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Simple mouth-swab test 
produces quick results 
IP. HIV/AIDS from IA 
Edited by Robertson, 
Silence Is Death contains 
essays, poetry and fiction. 
accompanied by Rollins 
photos of the writers. 
The 2008 testing num-
bers show that Silence 
Is Death is a true state-
ment particularly in the 
black community, said 
Robertson, who lives and 
works in Pahokee and was 
diagnosed with AIDS 12 
years ago. 
'We're still dealing with 
the 
stigma. 
especially 
among the black commu-
nity" Robertson said. 
A simple test for 
HIV/AIDS can be admin-
istered by a mouth swab 
that produces results in 
20 minutes. If the swab 
test indicates a positive 
reaction, a second test is 
administered and results 
are returned in two weeks. 
State Sen. Chris Smith, 
D-Fort Lauderdale, is plan-
ning to be tested. 
I want to lead by ex-
ample: said Smith, whose 
district includes the In-
terstate 95 corridor from 
Riviera Beach to Fort 
Lauderdale. Smith will get 
the swab test at "Show You 
Know: an outdoor concert 
in Fort Lauderdale, where 
the only admission price 
is being tested. 
Rollins recalled when 
HIV Test Day Is today 
Here are a few of the locations offenng testing.-For the 
complete list, go to www.PalmBeachPost.com. 
Boynton Beach 
United Deliverance, 
Mobile Unit, Martin 
Luther King Boulevard 
and Seacrest Boulevard, 
8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Call 
Caroline Hill at (561) 
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West Palm Beach 
United Deliverance, 
Mobile Unit. 13th Street 
and Tamarind Avenue, 
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Call 
Caroline Hill at (561) 
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Riviera Beach 
St. lames Missionary 
Baptist Church, 1524 W. 
35th St.. 11 a.m. to 4 
p.m. Free food and drink. 
For more information, call 
211. List of testing sites 
also available online at 
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his friend Robertson 
became ill and tested posi-
tive for AIDS. 
"You know how many T 
cells he had in his body? 
Eleven," said Rollins. The 
infection-fighting T cells 
in a healthy body number 
in the thousands. 
"He had acute lympho-
ma. They said he would 
be dead in two days. He 
never complained, he 
never whimpered. Six 
months later, he started to 
gain weight. He is a walk-
ing, talking miracle." 
Robertson said he was 
lucky to find a two-drug 
cocktail that has held his 
disease in check and al-
lowed him norwal activity. 
Even though Robertson's 
credibility as an advocate 
is impeccable, he says his 
work continues to be re-
peating the same message, 
often to people who don't 
even want to know whether 
they have the virus 
"It's better for you and 
your partners," said Rob-
ertson. "If you know your 
status, you're not unknow-
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tell people that it's better 
to know, to take care of 
yourself and to improve 
your quality of life. That's 
what I want people to 
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ing Oprah Winfrey. He is 
still seeking an interview 
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Summer airfare deals abound 
BUSINESS 
twatiodullueltPosteoemssiness 
THE "ItIRKET REPORT 
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A NASDAQ 
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$69.16 -$1.07 
Stocks mixed on savings rate 
NEW YORK — Stocks ended mixed 
Friday after the Commerce Department 
reported that personal spending, in-
comes and savings all rose in May. The 
trend suggests consumers are being 
extremely careful with their money. That's 
good for the individual, but not great for 
the overall economy in the short-term. 
THE MORNING LINE 
Stanford jailed until ball review 
HOUSTON -Texas financier R. Allen 
Stanford, facing trial on charges he 
swindled investors out of $7 billion, will 
spend at least the weekend behind bars 
after a federal judge Friday ruled to 
delay his release on bond. 
US. District Judge David Hittner 
granted a prosecution request to delay 
a magistrate's order granting Stanford. 
once considered one of the richest men 
in America, a $500,000 bond. 
Hittner, who is presiding over 
Stanford's case, ordered a hearing for 
Monday to hear arguments on whether 
Stanford's bond should be revoked. 
Temporary labs ready for Planck 
RIVETER-The Max Planck Florida 
Institute will move in to its temporary 
labs at Florida Atlantic University's 
Jupiter campus on July 6, the institute 
announced Friday. 
Max Planck's Dr. Claudia Hi'linger, 
vice president of institute development, 
signed the sublease agreement on the 
40,000-square-foot lab alongside FAU 
President Frank Brogan at the universi-
ty's June 10 trustee's meeting The first 
scientist to move in will be Nobel Laure-
ate Dr. Bert Sakmann, whose work 
explaining how charged atoms move 
across neuron cell membranes earned 
him and a colleague the 1901 Nobel 
Prize in Medicine. 
KB Home new orders rise 
LOS ANGELES- Going into its second 
quarter, KB Home had everyone won-
dering whether the home builder could 
duplicate the standout performance of 
its first quarter — posting a 26 percent 
year-over-year increase in new orders for 
the first time in more than' three years. 
The builder didn't even come close. On 
Friday, KB said new orders in the second 
quarter were 31 percent below the sec-
ond quarter last year The comparison to 
the first quarter fared far better, however, 
increasing by 59 percent. 
'Jumbo' mortgages revived 
NEW YORK —JPMorgan Chase & 
Co. and Citigroup Inc. are expanding 
, in "jumbo" mortgages used to buy the 
most expensive homes, helping revive a 
market that shriveled amid a three-year 
jump in homeowner defaults. 
JPMorgan resumed buying new 
jumbo loans made by other lenders 
this month, after halting purchases in 
March. spokesman Tom Kelly said. Bor-
rowers must have checking accounts 
with the bank, he said. Citigroup is 
again offering the loans through inde-
pendent mortgage brokers, spokesman 
Mark Rodgers said. 
Report: Nestle stonewalled FDA 
NEW YORK - Inspection reports from 
a Nestle USA cookie dough factory 
released Friday show the company re-
fused several times to provide Food and 
Drug Administration inspectors with 
complaint logs, pest-control records and 
other information. The records, which 
date back to 2004, were made public after 
Nestle'sToll House refrigerated, prepack-
aged cookie dough was discovered to be 
the likely culprit in an E eon outbreak 
that has sickened 69 people in'.) states, 
according to the latest estimates from 
the federal Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention. The CDC is investigat-
ing the outbreak along with the FDA. 
