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Denton Record-Chronicle
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Monday, November 3, 2014
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BRIEFLY
U.S. AND THE WORLD
Mojave, Calif.
Some say Virgin Galactic
ignored past criticism
The loss of an experimental
spaceship that broke up over the
Mojave Desert, killing one pilot
and seriously injuring another,
has renewed criticism of the way
the craft’s designer and Virgin
Galactic handled a deadly explo-
sion seven years ago.
Space enthusiasts watching
Virgin Galactic’s race to send
tourists on suborbital flights
have complained for years about
a 2007 explosion that killed
three people on the ground and
critically injured three others
during a ground test in the de-
velopment of a rocket engine for
the same vehicle that crashed
Friday.
“Now we’ve got another per-
son killed, another person seri-
ously injured. So we’ve got a lot
that has hurt the industry” said
Geoff1 Daly, an engineer who has
filed complaints with several
federal agencies over the use of
nitrous oxide to power the ship’s
engine.
SpaceShipTwo tore apart
Friday after the craft detached
from the underside of its jet-
powered mothership and fired
its rocket engine for a test flight.
Authorities have not given any
indication what caused the acci-
dent. National Transportation
Safety Board investigators were
on the scene Sunday. The agency
could take up to a year to issue a
final report.
Daly was co-author of a crit-
ical report on the 2007 incident
at Scaled Composites, the com-
pany owned by Northrop
Grumman Corp. that designed
SpaceShipTwo. The report was
critical of Virgin’s claims that ni-
trous oxide was safe to use in en-
gines for passenger flight, and it
complained that the public was
never given a frill accounting of
what happened.
New Orleans
Foundation boosts aid
to stamp out diseases
Philanthropist Bill Gates says
he wants to end malaria in his
lifetime and will give more mon-
ey toward that goal, part of his
broader fight against tropical
diseases that are getting unusual
public attention because of the
Ebola epidemic.
In an interview with The As-
sociated Press and in a speech
Sunday at a global health con-
ference in New Orleans, the
Microsoft co-founder said his
Bill & Melinda Gates Founda-
tion would increase its malaria
program budget by 30 percent,
to more than $200 million per
year. That’s on top of the founda-
tion’s other donations to the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tu-
berculosis and Malaria.
Small steps won’t get the job
done, and scientists don’t have
all the tools they need to erad-
icate malaria, Gates said.
His plan includes developing
a drug or vaccine to purge the
malaria parasite in people who
carry it without showing symp-
toms — a “human reservoir”
that helps spread the disease.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem on edge
over religious shrine
This combustible city at the
center of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict has been edging toward
a new conflagration, with politi-
cians on both sides stoking reli-
gious fervor over an ancient Je-
rusalem shrine sacred to Mus-
lims and Jews.
After months of escalating vi-
olence, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu on Sun-
day made his clearest attempt
yet to cool tempers, saying he
won’t allow changes to a long-
standing ban on Jewish worship
at the Muslim-run site, despite
such demands from ultrana-
tionalists in his coalition.
Netanyahu’s reassurances to
Muslims came just days after
the religious feud over the Old
City shrine, known to Muslims
as the Noble Sanctuary and to
Jews as the Temple Mount,
threatened to spin out of control.
Israel closed the compound
for a day last week, a rare move,
after a Palestinian shot and
wounded a prominent activist
who has campaigned for more
Jewish access to the site.
Angered by the closure, Jor-
dan, the custodian of the mosque
compound, warned it might seek
diplomatic sanctions.
— The Associated Press
‘Death with dignity’ advocate dies
Uncredited/AP
A family photo shows Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-
year-old who planned to take her own life under Oregon’s
Death With Dignity Law. A spokesman said she took lethal
medication prescribed by a doctor and died Sunday.
Woman with brain
cancer goes through
with planned suicide
By Steven Dubois
and Terrence Petty
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — A ter-
minally ill woman who renewed
a nationwide debate about phy-
sician-assisted suicide has end-
ed her young life with the lethal
drugs available under Oregon’s
Death With Dignity Law. Britta-
ny Maynard was 29.
Maynard, who had brain
cancer, died peacefully in her
bedroom Saturday “in the arms
of her loved ones,” said Sean
Crowley, a spokesman for the
advocacy group Compassion &
Choices.
Weeks ago, Maynard had
said she might use the lethal
drugs Nov. \ just a couple weeks
short of her 30th birthday. Last
week, she said she might delay
the day. But she went ahead with
her original plan.
Crowley said Maynard “suf-
fered increasingly frequent and
longer seizures, severe head and
neck pain, and stroke-like symp-
toms. As symptoms grew more
severe, she chose to abbreviate
the dying process by taking the
aid-in-dying medication she
had received months ago.”
Before dying, Maynard tried
to live life as fully as she could.
She and her husband, Dan Diaz,
took a trip to the Grand Canyon
last month — fulfilling a wish on
Maynard’s “bucket list.”
Maynard has been in the na-
tional spotlight for a month since
publicizing that she and her hus-
band had moved to Oregon from
California so that she could take
advantage of this state’s Death
With Dignity Law. The law al-
lows terminally ill patients to end
their lives with lethal drugs pre-
scribed by a doctor.
The debate over physician-
assisted suicide is not new, but
Maynard’s youth and vitality be-
fore she became ill brought the
discussion to a younger genera-
tion.
Working with Compassion &
Choices, Maynard used her sto-
ry to speak out for the right of
terminally ill people like herself
to end their lives on their own
terms.
Maynard’s choice to end her
life has not been without contro-
versy. Some religious groups and
others opposed to physician-as-
sisted suicide have voiced objec-
tions.
