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Time
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June 12, 2000HEADLINE: Lots of Action in the Memory Game;
New experiments are prompting scientists to rethink their old ideas about how memories form--and why the process sometimes falters
BYLINE: George JohnsonScientists have long believed that constructing memories is like playing with neurological Tinkertoys. Exposed to a barrage of sensations from the outside world, we snap together brain cells to form new patterns of electrical connections that stand for images, smells, touches and sounds.
The most unshakable part of this belief is that the neurons used to build these memory circuits are a depletable resource, like petroleum or gold. We are each bequeathed a finite number of cellular building blocks, and the supply gets smaller each year. That is certainly how it feels as memories blur with middle age and it gets harder and harder to learn new things. But like so many absolutes, this time-honored notion may have to be forgotten--or at least radically revised.
In the past year, a series of puzzling experiments has forced scientists to rethink this and other cherished assumptions about how memory works, reminding them how much they have to learn about one of the last great mysteries--how the brain keeps a record of our individual passage through life, allowing us to carry the past inside our head. …
Studies with adult monkeys in the mid-1960s seemed to support the belief that the supply of neurons is fixed at birth. Hence the surprise when Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross of Princeton University reported last year that the monkeys they studied seemed to be minting thousands of new neurons a day in the hippocampus of their brain. Even more jarring, Gould and Cross found evidence that a steady stream of the fresh cells may be continually migrating to the cerebral cortex. …
… When neurogenesis was found to occur in people, the rationalizations began to take the tone of special pleading: there was no evidence that the new brain cells had anything to do with memory or that they did anything at all.
That may yet turn out to be the case with the neurons found by the Princeton lab. The mechanism Gould and her colleagues uncovered in macaque monkeys could be nothing more than a useless evolutionary leftover, a kind of neurological appendix. But if, as many suspect, the new neurons turn out to be actively involved with inscribing memories, the old paradigm is in for at least a minor tune-up--and maybe a complete overhaul. …
More puzzling, though, is another of the study's findings: the steady migration of new neurons from the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex. Could these neurons be somehow involved in ferrying information into permanent storage--storing short-term memories for the long term?
Perhaps, Gould and her colleagues ventured in a recent paper, this purported transport mechanism provides a means of time-stamping memories, helping us keep track of when we learned what. Older memories would be somehow associated with older neurons. No one is even guessing how this might work. But if memories are indeed flowing through the brain in rivulets of new neurons, then all the old ideas will have to be reconsidered. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
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May 29, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: THE QUANTUM KID;
Colts Neck physics whiz, 20, tops Princeton class
BYLINE: JULIET GREER; FREEHOLD BUREAUPRINCETON - When Andrew Houck was 3, his nursery school teacher called his parents in for a conference.
She just had to tell them face-to-face how smart he was.
By age 4, Houck remembers playing with his toy blocks and understanding their mathematical relationships. And as a young child, he could read and solve multiplication and long division problems in his head, before he learned how in school.
So it is exciting, but not totally surprising to those who know him, that this whiz kid from Colts Neck will graduate as valedictorian of Princeton University tomorrow at 20 years old.
"It's exciting," Houck said. "Everyone tells you when you go to Princeton that everyone here was valedictorian of their high school, so don't expect much. But it's something where every once in a while you think, maybe I could be."
In the fall, he'll head off to Harvard, where the electrical engineering major will pursue a master's degree and doctorate in physics, often called the hardest subject for the human mind to grasp. Ultimately, he wants a career teaching and researching at the university level.
At Harvard, he'll continue working on a project he started his senior year at Princeton: building the first quantum computer.
Such a computer would store information at the subatomic level, where the same thing can behave as a particle or a wave depending on how it's measured. If scientists can focus these quantum personalities on a single computing job, they could develop computer processors capable of doing multiple calculations at once, instead of just one calculation at a time. Houck expects that this computer will move from theory to reality in 20 years. …
But what makes Houck stand out, his friends and family say, is that if you bumped into the thin, clean-cut blond young man on the street, you'd never know he wasn't just an ordinary Joe. When he's not studying, he enjoys hanging out with friends, watching movies or playing video games.
He likes to spend countless hours tinkering in his lab, a cluttered room filled with scientific equipment in the "E" quad building on campus. He also spends late nights helping fellow electrical engineering students with their work. …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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April 28, 2000HEADLINE: American-Studies Course at Princeton Tackles Nation's Preoccupation With Wealth
American Studies 351
"The Big Money: America's Ambivalence About Wealth":Money may make the world go round, but how does that make people feel? Pretty uncertain, judging by the essays 13 students wrote for admission into this seminar at Princeton.
Marcia Y. Cantarella, an assistant dean and a lecturer in American studies, developed the course after teaching others about work and consumption. During those classes, she detected her students' mixed feelings about money. They wanted to know how to get it; they weren't sure they could trust people who had it; and they weren't convinced it would make them happy -- though they wanted it.
"This ambivalence has a thread that has run pretty consistently through American history," Ms. Cantarella says. "Given the current moment of preoccupation with wealth and money, it seemed timely to encourage students to focus on the issues that surround wealth and how ambivalence has been articulated, particularly through literature."
She centered the course on the 1920's: "There seemed to be so many parallels to the present moment."
The course deals with money's implications for risk, fantasy, identity, status, and, of course, escape. But it also gets into race and gender. "If our self-perception is greatly colored by where we fit in the economic scheme of things, what then happens to those who have been economically disenfranchised?" asks Ms. Cantarella.
The reading list:
The primary text is (what else?) The Big Money, by John Dos Passos, although four other novels are also required. Students read The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Fear of Falling, by Barbara Ehrenreich; Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis; and Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen. Students also read nonfiction, such as excerpts from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics, and parts of Benjamin Hunnicutt's Work Without End, along with news articles from The New York Times Magazine and Fortune.
And four movies are required viewing: A Place in the Sun, Death of a Salesman, Ragtime, and the 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire.
OTHER HEADLINES
Canada NewsWire
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June 7, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Royal Ontario Museum appoints William Thorsell as CEO; Respected business leader and editor to head Canada's preeminent Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today announced the appointment of William Thorsell as Chief Executive Officer of the organization, effective August 1, 2000. Thorsell will lead the Museum in its mission to be a world leader in communicating its research and collections to diverse audiences and build understanding of human cultures and the natural world. …
Thorsell joins the ROM from the Globe and Mail, where he currently holds the position of Chairman of the Editorial Board. For ten years, he established his leadership reputation as the Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail in Toronto. He began his career in journalism as an Associate Editor at the Edmonton Journal and was also an Assistant Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University. …
Central Maine Morning Sentinel (Waterville, ME)
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June 7, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: Winslow honors-grad due to meet Clinton
BYLINE: DOUG HARLOW Staff WriterWINSLOW - When it comes to representing Winslow High School's Class of 2000, graduating senior Heather S. Robbins, of China, is downright presidential.
Robbins, who is going on to Princeton University when classes resume this fall, is graduating Wednesday night at the top of her class.
With a 4.097 grade-point average, Robbins is scheduled to meet President Clinton later this month to receive the Presidential Scholar award. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
June 7, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: 126 GRADUATE FROM MERCY HIGH; PRINCIPAL REMINDS CLASS OF THREE VIRTUES
BYLINE: JOSHUA FAY-HURVITZ; Courant Staff WriterDATELINE: MIDDLETOWN --
Unrelenting rain mixed with tears of joy, wetting the faces and gowns of graduating seniors at Mercy High School's commencement Tuesday. …
In a fitting show of symbolism, the last person to share her thoughts and feelings on this night was Melissa Anne Magner, the class valedictorian.
"Half of me cannot believe that four years have disappeared so quickly. This half is sad to leave," Magner said. "However, my other half is well aware that we, the Class of 2000, have outgrown Mercy."
Magner, who will attend Princeton University next year, then flashed back to her experience at freshman orientation, and chronicled how her feelings have changed during her high school career. …
National Post (formerly The Financial Post)
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June 07, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: The peso peg doesn't work: Argentina's recent economic woes prove Keynes' support for floating exchange rates was right, says Paul Krugman. But Steve Hanke replies that history shows currency board systems have been the true success
BYLINE: Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman is professor of economics at Princeton University and a columnist with The New York Times.
Argentina is a faraway country about which most people in the United States know only what they learned from Andrew Lloyd Webber. And while the government of Fernando de la Rua is facing serious economic problems -- a weak recovery from last year's nasty slump, growing labour unrest -- 'crisis' would be far too strong a word.
Yet Argentina has special symbolic importance in the battle among economic ideologies. The Latin nation has been a sort of poster child for the anti-Keynesian counterrevolution, for those who want to banish discretion and human fallibility from monetary policy. …
Until the 1930s, recessions were generally regarded as inevitable, and perhaps even desirable -- a sort of purging process that cleansed the economy after the excesses of the preceding boom. The government's job was to provide sound money and balance its own budget; a depressed economy would heal itself.
But in the face of mass unemployment, some economists -- most notably the British theorist John Maynard Keynes -- concluded that recessions were neither healthy nor inevitable. They were, instead, an economic pathology that resulted when too many people tried to hoard cash instead of buying real goods and services. …
For hard-money types, this was and remains anathema. The dream of going back to an objective monetary standard -- preferably gold, but anyway something untouched by human hands -- has been kept alive by a small but well-financed group of enthusiasts. And in 1991 they got their wish: Argentina, desperate to regain credibility after decades of irresponsible policy, not only pegged its peso to the dollar but backed each peso with a dollar in reserves. In effect, the national green cheese factory was shut down.
In the years that followed, Argentina -- helped not only by the end of hyperinflation but also by the removal of many controls that had strangled business -- experienced an economic surge, and the hard-money enthusiasts took full credit. Only last year, as the currency of neighbouring Brazil tumbled, an op-ed writer at The Wall Street Journal held up Argentina as a model: 'No stimulating of the economy through inflation, no improving the 'competitiveness' of exports through currency devaluation. Just money that works.' And she went on to express her ultimate wish: 'Now if only America could make the dollar as good as gold.'
