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The Christian Science Monitor

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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File Description [top]

The Christian Science Monitor, Dialog File 715, no longer updates.

Current and archive records from January 2, 2001 for The Christian Science Monitor are available in Dialog NewsRoom.

The Christian Science Monitor includes information on topics, such as economic news, politics, media issues, education, and the arts. Regular sections include The World, The U.S., The Economy, Media, Learning, The Home Forum, Opinion, and Editorial. In addition, News Currents gives a brief overview of news and events that shape the nation and the world. Recognized for objective coverage and analyses of events and issues at home and abroad, The Christian Science Monitor has a reputation for its integrity and influential writing.



Subject Coverage [top]

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Business
  • Columns
  • Editorials
  • Features
  • Full Text News Stories
  • Leisure
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Sports
  • Wire Stories


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: January 3, 1989 through December 10, 2009
File Size: 151,856 records as of December 2009
Update Frequency: Closed


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newspaper Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • US Only


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
GENERALN General News Files
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers


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Terms and Conditions [top]

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08799704 
  /TI  MARS PROBE TO SEEK SIGNS OF LIFE 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Christian Science Monitor (CH) - Tuesday, November 05, 1996 
  AU=  By: Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: ALL  Section: UNITED STATES  Page: 1 
    Word Count: 969 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  BOSTON  -  To  ancient  civilizations,  the planet Mars represented war and 
    death.  Tomorrow,  scientists  begin a 10-year quest to comb the Red Planet 
    for signs of life. 
     
       Shortly  after  noon  Eastern  time,  the National Aeronautics and Space 
    Administration  (NASA) is scheduled to launch the Mars Global Surveyor from 
    the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 
     
  /TX     The  unmanned  probe  marks a fundamental shift in the way NASA conducts 
    new  space-science missions - away from big expensive spacecraft to smaller 
    probes  with  specific objectives. It also heralds a new era of exploration 
    of the mysterious, long-beguiling Red Planet by nations around the world. 
       NASA  itself is planning to send eight Surveyor missions to Mars between 
    now  and  2005.  Next  month, the agency will launch the Mars Pathfinder to 
    test a robotic rover for use on future flights. 
     
       In  December,  the  Russians  are  scheduled  to  launch  their Mars '96 
    mission,  which  will carry two probes, and Japan is planning an orbiter to 
    the planet in August 1998. 
     
       Taken  together,  these  missions  not  only  will  give  scientists new 
    insights  into  the  geology,  natural  resources, and climate of the solar 
    system's most Earth-like planet. If the effort uncovers definitive evidence 
    of  past or present life on Mars, it could provoke a shift in human thought 
    as  profound  as  the  revolution  sparked  when  Galileo  discovered moons 
    orbiting  Jupiter - the first direct evidence that Earth was not the center 
    of the universe. 
     
       The  notion  that  organic  life, at least in its most elementary forms, 
    once  existed  on  Mars  received a boost late last week when three British 
    scientists  said that they had found evidence of primitive life in a second 
    Martian meteorite. 
     
       Last  August,  researchers  from  Stanford  University in California and 
    NASA's   Johnson   Space   Center   in   Houston   reported   that   a  3.6 
    billion-year-old,  potato-sized  meteorite  from  Mars  contained what they 
    interpreted  as  fossils  of  tiny  bacteria. In addition, they said, their 
    meteorite  contained  organic molecules thought to have originated on Mars, 
    as  well  as  deposits  of  minerals  typically  formed  through biological 
    processes. 
     
       On  Thursday,  a  British  team  from  The  Open University and London's 
    Natural  History  Museum  announced that they had examined NASA's meteorite 
    and  agreed  with  the  US  team's findings. They also reexamined a Martian 
    meteorite  in  their  own  collection and found similar evidence of organic 
    material and processes in the 180-million-year-old sample. "I believe I can 
    say  life  existed  and  may  still  exist  on  Mars,"  said Ian Wright, an 
    astronomer  at  The  Open University during the press conference announcing 
    the team's results. 
     
                   (. . .) 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP, /TX  PHOTO:  FINAL  DUSTING:  Technicians  install some parts on the Mars Global 
    Surveyor at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The Surveyor is scheduled for launch 
    tomorrow aboard a Delta II rocket. Once it arrives, the Surveyor will orbit 
    the  Mars poles and examine the planet's surface with a camera able to spot 
    objects as small as 9.5 feet across., MIKE BROWN/FLORIDA TODAY/AP/FILE 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S PLANET(3N)MARS
/CP CP Caption3 Word S GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S RED(W)PLANET/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S UNITED(W)STATES/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(S)LIFE/TI
/TX TX Text Word S UNMANNED(W)PROBE/TX

1 Not available in all PAPERS files.

2 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

3 Also searchable using /TX.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None AN DIALOG Accession Number
AU= AU Byline Word S AU=(PETER(1N)SPOTTS)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=BOSTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=TUESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=ALL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=CH
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961105
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=1
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=WEST
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=UNITED STATES
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=NY
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

4 Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.

5 Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.

6 Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.

7 Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S8/LONG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S9/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/2002


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
JN, PD, TI SORT S13/ALL/TI
PRINT S5/5/1-24/TI


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK PY S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S3/TI,PD/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record except Text
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4 -- Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count1
5 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Bibliographic Citation and Text
8 Free Title, Indexing, and Word Count
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 05805028/5
PRINT 00301964/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: The Christian Science Monitor[715]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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