Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from May 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from May 1998

The ABCs of advertising don't belong on school lesson plans.(Originated from)
May 29, 1998... By Leonard Pitts Jr. Knight Ridder Newspapers Obey your thirst. Read this. Corporate America's incursion into the halls of academia continues unabated. A school district in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul just became the...

A SHINING THREAD OF HOPE: The History of Black Women in America, by Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson; Broadway (368 Pages, $27.50.).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 27, 1998... By Tonya Jameson School history books are peppered with African American women who struggled despite death threats, envy and racism to make American life a little easier for black women and their families. Whether it was...

Again, a child leaves us in mourning.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 27, 1998... Kipland Kinkel, the only son of two schoolteachers, lived in a woodsy patch of America, in a three-story, A-frame house on a hill above a trout stream in Springfield, Ore. He dwelled far from the trenches of urban warfare, from the...

Some might need just a little push to jump off the poverty treadmill.(Originated from)
May 27, 1998... By Leonard Pitts Jr. Knight Ridder Newspapers I did not win the $195 million Powerball lottery. You know this because, well... I'm still here. Too bad, though, because I had definite plans for that money. Yeah, sure, a...

Astronomers believe they've found a planet outside our solar system.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 27, 1998... MIAMI _ Astronomers scanning the heavens with the Hubble Space Telescope believe they have photographed a phenomenon never before glimpsed by human eyes _ a planet in another solar system. If confirmed, the discovery will be one of...

A SHINING THREAD OF HOPE: The History of Black Women in America, by Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson; Broadway (368 Pages, $27.50.).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 26, 1998... By Tonya Jameson School history books are peppered with African American women who struggled despite death threats, envy and racism to make American life a little easier for black women and their families. Whether it was...

Killing of bishop stirs deep-seated suspicions in Guatemala.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 21, 1998... GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala _ If Guatemala has its own gospel, it might go something like this: The wages of talking too much are death. So when a Roman Catholic bishop was murdered two weeks ago, just 48 hours after he issued a report...

New amnesty law takes Nicaraguans out of legal limbo.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 20, 1998... MIAMI _ For more than a decade, tens of thousands of Nicaraguan immigrants who fled civil strife in their homeland have lived in legal limbo on U.S. soil, daily under the threat of deportation. Now the uncertainty is over for them. ...

Just what's in those herbal remedies?(Originated from KRT SOUTH< (AT-RISK) (PHOTO)
May 20, 1998... By Yon Lambert Knight Ridder Newspapers COLUMBIA, S.C. _ The pill packets sit so agreeably on convenience store shelves. Right next to BC Powder and batteries, there's a bright green and silver pack of Ginseng Energy...

Today's parents anything but lazy.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 19, 1998... I was grateful for the woman who sat next to me and my 1-year- old during a recent airplane trip to visit Grandma. Although she didn't have children herself, the woman had enough patience with mine so that I didn't feel mortified...

Web site helps students cram for advanced placement tests.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 19, 1998... It's worse than a final exam, as important as the SATs and it's becoming a rite of passage into college. It's the advanced placement test, which thousands of high school students will take over the next two weeks. The series of tests...

Strategy to plan new road map for your life.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 18, 1998... Simplification pioneers Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez say we are all``a business'' that requires trading our ``life energy'' for something else we value, whatever that might be; hence the title of their book, ``Your Money or Your Life.''...

Frank Sinatra dies at 82.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 15, 1998... Frank Sinatra is dead. He was a heavenly singer. He was a hell-raiser of a man. Magnetic and mercurial, Sinatra transformed popular music _ and then dominated it. He electrified and sometimes shocked legions of fans. He influenced...

In the 125-year history of jeans, here are a few highlights.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 14, 1998... Jeans, in all their simplicity, are the uniform of America. Worn by rebels and conformists, celebrities and common folk, workers and jet-setters, jeans are among the classic born-in-the-USA inventions, along with the mass-produced car, jazz...

Some states making teen-agers wait longer for full driving privileges.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 14, 1998... WASHINGTON _ With young drivers dying by the carload, more states are slapping tough new restrictions on a teen-ager's first driver's license. In California and Indiana, new 16-year-old drivers aren't allowed to carry passengers...