But while Argentina's money may work, many Argentines don't, because they can't find jobs. …
The New York Times
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June 7, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; It's Just the Beginning
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLE
DATELINE: DANBURY, Conn.THINK of the Internet. The imagery that comes to mind is romantic and exciting: dot-com billionaires barely out of school and colorful Web sites offering all sorts of wares and intriguing ways to shop. What definitely does not come to mind are Sherrell Coppedge and Kara Sylvia, seated recently at two ordinary desktop computers in a plain, windowless room at Honeywell Inc.
For eight weeks, four hours a day, Ms. Coppedge and Ms. Sylvia have been trying to trip up the new Internet ordering system that Honeywell's consumer products group, based here, is installing. Soon 2,000 customers -- auto dealers, parts distributors, lube centers, retail chains -- will be logging on to Web sites to place orders for Autolite spark plugs, Fram oil filters and Prestone antifreeze. No more orders by telephone or by fax, and much less paperwork. But first, the speedy new system has to function.
Working from thick loose-leaf notebooks, Ms. Coppedge, 34, and Ms. Sylvia, 26, carefully type in complicated, quirky orders, each a probe for shortcomings in the system's software. When a flaw appears, Jon Nehlsen, a 25-year-old Internet specialist, takes charge of the fix. All three are salaried employees earning less than six figures, the two women much less. None of the windfalls from wildly lucrative dot-com stock offerings come their way. And yet they and thousands like them are laboriously making the Internet a backbone of the national economy. …
There is one unambiguous benefit: labor productivity. The Internet should make possible more output, or at least the same output, from fewer hours of work. The 28 employees in Honeywell's consumer products group who now take orders by fax and phone will eventually be reassigned, their tasks automated as corporate customers shift to ordering online -- 2,000 this year and the remaining 2,000 thereafter. Some of the 28 might be reassigned as traveling sales reps to sign up more customers. Business would then grow without having to hire more workers, another gain in labor output.
"The potential exists for the nation to achieve real productivity gains," said Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist. The gains are just beginning to kick in, Mr. Blinder noted, as business-to-business commerce over the Internet -- almost nonexistent in 1997 -- finally takes hold and spreads. …
The Sports Network
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June 6, 2000, TuesdaySECTION: Major League Baseball (Hard News Story)
HEADLINE: PIT TEAM REPORT
By Pat Gallagher, MLB EditorPirates team report
(Sports Network) - One year after selecting pitcher Bobby Bradley from Wellington High School in Florida, the Pittsburgh Pirates tapped the same well when they chose Sean Burnett in the first round of Monday's draft. …
In the third round, Pittsburgh went for pitcher Chris Young, a 6-foot-11 sophomore from Princeton University. Young, who also stars for the Tigers' basketball team and could have a future in the NBA, was 5-0 with a 1.82 ERA on the diamond in 2000. He was a first-team all-Ivy League choice in both baseball and basketball this past year. …
The Associated Press
June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Private experts raise questions about Bush Social Security plan
BYLINE: By ALICE ANN LOVE, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTONAn opposition group of private experts said Tuesday that George W. Bush would need to couple his proposal for new Social Security investment accounts with benefit cuts or new spending to plug the retirement program's impending cash shortage.
Bush responded with a pledge to maintain benefits for current and near retirees.
"People should not be misled," said Robert Ball, one of Social Security's first administrators, who joined the economists and academics at a news conference. …
The private experts criticizing Bush included Henry Aaron, a former Carter administration official, now at the Brookings Institution; Alicia Munnell, a former member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, now a Boston College professor, and Princeton University economics professor Alan Blinder. Munnell and Blinder have made campaign appearances with Gore. …
The Boston Globe
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June 6, 2000HEADLINE: ZOOS AND CONSERVATION WHEN ANIMALS SAY NOT TONIGHT
BYLINE: By Eric Niiler, GLOBE CORRESPONDENTESCONDIDO, Calif. - The enormous, two-pronged horn of the northern white rhinoceros is meant to protect her young from hyenas on the African savanna. But poachers also prize these shiny, wood-like horns, selling them to Asian markets for up to $30,000 each as a cure for male impotency.
Thanks in part to poachers, less than 40 northern white rhinos remain on the planet - eight of them in zoos - down from a population of 3,000 in the early 1970s. But, at least in the friendly confines of the 1,800-acre San Diego Wild Animal Park, two female rhinos can feel safe. But, although the animals are healthy, these two aging rhinos are dropouts in a five-year captive-breeding program designed to bolster the northern white rhinos' numbers. Despite hormone treatments, special diets and other methods, these two just don't like sex - at least with any of the few remaining males of their species. Artificial insemination hasn't worked because of the intricacies of rhinos reproductive tract, so these two will likely never give birth. …
Still, after overcoming these early problems, the first generation of captive-bred animals has produced a population of 279 as of late 1998, a near-tripling in numbers.
Black-footed ferrets were captured, bred and reintroduced into the American West in the mid-1980s when the population had dwindled to only 18 wild individuals. But the program was abandoned by federal and state wildlife officials after canine distemper and plague swept through populations of the ferret and its prey, the prairie dog. The ferrets also were unable to avoid predators, and had to be taught to hunt.
Today, several hundred ferrets are being bred successfully at captive facilities, but there are only about 200 living in the wild out of 981 that have been released, according to Andrew Dobson, an ecologist at Princeton University. Researchers say the main obstacle to their success is the lack of large prairie-dog colonies to support the ferrets. …
Business Wire
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: ImClone Systems and Princeton University Launch Genomics Program in Stem Cells
DATELINE: NEW YORK, June 6, 2000ImClone Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: IMCL) announced today its sponsorship and participation with Princeton University and other academic groups in a comprehensive genomics program in the area of hematopoietic (blood system) stem cells. ImClone Systems is working with the laboratory of Ihor Lemischka, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton, with contributions from laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Kentucky, in a program to create a comprehensive database for the identification of all genes responsible for the proliferation, self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. ImClone Systems will have the exclusive right to negotiate licenses to the complete gene sequences discovered through the research, and to the underlying Express Sequence Tags (EST's). …
The Dallas Morning News
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayScientists have taken a peek inside one of the most intriguing cells to biologists today, a stem cell. Stem cells are the body's Energizer Bunnies. They keep going and going, spitting out fresh new cells to renew the body's tissues, for the life of an animal or person.
Researchers are interested in understanding how these cells work so they can be put to use in diseases where the body's tissues or cells degenerate.
In the latest issue of the journal Science, researchers from Princeton University in New Jersey and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia report on studies of stem cells from the livers of fetal mice. These cells, also present in people, proliferate to produce all the cells in the blood and immune system.
To understand what makes the stem cells tick, the researchers scrutinized which genes -- stretches of DNA code -- were active in the cells. Using the latest genetic techniques, the scientists were able to analyze thousands of genes at once. A vast network of genes was discovered, which the scientists have made available on a World Wide Web site for others to study.
Some of the genes were familiar to scientists, but others were not. Understanding how all the genes work together as the stem cells produce the different types of blood and immune cells is the next step in the research, the scientists wrote.
The Dallas Morning News
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL DRAFT UPDATE
SOURCE: From Staff ReportsYoung and restless
Princeton righthander Chris Young (Highland Park High) was the third-round pick (89th overall) of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A draft-eligible sophomore (he turned 21 May 25), Young also is a 6-11 frontcourt star with the Tigers' basketball team and is faced with a tough decision. The Ivy League does not allow students to play one sport professionally and another collegiately, and Young has said he will not transfer if he becomes a pro pitcher.
Young has posted a 9-1 record, 1.64 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 74 innings over his two years at Princeton. He averaged 13.6 points and three blocked shots per game for the basketball team that won the Ivy League title and reached the NCAA regionals.
The Guardian (London)
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June 6, 2000HEADLINE: They bowl alone . . . Harvard Professor Robert Putnam Has Boiled Down America's Social Woes To One Simple Analogy: They Don't Go To Bowling Leagues Anymore. Which Is Why George W Bush And Al Gore Can't Get Enough Of Him. He Talks To Michael Ellison
George W Bush and Al Gore beat a path to his door. Bill Clinton has had him in the White House twice in the past month and the Canadian government cannot seem to hear enough from him. And it is not just politicians who consult the Harvard University soothsayer with the ruddy features and facial hair arrangement of an Amish. Dot.com pioneers also seek to tap the reservoir of knowledge that Robert Putnam has crystallised in one catchy phrase: Americans used to be members of bowling leagues. Now they bowl alone.
So what? Who cares if people want to go their own way, eschewing PTAs, church groups, social clubs and political parties? Surely it's not the end of the world? Putnam's thesis is that, for many people, it is. Social alienation kills.
'There's a remarkable series of statistics from throughout the world, across age, gender and jobs,' he says. 'Your chance of dying over the next year is cut by half if you join just one group. Isolation is as big a factor as smoking.' ….
Not everyone is convinced. '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 to call us to task,' says Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University. 'But he has a single-minded thesis that fails to paint the complex picture that actually exists.' …
The Houston Chronicle
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June 06, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Bush plan would put Social Security in real peril
BYLINE: ALAN S. BLINDER; Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J., and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, is an adviser to the Gore campaign.GEORGE W. Bush is advocating radical change in Social Security, which he himself calls "the single most successful government program in American history." He would take a part of the payroll tax that now flows to the Social Security trust fund and divert it to personal savings accounts.
This plan would seriously undermine the finances of the present Social Security system. It would subject Americans, especially financially unsophisticated ones, to large additional risks. And it would abandon the noble commitment to social insurance that this country made in 1935.
While Social Security is a great success, its current large surplus masks a serious long-term financing problem. Simply put, we have promised far more in future benefits than future payroll tax receipts are likely to finance - about 14 percent more on average over the next 75 years, according to the Social Security trustees' estimates. This is a huge hole that must be filled by some combination of raising payroll taxes, cutting benefits and infusing general revenue into the trust fund.
