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By PAUL ALEXANDER landing that they realized how in front of her as rapidly
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER lucky they had been: A hole the size approaching land appeared
MANILA, Philippines — The 346 of a small car had been ripped into through a window. Loud applause
passengers were cruising at 29,000 the Boeing 747-400’s metal skin and relieved laughter went up as
feet Friday when an explosive bang and penetrated the fuselage. the plane touched down.
shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The The eerie scene aboard Flight There were no injuries and only a
plane descended rapidly. Oxygen QF 30, captured on a passenger’s few cases of nausea, airline officials
masks dropped from the ceiling as cell phone video-camera, showed said. An official of the U.S. Trans-
debris flew through the cabin from a tense quiet punctuated only by portation Security Administration
AP PHOTO a hole that had suddenly appeared a baby’s cries as passengers sat said initial reports indicated no link
in the floor. with oxygen masks on their faces. to terrorism.
Luggage can be seen from the damaged right wing fuselage of a
Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 passenger plane following an It wasn’t until they were safely on The jerky footage showed a
emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Friday. the ground after an emergency woman holding tightly to the seat JET | P5
Woman allegedly
sells car for drugs
CRUDE
By RACHEL MYERS Estates,
FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS where
A 51-year-old Port Peter Cook,
Charlotte woman was 64, said his
arrested in North Fort wife was
Myers this week after missing
deputies say she sold a and she
1998 Mustang for $50 of had taken
RECKONING
crack cocaine, nearly his Mus- COOK
ran over a deputy and tang with
encouraged a Jack her. He believed she was
Russell terrier to attack likely buying crack
another officer. cocaine.
Shelli Lyn Cook, of the Cpl. Vallie Arvin found
18400 block of Monet Shelli Cook in the area
World Oil Production Ave., is charged with of Laurel Lane and Gage
MILLIONS OF BARRELS A DAY
80
A peaking interest aggravated battery on
an officer, battery on an
officer and resisting an
Way, waving her hands,
trying to get his atten-
tion. She asked for a
70 in the future of oil officer without violence.
Deputy Robert Gizzi
reported he was first
courtesy ride, saying
someone had stolen her
car. Arvin noted she
called Thursday to an
By STEVE REILLY DRUGS | P5
STAFF WRITER address in Suncoast
0
“The Stone Age didn’t end because
1900 1980 2030 we ran out of stones.”
Projected by www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
— Sheik Yamani, Saudi Arabia oil minister 1962-1986
Yamani envisioned a similar geologist and Shell Oil researcher,
No easy fate for the oil market. But first projected the rate of the
since the 1950s, some analysts overall oil production would peak,
solution have worried about what will reaching the pinnacle of a bell
when oil happen when oil production
reaches its peak and the supply
curve. Hubbert hypothesized U.S.
“sweet oil” — that which is easy to
is gone begins to dwindle in the face of
ever-increasing demand, possibly
pull from the ground and process
— would reach its maximum
by the middle of this century. production in the 1970s, while the
By STEVE REILLY “Thirty years from now, there demand for oil would AP FILE PHOTO
STAFF WRITER will be a huge amount of oil — continue to rise. It did, at Thursday, U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen.
In 2001, the Saudi and no buyers,” Yamani, recog- 10 million barrels a day. Barack Obama, D-Ill., places a note in the Western Wall,
Arabia oil minister nized by many as a “key player” in “Stop calling it a Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City.
worried about his the first oil crisis in 1973, said in theory,” Kyle Saunders
country sitting on oil
with no market in 30 or
an interview with the British
Telegraph newspaper in 2001.
said in an e-mail to the
Sun.
Israeli paper
more years.
