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DAILY A4 Thursday, August 17, 2006 HERALD FAST FACT MORNING BRIEFING The hyoid bone resides by itself in the the tongue and its musdes. throat It supports Source The Book of Answers Compiled from Daily Herald wire sen'ices The World The Nation I rS I F" -DAVID G. " w -. I it ' 2 PIERREAssociated Press from left, Tyson Adams, Marshal Wilson and Daren Gilles survey damage caused by flooding in downtown Hatch, N.M., Tuesday. Hatch High School students, Floodwater inundates parts of southern N.M. HATCH, N.M. Pumps slowly drained waist-deefloodwater from parts of this southern New Mexico town Wednesday, while crews worked to reinforce a breached arroyo that caused hundreds of residents to flee their homes. Authorities ordered residents living in areas from Hatch to Rincon, about five miles south, to evacuate their homes Tuesday after a day of heavy rain breached the arroyo and a wall of water rushed into Hatch, a town famous for its green chili peppers. Many of the evacuees were p soaked when they reached an evacuation center at Hatch lion faulty laptop batteries is creating headaches for its corporate customers who have come to rely on notebook PCs as an indispensable part of doing business. Information technology departments are faced with the prospect of testing and potentially having to swap out the batteries of hundreds or thousands of notebooks. If the batteries are affected by like the recall, companies consumers must wait for replacements to be shipped. "This will be a burden on the IT department," analyst Cindy Shaw of Moors & Cubot said Wednesday. releases new tapes of World Trade NYC Center 911 calls Valley High School. ' NEW YORK "I have never, ever seen Trapped anything like this," said Andy and running out of air on Apodaca,"47. "It floods here a the smoky ,83rd floor of the lot. as recent as last week, but World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 9 1 1 operator not like this." not to hang up. "Can you stay on the line Port of Seattle with me, please? I feel like I'm ' terminal evacuated dying," Doi said. The operator stayed on for SEATTLE Authorities e 24 minutes, imploring Doi set up a perimeter around a terminal at the city's breathing and praying, g saying, "It's going to be fine" port Wednesday after over and over, long after Doi dogs indicated that two containers from Pakistan had stopped talking. could contain explosives. Finally, the connection ended. "The line is now dead," Dozens of personnel were evacuated from Terminal 18, one dispatcher said. "Oh my lord " said the operator. .south of downtown and nearfinancial by businesses were.advised to , Doi, a' manager, died in the World keep their workers indoors. A bomb squad was examining Trade Center's south tower ' on Sept. 11. On Wednesday, the containers' contents. ' U.S. Customs and Border her voice was heard as the Protection agents had used a city released new tapes of device to peer hundreds of heart wrenching "gamma-ray- " phone calls, along with other through the containers' steel walls to determine what they emergency transcripts. half-mil- bofnb-sniffin- contained and detected some of the items did not appear io match what was listed on the containers' manifest, said spokesman Mike Milne. Dell's corporate customers could face battery pinch Dell Inc.'s un- DALLAS precedented recall of 4.1 mil- - New universe ROCKVILLE, Md. Drunken drivers beware: Police say they are starting a crackdown this month and the government is promising arrests for those who drink and drive. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it hoped new advertising would help lower fatalities, which have barely budged in a decade. The government said 39 percent of all traffic deaths last year involved alcohol. "We do mean business. If they don't get off the streets voluntarily, we're going to take them off the streets," said Acting Transportation Secretary Maria Cino. alcohol-involve- challenges textbook writers Washington The idea that our solar system may soon join the obsolete world of eight-tractapes and slide rules should send science teachers, textbook New drunken driving goal promises arrests d KEVIN , Virginia teen may writers and toymakers back'to the cosmic drawing board. " Does it make our products obsolete?" asked Kim McLynn, spokeswoman for ' Illinois-base- Learn- d ing Resources, which makes an inflatable solar system and a Planet Quest game. "Wow, a whole new universe." Though not ap- proved yet. the lineup of the solar system's planets would grow to 2 under a proposal by leading astronomers. Their recommendation will be decided by a vote of the International Astronomical Union on Aug. 24. For people who