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| The blue house on McRae Court with this small Virginia town, was allowed to be a chance for a low income family to upgrade their lives.The home had been built by the local chapter of Habitat For Humanity, the well-known international Christian housing ministry.From six applicants, the group chose Donald Dannemiller, a house painter using a wife and five children. They moved in two years ago. When word spread that Dannemiller had done prison time 20 years ago for murdering his 13-year old stepsister, the modern neighbors tried and failed to derail the sale.When Dannemiller was arrested last month for allegedly abducting a 12-year old girl and shooting her with a pellet gun, angry neighbors blamed Habitat for allowing a hazardous criminal into their previously safe world.Neighbor Zola Farrell said she was "very disturbed" - not really much with the family, but with Habitat. "They lied to all of us from the beginning," Farrell told CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg. Habitat, a widely respected non-profit group, has attracted the support of former President Jimmy Carter, House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as other political leaders. The organization has generated 60,000 new homes in 58 countries with no such a serious problem with an owner before.The audience has a policy of not making background criminal checks on buyers.The Rev. Bill Higgins, who's a spokesman for the Habitat group that built the Dumfries house, says there's another reason for not conducting checks."We're in the commercial of trying to give people second chances," Higgins said. "By delving into all specifics of a person's background years ago, we get rid of the option for giving a person oftentimes that second chance."Jailed even though the abduction case against him moves for the courts, Dannemiller has turned your home back over to Habitat, which can be looking for a new owner. She was a person of unwavering routines, neighbors say, kept an immaculate apartment, took the telephone number 6 subway line each day, lived alone after a divorce, and worked hard.
It's more than just a contraceptive. The contraceptive pill could save lives. That's the message from gynecologists meeting in New York City, CBS News Correspondent Paula Zahn reports."There's no longer any doubt that oral contraceptives feel at ease," said Dr. Benjamin Younger from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.Still, women overestimate the pill's side effects, worrying about cancer and stroke. "I think the pill is underused," said Dr. Andrew Kaunitz. Actually, Kaunitz believes that too many physicians do not know that the pill can be used to fight cancer. Can the pill prevent cancer?"Certainly it could," Kaunitz said. "A worldwide literature has demonstrated very consistently that women who use oral contraceptives, that women who use the pill will reduce their likelihood of endometrial, which is uterine, and ovarian cancer." The science is compelling. Based on large scale studies, the latest findings show oral contraceptive can help to eliminate the risk of ovarian cancer by 40 to 80 % - uterine cancer by 50 percent along with the amount of protection increases the longer its taken. Unlike the initial pills of forty years ago, today's low dose versions carry little risk of heart attack and stroke. Because it can help with the symptoms of menopause, doctors say there isn't any such thing as being on the pill too long. Still it is just not for everyone. Women over 35 years who smoke or have previous leg clots should not take it. Dr. Carolyn Westhoff says it's important to change outdated attitudes. "It's really here we are at doctors and women to stop being fearful of the pill. It really is a wonder drug. We should appreciate it for what it is and use it whenever it provides a chance to benefit us," she said. Despite its proven benefits, no more than half of all privately insurance firms will pay for birth control pills. Now there is relocating in Congress to pass legislation that might require insurers who cover prescription drugs to include contraceptives. ©1998 CBS Worldwide Corp. All rights reserved mulberry hayden CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman throws a dart at a map of the United States, and wherever it lands is how he goes to get a story. Once there, he picks a person arbitrarily from the phone book. The premise is always that "everybody has a story." In Clark County, Idaho, where only 900 people reside, he found a little daughter girl who aspires to achieve success and probably will. Meet Amy Mendoza: tenacious, commanding, charming when shed like to be, always on the regarding her seat, always beaming. Jane is a little extrovert of a third-grader, at least, when it comes to most subjects. When asked if she's a boyfriend, she responds, "No. Got that?"And then, she says, "Ask me my favorite color." So what is her favorite color?"Blue. And red and white."She seems like your basic all-American kid, but appearances may be deceiving. In this case, extremely deceiving.More StoriesAmy located this country when she was 2, crossing the Rio Grande in her own father's arms. And since she wasn't born here and then she doesn't have the proper papers, she is now one of the roughly 800,000 kids moving into this country illegally.All Amy knows is always that when she visited her grandparents in Mexico a year ago, she had a heck of a time getting back. She recalls, "We went through the desert, and it was cold - very, abnormally cold."Amy's dad, Cezar, is a migrant farmer. He'll inform you, "I've lived in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas. If you don't have a good job, you need to keep moving to find it."He features a temporary visa to work from the potato fields. But the visa will not cover his daughter and pregnant wife, who speaks very little English. And yet, English is one of