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Insurgents may have obtained 377 tons of car bomb material The Associated Press
NBA superstarʼs gift allows city to buy lifesaving devices By BRIAN TAYLOR AND GABE SALDANA For the Daily Titan
It has been 14 months since the sudden death of Karl Maloneʼs mother, but the NBA superstar is still striving to make her proud. In August of 2003, Maloneʼs mother died from sudden cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of an estimated 465,000 Americans every year. Malone, in a concerted effort with race car driver John Force and local Brea business people, donated $80,000 to equip the entire fleet of Brea and Yorba Linda police vehicles with lunchbox-sized automated external defibrillators, devices used to “jumpstart” the heart when someone goes into cardiac arrest. “You always want to impress your parents,” Malone said. “Itʼs nice to know mom is looking down smiling, showing she approves.” Killing more people than breast cancer, AIDS and lung cancer combined, sudden cardiac arrest is the number one cause of death in the United States, with two-thirds of attacks occurring while the victim is at work, home or out playing. Time is crucial for surviving cardiac arrest, cardiologist Michael MALONE 3
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Gas prices in Southern California rose 5 cents a gallon over the last two weeks, continuing a trend of higher gas prices, according to The Associated Press. Prices at a Chevron in Fullerton reached $2.63 Monday night.
Prop to expand DNA database
Controversial measure will increase genetic sampling in California
Proposition 69 would require adults and juveniles to submit a DNA sample to police if they are convicted of any felony offense, attempt to commit a felony or are arrested for sex offenses, murder or voluntary manslaughter. The purpose of this proposition is to clear people who have been wrongfully accused and to help solve crimes. If the proposition were passed, adults arrested for any felony offense would be required to give a DNA sample beginning in
2009. The proposition would allow police — after an arrest — to collect a sample from the suspectʼs inner cheek using a cotton swab. This information would go alongside a personʼs hand and thumb prints. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports the bill, arguing that Californiaʼs database is too small and unable to deal with thousands of unsolved rapes, murders and child abductions. Currently 34 states have all-felon DNA databases and are able to solve almost 40 percent of crimes, while California is able to solve about 5 percent, according to the DNA Yes! Web site, which advocates the passage of Proposition 69. In Virginiaʼs small population, 445
crimes were solved in 2002 using the DNA database. In that same year, California solved 148. Ray Foster, a Cal State Fullerton criminal justice professor, said he agrees with the proposition. “DNA has just linked a man [Chester Dewayne Turner] to over 10 serial murders,” Foster said. “Had his DNA been taken earlier, his crimes could have been prevented.” Net costs to the state would amount to several million dollars annually before increasing to $20 million by 2009. Though some may feel that the costs of Proposition 69 outweigh privacy rights that will be given up from submitting DNA, others said
spend $30 billion annually on weight reduction. So what is the magic solution? Thereʼs the Zone, South Beach and Atkins diets, not to mention countless other fad diets, nutrient shakes, laxatives, pills, herbal supplements and even surgery. The list goes on and on. Many students use diet pills to lose those extra pounds with minimal effort, but might be unaware that these quick fixes might lead to unwanted side effects and unbalanced diets that do have an effect on their health now and in the future. Nicole Perez, a Cal State Fullerton
student, recently lost 13 pounds in two weeks on the high-protein Atkins diet, but in the process, she said, she suffered physical ailments including blurry vision, nausea and near blackouts. Because of her experience, she said she will never go on another fad diet. “I got too sick,” Perez said. “I was disgusted every time I ate. I would rather be fat than go on Atkins again.” Within one month, Perez said she regained all of the weight she had lost. “I was trying to lose weight before
I got married, but I gained all the weight back so now I eat whatever,” Perez said. “I eat french fries every day. How healthy can I be?” Dieting is not the only cause of an unbalanced diet. College students tend to eat junk food and artificially processed convenience foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt, or skip meals and neglect exercise in order to manage their busy lives. Student Karen Phung said she doesnʼt have time to put together the proper diet needed to obtain the essential vitamins.
