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The United Way's First Call for Help, an emergency service telephone line, reports no big wave of anguished welfare recipients calling. •_NN The NYSE's current audit committee membership standards would be enhanced by requiring that directors'_POS fees be the only form of compensation that members receive from the company. Last August, Fossett set a solo balloonist duration record, flying for 12 days, 12 hours and 57 minutes before ditching on a cattle ranch in Brazil. •_NN Growing Home, St._NNP Paul, elected Tana Vanderbilt, family court resource attorney at the Children's Law Office of the University of South Carolina Law School, to its board of directors. The laws are designed to increase coordination and the ease of response among state and local agencies and the allocation of funding for training, equipment and upgrading capabilities of hazardous materials emergency response teams. Participants in startribune.com bulletin board discussions may not upload any copyrighted material (including photographs, video, animation, text, software programs, graphics or sound files) without the express written permission of any copyright owner or the owner's agent. He based his findings on a number of studies of state death penalty cases. One death penalty advocacy group quickly attacked the decision. TOM WALLACE STAR TRIBUNE Critics say voucher systems drain money from public schools and end up supporting religious education. SAN FRANCISCO -- Shipping companies and West Coast dock workers negotiated through a Monday afternoon contract expiration deadline and both sides repeated promises not to force an immediate labor disruption. Anton Maag, chief of the air traffic control tower in Zurich, said the air traffic controller -_NN described as a very experienced member of staff -_NN gave the first descent order to the Russian plane about two minutes before the collision. It was equipped with a traffic collision avoidance system and had been subject to regular inspections and maintenance like all the company's planes, he said. To trigger an election, organizers need about half of the flight attendants to sign election authorization cards. Last August, Fossett set a solo balloonist duration record, flying for 12 days, 12 hours and 57 minutes before ditching on a cattle ranch in Brazil. The pilot of the DHL jet apparently sent the plane into a dive after the Boeing's automated crash avoidance warning system alerted him to the danger of the collision about 25 seconds beforehand. home health care market. Ford's "We Will Rock You" program offers cash rebates of as much as $_SYM3,000 and financing as low as zero percent on some vehicles. The company offers business loans, home equity loans and domestic and international credit protection. France's chief stock market regulator also told French radio he had "no reason to think" that Vivendi risked bankruptcy and he downplayed concerns about the firm's accounting practices. Joshua Colburn, the undergraduate student body president, said that posting the pictures on the Web site was a good idea and that he hopes the plan works, though he doesn't agree with the "Most Wanted" tag. As required, he submitted forms to the county community services department that showed no changes in his income, assets or household status. The new "more comfortable and inviting" decor features earth tones, tiled floors and subtler wallpaper -- an option Subway is encouraging its franchisees to explore, he said. The six-story Benz building is next to the county law enforcement building under construction. ZURICH, SWITZERLAND -- A collision-warning system at a Zurich air traffic control center was out of service when two planes being guided by the facility collided over southern Germany, killing 71 people, Swiss officials said Wednesday. Also, in what Anto Maag, air traffic control chief at Zurich airport, said was a violation of regulations, only one air traffic controller was on duty when the anti-collision system was down. Last year, an Algerian trained in terrorist camps financed by Osama bin Laden was convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport at the height of the millennium holiday travel period. More recently, it was the pope's decision, Navarro-Valls said, to accept the request of America's cardinals to come to Rome for two days of discussions on the priest sex abuse scandals. The congregation supports member missionaries in the United Kingdom, Kenya and South Africa. Local co-ops and filling stations will lose thousands of dollars in ag-related business, said Mike Lockhart of the farm business management program at Northland Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls. After two years of having a silent barn, Shimpa thought it was good to hear the familiar sounds of cows mooing again, milk swishing into a tank and the feed store delivery truck pulling into the yard. The sum of the