…WS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwwmklhgandailycom One hundred ten nears re editor,'ad reedom Monday July 30, 2002 M-Pulse, the University's solar car, races along Route 66 near Edmond, Okla., last Wednesday en route to winning the American Solar Challenge. The race began in Chicago and finished in Claremont, Calif. Sun shines as M-Pulse cruises to title 'U, experts respond to SirCam outbreak By Maria Sprow Daily News Editor Officials fi...…
…[1f1t 'irr1Y rrt rw 4a tirirr WS: 6-DAILY CLA siFIED: 764-0557 wAw.ech.gandaily.com One hundred ten years ofedtorii/freedom Embryonic stem cell use topic of discussion at 'U' ;4wPII45 Monday August 6, 2001 ALL FORYOU By Whitney Elliott Daily StaffReporter As the scientific community continues to recognize stem cell research as a means to discover treatments for many common dis- eases, the use of embryos in the research has sparked debate ...…
…. : . . NEWS: 76-DAlLY CLASSIFIED: 764-1 K _ E } . ' t- #an One hundred ten nears of editorial freedom 557 Monday August 13, 2001 Stemn cei research funds limited By Maria Sprow Daily News Editor President Bush took the middle road in a controversial issue Thursday, announcing his decision to fund research on existing embryonic stem cell lines but denying funds for research on embryonic stem cells that have not aheady been cultured. "As...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 5, 2001 NATION/WORLD Suicide bomber injures 13 near school The Washington Post JERUSALEM - Dressed in the skullcap, white shirt and black pants of a devout Jew, a Palestinian suicide bomber was just blocks from the heart of ,downtown Jerusalem yesterday morning when a pair ,of Israeli policemen became suspicious. As they ran up to him yelling "Stop!" the bomber turned, smiled from behind a bea...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 6, 2001 NATION/WORLD Fox presses WASHINGTON (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox, the first state visitor of the Bush presi- dency, challenged the United States yesterday to strike an agreement on immigration reform by the end of the year. President Bush said "there is no more important relationship" than Mexico's but did not embrace Fox's ambitious deadline. The public challenge surprised U.S. ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 7, 2001 NATION/WORLD Feds drop Microsoft breakup plan WASHINGTON (AP) - In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration yesterday abandoned the Clin- ton-era effort to break up Microsoft. It suggested a lesser antitrust penalty that could still force changes to the company's new Windows operating system. The Justice Department also dropped charges that the software giant illegally hurt competitors by ...…
…2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 10, 2001 NATION/WORLD FBI studies Hoffa DNA, disappearance NEWS'V IN BRIEF f--r SACRAMENTO, Calif. Police launch manhunt for another killer 4 BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- Nearly three decades after Jimmy Hoffa vanished, a close friend of the former Teamsters boss said he understands the Hoffa family's grief, but not its belief that he holds some responsibility for Hoffa's disappearance. Charles "Chuck...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 NATION/WORLD Tapping Social Security seems likely The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Top Republican officials yes- terday sought to calm fears that President Bush's economic policies jeopardized the Social Security program, reassuring retirees that their benefits would be safe even if the government dipped into the pro- gram's surplus funds. While Republicans in both chambers of Congress d...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 12, 2001 AMERICA IN CRISIS I Bush.: WASHINGTON (AP) - A grim-faced Presi- dent Bush mourned the deaths of thousands of Americans in yesterday's atrocities and vowed to avenge their killings. "Today, our nation saw evil" he said. In his first prime-time Oval Office address, Bush said the United States would retaliate against "those behind these evil acts," and any country that harbors them. Bush...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 13, 2001 NATION/WORLD a Passengers may have thwarted terrorists NEWS IN BRIEF mm. u'kmm' u "" eawa'"a"u m'u&m mani'.m' SI-IANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Just before United Flight 93 crashed, some of the passengers learned of the attacks on the World Trade Center and may have tried to overpower their hijackers and keep the jetlin- er from hitting another landmark. Authorities have not disclosed whether ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Cheney moved, Capitol evacuated NATION/WORLD I Actions are part of tightening D.C. security, N.Y. airports closed WASHINGTON (AP) - Two days after the worst terrorist attack in Ameri- can history, officials widened the secu- rity buffer around the White House, moved Vice President Dick Cheney to Camp David and closed New York's three airports to incoming flights. The Capitol was evacuat...…
