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Show HERALD DAILY A4 Wednesday, November Morning b RIEFING 21 2007 FAST FACT A pinniped is an aquatic carnivorous mammal that has four flippers. The name "pinniped" refers to the animal being ." Seals, sea lions and walruses are all pinnipeds. Source: The Book of 1.001 Trivia Questions Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The World The Nation "7T I -v k WJUS " ami rvv,' Wii-j- ; i TRAVAILLEURS REVENDIQUENT " v i tri j tV 1 - DE LA CONSTRlKT.j ss 2 MARK FOXSummit Daily News Warm weather JfcPourles s . ....... pPUBLUI I PRIVI RETRAITE5 n ilk - WSm -- iir miniir iituii - itMiH nmiv mill Jon Tirrell rises out of the bowl while riding his BMX bike at the Breckenridge Skate Park in Breckenridge, Colo. Unseasonably warm weather and no snow has allowed the skate park to remain open this late into November at the popular ski resort community. Missouri father charged PARISAssociated Press CLAUDE Thousands of civil servants demonstrate in Marseille, southern France, for a pay raise. Civil servants, from teachers to postal workers, began a mass walkout across France on Tuesday, the seventh day of a transport strike that has caused havoc on French rails. But the government said it would not cede on planned reforms. Scientists seeking to save cave drawings from new stains New BORDEAUX, France clusters of black fungus are spreading over famed cave . drawings in southwest France, scientists warned Tuesday. But the scientists said they have found a bacteria-killinrecipe to protect the remarkable Paleolithic paintings. The new stains are the latest biological threat to the Lascaux g cave drawings, which were discovered in 1940 and are considered one of the finest examples of prehistoric art. Carbon-datinsuggests the murals of bulls, felines and other images were created between 15,000 and 17,500 years ago in the caves near Montignac, in the Dordogne region. In 1963, after green algae and other damage appeared, the caves were closed to the public. Only scientists and a few others are allowed to enter at certain times; a replica of the main Lascaux cavern was built nearby and has become a big tourist draw. Even those measures have not stopped the appearance of stains. the fungus-relateThis July, caretakers noticed new black spots covering some of the drawings. Samples taken from them showed the stains were caused by two fungi, ulocladium and gliomastix, that developed on top of a sublayer of existing bacteria. d Suspect in slaying of UK student in Italy nabbed in Germany ROME German police on Tuesday arrested a fugitive wanted in the sex slaying of a British college student in Italy, nabbing an African man whose fingerprints had been found at the bloody scene of the sordid crime that has gripped Italians. Hours later, another man was freed from jail, where he had been held after being accused of the stabbing by yet another suspect, the victim's American room- Sarkozv defiant as v - ! . civil servam is join ran workers in strikes against Musharraf before and after he decreed emergency rule Nov. 3, purging the Supreme Court and taking independent TV news off the air. Bangladeshi village long-distanc- struggles to rebuild In PADMA, Bangladesh the days since a devastating cyclone struck impoverished Bangladesh, this village has grappled with impossible questions. What happens to a fishing community when its fishing boats are in splinters? What happens to a woman who watches her mother and baby daughter drown? And what will happen to Padma if the villagers don't receive clean drinking water soon? Padma is on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the Barguna district, one of the areas hit hardest by Tropical Cyclone Sidr, which killed more than 3,150 people across Bangladesh last week. Of 4,000 villagers scattered across rice paddies and coastline, Padma has counted 61 dead, and 14 others are missing, residents said Tuesday. Some homes in the village were crushed like soda cans. Others were left intact, but tipped on their sides, windows facing the ground. Some flimsy huts vanished, leaving behind children's only books and broken plates. "We have nothing," said Abdul Jabbar, 40, who lost his house in the storm and survived by climbing the tallest palm tree he could find. The water still nearly reached his feet. "What should I do? I have nowhere to go," he said. This country has water-swolle- Pakistan releases thousands of jailed opposition supporters deaths of 2 children INDEPENDENCE, Mo. The father of two Kansas City-are- a children whose remains were found in a shallow grave more than three years after they disappeared, confessed publicly and was charged Tuesday in their shootings. Dan Porter, 44 is goal was to prevent Sharif from returning before parliamentary elections Jan. 8. Back home, the political cauldron continued to boil, with ISLAMABAD, Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Mushdozens of journalists detained arraf freed thousands of opfor several hours after clashponents from jails Tuesday in a ing with police during a protest and newly freed opposition sign he is rolling back a wave of repression under emergency lawyers vowing to keep up rule and flew to Saudi Arabia their agitation. But there was also some reto talk about the future of an exiled rival, Nawaz Sharif. lief for Musharraf. Ex premier Saudi officials said there Benazir Bhutto, leader of a key were efforts to arrange a opposition party, deferred a decision on whether to boycott meeting between Musharraf and Sharif, who was ousted as the elections, which the West prime minister by the general's hopes will produce a moder1999 coup. However, a Pakiate government able to stand stani official said Musharraf's up to Pakistan's rising Islamic -- n low-lyin- g seen devastating storms before in 1991, about 140,000 died in one cyclone. The government responded by installing an emergency warning system and building thousands of shelters, including concrete boxes raised on pillars, measures that helped save many lives. . V lift SAURABH DASAssociated Press consoled by another after his daughter's body was recovered at Padma of Bangladesh on Tuesday. Bangladesh sought more foreign aid to help thousands of survivors of Cyclone Sidr after the storm mauled the country's coast and killed more than 3,150 people, according to an official tally that was expected to rise. An unidentified villager is village in Barisal district Holocaust hero accused of swindling ld who serving a already prison term for kidnapping his son, Sam, 7, and daugh' ter, Lindsey, 8, to terrorize their mother was charged with two counts of first murder. Speaking to reporters after a brief court appearance, Porter admitted he killed his children, apologized and said he thinks about them all the neighbor "PALM BEACH, Fla. In Eastern Europe during World War II, young Aron Bielski and his