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Show Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 Page 2 World&Nation Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at statesmaneditor@aggiemail.usu.edu U.S. envoy in uphill struggle for Mideast peace JERUSALEM (AP) were killed in the war, includ— President Barack Obama’s ing hundreds of civilians. Mideast envoy finds himself Israel, which lost 13 civilincreasingly hamstrung, with ians and soldiers in the war, Israel’s foreign minister on launched the campaign to end Thursday all but ruling out a years of Hamas rocket fire on peace deal for years to come Israeli border towns. and the Palestinian leader A 575-page U.N. report weakened by his decision not about the fighting alleges that In Wednesday’s issue on Page both Israel and Hamas commit8 Turbin was quoted as saying to push for a Gaza war crimes ted war crimes, something both the following: “If that includes tribunal against Israel. Jordan’s King Abdullah II sides deny. blocking for a dozen or so added a gloomy warning that Mitchell is due to hold sepasnaps a game, well, hopefully prospects for peace are “sliding rate meetings with Netanyahu the opposing team has a good supply of chinstraps on their into darkness.” and Abbas on Friday. sideline.” Turbin did not actuObama envoy George On his last trip, Mitchell ally say this, it was the writer Mitchell, visiting Israeli and failed to get them to the negoeditorializing. Palestinian leaders for the tiating table. Abbas insisted second time in three weeks, is that Israel halt all constructrying relentlessly to bring the tion in West Bank settlements sides together for talks, but the before talks could resume, but obstacles he faces are daunting. Netanyahu refused to make STOCKHOLM (AP) Foreign Minister Avigdor such a commitment. — Romanian-born German Lieberman suggested that the Though Abbas and writer Herta two sides come up with a longNetanyahu later attended a Mueller has the term interim arrangement that three-way meeting with Obama A Palestinian family looks to Israeli security forces during a patrol in east Jerusalem in Oct, won the 2009 would ensure stability, while on the fringes of the United 2009. AP photo Nobel Prize in at the same time putting off a Nations General Assembly in literature. Prime Minister Benjamin restarting negotiations is an rope, trying not to appear final deal. He recommended New York, the two sides remain The Swedish Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s office urgent matter. “The time has intransigent to the White leaving the toughest issues far apart. Academy, wouldn’t comment when asked come for both sides to agree to House while seeking to retain – such as the status of disputed Jibril Rajoub, a leading which has if Lieberman’s comments just cut right through all of this credibility with Palestinians Jerusalem and a solution for member of Abbas’ Fatah picked the win- Mueller reflected his opinion. But other and get back to peace talks,” he accusing him of appeasing the Palestinian refugees who lost movement, told reporters on ner annually senior Netanyahu confidants said. Israelis. Thursday that Abbas would tell since 1901, said Thursday that homes amid war – “to a much share similarly skeptical views On the Palestinian side, On Wednesday, Gaza later stage.” Mitchell again when they meet Mueller “who with the conIsrael’s punishing winter professors threw shoes at his “Anyone who says that with- on peacemaking. that the Palestinians will not centration of poetry and the Lieberman’s approach runs offensive in Gaza deepened defaced image and West Bank resume talks unless Israel freezfrankness of prose, depicts the in the next few years an agreecounter to U.S. efforts to reach anger toward Israel and further commentators called for his es settlement construction. landscape of the dispossessed.” ment can be reached ending an Israeli-Palestinian peace reduced whatever sentiment resignation, signs Abbas may the conflict ... simply doesn’t `Jordan’s king was interviewed deal quickly. The Palestinians there was for concessions have miscalculated in bowing understand the situation and by the Israeli Haaretz daily, have said they will not agree to Israel in a peace deal. It to what Palestinian officials spreads delusions, ultimately which planned to run the full also underlined Palestinian say was intense U.S. pressure to text on Friday. In an excerpt leading to disappointments and to an interim peace deal that would put off a resolution of President Mahmoud Abbas’ suspend Palestinian diplomatic on its front page Thursday, the Carp catch in Utah an all-out confrontation here,” the conflict indefinitely. powerless position in Gaza, efforts to get Israeli officials SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Lieberman told Israel Radio. paper quoted Abdullah as sayIn Washington, State overrun by Hamas militants in put on trial for war crimes in — Fishermen are expected to Lieberman’s suggestion ing “We are sliding back into Department spokesman Ian 2007. Gaza. pull about 6 million pounds of will not necessary translate the darkness” because of lack of Kelly said Thursday that Abbas is walking a tightNearly 1,400 Palestinians carp out of Utah Lake this fall into policy, which is set by movement toward peace. and winter. Fishing started Sept. 21. About 160,000 pounds of carp have been removed so far and discussions continue on the best uses for the dead fish, CHICAGO (AP) — The topic of suicide makes many ing cause of death among 10- to 14-year-olds in this of Education), also have developed curriculum to aid Utah’s June sucker recovery prothose educators. It’s a good start, says Dan Reidenberg, gram director Reed Harris said people squirm. It’s something we’ve been told we’re not country by 1997, according to