HEADLINE: Patents; An inexpensive way to regenerate arthritis-damaged cartilage in knees and hips.

March 16, 1998, Monday, Late Edition - Final

SECTION: Section D; Page 2; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk

LENGTH: 624 words

BYLINE: By Teresa Riordan

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Student Inventors Strut Their Stuff

Nearly 200 student innovators gathered over the weekend in Washington for a conference sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.

As part of the conference, an exhibition called "March Madness for the Mind" at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution featured projects of student invention teams from a score of different universities. The following were among the projects:

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*A fuel cell system by a team from Swarthmore College that allows a homeowner to capture energy from the sun and wind and convert it into hydrogen gas, which can be stored for later use.

Headline: UNIVERSITY STUDENT TEAMS SHOW THEIR INVENTIVENESS

DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 1998

Section: SECTION: Business

Page: 2C

NEW YORK TIMES Memo: Tuesday Focus: New Ideas

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As part of the latest National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance conference, an exhibition called ''March Madness for the Mind'' at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution featured projects of student invention teams from a score of different universities. Among the projects on display this past weekend:

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A fuel-cell system by a team from Swarthmore College that allows a homeowner to capture energy from the sun and wind and convert it to hydrogen gas, which can be stored for later use.

HEADLINE: Essential Web sites for educators

March 17, 1998

SECTION: News

LENGTH: 1192 words

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YOU may be a teacher, parent, student, principal, concerned community person or a concerned parent. No matter what your label, one of your main goals is to improve our students' education. You have two great needs - first, you need a lot of information, and second you need it at your fingertips fast - and free.

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These top Web sites have been chosen essentially because they provide practical and excellent quality information in formats that are easy to use.

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The Math Forum

http://forum.swarthmore.edu

This work is very comprehensive, original and devoted solely to mathematics education. It contains Internet workshops for teachers, school networking support, Ask Dr Math - students get answers to their questions - elementary problem of the week, Web-based lessons and classroom materials, geometry exercises and much more. See the Quick Reference for 31 easily-accessible areas within the site. Don't pass up the Internet Resource Collection (Steve's Dump), perhaps the best single place to search for mathematics links.

HEADLINE: SIMPLE STEPS CAN HELP YOU AVOID PAYCHECK LOANS

March 16, 1998 Monday, FINAL / ALL

SECTION: PERSONAL FINANCE; Pg. 1C

LENGTH: 278 words

BYLINE: by MIRIAM HILL

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Whether you believe check-cashing outlets are serving consumers or taking advantage of them, one principle holds true: Payday loans and related services are poor financial choices.

"It's like someone using a convenience store all the time to do your grocery shopping," said John Caskey, a Swarthmore College professor who has studied the system.

With a little work, consumers can find other ways to stop bouncing checks. If your financial habits are helping your household vie with Akron for the title of Rubber City, start by writing down every expense. Add them up by category for a month and compare the results with your income. If you're spending more than you're earning, it's time to cut back or get a better job.

HEADLINE: GETTING A JUMP ON PAYDAY; PAYCHECK ADVANCE FEES CAN BE ASTRONOMICAL - BUT STILL, BUSINESS IS BOOMING

March 16, 1998 Monday, FINAL / ALL

SECTION: PERSONAL FINANCE; Pg. 1C

LENGTH: 1068 words

BYLINE: By MIRIAM HILL; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER

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Lisa Curry knows the loans at National Cash Advance in Maple Heights are expensive. It's just that sometimes they're the only things that get her from payday to payday.

"When you're living on cash, this keeps you from having to ask friends or family for money," Curry said of the $30 she paid to borrow $200 for two weeks recently. "I expect to pay more."

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Curry, a teacher, said the $45,000 or so she and her husband, a custodian, earn should allow them to pay the bills. But past debts, including student and credit-card loans, keep the monthly budget tight. When her wallet looks empty, payday loans fill the hole.

