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Show DAILY HERALD Wednesday, September 29, 2004 AS ' -FAST FACT r The gargoyles that decorate medieval cathedrals are technically waterspouts that project from a roof grtter to throw rainwater clear of a building. The term is applied more loosely to any grotesquely carved figure. 1 Sauce The 'Compiled from Daffy Herald wire services The Book of Answer! The WORLD NATION YAROON CNN producer Riad Ali is KAMINSKYAssociated greeted by members Press of his family upon his arrival in Mrar, his village in northern Israel, late Tuesday. an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN, was released Tuesday, a day after he was kidnapped Ali, house gas increase above the southern continent ever detected, a group of Japanese researchers said Tuesday. Carbon dioxide from populated continents was apparent- . A U A tkn k. iy iiuuuiig us way uuwu iu 111c atmosphere above Antarctica, said Takashi Yamanouchi, a professor at the National Institute of Polar Research. "Everywhere on Earth is now being polluted by carbon dioxide," Yamanouchi said. "That may be contributing to the expansion of global warming, although we must check whether temperatures in the atmosphere are in fact rising." Kidnapped CNN producer released l I STEVE TRAVNORKilleen Daily Herald Welcome home Lisa Clark, second from right, shouts to her husband, IstSgt. Everett Clark, while celebrating the return of the 9 Cavalry and the 312th Military Intelligence Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday. The units were among the first of the First Cavalry Division to deploy to Iraq in September 2003. Standing to the right of Clark is her daughter, Jade Clark. Selena Atkins is at far right. Schwarzenegger signs bill banning paperless voting systems Six Flags unveils plans SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law requiring that afi electronic voting machines produce paper records of every ballot cast, beginning in 2006. Under the bin, signed Monday, voters will not be able to touch or keep the records; instead, election officials will put them in lock boxes in case a recount becomes necessary. Computer scientists and voter advocates have warned that s and other electronic voting machinery are vulnerable to hackers, software bugs and hardware failures, and thaba paper trail is needed in casesomething goes wrong. Legislators in nearly two dozen states have introduced similar bills. New Hampshire, Illinois and Oregon have laws requiring paper backups, but those states have few, if any, touch-scree- n voting tenninals. By contrast, about 4.5 million registered voters in 10 California counties are eligible to vote on paperless terminals in Novembers representing one in 10 of all voters nationwide who cast electronic ballots. for fastest, tallest coaster Six Flags Great Adventure is opening JACKSON, NJ. a the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster this spring thrill ride that accelerates to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds and ris-es 456 feet off the ground. Plans for Kingda Ka, which is expected to be the cornerstone of new development at the central New Jersey amusement park, were to be unveiled Wednesday. The current speed and height record holder is "Top Thrill Dragster" at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky Ohio. Made by Intamin the same company Six Flags hired to build Kingda Ka Dragster shoots riders to 120 mph in 4 seconds and takes them to a height of 420 feet. An animated depiction of Kingda Ka shows the coaster creeping slowly, stopping and then launching forward horizontally at nearly 130 mph before climbing at a angle more than 45 stories above the park. The coaster then spirals 270 degrees as it plummets, flattens out and climbs again as it shoots over a 129-fohiD, which the company says will make riders feel weightless. It's over in about 50 seconds. , touch-screen- ot derson to pay more than $14,500 in restitution to several law enforcement agencies. An August 2003 indictment said Anderson faked evidence in several cases in Michigan and Ohio. She planted bones in search areas and used her body fluids to stain a saw blade, coins and a piece of cloth, it Man opens fire at day carek falls DETROIT American Taliban asks Bush to commute his er AJ aiding the Taliban, is being released after being held for three years as an enemy combatant. Hamdi will not be charged with any crime under an agreement with federal officials made public Monday. Hamdi will be required to give up his American citizenship and will be sent to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up. "Comparable conduct should be treated in comparable ways in terms of sentencing," Brosnahan said at