Abandoned horses have nowhere to go

It's been a hard year for Steve Kreft.

The Cary welder lost his job in April, then worked another job for three or four months before he lost that one, too. At his current job, Kreft is making half as much as he did last year, and his hours will be cut next month.

He's worried how that will affect his family and Mack, his American quarter horse.

"I consider him a friend," Kreft said. "We've had him since he was 14 months old, and he's 9 years old. We can't afford to keep our horses." Horse owners are struggling with the cost of care for their animals. The recession has forced many people to cut back on "luxury items" like horses, and grain and hay costs are up, …

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. By Deborah Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-11213-0.

Reviewed by Lara Kriegel

Strikingly original, impressively researched, and beautifully illustrated, Household Gods offers a nuanced appraisal of the changing material world of the British middle-class home between 1830 and 1930. Deborah Cohen has plumbed unpublished diaries, photo albums, and the periodical press, as well as the archives of manufacturers, designers, and provincial retailers, to delineate a rich account of "the British loveaffair with the domestic interior" …

Red Bull's Mark Weber sets pace at Turkish GP practice

Red Bull's Mark Webber had the fastest time Saturday at the final practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix.

Weber rebounded from a crash that destroyed the front wing of his car on Friday to time a lap of 1 minute, 27.030 seconds _ the fastest across the Formula One race's three practice sessions.

Renault's Fernando Alonso trailed the Australian pilot by 0.142 seconds in second while Weber's Red Bull teammate David Coulthard was third in 1:27.193.

Nico Rosberg of Williams was fourth and Ferrari's Felipe Massa, the two-time defending champion in Turkey …

Some think average investors will get shot at Google stock

So, bunkie, you missed the boat on the Netscape, Amazon, eBay andYahoo! IPOs, and this time you figure you're going to strike it richon the pending initial public offering for Google, the wildly popularsearch engine that built a better computer mousetrap.

Well, some theorize that this time it just might be possible foryou to actually get in on the gravy train, and turn a quick profit bybuying Google shares at the opening price.

But some party poopers suggest that a Google IPO will only resultin the rich getting richer.

At this point, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google is mum. Ithasn't filed the papers necessary to go public, though the WallStreet Journal has …

When subletting reapirs, the buck stops... where?

Subletting repairs can be an efficient way of getting the job done without investing in equipment and staff. But what happens when things go wrong?.

Reprinted with permission from the California Autobody Association (CAA) Leaders' Letter.

Note: While the following was written specifically for California collision repairers, the general premise applies to repairers across the country. For specific regulations in a particular state, consult the state's motor vehicle agency.

Repair shops often get business by their reputations, but a shop may have to sublet some specialized repairs. By subletting, you are relying on the expertise of another shop. If you've done your …

Black Hawks boost Ct.'s Sikorsky in post-9/11 wars

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — America's wars since the Sept. 11 attacks have been a boon for Connecticut's Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., the maker of Black Hawk helicopters.

The U.S. military has relied heavily on the workhorse helicopters to strike targets and ferry troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sikorsky's global sales more than doubled in five years — to $6.7 billion in 2010 — largely because of military business that includes the …

Baker leads Iditarod at halfway point

Satellite tracking shows three mushers have left Cripple, the halfway point in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

John Baker of Kotzebue has the early lead Thursday, followed by four-time champion Martin Buser of Big Lake and Bruce Linton of Kasilof.

The next checkpoint is at Ruby, and the next 150 miles will be on the Yukon River.

Six of the 71 teams that left Willow on Sunday have …

Blair Underwood

A few good men didn't train Blair Underwood in military maneuversfor his new movie, "Rules of Engagement," opening Friday. As an Armybrat growing up all over the country, his drill sergeant was namedDad.

Q. So is your father lined up already to see this movie?

A. (Laughing.) My dad spent 27 years in the Army. Let's just saythat the thought of his son becoming an actor, well, that was theultimate rebellion on my part. But when I was young, I promised him,"Dad, I might do a movie someday and play a military officer." Whew!At least I got to be a man of my word.

Q. Capt. Dale Dye, who trains all you actor grunts for films, hasbeen described as the ultimate …

Jair Jurrjens, Braves beat Phillies, 5-3

ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Prado homered and drove in three runs, Jair Jurrjens took a perfect game into the sixth and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 on Saturday.

Jurrjens (5-0) beat the Phillies for the second time in a week, following a 5-2 win in Philadelphia on Sunday. He gave up three hits and three runs, two earned, in 7 1-3 innings.

Jurrjens, who opened the season on the disabled list with a right oblique strain, has not allowed more than two earned runs in six starts.

Prado and Nate McLouth hit back-to-back homers in the first inning for the only runs allowed by Joe Blanton (1-2) in five innings.

Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his …

17 killed after bus plunges into gorge in Kashmir

A minibus veered off a mountain road under construction and plunged into a river in Indian Kashmir, killing at least 17 people, a police officer said Saturday.

Rescue workers were searching the fast-flowing waters of the Chenab River for any survivors, said Hemant Lohia.

The accident occurred late Friday in the Kishtwar region, 120 miles (190 kilometers) southeast of Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

It was not immediately clear how many passengers were traveling on the …

Weak Self-Association in a Carbohydrate System

ABSTRACT

The physiological importance of weak interactions between biological macromolecules (molar dissociation constants >10 �M) is now well recognized, particularly with regard to cell adhesion and immunological phenomena, and many weak interactions have been measured for proteins. The concomitant importance of carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions has also been identified, although no weak interaction between pure carbohydrate systems has ever been measured. We now demonstrate for the first time to our knowledge using a powerful probe for weak interactions-sedimentation velocity in the analytical ultracentrifuge-that at least some carbohydrates (from the class of …

Nordic paper maker Stora Enso swings to a loss in the fourth quarter

Forest products group Stora Enso Oyj swung to a loss in the fourth-quarter, stung by one-time charges, higher costs and a competitive market.

The net loss for the October through December period was euro50.8 million (US$73.8 million), compared with a profit of euro302 million a year earlier, the Finnish-Swedish paper maker said Wednesday. Revenue grew slightly to euro3.37 billion (US$4.9 billion), up from euro3.32 billion in the same period in 2006.

Chief Executive Jouko Karvinen described the quarter as "one of the most challenging in the recent history" of the company.

"The fourth quarter's profit deterioration, which was mainly …

Sandra H. Royster raised universality in culture

Sandra H. Royster raised universality in culture

For several decades, Sandra H. Royster, senior director for program development at the Chicago Cultural Center, utilized every aspect of maintaining the artistic perspective of all phases of art as she projected the very essence of universality in ethnic culture. The vision she projected was phenomenal and her energy tremendous.

Her dynamic involvement came suddenly to an end when Mrs. Royster, 57 died of a heart attack in Brazil while on business for the City of Chicago. She was attending a cultural affairs conference in Salvador Bahia, Brazil when she passed away Saturday, Dec. 11.

Requiem Mass will be offered for Ms. Royster Saturday, Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church 690 W. Belmont Ave., Father Thomas Healy, officiating. Burial follows at Lincoln Cemetery.

Visitation is from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Her body will lie in state Friday, Dec. 17, from noon until 9 p.m.

Ms. Royster's colleagues were devastated as a result of her death and Lois Weisberg, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, on the passing of Sandra Royster said "Sandy was a rare and remarkable person. Her passing is being felt throughout the arts community, which has lost a dear friend and a respected professional. She was a pioneer in her field and her legacy as an advocate, administrator, poet and teacher will live on in the hearts of all those who were touched by her inspiration and example."

For more than three decades, Sandra Royster brought a range of diverse experience to the city of Chicago. Her chief function was to develop positive programs in the arts for the Cultural Center, was involved in the performing arts and culture as proposed by outside organizations, other city departments and communities throughout the city. She was also a professor in the graduate program, Arts Management Department for Columbia College Chicago.

Ms. Royster was a former dancer and published writer and has participated on numerous panels, workshops and mentoring projects. She gave time and support to persons living with AIDS since 1985.

A sincere supporter of Dance Africa Chicago, she served as a chief elder of the Council of Elders, a member of the national board of directors of the Center for Black Music Research, the board of directors for Bonaventure, a residence for individuals living with AIDS, and was a member of the advisory board for the House of Blues Foundation.

She was also a literary advisor for Gallery 37 and a former board member of the Association of Performing arts Presenters among numerous other affiliations.

As a writer, she contributed to "Nommo Anthology," "Woman Talk," "A Rock In The Wind Anthology" and "The Broadside Annual Anthology".

A graduate of Hyde Park High School, her professional education was secured from University of Illinois, Navy Pier/Chicago Circle; University of Illinois, Champaign Extension; Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tenn.; Columbia College, Chicago, Arts Management; Chicago Music College and Chicago Conservatory of Music in Classical Ballet, Drama, Piano and Music Theory; University of Illinois, Orchesis Member; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. modern and jazz dance.