Gas pump price slides 4 cents 
NEW YORK- Pump prices fell every 
day this week, easing off a summer 
peak near $2.70 a gallon as US. storage 
facilities swelled with unused gaso-
line. The national average for gasoline 
dropped less than a penny Friday to 
$2.658 a gallon, according to auto club 
AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price 
Information Service. Benchmark crude 
for August delivery fell $1.07 cents to 
- settle at $69.16 a barrel on the New York 
Mercantile Exchange 
— Palrealileaell Post staff mid inns 
If you've been hesitating 
to book a flight, it's time 
to act, travel insiders say. 
By JOSHUA FREED 
71.• Associated Press 
MINNEAPOLIS — If you've 
been waiting for the lowest 
possible airfare for a trip this 
summer, it may be time to get 
off the fence. 
Fares have dropped for 
months while travelers held 
off buying tickets because 
they were afraid of losing 
a job or worried about af-
fording even a scaled-back 
vacation. But with July 4 fast 
approaching and jet fuel pric-
es rising, some fares could be 
set to climb again. 
Rick 
Seaney, 
CEO of 
FareCompare.Com, said it 
looks like airlines are trying 
to halt the fare slide, with 
recent hikes of $10 and $20 
round-trip. Still, he wrote 
in an e-mail that the minor 
increases in the past two 
weeks have by no means 
completely 
curtailed 
the 
flood of cheap airline" tickets 
from the first half of the year. 
In fact, AirTran recently put 
out fares that hit new market 
lows on hundreds of routes, 
he wrote. 
Memorial Day usually sig-
nals the end of the best time 
to book travel, but this year 
was different. With fewer 
people traveling, the sales 
continued. 
A 'Il-avelocity 
survey shows fares down 17 
percent for travel between 
Memorial Day weekend and 
Labor Day. 
The travel Web site also 
says travelers are booking 
86 days before departure in-
stead of 90 days. That might 
not sound like a big deal, but 
Genevieve Shaw Brown, se-
nior editor at the online travel 
Web site, said it takes lots of 
people booking later to move 
the needle that much. 
Tom Parsons, CEO of 
discount travel Web 
site 
Bestfares.com, recommends 
making a top-10 list and 
checking fares until you find 
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Fares for travel between now and 
Labor Day are down 17 percent, 
according to a Travelocity survey. 
Walmart upgrades 
APRIL L 'ROAN 'The Assocaled Press 
Steve Cantrell of Rogers, Ark., shops for produce at a renovated Walmart. The company's $1.6 billion 
remodeling program of 3,600 stores will lower shelves and widen aisles to give clearer paths. 
Retailer redoes stores, stock 
for high-spending customers 
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO 
The Associated Press 
The recession steered 
a new type of customer to 
Walmart — deeper in the 
pockets and suddenly look-
tng for bargains. Now the 
world's largest retailer has 
to figure out how to keep 
that customer when the 
economy recovers. 
So Walmart is bringing 
in more brand names, ditch-
ing scores of other products 
and even redesigning hun-
dreds of stores to give them 
wider aisles, better lighting 
and better sight lines. 
It's more than just a cos-
metic upgrade. That new 
breed of customer also 
spends about 40 percent 
more than the traditional 
Walmart 
shopper, 
and 
the retailer senses an op-
portunity to accelerate its 
growth. 
Take Aditya Krishnan, 
a 42-year-old lawyer from 
San Jose, Calif. He used 
to buy only light bulbs at 
Walmart but now finds him-
self spending $150 a month 
there, including buying 
workout clothes he used to 
get at Macy's. 
"If I am able to get good 
stuff at Walmart, and I am 
able to save money, why 
would I change?" Krishnan 
asked. "I am seeing better 
brands. and the shopping 
experience is better" than 
before. 
Walmart says that's no 
Big box finances 
Wal-Mart is trying to retain 
customers who turned to it 
dunng the current economic 
crisis by remodeling stores 
and upgrading inventory. 
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accident. It's placing a big 
bet on the redesign of most 
of its 3.600 stores, started 
last fall. This fiscal year. it 
plans to redo up to 600 at a 
cost from $1.6 billion to $1.7 
billion. 
The prototype for the 
remodeling includes lower 
shelves to make it easier to 
seeacross the store, better 
lighting and wider aisles. 
Expanded electronics ar-
eas will include interactive 
displays to test video games 
and portable gadgets. 
The store now carries 
brands like Danskin and 
Better Homes and Gardens, 
and its electronics section 
now stocks pricier prod-
ucts like Palm Inc.'s well-
received new Pre smart 
phone. 
Whether it all works, Wall 
Street analysts say, depends 
in part on how quickly the 
behemoth retailer can re-
model and keep shoppers 
satisfied. Concerns about 
how Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 
will keep its momentum 
have sent its stock down 13 
percent this year. 
The early signs are 
positive, putting pressure 
on the rest of the industry. 
Target Corp.. whose sales 
have been hampered by its 
emphasis on nonessentials 
like trendy jeans, is expand-
ing its fresh food offerings. 
Best Buy Co. is beefing up 
customer service. 
"I believe a lot of what 
(Wal-Mart) is doing is work-
ing." said Joseph Feldman, 
a retail analyst at 'I'elsey 
Advisory Group. "They are 
a threat to everyone." 
Other 
discounters, 
including TJX Cos. Inc.. 
which sells name-brand 
fashions and home furnish-
ings, 
Costco 
Wholesale 
Corp. and BJ's Wholesale 
Club Inc., are focusing on 
how to hold on to new cus-
tomers lured by low prices 
during the recession. 
But Wal-Mart has a tall 
reputation to overcome. 
Stimulus 
money 
winds up 
in savings 
People socked away 
cash at the highest 
rate it: 15 years. 
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER 
The Associated Pens 
%WASHING-TON — House-
holds pushed their savings 
rate to the highest level in 
more than 15 years in May 
as a big boost•in incomes 
from 
the 
government's • 
stimulus 
program 
was 
devoted more to bolstering 
nest eggs than increased 
spending. 
The higher savings rate 
is healthy in the long term, 
economists said. But with-
out 
vigorous consumer 
spending, the government 
may have to do more to 
revive the economy, pos-
sibly through further tax 
breaks and spending 
The Commerce De-
partment said Friday that 
consumer spending rose 
0.3 percent in May, in line 
with expectations. But in-
comes jumped 1.4 percent, 
the biggest gain in a year 
and easily outpacing the 
03 percent increase that 
economists expected. 
The savings rate; which 
was hovering near zero in 
early 2008, surged to 6.9 
percent, the highest level 
since December 1993. 
