The Washington Post back issues from Thursday, August 16:
More Md. Elementary, Middle Schools Fall Short of 'No Child' Goals
Aug 16, 2007; ... The number of Maryland elementary and middle schools targeted foracademic improvement because of consistently low test scores rosethis year from 167 to 176, the largest total since the enactment ofthe federal No Child Left Behind law five years ago. More than one in seven ...
Mommy the Toy Snatcher; For Parents, Recall Lists Are Playtime's Spoiler
Aug 16, 2007; ... Colin Kriebel's summer has been a really cruddy inverse ofChristmas. First, in June, the 3-year-old's beloved (and lead-painted) Thomas railroad cars were recalled. Six toys total, whichhe'd chug-a-chugged with for more than a year. Then, on Tuesday, theultimate blow: Colin's Mattel ...
AL WILD CARD
Aug 16, 2007 ... WLGBSeattle6652 -- New ...
Police Name Suspect In Teenager's Death
Aug 16, 2007 ... A 19-year-old woman was found unconscious in the bedroom of herManassas apartment Tuesday morning and later pronounced dead in whatauthorities said could be the city's first homicide of the year. Authorities are awaiting an autopsy in the death of Brenely EsterLessing-Yanes of the ...
Iraq War Deaths Total number ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon: 3,688 Fatalities In hostile actions: 3,036 In non-hostile ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Aug 16, 2007 ... MOSCOW -- Russian prosecutors on Wednesday charged auniversity student with inciting racial hatred by circulating anInternet video that appeared to show neo-Nazis beheading one non-Slav migrant and shooting another in the head. Police have not said if the video is authentic, but ...
Devil Rays, Price Reach Agreement
Aug 16, 2007 ... Top pick David Price and the Devil Rays agreed to an $11.25million, six-year contract yesterday, hours before the midnightdeadline for teams to lock up their draft selections. Price, a hard-throwing left-hander out of Vanderbilt, gets a $5.6million signing bonus and is guaranteed ...
ERA Haren, Oak ... 2.53 NE ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... ERA Haren, Oak 2.53 NEXT: Today, vs. Chi. White Sox SAVES Putz, Sea 34 NEXT: ...
Spring Displays a Style of His Own
Aug 16, 2007; ... Within just a few hours Wednesday night, Justin Springdemonstrated the duality that has shaped his career. The 23-year-old from Burke treated the crowd at HP Pavilion to flashes ofbrilliance in almost every exercise, only to see his scores reducedby costly falls and mistakes. By ...
FDA Warns Against Giving Cough Medicine to Toddlers
Aug 16, 2007; ... The Food and Drug Administration, concerned about the number ofchildren being accidentally overdosed on over-the-counter cough andcold medicines, yesterday warned parents never to give childrenyounger than age 2 such products without a doctor's approval. The warning came as the ...
Herndon To Keep Day-Labor Center; Council Wants New Manager
Aug 16, 2007; ... The Herndon Town Council voted last night to keep open its two-year-old hiring center for day laborers but to find a new managerwho will ban illegal immigrants. Officials say they have an operator in mind, but previoussearches have come up empty. Supporters of the center say the ...
An Inaccessible Tribute
Aug 16, 2007 ... Regarding the Aug. 11 Metro article "Ambushed by Heat, WWIIVeterans Won't Be Turned Back at Memorial": My parents are in their 80s and express great interest invisiting the National World War II Memorial every time they visitus. My father served during the war, and my mother lost a ...
Suitable Irony In a Laughable Case
Aug 16, 2007 ... As one of the tort reformers who reportedly "vilified" D.C.Administrative Law Judge Roy L. Pearson's internationally infamousmultimillion-dollar lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaners, Icouldn't help smiling when reading of his ironic argument againstthe court ordering him to pay ...
Brazilian Ethanol's Green Methods
Aug 16, 2007 ... Regarding the July 31 Business article "Losing Forests to FuelCars": The firm Adecoagro is widely recognized for its environmentallysound practices. We have an explicit policy of not clearing nativevegetation, and we don't subcontract to farmers who do. Adecoagrorestores land ...
