Plan to Put Kids to Work Filled With Promise, Peril

WASHINGTON Barraka Baber is a 12th-grader in Saginaw, Mich., whohas spent the last three summers in federally funded jobs, working asa student aide and a park helper.

"The summer jobs helped me stay out of trouble, kept me on astraight line and helped me with my financial problems, too," Babersaid. "Sometimes I sit back and wonder where I would be without it.Would I be in jail? Would I have a child? Or would I be on my wayto college like I am now?"

But Marvin Turner, a job training advocate who has run Saginaw'ssummer jobs program for 25 years, is not so sure that all of themoney President Clinton is seeking will produce similar results.Kids like Baber, he said, …

Guerrero bows out of Maidana fight with injury

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Robert Guerrero pulled out of his upcoming WBA super lightweight title fight against Marcos Maidana on Thursday after injuring his left shoulder during training.

Guerrero hurt the shoulder while sparring at his training site in Big Bear on Wednesday but initially hoped he'd be able to recover in time for the Aug. 27 fight in San Jose, near where he was born in Gilroy.

But the injury was worse on Thursday morning and he had to pull out of the fight.

"It was numb and he couldn't move it at all. They iced it. They were hoping it was going to get better overnight. It did not. It got worse," Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said. "He …

Hundreds of Paris flights canceled Tuesday

Hundreds of flights at Paris' two main airports will be canceled Tuesday at the start of a four-day strike by air traffic controllers, the French civil aviation authority said.

The DGAC aviation authority ordered airlines to cancel 50 percent of flights at Orly and 25 percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle.

French carrier Air France said it would maintain all of its long-haul flights during the strike, with the protest movement affecting only its routes within France and Europe.

The Union of French Airports said Monday that some airports in provincial cities, including Pau, Biarritz, Grenoble, La Rochelle and Chambery, …

Kyoto accord alarmists misguided, dangerous

The temperature still hasn't reached 90 degrees in Chicago thissummer-a phenomenon not seen since 1916. And the weather is sopleasant in many other areas of the country this summer that talk ofthe dreaded global warming phenomenon has fallen by the wayside.

Even the Clinton-Gore administration is taking a decidedlysheepish approach to one of its favorite international environmentalvehicles, the Kyoto Protocol.

Drafted at a 1997 conference, the Kyoto Protocol is intended toreduce man-made emissions of heat-trapping "greenhouse gases," suchas carbon dioxide produced by burning coal and oil. The agreementcalls for the United States to cut carbon dioxide emissions by …

WASHINGTON UPDATE

Nanotechnology Forges Ahead with Government Support

Last November, the Senate unanimously passed a version of the longawaited Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (S. 189) that will allocate $3.7 billion over the next four years for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI; CEP, Nov. 2003, p. S18). The bill now goes to the President, who is expected to sign it. With S. 189, Congress will mobilize cross-disciplinary research across many federal agencies, while establishing a series of coordination offices and advisory committees to ensure that information regarding nanotechnology is shared.

Similar initiatives in Europe evidence consistent regulatory support and a …

Oswalt wins again, leads Astros to 6-0 win

Roy Oswalt threw his second straight complete-game shutout and set a Houston record for consecutive scoreless innings, helping the surging Astros beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 Thursday night for their 14th win in 15 games.

Houston was 66-66 and 11 games back of Milwaukee, the NL wild-card leader, before the surge began Aug, 27. The latest win closed the Astros within three games of the Brewers, who lost 6-3 at Philadelphia.

It's uncertain when the Astros will play again. The first two games of their weekend series against the Chicago Cubs were postponed and Sunday's matchup could be next with Hurricane Ike closing in on Texas.

Oswalt (15-9) hasn't …

Insurance group says Cadillac Escalade SUV is most likely to be stolen

ARLINGTON, Va. - The blinged-out Cadillac Escalade SUV, afavorite of A-listers like Tiger Woods, is once again the vehiclevoted most likely to be stolen, according to an insurance industrygroup.

The F-250 crew cab pickup, Infiniti G37 luxury sedan, DodgeCharger with its high-power HEMI engine and Chevrolet Corvette Z06round out the list of the top five vehicles most likely to be thesubject of insurance theft claims. Least likely targets of thievesare family vehicles like the Volvo S80, Saturn Vue and NissanMurano, Honda Pilot and Subaru Impreza.

The Highway Loss Data Institute, which is part of the Arlington-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, calculated …