Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from May 1999, page 2

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KRT offers paginated guide to 'Star Wars' saga.
May 20, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service May 20, 1999 (EDITORS: ADDS information for SELLING STAR WARS graphic) Entertainment Editor: John Price, 202-383-6083 or jprice(at)krtinfo.com KRT Photo Service: 202-383-6099 KRT...

`The Winslow Boy'.
May 20, 1999... David Mamet is best known for his clipped, raunchy dialogue and the tough-talking characters who spew it. Language is a brutal weapon in his work, as anyone who's ever winced through his great play ``Glengarry Glen Ross'' knows. The idea...

FEMA again reviewing 'city within a city' flood maps.
May 20, 1999... Federal disaster-management officials may be prepared once again to change their minds about where the Congaree River is likely to flood, based on new information provided by a Myrtle Beach developer. Burroughs and Chapin, the largest...

Tom Selleck explores his inner nerd in `The Love Letter'.
May 20, 1999... Tom Selleck didn't get where he is today on his mustache and dimples alone. It's the ``Magnum P.I.'' veteran's sense of humor that's always set him apart from the other handsome, chiseled guys. It comes in handy, particularly when...

Striking union, NN Shipbuilding to talk again beginning Monday.
May 20, 1999... NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ Negotiators from Newport News Shipbuilding and the striking union representing the company's 9,200 production workers will meet Monday for the first time since the strike began more than six weeks ago. Federal mediators...

Businesses beginning to feel the impact of strike at Ingalls Shipbuilding.
May 20, 1999... PASCAGOULA, Miss. _ Striking workers at Ingalls Shipbuilding are still eating, but they aren't eating out as often. And that slight dip has business owners hoping that negotiations between Ingalls management and the unions will soon...

X-Cursions: Many questions remain after sixth-season finale.
May 20, 1999... We can't read your mind. Really. But we know you are all feeling a little confused after the sixth-season finale of ``The X-Files.'' If all the cryptic bombshells in the episode, ``Biogenesis,'' weren't enough to blow you away, then the...

Slaying has similarities with 1996 Boston case.
May 20, 1999... Delia Lorna Mendez was hacked in half and dumped in a pet store trash bin along Federal Highway in Hollywood, Fla., earlier this week. Boston nanny Karina Holmer was strangled, cut in half and dumped in a trash bin under a pile of rubble....

Caricatures available on KRT's Faces in the News.
May 20, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (EDITORS: Details about Faces in the News appear at the bottom of the list of caricatures.) Following is a list of all caricatures available from Faces in the News. The most recent caricatures are...

STUDENT SHOOTS SIX CLASSMATES AT SUBURBAN ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL.
May 20, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Thursday, May 20, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Managing Editor Fred Povey, 202-383-6089, fpovey(AT)krtinfo.com KRT Photo...

CBS is taking risks in changing half its schedule.
May 20, 1999... It seems straightforward enough: CBS _ which will finish in first place this season in the race for prime-time viewers _ is adding three new comedies and three new dramas to its prime-time schedule this fall, and it's moving six returning...

Liability lawsuit linking Irish to drinking causes stir.
May 20, 1999... ORLANDO, Fla. _ Some Irish eyes aren't smiling about an Orlando lawsuit that suggests the Irish are prone to imbibe because of their heritage. Attorney John Stemberger is suing Dollar Rent-A-Car for renting a Plymouth Neon to tourist...

S.C. school named as having nation's top ROTC.
May 20, 1999... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Chapin High School's Navy Junior ROTC students Wednesday were named best in the nation. The local students were chosen over 435 units nationwide. They are simply the best in the United States at what they do, said a panel...

Fox unveils eight new series for fall, including a second `Ally'.
May 20, 1999... ``King of the Hill'' returns to Sundays _ yee-hah! _ and Ally McBeal gets a junior partner, ``Ally,'' in a fall schedule announced Thursday by Fox. The fourth-place network also will premiere a ``Party of Five'' spinoff and a new...

Hostile racial voicemail stirs PricewaterhouseCoopers' ire.
May 20, 1999... MIAMI _ PricewaterhouseCoopers is investigating a racially hostile voicemail phone message sent to five black employees last week in its Miami office. Jan Larson, managing partner of the office, says he's outraged by the voicemail, which...

Jarrett tops NASCAR's `suspect' list.
May 20, 1999... With the utmost respect, I like to refer to Dale Jarrett as one of The Usual Suspects of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Fifteen victories over the past four seasons, and consecutive points finishes of third-second-third since 1996, have...

