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<s> LITTLETON, <h>Colo. (AP </h> ) -- The sheriff's initial estimate of <h>as many as 25 dead in the Columbine High massacre was off the mark </h>  apparently because the six SWAT teams that swept the building counted some victims more than once. </s> <s> Bill Owens acted as master of ceremonies during the 75-minute memorial service that included speeches from Archbishop Charles Chaput, and Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham. Singers Amy Grant and Michael Smith joined a large bagpipe band in providing music for the crowd, joining <h>two Columbine students </h>  who <h>wrote a song in honor of their fallen classmates. </h>  </s>
<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- <h>Students returned to classes Thursday at Chatfield High School </h> , but the bloodbath at rival Columbine High haunted the halls. </s> <s> Students were originally scheduled to go back Thursday. Calling the return to the classroom ``a very important next step in the process of healing,'' Monseu said the first thing Columbine students will do when <h>they arrive at Chatfield High School is attend an assembly to reunite them with their teachers. </h>  </s>
<s> Littleton needs comfort. <h>Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, also Columbine students, opened fire with at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h>  </s> <s> Littleton needs comfort. Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when <h>Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, </h>  also Columbine students, <h>opened fire </h>  with <h>at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h>  </s>
<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that <h>Columbine High School students are to return to class </h>  has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for students killed in the April 20 massacre, an administrator said Tuesday. </s>
<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that Columbine High School students are to return to class has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for <h>students killed in the April 20 massacre </h> , an administrator said Tuesday. </s>
<s> The New York Times plans two pages of stories, photos and graphics on the aftermath of the school shooting in a Denver suburb that left 15 dead. <h>COLO-SCHOOL-SHOOTING (Littleton, Colo.) _ The governor of Colorado </h>  tours Columbine High School and <h>says investigators are all but certain that the two gunmen had help from others </h> ; the police say security cameras may provide crucial evidence of a conspiracy. </s>
<s> BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan says stricter gun laws could not have prevented the deadly school shootings in Littleton, Colo.  ``The question is who has the weapons, the good people or those who are ugly and warped,'' he said. ``The problem began long before <h>they walked into school. </h> '' </s>
<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The sheriff's initial estimate of as many as 25 dead in the Columbine High massacre was off the mark apparently because the six SWAT teams that swept the building counted some victims more than once. Sheriff John Stone said Tuesday afternoon <h>that there could be as many as 25 dead. </h>  </s>
<s> LITTLETON, Colo. _ Lynda Pasma and Kerry Herurlin stopped halfway down Mt. <h>Columbine on Saturday </h>  morning <h>to pray. </h>  </s>
<s> ``The problem began long before they walked into school.'' <h>Fifteen people, including the two killers </h> , <h>died Tuesday in a shooting and bombing spree at Columbine High School. </h>  </s>
<s> Those officers told associates that they grew more suspicious when two of them got out of their car to question him and he retreated into the vestibule of the building, the people knowledgeable about the case said on Tuesday. <h>The four officers, who are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges in state Supreme Court in the Bronx on Wednesday </h> , <h>did not testify about the shooting before the grand jury </h>  that heard their case. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK ( </h> AP) <h>-- Four white police officers were charged with murder Wednesday for killing an unarmed African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets </h>  -- a shooting that has led to months of protests and a painful examination of police tactics and race relations. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ With <h>the indictments barely unsealed against four police officers in the Amadou Diallo shooting </h> , a battle is already taking shape over physical evidence in the case, as lawyers and experts seek to buttress their own versions of what happened based on entrance wounds, bullet trajectories and other forensic details. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ Now that <h>the four police officers charged with killing Amadou Diallo have been arraigned </h> , the next step in the legal process will come at the end of the month, when their lawyers and Bronx prosecutors are to appear before a judge to set a schedule for the pretrial proceedings. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK </h>  (AP) -- <h>A judge ordered four police officers Wednesday to stand trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. </h>  </s>
<s> He was unarmed. <h>The four officers fired 41 shots </h> , hitting Diallo 19 times. </s> <s> The four officers, who are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges in state Supreme Court in the Bronx on Wednesday, did not testify about the shooting before the grand jury that heard their case. <h>Diallo </h> , an unarmed man with no criminal <h>history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him </h> , 19 of which hit him. </s> <s> It was the first time ever that a New York City police officer has been indicted for murder, according to prosecutors and police spokesmen, though a few have faced manslaughter charges. The three-count indictment _ two for second-degree murder, one for reckless endangerment _ applied to all four of <h>the white officers </h>  who <h>fired 41 bullets at African immigrant Amadou Diallo in the wee hours of Feb. 4 </h> , as he stood, unarmed, in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </s> <s> The officers were indicted in March. <h>They </h>  are accused <h>of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo </h>  while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </s> <s> The officers were indicted in March. <h>They are accused of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </h>  </s>
<s> ... Now you move to another stage in which the crime has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.'' <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h>  -- who were searching for a rape suspect and <h>fired apparently </h>  believing Diallo had a gun -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> ... Now you move to another stage in which the crime has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.'' <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h>  -- who were searching for a rape suspect and fired apparently <h>believing Diallo had a gun </h>  -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> It was a point that Worth disputed outside court by saying, ``I don't think I have a conflict of interest, though it is obvious that Kornberg would like for me to go.'' Police officials declined to say where <h>the officers _ Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy, Carroll and McMellon _ would be working </h> , adding only that they were on modified duty and carrying no guns or badges. </s> <s> NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge ordered four police officers Wednesday to stand trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy left the courthouse </h>  without comment. </s>
<s> NEW YORK (AP) -- Four white police officers were charged with murder Wednesday for killing an unarmed African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets -- a shooting that has led to months of protests and a painful examination of police tactics and race relations. <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded innocent in a Bronx courtroom to second-degree murder. </h>  </s> <s> The three-count indictment _ two for second-degree murder, one for reckless endangerment _ applied to all four of the white officers who fired 41 bullets at African immigrant Amadou Diallo in the wee hours of Feb. 4, as he stood, unarmed, in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. <h>The officers _ Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, and Richard Murphy _ pleaded not guilty to the charges. </h>  </s> <s> NEW YORK (AP) -- The cheering began as the parents of Amadou Diallo left the prosecutor's office. Black bystanders fell in behind the couple Wednesday as they marched two blocks to <h>a courthouse </h>  where <h>four white police officers pleaded innocent to murder charges in the shooting death of the Diallos' son </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record. </s> <s> Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy left the courthouse without comment. <h>They have all pleaded innocent to second-degree murder. </h>  </s>
<s> The parents, who are divorced, were last in New York in early February, when they came to collect their son's body for burial in Guinea and found that his death had set off a storm of political protest that has yet to abate. <h>Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old immigrant who worked as a street peddler in Manhattan and attended computer <h>classes, was shot in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building Feb. 4. </h>  </s> <s> They could get 25 years to life in prison on the murder charges. <h>Amadou Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record, <h>was shot 19 times Feb. 4 in his vestibule </h>  by members of an elite street-crime unit looking for a rape suspect. </s> <s> Since there were apparently no eyewitnesses who saw the whole incident except for the officers, such evidence _ and the often fuzzy or conflicting interpretations it can yield _ could be a crucial element in the officers' trial on murder charges. Both sides hope to use forensic evidence to answer vexing questions that have loomed since Feb. 4, when Diallo was killed in fusillade of <h>41 bullets fired into the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </h>  </s>
