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Monday, Oct 11, 2004 TIMES A5 Grizzly bears arrive at S.F. zoo Across California State ASSOCIATED PRESS Two young grizzly bear sisters are shown Thursday in Helena, Mont. The sisters arrived at the San Francisco Zoo Sunday, bringing the population of grizzlies who once roamed freely across California to just seven. Associated Press "A 14-year old boy." Hours after the shooting. Lee's mother, Keva Byum, gathered at the crime scene with friends and family members who passed around a photo of the boy, exchanged hugs and wept Byron's 11-year-old brother died last year of a rare form of cancer, Byum said.

She added that her older son "was all that I had left." BURBANK Explosion, fire reported at studio An explosion early Sunday morning set off a fire at a downtown recording studio. The International Recording Studio was unoccupied when SAN FRANCISCO Two young grizzly bear sisters arrived at the San Francisco Zoo Sunday, bringing the population of grizzlies who once roamed freely across California to just seven. The two bears, both estimated to be about 18 months old, were nearly put to death last month by wildlife officials in Montana before San Francisco zoo officials intervened. The sisters lived as orphans in northwestern Montana after their mother was euthanized late last fall. The cubs had recently started snooping around farm buildings in the area and wildlife authorities feared they were becoming a danger to humans.

The adolescent bears, who were trans-ported in a cylindrical metal cage with air holes, were driven to the zoo by Stella Capoccia, director of the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Service. They left Montana early Saturday morning and drove straight to San Francisco. Capoccia described the animals as "really well behaved" throughout the drive and said they had eaten a 50-pound bag of dog food and 10 pounds of deer and antelope meat. She predicted that the bears one weighing about 145 pounds and the other 165 pounds would each gain about 50 pounds in the next month. Thousands of grizzlies flourished across California until the mid-1800s.

when speculators began to arrive for the state's gold rush. Between that time and 1922, every living grizzly in the state was either captured or killed. Even so, the grizzly was declared the state animal in 1953 and its image famously graces the California flag. With the new' bears' arrival, the San Francisco Zoo becomes the first major zoo in the state to hold grizzlies. A mother and two cubs live at Moonridge Animal Park in Big Bear, San Bernardino County, while a male and female grizzly live at Chaffee Zoo in Fresno.

San Francisco Zoo officials said most zoos don't have enough space for grizzlies, which are tough to manage in captivity because they are often smart enough to use tools and outwit locks. Grizzly bears usually live about 30 years in captivity. The zoo's new residents will be quarantined for at least 30 days before visitors can see them. Later, they'll be moved into a living space separate from the zoo's three polar bears and two spectacled bears. The zoo will sponsor a naming contest for the bears.

Only about 1,000 grizzly bears live in the Lower 48 states, mostly in Montana. They typically grow to be eight feet tall and weigh from 400 to 1,000 pounds. The San Francisco Zoo's most recent grizzly, named Greg, died at age 27 in 1989. Two states launch job marketing attack Berkeley FBI trailed Free Speech Movement leader FBI investigators trailed the leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, for more than a decade even though there was no evidence he broke any federal law, a newspaper reported. Documents obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle show that under former director J.

Edgar Hoover, the FBI began tracking Mario Savio after the 1964 Free Speech Movement protests, fearing that such actions would spread from Berkeley to pampuses across the country. Savio, a 21-year old philosophy major when he led protests against a campus ban on political activity, was considered the first nationally prominent student leader of the 1960s. His call for students to "put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels" led to a massive overnight sit-in on December 2, '1964, when about 800 students were arrested. 1 Savio died of a heart attack in 1996 at age 53 at his home in Se-bastopol. SAN DIEGO 1 Detectives seek man in freeway hit-and-run Homicide detectives were Seeking a 42-year-old Oceanside '4nan in a hit-and-run death on 5 in San Diego.

Jorge Negrete, 47, a commercial truck driver from Tan in Kem County, was struck along the shoulder of the freeway by the driver of a pickup truck, who fled the scene. Detectives were hying to determine whether the incident started with an argument on the freeway. Negrete was heading south in a tractor-trailer rig full of tomatoes about 1 p.m. Saturday when he and a pickup driver both pulled to the side, the California Highway PaUol and police said. BISHOP Small temblor rattles remote Inyo County A minor earthquake shook an area in remote Inyo County on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage, authorities said.

The quake struck at 11:58 a.m. and was centered 4 miles northwest of Coso Junction and 75 miles northeast of Bakersfield, arcording to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey. An Inyo County sheriff dispatcher said there have been no reports of injuries or damage. A quake temblor hit the area on the border of Los Angeles-Kern counties Saturday.

No injuries or damage were reported. LOS ANGELES 14-year-old killed series of bills from the Legislature that he said would hurt businesses, including boosting the minimum wage. Nevada officials say they hear almost daily from California companies looking to move out. "California is almost hostile to business and we don't see a lot changing," said A. Somer Hollingsworth.

president of the Nevada Development Authority, which will spend $650,000 in its latest marketing campaign to snatch companies from California. Schwarzenegger, his aides say, will fight for every job. He is scheduled to travel to Japan in November to promote state products and look for investment, i "For too long. California made itself an easy mark." said Schwarzenegger spokesman Vince Sollitto. The governor will "let the rest of the country and the world know that California wants your By Michael R.

Blood ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting a taste of his own marketing. Two months ago the celebrity governor plastered his grinning face on billboards from Phoenix to Boston, hoping to entice employers to relocate to the West Coast with the slogan, "Arnold says. California wants your business (Actually he says Now the competition is getting up close and personal. Two of the targets of Schwarzenegger's sales pitch, Massachusetts and Nevada, are retaliating with rival advertisements in California cities, angling for Jobs with the promise of lower taxes and a brighter future.