…; 2A --The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 17, 2001 NATION/WORLD Arafat and Sharon split over talks JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel and the Palestini- ans argued yesterday over conditions needed to begin truce talks, while Israeli tanks entered the West Bank city of Ramallah in a retaliatory raid, provoking a shootout that killed one Palestinian and one Israeli soldier. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said truce talks could begin only after...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 18, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Bush visits mosque, urges tolerance WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush visited a mosque and bought coffee for a cafeteria full of aides yes- terday as he appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not turn against their Muslim neighbors. In his socks, as is Muslim practice, Bush padded through the ornate mosque on Washington's Embassy Row and heard stories f...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 19, 2001 NATION/WORLD Cease-fire called in Middle East NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLIES FRO ARUDTH 'OL Israel witkdraws tanks rom areas recentlyseiz edn:.: JERUSALEM (AP) - In steps toward a truce, Israel promised yesterday not to launch strikes on the Palestinians after Yasser Arafat said he ordered his forces to prevent attacks on Israelis and to hold back even from responding to fire. Israel also wi...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 20, 2001 NATION/WORLD Tenuous Mideast truce holds despite gun battle JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian police enforced an informal truce with Israel yesterday, patrolling hot spots, and both sides agreed to renew U.S.-hosted talks on resuming security coordination. The calm was disrupted by an explosion at a Jewish settlement that injured two Israelis and a two-hour gun battle in the West Bank town o...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 21, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Arafat tries to maintain relations TEL AVIV, Israel - When an Israeli mother of three was killed yesterday in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank, U.S. Consul Ronald Schlicher, the Jerusalem'based diplomat who maintains U.S. con- tacts with Palestinian leaders, quickly called Yasser Arafat to ask what he was going to do about it. Arafat, desperately trying to remain in t...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 24, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 raders plan for more uncertainty NEW YORK (AP) - Still recuperat- ing from one of Wall Street's worst sho'wings ever, investors are preparing for another week of uncertain stock trading. i With the economic fallout from the terrorist attacks still being assessed and the prospect of military action, many investors and analysts expect more, bumpy sessions. Even news of a $1...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 25, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Israeli woman killed in ambush The Baltimore Sun JERUSALEM - Until dawn yesterday, truce talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority seemed as if they might finally take place. No guns had been fired by either side for 12 hours. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon even acknowledged the possibility that the Palestinians would one day have their own state. That perio...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 26, 2001 NATION/WORLD q Giuliani receives write-in votes NEW YORK (AP) - With smoke still rising from the World Trade Center ruins, New Yorkers chose their candidates for mayor yesterday in pri- maries turned upside down by the disaster and the possibility that Rudolph Giuliani may try to stay on to steer the city through its crisis. Billionaire media owner Michael Bloomberg had a commanding l...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 27, 2001 NATION/WORLD Peres, Arafat in truce tal GAZA INTERNATIONAL AIR- PORT, Gaza Strip (AP) - In truce talks held at the urging of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians agreed yesterday on a series of confi- dence-building measures aimed at ending a year of fighting. The two sides said they wou.ld resume security coordination and exert maximum efforts to enforce a cease- fire. In a f...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 28, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Officer's acquittal sparks unrest NEWS IN BRIEF; HEDLNE FR ARUDTH SOL k . 4. * ; ...Y ". Id CINCINNATI (AP) - Police said an overnight curfew helped them keep order when black protesters set fires and threw rocks and bottles after a judge cleared a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man. Mayor Charlie Luken declared a state of emergency Wednesday nigh...…
…2A- The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 1, 2001 NATION/WORLD E Market in limbo: How low can it go? NEWSiN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD .. . NETW YORK (AP) -- A e d.: A. ld hif k, -. .- 1V C VVI Vt1 k~)- Hyr an a[I half ago, the markets seemed invinci- ble attheir lofty heights. The Dow Jones industrials had soared above 11,700 points and the Nasdaq composite index hovered near 5,000. Now even more modest targets of 10,000 on t...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 2, 2001 NATION/WORLD MCCAIN Continued from Page 1 Schwarz, however, faces name recognition problems in his run, and one pundit, Bill Rustem, a senior vice president with Lansing- based think tank Public Sector Con- sultants, ventured so far as to say, "Dick Posthumus has pretty much got it locked up right now." Rustem said Posthumus has effectively used the perks and prominence of his office to meet...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 3, 2001 COLUMBIA S NEW PRESIDENT Despite some recent problems, most acul will miss Bollinger By Whitney Elliott and David Enders Daily Staff Reporters Despite recent tension between University faculty and University President Lee Bollinger, many pro- fessors who have seen a number of University presi- dents agree the greenest grass has grown during Bollinger's tenure. "Bollinger has been an outsta...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 4, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Six die after bus driver's throat slashed MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - A passenger on a Greyhound bus cut the driver's throat yesterday, causing a crash that killed six of the 40 people aboard and prompted Greyhound to temporarily halt service nationwide. The driver told authorities the attacker used a box cutter. The driver was treated for a cut to his neck and was stable aft...…