Hypocrisy on Punishing Drug Use
Aug 16, 2007 ... Although it is encouraging that the FBI is reducing itsdiscrimination against job applicants who have used marijuana ["FBIBows to Modern Realities, Eases Rules on Past Drug Use," news story,Aug. 7], the change highlights the hypocrisy in the war on drugs. While the federal government is ...
America's Duty to Iraq's Refugees
Aug 16, 2007 ... Regarding the Aug. 12 editorial "The Refugee Crisis": The failure of the Bush administration to resettle a significantnumber of Iraqis is just one aspect of the overall mishandling ofthe Iraqi refugee crisis. In addition to resettling more Iraqis, theUnited States must also see ...
The True Measure of Karl Rove
Aug 16, 2007 ... In his Aug. 14 op-ed ["The Architect's Great Project"], a loveletter to Karl Rove, Grover G. Norquist whitewashed the "dirtytricks" Mr. Rove used in the 2000 Republican primary campaign andthe 2004 presidential campaign to get his candidate elected. In both campaigns, Mr. Rove ...
Lapses at the Smithsonian
Aug 16, 2007 ... In his Aug. 11 letter ["Government or Business?"], Paul C.Wessel, a former chief financial officer of Smithsonian BusinessVentures (SBV), made the astonishing assertion that the SmithsonianInstitution failed to give his former employer the autonomy it waspromised. The record shows ...
A Bad Bill's Consequences
Aug 16, 2007 ... The conclusion in Ruth Marcus's Aug. 8 op-ed column, "Attack AdsYou'll Be Seeing Soon" -- that public benefits will not beprovided to illegal aliens in consequence of recent legislation --is incorrect. Under the reauthorization of the State Children'sHealth Insurance Program passed ...
The White Open Spaces; The FCC should allow unlicensed use of unused TV band spectrum, when and if the technology is ready.
Aug 16, 2007 ... COVETED BITS of the radio spectrum called "white spaces" -- unused areas of spectrum wedged between licensed TV channels -- may soon be freed up by the Federal Communications Commission. Rightnow no broadband devices are allowed to use these parts of thespectrum, but the FCC is ...
Fliers' Remorse; A passenger bill of rights could help ease the suffering of air travelers.
Aug 16, 2007 ... ATRIP to the airport these days is like going to the ninth circleof hell, where myriad aggravations await travelers. They have topractically strip down to their skivvies to get through securityonly to board planes that might be (a) late taking off, (b) latelanding, (c) diverted to ...
21st-Century Barbarism; The deadliest attack to date in the Iraq war is aimed at defenseless civilians.
Aug 16, 2007 ... ONE REASON the debate over Iraq can seem so perplexing at timesis that the nature of the violence can be so horrendous as to benearly unfathomable. The inexcusable killing of civilians byinsurgents and militias is so common as to go almost unremarkedupon. But four simultaneous truck-bomb ...
[ ON STAGE ] Horatio Sanz an ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... [ ON STAGE ] Horatio Sanz and His Kings of Improv The heftycomic, who honed his talent (like so many others) in Chicago, co-founded the Upright Citizens Brigade and won national fame in aneight-year run as one of the "Saturday Night Live" players, isstopping by Arlington next month to ...
Maryland
Aug 16, 2007 ... [ FILM ] Preview: "Resurrecting the Champ" The Comcast OutdoorFilm Festival's stay at Strathmore includes one rare offering, asfar as outdoor summer screenings go: an advance look at"Resurrecting the Champ." In the movie, a struggling sports reporterplayed by Josh Hartnett discovers that ...
How To Grow A Poem
Aug 16, 2007 ... It took five days to turn Flashpoint Gallery into a mini-botanicgarden in the city, roll out more than 200 square feet of sodindoors, build boxes ("planted roofs") for growing plants, set upprojections of even more grass and pipe in the sounds of birdschirping. "Earth on Stone ...
The District
Aug 16, 2007 ... [ CLOSING ] Goodbye, Fort Reno! Kisses! How fitting that the nextgeneration of local music will close this summer series inTenleytown: The pint-size Eyeball Skeleton, a Maryland band thatconsists of two pre-pubescent brothers and their dad (the kids penthe lyrics, and Pops helps them ...
