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Discusses the growth in the American pulp and paper industry with emphasis on the contribution of paper recovery and reuse. Report from the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA); Percentage annual rate growth of the industry; Recycling of 80 percent of recovered paper; Recovery-reuse goal of AF&PA in six years from 1993.

Focuses on the rising prices of paper products in the United States. Comments from industry experts; Reasons for the price increases and the slim paper supplies; Influx of paper products from Europe and South America; Impact of the price hike. INSET: Untitled (new office supplies)..

Focuses on a large-scale pilot salmon and sportsfish carcass composting project in New York. Launch of the initiative by Oswego County's Division of Solid Waste to prevent pollution, create a beneficial soil additive and to conserve valuable landfill space; Demonstration of the performance and use of paper pulp as a composting bulk agent; Health and economic benefits of the project.

The article reports that prices of newsprints in the U.S. are at their lowest level in 2013 compared with historical price trends. Publishing industry analyst Thad McIlroy states that, in the past, wholesale price of newsprint has a marked effect on newspaper publishers' profits. He observes that in the past few years leading to 2013, demand for newsprint has declined or remained the same as more publishing businesses close operations due to the competition posed by online publications.

Reports on the effect of the paper price hike brought on by worldwide demand for paper, on the newspaper and magazine publishing in the United States. Paper mills that have announced price hikes effective September 1, 1995; Times Mirror Co.'s move to merge the `Evening Sun' into the revamped morning Sun'; Price hike in magazines; Advertisement rate hikes planned; Factors that could keep paper prices high.

Reports on the result of an informal poll conducted by the periodical `Publishers Weekly' which indicate an easing in paper shortage in the United States. Concerns about escalating production costs; Strategies to combat high prices; Challenges posed by producing books less expensively; Effects of increase production costs in publishing children's books.

Provides information on the expectations of newspaper publications regarding the political advertisements for the 2004 national elections in the U.S. Results of a research conducted by the Newspaper Association of America regarding the kind of medium that help voters decide for the election; Factors that affect the placement of political advertisements in newspapers; Benefits of political advertising for newspapers.

Reports the role of automobile advertising in boosting the newspaper industry in the U.S. Use of insurance companies of newspapers; Advertising spending of newspapers; Advertisement of movies in newspapers.

Reports that newspapers in the United States are adopting geographic information systems in their editorials, marketing, circulation and employee-relations departments. Use of data mapping technology for newspaper articles on Census data in the US; Effectiveness of geographic information systems in the visualization of market trends and patterns. INSET: Putting the graphic in geographic..

Reports on the plan to build a paper recycling plant in Staten Island, New York City. Economic and environmental benefits of the paper plant; Site-specific labor agreements with the unions; No strike pledge with Building & Construction Trades Council of Colorado on other sites.

Reports on the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) acceptance of submissions for its Conference Professional Papers in Nashville, Tennessee. Deadlines; Length presentation of the paper; Requirements for papers submitted.

The Paper Collection is one of the newest chair designs resulting from the collaboration between the family-owned Northern Italian manufacturer Plank and designers Raul Barbieri and Anna Giuffrida of the Taftville, Connecticut-based furniture manufacturer ICF Group. The Paper Collection is available in side, arm, and swivel options and at bar and kitchen heights. Featuring a tubular, steel-polished chrome frame, the molded seat and back are available in colored laminate, aluminum laminate, and veneer.

Reports on an announcement made at the annual meeting of the Ohio Conservation Committee in October 1985 to the effect that the Deacidification Task Force 'has selected the Wei T'o system modeled after the plant... at the Public Archives of Canada.' Reasons for choosing the Wei T'o process over the Library of Congress DEZ system; Plans of the committee to seek a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Deals with the plan of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to dispose several of the public's library paper copies of U.S. patents in August 2002. Purpose of the plan; Significance of the paper collection at public libraries; Estimated cost of maintaining paper issues at public libraries.

The United States-based paper manufacturer and supplier, Office Depot reported that sales of recycled paper are increasing indicating corporate commitment to promoting environmentally-sensitive products and a testament to the growing public and corporate adoption of their quality recycled paper. The company also reported that nearly two of every three sheets of paper sold in the United States by Office Depot in 2004 contained recycled content. The company also provided statistics on the number of trees conserved, reduction in energy consumption, emission reductions, elimination of solid wastes and wastewater.

Deals with the efforts of wireless communication companies to promote the use of electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) for account management among businesses in the United States. Initiatives of AT&T Wireless; Problems faced by carriers in their efforts; Companies that are promoting EBPP. INSETS: Billing Preferences;The Price of Paper.

