A-Region 2 meet at Plant City High.
Littleton, who was the 1,600 runner-up at last year's state finals and a distant fourth in the 800, surpassed her personal best in the 1,600 with her victory in 5 minutes, 6.81 seconds. That was nearly five seconds ahead of second-place Beth Lukens of Sarasota Riverview, but for next week's Class 4A state championships at Gainesville, she's aiming to crack five minutes.
In her 800, Littleton won in 2:20.24, a time more than two seconds better than her closest competition. There, too, she hopes to lower her time closer to 2:15 at the state finals.
Littleton's teammate, Chelo Canino, also was an easy winner in her event, the pole vault. Canino, a senior, cleared 12-0 while Chamberlain's Ali Myers was second in 10-6. Canino, ranked No. 2 in the nation among prep girls' vaulters, plans to go above 12-8 at the state finals to put her back on top of the country. She also announced Thursday she has made a commitment to attend Princeton University next fall. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-WireMay 5, 2000
HEADLINE: 'ILOVEYOU' virus barely bites Princeton
BYLINE: By Emily Grande, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.The "ILOVEYOU" bug bit hundreds of thousands of e-mail users around the world Thursday, wreaking havoc on business and government computer systems and prompting a campus-wide e-mail filter to keep infected messages from reaching Princeton University users.
After learning of the new virus this morning, CIT sent warnings to administrators advising them not to open e-mails with "ILOVEYOU" subject lines. Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan also sent out an e-mail to students warning about the virus.
Nevertheless, some campus users were affected. "CIT is aware of only a few people who were fooled by the worm and actually opened it," CIT spokeswoman Rita Saltz said in an e-mail. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-WireMay 5, 2000
HEADLINE: Princeton retains A+ but decreases impact on GPA
BYLINE: By Jonathan Goldberg, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.The rare A+ that dots a Princeton University student's transcript is no longer an endangered species.
The University faculty decided Monday to retain the grade of A+, which West College administrators this fall argued should be replaced with an A*.
Though it originally proposed the grade change, the Committee on Examinations and Standing is recommending that the faculty retain the A+, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said yesterday.
Two other changes proposed by the committee were approved, according to USG academics chair Jeff Gelfand '01. The A+ grade will be treated as an A, or 4.0, when calculating grade point averages, and professors will be required to write a short explanation before granting an A+.
"[Faculty members] want a method of distinguishing very good work from truly outstanding work," Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor said.
The changes will take effect next semester and will not be applied retroactively. …
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERCopyright 2000 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 04, 2000
HEADLINE: MICROSOFT'S MYRHVOLD WON'T BE RETURNING TO THE COMPANY
SOURCE: P-I STAFF and NEWS SERVICESDinosaurs, biotechnology and philanthropy won out over software yesterday as Nathan Myhrvold, the chief technology officer at Microsoft Corp., announced he will not return full time to the company he served for 14 years.
Myhrvold, 40 ((age)), said he will continue to advise Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates occasionally, as he has since going on leave in July. During his leave, which was to last only one year, Myhrvold has been pursuing a wide variety of interests, including biotech, charity work and paleontology, the study of fossils.
Myhrvold came to Microsoft in 1986 after the software giant purchased Dynamical Systems, which Myhrvold had founded. He quickly became a confidant to Gates, who is said to consider him a rare intellectual equal. …
Myhrvold holds a doctorate in theoretical and mathematical physics and a master's degree in mathematical economics from Princeton University. He also has a master's degree in geophysics and space physics and a bachelor's degree in mathematics, both from the University of California.
His education includes certificates in mountain climbing, formula car racing, photography and French cooking. He has been known to help cook at Rover's, a five-star restaurant in Seattle. …
ABC NEWS
SHOW: WORLD NEWS THIS MORNINGMay 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCING THEY THINK THEY'VE SOLVED THE CASE OF THE MISSING MATTER WHICH WOULD HELP EXPLAIN THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE; RARE CELESTIAL EVENT TO HAPPEN TOMORROW
ANCHORS: DAN HARRIS
REPORTERS: NED POTTERDAN HARRIS, anchor:
We're going to shift gears rather dramatically now and head into outer space. Scientists yesterday announced that they think they've solved the case of the so-called missing matter. We get an explanation from ABC's Ned Potter.
NED POTTER reporting:
(VO) All the stars in the sky, all the planets and galaxies that telescopes have ever seen, all of them only account for a small fraction of the matter in the universe, the stuff that everything, including us, is made of. The so-called big bang, scientists believe, must have created unimaginable amounts of matter, most of it hydrogen gas.
(OC) But where did it go? Without it, most theories about the origins of the universe would blow up. Well, today, relieved scientists report the missing mass is floating all over intergalactic space.