Southwest Chamber Players, Giving It Their Best Shot
Aug 16, 2007 ... Shakespeare had kind words for amateur performers. "Neveranything can be amiss when simpleness and duty tender it," he wrote.Well, perhaps a few things were amiss at the opera program givenTuesday at Saint Augustine Church by six singers and fourinstrumentalists of the amateur ensemble ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Aug 16, 2007 ... SALT LAKE CITY -- Frustrated rescuers ran into freshcomplications Wednesday in their effort to find six men trapped in aUtah mine when they could not get listening equipment through athird hole drilled from the surface. But during a sometimes emotional news conference, mine ...
As Rove Departs, President Again Turns to Gillespie
Aug 16, 2007; ... When George W. Bush needed a communications adviser during the2000 Florida recount, which determined whether he would bepresident, he turned to Ed Gillespie. When Bush needed someone toshepherd two of his Supreme Court nominees, he again called onGillespie. And when longtime confidant ...
Dow Slumps Despite Fed's Cash Infusion; Blue Chips Close Below 13,000 For First Time in Four Months
Aug 16, 2007; ... Ongoing credit market woes sent stocks sharply lower Wednesdaydespite positive economic data and a $7 billion injection from theFederal Reserve. A sell-off that began Aug. 9 has left the Dow Jones industrialaverage down 8 percent from its record close of 14,000.41 on July19. The ...
Jukebox With Hit Potential; Free Online Service Fine-Tunes Music to Listener's Tastes [Correction 8/22/07]
Aug 16, 2007; ... Some of my favorite radio stations don't have DJs. But they doinclude some other features not found on FM: a button to pauseplayback, another to skip to the next song and, most important, aplaylist I can customize. Free, interactive music sites like Pandora and Last.fm are ...
'House Bombs' a Growing Risk for U.S. Troops; Soldiers Being Lured Into Buildings Rigged to Explode; Commander Cites Insurgents' 'Continually Evolving Tactics'
Aug 16, 2007; ... When the sniper's bullet hit Billy Edwards, his Army brothers didnot hesitate. The 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division calls itself the "Send Me"brigade, and on Saturday, its soldiers were quick to send themselvesto find the man who shot Pfc. William L. Edwards, a wide-eyed ...
Existing-Home Sales Slip as Prices Slide; Median Cost in D.C. Increases Slightly
Aug 16, 2007; ... Sales of existing homes fell in 41 states in the April-to-Junequarter, while home prices were down in one-third of themetropolitan areas surveyed, a real estate trade group said. The new figures from the National Association of Realtorsunderscored the severity of the housing slump, ...
If the Trip Abroad Is Bipartisan, It's Not a Junket
Aug 16, 2007; ... 'Tis the season for congressional trips abroad. But, unlike inyears past, the trips members of Congress are taking this Augustrecess aren't exactly junkets, thanks to the new-and-improved ethicsrules. This week, a group of about 18 House Democrats led by MajorityLeader Steny ...
Fool's Gold: Simply Precious
Aug 16, 2007; ... LOTTERY By Patricia Wood Putman. 310 pp. $24.95 This wonderful first novel is about a guy who starts off with allthe chips stacked against him and still comes out a winner. It's anunderdog novel, and the underdog is a most satisfying hero, for morethan any other ...
China Vows to Step Up Inspections; Officials Promise Better Product Safety but Congress Is Skeptical
Aug 16, 2007; ... Chinese officials yesterday sought to assure U.S. consumers thatits goods are safe despite a recent spate of food and product-safety problems. The rare news conference at the Chinese Embassy in the Districtcame a day after Mattel recalled 250,000 Chinese-made toy cars inthe ...
Children of Invention; YMCA's Annual Thingamajig Convention Celebrates Creativity and Recycling
Aug 16, 2007 ... Louis Braille developed a system of printing for blind people, James Naismith invented the game of basketball, Willis Carrier gaveus air conditioning (thank you, Willis!) and Russia Ball came upwith the Wish Maker. Never heard of that last one, you say? Well, it's a stack ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Aug 16, 2007 ... The first time Oliver the monkey escaped from his locked cage, itmight have been dumb luck. The second time, it might have beenskill. But the third time? Seems it might be time for his keepers toinvest in new locks. And that's just what they're doing. Following Oliver's ...
