The Christian Science Monitor back issues from July 1999:
Taking dance to new heights; Dancers from around the world came to Boston to perform aerial works.(USA)
Jul 01, 1999; ... At 6:30 in the evening, the sidewalks of downtown Boston are teeming with people on the move. But on the corner of Arlington and Columbus, music begins to blare from giant loudspeakers, and foot traffic starts to slow. Within moments, crowds on all sides of the ...
Spiral of prosperity grips capital; Vibrant US economy and earlier spending limits combine to produce a new.(USA)
Jul 01, 1999; ... Somewhere, David Stockman may be smiling. The mop-haired Mr. Stockman was Ronald Reagan's first top budget official. He entered office full of budget-cutting zeal. He left disillusioned, after admitting to a reporter that there was probably no way he was going to ...
National parks finally afford a make-over.(USA)(Fee Hikes Pay Off)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Beneath the chrome noon sun, across a moonscape of rocky ravines and camel-colored dunes, the sound echoes like a basso profundo in a world-class opera. It's the earsplitting hee-HONK of wild burros, which have become the bane of other wildlife in Mojave National Preserve. ...
Some dark words of history come to light; Looking Back.(USA)(Hitler's Laws)
Jul 01, 1999; ... They are displayed matter-of-factly in a corner of an exhibit on the Jewish experience. Bureaucratic, hand-typed, without puffery or blandishment, they may be the most ignominious documents in the Jews' 4,000-year history. They are four sheets of paper dated Sept. 15, 1935, ...
After Kosovo, US Air Force and Army in a tug of war; Few see major shift in Pentagon spending, but importance of air power.(USA)
Jul 01, 1999; ... To some, Kosovo is proof that war can be won with concentrated bombing alone. To others, the lessons from NATO's air campaign are not that clear. But the analysis and interpretation of the 11-week campaign waged against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ...
Wanted: two Fed officials to sit in Greenspan's shadow; Clinton hasn't filled posts at Federal Reserve, but chairman's.(USA)
Jul 01, 1999; ... Two chairs were vacant when Federal Reserve policymakers met yesterday in their marble Washington headquarters to set short-term interest rates. The absence of two Fed governors didn't make much difference to investors and borrowers. They held their breath as usual. ...
Gears turning on how to make trucking safer; As the number of big rigs on the road increases, lawmakers are.(USA)
Jul 01, 1999; ... Wearing jeans, black boots, and a gray T-shirt that reads ARMY, Gail Averett may not look like an expert on truck safety. But the young trucker eating at a dusty rest stop here has plenty to say on the issue, and whips out a tattered flier advertising a July 5 truckers' strike to improve ...
The Monitor Movie Guide.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
Jul 02, 1999 ... STAR RATINGS ++++Excellent +++ Very Good++ Fair + Poor DUD The Worst NEW RELEASES BIG DADDY (PG-13) Director: Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi, Cole and Dylan Sprouse. (95 min.) ...
Sosa: big home runs, bigger smiles.(Features)(Arts & Lesiure)(Sports)(The Sporting Scene)
Jul 02, 1999 ... It was a typical summer afternoon Major League Baseball game here the other day, which is to say a lot of sun and little at stake. Both the home Colorado Rockies and the visiting Chicago Cubs are average teams at this juncture with myriad problems that beset average teams - fundamental ...
A career that demands respect; Rod Steiger talks about war, live TV, and the craft of acting.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Television)(Hollywood Stories)
Jul 02, 1999; ... "Beneficent aggression" may seem a contradictory term, but the phrase describes veteran stage and film actor Rod Steiger quite well, particularly now as he reflects on a tumultuous lifetime in Hollywood. "Anger and terror are two great sources of creativity," says the actor, ...
What's On TV.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Television)
Jul 02, 1999 ... SATURDAY 7/3 Wimbledon (NBC, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.): It's been a traditional Wimbledon so far. There's been rain. More rain. And surprises. As scheduled, the women's final airs today, the men's tomorrow at the same time. The Great American History Quiz (The History Channel, 9-10 p.m.): ...
Country Hall of Fame's latest star lets her light shine.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Music)(Interview/Dolly Parton)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Deep in the forest of the Smoky Mountains, shafts of sunlight bounced off a long-forgotten chapel in the hills. Nine-year-old Dolly Parton often went there to sing. She liked the way her voice sounded as it echoed through the rafters. That day seemed like any other spring ...
