Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from March 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from March 1998

Where to look for El Nino info.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 1, 1998... Want to know the history of El Nino? How about an animated slide show of the most talked-about climate events of the decade? Want to see how satellites track the movement of the phenomenon, or why it matters at all? All of...

New documents show troops got no warning about chemical weapons.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 1, 1998... U.S. troops who unknowingly blew up hundreds of Iraqi rockets filled with deadly nerve agents after the Persian Gulf War should have been alerted to the danger, recently declassified documents show. But the word never got passed before...

Black athletes of 1960s chide today's stars for lack of activism.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 1, 1998... FORT WORTH __ At one time, Muhammad Ali was the most recognized athlete in the world. And there was no middle ground when it came to Ali. You either liked him or hated him, but whatever side you ended up on, you knew one thing: Ali was a man...

Six-month hike along the Appalachian Trail is a journey of discovery.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... I don't know exactly where it will come from, what I am about to write. But I am fairly certain it will not come from any conscious thoughts I may have right now. I think instead it will come from places like my feet. Tired, aching...

Viewing fraternity life from the three-B perspective.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at Northwestern University, like most fraternities, thrives on a stunning and maniacal commitment to the three B's: booze, babes and brotherhood. It's assumed, and generally celebrated as a guiding...

Cattle ranchers should have known: Oprah just doesn't lose.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... In a country short of heroes, Oprah is as good as it gets. A plug on her talk show turns an unknown book into a best-seller overnight. She launches a new exercise routine, and thousands adopt it. Oprah Winfrey doesn't lose. ...

African-American gays charting an increasingly public course.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA _ It would not be inaccurate to describe Michael Hinson as a gay, African-American male. But that does not mean he'd like it. ``A white person might say, `I am a gay, white male,' but sexual minorities of color will...

Artists' images of nudist families at center of new chapter in porn wars.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... Is it art or is it porn? In America, it seems, only a jury knows for sure. In Alabama last month, authorities decided it was time to ask the question again. The state attorney general announced that he had brought felony obscenity...

America's foreign policy of self-abnegation.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... KRT FORUM By Robert W. Tracinski After months of diplomatic hand-wringing, followed by a transient, tentative threat of war, President Clinton has now accepted the U.N.'s alleged ``resolution'' of the crisis in Iraq. This...

Fatigue costs billions in lost productivity, law suits, fatalities.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ In a decrepit concrete block Army building on a rundown campus just outside the nation's capital, scientists are diligently researching the next great frontier in national security: Sleep. In the U.S. military, going...

Zhu Rongji the man to watch in China.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... BEIJING _ His fans say he is the only person who can handle China's unwieldy economy. His enemies, rumor has it, want him dead for canceling their pet projects and cutting off their easy loans. Opinions about Zhu Rongji run hot and cold, but...

Fading fragments of American history attracting attention.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Its seams are tattered and its colors soiled, yet even in the murky museum light, the flag that inspired ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' has a special glow. But that glow is beginning to dim. Dust, light, heat, humidity...

National treasures in need of repair.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Here are some the national treasures that have been identified by federal officials as being at risk: STAR SPANGLED BANNER _ Development of a conservation laboratory, removal, cleaning and reinstallation of the four- story...

Vernon Jordan to testify Tuesday.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is steering his Monica Lewinsky investigation back to allegations of White House sex and lies, calling longtime presidential confidant Vernon Jordan to testify Tuesday before a federal grand...

Ban trampolines from backyards, doctors urge.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... Decrying an ``epidemic'' of broken legs, shattered arms and banged-up heads, a top medical journal is calling for a far-reaching ban on trampolines and urging parents to banish them from their back yards. A study appearing in the March...

When we see senseless violence at sporting events on front page, it tells us that the back burner is full.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... PHILADELPHIA __ The photograph of Anthony Davis, sprawled and dying, was not something we like to see, but it's something we'd better take a hard look at. The photo, which appeared above the fold on the front page of Monday's Inquirer,...

Get tough on schools, Californians say.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Californians are extremely dissatisfied with the state of public education, and they are ready for Sacramento to get tough with schools, even if it means putting more control in the hands of the state. That's the...

Drivers go online to learn rules of the road.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... SAN MATEO, Calif. _ Forget about enduring a Saturday of wannabe-comic instructors and the adult-detention class ambience of traffic school. Instead, just click your computer mouse on a commercial web page, brush up on traffic laws,...

