USA Today 20131014, USA Today

[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
MONDAY
$2.00
THE NATION’S NEWS
Audience part
of twists, turns
Dodgers:
Big money,
big hopes,
big letdown?
Unless
they dig
out of this
hole — and
fast
1C
10.14.13
CAROL ROSEGG
Grisham’s ‘Time to Kill’
plays out on stage
1D
USA TODAY SPORTS
METH-LIKE
CHEMICAL
IN SPORTS
POWDER
Tests find compound
in popular workout,
weight-loss supplement
NEWSLINE
NFL
WEEK 6
JARRETT BELL
on NFL
Brady, Pats
You could
say QB
bailed out
coach, 1C
stun Saints
MANAN VATSYAYANA, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A woman carries water pots in Gopalpur,
India, on Sunday, after the cyclone hit.
Massive cyclone
pummels India
Homes flattened, villages
cut off but deaths few
because of pre-storm
evacuation effort.
5A
Alison Young
USA TODAY
Arrest brings
closure to 1991
‘Baby Hope’ case
Detectives had vowed to
solve grisly murder of girl,
who is finally identified.
3A
A popular sports supplement
widely sold in the USA and other
countries is secretly spiked with a
chemical similar to methamphet-
amine, according to new tests by sci-
entists in the USA and South Korea.
The test results on samples of
Craze, a pre-
workout powder
made
SUPPLEMENT
SHELL GAME
by
New
York-based
Driven Sports and
marketed as con-
taining only natu-
ral ingredients,
raise significant
health and regula-
tory concerns, the
researchers said.
The U.S. researchers also said they
found the same methamphetamine-
like chemical in another supplement,
Detonate, which is sold as an all-nat-
ural weight-loss pill by another com-
pany, Gaspari Nutrition.
“It has never been studied in the
human body,” said Pieter Cohen of
Harvard Medical School, a co-author
of the analysis of Craze samples be-
ing published today in the scientific
journal Drug Testing and Analysis.
Craze, which is marketed as giving
“unrelenting energy and focus” in
workouts, was named 2012’s “New
Supplement of the Year” by Body
building.com. A USA TODAY investi-
gation published in July reported on
other tests detecting amphetamine-
like compounds in Craze.
While Walmart.com and several
online retailers have stopped selling
Craze in the wake of USA TODAY’s
investigation, the product has con-
tinued to be sold elsewhere online
and in GNC stores. Detonate is sold
by online retailers.
An attorney for Driven Sports,
Marc Ullman, said the company had
no comment on the latest findings.
Driven Sports has posted test results
on its website that it says prove Craze
does not contain any amphetamine-
like compounds. In July, USA TO-
DAY revealed that a top Driven
Sports ocial — Matt Cahill — is a
convicted felon who has a history of
selling risky dietary supplements.
Ocials at Gaspari Nutrition in
Lakewood, N.J., did not respond to
interview requests.
Because of the federal government
shutdown, ocials with the Food and
Drug Administration, which oversees
dietary supplements, could not be
reached.
Cohen said researchers informed
the FDA in May about finding the
new chemical compound in Craze.
The team said the compound — N,al-
pha-diethylphenylethylamine — has
a structure similar to methamphet-
amine, an illegal stimulant drug.
They believe the new compound is
likely less potent than methamphet-
amine but stronger than ephedrine.
The same meth-like compound
has also been found in samples of
Craze by a team of researchers from
the National Forensic Service in
South Korea, according to an article
they published in August in a foren-
sic toxicology journal. They noted
that the compound was the same as
one found in a crystalline powder
shipped from Vietnam to South Ko-
rea and seized by narcotics agents in
December 2011 as a suspected illicit
designer drug.
Although not part of today’s jour-
nal article, NSF International — a
Michigan-based testing organization
whose scientist co-authored the arti-
cle — announced that in separate
testing, it also has detected the same
meth-like compound in the weight-
loss supplement Detonate.
“Regulators may want to consider
taking action to warn consumers,”
NSF International said in a state-
ment.
USA TODAY CEO FORUM
FORD’S ALAN MULALLY
Future of cars
and the Internet
Next step
is to embed
vehicles with
modems,
says Mulally,
who also
discusses
how Ford
plans to
compete globally.
2B
The
people
behind
risky pills
USA TODAY
Egypt: Detained
American found
dead in jail cell
U.S. Embassy in Cairo
says prisoner, who was
detained for violating
curfew, apparently died
by suicide.
5A
MARK L. BAER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Brady’s game-winning drive in final seconds shows why he’s football’s most clutch quarterback.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Eort to reach a deal now
in Senate leaders’ hands
Reid ‘optimistic’
about negotiations
with McConnell
Health care
‘entering into
a recession’
Hospitals are cutting jobs
as insurance payments
and funding drop and
facilities are seeing fewer
inpatient visits.
1B
Alan Gomez
and Tom Vanden Brook
USA TODAY
NEWS PHOTOS
QR READER
Scan with a QR reader;
AT&T code scanner
available at scan.mobi.
Get codes for your
business at att.com/mcode.
WASHINGTON
After several days of
on again-o again negotiations at
both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue,
the fiscal crisis gripping Washington
now hangs on whether two men can
broker a deal.
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D -Nev., closed Sunday’s Senate
session saying he was “optimistic”
that talks he has been having with
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., can lead to an end of the feder-
al government shutdown and an in-
crease in the nation’s debt limit.
Many in the Capitol are looking to
the talks between Reid and McCon-
nell as the last, best hope for a deal
after the House of Representatives
abandoned talks Saturday morning.
The two met Saturday, and Reid said
they would continue talking through-
out the day Sunday to seek a
resolution.
“Americans want Con-
gress to do its job. … That’s
all they’re asking us to do,”
Reid said. “I’m confident
and hopeful that will be
accomplished.”
President Obama’s only
publicized involvement
Sunday was a call with
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, D -Calif., n
which he emphasized the
need to reopen the govern-
ment and raise the debt limit without
additional conditions, according to a
White House statement.
McConnell could be the one to cut
a deal, according to Sen. Bob Corker,
R-Tenn.
“Republicans are very unified be-
JEWEL SAMAD, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Protesters and veterans on Sunday call for reopening the World War
II Memorial in Washington, closed by the government shutdown.
HOME DELIVERY
1-800-872-0001
USATODAYSERVICE.COM
QIJFAF-01005z(O)c
©COPYRIGHT 2013
hind McConnell,” Corker said. “We
probably have one or two outliers,
but other than that, people are really
unified behind him taking the lead on
these negotiations.”
Reid and Corker’s optimism, how-
ever, didn’t seem universally shared.
Two Republican senators said a deal
to end the partial government shut-
down and raise the debt limit to
avoid default appears unlikely.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
S.C., said on ABC’s This
Week that a Democratic plan
to increase spending beyond
limits set by automatic bud-
get cuts — known as seques-
tration
Some top Democrats were just as
pessimistic.
