Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from April 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from April 1998

Restaurant Critic Ruth Reichl reveals how she preserves her appetite, waistline, anonymity.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... A mention in Ruth Reichl's ``Dining Out'' column can make or break a restaurant. Owners are so afraid of the New York Times' chief food critic that police artist sketches of her hang in kitchens all across the city. But Reichl, who started...

Writings mirror Isabel Allende's personal odyssey.(Originated from Knight Ridder newspapers)
April 1, 1998... When Chilean author Isabel Allende was 13, she liked to hide in her grandfather's basement, amid spiders and dirt, to read things she wasn't supposed to. Such books as ``A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.'' Such authors as Chilean poet Pablo...

APHRODITE: A Memoir of the Senses, by Isabel Allende; translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden; HarperFlamingo (315 pages, $26).(Originated from Knight Ridder newspapers)
April 1, 1998... ``I can still remember the chewing gum, tobacco and beer taste of my first kiss, exactly forty years ago, although I have completely forgotten the face of the American sailor who kissed me,'' Isabel Allende testifies in this spirited romp...

REELECTING LINCOLN: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency, by John C. Waugh; Crown (452 pages, $30).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... ``Politics,'' a political pro once told his disciple, ``is just war without bayonets _ war is just politics with bayonets.'' Any statement that slick just can't be right. But in Civil War days, it sometimes came pretty close. As...

Minnesota rangers leave wilderness message for children.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... DULUTH, Minn. __ Gary Robinson has 83 young minds in the palm of his hand. He's already had these fourth-graders at Lowell Elementary School paddling a canoe through an imaginary lake that used to be one of their band rooms. Now he's...

More apocalyptic groups expected as millennium nears.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... GARLAND, Texas _ ``God's still in his heaven and all's right with the world.'' At least those words, paraphrased from English poet Robert Browning, were true when I wrote this. Despite predictions faxed to me by the leader of a...

Center offers lively forum for high-level Judaic debate.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ Bernard Levinson is challenging a sacred cow of biblical scholars, and some of the biblical scholars are challenging back. The bearded, 45-year-old Canadian sits at the head of the long table in the sixth-floor...

OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, by Lou Cannon; Times Books (606 pages, $35).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... The United States is a nation of wagging tongues and short attention spans. We chew up, digest and forget about current events within a week of their CNN debut. So, seven years after the fact, what else possibly can be said about the...

Even astronaut Eileen Collins has child care woes.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
April 1, 1998... Astronaut Eileen Collins doesn't flinch at shooting into the sky on top of tons of solid fuel, but she'll admit to something that gave her the jitters _ interviewing potential nannies for her 2-year-old daughter Bridget. ``It's your...

Heartland of darkness.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
April 1, 1998... ``How could this happen in a nice place like Jonesboro?'' the residents of this neighborly Arkansas town ask. ``How could it happen here?'' the media repeat, like well-trained parrots. As long as people keep asking this irrelevant question,...

LBJ's tapes reveal the human side of presidency.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... The Lyndon Johnson White House tapes, available in book or audio cassette, offer the most revealing view into the mind of a president that Americans are likely ever to have. Here, in Johnson's unrehearsed words, one hears the...

U.S. 'rights' logic as loony as the French job plan.(Originated from Lima (Ohio) News)
April 1, 1998... Leave it to the French. They are such an independent-minded people that when reality collides with myth, they embrace the myth. I refer to the way the French government is handling its current economic problems. Unemployment has shot up...

In Vietnam, it has been anything but business as usual for Nike.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam _ On a steamy March morning a year ago, Thuyen Nguyen drove to the vast Pou Chen Co. factory and found an angry crowd at the front gate. Several elderly men told him that foreign managers were beating Vietnamese...

Close bases to save lives.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 1, 1998... KRT FORUM By William S. Cohen America is the pre-eminent power in world today, thanks to three mutually reinforcing elements of national power: a strong economy, forceful diplomacy and powerful Armed Forces that are well-trained,...

School violence reduced when students participate in problem solving.(Originated from American News Service)
April 1, 1998... In the days before the fatal shootings at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., say children who survived, the two boys charged in the killings made clear in verbal threats and by wielding a weapon that they planned a massacre at the...

Author warns women to prepare for their financial future.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... Christopher Hayes was a 16-year-old orderly at a nursing home when he discovered the poor financial health of America's women. ``Over and over again, I saw the same thing,'' he says in his new book, ``Money Makeovers, How Women Can...

