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Show HERALD DAILY A4 Wednesday, May 30, 2007 FAST FACT MORNING BRIEFING Sound is heard by the ear by vibration of the ear drum, which passes the vibration through to the inner ear and on to the auditory nerves. The three smallest bones in the body are responsible for passing on the vibration. Source: Micropedia of Work) Facts Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation t rjo vl j . - , i i !,.,, . " - The WORLD r , StZr BEN CURTISAssociated Press Seeking shelter Mahmoud Khalil Taha, 85, who fled the Nahr camp in the morning, is checked by a nurse on his arrival at a center for the displaced, in Bedawi refugee camp, near the city of Tripoli in Lebanon. Islamic militants and carried media smoking indoors wing, GENEVA The U.N. Gadahn, who appeared in video last Sephealth agency on Tuesday is- an sued its strongest policy rec- tember in which he called on Americans to convert to ommendations yet for conIslam, demanded that Bush trolling tobacco use, urging all countries to ban smoking remove all U.S. military forcat indoor workplaces and in es and spies from Islamic countries, free all Muslims public buildings. "The evidence is clear. from U.S. prisons and end There is no safe level of support for Israel. He said . a withdrawal of U.S. troops exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke," said Dr. from Iraq alone would not satisfy Margaret Chan, director-generof the World Health Israeli and Palestinian Organization. Tobacco use is the world's leaders agree to meet leading cause of preventGAZA CITY, 3aza Strip able death, accounting for 10 percent of adult fatalities, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian according to WHO. It is President Mahmoud Abbas responsible for 5.4 million deaths each year, a figure will sit down together next that is expected to rise to 8.3 week to try to halt a million by 2030, the agency explosion of violence that has seen southern says. Israel battered by rockets Increasing numbers of nonsmokers will also die and Gaza pummeled by unless governments take acAbbas hopes to line up tion, WHO said in its Palestinian factions belund a report. It said governments of both rich and poor countruce deal before the meettries should declare all public ing, but the fire shows no indoor places smoke-free- , by sign of letting up. Four Palpassing laws and actively en- estinian militants were killed in fighting Tuesday, while forcing measures to ensure that "everyone has a right to three others died while misbreathe clean air, free from handling explosives, Palestinian officials said. tobacco smoke." Abbas and Olmert prom5 Britons kidnapped; ised Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in March 10 U.S. troops killed meet every two weeks to to in crash, bombings peace try to get Gunmen in talks moving again. But they BAGHDAD have since met only once, police uniforms and driving in Jerusalem on April 15. In vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britthe interim, a ons from an Iraqi Finance truce between Israel and Ministry office Tuesday, and Gaza militants has collapsed a senior Iraqi official said the under a hail of Palestinian radical Shiite Mahdi Army rocket fire and Israeli remilitia was suspected. taliation making another Compounding the fresh meeting all the more urgent. evidence of chaos in Iraq, the U.S. military announced that China sentences drug a total of 10 American solto death regulator diers were killed in roadside A Chinese BEIJING bombings and a helicopter court ordered the death pencrash on Memorial Day, at 113 faalty against the country's making May talities the third deadliest former top drug regulator month of the war. Tuesday, convicting him of Across the country Tuestaking bribes to approve substandard medicines, includday, police and morgue officials contacted by The ing an antibiotic blamed for Associated Press reported at least 10 deaths. a total of at least 120 people The sentencing of Zheng killed or found dead. All of Xiaoyu came as the governthe officials refused to allow ment announced plans for its use of their names fearing first recall system for unsafe they could be targeted by products. militants. The sentencing and the reThe Finance Ministry call plan are among the most dramatic steps by China Jto kidnappings, if the work of the Mahdi Army as asserted address growing concern over shoddy and unsafe by Iraqi officials, could be retaliation for the killing by Chinese goods from pet British forces last week of food ingredients and tooth-past- e the militia's commander Hi mixWwifhinduso trial Basra. chemicals to tainted antibiot- - ' ics. American The sentence was heavy member makes threats even for China, which is believed to carry out more An court ordered executions CAIRO, Egypt American member of than all other nations comand likely indicates warned President Bush on bined the leadership's determinaTuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or tion to deal with the recent face an attack worse than scares involving unsafe food the Sept. 11 suicide assault, and drugs. "The Chinese government according to a new videoattaches great importance tape. Wearing a white robe and to the safety and security a turban, Adam Yehiye Gaof food." Foreign Ministry dahn, who also goes by the spokeswoman Jiang Yu said name Azzam said at a regular briefing Tuesday would not negotiate when asked about Zheng's on its demands. case. "We stand ready to "Your failure to heed our work with the international demands ... means that you community to safeguard the and your people will ... exquality and reputation of the Chinese food industry." perience things which will make you forget all about Zheng was convicted the horrors of September by Beijing's No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq and Virginia Tech," he said taking bribes worth more e in the video. than $832,000 while he was director of the State Food Gadahn, who has been and Drug Administration, charged in a U.S. treason indictment with aiding the official Xinhua News spoke in English and Agency said. Those bribes allowed eight companies to the video carried Arabic subtitles. The video appeared get around drug approval on a Web site often used by standards, it said. WHO CHAD The joy of Pepsi LUNDQUISTNevada A bacfe bear takes a drink from a plastic soda bottle after trash from Memorial Day weekend was left out for pick-uTuesday near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Cindy Sheehanj;esigns' as protest leader kids; infant found alive HUDSON OAKS, Texas A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued. "It's horrendous. That's all I can say," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. Authorities