Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from July 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from July 1998

Be wary of hype on vitamin supplements protecting against cancer.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
July 31, 1998... Q. Can taking vitamin supplements protect against cancer? _RF, New Orleans, La. A. Nutritional supplementation may play a role in protection against cancer, and we'll get to that in a minute. But don't believe all the hype you read....

California school test scores are a contest, indeed.(Originated from KRT CALIFORNIA)
July 30, 1998... By Teresa Mariani Knight Ridder Newspapers SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. _ Admit it: you want to know as much as I do just how all the schools stacked up on the SAT 9 tests. Those are the test scores the state Department of...

Airline alters pet travel policies after animals die in hot cargo holds.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 30, 1998... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Mike Cain wants to warn families traveling with pets during this scorching heat wave: If you can't take them with you in the plane's cabin, leave them at home. He speaks from painful experience as airlines put...

Yikes! A better mouse.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
July 29, 1998... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, 7-28: If it wanted a good reason to slow down the march toward human cloning, Congress now has one. Biologists in Hawaii announced the other day that they have produced...

Parents can make food safety easier for children.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 28, 1998... Here are some ideas for making your kitchen a safer place for kids to handle food. Use squeeze bottles for as many sandwich foods as possible: ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, honey, jelly _ even peanut butter. The spout curbs any...

Battered by El Nino, South American sea lions and seals succumb to hunger.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 28, 1998... PARACAS, Peru _ From Chile to Ecuador, the warm waters of El Nino reaped a dreadful harvest of Pacific sea lions and seals. Thousands of southern sea lions and South American fur seals are believed to have perished in Peru alone,...

Suspect in Capitol shootings charged with murder.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 25, 1998... WASHINGTON _ As U.S. flags flew at half-staff and a somber air of violation sank on the nation's capitol, Russell E. Weston, Jr., a former mental patient who blasted his way into the U.S. Capitol Friday with a handgun, was charged with...

'Disposable' marriages hurt families, society.(Originated from)
July 24, 1998... By Leonard Pitts Jr. Knight Ridder Newspapers Larry's been married a few times, had several other long-term relationships. The final tally: seven children by five mothers. As he surveyed his years of going from this...

Photos blurry from red-light cameras, but adjustments are under way.(Originated from KRT SOUTH)
July 24, 1998... By Dianne Whitacre Knight Ridder Newspapers CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Candidly speaking, Charlotte's nifty red-light cameras aren't working so well. So far, only a third of the pictures taken of cars running reds at selected...

Child has a prestigious name.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 22, 1998... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ When Veronica McCall wasn't sure the son she was carrying would live, she had a thought: Why do some of us hold buildings, jobs, titles and material things in such high regard? Why shouldn't we honor people instead?...

Alan Shepard, first American in space, dies at 74.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 22, 1998... Destiny waited and waited. Astronaut Alan Shepard fidgeted in the untested contraption he named Friendship 7. ``Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle,'' he growled. Finally, light it they did. Shepard flew for...

We're in fat city.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
July 21, 1998... Weeks ago, I was working my way through a package of Oreos when I spotted a story in the paper: WE'RE EATING, LOUNGING OUR WAY TO NATION OF OBESITY, EXPERTS SAY. There is nothing like a bit of health news to turn feast into funeral. ...

How U.S. 'justice' mimics Cuba's.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 21, 1998... Were these any other long-term prisoners, human-rights demonstrators would clog the streets curb to curb, day and night, in front of the White House, the Capitol and the Supreme Court. After all, what believer in the Bill of Rights...

A Hollywood trek through America's favorite romantic adventure movie.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 20, 1998... LOS ANGELES _ Life is cheap in this town where the desert bleeds into the sea. A tide of refugees fills crowded shadows; many will do anything _ even kill _ to make good their escape. And that requires the right identification papers. ...

Cyber-blanca.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 20, 1998... Of course there are Web sites all about ``Casablanca'' _ the movie, the stars... the works. Among them: Vincent's Casablanca Page _ users.aol.com/VRV1/index.html _ is the niftiest. Besides the movie's songs and a ``Casablanca'' chat...

