Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from January 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from January 1998

The cloak-and-dagger side of women's figure skating.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ Michael Jordan. Wayne Gretzky. Tiger Woods. They are names synonymous with the sports they play, names that pushed their sports into new homes and wider demographics. Brand names. Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan,...

Dick Button is a pioneer, educator of figure skating.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ It was not until he happened across some old tapes of him skating that Kurt Browning realized just how superb Dick Button once was. Generations of figure skating fans have come to know the outspoken Button as the color analyst...

Randall Cunningham on a different run now.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA __ There will never be a Randall Cunningham Era in Minnesota. That distinction, for good and for ill, is Philadelphia's alone. Those who witnessed that era _ the quarterback's 11 years of brilliant performances, bitter...

Marv Levy shows us how accept victory as well as defeat.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA __ He's the best loser I've ever seen. ``Loser.'' That is the tag that has been sewn into the back of Marv Levy's neck. It is said with sneering disdain. But I mean it with the utmost respect and appreciation. The...

Recently freed Hamas founder seems a moderating influence, but Israelis skeptical.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip _ He is a wisp of a man tucked into his wheelchair with a fuzzy blanket. A male nurse helps him blow his nose. He doesn't speak so much as squeak, his words emitted in a high-pitched whisper. No matter. When Sheik...

Boston is booming again.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 2, 1998... BOSTON _ It began the decade mired in recession. Unemployment pushed toward 10 percent and office space went begging. Residents fled in droves. All that is past now. Boston is booming. With more than a trillion dollars flowing...

Federal district judge in Texas disciplined, reports say.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... FORT WORTH, Texas _ A Fort Worth judge who is loathed by some as a courtroom tyrant and lauded by others as an no-nonsense jurist, has been disciplined by a panel of fellow judges, sources say. The punishment imposed on U.S. District...

Helen Wills Moody dies at age 92.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 2, 1998... SAN JOSE __ In her heyday on the tennis court, Helen Wills Moody Roark was more famous than Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert or Billie Jean King, and she showed a nation that women could excel at sports. Nicknamed ``Queen Helen'' and...

Figure Skating Championships come to Philadelphia.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 3, 1998... PHILADELPHIA __ Tara Lipinski was 3 years old, not much bigger than a hand puppet, doing incredible things in the roller-skating rink at the Deptford Skating Center. She did jumps and spins and turns, so well and so many that another teacher...

Tom Osborne's decency is ultimately what his critics overlooked.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 3, 1998... MIAMI _ Tom Osborne now has the time to pursue his fishing hobby. Those who view him and judge him from afar will assume he likes to spend his time sitting around a hole hacked in the surface of a frozen lake. The Ice Coach goes ice fishing....

Michelle Kwan wants to earn her Olympic spot.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 3, 1998... Once upon a time, there were two princesses. But _ curses! _ one of them has an injured foot. And the other, according to the village elders, carries the burden of being ``too athletic.'' There go the Olympics. Or maybe...

Governor calls for longer school year.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
January 3, 1998... SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ California schoolchildren would attend classes for as many as eight more days a year under a proposal that Gov. Pete Wilson plans to offer Friday with his budget for the 1998-99 fiscal year. Wilson's proposal to...

California's ousted smokers take it to the streets.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 3, 1998... SAN JOSE _ Where there wasn't smoke, there was plenty of fire on New Year's Day, the first day of a strict new smoking law that forbids Californians from lighting up in bars and card rooms. Hot-tempered San Jose smokers said these were...

Reform means matching a person to a job -- one at a time.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
January 3, 1998... SANTA ANA, Calif. _ The young woman cradles her well-swathed newborn and leans shyly into the tiny office. ``You help with jobs?'' she whispers. ``Yes, senora, yes,'' answers Ofelina Garcia, speaking more softly than is her...

Education is key issue in California races.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 3, 1998... From the governor's race to the state budget, education is shaping up as the political issue of 1998. The evidence is everywhere. Two Democratic candidates for governor _ Lt. Gov. Gray Davis and airline tycoon Al Checchi _ have...

Wilson's last year: for history or campaign?(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 3, 1998... SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ On Wednesday, Pete Wilson will stand in the ornate Assembly chambers and deliver his last state of the state address, officially kicking off his eighth and final year as governor. Unofficially, Wilson gives every...

Winning beauty title isn't all glamour.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 4, 1998... COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Holding the title of Miss Colorado turned out to be less glamorous than Regina Flores expected when she was crowned with a tiara and draped with a sash last June. What she found is she had joined the...