The income increase 
reflected temporary fac-
tors relating to the $787 
billion economic stimulus 
program that President 
Obama pushed through 
Congress in February to 
fight the recession. That 
program included 
one-
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A man empties a bag of toms 
into a counting machine at TD 
Sank in Fairless Hills, Pa. 
Feds set warrant process for bailed-out banks 
By DANIEL WAGNER 
and MARTIN CRUTSINGER 
The Associated Pens 
WASHINGTON 
— 
The 
Obama administration on 
Friday established its process 
for pricing billions of dollars' 
worth of warrants that large 
banks must repurchase to 
exit the $700 billion bailout 
program. 
The Treasury Department 
said the banks will make the 
first offer for the warrants. 
Treasury then will decide to 
sell at that price or make a 
counteroffer. If the govern-
ment and a bank cannot 
agree on a fair price for the 
warrants, the two sides will 
have the right to use private 
appraisers. 
Treasury also could auc-
tion to private bidders war-
rants from banks that choose 
not to repurchase them. 
The 
banking 
industry 
endorsed the plan, but crit-
ics said it could shortchange 
taxpayers in the long run. 
The warrants give the gov-
ernment the right to purchase 
shares of bailed-out banks 
at a set price in 10 years. If 
stock prices have risen by 
then, taxpayers could reap a 
healthy profit. 
But many of the banks 
already have paid 5 percent 
dividends on their Trea-
sury investments and have 
bristled at paying an extra 
fee for a program they were 
pressured to join, 
Treasury has faced pres-
sure from Congress to get 
a good return for taxpayers, 
and from banks not to penal-
ize them just as the industry 
stabilizes. Friday's announce-
ment reflected a middle path: 
The purchase prices may 
be lower than the warrants 
would fetch on the open mar-
ket, but they still will cost the 
banks a substantial amount. 
-Treasury faces a real di-
lemma here," said banking 
consultant Bert Ely. "Taxpay-
ers ought to make some mon-
ey for the risk they took here, 
but they were taking that risk 
for a lot less time than anyone 
anticipated." 
Some of the nation's largest 
banks, including JPMorgan 
Chase and Morgan Stanley. 
have been eagerly awaiting 
Treasury's decision. They 
were among 10 banks that 
repaid a total of $68 billion in 
bailout money last week. 
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• 
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Money that would go to upgrading 
twins will go to avoid service cuts. 
By MICHAEL TURNBELL 
Sun Sochi's, 
• POMPANO BEACH - Tri-Rail will limp 
along for another year without any cuts 
to its schedule. 
The board that oversees the commuter 
train voted Friday morning to tap into $8 
million in county gas tax money to avoid 
drastic cuts in service this fall. 
The money is normally used to pay for 
things like locomotives, new cars and sta-
tion improvements. 
Instead, it will be spent just to keep the 
trains running. 
Tri-Rail's budget is taking a $9 million 
hit next year because Broward, Palm 
Beach and Miami-Dade counties plan to 
cut their annual subsidies used to run the 
trains. 
While riders don't want to lose service, 
they also say passenger cars need to be 
upgraded or replaced. 
What I don't see anyone discussing is 
that the trains have been breaking down 
for the last couple of weeks because of 
the heat." said Steven Daun of Boca 
Raton, who rides the train on weekdays 
to Miami. 
"Many of the air conditioners in many 
of the cars either don't work or circulate 
warm air. Tri-Rail has become the epito-
me of what mass transit shouldn't be." 
Without additional cash for operations. 
Ill -Rail faced slashing the number of 
weekday trains from 50 to 30 and cancel-
ing all service on weekends and holidays 
starting Oct. 5. 
Local governments weigh 
cuts to balance budgets 
Pa TAXES from 18 
values would drop 13.5 
percent. 
To collect the same 
amount of money this year 
as last year, the county 
would have to raise its 
property tax rate 14 9 
percent. 
Meanwhile, 
county 
budget-writers 
learned 
this week that the state 
will pass down about $8 
million less in revenues 
and sales taxes this year, 
bringing state contribu-
tions to 2001 levels. 
"We 
can't 
catch 
a 
break," said Liz Bloeser, 
the county budget direc-
tor. 
The year stands in 
stark contrast to almost 
any prior year in Florida. 
where it seemed property 
values 
would 
increase 
as sure as the sun would 
rise. Real numbers always 
surpassed 
conservative 
expectations. County and 
city leaders made an an-
nual habit of slashing tax 
rates. And still, more tax 
money rolled in, as values 
surged. 
"This is exactly 100 
percent different than the 
way it used to be," Bloeser 
said. "It's exactly stair-
stepping back down the 
way ste went up." 
Cities 
are 
sharing 
in the pain. This year's 
hardest-hit appear to be 
Loxahatchee Groves, Lake 
Worth and Greenacres. 
whose property values 
are expected to plunge 26 
percent. 24 percent and 22 
percent, according to lat-
est estimates. 
Only Briny Breezes is 
expected to see an uptick 
— of about 2 percent, the 
figures show. 
Resilient municipalities 
include Pahokee and Palm 
Beach, where values are 
expected to dip just 3 per-
cent, the figures show. • 
North 
Palm 
Beach, 
which expects to see a 
9.6 percent drop in values, 
expects to make further 
Big tumble 
Palm Beach County's property tax base shrank 12.9 percent 
this past year, the worst decline in a century, Properly 
Appraiser Gary Nikolits said. The town of Loxahatchee 
Groves saw the sharpest estimated decline, losing more 
than a quarter of its value. 
Local averameet 
2008 
2009 
 Change* 
taxable value 
taxable value
Atlantis 
r $476.9 nifon i $435.6 melon 
-8.7% 
Belle Glade 
5337.0 million 
5314.4 ninon 
6.7% 
Boca Ratan 
I 
319.5 billon 
317.7 011ion 
-9.3% 
Boynton Beach 
55.6 Dillon 
Beam Bream 
I 338.1 million I 338.9 alien 
2.3% 
Cloud Lake 
I 
$7 2 million 
16.0 million 
-16 9% 
Delray Bach 
I 
$8.1 Wien I 
37.0 dlfon 
.14.4% 
Glen Ridge 
God 
Greenacres 
Gulf Stream 
$4.6 bitten 
-18.2% 
519.0 million 
$17.5 million 
$148.3 million 13139.6 million 
$1.9 billion 
$1.5 billion 
5746.7 mace i $703.0 ream 
$85.5 
$76.1 rrallion 
82% 
-5.9% 
-22.5% 
-5.9% 
-11.0% 
Highland Beach 
$2.1 ban I 
S1.9 than 
-10.2% 
Hypokno 
kno Beach 
Jupiter 
Amiter 'Mat Calory 
$245.7 million 
1 3223.9 melon 
-8.9% 
Lake Clarke Shores 
5230.1 million 
5199 4 milliOn 
-13 3% 
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Judge orders Jeffrey Epstein plea deal documents unsealed, but attorney seeks stay 
By MICHELE DARGAN 
Daily News Staff Writer 
Thursday, June 25, 2009 
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath ruled today that the federal government's non-prosecution 
agreement for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be unsealed Monday. 