No proof that smoking causes disease, tobacco chief says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... ST. PAUL, Minn. _ The head of Philip Morris Cos. admitted Monday the company can't find a way to remove known cancer-causing agents from cigarettes, but he steadfastly maintained that nobody can prove smoking causes disease. In his...

Scouts discriminated against gay troop leader, New Jersey Court rules.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 2, 1998... TRENTON, N.J. _ The Boy Scouts of America discriminated against a gay scout leader when they kicked him out of a New Jersey troop in 1990, a state court ruled Monday, delivering the nation's first major legal defeat of the organization's ban...

Mayo Clinic trying to cure golfers' yips.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... ST. PAUL __ There was a time when Carson Herron would have swallowed live worms if he thought it would have helped. For 15 years, Herron suffered from the yips, an affliction faced by thousands of golfers, making average players quit,...

MS and all, she embraces a loving attitude.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
March 3, 1998... She signs her letters ``The Hug Therapist.'' Forever affectionate, Becky Vulgares of Oakland, Calif., grew up in a family of huggers. ``It may be my Greek heritage,'' she says, ``but I never knew a time when a hug wasn't the...

February is over and so is Black History Month.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... It's now March, and that ``whew'' sound you hear is the huge sigh of relief being heaved by countless people. February is over and so is Black History Month. Somehow setting aside a month specifically to honor black historical figures...

In time for gay boomers on verge of retirement, developers work on plans for special communities.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... SAN FRANCISCO _ Peter Lundberg's vision for a Bay Area retirement mecca would boast many of the niceties of a Sun City resort. As many as 500 older residents would stroll hand-in-hand along its extensive walkways past shops, a central...

New Haven schools offer a lesson in curbing violence.(Originated from The Providence Journal-Bulletin)
March 3, 1998... NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ While seated behind a bookshelf in the school library, you hear a student who you thought was your friend spreading lies about you. How do you solve this problem? That's the question pupils in Fran Pierson's...

Stephen Covey built an empire teaching business people to be more successful; now he's applying his principles to families.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
March 3, 1998... Stephen Covey has built an empire teaching business people to be more successful. Now he's applying his principles to family life in his newest book, ``The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.'' Will parents buy into the seven habits...

Maneuvers continue for Virginia-based Normandy.(Originated from KRT SOUTH)
March 3, 1998... By Jack Dorsey The Virginian-Pilot ABOARD THE CRUISER NORMANDY _ In the night, all night, the jets are overhead. They lean into tight corners over this Norfolk-based cruiser, engines undulating between whistles and...

Too many concealed handgun license holders also committing crimes.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 3, 1998... KRT FORUM By Susan Glick Concealed handgun license holders rarely stop crimes, but all too many of them commit them. Consider the case of Diane James. On April 28, 1997, James was arrested by Seguin, Texas, police in the...

Two haunting audio books about Soviet Russia evoke strong feelings.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... I recommended ``Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life'' by Victor Herman (Blackstone Audiobooks, 800-729-2665, unabridged in 10 cassettes, purchase $69.95, rental $13.95) to a friend. It not only hooked her for life on spoken books, but...

Courts reach out to mentally ill: New system seeks alternatives to jail.(Originated from KRT SOUTH)
March 3, 1998... By Sabrina L. Miller Knight Ridder Newspapers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ For more than six months, Howard Westlake was stuck in a revolving door that took him in and out of Florida's Broward County Jail on a host of misdemeanor...

Fisherman says we're eating fish before they can spawn, and we must stop.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... MONTEREY, Calif. _ Bradford Matsen still goes fishing, and he still eats fish. But, Matsen says, ``I wouldn't put a piece of swordfish in my mouth.'' The author of a new book, ``Faces of Fishing: People, Food and the Sea at the...

Why U.S. students aren't doing as well as their peers internationally is obvious -- weak middle school curriculum.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... Don't know much geometry. Don't know much trigonometry. Don't know much from the science book. Don't know much about physics I took. Or something like that. But I do know that the United States isn't going to be...

Purim, festive Jewish holiday, holds special meaning for baker.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... Sue Roseman owes her career, in part, to events that took place almost 2,500 years ago in ancient Persia. That's when Purim began. This year it falls on March 12. There are exchanges of gifts among family and gifts to the poor,...

Vernon Jordan holds key to Clinton sex scandal.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Once they shared a golf cart, laughing at each other's errant shots. Or they had dinner together, gabbed on the phone, kept no secrets. In a city of edgy, fragile friendships, the President and the Superlawyer were best...

