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PAGE 2 IN A HURRY 10.1 1.05 A fast f'lumv at Unlays Post Star NATION MOW STRIKES Colorado grin blasted from an carl y-wa son hiiowHtorm Hut I dropped more Hum 20 inches in platen around the stale. PAGE A3 MY ENEMY, MY FRIEND I'akintan and India put aside years of bitterness to work on assisting those wlio lost everything in Saturday's massive earthquake. PAGE A3 MAJOR MERGER Jefferson I'ilot Corp. and Lincoln National Corp. are joining forces to lccome one of the largest publicly traded life insurance companies in the United States.

PAGE 07 SPORTS YANKEES, ANGELS ON THE BRINK The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels were both on the brink of elimination Monday night, playing a decisive Game 5 in the American League Divisional Series PAGE CI DOWN TO STROKES The North Warren field hockey team clinched the Adirondack League title Monday with a 21 penalty-strokes win over Warrensburg. PAGE CI LONG LAKE TURNS FT AROUND After years of losing, the Long Lake boys soccer team has turned it around this season, and may win its first league title. PAGE CI LOCAL PR ESI DENT SANTA STEPPING DOWN lAKAC's president and, as it turns out, the secret voice of Santa will retire from her post after 22 years LOCAL SECTION SARATOGA MONUMENT UPGRADE After $3 million in renovations and improvements, the Saratoga Monument celebrated its transformation in a Columbus Day ceremony that included musket-firing. LOCAL SECTION SUGAR SHOCK Iocal baking businesses are having a tough time scraping together enough sugar, now that Hurricane Katrlna has knocked the Domino sugar factory in Louisiana off line for while. PAGE 07 ARTS I LIFE PERMANENT LESSON As tattoos grow in popularity, so too does tattoo removal a painful, expensive procedure.

PAGE Dl RINGING UP CASH King tones have become a $600-million a year industry, and quite an annoyance, as sounds echo throughout public spaces. PAGE Dl SMALLER ISNT ALWAYS BETTER The new tiny ilKls and laptops are cool to look at, but are they functional? PAGE D3 PAY ATTENTION, PARENTS Worried that sweet preteen is going to snap over to the woes of the teen years soon? Try one last bonding vacation. PAGE D5 THIS DAY IN HISTORY 117 "NBC Saturday (latar 'Saturday Night made Its debut with host George Carlln. 1959 -Tho lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; It failed to go as far. out as planned, fell back to Earth, nd burned up In the atmosphere.

1995 Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland and Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize In chemistry for their controversial work warning that gases once used In spray cans and other Items were eating sway at Earth's ozone layer. Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. Thought for XaUr. "What Is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries -these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time Itself. Time is the Life of the soul." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet CLOSE-UP MORNING BRIEFING Merkel to be first female chancellor fell A ASSOCIATED PRESS Robert Davis talks to the media Monday during a news conference In the French Quarter In New Orleans, where New Orleans police officers arrested him on Saturday night Davis said he had not been drinking before he was beaten and taken Into custody.

His comments contradict police reports that allege Davis was publicly Intoxicated. Already hurting, new tape rocks New Orleans police By RACHEL LA'CORTE Associated Press By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN The Washington Post BERLIN Following weeks of public bickering and quiet deals over late-night dinners, Germany soon will swear in its first female chancellor. The nation's political crisis eased Monday when conservatives and liberals agreed to form a coalition government around Angela Merkel, a physicist raised in the former communist East Germany. The deal crystallized when Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announced he would step aside and allow his Social Democrats to share power with Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union, or CDU. Germany has been in political disarray since Sept.

18 elections gave neither party a clear majority. Schroeder initially refused to concede, but the pressures of a troubled economy and an agitated public forced him to accept compromise. Schroeder and Merkel spent recent nights negotiating Cabinet posts and finessing an agreement their parties are expected to finalize by mid-November. When asked how she felt about the seemingly certain prospect of becoming chancellor, a tired-looking Merkel smiled and responded: "I'm doing well I'm in a good mood, but I have a lot of work ahead of me." Merkel's ascension marks the final weeks of Schroeder's seven years in office. An affable leader with a fondness for crisp suits and cigars, Schroeder began reforming his nation's vast welfare state but failed to reduce high unemployment and bolster the economy.

He might be remembered best for challenging President Bush on Iraq and urging Germany to move beyond the stigma of the Nazi past to become a world player. Schroeder had no immediate statement on his future, but it appeared he would not have a role in the new government. "I have a different plan for my life," he reportedly told a German newspaper. The CDU and Social Democrat Party, or SPD, are expected to hold party conventions and endorse the agreement next' month. The new Parliament takes office Oct.

18, but probably won't vote on a chancellor until the party meetings are concluded. Schroeder will remain in office until Merkel is appointed. New York City subway lowers alert level as police defend decision to mobilize NEW YORK After four days on high alert, police announced Monday that they were scaling back a subway security crackdown prompted by a report of an al-Qaida plot to blow up trains. Authorities said the arrest and interrogation of three suspects by U.S. forces in Iraq had so far produced no information to corroborate the report.

"Things were moving in the right direction," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters at the Columbus Day Parade. "We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6." Kelly stressed that police would continue random bag searches and other precautions in the subways that were begun over the summer in response to the bombings of the London transit system. Officials also continued to defend their decision to flood the subways Thursday with thousands of extra police officers. National Guard taking brunt of losses WASHINGTON The National Guard and Reserves are suffering a strikingly higher share of U.S.

casualties in Iraq, their portion of total American military deaths nearly doubling since last year. Reservists have accounted for one-quarter of all U.S. deaths since the Iraq war began, but the proportion has grown over time. It was 10 percent for the five weeks it took to topple Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and 20 percent for 2004 as a whole. The trend accelerated this year.