David Ploue, a former top adviser
to Obama, said on This Week the
odds of a deal by Thursday are “no
better than 50/50. And so I think the
country needs to prepare that this
could go on for a while.”
But Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
and Amy Klobuchar, D -Minn., said a
compromise was possible.
Collins, whose proposal to end the
stando was rejected Saturday by
Reid, said on CNN that talks con-
tinue
USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co., Inc.
USA SNAPSHOTS
©
When adults
begin shopping
for Halloween
between
Republicans
and
Democrats.
“We’re continuing to talk,” Collins
said. “And I’m still hopeful that at
least we sparked a dialogue that did
not exist before we put out a plan.”
Klobuchar, also appearing on
CNN, said the Collins’ plan has jump-
started negotiations.
“I see this as a positive framework
going forward,” Klobuchar said. “And
we need that right now.”
Collins’ plan would extend the
debt ceiling to January and reopen
the government through March, as
well as delay an unpopular tax on
medical devices under the Aordable
Care Act.
September
or earlier
First two weeks
of October
—
cannot
be
supported by Republicans.
He doesn’t anticipate a
deal by the Thursday’s dead-
line, when the nation’s debt
limit kicks in.
“I don’t see one,” Graham
said. “If you break spending
caps, you’re not going to get any Re-
publicans in the Senate.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., agreed, say-
ing on CNN’s State of the Union that
exceeding the sequestration limits is
“a real big step in the wrong
direction.”
33%
33%
44%
GETTY IMAGES
Susan Collins
23%
23%
Last two weeks of October
Source
National Retail Federation
ANNE R. CAREY AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY
STATE-BY-STATE 6A
MARKETPLACE TODAY 5D
PUZZLES 5D
MARKET TRENDS 4B
WEATHER 10A
WHAT TO WATCH 6D
YOUR SAY 9A
  USA TODAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
NEWS
2A
NATION
Yellen & Co. are still the exception
More women are
shaping policies,
but men own
the boardrooms
Laura Petrecca
@LauraPetrecca
USA TODAY
The top cop on Wall Street is a
woman. The head of the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund is female.
And the nomination of Janet Yel-
len to be Federal Reserve chief
means the slot for the world’s most
powerful economic policymaker —
and one of the most influential peo-
ple in America — will most likely go
to a woman as well.
Most major companies are run by
men, but the policies that frame their
existence
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS, AP
Janet Yellen was presented Wednesday as President Obama’s pick to
lead the Federal Reserve. She is currently the Fed’s vice chairwoman.
CHRIS KLEPONIS, EPA
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was considered one of the
most powerful women when she was French finance minister.
are
increasingly
being
shaped by women.
If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen
will oversee U.S. monetary policy
during “a critical period for the econ-
omy,” says Heidi Hartmann, an econ-
omist and president of the non-profit
Institute for Women’s Policy Re-
search. Yellen’s calls would aect big
businesses and ordinary Americans’
lives.
“She’s going to have her finger on
the pulse of just about every major
decision people make: what to buy,
what to borrow, where to save, where
to work, how to get a job,” she says.
Yellen is now Fed vice chairwoman.
If confirmed, Yellen will join IMF
Managing Director Christine La-
garde and Securities and Exchange
Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo
White as female leaders who wield
massive economic influence.
They all ascended in the male-
dominated worlds of economics and
finance. Those accomplishments are
admirable, but they are rare. In reali-
ty, there is a dearth of female leader-
ship in the sectors in which they have
flourished, as well as in virtually all
other industries.
“Women continue to be signifi-
cantly underrepresented in the most
senior leadership positions in the
country,” says Deborah Gillis, chief
operating ocer at the women’s is-
sues research group Catalyst. The
number of female Fortune 500 CEOs
is at a record high at 21, “but the oth-
er way to look at it is that 479 of
those Fortune 500 companies are run
by men,” Gillis says.
On average, women hold fewer
Janet Yellen is “going to
have her finger on the
pulse of just about
every major decision
people make.”
Heidi Hartmann
, Women’s Policy Research
as the most powerful woman in the
world by Forbes — was elected the
first female German chancellor in
2005. She was re-elected this year.
As for Yellen, 67, if she is con-
firmed, her public statements will
move markets. Her decisions will af-
fect everything from inflation to
oversight of banks.
Yellen has succeeded in an envi-
ronment that isn’t just known for its
large male population, but is also an
area where there is much dispute and
debate, says Kevin Hassett, who
worked with Yellen when he was at
the Fed.
“She’s had a very successful career
in a male-dominated world,” says
Hassett, director of economic policy
studies at the American Enterprise
Institute.
There is no individual or clear-cut
X factor that propels some women
up the ranks while others remain on
the management sidelines. But those
who know Yellen point to a combina-
tion of key qualities that make her
stand out: intelligence, inclusiveness,
inquisitiveness, persistence and pre-
paredness.
“She’s very curious and inquisitive
in a way that can drive conversation,”
Hassett says. “She asks the right
questions and can drive consensus.”
Stephen Oliner, a resident scholar
at American Enterprise Institute
who has worked as a senior Fed
economist, says Yellen “holds herself
to an extremely high standard and
holds everyone who works for her to
the same high standard.”
Women will “have
made progress when
we’ve stopped counting
firsts.”
Deborah Gillis
, chief operating ocer at the
women’s issues research group Catalyst
still dicult for women to move up.
One big obstacle: Male leaders tend
to feel comfortable around other
men, so they tend to network with,
and promote, those of the same gen-
der, says Catalyst’s Gillis.
“It’s natural human nature to grav-
itate toward people who look like us,
sound like us and are familiar to us,”
she says.
Yellen is well-organized and
thoughtful, but not overtly combat-
ive, say colleagues such as Donald
Kohn, her predecessor as the Fed’s
vice chair.
“She is going to prove to be a very
strong leader in a quiet, intellectual
style,” Oliner says.
Yellen is well-qualified on her own,
but those who study leadership say
support and advocacy of others is
critical for professionals to move up
— especially women, who could be
overlooked because of deep-rooted
stereotypes.
“People naturally assume leaders
must have certain qualities — domi-
nance, persistence, drive and tough-
ness — but they also tend to assume
incorrectly that men are more likely
to have these traits,” says Don For-
syth, a professor at the Jepson School
of Leadership Studies at the Univer-
sity of Richmond.
“Women leaders are caught in a
Catch-22,” he says. “If they adopt a
command-and-control orientation,
they are viewed as inappropriately
masculine. If they act skillfully in
solving disputes and settling con-
flicts, they are viewed as too feminine
to be strong, directive leaders.”
