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Insurgents struck back Mori-dakilling three U.S. Marines in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad. Guerrillas also issued a video claiming to have shot down a British 0 transport plane t hat crashed Sunday north of Baghdad. Ten 10 military personnel were missing and presumed dead Britain's biggest single loss of life in the Iraq conflict. The video, aired on television, showed burning wreckage purported to be that of the Its authenticity could not be confirmed. A string of suicide bombings and other attacks on election day, killed at least 44 people. In his first public statement since the elections, Allawi called on Iraqis to join together to build a society shattered by decades of war, Saddam Hussein's tyranny, economic "sanctions, military occupation and insurgency. "The terrorists now know that they cannot win," Allawi said. "We are entering a new era of our history and all Iraqis whether they voted or not should stand side by side to build their future." In southern Iraq, U.S. troops opened fire on detainees rioting Monday at the Camp Bucca prison faculty, killing four people, the U.S. command said. The unrest broke out during . dorsed Contact us ... 344 2935 2005 vr-- M R 1) clergy-en- 84603-071- 7 President & Publisher Albert J. Manzi 1. Continued from Al 1lf w Newsroom Tuesday. February Iraq r i... ' HERALD Geneva Continued from Al Under Geneva's plans, detailed in court documents filed Friday, unsecured creditors would recover about 25 percent of their claims, and projects that $211 million in net recovery would be available to be paid to creditors during the life of its Chapter 11 plan. Geneva said it believes its plan is superior to the Anderson plan because it is "realistic for the future direction of the assets of (Geneva) by providing expert management with a proven track record, a rational capital structure, and the op- - . portunity for unsecured creditors to reap the upside of the liquidation of Geneva," according to the documents. Geneva is working with city and state officials to entitle the 1,750-acr- e property so that it can be developed into a mixed-us- e development to be built around Utah Transit Authority's planned commuter rail extension into Utah County, a portion of which cuts through the former steel plant. Court documents say Geneva has also begun negotiations for a planned community , zoning ordinance with local cities and expects to complete a significant portion of entitlement work by June. ,, Its planned community is expected to contain about 10,500 residential units, 1.65 million -- Alzheimer's Continued from Al The team's findings are reported in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The new test, called a assay, is 100,000 times to 1 million times more sensitive than other available tests, Mirkin said in a telephone interview. It was first used last year in testing for a marker for prostate cancer, and Mirkin said he invited other investigators to suggest subjects for further testing Klein, also at Northwestern, had done research associating Alzheimer's with a protein in the brain called diff usable ligand, or ADDL, Mirkin said. So the research team set out to try and detect ADDL in spinal fluid. They got samples 6f the spinal fluid of 30 people, 15 who had Alzheimer's disease and 15 who did not. The researchers found at least some ADDL in all the patients, which Mirkin said is an indication that everyone may have a baseline level of the ' protein. "What was really encouraging,'' he said, is that the concentration of ADDL increases as the disease gets worse, so amyloid-beta-derive- d ' ; - ii , 1 Zfr-- 0gs; N h v - JOHN MOOREAssociated Press along a convoy of Iraqi Army soldiers carrying ballot boxes to a central collection point in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday. An American soldier walks a search for contraband and quickly spread. After warnings and nonlethal methods failed to halt it, "lethal force was used," the military said. Local polling stations worked through the night to count ballots by oil lamp at one Najaf site after power went off. By Monday afternoon, the count at all 5,200 stations nationwide was completed, and local centers were forwarding tally sheets and ballots to Baghdad, where vote totals will be compiled in computers and then announced, election officials said. With turnout figures expected to take some time, concern was high that Sunnis who. make up the backbone of the insurgency largely stayed out of the vote and may be alienated from the government that emerges. The group in Iraq, led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab vowed to "continue the jihad (holy war) until the banner of (Islamic) square feet of retail space, 6.5 million square feet of office space, 250,000 square feet of light industrial space, as well as seven elementary schools, two middle schools, one high school and 12 churches. But Anderson says Geneva's zoning requests are premature, saying he has asked Vineyard officials not to rezone the property until a more detailed master plan is completed. "Geneva is seeking zoning changes to build 10,500 residential units within the 1,750 acres without definition of what those units would look like," Anderson said. "We want the city to understand that this is more than just a housing density issue. There are also issues about infrastructure, like what the roads and sewer systems can handle, and having to make sure we have enough water after the sale of the water rights, and issues about how to protect the old historic portion of Vineyard." Anderson said the company is moving ahead with the devele opment of a Vineyard property it already owns near Utah Lake. Some 30 home builders have expressed interest in building on the property, he said. J. Thomas Beckett, an attorney who represents the unsecured creditors, said their Chapter 11 plan "tries to accommodate the desire of those creditors that want to sell their claims, and those that want to 320-acr- the progression of the illness could be followed. "Dowe have a new diagnostic for Alzheimer's?" Mirkin said. "That's a bit premature." The method needs to be repeated and tested on more patients, he said. Also tests need to be done to see if high levels of ADDL occur in other memory loss diseases. But, the researchers said in their paper, the work provides a "potential reliable detection method for diagnosing" Alzheimer's Disease. In addition, Mirkin said, the researchers are hoping to use the new test to search for proteins and other chemicals that can offer early diagnoses of other diseases, ranging from cancers to AIDS to mad cow. ADDLs are small soluble proteins. To detect them the researchers used nanoscale particles that had antibodies specific to ADDL. Some particles