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Monday, May 14, 2007
Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Monday, May 14, 2007. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives, visit our Web site at www.shns.com.
WASHINGTON
ORGANDONORS (Powelson, SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: Organ donors and their surviving relatives should be recognized with a new congressional medal, say a bipartisan group in Congress and organizations promoting organ transplants. 550.
NATIONAL
ARMYRECRUITING (Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle) -- All companies know how hard it can be to attract talented personnel when a business is experiencing difficulties. So imagine what the Army is up against, trying to recruit soldiers at a time when it's all but certain they'll be shipped overseas to serve in a deadly and unpopular war. 650.
WOPBURGER (Meadows, SHNS) -- As controversies go, this one isn't exactly a whopper. It's more of a -- well, let's just say it's about a wopburger and what happens when the menu at an iconic Colorado restaurant collides with ethnic sensibilities and political correctness in the 21st century. 550.
DIVERSITYINNEWS (Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Seeing nonwhite men on the Sunday shows is as rare as seeing them on the floor of the U.S. Senate. According to a study, at least 77 percent of the 2,150 guests who appeared on the four major Sunday shows in 2005-06 were men; at least 82 percent were white. 650.
TRANSPIONEER (Vega, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Transgender pioneer Theresa Sparks capped a riches-to-rags-and-back-to-riches tale with her election as president of the San Francisco Police Commission. 700.
FREESHOES (Flippin, SHNS) -- SAN ANGELO, Texas: The mayor and City Council will salute an old soldier with a bad leg Tuesday for uncommon service to veterans, homeless women, abused girls, nursing-home residents and anyone else who needs a free pair of comfortable house shoes. 600.
TEACHER-PROTEST (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Recommended for weekend use. A "honk for peace" case tests the limits of free speech. 750.
KILLDAD (Del Vecchio, San Francisco Chronicle) -- A 4-year-old shot his father to death over the weekend at their home in Vallejo, Calif., police say. 300.
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
BURYCARBONDIOXIDE (Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- Carbon capture and sequestration isn't sexy. Too many syllables, for one thing. Simplified, it boils down to this -- instead of putting carbon dioxide in the air, why can't you bury it? 600.
BERYLLIUM (Munger, SHNS) -- OAK RIDGE, Tenn.: A spike in abnormal beryllium tests last fall created a scare at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, where exposures to the metal have been linked to chronic beryllium disease, an incurable, sometimes-fatal respiratory impairment. 600.
INTERNATIONAL
AIDSVICTIM (Priest & Jimenez, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- TORONTO: A Kenyan woman who came to Canada in search of a better life, only to become infected with the AIDS virus in a sexual assault by a Canadian man, faces possible deportation for being a burden on the health-care system. 550.
TALIBAN (Smith, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Signs of disorder emerged in Taliban ranks as insurgents grappled with the news that Mullah Dadullah, their most powerful field commander, had been killed. 600.
