Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from September 2002, page 9

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from September 2002

Tips on using stripes.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... If you're interested in using stripes in your home, here's some advice from the pros: _The focal fabric of your room should be a print or a woven. Select this fabric first and then use the stripe in one or more of the colors as a...

Stripes are suddenly stylish again.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... The young and the trendy used to draw the line at stripes. Too bland. Too boring. In other words, my darling, way too traditional. But suddenly stripes are stylish again for everyone's decor _ from punk to posh. Todd Oldham's...

Distressed Levi finds pockets of success.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... SAN FRANCISCO _ Not that long ago, Levi Strauss & Co. had the jeans world sewn up. Its riveted, five-pocket denim bottoms were a must-have for the teenage set, as well as a wardrobe icon for middle-aged baby boomers who grew up with the...

A star in waiting? Tennessee's Washington ready to showcase his talents.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... KNOXVILLE, Tenn. _ The midday riverfront air hangs heavy outside, but Kelley Washington is the picture of cool as he strolls into the Tennessee football complex. Stylish and ultra-confident, the Volunteers' star wide receiver looks like...

Jim Otto's situation is bleak, but his outlook is sunny.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE _ It's a good day for Jim Otto, which means his food has stayed down, his replaced joints aren't infected, his three weeks of radiation treatments are finished and his Oakland Raiders remain undefeated. "Looking great,...

Second Chance: High school coach Frank Luisi campaigned to get Jay Fiedler another shot in the NFL.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... UNIONDALE, N.Y. _ Frank Luisi says he has something to show you. Less than a mile from Weeb Ewbank Hall and the Jets' training facility at Hofstra University, Luisi walks out of a restaurant to his car and pulls a three-page letter from a...

`Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... To the civilized mind, a movie like "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is more of an ordeal than an amusement. A collection of explosions, shootings, high-speed chases and other assorted violent incidents, loosely strapped together by a...

Reviews of CBS' `CSI: Miami' and UPN's `Half and Half'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... Clues, clashes and corpses _ the new show most likely to succeed this fall works on a firmly established formula. "CSI: Miami," the first spinoff of television's highest-rated drama, is a sleek whodunit with a superb cast and great promise....

Landmark cemetery will raise prices for few remaining spots.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... ORLANDO, Fla. _ Land prices in downtown Orlando neighborhoods have been skyrocketing for years, except in one place _ Greenwood Cemetery, where some of the city's most prominent citizens are buried. That's about to change. The...

Voting machines turn up around Broward days after primary.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ While Broward County officials toiled after the Sept. 10 election to make sure all the votes not originally counted were retrieved from voting machines, some of those machines sat unattended in clubhouses, churches,...

Dolphins' reserve cornerbacks must fill injury gap.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ The Dolphins are willing to stand pat with their reserve cornerbacks entering Sunday's game against the New York Jets. The Dolphins brought in three free-agent cornerbacks for workouts this week _ William Hampton,...

Local Catholic population up 43 percent in decade.(Newport News (Va.) Daily Press)
September 19, 2002... NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ If the Hampton Roads area were a person, it would be a Southern Baptist making a conversion to Roman Catholicism. In a region where a clear majority of Christians more than 147,000 people are Southern Baptist, the...

Building on faith in Hampton Roads.(Newport News (Va.) Daily Press)
September 19, 2002... NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ While driving through Hampton Roads, it's difficult to miss signs giving notice of either construction of new congregation buildings or expansion of existing houses of worship. It seems like there are more churches...

National PTA launches effort to recruit more Hispanic parents.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Los padres buenos no nacen. Se hacen. Translation: Good parents aren't born. They're developed. So say National PTA leaders, who launched a local effort Thursday to boost Hispanic membership and leadership...

Agriculture department promotes tighter security for U.S. food supply.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... MIAMI _ Security cameras. Employee background checks. Vehicle inspections. Emergency plans. Those are among the measures suggested Thursday for food processing and distribution facilities, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture steps up...

O'Donnell quits as magazine feud boils over.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... Rosie is dumping Rosie. After months of public feuding with her publisher, Gruner & Jahr USA, Rosie O'Donnell, the former talk-show host with the self-titled magazine, terminated the joint venture agreement with her publisher at a news...

College capsules for Saturday's games.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... Arizona at No. 22 Wisconsin STORY LINE: This is the fifth game in as many weeks for the Badgers, who looked mighty, mighty slow in barely getting past Northern Illinois last week. Arizona's offense should cause them some problems. ...

