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Show DAILY A4 HERALD Saturday, December ft 2007 FAST FACT MOMNG BRIEFING i file transfer and Originally, the Internet's uses were electronic mailje-mail- ). The World sites through Wide talntemet Web, giving newsgroups. navigation a browser, expanded rapidly in the 1 990s and is now itsimain component ''Source: MicnvediaafVVoild Compiled from Daily herald wire services The Nation Facts The WORLD t - V r . J 'i- (: V - . W : t KHALID MOHAMMED Associated Press Simultaneous 'I do's' An Iraqi husband adjusts a dress on his newly married wife while posing for a group photo in front of the Palestine Hotel in Central Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday. Sixty couples came the Palestine Hotel for an organized joint wedding. S.Korea Coast Guard tries to keep oil spill from reaching shore BOB Pearl Harbor Day anniversary JORDANAssociated SEOUL, South Korea South Korea's Coast Guard dispatched dozens of ships Friday to try to contain 2.7 million gallons of oil from a supertanker spill and keep it from reaching an ecologically sensitive shoreline on the country's west coast. Strong winds and currents early Saturday threatened to carry the oil slick toward fishing grounds and fish farms along the shore, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Crude oil gushed from a Press Marine veteran Ardra Rigby, a member of the Veterans Council of Indian River County, plays "Taps" during a Pearl Harbor Day ceremony Friday at Veterans Memorial Island in Vero Beach, Fla. Chicago to pay $20M to settle torture lawsuits The city has CHICAGO agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle lawsuits filed by four former death row inmates who claimed they were tortured by Chicago police and wrongly convicted, an alderman said Friday. Alderman Ed Smith hoped the settlement would help improve relations between police and residents, particularly the black community. The deal involving the actions of former Lt. Jon Burge and his officers means "the city has stepped up to try to amend what a bad police commander did to the general public," ; Smith said. To bring this thing to fruition says to the general public that mistakes were made, and we should try to clear it up and start trying to heal.", Man gels record for being thrown by car g Matthew McKnight holds a world record that not even the most courageous daredevil would seek to break. Six years ago, McKnight , of Fayette County, Pa., was struck by a car doing 70 mph along Interstate 376 in while he was trying to aid two accident victims. He was thrown 1 18 feet about the height of a and lived to tell the tale. building For his pains, and there were plenty of them, McKnight became the holder of a Guinness World Records mark in 2003. And just last month he discovered that his feat enunsolicited as it was finally earned a hard-coptry in the encyclopedia of superlatives' 2008 edition. "Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident," trumpets the headline above a brief description. McKnight, a paramedic and volunteer firefighter, has some heady company on page 69, including "Largest Tummy Tuck Operation" (132 pounds of fat removed), "Highest Body Temperature" (115.7 degrees), and "Largdeath-defyin- Mon-roevil- le y for example. But over the past few days, many hospitals began facing a shortage of a radioactive substance called technitium-9- 9 that is injected into patients to do these body scans. And that has forced them to cut back on the procedures. "Many, many hospitals are working at about 20 to 30 percent of capacity" in doing the scans in the United States and Canada, estimated Dr. Sandy McEwan, president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, based in Reston, Va. He said he didn't know how many scans had been postponed. spouse-swapper- s. that drugs The Hershey Co. said Friday it is considering changes to the design of a mint that Philadelphia police say looks nearly identical to a tiny bag used to sell powdered heat-seale- d d ...jLL;r'M iT , Think of it as LONDON a giant tip. A wealthy widow repaid the kindness shown to her by a family that runs a Chinese restaurant she frequented by leaving them $21 million, and Fria High Court judge-rulewill was her that legal. day Golda Bechal's 1994'swill said she wanted Kim Sing Man and his wife, Bee Lian, tanker after a Samthe owners of a Chinese ressung Corp. vessel slammed into it. The spill was believed taurant northeast of London, to be South Korea's largest, to inherit her money. She according to the Coast Guard died at age 88 in January 2004. and Maritime and Fisheries Bechal's five nephews and: Ministry. There were no casualties . nieces asked the court to dein the