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Show Page Two > Tuesday, October 17,2006 All stories and photos from The Associated Press YDAY WEATHER OUTLOOK J ^Today J£ 48/38 T-Showers Wednesday 49/39 Sunny Thursday 53/49 Partly Cloudy Friday 52/39 Partly Cloudy Saturday 49/39 Sunny WWW.WEATHER.COM At the u Today • Second session classes begin • Neurofeedback: Promising Interventions for Emotional Well Being: Noon to 1 pjn @ Women's Resource Center (Union, Room 293) • Introduction to Technology Commercialization & Intellectual Property: 2 p.m. to '4 p.m. @ HSEB, Room 1730 • Biochemistry Seminar Series: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ EIHG auditorium Wednesday \l8 • Career Fair: 9 am. to 3 p.m. @ ^==--=3 Union Ballroom • Meteorology Graduate Seminar: "LOLEPSHIN the New, Dynamic Glaciogenic Seeding Optimized by Self-enhancing Feedbacks": 2 p.m. to 350 p.m. @ WBB, Room 820 • Metallurgical Engineering Seminar: The Elution of Gold Cyanide from Activated Carbons: 3:20 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. @ WBB, Room 412 • Honors Lecture with Mayor Rocky Anderson: "Effectively Combating Climate Change Together": 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. @ Utah Museum of Fine Ails Durake Auditorium Thursday lP • International Programs Lecture: Ambassador to the U.S. for the Federal ?t Republic of Nigeria: 10:45 a.m. to 13:30 a.m @ Hinckley Institute of Politics •(OSH, Room 255) --' - — — - ~ " ^ . ^ • College of Health/Center for Rehabilitation Services seminal* series: Noon to 1 p.m. @ Annex Building, Room 2102 • CHPC Lecture: Mathematical Libraries at CHPG (Center for High-Performancc Computing): 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. @, INSCC Auditorium • Governmental and Research Accounting: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. @ HSEB, Room 1730 •Biology Seminar Series: Organogenesis in Arabidopsis: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ ASB, Room 210 • "A Streetcar Named Desire": 730 p.m. @ Babcock Theatre - Friday NEW ORLEANS—A cargo ship heading down the Mississippi River struck another vessel anchored near New Orleans on Monday, knocking a huge gash in the anchored vessel. The anchored ship was listing, but the hole was above the water line, and the vessel was not believed to be taking on water, said Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Veronica Bandrowsky. No injuries were reported. The vessels were the 712-foot Greek freighter Zagora, which was heading down river at the Kenner Bend area west of New Orleans, and the 737-foot Panamanian freighter Torm Anholt, which was at anchor at the time of the collision. The Torm Anholt had a 12foot-wide, 6-foot-long gash in its right side 6 to 9 feet above the water line. The ship listed after being struck, but the tilt may have been due to a loss of ballast, the Coast Guard said. There were no reports of damage to the Zagora. The Coast Guard established a one-way traffic safety zone in the area, but river traffic was not halted, Bandrowsky said. WASHINGTON—US. spy agencies confirmed North Korea's nuclear test on Monday, even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that UN. sanctions prove the world is united in opposing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Such strong opposition should be a warning to Iran, too, said Rice, who is leaving Tuesday morning for an Asian trip that is expected to be dominated by the nuclear issue. She will visit Japan, South Korea, China and Russia. Providing the government's first definitive confirmation that North Korea detonated a nuclear device one week ago, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte's office said in a statement that air samples collected on Wednesday showed evidence of radioactivity. That verified North Korea's claims. "The explosion yield was less than a kiloton," the statement said, smaller than many experts had expected. Each kiloton is equal to the force produced by 1,000 tons of TNT. An intelligence official said the North Korean device was believed to be roughly the equivalent of 200 tons of TNT, suggesting to analysts that it was probably a partial failure. Experts in and out of government had anticipated a detonation Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks to reporters at the State Department in Washington, Monday, to discuss her upcoming trip to Asia. of at least several thousand tons. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive situation with Pyongyang. At the State Department, Rice said the world "has responded calmly and firmly" to the test. "North Korea cannot endanger the world and then expect other nations to conduct business as usual in arms or missile parts," Rice said, previewing her message for the Asia trip. "It cannot destabilize the in- ternational system and then expect to exploit elaborate financial networks built for peaceful commerce." She said Iran—another government accused of running an illicit nuclear program—should pay attention to the global reaction. That would include the UN. Security Council's sanctions adopted on Saturday, aimed at making life difficult for the North Korean government and its weapons proliferation business. 91 die after four days Wal-Mart to buy Chinese retail chain of sectarian violence in Balad, Iraq related violence this month, or just over 44 a day, compared to a daily average of more than 27 since the AP began tracking deaths in April 2005. A surge in sectarian bloodshed and jump in U.S. casualties coincide with the run-up to the American midterm elections in which the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war has become a key issue. The U.S. military has kept a low profile in Balad, where violence began Friday with the slaying of 17 Shiite Muslim workers. Revenge-seeking Shiite death squads then killed 74 Sunnis, causing people to flee across the Tigris River to the nearby Sunnidominated city of Duluiyah. BAGHDAD, I r a q Four days of sectarian slaughter killed at least 91 people by Monday in Balad, a town near a major US. air base an hour's drive north of the capital. Elsewhere, 60 Iraqis died in attacks and 16 tortured bodies were found. The US. command said seven American troops died in fighting a day earlier. That raised the U.S. toll to 58 killed in the .first.two weeks of October, a pace that if continued would make the month the worst for coalition forces since 107 US. and 10 British soldiers died in January 2005. Iraqi deaths also are running at a high rate. According to an Associated Press count, 708 Iraqis have been reported killed in war- BEIJING—Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay about $1 billion to buy a chain of 100 hypermarkets in China in a deal that could vault it ahead of competitors to become the country's biggest food and department store network, a news report said Tuesday. Wal-Mart plans to buy the hypermarkets from TVust-Mart, a Taiwanese company, The Asian Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the transaction. The Financial Times, citing people close to the negotiations, said Wal-Mart had emerged as the leading bidder for the chain but said no rkSfaue0, ACROSS 1 No! a hologram, say 5 First male? 9 Somowhal, slanglly 14 58 Part of F.W.I.W. 61 Popular exercise system 65 One way to read 66 "Clean up. Mr. Stewart" Kindolcfet 15 Whiffle (down) 68 Bing Crosby's record label 16 Fiery feeling 17 There's a call for you. 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