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Show Wednesday, December 1 DAILY HERALD 2007 AS OMNG MIEFING FAST FACT Akron. Ohio, is also known as The Rubbef Capital of the World. Source The Book of Answws Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation More delays in store v .for WTC memorial NEW YORK Some relatives of 911 victims are wondering whether they'll live to see the World Trade Center m. If m sJ fev. memorial after learning Tuesday that the tribute won't open until a decade after the attack. Citing construction delays, the Port Authority announced that the Reflecting Absence memorial would open in 2011, two years later than expected. "There are family members that I know that are elderly or very ill and they want to memorialize their son and their daughter and I don't know if that will happen anymore," said Bill Doyle, 60, whose son Joey Doyle was killed in the north tower. "Now it's going to be two years later and then they'll say four years, but the further you get away from people are going to forget Mr.ft ife 0 . 1 ; 4 1, about it." The Port Authority on Tuesday also announced a deal to create almost a half million square feet of retail space at t the site. The timing of both anf 1 rffN ; f nouncements troubled some. "The priority of the Port Au' thority is to make money, and I think they're able to build their 5 1 shopping mall over the remnants of the dead they're OK to do that but not build a memorial," said Sally Regen-harwho lost her firefighter son, Christian Regenhard. It will be another year at least before pedestrians can easily see progress. The steel DOUG FINGER Associated Press of the memorial's twin reflectHula-Hoorabe will built street to y ing pools level in 2009. The entire memofor Amanda Linehand, 6, of Hampton, Fla, while the two shop together at the Wal-MaSupercenter in Starke, Fla. rial complex, which includes an Police Officer Mark Lowery hula-hookids from needy families. The on Police Starke is now Tuesday. Department sponsored its third annual "Shop with a Cop" event, which helps underground museum, expected to be finished in 2011. -- -- a : ut; .tf V rt d official's attempt too little time to review requests for funding. to aid New Orleans FEMA d "There's certainly a responsibility that we have, and I NEW ORLEANS A week have, as a civil service official, after Hurricane Katrina, a to ensure those dollars are goFEMA official in charge of ing to the purposes they were intended," he said. streamlining the flow of disaster aid issued a directive that , However, despite FEMA's would have cut through the' contention added layers of red tape and expedited a stagreview would save taxpayer dollars, not a single rebuilding gering 1,029 rebuilding projects and $5.3 billion. project was amended, declared The official issued a memo ineligible or kicked back for that said that once local and further scrutiny, federal offi rials acknowledge. regional Federal Emergency Ward, who later was proManagement Agency officials approve a project, Washington moted to FEMA's West Coast must release the money within director and led its response to the recent California wildfires, three days. But in a decision critics say stands by the policy she issued led to the loss of precious time on Sept. 6, 2005. She was FEin New Orleans's recovery, MA's Louisiana-base- d director counterFEMA higher-up- s of recovery command. was countermanded manded the order. Instead, the rebuilding of schools, roads, hospitals, and other desperately needed infrastructure was held up for months of interagency reviews that ended at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Gil Jamieson, FEMA's head of Gulf Coast recovery and one of the officials who countermanded the directive of Nancy Ward, said her order would have given federal agencies U.S. Navy saves Illinois teen on Mexican cruise fire-hous- SAN DIEGO A teenager whose appendix ruptured at sea, hundreds of miles from help, got safely to shore Tuesday after an unusual rescue in which the Navy airlifted her from a cruise ship for emergency surgery. Laura Montero, 14, fell ill aboard the Dawn Princess cruise ship off the coast of Baja , California. The Bahamian-registereship sent out a distress call Friday that was answered by the USS Ronald Reagan, which was on training maneuvers about 500 miles away. Montero, a girl with bright blue eyes, appeared to be doing well as she gave a brief interview with reporters at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. "I'd like to thank the captain of the Dawn Princess, the surgeon and the crew and everyone on the USS Ronald Reagan," she said quietly, then flashed a shy grin. She said she was usually "a tiny bit" scared of heights but hadn't been nervous when she was hoisted on a flat stretcher into the helicopter that came to fetch her. fair-haire- d Aug. 26, said Cindy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Early Education and Care, on Monday. Center officials reported the incident the following day, she said. "There is still an ongoing criminal investigation," said the school's senior counsel, Ernest Corrigan. "We are working very closely with in- vestigators." The state's Disabled Persons Protection Committee is investigating a complaint that a third resident of the center an also received unnecesadult sary shock treatments after the call said Nancy Alterio, the committee's executive director. The complaints have been referred to the state police and the Norfolk District Attorney's Office, Alterio said. The school treats people with a wide variety of behavior problems, including autistic-lik- e students who have aggressive, self injurious or the psychologist who founded the school. sues Pa. power plant over pollution N.J. New JerTRENTON, N.J. sey has filed suit against a coal-fire- d power plant in neighboring Pennsylvania, claiming the plant's pollutants blow across the Delaware River and harm New Jersey residents. The state claims sulfur dioxide and other pollutants from the plant, owned by Reliant Power Energy Mid-Atlant- Holdings, are carried downwind across New Jersey's western boundary, less than a mile away. The suit, filed in US, District Court in Pennsylvania, alleges that the Portland Generating Station has been modified in Prank call led to shock ways that increase air pollutreatments of 2 teens tion. It also alleges that the State officials BOSTON owners did not obtain proper are investigating complaints permits before modifying the that at least two teenagers destructive behaviors and Northhampton County plant students with psy- and that