Survivors include two daughters, Rebecca Royster-Pates and Francesca; her parents James and Gwendolyn Harvey; two sisters, Toya Harvey and Beth Womack; five brothers, Walter Lewis, Kevin Lewis, Christopher Harvey, Jonathan McClure and Gordon McClure, two grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.

Article Copyright Sengstacke Enterprises, Inc.

Photo (Sandra H. Royster)

Cancun mayor charged with ties to drug cartels

The mayor of Cancun was charged with drug trafficking ties Tuesday, forcing him to end his campaign for governor in a scandal that has shaken Mexico's upcoming state elections.

A federal judge indicted Gregorio Sanchez on charges of organized crime and money laundering a week after he was arrested in Mexico's most important tourist resort. Prosecutors say he protected two of Mexico's most brutal drug gangs and lived beyond his means.

The formal charges bar Sanchez from participating in politics, ending his run for governor of the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo.

Officials have said they cannot remember another Mexican candidate ever being charged with drug ties in the middle of a campaign, and leaders of Sanchez's leftist party say the allegations are politically motivated.

Jesus Ortega, president of the Democratic Revolution Party, called the charges "an aberration" and said the party would use every legal resource available to help Sanchez.

The July 4 elections in 10 Mexican states have already been marred by attacks and threats against candidates, fueling fears drug cartels are increasingly infiltrating politics through bribes and intimidation. One candidate for mayor of a northern town near the border with Texas was shot dead inside his business after ignoring warnings to drop out of the race.

In Sanchez's case, Judge Carlos Elorza said prosecutors had submitted testimony and documents indicating the mayor was using illegally obtained funds and had ties to the Beltran Leyva and Zetas cartels.

The federal Attorney General's Office has said the evidence includes several protected witnesses and documents from the Finance Department showing Sanchez made bank withdrawals amounting to more than $2 million, a sum that does not correspond to his declared income.

The Democratic Revolutionary Party says the mayor has a real estate business that explains his wealth. It has compared the case to last year's arrest of 12 mayors in the western state of Michoacan on drug charges just two months before state and congressional elections.

All but two of those officials have since been released for lack of evidence, feeding allegations their arrests were a political maneuver to bolster the government's tough image ahead of elections, though none of those mayors was a candidate.

Corruption scandals are nothing new in Cancun, whose white-sand beaches and raucous nightclubs make it a popular spring break destination for U.S. teenagers.

Former Quintana Roo Gov. Mario Villanueva was extradited last month to the U.S. to face charges of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine through Cancun.

Last year, Sanchez's police chief and other close collaborators were arrested for allegedly protecting cartels. The police chief was also questioned in the slaying of an army general hired to root out police corruption in the city, although he was never charged with that crime.

On Tuesday, President Felipe Calderon said his government won't relent in its fight against drug trafficking.

Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and federal police across the country to fight drug traffickers since taking office in late 2006. Drug gang violence has surged since the deployment, claiming more than 22,700 lives.

In the Pacific coast of Guerrero, gunmen barged into a hospital Tuesday in the resort city of Acapulco and killed a police commander who was waiting to see a doctor, the state's public safety department said.

Also Tuesday, a 3-year-old girl was killed together with her father by gunmen who opened fire on their car in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, authorities said.

Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, said the girl was shot once in the neck.

Wordsmiths wanted for bard competition

The Bards of Glastonbury were out in force last week as theyannounced the theme for this year's Bardic competition.

In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professionalpoet, employed by a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron'sancestors and to praise their activities.

Tony Atkinson, fifth Chaired Bard of Glastonbury, stood on thesteps of the Market Cross in the centre of town and announced thatthe theme for this year's competition is to be Twelve Giants: TheGlastonbury Zodiac.

Tony said: "We're after wordsmiths - be they poets, singers orstorytellers.

"If you live in the area and think that you've got what it takesthen you're more than welcome to have a go. All you have to do iswrite an original piece on the theme and perform it before our panelof judges."

The 6th Bardic Trial of Glastonbury will take place in May at theAssembly Rooms.

The preliminary heats will be on May 10 and the finals will takeplace on St Dunstan's day, May 19.

Application forms can be downloaded from www.bardic.org orcollected from The Library Of Avalon in the Glastonbury Experience,2-4 High Street.

AMS/Industry: Minority Scholarships 2003-2004

The American Meteorological Society is pleased to announce that 10 candidates have been selected to receive 2003/2004 AMS/Industry Minority Scholarships. The AMS/Industry Minority Scholarship is intended to encourage minority students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, especially Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Black/African American students, to pursue careers in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. Three scholarships have been made possible through the generous contributions of AMS members to the AMS 21st Century Campaign and seven scholarships are funded by industry: The Weather Channel(R), Northrop Grumman Information Technology, ClimaData, Inc., IBM, Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing, RS Information Systems, and Science Systems & Applications, Inc. (SSAI). The award is $3000 for a nine-month period in the freshman year and an additional $3000 for a nine-month period in the sophomore year, based on performance in the first year.

The Weather Channel(R)

Northrop Grumman Information Technology

ClimaData, Inc.

IBM

Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing

RS Information Systems

Science Systems & Applications, Inc. (SSAI)

AMS 21st Century Campaign

THE WEATHER CHANNEL(R)

The Weather Channel, Inc., based in Atlanta, is the nation's premier provider of weather information and reaches more than 85 million TV households in the United States. The Weather Channel Latin America reaches almost 10 million households in Latin America. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, Virginia-based and privately held media company with global interests. In addition to presenting weather information through The Weather Channel Radio Network and The Weather Channel Newspaper Service, The Weather Channel is the leading provider of weather information for emerging technologies with services for broadband and interactive TV (ITV) applications. The Weather Channel is also aligned with industry leaders in ITV. Partners include DIRECTV, AOLTV, WorldGate, Liberate Technologies, Source Swuite, WINK, and MSNTV. The Web site of The Weather Channel, weather.com, is the world's leading source of weather on the Web, averaging more than 350 million page views per month and is consistently ranked among the top TV-related Web sites by Nielsen/NetRatings. Other language-specific Web sites include: weather.co.uk, wetter123.com, meteo123.com, canaldotempo.com, and weather.com/espanol. The Weather Channel is the leading provider of broadband and wireless weather products accessible through high-speed internet services, digital cell phones, pagers, Palm Pilots, and other personal digital assistants.

MICHAEL L. DIAZ

Michael L. Diaz is a graduate of Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia. He will major in meteorology at North Carolina State University.

THE LARRY R. JOHNSON MEMORIAL MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP

Larry Richard Johnson was born in Klemme, Iowa, on 6 May 1944. His contributions to meteorology spanned over 30 years and careers with the U.S. Air Force and PRC [now known as Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT)]. Larry served 10 years with PRC in a variety of assignments on the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) program, the integrating element of the $4.5 billion National Weather Service Modernization. He served during the definition, development, and deployment phases as principal applications scientist department manager, executive manager, and deputy program manager. Known as "Mr. AWIPS," Larry's tenure on AWIPS was longer than any other person, and his contributions to the success of AWIPS stand out among all others. Larry earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology in 1969 and 1979, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned M.S.-equivalent degrees in 1983 from Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama; in 1986 from Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama; and in 1987 from National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Ft. Leslie McNair, Washington, D.C. Larry served 23 years in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Weather Service. Larry was active in the American Meteorological Society as a member for 29 years in numerous positions, and he was a founding member of the National Weather Association. He received numerous awards and published several articles and papers throughout his career. Larry Johnson's efforts were key to Northrop Grumman IT's early and continued support for the AMS Scholarship/Fellowship program.

Northrop Grumman IT provides scientific- and technology-based systems and services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Northrop Grumman IT is recognized for innovative methods of applying technology and science to solve customer's problems. One of Northrop Grumman IT's leading initiatives is its role as prime contractor for the National Weather Services' (NWS) AWIPS contract, the integrating element for the modernization of the NWS. With AWIPS, NWS forecasters produce more accurate and timely weather forecasts and warnings by combining and applying real-time satellite imagery, digital Doppler radar products, and ground system data, along with AWIPS-produced graphics of supercomputer-generated model output within a single, integrated system. Technologies developed by Northrop Grumman IT that are employed in AWIPS are now being reapplied in other commercial, governmental, and international weather programs. Northrop Grumman IT also operates and maintains the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Data Receipt and Distribution Facility for NWS. At Northrop Grumman IT, the intellectual capacity and vision of its people are among the company's most valued assets. In support of education in earth sciences and in memory of Larry R. Johnson, Northrop Grumman IT proudly supports the Larry R. Johnson Memorial Minority Scholarship.

AMANDA C. CORDOVA

Amanda C. Cordova is a graduate of Loretto High School in Sacramento, California. She will major in environmental science at Northwestern University.

CLIMADATA, INC.

