The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) articles from August 2004

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) archives from August 2004

Tweens drawn to decorate.
August 31, 2004... Byline: Doris Hajewski MILWAUKEE _ "But you're not going to college," the harried mom tells her teenage daughter. The girl, slim, blond and clad in hip-riding denim capris, doesn't even appear old enough to drive. But it's...

Goddess guide.
August 31, 2004... Byline: Kathy Flanigan With all the self-help, fashion and etiquette books out there, you can't possibly need more information. Well, all right, then. Here's one more. This time, take notes. "A Guide to Elegance," by Madame...

Finally, a sigh of relief for Brewers.
August 31, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE _ It's a long-standing tradition practiced by every major-league team after a victory. Players line up and exchange high fives, bump fists and pass along congratulatory comments. The Milwaukee...

Two players vie to be Packers opening day punter.
August 30, 2004... Byline: Bob Mcginn Green Bay, Wis. _ Bryan Barker fully intends to be punting in the National Football League on opening day. He just isn't sure for which team. It could be the Green Bay Packers. But ever since they sent out an SOS...

Packers standing pat with defense.
August 30, 2004... Byline: Tom Silverstein GREEN BAY, Wis. _ With the regular-season opener against the Carolina Panthers less than two weeks away, the Green Bay Packers have no intention of making any drastic changes in their defensive starting lineup....

Dirty Dozen: Brewers' skid is longest since move to the NL.
August 30, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE _ The Great Collapse of 2004 reached a historic level Monday night for the Milwaukee Brewers. By dropping their 12th consecutive game, 5-1, to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Miller Park, the Brewers...

Swift boat ad has outsize impact.
August 28, 2004... Byline: Craig Gilbert MILWAUKEE _ A new study shows just how much bang for their buck a group of Vietnam veterans got when it launched its hotly disputed TV ad attacking John Kerry's combat record. The early August ad that touched...

Brewers lose ninth in a row.
August 27, 2004... Byline: Drew Olson PHILADELPHIA _ The three most important sporting venues in the City of Brotherly Love are located along a short stretch of 11th St., just east of Broad St. Wisconsin sports fans can call it the Bermuda Triangle....

Penalties trip up Packers' offense; Green injured.
August 27, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn JACKSONVILLE, Fla. _ Brett Favre threw the deep ball beautifully, the defense played recklessly and reliable old Doug Pederson erased any doubts about who will be the Green Bay Packers' No. 2 quarterback in the regular...

Mutual funds to be forced to explain their votes.
August 27, 2004... Byline: Avrum D. Lank MILWAUKEE _ A bright new light will shine on the nation's mutual funds next week, but whether the revelations will help or hurt the funds and their owners is a subject of spirited debate. The illumination comes...

Movable rooms transform space at the touch of a button.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Michele Derus OCONOMOWOC, Wis. _ First you clear away the home office paperwork. Then you clear away the home office. Shazam! A double-door opens, the containerized office recedes onto a mechanized platform that carries it to...

Brewers' surprising early play buried under second-half collapse.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE _ For long-suffering Milwaukee fans whose hopes were sky high earlier in the season that the Brewers might finally _ finally _ end their long losing streak, the team's second-half collapse is a sucker...

Drivers deny new format will lead to dirty racing.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Dave Kallmann MILWAUKEE _ When the new format for determining the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion was first unveiled, dire predictions of uninhibited, hard-core and even _ gasp! _ dirty racing accompanied the announcement. ...

Cubs top Brewers on ninth-inning home run.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt CHICAGO _ Considering the mountain of frustration building in the visiting clubhouse at Wrigley Field, it would have been understandable Wednesday if Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost blamed his team's latest...

Penalties called in Packers-Saints game puts defenses on notice.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn GREEN BAY, Wis. _ If the pre-season crackdown on illegal contact and holding by pass defenders continues into the regular season, the Green Bay Packers would be foolish not to tailor their passing game to take...

`Hero' triumphs with vivid imagery, style.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Duane Dudek "Hero" is what Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" might have looked like if it had been directed by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. This powerful and poetic martial arts saga by Chinese director...

`Metallica' is a revelation of group dynamics.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Duane Dudek The dysfunctional millionaires known as the veteran heavy metal band Metallica were in a state of collapse. Longtime bassist Jason Newsted left to pursue other projects. Drummer Lars Ulrich drew the ire of fans...

