This is the archive for August 2006
By Rick LaPlante, Public Information Officer
New Haven Unified School District
UNION CITY - New Haven Unified School District students made solid gains - and in some cases very impressive gains - on the Academic Performance Index (API) and remained well above state standards for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) according to reports released today on tests taken during the 2005-2006 school year.
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Principal Don Montoya used the Logan public address system Wednesday to welcome thousands of returning students and more than a thousand members of the freshman Class of 2010.
Students lined up to receive their schedules before going to their first classes of the day. (Courier Photo)
Read the text of Principal Don Montoya's address.
Click here to see the daily schedule
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By Melissa M. Scallan
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
GULFPORT, Miss.-Hurricane Katrina was an anomaly, even before she was named.
Katrina is a storm meteorologists likely will study for years to come _ her size, strength and the vastness of her destruction made her the largest natural disaster ever to hit the United States. At her peak intensity, the storm stretched from Lafayette, La., to Panama City, Fla., approximately 325 miles.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
Addressing a long-standing need, the New Haven Unified School District will hire six additional counselors to serve students at the District's two high schools and three middle schools. Also, when classes resume Wednesday there will be more campus supervision at both the middle schools and at the District's eight elementary schools -- before school, after school and during lunch.
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By Drew Brown
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON _ The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are stretching the U.S. Marine Corps, forcing the service to take extraordinary measures to bolster both manpower and equipment.
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By Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON—President Bush issued an urgent call Monday for nations to join an international peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, and he pledged $230 million to help rebuild the war-ravaged country.
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By Laurie Goering
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
KIGALI, Rwanda — Sweden and Norway once claimed the world's highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda.
U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Donna Shelton (right) speaks with a Ugandan woman waiting to see a doctor at the Muslim health clinic in Soroti, Uganda, on Aug. 15, 2006, during exercise Natural Fire 2006. The exercise consists of military-to-military training as well as medical, veterinary, and engineering civic affairs programs conducted in rural areas throughout the region. Shelton is an international health specialist assigned to Detachment 2, 311th Human Services Wing. DoD photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky, U.S. Air Force.
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By Rick Barrett
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)
MILWAUKEE _ The surging demand for ethanol continues to drive construction of plants to make the home-grown fuel additive. It's also fueling farmers' hopes for better corn prices, although some remain skeptical of ethanol's staying power.
Only about 15 percent full this time of year, a warehouse that holds 3.5 million bushels of corn at Utica Energy LLC in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is filled to capacity during the harvest season. About 20 percent of Wisconsin's corn crop is destined for ethanol, which is significant considering the state didn't have an ethanol plant five years ago. (Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)
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By William Mullen
Chicago Tribune
(MCT)
CHICAGO _ A lucky adolescent male bottlenose dolphin is back to living nude and free in Florida's Sarasota Bay after making a potentially fatal wardrobe choice early this summer.
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By Jim Malone
VOA News
President Bush says he strongly disagrees with a federal judge's decision that the administration's eavesdropping program aimed at suspected terrorists is unconstitutional.
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By Brian Padden
VOA News
Despite an increased U.S. military presence in Baghdad, there was more sectarian violence Thursday. A car bomb and shooting attacks killed 11 people, and American military authorities now say that the violence in Iraq is at its highest level since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
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By Maya Bell
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
KEY WEST, Fla. _ For more than 40 years, they have lounged on Ernest Hemingway's bed, lolled in his garden, and sipped water from the urinal he dragged home from his favorite saloon—all to the delight of tourists from around the world.
But now the nearly 50 cats at The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, about half of whom bear a telltale sixth toe on their front paws, are felines non grata—scofflaws who, in the eyes of the federal government, must be better confined or kept under guard.
