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Show A4 Sunday, May 25, 2008 HERALD DAILY FAST FACT 10MNG Briefing The first modem brassiere to be award a patent in 1 91 4 was invented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob. Source: The Book of 1,001 Tnvia Questions Compiled from Daily Herald wire serv ices The Nation 3 dead, 3 injured in S. chopper crash Calif, LOS ANGELES A tour helicopter crashed in rainy weather on an island off the Southern California coast Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others, a county sheriff's deputy said. The helicopter went down on the west end of Santa Cata-lin- a Island near Two Harbors, causing a small fire that was quickly doused, authorities said. Helicopters airlifted two women and a man to mainland hospitals. Two of the injured were in critical condition, Los Angeles county sheriff s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. The crash killed two men and one woman immediately, said fire officials. Their identities were not released. The Eurocopter AS 350 chopper was a private tour aircraft from Island Express, Deputy Chuck Upton said. I j 2 I - 1 . . Mars spacecraft faces riskiest part of mission I ! After PASADENA, Calif. a nearly journey, a NASA spacecraft will land softly Sunday on the northern polar region of Mars, if all goes as planned. The Phoenix Mars Lander is set to touch down in a broad, shallow valley in the Martian arctic plains believed to hold a vast supply of underground ice. Phoenix's job during the mission is to excavate the soil and ice to study whether the site could have supported microbial life. The stakes are especially high: Fewer than half of the world's attempts to land on the Red Planet have succeeded. "I'm getting a real case of Joe Guinn, mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on the eve of the landing. In keeping with tradition, JPL project manager Barry Goldstein plans to hand out both salted bags of peanuts and unsalted to his team members on landing day. Over the years, JPL found that missions with the lucky charms have better success than those without. "I don't tempt fate," Goldstein said during a tour of mission control. Phoenix is the first to attempt to land in Mars' high northern latitudes. The lander will rely on its heat shield, parachute and a dozen thrust-er- s to slow itself down from 12,000 mph to 5 mph. The risky descent takes about seven minutes. 90-da- y heebie-jeebies- ," j. . ? : , I ' ' i ; I j I I V. : f . J . ....' y i,V-- ' u,I ,. :' k ' t ; ' f ' '!x ":'i'5v'''.''(-v.. ... - -- ( . ED Memorial Day Preparation Cub Scout Michael Hennigan, Saturday. 6, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., places flags graveside for Memorial Day at Long Island National Cemetery e, in federal agencies. "That was her passion, to increase the diversity in the federal government," said Scott Carter, director of the Office of Governmental Affairs at the Food and Nutrition Service. Carter is also Gutierrez's son-in-la- Diversity advocate Gloria Gutierrez dies In 2004, Gutierrez joined the Agriculture Department as deputy administrator for management with the Food and Nutrition Service, which assists one in five Americans annually Gloria WASHINGTON Gutierrez, a top administrator in the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition In October, she was appointed as associate administrator for management and finance with oversight for information through 15 nutrition assistance programs. A MONTGOMERY, Ala. south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-lif- e legal case involving allegations of racism at school. The parents of several black junior high school students have filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming their children are subject to racial slurs and punished more harshly than white students at Monroeville Junior High School. The lawsuit says black students at the county's only public junior high have been called slurs such as the "filthy trash" and "black mon- ," Farmingdale, N.Y., on Tornadoes rake parts of Kan., Okla. e, students to work BETZAssociated Press system, particularly Monroe County." Service who advocated for diversity in the federal government, died of cancer April 25 technology, financial management, human resources, civil rights, administrative services at Potomac Hospital in Wood-bridgand homeland security. Va. She was 64. Gutierrez contributed to her Gutierrez, who lived in the agency in many way s, includLake Ridge section of Wood-bridging as "mentor, supervisor, exwas one of the highest-rankin- g ecutive, spokesperson, decision Hispanic career senior maker, problem solver and executives in the federal govstraight shooter," said Roberto ernment and pushed to attract Salazar, administrator of the more women and minorities to Food and Nutrition Service. civil service. She also played a pivotal role in creating a Racism in Harper Lee's range of summer internship Ala. hometown programs for Hispanic college in : 0& i o AuKANSAS CITY, Mo. thorities checking on a car stranded in a field Saturday morning found two people killed by a powerful storm that raked the state a day earlier with more than a dozen tornadoes. The Friday storm destroyed several buildings and left at least four people were injured in Stafford County, including one hospitalized in serious BILL ROSSAssociated Press condition at a Wichita hospiResidents remove personal items and valuables from their tal, according to a statement tornado damaged homes for the first time since a tornado hit by Sharon Watson, a spokesthe