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Show VS OO YY REPO ENN V¥NV¥¥ teres Ld DAILY HERALD lran Herald D ; Continued from Al z ae = Monday, February 20) 2006 which could st: sia where uranium would be Coed peesSenate : Tteetratlecal ccncertd Geet right to the ac ie ‘some part of process at home Established in 1873 - A Lee Newspaper penta secee comne e . Customer Service 375-5103 Enrichment i ky process freee onendedecw a voluntary and micking tte BE Newsroom 801-344-2540 that can produce either fuel for out of thequestion, becauge a FAX 801-3735489 for a warhead. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday ee Tehran would consider the ‘ussian proposal on uranium _ cnnchme if certain provisions i agreement inspections after the U.N; nu_clear watchdog agency this month toreport it to the = oe which could wat theRussian plan, with dismayin Russia — which is a nuclear reactor or material Toll free 800-880-8075 www.heraldextra.com Scandal Street address:1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. 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Box717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717. Security Council, was headed to Moscowforthe talksthere as sia, not Iran. MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU diplomacy heated up ahead of a March6 meeting of the IAEA, wouldlikeits scientists tohave. access tothefacility in Rus- fell short of their needs. That ‘An Iranian delegation headed left strong doubtsthat they Analysts havesaid Iran The European Union andthe that Tehran again freeze allen_richment. “There'slittle room for re- treat,” said retired Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin,a Russian arms control expert. ing on nuclear capability,is that Associated Press, speaking on ofthe sensitivity of the issue.SSS » AP writer George Jahnin Vienna, Austria, and Ali AkbarDareini in Tehran, Tran, contributedto this report. OF CIRCULATIONS All contents Copyright © 2006, Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other useis strictly prohibited without written permission. Exercise Continued from Al point up other benefits. Otheractivities focus more on fun than physical discipline. The Seattle-based group Underdog Sportsoffers adult leagues for elementary-school staples — dodgeball, kickball and flag football. Its kickball league, with membersranging in age from their 20s to 60s, had 150 participating teams in Washingtonlast year,said its director, Lawrence Martin. Underdog prides itself on a laid-back environment where players can “let go of the stress they find in their everyday lives,” said Martin, who enjoys seeing therole reversal ofkids sitting in the stands watching their parentsplay. hip-hop dance,a ballet workout and “urban rebounding,” exercisés on miniature trampolines. “Within the past five years, we'vestarted really seeing a lot of ‘interest in childhood activities being incorporated into exercise classes,” said Allyson Donnelly, the network's director of group exercise. “It’sthe variety of the activities, and Continuedfrom Al chair of the U.S. Figure Skat- ing Association's adult skating cone Hesaid he expects it a 10 percentj in par- tilpation after theOlympics. “As a kid, you doan activ- ity because youloveit, not because it burns calories,” said Conte, who first put on a pair of skates 10 years ago when he turned 30.,“Adults are looking for that, too. People are living to be older, and they're rekindling their interest in something they used to do or have always wanted to do.” I Congress is on the wrongside of history fi his predecessor, has been spot: ted spitting Skoal intoa little plastic cup on the House floor. It’s not that smoking on the Hill hasn't beenrestricted over the years. Once, they puffed away with abandon.Today, they limit themselves to certain areas — in their offices, the Rayburn building cafeteria and, most notoriously, the ornate, réd-carpeted Speaker's Lobby, where the news media and lobbyists buttonhole members passing throughto vote. That's where Norwood was caughtin the cloud that an aide says he didn’t complain about, but wherea lighted cigarette passed so close to his oxygen tank, one observer worried the whole place might go up. “I can't gointhere. If! have to goin, I haveto getout. It’s very unfair,” Rep. Henry Waxman,California Democrat and crusader for nonsmokers’ rights, recently complained. Nonsmokersat the Capitol have tried — bureaucratically andcreatively —to banish tobacco from this historic place. Requests to do so routinely are ignored. A few years back, someonetried stealing the ashtrays — the big heavy ones filled with sand. Learning that cigarettes were sold from unregulated vending machines and in congressional snack shops (at a reduced price, no less), Waxman staged a sting, arranging for underage minors * Birdlu Continued from Al the novelty, and there’s definitely an element of escapism about them:You can go into a studio for an hour and be a salsa dancer.” Theballet class offered by the Sports Clubs Network, the NYC Ballet Workout, can be doneat home,too. Since it was created in 1997, more than half a million copiesofits videos and DVDs have been sold, along with 100,000 instructional books, said Deanna McBrearty,a representative from NYCBallet. And withtheinfluence of the Winter Olympics and the Fox TV network show“Skating with Celebrities,”figure skating is becoming particularly popular among adults. “We'venoticed a reall increase,” said Antonio Conte, ” Congress STZ se from further talks when