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Spring training-thoughts, tips and even a bratwurst recipe SMART LIV1HG AKIZOMA REPUBLIC MM SATURDAY MARCH 3, 2001 az central KjllAbLfi 50 CENTS THE SUNNY High: 71 Low: 48 GOOD MORNING Europeans in uproar over virus to bbdi the jjl- Foot-and-mouth disease What it is A highly infectious virus that sickens cloven-hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle and sheep. Horses aren't affected. It causes blisters on animals' mouths and feet, fever, loss of appetite and occasionally death. Animals that recover produce less meat or milk. How it differs from mad cow disease Foot-and-mouth poses no risk to humans, and the meat from infected animals is safe to eat.

How it spreads The virus can be spread by anything it touches, from sandwich meat to the soles of shoes and truck tires, experts said. Wind can carry it 40 miles. Treatment: The only effective treatment for the disease is to destroy livestock. Cost The Meat and Livestock Commission, a British trade group, says the industry is losing $12 million a week due to the epidemic. Previous epidemics The last major British epidemic, in 1967, infected nearly 2,000 farms and nearly 500,000 animals were destroyed.

i I ivC -m Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO Napster this weekend will start preventing its millions of users from trading some copyrighted music, doing voluntarily what a court order will soon force it to do. "We're in effect interposing a screen" between a user who has a song available for swapping and someone who wants it, Napster attorney David Boies said during a hearing to determine the terms of a preliminary injunction against the site. The music-swapping service has been sued by most of the major record labels, which have charged that it facilitates copyright infringement. The labels asked for and received a preliminary injunction to halt the transfer of copyrighted music, which was delayed pending an appeal. Last month, an appeals court affirmed the injunction but said the precise details still needed to be worked out, a process that began Friday.

After more than two hours of extremely detailed argument, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said, "It's left to me to try to fashion an injunction that makes some sense, based on what I've heard." She gave no indication when she might act. More information, A26. Associated Press A worker sprays disinfectant to protect the Crown Estate at Windsor from foot-and-mouth disease Friday. halt livestock-disease spread Disease Foot-and-mouth disease is spreading in the United Kingdom, while experts try to find the cause for the epidemic.

AFFECTED AREAS Inland u.l. 'hi s. Goole IS Arena effort led by Grant Woods Angola praises Valley's Falcone By Dennis Wagner The Arizona Republic The president of Angola says Pierre Falcone, a flamboyant, international weapons broker who owns a mansion in Paradise Valley, should be treated as a hero rather than a criminal suspect. "Thanks to his (Falcone's) support, democracy and the rule of law still pre- Pierre vai1 Falcone gla" said Jose Eduardo dos Santos, leader of the West African nation. "Millions of people were saved from an imminent genocide." Falcone, a part-time Valley resident, was arrested three See ANGOLA Page A26 received a proposal intended to answer the council's concerns about the $585 million project.

Among the details, the proposal calls for a 75-foot arena surrounded by 1.75 million square feet of retail, office and residential space. Ellman backed off a plan to use public funds to help construct the arena, although about $200 million of tax money will be funneled back into other aspects of the project. The Ellman Cos. launched a huge public relations effort this week, complete with multiple full-page newspaper ads, to rally support. It's all about the deal, A28.

special ed number" of Black students to be "labeled mentally retarded inappropriately." Many educators and parents have long been troubled by the large numbers of minority children assigned to slow-moving, special-education classes because of academic trouble or misbehavior. Experts said the reports released Friday provide some of the most compelling evidence to date that poor training and racial bias may have led some educators to write children off too soon. CM I C't Vehicle movements and visits fonfiittle Warley to contaminated farms limited. Freshwater Bay Quarantine measures; isolation of susceptible animals. Sources: National Pig Association, Pig Disease Information Centre, BBC Knight Ridder Tribune ACES FACE OFF Jennifer Capriati will meet Lindsay Davenport today in Scottsdale.

SPORTS ALSO INSIDE The chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission has serious objections to a $43 million-a-year rate increase sought by Qwest Communications. BL The Justice Department was asked to investigate President Clinton's pardons nearly a year ago of a Tennessee couple in a bank fraud case. A4. With costs rising fast and revenue falling short of expectations, postal rate commissioners and mailers say the agency is in need of reform. A35.