However, defense attorney Jack Goldberger immediately handed up a motion asking Colbath 
to keep the ruling in abeyance until after he appeals the ruling to the Fourth District Court of 
Appeal. 
Colbath will hear arguments at 9 a.m. Friday. 
The agreement was sealed when Epstein, of Palm Beach, pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two 
felonies: procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. 
As part of Epstein's state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute 
Epstein on federal charges as long as he fulfills all requirements of his sentence and 
probation. The federal non-prosecution agreement has been under seal in state court. 
There are more than a dozen civil lawsuits — both state and federal — pending against 
Epstein. All contain similar allegations: Epstein, through his employees and assistants, 
brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home on El Brillo Way for erotic massages and 
sometimes sex. 
Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards, who represents three of Epstein's victims, 
asked Colbath to unseal the federal agreement to the public. Edwards asked that the records 
be unsealed on behalf of one of the victims, E.W. An attorney for The Palm Beach Post also 
asked that the records be unsealed. 
Edwards and his clients have seen the agreement after a federal judge ruled that they are 
allowed to see it. But that ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from 
disclosing the terms to anyone else. 
Edwards has said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material 
witnesses" relative to his cases. 
Radaronline.com has reported that Epstein has "secretly been helping the feds unravel a 
Ponzi scheme" related to the June 2008 indictment of two former managers of Bear Stearns 
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Mortgage Investment Fund. Epstein's rep, Howard Rubenstein, confirmed last year that 
Epstein is "Major Investor No. 1" in the indictment, which says he lost about $57 million. 
Goldberger filed court papers asking that the documents stay sealed for the following 
reasons: "to prevent a serious imminent threat to the fair, impartial and orderly administration 
of justice; to protect a compelling government interest; to avoid substantial injury to innocent 
third parties and to avoid substantial injury to a party by disclosure of matters protected by a 
common law and privacy right, not generally inherent in these specific type of proceedings, 
sought to be closed." 
Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after serving less 
than 13 months of his 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation 
of prostitution. 
Ted Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, confirmed his 
release date Tuesday. 
Epstein's projected release date had been Sept. 24, but gain time — which includes his 
participation in a work-release program — moves the date up to July 22, Barbera said. 
Epstein has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, where he is allowed out of the 
stockade six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., to go to his West Palm Beach office, the 
Florida Science Foundation, monitored by an ankle bracelet and accompanied by a deputy. 
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Epstein 
Unseal the Epstein deal 
A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher 
who preyed on girls almost 40 years 
younger already has received too 
many breaks from the system. He 
doesn't deserve another. 
In July 2008, at the age of 55 and 
after paying the equiva-
lent of a small country's 
gloss domestic product 
in legal fees, Jeffrey 
Epstein escaped federal 
charges and pleaded 
guilty in state court to 
a pair of charges related 
to his luring five girls 
— ages 14 to 17 — to 
his house. The girls undressed and 
massaged him in return for $200 to 
$300. He's serving only 18 months 
in the Palm Beach County Jail, and 
he's serving only nights. And now he 
wants just one more favor. 
When Epstein entered his state 
plea, the terms of his federal deal 
were sealed from the public. That 
violated normal procedures. Attor-
neys for some of the victims, who 
have filed civil lawsuits, want that 
plea deal unsealed, probably because 
the details would help their cases. 
But given the nature of this case, 
there's also a public interest. One con-
dition of the federal plea, for example, 
was that he take the state deal. That's 
why The Post also is seeking to have 
the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers, 
Palm Beach sex offender 
deserves no mare breaks. 
of course, want it kept secret. Last 
week, a Palm Beach County judge 
set a hearing for June 25. 
Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger 
claims that the file should stay sealed 
to protect the "orderly administration 
of justice" and "protect a compelling 
government interest." Oh, and third 
parties might get hurt. The compel-
ling interest is Epstein's, and there 
is no privacy issue since the victims 
themselves are making the request. 
Palm Beach police spent 11 
months investigating Epstein, only 
to see then-State Attorney Barry 
Krischer kick the case to a grand 
jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when 
one of Epstein's gold-plated attor-
neys, Alan Dershowitz, announced 
that some of the victims had posted 
MySpace comments about their alco-
hol and marijuana use. 
Epstein's "best" defense has been 
that he didn't know the girls were 
underage. "How he verified that," 
Mr. Goldberger said, "I don't know." 
Investigators found a high school 
transcript in Epstein's house. He 
didn't know? The public should know 
what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what 
the system did for hint. 
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In 2003, China drew justified 
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the country's economy. The issue 
showed the conflict between the 
information-repressing China and 
the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. 
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Jeffrey Epstein is in the county stockade. 
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
WEST 
PALM 
BEACH 
— The line of civil law-
suits against billionaire 
financier Jeffrey Epstein 
has grown again, with 
the filing of at least the 
12th claim by a young 
woman who also says 
she was lured to his Palm 
Beach mansion as a teen 
and sexually abused. 
Prominent Miami at-
torney Robert Josefsberg 
filed the most recent 
federal lawsuit last week, 
on behalf of the Jane Doe 
101 who allegedly visited 
Epstein a few times while 
17 years old and was paid 
S200 at least once for her 
time there, according to 
the complaint. 
The lawsuit mirrors 
facts alleged in other 
suits: that Epstein had a 
predilection for teenage 
girls, 
identified 
poor, 
vulnerable 
ones 
and 
lured them to his home 
via other young women. 
The teens describe as-
cending a staircase lined 
with nude photographs 
of young girls and to the 
spa room where Epstein 
would appear in a small 
towel. 