the head of Russia's nuclear energy agen, Sergei Karen, visits Iran “i ae Vienna-based of familiar with the thi _ IAEA chief Mohamed — but the line would have tobe agree to moveitsfull program drawn there. abroad. Russian Foreign Minister Ser“The reality for Iran because gey Lavrov warned last'week _of reasons of national pride and Freedom Blvd, Provo, Utah 84604. Dan'sSanaa’$124.80 yur & Holidays* kov, ae di- would more likely news agency IRNA. of Iranian officials and their “The partners in the plan, the hedging,hot-and-cold response durationof the project, location to the enrichment pr of enrichment and consensus of After first indicating they Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. Postmaster: Send address Seon the plant would defeat thepurpose of the d of the Russian Kuchinov, nuclear agency’s international relations ment, the have no foreign ny would day, saying a concrete result —_reate has suggested the international community might have _no choice but to accept smallscale enrichment on Iranian soil as a condition for Tehran to See Tar Only $10.40 Sundayony *Hollday delivery includesdelivery the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. gan outcome Mon- of ina sensitive ee ence over Tehran. Khlopkov warned against ‘The first option appears building a nuclear power reac-__rector of the PIR Center think tor in Iran and is a staunch tank,said Russia andthe West supporter of Tehran’s right could accept a plan letting Iran conduct uranium conversion to peaceful atomicene! — about the actions andwords — a precursor to enrichment Saye foreay 39. Te a me onset — issues that Russia, under pressure to prove cop: its years of close Iran have given it influ- * on this, There is an tunity today to oppo! $ provide a safe and health . II lealthy environment to al workers at the Capitol " 7 Paul G.Billings ‘American Lung Association lobbyist == to buy them, which they did. Waxman recently requested an investigation into why Con_gress isn't made to comply with the lawsthat govern much of the rest of country. Americans as a whole havesided with nonsmokers. A dozen states have passed smoke-free air laws;so have many individual cities. Indeed, Boehner cannot smoke in businesses in Columbus,his home state's capital. Flouting its host city’s new smoking ban could enhance the impression that Congress _holds itself aboveits citizenry. _It is, after all, immune fromthe Freedom of Information Act and manyfederal civil rights and labor laws. Members can _vote themselves raises even if the economytanks, have health insurance while as many as 46 million Americans go without, and soon will be free to puff awayin their congressional _digs while the rest of Washington,D.C,’s smoking public is e the H5NIstrain have rekindled fears of The virus has spread across Asia into Europe andAfrica. Controlling birdflu will require renewed focus on the animal world,including the chickens, ducks and other that havebeensacrificed by the tens ofmillions to stem the progress ofthe virus, experts said at a news conférence late Sundayat the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancementof Science. “Thestrategy has to be looking at how to contain it in the animal world, because once you get into the humanside, you're dealing with vaccines and antiretrovirals, which is a whole newrealm,” said Nina Marano,a veterinarian and public health expert with the National Center for Infectious Diseases. Birdflu has killed at least 91 people — most of them in Asia — since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. It appears tokill about half the peopleit infects. However, should it mutateso it can pass from human to human, it likely will ae far less deadly, said Dr. Stanley Lemon,of the University of Texas Medical Branchat Galveston. “It is very unlikely that it would maintain that kind of case mortality rateif it made the jump,” Lemonsaid. Eachyear for the last 25 years, one or two new pathogens multiple variations of existing threats have infected humans for the first time. Without speculating about earlier infection rates, Woolhouse told reporters it appears impossi ible the human species could endured such a rapid pace of rew infections over thousands ofyears. “Humans have always been attacked bynovel pathogens.This process has been going on for millennia. But it does seem to be happening very fast in these modern times,” Woolhouse said. Woolhouse argues that either many of forced out into the cold. Fanny Arnaud and Sara Jor- dan sat inthe hazy back sec- tion of the Rayburncafeteria last week. Both of the 20-year- AJIT SOLANKI/Associated Press Veterinarians depart after inspecting a poultry farm in Navapur,in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Sunday. Wearing protective gloves and masks, health officials and farm workers slaughtered thousandsof chickensin western India, a day after the country reporteditsfirst outbreak ofbird flu. those diseases and otherafflictions will not persist in humans or that there is something peculiar today allowing so manyof them to take root in humans. Oneexplanation maybe the recent and wide-scale changes in how peopleinteract with the environmentin a more densely populated world thatis growing warmer andin whichtravelis faster and more extensive, Marano said. Those changes can ensure that pathogens nolonger stay restricted to animals, she added. Examples from recent human history include HIV, ° in hand(a strategy mastered by Jackie Kennedy,a closet smoker). “None of your