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2 I Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Open Studio Life
Drawing. Sponsored by the
Georgia Museum of Art. No
instruction is offered; partici
pants must provide their own
supplies. Cost: $3 for cost of
model. 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM.
Ed and Phoebe Forio Studio
Classroom. Contact
706-542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum.
>• Sneak Preview:
“Pursuit of Happyness.”
8 p.m. Tate Theater. Sponsor:
University Union. Passes
available at the Tate Cashier's
window day of event. Contact:
jillt@uga.edu, 706-542-6396.
>- Taste of Home. Bolton,
Snelling, Oglethorpe and The
Summit. Sponsor: UGA Food
Services. At breakfast, lunch
and dinner dining commons at
the University will feature
numerous items prepared
from recipes sent from
parents. Contact:
lisacl @uga.edu,
www.uga.edu/foodservice.
>- An Elizabethan
Christmas: A Christmas
Madrigal Choral
Performance. 12:15 -
1:15 p.m. Tate Student Center
Reception Flail. Sponsor:
Christian Faculty Forum. The
Just Theater, an ensemble of
UGA and Athens area
performers, will sing
Christmas Carols from the
Elizabethan era, dressed in
authentic period costumes.
Contact: bhager@clm.org,
jhager@clm.org,
706-340-6344.
>■ Contemporary Chamber
Ensemble Concert. 8 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Flail.
Sponsor: Flugh Flodgson
School of Music. Contact:
706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu.
Thursday
>- University Council
Meeting. 3:30 p.m. 171
Student Learning Center.
Contact:
http://regapp.reg.uga.edu/web
/committees/index. php?page=
menu.
Friday
>- Behind the Scenes:
High Tech at the Garden.
9:30 a.m. Callaway Building,
State Botanical Garden.
Speaker: James Gilstrap will
explain the new wireless
cloud and what it means to
garden visitors. Contact:
sgbevent@uga.edu,
706-542-6014.
>- Philharmonia. Sponsor:
Flugh Hodgson School of
Music. 8 p.m. Hodgson
Concert Hall. Contact:
706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu.
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THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
New York restaurants
face ban on trans fats
NEW YORK — New York
on Tuesday became the first
city in the nation to ban
artery-clogging trans fats at
restaurants, leading the
charge to limit consumption
of an ingredient linked to
heart disease and used in
everything from french fries
to pizza dough to pancake
mix.
In a city where eating out
is a major form of activity —
either for fun or out of hectic
necessity — many New
Yorkers were all for the ban,
saying that health concerns
were more important than
fears of Big Brother supervis
ing their stomachs.
“It’s basically a slow form
of poison,” says David Katz,
director of the Yale
Prevention Research Center.
“I applaud New York City and
frankly, I think there should
be a nationwide ban.”
Not everyone agrees with
Katz — he’s gotten angry e-
mails calling him and col
leagues the “food police” and
saying, “If I want to eat trans
fats, that’s my inalienable
right.”
Some industry representa
tives were not happy. E.
Charles Hunt, executive vice
president of the New York
State Restaurant
Association, said the city had
overstepped its authority by
ordering restaurants to aban
don an ingredient permitted
by the FDA.
The Board of Health,
which passed the ban unani
mously, did give restaurants a
minor break by relaxing the
proposed deadline.
Restaurants will now be
barred from using most fry
ing oils containing trans fats
by July 2007 and will have
another year to eliminate
DIMA GAVRYSH | Associated Press
▲ H. Kenneth Woods, chef and owner of Sylvia’s restau
rant, cooks Southern fried chicken using a soy bean oil
that doesn’t contain trans fats.
trans fats from all foods.
The ban, which was advo
cated by health-conscious
Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
follows a national require
ment beginning this past
January that companies list
trans-fat content. Efforts are
also being made to reduce
the trans-fat content in
school vending machines.
— Associated Press
Gates admits U.S. not winning
Iraq war, gains panel approval
WASHINGTON — Robert
Gates won approval by a
Senate panel Tuesday to be
the next defense secretary
after telling the senators the
U.S. is not winning the war in
Iraq and there could be a
“regional conflagration” if the
country is not stabilized.
At a Senate confirmation
hearing that was long on
praise for Gates and short on
criticism, the man President
Bush picked to replace
Donald H. Rumsfeld said he
is open to new ideas about
correcting the U.S. course in
Iraq. He said the war would
be his highest priority if con
firmed as expected.
A vote by the full Senate
could come Wednesday and is
virtually certain by week’s
end.
In a closed-door meeting
following five hours of open
testimony, the Senate Armed
Services Committee voted
21-0 to recommend approval
of Gates’ nomination, said
panel chairman John Warner,
R-Va.
If confirmed, Gates said,
he planned to visit U.S. com
manders and troops in Iraq
“quite soon.”
