2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 9, 2002 Education bill signed by Bush NATION/WORLD0 H AMILTON, Ohio (A P) -- Presi- dent Bush, acting yesterday on his No. 1 domestic priority, signed into law a sweeping education bill that will require new reading and math tests, seek to close the education gap between rich and poor students and raise teacher stan- dards. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results," Bush said to an audience of hundreds at Hamilton High School, west of Cincinnati. "From this day forward, all students will have a bet- ter chance to learn, to excel and to live out their dreams." Though he spoke at length about the details of the bill, and articulated his plan to get all students reading by third grade, Bush joked of the bill, "I don't intend to read it all. It's not exactly light reading:' But, he said, it contained some very important prin- ciples, chief among them accountabil- ity safeguards for students, teachers and schools. Bush waited three weeks to sign the bill and, seeking maximum exposure on an issue of rare agreement between Republicans and Democrats, was taking his roadshow to the states of lawmakers who led the yearlong negotiations on the bill. "Most bills are signed at the White House. I decided to sign this bill in one of the most important places in America - a public school," Bush said. In a 12-hour, 1,600-mile swing, the president signed the bill in Ohio, home of GOP Rep. John Boehner; was giving an e ducation speech in New Hampshire, the home state of GOP Sen. Judd Gregg; and touring a school in Massachusetts, home to Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy. The fourth principal sponsor, Democ- ratic Rep. George Miller of Califor- nia, was traveling with Bush throughout the day Bush visited Cali- fornia on Saturday. The bill "will launch a new era of American education," said Education Secretary Rod Paige. NEWS IN BRIEF ~4 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Iran the "center of world terror" and said yes- terday a recently captured anns shipment showed that Iran and the Palestinians were collaborating to strike at Israel. Israel said it would soon release documents that show the Palestinian Authority was responsible for the 50 tons of weapons captured by Israeli commandos last Thursday on a cargo ship in the Red Sea. "We have all the evidence and it will unfold, and we will present it soon"' said Sharon adviser Daniel Ayalon. The Palestinian Authority insists it had nothing to do with the arms shipment and said its senior security officials would question those accused by Israel of trying to smuggle the weapons. Israel is sending intelligence officials to the United States and Europe to press its claim that the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were behind the weapons smuggling, said Defense Ministry spokesman Yarden Vatikay. While Mideast violence has dropped sharply since Arafat's Dec. 16 speech call- ing for an end to attacks against Israel, the dispute over the weapons-laden ship has kept the two sides exchanging heated words. The weapons included 62 Katyusha rockets that could reach Israeli cities from Palestinian areas in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. CHICAGO Milins mnore treated for depression The number of Americans treated for depression soared from 1.7 million to 6.3 million between 1987 and 1997, and the propoltion of those receiving antide- pressants doubled, researchers say. The researchers attributed the sharp increases to the emergence of aggressively marketed new drugs like Prozac, the rise in managed care and an easing of the stigma attached to the disease. The study found that the share of patients who used antidepressant mgication climbed from 37 percent to nearly 75 percent. At the same time, the proportion who received psychotherapy declined from 71 percent to 60 percent. While an increase in treatment for depression was not surprising, "the size of the ~increase was larger than I think most people in the field expected," said Dr. Mark Olfson, a psychiatrist at Columbia University and the New York State Psy- chiatric Institute who led the study. Studies since 1997 suggest the trend contin- ues, he said. The study was an analysis of two national surveys. The findings appear in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. AP PHOTO President Bush, seated, chats with student Tez Taylor as he signs into law a sweeping 26.5 billion federal education bill that will require new reading and math tests, seek to close the education gap between rich and poor students and raise teacher standards yesterday at Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Ohio,. U U T his Weekend in ~'- Michigan Athletics Presented by: Amertec Hockey Michigan vs. Alaska-Fairbanks Friday, January 11 7:35 p.m. Saturday, January 12 7:35 p.m. Yost Ice Arena To order tickets, contact the Michigan Ticket Department at (734) 764-0247. n.' Thursday~J~nuary 10 7~m.