Release the files on Martin Luther King Jr.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 1, 1998... This is one in a series of op-ed pieces from the Progressive Media Project that provide commentary from leading voices of the African-American community. KRT FORUM By Salim Muwakkil In March 1968, the FBI issued an...

A vision lost: Martin Luther King saw power of people united against injustice.(Originated from)
April 1, 1998... By Leonard Pitts Jr. Knight Ridder Newspapers It was 30 years ago this week. He had led the movement that brought the system down, taught the nation how to fight without fists, how to wield righteousness to make change....

Futurist Alvin Toffler predicts fast-pace computer age will leave the slow behind.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... Alvin Toffler, author of ``Future Shock'' (1970), ``The Third Wave'' (1980) and ``Powershift'' (1990), continues to write and consult with businesses and governments around the world about the transition to the computer age. Toffler spoke...

Export ban on encryption could drain $96 billion from U.S. economy, study says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The U.S. economy could suffer up to $96 billion in losses over the next five years if the government continues its export restrictions on data-scrambling technology, according to an independent study released Wednesday. ...

National Gallery observes centennial of sculptor Alexander Calder's birth.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ His creations drift with silent grace, buoyant on the air and the imagination. As they quietly spin overhead, the distinctive sculptures of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) balance the calculated skills of a precision engineer...

At 95, Strom Thurmond still prefers to be where the action is.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... In early March, a foundation held a black-tie-optional banquet in Columbia, S.C., to honor Strom Thurmond. But the guest of honor didn't show. It was awkwardly explained that ``national security'' matters had kept the senator in...

Many moms, daughters would like to know one another better, psychologist says.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... Getting to know each other is not something that many mothers and pre-teen daughters spend time doing. But clinical psychologist Lynda Madison learned that many really would like to do just that. ``A lot of time, it's the girls...

Still walking to the Promised Land. (Originated from KRT FORUM (AT-RISK)
April 1, 1998... By Homer D. Hill Bridge News DES MOINES, Iowa _ This April 4 will mark 30 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Unfortunately, when we mourn the loss of the messenger, his whole message will again be buried...

Dissident shareholders win louder voice at corporate annual meetings.(Originated from American News Service)
April 1, 1998... In what has become a springtime ritual, shareholder activists will soon be congregating at annual meetings across the country to urge corporate hierarchies to perform any number of social and environmental deeds. As in the past, a...

30 years after first moonwalk, the promise of space remains unfulfilled.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... A little after 10 p.m. on the night of July 20, 1969, I walked into the bedroom where my 4-year-old son was asleep and woke him up. ``Come on in the den with me,'' I said. ``There's something I want you to see.'' He looked at me...

For her eyes only: Site wants to be home to women on the Net.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... Men hunt. Women nest. That's probably not a revelation to anyone who ever witnessed the battle of the sexes over a TV remote control. But to Internet site developers looking for ways to better serve their audiences, that...

Chamique Holdsclaw performs -- on court and off.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... There is a saying, ``To whom much is given, much is expected.'' Chamique Holdsclaw is its living proof. Holdsclaw stamped out any last doubt that she's the best women's college basketball player ever. She did it by leading Tennessee to...

Clinton to end African trip on island where millions of slaves departed.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... GOREE ISLAND, Senegal _ It is called the ``door of no return'' and through it, for centuries, Africans journeyed to their deaths in the Atlantic Ocean or to slavery in the Americas. Small in size but large in symbolism, the doorway and...

Judge in Clinton-Jones case has been criticized by both sides.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The judge who threw out the Paula Jones sexual harassment case is a Republican nominated to the bench by former President Bush. Susan Webber Wright also is a former law student of Bill Clinton's when he was a professor at the...

What could happen next.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON_ It's not over. Judge Susan Webber Wright's decision to toss out Paula Jones' sex harassment case against President Clinton almost certainly will be appealed. And the investigation by special prosecutor Ken Starr will...

Onslaught of allegations takes a toll on Americans.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ In 1993, Americans didn't talk about oral sex at the dinner table. But then came Paula Corbin Jones, and her claim that President Clinton had propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel room. That changed everything....

Judge decided Jones case failed to warrant legal remedy.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ There was one major reason why Judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones' sexual misconduct case against President Clinton: Jones could not prove she had been harmed. As Judge Wright saw it, even if Jones' alleged...