Hurricane Isidore heads to Cuba, still a threat to South Florida.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ As the threat of a direct hit on South Florida continues to diminish, Hurricane Isidore was expected to strike the southwest coast of Cuba in the early morning hours Friday with 80-mph winds, torrential rains and...

Florida faithful losing faith against Tennessee.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... ORLANDO _ Anybody who thinks Florida is going to beat Tennessee on Saturday, raise your hands. When I asked that exact question Wednesday night, about one-fourth of the room timidly and dutifully hoisted a hand into the air. And this...

HEADLINE HERE.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... BAL HARBOUR, Fla. _ In a made-for-television display of solidarity after their emotion-draining, razor-close primary election fight, Bill McBride, Janet Reno and Daryl Jones stood arm-in-arm Thursday, vigorously praising one another and...

Reno pledges unity with her rivals in effort to defeat Jeb Bush.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... BAL HARBOUR, Fla. _ In a made-for-television display of solidarity after their emotion-draining, razor-close primary election fight, Bill McBride, Janet Reno and Daryl Jones stood arm-in-arm Thursday, vigorously praising one another and...

Broward elections supervisor apologizes for voting fiasco.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Faced with the prospect of being booted from office, Broward County's election supervisor finally apologized Thursday for last week's voting debacle and agreed to accept county help running the November election. ...

Florida bringing the whole plan to Tennessee.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... GAINESVILLE, Fla. _ Florida defensive players smirked when told Tennessee Coach Phil Fulmer expects them to bring "the kitchen sink" Saturday. It's as if they have a little secret _ or two, or three. "I don't know about all that,"...

Regier gets an earful from staff at Florida's child-welfare agency.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ The pay is lousy, the stress overwhelming and the only publicity is about the few kids they hurt, not the tens of thousands a year they save, social workers told their new boss during emotional meetings on Thursday....

Israelis surround Arafat's headquarters in search of his deputies.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... TEL AVIV, Israel _ Hours after a suicide bomb tore through a tree-lined boulevard in the heart of this seaside city, killing five Israelis and injuring dozens more, Israeli troops laid siege to the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian leader...

New book offers introspective look at pitching great Sandy Koufax.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ When it comes to the true legendary sports heroes, fans seem to prefer some mystery. They want them remote, somewhat unapproachable. It adds to their mystique. It was that way for Joe DiMaggio and Ben Hogan, two icons who...

Bush seeks authority to use force against Iraq.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... WASHINGTON _ President Bush asked Congress on Thursday to authorize him "to use all means that he determines to be appropriate, including force," to disarm and overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, even if the United Nations refuses to...

Scientists make observations that confirm cosmology's bizarre predictions.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ By examining subtle patterns in radiation from the Big Bang, University of Chicago astronomers said Thursday they have found some of the strongest observational evidence yet for modern cosmology's most bizarre predictions _ marking...

Nile virus test eyed for blood supply; U.S. experts see transfusion risk.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ Federal officials confirmed Thursday that the West Nile virus is likely spread through blood transfusions, prompting a review of whether a test can and should be developed to keep the virus out of the nation's blood supply. ...

Capsules and picks from Terry Bannon.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... All times are Central Saints (2-0) at Bears (2-0 Time: noon. Line: Bears by 1. Last meeting: Saints won, 31-10, at Chicago on Oct. 8, 2000. Key stats: Bears have won 12 straight games decided by seven points or fewer....

Group of scientists downplays threat to nation's plants.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ Fears about the calamitous effect of a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant or its fuel are exaggerated, more than a dozen of the nation's experts on nuclear energy said in a policy statement published Friday in the journal...

Defense for 6 accused emphasize community ties in arguing for bail.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... BUFFALO, N.Y. _ Punching holes in a number of the government's arguments against bail for six Yemeni-American men charged with aiding the terrorist group al-Qaida, defense attorneys here Thursday also said the men's families and friends have...

Wisconsin clinic to form huge gene bank.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ A major clinic in central Wisconsin announced Thursday the formation of the nation's first large-scale gene bank designed to bring the Human Genome Project from the lab bench to the patient's bedside. Marshfield Clinic's...

CBS stands firm on TV for Masters.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ CBS Sports informed a women's group Thursday that it intends to go ahead with coverage of next year's Masters. The network and its parent company, Viacom, received a letter from the National Council of Women's Organizations...