accident, the Coast clare the will invalid, claimGuard said. ing their aunt was suffering Maritime authorities set from dementia. They asked e fence to try to the judge to give the inherup a contain the oil slick, which , itance to them. ; But Judge Donald Rattee measured 4.6 miles long ' and 1.2 miles wide, officials accepted the restaurateurs' said. The Coast Guard said evidence that BechaL sad 46 ships, including navy and and lonely after the deaths other government vessels, of her husband and son, became like a family member plus four helicopters, were involved in the cleanup opto the couple. eration. They went on foreign holi: days together and regularly Gates: Persian Gulf got together at their restaucountries must unite rant and at her apartment in central London. to counter Iran threat Mayfair, "It was not irrational to leave the bulk of her estate MANAMA, Bahrain Defense Secretary Robert to Mrs. Man, the daughter Gates planned to tell Gulf she would dearly wished to countries Saturday they ' have had, and her husband," must work together to help Rattee said. the U.S. counter Iranian Kim Sing Man rememthreats, including Tehran's .. bered Bechal as a classy ballistic missiles and medwoman who "always endling in Iraq. joyed her Chinese pickled Secretary of State Condo-leezz- a leeks and bean sprouts." Rice said the United U.S. doctor in Uganda States still wants new sanc146,000-to- n Hong Kong-register- five-mil- . tions. Gates, ending a weeklong trip to the region, intended in his keynote speech at an international security conference in Manama to urge Gulf allies to cooperate more as part of a broader strategy for containing Iranian influ- ence, according to U.S. officials traveling with Gates on Friday. Gates' speech was to follow Rice's assertions Friday in Brussels, Belgium, that Washington would continue k along a strategy, pressing for new sanctions against Iran while holding talks to persuade Tehran to two-trac- - i ',- - DHL Trees for Troops Santa Claus, played by Dan O'Rourke, loads Christmas trees onto a truck headed to U.S. servicemen and women stationed in the Middle East on Friday as part of DHL's Trees For Troops at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. A total of 750 trees, along with ornaments and menorahs donated by local businesses and residents, will bring holiday cheer to the troops. confronts Ebola, buries best friend KAMPALA, Uganda For more than a week, Dr. Scott Myhre didn't wear a mask or other protective gear when treating the listless patients who were flocking to his hospital in western Uganda. Only now does the American physician know the risk he took. The patients were suffering from a new strain of Ebola, a highly contagious disease that has already killed 22 people, including four health workers, among them a doctor Myhre counted as his best friend. "I'm not in the clear yet, program. but I'm hopefuL" Myhre told The Associated Press by Expert Junta killed telephone from Bundibugyo at least 31 in is at the crackdown Hospital, which epicenter of the outbreak. GENEVA Myanmar's Myhre, who has lived in crackdown on Uganda for 14 years, must wait 21 days from his last protesters killed more than twice as many people as unprotected contact with an the junta has acknowledged, Ebola patient to be declared a UN. investigator said Friclear of the disease. For now, he is studiously day, citing at least 31 dead. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the following the recommended U.N. human rights expert precautions: gowns, gloves, assigned to the country, said goggles, masks and boots. he documented 16 people Ebola typically kills most killed in the September of those it strikes through crackdown along with the 15 massive blood loss, and has dead already reported by the no cure or treatment. It is government. spread through direct conBut he said the actual tact with the blood or secredeath toll was likely much tions of an infected person, or objects that have been higher. "Several reports of killings contaminated with infected indicate that the figure prosecretions. vided by the authorities may On Friday, the Ministry of Health said there are 101 greatly underestimate the reality," he said. suspected cases of Ebola in "There are a number of Bundibugyo district and 22 incidents where no names victims have died. were reported but where come clean about its nuclear cy ' Judge upholds will leaving fortune to restaurant owners i Swinger parties draw complaints in suburbs DUNCANVILLE, Texas The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split-levhome, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 U.S. sees drop in death est Gall Bladder Stone Removed" (7 by 5 by 3.7 