SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Iraq's government spokesman says his country is willing to discuss its outstanding debt to Jordan.
"The Iraqi government is willing to resolve the problem of the debt for Jordan under the previous regime", Ali al-Dabbagh told reporters Saturday on the sidelines of a special meeting of the World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea.
Iraq owes an …
ATLANTA (AP) — Bedbugs don't make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can.
A government study released Thursday found that dozens of Americans have fallen ill from the insecticides, and a North Carolina woman died after using 18 cans of chemical fogger to attack the tiny blood suckers.
Because many of the cases, including the lone death, were do-it-yourselfers who misused the chemicals or applied the wrong product, federal health officials are warning consumers to be careful and urging them to call professionals.
The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 80 illnesses and one death linked to the insecticides over three years. Most of the …
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The role of ethnic health staff in hospitals has not been clearly articulated for managers and practitioners. This paper describes findings from a study based on ethnic and allied health staff interviews and observations of ethnic health staff interactions. Care was provided to language concordant patients directly and by assisting practitioners to work within the patient's cultural paradigms and family schema. The scope of practice involved: engaging patients in a therapeutic relationship, patient assessment, linking assessment with care options, facilitating communication between patients and practitioners, education, smoothing hospital experiences, referral and …
A free agent for barely more than half a day, Billy Volek was eating lunch with his family at his offseason home in Fresno when his agent called.
The San Diego Chargers had made a "pretty interesting" offer. Good enough, it turned out, that Volek didn't need to book trips to visit with other teams.
The backup quarterback agreed to a three-year contract Friday afternoon to remain with the Chargers, whom he helped reach the AFC championship game by scoring the winning touchdown in an upset win at Indianapolis.
Volek said staying with the Chargers was more important than trying to become a starter with a team that might not have as good a …
Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad.
Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832, but could not find the actual grave. Human bones discovered last week near the suburban Philadelphia university may at last reveal their final resting place _ and possibly allow researchers to identify the remains and rebury them.
The woodsy site where the bones were found is known as "Duffy's Cut." It is named after Philip Duffy, the man who hired the immigrants from …
To no one's surprise, White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura wasnamed American League player of the month for July.
Ventura hit .357 with 12 home runs and 33 RBI. Along the way,Ventura had two game-winning home runs, including a two-out,ninth-inning grand slam Wednesday that beat the Texas Rangers.
"But the nicest thing about the month is that the team did sowell," Ventura said.
Asked if his July was even better than his record 58-gamehitting streak as a sophomore at Oklahoma State, Ventura didn'thesitate.
"This is better," he said. "I had a lot of games where I hadonly one or two hits. It wasn't like I was really hot."
Ventura is the …
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Dave Brubeck just wishes his mom could see him now: On Dec. 6, the same day the jazz composer and pianist turns 89, he'll be among the leading artists feted at the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors Gala.
Dignitaries from President Barack Obama on down will celebrate Brubeck's career, along with those of singer Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert De Niro, comic genius Mel Brooks and opera singer Grace Bumbry, the Kennedy Center announced Wednesday.
Brubeck says it's a day that would have delighted his late mother, Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck, a classical pianist who was initially disappointed by her son's interest in jazz. He recalled that when he graduated high school in …
The White Sox looked at Cleveland's buying spree with asuspicious eye Thursday when the Indians signed Jack McDowell, andthe Sox dismissed criticism from Lance Johnson, who signed atwo-year, $5 million deal with the New York Mets.
General manager Ron Schueler wasn't surprised when the rivalIndians added ex-Sox McDowell to their star-filled rotation with atwo-year, $10.15 million contract with a club option for 1998, butwas concerned with their spending.
"In the first place, every ticket in their park is sold,"Schueler said. "If you knew your park was going to be sold out everynight, wouldn't you go after anyone you could get?
"On the other hand, we …
DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — England showed what it can do when it keeps hold of the ball, running in 10 tries to beat Romania 67-3 Saturday at the Rugby World Cup and take full control of Pool B.
