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Show DAILY A4 Saturday, April 19. 2008 HERALD FAST FACT Morning Briefing are the most common types of blood among and is the most rare, Americans, with about 35 percent each. Type found in just 1 percent of Americans. . Source: Time Almanac 2004 Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The Nation Italian physicists say they have evidence of dark matter ' ' - . ; An Italian team on Wednes-- ; day renewed its claim to have discovered evidence for the existence of dark matter, the invisible material that makes up the bulk of the universe. Critics say the University of Rome team has answered some of the objections to their earlier findings but not all of them, leaving their claims a subject of great controversy. "This is a Nobel result if it is proved," said physicist Richard Gaitskell of Brown University, who was not involved in the research. "But it needs to be confirmed, and the experiment really has to demonstrate a total mastery of the data. Neither of those criteria have been achieved, and therefore you have to bring a healthy skepticism to the result as it stands." The dark matter in question is called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. Even though these dark matter analogs of conventional particles are thought to be much larger than their visible matter counterparts, they rarely interact with the visible world making their detection extremely difficult. At least two international s jirojects" based witienited---Stafehave been alt erhpnngYo "McTeWeneetordarkTirattefr-s- o far without success. ' C: " V;i ', H. : " J : is iv Prize-winni- V I s - y le 0- - - - v. . 1 V -- "V-- . DARRON CUMMINGSAssociated Press rose for Edna A Edna Parker holds a rose given to her during a birthday party thrown in her honor in Shelbyville, Ind., on Friday. Parker bom April 20, 1893 is the oldest known human. She will turn 115 on Sunday. Vmvam ju, nuicaii nifniflniil picsiuciu Cm visits Camp David "". lf Z ": ffii CAMP DAVID, Md. President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-ba- k opened two days of talks on Friday focusing on North Korea's unfulfilled pledge to I "A" i e deal and a U. S. with South Korea that faces an uphill battle in Congress. Bush hopes to strengthen 1 V J i, ' mill f I sometimes-shak- U.S.-Sou- y - is th 1 ' cow disease. Its decision to end the ban removed a major roadblock to getting Congress to pass the free-trad- e pact, which Bush wants lawmakers to ratify before he leaves office. On North Korea, Bush is h embracing Lee's rhetoric against its communist neighbor. Lee is the first South Korean president to be invited to Camp David, and the visit, under picture-perfeblue skies, was evidence of Bush's hope can lciaiiuua mat lAo.-iwill get even stronger under the new leader. get-toug- sets up alerts for missed inspections FAA WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration is going to begin alerting its top headquarters officials when field inspectors miss airline safety inspections, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced Friday. Peters also demanded that the FAA and American Airlines explain to her within 14 days why 250,000 U.S. air r.A CU (.CU1LC1CU trn..,! 11 avcici 3 CUUUI last week. American flights grounded its MD-8jetliners and canceled 3, 100 flights in order to inspect or redo wiring that was supposed to have been completed between Sept. 5, 200(5, and March 5. Indigenous leaders from Omasuyos province, supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales, parade in Warisata, Bolivia, on Friday. top electoral authority indefinitely postponed a referendum on a new constitution, the state of Santa Cruz, home to President Morales' fiercest opposition, will vote May 4 on a proposal to declare autonomy. After-Bolivia- 's about Van Uhm's movements leader of Hamas and his depand planted a mine that killed U.S. men two the governuty, ment has labeled terrorists and him, but the Dutch government Israel accuses of mastermindrejected the claim. ing attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians. Mugabe blames Carter is the most prominent Zimbabwe's troubles American to hold talks with on Britain, whites, foes Khaled Mashaal, whose PalesHARARE, Zimbabwe tinian militant group claimed President Robert Mugabe new legitimacy from the devoted his first major speech meeting along with two other suKeft?unresolved election sessions the Nobel laureate to denounc- hetctwlthHasleerelrrthe-threeekyacrMiddle East