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Show Friday, April 2, 2010 Page 2 WorldeiNatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com Clarify Correct The Utah Statesman printed on March 26 that the winner of Women Rock the Runway, USU's Women and Gender Studies celebration for Women's History Month, was Kate Nash. The winner was Kate Auman, JCOM major, dressed as Lady Gaga. New mileage rules: Save at the pump WASHINGTON (AP) — Drivers will have to pay through lower fuel consumption. The changes also more for cars and trucks, but they'll save at the pump could help U.S. manufacturers who produce advanced under tough new federal rules aimed at boosting vehicles, batteries and engines, the government said. mileage, cutting emissions and hastening the next The EPA is setting a tailpipe emissions standard generation of fuel-stingy hybrids and electric cars. of 250 grams (8.75 ounces) of carbon dioxide per The new standards, announced Thursday, call for mile for vehicles sold in 2016, equal to what would a 35.5 miles-per-gallon average within six years, up be emitted by vehicles meeting the mileage standard. nearly 10 mpg from now. This represents the EPA's first rules ever on vehicle By setting national standards for fuel efficiency greenhouse gas emissions, following a 2007 Supreme and greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, the Court decision. government hopes to squeeze out more miles per galEach auto company will have a different fuelNEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer lon whether you buy a tiny Smart fortwo micro car, efficiency target, based on its mix of vehicles. Hudson didn't gain a huge amount a rugged Dodge Ram pickup truck or something in Automakers that build more small cars will have a of weight when she was pregnant between. higher target than car companies that manufacture a with her son, but The rules will cost consumers an estimated $434 broad range of cars and trucks. For example, passenit was enough to extra per vehicle in the 2012 model year and $926 per ger cars built by General Motors Co. will need to hit make her do a vehicle by 2016, the government said. But the heads of a target of 32.7 mpg in 2012 and increase to 36.9 mpg double-take when the Transportation Department and Environmental by 2016. Honda Motor Co., meanwhile, will need to she saw a picture Protection Agency said car owners would save more reach passenger car targets of 33.8 mpg in 2012 and of herself. than $3,000 over the lives of their vehicles through ramp up to 38.3 mpg in 2016. A MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORP'S electric car "I didn't realize better gas mileage. Some small-volume auto companies such as i-MiEV displayed in front of a showroom of the Japanese it was me," the Touting the plan, Transportation Secretary Ray Porsche, Aston Martin and Lamborghini will not automaker in Tokyo, Japan, as Japan's first mass-market singer and actress JENNIFER HUDSON LaHood said, "Putting more fuel-efficient cars on the have to meet the standards initially, but all automakelectric car went on sale Thursday,April I. AP photo said Thursday. "I road isn't just the right thing to do for our environers will need to comply by 2017. Americans will be able to buy the new vehicles of was like, 'Who? ... Oh, my God, ment, it's also a great way for Americans to save a lot Consumers can expect improvements to engines, their choice," Tonkin said. this is me.' And now when I look of money at the pump." transmissions and tires, and the use of start-stop Environmental groups said the changes would back, wow, look at the difference The requirements for the 2012-2016 model years technology that halts the engine at stop lights to save actually give consumers more choices because they from then to now." pleased environmentalists who have criticized slugfuel. Automakers are expanding their portfolio of would ensure that every new car would get slightly Hudson, a former "American gish efforts by previous administrations to boost fuel gas-electric hybrid vehicles and beginning to intromore fuel-efficient each year. Idol" finalist who won a best sup- efficiency. They also were welcomed by automakduce electric cars and plug-in hybrids. "Because of these standards, Americans will porting actress Academy Award ers who have been seeking a single standard after Nissan recently announced pricing for its elecfor "Dreamgirls," has lost the baby California and a dozen states tried to create their own drive vehicles that save them money at the pump, cut tric car, the Leaf, which will be available in limited the country's oil dependence and produce a lot less weight and more, and she says rules. numbers later this year. Toyota is launching plug-in global warming pollution," said Jim Kliesch, a senior it's because of Weight Watchers Dave McCurdy, a former Oklahoma congressman hybrids along with battery-powered cars running —for which she is the new spokes- who leads the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, engineer in the Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean solely on electricity starting in model-year 2012. Vehicles Program. woman. a trade group representing 11 