Ivan, impounded five times this year after scaling the wall at The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum in Key West, Florida, is ready to leave his cage, where he now spends much time in confinement. (Maya Bell/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Posted by courier at 07:20 AM. Filed under: News
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By Rick LaPlante
New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night held a study session to review information that will help formulate the Superintendent's recommendation on which two schools to close, in accord with the Board's decision to minimize the financial impact of declining enrollment and direct maximum resources to teaching and learning. The Board voted in May to close one elementary school at the start of the 2007-08 school year and one middle school in 2008-09, equating to ongoing cost reductions of approximately $1 million per year.
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By Ely Portillo
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON _ A new recycling initiative could remove tons of potentially deadly mercury from the environment, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, but critics and state administrators of similar programs are questioning whether the program will work, calling it underfunded and unrealistic.
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Courier Staff Report
The New Haven Unified School District reported today that its students are making "solid, steady progress" according to preliminary STAR (Standardized Testing and Results) scores cited in a press release.
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By James Hohmann
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — New at the University of California-Santa Cruz: Not only can students spend gobs of time on computer games, they can major in them, too.
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By Steve Herman, VOA News
The world's first earthquake early warning system has begun operating in Japan. The government-developed system takes advantage of the precious seconds between the first indication of a powerful tremor and the arrival of the second, destructive terrestrial shock. Some people have reservations about broadcasting such alerts.
If a large earthquake were to strike Japan today, some people would receive advance notice.
Posted by courier at 07:39 AM. Filed under: News
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By David Byrd, VOA News
The terrorist plot to blow up aircraft flying between Britain and the United States is having repercussions in many airports around the world.
Read the Department of Homeland Security's guidlines for airline passengers.
Posted by courier at 07:23 AM. Filed under: News
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By Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — After more than 1,000 years in obscurity, the last unreadable pages of the works of mathematician Archimedes are being deciphered, thanks to the X-ray vision at Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center.
To read more about the Archimedes Palimpsest project,
visit the project's website.
A page from the prayer book and the hidden text revealed by the accelerator.
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By Barry Wood
VOA News
The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday held short-term interest rates steady, breaking a pattern of 17 consecutive quarter point hike in rates going back over two years. The Fed is worried that more rate increases could push a slowing economy into recession.
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By VOA News
The United States and France are considering possible changes to a draft United Nations resolution aimed at ending the Israel-Hezbollah fighting.
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By Crystal Park
VOA News
The world of high fashion, which was once synonymous with expensive couture, used to be affordable only for the rich and famous. But, now, more and more children and young teenagers can be seen wearing clothing with designer labels, such as Louis Vuitton, or Christian Dior.
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By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
LIAOZHONG, China—This rural county seat in northeast China has an Internet cafe on almost every street, 63 in total, and most of them are full of young people passing time.
Parked in front of computer screens, they move through virtual dungeons to slay ogres and gather gold in online games.
But it's not mere idleness. Many of the gamers are working.
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By VOA News
More than 100,000 Shi'ite followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have marched in Baghdad in support of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.
The protesters, clad in white shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die, marched through the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City district Friday, bearing yellow Hezbollah flags. They chanted slogans in support of the militia's battle against Israel.
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By Frances Robles and Martin Merzer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI _ Cuban President Fidel Castro is in stable condition and recovering from surgery to stop intestinal bleeding, Cuban officials said Tuesday, but they issued no new photos of the 79-year-old dictator and provided little new information about his illness.
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By Tony Pugh
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON – Acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach testified Tuesday that he decided non-prescription sales of the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, should be limited to women aged 18 and older even though the agency determined in 2005 that the drug could safely be sold over-the-counter to 17-year-olds.
Posted by courier at 06:12 AM. Filed under: News
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By Jill Zuckman
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
WASHINGTON – Anxious to protect vulnerable Republicans facing voters in November, House GOP leaders gave the go-ahead for a vote early Saturday on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D, San Francisco, calls the GOP's move a "political stunt."
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By VOA News
Israeli forces are engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas on the ground near a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley, along the Syrian border.
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By VOA News
Cuba's President Fidel Castro has fallen ill and handed power to his brother, but the Cuban government says he is only stepping aside temporarily.
Fidel Castro
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