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University Libraries Poor Yorick*s Trivia Contest Question of the week: Talc has the lowest position on the Mohs Scale of Hardness with a Mohs Number of One. What allotrope of carbon is even softer than talc? Instructions: Entry forms are available at the Circulation Desks in Evans,Annex,WCLand PSEL. One winner will be drawn from ail correct entries submitted by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Winner will receive a PoorYorick’s coffee mug. CD C 0> Q v. CD £ CD O s Career Center Texas A&M University Applying to Grad School Get input from university representatives about how to tackle the job of applying to a graduate program. Tuesday, October 9,2001 5:15 p.m. 111 Koldus TAMU Career Center http;//careercenter.tamu.edu 209 Koldus 845-5139 A place to meet your next employer. Chem 101 Chem 22? 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Rumsfeld said 37,500 sets of rations were to be dropped in an initial wave Sunday in the beginning stage of a humanitar ian operation that might eventu ally include moving relief sup plies by ground. Another official said the air drops probably would continue for several days. At the same time. Air Force EC-130E Commando Solo air craft equipped with sophisti cated radio equipment flew over the area and broadcast messages aimed at both the Taliban and Afghans opposing the ruling regime, U.S. offi cials said. Among the messages were assurances that the U.S.- led attacks were aimed at ter rorists and not the Afghan peo ple, said one official familiar with the operation. A Pentagon official said the United States also will conduct operations inside Afghanistan that will not be seen publicly — an apparent reference to the use of Army special operations ground forces. Gen. Richard Myers, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 15 land-based bombers — including B-2 Stealth bombers flying from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. — and 25 other strike aircraft flying from U.S. aircraft carriers began the attack at 12:30 p.m. EDT — after dark ness fell in Afghanistan. He termed the strike “the early stages of ongoing combat opera tions” against the Taliban and the al-Qaeda network. A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said later that Navy F/A-18 and F-14 fight ers flew missions off two U.S. carriers — the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Enterprise — in the Arabian Sea, and that no land-based Air Force strike planes other than bombers were used in the first round of attacks. The sup port planes used in the raids included Navy EA-6B elec tronic warfare aircraft and E2- C Hawkeye early warning radar planes as well as American and British tankers that refueled the bombers on theji long-range strikes. NEWS IN BRIEF ‘Standing for America’ shirts will remain for sale this week Organizers of the Red, White and Blue Out project will continue selling “Standing For America" shirts to raise money for the families of victims of the Sept. 11 terror ist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City. The red, white and blue T-shirts were worn at the Sept. 22 A&M-Okiahoma State game at Kyle Field. Eric Bethea, a RWB Out organizer and a junior finance major, said T-shirt requests from outside the College Station area can be made using the fol lowing link: http://www.logocenter.com. T-shirt prices for out-of-town orders will be $7 plus ship ping and handling. Shirts sized XXL will cost $9 plus shipping and handling. The Arlington-based company LogoCenter.com will distribute the shirts. T-shirts can be ordered in the College Station area through Oct. 10 by email at RWBshirts@hot- mail.com. Name, phone number, size and color of shirts desired must be included in the email. Shirts sold in Bryan-College Station will remain at $5. College Station printers C&C Creations will produce the shirts to be sold locally. A portion of all sales will benefit the New York Firefighters 911 Relief Fund and the World Trade Center Police Disaster Relief Fund. Bethea said future fundraising might come from the sale of posters, which will include aerial photos of Kyle Field from the Sept. 22 game, in which third deck fans wore red, second deck fans wore white and first deck fans wore blue. For updates, check the RWB Out Website at www.jaredp.com. and government nuclear weapai labs were put on higher alert.Ill FBI said it was acting on tit basis of “the possibility of a# tional terrorist activity occumii somewhere in the world.” Within hours of the attack Bush drew public support froa foreign leaders around tk world, as well as from congre: sional leaders and the Amenta public. A crowd of 64,000 cheerc the president’s words at Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia, when the beginning of a profession; football game was delayed the fans could view Bus appearance on the big scree; scoreboard. Chants of “USA USA” filled another stadia® this one in Atlanta. The initial strike involved)! Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from American British ships. Gen. Richi; Myers said 15 bombers andl 1 strike aircraft, both sea and laid based, also were involved. Ik assault came at 12:30 p.m.0' — nighttime in Afghanistan. Myers, sworn into offices chairman of the Joint Chiefsii Staff less than a week ago, sail the attacks included B-l, B-! and B-52 bombers as well a ships and submarines that ha« been deployed in the region the days since Sept. 11. The B-52s dropped at leJ dozens of 500-pound gravi bombs on al-Qaeda terronj training camps in ease: Afghanistan, one official said Defense Secretary Donald 1 Rumsfeld said the strikes k designed to eliminate tk Taliban’s air defenses anddestn- their military aircraft Afghanistan’s rulers are knounc have a small inventory of surface to-air missiles as well as shoul der-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Afghan sources in Paki'sn said the attack had damagedik Taliban military headquarten and destroyed a radar installa tion and control tower al their- port in the southern AfgJmwj; of Kandahar. Smoke coiikt seen billowing from the felt- walled compound of Mullal Mohammed Omar, the Tata leader, these sources added, t CORRECTION In Friday's article, “12 draws scholars from across the U.S.," the name of Dr. Janis Stout was misspelled. Stout who is holding the University mace in the photo, is the dean of faculties. 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