<s> He was unarmed. <h>The four officers </h>  fired 41 shots, <h>hitting Diallo 19 times. </h>  </s> <s> The officers left the courthouse together shortly after the arraignment. Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless <h>when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him </h> , struck him and killed him. </s> <s> They are accused of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. <h>Diallo was hit 19 times. </h>  </s>
<s> The officers left the courthouse together shortly after the arraignment. Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him. </h>  </s> <s> The officers heard cheers, too -- from scores of their off-duty colleagues, most of them white. ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h>  Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him </h> ,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>
<s> The four officers, who are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges in state Supreme Court in the Bronx on Wednesday, did not testify about the shooting before the grand jury that heard their case. Diallo, an unarmed man with no criminal history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him, 19 of <h>which hit him. </h>  </s> <s> The officers left the courthouse together shortly after the arraignment. Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h>  and killed him. </s>
<s> The officers left the courthouse together shortly after the arraignment. Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless </h>  when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and killed him. </s> <s> The officers heard cheers, too -- from scores of their off-duty colleagues, most of them white. ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h>  Diallo stood blameless, <h>unarmed and defenseless </h>  when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h>  and killed him,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>
<s> Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy -- who were searching for a rape suspect and fired apparently believing Diallo had a gun -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. <h>Each was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment. </h>  </s> <s> Not surprisingly, the officers' lawyers embrace the same irrefutable science to argue a opposite position. ``I am not afraid of the forensic evidence,'' said Stephen Worth, the attorney for Officer Edward McMellon, one of <h>the four accused of second-degree murder. </h>  </s>
<s> About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because <h>large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed </h>  and died. </s> <s> <h>Flowering arrow bamboo is threatening a colony of endangered giant pandas in China </h>  but experts have come up with a plan to save them, state media said Monday. </s> <s> Twenty-two giant pandas living in parts of Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve in the northwestern province of Gansu will be moved to other locations with better food, the China Daily said, quoting Zhang Kerong, director of the reserve. <h>Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve </h>  which they inhabit <h>is flowering, </h>  which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. </s>
<s> By the end of 2004, arrow bamboo, the favorite food of giants, had blossomed on 7,420 hectares at the Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve in southern Gansu Province, a major habitat of pandas in China, according to a recent survey conducted by the nature reserve administration. The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with <h>an estimated 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h>  </s> <s> The Qinling pandas are believed to have separated from the giant panda about 50,000 years ago, Chinese researchers said. Last week Xinhua reported that some 7,420 hectares of bamboo, the panda's favourite food, bloomed and died in December <h>in neighboring Gansu province </h> , <h>200 </h>  kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s> <s> "The forestry department will decide whether to send her back to the wild depending on her physical condition." The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with <h>an estimated some 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h>  </s>
<s> By the end of 2004, arrow bamboo, the favorite food of giants, had blossomed on 7,420 hectares at the Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve in southern Gansu Province, a major habitat of pandas in China, according to a recent survey conducted by the nature reserve administration. <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with an estimated 1,000 </h>  living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s> <s> The latest national survey on giant panda, which was organized by the State Forestry Administration, showed that the population and habitat of the pandas in Sichuan have both increased 30 percent during the past seven years. "<h>Now China has about 1,700 giant pandas and 76 percent of them </h>  live in Sichuan," said Yang, adding that the provincial government has obtained a financial support of more than 24 million yuan (2. </s> <s> "The forestry department will decide whether to send her back to the wild depending on her physical condition." <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with an estimated some 1,000 </h>  living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s>
<s> <h>About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed and died. </h>  </s> <s> Zhang Kerong, director of the Baishuijiang State Nature Preserve, said that the preserve will intervene and help giant pandas find new food source. Zhang said that <h>at the end of a life of arrow bamboo </h> , a favorite of giant pandas, <h>the plant will flower, seed and die. </h>  </s>
<s> The Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve is home to more than 100 giant pandas. <h>Currently, they are threatened by a severe food shortage in the wake of the withering bamboo. </h>  </s> <s> Nature preserve workers in northwest China's Gansu Province have formulated a rescue plan to save giant pandas from <h>food shortage caused by arrow bamboo flowering. </h>  </s>
<s> About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed and died. <h>By the end of 2004 </h> , <h>arrow bamboo </h> , the favorite food of <h>giants, had blossomed on 7,420 hectares at the Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve </h>  in southern Gansu Province, a major habitat of pandas in China, according to a recent survey conducted by the nature reserve administration. </s> <s> The Qinling pandas are believed to have separated from the giant panda about 50,000 years ago, Chinese researchers said. Last week Xinhua reported that <h>some 7,420 hectares of bamboo </h> , the panda's favourite food, <h>bloomed </h>  and died in December in neighboring Gansu province, 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s>
<s> Zhang said that at the end of a life of arrow bamboo, a favorite of giant pandas, the plant will flower, seed and die. The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h>  to grow. </s> <s> Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve which they inhabit is flowering, which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h>  to grow. </s>
<s> Zhang said that at the end of a life of arrow bamboo, a favorite of giant pandas, the plant will flower, seed and die. The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h>  </s> <s> Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve which they inhabit is flowering, which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h>  </s>
<s> Zhang said that at the end of a life of arrow bamboo, a favorite of giant pandas, the plant will flower, seed and die. <h>The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h>  and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s> <s> Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve which they inhabit is flowering, which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. <h>Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h>  and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s>
<s> A blood bank can also simplify the process of breeding pandas because data on the pandas' blood types and DNA information will be readily available to bring more diversity to the gene pool. <h>China has 163 giant pandas in captivity. </h>  </s> <s> Giant pandas are said to have been around during the time of dinosaurs and regarded as a "national gem" of China. About 1,590 giant pandas are still at large in the wild, mostly in the high mountains around Sichuan Basin, and <h>160 live in captivity. </h>  </s>
<s> CANBERRA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defense Force, the police and health services are on standby to help the victims of <h>a tsunami </h>  that <h>wiped out several villages </h> , killing scores of people, on PNG's remote north-west coast Friday night. </s> <s> "We will also transport a mobile hospital and associated Australian Defense Force (ADF) medical personnel to the disaster area to provide urgent medical assistance to injured victims," Downer said Saturday in a statement. <h>The massive tidal wave wiped seven villages </h>  off the map, leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves </h>  set off by an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>killing at least 70 people and crushing villages </h> , the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h>  Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages and </h>  leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h>  Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages </h>  and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> CANBERRA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on <h>Friday night had wiped out three villages </h>  and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
