Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from November 2001:
Life of U.S. Mint's engraver remembered through his work
Nov 04, 2001; ... Collectors across the country have celebrated the life's work ofFrank Gasparro, the gentle sculptor who was chief engraver of theU.S. Mint from 1965 to 1981. At his death in September, he had designed more circulating coinsthan any other sculptor in the mint's history. He designed ...
Killer hurricane nears Cuba, on course to hit Florida: ; 150,000 evacuated in Havana; death toll stands at 12
Nov 04, 2001; ... HAVANA - Authorities ordered 150,000 people evacuated in Havanaon Saturday as a strengthening Hurricane Michelle prepared to pummelparts of Cuba before possibly moving on to Florida and the Bahamas. A powerful category 4 storm with sustained winds near 135 mph andgusts even ...
Humanitarian catastrophe feared: ; With fresh snow, tough times loom in Afghanistan - for everyone
Nov 04, 2001; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - The light dusting of snow that fell earlySaturday on the hills above Kabul heralds the advent of winter,adding to fears of a humanitarian catastrophe for this beleagueredcapital at war. The coming winter is already affecting American militaryoperations in the ...
Lighten up, haulers say: ; Coal truck owners hoping legislators ease weight limits; Latest state crackdown could close their doors, company officials fear
Nov 04, 2001; ... tara@wvgazette.com Ten jobs might not seem like a lot. Ten men laid off, 10 coaltrucks idled. But Teddy Berry has spent 40 years building his Cedar Grovebusiness. Thanks to a two-month crackdown on overweight coal trucks,he says, this year might be the last for Berry ...
Prosecutor to go after all involved: ; Shippers, receivers could face citations or criminal charges
Nov 04, 2001; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Kanawha County prosecutor Mike Clifford said his staff is takinga close look at growing problems from overweight coal trucks on theroads in Kanawha and nearby counties. Clifford said his office is studying the problem, in the wake ofserious accidents in ...
Today's News
Nov 04, 2001 ... AP photo An Israeli soldier atop an armored vehicle watches a bulldozerblocking a dirt road Saturday in the Palestinian-controlled areanear the West Bank town of Ramallah. Violence continued, withIsraeli tanks firing shells and heavy machine-gun fire at ...
Today's News
Nov 04, 2001 ... *** A prosecutor, a bartender, a data analyst, a social servicesemployee, several police officers and some students. It's a groupwith little in common except for one thing: All have volunteered tobe "citizen witnesses" for executions in Virginia. Story/5A *** Sandy ...
U.S., Russian diplomats make progress on missile defense
Nov 04, 2001; ... MOSCOW - Top U.S. and Russian defense officials indicatedprogress Saturday in one area of their talks on arms control -weapons reductions - but signaled no breakthrough on U.S. plans tobuild a new missile shield. With 10 days to go before a key U.S.-Russian presidential ...
Concern over Pakistan's nuclear weapons prompts new approach from U.S. officials
Nov 04, 2001; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Concerned that Osama bin Laden is seekingto get his hands on nuclear weapons, the United States has droppedits punitive measures against Pakistan's nuclear program and is nowoffering to advise the country on securing its stockpile. The Americans spent a decade ...
Witness for the execution: Virginians volunteer to watch
Nov 04, 2001; ... RICHMOND, Va. - A prosecutor, a bartender, a data analyst, asocial services employee, several police officers and some students. It's a group with little in common except for one thing: All havevolunteered to be "citizen witnesses" for executions in Virginia. "It's not ...
Authorities try to discern likely targets of another attack
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - As U.S. officials try to discern the next likelytargets of possible terrorist attacks, they are evaluatinguncorroborated tips and concrete intelligence, using some basiccommon sense - and dealing with a whole lot of theories. The United States has stepped up security ...
Bin Laden criticizes Arabs in new video
Nov 04, 2001; ... CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden condemned Arab leaders who turn tothe United Nations for peace negotiations, saying in a videotapebroadcast Saturday that this amounts to a renunciation of Islam. "They are infidels," said bin Laden, whom the United Statesbelieves was behind the Sept ....
