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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Score one for nature -- or is it nurture?
BYLINE: Robert SapolskyEveryone knows what the process of science is about: Some reclusive egghead slaves away at some obscure subject, learning more and more about less and less, until reaching the point of being so completely expert at some sliver of something-or-other that it's only of interest to three competitors in Berkeley, Cambridge and Budapest.
Despite that generally correct image, every now and then some scientists produce a finding that everyone should know about -- as happened recently when researchers added intriguing new information to the old nurture-vs.-nature debate.
A paper was published this March in Nature Neuroscience, an extremely prestigious journal, by a group at Princeton University led by Joe Tsien. This team garnered major media coverage last year with its "Doogie" mouse, a genetically engineered mouse that was smarter than average. It got the team's work the cover of Time, Jay Leno jokes, even rumors of a Disney animated movie.
Now they've done something even more important.
Initially, what they seemed to have accomplished is one of those flashy molecular-biology tours de force that make you realize the Brave New World is already here. But the real flashy part comes later.
Their study concerns the brain. Neurons, the basic type of brain cells, communicate with each other by way of chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. These chemicals travel from one neuron to the next and bind to specialized "receptors," causing the next neuron to get excited.
There are a zillion different kinds of these messengers, most of which have multiple types of receptors to which they can bind. It's kind of a mess.
For awhile, there has been evidence that the binding of one particular messenger to one of its receptors in one specific area of the brain has a lot to do with learning and memory. So Tsien and crew generated a "knockout" mouse, which lacks the gene that codes for a key part of that receptor. And thanks to some real wizardry, they were able to restrict this effect to only that one part of the brain, with no effect on the rest of the brain….
The authors then demonstrated that, as a result, these mice had all sorts of learning problems. They were lousy at recognizing objects, at making olfactory discriminations (something that rodents, not surprisingly, usually specialize in) and at a certain type of contextual learning. These are all subtypes of memory that normally depend on that part of the brain. …
Different people have different versions of the gene for this receptor subunit, which then may result in the receptor's working differently. That, it now seems, may result in memory working differently. In other words, a defining feature of our individuality can be traced down to the level of an individual gene.
That's nature trashing nurture, hands down. …
The Associated Press
June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Colleges in anti-sweatshop coalition to demand locations of factories
BYLINE: By ARLENE LEVINSONAbout 100 colleges and universities belonging to an anti-sweatshop coalition will soon require manufacturers to disclose the locations of the factories where they make school-logo merchandise such as caps and sweat shirts.
The coalition, the Fair Labor Association, was created with prompting from the Clinton administration to address alleged abuses in the garment industry. FLA members include manufacturers and human rights groups, as well as 136 colleges and universities and a prep school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. …
Nike spokesman Vada Manager called Tuesday's action "a further progressive step for anyone concerned about eliminating sweatshops."
"We have nothing to hide," Manager said.
Since last year, Princeton University has obtained factory addresses from the 150-plus companies making goods emblazoned with the Princeton Tiger and other insignia. Those who failed to comply lost Princeton's business, said Robert Durkee, Princeton vice president for public affairs.
Factory addresses are kept in a loose-leaf binder for anyone to see.
"Whether it will make a lot of real world difference remains to be seen," Durkee said. "But making the information publicly available is a good thing. It does help create a broader culture of transparency." …
OTHER HEADLINES
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
Copyright 2000 Telegraph Group LimitedJune 22, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: News: Oxford scientist wins the battle for her reputation
NINE months ago, Dr Sunetra Gupta, a talented scientist and award-winning novelist, was falsely accused of having a relationship with a professor to gain a senior academic post at Oxford University. Today, her accuser, Prof Roy Anderson (left), one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, makes a public apology, and Dr Gupta speaks to NATASHA LODER for the first time about her fight to restore her reputation. Dr Gupta tells how she battled to win a retraction from Prof Anderson because "nobody should be allowed to get away with this. I felt there was no other choice".BYLINE: By Natasha Loder
TO this day, Dr Sunetra Gupta, a young and ambitious academic who was coming to the end of a five-year fellowship within the Oxford University zoology department, does not know exactly what happened when the selection committee met to discuss her application for a readership.
What is known is that the initial vote of the eight-strong panel went six to two in favour of promoting her to the post.
The discussions then became heated and took on a sinister turn. They lasted for two hours.
Prof Roy Anderson, then Linacre professor of zoology at Oxford and a Government adviser on BSE and AIDS, who chaired the meeting, made it clear that he thought Dr Gupta was unsuitable. The committee was adamant that Dr Gupta was the best candidate and a recess was called.
Prof Anderson then told two members of the committee that Dr Gupta, who had worked alongside him for many years, had had a relationship with the head of the department, Paul Harvey, and that was why he supported her appointment.
Prof Harvey also sat on the committee but was apparently unaware of the comments Prof Anderson was making. Dr Gupta still got the post.
When Dr Gupta, 35, discovered what had been said about her, "I started feeling ill and I went home and telephoned my husband".
Dr Gupta said she was "appalled" that, when she later pressed for a public apology, she received no help from Oxford. "It seems to me the university was trying to brush it under the carpet," she said.
Nine months later, she has a retraction. In a letter to her, Prof Anderson, who has already resigned his posts at Oxford as a consequence of his behaviour, now acknowledges there is "no foundation in truth whatsoever" in his comments. …
Dr Gupta, who was born in Calcutta, graduated in biology from Princeton University and gained her PhD from Imperial College, London. Today, she carries out mathematical modelling of disease. She grew up in Ethiopia, Ghana and Liberia, before arriving in London in 1987 to do a PhD with Prof Anderson. …
Soon after she won the readership, she says Prof Anderson began to behave in a "peculiar" way towards her.
"He tried to take away the office that came with the job and he took away the responsibility of running an MSc course without telling me. It was starting to be a bit ridiculous." …
What was most damaging was that she had been accused of not winning her job on merit. The question remains, why did Prof Anderson suggest it?
Dr Gupta is not certain but one of Prof Anderson's letters to her solicitors explained that he felt it was the only explanation as to why she received such forthright support from Prof Harvey. …
The New York Times
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June 22, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Economic Scene;
Equality in hiring remains the key to civil rights goals.BYLINE: By Alan B. Krueger; This column appears here every Thursday. Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and editor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Four economic analysts -- Professor Krueger, Hal R. Varian, Jeff Madrick and Virginia Postrel -- rotate as contributors.
WHEN he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Barry Goldwater declared, "The problems of discrimination cannot be cured by laws alone."
More than three decades of experience suggests that Goldwater was wrong, although not entirely. There is abundant evidence that the act did much to improve prospects for blacks, but as the continuing series in The New York Times on race in America makes clear, discrimination persists, taking on more subtle forms that are less amenable to correction by legislation. Still, existing laws could combat discrimination more effectively.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which took effect 35 years ago next month, prohibited employment discrimination and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The first studies on the law's economic impact were conducted by Richard Freeman of Harvard and Orley Ashenfelter of Princeton in the early 1970's. They found that after 15 years of stagnation, black men's earnings increased relative to those of whites shortly after the act took effect, with the median earnings gap closing from 36 percent in 1965 to 26 percent in 1975. Gains were particularly large for black professionals. The timing suggests, but certainly does not prove, that the Civil Rights Act was responsible for the improvement.
Professors Freeman and Ashenfelter were quickly criticized by both the right and the left. …
The accumulating evidence has convinced most critics that the Civil Rights Act was a principal cause of black progress. The black-white earnings gap continued to narrow until the mid-1970's, in both strong and weak economic times. …
AP Online
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HEADLINE: France Rated No. 1 in Health Care
BYLINE: EMMA ROSS
DATELINE: LONDONFrance has the best health care system in the world, followed by Italy, while war-torn Sierra Leone has the worst, according to a contentious first attempt to rank the world's health systems.
The United States, which spends more on health care than any other nation, came in 37th.
In the analysis published Wednesday, the World Health Organization evaluated the health care systems of its 191 members and graded them based on how well each country performs given the resources at its disposal.
Previous assessments have looked just at how healthy people are, ''and you're left with the image that the rich (countries) do well because they're rich,'' said study co-author Dr. Julio Frenk. This new analysis praises health systems ''that utilize few resources very well.'' …
Americans while good at expensive, heroic care are very poor at the low-cost preventive care that keeps Europeans healthy, said Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt.
The United States spends a stunning $3,724 per person on health each year. But measuring how long people live in good health not just how long they live the Japanese beat Americans by 41/2 years, and the French lived three more healthy years. Yet Japan spends just $1,759 per person on health and France $2,125. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: 'We created a fantastic country' As Zimbabwe falters, Ian Smith returns to attack his successor
BYLINE: John Murphy
SUN FOREIGN STAFFHARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe has dismissed Ian Smith, the last white leader of this nation, as nothing but a "ghost" of its ugly colonial past.
But ghosts haunt. And as Smith has watched the nation he once dubbed the "jewel of Africa" crumble, he has been one of the most outspoken critics of its downfall.