did not immediately identify the dead children, ages 5, 3 and 2. After the woman failed to show up for work, her sister, who lived nearby, forced her way into the locked residence in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth in this rural community of 1,600 people. The sheriff said the sister rescued the infant when she realized the baby girl was still alive. The infant was listed in good condition Tuesday at a Fort Worth hospital, Fowler said. The sheriff said the hangings appeared to be murder-suicid- e because the trailer's doors were locked from the inside and a relative said the woman had been depressed. The young mother and her girls were last seen alive Monday evening, he said. She was believed to be separated from her husband. "I just got a big kick out of watching the kids play over there on her porch, and today it's sad, very sad," said neighbor Joyce Harris. Texas has seen a number of child killings by mothers in erty in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California. "I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said. In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: "Good-by- e America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it. "It's up to you now." Sheehan began a grass-root- s peace movement in August 2005 when she camped outside Bush's Crawford ranch for 26 days, demanding to talk with the president about her son's death. Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was shooter wanted more sauce Hot-head- ed MIAMI A Wendy's restaurant manager almost lost his life to a disgruntled customer early Tuesday morning. The cause? Chili sauce. The shooter wanted more. poAccording to Miami-Dadafter midnight, a man was going through a Wendy's As he picked up his meal, he told the attendant he wanted extra chili sauce. When he didn't get his sauce right away, he began arguing for breaking into a high school, police said Tuesday. "lie liked to smell them," said Lt. William H. Graham. Police said the recovered shoes may be related to the burglaries of three Waukesha public high schools and a middle school over the past Then, when he did get his sauce, he wanted more. The attendant told him restaurant policy prohibits a customer getting more than three two years. The 27 year old Kenosha man, who was not identified because had yet to be formally charged, worked for a cable company and collected keys to the schools as he responded to e lice, just drive-throug- with the attendant. packets. The customer insisted on 10. The female attendant complied, but the customer continued arguing. The attendant asked the customer to pull up so the manager could come out and speak with him. "The manager came out to inform him of company policy, and he shot at him several times," said Mary Walters, a Miami-Dad- e police spokes- woman. The manager was struck in the left arm. He was taken to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and is expected to recover. The customer fled in a vehicle with a brown four-doo- r female passenger. Terror suspect extradited from London pleads not guilty recent years. Less than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family's Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Piano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her daughter's arms with a kitchen knife in 2004. All four of those women were found innocent by reason of insanity. Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but that verdict was overturned on appeal. killed in an ambush in Baghdad in 2004. get more calcium and vitamin D either from food or supplements are less likely to get breast cancer. Only about 20 percent of breast cancer cases occur in women younger than 50; however, the cancer found in younger women is often more NEW YORK An American student extradited from London on charges that he provided fighters with equipment to attack U.S. soldiers is an activist, not a terrorist, his lawyer said Tuesday after the man pleaded not guilty. "These charges are unfounded," the lawyer, Sean Maher, told reporters. Syed Hashmi, a former New York resident, was the first terrorism suspect extradited to the United States by British authorities. He arrived shortly before midnight Friday to face a May 2006 indictment. On Tuesday, Hashmi smiled at a dozen family members and friends as he was led out of the courtroom. He will be detained pending a bail hearing scheduled for Friday. "He is not a terrorist. He is an academic. He's been a political activist," his lawyer said. HPS if 5. I 4 vrvsi 2 " ! (0 ?' ' i , il . Ei. I I : ' May 20 and leaving with some items, authorities said. Officers searched the man's home and a rented storage unit on Thursday, recovering the shoes along with school yearbooks, keys, a bolt cutter and other items. New breast cancer find: nutrients may help 2 CHICAGO New research gives women another good reason to get plenty of bone-- , Wis. police find 1,500 'strengthening calcium and vitamin D: The nutrients may pairs of stolen shoes reduce the risk of developing Police breast cancer. WAUKESHA, Wis. A team of Harvard researchseized more than 1,500 pairs of ers and home from the shoes reported Monday that girls' storage unit of a man arrested premenopausal Women who seven-minut- ED ANDRIESKIAssociated Press Colorado weather An unidentified man uses an umbrella to ward of hail during a storm in downtown Denver on Tuesday afternoon. the logo of long-stalle- d da calls, Graham said. The same man was convicted in 2005 for stealing shoes from Kenosha Tremper High School. Police arrested him after a security video showed him entering North High School on on aggressive. Mammograms, intended to find breast cancer earlier, are less accurate for women in their 40s and generally are not recommended for those younger than 40. Thoug h post menopausal women can take medication to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer, nothing is available for their premenopausal sisters. Although the evidence is not strong enough to advise all women to take calcium and vitamin D, experts say it might help reduce the risk of breast cancer and it's not likely to hurt. "It's probably reasonable to consider," said Dr. Leslie Laufman, an editor of the National Cancer Institute's screening and prevention Web site. "There's no proof that making a change (in intake of calcium and vitamin D) matters but it probably does." Texas mother hangs self, FORT WORTH, Texas Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's rnother who galvanized an anti-wa- r movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, said Tuesday she's done being the public face of the movement. "I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her prop- p Appeal urges ban on |