U.S., Canada hit rape-drug trade; 115 arrested.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 19, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ The United States and Canada launched an all-out assault on the Internet trade in date-rape drugs this week with the arrest of 115 people in 84 cities, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday. Seven...

Attack on Royals coach takes focus off Royals-White Sox game.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ An ugly ninth-inning incident in which two shirtless males ran onto the field and attacked Kansas City first base coach Tom Gamboa focused attention away from Rocky Biddle's fine pitching Thursday night_and Paul Byrd's even better...

Attack on Royals coach overshadows great pitching performance.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ An ugly ninth-inning incident in which two shirtless males ran onto the field and attacked Kansas City first base coach Tom Gamboa focused attention away from Rocky Biddle's fine pitching Thursday night_and Paul Byrd's even better...

Support fails again for Cubs.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... NEW YORK _ If Cubs starters don't need to see a psychiatrist after the season, consider it a miracle. The rotation is one of the best in the National League, having produced a 4.00 ERA. But the starters' collective record is just 44-62...

Comiskey Assault: two spectators come out of stands, attack Royals coach Gamboa.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ Add another ugly chapter to Chicago baseball history. Two spectators, shirtless and even more reckless, charged onto the field to attack Kansas City first-base coach Tom Gamboa in the top of the ninth inning Thursday night at...

Bison Dele's fugitive brother found unconscious in Mexico.(Chicago Tribune)
September 19, 2002... CHICAGO _ The fugitive brother of missing former NBA player Bison Dele was found comatose in Mexico and taken to a southern California hospital, authorities said late Thursday. Kevin Williams, 35, also known as Miles Dabord, had been...

`Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam' by James M. McPherson; Oxford University Press.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... The battle of Antietam _ the South called it Sharpsburg _ in Maryland on Sept. 17, 1862, remains the bloodiest single day in American history. Nearly 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or mortally wounded; an additional 15,000...

`Out of the Flames' by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone; Broadway Books.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... Michael Servetus was the sort of guy who couldn't leave well enough alone. He was incredibly smart, and he couldn't resist demonstrating how smart he was, no matter the consequences. It was a personality trait that earned him a ghastly...

For caller, comfort is elusive.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ In 27 years in the newspaper business, I'd never taken a telephone call like this one. It was midmorning Tuesday and the caller wanted to talk about my column that day celebrating the small kindnesses people share with...

Megachurch adopting a less casual approach to worship.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ On a mission to preserve the sanctity of the sanctuary, Central Church of God is bucking a trend. While a growing number of congregations are relaxing dress codes and forsaking formal worship spaces, leaders of the...

Holy cow! It's a black drum off Florida coast.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. _ The huge brown thing on the other end of my line looked like a cow, but it was a fish. It rolled and writhed just below the surface with the languorous determination of livestock on tranquilizers. But it had a...

Female police struggle to do military job in male world.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... KANDAHAR, Afghanistan _ From behind bars, captured Afghans stare at their guards, pointing and whispering at the surprising sight. Some military police are women. "I can't let that affect what I do," said 2nd Lt. Christy Gonzales of...

Augusta National debate is juvenile on all levels, in both directions.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... BILOXI, Miss. _ An open letter to Hootie Johnson, Martha Burk, Augusta National, the National Council of Women's Organizations, et al: When does it end? How will it end? And how do your pacifiers taste, after all these years?...

Really Cookin': The kitchen enticing the entertainment world.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _The sign does not disappoint. "Please be aware," reads the small enameled plaque that greets visitors entering the Kitchen, a post-production dubbing, subtitling and broadcast company in downtown Miami. "This TV broadcast facility...

Pioneer casino getting new home.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... GULFPORT, Miss. _ For now, the past and the future of Copa Casino sit side-by-side at the Mississippi State Port at Gulfport. There's the 51-year-old boat that helped pioneer legalized gambling on the Mississippi Coast that has housed the...

Toby Keith's boots, returned by Zell Miller, donated to music hall.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... ATLANTA _ These boots were made for walking, in this case, to downtown Macon, Ga. Country singer Toby Keith recently gave U.S. Sen. Zell Miller a $500 pair of black, alligator skin Lucchese boots to thank Miller for his support after the...

