Charleston Gazette back issues from October 2000:
Higher-ed reformer may hang around: ; NCHEMS looking to grab even more contracts from state
Oct 01, 2000; ... tara@wvgazette.com Higher education reform is going to stick with West Virginia fora long, long time. But come Tuesday, the state may have seen thelast of reformer Dennis Jones. Then again, maybe not. "I don't have a clue," said Jones, president of the Boulder,Colo., ...
Mideast clashes kill 12: ; Israeli leader's visit to Jerusalem shrine sparks violence
Oct 01, 2000; ... JERUSALEM - Israeli troops battling several gunmen and thousandsof rock-throwing Palestinians opened fire Saturday, killing 12Palestinians in the bloodiest clashes in the West Bank and GazaStrip since 1996. More than 500 Palestinians were injured, thePalestinian health minister said. ...
'It almost tore our family apart': ; Student's hard fought victory against Putnam schools may set precedent
Oct 01, 2000; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com Branden Stewart zoomed away from his dad as soon as they passedthrough the gate at the Hurricane Middle School track. Like most 12-year-old boys at the football game, he didn't want to hang out withhis parents. In his wheelchair, he's able to get away even ...
ISSUES 2000 THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR: ; Gambling's money is on Underwood; Industry sending bulk of contributions to governor's re-election campaign
Oct 01, 2000; ... This is the latest in an occasional series focusing on theissues, records and platforms of the state's candidates forgovernor. Today's installment focuses on gambling. sfinn@wvgazette.com Gov. Cecil Underwood says he is "very much opposed to theextension of gambling." Critics ...
Corrections
Oct 01, 2000 ... Thomas Ford is the executive chef at the Cornerstone Restaurantin Summersville. Perry Wiseman was the bank manager in the oldphotograph. The names were incorrect in a feature article in theSept. 24 Sunday Gazette-Mail. *** In the special advertising feature "Fall Travel, Autumn in ...
Today's News
Oct 01, 2000 ... The Supreme Court will consider difficult questions aboutAmericans' constitutional protection against unreasonable searches -while in their homes, cars and even in hospital beds - as thejustices begin their 2000-2001 term Monday in Washington. Someobservers, however, say the most ...
Milosevic turns down mediation
Oct 01, 2000; ... BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Preparing to face down the opposition inthe streets, President Slobodan Milosevic on Saturday turned down anoffer of Russian mediation, a U.S. official said. The defiant Balkanleader declared Yugoslavs themselves "will decide our fate." Milosevic spoke as the ...
Debates will push some off the fence: ; ANALYSIS
Oct 01, 2000; ... On Tuesday night in Boston, Al Gore and George W. Bush will faceeach other on the same stage for the first time. The major parties'presidential candidates will duel for the allegiance of a deadlockedelectorate and will do so armed only with their wits and stripped ofall comfortable ...
Millionaires next door give charities a boost
Oct 01, 2000; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Well into her 90s, Lucille Lucas had a simplefinancial goal, and she sure knew how to save toward it. Lucasstayed in a $34,000 home with a sagging roof in Wyandotte County,Kan., rather than buy something nicer. She slept naked on her backporch on hot summer nights ...
State not standing up to gambling, candidates say
Oct 01, 2000; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com The two third-party candidates for governor agree on one thingabout gambling: State government has become addicted to gamblingincome. "I think gambling is unhealthy for the economy and the bodypolitic," said Denise Giardina, Mountain Party candidate. "The ...
Wise plan would tax payouts from 'gray machines'
Oct 01, 2000; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com Gambling money funds a cornerstone of Bob Wise's campaign:Promise Scholarships. The new program would pay the in-state tuitionfor students with a "B" average or better in high school. To payfor it, the Democrat wants to tax payouts from video poker ...
Air rage events pieced together ; questions remain
Oct 01, 2000; ... Somewhere behind the pale stone facade of the FBI building inSalt Lake City, the transcript from a cockpit voice recorder and athick sheaf of interview notes hold clues to why a 19-year-old waskilled by fellow airline passengers. Unless Jonathan Burton'smother decides to sue, she may ...
