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Friday, January 18. 2008 | The Red a Black
UGA TODAY
► Annual Freedom Breakfast
Sponsored by Office of
Institutional Diversity, Athens-
Clarke County and the Clarke
County School District. The
annual Martin Luther King Jr.
‘Fulfilling the Dream' Awards will
be presented to persons from
ACC and the Univ. community
who have made significant contri
butions toward building bridges
of unity and understanding
among local residents. Featured
speaker: Georgia Supreme Court
Justice Robert Benham (JD 70).
Tickets sl2 and may be pur
chased through Jan. 15 through
ihe Office of Institutional
Diversity. 7:30 a m. Magnolia
Ballroom. Georgia Center
Contact: 706-425-2998
► Campus Coffee Hour.
Sponsored by International
Student Life. 11:3G a m. to 1:30
p.m Memorial Hall Ballroom.
Contact: 706-542-7911.
► IWS Friday Speaker Series:
Make Policy and Coffee).
Sponsored by the Institute tor
Women’s Studies Heidi Davison,
Mayor of Athens-Clarke County,
gives the talk. 12:20 p.m to 1:10
p.m 148 Student Learning Center
Contact: momolly@uga edu
► Lecture: The Problem of
the One: Mentahsm and
Cognitive Mechanisms.
Sponsored by the Willson Center
for Humanities and Arts Robert
Richardson. Charles Phelps pro
lessor in the University of
Cincinnati Department of
Philosophy, presents the lecture
as pari of the Heather and Scott
Klemer Lecture Senes. 3:30 p.m.
205S Peabody Hall Contact:
706-542-2823.
sebaker@uga edu
► Information Session and
Lecture: Bulgaria Study
Abroad. Sponsored by the
Lamar Dodd School ol Art and
the D B Wamell School of
Forestry and Natural Resources
5:30 p.m. 117 Visual Arts
Building. Contact:
artmfo@uga.edu.
► Gymnastics at Florida. 7
p m Gainesville, FL
► Performance: UGA Wind
Ensemble. Sponsored by the
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall
Contact: www.music.uga.edu.
► Ecology Graduate Student
Symposium. Sponsored by the
Odum School of Ecology This
research event features graduate
student oral presentations, an
undergraduate poster session
and a keynote address given by
Dr. Nick Haddad. Univ. alumnus
and associate professor at North
Carolina Stale University. The
graduate student presentations
begin on Jan 18 at 9a m Dr
Haddad's keynote speech is Jan
19 at 3:30 p.m A full schedule is
located at http/'wwwecology
uga.edu/news/gradsymposium/
symposium/sympo sium.htm
Through Saturday Ecology
Auditorium. Contact
706-542-6013. anisai@uga.edu
► Women's Tennis: Georgia
Invitational. Through Sunday.
Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
► Men’s Tennis: SEC Indoors.
Through Monday. New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Satiwday
► SotoSENIORS 2nd Game
Night Sponsored by the Alumni
Association. The Athens Area
SotoSENIORS play Bingo. All
local SotoSENIORS may partici
pate Contact 706-548-4811,
ncanolty@gmail com
► Exhibition: Collecting
European Art Sponsored by
the Georgia Museum of Art, the
W. Newton Morns Charitable
Foundation, and the Friends of
the Georgia Museum of Art. This
exhibition focuses on the Georgia
Museum of Art's history of and
ongoing experience with the col
lecting of European works.
Georgia Museum of Art. Contact:
www uga edu/gamuseum
► Men’s Basketball vs.
Arkansas. FSNS TV. 7 p.m.
Stegeman Coliseum.
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Scientists make embryonic clones
NEW YORK Scientists m
California say they have produced
embryos that are clones of two men,
a potential step toward developing
scientifically valuable stem cells.
The new report documents
embryos made with ordinary skin
cells. But it’s not the first time
human cloned embryos have been
made. In 2005, for example, scien
tists in Britain reported using
embryonic stem cells to produce a
cloned embryo. It matured enough
to produce stem cells, but none
were extracted.
Stem cells weren't produced by
Deadly attack ends flagellation
BAGHDAD A suicide bomber
attacked a mosque in violent Diyala
province northeast of Baghdad
on Thursday, killing 11 people and
wounding 15 as worshippers
were beating their chests in obser
vance of Shiite Islam’s holiest holi
day.
The blast on the outskirts of
the provincial capital. Baqouba, 35
miles northeast of Baghdad, was the
second deadly suicide attack in
two days against Ashoura worship
pers in Diyala. The province is
one of Iraq's most violent regions
and a main battleground for
U.S. and Iraqi troops trying to over
whelm al-Qaida strongholds in the
capital and elsewhere around the
country.
