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Spring breakers check out Web site
Corpus Christi and
South Padre Island are
included among the
Texas destinations on
travel agency internet
sites.
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Forget
the travel agent or a fraternity
brother’s advice. Anxious spring
breakers are revving up the mouse
and cruising the Internet for the lat
est sun and fun forecasts.
“Hello, ladies,” reads one cyber
posting at www.springbreak.com.
“Two Illinois fratboys are head
ing for Corpus Christi and Padre
Island,” the posting continues.
“We will be staying in a condo
near Padre and Mustang Island. If
you are heading to the same par
adise we are, e-mail us...”
Hundreds of such postings are
peppering the Internet as South
Texas prepares for the influx of
spring breakers.
High schools and colleges
throughout Texas observe week-
long spring breaks between
March 3 and March 31.
South Texas shares Web-page
space with many other destina
tions, such as Daytona Beach and
Panama City, Fla.; Cancun and Aca
pulco, Mexico; not to mention
South Padre Island.
South Padre is mentioned by
several travel agency Web sites of
fering bargain trips for high school
and college students.
However, not every South
Texas city is trying to lure vaca
tioning students.
A quick review of sites shows the
Corpus Christi area bills itself as
having much more of a family at
mosphere than a party attitude.
Each year, some local hotels
more reluctant to accept resert
tions from college students, sai
Emma Stone of the Port Arans
Chamber of Commerce. That
proach to spring break tourismal
shows on the chamber’s homepa{
(www.portaransas.org).
There, the March “What’s Haj
pening” calendar does not evt
mention spring break, and theove
all presentation focuses much raoi
on golf, quiet piers and bird-watd
ing than night life.
“We’re getting many more fami
lies than college students,"
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School district plans rooftop advertising
DALLAS (AP) —A school district next to Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Airport wants to be
looked down on — literally.
By summer, corporate logos from soft drink
and athletic-gear companies and others could be
emblazoned on the rooftops of Grapevine-Col-
leyville school buildings.
District officials hope the billboards will catch
the eye of the 58 million passengers who fly an
nually into and out of the airport and raise mon
ey to supplement tax dollars.
“We thought maybe in the neighborhood of
$100,000 a year” would be generated, said school
board president Marion Brekken. “That’s three
beginning-teacher salaries.”
School bus exteriors; football, baseball and
softball fields; the district’s cable television chan
nel; and its voice-mail system are other possible
venues for ads in an aggressive new campaign
trustees are scheduled to vote today.
Ads will cost between $1,000 and $10,000 de
pending on the amount of space and location.
The district’s search for additional revenue led
it to allow cellular phone companies to build an
tenna towers at athletic fields.
Grapevine-Colleyville officials said they need
the money to compensate for revenues lost to
the state’s school finance program. The proper
ty-wealthy district sent more than $ 11 million to
poorer schools last year.
The district has no plans to place ads in cor
ridors, classrooms or other instructional spaces,
superintendent lim Thompson said.
Rooftop advertisement is especially appeal
ing because “it clearly doesn’t interfere with the
educational setting at all,” he said.
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graphic situation where the
district is located right here
near one of the busiest air
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GOLESTAN, Iran (AP) — The last
sound Hussein Sudani heard from
his daughter-in-law was her scream
when the earth began to shake.
His mud hut trembled as boul
ders dislodged from the surround
ing hills rolled down onto the vil
lage, killing a group of women
washing clothes at a nearby stream.
Among the dead was his grandson
and his 20-year-old daughter-in-
law, Mariam.
Not a single home was standing
in this village Sunday two days after
a magnitude 6.1 earthquake left an
estimated 3,000 people dead and
2,000 injured in a mountainous re
gion of northwestern Iran.
A second powerful earthquake,
magnitude 5.1, hit the region on
Sunday, destroying buildings al
ready damaged in Friday’s tremor
and causing widespread panic,
Tehran Radio reported. There was
no word on casualties.
Friday’s quake in Iran was the
most devastating of several Asian
temblors in recent days, in Arme
nia, China and Pakistan. Officials
gave a lower death toll — 554 —
than aid workers and villagers, but
government said the casualty fig
ures would surely rise as rescuers
arrive at the scene.
Sultani, wearing a skullcap and
walking with a stoop, made his
way through the rubble with a
flashlight searching for his family.
Aid workers had given him a tent
and cooking oil.
“I lost my daughter-in-law and
her 3-year-old baby as well as my
cousin,” he said.
Blood stained the snow-covered
ground, and survivors huddled
around small bonfires in the 19-de
gree cold.
In hard-hit Ardabil province, an
official told the Farsi-language Kay-
han newspaper 110 villages were af
fected by the quake. The death toll
in just six villages visited by re
porters in the province was more
than 2,000 people.
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Par
ents and friends prayed Sunday at
church services for the nine teen
age girls and two boys still hospi
talized for overdosing on a mus
cle relaxant at a youth dance.
“They are nice kids, that’s the
whole thing. It very easily could
have been my daughter,” said
Debra Schindler, outside services
at the United Methodist Church
in this city nine miles northwest
of Boston.
The drug, Baclofen, was taken
from a mail-order shipment sent
to an unidentified patient, Mid
dlesex District Attorney Tom Reil
ly said. Police are looking for a
second bottle of pills containing
the antibiotic Hiprex, which was
part of the shipment, he said.
It was not clear what problems
the antibiotic could cause or if
any of the children took that
medication.
Five of the 11 teens still hospi
talized remained in critical con
dition Sunday, at least four of
them on respirators. All of the vic
tims should recover fully, hospital
officials said.
Sunday’s services came twc
days after 14 teens were felled hv
overdoses of the prescription mus
cle relaxant Baclofen at a Boys and
Girls Club-sponsored dance.
Most of the girls were celebrat
ing their selection as school
cheerleaders, and the teens gob
bled as many as 35 pills before
they started “dropping like flies,"
as an emergency medical techni
cian put it.
Baclofen, which often is used
to treat cerebral palsy and multi
ple sclerosis, was brought to the
dance by a girl who also was felled
by an overdose. Authorities are
not identifying her.
While some Woburn middle
school students are aware of drug
use at their schools, they say the
teen-agers who overdosed were
not part of that crowd.
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