No Longer a Mirror Image; Hamm Twins Return to a Sport That Has Changed Greatly
Aug 16, 2007; ... Paul and Morgan Hamm officially launched their comebacksWednesday night, but they're still unsure of exactly what they havereturned to. Can this really be gymnastics? The Hamms' routines,once completed with ease, now necessitate agonizing pain. Thesport's rules, once so familiar, now ...
Bridge
Aug 16, 2007; ... "You should've made that contract," I scolded Cy the Cynic aftertoday's deal. "You need to brush up on your counting. Practice makesperfect." Cy was annoyed at going down. "Maybe so," he growled, "butnobody's perfect, so why bother to practice?" At four hearts, Cy ruffed the ...
Today's Horoscope
Aug 16, 2007; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Lost souls drift into your realm.Refrain from trying to direct them. It's not your expertise, butyour compassion that's really needed. Listen with an open heart. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're more sensitive than usual. You'dlike it if others were ...
Keep a 10-Foot Pole's Distance
Aug 16, 2007; ... Some investors see the troubles in the mortgage and real estateindustries as an opportunity to go bargain-hunting for depressed butbasically solid stocks. And then there are those who buy stock in companies that havefiled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, betting that ...
LOBBYING Private-Equity Firms ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... LOBBYING Private-equity firms, fighting legislation to raise their taxes,have spent at least $5.5 million on lobbying in the first half ofthis year, up from $1.4 million for all of 2006. The spending wasdisclosed by the top 10 publicly traded equity firms and their ...
Ford Strives to Meet Hybrid Demand
Aug 16, 2007; ... The popularity of the Ford Escape hybrid has taken the automakerby surprise and left its potential customers howling that the gas-electric sport-utility vehicle is not widely available. Car buyers say they cannot find the vehicles on dealers' lots, indealer inventory systems online ...
Powerful Magnets Cited In Toy Recall; Hazard to Children Well- Documented
Aug 16, 2007; ... While Chinese manufacturers are bearing the heat over recent toyrecalls, toy designers are getting the blame for some of Mattel'sTuesday recall. The flaw in most of the 9 million toys in that recall involvedsmall, powerful magnets that are potentially fatal if ingested. Morethan ...
QUOTABLE "Maybe in Little Le ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... "Maybe in Little League." Blue Jays RHP Shaun Marcum, when asked when he last had enjoyed arun of success like his 9-2 record and 2.91 ERA in 18 starts sincejoining the rotation on May 13 Rangers: Placed RHP Brandon McCarthy (stress fracture in hispitching shoulder) on the ...
GOLF | On the Next Tee
Aug 16, 2007 ... Event: Canadian Women's Open. When: Today-Sunday. Course: Royal Mayfair Golf and Country Club (6,565 yards, par71), Edmonton, Alberta. Purse: $2.25 million (winner's share $337,500). TV: Golf Channel (Saturday-Sunday, 6:30 p.m.). Defending champion: ...
Toll in N. Iraq Passes 250; Attack Is Deadliest of War
Aug 16, 2007; ... The confirmed death toll from four coordinated truck bombings innorthern Iraq passed 250 Wednesday, as rescue workers usedbulldozers and bare hands to recover bodies in two isolatedcommunities near the Syrian border. The attack now ranks as thedeadliest of the Iraq war ....
Rumsfeld Resigned as Defense Secretary on Day Before Elections [Correction 8/22/07]
Aug 16, 2007; ... Donald H. Rumsfeld, who came to symbolize the Bushadministration's problems in the war in Iraq, resigned as secretaryof defense one day before last fall's elections, although PresidentBush did not announce the move until the day after the elections. The White House confirmed on ...
Contingency Planning, for Technology and Terrorism
Aug 16, 2007; ... Small things often trip up large organizations. That's whathappened at the Los Angeles International Airport last weekend. A common piece of computer hardware -- a network interface card-- at a U.S. customs work station malfunctioned, taking down theagency's network at the ...
Earnhardt Jr. Won't Retain No. 8 in Move to New Team
Aug 16, 2007 ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not be taking his familiar No. 8 with himto Hendrick Motorsports next season. Earnhardt is leaving Dale Earnhardt Inc. at the end of the seasonand had hoped to take No. 8 with him to his new team. His lategrandfather, Ralph, used that number and Earnhardt ...
