European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 Strong winds fan fires in the associated press Lake Strong wind complicated firefighters efforts to contain a massive wildfire along the Georgia Florida line and officials warned that More residents might have to the wind was gusting up to 25 Mph monday scattered showers and thunderstorms were forecast later in the but the help from the rain could be offset by lightning sparking new about 570 Florida residents were already out of their Homes Between interstate 10 and the Georgia line on and co Lumbia county schools were closed As a county spokesman Harvey Campbell said More evacuations might be ordered West of the fire in Rural Columbia and Hamilton where firefighters have struggled against the win whipped were telling people to think of it like its a Hurricane in terms of getting a clothing and ready to move if conditions Campbell in 15 to 20 Homes North of the tiny City of Fargo remained evacuated and More residents in town were being told pack valuables and necessities in Case they have to and to place sprinklers atop their officials Jim a firefighting helicopter scoops water out of Loon Lake along the gun Flint Trail Northwest of grand on firefighters in the air and on the ground battled the week old fire that has destroyed nearly 83 Square Miles of Forest in Northern Minnesota and the wildfire was started by lightning More than a week ago and raced through the Okefenokee swamp in Southeast Georgia and into Northern by it had burned acres in Florida and acres of swampland in Georgia nearly 380 Square Miles in the fire was 30 percent contained in Florida and the smoke was beginning to lift enough for firefighting aircraft to take off after being grounded All weekend because of Low smoke from hundreds of fires in the two states has plagued drive about 75 Miles of interstates 10 and 75 in South Florida were expected to open Only intermittently on the Haze has travelled As far South As the Miami about 340 Miles a Blaze feeding on drought stricken Forest in North Ern Minnesota was Only 20 per cent contained monday the fire had burned a combined 93 Square Miles in Minnesota and Dewey a spokesman for the Minnesota inter Agency fire said the area got a Little moisture on sunday from heavy Mist and the National weather service forecast a Small Chance of showers monday night and the fire closed about half of the 57milelong gunflint a key route from grand Marais into the Boundary Waters Canoe area wilderness that is dotted with resorts and Lake officials said the fire had destroyed 133 including 61 they estimated the value of buildings lost at off Southern Cool weather sunday helped firefight ers on Santa Catalina Island main Tain control of a Blaze that had threatened the resort Community of the or fire was 76 per cent contained sunday and was expected to be encircled by tues Day one Honie and six businesses burned but no one was seriously report fewer women getting mammograms by Rob Stein the Washington Post Washington after rising steadily for the proportion of women getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer has dropped for the first Federal researchers said the Overall rate at which women Are under going regular mammograms fell 4 percent be tween 2000 and marking the first significant decline since use of the breast rays started expanding rapidly in the study by the National cancer Institute and centers for disease control and prevention the reasons remain but research ers speculated that it could be due to factors such As increasingly Long waiting times to get waning fears about breast can the drop in hormone use after Meno and the ongoing debate Over the Bene fits and risks of the breast regardless of the the trend is worry ing breast cancer who credit Mammo Grams with playing a crucial role in reducing the death toll from breast the second leading cause of cancer and cancer death among this is very said Nancy Iii women Are not getting then their cancer May not be diagnosed until later stages f f Nancy Breen who led the analysis published online monday by the american cancer society journal can if women Are not getting then their cancer May not be diagnosed until later which could translate into higher mortality from breast breast cancer strikes More than women each year and More than but the Odds of surviving have been in part because More women Are being diagnosed by mammograms at the most treatable breast cancer experts have been grow ing increasingly by re ports that mammography rates had plateaued and perhaps started to the new research is the first to document the trend weve been anxious to look at a National Breen this is the first time we had a data set to examine that represents the entire United Breen and her colleagues Analysed data collected by the National health interview sur an ongoing Survey of about adults conducted by the National Center for health statistics to track health data from about women surveyed showed that the Mammogram rate plateaued in began to fall in 2003 and continued to decline through the surveys most re cent the proportion of women who said they had gotten a Mammogram in the last two years declined from 70 percent in 2000 to 66 percent in according to the paper that will be published in the june 15 Issue of the most the drop was greatest percent among women Ages 50 to the age group most Likely to this is also the group most Likely to take Hor Mones after the Onset of a prac Tice that fell dramatically in 2002 after a Feder Al study found that hormone therapy raised the risk of breast heart attack and Breen and her colleagues were also sur prised that the drop was especially Steep percent among More affluent Tennessee teachers stage fake gunman attack on students the associated press staff members of a Tennessee elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class telling them it was not a Drill As the children cried and hid under the mock attack thursday night was intended As a learning experience and lasted five min utes during the we Klong trip to a state said Scales elementary school assistant principal Don who led the we got together and discussed what we would have done in a real he but parents of the who Are about 11 years were the children were in that room in the begging for their because they thought there was someone with a gun after said Brandy whose son went on the some parents said they were upset by the staffs poor judgment in Light of the april 16 shootings at Virginia tech that left 33 Stu dents and professors including the during the last night of the staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the they were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay a disguised in a hooded sweat even pulled on a locked after the lights went about 20 kids started to 11yearold Shay Naylor i was of my she at first i thought i was going to we flipped principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary but said the Situa Tion involved poor supreme court looks at Gay marriage the state supreme court on Mon Day took up the Issue of Gay marriage in the first state in the nation to pass a civil unions Law without court eight Gay and lesbian Cou unhappy with civil Are suing Over the states refusal to Grant them marriage they want the court to Rule that the states marriage Law is unconstitutional because it applies Only to heterosexual Cou the state argues that Connecticut 2005 civil unions Law gives the couples the equal Ity they seek under state the state supreme court began hearing the Case Mon Day and was expected to Issue a decision later in the Amtrak train emptied after bomb threat Denver an Amtrak train carrying nearly 140 passengers was evacuated near Denver after a passenger threatened the Crew and others claiming he had a weapon and an Amtrak spokeswoman said Early authorities detained the Man for questioning and did a sweep of the baggage car and the passenger car where he was the Man was carrying a and a bomb sniff ing dog focused on his Amtrak spokeswoman Karina Romero no injuries were 2 killed after car plows into bus Stop los Angeles a Driver apparently fell asleep before his car slowed into a bus Stop and mothers Day Flower stand killing two people and injuring four authorities the six were at the bus Stop in South los Angeles when the out control vehicle struck said los Angeles fire department spokeswoman Lisa a 57yearold woman was Davies and police police said the second had her leg amputated at a a 26yearold Man died after being taken to a officer Mike Lopez a 69yearold woman was in Seri Ous and two other people were treated for minor Lopez the Driver was arrested and charged with vehicular Man police court upholds payday lending ban Atlanta the states highest court upheld the convictions of two lenders charged with violating georgias first faking crackdown on payday the Georgia supreme courts unanimous decision to the Legal challenges by Nathaniel Glenn and John Dunlap preserved the Legisla Tures 2004 Effort to make Georgia the Only state to specifically outlaw payday from the associated press