Mr. TODD TRIPP (Princeton University, Astrophysicist): Yes, it was right there in front of us, but it was also invisible.
POTTER: (VO) Todd Tripp and Ed Jenkins of Princeton University found it with a special detector on the Hubble telescope, one that had been installed by astronauts in 1997.
Ms. ANNE KINNEY (NASA Science Director): The reason this couldn't be observed was the hydrogen was simply too hot, and so you see right through it.
POTTER: (VO) The Hubble couldn't see it either, at least not directly. But the scientists aimed the telescope at quasars, bright objects that are very distant and found that something, presumably the missing hydrogen, was dimming them very slightly.
Ms. KINNEY: It's sort of like looking at a lighthouse--at light from a lighthouse. You can see where there's fog in between.
POTTER: (VO) Today's finding is comforting to cosmologists. Now that the missing half of the universe has turned up, their ideas about its origins appear to be confirmed. Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.
HARRIS: And a related note now for you stargazers. The sky will post a rare celestial event tomorrow morning. For the first time since 1962, the moon and five planets will line up. NASA released this animation of what it will look like, but sky-gazers won't get to see it for real. The sun's glare will block the view. This phenomenon won't occur again for another 675 years.
Business Wire
Copyright 2000 Business Wire, Inc.May 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: STA Endorses Fordham Dean For NASD Board
DATELINE: NEW YORK, May 4, 2000Citing her vast experience from the perspective of virtually all securities market participants and her expertise in market issues and economics, the Security Traders Association (STA) board of governors today announced its unanimous endorsement of Dr. Sharon P. Smith, dean of Fordham University's College of Business Administration, for the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
The election of NASD's board by its members is scheduled for Monday, May 15.
"Dr. Smith's experience and track record demonstrates that her views are representative of a wide range of market participants," said Lee Korins, president and chief executive officer of STA. "Her priority as an NASD board member will be to maintain the integrity of the market for the benefit of investors, securities professionals and the U.S. economy during this time of exciting and significant change in the industry." …
Dr. Smith is a specialist in economic research and analysis in labor relations and strategic planning. She was appointed dean of Fordham's College of Business Administration in 1990, and also serves as a professor of management systems. Prior to joining Fordham, Dr. Smith was a visiting senior research economist in Princeton University's department of economics. Early in her career, Dr. Smith held teaching positions at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. …
Charleston Daily Mail
Copyright 2000 Charleston NewspapersMay 04, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: Dive into technology head-first, expert says
BYLINE: REBECCA CATALANELLO
DAILY MAIL STAFFIf there's one thing Alan Gilkes can tell the students of the Class of 2000 with great certainty, it's that technology's impact is inescapable.
"I think all work in all careers is going to be touched by technology in the 21st century much more than it was in the 20th century," said the award-winning, 53-year-old Texas Instruments electrical engineer.
Gilkes, who is best known for his work developing software for digital image processing of color photographs, will address 40 Kanawha County graduating seniors and their families during the annual Kanawha Scholars Distinguished Scholars banquet tonight at the University of Charleston.
The public high school students were chosen for the scholarships from across the county based upon their grades, activities and aspirations. …
Over the course of a 31-year marriage, Gilkes and his wife, Lolita, together raised two boys, Martin, 25, and Nathan, 24. The couple's sons, of whom Gilkes said he is extremely proud, are graduates of Princeton University, MIT and Oxford University.
"Neither of us will ever do anything in our careers that beats raising those two boys," he said. …
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 2000 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.May 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: KENT TRIES TO FORGET
SUBHEAD: Campus recalls, town ignores death day
BYLINE: Bob Batz Dayton Daily NewsKENT - Jeff Loose of Folsom, Calif., stood on the May 4, 1970 Memorial and gazed down at two young men who were tossing a Frisbee on the Kent State University Commons. Thirty years before, it was where rock-throwing students clashed with rifle-toting Ohio National Guardsmen right before the killing began.
"When I went to Kent in the 1980s, there were still some of those T-shirts kicking around campus - you know, the ones with the words 'Kent State Student' on the front and the big bullseye on the back," said Loose, 37, a 1985 KSU graduate who stopped at the college last week during a business trip to the area. "In those days, university officials were always at odds with students about how to deal with what happened here in 1970."
One day last week, Loose knelt to run his fingers lightly over the words 'Inquire,' 'Learn' and 'Reflect' that are chiseled into the carnelian granite.