Founded in 1991, ClimaData is the nation's leading commercial weather firm for clients that serve the growing Hispanic population of the United States. ClimaData's weather forecasts reach millions of Latinos across the country on nearly 60 Spanish language radio stations. The presence of ClimaData is well known in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic as well, where residents can tune in for the company's weather forecasts on some of those islands' top-ranked radio and television stations, or even read the ClimaData Forecast in local newspapers. ClimaData also serves the industrial sector, with daily faxed forecasts and severe weather outlooks to multinational corporations with operations in the Caribbean. President and Chief Meteorologist John Toohey-Morales, CCM, said, "We are very proud to sponsor our fourth Hispanic student heading into a career in meteorology. Our scholarship winners set a high standard for all to follow."

BRAULIO E. SOSA

Braulio E. Sosa is a graduate of Winter Springs High School in Winter Springs, Florida. He will major in meteorology at The Florida State University.

IBM

At IBM, we lead in the creation, development, and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including high performance computer (HPC) systems, data handling solutions, software, networking systems, storage devices, and microelectronics. IBM is the world's leading supplier of technology solutions for weather forecasting, climate and ocean research, and environmental simulations. IBM Research, with eight laboratories in six countries, plays a key role in advancing basic science and in creating innovative products and solutions for our weather and environmental customers. Check us out at www.ibm.com/servers/solutions/stc/

LINDA RUO-HUI FANG

Linda Ruo-Hui Fang is a graduate of Leland High School in San Jose, California. She will major in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

RAYTHEON SANTA BARBARA REMOTE SENSING

Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) is the world's leading manufacturer of precision, high reliability, remote sensing instruments for climate, planetary, environmental, and land research science use. Raytheon SBRS has a successful history of more than 35 years in the manufacture of space remote sensing instruments. It was a Raytheon SBRS Multicolor SpinScan Cloud Camera (MSSCC), the precursor to the GOES VISSR and VAS imager and sounder, aboard NASA's ATS-3 satellite that brought the world its first color image of the full Earth disk. Raytheon SBRS has built more than 78 sensors for planetary, meteorological, and Earth remote sensing use. We are proud of our record for 100% successful operation at turn on in orbit. SBRS' sensors operational lifetime on orbit have averaged more than 3 times the program requirements, making these sensors the most reliable space-qualified sensors worldwide thereby delivering exceptional value to our customers.

Raytheon SBRS plays an important part in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise having built the SeaWiFS, MODIS, ETM+, and the TRMM VIRS instruments and in the Space Science Enterprise with the TES II and THEMIS instruments presently orbiting Mars. These instruments are operating in space collecting data daily for NASA and the science community worldwide. The two Mars Exploration Rovers; MER A (Spirit) & MER B (Opportunity) each contain a Mini-TES instrument built by Raytheon SBRS. Integrated onto the twin rovers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and launched from the Kennedy Space Center in June 2003, the two MiniTES instruments will arrive on Mars in January 2004 to begin exploration of the Martian surface.

Raytheon SBRS continues our long heritage in meteorological sensors with the design and manufacture of the Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager (JAMI) for Japan's MTSAT-1R mission. Integrated onto Space Systems Loral's spacecraft, JAMI is scheduled for launch in 2004. The JAMI will provide timely, high-quality, full-disk, multispectral imagery for operational weather needs over Japan, East Asia, and Australia. JAMI data supports weather forecasting in the Asia-Pacific region by measuring Earth radiation in four infrared bands and one visible band mapping cloud distribution, Earth surface temperature, cloudtop temperature, water vapor distribution, and the wind field.

Raytheon SBRS, under contract to Northrop-Grumman Space Systems, is designing, developing and manufacturing the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and the Aerosol Polarimeter Sensor (APS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). VIIRS and APS are the next generation of advanced meteorological imaging and climate monitoring instruments. NPOESS converges the DMSP and POES systems that now serve the operational military and research science communities. The first VIIRS instrument suite will launch in 2005 as part of NASA's NPP mission. The first APS instrument is presently planned for launch in 2006.

VANESSA L. ALONSO

Vanessa L. Alonso is a graduate of G. Holmes Braddock Sr. High School in Miami, Florida. She will major in marine affairs and meteorology at The University of Miami.

RS INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. (RSIS)

RSIS provides advanced technical and business solutions in information technology, science, engineering, and management consulting.

Based in McLean, Virginia, RSIS is a minority-owned firm that has climbed into the ranks of the largest federal information technology contractors. Its president and CEO is Rodney P. Hunt, the company's cofounder.

With 1400 staff professionals nationwide, RSIS serves a wide range of federal agencies, both civilian and defense. It is this year's recipient of NASA's George M. Low Award, the agency's premier award for contractor quality. It was codeveloper of NASA's Software of the Year in 2001 and was named NASA's Minority Contractor of the Year in 2000.

The company supports key elements of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's environmental observation infrastructure: operations and engineering support of the National Weather Services' next-generation weather radar; software and systems engineering for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, and the data processing and distribution of satellite imagery. RSIS also provides systems development, science support, climate analysis and prediction, and system administration across NOAA's five line offices.

More information is available at www.rsis.com.

JOSHUA T. WALKER

Joshua T. Walker is a graduate of Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland. He will major in meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University.

SCIENCE SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS, INC. (SSAI)

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), a woman-owned small business, has been performing scientific and technological applications services and has steadily grown since its incorporation in April 1977. SSAI has received numerous commendations for within-budget and ontime quality support services. SSai's areas of expertise are earth and space sciences, advanced computing, scientific analysis, instruments engineering, Systems development, and information technology. SSAI employs a staff of highly qualified and experienced scientists, engineers, and information technologists. They strive for customer satisfaction by empowering their staff to achieve performance excellence. SSAI's customer- and employee- oriented polices have enabled them to maintain high staff loyalty and retention as an employer of choice for science, engineering, and IT professionals. SSAI is also a proud sponsor of the AMS/Om and Saraswati Bahithi Scholarship, which is named after the founders of SSAI, and is awarded to students entering their final year of undergraduate study.

OWEN H. SHIEH

Owen H. Shieh is a graduate of Melbourne Central Catholic High School in Melbourne, Florida. He will major in atmospheric science at Cornell University.

AMS 21ST CENTURY CAMPAIGN

The AMS 21st Century Campaign provides a focused institutional mechanism for AMS members, and organizations involved in the atmospheric and related sciences and services, to make meaningful contributions to the advancement of their science and to societal betterment. This campaign theme parallels and supports the goals of the AMS 10-Year Vision-which is to employ the remarkable advances in the atmospheric and related sciences and services for the benefit of society as a whole. The campaign is centered around four program areas:

* Public Awareness-focusing on increasing the visibility of AMS in both the atmospheric sciences community and in areas outside of our own field.

* Education of Our Future Scientists-supporting both collegiate studies with scholarships and fellowships and precollege education to assist students in becoming scientifically literate by providing training for K-13 teachers, and producing instructional resource materials.

* History of the Atmospheric and Related Sciences-supporting projects that are aimed at gathering, preserving, and providing access to historical documentation in science and technology.

* Atmospheric Policy Program-providing support to conduct studies of policy issues and providing education on policies that are affected by advances in atmospheric understanding and the provision of meteorological services by both the public and private sectors.

Through the support of member contributions to the AMS 21st Century Campaign, AMS is able to award minority scholarships and graduate fellowships to outstanding individuals pursing degrees in the atmospheric and related sciences.

ALBERTO A. GONZALEZ

Alberto A. Gonzalez is a graduate of El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California. He will major in the sciences at The University of California-Berkeley.

YOLANDA L. ROBERTS

Yolanda L. Roberts is a graduate of Clover Hill High School in Midlothian, Virginia. She will major in atmospheric science at Cornell University.

CORYNA M. SANDOVAL

Coryna M. Sandoval is a graduate of Angleton High School in Angelton, Texas. She will major in ocean and coastal resources at Texas A&M University.

UN experts complete inspection, seal containers of Russian nuclear fuel intended for Iran

U.N. atomic watchdog agency experts on Friday ended their inspection and sealed containers of Russian uranium fuel that is intended for Iran's first nuclear power plant, Russian officials said.

The completion of the International Atomic Energy Agency's work at Russia's main manufacturer of nuclear power plant fuel moves the delivery of the fuel for the Bushehr plant one step closer _ a step likely to further stoke concerns among Western nations deeply suspicious of Iran's intentions.

"The IAEA team together with representatives of the Federal Agency for Atomic Agency, the Iranian customer and the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant examined the nuclear fuel and sealed the containers," state-run nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL said in the statement.

Konstantin Grabelnikov, deputy head of the Novosibirsk plant, said delivery "will be made when there is a technological need at the plant and when a corresponding order is made," according to the statement.

During his trip to Iran last month, President Vladimir Putin promised that Russia would complete Bushehr, first planned more than a decade ago, but refused to say when it could begin operations.

