European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 airports scan bottled liquids for explosives los Angeles Federal Security workers have started using handheld scanners to inspect bottled Carryon liquids for explosives at some of the nations Busi est the government said the transportation Security administration has finished test ing the device at Miami International Airport and Newark Liberty International testing is ongoing in los Detroit and Las said Agency spokesman Nico Tsa expects to deploy about 200 of the devices at a number of airports around the country by Melendez the which detects explosive material in sealed bottles of Only is used on Pas sengers selected for secondary inspections before the device adds another layer of Security to government restrictions on Carryon liquids instituted in september following revelations in August about an alleged terrorist authorities say Britai based terrorists were planning to construct bombs on aircraft from Small amounts of liquids or government rules allow Passen Gers to carry on three ounces or less of the liquid must be stored in a Tiptop plastic with no More than one plastic bag for each Pas from the associated press Atlantic faces Busy Hurricane season Central Pacific to see fewer storms the associated press Honolulu Hawaii and the rest of the Central Pacific face a slightly below average Hurricane season this with just two or three tropical cyclones Federal fore casters said with sea surface tempera Tures lower than the National oceanic and atmospheric administrations Central Pacific Hurricane Center predicted pos sible la Nina conditions result ing in less tropical Cyclone Active in a la the opposite of the Bette known Al Nino events the Waters of the mid Pacific equatorial Region Are cooler than those conditions and the Over All reduction in Hurricane activity in that Region since 1995 led to the prediction for the june Tono vember said Jim Wey director of the Hurricane the islands get an average of tropical cyclones a year and one Hurricane about every 15 last the Central Pacific had five tropical cyclones after Noaa predicted two to when i give a slightly below average forecast it always Trou Bles me because people always think they dont have to and that is not the message we want to Weyman the message is it Only takes that one to cause tremendous by Randolph Schmid the associated press Washington this years Hurricane season could be busier than government forecast ers said National weather service fore casters said they expect 13 to 17 tropical with seven to 10 of them becoming forecast follows that of two other leading storm experts in anticipating a Busy the likelihood of above Normal Hurricane activity is 75 the National oceanic and atmospheric administration with expectations for an Active it is critically important that people who live in East and Gulf coastal areas As Well As the Caribbean be said Bill director of the National Hurricane Center in after the battering by storms katrina and Rita in there were fears last summer of another powerful storm but the unexpected development of the Al Nino climate phenomenon helped Dampen the Al Nino has Howe leaving the potential for More tropical storms threatening the Gulf and East Al Nino is a warming of the Tropi Cal Pacific Ocean that occurs every few the warm water affects wind patterns that guide weather movement and its effects can be seen in Al Nino there tend to be fewer sum Mer hurricanes in the Atlantic last there were just 10 named storms in the Atlantic and none made landfall in the United katrina easily became the costliest Hurricane in history with damage estimated by the National Hurricane Center at More than of the 30 costliest hurricanes in this country his four occurred in katrina displaced 1992s an at just Over As the top while other 2005 storms ranked Are at billion Rita in 9th place with damage of nearly billion ranked Dennis at and with a death toll Topping katrina is also the third deadliest in following the 1900 Hurricane that hit killing to people and a 1928 storm that claimed at least lives in your Hometown newspaper tales from the crib prize Winner stars and stripes congratulates Demetrio Dia Cabrera on winning the tales from the crib grand Demetrio Dia Cabrera wins a free online video game development training package Courtesy of game Worth learn the hard stars and stripes will launch a now tales from the crib on june Check for details plague kills Capuchin Monkey at Denver officials say the associated press Denver a Capuchin Monkey at the Denver zoo has died of and officials Are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with zoo officials Learned Friday that the 8yearold animal that died May 16 tested positive for the Flea borne More than a dozen squirrels and at least one Rabbit have been found dead of plague in the City Park area just East of which includes a Golf the zoo and the Denver museum of nature of zoo veterinarian David Kenny suspects the primate ate the carcass of an infected dead plague is common in Colo Rado during this time of but it usually occurs in Rural parts of the where it is sometimes discovered when entire Prairie dog colonies die we see it every year in wild said state health de David Denver apartment epidemiologist John Denver zoo veterinarian David Kenny suspects a Capuchin like the one pictured ate the carcass of a dead Squirrel infected with the officials Are increasing precautions to prevent an shown signs of illness but As a precaution the monkeys have been taken from their usual display and placed in a separate caged display for the capuchins also have been Given antibiotics As a preventive the chances that a human could be infected is considered health department officials suspect the disease was brought into the City by a Fox or one form of the is believed to have been the Black death that killed 25 million people in Europe during the Middle its uncommon Cir cuff e squirrels in ban