Republican efforts to fund only antiabortion candidates infuriates New Jersey leaders.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 4, 1998... A drive within the national Republican leadership to give campaign funds only to candidates who oppose so-called partial-birth abortion has infuriated New Jersey GOP leaders and backers of Gov. Whitman, who vetoed a ban on the procedure this...

Congress to tackle at least 20 major issues under deadline pressure.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ So little time, so much to do. That daunting refrain will haunt Congress this session, an election year, as members return for an abbreviated replay of many of the same issues they were unable to resolve last session. ...

Resignation endangers Middle East peace process.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 4, 1998... JERUSALEM _ An angry Foreign Minister David Levy announced his resignation Sunday in a blow that endangered the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and threatened to deep-freeze the peace process. ``I've had enough....

U.S. stresses bang for the buck in moon launch.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 4, 1998... MIAMI _ Twenty-five years after the last human stepped foot on the moon, NASA hopes to reinvigorate its lunar exploration program with Monday's launch of an unmanned probe. If all goes well, the Lunar Prospector will arrive Saturday and...

First purely scientific moon mission in 25 years.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 4, 1998... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Riding atop a solid-fueled rocket, a tiny spacecraft controlled from Mountain View, Calif., will soar into the Florida skies Monday evening on the first purely scientific mission to the moon in a quarter century. If...

AIDS' 'quagmire': balancing privacy and responsibility.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 5, 1998... MIAMI _ Seventeen years into the epidemic, certain things remain confoundingly elusive about AIDS. A sure-fire cure, of course. And a vaccine that will arrest the spread of the AIDS virus. But not all the questions...

In tests, tailless fighter jet soars beyond expectations.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 5, 1998... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Soaring over California's Mojave Desert, a tiny, remotely piloted jet has shown aeronautical researchers combat fighter planes of the 21st century can be more agile, lighter and stealthier than anything flying today _ if...

A conversation with that actor's actor, Robert DeNiro.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 5, 1998... NEW YORK _ Actors, directors and drama teachers are always pontificating on what constitutes good acting. But when you hear it from the horse's mouth, it all comes down to one thing: simplicity. Robert DeNiro, considered by some...

Biographical data on Geraldine Ferraro.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 5, 1998... Here's biographical information on former Democratic vice-presidential candidate and New York Democratic senate hopeful Geraldine Ferraro: Age: 62 Born: Aug. 26, 1935, in Newburgh, N.Y. Family: Married, husband John...

Ferraro to seek Senate seat.(Originated from KRT)
January 5, 1998... Knight Ridder Newspapers NEW YORK _ Geraldine Ferraro, who left Congress 14 years ago to become the only woman to run for vice president on behalf of a major political party, declared her candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate. ...

Nichols jury to resume deliberations Tuesday.(Originated from KRT)
January 5, 1998... Knight Ridder Newspapers DENVER _ A federal jury Tuesday will resume deliberating whether Terry Nichols deserves to die for his part in the plot to bomb Oklahoma City's federal building in 1995. The blast killed 168 people, 19 of...

Nichols knew outcome, prosecutor says.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 5, 1998... DENVER _ Terry Nichols knew what exploding fuel could do to people; he saw close up what it did to his brother. And he knew exactly what he was doing when he helped Timothy McVeigh make a bomb out of fuel oil and fertilizer, U.S....

Danger classes of hazardous materials.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... Hazardous materials that can be transported are assigned one of nine United Nations classes ranked by relative danger. Class 1: Explosives. Class 2: Gases. Class 3: Flammable liquids. Class 4: Flammable solids. ...

Kaczynski trial opening dissolves into chaos.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... SACRAMENTO _ The opening day of trial for Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski dissolved into chaos Monday when he stunned the packed courtroom by ignoring his sobbing mother and brother, demanding to read a statement to the judge and...

Radar failure delays Lunar Prospector launch.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... After months of delay, the first scientific mission to the moon in 25 years hit another snag Monday night as a failure in tracking radar delayed the launch from a Florida spaceport until Tuesday night. The Lunar Prospector spacecraft...

A country left behind: Tension is building between Vietnam's poverty, its people's desires and its government's resistance to change.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... SAPA, Vietnam _ A withered farmer revealed a modest change in her life, the kind of small event planners and bankers back in the capital of Hanoi would trumpet as proof of economic reform. Each family in her rural village received $50 to...

