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NEWS BRIEFS
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
Governor Snyder
announces plan to
seek re-election
Gov. Rick Snyder says he plans
to seek re-election in 2014.
The first-term Republican
made the comment during an
appearance yesterday in Grand
Rapids.
Speaking at the Amway Grand
Plaza Hotel, Snyder said he
remains committed to the "10-
year plan" he developed with his
family. That included two years
of campaigning and eight years as
governor.
The businessman-turned-poli-
tician recently told The Associat-
ed Press he wasn't tied to running
for a second term if he's gotten
done in four years what he set out
to do, but didn't rule out seeking
re-election.
EL CENTRO, Calif.
Prince Harry to
receive military
training in U.S.
Prince Harry will arrive in the
United States next week to begin
a two-month military helicopter
training course to prepare him
for combat.
The prince, who is a British
Army captain, will start at the
Naval Air Facility at El Centro
where he will fly Apache heli-
copters in the remote California
desert near the Mexican border.
The facility hosts allied troops
throughout the year because its
hot, dusty conditions replicate
Afghanistan's harsh environment
and the clear weather allows for
constant flying.
WASHINGTON
Gabrielle Giffords
returns to capital
for Navy ceremony
Looking thrilled to be among
friends and colleagues, Demo-
cratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-
Ariz.) returned to Washington
yesterday to attend a Navy retire-
ment ceremony for her husband,
former astronaut Mark Kelly.
The visit marks the Arizona
congresswoman's second trip to
the nation's capital since she was
shot in the head last January while
meeting with constituents in Tuc-
son. About 30 people, including
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi,
greeted her and Kelly with a
standing ovation as they entered
the Secretary of War suite at the
Eisenhower Executive Building
next to the White House. Giffords
walked slowly and with a notice-
able limp, wearing running shoes
with her suit, but she looked over-
joyed to see some of her fellow
lawmakers again.
JERUSALEM
Israelis remember
Babi Yar massacre
With tears in his eyes, Michael
Sidko laid a wreath of flowers at
Israel's official Holocaust memo-
rial during a solemn ceremony
yesterdaymarking70years since a
World War II massacre he barely
escaped.
Sidko was six when he was
taken with his family to the Babi
Yar ravine outside Kiev, Ukraine
- then part of the Soviet Union
- to be murdered along with
the rest of that city's Jews. In
the two-day killing spree in Sep-
tember 1941, Nazi troops gunned
down more than 33,000 Jews and
buried them in mounds of dirt.
Among those murdered were
Sidko's mother and two of his sib-
lings. He and his older brother,
Grisha, were among the few who
managed to escape the killing
fields.
"How is it that everyone was
killed and only we survived?" he
asked, hands quivering. "I still
can't believe what happened there
and how I managed to get away. I
thank God I am here today."
At 76, he is one of the only living
survivors of an atrocity that has
become one of the defining events
of the Nazi genocide of 6 million
Jews.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports
Federal mandate
creates college
price calculators
KATHY KMONICEK/AP
Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila celebrates after New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez struck out in the ninth inning, and
the Tigers won Game 5 of baseball's American League division series 3-2 last night.
Tigers beat Yankees 3-2
to advance toALCS
Online estimator
helps students plan
education budgets
It sounds likea simple question:
How much is a college actually
goingto cost?
In fact, it's a slippery one. But
thanks to a federal mandate, a new
tool to help students and fami-
lies pin down an answer is finally
arriving this month: a fairly simple
online calculator to estimate what
you can expect to payto attend any
college in the United States.
The new "net price calculators"
- manyalreadyup and running on
college websites ahead of the Oct.
29 legal deadline - are designed
to provide the non-binding cost
estimatesbased on afew relatively
straightforward questions about
family finances.
More broadly, they're supposed
to help students navigate one ofthe
most confusing aspects of the col-
lege matchmaking process. While
a school's "list price" is usually
easy enough to identify, students
often don't hear until long after
they've applied and gotten accep-
tance letters what will be their
"net price" - the sometimes sub-
stantially lower cost after scholar-
ships and discounts are applied.
Now colleges are obliged to
make the estimating calculators
publicly available on their web-
sites. Supporters predict two main
effects, both positive. Some fami-
lies may be surprised how much
college will still cost them, but at
least they'll know more accurately
which schools are affordable, and
how much they need to save.
Other families, meanwhile,
may be pleasantly surprised by
the discounts, and won't cross off
potential matches for fear they're
unaffordable.