automakers, said the In Michigan, the first version of the Chevrolet The regulations set a goal of achieving by 2016 the industry supported the single national standard for Volt, which can go 40 miles on battery power before equivalent of 35.5 miles per gallon combined for cars future vehicles. He said the program made "sense for an engine kicks in to generate power, rolled off the and trucks, an increase of nearly 10 mpg over current consumers, for government policymakers and for assembly line this week and is scheduled to be sold in standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety automakers." limited numbers later this year. Administration. The figure could actually be as low Not all dealers were pleased. Ed Tonkin, a Beyond electric cars, Ford is aggressively proas 34.1 mpg because automakers can receive credits Portland, Ore., car dealer who chairs the National moting its "EcoBoost" line of direct-injection turUS judge strikes down Automobile Dealers Association, said the rules were for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in other ways, bocharged engines, which provide a 20 percent including preventing the leaking of coolant from air patent on cancer genes the "most expensive fuel economy mandates in hisincrease in fuel efficiency. General Motors will begin conditioners. tory" and would turn many new cars and trucks into assembling the Chevrolet Cruze, a replacement for NEW YORK (AP) — In a rulThe changes will cost the auto industry about $52 luxury items for consumers. the Cobalt, in Ohio later this summer. The compact ing with potentially far-reaching billion, but the government says the program will "Under these new mandates, the price of new cars Cruze is expected to achieve about 40 mpg on the implications for the patenting of provide $240 billion in savings to consumers, mostly and light trucks will rise significantly, meaning fewer highway thanks to a 1.4-liter turbocharged engine. human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company's patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The decision by U.S. District ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) two men and a woman whose remains pany wasn't involved in the body parts owner of Riverside Funeral Home in Judge Robert Sweet challenging — Police in Albuquerque arrested a were discovered among six heads and found in Kansas. He did not return Belen, N.M., where Hines learned whether anyone can hold patents businessman on fraud charges in a numerous other human body parts several messages left by The Associated about Bio Care, said he could not on human genes was expected to gruesome case in which body parts in a truck at a Kansas medical waste Press on Wednesday, and the main comment at length about the matter have broad implications for the that were supposed to be cremated and facility. Bio Care Southwest owner, telephone number that had been listed because of the investigation. biotechnology industry and genet- returned to families turned up in plasPaul Montano, 31, was arrested late on the company's Web site had been But he said he his company had ics-based medical research. tic bins in a delivery truck in Kansas. Wednesday at his office on three disconnected Wednesday. worked with Bio Care before. Sweet said he invalidated the Albuquerque police have identified counts of fraud and was being held on After his 83-year-old father died of "Unfortunately, I think many funerIMMMOP patents because DNA's existence $100,000 bond. a stroke in September, Chuck Hines al homes and families alike have been in an isolated form does not alter Sealed plastic bags containing of Bosque Farms, N.M., entrusted misled," Noblin said. the fundamental quality of DNA the heads and body parts — apparBio Care to harvest his organs for sciPolice also identified the remains as it exists in the body nor the ently dismembered with a chain saw ence and research. They sent back a of Jacqueline Marie Snyder, 42, of information it encodes. or other coarse cutting instrument sealed box with what Hines was told Albuquerque, who died in November — were found last week in 12 large red were all his father's cremated remains. of a methadone overdose, and Harold Ind. officer uses stun gun 11 plastic tubs inside a delivery truck at a Hines memorialized his father at a Dillard, whose hometown and cause of Stericycle Inc. facility in Kansas City, simple gathering of friends at the death weren't given. on unruly 10-year-old Kan. The tubs had shipping labels Albuquerque International Balloon Snyder's remains were identified MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) from The Learning Center, which is Fiesta, an event the elder Hines helped through a tag that shows her body —Two officers called to a home affiliated with Bio Care. organize decades ago. went to the New Mexico Office of the day care to subdue an unruly Bio Care receives donated bodies But Hines found out late Medical Investigator for an autopsy on 10-year-old have been suspended and harvests organs and other parts, Wednesday that some of his father's Nov. 1, said Amy Boule of the office. after one used a stun gun on the which it sells for medical research. remains were found in