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Utah!© 2002J$50 Brldgerland’s' DailLNewspapei recent review of all aviation students who attended Utah State University during the past decade by the FBI turned up no links to terrorism and university officials don't expect the latest investigative effort to produce Federal authorities subpoena USU for below zero again records samples — PageAS By Arrln Brunson staff writer Update iticrermn J Dodo ancestry ley residentsSince Sept 11 Utah State said the university received a subpoena from federal authorities on Feb 21 The request for information about the biological agents used on campus and about the individuals who use them is “very generic” Simpdr said “I would expect it to be issued io almost all universities that have ' research” Simper told The Herald Journal “It isn’t specifically directed in its content to USU but generical-l- y it's directed to what universities any leads Anthrax spread last year through the miul killed five people and sick- National security concerns have resulted in sweeping reforms many of which have impacted Cache Val- ened Investigators believe the 13 attacks were the work of a scientist who may have obtained the spdfcs local from One of a dozen labs dial have die Ames strain on hand They hope to narrow the source through complex genetic analysis now under way and have requested records and samples of anthrax strains used at Utah State Craig Simper legal counsel for travelers have learned to expect increased scrutiny in die Salt Lake Ciiy Airport Cache Valley residents underwent the same close examination before entering the Eccles Ice Center during Olympic practice sessions A traced through genetic testing By David Perlman Sin Francisco Chronicle do in general” Simper said the uses of chemical agents at USU are limited but it will be another week before the information is compiled to send to the US Attorney General’s Qffice and the Department of Justice Included in ' engers From a scrap of skin and a bit of bone British biologists at Oxford University together with an American graduate student from Georgia have created a fascinating genealogy for die weird creature the most' poignant emblem of extinction at the' hands of humans The genetic findings along with r die volcanic history of the islands in the Indian Ocean where the bird originated show that die Dodos probably descended from an unknown ancestral bird 42 million years ago that flew from Africa to what are now the Mascarene islands east of Madagas he old Richmond school- house bell was at its peak 100 years ago but it continues to save a purpose today Housed atop the bustling city’s white school at the cen- d bell from 1890 934 to pealed Marie Lundgreen treasurer for the Richmond Historical Preservation Commission said the bell was housed in a tower over the school t vwhteh held eight grades of eletwo-sto- ry ter of town the 400-poun- mentary and middle school students Originally the of descen- dants — the Dodo (Raphus cuculla-tus- ) and a close flightless relative called die Solitaire (Pezophaps soli- taria) evolved some 26 million years ago Millions of years later they took roost on two separate Indian Ocean islands: the Dodo on Mauritius and die Solitaire Mi nearby Rodriguez The evolutionary history comes from a delicate and difficult kind of DNA analysis reported Friday in the journal Science by a group headed by famed molecular biologist Alan Cooper of Oxford University and Beth Shapiro a Rhodes scholar less than three yean out of college at the University of Georgia - The Dodo survived on Mauritius for millennia but in the 1500s sailors began hunting them and the species became extinct when die last survivor there was shot in 1681 according to bell was sounded at 8:30 am and again ' at 9 am to warn students of the start of each school day ' she said It was Cache people sounded again at 9 pm each night to signal the cur-few for youngsters' Lundgreen said1 In 1900 a strong wind from the ' east blew the top of the school building off according to a Richmond history written by Amos Bair The tower was rebuilt and soon the sound of thebell could be' heard again — for several miles in every direction on dear cool days - The school bell came down with or the school in the mid-’3early-’40- s according to Dan Miller chairman of the Richmond Preservation Commission Lundgreen said the bell was dis- -: "Than Stovensfrterakl Journal covered in a corner of the town’s Dalen RSmljhandBen Lundgreeri frame this bed tower enfcasing a school-houold relief society' which bed in Richmond The bed has been rescued and returned to its glory ' has been restored building is now and neird to the Relief Society bulking on Main Sheet in Richmond and H is getting referred to as die “Richmond His ' V: - - y se young mathematician who as Lewis Carroll wrote die classic “Alice in - anew home Wonderland” whereinthe Dodo served as the peremptory' judge of a hilariously disorganized racing event It was from that Oxford museum specimen that Cooper obtained his Dodo tissue for Shapiro to work out the sequence of the bird’si jgene fragments he said by After finding dutf the sequences of the two extinct birds closefcresem-Me- d die genetic material of modem pigeons die group compared their Dodo genes with 