business,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., old congressional interns were barked when asked what forced into the toxic cloud brandof cigar he smoked as whenthe nonsmoking section he hurried from the Speaker's filled up. Lobby onenight last week. “I don’t likeit, but there’s noBoehner once was scolded whereelse tosit,” Jordan said. _for brazenly passing out A couple oftables away, tobaccoindustry c: Nancy Homan,74,felt likeshe checks on the House floor;towas getting away withsome_—_dayhis aides get jumpy when thing. A Schenectady, N.Y., asked what brand he smokes. resident and a smoker for 50 For nonsmokers who work on years, she was surprised when CapitolHill, the issue is mostly a guard told eae she could a matterof public health — a smokein a federal building. - worker'sright to clean air. “You can't smoke anywhere “Congress is on the wrong in New York,” she rejoiced, re- _sideof history on this. There lieved that she didn’t have to sit _is an opportunity today to outside, hatless,on one ofthe providea safe and healthy enaone vironmenttoall workers at the The Republicans have made Capitol,” said Paul G.Billings, a the Capitol a friendlier place lobbyist for the American Lung for tobacco since they claimed Association, who has experithe majority, to be sure. No enced the resolve of tobaccomorecalling the heads of the friendly membersfirst hand. seven tobacco companies to “They've sat there and blown defend their practices under smokein my face,” he said, oath, as Waxman did in 1994. But there is also the matter Indeed, Rep. Roy Blunt,No.3 ofthe public treasures,Billings in the GOP leadership, ismar_noted. The Capitol is graced at _ried to a lobbyist for the parent every turn with oil paintings, companyof industry giant sculptures, antiques and chanlip Morris. deliers that no self-respecting Nonetheless,there has been a museum curator would expose perceptible change in Washing- to toxic smoke. \. ton attitude, if not Washington And ia reagon,it appay, as the nation scorns tox cco and fewer adultsindulge. When a of coriservai's difficult totally how many _tors restored tl ‘alsand members of a on the walls.of smoke,as not all who do will er’s in the late , the confess to it. Seldomarethey brown stains of nicotine Were “| photographed with cigarette among the biggest headaches, et Install an Energy Efficient Furnace Today! Starting at $1,375 INSTALLED! WIHT Cal Vew Criminal Justice Program at Prove » Colles Heating & Turn to the Experts. Air Conditioning Safety and Filter Check...... $59 ° Green Sticker Certification. 79 Marburg, SARSandotherviruses. Thatprospect leaves open the question of whatfuture threats await humans. “It always surprises us. Wethink that avianflu will be the next emerging disease. Myguessis somethingelse might come out beforethat,” said Alan Barrett, of the University of Texas Medical Branchat Galveston.“It’s very hard to anticipate what comesnext.” On the Net: American Association for the Advancement of Science: www.aaas.org/ 1 carrier declaration in April 2003 Bin Laden Continuedfrom Al that major conflict in ee had 5 ended. Speakingdirectly to the said his al-Qaida terror network Americanpeople,the speaker would soonlauncha fresh attack on American soil. “[ have sworn to onlylive free. Evenif | find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived,” bin Ladensaid. In drawing the comparison to American military behavior in Iraq to that of Saddam,the speakersaid: “The jihad is continuing with strength,for Allah be all the credit, despiteall the barbarity, the repressive steps taken by the American Army and its agents,to the extent that there is no longer any mentignable difference betweenthis criminality and the criminality of Saddam.” Withthe implied criticism of Saddam, bin Laden appeared to be denying assertions by the Bush administration that the formerIraqileader hadties to alQaida — ties that were given as one rationale for invading Iraq. The tape’s release in January came daysafter a U.S. atari in Pakistan that was targeting bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman alZawahri, andarea pied four leading al-Qaida figur Sache possibly al-7Zawaht''s son-in-law. There was no mention of the attack on the segments that were broudcast. %n the full tape that was posted Monday,bin Laden engaged in renewed propag: mock-. \ing President Bush's aircraft AP camera said: “You can rescue whatever you can from this hell. The solution is in your hands,if their (US.troops’) situation matters to youat all.” Theinitial excerpts had been thefirst tape from the al-Qaida _leaderin more than a year — the longest period without a messagesince the Sept. 11 2001 suicide hijackingsin the United States. The CIA last month authenticated the voice on the initial recordingas that of bin Laden, —_an agency official told The Associated Press at the time. The al-Qaida leaderis believed to be hidingin the border region paver Afghanistan and Pakiathe last audiotape purported to be from bin Laden was broadcast in December 2004 by Al-Jazeera. In that recording, he endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawias his deputy in Iraq _andcalled for a boycott of Iraqi elections. Previously,the longest period without a e from the alQaida leader was from December 2001 to November 2002. He issued numerous tapes in 2003 2004,calling for Muslims to attack U.S, interests and threatening attacks against the United States, » AP reporter Omar Sinan contributed to this report. PRINTS from DIGITAL * PERMANENT-WATERPROOF RIMAGE Q |