Amy's best subjects. How did she get so great at it? "I don't know, I just listened," she says.Her teacher Robert Daniels, explains, "They try as hard as they are able to be accepted and to be authorized they have to learn English and the've to learn it quick."Because Amy is being accepted, her parents shouldn't migrate anymore. Last summer, they saved all of their money just so Amy could be in school through winter.But, says her father, "The facts are right now I'm broke. I do not even have enough money to pay the bills."The Mendozas are living a secret most people wouldn't whisper to the breeze. Cezar knew the potential risks, but says he desires to tell this story to indicate America that immigrants may be model citizens. He's hoping people his little girl, who wants to be considered a doctor, as living proof. A footnote: At Mr. Mendoza's request, CBS News did research on his immigration status. As it happens he was awrded permanent residency status last 1995, but because he moved so much, the INS couldn't find him to tell him. That means the rest of his loved ones are now eligible for residency. The procedure will take about a year. Amy's doctorate will need considerably longer.©1999 CBS Worldwide Corp. All rights reserved. These toppers may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
Crews began draining a pond next to a smashed mobile-home park in a search for bodies Monday following a twister ripped through Indiana and Kentucky and killed a minimum of 22 people.CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers reports that it seems as if the tornado zeroed in on the worst possible place at most vulnerable time — a large camper park in the sleepy morning hours hours. In addition to packing winds of up to 200 mph, the tornado was traveling at speeds of 60 mph — when we became aware of it, the tornado is already on top of them (video).At the very least 18 people died on the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville, and four others were killed in neighboring Warrick County. Dozens remained hospitalized.A listing of some 200 people feared missing from the mobile home park had been whittled right down to a couple of dozen by late Monday afternoon, Eric Williams, Vanderburgh County chief deputy sheriff.After earning debris in the mobile home park and listening for warning signs of life in the ruins, searchers turned their care about the drainage pond, where four bodies put together over the weekend.Crews broke the pond's containment walls to reduce the water level, finding one body around midday Monday, and started pumping out the rest of the water."It will be the one spot in this area we've not thoroughly searched because it is under water," Williams said.The death toll was put at 22 on Sunday, then reduced to 21 early Monday. It absolutely was raised back to 22 with all the discovery of the body in the pond.State officials said nearly 600 homes in the two Indiana counties were destroyed or heavily damaged. Gov. Mitch Daniels declared a situation of emergency and asked the federal government for disaster assistance.Rick Kalishun spent the day at a hospital, where his 4-year-old son Trystan was dealing with a punctured lung he suffered once the tornado hit their 'recreational vehicle'.After the tornado hit, "I was located on the couch looking at the sky," Kalishun said. "I saw the 60-inch TV from the front of the living room — it finished up on the recliner, just like someone laid it there screen face-up." no previous page next 1/2 Anthrax was discovered today, for the first time, in the House of Representatives office. And anthrax anxiety spread in most direction.
Some wait a day, some wait weeks, and some never get one at all. mulberry piccadilly Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, who was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for several years during the height in the clergy molestation crisis, has been appointed by Pope John Paul II to offer as Archbishop of Atlanta, the archdiocese announced Thursday.Gregory, 57, who had previously been serving as bishop in Belleville, Illinois, will become Atlanta's sixth archbishop. He succeeds Archbishop John F. Donoghue, 76, that is retiring."I welcome the opportunity to serve people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. I will be deeply grateful to the Holy Father for his confidence and support," Gregory said.Gregory was the 1st black president of the bishops conference whilst was elected in November 2001. At the time, his election was seen by black Catholics as long-awaited recognition of their presence in the church.But sex abuse scandal, which erupted in the Archdiocese of Boston in January 2002, soon eclipsed his elevation to leadership.Gregory has said the pressure of guiding the church with the height of the crisis "drove me to my knees" in prayer.Under Gregory's leadership, the bishops are in possession of a binding policy on how to respond to allegations that includes barring offenders from church work plus a national lay watchdog panel to aid enforce the plan."These have been three rocky years," said Russell Shaw, former spokesman for your U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "But the idea is, Archbishop Gregory not only stuck it out, but he stuck out with grace and courage as well as a great deal of skill."Earlier this year, a national, church-sanctioned study documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy found out that about 4 percent of clerics have already been accused of molesting minors since 1950, a diocese said. The survey compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found 4,392 in the 109,694 clergy who served over that five-decade period faced allegations of abuse. Dioceses nationwide received 10,667 abuse claims since 1950, according to the news release. Of those, claims by 6,700 were substantiated. Another 3,300 were not investigated because the accused clergymen were dead.
