Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from September 2005:
POSH POWDER ROOMS: Let your personality show when decorating a guest bathroom
Sep 04, 2005; ... julier@wvgazette.com HE next time you're at a party and too busy talking to reallynotice your surroundings, excuse yourself and visit the powder room.It might offer clues to your host's interests and tastes. No, don'topen the medicine cabinet, just look around. Generally ...
Several friends have troubling 'Reunion' in new Fox network series
Sep 04, 2005; ... What's a murder between friends? Some possible answers play out in "Reunion," an intriguing Foxdrama marking one of the new television season's earliest seriesdebuts when it follows the season premiere of "The O.C." Thursday.(The pilot episode will have an encore the following ...
Shop & Eat: Historic Marietta is a marvelous excursion
Sep 04, 2005; ... For the Sunday Gazette-Mail A mere 90 miles from Charleston via Interstate 77 North, Marietta,the first settlement in the Northwest Territory, is a shopping anddining dream on the Ohio River. It's a town choked full of antique stores, boutiques andrestaurants. For this ...
SMELL THE COFFEE: Put the blame on bogons
Sep 04, 2005; ... OUR credit union's board meeting was nearly over when ConnieRisner, our manager, asked one last question. "Are any of youfamiliar with the term 'quantum bogosity'?" We all looked perplexed. "OK. I don't feel so dumb, then." Connie said. "I thought maybeeveryone knew about it ...
Part of astronomer's story left untold
Sep 04, 2005; ... Miss Leavitts Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who DiscoveredHow to Measure the Universe By George Johnson W.W. Norton & Co. (132pages, $22.95) bobschwarz@wvgazette.com Well into the 20th century, astronomers thought that the universeconsisted of only one galaxy, our own ...
Horoscope
Sep 04, 2005; ... Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 Your birthday today: The more you analyze and fine-tune and modifyyour behavior, the more other things you'll want to change. You'remetamorphosing. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiestday, 0 the most challenging. Aries ...
Pioneer for patient's rights: Thirty years after ordeal, Karen Ann Quinlan's mother remembers
Sep 04, 2005; ... WANTAGE, N.J. - Thirty years ago, she was a household name. Like Vietnam and Watergate, Karen Ann Quinlan became shorthand fora history-changing international discussion. In her case, it wasabout whether families, rather than doctors, could decide to withholdmedical treatment from ...
Book notes
Sep 04, 2005 ... Monday Book Talk Once again, a classic novel drew a larger-than-average crowd tothe Monday Book Talk at Taylor Books on Aug. 29. The focus of the discussion was J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "TheCatcher in the Rye," the most assigned and most banned book in theyears since its ...
Memory vs. storytelling at heart of McDermott novel: the MONDAY BOOK CLUB
Sep 04, 2005; ... Next Book Talk The Monday Book Club will discuss the second bookin its coming-of-age series, Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott, onSept. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Taylor Books art gallery, 221 Capitol St. mondaybooktalk@wvgazette.com In a lengthy 2002 interview with Powells.com, ...
Putting the crook in Hook: Novel creates a back story for Peter Pan's antagonist
Sep 04, 2005; ... BOOK REVIEW Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth ByJ.V. Hart, illustrated by Brett Helquist Laura Geringer Books (337pages, $15.99) Excerpt from Capt. Hook It was his eyes. The color of blue forget-me-nots, piercing, like two novas in a sky of dying stars ....
WRITE YOUR OWN COLUMN: The second time around is not any easier
Sep 04, 2005; ... TWO down, one to go. Kids in school, that is. Monday, we sent ouroldest to third grade and our middle child - and only daughter - toher first day of kindergarten. I had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Lookingforward to new learning milestones for Ellen. To new ...
THE WILD SIDE: Arguably brilliant crow gets little respect
Sep 04, 2005; ... I've often wondered why I never see a dead crow along the side ofthe road. Ask an ornithologist for an explanation, and the answer isthey're just too smart. Sentinel birds are always on the look out forpredators and other dangers, so when traffic's heavy, the sentinelsscream, "Car! Car!" ...