Investigators search for anthrax clues
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Puzzled investigators were conducting a second roundof environmental testing in hopes of figuring out how a New Yorkwoman was infected with a deadly case of anthrax. Authoritiesexamined suspicious packages and powders, including a letter whosepostmark and handwriting raised ...
Quickie anthrax tests shaky
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Quickie tests to determine whether there's anthraxin mailrooms or offices - or in nostrils - are proving pretty shaky.They've produced false positives and negatives and miss anthrax inits deadliest fine-grained form, according to top health officials. Still, the ...
Government has strategy to deal with smallpox
Nov 04, 2001; ... ATLANTA - The government has begun taking steps to cope with thepossibility of a terrorist attack involving smallpox by trainingdoctors to recognize the disease and by vaccinating small teams ofexperts who would rush to any part of the country to contain andtreat a suspected ...
Healthy people could likely fight off anthrax, biologists say
Nov 04, 2001; ... When it comes to contracting diseases like anthrax, everyone isnot created equal. Biologists say healthy people with strong immune systems couldlikely fight off anthrax even if they inhaled a small dose. "There are people out there who think that one spore landing onthem is ...
Dusty archives could shed light on bioterror threat
Nov 04, 2001; ... NEW YORK - During a sultry June week in 1966, mysterious menriding the New York subway walked through the train, pausing betweencars to drop small objects on the tracks below. Anybody who got a good look would have recognized the objects asordinary light bulbs. What other riders ...
Terrorists almost corporate in attacks' strategy
Nov 04, 2001; ... American Airlines Flight 11 was in line for takeoff from LoganInternational Airport, the passengers already reminded to turn offpersonal electronic devices, when Mohamed Atta, in seat 8D in firstclass, dialed his cell phone for the last time. The call rang aboard another sparsely ...
Coalition ties bind some, chafe others
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's coalition againstterrorism includes several nations so hostile toward each other thattheir quarrels threaten to weaken the war against Osama bin Ladenand the Taliban. President Bush and his top national security advisers say all iswell with ...
War is Shell in Nigeria's Ogoniland
Nov 04, 2001; ... BAEN, Nigeria - Friday Nwiido was shot by police in a showdownover a stolen oil company truck. Doctors at Royal Dutch-Shell'shospital then struggled in vain to save his life. Nearly five months later, Nwiido's family, which doesn't disputethat he took the truck, is pushing Nigerian ...
Marketing strategy complex for first 'Harry Potter' movie
Nov 04, 2001; ... LOS ANGELES - Harry Potter has successfully battled a three-headed dog, giant spiders and the evil Lord Voldemort. But now hemay finally have met his match: Warner Bros. As Warner Bros. prepares for the release of "Harry Potter and theSorcerer's Stone" on Nov. 16, it is tightly ...
Weather data
Nov 04, 2001 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 56 Low 37 Nov. 3 record high 77 set in 1994 Nov. 3 record low 18 set in 1966 Saturday's precipitation 24-hour ...
Regional
Nov 04, 2001 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Today, becoming partly cloudy during the afternoon. Highs in thelower 60s. Tonight, partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-30s. Monday,mostly sunny and cooler. Highs 46 to 52. Cabell, Mason, Wayne: Today, becoming partly cloudy during theafternoon. Highs in the ...
Emmys face fierce competition
Nov 04, 2001; ... LOS ANGELES - The competition at the Emmy Awards will be fierce -especially when it comes to snaring Sunday night viewers. The twice-delayed ceremony, airing on the first weekend of theNovember "sweeps" period, will face a heavily promoted miniseriesand the blockbuster movie "Toy ...
World
Nov 04, 2001 ... Amsterdam 57 51 Cldy Athens 68 50 Cldy Beijing 49 31 Clr Berlin 52 47 Cldy Bermuda 75 68 Cldy Cairo 80 64 Clr Calgary 47 25 Cldy Dublin 57 48 Cldy Hong Kong 84 77 Cldy Jerusalem 72 47 Clr London 58 38 ...
U.S.
