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Show Thursday, DAILY May 8, 2008 HERALD AS FAST FACT Morning Briefing In the first U.S. census in 1 790, African-America- n slaves were counted as three-fifth- s of a person each. The practice continued until the 14th rule. Amendment in 1868 ended the three-fifth- s Source: Time Almanac 2004 Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The NATION The World frats suspended after drug probe at SDSU 6 SAN DIEGO San Diego State University has suspended six fraternities after a sweeping drug investigation that landed dozens of students in jail on suspicion of openly dealing drugs on campus. The probe prompted by the cocaine overdose death last year of a freshman sorority member led to the arrests of 96 people, 75 of them San Diego State students. A second if '- Si 4 - drug death occurred during the investigation. Twenty-nin- e people were arrested early Tuesday in raids at nine locations including the Theta Chi fraternity, where agents found cocaine, Ecstasy " and three guns, authorities said. Eighteen of those arrested were wanted on warrants for selling to undercover agents. Theta Chi and five other fraternities have been suspended pending a hearing on evidence gathered during the investiga-- , tion, dubbed Operation Sudden -7 - li Fall. All of the arrested students have been suspended and will be barred from attending classes or taking final exams until their cases are reviewed, San Diego State President Stephen Weber said in a statement. Those who live in university-owne- d housing were evicted, he added. v v"'r7, f i study links obesity to irregular sleep CDC I Associated Press TARA as he dances during Independence Day festivities in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Israel is marking its 60th Independence Day, which began at sundown Wednesday, with a great sense of pride but also uncertainty about its future and doubts about prospects for peace with the Palestinians. An Israeli youth shouts Israel comes to a halt rattled off shelves. to mark Memorial Day There were no other im JERUSALEM Sirens wailed across Israel Wednesday, bringing the nation to e a standstill in a solemn ritual on the country's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of Palestinian suicide bombings and two-minut- other attacks. Pedestrians stood at atten tion ana motorists steppea out of their cars, halting traffic as the sirens rang out. Radio and TV programming were interrupted for the two ran. Claire Hajaj, a UNICEF mediate reports of injuries or spokeswoman based in Jordamage from the magnitude dan, said up to 150,000 people 6.8 earthquake, NHK said. No including 75,000 children were isolated in sections tsunami warning was issued. The earthquake occurred at of Sadr City "cordoned off by 1:45 a.m. offshore at a depth military forces." She said about 6,000 people of about 25 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. have been forced to flee their homes and that some areas of The epicenter was about 100 miles northeast of Tokyo. southeastern Sadr City were A second quake with a virtually abandoned. magnitude of 5.3 struck the same area about 30 minutes Former Guantanamo later, and more aftershocks could follow, Tamotsu an official who monitors earthquakes for the country's Meteorological Agency, told The Associated Press. Aket-agaw- a, prisoner carries out Iraq suicide attack SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide Humanitarian woes with nearly every Israeli attack in northern Iraq. in family touched by decades Sadr City grow A spokesman for U.S. of conflict. It comes a day BAGHDAD Entire secbefore the country celebrates military's Central Command told The Associated Press on tions of Baghdad's embattled the 60th anniversary of its Sadr City district have been Wednesday that Abdallah independence. Salih took part in an left nearly abandoned by "This special day wipes civilians fleeing a U.S.-le- d attack in Mosul. away our divisions. The feelU.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott showdown with Shiite militias ing of unity and shared desand seeking aid after facing Rye says authorities don't tiny is stronger than ever," know the motive for the atPrime Minister Ehud Olmert shortages of food and medicine, humanitarian groups said in a ceremony at Mount tack, which was reported last week by Dubai-base- d said Wednesday. Herzl, the country's national television. Iraqi the "Memorial The agenby reports military cemetery. cies, including the U.N. security forces were apparDay is a sad day, but free of children's fund, add to the in- ently targeted. any disagreements and very The U.S. transferred dividual accounts by civilians Israeli." to Kuwaiti custody pouring out of the Sadr City from Guantanamo in 2005. A area as clashes intensify. Offshore earthquake U.S. forces have increased Kuwaiti court later acquitted wakes up Tokyo him of terrorism charges. air power and armored patrols in the attempt to cripple A strong earthTOKYO China steps up fight quake struck off the coast of Shiite militia influence in milslum naof 2.5 a Sadr the City, Japan early Thursday, against child virus tional Meteorological Agency lion people that serves as the BEIJING China anBaghdad base for the Mahdi said, waking up people 100 new led nounced by Wednesday miles away in Tokyo. Army rules that require health care cleric Muqtada Two people suffered The battles started in late providers to report all cases minor injuries from falling March after the Iraqi govern- of a viral illness that has furniture, public television killed 28 children and sickment opened a crackdown broadcaster NHK reported. militias on ened thousands in outbreaks hit armed and was man gangs An when his stereo speakers fell in the southern city of Basra, across the country. There have been 15,799 including some groups Washonto his bed, and a cases of hand, foot and mouth man was hit by objects ington says have links to disease this year, the official Xinhua News Agency said, cropping up in areas ranging from the tropical island province of Hainan in the south to Jilin province in the northeast and Yunnan province in the southwest. The number and scope of cases in recent years, along with the need for increased surveillance, prompted the Health Ministry to enforce the new reporting rules, spokesman Mao Qun'an