they are violating the were given electric shock treatments at a residential center for chiatric or emotional problems, federal Clean Air Act by not people with special needs beusing the best pollution control according to a description on cause someone telephoned fake its Website. technology available. A spokeswoman for Reliant The Department of Early orders to the staff . did not immediately return a Initial investigations showed Education and Care said the call Tuesday. call allegedly came from that a former student at the New Jersey has tried to adsomeone claiming to be on the Judge Rotenberg Education dress claims of excessive down staff of Dr. Matthew Israel, Center called in the orders on wind pollution by Reliant before. It filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a year ago for failing to respond to its objection of an operating permit for Reliant. When the EPA rejected New Jersey's opposition to the license in June, the state appealed; that appeal is pending. A report by the public health advocacy group Environmental Integrity Project, released in July, ranked the Portland plant nationally in terms of sulfur dioxide emissions per megawatt of power fifth-highe- generated. teen on Zoloft presented to high court Case of COLUMBIA, S.C. - Attor- neys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, arguing that the sentence is cruel. Christopher Pittman shot his grandparents Joe and Joy Pittman with a shotgun in 2001, then set fire to their home. During his trial four years later, attorneysunsuccessfully argued the slayings were influenced by the antidepressant Zoloft a charge the maker of the drug vigorously denied. The World supports end to death penalty U.N. ' if UNITED NATIONS 5. The j tL- - Castro hints retirement Australia will monitor Japanese whaling CANBERRA, Australia Australia will send planes and Fidel Castro a ship to conduct surveillance HAVANA says he won't stand in the way of Japanese whaling ships off of younger people who can Antarctica, the government lead Cuba, but he also insists announced Wednesday. The planes and ship would on being "of consequence" collect video and other eviuntil the end of his life. So it dence that would be used to degoes with the ailing eager to see others keep up cide if Australia will launch lethe revolution but reluctant to gal action to try to stop Japan's let go of power. whaling program, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said. The real question is not whether Castro will retire, but , ," We are dealing here with whether it will make much dif- the slaughter of whales, not scientific research," Smith told ference in Cuba. The answer: probably not, as a news conference. "That is our people. "There is no conclusive evistart point and our end point." long as he's alive. dence of the death penalty's Despite much excitement Train derails in deterrence value and that any this week over one ambiguous miscarriage or failure of justice sentence in a letter about glob- Pakistan, killing many in the death penalty's impleal warming in which Castro mentation is irreversible and ir- indicated he will not hold back MIRPURKHAS, Pakistan An express train crowded reparable," the proponents said Cuba's younger leadership, in the resolution adopted by Castro already has settled into with holiday travelers derailed the assembly. There a kind of reflective semiretire-men- t. in southern Pakistan early were 29 abstentions. Wednesday, killing at least He hasn't appeared in public 50 people and injuring many Attempts in 1994 and 1999 in the 17 months since having to have the General Assembly more, officials said. The overnight train was gointestinal surgery and naming adopt a moratorium on the death penalty failed But since his younger brother Raul, now ing from Karachi to Lahore when about 12 of its 16 cars 76, as Cuba's "provisional" then, the number of countries r, came off the rails near that have abolished capital president. about 250 miles north But island life has hardly punishment in law or practice has grown to 133, according to changed under his brother, and of Karachi, the officials said. the elder Castro has retained a Rescue workers recovered Amnesty International 50 bodies from the wreckage vibrant role in Cuban politics, "Today's vote represents a bold step by the international penning several essays a week and were bringing in metal and showing up sporadically in cutting equipment to gain accommunity," Secretary-Genera- l official photographs and prere- cess to more of the cars, said said. "This Ban is further evidence of a trend corded messages. Sikander Ali, a senior police UN. General Assembly adopted a moratorium on the death penalty Tuesday, overcoming opposition from the United States, China and others that argued each nation should be able to choose how to combat crime. The 104-5- 4 vote for suspending executions is not legally binding but represents a growing global trend against a punishment that many countries say undermines human rights, is a questionable deterrent and mistakenly has killed innocent 4 - towards ultimately abolishing the death penalty." ' . Meh-rabpu- EDUARDO VERDUGOAssociated Press River reopens Heavy machinery removes a dike from clogged Grijalva river in San Juan de Grijalva, Mexico, on Tuesday. In order to reopen the river's way safely, authorities asked nearby residents to evacuate their houses as a preventive measure in case of a new Nov. 4. flooding. The river was blocked by a mudslide officer at the scene. Azhar Ali Rajpar, a local villager who heard the crash and rushed to the scene, said he had seen "countless" injured people. "Almost all of the carriages were destroyed," Rajpar said by telephone. "There is total "darkness. It is almost impossible for the rescuers." The train jumped the tracks around 2 a.m. as it carried hundreds of passengers home for the Islamic holiday of Fid a. Thejcause of the crash was not immediately clear. Rebels say they will hand over hostages to Venezuela's Chavez BOGOTA, Colombia lombian rebels pledged Co- to hand over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, including an aide to former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and the woman's young son, according to a statement released Tuesday. Chavez, at a summit in Uruguay, said he received a statement from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, saying they would hand over hostages soon. He called the move a "nice Christmas present" but noted: "They are in the middle of the jungle and I can't go and receive them personally, even if I wanted to." |