<s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves set off by an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, <h>hit Friday night without warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) </h>  off the coast. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves set off by an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, hit Friday night without <h>warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast. </h>  </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>Huge sea waves set off by an earthquake </h>  crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h>  crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h>  crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> A 10-meter tsunami engulfed the heavily populated villages near Aitape, 800 km north of PNG's capital city of Port Moresby. <h>The disaster occurred 30 minutes after an undersea earthquake of about 7.0 on the Richter scale </h>  took place. </s>
<s> Igara said the PNG Red Cross had confirmed arrangements to provide food supplies and authorities had asked the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby for immediate air transport support. The death toll so far from <h>the tsunami </h>  that <h>struck the coastline near the town of Aitape in the West Sepik </h>  (Sandaun) province Friday night, was officially announced 64 and many more people were missing. </s> <s> He said most of the dead were children who drowned. Disaster authorities said <h>the seismic sea wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages _ Sissano, Warapu, Arop and Malol. </s> <s> The capital of Port Moresby is located about 600 kilometers (375 miles) east of the northeastern tip of Australia. <h>Disaster authorities said the wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages. </s> <s> Among the dead are scores of schoolchildren. <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h>  </s> <s> Australian government aid agency Ausaid officers in Papua New Guinea estimated the final death toll would climb to more than 1,000, with many thousands injured, Australian Defense Minister Ian McLachlan said. <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of the village on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h>  </s> <s> CANBERRA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said <h>the tsunami </h> , that <h>hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night </h>  had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
<s> Igara said reports so far indicated that a community school, government station, Catholic mission station and the Nimas village in the Sissano area west of Aitape had been completely destroyed, where 30 people were dead. <h>And Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing. </s> <s> Thirty people were confirmed dead. <h>The Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing, Igara said. </s> <s> they're all dead.'' Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h>  and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> they're all dead.'' Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h>  and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> "They are scattered all over in the mangroves." Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> , and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s>
<s> "We will also transport a mobile hospital and associated Australian Defense Force (ADF) medical personnel to the disaster area to provide urgent medical assistance to injured victims," Downer said Saturday in a statement. <h>The massive tidal wave </h>  wiped seven villages off the map, <h>leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </h>  </s> <s> The disaster center said late Saturday that hundreds are missing and thousands are without food and shelter. ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> The Papua New Guinea Defense Force was on standby Sunday and police and health services officials expected the official death toll of 71 to rise. ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> CANBERRA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Australia Sunday sent three Air Force C130 Hercules aircraft loaded with medical and food supplies on an urgent mission to help survivors of a devastating tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea (PNG) Friday night. <h>The tidal wave </h>  smashed into the northwestern coastline near the town of Aitape in West Sepik province, <h>killing at least 600 people </h> , according to reports reaching here. </s>
<s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves set off by <h>an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s>
<s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h>  following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h>  following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h>  following an earthquake about 18 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s>
<s> <h>CANBERRA </h> , July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (<h>PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 </h>  and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out, and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. <h>At Warapu 500 people had been confirmed dead. </h>  </s> <s> The disaster occurred 30 minutes after an undersea earthquake of about 7.0 on the Richter scale took place. "<h>The latest death toll for the district is 599 </h> ," Dickson Dalle, chairman of district disaster coordinating, was quoted as telling reporters. </s>
<s> they're all dead.'' Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h>  </s> <s> "They are scattered all over in the mangroves." Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out, and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h>  </s> <s> CANBERRA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and <h>had almost completely destroyed another </h> , according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
<s> ABC radio, a government-owned corporation, quoted Australian army officials Sunday as saying the death toll could rise to as high as 2,000 people, but that figure could not be confirmed by the Papua New Guinean government. <h>Among the dead are scores of schoolchildren. </h>  </s> <s> ``They are scattered all over in the mangroves.'' Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h>  </s> <s> ``They are scattered all over in the mangroves.'' Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h>  </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h>  which, when mutated, <h>causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </h>  </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h>  which, <h>when mutated </h> , causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered a gene which, when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families. Although <h>Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited </h> , <h>the </h>  discovery of this gene and further study of how it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </s>
<s> Exercise alone was enough to prevent the degeneration of brain cells in rats with Parkinson's disease, University of Pittsburgh researchers report. The loss of <h>cells </h>  that <h>produce the neurotransmitter dopamine </h>  causes the telltale tremors, rigid and slow movements of Parkinson's. </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered a gene which, when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families. Although Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited, the discovery of this gene and further study of how <h>it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </h>  </s>
<s> A new robotic microscope that follows a brain cell in the lab from a normal state to its death has led researchers to a surprising finding that appears to debunk a long-standing theory about Huntington's disease. Like <h>many degenerative brain diseases </h> , <h>including Parkinson's and Alzheimer </h> 's, proteins targeted in the disease process begin misfolding and clumping in or around brain cells, which are called neurons. </s>
<s> Q. <h>What is Lewy body disease? </h>  </s>
<s> The emotionally- and politically-charged Proposition 71, which allows nearly three billion dollars to be put aside for stem cell research over 10 years, passed by 64 percent against 36 percent opposition, CNN reported, citing early poll results. Supporters of the measure say the decision could help find cures to diseases including cancer, AIDS, spinal cord injuries, <h>Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease </h>  more quickly than <h>had been expected. </h>  </s>
<s> Investigators studied five families with a history of Parkinson's disease who lived in the Basque region of Spain and in England. First, the group identified a small region of the "chromosome 12" shared by all of the Basque families and then systematically assessed each gene in this region <h>for mutations </h>  that <h>might cause </h>  disease. </s>
<s> A. <h>It is a form of dementia </h>  that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke calls dementia with Lewy bodies. </s>
<s> She called FitzGerald's contention "an interesting theory," but said, "there is no evidence" of increased risk of heart problems among the 75 million Americans who have taken Celebrex. Long-term studies are not yet available <h>on Bextra, </h>  which <h>was approved in 2001. </h>  </s> <s> Regulators abroad have also indicated plans to review COX-2 drugs. Pfizer said it is already conducting research into whether Bextra increases the risk of heart attacks in <h>people taking the drug for chronic pain. </h>  </s>
<s> Merck &amp; Co. said its surprise decision <h>Thursday to withdraw the arthritis drug Vioxx -- used by about 2 million people worldwide </h>  -- was driven by recent evidence that the drug's adverse side effects outweighed any potential benefits. </s>
<s> The Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck &amp; <h>Co. </h>  yanked <h>the blockbuster drug Vioxx </h>  due <h>to increased risks for heart attack and strokes </h> , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday. </s>