Is it ever too late for a kid to start over with a dream?(Originated from)
May 13, 1998... By Leonard Pitts Jr. Knight Ridder Newspapers Hello. Remember me? You and I met last week in jail. I had been asked to come to a school there, to visit with maybe 40 male inmates ranging in age from 13 to 17. You were in...

'Pedro Pan' seeks answers from the CIA.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 12, 1998... `So tell me again why you are suing the CIA?'' My friend took a deep breath and contemplated the miles of beach before us, the waves shimmering in sunlight, the ocean that separates us from Cuba. She had answered this question so many...

Clinton luckier than a CEO in the same circumstances.(Originated from Knight Ridder newspapers)
May 12, 1998... Given the controversies surrounding President Clinton, what would sexual-harassment lawyers and consultants do if Clinton were, instead, a corporate CEO? Joe Mannikko, Stuart plaintiffs' lawyer: ``People have confidence in him. If he...

In politics or business, harassment still confounds us. Mixed messages: The number of harassment cases -- and our confusion -- are growing.(Originated from Knight Ridder newspapers)
May 12, 1998... 1991: Clarence Thomas becomes a Supreme Court justice despite former assistant Anita Hill's testimony he had pressured her for dates, talked about porn films and bragged of his own sexual prowess. 1995: Five-term Oregon Republican Bob...

Confederate flag continues to stir emotions 133 years later.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 11, 1998... WICHITA, Kan. _ An artist once said if you could strip away all the layers of meaning attached to the Confederate battle flag, you would be left with an effective graphic design: simple, bold, recognizable. That's what you want in a battle...

Police say son was a criminal, but mother won't believe it.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 10, 1998... MIAMI _ On a whim, Terrance Bostick went to the neighborhood grocery to buy his favorite soda. Five minutes later, he was dead, killed with an AK-47 in a drive-by shooting. ``Terry was an innocent bystander,'' his mother, Francheska...

Bebe Rebozo, President Nixon's best buddy, dies at 85.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 9, 1998... MIAMI _ Charles G. Rebozo, a man better known as ``Bebe'' and universally known for his unswerving loyalty to a prominent friend _ President Richard Nixon _ died Friday night at Baptist Hospital. He was 85. Doctors listed the cause...

Animals touch our lives every day.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
May 7, 1998... This week, veterinarians across the nation are recognizing National Pet Week, which celebrates the fact that ``Animals and People Need Each Other.'' Animals touch our lives every day. Even if you are not one of the nation's 125...

Company chairman gives and gives and gives.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 6, 1998... When Fred Wikoff Jr. gets to heaven, let's hope the good Lord doesn't ask him to wax eloquent about why he devoted so much of his wealth to helping others. Here's the best Wikoff could come up with when I asked him: ``My wife says...

Civil discussion impossible on subjects such as abortion, homosexuality.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 6, 1998... Let's tackle two of the critical issues of our day: abortion and homosexuality. To do that, I'll tell you right up front that I don't plan to define my views on either subject. Whether I'm pro-choice or pro-life, whether I...

Nick Sarchet is a woman in the process of becoming a man.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 5, 1998... MIAMI _ Maybe you think Nick Sarchet is a tortured soul. Someone who deserves your pity. Or maybe, like the two men who beat him up two weeks ago, you think he's some kind of freak. ``You queers don't deserve to live,'' they hissed...

Expert urges mothers to let go of guilt and self-doubt.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
May 5, 1998... We were sitting around my kitchen table trading war stories when my friend Donna mentioned a public-service announcement aimed at teen-agers that she'd just seen on TV. In it, a movie star asks if the viewer wants a full-time job with...

Drug reactions, hospital mistakes put patients at risk.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
May 1, 1998... You may have heard the recent disturbing news about the potential dangers of drug side effects. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, drug reactions (from prescription and over-the-counter...

Trio of teens charged with murder in spree that killed 2, wounded 6.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 1, 1998... HAINES CITY, Fla. _ Three Central Florida teenagers were charged with murder Friday in a bloody four-day thrill spree that left two people dead and six others wounded _ victims apparently picked at random. ``I've been in law...