With the system in need of more revenue, not less, diverting part of the payroll tax into private accounts, as Bush proposes, appears irresponsible, unless, of course, you make up the difference by cutting benefits. Without such cuts, privatization would dig the financing hole even deeper, which is why thoughtful privatization proposals generally include significant tax increases to make good on promises that have already been made. …
Los Angeles Times
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: CAMPAIGN 2000;
CANDIDATES ARE FAR APART ON SHARED MEDICARE GOAL;POLITICS: BUSH, GORE BOTH WANT TO INCLUDE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE IN PLANS, BUT WITH STARK DIFFERENCES.
BYLINE: ALISSA J. RUBIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTONThe election is months away, but this much is virtually certain: The next president of the United States will sign into law a major expansion of prescription drug coverage for the elderly and disabled.
Al Gore has already promised to do so. George W. Bush pledges to make drug coverage more accessible as part of a major Medicare overhaul. Most candidates for Congress, regardless of political stripe, say that they too favor more coverage.
"Prescription drug coverage is a gigantic election issue, and it's gaining more and more momentum," said Tom Scully, president of the Federation of American Health Systems. "It's gotten a head of steam, so it's politically irreversible. It will happen in the next couple of years." …
Medicare almost certainly would end up costing more than it does today under the Bush proposal (just as Gore's would) if for no other reasons than the addition of drug coverage and the influx of baby boomers, according to some economists.
Either doctors and hospitals would be paid less so more money would be available to cover prescription drugs, younger people would have to subsidize the expanded coverage or the elderly themselves would have to pay the difference, predicted Uwe Reinhardt, an economist at Princeton University.
"Do you think the doctors and hospitals will stand idly by and let this be taken out of their hides?" he asked. "Part of this plan is to ask the elderly themselves to pay more toward their health care." …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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June 6, 2000HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary - President Clinton names fourteen members to the Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities
The President today announced his intent to appoint fourteen members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities.
Mr. Doug Ross, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, serves as the President of Labor Market Services, an Internet firm serving state labor markets, and he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. From 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training at the United States Department of Labor. Previously, Mr. Ross served as the Director of the Michigan Department of Commerce from 1984-1989. He is a former Michigan State Senator. In 1988, he was named Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News. Mr. Ross received a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and a M.P.P. degree from Princeton University.
The Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities was established by Executive Order 13111 to provide the President with an independent assessment of how the federal government can encourage the effective use of learning technology to provide more accessible and cost-training for all Americans. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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June 6, 2000, TUESDAYCOLUMN: SCHOOL NOTES
BYLINE: PATRICK TUOHEYPOMPTON LAKES
Pompton Lakes High School senior Matthew Fisher has won a $1,000 National Honor Society college scholarship. The scholarship competition was organized by the National Association of 1 NEW3 Secondary School Principals (NASSP).
Winners were chosen based on academics, participation in school organizations, employment experience, and community service.
Gerald N. Tirozze, NASSP's executive director, said Matthew"has demonstrated outstanding ability in his academic work and service to his school and community. He's a fine example of the outstanding caliber of young people in America's high schools."
Matthew plans to attend Princeton University to study history.
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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June 6, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: AT THE TOP OF THE CLASS ;
BREAKFAST CELEBRATESVALEDICTORIANS EFFORT, ACHIEVEMENTS
BYLINE: HUGH R. MORLEY, Staff WriterGathered for breakfast at The Fiesta in Wood-Ridge with friends and school representatives, the valedictorians were honored by the Bergen County Coalition of School Administrators, a roomful of the county's best and brightest brimming with exuberance and exileration.
'I'm just relieved that I finally made it,"said Harvey Chin, 17, of Fort Lee, as he looked forward to studying biology at Princeton University. …
The Straits Times (Singapore)
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June 6, 2000HEADLINE: Tiger, tiger, burning bright
BYLINE: Patricia Lam in BostonBACK TO SCHOOL
'Tis the season of reunions in the US, and Princeton is an explosion of orange and black stripes, tails and motifs as the proud alumni gather
AROUND this time every year, a strange event takes place in New Jersey.
Everywhere you look there are tigers. Fierce tigers on the back of loud orange jackets. Happy tigers on the front of T-shirts.
Children prance about with furry little tiger tails hanging behind them. Even apparently conservative blazers and navy blue ties have tiny tigers running rampant all over them.
If people don't have a tiger motif on them, they are invariably dressed in tiger colours of orange and black. And not a pale retiring orange, mind you, but a deep-hued, full-strength glow of the setting-sun orange.
It's a fashion maven's nightmare: jackets and trousers, skirts, scarves, umbrellas, hats and baseball caps all in this lurid colour combination.
This is not some zoologically-inspired Halloween mayhem. It is, in fact, a phenomenon known as Princeton Reunions.
Throughout May, students all over the country gather in auditoriums and on college greens for graduation ceremonies.
For many of the older universities, graduation is also a time to welcome back their older graduates.
Alumni from Princeton University have been returning to campus around graduation since the 1750s. …
USA TODAY
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Hey, Einstein, you forgot your receipt Identity swapping makes privacy a relative thing
BYLINE: Elizabeth WeiseThink privacy is a battle waged only in the courts? Think again. It's guerrilla warfare, consumers against the companies, and the consumers hold more cards than they know.
"I'd say pretty much every customer database has Elvis in it," says Kevin Mabley of Cyber Dialogue, a firm that helps Net companies manage relationships with their customers. Its recent study of health sites found that 15% of people registering had provided false names, 11% false e-mail addresses, and 10% false postal addresses. …
In the mid-1990s at Princeton University, students did what they called the "prox card shuffle," in which they randomly handed around the proximity cards issued to allow access through the electronic doors of the dorms. Because the cards carried individual ID numbers, a side effect of their use was the possibility of tracking a student's every move. …
The Washington Post
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June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: A Longer Nuclear Fuse
BYLINE: Frank von Hippel; Bruce BlairSTART II, the latest U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction treaty, did not take effect when the Russian parliament finally voted approval in April. Conditions were attached. One is that the U.S. Senate first ratify amendments to the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1997 to allow theater missile defenses. The Senate's Republican leadership seeks instead to jettison the ABM Treaty, in order to clear the way for an ambitious U.S. national missile defense. Therefore, seven years after Presidents Bush and Yeltsin agreed to reduce deployed ballistic-missile warheads by about 60 percent, implementation of START II may still be many years away.
This means that the United States and Russia are each likely to keep an extra 1,000 missile warheads on alert, ready to launch within minutes if space- or ground-based sensors report an incoming missile attack. …
Presidents Clinton and Putin could dramatically reduce the risk of accidental launch by repeating the bold actions of Presidents Bush and Gorbachev when faced with a similar conundrum over START I implementation in 1991. To reduce the danger quickly, the presidents ordered immediate removal from launch readiness of a large fraction of the missiles slated for elimination. …
Frank von Hippel is a professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University. Bruce Blair is president of the non-governmental Center for Defense Information.
U.S. Newswire
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June 5, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Nation's Top Immigration Lawyers Gather in Chicago
DATELINE: CHICAGO, June 5The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the national voluntary association of more than 6,000 attorneys who practice immigration law, are gathering in Chicago on June 14-18 for the organization's 2000 Annual Conference on Immigration Law.
Also on the agenda is the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF)'s Award Dinner honoring the contributions of Chinese Americans. Honorees include: Robert Chen, concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and
Daniel Tsui, a Princeton University chemistry professor and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for (Physics) . …
Daily News (New York)
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June 5, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: COPING WITH AUTISM Though there's no cure, behavioral and educational intervention can help
BYLINE: BY AMANDA GARDNER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERIt has only been during the past decade or so that scientists have come to realize the disorder, which may occur in as many as 1 in 500 children (four times as many boys as girls), has a biological basis.
"It's clearly not psychological," says Dr. Mary Zupanc, an associate professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the pediatric epilepsy program at Columbia University. "I think there are some good studies that indicate autism is as organically based as epilepsy, diabetes, heart disease."
Autism, actually, is not a single disorder but a collection of developmental disorders known as the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). …
There are common behavioral threads among people with autism. "The main symptom is difficulty with human communication," says Clarence E. Schutt, professor of chemistry at Princeton University, chairman of the board of the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) and father of a 14-year-old boy with autism. "The second thing you always hear about is social behavior." …
The Evening Standard (London)
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June 5, 2000HEADLINE: Time to stop the cultural genocide in Kosovo;
The deliberate destruction of major - and very beautiful - monuments in Kosovo is something that should alarm art lovers everywhere. An important part of European heritage is at risk
BYLINE: Slobodan CurcicTHE province of Kosovo has a remarkably dense concentration of historical monuments, among which those associated with the medieval Ser-bian State hold pride of place.
Scores of medieval monasteries and churches with royal tombs and saintly shrines, mostly dating from the 13th to the 15th centuries, survive. Many of the churches have remarkably well-preserved fresco paintings of high quality.
These historical treasures are now becoming the latest victims of the Kosovo saga. A tragedy of horrifying dimensions may be in the making of which we in the West appear to be totally ignorant.
As early as 1981, 10 years before the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia began, the signs of trouble brewing in Kosovo were clearly visible. These included assaults on historically important art and architecture.
In addition to scores of relatively "minor" acts of desecration, there was a major planned act of vandalism: on 16 March 1981, a dormitory building within the monastic compound of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate at Pec was torched by the Albanian extremists. This was an unmistakable symbolic act directed against the historical claims of the Serbs to Kosovo as the heart of their religious and cultural being. These events, which should have caused considerable consternation, received no attention in the West.
Nearly 20 years later, the problem of Kosovo is far more visible internationally, though not necessarily much better understood. …
P Slobodan Curcic is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
The New York Times
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June 5, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
BROOKS, HARRY A.BROOKS-Harry A. Of Glen Head, LI, on June 2, 2000, age 87. Beloved husband of Helen M. (Holly). Father of Melissa Brooks Zakarian and Miranda Brooks Meyer. Stepfather of James R. Lowell III and Howard B. Lowell; their spouses and seven grandchildren. He was in the class of 1935 at Princeton University and graduated from New York Law School in 1938. …
PR Newswire
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June 5, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Gore Advisors to Discuss Social Security Tomorrow ... Says Bush for President;
Advisors' Support of Tax Increases, Government Investment in the Stock Market Provide Gore's Blueprint for Addressing Social Security
DATELINE: AUSTIN, Texas, June 5In a press conference scheduled for tomorrow, advisors to Al Gore are expected to attack Governor Bush's bipartisan approach to Social Security reform. Instead, they should explain whether Al Gore agrees with their own solution to Social Security reform, which includes raising taxes and direct government investment in the stock market.