<s> Pfizer Inc. warned doctors on Friday that <h>one of its bestselling painkillers </h> , <h>Bextra </h> , <h>might increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass </h>  surgery patients. </s>
<s> <h>Seven weeks </h>  before Merck &amp; <h>Co. pulled the arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because of safety concerns </h> , federal drug regulators downplayed the significance of scientific findings citing the increased risks, documents released Thursday show. </s>
<s> Momentum was growing for a fresh look at the safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers as key researchers, a congressman and European regulators said they feared such drugs might raise the risk of heart problems like <h>those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx. </h>  </s>
<s> Pfizer Inc. warned doctors on Friday that one of its bestselling painkillers, Bextra, might increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass surgery patients. The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled <h>its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which <h>is in the same class of drugs as Bextra </h> , from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>
<s> The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post:  In a certain sense, Merck &amp; Co.'s decision to cease selling Vioxx, its best-selling painkiller, demonstrates how the peculiarly American combination of government regulation and private-sector competition can, serendipitously, sometimes work well. Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration showed it to be effective (which <h>it was </h> ). </s>
<s> The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post:  In a certain sense, Merck &amp; Co.'s decision to cease selling Vioxx, its best-selling painkiller, demonstrates how the peculiarly American combination of government regulation and private-sector competition can, serendipitously, sometimes work well. Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and <h>Drug Administration showed it to be effective </h>  (which it was). </s>
<s> Pfizer Inc. warned doctors on Friday that one of its bestselling painkillers, Bextra, might increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass surgery patients. <h>The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which is in the same class of drugs as Bextra, from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>
<s> MACAO, December 9 (Xinhua) -- Macao experts today warned residents to be careful but not panic <h>over the bird flu </h>  that <h>has killed children in neighboring Hong Kong. </h>  </s> <s> Of the nine confirmed cases, a three-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 54-year-old man have died. And of the six others confirmed of being infected of the H5N1 virus, two have recovered and been discharged from hospital and <h>four others are still under treatment with their condition satisfactory </h> , according to the DH update. </s>
<s> Meanwhile, local dealers of imported fowls said imported chickens, ducks and geese are safe to eat because they have passed strict examinations before they are put on the local market. The poultry imported from China's inland areas are from a different source from <h>those imported by Hong Kong </h> , they said. </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 16 (Xinhua) -- The bird flu <h>in Hong Kong, </h>  which <h>has killed two people </h> , has not become an epidemic, a local senior health official said today. </s>
<s> Investigators fanned out across the territory Monday, checking poultry farms for traces of the disease amid the speculation that it could have been passed to humans by chickens. <h>All hospitals and clinics in Hong Kong have been ordered to test patients for the flu. </h>  </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working <h>group </h>  today <h>to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread of a mysterious "bird flu </h> " that has killed two people. </s>
<s> At least seven staff who had contact with the victims were experiencing flu-like symptoms, but it was not clear if they had also contracted the H5N1 strain, local health officials said today. <h>Investigators </h>  fanned out across the territory Monday, <h>checking poultry farms for traces of the disease amid the speculation that it could have been passed to humans by chickens. </h>  </s> <s> The group will coordinate measures necessary for the prevention and control of the "bird flu," or H5N1 virus, the spokesman said. <h>Chickens have been identified as the most likely source of a new strain of the flu. </h>  </s>
<s> A number of the patients' relatives were also found developing flu-like symptoms and were undergoing tests. <h>A three-year-old boy and a man died earlier this year after catching the "bird flu </h> ", or H5N1 strain of influenza, and a 13-year-old girl is in hospital with the disease. </s> <s> Although several cases were reported in Hong Kong, none was found in Macao so far. It is still unclear in which <h>way human being catches the virus. </h>  </s>
<s> Experts say they are baffled by the virus, and the hospital authority has issued guidelines to the public and hospitals to treat the potentially deadly flu. <h>There has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus </h> , and no infected chickens have been found at the market, according to a source from the local health department. </s> <s> The virus is believed to be transmitted through contact with birds or their feces. <h>Because strict preventive measures have been taken for a long period </h> , Zhao said, there has been no bird flu epidemic in recent years among Shenzhen's 168 chicken runs and 38 pigeon farms. </s>
<s> HONG KONG, December 25 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) on Thursday reported four more suspected cases of Influenza A H5N1, bringing the number to 10 in addition to <h>nine confirmed cases. </h>  </s>
<s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working group today to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread <h>of a mysterious "bird flu" </h>  that <h>has killed two people. </h>  </s>
<s> HONG KONG, December 8 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong health authorities are stepping up the hunt for the source of a deadly influenza strain previously found only <h>in birds </h>  which <h>has caused a global alert. </h>  </s>
<s> HONG KONG, December 19 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong is trying to persuade tourists that it is safe to come to the city because the bird flu is not so serious as to trigger an outbreak. The Department of Health prepared a fact sheet to explain to <h>tourists the avian flu, </h>  which <h>is caused by a virus H5N1 </h>  that is only found in poultry. </s>
<s> The oysters were spawned at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, then planted in the managed reserves, where they grew under the supervision of scientists. <h>Almost 200 million oysters have been planted since 2001 </h> , officials said. </s> <s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation </h>  will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, <h>signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group </h>  that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>
<s> The more than 350 sewage plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed account for about 21 percent of its nitrogen, according to the EPA. In its petition filed in December, the bay foundation noted that <h>almost </h>  none of those sewage plants had permits that limited nitrogen pollution and <h>asked the EPA to remedy that. </h>  </s> <s> Consider:  -- The 2000 agreement targeted the problem of low dissolved oxygen, a condition in which fish and crabs can't breathe. <h>This </h>  would mean reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, found in suburban lawn fertilizer, <h>processed sewage and animal manure. </h>  </s>
<s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday </h> , signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>
<s> Halfway through <h>a 10-year program to save the Chesapeake Bay </h> , political leaders are acknowledging that the vaunted cleanup is faltering and are calling for major changes midstream. </s>
<s> <h>In 2000 </h> , <h>the Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., and several states vowed that the Chesapeake Bay would be cleaned up within 10 years. </h>  </s>
<s> <h>Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay </h> , the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </s>
<s> Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, <h>the states of Delaware and New Jersey </h>  said this week, <h>joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </h>  </s>
<s> Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. The states issued a statement saying that <h>the Asian oyster </h>  is still ``a virtual unknown'' and <h>could bring diseases or other ecological problems that would spread to their coasts. </h>  </s>
<s> Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. <h>The states issued a statement saying that the Asian oyster is still ``a virtual unknown'' and could bring diseases or other ecological problems </h>  that would spread to their coasts. </s>
<s> The leaders of several states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed agreed Monday to lobby Capitol Hill for about $12 billion for cleaning up the bay. The Chesapeake Executive Council, a group of state and <h>federal officials overseeing the bay cleanup </h> , voted to support a new central financing authority with the power to disperse billions to various Chesapeake-related projects. </s>
