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Show A4 DAILY HERALD Monday, July 28, 2008 FAST FACT Morning Briefing The further we look into space the greater the red shifts; this implies that the more distant galaxies are receding at ever greater speeds. Source: Micropedia of World Facts Complied from Daily Herald wire services The booked for after wreck LaBeouf DUI The WORLD NATION costs are going up and they've accepted it." private-labe- l Wrong Larry shown on campaign buttons LOS ANGELES Shia LaBeouf was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Sunday after an early morning wreck in which the "Indiana Jones" star injured his hand and knee, authorities said. LaBeouf was trying to make a left turn at a West Hollywood intersection around 3 a.m. when his pickup collided with another vehicle, rolling the truck over. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Wolf said. "It was immediately ap- LEWISTON, Idaho Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig. But don't expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the butparent to officers responding ton manufacturer picked a on the scene that LaBeouf picture of the wrong Idaho was intoxicated and he was Larry. e The button by subsequently placed under arrest," Wolf said. Design was intended Wolf said LaBeouf was to show Obama beside Larry booked then released for LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, misdemeanor DUI. The 22 year-old actor was taken the Lewiston Tribune reMedical Cento Cedars-Sina- i ported. ter and was being treated for Craig is not seeking reelection following his arrest injuries to his left hand and in a Minnesota airport a knee, as well as a minor sex sting. head injury, Wolf said. A woman passenger in The buttons weren't orLaBeouf s truck and the dered by the LaRocco camdriver of the other vehicle paign, said Dean Ferguson, LaRocco's communications were not seriously injured. Wolf did not know the idendirector. They appear to have been produced by a tities of the woman or the commercial firm that makes other driver. campaign memorabilia inInflation's next front volving Democratic races around the country, he said. is retailers "That sounds like it's goNEW YORK Coming ing to be a collector's item," to a store near you: Even Ferguson said. "I'm sure Sen. Obama appreciates Sen. higher prices. Most inflation this year Craig's support." has come from food and fuel, as retailers resisted passing Study: Exercise slows along to strapped consumAlzheimer's brain ers the higher prices manu- " " - x "-- I i i'h ' v - - . f : k Tig-erey- fir' ). y -- f's-A rest-roo- atrophy facturers charged them, but coming increases from companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Hasbro Inc. may leave them with no choice. "While these increases have, not for the most part been passed on at the retail level, it is inevitable that they will be at some point," said Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "Car NEW YORK Patients with early Alzheimer's disease who exercised regularly saw less deterioration in the areas of the brain which control memory, according to a study released Sunday at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies showed that exercise positively dealers and other retailers affected the hippocampus cannot continue to absorb region of patients' brains, an rising costs at the wholesale area which is important for level and not pass some of both memory and balance. In Alzheimer's, the hipthese increases on to consumers." pocampus is one of the first Sherwin Williams Co. parts of the brain to suffer on July 17 announced its damage. third price increase in eight Exercise and physical months. The company has fitness have been shown been having "difficult discusto slow down sions" with retailers, Chris brain cell death in healthy older adults, and earlier this Connor, chairman and CEO, said on its quarterly confermonth a preliminary study ence call. was published showing that The price increases are exercise may help slow "well supported with facts brain shrinkage in people in terms of why the comwith early Alzheimer's disease. pany needs them," he said. "Our customers, to the best Now, researchers at the of their ability, are passing University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, them on." Hasbro said the retailers Kan., have used MRI and it sells to didn't like price other neuroimaging tools to increases the company ananalyze how exercise affects nounced Monday "but they the brains of those with early Alzheimer's. recognize that their own age-relate- d BAS set of wheels A winning Carlos Sastre of Spain celebrates during a victory lap after winning the Tour de France cycling race Longtime Cambodian leader claims new election win PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party claimed it had sealed a landslide victory in parliamentary elections Sunday that were expected to usher in a new term for the former Khmer Rouge soldier who has ruled for 23 years. Hun Sen's popularity at the polls was buoyed by a surge of nationalism amid a tense border dispute with neighboring Thailand. The Hun Sen's reputation as a strongman served him well in the campaign, with voters rallying around the leader as Cambodian troops faced off with Thai soldiers for a second week at a disputed 11th century Hindu temple. Just hours after polling stations closed, the ruling Cambodian People's Party appeared to be "leading everywhere" and estimates from party agents nationwide indicated a sweep of more than 83 seats in the lower house, said party spokesman Khieu Kanharith. Such a result would strengthen the party's dominance and give it a s majority in the lower house. "We can claim a landslide victory. It is certain," the spokesman told The Associated Press, adding that vote counting had been completed in most constituencies. 