"Instead of attacking Governor Bush's bi-partisan plan, Al Gore's advisors should indicate whether the Vice-President' supports tax hikes and direct government investment in the stock market to save Social Security," said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. "The Administration in which Al Gore serves has had eight years to save Social Security and they didn't get anything done. Unfortunately, Al Gore's advisors, just like the Vice-President, would rather attack Governor Bush than solve Social Security's problems."
The following Gore advisors and surrogates attending the press conference support raising taxes and government investment in the stock market:
Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution; …
Scripps Howard News Service
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June 05, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Fighting global warming
SOURCE: Scripps Howard News Service
BYLINE: MITZI PERDUETake a deep breath and then exhale.
Surprisingly, the air you just breathed has a somewhat different chemical makeup from the air you were breathing a few years ago. The concentration of carbon dioxide has been steadily increasing over the years.
According to Dr. Robert Socolow, a physicist from Princeton University, the breath you just took probably had around 365 molecules of carbon dioxide in every million molecules of air. If you are 40 and took a similar breath shortly after you were born, there would have been roughly 315 molecules of carbon dioxide.
For the last couple of hundred years we've been adding increasing amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels releases into the air the carbon that was stored underground for eons. …
If unchecked, global warming means melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of coastal cities, plus increasingly unstable weather patterns. We are likely to have more severe floods, droughts and hurricanes.
That's the bad news. But, according to Socolow, there's also some unexpectedly good news. In the last few years, scientists have been exploring practical ways of slowing down the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If they're successful, we may be able to address the greenhouse gas issues in a less disruptive way than previously thought possible. Instead of radically changing our entire fossil-fuel-based energy system, we may be able to make it less polluting.
How could this be done? The answer involves many approaches, but one major one is the use of hydrogen fuel. …
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
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June 05, 2000 Monday, ALL EDITIONSHEADLINE: Brain Storming' is map for regaining skills
BYLINE: Geraldine A. Collier; TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFFLynn Lazarus Serper's journey began with an odd pain over her right eye.
It moved in slowly, almost imperceptibly. At first, it felt like a gentle wave spreading over sand. Then, the wave started pounding, the intensity and pain so great, my entire head began to throb.''
On her way home to Worcester in an airport van, Ms. Serper convinced herself that if she rested her head against the back of the seat, breathed deeply and thought lovely thoughts, it would calm the storm in her head. But, instead the pain worsened. …
A ruptured brain aneurysm: two bubbles in an artery in her head had ruptured. Surgery took care of that problem, but the day after surgery, Ms. Serper suffered a cerebral stroke, putting her in a semi-coma for three weeks.
The stroke had seriously weakened the entire left side of her body, but fortunately, she was not paralyzed. However, for a woman who was a teacher, working on her doctoral dissertation, the damage was great. …
Her spirits buoyed by friends who convinced her- if not themselves- that she could make it back, and strengthened by professionals who worked with her, Ms. Serper spent the next five years working to regain her intellectual and social skills.
Up until the 1990s, there was a longstanding belief that adults never generated new brain cells, that once cells were damaged they were lost forever.
However, last year, two Princeton University research biologists working with macaque monkeys found that thousands of freshly born neurons show up each day in three areas of the cerebral cortex where memories are known to be stored.
The research also showed that mental exercises promoted the growth of new neurons and that mental tasks could double the number and stimulate the growth and development of new neurons in the adult brain,'' according to Ms. Serper. …
The Washington Post
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June 5, 2000HEADLINE: Three Lacrosse Goalies Will Stick Together
BYLINE: Christian Swezey , Special to The Washington PostThree of the Washington area's top boys lacrosse goaltenders will be on the same team in the fall. All-Met Reed Sothoron of St. Mary's Ryken, second-team All-Met Justin Lang of Gonzaga and honorable mention All-Met Matt Welch of Oakton will attend Bridgton Academy in Maine. Bridgton offers a fifth year of high school and has a traditionally strong lacrosse program.
"It is extremely unusual for us to get three such quality kids--especially goaltenders--from the same area," Bridgton Coach Mike Fuller said. "We feel very lucky to have all three."
Fuller said getting playing time for the three goaltenders may not be a problem. In the fall, the school hosts a series of scrimmages that several NCAA Division I and III coaches attend. In the spring, the team plays at least 17 games, including junior varsity teams from Army, Navy and Princeton as well as other postgraduate schools. . . .
The Weekly Standard
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June 5, 2000HEADLINE: A League of His Own; How Woodrow Wilson lost the fight for the League of Nations
BYLINE: BY ALVIN S. FELZENBERG;Alvin S. Felzenberg, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, writes and lectures on the American presidency.
Woodrow Wilson
by Louis Auchincloss
Viking, 128 pp., $19.95Louis Auchincloss -- the American master of nuance and subtlety who has penned the latest in Penguin's eclectic series of brief biographies -- concludes his study of the twenty-eighth president with the admission that there seem to have been "two Woodrow Wilsons."
One was the "sensible, sensitive man of many interests and activities who conscientiously viewed all sides of a question." The other was the "self-idealist who could hardly conceive, much less admit, that he could be wrong."
The first was the dynamic college president, writer, orator, governor of New Jersey, and president of the United States. This was the Wilson who reformed Princeton University's curriculum, enacted a progressive agenda in New Jersey, and guided through Congress the Federal Reserve and Clayton Anti-Trust acts. He was always ready to compromise on his means to achieve his ends, and many observers noticed that he was also capable of abandoning long-held principles in pursuit of ambition.
But the second Woodrow Wilson -- ah, that was the man who never compromised and often gave the impression that he alone had discerned the true will of the people or, indeed, of the Almighty. It was this second Wilson who suffered the major defeat of his presidency: the failure to bring the United States into the League of Nations. …
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
Copyright 2000 Multimedia Publishing of North Carolina, Inc.June 4, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: STATE TO HONOR SWISS GEOGRAPHER WITH HISTORICAL MARKER
BYLINE: Quintin Ellison STAFF WRITERCANTON - The state will honor the contributions of Swiss geographer Arnold Henry Guyot with a historical marker in this Haywood County town.
Guyot, who was tenured at Princeton University and lived from 1807 until 1884, measured 180 sites across Western North Carolina, including Hominy Creek Gap near Canton.
Mount Guyot, the secondhighest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains, is named for him.
There are 1,420 historical markers in North Carolina. Five new ones, including Guyot's, were approved earlier this spring.
"The purpose is to place markers at sites determined to be of statewide interest," said Michael Hill, a researcher for the state Department of Cultural Resources.
Hill said among other accomplishments, Guyot pioneered physical geography as a field of study.
The geographer measured mountain peaks using a barometer and was tremendously accurate, usually within 2 to 3 percent of current values. …
The Independent (London)
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June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: NOT BLACK OR WHITE, BUT A BREED APART
BYLINE: Andrew Marshall In WashingtonWHEN Brent Kennedy started investigating his family history, it could have resulted in an interesting insight into a tiny corner of American society with long and complex past.
But Dr Kennedy, an academic in Virginia, has ended up by precipitating an intense debate on race and history that has severely upset some family members and sparked harsh words in academia. "It has taken on a life of its own," he says.
Dr Kennedy is a Melungeon. It may sound like something from an episode of Star Trek, but the Melungeons are a community in the Appalachian Mountains that spread across Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. They look very different from their neighbours, who are predominantly either black or descended from Scots and Irish immigrants. Melungeons are dark-haired and olive- skinned with blue eyes, and that had long set them apart.
Dr Kennedy had always been told that his heritage was Scots-Irish, despite the fact that anyone looking at a photograph can see that doesn't explain everything. When he fell ill with sarcoidosis, a disease almost exclusively afflicting Mediterraneans, he set out to find out exactly who he might be. …
The story of how that came to be is probably very complex and almost certainly predates the English settlement of North America. There are records of 16th century Spanish settlement in the area; Portuguese sailors were shipwrecked on the coast; Sir Francis Drake landed some Turkish prisoners of war there. Dr Kennedy believes the word Melungeon may be derived from the Arabic "Melun-Jinn" - abandoned by God; it may also derive from a Portuguese word meaning "shipmate." Whoever these people were, they moved inland, and settled down with native women to farm. …
Many other Americans have mixed blood of one sort or another, but the pressure to be one thing - "white" or "black" - is huge, no matter how unrealistic. For the first time, in this year's census, Americans could tick more than one box when it came to race. A study by researchers at Princeton University indicated that between 8 and 18 million people might do so. But the US government promptly announced that they would immediately allocate mixed-race individuals back to the minority race.
As far as Washington is concerned, it seems, you have to fit into one of those little boxes. …
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
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June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Insurance 'claim game' frustrates doctors, patients
BYLINE: PAUL WENSKE; JULIUS A. KARASH; The Kansas City StarTerry and Lori Geise don't hide their frustration with the nation's health-care insurance system.
The Shawnee couple's youngest son, Austin, was born two years ago, and the anesthesiologist's bill was not paid by their insurer until last fall. Other doctor bills more than a year old still have not been paid.
"Whenever I get a statement, I have to call the doctor to verify the service, then call the insurer to see why the bill wasn't paid," said Terry Geise. "I really think the system is designed to put more of the costs on the backs of patients." …
Consumers increasingly are voicing pent-up anger with an unwieldy health insurance system that frustrates them with unpaid bills, exasperating delays and liability for claims they do not owe. …
Americans may enjoy top-notch health care, but in terms of processing its bills "no country is as backward as the United States," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health economist and former member of the Physician Payment Review Commission, which advises Congress. …
The New York Times
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June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: THEATER: Broadway: Devil or Angel for Nonprofit Theater?;
A Vital Movement Has Lost Its WayBYLINE: By ROCCO LANDESMAN; Rocco Landesman is president of Jujamcyn Theaters.