Ten years ago, Jiang Quisheng dreamed of being a professor in the university. Now he devotes himself to another calling."Now I am a dissident, an activist," he stated. Jiang's dreams were changed by his times, in what he saw when he protested in Tiananmen Square a decade ago, by what he came to rely on the aftermath. He and also other students hoped for democracy -- hope that resulted in massacre. Thousands may have been killed. To this day, no one knows for sure.CHINA : Decade A F T E R T I A N A N M E N> An Interactive Help guide Modern China and the Massacre in Tiananmen Square.Jiang felt the sting of authoritarian anger for joining the demonstrations. He's got been in and out of jail since then, a man always looking over his shoulder. He is routinely among the first to be put together by police when Americans politicians like President Clinton come to town, even though they don't even try to meet dissidents. Jiang thinks that they should. "While they devote many of their time to meet with Chinese officials, (the Americans) can spare efforts and meet our dissidents," he was quoted saying. CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen returned to Tiananmen Square with Jiang to consider ten years ago. They filmed with the amateur camera, so they wouldn't tip off the authorities. Jiang was relaxed, even if approached by a nosy policeman. "I have told him you're enjoying the very beautiful night," Jiang explained, after the policemen left. Jiang is a small man with dreams sufficient to take on Mao, whose imposing picture hangs once again over Tiananmen Square. Does he think your day will come when that picture will be replaced by the statue of freedom? "Of course, obviously," he said, motioning towards Mao's image. "That could be the symbol of dictatorship."But in today's China, students want dollars, not democracy. Money, not morality, drives this new generation. That will not stoJiang, who has devoted his life to changing China and to keeping the spirit of Tiananmen alive.His dreams remain clear: "More freedom. More democracy." Does he think there will be another push for democracy in China?"If the dictators don't change their fundamental principles, even gradually, I think you will see another Tiananmen Square movement," he was quoted saying. Nobody knows where Jiang Quisheng is today. He's got been arrested. His crime: advocating those Chinese who wish to commemorate the massacre at Tiananmen Square light a candle in their own homes. He could be shipped to a labor camp for three years without benefit of an effort. But as he told CBS News, he well is aware that in China, a dissident's life's a very dangerous life. "It is extremely likely for me to be jailed, but I'm not afraid ofthat result," he was quoted saying at the time.Jiang Quisheng considers free speech one among his basic human rights. Whilst the CBS interview has not been cited being a reason for his arrest, it may be used against him. However, he very much wanted his story told. His resolve isn't doubt undimmed, even today, when he must look at his dream of democracy through the bars of an jail cell. After a six year have trouble with consumer advocates the FDA is considering an alteration to existing nutrition labels to incorporate grams of trans fat per serving, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin.For Jean Walsh, reading labels can be a matter of life and death. Avoiding fat is important to her health after surviving quintuple bypass surgery."The best way you can really find out is usually to read the box," she says.But, nutritional labels don't say anything about trans fat, a component doctors say is deadly. Consumer advocates think of it as the phantom fat because most people have never heard of it and not found on product labels."Right now food labels only show one kind of artery clogging fat, saturated fat, but they don't give consumers any information about the other type of heart damaging fat-trans fat," says Margo Wootan from the Centers for Science inside the Public Interest.Trans fat is made when vegetable oil is solidified to ensure that foods. Doctors say it carries a similar effect in the arteries, clogging them up, and raising cholesterol. Studies indicate that eating trans fat increases LDL-cholesterol, often called "bad cholesterol," which boosts the risk of heart disease. At the same time, it lessens the amount of HDL -- the "good cholesterol" which is good for the heart."We estimate which more than 30,000 deaths from coronary disease could be avoided each year if trans fats were eliminated," says Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard University's School of Public Health.However, eliminating trans fats is tough because they are found in almost any processed food with the grocery store. They are included in sets from low cholesterol margerines and whole fiber crackers to cookies and cakes and frozen french-fried potatoes. "Its horrendous...I mean you know I do think you should be aware of that kind in particular when its worse than saturated fat," says Jean.If the proposal switches into effect next year, an asterisk on food labels would indicate that trans fat is roofed, with a footnote telling consumers the amount of grams are in each serving. Food manufacturers are worried the change offers up a recipe for confusion.However for heart disease patients like Jean Walsh making healthy choices would have been a little easier.