Judge throws out Jones' harassment suit; rules it has no legal merit.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ A four-year-old sexual harassment lawsuit that sullied President Clinton's reputation, became the butt of late-night television jokes and gave birth to an investigation that still threatens the presidency was thrown out Wednesday...

Senate committee quickly passes tobacco-regulation bill.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Congress took a first step towards curbing America's tobacco habit Wednesday, as the Senate Commerce committee voted 19-1 to pass legislation aimed at sharply cutting youth smoking and tightening regulation of cigarettes. ...

Panama stresses repairing environment as U.S. prepares to transfer canal.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... As the United States prepares to transfer the Panama Canal, Panamanian leaders are learning that protecting one of the world's most strategic _ and vulnerable _ waterways goes far beyond the locks. A new Panamanian law attempts to put...

Jones 'upset' and likely to appeal, husband says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 1, 1998... Paula Jones' husband said in a telephone interview Wednesday that his wife probably will appeal the dismissal of her lawsuit against President Clinton, but that they will wait 24 hours before making a decision. Describing his wife as...

Time now for Ken Starr to show his cards.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ No wonder Bill Clinton, told by phone in Africa the Paula Jones case had been tossed out, snapped warily, ``Is this an April Fools' joke?'' No wonder a tearful Paula Jones told lawyers, ``I can't believe this is...

Statehood for Puerto Ricans.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 2, 1998... This is one in a series of op-ed pieces from the Progressive Media Project on issues of concern to people of Latin heritage. KRT FORUM By Mc Nelly Torres After 495 years of foreign domination, the time has come for Puerto...

Belief in conspiracy to kill King continues to this day.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... MEMPHIS, Tenn. _ Every day, from all across America and from all walks of life, they come by the hundreds to the second floor of what was once the Lorraine Motel and gaze into an abyss somewhere beyond the historic balcony and its memorial...

Sony chairman warns Japan could trigger world recession.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... TOKYO _ In an unusually blunt assessment of this country's bleak financial outlook, the chairman of Sony Corp. warned Thursday that ``the Japanese economy is on the verge of collapsing'' and echoed Washington's call for the government to move...

Funding for bilingual education debated but likely to survive.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Bilingual education, the latest whipping boy for conservatives, took another blow when the House cut $45 million out of the federal program in favor of Pentagon funds and disaster relief. The reduction came during the...

Hereros demand apology, reparations from Germany, but little forthcoming.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... WATERBERG, Namibia _ Camped on this burning plateau of rock and sand at the dawn of the century, a German general wrote out a still-reverberating declaration many scholars say sowed the seeds of the Holocaust. On Oct. 2, 1904, after...

Jones' appeal may depend on similar case due to reach Supreme Court.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ By now the whole world knows who Paula Jones is. But few people have heard of Kimberly Ellerth. Yet Jones' hope of reviving her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton on appeal may be influenced, to some degree,...

Clinton tours historical slavery site, pledges U.S. to do better by Africa.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... GOREE ISLAND, Senegal _ On the final day of his ground-breaking trip to Africa, President Clinton stood at the place where millions of Africans walked through a door to slavery in America and declared Thursday it was ``time to complete the...

Pressure on Starr to finish begins to mount.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ A day after a federal judge dismissed Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit, pressure mounted for Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr to wrap up his four-year-old $35 million investigation. The Jones case and...

Palestinians who have suffered quietly since 1948 rarely recognized.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... THE HEBRON FOOTHILLS, Israel _ The old man greeted his tree softly and bent his stiff frame. He kissed the gnarled tree trunk and rested his forehead upon it. His tears fell to the tree's feet. ``Hello, my olive tree,'' he said. ...

Anti-corruption summit seeks solutions.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... MIAMI _ Argentine attorney Luis Moreno Ocampo, a leading crusader in the global fight for public integrity, described an Italian's assessment of the cost of corruption in his country. A highway in Milan costs twice as much as in Zurich,...

Political debate has descended to sexual farce.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Paula Jones lost on the law but arguably won in the politics. Jones' legal case was so weak it was tossed out of court Wednesday, but in the court of public opinion, where she was Clinton's primary accuser, the president...

King family wants investigation of assassination reopened.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... ATLANTA _ The family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in Memphis 30 years ago Saturday, and Andrew Young, one of King's top aides, urged President Clinton Thursday to order a renewed probe of the killing. ...