area earlier in the week, on Saturday in Windsor, Colo., woman for the Kansas Adju- m Ala key." Their parents also say classes are segregated, with most black students being kept out of advanced placement and honors courses. The action, originally filed in August, was revived this week by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. Southern District Court on behalf of nine students. It names the Monroe County Board of Education, Monroeville Junior High prin . cipal Lana Wilson, county superintendent Dennis Mixon, and the school tant General's Department. The National Weather Service said at least 17 twisters touched down across the state. Authorities found a man and woman from Colorado dead in board. "I just feel like every student a car in a field 13 miles east of should have the right to a dePratt, about 75 miles west of cent education regardless of Wichita, Watson said. It was not a clear how the car got in the field. race, creed or color," said In a statement about the deaths, Yates, a parent involved in the lawsuit whose son is an the Pratt County Sheriff's Office didn't give details about how the eighth grader. "We need to two were killed, and declined to make sure that that happens within the Alabama school elaboratevhen called. Tan-geli- The World Earthquake rocks Colombian capital - A that have propelled Gen. Mipopular series set for release in chel Suleiman to Lebanon's November. Warner Bros., the studio presidency, as the only candiA date on whom the country's that is producing the film, said BOGOTA, Colombia strong earthquake has shaken bickering factions could agree. it was shocked by the news. On Sunday, the Lebanese Knox was one of five young Colombia's capital, killing three men taken to various hospitals people and injuring eight. Army commander will give The U.S. Geological Survey after the brawl, police said. up his army post and be inaugurated as president, filling a says the quake Among them was a started around 2:20 p.m. Satwho has since been arrested on vacancy in the suspicion of murder. top job and, Lebanese hope, urday (1900 GMT) afternoon and lasted for 40 seconds. The ushering in a new era of stability after more than three years US ambassador: quake was centered about 33 miles (54 kilometers) southeast of political upheaval and strife. close to defeat of Bogota. Billboards carrying his stern Colombian Interior Minister portrait, frowning beneath his BAGHDAD Carlos Holguin confirmed that peaked army cap, proclaim The U.S. amhim "The Savior" and a man three people were killed and bassador to Iraq said Saturday "For All Lebanon," just one that network in the eight injured. indication of the high expectaPhone systems were down country has never been closer tions resting on his shoulders. to defeat, and he praised Prime briefly. Minister Nouri for his moves to rein in Shiite and Lebanese Army Teen actor in 'Harry da - 0 4 commander to be inaugurated Potter' film killed LONDON In almost any other country, a military commander might not be held in high regard if he had looked the other way while armed militias overran the streets of the capital, turned a blind eye to a private army's accumulation of cheno uxmhua a subst ant iul arsenal or st ood aside when the tanks of a hos tile neighbor rumbled across In this photo distributed by the officiul Chinese news ugemy the border. But in troubled Lebanon, Xinhua, newly arrived giant pandas have a light moment at where neutrality and indepenBeijing Zoo in Beijing, on Saturday May 24, 2(XH. Eight giunt dence are pried commodities, pandas from the quuke-hi- t Sichuun province are uirlifvd to these are the very credent ial.s Beijing, on Saturday to add cheer to the upcoming Beijing Olympus, Xinhua said, BEIRUT Earthquake Pandas - A British teen- age actor playing a minor role in the upcoming "I larry Potter" film was stabbed to death during a brawl in London on Saturday, police said. Rob Knox, 18, was stabbed after he got caught up in a fight outside a bar in southwest London early Saturday, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Knox plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming film "Harry Potter And the sixth installment of the Thellalf-BhHKlIVince,- " Sunni militant groups. Ryan Crocker's comments came as Iraqi forces have been conducting crackdowns on militants in the northern city of Mosul and on Shiite militiamen in the southern city of Basra. Thousands of Iraqi forces also moved into the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad last week imposing control for the first time in years. But truces with the powerful Mahdi Army militia that have calmed violence in Basra and paved the way for the Sadr City deployment have been strained in the past two days. . cleric Supporters of anti-US- who heads Muqtada the Mahdi Army, accused on Saturday of seeking to eliminate their movement and warned that "dark clouds" hang over the truce. fighters or other Sunni insurgents struck back in Mosul on Saturday. A roadside bomb in the city's Sumer neighborhood hit an Iraqi army patrol, destroying a vehicle and killing four soldiers, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. German authorities take baby from parents who posted ad on eBay BERLIN Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57. Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region, although the child's mother insisted the ad was only a joke. Authorities have launched an investigation into possible child trafficking against the baby's mother und 2 l year-olfather, neither of whom was identified. d |