Even with all the ideal traits, it’s
than 20% of leadership positions at
500 U.S. for- and not-for-profit or-
ganizations, according to a report
from the Colorado Women’s College
at the University of Denver. Re-
searchers studied organizations in 14
sectors, including business, politics,
academia, media, law and medicine.
To have so many women sitting on
the management sidelines is “uncon-
scionable,” says Lynn Gangone, dean
of Colorado Women’s College. “Ad-
dressing complex challenges of the
21st century requires diversity of
thought, experience and perspective.
How can our nation meet those chal-
lenges when 80% of our organiza-
tional leaders are men?”
AN END TO ‘FIRSTS’
Sallie Krawcheck, a high-ranking
woman on Wall Street and now own-
er of the networking group 85
Broads, saw that firsthand. “When a
business is in turmoil, the individuals
in the minority lose ground,” she
says. Top managers, who are typically
men, think, “I’m nervous and I need
someone to depend on, and those
people just happen to sound like me
and look like me.”
One sign that society has taken a
major step, says Catalyst’s Gillis, will
be when it doesn’t highlight every
woman’s
“first”
as
a
major
achievement.
“We’re still counting firsts for
women in many cases,” she says,
which is true with Yellen, as news
outlets — including USA TODAY —
trumpeted the fact that she would be
the first female Fed chief.
“We’ll have made progress,” Gillis
says, “when we’ve stopped counting
firsts and it seems normal to see
women moving to significant roles.”
ON THE FAST TRACK
Though there’s a long way to go, the
gender gap is narrowing. Women are
increasingly taking top slots in areas
such as business, politics and aca-
demics.
White is the third woman to run
the SEC. IMF Chief Lagarde was al-
ready considered one of the most
powerful women in the world when
she held the post of French finance
minister.
And Angela Merkel — who is listed
Contributing: Adam Shell and
Paul Davidson
Stink bug invasion could be
the worst you’ve ever seen
STINK BUGS SPREADING ACROSS USA
They have no natural
predator in the U.S. and
wreak havoc on crops
Mike Raupp. In 2011, they had been
seen in only 33 states.
As the weather turns cooler, the
bugs (ocially known as the “brown
marmorated stink bug ”) are looking
for a warm place to stay for the win-
ter, which is why homeowners are
starting to see more of the stinkers
inside.
The bugs are mainly in the Mid-
Atlantic states, since that’s where
they were first introduced from Asia,
said Kim Reynolds, an entomologist
with HomeTeam Pest Defense in Ra-
leigh, N.C.
Stink bugs are named for the pun-
gent smell they emit when fright-
ened, disturbed or squashed — the
fate many are certain to meet this
fall.
The bugs are most harmful to fruit
growers but also invade crops like
soybeans, corn and peppers, Raupp
said. In 2010, fruit growers alone lost
$37 million because of stink bugs.
Stink bugs do not have a natural
predator in the U.S., but things are
starting to change, Reynolds said. At
first, birds wouldn’t eat them, but
they are starting to now. Lizards, too,
have been seen munching on them,
said Missy Henriksen, a spokeswom-
an with the National Pest Manage-
ment Association.
And now the stink bugs are one of
the rare constituencies directly bene-
fiting from the federal government
shutdown: Research into finding a
pest — namely a tiny parasitic wasp
from Asia that mainly eats stink bug
eggs — has been put on hold while
the government is closed.
N.H.
Vt.
Doyle Rice
@USATODAYWeather
USA TODAY
R.I.
Conn.
N.J.
The stink bugs are back with a
vengeance, and the USA could be
heading for the worst season for the
pests on record, even surpassing the
watershed year of 2010.
These smelly pests that first
hitched a boat ride to the USA from
Asia in the late 1990s have now been
spotted in 40 states. “Their range has
expanded dramatically recently,” said
University of Maryland entomologist
Del.
Md.
Severe
infestation
Farm/nuisance
problems
Nuisance
only
Bugs
detected
No stink
bugs
Source
U.S. Department of Agriculture
DOYLE RICE AND JANET LOEHRKE, USA TODAY
IN BRIEF
Corrections & Clarifications
USA TODAY is committed
to accuracy. To reach us,
contact Standards Editor
Brent Jones at 800-872-
7073 or e-mail accu-
racy@usatoday.com.
Please indicate whether
you’re responding to
content online or in the
newspaper.
Jim VandeHei, a former Washing-
ton Post reporter who has been Poli-
tico’s executive editor, will also be in
charge of Capital New York, the New
York City-centric website that Politi-
co owner Robert Allbritton is acquir-
ing. VandeHei succeeds Fred Ryan,
who is stepping down.
John Harris, another Washington
Post alumnus who with VandeHei de-
veloped Politico, will continue to
oversee the website’s 160-member
editorial sta.
“We are on the verge of the most
dynamic growth in our young history
— and this demands an equally dy-
namic leader,” Allbritton said in a
press release.
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFICIARIES
TO SEE SMALL INCREASE
SPLISH, SPLASH, SQUASH
PROTESTING COLUMBUS DAY
Millions of Social Security recipi-
ents, disabled veterans and federal
retirees can expect historically small
increases in their benefits come Jan-
uary, according to an analysis by the
Associated Press.
Preliminary figures suggest a ben-
efit increase of roughly 1.5%, which
would be among the smallest since
automatic increases were adopted in
1975. Next year’s raise will be small
because consumer prices, as mea-
sured by the government, haven’t
gone up much in the past year.
The exact size of the cost-of-living
adjustment won’t be known until the
Labor Department releases the infla-
tion report for September. That was
supposed to happen Wednesday, but
the report was delayed indefinitely
because of the partial government
shutdown.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
1-800-USA-0001
MARLIN LEVISON, THE STAR TRIBUNE, VIA AP
Contestants row, row, row their pump-
kins down the stream during Sunday’s
Pumpkin Boat Regatta on the St. Croix
River in downtown Stillwater, Minn.
The giant pumpkins were hollowed out
and paddled for 100 yards.
HECTOR RETAMAL, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Chilean women perform a ritual dance
of the nation’s largest indigenous group,
the Mapuche people, during an anti-
Columbus Day rally Sunday in Santiago
that drew thousands.
Monday – Friday
8 a.m. – 7 p.m. ET
7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, Va. 22108, 703-854-3400
Published by Gannett, Volume 32, No. 21
(ISSN0734-7456)
Regular U.S. subscription rates:
1 month for $25 or sign
up for EZ Pay at $22 a month; 12 months for $300 ($264
EZ Pay). Barb Smith, VP Call Center Operations, PO BOX
650301, DALLAS TX 75265-0301, or fax 1-800-732-3631.
Advertising:
All advertising published in USA TODAY is
subject to the current rate card; copies available from
the advertising department. USA TODAY may in its sole
discretion edit, classify, reject or cancel at any time any
advertising submitted.
