The Washington Post back issues from Thursday, August 30:
The ABCs Of Fast Growth; Area Tech Firms Plug Into Education [Correction 9/6/07]
Aug 30, 2007; ... Fairfax County school officials this fall are carryingBlackBerrys that connect to a database of student information,including parent contacts and medical warnings. Dartmouth studentsare using wikis, blogs, podcasts and other interactive media toolsfor their courses. A graduate school at ...
Plenty of Reasons For Fans to Cheer Up
Aug 30, 2007; ... It's been a bitter August, so bitter it almost ruined the tasteof summer corn and peaches and killed the laughter over LeonaHelmsley's bequest to her dog. It's the August of cruelty, crooksand cheats, of cheap thrills and false emotion. NBA referee TimDonaghy was on the take, Michael ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Aug 30, 2007 ... THIRD STREET TUNNEL Twenty-eight of 36 fire hydrants in the Third Street tunnel werenot working properly when they were inspected by the city Sunday,officials said yesterday. The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Departmentdiscovered the problem Sunday night as it was ...
James Hits All 11 Shots, U.S. Stays Unbeaten
Aug 30, 2007; ... United States 118, Uruguay 79 The United States national team was in the midst of another dull,one-sided victory against Uruguay on Wednesday night when fans atThomas & Mack Center decided to heckle the only member of the UnitedStates who hadn't made a contribution. Carmelo ...
Afghanistan War Deaths Tota ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by thePentagon: 428 Fatalities In hostile actions: 242 In non-hostile ...
They Sniff at Danger; How a Motley Crew of Dogs Found Their True Calling -- Fighting Terrorism
Aug 30, 2007; ... The day before Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus was scheduled to die by aninjection of pentobarbital, along came the cookie lady. She broughtdog biscuits to the Howard County Animal Shelter. When she saw theyellow Labrador -- evicted for feistiness from three homes -- leap to catch a ball, she ...
Wall Street All Ears for Fed Chief's Big Speech; Remarks to Be First Since Credit Crunch
Aug 30, 2007; ... Tomorrow, Ben S. Bernanke will deliver the most important speechin his 19 months as the world's most powerful central banker. In his first public comments since financial markets unraveledthis month, the Federal Reserve chairman faces risks on all sides.If he seems indifferent to ...
Plea Made for Man Who Gouged Eyes; Bill for Care Called Retaliation for Suit
Aug 30, 2007; ... A D.C. Council member blasted government officials yesterday fortrying to collect $2.2 million in medical bills from a mentally illman who gouged out his eyes while he was a patient at St. ElizabethsHospital. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) said it was"outrageous, ...
Terrorism Policies Split Democrats; Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics
Aug 30, 2007; ... A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt PresidentBush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism hasexposed deep divisions within the party, with many Democrats angrythat they cannot defeat even a weakened president on issues thatthey believe should be ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Aug 30, 2007 ... THIRD STREET TUNNEL Twenty-eight of 36 fire hydrants in the Third Street tunnel werenot working properly when they were inspected by the city Sunday,officials said yesterday. The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Departmentdiscovered the problem Sunday night as it was ...
Officers Testify In Lawsuit Over Arrest
Aug 30, 2007; ... When Fairfax County Lt. Lance Schaible went to discuss a subpoenawith a process server at the Sully police station in July 2005, heencountered a disheveled, foul-smelling man who was behavingerratically, "basically a homeless person," Schaible said. The process server was Ronald W ....
Irish EPA Cites Climate Change in Rapid Rise of Average Temperature
Aug 30, 2007; ... Ireland's average temperature has been rising at twice the globalrate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becomingwetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, agovernment-funded report said Wednesday. The report found that Ireland's average temperature ...
Bush Says Gulf Coast Isn't Forgotten; But Cynicism Abounds On Katrina Anniversary
Aug 30, 2007; ... President Bush marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrinaby trying to reassure the people of the Gulf Coast that they are not forgotten, declaring that "the town is coming back" at anappearance Wednesday in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward. But the president appeared on the ...