this week. ing whites and former colonial "Political isolation (of ruler Britain, an attempt to convince Zimbabweans their the American U.S. by site Hamas) Blog helps and economic troubles administration has begun to political student get freed crumble," Mohammed Nazzal, stem from abroad. The scene at the official 28th a top figure in Hamas' political James Karl Buck says he has Twitter to thank for his bureau, told The Associated Independence Day celebration Press after Friday's meeting at Friday had all the pomp of freedom. Mashaal's Damascus office. old, with air force jets sweepBuck, a journalism grad A senior Hamas official in student, was arrested in Egypt ing overhead and Mugabe, bedecked in sash and medals, last week, and his only commu- Damascus, speaking on condinication to the outside world tion of anonymity because he striding past soldiers at was not authorized to repreattention was through his cellphone, "There are black people who sent the group publicly, dewhich he used to post a mesg scribed the meeting as "warm." are putting prices up, but they sage on the But he said Carter did not are being used by the whites," site. "Arrested," he typed into his receive a response to either of Mugabe said, promising to the two requests the former phone, a message that broadtighten laws that set prices and cast via the Web to his friends president made in the session: to crack down on and posin the United States and blog-ger- s businesses that Hamas halt its rocket atsibly take over in Egypt. tacks against Israel and that that break the rules. ' Buck was detained after it agree to a meeting with Whites "want the people Israeli Deputy Prime Minister to starve so they think the photographing a labor demEli Yishai to discuss a prisoner onstration near a textile mill government is wrong and in Mahalla, a few hours from exchange. they should remove it," said Cairo. The grounds for his arMugabe, who has ruled since rest were not made clear to Son of Dutch chjef independence in 1980 but who, him, he said, though the men according to independent monkilled in Afghanistan who detained him said he may itors, failed to win in the March 29 presidential THE HAGUE, Netherlands have been inciting a riot. The sbn of the Dutch devote. Twitter, a fense chief was killed Friday site, lets its users constantly by a roadside bomb in Afghanupdate, or tweet, tneir Troops battle rebels in friends, acquaintances anc istan, and the Taliban claimed Burundi after attack potentially anybody else with they deliberately made the a Web connection, with short, young lieutenant a BUJUMBURA, Burundi often mundane messages, like target. Government forces battled While the Dutch quickly cast suspected rebels Friday near "heading to the library," "feeldoubt on the Taliban claim, the the Burundian capital, a day ing sad" or "working late." Entries are limited to 140 char- death underscores the danger after a series of rebel assaults e killed at least 17 people, offisoldiers can face acters, so the typical update is cials said. and illustrates a grim reality only a sentence or two, like a for families, famous and not, super-shoblog. The free serTroops were fighting rebels vice launched in July 2006. who choose the military life. from the National Liberation Lt. Dennis van Uhm, 23, After Buck, who was in Force in Gihanga, some 10 was one of two Dutch soldiers" miles from Bujumbura, said Egypt for a school research project, sent a "tweet" that he killed in the explosion seven military spokesman Lt. CoL miles northwest of Camp Holhad been detained, his friends Justace Ciza. The skirmishes contacted the U.S. Embassy land, the Dutch military base in followed at least three attacks and his schoel, the Univerthe restive southern province , Thursday in the capital and of Uruzgan. Two more soldiers elsewhere. ; sity of California at Berkeley, which sent a lawyer to get him were injured, one critically. The government accused out of jail. Van Uhm's father, Gen. the National Liberation Force , A spokeswoman for the Peter van Uhm, was installed the only rebel group in State Department said Friday Burundi that has not signed only Thursday as the Netherthat the agency was aware of lands' defense chief. a peace deal with President Buck's arrest and played a role The prime minister called Pierre Nkurunziza's governin his release. Van Uhm's death "an unprecment of instigating the fightedented tragedy," and the ing by shelling the capital with Carter meets Hamas mortars and gunfire Thursday weekly meeting of