Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from December 1999

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from December 1999

Seattle mayor orders curfew, governor deploys National Guard troops.
December 1, 1999

Woman promotes teaching of creationism in Kansas public schools.
December 1, 1999

Widespread poaching of African elephants could make them endangered again.
December 2, 1999

Battle in Seattle transforms the WTO into a magnet for global anxiety.
December 2, 1999

The tale about Betsy Ross and the flag is still not all sewn up.
December 2, 1999

Small-business leader wants WTO representation.
December 3, 1999

WTO protests have some parallels to violent demonstrations of the '60s.
December 3, 1999

One man's selfish cabal is another's effort to spread benefits of trade.
December 3, 1999

Kids and computers not alwys a good match.
December 3, 1999

Get out the `don't start smoking' message to kids and teens.
December 3, 1999... If you're a smoker, did you take part in the annual American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout day last week? The idea is to get people to stop smoking for a day. Stopping for a day may start the ball rolling toward stopping for...

Ban secret evidence in America .
December 3, 1999

Seattle stew: Despite negative media, WTO protesters represent the conscience of America.
December 3, 1999

Did Ben Franklin have attention deficit disorder?
December 3, 1999

How to find archive art.
December 3, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lifestyle Budget for Friday, December 3, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080 Lifestyle Editor: Brent Bierman, 202-383-6082 e-mail: bbierman(at)krtinfo.com KRT Photo Service: 202-383-6099 ...

Not a peep from the surface of Mars as scientists hold their breath and hope.
December 6, 1999... PASADENA, Calif. _ Where is Mars Polar Lander? Is it intact? Is it trying to phone home? Where in that other world is it? The robotic probe vanished Friday, its last transmission emitted as it sliced through the Red Planet's wispy, exotic...

Seattle prepares to celebrate departure of WTO delegates, activists.
December 6, 1999

WTO talks collapse without agreement.
December 6, 1999

The view from inside `protest central' in Seattle.
December 6, 1999

What's likely to happen in trade talks of the future.
December 6, 1999

Seattle police second-guessed in wake of WTO.
December 6, 1999

Trade battle of Seattle could launch damaging trade war.
December 6, 1999

Vote for a cure: Increasing breast cancer research funding should be priority issue for all candidates.
December 6, 1999

Contemporary interpretations make a hash of Shakespeare's work.
December 6, 1999

The price of a healthy life has little to do with money.
December 6, 1999

Take positive steps to cope with depression.
December 6, 1999

Zero tolerance sounds like zero justice.
December 6, 1999

What comes first for you: love or money?
December 6, 1999

Wellstone's is a lonely voice in a 'bigger is better' chorus.
December 6, 1999

Some experts say NASA may be trying to explore the universe the wrong way.
December 7, 1999

Navy vets recall the `date which will live in infamy'.
December 7, 1999... GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. _ Seaman Bynum Aldridge, 19, ate a handful of purple grapes for breakfast on the mess deck of the oil tanker USS Ramapo as he watched small boats crisscross Pearl Harbor. He paid particular attention to the stately USS...

Terms like `illegal alien' demean human beings.
December 7, 1999

The protester's heavy burden.
December 7, 1999

A bad year for press freedom: Around the world, the end of the century finds newspapers and journalists are under siege from repressive regimes.
December 7, 1999

Muslims to begin month of fasting.
December 7, 1999

WTO protesters, police recount horror stories from convention unrest.
December 7, 1999

Seattle residents get chance to vent over WTO.
December 7, 1999

NASA to re-examine Mars program .
December 8, 1999

Mars again foils NASA attempts; loss of craft spurs questioning of program.
December 8, 1999

Turning points along the racial divide of the 20th century.
December 8, 1999... ``The problem of the twentiet century is the problem of the color-line.'' _ W.E.B. Du Bois GREENVILLE, Miss. _ A tiny Greyhound station on Highway 82. A town I never heard of. Chasing the words a dead man said 96 years _ that's two World...

Thorny questions on world trade await presidential candidates.
December 8, 1999

Powerful protests force WTO to change.
December 8, 1999

`Coyote: North America's Dog,' by Stephen R. Swinburne; Boyds Mills Press, $15.95, Ages 7 and older.
December 8, 1999

Our schools vs. our children's minds: Today's students are failing because the schools no longer believe that they should encourage cognitive development.
December 8, 1999

One-time financier John Templeton expounds on the prevalence of universal goodwill.
December 8, 1999

Scientists explore next wave of technology, referred to as the post-PC era.
December 8, 1999

Overestimating the WTO's powers, or lobbying it to death, may just make it impossible for it to function.
December 8, 1999

Texas-born attorney takes church-state separation seriously.
December 8, 1999

Scientists say the human mnouth has coughed up 37 unique organisms.
December 8, 1999

Restoration of space capsule may answer question of heroism.
December 8, 1999

Nation's grief over Oklahoma City bombing will linger.
December 8, 1999

Russian military takes a hostile view of the West; recent address by defense minister shows how seriously relations with U.S. have deteriorated.
December 9, 1999

Breast cancer research and patient education haven't gone far enough.
December 9, 1999

No pleasing the greenies! Bio-technology is the key to better ecology; yet enviromentalists shun it like the plague.
December 9, 1999