A police official and eyewitnesses
said a Shiite participating in the
rites noticed a stranger in the crowd
heading for the mosque, and tried to
talk to him. The Shiite grabbed the
man as he tried to enter the mosque
and shouted, “Stranger! Stranger!"
At that point, the stranger detonat
ed his explosive belt.
A Shiite witness, who would iden
tify himself only as Abu Mohammed
for fear of being attacked, said he
was standing near the mosque
watching the performing of the rites
for the Ashoura ceremony.
“Suddenly I heard a big explosion
and saw the people running in all
directions.” he said. "Minutes later,
some came back to the site to search
for relatives or their children. There
were several bodies and wounded
people on the ground."
The bombing killed 11 people,
excluding the attacker, and wound
ed 15, according to an official at
Baqouba General Hospital who
spoke on condition of anonymity
because he was not authorized to
release the information.
Sunni Arab militants have repeat
edly targeted Ashoura processions,
with hundreds killed by mortar
shelling or car bombings since 2003.
Ashoura, which comes later this
week, commemorates the death in a
seventh century battle of Imam
Hussein, one of Shiite Islam's most
revered saints. His tomb is in
Karbala, which is about 6Q miles
south of Baghdad.
Wednesday's bombing took place
in Khan Bani Saad, a Shiite village
nine miles south of Baqouba. A
female suicide bomber struck black
clad worshippers preparing for
Ashoura, killing at least nine people
in an attack that highlighted insur
gents’ widening array of tactics
Baby sitter charged in toddler’s death
HARTFORD, Conn. A
baby sitter was charged
with the murder of a tod
dler who police said was
fatally injured when she
swung him around in a
sleeping bag for fun and
his head smacked a door
frame.
Police re-arrested
25-year-old Yalines Torres
late Wednesday, a day after
she was released after post
ing bond on charges of risk
of injury to a minor and
reckless endangerment.
Torres was being held
on $1 million bond on the
new charge, and was set to
be arraigned Thursday,
Sgt. Edward Yergeau said.
News of the new charge
came as the toddler's fam
ily gathered at his funeral.
An official with the pub
lic defenders’ office, which
is representing Torres, said
Thursday that no one
would comment about the
case. A message seeking
comment was left with
prosecutor Gail Hardy.
Torres was watching
10-month-old Elijah
Gasque on Jan. 11 evening
while his mother worked.
According to a police
report, Torres told Julie
Adklns-Gasque that Elijah
had a seizure and col
lapsed during a game of
ring-around-the-rosy.
But after more ques
tioning, police said Torres
said Elijah was injured in a
game in which she bun
dled him in a closed sleep
ing bag and she jogged
through her apartment
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the new embryos either, and
because of that, experts reacted
coolly to the research.
"I found it difficult to determine
what was substantially new," said
Doug Melton of the* Harvard Stem
Cell Institute. He said the "next
big advance will be to create a
human embryonic stem cell line”
from cloned embryos. “This has
yet to be achieved.”
Dr. George Daley of the Harvard
institute and Children's Hospital
in Boston called the new report
interesting but agreed that “the
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▲ Devout believers flagellate themselves on Thursday as a sign
of grief for Imam Hussein in front of the Imam Abbas Shrine in
the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad,
Iraq. Iraqi Shiites were marking the Festival of Muharram,
which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein at the
battle of Karbala in the year 680 A.D.
against a U.S.-led offensive in key
areas on Baghdad's doorstep.
Diyala has eluded the nationwide
trend toward lower violence over the
past six months. At least 273 civilians
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▲ Yalines Torres, center, stands with her
attorneys Claudia Jones and Patrick Culligan
during her arraignment Thursday.
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with the bag slung over
her shoulder.
Going through one
doorway, Torres lost her
balance and the bag struck
the door frame twice,
police said. When she
opened the bag, Elijah was
pale and not breathing,
according to police.
He died at a hospital
the next day. A police
report noted Elijah had a
skull fracture and bleeding
in the brain, and the medi-
ni:ws
body creates stem cell lines from
cloned human embryos.
“It’s only a matter of time before
some group succeeds,” Daley said.
Korean scientist Hwang Woo
suk claimed a few years ago that
he’d created such cell lines, but
that turned out to be a fraud.