reports is that the cells -- now called multipotent adult progenitor cells or MAPCs -- functioned in laboratory experiments as all of the body's major tissue types. Should I choose Plan A and take out a term life insurance policy to take care of my wife if I die first? First, you must subtract the cost of the life insurance policy premium from the difference between 80 percent (Plan A) and 62 percent (Plan C). If a cable operator wants to add more services such as voice, it will need a product such as ADC's Cuda, a cable modem termination system (CMTS) that allows two-way communication between the network and the consumer's cable modem, Mamelak said. Until one or more venture capital funds hang out their respective shingles indicating that they will invest in biotech companies and do so early on with regularity, Minnesota stands to lose jobs and an enhanced tax base to states mainly on the coasts where biotech venture capital funds with very deep pockets are ready to take calculated risks. (Yes, the compensation programs for venture capital fund managers are indeed attractive.) It increases wireless network coverage inside buildings and other dense areas. Dennis Topp, assistant area fisheries supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Baudette, said dead fish first started showing up as early as June 27. Kyndell Harkness STAR TRIBUNE Health care spending in Minnesota increased 6.3 percent per year between 1991 and 1998, the most recent period for which data are available, according to an analysis to be published in today's edition of Health Affairs, a health care policy journal. The main sources of harmful bacteria are manure that washes into streams from feedlots or fields and human waste from 65,000 people whose septic systems or community sewage treatment plants are inadequate, the study said. Hatch issued 17 proposals that he said would heighten corporate accountability, including term limits for auditors and boards of directors and a ban on executives and board members selling stock in their companies until after they have left the firms. Steve Dolan, an insurance claims service owner from St._NNP Paul, has said he also plans to run in the DFL primary. Trooper Scott Trautner found two open beer cans in Sherman's car and gave him a breath test, which indicated that he had a 0.16 percent blood alcohol level, above the legal limit of 0.10. The House approved two tax breaks for military personnel: One makes payments for those killed while serving tax-free, and the other ensures that service members will not lose out on capital gains tax relief on home sales. Viren Mehta of Mehta Partners, a health care investment firm in New York City, estimated that the three drugs account for about 20 percent of Wyeth's market value, and said he thinks most of the sales of Prempro, which is a combination of estrogen and progestin, could be lost. Another focal point might be stock sales worth hundreds of millions of dollars made by top Qwest executives, including Joseph Nacchio, Qwest's former chairman and CEO. About 49 percent of Minnesota's 595,000 seniors lack prescription drug coverage, according to the Minnesota Health Department. Police asked to interview Jennifer and Patrick Holey about the rape, and state child protection workers took their infant daughter, leading them to plan their suicides, prosecutors say. The people who attended the meeting tended to be more affluent, with 54 percent reporting household incomes of $_SYM75,000 and 36 percent over $_SYM100,000. The so-called "pirate" operations offer golf tickets and hospitality in the $_SYM20,000 to $_SYM90,000 range at off-site venues as close to the course as possible, but don't have access to PGA merchandise or other official perks. Anne Walther of Finders Keepers, the estate sale management company handling the sale, said a tie with Hubert Humphrey's initials would go for $_SYM25. Meanwhile, Sun Country's cutbacks and the passing of the busy winter charter season have prompted the MAC to stop using three of the terminal's eight gates and to stop building two more gates. Early in the day, Bush talked about the need for the prescription drug benefit proposal now in the House, but the marquee event of his daylong trip was a packed fundraising rally at Minneapolis'_POS Target Center. President George Bush speaks about perscription drugs at the Hyatt Regency BRIAN PETERSON STAR TRIBUNE Confrontation over the president BRIAN PETERSON STAR TRIBUNE BRIAN PETERSON STAR TRIBUNE Searching for clues JERRY HOLT STAR TRIBUNE Odometer fraud costs owners $_SYM1.1 billion annually, compared with the $_SYM2.9 billion lost on stolen autos in 2000, the study found. White House health care policy adviser Mark McClellan said after the speech that the administration is concerned about Democratic proposals in the Senate that would allow Medicare to decide which medications would be covered based on cost and effectiveness. Regulators gathered documents about Bush and Harken when they conducted an insider stock trading investigation of Bush's sale of company stock. Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) officials are urging businesses and residents affected by flooding in northwestern Minnesota to visit disaster recovery centers to seek assistance before most offices are shut down Saturday. Senate elections, gaining the 5 percent vote needed to qualify the party for major status, and with it, ballot access and state campaign finance subsidies. I do have some retirement dollars just sitting in a money market fund right now, and I haven't yet decided to plunge them into the market." A Basilica rock block TOM SWEENEY STAR TRIBUNE Sales and motor vehicle sales tax receipts were up slightly, but corporate taxes stayed flat. He noted that the Republican campaign opener included no mention of legislation to control prescription drug prices or safeguard consumer privacy. A report issued Thursday by Democracy 21, a campaign finance advocacy group, found that corporations gave $_SYM636 million in soft-money contributions to Republicans during the past decade, but they also gave $_SYM449 million to Democrats during that time. JERRY HOLT STAR TRIBUNE Evolving medicine for horses reflects not only the broadening of veterinary science but also changes in the way society views horses. JERRY HOLT STAR TRIBUNE -_NN -_NN A drunken driver crashed his car into the air traffic control tower at the Fargo airport early Saturday, authorities said. The company, however, does offer variable annuity products that put an insurance wrapper around existing mutual funds from other companies. Classes made enough profit to begin drawing college scholarship money from the fund. "At first blush, I find it hard to imagine how housing pandas under the same roof with showgirls and blackjack tables furthers panda conservation," said Ginette Hemley, vice president for species conservation at the World Wildlife Fund. Rep._NNP Jim Davis and state house minority leader, Lois Frankel, also quit. Gutierrez forced his way past a contract food service employee and escaped from the jail on May 16. Al Fields, the mayor's deputy chief operations officer who is overseeing demolition, said Kilpatrick's ambitions had been frustrated by a bureaucracy in which permits and inspections were spread over four agencies and by a limited budget. Each room at the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados has a 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV screen guests can use to roam the Web. Also, most districts offer school choice anyway. -_NN Prohibit corporate officers from engaging in insider trades during pension fund blackout periods. Led by Tim Pawlenty, they arrived in the club cab of lieutenant governor candidate Carol Molnau's 4x4 farm pickup truck. For all the buildup, in the end law enforcement officials said the Lindh case was too insignificant to be worth a protracted courtroom battle. The lawsuit was brought initially by Mark Breimhorst, who has no hands and requested extra time to take ETS's business school admissions test, the GMAT. Charlie Weaver, Minnesota's public safety commissioner and state homeland security director, hailed the plan as an important first step toward a complex terror-fighting partnership of federal, state and local governments, and the private sector. The $_SYM2 billion improvement plan includes local, regional and state road projects as well as transit projects, bikeways, walkways and air quality improvement projects that have been proposed for federal funding. The Schoonover ad shares body space with a Target bull's-eye on players'_POS chests, a Northwest Airlines moniker on the sleeve and a Soccer USA logo on the back of jerseys, under the numbers. The stock had declined by nearly 11 percent since March, while the Standard &_CC Poor's health care equipment index was down more than 22 percent in that time. But Kelly, who has criticized Hatch as a publicity hound more interested in advancing his interests than the public's, said Wednesday that Hatch has done nothing to stem a health care cost spiral of 10 percent to 20 percent a year. St._NNP Paul City Council members Wednesday recorded the final out in efforts to put a baseball stadium financing plan before city voters. In many ways, adult and child day programs offer similar services at opposite ends of the age spectrum. Karls was transported Thursday to in-patient chemical dependency treatment in the Twin Cities. Until that happens, many politicians will continue to place the economic interests of their timber industry campaign contributors ahead of public safety and ecology. While working at the graduate business career center, Dickerson watched Arthur Andersen's demise unfold on CNN because he said the accounting firm was a "big player" in the business world and that what transpired would hold vast importance. The company is conducting