The Christian Science Monitor back issues from April 2000:
How to avoid taxes when a merger brings a windfall.(Features)(Work & Money)(Q & A)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Q My father-in-law owns a sizable number of shares of a company which will soon be bought out by another company. The buyout includes half cash and half stock. He has owned the shares a long time and there is potential for a large capital-gains tax. Is there any way to minimize these ...
Building your case for a better paycheck.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Negotiating your salary is probably one of the most important feats of verbal wrangling you will likely never perform. The majority of us get so excited about landing an offer (or a raise) that we leave it at that. Yet research shows that most workers end up leaving a ...
A few salary resources.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000 ... *"Occupational Outlook Handbook" and "America's Top 300 Jobs." Updated by the US Department of Labor every two years, these provide starting and average pay ranges across a variety of industries. *"The Career Connection for College Education: A Guide to College Majors & Related ...
Shoemaker Reebok puts it in writing.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Besides being a leading maker of footwear, Reebok is among the first companies to put its human rights stance down on paper. "Reebok's devotion to human rights worldwide is a hallmark of our corporate culture. As a corporation in an ever-more global economy, we will not be ...
How to find clues about a company's policies.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Consumer groups can tell you where to buy the best vacuum cleaner. Environmental groups rate the cleanest and dirtiest companies. But when it comes to human rights, there's no easy scorecard. The idea is too new. "A consumer wants to know who are the good companies ...
A founder's two chief goals.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Buying stock in companies that do good can have "feel-good" rewards. For some, that's enough. But Citizens Funds founder Sophia Collier demands more. "We would never attempt to excuse poor financial performance by saying 'well, we did it in a socially responsible ...
Buddy, can you spare $200 billion? The US can!(Features)(Work & Money)(Economic Scene)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Congress has a problem that we'd all like to have: too much money. Federal revenues are piling up so fast it could discombobulate the political scene. The growing surplus makes George W. Bush's plan for a $300 billion tax cut over five years more possible without ...
A 'good citizen' tries turning world-beater.(Features)(Work & Money)(Mutal Fundamentals)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Sevgi Ipek needs a vacation. The manager of the Citizens Global Equity Fund says she has been working 15-hour days seven days a week ever since she was featured in Business Week last December. The article, along with the fund's recent performance, helped create a ...
Where activist attitudes help.(Features)(Work & Money)(In The Loop)
Apr 03, 2000 ... A reader called last Tuesday morning, clearly frustrated and looking to vent. Just one "little chicken," as she put it - a citizen getting by on a fixed income - she was also part of a group tracking the cleanup of a Superfund site in Florida. A company called ...
Showing workers a way up; Companies operating abroad pay closer attention to human rights.(Features)(Work & Money)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Just as the environment climbed to the top of corporate agendas during the 1990s, human rights looks likely to gain more attention this decade. Already, incidents in California, Sudan, China, and Nigeria have forced a small cadre of companies to take a close look at the issue. ...
Workers value company integrity.(Features)(Work & Money)(A Week's Worth)
Apr 03, 2000 ... More employees are finding that their company's ethics and integrity play an important role in their level of job commitment. According to a study conducted jointly by the Indianapolis-based research firms Walker Information and Hudson Institute, the six workforce factors (in no ...
Market Monitor.(Features)(Work & Money)(A Week's Worth)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Percent changeFriday since Stock indexes close Jan. 1 Dow Jones Industrial Average 10921.92 -5.0%30 giant companies Standard & Poor's 500 1498.58 ...
Top trends consumers should consider.(Features)(Work & Money)(A Week's Worth)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Consumers usually have a lot on their minds. So much so that they have little time to think about what makes them pay higher prices, or hurts the quality of goods they buy. That's the main job of the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit group in Washington. Visiting the Monitor's ...
A towering bed makes me small again.(The Home Forum)
Apr 03, 2000 ... I have no particular schedule for replacing things that get worn out. The number of years something is supposed to last is of no interest to me, and as a result, everything I own hangs around for much longer than it should. Then all at once my vision clears, and I see, for instance, that ...
The daddy that dreams are made of.(The Home Forum)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Even before my daughter could talk, she found ways to express a preference for her father. Nearly every time my husband and I approached her crib together, her little arms reached out in his direction. I may have been jealous, but I didn't blame her. My husband was a gentle ...
