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Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | The Red a Black
UGA TODAY
► A Taste of Home:
Sponsored by UGA Food
Services. The cooks prepare
menus featuring favorite recipes
sent to us by diners’ families.
Bolton, Oglethorpe, Snelling and
The Summit Dining Commons.
Contact: 706-542-1256
► Greenery Wreaths Making:
Sponsored by the State
Botanical Garden. Make a live
wreath to bring home. Members
$25, non-members $28.9 to 11
a.m. State Botanical Garden
Visitor Center Great Room.
Contact: 706-542-6156,
ckeber@uga.edu
► Interest Session: 2008-
2009 CA-RA-VCA. Sponsored by
the Department of University
Housing. The fifth and last session
for those interested in being a
C.L.A.S.S. Advocate (CA),
Resident Assistant (RA) or Village
Community Assistant (VCA). 10
a.m. Tate Center, Reception Hall.
Contact: 706-542-8191,
nelsonsc@uga.edu
► Blood Drive: Sponsored by
the American Red Cross. Noon
to 5 p.m. Main Library. Contact:
678-227-4650
► Genetics Seminar
Sponsored by the Genetics
Department Anna Karls,
Microbiology, on “A novel family of
DNA recombinases controlling
microbial adaptation and viru
lence.” 4 p.m. 8118 Davison Life
Sciences. Contact: 706-542-8000
► Open Studio: Life Drawing.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Museum of Art No instruction is
offered; participants must provide
their own supplies. No one under
18 is permitted. Ed and Phoebe
Forio Studio Classroom. $3.
5:30 p.m. Ed and Phoebe Forio
Studio Classroom. Contact: www.
uga.edu/gamuseum,
706-542-9078
Thursday
► Student Alumni Association
Membership Appreciation:
Sponsored by the Student
Alumni Association. Wear an
SAA T-shirt to receive pizza cou
pon and water bottle, professional
massages, Panera Bread food,
Jittery Joe’s Coffee, and a 20 per
cent discount and drawing for an
iPod at the UGA Bookstore.
Members must show their card.
Tate Plaza. Contact:
706;542-4802, jcheney@uga.edu
► Last day of classes for fall
semester.
► Cancelled meeting:
University Council. Due to lack
of agenda items, the University
Council meeting scheduled for
Dec. 6 hss been cancelled.
► Solo Seniors Thursday Night
Dinner Sponsored by the
Alumni Association.
SoIoSENIORS meet the first
Thursday of each month at
Athens-area restaurants for the
Thursday Night Dinner Series.
Harry Bissett’s. Mitchell Bridge
Road. Contact: 706-548-4811,
ncanolty@gmail.com
► Healthcare Provider ‘Save a
Life’ CPR Training: Sponsored
by University Health Center.
CPR training for students, faculty
and staff desiring health care pro
vider certification. This advanced
course for CPR on adults, children
and infants is SSO. Certified by the
American Heart Association. Class
size limited; register in advance at
706-542-8695.8:30 a.m. to Noon.
University Health Center.
► Candidate’s Open Forum:
Senior Vice President for
External Affairs. As part of their
campus visit, each finalist for the
position of Senior Vice President
for External Affairs will participate
in an open forum for deans to
which the entire campus communi
ty is invited. Today’s candidate is
Thomas S. Landrum, interim
senior vice president for external
affairs at the University of Georgia.
10:30 a.m. Larry Walker Room,
Rusk Hall fourth floor
► Meet the Candidate
Reception: The Georgia Review.
The University community is invit
ed to meet and greet Steve Corey,
acting editor of The Georgia
Review, who is one of three final
ists for the position of editor of The
Georgia Review. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Foyer, Joe Brown Hall. Contact:
706-542-1561
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Iran wants U.S. to stop sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran lran on
Tuesday touted anew U.S.
intelligence report as vindi
cation that its nuclear pro
gram is peaceful. But it was
unclear if the finding would
lead to any immediate
warming in U.S.-Iranian
relations, including on key
issues such as Iraq.