Mark Cueto scored a hat trick in his first World Cup appearance since the 2007 final and fellow wing Chris Ashton also crossed three times to take his tally to 14 in 16 internationals.
England never threatened to match the 134-0 win it racked up against the same opponent a decade ago, but avoided being pulled into an arm wrestle with the Romanian forwards and cut out most of the breakdown infringements that marred its wins over Argentina and Georgia.
Ben Youngs, Ben Foden, Manu …
A year ago, the world watched as Michael Jackson balanced on the edge of a precipice. Behind the once-proclaimed King of Pop was a bleak stretch of pain and artistic decline. Ahead lay a series of 50 London concerts _ a high-rolling bid to reassert his musical brilliance and re-establish control of his life.
Jackson was poised for a great leap of faith, one testing himself and those who believed in him. It was a chance to silence detractors who had mocked his increasingly clownish, artificial appearance and what appeared to be an equally artificial and veiled version of family life with the three children he was raising alone.
Harsher critics cast him as a man …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) President Reagan said Saturday thatU.S. support for Nicaraguan rebels "should continue until asatisfactory peace plan is in place."
His declaration, coming at the end of a week in whichadministration officials made conflicting statements about WhiteHouse intentions, was an indication that the administration will askCongress to provide new funds for the rebels, or contras, in thefiscal year starting Oct. 1.
It was the closest Reagan has come in recent statements tomaking it clear that he will not allow the U.S. aid pipeline to thecontras to be shut down unless an acceptable peace has been arranged.
Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, asked about thepresident's statements, said that "he's not going to desert thecontras until he knows . . . there isn't going to be a turnaround,"in which the Sandinistas institute democratic reforms and then renegeon them.
It was unclear last week whether the administration would agreeto any circumstance in which U.S. aid to the contras would besuspended from Oct. 1 to Nov. 7, while the negotiating processoutlined in a Central America peace initiative is under way.
In his radio address Saturday from his ranch in the Santa YnezMountains about 25 miles north of here, Reagan said that "ouradministration proposed a timetable for negotiations to bring peaceto Nicaragua by opening the country to democracy. Just days later,the leaders of five Central American countries themselves put forwarda plan for peace and democracy in Nicaragua."
Reagan said the plan, advanced by Costa Rican President OscarArias and signed by Arias, Ortega and the leaders of El Salvador,Honduras and Guatemala, "differs from our own in certain regards, butit's important to understand that both insist upon opening Nicaraguato genuine democracy."
The euro drifted lower against the U.S. dollar in European trading Monday as markets waited for a report showing the health of existing American home sales.
In midmorning European trading, the 15-nation euro bought US$1.4808, slipping lower from the US$1.4825 it bought late Friday in New York.
Markets are keen to see what the latest reading on existing U.S. home sales in January were, hoping to divine the health of an economy still mired in the subprime mortgage debacle.
"There's not a great deal of high profile economic data scheduled for release during the day's session, but many traders will continue to look for suggestions as to whether the U.S. economy can still avoid recession," said Gary Thomson, head of sales trading at CMC Markets.
"The one fundamental reading of note today for the U.S. dollar is likely to be January's existing home sales data, but again with expectations being relatively modest it would take a rather disappointing reading here to heap much additional downside on the dollar," he said.
The report comes as the 27-nation EU is dealing with slowing consumer spending, a possible U.S. recession and tighter borrowing conditions.
The dollar fell rose against the yen, to purchase 107.43 Japanese yen, from 106.93 yen Monday.
The British pound fell to US$1.9626 from US$1.9687 on Monday.
STARS
— Denard Robinson, Michigan, capped a 502-yard performance with a 2-yard touchdown run with 27 seconds left to give the Wolverines a 28-24 victory against Notre Dame. Robinson ran for 258 yards.