trials for the use of Xyrem to combat daytime sleepiness symptoms, as well, and Ellis said that could be an additional $_SYM200 million market. And they, along with millions of other elderly or disabled Americans, are watching the debate in Congress with fingers crossed, hoping this will be the year that Medicare starts offering prescription drug coverage. In 1997, Gladys Aalgaard paid $_SYM149.95 a month for a Medicare HMO plan that included 80 percent prescription drug coverage. -- Fred Gray Sr._NNP, who defended Rosa Parks in her landmark bus segregation case and represented victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, has broken another racial barrier at 71: He is the first black president of the Alabama bar. "The recordings allow the conclusion that members of both planes'_POS crews saw the other aircraft a few seconds before the crash and attempted to avoid the collision with appropriate maneuvers," said Friday's statement from the German air accident investigation agency. Earlier this year, NCS's government solutions division won a $_SYM103.4 million contract to screen and qualify 30,000 federal airport baggage security checkers. At the Hennepin Avenue Block Party on Friday night, the '_POS80s spoof metal band Hairball got the crowd at the main stage warmed up for Kansas. The House passed a 10-year, $_SYM320 billion prescription drug benefit package in June. Agency for International Development, that subsidize nonprofit relief agencies operating population programs Bush favors. Similarly, new managed funds are being added because index fund asset growth has slowed with the decline of the S&P 500 index. Even if the bear market ends tomorrow and stocks begin to rise at 7 percent a year, their historical average return, the S&P 500 will not hit a new high until 2011. World Food Program officials estimate that the number of Liberians seeking refuge in camps within Liberia has now topped 100,000. Orbitz said its software will save corporations as much as 75 percent on air travel transaction fees, which typically cost $_SYM30 to $_SYM60 per trip. In 1998, she won a seat in the Legislature, where she sponsored repeal of the vehicle emissions testing program and worked to limit runway lengths at minor airports. Although the new regulations will grant engineers wide latitude for design solutions, the new greenhouse gas emission standards for California will affect drivers nationwide. Minnesota mothballed its vehicle emissions testing program in late 1999. Davis sat on the fence during the debates and lobbying campaigns of the spring and summer, which saw an advertising blitz by the auto and oil industries warning consumers that the faceless bureaucrats were going to take away their SUVs. ``My colleagues in the young adult library services association certainly would recommend it for library young adult collections. Illinois members fight diesel emissions rule CEO Jim Bullock projected a loss of $_SYM3 million for the third quarter, compared with a $_SYM1.9 million loss in the second, as the company reorganizes its sales force to focus more on its disposable catheters used in mapping heart rhythm abnormalities. George Gutierrez was awaiting sentencing for federal drug and firearms crimes when he forced his way past a contract food service employee and escaped May 16, authorities said. George Gutierrez was awaiting sentencing for federal drug and firearms crimes when he forced his way past a contract food service employee and escaped May 16, authorities said. While dividends might be taxed at up to 40 percent, buying back an investor's stock tends to raise the price of the shares, but means that the investor who sells back to the company pays tax only on the difference between the buying and selling price, and generally at a lower capital gains tax rate. NEW YORK -- Forcing companies to expense employee stock options would have taken a huge bite out of corporate profits last year, according to a new report from Bear Stearns Cos._NNPS JERRY HOLT STAR TRIBUNE She said she wanted to sell her holdings of EMC, a computer hardware storage company, when her investment of $_SYM1,500 had risen to $_SYM25,000, but her broker advised against it. Stringer, 67, will chair the Minneapolis firm's alternative dispute resolution practice. Here's a new twist on summer church mission trips: a group from Mexico has come here to do mission work. Glenn Karwoski, spokesman for Martin/Williams, said spending for the pet supplies catalog retailer's advertising has not been set. Hypothermia begins to set in when core body temperature drops to around 95 degrees. Albertville; Big Lake; Lakeville; Hudson, Wis._NNP; Jordan; Rockford; Otsego; St._NNP Michael, and Eden Prairie had 6 percent to 8 percent of their households drawing retirement income. I was trying to confirm that someone in his office had turned down mountain bike race contestant Troy Melhus ' request for an autographed photo