For `Homicide's' Clark Johnson, gritty series has been a personal challenge.
May 19, 1999... ``It's amazing that we've been here this long,'' says Clark Johnson of NBC's ``Homicide: Life on the Street,'' which airs its last show at 10 p.m. Friday after being canceled by the network at the end of its seventh season. The gritty...

Some Washington wits have suggested the Apache be renamed the McClellan.
May 19, 1999... WASHINGTON _ In NATO's war against Serbia, the much-heralded, not-yet-used Apache attack helicopter is in danger of becoming a military symbol of high-tech hype, history's latest wonder weapon that ultimately had little impact on a conflict....

Kids' computer camps no longer for nerds only.
May 19, 1999... Summer camp conjures images of endless canoeing, swarms of mosquitoes and throngs of new best friends _ not too mention the bliss of discovering independence from your parents, who nervously miss you from their air-conditioned corporate lives...

Silicon Valley is long on ideas, short on talent.
May 19, 1999... Are there that many good ideas? You'd be forgiven for wondering as, quarter after quarter and year after year, more and more money pours into Silicon Valley's venture capital funds and from there into fledgling businesses. The latest...

Ehud Barak ... the Israelis' hope for peace.
May 19, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, 5-19: X X X Israeli voters have decided they want more peace and less Bibi. In elections Monday, Israelis swept out Prime Minister Benjamin ``Bibi''...

The real world ended the simplicity of a child's belief.
May 19, 1999... When I was a young boy growing up in close proximity to a congregation of a major denomination, my view of religious stuff was that to be a Christian, one should never drink beer and absolutely never, ever laugh during a prayer. The...

APA puzzled by precise causes of teen violence.
May 18, 1999... WASHINGTON _ Nearly one month after the shootings in Littleton, Colo., the nation's psychiatrists are finding themselves as frustrated and disturbed by the inexplicable violence as the public. High schools too large for adults to control,...

Shooting unleashes flood of safety ideas.
May 18, 1999... BILOXI, Miss. _ As the nation absorbed the horror of the killings at Columbine High School in Colorado, Carlos Hicks saw emotions in children he had not seen since 1986. That year, students everywhere watched the space shuttle Challenger...

Overworked advisers often aren't available for troubled students.
May 18, 1999... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ School counselor Donna Jordan watched with frustration the scene that unfolded at York Comprehensive High School in the days after the Colorado school shooting. Copycat rumors and reports of bomb threats swirled....

Kids need moral base: Separation of church and state credo not meant to keep America from God.
May 18, 1999... SPRINGFIELD, Va. _ The school killings in Littleton, Colo., have raised the death toll to nearly 30 students and teachers since the Oct. 1, 1997, shooting in Pearl, Miss. Add to that the several-score wounded, the loss to survivors and...

People remake their lives in pursuit of emotional, spiritual satisfaction.
May 18, 1999... The first Christmas season after he quit his high-paying Chicago advertising job, Ben Bishop ate dinner with other seminary students in his school cafeteria. Everyone held hands and sang hymns, and Bishop, who at 50 was among the oldest,...

An environmental victory for all Americans; court's ruling gives the EPA an opportunity to avert a stunning regulatory blunder.
May 18, 1999... AUSTIN, Texas _ In setting aside new air-quality standards issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1997, a federal appeals court has providing the nation with an 11th-hour opportunity to forestall a major regulatory mistake. ...

Mideast peace hopes rise with Barak win.
May 18, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Orange County Register on Tuesday, 5-18: X X X Ehud Barak's landslide victory over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charts a new course for Israel. A decorated war hero and former general in...

Transplant is milestone with implications far beyond one family.
May 18, 1999... MIAMI _ The questions: Will you save your sister's life? Will you risk your own health to give her a chunk of your liver? The answer crackled across the phone line. ``There was nothing to think about,'' said Basil Hibbert Jr., 24,...

More hints on the best age to date.
May 18, 1999... X X X Note: This is the second of two columns on this topic. X X X Q. Our eighth grade daughter wants to go on a date with a high school boy. What are other parents doing? IT WORKED FOR ME: _ We did not let our daughter...

A potential pope stirs melting pot.
May 18, 1999... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The day before Pope John Paul II's 79th birthday, hundreds of worshippers packed Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church in Charlotte Monday night to hear the Nigerian cardinal who scholars say may one day succeed the...

Canal Zone's Balboa High graduates mourn U.S. departure from Panama.
May 17, 1999... PANAMA _ They couldn't have known, they say. They were just teen-agers, and they never dreamed that their innocent little protest would end 35 years later with the United States handing the canal back to Panama and going home, pulling the...