Nov 04, 2001 ... Anchorage 34 23 Cldy Atlanta 76 53 PCldy Boston 66 46 PCldy Charlotte,N.C. 78 47 PCldy Chicago 66 41 Clr Cincinnati 65 42 Clr Cleveland 59 39 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 78 56 Clr Denver 64 38 Clr Detroit 58 42 PCldy Elkins ...
Australia, Canada protest Massey synfuel ruling
Nov 04, 2001; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Massey Energy has received Internal Revenue Service approval tomaximize production at its Appalachian Synfuel Plant, part of theMarfork Mining complex in Raleigh County. The move sparked protests from both Canada and Australia, whichsay federal synfuel ...
After Medicaid: ; Will funding changes leave mentally ill with nowhere to go?
Nov 04, 2001; ... joydavia@wvgazette.com PRINCETON - Preston Martin awoke several times during the late-night, four-hour drive back from Morgantown. His driver, residential aide Kenny Franklin, said the 74-year-old kept asking if he was going to return to his home in Princeton. This day ...
Terrorism fear reaches into rural town
Nov 04, 2001; ... RAINELLE - Tucked deep in the Appalachian Mountains, this one-stoplight town of 1,545 residents along the Meadow River has alwaysseemed far removed from what's happening in the rest of the world. Some people even called recently from Washington, D.C. - fourhours east - to ask about ...
Teens team up for anti-smoking effort
Nov 04, 2001; ... When it comes to reducing teen smoking, anti-tobacco campaignsare probably more effective if they come from other teens, theprogram director for a tobacco prevention conference says. "If adults come up with a campaign, it fails miserably," GeorgeManahan said. "Adults don't know ...
Remember, this quiz is only a test
Nov 04, 2001; ... Have current events got your stomach knotted tighter than anankle strap at a Rosie O'Donnell bun-gee jump? Do warnings to be prepared for new, but unspecified terroristattacks have you patting down the pizza delivery guy and scanningyour shopping cart for signs of ...
Capitol Club reaches $627,762
Nov 04, 2001 ... The United Way's Capitol Club donations for the 2001-2002campaign total $627,762 with contributions from 353 membersincluding 26 new members. (Asterisk indicates the donor has moved upone or more levels or is new to the club.) At the DeTocqueville level with a pledge of at least ...
Prosecutor erred in handling coach resignation
Nov 04, 2001; ... PARKERSBURG - A Wood County prosecutor erred by not providing acopy of an agreement involving former Parkersburg High footballcoach Marshall Burdette when it was first requested through aFreedom of Information Act filing, a judge has ruled. A civil action seeking declaratory ...
Acid rain worries prompt OVEC's release of report
Nov 04, 2001; ... kward@wvgazette.com Since 1999, rain in West Virginia has frequently been as acidicas orange juice. Acid streams are killing fish. At least 10 percent of the state'sstreams are polluted by acid rain. That's according to a new report by a coalition of ...
Obituaries
Nov 04, 2001 ... Bernard Wayne Board SANDYVILLE - Bernard Wayne Board, 48, of Sandyville died Nov. 3,2001. Service will be 2 p.m. today at Pine Hill Cemetery, Ripley.Parsons-Waybright Funeral Home, Ripley, is in charge ofarrangements. Erman F. Buckalew Erman F. Buckalew, 95, of ...
Girl killed in crash on W.Va. 61
Nov 04, 2001 ... BECKLEY - State Police were investigating an accident lateSaturday that killed a 15-year-old girl. According to a police spokesman, four young people in a Jeep weredriving on W.Va. 61 in the Garden Ground area ...
'New Appalachia': ; Commission promises to go back and help places that it left behind
Nov 04, 2001; ... BOONEVILLE, Ky. - When the Appalachian Regional Commission formedto help the region gain economic parity with the rest of the nation,this distressed mountain town was just the kind of place that neededits help. Over the past 36 years, people here watched as the ARC pumpedbillions ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: ; OCT. 28-NOV. 2, 2001; Anarchy lessons learned
Nov 04, 2001; ... A public hearing on Gov. Bob Wise's proposals for medicalmalpractice insurance seemed more like a hostage crisis to HouseHealth and Human Resources Chairwoman Mary Pearl Compton, D-Monroe.Many physicians told lawmakers during the three-hour, 15-minutehearing in the House chamber that the ...