Gates, 63, said he believes
Bush wants to see Iraq
improve to the point where it
NATIONAL
can govern and defend itself
and that may require a new
approach. “What we are now
doing is not satisfactory,”
Gates said.
“In my view, all options are
on the table in terms of how
we address this problem in
Iraq,” he said. He did not
commit to any specific new
course, saying he would con
sult first with commanders
and others.
Asked directly by Sen.
Carl Levin, D-Mich., whether
the U.S. is winning in Iraq,
Gates replied, “No, sir.” He
later said he believes the
United States is neither win
ning nor losing “at this
point.”
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convicted sex offenders, the
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sexual predators and other
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MySpace is partnering
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Parents, school adminis
trators and law-enforcement
authorities have grown
increasingly worried that
teens are at risk on MySpace
and other social-networking
sites, which provide tools
for messaging, sharing pho
tos and creating personal
pages.
About 12 percent of
MySpace’s visitors in
October were under 18,
according to comScore
Media Metrix. The tracking
company counts Americans
who visits the site at least
once in a given month, so the
proportion of teens may
actually be higher based on
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The aim of such sites is for
users to expand their circles
of friends — and critics say
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RICK RYCROFT | Associated Press
▲ Fijian military troops are protested as the military
blockades the entrance to Prime Minister Laisenia
Qarase’s residence Tuesday.
Fiji government
upended in coup
SUVA, Fiji — Fiji’s mili
tary overthrew the elected
government Tuesday after
weeks of threats, locking
down the capital and putting
the prime minister under
house arrest in the fourth
coup in the South Pacific
country in 19 years.
Commodore Frank
Bainimarama, the armed
forces chief credited with
resolving Fiji’s last coup,
announced in a nationally
broadcast statement that,
“As of 6 o’clock this evening,
the military has taken over
the government, has execu
tive authority and the run
ning of this country.”
The takeover, like the pre
vious three coups, has its
roots in the ethnic divide
between the descendants of
ancient Melanesian warrior
tribes and those of Indian
laborers brought by former
colonial power Britain to
work in sugar plantations.
In his declaration,
Bainimarama justified seiz
ing power to prevent legisla
tion that favored indigenous
Fijians, contending the
measures “would undermine
the constitution and deny
many citizens their rights.”
Bainimarama said he had
assumed some powers of the
president and was using
them to dismiss Prime
Minister Laisenia Qarase. In
the 2000 coup, Bainimarama
set up an interim govern
ment and hand-picked
Qarase, a former banker, to
lead it.
Bainimarama named Dr.
Jona Senilagakali, a military
medic with no political expe
rience, as caretaker prime
minister and said a full inter
im government would be
appointed next week to see
the country through elec
tions that would restore
democracy in the future.
WORLD
U.N. Iran resolution
still unreachable
PARIS — Six world
powers made “substantive
progress” but failed to
reach an accord on a U.N.
resolution to punish Iran for
its nuclear program, the
French Foreign Ministry
said after talks in Paris
Tuesday.
“We made substantive
progress on the scope of the
sanctions targeting prolifer
ation-sensitive activities.
There remain several out
standing issues, upon which
we will reflect over the com
ing days,” the ministry said
in a statement.
“We are now close to
a conclusion of this process.”
The talks brought togeth
er diplomats from the United
States, Britain, China,
France and Russia — the
permanent members of the
U.N. Security Council — as
well as Germany and
a representative of EU for
eign policy chief Javier
Solana.
They were divided, how
ever, over how to punish
Iran’s defiance of U.N.
demands to stop its nuclear
program, and faced a new
threat from Tehran of retali
ation if they opted for sanc
tions.
The United States and
France have expressed hope
that the Paris talks would
secure agreement for impos
ing sanctions against Iran.
But Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said
earlier that imposing wide-
ranging sanctions would be
“irresponsible.”
— Associated Press
Farrah Fawcett finishes
chemotherapy, recovering
LOS ANGELES — Farrah
Fawcett has completed can
cer treatment and is doing
well, her publicist said
Tuesday.
Fawcett, 59, who starred
on the ’70s TV series
“Charlie’s Angels,” wrapped
up several weeks of treat
ment last week after being
diagnosed recently with the
disease and going through
chemotherapy, said publicist
Mike Pingel.
“Her spirits are high,
she’s feeling good,” he said.
“Her plans are to recover
and take the time to heal,
and she’s also looking for
ward to the holidays with
her family.”
NAMES & FACES
Pingel wouldn’t disclose
the type of cancer Fawcett
was treated for, but said her
prognosis was good.
Ryan O’Neal, who has a
21-year-old son, Redmond,
with Fawcett, told People
magazine in October that
she had anal cancer.
The actress is busy with
her Web site, which touts a
“Fight the Fight” T-shirt to
raise money for the
American Cancer Society as
well as the “All of Me” DVD
of her Playboy pictorials.
— Associated Press
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