Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1999:
CATALOGS COLOR YOUR WORLD WITH EVOCATIVE IMAGES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: STACEY TIEDGE The Wilmington News Journal Salmon, celery, sage and thyme. Palm, sand, coral and shell. Page through any catalog offering items such as twill shorts or button-down shirts and you're likely to find an abundance of creative ...
`DOWSING' NOW IN VOGUE FOR MORE THAN WATER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM A. DAVIS The Boston Globe DANVILLE, Vt. Paul Sevigny has been a lot of things in his time, including a World War II glider pilot, a career Air Force officer, a race car driver, a teacher, a judge and a state representative. But up here in the green ...
RACE TOWN RECOLLECTIONS LONGTIME FIXTURES OF THE SPA SCENE REMEMBER THE CITY THEY LOVE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL STAFF WRITER For all its vibrant present, Saratoga is a town that loves to speak in the past tense. Memory is as much a part of the landscape as expensive horseflesh and the bejeweled society set. What we talk about when we talk about ...
FIND OUT IF YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH SUN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times It's difficult to tell sometimes when you've had too much sun, but a new product called SunSpots may help change that. Each SunSpots sticker contains radiochromatic materials that change color upon exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. The ...
FOAM PAD KEEPS RUG IN PLACE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: HELOISE DEAR HELOISE: When I bought an area rug and placed it over my carpeting, it held firm for a long time. I had it dry-cleaned, and now it no longer stays on the laid carpet, and it slides when it is walked on. Is there anything that can be applied to ...
DROP A STINK BOMB ON FRIEND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: CAROLYN HAX Washington Post Writers Group HI CAROLYN: I'm having a major problem with a new guy. I recently started dating ``Dave'' -- intelligent, charming, the whole bit. Dave has been a friend of mine for a while; the only reason I put off dating him until now is this ...
LOST? WHY SO MANY AMERICANS ARE SO GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGED.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVE BARRY Most Americans are pitifully ignorant of geography. This was clearly demonstrated recently when the Gallup Organization sent its pollsters to Chicago to ask randomly selected residents if they could name at least three of the six major continents. The results ...
MAKE SURE TO PROTECT YOURSELF DURING ALL AT-HOME PROJECTS.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ALAN J. HEAVENS Knight Ridder When sanding a piece of wood, do you wear a dust mask? When working in the yard, trimming the rosebushes, do you wear gloves for protection from thorns? When using power tools, do you wear safety glasses? ...
WELLER POTTERY VERY VALUABLE.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANITA GOLD Knight Ridder Q: My mother has numerous pieces of Weller and Roseville pottery, some of which we're told could be quite valuable. How can we find out what such pieces are worth? -- Amy Jackson, Albany A: Current values for Weller pieces (some of which indeed ...
HELPING GARDEN SURVIVE VACATION.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: LAURENCE SOMBKE Special to the Times Union Everybody wants and needs a summer vacation, but leaving your garden during a hot and dry period can damage your plants. So what is a gardener to do while away surfing at the shore or hiking up a mountain? Here are a few tips to ...
GARDEN TOUR SEEKS MORE SITES.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: GLORIA MAZURE Staff writer Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County is looking for gardens to add to its annual Twilight Garden Tour for 2000 in the Cohoes, Watervliet, Green Island, Menands and Colonie areas. Sites will be on display for one weeknight in the ...
ORGANIZED CENTER FOR LAUNDRY.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARTHA STEWART Q: How do you organize a very small laundry room? -- Charlotte Miller, London, Ontario. A: The ideal laundry room has a table for folding, shelving or cabinets for storage, a clothes-sorting system, a drying rack, a place to hang ...
LOCK OUT BURGLARS A FEW SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS CAN MAKE A THIEF'S JOB HARDER.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM HEINS Staff writer A burglary occurs every 15 seconds in this country, costing Americans more than $3.3 billion a year. And that does not include the cost of fixing broken doors and windows. Statistics compiled by the Burglary Prevention ...