He said a decision on shipping fuel would be made once Russian and Iranian experts agree on revisions to the contract.

Russia has said that the fuel dispute warned that Iran has been slow in making payments. Iranian officials have angrily denied they are in arrears and accused the Kremlin of caving in to pressure from Western countries.

The United States and other Western nations allege Tehran is using its nuclear program as a cover for efforts to develop atomic weapons. Tehran says its nuclear intentions are solely for generating electricity.

Putin's careful stance suggests he is seeking to preserve ties with Tehran without angering the West. Putin said he does not see evidence that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, as the United States and its allies contend.

Moscow has said it does not want a nuclear-armed Iran, and has urged Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment and answer international inspectors' questions.

Russia and China, another important ally of Iran, grudgingly approved two sets of limited United Nations sanctions against Iran over its refusal to suspend enrichment. But the Kremlin has bristled at the U.S. push for tougher measures, saying they would only escalate the rift.

Sizzling sound

Sunday evening at the Arc Bar, Broad Street, is officially SausageTime this weekend. That's not to say that the staff will be servingbratwursts over the bar, though.

In fact, Sausage Time is specifically "an extraordinary evening oflive alternative performance - from new music to scratch poetry, liveart to radical film - all of this and more." Sausage Time will, ineffect, provide a platform for artists who normally fall outside thetraditional concert format, as well as those who eager to trysomething very different from the nor m.

Local musicians Hugh Spiller and Nick Williams were inspired toinvent such a project by their collective experiences in variouscreative and performing arts in the past.

For more information visit www.sausagetime.com

Screech! ; Delays in production will upset Tata Motors' plans to earn money out of the low-cost car.

By the time this magazine is in your hands, there would be moreclarity on whether conditions have turned conducive for resumingwork at Singur, or whether Ratan Tata has decided to take the Rs1,500-crore project out of West Bengal to a more investmentfriendlystate. Whatever happens from hereon, it's increasingly clear thatTata Motors and its shareholders are going to feel the pinch of aproject that's delayed. Expectations of the first Nano rolling outof Singur by October or even in the October-December quarter appearoverly optimistic. That, coupled with Tata Motors' capital-raisingcompulsions for the acquisitions of Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover,have resulted in the stock having a torrid time on Dalal Street ithas slipped 24.4 per cent over the last three months, even as theBSE Sensex shed only 10.7 per cent.A delay in rolling out the Nanoisn't good for a few reasons: for one, it's a project whoseviability hangs on waferthin margins (estimated at barely 2 percent); for another, every day lost pushes back breakeven, whichanalysts expect in two years. A key to the Nano's costcompetitiveness is the integration of the adjoining vendor facility.Surinder Kapur, Managing Director, Sona Group, which is providingthe steering column to the Nano, told BT: Work on our facility iscomplete; we have moved the machinery in, and are awaiting word fromTata Motors. The burning Rs 1-lakh question, however, is whether theTatas will be in a position to position the Nano at around thatprice. It looks difficult because a delay will only compoundproblems of rising raw material costs. A quick ramp-up is animperative to break even. The initial plan for the plant calls forproduction of 150,000 units a year.Production in the six monthsbetween October and March 2009 will also be crucial to determine howlong Tata Motors takes to make profits. In a recent report, analystsat HDFC Securities were expecting only 25,000 units to roll out in2008-09. With the work having stopped, even that figure now looksoptimistic.

Rev. John V. Mentag, Former Loyola Prof

Rev. John V. Mentag, 78, a Jesuit priest and former assistanthistory professor at Loyola University, died Saturday in theColombiere Jesuit Community, Clarkston, Mich.

Father Mentag was on the Loyola faculty from 1960 to 1991, whenhe moved to Michigan.

During his tenure, he was a university trustee for five yearsand was acting manager for the historical journal Mid-America for 10years.

Father Mentag attended St. Mary's High School in his nativeMichigan City. In 1934, he entered the Jesuit order in Milford,Ohio. Ordained in 1947, he earned a doctorate in history fromLoyola.

Before teaching at Loyola, he was a history instructor at St.Xavier High School in Cincinnati and at nearby Xavier University.

He leaves three sisters, Barbara Meyers, Mary and Grace, and twobrothers, Robert and Dr. Paul.

Radical approach comes naturally to Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Tuesday;8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 3 p.m. Dec. 22 Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan

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At age 66, Pierre Boulez has been part of the internationalclassical music scene long enough and has been outspoken enough sothat his reputation always precedes him.

There's Boulez the composer, creator of rigorously atonal workssuch as the cantata "Le visage nuptial" and chamber pieces such as"Repons" that mixed a digital processor with acoustic instruments.Since 1977, as director of the Institute for Acoustical-MusicalResearch and Coordination at the Pompidieu Centre in Paris, he hasworked with engineers, musicians and composers to push therelationship between computers and music into uncharted territory.

There's also Boulez the conductor, the man who provoked the ireof New York Philharmonic subscribers by giving them more than theminimal amount of 20th century music during his years as thesymphony's music director between 1971 and 1977.

And let's not forget Boulez the intellectual and musictheoretician, who as a young radical booed an all-Stravinsky concertas insufficiently adventuresome. The young Boulez also declared thatany composer who failed to employ the Arnold Schoenberg serial,atonal method of composition was "of no use."

The reputation is formidable, but during an interview a fewhours before the concert opening his four-week residency with theChicago Symphony Orchestra, the man was not. Relaxed after arehearsal that had gone well, sipping some mineral water, Boulezhappily talked about a wide range of subjects.

One of the most fascinating is his continuing work withtechnology and standard orchestral instruments.

"I don't like technology alone," Boulez said. `If you put thingson tape or on machinery that works by itself, you have no contact(with people). It's interesting under other circumstances. If youdo an exhibition or put it in an environment, it's OK. For aconcert, it is not OK."

Audiences who have endured the most rigorous kinds of electronicconcerts doubtless will agree. Few things are more disconcertingthat watching a set of speakers on an otherwise empty stage and notbeing sure whether the odd sounds you're hearing are sound checks,ventilation systems that have gone awry or the music itself.

"Not only do you need the eye to be involved," said Boulez, "butalso, what's interesting in music is the last-minute involvement ofthe performer. That provides something quite different (fromtechnology). You cannot have any technology doing that."

Boulez sees technology as the ultimate expression of therational in music. Training in both music and mathematics as ateenager, he has always had a special devotion to rationality sincehis earliest days as a conductor and composer. His own music has afierce underlying logic that may or may not be obvious on firsthearing. His conducting has a crystalline edge that typically shinesnew light on orchestral textures and layers.

"I like the rational side," said Boulez, "the rational sideamplified, expanded by technology. It gives sound sources, arelationship to the space, which is quite different (from) thatgiven by the performers). The musicians, in a way, disturb thetechnology. There is a confrontation that is interesting."

Applying computer technology to music has made huge stridessince Boulez started working with it decades ago. Early computerswere approximately as musician-friendly as the badly designedsoftware packages of some of today's personal computers.

"Before, technology was rather clumsy and limited," Boulezadmitted. "Today, the relationship between musicians and technologyis much easier. It speaks much more to their imagination becausethey have more direct contact with the results. The talk between themachine and musician is more musicians' talk now, not mathematicians'talk."

It will be some time, however, before such interaction occursregularly at orchestral concerts. "It probably will develop," Boulezsaid. "But you have two kinds of reaction. You have people who havea quick reaction to technology, and others who don't have a mind forit at all. They have to have an assistant. Among young people, thetransition will be easier. For people of my generation, it's a newthing to learn."

And given the complex sound makeup of the average symphonyorchestra, adding computers may simply muddy the musical waters."You cannot have complexity and complexity," Boulez said. "It's toomuch. It becomes messy. You could expand some soloists, forexample, but you cannot really do that with the whole sound of theorchestra."

Boulez will be conducting what he considers classics of the 20thcentury through Dec. 22 with the CSO. A close friend and colleagueof Daniel Barenboim, the CSO's new music director, Boulez will bemaking annual conducting visits to Chicago in coming seasons.

Most of his work these days is with his Ensemble Contemporainat IRCAM, which gives approximately 80 concerts a year. His"Notations 4-8," reworkings of short piano pieces done in the 1940s,was supposed to have its world premiere here with the CSO underBarenboim's baton this March. Boulez was ill earlier in the fall,and the work is still unfinished. The premiere has been postponeduntil the 1992-93 season.

Boulez has a strong reputation as a conductor. His work at theWagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, including "Parsifal" and thecomplete cycle of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" directed by PatriceChereau in 1976, were highly acclaimed. He limits his orchestralconducting now.

"I just do guest conducting from time to time in places that areinteresting to me," Boulez said. "For me to work with a musicdirector, like Daniel, who is really competent and imaginative,that's interesting. And the orchestra here," Boulez added, shakinghis head with pleasure, "such players, such discipline."