Firsthand look says volumes.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
January 6, 1998... We had a fight in the spa, three gray-heads warring with words about the present state of the public schools. I was the lone defender. My opponents shocked me with their condemnation of today's children and teachers. Instead of tender...

Health care: not just a market commodity.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... Surrender what should be a crucial social function completely to the bloodless rigors of the marketplace, and don't be surprised at the disagreeable consequences, especially when the social function is health care. In the aftermath of...

Government makes emergency plans in case of trouble with spent nuclear fuel, but it's not enough for some people.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... CONCORD, Calif. _ Minutes after a train carrying spent nuclear fuel rods pulls out of the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a fiery explosion tears apart the locomotive. Flatbed rail cars loaded with 62,000-pound stainless steel casks _...

Environmental myths of 1997.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 6, 1998... KRT FORUM By S. Fred Singer It's been a great year but not a hot one. (According to weather satellite data, 1997 ranked well below the average of the last two decades.) Lots of environmental scares without scientific foundation,...

Why the holidays were really happy for Uncle Sam.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
January 6, 1998... By Anita Sheth Bridge News WASHINGTON _ If there's one Christmas gift every child remembers, it's his or her first bicycle. Mom and Dad usually remember it, too, because the bicycle is often the most expensive gift given. This...

U.S. troops' vaccination against biological weapons is unnecessary.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 6, 1998... KRT FORUM By Jesse Emspak The Pentagon's recent decision to vaccinate soldiers against anthrax is a more than just a reaction to an improbable weapon. It's an attempt to justify keeping troops in a place where they have no...

Highlights of Clinton's Medicare proposal.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Here are highlights from President Clinton's Medicare proposal, which probably will face challenges in the Republican-led Congress: _Americans age 62 through 64 could buy into Medicare by paying a premium of about $300 a...

Best-selling author a symbol of Africa's troubled past.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... HARARE, Zimbabwe _ At a bustling roadside shopping center, it's easy to spot Ian Smith signing copies of his best-selling memoir. He's where the white people are. In a nation that is 99 percent black, a steady stream of whites,...

Don Sutton was a model of consistency.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ He won 20 games in a season only once. On the other hand, he won at least 14 games each season from 1969 through 1978. He never won the Cy Young Award. Before his career was over, though, he won 324 games and...

Tips for staying safe on the ski slopes.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... Some tips for safe skiing, from the National Ski Areas Association and Gary Brazina, a Beverly Hills, Calif., sports-medicine specialist: _Start getting in shape early, beginning exercises four to six weeks before the ski trip. ...

Sonny Bono, Michael Kennedy fit the profile of skier most likely to die.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy both were good skiers and had spent years swooshing safely down the slopes where, within the last week, both slammed into trees and died. Surely, the deaths must be a freak of fate. In fact,...

Clinton unveils plan to allow older adults to join Medicare by paying premiums themselves.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ President Clinton's proposal to expand Medicare to more older adults would help only a fraction of uninsured Americans from the ages of 55 through 64. Clinton formally announced the plan at a White House ceremony Tuesday,...

Sonny wasn't just a second-rate singer once married to Cher.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... Sonny Bono was the short guy with the bad Beatles 'do who stood next to the long-legged, belly-button-displaying Cher _ who, of course, had all the talent and left him so she could hang around with REAL rock stars and become a one-woman...

Bono suprisingly a star as Republican fund-raiser.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The flag atop the U.S. Capitol was draped at half-staff Tuesday in tribute to Sonny Bono, an entertainer-turned-congressman whose quirky, self-deprecating humor made him a surprising star in the stuffy world of Washington...

Sonny Bono: Not a stellar talent but maker of a few lasting treasures.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
January 6, 1998... His first solo record in 1965 tells most of the the story: ``Laugh At Me.'' He disliked it at first, but he soon wanted you to do just that. The ballad was partly about not being allowed entrance to a posh Hollywood restaurant because...

Skiing less a risk than climbing out of the bathtub.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
January 6, 1998... PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ Skiing is risky business, but so is getting in and out of your bathtub every morning. Skiing is dangerous, but so is riding your 21-speed along a bike path. And skiing can get you killed, but so can taking your...

Sorry, Tiger Woods, it won't be any easier this year.(Originated from Orange County Register)
January 6, 1998... CARLSBAD, Calif. _ He sat in the same room, practically in the same chair, as a year ago, looking less wide-eyed and more self-assured this time, less frantic and more relaxed, talking like some confident PGA veteran who knows what is in...