"There are no jobs. We have one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world. We are churning out 300,000 students of higher institutions every year, and less than 10 percent get jobs. The economy has collapsed," said Smith, whose white supremacist government ruled what was then Rhodesia for 15 years before surrendering to black majority rule. …
Smith has been a source of irritation for Mugabe but has also provided Mugabe a useful springboard for recapturing the spirit of his fight against white rule more than two decades ago. At a recent campaign rally, Mugabe brushed aside his nation's economic woes and attacked the inequities of British colonialism, concluding that he should have "taken Ian Smith's head."
"Ian Smith has been the major reason significant opposition has not developed in Zimbabwe," said Jeffrey Herbst, professor of African politics at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. "Ian Smith joins them and Mugabe points to it as a Rhodesian plot to take over Zimbabwe."
The Jerusalem Post
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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Getting Syria wrong
BYLINE: Daniel Pipes And Zachary RentzHIGHLIGHT: Embarrassing predictions are part of a well- established pattern
With the Hafez Assad round of Syrian-Israeli negotiations now permanently defunct, it's time for a little retrospective. During the final burst of diplomacy, lasting from December 1999 until March 2000, Western academics, journalists, and politicians made a lot of wrong-headed predictions that are worth scrutiny, for they contain some useful lessons.
Informed opinion in Israel and the West agreed that the Syrian regime had decided on peace with Israel; only the details remained to be worked out. "Peace is vital for Assad," wrote Hirsh Goodman, a former columnist for this paper, and almost everyone agreed.
Reuters helpfully listed the three most commonly cited reasons why Assad needed to end the conflict with Israel: his ill-health and the need to pave the way for son Bashar, the Syrian economy's extreme weakness, and the humiliation of seeing the Golan Heights remain in Israeli hands. President Clinton looking for a legacy was also sometimes cited. …
IT'S STRIKING to note that these embarrassing predictions are part of a well-established pattern. Back in August 1994, for instance, Fawaz Gerges of Princeton University prophesied that "a breakthrough in the Syrian- Israeli peace talks is imminent." The Arabic press was even more specific, reporting that Damascus and Jerusalem would achieve "palpable progress" by the end of 1994. In 1995, France's President Jacques Chirac publicly predicted that an Israel-Syria agreement would be signed by the end of 1995, as did his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak. The same faulty predictions have been repeated almost every year since, up until the moment of Assad's death.
In short, almost without exception for six years, authoritative voices ignored evident signs of Syrian recalcitrance and persisted in predicting that the Syrian- Israeli talks would culminate in a signed peace agreement. …
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: SPORTS BEAT - McCaughey, Johnston capture national hammer-throw crowns
BYLINE: RUSS WATERMAN; Special to the JournalCompeting for schools less a mile apart, Josh McCaughey of Bishop Hendricken High School and Kate Johnston of Warwick Veterans Memorial High School have not so quietly established themselves as undisputed national champions in the hammer throw this year.
And in a competitive sense, they've put a far greater distance between themselves and any opponent who tries to beat either one of them. And we haven't heard the last of these two premier weight throwers this year, either.
On Sunday, Johnston won the national title in the girls hammer throw for the second year in a row at the National Scholastic Track Championships at North Carolina State, in Raleigh, with a distance of 183 feet, 3 inches.
McCaughey tossed the 12-pound ball 227 feet, 7 inches to claim the boys national crown. …
McCaughey, incidentally, is an excellent student-athlete. He'll attend Princeton University next year.
The San Francisco Chronicle
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JUNE 21, 2000, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush, Gore Stake Turf on Social Security; Competing plans show their opposite strategies
BYLINE: Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
DATELINE: WashingtonIn just over a month, Social Security has gone from the untouchable "third rail" of American politics to the main vehicle for making every American a stockholder.
Vice President Al Gore's proposal yesterday to create new government-subsidized, private investment accounts as an add-on to Social Security vividly demonstrates the rising political clout of the new "investor class," the nearly half of all households that now own stock.
Gore's proposal follows a plan announced last month by his Republican rival, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, to allow people to invest a portion of their Social Security payroll taxes in private accounts.
While the dueling plans make Social Security a defining issue of the 2000 presidential campaign, they also starkly highlight the differences between the two candidates, who approach the program from opposite directions.
Gore's new "Retirement Savings Plus" accounts are aimed at helping lower and middle-income workers -- the core Democratic constituency -- build retirement savings outside of Social Security. …
Gore's accounts would do nothing to reform Social Security itself. The vice president has already announced that he plans to deal with Social Security's impending insolvency by drawing on expected future budget surpluses to shore up the program when the Baby Boom generation begins to retire in just over a decade.
Bush's plan, by contrast, would alter the program itself by allowing workers to invest some portion -- many outside models suggest 2 percentage points -- of the 12.4 percent payroll tax that workers now pay into Social Security.
Bush wants to give workers partial ownership of their Social Security payroll taxes and to allow them to earn a potentially higher return than the program's current level of 1.8 percent.
At the same time, Bush hopes to restructure Social Security by replacing its government-backed promises to pay future benefits with actual assets in private accounts. …
Gore adviser Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist, said the accounts were "deliberately designed to be most attractive to people at the bottom and in the middle of the income distribution. For people at the top it's not attractive at all, because they would receive no benefits."
Workers could also withdraw from the accounts penalty-free after five years to pay for college, buy a new house or pay "extraordinary" medical expenses. The provision was added to make the new accounts even more attractive to low-income workers who now save little.
"This is by far the biggest incentive for savings ever offered to people of low incomes," Blinder said. "A 300 percent match is quite extraordinary." …
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: CARTER LEADS GBT FIELD
BYLINE: Special to the NewsPORT ST. LUCIE - Tom Carter of Philadelphia fired a nine under par 63 for the first round lead Tuesday in a Golden Bear Tour event at the PGA Golf Club.
Carter eagled the par-5 fourth hole and made seven birdies, five on the last seven holes of the North course, and may be ready to challenge his own tournament record. Two years ago this week, Carter earned his only Golden Bear title with a 54-hole GBT record 197 at Hammock Creek and Martin Downs in Palm City.
Adam Decker of Wading River, N.Y., winner of the opener of the fifth season two weeks ago at Old Trail in Jupiter, was second Tuesday with 67. Four players tied at 68, including Ben McConahey of Littleton, Colo., a two-time Academic All-American at Princeton University. He was low on the adjacent South course. …
The Washington PostCopyright 2000 The Washington Post
June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Morocco's King of Hearts; White House Honors Eligible Young Monarch With a Royal Dinner
BYLINE: Roxanne Roberts; Kimberly Palmer, Washington Post Staff WritersThere's nothing like a handsome bachelor king to bring out a crowd.
More than 435 guests attended last night's state dinner for King Mohammed VI of Morocco, making it the largest state dinner in White House history. For a democracy, Americans sure go overboard for royalty.
Especially unmarried royalty. Singer-dancer Paula Abdul immediately warmed to the subject. "Being that we're single--"
"--Princess Paula!" interrupted her pal Constance Schwartz.
The massive and eclectic guest list included Hollywood celebrities Teri Garr, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson and Carol Alt, filmmaker Ken Burns, Redskins owner Dan Snyder, sex expert Ruth Westheimer, former White House reporter Helen Thomas, Washington businessman Hani Masri, New York hostess Alice Mason, international fundraiser Esther Coopersmith and law professor Alan Dershowitz.
For most, it was the first glimpse of the dashing 36-year-old king, who is making his first official visit to the United States since assuming the throne last year. His father, King Hassan II, died last July after a 38-year reign. …
Guest List for White House Dinner
L. Carl Brown, Princeton University, and Anne Stokes Brown …
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, and Christine Stansell, Princeton University …
The Washington Times
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June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: White House holds dinner fit for a king
BYLINE: Ann Geracimos; THE WASHINGTON TIMESThe White House last night hosted the largest formal dinner of the Clinton administration, with more than 420 guests helping welcome the 37-year-old Moroccan monarch, King Mohammed VI, on his first visit here as his country's head of state.
In his toast, President Clinton praised Morocco and its leader enthusiastically, saying "no foreign guest is more deserving of a warm welcome here" and recalled how Morocco had been the first country to recognize the United States when the original 13 states declared themselves a nation. …
King Mohammed VI, who spoke in English but began and ended his toast with some brief words in Arabic, echoed Mr. Clinton's message by praising his own country's cultural identity and place in the world. Both men pledged efforts to work toward Middle East peace. "My heart is set on this ideal," he noted. …
LAST NIGHT'S WHITE HOUSE GUESTS
Dr. L. Carl Brown, Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University, and Anne Stokes Brown; …
Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton professor of history, Princeton University, and Christine Stansell, professor of history, Princeton University; …
Federal News Service
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June 20, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: PREPARED TESTIMONY OF RICHARD C. LEONE BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
SUBJECT - "INTERNET GAMBLING FUNDING PROHIBITION ACT" (H.R. 4419)
Chairman Leach, members of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to appear. The comments that I offer today are personal, reflecting my service as a member of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), my experience in government, including a term as State Treasurer of New Jersey, my years in the financial industry, including a period as president of a commodity futures exchange, and my time teaching public finance at Princeton University.