<s> ``I intend to let this speculation take whatever course it will since to confirm or deny theories about what this all means would most certainly damage the ongoing investigation,'' he said. <h>The toy </h>  was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room </h> , but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> ``I intend to let this speculation take whatever course it will since to confirm or deny theories about what this all means would most certainly damage the ongoing investigation,'' he said. <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h>  found in JonBenet's room, but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The teddy bear sought by authorities in the JonBenet Ramsey case first emerged as a clue in an interview last summer with her mother, Patsy Ramsey, The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. <h>The toy </h>  was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room. </h>  </s> <s> BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The teddy bear sought by authorities in the JonBenet Ramsey case first emerged as a clue in an interview last summer with her mother, Patsy Ramsey, The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h>  found in JonBenet's room. </s>
<s> JonBenet was found beaten and strangled Dec. 26, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. There have been no arrests, <h>and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </h>  </s> <s> The friend, Fleet White, criticized the Ramseys, saying their refusal to cooperate with detectives hurt the investigation of their daughter's death. <h>The Ramseys remain under suspicion in the homicide. </h>  </s> <s> No arrests have been made. Police say <h>her parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>remain under suspicion. </h>  </s> <s> JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. There have been no arrests, although police have said <h>JonBenet's parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>are under suspicion. </h>  </s>
<s> There have been no arrests, and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. <h>The Ramseys have denied any involvement. </h>  </s> <s> Police say her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, remain under suspicion. <h>The Ramseys have maintained their innocence. </h>  </s> <s> There have been no arrests, although police have said JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, are under suspicion. <h>They have denied involvement. </h>  </s> <s> The little girl's parents remain under suspicion as a grand jury investigates the crime. <h>The Ramseys have proclaimed their innocence. </h>  </s>
<s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With <h>the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey </h> , the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. </s> <s> In response to these calls, Hunter cut short a vacation in Alaska, returned to Colorado, met with Gov. <h>Roy </h>  Romer and <h>announced that he would take the case to a grand jury soon, probably next month. </h>  </s> <s> Romer has stood fast in face of the new calls that he take the case away from Hunter and appoint a special prosecutor. <h>``The case is going to the grand jury </h> ,'' Jim Carpenter, the governor's spokesman, said on Thursday. </s>
<s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last <h>talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997 </h> , were questioned separately, and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, <h>were questioned separately </h> , and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, were questioned separately, and <h>in videotaped interviews by prosecutors </h> , according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s>
<s> Their 11-year-old son, Burke, also was interviewed over three days in Atlanta, where the family now resides. Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet </h>  was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </h>  </s> <s> ``God knows, and He's not telling.'' <h>JonBenet </h>  was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26 </h> , 1996 <h>in her home in Boulder </h> , Colorado. </s> <s> ``I believe it was on the other (twin) bed in JonBenet's room.'' <h>JonBenet </h>  was found beaten and <h>strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996 </h> , about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>
<s> Their 11-year-old son, Burke, also was interviewed over three days in Atlanta, where the family now resides. Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet was found beaten </h>  and strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </s> <s> ``God knows, and He's not telling.'' <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h>  and strangled Dec. 26, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. </s> <s> ``I believe it was on the other (twin) bed in JonBenet's room.'' <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h>  and strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>
<s> JonBenet was found beaten and strangled Dec. 26, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. <h>There have been no arrests </h> , and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </s> <s> Authorities said JonBenet had a fractured skull and may have been sexually assaulted. <h>No arrests have been made. </h>  </s> <s> JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. <h>There have been no arrests </h> , although police have said JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, are under suspicion. </s>
<s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </h>  </s> <s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday </h>  appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </s>
<s> <h>Three former friends of the parents of JonBenet Ramsey have asked for a special prosecutor to take over the stalled 20-month-old investigation into the slaying of JonBenet </h> , the 6-year-old Colorado beauty princess. </s> <s> Hunter has declined to respond to the charges against him, saying a response could prejudice the case. Romer has stood fast in face of the new calls that he take the case away from Hunter and <h>appoint a special prosecutor. </h>  </s>
<s> In a letter dated Friday, medical Director Robert B. Smith III said laboratory tests came back positive but also "confirmed that this is not the disease commonly called 'mad cow disease.'" <h>The human form of mad cow disease is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob. </h>  </s> <s> A person who donated blood several times over the past 10 years has been diagnosed as the eighth case of the human form of mad cow disease in France since the invariably fatal illness was declared a public health risk in 1996, officials said. <h>The person </h> , was not identified publicly, <h>was discovered to have variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease </h>  (vCJD), which causes personality change, loss of body function, brain deterioration and eventually death, officials from the health ministry said. </s> <s> <h>Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease </h> , a Dublin hospital spokesman said on Wednesday. </s>
<s> Department of Health officials said Friday that there is no timetable for reintroducing the importation of U.S. beef to Taiwan after America was declared an area affected by mad cow disease late last year. The health department suspended the import of beef and related products from the United States on Dec. 24, 2003, the same day that <h>the United States announced it had discovered a case of mad cow disease. </h>  </s> <s> In late March, the United States applied to Taiwan's health department to have the ban lifted. Chen Lu-hung, director of the health department's Bureau of Food Sanitation, noted that although there was only a single case of <h>mad cow disease found in the United States </h> , the actual situation in the United States has to be evaluated. </s>
<s> Mad cow sprang up in Britain in 1986 and spread through Europe and Asia, prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. A human form of the disease, which can be fatal, is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease </h> , especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> The government declined to identify the man or the hospital treating him. The fatal brain-wasting disease is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease. </h>  </s>
<s> The health scares rattled consumer confidence in meat products and how farm produce is controlled. <h>Mad cow </h>  sprang up in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s> <s> Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. <h>It </h>  appeared in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s>
<s> However, Chen said, if there is any doubt over the quality of the beef, the ban will not be lifted at that time. According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 to </h>  Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, <h>indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </h>  </s> <s> However, Chen said, if there is any doubt over the quality of the beef, the ban will not be lifted at that time. <h>According </h>  to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 </h>  to Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </s>
<s> Mad cow sprang up in Britain in 1986 and spread through Europe and Asia, prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. <h>A human form of the disease </h> , which can be fatal, <h>is believed to come from eating beef products from cows </h>  struck with mad cow disease, especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> We are now awaiting the results of a police investigation of the case in order to find out who should be held responsible", deputy agriculture minister Boiko Boev told 168 hours. <h>In the mid 1990s the British government announced a probable link between BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease </h> , which can cause personality change, loss of body function, and eventually death. </s>
<s> <h>Canada </h> , whose exports of beef products <h>are effected by a single case of  mad cow disease since may 2003 </h> , has exceeded its mad cow testing target for 2004, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday. </s>
<s> The European Union head office said Friday it was allocating euro98.1 million (US$122 million) on testing cattle across <h>the 25-nation bloc to prevent the spread of mad cow disease next year. </h>  </s>
<s> Japanese and US officials began talks Thursday on resuming US beef shipments to top export market Japan, banned last year over mad cow disease fears, amid signs of a resolution to the dispute. The two-day talks, the fourth round since <h>the ban was imposed in December </h> , come after two Japanese ministries last week recommended exempting cows aged 20 months or younger from screening tests. </s>