of Ryder. Chris Stringer 15, and DeMarcus McCoy, 16, members of the Fairview Park milk carton boat team, watch the dragon boat from Nokomis Park. •_NN Among the seven M&A transactions completed by Goldsmith Agio Helms, three were health care-related, including two deals for Allina Hospitals and Clinics, which sold a couple of home health care business units to Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, a privately held home-care business based in Edina. DUANE BRALEY STAR TRIBUNE Minnesota's highest ranking, 8th, went to Augustine Medical, a private Eden Prairie company whose products control patient temperatures during surgery. Multi-Tech Systems, a privately held data communications technology company based in Mounds View, ranked 45th. Scott Roberts, the head of the mineral resource management division of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said he wasn't aware of Jashienski's claim but said it sounded valid. The fuel for the uncertainty is Qwest's announcement Sunday that it will revise its financial results from 1999 through 2001 by more than $_SYM1 billion, as well as doubts about its financial outlook and unanswered questions over whether it will be able to sell its yellow pages directory business. About 1,500 three-peaters were arrested in connection with the offense in 1999, the most recent year for which figures have been compiled, said Kathryn Swanson, state traffic safety director. Drunken drivers will begin their terms with processing and evaluation at the St._NNP Cloud prison, Benson said, then most will be sent to the Faribault minimum/medium-security prison, which has a work-release unit and a chemical dependency treatment program for up to 50 inmates. Sen._NNP Paul Wellstone, D-Minn._NNP, several members of the Automotive Service Association and other independent auto repair shop owners joined Feste at a hearing before a Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer affairs. The biannual job vacancy survey queries 7,600 employers in the state. Connecting Point, a technology certification training school, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 24 under the name Invision of Duluth. "By divesting the food service distribution business, we can now focus our full attention on food manufacturing and build on our expertise in grain-based foods," said Gary Costley, Multifoods chairman and CEO. "This is the way consumer fraud law is supposed to work," said George Ludcke, who is representing Cambria. As a voting member of the state's Board of Investment, Moe said he would set accountability standards for companies before investing pension fund money into their stocks. •_NN Simacor, a Plymouth-based technology consulting services firm, has opened a training facility. Premium beluga caviar costs twice that much. Meantime, the board said Wednesday it will consider at a meeting on Aug._NNP 7 whether to standardize rules on how companies that volunteer to expense employee stock options switch to the new accounting method. LecTec Corp._NNP (LECT) Makes over-the-counter topical drug delivery patch products. Thompson praised the child health care enrollment initiative, saying the resources to cover them are available and should be used. Strike hits flag carrier: Australia's aviation industry was thrown into turmoil Friday after 6,000 Qantas workers started a 12-hour strike to press their demands for better pay. The new law allows the government to spend an unspecified amount of money to expand government loan repayment programs for nurses to provide scholarships for students. Seven field conservation officer positions will be left vacant. BOSTON -- Cardinal Bernard Law, testifying for the first time in open court since a priest sex abuse scandal rocked his archdiocese, insisted Friday that an announced $_SYM30 million settlement with alleged victims was never finalized. Two state agencies have sued ValAdCo, the large hog-raising cooperative in Renville County, alleging that it has violated state air pollution standards hundreds of times since 1999. •_NN Thursday: Labor Department reports producer price index for July. I was working at the sociology department reference desk in the late 1980s when who should come up to the desk but singer Pearl Bailey. •_NN Among the six regional counting areas (Aitkin-Crow Wing, Becker, Cook/Lake, Itasca, Kandiyohi and Ottertail) the likelihood of seeing a loon is greatest in Itasca, where a 69-76 percent occupancy rate is noted. In it, he delivered a message previously left to underlings: He will veto any homeland security department bill that does not give him broad power to hire and fire, and change job assignments within the new Cabinet agency. Donald was one of the first women sanitation truck drivers in Chicago and was a business owner, relatives said. Among the more controversial is his receipt of more than $_SYM52,000 from drugmakers with a big stake in the shape of any prescription drug