Iranian officials insisted
Washington should take a
less hawkish stance and
drop attempts to impose
new sanctions in light of
the report’s conclusion
that Iran stopped its nucle
ar weapons program in late
2003 and has shown no
signs of resuming.
President Bush ruled
out any change in policy.
He said sanctions still were
needed to force Iran to
stop uranium enrichment,
which he warned could be
used for building atomic
warheads someday. France
and Britain also said pres
sure must be maintained
on Tehran.
Even Russia, which
urges continued negotia
tions rather than more
sanctions, said Iran must
open its nuclear program
fully and keep it under con
trol of the U.N. atomic
watchdog agency.
Israeli Defense Minister
Ehud Barak, meanwhile,
disputed the y.S. conclu
sions, saying Israeli intelli
gence believes Iran is still
trying to develop nuclear
weapons.
Israel’s prime minister,
Ehud Olmert, said that “it
is vital to continue efforts
to prevent Iran from attain
ing (nuclear) capability.”
Israel is believed to have
its own arsenal of nuclear
weapons, the only stock
pile in the Mideast.
But Iran is hopeful the
summary of the National
Intelligence Estimate will
weaken the Western push
for new sanctions over
Tehran’s refusal to obey a
U.N. Security Council order
to suspend uranium enrich
ment.
“The U.S. and its allies
should accept nuclear
rights of the Iranian nation.
There is no other way, of
course,” President
Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad
said.
Associated Press
Iraq spending causes
controversies in D.C.
WASHINGTON President
George W. Bush and congres
sional Democrats are locked in
a struggle over Iraq spending,
with neither side budging and
each calculating that its argu
ment will be the one to reso
nate with voters.
For both sides, this rhetori
cal tug-of-war has become a
question of leadership on
national security issues and
who is more committed to the
troops.
“It’s unconscionable to deny
funds to our troops in harm’s
way because some in Congress
want to force a self-defeating
policy, especially when we’re
seeing the benefits of success,”
Bush said in a Rose Garden
speech on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid wasted no time in
responding.
“We could have already given
our troops what they need in
Iraq and funded our critical
needs at home if not for the
stubborn refusal of President
Bush and his Republican
enablers to work with us,” he
told reporters at a Capitol Hill
news conference.
The conflict could be on dis
play this week, if the Senate
revisits a SSO billion measure to
pay for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan but call for most
troops to come home by Dec.
15, 2008.
The bill is doomed since it
is identical to one blocked
last month by Senate
Republicans, who said
Democrats were trying to limit
military commanders’ flexibili
ty. The bill failed 53-45, falling
seven votes short of the 60
needed to overcome procedur
al hurdles.
But with Bush blaming
Democrats for failing to pro
vide money needed by the
troops, party leaders are on the
defensive and hoping to switch
the public message.
“Democrats want to work
with the president, yet he con
tinues to engage in the same
tired rhetoric that does not
serve the best interests of the
American people,” said House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
The Wire
Associated Press
▲ Motorcyclists drive past a large anti-U.S. mural on the side of a build
ing Tuesday in downtown Tehran, Iran. Anew U.S. intelligence report
Monday concluded that Iran’s nuclear weapons development program
has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pres
sure, representing a sharp turnaround from the previous intelligence
assessment in 2005.
NATION
Thousands of vaccines
ruined by negligence
DES MOINES, lowa Every
year, thousands of American
children go through the tearful,
teeth-gritting ordeal of getting
their vaccinations, only to be
forced to do it all over again.
The vaccines were duds, ruined
by poor refrigeration.
It is more than a source of
distress for parent and child. It
is a public health threat,
because youngsters given
under strength vaccines are
unprotected against dangerous
diseases. And it accounts for a
big part of the S2O million in
waste incurred by the federal
Vaccines for Children program.
“This is a substantial prob
lem that needs to be addressed
through prevention and, when
problems are discovered, often
times through revaccinations,”
said Dr. Lance Rodewald, direc
tor of immunization services at
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in Atlanta.