were magnetic and some of gold with strings of DNA attached. The antibodies bind to the ADDL, sandwiching the protein between the two particles. They are then removed from the solution magnetically and the hundreds to thousands of DNA strands attached to the , gold particles serve as a barcode because they can be used to label the specific target with standard detection methods. unity flutters over Iraq." "These elections and their results ... will increase our strength and intention to getting rid of injustice," the group said in a Web statement. Allawi promised to work to ensure that "the voice of all Iraqis is present in the corning government." The top candidate in the main Shiite coalition made a similar pledge. "We are still insisting to form a partnership government including all segments of the Iraqi people," Abdul-Azi- z of the United Iraqi Alliance told television. Although no partial results have been released, political parties were allowed to observe the counting at local stations. That led members of the Alliance, which was endorsed by Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali, to say they expect to win about 45 percent of the 275 Assembly seats up for grabs in the election. Allawi's ticket was running hold on to their claims to see what they're worth in future." Under their plan, the unse-- , cured creditors would recover between 65 percent and 90 percent of their claims, court documents said. The unsecured creditors' Chapter 11 plan "proposes to finance Geneva's emergence from bankruptcy, and its operations, using debt financing that is cheaper than equity financing. The objective is to reduce the cost of capital, thereby increasing recoveries for unsecured creditors," they said in court documents filed Friday. "The Committee disfavors : equity financing, especially when it comes with a 'take it or leave it' requirement that unsecured creditors must give up participation in the 'equity ''upside.' It also resists the notion that unsecured creditors must rush to sell their claims for an unreasonably low price." The unsecured creditors who vote in favor of this plan will be invited to declare if they want to be a claim buyer or claim seller. Buyers can purchase claims from sellers to increase equity participation in the reorganized company, they said. The claims of the claim seller will then be offered to the claim buyers in a Dutch auction, which will set a market clearing price, the documents second among the 111 candidate lists, and a Kurdish faction was third, those officials said. ", Food Continued from . Al local restaurants that are maintaining especially clean and safe eating environments. Terry Beebe, the division director for the environmental health department, said although some restaurants are unsafe, many local restaurants pass the biannual health department inspections with flying colors. He plans to announce in two weeks a list of restaurants that will receive certificates of achievement for 2004. "We are not going to rate everybody as good, bad, ugly or whatever," Stone said. "We are just going to say these people did exceptionally well." The certificate program will be modeled after a program in Tooele County and will rate e d resand only taurants, Beebe said. Restaurants tend to only get recognized when they do something wrong, Beebe said. "But we have a lot of good restaurants in the valley that are trying and are doing a good full-siz- fast-foo- job," he said. said. Dr. Samuel Gandy, who was not part of the research team, said the report is impressive but needs to be repeated with ' larger numbers of subjects. If the test can, in fact, correlate the presence of ADDLs with brain function, "this is good news indeed for identifying who is at risk for Alzheimer's and potentially for following the effectiveness of medimany new cines that are now in clinical trials," said Gandy, vice chair of the National Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association and director of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Stephen Snyder, who directs the National Institute on Aging program studying the causes of Alzheimer's, said the finding has future implications for both diagnosis and treatment of the disease. "For many years the ADDLs have been thought to be involved in diminishing aspects of cognition and this is proof of principle that they exjst and can be found" in spinal fluid, said Snyder, who was not part of the research team; The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and the National Institutes of Health. list The swept some southern cities, winning 90 percent of votes in 0 and 80 percent in Basra, said local officials of the parties within the alliance. The claims could not be confirmed, but the Alliance had been expected to run strong in the southern Shiite heartland. The National Assembly will name a new prime minister and Cabinet and draw up a perma-- 1 nent constitution to be put to a referendum. If it passes, elections for anew government will be held in December. Iraqis also selected provincial councils in the 18 provinces, and voters in north elected a the Kurdish-ru- n new parliament. A stable and legitimate Iraqi government could more effectively confront the insurgency and hasten the day when 150,000 American troops could go home. . For example, while the county law does not require food handlers to wear gloves yet, many restaurants like the Fiesta Fresh Mexican Grill in Provo, formerly Cabo Grill, require their employees to wash their hands regularly and wear gloves at all times. Stone said recent research has shown washing hands is not enough anymore. When Stone started teaching food handler's classes in 1991, the common thinking in the field was that bacteria caused 75 percent of food borne illness. Chemical poison caused 5 percent and viruses made up the rest of reported causes. But now, he said, viruses are e causing 66 percent of all food-born- illness. "Bacteria comes off quite well with a thorough hand washing, but viruses and protozoans are a different story," he said. While a good g can clean off millions of unclean particles, it can leave just as many particles on the washer's hands. "And since it only takes a few particles to make somebody sick, you can see why we have concerns about having something in addition to hand washing to protect the public," Stone said. Members of the board of health brought up concerns that the changed law may make people think they don't need to wash their hands if they are going to wear gloves. Randy Merrill, the Provo School District superintendent, said he was concerned about how often the laws requires gloves or serving utensils be changed to prevent cross hand-washin- ' The board of health will hold a public hearing in March to dis- cuss these and other concerns ; with the public. |