…2 -- The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 5, 2001 NATION/WORLD Bush pledges $3B in layoff aid WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, saying terrorism has "sent a shock wave throughout our econ- omy" pledged yesterday to extend unemployment ben- efits aid provide $3 billion in emergency aid to workers laid off because of the assaults. With fresh signs of trouble in the economy, Bush said he and other political leaders "hear the cries of those wh...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 8, 2001 NATION/WORLD Food drops included in strikes WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military strikes yesterday in Afghanistan included airdrops of food, medicine and other humanitari- an supplies, defense officials said. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld two C-17 cargo planes dropped 37,500 food packets to starv- ing Afghans on the first day of airstrikes to underscore the message that the strikes a...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 9, 2001 NATION/WORLD I FBI BOCA RATON, Fla. took over the investigati Florida man after the ge a co-worker and on ac office. Hundreds of peop lined up to get medical t Attorney General Jo could become "a clear ci "We don't have eno whether this could be re said during a news confe The FBI sealed off th ing several supermarketI where both men worked gear before going inside How the bacterial spc off...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4 NATION/WORLD No new anthrax cases reported BOCA RATON, Fla.(AP) - Investigators have found no further sign of anthrax in the office of a man killed by the disease since traces were found on his computer keyboard and in the nose of a co-worker, health officials said yesterday. There have been no additional cases of contamina- tion, Florida health department spokesman Tim O'Connor said....…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 11, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 3rd anthrax case detected in Fla. BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A third person who worked at a Florida company has tested positive for anthrax and the case has become the subject of a fed- eral criminal investigation, authorities said yesterday. The 35-year-old woman, whose name wasn't dis- closed, was hospitalized after a swab of her nasal passages found traces of anthrax. She...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 12,,2001 NATION/WORLD 4 One anthrax victim returns to work BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - One of the three supermarket tabloid employees who were exposed to anthrax returned to work yesterday while investigators awaited test results that might help them find the source of the bacteria that killed one of her co-workers. The 35-year-old woman "is back at work and taking her medication," said Gerald McKelve...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 15, 2001 NATION/WORLD A Israeli shooting defies cease-fire JERUSALEM (AP) - Firing from long range yesterday, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian militant accused of orchestrating a suicide bombing that killed 22 people in June. Yesterday's shooting raised Mideast tensions, but Israel said it was prepared to scale back some securi- ty restrictions imposed on Palestinians. Palestinians cal...…
…4 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 16, 2001 NATION/WORLD Powell seeks to bolster Musharraf Los Angeles Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived yesterday in Pakistan with political and military offers to reinforce the government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, including a compromise formula for a new government in neigh- boring Afghanistan that would allow some Taliban members to participate. But Powe...…
…2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 17, 2001 NATION/WORLD stan wi The Washington Post NEW DELHI, India - Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged yesterday that a majority of his countrymen oppose the U.S.-led mili- tary action in neighboring Afghanistan but told Secre- tary of State Colin Powell during meetings in. Islamabad that Pakistan would remain part of the war effort as long as the campaign's goals remain unme...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 18, 2001 NATION/WORLD Israeli minister gunned down JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's tourism minister, a. retired general who advocated the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, was assassinated yesterday in a hotel hallway - a killing claimed by a radical Palestinian group. Rehavam Zeevi was the first Cabinet minister to be slain by Palestinians. his killing provoked out- rage in Israe...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 19, 2001 NATION/WORLD Sharon threatens war on Arafat JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel issued an ultima- tum yesterday to Yasser Arafat to hand over the assassins of a Cabinet minister or face harsh retri- bution. In a first step, Israel seized some Palestin- ian territory and doctors said three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old school girl, were killed by Israeli fire. Israel did not give Arafat a deadlin...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 22, 2001 NATION/WORLD Israel tightens grip on West Bank JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli tanks Bethlehem, where Palestinians said moved deeper into West Bank yester- three people were killed by Israeli day, tightening their grip on biblical gunfire - a police officer and a civil- "1 17 Bethlehem and five other towns in the ian in a nearby refugee campand NEWS IN BRIEF ,l 1 i i1L'K - saws.. NUMtULJfpr -...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 23, 2001 NATION/WORLD 0 U.S. Embassy in Paris was target NEWS IN BRIEF LONDON The Washington Post PARIS - As 19 hijackers around the United States prepared this summer for a deadly day in September, authorities say a related but decidedly different Islamic network was plotting an attack on an American symbol in the heart of Europe: the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The European network also allegedly to...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 24, 2001 NATION/WORLD ongress trng to resume work NEWS IN BRIEF ARUDHEADLINES FROM ARUDTH OL The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Expressing more frustration than fear, members of Congress returned to work yes- terday, holing up in makeshift accommodations with skeletal staffs as environmental technicians continued to scour six House and Senate office buildings for anthrax contamination. So far, auth...…