Bigger label isn't always better.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Veteran blues singer Chris Whitley recently received his first royalty check. It's not that it took him so long to break into the recording industry - he put out three previous albums with Sony - he just needed to step away from the big time and sign with an itty-bitty independent label ...
Sports 101.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Sports)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Espn's X games. it's the wildest event in sports. Think of it as a 10-day alternative-sports festival that includes bicycle stunts, street luge, sport climbing, aggressive in-line skating, and skysurfing. More than 450 of the top alternative athletes compete for almost $1 million in prize ...
Even better than the real thing? With digitized images, you may not be able to tell the original from a.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
Jul 02, 1999; ... A revolution has taken place in the world of making images. It happened when workers here at the National Gallery in London placed a replica of "The Magdalen Reading" alongside several other paintings by 15th-century Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden. This incredibly ...
Block that TV sex and violence.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Short Takes)
Jul 02, 1999 ... The V-chip arrived yesterday. Does anybody care? With great fanfare in 1996 Congress mandated that this TV program-blocking technology must begin to be put into sets manufactured after July 1, 1999. Combined with a ratings system for TV shows, the chip would allow parents to ...
An actress with chameleon-like versatility.
Jul 02, 1999 ... Consider the case of Sharon Stone, who comes to the Cannes Film Festival and causes near-pandemonium every time her fans discover she's left her hotel suite for a stroll. Now consider the case of Julianne Moore, who's one of today's most gifted actresses, but not the sort of ...
Hollywood raids TV for box-office fireworks; Now Showing.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Movies)
Jul 02, 1999; ... Hoping to grab a big brass ring at the Fourth of July box office, Hollywood has turned to television for inspiration. Wild Wild West takes its cue from a mid-'60s TV series that brought James Bond's aura - action, gadgetry, womanizing - to the then-popular western format. ...
Fitting a 23-foot statue on your computer screen.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Art)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Lately, it's been increasingly difficult to judge what draws more attention at the famed Galleria della Accademia in Florence, Italy - Michelangelo's illustrious sculptures or the Stanford University scientists busy scanning them. Stanford, and some of Italy's most eminent ...
1-800-Paint-Me-a-Masterpiece; Can't afford a Monet? Try a replica painted by hand or machine.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Art)
Jul 02, 1999; ... There's a history behind Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" worthy of a caper in "The Pink Panther." The painting was stolen for the third time in 1911 and recovered in 1913. Before it was found, though, eight copies had been made and sold to collectors, all of whom believed ...
To the sandbox set, I'm 'generic dad'.(The Home Forum)
Jul 02, 1999 ... I suspect it's the nondescript gray business suit, the shabby brown briefcase, and the loosened tie that account for the confusion. But I prefer to think that there is something intrinsically paternal about me that leads the neighborhood kids - the toddlers mostly - to shout "Daddy!" ...
A universal flag of freedom.(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)
Jul 02, 1999 ... In the recent past, some experts have said that international law is concerned only with nations and their self-interest, as opposed to the individual and to moral principles. But today, individual rights have become a growing subject in international law, and this statement is ...
The Maine way we rang in the Fourth.(The Home Forum)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Quite the proper native Bostonian, at the age of 10 I removed to Maine, which was my father's birthplace. I settled in Freeport, a coastal village that had gone to sea, and Dad and I never regretted the transmogrification that restored him and enriched me. At once, kerplunk, I was in a ...
Repatriating refugees, rugs, and VCRs.(World)(Kfor Cops)
Jul 02, 1999 ... You won't find "furniture Repatriation" in any US Army manual. But in the caldron known as Kosovo, Capt. John Lerner's artillery unit is employing a novel honor system to avert looting and burning in the US-patrolled sector. Three weeks into their mission, NATO ...
US disclosure on Chile may echo; This week's release of long-secret papers opens a wider window on US role in Latin America.(World)
Jul 02, 1999; ... By releasing previously classified documents Wednesday on its dealings with Chile, the United States government appears to have done more than just flesh out some historical footnotes. For former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet, the papers could provide ammunition in the legal ...
Today's Story Line.(World)
Jul 02, 1999 ... How do you keep peace in Kosovo? It's still chaotic, and a lot depends on the demands of the sector. The German KFOR commanders have nightly curfews. The Italians are understaffed. The Americans are using clowns, drones, and a zero-tolerance policy. Book a room at the Hotel ...
