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Red Black Kennedy shocks Montclair Football team now 2-0 after beating Mounties for first time in 17 years, di De la Hoya KO'd in ninth Hopkins takes control, sends 'The Golden Boy' to the canvas, di 1 Herald News 8 i MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, B2 $1.25 An edition of Uffcn) www.northjersey.com Sunday, September 19, 2004 EDUCATION IRAQ lOVER EXPOSED Militants threaten to behead hostages Latest car bombings kill two American GIs and 20 Iraqis By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS The Associated Press BAGHDAD An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents carried out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 20 Iraqis and two American soldiers. The unrelenting violence has taken 300 lives in the past week. The videotape was the first word on the fate of Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley since the three construction workers were kidnapped from their Baghdad home two days earlier. "My job consists of installing and furnishing camps at Taji base," each man said in turn after identifying himself, as all three sat on the floor, blindfolded, slightly bowed but apparently unharmed. At one point, a militant's rifle pointed down at the head of the man who identified himself as Hensley.

The Tawhid and Jihad group, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the abduction and demanded the release of Iraqi women detained in two American prisons. The videotape was broadcast by Al-Jazeera shortly before it revealed a fresh kidnapping claim. Another group claimed it had kidnapped 10 workers for an American-Turkish company and threatened to kill them in three days if their firm didn't leave Iraq. Kidnappings and spectacular bombings have become Please see HOSTAGES, A16 HURRICANE IVAN Shore resorts gave storm more to damage By MICHAEL GRUNWALD AND MAUEL R0IG-FRANZIA The Washington Post GULF SHORES, ALA. There were just a few modest homes and fish shacks along this white-sand barrier beach when Hurricane Frederic Photos by KYE-RYUNG LEEHerald News A Passaic High School student, perhaps because of the warm weather, seems not to care about the school's emphasis on more modest attire.

Eddie Conde top left, a security guard at Passaic High School, cautions a student about her outfit. Some schools maintain modesty's still best policy By WHITNEY KVASAGER Herald News 365 days a year. We actually do get days that are warm enough for young girls to hang wildly out of their clothing," she said. "A lot of them just don't look good." Locally, the solution for some districts has been to encourage school uniforms. In others, administrators are drawing up more stringent policies than those already in place, and steadfastly enforcing them.

Kwak, of Manchester Regional, estimated that five or so students had been sent home since school started a week ago. Walking home to Prospect Park at the end of the school day last Wednesday, sophomore Catalinita Beauvil, 15, said the Manchester rules were reasonable enough. "I think it's for our own good, so we don't show off," she said. Please see OUTFITS, A8 "I think the students dress up too much, if you know what I mean." ROBERT HOLSTER, Passaic schools superintendent the popular syndicated comic strip, "For Better or for Worse" in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. On Sept.

1, comic-strip artist Lynn Johnston began a story line portraying the first weeks of school for 13-year-old April, who just started eighth grade and faces the pressure of dressing too sexy for her age. Johnston, who lives in Canada, said Friday that she didn't have to look too far to find inspiration for the strip. "People assume that Canada is snowbound When the school year began, Manchester Regional High School sent parents a letter outlining a stricter dress code: Shoulders must be covered. Clothes may not be tight. Outfits may not be revealing.

"We started at the end of last year, and then really cracked down this year," said Manchester School Superintendent Ray Kwak, whose school serves students from Haledon, North Haledon and Prospect Park. If the rules are broken, "you have to go home and change." Fashion may dictate that skin is in, but school administrators throughout North Jersey are dictating that bared midriffs, exposed undergarments and general sloppiness are out. So widespread is the issue of thong-showing, belly-baring teens that it's been picked up by whipped through in 1979. "Frederic took it all," recalled Gulf Shores Police Officer Glen Kit-trell. After Frederic, Kittrell helped his father build the first small condominium complex on the Gulf Shores beachfront, a lime-green, horseshoe-shaped money INSIDE Father loses one daughter while saving another.

A10 North Jersey soaked. B7 HEALTH Few cancer survivors hear 'You're cured' maker called Sea Breeze. Soon dozens of developers were building condos here on the Gulf of Mexico, increasingly taller, grander and closer to the water Beachview, Surf-side, Southern Shores, Crystal Beach, Crystal Shores. Ivan did not take them all. But Ivan still inflicted far more property damage in Gulf Shores, because there was so much more property for it to damage.

This is the basic reason that multi-billion-dollar storms such as Charley, Frances and Ivan are becoming increasingly common in America. real basis in science, experts admit. There's a label for people like Jensen who are in cancer limbo Some wear it with pride, having fought the enemy and lived to tell about it. Others think it drafts them into a club to which they don't want to belong Veterans of Forever Wars. Please see CURED, A4 searched his blood, even individual molecules, for bits of DNA and other substances that would reveal he still had the disease.

None has been found. Is he cured? "They don't use that word," said Jensen, who would dearly love to hear it. Ironically, at a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so. They call the cancer undetectable, or in remission. They tell patients they can quit seeing cancer specialists.

They quote statistics and say chances are slim that the disease will come back. They say these things because the simple truth is, they can't tell when someone has been cured. Even the most widely used benchmark being alive five years after diagnosis has no By MARILYNN MARCHIONE The Associated Press There wasn't any doubt six years ago that Doug Jensen had cancer. The Oregon engineer's blood was clogged with the immature cells that are sure signs of leukemia. Treatment with a new wonder drug, Gleevec, made them disappear.

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Mostly sunny with highs near 70 on Monday. D12 PATERSON Lending a voice to a good cause Garrison Keillor, voice of National Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion," is the keynote speaker at the 20th annual fund-raiser for Paterson Habitat for Humanity. B1 Life CI Real estate R8 Lotteries A2 Sneakers C11 Movies C16 Stocks A20 1: West Paterson, New Jersey Vol.133, No. 263 2 ft 2 .1 ft I Red Black.