The story of the regulation of gambling Over the last generation could appropriately be entitled: "Too Little, Too Late." To paraphrase the NGISC report: Since the mid-1970s, we have changed from a nation in which legal gambling activity was extremely rare - casinos in only one state, a handful of state lotteries, and fairly common, but small- scale, parimutuel activities - to a country in which legal gambling, in one form or another, is permitted in 48 states. Commercial gambling has become an immense industry. Governments, too, are heavily involved in the increasingly active pursuit of gambling revenues, either directly through lotteries and similar government-operated gambling or through taxes and permit fees for commercial gambling. A whole new category of governments - tribal nations - also has emerged as leaders in the proliferation of gambling activities. …
Let me say at the outset that, in my judgment, H.R. 4419 represents, potentially, the most effective step in this direction so far. …
Overall, the studies that we looked at all suggested that, like other online activities, gambling over the Internet is growing very rapidly. Although no one has definitive numbers, it is fair to say that the amounts wagered almost certainly have moved from the hundreds of millions into the billions per year. One recent analysis estimates that gambling revenues will hit nearly $1.5 billion this year and rise to more than $3 billion by 2002. The same study by Christiansen Capital Advisors projected the number of players, world wide, at 52 million in two years. About fifty countries have authorized some form of Internet gambling. The founder of Virgin Atlantic is working with Microsoft on a proposal to operate Britain's national lottery over the Internet and through mobile phones. The proliferation of gambling online has extended to just about every category of betting, including lotteries, virtual casinos, sweepstakes, horse racing, and sports wagering. This rapid expansion has attracted the attention of investors; Bloomberg News reported in 1999 that "shares of companies planning to offer gambling online were among the biggest gainers in U.S. stock markets." …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
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June 20, 2000 TuesdaySECTION: EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: LETTERS TO THE EDITORGrade On A Curve
Simsbury High School is one of the best academic institutions in the state, if not the country. Teachers lead classes at an extremely high level and prepare students for the rigors of a college workload.
However, Simsbury's tough grading standards compared with its peer high schools leave students unprepared and disadvantaged in the competitive process of applying to college. Most Simsbury students have above-average SAT scores with less-than-impressive grades and, therefore, are unable to get into many of the schools they apply to.
Usually, students want to attend the school that will offer the most opportunities that pertain to their interests and plans.
I was accepted into my top choice school and have taken advantage of many of the benefits that drew me to the school in the first place.
Other students lose similar opportunities if they are unable to get into schools as a result of the low grades they received at Simsbury High School.
There is a simple solution that gives all students a chance to get into their top choice schools while preserving the level of Simsbury's academics. The teachers can continue teaching the same way they have for years but then compute final grades based on a curve. Many universities use curves to calculate grades, so why can't a competitive high school use the same system?
Scott Lescher
Simsbury
The writer, a 1999 graduate of Simsbury High School, is a student at Princeton University.
The New York Post
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June 20, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: WHAT AN UNHOLY TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
BYLINE: Rod DreherTHE U.S. Supreme Court has finally made America safe from the intolerable threat, the horrifying specter, the bone-chilling menace of invocations before public high-school football games.
Good grief. You wonder what country these judges live in.
Two-thirds of Americans polled by ABC News before yesterday's 6-3 decision voiced approval for invocations. No surprise there. Invocations are the blandest form of public prayer imaginable, typically asking only for God's benevolent presence at the school event.
This, we are instructed, violates the First Amendment.
This, as Chief Justice William Rehnquist testily observes in his scathing dissent, is preposterous. …
The majority opinion, written by John Paul Stevens, asserts that it's unconstitutional to "force on students the difficult choice between whether to attend these games or to risk facing a personally offensive religious ritual."
"Risk facing"? The Supreme Court apparently believes Americans are such quivering blobs of hypersensitivity that they should have free speech denied them rather than chance offending someone.
"This is turning the First Amendment on its head," said Princeton University law Professor Robert George.
"The First Amendment is designed to protect practice of religion. What this does is turn religion into the one form of speech that can be censored."
George worries that rulings like this alienate citizens from their own governmental institutions.
"It sends a message that the secularist liberals are in charge here, and that religious people are here on sufferance," he said. "Their values are not to be reflected in the public square." …
The Vancouver Sun
Copyright 2000 Pacific Press Ltd.
June 20, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Rowers eye U.S. studies: St. George's students Matthew Cooper, Ben Maas look to the Ivy League to move up to the next level.
BYLINE: Sun Sports ReporterGold medallists in senior lightweight pairs at the Canadian high school rowing championships early this month, St. George's students Matthew Cooper and Ben Maas are now focusing their attention on competing for Ivy League universities in the United States. …
Now nearing graduation at St. George's, a private independent school on Vancouver's west side, Cooper will enroll at New Jersey's Princeton University this September. Maas, who's in Grade 11, is likely to go to Harvard next year after earning his high school diploma. …
Central News Agency
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June 19, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: TAIWAN MATHEMATICIAN HONORED BY US FOUNDATION
BYLINE: By Lilian Wu
DATELINE: Taipei, June 19Mathematician Horng-Tzer Yau has been honored with a prestigious award from the US-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Republic of China National Science Council (NSC) announced on Monday.
The honor bestowed on Yau, who is an adviser to the NSC's National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), provides a much-needed shot-in-the-arm to basic scientific research in Taiwan, the NSC said.
The foundation announced its 2000 list of 25 new fellows in June, and Yau was the sole winner in the mathematics category. He will be eligible to receive a prize of US $500,000 spread over the next five years.
The foundation said Yau won the fellowship because he "applies profound mathematical insights and analysis to the explanation of important physical processes.
"Although the problems that Yau works on are rooted in physical phenomena, he has made important contributions to fundamental mathematics in several areas: probability theory, non-linear partial differential equations, spectral theory, and dynamical systems theory," the foundation added. …
Yau, 40, who has a B.S. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University. …
San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-News
June 19, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Priest's pulpit 'Beyond Borders' ; Multiculturalism focus of forum
BYLINE: J. Michael ParkerThe San Antonio-born son of an immigrant Mexican grocer has influenced theologians worldwide with his penetrating insights into religion's impact on culture.
That's why more than 20 Catholic and Protestant scholars from three continents will gather at the Mexican-American Cultural Center this week and next to examine Father Virgilio Elizondo's contributions to theology.
Elizondo, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio since 1963, is known as the father of U.S. Hispanic theology and has served on the board of the prestigious international theological journal Concilium. He's executive producer of Catholic Television of San Antonio and a professor at the University of Notre Dame. …
David Carrasco, professor of the history of religion at Princeton University, said the Mexican-American experience of several blendings of cultures - Spanish and Indian, mestizo and African-American, and Anglo and Mexican - "is a microcosm of cultural eclipses that are going to occur all over the world in the future." …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 2000 Asbury Park Press, Inc.June 18, 2000, Sunday
HEADLINE: A little traveling music, please
BYLINE: ALBERT H. COHENSome items from the notebook. …
Steven Mackey, Princeton, will compose a work for the PRISM Quartet, which consists of four saxophone players. It was founded in 1984 and has served as Ensemble-in-Residence for California's New Sounds Music Festival, and since 1994, in the same role at the Settlement Music School and Free Library of Philadelphia.
The composer is a professor of music at Princeton University and is noted for his fusion of music idioms, including popular, jazz and contemporary classical. …
Dayton Daily News
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June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: YOUNG TALENT THRIVES IN YS KIDS PLAYHOUSE PROGRAM
SUBHEAD: Growing company to present musical 'Homer Price'
BYLINE: Terry Morris Dayton Daily NewsYELLOW SPRINGS - Founder and director John Fleming takes the YS Kids Playhouse very seriously, which is a major reason why the theater's annual summer youth production is already a community tradition.
The fourth annual original musical Homer Price will have its premiere Thursday in the Antioch Amphitheater with a cast of 65 performers ages 7 to 16.
Based on Ohio writer and illustrator Robert McCloskey's children's book of the same name, the play was adapted for YS by New York theater professional Roger Babb, who is on the faculty at Princeton University and Swarthmore College. The original score is by Tucki Bailey of Yellow Springs and the scenic design is by Migiwa Orimo. …
The Des Moines Register
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June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Potential presidential candidates
SOURCE: StaffHere are some of the educators who have been mentioned as a possible successor to Iowa State University President Martin Jischke, who is leaving:
3) Nancy Cantor, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan since 1997. Was vice provost for academic affairs-graduate Studies and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the U of Michigan from 1996 to 1997. Also was on the faculty at Princeton University. Academic emphasis is in psychology. …
Los Angeles Times
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June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: CRUSADER NADER PLAYS LOW-KEY, LOW-BUDGET SPOILER;
CAMPAIGN: FOR GORE, THIS GREEN PARTY CONTENDER MAY BE UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED.
BYLINE: FAYE FIORE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SIOUX FALLS, S.D.For some reason, Northwest Airlines is not honoring Ralph Nader's little book of senior discount coupons and his plane is leaving in 35 minutes.