When he made his
prediction, he expected
Seven years ago, Yamani
could see a crash in the oil
market in 20 or 30 years, partly
Saunders, a Colorado
State University political
science associate
publishes
Iraq and Iran to be
flooding the market
due to technology and new
discoveries, and partly due to
the world turning to other
professor, is the execu-
tive director for the
Institute for the Study
Obama’s prayer
with oil by now. But that By ARON HELLER published in Maariv.
energy sources. of Energy & Our Future
hasn’t happened and But long before Yamani, other and the Oil Drum Web ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Maariv ran a photo-
the reason points to a analysts started anticipating site at www.theoildrum. com. Oil JERUSALEM — An graph of the note on its
U.S. Government worldwide petroleum production Drum is just one of many Web Israeli newspaper’s front page Friday. It said
Accountability Office reaching its “peak,” ending forever sites on peak oil. decision to publish a the note was removed
the days of cheap oil and gasoline. handwritten prayer left from the wall by a Jewish
In the 1950s, M. King Hubbert, a by Barack Obama in the seminary student imme-
SOLUTION | P5 PEAK | P5 diately after Obama left.
cracks of Jerusalem’s
Western Wall drew Obama spokesman
criticism Friday as an Robert Gibbs would
Housing rescue on track to pass today invasion of his privacy
and his relationship
neither confirm nor deny
the note was Obama’s,
but the handwriting was
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS legislation in a generation — is designed to help an with God.
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER estimated 400,000 homeowners escape foreclosure by In the note, placed at similar to another
letting them refinance into more affordable loans Judaism’s holiest site message written by the
WASHINGTON — The Senate presidential candidate
cleared the last hurdle Friday to passing backed by the Federal Housing Administration. Thursday, Obama asks
It was set to clear Congress as a private company God to guide him and during his time in Israel
a housing rescue aimed at sparing this week.
hundreds of thousands of homeowners reported that the number of households facing the guard his family.
foreclosure process more than doubled in the second “Lord — Protect my The paper’s decision to
from foreclosure and bolstering trou- make the note public
bled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and quarter of 2008 compared with a year ago. Irvine, family and me. Forgive
DODD Calif.-based RealtyTrac, Inc., said that 739,714 homes me my sins, and help me brought quick criticism
Freddie Mac. The 80-13 test vote from religious authorities.
showed broad support for the election-year package received at least one foreclosure-related notice during guard against pride and
the quarter, or one in every 171 U.S. households. despair. Give me the The rabbi in charge of the
and put it on track to pass the Senate by Saturday. Western Wall, Shmuel
The White House says President Bush will sign it, The plan gives the Treasury Department power to wisdom to do what is
spend unlimited amounts to prop up Fannie and Rabinovitz, called it an
having earlier dropped a threat to veto it over $3.9 right and just. And make
intrusion on Obama’s
billion in neighborhood grants. me an instrument of your
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Connie Francis
Tarantulas, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) ! state’s homeland security
hospitalized — South Texans eager to
y y.
director, said about 1,500
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. salvage what they can workers were on hand to
— Singer Connie from waterlogged homes help restore power and
Francis is being treated struck by Hurricane Dolly seven stations were
at Long Island Jewish have another problem: distributing water, ice,
Medical Center in New The floodwaters they’re food and hygiene kits.
York where she was slogging through are laced Gov. Rick Perry, who
hospitalized after with stinging fire ants, flew over the area Thurs-
falling ill earlier this snakes and tarantulas. day with U.S. Sen. John
week. “You don’t want to wade Cornyn, cautioned
in this water,” state Health residents not to rest easy
Her agent, Mike
Services Commissioner . ? _ -- -
ON 1
just yet.
Church, says the 69-
year-old singer had David Lakey said during a “It appears that we have
been scheduled to visit to the Rio Grande handled it as well as it can
perform Wednesday Valley Friday. “You don’t be handled. But it is far
night with Neil Sedaka want to play in this water. from over,” Perry said,
at The Capital One You want to stay out of noting possible flooding
Bank Theatre at West- this water.” over the next five days
bury. Instead, she was It was timely advice, but from runoff as the storm
taken to the hospital residents in many neigh- moves northward.
with dangerously high borhoods with waist-deep After crashing ashore on
water had little choice as AP PHOTO South Padre Island, Dolly
blood pressure.