inches). people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights. rate in childhood cancer But the festivities could soon The childhood death rate be over. In response to neighfrom cancer fell 20 percent in bors' complaints, the city has The students, who ride the Hershey has said that the the United States from 1990 to mints were never intended to bus to school, have been reoutlawed sex clubs in residen2004 due largely to improveresemble anything but the leased into the custody of their tial areas. Citations have been ments in treatment for leukesimilarity was so striking that parents, Greene said. Their bus issued, and search warrants mia, but children on the West longtime veterans of Philadelmay be next. privileges were revoked. Coast still have the highest MTA Northern District "It's crazy that they want to phia's police narcotics squad were fooled when they saw the Capt. David Marzola said the force their morality down our mortality rate, according to mints. students also are accused of throats," said Dawn Burton, 45, government figures released a regular guest at the parties. , Thursday. menacing an elderly white There were 2,223 deaths "We're all frustrated." Attack of white woman passenger and assaulting the So are those who complain bus operator, a black man who among children and adoles9 black kids a by cents in 2004, compared with of the noise, traffic and parkdefended the passenger. hate crime 2,457 in 1990, researchers from possible ing problems that occur in the national Centers for DisBALTIMORE Transit Some tests put off their otherwise quiet, upscale officials said they are investiease Control and Prevention because of shortage of neighborhood every Friday and Saturday, when Trulock's reported in the Morbidity and gating the beating of a white radioactive ingredient home is transformed into "The woman by nine black middle Mortality Weekly Report. But because of growth in the school students on a city bus as Thousands of patients are Cherry Pit." Duncanville, which propopulation, that translates to a a possible hate crime. facing delays in crucial medical rate of 27.3 deaths per million Sarah Kreager, 26, suffered claims itself "The Perfect Blend tests because of a shortage of in 2004 compared with 34.2 per broken facial bones and other a radioactive substance used of Family, Community and million in 1990. in those examinations all beinjuries after she was punched, Business," is an unlikely venue kicked and dragged off the bus cause of the shutdown of one for a neighborhood swinger Overall, the death rate declined 1.7 percent per year dur- Tuesday afternoon. Kreager's club. The city of 36,000 just nuclear reactor in Canada. southwest of Dallas has about The substance is used in at ing the period. Among adults, companion, Troy Ellis, also was least 15 million medical scans 50 places of worship and not a death rates from all cancers beaten, but not as severely. "We are at this point investia year in the United States, by single registered sexually oripeaked for men in 1990 and for women in 1991, then began gating it as a hate crime," said one estimate. Those scans are ented business. Duncanville officials insist used to diagnose and assess dropping at a rate of about 1 Maryland Transit Administration spokeswoman Jawauna a wide variety of conditions percent per year. In 2003 and they are not just another prudGreene. 2004, the rate of decline douincluding cancer, heart disease ish Texas town giving the boot bled to 2 percent a year. The students three girls and bone or kidney illnesses. to They say it all boils down to a matter and six boys 14 to 15 years old They are often crucial for have been charged with ag- guiding therapy, telling a docof law: Trulock is operating Hershey's may change assault and destruca woman's breast tor whether a business featuring live sex gravated mints police say tion of property. cancer has invaded her bones, acts. look like street drugs. The revelation by the nation's largest candy maker came a week after the criticism surfaced about Ice Breakers Pacs, although a Hershey spokesman would not specify the exact concerns that prompted the company to act. "It was certainly never our intention to create any confusion with this product," company spokesman Kirk Saville said. "We take consumer and community feedback very seriously and are acting quickly to address concerns." Ice Breakers Pacs, which first hit store shelves last dissolvmonth, are nickel-sizeable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside. The pouches come in blue or orange and bear the Ice Breakers toga there were allegations of groups of people reportedly killed, which have also been shared," Pinheiro said in a report released by the U.N. on Friday. |