"You didn't book 14 days in advance," the agent behind the ticket counter informs him sympathetically as he ponders the more expensive fare to Fargo, N.D., where he is scheduled to speak in three hours at the local university.
It is the 45th state he's visited in 99 days in his quixotic quest for president on the Green Party ticket, the latest crusade in the 40-year career of America's most tenacious crusader.
No one expects he will actually win--national polls show him in single digits. But all of a sudden--at age 66 and on a budget so spare he stays in guest rooms of Greenies all over America to save on hotels--he is proving to be a big headache for the Democratic nominee in waiting, Al Gore.
Nader is drawing enough notice in states such as California, Oregon and Washington to pester the vice president, forcing Democrats to work harder in places they should be able to count on. More significantly, in key Midwestern swing states, even a small percentage of Democrats who defect to Nader could tip the scales toward presumed Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush. …
Profile: Ralph Nader
* Age: 66
* Residence: Washington, D.C.
* Education: Bachelor's degree with honors in politics from Princeton University, 1955. Law degree, Harvard University, 1958.
* Career highlights: Consumer advocate, lawyer, lecturer on history and government, author or editor of 14 books.
* Military service: Army, 1959.
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Village Voices
BYLINE: By Patricia Cline Cohen; Patricia Cline Cohen teaches history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is "The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York."AMERICAN MODERNS
Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century.
By Christine Stansell.
Illustrated. 420 pp. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $30.GREENWICH VILLAGE in the teens: the phrase doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily as Paris in the 20's or Berkeley in the 60's. Yet the Village was the first of these fabled meccas, an alluring locale that attracted writers, poets, artists, feminists, socialists, anarchists and restless youth, all seeking to escape the dreary proprieties of respectable America and to invent new ways of being in the world. New York, the center of publishing, art and theater in the United States, offered an advantageous setting for a new bohemia. Starting in the 1890's, the once-elite neighborhood of brownstones west of Washington Square began to accommodate an Italian population. Houses were subdivided; rents plummeted. Meandering streets and tiny alleys set the Village off from the rest of the rectilinear city, turning it in on itself and providing a protected space for unconventional people. Cheap cafes soon became focal points for engaged conversations about advanced ideas. …
In "American Moderns," Christine Stansell offers a fresh assessment of this spirited group of free thinkers. Building on recent, superb individual biographies as well as on crisp and wonderfully astute assessments of what the Villagers themselves wrote, Stansell, who teaches history at Princeton University, draws a collective portrait of the community that moves beyond romanticization. While properly crediting their efforts to remake political and personal arrangements, she qualifies their successes and takes the measure of their self-delusions and failures. And she does it all in an artfully fashioned book, by turns elegant and breezy. …
"American Moderns" is not a history of ideas or politics, or yet another gossipy rehash of bohemian life in the Village. Stansell frames her book around three activities: talking, writing and loving. She compels readers to appreciate what was shockingly new in each activity -- no small feat, since we now take (nearly) for granted the unfettered speech, print and sex that these early radicals found so daring. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: ART REVIEW; A Japanese Artist Recalls the 60's: Dots, and Lots of 'em
BYLINE: By BARRY SCHWABSKY
DATELINE: PRINCETONDOTS, dots, dots and dots . . . and then more dots. That's what's in store for viewers of the 66 paintings on paper by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama spread chockablock around a single room at the Art Museum, Princeton University: a relentless, restless sea of spots of saturated color, sometimes gathered into circular or columnar configurations against black backgrounds, sometimes spread broadcast across the entire sheet.
In art as in life, the 1960's were a restless, fecund, tumultuous decade, and something of that tumult is reflected in the teeming vitality of Ms. Kusama's art. She gained considerable acclaim while working in New York from 1958 through 1973, but after her return to Japan that year (where she voluntarily committed herself to a mental institution, where she lives today, continuing to produce art as well as novels), her work was practically forgotten in the United States.
But in 1989, when a short-lived nonprofit exhibition space called the Center for International Contemporary Arts mounted a concise retrospective of the obscure artist's work in 1989, it drew considerable attention. Interest in Ms. Kusama grew through the 1990's, culminating in 1998 in a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. …
The merit of this exhibition (which also includes two small sculptures as well as the works on paper, all owned by a former gallery owner who championed the artist's work in the mid-60's) is to give viewers a glimpse of the continuity between Ms. Kusama's early Japanese period and her better-known work made in New York. In fact, nearly half of the pieces here are ones from the early 1950's that were reworked by the artist some time in the early 1960's. As David Moos writes in the exhibition catalog, "her vibrant embrace of color -- hot pinks, glaring greens, and saturated blues -- jibes with the palette of American Pop in the early 1960's, the emphasis on radial compositions, repetitive markings, and a careful control of media are a direct consequence of techniques developed in Japan." …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: News With a View; Reporting on Americans' Faith and Values
BYLINE: Patricia Brennan , Washington Post Staff WriterNot long ago, Bob Abernethy was doing an interview with the director of a Muslim organization whose offices are a few blocks from the H Street studio where Abernethy's PBS series, "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly," is taped.
"We came to a particular time, and the whole office put the rugs down," he recalled, in preparation for prayer.
Abernethy, a Protestant, was intrigued, and his interest became the catalyst for an upcoming segment about the significance of Muslim prayer rugs.
All in a day's work for the thoughtful, silver-haired Abernethy, who served as an NBC News correspondent for more than four decades, including stints in London and Moscow.
Abernethy has been interested in religious practices since he was a boy growing up in the home of his paternal grandfather, a Baptist minister. In 1984, the veteran reporter, who holds two degrees from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is a trustee of the university, took a one-year leave from NBC to study theology and social ethics at the Yale Divinity School.
In September 1997, his effort to combine his interest in religion and his career as a television journalist resulted in "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly." Now 72, he anchors reports from a stable of correspondents including regulars Mary Alice Williams, Ruben Martinez, Lucky Severson, Betty Rollin, Judy Valente and Kim Lawton, who also is managing editor and news director. Arnold Labaton, a founding executive of PBS who served as its first director of operations, is executive producer. Williams and former NBC correspondent John Dancy also fill in as anchors so Abernethy can do some reporting of his own.
All of them, said Abernethy, "have dreamed of some way to combine journalism and religion." …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
June 18, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Nader's Worth At $3.8 Million; Green Party Hopeful Invested Heavily in Tech
BYLINE: Mike Allen , Washington Post Staff WriterAfter 35 years of bashing big business, rumpled Ralph Nader is worth at least $3.8 million and is heavily invested in technology stocks.
For decades, Nader refused to reveal even the name of his stockbroker, let alone any personal financial information, leading to criticism from conservatives that he was building a secret financial empire (sometimes derided as "Nader Inc.") even as he called for greater disclosure by government officials and business executives.
But Nader, who is to be nominated next weekend as the Green Party presidential candidate, offered a detailed picture of his wealth in several interviews, including two with The Washington Post last week, and in a 21-page filing with the Federal Election Commission that was more extensive than required.
"Ask anything you want," Nader said, seemingly intent on demonstrating that his presidential campaign is serious this time and that he is willing to undergo the requisite scrutiny.
Nader said that one of his few regrets is that he has been too conservative with his investments.
"The question should almost be, 'Why is it so little?' " he said. "If it was in any way comparable to what these corporate executives are getting, we could've done a lot more."
Nader said he gives away more than 80 percent of his after-tax income. …
Nader, 66, who is single, said he has made $200,000 to $300,000 a year just on speeches for 30 years. Income from writings, television appearances and interest is on top of that. But he said he does not take a salary from any of his groups and lives on just $25,000 a year. …
More recently, he has put about $200,000 into organizing civic-action projects at Princeton University, (Project 55) from which he graduated in 1955, and Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1958. …
The Economist
Copyright 2000 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
June 17, 2000 , U.S. EditionHEADLINE: The debate that will not die
HIGHLIGHT: The government says that Britain cannot consider joining the European single currency until it has passed five economic tests. But have the tests already been met?
IT IS an economic argument set to a transparently political timetable. The government has long insisted that it regards the question of whether Britain should join the single European currency as above all an economic issue. Gordon Brown, the chancellor, has set five economic tests to gauge whether Britain is ready to take the plunge. But he also insists that he will not decide whether Britain has met these tests until after the next election.
The reasoning is plain. Polls show that a large majority of British people do not want to join the euro. The Labour Party is desperate for the single currency not to become an issue in the next election. So Mr Brown is trying to kick the issue into touch, until the election is safely won. …
The past fortnight has seen a steady stream of interventions, from the pro- and anti-euro camps, as they try to force the chancellor off the fence. This week, the Britain in Europe campaign marshalled a posse of international economists to present the case for joining the single currency. The anti-euro Business for Sterling pressure group rustled up former Treasury "wise men" (economic advisers) to warn that entry could imperil hard-won economic stability. …
Investment: Another contributor to the Britain in Europe report, Peter Kenen, a professor of economics at Princeton University, warned that exchange-rate uncertainty would hit inward investment from foreign companies which can now invest without exchange-rate risk in the euro zone. So far the evidence is mixed. A recent survey from Ernst & Young, an accountancy firm, suggested that Britain is starting to lose out. But a report next month from the Invest in Britain Bureau, a government agency, is expected to find continued buoyancy in inward investment. …
International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 2000 International Herald Tribune
June 17, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Fiber Optics: Taiwan Sees the Light; With a Bright Idea, High-Tech Consortium Hopes to Lead the World
BYLINE: By John Pomfret ; Washington Post ServiceDATELINE: TAIPEI
Ding-yuan Yang is betting that the nondescript cable looping through his fingers marks the start of another telecommunications revolution.