<s> A 48-month-old cow that died recently has been confirmed as having had mad cow disease, making it the 14th case in Japan, the country's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Thursday. <h>The cow </h>  was born in Shikaoi, north Japan's Hokkaido region, in October 2000<h>, and was checked for mad cow disease after it died </h> , the ministry said. </s>
<s> She has held down a number of different jobs and is convinced she can best help her clients, who often come in groups, like the members of the "Dick und duenn", or the Fat and Thin, association. Some 30 or so <h>people with eating disorders </h>  have hesitantly pushed their way through the doors at Sehnsucht in the month since it opened. </s> <s> Italy's TV channels broadcast twice as many commercials featuring food as their US counterparts, threatening children who watch them with serious eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia, <h>according to a study </h>  published here Tuesday. </s>
<s> While bulimics purge what they eat, anorexics essentially starve themselves. Montaner had been warned months before by one of her daughter's teachers <h>that Amanda might have an eating disorder. </h>  </s> <s> Imagine a 20-year-old woman who refuses to eat anything except carrots and toast because she is afraid of gaining weight, even though <h>she </h>  is 5-foot-8 and <h>weighs only 99 pounds. </h>  </s>
<s> Doctors believe some of those cases are caused by stress. But in others, they believe it may be caused by subtler changes in <h>body composition caused by diet and exercise. </h>  </s> <s> Dr. Nathan Shapira, an assistant professor of psychiatry of the University of Florida's College of Medicine, is among the researchers testing the effectiveness of topiramate, a drug developed to treat the convulsions and seizures of epilepsy, in controlling binge eating. Shapira said that <h>when topiramate was used for epilepsy patients </h> , <h>many reported that they also had a marked decrease in appetite and even lost weight. </h>  </s>
<s> <h>This is how Emma, 15, and a fan of Web sites promoting anorexia, nearly starved herself to death </h> :  She began by "eating healthy," she says, choosing salads and giving up fast food. </s>
<s> CREDIT: Robert Holst/NYTRNG (with sidebar 2BINGEEATING) Binge eating gets a closer look New study tests drug that curbs overeaters' urge  The temptation to overeat will strike most of us during the holiday season, but for those who suffer from a binge-eating disorder, holiday feasting can be self-inflicted hell. <h>Binge eating disorder </h>  is a newly recognized condition that probably affects millions of Americans. </s>
<s> "I think baby boomers were taught that if you ate right and took those vitamins and exercised, you were never going to grow old," says Ann Kearney-Cooke. "Now, all of a sudden, <h>they're getting older and struggling with natural changes. </h> " </s>
<s> Her appetite began to disappear when her parents split up while she was a teenager. <h>She </h>  lost 10 kilogrammes (22 pounds), then put the weight all back on again in no <h>time and was admitted to hospital for three months in 2003. </h>  </s>
<s> She's certainly not on a quest to look like an A-list actress or pop star. But she is anorexic and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since <h>she was 14. </h>  </s>
<s> She's certainly not on a quest to look like an A-list actress or pop star. But <h>she is anorexic </h>  and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since she was 14. </s>
<s> To date, there are no approved medications to treat binge-eating disorder, but a large, multi-center study may offer hope to the 2 percent of the population who suffer from it. Dr. Nathan Shapira, an assistant professor of psychiatry of the University of Florida's College of Medicine, is among <h>the researchers testing the effectiveness of topiramate </h> , a drug developed to treat the convulsions and seizures of epilepsy, in controlling binge eating. </s>
<s> "The fire is still burning and there are no survivors." Fueling the relatives' anger were reports that the plane may have crashed due to <h>a technical fault </h>  that <h>had affected Helios planes in the past. </h>  </s> <s> A timeline of <h>events leading up to the crash Sunday of a Cypriot airliner in Greece </h> , in which 121 people were killed, as released by the Greek government. </s>
<s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h>  that crashed Sunday in Greece, killing all 121 people on <h>board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure </h>  that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s> <s> The Cypriot airliner that crashed Sunday in Greece, killing all 121 people on board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. The co-pilot of the Helios Airways flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, was slumped over the controls and <h>the captain was not in the cockpit </h> , the Greek air force said after sending two F-16 jets to intercept the airliner after it failed to respond to radio calls. </s>
<s> Matthew L. Wald contributed reporting from Washington. ATHENS, <h>Greece -- A Cypriot passenger plane with 121 people on board crashed Sunday just north of the Greek capital </h> , after being shadowed for 43 helpless minutes by fighter jets reporting that the co-pilot was slumped over the controls and that there was no sign of the pilot. </s> <s> Angry relatives swarmed the counters at Larnaca airport, hurling curses at the managers of an airline whose plane crashed in Greece earlier Sunday, killing all passengers and crew on board. Shouting "murderers," and "You deserve lynching," the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board <h>the Helios Airways flight ZU522 </h>  that <h>left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT </h> ) near Grammatiko, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s>
<s> Angry relatives swarmed the counters at Larnaca airport, hurling curses at the managers of an airline whose plane crashed in Greece earlier Sunday, killing all passengers and crew on board. Shouting "murderers," and "You deserve lynching," the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board the Helios Airways flight ZU522 that left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when <h>it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT) near Grammatiko, </h>  about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s> <s> GREEK GOVERNMENT RULES OUT TERRORISM  The Greek government said on Sunday that no evidence of terrorism or foul play had emerged after the plane crashed. Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos flatly rejected media speculation that <h>two air force fighter jets, </h>  which <h>were sent to track the aircraft after its crew </h>  failed to communicate with Greece's air traffic control on its entry, had been ordered to shoot down the plane on fears of terrorism. </s>
<s> Shouting "murderers," and "You deserve lynching," the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board the Helios Airways flight ZU522 that left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT) near Grammatiko, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. <h>The Boeing 737-300 </h>  was due <h>to fly onto Prague </h> , Czech Republic, <h>after stopping in Athens. </h>  </s> <s> There were no survivors. As police cordoned off part of the crash sites with bright orange tape, <h>firefighting planes and helicopters swooped </h>  overhead <h>to battle a brush fire started by the crash </h> , which rekindled at the site throughout the day. </s>
<s> The plane did not respond to radio calls. <h>One of the pilots appeared to have fallen ill or unconscious </h> , according to reports. </s> <s> Oxygen masks were seen hanging in the cabin, a Greek government spokesman said. "If <h>the aircraft lost cabin pressure </h> , either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time," said Chris Yates, an aviation analyst at Jane's Transport. </s>
<s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens, <h>killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </h>  </s>
<s> A timeline of events leading up to the crash Sunday of <h>a Cypriot airliner </h>  in <h>Greece </h> , in which <h>121 people were killed </h> , as released by the Greek government. </s>
<s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h>  that <h>crashed Sunday in Greece </h> , killing all 121 people on board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s>
<s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after <h>a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens </h> , killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </s>
<s> <h>WASHINGTON </h>  _ <h>The Clinton administration announced a new privacy initiative Friday aimed at protecting children and medical patients, among others. </h>  </s>
<s> But while the proposals were ambitious, the administration can enforce few of them without the consent of Congress or private industry. Calling privacy in the age of electronic commerce ``a basic American value'' that ``must be protected,'' Vice President Al Gore made public a list of a dozen or so <h>new initiatives </h>  that <h>seek to tighten the security of financial and medical records and to protect the privacy of children </h>  who use the Internet. </s>
<s> I'd never even been to Sacramento.'' <h>That was in 1991. </h>  </s>
<s> The group is a regional affiliate of the United States Mutual Association, an 80-year-old private clearinghouse in Chicago that pools theft case reports from its 10 member groups nationwide _ it currently has about two million such reports _ and operates much like a major credit bureau. Kelly says <h>he was the victim of identity theft. </h>  </s>
<s> The group is a regional affiliate of the United States Mutual Association, an 80-year-old private clearinghouse in Chicago that pools theft case reports from its 10 member groups nationwide _ it currently has about two million such reports _ and operates much like a major credit bureau. <h>Kelly says he was the victim of identity theft. </h>  </s>
