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Show Monday. August 27. 2007 DAILY HE RALD A4 FAST FACT MORfUfiBRIEFfflG Th original Gouda cheese is from the city of Gouda in , the Netherlands, a dty that was chartered in 1272. Soutr.Tht look of 1,001 Triwt Question Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation Hawaii's passenaer services sets sail LoadKAHULUI, Hawaii ed with people paying a discount fare of just $5, the $95 million Hawaii Superferry made its maiden run Sunday with a rushed launch for a three-hou- r voyage to Maui . ;, . sV v. . service between the is Legal problems threatened to beach the giant catamaran like one of the whales that environmentalists fear it will run over, so the company moved up the debut by two days, More than 500 passengers and crew, and 150 cars, were aboard when the four-decvessel emblazoned with manta rays pulled away from the dock to chorus of cheers. Its beautiful exclaimed Stephen Imamoto of Honolulu, who was traveling with his , wife and daughter. "I dont like to fly .., You cant beat the price., Imamoto said he wanted to try the first voyage to see if ' he gets seasick. Choppy water and strong wind between the islands have scuttled previous attempts at interisland ferry services with much smaller EE? I i f t . '.V s. , ' iY. S i . f- A 1 j . 'J X , x A f te ; .'OHa v. if W- x 't s . i i - V:VK , - . A: . ships.- Even in seemingly calm seas, the Alakai swayed at times . iFfS J- - Sunday, causing some pas-- . W mV sengers to become nauseous as the ferry passed the green, rugged mountains of Molokai I; and Lanai. I, '. ' Inside the 349-foAlakai UXNS UMZANOAssociated Pm built by Austal USA in Mobile,. Ala., passengers browsed the V-gift shop, played cards and or-- : drill ; dered breakfast while watch- - v A member of the Fire Department EMS unit treats mock injured passengers in front of Pennsylvania Station during ion emergency preparedness y drill tested the effectiveness of emergency The New on in York. NYC the conducted Office of (OEM) football live NFL Management Emergency by Sunday ing Sunday ' TV: operations plans when responding to a terrorist incident within a train station, games on screens as the ferry sailed past AtohaTower. V moted peace and published The National Weather Sertechnology company reported his most famous work while .A.'vice confirmed that tornadoes " Sunday. Storm deanup begins touched down in six areas Because the rebuilt heart living in New York, but there' in soggy Midwest has been little peace for the halted in line muscle the ail Friday along progression ' of heart failure, the.findings of-- ; Khalil Gibran International , the state, destroying at least COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio fer encouragement that treatresidents removed piles of wa- 250 homes and businesses in Academy. : With a little more than a : ments based on embryonic ,. terlogged carpet, couches and Fenton."- week remaining until the aca- -' Fenton sustained the great- - stem cells someday might be upended refrigerators from . deraic year starts, the school ; their homes Sunday as they est amount of damage where used to help people who suffer anntxinced in February as ' heart attacks, a leading cause , began the cleanup from recent the tornado path widened to Chuck in the the of death said citys first to offer instruo- flooding that Gov. Ted StrickUS, approximately tion in Arabic and on Arab mile land called devastating.1 including the snapping Murry, a UW researcher and culture already has had to ' an author of the study. and uprooting at hundreds of Strickland and Federal move once and has its second;" , trees, the weather service said - Unlike many tissues in the Emergency Management heart muscle cells dont in a statement . principal, both becausaof prch body, Agency officials surveyed , ' tests. ; damage in the heavily flooded ; Emergency shelters shut .. regenerate. So when heart at, OttaOhio Critics have attacked the- down Sunday because almost tacks cause the heart cells to northwest village of die, they are replaced by scar school, named for a Lebanese wa, where he walked through all Fenton residents whose houses were destroyed or dam- tissue, which doesnt beat. Of- the muddy streets. '. Christian, as a potential radical - "It's difficult to Islam training ground. .. exagger- aged apparently found shelter ten, that leads to outright heart failure and death. ate or embellish upon whats ' with relatives, said Dick BeauSupporters have been taken .'. .. AHCHtUI MANCMiaThe Palladiunvttem aback by the controversy. champ, damage assessment Murry, director of the Cenhappened here. Its absolutely Genesee-Lapesaid officer for for Cardiovascular in ter the Strickland. 'In fact it is a regular public Biology devastating, " ..a telephone interview. at the UWs Institute for Stem : school, the only difference is Chapter of the American Red Cell and Regenerative MediEmployee Ben Tucker checks a sign after adding a message Cross;'' Thegovernor want s the theyre going to use Arabic as to it at the Speedway gas station on National Road East In to use federal government to declare has a medium, said Shamsi Ali, cine, long struggled a major disaster in the parts of Stem cells proved adult stem cells to recreate ... Richmrnit. Ind., where the winning Powerball lottery ticket ' imam at the Islamic Cultural : sold. There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Ohio inundated Center in Manhattan, who ' effective in regrowing heart muscle. He and UW col- was Powerball said officials served on an interfaith advi-sor- y lottery prize, lottery Sunday. ..by the past weeks powerful league Michael Laflamme, the heart muscle in rats lead researcher on this study, council for the school It storms and record floods that " were Mamed for at least 18 SEATTLE is absolutely not a religious Human embry- knew from