Nouveau stockholders have blurred political attitudes
Oct 01, 2000; ... SPRINGFIELD, Va. - After a long day of work, operating engineerMike Wagnon often gathers with his friends at the Peyton Place Barand Restaurant to talk about life, play a little pinball and tradesome hot stock tips. With its posters of Marilyn Monroe and ClarkGable and stock-car ...
FBI opens full investigation of Bush debate tape caper
Oct 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - The FBI has expanded its investigation to determineif superiors of an employee of George W. Bush's media consultantwere involved in sending a Bush debate tape to his Democraticopponent, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday. Bushexpressed confidence that none of ...
Priest drives car into clinic
Oct 01, 2000; ... ROCKFORD, Ill. - A Catholic priest smashed his car into anabortion clinic Saturday morning, then chopped at the building withan ax until the owner fired two shotgun blasts to stop him, policesaid. The clinic was not open and nobody was injured in the attack,which came just two days ...
Justices return to bench as election looms
Oct 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Difficult questions about Americans' constitutionalprotection against unreasonable searches - while in their homes,cars and even in hospital beds - lead the Supreme Court's agenda asthe justices begin their 2000-2001 term Monday. Some observers,however, say the most ...
Acting up: ; Actors join L.A. labor dispute
Oct 01, 2000; ... LOS ANGELES - Actors may play bus drivers on television, butrarely do they stand with them on sidewalks, holding placards andshouting for economic justice. Los Angeles unions have broughtbuses, office buildings and even TV commercials to a screechinghalt. At a rally Friday, ...
'Cheers' suit may set stage for law changes
Oct 01, 2000; ... LOS ANGELES - In one of the most popular TV series ever, "Cheers"was the neighborhood bar where everybody knew your name. Andaudiences knew the characters by name, guys like Norm the accountantand Cliff the postman. But what about the actors who portrayedthem? Did George Wendt and John ...
Weather or not
Oct 01, 2000 ... Around 1900, bureaucracy and the fast pace of a technologicalrevolution caused more ...
Weather data
Oct 01, 2000 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 74 Low 46 Normal high 70 Normal low 63 Sept. 30 record high 94 set in 1953 Sept. 30 record low 34 set in 1947 Saturday's ...
Regional
Oct 01, 2000 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid-70s. Tonight, clear. Areas of fogforming. Lows near 50. Monday, morning fog followed by sunshine.Highs in the upper 70s. Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan,Mason, Mingo, Putnam, Wayne: Today, sunny. Areas of morning fog anda few ...
World
Oct 01, 2000 ... Amsterdam 68 57 Cldy Athens 78 59 Clr Beijing 79 59 Cldy Berlin 71 53 Clr Bermuda 85 73 Cldy Cairo 85 68 Cldy Calgary 65 42 Cldy Dublin 61 49 Rain Hong Kong 88 81 Clr Jerusalem 76 54 Cldy London 66 54 ...
U.S.
Oct 01, 2000 ... Anchorage 44 24 PCldy Atlanta 74 56 PCldy Boston 63 50 Clr Charlotte,N.C. 73 55 PCldy Chicago 77 58 PCldy Cincinnati 73 52 PCldy Cleveland 69 52 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 87 61 Clr Denver 82 50 Clr Detroit 74 55 ...
Soap and hope: ; Crafting couple won't let early hurdles bar them from success
Oct 01, 2000; ... gregstone@wvgazette.com TIOGA - Some industrial sites, such as Weirton's steel mill, loomas gray monoliths. They dominate landscapes and define communities. The Tioga Soap Factory is housed in the Bragg family's garage. "It's not much of a factory," admits Delores ...
Assignment West Virginia: ; Wyoming County; 40TH IN THE SERIES; Officers on duty despite indictments in shooting
Oct 01, 2000; ... tara@wvgazette.com CYCLONE - The bullets left two deep, angry red pits in the fleshof Duke Harrison's back. One should have severed his spine.Another's still lodged under the wing of his blue eagle tattoo.He'll let you touch the slug, hard and pointy just beneath the skinof his ...
Synfuel was once coal waste, firm insists
Oct 01, 2000; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Under bright lights above the banks of the Kanawha River inQuincy, coal trucks, end loaders, coal crushers, conveyor belts andtall cranes move thousands of tons of coal and "synfuels" every dayand night. Last Wednesday's decision by the U.S ....