make their living on the old Mercury through-Pluto system, a change in the planet's means quick -- forgo chemotherapy The family of a Virginia boy who has refused conventional medical treatment for cancer reached a settlement Wednesday with state officials, agreeing that he will see a new doctor while continuing his alternative therapy. The compromise means that Starchild Abraham . Cherrix, 16, will not have to undergo chemotherapy against his will, as a judge had ordered him to do. Officials in Accomack County, Va., had accused Abraham's parents of medical neglect for allowing him to seek an alternative treatment gleaned from a clinic in Mexico. Under the settlement, reached on the day the dispute was scheduled to go to trial, Abraham will be permitted to see a new oncologist who uses alternative therapies emphasizing nutrition, said John Stepanovich, an attorney for the family. Abrariam may be treated with radiation but will also continue the therapy from Mexico that triggered the dispute. Press and Hezbollah. Lebanon gives for deployment go-ahe- ad The BEIRUT; Lebanon Israeli army began handing over positions to the U.N. early Thursday, stepping up its withdrawal from southern Lebanon after the Lebanese government agreed tp deploy troops near Israel's border for the first time in 40 years. The Lebanese Cabinet decision fell short of agreement on disarming the Shiite Muslim militant group, which has insisted it has the right to defend Lebanese territory as long as Israeli troops remain in the country.. More than 50 percent of the areas Israel holds has been transferred to the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNI-FIthe Israeli army said, addthe process would occur in ing stages and would depend on a stronger U.N. force as well as "the ability of the Lebanese army to take effective control of the area." Russian patrol boat opens function and infection in both lungs. His urine output had also decreased significantly and doctors were treating him antibiotwith ics and steroids, the hospital said at the time. Asked for an update on Wednesday, Sheba spokeswoman Anat Dolev would not say if the treatment was continuing or if Sharon was responding. bread-spectru- fire on Japanese vessel TOKYO Japan launched strong protest to Russia Wednesday after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese vessel, killing a fisherman in the latest flare-uof a territorial dispute between the neighboring nations. The crab fisherman was shot and killed near Kaigara island, one of several islands off the northeast tip of Hokkaido that are administered by Russia and claimed by Japan. Russia's regional border patrol said he suffered a "fatal shot in the head." Japan insisted the boat was in Japanese waters, called the act "unacceptable," and demanded immediate compensation and release of the boat and surviving crew. "There has been a loss of life, and the situation is grave. Japan demands an immediate apology," Foreign Minister Taro Aso told reporters after a tense meeting with in Tokyo. "It's unacceptable this took place within Japanese waters." p n African countries open border to new park More than 600 dead in Ethiopia floods ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Flooding from 11 days of heavy rain has killed at least 626 people across Ethiopia, and. authorities Wednesday braced for a rising death toll as Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to locate missing villagers. Rivers in southern, north- ern and eastern Ethiopia burst their banks but foreall the barriers blocking free casters predicted even more movement of animals through rain. The death toll in southern Ethiopia was at 364, and the 14,000 square miles of bush slated police there said it could scrubby, reach 1,000 while another 256 to become the Greater Limwere killed in the east and six popo Transfrontier Park. in the north. Sharon 'stable' after According to the U.N., 300 people are still missing in the new lung infection east and police said they are The hosJERUSALEM calling off the search for bodies in the region while continupital treating former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ing their search and rescue in the south. said Wednesday he was in stable condition two days after "Things are getting out of control," said Inspector Daniel being put on antibiotics for double pneumonia. Gezahenge, a spokesman for the southern regional police. Sharon, 78, has been in a coma since suffering a mas"We need additional helicopsive stroke Jan. 4. He has since ters and boats for rescuing." undergone several extensive U.S. forces raid alleged brain operations to stop cerebral hemorrhaging, in addition sanctuaries to other relatively minor