— Trent Richardson, Alabama, ran for 144 yards in place of injured Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram to lead No. 1 Alabama to a 24-3 win over No. 18 Penn State.
— Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina, carried 37 times for 182 yards and two touchdowns and the No. 24 Gamecocks beat No. 22 Georgia 17-6.
— Backup Tanner Price, Wake Forest, threw three touchdown passes and ran for another to lead the Demon Deacons to a wild 54-48 victory against Duke.
— Drew Dudzik, James Madison, ran for two touchdowns and threw for another and the Dukes upset No. 13 Virginia Tech 21-16.
— Dante Warren passed for 352 yards and three touchdowns for South Dakota and scampered for a 25-yard score on fourth-and-1 midway through the fourth quarter to seal a 41-38 victory over Minnesota.
— Landry Jones, Oklahoma, was 30 for 40 for 380 yards — 321 yards in the first half — and the 10th-ranked Sooners beat No. 17 Florida State 47-17.
— Devin Barclay, Ohio State, tied a school record with five field goals as the second-ranked Buckeyes defeated No. 12 Miami 36-24.
FCS UPSETS
James Madison became just the second FCS or I-AA team to beat a ranked major college team when the Dukes beat Virginia Tech 21-16 in Blacksburg. The loss comes six days after the Hokies lost a heartbreaker to Boise State. The first I-AA team to beat a ranked I-A? That would be Appalachian State, which famously beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32 in 2007. The last time Virginia Tech lost to a I-AA team was 1985, when Richmond beat the Hokies 24-14 at Lane Stadium.
Other FCS teams to beat FBS teams Saturday were South Dakota, which upset Minnesota 41-38, and Gardner-Webb, which defeated Akron 38-37 in overtime. Last week, Jacksonville State stunned Mississippi and North Dakota State beat Kansas.
JUST DUCKY
No. 7 Oregon beat Tennessee 48-13, scoring the most poinst by a Volunteers opponent at Neyland Stadium since Florida beat the Vols 59-20 in 2007. It was the most points by a nonconference opponent there since Washington State, another Pac-10 school, won 52-24 in 1988.
HONORING A TEAMMATE
Wyoming played Texas just six days after the death of Cowboys freshman linebacker Ruben Narcisse, who was killed in a car accident in Colorado on Monday. The Cowboys wore decals with his initials and safety Shamiel Gary wore Narcisse's No. 12 to honor him Saturday night. Texas won 34-7.
STREAKS
Air Force snapped a six-game losing streak to BYU, beating the Cougars 35-14 in the last game the two will play as conference rivals. ... No. 10 Oklahoma ran the longest current home winning streak in the nation to 32 games by beating No. 17 Florida State 47-17. ... No. 11 Wisconsin won its 15th straight home opener, 27-14 against San Jose State. ... LSU ran its winning streak against Vanderbilt to seven games with a 27-3 victory.
ANOTHER RECORD
TUC quarterback Andy Dalton tied Max Knake's school record of 622 career completions with his second against Tennessee Tech, a 24-yard TD pass to Josh Boyce less than 5 minutes into the game to put TCU ahead to stay. The Horned Frogs went on to win 62-7. Last week, Dalton broke the school record for victories started by a quarterback.
GATORS GET BETTER
Jeff Demps ran for 139 yards and helped No. 8 Florida pull away from South Florida 38-14. The Gators, trying to bounce back from a messy opening win against Miami (Ohio), finally found their offense in the second half and finished with 432 yards against USF. The Bulls helped Florida's cause by throwing five interceptions.
SCARY MOMENT
Wisconsin returner David Gilreath sustained a concussion and was taken off the field in an ambulance early in the third quarter after taking a hard hit while returning a punt against San Jose State.
The senior was hit almost immediately by Peyton Thompson. As Gilreath was being driven back, Dominique Hunsucker came in from behind, appearing to make incidental helmet-to-helmet contact.
