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Editorial. Comments on a report on the growing use of paper from the PaperCom Alliance, a papermakers' trade group. Growth of paper consumption in the United States; Use statistics.

Reports that people in the United States are recycling more paper in 1997 than ever before, but that demand for recycled products is still fairly low. Percentage of newsprint recovered in 1996 according to the American Forest & Paper Association (AFPA); Comments from Elizabeth Seiler, a recycling expert with the AFPA; AFPA goals for paper recovery rates; Why increasing the demand for recycled products is so important.

Considers the implications of the unanimous decision by Harvard Law School faculty to change the way first-year students are treated. Criticism of the school in books such as 'The Paper Chase,' by John Jay Osborn Jr.; Expectation that more personal feedback will be provided to students; Other information on the Harvard Law School which is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Presents information on Northern Pacific Papers Corporation, newsprint plant in Longview, Washington. Operation of the plant; Increased in prices of papers; Comments from Barry Polski, spokesman for the American Forest and Paper Association; Reason for the increase in prices of the papers; Climb of newsprint prices; Statistical information; Global competition that will be faced by American newsprint.

Highlights some of the cuisine prepared at the Scott Brook lumber camp of the Great Northern Paper Company in Maine.

Considers how California's coastal ecosystem and aesthetics are being threatened by spreading fungus. The threat to the multibillion-dollar paper and pulp industry as far away as New Zealand; The first reporting of the fungus known as pine pitch canker in 1986; The formation of a Pine Pitch Canker Task Force through the California Forest Pest Council.

Reports on changes to the United States twenty dollar bill which are designed to cut down on counterfeiting cases. The changing nature of counterfeiting; Details about the changes made; How the twenty dollar bill and the one dollar bill are the most popular bills in the US; What ordinary people can do to prevent counterfeiting; How technology like inkjet printers and the Internet are impacting counterfeiting.

Examines the ready availability of term papers on the Internet and efforts by teachers and administration in higher education to reduce the occurrence of plagiarism through their use. Boston University's filing of a federal lawsuit against eight Internet term-paper companies; Legislation drafted on the state level; Comments from Donald McCabe, founder of the Center for Academic Integrity; Comments from Paul Roberts, 16-year-old founder of Cheat.com; Payment for paper authors. INSET: How teachers can reduce cheating's lure..

Looks at what authorities in the United States call paper terrorism, or common law courts and the filing of bogus liens by antigovernment organizations. Increase in paper terrorism after 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Number of states which have seen phony property claims filed against government officials; Estimates for number of common law courts; Relationship between paper terrorism and violent antigovernment activity; States' response to bogus liens.

Presents a reprint of an article from the June 29, 1971 issue of `The Christian Science Monitor' which explains why the newspaper decided to print a segment of the Pentagon Papers dealing with the policy plan to remove United States soldiers from the Vietnam War.

Reports that federal authorities have found bottles stuffed with paper and pews stuffed with gasoline at a black church in Maysville, North Carolina.

Reports on the signing of an executive order by United States President George W. Bush which would restrict public access to presidential records.

Focuses on journalism students at colleges and universities in the United States who are working to prove the innocence of people in prison or on death row.

Reports that students from Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California will receive a Journalist of the Year award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Story published by the school newspaper 'The Jacket,' which revealed the presence of indentured servitude in the San Francisco Bay area; Information on the students involved.

Reports that some taxi cabs in New York City will accept credit card payment. Previous inconvenience to travelers by accepting only cash; Cost of installing the credit card meters; Likelihood that all taxi cabs will offer the service.

Reports on the controversy surrounding the use of calculators in schools in the United States.

Reports opposition to the plan in Chicago to replace newspaper racks with modern vending boxes. Reason newspapers are opposed to the plan; Why the proposed law in controversial; Description of new machines; Intention of improving the look of the city; Concerns of smaller newspapers.

Comments on the basketball fervor which grips the state of North Carolina during the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I tournament each year. The history of basketball in North Carolina, particularly at the University of North Carolina; How the tournament in 1998 has impacted classes at the school; The loyalty of fans through good and bad times.

