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Show Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 Page 2 World&Nati011 Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com OarifyCorrect 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@aggiemaiLusu.edu Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views Celebs&People CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's decision to take her show off the air after next season is another blow for Chicago. The city in recent weeks lost its bid to hold the 2016 Olympics and was told by two trade shows they're going elsewhere. Now it WINFREY has to contend with losing a show that focused worldwide attention on not only Winfrey but Chicago itself. Winfrey brought a lot of prestige and money to the city in the 24 years she's been on the air. NewsBriefs NYC subway stabbing NEW YORK (AP) — A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn. Authorities say some 30 passengers watched as Gerardo Sanchez of the Bronx stabbed Johnson at around 2 a.m. Saturday in an argument over a seat. Police say the passengers were trapped with the knife-wielding attacker and his victim until the train arrived at the station at Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street. Police say Sanchez was standing over the bloodied victim when the train doors opened. Johnson was pronounced dead when the train arrived at the station. THIS COMBINATION OF UNDATED PHOTOS shows, from left:Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali,Waleed bin Attash, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ramzi Binalshibh.The five men facing trial in the Sept. I I attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday, Nov. 22. AP photo NEW YORK (AP) — The five men facAli, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, ing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. not guilty so that they can air their critiMohammed, Ali and the others will cisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer explain "their assessment of American for one of the defendants said Sunday. foreign policy," Fenstermaker said. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said "Their assessment is negative," he the men would not deny their role in the said. 2001 attacks but "would explain what Fenstermaker met with Ali last week happened and why they did it." at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in The U.S. Justice Department Cuba. He has not spoken with the others announced earlier this month that Ali but said the men have discussed the trial and four other men accused of murderamong themselves. ing nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest Fenstermaker was first quoted in The terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a New York Times in Sunday's editions. civilian federal trial just blocks from the Critics of Attorney General Eric site of the destroyed World Trade Center. Holder's decision to try the men in a Thousands of new sea creatures found in the deep of the Atlantic NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits. A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life. "Parts of the deep sea that we assumed were homogenous are actually quite complex," said Robert S. Carney, an oceanographer at Louisiana State University and a lead researcher on the deep seas. Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 — depths by feeding on the snowlike decayTop 10 Ways President ing matter that cascades down — even Obama Can Increase His sunken whale bones. Oil and methane Popularity. also are an energy source for the bottomdwellers, the report said. 10. Solve the Eggo Waffle The researchers have found about crisis. 9. Appoint one of them sexy 5,600 new species on top of the 230,000 Twilight vampires to Supreme known. They hope to add several thouCourt. sand more by October 2010, when the 8. When Chinese aren't look- census will be done. ing, get our money back. The scientists say they could 7. Put Howie Mandel on the announce that a million or more species nickel. remain unknown. On land, biologists 6. Appear as wacky next door have catalogued about 1.5 million plants neighbor on "The Big Bang and animals. Theory." They say they've found 5,722 spe5. Institute cool catchphrase: cies living in the extreme ocean depths, "I'll Barack you like a hurwaters deeper than 3,280 feet. ricane." "The deep sea was considered a desert 4. Pretend to launch his kids until not so long ago; it's quite amazin a mylar balloon. 3. A little "Dancing With the ing to have documented close to 20,000 forms of life in a zone that was thought Stars" never hurt anyone. to be barren," said Jesse Ausubel with the 2. Forget about health care, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a sponsor do something about the of the census. "The deep sea is the least Knicks. explored environment on earth." 1. Go rogue ... whatever the More than 40 new species of coral hell that means. LateNiteHumor New York City civilian courthouse have warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform. Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disruption, as federal courts have done in the past." Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Holder for hours about his decision to send the five 9/11 suspects to New York for trial. Critics of Holder's decision — mostly Republicans — argued the trial will give Mohammed and his co-defendants a world stage to spout hateful rhetoric. Holder said such concerns are misplaced, and any pronouncements by the suspects would only make them look worse. "I have every confidence that the nation and the world will see him for the coward that he is," Holder told the committee. "I'm not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial — and no one else needs to be, either." The attorney general said he does not believe holding the trial in New York will increase the risk of terror attacks there. No clear winner in Romania's election BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A presidential election aimed at helping Romania emerge from a political and economic crisis failed to produce were documented on deep-sea mountains, along with cities of brittlestars and a winner on Sunday, and the top two candidates will compete in a runoff next anemone gardens. Nearly 500 new species ranging from single-celled creatures month, according to two exit polls. If the exit polls are confirmed by to large squid were charted in the abyssal official results on Monday, centrist plains and basins. President Traian Basescu, 58, will face Also of importance were the 170 new species that get their energy from chemi- socialist former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, 51, in the runoff on Dec. 6. cals spewing from ocean-bottom vents One exit poll said Basescu won 34.1 and seeps. Among them was a family of percent of the votes, compared to 30.9 "yeti crabs," which have silky, hairlike percent for Geoana. The other said filaments on the legs. In the mid-Atlantic, researchers found Basescu won 32.8 percent, compared to 40 new species and 1,000 in all, said Odd 31.7 percent for Geoana. Conservative opposition leader Crin Antonescu polled Aksel Bergstad, an oceanographer with about 21 percent, finishing third in an the University of Bergen in Norway who election featuring a dozen candidates was reached by telephone in the Azores Romania's government collapsed islands. last month amid squabbling between More than 2,000 scientists from 80 the two-party coalition, and the countries are working to catalog the International Monetary Fund has oceans' species. delayed access to a $2 billion IMF bailout loan while the country struggles to set up a new government. A president is key to reviving the government because he nominates a prime minister, whom Parliament must then approve and who would be responsible for forming a new coalition. Reports of possible fraud in Sunday's election emerged as far more people than normal cast ballots at 3,500 special voting centers that were set up for Romanians who need to vote outside their area of residence because they are traveling. The Electoral Committee said more than 430,000 people voted at such locations, and witnesses claimed some were being bused there after already having cast ballots elsewhere. For instance, Economy Minister Adriean Videanu THIS TRANSPARENT SEA cucumcalled for a halt to "electoral tourism" ber, Enypniastes, is shown creeping forin Moara Vlasie, near Bucharest, saying ward on its many tentacles at about 2 cm election authorities there were overper minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth at 2,750 meters whelmed. in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. AP photo Basescu and Geoana called the elec- tion one of the most important votes in Romania since 1989 and the fall of communism. Basescu, who is running for a second five-year term as president, said the exit polls appeared to indicate that conservatives were growing in power in Romania. Geoana, who heads the left-leaning Social Democrats and is the leader of the Senate, said: "We worked hard to get here. We will work even harder in the next two weeks, and on Dec. 6 we will win together." More than 18 million Romanians were eligible to vote Sunday, and about 50 percent of registered voters cast ballots, according to the Electoral Committee. Basescu, who no longer belongs to a political party because of constitutional requirements, has lost some public support because of his stormy relationship with Parliament and the country's deep economic crisis. Geoana favors a broad coalition government, while Basescu wants to form a government from the Democratic Liberal party he used to lead. Romania's economy, already in a deep recession, is expected to shrink some 8.5 percent this year. The country needs the IMF loan to pay state salaries and pensions, but is unlikely to get it this year. That would force 1.3 million state workers to take eight days of unpaid leave in 2009. Unemployment in Romania, one of Europe's poorest countries, already stands at 7.1 percent, up 3 percent in the last year. Voters also were taking part in a referendum on Sunday asking if they want to reduce the number of lawmakers in Parliament and abolish one of its two houses. Basescu, who called the referendum, wants a one-chamber Parliament with a maximum of 300 lawmakers, down from the current 471. Critics say a smaller parliament would lead to the president having too much power. This year passing your most difficult test may have nothing to do with college FREE men's titanium band with engagement ring purchase .2 1.(1,/z/ztemd y e „ 435.753.4870 • 45 North Main (Next to Persian Peacock & across from Tabernacle) |