European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 o stars a no q t r res March 29 2007 Page 17 educators push civics education Franklin l Macpherson cares so deeply about teaching civics that the 61yearold scottish immigrant turned himself into a Showan Tell project he arranged for a fed eral judge to perform his own citizenship Cere Mony in front of his fifth graders hoping to show what it Means to be an american citizen i wanted them to know what the experience is like Macpherson said Macpherson and other social studies teachers say they have to shoehorn civics lessons into their regular classes because Tennessee and most other states dont require civics to be taught separately since the Federal no child left behind Law was passed in 2002 schools have focused on Reading and math and that has squeezed out other subjects like arts music and civics educators say three More stores Settle in cites gun lawsuit new York three More gun shops have settled a lawsuit accusing them of Selling weapons that later fell into the hands of new York criminals City officials announced the shops in Marietta a Youngstown Ohio and North Myrtle Beach so were among 27 gun dealers sued by new York City last year As part of an unorthodox Legal Battle against the gun Industry City lawyers argued the shops failed to abide by rules aimed at preventing illegal sales known As Straw purchases which is when one person buys a weapon on be half of someone else twelve of the dealers have settled with the City each agreed to allow a Cit appointed inspector to Monitor future sales and provide extra training to store personnel managers and owners at the shops said financial considerations prompted their decision to Settle House fire kills 1 child injures 13 other people Richmond fire in a crowded House sent people climbing out windows to safety and killed one child and injured 13 other people fire officials said a 4yearold child was killed and two other children under 4 were critically injured fire department capt William Martin said the fire appeared to be accidental Martin said he said the Bunga Low had no smoke detectors there were conflicting accounts on the number of people in the Home fire department it Alfred Holmes had said there were 15 neighbor Margaret cousins said a woman came to her House after the fire broke out she was Yelling somebody help me with my children she just fell on me she was half burned cousins told the Rich mond time dispatch the House was quickly engulfed in flames Holmes said school begins requiring interviews of applicants Atlanta the Road from Boston to Morehouse american Roundup College inevitably goes through Sean Daughtry the 1993 graduate of the nations Only Al male historically Black College is president of the at Lanta schools alumni chapter in Boston and informally interviews boys hoping to become Morehouse men if you live in Boston and your son wants to go to Morehouse in going to hear from him said Daughtry a chemist the science of determining who is Morehouse material lies beyond a students resume Daughtry said while some cases Are obvious oth ers need a closer look Morehouse is expanding its admissions process to include inter views of All serious candidates the school says it wont make a decision on anyone until the prospective student has had a conversation with a school official or an Alum Nus who has been through recruit ment training group Hopes to revive Island Pihi populations Kail Akona a group of scientists and an offshore aquaculture businessman Are pro posing a two year project to re store Pihi populations by creating offshore farms for the Small Lim pets native to Hawaii the Pihi stocks have been depleted by Over harvesting with some saying the Mollusk is at risk of extinction state Law restricts Coldwater training fraternity members run into the Coralle Lake during the Polar plunge at West Overlook Beach in Iowa City Iowa the Benefit raises funds to support special olympics of Iowa the taking of Pihi but critics say the rules Are weak and Arent stopping stocks from declining Dale Sarver the presi Dent of deep Blue re search Lac a company r specializing in offshore aquaculture says some aspects of Pihi reproductive biology make the species a Good candidate for hatchery product i Tion in Large quantities Sarver and a group of biologists Hope to Breed Pihi on the Kona coast with the goal of boost ing populations to where the Mol Lusk May survive without human help Ewhite House staffer gets top snout award Hampton Falls former White House chief of staff John h Sununu has a new title hog wrangler Sununu and his wife Nancy recently were named to the honorary Post of Hampton Falls hog Reeve Complete with a Swearingin Cere Mony and a badge the Post which dates Back to the 1700s Means the couple Are responsible for round ing up any Loose pigs in town the title is usually Given to an unsuspecting newcomer each year the Sununu recently moved from Salem to Hampton Falls to be closer to relatives school to update signs indicating High voltage West due University will update warning signs at All High voltage areas including the one where the body of an electrocuted freshman was found the school said the University will bring the signs on older buildings to the new est standards for High voltage facilities school spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said buildings constructed or renovated after 1981 Are required to Post signs on doors of rooms con Taining More than 600 volts of electricity according to Federal safety codes Owen Hall the dormitory where the body of 19yearold Wade Steffey was found was built in 1957 retired City cop horses moved to Greener Fields new York when old new York City police horses retire you expect them to live out the rest of their Days in idyllic pastures under Loving care that didst seem to be happen ing with More than two dozen police horses living at an upstate ranch and after a Legal fight the City has now relocated them to bet Ter Homes the daily news said while some of the horses remain in upstate new York at a different stable others have earned the Good life in Pennsylvania and new Hampshire the City last year accused Breon is inc which was caring for roughly 30 mounted unit horses at its pasture in upstate Otisville of improperly