Life's great on the beach.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ At maybe more than any other Olympics, there has been a question here of exactly what some of its top female athletes are endorsing. Just before the Athens Games, Americans Amy Acuff, Logan Tom, Jenny...

Irregular heartbeat risk seen as surprise.
August 24, 2004... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ About 25 percent of Americans age 40 and older eventually will develop an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, a new study has found. Atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia,...

Burden of dispute misplaced on Hamm.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ On Monday night at Olympic (You Make the Call) Indoor Hall, the crowd did not approve of a Russian gymnast's score, so it booed and heckled for more than 8 minutes until a couple of judges changed their...

Packers turn to Kenny Holmes to solve pass-rush problems.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Tom Silverstein GREEN BAY, Wis. _ For three weeks, the Green Bay Packers have attempted to fill the left pass-rushing end spot with one of their own. Now they will attempt to do it with someone else. The Packers reached...

Study finds link between soda consumption, diabetes in women.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Kawanza L. Griffin MILWAUKEE _ Drinking too many sodas causes women to gain weight and doubles their risk for diabetes, a new large study shows. The researchers found that as consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks increased,...

An ugly night at Wrigley for Brewers.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt CHICAGO _ The way things have gone for the Milwaukee Brewers during their hideous second-half collapse, they probably figured things couldn't get much worse. They were wrong. Not only turning in an...

Charlie flattened meatball and history was made.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Karen Herzog Seymour, Wis., residents love to retell the story of the hamburger's birth. In 1885, the story goes, 15-year-old Charlie Nagreen traveled to Seymour by ox cart from Hortonville, 20 miles to the south, to start...

History with ketchup, onion.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Karen Herzog SEYMOUR, Wis. _ Every town craves a claim to fame and this town's is fried and slathered with ketchup. Signs welcoming visitors to Seymour, 15 miles west of Green Bay, Wis., proudly proclaim it "The Home of the...

Hoopsters, not Phelps, deserve obscurity.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ Charismatic swimmer Ian Thorpe is otherwise treated like the Beatles reunited in his native land, because Australia has no NFL, no NBA and no MLB to distract its sports-minded masses, not that we wish to...

Risk of irregular heartbeat near 25%, study finds.
August 23, 2004... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ About 25 percent of Americans age 40 and older eventually will develop an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, a new study has found. Atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia,...

Meet the man behind the `Gentleman's Movement' in hip-hop.
August 23, 2004... Byline: James H. Burnett III The late author P.G. Wodehouse probably never envisioned his most bankable character, Jeeves, the butler, dancing in a rap music video or helping to shape hip-hop culture by teaching MCs how to bring out their...

Cubs rough up Sheets; more tough times for struggling ace.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Drew Olson CHICAGO _ Unless he is traded to a contending team in the near future, an idea that is virtually inconceivable, Ben Sheets will not face the Chicago Cubs again until spring training. That's a break of about six...

Scientists gather to discuss protecting fish from array of threats.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Lee Bergquist MADISON, Wis. _ This is a place to hear fish stories. About 1,800 scientists and aquatic experts from 30 countries are gathering this week for the 134th annual American Fisheries Society, where everything from...

Packers trying to get out of punting purgatory.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn GREEN BAY, Wis. _ The Green Bay Packers have taken the first step toward admitting that they probably wasted a third-round draft choice on punter B.J. Sander. Bryan Barker, a National Football League punter for the...

Study finds nearly one-third of U.S. adults have high blood pressure.
August 23, 2004... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ With Americans getting older and heavier, nearly one-third of adults now have high blood pressure, according to a new study. In 1999-2000, at least 65 million American adults had the silent but deadly...

Brewers swept at home by Phillies.
August 22, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE _ When strengths turn into weaknesses, you know you've got a team in big trouble. The Milwaukee Brewers' bullpen, without question the most competent area of the club during the first half of the...

Visit to Marathon reveals why town is worth running from.
August 22, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt MARATHON, Greece _ So, this is it? The thought was unavoidable Saturday as I reached Marathon, where legend has it that 26 miles and 385 yards of misery began in 490 B.C. as the messenger Phidippides ran all the...

No stadium comes closer to Athens' Cigar.
August 21, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ At least eight times a year I go to work at Lambeau Field, which even Chicago Bears sufferers would have to admit is one of the most revered stadiums in all of sport. After those imposing Romans outlawed...

