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Thursday, Janiiakv io, 2008 | Thk Red a Black
UGA TODAY
► Maymester Study Abroad
in Vietnam information meet
ing. Graduate and undergradu
ate students from all majors are
welcome to participate. 4 p.m. to
5 p.m. Tucker Hall Lobby (School
of Social Work). For more infor
mation, contact Dr. Jenny
Manders at jmanders@uga edu.
► New Rower Interest
Meetings. Try anew thing this
spring! Check out UGA Crew and
see if you are interested in trying
out for a national championship
team. No experience required
°oen to men and women. 8 p.m.
SLC 101 www.ugacrew.org.
► Lambda Phi Epsilon
Fraternity, Inc. Cookout Meet
the brothers of the nation's larg
est Asian-interest fraternity while
enjoying free hamburgers and
hotdogs 4 p.m. Myers Quad
Contact Paul Chinratana
770-317-4813,
paulss3s@uga.edu
► Guided Tour Redefining
the Modern Landscape in
Europe and America, ca.
1920-1940. Sponsored by the
Georgia Museum of Art. 2 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art. Contact;
collard|@uga.edu.
► Healthcare Provider ‘Save
a Life’ CPR Training.
Sponsored by University Health
Center. CPR training for stu
dents, faculty and staff desiring
healthcare provider certification.
This advanced course for CPR
on adults, children and infants is
SSO Certified by the American
Heart Association. 5 p m. to 8 30
p.m. University Health Center
Class size limited; register in
advance at 706-542-8695
► Women's Basketball vs. Ole
Miss. 7 p.m. Stegeman
Coliseum.
► 2nd Thursday Concert
Series: Tete a Tete with the
Masters. Sponsored by the
Hugh Hodgson Schooi of Music
The UGA Woodwind and String
Faculty perform Beethoven's
Octet for Winds. Glazunov's
Saxophone Quartet, and Spohr's
Nonet Tickets are sls/$7 for
students with a valid UGA ID. To
purchase tickets, please contact
that Performing Arts Center Box
Office at 706-542-4400 8 p.m
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.
Performing Arts Center. Contact.
jpowell@uga.edu.
www music.uga.edu
Friday, January 11
► Blood Drive. Sponsored by
the American Red Cross 10 am.
to 3 p.m. Main Library. Contact:
678-227-4650
► Campus Coffee Hour.
Sponsored by International
Student Life. 11 30 am.to 1 30
p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom
Contact 706-542-7911
► Swimming and Diving vs.
University of Texas. 2 p.m
Austin. Texas.
► Meeting: Curriculum
Committee of the University
Council. 3 p m. Peabody Board
Room Contact: 706-542-6358.
tstone@uga.edu.
► Meeting: Alumni
Association Executive
Committee. 3pm Hodgson Oil
Building. Public Affairs confer
ence room Contact:
www alumni. uga edu/alumm
► Observatory Telescope
Public Viewing. The 24-inch
telescope at the UGA
Observatory is open tonight for
public viewing If it is cloudy,
there will be a talk titled “Pluto's
New Family: The Kuiper Belt
Objects ’ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Physics Building Roof Contact:
706-542-2870.
jss@hal.physast.uga.edu.
► Harp Performance:
Emmanuel Ceysson. Sponsored
by the Performing Arts Center
Tickets $lB 8 p.m. Ramsey
Concert Hall. Contact:
706-542-4400.
www uga edu/pac
► Ice Dogs vs. Tennessee. 10
p.m Atlanta Ice Forum, Duluth.
Contact: 706-410-2535
www ugahockey com.
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Bush safeguards U.S. Navy ships
JERUSALEM President George W. Bush
warned Iran of “serious consequences" if it
meddles again with U S. warships in the Persian
Gulf, opening a Mideast peacemaking mission
Wednesday on an ominous note. He told Israel
to dismantle unauthorized settlement outposts
and demanded that the Palestinians halt rocket
attacks from areas controlled by Hamas Islamic
militants.
Bush, on his first visit as president to Israel,
acknowledged widespread doubts about wheth
er he can break through decades of distrust to
achieve his goal of a major peace agreement by
the end of his presidency in January, 2009.
“I'm under no illusions," Bush said at a news
conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert. “It’s going to be hard work.”
Unpopular at home. Bush got an extremely
warm welcome in staunch ally Israel. With his
presidency slipping away and skepticism about
the seriousness of his commitment to Mideast
peacemaking, Bush hopes an accord would
improve a legacy tarnished by an unpopular
Iraq war. economic anxieties and
other problems.
