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The children of India's tens of millions of poor families are expected to work, and in many cases they are the sole breadwinners. "As it is, I barely make enough to survive," said 12-year- old Dinesh Kumar, who has been doing odd jobs since coming to New Delhi three years ago from a village inc eastern India. "This will be a bad blow. I really don't know what I'll do" The new law bans hiring children under age 14 as ser- vants in homes or as workers in restaurants, tea shops, hotels and spas. Despite the subcontinent's emerging economic power, child labor remains widespread in India. Conservative estimates place the number of children covered by the new law at 256,000. All told, an estimated 13 million children work in India, many of them in hazardous industries, such as glass making, where such labor has long been banned. Officials say the new law will help take children out of the workplace and put them in school. Critics counter that earlier bans in other industries had little impact - a visit to most carpet-weaving operations,j for example, reveals dozens of child workers. And the new measure does little to address the poverty at the root of India's childlabor problem.j At one roadside tea shop, the Harish Dhaba, talk among the child workers focused on the hardships of the new ban. "As long as Ican remember I've worked ina restaurant, washing dishes, cutting vegetables, throwing out the gar-E bage," said Rama Chandran, a frail-looking 13-year-old as he cleared dishes from grimy wooden tables in the tiny,I smoke-filled eatery. NEWS IN BRIEF WASHINGTON Natural gas costs expected to drop Families using natural gas can expect their heating bills to drop about $119 this winter. Those who heat with oil or electricity are likely to see their bills rise. The government issued predictions yesterday based on its forecast of a mild winter for most of the nation and its assessment of energy supplies and costs as the nation's oil and natural gas production and refinery output recover from hur- ricane damage in 2005. "This is a very different scene than we had a year ago in the wake of hur- ricanes Katrina and Rita," said Guy Caruso, head of the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistical agency. TEHRAN, Iran Top leaders: Iran to continue nuclear program Iran will not retreat from its nuclear program, Tehran's hard-line leaders said yesterday, one day after North Korea announced it had conducted a nucle- at weapons test. "Our policy is clear: Progress, offering transparent logic and insisting on the rights of the nation without retreat," supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to state-run television. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Iran will continue its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful purposes. "The Iranian nation will continue its path of dignity based on resistance, wisdom and without fear," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. UNITED NATIONS China: N. Korea must face 'punitive actions' North Korea must face "some punitive actions" for testing a nuclear device, China's U.N. ambassador said yesterday, suggesting that Beijing may be willing to impose some form of Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told reporters that the council must give a "firm, constructive, appropriate but prudent response" to North Korea. "I think there has to be some punitive actions but also I think these actions have to be appropriate," he said. Wang spoke before a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - plus Japan, to discuss a U.S.-proposed draft Security Council resolution. It would impose an array of sanctions, including a ban on imports of military goods and luxury items, and crack down on illegal financial dealings. CHEVY CHASE, Md. Bush calls together school violence experts President Bush, bemoaning an "incredibly sad" wave of school shoot- ings, challenged the nation yesterday to turn its remorse into action to keep kids safe. "In many ways, I'm sorry we're having this meeting," Bush told a confer- ence on school safety organized by the White House. "In other ways," he said, "I know how important it is that we're having this meeting." Bush called experts together for a meeting in the Maryland suburbs after shootings at schools in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania. In panel discussions led by members of his Cabinet, speakers said the best response is basic: get parents, school leaders, students and police to work together. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports CORRECiONS A box on page5 of yesterday's paper incorrectly gave the day when the Michigan Theater will screen "Zelig." It will run Oct. 16. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. BtUSINESS STAFF Robert Chin Display Sales Manager ASSRO ATE DISPLAYSALES MANAGERAR:Ben Shrotenhoer 'PEI AAL PROJECT MANAGER:Davi Dai -Kristina Diamantoni Classified Sales Manager ASSISTANTCLASSIFIED SALES MANAGER: Michael Moore j mily Cipriano Online Sales Manager Ryan VanTassel Finance Manager Brittany O'Keefe Layout Manager Chelsea Hoard Production Manager The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. 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But he's campaigning to retrace baldheaded Jesse Ventura's journey into the Minnesota gover- nor's mansion. Others are making similar long- shot runs for office. In Maine, two candidates from outside the major parties are attacking the status quo. InTexas,twoindependentcandidates are grabbing double-digit support. "People are really fed up with politics as usual. They think it's fundamentally broken," said Hutchinson, quick with one-lin- ers and sharp at debates. Voters, he said, are sick of politicians and their promises. "What they say to me is,'They think we're dumb."' Noneofthese third-party and inde- pendent candidates seems to have much chance of winning so far, but in a handful of gubernatorial races they're generating enough interest to potentially tip the election. Some politicians look at this year's crop of independent candi- dates and see dismay with today's political scene. 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