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Increases in bank fees and the number of consumers with credit and other financial problems have driven the popularity of the payday loans and related products, said John Caskey, a professor at Swarthmore College and author of "Fringe Banking: Check-Cashing Outlets, Pawnshops and the Poor" (Russell Sage Foundation, $14.95).

"Payday loans aren't aimed at the desperately poor, because you have to have a checking account, it has to be in good standing and you have to have a record of steady employment, because they're making a high-risk loan to you," Caskey said. "I think it's a hard issue. If you're a free-market advocate, you say that as long as the customer understands the loans, what's the problem? Other people will say, no, you have to protect desperate borrowers from themselves. That's a philosophical issue."

MARCH 16, 1998

SECTION: Police Blotter

BYLINE: College Fire Probed

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Swarthmore -- The borough fire marshall is investigating a small blaze on the Swarthmore College campus Saturday night. College security responded to a call of a fire at Willets Dorm shortly before 10 p.m.

They found a small fire on the roof directly over the dorm's lounge, according to the college spokesman Tom Krattenmaker. Swarthmore Fire Co. was called and firefighters extinguished the blaze.

The fire apparently started in a plastic recycling container found on the roof, according to Krattenmaker. ...

HEADLINE: OLD CITY, NEW HOPES; Brockton sees itself on rebound

March 15, 1998, Sunday, City Edition

SECTION: SOUTH WEEKLY; Pg. 1

LENGTH: 2549 words

BYLINE: By Alan Lupo, Globe Staff

DATELINE: BROCKTON

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In the Gourmet Cafe on Main Street, the center of this old city's once vibrant and long-suffering downtown, Athina DiIorio and Cheryl Picard, both white, exchange banter with three black customers. They all joke and talk easily, in the manner of those who share familiarity, unlike the often forced conversation of whites and blacks who see one another only for brief periods. Brockton, home of everyone from Swedes to Laotians, from Haitians to Latinos, is nothing if not diverse.

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Vazquez Allard's daughter graduated from Brockton's massive high school, attended by about 3,500 pupils, and now goes to Swarthmore in Pennsylvania. Her son, a junior high student, gets A's and loves his school. She volunteers as a board member on the Brockton Interfaith Community, a citizens group organized around churches and synagogues.

HEADLINE: Philadelphia Suburban Water Co. taps success

March, 1998

SECTION: Vol 4; No 3; pg 12

LENGTH: 1270 words

BYLINE: David Hawkins

DATELINE: Bryn Mawr; PA; US; Middle Atlantic

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As the Brothers Grimm tell it, there once was a man who spun straw into gold. Since 1992, Nicholas DeBenedictis has performed a similar trick using water as the raw material.

And this isn't a fairy tale, investors in Philadelphia Suburban Corp. (PSC) say. DeBenedictis' alchemy has turned the company's tortoise-like stock into a hare that has outraced the S&P 500 in each of the past five years.

How has DeBenedictis, chairman and CEO of PSC, managed such magic? Besides refocusing the 112-year-old Blyn Mawr-based firm on its primary subsidiary-Philadelphia Suburban Water Co., the third-largest investor-owned water company in the country--the potion has included these key ingredients:

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In January 1886, a group of Swarthmore College professors chartered Springfield Water Co. to service residents of Springfield Township in Delaware County. Nearly 40 years later, shareholders in the firm, which then covered 58 municipalities, voted to change the company name to Philadelphia Suburban Water. PSW now serves about 1 million people in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.

February 17, 1998

SECTION: Transitions

LENGTH: 2389 words

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Hans Wallach, a retired Swarthmore College scientist who was a major contributor to the science of hearing and vision, died Feb. 5 in Media, Pa. He was 93.

Headline: Robert H. Wilson, banker

March 17, 1998

Section: Metro

By Bill Price, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

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Robert H. Wilson, 87, a former newspaper reporter and retired bank executive, died Wednesday at his home at the Crosslands in Kennett Square of complications from a series of strokes. Mr. Wilson was employed by Girard Bank (now Mellon Bank) for 35 years. He retired in 1975 as vice president of its executive management department. Before that, he was a reporter at the Philadelphia Ledger, the Record, and the Atlanta Constitution.