Miami attorney Adam 
Horowitz, 
who 
repre-
sents six other Jane 
Does, said Monday that 
the cases are still in the 
"discovery" 
process, 
with plaintiffs request-
ing from Epstein phone 
records, pictures, videos. 
Horowitz said Epstein is 
refusing to turn over the 
materials, citing a Fifth 
Amendment right not to 
do so. "Stonewalling and 
delaying," Horowitz said. 
"I'm not surprised." 
Horowitz said he has 
asked US. District Judge 
Kenneth Marra to order 
Epstein to turn over the 
information. 
A local attorney for 
Epstein, Jack Goldberger, 
did not respond to a re-
quest seeking comment. 
Epstein 
was 
jailed 
in July 2008 following a 
plea deal where he was 
sentenced to 18 months 
in jail for solicitation of 
prostitution and procur-
ing a person under the 
age of 18 for prostitu-
tion and must register 
as a sex offender. He is 
serving his sentence at 
the Palm Beach County 
Stockade, according to 
jail records, and is due 
out in September. 
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illionairc sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is spending his nights at the county stockade, but that hasn't prevented 
him from getting sued yet again. 
Only this time, it's not by a very young suburban girl who performed sex acts for him. 
The 56-year-old massage-loving Epstein is now accused of stifling a contractor who built a larger dock for his S10.7 million Palm Beach 
home and dredged the Intracoastal to allow access to bigger ships. 
The West Palm-based Palm Beach Marine Construction filed in federal court here. 
"Ile owes $105,000 for the dredging and my client has been trying to collect since August." said Alexander Lian, the attorney for Palm 
Beach Marine. "Apparently, Mr. Epstein blew his top when he saw the bill. Still, 100 grand shouldn't really matter to him. 
"This happens often with wealthy people. They have the time and the money to take someone to court and try to get a better deal.-
So far. Epstein paid the contract's original $30,000. But an Epstein gofer, according to the lawsuit, told the contractor to keep dredging and 
the final bill swelled. At the time, Epstein was unavailable. He'd just started serving 18 months for his guilty plea on two prostitution-related 
charges including for procuring a woman younger than IS. 
Lian's filing shows the contractor also placed a lien on Epstein's home. 
The man who repped Epstein when the contract was signed. Douglas Shoettle. said he had no comment. 
Epstein is also being sued by two of the girls he is accused of fondling. They say they were dropped off at his home and paid to perform 
various sexual services. 
A friend of former prez Bill Clinton and magician David Copperfield. Wall Street prodigy Epstein was facing decades in prison after Palm 
Beach Police found out he did business with girls as young as 14. But his guilty plea bought him a lighter sentence and a registration as sex 
offender. 
Already, Epstein is allowed to leave the stockade even moming to work at his office. He's supposed to return to the county jail every night 
according to State Attorney spokesman Mike Edmondson. 
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pleading guilty to procuring teens for prostitution 
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 
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WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm 
Beach pleaded guilty last year to procuring teens for prostitution, his case detoured 
around local and state rules regarding the sealing of court documents. 
At a plea conference on state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a prosecutor huddled at the bench 
and decided that a deal Epstein had struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges should be sealed, 
according to a transcript of the hearing. 
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But Florida rules of 
judicial administration, as 
well as rules of the Palm 
Beach County court 
system, require public 
notification that a court 
document has been or will 
be sealed, meaning kept 
from public view. The 
rules also require a judge 
to find a significant reason 
to seal, such as protecting 
a trade secret or a 
compelling government 
interest. 
Yet no notification or 
reason occurred in 
Epstein's case, according 
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agreement with the U.S. 
Attorney's Office, struck in 
September 2007, as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual." 
And it was "a significant inducement" for Epstein to accept the state's deal, observed the state judge who 
accepted his plea, County Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo. 
Epstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal and state courts filed by young women who 
said they had sex with him and now are seeking damages. 
Attorneys for some of those women want Epstein's agreement with federal prosecutors unsealed and will 
ask Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to do so today. 
"It is against public policy for these documents to have been sealed and hidden from public scrutiny. As 
a member of the public, E.W. has the right to have these documents unsealed," wrote former Circuit 
Judge Bill Berger, now in private practice and representing one of the women. 
The Palm Beach Post also will ask Colbath to unseal the agreement. Post attorney Deanna Shullman will 
argue that the public has a right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal. 
According to various media accounts, Epstein moved in circles that included President Clinton, Donald 
Trump and Prince Andrew. "International Moneyman of Mystery," declared a 2002 New York magazine 
profile of Epstein. 
Epstein, 56, is in the Palm Beach County Stockade, serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty 
nearly a year ago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. 
He is allowed out from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., escorted by a deputy, said Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office 
spokeswoman Teri Barbera. 
During a Palm Beach Police Department investigation, five victims and 17 witnesses gave statements. 
They told of young women brought by his assistants to Eptstein's mansion on El Brillo Way for 
massages and sexual activity, and then being paid afterward. 
At Epstein's plea conference last year, his attorney, Jack Goldberger, and then-Assistant State Attorney 
Lanna Belohlavek approached Pucillo in a sidebar conference. Pucillo, who had left the bench nine 
years earlier, was there as a senior judge filling in temporarily. 
According to a transcript, Goldberger told Pucillo that Epstein had entered a confidential agreement with 
the U.S. Attorney's Office, in which federal prosecutors brokered not pursuing charges against him if he 
pleaded guilty in state court, Pucillo then said she wanted a sealed copy of the agreement filed in his 
case, and Goldberger concurred that he wanted it sealed. Belohlavek later signed off on it. 
The Florida Supreme Court has expressed "serious concern" and launched an all-out inquiry into sealing 
procedures across the state following media reports in 2006 of entire cases being sealed and 
disappearing from court records. 
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"The public's constitutional right of access to court records must remain inviolate, and this court is fully 
committed to safeguarding this right." the justices wrote in their final report. 
Epstein's office on Tuesday referred any questions to Goldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo 
also has declined to comment, citing a judge's inability to discuss an open case. 
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A federal judge has ruled that a non-prosecution document under which the government 
agreed not to pursue federal charges against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will remain under 
seal — at least for now. 
The U.S. Attorney's Office and Epstein's lawyers reached the agreement before Epstein 
pleaded guilty to state felony charges, and the document is under seal in Epstein's state 
criminal file. 
Representing two of Epstein's victims, attorney Brad Edwards asked to have the document 
unsealed as part of his federal lawsuit against the Manhattan money manager. Although 
Edwards and his victims have seen the agreement, Edwards says in his pleadings that the 
government has "inaccurately described the agreement ... creating a false impression that the 
agreement protects the victims." 