That could lead to more stu-
dents considering high-priced pri-
vate institutions where applicants
are often scared off by sticker
price shock.
"For those of us who are higher
cost, we get ruled out right off the
bat," said Linda Parker, director
of financial aid at Union College
in New York, which has had its
version of the net-price calcula-
tor running on its website since
January. "When they find out we
have pretty generous scholarships
we offer, and we meet full demon-
strated need for the students we
admit, it's not out of their reach."
At private, nonprofit four-year
colleges, the most recent College
Board annual survey reported
published tuition and fees: aver-
aged $27,293. That's expensive, to
be sure. But fewer people realize
full-time students at those schools
receive grant aid and tax breaks
totaling on average $16,000. The
average net cost of attending pri-
vate colleges has actually declined
over the last five years.
Take the example of a fic-
tional Massachusetts family, the
Medians, choosing between the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, the state's public flag-
ship institution, or to Amherst
College, an elite private liberal
arts school two miles down North
Pleasant Street. Amherst College
has much higher prices but also
a 10-figure endowment and sub-
stantial financial aid to spread
over its small student body.
Detroit Tigers
vying for first
World Series title
since 1984
NEW YORK (AP) - The
Detroit Tigers survived a tense
trip back to Bronx, with Jose Val-
verde and the bullpen holding on
time and time again to beat the
New York Yankees 3-2 last night
to win the deciding Game 5 of
their AL playoff series.
Don Kelly and Delmon Young
hit consecutive home runs in the
first inning, then Doug Fister
and the Tigers spent the rest of a
thrilling game tryingto preserve
their lead.
They did - barely - and
advanced to the AL champion-
ship series against Texas.
"It was a gutsy win, especially
with all the opportunities they
had," Kelly said.
Joaquin Benoit followed
Max Scherzer in the seventh
and walked Mark Teixeira with
the bases loaded, pulling the
Yankees within a run. Benoit
struck out Nick Swisher with
a 95 mph fastball to keep the
lead.
Then in the eighth, Brett
Gardner singled with two outs
before Derek Jeter flied out to
Kelly just in front of the right-
field wall.
Valverde finished with the
only 1-2-3 inning for Detroit
after the first, getting his second
save of the series and remaining
perfect in 51 chances this year.
After Valverde struck out Alex
Rodriguez to end it, the Tigers'
closer crouched and pumped
both arms as his teammates ran
out to celebrate.
"The Yankees are so good that
I would be lying if I said it didn't
give me a little extra satisfaction
to be able to do it here in the fifth
game," Tigers manager Jim Ley-
land said. "This will be a game
I'll remember for the rest of my
life."
While the Yankees were elim-
inated in the postseason with a
one-run loss at home for the first
time since the 1926 World Series
against St. Louis, Detroit won an
all-or-nothing postseason game
for the first time since beating
the Cardinals in Game 7 of the
1968 World Series.
With the Tigers vying for
their first World Series title since
1984, ace Justin Verlander will
start the ALCS opener at Texas
on Saturday night against the
Rangers' C.J. Wilson. This will
be Detroit's first trip to the ALCS
since 2006.
Before a new Yankee Stadium
record crowd of 50,960, New
York had its chances, but the
Yankees went 2 for 9 with run-
ners in scoring position and 0 for
4 with the bases loaded, and they
stranded 10 runners.
While the Yankees led the AL
with 97 wins during the regular
season, the early exit in the first
round and second straight sea-
son without a World Series title
will set off a restless offseason
search for more starting pitch-
ing and offense.
Rodriguez was 0 for 4 with
three strikeouts and hit .118 in
the series (2 for 18) and Teixeira
batted .167 (3 for 18). Robinson
Cano, whose fifth-inning solo
homer started the comeback
attempt, was the Yankees' pri-
mary offense with nine RBIs.
Kelly and Young homered on
the sixth and seventh pitches
from Ivan Nova, the Game 1win-
ner who led rookies with 16 wins
during the regular season and
hadn't loss in the majors since
June 3.
The homers were the first
back-to-back postseason shots
in Tigers' history, and it was
the third homer of the series for
Young, who was acquired from
Minnesota on Aug. 15. Kelly
was a surprise starter at third to
some.
Unseasonably warm
weather, field fires
threaten fall harvest
Farmers in take
precautions to
protect crops
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Farm-
ers usually hope for sunny
weather to help speed their har-
vest, but weeks of unseasonably
warm temperatures have dra-
matically increased the risk of
field fires, prompting growers to
take extra precautions as they
navigate equipment through dry
crops.