Gilreath stayed down for about 10 minutes and didn't appear to move, but Badgers coach Bret Bielema said Gilreath was talking and trying to get up after being knocked out for a little over a minute. Wisconsin beat San Jose State 27-14.
MISSING GREEN
Playing without suspended star receiver A.J. Green, Georgia lost 17-6 to South Carolina and was held without a touchdown for the first time in three years — since the Bulldogs' last loss to South Carolina in 2007. Green was penalized four games by the NCAA for selling a game jersey for $1,000.
MOVING ON UP
A day after Villanova announced it was giving serious consideration to making the jump from FCS to FBS and joining the Big East, the Wildcats pounded Lehigh 35-0. Chris Whitney threw for two touchdowns and Aaron Ball rushed for 102 yards and a score to lead Villanova (1-1), which last week nearly knocked off FBS team Temple.
16 AND COUNTING
Presbyterian lost its 16th straight game, getting blasted by Clemson 58-21. That followed a 53-13 loss to Wake Forest last week. Next up for the Blue Hose: No. 21 Auburn.
QUOTABLE
"I told the defense that they played their tails off. (The offense) got a good you-know-what chewing." Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said after the Cornhuskers' 38-17 victory against Idaho. The Huskers defense had five interceptions and seven sacks. The offense committed four turnovers.
WASHINGTON - Consumer inflation rose at the fastest pace in four months in September, reflecting higher energy and food costs.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its closely watched Consumer Price Index increased by 0.3 percent last month as energy costs, which had been falling for three months, posted an increase and food prices jumped by the largest amount since June.
The 0.3 percent CPI increase was slightly above the 0.2 percent advance that economists had been expecting. Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, was up a more moderate 0.2 percent, in line with expectations.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — St. Petersburg police say no criminal charges will be filed against the driver who struck and killed the 87-year-old father of New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson.
Police spokesman Mike Puetz told the St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday there's no evidence that 21-year-old Jeffrey W. Lachance did anything that would warrant a criminal charge. Traffic homicide investigators concluded he was not driving recklessly or impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time.
Traffic investigators are still examining other evidence, such as skid marks, which might show that Lachance was speeding or made an improper lane change. Lachance could then receive a traffic ticket.
John Alderson was struck Saturday night while crossing the street.
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Boomtowns were common in the Chicago suburbs in the 1980s.Think of Naperville and Schaumburg, to name just two.
Today's boom, however, isn't following municipal borders.Instead, entire portions of the far south and southwest suburbs aretaking off, often along major transportation links. The boom takesin a lot of territory - from Romeoville to Bolingbrook to Joliet toMatteson and even to Kankakee.
One impetus is the greatly improved access created by theNorth-South Tollway (Interstate 355), which connects south and westsuburban areas and ties into other interstate highways. That helpscreate a major distribution hub for an area where land and labor arestill relatively cheap.
The point - and the potential - do not escape the PrudentialProperty Co.
"We feel that the new North-South Tollway is going to make atremendous difference," said David C. Berry, general manager ofPrudential Property. Opened last Christmas, the tollway extends fromArmy Trail Road south to Interstate 55 at Bolingbrook.
"The new highway gives great penetration to the rest of theChicago marketplace and it is somewhat shielded from the congestionof some other areas."
Prudential recently took a big position in land with 153 acresthat it hopes to annex to Bolingbrook, sensing that the area is goingto be as strong for development as Naperville was when Prudentialstarted the Naperville Corporate Center eight years ago.
Further east, the impetus to the boom is Interstate 57, alongtime route that is being rediscovered by developers. I-57 splitsoff from the Dan Ryan Expy. near 95th Street in Chicago, then windsits way south through Blue Island, Oak Forest, Matteson, andeventually to Kankakee on its way to Champaign-Urbana.
"It's a great fringe area to begin developing, especially if thethird airport lands somewhere near here," said Paul Blanchette,president of the Kankakee County Economic Development Council.