No fear in love.(The Home Forum)
Apr 03, 2000 ... The connection that a person's thoughts have to health and healing is becoming more and more obvious. One of the most satisfying things in my life is to see proof of how God, who is divine Love, destroys fear of all kinds - and heals. The Apostle John said this: "There is no ...
When pocketbook issues clash with human rights; Alleged violations in Chechnya and China top the UN's list at the Geneva meetings this month.(World)
Apr 03, 2000; ... This month at an annual ritual in Geneva, officials from 53 governments are struggling to determine which states should be branded human rights violators. But, to the frustration of many delegates to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, the behind-the-scenes reality of negotiations ...
China's migrant schools skirt law; Migrant laborers living in illegal urban shantytowns create schools to keep their families together in the city.(World)
Apr 03, 2000; ... The Xingzhi primary school is a smudge of packed dirt and drafty shacks on the outskirts of Beijing, brightened only by the children's colorful clothes and the propaganda on the walls. "Society is our savior!" exhorts one large poster: This school relies on donations and the ...
Pushing to clean up Brazil's waterways.(World)(Pollution Crisis)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Fernando Gomes stretches over the bridge and pulls his net out of the murky green waters of the Canal de Joatinga, where Rio de Janeiro's flatland lagoons flow out to the Atlantic Ocean. The retired military officer isn't having much success. A morning's work has netted only a ...
Today's Story Line.(World)
Apr 03, 2000 ... The US has relied heavily on trade sanctions as a diplomatic club. But the efficacy of this blunt instrument is again being challenged. Few now argue that UN sanctions are working against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. In Beijing, some 100 schools are built on the foundation of ...
Is the West too quick to sanction? A UN official quit last week over the human cost in Iraq of sanctions. US curbs cover half of the world population.(World)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Sanction fatigue is setting in. This diplomatic stick, employed more times by President Clinton than any other leader in US history, is losing its effectiveness and appeal on the global stage. High-profile failings of economic sanctions - especially in Iraq - are ...
Charity that changes society.(Opinion)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Charity clearly comes naturally to Americans, who generously gave away $175 billion last year. But does charity work? For all the good it does, the answer is that traditional philanthropy, unfortunately, reinforces what is instead of working toward what could be. ...
Has Giuliani's 'tough talk' gone too far?(Opinion)(Column)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Saying there's tension in New York City is a lot like saying there are cars in Detroit. Tension is what makes New York go round. Creative energy, subway sneers, rude cab drivers are all part of the grand mosaic that make New York the magic kingdom of urban angst. But lately the ...
State may give drunk drivers death penalty; N. Carolina is at front of trend that treats vehicular homicide as just plain murder.(USA)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Building for more than a decade, the trend toward harsher penalties for drunken drivers who kill is nearing its uppermost extreme: the death penalty. Here in North Carolina - where the drunk-driving laws are perhaps the toughest in the nation -the state Supreme Court is ...
Concerns rise as ecoterrorists expand aim; Biotech research and fur farms are the latest targets of fringe groups on the far left.(USA)(Renewed Militancy)
Apr 03, 2000; ... They call themselves "elves," but their activities are more like those of the Unabomber than of Santa's little helpers. And if some lawmakers around the country have their way, these radical environmental outlaws will be treated like the Mafia - as racketeers. Such calls for a ...
College players still amateurs ... but barely.(USA)(Hoop Dreams)
Apr 03, 2000 ... Madness is the sports cliche for this time of year, when rising stars and workaday math majors share the court to determine college basketball's national champions. More than other sporting events, the NCAA Division I tournament is a showcase of American egalitarianism, a rough ...
In a big shift, US parents tilt to Bush; Clinton scandals and concern about public morality count heavily in their choice.(USA)(The Parent Gap)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Four years ago, President Clinton was famous for being far more popular among women than among men as he sought a second term. And among women with children at home, Mr. Clinton thoroughly dominated Republican nominee Bob Dole: Mothers preferred Clinton 60 percent to 37 percent ....
