The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

V- -r 1 Mifg customers to pay $140 for help on long distance calls in state mmwmi Tennessee takes out SC 92-76to stay undefeated in the SEC host undergoes emergency heart surgery Meeting of Minds Artist brings minister's vision to life non humid i 'I' JANUARY 15 2000 FINAL EDdlON ti i i 50 Cents wwwJaMnmewsxom "A South Knox connector open to traffic but some details undone STREET BEAT Hatfic conditions In the Knoxville area abortion cases Much of the suooess in breaking down the mad barricades so dose to the cranpletinn date may be attributed to the use of a 'professional scheduler according to David Borden TDOTh regional iafamfc iBiwrtw-1 A relatively new strategy on This has been one of the most rfifflniH prqjects by TOOT It is truly a marvel to get it open to TDOT Commissioner Rnira BnHamnn nM The "under construction and signs had dotted downtown Knoxville fir nearly three years and through three football seasons smew construction began March 20 1997 By Hayes Hickman Newt-Smtiflii staff wiltir The South Knoxville 1 Boulevard Connecter is open to traffic -a little leee than two weeks after its intended Den 31 cnmpletinn date and state Department of Transportation nffirink cant help but pat themselves on the bade fir a job well dona hen the work on trade and promeme solved quidkhc With 1 weekly meetinaB fir parties Borden said the regular powwows included the contrao-BeQ Construction Ca as Stale partial-birth law at issue TDOT projects Atlanta-c Sparing and Edwards Construction Servioes Inc was hired to Please see ROADS page AS ByUwAisociitadPra I '1 abortion but Resident Clinton vetoed it The court has not issued a nuyer abortion ruling since 1992 when it reaffirmed the core hold-ins of its 1973 derision in a case called Roe vs Wada That land- mark decision said women have a gwistitaitintml right to end their Smoke swirls aroundadgar smoker outsMB a Chicago financial dUu office bidding A meant report reveals high school students In Tennessee are smoking more cigars than WASHINGTON The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide two of the most emotionally charged morel issues of the times It reclaimed center stagB in the battle over abortion by agreeing to decide whether states may ban a surgical procedure opponents csQ And xfcsaid it wffl take an the issues of free speech and homosexuality agreeing to deride whether the Boy Scouts of America can each members and troop justices said they will deride whether the organization had a constitutional right to oust a young troop leader after learning he is gay The court is expected to hear arguments in April and issue a derision fay July In the abortion case the justices said they will review iNe-braaka law that made it a crime fix- doctors to perform partial birth abortion A federal appeals court blocked enforcement of that lavs calling it imnraatitaitinruil- Nearly identical laws have been enacted fay 30 state but courts have blocked enforcement of most of them Congress enacted a federal ban on partial-birth I Uthough the legal contioversy swirls around a specific procedure far more may be- at stake Abortion-rights advocates say the eventual derision could broadly safeguard or dramatically erode abortion right depending on what state legislatures can when regulat ing abortiona The court will hear arguments in the Nebraska case in April A decision is expected by July The surgical procedure involves partially extracting a fetu legs first thnxudi the hirth canal the 4il wnd i contents Doctors call the dilution and extraction or In unanimously striking down the Nebraska kn the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the lawk wording could also outlaw a more common procedure called dt-lation and evaoiation or Please see COURT page A1Z A Oak Ridge emissions did definite harm to health study claims AP photo Bwtrtfofl Youth cigar smoking common with students than adults ifrfldde iRUBLIClMEETINGl High ached Current cigar smokara Male Female White Black Hispanic ((More man nalfofhigt WoofdtQdenisdted lhad strmlagarat By Laura Ayo Nm-SantM Half writer TtamessBe high school students are smoking mere cigars than adults a study by the Tennessee Department of Health bund The health department in 1999 surveyed more than middle