Forest has some of America's oldest trees
Sep 04, 2005; ... mkelly@wvgazette.com Autumn is a vibrant time in the mountains surrounding Asheville.Most spectacular is the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, a 3,800-acrevirgin wilderness on the North Carolina-Tennessee border wherekaleidoscopic brilliance meets prehistory. Kilmer Forest is ...
Travel Notes
Sep 04, 2005 ... Mountain bike races SNOWSHOE - The West Virginia State Championships and the Mid-Atlantic Cup Finals will be included in the 2005 Mayhem in theMountains Bike Festival at Snowshoe Sept. 9-11. Festivities for Sept. 10 will feature a mountaincross event, andon Sept. 11, it's the ...
Mountaintop Bohemia: Cheap smokes, drinks and music in Asheville, N.C.
Sep 04, 2005; ... Asheville facts * Population: 68,889 (2000 census) * Average hightemperatures: 46 degrees (January); 84 degrees (July) * Asheville isroughly five hours drive from Charleston. Take Interstate 77 South toStatesville, N.C., then Interstate 40 West. Asheville is about 90minutes west of ...
Set coffee table for biggest impact
Sep 04, 2005; ... What's on your coffee table? A. All of your accessories look about the same size. B. You use it to store one or more piles of magazines. C. It's the place to show how eclectic your tastes are - fromGrandma's cut-glass vase to the folk art statues you brought homefrom ...
GARDENSCAPE: Plant your spring bulbs in fall
Sep 04, 2005; ... With a month's worth of rain this past week, the drought of summeris officially over. That, combined with turning the calendar page to September, meansthat it's time to mull over our fall plantings. Fall is only time of year to plant spring-flowering bulbs, andit's a great ...
Black is the new black: The many attributes of fashion's favorite classic color
Sep 04, 2005; ... AROUND three years ago, when pink irrefutably replaced black asthe new shade, it was perplexing. How could this color, with all its inherent frothiness and sugarysimplicity, replace strong, cool black? It was akin to JessicaSimpson grabbing a lead role from Angelina ...
FITNESS Q & A: Eat right, exercise to avoid 'freshman 15'
Sep 04, 2005; ... Dear Cindy, I am leaving next week for my first year in college and amconstantly hearing about gaining the dreaded "freshman 15." I playedsports in high school, soccer and volleyball, but won't be playing incollege, so my weight already has me worried. Right now my weight ...
Easy does it with coffee, alcohol consumption
Sep 04, 2005; ... Q: Low-fat latte is one of my favorite treats, and I justify it tomyself because I get a serving of low-fat milk, which is a goodsource of calcium. Then I was told by a friend that coffee blocks the absorption ofnutrients, and that I really can't rationalize this bad habit if ...
Pills & Ills: Readers weigh in on fish oil
Sep 04, 2005; ... Q: At my last checkup, my total cholesterol and LDL cholesterolwere high. I really want to avoid cholesterol-lowering prescriptiondrugs. I have changed my diet to a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet andam trying to exercise. I understand that fish oil lowerstriglycerides. Since my ...
Honeydews are the sweetest of melons
Sep 04, 2005; ... Melons are a gift from the Middle East. Egyptians are said to havedelighted in cantaloupe. Columbus carried melon seeds with him on hisvoyage to the New World, and Spanish explorers cultivated them asthey explored California. Honeydews, the sweetest of all the melons,are kin to Crenshaw ...
Guide makes eating responsibly easier
Sep 04, 2005; ... Need a go-to guide for eating sustainably, responsibly - and well? Sherri Brooks Vinton and Ann Clark Espuelas offer just the thingin "The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel" (Tarcher/Penguin, $15.95). Their succinctly written book guides readersthrough the jargon, ...
DINNER TONIGHT: Hankering for a tasty pizza with thin crust?
Sep 04, 2005; ... This combo of pesto, artichoke and toasted pine nuts is based onthe "Pete's A Pie" pizza served at Randy's Wooster Street, a smallchain of pizza shops in Connecticut. This pie epitomizes what I callthe New Haven "school" of pizza-making: super-thin pies sparinglyadorned with flavorful ...