Make it an even dozen for Brewers; 12th straight losing year looms.
August 21, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE _ It's time for the Milwaukee Brewers to stop kidding themselves. They are not in a slump, a funk or a period of tough breaks. The Brewers are in the midst of a massive collapse, a team-wide...

Defense takes the offensive for Packers.
August 21, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn GREEN BAY, Wis. _ By definition, exhibition football is basic, show-next-to-nothing football. But that certainly didn't describe the defense of the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night at Lambeau Field. From Day One...

Robot used in prostate surgery, but critics question benefits.
August 20, 2004... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ It was a dizzying, stressful time for Herman Hansen and his wife, Kathy. In April, an elevated PSA test raised the possibility that he might have prostate cancer, a fear that later was confirmed by a...

Hamm is hot commodity; Television, parade, endorsements await gymnast.
August 20, 2004... Byline: Don Walker ATHENS _ Katie Couric had to have him on the "Today" show. Letterman called, too. And Ellen DeGeneres. And somebody back in Wisconsin wanted to have a parade in his honor. Representatives from Visa, the credit-card...

It took drive & a check to put American Indian project on the road.
August 20, 2004... Byline: Dave Tianen MILWAUKEE _ When your dad has more than $40 billion tucked under the mattress, asking people for their financial support can be a little awkward. Perhaps not surprisingly, Milwaukee musician and film composer...

Troop policy makes sense.
August 20, 2004... The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Thursday, Aug. 18, 2004 ___ The absence of details raises important questions, and the timing makes it controversial. Overall, however, President Bush's new...

Metallica's new dude, bassist Robert Trujillo, tells it all.
August 20, 2004... Byline: Gemma Tarlach What's it like to be the new guy in the biggest metal band in the known universe? Just ask Robert Trujillo, the bassist for Metallica. Trujillo, formerly a member of the band Suicidal Tendencies, is...

Nader pushing to be put on Wisconsin ballot.
August 20, 2004... Byline: Craig Gilbert MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ Viewers of an upcoming cable ad in Madison will see an odd bumper sticker flash before their screens _ "Bush Nader `04?" It's a put-on, of course, but a politically loaded one. A group of...

Invention claims to kill mold by using electricity.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Michele Derus BROOKFIELD, Wis. _ Sniffling, sneezing, coughing customers see salvation in the mysterious black box created by physicist Paul R. Goudy Jr. It's a mold-killing machine. Inside what appears to be an oversize...

Kerry speaks out against veterans' ad.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Craig Gilbert MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ Abruptly ending his silence on the subject, a bristling John Kerry suggested Thursday that President Bush was complicit in recent attacks on his Vietnam War record, and he called a group of...

Braff's filmmaking debut `Garden' astute, tender.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Duane Dudek "Garden State" is a vegetative place. The hero of the piece is a traumatized and lithium-numbed twentysomething, played by writer-director Zach Braff, who returns to the hometown he left nine years earlier without...

Impossible to write a more wonderful script.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Gary D'Amato HAVEN, Wis. _ The days were long but the week was short. The 86th PGA Championship was the first men's major played in Wisconsin in 71 years. Now it's over, and all we have left are the memories: MONDAY ...

Whistling Straits sets off fight between PGA, USGA.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Gary D'Amato HAVEN, Wis. _ Major championships don't just land on the doorstep with the morning paper. For even the best courses in the United States, obtaining a major is a drawn-out process that begins with courting either...

Olympic fervor missing in Athens.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ If there are friendlier assault-weapon carrying people than the Greeks, they have yet to usher me through a metal detector. "So, where are you from?" asked the smiling soldier, who couldn't have been...

Bush campaigns way through Wisconsin towns.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Alan J. Borsuk HUDSON, Wis. _ Even the music playing as President Bush took the stage before hundreds of supporters at Lakefront Park here Wednesday afternoon was a song about the heartland. If you were looking for a way to...

U.S. Ryder Cup team set for September.
August 17, 2004... Byline: Dan Manoyan MILWAUKEE _ On the flight back from the British Open, Jerry Kelly handed U.S. Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton a copy of the movie "Miracle" _ the story of the United States' 1980 gold medal hockey team _ and told him to...

Left, right or in between, there's a T-shirt for every political occasion.
August 17, 2004... Byline: Gemma Tarlach Whether you lean to the right or the left, want to quell voter apathy or express your inner wonk, this election season there's a statement T-shirt for you. And yes, most designs out there are destined for the...