Two New Yorkers at the Iowa State Fair
Aug 16, 2007; ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the Iowa State Fair in amotorcade, flanked by Secret Service agents, half a dozen assistantsand a former governor. Aides to the New York Democrat andpresidential candidate unfurled a yellow rope to keep back thecrowds. She was not, in short, ...
In High Court Filing, It's U.S. vs. Investors
Aug 16, 2007; ... The Bush administration yesterday sided with accountants, bankersand lawyers seeking to avoid liability in corporate fraud cases,arguing that investors must show they lost money after relying ondeceptions by third parties in order to proceed with privatelawsuits. Ending weeks of ...
Northern Virginia
Aug 16, 2007 ... [ FESTIVALS ] The Arlington County Fair The annual indoor-outdoor affair runs for four days at the Thomas Jefferson CommunityCenter. The event is smallish but has all the things fairs shouldhave: scary rides, games and, of course, racing pigs. Best of all:Admission is free. 5-10 p.m ....
RUSSIA Plane-Making Program t ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... RUSSIA Aircraft-makers plan to build 4,500 planes by 2025 as part of anambitious program to boost an industry that fell on hard times afterthe 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. The government plans to spendabout $250 billion on the effort and work with such builders asBoeing and ...
Federal Worker Faces Charges In Threats Against Arab Group
Aug 16, 2007; ... A State Department employee was indicted yesterday on chargesthat he threatened and intimidated employees of the Arab AmericanInstitute, including James Zogby, the president of the organization. In e-mail and voice-mail messages, the employee, Patrick Syring,is said to have lashed ...
THE LOTTERIES; August 15
Aug 16, 2007 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 5-3-9 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 2-4-2-8 Lucky Numbers: 1-5-6 D.C. 4: 0-7-4-8 Rolling Cash 5: 5-12-14-22-31 Daily 6: 7-12-28-29-30-36 *8 Day/Pick-3: 6-7-3 Pick-4: ...
Maryland Lands Mosley, a Guard From Baltimore
Aug 16, 2007 ... The Maryland men's basketball team picked up its second recruitof the summer yesterday when Baltimore standout Sean Mosleyannounced he had accepted a scholarship to play for the Terrapins. Mosley, a 6-foot-5 rising senior at St. Frances Academy, can playshooting guard and small ...
Maryland Halts Firm's No-Pay Mortgage Offers
Aug 16, 2007; ... The Maryland attorney general took legal action yesterday againsta Laurel company that offered homeowners mortgage-free livingthrough a complex investment program. POS Dream Home, which also operated as Metropolitan Grapevine,along with its officers, was ordered to stop soliciting ...
CORRECTION
Aug 16, 2007 ... In the Aug. 15 Metro section, the Mega Millions numbers drawnAug. 14 ...
ERA Young, SD ... 2.02 YE ...
Aug 16, 2007 ... ERA Young, SD 2.02 YESTERDAY: No decision, 6 IP, 0 ER WINS Zambrano, Chi ...
'Camp Vet' Teaches About Caring
Aug 16, 2007 ... In a world that produces 10,000 variations of summer camp, here'sone that's unique. Summertime means summer camp, and this year's venue for my 10-year-old son has been veterinary camp, held right in our home. Ihadn't planned on hosting a splints-and-stitches-themed camp, butwhen ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Aug 16, 2007 ... BATTING Ordonez, Det .359 YESTERDAY: 0-3 TODAY: vs. Mussina, 10-35, 1 HR, 4 BB STOLEN BASES Crawford, TB ...
Bhutto Urges Action by Musharraf; Exiled Ex-Premier Says She Plans Return to Pakistan This Year
Aug 16, 2007; ... Pakistan's exiled opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, expressedfrustration on Wednesday with political negotiations with thecountry's military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but said she stillplans to return to the country "later this year." Speaking at the Council on Foreign ...
Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Role in 2002 Fatal Carjacking
Aug 16, 2007; ... An Annapolis man was sentenced in federal court yesterday to lifein prison in connection with a fatal carjacking in the city'shistoric district, a 2002 slaying that was the first in that area inmany years. The sentencing capped a reversal of fortune for defendantLeeander J ....