Divide grows over Elian's future; Washington and Miami seem further apart as boy's case enters a critical week.(USA)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Ada Mejia spends up to eight hours every day standing vigil outside Elian Gonzalez's house. She says she is not worried about international legal precedents or the fine points of US immigration and family law. All she wants is for Elian to live free in Miami. "The mother gave ...
What's New.(Features)(Learning)(The Notebook)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Are you an educated tax-saver? Here are some tax credits you may not know are out there: The Hope and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits aim to help families pay for college or job-training to upgrade their skills. Some 4.8 million families claimed these credits in 1998, the first ...
Night school loses its second-class status.(Features)(Learning)(Lifelong Learning)
Apr 04, 2000 ... One-hundred years ago, night schools existed in the United States, but they were small in number and their students were considered second-class citizens in the world of education. It wasn't until 1971, with a report from the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, that the dearth of ...
Latest trend at the mall: retail classes; Managers rave about skills of training-center grads.(Features)(Learning)(Lifelong Learning)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Armani. Versace. Coach. Louis Vuitton. Hermes. Some of the toniest retailers in the world peddle their wares at the largest mall in the Northeast, in suburban King of Prussia, Penn. Not exactly where you'd expect to find free educational opportunities for inner-city Philadelphia ...
Building communities through a public-library renaissance.(Features)(Learning)(The Notebook)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Where can you surf the Web, listen to a CD, watch a play, and hang at out a cafe - all in one building? A good bet is a public library. As the millennium approaches, communities large and small are reinvesting in public libraries as centers of learning, literacy, and culture ...
Web smarts.(Features)(Learning)(The Notebook)
Apr 04, 2000 ... www.bookadventure.org WHAT: Students in grades K-8 can win prizes for reading books. BEST POINTS: Book Adventure is a free, nonprofit, online reading program designed to encourage children to read more often, for longer periods of time, and with greater understanding ....
Degrees of determination; Feisty Cambridge College sets a high standard for helping adults build on life experience and go back to school.(Features)(Learning)
Apr 04, 2000; ... The U-shaped group of seminar tables in a class here at Cambridge College sport as many soda cans and snack wrappers as notebooks. Students wolf down pizza slices, slouch a bit in their chairs, and talk back to the professor. The professor, Paul Harrington, loves every minute of ...
Who wants to win a bonus?(Features)(Learning)(Chalk Talk)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Who wouldn't want to receive a bonus? A silly question, perhaps, in our "you are what you earn" times. But talk money in the context of the public schools, and nothing (or everything, depending on your perspective) is silly. More often, it's explosive. Housing and ...
Documenting inner-city kids' rise to the top.(Features)(Learning)(K-12)(Interview / Miles Corwin)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Inner-city public schools often bring to mind images from movies like "Dangerous Minds": menacing minority students, drugs, and gangs. But Miles Corwin offers another view in his book, "And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students" (Bard ...
Crenshaw grad topples stereotypes at Babson.(Features)(Learning)(K-12)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Olivia Mora is a central character in Miles Corwin's new book. He says of her background: "By the time she was 16, she had lived in a dozen foster homes. She had been removed from her home at age 12 because of abuse, and she was at one time virtually homeless and living out of her car ....
She's here, there, and everywhere; An occasional profile of teachers who make the grade with students and colleagues.(Features)(Learning)(Preschool)(Interview / Gloria Kingsbury: Teaching With)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Keeping up with Gloria Kingsbury, founder and director of Happy Hollow preschool and kindergarten, is like trying to track a hummingbird. On a typical day, the effervescent Mrs. Kingsbury is always on the move, one minute helping a three-year-old with computer work and the next ...
Expression and discipline converge.(Features)(Learning)(Preschool)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Gloria Kingsbury, the founder and director of Happy Hollow School in Framingham, Mass., shares her thoughts on teaching: "Work and play should not be differentiated in the learning process of children,because play is a child's way of learning. As a child uses toys and ...
What makes us want to try?(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)
Apr 04, 2000 ... When I was in junior high, I decided to try smoking. I hadn't planned ahead. I didn't want anyone to see me, so I couldn't borrow a cigarette. No one around me smoked, so I couldn't take one in secret. And, since I lived in a small town where everyone knew everyone else, and anything you ...