Housing one area where blacks have seen improvement, John Hope Franklin says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... If he had rank them, John Hope Franklin, the head of the president's advisory board on race relations, would put housing at the top of areas where blacks have seen improvement in the 30 years since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin...

Legal bills are Paula Jones' new worry.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... MIAMI _ Paula Jones, famous litigant, picked up her telephone in Long Beach on Thursday, admitted she felt ``a little down,'' decided a workout at the gym might help, and settled a nonlegal dispute _ between her two squabbling preschool boys....

UC to use special recruiting to retain minority students.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 2, 1998... University of California officials tried Thursday to soften the blow of declining minority student admissions, saying they would use special recruiting to retain minority students already admitted for next fall, and persuade those rejected...

Media should pursue the cover-ups.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Katherine Graham, a daughter of privilege whose most important training was how to organize a stylish cocktail party, was an unlikely prospect to make journalism and national history. But the woman who became publisher of...

Why the hostility toward Microsoft? (Originated from KRT FORUM)
April 3, 1998... By Tibor R. Machan Bridge News ORANGE, Calif. _ Microsoft is on the hot seat, courtesy not only of the U.S. Justice Department but also Congress and some of the software giant's competitors. Allegedly Bill Gates is a...

Jones dismissal send message to Starr: Put up or shut up.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ No wonder Bill Clinton, told by phone in Africa the Paula Jones case had been tossed out, snapped warily, ``Is this an April Fool's joke?'' No wonder a tearful Paula Jones told lawyers, ``I can't believe this is...

Wrap it up, Mr. Starr -- please.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... Thank you, Judge Susan Webber Wright. Your dismissal of the Paula Jones case makes good legal sense. It's also a victory for common sense. You've spared this country a horror show of sickening proportions. Just imagine the...

Microsoft's Pac-Man attitude.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
April 3, 1998... By Leon Korobow Bridge News GREAT NECK, N.Y. _ Should the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawyers be concerned with Microsoft Corp., the predominant supplier of operating systems, whose Windows system has more than 80...

Eight reasons GOP in no rush to impeach Clinton.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Somehow, I find it hard imagining Ken Starr's hero has been Joe Friday _ the deadpanned, salt-of-the-earth detective played by Jack Webb on the old ``Dragnet'' series. I mean, Friday was laconic, hard-bitten and he never...

Truth can get trampled in public rush to judgment.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... Case dismissed? After all these years, that's what it comes down to? Jones v. Clinton, the sexual harassment suit pitting Paula Jones against the president of the United States, is abruptly kaput, finito, sayonara? I'm...

Cuban spy base can pick up Miami signals.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... MIAMI _ The Cuban military has long run its own smaller but much more secret version of the Russians' Lourdes electronic spying base, a unit known as the Electronic Warfare Battalion. Cuba does not get copies of the communications...

Soviets spied on Gulf War plan from Cuba, defector says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... MIAMI _ The Soviet Union knew U.S. battle plans in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, including the surprise ``left hook'' into Iraq, through an electronic spy network anchored in Cuba, a Russian defector says. Moscow did not leak the plans...

Clinton's trip sends right message to Africans and Americans.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... Africa is a source of ambivalence for many Americans, who have been bombarded with images of the continent as everything from primitive and barbaric, to exotic and almost holy _ the cradle of civilization. So the 12-day, six-nation tour...

WE magazine focuses on living.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 3, 1998... WE magazine is taking people with disabilities out as a movement and putting them into the real world they belong. There is no political correctness, no insider leadership ego, no sense of that constant social policy stuff. There is...

Think you understand sleep? Wake up!(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... Evidently, most of us are woefully ignorant about a very basic human function _ sleep. Eighty-six percent of the adult public failed the Sleep IQ Test, administered as part of a national survey. Adult respondents averaged 5.5 out of 12...

Dispelling Social Security's myths. (Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... When President Clinton brings his Social Security forum to Kansas City on Tuesday, people can count on hearing a number of myths and dubious claims that minimize the problems facing the retirement program. These myths are put forth by...

What counts most for health, Dr. Dean Ornish says, is caring relationships.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
April 3, 1998... GARDEN GROVE, Calif. _ Dr. Dean Ornish, America's guru of prevention, is talking and gesturing with his left hand, and something isn't making sense. A simple gold band on his ring finger gleams in the morning sun flowing through the...