Multifaceted Thomas takes to the starting line.
August 17, 2004... Byline: Jeff Potrykus MADISON, Wis. _ Humble as he is gifted, Joe Thomas sheepishly acknowledges he knew long ago his athletic ability would one day pay for his college education and perhaps provide the financial security most...

Combination therapy for prostate cancer shows promise.
August 17, 2004... Byline: John Fauber MILWAUKEE _ Doctors were able to cut the death rate of prostate cancer patients nearly in half and spare them several serious drug side effects by combining radiation therapy with a limited course of hormone therapy,...

Minister who performed exorcism sentenced in child's death.
August 17, 2004... Byline: Derrick Nunnally MILWAUKEE _ A Milwaukee minister whose attempt to perform an exorcism ended in the death an 8-year-old boy was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison and 7 { years of state supervision for the botched ritual...

Drugs, doping scandals have tarnished Olympics.
August 16, 2004... The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004. ___ Only for the naive is an Olympic gold medal simply a trophy. It has long since become, at least potentially, a ticket to fame and...

Award-winning food from the Wisconsin State Fair.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Karen Herzog MILWAUKEE _ My stomach was primed, my mission was clear: Find recipes at the Wisconsin State Fair culinary competition to satisfy my deepest cravings. Leave no recipe card unturned. The judging tables were...

Resources to learn more about donating a vehicle.
August 16, 2004... Several Internal Revenue Service publications are available to help people who are considering donating vehicles. They include: Publication 78, "Cumulative List of Organizations." This lists charitable organizations qualified to...

Donating car to charity may not help as much as believed.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Avrum D. Lank MILWAUKEE _ When Thomas Kaczynski's 1986 Toyota Camry hit 130,000 miles in June, he faced a common choice: Fix it up or get rid of it. He opted for the latter. But instead of trying to sell the car, the...

Milwaukeeans meld Metallica, Beatles.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Gemma Tarlach The French newspaper Le Monde has raved about the anonymous Midwest spoofsters. British rock mag Bizarre gave them more space than Metallica itself in a feature but didn't identify them beyond stage names. ...

Metallica musings: Parody band weighs in on metal giants' career.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Gemma Tarlach They have killed 'em all. They have ridden the lightning, mastered the puppets, been justified, blackened, loaded and reloaded. They got angry and got over it. They are the men of Metallica, the most...

Milwaukee family says no to ABC reality.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Joanne Weintraub The Nosaceks won't be swapping wives, trading spouses or meeting new mommies this fall. The Milwaukee family had their chance and turned it down. When a producer from ABC's upcoming reality show "Wife Swap"...

Packers in charitable form as Sander, Couch have rough night.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn GREEN BAY, Wis. _ Wretched. Just plain wretched. That was the overall level of play demonstrated by the Green Bay Packers on Monday night in the 44th annual Bishop's Charities Game before a crowd of 69,718 at...

Fortifying Olympics is toughest game of all.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Don Walker ATHENS _ Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is the protector of this congested Olympic city ringed by mountains and haze. But she doesn't work alone anymore. Technology, brains and brawn have joined her for the...

DiMarco feels great despite near miss.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Dan Manoyan HAVEN, Wis. _ Chris DiMarco was so down after frittering away the International last week that there was no consoling him. "That was about as down as I've been in a long, long time," DiMarco said. "I was...

Els suffers another near miss.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Charles F. Gardner and Mark Stewart HAVEN, Wis. _ It didn't appear Ernie Els had a chance to get in the hunt for the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday at Whistling Straits. But a three-putt on the 18th green proved quite costly as...

Brewers fall to Marlins in 10th.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Drew Olson MILWAUKEE _ They've dealt with a sputtering, inconsistent offense for most of the summer. Bad breaks have pretty much become a way of life, too. While a deeply depleted bullpen is a relatively new phenomenon, springing...

Holmgren trying to work magic in Pacific Northwest.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Bob McGinn GREEN BAY, Wis. _ Mike Holmgren resurrected the downtrodden franchise in Green Bay and now he's moving ever closer to doing the same thing in Seattle. The exhibition opener on Monday night between the Packers and...

Whistling Straits makes for a memorable major.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Dale Hofmann HAVEN, Wis. _ It was three against one, so somebody had to beat Whistling Straits Sunday, but in a fair fight, the 86th PGA championship goes to the golf course. After three days of icicles, insults and...