In a Land of Alike Laptops, Weight and Battery Life Are Key
Aug 30, 2007; ... Laptop design has advanced a great deal over the past decade, buta few things still generally hold true: Batteries won't last througha cross-country flight, and affordable laptops weigh too much. This is supposed to be the most innovative part of the computingbusiness. But too many ...
Virginia at Wyoming
Aug 30, 2007 ... When: Saturday, 2 p.m. TV: Versus ....
Planned Crackdown on Immigrants Denounced
Aug 30, 2007; ... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO this week separatelyassailed a new White House-backed crackdown on illegal immigration,warning of massive disruptions to the economy and headaches for U.S.citizens if the proposal goes ahead as planned in the coming days. The Bush ...
Sitting Up Front
Aug 30, 2007 ... District Blackboard, course management Learning Objects, course media Smarthinking, tutoring Maryland VisiBooks, computer textbooks MoodleRooms, course management Fidelis Security Systems, data protection Intelliworks, ...
Jaguars Roster No.NamePos ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... Jaguars Roster No.NamePos.Ht.Wt.3Adam PodleshP5-112025Quinn GrayQB6-32467ByronLeftwichQB6-52429David GarrardQB6-224010Josh ScobeeK6-119011ReggieWilliamsWR6-421415John BroussardWR6-117317Charles SharonWR6-018418Matt JonesWR6-623819Ernest WilfordWR6-422321Terry ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Aug 30, 2007 ... ATHENS -- Greek firefighters started to bring countrywideforest fires under control Wednesday after six devastating days butwarned that an expected heat wave could reignite the flames thathave killed at least 63 people. While survivors lined up for cash handouts, thousands of ...
Sadr Orders 'Freeze' on Militia Actions; Iraqi Cleric's Edict Comes After Killings At Shiite Festival
Aug 30, 2007; ... The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr publicly ordered hishuge militia Wednesday to "freeze" operations for up to six months,but U.S. and Iraqi officials expressed skepticism of the cleric'sintentions and his ability to control the fractured network offighters who kill in his name ....
GOP Leaders Strip Craig Of Committee Assignments
Aug 30, 2007; ... Sen. Larry Craig went on vacation with his wife Wednesday,according to aides, as calls for his resignation intensified,Republican leaders stripped him of his committee assignments, andsupport in his home state appeared to be eroding. On the day after Craig dismissed having pleaded ...
PERSONNEL DEPT. Rangers: LF ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... Rangers: LF Frank Catalanotto left last night's game after thefirst inning because of a sore right groin. He had a leadoff doubleand scored on Michael Young's single. There was no indication thenthat Catalanotto was hurt, but he was replaced in the field in thetop of the ...
Chinese Rookie Forward Finally Signs With Bucks
Aug 30, 2007 ... Yi Jianlian is finally going to play for the Milwaukee Bucks. Yi, the sixth overall selection in the NBA draft in June, signeda standard rookie scale contract with the Bucks in Hong Kongyesterday. A contingent of Bucks officials that included the team's owner,Sen. Herb Kohl ...
FIBA Americas Championship
Aug 30, 2007 ... At stake: Automatic Olympic berths in men's basketball for thetop two finishers. When: Through Sunday. Where: Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas. YESTERDAY'S GAMES Canada 97, Mexico 80 Puerto Rico 92, Venezuela 63 Argentina 86, Brazil ...
DISPATCHES
Aug 30, 2007 ... Today, a charitable donation goes astray and a commuter has anepiphany on Route 50. I decided to donate some of our aging household goods andclothing to a well-known charity. I attached large yellow "Fragile"signs to the boxes, disentangled a stray bit of silver ribbon fromthe ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Aug 30, 2007 ... HOME RUNS Rodriguez, NY 43 YESTERDAY: 1 HR TODAY: vs. Schilling, 9-39, 4 HR STOLEN BASES Crawford, TB ...
