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I Monday, September io, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
► IBR Seminar: Sponsored
by the Institute for Behavioral
Research, the Department of
Psychology & Psychology Clime.
Dr. Peter Giancola, University of
Kentucky, will give a presentation
titled ‘Akhol and Aggression:
Who’s at Risk and Why.” 10:30
a.m. - 1230 p.m. 141 Tate
Student Center. Contact 706-542-
6100,
sgary@uga.edu
>■ Emergency
Preparedness Display.
Sponsored by the Office of
Security and Emergency
Preparedness. September is
National Preparedness Month.
This display will include informa
tion on the UGAAIert emergency
notification system as well as
information on how to prepare for
emergencies. 11:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m. East Village Commons
Dining Hall. Contact 706-542-5845
► Genetics Seminar:
Sponsored by the Genetics
Department. Mary E. Case
Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Eric
Selker, University of Oregon, on
“DNA methylation and genome
defense in Neurospora crassa." 4
p.m. 8118 Life Sciences. Contact
706-542-8000
► Lecture: The Seeds of the
Great Rebellion: Anti-Semitism,
Roman Repression, Jewish
Recalcitrance or None of the
Above? Erich Gruen, Gladys
Rehard Wood Professor Emeritus
of History and Classics at the
University of California at
Berkeley, will address the question
of why, after the Jewish revolt
against Roman rule in 66 C.E., the
Romans used such extreme puni
tive measures against the Jews, in
view of their previous relations
with them. It includes an examina
tion of attitudes toward the Jews
in Juvenal, Tacitus and other Latin
authors. 4:40 p.m. 250 Student
Learning Center. Contact
706-542-2153,
nfelson@uga.edu
>• Film Screening: “Planet
Earth: The Future.” Sponsored by
Speak Out for Species and
Students for Environmental
Awareness. Featuring stunning
high-definition cinematography
and a global array of experts, the
film explores why so many spe
cies are threatened and how they
can be protected in the future.
2006, One hour. Film discussion
to follow. 7:30 p.m. 102 Student
Learning Center. Contact sos@
uga.edu,
www.uga.edu/sos
Tuesday
► Training: Basic HACCP for
Meat & Poultry Processors.
Sponsored by the Food Science
Extension. Two day, hands-on
HACCP training for meat and
poultry industry personnel meets
USDA training requirements and
is accredited by the International
HACCP Alliance. SSOO by Sept. 3,
2007.8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 242 Food
Science Building. Contact
706-542-2574, marianw@uga.edu,
www.EFSonline.uga.edu
>■ Lecture: artist David
Sandlin. Sponsored by the Lamar
Dodd School of Art and the
Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences. This lecture is part of
the Visiting Artist/Scholar Series.
5:30 p.m. 102 Student Learning
Center. Contact 706-542-1511,
artinfo@uga.edu
► R.E.A.L. Talks:
“What If God Were One of Us?”.
Sponsored by Multicultural
Services and Programs. An inter
faith discussion about different
religions and forms of worship,
including the similarities across
religions, as well as stereotypes or
misunderstandings regarding dif
ferent religions. 6 - 8 p.m. 407
Adinkra Hall In Memorial Hall.
Contact 706-542-5773,
sgoolsby@uga.edu
► GRE Test Taking
Strategy Session.
Sponsored by the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education. Learning
test-taking strategies and tips =
success. Pre-registration required.
6:30 - 8 p.m. The Georgia Center
for Continuing Education. Contact
Professional & Personal
Development 706-542-3537 or
www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd
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TB case provokes security awareness
WASHINGTON A con
gressional investigation
into officials’ inability to
stop a tuberculosis patient
from leaving the country
found significant security
gaps, heightening concern
about vulnerability to
potential cases of pan
demic flu or smallpox.
A report on the May
incident involving an
Atlanta lawyer who caused
an international health
scare found that the
Centers for Disease
Control lacks a sound way
to prevent someone infect
ed with a biological agent
from entering or leaving
the United States.
Salty burger sickens cop, jails worker
UNION CITY, Ga. A
McDonald’s employee spent a
night in jail and is facing criminal
charges because a police officer’s
burger was too salty so salty
that he says it made him sick.
Kendra Bull was arrested Friday,
charged with misdemeanor reck
less conduct and freed on SI,OOO
bail.