Classified:
1-800-397-0070
National, Regional:
703-854-3400
Reprint permission, copies of articles, glossy reprints:
www.GannettReprints.com or call 212-221-9595
USA TODAY is a member of The Associated Press and
subscribes to other news services. Published daily
except Saturdays, Sundays and widely observed
holidays. Periodicals postage paid at McLean, Va.,
and at additional mailing offices. USA TODAY, its logo
and associated graphics are registered trademarks.
All rights reserved.
Our Pledge to subscribers:
www.ourpledge.usatoday.com
POSTMASTER:
Send address changes to USA TODAY,PO BOX
650301, DALLAS TX 75265-0301.
— Rem Rieder
pleaded for people to stop gun vio-
lence. The trio was greeted by light
applause when introduced at the
news conference, but some booed
from across the room. “We must nev-
er stop fighting,” Giords said. “Be
bold! Be courageous!”
Kelly bought a book on Colt re-
volvers. He said he and his wife are
gun owners.
cy with Iran over its nuclear program
is “cracking open” but that “no deal is
better than a bad deal.”
Kerry spoke via satellite from Lon-
don to a foreign policy conference in
California by the American Israel
Public Aairs Committee, the most
powerful pro-Israel lobbying organi-
zation in the United States.
The focus on Iran’s nuclear pro-
gram comes before negotiations be-
tween the Islamic Republic, United
Nations Security Council members
and Germany, scheduled for Tuesday
and Wednesday in Geneva. Israel
views a nuclear-armed Iran as a
threat to its existence. Iran says its
program is for peaceful purposes.
NYC EXPECTS BIG CROWD
FOR COLUMBUS DAY PARADE
Organizers expect hundreds of
thousands of people to attend Mon-
day’s Columbus Day Parade along
Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. About
35,000 marchers are scheduled to
take part in the parade.
The parade celebrates Christopher
Columbus’ 1492 expedition and con-
tributions Italian-Americans have
made to the United States. Columbus
Day is a federal holiday.
GIFFORDS URGES FIGHT AGAINST
GUN VIOLENCE AT GUN SHOW
Former Arizona congresswoman
Gabrielle Giords on Sunday visited
the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair with
her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly,
and New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman to highlight a volun-
tary agreement that closely monitors
gun show sales in New York.
It was her first visit to a gun show
since surviving a 2011 shooting. She
POLITICO NAMES JOURNALIST
AS ITS NEW PRESIDENT, CEO
Politico, the politics-obsessed web-
site that quickly became a major
force in Washington coverage, has
named one of the two journalists
who conceived it and launched it as
its president and CEO.
KERRY SAYS PROGRESS POSSIBLE
WITH IRAN OVER NUKE TALKS
Secretary of State John Kerry said
Sunday that the window for diploma-
Compiled from sta and wire reports
 NEWS
3A
USA TODAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
NATION
More states cracking down
Online
TODAY
What we’re following
A look ahead to news,
features, photos and
videos we’ll be posting today at
usatoday.com
and on our free
apps for all mobile devices.
on prescription-drug abuse
Opioid painkillers
cause more to OD
than cocaine, heroin
The campaign, which grew out of a
push by Avi Israel after his son’s
death, involves billboards; TV, print,
and online advertising; a website; and
a documentary that will air Oct. 22
on Bualo-area TV stations.
Avi Israel has been a frequent and
vocal advocate since 2011 for tackling
the growing problem of prescription-
drug abuse, including testimony in
2012 before the U.S. Senate Caucus
on International Narcotics Control.
His advocacy helped lead to New
York lawmakers unanimously pass-
ing the Internet System for Tracking
Over-Prescribing law, or “I-STOP,”
which went into eect in August.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in 2012 called pre-
scription drug abuse the fastest-
growing drug problem in the United
States. Between 1999 and 2009, the
number of deaths nationwide from
opioid painkillers such as hydroco-
done and oxycodone nearly quadru-
pled, and such overdoses cause more
deaths than cocaine and heroin com-
clinics; and making “doctor shop-
ping ” for prescriptions a crime puni-
shable by up to a year in jail.
u
Indiana
this year gave the state
attorney general oversight powers on
pain-management clinics and is mov-
ing toward mandatory annual drug
screenings of people prescribed
opioids to ensure they’re taking the
drugs as prescribed.
u
Kentucky
in 2012 began re-
quiring licensing of pain clinics, giv-
ing law enforcement ocials greater
access to the state’s prescription drug
monitoring database, and requiring
doctors to examine patients and
check electronic prescription records
before writing opioid prescriptions.
u
Washington
state in 2012
started setting dosage limits for doc-
tors and others who prescribe pain
medicines. Any prescription over a
certain amount requires a second
opinion from a pain specialist.
Matthew Daneman
USA TODAY
BUFFALO
Michael Israel’s death of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2011
was a tragedy. The Bualo 20-year-
old had been despondent about his
addiction to the powerful painkillers
prescribed for his Crohn’s disease.
“But the ultimate Greek tragedy is
we allow this to happen every day,”
his father, Avi Israel, said last week at
the State University of New York-
Bualo State, where he was part of
the announcement of a western New
York public awareness campaign
about the dangers of prescription-
drug abuse.
“We want to stop the dying of our
youth,” he said.
DON HEUPEL FOR USA TODAY
At a public awareness event in Bualo,
Avi Israel signs a pledge board aimed at
stopping prescription-drug abuse.
JUSTIN LANE, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
u
NEWS
This will sound re-
dundant given the shutdown
crisis, but federal
govern-
ment offices
are closed to-
day for
Columbus Day
, as
well as state and local gov-
ernments and many schools.
There’s no mail delivery, but
stock markets
remain open.
Congress
, meanwhile, tries to
reach a deal to end the pro-
tracted government shut-
down. Follow developments
at
usatoday.com/news
.
u
NEWS
The
Nobel Prizes
aren’t done yet. Today the
winner in
Economic Sciences
will be announced in Stock-
holm. Click now to find out
who the winner is at
usatoday.com/news
.
bined, according to the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
States are cracking down:
u
Alabama
Republican Gov. Rob-
ert Bentley in August signed a trio of
bills giving more medical personnel,
as well as the Alabama Medicaid
Agency, access to the state’s prescrip-
tion monitoring database; tightening
the regulations on pain management
Daneman also reports for the Rochester
(N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle
Are teens
losing
the drive
to drive?
Some blame social media
or the economy for shift
in teens’ getting in gear
SUSAN WALSH, AP
u
MONEY
Outgoing Fed
Chairman
Ben Bernanke
is
expected to give a speech in
Mexico City
at 9 p.m. ET to
celebrate the 20th anniversa-
ry of Mexico’s central bank.