Mr. Ding and a group of entrepreneurs like him are wagering that the dull gray wire could signal also another coming of age of Taiwan's economy - from dutiful student of the West to world technological leader.
The cable is actually made from glass. But thanks to the coating developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., or 3M, it can bend. And in its bending lies a possible solution to a problem bedeviling users of the Internet around the world - how to move more information, movies, music, medical images, books, newspapers and video faster along the wires.
''This is a very small thing,'' said Mr. Ding, 52, a graduate of Stanford Business School who also holds a doctorate from Princeton University. ''But it could change the way we use the Internet.''
The issue is bandwidth, the Internet's biggest bottleneck. Most of the information on the Internet moves as light pulses along fiber-optic cables at many gigabytes - billions of bytes of data - a second. But once it reaches buildings or local switching stations, that information gets off the fiber- optics Ferrari and into the horse-and-buggy of copper wire. Gigabytes become megabytes, or millions of bytes. Frames freeze, and downloading can seem to take forever. …
The National Journal
Copyright 2000 The National Journal, Inc.
June 17, 2000HEADLINE: People for June 17, 2000
BYLINE: Piper FoggMedia People
Christopher D. Orr has gone back to his roots. Orr, 33, said goodbye to the newspaper world and returned to magazine work two weeks ago, replacing Nurith Aizenman as executive editor at The New Republic. Aizenman has gone to The Washington Post. "I had missed working in magazines," Orr said. He started out in book publishing after graduating from Princeton University in 1989. …
He's happy to have traded the daily newspaper grind for the environment at The New Republic. "I enjoy the freedom of
being able to choose your moments and not being so subject to the capriciousness of daily news," he said. Although the magazine pace is nothing new for Orr, he hasn't completely adjusted to at The New Republic. "I'm still finding my way through the daily schedule," he said. …
The Times (London)
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Limited
June 17, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Plea to safeguard historic Kosovo
From Canon Colin Hickling
Sir, From the beginning of the war in Kosovo and, indeed, earlier, there has been widespread fear, outside as well as inside Serbia, for the safety of the three historic monasteries of Pec, Gracanica and Decani, unique testimonies as they are to Serbian cultural achievement at the height of Serbia's life as an independent kingdom.
Those fears were not unjustified. As long ago as 1981 I saw that the mon- astic buildings of Pec had been recently torched. The only resident monk kept a shotgun in readiness behind his kitchen door. It is indeed somewhat remarkable that these buildings have survived as well as they have.
How long can this go on? The Orthodox Church of Kosovo and Metohia published last year a detailed inventory of churches, inclu-ding several of medieval date, partly or wholly destroyed by Albanians since the United Nations took over responsibility for Kosovo. Some of the photographs actually show Kfor soldiers standing by after the desecration of churches. There is no guarantee that this could not happen to the three most outstanding buildings.
In a recent article (Evening Stan-dard, June 5, 2000), Dr Slobodan Curcic, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, gives evidence that the UN authorities have shown little concern about the condition of the fabric of the three great monasteries. …
Yours faithfully,
COLIN HICKLING
Sprotbrough, Doncaster
Gannett News Service
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
June 16, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Johnson grows from ordinary man to exceptional entrepreneur
BYLINE: BRIAN SHARP; Gannett News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWASHINGTON -- Born in Hickory, Miss., and raised in the predominately white, working-class town of Freeport, Ill., Robert L. Johnson started out an ordinary young man.
He took various odd jobs, delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, cleaning tents at the fair and, briefly, working at the local battery factory.
He dreamed of something more.
Johnson, today 54 and an established businessman, has accomplished quite a bit more.
Now the founder, chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Holdings II, Inc., he dreams of an airline called DC Air. That dream could reach the skies in 2001 -- an offshoot of a proposed $11.6 billion merger between United Airlines and US Airways. …
It was a long journey getting here.
Johnson graduated from the University of Illinois and got his master's degree in international affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.
June 16, 2000, FRIDAYHEADLINE: KURTZ CONFIDENT FOR STATE TOURNEY
BYLINE: JIM DRISCOLL, Staff WriterPatrick McEnroe won it once, in the Eighties. So did his brother John's longtime doubles partner, Peter Fleming, a decade earlier. And Saturday, some 80 tennis players will be at Arlington Players Club in Kearny for the start of the 111th New Jersey State Championships. …
Other seeded players include No. 4 Rahman Smiley, a former high school State singles champion from Newark Academy; No. 5 Kyle Kleigeman, Princeton University's No. 1 singles player; No. 6 Barry Ruback of River Vale; and No. 7 David Loewenthal of Ramapo, the runner-up in this year's high school singles tournament. …
The San Francisco Examiner
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
June 16, 2000HEADLINE: Forbes flair; Burlingame gallery continues an artistic family tradition
BYLINE: ELAINE LARSENEach year thousands of people visit the famous Forbes building on New York's Fifth Avenue.
For most, it's not for business reasons. The offices of financial publishing empire Forbes Inc. are there of course. But it's also the site of a large gallery of classic paintings, original presidential papers and priceless Russian Faberge eggs, all on display for the public to enjoy.
Peninsula residents have a siilar opportunity to share the artistic flair of the Forbes family at a unique gallery situated in a modern office building by the Bay.
Like his famous father, the late Malcolm Forbes, Christopher "Kip" Forbes shares an appreciation for all things artistic and aesthetically pleasing. He was the mover and shaker behind a gallery space that adjoins the Forbes West Coast publishing offices in Burlingame.
Last week he was at the opening of an art exhibition, "Awash in Color: Forbes Trinchera Ranch," a show of paintings by 16 artists from throughout the United States. Selected by invitation and as a result of a competition, these artists were invited to spend a week at the Forbes' Trinchera Ranch in Southern Colorado - capturing the beauty of the surrounding Sangre de Cristo Mountains and San Luis Valley in various water-based media. …
Originally from New Jersey, Kip Forbes attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Mass., and the Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Switzerland. In 1972 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor of arts degree in art history. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1986 from New Hampshire College. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
June 15, 2000, ThursdayDATELINE: WASHINGTON
District: 12
Rush Holt
Party: Democrat
Earned Income: $136,700Honoraria, all donated to charity: For speech at Princeton University, $750; for speech at Connell Co., $2,000; for speech at Sigma Xi, the Research Society, $2,000.
Major assets: Vanguard Windsor retirement account worth $50,001-$100,000. Summer house in Black Brook, N.Y., worth $100,001-$250,000. Pension with TIAA-CREF worth $100,001-$250,000. Stake of $15,001-$50,000 in Froelich Farmland Trust, a family trust that oversees soybean production. With wife Margaret, joint ownership of rental house next to their primary residence in Pennington, worth $100,001-$250,000. Four jointly held bank accounts worth a total of $3,004-$46,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Dividends and capital gains from TIAA-CREF of $15,001-$50,000. Rent from jointly held rental house of $5,001-$15,000. Rent from summer house of $2,501-$5,000. Rent from family farmland trust of $1,001-$2,500. Dividends and capital gains from retirement account worth $2,501-$5,000.
Major liabilities: None
Gifts: NoneNarrative: Holt's wife, Margaret Lancefield, drew an undisclosed salary from Princeton Medical Center. She also has a TIAA-CREF pension worth $250,001-$500,000 and a share of a farm in Amity, Ore., worth $100,001-$250,000. Holt, a physicist, took trips to Atlanta paid for by the American Physical Society, to Minneapolis paid for by the research society Sigma Xi, to New York paid for by the New York Stock Exchange and to Atlantic City paid for by the New Jersey AFL-CIO.
SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE
Copyright 2000 South Bend Tribune Corporation
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Even a seismometer awaits Uniroyal implosion
BYLINE: SUE LOWE; Tribune Staff Writer Staff writer Sue Lowe: slowe£sbtinfo.comMISHAWAKA -- "That's us coming down the stairs," said Mark Watts, pointing to the big spikes in the line that crossed a computer screen.
The computer is connected to a seismometer, an instrument that measures movements of the earth.
Watts thinks if it can detect somebody walking down the steps to the lair in his basement, the machine may be able to pick up vibration when the Uniroyal buildings are imploded in downtown Mishawaka Saturday. His home is in the Twin Branch area of Mishawaka, about three miles from the Uniroyal site.
Five structures are to be demolished as part of a downtown renewal project.
Watts, who teaches earth/space science at Penn High School, learned about Princeton Earth Physics Project during a one-week class at Purdue University in 1996.
The program is designed to get seismometers in parts of the country where they normally aren't found and to teach high school students about them.
