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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | The Red a Black
UGA TODAY
► UGA/ACC Young Democrat*
Meeting. General discussion with
pizza over the 2008 Presidential
Primaries. 6 p.m. in SLC 348.
Contact: lelrod@uga.edu.
► UGA College Republicans,
first meeting of Hie semester.
Gary Black will speak about the
future of fuel innovation. 7 p.m.
306 Caldwell Hall.
Contact: jevans@uga.edu.
► Women in Business meet
ing. Free food and prizes Guest
speaker from PINK magazine. All
majors welcome Professional
dress. 7 p.m. SLC 213.
Contact: mdave@uga.edu.
► Hydrobics Spring Classes.
Sponsored by Rec Sports. A no
impact aerobic and muscle-condi
tioning workout. Classes meet all
fitness and swimming levels and
focus on techniques for total body
fitness. Participants must support
themselves in the water and be
able to get to the side of the pool.
Visit www recsports uga edu for
class schedules through May 2.
Ramsey Center Natatorium.
Contact: 706-542-5060
► Masters Swimming.
Sponsored by Rec Sports.
Recreational and fitness workouts,
competitive swimming and training
for triathletes. Those interested
can join the U.S. Masters
Swimming organization and
receive help in training for events.
SSO students. SIOO faculty/staff.
sllO alumni Sessons are MWF
through May 2.
Visit www recsports uga edu
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Ramsey Center
50M pool Contact: 706-542-5060.
► Terry Working Lunch.
Crafting the Perfect Resume
Sponsored by the Career Center
and the Terry College of Business.
Lunch provided to those who
RSVP via Facebook Events in
advance: search “Terry Working
Lunch' Learn what to include on
a resume, and how to write and
format it effectively 12:20 to 1:10
p.m. 213 Sanford Hall
► Drop-In Information Session
for CURO Summer Research
Fellowships. Sponsored by the
Honors Program and the Center
for Undergraduate Research
Opportunities. Dr. Pam Kleiber,
Associate Director of the Honors
Program and CURO. is available
to answer questions. 1 to
5 p.m. 203 Moore College-
Contact: 706-542-5871. curo@
uga.edu.
>• Genetics Seminar. Sponsored
by The Genetics Department,
Jennifer Lau, Michigan State
University, on ‘Changing environ
ments. species interactions, and
adaptation to novel selection
agents‘4 p.m. 8118 Life
Sciences Contact 706-542-8000
>- Poetry Reading. Natasha
Tretheway Sponsored by the
Georgia Review Natasha
Trethewey. 2007 Pulitzer Pnze
winner of Native Guard gives a
reading This is a blue card event.
Thretheway graduated from the
University with a B A in English
4 p.m. SLC Contact: 800-542-
3481
► Film Screening and Panel
Discussion: 300." Sponsored
by the Archaeological Society of
America Part of the AIA Lecture
Series Based on the graphic
novel by Frank Miller. ‘3oo'
depicts the Battle of Thermopylae
(480 BCE) in which King Leonidas
and 300 Spartans fought against
Xerxes and his massive Persian
army. Panelists are Brett Rogers,
Classics: Keith Oix, Classics:
Susan Mattern. History; and mod
erator Erv Garrison, Anthropology.
6 p m SLC 150 Contact:
skaggsl @uga edu.
► Lecture: Hiroshima Atomic
Bomb Survivor. Sponsored by
Japan Club Atomic bomb survivor
Takashi Teramoto, accompanied
by Chairman of the Hiroshima
Peace Culture Foundation and
peace activist Steven Leeper.
speaks of his experiences dunng
the end of World War 11, as well as
the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum's ongoing mission to
neutralize all nuclear programs in
the world 6 30 p m The Chapel
Contact: 706-878-0879, sum
merb@uga.edu
► Men’s Basketball vs.
Alabama. 7:30 p m Stegeman
Coliseum
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Explosion targets U.S. vehicle in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon An explo
sion targeted a U.S. Embassy
vehicle Tuesday in northern
Beirut, killing at least three
Lebanese and injuring an
American bystander and a local
embassy employee, U.S. and
Lebanese officials said.
The blast, which damaged the
armored SUV and several other
vehicles, took place just ahead of
a farewell reception for the
American ambassador at a hotel
in central Beirut.
No Americans were in the car,
which was carrying two Lebanese
employees of the embassy, State
Department spokesman Sean
McCormack said in Washington.