Mr. Wilson was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from West Philadelphia High School and Swarthmore College.

While at the Atlanta Constitution, he covered Franklin D. Roosevelt's early years before he became president. During World War II, Mr. Wilson served as a Navy officer with convoy duty in the Atlantic. ...

Headline: When not fighting crime, assistant D.A. sings a mean tune

March 17, 1998

Section: Suburban

By Kay Raftery, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT

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It's the singing that gives her peace of mind. The weekends are for crooning an Irish ballad or raising her voice in a boisterous "Wild Colonial Boy" as Theresa Marie Flanagan puts aside her daily dealings with wife beaters, child molesters, and the occasional killer and sings with the Irish band Skibbereen.

As an assistant district attorney for Delaware County, Flanagan, 31, handles a hectic schedule -- preparing cases, researching, plotting out her weekly caseload, and sometimes handling two or more trials per day. "Lately, there's been a lot of child sexual-abuse cases," she said sitting in her tiny, cramped office on the main floor of the courthouse in Media. "It's not pretty."

She has been an assistant D.A. since graduating from Villanova Law School in 1992. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Ridley Township, she graduated from Cardinal O'Hara High School and Swarthmore College -- an all-American girl, for sure, yet Irish to the core. ...

Headline: The Songstress

WINTER 1997-1998

SECTION: Locals

AUTHOR: Jean Weiss

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When Beth McIntosh followed family out to Jackson Hole in 1982, she didn't plan to stay long. She was an academic. She had a career to pursue. The New England native, fresh out of Swarthmore College, had plans.

"There was a huge war between my body and my brain," McIntosh says,explaining that her well-intentioned goals fell victim to her intuition. Most of us regard McIntosh as a mysterious lion-maned song writer whose poems are as complex and meaningful as her adept guitar work. She's a glamorous figure, breezing back to refresh in the Hole

after touring around the country, promoting her Longline, Grizzlies Walking Upright, and Fire & Sage CD's. If we're lucky, we catch her testing out her latest songs on Monday night at Dorman's Hootenanny, or performing at Grand Teton Music Festival's "Music in the Hole" concert, or when she sits in for a song with her husband and fellow musician Phil Round. ...

HEADLINE: Samuel L. Hayes, III Named Trustee of Kobrick-Cendant Funds

March 16, 1998, Monday

DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors

LENGTH: 428 words

DATELINE: BOSTON

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March 16, 1998--Frederick R. Kobrick, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kobrick-Cendant Funds, Inc., has announced the appointment of Samuel L. Hayes, III as Trustee of the Trust for the Kobrick-Cendant Funds. Launched in 1998 as a joint venture with Cendant Corporation, Kobrick-Cendant offers two no-load mutual funds, Kobrick-Cendant Emerging Growth and Kobrick-Cendant Capital. Professor Hayes, 62, is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School where he has taught since 1971, and is widely considered to be one of the nation's foremost authorities on the investment banking industry.

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Professor Hayes currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of Tiffany & Co., Swarthmore College, Ernst Home Centers, Aearo Corp. and The New England Conservatory of Music. Kobrick-Cendant Funds, Inc. is a joint venture with Cendant Corporation, the world's premier consumer and business services company.

HEADLINE: Poole to head St. Louis Fed bank

March 13, 1998, Friday, ALL EDITIONS

SECTION: BUSINESS, Pg. 1F

LENGTH: 551 words

BYLINE: Journal-Bulletin Staff Report

DATELINE: PROVIDENCE

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Longtime Brown University economics professor William Poole yesterday was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. A conservative economist, Poole was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan administration from 1982 to 1985. He is currently a member of the Academic Advisory Panels of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and Boston.

A member of the Brown faculty since 1974, Poole assumes his new duties March 23.

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A graduate of Swarthmore, Poole holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago.

