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Tuesday, September 4, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
► Heartsaver “Save a Life’
CPR Training; Sponsored by
University Health Center.
General CPR training for
students, faculty and staff.
Training for CPR on adults is
$25. The course for CPR on
adults, children and infants is
S4O. Certified by the American
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706-542-8695. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
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► Volleyball vs. USC Upstate.
7 p.m. Ramsey Student Center
► Faculty Recital: Violoncello
and Piano. Sponsored by the
Hugh Hodgson School of Music.
David Starkweather on violoncel
lo and Evgeny Rivkin on piano.
8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall.
Contact 706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu
>- Get Smart Month:
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Academic Team, the Division
of Academic Enhancement,
the Franklin College and the
Department of University
Housing. A month filled with
academic events in the residence
halls that includes various pro
grams such as Exploring Majors,
Interacting with Professors and
Pre-Professional Panels. Events
count as Blue Card events for
students participating in
Franklin’s Blue Card program. All
students are invited. Through
Thursday, Sept. 27. Brumby,
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Wednesday
>- Information Technology
Compact Planning: Faculty/
Staff Session 1. Sponsored by
The Office of the CIO and
Associate Provost and EITS.
UGA faculty and staff may assist
the Office of the Chief
Information Officer and EITS plan
for UGA’s future in the area of
information technology. Compact
Planning is a customer-driven
process providing an opportunity
to identify high-priority initiatives
that are negotiated and result in
an agreement between service
providers and their consumers.
Areas under discussion include
wireless networking, classroom
technology and course manage
ment systems, computer security,
high-performance computing,
and technology to support out
reach across the state and
beyond. 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Georgia Center Room R. Contact
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CHARLES CftfARAPAK | Associated Press
a President George W. Bush is embraced by a soldier as he greets troops at Al-Asad Airbase
in Anbar province, Iraq on Monday. The president made an unannounced visit to Iraq.
Bush looks to withdraw troops
AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq
President George W. Bush, briefed
by U.S. military commanders and
Iraqi leaders, said Monday some
American forces could be sent home
if security across Iraq improves as it
has in Anbar province.
But the president, flanked by
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
and Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, did not say how many troops
could be withdrawn or how soon.
Despite intense pressure at home
for cutbacks, Bush said decisions
about troop levels “will be based on
a calm assessment by our military
commanders on the conditions on
the ground not a nervous reac
tion by Washington politicians to
poll results in the media.
“In other words,” the president
told cheering troops, “when we
begin to draw down troops from
Iraq it will be from a position of
Panama Canal expands to ‘double capacity"
PANAMA CITY, Panama
Panama blasted away
part of a hillside next to
the canal on Monday,
marking the start of the
waterway’s biggest expan
sion since it opened 93
years ago.
In the presence of for
mer President Jimmy
Carter, who signed the
1977 treaty that gave
Panama control of the
waterway, Panamanian
President Martin Torrijos
celebrated the start of
construction on two wider
sets of locks being added
to both sides of the canal.
The $5.25 billion expan
sion is expected to double
the 50-mile canal’s capaci
ty and lower the price of
consumer goods on the
The Wire
strength and success not from a
position of fear and failure.”
Bush traveled secretly from
Washington to this dusty base,
about 120 miles west of Baghdad.
Gates said the administration is
looking ahead several months to
assess whether security improve
ments across Iraq are sufficient to
enable Bush to start withdrawing
troops. He provided no details on
Bush’s thinking about the timing
and scope of any reductions.
Bush met with Gen. David
Petraeus, the top U.S. commander
in Iraq, and U.S. ambassador to
Baghdad Ryan Crocker, who are tes
tifying to Congress next week assess
ing the president’s troop buildup.
“Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador
Crocker tell me if the kind of suc
cess we’re now seeing continues, it
will be possible to maintain the
same level of security with fewer
East Coast of the United
States. About two-thirds
of the cargo that passed
through the canal is head
ed to or from the U.S.
The waterway now
moves 4 percent of the
world’s cargo. The new
locks are expected to be
ready for use between 2014
and 2015.
The Panama Canal
Authority, the autono
mous government agency
that rims the canal, is bor
rowing up to $2.3 billion
between 2009 and 2011 to
help finance the project. It
expects to pay that back
by increasing ship tolls an
average of 3.5 percent a
year.
Associated Press
NEWS
WORLD
ARNULFO FRANCO | Associated Press
▲ People hold Panama’s national flag at a
ceremony marking the beginning of the
Panama Canal expansion project on Monday.
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THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
.American forces,” Bush said.
He urged Congress to wait until
they hear testimony from Crocker
and Petraeus next week and see a
White House progress report due by
Sept. 15 before judging the result of
his decision to send an extra 30,000
troops to Iraq.
“I urge members of both parties
in Congress to listen to what they
have to say,” he said. “We shouldn’t
jump to conclusions until the gen
eral and the ambassador report.”
Bush talked here with Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other
top government officials from Bagh
dad. He urged the government to
respond to progress in Anbar where
violence has abated after Sunni trib
al leaders and former insurgents
teamed up with U.S. troops to hunt
down al-Qaida and other extremists.
Associated Press
NATION
Hunters’
numbers
see mass
decrease
Hunters remain a power
ful force in American soci
ety, as evidenced by the
presidential candidates who
routinely pay them homage,
but their ranks are shrink
ing dramatically and wildlife
agencies worry increasingly
about the loss of sorely
needed license-fee revenue.
New figures from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service show the number
of hunters ages 16 and
older declined by 10 per
cent between 1996 and 2006
from 14 million to about
12.5 million. The drop was
most acute in New England,
the Rocky Mountains, and
the Pacific states, which
lost 400,000 hunters.
The primary reasons,
experts say, are the loss of
hunting land to urbaniza
tion plus a perception by
many families that they
can’t afford the time or
costs that hunting entails.
“To recruit new hunters,
it takes hunting families,”
said Gregg Patterson of
Ducks Unlimited. “I was
introduced to it by my
father, he was introduced
to it by his father. When
you have boys and girls
without a hunter in the
household, it’s tough to
give them the experience.”
Some animal-welfare
activists welcome the trend,
noting that it coincides
with a 13 percent increase
in wildlife watching since
1996. But hunters and state
wildlife agencies, as they
prepare for hunting season,
say the drop is worrisome.
“It’s hunters who are the
most willing to give their
own dollar for wildlife con
servation,” Patterson said.
Associated Press
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Tour bikers
a ‘special
breed’ with
large hearts
VIENNA, Austria
Riding the grueling Tour
de France bike race takes
strength, stamina —and
perhaps a heart nearly 40
percent bigger than nor
mal.
Researchers who exam
ined the hearts of former
Tour bikers found that the
athletes’ hearts were from
20 to 40 percent larger
than average, said Dr.
Francois Carre of the
Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire de Rennes,
France, speaking at a
meeting of the European
Society of Cardiology.
The difference is attrib
utable largely to rigorous
training that expands the
cyclists’ hearts. But
researchers have not yet
determined whether the
athletes’ hearts were larger
to begin with.
“They are a special
breed,” said Dr. Richard
Becker, a professor of med
icine at Duke University
and spokesman for the
American Heart
Association. Becker was
not connected to Carre’s
study.
Associated Press