Obama wants small business tax, investment breaks

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants Congress to enact or expand tax breaks for small businesses and remove barriers to business startups. The legislation seizes on existing bipartisan proposals that could win support even in an election year.

President Barack Obama plans to send the legislation to Congress Tuesday. The package includes measures to make permanent a zero capital gains tax rate for investments in small businesses. It also would extend for a year the ability of businesses to immediately deduct all of the costs of equipment and software purchases.

Obama also is proposing a new 10 percent tax credit for small businesses that add jobs or increase wages in 2012. In addition, the legislation would make it easier for new startup companies to raise money and go public.

Natural gas rally continues after inventory report

Natural gas prices continued a weeklong rally Thursday on a government report that showed gas in storage increased less than expected last week.

Natural gas prices rose 5.5 cents to settle at $4.339 per 1,000 cubic feet of gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have jumped about 9 percent since May 5.

The Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 94 billion cubic feet last week to about 2.09 trillion cubic feet. Analysts expected an increase of between 100 billion and 104 billion cubic feet, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.

Despite than lower-than-expected build, natural gas in storage remains well above normal levels for this time of year. And unlike oil prices, which have been rebounded sharply in the past year, natural gas prices have remained cheap.

The recession has hurt demand for gas as industries and consumers used less energy. Meanwhile producers are pulling more gas from the country's vast underground reserves, pushing supplies higher.

Oil prices continued to slide Thursday. Crude followed the stock market lower, with investors disappointed that jobless claims did not fall as much as expected in the weekly report from the Labor Department. Benchmark crude for June delivery dropped $1.25 to settle at $74.40 a barrel on the Nymex. Prices have fallen about 15 percent in the last 10 days.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off about 85 points in mid-afternoon trading.

Oil prices have yet to be affected by the giant spill in the Gulf of Mexico though there is worry that the spill may eventually interfere with tankers carrying imported oil to Gulf ports and vessels moving refined products to other parts of the country.

The well's owner, BP PLC, said Thursday that its costs for trying to stop the gusher, containing the spill and helping Gulf states foot the response tab totaled $450 million, up $100 million since its Monday update to securities regulators. The spill started after an oil rig exploded and sank on April 20.

Lower oil prices are slowly making their way to drivers filling up at the pump. Gasoline prices fell 0.6 cent overnight to a national average of $2.89 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Prices have fallen 3.9 cents in the past week, but remain 4.2 cents higher than a month ago and 62.3 cents above year-ago levels.

In other Nymex trading in June contracts, heating oil fell 2.72 cents to settle at $2.1319 a gallon, gasoline lost 1.53 cents to settle at $2.1951 a gallon.

In London, Brent crude was down $1.09 to settle at $80.51 on the ICE futures exchange.

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Associated Press writers Pablo Gorondi in Budapest and Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.

Songwriters' competition

SONGWRITERS across Carmarthenshire are being urged to hurry upwith their entries for the 2012 Can i Gymru (Song for Wales)competition.

The deadline for entries is Monday, January 9. The competitionwill be broadcast on S4C on March 4. The top prize is Pounds 7,500and the honour of representing Wales in the Pan Celtic Festival.

Entries by composers can be on CD, cassette or mp3 and must beaccompanied by an entry form, which is available, along with fullcompetition details, at the Can i Gymru website: s4c.co.uk/canigymru. The minimum age is 16.

Secretariat a Star Never to Be Forgotten

I'll never forget Secretariat. He was like a machine at work.Arlington International Racecourse will honor the greatest horse Iever saw when the $400,000 Secretariat is run Aug. 28.

The only time "Big Red" ran at Arlington, he attracted arecord 40,000 fans. He won an Invitational Stake race June 30,1973, by nine lengths.

No horse in the Secretariat Stake will resemble him other thanhe'll have four legs. It figures to be a good race because the purseis big enough and the race is on the turf, something that attractsgood horses to run 1 1/4 miles.

I thought it would be a good idea to have Secretariat'sjockey, Ron Turcotte, at Arlington for the race. But Turcottesaid his daughter Lynn is getting married a few days after that andhe'll be unable to make it.

"Maybe next year," said Turcotte, whose last stakes winner wasaboard my Old Frankfort.

Turcotte was paralyzed when a horse he was riding fell atBelmont Park on July 13, 1978. That finished his riding career.

Turcotte was something else. He rode his heart out on everyhorse he guided. He won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, each by 21/2 lengths, and scored in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes by 31lengths. I was there for that race. It was the first time I had toturn my head to look for the second-place horse who was Twice aPrince.

I have never seen an easier winner among the thousands of racesI've seen.

"Secretariat was something else," Turcotte said. "He was in aclass of his own. He was different than most good horses because hecould go to the front or come from behind without fighting for thebit. Other great horses like Dr. Fager and Buckpasser could go tothe front, but asked to be rated. They didn't respond near as muchas Secretariat.

"Man O'War wanted the lead and so did Dr. Fager, but Forego wasa stretch runner. Secretariat could win either way without trouble.That's why Secretariat was the greatest horse I've ever seen. He wascontrollable. I could send him to the lead and he'd win or I couldtake him back. He'd respond to whatever I wanted to do.

"They beat Dr. Fager with a rabbit (another horse was used torace with him early) and the same goes for Buckpasser. They couldn'tbeat Secretariat when a rabbit was used in an effort to run him downon the lead. When another horse wanted the lead, I just took itback. Secretariat would listen to every command. He was somethingspecial.

"Forego was a real class horse and had longer legs thanSecretariat, but he couldn't carry his speed too far. He could runfar, but without continuous speed." A good field of nine fillies and mares has been entered in the$150,000 Arlington Budweiser Breeders Cup Handicap Saturday at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. They are One Dream, 117; Words of War, 116; AubeIndienne, 115; Highland Crystal, 115; Assert Oneself, 115; Hat Key,113; Papatass, 111; Guard Dance, 111 and Due Bill, 109. The $250,000 Arlington Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on the turf Sundayshould also be an interesting race with Star of Cozzene, carrying123 pounds; Fanmore, 119; Marastani, 114; Split Run, 114, and threeor four others. Star of Cozzene won the Arlington Million last year. Harness racing from the State Fair in Springfield Aug. 16 will beavailable at all offtrack and intertrack outlets from noon until thecompletion of the program.

On Aug. 19, the State Fair harness races will be available at alloutlets from noon until just before Arlington's 3 p.m. post time.

On Sept. 3, the World Trotting Derby from the DuQuoin CountyFair will be available at Arlington and all outlets. Bill Jackson has been appointed a member of the racing board byGov. Edgar to replace Emil Troy, who died recently. Jackson is aformer state police officer assigned to the track.

NationalLeague

PHILLIES 5, BRAVES 4

ATLANTA PHILA

ab r h bi ab r h bi

MGiles 2b 5 0 0 0 Rollins ss 3 1 1 0

Rnteria ss 5 1 1 0 Utley 2b 4 2 2 1

CJones 3b 3 1 1 0 Rwand cf 4 1 2 3

AJones cf 4 1 2 2 BAbreu rf 4 0 1 0

LaRche 1b 3 0 1 0 Howard 1b 4 0 2 1

Frncur rf 4 1 1 1 Dllucci lf 3 0 0 0

McCnn c 3 0 1 0 Vctrno lf 1 0 1 0

Lngrhn lf 3 0 0 0 Lbrthal c 4 0 2 0

Smoltz p 3 0 0 0 Nunez 3b 3 1 1 0

Rmlngr p 0 0 0 0 RFrkln p 0 0 0 0

Ray p 0 0 0 0 Crmier p 0 0 0 0

Btemit ph 1 0 0 0 Burrell ph 1 0 0 0

Gordon p 0 0 0 0

BMyers p 2 0 0 0

DaBell 3b 1 0 0 0

Totals 34 4 7 3 Totals 34 5 12 5

Atlanta 000 012 010-4

Philadelphia 003 000 02x-5

E-Nunez (1). DP-Atlanta 1, Philadelphia 1. LOB-Atlanta 7,Philadelphia 6. 2B-CJones (3), Rollins (7), Lieberthal (7). HR-AJones (9), Rowand (4). CS-Dellucci (1).

IP H R ER BB SO

Atlanta

Smoltz 7 7 3 3 0 5

Remlinger L,1-2 1/3 4 2 2 0 1

Ray 2/3 1 0 0 0 0

Philadelphia

BMyers 7 5 3 2 2 5

RFranklin 2/3 2 1 1 1 1

Cormier W,2-0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0

Gordon S,9 1 0 0 0 0 2

HBP-by Cormier (McCann), by Smoltz (Rollins).