Grand Hotel Pristina: where guests tote guns, cameras.(World)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Order has returned to the Grand Hotel Pristina, the once five-star hotel in Kosovo that just a few days ago more closely resembled Barnum & Bailey's three rings. As NATO moved in and Serb soldiers departed, the resulting chaos spilled from the street into the hotel lobby ....
Patients' rights; From bad to worse: Doctors used to be decisionmakers, now it's insurers.(Opinion)(Column)
Jul 02, 1999; ... In the Senate the other day, I listened to Byron Dorgan, (D) of North Dakota, telling one of those managed health-care horror stories you hear these days. A woman fell 40 feet down an embankment, was evacuated unconscious by Medivac helicopter and taken to the nearest hospital ...
Don't forget the Kosovar prisoners.(Opinion)
Jul 02, 1999 ... For thousands of Kosovars and their families the war is not yet over. As the West debates what aid to provide to Serbia, their plight should not be forgotten. These are the Kosovo Albanians arrested during the course of the 16-month war as well as those transported to Serbian prisons "for ...
The Bard on base.(Opinion)
Jul 02, 1999 ... Shakespeare almost had it right - "All the world's a stage." What he meant to say is, all the world's really a baseball diamond. Imagine him at the controls of one of the new, screaming, beaming electronic scoreboards that give play-by-play quips on the game. Roy H. Millenson, of Bethesda, ...
America's mood of contentment; On the eve of July 4, people from Oregon to Maine are optimistic, with.(USA)
Jul 02, 1999; ... Sure, there are things to gripe about, says Jon Tudor, playing with his young son here in southern Oregon on a sunny, summer day along a cool creek, with an ice cream shop beckoning just across the footbridge. But "most of the time, I feel proud to be an American," he says. "I ...
With a dam's demise, hope for reviving rivers; Demolition begins of dam in Maine, signaling rise of environmental.(USA)(Reverse Engineering)
Jul 02, 1999; ... In the middle of Maine's Kennebec River, a backhoe bites mouthfuls of earth, chewing through gravel and 160 years of history. As the Edwards Dam crumbles, water rushes freely through this stretch of river for the first time since before the Civil War - christening a new era for ...
CEOs getting the boot for sexual misconduct.(USA)
Jul 02, 1999 ... There's a new warning out there for America's corporate executives: Sexual misconduct on the job could get you fired, fast. The recent resignation of the chief executive officer of Chicago-based Florsheim Group Inc. under a cloud of sexual-wrongdoing charges - and a handful of ...
California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust' Texas governor culls advice from members of Hoover Institution in his presidential bid.(USA)
Jul 02, 1999; ... George W. Bush may have gotten his drawl from Texas and his pedigree from Washington, but many of his ideas are coming from California. Though the GOP presidential front-runner made his first trip this week as a candidate to this state, he's had a year-long running engagement ...
Showdown over $7.8 billion plan to restore the Everglades; Congress begins debating its share of nation's largest, costliest restoration project.(USA)
Jul 02, 1999; ... Florida politicians and environmental lobbyists are pulling out every adjective they can muster to help build national support for a proposed $7.8 billion plan to save Florida's Everglades. "We are committing ourselves this week to a 20- to 30-year effort that I think will ...
'Grand political bargain' may end up as modest one; Americans may get some tax relief, school money, and Social Security 'lock box.'.(USA)
Jul 02, 1999; ... The phenomenon of a surging federal bank account has kindled rare hopes in Washington: not merely for tax cuts, an assault on the national debt, or bolstering Medicare, but possibly a grand political bargain in which several major goals are furthered. The question is whether two ...
Riding out the storm.(Features)(Work & Money)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Heavy selling doused stocks in the second quarter, but instead of bringing flowers, the showers left many mutual-fund investors midyear with wet-blanket portfolios. Although most major stock indexes and the funds tied to them emerged from the past three months slightly higher, ...
Time to point, click, and punt?(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutual Funds Quarterly)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Internet mutual funds faltered during the second quarter, stirring debate over whether the blazing sector is just flickering or running out of speculative fuel. The American Stock Exchange Internet Index plunged more than 30 percent in just six weeks ending in mid-June before ...