Mouse hunt: Don't forget the pencil, oil
Oct 01, 2000; ... After seeing a mouse scamper across a kitchen counter, thencareen through a gap between cabinets, I figured it was time to tryout a better mousetrap. The family cat barely gave the rodent aglance as she tucked into her kibbles with the gusto of a member ofthe "Survivor" cast honing down ...
Tuition, fee waivers
Oct 01, 2000; ... Percentage of total tuition and fee waivers offered to athleticand academic students by West Virginia's public colleges over thelast four years, according to annual reports filed with the state. 1999-2000 1998-99 1997-98 1996-97 General academic Bluefield 57.00 56.54 ...
Athletes fare better on tuition breaks at small colleges: ; Comparison deemed unfair at Potomac
Oct 01, 2000; ... Athletes at Potomac State College are nearly four times as likelyto receive a tuition waiver than students attending the college foracademic achievement, according to a review of tuition waivers atWest Virginia's public colleges. The Mineral County junior college,which operates under ...
Underwood repeats energy policy jabs: ; Governor delivers GOP radio address
Oct 01, 2000; ... Echoing a theme delivered a day earlier by GOP presidentialhopeful George W. Bush, Gov. Cecil Underwood on Saturday criticizedthe Clinton-Gore administration for failing to develop a nationalenergy policy. The administration needs to promote energyproduction from U.S. sources but ...
Funerals today
Oct 01, 2000 ... BAILEY, Blanche R. - 2 p.m., Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Home,Beckley. BOSTIC, Hattie R. - 1:30 p.m., Shanklin Funeral Home, WhiteSulphur Springs. CHILDERS, Casper S. - 1 p.m., Bethlehem Association Tabernacle,Salt Rock. CLARK, Boliver Jr. - 3 p.m., Blue Ridge Funeral ...
Deaths
Oct 01, 2000 ... William L. Bostic William L. Bostic, 80, of South Charleston died Sept. 30, 2000,in Valley Health Care Center, South Charleston, after a longillness. He was retired from Columbia Gas with 23 years' serviceand was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, SouthCharleston ....
WEEK IN REVIEW: ; SEPT. 24-29,2000; Mothman film planned ; retesting begins at lab
Oct 01, 2000; ... Actor Richard Gere signed a contract to star in "The MothmanProphesies," a movie about a series of bizarre events thatsupposedly took place near Point Pleasant in the late 1960s. Gerewill portray a reporter who comes to Mason County to investigatereports of psychic visions, UFOs, and the ...
Lawyers may practice in W.Va.
Oct 01, 2000 ... The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals admitted the followingpeople to the practice of law in West Virginia on Sept. 26: GeorgeR. Adase, Wheeling; Desiree Lynette Albers, Huntington; JosephAlexander Alvarez, Kearneysville; Kevin Patrick Andersen,Fayetteville; Jennifer Lynn Anderson, ...
Center to showcase African-American history
Oct 01, 2000; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. - You can hear the progress at 18th Street andMuhammad Ali Boulevard, where workers are converting an old trolleybarn into a showcase for African-American heritage. The work, whichincludes roofing and stabilizing four rundown buildings, is evidencethat the project is ...
Capitol Club starts with $350,000 bang
Oct 01, 2000 ... The United Way's Capitol Club donations for the 2000-2001campaign total $349,549 with contributions from 231 members,including 20 new members. (Asterisk indicates the donor has moved upone or more levels or is new to the club.) At the DeTocquevilleOrdre de Liberte with a gift of at ...
Mountaintop study may be postponed
Oct 01, 2000; ... kward@wvgazette.com Federal regulators may decide as early as this week whether toofficially delay the release of an environmental impact study onmountaintop removal coal mining. Unofficially, the study hasalready been delayed. A draft was due out before the end of summer,so ...
The Way It Was: ; harvest Moon
Oct 01, 2000; ... Postcards from the early years of the century were sometimes asmuch artistic works as reality. This 1916 view of Charleston atnight is the most thoroughly retouched photograph that I've seen,because it involves the complete changing of the original photo fromday to night. The ...