Dr. Samuel Wood, a co-author
of the new paper and chief execu
tive of Stemagen Corp. of La Jolla,
Calif, said he and his colleagues
are now attempting to produce
stem cell lines from the embryos.
The work was published online
Thursday by the journal Stem Cells.
WORLD
cal examiner's office ruled
the death a homicide.
New border policy
to prevent attack’
WASHINGTON New
border crossing rules to
take effect at the end of
the month Initially will
mean longer lines for those
entering the country,
including returning
Americans, Homeland
Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff said Thursday.
were slain in Diyala last month, com
pared to at least 213 in June, accord
ing to an Associated Press count.
Over the same span, monthly civilian
deaths in Baghdad dropped from at
least 838 to at least 182.
Associated Press
But he said the rules are
necessary to prevent
another Sept. 11-style
attack.
Critics of the effort need
to “grow up,” Chertoff said
in an AP interview.
Starting Jan. 31, a driv
er’s license and oral decla
ration of citizenship will
no longer be enough to
enter the U.S. for
Americans and Canadians
age 19 and older. People
will have to present proof
of citizenship, usually in
the form of a passport or a
birth certificate, not a
driver's license.
Chertoff said longer
lines at the border in the
early days of the new poli
cy are inevitable.
“Until people get the
message, there will be
some delays," he said.
But he added that
should change once people
get used to the new sys
tem, and border agents
will be flexible in applying
the new rules at first.
Not Implementing these
changes would be a tragic
mistake, Chertoff said.
“I can guarantee if we
don't make this change,
eventually there will come
a time when someone will
come across the border
exploiting the vulnerabili
ties in the system and
some bad stuff will hap
pen. And then there’ll be
another Sept. 11 commis
sion and we’ll have people
come saying, ‘Why didn't
we do this?’”
Associated Press
Scientists say stem cells from
cloned embryos could provide a
valuable tool for studying diseases,
screening drugs and, perhaps
someday, creating transplant
material to treat conditions like
diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
But critics raise objections. The
process “involves creating human
lives in the laboratory solely to
destroy them for alleged benefit to
others,” said Richard Doerflinger,
spokesman for the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops.
Associated Press
NAMES & FACES
Nicholson
searching
for ladies,
new love
NEW YORK Jack
Nicholson, the legendary
ladies' man, said he’d like
to fall in love again.
“I never minded being a
fool for love,” the 70-year
old Oscar winner told
AARP The Magazine. “It’s
nice to have a place to be
foolish. Ask any old friend
of mine, they'll say, ‘Jack’s
pretty smart, but in this
area the man is beyond
the pale. Don’t ask him
anything about love. Or if
you ask him, don’t listen to
him.’"
Nicholson said getting
older has changed the way
he woos women.
“I can't hit on a girl in
public like I used to,” he
said. “I never thought words
like 'undignified’ would
come into my own reflec
tions on myself, but I can’t
do it anymore."
Nicholson, whose past
flames include Anjelica
Huston and Lara Flynn
Boyle, explained: “I feel
uncomfort
able. I don’t
think any
body cares
what I do in
these areas,
but it feels
a little bit
off to me.”
He said
he’d date a
woman
close to his
age or younger.
“In fact, every year I like
to cover a very broad spec
trum," he said. “But you
know? I’ve been single for
quite a long time. I've been
invested in my teenage
children" with ex-girlfriend
Rebecca Broussard. (He
was married to Sandra
Knight in the 19605.)
Nicholson said nearly all
his contemporaries tell
him they want “that one
last big romance.”
“I don’t do a lot of origi
nal screenwriting anymore,
but if I were, I’d find a way
to make this the dramatic
narrative of a movie,
because it’s one of those
silent yearnings of my own
age group,” he said.
Colbert’s portrait
added to museum
WASHINGTON
Stephen Colbert was
denied when he tried to
run for president this year
in South Carolina. Now the
fake TV pundit is getting
love from his birth city.
His portrait was hung
Wednesday at the
Smithsonian Institution’s
National Portrait Gallery
in Washington for a six
week showing in what the
museum considers an
“appropriate place”
right between the bath
rooms near the “America’s
Presidents" exhibit.
Museum officials stress it’s
only temporary.
“We agreed to go along
with the joke and hang it for
a short time in between the
bathrooms," said museum
spokeswoman Bethany
Bentley. “Let me tell you
two key things here: His
portrait is not coming into
the collection, and it’s not
hanging permanently.”
Colbert asked gallery
director Marc Pachter,
“Who’s the competition?
Who do I need to knock
out of here to get me up?"
Associated Press
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