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Show Ten eeeaeee se Te ete eeeTe see ys Teeese March Friday, 31,2006 DA Y HERALD MORNINC(BRIEFING | FASTFACT Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), the 28th president, was the first president to hold a doctorate. He received a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1886; his thesis was titled “Congressional Government, @ Study in American Politics.” Source The Book of Answers Compiled ee a Herald wire services The NATION | Republicans, Democrats | trade barbs after scuffle WASHINGTON— House Republicans and Democrats engaged in their ownscuffle | | — but just a rhetorical one — Thursday, a day after Rep. Cynthia McKinneyhad a dust- | upwit witha Capel Police officer. | incident erupted after | anae did not recognize McKinney as she was entering | ing Thursday whether to ask | | | aHouse office building and asked her to stop. According to one account, McKinneythen struck the officer. Capitol Police were considercharges against McKinney, a Georgia Democrat Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called the incident “a mistake, an unfortunate lack | of recognition of a memberof Congress.” She added that the police officer wasnot at fault. “I would not makea big deal ofthis,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. GREGORYBULL /Associated Press | Ron Bonjean, spokesman for Meetingin Mexico | President Bush, center, returns a hat to a Mexican dancer as Mexican President Vicente Fox, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harperlook on in Chichen Itza, Mexico, on Thursday. Thethree leaders took a tour of the Mayan ruins at ChichenItza, as they began their two-day meetingin the south of Mexico Ferrycarrying up to 150 capsizesin Persian Gulf MANAMA, Bahrain — ferry carrying up to 150 ae capsized Thursday nightin the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain, andatleast 48 bodies for young workers was justi- fied because the law was en- acted in theinterest of improving job opportunities for them. Chirac’s office said the president would address the wererecovered, the country’s coast guard chief said, Ameri- country on national television tonight forthe first time since students and labor unions launched demonstrations. Coast guard chief Youssef Russian Soyuz rocket carries crew to station can divers anda U.S.helicopter aided the rescueeffort. al-Katemsaid atleast 63 people survived. A passenger on board the ferry calling from BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — alert officials that the ship was his cell phone wasthefirst to # Russian-American crew and Brazil's first astronaut flew into orbit Thursday onboard a listing, he said. Russian rocket bringing them Theofficial Bahrain News Agencysaid the ferry — the al-Dana — wason an evening cruise that was to last several hours.It overturned less than a mile off the coast, it said. Television footage showed the ferry capsized butnotsunk, with fescue workers walking onits brown hull. ThreeIsraelis reported killed by suicide bomber NABLUS,West Bank — A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the northern West Bank settlement of Kedoumim after nightfall Thursday,killing three Israelis, settlers and Israeli media said. on a two-daytrip to the international spacestation. The mission's start was dogged by early data trans- mission problems, butofficials said they werefixed quickly anddid notjeopardize the crew. The Soyuz-FGrocket with a Soyuz TMA8 spacecraft at- tached to itlifted off just after dawnfrom the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodromein Kazakhstan, taking Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams to the station for their six month-stay. Also on board was Brazil's first manin space, Marcos C. Pontes, whowill stay at the station for nine days before returning to Earth on April 9 ArmyRadiosaid police suspect three Israelis, two women withthe station's current crew of Russian Valery Tokarev and American Bill McArthur. Palestinian blew himself up, Security breaks up protests in Turkey and a man,gave a ride toa Palestinian in their car, and the killing all four. The report said the Palestinian was dressed as an ultra-Orthodox Jew. TheIsraeli military said the vehicle hadIsraeli license plates, and there wereatleast three bodiesinside. They were burned so badly that identification was difficult, the military said. Protesters urge Chirac to relent on jobs law PARIS — France's constitutional court on Thursday upheld a controversial jobs law that has provoked the largest street protests in decades, putting new pressureonPresident Jacques Chiracto resolve the crisis that threatens to destabilize his government. The 10-member Constitutional Council ruled that high youth unemploymentrates justified the law, which would give workers underthe age of 26 fewer job protections than older employees. The council also said “different treatment” | Caribbean coral suffers | record bleaching, death WASHINGTON — A one- saying Thursday that Tehran's two punchof bleaching from activities are “not reversible,” record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and despite new calls to reconsider from the United States, Euro- delicate coral in the biggest loss ofreefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean waters. Researchers from around the pean allies, Russia and China. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog,said “it is impossible to go back to suspension. enrichment matter is not reversible,” he said in a telephonecall from Vienna, ustria. Iran's defiance cast a pall on a meetingoftop officials of the five permanentSecurity Council membersplus Ger- many meant to demonstrate consensus on confronting Tehran overits nuclear program. After two hoursoftalks that weretwiceas long as planned, Secretary of State CondoleezzaRice said the six nations were “united.” Russia and China suggested otherwise, expressing opposition to strong council action against Tehran after the meet- ing in commentsthatreflected the continuing fault-line dividing East and West on Iran. Prosecutors seek to move Taylor's trial FREETOWN,Sierra Leone — Trial in Africais too risky for a man accused of fomentbloodshed across West Africa, international prosecutors said Thursday in requesting that Charles Taylor'strial for crimes against humanity be moved to The Haguein the ANKARA, Turkey — VioNetherlands. lent protests by thousands of The former Liberian presiKurdish demonstrators left at dentis set to becomethe first African headofstate tried for least 20 hurt Thursdayas protesters hurled firebombs and war crimes beforean interpolice opened fire to disperse national court. He has been the crowds, authorities and lo- ~ indicted on 11 countsfor allegcal media said. edly supporting a brutal rebel “thovementin Sierra Leone, Hundreds ofprotesters in the city of Diyarbakir threw Liberia’s neighborto the north. firebombsat two banks and Hehelped pioneer the use shattered the windowsof the ofchild soldiers, often kidlocal police headquarters, as napped from their parents and well as a high school and some drugged, andhis fightersstill businesses, the Anatolia news are believed to roam Guinea, agency said.Police fired into eeuLeone, Ivory Coast and the air to scatter the crowds, it said. Eight people wereinTaylor's “mere physical jured, including some by gunpresenceback in the region fire, authorities said. One of could be disruptive and dethe injured was reported to be stabilizing and we've heard in serious condition. reports that Sierra Leoneans are worried thathis trial in House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IIL, said, “How many officers would have to be punched before it becomes a big deal?” a halt in uranium enrichment, globe are scramblingtofigure out the exfent of the loss. Early conservative estimates from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin | Islands find that about one-third | of the coralin official monitor| JEFF GENTER. Associaled Press the US.attorney’soffice to file ing sites has recently died. “It's an unprecedented die- | off,” said National Park Service | fisheries biologistJeff Miller, who last week checked 40 stationsin the Virgin Islands. The mortality that we're seeing now is of the extremely slow-grow- ing reef-building corals. These are corals that are the foundation of the reef... We're talking colonies that were here when Columbus cameby havedied in the past three to four months.” Daylight-saving time returns Sunday WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans will lose an hour’ssleep Saturday night as clocks are turned ahead to daylight-saving time. Other people will forget and be an hourlate for church or other activities. Officially clocks should be moved ahead onehour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Most folkswill do the job beforehitting the sack. The lost hour will return Oct. 29 whenclocks goback to stan- dardtime. Congresshas passed a law changingthe datesof daylightsavingtime, butit doesn’t take efféct until 2007. Then daylight timewill start three weeks earlier, March 11, and will end one weeklater, Nov.4. Moussaouijurors deliberate; no verdict ALEXANDRIA,Va. — Jurorsin the Zacarias Moussaoui trial went home Thursday without reaching a verdict, but they asked for legal guidance on one of the capital murder charges that alleges he conspired to use “weapons of mass destruction.” ‘The jury of nine men and three womenasked U.S.District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema for a legal definition of that ‘phrase,andshe told them that Minesurvivor Randal McCloy Jr., right, smiles at his home along side his wife Anna, on Thursday in Simpson, W.Va. Sago Mine survivor returns homeearly SIMPSON, W.Va. — Randal McCloy Jr. was enveloped in loving chaos whenhe came home Thursday. with kids blowing noisemakers. a crowdof family andfriends and his street festooned with handmade signs, red balloons and streamers, It seemed a little overwhelming not only to the “miracle miner,” the only survivor among 13 mentrappedbyan un- dergroundexplosionin January, but also tohis L-year-old daughter, Isabel. Her wailing didn’t subsideuntil she sat on her father’s lap — much thinner than it.usedtobe. McCloy’s homecoming is a wonderto his doctors, who first feared he wouldn't s ve and later expectedhis re- covery to take about twice as long asit did. His family was just as surprised: A rampbuilt for him was finished only this week. “I thank God, mostly.” McCloy said ashesat on his living roomsofa, family milling around. “Becauseof him, | am here.” McCloy, trappedin the Jan. 2 explosionat the Sago Mine withadozen fellow miners. was theonly one carried out alive. Doctors still cannotfully explain howhe survived'41 hoursof carbon monoxideexposure before his rescue. inthis case it meant turning airplanesinto *‘missiles. bombsor But astate judge ruled Wednesdaythatthe city must of oneofthe key allegations The charge is a component provide the namesof the 28 people, along with other excerpts that couldhelp identify against the 37-year-oldal-Qaida morecallers, On Thurs three weeks before the Sept. 11 2001, attacks in New York and Washington, andhetestified staying that or “_. ‘ihe Times similar devices.” terrorist. He wasarrested Mondaythathis intended role in the conspiracy was to fly a jumbo jet into the White House that morning. City to release 911 calls from WTC attack NEW YORK — Christopher Hanleyhad torepeat his story the cityfiled anappeal, eff- tively would needto seek an appellate hearingtolift the stay. Heartbreaking news about good economy Good times.can break your heart — literally, says:econo- mist Christopher Ruhm of the University of North Carolinaat Greensboro. “Heart attackfatalities rise to twodifferent dispatchers whenthe economystrength- dowson the World restaurant under reviewby the journal Demography. “A one percentage point drop in unemployment, representing a modest improvementin macroeconomic conditions, is estimated to raise after calling 911 fromthe WinonSept. 11, 2001 “Yeah. Hi. I'm on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center. Wejust had an explosion on the, onthelike 105thfloor,” Hanley, 35, told an opera- tor. Later, he says, “We have smokeand — it’s pretty bad.” An operatortells himto “sit tight. Donot leave. OK?” Hanley, whodied in the trade center, wasone of28 ens,” Ruhm writesin anarticle (severe heart attack) mortality by1.3 percent, correspondi to more than 2,500 additional deaths per year.” He foundthat the heart-stop- ping effects of good times appear to be greater for people people identified among about 130 emergencycalls the city ages 20to44 than for older people, “particularly if the eco- which had sued the city for ac- times are good, leaving less timeforexercise and sleep. planned to release today. Hanley’s parents shared the tape with The New York Times, cesstoall thecalls. An appeals court ruledlast yearthat the public could only hear the voices of 911 operators and other government employ- ees on the tapes, saying the frantic calls of victimsin the burning twin towers were too emotionalto be released with‘out families’ consent. nomicupturnis sustained.” But why? Ruhm suggests people work longér hours when Peoplealso drink morealcohol during good times. Then there's the increase in smog andtraffic congestion. uhm based his conclusions on an analysis of economic and mortality data collected in the 20 most populous states from 1979 to 1998. Iran defiant despite calls particular could cause security problems,” said Edgar Chen, a for halt in enrichment _lawyer with the Coalition for BERLIN — top Iranian ‘ International Justice. envoy defiantly rejected a U.N. Security cil demand for Convert: | would have died if | stayed in Kabul ROME — AnAfghan who faced the death penalty in his homeland for Se from Islam to Christianity said Thursday he was certain he would havebeenkilled had he stayed there, and he thanked Pope Benedict XVIforinter- fluffy introduction CHRISTIAN LUTZ/Associated Press A studentof the Faculty of Medicine,left,mT an ear operation on a rabbit toy brought*by a young girl, , in Strasbourg, France. Students of the DeashourgFaculty of Medicine opened a “Teddy BearClinic” for thehawhere children could bring their Teddy Bear and toy animals, to gently introduce the children to medical professions. Abdul Rahman, who was spirited out of Afghanistan to a secret locationin Italy. “If you are not a Muslim in an Islamic country like mine,they kill you. There are no doubts.” Hein aroahors serve as an “to ot! who dared rebel.” Rahman's comments,in a short interview to Italian journalists, came hours after Italy formally granted him asylum, persecution, the ministry said. JOSHUA LAWTON/Daily Camera Anewride Breckin eteof Lafayette, Colo., rides his new skateboard hereceivedfor his fourth birthday on the Louisville Skate Park in Louisville, Colo. Taylor had been asamini oa that did ot work in the park very well until he was givena full-sized modelby hiis dad. |