Will he talk about the shut-
down, or his potential succes-
sor,
Janet Yellen
? If he
makes news, we’ll have it at
usatoday.com/money
.
DRIVING NOT ESSENTIAL
PRESTON C. MACK FOR USA TODAY
Chantelle Cade, 18, rides a bus Sept. 23 in Orlando to Valencia Col-
lege. She says there’s no stigma attached to not having a license at 18.
Top reasons for not getting a
driver’s license:
Larry Copeland
@ByLarryCopeland
USA TODAY
Internet: Modern teens can connect
with one another through social
media, so there’s less of a need to get
together by driving.
“I believe that a large part of the
drop is permanent,” he says. “It’s not
just teens. It’s people in their 20s and
30s, as well. When we asked people
(in a new survey) when they planned
to get a driver’s license, 21.5% of all
respondents said never; 35.4% of
those aged 30-39 said never.”
AAA Foundation commissioned an
online survey last year of 1,039 young
adults ages 18-20. They found that
just 44% of respondents got a driver’s
license within one year of the mini-
mum age for doing so in their state.
The economy was a major factor in
the decision to wait. Few respon-
dents cited the ability to connect on-
line or GDL restrictions as a factor.
Foss says the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration database that many re-
searchers rely on to document the
decline in driver licensing is faulty.
“There’s a systematic bias in there
that leads them to count fewer and
fewer teens as actually licensed.” he
says. In some cases, state-reported
data don’t count 16-year-olds with
provisional licenses as licensed; in
other cases, they do, he says.
Too busy or not enough
time to get a license
56.6%
Chantelle Cade, 18, like many
teens, loves to go to the mall near her
home in Orlando. But Cade doesn’t
hop in the car to ferry a carload of
her friends to the mall.
She doesn’t drive — or even have a
license.
“I had wanted to get a driver’s li-
cense, but it was very easy to put it
o because my parents could easily
drive me around,” says Cade, who’s
attending Valencia Community Col-
lege. “It was easy to say, ‘Oh, I’ll get
one next week. Or, it doesn’t matter if
I don’t get one till I’m 18.’ ”
A generation ago, Chantelle Cade
would have been considered an
anomaly. When kids turned 16, they
couldn’t wait to get their driver’s li-
censes. It represented freedom, inde-
pendence, the first big step into
adulthood and a response to the call
of the open road. The perception was
that kids who didn’t have a license at
16 either were really bad drivers or
really, really uncool.
How times have changed.
Today, many teenagers are decid-
ing to wait to get their driver’s li-
censes. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention found this
year that the percentage of high
school seniors who had a driver’s li-
cense fell from 85% in 1996 to 73% in
2012. The study analyzed results of a
survey of 15,000 seniors from 130
public and private schools.
Some experts, such as Michael Si-
vak, director of Sustainable World-
wide Transportation at the
University of Michigan Transporta-
tion Research Institute, argue that at
least part of the drop is permanent,
rooted in the growth of access to the
33.6%
21.4%
36.9%
Owning and maintaining
a car is too expensive
30.3%
31.8%
34%
32%
RESEARCHER: IT’S THE ECONOMY
Other researchers, including Robert
Foss, director of the Center for the
Study of Young Drivers at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, maintain
that the recent recession simply had
a greater impact on young drivers
than others. They had less money to
purchase a car or less money to buy
gas, or they couldn’t find jobs to buy
either, he says.
“Yes, licensing among young teen-
agers is certainly down some, but it’s
because the economy went to hell,”
Foss says. “If the economy ever re-
covers for the majority of the popula-
tion, then licensing among young
people is probably going to go right
back up.”
Peter Kissinger, president and
CEO of AAA Foundation for Trac
Safety, says reports of the death of
young Americans’ love aair with
driving are premature.
He noted that some researchers
speculate that the drop in teen li-
censing is linked to the spread of
graduated driver’s licenses, in which
novice motorists gradually earn more
driving privileges as they gain experi-
ence. GDLs restrict new drivers from
carrying young passengers and driv-
ing at night. All 50 states now have
GDL laws.
JAYNE KAMIN-ONCEA, USA TODAY SPORTS
u
SPORTS
Will going home
to Los Angeles help the
Dodgers
, down 2-0 to the St.
Louis
Cardinals
, rebound?
We’ll preview and cover
Game 3
of the NLCS (Game
time: 8:07 p.m on TBS), at
mlb.usatoday.com
.
Able to get transportation
from others
40.4%
24.8%
28.2%
30.9%
THE INTERNET LINK
For Cade, the Internet was a factor in
the decision to wait. “Being able to
connect over any kind of social media
with your friends was a huge factor,”
she says. “You can put o meeting
(face to face) for days and weeks.
You’ll eventually see them, but you
don’t have a sense of urgency about
meeting them. I have a friend that I
saw (recently) at the mall, but I
hadn’t talked to him in person in
weeks. You just talk on Facebook or
Instagram.”
Nancy McGuckin, a travel behav-
ior analyst, says Cade and her friends
represent the new normal.
“There’s been unprecedented
change in young people’s behavior.
There’s sort of a lack of interest” in
driving, she says. “They don’t have to
drive. They socialize online. They
shop online. I think we’re being blind
if we don’t accept that the Internet is
changing travel.”
Prefer to bike or walk
24.2%
19.6%
21.8%
21.8%
Prefer to use public
transportation
H. DARR BEISER, USA TODAY
Ages
u
LIFE
Some say it’s as fun as
the show:
Ann Oldenburg
recaps “Dancing With the
Stars” at
usatoday.com/life
.
18-19
9.6%
20.1%
20.9%
17%
20-29
30-39
Total
What’s popular online:
u
Cruz, Palin join vets’ march
u
Adrian Petersen plays de-
spite son’s death
u
“Fifty Shades” loses star
Source
University of Michigan Transporta-
tion Research Institute online survey of 618
people ages 18-39 without a driver’s license
FRANK POMPA, USA TODAY
Arrest in ‘Baby Hope’ cold case brings closure
Tip in of killing girl, 4,
leads police to relative
ant was identified over the weekend
as Conrado Juarez, 52, who was ar-
rested Saturday at the Greenwich
Village restaurant where he washed
dishes.
A tip that came in over the sum-
mer led police to Anjelica’s sister,
who said that Anjelica had been
killed years ago. DNA confirmed the
sisters’
after he told his sister what he had
done, it was her idea to put the child’s
body in the cooler and dump it. They
took a cab to Manhattan and left the
cooler in woods by an exit of the
Henry Hudson Parkway, where it lat-
er was found by construction work-
ers. It also contained several cans of
soda.
Ramirez subsequently died. Police
say they don’t know the whereabouts
of Anjelica’s father, who apparently
had left her with Ramirez, his cousin.
The New York Times quoted a law en-
forcement ocer who requested an-
onymity as saying that Ramirez had
been involved in the abuse of other
children, along with, and apart from,
Juarez.