There were conflicting accounts
of the death toll, with the State
Department, from information
provided by the U.S. Embassy in
Beirut, saying four people had
been killed and Lebanese authori
ties saying that only three had
died.
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice called the bombing a “terror
ist attack.”
“The United States will, of
course, not be deterred in its
efforts to help the Lebanese peo
ple, to help the democratic forces
in Lebanon, to help Lebanon
resist force and interference in
their affairs,” she told reporters in
the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The bombing was the first
attack on U.S. diplomatic inter
ests in Lebanon since the 1980s,
when the country saw some of the
deadliest terror attacks against
Americans in U.S. history.
A 1983 truck bombing killed
241 American service members at
the U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut
airport. The same year, a suicide
bomber hit the U.S. Embassy
there, killing at least 17 Americans,
including top CIA officials.
Ultra-thin notebook unveiled Tuesday
SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs took
the wraps off a super-slim new lap
top at the Macworld trade show on
Tuesday, unveiling a personal com
puter less than an inch thick that
turns on the moment it’s opened.
Jobs also confirmed the consum
er electronics company’s foray into
online movie rentals, revealing an
alliance with all six major movie
studios to offer films over high
speed Internet connections within
30 days after they’re released on
DVD
Always a showman, Jobs
unwound the string on a standard
sized manila office envelope and
slid out the ultra-thin Macßook Air
notebook computer to coos and
peals of laughter from fans at the
conference.
At its beefiest, the new computer
is .76 inches thick; at its thinnest,
it’s .16 inches, he said.
It comes standard with an 80-gi
gabyte hard drive, with the option
of a 64G8 flash-based solid state
drive as an upgrade.
The machine doesn’t come with
a built-in optical drive for reading
CDs and DVDs, a feature Jobs says
consumers won't miss because they
can download movies and music
over the Internet and access the
optical drives on other PCs and
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▲ Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue speaks during
the annual Eggs and Issues Breakfast
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Purdue opposes guns in
employees’ parked cars
ATLANTA Gov.
Sonny Perdue said
Tuesday he opposes a
gun bill backed by the
National Rifle Association
that would allow employ
ees to keep their firearms
in their parked cars at
work. Perdue said under
the current version of the
legislation, the Second
Amendment right to bear
arms trumps the employ
er’s private property
rights.
“NRA’s been a friend
to me and I’ve been a
friend to them,” Perdue
told reporters following a
speech to the Oeorgla
Chamber of Commerce,
which opposes the bill.
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A Firefighters arrive to extinguish a burning car at the site of an explosion in Beirut,
Lebanon, Tuesday. An explosion targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle Tuesday in northern
Beirut, killing four Lebanese and injuring a local embassy employee, a U.S. official said.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad
Saniora called an emergency
Cabinet meeting after Tuesday’s
blast. The country has seen a
series of bombings in the past
three years targeting anti-Syrian
figures, journalists and most
recently, a top Lebanese army
general.
The powerful blast could be
heard across the Lebanese capi
tal, sending gray smoke billowing
Macs to install new software.
They can buy an external drive,
however, that will retail for $99.
The new laptop, which has a
13.3-inch screen and full-sized lap
top keyboard, will cost $1,799 when
it goes on sale in two weeks, though
Apple is taking orders now.
The company’s Web site already
is touting the machine. The price is
competitive with other laptops in
its market segment.
Jobs also unveiled a string of new
features for the iPhone, showing
how users of the combination iPod
cell phone-internet surfing device
now can pinpoint their location on
Web maps, text message multiple
people at once and customize their
home screens.
Other iPhone features roiling out
Tuesday included the ability to
switch around icons on the iPhones
home screen. Users also can create
up to nine home screens.
Jobs also unveiled new software
for the iPod Touch music player
that lets users process e-mail and
perform mapping functions, using
the gadget's Wi-Fi features instead
of a cellular network.
In addition. Jobs announced a
STATE
"Georgia has been a
friend to (the) NRA. It’s a
strong second amend
ment state. We plan to
continue to do that.”
“But when we try to
collide constitutional
rights, we really weaken
both of them,” Perdue
said. Perdue’s comments
come on the'same day
that the state Senate
Rules Committee is
scheduled to hold a hear
ing on the bill with an eye
toward a vote by the frill
chamber later this week.
Associated Press
NEWS
NATION
Taliban makes threats
specific to Westerners
KABUL, Afghanistan
The Taliban said
Tuesday that its suicide
bombers would attack
restaurants where
Westerners eat in Kabul,
an ominous new threat
that forced American and
European workers to
restrict outings in the
Afghan capital.