Watts got the seismometer from the National Science Foundation a year later and has used it and printouts of what it records in his classes since then.
He transmits the data it gathers to Princeton University or Indiana University. From there it's put on the Internet along with information from all the other PEPP seismometers in the country. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 2000 Asbury Park Press, Inc.June 15, 2000, Thursday
HEADLINE: KEEPING THE FAITH
Christ Church's rector 'resurrected' on occasion
BY: GLORIA STRAVELLI/CorrespondentTHOUGH deceased for more than 100 years, the Rev. Harry Finch, former rector of Christ Church in Shrewsbury, sometimes still can be seen guiding visitors around his old vicarage.
This isn't a ghost story, nor is the tour-giver an apparition. Finch's stand-in actually is a member of the congregation who is steeped in the history of the Episcopal parish, which will celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2002.
"I think it's important to let people know the history of this church and a costumed tour is an easy way to convey that history," said Robert Zeller, who fills in as Finch and conducts historic tours of Christ Church and its graveyard for visiting groups.
Zeller, a resident of Shrewsbury and an 18-year member of the congregation, first stepped into the role of Finch for the annual holiday Lantern Tour of the historic Four Corners in Shrewsbury.
"I got into the history of the church with the Lantern Tour," Zeller said. "They wanted somebody to play Harry Finch, and I've been Harry Finch for 10 years." …
A graduate of Princeton University, Zeller began his career in radio broadcasting and was a writer/producer of promotional content for NBC in New York for 15 years. He served as vice president for business and legal affairs in charge of broadcast advertising for a New York advertising agency for the next 28 years until his retirement five years ago. …
Blood Weekly
Copyright 2000 Charles W. Henderson
June 15, 2000HEADLINE: Researchers Describe Genetics of Blood Stem Cells; Brief Article
2000 JUN 15 - (NewsRx.com) --
Princeton University scientists have outlined the molecular genetics behind a great mystery of biology: how blood cells replenish themselves.
The results - a database of more than 2,000 genes - give biologists their first comprehensive picture of the workings of blood stem cells, the master component of bone marrow that gives rise to all cellular constituents of blood, from red and white cells to platelets.
The data, published in the June 2 issue of Science, offer biologists a powerful tool for understanding diseases of the blood such as leukemias, and also how blood stem cells may better be used therapeutically in transplantation and eventual gene therapy scenarios. The research also may yield insights into other types of stem cells throughout the body, such as those responsible for the production of skin, intestinal cells, and liver tissue.
Biologists have been fascinated with stem cells, particularly those of the blood, for many years, but had made relatively little progress in mapping out the molecular interactions that give the cells their unique properties. The general hallmark of all stem cells is their balancing act between maintaining their own numbers and spawning progeny that go on to become the many types of mature specialized cells of different tissues and organs.
"Very little is known, in any mammalian stem cell system, about how the underlying molecular biology allows these cells to make choices about their fates," said Ihor Lemischka, professor of molecular biology and senior author of the paper.
Lemischka and colleagues, working in collaboration with scientists at the University of Pennsylvania led by G. Christian Overton, created a "library" of gene fragments from blood stem cells of mice. They also created a library of genes from a sample of mature blood cells that had been depleted of stem cells. They then "subtracted" the two libraries, removing the majority of commonly expressed "housekeeping" genes while enriching for those that are preferentially expressed in the immature stem cells. By analyzing the DNA sequences in the "subtracted" library using sophisticated computational techniques and comparing them to the sequences of many other genes and proteins, the researchers have so far identified more than 2,000 genes that are likely to be active in stem cells. …
Evening News (Edinburgh)
Copyright 2000 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: MEN OF LETTERS .. AND ONE THAT REVEALS A FEUD
BYLINE: Ian JohnstonIT was a feud that would have rocked the literary society of the 19th century - a major bust-up between two of the world's greatest novelists.
An unpublished letter suggests that Sir Walter Scott was less than impressed with American young pretender James Fenimore Cooper.
The letter - which is to be auctioned - suggests for the first time that polite society whispered rumours of "ill blood" between the two men.
A brief encounter in Europe had apparently left the famous Edinburgh writer irritated with Fenimore Cooper's noted "self-assurance that bordered on arrogance".
The American's previously unseen letter, seemingly a response to rumours that Scott had spoken "disrespectfully" of him, denies any rift between them - which itself exposes the possibility of rivalry for the first time. …
Professor Andrew Hook, emeritus Bradley professor of English at Glasgow University and currently a visiting fellow at Princeton University in the United States, has written on both Scott and Fenimore Cooper. He said: "Cooper was fairly widely nicknamed the American Scott and he was not at all happy about being so described.
"But broadly speaking, they were fairly favourable about each others' work." …
The letter is set to be auctioned in New York on June 26.
New Times Los Angeles
Copyright 2000 New Times, Inc.
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paint N the Hood; Lone-wolf painter George Yepes survived East L.A.'s gang life to become the city's preeminent badass muralist.
BYLINE: Anna KevorkianGeorge Yepes thought the hard-guy life was ancient history. Standing high atop his scaffolding on the front of St. Lucy's Church, where he was busy painting a mural, he waved at people below who honked their car horns at him throughout the day. He didn't always know who they were, but he assumed that most of the people calling out knew him from his teenage days in East L.A.'s City Terrace hood.
"It was somewhere around November '93," says Yepes. "I was painting the Holy Spirit 50 feet off the ground when I heard a car drive by, honking. I waved. Then the car made a U-turn and pulled up in front of the church. The guy got out of the car. It was Negro. We grew up together. We were in a gang together." …
Understandably, many in the Latino art community have an opinion about Yepes. But when asked for comment, no one is forthcoming. Denise Lugo, director of the Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture in Los Angeles, diplomatically speaks only about her appreciation for his artwork, not the person, and then only in terse terms. Thomas Benitez, director of Self-Help Graphics, an epicenter for Chicano art in L.A., likewise refuses to comment about Yepes and asks that Self-Help not even be mentioned in this story. Elsewhere, David Carrasco, a professor of the history of religion and master of Mathey College at Princeton University, where Yepes had a monthlong exhibition of his paintings in 1997, waxes eloquent on Yepes' talent but insists on going off the record when commenting on Yepes himself. "I was very impressed with the way he takes ancient motifs and recasts them in the struggle of L.A.," Carrasco says. "His private life is beyond my understanding. The thing to focus on is what's on the canvas." …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Pentagon Lets Civilians Use the Best G.P.S. Data
BYLINE: By MATT LAKEIT seems as though almost no car advertisement can be broadcast on television without some mention of a feature that can pinpoint exactly where you are, even when you are in the middle of nowhere. And it is getting hard to rent a car in a strange town without being offered an extra (for around $40 a day) that will give you turn-by-turn directions to wherever you want to go.
Both types of offers take advantage of a gift from the United States government called the Global Positioning System, or G.P.S. It uses time signals that are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbits around Earth and picked up by receivers, which use that information to calculate those receivers' locations. The math used to calculate location is complex, based on the time it takes for the signals to travel through space and the difference in transmission time for signals from as many as four satellites.
But until May 2, the system was flawed by inaccurate timing signals from the satellites -- errors that were deliberately introduced. The positioning system was designed to have two tiers of service: the Precise Positioning Service and the Standard Positioning Service.
If you were part of the military of the United States or of one of the nation's allies, or were in an approved civil agency, and if you had big-ticket decoders and cryptographic passkeys, you could take advantage of the more accurate G.P.S. data from the Precise Positioning Service. That can pinpoint your latitude and longitude to within roughly 72 feet (22 meters) -- or less than half that in some cases -- and your elevation, relative to sea level, to within roughly 90 feet. …
Dr. Alain L. Kornhauser, founder of TravRoute, which makes navigation systems for laptops and Pocket PC devices, said: "We should praise the government for doing something right. Even if the only reason they're doing it is because they did something wrong before." Dr. Kornhauser is director of the Interdepartmental Transportation Research Program at Princeton University.
Even though removing the deliberate errors from G.P.S. theoretically makes the system 10 times as accurate, drivers using G.P.S. navigation systems should not expect to see that much improvement. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Theater for Fun or Profit;
Producers' Two Camps Remain Uneasy Allies
BYLINE: By ROBIN POGREBINAt a gathering of commercial theater producers and nonprofit theater executives at Princeton University in June 1974, Julian Beck of the experimental Living Theater emphatically called for the death of Broadway: "The alternative theater is a theater which has always been opposed to the Broadway theater. We want to destroy it. It is now being destroyed. It is in fact dying, and that is good."
Things have calmed down considerably in the last 26 years. Back then most nonprofit theaters were merely burgeoning artistic outposts; now many are formidable producing operations. Although the two worlds used to regard each other with suspicion and even disdain -- some of which still lingers -- commercial and nonprofit producers have increasingly become partners. The commercial side looks to the nonprofit for new material and chances to test costly projects; the nonprofit looks to the commercial to shoulder some expenses of ambitious productions and to help give shows longer lives on larger stages.