Even amid a decades-long crime
wave — the city had 1,886 homicides
in 1991, including the subway murder
of young tourist from Utah — the
case of Baby Hope was notorious.
The detectives assigned the case
helped have the child buried in 1993,
following a funeral attended by hun-
dreds. The child’s body was clothed
in a white dress.
Even as crime dropped in the city
— New York is on track to record
about 270 homicides this year — the
detectives never forgot about Baby
Hope. In July, the 22nd anniversary
of the discovery of her remains, they
canvassed the neighborhood; put up
fliers; circulated sketches of the girl’s
face and a photograph of the cooler;
and promised $12,000 for informa-
tion leading to an arrest
Years earlier, detectives on the
case had paid for her headstone in a
Bronx cemetery. It reads, “Because
we care.” In a testament to their de-
termination to keep searching for the
killer, the stone features an unusual
request: “If you have any informa-
tion, please call 1-800-577-TIPS.”
Rick Hampson
USA TODAY
NEW YORK
In a year so murderous
that the homicides sometimes
seemed to all run together, this one
stood out: The naked, bound, 28-
pound body of an unidentified girl
who had apparently been sodomized
and smothered was found in a filthy
blue picnic cooler on the side of a
highway.
Police detectives came to call her
“Baby Hope,” because eventually
hope was all they had left in their at-
tempt to solve her case. Now they say
the relative who committed the
crime in 1991 has been found and has
confessed.
Baby Hope, it turns out, was Anjel-
ica Castillo, age 4. Her alleged assail-
link
to
their
biological
mother.
The mother, who lives in upper
Manhattan but was not identified by
police, told detectives that she and
the girls’ father had split after her
birth, leaving him with custody. From
there, detectives traced the children
to an aunt on their father’s side, Bal-
vina Juarez-Ramirez, with whom
they were living in Queens in 1991.
Juarez, the suspect, is Ramirez’s
brother. A former detective who
worked on the case, Jerry Giorgio,
told reporters that Juarez said that
on the night of Anjelica’s death he
EMMANUEL DUNAND, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A gravestone pleads for information
that might help solve the 1991 murder of
“Baby Hope.” Police say they now know
the girl’s real name: Anjelica Castillo.
had come home to the apartment
drunk.
He encountered Anjelica in the
hall, took her by the hand, and “she
went with him,” Giorgio said. “She
may at one point have started to yell
or scream, looking for help. That’s
when he put the pillow over her
face.”
Police said Juarez told them that
Contributing: The Associated Press
 4A
NEWS
USA TODAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
WASHINGTON
Race-preference bans:
Do they hurt diversity?
High court tests
impact of barring
armative action
ENROLLMENTS OF
MINORITIES VARY
AFTER POLICY BANS
Black and Hispanic undergrad-
uate enrollments at top-rated
public universities, graduate and
professional schools:
Before
ban
1
Richard Wolf
@richardjwolf
USA TODAY
After
ban
University of Texas-Austin
1995-96
2
2004-05
Blacks 4.5%
3.9%
Hispanics 14.8%
15.3%
Univ. of California-Berkeley
1996-97
WASHINGTON
To hear Michigan At-
torney General Bill Schuette explain
it, what could be wrong with a state
constitutional amendment that
“shall not discriminate against, or
grant preferential treatment to, any
individual or group on the basis of
race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin?”
Just about everything, says Mark
Rosenbaum of the American Civil
Liberties Union and a host of civil
rights groups. “While that makes a
good bumper sticker ... it’s not the
truth,” Rosenbaum says. “Instead of
healing the nation’s wounds, it’s actu-
ally opening those wounds.”
Those two views will play out be-
fore the Supreme Court on Tuesday,
almost a year after the justices heard
another major case on a subject that
has divided the nation for decades:
armative action.
On the docket will be the Michigan
Civil Rights Initiative, a 2006
amendment banning the use of racial
preferences in public university ad-
missions. Lawyers for Schuette (pro-
nounced SHOO -tee) may convince
the conservative court that, as Chief
Justice John Roberts put it a few
years back, “the way to stop discrimi-
nation on the basis of race is to stop
discriminating on the basis of race.”
Far more is at stake than the Mich-
igan Constitution. The justices’ rul-
ing in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend
Armative Action could reverberate
from the University of Michigan’s
flagship campus in Ann Arbor to sev-
en states with similar bans: Arizona,
California, Florida, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washing-
ton. And it could prompt other states
to follow suit.
The justices could go beyond the
dispute over state bans and render a
ruling that aects armative-action
2011-12
Blacks
5.4%
2.6%
Hispanics
13.3%
12.2%
UCLA
1996-97 2011-12
Blacks 5.8%
3.3%
Hispanics 16.7%
16.8%
Univ. of Washington-Seattle
1998-99
2011-12
ERIC GAY, AP
Blacks
3%
3.3%
Students crisscross the University of Texas-Austin campus, which boasts a majority-minority mix.
Hispanics
4.1%
6.3%
policies nationwide — something
they stopped short of doing in last
year’s Fisher v. University of Texas
case by sending it back to the lower
courts to scrutinize more closely the
use of racial preferences. “This case
gives conservatives a second bite at
the armative-action apple at the
Supreme Court,” says Richard Kah-
lenberg of the Century Foundation, a
leading advocate for creating alterna-
tives to racial preferences.
Beginning in the 1990s in Texas
(by court order) and California ( by
constitutional amendment), the pro-
hibitions have reduced black and
Hispanic enrollments at schools,
from Berkeley and Los Angeles to
Austin and Ann Arbor.
As a result, the percentage of Afri-
can Americans among entering
freshmen at the nation’s top 29 uni-
versities in 2011 was lowest at the
University of California-Berkeley,
UCLA and the University of Michi-
gan, despite eorts by those universi-
ties to use socioeconomic and other
race-neutral criteria in search of
diversity.
“It becomes harder and harder to
oset the race-conscious ban with
whatever tools are in the toolkit,”
says William Kidder, assistant execu-
tive vice chancellor at the University
of California-Riverside.
Other states’ bans have forced o-
cials to find tools that can replace ra-
cial preferences and maintain
diversity. That has worked well in
Florida, where a 1999 executive order
by then-governor Jeb Bush prohibit-
ed using race in admission decisions
but not in outreach to potential
students.
“We really try to target students in
urban communities, rural communi-
ties, upward-bound types of pro-
grams,” says Zina Evans, vice
president for enrollment manage-
ment at the University of Florida.
The University of Michigan says
that is struggles to enroll a diverse
student body. From 2006 to 2012, the
percentage of black undergraduates
there dropped from 7% to 4.7%, and
Hispanics from 4.9% to 4.3%.