Bull, 20, said she accidentally
spilled salt on hamburger meat
and told her supervisor and a co
worker, who “tried to thump the
salt off.”
On her break, she ate a burger
made with the salty meat. “It
didn’t make me sick,” Bull told the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
But then Police Officer Wendell
Adams got a burger made with the
oversalted meat, and he returned a
short time later and told the man
ager it made him sick.
Bull admitted spilling salt on
the meat, and Adams took her out
side and questioned her, she said.
“If it was too salty, why did
(Adams) not take one bite and
throw it away?” said Bull.
Police said samples of the burg
er were sent to the state crime lab
for tests.
City public information officer
George Louth said Bull was
charged because she served the
burger “without regards to the
well-being of anyone who might
consume it.”
Racy Timberlake video
earns Emmy Award
LOS ANGELES An off-color
“Saturday Night Live” video featur
ing Justin Tynberlake and strategi
cally placed gift boxes was honored
at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
“Dick in a Box,” last December’s
fake music video performed by
Timberlake and “SNL” cast mem
ber Andy Samberg, is about wrap
ping a part of the male anatomy
and presenting it to a loved one as
a holiday present.
“I think it’s safe to say that
when we first set out to make this
song, we were all thinking ‘Emmy!’”
Samberg said in accepting the
Parents of missing British girl seen as suspects
CASTLE DONINGTON,
England A British cou
ple named as suspects in
the disappearance of their
4-year-old daughter
returned to England
Sunday, days after being
grilled by Portuguese
police about new forensic
evidence authorities
believe ties them to the
case.
Kate and Gerry
McCann, who have strong
ly denied any involvement
in the disappearance of
their daughter Madeleine,
flew from Faro in south
ern Portugal with their
2-year-old twins. The
father said the couple
wanwted “to consider the
events of the last few
days, which have been so
deeply disturbing.”
“While it is heartbreak
ing to return to the U.K.
without Madeleine, it does
not mean we are giving up
the search for her,” Gerry
McCann said on the air
port tarmac in central
England.
Friday, Portuguese
police named the
McCanns as suspects in
Madeleine’s May 3 disap
pearance, but did not
confiscate their passports
or restrict their move
ments.
Gerry McCann said he
and his wife returned
home “with the full agree
ment of the Portuguese
authorities and police.”
“We have played no
part in the disappearance
of our lovely daughter
Madeleine,” he added
before t.he family left for
The Wire
The review by the
House Homeland Security
Committee’s Democratic
staff was to be released
Monday, one day before
the sixth anniversary of
the 2001 terrorist attacks
against the U.S.
Since the Sept. 11
strikes, the government
has focused on all types of
possible threats and
sought to find ways to best
detect and counter biolog
ical agents.
“How we address these
gaps now will serve as a
direct predictor of how
well we will handle future
events, especially those
involving emerging, re
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THEO WARGO | Wireimagr.com
▲ Justin Timberlake enumerates the steps involved in giving
the perfect gift (“Step one: Cut a hole in the box") during a
performance of his hit song, “Dick in a Box.”
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
award Saturday for best original
music and lyrics.
The Creative Arts Emmys,
which recognize technical and
other achievements for the 2006-07
MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI | Associated Press
A Kate McCann, the mother of missing British
girl Madeleine McCann, arrives at the police
station in Portimao, southern Portugal, to be
questioned Friday.
WORLD
their home in the village
of Rothley, about 100
miles north of London.
The McCanns, who
have not been charged,
have said they would be
available to return to
Portugal for questioning if
needed.
Portuguese police
NEWS
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
emerging, and pandemic
infectious diseases,”
according to the report
obtained by The
Associated Press.
The committee chair
man, Rep. Bennie
Thompson, D-Miss.,
added: “If we can’t coun
ter TB, how can we coun
ter terrorism?”
The case involving
Andrew Speaker involved
a series of notification
delays and a lack of
streamlined reporting sys
tems, according to the
congressional report.
Speaker was able to fly
from Atlanta to Europe for
his wedding and honey
spokesman Olegario
Sousa told The Associated
Press the McCanns did
not need official authori
zation to travel because
they had provided
authorities with their
home address so that they
could be contacted.
“The investigation will
only end when we think
the case file is complete
and we hand our findings
to the Public Prosecutor,”
moon despite warnings
from public health offi
cials.
