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For police departments suspected of sin gling out black and Hispanic motorists, the political and legal stakes are high: The highway studies could exonerate the police or implicate them. The debate over what some minorities sarcastically call “driving while black” flared in 1998 after state troopers opened fire on four black and Hispanic motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike. Since then, dozens of police departments and other agencies around the country have been studying traffic stops or other driving patterns to determine whether minorities are being unfairly pulled over and searched for speeding and other violations. In New Jersey, a study commissioned by the state and released last week concluded that blacks are more likely than whites to speed on the highway. The researchers checked speeds with laser guns and pho tographed thousands of motorists. The troopers union claimed vindication. Civil rights advocates objected bitterly to the findings. And the U.S. Justice Department — which had requested the study — asked that it be withheld, arguing that its methodology was flawed. “It’s a tough thing to do inquiry in because there are so many people with such sharply divergent points of view who want to claim victory,” said David Harris, a Toledo, Ohio, law professor who has writ ten a book on racial profiling. Finding which way is best is the current job of Lorie Fridell, a researcher with the Police Executive Research Forum who will release a how-to guide in the k\ months to help the nation’s police., ments monitor themselves for profile Fridell is using part of a $250,Oft eral grant to sift through a 3-foot racial profiling studies commissios police departments. She likes some methods betterte ers. Driving in a car alongside spee motorists, she said, might be more re than trying to identify a driver’s race blurry photograph. “I would thinl could look left and see who’s in thee to you.” she said. And placing people at strategicpoit the road and having them lake downi mation on passing cars “has some potential if we can make it cost-effec she said. But the debate is recent and thepn still in its infancy, she There are lots of different ideas. W frustrating to social scientists is that th none that is great,” she said. The last len’s golf te ent in one Ilyas a year [Olympics in I A year 1; compete in ■ent, despe ■ree finis! ■mpeting 1 spots in th lent and nt to stay in co "We need Inish and I lam in Texas JAMES PATTERSON ^■ND CHANCE 2nd Chance James Patterson in College Station: 2004 Texas Avenue Soutli • in Oman: 725 Villa Maria inManorEastSlioppinBCeiUw^^^^^^^^ Andersen employees move to rival Deloittt ep up to pi; JlT. Higgins. I The team Jar toumam ieek, in whi I tough field Ip 25. The . CHICAGO (AP) Signaling the breakup of its U.S. operations. Arthur Andersen LLP announced Thursday that a “significant” number of its U.S. tax partners and professionals will join rival Deloitte & Touche. Terms were not disclosed. Andersen’s U.S. operations were jeopardized by the Enron Corp. scandal. The firm hopes to survive as a slimmed-down company focused on auditing. “This transaction is fully consistent with our commitment to move quickly on the Andersen reforms initiated by Mr. Volcker,” said Larry Gorrell, managing partner of Arthur Andersen, the U.S. arm of Andersen Worldwide. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is head of an oversight board trying to reform Andersen and keep it alive as an independent firm. Andersen's employees, meanwhile, were bracing for what the company has said would be “inevitable” layoffs among its 28,000 U.S. staffers. Spokesperson Patrick Dorton, responding to persistent reports that layoffs could total 6,000 or more, said late Thursday that no final decision has been made. 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Andersen said remain to be worked out anticipates a closing date ai soon as April 30. “Our clients, partners and employees have been and remain our priorities througli this process of reforming and rebuilding Arthur Andersen LLP as a firm focused on Q^y auditing,” Gorrell sa\A Deloitte said in a state “Adding professionals^ Andersen will add consifc® talent to Deloitte & Toitfs already high quality practice gives us the opportunity to a® crate the growth” of thatdivist® The announcement folio™ weeks of negotiations bct' vffI Andersen and other Big ^ accounting firms over its asse The companv has been trying sell assets to raise money," previous efforts snagged o the issue of liability or aany lawsuits Andersen from its role as chief auditorf bankrupt Enron. NEWS IN BRIEF CDC says lab worker who contracted anthrax was not wearing gloves ATLANTA (AP) — A Texas laboratory worker who contracte , anthrax last month probably got it because he was not w | gloves when he handled vials of spores collected from last a s attacks, the government said Thursday. . ^ The worker handled the spores a day after he had cut his ja shaving, the Centers for Disease Control and P reven t' on t [ e !! ( sort He then apparently touched his face and developed an ant r , on his jaw. The man was put on antibiotics and is recovering. ^ It was the first known anthrax case in the United States si I anthrax-by-mail attacks that killed five people and sickene g None of the 40 workers at the lab had been vaccinate anthrax, the CDC said. The CDC has not identified the worker or the lab. The infection apparently happened March 1 as the wor me inrecnon apparently happened iviarcn i as ■■ moving vials from a cabinet into a freezer, the CDC said. e ^ inuvmg vidis rrom a caomet into a rreezer, me . s wearing gloves, contrary to federal health recommenda i agency said. . ff| The lab had also sprayed its storage vials with a solution ly alcohol, rather than the 10 percent bleach solution reco by the government, the CDC found. Hthenw Over the next few days, the shaving cut became larger an J reported swelling on his neck and a low-grade fever. He sp n days in the hospital. Hey kids, it is time... MSC Variety Stou Parents' Weekend ** ApH 12 ‘Off publisher's list price Rudder Aud. 7:30pm TICKETS ON SALE NOW MSC Box Off ice Mond;