By CDC estimates, hun
dreds of thousands of doses of
vaccines against such diseases
as flu, diphtheria, tetanus,
whooping cough, polio, mumps,
measles, chicken pox and the
cervical cancer virus are thrown
out each year because of poor
refrigeration at clinics, hospi
tals and doctors’ offices.
In one recent case in Sioux
City, lowa, more than 1,000
families were notified by letter
and telephone that they need
ed to get their children revac
cinated. State officials found
that the refrigerator at the
clinic that administered the
shots repeatedly dropped
below freezing over a 17-month
period in 2005 and 2006, poten
tially ruining the vaccines
stored there.
“We just didn’t notice it,”
said Dr. Ray Sturdevant, presi
dent of the Prairie Pediatrics
and Adolescent Clinic.
Associated Press
NEWS
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Associated Press
▲ Award-winning singer-songwriter Garth Brooks puts his hat
back on Tuesday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
American History in Washington.
Smithsonian museum debuts
Garth Brooks memorabilia
WASHINGTON— Garth Brooks
brought his famous cowboy hat to
the Smithsonian Institution on
Tuesday as he donated mementos
from his singing career.
But once he finished signing
autographs and taking pictures, he
was more interested in seeing Patsy
Cline’s performance costume and
Ray Charles’ tuxedo.
Brooks’ trademark black Stetson
Tyler cowboy hat, a stage outfit of
Wrangler jeans and black cowboy
boots, and a guitar he smashed on
stage at a Dallas concert in 1991
will soon join the artifacts of other
musical greats at the “Treasures of
American History” exhibit.
“I see these things in here and all
I can think of is what the hell am I
doing here? It’s amazing,” Brooks
said. “Hopefully, time will answer
that question. It always does.”
Among the 10 items Brooks
donated are the first gold record
and cassette he received for his self
titled 1989 debut album, handwrit
ten lyrics from the song “Beaches of
Cheyenne” and the massive award
plaque he received this year as the
nation’s top-selling solo artist
having sold 123 million albums.
WORLD
Hundreds
of people
released
by Israel
RAMALLAH, West
Bank Palestinian
President Mahmoud
Abbas has closed 92 chari
ties linked to Hamas, offi
cials said Monday, part of
an intensifying West Bank
crackdown on the Islamic
militants who seized the
Gaza Strip and are chal
lenging renewed peace
talks with Israel.
Israel released 429
Palestinian prisoners to
try to bolster Abbas and
build on momentum from
last week’s Mideast peace
conference in Annapolis,
Md., where Abbas and
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert said they
would aim to reach a
peace deal in 2008.
Joy mixed with tears as
buses carrying the prison
ers, most from Abbas’
Fatah movement, rolled
into his walled headquar
ters in the West Bank city
of Ramallah. Many had
been arrested at the
height of the Palestinian
uprising several years ago
and were struggling with
the transition to anew
era of negotiations.
Ex-gunman Tareq Abu
Lail, 24, said he hoped for
peace but doubted he
would see success.
Sentenced to eight years,
he got out after three and
said he was proud of his
role in the uprising.
His father Yousef, 49,
disagreed.
“The uprising is dead,”
he said. The release, the
largest in three years, was
meant to boost Abbas,
who is trying to win over a
public skeptical about his
peace effort and beat back
challenges by Hamas.
Associated Press
NAMES & FACES
Dennis Quaid and wife
sue healthcare corp.
LOS ANGELES Dennis Quaid
and his wife sued the makers of
heparin Tuesday after their new
born twins were inadvertently given
massive doses of the blood thinner
at a hospital.
The product liability lawsuit
seeks more than $50,000 in damag
es. It claims that Baxter Healthcare
Corp. was negligent in packaging
different doses of the product in
similar vials with blue backgrounds.
The lawsuit also says the company
should have recalled the large-dos
age vials after overdoses killed
three children at an Indianapolis
hospital last year.
The lawsuit first was reported by
CelebTVcom
A call to Baxter Healthcare
Corp. seeking comment wasn’t
immediately returned.
Associated Press