Show Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday April 21 1999 In brief Outcasts or ‘normal kids’? New children’s health insurance program enrolls nearly one million WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 1 million children in working poor families were covered by health insurance last year for the first time under a new program the largest Clinton administration health initiative to become law The $24 billion five-yeprogram to provide health insurance is expected to cover about 2S million of the nation's 11 million uninsured children by the time the program is fully implemented in October 2000 the Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday That's close to the 23 million children estimated by the Congressional Budget Office in 1997 when the bill was approved as part of a massive budget deal In talking about the program President Ginton often implied that it would cover 3 million children But to get to 3 million the administration is hoping states will find some of the estimated 4 million children already eligible for Medicaid as they sign families up for the new kids' health program To that end (lie administration is working with the states and private groups to simplify (lie enrollment process for both programs When (lie new program was created the nation hud 10 million uninsured children Since llien the number hits grown to million and many fear it will continue to grow as families leave welfare and don't realize that children often remain eligible for health coverage Tuesday's announcement was the first lime (lie government gave actual enrollment numbers for the program ar 1 1 Cigarette billboards are coming down RICHMOND Va (AP) — The Marlboro Man is about to ride off into the sunset The Virginia Slims babe is going -so long baby The Camel will vanish into the desert Cigarette billboards which once wallpapered the nation's highways must be removed by Friday a result of the $206 bilhealth anti-smoki- kids with a taste for black dusters and heavy hoots and makeup On Tuesday police said two members of the Trench Coat Mafia — Eric Harris and Dylan Klchold — shot dozens of people al their school and then shot themselves They were “normal kids who did normal stuff" said their friends "Normal kids" who talked uhoul slHHiling and bombing said kids tliey passed in llte hall Iltey also were kids who spoke German to each oilier listened to German techno music and were AP photo Students grieve at a prayer service al Light of the World Catholic Church in LHtleton Colo shooting rampage at Columbine High School fans of Adolf Hiller said Matthew Good a neighbor of Harris' Tuesday was Hitler's glasses and baseball “Trench Coat Mafia according to the Kill 'Em Junior Pauline Colby a group member until said her former friends ed to scare hcr'T knew who was last year had startthey were angry but they didn't know how to release their anger They were angry about people not accepting them and no one knowing how smart they were” Derek Oullon a senior remem- bered hearing group members talk about plans for violence “I caps Who says heard Eric Harris talk about bombs There was a bomb threat last year” he said “They just have a hatred for everyone" Good said he heard a lot of noise coming from the Harris their photo But on Harris’ Internet profile were the words: “Quit whining National Association of Attorneys General New signs in Washington state show a sinking Titanic with the slogan "Tobacco Kills a Titanic Full of Washingtonians Every 10 Weeks" More than 1300 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912 In Richmond where Philip Morris makes Marlboros and it's just a flesh wound AAALLL" capable of violence but I just didn't know they would do it" she said “They were just very we’re different? Insanity’s healthy” read the caption next to anti-smoki- TRENTON NJ (AP) — Complaints that state troopers target blacks and Hispanics along the largest cigarette plant one new billboard shows a young girl and her younger brother and reads: “My sister never told me not to smoke She showed me" Health activists welcomed the removal of tobacco billboards which they have long claimed were designed to appeal to children and teenagers “It's nice to get rid of this pervasive highly visible form of tobacco advertising” said Eric Lindblom of the Campaign for Tobacco-Fre- e Kids in Washington DC and disturbing Minorities deserve the assurance they will be treated no differently than any other motorist” The report commissioned by heavily traveled New Jersey Turnpike are “real not imagined” acegrdiog jo a report issued by the state’s attorney ge- ' The report released Tuesday concludes that even though the state police have no policy condoning the practice known as racial profiling it docs exist “There is no question racial profiling exists at some level" neral' But the force’s command them" Their friends say the Trench that neighbors described as very fine people Senior Alisa Owen called the group weird people with a sick sense of humor “They were joking around saying 'We are going to shoot you’ “ she said No one took them seriously said both Owen and Greg Barnes a Columbine basketball player “That was a mistake" Barnes said "They would just sit in the back of the room" he said “They didn't get involved They wrote poetry but their poems were weird “They seem to have their own Coat Mafia was horn about three years ago No special thought went into the name said Thad-deu- s Boles a member of the group “We all just started wearing them to keep warm” he said “We all pretty much got them It was something we liked” d Boles called Harris and two of his best friends He said he saw them both Saturday night at the school's elaborate “New York New York" after-proparty “They were both in pretty good spirits going with the flow” he said Klc-bol- m searches and aggressive treatment by troopers the report said Statistics show that 772 percent of motorist searches were of blacks or Hispanics and only 214 percent yvere of white motorists “Minority motorists have been Jersey Turnpike” the report says “We conclude the problem of disparate treatment is real — not course of traffic stops on the New were white encourages using race as a reason to stop motorists the report says While six out of 10 motorists stopped are white minorities are far more likely to be subjected to Gov Christie Whitman said “These findings arc distressing imagined" The report came one day after Can the interpretation ol fine art be expressed through floral design? 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