The article reports on the increase in paper prices in the U.S. in January 2006. Paper prices rose an average of about 5% in January, and another 5% increase is set for April. While paper demand has risen slightly, the most important reason for the ability of paper companies to increase prices has to do with a sharp drop in supply. Several printers expressed concern that if paper and production costs in general became too high, smaller publishers will decide not to publish marginal books.

Reports on the `Daily Nebraskan' college newspaper's feud with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln football team. Nebraska coach Tom Osborne's criticism of the newspaper for publishing articles that have embarrassed the team; Includes a January 20, 1992 front-page photo and news account of a naked Afro-American football player being hogtied by white police officers after allegedly attacking a woman.

Reports on speculations about an increase in paper prices in the U.S. for 2004. Expectation on advertising revenue percentage growth; Statement issued by newsprint trader Bernard Bottomley; Overview of quarterly newsprint consumption; Factors that could limit price growth.

Reports the donation of a collection of manuscripts, letters, still and moving pictures and sound recordings of Ernest Hemingway to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner. Contents of the collection, including posthumously published works `Islands in the Stream' and `The Dangerous Summer'; Reasons for Hotchner's donation.

Reports on the plan of Staples Inc. to triple the amount of recycled material in its paper products in the U.S. Elimination of paper products obtained from endangered forests; Disclosure of timetable for raising the recycled content; Prices for the recycled-content paper of the company.

Reports on the release of a number of former President Ronald Reagan's records from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Records which remain off-limits to historians and the public because of an executive order by the administration of George W. Bush, which grants presidents the right to review papers before release; Mention of the Freedom of Information Act, which forbids federal records from being kept private for longer than 12 years.

The article reports on the move of Smart Papers Holdings LLC to start the construction of a $30 million cogeneration facility that will utilize yard, industrial and fiber waste to power its manufacturing operations in the U.S. The company claims to be the first North American paper manufacturer and second in the world to move to 100% biomass for its power-generation needs. The company has also started looking for alternative energy sources after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Examines Boeing Co.'s C-17 Globemaster program, which uses the Shopfloor 2000 by Telecom Solutions Inc. The advantages of the program which provides on-line work instructions, work dispatch, quality assurance and manufacturing process definition in a mutimedia format; Cost savings; Advantages.

Focuses on the strategies to increase market demand for recycled paper content in the United States. President Bill Clinton's Executive Order No. 12873 that calls for federal agencies to purchase more recycled paper; Companies and organizations that have been pushing recycled paper procurement; Advertisement of recycled paper content in magazines.

Reports that concern for the environment once fueled interest in recycled paper for publishing and now vanishing landfill sites are rekindling that flame. Shrinking landfills and growing waste; Recycling goals for the paper industry; Defining what is meant by the term recycled paper; Different types of de-inked paper; Answers for the future. INSET: The whiteness problem..

Reports on an incident where the `Omaha World-Herald' was said to have given in to pressure from University of Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne to delay and soften a negative article on the football program. Resignation of journalist James Allen Flannery from the paper; Details on Osborne's pressure campaign; Revolt by the paper reporters against the action.

Reports on the feud between Corning Community College student editor Crystal Daugherty and student government representative Brian Morgan that resulted in the temporary closure of the campus paper `The Crier.' Misprinting of Morgan's name; Allegations of malice; Battle between the paper and the Student Senate Association.

Reports on the plan of Paper Publishing Co. to launch 'pm: new york's nightlife tabloid', a pull-out insert of the magazine 'Paper,' as a stand-alone entertainment guide in January and July 2003. Reason behind the launch; Number of free copies to be distributed in relation with the launch of the magazine; Price of the tabloid.

Reports that retired congressman Paul McHale, Pennsylvania, donated his papers to Muhlenberg College Library, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Nature of the documents; Papers not given to McHale's alma mater, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; McHale's friendship with Muhlenberg president Arthur Taylor.

This article focuses on the growth in competition within the paper products industry in the U.S. as of September 1999. The $3.7 billion bath tissue segment has become perhaps the most contested among paper products in 1998. Procter & Gamble spent $50 million for an advertising campaign developed by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles for its Charmin tissue. The product rollout of Kimberly-Clark is an improved version of its Kleenex-Cottonelle brand, backed by a total of $100 million in marketing support from Ogilvy & Mather. The competition for the retail sector is one factor quickening the marketing pace. INSET: Bath tissue tussle.

Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

Focuses on the discovery of the papers of historian Leon Trotsky and his son Lev Sedov at the Hoover Institution Archives in Stanford, California. Availability of the papers in microfilm.

Reports that a standard for the manufacture of paper that will last several hundred years has been published and is available for $5 from the American National Standards Institute in New York.