Spiritual, physical health linked, Dean Ornish writes.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... You may have access to the best doctors, newest drugs and most sophisticated medical technologies, but if you don't have enough love in your life, you're missing out on the most potent determinant of good health. So says Dean Ornish,...

A few pathways to increased love and intimacy.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 3, 1998... In the interest of love Here are a few pathways to increased love and intimacy, as recommended in Dean Ornish's new book, ``Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy'': _Put feelings at the center...

Nearly one of every 11 Pennsylvanians has diabetes.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 5, 1998... Kurt Jensen refused to look at his young life as a tragedy. And so, as the nurse slid an inch-long needle into his arm to begin the process of cleansing his blood, Jensen, a diabetic, spoke of how kidney dialysis was a way of buying...

And now for the winners and losers in Paula Jones case.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
April 6, 1998... The circus is leaving town. The trapeze artists are now working on their 1040s. The clowns sit around their trailer, drinking beer and telling off-color jokes. As the tent comes down on the Paula Jones case, the media cleanup crew springs into...

Get rid of that same old stress.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 6, 1998... ``Insanity is: repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.'' _Werner Erhardt Commit right now to be honest with yourself for the next 10 minutes. Answer the questions in this article without ``hedging your bets,'' and you...

Barrio's restrictions were a kind of shelter for some.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
April 6, 1998... In the old days, La Habra, Calif., was a city of social simplicity. It was easy to see where people belonged. The Mexican workers were clustered south of the railroad tracks, primarily in labor camps called Campo Corona, or Campo Colorado...

Misunderstandings persist between Africans and black Americans.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... DETROIT _ The customer at the downtown Detroit coffee shop wanted two scoops of ice cream, one chocolate and one vanilla, on the same cone. Since the tub of chocolate was closer, Ruth Abraha dipped into that first. The vanilla went on top....

African song survives over centuries, links family.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... Alex Haley's ``Roots'' still moves me. It wrings every emotion from my soul _ love, anger, sadness. Joy, fear, desperation, you name it. It aired on cable recently, and some friends told me it affects them the same way. One told me his...

Beware of U.S. Congress bearing (transportation) gifts.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
April 6, 1998... By Robert W. Poole Jr. Bridge News LOS ANGELES _ The House of Representatives has passed by an overwhelming margin the massive $218 billion, six-year surface transportation bill approved unanimously by its transportation committee....

Even good guys have evil, or cowardice, in their hearts.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... It was 30 years ago, which means I was 14 years old. I was too young to drive, but I was riding with an older friend who had his own car. It was an off-white Volkswagen beetle. We had a lot of fun driving around Bennettsville, S.C., in that car...

Supreme Court grants Starr's request for a speedy hearing.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Independent counsel Kenneth Starr has persuaded the Supreme Court to deliver a fast-track ruling on his effort to obtain notes that may help his investigation of the Clinton administration. Replying Monday to Starr's...

Clinton moves to ban import of assault-style rifles.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ With the memory of the Arkansas schoolyard shooting tragedy fresh, President Clinton on Monday moved to ban the import of 58 types of rapid firing, assault-style rifles and vowed to ``do our best to keep our people alive.'' ...

Advance in breast cancer treatment could cut rate drastically.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ With a major advance in breast cancer treatment announced Monday, American women are facing a whole new set of risks and benefits as they weigh how to best protect themselves from a fearful disease that kills about 43,500 a year....

Breaking the spell on Social Security.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
April 7, 1998... WASHINGTON _ There was an interesting correspondence last week in the nation's capital. You might have missed hearing about it: Most reporting of a cordial exchange of letters between Congress and the White House was buried deep in the pages...

Honor another race of people as mascots.(Originated from Indian Country Today)
April 7, 1998... Nearly every Lakota (Sioux) man and woman knew the basketball team from Utah would lose in the finals of the NCAA Tournament. How did we know? Because Utah calls themselves the Utes (named for an Indian tribe in Utah) and all of the...

Can a plastic measuring cup fight drug abuse? Some families try it.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 7, 1998... DETROIT _ Every time 11-year-old Brian Halling takes his vitamins, he's reminded of the pledge he made to himself and his parents to stay drug-free. There, in the family medicine cabinet in his suburban Chicago home, sits a...

Here they come to save the day: Mighty mice are on the way.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
April 7, 1998... KRT FORUM By Susan E. Paris They dig through your garbage and gnaw their way through your walls and floors. If you catch them in the midst of a midnight snack, they will scare you half to death as they scamper across the kitchen...