T-2:44. A-26,443 (43,647).

astros 5, cardinals 4

ST. LOUIS HOUSTON

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Eckstin ss 4 0 0 0 Biggio 2b 4 2 1 0

Rdrgez lf 4 1 1 0 Brntlett 2b 0 0 0 0

Pujols 1b 4 1 1 1 Tveras cf 4 2 3 1

Edmnd cf 4 0 1 1 Brkmn 1b 5 1 3 3

JEcrcn rf 3 0 0 0 Ensbrg 3b 4 0 1 0

Spiezio 3b 4 1 1 1 PrWlsn lf 4 0 1 0

GBnntt c 3 0 0 0 Lane rf 3 0 0 1

Miles ph 1 0 0 0 Asmus c 3 0 1 0

Luna 2b 3 1 1 1 AEvrtt ss 3 0 0 0

Mrquis p 2 0 1 0 Oswalt p 3 0 0 0

Thmps p 0 0 0 0 Lidge p 0 0 0 0

Gall ph 1 0 0 0

Flkbrg p 0 0 0 0

Totals 33 4 6 4 Totals 33 5 10 5

St. Louis 010 000 111-4

Houston 300 002 00x-5

E-Ensberg (6). DP-Houston 1. LOB-St. Louis 3, Houston 10. 2B-Rodriguez (4), Berkman 2 (7), Ausmus (4). 3B-Taveras (2). HR-Pujols(15), Spiezio (3), Luna (2). SB-Edmonds (3). SF-Lane.

IP H R ER BB SO

St. Louis

Marquis L,3-3 52/3 8 5 5 4 3

Thompson 11/3 2 0 0 1 0

Falkenborg 1 0 0 0 0 2

Houston

Oswalt W,5-1 8 4 3 3 0 5

Lidge S,10 1 2 1 1 0 1

HBP-by Lidge (JEncarnacion).

T-2:54. A-37,305 (40,976).

Diamondbacks 5, cubs 1

CHICAGO ARIZONA

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Pierre cf 3 0 1 0 Cunsell ss 4 0 2 0

Cedeno ss 5 0 3 0 Byrnes cf 4 2 2 0

TWalkr 1b 5 0 0 0 Tracy 3b 3 1 1 4

ARmrz 3b 4 1 1 0 LGnzlz lf 4 0 1 0

Murton lf 4 0 1 0 CJcksn 1b 4 1 2 0

JJones rf 3 0 2 0 ShGren rf 4 0 2 0

Barrett c 2 0 1 0 JEstda c 3 0 1 1

NPerez 2b 4 0 1 0 OHudsn 2b 4 0 0 0

Mddux p 1 0 0 1 MBtsta p 3 1 1 0

Wllmsn p 0 0 0 0 Aquino p 0 0 0 0

Bynum ph 1 0 0 0 Easley ph 1 0 0 0

Ohman p 0 0 0 0 Daigle p 0 0 0 0

Howry p 0 0 0 0 Vlverde p 0 0 0 0

Mabry ph 1 0 0 0

Totals 33 1 10 1 Totals 34 5 12 5

Chicago 000 100 000-1

Arizona 013 010 00x-5

E-Barrett 2 (3). DP-Arizona 4. LOB-Chicago 11, Arizona 7. 2B-ARamirez (4), Byrnes (6), CJackson (4). HR-Tracy (5). SB-Cedeno (2),Counsell 2 (3), Byrnes (2). SF-Tracy, JEstrada.

IP H R ER BB SO

Chicago

Maddux L,5-1 5 10 5 5 0 5

Williamson 1 1 0 0 0 0

Ohman 1 1 0 0 0 1

Howry 1 0 0 0 0 0

Arizona

MBatista W,3-1 7 8 1 1 4 1

Aquino 1 1 0 0 0 0

Daigle 0 1 0 0 1 0

Valverde S,8 1 0 0 0 1 2

Daigle pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

T-2:49. A-25,331 (49,033).

giants 2, brewers 0

SAN FRAN MILWAUKEE

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Frndsn 2b 4 0 1 0 BClark cf 4 0 2 0

Vizquel ss 4 0 0 0 Hardy ss 4 0 0 0

Winn cf 4 0 0 0 Jenkins rf 4 0 3 0

Bonds lf 4 0 0 0 CaLee lf 4 0 0 0

Ellison lf 0 0 0 0 Fildr 1b 4 0 0 0

Alou rf 2 1 0 0 BHall 2b 3 0 0 0

Feliz 3b 3 1 1 2 Koskie 3b 3 0 0 0

Niekro 1b 3 0 0 0 Moeller c 3 0 0 0

Mtheny c 3 0 1 0 Bush p 2 0 0 0

Schmdt p 3 0 0 0 Gross ph 1 0 0 0

La Rsa p 0 0 0 0

Totals 30 2 3 2 Totals 32 0 5 0

San Francisco 020 000 000-2

Milwaukee 000 000 000-0

LOB-San Francisco 2, Milwaukee 5. 2B-Jenkins (8). HR-Feliz (4).

IP H R ER BB SO

San Francisco

Schmidt W,2-2 9 5 0 0 0 7

Milwaukee

Bush L,2-3 8 3 2 2 0 6

De La Rosa 1 0 0 0 0 0

HBP-by Bush (Alou).

T-2:14. A-17,358 (41,900).

marlins 6, nationals 5

FLORIDA WASHINGTON

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Amzga ss 5 0 1 0 Byrd cf 3 0 0 0

Uggla 2b 5 1 1 0 Vidro 2b 2 2 1 0

MiCbra 3b 4 1 1 0 ASrano lf 5 1 2 0

Wlnhm lf 4 1 3 0 NJhnsn 1b 4 0 0 0

Helms 1b 4 1 2 2 JGillen rf 4 1 2 2

Olivo c 3 1 0 0 Zmrmn 3b 4 0 2 0

FGrmn p 0 0 0 0 CCrdro p 0 0 0 0

Nolasco p 0 0 0 0 Schndr c 4 1 2 3

HaRmz ph 1 0 1 1 Clayton ss 5 0 0 0

Brwski p 0 0 0 0 Ar Jr. p 1 0 0 0

Aguila rf 4 0 1 0 Brgmn p 0 0 0 0

Abrcrm cf 3 1 1 2 Church ph 1 0 1 0

Mehler p 3 0 0 0 Mjwski p 0 0 0 0

Wllmyr p 0 0 0 0 Ward ph 0 0 0 0

Tranor c 1 0 0 0 Rauch p 0 0 0 0

MrAnd ph 1 0 0 0

Stanton p 0 0 0 0

Jkson 3b 1 0 0 0

Totals 37 6 11 5 Totals 35 5 10 5

Florida 023 000 001-6

Washington 002 011 100-5

DP-Florida 1, Washington 1. LOB-Florida 10, Washington 13. 2B-Uggla (6), Willingham 2 (10), Aguila (6), JGuillen (6). HR-Helms (1),Abercrombie (2), Schneider (1). CS-Helms (2). SF-JGuillen.

IP H R ER BB SO

Florida

Moehler 4 9 3 3 4 1

Wellemeyer 2 0 1 1 3 1

FGerman 1 1 1 1 2 0

Nolasco W,2-1 1 0 0 0 0 2

Borowski S,4 1 0 0 0 0 1

Washington

Armas Jr. 21/3 5 5 5 0 2

Bergmann 12/3 3 0 0 2 2

Majewski 1 0 0 0 1 0

Rauch 2 1 0 0 0 2

Stanton L,1-3 11/3 1 1 1 1 1

CCordero 2/3 1 0 0 0 1

Moehler pitched to 3 batters in the 5th.

HBP-by Armas Jr. (MiCabrera), by Armas Jr. (Olivo). WP-Wellemeyer, Armas Jr., Bergmann.

T-3:54. A-21,918 (46,382).

padres 11, dodgers 5

SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES

ab r h bi ab r h bi

DRbrts lf 4 1 2 0 Lofton cf 4 0 0 0

Cmeron cf 6 2 3 1 Furcal ss 4 0 1 0

BGiles rf 6 0 0 0 Grcprr 1b 4 0 0 0

Piazza c 3 0 2 0 JDrew rf 4 0 1 0

Bowen c 0 1 0 1 JKent 2b 3 0 0 0

Bllhorn 1b 5 1 1 3 Mueller 3b 4 0 0 0

Sweeny p 0 0 0 0 Ethier lf 3 2 1 1

Brzlton p 0 0 0 0 Nvarro c 3 2 2 1

KGreen ss 4 0 1 0 Seo p 1 0 0 0

Castilla 3b 4 1 2 0 Hamlck p 0 0 0 0

Jhnson pr 0 1 0 0 Saenz ph 1 1 1 3

AGnzlz 1b 1 0 0 0 Osoria p 0 0 0 0

Brfield 2b 5 2 3 2 Beimel p 0 0 0 0

CYoung p 3 0 1 1 DBaez p 0 0 0 0

Cssdy p 0 0 0 0

Blum 3b 2 2 2 2

Totals 43 11 17 10 Totals 31 5 6 5

San Diego 000 010 352-11

Los Angeles 001 000 301-5

E-Mueller (4). DP-San Diego 1, Los Angeles 1. LOB-San Diego 10,Los Angeles 3. 2B-Piazza (4), Barfield (1). HR-Bellhorn (2), Barfield(3), Blum (1), Ethier (1), Navarro (2), Saenz (3). SB-DRoberts (6),JDrew (2). S-Seo. SF-Bowen.