In Japan, a need for stability; Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi hospitalized, interim control goes to a senior minister.(World)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Japan's dominant political party is deliberating over who should next lead the country, since Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi lapsed into a coma Sunday. His sudden illness comes at a time when Japan's economy, moribund for a decade, is teetering between recovery and a return to ...
Upward mobility and salad forks in South Africa.(World)(Racial Equality)
Apr 04, 2000 ... Florence Makwakwa ponders the dazzling array of crystal glasses, silver cutlery, and gold-rimmed bowls that are laid out before her at South Africa's grooming school for the black elite. She takes a deep breath and begins Etiquette Lesson No. 1: How to Sip Soup. "The ...
Latest Russian losses hit home; As elite local police units take on a security role in Chechnya, they make an easier target for rebels.(World)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Entire communities in Russia are in anguish over the loss of dozens of local boys in a conflict the Kremlin keeps declaring finished. The bodies of 20 members of an elite, crime-busting police unit yesterday were returned to Perm, an industrial city in the Urals, the Russian ...
The Shas of Israel rise to prominence; Yesterday, Israel launched an investigation into charges that a powerful rabbi incited violence.(World)(The Balance Of Power)
Apr 04, 2000; ... At first glance, Yacov Ben-Ami, a fish merchant who emigrated from Morocco 50 years ago, seems an unlikely person to alter the balance of political power in Israel. Yet the diminutive Mr. Ben-Ami is doing exactly that. He is among an estimated more than 100,000 Sephardic Jews ...
Today's Story Line.(World)
Apr 04, 2000 ... At press time, Japan's Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was still reportedly in a coma. His absence hits the world's second-largest economy at a difficult time. The search for an Obuchi successor has already begun. Until now, Chechnya has been seen as a military conflict. But with ...
In Hamburg, a warm, safe spot for abandoned babies; In response to high-profile deaths, a German group this week opens an anonymous drop-off point for newborns.(World)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Hamburg, in northern Germany, is one of the country's richest cities. So it came as a shock last year, when on two separate occasions unwanted babies were found dead in municipal waste. The incidents struck a particular chord at the nonprofit organization SterniPark, which runs ...
Furor over scale of Aboriginal assimilation; Australian minister's report says only 10 percent of Aboriginal children are 'stolen.'.(World)
Apr 04, 2000; ... When Prime Minister John Howard unveiled a literacy program for Aboriginal children last week, he proudly called it a step toward white Australia's "practical reconciliation" with the country's Aborigines. His conservative administration may not always please Aboriginal leaders ...
When Bill's away Gridiron still plays.(Opinion)(Column)
Apr 04, 2000 ... The annual dinner-show put on by the Washington Gridiron Club is a great place for a journalist to mix with public figures and pick up information. Why wasn't President Clinton here? Presidents, since 1885, usually have been eager to star in a setting where the audience is made ...
An unproductive wage hike.(Opinion)
Apr 04, 2000 ... The recent congressional debate over the minimum wage had all the elements of a classic conservative-vs.-liberal fight, all head vs. all heart. How, argued Democrats (and some Republicans), could we deny a 20 percent hike to the least fortunate when so many others are benefiting from our ...
Drugs take root in rural America; New evidence shows that teens in small towns now use more illicit substances than their counterparts in cities.(USA)(Trends)
Apr 04, 2000; ... The setting is idyllic: fertile fields, bounded by rows of grain silos, and cows nibbling peacefully in pastures. Here, youths raise livestock for 4-H projects and help their families with crops. And in their free time, some experiment with drugs. Not long ago, illicit drug use ...
Nearing Big Tobacco's twilight? The forces arrayed against the industry threaten bankruptcy. That may lead to major changes.(USA)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Litigation against tobacco companies has reached the point where it could eventually force fundamental restructuring of one of the oldest and most profitable industries in America. Taken together, recent judgments against tobacco firms indicate that their potential legal ...
Arab Americans emerge as key voting bloc; With 89 percent expected to vote this fall, they could be crucial in swing states.(USA)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Sixteen years ago, Sherine El-Abd, an Arab American, decided to get involved in politics. She joined the 1984 Democratic presidential campaign to help organize fund-raisers. But then her idealism turned to frustration. She read in the paper that Walter Mondale had decided to ...