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the claims, even if true, haven't damaged 
Edwards' case. 
"If and when such alleged mischaracterizations become relevant to an issue to be decided by 
the court, the parties will be given the opportunity to advance their positions and the court will 
resolve the issue," he wrote. "If disclosure of the agreement will be required for the court to 
resolve this issue, appropriate disclosure will be ordered." 
Seeking to keep the agreement sealed, Assistant U.S. Attorney 
argued that the 
agreement is not part of any case before Marra. 
"The non-prosecution agreement has never been filed under seal in federal court," he wrote. 
He also denied that the agreement has been inaccurately described. 
Marra sided with 5on the argument that the agreement was not filed in federal court "under 
seal or otherwise. 
On Aug. 14, Marra ruled that the non-prosecution agreement would be unsealed for Edwards 
and any of the victims who want to see it. But the ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who 
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sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. 
In his motion to unseal, Edwards said he wants to be able to discuss the terms of the 
agreement with other victims and their attorneys as well as with other victims' rights groups 
such as the National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys. 
The desire to discuss the agreement with third parties is not justification for unsealing the 
document, Marra ruled. 
"If a specific tangible need arises in a civil case ... relief should be sought in that case," he 
wrote. 
Epstein, 56, is serving 18 months in jail for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for 
prostitution. 
Under the agreement, federal prosecutors will defer their decision on whether to prosecute 
Epstein on federal charges until 90 days after Epstein completes all requirements of his state 
sentence. If he abides by all court conditions and restrictions, the federal case would be 
dropped. 
In addition to the state criminal case, there are nine federal and seven state lawsuits pending 
against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: The Manhattan money manager, through his 
employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home at 358 El Brillo Way 
for erotic massages and sometimes sex. 
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WEST l'Al/bt BEACH — When wealthy 
money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm 
Beach pleaded guilty last year to pro-
curing teens for prostitution, his case 
detoured around local and 
state rules regarding the 
sealing of court documents. 
At a plea conference on 
the state charges, a judge, 
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Obama's budget rules proposal not exactly `pay as you go 
The Associated Press 
WASHINGTON 
— 
President 
Obama on lbesday proposed bud-
get rules that would allow Congress 
to borrow tens of billions of dollars 
and put the nation deeper in debt 
to jump-start the administration's 
emerging health care overhaul. 
The "pay-as-you-go" budget for-
mula plan is significantly weaker 
than a proposal Obama issued with 
little fanfare last month. 
It woukl carve out about $2.5 
trillion worth of exemptions for 
Obama's priorities over the next 
decade. His health care reform plan 
also would get a green light to run 
big deficits in its early years. But 
over a decade. Congress would 
have to come tip with money to 
HIS plan would allow big deficits 
for a health care overhaul. 
cover those early deficits. 
Obama's latest proposal for ad-
dressing deficits urges Congress to 
pass a law requiring lawmakers to 
pay for new spending programs and 
tax cuts without further adding to 
deficits projected to total about $10 
trillion over the next decade. 
If new spending or tax reduc-
tions are not offset, there would be 
automatic cuts in so-called manda-
tory programs — although Social 
Security payments and the Med-
icaid health care program for poor 
House passes 
clunkers' bill 
to aid car sales 
The law would 
encourage driven 
to conserve fuel. 
Th. Associated Hess 
WASHINGTON — The 
House on Tuesday ap-
proved a "cash for clunk-
ers" bill that aims to 
boost new auto sales by 
allowing consumers to 
turn in their gas-guzzling 
cars and trucks for votich-
ers worth up to $4.500 to-
ward more fuel-efficient 
vehicles. 
President Obaina has 
encouraged 
Congress 
to 
approve 
consumer 
incentives for new car 
purchases as part of the 
government's work to re-
structure General Motors 
and Chrysler. 
The House approved 
the bill 298-119. 
Local Democrats Al-
cee Hastings, Ron Klein 
and Robert Wexler sided 
with the majority. 
Republican Tom Roo-
ney voted against the 
measure. 
Supporters pushed for 
the measure to stimulate 
car sales and increase 
the fleet of fuel-efficient 
vehicles on the nation's 
highways. 
The auto industry has 
sought 
the 
incentives 
after months of poor auto 
sales. In May, overall 
sales were 34 percent 
lower than a year ago. 
"Stimulating sales is 
the only way to get the 
auto industry back on its 
led," said Rep. Donald 
Manzullo, 
General Motors Corp. 
and Chrysler LLC have 
received billions of dol-
lars in government aid 
and the entire auto indus-
try has watched car sales 
plummet during the past 
year In May, overall sales 
were 34 percent lower 
than a year ago. 
"Our 
industry 
has 
been stuck in neutral and 
really has not started to 
move," said Larry Kull, 
president 
of Marlton. 
N.J.-based 
Burns Kull 
Automotive Group, which 
includes General Motors, 
Honda and Toyota dealer-
ships. 
The 
vehicle 
scrap-
page bill has been under 
negotiations for months 
as lawmakers try to find 
a solution that boosts 
car sales while provid-
ing some environmental 
benefits. 
Proponents have point-
ed to similar programs 
in Europe that have en-
hanced auto sales. 
Opponents said the 
bill failed to include in-
centives for used vehicles 
and represented an ar-
tificial incentive for the 
industry. 
"It's defying the laws of 
economics and saying we 
can manufacture enough
of a demand to keep t 
auto industry afloat," said 
Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. 
Separately, House and 
Senate 
appropriators 
were discussing provid-
ing $1 billion to a supple-
mental war funding bill 
for the "cash for clunkers" 
program, which aims to 
generate about 1 million 
new auto sales. 
Since 
the 
yearlong 
vehicle program is ex-
pected to cost $4 billion, 
lawmakers would attempt 
to find the additional 
money later this year. 
Bird alerts little help 
for aircraft, pilot says 
The Associated Pins 
WASHINGTON — Short-
ly after takeoff, the pilot 
of Flight 1549 remarked 
on two things almost im-
mediately: a breathtak-
ing view of the Hudson 
River and the sickening 
thump of birds hitting his 
engines. 