The country’s intelli
gence chief linked
Monday's deadly attack
on the Serena Hotel —a
well-guarded, high-profile
property In Kabul
frequented by Westerners
to a Pakistani militant.
Afghan officials arrest
ed four people, and said
they included one of the
three attackers, who was
disguised in a police uni
form for the assault.
The death toll in the
bombing and shooting
attack on the hotel rose
to eight.
An American, a
Norwegian journalist and
a Filipina who died of her
wounds Tuesday were
among those killed.
“We will target all these
restaurants in Kabul
where foreigners are eat
ing,” Taliban spokesman
Zablullah Mqjahid told
The AP “We have Jihad
ists in Kabul right now
and soon we will carry
out more attacks against
military personnel and
foreigners."
Taliban spokesmen
over a Mediterranean coastal
highway in the predominantly
Christian Dora-Karantina neigh
borhood. Eight were wounded,
the officials said.
Among them was an American
citizen, Minnesota native Mathew
Clason, who was at the nearby
National Evangelical Church near
where the explosion took place.
The U.S. Embassy immediately
canceled a banquet for departing
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▲ Apple CEO Steve Jobs
holds up the Macßook Air
after his keynote at the
Mac World Conference in San
Francisco Tuesday.
new product called Time Capsule
that allows Mac users to back up
their data wirelessly on a 500-giga
byte drive that will sell for $299 and
another with a terabyte of storage
that will sell for $499.
Associated Press
often boast that militants
plan to step up attacks.
Suicide bombings have
increased in the last two
years, and the hotel
attack was the first
against a facility favored
by Westerners.
Security companies
that protect international
workers in Afghanistan
restricted Westerners'
movements Tuesday,
placing restaurants and
stores frequented by for
eigners off-limits for
some.
Kabul has about a
half dozen restaurants
popular with Westerners.
The establishments
run by ex-pats with
themed menus such as
French or Mexican do
not allow Afghans en
try because they serve
alcohol, which is illegal
for Muslims here.
The restaurants sit
behind nondescript walls
and do little advertis
ing, relying on word-of
mouth to bring in cus
tomers.
Islamic militants have
typically focused attacks
on Western and Afghan
officials or security per
sonnel, not civilians.
Associated Press
Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman,
scheduled for Tuesday evening at
Beirut's seaside Phoenicia Hotel.
A senior Lebanese police offi
cial said the blast was caused by a
bomb placed between two gar
bage containers on the side of a
narrow road adjacent to the main
highway, which detonated as the
car passed.
—■ Associated Press
WORLD
ELECTION 2008
Romney
prevails in
Michigan
DETROIT Mitt
Romney scored his first
major primary victory
Tuesday in his native
Michigan, a win he needed
to give his weakened can
didacy new life and set the
stage for a wide-open
Republican showdown in
South Carolina in four
days.
Romney was the third
Republican victor in the
first four states to vote in
the 2008 primary season,
further roiling a nomina
tion fight that lacks a clear
favorite.
The former
Massachusetts governor
defeated Sen. John McCain,
who was hoping that inde
pendents and Democrats
would join Republicans to
help him repeat his 2000
triumph here. Mike
Huckabee, the former
Arkansas governor, trailed
in third, and former
Tennessee Sen. Fred
Thompson was waiting for
the top three candidates in
South Carolina, already
campaigning.
“It’s a victory of opti
mism over Washington
style pessimism," Romney
said in an AP interview,
echoing his campaign
speeches. “Now on to
South Carolina, Nevada,
Florida."
McCain said he had
called Romney to congrat
ulate him “that Michigan
welcomed their native son
with their support.”
"Starting tomorrow,
we’re going to win South
Carolina, and we’re going
to go on and win the nomi
nation.’’ McCain declared,
also in an AP interview.
Hillary Clinton won the
Michigan Democratic pri
mary, which was not con
tested by other mqjor can
didates.
Four in 10 voters said
his roots factored into their
votes, and more than half
of that group backed
Romney, according to pre
liminary results from sur
veys of voters as they left
their polling places, taken
for The AP
He also led among vot
ers who said the economy
and illegal immigration
were their most Important
issues, and won a majority
of Republicans, conserva
tives, and voters looking
for a candidate with expe
rience.
Romney had an edge
over McCain as the candi
date to bring change.
Associated Press