Janet Morana, executive di-
rector of the group Priests for
life, said in a statement after
hearing of Maynard’s death:
‘We are saddened by the fact
that this young woman gave up
hope, and now our concern is for
other people with terminal ill-
nesses who may contemplate
following her example.”
Maynard told The Associat-
ed Press last month that she and
her husband and other relatives
accepted her choice.
“I think in the beginning my
family members wanted a mira-
cle; they wanted a cure for my
cancer.” she said. “When we all
sat down and looked at the facts,
there isn’t a single person that
loves me that wishes me more
pain and more suffering.”
Oregon was the first U.S.
state to make it legal for a doctor
to prescribe a life-ending drug to
a terminally ill patient of sound
mind who makes the request.
The patient must swallow the
drug without help; it is illegal for
a doctor to administer it.
More than 750 people in Or-
egon used the law to die as of
Dec. 31,2013. The median age of
the deceased is 7L Only six were
younger than 35.
Islamic
State
group kills
50 Iraqis
By Qassim Abdul-Aahra
and Sameer N. Yacoub
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Islamic State
group extremists lined up and
shot dead at least 50 Iraqi men,
women and children from the
same tribe on Sunday, officials
said, in the latest targeting of the
group by militants.
The killings, all committed in
public, raise the death toll suf-
fered by the Sunni A1 Bu Nimr
tribe in recent days to some 150,
suggesting IS fighters now view
them as a threat. Some Sunnis in
the volatile province had previ-
ously supported the local expan-
sion of IS and other militants in
December.
Meanwhile, separate attacks
around Baghdad killed at least
19 people, authorities said.
Sunday’s attack on the Sunni
tribe took place in the village of
Ras al-Maa, north of Ramadi, the
provincial capital. There, the mil-
itant group killed at least 40 men,
six women and four children, lin-
ing them up and shooting them
one by one, senior tribesman
Sheikh Naim al-Gaoud told The
Associated Press. The militants
also kidnapped another 17 peo-
ple, he said.
An official with the Anbar
governor’s office corroborated
the tribesman’s account. He
spoke on condition of anonym-
ity as he was not authorized to
brief journalists.
Late Friday, IS fighters killed
50 members of the tribe, a day
after killing 48 of them, accord-
ing to various officials who have
spoken to the AP.
IS militants have overrun a
large part of Anbar province in a
push to expand their territory
across Iraq and Syria. Officials
with the Iraqi government, as
well as officials with the U.S.-led
coalition targeting the extremists,
repeatedly have said that Iraqi
tribes are key elements in the
fight against IS since they are able
to penetrate areas inaccessible to
airstrikes and ground forces.
U.N. climate report has dire warnings
Stop emissions or
face ‘irreversible’
change, panel says
By Karl Ritter
Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Den-
mark — Climate change is
happening, it’s almost entirely
man’s fault and limiting its im-
pacts may require reducing
greenhouse gas emissions to
zero this century, the U.N.’s
panel on climate science said
Sunday.
The fourth and final vol-
ume of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change’s gi-
ant climate assessment of-
fered no surprises, nor was it
expected to since it combined
the findings of three reports
released in the past 13 months.
But it underlined the scope
of the climate challenge in
stark terms. Emissions, main-
ly from the burning of fossil
fuels, may need to drop to zero
by the end of this century for
the world to have a decent
chance of keeping the temper-
ature rise below a level that
many consider dangerous.
The IPCC did not say ex-
actly what such a world would
look like but it would likely re-
quire a massive shift to renew-
able sources to power homes,
cars and industries combined
with new technologies to suck
greenhouse gases from the at-
mosphere.
The report warned that
failure to reduce emissions
could lock the world on a tra-
jectory with “irreversible” im-
pacts on people and the envi-
ronment. Some impacts al-
ready being observed included
rising sea levels, a warmer and
more acidic ocean, melting
glaciers and Arctic sea ice and
more frequent and intense
heat waves.
“Science has spoken. There
is no ambiguity in their mes-
sage. Leaders must act. Time
is not on our side,” U.N. Secre-
tary-General Ban Ki-moon
said at the report’s launch in
Copenhagen.
Amid its grim projections,
the report said the tools are
there to set the world on a low-
emissions path and break the
addiction to burning oil, coal
and gas which pollute the at-
mosphere with heat-trapping
C02, the chief greenhouse
gas.
“All we need is the will to
change, which we trust will be
motivated by knowledge and
an understanding of the sci-
ence of climate change,” IPCC
chairman Rajendra Pachauri
said.
The IPCC was set up in
1988 to assess global warming
and its impacts. The report re-
leased Sunday caps Its latest
assessment, a mega-review of
30,000 climate change stud-
ies that establishes with 95-
percent certainty that most of
the warming seen since the
1950s is man-made. The
IPCC’s best estimate is that
just about all of it is man-
made, but it can’t say that with
the same degree of certainty.
Today only a small minor-
ity of scientists challenge the
mainstream conclusion that
climate change is linked to hu-
man activity.
Global Climate Change, a
NASA website, says 97 per-
cent of climate scientists agree
that warming trends over the
past century are very likely due
to human activities.
The American public isn’t
as convinced. A year-old sur-
vey by Pew Research showed
67 percent of Americans be-
lieved global warming is oc-
curring and 44 percent said
the Earth is warming mostly
because of human activity.
Sleep-deprived delegates
approved the final documents
Saturday after a weeklong
line-by-line review that un-
derscored that the IPCC pro-
cess is not just about science.
The reports must be approved
both by scientists and govern-
ments.
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