“Despite its best eorts to main-
tain racial diversity, (the university)
experienced a sharp decline in the
enrollment of students of color after
Proposal 2 took eect,” says Liliana
Garces, an assistant professor at
Penn State whose brief on behalf of
the Civil Rights Project oers the
most extensive statistical look at af-
firmative-action bans.
Garces’ separate study of arma-
tive-action bans in California, Flori-
da, Texas and Washington found that
they slashed the percentages of black
and Hispanic students in graduate
schools as well — particularly in en-
gineering and science.
State ocials and those who
spearheaded the constitutional
amendment dispute the figures.
They note that prospective students
can check more than one box for race
or ethnicity, skewing the results.
“You can’t say that those numbers
changed significantly when you’ve
changed the rules of how you score
the game,” says Jennifer Gratz, who
won her case against the University
of Michigan’s racial point system in
2003, then led the eort to change
the state Constitution.
University of Florida
1999-2000
2011-12
Blacks
7.5%
8.8%
Hispanics
10.5%
17.6%
University of Georgia
2001-02 2011-12
Blacks 5.5%
7.3%
Hispanics 1.5%
4.3%
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
2006-07
2011-12
Blacks
6.6%
4.4%
Hispanics
4.7%
4.1%
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
2008-09
2011-12
Blacks
2.4%
2.3%
Hispanics
3.5%
4.2%
University of Arizona
2010-11 2011-12
Blacks 3.1%
3.2%
Hispanics 19.2%
21.1%
1 — REFLECTS THE SCHOOL YEAR BEFORE AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION WAS DISCONTINUED.
2 — TEXAS RESUMED USING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN
2005.
SOURCE
INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
DATA SYSTEM (IPEDS); USA TODAY RESEARCH
-'&& 7(+;/,
8 #;&CX!EY; ?Y"(E;2 I;2E;CCL
6:,%:$' 8")#(%)'
8 )DDCB@"0
0/++(*'# 4/!'#;/,
8 )DDCB@"0
,$(3/ (& "*')(%0
[
1534 -5%033!. 2'04! +5) #5$.
)! TO#%AP 3C D!F;( WYL 79F"E!0 C79E-BC;! !JF!+D @9E"! E;
)BCLEXFH[ ,C F"DY D!F;( WYL 79F"E!0 DCL5EXCP WY9;( F! Y5CL
<PMMM TCL5EXE;2 TO#%A KCF"CLDH ,J0 "YXF" KCF"CLD6 OJC0+LC
WLEC;("0 F;( YWWCL E;G(C-!J -LY(9X! $;Y3"C(2C 0Y9 3Y;+! V;(
F! !JC @E2 @Y1 D!YLCDH OJC0 F"DY DCL5EXC 3JF! !JC0 DC"" F;(
C;D9LC C5CL0 TO#%A -Y3CL !YY" ED FDDCB@"C(P W9C"C( F;( LCF(0
!Y 3YL$ !JC BYBC;! 0Y9 FLCH )LC 0Y9 LCF(0 WYL F TO#%A6
OY V;( F KCF"CLS
20359%':+'#;1$/.
*YL -LY(9X! E;WYLBF!EY;S
20359";:1$/.
'D!EJ"9DF
[) BF&YLE!0 YW TO#%A -Y3CLJCF(D FLC @9E"! E; !JC 4;E!C( T!F!CD WLYB (YBCD!EX F;( WYLCE2; -FL!D F;( XYB-Y;C;!DH /=9B@CL Y;C DC""E;2 @LF;(.
ED @FDC( Y; D0;(EXF!C( #L3E; ZLYJ UCDCFLXJ FD 3C"" FD E;(C-C;(C;! XY;D9BCL LCDCFLXJ YW >MM:G>MQ> 4HTH DF"CD F;( BFL$C! DJFLC (F!F WYL !JC
2FDY"E;CG-Y3CLC( JF;(JC"( Y9!(YYL -Y3CL C79E-BC;! XF!C2YL0 XYB@E;C( DF"CD !Y XY;D9BCLD F;( XYBBCLXEF" "F;(DXF-CLDH N >MQ\ TO#%A
 NEWS
5A
USA TODAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
WORLD
7 in Red Cross convoy kidnapped
Team was traveling
in ‘dicult area’ of
Syria when attacked
ers from their convoy near the town
of Saraqeb in Idlib province around
11:30 a.m. as the team was returning
to Damascus. He declined to provide
the nationalities of the six ICRC em-
ployees and said it was not clear who
was behind the attack.
Syria’s state news agency, quoting
an anonymous ocial, said the gun-
men opened fire on the ICRC team’s
four vehicles before seizing the Red
Cross workers. The news agency
blamed “terrorists,” a term the gov-
ernment uses to refer to those op-
posed to President Bashar Assad.
Schorno said the team of seven
had been in the field since Oct. 10 to
assess the medical situation in the
area and to look at how to provide
medical aid. He said the part of
northern Syria where they were
Press freedom advocate Reporters
Without Borders calls Syria “the
most dangerous country in the
world” for journalists, with 25 re-
porters killed and at least 33 impris-
oned since the anti-Assad uprising
began in March 2011.
The conflict also has taken a toll
on the aid community. The ICRC
said in August that 22 Syrian Red
Crescent volunteers have been killed
in the country since the conflict be-
gan. Some were deliberately targeted,
while others were killed in crossfire,
the group said.
Syria’s bloody conflict has killed
more than 100,000 people, forced
more than 2 million Syrians to flee
the country and caused untold suf-
fering — psychological, emotional
and physical — across the nation.
Deadly Syria
Deaths and imprisonments since
March 2011:
Syrians killed
100,000
Reporters imprisoned
33
Reporters killed
25
Syrian Red Crescent workers killed
22
Source
International Committee of the Red Cross; Reporters
Without Borders
Ryan Lucas
The Associated Press
BEIRUT
Gunmen abducted six Red
Cross workers and a Syrian Red
Crescent volunteer after stopping
their convoy early Sunday in north-
western Syria, a spokesman said, in
the latest high-profile kidnapping in
the country’s civil war.
Simon Schorno, a spokesman for
the International Committee of the
Red Cross in Damascus, said the as-
sailants snatched the seven aid work-
seized “by definition is a dicult area
to go in,” and the team was traveling
with armed guards.
Much of the countryside in Idlib
province, as well as the rest of north-
ern Syria, has fallen over the past
year into the hands of rebels, many of
them Islamic extremists. Kidnap-
pings have become rife, particularly
of
AHMAD ABOUD, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
An opposition fighter guards a
post Sunday in the northeastern
city of Deir Ezzor in Syria. Kid-
nappings are on the rise, partic-
ularly of aid workers.
aid
workers
and
foreign
journalists.