Retailers are jockeying to fill the Sears store at Scottsdale Fashion Square, and the winner could be a high-profile store that's new to Arizona. Dl. Market report: Dow industrials 16.17; NYSE 1.72; Nasdaq Dl. TODAY'S TALKER Temper, temper Hoping to prevent violence, the head of a Plantation, youth basketball league is calling in the coaches for a preseason chat with a psychologist. Dominic Callahan will speak with the coaches Sunday.

Jonathan Buzby, who conducts coaching and sportsmanship seminars, said coaches lose control because they see their colleagues doing it. He also says parents force coaches to emphasize winning. He said he's not sure a meeting with a psychologist will change that. "I don't think it's necessary, because I'd imagine the parents who misbehave are going to misbehave no matter what." Associated Press INDEX Astrology E2 Comics E6.MC6 Dear Abby E9 Landers E9 Lottery B3 Opinions Puzzles E6.7 Television E10 Weather B8 Wheels AC1 Mth year No. 289 A Gannett Newspaper Copyright 2001, The Arizona Republic News tips: (602) 444-2466 Circulation: (602) 4441000 Classified: (602) 444-2424 Pressline: (602) 271-5656 DAILY l- 4 7 mmsmk spreading SAFETY MEASURES Export of all U.K.

livestock slopped. All hunting banned for seven days. Infected animals slaughtered. Clean contaminated premises and eliminate infected material. Associated Press Scotland's Roslin Institute has cut off public visits to Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal.

Nations try to ByT.R.Reid Washington Post LONDON Dublin canceled its St. Patrick's Day parade Friday and Dolly the cloned sheep was put under protective quarantine as European health authorities stepped up efforts to contain a potentially disastrous outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among farm animals in Britain. Because the virus spreads easily on shoes, clothing, tires and food, the main goal of the untouched nations was to stop anybody or anything from Britain that might bring it in. The Dublin parade was canceled out of fear that visitors from Britain would transport the virus. At airports and other ports of entry all over Europe, passengers arriving from Britain are forced to walk through shallow tubs or across mats of disinfectant to kill any virus that could be clinging to shoes.

French airports are treating the remains of meals from British flights like poison, isolating the trays and incinerating them before they get to the terminal. It remained unclear Friday how long the restric- Lawmaker over back By Robbie Sherwood The Arizona Republic Arizona's attorney general is contesting a claim by Rep. Russell Pearce seeking back pay from his previous job as director of the Motor Vehicle Division. Pearce, who was fired more than a year ago, now says don't bother. He said he is dropping the claim that rf By Lesley Wright The Arizona Republic Former state Attorney General Grant Woods, who successfully represented Tempe in its bid for a football stadium, has been named the point man in developer Steve Ellman's quest for a hockey arena at Scottsdale's Los Ar-cos Mall.

Woods is expected to ask the Scottsdale City Council on Monday to extend the life of the Los Arcos Stadium District for six months while he cements details of the plan. If the council rejects the extension, it will end Ellman's three-year odyssey to build an arena in Scottsdale. The city Friday afternoon in wealthier communities with better schools and more White classmates were at greater risk of being labeled mentally retarded and sent to special classes than those attending predominantly Black, low-income schools. Donald Oswald, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher, and colleagues detected the trend in data on 24 million students. They said the wealthier schools appeared to have succumbed to a "systemic bias" that allowed "a substantial tions would be in place; they won't end until authorities conclude they have been effective.

Britain suffered its last outbreak in 1981. The United States hasn't had the disease since 1929. About 1,000 police and soldiers stood guard Friday at checkpoints on the hilly border between Northern Ireland, a British province, and the Republic of Ireland to prevent any movement of animals from north to south. Traffic at border See LIVESTOCK I Page A30 in dispute pay claim was part of a lawsuit filed by state workers who were required to be on standby to work without compensation. Officials at the Attorney General's Office challenged Pearce's claim because he was an exempt supervisor who served at the will of Department of Transportation Director Mary Peters.

See BACK PAY i Page A29 Blacks often sent to Washington Post WASHINGTON Black children are almost three times more likely than White children to be labeled mentally retarded, forcing them into special-education classes where progress is slow and trained teachers are in short supply, according to reports released Friday by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. One of the most troubling findings, researchers said, was that Black males living Jj i iwjwf If 60-irWhtti lease with $0 down dIus tax. Mia. license, doc. fee and any (tealer adds where applicable..