35 different pigeon spedes and wcxfcedoutthe relationships among them alL fitumed out that Dodo’s closestliving idative is die Nocobar pigeoq ' (Caloenasnkobarica) from die Andaman Islands in the Bay of gal— a specie diat today ukept in many zoossround the world ’ 'I Local Red Cross ''A v- Bp Jeff HOKUM1:- -' - - : - "IV-: 'i ijL-V- OpinionmuuA4 JJJ 8pqrtxB1 newscom! :'V Movies i ’ V i ij " 4i‘? u & Itilllll1 HI if1 11 l 111 mil 1 1 111 II II Debra Patterson first decided to volunteer with the Cad County chapter of the American Red Cross last summer Eriy in ttefslL she attended her first orientation meeting ' Ironically that first meeting was Sept ll came todassand they Werc already talking abqul the disaster and collecting Mood” Patter-- ' son recalted1T never eytnimagined or thought ' thaf rdbe gbirig back toNew York” 'Bufafter completing sbmeeburses in Novem- -' bet PattersoQwaxasked if aheld be willing to aid the Red Cross’ efforts'in lower MnhattanShei left two days bcfme'QHfamas and tnded upi-- ' staying six wedcs adit jwftugln 930 hotus of vMunteerfime atafamilysqvice enter jfl wanted to go just before Christmas because I ' feh thatwouid relieve other' jpeopleto be able tp tv 6 home tik Jwiomi explained V ill I iIHJII I i t0179rBBcFllr5 mimmmmm mmmmmm J 1 1 iiii i c the project was Ben Jones of Salt Lake City who is the great-gregrandson of Richmond founder John Bair The Doyle Webb family of Richmond Randy and Calvin Watts former owners of Cache Valley Builder Supply the Christensen family of Richmond who own Christensen Con- struction and Gravel architect Thomas A Graham and Russell M Escareno also contributed at ' : bolklt - - Anti-Dopi- - KHWi ng 1 ' ana frxir of tbd other erSlocil7 called die explanation The Austrian ski federation said its athletes used1 the material for ultraviolet radiation treatment of tiieir ' blood describing the method as being “exclusively for disease prevention” and not doping “Fust it doesn't sound credible” IOC medical director Patrick Schamasch said “Second any kind of blood manipulation is pah of the doping definition The Austrian position is not relevant for me” J Wbrid Agency chairman Dick Pound said “it sounds so farfetched that it has no credibiti- ty It’s clear there are teams that are putting medical ' experts into a mode of helping their athletes cheat' X That is clearly unacceptable” Blood doping in which athletes draw blobd and 'i tiien inject it to increase oxygen capacity and boost endurance is banned by the lntemational Olympic i Committee ! Tie IOC began ui investigation Thursday after v' J See REJECT op AS “far-fetche- d” ’I Pattersoii contributor to things ry El LuosraHWald JoWnW hv & ' LONDON (AP) —Austrian officials contend there legitimate medical reasons for the blood-tran- sfusion equipment found in a house used by their ' cross-countskiers during the' Olympics The headofthe IOC’s dfrug agency on Friday i : places " were “Andldghtit otddHttnie - The largest financial rejects excuse of Austrian officials - CtassMedi£7 ObKuariMA6 reconstructed IOC : staff writer ' toric Relief Society building” ' The bell has been rescued and returned to its glory next to the Relief Society building on Main Street in Richmond “It’s neat and unique because we’re putting it back into a bell tower as it was originally housed” Lundgreen said Miller said many individuals were instrumental in preserving and displaying the relic of Rich- mond’shistqiyDalien Smith who runs The Remodeling Pro business in Richmond built the new hell tower Richmond city officials donated the labor and equipment such as a backhoe to lift the bell onto a cement pillar as well as the site for the tower to be labor supplies equipment and cash making the project possible Dallen Smith said the bell adds historical value to thie close-kn- it community “It gives it a touch of the past” Smith said “People come by and talk about it I think the community likes it” 0s andent records Qpe bird however was stuffed and has been mounted in the Oxford versify Museum of for more than 150 yean The exhibit once fascinated Charles Dodgson the Comlcs'fBS See PROBE on AS By Arrln Brunson staff writer car i - the report will be information about the anthrax strains used at USU why has access to biological agents details about any transfers of anthrax and the uses of dry or powered anthrax ' Paul Rasmussen associate dean of the College of Agriculture said institutions with research involving simulants or similar forms of biological agents were also included in the national sweep for records At Utah State Rasmussen said current research doesn’t specifically include work with anthrax only simulants Bart Weimer director of the Center for Microbe Detection and associate professor of food and Richmond rings school bell again The legendary Dodoa flightless biid extinct for more than 300 years has yielded its DNA for the first time and scientists say it is related to pigeoas in Southeast Asia and even though more distantly to America's own flocks of the often scorned scav Natural-Histor- — B1 tnr&lhiEf’aoi rjDt?(©te© Tempera- TWo separate species Preston boys knocked out of state basketball tournament - vneqvross vownwerawno served near tQtound Zertr fcrs sUhouettdd iss ffwy hoktbaita honor at Vw ylctlmsof Septjt during a — — ' w |