"This is nice," he said. "The young people who died here that day deserve to be remembered. And this is a wonderful way to do it. "
When the May 4 Task Force's observance of the 30th anniversary of the 1970 shootings unfolds today at KSU with speeches by the families and friends of the slain students and the mournful tolling of the university's victory bell, it will be just another day for many residents of this northeastern Ohio college town of about 28,000. …
Jeff Loose wasn't the only Californian who visited the memorial last week. Elizabeth Dix, 23, of Los Angeles, who recently graduated from Princeton University, came to the site with her uncle David Dix, publisher of the Kent Record-Courier. Her grandfather was chairman of the Kent State Board of Trustees when the shootings occurred.
"It's haunting," she said, eyeing the memorial's 70-foot-wide plaza. "We had a sit-in one time at Princeton. Four students took over the university president's office. But it didn't lead to anything like what happened here. I've read a lot about Kent State. But being here makes the whole thing even more chilling." …
Federal News Service
Copyright 2000 Federal News Service, Inc.May 4, 2000, Thursday
SECTION: PREPARED TESTIMONY
HEADLINE: PREPARED STATEMENT OF DR. WM. FREDERICK LEWIS PRESIDENT & C.E.O. PROSPECT TECHNOLOGIES
BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCE & HAZARDOUS MATERIALSSUBJECT - ACCOUNTING FOR BUSINESS COMBINATIONS: SHOULD POOLING BE ELIMINATED?
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Bill Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Prospect Technologies a small business headquartered in the District of Columbia. Our firm employs 23 individuals dedicated to providing information solutions for corporations and government agencies both here in the United States and internationally. Our business includes computer hardware manufacturing, computer software, and Internet and Web based solutions. I also come before you as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Council.
Working with organizations like the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Department of Defense, Princeton University, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, the Government of the District of Columbia and McGraw Hill, we provide solutions that help to dramatically improve business processes through the use of technology and the Internet. Our work has received a great deal of recognition including winning Vice President Gore's Golden Hammer Award for streamlining government, cutting through red-tape, and improving the quality of customer satisfaction that is delivered by the Federal Government. …
Mr. Chairman, we appreciate the opportunity to testify on the issue of accounting for business combinations, in particular the question of whether the pooling-of-interests method of accounting should be eliminated. We commend you for holding these hearings.
We oppose the decision of FASB to prohibit the use of the "pooling- of-interest method of accounting" for all business combinations and to force the use of the "purchase method" with the subsequent amortization of goodwill over, at most, a twenty-year period. Not only will changes in this longstanding practice and the adoption of new standards not further the goals of providing more accurate, transparent and reliable financial statements, but they also may well have a substantial negative impact both on the economy's and my company's ability to grow. …
The Irish Times
Copyright 2000 The Irish TimesMay 4, 2000
HEADLINE: City landscape scale projects 'entirely missing' from annual awards winners
Small may be beautiful at the AAI 2000 Awards but the overall standard of entries was weak, writes Frank McDonaldBeatriz Colomina, associate professor of architecture at Princeton University, thought Dublin would be "a sleepy city of grey skies and stone buildings, a melancholic city" before she came here for the first time to participate on the jury for this year's Architectural Association of Ireland awards.
In fact, as she was astonished to discover, "it was aggressively sunny every day I was there, the traffic was horrendous and there was a frantic sense of urgency in the air". Even the flight to Dublin was crowded with "wired-to-the-teeth commuters, armed with laptops, palm pilots, cellphones and MP3 players". Ms Colomina, a Spanish-born architecture critic, had come face to face with the Celtic Tiger. "Places we used to think of as charming, but not central, are becoming the new nervous nodes of the planetary network, while long-established centres, such as London and Paris, are turning into 'city museums'." …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.May 4, 2000 Thursday
HEADLINE: BEYOND MAY 4 AND INTO THE FUTURE;
FROM THE USE OF ITS NAME TO SPECIAL PROGRAMS, KENT STATE HAS COME TO ACCEPT ITS TRAGEDY;
BYLINE: By JOHN HORTON; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER"Now, finally, the university is acknowledging its place in history and taking something bad and turning it into something good." ALAN CANFORA, survivor of Kent State shooting KENT - The bright blue, 20-foot-high letters painted atop a water tower symbolize efforts taken by previous Kent State University officials to distance the campus from the gunfire that erupted there 30 years ago today.
The four large letters spell Kent. Underneath - and understated - are the words State University.
"That separation of Kent and State was intentional," said George Janik, a university trustee between 1975 and 1988, during which time the institution's logo change was made. "Kent alone doesn't say much, but Kent State ... that brings up a memory a lot of people really weren't comfortable with.
"Nobody wanted to talk about the shootings. They didn't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole." …
Through those first years, however, no memorial was built. Golding even turned down a sculpture by nationally renowned artist George Segal in 1978, deeming the work too violent. Segal's wife, Helen, said the university then asked her husband to change the sculpture to reflect the theme of "make love, not war."