Report Finds No Evidence Of Astronaut Drinking; But NASA Will Still Make Recommended Changes
Aug 30, 2007; ... NASA's safety chief said yesterday that he could find no evidenceof heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not dismissing reports from an independent panel onastronaut health issues that said last month that at least two suchincidents had come to its ...
The Dotted Line
Aug 30, 2007 ... Offensive tackle Kevin Sampson, a former spot starter with theKansas City Chiefs whose career has been hampered by injuries, wasamong nine players released ahead of the NFL's ...
What Schools in the City Can Learn From the Suburbs
Aug 30, 2007; ... Jack Dale and Jerry Weast came prepared with slides, bar graphsand statistics demonstrating that the schools in Fairfax andMontgomery not only prepare the children of the affluent for thenation's top colleges but also achieve unparalleled scores for theblack and Hispanic kids in their ...
Taliban Begins to Free South Korean Hostages
Aug 30, 2007; ... The Taliban on Wednesday began making good on a promise torelease 19 South Koreans who have been held captive for a month anda half, freeing 12 and promising to turn over the rest in comingdays. The Koreans, church volunteers who had been traveling on a busdown a notoriously ...
A Mortgage Is for Paying Off
Aug 30, 2007; ... African Americans are often the target of financial pitchmentrying to convince them they should never pay off their mortgages.Instead, the line goes, people should dig deeper into mortgage debtto purchase cars, fund their chosen lifestyles or invest. The suggestion is that paying ...
Bernanke Opposes Lift Of Fannie, Freddie Caps
Aug 30, 2007; ... Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac don't need a loosening of regulatory constraints to helpborrowers threatened with foreclosure. The government-sponsored mortgage funding companies have saidthey could help ease the crunch in the mortgage ...
ENERGY PJM to Review Auction ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... ENERGY PJM Interconnection, which oversees wholesale power markets in 13states and the District, told regulators that it will review thecompetitiveness of auctions held in Maryland and New Jersey. PJM has refused requests from New Jersey regulators for the pasttwo years to ...
Cuba Won't Compete in World Boxing Championships
Aug 30, 2007 ... Cuba won't send a boxing team to the world championships inChicago because of President Fidel Castro's fears of futuredefections. Two Cuban fighters abandoned their teammates during therecent Pan American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the2008 ...
GOLF
Aug 30, 2007 ... Event: Deutsche Bank Championship. When: Tomorrow-Monday. Course: TPC Boston (7,207 yards, par 71), Norton, Mass. Purse: $7 million (winner's share $1.26 million). TV: Golf Channel (tomorrow-Saturday, 3 p.m.); WRC-4, WBAL-11(Sunday, 3 p.m.; Monday, 2 ...
Sewell Takes the Reins; A Year After Going From Backup to Starter, Virginia's Sophomore Quarterback Knows 'a Lot More Is Expected of Me'
Aug 30, 2007; ... A year ago, with two quarterbacks listed above him on theVirginia depth chart, Jameel Sewell had so much to think about: howmuch he needed to improve, how to run a college offense, how tocommand a huddle. But early this preseason, clarity came much easier to Sewell.When asked ...
How to Help
Aug 30, 2007 ... The Keep Reading Foundation is accepting used books in goodcondition to send to Sri Lanka. For information, e-mailkeepread@aol.com. The Bring Me a Book ...
Boys and Girls Clubs Seeks $3 Million
Aug 30, 2007; ... The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington is asking theDistrict government for $3 million in financial assistance,including money to reopen its oldest branch, on Capitol Hill. The Fenty administration and the D.C. Council are considering therequest for funding, which the ...
ERA Young, SD ... 2.12 NEX ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... ERA Young, SD 2.12 NEXT: Today vs. Diamondbacks WINS Peavy, SD ...
Altria to Spin Off Global Unit
Aug 30, 2007; ... Altria Group, the world's largest tobacco company, plans to spinoff Philip Morris International under pressure from investors whowant faster overseas growth and less risk from lawsuits by smokersin the United States. A decision on the spinoff's timing is to be announced at a ...