Rain, earthquakes cause 89 landslides and mass evacuations
after dawn Monday. Several smaller aftershocks were felt through the night. About 100,000 people took refuge at gymnasiums and public buildings. Thousands of others slept in their cars and in tents. “The aftershocks are still strong, so we felt it was safer to stay here even though our house wasnʼt all that badly damaged,” said Misako Tsubata as she sipped tea outside the tent where she was staying with her two daughters, her mother and her husband. Emergency workers rushed food and blankets to the evacuated, though ripped asphalt and landslides made many roads impassable. Train and bus services to the area remained largely shut down. About 60 percent of Niigataʼs
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Students receive sound advice on how to form a proper diet By TANYA FREEMAN For the Daily Titan
All you-can-eat dining halls, stress and busy lives all contribute to weight gain for many college students. According to the National Institutes of Health, 50 percent of Americans are trying to lose weight at any given time, and the rate among young women might be even higher. The institute estimates that dieters
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New Web company links people, music Service matches singles according to their listening habits By ALICIA ELIZARRARAS Daily Titan Staff
Finding someone to date with similar interests and passions can be hard, but Lance Massey stumbled upon a way to help people meet each other through music. Massey, 43, is the founder of GorillaPop.com, a service that matches people up based on their favorite music. “Our basic service is a way for people to find others they know will already be inclined to having a good time with, when and if they go out,” Massey said. After complaining one night to his brother about having difficulty in starting a service where fans and artists could connect, Masseyʼs brother said, “That sounds like a match-making service,” and thatʼs when he got the idea for GorillaPop. com.
Massey said since GorillaPopʼs launch the response has been great. “There are a lot of people out there who believe that music is life and this gives them a place to go,” he said. But as many new business owners find out quickly, once the service is up and running it takes customers to keep it going. “Getting the word out is always tough, but as momentum picks up, weʼve been getting more users every day,” Massey said. In order to keep that momentum going, Massey said, he is currently focused on the college press and lifestyle sections of daily newspapers for advertising, but he soon plans to target college radio and glossy publications. The match-making service will be free until Dec. 1, and then at that time, Massey said, they will start charging $12.95 a month. In order to take advantage of the service, Massey said there are two ways to sign up. GORILLAPOP 3
Japan struggles through wave of natural disasters The Associated Press
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VIENNA, Austria – The U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S.led coalition forces for months. Diplomats questioned why the United States didnʼt do more to secure the former Iraqi military installation that had housed the explosives, which they say posed a well-known threat of being looted. Others criticized the United States for not allowing full international inspections to resume after the March 2003 invasion. The White House played down the significance of the missing weapons, but Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry accused President Bush of “incredible incompetence” and his campaign said the administration “must answer for what may be the most grave and catastrophic mistake in a tragic series of blunders in Iraq.”
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported the disappearance to the U.N. Security Council on Monday, two weeks after he said Iraq told the nuclear agency that 377 tons of explosives had vanished from the Al-Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad as a result of “theft and looting ... due to lack of security.” “The most immediate concern here is that these explosives could have fallen into the wrong hands,” IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told The Associated Press. The agency first placed a seal over Al-Qaqaa storage bunkers holding the explosives in 1991 as part of U.N. sanctions that ordered the dismantlement of Iraqʼs nuclear program after the Gulf War. IAEA inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers, Fleming said. Inspectors visited the site again in March 2003, but didnʼt view the explosives because the seals were not broken, she said. Nuclear agency experts pulled out of Iraq just before the U.S.-led inva-
NAGAOKA, Japan — Rain pelted a weary region recovering from powerful weekend earthquakes, creating fears of mud slides, as 100,000 people took refuge in shelters Monday, too afraid to go home as aftershocks delivered new jolts. Saturdayʼs magnitude 6.8 earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks killed 26 people, tore up roads, upended homes and derailed a high speed train in rural Niigata prefecture about 160 miles northwest of Tokyo. A 5.6-magnitude temblor hit just
large shelters didnʼt have enough food while 37 percent lacked sufficient blankets, public broadcaster NHK reported. “Iʼve only eaten half a rice ball and half a piece of toast today,” an unidentified woman told NHK. The Japan Red Cross said it was rushing 10,000 blankets to keep victims warm during the night. The national government also planned to ship 10,000 blankets. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi planned to visit one of the worst-hit towns on Tuesday. “We will to listen carefully to what the situation is in each area and respond to their requests,” Koizumi told reporters. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker pledged $50,000 in aid “as a symbol of the U.S. desire to do whatever it can to assist the govern-
ment and people of Japan during this difficult time.” Saturdayʼs quake was the worst to hit Japan since 1995, when more than 6,000 people were killed by a 7.2 magnitude temblor in and around the port city of Kobe. Some 400 aftershocks strong enough to be felt were recorded in the two days following the initial up-down jolt. About 2,000 people were reported injured. The National Police Agency counted 89 landslides and roads sliced in 1,330 places. Bulldozers worked to clear the road in front of Suzuko Kikueʼs home, which narrowly missed being buried under a landslide. Kikue said she would ignore instructions to evacuate. “Iʼd rather stay,” she said. “This my home. Itʼs not so bad.”