Segal declined, and the sculpture was given to Princeton University, where it stands. …
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 2000 The San Diego Union-TribuneMay 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: Russia seeks West's aid to eliminate 'nuclear cities'; Existence of secret towns acknowledged only 10 years ago
BYLINE: Andrew D. Smith; NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON BOROUGH, N.J. -- A decade ago, the Russian government didn't even admit their existence: 10 super-secret cities at the heart of that nation's nuclear research and manufacturing programs.Official maps showed vast forests where in reality stood some of the most sophisticated structures ever erected by man, and though they housed almost 800,000 people among them, the "nuclear cities" didn't even have names.
They were referred to, by those few who knew of them, by post office box numbers, for it was only through post office boxes that the cities had any connection with the outside world.
Each city of 50,000 to 100,000 residents got a single box. For example, Sarov, as it has been known since being assigned a name in the early 1990s, was once known only as a box in a nearby city, Arzamas-16.
But now, although the cities remain closed -- literally fenced off from the outside world -- Russia is not only acknowledging their existence but also asking rich Western nations to help eliminate the deadly threat those cities could pose to Russia and the rest of the world.
How best to achieve the goal was the topic of conversation earlier this year when Princeton University brought together top Russian and American officials for a two-day conference on "Helping Russia Downsize Its Nuclear Weapons Complex."
According to Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, some of the nuclear cities were built from scratch after World War II to support Russia's fledgling nuclear weapons industry.
Others were existing towns that were swallowed whole by the nation's military-industrial complex. Those towns actually appeared on maps before the war -- but not afterward. The later maps implied that the forests had overrun old towns entirely and left nothing of them. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Harvard Crimson via U-WireMay 4, 2000
HEADLINE: Brown incident brings Ivy recruiting policies into spotlight
BYLINE: By Derek J. Kaufman, Harvard Crimson
SOURCE: Harvard U.
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.In the wake of the recent NCAA violations at Brown, involving the football, men's basketball, men's soccer and women's volleyball teams, the recruiting policies of other Ivy League universities has come under close scrutiny. Despite strict regulations, some Ivy League schools bypass the system and maintain an edge over rival schools.
Although the Harvard athletic department declined to comment on the Brown incident specifically, it released the following statement concerning Harvard's recruiting policy:
"We carefully instruct our coaches on the recruiting rules of the NCAA, Ivy League, and Harvard, and they are required to pass an NCAA certification test each year before going out to recruit," the press release said.
"Within this framework, our coaches aim to identify the highest-level student athletes. After identifying these prospective candidates, coaches share the information with the admissions office, which selects all students for admission."
Ivy League athletics are rarely touted as the pinnacle of collegiate sports. Though Princeton and Pennsylvania occasionally pose a serious threat to opponents in the world of men's basketball, the rest of the Ivies seem to accept their status in and understand the ever-elusive nature of the NCAA Tournament. At Harvard, March Madness more aptly describes the flood of papers and exams before spring break. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.May 04, 2000
HEADLINE: Celebrating the smallest;
Hospital welcomes back babies who would not wait
BYLINE: Ellen Sorokin; THE WASHINGTON TIMESDavid Robinson was known as "the sickest kid" in the neonatal ward at Columbia Hospital for Women when he was born 28 days premature more than 18 years ago.
Suffering from respiratory distress syndrome, the Potomac boy lay in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for 10 days as a ventilator pumped oxygen into his underdeveloped lungs.
"I was very scared," his mother, Meg, recalled yesterday. "It was very wrenching that day I left the hospital, got into the car and realized I wasn't going home with my baby. I was going home alone and leaving him behind." …
David left the hospital 10 days after he was born on Sept. 28, 1981. At the age of 2, he was diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy, a disease doctors say was not caused by his premature birth.
The debilitating disease hasn't stopped David from succeeding. An above-average student at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, he is enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Program. He also founded a computer-technology club and had been elected secretary of the Montgomery County Region of Maryland Association of Student Councils.
David will graduate from high school next month and plans this fall to attend Princeton University, where he will study engineering or computer science. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 2000 M2 Communications Ltd.May 3, 2000
HEADLINE: RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Alan Balfour, Dean of Rensselaer's School of Architecture, to receive lifetime award for teaching at AIA's National Convention
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIAAlan Balfour, dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will receive the Topaz Medallion, the American Institute of Architects' highest honor for lifetime achievement in architectural education, during the AIA's National Convention and Exposition, Thursday, May 4.
"Alan's amazing enthusiasm, energy, and commitment to architecture and architectural education are only matched by his remarkable depth of knowledge of the subject," wrote the AIA's Mack Scogin in support of Balfour's nomination. "This, along with his innate ability to communicate ideas to students, scholars, practitioners, and lay people makes him an exceptional teacher." The award, given by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, honors "an individual who has made outstanding contributions to architectural education and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students, shaping the minds of those who shape our environment."
