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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Kristin Vorce Entertainment Editor publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Enterprise News Editor Corinne Clemets~n , Andrea Ramsay Meghan Lobdell May 1, 2007 3 SUPREME COURT RULES ON HIGH-SPEED CHASES The Supreme Court Monday captured on videotape by a camera in handed an important victory to police one of the pursuing police vehicles. officers who are involved in high­ The case comes amid a back­ speed chases, and took the unusual drop of sensational high-speed police step of posting a videotape of the chases, as well as increasing debate chase on its Web site to show that the about how it is dangerous for law now-paralyzed civilian driver was to enforcement officers to chase and blame. capture wrongdoers. The court ruled 8-l that Georgia In this case, both a lower court deputy sheriff Timothy Scott could and the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the not be sued for the accident that left 11th Circuit ruled in favor of Harris. then 19-year-old Victor Harris a The 11th Circuit said that Scott's quadriplegic. The high-speed chase actions constituted deadly force and down dark highways in 2001 - that it was unreasonable because the which ended when Scott rammed officer had no reason to think Harris Harris' Cadillac from behind and sent had done anything more than violate THE REVIEW/Elan Ronen him down an embankment - was traffic laws. "Displace Me" drew 6,000 demonstrators to the National Mall to raise awareness (or the civil war in Uganda. DIET FOUND TO AFFECT BRAIN ATROPHY IN MICE A set of experiments published nels and hidden caches of food - by the journal Nature suggests there increased the animals' ability to learn Th~usands experie~ce Ugandan may one day be a drug· that restores and restored much of the normal memory to people with dementia. reaction to the frightening task. Li-Huei Tsai and Andre Fischer Examinations showed that a refugee camp life on National Mall at the Massachusetts Institute of complex program of brain rewiring Technology used a strain of mice in had been triggered by changes, called which a gene that causes the brain to acetylation, in proteins called his­ BY ELAN RONEN nally displaced since the civil war spoke before the thousands assem­ atrophy can be turned on by adding a tones that are part of the nerve cell­ StaffReporter started in 1986. bled under the Washington chemical to their diet. s' chromosomes. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Six He said he hopes the protests Monument. After six weeks, the animals Many of the animals gained the thousand people remained silent for will ultimately force Museveni to His words provoked a strong lose their memory of a frightening ability to learn new tasks, recovered exactly 21 minutes Saturday night on become proactive and remedy the sit- response from the audience: task that causes normal animals to the memory of the frightening task the grassy slopes below the uation. "We are living in a postmodern freeze when they encounter it again. and began once again to freeze when Washington Monument. Roach said he appreciated the age, in a space age. The gene-activated mice also have confronted with it. The research sug­ The silence of the crowd, which reaction of the American youth. "There is no excuse for poverty, trouble learning new activities, and gests at least some memories appear­ included 39 university students, per­ "These persons are defying their war and displacement. There is no their brains actually shrink. ing to be lost as the brain degenerates vaded the cool spring air. apathetic label," he said. "They are excuse for the kind of suffering we The researchers first showed may still be present, but inaccessible. The only noise came from the here for people that they aren't going are seeing in Northern Uganda. that "enriched environments" - Rewiring the surviving neurons may city's traffic, the rustling of the trees to . see. They are exposing their "The humanitarian crisis . in cages with two running wheels, tun- get some of those memories back. in the wind and the low-pitched hearts." Uganda has been neglected. The whirring of generators. Participants were meant to question is why. The world has been -Compiled from the L.A. Tzmes and Washington Post wire reports Peqple sat in small groups, stood . experience the conditions of one guilty of a conspiracy of silence. or watched the sky as the digital night in an IDP camp through simu- "Tell your leaders to let the dis­ clock displayed on one-story-high lation. All individuals were told to placed people go home. Let the U.S. screen ticked down to zero. bring a sleeping bag, cardboard, government support the peace talks. Finally, the silence was broken. saltine crackers, water, a picture of "I have traveled about 17 hours A powerful cheer emanated themselves and art supplies. The to come to say 'thank you' to the HIT AND RUN ON MAIN STREET from the sea of people and rolled cardboard was used to make shelters. youth of .America. What you are Two unknown males in a yellow Jeep Wrangler with a black con­ over them like a warm, frothy wave. According to the event's Web doing is God's work. You have trig­ vertible top struck a 28-year-old male as he crossed the street near The 6,000 people who amassed site, those people displaced in gered off the force oflove." Shaggy's on Main, Lt. Thomas LeMin said. The driver of the jeep drove in the nation's capital were partici­ Northern Uganda were given only 48 By nightfall, the decorated ad away and was last seen going westbound on Main Street. pants in an overnight peace rally hours to leave their homes. Once in hoc shelters covered the area of two The victim, Michael Ferreira of Quarryville, Pa., received head and known as "Displace Me." The event the camps, they had to build their football fields. The mountains of leg injuries after being hit by the vehicle, LeMin said. The Aetna Hose, took place in 15 cities across the own huts. crackers and bottled water looked Hook and Ladder Company emergency unit transported Ferreira to country and had an estimated turnout Junior Camille Stoudt, co-presi- promising to those who had fasted Christiana Hospital where he was treated for serious injuries. of approximately 66,000 to 90,000 dent of Uganda Untold, the student- since entering the imitation camp. Prior to the accident, witnesses say the vehicle was weaving in and people. run organization Between 8:30 and 10 p.m., out of traffic and driving over the speed limit on East Main Street, Jamie Roach, that put together water and food was distributed. Only LeMin said. 24, one of the "You need to the bus trip to men were allowed to eat crackers, Police ask anyone with information about the incident to call Cpl. event's organizers, feel pain to feel Washington, D.C., while females between 18 and 22 Kevin Feeney at 302-366-7110 ext.