Daniels song stirs controversy
Nov 04, 2001; ... NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The first thing veteran Southern rockerCharlie Daniels did after the shock wore off from the terroristattacks on Sept. 11 was to "uncontrollably cry for a while." The second thing he did was start working on a song, which ismaking some people uncomfortable and ...
Man stabbed at county bar
Nov 04, 2001 ... Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Charleston manSaturday night after a cutting incident at a Sissonville bar. According to a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, officersarrested George William Hapny, 56, and charged ...
Boone voters OK three levies
Nov 04, 2001 ... MADISON - By large margins Saturday, Boone County voters agreedto renew three existing levies to fund fire protection, librariesand senior services. The eight volunteer fire departments that serve the county sharethe approximately $900,000 yearly amount the levy brings in ...
Study focused on chemical plant risk
Nov 04, 2001; ... kward@wvgazette.com Emergency response agencies across the country could do more toreduce the dangers of chemical plants, according to a new study bythe National Institute for Chemical Studies. In the study, NICS also found that the federal EnvironmentalProtection Agency ...
Piebald deer a rare sight
Nov 04, 2001; ... An eye-catching member of Canaan Valley State Park's whitetaildeer herd is this piebald fawn, photographed along the park's mainaccess road. Park employees say this snowy fawn is one of two, andpossibly three, piebald, or partially to mostly white, deer seen atthe park this year ....
Flood effects diminished, watershed association says
Nov 04, 2001; ... susanwilliams@wvgazette.com Some people who live within the boundaries of the watershed forthe Lower Paint Creek Association believe the work watershed membersdid may have lessened the effects of flooding in July. Marty Prichard, association president, said many people ...
Candidates court voters in Virginia
Nov 04, 2001; ... PULASKI, Va. - Democrat Mark Warner crisscrossed southwesternVirginia on Saturday, focusing the final weekend of his campaign forgovernor on an independent-voting region that he has tried for yearsto cultivate. Leading Republican Mark Earley in two independent statewide ...
Fiery effect
Nov 04, 2001; ... Sunday Gazette-Mail Particles sent into the atmosphere from last week's spate of WestVirginia ...
Lack of women's rights a touchy issue for Taliban
Nov 04, 2001; ... KARACHI, Pakistan - The Taliban insists its religious dogmahonors women by restricting them to a veiled life in public and astrictly domestic life in private. Officials denounce as liesallegations that Afghan girls grow up in ignorance, and eventuallymarry men who consider them more ...
ESSAYS on faith: ; This year, sadness greets the arrival of autumn
Nov 04, 2001; ... The rustling of the trees and the falling of their leaves denotethe end of one of our Creator's ordained seasons. As summer gives upthe ghost and absorbs into the everlasting cycle of fulfillment, thechilly breath of fall moves in to replace the hot and humid days ofits ...
No suspects in attack on Pakistan Christian church
Nov 04, 2001; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Nearly a week after 15 Christian worshipersand a police officer on duty outside their church were gunned downin the southern city of Bahawalpur, Pakistani officials say theyhave no firm suspects in the killings. Within 48 hours of the incident last week, ...
Egg innards hold dinosaur clues
Nov 04, 2001; ... RALEIGH, N.C. - The odyssey of the nugget of history James Lambkeeps in his university laboratory started about 83 million yearsago in a marshy patch of what is now Alabama. A dinosaur - perhaps a Lophorhothan, a duck-billed vegetarianthat grew up to 35 feet long and weighed as ...
FOOD THERAPY: ; Everyday morsels may slow breast, prostate cancers
Nov 04, 2001; ... MIAMI - The maxim that we are what we eat is proving increasinglyrelevant in the war on cancer, research released last week shows. Scientists at a major international conference in Miami reportedthat preliminary studies found everyday foods - beef, chicken, fish,tea - may help ...