benefit program for the nation's seniors. Wearing a net veil, bride-to-be Jeanelle Soland, 24, offers strangers blow pops, condoms and life savers from a giant bouquet. "We have an image of just being cows and corn, but we want to change that image to show we have technology, the performing arts and woodworking" to name a few, said Jon Ruppert, 18, of Robbinsdale, Minnesota's 4-H ambassador and state tech club president. She had worked as a community crime prevention officer before switching to the public housing patrol in February. In response to delays, Bloomington extended a 1987 agreement, diverting some future mall property taxes from the public treasury to the pockets of investors who lent the money to build the existing mall and who are financing the expansion. Memphis has always been a multicultural city, but we haven't necessarily been a multilingual city,''_POS said Shelby Mallory of The Work Place, a nonprofit work force development organization for prospective Hispanic workers. The team had reported earlier that it had discovered a promising new type of stem cell -- called multipotent adult progenitor cells or MAPC -- in bone marrow. Spring wheat harvest progress was at 12 percent compared with 13 percent for the five-year average. That argument was embraced Tuesday by members of the MAC's Planning and Environment Committee, but Himle's blue-ribbon panel drew sharp criticism from two members of an airport noise advisory group that collapsed on Halloween of 2000. When Congress created the fund in September as part of an airline industry bailout package, officials hoped that it would offer an alternative to litigation. Very concentrated congestion and several disabled vehicles greeted early morning rush hour commuters today. The consortium, known as the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, originally promised to build the two reactors by 2003. Anne Dugan, community programs project assistant for WoW, said the program's goal is to build relationships with the community and to promote art and art education. Instead, Congress told the Energy Department to help the chemical-exposed workers file claims under state worker compensation systems. Under the plan developed by Gill Miller Inc._NNP, a golf course architecture firm based in River Falls, Wis._NNP, the upgraded course will feature 13 new holes, and will have larger greens, more bunkers and nine connected ponds. Supreme Court declines to review child porn law Minnetonka-based Identix makes face-recognition and fingerprint biometrics security products. Frank Tait, vice president of marketing for the DecisionOne, a privately held company that provides information technology support services, said his company expected to employ the "vast majority" of those workers. Imation said the deal would allow it to focus on its removable data storage product business. A quarter of the vehicles also will be recalled for a separate problem with the underhood fuel supply line, which may rub against the air conditioning service port. Star Tribune Editor Anders Gyllenhaal defended the records requests as "consistent with state data practices laws that provide access to public information." "One of our big initiatives is to prevent identity theft and fraud," said Pat McCormick, state driver services program director. The typical homeowner also would see city utility fees rise by $_SYM42, or about 6 percent. The booklet is available at state license examination stations and via the Internet at: http://www.dps.state.mn.us/trafsafe. For that reason, Greenbaum and partner Brian Spindel not only gave Francis franchise rights to Minnesota and Wisconsin, but also named him to their eight-person franchise advisory council and the company's strategic planning committee. She encountered what health care officials fear is a growing crisis in Minnesota. You can visit the animal adoption advocacy agency online at http://www.mvhspets.org and see the dogs, cats, bunnies and hamsters waiting to be adopted. The IEL's electrodes form screen images line by line, relying on the phosphors'_POS glow to sustain the picture until being refreshed with another electrical charge. Cedillo said he had just taken the written test when, over his protests, a state driver and vehicle services license clerk at the Midway office seized his passport after wrongly pronouncing it fraudulent. A number of law enforcement task forces involved in the crackdown are searching for similarities in the convenience stores'_POS financial practices and money transfer methods to determine if their activities are centrally directed. Those included its development of VX, a deadly chemical weapons nerve agent; its missile production capabilities, and many remaining question marks about its biological weapons program. Mike McCormick, air traffic control manager at the New York Center -_NN the main control center for the area -_NN made the unprecedented decision at 9:04 