Who ever heard of an intermission that lasted 26 years? Well, to be honest, people in the theater, and to be precise: the First Annual Congress of Theater, which was held in 1974 and brought together representatives of the country's commercial and nonprofit theaters. Sparks flew, as described in the following articles, and the group never met again. Much has happened in the theater since, so much, in fact, that it seemed a good idea to some optimists to see how commercial and nonprofit interests can relate to each other today for the betterment of the nation's stages. Thus, ACT II, the second congress of theater, will take place June 16-18 on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Mass. Here are some thoughts from members of the planning committee who represent the commercial (Rocco Landesman) and the nonprofit (Ben Cameron) sides of the debate.
IN 1974, the entire American theater, from Broadway to Off and Off Off Broadway, to regional institutions, to radical cells and communes, convened at Princeton University to discuss the state of the art. It was called the First Annual Congress of Theater (FACT) and my assignment -- I was then an assistant professor at the Yale School of Drama -- was to report on this historic event for the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: TOP LOCAL METHODIST BISHOP TO RETIRE;
BASHORE RECOGNIZED AS CHAMPION OF THE DOWNTRODDEN
BYLINE: ANN RODGERS-MELNICK, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITERJohn Wesley, the 18th-century Anglican who accidentally founded Methodism when he insisted on evangelizing coal miners and American pioneers, has had a kindred spirit in United Methodist Bishop George Bashore.
Bashore, who retires this summer after 12 years at the helm of the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference, has confounded observers because he is closer to his 18th-century role model than to any of the conservative or liberal factions that now threaten to split the 8.6 million member national United Methodist Church over issues of sexuality and the authority of Scripture. He melds his dedication to evangelism and personal holiness with a deep concern for racial and economic justice.
But he fears that his church is losing that Wesleyan vision.
"I see a diminishing of concern about talking to unbelievers about faith in Jesus Christ. If we lose our evangelistic zeal, our passion for people's relationship with God, then I think we are in danger of losing our identity, not only as Wesleyan people, but as Christian people," Bashore said. …
Bashore was born in Lancaster and felt a strong call to the ministry when he was a senior in high school. Although neither of his parents had gone beyond the eighth grade, Bashore graduated from Princeton University and was ordained in 1958. …
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Richmond Times Dispatch
June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: BERNARD LEWIS COLLECTS BOISTEROUS FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY
BYLINE: Reviewed by Robert A. Lincoln;Robert A. Lincoln, a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer who; lives in Northern Virginia, spent most of his professional career; concerned with the Middle East.
A MIDDLE EAST MOSIAC: Fragments of Live, Letters and History, by Bernard Lewis; Random House, $35.
The sensuous dust-jacket of A Middle East Mosaic leads a reader to expect Scheherazade's A Thousand and One Nights - only Mosaic may be better. "A rich, boisterous literature of cultural exchange," the jacket proclaims, immodestly, but in this case accurately. History? Certainly. The Mosaic is entertaining, stimulating, and put together by a Middle East authority.
Author Bernard Lewis is the dean of Middle East historians. Professor emeritus at Princeton University and a long-term member of its Institute for Advanced Studies, he displays in Mosaic reasons for his achieve- ments. For one, his research has amassed an immense treasury concerning his field of knowledge. For another, he has never restricted himself to narrower segments of Middle East studies but always has investigated its whole.
Books like this seldom come along. We read a summary of the cause of the American Revolution in a capsule report from a Moroccan ambassador in Spain. We find in a Moslem visitor's account after seeing Paris that the "drapery in front [of French women] was so scanty as barely to conceal half their bosoms." …
The San Francisco Chronicle
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JUNE 4, 2000, SUNDAYHEADLINE: Being Born Here Isn't Enough; Chinese American journalist recounts the struggle to be accepted as American'
BYLINE: REVIEWED BY Roger Yim
ASIAN AMERICAN DREAMS
The Emergence of an American People
By Helen Zia
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $26When Helen Zia visited China in the early '70s, she experienced a sense of belonging unlike any she had before. "After years of not looking American' to the Americans' and not looking Chinese enough for the Cantonese who made up the majority of Chinese Americans," the Princeton University student "found (her) face on every passerby."
As Zia recalls in her book "Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People," the fantasy abruptly ended when someone stopped her on a Shanghai street and asked for directions. "My clumsy American accent infected the little Chinese I knew . . . My questioners knew immediately that I was a foreigner, a Westerner, an American, maybe even a spy -- and they ran from me as fast as they could."
But in the United States, Zia, a second-generation Chinese American who was born in New Jersey and lives in the Bay Area, hasn't always been recognized as a compatriot. "Go back to where you came from!" a stranger shouts at her at a mall. Others ask questions familiar to many Asian Americans: "What are you? Where are you from?"
What it means to be an American is the underlying theme of "Asian American Dreams," Zia's brisk and engrossing account of pivotal events in Asian American political movements and the scant victories and many frustrations of those involved. A journalist and former Ms. magazine editor, Zia has had firsthand experience of many of the stories she relates. …
The Washington Post
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June 4, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: From Suburban Roots To a Global Ambition
SERIES: THE NEW IMPERIALISTS
BYLINE: Mark Leibovich, Washington Post Staff WriterFirst in a series of occasional articles
These were the dark ages before chat rooms and instant messaging, when kids called one another together by bouncing a basketball on a driveway. After school, the sound would echo across a cul-de-sac in the suburban hills of Honolulu.
Steve Case heard the bouncing from his bedroom, where he was often tinkering with a toy rocket or hatching a mail-order business or listening to the Rolling Stones. He spent so much time upstairs that his family called Steve's room his "office." He spent hours alone, opting for detached forms of engagement, such as typing letters or ordering stuff from scientific catalogues. He loved getting mail. ….
Losing came tough to the Case boys, particularly Steve and Dan. "The games would almost get bloody," says Steven Bond, who lived around the corner. "There was always more of the physical, territory-grabbing stuff with Steve and Danny." It didn't matter whether they were competing as teammates or against each other. If they were losing, they would sometimes change the rules, prompting an inside joke among the other children. "We used to call it Case Rules," recalls another neighbor, Lucy Alexander Black. …
In the mid-1970s, Dan was contemplating a number of Eastern colleges, including Williams College, the liberal arts school in northwestern Massachusetts that his father had attended. It came as a surprise when Steve staked a claim to family convention and asked Dan to leave Williams for him. Dan obliged and chose Princeton University, where he solidified his stellar credentials while Steve went on to become a campus maverick in the Berkshires. …
At a trade show in Las Vegas, Dan Case introduced Steve to Bill Von Meister, the grandiose and erratic founder of Control Video Corp. of Vienna, Va. Control Video was a computer company that connected set-top TV boxes to Atari games through phone lines; Hambrecht & Quist was one of its backers and Dan Case was a board member. Von Meister offered Steve Case a job as a marketing consultant.
Soon after Case took the job, the company's investors deposed Von Meister and fired most of the staff--about 50 people. As one of Control Video's rare marketing specialists, Case escaped the purge, "definitely on the merits," says Bob Cross, a corporate turnaround specialist who was brought in during the mid-1980s. But there was another factor, too: "We wanted to keep Hambrecht & Quist interested in us," he says, the implication being that they didn't want to alienate Dan Case. …
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE)
Copyright 2000 Bangor Daily News
June 3, 2000 SaturdayHEADLINE: John Bapst Memorial High School
Principal Joseph Sekera has announced the honor parts for the Class of 2000 at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. The valedictorian is Samantha J. Taber, daughter of Linda Stearns of Bangor and Peter Taber of Searsport.
The salutatorian is Kathryn K. Sullivan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Sullivan of Veazie.
Taber was a recipient of the National Merit Commended Scholar Award, the Williams College Book Award and the Maine Scholars Achievement Award. She was a member of the soccer, cross-country and track teams, in addition to being a member of the National Honor Society and math team. She plans to study at Princeton University. …
The Economist
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June 03, 2000HEADLINE: How software got its name
DATABASES are becoming increasingly important research tools in scientific fields from astronomy to genetics. But they can also have other, more surprising uses -- in etymology, for example. Fred Shapiro of Yale Law School, who is the editor of the forthcoming "Yale Dictionary of Quotations", has been using a database of academic journals called JSTOR to track down the origins of new words and expressions. His latest finding, announced in a note in the current issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, is of the earliest known published use of that now-ubiquitous word, "software".
This word was, he found, used in 1958 by John Tukey, a mathematician at Princeton University, in an article published in the American Mathematical Monthly. Tukey was a major figure in 20th-century statistics and, says Mr Shapiro, he also had a fondness for coining new words and phrases. His greatest contribution to the vocabulary of computing was previously thought to be his invention, in 1946, of the word "bit", short for binary digit. But it now seems that he is also responsible for introducing the term "software", in the following sentence:Today the "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
The fact that "software" and "hardware" appear in inverted commas suggests that Tukey expected these words to be unfamiliar to his readers. Previously, the first recorded appearance of the word "software" in print was in 1960. So this sentence may well be the original source of the term. …
The New York Times
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June 3, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: COMMENCEMENTS
BYLINE: By ABBY GOODNOUGHHunter College
Lia Lynch dropped out of the Bronx High School of Science at 16 and fled family problems by sleeping at the homes of friends and in $20-a-night flophouses. Four years ago, just as she had her life back together, earning a decent living as a bookkeeper, taking her first vacation and living on the Upper West Side, her company downsized and she was laid off.
The boss who laid her off told her to go to college.