The Main Ingredient: Clamming up; Fresh clams are easy to prepare if you know the basics
Sep 04, 2005; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com tara@wvgazette.com IT'S amazing how a certain bivalve mollusk has burrowed its wayinto our society. You can wear clam diggers or be happy as clam, oryou can just clam up. You can fork over way too many clams for anexorbitant dinner out, or you can just ...
Chief Justice dead: William H. Rehnquist, 80, was battling thyroid cancer
Sep 04, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturdayevening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Courtspokeswoman Kathy Arberg. A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by histhree children when he died in Arlington. "The Chief Justice ...
Food tax has history of coming and going
Sep 04, 2005; ... 1932 During the Great Depression, West Virginians pass aconstitutional amendment to lower their property taxes. The statestill has some of the lowest property taxes in the country. Mississippi becomes the first state to pass a sales tax. 1933 To make up for lost property tax ...
"It's hard to put into words': Charleston Guardsmen on the ground in New Orleans
Sep 04, 2005; ... Organizations to offer victim-relief efforts C&O Motors, Rock 105.1 and Gateway Church will be collecting itemsto aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Donations may be brought toa truck located at C&O Motors in St. Albans. Items needed includebottled water, non-perishable food, ...
Annual UMWA Labor Day event
Sep 04, 2005 ... RACINE - The United Mine Workers of America will once again hosttheir annual Labor Day festivities in Racine. The events begin at 11:30 a.m. in the John Slack Park on ...
Bayou refugees to Mountain State: Katrina survivors to be sheltered at Camp Dawson
Sep 04, 2005; ... More on Katrina * Move or rebuild? 3A * Storm data. 3A *Deployment delay. 4A * FEMA faces critics. 4A * The way New Orleanswas. 5A * Others have rebuilt. 8A * Evacuation speeds up. 10A *Leaving pets behind. 11A * Lessons of Katrina. 2D * Photos. 9D mkelly@wvgazette.com A ...
Things to do today
Sep 04, 2005 ... * CHARLESTON STERNWHEEL REGATTA: All events are free and at HaddadRiverfront Park on Kanawha Boulevard unless noted. The scheduleincludes: Mountain Stage show featuring The Fabulous Thunderbirds,Will Hoge, Toby Lightman, James "Blood" Ulmer and Duncan Sheik, 7p.m. Call 345-1500, ext ....
West Virginia Lottery
Sep 04, 2005 ... Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 Daily 3 190 Daily 4 9186 Hot Lotto 12-13-15-19-27: 16 Night Pick 3 641 Night Pick 4 0893 Day ...
Today's News
Sep 04, 2005 ... *** Truckers stop by to say a quick prayer, couples from as far awayas Australia come to get married and many visitors are so inspiredthat they belt out the song that made the "little brown church in thevale" famous. After more than 72,000 weddings and visits from as manyas ...
Hamas secretive military wing claims credit for Gaza pullout
Sep 04, 2005; ... JERUSALEM - The shadowy military wing of Hamas went publicSaturday, revealing the names of its top commanders and outlining thehistory and increasing sophistication of its attacks against Israelin the latest salvo in the battle for credit over Israel's withdrawalfrom Gaza. The ...
HELP OUT
Sep 04, 2005 ... NAACP creates fund for hurricane victims Bruce Gordon, president and chief executive officer of theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announcedthe creation of the NAACP Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund to acceptdonations and supplies to help storm victims. To ...
Katrina survivors must decide: Move or rebuild
Sep 04, 2005; ... TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - He didn't choose to leave New Orleans; Katrinacame through and wrecked Jerry Hymel's native city, driving him away.And now he does not know what to do. He is asking the same questions posed by thousands of others whofled the storm and its aftermath: Should he and ...
Fairmont firm gathers, archives storm data
Sep 04, 2005; ... jginsberg@wvgazette.com Although employees at a Fairmont science and technology firm were1,000 miles north of New Orleans, their work placed them right in theeye of the storm this week. Forty employees at TMC Technologies and its three statesubcontractors gather and archive ...
FEMA faces critics, storm aftermath
Sep 04, 2005; ... Name: Michael D. Brown Age, birthdate: 50; Nov. 11, 1954, in Guymon, Okla. Education: Southeastern State University, 1975; B.A., CentralState University, 1978; J.D., Oklahoma City University School of Law,1981. Career - 2003-present, undersecretary of emergency ...