#t Qt e~er Arena ~~-i ~ s~*r ~ - A ,wlft~va~ilm''~~. -~ Wo~ne~s Gymnastics A/A ~~A~/AA u~y~~Jw1IJ~ryI4 W~,Ngan vs. H~rthern 1Iflno~ 2p4~i~ ~a1~ ~Ift K~en Arena j4< ~:>- ~ M ~ ~V ~4I~r%~e A' ~A with ~ -A Men's Swimming and Diving g Michigan vs. Stanford Friday, January 11 6 p.m. Saturday, January 12 1 p.m. Canham Natatorium Admission is FREE! For more information on Michigan Athletics, visit MGoBlue.com U * * Wendy s founder dies at 69 The Los Angeles 'imes Dave Thomas, the folksy founder of Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers who parlayed his discerning taste for good food and friendly service and an innate knack for talking to people from their television sets into one of the world's most suc- / cessful fast-food chains, died yester- day. He was 69. Thomas, an adoptee who over the past decade waged an aggres- sive campaign to promote adoption Thomas in America, died in his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home of liver cancer, company spokesmen said. Thomas had been undergoing kidney dialysis since early last year and had quadruple heart bypass surgery five years ago after suffering a major heart attack. Born in Atlantic City to unwed par- ents, Thomas was quickly adopted but lost his new mother to rheumatic fever when he was only 5. His construction- worker father introduced him to three successive stepmothers and a dozen homes before he was 15. Given those unusual beginnings, R. David Thomas seemed an unlikely candidate to become an internationally recognized restaurant tycoon. Yet at his death he remained what Wendy's chairman Jack Schuessler called "the heart and soul of our compa- ny" which has 6,000 restaurants around the world and, with its Canadian sub- sidiary Tim Hortons, has sales of more than $8 billion a year. Bthe tie the high-school drpou good reason to vote him "most likely to succeed." Two lessons from Thomas' peripatet- ic early lifestyle. set him on his course, he said in three autobiographical books, the 1991 "Dave's Way: A New Approach to Old-Fashioned Success," the 1994 "Well Done: Dave's Secret Recipe for Everyday Success" and the 2000 "Franchising for Dummies." First, his adoptive maternal grand- mother Minnie Sinclair, the only relative who gave him any sense of security, taught him to value hard work as a plea- surable "constant companion." Second, his frequent visits to cheap eateries with his father made him decide, he wrote, "to own my own restaurant because I liked to eat, and I just thought restaurants were really neat, exciting places." Thomas worked odd jobs as a boy, delivering groceries, jerking sodas and then tending a restaurant counter. At 15, he began working as a busboy at the Hobby House restaurant in Fort Wayne, Ind., and when his dad decided to pull ustakes once again, Thomas declared himself emancipated and moved into the YMCA. His boss, Phil Clauss, became a men- tor and, after Thomas served as an Kran War, prootd him to as istant manager of his newest restaurant. It was in Fort Wayne that Thomas met another mentor, Col. Harland Sanders, who stopped by to promote his Kentucky WASHINGTON Disability rights for workers narrowed In a victory for employers, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for workers to demand special treatment when they suffer partial physical dis- abilities such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Yesterday's unanimous decision in the case of a former assembly line worker narrows the scope of the land- mark civil rights law that protects the disabled. It was the latest in a series of Supreme Court rulings that set boundaries on who is covered by the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, and tell why. Disability cannot be measured solely on the ability to do certain tasks at work, the court ruled yesterday. Whether someone is disabled also must depend on the ease with which they perform "activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the court. WASHINGTON NASA~ ma dcrease space station funds NASA's new boss, Sean O'Keefe, said yesterday he supports an inde- pendent panel's recommendations to scale back the budget-breaking space station program, at least for the time being. On just his fifth day on the job at NASA, O'Keefe stressed that the agency needs to focus on the interna- tional space station. O'Keefe, a former budget offi- cial, said the cost overruns facing the space station program are man- ageable. "Let's focus on those issues which are highly manageable," O'Keefe said in his first meeting with reporters. "They're thorny. They're tough. They're going to be a challenge. All that. But they're highly manageable - and not at the expense of so many other things that this organization is capable of." WASHINGTON Teory eXplains formation of stars A half billion years of utter blackness following the Big Bang, the theoretical start of the universe, was broken by an explosion of stars bursting into life like a fireworks finale across the heavens, a new theory suggests. An analysis of very faint galaxies in the deepest view of the universe ever cap- tured by a telescope suggests there was an eruption of stars bursting to life and piercing the blackness very early in the 15-billion year history of the universe. The study, by Kenneth M. Lanzetta of the State University of New York at Stony Brook challenges the long held belief that star formation started slowly after the Big-Bang and didn't peak until some five billion years later. "Star formation took place early and very rapidly," Lanzetta said yesterday at a NASA news conference. 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