DECORATIVE DOORSTOPS HELP TAME UNRULY DOORS.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM HEINS Staff writer Don't be frustrated by doors that keep swinging shut when you're trying to keep more than one door open for cross-ventilation. Sit down, relax and keep unruly doors open with a doorstop. These old-fashioned functional ...
ROOM AIR CONDITIONERS CAN BE LEFT IN WINDOWS YEAR-ROUND.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: GENE AUSTIN Knight Ridder Q: Our older house needs air conditioning, but a central conditioner would cost too much. We feel several room-size air conditioners would work, but don't want to have to lift them in and out of windows and store them every winter. Any ...
SAFEGUARD HOME AGAINST INTRUDERS.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: Frances Ingraham Heins - The Burglary Prevention Council recommends the following steps for safeguarding your home against intruders. 1. Close and lock all doors (including windows, garage or connecting doors) when leaving, even for short periods. Don't rely ...
TEENS ACQUIRE STAR QUALITY AT CAPITAL REP.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: STEVE BARNES Staff writer Three girls are having a sleep-over. As the clock reels in the final half-hour before Jan. 1, 2000, they're hyper, giggly, playing grown-up but retreating to the safety of childhood. They have a pillow fight. And then, instantly, as ...
PAINTING THE PEASANT MILLET'S ARTWORKS EXPRESS THE NOBILITY, AND THE CRUDENESS, OF THE RURAL LIFE HE KNEW AND LOVED.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIMOTHY CAHILL STAFF WRITER Jean-Francois Millet's masterpiece ``The Gleaners'' is one of the world's most famous paintings, and one of the most copied. The elegiac depiction of three peasant women stooped in a field to gather stray strands of grain has been ...
WTF SETS GUIDELINES FOR PALTROW TICKETS.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced that it will sell same-day and standing-room-only seats for ``As You Like It,'' starring Gwyneth Paltrow. The show runs Wednesday through Aug. 15 on the main stage in Adams Memorial Theatre at Williams College in Williamstown, ...
A CURIOUS COUNTERPOINT AND ECHO ARTISTS FROM NEIGHBORING BERKSHIRES BRING TALENT TO ALBANY CENTER GALLERIES.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM JAEGER Special to the Times Union It's ridiculous to proclaim, as if it were something new, that there is both good art and bad in the group show ``Berkshire Artists and Lisa Yetz: Recent Work'' at Albany Center Galleries. Such is the nature of art in ...
NOTES ON NAPKINS.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: William M. Dowd LaSerre's hometown chef displays his travelwares Michael Cunningham, executive chef at LaSerre (14 Green St., Albany), has a few things cooking. He's whipped up a quarterly menu change -- and will serve some of the new items to friends and ...
OLD HOMESTEAD COZY IN ANY SEASON.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM M. DOWD Associate Editor BURNT HILLS -- There is something very comforting about a country restaurant, whether it's in the depths of winter or the bright light of summer. The Old Homestead is such a place. As soon as you enter the sprawling building on ...
`VOICES IN THE DARK' GETS SET TO OPEN AUG. 12.(ARTS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Broadway ticket availability as of Aug. 30. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed. Credit card holders may order tickets by phone or by calling Telecharge or Ticketmaster. ...
BON VOYAGE.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Zoos offer night tours Zoos are no longer just daytime attractions for children. In Singapore, visitors can come after dark to see nocturnal animals in action, while Anchorage's zoo offers an adults-only look at animal behavior. The Night Safari, on a 100-acre parcel ...
PISA, ITALY.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... CHRISTY METACARPA/Special to the Times Union Christy Metacarpa of Clifton Park photographed her husband, Bob, at Pisa, framing the famed leaning tower, last September during a 14-day group tour of Italy and Greece. Of Italy, she said Vatican City and Venice were the nicest, ...
INEXPENSIVE TREATS ABOUND BEYOND THE BIG EASY.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ARTHUR FROMMER King Features Syndicate Take it from us, y'all definitely don't want to visit the Pelican State in the depth of summer. But as fall and winter approach, those in the market for a memorable budget vacation should cast an appraising eye not just to one of ...