They're also taking friendly shots at Schwarzenegger. Nevada kicks off an ad campaign this week that asks California companies "Will your business lie terminated?" a less- than-subtle dig at Schwarzenegger's Hollywood past. Massachusetts billboards that went up last week in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego feature Gov. Mitt Rom-ney, who mimics the crossed-arms pose stuck by Schwarzenegger in his ads. The catch line: "Smaller muscles but lower taxes! Massachusetts means business." Romney decided to answer Schwarzenegger's challenge when he came face-to-face with one of his billboards at Boston's Logan Airport.

"We decided to fight fire with fire," said Shawn Feddeman. a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts governor. "We have a lower income tax, a lower sales tax." Nevada officials plan to unveil a huge building sign in downtown Los Angeles this week, followed by similar outdoor ads in Sacramento and San Francisco. "It's the give and take of (Schwarzenegger) coming over to Nevada," said Chuck Alvey, president of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada. Schwarzenegger riled up his economic adversaries in August when he headed to Nevada to announce a national campaign to attract jobs to his state.

The campaign began with billboards in 10 cities, and he even drove a moving van down the Las Vegas Strip, offering to transport companies to California. For California, there is far more involved than one-liners. The state has seen an exodus of jobs in recent years as companies headed elsewhere for cheaper energy, lower taxes and more affordable living for workers. Nevada alone claims to have grabbed more than 30 companies from the state in the year ending in June. Schwarzenegger has attempted to use his popularity and his veto pen to remake the state's image as business-friendly.

He recently rejected a the blast went off, and no one was injured, police said. Police were investigating the cause of the explosion, which was strong enough to be felt several blocks away and woke some residents up, Burbank Police Lt. John Dilibert said. SACRAMENTO 1 Stem cell bond issue holds narrow lead A controversial measure that would provide $3 billion in state bond money to pay for human embryonic stem cell research holds a narrow margin of support among voters, according to a new Field Poll. Proposition 71, designed to get around the Bush administration's funding limits on such re search, woidd authorize the state to sell bonds to provide annual payments of about $300 million to scientists and companies doing stem cell research.

The poll found that 46 percent of likely voters support the idea with 39 percent opposed and 15 percent undecided. The margin of error was 4.3 percentage points. The numbers are a slight improvement from an August poll that found 45 jxrcent supiorted the bond measure to 42 percent opxsed. Supporters of the proposition including a coalition of influential Democratic donors and several Silicon Valley tycoons have raised more than $12 million for the campaign and are running TV ads. The Field Poll found that half of those surveyed said they had seen or heard something about the initiative.

LOS ANGELES Fire safety suggestions not implemented Only nine of 48 safety recommendations made in the wake of last year's deadly wildfires have been carried out, leading to a split between fire officials and representatives of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who appointed the panel that made the recommendations. Schwarzenegger created the panel soon after List fall's series of wildfires had left 24 Californi-ans dead, destroyed 3,361 homes and blackened 739,597 acres. But six months after the panel issued its recommendations, most have not been implemented, and a variety of reasons, from lack of money to the war in Iraq, have been given. "The governor Js responding to the greatest needs in Southern California," said Schwarzenegger's resources secretary.

Mike Chrisman, adding. "California should feel safer," knowing nine of the panel's recommendations have been fulfilled. A coalition of the state's major firefighting associations disagrees, saying the most important recommendations have not been acted on. Among them are determining nether fire agencies have adequate resources, upgrading emergency communications equipment and purchasing fleets of new fire engines. From wire reports Americans win gold at world video game finals when the stakes are high.

Winners at this year's event, which took over the streets near city hall, took home a combined $400,000, according to organizers. The video game industry rakes in $10 billion annually in the United States alone. The competition had its share of upsets, for those who knew who the favorites were. The Netherlands' Manuel 184K 38Grubby" Schenkhuizen upset Hwang Tae-Min of Korea in the "WarCraft III: Frozen Throne," bumping up the Dutch gold medal count to four. In "WarCraft III." a real-time strategy game, players find themselves in the futuristic war-torn world of Azeroth, fighting on behalf of the so-called Human Alliance to save the world.

BY RON HARRIS ASSOOA'ED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO Amid fanfare fit for actual world-class athletes, five Americans with really quick fingers took home the gold medal Sunday in the popular "Counter Strike" competition of the World Cyber Games championships, capping five days of intense gaming by the world's elite. Team3D defeated the Titans of Denmark in the counterter-rorism themed PC game, where operatives stake out ramshackle buildings with high-powered sniper rifles and other weapons to take out their foes. Team3D consists of "team master" Salvatore Garozzo, Johnny Quach. Dave Geffon, Ronald Kim and Kyle Miller. The squad also took home $50,000 for their video game prowess.

If they plan to pop a bottle of celebratory champagne, only Geffon is old enough to take a legal sip, as his teammates are all under 21. The event's organizers said the final match was watched by an enthusiastic crowd, affirming what others In Europe and Asia have known for years: top-tier video game playing can become a viable spectator sport SANTAMRIA-BLKS TUESDAY DIIIG0 WARMUPS PAY (ISO EARLY I UTl URDS PAY $200 AIRIarSarnesPa, ur-Mtirrsiro xOn as he rides bike A 14-year-old boy was wounded as he rode his bike near his home, then killed by two men who continued to fire at him as he appeared to be pleading for his life, witnesses told police. Byron Lee had spent most of Saturday helping clean the house before going outside to ride his bicycle, his mother said. The ninth grader was on his bike when two men in a passing car opened fire and wounded him, police said. The two then stopped, got out and shot him several more times.

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