The work force in both the south and southwest corridors appealsto people such as Kathleen Reading, one of the top brokers in thearea with Baird & Warner at Southwick Corporate Park in Matteson, abooming suburb near the intersection of I-57 and U.S. 30 (211thStreet).
"A majority of the work force at the Southwick Corporate Park isworking mothers," she said. "Baker's Square has a vast majority ofwomen, and the same is true at Jackson, Long & Associates, a claimsadjusting firm. The work force is probably one of the reasons a lotof corporations are locating here."
Said Blanchette: "There is a good work ethic and the cost oflabor is reasonable."
In addition to Prudential, the other owners in the southwestcorridor tend to be large and financially secure. Amli Realtyrecently annexed 375 acres to the village of Romeoville, nearBolingbrook, that the firm will develop as a mixed-use project calledWindham Lakes Business Park.
The real estate arms of Santa Fe Pacific (which has a bigproject in Woodridge) and Union Pacific (which is starting adevelopment in Bolingbrook) are other well-financed companies in thecorridor. Seven Bridges, recently annexed to Woodridge, will includeeverything from a shopping center to a golf course to single- andmultifamily housing. Co-developers Forest City Enterprises and theHarris Group plan a hotel and retail centers, as well as office andresidential space.
"We're creating an urban village on a site that was around along time but never developed," said Fred Peterman, marketingdirector of that project at Illinois 53 and Hobson Road on the borderof Will and Du Page counties. "It will be a hub for surroundingcommunities with a great amount of open space, including a first-rategolf course."
Matteson claims to have the largest corporate office areasouthwest of the Loop, with three corporate office parks and adistribution park under construction.
With many major developments within its boundaries or at itsdoorstep, Bolingbrook might dispute that claim. Despite itsaggressive marketing program, Bolingbrook doesn't want to losecontrol of its growth.
"Will County can be another Du Page County in growth inpopulation and in its industrial base, but we are trying to avoid DuPage's infrastructure problems and congestion," said Roger C. Claar,mayor of Bolingbrook.
"We have some natural things going for us that perhaps otherareas don't have," he said.
"We have a chance to do better planning for roads with the bigprojects such as Trammell Crow and the Gahlberg organization willdevelop.
"We can put in the roads at the outset rather than after thefact."
Trammell Crow plans an eight- to 10-year buildout of its 250acres and William E. Gahlberg & Associates figures on about 12 yearsfor its 750-acre site of commercial and industrial development. Thefirst phases of both projects have started.
That Will and Kankakee counties seek and encourage developmentis refreshing to developers, who face battles in Du Page and Lakecounties from the moment they reveal plans. There, officials, actingin the name of environmental and congestion issues, often slow up or,in some cases, stop the development.
"We are friendly to get people in the door," Claar said."Everyone is pleased with the development process here.
"Occasional problems come up, but we sit down at the table andwork them out. Will County clearly has a pro-growth attitude."
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - Down three at the half after missing way too many tackles, the Chicago Bears looked as though they were headed toward a disappointing loss at Detroit instead of their fifth straight win.
That streak is still going. Where they're headed remains up in the air.
The Bears did enough to pull out a 24-20 win over the Lions after an ugly first half on Sunday, but tiiey realize they'U have to do more if they're going to stay on top in the NFC North.
The schedule is about to take another tough tum with New England, now 10-2 after thrashing the New York Jets 45-3, visiting this week, and the Bears (9-3) have little room for error if they're going to get back to the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 team's Super Bowl run.
"There could possibly be a 10-6 team, maybe even an 11-5 team, not make the playoffs this year," safety Chris Harris said Monday. "We've just got to take care of business, win our division and not have to worry about that. We don't want to be that team on the outside looking in."
There are no breathers left for the Bears - not even at Minnesota on Dec. 20. The Vikings have won two straight and could pose problems whether Brett Favre or Tarvaris Jackson is at quarterback, and after that, Chicago hosts the New York Jets at home before finishing at Green Bay.
