The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS MICROBIOLOGY MICROCOSM alen - ~Shooting at Palestinian CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Discovery docks school sparks fear of war with space station.sakai a After a two-day journey, space shuttle Discovery reached the international space station yester- day for aweeklongstay to continue construction on the orbiting lab and rotate outa crew member. Discovery commander Mark Polansky closed in on the station at a tenth of a foot per second before latches automatically linked the spacecraft as they flew 220 miles above southeast Asia shortly before a sunrise. "Capture confirmed," Polansky told Mission Control and the space station. About an hour before docking, Discovery did a slow back flip so the space station crew could pho- tograph its belly for any signs of liftoff damage. Polansky executed the maneu- ver as the shuttle flew about 600 feet beneath the station. The imag- es will be transmitted to Mission Control for analysis. INDEPENDENCE, Mo. Annan critical of Bush in farewell address U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan took his criticism of the Bush administration to the nation's heartland yesterday, say- ing America must not sacrifice its democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism. In the hometown of President Harry Truman, who helped found the United Nations, Annan said "human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity." When the U.S. "appears to aban- don its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused," Annan told a packed audience at the Tru- man Presidential Museum and Library. Annan also said the U.N. Secu- rity Council should be expanded to better reflect today's world. SANTIAGO, Chile Mourners angry that dictator was denied state funeral Thousandsofmournershonored Gen. Augusto Pinochet yester- day, many weeping openly as they kissed his glass-topped casket in a military ceremony that exposed deep divisions over the legacy of his 17-year dictatorship. The cerenmonyfollowed aviolent night of clashes that left 43 police officers injured and 99 demonstra- tors arrested. The scattered fights between Pinochet's supporters and opponents capped a jubilant Children of targeted Fatah officer killed in drive-by shooting GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Blood spattered a school bag emblazoned with the word "Friend" lying on the front seat of a bullet-riddled car on a Gaza City street sad proof that the victims of an assassination attemptagainst a Palestinian intelligence officer were his three young children. The brutal drive-by shoot- ing yesterday, unprecedented even for violence-wracked Gaza, threatened to ignite a new round of internal Palestinian violence. The officer, linked to the moder- ate Fatah movement, was twice targeted by the radical Islamic Hamas in the past, and Gazans braced for reprisals and counter- reprisals. Intelligence officials accused the Hamas of responsibility for the shooting. The officer, who helped crack down on Hamas a decade ago, was not in the car with his children. In the funeral later yesterday, mourners held aloft the small bod- ies of the boys wrapped in white burial shrouds. "I have no words. Words stop at the extent of this crime," said the bereaved father, Baha Balousheh. "I am a father who has lost his children." Hamas denied involvement, denounced the shooting and prom- ised a speedy investigation. The attack came at a time of growing tensions between Hamas and the Fatah movement of mod- erate Palestinian President Mah- moud Abbas. Earlier this week, Abbas threatened to call early elections following the collapse of talks on a Hamas-Fatah coalition, drawing angry Hamas accusations that he was plotting a coup. Fatah legislators demanded yesterday that Abbas dismiss the Hamas-led government. Amid wall-to-wall condemnation of the shooting, the top Muslim cleric in Gaza called for the death penalty for the assailants. The Balousheh children - 3- year-old Salam, 6-year-old Ahmed and 9-year-old Osama - were in the family car on their way to school when gunmen opened fire on them from two vehicles. The three were killed along with their driver. Doctors said one of the boys was hit by 10 bullets to the head. The car had tinted windows, blocking passengers from view. Security officials said it was pos- sible the assailants believed Balousheh was inside and intend- ed to kill him. LSA senior Laura Kollar studies for a Microbiology exam in a glass alcove at the Science Library on the third floor of Shapiro Undergraduate Library last night. Kollar says that she usually tries to study in the private study rooms. InIran, deniers queston Holocaust Ahmadinejad, who has called for destruction of Israel, hosts conference TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran hosted Holocaust deniers from around the world yesterday at a conference examining whether the Nazi genocide took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister condemned as a "sick phenom- enon." The 67 participants from 30 countries included former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and Holocaust skeptics who have been prosecuted in Europe for question- ing whether 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis or whether gas chambers were ever used. "The number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp could be about 2,007," Australian Frederick Toben told the confer- ence, according to a Farsi transla- tion of his remarks. "The railroad to the camp did not have enough capacity to transfer large numbers of Jews," said Toben, who was jailed in 1999 in Germany for cast- ing doubt on the Holocaust. The two-day conference was initiated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an apparent attempt to burnish his status as a tough opponentofIsrael. Thehard- line president has described the Holocaust as a "myth" and called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Earlier this year, his government. backed an exhibition of anti-Isra- el cartoons in a show of defiance after Danish cartoons caricatur- ing Islam's Prophet Muhammad were published in Europe, raising an outcry among Muslims. Headaches Hurt. But it wouldn't hurt to consider our research study. 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