Dole, newspaper complaints prompt N.C. Dems to change ad.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... RALEIGH, N.C. _ Democratic Party officials plan to change a statewide television commercial criticizing U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole after complaints by both Dole and The Charlotte Observer. The ad, which charges that Dole wants...

State's black voters divided on Hodges.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MANNING, S.C. _ In the heart of this majority black community, African-American voters worry about the lack of good-paying jobs, the rising cost of health care and how well their children are learning to read and write. They also want to...

With Jimmy Eat World, what you see is what you get.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... Some performers vary from their public personas. There's always the occasional headbanging rivethead who prefers Shakespeare to Slipknot or the bespectacled, would-be intellectual who's really masking rampant idiocy. But in the case of...

Follow yellow brick road to Lucedale.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... LUCEDALE, Miss. _ Inhabitants of the small South Mississippi town of Lucedale, inspired by folks in Chesterton, Ind., have positioned themselves as an "over the rainbow" destination, an "emerald city" in the heart of George County. To...

Miami-Dade will add 1,700 poll workers for November election.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _ More than 1,700 specially trained county workers will be assigned to the November general election to prevent a repeat of technical and human errors that plagued last week's primary, Miami-Dade County officials announced Tuesday after...

RAVE bill could quash S. Florida's nightclub scene.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _ A bill expected to pass the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent this fall could have a chilling effect on Florida's nightclub industry. Senate bill S.2633, aka the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002, or the RAVE...

34 students sent home for body piercings.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... BILOXI, Miss. _ Nearly 30 students at Harrison Central High School and six students at D'Iberville High School were sent home Tuesday because they refused to remove body piercings. The Harrison County School Board passed a policy Sept. 3...

New dogs in town have adventure.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... GULFPORT, Miss. _ Rocko, Roxy and Rosie ran away from home this week, briefly becoming canine fugitives. They paid a visit to Petsmart, a pet supply store in Crossroads Shopping Center that welcomes animal visitors, although usually...

Japan orders U.S. bank to prevent illegal trades by overseas unit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Bank of America Corp.'s Japanese brokerage must implement a plan to prevent what regulators there are calling illegal stock trades by the unit. The Financial Services Agency's ruling comes eight days after Japan's...

People in the news.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... A RECORD-SETTING HIT Absence did make the heart grow fonder. After leaving viewers in the lurch for 16 months, HBO's mob hit "The Sopranos" came back for its fourth season Sunday night with a vengeance, reports People magazine. ...

Publix supermarket chain to begin selling irradiated meat next year.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _ With outbreaks of food-related illnesses common, supermarket chain Publix said Wednesday that beginning next year it will offer frozen meat products treated with radiation to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. Lakeland,...

U.S., Cuban forecasters put aside politics to protect people from hurricanes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _ A hurricane was under construction Wednesday in the Caribbean, and though the threat to South Florida diminished _ but did not disappear _ the threat to Cuba intensified sharply. So forecaster Richard Pasch picked up a telephone,...

Ole Miss, Mississippi State hold cards in revival of Southern Miss rivalry question.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... BILOXI, Miss. _ It happens every year. More specifically, every September. No, we're not talking hurricanes. Or floods. Or even locusts. We're talking college football, Magnolia State-style, as in, "Hey, why don't y'all in your ivory...

Only solution to lost rivalry is Mississippi State, Ole Miss heading south to Southern Miss.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... BILOXI, Miss. _ Somebody has whooped up this holy war about Southern Miss playing Mississippi State and Ole Miss again. But I'll tell you the truth. If I were a decision maker at Southern Miss, I wouldn't play State or Ole Miss. Why...

Coachspeak aside, Mississippi State-Auburn tilt looms large on both campuses.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... BILOXI, Miss. _ Jackie Sherrill and Tommy Tuberville are quick to brush the perceptions aside. Mississippi State, conventional logic says, needs a victory against the Auburn Tigers to prove it's still a viable Southeastern Conference...

Duke Energy cuts more jobs out West.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Facing weak demand and low prices for wholesale power, Duke Energy Corp. continued cutting jobs Wednesday, laying off an unspecified number of people in its Western operations. The most recent layoffs, which include...

McBride enters race for governor as Bush strikes at Democratic running mate.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Bill McBride finally broke free Wednesday from the constraints of a botched primary election, campaigning for the first time as the undisputed Democratic nominee for governor. But no sooner did McBride introduce his...