123-se- Soap opera shakes customs of Arab life Islamic group claims India blasts two-third- 123-se- AHMADABAD, India An obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronized explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of "the terror of Death" in an sent to several television staEmpty prison in Iraq a tions minutes before the blasts. Another unexploded bomb S40M 'failure' was found and defused early In the BAGHDAD Sunday, said the city's police north of Baghdad sits a commissioner, O.P. Mathur. He said police had detained 30 prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a people. "In the name of Allah the Inchronicle of U.S. government waste, misguided planning and dian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within construction shortcuts costing $40 million and stretching back 5 minutes from now, feel the to the American overseers who terror of Death!" said an from the group sent to several replaced Saddam Hussein. Indian television stations min"It's a bit of a monument in utes before the blasts began. the desert right now because The it's not going to be used as a subject line said "Await 5 minutes for the reprison," said Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general venge of Gujarat," an apparent for Iraq reconstruction, whose reference to 2002 riots in the western state which left 1.000 office plans to release a report Monday detailing the litany of problems at the vacant detention center in Khan Bani Saad. The pages also add another flat-lan- i liwj .y 'inwAlWiil 1 " r - ,1 I I Li.miiH. - I f it nlhrfniiAwitr.. i i -- T ' ..ii., I " t V u . tA-- " "fc"tyr;-n-in''"- is f t. iiw. ,n.t .ft. ' ..... .iiiy.X-- i .. uymq p3 1 mt 7 JT"1 jjF' V l'i"i;''-- "W jpWI'iiiiM'l'i'ii 4iJHi mife,. Vtmrity ii ' "' tn " v iijji.iJ przr r; i ' t jmiil ytP i. in. mil...... iiiijWWifcwyyl X f..niiyiii,in mi Jib .mi imkh Ainryiy., A narrative to the wider probes into the billions lost so far on scrubbed or substandard projects in Iraq and one of the main contractors accused of failing to deliver, the Parsons construction group of Pasadena, Calif. "This is $40 million invested in a project with very little return," Bowen told The Associated Press in Washington. "A couple of buildings are useful. Other than that, it's a failure." In the pecking order of cor- - NEIBERGALl Associated Press Raid watch Don FindlOtf, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, stands with his dog Chico as they watch an immigration march, Sunday, in Postville, Iowa, Busloads of people from Chicago, Paul and other nearby cities came Minneapolis-St- . to protest a federal immigration raid of the local Agriprocessors plant. Nearly 400 people were arrested during the May raid of the plant. i The city's governor called it a "terror attack" but officials did not blame any specific group and no one immediately claimed responsibility. CNN-Turtelevision, citing security sources, said police suspect Kurdish rebels may be behind it because intelligence reports k people, mostly Muslims, dead. The historic city of Ahmada-ba- d was the scene of much of the 2002 violence. sent from Saturday's a Yahoo account and written in English, was made available one of the to AP by CNN-IBTV stations that received the warning. Egyptian court acquits owner of ferry that sank 2 years ago had suggested the rebels were planning a bombing campaign in Turkish cities. "There is no doubt that this is a terror attack," Gov. Muam-me- r Guler told reporters. The first bomb went off in the residential neighborhood of Gungoren in a busy square closed to traffic where people congregate at night, witnesses said. A number of people had rushed over to see what happened and help the victims when a second, more powerful blast hit close by about 10 minutes after the first. Many of the casualties were from the second explosion, witnesses said. "The fact that there was a An EgypCAIRO, Egypt tian court on Sunday acquitted crowd in the area has increased the owner of a ferry that sank the number of casualties," the two years ago in the Red Sea, governor said. The governor's office said 154 people were killing more than 1,000 people. The ship's owner and his son injured. Of those, 15 were in were cleared of negligence and critical condition, a government corruption charges by a court official at the scene said. in the Red Sea port city of An Associated Press re-- ;, Hurghada, court officials said. porter who arrived to the scene shortly after the explosions satv They were tried in absentia, at least 12 people lying on the and are believed to be hiding somewhere in Europe. ground. Broken glass, clothing, The ferry sank in February shop mannequins and other debris were strewn on the ground 2006 after a fire broke out in and bomb squads in white overits vehicle bay while traveling alls were inspecting the scene. from Saudi Arabia to Egypt. Most of the more than 1,000 victims were Egyptian work Soap opera shakes ii f t H l . r , i J . i i i'.w 1 1 i pr X 1 """" I j-' ruption in Iraq, the dead-enprison project at Khan Bani ' Saad is nowhere near the bigmost tangled. gest or Bowen estimated up to 20 percent "waste" or more from the $21 than $4 billion CHANNI ANANDAssociated Press billion spent so far in the took part in a rally who Resoldiers Action Hindu as Force run cover Indian Relief and for protestors Rapid Iraq construction Fund. It's just one defying curfew throw stones at them in Jammu, India, Sunday. Curfew was imposed in the city after Hindu activists called for a major strike to protest a recent government decision to piece of a recovery effort that cancel a land transfer to a Hindu shrine. swelled beyond $112 billion in f d CHARLIE years. conservative, surroundings. "Noor" delivers an idealized portrayal of modern married life as equal partnership clashing with the norms of traditional Middle Eastern societies where elders often have the final word on whom a woman should marry and many are still confined to the role of wife and mother. Some Muslim preachers in the West Bank and Saudi Arabia have taken notice, saying the show is and urging the faithful to change channels. But all the same, the show may be planting seeds of change. il, ers returning home. The accident and the slow, cumbersome rescue operation that followed touched a raw nerve in Egypt, with victims' relatives openly criticizing the government of President Hosni Mubarak. Two ISTANBUL, Turkey bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square Sunday night, killing 15 and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five in In Paris, France, Sunday. Bombs kill 15 in Istanbul neighborhood RAMALLAH, West Bank Every evening for the past four months, a tall young man with soulful blue eyes has been stealing hearts across the Middle East, from the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip to the gated mansions of Riyadh. But it's not just the striking good looks of Mohannad, hero of the hugely popular Turkish TV soap "Noor," that appeal to female viewers. He's romantic, attentive to his wife, Noor, supportive of her independence and ambitions in short, a rare gem for women as a fashion designer U.S., Iraqi and international contributions. in Press CZERWINSKIAssociated ,;Y. |