Little Richard: Dishwasher left town to become hit-maker.
May 17, 1999... Richard Wayne Penniman was born Dec. 5, 1935, one of 11 children of Charles and Leva Mae Penniman. They lived in the Pleasant Hill area (1) _ a tract along and behind Madison Street, west of a ridge separating it from the then-genteel White...

Here's a trunkload of trivia in honor of elephants.
May 17, 1999... Elephants are big. Baby Bonnie is the reigning star at the Fort Worth Zoo. The 700-pound baby, born Dec. 16, is the first elephant born at the zoo in its 90-year history. Her name, short for Bluebonnet, was selected from suggestions...

PUSH, Rainbow Coalition still at heart of Jackson's work.(Jesse Jackson still spends most of his time on People United to Serve Humanity)
May 16, 1999... CHICAGO _ Among the Rev. Jesse Jackson's most enduring efforts are Operation PUSH, or People United to Serve Humanity, and the Rainbow Coalition, the two social action organizations he founded and is most closely associated with. The two...

Toughest records to break in baseball.
May 16, 1999... SAN JOSE _ The funny thing about hitting streaks is that players never like to talk about them, for lots of reasons. Too worried about jinxing themselves. Too reluctant to give away secrets an opposing pitcher might see in the paper. Too hot...

Moving on up? Not these Jeffersons.
May 14, 1999... CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. _ We begin now where it began then, more than two centuries ago: Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson. Standing on the portico of the old mansion, you can see the Blue Ridge Mountains falling away in a...

Newspaper columnist deciphers the sticky subject of the world's new economy.
May 13, 1999... ^Newspaper columnist deciphers the sticky subject of the world's new economy< By Doron Levin Knight Ridder Newspapers ``The Lexus and the Olive Tree,'' by Thomas Friedman, Farrar Straus Giroux (382 pages, $26). Kids wear...

House passing $13 billion appropriation bill for Balkan military spending.
May 7, 1999... WASHINGTON _ Despite misgivings about how NATO is conducting the air war in the Balkans, the House on Thursday easily passed a bill providing nearly $13 billion in military and humanitarian spending _ more than twice as much as President...

Resisting the utopian impulse: Individual freedom and the rule of law are still the keys to national greatness.
May 7, 1999... For conservatives engaged in practical politics, utopia is something to be suspected and resisted. Conservatives, of course, believe in social improvement and in leaving our children a better country than the one we inherited from our...

Removing religious restraints from schools.
May 7, 1999... The tragic events at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., are well known. Two young men from comfortable middle-class families cunningly, callously and gleefully slaughtered their classmates. They apparently felt no remorse, guilt or...

Do those nasty ol' freedoms need revising?
May 7, 1999... The nation's politicians have figured out the cause of all these murderous rampages by school kids. Or maybe we should say that some of the politicians have it figured out one way, and some have it figured out another way. In a...

Remembering a roommate who turned killer: Adults wouldn't listen years ago _ and at most schools they still don't.
May 7, 1999... NEW YORK _ I know something about the symptoms of adolescent violence and the difficulties adults have reading them. The summer after I graduated from high school, my senior-year roommate _ I had attended boarding school _ returned...

The TV networks must share the blame for Coumbine copycats.
May 7, 1999... Anyone familiar with the literature on teen suicide could see it coming _ an epidemic of copycat violence in schools around the nation. All you had to do was watch your TV and see the network buzzards at work. They interrupted regular...

(B) KLA says Rugova had ``no mandate to negotiate'' .
May 7, 1999... ^(B) KLA says Rugova had ``no mandate to negotiate'' < By Bridge News Moderate Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova had ``no mandate to negotiate on the problem of Kosovo,'' Jakup Krasniqi, spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army...

Motherhood is a feminist issue.
May 7, 1999... I'm always surprised when people ask me how I, a feminist, could justify my decision to stay home and raise a baby. One mother told me she thought that full-time parenting was against the policy of the National Organization for Women. I...

A Mother's Day present for Latinas.
May 7, 1999... When Mother's Day was approaching, I was trying to find positive images of Latina moms in the media. It's been a lonely search. If we're not hanging out on the Bonanza trail or strumming mamacita heartstrings, we've been left to cope...

Reaping good from `bad seed'.
May 7, 1999... The thing you have to understand is that that I got beat up or belittled pretty much every day in school. I was nerdy, quiet and bespectacled, so bullies were drawn to me like politicians to money. I offer this so that you might...