and This dwnogrsphic breakdown Is based on a survey of 1348 middto school and lioi Njb school studanb tom 58 randomly selected pubic schools i By Frank Munger (Mt ftidge bumu OAK RIDGE -After I and analyzing Oak Rugs poOn-tion data for nearly eight year a hantth studies team conduded that wnwwnna from the govetn-menfi ntenr facilities undoubtedly caused harm among area readouts mostly during the 1940 hOs and hOs The significance of those health effects however may depend on an individuals interpretation because even the panel members wholly agree on how the results should be viewed Of the toxic and radioactive materials analyzed by the study under the direction or the Tennessee Department of Health mercury and radioactive iodine-131 woe the chief culprits The study which was released concnk Friday i Sows: 1999 ItameMM Ybulh Tobaoco Sunny Tnumsm Health Deparbnaiifl iPiuject overseere wi I favalabls today to meet wtti 1 kind ciscuss tie eludyi The too-hour somlpivj IbeginatIO amatths Museum tit Sclenoe Enecgy i in farm famflies who near the jdant and got milk from their own dairy nhnak (goats or cows) rather than commercial dairies Iodine tends to concentrate in the thyroid gland and the radioactivity passed nWig tirrruigh tim faod riirnn ran WHIW- About 100 fetuses likely were erased to unsafe mercury levels in the wombs of mothers vdio ate lota of contaminated fish from the Clinch River and Watts -Bear Lake A percentage of those babies would have developed brain damage although panel members said ifo difficult to project how many The period of most concern would have been the Please see UNESSES page AS cluding Powell and South Doyle mi schools about their use of tobacco duds- The state health department sur- veys showed 19 percent of high school' 1 students reported smoking dgan on at least one day in the preceding month compared to about 9 percent of middle school students and 4 percent of adults Cigar use also increased with grade level ranging from 5 pement of sixth-graders to 23 pement of high Bchoal seniors according to the surveys teens today are more likely to tiy cigar the release stated "More than half of high school students surveyed had smoked a cigar at wnw tune in their live while only about 28 percent of adults had and 26 percent of middle school students Referring to a New England Jour-nal of Medicine report the department said the glamoKuation of cigar use in the media heavy advertising and the miapiiriad perception that dgan are afar than cigarettes have contributed Please see OGARS page A3 Six to 80 people living within 24 miles of Oak Ridge National Laboratory probably got thyroid cancer because of iodine releasee from OKNL in the late 1940s and early hOs Those most at risk would have been children who drank contaminated milk Rw PinsdsNwsSinaiNl staff Index Werner Knox officials decide to let judge rule on Beeler matter Chancery Court A hearing is Bet fix: Wednesoay Jan 19 at 930 am ByJtaiBaDoch Nw-Sitlnltsfl write Today: Milder sunny to partly cloudy High 50 Tonight: Cool with maiply clear skies Low 35 D1 Movies D7 NatkxvWodd B8 OUuaries Sports AS StatBfijocal B1 Stocks AZ Television Badness Plnmlflnil Comics Crosswort Edtoriais Inal Afi All Cl A3 IB B7 befixe Chancelkr Daiyl Fhnsler did not (hangs their minds (Friday) because they 'had a considered vote the last Beeler said There (was) no compelling reason or compelling need fir a changa The matter arises from a letter DETAILS BIO Weatherlinett 521-6300 Time tsmpsrsturv and foracsst Tlte NiWi OaoWnd printed on racycted piper The Knox Cbimfy Election Ccm-mjasion aaeed Friday to leave Kook County Law Director Richard Berierk political fate in the hands of a judge Meeting in sperial soasicn tiie wnmiriMwnn dariined in renmwder an earlier vote to approve a ballot fir the March elections with Beekrfc name on it Barif the fmiimiiminn to take no action since the question will be settled by a lawsuit he hilled in Tkc Kanillt Nm-lmtiatl state Election Coordinator Brook Thompson sent to the county election commission last wed in whidi he declared he would not approve a-ballot with Beeler's name on it Please see ttELER page A3 Law Director Retard Beeler addresaes the Knox County Election Commlielon on Friday At Irit to Stephan Roft and at rights AmeWoodta ThKnoxv GfKInMCo- 4 i.