Congress may look at delay in Guard deployment
Sep 04, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Another 10,000 National Guard troops are being sentto the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, raising their number to about40,000, but questions linger about the speed with which troops weredeployed. Several states ready and willing to send National Guard troops tothe ...
FEMA faces critics, storm aftermath
Sep 04, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - In President Bush's other Gulf war, Michael Brown ishis field commander, struggling with the reality of Hurricane Katrinarelief and the apocalyptic images from the South. The Federal Emergency Management Agency - once a lone agency, nowpart of the Homeland Security ...
ONE OF A KIND: Big easy has had a scrappy life, may yet come through storm
Sep 04, 2005; ... Beneath the frantic and putrid abyss of looters and bodies anddesperation that New Orleans became last week, there's a decadentcity of crawfish bisque and sparkling jazz, a ferocious city thatbeat back the British army, a tenacious city that has survived plagueand fires, a seductive and ...
U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Sep 04, 2005; ... As of Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005, at least 1,888 members of the U.S.military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003,according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,464 died as aresult of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Thefigures include five ...
Landmarks damaged by storm
Sep 04, 2005; ... In New Orleans, winding streets where revelers meandered,listening to jazz in the sticky heat, are now flooded with murkywater. Some businesses and landmarks are submerged or damaged; othersescaped the water but were ravaged by looters. A list of famous spots in the city, and how ...
19 Iraqi police, soldiers killed by insurgents: 4 civilians killed, 11 wounded; in mortar attack
Sep 04, 2005; ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi security forcesSaturday in clashes around Baqouba, while U.S. and Iraqi forcesintensified an offensive in a rebel-infested city that the Americanssubdued last year - only to have the Iraqis lose control. Eight police officers died in a ...
Kidnapped Briton found dead in Afghanistan
Sep 04, 2005; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - A kidnapped British engineer was found deadSaturday and two bodies discovered in Afghanistan's southern desertwere identified as missing Japanese tourists, raising fears thatelections later this month may be disrupted by militant violence. Taliban-led rebels ...
Dropping in
Sep 04, 2005 ... ABOVE LEFT: Neighbors on East Ridge Road in Charleston got someunexpected excitement when a hot air balloon from the Regatta droppedin on their street Saturday evening. Kathie Lilly said they heard astrange sound and then a young neighbor told them a balloon wasdropping in. Lilly's ...
Other cities have survived disasters and rebuilt
Sep 04, 2005; ... At the close of World War II, American bombers incinerated thecities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic weapons. Within twodecades, both cities had been rebuilt, and their populations hadsurpassed prewar levels. The lesson, according to economists who have studied the ...
Government keeps expanding secrecy
Sep 04, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - The government is withholding more information thanever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year,federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secretsfor each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdoggroups reported ...
Big Easy's evacuation gets up to speed: Salvation comes too late for many
Sep 04, 2005; ... NEW ORLEANS - Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused andairlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans tothe dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many dayswithout food, water or medical care. No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane ...
Slots boom in West Virginia: Video poker brings bucks, headaches to state
Sep 04, 2005; ... At places like The Hot Spot, Mimis and The Owls Nest, in suburbs,strip malls and faded downtowns, West Virginia gamblers poured $1.05billion into video lottery machines within the past year enough tofund nearly a third of the state budget. These parlors reflect thestates attempt to curb ...
Limited video lottery machines by county
Sep 04, 2005; ... Players of West Virginia's limited video lottery games put $1.05billion into the machines over the course of the fiscal year endingJune 30, according to the state Lottery Commission. Machines/ No. of 1,000 Amount County Sites Machines people ...
Katrina evacuees distraught over having to leave pets behind
Sep 04, 2005; ... ATLANTA - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleanshospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for herdogs. She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's weddingring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her ...
VX Nerves frayed over saga of its storage or disposal
Sep 04, 2005; ... NEWPORT, Ind. - Like the house guest who never leaves, VX nerveagent, one of the last and deadliest vestiges of the Cold War, sitsin thick steel storage tubes amid western Indiana's vast green fieldsof corn and soybeans. Maybe the more than 1,200 tons of dangerous chemical ...