Yesterday, Ms. Lynch, now 30, was one of 1,000 students who received bachelor's degrees from Hunter College at a ceremony in Central Park. She was honored as outstanding student, with a 4.0 average, a full scholarship as a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton University and two fellowships. …
The San Francisco Chronicle
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JUNE 3, 2000, SATURDAYHEADLINE: ROUNDUP; Cal Crew Advances to National Finals
BYLINE: Staff and Wire ReportCal's varsity eight men's crew team won its semifinal race yesterday in the International Rowing Association national championships, and the top-ranked Bears will go for the national title today on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
The defending champion Bears beat No. 2 Brown by 2.5 seconds. Cal, Brown and third-place finisher Temple advanced to today's final. The top three teams from the other semifinal -- Washington, Dartmouth and Princeton -- also qualified for the title race. …
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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June 3, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: GEORGE M. LINGUA
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACHGeorge Millard Lingua, 73, peacefully passed away May 31, 2000, at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. His children, Martha Lingua Wheless, Molly Lingua Mundy and David John Lingua were by his side throughout his final illness. …
George was born in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 20, 1926. He attended Christian Brothers College and Princeton University. George went on to a career in finance, becoming a senior vice president of the Institutional Investment Division of Citibank. He was a key member of President Ford's Senate Subcommittee of Pension Funds. He also was on the boards of the Animal Medical Center of New York and SwissRe Insurance. Additionally, George served as president of the National Kidney Foundation. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 2, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: NU tops $218 million in donations
DATELINE: LINCOLN, Neb.The University of Nebraska Foundation received more than $218 million in donations during the 1998-99 school year, lifting NU to ninth place among colleges and universities for total gifts collected, according to a new report.
"It truly was an extraordinary year," said Terry Fairfield, president and chief executive officer of the NU Foundation. "It's really amazing the love the people of this state have for the university, both alumni and nonalumni." …
NU collected more in donations than many other major universities including Michigan, Princeton and the University of California at Los Angeles. …
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 2000 Albuquerque Journal
June 2, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Scholarly Work Attacks Buffalo Myths
BYLINE: Karen Peterson Of the Journal* Princeton professor also takes issue with 20th century romanticization of the Great Plains tribes
"The Destruction of the Bison" is a small but elegant book. In a mere 200 pages, Princeton University professor Andrew Isenberg outlines the complex ecological and sociological changes that led to the near-extinction of one of North America's totem animals. He also makes clear how those same changes also spelled doom for those Native American peoples who, by the middle of the 19th century, survived almost exclusively by hunting the bison.
Isenberg's book is one in a series of studies of the interaction between the environment and history, and it fittingly begins with a discussion of the ecology of the Great Plains. First, he takes issue with 19th and early 20th century estimates of the area's bison population. The celebrated image of the Plains covered with herds of tens of thousands of bison, he says, is misleading. …
As late as 1929, some experts estimated that 76 million bison once inhabited the Plains. But according to Isenberg, evidence from modern bison preserves suggest this number may be as much as three times too high. Also, he says, we now understand that the shortgrass prairie is one of the most volatile ecologies. …
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE)
Copyright 2000 Bangor Daily News
June 2, 2000 FridayHEADLINE: Hubble telescope helps find missing mass of universe
BYLINE: Clair WoodA source of embarrassment for astronomers over the years is that they seemed to have misplaced the greater part of the universe.
All of the visible matter in the universe adds up to only about 10 percent of the theoretical amount that must be present. The rest was written off as invisible "dark matter" consisting of hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons. Hydrogen in this state cannot radiate light and thus can't be seen.
Now a team of astronomers from Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin has reported locating the missing hydrogen as gaseous filaments stretching across the universe between galaxies. They did this indirectly by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the effect of the hydrogen on ionized oxygen which does emit light.
One of the researchers says further observation is necessary but they are sure that at least a portion of the universe's missing mass has been located. …
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2000 The Dallas Morning News
June 2, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Traveling in Time; Investigating the many dimensions of the past and future
What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're 11, you're also 10, and 9, and 8, and 7, and 6, and 5
- Sandra Cisneros' short story Eleven, from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.
Most of us think of time as linear. But artists, philosophers and scientists know time doesn't work that way.
As early as the 1700s, philosopher Immanuel Kant was suggesting time and space were mere sensory intuitions. And our intuitions are limited by pictures and words stored in books or by individual memories, perhaps a madeleine dipped in tea or the scent of magnolias on a summer night. …
Some concepts are truly amazing and make movies like Run Lola Run seem almost plausible.
Princeton University astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott III explains time travel to the past is his hot topic because time travel to the future is already possible. "The Russian astronaut on the Mir has aged 1/50 of a second less than he would have aged if he had stayed home," Professor Gott asserts. "These effects can be large if you travel close to the speed of light."
However, building a speedy rocket like Back to the Future's would be prohibitively costly today. Professor Gott says physicists are instead investigating time travel to the past through some solutions to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity that allow you to circle back on yourself. But he cautions, "Any of these solutions involves galactic masses. These are not projects for 21st-century engineers." …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
Copyright 2000 The Morning Call, Inc.
June 2, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: POISE & IVY; ALLEN'S KELLY GAYDOS IS THE EPITOME OF EXCELLENCE. SHE IS A FINE ATHLETE, AND;OUTSTANDING STUDENT AND A GREAT PERSON. IT'S NO WONDER SHE IS GOING TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. BYLINE: KEITH GROLLER; The Morning Call
It was the end of a long day.
Playing in its own invitational tournament May 6 at Pates Park, the Allen High softball team had just lost the title game to Williamsport, 5-0, and then got stuck in the worst thunderstorm of the spring.
Unable to make it to their bus as the skies opened up and tornado-like conditions invaded South Allentown, the Canaries sought shelter inside a crowded Pates Park refreshment stand.
When the storm subsided, Allen team members -- wet, tired and disappointed at that point -- finally ventured outside.
'But before they left, two Allen players came over and made sure to say 'thanks' for allowing us to stay inside the stand during the storm,' said Jim Adams, the Pates Park president.
'I don't know who the other player was, but one of them was definitely Kelly Gaydos. That kind of thing makes an impression. No one else said a word but those two girls and one was Kelly.' …
Allen High School has been a better place because of her the last four years and Princeton University's picturesque campus will become just a little more vivacious in the fall because that's where Gaydos is headed. …
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Copyright 2000 New Mexican, Inc.
June 02, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Callooh! Callay!
BYLINE: Ellen Berkovitch, photos by Julie GraberFall into MOIFA's Wonderland
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodby, feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off)."
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
When Lewis Carroll's heroine Alice reaches Wonderland, she's so overcome by her new surroundings that she promptly forgets her grammar.The same might happen to you when you arrive at the new installation Curiouser and Curiouser, which opens Sunday, June 4, at Museum of International Folk Art.The entrance is very strange, not like a museum portal at all. Instead of passing through a doorway that admits you to the exhibit, you step through a giant gilded picture frame leading into a corridor.The corridor's panels of mirrored walls appear ever-so-slightly off-kilter. You look straight ahead through a keyhole-shaped door that frames a Mexican tree of life with carved leaves and birds in the pink and white hues of a wedding cake.What a very enchanting place! Alice thinks in the book, "never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."
And who would want to get out, once having fallen into such deep playfulness?The museum has transformed the gallery to the left of the corridor into a Victorian library where gargantuan bound volumes -- the exhibit props -- contain turnable page after page of gorgeous textiles. You can leaf through at will.
On one page is a fragment of a Japanese No drama costume. On another a pink textile decorated with phoenixes has such elaborate hand stitching, the Mad Hatter must have been up all night sewing.If you elect to start your tour to the right of the corridor instead, you come immediately upon a party -- a tea party, which the fat Cheshire Cat watches from a tree as the White Rabbit sips from a hologram of a teacup.
What a curious dream!But it's real!Curiouser and Curiouser is the second major installation at MOIFA's Neutrogena Wing. The Neutrogena Collection of textiles opened to the public in 1998 after former Neutrogena Corp. CEO Lloyd Cotsen donated his glorious trove to Santa Fe's "fancifullest" museum. …
Japan plays a major role in the installation, Tjardes said. Cotsen started his collection in Japan, where he was stationed in the Navy during the Korean War.
And that's not the only germane part of the donor's autobiography. Cotsen also is a great lover and collector of children's literature. He donated his children's-book library to his alma mater, Princeton University.
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
June 2, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: 'First e-mail class' receives high-tech wisdom, warnings
You've got mail, members of the Class of 2000. Commencement speakers are sending strong messages to the nation's newest collegegraduates about the bright and dark aspects of recent and upcoming technological advancements:
Dr. Harold A. Shapiro, chairman of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, at Princeton University: "We have to accept the fact that in a world that is changing as fast as ours, all thoughtful citizens will have to share in the anguish of finding the right moral perspective within which to accommodate these changes. … Today, we strain harder than ever before to define ethical guidelines that will help us to navigate this flood tide of discovery, as we struggle to construct new moral perspectives within which science and technology can thrive."
The Washington Times
June 02, 2000, Friday, Final EditionHEADLINE: Trio picked by Caps eligible again
BYLINE: Dave Fay; THE WASHINGTON TIMESThree players picked by the Washington Capitals in the 1998 NHL draft will go back into the pool and are eligible to be selected again later this month when the draft is held in Calgary, Alberta. Goalie Jomar Cruz and centers Todd Hornung and Blake Evans were not signed to contracts by yesterday's midnight deadline.
Three of the 10 players drafted have signed and turned pro. A fourth, goalie Rastislav Stana, has signed but is still playing junior hockey. Left wing Krys Barch, defenseman Mike Farrell and defenseman/forward Mike Siklenka were playing in the minor leagues at season's end.
Still another, defenseman Nathan Forster, agreed to a contract yesterday and is expected to turn pro this fall.
Two draftees, right wing Chris Corrinet (Princeton) and center Erik Wendell (Minnesota), are amateurs under NCAA rules and cannot be signed. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 1, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Mouse study finds neural stem cells able to grow other tissue
BYLINE: By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTONResearch in mice suggests that stem cells from the adult brain can be nurtured into heart, liver, muscle and other tissues. The finding may eliminate the ethical dilemma now blocking stem cell studies that use human fetal tissues, experts say.
The mouse study, by researchers in Sweden, found that neural stem cells taken from the central nervous system of adult mice and transferred to mouse and chicken embryos were converted into the cell types that are found in a variety of body tissues and organs.
One part of the study, appearing Friday in the journal Science, showed that some neural stem cells converted to become part of a beating heart in a mouse embryo.
Experts said the finding was an important advance in the rapidly developing field of stem cell research.