<s> Kelly says he was the victim of identity theft. After his wallet was stolen, he said<h>, a shoplifter </h>  who <h>was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>
<s> Gore announced instead that, for now, the administration would leave industry to regulate itself. The government's privacy rules are of special concern now because <h>the European Union plans to enforce a new electronic privacy program in October </h>  and has threatened to stop doing business with companies in other countries that have looser rules. </s>
<s> Kelly says he was the victim of identity theft. <h>After his wallet was stolen </h> , <h>he said </h> , <h>a shoplifter who was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>
<s> Kyl, along with Rep. Jim Kolbe and other members of the delegation, is also involved in trying to straighten out the border crossing-card issue. Congress required the Immigration and Naturalization Service to change border crossing cards _ identification cards used by frequent border crossers <h>_ to make them more fraud-resistant. </h>  </s>
<s> The Secret Service estimates that identity theft cost U.S. citizens $750 million last year, up from $450 million in 1996. <h>``Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America </h> , maybe even the world,'' Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said at a news conference Wednesday to explain the new law. </s>
<s> Many of them gained unwanted pounds because they do not engage in regular exercise, sleep too much and eat food that is high in fat and calories, another survey of Beijing's overweight people showed. <h>Experts warn people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h>  </s> <s> Many of them gained unwanted pounds because they do not engage in regular exercise, sleep too much and eat food that is high in fat and calories, another survey of Beijing's overweight people showed. Experts warn <h>people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h>  </s> <s> But despite the implementation of the strategy, John Bourn, the comptroller and auditor general, reported that Britons' behavior is becoming worse in three areas: obesity in men and women, drinking by women and smoking by the young. The British government set targets on obesity because <h>it increases the likelihood of coronary heart disease, strokes and illnesses including diabetes. </h>  </s>
<s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, November 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 40 percent of Kuwaiti women are obese and suffer </h>  from other chronic ailments such as vein-hardening, diabetes and hypertension, local press reported today, citing a Kuwaiti psychologist. </s> <s> Obesity is number one health threat associated with nutrition in Kuwait, Director of Food and Nutrition Department of the Ministry of health Fawzia Al-Awadi said in a recent study. According to his study, <h>42 percent of Kuwaiti women and 28 percent of men are obese. </h>  </s>
<s> The growth will be registered in both developed and, especially, developing countries, due to population aging, unhealthy diets, obesity and a secondary lifestyle. According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics </h>  develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM, and <h>live on with insulin injections </h> , while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s> <s> The growth will be registered in both developed and, especially, developing countries, due to population aging, unhealthy diets, obesity and a secondary lifestyle. According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM </h> , and live on with insulin injections, while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s>
<s> The National Audit Office today reported limited progress in achieving the aims of the Health of the Nation White Paper of l992. <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents </h>  was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </s> <s> The National Audit Office today reported limited progress in achieving the aims of the Health of the Nation White Paper of l992. <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </h>  </s>
<s> They also found that the higher education levels people have, the less they are likely to suffer from obesity, especially among women. Medical experts suggested that citizens, <h>especially people suffering from obesity </h> , should follow advice to change their life styles and diets. </s> <s> It was conducted by Shanghai Medical Sciences University and Shanghai Xiangshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. The research showed that the ratio of <h>adults suffering from obesity </h>  has reached 12.6 percent, and that of youngsters is 11.35 percent. </s>
<s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, January 23 (Xinhua) -- More than half of the 710,000 Kuwaiti citizens are suffering from obesity and anemia because of poor eating habits and other causes </h> , according to studies by a leading local nutritionist. </s>
<s> BEIJING, August 15 (Xinhua) -- Armed with new surveys showing high rates of childhood anemia, obesity, and short stature, nutritionists in Guangzhou are pushing for more attention to local children's diets both at home and school. According to a recent city survey, more than 40 percent of the teenagers suffer from <h>anemia caused by malnutrition and about 20 percent of middle school students </h>  are overweight, "China Daily" reports today. </s>
<s> SHANGHAI, September 10 (Xinhua) -- A survey in Shanghai has revealed that one in eight people in the city suffer from overweight. The study shows that <h>the 12 percent obesity is close to the standard in developed countries. </h>  </s>
<s> The survey was conducted jointly by the Xiangshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Nutrition and Food Research Section of the Shanghai Medical Science University. People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight, and <h>incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females </h> , the survey showed. </s>
<s> The survey was conducted jointly by the Xiangshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Nutrition and Food Research Section of the Shanghai Medical Science University. <h>People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight </h> , and incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females, the survey showed. </s>
<s> <h>KUNMING </h> , <h>February 14 (Xinhua </h> ) -- <h>Northwest China's Yunnan Province has launched a project to strengthen environmental protection </h> , and will pour more investment into the sector. </s> <s> By the year 2000, the volume of waste discharged by Yunnan will be reduced to the national standard. <h>Yunnan </h>  also <h>has decided to strengthen environmental protection of its lake areas </h> , which are the main residential areas there, by working out many restrictions for the use of lake resources. </s>
<s> It has already succeeded in improving the water quality of the Dianchi Lake and Nanpanjiang River. <h>Regional ecological protection programs have also been launched to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h>  </s> <s> It has already succeeded in improving the water quality of the Dianchi Lake and Nanpanjiang River. <h>Regional ecological protection programs </h>  have also been launched <h>to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h>  </s>
<s> HAIKOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Experts from across China today called for <h>urgent action to protect the dwindling number of black gibbons in southern China's Hainan province. </h>  </s>
<s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola </h>  to discuss and <h>work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </h>  </s>
<s> DAR ES SALAAM, August 5 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Vice-President Omar Ali Juma has called for concerted efforts and cooperation among <h>African </h>  nations <h>in designing programs to curb deforestation and land degradation. </h>  </s>
<s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola to discuss </h>  and work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </s>
<s> RIO DE JANEIRO, August 28 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Malaysia are to jointly launch a series of remote sensing satellites (RSS) from 1998 <h>to monitor tropical forests. </h>  </s>
<s> Juma made the appeal while opening a five-day international workshop on composite materials and waste minimization here on Monday. <h>He </h>  said that there is great hope in new technologies to turn agricultural residues and wastes into useful construction materials and <h>therefore reduce dependence on wood products. </h>  </s>
<s> A total of 150 experts and professors from 25 research institutes and colleges across the country have launched the nationwide appeal. They called on government departments to participate in and mobilize social forces to enhance the construction and management of a natural protection zone on <h>Bawangling Mountain </h> , where <h>black gibbons live. </h>  </s>
<s> He said that there is great hope in new technologies to turn agricultural residues and wastes into useful construction materials and therefore reduce dependence on wood products. The vice-president noted that deforestation and land degradation are taking place at a great pace in the country, cautioning that unless drastic measures were taken, <h>Tanzania and many other African countries would soon </h>  experience <h>desertification. </h>  </s>
