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Show A4 HERALD DAILY Sunday, December 9, 2007 FAST FACT Planters Nuts introduced Mr. Peanut in 1 91 6. Mr. Peanut made it to the Macs Thanksgiving Parade 'm 1997. Source: The Book of 1,001 Trivia Questions Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation The World Press MARKUS SCHREIBERAssociated Protestors wearing penguin costumes take part at a demonstration in Berlin on the Global Day of Action Against Climate Change on Saturday. The activity coincided with the ongoing U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, where world governments are negotiating on the range of measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Worldwide protests surgents to step up attacks call for action to fight in the north of the country after being pushed out of the global warming capital by an increased troop LONDON KATE A Beary Merry Christmas Press MCINTYREAssociated In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a polar bear named Ida wears the container that previously held her holiday gift of peanut butter, trout, and whipped cream, at New York City's Central Park Zoo, on Saturday. Along with Ida, other residents of the Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo will receive presents from the staff every weekend in December up until Christmas. NASA aims for Sunday shuttle launch Omaha malls reopens for CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. With erratic fuel gauges still a possible threat, NASA aimed for a Sunday launch of space shuttle Atlantis after senior managers signed off on a plan to tighten flight rules and shoot for a slim window. Managers believe the extra precautions will keep Atlantis and its seven-ma- n crew as safe as possible if, indeed, the shuttle lifts off with a European lab . small planes collide over Florida Everglades 2 POMPANO BEACH, Fla. Two small planes collided over the Everglades Saturday, crashing into the swamp, and authorities said there were no survivors. A Piper aircraft and another unknown aircraft crashed at about 3 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. Authorities believe there was only one person on board the Piper, but they had no information yet on the second plane, Bergen said. The area where the planes went down is only accessible by air boat, and the wreckage quickly sunk, said Palm Beach Fire-Resc- County De Lucia. standing. Officials said they do not Trucker leads campaign to ship Christmas trees to troops in Iraq The Westroads reopened Saturday OMAHA, Neb. morning and people came, to shop, to work, to walk and just to return to normal. Crowds were typical for a Saturday before Christmas and so was the atmosphere, other than more police and private security guards, and a black curtain behind the gated entranced to Von Maur. That's where Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people Wednesday before killing himself. Von Maur officials said the store will reopen but they WESTMINSTER, Md. Sprawled in his recliner, tired and achy after three days of nearly nonstop work, James Ward hardly looks like Santa Claus. But this haven't said when. The black curtain over the store's doors prevented shoppers from seeing inside. A wreath stood in front of laid-of- f truck driver has just made Christmas , brighter for thousands of U.S. the doors. service members overseas by On the gate, people had taped paper snowflakes and mailing them miniature, live posters memorializing the victims. One collage read: Like spruce trees with all the holithe snow that blankets our town, let our love and support day trimmings. blanket their families, friends, Von Maur and the City of A year after Ward started Omaha. Operation Christmas Tree to cheer up his deployed stepdaughter and a few dozen of her fellow soldiers in Iraq, the project has blossomed into a national campaign that shipped constitution, said the Rev. Van Rescuers find body McCalister, a diocesan spokes5,000 potted trees this season. at site of Jacksonville man. About 2,200 of the parking garage The Fresno-base- d trees packed along with congregaRetion is the first full diocese to JACKSONVILLE, Fla. bags of colorful ornaments and secede because of a conservative-lbattery-powerewere covery crews found a body lights iberal rift that began deearly Saturday in the rubble of mailed Dec. 3 to individual cades ago and is now focused a parking garage that partially service members, mostly in on whether the Bible condemns collapsed earlier in the week. Afghanistan and Iraq, whose families paid $20 to Ward's Authorities had not been gay relationships. "We have leadership in able to pull the body from the nonprofit organization. the Episcopal Church that debris by Saturday afternoon, Some of those service memhas drastically and radically Jacksonville Fire and Rescue bers also received a batch of 50 or 60 extra trees to share with changed directions," McCalispokeswoman Maggie Bulin ster said. "They have pulled the said. others. Other batches were Bulin said she expected the sent to chaplains in the war rug out from under us. They've started teaching something body to be retrieved by the end zone to hand out to anyone in very different, something very of the day. An autopsy to iden- uniform who wants one. new and novel and it's imposThe $80,000 balance not paid tify the victim was also schedsible for us to follow a leaderuled for later Saturday. by donations was covered by Rescuers had been searchthe Armed Forces Foundation, ship that has so drastically reinvented itself." a Washington-base- d ing since Thursday for Willie nonprofit The diocese, in a later vote, Edwards III, a construction that helps the families of deaccepted an invitation to join a worker believed to be trapped ployed troops. Local businesses under the concrete debris. Bulin also collected donations. conservative South American said Edwards' family has been For Ward, 34, Operation congregation of the Worldnotified that a body was found. Christmas Tree is an expreswide Anglican Communion. The garage, which was The Episcopal Church is the sion of the code he was taught U.S. member of the global Anunder construction for a riverby a firefighter uncle: "I was front condominium complex, glican Communion. always brought up that if collapsed Thursday as worksomebody's in need of some- ers were pouring concrete for thing, you help them." d ' ;) Capt. Don There were no survivors, DeLucia said, although no bodies had yet been recovered. "They're in the water, under the water," DeLucia said. "We have no idea how many victims there are. It could be as few as two, or more." He said the recovery effort would continue until dark, then resume at daybreak. "Vi . annual convention to remove all references to the national church from the diocese's two-wee- k UN. Climate Change Conference, which runs through Friday in Bali, Indonesia. Hundreds of people rallied in the Philippine capital, Manila, wearing miniature wmdmills atop