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Show 11 v t % Celebs&People LAS VEGAS (AP) - Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008onSaturday| in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look. Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sang "Over the HAG LUND The policy of The Utah Statesman is to Rainbow" and correct any error made as soon as possiwalked a crowd-pleasing strut in a ble. If you find something you would like black and gold bikini to clinch the clarified or find unfair, please contact title. the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. She beat Miss Indiana Nicole Elizabeth Rash, the first runner up, and Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto, the second runner up for the $50,000 scholarship and year of travel that comes with the crown. Haglund, who studies music at the University of Cincinnati, grew NEW YORK (AP) - Could it be that up in a pageant family. Her mother the "natural" mental decline that K E N Y A N PEOPLE A R E E S C O R T E D by members of the police as they flee during ethnic clashes, Sunday, Jan. is an active volunteer, and her afflicts many older people is related 27, in Naivasha, Kenya. Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of grandmother Iora Hunt, competed to how much lead they absorbed a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the death toll from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presiden- for the crown as Miss Michigan decades before? tial elections rose to at least 69. Houses were blazing in the center of Naivasha, a tourist gateway. AP Photo 1944. Hunt joined Haglund at a news That's the provocative idea conference. emerging from some recent "The only words that come to my studies, part of a broader area of mind is that this is a dream come new research that suggests some true, not just for me but for my pollutants can cause harm that family as well," Haglund said. "I'm which he said he would hopefully NAKURU, Kenya (AP) Gangs The eruption of violence in shows up only years after someone is not just standing up here alone." start "within a week." armed with machetes and bows Naivasha appeared to have spread exposed. Haglund, a cheery, classic blond, and arrows burned and hacked to from Nakuru, Kenya's fourth-largest Lone said they expected Annan The new work suggests long-ago wore a revealing silver sequined dress death members of a rival tribe in the town some 50 miles away, where at to deliver four documents Sunday lead exposure can make an aging and black bikini during the evening least 25 people were killed on Friday. night, three outlining terms of person's brain work as if it's five years western Kenyan town of Naivasha gown and swimsuit portions of the reference and rules of engagement In Nakuru, rival ethnic groups older than it really is. If that's verified on Sunday as overwhelmed police pageant. As her platform issue, she and the fourth an agenda for the armed with homemade guns, by more research, it means that sharp stood by helplessly. promised to advocate for awareness talks. machetes and bows and arrows At least seven people were killed. cuts in environmental lead levels of eating disorders, an illness from fought pitched battles on Friday All were drawn up with input more than 20 years ago didn't stop its The fighting was the latest which she has recovered. flashpoint of violence over President while mobs torched hundreds of from both sides as well as from widespread effects. The crowning at the Planet homes. civil groups. Both sides might want "We're trying to offer a caution that Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election Hollywood Resort & Casino on the in the U.S.-allied African nation changes to the documents, he said, But Kibaki and opposition leader a portion of what has been called Las Vegas Strip was aired for the ,; once considered a beacon of but "at least now they are moving Raila Odinga, who claims he won normal aging might in fact be due to first time on TLC. It capped a four,. stability on the continent. toward something concrete." the election, remain far apart on ubiquitous environmental exposures week reality series, "Miss America: how to resolve the crisis, the worst Groups from Kibaki's Kikuyu Annan toured trouble spots like lead," says Dr. Brian Schwartz of Reality Check," which followed the the country has suffered since its tribe set ablaze the homes of Luo Saturday in the western Rift Valley, Johns Hopkins University. contestants as they were pushed 1963 independence from Britain. rivals in the center of the town, which includes Naivasha, and "The fact that it's happening with to shed the dated look of Miss alluded to underlying causes of Kibaki has said he is open to lead is the first proof of principle that about 55 miles northwest of Americas past and adopt a more Nairobi, the capital. Police did not the conflict, including decades-old direct talks with Odinga, but that it's possible," said Schwartz, a leader updated style. intervene. resentment of Kikuyus' domination his position as president is not in the study of lead's delayed effects. The show was the latest in a series of politics and the economy, and old negotiable. Odinga says Kibaki must An Associated Press reporter of attempts to find an audience with grudges over land between different step down and new elections are the counted bodies of seven victims a younger demographic after more ethnic groups. only way to bring peace. hacked to death or burned alive in than a decade of declining ratings. their homes. On Sunday, Odinga was meeting While ethnic clashes have LOS ANGELES (AP)-FastMore than 700 people have died with former U.N. Secretary-General accompanied past Kenyan elections, moving thunderstorms brought in ethnic violence and clashes with Kofi Annan, the latest international the scale of the violence this year new waves of rain on Sunday to police since Kibaki was declared that mediator attempting to bring the has been far worse. It has mainly Southern California, following days winner of Dec. 27 balloting in which two sides together. pitted other ethnic groups, which of drenching weather and heavy observers say the counting was support the opposition because they Top Ten Rejected Titles For The Opposition spokesman Salim mountain snowfall. George W. Bush Movie flawed. Some 255,000 people have feel marginalized, against Kibaki's Lone said they were asked to name Up to 2 inches of rain had fallen by been forced from their homes. Kikuyu people. three negotiators for the talks, 10- "Jackass 3" early afternoon in valley and coastal areas since nightfall Saturday, with about double that in the mountains, 9- "The Lyin' King" the National Weather Service said. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) reconstruct the area where a child "It's like having all the legwork done 8- "The Departed As Of Jan. 20, 2009" "We're not completely done with - A donation from a California was last seen. at the beginning," she said. this storm yet," forecaster Steve information systems company could "The software gives us the CART, whose experts do Vanderurgsaid. 7- "Stop Or My Vice President Will make the Utah Child Abduction opportunity to visualize the crime everything from analysis, to search Shoot" Officials said the rain brought a Team's job of recovering missing scene," CART analyst Bill Fossmo and rescue and volunteer search threat of serious slides on hillsides children a little bit easier. said. coordination, has not yet had to use stripped of vegetation by last year's 6- "Dial M For Moron" A team of nearly 50 law the software. The software costs $10,000. wildfires. Mud and minor rock enforcement officers from multiple It was donated to CART by the The software program can slides prompted authorities to shut 5-"Das Boob" agencies CART, as the group is Environmental Systems Research provide aerial views of a location, a highway through a San Diegoknown, works with local police to Institute Inc. of Redlands, Calif., including circumferences that area burned between Ramona and 4- "When Sally Met Cheney's find missing or kidnapped children which develops geographic intersect with roads, locate the Escondido. Daughter" after an Amber Alert. The team has information systems technology. homes of registered sex offenders The Los Angeles County and lots of expertise, but no budget for The donation includes technical and provide topographical maps of Orange County fire departments 3- "White Men Can't Govern" sophisticated technology to aid in support from the company. potential hazards, like mine shafts. were on standby for possible flash searches. The program can cut hours off a Statistics show the chances of floods and slides. Flash flood watches 2- "The Nightmare Before Hillary" Now CART will have help from search, said Lt. Jessica Farnsworth returning a kidnapped child home remained in effect through Sunday ArcGIS - software that combines of the Utah attorney general's safely are best in the first three night for Los Angeles, Ventura and 1-"Raging Bull****" aerial maps with databases to help office. hours. San Bernardino counties. Today is Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kristi Jones, a junior majoring in exercise sciencel from Taylorsville, Utah. ClarifyCorrect Mrt'/Briefs Pollutants may hasten old-age mental decline Ethnic clashes in Kenyan town Heavy rain, mud and rock slides close roads State team has software to help track missing kids :47N Main Street iSID-0328 Free Soda MEXICAN FOOD Inc. 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