PRAGUE STARTS AT $499.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: Azra Haqqie, Staff writer - A seven-day Prague vacation package, including round-trip trans-Atlantic air fare, is being offered through Norvista, the tour division of Finnair, starting at $499. Top discounted price is $899, which applies to Dec. 17 and 24 ...
DIFFERENT EYE ON THE SKY.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: TOM BURTON There are about 20 images that have been widely seen from the Apollo moon missions. Published in newspapers and mass-circulation magazines such as Life, they became icons of the Space Age. We remember the image of Buzz Aldrin standing proudly as ...
NOSTALGIC FACSIMILES.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: BEVERLY BEYETTE It's no mystery why those Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys adventures currently on bookstore shelves look suspiciously like your grandparents' mysteries. The volumes from Massachusetts-based Applewood Books are exact replicas of the originals. ``Back ...
LITERARY CALENDAR.(BOOKS)(Calendar)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Jacqueline Rogers, children's author and illustrator, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Rogers will be a guest reader at story hour. Rogers will read from her new book ``Tiptoe into Kindergarten.'' Blackwood & Brouwer Booksellers Ltd., ...
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY INTRIGUE ABOUNDS.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBIN W. WINKS Summer is the time for travel, and a $125 ticket can take the literary traveler to England, Scotland, France, India, Russia. ... Let's start with Scotland. We are in Edinburgh, the City of Enlightenment, in the year 2020. The United Kingdom has ...
LOCAL BESTSELLERS.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Barnes and Noble Bookstore on Wolf Road in Colonie reports the following best-sellers for week ending July 24:1. HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J.K. Rowling 2. SUMMER SISTERS, by Judy Blume 3. POINT OF ORIGIN, by Patricia Cornwell 4. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by Arthur Golden 5 ....
N.Y. TIMES PAPERBACK BEST-SELLERS.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... FICTION POINT OF ORIGIN, y Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley, $7.99.) Dr. Kay Scarpetta battles an old enemy, a serial killer resuming her crimes. 13 NIGHT WHISPERS, By Judith McNaught. (Pocket, $7.99.) A family crisis takes a policewoman from a small town in Florida into an elegant ...
AN IRISH SPIRIT IN NEW YORK `TIS' A SEQUEL TO `ANGELA'S ASHES'.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: GLORIA MAZURE `` 'Tis.'' The final word in Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir, ``Angela's Ashes,'' answers the murmur, ``Isn't this a great country altogether?'' Uttered while looking out over the rail of a ship, McCourt's one-word chapter fills ...
N.Y. TIMES HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... FICTION HANNIBAL, by Thomas Harris. (Delacorte, $27.95.) Seven years after his escape, the fiendish psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter is still at large. 16 GRANNY DAN, Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $19.95.) A woman learns the secrets of her grandmother's past. 23 HARRY POTTER AND THE ...
CHRONICLING AN EARLY SURVIVOR `QUEEN' EXAMINES TAYLOR.(BOOKS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: BARBARA GROSSMAN I wouldn't have agreed to read ``Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara,'' by Joan Murray, if I had realized that it was poetry. I don't know much about poetry. In fact, I have a lingering dread of the literary form from being forced in ...
RICHLY ENTERTAINING IT MAY BE PRICEY, BUT THE RESORTS IN BAY HARBOR, MICH., ALLOW THE REST OF US TO RUB ELBOWS WITH THE WEALTHY.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: GERRY VOLGENAU Knight Ridder BAY HARBOR, Mich. Despite the rumors, Madonna does not have a place here. But lots of other people do own new homes in Bay Harbor, a glistening, nouveau Victorian settlement on Lake Michigan's shore just west of Petoskey. People ...
HIP, HAUTE ATTITUDE THE HAMPTONS OF LONG ISLAND FEATURE NATURAL BEAUTY, GLAMOUR.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: SANDRA MARQUEZ GARCIA Knight Ridder SOUTHHAMPTON -- Snapshots from the summer sanctuary of the rich and famous: Model-like waifs strut down endless stretches of white sand beaches in designer Prada swimwear. Fancy cars blend into a sea of chrome on the narrow strip. Rap ...