Acting culture chief, not ready to retire yet
Oct 01, 2000; ... Louis Capaldini is taking on a new assignment in state governmentat a time when many men and women of his generation retire. "I wantthe money, and I want to stay active," said the acting director ofthe state Division of Culture and History. Retirement would suit Capaldini, 73, ...
X-ray use expanding to cell level
Oct 01, 2000; ... X-rays are just what the doctor ordered to diagnose ailments asdissimilar as broken ribs and breast tumors, but their greatestmedicinal value might be only beginning. Instead of using X-rays toexamine only the bones and organs of patients, scientists now alsocan use powerful light beams ...
Nose knows fungi: ; Immune reaction may cause sinusitis
Oct 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Scientists long thought that sinusitis, the mostcommon long-term disease in the United States, was caused byallergies or by bacteria trapped inside the labyrinthine sinuses.Over the years, doctors have tried a variety of treatments forchronic coldlike symptoms with limited ...
Microns
Oct 01, 2000 ... Poisonous algae similar to red tide WILMINGTON, N.C. - University researchers who were investigatinga fish kill on the Delaware coast have discovered algae thatproduces the same poisons as the red tide phenomenon in the Gulf ofMexico. Daniel Baden, director of the Center for ...
Don't blame media for violence
Oct 01, 2000; ... The campaign season often gives rise to dumb ideas. Weeks ago,the FBI released statistics showing that youth and school violenceis at its lowest level in more than a decade. Yet, members ofCongress chose this month to blame the film and televisionindustries for rising teen violence. The ...
RU-486 pill transforms abortion debate
Oct 01, 2000; ... The RU-486 announcement last week arrived with a lot of emphaticdeclarations attached: "historic moment," "milestone," "mostsignificant technological advance in women's reproductive healthcare since the birth control pill." That last characterization wasfrom Gloria Feldt, president of ...
A campaign promise guaranteeing: ; GOOD SEX
Oct 01, 2000; ... Imagine if the next president, whether he be George W. Bush or AlGore, stood up the day after inauguration and said, "My first majorpolicy initiative is guaranteed to improve the health of our nationand improve the sex lives of adults!" That's a pretty good way toincrease favorable poll ...
Religious prejudice
Oct 01, 2000 ... "It is our duty as patriots to cast out this unAmerican doctrineand rebuke those who have raised the torch of intolerance. Allbelievers of any faith can unite and go forward in our ...
RUSSELL'S views
Oct 01, 2000; ... We now have the highest average annual income in U.S. history -$40,800. Still, 40 thou doesn't buy very much - only about a thirdof a senator. *** Since Hillary began her Senate race, 404 of her supporters haveslept in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. Instead of ...
Ripoff: ; WVU concessions
Oct 01, 2000; ... WHEN West Virginia University opened its football season againstBoston College, the weather in Morgantown was hot, near 90. Theheat created a high demand for cold drinks. The concessionaire whoserves fans at Mountaineer Field sold them bottled water - at theoutrageous price of $3.50 ....
Other views
Oct 01, 2000 ... Gun buyback plan has flaw At first glance, a federal department's offer to fork over moneyto help cities buy and destroy firearms looks great. ... A secondglance, however, shows signs of a classic dilemma. In order to getthe federal gun-buyback money, cities have to divert their ...
Your views
Oct 01, 2000 ... Insure all mail to thwart theft Editor: In August I mailed a birthday gift to my granddaughter inMechanicsville, Va. I sent it by priority mail, as I have often donewith no problem. This time was different. Someone betweenCharleston and Mechanicsville slit the package and ...
Men's topics go feminine
Oct 01, 2000; ... OH, SURE, some women are embarrassed for their sex this week. But those women are wimps. I feel a certain undeniable pride that women have taken controlof the two great male preserves of America - politics and sports -and ruined them. We finally quit fretting about piddly ...
Drugs need new prescription
Oct 01, 2000; ... THERE ARE at least two pieces of the problem of the high cost ofprescription drugs, Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been saying forsome time now. But most of the political and journalistic focus hasbeen on only one piece: The "outrageously high price" both seniorsand nonseniors alike ...