Power struggle over Broward County elections heats up.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
September 18, 2002... MIAMI _ Refusing the county's offer to take control of the November election, Miriam Oliphant on Wednesday said she wants a partner, not a boss. ``I will not, I say, I will not relinquish my duties as the supervisor of elections of...

A life apart: The complex woman behind `a delicious mystery'.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... MONROEVILLE, Ala. _ They could be any two aging Southern sisters out for a Sunday drive. The younger of the two stashes her sister's walker in the back of the Buick, then slips into the driver's seat and heads for open road. With...

Lee and Peck: an enduring friendship.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... "To Kill a Mockingbird" marked a turning point not only for Harper Lee but also for the actor who won an Oscar for his role in the 1962 film: Gregory Peck. The film, like the book, became a classic. Peck ever since has been closely...

Monroeville, Ala., how it has changed.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... MONROEVILLE, Ala. _ In "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee depicts life in the fictional Maycomb, a small Alabama county seat much like her own hometown of the 1930s. "Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed...

Author enjoys simple, peaceful life in the country.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... CONECUH COUNTY, Ala. _ If you are looking for privacy and a peaceful afternoon, the catfish ponds tucked away among these country oaks are sweet refuge. Nelle Harper Lee, the 76-year-old author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," fishes here at...

Poets remember Sept. 11.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... ``It was like a dream. It was like a nightmare. It was like something out of Dante." A year after Sept. 11, writer Dennis Loy Johnson still uses poetry as a reference point to describe the huge clouds of smoke and ash billowing into the...

Poem from `Poetry After 9/11'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... "MISSING SUPPER" Don't grieve too long Over the ones who will never Be with us for another meal Rest assured that wherever they are they are cooking a simple and nourishing meal and parading now and then in...

`The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery' by J.M. Adovasio with Jack Page; Random House.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... J.M. Adovasio cursed out loud that day in 1974 when he received the first radiocarbon-dating reports from the lab at the Smithsonian Institution. He knew he was in for a world of trouble. As a young archaeologist, he had been merely...

Dive into panel to find fix for fishy pointer.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... Q. Some time ago I installed a screen saver that had fish swimming. I wanted to get rid of it because instead of an arrow, it had a starfish, which makes it difficult to figure out exactly where the arrow should be. I uninstalled the screen...

Array of devices can move files in a flash.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... Why work yourself to death down at the office when it's getting easier to take your stuff home, where you can work yourself to death in the comfort of your own little nest? Your humble home-working computer correspondent was stricken with...

Ingenious memory box Cruzes past Competitors.(Chicago Tribune)
September 18, 2002... Designed to fit in a pocket or handbag like a key chain, the Cruzer boasts nice engineering touches that make it a stand-out winner in the fast-emerging field of mobile flash memory storage gadgets. At the top of the list is an ingenious...

`Blessings' by Anna Quindlen; Random House.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... The premise for Anna Quindlen's new novel sounds like a Lifetime movie. Young ex-con caretaker of country estate finds abandoned newborn on garage steps and conspires with elderly woman who owns the house to keep the baby girl. He names her...

Biographies in paperback: `John Adams,' `Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay,' `What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay,' `J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... FOUNDING FATHER ``John Adams,'' by David McCullough (Touchstone, $18.95, paperback): McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize for his comprehensive biography of our country's second president, a Massachusetts lawyer and family man whose...

Publishing has gone to the dogs.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... The latest dog books come in almost as many sizes and shapes as the tail-wagging creature we often call our best friends. Zelda the bulldog, in ``The Zen of Zelda'' (Andrews McMeel, $9.95, 112 pages), tends toward a squarish shape, as...

Fashion Q&A.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... Q. I have a hard time finding shorts that look good on me. I am long-waisted and also have a stomach that pooches out, no matter how many sit-ups I do every day. A. The tiny hipster shorts that have flooded the malls this summer are not...

Seattle man's donation saves life across the country.(The Orlando Sentinel)
September 18, 2002... WINTER PARK, Fla. _ The smallest of things can ripple through the lives of people who haven't met, across a continent and across years. Just ask a grateful Dave and Erlene Cavalere and the stranger who helped them, Jeff Steiner. If...

Bush's prod to multilateralism.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
September 18, 2002... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, Sept. 17: X X X One of the pleasant surprises that followed President Bush's speech to the United Nations on Iraq was how quickly other governments changed their...