FIESTA BOWL: Notre Dame, Ohio State have rare meeting

TEMPE, Ariz. - Think college football and these two storiedprograms are sure to come to mind: The Big Ten brutes of Ohio Stateand the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

Just a couple of hundred miles apart, they have met only fourtimes - twice in the 1930s and twice in the '90s - and never in abowl game. Against that backdrop, the fourth-ranked Buckeyes face thefifth-ranked Irish at 4:30 today in the Fiesta Bowl.

"I think it adds a lot to this game," Ohio State Coach Jim Tresselsaid. "We've only played four times before in our history and the twogreat programs, here we are in one of the great settings in collegefootball. I think it adds a little something to the …

Bush's policies are destroying value of US dollar: Iran president

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed U.S. President George W. Bush's policies for the declining value of the U.S. dollar in a press conference Sunday.

"The US dollar has no economic value," he told a news conference, claiming that Bush's policies are causing inflation in other countries.

Ahmadinejad was speaking at the close of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' heads of state summit hosted by Saudi Arabia.

He added that OPEC finance ministers and foreign ministers had been tasked to study the effects of the weaker dollar.

The issue is important to OPEC countries who are losing money on oil sales …

Arban, (Joseph) Jean-Baptiste (Laurent)

Arban, (Joseph) Jean-Baptiste (Laurent), French cornetist, conductor, and pedagogue; b. Lyons, Feb. 28, 1825; d. Paris, April 9, 1889. He settled in Paris, where he studied trumpet with Dauverné at the Cons. (1841–15). He was active as a conductor in salon orchs. and at the Opéra. In 1857 he became prof. of saxhorn at the École Militaire. In 1869 he established the cornet class at the Cons., which he taught until 1874 and again from 1880 until his death. From 1873 he made annual visits to St. Petersburg as a …

Winter's coming--use freeze protection valves to keep lines flowing

These valves save piping, fittings, and equipment from freeze up and potential damage. Here are selection guidelines and calculation methods for sizing.

Freeze protection valves are effective in preventing freeze damage in process lines. Unlike steam or electric tracing, which require power and can cause water to overheat, freeze protection valves operate by simply draining or bleeding water as the temperature approaches freezing.

This prevents the formation of ice that can clog lines, shut off flow, and cause pressure within the line to build, cracking pipes, valves, and fittings, as well as damaging equipment (Figure 1). Damage due to ice formation can incur costs for …

Pioneer Baby Boom Community Turns 60

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. - In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one here, where she rode her bicycle past rows of cookie-cutter houses, kids held backyard campouts in makeshift tents and nobody locked their front doors.

"It was an absolute ideal community," said Cassano, whose love affair with Levittown never waned - she still lives in the Long Island town dubbed by some as America's first suburb.

Cassano is among the organizers of a huge 60th birthday party for the Nassau County town, set for Sunday and featuring high school bands, floats, local groups, war veterans and the fire department. Nearly two dozen original Levittown homeowners will …

UK to review combat ban for female troops

Britain's female soldiers could soon battle enemy forces in face-to-face combat, if a ban on women serving in the most dangerous warfare roles is lifted for the first time.

In keeping with a wider overhaul of equality laws in Britain, military officials are considering whether to allow female troops to be deployed with previously all-male units on perilous missions behind enemy lines.

Armed forces minister Bob Ainsworth said a new study will decide whether to lift a long-standing ban on female soldiers, sailors and air force personnel taking part in close quarter combat.

The review comes amid an examination of gender equality across British …

It's Best to Heed Guidelines on Vitamin Intake

Q. I am on a hectic schedule and can't eat properly, so I takevitamins daily, including 10,000 international units of vitamin A,1,000 milligrams of C, 1,000 international units of E and 1,200milligrams of calcium. My mother says I take too much. Pleasesettle this. I also take cod liver oil.

A. Your calcium intake is fine. The recommendation for vitaminA is 2,600 international units (IU) daily for a woman between 25 and50. For a man, the number is 3,330.

Vitamin A is one of the fat-storage vitamins. Dosages can buildup, causing headaches, vomiting and liver damage, and can interferewith bone metabolism.

Toxic doses of vitamin A are possible, if you take …