procedures. U.S. KABUL, Afghanistan Tel Aviv's Chaim Sheba and Afghan forces raided comsun-bake- d Individual rights must be balanced with security concerns LONDON Britain's top law erforcement official said Wednesday that Europe is being confronted by terrorism that's "unconstrained in its evil intention," and individual rights must be balanced with collective security. Home Secretary John Reid made his comments after briefing European Union counterparts on the investigation into an alleged plot to blow up c planes with liquid explosives. "As we face the threat of mass murder we have to accept that the rights of the individual that we enjoy must and will be balanced with the trans-Atlanti- collective right of security and the protection of life and limb that our citizens demand," he told journalists. The EU, he added, faces "a form of terrorism that is unconstrained in its evil intention." KRUGER NATIONAL The PARK, South Africa presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe officially opened a new border crossing Wednesday, another step toward creating the "world's largest animal kingdom" a huge park spanning the three countries. Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Armando Guebu-z- a of Mozambique and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe gathered for the formal opening of the Giriyondo border post linking South Africa and Mozambique. The road was opened to limited traffic in December. Officials have begun taking down fences on the MozambiquAfrica border but e-South Medical Center said Monday have not started on the Zimbabwe-South Africa frontier. that new tests had revealed It will take years to remove deterioration in Sharon's brain TOKYO Princess Kiko baby,-whos- The e old wife of Akihito's Prince Akishino is pregnant younger son with her third child and is expected to give birth early next month by Caesarean section. Doctors have said she lias symptoms of partial placenta previa, a condition in which part of the placenta drops too low in the uterus. Officials said Kiko was in good health and the early hospitalization was not cause for - concern. I pounds suspected of being sanctuaries in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, seizing weapons and explosives and arresting eight people, the U.S. military said. Insurgents attacked a Cana- Pregnant princess prepares to give birth entered a hospital Wednesday to prepare to give birth to the first new addition to Japan's royal family In more than four and possibly a badly years needed heir to the ancient Chrysan'hemum Throne. The gender of the due date is still weeks away, has not been announced. But Japan's conservative leaders are hoping for a boy and have shelved a plan that would allow the daughter of Emperor Akihito's eldest son to succeed him and become the first female to reign since the 18th century. da dian base in southern Afghanistan with mortars, wounding six soldiers, a Canadian military spokesman said. Insurgents also killed one policeman, and w ounded another 'n an attack on a check-poi- nine-plan- k FRAYERAssociated Lebanese Hezbollah supporters sweep the s treet in a destroyed residential area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Wednesday, Tens of thousands of people have returned to their shattered villages in eastern and southern Lebanon as well as Beirut's southern suburbs, or Dahiyeh, to find their homes either damaged or totally destroyed in a month of fighting between Israel nt in ctmral Afghanistan, an official said. 54,700 claimed dead or missing in North Korea SEOUL. ' - At South Korea A South Korean aid group claimed Wednesday that massive floods in North Korea last month left about 54,700 people dead or missing and some 2.5 million homeless. The figure is by far the highest toll reported from floods that hit the impoverished communist country in mid-JulThe Seoul-baseprivate aid agency Good Friends claimed it has "many sources" inside North Korea but didn't say y. where it obtained the informa5fi tion, which could not be independently confirmed because the North tightly controls media and information. YURIKO NAKAOAssociated Press Good Friends' previous reJapan's Princess Kiko, wife of Emperor Akihito's second son ports of activities inside the Prince Akishino, beams as she arrives at a Tokyo hospital isolated country have been confirmed by South Korean Wednesday. Princess Kiko, 39, checked into the hospital :: A A- d itvyrrf f f"?v iU'. " Xlf M Wednesday to prepare to deliver the first new addition to and possibty a royal family in more than four years badly needed heir to the ancient Chrysanthemum Throne. Japan's government sources, although some of the aid group's figures have been disputed. |
