In the Entertainment/Politics news today:
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“Another flag for Obama?”
by D.S. Hube, February 11, 2008, 17:12 ET
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A guidance counselor of a school in Queens, as well as a student in Massapequa, Long Island, have both died as a result of meningitis - both in the same week. According to authorities, the guidance counselor worked at the Saint Francis Preparatory High School, Fresh Meadow.
Officials are currently trying to track and meet anybody who has had contact with the counselor who died - meningitis can be passed on to another person if there is close contact.
The high school student was called Michael Gruger, he was 17. Authorities say he died from bacterial meningitis. Last Wednesday evening he had flu-like symptoms and went to bed. On Thursday morning his condition was such that he had to be hospitalized - he died that same day in the afternoon. This is the first meningococcal meningitis death in Nassau County since 2004, according to officials.
2 more meningitis deaths in NYC area including boy 8
It is the area's third and fourth meningitis fatalities in three weeks. The boy, from Medford, got sick Wednesday night and went to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Thursday morning.
Meningitis kills woman who worked in Parsippany
? A woman working at State Farm Insurance Company in Parsippany died Thursday after she contracted bacterial meningitis, health officials said today.
A nurse at the company notified health officials Wednesday the woman, whose name and town of residence were withheld by officials, contracted pneumococcal meningitis, one of five types of bacterial meningitis that is not contagious, said Parsippany health officer Wayne Croughn.
No link found in meningitis deaths
Officials investigated whether Burke and a 17-year-old student from Massapequa, Long Island who died a day earlier from the infection were connected but could not find any link.
To contract meningitis from someone infected usually involves spending a prolonged period with that person - such as a roommate. Symptoms include fever, chills, stiff neck, headache, rash, nausea and vomiting.
Hamas said publication of the cartoon was an “offense to the feelings of tens of millions of Muslims. “We call for the trial of those responsible for publishing these drawings in the Danish newspapers,” Hamas said, demanding that “official apologies be made” to Muslims.
It also called on Arab and Muslim governments to “use those means of pressure available to them to put an end to the organised campaigns aimed at spreading hatred against Islam in the name of free expression.”
Florida Attorney General agrees to Muslim advisory group
Agreement follows controversy over 'propaganda' film shown to staffers. In a meeting today with state and national Islamic leaders in Tallahassee, Florida, Attorney General Bill McCollum agreed to establish a Muslim community advisory group.
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Agents have a new weapon in defense of the border
"In this sector we've had 81 attempted assaults so far just since October 1." Last week, an agent was working along the border just before dawn, when smugglers started throwing rocks. Haber tells us, "A situation like that really demands that an agent stay calm and collected."
The agency covers some of their vehicles with metal screening. They're called ‘war wagons.' Agents can spend up to ten hours a day in a vehicle, and at any given moment someone can start rocking them.
Supervisory Patrol Agent Jeff Tanner has been an agent for seven years. "We don't want to have to resort to deadly force when it's not absolutely necessary. This gives us another option to end the assault as quickly as possible."
That's why the Border Patrol is now using the FN303. Tanner describes the newest weapon: "It's a tool designed for stopping assaults. It's here to protect agents and let them go home safe every night."