The District
Aug 30, 2007 ... THE SCENE Adam Kokesh, on Being a Marine and a Protester The Iraqwar veteran -- who was catapulted to that classic Washington sortof subfame when he was photographed wearing parts of his Marineuniform during a D.C. antiwar demonstration this winter -- is thelatest figure in the news ...
That's Amare; Big and Versatile, Stoudemire Anchors the U.S. Rotation
Aug 30, 2007; ... Amare Stoudemire immediately got out of his seat after CarmeloAnthony took a hard foul against Puerto Rico on Tuesday night duringthe FIBA Americas Championship. Puerto Rico was assessed a technical foul and U.S. assistantcoach Jim Boeheim and head athletic trainer Keith Jones ...
The $64,000 Entreaty for a Portrait of the Chairman
Aug 30, 2007; ... He's been chairman for only eight months, but already Rep.Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is more than daydreaming about what hisofficial Ways and Means Committee portrait will look like. He knowsone thing: It'll be top of the line. In perhaps the most thorough and earnest letter ever ...
ON STAGE "Cirque Dreams Jungl ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... ON STAGE "Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy" Don't confuse CirqueDreams with the almighty Cirque du Soleil, because they are not oneand the same. But don't discount the smaller Cirque, either. CirqueDreams is an American company modeled after the whimsical Europeancircuses, with ...
O's Bedard Will Miss Next Start
Aug 30, 2007 ... Orioles LHP Erik Bedard will miss his scheduled start in Bostonon Saturday because of a strained muscle in his right side,Baltimore Manager Dave Trembley said yesterday. Bedard, the major league strikeout leader with 221, is notexpected to miss more than one turn in the ...
MORTGAGE LENDING Ginnie Mae ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... MORTGAGE LENDING Government National Mortgage Association, the U.S. mortgage-bondagency known as Ginnie Mae, will for the first time guarantee bondsbacked by loans of any size to military veterans. The agency onSaturday will start to accept loans guaranteed by the VeteransAffairs ...
Where There's Smoke . . .; Metro sees the costs of its chronic shortage of funding.
Aug 30, 2007 ... METRORAIL, this region's showcase mass transit system, hasreached a bizarre juncture: Even as it is serving a record number ofpassengers, it has been beset, in recent days, by somethingapproaching systemic breakdown. In the space of barely 24 hoursSunday and Monday, sparks, smoke, ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Aug 30, 2007 ... HOME RUNS Fielder, Mil 39 YESTERDAY: 0 HR TODAY: vs. Lilly 3-5, 1 K, SLG .800 STOLEN BASES Reyes, NY ...
Rumi's Time Has Come (Again); With U-Md. Conference on Tap, 13th- Century Poet Is Still Touching Hearts
Aug 30, 2007; ... Rumi is hot. The 13th-century Persian poet inspired a symphony in Los Angelesrecently that brought 2,000 people to their feet. About 750,000books of his poetry have been sold, a quantity that would make manyPulitzer Prize-winning poets drool. The University of Maryland ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Aug 30, 2007 ... Two governors wrote President Bush yesterday to object to newfederal administrative restrictions in the State Children's HealthInsurance Program, which provides subsidized health coverage to 6.6million children of the working poor. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and New ...
One for the Books; Virginia Teen Delivers 2,000 Titles to Tsunami Survivors in Sri Lanka
Aug 30, 2007 ... Sarasi Jayaratne, 17, vividly remembers waking up during theDecember holidays in 2004 at her cousin's house. Her large family was in a panic, and the adults were frantically making phone calls. Sarasi was born in the Washington area and grew up in Sterling.Her parents, though, are ...
Reprimand Is Sentence For Officer at Abu Ghraib
Aug 30, 2007; ... Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer to face trialover the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal, was issued a reprimandyesterday by a military jury, a punishment that spares him allprison time after he was convicted this week on one count ofdisobeying an order. The jury ...
