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Millions of voters defied predictions of violence and cast ballots in Egypt’s first election since the ouster earlier this year of President Hosni Mubarak. Lines were long, but spirits were high. »2A
underground world. Scientists use a six-step process involving water, screens and a centrifuge to separate nematodes — microscopic worms — out of soil samples collected from all over the world. This soil came from a site in the Chihuahuan Desert in Las Cruces, N.M. Colorado State University scientist Diana Wall and her team are studying the “soil frontier,” trying to better understand the diverse ecosystems underground.
Unearthing secrets in soil
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FRIEND OR PEST? Families deal with social-media issues in several ways. Some parents insist on being “friended” so they can monitor their children. Others spend time online together and share tentative Facebook friendships. »1D
Neenan president Randy Myers will
attend a Monte Vista school board meeting as part of a goodwill tour. By Eric Gorski and David Olinger The Denver Post
DENVER & THE WEST
PLAN REVIVES REMAP BATTLE Weeks after the state Supreme Court rejected Democratic-drawn maps for legislative districts, the panel charged with redrawing the maps appeared poised to adopt lines even more favorable to Democrats. Republicans are complaining about “an absolute ambush.” »1B
dishing the dirt. Colorado State University lab supervisor Cecilia Tomasel looks at microscopic plectus worms in a soil sample at the Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Lab. Scientists are keeping their eyes to the ground, studying the microorganisms that affect soil health. Photos by Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Pepsi Center retailers» Restaurateurs, street vendors and sports merchandisers are eager to make up for six weeks of lost Nuggets-related revenue. »5B
fort collins» s scientist Diana Wall and her team peered at them through microscopes, the trapped tiny creatures feasted on morsels in dirt. A nematode’s innards bulged full of carbon and nitrogen. A water bear pulsed, devouring algae. Spiderlike mites and springtails jumped — the underground equivalents of zebras and giraffes. Exploits of these subsurface organisms are a growing preoccupation for scientists because the ecological oomph of soils that people depend on for food,
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health and water is eroding. Understanding how the tiny creatures work may help restore soil fertility and stop deadly sicknesses. “There are huge quantities of organisms in soils that are working for us at no cost — to control pests and pathogens, cleanse water, aerate soils, store carbon, maintain soil fertility, prevent erosion, and maintain healthy soils,” Wall said at her lab at Colorado State University. Today, at least three United Nations agreements address soil health, pulling Wall and a global network of scientists together to solve the puzzle of how people can draw more benefits from the world’s
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Colo. second in opt-outs for vaccines
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Banks and Fed kept scope of bailout under wraps By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz Bloomberg News
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required emergency loans of a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now BANKS » 9A
Bailing out the banks The six biggest U.S. banks received a total of $160 billion in TARP funds and borrowed as much as $460 billion from the Federal Reserve. Government bailouts reached nearly $8 trillion in loans, guarantees and limits — according to Bloomberg — raising questions of how and why the amount remained under wraps for so long.
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Structural issues have emerged at another school being constructed by the Neenan Co., a major builder of rural Colorado schools that already has admitted making mistakes that closed an $18.9 million school in Meeker. Neenan has agreed to pay for repairs at Monte Vista High School in southern Colorado “to stiffen it up in case of a catastrophic event like an earthquake,” the district’s superintendent, Dwayne Newman, told The Denver Post on Monday. He said Neenan plans to strengthen the connections between columns and a large metal beam in the gym, as well as perform additional work on the foundation. The school district received a $27.6 million state grant to help pay for the new high school — which is scheduled to open in August — as well as an elementary-school renovation and addition. Neenan already has agreed to a Colorado Department of Education request that it hire an outside firm to review the structural engineering on 15 school projects that won $150 million in grants through the Building Excellent Schools Today program, or BEST. Issues with the school in Monte Vista, however, came to light in mid-September during a separate outside review, said Andy Boian, a spokesman
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By Michael Booth The Denver Post
A new survey puts Colorado second-highest in the nation for parents refusing vaccines for their schoolage kids, part of an anti-shot trend that increasingly troubles state health officials. Though some public-health officials said the Associated Press ranking exaggerates the vaccine-refusal rates in Colorado, most said there is worrisome sentiment building against immunization. They said Colorado’s education system makes it too easy to opt out of shots and that a highly educated population employs bad information to reject vaccines. Parents still cite a fraudulent autism study when refusing shots in Colorado and other states, said Dr. Simon VACCINE » 9A
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