For the first nine months of 2005 reservists accounted for 36 percent of U.S. deaths, and for August and September it was 56 percent, according to Pentagon figures. Study: Fish helps slow mental decline CHICAGO Eating fish at least once a week is good for the brain, slowing age-related mental decline by the equivalent of three to four years, a study suggests. The research adds to the growing evidence that a fish-rich diet helps keep the mind sharp. Previous studies found that people who ate fish lowered their risk of Alzheimer's disease and stroke.

Fish such as salmon and tuna that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids also have been shown to prevent heart disease. For the new study, researchers measured how well 3,718 people did on simple tests, such as recalling details of a story. The participants, all Chicago residents 65 and older, took the tests three times over six years. They also filled out a questionnaire about what they ate that included 139 foods. Pediatricians offer ideas to stop SIDS CHICAGO Babies should be offered pacifiers at bedtime, and they should sleep in their parents' room but not in their beds in order to lessen the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the nation's largest group of pediatricians says.

Both measures may help keep babies from slumbering too deeply a problem for infants prone to SIDS, said Dr. Rachel Moon, who helped draft the new recommendations on SIDS prevention. They were prepared for release Monday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The death rate from SIDS has fallen sharply in recent years, now that parents are warned not to let their babies sleep on their stomachs or amid fluffy bedding or stuffed toys. But it remains the leading case of death in U.S.

infants between ages 1 month and 1 year, killing more than 2,000 U.S. babies each year, and new tactics are needed to fight it, the academy said. 'Game theory' experts take Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Sweden Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for their work in game theory that explains political and economic conflicts, arms races and even preventing warfare.

"Why do some groups of individuals, organizations and countries succeed in promoting cooperation while others suffer from conflict?" the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Game theory, which is often used in a political or military context to explain conflicts between countries, can also be applied to the business world. Aumann. 75, and Schelling, 84, have helped to "explain economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources," the academy said in its citation. U.S.

soldier killed in Afghanistan attack KANDAHAR, Afghanistan A suspected Taliban militant detonated explosives strapped to himself, killing a former militia commander and two others Monday in a southern Afghan city, while a second suicide bomber was thwarted when he blew himself up as he fled police. Flrefights in the country's east, meanwhile, killed a VS. soldier and wounded three others, while an American special forces chopper was destroyed by fire as it made a hard landing during an offensive. All aboard escaped unhurt From wire reports Numerous agencies have sent officers to help with patrols in the aftermath of Katrina. Stephen Kodak, an FBI spokesman in Washington, said none of its agents had been disciplined.

He said the FBI was taking part in the Justice Department's civil rights probe. The confrontation came as the New Orleans Police Department long plagued by allegations of brutality and corruption struggles with the aftermath of Katrina and the resignation last month of Police Superintendent Eddie Compass. The APTN tape shows an officer hitting Davis at least four times in the head outside a bar. Davis twisted and flailed as he was dragged to the ground by several officers. Davis's lawyer said his client did not resist.

"I don't think that when a person is getting beat up there's a whole lot of thought. It's survival. You don't have a whole lot of time to think when you're being pummeled," Bruno said. Davis was kneed and pushed to the sidewalk with blood streaming down his arm and into the gutter. The officers accused of striking Davis were identified as Schilling and Evangelist.

During the arrest, another officer, identified as Smith, ordered an APTN producer and a cameraman to stop recording. When Matthews held up his credentials, the officer grabbed the producer, leaned him backward over a car, jabbed him in the stomach and unleashed a profanity-laced tirade. Smith is an eight-year veteran of the force, while Evangelist and Schilling have served three years each. Mike Silverman, AP's managing editor, said that "the incidents taped by our cameraman are extremely troubling. We are heartened that the police department is taking them seriously and promising a thorough investigation." NEW ORLEANS A 64-year-old man who was repeatedly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape was not drunk, as police have alleged, and put up no resistance as he was being pummeled, his lawyer said Monday.

The man, a retired elementary school teacher, had returned to New Orleans only to check on property he owns in the storm-ravaged city, and was out looking to buy cigarettes when he was arrested Saturday night in the French Quarter, the lawyer and the man's father said. Police have alleged that Robert Davis was publicly intoxicated. A federal civil rights investigation was opened into the incident. Davis is black. The three city police officers seen on the tape are white.

Police spokesman Marlon Defillo said race was not an issue. Two city officers accused in the beating, and a third officer accused of grabbing and shoving an Associated Press Television News producer who helped document the confrontation, pleaded not guilty on Monday to battery charges. 1 After a hearing at which trial was set for Jan. 11, officers Lance Schilling, Robert Evangelist and S.M. Smith were released on bond.

The three were suspended without pay Sunday, Defillo said. Police Superintendent Warren Riley said any misconduct would be dealt with swiftly. He noted the video showed "a portion of that incident." "The actions that were observed on this video are certainly unacceptable by this department," Riley said. Two other officials in the video appeared to be federal officers, according to police. NEWSROOM CALL 792-3131, PRESS l.THEN ENTER EXTENSION NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION Mike Peterson, Education Services Director, Ext 3370 NEWSROOM FAX 761-1255 GENERAL NEWS Ext 3250 BIRTHS Ext 3260 OBITUARIES Ext 3325 Fax 792 5882 BUSINESS OFFICE 8 (J.

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