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magnitude temblor.
Dozens of villages were cut
off from rescuers by quake
induced landslides. Relatives
desperat^ to find their loved
ones dug through flattened
homes and schools with bare
hands.
In Muzaffarabad, a city of
600,000 that is the capital of
Pakistani Kashmir, residents
said they faced food and
gasoline shortages. There was
no electricity, and people
collected water from a
mountain stream.
“People are relying on local
fruit, and they have little food to
eat. I went out to get bread, and
could only get a couple of
apples,” carpet seller Gul Khan
said.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan
Sherpao said 11,000 people in
Muzaffarabad were killed.
At least 250 pupils were
feared trapped at the Islamabad
Public School, and dozens of
villagers, some with
sledgehammers, pulled at debris
and carried away bodies. Several
bright backpacks dotted the
rubble. Nearby, a man cried
over a child’s body.
“The communication
infrastructure and systems are
down and we can’t get help to
us, that should be the priority,”
principal Mushtaq Ahmed
Kahn said.
Hundreds of people waited at
bus stations, hoping to leave.
The body of a man lay on a
roadside, and a family pushed a
body in a cart.
The'- military hospital
collapsed, and residents said
there were bodies inside.
Doctors set up a makeshift
clinic in a park.
“The situation is very bad.
Surgeries are being conducted
on soccer fields. There are not
enough doctors,” Ozgur
Bozoglu, a member of a Turkish
search-and-rescue team, GEA,
told Turkeys NTV television.
Helicopters and C-130
transport planes took troops
and supplies to damaged areas
Sunday. When confronted by
urgent appeals from villagers,
Musharraf responded, “For
heaven’s sake, bear with us.”
Bush said he spoke with
Musharraf and “told him that
we want to help in any way we
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can.
“Thousands of people have
died, thousands are wounded,
and the United States of
America wants to help,” Bush
said from the Oval Office.
Aziz said the American
helicopters would be drawn
from coalition military
operations in neighboring
Afghanistan.
But Maj. Andrew Elmes,
spokesman for NATO’s
11,000-strong force, said it
was outside the mission’s
mandate to operate beyond
Afghanistan.
The United Nations,
Britain, Russia, China, Turkey,
Japan and Germany offered
assistance. An eight-member
U.N. team of top disaster
coordination officials arrived in
Islamabad on Sunday.
Aziz said the Pakistani death
toll was 19,396 dead, and it was
expected to rise.
Officials said Balakot, in the
North West Frontier Province
about 60 miles north of
Islamabad, was one of the
hardest-hit areas. Near the ruins
of one collapsed school, at least
a dozen bodies lay in the streets.
More than 200 pupils were
feared trapped inside the rubble
of a four-story school.
Dozens of villagers pulled at
the debris and carried away
bodies. Faizan Farooq, a 19
year-old student, said he had
heard children under the rubble
crying for help immediately
after Saturdays disaster.
“Now there’s no sign of life,”
he said Sunday. “We can’t do
this without the army’s help.
Nobody has come here to help
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Rafiq Maqbool / The Associated Press
People affected by an earthquake stand around a fire, in Uri, about 69 miles north of Srinagar, India,
on Sunday. A powerful earthquake jolted South Asia and brought down thousands of buildings and
houses across Indian Kashmir on Saturday, killing at least 250 people in the Himalayan region.
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EUGENE, Ore. — Google, the
Internet search engine that
started as two Stanford
University students’ research
project and became a household
name, has launched a campaign
■to make its services more useful
and accessible to college
students.
On Sept. »4, Google made
accounts for Gmail, its e-mail
service, available to anyone with
a college or university e-mail
account — that is, any e-mail
address ending in .edu.
Gmail accounts were
previously available only through
an invitation by a current Gmail
user.
Group Product Marketing
Manager for Google Inc. Debbie
Jaffe says Gmail accounts work
well with school e-mail accounts
because school-related e-mail
messages can be forwarded to a
Gmail account, enabling
students to take advantage of
Gmail’s storage and search
capacities.
Because Gmail accounts have
more than 2.5 gigabytes of
storage space, there is no need to
delete old messages. University
e-mail accounts currently have
250 megabytes of storage space.
Gmail accounts are now also
available to anyone with a
mobile phone number in the
United States.
All of Google’s user services
are offered for free. The
company stays afloat through
advertising revenue. “Sponsored
links” alongside Google search
results earn money for Google
every time a user clicks on them.
Computer algorithms scan
Gmail messages for key words
and run sponsored links next to
e-mails that correspond with the
e-mail’s content. For example, an
e-mail from a friend about
getting together to make
pancakes might pop up with
sponsored links about pancake
recipes.
These same algorithms help
Gmail users search through old^
e-mail messages.
But privacy is maintained.
“No human individuals or third
parties ever look at private e
mails,” Jaffe said.
Joe St. Sauver, director of user
services and network
applications at the University,
said that while he uses Gmail
only casually, he doesn’t think
the sponsored ads generated for
e-mail messages make Gmail less
secure than any other e-mail
service.
People concerned about the
security of their e-mail should
consider using an encryption -
client, such as those available a A
www.GnuPG.org, St. Sauver
said. PGP encryption clients can
be installed on all computers and
used with all e-mail service
providers.
Other Google features include
Calculator, which allows one to
type a mathematical equation
into the main search page
(www.google.com) and get a
numerical result; Google Scholar
(scholar.google.com), which
searches scholarly journals; and
Picasa (picasa.google.com), a
computer program that can be
downloaded and used to^
organize photos.
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Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt applauds during a news
conference in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 28. Google recently
launched a campaign to reach more college students nationwide.
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have an open 12-ounce can of
beer in his pocket. The two
brothers were then taken to an
unspecified jail.
USC Sports Information
Director Steve Fink could not be
reached for comment.
Johnsons arrest follows an
incident in April, when Johnson
and his brother were arrested for
allegedly possessing marijuana.
Redshirt sophomore safety, Ty
Erving was also arrested in that
incident.
Josh Johnson has not come to
trial for that arrest.
Following that incident, head
football coach Steve Spurrier said
that any player who
“embarrasses” the football
program would no longer play
for the team.
Six players, including wide
receiver Syvelle Newton and
former quarterback Dondrial
Pinkins, were arrested in January
after an investigation into
$18,000 worth of missing
photographs and computer
equipment from Williams-Brice
Stadium.
Moe Thompson and K.T.
Mainord were dismissed from
the team after their March
arrests for allegedly breaking into
East Quad apartments and
removing electronic equipment,
linens and a small amount of^
cash on Feb. 23.
Reserve wide receiver David
Smith, who caught two
touchdown passes in October’s
JV game, was arrested and
suspended indefinitely from the
team after allegations he broke
into his girlfriend’s apartment
and attempted to strangle her.
Sports Editor Jonathan
EliUyard contributed to this report
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student asked, “Just how do
blacks dress?”
Both B.O.N.D and S.C.E.A
meetings evoked the feeling that
students aren’t understanding
each other on the issue.
First-year business
administration student and
B.O.N.D. member Taybion
Meadows said, “It’s not the
terminology, but the insult of
thinking that blacks dress or
look a certain way that is
degrading.” >
The groups are expressing
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done about the situation. |
According to a earlier report
published on CSIndy.com,
theFacebook operators received
nearly 100 messages daily on
privacy issues or complaints of
obscene photographs,
inappropriate groups or
excessive or offensive messaging.
Depending on the offense,
theFacebook staff members will
send a warning or take the user
off the network, the report
states. Users are taken off the
network on a daily basis.
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