European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 stars and stripes june 2007 in the states Gerry the tide Rolls in toward beachfront houses and which Are sur rounded by sandbags to protect them from the Ocean in nags poll finds most coastal residents not prepared for Hurricane season by Jennifer Kay the associated press Miami most people along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts still Lack a Hurricane survival plan and dont feel vulnerable to despite katrina dramatic damage and pleas from Emer gency officials for residents to prepare before the season according to a poll released the six month Atlantic season started and forecasters have predicted an above average year 13 to 17 named with seven to 10 of them becoming hurricanes and three to five of those major ones of at least category 3 53 percent of those surveyed in 18 Atlantic and Gulf coast states say they dont feel that they Are vulnerable to a or to related tornadoes and according to the Mason Dixon eighty eight percent said they had not taken any Steps to fortify their and 45 percent still believed the old wives tale that masking tape helps keeps win Dows from shattering during Hur National Hurricane Center director Bill Proenza said a Popula Tion shift to the nations coastlines May be contributing to the Lack of storm we actually have More and More with Little or no experience with hurricanes and tropical Proenza Public safety officials Tell Resi dents to stockpile at least a three Day Supply of bottled non perishable food and in officials urged Resi dents to take advantage of a state sales tax Holiday from Friday to june 12 on gasoline weather plastic tarps and other storm prepared Ness nearly half of hurricanes that made landfall in the hit Flori and its residents were More prepared than people in other about two thirds of Floridi ans had a disaster prepared a survival kit or said they Felt vulnerable to the poll 61 percent of poll respondents had no Hurricane sur Vival of those who 82 per cent packed a fire Hazard candles or kerosene missing from most of those kits were which emergency officials recommended after Many residents were trapped in their attics after Jack Kevorkian released from prison in Michigan by Kathy barks Hoffman the associated press Jack the re tired pathologist dubbed death for claims that he participated in at least 130 assisted left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to a smiling Kevorkian said it was one of the High Points of life As he walked out with his attorney and 60 minutes correspondent Mike inmates inside the prison had been milling about All morning for a glimpse of the while reporters and television vans greeted him on the out Side with cameras and Kevorkian attorney Mayer Morganroth said his client planned a news conference next throughout the Kevorkian challenged authorities to make his actions he burned state or Ders against him and showed up at court in you think in going to obey the Law youre he said in 1998 shortly before he was accused then murder after inject ing lethal drugs into Thomas an Oakland county Man suffering from Lou Gehrig that conviction earned Kevorkian a 10to 25year sentence for second degree but he earned time off his sentence for Good he is expected to now move to Bloomfield just outside Kevorkian has promised never to help in another assisted but Ruth who has worked As his Legal assistant and handled his correspondence while he was in said his views on the subject Haven Carlos poo up Jack an assisted suicide leaves Lakeland correctional facility in on directly behind Kevorkian Are paralegals Sarah Tucker and Ruth laptops the new vacation gear the associated press Washington Sun Beach one in five people toted Laptop computers on their most recent an Apps of poll re leased Friday along with the 80 percent who said they brought along their cell the sur vey shows going on vacation no longer Means being out of the electronic sizable numbers Are interrupt ing their unwinding time to Check in at the office even More to keep up with the social about one in five said they did some work while and about the same number checked office messages or called in to see How things were the poll twice As Many checked their while 50 percent kept up with other person Al messages like voice the depend ing on ones View is in part Given to today array of devices that can easily keep people digitally tethered to friends and the electronic gear was most commonly brought along by younger people one in four below age 40 brought Lap compared to 15 percent of those 50 to 64 and even less for older the Apps of poll was conducted from May 15 to 17 and included Telephone interviews with randomly chosen it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage Campus searched after gunman reported police searched buildings at the University of Kansas on Friday after receiving a report of a Man with a Rifle near the Center of but they found nothing the caller had reported seeing the Man near Wescoe which houses the schools English de University spokesman Todd Cohen the University was not placed on but staff and students were sent an email shortly after 10 advising them to stay the involving University police and officers from Lawrence and Douglas was called off after about an according to a notice on the University web from the associated press Hometown newspaper by stars and stripes bal War on her is