one report in the medisupposed to talk about. If you speak it, someone might cal journal Pediatrics. SAVE’s executive director. Thursday. do it. In a Centers for Disease Control survey of high “And yet we still have schools every single day where The work is meant to help But there’s a growing conversation about suicide school students from 2007, the most recent federal there’s a suicide and they won’t respond at all,” he says. the June sucker, an endangered that’s happening on college campuses, in high school data of its kind, researchers found that 16 percent had “And that’s a really big problem.” native fish that lives nowhere else but the 151-square-mile lake auditoriums and online – even among youth some seriously considered suicide in the months preceding Often, it’s more common for the conversation to south of Salt Lake City and its might think are too young to consider suicide. The the survey. Similarly, a University of Minnesota study happen on college campuses. tributaries. hope is that a public discussion between young people released this year found that nearly 15 percent of teens Last month at the University of Connecticut, stuand the teachers and counselors who work with them think they’re going to die young, leading many to dents and faculty wore suicide prevention T-shirts, could inspire peers in distress to get help. attempt suicide, use drugs and engage in other unsafe invited speakers to campus and planted hundreds of “It’s kind of like the sex talk with your children. behaviors. flags to represent the nearly 1,200 college student suiBryce Mackie, a 21-year-old student at Columbia cides that happen each year. David Letterman, Oct. 7, 2009 I think that we should have that talk,” says Brittany Langstaff, a 14-year-old ninth-grader in Georgetown, College in Chicago, knows all about that. In high Other young people have made their efforts a year– Top 10 Signs the head of Ontario. She’s on the girls editorial board of New school, he made a film about his own experience with round endeavor. NASA is nuts. Moon Girl Media, a magazine with an online site bipolar disorder and suicidal thoughts. He first showed Last year, students at Baylor University started the aimed at teen and “tween” girls that recently took on the film to his parents and teachers and ended up getAlive Campaign with a bike ride from Texas to Alaska 10. Before each liftoff, he licks the topic of suicide. Features on the site include advice ting help, and now speaks to other young people across with a friend who had attempted suicide. They made the launch pad. from experts about how to deal with suicidal thoughts the country about his experience. stops along the way at colleges, churches and com9. Commutes to work in the and a chance for young readers to discuss the topic “I’ll have seven or eight kids after a speech come munity gatherings to host talks about suicide and conLunar Rover. online in a moderated space. up to me and, for most of them, this is the first time tinue those efforts today. 8. Freaked out when he heard Nancy Gruver, New Moon’s Minnesota-based they’ve talked about it,” says Mackie, whose film Jamie Tworkowski, 29, was inspired to action by a GM was closing Saturn. “Eternal High” has won awards for helping destigmasuicidal friend who told him she was cutting herself 7. Takes his coffee with two sug- founder and CEO, knew that addressing suicide with this age group might raise a few eyebrows. But she tize mental illness. and using drugs. A story he wrote about her ultimately ars and a splash of rocket fuel. “They had no clue that anyone else felt that way,” he helped save her life and resulted in a Florida-based 6. Wants to rename headquar- often sees the topic come up in the site’s online chat and in letters, poetry and artwork submitted by its adds. “And even if they did, their teachers weren’t talk- nonprofit called To Write Love On Her Arms. ters “Cape Kardashian.” Tworkowski posted the story about his friend on 5. Hasn’t removed his space hel- young members, prompting a policy that requires staff ing about it. Their friends weren’t talking about it.” to contact a parent when that happens. That’s no longer the case at every school. Some in the MySpace social networking site in 2006 and sold Tmet since 1996. “This should not be taboo. It should be talked about the mental health field credit Dr. David Satcher, a forshirts to raise money for her treatment. After another 4. Wants to rename Venus because it is something that affects kids in this age mer U.S. surgeon general, for setting the stage for more friend who played in a band wore one of the shirts dur“Derek.” openness in his 2001 National Strategy for Suicide ing a performance, he says he received more than 100 3. Announced he wants to fake range,” Gruver says. It wasn’t always that way. Sixty years ago, World Prevention. online messages, many from young people who said another moon landing by 2015. Health Organization statistics show that suicide was Now some states, among them California, New they were depressed or suicidal. Now his organization, 2. Put all his money on the much more common among the elderly. Since then, it Jersey and Tennessee, require a strategy for suicide which has eight full-time staffers and five volunteer Mets to win the World Series. prevention in schools. A few suicide prevention orgainterns, uses social networking to put people suffering 1. It wouldn’t be a company pic- has shifted to become a much more common cause of death among younger populations – and the third lead- nizations, including SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices from depression in contact with professionals. nic if he didn’t drop his pants and fire a rocket. Correction Celebs&People NewsBriefs Youth push for louder conversation about suicide LateNiteHumor |