HEADLINE: BROWN U. ECONOMIST WILL HEAD FED HERE

March 13, 1998, Friday, FIVE STAR LIFT EDITION

SECTION: BUSINESS, Pg. B1

LENGTH: 885 words

BYLINE: Jim Gallagher; Of The Post-Dispatch

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Brown University economist William Poole was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on Tuesday, and he quickly talked tough on inflation. Poole, 60, will head the local reserve bank and cast a vote on the Fed's interest-rate-setting Open Markets Committee in Washington.

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The Washington Post

HEADLINE: St. Louis Fed Bank Names President; Poole Known for Economics Studies

March 13, 1998, Friday, Final Edition

NAME: WILLIAM POOLE

SECTION: FINANCIAL; Pg. F04

LENGTH: 522 words

BYLINE: John M. Berry, Washington Post Staff Writer

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William Poole, a Brown University professor known for his research in monetary economics, has been chosen as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, John F. McDonnell, the bank's chairman, announced yesterday.

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Poole, 60, was a member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1985 and is on the academic advisory panels of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Boston. He holds PhD and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College.

HEADLINE: Poole Named President of St. Louis Fed

March 12, 1998, Thursday

SECTION: Financial News

DISTRIBUTION: -- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS EDITOR

LENGTH: 666 words

DATELINE: ST. LOUIS, March 12

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The appointment of William Poole as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis was announced today by John F. McDonnell, chairman of the Bank's board of directors. He will assume his duties on Monday, March 23, 1998.

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Poole is currently the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and is a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. Since joining Brown in 1974, he twice has served as chairman of the economics department and for five years was director of the university's Center for the Study of Financial Markets and Institutions. He holds Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago and an A.B. degree from Swarthmore College.

HEADLINE: Houston Chronicle Best Dressed; Frances Marzio

March 12, 1998, Thursday 2 STAR EDITION

SECTION: FASHION; Pg. 9

LENGTH: 439 words

SOURCE: Staff

BYLINE: CLIFFORD PUGH

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When Frances Marzio attended the formal opening of the Getty Museum late last year, she draped a heavy shawl over her brown satin pants outfit to stay warm in the cool California evening. And she opted for practical pumps instead of stiletto heels, because she wanted to walk around the new museum and see everything.

Dressing practically yet appropriately to the situation is the credo of Marzio, who is making her second appearance on the Best Dressed list.

Marzio buys good things that last and wears them for years. She looks for fabrics that can be let out or taken in. (Lightweight wool and cotton blends are the best, she says.)

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A native of Richmond, Va., Marzio earned an undergraduate degree in classics from Swarthmore College and master's degrees in museum education from George Washington University and English literature from the University of Miami.

Headline: Education School Chair to Honor Lawrence-Lightfoot

March 12, 1998

AUTHOR: Ken Gewertz Gazette Staff

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Professor of Education Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, known for combining storytelling with scholarship in her path breaking research on families, communities, and schools, did not anticipate the gratifying twist her own story would take as she sat on stage at the Harvard Education Forum this past Thursday.

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President Neil L. Rudenstine, who came to the Forum to congratulate Lawrence-Lightfoot, said that she was one of the first faculty members he got to know when he came Harvard in 1991.

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Headline: Haverford High's Brendan Hansen goes for a state title in swimming today

March 13, 1998

Section: Sports

By Don Beideman, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT

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Haverford High's Brendan Hansen likes nothing better than to swim before a noisy crowd. He will be in his element today and tomorrow at the PIAA state championships at Penn State's McCoy Natatorium. "There's no meet louder than the state meet," said Hansen, who should know. Last year as a freshman, he established himself as the best in the 100-yard breaststroke in the state, delighting a packed house in the process.

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"My coach at U.S. Swimming [ Hansen swims for Suburban Swim Club based at Swarthmore College ] breaks down the stroke in the water," Hansen explained. "The idea is to get your chest and rear up in the air. I don't swim flat. By getting your chest and rear up, it eliminates the drag on your legs. It might not seem like much, but over 100 yards it adds up."

HEADLINE: TRANSACTONS

March 03, 1998, Tuesday

SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. C5

LENGTH: 470 words

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SWARTHMORE --Named Peter Alvanos football coach.

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