Amociatvo Priv*
▲ A researcher holds up two piglets born from a cloned pig under ultra
violet light to show the fluorescent green glow from their snouts, trot
ters and tongues at a company in northeastern China.
Domestic dispute
leads to infanticide
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.
A man angered after a
dispute with his wife con
fessed to tossing his four
young children off a bridge,
authorities said Wednesday
as they searched murky
waters for the bodies.
Lam Luong, 37, who is
charged with four counts of
capital murder, told author
ities Tuesday he drove to
the Dauphin Island bridge
and dropped the children
from a span that reaches 80
feet in places, said Detective
Scott Rivera.
Luong came to coastal
Alabama from Vietnam in
1984 and worked in the
commercial fishing industry
as a shrimper. Police Chief
John Joyner said. He had
argued with his wife, Ngoc
Phan, before taking the
children, he said.
Missing and presumed
dead were 4-month-old
Danny Luong; 1-year-old
Lindsey Luong; 2-year-old
Hannah Luong; and 3-year
old Ryan Phan. Phan is not
the man’s biological child,
but Luong raised him from
infancy, authorities said.
Authorities were search
ing a 100-square-mile area
and waters as deep as 55
feet. The search included
divers and cadaver dogs in
small boats, as well as three
helicopters. Mobile County
Sheriff Sam Cochran said.
Joyner said he feared the
search of the Intracoastal
Waterway below the bridge,
extends from the mainland
to Dauphin Island, which
lies between the waterway
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111 c VV lie THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Already a troubling issue for Bush, Iran
jumped back into the spotlight Sunday when
Iranian boats harassed and provoked three
American Navy ships in the strategic Strait of
Hormuz. U.S. officials said Iran threatened to
explode the vessels, but the incident ended
peacefully.
Bush said “all options are on
the table” to protect U.S. ships.
He said the Iranian boats “were
very provocative and it was a
dangerous gesture on their part.
... And they know our position,
and that is: There will be serious
consequences if they attack our
ships, pure and simple. And my
advice to them is don’t do it.”
Bush already was on the
defensive about Iran because a
new U.S. intelligence report contradicted White
House assertions that Tehran was building a
nuclear weapon. The National Intelligence
Estimate found Iran halted its program in 2003
under international pressure.
Iran is a particularly sensitive subject here
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and the Gulf of Mexico,
would be hampered by bad
weather and choppy
waters.
The couple lived with
Pfcan's mother at Bayou La
Batre, a fishing village with
a large Southeast Asian
community. Phan’s brother
in-law Kam
Phengsisomboun, who is
from Thailand, said the
couple moved back to the
area from Hinesville, Ga.,
only a couple of weeks ago.
They argued Sunday
night and again Monday, he
said. Luong left the home
with two of the children,
then later came back for
the other two, he said.
The family initially feared
the children had been trad
ed to support a drug habit,
Phengsisomboun said.
Luong had a crack cocaine
habit and had spent an
insurance settlement from
an automobile accident
rapidly, he said, and author
ities confirmed Luong had a
history df drug offenses.
Luong reported the chil
dren missing Monday, and
told police that a woman
who had the children failed
to return them, authorities
said. Phengsisomboun said
he was later told by investi
gators that a witness had
seen someone throw a bun
dle from the bridge and
then saw three children in a
nearby car.
Associated Press
NEWS
Angry student stabs schoolmates
READING, Pa. - Three
students were stabbed
Wednesday morning at a
junior/senior high school
by an angry student who
had a canister of propane
when confronted by
school administrators,
school and police officials
said.
The student at
Antietam Middle-Senior
High School in Lower
Alsace Township was
taken into custody by
police after school offi
cials disarmed the boy.
Students were evacuated
to a district building in a
neighboring community.
Principal James Snyder
said he and a teacher
were responding to a dis
turbance when they con
fronted the student, who
held them at bay with the
canister.
“He was very upset
with the school and with
all the people who were in
the school at that partic
ular time," Snyder said.
When the boy would
not surrender, a teacher
swatted the student’s
arm, knocking the canis
ter from his hand, Snyder
said.
“We pushed him to the
wall and kept him to a
confined area so he wasn’t
going anywhere,” Snyder
said. “He wasn’t saying
anything to us.”