the delivery The body was turned over to a funeral boy and another slapped him Bodies are stored in refrigerated units truck. home on Nov. 3. in the mouth, a central Indiana until donated organs are returned, "You know, you get a box of ashes, The affidavit said Kansas City homipolice chief said Thursday. then Bio Care sends the remains for you don't know if it's all there. You cide detectives called Albuquerque The child suffered no significremation and gives the ashes to the assume it is," Hines said Wednesday, police March 20, March 21 and March TRACKING LABELS ARE attached cant injuries. Both officers have families, according to the affidavit. before police say they told him his 26 about containers with body parts to containers holding unidentified body been placed on paid administraparts that are stored by the Wyandotte The company has a contract with father's remains were found. He from the Learning Center. The affidative leave while police investigate County coroner in Kansas City. The body Stericycle to dispose of any leftover didn't respond to phone messages left vit said all the bodies appeared to have the confrontation Tuesday at parts were discovered in a truck at a medical waste. Thursday. been dismembered by a coarse cutting Tender Teddies. medical waste company. AP photo Montano said Tuesday his comOn Wednesday, Robert Noblin, instrument such as a chain saw. Celebs&People Nat'/Briefs NM business owner arrested in body parts case 1 1 I I Milliilli 1 1 ....-- LateNiteHumor David Letterman, March 31, 2010 Top 10 Highlights of Barack Obama's Oil Drilling Plan N4968 Search expanded for missing Colorado girl GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Four days after a 12-year-old northern Colorado girl disappeared after leaving home to walk to a friend's birthday party, 10. Everyone in America gets a authorities expanded their search free Sunoco travel mug. 9. Promises not to kill any endan- Thursday to include places she was known to frequent, including a music gered animals except the really store, library and shopping mall. tasty ones. "We're hoping against hope that 8. Kids drill free. she's out there, she's safe and she is just 7. Drilling won't affect Scott Brown's visit to the beach (Video a runaway," said Sgt. Joe Tymkowych of the police department in Greeley, of naked couple on beach). about 60 miles north of Denver. "But 6. Most extensive exploratory undertaking since Harry Smith's we have to try to figure all the possible propensities of things that could hapcolonoscopy. pen and pursue those leads as well." 5. What? Ricky Martin's gay? Kayleah (Kay LEE uh) Wilson was 4. 50 barrels of oil reserved each last seen Sunday afternoon, when she year for Mitt Romney's hair left her Greeley home to go to a birth—zing! day party just across a busy highway 3. Boys at Halliburton seem happy, which is good enough for from her apartment building. Authorities have since gone door us! to door seeking information on her 2. Provision for drilling the sun whereabouts and used dogs to comb for solar power. medians, ditches and bushes along the 1. Drilling will begin in Glenn highway for clues. Investigators also Beck's yard. have interviewed friends, family and acquaintances and have found nothing to indicate she ran away, Tymkowych said. Police planned to re-interview some of those people Thursday. About 60 police and FBI agents were aiding in the search for the sixth-grader, whom her mother, April Wilson, described as a "good kid." "She never hanged out with the bad crowds," Wilson said Thursday outside her apartment. "She had her friends. She liked to hang out at the mall, go to the library — you know, typical kid stuff." Wilson said she had no information on what may have happened to her daughter but wanted her to know, "We love you. We miss you. Just come home. We want you home." Tymkowych said police have contacted the girl's father, who lives in California, and other family members to advise them that she's missing and may be contacting them if she ran away. He says Kayleah had a boyfriend, who has been interviewed and is cooperating. He is not considered a suspect or person of interest. April Wilson also spent about 12 hours at the police station Wednesday, but Tymkowych said Wilson was there assisting police in the search. The middle school student is 5-foot1, weighs 145 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. Authorities say Kayleah has asthma and was believed to be carrying an inhaler. She doesn't have a cell phone. April Wilson said her daughter likes pizza and the color pink, and that her favorite band is called Celtic Thunder. At Kayleah's school a few blocks from her home, teachers on Thursday wore purple and pink memorial ribbons turned sideways to resemble a "K" for Kayleah. Brentwood Middle School science teacher Mandy Skinner described Kayleah as a soft-spoken girl who often kept to herself but participated enthusiastically in group discussions and completed her assignments. KAYLEAH WILSON, in this photo provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is missing and more than 20 police officers and FBI agents were searching March 30 for the 12-year-old Colorado girl. AP photo |