"You cannot afford the luxury any longer of thinking of two distinct isolated worlds of theater," said Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization, New York's most powerful theater owner. "Economics have been the driving force between profit and nonprofit, or taxpaying and nontaxpaying, as I call it." …
CNNFN
SHOW: ENTREPRENEURS ONLY
June 14, 2000; Wednesday 9:51 pm Eastern TimeHEADLINE: Internet Privacy, CNNfn
GUESTS: Jason Meyer
BYLINE: Mary Kathleen FlynnMARY KATHLEEN FLYNN, CNNfn ANCHOR, ENTREPRENEURS ONLY: If a stranger walked up to you and asked to read your mail or the numbers on your credit card, would you tell them? Obviously not. But from your e-mail to online purchases to the sites you like to browse, this information can be easily accessed by people you don't know. That's why we've asked Jason Meyer to join us today to update us on the latest questions relating to online privacy. …
FLYNN: And just in general I'm wondering how big an issue do you think people, consumers, think privacy is? I mean are people worried about this? I know I've had conversations with people where they think I'm being a little paranoid to bring it up.
MEYER: I actually think people are vastly concerned about it. I was just on a panel at Princeton University last month about privacy issues and the reaction from the panel and the audience was tremendous concern. Everybody wanted to know what to do about this. I think what's happening is, the law can only keep up so fast. The technological solutions like P3P, sort of stamp of approval from some independent organization, those things are just now developing. And so you don't see very much happening in the privacy area even though there's a lot going on behind the scenes. But I think people are very concerned. …
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2000 The Dallas Morning News
June 14, 2000HEADLINE: Pirates eyeing agile, smart, focused, tall Texan pitcher
BYLINE: Gerry FraleyIf Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan is "Big Tex," what will that make Highland Park's Chris Young if he chooses a career in baseball?
Young is a 6-11, all-Ivy League center on the Princeton basketball team and a right-handed pitcher for the Tigers' baseball team. Pittsburgh selected Young with the 89th pick overall in this month's amateur draft and hopes to sign him.
"We got the distinct impression from talking to him that he wants to play baseball," Pittsburgh scouting director Mickey White said. "We obviously want to sign him. We think he has a great future in baseball. We're optimistic we'll get something done."
In two seasons with Princeton, Young is 9-1 with a 1.64 ERA and only 46 hits allowed in 74 innings. His fastball is in the low-90 mph range, and scouts believe he has barely scratched the surface of his baseball potential. Scouts also believe Young has the body control that often eludes tall pitchers.
Princeton baseball coach Scott Bradley caught the tallest pitcher in major league history while playing with Seattle: left-hander Randy "Big Unit" Johnson. Bradley said Young is more athletic than Johnson and "has the best mentality of anyone I've been around in terms of making adjustments and being focused."
Bradley told Young to sign with the Pirates if he likes their offer. Young, who averaged 13.6 points and three blocked shots per game in basketball this season, said he will not base his decision only on money.
Insight on the News
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
June 12, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Sabato Would Hold the Media Accountable
BYLINE: Michael Rust; INSIGHTSUMMARY: University of Virginia's Larry Sabato continues to write insightful critiques of the mass media and the political system and recently founded the Center for Governmental Studies.
TEXT: Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia is, according to the Wall Street Journal, "probably the most quoted college professor in the land." But there is much more to Sabato than a mastery of the quick sound bite. His latest book, Peep Show: Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal, coauthored with Mark Stencel and S. Robert Lichter, critiques the media's seemingly arbitrary approach to coverage of political scandal. It is the latest in a number of thoughtful books and monographs in which Sabato has explored the mass media and politics.
Sabato can be scathing in some of his observations on the denizens of the political world but maintains that he is invigorated by the constant interaction with students at the University of Virginia - 13,000, over the years, he estimates. "I tend to become refreshed as I teach and I learn from my own students. They have a capacity to change things and an energy to change things and I think they will." …
CURRENTLY: Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies.
PERSONAL: Born 1952, Norfolk, Va. Educated at University of Virginia (B.A., 1974); Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Queens College, Oxford University (Ph.D.). Rhodes Scholar, Danforth Fellow. "I hate to admit the Rhodes Scholarship anymore. It's been devalued enormously thanks to Bill Clinton." …
Investor's Business Daily
Copyright 2000 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
June 8, 2000HEADLINE: High Tech's Daniel Warmenhoven - He Used Past Lessons To Vault Network Appliance To The Top
BYLINE: By Christopher L. Tyner, Investor's DailyAs the chief executive of high-tech firm Network Appliance Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., Daniel Warmenhoven freely admits he doesn't really "manage" anything. What he does is oversee 1,500 employees, 200 departments and hundreds of engineering and marketing projects around the world. "Let me give you my perspective on the role of the CEO," said the 49-year-old leader. "(As CEO) you can't manage anything. If you try and (manage) something, you've already made a mistake. What you do is hire the right people to do what needs to be done, help those people coalesce into a team, help them establish the goals and objectives for the company as a whole and their units. That's it." …
At Princeton University, Warmenhoven got a job running the computer center help desk. Willing to go beyond necessities, he also wrote a scholarship program to help the school correlate available scholarships with student needs. Princeton uses the program to this day. Four days after graduation, Warmenhoven went to work as a software engineer for IBM in Yorktown, N.Y., where he soon got his first shot at management, no small feat for a 25-year-old. …
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Copyright 2000 Institute on Religion and Public Life
June 1, 2000HEADLINE: A Clash of Orthodoxies: An Exchange.
BYLINE: Dever, Josh; George, Robert P.Josh Dever
As an atheist, a liberal, and a philosopher, I suppose I'm as likely as anyone to qualify as a proponent of Robert P. George's "secular orthodoxy" ("A Clash of Orthodoxies," August/September 1999). As such, I'd like to say a few words in defense of that orthodoxy. I want to raise three categories of objection to Professor George's comments: first, that his characterization of that orthodoxy is highly tendentious; second, that the philosophical failings of that orthodoxy are not nearly so numerous as Prof. George takes them to be; and third, that the corresponding philosophical triumphs of the "Judeo-Christian" worldview are not so triumphant as he represents them.
Prof. George feels that committed members of the secular orthodoxy hold a number of unpalatable views. We are supposed to reject the "condemnation of ... infanticide of so-called defective children," and to believe that "marriage ... is a legal convention whose goal is to support a merely emotional union"; that there should be "not even an opportunity for silent prayer in public schools"; that there should be "no legislation based on the religiously informed moral convictions of legislators or voters"; that a person desiring but unable to commit suicide is "entitled to assistance"; that if such a person "is not lucid enough to make the decision for himself, then judgment must be substituted for him by the family or court"; that reason is purely instrumental; and that persons lack free will (to pick a few of the ascriptions that struck me as most objectionable). …
JOSH DEVER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert P. George
I am grateful to Josh Dever for his thoughtful challenge to my essay "A Clash of Orthodoxies."
Professor Dever states candidly his religious views and moral-political commitments: he is an atheist and a liberal. He begins by proposing to defend the secularist orthodoxy, though later he suggests that no such orthodoxy exists. With a single exception--which, interestingly, Prof. Dever himself considers to be "regrettable"--he claims that the positions I have attributed to secularist liberalism are, in truth, "extreme minority views." The most he is prepared to concede is that one could probably "hunt down individuals holding each of [these] views."
I'm afraid I cannot yield to Prof. Dever's claim. Perhaps things are different at the University of Texas, but even on a rainy day when most people stay indoors I could "hunt down" dozens of people who hold these views simply by taking a stroll across the Princeton campus.
Let's consider some of the specific positions I attributed to the secularist orthodoxy. I said that orthodox secularists "reject traditional morality's condemnation of abortion, suicide, infanticide of so-called defective children, and certain other life-taking acts." That the overwhelming majority of Prof. Dever's fellow atheists and liberals support abortion and suicide is hardly a disputable proposition. Indeed, Prof. Dever himself doesn't dispute it. He complains about my claim that orthodox secularists reject the "condemnation of ... infanticide of so-called defective children." Readers will take note of what is omitted in the ellipsis.
What about infanticide? Is the "letting die" (as the more squeamish insist on describing it) of mentally retarded or severely physically handicapped babies an "extreme minority view" among orthodox secularists, as Prof. Dever maintains? It must be, he suggests, for otherwise "Peter Singer's notoriety would be hard to understand." It is true, of course, that Singer has been a particularly vocal (and notably non-squeamish) defender of infanticide. Nevertheless, Prof. Dever could not have chosen a worse piece of evidence for an alleged consensus among orthodox secularists against the killing of handicapped newborns. Opposition to Singer's appointment as DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton has come entirely from outside the University faculty, mostly from outside the University community, and mainly from believing Jews and Christians. Among orthodox secularists at Princeton and elsewhere, Singer's appointment is uncontroversial. With the single exception of John DiIulio--the eminent social scientist (and devout Christian) who has, alas, since resigned from the Princeton faculty to accept a new chair in faith and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania--I know of no member of the Princeton faculty who has publicly spoken out against Singer for his defense of infanticide. …
ROBERT P. GEORGE is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.