IP H R ER BB SO

San Diego

CYoung 62/3 3 3 3 3 4

Cassidy W,1-0 1/3 1 1 1 0 0

Sweeney 1 1 0 0 0 0

Brazelton 1 1 1 1 0 0

Los Angeles

Seo 6 5 1 1 3 4

Hamulack 1 2 3 3 1 1

Osoria L,0-2 0 5 5 5 0 0

Beimel 1 0 0 0 0 0

DBaez 1 5 2 2 0 0

Osoria pitched to 5 batters in the 8th.

WP-Beimel.

T-2:55. A-33,352 (56,000).

METS 4, PIRATES 3

PITTSBURGH NEW YORK

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Duffy cf 5 0 1 0 Reyes ss 6 0 1 1

JWilsn ss 3 1 0 0 KMtsui 2b 6 1 1 0

Snchez 3b 5 1 1 1 Beltran cf 5 0 0 0

Bay lf 4 1 0 0 CDlgdo 1b 4 1 2 2

Burnitz rf 3 0 0 0 Wright 3b 5 0 1 0

CWilsn 1b 2 0 1 0 Floyd lf 5 1 1 0

JHrndz 1b 4 0 1 1 RCstro c 2 0 0 0

Palino c 5 0 2 1 Chavez rf 5 1 4 1

Castillo 2b 5 0 0 0 PMrtnz p 2 0 0 0

Snell p 2 0 0 0 Vlentin ph 1 0 0 0

Grabow p 0 0 0 0 Heilmn p 0 0 0 0

Capps p 0 0 0 0 Wdwrd ph 0 0 0 0

McLth ph 1 0 0 0 BWgnr p 0 0 0 0

Marte p 0 0 0 0 Snchez p 0 0 0 0

STorres p 0 0 0 0 JuFrco ph 1 0 0 0

Doumit ph 1 0 0 0 Brdford p 0 0 0 0

RHrndz p 0 0 0 0

Gnzalez p 1 0 0 0

Totals 41 3 6 3 Totals 42 4 10 4

Pittsburgh 100 000 002 000-3

New York 100 002 000 001-4

No outs when winning run scored.

E-JWilson (6), KMatsui (1). LOB-Pittsburgh 6, New York 12. 2B-KMatsui (3), CDelgado (4), Chavez 2 (4). 3B-Reyes (4). HR-Sanchez(3), CDelgado (11). S-JWilson, RCastro, Woodward.

IP H R ER BB SO

Pittsburgh

Snell 52/3 7 3 3 4 9

Grabow 1 1 0 0 0 1

Capps 1/3 0 0 0 0 1

Marte 1 1 0 0 0 1

STorres 1 0 0 0 0 1

RHernandez 1 0 0 0 0 1

Gonzalez L,0-2 1 1 1 1 0 0

New York

PMartinez 6 3 1 1 1 9

Heilman 2 0 0 0 0 2

BWagner 1 2 2 2 2 1

Sanchez 1 0 0 0 0 1

Bradford W,1-1 2 1 0 0 0 1

Gonzalez pitched to 1 batter in the 12th.

HBP-by Grabow (CDelgado).

T-3:36. A-33,668 (57,333).

ROCKIES 3, REDS 0

CINCINNATI COLORADO

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Freel cf 4 0 0 0 Carroll ss 4 1 1 0

FLopez ss 4 0 1 0 Splbrgh rf 3 0 1 0

Aurilia 1b 3 0 1 0 Hlliday lf 4 0 3 2

Httberg 1b 1 0 0 0 Atkins 3b 3 0 0 0

Dunn lf 2 0 0 0 Mrrero 1b 3 0 0 0

EEcrcn 3b 4 0 0 0 JSmith 2b 1 0 0 0

Kearns rf 3 0 1 0 LuGnzl 2b 4 0 1 0

BPhilps 2b 3 0 1 0 Fremn cf 4 1 1 0

LaRue c 3 0 0 0 Ardon c 3 0 1 1

Clausen p 2 0 0 0 Francis p 3 1 0 0

Belisle p 0 0 0 0 Mesa p 0 0 0 0

McCkn ph 1 0 0 0 Fentes p 0 0 0 0

CHmnd p 0 0 0 0

Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 32 3 8 3

Cincinnati 000 000 000-0

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In twisting Democratic race, once-unstoppable Clinton struggles to overcome Obamania

A year ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, was joking about whether she could appoint her husband secretary of state when she became president, and Barack Obama was urging a throng to be realistic about his own chances. "Let's face it," he said. "The novelty's going to wear off."

But a funny thing happened on the way to the Clinton coronation.

The Democratic presidential race took so many twists that close observers might have needed a chiropractor to follow it. And now Clinton, once the instant favorite in a crowded field of candidates, is struggling to overcome a daunting wave of Obamania.

"There's a problem with inevitability," said Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina party chairman who supports Obama. "It rarely proves to be true."

When Clinton joined the race in January 2007 with a cozy Webcast from her living room couch, the notion of a former first lady-turned-senator running to be the first female president was so new, so different, she quickly eclipsed rival candidates such as Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, all seasoned politicians with solid credentials.

"I'm in to win," Clinton proclaimed. And she had the money to back up her bravado.

"I don't think anyone can stop her," John Catsimatidis, a New York businessman and member of Clinton's finance team, trumpeted in February 2007. "She's unstoppable; she's got such a machine."

Clinton, intent on keeping 2000 nominee Al Gore out of the race, seemed to regard all other rivals as "Lilliputians," says Democratic pollster Peter Hart.

Her Democratic opponents didn't buy it, though, and neither did the public.

"I lived through the inevitability of Howard Dean," scoffed John Edwards, recalling the early darling of the 2004 presidential race who quickly faded from the Democratic field. Edwards dropped out of the race in January.

But it was Obama, not Edwards, who emerged as the anti-Clinton.

Bidding to become the nation's first black president, Obama offered a fresh new face, and a message of hope and change that captured the public's imagination.

His first visit to New Hampshire, back in December 2006, before he'd entered the race, sparked such a frenzy of interest that even Obama dismissed it as hype, as his 15 minutes of fame.

"I think to some degree I've become a shorthand or a symbol or a stand-in for now," he said. "It's a spirit that says we are looking for different. We want something new."

Obama joined the race in January 2007, a week before Clinton, and soon proved that his appeal with voters was no passing fancy, that he was more than a cardboard stand-in.

He turned his short resume _ just two years of national experience as a senator _ into an asset by stressing that it was time for a new generation to step forward.

Obama's surprising ability to raise money _ by the boatload _ instantly served notice to Clinton that he was not to be discounted.

He matched Clinton almost dollar for dollar in the first three months of 2007, and breezed right past her in the next quarter _ raising $33 million to her $27 million. By year's end, both had raised more than $100 million (euro66 million) and blown through at least $80 million (euro53 million), muscular figures that no other Democrat could touch.

"That really changed the whole tenor of the race to becoming more of a two-person contest than a coronation," said Anthony Corrado, a campaign finance expert at Colby College in Maine.

Clinton did her best to maintain the illusion of inevitability nonetheless.

In July, she dismissed Obama as "irresponsible and frankly naive" on foreign policy.

In September, she ran the gauntlet of five Sunday talk shows in one day, working in the phrase "When I'm president" at least seven times.

As recently as November, she calmly told an interviewer that despite Obama's surprisingly strong challenge, "it will be me."

Late into the fall, there were plenty of believers in a Clinton juggernaut.

"If this were a wedding, we'd be at the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' part," Steve McMahon, a former Dean adviser, said of Clinton's strength in October.

But soon there were signs of trouble for her.

An internal campaign memo had surfaced the previous May in which aides urged Clinton to bypass the leadoff caucuses in Iowa because it was her "consistently weakest state." Clinton disavowed the idea and worked hard all fall for an Iowa win, but the memo rang true. She was walloped with a third-place showing in Iowa, surpassed by both Obama and Edwards.

"Years from now," Obama promised his Iowa supporters, "you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment. This was the place where America remembered what it means to hope."

His Iowa victory propelled him like a slingshot into New Hampshire, where the only question seemed to be how big his victory would be.

Clinton didn't buy it, and neither did the public.

With her candidacy on the ropes, tough-as-nails Clinton let loose her emotions. Choking back tears the day before the primary, Clinton spoke from the heart about the meaning of the presidential race. In the process, she softened her remote image and zinged Obama along the way.

"You know, this is very personal for me," she told voters in a coffee shop. "Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not."

It was a powerful moment, played over and over on TV.