Balfour earned a degree in architecture from the Edinburgh College of Art and a master of fine arts in architecture from Princeton University, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. He has practiced architecture in New York City, and has worked as a consultant on inner-city housing rehabilitation and solar energy with Arthur D. Little of Boston. …
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Copyright 2000 The Straits Times Press LimitedMay 3, 2000
HEADLINE: Building a beautiful future
BYLINE: Patricia Lam in BostonPOWER OF ARCHITECTURE
How my multi-layered and age-old surroundings in Boston have opened my eyes to the need to save the past
IT'S a truism that living abroad is an experience that transforms your perspective in many ways. I never expected though that it would, almost literally, help me to see the world differently.
Before I left Singapore, the buildings around me rarely caught my attention. Some appeared uglier than others. A couple were like hulking castles squeezed onto handkerchief-sized plots of land. Many just seemed boring.
Then, again, this was also the period when redevelopment was progressing at a blistering pace with little thought for the value of history. Who would have thought that about a decade later, there would be passionate debates about the future of Chinatown and the National Library?
As a student at Princeton University, I found myself in a lush campus with collegiate Gothic architecture. But I ate in a bright postmodern dining hall and lived initially in a rather sterile 1960s dorm. By sheer force of contrast, the significance of architecture was beginning to dawn on me.
Then I came to Boston, much of whose character and uniqueness springs from its diverse architecture. …
LANCASTER NEW ERA (LANCASTER, PA.)
Copyright 2000 Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
May 1, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Distinguished alumni; City schools salute 5 graduates; They 'not only bettered themselves but bettered their communities, too'
BYLINE: Ed KlimuskaOne is a businessman. Another is a Pennsylvania lawmaker.
The others are a teacher/coach, college language instructor and supervisor in a Texas business.
This morning, as hundreds of students watched and applauded, five graduates of J.P. McCaskey High School received Distinguished Alumni Awards during a ceremony at the Lancaster City school.
Honored were: …
'Ariel Rivera, a supervisor for GTE Supply in Texas. …
Rivera is a 1990 graduate. He has degrees from Princeton University and Penn State University.
Rivera works for GTE Supply in Dallas, Texas, as a supervisor.
In his spare time, he serves the Latino community as a leader in his church's Royal Rangers program. He enjoys playing volleyball, weightlighting and rollerblading.
The Express
Copyright 2000 EXPRESS NEWSPAPERSMay 1, 2000
HEADLINE: ARE YOU PSYCHIC?
HIGHLIGHT: This week's once-in-a-millennium planetary conjunction means that our life force is at its peak, says URI GELLER. As part of our series to mark this cosmic event, he shows you how to embrace your telepathic abilities - and develop your own hidden powers
You were born psychic. Your sense of danger and your telepathic awareness of your mother were more vital to you in those first weeks than your sight or your hearing. Somewhere down the years, you gave up on your psychic powers. But you are reading this now - and that is a positive sign that you are ready to explore your innate gifts. Set aside any natural doubts and you can open your mind to the immense, untapped powers of the brain.
How to tell if you have psychic ability Have you ever walked into a house and sensed an atmosphere - jolly or morbid, unhealthy or welcoming? If this happens regularly, you have a strong gift for psychometry - the power of tuning into the past through inanimate objects. Maybe you have reached for the phone to call a loved one - just at the moment they decide to ring you.
Or does your computer crash too often when deadlines loom? Your tension and psychic stress could be bombarding its circuit boards.
Look at the incredible results from a study at Princeton University in New Jersey by Professor Robert Jahn, published a couple of years ago. He has spent more than a decade carrying out thousands of tests with ordinary people to discover if mind power could influence random number generators.
The subjects, none of whom had shown any paranormal abilities previously, were invited to stare at a computer that was displaying zeros and ones on screen. The number sequence was not pre-programmed. Jahn told his experimenters to will the number one to appear more often. And it did. …
The evidence that Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) discovered was undeniable and the odds against ordinary people directing their thoughts at a computer and forcing it to react were calculated at 1,000billion to one against. These studies should convince you that there's nothing frivolous about the power of the mind. And you can begin to explore your own gifts today. …
Tucson Citizen
Copyright 2000 The Tucson CitizenApril 26, 2000
HEADLINE: Arizona helping fuel surge in U.S. union membership
DAVID PITTMAN and LORRIE COHEN Citizen Business WritersUnion membership in the United States rose by more than 250,000 in 1999, the largest gain in the ranks of organized labor in more than 20 years.