Child prodigy to graduate from Catawba College at 16.
May 7, 1999... SALISBURY, N.C. _ Aaron Goss has heard the questions so many times that he can answer with barely a pause. How did you get into Catawba College? Well, he started out taking German and math, he says. But there were so many subjects he...

Thank your mom before it's too late.
May 7, 1999... When you came into the world, she held you in her arms. You thanked her by wailing like a banshee. When you were 1 year old, she fed you and bathed you. You thanked her by crying all night long. When you were 2 years old, she taught...

Blair sees votes in Scotland and Wales as rejection of U.K. breakup.
May 7, 1999... LONDON _ Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday that voters in Scotland and Wales had clearly rejected the breakup of the United Kingdom by keeping nationalist parties out of power in historic elections for new self-governing bodies. ...

Soft bombs disrupt power supplies but not infrastructure.
May 5, 1999... WASHINGTON _ The top secret ``soft bomb'' the Pentagon used to knock out the Yugoslav electrical grid on Sunday is considered the most advanced version of a new breed of weapon designed to cause political damage to enemy leaders rather than...

Peace deal likely to mean U.N. troops, but Milosevic would keep Kosovo.
May 5, 1999... WASHINGTON _ For the first time since the war over Kosovo began six weeks ago, the makings of a peace deal are emerging. NATO and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic remain far apart on the terms of any settlement, but that may be less...

Refugees say Yugoslav Army pounding KLA stronghold.
May 5, 1999... BLACE, Macedonia _ The Yugoslav Army is storming a strategic stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army, using tanks, heavy artillery and, perhaps, nerve gas to root out the separatist fighters and the tens of thousands of civilians who had...

Media between a rock and a hard place covering school threats.
May 5, 1999... NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ In the wake of the Littleton, Col., shootings, school administrators nationwide are grappling with a rash of hoaxes and threats. One result is a heated debate over media coverage. Some officials are concerned the...

Prisoner thanked captors for kind treatment.
May 5, 1999... LANDSTUHL, Germany _ Before he walked to freedom from a cell in a Belgrade, Yugoslavia prison, Michigan Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone wrote a thank-you note to his guards. ``Thank you most of all for the cigarettes you gave me. God help...

Mexican revolutionary's robbery of Wells Fargo uncovered 86 years later.
May 5, 1999... In early 1913, famed revolutionary Pancho Villa rode into Mexican history at the helm of a vanguard army that forever changed the nation. Now, evidence has come to light showing that Villa's movement was bankrolled at least in part by a...

POW families will never be as they were.
May 5, 1999... ``We're eager to return to normal,'' relatives of the just-released American soldiers told countless reporters last weekend. You had to smile because you could hear their eagerness. You could taste it. Eagerness has the flavor of...

Slain teen's faith inspires others after Littleton tragedy.
May 5, 1999... Cassie Bernall was asked if she believed in God. She said yes. Then she was shot in the head. Now the 17-year-old, one of the victims of the Columbine High School horror in Littleton, Colo., is inspiring others nationwide to stand up for...

Curricula are changing to encourage exploration of faith's role in mental health.
May 5, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ During the last century, psychiatry has generally argued that religion has no role in improving mental health. In fact, religion was an anathema to many psychiatrists. Freud spent the latter half of his career criticizing...

Separation of church and sexuality not healthy, minister says.
May 5, 1999... FORT WORTH, Texas _ Too many pulpits are silent about sex _ especially if it involves discussions of condoms or abortion, says the Rev. James L. Demus III. And he is trying to change that. ``You need to break the silence about human...

Blend of traditional therapy, spirituality going mainstream.
May 5, 1999... MIAMI _ It was nearly three centuries ago that a Christian mystic explained the paradox of human life on earth: ``We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.'' But it has...

How to find a therapist who can combine psychology, spirituality.
May 5, 1999... Looking for a therapist who can combine mainstream psychology with spirituality? Here are a few pointers to help narrow your search: _Make sure to ask what the therapist's psychological training includes, as well as how much emphasis he...

Millions of Bible believers track the Antichrist.
May 5, 1999... It's Napoleon Bonaparte. No, it's Kaiser Wilhelm. No, Benito Mussolini. Or is it Saddam Hussein? Who will the Antichrist character prove to be, anyway? The Book of Revelation, that feverish final vision of the New Testament, depicts...