"This is a very exciting and interesting result," said Ihor R. Lemischka, a professor of developmental biology at Princeton University. He said if the research can be confirmed in human cells it would "nip in the bud" the moral and ethical concerns that now block federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
Under federal law, the National Institutes of Health is forbidden to finance human embryo research. After recent stem cell studies, the agency has proposed changing the regulations, but some members of congress oppose the change. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 1, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Princeton passes town-wide smoking ban
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.A Princeton health commission Thursday unanimously passed an ordinance that forbids smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces and is the strictest smoking ban in the state.
Under the ordinance, which is expected to take effect in 30 days, smoking would be allowed only in homes, cigar shops or outdoors.
Other New Jersey towns, including Glassboro, Highland Park, Lawrence Township, Marlboro, Secaucus and South Brunswick, restrict smoking in a variety of sites, but none has as sweeping a ban as Princeton. …
The two municipalities surrounding Ivy League Princeton University have long been out front on anti-smoking efforts. …
The Press (Christchurch)
Copyright 2000 The Christchurch Press Company Limited
June 1, 2000HEADLINE: Calling all mathematical geniuses
A group of the world's top mathematicians is offering $ US7 million for solutions to some of the world's hardest equations.
After puzzling for years over seven unsolved maths problems, a United States-based mathematics foundation put the Millennium Prize Problems challenge to the world via the Internet. …
"The seven mathematical problems stand out as great unresolved problems of the 20th century," says Andrew Wiles, a Princeton University math professor who cracked a 350-year-old conjecture known as Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995. …
Roll Call
Copyright 2000 Roll Call, Inc.
June 1, 2000HEADLINE: Gregg Aide Chucks Policy Director Post
BYLINE: By Lauren W. WhittingtonChuck Blahous is departing the Hill and Sen. Judd Gregg's (R-N.H.) office at the end of the week. Blahous will be leaving behind a post as policy director, which he has held for three and a half years, to become executive director of the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security.
Before coming to work for Gregg, Blahous spent seven years working for then- Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.). He began his Hill career in the Equality State Member's office, working as a Congressional science fellow through the American Physical Society, in 1989 and 1990. He then spent three years as a legislative assistant before moving up to become legislative director in 1994.
While the college major du jour of most aides on Capitol Hill is political science, Blahous chose to spend his academic years studying a different type of science. The 36-year-old graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with a bachelor's in chemistry and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in computational quantum chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989.
"My whole life I've been attracted to politics," Blahous said. "I pursued science because I thought it was a good way to ensure that I had food on the table." …
Venture Capital Journal
Copyright 2000 Securities Data Publishing
June 01, 2000HEADLINE: Funds: Mayfield Fund XI Hits $1 Billion Mark; Brief Article
BYLINE: Christopher, AlistairMENLO PARK, Calif. - The Mayfield Fund in mid-April held a $1 billion first and final close on Mayfield XI, said Kevin Fong, managing partner at the firm. The $700 million-targeted vehicle was launched with a three-day road show at the end of March, Fong added.
Fong said the vehicle's lightning quick fund-raising pace could be attributed to venture capital market conditions and Mayfield's successful history. "Our past performance has been great," Fong said. He declined to provide a rate of return for a previous fund.
The vehicle will back companies in communications, Internet infrastructure/ applications and what Fong termed the mobile Internet sector, nationwide.
The mobile Internet, Fong explained, is the nascent industry servicing people connecting to the Internet from devices other than computers. At the moment, the mobile Internet sector consists of devices like cellular phones and personal digital assistants that allow their users to connect to the Web. …
Mayfield's traditional limited partners that invested in this vehicle include Yale University, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Princeton University, Horsely Bridge Partners, HarbourVest Partners LLC and Knightsbridge Advisers.
The Herald (Glasgow)
Copyright 2000 Scottish Media Newspapers Limited
May 31, 2000HEADLINE: Cash boost for historic home
THE crumbling former Ayrshire home of one of America's founding fathers, the Rev John Witherspoon, is to be restored following cash boosts from both sides of the Atlantic. The lottery has awarded £1.16m, and a professor at Princeton University, where Mr Witherspoon was president in the 18th century, has added a personal contribution to the Beith restoration fund.
The Scotsman
Copyright 2000 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
May 31, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: LOTTERY MONEY WILL REBUILD US HERO'S HOME
BYLINE: Jim McbethON 4 July, 1776, John Witherspoon became a defining figure in American history. He could have had no idea that his greatest moment would help to breathe life back into an Ayrshire town centre 224 yearslater.
North Ayrshire Council was yesterday awarded a 1.6 million pound lottery grant to refurbish the crumbling home that Witherspoon, a founding father of the United States, lived in for 12 years. It is the second highest award of its type in the UK, and will go toward a GBP 3.2 million project to restore the centre of Beith, including the house where Witherspoon lived before his departure for the American colonies. …
He was also a founding father of Princeton University. Revered in the US, he is also hailed as the father of American Protestantism. He helped to orchestrate the bloody revolutionary war against Britain, because his native land had "gone soft on religion". …
The Nation
Copyright 2000 The Nation Company L.P.
May 29, 2000HEADLINE: Did Elgin Cheat at Marbles?Lord Elgin and Parthenon marbles
BYLINE: Rudenstine, DavidWhen I answered my hotel telephone, the desk clerk said that my translators were waiting for me. I went downstairs quickly. After we had introduced ourselves, I expanded on what I had previously written them--that I wanted to find whatever I could about Lord Elgin's taking of the Parthenon marbles during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Within minutes we set off for the archives of the Ottoman Empire. …
The fabulous marbles, sculpted during the age of Pericles under the guiding hand of Phidias out of fine white Pentelic marble quarried ten miles from Athens and hauled by oxcart to the Acropolis, remained on the high walls of the Parthenon until the first decade of the nineteenth century. At that time, a period of severe international disorder because of the Napoleonic Wars, the marbles were removed and shipped to London. …
Since then, Elgin's controversial taking has frequently been both criticized and defended by poets, artists, cultural leaders, politicians, diplomats, lawyers and academics. Only recently, these marbles have again captured international attention. A year ago, the European Parliament urged Britain to return the collection, and at the end of 1999, President Clinton offered to mediate Greece's demand that Britain return the marbles. …
David Rudenstine, who teaches at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, will spend next year as a fellow in Princeton University's law and public affairs program working on his book, Trophies for the Empire: The Tale of the Parthenon Marbles.
The Hill
Copyright 2000 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.
May 24, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: Four former members look to a return engagement
BYLINE: By John KrugerMaybe you can't go home again, as Thomas Hardy wrote, but this year, four former members of Congress are trying to get back to the House.
Three past members, former Reps. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), Scotty Baesler (D-Ky.) and Dick Zimmer (R-N.J.), ran for other offices and lost. Zimmer must face off, in a primary, former Rep. Mike Pappas (R-N.J.), who lost his seat to Rep. Rush Holt (D) in 1998.
All three districts are considered competitive, top-tier races in the battle for the House. …
Republican Dick Zimmer decided to end his three-and-a-half years in the hinterlands (New Jersey) when Pappas lost his reelection bid in 1998.
"I received a number of phone calls urging me to consider running so we could take back the seat," Zimmer said. "I contacted my former supporters, including a number of contributors to my previous House races and my Senate race [he lost to Sen. Robert Torricelli (D) in 1996] and the responses were quite heartening."
Zimmer said he has been able, through teaching at Princeton University and practicing law, to look at Congress from some different perspectives.
"I can't say that I've had any striking revelations," Zimmer said. "I just think I have a deeper understanding of the process. The trouble with being in Congress is that because it's a full-time job, virtually all of your waking hours are consumed with thinking about legislating and running for office. It's difficult to keep a grip on the 'real world.'" …
The Hill
Copyright 2000 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.
May 24, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: FELLOW TIGER JOINS SARBANES
BYLINE: By Alexander BoltonSen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) has just hired Josh Pollack as his new legislative correspondent.
Pollack, a 1999 graduate of Princeton University, came to the senator's office after working for almost a year at the Appleseed Foundation.
"Basically, [the foundation establishes] public interest law centers around the country to create systemic change," said Pollack. Pollack's desire to change the system was evident even in high school. Instead of spending the whole summer of his senior year at the beach he interned for Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.). Pollack will work on health care issues for Sarbanes.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 5, 2000HEADLINE: Going for Profit and Scholarship on the Web
BYLINE: SCOTT CARLSONAnn G. Kirschner seems to have a knack for clairvoyance. She had the good sense to join the sprouting cable-television industry after leaving academe in 1980, when job prospects for scholars of Victorian literature were dismal. Six years later, she and three colleagues opened a successful satellite-television company, charging the start-up costs to their credit cards. And she made the right call when she led the National Football League online in 1994, establishing a World Wide Web presence that is the envy of other sports leagues.
Now Ms. Kirschner senses that the world is changing again, becoming a place where universities have to get online or get out of the way.
"The history of the university suggests that every once in a while, the pecking order changes. That change is led by external forces as well as internal forces. One could argue that we're at a turning point now. Those universities that figure out what this age means and how to adapt to it have a very strong future ahead of them."
In her new position as head of Fathom, a for-profit venture established by Columbia University, Ms. Kirschner plans to create just such a future. Fathom is intended to bring Columbia and five other institutions online with a Web site that will market distance-education courses and academic texts (http://www.fathom.com). …
She grew up in the 1950's in Queens, N.Y., in an Orthodox Jewish family. Her father is a retired clothing retailer; her mother, a Holocaust survivor, stayed home to raise Ann and her two brothers. She earned her B.A. in English and piano at the State University of New York at Buffalo and her M.A. in English at the University of Virginia. She loved teaching, and when she arrived at Princeton University in the late 1970's to get her doctorate, with a dissertation on orphans in Victorian fiction, she had every intention of going into academe.
Maria DiBattista, an English professor at Princeton who advised Ms. Kirschner on her dissertation, calls her whip-smart -- "a dream student." But, she adds, "I got the sense that she was keeping her options open, and that the academic world might not be for her."