THOROUGHBREDS MAY BE PAWNS IN SPORT OF KINGS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: EDWARD FITZPATRICK Staff writer Thoroughbreds are faster today than 100 years ago, but it has come at a cost: The sport is producing more fragile horses and jeopardizing the long-term health of the breed, some industry experts say. Thoroughbreds now run fewer ...
FAMILIES SPEAK OF LIVES CUT SHORT.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: STEPHANIE SIMON Los Angeles Times ATLANTA -- He was hurting. So, he hurt. And so a pediatrician in Peachtree City will come home every night to an empty house. And a teenage son will never again taste his mom's famous black rum cake. He was angry ....
HEAT WAVE'S DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 150.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: BENNIE M. CURRIE Associated Press CHICAGO -- Twenty-six more people have died from the heat in Chicago, pushing Illinois' heat-related death toll to 50 and the nation's casualties to 150, even as Saturday brought cooler weather to parts of the country. An ...
SCHOOLS EXPAND SUMMER SESSION.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: KIMBERLY MARTINEAU Staff writer Don't call it summer school. It goes by ``Enrichment'' in Bethlehem. ``Reading and Writing'' in North Colonie. ``Summer Session'' in Schenectady. As the state raises its graduation requirements for high school ...
ALDRIN: OPEN MOON TRIPS TO EVERYONE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... The second man to walk on the moon says he would like to give ordinary citizens the chance to follow in his footsteps. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin said at Saratoga Springs Friday that when space travel is opened up to private citizens, it should not be an exclusive privilege ...
`FIELD OF DREAMS' TURNS INTO A FIELD OF FIGHTS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... They built it and they came. The ``Field of Dreams'' baseball field in the heart of Iowa farmland continues to draw a steady stream of visitors 10 years after the debut of the Kevin Costner movie. But the outfield is about to get a new look and the Don Lansings, one of the two ...
PEBBLE BEACH PURCHASE MAKES EASTWOOD'S DAY CLINT EASTWOOD,.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... along with a few other prominent investors, is now the proud owner of one of the world's most famous golf courses. On Friday, an $820 million deal to buy Pebble Beach Co. in California from the Lone Express Co., a subsidiary of Japanese golf resort ...
ACTRESS DOESN'T ENVY HUBBY HANKS' SUCCESS RITA WILSON.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... may not be as famous as husband Tom Hanks, but the actress doesn't have any complaints. ``People say that it must be really hard on me that Tom is so successful,'' Wilson said in the August edition of More magazine. ``I have a successful family. I work. I have great ...
DAN WOULD RATHER BE A JOURNALIST.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Even though he's a multimillion-dollar anchor man, Dan Rather likes to pound the pavement just like a rank-and-file journalist. ``I'm chasing my dream of trying to be a great reporter,'' the CBS veteran told the Aug. 9 edition of People magazine. ``If I can't be the smartest or ...
LUNAR CRASH LEAVES NO VISIBLE CLOUD OF DUST.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: PAUL RECER Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Lunar Prospector's violent collision with the moon on Saturday left no visible cloud of dust, but researchers still hope to find traces of water in a vapor plume possibly created by the impact. At least 20 observatory ...
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE ... THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME, AS THESE TIMES UNION NEWS ARTICLES ATTEST.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBERT BRILL Assistant city editor In the summer of 1959, the economy was heating up. Politicians were jockeying for position in the upcoming race for the presidency. The first baby boomers were teenagers. Six months remained until the new decade, but America ...
UNDERUSED VA HOSPITALS WASTE MONEY, STUDY SHOWS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times WASHINGTON -- Even after eliminating half of its hospital beds in the last five years, the federal health care system for military veterans still spends more than $1 million a day to operate unneeded hospital buildings, where a dwindling number ...
STATES RANKED ON WELFARE PROGRESS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times WASHINGTON -- Thirty-five percent of all adult welfare recipients were working last year, or actively preparing themselves for work, and all states met the basic work requirements of the 1996 welfare law, the Clinton administration said ...