Nichols' jury deliberations longer than McVeigh's.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... DENVER _ The jury deciding whether Terry Nichols should live or die for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing passed the number of hours Tuesday that another jury took in June to sentence fellow conspirator Timothy McVeigh to death. ...

Injuries from dog bites affected 4.5 million Americans last year, study says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 6, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ Jonathan Silver was walking home from the bus stop last October when a neighbor's 40-pound dog knocked him to the ground and bit him so many times that he needed 10 stitches. Today the 8-year-old Cherry Hill boy refuses...

Lunar Prospector heads toward the moon.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Although no humans were aboard, a powerful rocket carried human technology and curiosity back toward the moon Tuesday night. The Lunar Prospector, part of NASA's ``quicker, better, cheaper'' exploration program, blasted...

Skiing industry may soon find itself the target of new safety regulations.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 6, 1998... Before long, the hottest accessory on the ski slopes will be a helmet. Even before the deaths of Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono _ both of whom died by skiing into trees and suffering severe head trauma _ resorts were seeing more skiers...

Residents of Palm Springs mourn the death of Sonny Bono.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 6, 1998... PALM SPRINGS, Calif. _ Retirees took their regular morning walks. Tourists toting cameras browsed the boutiques for T-shirts and postcards as usual. But Tuesday, many of those walking along the palm-lined main strip of this monied resort town...

More than a joker: a sharp, admired politician.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 6, 1998... Sonny Bono was a rare breed: a politician who didn't take himself _ or his colleagues _ too seriously. Best known as Cher's hapless straight man, Bono was never the fool he played. He was prone to the goofy remark. Asked once...

ULYSSES S. GRANT: Soldier and President, by Geoffrey Perret; Random House (478 pages, $35).(Originated from The Orange County Register)
January 7, 1998... Poor U.S. Grant. He is remembered _ when he is remembered at all _ as a drunkard in civilian life, a butcher in battle and a conniver in the White House. Yet those two shrewd judges of character, Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain,...

THE PHOTO BOOK; Phaidon Press (500 pages, $39.95).(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 7, 1998... Who considers his picture of erstwhile Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, captured in mid-sneeze, to be his most famous photograph? How did Philippe Halsman manage to catch on film three cats, a chair, a foot stool, two paintings, an...

Robert De Niro: Master of many roles, man of few words.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... NEW YORK _ This is how inexpressive Robert De Niro is: The actor walks into a Manhattan hotel suite, apologizing for being 45 minutes late. ``Was the traffic bad?'' you ask casually, as a way to start the conversation. But De...

Focused, intense, Dustin Hoffman adjusts to Hollywood's 'shift'.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... (KRT NEW YORK _ ``Get ready,'' the smiling publicist standing outside Dustin Hoffman's hotel room warns. ``He's in a talkative mood.'' She is not exaggerating. On this cold wintry morning in Manhattan, Hoffman more than lives up...

Don't understand global warming situation? Wait a minute; it'll change.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... Just about the time that I thought I was making some headway in sorting through the conflicting assertions about global warming, another scientist has injected yet another confusing dimension to ratchet up the anxiety level. It wasn't...

Schools debate showcases why blacks can't 'get over it'; actions define heroes, regardless of skin color.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... ``What's in a name?'' the bard of Stratford-on-Avon once famously asked. ``That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'' Which only proves that Shakespeare knew more about horticulture than civic affairs and...

Sonny Bono struggled with lightweight image.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Sonny Bono was like those smiley-face magnets on a refrigerator door. He was a 1960s hippie cartoon, a leftover joke from television's golden nights, a Hollywood clown who became ``Mr. Klutz Goes to Washington.'' ...

Scientists find fossil of fish with 'fingers,' which may be one of our distant ancestors.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... From a pile of boulders thrown near the side of a road in north-central Pennsylvania, two Philadelphia scientists have found a bizarre fossil they believe belonged to a fish with eight ``fingers'' inside its fins, able to propel itself...

Nichols' jury turns penalty over to judge.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... DENVER _ A jury that was able to agree that Michigan native Terry Nichols was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing could not decide how involved _ and that's where deliberations on his punishment fell apart. The jury, still at an...

Nichols won't get death sentence.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... DENVER _ Terry Nichols will live. A frustrated federal jury, unable to agree that Nichols deserved either the death penalty or life in prison for his part in planning the Oklahoma City bombing, Wednesday kicked the decision to U.S....