other studies that were actnally becoming heartr Arabic school onic stem celts have been used human embryonic stem cells deaths in the Midwest. .. school and no one has any in-- ; could become heart muscle, In southern Michigan, utility to regrow the heart muscles musde cells. And most died .. tention of teaching religion, V crew's had restored power to an encouraging quickly after being injected cells in rats Opening in Ni :of rats that had survived The city Department of Eduall but 26,000 of 427,000 homes NEW YORK first step. into rats hearts. One of the heart attacks, scien- cation announced the school as But in practice, ony a tiny and businesses left without tists from the University of one of 40 new schools opening citys newest public schools is named for a poet who pro this faH .. power two days earlier. Washington and a private Mo-- percentage of the stem cells s' . Terrorist drill multi-agenc- n ... 80-mi- : . . : . - one-quart- . . ::a5M , . - . u3 SPECIAL . . . - - . Povyerball winner announced er . . north-central . t d . . The World . Castro signs new political essay rf F - iiV.'r' -. V v A vfr'V Wtr J . insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds HAVANA Fidel Castro of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province. political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, even ' The payments, in return for the insurgents' allowing supamid rampant rumors of his death.. plies to move and construction Castro has The work to begin, have taken not been seen in public in over place since the earliest proja year and has not even ap-- ... ects in 2003, Iraqi contractors, politicians and interpreters peered in official photognqihs involved with reconstruction or video footage since taping ' an interview with Cuban state efforts said. A fresh round of rebuilding television June 5 The lack of images has fuspurred by the U.S. militarys eled speculation among the recent alliance with some Anbar tribes 200 new projects Qiban exile community in Miami and elsewhere that are scheduled provides anCastro might have died. He an- other opportunity for militant nounced on July 31, 2006 that in Iraq groups such as he had undergone emergency to siphon off more U.S. money, intestinal surgery and was contractors and politicians warn. temporarily ceding power to Now we're back to the his younger brother RauL Officials in Havana have resame old story in Anbar. The fused to speak about Castros Americans are handing out contracts and jobs to terrorcondition, but foreign Minis-- . ter Felipe Perez Roque told ists, bandits and gangsters, said Sheik AH Hatem Ali Suleireporters in Brazil last week thirt Fidel is doing very well man, the deputy leader of the and is disciplined in his recovDulaim, the largest and most powerful tribe m Anbar. He ery process. He insisted the leader maintains was involved in several US. permanent contact with top rebuilding contracts in the government officials. early days of the war, but is now harsh critic of the U.S. : . . : .... . . V v- -4 f HAM MIZBANAMOCiMed PraM Shabaniyah festival Pilgrims pray inside the shrine of Imam Abbas in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq on Sunday. More than a million Shiite pilgrims from throughout the world are expected to visit the Shiite holy city for the Shabaniyah festival that marks the birth of Mohammed the 12th and last Shiite Imam who disappeared in the 9th century. . gray-bearde- d Insurgents talcing cut of rebuilding money BAGHEiAD Iraq's deadly presence. . Indian PM gets tough to push nudear deal up . at Indian civilian reactors to international inspector. Critics say the accord would make New Delhi too cozy with Washington. .. The pact does not require approval from Indias parliament. But if leftist lawmakers withdraw their support from Singh, they could force early elections. Virtually no one, politicians or voters, relishes the idea of elections ahead of their ; expected cycle in 2009. . Washer eyed in jet fuel leak : TOKYO-- The bolt that came loose and damaged the fuel tank of the China Airline . . 'll NEW DELHI With his .. trademark blue turban, dark Kent glasses and beard, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh still looks like the earnest, unassuming economist he has been for most at his adult life. But last week, Indians caught a glimpse of a different man. Trying to salvage a landmark nuclear- - cooperation deal between India and the United States, Singh came ort swinging. He insisted that the deal was the right way forward. He ; Waved aside objections from opponents on the left and the rijght like so much chaff. And, in a muctvtalked-abou-t inter- view with the newsweekly India Today, he even accused his political enemies of praying for his death. Talking tough, the magazine declared on its cover, below a photo of the Singh with his finger raised, as if wagging it at those who would disagree. In part because of his new assertiveness, Singh's government is facing its most serious crisis since coming to power three years ago. The leader of a group of communist parties has warned Singh of serious consequences if he pushes ahead with the nuclear agreement, which would allow the transfer of American technology to India in exchange for the opening ; . ' . . . v- ; . i Airport last Monday likely was incorrectly installed, as a washer and other parts that ' should have been installed wfth it have not been found, officials of a government commission investigating the accident said. The Construction and Tran. port Ministrys Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission has learned that the Boeing 737-80jet underwent a scheduled periodical checkup in July, As part of this checkup, the bolt in question part of a ' slat in the plane's right wing was removed for examination before being and passing the maintenance check, the officials said. 0 I |