Thousands of acres of farm-
land already have caught fire
recently, including giant blazes
this week in central Nebraska
and south-central South Dako-
ta.
The National Weather Service
has issued "red flag warnings"
for firefighters and land manage-
ment agents in Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas, western Mis-
souri, eastern Colorado, North
Dakota and South Dakota. The
warning indicates a heightened
fire danger in those regions.
"It's not unusual to have some
fires this time of year," said
Denny Gorton, president of the
South Dakota Firefighters Asso-
ciation. "But to have this many
fires, of this size, with thousands
and thousands of acres burning
- that's extremely unusual."
Although a little rain is pos-
sible this weekend, the weather
is expected to remain warm.
The dry weather also means
the moisture content of corn
and soybeans in many areas is
far less than ideal, and unless it
improves farmers will be paid
less for their crops.
Regardless of the conditions,
farmers have little choice but
to begin harvesting when their
corn, soybeans or other crops are
ready.
Bruce Rowher, who grows
corn and soybean near the
northwest Iowa town of Paul-
lina, said he narrowly avoided a
fire recently on his property.
"I saw what looked like dust
blowing across the field and then
realized the dust started at a
point in the middle of the field so
I got out there and found embers
trying to ignite," he said.
Rowher, 59, said it appeared
some wires on his combine
shorted out and heated up dust
that had accumulated on the
machine. Rowher, who keeps a
fire extinguisher, water and a
shovel on his combine, managed
to douse the embers before they
could flame up.
"If I hadn't been looking and
been in the right place at the
right time it could have had a
different result," Rowher said
Thursday, as he was finishing
up harvesting 500 acres of soy-
beans.
Earl Ziegler, a 62-year-old soy-
bean famer from southern Min-
nesota, said this year is the worst
he's seen for fires. He knows of
six fires in his county alone. He
said all farmers can do to reduce
the risk is to check their equip-
ment closely.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fans his face during the Forum of Kings, Princes, Sultans, Sheikhs and Mayors of
Africa in Tripoli on Sept. 82010.
Gadhafi rallies Libyans to
disobey new government
Former Libyan
leader makes
his first public
remarks in weeks
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -
Moammar Gadhafi called on
Libyans to take to the streets
and wage a campaign of civil
disobedience against the coun-
try's new leaders yesterday -
the first word from the fugitive
leader in just over two weeks.
Gadhafi said the National
Transitional Council, which
has assumed leadership of
the country since then-rebel
forces swept into Tripoli in
late August, has no legitimacy
because it was not nominated
or appointed by the Libyan
people.
He called on his countrymen
to "go out in new million-man
marches in all cities and villages
and oases."
"Be courageous, rise up,
go out in the streets," he said.
"Raise the green flag in the skies
... the conditions in Libya are
unbearable."
Gadhafi made the appeal in
an poor quality audio recording
and it was not possible to verify
his identity, but it was broad-
cast on Syrian-based Al-Rai TV,
which has become the mouth-
piece of his resistance.
Revolutionary forces, aided
by NATO airstrikes, have
gained control over most of
the North African nation and
forced the leader and two of his
sons into hiding.
Gadhafi has made several
speeches on Al-Rai as he tries
to rally supporters, who are still
waging fierce resistance in his
besieged hometown of Sirte, the
town of Bani Walid southeast
of Tripoli and pockets in the
south.
He was last heard on Sept.
20 calling the revolution a
"charade gaining its legitimacy
through airstrikes."
The International Red Cross,
meanwhile, delivered medical
supplies and other humanitar-
ian aid to civilians in Sirte amid
rapidly deteriorating condi-
tions.
Dibeh Fakhr, a spokeswoman
for the International Commit-
tee of the Red Cross, said two
trucks entered Sirte and distrib-
uted the goods, which included
baby milk, hygiene kits, diapers
and clean drinking water.
It was the ICRC's third suc-
cessful foray into the Medi-
terranean coastal city since
Saturday, but the first time aid
workers reached the main hos-
pital.
Sirte, 250 miles (400 kilome-
ters) southeast of Tripoli, is the
most important of the pro-Gad-
hafi cities that are still holding
out against Libya's new rulers,
and its defenders have put up a
fierce resistance, with the two
sides trading artillery, tank and
mortar shelling.
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