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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," said. p 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. It's just such a unique geo graphic situation where the district is located right here near one of the busiest air ports in the world.” Champioi [last race of (Style relay. Unfortuna ashed too h "I think that would be ofinteresttobothpeo anselves, c pie living here and people who don’t live here, Krueger said. “The one thing I would woi about is how much information can you graspa you’re flying by.” Many schools in the Dallas-Fort Worthareaal m ready have deals that give corporate sponsorssud ^ m as soft drink companies exclusive selling rights the schools or to advertise at sporting events. But the Grapevine-Colleyville district among only a few that would allow advertisiii| on school buses. Officials with DD Marketing of Pueblo, Colo. , ^ 0 Mctvp on I with whom the district approved a contract las!, •. , fall, said the placement of ads targeting airplani / passengers is likely a first in the nation. The com ady. yon By Cot The The team men’s Big 1 insasUnivei lie team st: Although ti meet in fc indivii nbimances IheladyA lied off the a 1-2 pi the 500 pany helps school districts and universitieslinl : ' IanL ' tu s * Dan DeRose DD Marketing President up with advertisers. “It’s just such a unique geographic situation a0n ^y n a where the district is located right here near one :ea ^ rne of the busiest airports in the world, so it’s an op- portunity that we want to take advantage of," :e ^ ata l* Janice Krueger, who owns Studio K Southwest advertising agency in suburban Richardson, said the rooftop ads would be natural to market not just national brands but Dallas-Fort Worth area events like rodeos and car races. said company president Dan DeRose.” there is going to be a lot of attractiveness to it.” Brekken said the school district will havevett power over what products are advertised. “Obviously we don’t want any alcohol or cig arettes or anything like that,” she said. Second earthquake hits northwest Iran Nine teen-agers hospitalized after druq overdose at dance tacie Karnes acy Evans fit challeng 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. This was El history t iconference dimming G The finisl ie medal \ Evans. ®edal on S; one mile, the site was sel Coaches to Newcomer o “It is such T didn’t evei oveard untilt Karnes ai $Mon$att °n a bum oi butterfly fin QUANTUM COW TUTOR|NG:26<kows Univ. 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