What it can cost to work at home.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... Working at home saves money on clothing, gas, restaurant meals and time. But it has its costs, both emotional and financial. Computer: Pentium 233 megahertz with 4-gigabyte hard drive, 32 megabytes random-access memory, 56K...

Tips on how to make a home office a better place to work.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... Following are tips from experts and home-based workers for making a home office a productive, pleasant place to work: _Privacy is paramount. When I asked Mark Anthony to critique my home-office setup, his first question was: ``Do you...

Home-based workers need more flexibility, tech knowledge to succeed.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... I've had a computer stuck in the corner of a spare bedroom at home for years, not caring that it faced the wall or that the chair wasn't ergonomically adjusted for my back. But when the room became a home office two months ago, suddenly my...

Writing a business plan important first step for new business.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Until trouble strikes, an entrepreneur may look on a business plan as the best thing he never did. But when the day of reckoning arrives, research by the U.S. Small Business Administration shows that failing to do a...

What should be included in a business plan.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... A solid business plan answers key questions about a startup venture and the entrepreneur launching it. With the right information, a plan should satisfy a bank or other lender that the venture is worth pursuing despite the risk it...

'Good' school bares heavy burden: Despite praise, Killian High's woes persist.(Originated from KRT SOUTH< (AT-RISK)
March 3, 1998... By Sabrina Walters Knight Ridder Newspapers MIAMI _ Many are children of doctors, lawyers and other professionals of some of the most prominent families in Miami-Dade County. They have grown up in homes where academic excellence...

Alarming increase in infectious diseases, surgeon general warns.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ There is an alarming increase in infectious diseases in America, fueled in part by the easy flow of food and people around the world, newly appointed Surgeon General David Satcher warned Tuesday. The United States death...

Congress appears eager to strike a deal with tobacco companies.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The realization that the First Amendment protects the right of tobacco companies to advertise may drive even the most anti-tobacco members of Congress to strike a deal with the industry. Keeping alluring tobacco ads from...

Clinton calls for stricter blood-alcohol standard for drunken driving.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ In a move pitting personal freedom and states' rights against public safety and national rules, President Clinton called Tuesday for Congress to mandate a stricter blood-alcohol standard for drunken driving than 35 states now...

In 1997, pioneer Larry Doby said he was not a forgotten man.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 3, 1998... Some have said that the name ``Larry Doby'' was lost in all of the spring-time hoopla of 1997, what, with the immensely successful groundswell of massive celebration and tribute honoring the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the...

Larry Doby's selection to Hall of Fame long overdue.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... How can you put a number on Larry Doby? How can you say Doby didn't hit enough home runs, or his bat ting average wasn't high enough to qualify him for the Hall of Fame? How do you measure a pioneer? You look at the ground...

Jordan stands by his man in grand jury testimony.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ If there was any thought Vernon Jordan would harm President Clinton with his grand jury testimony about Monica Lewinsky on Tuesday, the lawyer and presidential confidant sent the White House strong words of reassurance. ...

Debate over Puerto Rico's language will be primary as Congress considers island's future.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ At the Luis Munoz Rivera Elementary School, teacher Janet Ferrer asks her students _ in English _ to cover their eyes for a moment, as a way of explaining what happens during a solar eclipse. Only one boy among...

Humanitarian workers, observers silenced, ordered to leave by government in post-massacre Chiapas.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... ACTEAL, Mexico _ In the weeks following the massacre of 45 residents in this mountain hamlet of Chiapas, Mexico's troubled southern state, some humanitarian workers and observers from Europe and the United States turned into activists. ...

Philip Morris CEO says he's 'sorry' about studies of youth smoking habits.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 3, 1998... ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Confronted by documents from his own company's files, Philip Morris Chairman Geoffrey C. Bible on Tuesday said he was ashamed that the nation's leading cigarette maker studied the smoking habits of children. In his...

Three recent books explore origin of universe.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... ``How did it all begin?'' people have asked since.... well, since it all began. Three recent books interpret modern scientific answers about origins in terms of ancient myth, the biblical account and New Age-tinged philosophy. ...

Our indulgences explain who we are. (Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... The only people more annoying than thin ones who complain they're fat are rich ones who whine they're broke. That's what I first thought when I heard that parenting guru Dr. Benjamin Spock needs money. He's 94 and sick. His wife...

