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2 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 Heart Association. Class size limited; register in advance at 706-542-8695. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. University Health Center ► 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: Sponsored by High Rise 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, Russell, and Creswell Halls. Contact 706-583-0403, tvenus@uga.edu 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 706-338-9849, bert@uga.edu - Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings 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. 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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. Experienced Defense ATTORNi’HI DU! • MIP/UPA ALL CRIMES |1 Slider & Gonzalez, Lira 706-353-3303,® WE DELIVER - ALL XXK£ EVEEY XXZQT MEXICALI BEST CHEESE DIP MARGARITAS IN TOWN —— The Bar @ Open til 2 am 610 bo! i b* of, wine on Tuesday wine on Wednesday Call for nightly specials 706-546-9378 • 351 E Broad St. Athens, GA ' TOP STORIES FROM AROUND 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