Investors go for solid ground.(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutual Funds Quarterly)
Jul 06, 1999 ... They're neither pretty nor fragrant, but during the second quarter, Wall Street's earthiest industries - metals, forest products, and chemicals - came into full bloom. Mutual funds that invest in basic materials stocks flourished during a broad shift from expensive growth stocks ...
Online brokerages are not for everyone.(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutual Funds Quarterly)(Q & A)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Q. I keep receiving invitations to sign up with an online brokerage. Yet my wife and I seldom buy stocks. Should we put an initial deposit in this brokerage's money-market account? M.S., New York A. Your hesitancy about shifting to the Internet "is understandable," says James ...
The Big 20.(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutual Funds Quarterly)
Jul 06, 1999 ... The 20 largest mutual funds certainly look promising for those who invest for the long-term. The average annual return over the past five years for many of these funds tops 20 percent. Returns in the second quarter weren't bad either - 7 percent or better for most. ...
Top-performing* funds by objective.(Features)(Work And Money)(Mutual Funds Quarterly)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Capital Appreciation % Return Phone number2nd qtr Berger New Gen. 30.6 800-960-84271 yr Profunds Ultraotc Inv 129.1 888-776-36375 yr Rydex OTC Fund Inv 45.5 800-820-0888Equity Income2nd ...
What if there were no more treasury bonds?(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutual Funds Quaterly)(Economic Scene)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., a financial boutique based in New York, has a problem. It specializes in the purchase and sale of US Treasury securities. But those bills, notes, and bonds are disappearing. Uncle Sam is retiring debt - Lanston's "product." "It's a new ...
Many funds for the price of one.
Jul 06, 1999 ... The mutual-fund universe offers plenty for investors. Thousands of different funds focus on a variety of subjects: growth, value, Internet, technology, large and small companies, just to name a few. But suppose you want to own a wide range of funds but can only ...
When buying into a fund of funds ...
Jul 06, 1999 ... *Check the expense ratio for the prospective fund. Some are among the costliest in the industry. *Find out what securities the fund holds. Some underlying funds may not jibe with your personal values. *Consider alternatives. If you have less than $2,500 to invest, you ...
Stories, stories everywhere.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, legends, folk tales, jokes, yarns, tall tales. These are types of stories people love to tell. Perhaps a storyteller has come to your school or library, just the way traveling bards, minstrels, or troubadours used to journey from town to town telling ...
Tips from a professional storyteller.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Want to tell a story that will keep your listeners on the edge of their seats? Here are some tips from professional storyteller, Leticia Pizzino, who lives in Salt Lake City and is currently on a six-week storytelling tour. It sounds pretty basic, but every good story has a ...
Structural repairs.(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)
Jul 06, 1999 ... A friend once had me evaluate a house under construction. After looking it over, I said I wouldn't touch the place with a 10-foot pole. It was obvious that the builder had not understood structural principles. Posts supporting the floor were not upright. Walls placed at odd ...
Kashmir war of rocks and grappling hooks; As the war hardens, the Pakistani leader and Clinton strike a tentative.(World)
Jul 06, 1999; ... It is a surreal struggle: Two nuclear powers, reduced at times to hurling boulders, battle for a range of inhospitable frozen peaks. The current war between India and Pakistan puts a much harder edge on what had become an almost ritualized clash in recent decades, and reverses ...
Nicaragua, just two pieces of pie? Ruling party, Sandinistas make a pact. But many say their divvying up.(World)
Jul 06, 1999; ... At a main intersection in this Central American capital city, two statues glare across the street at each other. One, from the Marxist Sandinista revolution years of the 1980s, is of a field worker thrusting a machine gun aloft. Time, shifting political winds, and damage from ...
Today's Story Line.(World)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Clad in Nike headbands, Dacron winter suits, and supplied with German fruit juice, the guerrillas on the Pakistan side have haute couture, haute cuisine, and the haute ground in Kashmir. But the Indians are steadily gaining back lost territory. And Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, ...
Volatile elements in N. Ireland's new political formula; Under Blair plan, self-rule assembly to meet July 15; IRA arms handover.(World)(Quest For Peace)
Jul 06, 1999; ... In the next few days the lone British bobby who guards the door of 10 Downing Street had better get used to doing a lot of saluting. Chances are he'll have to greet 27 Ulster Unionist members of Northern Ireland's legislative assembly. Government sources in London say the ...