And the swelling union ranks were partially fueled by significant gains by organized labor in Arizona, a right-to-work state not particularly associated with union activity.
According to data released recently by the Arizona Department of Economic Security, union membership was up by 14,000 in Arizona last year, an 11.4 percent increase over the year before.
The increase drove the unionization rate up from 6.5 percent to 6.8 percent of the state's population. …
Some economists believe the growth in union membership does not signify a turnaround for the movement, which has been in a two- decade decline, but simply indicates that the losses in the ranks of organized labor have steadied.
"These numbers don't show a resurgence, they show a stability, which in a sense is a victory," Henry Farber, a labor economist at Princeton University, told the Los Angeles Times. …
Oil & Gas Journal
Copyright 2000 PennWell Publishing CompanyApril 24, 2000
HEADLINE: Scientists, engineers teaming up to develop Mars drilling technology
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS REPRESENTING A CROSS SECTION OF industry and academia have already been organized to support the development of new technology required for the Mars mission.The science review team, consisting of astrobiologists, molecular biologists, and geoscientists from inside and outside NASA, will specify the scientific objectives and identify the range of unique Martian stratigraphy in which the penetration system must operate and establish specifications for future lab and field tests.
The team includes representatives of Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, Calif.; Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
A technology review team includes NASA space systems engineers and drilling technology experts from Halliburton and Shell, as well as Texas A&M, Jet Propulsion Lab, and the NADET Institute. This team will investigate and evaluate technology options for Mars application, and plan and design the drilling system for use in an Earth-based demonstration.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Arizona, and NASA Ames Research Center will also assist in this process. Advanced drilling technologies such as the coiled tubing-deployed, rock-melting microdrill under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Fig. 4) may be required to meet the Mars drilling objectives.
Other drilling technologies being considered include cable tools, rotary percussion, supercritical CO[2] jet, and thermal spallation.
DISPLAY DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Copyright 2000 Business Communications Co.April, 2000
HEADLINE: LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Energy Efficiency Helps Organic LEDs
The Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618) said its research partners have discovered a variety of new, energy-efficient organic materials to be used with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for the manufacture and production of the next generation of electronic flat-panel displays. Their achievements were reported in the February 17 issue of Nature.
UDC's research partners, led by Stephen Forrest of Princeton University, have found that combining two different methods for emitting light, fluorescence, and phosphorescence can create more efficient sources of light. The findings by Forrest and the research team, including Mark Thompson of The University of Southern California and Marc Baldo, a graduate student at Princeton University, demonstrate UDC's proprietary material system, which involves co-mingling phosphorescence with fluorescence to improve the efficiency of the other OLED systems. Fluorescence, which has been used in OLEDs, can potentially provide a wider range of colors.
According to Forrest, electronics manufacturers could use the new techniques within six months in certain applications, such as automobile stereo displays. Eventually, the technique could lead to ubiquitous use of OLEDs in products such as palm pilots, cell phones, and laptops. …
Smithsonian
Copyright 2000 Smithsonian InstitutionApril 1, 2000
HEADLINE: Beirut Rises from the Ashes.
BYLINE: Covington, RichardAfter surviving a 15-year civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists and entrepreneurs, a landscape covered with stunning architecture and an archaeological wonderland of new discoveries
It is 3 o'clock in the morning and cars are streaming downhill toward Beirut, the last of the revelers heading home after dinner and dancing in Mount Lebanon's resort-restaurants. Not quite the last. A couple of friends have shanghaied me into accompanying them on what sounds suspiciously like a New Age ritual to greet the dawn from a spot overlooking the city.
At the entrance to a 19th-century pastiche of a Crusader-Tudor castle, we are greeted with roses wrapped in silver gossamer, 168-page bound programs printed especially for the occasion, and glasses of champagne. I had expected maybe nine or ten other guests to be up at this hour. Instead, some 300 Beirutis, a mix of the city's well-heeled, artistic, insomniac society, are milling about, wondering what's next.
We file past torches down the hillside to a Roman-style amphitheater that the host, interior designer Jean-Louis Mainguy, has installed for private concerts. As the audience settles into oversize cushions, a full orchestra and chorus take the stage, launching into Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. As the piece reaches its climax, the sun rises over the hill villages across the valley, and the tree frogs and birds chime in raucously. Miraculously for Beirut's phone-obsessed citizens, not a single cell phone rings.
The designer's biannual concert and dawn breakfast feast began 20 years ago, as his over-the-top way of claiming a reprieve from the horrors of a civil war that had raged since 1975. When the fighting ended in the early '90s, the celebration continued.