When the New Hampshire results came in, Clinton was the newest comeback kid, Obama the underdog once again.

"I found my own voice," Clinton declared.

Then she overplayed her hand, or rather, her husband.

Heading into a difficult South Carolina contest, Bill Clinton ramped up the anti-Obama rhetoric he'd first unleashed in New Hampshire.

The ex-president's rancorous words _ criticizing Obama's positions on the Iraq war as a "fairy tale" and complaining that the Obama campaign had put out a "hit job" on him _ were a distasteful counterpoint to Obama's lofty message.

Obama, for his part, took the criticism as a source of pride. "It means I might win this thing," he said.

Win he did in South Carolina. And the money came pouring in.

Obama collected a stunning $36 million (euro24 million) in January, compared with $14 million (euro9.2 million) for Clinton.

That gave him the firepower to challenge Clinton everywhere in the mega-round of primaries on Super Tuesday, the day that Clinton had once predicted would be the "finish line."

Instead they traded states, victory for victory, on Feb. 5, and neither came close to touching the tape.

And from there, it was all Obama, all the time, rolling up 11 straight primary and caucus victories in the past three weeks.

Clinton responded by moving the finish line _ and raising her own boatload of cash. She collected $35 million (euro23 million) in February but was surpassed yet again by Obama's fundraising.

Now Clinton is pinning her hopes on victories Tuesday in Ohio and Texas, where she once led in polls by a wide margin.

But the race has tightened in both states, and Clinton for the first time has lost the lead that she has held in national polls since Day One.

The news just gets worse for her. Two weeks ago, she was up by 16 points in Pennsylvania, which votes April 22. A poll this week showed the race at Clinton 49, Obama 43.

With every victory, more voters have given Obama a closer look.

"The person who wins homecoming queen always looks a lot better the following week walking around campus," said Hart, the pollster.

"My cautionary note," he added, "is that it ain't over. You always think the surprise you've seen is the last surprise."

"If she wins Texas and Ohio, we'll be talking very differently on Wednesday."

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN: Mainstream journalism is now the voice of rampant power

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism has become the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that, had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.

In Britain, the BBC, since it was founded in 1922, has served to protect every British establishment during war and civil unrest. "We" [Brits] never traduce and never commit great crimes. So the omission of shocking events in Iraq-the destruction of cities, the slaughter of innocent people, and the farce of a puppet government-is routinely applied. A study by the Cardiff School of Journalism found that 90% of the BBC's references to Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" suggested he possessed them, and that "spin from the British and U.S. governments was successful in framing the coverage." The same "spin" has ensured, until now, that the use of banned weapons by the Americans and British in Iraq has been suppressed as news.

An admission by the U.S. State Department on Nov. 10 that its forces had used white phosphorus in Fallujah followed "rumours on the Internet," according to the BBC's Newsnight. There were no rumours. There was first-class investigative work that ought to shame well-paid journalists. Mark Kraft of www.insomnia.livejournal.com found the evidence in the March-April 2005 issue of Field Artillery magazine and other sources. He was supported by the work of filmmaker Gabriele Zamparini, founder of the excellent site www. thecatsdream.com.

last May, David Edwards and David Cromwell of medialens.org posted a revealing correspondence with Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news. They had asked her why the BBC had remained silent on known atrocities committed by the Americans in Fallujah. She replied:"Our correspondent in Fallujah at the time [of the U.S. attack], Paul Wood, did not report any of these things because he did not see any of these things." It is a statement to savor. Wood was "embedded" with the Americans. He interviewed none of the victims of American atrocities nor unembedded journalists. He not only missed the Americans' use of white phosphorus, which they now admit, but he reported nothing of the use of another banned weapon, napalm. Thus, BBC viewers were unaware of the fine words of Col. James Alles, commander of the U.S. Marine Air Group II. "We napalmed both those bridge approaches," he said. "Unfortunately, there were people there...you could see them in the cockpit video... It's no great way to die. The generals love napalm. It has a big psychological effect."

Once the unacknowledged work of Mark Kraf t and Gabriele Zamparini had appeared in the Guardian and Independent and forced the Americans to come clean about white phosphorous, Wood was on Newsnight describing their admission as "a public relations disaster for the U.S." This echoed Menzies Campbell of the Liberal Democrats, perhaps the most quoted politician since Gladstone, who said, "The use of this weapon may technically have been legal, but its effects are such that it will hand a propaganda victory to the insurgency."

The BBC and most of the British political and media establishment invariably cast such a horror as a public relations problem while minimizing the crushing of a city the size of Leeds, the killing and maiming of countless men, women, and children, the expulsion of thousands, and the denial of medical supplies, food, and water-a major war crime.

The evidence is voluminous, provided by refugees, doctors, human rights groups, and a few courageous foreigners whose work appears only oh the Internet. In April last year, Jo Wilding, a young British law student, filed a series of extraordinary eyewitness reports from inside the city. So fine are they I have included one of her pieces in an anthology of the best investigative journalism. Her film, A Letter to the Prime Minister, made inside Fallujah with Julia Guest, has not been shown on British television. In addition, Dahr Jamail, an independent Lebanese-American journalist who has produced some of the best front-line reporting I have read, described all the "things" the BBC failed to "see." His interviews with doctors, local officials, and families are on the Internet, together with the work of those who have exposed the widespread use of uranium-tipped shells, another banned weapon, and cluster bombs, which Campbell would say are "technically legal." Try these Web sites: www.DahrJamaillraq. com, www.ZMag.org, www.Antiwar. com, www.Truthout.org, www. InformationClearingHouse.info, www. Counterpunch.org, www.VoicesUK. org. There are many more.

"Each word," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, "has an echo. So does each silence."

(Tell Me No lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs, edited by John Pilger, is published by Vintage. This article was first published in The New Statesman-www.newstatesman. co.uk)

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"An admission by the U.S. State Department that its forces had used white phosphorus in Fallujah followed the Internet revelations of Mark Kraft, whose first-class investigative work ought to shame well-paid journalists."

They're no RoboRats, but. . .: Scientists control rodents through electrode implants

By implanting electrodes in rats' brains, scientists have createdremote-controlled rodents they can command to turn left or right,climb trees and navigate piles of rubble. Someday, scientists said,rats might even carry tiny video cameras to search for disastersurvivors.

"If you have a collapsed building and there are people under therubble, there's no robot that exists now that would be capable ofgoing down into such a difficult terrain and finding those people,but a rat would be able to do that," said John Chapin, a professor ofphysiology and pharmacology at the State University of New York inBrooklyn.

The lab animals aren't exactly robot rats. They had to be trainedto carry out the commands.

Chapin's team fitted five rats with electrodes and power-packbackpacks. When signaled by a laptop computer, the electrodesstimulated the rodents' brains and cued them to scurry in the desireddirection, then rewarded them by stimulating a pleasure center in thebrain.

The rats' movements could be controlled up to 1,640 feet away, thelength of more than five football fields.

The findings appear in today's issue of the journal Nature. Otherresearchers said the work is interesting but is an engineering feat,not an advance in animal neuroscience.

Randy Gallistel, a professor of psychology and cognitive scienceat Rutgers University, said it's basically the same thing, with atwist, that scientists found they could do almost 50 years ago bystimulating the reward-sensing area of a rat's brain.

"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on,that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades,"he said.

The experiments used three implanted electrodes - one in the brainregion that senses reward or pleasure, and one each in areas thatprocess signals from the rat's left and right whisker bundles.

Chapin's team trained the rats in a maze by signaling the left andright whisker-sensing regions. When a rat turned in the correctdirection, its reward-sensing region was stimulated. Activating onlythis region caused them to move forward, the team found.

Howard Eichenbaum, a professor of psychology at Boston University,said the research, while not a major advance, is "clever" and holdsthe promise of using animals as humans'"eyes" or as couriers to reachtrapped victims.

Aside from the technological challenges, he said there may beethical concerns about turning animals into "intelligent robots"serving humans.

"It's one thing to see a rat running around like this, peopledon't get too emotional about that, but as soon as you get into dogsor work animals, people start getting real excited," he said.

Chapin's team has tested tiny video cameras strapped to wired ratsto see whether they might be used to transmit images and sounds ofpeople trapped inside ruins. But Chapin said the camera needs to berefined to compensate for the rodents' jerky movements, and the rats'backpack miniaturized to implant it beneath their skin.

The potential of using such implantable electrodes to controlhumans - which a Tulane University researcher tried during the 1960s,with unclear results - is something Chapin said he opposes sostrongly he believes it should be illegal.

Kate Rears, a policy analyst at the Electronic Privacy InformationCenter in Washington, said technological advances mean human-controltechnology can no longer be dismissed as far-fetched.

"I think that a lot of people are very wary of that sort of thingand understandably so," Rears said. "I don't think it's a sign ofparanoia to react against this because it is very odd. It's Brave NewWorldish."

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