Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from February 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from February 1998

Scientist wants to clone rare Andean condors.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 27, 1998... BOGOTA, Colombia _ Want to see a rare Andean condor? Don't bother peering into the sky. You'd be better off looking at a 50-peso coin or the Colombian national flag. Andean condors are endangered. Fewer than 3,500 dwell throughout...

Revival at the NAACP.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune Newspapers e)
February 26, 1998... The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on 2-25. It is hard to imagine a better person than Julian Bond to take over the reins of the NAACP. Bond, 58, is a natural choice to lead the nation's oldest civil-rights...

Other religious teaching on war.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 25, 1998... Here are summaries of the beliefs about war in Judaism and Islam: JUDAISM Classical Judaism refers to at least three types of wars: 1. Commanded wars (for example, 1 Samuel 15:3) 2. Mandatory wars, which are...

Just-war principles.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 25, 1998... Most scholars say that at least eight principles are part of the just-war tradition: 1. The authority waging the war must be legitimate. 2. The cause for which war is to be waged must be just. 3. The ultimate goal must be...

Christians differ over moral justifications for war.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 25, 1998... What if the current agreement between the United Nations and Iraq fails? Would this nation, rooted in Judeo-Christian principles, be morally justified in going to war? It depends on whom you talk to within the various Christian...

More women are leaving jobs to start their own businesses.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 24, 1998... MIAMI _ Women start their own businesses for two positive reasons, according to a major study released in Miami on Tuesday: The budding entrepreneur has either a good idea for a business or she realizes she doesn't need a boss to tell her...

Tobacco executives hedge addiction issue.(Originated from Lexington Herald-Leader)
February 24, 1998... WASHINGTON _ It's the question that has become a touchstone in the tobacco debate: Is nicotine addictive? Asked the question Tuesday for the second time in less than a month, the nation's five top tobacco executives hedged _...

With better machines and improved medical techniques, premature babies have more than a fighting chance.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 23, 1998... MIAMI _ ``Such a little baby!'' The words ricocheted through Jannette Ortega's mind like a forbidding mantra, her eyes locked on the wizened body of her newborn, a latticework of tubes and wires sustaining life. ``How will she...

A culturally enriching experience with a real Japanese family.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 20, 1998... NAGANO, Japan _ There is a narrow street that runs behind the Yanagimachi Media Village named Joto-dori. Walking down it from the apartment I share with Philadelphia Daily News hockey writer Les Bowen and Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist...

If diplomacy fails and air strikes don't suffice, then what?(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 20, 1998... The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on 2-18. President Clinton did a credible job in explaining why the United States soon may need to use military force against Iraq. The President's recitation of Saddam...

Hispanic education proposals fall short.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 19, 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 Carlos Munoz Jr. When I was in high school during the 1950s in Los Angeles, Latino...

The power of ideas.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 19, 1998... KRT FORUM By Lee Edwards President Clinton's recent proposals to expand Medicare coverage to the near elderly, increase government involvement in child care, and boost the minimum wage another 20 percent suggest that the White...

LIKE MEN OF WAR: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865, by Noah Andre Trudeau; Little, Brown (576 pages, $29.95).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 18, 1998... There is an almost phantasmagoric strangeness to this book, the first really detailed military history of black soldiers' battlefield experience in the Civil War. Beyond the usual blood and thunder, there are incidents so horrible and...

Woman, 71, completes journey to become a minister.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 18, 1998... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Miriam Marx climbed gingerly to the pulpit six months ago, wondering whether she was really cut out to be a preacher. She'll make that same steep climb for the last time Sunday morning at Unitarian Universalist...

TV diplomacy via White House, CNN.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 18, 1998... The White House turned to a new diplomatic channel Wednesday in the Iraq crisis: CNN. What it got for its effort was a static-filled broadcast. In an unusual marriage, the Clinton administration and Cable News Network cooperated in a...

School board member peeved by people who pause while pledging allegiance.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 17, 1998... MIAMI _ Do you pause in the Pledge? You could be violating a proposed Miami-Dade County Public Schools rule. Irked for years by people who pause in the Pledge of Allegiance, longtime School Board member Holmes Braddock wants a...