Eliminate the use of secret evidence in immigration cases.
December 9, 1999

NASA failure shows need for privatization.
December 9, 1999

Parent's rights, child's welfare being ignored.
December 10, 1999

Seattle riots may help draw attention to the dangers global trade poses for American workers.
December 10, 1999

In all conscience, young rafter's father knows best.
December 10, 1999

U.S. set to hand over Panama Canal on Tuesday.
December 13, 1999

Panama faces task of disproving worries about its operation of canal.
December 13, 1999

Deep Space 2 team found only one obstacle it couldn't overcome: Mars.
December 13, 1999

High schooler gives sport a lift.
December 13, 1999

International incident started with journey of hope from Cuba.
December 13, 1999... MIAMI _ The international incident that has pitted Miami exiles against Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a custody battle over 6-year-old rafter Elian Gonzalez began on a beach east of Havana during Thanksgiving week. That was when 14 people...

Offered a college dorm room, he sits in a prison cell.
December 13, 1999

Attention turns to nation's oldest program of school choice.
December 13, 1999

In choosing the best president from the last 80 years, he picks Truman.
December 13, 1999

Don't exonerate Swiss banks: Holocaust victims were deceived and looted.
December 13, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Friday, 12-10: X X X If Swiss bankers wanted exoneration for their looting of Jewish bank accounts during and after World War II, they didn't get it from the independent audit...

For Panama, the coming moment of controlling canal is electric.
December 13, 1999

RCN to acquire Chicago-based 21st Century.
December 14, 1999... CHICAGO _ A New Jersey corporation with financial ties to Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen said Monday it will acquire 21st Century Telecom Group Inc., a Chicago-based cable television and phone upstart. RCN Corp. of Princeton,...

RCN purchase could make it No. 3 in Midwest market, analysts predict.
December 14, 1999... Cable competition has long been one of those tantalizing dreams of frustrated subscribers looking for some alternative to years of rising rates and indifferent customer service. That's why newcomers like Chicago-based 21st Century Telecom Group...

Nation to mark 200th anniversary of Washington's death.
December 14, 1999... WASHINGTON _ On a frigid evening 200 years ago Tuesday, George Washington died at his Mount Vernon home. Within days, Philadelphia, Boston and New York conducted ceremonial funeral processions. Newspaper ads appeared, depicting the Father...

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December 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lifestyle, Entertainment, Travel and Food Recap Budget for Monday, December 13, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080 Lifestyle Editor: Brent Bierman, 202-383-6082 Entertainment and Travel Editor:...

How to find archive art.
December 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Entertainment Budget for Monday, December 13, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080 Entertainment Editor: John Price, 202-383-6083 KRT Photo Service: 202-383-6099 KRT Graphics Network:...

Workers shifting from HMOs to PPOs for more freedom, study says.
December 14, 1999... As politicians and plaintiffs' attorneys attack health maintenance organizations and their limitations on doctor choices, workers are moving to less restrictive forms of health insurance, a new study indicates. The number of workers who...

How to find archive art.
December 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Business Budget for Monday, December 13, 1999 KRT Business Editor: Leslie Lapides, 202-383-6093 llapides(at)krtinfo.com (See end of bjt for definitions of prefixes.) KRT News Desk:...

Program helps athletes, kids: Tuition credit given for community service.
December 14, 1999... COLORADO SPRINGS, COlo. _ Each time he told his tale, a little bit of the ache in his soul chipped away. It was worth it for that alone. But it was also worth it for the look he saw in those grade schoolers' eyes. Lin Dawson started...

Shuttle cleared for Thursday launch.
December 14, 1999... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Technicians at Kennedy Space Center replaced a damaged fuel line on shuttle Discovery over the weekend, eliminating a potential obstacle to Thursday's planned launch. Discovery is scheduled to lift off on a 10-day...

How to find archive art.
December 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service KRT South Budget for Monday, December 13, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com KRT South supervisor: Assistant News Editor Jill M. Geer, 202-383-6148, jgeer(AT)krtinfo.com ...

DAucks, Gophers could find red zone at Sun Bowl.
December 14, 1999... ST. PAUL, Minn. _ No matter who wins the Wells Fargo Sun Bowl, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon might end up in the red zone of their balance sheets. Based on the experience of athletic departments across the...

Russians reportedly capture Chechen military airport.
December 14, 1999... MOSCOW _ Even as they scaled back artillery assaults on Grozny to allow civilians to flee, Russian forces advanced Monday on vital territory just a few miles outside the center of the Chechen capital. Russian officials said they had...

Scientists puzzled by recent discoveries about the sun's behavior.
December 14, 1999... SAN FRANCISCO _ As scientists, utilities and communication experts prepare to cope with a dangerous period of sun storms next spring, they are still shaking their heads over a solar mystery that left them baffled earlier this year. Last...

Israelis protest against peace talks.
December 14, 1999... JERUSALEM _ Several thousand protesters gave Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak a sour send-off Monday to peace talks that are scheduled to resume with Syria in Washington this week. Outside the Israeli parliament where Barak was defending...

Author of ``Catch-22'' dies at 76.
December 14, 1999... CHICAGO _ Novelist Joseph Heller, who died Sunday night at his home on Long Island, was one of the few writers of this or any age to add a catch phrase to the English language. The title of his first book ``Catch-22'' has became shorthand...

SCIENCE, MEDICINE, ENVIRONMENT.
December 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, December 13, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...