Once he was in Europe,
the CDC determined
Speaker could not be
transported back to the
U.S. because the agency
did not have the equip
ment to safely do so for a
flight longer than eight
hours.
The CDC asked the
Transportation Security
Administration to place
Speaker on its “no-fly” list
so he could not re-enter
the country. But there was
a four-hour delay between
the request- and the list
ing.
season, will air Sept. 15 on E!
Timberlake had a concert
scheduled in Tacoma, Wash. But
his tour takes him to Los Angeles
on Primetime Emmys night, raising
the possibility he could perform
“Box” at the ceremony.
Associated Press
who then decides whether
to drop the case or bring
charges,” he said
Prisoners may
never feel justice
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
After years of indefinite
confinement, many
detainees at Guantanamo
Bay say they feel they may
never receive justice,
according to transcripts
of hearings obtained by
The Associated Press.
Fewer than one in five of
detainees allowed a hear
ing last year even both
ered to show up for it.
The transcripts also
underscore that the U.S.
allegations against the
men are often as difficult
to substantiate as they
are for the detainees to
refute.
The military has
released a greater number
of detainees from
Guantanamo Bay than
the roughly 340 men who
are there today. As of
Sept. 6, the U.S. had
transferred or released
about 435 prisoners from
Guantanamo to more
than two dozen nations
since the detention center
opened in January 2002.
But last year, the
Administrative Review
Board panels determined
that 83 percent of the
detainees whose cases
they deliberated were too
dangerous to be sent
away.
Associated Press
Speaker got back into
the U.S. through Canada,
despite instructions to
Customs and Border
Patrol officers not to allow
him in. The 18-year veter
an inspector who ignored
the warning has retired.
“This was a real world
incident and there was a
breakdown at the inter
section of homeland secu
rity and public health,”
Thompson said. “The gov
ernment has numerous
plans and policies in place
to secure our communi
ties, but they just didn’t
follow the playbook.”
Associated Press
NATION
St. Louis
aids ‘aged
out’ fosters
ST. LOUIS Annica
Trotter knows firsthand
the challenges foster chil
dren face as they become
adults: She was already liv
ing on her own at age 18,
three years after turning
herself over to the state,
entering the foster care
system as a pregnant
15-year-old.
Trotter is now part of a
St. Louis-based program
that could serve as a
national model to ease the
transition from foster care
to independence. The St.
Louis Aging Out Initiative
focuses on young people in
state custody who don’t
have the resources needed
to make a smooth transi
tion to life on their own
once they “age out,” or are
legally emancipated from
the foster care system.
Without the program,
it’s estimated about half of
the foster children in the
St. Louis region who age
out become homeless at
some point. Less than half
have a high school diploma
or its equivalent, and about
80 percent of young women
who age out become preg
nant before 21, organizers
said.
The program aims to
help foster children before
they’re on their own.
“A lot of communities
nationally are struggling
with this,” said Curtis
Holloman, of the Robert
WoodJohnsonFoundation’s
Local Initiative Funding
Partners program. “How
do we make sure these
youth who live in so many
different families or at so
many different addresses
are healthy, productive
adults?”
Tropical Storm
Gabrielle hits N.C.
NAGS HEAD, N.C. Tropi
cal Storm Gabrielle swirled
Saturday toward North
Carolina’s Outer Banks,
but its promised rain and
high winds weren’t enough
to scare residents and va
cationers away from the
beach.
“When people hear
about tropical storms, they
assume houses are going to
fall in the ocean,” said Mar
got Jolly, a lifeguard with
Nags Heads Ocean Rescue.
“They shouldn’t overreact
like that. Just relax, stay in
side, and have a little hur
ricane party.”
Forecasters said
the storm was likely to
strengthen before clipping
the Outer Banks on Sunday
afternoon. Rain from the
storm’s outer bands began
falling in the area late Sat
urday night, but there were
no signs Gabrielle would
become a hurricane before
turning north and curving
back out into the Atlantic.
“It’s not going to be one
that will go down in the an
nals of the record books,”
said Michael Caropolo, a
forecaster with the Nation
al Weather Service in Wilm
ington.
Around 11 p.m. Satur
day, Gabrielle was centered
about 115 miles southeast
of Cape Lookout, N.C.,
moving northwest about
12 mph. The storm had top
sustained winds of about
40 mph, down slightly from
earlier in the day.
—Associated Press