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Heavy traffic leads to collision
A malfunctioning traffic light at Speedway Boulevard and Park Avenue may have caused the traffic accident
UA traffic was stalled in the northwest corner of campus, between a malfunctioning stoplight and a traffic accident in which a car traveling westbound on East Helen Street collided with a car going west on North Park Avenue.
Both cars spun, one of which collided with another car waiting at a malfunctioning traffic light yesterday at 3:15 p.m.
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UMC forum prepares staff for terror emergency
University Medical Center healthcare personnel are trying to extend their knowledge and understanding of how to respond in the event of a terrorist attack, as the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaches.
At a forum entitled "Medical Responses to Radiological Terrorism and Disasters," held yesterday at the UMC, speakers representing the UMC, Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS), and government agencies, including the FBI, provided information to medical providers on what to do in case of a radiological emergency.
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Writing test eliminated
English 102 set to replace UDWPE
Students who pale at the thought of writing papers and jumping the final hurdle to graduation ÷ the Upper-Division Writing Proficiency Exam ÷ can rejoice.
No more UDWPE for any UA student.
Now students must pass English 102, or the equivalent, with a grade of B or better to satisfy the same requirement.
It's up to each college to determine what students who do not pass English 102 with a B or better would need to do to satisfy the writing requirement.
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CatFest organizers: this year's concert will rock
Nearly 2,000 tickets have already been handed out for Friday's event; safeguards have been implemented to prevent last year's catastrophe
With signed contracts in the hands of CatFest coordinators and inside venue secured to avoid bad weather and new additions to the festivities, CatFest 2002 is set Friday evening to erase memories of its troubled past.
Last year, the festivities were effectively spoiled when band Eve 6 sent the university a cancellation notice shortly before CatFest.
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Regents approve $170 million addition for Health Sciences Center state-of-the-artwill see
Researchers will relocate to new state-of-the-art plaza from 30-year-old trailers
Health sciences researchers now working out of trailers will soon have a state-of-the-art $170 million home.
The Arizona Board of Regents approved earlier this month a $170 million plan to expand the Arizona Health Sciences Center that will replace old facilities and provide adequate facilities for biotechnology research.
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On the Spot
WILDCAT: What's your name?
THOMPSON: M-i-k-e. That's short for Michael.
WILDCAT: Thanks for clarifying.
THOMPSON: No problem.
WILDCAT: What's your major?
THOMPSON: I'm a double major in political science and engineering.
WILDCAT: That's impressive.
THOMPSON: Yeah! (Laughing, and looking deviously at his friend.)
WILDCAT: Are you lying to me?
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Hull: budget requires more cuts this year
PHOENIX ÷ Gov. Jane Hull said Tuesday the state's fiscal situation is getting worse and that she will tell state agency directors to take new cost-cutting steps.
Hull told reporters she had not decided yet what to do but that she had her budget staff preparing options and will hold an emergency meeting with her Cabinet on Thursday.
The state's developing shortfall in the state's $6.2 billion budget for the 2002-2003 fiscal year which began July 1 is "very close, maybe a little over" the $300 million benchmark she set in a July 25 letter to legislators, she said.
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NASA OKs 'N Sync singer Lance Bass to visit space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ÷ 'N Sync singer Lance Bass won the endorsement of NASA and other space agencies Tuesday in his bid to fly to the international space station this fall.
The 23-year-old boy-band member got the news while training at Johnson Space Center in Houston. All that remains in his way is a financial agreement with the Russian space program; both sides have been haggling over the deal for months.
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Fast facts:
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The average person's total skin covering would weigh about 6 pounds if collected in one mass.
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When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, 15,000 dresses were found in her closets. She used to change what she was wearing two and even three times an evening.
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It was believed in earlier times that if a young woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
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There's enough energy in ten minutes of one hurricane to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
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A human can see a candle flame from 50 kilometers on a clear, dark night.
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During the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines.
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In 1619, Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. During his reign the Thirty Years War started as a result of his attempts to eradicate Protestantism.
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In 1830, in Baltimore, Md., "Tom Thumb," the passenger-carrying train locomotive was demonstrated for the first time. In the United States, it was the first locomotive of its kind built.
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In 1850, the first performance of Wagner's opera, "Lohengrin," took place.
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In 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Approximately 250,000 people witnessed one of the century's most stirring speeches.
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In 1964, the Beatles appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
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In 1996, a divorce decree was issued for Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
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Quotable...
"It's a shame when you feel you have the need to go to the bathroom, but you ask yourself, ĪDo I soil myself or do I protect my job?'"
÷ Jo Anne Kelley, president of the union local on allegations that the Jim Beam Distillery does not allow employees sufficient bathroom breaks.
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