Warnings about the 
birds probably would not 
have helped, Capt. Ches-
ley 
Sullenberger 
told 
federal safety officials 
lbesday as they looked 
for ways to prevent a re-
currence. 
in my experience, 
the warnings we get are 
general in nature and not 
specific and therefore 
have limited usefulness," 
Sullenberger said at a 
hearing by the National 
Transportation 
Safety 
Board. 
The 
board 
began 
three days of hearings 
into safety issues arising 
from the Jan. 15 accident, 
including efforts to pre-
vent bird strikes and 
the ability of engines to 
withstand collisions with 
large birds. Other issues 
include whether Federal 
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Sullenberger 
Aviation Ad-
ministration 
aircraft 
standards 
are adequate 
to 
protect 
passengers 
in the event 
of a forced water lapding. 
In the case of US 
Airways Flight 1549, the 
Airbus A320 suffered a 
rupture near the tailcone 
that sent water gushing 
into the cabin after its 
forced landing on the 
Hudson River. All 155 
aboard managed to es-
cape the sinking craft. 
A cockpit voice record-
er transcript released 
by the board showed 
Sullenberger 
and 
co-
pilot Jeffrey Skiles were 
admiring their surround-
ings less than a minute 
before their plane struck 
a flock of Canada geese 
and lost thrust in both 
engines. 
Sullenberger told the 
board that he didn't at-
tempt to return to New 
York's LaGuardia Airport 
because 
he 
thought, 
"I cannot afford to be 
wrong." 
and disabled would be exempt and 
cuts to Medicare would be sharply 
limited. 
"The 'pay-as-you-go rule is very 
simple," Obama said. "Congress 
can only spend a dollar if it saves a 
dollar elsewhere." 
Last month, Obama suggested 
a tougher plan that would prohibit 
Congress from swelling the deficit 
in one year by putting off until later 
years the tax increases or spending 
cuts to pay for it. 
The requirement for legislation 
to be financed over the coming 
decade generally mirrors existing 
congressional rules and reflects the 
likelihood that Obama's health care 
plan will add many billions of dollars 
to the deficit in the early years..
Senate hastens hearings on Sotomayor 
The Associated Press 
WASHINGTON — Senate 
Democrats, 
determined 
to seat Sonia Sotomayor 
on the Supreme Court 
quickly, announced mid-
July hearings on her 
nomination Tuesday in 
a surprising move that 
angry Republicans said 
clouded the prospects for 
the nomination and other 
legislative business. 
GOP leaders lashed out 
after Sen. Patrick Leahy, 
D-Vt., the Senate Judiciary 
Committee 
chairman. 
announced that he would 
convene the hearings July 
13 — considerably earlier 
than Republicans wanted 
— saying the date pres-
ents a "fair and adequate" 
schedule in line with the 
timeline for past Supreme 
Court nominees. 
Sen. Mitch McConnell, 
R-Ky., called the Demo-
crats tactics "heavy-hand-
ed" and urged them to 
reconsider the schedule. 
President Obama has 
pressed the Senate to vote 
on confirming Sotomayor 
to the high court before it 
leaves for recess in August. 
'I saw a fire, and things just started exploding.' 
JANE LLE LYNCH. an eight-year worker at the Want 
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A ConAgra Foods plant at Gamer, N.C., exploded Tuesday, killing two and injuring dozens. 
Plant blast kills 2 workers 
The Slim Jim meat products facility's wall collapses. 
The Associated Press 
GARNER NC. — Police say they 
have found the bodies of two people in 
the rubble of a Slim Jim meat products 
plant that was rocked by an explosion 
'Tuesday. 
Garner police Sgt. Joe Binns said 
lbesday night that the bodies had not 
yet been recovered. 
The search continued for a third 
person believed to have been inside 
the plant, Binns said. 
More than 40 people were taken 
to hospitals after the blast at the 
ConAgra Foods Inc. plant just south 
of Raleigh. The explosion blew work-
ers off their feet and collapsed a wall, 
crushing parked cars. Three firefight-
ers needed medical attention after 
inhaling ammonia gases. 
The explosion left gaping holes in 
the roof. An exterior wall collapsed, 
smashing cars parked next to the 
500,000-square-foot build i ng. 
Some of the more than 300 employ-
ees on duty described chaos after the 
explosion. Authorities could not say 
exactly where in the plant the blast 
happened or what caused it. 
1 was getting ready to pick up a 
piece of meat off the line, and I felt it 
— the percussion. And you could feel 
it in my chest, and my ears popped," 
said worker Chris Woods. "One of the 
guys I was working with got blown 
back. His hat flew backwards." 
Janette Lynch, who has worked at 
the plant for eight years, said she saw 
flames and ran. She planned to leave 
through the cutting department, 
but the roof started to collapse. She 
went in the other direction, escaping 
through a warehouse. 
1 saw a fire, and things just started 
exploding," Lynch said. 
ConAgra Foods spokesman Dave 
Jackson said someone called the plant 
over the weekend, threatening to start 
a fire. He said company officials don't 
believe the threat was connected to 
the explosion. 
Four people were in critical condi-
tion at UNC Hospitals with burns over 
as much as 60 percent of their bodies, 
said Dr. Charles Cairns, professor and 
chairman of the department of emer-
gency medicine at the University of 
North Carolina. 
The 
Environmental 
Protection 
Agency was on the scene to monitor 
the air, but officials said there was no 
threat to people living near the plant. 
Abortion 
doctor's 
clinic 
shuttered 
The Washitegtox Post 
CHICAGO - The family 
of slain abortion provider 
George Tiller announced 
Tuesday that it will not 
:coign his Kansas clinic, 
eliminating one of the few 
medical practices in the 
country that performed 
abortions late in pregnan-
cies. 
Abortion 
opponents 
welcomed 
the 
closure, 
while supporters of a 
woman's right to choose 
lamented the decision as 
a product of violence and 
harassment. 
A prominent Colorado 
abortion provider said he 
understands the family's 
decision but fears that the 
news, announced 10 days 
after Tiller's slaying, will 
inspire tactics designed 
to drive others out of busi-
ness. 
it's hideous that it's 
come to this," said War-
ren Hern, who is among a 
handful of doctors known 
to perform abortions late 
in a pregnancy. "The anti-
abortion movement got 
exactly what they wanted. 
For the last 20 or 30 years, 
they've wanted hint dead 
and his clinic closed. And 
they got it. 
"The question is, 'Who's 
next?'" 
The 
American 
Life 
League noted in a news 
release that Tiller, 67, had 
aborted thousands of fe-
tuses and said the group is 
"working actively for the 
day when the remaining 
731 abortion clinics across 
America shut their doors." 