…0 2A -The Michigan Daily -Thursday, October 25, 2001 NATION/WORLD Israel attacks West Ba The Washington Post NABIL SALEH, West Bank - Undeterred by U.S. appeals for calm, Israel launched a predawn raid on a Palestinian village in the West Bank yesterday, killing at least six people and arresting about a dozen, including some it described as suspects in last week's assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister. Palestinians said at least n...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 26, 2001 NATION/WORLD State Dept. employee has anthrax WASHINGTON (AP) - A State Department mail handler lay ill with inhalation anthrax yes- terday and the besieged Postal Service set up spot checks at facilities nationwide as the bioterror scare widened. "We still don't know who is responsible," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. At a White House news conference, Ridge also dis- closed that...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 29, 2001 NATION WORLD 4 Gunmen kill Catholics in Pakistan NEWS IN BRIEF . HEADLINES ROM AROUNDTWORLDN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gunmen burst into a Roman Catholic church in eastern Pakistan during services yesterday morning and sprayed the congregation with bullets, killing at least 16, people. including the clergyman and several chil- dren, according to police and church officials. The assault in Be...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 30, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 more anthrax Cases in Washington The Washington Post ' WASHINGTON - Tests revealed the presence of anthrax spores in four more government buildings in downtown Washington yesterday, and officials said a ' New Jersey woman who does not work in a mail- room has contracted the skin form of the disease. In another sign of the contamination spreading from the District of Columbia'...…
…2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 31, 2001 NATION/WORLD Anthrax scares disrupt capital NEWS IN BRIEF enmamsm sru mrasmnasm maa i , i .., ~ f £ 9 rl t L A ll L 11-4 L. 0 L' IN %-1 1Y1 t] IN ki Li 1 V " 1 11 1: VV " IS L, LI WASHINGTON (AP) - Bioterrorism is being felt across all three branches of government: Supreme Court justices are camped out in borrowed quarters; lawmakers are scattered around town; mail to the White House a...…
…I 2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 1, 2001 4 -I Sharon still resists U.S. call to withdraw Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - Israeli forces yes- terday assassinated an Arab militant, killed three Palestinians they said had fired on them and raided a West Bank village where they arrested six people, including a man they called a would- be suicide bomber. The moves came as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continued to defy American reques...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 2, 2001 N ATION/WORLD S House passesGO seCUrty bil WASHINGTON (AP) - The House passed aviation security legislation yesterday after rejecting a Senate version that would have turned airport screening operations over to fed- eral employees. The vote was a major victory for the White House and its Republican allies. The bill, which takes steps to make airplanes and airports safer from attack, passed...…
…2A - The blichigan Daily - Monday, November 5, 2001 NATION/WORLD Taliban fri ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - After four weeks of U.S. attacks, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are no longer "functioning as a government," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yester- day. But an opposition attack on a key northern city was reported faltering only hours after it was launched. That raised doubts whether the factious, poorly armed northern alliance o...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 6, 2001 NATION/WORLD %v 'Lion's share' no longer in custody WASHINGTON (AP) - Most of the people arrested on unrelated criminal charges by investigators probing the Sept. 11 attacks have been released, the White House said yesterday. "The lion's share of the people are not still in custody," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "The over- whelming number of the people were detained, they we...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 7, 2001 NATION/WORLD *1 Democrats win in NJ. and Virginia NEWS IN BRIEF 6 n" Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Democrats rolled to victory in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races last night, recapturing seats Republicans have held for the last eight years. Though the races turned more on local dynamics than on national themes, the twin gubernatorial wins by venture capitalist Mark W...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 8, 2001 NATION/WORLD U.S. cracks down on money trails WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration carried out a series of raids yesterday on U.S. busi- nesses suspected of helping to funnel nillions of dollars to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, arresting a Massachusetts man and seizing evidence in several cities. Overseas, two Arab financiers were questioned by Swiss police cooperating with th...…
