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Candace Bourgeois, a dance instructor from Baton Rouge, leads a group of
dancers in a routine Friday. High school dance teams from across the nation came
to participate in the American Dance Drill Team dance camp.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Never
mind what the label says. The
new brands of energy drinks are
aimed more at marathon partiers
than serious athletes. .And that
has health officials worried.
The drinks come in flashy cans
and botdes with names like Red
Bull, Adrenaline Rush and Jones
Whoop-Ass Energy Drink. T hey
do not taste great by almost uni
versal consensus, but they’re the
fastest-growing segment of the
beverage market because they de
liver a quick punch of energy.
“A couple of years ago they
were sort of an underground
drink, served only at clubs. Pret
ty soon they’re going to be
everywhere,” said Max Ro
driguez, a marketing manager
for the Edge Co., which imports
Atomic Energy Drink from
Brazil. “They enable you to
practically stay up all night and
not get really drunk.”
The energy kick is delivered
by a cocktail of stimulants. Many
of the drinks contain caffeine
and guarana, a South American
plant used as a stimulant, plus a
long list of herbs and vitamins
promising better health and ath
letic performance.
“They definitely deliver a
buzz or a jolt,” said John Sicher,
editor and publisher of Beverage
Digest. “They’re generally par-
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WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate’s top Re
publican, Trent Lott, said Sunday that he sees
“great potential” for controversial research that uses
stem cells from human embryos.
President George W. Bush is
now weighing whether to allow
federal funding for the research,
which scientists say holds
tremendous promise but which
is contentious because the cells
are derived from embryos left
over from fertility treatments.
Some abortion opponents,
including the Roman Catholic Church, say the re
search amounts to unethical experimentation on
an early life. Others, including several high-pro
file Republicans, say the benefits outweigh the
harm, particularly because the embryos are going
to be destroyed anyway.
Lott stopped short of endorsing federal fund
ing, declining to state his position. But he said he
told Bush that “this is an important issue that has
potentially significant health benefits.”
“There are some delicate questions here, but
the benefits are substantial, as we understand it,
and they should be carefully considered,” Lott, R-
Miss., said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Obviously, there is some great potential there.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
Thompson — another anti-abortion Republican
who has voiced support for the research — has
promised a decision by mid-July.
Stem cells, the building blocks for all human tis
sue, are present in adults as well. But the cells de
rived from embryos are the most versatile because
they are the least developed. Researchers say us
ing them could lead to revolutionary treatments
for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, spinal cord in
juries and other ailments.
But federal law bans the use of tax dollars on any
research that destroys embryos. "The Clinton ad
ministration got around that by ruling it is OK to
use the stem cells in federally funded research, as
long as private dollars paid for them to be extract
ed from the embryos.
It is now up to the Bush administration
whether to maintain that interpretation or
change the policy.
Several high-profile Republicans are urging
Bush to allow the research to move forward.
“I think it is probably something that is good
for America, good for medical research, and could
save lives,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sun
day on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Su
san Collins of Maine each wrote Bush in recent
days supporting funding for the research. Other
GOP supporters include Sen. Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina and Gordon Smith of Oregon
and former Sen. Connie Mack of Florida.
“I have rarely, if ever, observed such genuine ex
citement for the prospects of future progress than
is presented by embryonic stem cell research,”
Hatch wrote in a letter to Bush.
Many Catholics say the research is unethical be
cause the embryos are the start of human life.
Spain riots turn
BARCELONA, Spain (AP)
— Riot police made what ap
peared to be an unprovoked at
tack Sunday on anti-globaliza
tion protesters gathered in a city
park following a midday march
down a main boulevard. At least
32 people were slightly injured
and 19 were arrested.
Thousands of screaming and
shouting demonstrators, some
with small children, fled in
panic as the police pushed into
the crowd behind shields,
wielding truncheons and firing
blank gunshots.
“We raised our arms and
shouted, ‘Peace, Peace,’ but they
just kept coming,” said a woman
who identified herself as Yolanda.
The march along Passeig de
Gracia and rally at the Plaza de
Cataluna — along with other
weekend activities — were or
ganized to coincide with a
World Bank meeting original
ly scheduled for this week. Of
ficials canceled the meeting last
week to avoid violent protests
that have marred meetings of
global and regional institutions
in the past two years.
The march was largely peace
ful, but some store windows
were broken along the route,
among them a Burger King
restaurant and a Swatch store.
Police provoked
the fight. They
were part of it”
— Ada Colau
spokeswoman for Campaign
Against the World Bank
Small groups of men and
women taunted riot police.
Thousands of other demon
strators joined the marchers at
the park following the march.
They had been peacefully lis
tening to speakers and chanting
slogans when the police swept
through the plaza.
The police charged the crowd
after a small group of masked
men and women who appeared
to be police agents staged a fight
at the edge of the park in full
violent
view of a line of riot police
standing in front of police vans.
A few dozen demonstrators
were pulled into the violence.
“Police provoked the fight.
They were part of it,” said Ada
Colau, a spokeswoman for the
Campaign Against the World
Bank, one of the protest organ
izations.
Reporters watched as the po
lice appeared to use the staged
scuffle as bait to pull protesters
into it and then use it as a pretext
to charge into the park. A sec
ond charge emptied the park
within minutes.
The masked assailants, some
of them apparently wearing ear
phones, had gathered in groups
on the fringes of the protest
march as it arrived at the park af
ter passing down a dozen blocks
of the boulevard.
They were wearing knapsacks
and carrying sticks, but were
able to walk freely past police,
pull on their masks and position
themselves between the edge of
the crowd in the park and the
police lines 2 5 yards away.
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five more than its previous! 1 gree inju
tal and exceeding the parr son died
target of 50 seats, saidapa^’P 6 a ce
spokeswoman on condition; While sh
anonymity. All but twooftmU'^ing
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into next month’s nation T em p et -2
upper house elections. reached
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push to Koizumi’s popularic lieved si
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of political science at Seigabjj^S to Wl
University just north ofTob ^ er aCr 5! S
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to help their chances in the .
per house elections.”
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not give the LDP a ihajpg
the party remains thelargfj
voting bloc in the city a 1
sembly.
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pels concern that public I
fection for Koizumiwoul®
translate into support fori
low party members, w
have suffered from ineffect?
leadership from Koizuif
predecessors.
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national Mainichi newspf
estimated support for f
LDP at just 29 percent.Tl 1
55 candidates running on ^
LDP ticket were the fevi
ever for the party, which f
ruled Japan for most off
past half century.