After a seven-year journey, a NASA space capsule returned safely to Earth on Sunday with the first dust ever fetched coming from a comet, a cosmic bounty that scientists hope will yield clues to how the solar system formed.The capsule's blazing plunge with the atmosphere lit up parts of the western sky as it capped a mission the location where the Stardust spacecraft swooped past a comet known as Wild 2."This isn't finish line. This is just the intermediate pit stop," said project manager Tom Duxbury with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which managed the $212 million mission.About a million comet and interstellar dust particles — most small compared to the width of a real hair — are believed to be inside a sealed canister.The particles can be pristine leftovers from the birth in the solar system about 4.5 billion in years past, reports CBS News correspondent Tony Guida. Some samples could be even older than the sun.The subsequent stop for the capsule is the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where scientists will unlock its canister in a few days. After a preliminary examination, they're going to ship the particles to laboratories all over the world for further study to analyze their composition."Inside this thing is our treasure," said principal mission scientist Don Brownlee in the University of Washington.Stardust's successful return was welcome news for the space agency, which suffered a setback in 2004 when its Genesis space probe carrying solar wind atoms crashed in the same Utah salt flats and cracked open after its parachutes still did not deploy.After the Genesis mishap, engineers rechecked Stardust's systems. Duxbury said its return home went "like clockwork."Early Sunday, the Stardust mothership released the shuttlecock-shaped capsule, which plunged from the atmosphere at 29,000 mph.The first parachute unfurled at 100,000 feet, accompanied by a larger chute, which guided the capsule with a 10-mph landing at Dugway Proving Ground. There were a tense moment in mission control when engineers could not immediately confirm the first parachute had opened. no previous page next 1/2 mulberry somerset satchel One of the Sunni Arabs appointed to a committee to draft Iraq's constitution was assassinated Tuesday inside a drive-by shooting, an Iraqi official said.Mijbil Issa was gunned down, in addition to two bodyguards, in the Karradah area of Baghdad, according to Mohammed Abed-Rabbou, a Sunni member of the drafting committee.Issa was among 15 Sunnis named recently to a committee charged with drafting a whole new constitution by Aug. 15. The Sunnis were added an attempt to reach out to the religious community that provides the heart of the insurgency.However, two Sunni committee members had already quit because of threats from the insurgents who oppose the U.S.-backed, Shiite dominated government.The attack occurred because the committee drafting the constitution was holding a conference at Baghdad's Convention Center on the edge of the heavily fortified Green Zone, the place to find the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government offices. The meeting was immediately adjourned once the head of the commission Humam Hammoudi got good news, Kurdish member Mahmoud Othman said.In other developments:On Monday, gunmen killed a minimum of 24 police, soldiers and government workers in Iraq in a series of smallscale ambushes and shootings. Suicide bombings had killed 22 people the embattled capital the day before.A brand new security offensive in Baghdad has captured about 50 suspected insurgents, including two Syrians, in their first few days, an Iraqi general told the Associated Press on Monday. Speaking under condition of anonymity for security reasons, he explained Operation Thunder began a week ago on the west side from the Tigris River, which divides the city.In northern Kirkuk, a roadside bomb hit a police patrol Tuesday morning, killing law enforcement and a civilian, according to police Brig. Sarad Qadir. Another four people, including two officers, were injured, he explained.A senior Turkish general said on Tuesday the U.S. has ordered the arrest of top Kurdish rebels commanders in Iraq. Turkey may be demanding that Iraq and the U.S. take stronger measures to prevent Turkish Kurdish guerrillas based in Iraq from crossing into Turkey.In Baghdad, doctors and staff at Yarmouk Hospital held a strike to protest mistreatment with the Iraqi military. On Monday night, Iraqi soldiers shouted at doctors inside hospital, with one opening fire within the emergency room, said Dr. Muhannad Jawad. no previous page next 1/2
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