Family faces its unresolved feelings.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... Kayce Hendricks of Charlotte, N.C., never knew her uncle Stan. She's only 17. He died in Vietnam long before she got the chance to laugh at his jokes or listen to his stories of being a high school football star in Liberty, S.C. All...

Larry Doby the first South Carolinian elected to baseball Hall of Fame.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... COLUMBIA, S.C. __ Camden native Larry Doby's long-awaited election Tuesday to baseball's Hall of Fame makes him the first South Carolinian so honored. A panel of Doby's peers, known as the Veterans' Committee, voted to admit him to...

LIKE MEN OF WAR: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865, by Noah Andre Trudeau; Little, Brown (548 pages, $29.95) (AT-RISK) By Mark Wahlgren Summers Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) In his trilogy about the last year of the Civil War, Noah Trudeau,.(Originated from a producer for National Public Radio, took thousands of readers down)
March 4, 1998... ``Bloody Roads South'' _ and beyond. Now in ``Like Men of War,'' this prize-winning historian of the carnage at Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Petersburg takes readers on a journey into a different country, the battlefields where black...

I know I was loved from the start.(Originated from The Gazette)
March 4, 1998... They left Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. They left the strangling arms of Jim Crow. The pointed labors of sharecropping. They left endless fields for endless city concrete. The North might not have been all they...

Yanni, the world's most loved and loathed music figure, is back.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
March 4, 1998... To paraphrase an overworked claim used for another, far greater pop icon, 50 million Yanni fans can't be wrong. Can they? He is, to many, a musical god. (``A musical messiah,'' many fans and critics abroad exclaimed recently...

'Walking' wheelchair within Penn's grasp.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... A child in a wheelchair approaches a building, perhaps the home of a friend. A single concrete step stands between her and the door. There is no curb cut, no ramp, and she lacks the strength and coordination to wheel the chair up the step the...

When it comes to race relations, stop the linguistic bait and switch.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 4, 1998... KRT FORUM (AT-RISK) By Peter Bell President Clinton seems determined to have a national conversation regarding race. Unfortunately, he appointed a commission that has, until very recently, been leading us in a national monologue...

False promise of 'regionalism' threatens U.S. suburbs.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
March 4, 1998... By Jesse Walker Bridge News WASHINGTON _ A new movement is afoot, spreading buzzwords through America's think tanks and city halls. ``Regionalism'' is its name. The world is entering a new era, or so this theory goes, and...

The Grammys finally recognize a true hero of our time.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 4, 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 Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. The Grammy Awards last week...

THE LAST APOCALYPSE: Europe at the Year 1000 AD, by James Reston Jr.; Doubleday (299 pages, $24.95.).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... The last time our world crossed the threshold of a new millennium, hardly anyone knew that it was time to celebrate. Most of the world did not use the Christian calendar _ and most Christians could not have read a calendar, even if they were...

THE CHILDREN, by David Halberstam; Random (745 pages, $29.95).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... There are books, and there are tomes. Books are to be read. Tomes are the books you buy and feel guilty over not reading. Indeed ``tome'' does not begin to convey the torpor-inducing weight of this book. It is more like a huge, paper ingot....

ECCENTRIC NEIGHBORHOODS, by Rosario Ferre; Farrar Straus & Giroux (340 pages, $24.).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... ``Mother's passing had made possible for me what she had wanted for herself when she was young: a career that would lead to self-respect and economic independence,'' concludes Elvira Vernet, the narrator of Rosario Ferre's new novel, a...

Armenia, once a Soviet garden spot, seems to have squandered its promise.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh _ There is no heat, no electricity and no running water at the Armenian refugee hostel here, but residents can occasionally catch a glimpse of light at the end of the long, gloomy corridors. An Azeri bomb sliced...

More than 2 million elderly must pay more than half their income for medical expenses, study finds.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Medicare is failing millions of Americans over the age of 65, forcing some to dole out over half of their yearly income for out-of-pocket medical expenses, a study released Wednesday said. The research, done by the Public...

Even affluent areas can't escape increasing drug use among teens.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... PLANO, Texas _ Moms, home from work, power walk down winding sidewalks, squeezing in some exercise before the sun sets, their ears covered by stereo headphones and their hand weights churning. Dads, headed home, weave past smoked-glass...

Fly-fisherman Cathy Beck rose in the ranks; now shares her technique.(Originated from The Providence Journal-Bulletin)
March 4, 1998... In 18 years, Cathy Beck has risen from a beginning caster to the leading lady of American fly-fishing. She has taught hundreds of beginners _ more and more of them women _ how to master the sport. This week, she is coming to Providence...