A 18-year-old girl was
taken to Reading Hospital
with cuts to both hands,
hospital spokesman
William J. Rudolph Jr.
said. Doctors also treated
a 15-year-old girl with a
small wound to her upper
back and a 14-year-old
because Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel’s
destruction, and Israelis wonder whether Bush
has the resolve to deal with Tehran, especially in
light of the new intelligence.
Saying he still regarded Iran as a dangerous
threat, Bush said, “We’ll continue to keep the
pressure on the Iranians. And I believe we can
solve this problem diplomatically.”
After a red-carpet airport arrival in Tel Aviv,
Bush flew by helicopter to Jerusalem for talks
with Olmert and Israeli President Shimon Peres,
who cautioned that peace negotiations “may be
slow, but the progress can be sweet.”
Olmert said Israel would not accept a peace
agreement unless there is a halt to rocket
attacks from the Gaza Strip, controlled by
Islamic militants dedicated to Israel’s destruc
tion. The U.S.-backed Palestinian president,
Mahmoud Abbas, wields authority in the West
Bank but not in Gaza, meaning the Palestinian
population is effectively split between two gov
erning entities.
Associated Press
BUSH
Glowing pigs light
up genetic future
BEIJING A cloned pig
whose genes were altered
to make it glow fluorescent
green has passed on the
trait to its young, a devel
opment that could lead to
the future breeding of pigs
for human transplant
organs, a Chinese universi
ty reported.
The glowing piglets’
birth proves transgenic
pigs are fertile and able to
pass on their engineered
traits to their offspring,
according to Liu
Zhonghua, a professor
overseeing the breeding
program at Northeast
Agricultural University.
“Continued develop
ment of this technology
can be applied to ... the
production of special pigs
for the production of
human organs for trans
plant," Liu said in a news
release posted Tuesday on
the university’s Web site.
Calls to the university
seeking comment
Wednesday were not
answered.
The piglets’ mother was
one of three pigs bom with
the trait in December 2006
after pig embryos were
injected with fluorescent
green protein. Two of the
11 piglets glow fluorescent
green from their snout,
trotters, and tongue under
ultraviolet light, the uni
versity said.
Robin Lovell-Badge,
a genetics expert at
Britain’s National Institute
for Medical Research, said
the technology “to geneti
cally manipulate pigs in
this way would be
very valuable.”
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▲ Students react outside the Mount Penn
Elementary School where the students were
bussed from Antietam Middle-Senior High
School where three students were stabbed.
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boy with a small wound
to his upper right arm, he
said. All three have been
released, Rudolph said.
The Reading bomb
squad and numerous
police agencies were
called to the scene, state
police Lt. Thomas G.
McDaniel said. The sus
pect also had a small bot
tle of unidentified liquid,
Berks Regional police
said.
Ninth-grader Jim
Oreager, 14, said he was
in a hallway when he saw
another student running
down the hall screaming,
“Help! Help! Help!”
Brian Macluskie, 15,
also a ninth-grader, said
students thought lt was a
drill when the school was
evacuated, "until we saw
cop cars out front.”
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Lovell-Badge had not
seen the research from
China’s cloned pigs and
could not comment on its
credibility. He said, howev
er, that organs from genet
ically altered pigs would
potentially solve some of
the problems of rejected
organs in transplant oper
ations.
He said the presence of
the green protein would
allow genetically modified
cells to be tracked if they
were transplanted into a
human. The fact that the
pig’s offspring also
appeared to have the
green genes would indicate
that the genetic modifica
tion had successfully pene
trated every cell, Lovell-
Badge added.
But he said much more
research and further trials
both in animals and in
humans would be neces
sary before the benefits of
the technology could be
seen.
Other genetically modi
fied pigs have been created
before, including by
Scotland’s Roslin
Institute, but few results
have been published.
Tokyo’s Meiji University
last year successfully
cloned a transgenic pig
that carries the genes for
human diabetes, while
South Korean scientists
cloned cats that glow red
when exposed to ultravio
let rays.
Associated Press
Former CIA agent
refuses to testify
WASHINGTON
Attorneys for Jose
Rodriguez told Congress
the former CIA official
won't testify about the
destruction of CIA video
tapes without immunity,
two people close to the
inquiry said Wednesday.
Rodriguez, the former
head of the ClA’s National
Clandestine Service,
ordered the tapes
destroyed in 2005.
Rodriguez is scheduled to
testify before the House
Intelligence Committee
on Jan. 16, however
defense attorney Robert
Bennett said he would
not let Rodriguez testify
because of the criminal
investigation.
Associated Press