Reports on the impact of the rise in costs of newsprint on the newspaper industry in the United States. Details of and reasons for the same.

Opinion. Discusses the controversy surrounding a series of newspaper articles which appeared in the `San Jose Mercury News' in August 1996, citing an increase in crack cocaine in urban America, and suggesting a link with Nicaraguan contras and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Response of the American public to the series of articles; Reference to the correction posted in the Mercury News on May 11, 1997; Reaction of other newspapers to the correction.

Focuses on the strike affecting Detroit Newspapers Incorporated (DNI). Why reporter Allan Lengel was dismissed four times; How employees has been affected by the strike; Why employees plans to file an injunction against DNI; Main reason for the rift between management and employees.

Reports on the rivalry between the `Rocky Mountain News' and `The Denver Post' newspapers in Colorado. Marketing strategies; Restriction of circulation; Newspaper subscriptions.

Reports that striking newspapers workers from the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News have launched a weekly tabloid called The Detroit Sunday Journal. Reason for the strike; Aims and cost of the newspaper; Newspaper's underlying message for United States cities; Remarks by the striking reporters; Cost-cutting efforts of newspaper companies.

Offers three news briefs pertaining to United States business & finance for January 8, 1999. American consumers and sales of new cars and trucks; The rise in orders for US manufactured goods in November 1998; US-based International Paper Co. tapping into new markets in Russia.

Editorial. Comments on the response to the publication of the paper on national standards for teaching American and world history in November 1994. Criticism of the paper; Basic facts about the paper; Resurgence of the criticism on the passage of a resolution in the US Senate.

Reports that newspapers in the United States are slowly changing from black and white photographs to color ones. Examples of papers that have switched; Why color is essential for papers wishing to compete with television; Advertising implications of color photographs; The impact that color adds to a newspaper; Why the change is slow in coming.

Focuses on electronic banking. Estimated cost of using paper checks; The convenience of electronic deposit and withdrawal; The distrust most United States residents have toward large corporations and the government; The impact of the personal computer and the Internet on electronic banking; Estimates for the savings of a paper to electronic switch; Outlook. INSETS: Cheaper checks.;Watch the check bounce: Paper vs. electronic payments..

Presents information on the Gaylesville Enterprise, a newspaper managed by high school students in Alabama. Issues covered in the publication; How the paper was established; Problems encountered by some the students when reporting; Competition that the paper is developing in the state; Number of copies printed per month.

Focuses on the United States military efforts to find Osama bin Laden and the paper trail left by his Al Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan. Efforts to find clues in the Tora Bora cave region in which bin Laden was thought to be occupying; Interrogation of captured Al Qaeda members; View that a Western coalition will be necessary for an actual search for bin Laden, whom some think has escaped Afghanistan.

Looks at a decision to be made by the United States Supreme Court concerning the constitutionality of a school policy of students orally reporting exam results. View that the recitation of grades may embarrass or degrade students; How the case may change the way American teachers conduct classroom exams, grade papers, and interact with students; Outlook for lawsuits against teachers and parental rights.

Comments on the act of United States President George W. Bush to sign an order permitting an incumbent, or former president, to veto the release of his presidential papers, and how this relates to a law passed by Congress in 1978 which permitted the release of presidential records 12 years after the end of the term.

Discusses how students at Liberty Middle School in Hanover County, Virginia want to put an abbreviated version of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights on the back of U.S. paper currency.

Discusses the importance of instilling in young people the value of honesty, and refers to figures on the number of students in the United States that confess to cheating on papers or exams.

Reports on the strained relations between the United States and China as of February 25, 2000 due to China's white paper statements against Taiwan.

States that Maine, the first state to implement term limits on both houses, considers becoming the first state to repeal them. Suggestion that the loss of experienced lawmakers in states with term limits has coincided with a rise of complicated issues; Comments from paper-mill worker Robert Cameron, who was among the Mainers who voted to limit his state legislators to four consecutive two-year terms.