Sexual-harassment laws cover same-sex incidents, Supreme Court rules.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Sexual harassment on the job may be illegal even when men torment men and women abuse women, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday. Until now, it had been unclear whether federal civil-rights law, which has barred...

Denny's says restaurant manager did not discriminate.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... MIAMI _ A Denny's manager who locked customers out of a Miami-Dade restaurant in early January did not discriminate against them because of race, an internal company investigation released Wednesday has found. However, Denny's said the...

Don Hewitt and Andy Rooney remember their old CBS boss Fred Friendly.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... In a business defined by pictures, Fred Friendly lived by the word. ``He believed that writing was the key to everything,'' ``60 Minutes'' czar Don Hewitt says of Friendly, the broadcasting pioneer and former CBS News president who...

Gore says opposing sides on e-mail encryption must talk about it.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Advocates of free use of encryption software that would give ordinary people better than average ability to hide their Internet messages won a victory Wednesday in their effort to convince the Clinton administration to agree. ...

Starr wants to see notes from former Lewinsky attorney.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Displaying his knack for aggressive prosecution, independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to pry open the confidential relationship between an attorney and his client. Specifically, Starr has subpoenaed records in the...

Gore says opposing sides on e-mail encryption must talk about it.(Originated from WRITETHRU)
March 4, 1998... (EDITORS: This revises final paragraphs of story to better reflect Sen. Boxer's view of the prospect of encryption talks.) By Rory J. O'Connor Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON _ Advocates of free use of encryption...

By one vote, House approves statehood referendum for Puerto Rico.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 4, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Handing Puerto Rico its best chance ever to become the 51st state, the House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly authorized islanders to vote on whether they want to join the Union, seek independence or retain their status...

Where to learn more about knitting. (Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 5, 1998... In previous columns, I've printed lists of sewing organizations and newsletter resources. For readers who knit, here's some similar information. I believe that guilds and groups serve special interests very well. The Internet is...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Baby Doe law has created a new population of disabled babies -- without provision for their care.(Originated from Your baby is born four months premature, weighs one pound and is)
March 5, 1998... deaf, blind and missing half its brain _ a human thing that previously would have been allowed to die. But now a little-known law insists your doctor keep the baby alive. Miraculously, over the next six months, it survives operation after...

SUPER-PREEMIES: The silver bullet.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... It looked like neonatology's silver bullet. In actuality, a highly touted wonder drug has increased the suffering of critically-ill newborns, lengthening the duration of their pain. Whether it has increased survival rates of critically...

SUPER-PREEMIES: The miracle and the shame -- the sources.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... It is unusual for newspapers to provide detailed source material. In this case, however, the subtlety and technical complexity of an almost entirely overlooked subject _ and an extremely controversial one _ virtually demands a complete...

SUPER-PREEMIES: An anguished difference of opinion divides America's delivery rooms.(Originated from Should doctors save babies born so early they are doomed to be)
March 5, 1998... vegetables? Physicians _ some of whom routinely defy the law by letting such infants die in peace _ are divided. By Mark Hunter The American Is keeping alive newborns who are likely to suffer serious disability ``a dramatic...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Baby Doe redux.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... The House Judiciary Committee's letter made University of California neonatologist Colin Partridge ``quite anxious,'' he says. ``I'm no brave guy _ I'm a doctor at the bedside trying to do what's best for the kids.'' The Judiciary...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Keeping neonatology alive.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... Driving the now routinely aggressive treatment of prematurely born infants in the United States is an explosion in the number of neonatologists. There are now about 3,500, nearly triple the supply of two decades ago. ``The greater...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Sources.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... It is unusual for newspapers to provide detailed source material. In this case, however, the subtlety and technical complexity of a controversial and almost entirely overlooked subject requires a listing of sources and references. These are...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Parents, the silenced partners.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... Helen Harrison's son, Ed, is 20 now, but in many ways he has never grown up. Born prematurely, he is partially blind and mentally retarded, with mild cerebral palsy and a chronic brain condition that has required 15 difficult...

SUPER-PREEMIES: Prosecutor's decision to accuse parents of manslaughter may have cost him re-election.(Originated from The American)
March 5, 1998... In the November 1996 elections, Ingham County, Mich., Prosecutor Donald Martin became the first political casualty of the Baby Doe era. Faced with a case in which parents allowed their extremely premature newborn to die, Martin called it...