Tiller's suspected killer, 
Scott P Roeder. replied, 
"good, good" when told of 
the clinic's clotting. 
Tiller died 
from 
a 
gunshot fired inside his 
church. 
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,2009 
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Swine flu 
pandemic 
could be 
imminent 
The World Health 
Organization wants to 
avoid 'adverse effects.' 
The Associated ties 
GENEVA - The World 
Health Organization said 
Tuesday a spike in swine 
flu cases in Australia may 
push it to finally announce 
the first flu pandemic in 
41 years. It also expressed 
concern about an unusual 
rise in severe illness from 
the disease in Canada. 
WHO flu chief Keiji 
Fukuda said the agency 
wanted to avoid "adverse 
effects" if it announces a 
global outbreak of swine 
flu. Fukuda said people 
might panic or govern-
ments might take inap-
propriate actions if WHO 
declares a pandemic. 
Some flu experts think 
the world is in a pandemic 
and that WHO has caved 
in to some nations' re-
quests that a declaration 
be postponed. 
"On the surface of it, I 
think we are in phase 6." 
or a pandemic, said Mar-
garet Chan. WHO's direc-
tor-general. 
Chan said it was impor-
tant to verify the reports 
that the virus is becoming 
established outside North 
America before declaring 
a pandemic. 
"I need to be convinced 
that I have indisputable 
evidence," she said. 
Chan will hold a confer-
ence call with governments 
today to verify some of the 
reports before making a 
formal announcement. 
WHO said the virus 
has infected 26,563 people 
in 73 countries and has 
caused 140 deaths. 
Insurgents hit luxury hotel in Pakistan 
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Medical workers treat an injured guest Tuesday at the Pearl Continental Hotel. 
Massive blast kills 11 
The attack is in response to the Swat Valley offensive. 
The Washregtmr Post 
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan — A massive 
truck bomb exploded outside a lux-
ury hotel in northwestern Pakistan's 
provincial capital Tuesday night, kill-
ing 11 people and injuring at least 50, 
officials said. 
The attack marked the latest 
salvo by insurgents who have vowed 
to avenge an army offensive in the 
nearby Swat Valley. and it under-
scored their ability to strike at some 
of the country's most heavily forti-
fied targets. 
Peshawar's 
Pearl 
Continental 
Hotel had been considered an oasis 
of relative security in a city that 
has become a front line in the battle 
between the Pakistani government 
and radical Islamist groups such as 
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The hotel, 
a local landmark, had been popular 
among foreigners, including aid 
workers who have been using it in re-
cent weeks as a base for their efforts 
to assist the more than 2 million Paki-
stanis displaced from their homes by 
the fighting in Swat. 
The bomb, estimated to contain 
more than 1,000 pounds of explo-
sives, caused one section of the hotel 
to collapse. 
The dead included at least two 
foreigners, according to law enforce-
ment and hospital sources. One was 
an official with the office of the U.N. 
High Commissioner for Refugees:., a 
U.N. spokesman said. He had been 
part of a group of U.N. staff who had 
been working to assist the displaced. 
US. Embassy spokesman Lou 
Fintor said there was no indication 
that Americans had been injured or 
killed. US. government personnel 
had been prohibited from the hotel 
because of security concerns. 
The Pearl Continental. part of a 
chain of Pakistani hotels, is one of 
the few in Peshawar that caters to 
foreign visitors and well-to-do Paki-
stanis. It is located in one of the most 
heavily fortified areas of the city. 
Police and an intelligence official 
reported that two vehicles were in-
volved in the attack. First, a Toyota 
Corolla drove up and distracted the 
guards, then a mini-truck followed. 
The truck's passengers opened fire 
on the guards at the gate as the truck 
sped toward the building. Moments 
later, the blast shook the hotel and 
reverberated across the city. 
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Airlines replace 
monitors after 
Air France crash 
The Associated Press 
RECIFE, Brazil — Air-
lines 
moved 
quickly 
Tuesday to replace speed 
monitors like those sus-
pected of feeding false 
information to the comput-
ers on Air France Hight 
447 and possibly leading 
the plane to break up over 
the Atlantic Ocean. 
Seventeen more bod-
ies were pulled from the 
sea Tuesday, bringing the 
number recovered to 41. 
Another 187 have yet to be 
found. The first remains 
were brought to land by 
helicopter and will be 
flown to this coastal city 
today for identification. 
Federal police began 
visiting families in Rio de 
Janeiro to collect genetic 
material — hair, blood, 
a cheek swab — to help 
identify the corpses. 
Figuring out where the 
victims were seated and 
studying their injuries 
might help explain what 
brought clown Flight 447 as 
it flew into thunderstorms 
on May 31, according to 
Peter Goelz, a former 
managing director of the 
National 
Transportation 
Safety Board. 
With the plane's data 
recorders still missing. 
investigators have been 
focusing on the possibility 
that external speed moni-
tors — called Pitot tubes 
— iced over and gave false 
readings to the plane's 
computers in a thunder-
storm. 
A key part of the inves-
tigation relies on a burst 
of 24 automatic messages 
the plane sent during the 
last minutes of the flight. 
The signals showed the 
plane's autopilot was not 
on, officials said, but it was 
not clear if the autopilot 
had been switched off by 
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Seventeen more bodies 
were retrieved, bringing 
the total to 41. 
the pilots or had stopped 
working due to conflicting 
airspeed readings. 
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wing or fuselage of a plane 
and are usually heated to 
prevent- icing. The pres-
sure of air entering the 
tubes lets internal sensors 
measure the speed and 
angle of flight. A malfunc-
tioning tube could mislead 
computers 
controlling 
the plane, causing it to 
dangerously accelerate or 
decelerate. 
Air France said it began 
replacing the tubes on 
its ALT30 and A340 jets in 
May after pilots reported 
several incidents of icing 
leading to a loss of air-
speed data and that it had 
already replaced the Pilots 
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were 
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airspeed indications have 
had the same Pitots. And 
airplanes with the new 
Pilot tubes have never had 
such problems." said Air 
France pilot Eric Derivry, 
a spokesman for the SNPL 
pilots union. 
While no cause has 
been established for the 
disaster. Derivry said the 
Pitot failures create "a web 
of presumptions, but only 
presumptions." 
The monitors had not 
yet been replaced on the 
A330 that was destroyed 
May 31 during the flight 
from from Rio de Janeiro 
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