"We Lebanese have always had a desperate need to come out on top," says Mainguy as he bids his guests good-bye. "Our phoenix never rose from the ashes; it never died to begin with." …
A world away, in the impeccably groomed garden of the president's residence at the American University of Beirut, John Waterbury, a renowned Middle East scholar, views Beirut as a Western-style oasis in the Arab world. "Beirut is still cosmopolitan and very tolerant," he volunteers. "The sexes mix pretty easily. When people see provocative behavior, they don't chalk it up to the collapse of morals. When I arrived in 1998, I was fairly surprised.
"If you go to Egypt or anywhere else in the Arab world, the influence of conservative Islam is very strong," Waterbury continues. "Egyptian women do not dress as freely as they did 20 years ago, nor do North African women. …
The war may be long over in Lebanon, but peace has yet to take root. "Even though the violence is gone, there's a lot of pent-up hostility," worries Samir Khalaf, head of the Center for Behavioral Research at AUB and an old hand at analyzing his fellow Lebanese. "You can see it in the way we drive, the noise, the way we brutalize the environment, even the way we scream into cell phones, ignoring other people around us."
After spending nearly a decade at Princeton University, Khalaf and his family returned in 1995 to pitch in on the city's rebirth. "My own belief is that culture, music and art-more than politics and the marketplace-will be what allows the Lebanese to heal," the sociologist reflects. …
OBITUARIES
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Copyright 2000 Sarasota Herald-Tribune Co.May 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Obituaries
Robert S. Tyson Sr.
Robert S. Tyson Sr., 96, Longboat Key, died May 7, 2000.
He was born Oct. 21, 1903, in New York City and came to Longboat Key 30 years ago from Valley Stream, N.Y. He was a retired attorney who graduated from Princeton University. He was a member of the Princeton Club in Sarasota and was an American Contract Bridge League life master. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.May 10, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Alfred Morse Osgood, 86
DATELINE: LINCOLNVILLEAlfred Morse Osgood, 86, formerly of Chevy Chase, Md., died at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport on April 29, 2000, of heart failure.
He was born in Wilmette, Ill., a son of Roy C. and Anne Hudson Osgood, and also lived in Kenilworth, Ill. An attorney, he graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University in 1937 and Harvard Law School. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun CompanyMay 9, 2000, Tuesday
Deaths Elsewhere
Barry Ulanov, 82, a professor and author or translator of nearly 50 books whose interests included jazz, theater, Christian humanism, visual art, Carl Jung and Catholic literature, died April 30 at his home in New York. He also had a home in Woodbury, Conn. Mr. Ulanov placed popular culture within the context of American art rather than isolating it as mere entertainment. He taught at Princeton University and Barnard College for about four decades, covering subjects as varied as literature, art, religion and psychology.
The Gazette (Montreal)
Copyright 2000 Southam Inc.May 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Barry Ulanov, 82, prolific author
DATELINE: NEW YORKBarry Ulanov, a professor and author or translator of nearly 50 books whose interests included jazz, theater, Christian humanism, visual art, Carl Jung and Catholic literature, died April 30 at his home in Manhattan. He was 82 and had homes in Manhattan and Woodbury, Conn.
Ulanov placed popular culture within the context of American art rather than isolating it as mere entertainment, and wrote some of North America's first serious books on jazz. He taught at Princeton University and Barnard College for almost four decades, covering subjects as varied as literature, art, religion and psychology. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington PostMay 9, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Tyson Gilpin, 80, Dies; Leader in Horse Racing
BYLINE: Martin Weil , Washington Post Staff WriterTyson Gilpin, 80, one of the reigning patriarchs of Virginia's thoroughbred horse industry, died May 7 at Winchester (Va.) Memorial Hospital. He had cancer.
Mr. Gilpin was born in Clarke County, Va., where he lived throughout his life, and grew up in the horse industry. His father was a prominent horseman and Mr. Gilpin had bred, sold, raced or syndicated horses for decades. …
McGhee Tyson Gilpin was born on his parents' farm, known as Kentmere, and majored in English and French literature at Princeton University. After graduation, he entered the Army, becoming a captain and working in intelligence. His work with the underground in France during World War II brought him a Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.May 6, 2000, Saturday
HEADLINE: Harris B. Stewart, Jr., 77
DATELINE: NAPLES, Fla.Harris B. Stewart, Jr., 77, a summer resident of Scarborough, Maine, died April 25, 2000, at his home here.
He was born in Auburn, N.Y., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University.
He later earned his Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institute, LaJolla, Calif.
He served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, seeing action in the Pacific Theater.
He was a diving geologist in California before joining the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey as chief oceanographer in the late 1950s. He was named director of the Oceanographic Division of the Environmental Science Services Administration and two years later founded and served as the director of Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami. …
The Buffalo News
Copyright 2000 The Buffalo NewsMay 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: ANTHONY SCOTT, OWNED CLOTHING STORES
Anthony Scott, former owner of Scott Del Children's Wear, died Wednesday (May 3, 2000) in his West Seneca home after a long illness. He was 78.
