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Monday, September 8, 2008 - 3A
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, September 8, 2008 - 3A
NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
" White House
intervenes to save
Fannie, Freddie
The Bush administrationseized
control yesterday of troubled
mortgage giants Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, aiming to stabilize
the housing market turmoil that
is threatening financial markets
and the overall economy.
Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson is betting that providing
fresh capital to the two firms will
eventually lead to lower mortgage
rates, spur homebuying demand
and slow the plunge in home pric-
es that has ravaged many areas of
the country.
The huge potential liabilities
facingeach company, as a result of
soaring mortgage defaults, could
cost taxpayers tens of billions of
dollars, but Paulson stressed that
the financial impacts if the two
companies had been allowed to
fail would be far more serious.
KEY WEST, Florida
Gulf Coast, tired
from evacuations,
prepares for Ike
With powerful Hurricane Ike
on an uncertain course toward
the Gulf of Mexico, many on these
low-lying islands took a wait-and-
see approach to evacuation orders
yesterday, perhaps a harbinger of
the attitudes to come from Louisi-
ana and Texas residents returning
. from an arduous evacuation and
already showing signs of "hurri-
cane fatigue."
Forecasts show ke crossing
Cuba and skirting Key West by to-
morrow on a trek to the warm wa-
ters of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly
strengthening to perhaps Catego-
ry 3 strength on its way to a land-
fall late in the week somewhere
between the Florida Panhandle
and the Texas coast.
And once again, New Orleans
- still recovering from the weak-
er-than-expected Gustav - is
squarely in the crosshairs.
CAIRO
At feast32-feared
dead in rock slide-
Hopes diminished yesterday for
finding any survivors among hun-
dreds of people believed trapped
" beneath massive boulders that
I destroyed an impoverished neigh-
borhood on Cairo's outskirts, kill-
ing at least 32 people, including
whole extended families.
Anger and resentment mounted
" as authorities failed for a second
day to get heavy machinery into
the devastated shantytown to try
to clear the large slabs that split
away from the Muqattam cliffs
early Saturday. Survivors among
the 100,000 residents of the Dewi-
ka slum were also left to spend the
night without shelter, despite gov-
ernment promises to provide it.
TRENTON, New Jersey
Obese children
more at risk to
suffer liver damage
In a new and disturbing twist
on the obesity epidemic, some
overweight teenagers have severe
liver damage caused by too much
body fat, and ahandful have need-
ed liver transplants.
Many more may need a new
liver by their 30s or 40s, say
experts warning that pediatri-
cians need to be more vigilant.
The condition, which can lead to
cirrhosis and liver failure or liver
cancer, is being seen in kids in
the United States, Europe, Aus-
tralia and even some developing
countries, according to a surge of
recent medical studies and doc-
tors interviewed by The Associ-
ated Press.
The American Liver Founda-
tion and other experts estimate 2
percent to 5 percent of American.
children over age 5, have the con-
dition, called nonalcoholic fatty
liver disease.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
S U.. DE ATHS
91455
Number of American service
members who have died in the
war in Iraq, according to The
Associated Press. There were no
deaths identified yesterday.
Men arrested for stealing 3 tons
of steel from North Campus lab
Abduction suspect
arraigned, charged
Steel turned up at.
scrap yard in Wayne
By JILLIAN BERMAN
Daily StaffReporter
Wayne County Police arrested
two men on Tuesday suspected of
stealing nearly three tons of stain-
less steel stored near the Lay Auto-
motive Lab on North Campus.
University Police spokes-
woman Diane Brown said thieves
didn't steal the steel all at once.
The theft was preorted to police
Aug. 26.
"These two men and perhaps
others - we don't know - took
it over the course of apparently
multiple occasions," she said.
Linden Vann of Wayne and
Matthew Reusch of Westland
were charged with two counts of
larceny greater than $20,000 and
two counts of larceny of greater
than $10,000, after it was discov-
ered that they sold the steel to
scrap yards, the Ann Arbor News
reported Friday.
The men stole 11 pieces of steel
weighing about 5,900 pounds,
according to the report.
Brown said the steelwas recov-
ered two days after the crime was
reported.
Brown said the investigation
contacted several scrap yards in
southeast Michigan before deter-
mining that the stolen steel was
in Wayne.
Brown said she didn't know
how much they sold the steel for.
According to court records,
the suspects were released on
bond until Sept. 17, when they're
scheduled for a preliminary hear-
ing. Both entered not guilty pleas
Tuesday and requested public
defenders.
Machine to simulate Big Bang-results
Ann Arbor man held
on $1-million bond
By SARA LYNNE THELEN
Daily StaffReporter
A man suspected of attempting to
abduct and assault two women last
Sunday on Ann Arbor's south side
was arraigned and charged Friday
on two counts of kidnapping and
two counts of assault with intent to
commit criminal sexual conduct.
The suspect, 40-year-old Ann
Arbor resident Timothy Jon Case, is
being held on a $1 million bond in the
Washtenaw County Jail as he awaits
his Sept.17 pretrial examination.
Case, a local contractor, also
faces charges for the delivery and
manufacture of marijuana. Detec-
tives found about a dozen marijuana
plants in his home the day of his
arrest.
Case lives with relatives on
Burton Road, two miles from the
intersection of Packard Street and
Independence Boulevard, where
the crimes occurred.