a.m._RB to declare ``ATC Zero,''_POS meaning that no aircraft could fly into, out of or through the airspace over New York and the western Atlantic. &T said Qwest is legally forbidden to make service sales in Minnesota because that would mean it is still in the long-distance business here, said Tom Pelto, AT&T regional government affairs vice president. The new forecasts helped send corn, soybean and spring wheat futures prices sharply higher Monday, which means more money for crop farmers but higher expenses for livestock producers, food companies, ethanol plants and other processors of farm crops, and potentially higher food prices for consumers. "It's kind of worrisome that something this dramatic can happen" with no apparent prior contact with county child protection workers, Sanders said. Other methods proposed to make ends meet include about $_SYM1.5 million in department cuts, a $_SYM1.9 million payment for old water pollution abatement bonds financed by the city and increased license and permit fees. But the board maintains that buying and renovating the building at an estimated cost of more than $_SYM4.6 million will be cheaper than continuing to rent office space downtown. •_NN Biana Ward of Hugo, of Person to Person, a senior at the University of Minnesota who taught an immigrant woman English and daily living skills and created an instructional video for adult English as a Second Language students as part of a service learning class project. Other companies supply donor tissue, and sometimes patients'_POS own tissue can be used. Nov._NNP 26, 2001: Minnesota knee surgery moratorium ends. Three housing advocacy groups plan to sue the Metropolitan Council and the city of Eagan today, alleging they've ignored a state law requiring them to plan housing for people with limited incomes. Two manufacturers of the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) agreed Thursday to pay $_SYM59 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in St._NNP Paul accusing them of price fixing. Thursday marked the second time this summer Moscow has been shrouded in smoke, but Viktor Sementin, an official with Russia's forest air defense service, said fires in the Moscow region were down to 46 from a peak of 137 earlier this summer. The village defense committee members can kill us and then say we were killed '_POSby our own people.' Recalling his son's final words in a parting cell phone conversation with his wife, Burnett said, "Today, we're going to do something." BMC continues to supply aperture masks for color TV picture tubes, but pricing and volumes in that business have declined as well, Hepper said. The St._NNP Paul plant, which has about 50 employees, primarily does custom precision parts production on a contract basis, and most of the operation was sold to a Massachusetts company in June. The solicitations resulted in 827 sales of group term life policies. Beliefnet.com offers access to hundreds of interactive discussion groups covering issues from animal rights to workplace spirituality. More than 40 complaints and lawsuits have been filed against Grubman by regulators, securities arbitrators or the courts, according to Grubman's securities industry employment record with the NASD. Its main job was to move railroad cars west to Staples and come back with cars headed east from Brainerd. A former deputy commissioner in the state's Department of Trade and Economic Development is accusing Commissioner Rebecca Yanisch and others in a lawsuit of wrongful termination, defamation and shredding documents that might show employee cell phone abuses. Yanisch said the shredding, which occurred a week before Burt's suit was filed, was unrelated to any dispute with Burt and was done in compliance with state document retention laws. -- The Pentagon on Aug._NNP 24 will conduct the seventh in a series of flight tests of a prototype interceptor rocket that may become part of a future missile defense system. Spencer says that running the tourist operation, and the gift shop offering candles, cups and playing cards bearing the Althorp name, is his full-time occupation. Materials are being distributed to all food vendors offering health and safety recommendations and urging them to look out for anything suspicious that might involve a terrorist attack. A Minneapolis police sergeant who was fired Friday for personally using a city parking validation system meant for crime victims called the punishment too severe Saturday. He foresees increased use of Star Office, an alternative office software suite from Sun Microsystems. They were identified as Sgt._NNP Robert Busuttil and Cpl._NNP John Gregory, both 30 and both assigned to a supply section of a combat service support battalion based in Wiltshire, England. By the time Goodwin graduated, she had a rehab engineer position waiting for her at Gillette Children's Hospital in St._NNP Paul. In a press release Monday, the wireless communication