Laborer Ruling a Setback for Herndon
Aug 30, 2007; ... A Fairfax Circuit Court judge threw out Herndon's anti-solicitation ordinance yesterday, finding that the town's two-year-old prohibition against laborers and motorists discussing employmenton the streets violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The 11-page opinion by Judge ...
Slain Soldier From Va. 'Lived What He Believed'
Aug 30, 2007; ... Army Pfc. Thomas R. Wilson was a former honor student, devotedfamily member and nature lover with a predilection for hiking and"messing around" in the wetlands of his native Shenandoah Valley,relatives recalled. Wilson was "such a great kid, a good, all-around American who ...
OTHER NEWS
Aug 30, 2007 ... If you like to wear baggy pants, stay out of Shreveport andAlexandria, Louisiana. Officials there have voted to ban droopytrousers that show skin or underwear. "I'm tired [of] looking atbehinds," a Shreveport councilwoman said. The reported sighting of a baiji or white-flag ...
SAVES Borowski, Clev ... 38 ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... SAVES Borowski, Clev 38 NEXT: Today, vs. Seattle ERA Haren, Oak ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Aug 30, 2007 ... Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast,millions of dollars' worth of school rebuilding projects remainunfunded, a report released yesterday says. Only 2 percent of the federal government's hurricane-relatedfunding went to education, says the Southern Education ...
Maryland
Aug 30, 2007 ... CONCERT The Metropolitan International Jazz Festival ReturnsThough jam sessions have been underway for several days, tonightmarks Day 1 of the popular concert phase of the festival. It's onlyin its second year, but major acts are slated to perform at UpperMarlboro's Show Place Arena, ...
A Liberal Dose of History
Aug 30, 2007; ... FREEDOM'S POWER The True Force of Liberalism By Paul Starr Basic. 276 pp. $26 Only in the United States is "liberal" a label for someone softon communism, national defense and crime. The Liberal Democrats inthe United Kingdom occupy the center between Labour on ...
The Aug. 29 high sc ...
Aug 30, 2007 ... The Aug. 29 high school football preview incorrectly referred toPoolesville High School's team as the Indians. Poolesville'snickname is the Falcons. An Aug. 24 Style on the Go item about an exhibit of photos ofpost-reunification Berlin misstated the year in which the BerlinWall ...
Army to Probe $3 Billion of Contracts in Iraq
Aug 30, 2007; ... The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded overthe past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine howmany are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse, service officials saidyesterday. Overall, the contracts are worth close to $3 billion andrepresent every ...
Days to Play at the KenCen
Aug 30, 2007 ... Saturday, the Kennedy Center's sixth annual Page-to-StageFestival kicks off for a long weekend of in-progress plays, whichwill be read aloud or staged sans bells and whistles by more than 35local companies and theaters, including African Continuum, WoollyMammoth and Scena. How ...
Fairfax Officers Testify In Lawsuit Over Arrest
Aug 30, 2007; ... When Fairfax County Lt. Lance Schaible went to discuss a subpoenawith a process server at the Sully police station in July 2005, heencountered a disheveled, foul-smelling man who was behavingerratically, "basically a homeless person," Schaible said. The process server was Ronald W ....
Daimler Plans Stock Buyback; Luxury Carmaker Raises Profit Forecast After Chrysler Sale
Aug 30, 2007; ... DaimlerChrysler, the world's second-largest maker of luxury cars,announced a record stock buyback and raised its profit forecast onhigher Mercedes-Benz earnings and lower costs from the sale ofChrysler. The Stuttgart, Germany, company plans to buy back $10.2 billionworth of ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Aug 30, 2007 ... BRITAIN Cigarette packs will be required next year to display suchgraphic images as diseased organs in an attempt to frighten smokers,the government said Wednesday. Britain will be the first member ofthe European Union to require such warnings. The images include anunhealthy ...