In the first incident, an attacker
pulled a 20-year-old University
student into the bushes on Inde-
pendence Boulevard around 8:30
p.m. on Sunday. She fought free
and ran away to a nearby. home.
About an hour later, a man drove up
beside a 16-year-old girl jogging in
the same area, punched her several
times and pulled her into his van.
She jumped from the vehicle when
he began to drive away.
Police suspect the same man was
responsible for both assaults.
Ann Arbor Police Officer Eric
Ronewicz said he recognized the
descriptions of Case from a prior
arrest.
Ronewicz said he visited Case's
home on a hunch Monday and found
a van in the driveway that matched
the victim descriptions. He then
tipped off detectives, who arrested
Case in his home two days later.
Ross School of Business graduate
student Nemanja Babic, who lives
off Independence Boulevard, said
he and his friends were shocked to
learn about the crimes.
"We had a party here that night,
and everyone freaked out because
this is Ann Arbor," he said. "This
doesn't happen inAnn Arbor."
Ann Arbor resident Mike Mahon,
who lives on Independence Boule-
vard with his wife and 3-month-old
son, said the incidents were a harsh
reminder for the community not to
take the neighborhood's safety for
granted.
"It's been a hot topic of conver-
sation in the neighborhood for the
past week," he said. "You learnfrom
these things, and it helps to realize
that even though it's an isolated
incident, that the potential is there
and that you have to be safe."
. GENEVA (AP) - It has been
called an Alice in Wonderland
investigation into the makeup
of the universe - or dangerous
tampering with nature that could
spell doomsday.
Whatever the case, the most
powerful atom-smasher ever
built comes online Wednesday,
eagerly anticipated by scientists
worldwide who have awaited this
moment for two decades.
The multibillion-dollar Large
Hadron Collider will explore the
tiniest particles and come ever
closer to re-enacting the big bang,
the theory that a colossal explo-
sion created the universe.
The machine at CERN, the
EuropeanOrganizationfor Nucle-
ar Research, promises scientists a
closer look at the makeup of mat-
ter, filling in gaps in knowledge.
The first beams of protons will
be fired around the 17-mile tunnel
to test the controlling strength of
the world's largest superconduct-
ing magnets. It will still be about
a month before beams traveling in
opposite directions are brought
together in collisions that some
skeptics fear could create micro
"black holes" and endanger the
planet. ,
The project has attracted
researchers of 80 nationalities,
some 1,200 of them from the
United States, which contributed
$531 million of the project's price
tag of nearly $4 billion.
"This only happens once a gen-
eration," said Katie Yurkewicz,
spokeswoman for the U.S. contin-
gent at the CERN project. "People
are certainly very excited."
The collider at Fermilab out-
side Chicago could beat CERN to
some discoveries, but the Geneva
equipment, generating seven
times more energy than Fermilab,
will give it big advantages.
The CERN collider is designed
to push the proton beam close to
the speed of light.
Iraqi lawmakers return to session after summer recess
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they want to incorporate into their
busy start self-ruled region in the north.
U.N. and Iraqi election offi-
cials warn the balloting cannot be
IDAD (AP) - Iraqi law- held this year unless parliament
end their summer break approves the measure quickly after
ek facing urgent tasks of it reconvenes Tuesday.
ng a new election law and But weeks of private meetings
off on a still-unfinished and contacts among Sunni Arab,
pact with the U.S. - key Shiite and Kurdish lawmakers have
laying the foundation for a failed to produce any breakthrough
'eace. on the issue, and it was unclear
275-member legislature whether the bill would win speedy
st month to approve a law approval.
ig for provincial elections U.S. and Iraqi officials believe
new elections in Iraq's 18 prov-
inces are an essential step to build-
ing a long-term peace among the
country's rival religious and ethnic
communities. Voters will choose
provincial councils, which wield
considerable power at the local
level.
Many Sunnis and some Shiites
boycotted the last provincial elec-
tion, in January 2005, enabling Shi-
ite religious parties and the Kurds
to win a disproportionate share of
power at the expense of the Sunnis.
However, deputy parlia-
ment speaker Khalid al-Attiyah
expressed doubt that the assembly
would be able to approve the elec-
tion bill quickly.
"I am frustrated with the perfor-
mance of parliament," al-Attiyah, a
Shiite, told The Associated Press on
Sunday. "There are many laws that
should have been passed, but par-
liament failed to do so. The election
bill is still a problem, and we are
pressed for time."
He said, that if the legislature
can't enact a new law, the current
provincial administrations will be
"illegitimate" and "this will lead us
into a new political crisis."
Sunni lawmaker Adnan al-Du-
laimi said further delays in the elec-
tion bill "will create a new crisis, a
big one" because political groups
that were organized after the last
balloting will feel they are being
denied a role in government.
During the upcoming session,
parliament must also ratify a secu-
rity agreement between the U.S.
and Iraq governing the status of
U.S. troops here after the U.N.
Security Council mandate expires
at the end of the year.
But the talks have hit an impasse
over U.S. insistence on retaining
sole legal jurisdiction over Ameri-
can troops in Iraq and differences
over a schedule for the departure
of the U.S. military. Iraqi officials
want all foreign troops out by the
end of 2011.
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