a news confer- said. A man opened cen-tday-car- e fire at an a killing Tuesday, and critically wounding two adults, officials said. Police spokesman James Tate saiaVthejchild died after being rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Police were searching for the shooter, who they said came to the doer of the house, exchanged words with someone, entsredind opened fire. appears as though this was not random," Police Chief FJa.BuIfy-Cumming- s about a domestic argument at the home, arrived to find Preston-Pierce injured on the front lawn in the tiny town of Buckley, about 35 miles northeast of 20-ye- ar sentence - ence. John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his prison sentence for aiding the Taliban. His lawyer, James Brosna-hasaid Lindh was a young man in the wrong place at the , wrong time. He said that Lindh was fighting alongside the Taliban in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he is not a terrorist and that he never fought against U.S. troops. Brosnahan said the sentence should be reduced because Yas-e- r Esam Hamdi, another American citizen captured in Afghanistan on suspicion of SAN FRANCISCO 20-ye- n, said. also was in- jure!, possibly from being dropped, and was taken to a said. hospital; Two cither children, apparently uninjured, also were taken to a hospital as a precaution, authorities said. The Family Independence Agency, which oversees daycare facilities in Michigan, listed the address where the shooting took place as a licensed facility serving up to 12 infants, . Three people killed in apparent murder-suicid- e A man apBUCKLEY, m. parently fatally shot his stepson and his stepson's wife and seriously injured his own wife before committing suicide at the family's home, police said Tuesday. Authorities believe Allen Pierce, 39, shot his wife, Mary Preston-Pierc38, and killed before the two turning the gun on himself shortly before midnight Monday. Police, alerted by a 911 call e, Police then found the bodies of Michael Fiorito Preston-Pierce- 's son and Fiorito's wife, Angela Benner, in a doorway. Allen Pierce's body was found in the master bedroom closet, said Undersheriff Derek Hagen. Six guns were found near Pierce's body and two of them t had been fired, Hagen said. son The teenagers' and Angela Benner's brother, Michael Pederson, also were in the home, but were not hurt, Hagen said. Preston-Pierc-e was listed in serious condition Tuesday at a hospital in Urbana. Scholar acknowledges using passages without crediting author A Harvard law BOSTON professor who represented Al Gore in his lawsuit over the 2000 election results and worked on other Democratic Party issues apologized for lifting from another scholar's work without giving proper credit. In a statement released Monday, constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe acknowledged that his 1985 book, "God Save This Honorable Court," borrows liberally from Henry Abraham's 1974 book, "Justices and Presidents," including bne exact passage. effort to "My write a book accessible to a lay audience through the omission in of footnotes or endnotes contrast to the practice I have always followed in my scholarcame at an unacly writing ceptable cost: my failure to attribute some of the material the Weekly Standard identified," Tribe wrote. He did note that his book had praised Abraham's, calling it the "leading political history of Supreme Court appointments." Harvard issued a statement saying the incident was being investigated. g . GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip An Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN was released Tuesday, a day after he was kidnapped at gunpoint, relatives and Palestinian police said. Talking to reporters after emerging from a Gaza police station, Riad Ali said his kidnappers identified themselves as members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. But Al Aqsa spokesman Abu Mohammed denied that . Memorials mark 10th the group was involved, noting that it had denounced the anniversary of disaster kidnapping. "If there is some Estoelement in Al Aqsa that is tryTALLINN, Estonia nia, Finland and Sweden paid ing to abuse the name of the tribute on Tuesday to the 852 Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, they are the enemy of the peowhen their ferry sank in a ple," he said. Ali refused to discuss what storm on the Baltic Sea, the ntAvrf nAnwttma iiicu wo- demands his abductors made. nunc flic nuiai ycavcmiic mMima aster in modern European hisHe thanked Arafat, Israeli Arab leaders and CNN for tory. In Tallinn, Estonian President helping to win his release. "What I am waiting for now is Arnold Ruutel and Prime Minister Juhan Parts laid wreaths to go back to my family, chilat a monument to those who dren and wife, who are waitdied on the ferry MV Estonia ing for me." c : tmui kuuj aiUK passage ui uiiie U.S.