Quiet parade: part of slow march toward peace?(World)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Officials in Britain and Northern Ireland are breathing a sigh of relief in the wake of Sunday's decision by the Orange Order not to parade down a mainly Catholic road in Portadown, but remain wary of possible future unrest. The standoff was only one of several planned ...
Letters.(Opinion)(Reader's Write)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Ask not how much money, but what it can do Regarding "Score another $40 billion for Bill Gates" (June 28): There is an old saying among money people that if all the money in the world were distributed equally, it would eventually end up in the hands of the same people before the division ....
'Trade, not aid' It didn't work, concludes US foreign aid chief.(Opinion)
Jul 06, 1999; ... President Clinton recently announced that the federal budget surplus will be $1 trillion over the next 15 years, yet we continue to run our foreign-assistance program under budget caps set when we had a deficit. These budget caps are a disaster when it comes to protecting America's ...
The spin keeps going and going and ...(Opinion)(Column)
Jul 06, 1999 ... I'm so tired of the spin this president and his aides put on so much of what comes out of the White House. For example, the other day, a Page 1 New York Times story was headlined: "Aides Say Clinton Is Angered as Gore Tries to Break Away." And then, midway there was this ...
Test scores: flash point for schools; As mostly poor results roll in, districts react in varied ways - from.(USA)
Jul 06, 1999; ... From New York to California, some of the first results of America's bold experiment in school testing are coming in - offering a glimpse into how well a decade of education reform is working. The early verdict: Class, take out your books again. Many cities and states are ...
GOP aspirants fight Bush vagueness with specificity.(USA)(Inside Politics)
Jul 06, 1999 ... Publisher Steve Forbes proposes "one strike and you're out," no parole for violent felons. Former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander wants to triple the child tax deduction to $8,000. And former Vice President Dan Quayle proposes a 30 percent across-the-board income tax cut. ...
The Baron of Wrigleyville has a catbird seat; Baseball People - Folks who make the game go.(USA)(Up On The Roof)
Jul 06, 1999; ... George Loukas is a Greek immigrant who's living and loving an American baseball dream. You see, Mr. Loukas is the owner of what almost every committed Chicago Cubs fan (and there are quite a few in this city) dreams of owning: a building across the street from Wrigley Field with ...
Pine Ridge Reservation fights alcoholism, high jobless rate; Clinton will visit Indian site tomorrow where eight in 10 are.(USA)
Jul 06, 1999; ... As long as the Pine Ridge Reservation has existed, alcohol has been banned from its borders, condemned as a scourge that would strip the tribe and its members of self-respect. But the flat, hot road that links Pine Ridge with the outpost of Whiteclay, Neb., is littered with beer ...
Lemonade stands aren't the only way to satisfy young job seekers.(Features)(Learning)(The Notebook)
Jul 07, 1999 ... Summer's here, and lemonade stands are sprouting like daffodils. Quaffing profits and giving change with sticky hands and citrus smiles is a part of summer. Marketing, personnel, rent, and profits are all factors that kids learn when setting up their business. Being an ...
Hold the halibut, please; PIZZA WITH THE WORKS.
Jul 07, 1999; ... Ask Larry Flax what goes well on pizza and you'll get a litany. Ask him what doesn't, and the list is shorter. "Halibut," says the co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen, wincing like a kid facing a plate of spinach. "And most other fish," he quickly adds. If only ...
School's not out for summer.(Features)(Learning)
Jul 07, 1999 ... The summer days of a child are meant to be filled with fields of green or lingering ball games and street hockey -not math, science, and worries about reading scores. But that once-cherished view of summer as a time for kids to rest and play may be on its way out. Struggling ...
www.summerschool.com.(Features)(Learning)(Chalk Talk)
Jul 07, 1999 ... Plug "summer school" into an Internet browser and take a look at the things people are willing to study when the mercury hits 100. If space plasma physics and neutron spectroscopy don't appeal, there's always the English Shakespeare Company Summer School, or -for budding Gores ...
Please leave your stereotypes at the door.(Features)(Learning)(K-12)(Gender Studies For Teens)
Jul 07, 1999 ... The students in Brian Poon's social-studies class are engaged in heated discussion about backpacks. Tiny backpacks, to be exact. "Why are these for girls? What reaction would a boy get if he came to school wearing a tiny backpack?" asks Mr. Poon, a tall, striking figure who is ...