Tiger's still the people's champion.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Garry D. Howard HAVEN, Wis. _ Trailing the leader by nine, huge strokes entering the last round of the 86th PGA Championship, he still wore his Sunday best _ the obligatory dark red shirt, black pants and black golf shoes. ...

Whistling Straits trying to become major player.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Gary D'Amato HAVEN, Wis. _ The 86th PGA Championship was the first of what could be multiple major championships played at Whistling Straits during the next decade. Herbert V. Kohler Jr., president and CEO of the Kohler Co.,...

As Leonard falters, Riley's in for Ryder Cup.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Dan Manoyan HAVEN, Wis. _ Chris Riley left Whistling Straits on Sunday afternoon thinking his Ryder Cup chances were going to be left to the whim of U.S. captain Hal Sutton. But a not-so-funny thing happened to Justin...

Scientists look to bluegills to control invasive rusty crawfish.
August 15, 2004... Byline: John Veysey MILWAUKEE _ Invasive rusty crawfish, which reached Wisconsin as live bait, can swarm like locusts over the bottom of lakes. The voracious eaters wreak havoc with fish populations, snacking on eggs and...

Singh takes lead by one stroke over Leonard.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Gary D'amato HAVEN, Wis. _ Herbert V. Kohler Jr. isn't happy that the PGA of America turned his snarling pit bull into a tail-wagging puppy. Whistling Straits is on its back, letting the best golfers in the world scratch its...

Clarke's ugly tee shot out of the blue.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Dan Manoyan HAVEN, Wis. _ In his own words, Darren Clarke has lost "two bags of sugar off my belly." He also has highlighted his hair and willed himself into being the "hunkiest" man in professional golf. Visualize Slim-Fast...

Flesch drives his Ryder Cup fate.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Gary D'Amato HAVEN, Wis. _ Steve Flesch figures the best defense is a good offense. Flesch, fighting to protect his position on the U.S. Ryder Cup points list, shot a 5-under-par 67 in the third round of the 86th PGA...

Appleby's day gets tripped up in trap; four-stroke penalty ruins day.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Charles F. Gardner and Mark Stewart HAVEN, Wis. _ A little extra reading would have saved Australian Stuart Appleby a major headache on Saturday. Appleby was sailing along in the third round of the 86th PGA Championship,...

Woods can't keep it clicking; chances dim with nine-shot deficit.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Dan Manoyan HAVEN, Wis. _ Tiger Woods needs help. . . . Big help. Hurricane Charley-type help. "I'm going to need some help," Woods said after making a short-lived run at the leaders Saturday morning. "Maybe what's...

Mickelson remains in contention.
August 14, 2004... Byline: Charles F. Gardner HAVEN, Wis. _ It figured that Lefty simply wouldn't leave the leaders alone. Reigning Masters champion Phil Mickelson made a dramatic charge on the front nine of Whistling Straits on Saturday, and he...

Three reasons to skip the `Bachelor' party.
August 13, 2004... Byline: Joanne Weintraub Don't think of "Every Mother's Son," "People Say I'm Crazy" and "Word Wars" as documentaries. Think of them as reality TV for people who are tired of bachelors, bachelorettes and the collected sayings of Nicole...

Rare disorder responds to gene therapy.
August 13, 2004... Byline: Czerne M. Reid MILWAUKEE _ Four-year-old Ashtyn Fellenz cannot sit up or raise her head or talk. And she "eats" only through a tube attached to her stomach. The Menomonee Falls, Wis., girl has a rare genetic brain disorder known...

American athletes can walk with pride.
August 13, 2004... Byline: Michael Hunt ATHENS _ With Opening Ceremonies for the XXVIII Modern Olympics expected to establish all manner of aesthetic standards Friday night in its original setting, a question of Yankee decorum has arisen. With the...

Brewers tweak pitching rotation.
August 13, 2004... Byline: Tom Haudricourt MILWAUKEE, Wis. _ It's probably a bit strong to say the Milwaukee Brewers' starting rotation is in disarray. Let's just say they're regrouping a bit. Manager Ned Yost not only scratched scheduled starting...

Michigan's corner back with something to prove.
August 13, 2004... Byline: Mark Stewart ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ A year ago, it looked as if Marlin Jackson would be long gone by now. Yet here he is, still on the football field at Michigan. The cornerback was coming off an All-American sophomore season a...