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2 I Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | The Red & Black NEWS 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. — Please send submissions for UGAToday to ugatoday @ randb. com. Listings are published on a first-come-first-serve basis as space permits. 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 c Wire TOP STORIES FROM AROUND 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.” MySpace to restrict sexual offenders NEED A NEW PLACE TO STUDY? • f. nu51 s space Come in and have Qoffee on us! • Full-Service Coffee Bar • Internet Access • Good Alternative to the SLC or Your Apartment We’re on the corner of Oconee and Williams street - right next to the Steeple. 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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 time spent. The aim of such sites is for users to expand their circles of friends — and critics say those circles sometimes come to include sexual pred ators. Wired News said a recent investigation turned up hundreds of profiles for convicted sex offenders. — Associated Press $1815 PHILIP STEIN" JEWELERS T E S L A R ' Downtown Athens 706-543-3473 Mon.-Sat, 10am-5:30pm Experience the Teslar Effect and let yourself feel more relaxed, more rested and less tense. Try it. Wear it. Live it. Feel it. O Tali/ hsde CerpooDon 2006. M r<ra nstnei ■ www phneamsyrcom 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. 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