Francis, who record- they sifted through the Daniel Tamez reads a local newspaper outside his home after power to the area was meandered north, leaving
ed ’50s and ’60s pop mess left by the Category knocked out during Hurricane Dolly, Friday, in San Benito, Texas. towns on the northern tip
hits including “Who’s 2 storm that hit the yards. Tempers among the night carrying runoff Fewer than 200 people of the Rio Grande Valley
Sorry Now?” and eastern Texas and Mexico longtime neighbors were from a cow pasture and remained in shelters in with a surprise. Officials
“Lipstick on Your coasts Wednesday. In becoming strained. “worms, spiders and Hidalgo County, down had feared the levees
Collar,” had been eastern Hidalgo County, Iliana Reyna, 34, was ants.” from a peak of nearly would breach, but the
expected to leave the as much as 12 inches of monitoring the floodwa- Fire ants and tarantulas 3,300. But rescue crews in storm veered from its
coronary care unit rain fell in six hours, ter’s rise to the second — hairy spiders some- boats were still searching predicted path and they
Friday. turning neighborhoods step of her front porch in times the size of a dinner flooded neighborhoods held strong.
Church says that into coffee-colored lakes. Edinburg. plate — can deliver and plucking people from “We’re glad it didn’t
although she is “doing Officials estimated it Reyna, her husband and stinging, painful bites but homes. make a direct hit, but it
well,” doctors decided could take six weeks for three children waded into are not deadly. Still, officials were just refocuses on the
she should remain in the low-lying region to the water Friday to gather The National Weather relieved it wasn’t worse issues we have,” said
the hospital for obser- completely dry out and a few belongings and what Service said the remnants that no one died in the Cameron County Judge
vation for at least 118,000 people still had no dry goods they could. of Dolly could still add a first hurricane of the Carlos Cascos. “The levees
another day. electricity Friday morning. Suddenly, 4-year-old few inches of rain to some season to hit the U.S. are suspect. Nothing’s
Emergency managers Adolfo, standing on the areas, and the forecast mainland. changed in my opinion.”
State mulls fees tried to assure people that shoulder of the road in called for isolated showers The clean up will be On South Padre Island,
for road memorials they would come to help bare feet, screamed and in the Rio Grande Valley. substantial: President which bore the brunt of
and begged for patience. began hopping. The other But water wasn’t the Bush declared 15 counties the winds, officials said no
CHARLESTON, W.Va. They said they were children scooped up water only danger. Illness also in south Texas disaster buildings were in danger
— Balancing safety beginning to pump water in their shoes and lurked in refrigerators, areas to release federal of collapse, but damage
concerns against the from some of the worst hit splashed it on his feet, health officials said. funding to them, and was widespread to hotels
wishes of families of areas and working to while his father lifted him “If it doesn’t look right, insurance estimators put and other businesses.
highway fatality vic- move water into flood- and brushed away the doesn’t smell right, don’t the losses at $750 million. Avi Fima was mourning
tims, West Virginia’s ways. attacking ant. eat it,” said Eddie Olivarez, The storm brought 100 the damage to “my baby”
Division of Highways Residents were using “This is just too much Hidalgo County health mph winds and broke all- — his Surf Stop store on
wants to offer the backhoes to dig their own for us,” said neighbor administrator. He said time July rainfall records Padre Boulevard. Windows
option of state-main- drainage canals and clear Arnold Silva, whose yard inspectors were fanning in the Lower Rio Grande were blown out, half the
tained memorial signs water off their property. was flooded when another out to restaurants to make Valley, dumping a foot of roof was torn away and
near crash sites. But the water simply neighbor dumped water sure they disposed of food rain in some spots. water bubbled up the
The cost to the flowed into the neighbors’ into it. It rose throughout properly as well. Steve McCraw, the carpeting inside.
grieving relatives — up
to $400.