Announces that the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library, Columbia, has acquired the papers of author Joseph Heller. Comments from Heller; Description of the papers; Edited typescript of `Catch-22'; Role of Matthew Bruccoli, South Carolina professor, in acquiring the papers.

Informs that the University of California at San Francisco can continue to display on the World Wide Web papers stolen from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The June 1995 ruling by the California Supreme Court; The papers' revelation that tobacco companies concealed the addictiveness of nicotine from the public for years; How the university obtained the papers; Number of users accessing the papers on the Web site; Details.

Reports on the American Forest and Paper Association's forecast regarding the American papermaking industry. 2.5 annual expansion in total papermaking capacity from 1996 to 1998; Increased paper recovery; Establishment of new facilities to produce recovered paper and paperboard.

This article reports on the business strategies employed by Procter & Gamble to maintain its lead in the paper towel category as of June 1996. The company is testing its Quilted Bounty Rinse & Reuse, a thicker, stronger towel than regular Bounty that can be rinsed and reused like a cloth towel, in several states in the U.S. The Rinse & Reuse earned an A rating in the paper towel category. Television advertising for the product testing does not use an environmental message, instead focusing on the brand's ability to easily soak up big spills. The Bounty test comes as K-C makes plans to roll out improved products of its own in 1997 using new technology from Europe that enables more absorbency.

Reports on the American Forest & Paper Association's (AFPA) forecasts on the paper industry in 1996. Moderate growth in paper availability; Grades of paper in the 1995-1998 period as in line with historical trends from 1985-1994; Growth to come from existing mills and machines rather than new installations; AFPA's being ahead of its goal of recycling 50 percent of all paper used in the United States by the year 2000.

Reports on budget cuts at the American Forest & Paper Association (AFPA) in the wake of an organizational review. Redundant staff left over from the 1993 merger of the National Forest Products Association with the American Paper Institute; AFPA's 1996 budget; Doubts concerning the AFPA's annual Paper Week in 1997; Feeling among AFPA members that the event has outlived its usefulness.

Reports on the possible rise of pulp and paper prices as gleaned from the American Forest and Paper Association's convention of the 1995 Paper Week held in New York City on March 13-15. International Paper's unveiling of a new papermaking machine.

The article discusses the failure of the U.S. security policy toward China. It states that such security policy fails to consider nonmilitary tools of national power. It mentions that it also did not consider China in terms of competing priorities and the most likely threats. It notes that a good policy need to recognize that the failure to change U.S. policy and implementing this military strategy increases U.S., Chinese as well as global economic risk.

Reports on the progress made by the pulp and paper industry in Michigan in reducing pollution. Launch of the Pulp and Paper Pollution Prevention Project by the industry in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality; Commitment of the industry to the promotion of environmental improvement and sustainable economic growth in the state.

Focuses on United States publishers and catalogers' concern over paper shortages. Speculation of further price hikes; Paucity of the 40-pound coated groundwood paper; Comments from industry executives; Publishers' decision to increase advertisement prices; Anticipation of the second-class postage increase; Cause of the shortage.

Examines the trend among major American newspapers wherein at least two editorial cartoonists are employed. Advantages to the paper and the cartoonists; Artistic differences; Methods; Aesthetics; Syndication.

Reports on Uttaim Jain's claim that college officials at the University of Iowa has never told him of the previous suicide attempts of his son, Sanjay. Jain's contention that the suicide attempts should have been made available in the school paper; Reasons for the university's inability to notify Sanjay's parents; University policy on suicide; Roopa Goswami's letter on the secrecy surrounding Sanjay's death.

Focuses on a story published in the school paper `Student Review' which raised questions about Brigham Young University (BYU) football players and their alleged ability to escape honor code penalties unless their transgressions became public knowledge. Contention that BYU coaches were protecting hard drinking athletes from honor code investigations; Media interest in the story by Matthew MacLean, a BYU senior.

Reports on the plight faced by paper form or printing industry. Threat from the growing electronic form and service industry; Necessity of launching information technology-based strategies to reinvent the printing companies; Information technology strategy of Moore Business Forms Inc.; Competition from established software companies. INSETS: The flow of the form.;Forms to function.;Through the roof..

Reports on AlliedSignal Technical Services Corp.'s conversion of paper-based documents to electronic format at the United States Air Force Space Command's worldwide Satellite Control Network at Schriever AFB, Colorado. Conversion at the computer-aided design and manufacturing level; Estimated cost of the conversion process.

The article presents information on librarian Anne Carroll Moore, the first children's librarian at the New York Public Library from 1906 to 1941. Moore is considered as the first children's librarians in the U.S.; and she believed that good children's literature can be helpful in improving children's minds. Moore was associated with the creation of the two prominent awards for children's literature in the U.S., the Newbery Medal, and the Caldecott Medal.