To safely enjoy the sport, skiers are advised to adhere to key rules.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... Use proper equipment. Have your ski or snowboard bindings adjusted correctly. Drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration. Curb alcohol consumption. Wear layered clothing that is water and wind-resistant. Always...

HOGARTH: A Life and a World, by Jenny Uglow; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (794 pages, $45).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspaper)
January 7, 1998... William Hogarth was to 18th-century painting and graphic art what two other brilliant satirists of his time, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, were to literature. He was not only an innovator; he was also an artist who spoke a language that...

WHERE SHE CAME FROM: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History, by Helen Epstein; Little, Brown (309 pages, $24.95).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... ``Children of the Holocaust,'' Helen Epstein's best-known book, identified her as both a child of Holocaust survivors and an expert on such children. But this is just one aspect of Epstein's heritage: She is also descended from at...

Korean War veteran establishes archives of 'Forgotten War'.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Paul Edwards laments the Korean War's place in history as the ``Forgotten War.'' The three-year war killed more than 54,000 American troops. It gave Harry S. Truman's presidency a black eye. And 44 years after...

In death, a gift of life.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... Lisa Reardon Rouillard was sitting down to dinner with her family last month when the news came on. The lead story was horrific: A 14-year-old boy had opened fire on fellow students in a small town in Kentucky. Several children had been shot....

Islamic college students enjoy togetherness during Ramadan.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ It's 4 a.m. Most college students are nestled in their rooms, cramming some sleep into their systems in time for their early-morning classes. But Farid Sanders, a junior at Drexel University, is quietly crunching away at a bowl...

Those little white lies really add up.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... You're faced with a choice between telling a ``little white lie'' and thereby possibly getting the job you've always wanted, or telling the truth and probably being denied the job. What do you do? If you immediately say you...

Racism is a missing page in textbooks.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 7, 1998... KRT FORUM (AT-RISK) By Bob Peterson As students across the United States return to school after winter break, there is one topic many of them will not discuss: race. President Clinton might want a national conversation on the...

A wanted child.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 7, 1998... KRT FORUM (AT-RISK) By Gina R. Dalfonzo Twenty-five years ago, there was a pregnant woman in Kentucky in very bad circumstances. She had three neglected children already and no money, and it is believed that she had a drinking...

Do the Lord's work outside of church.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 7, 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 Caroline Brewer Is there anything in America enjoying a...

Lawrence Livermore Labs find new life testing lasers for missile defense.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... LIVERMORE, Calif. _ It's not Star Wars, but Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is blazing back into missile defense. In the 1980s, led by Edward Teller, the lab championed an ill-fated national shield of nuclear-bomb-powered X-ray lasers to...

Energy-saving technologies at center stage following global warming conference.(Originated from alone)
January 7, 1998... By Robert S. Boyd Knight-Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON _ Barrel-size power plants that can generate electricity in a basement. Alfalfa stems turned into gas and burned to produce energy. Carbon dioxide buried under the ocean...

Turning disability into computer ability.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... Rehabilitation engineer Michael G. Fiore suited up for battle. The familiar beeps of Pong, the classic computer table-tennis game, started to sound as he moved the paddle up and down, making contact with the ball. A pretty...

Assistive technology resources and suppliers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... The Sierra Group Inc. King of Prussia 610-992-0288 Alliance for Technology Access San Rafael, Calif. http://www.ataccess.org 415-455-4575 Apple Disability Solutions Group Cupertino, Calif....

Solar energy could help U.S. meet requirements of global warming treaty.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
January 7, 1998... WASHINGTON _ If limiting global warming requires a marriage of big ideas and small technologies, then a cloistral office here equipped with little more than a personal computer, a laptop and metal government-issue bookcase is a no-frills...

Death penalty and the woman.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
January 8, 1998... WASHINGTON _ You might not like the death penalty _ I am a little ambivalent about it myself _ but you have to admit that, here in America, it gives us plenty of material to ponder. In less civilized corners of the globe, capital...

A legacy for Clinton.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 8, 1998... KRT FORUM By Robert Moffit Pressure is coming from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to fix the Social Security System. President Clinton is thinking about a special session of Congress, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich is...

The injustice against Microsoft.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
January 8, 1998... KRT FORUM By Richard M. Salsman Imagine a company that continually generates exceptional products. Suppose it makes such products available in ever-improved versions, at ever-lower prices. Suppose that the superiority of its...