News
in a few
Workshop • A
group of 16 middle and high school science
and technology teachers are at Cal State
Long Beach this week taking part in an
ASM (American Society for Metals) Materials
Camp that is designed to help teachers
excite students about the subjects of
science, technology and engineering.
During this one-week workshop, teacher
participants will learn the basics of
materials science technology as taught
at the high school level.
Skills • Children and adults will have the opportunity
to learn the art of origami when the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden
hosts its annual Origami Festival from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Well-known
origamist Michael Ujin Sanders is among the experts who will share his
knowledge of this popular Japanese art.
Courts • Bernard Ebbers, who as CEO of WorldCom
oversaw the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history, was sentenced Wednesday
to 25 years in prison. The sentence was handed down by Judge Barbara Jones
of U.S. District Court in Manhattan three years after WorldCom collapsed
in an $11 billion accounting fraud, wiping out billions of investor dollars.
Position • President Bush said Wednesday he would
consider nominating a woman or someone with no experience as a judge to
replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. “We’re
considering all kinds of people — judges, non-judges,” Bush
said, adding he also is open to picking a woman — something Laura
Bush said she hoped he would do. Talking to reporters following a Cabinet
meeting, Bush declined to say when he would announce his decision and said
that if he knew when he would begin interviewing individuals he probably
wouldn’t say.
Accident • Three trains collided in a deadly chain
reaction in southern Pakistan after a train driver misread a signal early
Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and injuring hundreds in the country’s
worst crash in more than a decade, police and railway officials said.
Treatment • Interrogators subjected a suspected
terrorist to abusive and degrading treatment, forcing him to wear a bra,
dance with another man and behave like a dog, military investigators reported
Wednesday, saying that the abuse justified their call for disciplinary
action. They said they recommended Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller be reprimanded
for failing to oversee his interrogation of the 9-11 suspect at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. |