Harper's Magazine
Copyright 2000 Harper's Magazine Foundation
June 1, 2000HEADLINE: WHO WILL TELL THE PEOPLE? 20th century American literature
BYLINE: Banks, RussellOn waiting, still, for the great Creole-American novel
The poet Derek Walcott has written, "Either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation," a claim that our essential, individual identities depend upon our ability to view ourselves as a people. If so, then We the People require a tale that in a plausible way describes and dramatizes our origins. Without it, we will separate ourselves first from our antecedents and then from one another, and, like a deracinated family, We the People will perish. In Walcott's words, we will be nothing. If we do not agree on whence we came--in other words, if that tale of our origins has not been established consensually among us--then we cannot agree on where we must go nor can we mark how far we may have wandered from our true path. Other than to sustain a fantasy, a lonely orphan's wish for the family he never had, there will be no point to our ongoing attempts at unity.
It has become increasingly clear, especially in the work of our late twentieth and early twenty-first century storytellers, that Americans possess not one story of our beginnings but many. This, however, is not necessarily a thing to be desired. We tell ourselves Euro-American origin-tales, African-American, Native-American, Asian-American, Latino-American, and so on. Our stories of beginnings multiply, like the months dedicated by presidential proclamation to the special interests of one or another newly visible constituency (women, poets, people with incurable illnesses); and like the designated months, our multiple origin-stories compete with one another. In the Americas, and in North America in particular, for nearly half a millennium, inasmuch as we have tolerated and actually encouraged dueling origin-tales, we have deprived, confused, and, to some degree, like a family with no remembered roots, disenfranchised ourselves. We have refused to tell ourselves a single believable story of our origins that will connect the Euro-American tale directly to the African-American, the African-American to the Latino-American, and so on. Instead, we've allowed competing tales to stand against one another, to struggle if not for permanent predominance then for temporary preeminence, so that these days, for instance, if one is of Euro-American descent, because of the prevailing economics of communication and other forms of institutionalized racism, it's all too easy to wall off and effectively ghettoize the African-American or Native-American or Asian-American story, diminishing them thereby and denying their application to one's personal and political history. …
Russell Banks is the author, most recently, of The Angel on the Roof, a story collection, and the novels Cloudsplitter and Rule of the Bone. He is the Howard G. B. Clarke University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
Texas Lawyer
Copyright 2000 American Lawyer Newspapers Group, Inc.
May 22, 2000HEADLINE: ANDREWS & KURTH LOSES 10 CORPORATE PARTNERS; NINE HEAD TO V&E, ONE TO BROBECK
BYLINE: BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYSAndrews & Kurth is losing 10 corporate partners, with nine going to Houston rival Vinson & Elkins and one to the Austin office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. The group joining V&E includes Mike Rosenwasser, head of Andrews & Kurth's corporate securities practice in New York, and two other partners in New York, five in Houston and one in Washington, D.C. Thomas Mason, a partner in Andrews & Kurth's Houston office, is joining Brobeck on June 1.
The group of nine partners is expected to join V&E on July 1. That will leave Andrews & Kurth, currently at 240 lawyers, with 52 lawyers in its corporate section. V&E currently has 106 lawyers in its corporate section. …
Finnegan says there are many close personal ties among the lawyers at Andrews & Kurth and V&E. He says he and Mark Kelly, head of V&E's corporate section in Houston, clerked together at V&E in 1980 and have stayed friends over the years. Also, Oelman and V&E partner Keith Fullenweider are boyhood friends who went to high school and to Princeton University together, Finnegan says. …
Maclean's (Toronto Edition)
Copyright 2000 Maclean Hunter Ltd.
May 1, 2000HEADLINE: How we think: Canada's Steven Pinker challenges the accepted wisdom of how the human brain works (Record in progress)
BYLINE: Sheppard, RobertFor hours at a time, psychologist Steven Pinker subjects some of America's brightest university students to a battery of real and imaginary words. What is the past tense of "slace" or "plip"? he asks. What is the past of to "see" with your eyes, or to "saw" with a saw? See-saw-sawed. Confronted with something as mighty as a word, the human mind takes all of a quarter of a second to store it (for most people in the rear of the left hemisphere) and then ship it out for processing to word-fetching memory banks or the rule-making generating stations in different parts of the
brain. Asked to deal with made-up words, the mind shows an equal dexterity in drawing meaning and grammatical correctness, barely missing a beat. Pinker can see this happen on a computer screen: his subjects are
contemplating the peculiarities of the English language while the magnetic activity in their brains is being measured to within one-hundredth of a second. The results of all these mental gymnastics send brightly coloured
tracers slacing across a computerized map of the brain in a real-life game of Pong.
From his perch as a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Montreal-born Pinker has a touching faith in the brainwaves of 19-year-olds. …
How memory works
The good news is that memory is cached in many more parts of the brain than was previously thought. Researchers are also finding at least some capacity for the mind to reorganize itself and relearn important functions
after stroke or injury. The bad news: you still can't tell your brain to remember something on command. "Intention itself is a relatively feeble method of committing a name or a fact to memory," laughs the University of Toronto's Endel Tulving, at 73 the grandfather of memory research in this country. The brain, it seems, has its own rationale for deciding what should be remembered and what shouldn't. Some of it may be purely chemical: Princeton University scientist Joe Tsien has made a "smarter" mouse by adding a chemical receptor to its genetic makeup to strengthen the synapses, the sites where two nerve cells touch. The result: the mouse has a better memory for fear and reward. …
OBITUARIES
San Jose Mercury News
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
June 20, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Stanford astrophysicist dies in freak accident in New Jersey
BYLINE: By Sean WebbySAN JOSE, Calif. _ A Stanford astrophysicist who charted the movements of distant galaxies, hoping their strange and ancient flights through space could cast light on the origin of the universe, was killed Sunday when an out-of-control car smashed into a New Jersey cafe.
Jeffrey A. Willick, 40, who lived at Stanford, is survived by his wife, Ellen, and two young children, Emily and Jason. His widow is expecting their third child.
Willick was visiting his father, Martin, in Teaneck, N.J., for Father's Day weekend. Police described his death as a freak accident.
Working on a laptop computer, as he often did on trips, Willick was sitting alone sipping a cup of coffee around 2 p.m. at a table in Starbucks in Englewood, N.J., just across the Hudson River from New York City. A 1990 Mustang, driven by 53-year-old Joseph A. Santiglia, left a nearby highway and cut across the shop's parking lot. The sports car smashed through the front window and came to a stop, pinning Willick between the car and a wall. …
Willick had worked in the Nobel Award-winning physics department since 1995, trying to probe the shape of the universe and investigating the nature of "dark matter," believed to constitute 90 percent of the total mass of the universe.
Michael Strauss, a Princeton University professor who had collaborated with his friend on many projects since they were graduate students at the University of California-Berkeley, remembered Willick as a laid-back man and an intellectually intense scientist.
"In the field of cosmology, he was certainly one of the bright lights," Strauss said.
Strauss said Willick's research had helped shore up the belief that many galaxies move at different and unpredictable rates throughout the expanding universe. He recalled having all-night e-mail conversations about galaxies with Willick, as they both worked at powerful telescopes. Firing calculations back and forth, Strauss was in Kitt Peak, Ariz., Willick at the Cerro Tololo in Chile.
"He had a very rigorous mind, he wanted to get things right," Strauss said. …
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Copyright 2000 The Kansas City Star Co.
June 21, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Obituaries
RICHARD ANDREW MOREHOUSERichard Andrew Morehouse, Overland Park, KS, died Monday, June 19, 2000. A private memorial service for him is pending. …
Dick was born January 22, 1902, in Columbus, OH. In 1920, he graduated from Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and he graduated from Princeton University in 1924. …
He was a Past President of the Mercury Club and the Princeton Club of Kansas City. …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 2000 Asbury Park Press, Inc.
June 20, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
MAX L. KARSCHNER, 76, of Leisure Knoll, MANCHESTER, died Sunday at Community Medical Center, Toms River. He was a plumber for Princeton University at the Forrestal Campus for 20 years, retiring in 1984. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 2000 The Hartford Courant Company
June 19, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: HUVELLE, DR. CAMILLE H.
HUVELLE, Dr. Camille H.Dr. Camille H. Huvelle, a physician in Litchfield County for 35 years and an active member of the community, died at his home on Saturday, (June 17, 2000) as the result of a stroke suffered on June 2. He was 83 years old. Dr. Huvelle was born in New York City in 1916. After graduating from Princeton University, he obtained his medical degree from New York University in 1942. …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 2000 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
June 15, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: CHARLES MANASSA JR.; FORMER BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
A memorial service for Charles R. Manassa Jr., a former business executive in St. Louis, was held Monday at the Little Chapel by the Sea in Pacific Grove, Calif. The body was cremated.
Mr. Manassa, 78, of Carmel, Calif., died Friday (June 9, 2000) at a hospital in Stanford, Calif., of complications from heart disease.
He was president of Manassa Timber Co. in St. Louis when he retired in 1985. He had worked at the company, which was founded by his father, for 43 years.
He served in the Army in World War II and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in engineering. He was a member of the Rotary Club of St. Louis. …
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