services provider said it determined that one of its derivative financial instruments doesn't qualify for hedge accounting treatment under one of the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards. Rural Cellular said that under its second-quarter phone service leasing plans, the cost of handsets were capitalized rather than expensed as cost of equipment sales. Fire Department officials also gave a letter of recognition to Joua Vang, a fire department support staff member, who volunteered to help translate a fire-safety video into Hmong. Defending the program from criticism that the loans could be seen as election year pork barrel politics, Steve Wenzel, the U.S. Such women are thought to have a lifetime breast cancer risk of 80 percent or more. In April, the Legislature passed a law creating an insurance fraud prevention unit within the Department of Commerce. ADC's cable modem termination system (CMTS) business accounts for about 15 percent of its sales but is growing, he said. The Minnesota News Council voted Thursday to dismiss five complaints by Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) officials about a March 15 Star Tribune report that questioned the propriety of state road construction contracts. Chris Ison, Star Tribune assistant managing editor for projects, said that reporting those concerns, which were contained in e-mails that are public records, was important because MnDOT annually OKs hundreds of millions of dollars in state transportation system contracts. Ison told the council that the newspaper report made clear that the criticisms of MnDOT practices came from Department of Administration officials whose job was to review state road contracts and that the report included extensive comments from MnDOT officials replying to the criticisms. Marsh emergency management coordinator Mark Weimerskirch helped General Motors develop a detailed crisis management plan over three years. In these vehicles, GM said, the air bag inflation device on the driver's side may break apart during inflation and "strike or injure the occupants." "I really see that housing as becoming future slum landlord housing," said Deb Wagner, a real-estate seller and a member of the Jordan neighborhood's housing committee. The tissue bank industry supplies cadaver tissue to doctors, who use it for a variety of medical procedures. "We will seek an indictment against Ward Weaver," Greg Horner, chief deputy district attorney for Clackamas County, said from the steps of the local courthouse. They also reported one road construction project today. But service is hobbled by music industry licensing restrictions. "We had between 50 to 70 percent tumor formation inhibition in the mice that were treated with caffeine or with EGCG," the other chemical compound, said Conney, senior author of a study appearing this week on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A settlement last May allowed the hospital to stay open, but it transferred management to a group led by Dennis Kamstra, a health care turnaround specialist in Cambridge, Minn._NNP The school has an aviation maintenance technology program and a fleet of more than 30 aircraft. postal inspectors and Secret Service agents from Minneapolis and San Francisco searched an Edina computer network equipment firm Wednesday as part of a fraud investigation. Two weeks ago, I noticed a much better selection of clearance patio furniture downtown than at other Targets. Bachir Dalati, co-owner of Sports Impressions, a booth selling novelty sports items, said his sales have gone up this year. A core group of 250 part-time, unionized food service employees work at the Metrodome. Boeing's final offer would have raised pensions by 20 percent by the third year of the contract and included no substantial changes to its job security contract language, inciting union leaders whose membership has been slashed by 25 percent since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks reduced demand for jetliners. The authority reviews citizen complaints against police and has been the focus of weeks of community meetings and much study. Cpl._NNP James Brickley, a crisis intervention team member, was in the squad car driven by officer Todd Lappegaard that forced Mornson off the road. -- The Bush administration is trying again to offer pharmacy discount cards for the elderly, but the program is being challenged in court and its future remains uncertain. JAMUL, Calif._NNP -_NN An alert campground security officer led authorities to a missing 9-year-old boy abducted earlier this week at gunpoint from his home. A worst-case scenario from a wildlife perspective would be if deer hunter numbers drop significantly this fall, said Johnson. officials said about 95 percent of the 70-odd page summit action plan had been agreed to by the nearly 200 countries attending -- a significant improvement from the 75 percent when negotiations began last weekend.