<s> The offices of the attorney general, chief public prosecutor and public prosecutor have asked the public to provide information about the wealth of officials to help the team in its investigations, the spokesman said. Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro said last week <h>that the government has started an investigation into the wealth of former government officials, including former President Soeharto and his family. </h>  </s> <s> Since stepping down on May 21, the former president has faced mounting pressure for an investigation into alleged abuses of power and illicit accumulation of wealth by Soeharto, his family and cronies during his 32 years in office. <h>Two </h>  committees have been formed by <h>the </h>  public <h>to investigate the Soeharto clan's wealth. </h>  </s> <s> Without such a letter, it will be hard for the team to ask foreign banks to open their records due to long-established banking secrecy policies, he added. <h>The Indonesian government has set up two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h>  </s> <s> Without such a letter, it will be hard for the team to ask foreign banks to open their records due to long-established banking secrecy policies, he added. The Indonesian government has set up <h>two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h>  </s> <s> He cited the new decree of the special session of the People's Consultative Assembly from November 10 through November 13. <h>The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h>  </s> <s> He cited the new decree of the special session of the People's Consultative Assembly from November 10 through November 13. The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that <h>the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h>  </s>
<s> Critics and analysts have alleged that nepotism, corruption and crony capitalism lie at the root of the economic crisis the nation has faced for 10 months and have demanded that the businesses of the Soeharto family, cronies and other senior officials be investigated. <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly resigned from the presidency on May 21 under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating <h>students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </h>  </s> <s> "We would not take the initiative (to launch the investigation), it has to come from the country of origin of the person (suspected of having illegally-gained deposits)," he added. Ghalib came under fire after he said on Monday that he believed Soeharto's public denial of charges <h>that he had accumulated a fortune worth billions of U.S. dollars during his rule. </h>  </s> <s> A team of investigators will soon question Soeharto, Ghalib said without mentioning time and place for the questioning. <h>Local and foreign reports have accused Soeharto of amassing wealth illegally during his 32-year reign and stashing </h>  the fortune overseas. </s>
<s> addressing a gathering on Sunday at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture in Bogor, about 60 kilometers south of the capital, Indonesian Moslem leader Amien Rais has asked Soeharto to donate his wealth to the nation and also called on Indonesians to forgive the former president who had made great contribution to the country. <h>Soeharto </h> , who had ruled Indonesia for the last 32 years, <h>resigned on May 21 under the heavy pressure from the people </h>  demanding for total reforms in political, economic and legal fields. </s> <s> Critics and analysts have alleged that nepotism, corruption and crony capitalism lie at the root of the economic crisis the nation has faced for 10 months and have demanded that the businesses of the Soeharto family, cronies and other senior officials be investigated. <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly <h>resigned from the presidency on May 21 </h>  under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </s> <s> Soeharto, in a speech on the channel controlled by his eldest daughter Siti Hardijanti Rukmana on Sunday, said: "The fact is, I don't have even one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks... let alone hundreds of billion of dollars." American magazine Forbes estimated in July that <h>Soeharto </h> , who <h>stepped down amid mounting public pressure on May 21 </h> , had a fortune worth 4 billion U.S. dollars. </s>
<s> Should there be indications (that this wealth was amassed illegally), the government will pursue the case and take legal action," he told reporters. <h>He said the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h>  </s> <s> Should there be indications (that this wealth was amassed illegally), the government will pursue the case and take legal action," he told reporters. He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former </h>  president <h>has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h>  </s> <s> Should there be indications (that this wealth was amassed illegally), the government will pursue the case and take legal action," he told reporters. He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already </h>  scheduled <h>a meeting with Soeharto. </h>  </s>
<s> He refused to disclose the details, saying that the investigation needs a long time. <h>Soedjono said that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h>  </s> <s> He refused to disclose the details, saying that the investigation needs a long time. Soedjono said <h>that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h>  </s>
<s> Djuhad Mahja SH of the United Development Party faction made the statement in the Parliament building here Thursday. <h>A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h>  </s> <s> Djuhad Mahja SH of the United Development Party faction made the statement in the Parliament building here Thursday. A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday <h>that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h>  </s>
<s> However, Golkar voiced objections to proposals that the special MPR session adopt a special decree to investigate Soeharto's wealth. It said it would be more relevant if <h>the call for the probe into the riches of the former president and his family was made part of the decree on corruption, collusion and nepotism. </h>  </s> <s> It said it would be more relevant if the call for the probe into the riches of the former president and his family was made part of the decree on corruption, collusion and nepotism. The United Development Party faction earlier asked for <h>a separate decree to contain investigation into Soeharto, officials, former officials and their families. </h>  </s>
<s> WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 Tel: 202-547-4512 Fax: 202-546-4194 COPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED HEREIN MAY BE USED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION TO WORLDSOURCES, INC. JAKARTA (JP): Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro revealed here yesterday <h>that former president Soeharto has appointed a number of lawyers to represent him. </h>  </s>
<s> JAKARTA (JP)<h>: The government has launched an investigation into corruption under former president Soeharto </h>  but has no plans to specifically target the former Indonesian leader, Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro told a packed news conference here yesterday. </s>
<s> JAKARTA, September 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Attorney General Andi M. Ghalib Monday said he would ask former President Soeharto to sign <h>a letter of authorization </h>  that <h>would enable the investigation team to probe Soeharto's overseas wealth. </h>  </s>
<s> MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today and headed west<h>, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA </h>  began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s> <s> Because it was still too soon to more accurately estimate the storm's landfall, the entire state of Florida was placed under a hurricane warning. More than 200,000 people on Florida's east-central coast were told to evacuate, <h>and another 200,000 were evacuated from coastal areas of Miami-Dade County. </h>  </s>
<s> ``But it's not going to threaten any land anywhere over the weekend,'' said Stacy Stewart, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center. Five Caribbean islands canceled tropical storm watches Friday night as Floyd, <h>packing winds of 110 mph </h> , moved further out to sea, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. </s> <s> As night fell on South Florida, shelters and hotel rooms inland, especially around Palm Beach, began to fill; cruise ships left for safer waters to the south; long flotillas of pleasure craft snaked along canals looking for safe harbor, as lines grew at hardware and grocery stores. Because it was still too soon to more accurately estimate the storm's landfall<h>, the entire state of Florida was placed under a hurricane warning. </h>  </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd got stronger </h>  and headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>
<s> WASHINGTON, September 10 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year, moving through the north Atlantic <h>on a path </h>  that <h>will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </h>  </s>
<s> NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Hurricane Floyd strengthened to a very dangerous Category 4 storm today with 155 mph wind, surprising forecasters and charging toward the Bahamas on <h>a path </h>  that also <h>threatened the Florida coast. </h>  </s>
<s> MIAMI _ A hurricane that meteorologists said was four times the size of the infamous Andrew and potentially even <h>more destructive pounded toward Florida Monday </h> , forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and leaving countless residents to hope that the massive storm would somehow miss their cities. </s>
<s> WASHINGTON _ This could be the storm FEMA Director James Lee Witt has been dreading since taking office six years ago: <h>a catastrophic hurricane </h>  that <h>hugs the coastline from Florida </h>  to the Carolinas, causing massive damage along a swath hundreds of miles long. </s>
<s> <h>WASHINGTON </h> , September 10 (Xinhua) -- <h>Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year </h> , moving through the north Atlantic on a path that will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </s>
<s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd </h>  got stronger and <h>headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather </h>  pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>
<s> <h>MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today </h>  and headed west, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s>