First TV debate set the stage
Oct 01, 2000; ... LOS ANGELES - Forty years ago, the vice president of the UnitedStates and a senator noted more for charm than achievement met inthe first nationally televised political debate. Nothing inpresidential politics has been the same since that evening, whichwas reported from the studios of ...
Some Domocrats quiet in their support for Wise
Oct 01, 2000; ... SOME DEMOCRATIC leaders in the Legislature have shown littleenthusiasm for gubernatorial candidate Bob Wise, leading tospeculation that they want to continue to play a major role inrunning the state as they have for nearly four years. House SpeakerBob Kiss, D-Raleigh, said it isn't a ...
Suburbs will decide presidency
Oct 01, 2000; ... EVANSTON, Ill. - Poring through the numbers on American life 40years ago, the great journalist Theodore H. White saw the future."Americans were abandoning the city and deserting the countryside,said the 1960 census," he wrote. "It also told where they weregoing: to the suburbs." And ...
Ky. Methodists to choose King
Oct 01, 2000; ... FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky's United Methodists will install thestate's first black bishop at a conference on Sunday. Bishop JamesR. King Jr., 52, will be installed as leader of the Kentucky and RedBird conferences at a 5:30 p.m. ceremony at Farnham Dugeon CivicCenter in Frankfort. More ...
ESSAYS on faith: ; Taking joy in what you do
Oct 01, 2000; ... THINGS to do in this life are divided by most of us into threecategories: things we don't want to do, things we don't mind doing,and things we greatly enjoy doing. I have found that a wonderful wayto create happiness in my own life and in the lives of those aroundme is to bring as many ...
Sacred costoms: ; New exhibit chronicles North Carolina's early Jewish settlements
Oct 01, 2000; ... TARBORO, N.C. - As the time for Bob Raskin's bar mitzvahapproached 56 years ago, no one in this Bible Belt community couldteach him to read from the Torah at Temple B'nai Israel. Like otherJewish congregations across eastern North Carolina, the Tarborotemple - with only about eight ...
Court to weigh drug testing during pregnancy
Oct 01, 2000; ... CHARLESTON, S.C. - Lori Griffin was about to go home from thehospital after an overnight stay for premature labor pains. Instead,she was slapped in handcuffs after testing positive for cocaine. "They told me I was under arrest for distributing to a minor,"Griffin recalled. "They put me ...
RETAILERS: ; Department stores aim to reinvent themselves in tough times Threatened
Oct 01, 2000; ... SHORT HILLS, N.J.- The Short Hills Mall boasts boasts bigdepartment stores including Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom,but you probably won't find Ilene Garlock and Beth Silvia shoppingat those retailers. They usually bypass the big merchants and headfor specialty stores. "Everything ...
Buyer's Market: ; Local mergers create unsteady times for home sellers
Oct 01, 2000; ... balow@wvgazette.com Union Carbiders have been on edge for more than a year now,waiting to see how the planned merger with Dow Chemical Co. willaffect their lives. Columbia Gas folks likewise are waiting to seejust how the takeover by NiSource Inc. will change their lives. ...
ENERGY: ; Coal companies want to raise cap on mining on federal land
Oct 01, 2000; ... kward@wvgazette.com Last year, giant strip mines in Wyoming produced more than athird of the nation's coal. Most of that coal belongs to you. Wyoming mined 335 million tons of coal in 1999, making it the topcoal-producing state. More than 90 percent of Wyoming's coal was ...
Bumpy October on horizon
Oct 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - Investors who were looking forward to the end ofSeptember - and hoping that a new month would bring new fortunes toWall Street - are likely to be disappointed. The same culprits thatpulled the market lower in September, including anxiety aboutcorporate profits, high energy ...
Qode scanner keeps track of your window shopping
Oct 01, 2000; ... Most of us are familiar with those bar code scanners built intosupermarket checkout counters that make our exit a more efficientand quicker experience. More than likely you've also seen stockclerks scanning product labels on shelves using one of those bulkyhandheld scanners that look ...
Program, like virus, travels to heal networks
Oct 01, 2000; ... DENTON, Texas - In a world of information overload, a majorquestion facing businesses and individuals is how to process, sortand digest the constant flood of data into computers. With that inmind, a University of North Texas professor and a team of graduatestudents have created an ...