“It’s not about the
money as it is about
making it a safer First ships crawl down Mississippi after spill
situation for every-
body,” said John Walker, NEW ORLEANS (AP) — among vessels affected by
a deputy state highway The first of 200 ships idled the closure. Carnival Corp. O -
by a massive oil spill began said its Carnival Fantasy
engineer. “Some of
crawling down the Missis- liner, due in New Orleans
these memorial mark-
sippi River Friday after the Saturday, was diverted to
ers are hazards not only
Coast Guard reopened the Mobile, Ala. Passengers
to the traveling public
waterway to traffic, but it would be bused to New
but to the people that
could be days before all of Orleans.
place them. The
the ships are cleared. The shutdown could
maintenance of them
A 100-mile stretch of the cost shippers millions of
present issues for
river has been shut down dollars in lost commerce,
mowing and the safety
since Wednesday, when a said John Hyatt, vice
of the motorists.”
barge split open in a president of Irwin Brown
There is no federal
collision with the Liberian- Co., a New Orleans-based
law on roadside memo-
flagged tanker Tintomara. freight forwarder.
rials, leaving regulation
Roughly 419,000 gallons State authorities were
up to states and munic-
spilled into the fast- optimistic environmental
ipalities. According to
flowing waterway to damage could be con-
the National Confer-
commerce, and crews tained. Divers were
ence of State Legisla-
have sopped up about inspecting the barge, AP PHOTO
tures, at least a dozen
11,000 — just a fraction of which is wedged against
states allow roadside Workers in small boats are part of the effort to clean up a massive fuel spill in the
what the barge was the Mississippi River
memorials under Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans, Friday. The Coast Guard reopened the river to
carrying. bridge. Officials said they
certain conditions. limited traffic, as work continues to clean up the fuel oil that spilled when a ship and a
The first ship to leave believe little fuel is left, barge collided early Wednesday.
the mouth of the river, the and say they don’t think it
Man killed after Overseas New York, is is a danger to navigation ed the total impact on
radio threats bound for refineries or a hazard to the struc- shippers and receivers
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Grandmother
Inspirational professor, speaker dies at age 47
By RAMIT In it, Pausch celebrated phone, and Zaslow
pleads guilty in PLUSHNICK-MASTI living the life he had recalled Friday that he
child porn case ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER always dreamed of was “strong and funny”
MARSHALL, Texas — A PITTSBURGH — Randy instead of concentrating during their collaboration.
woman prosecutors say Pausch, the Carnegie on impending death. “It was the most fun 53
helped make a graphic Mellon University “The lecture was for days of my life because it
videotape of her two computer scientist whose my kids, but if others are was like a performance,”
visiting grandchildren “last lecture” about finding value in it, that is Zaslow told The Associated
has pleaded guilty in a facing terminal cancer wonderful,” Pausch Press. “It was like getting 53
Texas child pornography became an Internet wrote on his Web site. extra lectures.” He recalled
case. sensation and a best- “But rest assured; I’m that Pausch became
The U.S. attorney’s selling book, died Friday. hardly unique.” emotional when they
office said Friday that 51- He was 47. The book “The Last worked on the last chapter,
year-old Denise Ward of Pausch died at his home Lecture” leaped to the though, because that to
Overland Park, Kan., in Chesapeake, Va., said top of the nonfiction him was the “end of the
Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street AP FILE PHOTO best-seller lists after its lecture, the book, his life.”
pleaded to coerced
sexual activity. Journal writer who co- Randy Pausch, a former University of Virginia professor, gives publication in April and He is survived by his
Ward was living in wrote Pausch’s book. his final lecture on Time Management to a packed house at remains there this week. wife, Jai, and their three
Texas’ Harrison County Pausch and his family had Old Cabell Hall Auditorium in Charlottesville, Va., in 2007. The book deal was children, Dylan, Logan and
in May 2000, when she is moved there last fall to be cancer in September 2007 garnered interna- reported to be worth Chloe; his mother, Virginia
accused of helping closer to his wife’s relatives. 2006. His popular last tional attention and was more than $6 million. Pausch of Columbia, Md.;
produce a tape in which Pausch was diagnosed lecture at Carnegie viewed by millions on the Pausch said he dictated and a sister, Tamara Mason
her grandchildren were with incurable pancreatic Mellon in September Internet. the book to Zaslow by cell of Lynchburg, Va.
photographed nude.
The children were 10
and 11 at the time.
Prosecutors say the
parents were not aware
Arrest
of the videotaping.
She remains in custody
made in Last 2 Days!
and faces up to 10 years
in prison and a $250,000
fine when sentenced.
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