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THE D A I L Y UTAH CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF u'ww.clailyutahchroniclexom Wednesday, February 1, 2006 Today E C AS Today;; Rain/Snow r, Thursday 2/2 2/3 Saturday Sunday 2/5 i Rain/Snow. 39/33: Partly Cloudy 40/31 Friday 2/4 . -39/37 Mostly Cloudy 43/30 and Effective Government: 10:45 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. @ Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH255) •Meteorology Graduate Seminar: Dr. Olivier Llechti: 2 p.m. to 330 p.m. @ 110INSCC •Metallurgical Engineering Seminar Liza Budukova & Gordon Forbes: 350 p.m. to 450 p.m. @ WBB 207 •Huntsman Cancer Institute Seminar Series: Marek Mlodzik 4 p.m. @ HCI Auditorium •Biochemistry Seminar Series: Costa Gcorgopoulos: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium •Women's basketball vs. Wyoming: 7 p.m. @ Jon M. Huntsman Center Sunday Saturday Friday Thursday •Women's basketball vs. New •Last day to withdraw from Mexico: 3 p.m. @ Huntsman first session classes •Peking Acrobats: 10:30 a.m. and Cener 7:30 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall •Peking Acrobats: 10:30 a.m. •"Hotel Rwanda" with and 7:30 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall Paul Rusesabagina: 7 p.m. @ Union Ballroom •No Events All events located on campus, rj Bush urges stay-the-course policy in State of Union Partly Cloudy 36/21 SUNRISE 7:38 a.m. ; SUNSET QUOTE OF THE l|AY - | iat might not happeni §e around, but everybody in the state of Wisconsin seems to wgnt Favre in green and gold next season, warts and all. ^ -Matthew Piper on BretLFavre SEE COLUMN PAGE 7. Correction A statistic quoted in the Jan. 31 Article, "Students Create revolutionary medical devices," was misreported Nint&y-five. percent of the 350,000 U.S. citizens who experience cardiac arrest every year die because effective CPR is not performed. Also Rachna Malhotra is an MBA student and Srinath Lingutla is a bioengineering Ph.D. student. Alito wins confirmation after partisan fight WASHINGTON—Samuel Alito took his place on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the son of an Italian immigrant and a political milestone in President Bush's campaign to give the judiciary a more conservative cast. The 58-42 Senate vote was largely along party lines as Democrats registered overwhelming opposition to Bush's choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose rulings have helped uphold abortion rights, affirmative action and other legal p r e c e d e n t s ^ the past 50 years. ** Bush hailed Alito as "a brilliant and fair-minded judge who strictly interprets the Constitution and laws and does not legislative from the bench." "It is a seat that is reserved for few but that impacts millions," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist moments before the Senate sealed Alito's place in histpry as the nation's 110th justice. £*• Alito, 55 and a veteran of 15 years on the appeals court, watched on television alongside Bush at the White House as the Senate voted. U.N: Iran has I documents to mate an atomic warhead mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq, was taken into custody by police in the House gallery just before Bush spoke to a joint session of Congress. She was escorted from the visitors gallery after she caused a disruption, a Capitol Police official said. With Congress facing midterm elections in November, there was a partisan mood in the chamber as Bush, hampered by big budget deficits, offered a modest program. Democrats stood and cheered when Bush said that Congress did not act a year ago "on my proposal to save Social Security." Bush shook his finger and continued, "yet the rising cost of entitlements is a problem that is not going away." Switching gears, Bush asked lawmakers to join him in naming a commission to examine the impact of Baby Boom retirements on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending. Coretta Scott King dies at 78 ATLANTA—Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78. The "first lady of the civil rights movement" died in her sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Arrangements were being made toflythe body back to Atlanta. She had been recovering from a serious stroke and heart attack suffered last August. Just two weeks ago, she made her first public appearance in a year on the eve of her late husband's birthday. Doctors at the clinic said King was battling advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived there on Thursday. The doctors said the cause of death was respiratory failure. News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in the Georgia Capitol and piles of flowers placed at the tomb of her slain husband. Ffags at the King Center—the institute devoted to the civil rights leader's l e g a c y were lowered to half-staff. "She wore her grief with grace. She exerted her leadership with dignity," the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King's husband in 1957. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides, said Coretta Scott King's fortitude rivaled that of her husband. "She was strong if not stronger than he was," Young said. Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4,1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children. 8 2 8 4 3 5 1 3 7 3 9 do ku 8 9 6 7 9 4 9 8 1 4 8 SU 5 1 6 4 3 2 5 6 © Puzz es by Pap pocom VIENNA, Austria—The U.N. i nuclear watchdog agency said in a ( report Tuesday that Iran obtained documents and drawings on t h e black market that serve no other purpose than to make an atomic warhead. Tehran warned of an "end of diplomacy" if plans to/refer it to the U.N. Security Council a r e c a r r i e d out. / T h e report by the agency, ahead of a meeting of its 35-member board Thursday, also confirmed information recently provided by diplomats familiar with the Iran probe that Tehran has not started small-scale uranium enrichment since announcing it would earlier this month. •,,\ Nevertheless, the findings added to pressure to refer Tehran to the Security Council within days. Such afeove, Iran said, would lead to a halt Jn surprise U.N. inspections beginning Saturday and prompt it to resume frojEen nuclear activities. WASHINGTON—A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq. "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," Bush said as he sought to drive the election-year agenda in his annual State of the Union address. Rejecting calls for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Bush said, "There is no peace in retreat." He also slapped at those who complain he took the country to war on the erroneous grounds that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. "Hindsight alone is not wisdom," Bush said. "And second-guessing is not a strategy." In an unscripted moment, antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, the Bill would let Legislature give 'direction' to U.S. senators SALT LAKE CITY—The Legislature would "give direction" to the state's U.S. senators on issues of state importance under a bill that barely passed a Senate committee 3-2 Tuesday, but it wouldn't seek a role in choosing party candidates for the office. Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, originally wanted his bill to allow the Legislature to select party candidates for the U.S. Senate but said he backed off that proposal after receiving public feedback. Stephenson believes passage of the 17th Answers can be found on the website at www.sudoku.com. Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. senators, was a mistake and that it ruined the balance of power, between states and the federal government. His original bill had 20 of the Senate's 29 members as co-sponsors, but Tuesday's committee meeting revealed his bill could be in trouble. Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, requested his name be removed as a sponsor and said he only voted in favor of the bill as a courtesy to other senators who wanted to see it reach the floor. Answers to today's puzzle are on page 9. 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