DIVERSITY: ; Anti-terror legislation is anti-civil rights and liberties
Nov 04, 2001; ... When John Ashcroft became attorney general, many folks feared thenegative effect he would have on civil rights and liberties. Nowthose fears have become reality. Eight days after the tragic events of Sept. 11, Ashcroft proposedlegislation to Congress in the form of a sweeping ...
FINANCES: ; Saudis shun U.S. request
Nov 04, 2001; ... NEW YORK - The White House has worked diligently to assemble acoalition (a word no one in the administration uses) to defeatterrorist activities. In fact, 70 nations have agreed to block theassets of those connected to the terror network. But there is oneconspicuous omission: Saudi ...
Nuclear blowback could be imminent
Nov 04, 2001; ... Often the most dangerous weapon is your own, turned against you. Thursday was the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. atomic testinvolving U.S. servicemen as experimental subjects. The explosion,code-named "Dog," was a 21-kiloton airdrop in the Nevada desert,northwest of Las Vegas ....
ALLEGIANCE: ; Salute the flag - but; not under compulsion
Nov 04, 2001; ... Red, white and blue haven't been this chic since the nation'sbicentennial in 1976. Love of country is in vogue. "God Bless America" shouts fromtruck bumpers, lapel pins and radio stations. The Pledge ofAllegiance is back in style at civic meetings and in the classroom. Those ...
Copyright: ; Act goes overboard
Nov 04, 2001; ... IT IS innocuously called the "Security Systems Standards andCertification Act." It should be called the "We Think All ConsumersAre Thieves Act." The federal legislation, which Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., ispushing at the behest of the entertainment industry, seeks to putthe ...
Other views
Nov 04, 2001 ... States should impose taxes on online retail sales Taxes on Internet services have made the news again with theexpiration of a moratorium on taxing Internet access fees. TheSenate balked, reasonably, at extending the moratorium unlessCongress also addresses a thornier issue: ...
Your views
Nov 04, 2001 ... FAA's security a joke for years Editor: Leaders at the major airports, according to the Sunday Gazette-Mail article of Oct. 14, are showing restraint, prudence and wisdomin halting or revamping expansion plans, as did the Yeager Airportboard since the Sept. 11 ...
Fighting a new kind of war
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Last week, Georgetown University held a job fair. Atthe booths of the big Wall Street companies and banks, students hadlittle wait. But to talk to a CIA recruiter, the line stretched forover half an hour. Ed Friedman, 21, a senior studying at the School for ...
Women left out of draft
Nov 04, 2001; ... ONE OUT OF EVERY five recruits in the U.S. military is female.The Marines gave the Combat Action Ribbon for service in the PersianGulf to 23 women. Two female soldiers were killed in the bombing ofthe USS Cole. The Selective Service registers for the draft all male ...
'Respect gap' rears head
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - When the anthrax scare started, the authoritiestested the big media people and those who worked for them. Theytested members of Congress and those who worked for them.Eventually, they got around to testing postal workers, but not intime to save two from death. This ...
Session mess not all Wise's fault, lawmakers say
Nov 04, 2001; ... IN THE PAST, Democratic and Republican governors have hadlegislators with stature in both the Senate and House of Delegatesto push their proposed legislation. No so with Gov. Bob Wise. "I don't think he has a relationship with anybody who carries hiswater," said one ...
India ready to lead East
Nov 04, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - This is the India scenario: United States andBritish forces drive the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. DefeatedTaliban fighters flee to Pakistan. The military government ofPresident Pervez Musharraf finds itself fighting off afundamentalist movement in the streets and ...
Greenbrier woman innocent, professor says
Nov 04, 2001; ... We have heard much lately that we are in a war to defendAmerica's values and way of life. One of those values, perhaps themost important one, is that this is a society of laws, one in whichjustice will be done, where the innocent will be protected and theguilty punished, all guaranteed ...
Post-attack humor: Where's the line, and do you cross it ?
Nov 04, 2001; ... Humor tiptoes on shifting ground these days. In the days immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, no one, itseemed, could bear much humor. David Letterman and Jay Leno went dark for days. The humor weeklyThe Onion stopped publishing for a week. National Public ...