the Dutch Cabinet was briefly stopped chief in Damascus night for more than an hour. so ministers could reflect priThe rebels want to "resume ForDAM ASCUS, Syria violence while they were envately. mer President Carter defied Taliban spokesman Qari gaged in a peace process," govU.S. and Israeli warnings and Yousef Ahmadi claimed that ernment spokeswoman Hassa met Friday with the exiled the militants knew in advance Mossi said Friday. social-networki- MANUEL President Myung-ba- k Press BALCE CENETAAssociated left and South Korean President Lee ride in a golf cart in Camp David, Md., on Bush Friday. Bush started to climb into the driver's seat, then offered it to Lee. "I drive," Lee exclaimed "He's afraid of my driving," Bush joked. reacted in the wake of revelations about the FAA's lax supervision of Southwest Airlines. Last month, it was revealed that the FAA allowed Southwest to fly dozens of Boeing 737s without inspecting them as required for fuselage cracks and that Southwest's system for complying with FAA safety directives had not been inspected by the FAA since 1999. Magnitude 5.2 quake wakes up Midwest WEST SALEM, across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago, homes in Cincinnati and nerves across the region but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage. Dozens of aftershocks followed, one with a magnitude of 4.6. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, 111., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast. "I just saw my house just shake. Golly," said Mike Morrow, of Mount Carmel, 111., 15 miles southeast of the epicenter, his eyes widening during an aftershock that hit as he was interviewed by y a reporter. Morrow's was apartment building evacuated because of loose and falling bricks. The initial quake woke the and startled his pit bull. ' i high-profi- building that a homeless man says he found in the trash. The schematic documents for the Freedom Tower, under construction at ground zero, were marked "Secure Document Confidential," the New York Post reported t Friday. The documents, dated Oct. 5, 2007, contain plans for each floor, the thickness of the concrete-cor- e wall, and the location of air ducts, elevators, electrical systems and support columns, the Post reported. Michael Fleming told the newspaper he found the documents on top of a public trash can in downtown Manhattan, with written warnings on it to "properly destroy if discarded." The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the World Trade Center and is building the 1,776-foFreedom Tower, has protocols requiring contractors and architects with secure and nonsecure documents to shred them, spokeswoman Candace McAdams said. le high-profil- rt ot " i Missouri mayor returns to City Hall KIRKWOOD, Mo. The mayor of Kirkwood, Mo., has returned to City Hall after he was shot twice in the head at a council meeting. Mike Swoboda didn't participate in city business but did read a statement that drew a lengthy ovation from those attending Thursday's council meeting. The mayor was critically injured when a gunman shot in February. Towerplans allegedly himTwo 2008. members of the counfound in N.Y. trash can cil, two police officers and "No one at all was well NEW YORK The govthe city's director of public served by what happened last works were killed. Police ernment agency building a week." Peters told a news y thon shot and killed the gunconference outside FAA skyscraper at the World Trade Center site is man, a disgruntled resident headquarters. She said she didn't think investigating the discovery of named Charles "Cookie two sets of blueprints for the Thornton. fedrral rcgubt ors hud over- 0 . Supporting Morales micro-bloggin- "' free-trad- Korea ties under Lee, a conservative who 'took office in late February and' made the United States his first overseas trip. Their meeting took on renewed impor- tanrp whpn Snth Knrpa announced Friday that it wnnlrl lift its han nn 1 S hppf imports. The dinner menu at the secluded presidential retreat in Maryland? Texas black Aneus beef tenderloin. v'" r .L irvorea was .me . .J oouin iniru largest foreign market for U.S. beef before it banned imports in December 2003 JOAO PADUA Associated Press two-stor- 102-stor- if - o INOO JOSHtAtsociated Presa Tibetan protesters e Tibetan exiles shout government slogans from a police vehicle where they were placed after being detained during a demonstration staged in front of the Chines Embassy's visa office in Katmandu, Nepal, on Friday. anti-Chines- |