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Show 1 •j 9 8 6 3 4 2 8 3 1 5 4 9 if Answer to CM ICO 2 6 r 6* 4 5" 2 9 3 8 1 5 1 3 8 9 7 4 4 1 2 7 8 6 9 p •t g 3 5 6 7 ~4 A 9,6 1 7 4 8 2 3 5 7 2 4 3 1 5 6 9 8 5 3 8~ 6 "cj 2 1 4 7 Today's Puzzle MLB investigating Bonds, others BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press LEARN TO FLY Nine week Summer Private Pilot Program begins June 1X 2006. Applicants must be at least 17 years old. For one low price. you will receive 6 college credits, housing. food, flight fees. FAA checkride. textbooks. and equipment For more information call Pam at 435-753-4289 or pilot@cc.usu.edu NEW YORK:- Baseball launched its probe Thursday into steroids use by Barry Bonds and others, and right away the head of the investigation came under attack. Commissioner Bud Selig said former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell - and a director of the Boston Red Sox - will lead the inquiry. Mitchell said he will not resign his position. The probe wilLbe limited to events since September 2002, when the sport banned p erform ance-enhancing drugs. No timetable for the investigation was announced. "Nothing is more important to me than the integrity of the game of baseball," Selig said. Mitchell also is chairman of The Walt Disney Co., the parent of ESPN, which is a national broadcast partner of baseball. ESPN is airing a weekly behind-the-scenes look at Bonds - with the San Renting (or Fal|v|v * 9 University Pines Francisco star's cooperation - starting next week. John Dowd, the Washington lawyer who headed baseball s investigation of Pete Rose's gambling in 1989, did not like the choice. "Mitchell doesn't have a great track record with me. It doesn't look like he's independent," Dowd said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Mitchell said his role with the Red Sox will not create a conflict. "If, in any way, anyone associated with the Red Sox is implicated, they will be treated just like everyone else," he said. As he left the news conference at baseball's headquarters, Mitchell did not respond to a question about his role with Disney and the possible perception of a conflict of interest. "While George Mitchell is certainly a man of great integrity, I believe that baseball would have been wiser to pick someone who is not as close to the game and may be able to take a more objective look into the facts," said Sen. Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican and baseball Hall of Famer. Rep. Cliff Stearns, a trie Risberg/AP Photo SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS' Barry Bonds smiles while walking back to the dugout after hitting a flyout in a spring training game March 24. He is being investigated for steroid use. Florida Republican, praised the probe. 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Some of the hutongs were dilapidated and dirty, eyesores the city fathers didn't want Olympic visitors to see. So the process continues, reducing the number of hutongs every year. Within a decade, it is predicted none will remain. The destruction has gathered an air of inevitability, despite occasional protests by elderly occupants and the politically well-connected. Last December, after five of the hutong compounds in the central, most picturesque part of the city had been torn down, eight distinguished advisers to the government publicly called for the preservation of the remaining 60. This is not the first time the Communist regime has sacrificed a cultural treasure to the demands of modernity. The imposing city walls came tumbling down after the Communists came to power in 1949,freeingup space for urban expansion and doing away with a symbol of the old society. As a new AP correspondent overawed by the splendor of the city, then known as Peiping, I strode the old wall in 1946, lost in day dreams of Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian traveler and teller of wondrous tales who claimed to live next to it for 20 years. The Beijing hutongs also exerted their magic spell on me when I spent 1947 in one of them, 16A Ta Tien Shui Jing, the Great Sweet Water Well lane. I whiled away my days leisurely writing dispatches on an old portable typewriter, delivering them to the post office like a true American imperialist in my own private rickshaw, pulled by a tireless and uncomplaining coolie. Listening to the sounds of whistles attached to the legs of doves wheeling in the air above my hutong, I decided to spend the rest of my life in Beijing. That was before the Communists marched into the city to shatter the quiet with their program of regimentation, Marxist progress and hostility to Americans of any kind. They had no time for dreams or indulgent Americans like me. One of the Chinese I knew then, an ex-pilot in the Nationalist air force, decided to stay on after the Communists took over in 1949. An agricultural student, he wanted, as did many other idealistic young Chinese, to contribute to the "New China" Mao Zedong represented. Elizabeth Daiziel/AP Photo A VIEW OF the 91,000-seat National Stadium, which requires 42,000 tons of steel, is seen as work continues at neck breaking pace towards the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China Tuesday March 28. ' |