Born in Buffalo as Anthony Scaccia, he changed his name to Scott before attending the University of Buffalo. He later took an accelerated course on Italy at Princeton University, knowledge that would later serve him during World War II.
He joined the U.S. Army and served at Fort Eustis, Va.; Camp Kilmer, N.J.; and in Europe during World War II. He eventually became an interpreter for 250 former Italian prisoners of war who were working for the U.S. Army. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 2000 P.G. Publishing Co.May 5, 2000, Friday
HEADLINE: DAVID C. BURROUGHS JR.;
RETIRED LAWYER WHO LOVED SKY AND SEA
BYLINE: JONATHAN D. SILVER, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITERWork captivated Squirrel Hill lawyer Davis C. Burroughs Jr.'s mind, but his heart belonged to the sky and the sea.
For 40 years, Mr. Burroughs practiced law, applying his meticulous and methodical intellect to arranging wills and estates for families.
It was in the outdoors, however, that his spirit truly soared as he guided his six-seater Cessna through the air or plied his yacht off the Eastern Seaboard from its launch point in Maryland.
On Wednesday, Mr. Burroughs died at UPMC Shadyside of pneumonia after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 80.
Mr. Burroughs grew up in Duquesne, where his father ran U.S. Steel's works, and attended the former Arnold School on Braddock Avenue, which later merged with Shady Side Academy. He was the second oldest of five children.
When Mr. Burroughs was about 16, his father retired and moved the whole family to Easton, Md. As a result, he spent his adolescent years among sailors and sailboats, and developed an appreciation for the open sea.
Mr. Burroughs' educational trajectory took him to some of the nation's most prestigious learning institutions. He went to the Taft School, a boarding school in Watertown, Conn. From there, Mr. Burroughs attended Princeton University, where he was the regimental commander of an ROTC unit. He graduated in 1941 and immediately joined the Army. …
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Richmond Times DispatchMay 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: BUSINESSMAN, LAWYER W.G. HARRIS DIES
BYLINE: Chris Dovi; Times-Dispatch Staff WriterWilliam Gibson Harris had a special sense for business and the law, as well as a deep understanding of people, that set him apart from his peers.
"He was a lawyer and a businessman; you had to do everything in those days," said Alexander W. Neal Jr., who along with Mr. Harris was one of three original partners in a law firm that eventually merged with several others to form what is today McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe.
"But the sign of a good lawyer or a good businessman is knowing how to delegate," Neal said.
Mr. Harris, 83, died May 1 in Ocean Ridge, Fla., after complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. He lived in Richmond and Ocean Ridge.
Born in Greenville, S.C., he grew up in Richmond and graduated from St. Christopher's School. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1939 with an undergraduate degree, and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1942. …
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
Copyright 2000 Landmark Communications, Inc.May 4, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: ROBERT D. MITCHELL SR.
DATELINE: NORFOLKRobert Drake Mitchell Sr., 91, of the 8500 block of Circle Drive, died May 3, 2000, in Pinewood Inn. Mr. Mitchell was born June 17, 1908, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Jessie Hoagland Mitchell and Andrew William Mitchell. As a young boy he lived in Sound Beach, Conn., and later in Canada.
In 1927, Mr. Mitchell was admitted to Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., to study engineering. In June 1931, he graduated with a BSE in mechanical engineering. Graduating during the depression, he began work with Whelan Studios as a studio manager and photographer. His territory included Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Nebraska and back east to Scranton, Pa., and Washington, D.C. …
The Palm Beach Post
Copyright 2000 Palm Beach Newspaper, Inc.May 2, 2000, Tuesday
HEADLINE: FUNERAL NOTICES
WILLIAM GIBSON HARRIS retired senior partner and a founder of the law firm of McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe died May 1 in Ocean Ridge, Florida following complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. He was 83 and lived in Richmond, VA and Ocean Ridge, FL.
Mr. Harris was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1916, but moved to Richmond in 1924 where he subsequently resided and attended St. Christopher's School. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. Degree in 1939 and received his L.L. B degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1942. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.April 23, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: Thomas E. Needles, 75
DATELINE: KENNEBUNKThomas E. Needles, 75, of Penny Lane died April 20, 2000, at Southern Maine Medical Center, Biddeford.
He was a son of Enoch and Ethel Needles of New Vernon, N.J., and Kennebunk Beach, and graduated from Summit (N.J.) High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Mr. Needles was a retired civil engineer, having worked for a period of time for Howard, Needles, Tammeau and Bergendorf. …
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