Huge cyclone
leaves trail of
destruction in
India, 17 dead
Mass evacuations
ahead of Phailin spared
widespread loss of life
ters and boats to get to villages cut o
by the cyclone.
Phailin weakened significantly af-
ter coming ashore as a Category 4
storm, with sustained winds of up to
131 miles per hour, according to Indi-
an meteorologists.
Seventeen storm-related deaths
have been confirmed, but seven of
those were reported before the storm
made landfall, the government said.
Most of the deaths were attributed to
uprooted trees or walls collapsing on
residents. About 900,000 people
were evacuated to shelters inland be-
fore the storm.
For Indian authorities, the low
number of casualties is a relief — the
last major cyclone in the region in
1999 claimed nearly 15,000 lives.
“We have been successful in mini-
mizing the loss of life,” Odisha’s Chief
Minister Naveen Patnail said. “Now
(rebuilding) is a very big challenge
for us as property worth (tens of mil-
lions of dollars) has been destroyed.”
Meanwhile, ocials from the Indi-
an Meteorological Department said
Sunday that heavy rains will con-
tinue to lash the area over the next
48 hours, raising concerns that res-
cue operations could be hampered.
“Some people from the shelter
have started to leave to go back to
their villages but many are afraid be-
cause of the rain and heavy flooding,”
Rawat said. Government ocials
used loudspeakers to tell people “not
to panic as the worst of the storm
was over,” Rawat said.
In the state capital, Bhubanesh-
war, things were slowly returning to
normal, locals said.
“There were people on the streets,
although there is tons of debris, and
trees everywhere,” said Prabhat Mo-
hapatra, a resident of Bhubaneshwar.
Mandakini Gahlot
Special for USA TODAY
NEW DELHI
Cyclone Phailin — the
most powerful cyclone to hit India in
14 years — left a trail of destruction
in its wake, knocking down homes,
overturning cars, uprooting trees,
and killing at least 17 people after one
of the largest evacuation eorts in
the country’s recent history.
The storm, which made landfall
early Saturday night in the town of
Gopalpur, has aected nearly 9 mil-
lion people and destroyed crops
worth about $400 million, the news
agency Press Trust of India reported.
According to the first round of as-
sessments by government authori-
ties, the storm damaged nearly
250,000 houses in Ganjam, one of
the worst-aected districts. That fig-
ure is expected to rise over the next
few days as rescue workers fan out
across the region. There are reports
of widespread damage in the towns
that were in the eye of the storm.
“The storm has finally passed, but
it looks like it will take a long time for
things to get back to normal,” said
Prashant Kumar Rawat, a resident of
Paradip, the port town on the coast of
Odisha that was among the hardest
hit. “All roads are blocked, all we can
see are uprooted trees, debris, glass
shards, even tops of cars.
“Power has also not yet been re-
stored,” added Rawat, who spent the
night at a storm shelter in Paradip.
Soldiers and rescue workers have
been deployed and are using helicop-
BISWARANJAN ROUT, AP
A woman rests Sunday near her damaged house after returning to Podampeta on the Bay of Bengal coast
in Orissa state, India. Cyclone Phailin roared ashore Saturday with sustained winds of up to 131 mph.
BIKAS DAS, AP
People return to their villages
near Gopalpur, India, on Sunday.
About 900,000 people were evac-
uated to inland shelters.
BISWARANJAN ROUT, AP
At left, villagers collect their
belongings in Arjipalli. Tens of
thousands of homes on India’s
east coast were destroyed by
Cyclone Phailin.
Egypt: Detained U.S. citizen found dead in jail cell
Ocials say it was a
suicide while serving
for curfew violation
In Washington, the State Depart-
ment identified the American as
James Lunn and said U.S. consular
ocials in Cairo were told Aug. 28 of
his arrest, a day after the Egyptians
detained him. Consular ocials had
been in touch with Egyptian authori-
ties and Lunn since, it said.
A statement by the Egyptian Inte-
rior Ministry, which is in charge of
police, said Lunn was detained
Aug. 27 during “combing operations”
that followed a car bombing outside a
police station in the turbulent north-
ern region of Sinai. It said a comput-
er and maps of “important
installations” were found in his pos-
session. It did not identify the
facilities.
Lunn, it continued, was remanded
to police custody and was remanded
again for 30 days by a court Saturday.
The American is the
second foreigner to die
in Egyptian custody
since last month.
while making his way to the border
crossing with Gaza in the town of
Rafah.
He was flown to Ismailia on a mili-
tary aircraft and handed over to the
police there, the ocials said. Jailers
found him dead after he used his belt
and shoe laces to hang himself, the
ocials said. They spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity because they were
not authorized to speak.
The Interior Ministry and the se-
curity ocials earlier mistakenly
identified the American as James
Henry Allen and James Henry. Such
confusion is common in Egypt in the
case of foreign names that are trans-
literated from English, often with
some liberty.
The American is the second for-
eigner to die in Egyptian custody
since last month. Then, authorities
said cellmates beat a French man to
death after his arrest in Cairo’s up-
scale district of Zamalek for violating
curfew.
The latest death is likely to revive
the furor about poor conditions and
human rights violations in Egyptian
jails. Two Canadian citizens jailed for
weeks before their release last week
complained of torture and inhuman
conditions.
However, the State Department
said Lunn had at no time complained
to U.S. consular ocials that he had
been maltreated by the Egyptians.
The American’s arrest came at a
time when the military and security
forces are fighting Islamic militants
in northern Sinai, where they have
been attacked daily since the over-
throw of Islamist President Moham-
med Morsi in a July 3 military coup.
Hamza Hendawi
The Associated Press
He was found hanged Sunday at the
door of the bathroom of his cell block
in an Ismailia police station. Lunn
had a visit from a U.S. Consulate o-
cial last Tuesday, it added.
A coroner has been appointed to
determine the cause of death, the
statement said.
Security ocials earlier said he
was a retired U.S. Army ocer, a
claim denied by the State Depart-
ment. Lunn arrived in Cairo from the
Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain on
Aug. 25, Egyptian ocials said.
They had said he was detained by
army troops in Sinai three days later
CAIRO
The Egyptian government
said a U.S. citizen it detained in the
Sinai Peninsula last month for violat-
ing curfew was found dead Sunday in
his jail cell, the second foreigner to
die in detention in recent weeks.
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo con-
firmed that an American citizen held
prisoner in the Suez Canal city of Is-
mailia died from an apparent suicide
and that it was in contact with Egyp-
tian authorities. The embassy had no
further comment.
TONIGHT
CARDINALS
AT
™
DODGERS
™
™
7
:30PM
ET
™
#POSTSEASON
TM & © 2013 Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. Visit MLB.com. Photo: Getty Images.
  [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

  • zanotowane.pl
  • doc.pisz.pl
  • pdf.pisz.pl
  • emaginacja.xlx.pl

    •