A daughter learns to better appreciate her mother.
May 5, 1999... Dear Mom: Even though we didn't watch a lot of TV, I still had the June Cleaver, ``perfect Mom'' image burned into my mind. It was Mrs. Simmons, Susan's mom, who was the perfect Mom and whom all the children adored. She was tall and...

The Modern Library's Top 100 nonfiction books.
May 5, 1999... Here is the list of the Modern Library's Top 100 nonfiction books: 1. ``The Education of Henry Adams,'' Henry Adams 2. ``The Varieties of Religious Experience,'' William James 3. ``Up From Slavery,'' Booker T. Washington 4....

Clinton and Kosovo: Incompetence or deceit? .
May 5, 1999... Over the course of his time in office, President Clinton has periodically forced the American people to decide whether incompetence or deceit lay behind his actions. In some cases, the answer has become known. A federal judge in...

Save our children.
May 5, 1999... What's going on here? What happens? How does it happen? Why does it happen? The tragic murder of children by children at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., sounds more like fiction than reality. Columbine could be considered the...

Author Danielle Crittenden offers a controversial view on how women can have it all.
May 5, 1999... Women can have it all. Just not all at once. This premise makes up Danielle Crittenden's controversial new book, ``What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman.'' The book _ which advocates women...

In wake of school shootings, religious leaders try to walk a fine line.
May 5, 1999... The day after 13 people were slain at Columbine High School near Littleton, a young man hauled a large wooden cross over trampled grass to a nearby shrine for the dead. One ministry set up a folding table and handed out fliers. A...

Forget the trench coats; look at the gun.
May 5, 1999... One of the weapons two teen-agers used to murder their classmates in Colorado was an Intratec AB-10 semiautomatic handgun. It's an ugly and efficient little thing. The poster weapon for modern mass murder. The great, unanswered question...

Most of space is dark to even the biggest instruments.
May 5, 1999... WASHINGTON _ Imagine your car radio can pick up just a few stations bunched in the middle of the dial. Most of the bandwidth, to the left and right, is blacked out. That's the situation for astronomers exploring the skies with telescopes...

Azmi Bishara is determined to put Arab rights on Israel's political agenda.
May 5, 1999... KAFR QARA, Galilee _ In this hilltop Arab village southeast of Haifa, where Assad Masawa's family has lived for generations, the main street is dotted with campaign posters that span most of the Israeli political spectrum, from the Communist...

Kosovo: It's time for a serious peace effort.
May 4, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Orange County Register on Tuesday, 5-4: X X X Is it time to give peace a chance in the NATO-Serbia war? That's the question now that the Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Belgrade to obtain the...

Wars are won on the ground.
May 4, 1999... There are two wars being fought in Yugoslavia. The first is a ground war, with objectives as old as war itself: Kill your enemy, drive the survivors from the land, and loot and destroy their property. Genghis Khan would understand it, William...

Getting a read on Mom: Books about mothers show a wide range of diversity.
May 4, 1999... As Mother's Day approaches, a new batch of books celebrating the spirit of motherhood in all its diversity is filling bookstore shelves. From a photo book that spotlights the bond between black men and their mothers to a pair of works...

Small town in a big role: Weimar is Europe's '99 `capital'.
May 3, 1999... WEIMAR, Germany _ Though it's only a little larger than the city of North Miami, more than 8 million visitors and some of the world's most talented people are expected to descend on this small German city this year. As 1999's Cultural...

Pilots turn off thoughts of home while in the air.
May 3, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Thursday, April 29, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...

Governor orders formation of youth-violence task force.
May 3, 1999... RALEIGH, N.C. _ Troubled by the Littleton massacre and subsequent safety threats at North Carolina schools, Gov. Jim Hunt has ordered the creation of a statewide task force to examine the causes of youth violence. The task force, to...

Experts in the treatment of traumatized children and adults.
May 3, 1999... Recognized experts in the treatment of traumatized children and adults: _Dr. James A. Chu, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Proctor House 3, 115 Mill St., Belmont, Mass. 02478-9106. Phone: (617)-855-2761. _CIVITAS Child...

Books on trauma.
May 3, 1999... _``Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Responsible Treatment for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Disorders,'' by James A. Chu, M.D., Ph.D. (John Wiley & Sons. 1998). _``Dissociation in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental...

Consider several factors in picking sunscreen.
May 3, 1999... Q. There are so many sunscreens with different ingredients. Which is the best to protect yourself from skin cancer? A. Sunscreens can protect you from sunburn and premature aging and wrinkling of the skin, but it's debatable how much they...

COLORADO SCHOOL SHOOTING INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
May 2, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Friday, April 30, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...