-backhad not dulled the paia forces The accident left "a tremenlaunch assault to get dous void in every (Estonian) Abu Sayyaf leaders home and soul," Ruutel said. "This void cannot be filled by MANILA, Philippines even the most beautiful and forces have launched a major assault to comforting words." Hundreds of Estonians, incapture or kill Abu Sayyaf leaders wanted by Washingcluding relatives of the dead, and others from neighboring ton, sparking clashes that killed a Philippine marine and ' Finland and Sweden, gathered around the monument, a stark an undetermined number of luaui iiuu uic aioiuc wiui a rebels, officials said Tuesday. broken arch called "The BroThe assaults began Friday ken Line." in the mountain jungles of In Stockholm, at a ceremoPatikul on southern Jolo is- - . land. They were aimed at ny that drew hundreds of relatives of Estonia victims and Radulan Sahiron, his son and other Abu Sayyaf many survivors, Sweden's commanders who reportedly King Carl XVI Gustaf laid a had planned to meet there, apr wreath by a granite wall bearparently to plot another terror ing the names of all those killed. Estonian ambassador strike, military sources said. Juri Kahn and Finnish ambasArmy Brig. Gen. Agustin sador Perth- Torstila also laid Dimaala confirmed the assaults against Sahiron's group, wreaths. about 580 miles south of Manied U.S.-backe- d Is-m- in - la. There was no indication whether Sahiron or his son, who are believed to have about 40 armed followers, died in the running gunbattles, -- officials said. Decision to beatify WWI emperor triggers uproar in Austria Some VIENNA, Austria think he's already a saint for seeking a peaceful end to World War I. Others think he's a scoundrel for command-.in- g troops who used poison gas and for mounting two bloody comeback attempts. On Sunday, Pope John Paul II is to beatify Karl I, but the Vatican's decision to put Austria's last reigning emperor on the road to sainthood has triggered a spirited political and religious debate at home. Austria's government has come under fire for its plans to send a delegation to Rome. And the Roman Catholic Church has been ridiculed for the miracle it at- tributes to Karl a Brazilian nun whose varicose veins were healed after she prayed to the monarch. "As an active Catholic, I , protest the beatification of Emperor Karl," said Rudolf StanzeL among believers who think the Vatican is making a mistake. The church is standing on the side of wealth and power." - high-profi- ' Dog-handl- er sentenced for planting evidence DETROIT A woman who once was recognized as one of the nation's best trainers and handlers of cadaver-sniffin- g dogs was sentenced Tuesday to 21 motiths in prison for planting bones and other fake evidence in cases she worked. f Sandra M. Anderson, 43, of Sanf ord, pleaded guilty in March to five felony charges, including obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal authorities. , She apologized in court before sentencing. - ' lost track of why I was offering my 8ervices, she said, ; In addition to the , prison tenri, US. District Court Judge Patrick J. Duggan ordered An- - si . Crash ten Researchers detect rising carbon dioxide levels over Antarctica Emergency personnel secure the scene at the Memorial Medial Center tn Las Cruces, N.M., after an air ambulance crashed as it was taking off to refuel on Monday, said Kiri Daines ofthe Las Cruets Police Department State police reports said the pilot, Harvey Witcher, of El Paso, Texas, :t- -. suffered only a spndnedshouMer in the mishap. ; TOKYO Carbon dioxide levels over Antarctica have risen 2.6 percent from six years ago the first green NORM DETTUFFlMCrucM SurvNews Student shoots four classmates BUENOS AIRES, Argentina A student drew a handgun and opened fire in a school classroom in southern Argentina on Tuesday, killing four classmates and wounding five, authorities said. Police said the shooting came minutes before the start of classes in the Is-l- as Malvinas public school in Carmen de Pat agones, a city some 600 miles south of Buenos Aires. Mario Oporto, education minister for the vast Buenos Aires province where the shooting occurred, said two teenage girls and a boy were killed instantly and a fourth student died soon after at a hospital At least three of the dead were, aged Four of the wounded were treated immediately on the scene and a fifth student was hospitalized in serious condition, authorities said. Police detained a teenage suspect and were questioning him but said they had no known motive and only sketchy details of what happened. 14-1- 6. , |