caring for the animals lawyers for by sonics inc denied the charge claiming the City was shirking its responsibility in december the City and Breon is inc agreed to end the Legal fight which allowed the horses to be relocated thinking of you University of Texas at Austin Plant biology student Jian Yang makes a Call on his cell phone outside Sanfu too restaurant in Austin Texas morning meal Park in Enid okla a Duck searches for a morning catch in a Rushing Waterfall at government Springs meats for Sale various cuts of pork sit ready to be sold during the 64th annual future Farmers of America Ham Bacon and egg show and Sale at the Capitol in Charleston Eva open wide or Lavinia Hultgren a Large animal veterinarian examines a Ewe with an abscess on its jaw at drag Onwood farm near South Lebanon Ohio farm manager Steve Schnellen looks on skates up Brett Gustafson sails off the Edge of a ramp at the skateboard Park in Willmar Minn 1 it n v q Duchemin 22 right reacts As she is v v i Imp Luul Vic announced As the newest miss at the Bremerton performing arts Center in Bremerton Wash contestant Kay Anna Crowder watches cod pier fishing Anthony Lawrence of Watertown mass reads a Book As he fishes for cod at the end of a pier on Boston Harbor in Boston famous Brothel building burned for fire exercise Reno the last remain ing building on the grounds where the infamous Mustang ranch Brothel once stood has gone up in flames the 48room 20000squarefoot Structure known As the Mustang ranch n Annex was destroyed As part of a firefighting training exer Cise its out with the old and in with the new said a woman who goes by air Force Amy who once worked there the Day of the Roll in the Hay in a trailer is gone the building was the last at the former site of the Mustang ranch located just East of Reno the government padlocked the ranch in 1999 after years of tax problems in 2003 the government auctioned off the Annex for to Dennis Hof a Brothel owner who planned to use it As a museum moving it was too expensive so he donated it to fire Crews Bookstore set to reopen 18 months after Rita hit Beaumont eighteen months after Hurricane Rita destroyed his Bookstore Ade Kunle Odu Sanwo said the lessons of rebuilding breathed new life into his business an expanded no world of books is set to reopen with the help of a Small business loan and the Les sons Odu Sanwo picked up from the Odd jobs Hes worked in the mean time he said the business insurance had lapsed when the september 2005 Hurricane ruined the store and its contents i  have known How the Community embraced no world of books if i didst experience the destruction of the old Bookstore Odu Sanwo said Odu Sanwo is one of 356 business owners in Hardin Jefferson and Orange counties to receive Loans to taling More than million according the us Small business administration Cavers find new Genus of an Albino Millipede Hurricane research ers say they have discovered a new Type of Albino in the grand Canyon Prashant National Monument its the second such discovery for Cave specialists Kyle voyles and j Judson Wynne in their search for invertebrates in the Monument the two collected specimens in caves there two years ago after voyles wrote a proposal to Survey and inventory caves on the Monu ment last year the duo announced their samples yielded the discovery of a new Genus of Cricket now they say they have a new Genus of Millipede millipedes Are generally found in Leaf litter but the Cave where the eyeless Albino Millipede was found is in a Barren area with no Leaf litter within 30 Miles gunfire leaves 2 Hurt shots fired at officers new York a chaotic Chase involving two differ ent gunmen sent three new York City police officers to a Hospital for treatment for trauma police said no shots hit the officers but two civilians were critically wounded according to police the gunfire started on East 169th Street in the South Bronx police said officers arrived to find three men arguing and determined that two had been shot the gunman ran when officers approached while they chased and arrested him someone else fired at them from across the Street police said Small air plane crashes killing All three aboard Jacksonville a Small plane crashed in a wooded suburban area killing three people a Baltimore county fire spokeswoman said the plane crashed about 75 feet from a House with some wreckage Landing 10 feet from the building the House was unoccupied and no one on the ground was injured said spokeswoman Elise Arma Cost she said a caller reported hearing the planes engine Fol Lowed by a crash the single engine Piper Saratoga pa32 took off from a Harford county Airport and crashed near a Golf course about 15 Miles North of Baltimore Armacost said investigators didst know if the Pilot was trying to land she said hoax Sparks debate Over lawyer Covert activities a prominent lawyer was defending a businessman on charges of sexually assaulting a boy and possess ing child pornography he used a ruse to obtain the boys computer to Aid his Case now state regulators want the state supreme court to scold the lawyer for the hoax Stephen Hur Ley hired a private investigator to trick the boy into swapping his computer for a new Laptop the Case illustrates what the american bar association says has been a major debate in Legal circles in recent years can Law yers ethically participate in Covert activities the court will decide whether to discipline Hurley the private reprimand sought by regulators is the lightest punishment Man hit with 971 counts involving sex with girl Brookville a Man was convicted of several Hundred sex crime counts for Abus ing a girl for a decade a jury found Clarence Thomas 56 guilty of 971 counts those included More than 100 charges each of involuntary Devi ate sexual Intercourse statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors More than 200 counts of aggravated indecent assault and nearly 400 counts of indecent As Sault prosecutors accused Thomas of sexually assaulting his victim now 20 from 1994 to 2004 charges were filed in March 2006 Thomas testified he weighed 430 to 530 pounds at the time and had health problems including four heart attacks he also said spinal injuries would have made it impossible for him to commit the crimes stories and photos from wire reports