U.S. women's hockey team: No longer dreaming.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 17, 1998... NAGANO, Japan _ Karyn Bye, a forward on the U.S. women's hockey team, used to play under the pseudonym ``K.L.'' Her coach didn't want opponents to know she was the only girl on the team. ``If a girl scored on a guy, he might...

Garlic's powers go beyond flavor.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 16, 1998... Garlic not only seasons food delightfully, but it's also brimming with health benefits. Like other members of the allium family (leeks, onions, chives and shallots), garlic is loaded with phytochemicals, compounds that fight cancer...

Benefits, risk factors, and how the Pill works.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 13, 1998... BENEFITS When the Pill went on the market more than 35 years ago, it created a sexual revolution. Today, studies have found many important health benefits. Taking the Pill for at least one year: Reduces by one-half the risk of...

Monica's pre-Washington jobs were run-of-the-mill.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 13, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Until Monica Lewinsky arrived at the White House in 1995 as an unpaid intern, she was an unexceptional college student who had held run-of-the-mill teenage jobs. By December, when she left a position that in 20 months had...

Internet offers resources for pet owners.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
February 12, 1998... As we head toward a new century, computers have become a mainstay in our ever changing world. Resources for veterinarians as well as pet owners are abundant in bookstores, pet stores, television programs and libraries. The Internet has...

Just say no? Rebagliati says no to that.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 12, 1998... NAGANO, Japan _ He's keeping the gold medal. And he's keeping his friends. Ross Rebagliati, the Canadian snowboarder who tested positive for marijuana at the Olympics, said Friday that even though the marijuana traces in his...

Everglades National Park expansion back on track.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... MIAMI _ Alarmed by the plight of an endangered songbird, the federal government is moving forward at last to complete a long-stalled expansion of Everglades National Park that Congress authorized in 1989. Interior Secretary Bruce...

Death penalty is not justice; it's simply barbaric revenge.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 5, 1998... Karla Faye Tucker is dead, murdered by the people of Texas, and these questions are left behind: Are we any safer than when she was alive and behind the thick walls of Huntsville State Prison? Will this deter some other drug-crazed...

Cry 'Scandal!' enough and public will ignore it.(Originated from By Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... They called Ronald Reagan the Teflon President because nothing stuck to him, no allegation of wrongdoing could hurt him. Well, next to Bill Clinton, Reagan is Velcro. Who'd a thunk it? Two weeks ago, rumor had it that Clinton was...

Sick child an inspiration.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The first things you notice about 7-year-old Michael McDaris are his chubby cheeks and faint mustache, both the result of medicine meant to save his life. But what you observe after spending time with Michael is more...

Some experts express concern over at-home IQ testing.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... The knot-in-the-stomach generated by SATs and pop quizzes apparently long forgotten, a growing number of people are voluntarily sharpening their No. 2 pencils to take at-home IQ tests. Whether driven by curiosity about how they...

Bridge the gap in black health.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 3, 1998... The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on Monday, Feb. 2. For black Americans, life in the 1990s is, to quote Charles Dickens, the best of times and the worst of times. The good news is that blacks have made major...

Clinton sex scandal is one for the books.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Only in America could a president be brought to the brink of ruin by a literary agent. Her name is Luciane Goldberg, and she's the one who advised Linda Tripp to surreptitiously record her telephone conversations with Monica...

The road to equality: Civil rights struggle's flash points now honored as high points.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Where would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be today, if he hadn't stepped onto his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in the early evening of April 4, 1968? Chairing a presidential campaign against racism? Delivering his 10,000th sermon at...

Bishops urge U.S. to ease Cuban sanctions.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Citing ``important changes'' in Cuba's recent treatment of the Roman Catholic Church, the U.S. Catholic Conference on Monday called on Washington to enact a law allowing the sale of U.S. food and medicine to the island. ...

Bias against death penalty for women slowly disappearing.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Something is to happen in Texas Tuesday night that hasn't happened in 167 years. At 6:01 p.m. Central Time, the state plans to execute a woman. The death of pick-ax killer Karla Faye Tucker has put national focus on a little-noted...