Quilters busy keeping promise to soldiers' survivors
Sep 04, 2005; ... VALLEY PARK, Mo. - The war in Iraq is racing ahead of Jan Lang'sgood intentions. In 2003, around the time President Bush declared major combatoperations to be over, Lang and a group of military mothers pledgedto provide a handmade, personalized quilt for the next of kin ofevery ...
Iran's clerics watch middle class for signs of upheaval
Sep 04, 2005; ... This is another story in an occasional series examining the faultlines within Islam between the forces of moderation and extremism.The consequences of this fight shook America to its core on Sept. 11,2001, and is tearing at Muslim power centers such as Iran. Thestruggle for Islam may be ...
Pa. taps Sunday beer sales
Sep 04, 2005; ... CAMP HILL, Pa. - Enjoying a cold beer is getting a little easierin Pennsylvania this holiday weekend, but only a little. Under new state laws in effect this weekend, Jim Yaple, presidentof Westy Beer Distributor, is among 800 distributors now allowed forthe first time to sell beer ...
"No place is so dear to my childhood, As the little brown church in the vale": Church made famous in song turns 150
Sep 04, 2005; ... NASHUA, Iowa - Truckers stop by to say a quick prayer, couplesfrom as far away as Australia come to get married and many visitorsare so inspired that they belt out the song that made the "littlebrown church in the vale" famous. After more than 72,000 weddings and visits from as ...
Weather data
Sep 04, 2005 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 82 Low 57 Sept. 3 record high 101 set in 1953 Sept. 3 record low 45 set in 1967 Saturday's precipitation Midnight to 5 p.m.: ...
State & regional weather
Sep 04, 2005 ... W.Va. Today - Monday Today, mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Tonight, mostlyclear. Lows in the mid-50s. Monday, mostly sunny. Highs in the mid-80s. Monday night, clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam: Today, mostly sunny. Highs in thelower 80s ....
World weather
Sep 04, 2005 ... Amsterdam 73 60 pc Athens 82 69 Clr Baghdad 109 81 Clr Berlin 78 55 Rain Bermuda 87 78 pc Cairo 95 75 Clr Calgary 75 48 pc Dublin 66 48 Clr Hong Kong 89 84 pc Jerusalem 87 77 pc London 75 57 pc Madrid ...
U.S. weather
Sep 04, 2005 ... Anchorage 58 48 Rain Atlanta 88 66 Clr Boston 80 62 PCldy Charlotte, N.C. 89 61 Clr Chicago 80 56 Clr Cincinnati 81 57 Clr Cleveland 74 56 Clr Dallas-Ft Worth 98 74 Cldy Denver 92 55 PCldy Detroit 78 55 Clr Elkins 75 ...
Nursing home exiles: Ventilator patients forced to leave state to get care they need
Sep 04, 2005; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com MARIETTA, Ohio - Two years ago, Michelle Jones was given twooptions: Move to an out-of-state nursing home or die. Jones, the mother of five young children, suffers from a rare formof muscular dystrophy. In October 2002, a fire destroyed herClendenin home, ...
Pechiney workers approve contract
Sep 04, 2005; ... RAVENSWOOD - Union employees of Pechiney Rolled Products haveapproved a new contract, after voting a second time on the proposal. In a vote that ended at midnight on Friday, members of the UnitedSteelworkers Local 5668 approved the contract by a 470-to-305 margin. "We're glad ...
SANDY ON SUNDAY: 'I knew it was a story that needed to be told'
Sep 04, 2005; ... HE SAW how the Yankees ruined Richmond. "The city was on fire andall the bridges burned down and the big steamers were burned and sunkin the James River." He listened to Mother Jones stir up West Virginia miners, first ina Cedar Grove schoolhouse and later at the Ward opera house ....
Stars get last hurrah
Sep 04, 2005; ... AUTHOR Hunter S. Thompson's funeral last month proved to be morefestive than most weddings or homecoming rallies, with the author'sashes being launched into the Colorado night sky from 34 fireworksmortars perched on a 150-foot-high tower shaped like a raised fist. Those attending ...