Bonnie and Clyde take an early retirement in L.A. 'Bank-robbery capital of America' no more, Los Angeles - like rest of US - has seen a huge decline in stickups.(USA)
Apr 04, 2000; ... Back in the days of the early 1990s, Los Angeles banks were dangerous places to work. Expanded operating hours and the proliferation of branches on almost every street corner had made banks increasingly vulnerable to armed men in rubber masks. At one point, a ...
Bay Area's new startup: Russian democracy; Stanford hosts a meeting of US and Russian college students this week in an effort to create closer ties.(USA)
Apr 04, 2000; ... On a warm spring day, the menthol fragrance of eucalyptus groves wafts across the leafy campus of Stanford University here. But even more pronounced is the smell of money from nearby Silicon Valley, the lodestar for the young and hungry here at one of America's most elite ...
Dinner was, well, a boar; An ancient repast of roast wild porcine - with all the fixin's - is prepared in France to celebrate the turn of another century.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000; ... Throughout history people have listened to their stomachs. In ancient times, the Romans widened their empire, but, it turns out, failed to broaden their repertoire of seasonings. In the cover story, right, we look back 2,000 years to set the mood. We realize it's the ...
Genesis of the garden of eatin' The evolution of kitchen gardens from monastery to backyard plot.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000; ... Historically, many kitchen gardens produced all the household vegetables - those that were eaten fresh as well as those preserved for out-of-season use. But kitchen gardens weren't limited to vegetables; they often included fruits, herbs, and flowers. A kitchen ...
Tomato - the fruit of love?(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000 ... The tomato is by far the most beloved fruit grown by home gardeners. Although it is commonly called a vegetable, technically it is a fruit. The average American consumes about 18 pounds of fresh tomatoes a year. That includes store-bought "pink cardboard" varieties that grace ...
From flatbread to baguette, a knead to bake.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000 ... The first breads to arrive on the scene some 10,000 years ago were unleavened flatbreads and hearth cakes. In ancient times, flatbreads were made in small communities on many continents from grains of wild grasses that were harvested, toasted, ground, mixed with water, and ...
A feast of films.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000 ... A brief list of movies in which food plays a starring role, or serves as a metaphor. BABETTE'S FEAST (1987) G A French Catholic housemaid in a 19th-century Danish village prepares a fabulous meal out of gratitude to her employers. BIG NIGHT (1995) R ...
Recipes in the Roman mode.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000 ... PUMPKIN IN THE ALEXANDRIAN STYLE 1 small sugar pumpkin or 1 (15-ounce) can prepared pumpkin 1/2 cup pine nuts, coarsely chopped 1 scant tablespoon black peppercorns 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1 tablespoon coriander seeds 6 ...
If you can't stand the heat ...(Features)(A Thousand Years Of Food)
Apr 05, 2000 ... If necessity is the mother of invention, the kitchen is surely one of the great arenas of technological change. The pace was slow through the first two-thirds of the millennium, but the impetus behind 1,000 years of kitchen developments has remained the same: to move food from larder to ...
Pen and ink forge an indelible friendship.(The Home Forum)
Apr 05, 2000 ... A packet bright with foreign stamps arrives in my mailbox - a letter from Monique! Here is news of herself and her family, comments on world events and social issues, even reflections on this 50-year-old correspondence of ours. With the help of a French-English dictionary, I devour these ...
What really makes you attractive.(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)
Apr 05, 2000 ... He was outrageously handsome. And he knew it. Most of all, he was proud of his hair - a gorgeous mane of soft, fine locks that he cut once a year. He was a charmer who knew how to manipulate others - especially his father, who adored him. He told people what they wanted to hear, ...
I make my entrance, offstage.(The Home Forum)(Acting Up)
Apr 05, 2000 ... All the world's not a stage, and all the men and women aren't players. Quite a select segment of humanity are players. An even-more-select segment are amateur players. And since I've joined The Players as an "acting member," no more than 10 actors have actually appeared ...
Peru prepares for a tough choice; A problem solver, yes, but a democrat?(World)
Apr 05, 2000; ... He's revered by many for smashing the Shining Path leftist rebels, toppling hyperinflation, and bringing lights, water, and schools to the poor. But his authoritarian style is reminiscent of South America's past caudillos who left no space for democratic institutions to flourish. ...