"I'm sure they're thinking about, 'Man, we've got the Bears coming up,'" said coach Lovie Smith, who was back to his usual upbeat ways after laying into his team on Sunday.
Specifically, the defense.
One of the league's stingiest, it aUowed 253 yards in the first half even though the Lions were going with third-string quarterback Drew Stanton because of injuries to Matthew Stafford and Shaun HUl. Most appalling was a two-play, 91 -yard drive near the end of the second quarter that gave the Lions a 17-14 lead.
Detroit wasn't trying to score when it took over on its own 9 in the final minute. The Lions were willing to simply run up the middle and let time expire.
Instead, Jahvid Best got lost in the crowd and popped out to the right side for a 45-yard gain, and Calvin Johnson finished the quick drive with a 46-yard TD catch, brushing off Harris with one stiff-arm and flattening DJ. Moore with another on his way to the end zone.
And as they trudged toward the locker room at halftime, the Bears knew they were going to hear it from Smith. They also realized they deserved it.
"Point blank, we deserved it," Harris said. "We were actually talking going into the locker room, 'Hey, let's take our medicine at halftime* because we definitely deserve it after giving up a touchdown on two plays right before the half, 91 yards. That's very uncharacteristic of this defense."
Smith wasn't necessarily kicking over garbage cans or smashing coolers. Even so, this was as angry as Harris had seen him.
"Still mild-mannered. But maybe instead of talking at a five, talking at about a nine," he said. "Lovie 's not a guy that swears. ... When he's angry, you know he's angry and his point comes across. It gets across to the players the way it should."
Moore added: "You could see he was upset. You could see how the players were upset."
The defense did a better job the rest of the way, holding Detroit to 49 yards in the second half and making several key stands.
The Bears forced the Lions to settle for a field goal early in the third after they recovered a fumble by Cutler at the Chicago 9, and in the fourth, the defense came up big when the Lions were threatening to regain the lead.
Cutler hit Brandon Manumaleuna with the go-ahead 7 -yard TD pass after Ndamukong Suh got called for unnecessary roughness. Then Detroit's Stefan Logan returned the kickoff 60 yards to the 44. That drive staUed after Moore and Brian Urlacher combined on a 9yard sack on first down at the 34. The Lions wound up punting on their final possession, and the Bears let out a sigh of retief.
They can't breathe too easily, though.
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Chicago Bears cornerback D.J. Moore (30) sacks Detroit Lions quarterback Drew Stanton (5) in the second half Dec. 5. Chicago won 24-20. AP/Rick Osentoski
Fourteen people were taken into custody Wednesday morning after police say they created a disturbance at a South Side housing construction site.
Sgt. Robert Cargie of the Chicago Police Department told the Chicago Defender that a number of protesters showed up at 4610 S. Drexel Ave., where a housing development is being built.
"They verbally harassed the workers, threatened them with bodily harm and tried to stop the work," he said.
They then allegedly took tools from workers and started smashing the dry walls and other structures being put up, said Cargie.
"A building supervisor asked them to leave," he said. "They didn't and police were called to the scene."
The Rev. Gregory Daniels, of United Voters for Truth and Change, told the Defender police mischaracterized circumstances.
"The 20 young men who showed up at the site were union carpenters and laborers who were trying to get jobs," he said. "Why should whites and Hispanics be doing work in Black neighborhoods?"
Daniels denied his people caused any problems.
"The police coerced the non-English speaking workers to accuse my young men, who were nothing but peaceful," he said.
Twelve people were arrested for criminal trespass and two for assault because of verbal threats.
They were taken to the 21st District station at 300 E. 29th St. where Daniels said he was told to "go back to Africa by some of the Polish workers from the construction site."
Daniels said in the 30 years UVTC has advocated for construction jobs for African Americans, no one had ever been arrested for visiting job sites.
"We will be back at that location tomorrow and I will file a class-action suit against the police for their actions," he said.
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