PLANE CRASH KILLS SKY DIVERS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOSEPH ALTMAN JR. Associated Press COTTRELLVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A plane carrying nine members of a sky diving group that was holding its annual campout crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing all the passengers and the pilot, authorities said. The ...
LOOKING FORWARD TO LIFE AFTER FED.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- In 1953 Harvard University's public affairs school told Alice Rivlin that women need not apply. Today Rivlin laughs as she recalls the incident -- perhaps because in the decades since then she ...
BRITAIN'S BLAIR VISITS KOSOVO.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: TOM COHEN Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a triumphant visit to Kosovo's capital Saturday, urging grateful ethnic Albanians who gave him flowers and kisses to live in peace with rival Serbs. But in a reminder of ...
HOUSE FILLS SPOTS ON GUN PANEL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: FRANK BRUNI New York Times WASHINGTON -- As Americans puzzled over the latest deadly shooting spree, House leaders appointed representatives Saturday to a conference between House and Senate lawmakers on gun control, a long-delayed, pivotal step toward the enactment of ...
CASES HIGHLIGHT FRUSTRATIONS OF POLICE WORK.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: ARLENE LEVINSON Associated Press Last week, Sheriff Roy Wynn's heart broke. He saw carnage in Atlanta by a man long suspected of carnage in his own Cherokee County in Alabama. There, six years ago, the man was linked to the hacking deaths of a woman and her ...
VICTIM'S SISTER NOT SURPRISED.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: DICK PETTYS Associated Press ATLANTA -- Mass killer Mark O. Barton's first victim in a murderous rampage last week -- his wife, Leigh Ann -- had been worried for her safety but loved Barton's children and wanted to continue to be involved in their lives, her sister said ...
GYPSIES ARRIVE IN ITALY WITH HELP FROM MILITARY ESCORT.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... BARI, Italy -- More than 1,000 illegal immigrants in an old tugboat landed in southern Italy on Saturday under Italian military escort, the biggest single arrival in a weeks-long influx of Gypsies from Yugoslavia. Authorities said 489 of the 1,010 aboard were children. The ...
AUDITOR'S REPORT REVEALS RUSSIAN BANK HID PROFITS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press MOSCOW -- Auditors have found that Russia's Central Bank kept its transactions with an offshore company off its accounting books and hid the profits it made on the nation's treasury-bill market, the Moscow Times reported Saturday. The ...
NASA SPACECRAFT CAPTURES INFRARED ASTEROID IMAGES.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft that made the closest flyby ever of an asteroid has sent mission controllers infrared images of the asteroid, though it failed to capture close-up pictures. The Deep Space 1 probe, which flew within an ...
JULY ENDS HERE ON A VERY HOT NOTE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: SCOTT PATTERSON Staff writer July ended pretty much the way it was for the month: hot. Very hot. As in step out of the shower, get dressed and you need another shower hot. Saturday's high temperature of 91 didn't come close to the record of 98 set in 1917. It ...
TIGHT DEADLINE THREATENS TAX DEAL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID ESPO Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Republicans are laboring under a tight self-imposed deadline to sculpt a $792 billion tax cut compromise that can clear the House and Senate by week's end and set the stage for a fall veto showdown with the White House. ...
HMO MEASURE PUSHED.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Seeking to exploit Republican defections, President Clinton pressed GOP leaders Saturday to allow a House vote on legislation guaranteeing protections for managed-care patients before lawmakers leave next weekend for the ...
CLINTON BID COULD BOOST BANKS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Byline: JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee says First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for a U.S. Senate seat may boost prospects for enactment of legislation allowing banks, securities and insurance ...
COHOES TOWER?(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Cohoes Savings Bank officials think they have found the perfect location for their 20th branch, scheduled to open next week: KeyCorp Tower. Actually, the building at 30 S. Pearl St. in downtown Albany hasn't been home to KeyCorp for several years. Key vacated the building after ...