hats, or framing their faces in cardboard cutouts of the sun. "We are trying to send a message that we are going to have to use renewable energy sometime, because the environment, we need to really preserve it," high school student Samantha Gonzales said. "We have to act now." In Taipei, Taiwan, about 1,500 people marched through the streets holding banners and placards saying "No to carbon dioxide." Hundreds marched outside the conference center in Bali. At a Climate Rescue Carnival held in a park in Auckland, New Zealand, more than 350 people lay on the grass to spell out "Climate SOS." t o ' " ' CHARLES i REX ARBOQASTAssoclated Prest Nadint Cooper left prays with her three year-ol- d daughter Emma as they pay their respects to the victims of the Von Maur Department Store shooting at the mall entrance to the store in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday. presence. Although attacks on civil- ians nationwide have fallen about 55 percent since June, according to U.S. military figures, attacks in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces just north of Baghdad have remained the same or increased. The latest attack was carried out by a suicide bomber in Baiji, a major oil center and home to thousands of employees of Iraq's largest oil refinery. Two pipelines, one carrying oil from the Kirkuk field to Baiji for refining, and another carrying oil north into Turkey, cross through the city. The refinery handles about 300,000 barrels a day from Kirkuk, according to Iraq's Oil Ministry. Columbian rebels remain despite police, military forces LA JULIA, Colombia Colombia's defense minister helicoptered into this leftist rebel stronghold with a clutch of U.S. Embassy officials and heavily armed American soldiers to assert emphatically that Latin America's most enduring guerrilla army is on the run. "The state has arrived to stay, and never again will the guerrillas control this territory," Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos proclaimed in October while Europe, Africa seek inaugurating the first police post ever in this former hub new relationship of the cocaine trade. summit But just weeks later, an DeLISBON, Portugal Associated Press news team bates over Zimbabwe and had to talk its way past testy Darfur caused friction Satur- rebels just to reach the day at a summit of European town, from which and African leaders attempt- hundreds of people have ing to build a new alliance on fled since police and soldiers economic and environmental moved in. issues. "It's silly to say the govThe two-dasummit in ernment has finished off the Portugal's capital drew guerrillas," said Gustavo leaders of the Valencia, a vegAfrican Union and etable merchant, as helmeted soldiers shuffled by and an European Union for their first such meeting in seven army radio station blared from loudspeakers. years. It was intended to culWith more than $4 billion in minate in new agreements U.S. military aid, this Andean nation's armed forces have Sunday on more trade, climate protections, eased been try ing hard to crush the migration and better African Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the transportation and energy FARC To try to measure the productioa "We cant waste any more campaign's success, the AP time," said Portuguese Prime visited this longtime rebel Minister Jose Socrates, bastion 120 miles south of the whose country holds the capital, Bogota. ELPs rotating presidency. He called the talks "a summit of Fire Egyptian equals" among the 80 nations kills 3 university some of them represented, students former colonial powers in Africa. CAIRO, Egypt -T- hree But other concerns kept students were killed and dozens injured Saturday when a popping up. "We cannot turn a blind fire broke inside a university eye when human rights campus building in Egypt's are being trampled," said Nile Delta, police and hospiGerman Chancellor Angela tal officials said. Merkel, who described the The blaze erupted in a EU as "united in condemnlecture hall at ing Zimbabwean President University in the Delta town Robert Mugabe for of Zagazig, sending hundreds of students fleeing in mismanagement, failure to curb corruption and panic, said a police official contempt for democracy. who spoke on condition of ' "The situation in Zimbabwe anonymity because he was taints the image of the new not authorized to speak to Africa." the media. Classes at many Egyptian universities conOil industry blast in vene on Saturdays. Three students died in the Iraq kills six fire and dozens were injured in a stampede, said Khaled BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A truck bomb killed at least six the head of emerpolice officers and wounded gency at the Zagazig public 16 people Saturday in the hospitaL He said hospital northern oil hub of Baiji, the and other officials were still second attack in two days to trying to assess how many take aim at Iraq's most lucra- people were injured and the tive industry. severity of their injuries. The blast in the city about Authorities were investi125 miles north of Baghdad gating the cause of the fire. was also the latest reminder Zagazig is 50 miles northeast of an apparent move by in of Cairo. at dirt-stre- et y at eco-nom- Calif, diocese to split with Episcopal Church over role of gays SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. An Episcopal diocese in central California voted Saturday to split with the national denomination over disagreements about the role of gays and lesbians in the church. Clergy and lay members of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin voted 173-2- 2 at their fire-eate- rs . yet know what caused the collapse, which sent 14 workers to the hospital. first time since shooting one-minu- te intended for the international space station. On Saturday, two engineering departments at NASA recommended delaying the launch and doing additional testing to figure out why so many fuel gauges acted up during Thursday's launch attempt. But in the end, they did not oppose trying for a liftoff, said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team. "We'll fill up the tank and we'll see what we get," Cain said. "If we meet our criteria, we'll go fly and if we don't, we'll scrub and we'll get a good tanking test and we'll go forward from there." Under the new rules, NASA will proceed with the countdown only if all four of the gauges in Atlantis' big hydrogen tank are working properly. Two of them failed when the shuttle's tank was filled for liftoff on Thursday and a third one subsequently acted up. the sixth story deck. The back half of the structure remained Skiers, and an ice sculptor joined in worldwide demonstrations Saturday 'to draw attention to climate change and push their governments to take stronger action to fight global warming. j From costume parals in the Philippines to a cyclist's protest in London, marches were held in more than 50 cities around the world to coincide with the |