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2A I Friday, September i, 2006 | The Red & Black NEWS UGA TODAY >■ Ecology Seminar. “Invasive Plant Impacts on Wildlife: A Search for Generalities.” Noon. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Ecology Auditorium. Sponsor: Institute of Ecology. Contact: anisaj@uga.edu ► “First Friday Pep Rally”. Stegeman Coliseum. 5:30 - 7 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. Sponsor: UGA Alumni Association. Cost: free. The first 1,000 fans receive a com memorative t-shirt. Saturday >- Fall Bird Rambles. 8-11 a.m. Orange Trail Kiosk near the upper parking lot of the State Botanical Garden. Contact sbgeduc@uga.edu, (706) 542-6156. >- Nuci’s Space Benefit Cookout with live music by local musicians. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Earth Fare. Cost: $5 grilled lunch plate to support Nugi’s Space. > Grafica Mexicana Exhibition. Through Sunday, Oct. 29. Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsor: Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation. Prints from mid-1940s Mexico. Contact (706) 542-4662, www.uga.edu/gamuseum Sunday >- Taped rebroadcast: Congressional Field Hearing on Agroterrorism. 4 and 8 p.m. On University Cablevision, Channel 15. “Agroterrorism's Perfect Storm: Where Human and Animal Diseases Collide.” Monday >- Labor Day. No school Tuesday > Tsunami Photo Exhibition. “Rebuilding Homes, Renewing Spirits.” Through Sept. 14. Sponsor: UGA Habitat for Humanity. Tate Student Center, rm. 309. Contact: ugahabitat@hotmail.com >- Art Lecture. 6:30 - 8 p.m. Main Gallery, 116 Visual Arts Bldg. Sponsor: Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. “Sheets in the Wind,” an installation by Nell Ruby. Contact (706) 542-1511, artin- fo@uga.edu ► Power to the People! Film Series. 7:00 p.m. Athens-Clarke County Public Library Auditorium. Sponsor: Richard B. Russell Library, Walter J. Brown Media Archives. “National Recovery Administration Promotion.” Contact: (706) 542-5788, rtuten@uga.edu >- Comedian: Godfrey. 8 p.m. Georgia Hall. Sponsor: University Union. Cost: $5 Pre-show, $7 Day of Show for UGA Students; $12 Pre-show, $14 Day of show for non-stu dents. Contact: 706-542- 6396, mlamotte@uga.edu Wednesday >- The UGA Volunteer Fair. 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Tate Plaza. Sponsor: Volunteer UGA and the Center for Leadership and Service. Contact: 706-583-0830, acbeale@uga.edu >- CURO Information Session. 11 a.m. 203 Moore College. Sponsor: CURO Office. Contact: rcheney@uga.edu, (706) 542- 4053 — Please submit items for UGA Today in writing to ugatoday@randb.com two days before the date to run. Items are published on a first come, first serve basis. CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is committed to journalis tic excellence and pro viding the most accu rate news possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it. Editor-in-Chief: David Pittman (706) 433-3027 dpittman@randb.com Managing Editor: Lyndsay Hoban (706) 433-3026 lhoban@randb.com TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD Israel turns over Lebanese border area Q ANDERS WIKLUND | Associated Press A Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fund Siniora, right, and Sweden’s Minister of International Development Carin Jamtin, left, at a press conference at Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. JERUSALEM — The Israeli army has turned over a small border area in southern Lebanon to Lebanese and international troops, military officials said Thursday, a sym bolic move meant to pave the way for a heavily armed U.N. peacekeeping force to move into the volatile area. The pullback came as an international donors confer ence in Sweden pledged near ly $1 billion to help Lebanon rebuild, after the country’s prime minister told the gath ering that Israel’s war with Hezbollah wiped out “15 years of postwar develop ment.” Israel sent up to 30,000 sol diers into Lebanon during the 34-day war, and when the fighting ended they occu pied a zone extending about 10 miles north from the bor der. Since the U.N.-brokered cease-fire took effect Aug. 14, Israel has been slowly trans ferring control of the area to Lebanese troops, who will be bolstered by U.N. troops equipped with tanks, how itzers and other heavy weapons not usually seen with a peacekeeping force. The armament is meant to deter all parties from resum ing the conflict and particu larly is seen as a warning to the Shiite militants of Hezbollah, who effectively ran southern Lebanon for two decades and used it as a base to launch sporadic attacks on Israel. $940M pledged to rebuild Lebanon STOCKHOLM, Sweden — World donors on Thursday pledged more than $940 mil lion for early reconstruction efforts in Lebanon and many called on Israel to lift a block ade of the country. The amount was nearly double the $500 million that organizers of the donors’ con ference had requested to help Lebanon recover from weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas. Adding previous pledges and commitments for longer- term reconstruction projects, organizers said a total of $1.2 billion had been promised to help Lebanon back on its feet. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora thanked the 60 governments and aid organi zations attending the confer ence for their contributions. Major pledges included $175 million from the United States and $54 million from the European Union. The U.S. figure was part of the $230 million offered by President Bush last week, organizers said. The prime minister reject ed suggestions that the aid money would trickle down to Hezbollah and strengthen its position in southern Lebanon. — Associated Press Iran refuses U.N. uranium enrichment deadline STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM | Associated Press ▲ Gro Bala, chair of the Munch Museum board, left, and colleague Jorunn Chrisoffersen in Oslo, Norway, after police announced the recovery of ‘The Scream’ and ‘Madonna’. TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president defiantly refused to compromise as a U.N. dead line for his country to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday, saying Tehran won’t be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear tech nology. President Bush said “there must be consequences” for Tehran, adding that “the world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran.” The U.N. nuclear watch dog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran showed no signs of freezing enrichment, adding that Tehran started work on a new batch Aug. 24. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the U.N. Security Council must be ready to impose sanctions. He added, however, that it will wait to take action until the European Union’s foreign pol icy chief, Javier Solana, meets with Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Larijani, sometime next week. Iran’s refusal to cooperate fully with the IAEA and its WORLD continued development of nuclear technology leaves no doubt that it is seeking a nuclear bomb, Bolton told reporters. Iran contends its program is for peaceful pur poses. Police recover two Munch paintings OSLO, Norway — Two years after the brazen day light theft of national artistic treasures from an Oslo muse um, police announced Thursday they recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces “The Scream” and “Madonna.” Art lovers had feared the priceless paintings were gone for good. Norwegian news media spent the months speculating about the works’ fate — whether they had been burned to escape the police hunt, sold to a wealthy collec tor for private viewing or suf fered harm in their hiding place. “The Scream” is probably the best known work in Munch’s emotionally charged style, which was a major influence in the birth of the Expressionist movement. Stensrud, the police inspector, said authorities believed the paintings had been in Norway the whole time. Hurricane John hits Mexican beaches PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Hurricane John churned along Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Thursday, lashing beaches with winds and rain but staying just far enough offshore to prevent major damage. The storm was expected to make a direct hit Friday in the resorts of Los Cabos, where government officials rushed to prepare. Fifteen shelters to house up to 15,000 people were being opened in Cabo San Lucas and officials were stocking up on water and food, but no evacuations have been ordered, said Red Cross spokeswoman Teresa Ortiz. By midday, the Category 3 hurricane was centered about 100 miles southwest of Puerto Vallarta, and a hurricane warning was still in effect for a 300-mile stretch of coast from the port of Manzanillo to the fishing and shipping community of San Bias. Puerto Vallarta was included in the warning area. The warning also included Cabo San Lucas’ twin resort town of San Jose del Cabo. — Associated Press Village People policeman to enter drug rehab SAN DIEGO — Victor Willis, the original policeman in the ’70s disco band The Village People, plans to enter a treatment program follow ing his no contest plea to drug possession charges, his publicist said. Willis, 54, was arrested in March in South San Francisco after police stopped his car and found cocaine and drug parapher nalia. Willis, who co-wrote the hits “Macho Man,” “YMCA” and “In the Navy,” left The Village People in 1980. PAUL SAKUMA | Associated Press A Victor Willis, the original policeman from the Village People, is escorted into a San Mateo courtroom. NAMES & FACES handed music players to help keep their spirits up. When Grohl heard Webb requested that Foo Fighters music be downloaded onto the player, he sent a message of support — and offered to buy them a cold beer. Foo Fighters singer Identity thieves buy to buy miners beer Streisand tickets SYDNEY, Australia — Dave Grohl says he plans to make good on an offer to buy beers for two miners who lis tened to his band, the Foo Fighters, while buried under ground for two weeks. Grohl said he will catch up with the two men when the band tours Australia in October. Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, spent two weeks trapped underground when the mine they were working in at Beaconsfield in Australia’s southern Tasmania state collapsed in May. As rescuers dug an escape tunnel, the pair were LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of stolen credit card numbers were used to purchase more than 1,000 Barbra Streisand concert tickets that were offered for sale on the Internet, Ticketmaster officials said. The company Tuesday invalidated the tickets pur chased with the stolen credit card numbers. Cities hosting shows with canceled tickets include Philadelphia; New York; Washington; Sunrise, Fla.; Auburn Hills, Mich.; Chicago; Atlanta; Las Vegas; and Atlantic City, N.J. — Associated Press CDC report: Youths targeted by radio alcohol advertising MIC SMITH | Associated Press A Glenn Orr braves the wind and rain as he walks down the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Thursday. ATLANTA — About half of the alcohol advertising on radio is aired during youth- oriented programs, accord ing to a new study that sug gests beer and liquor com panies are not abiding by a self-imposed ban on adver tising to teens. The report was released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the first to assess alcohol radio advertising since 2003, when the alcohol industry vowed to no longer run ads on radio programs in which 30 percent or more of the audience is under 21. Industry officials criti cized the report. They noted the figures were collected in the summer 2004, less than a year after the industry’s code was instituted, and said some long-standing advertising contracts had not yet expired. A radio program was con sidered to be “youth-orient ed” if the youth audience was larger than the percent age of youth in that market’s population. Some brands violated the standard more than others. Among beers, Colt 45 Malt Liquor topped the list, with 87 percent of its ads on pro grams exceeding the 30 per cent threshold. Nearly 1,100 Colt 45 Malt Liquor spots were run during such pro grams. Hurricane watch issued for Carolinas WILMINGTON, N.C. — Forecasters issued a hurri cane watch for the Carolina coasts Thursday as Tropical NATIONAL Storm Ernesto neared hurri cane strength in the Atlantic. The watch, stretching from South Carolina’s Santee River to Cape Lookout in North Carolina, means hurricane conditions with sustained winds of at least 74 mph were possible within 12 hours. Ernesto had been down graded to a tropical depres sion over Florida but gained strength and was upgraded as it moved over the Atlantic. By Thursday morning, its outer bands reached the South Carolina coast, and its sustained winds were nearing hurricane strength at 70 mph by mid-afternoon, according the National Hurricane Center. NASA reschedules Atlantis launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After a week of weather delays, NASA officials on Thursday set a Wednesday launch time for space shut tle Atlantis on its mission to resume construction of the international space station. The launch decision was made after a check of Kennedy Space Center fol lowing Ernesto’s pass as a tropical depression on Wednesday found no serious damage. Atlantis’ six astronauts, who flew in their training jets back to Houston earlier this week, planned to return to Florida Saturday morning. The countdown was set to begin Sunday morning. — Associated Press