three older brothers mounted what was, by most accounts, the biggest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holo- caust. The Bielski brothers were acclaimed as heroes, and their exploits were chronicled in books, a documentime. "I can't get them out of tary and a Hollywood movie my mind," he said as he was coming out next year. But now, the sole survivescorted from the courtroom to a sheriff's van. ing Bielski brother is being The children's bones, were called something far diffefound in September in a con man. wooded area near the MisNow 80 and known as souri River in nearby Sugar Aron Bell, he has been arCreek and were identified rested on charges of swinwoman, using dental records. The dling a children had been missing a Catholic survivor of the since Porter picked them up Holocaust. Bell andhis wife, at their mother's house for a Henryka, 58, are accused of weekend visit in the summer-o- f tricking the old woman into 2004. giving them control of more "I'm sorry," Porter told re- than $250,000 in various bank accounts. porters after the brief court appearance. "No matter how According to police, the couple then convinced the sorry I am, I realize there are going to be people who woman they were taking never forgive me." her on a vacation to her naAsked why he did it, Portive Poland, and instead put ter said: "Could any man her in a nursing home there, come up with an excuse for returned to Palm Beach and that? Is there such an exspent her money, nearly evcuse?" ery penny. The charges against the According to a probable cause statement filed with couple carry up to 90 years in prison. the charges, Porter told Bell's attorney has stronginvestigators that he had planned to kill his children ly denied the allegations and for at least a day before he said the old woman was gopicked them up from his ing senile. estranged wife, Tina Porter; the couple have since diAstronauts wire up vorced. station's new room renta Man paid child support by pimping EVERETT, Wash. -- A man who owes seven women more than $70,000 for child support apparently made some payments using proceeds from an Internet-base- d prostitution ring he ran, investigators say. According to Snohomish County Superior Court records, authorities believe the man controlled at least two women through intimidation and violence, rented motel rooms for them and took their prostitution earnings after advertising on The (Everett) Herald reported Tuesday. Detectives wrote that the man came to their attention in March after a woman said she saw her daughter's picture on the popular free advertising Web site with what appeared to be an advertisement for sex. The mother said her daughter was being "pimped out" by a man who assaulted the younger woman and refused to let her visit her family, according to a search warrant. Police found the man had several women working for him and may have earned as much as $300,000 in the past two years, using some of the funds to make support payments for his eight children, all younger than 5. The man was arrested last Craig-slist.or- g, s: month for investigation of e promoting prostitution but posted bail a few hours after being booked. In court documents he described himself as a "private caregiver" who sometimes has trouble collecting from clients. first-degre- degree PARIS President Nicolas Sarkozy stood firm against spreading strikes Tuesday, insisting he will not water down plans for a thorough overhaul of France, even as civil servants joined the walkouts and thousands of protesters took to the streets. Sarkozy was characteristically defiant as he broke what had been an unusual silence during a week of transit strikes that have disrupted travel across the nation. He accused the strikers of hokjgg commuters "hostage" and called for them to return t6 work. Turning to critics who hope he can be forced to back away from deep economic, social and political changes for a country that has proved difficult to reform, Sarkozy had a simple message: Forget it. "France needs reforms to meet the challenges imposed on it by the world," he said in a spirited speech to mayors. "These reforms have been too long in coming. ... After so much hesitation, so much procrastination, so many backward steps, we will not surrender and we will not retreat." Sarkozy appears to have the upper hand in his test of strength with powerful transport unions fighting tougher pension rules opinion polls say the public strongly supports the president and strikers have been trickling back e to work on subway and trains. If he wins the faceoff , Sarkozy will improve his es for pushing through even bigger and more ambitious reforms, One involves slimming down and reforming the civil service, whose 5 million workers make it France's largest employer. mate. Police arrested Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, in the western German city of Mainz. Guede, a native of the Ivory Coast, was stopped for riding a Frankfurt bound train without a ticket, investigators said. Guede was sought in the sexual assault and fatal stabbing of Meredith Kerch-e- r in the house she shared with University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox in Perugia. Knox and her Italian boyfriend remain jailed in connection with the Nov. 2 slaying. Both have denied any wrongdoing. Perugia Police Chief Arturo De Felice said he expected Guede to be sent to Italy in a "very short time." "I would like to thank the German police very much because today they arrested the Ivorian man who was wanted in a savage murder in Perugia," said Italian Premier Romano Prodi, who was in Germany for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. extremism. The Interior Ministry said 3,400 people had been iUrrtaed from jail, among them rnilit 'wfiiMctc onrl luiri jorc at the forefront of protests in CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station's newest room Tuesday and, to NASA's delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December. Commander Peggy Whit-so- n and Daniel Tani spent hours hooking up power and heater cables and fluid lines between the space station and the Harmony compartment that was delivered by the shuttle last month. It e was tedious, hand-intensiv- work. "Yay! Got it," Whitson exclaimed after making a particularly difficult connection. "Those were hard." Not long afterward, Tani commented on how strong Whitson looked. "She's the king of the world," Tani shouted. "Queen," replied the space station's first female skipper, sparking laughter between the two. The fluid lines for car- rying ammonia, a coolant were in an 18 t, tray. The spacewalk-er- s removed the tray from its storage location on the space station, then lugged it over to Harmony and bolted it down on the adjacent lab module. It was awkward to carry, and the spacewalkers took turns, careful not to bang anything. 12-foo- 300-pou- |