"In the end, I felt that I wasn't good enough," Ms. Kirschner says. "The reality was that as a really committed teacher but a mediocre scholar, I wasn't headed for a successful career." Academic jobs were scarce at the time -- "humanities Ph.D.'s were driving cabs," she says -- and Ms. Kirschner suspected that staying in academe might mean having to live far from her husband, who was in medical school in New York. …
Inside Energy /with Federal Lands
Copyright 2000 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
May 1, 2000HEADLINE: GROUPS URGE DOE TO IMPROVE COORDINATION OF NONPROLIFERATION EFFORTS
DOE must develop a more coherent approach to nonproliferation programs to convince a skeptical Congress and the American public about the importance of helping the former Soviet Union safeguard nuclear materials, members of non-governmental organizations told a Secretary of Energy Advisory Board task force last week.
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson asked the task force in March to send him a report by September that outlines the challenges facing nonproliferation programs at NNSA.
Ken Luongo, executive director of the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, told the SEAB Task Force on DOE's Nonproliferation Programs in Russia that one reason for congressional skepticism is that DOE has done a poor job in dealing with its own security issues. He cited as an example last year's allegations of spying at Los Alamos National Laboratory. ''There is a level of distrust within Congress regarding DOE's foreign programs'' that resulted from the ensuing controversy, said Luongo, who previously served as a senior adviser at DOE on nonproliferation issues. RANSAC, a nonprofit organization based at Princeton University, was created in 1997 to promote U.S.-Russian nonproliferation activities.
That will make it difficult for DOE to convince Congress to increase funding for both the Nuclear Cities Initiative and the Initiative for Proliferation Prevention. NCI is designed to help Russia's 10 formerly closed cities develop non-defense industries. IPP provides civilian-related research projects to under-employed scientists throughout Russia. …
Skeptical Inquirer
Copyright 2000 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
May 1, 2000HEADLINE: Mass Delusions and Hysterias Highlights from the Past Millennium; Brief Article
BYLINE: BARTHOLOMEW, ROBERT E.; GOODE, ERICHOver the past millennium, mass delusions and hysterical outbreaks have taken many forms. Sociologists Robert Bartholomew and Erich Goode survey some of the more colorful cases. …
The study of collective delusions most commonly falls within the domain of sociologists working in the sub-field of collective behavior, and psychologists specializing in social psychology. Collective delusions are typified as the spontaneous, rapid spread of false or exaggerated beliefs within a population at large, temporarily affecting a particular region, culture, or country. Mass hysteria is most commonly studied by psychiatrists and physicians. Episodes typically affect small, tightly knit groups in enclosed settings such as schools, factories, convents and orphanages (Calmeil 1845; Hirsch 1883; Sirois 1974).
Mass hysteria is characterized by the rapid spread of conversion disorder, a condition involving the appearance of bodily complaints for which there is no organic basis. In such episodes, psychological distress is converted or channeled into physical symptoms. …
USA, 1938
On Halloween Eve 1938, a live fictional radio drama produced by Orson Welles was broadcast across much of the United States by the CBS Mercury Theatre. Jr depicted an invasion by Martians who had landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, and soon began attacking with heat rays and poison gas. Princeton University psychologist Hadley Cantril (1940) concluded that an estimated 1.2 million listeners became excited, frightened, or disturbed. However, subsequent reviews of Cantril's findings by sociologists David Miller (1985), William Sims Bainbridge (1987), and others, concluded that there was scant evidence of substantial or widespread panic. For instance, Miller found little evidence of mobilization, an essential ingredient in a panic. Hence, it was a collective delusion and not a true panic. Cantril also exaggerated the extent of the mobilization, attributing much of the typical activity at the time to the "panic." In short, many listeners may have expressed concern but did not do anything in response, like try to flee, grab a gun for protection, or barricade themselves inside a house. Either way one looks at this episode, it qualifies as a collective delusion. If, as Cantril originally asserted, many listeners were frightened and panicked, it is a mass delusion. Conversely, if we are to accept the more recent and likely assessments that the "panic" was primarily a media creation inadvertently fueled by Cantril's flawed study, then erroneous depictions of a mass panic that have been recounted in numerous books and articles for over six decades constitute an equally remarkable social delusion.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 28, 2000HEADLINE: Mellon Foundation Hires Princeton Vice President for Technology Post
Ira H. Fuchs, Princeton University's vice president for computing and information technology, will leave that job to join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on July 1.
In the newly created position of vice president for research in information technology, Mr. Fuchs will direct the foundation's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied to teaching and research -- areas in which he is known as an expert.
Among other topics, the foundation is interested in studying the use of information technology for online and distance learning and teaching. It will also investigate new technical approaches to archiving that will require advanced search protocols, improved electronic storage, and innovations in user-interface technologies. "I have a feeling," Mr. Fuchs said in an interview, "there will be more things than I can look at."
"This appointment recognizes the foundation's increasing commitment to the thoughtful application of advances in information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes, especially in the arts and sciences," said the Mellon foundation's president, William G. Bowen, in a statement. Mr. Bowen was president of Princeton when Mr. Fuchs was hired there 15 years ago.
OBITUARIES
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
June 8, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Journalist, Democratic Activist Blair Clark Dies
BYLINE: Adam Bernstein, Washington Post Staff WriterBlair Clark, 82, a journalist, CBS network executive and avowed "left wing" Democrat whose passion for liberal ideals was unfulfilled by his work as national campaign manager for Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's star-crossed bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, died June 6 at Princeton Medical Center in New Jersey. He had colon surgery last month.
He had residences in Princeton and New York.
Mr. Clark, who relished McCarthy's youth-oriented, anti-Vietnam War platform, had a falling out with the Minnesota senator because of his diffident campaign style, which Mr. Clark believed scuttled his chances. …
Mr. Clark retired after working at the Nation but remained active by teaching at Princeton University and New York University, raising funds for Harvard and, until his death, holding board memberships at the National Committee for an Effective Congress and the Human SERVE voter registration group. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 7, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Former CBS news executive Blair Clark dies in Princeton
BYLINE: By NINA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.Blair Clark, a former CBS news executive who also managed Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, died Tuesday. He was 82.
He died at Princeton Medical Center after complications from colon surgery, according to his son Timothy Clark. …
Clark worked as a freelance writer from 1969-75. He was the editor of The Nation magazine from 1976-78. He also conducted a seminar on the press and politics at Princeton University in 1978. …
Calgary Herald
Copyright 2000 Southam Inc.June 7, 2000, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Cancer claims atom bomb physicist at 83
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: PITTSBURGHRoger B. Sutton, a Canadian-born physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project that built an atom bomb in Los Alamos, N.M., has died at his Pittsburgh home of cancer. He was 83.
Sutton, who died Tuesday, had retired as a professor from Carnegie Mellon University but worked on research until he became too sick to continue.
''Those guys who worked on the Manhattan Project worked every day, seven days a week. It carried into their lives,'' said Carnegie Mellon professor Robert Kraemer.
Sutton was born in Lloydminster, Sask., in 1916, and was recruited to work on the bomb after getting a doctorate from Princeton University. …
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Copyright 2000 The Commercial Appeal
June 6, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: MEMPHIS AREA DEATHS;
THROUGH MONDAY, JUNE 5GEORGE MILLARD LINGUA, 73, of Virgnia Beach, Va., formerly of Memphis, retired institutional investment senior vice president for Citibank, died of heart failure May 31 …
He was a choir member of Saint Gregory the Great Catholic Church, a graduate of Christian Brothers High School and Princeton University, a former member of President Ford's Senate subcommittee on pension funds, a board member of Animal Medical Center of New York and SwissRe Insurance, and past president of National Kidney Foundation.
Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL)
Copyright 2000 Stuart News Company
June 6, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Paid ObituaryCHARLES A. POWERS
VERO BEACH, FL - Charles A. Powers passed away Sunday, June 4, 2000 at his residence in Vero Beach, FL.
Charles A. Powers, retired Chairman of the Board of Powers Chemco, Inc., Glen Cove, NY, an international manufacturer of photographic film, chemicals and equipment for the graphic arts industry. He also served as director of Kollmorgen Corporation. He was an active participant in Princeton University Alumni Association, amateur wrestling and other community affairs.
Born in Paterson, NJ, in 1915, Mr. Powers grew up in New York City. He graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1934 and Princeton University in 1938. While at Princeton, he lettered in lacrosse and in wresting, winning the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships in the 155 pound class in 1937 and 1938. He served in the US Navy as an intelligence photographer during WWII. …
The Detroit News
Copyright 2000 The Detroit News, Inc.
June 1, 2000, ThursdaySECTION: Obituaries
HEADLINE: Charles W. Williams, Retired engineer held two patents
DATELINE: BLOOMFIELD HILLSBLOOMFIELD HILLS -- A memorial service for Charles W. Williams, a retired technology executive and engineer, was to be at 2 p.m. today in the Christ Church Cranbrook, 470 Church, Bloomfield Hills.
Mr. Williams died Sunday, May 28, 2000, of complications of lung disease at the Evergreen Health and Living Center in Southfield.
He was 84.
Mr. Williams, of Birmingham, earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1938 and his master's degree from the Chrysler Institute in 1940. …
The Scotsman
Copyright 2000 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
June 1, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: SLOAN ALLISON
BYLINE: Campbell Thomas ObituaryJW Sloan Allison, naval officer and chartered accountant
Born: 26 August, 1919, in Dumbreck Died: 2 April, 2000, in Dunbartonshire, aged 80
SLOAN Allison, who won the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy as a young captain of minesweeping trawlers, was one of the Clyde yachtsmen who volunteered to become naval officers at the outbreak of the Second World War.
He found himself at one time, while carrying out this hazardous task, the youngest commanding officer in the entire Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
A talented jazz pianist whose true ambition had been the stage, his love of jazz and the big-band sound was fostered when he was a scholarship student at Princeton University before the war. …
In 1937 he won an English-Speaking Union award to study literature at Princeton. It was a golden opportunity to immerse himself in his favourite music, and he became an honorary member of the East Coast preppy set which followed the emerging big names, including Nat King Cole. This led to impromptu playing throughout his life, particularly in an apres-ski setting, where he would happily instal himself in thepiano bar. …
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