Presents miscellaneous news briefs for April 6, 1999. Percentage of people in a United States survey who said that the media have confounded reporting and commentary; History's longest paper-clip chain in Singapore; Cities most sought out on Excite.com travel services; Other news.

Reports on a variety of topics in United States domestic news for January 12, 1999. Advance filing of legal papers by President Bill Clinton and House of Representative republicans for the Senate impeachment trial; Plans of two Senate democrats to file a motion to open impeachment proceedings to the public; The hottest year on record worldwide; U.S. funding for land acquisition; State of the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City; Request for clemency by Jonathan Pollard; Michael Jordan's retirement from basketball.

Focuses on the American attitude toward energy and paper conservation as of August 30, 1999.

Focuses on the issue of naming a Library after President William Jefferson Clinton in Arkansas. Debate it has caused; Comments of John Fawcett a historian; The Presidential Libraries Act, enabling other presidents to donate their historical materials to the government and ensuring preservation for a president's papers; Possible sites for the library; Decision that the library will be in Little Rock.

Offers news on people and events for July 22, 1999. How a United States serviceman wrote to his father, Postmaster General William Henderson, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo (Serbia) despite lack of paper; Workplace gender discrimination of women in Kelantan, a state in Malaysia; The eight active US players eligible for baseball's All-Century team balloting.

Offers United States news briefs as of July 7, 1999. How Hillary Rodham Clinton filed papers to form an exploratory committee for a Senate campaign in New York; Use of the Internet by hate groups to recruit young disciples; Heat advisories were in effect from the Mississippi to the Eastern Seaboard; Former Consideration by Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker Jr. of a third-party run for the White House; How a series of explosions rocked the Kaiser Aluminum plant.

Highlights rationalization given by Loren Lomasky, a philosophy professor, regarding his twice-weekly car trip from his office at Bowling Green State University to the campus tennis center, Washington. Information on his 22-page paper delivered at a press conference hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington; Advantages of cars as a mode of transportation.

Features the economic implications of increasing newsprint costs on the newspaper industry of US. Rising subscription cost; Lessening number of pages; Closure and merger of newspaper companies; Comments of newspaper industry experts.

Reports on Republicans Pete Stark and James Hansen's expected bid to introduce a legislation for steep rise of taxes on cigarettes on April 6, 1995. Aim of the bill and projection of the revenue; Importance of a National Bureau of Economic Research paper on the effects of a hike, by Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler; Bill's details.

Opinion. Describes the opinions of the paper's readers in drawing up a balanced federal budget. Excerpts from letters.

Discusses the Phillips Brook Backcountry Recreation Area in northern New Hampshire, a joint venture between Mountain Recreation Inc. and International Paper Company which has opened 24,000 acres of backcountry to recreation. What visitors can expect to see in flora and fauna; Lodgings available; Prohibitions; Expected number of visitors.

Discusses the contamination of paper currency in the United States with particles of cocaine. A study by the Argonne National Laboratory which found that an average of 78 percent of bills were contaminated; How the increasing use of cocaine in the US is thought to be partially responsible; How bills are contaminated; The proximity of money and cocaine in transactions; Legal implications of the contamination.

Reviews two exhibitions of American Impressionist art at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. `American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise'; `American Impressionist Works on Paper.'

Looks at the distribution of wealth in the United States. Money added to the wealthiest US households between 1992 and 1995; Statistics from a paper by Arthur Kennickell, an economist at the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and R. Louise Woodburn, from consultant Ernst & Young; How the distribution of wealth impacts the debate over tax cuts; The increasing disparity between the very wealthy and the very poor.

Focuses on an announcement by the United States Defense Department that in recognition of `Earth Day' it would start using recycled copier paper. Number of trees and the amount of water that would be saved annually; Statement written by sociologist Robert Nisbet in 1983; Why Ralph Nader referred to the Pentagon as `green'; Efforts of major businesses to improve their environmental policy; Number of events that were planned around Earth Day in 1997.