Skunks are losing the Yoplait battle.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 20, 1998... Your breakfast is killing Pepe Le Pew. Not the waffles or the orange juice. The yogurt. Actually the Yoplait yogurt container. In a growing crusade that is nipping at the heels of a multibillion-dollar dairy giant,...

Tomorrow hurts big time if you're stuck in yesterday.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 20, 1998... The General Motors strike seems to offer caricatures to comfort every viewpoint: plutocrats trying to break the noble workers of Flint, fat union bosses standing in the way of progress, the Rust Belt beset by unfair competition from abroad....

Swiss pursue links to drug money.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 15, 1998... Swiss prosecutors looking into more than $130 million in suspected drug deposits in Swiss banks have stumbled into a political minefield _ claims by their witnesses that former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari received drug...

These foods are as American as red, white and blue.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 13, 1998... Whether they originated in the States or if we've just made them our own, some foods are as American as red, white and blue. Many are associated with summertime, and they are eaten at ballgames, picnics and cookouts. Here's a...

Test your hot dog and hamburger knowledge, then try one of these recipes:.(Originated from Buffalo Wing Burger)
July 13, 1998... Denver Mile High Taco Burger San Francisco Golden Gate Burger Knight Ridder Newspapers Test your hot dog and hamburger knowledge by answering these questions. Then try one of the recipes developed by kid chef...

NAFTA opponents sue U.S. to declare agreement void.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 13, 1998... The North American Free Trade Agreement is unconstitutional, the United Steelworkers of America and the Made in the USA Foundation charged Monday, in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. The lawsuit was the latest salvo by...

Harvard grad wins Ecuador election. (Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 12, 1998... QUITO, Ecuador _ With one eye cocked on the World Cup soccer finals, Ecuadoreans went to the polls Sunday and elected a Harvard-educated former mayor of Quito as their next president, a flash exit poll showed. Jamil Mahuad swept to...

Colombia's president-elect holds historic meeting with guerrilla commanders.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 11, 1998... At dawn Thursday, a van with tinted windows drove into the underground garage of an apartment building in the Los Rosales section of Bogota. At the wheel was Victor Ricardo, Colombia's former ambassador to Argentina. The building is...

Journalism could become a lot more dangerous in Panama.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
July 10, 1998... The following editorial appeared this week in the Miami Herald: Journalists, watch out: You may get into real trouble with the law in Panama if you insult animals or plants. We're not kidding. Article 199 of a proposed new...

During dog days of summer, think of others in need.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 8, 1998... You've heard how everything slows down in the summer, how the living is supposedly easy. Tell that to those who struggle every day _ in summer, fall, winter and spring _ to get help. The truth is, life for lots of folks is not a...

Republic films directed by William Witney show a tougher side of Roy Rogers.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 8, 1998... Contrary to popular image, Roy Rogers did not spend his entire screen career in flowery shirts, strumming a guitar and singing to his horse. The particular films responsible for that image cover only about three of his 14 years spent...

Bike trails open up Wisconsin's best.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 7, 1998... In the middle of southern Wisconsin farmland, there's a mystery that rivals those of the Mayans and Anasazi. Riding along the 47-mile Glacial Drumlin State Trail west of Jefferson, I stopped on a bridge over the placid Crawfish River...

Be wary of human, financial cost of dog bites.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
July 2, 1998... One million people each year require medical attention because of dog attacks. It's believed that several million more bites go unreported. A dozen people a year die from attacks, and children account for 60 percent of the victims....

Police action is not befitting of our nation.(Originated from FOR LEONARD PITTS SUBSCRIBERS ONLY) (Editors, if you see this column)
July 2, 1998... on KRT and have not signed up as a PITTS subscriber, you must call Doug Page at Tribune Media Services _ 1-800-245-6536 _ to buy rights to use it.) (AT-RISK) By Leonard Pitts Knight Ridder Newspapers Two weeks ago,...