8A - Monday, March 3, 2008 Why choose P(WE RSCORE for the Our students increase their LSAT score by an average of over 10 points. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Feds search Utah home in poison case EASTMAN From page 1A me," Eastman said. "I'm moving on. It's over, it's done." Had he been found guilty, Eastman could have faced three years of probation, a $1,000 fine and been forced to submit a DNA sample. Eastman denied the charges leading up to the trial, and said he planned to keep his post as president of RHA, which acts as the student government of Uni- versity residence halls. After his arrest last month, five of the eight RHA executive board members other than East- man stepped down. Some board members cited Eastman's arrest and refusal to step down as reasons for leav- ing. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - FBI agents on Sunday searched a Utah house and two storage units linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied on the Las Vegas Strip. The search of the home and units at a self-storage facility outside Salt Lake City was expected to be along, tedious process as agents operated carefully at sites where they could find the dangerous substance, FBI spokesman Juan Becerra said. No results of the ongoing search- eswereannouncedatapressconfer- ence late Sunday morning, but FBI Special Agent Timothy Fuhrman said "There is no indication of any terrorist act or activity." RogerVonBergendorff,the focus of the investigation, had lived in the Rivertonhouse formore than ayear before moving to Las Vegas about a year ago, said Tammy Ewell, who lives across the street. "He justbarely gotby in life. He'd just barely make it," Ewell said Sat- urday of the 57-year-old Von Ber- gendorff. He lived there with his cousin Thomas Tholen and his wife, said Ewell, who described the couple as close friends. Officials secured Tholen's home, but did not immediately search it because they were awaiting court approval for awarrant, FBI spokes- man Juan Becerra said later Satur- day. In a brief telephone interview, Thomas Tholen told The Associat- ed Press that Von Bergerdorff was "holding his own" in the hospital. Clinton, Obama say'green collar'jobs key to lifting sputtering Ohio economy ECONOMY From Page 1A Fully aware that tomorrow's nominating contests - which include Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont - could determine who wins the Democratic nomina- tion, Sens. HillaryClinton(D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill) have focused much of their attention on the delegate-rich state of Ohio. The Michigan legislature moved the state's primary before Feb. 5 to emphasize the state's suf- fering economy, defying the rules of the Democratic Party. As pun- ishment, the Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan of its delegates and prevented candi- dates from campaigning in Michi- gan. Both Michigan and Ohio suf- fered economically as manufac- turing jobs were sent overseas, and now both have unemployment rates significantly greater than the national average of 5 percent. Ohio is ranked 44th in the nation, with 5.8 percent of workers cur- rently jobless, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Michigan's unemployment rate - 7.6 percent - is the highest in the country. Since Nov. 2001, Michigan has lost 20 percent of its manufactur- ing jobs, according to the Econom- ic Policy Institute. Ohio has lost 15 percent of its manufacturing jobs over the same span. As a result, residents of both states have moved elsewhere look- ing for work. Accordingto the U. S. Census Bureau, the national popu- lation has grown by 7.2 percent while Ohio and Michigan's popula- tions have grown by just 1 percent over the same amount of time. In an address to students and teachers at Lakewood High School on Saturday, former president Bill Clinton promised his wife would revitalize Ohio's economy. "I believe you will have more prosperity, more jobs more fairly shared in the next term than you had in the 1990s when I was presi- dent," he said. "She will be better for you, better for the economy, better for middle class Ameri- cans." At a rally here last night, Mrs. Clinton said she was "absolutely optimistic" about her plans to achieve economic recovery - plans that are very similar to Obama's. Both candidates have criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it took a toll on Ohio's middle class workers. Both have said the manufac- turing jobs outsourced or elimi- nated in recent years won't be returning to the state. Both have promised to create "green collar" jobs - occupations that will move toward finding alternative energy sources - and education programs to former manufacturing workers who are now unemployed. Clin- ton called jobs in the renewable energy industry the "jobs of the future." Republican candidates, who campaigned in Michigan because the Republican National Commit- tee only stripped the party of half its delegates, discussed the creation of green collar jobs to stimulate the hurting Michigan economy. At a town hall meeting in Parma Heights, Ohio, Obama promised to eliminate tax breaks for com- panies who outsource jobs. He said he would provide tax incen- tives for the creation of jobs in new research and development fields in the United States. Obama's economic plan calls for a $150 billion investment for the creation of more green collar jobs over the next 10 years to move toward finding alternative energy sources and creating more jobs in those fields. 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