said. "This demonstrates our commitment to people's health," Mao said ut a rare MARKUS SCHREIBER, Associated Press news conference held jointly with the World Health OrgaAn nization. Under the mandate which Musicians of Germany's Kammersymphoniker Berlin took effect Tuesday, health orchestra perform during a rehearsal for the media at care providers need to report the Holocaust Memoriul in Berlin on Wednesday. The cases to the ministry within orchestra will perform Us first concert in the memoriul 24 hours. on J'riduv. minutes. Memorial Day is one of the most somber and emotional days on the Israeli calendar, unusual performance : ATLANTA People who sleep fewer than six hours a or more than nine night are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies. The study also linked light sleepers to higher smoking rates, less physical activity and more alcohol use. The research adds weight to a stream of studies that have found obesity and other health problems in those who don't get proper shuteye, said Dr. Ron Kramer, a Colorado physician and a spokesman for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "The data is all coming together that short sleepers and long sleepers don't do so well," Kramer said. Officials: Ore. sea lions weren't shot to death FedPORTLAND, Ore. eral officials investigating the deaths of six sea lions at a Columbia River dam did an about-fac- e Wednesday, saying their initial assumption that the animals had been shot to death was wrong. Officials have not ruled out human involvement, but the conclusion from preliminary necropsy results that shootings did not kill them reopened questions of how the animals died: The National Marine Fisheries Service's initial reports about the deaths raised intense disinterest in the pute over the sea lions, which prey on protected salmon. As a ", v: n u I JASON DECROW Sharpton arrested at NYC protest NEW YORK The Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday as he and hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic to protest the acquittal of three detectives in the shooting of an unarmed black man on his wedding day. Sharpton, two survivors of the shooting and the slain man's fiancee were among about a dozen people arrested on disorderly conduct charges near the base of the bridge. Police led away demonstrators at several other bridges and tunnels in the city. The protests were part of a coordinated campaign to urge federal authorities to investigate the November 2006 shooting of Sean Bell. Three officers were acquitted of state charges last month. Sharpton, shooting survivors Trent Benef ield and Joseph Guzman, and Bell's fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell, lined up and peacefully put their hands behind their backs as police put plastic handcuffs on them. Sharpton and Bell were placed in a police vehicle. The civil rights leader is seeking a federal civil rights probe into Bell's shooting outside a Queens nightclub. The case raised questions about police use of deadly force in . minority neighborhoods. shallow puncture wounds in one animal consistent with sea lion bite marks, and found metal fragments in soft tissue near the neck of two animals, Gorman said. A metal slug was found in the blubber of one animal. But neither the fragments nor the slug appear to be fatal and may have been from old wounds, he said. Bailiffs kill man in Fla. courthouse gunfight ST. PETERSBURG, Ha. Bailiffs shot and killed a man who opened fire in the lobby of a downtown courthouse Wednesday afternoon, sheriff's officials said. One of the two bailiffs who fired at the unidentified man suffered a shoulder wound, Pinellas County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Bor-dnsaid. At least four other people were in the lobby at the time but no one else was hurt, Bordnersaid. The gunman entered the courthouse shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday and approached a security checkpoint wearing a backpack. A deputy ordered consequence, the government him to remove the backpack and the Humane Society of the and place it on a conveyor belt, but the man instead threw it United States agreed to suson the ground and opened fire pend trapping and removing with a semiautomatic handgun, the sea lions this year. Bordner said. But the preliminary results of the examination of the carDeputies B.J. Lyons and casses found no evidence of re- Marvin Glover returned fire, cent gunshot wounds, fisheries fatally wounding the man, who spokesman Brian Gorman said. died later at a St. Petersburg The necropsy results showed hospital. Lyons, 58, who suf . g Associated Press Shooting survivor Joseph Guzman left; the Rev. Al Sharpton center; and Nicole Paultre Bell second from right, widow of Sean Bell, lead a group of protesters to fered the shoulder wound, was released from the hospital by late afternoon. Mich, high court says gay partners can't get health benefits LoLANSING, Mich. cal governments and state universities in Michigan can't offer health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court ruled that Michigan's 2004 ban against gay marriage also blocks domestic-partner policies affecting gay employees at the University of Michigan and other public-secto- r employers. The decision affirms a February 2007 appeals court ruling. Up to 20 public universities, community colleges, school districts and local governments in Michigan have benefit policies covering at least 375 gay couples. After the appeals court ruled, universities and local governments rewrote their policies to try to comply with the gay marriage ban so the effect of Wednesday's decision 5-- 2 is unclear. The new policies no longer specifically acknowledge domestic partnerships but make sure "other qualified adults," including gay partners," are eligible for medical and dental care. The adults have to live together for a certain amount of time, be unmarried, share finances and be unrelated. w 'VA- DtNNIS FINNIN,Amricn Museum ot Natural History Looking at 'the horses young girl looks over a pair of painted fiberhiss horses placed in front of the American Seven fiberglass Museum ofNutural History entrance in Sew York , UV(iMi-srliy- . horses will be in place for the summer of L'lNM. The museum will host un eii7itioi entitled "The Horse," wm li opens to the public on Saturday, May 17 A life-siz- |