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'r vr BtBM News Record Thursday January 3 2002 Greensboro North Carolina 50 CENTS 4' wwwnewsHreccrtf cenr? i Moussaoui declines to enter plea M' kM Zacarias lawyers tried unsucessfully to get a trial date in 2003 A federal judge rejects a defense request for more time and sets an Oct 14 trial date By Tom Brune Newsday ALEXANDRIA Va Zacarias Moussaoui the only person facing charges directly connected to the Sept 11 attacks declined to make any kind of plea as he faced arraignment in federal court Wednesday prompting the judge to enter a not guilty plea for him the name of Allah I do not have anything to said the bearded Moussaoui in slightly accented English as he stood in court wearing a dark green jump suit with the word on the back enter no plea Thank you very US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema said she under stood the declaration to be a plea of not guilty Moussaoui said noth ing but rank Dunham one of his three court appointed public defender attorneys said Brinkema then said she would enter a not guilty plea for Mous saoui and Dunham asked for a trial by jury After hearing argu ments Brinkema accepted the recommendation and set the trial date for Oct 14 with jury selection to begin Sept 30 Moussaoui 33 a rench citizen of Moroccan descent faces a potential sentence of death on four of the six counts in an indictment handed up on Dec ll by'a federal grand jury It accuses him of con spiring with Osama bin Laden and al Qaida to kill thousands of peo ple on Sept 11 mother Aicha el Wafi arrived in Virginia from rance last week and proclaimed his innocence But she refused to see him with an BI agent pre sent and did not appear at hearing decid ed it would be too difficult for her to see her son at the said her lawyer rancois Roux After his brief statement Wednesday Moussaoui with two guards standing behind him sat at the defense table staring straight ahead or at the judge He sometimes stroked his beard or leaned his chin on his hand while his attorneys sought in vain to gain more time to prepare for the vast indictment Defense attorney Gerald Zerkin argued for a ebruary 2003 trial date to allow time to prepare for a case that is international in scope and that will require security clearances travel to Europe See Plea Page A6 Scientists say heart has ability to fix self A study finds that primitive cells from transplant patients travel to their new heart and grow new muscle and blood vessels By Stephanie Nano The Associated Press Challenging generations of medical lore researchers have found striking new evidence that the human heart can repair itself Doctors have long assumed that damage from a heart attack or other ailment is irre versible and that the heart cannot regenerate tissue the way other organs can But that belief has been shaken by recent research A team of American and Italian researchers demon strated last year that heart muscle cells multiply after a heart attack Now they have shown that in heart transplant patients primitive cells from the patient travel to the new heart and grow new muscle and blood vessels The researchers studied men who received transplant ed hearts from women and discovered male cells in the donated female hearts The discovery could help scientists eventually devise treatments to fix diseased hearts have been hints from animal studies that the cells could migrate before but this is the first demonstration in a human that it is actually said John akund ing of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute which helped pay for the study in edition of the New England Journal of Medicine The researchers found that heart muscle and blood ves sels grew rapidly in the new hearts after transplant They calculated that as much as one fifth of the donor heart had been rebuilt by the recipi own cells this shows that the heart has the ability to regen said Dr Roberto Belli of the University of Louisville who wrote an accompanying editorial could be a mile stone discovery if we learn how to exploit this phenomenon for therapeutic purposes to regen erate heart muscle in patients with heart The researchers looked for the male chromosome in eight female hearts that were transplanted into men After the heart recipients died tissue samples were taken from each donor heart and from remnants of the old heart not removed during transplant surgery See Heart Page A5 MORE: Protein might cause deterioration as humans age A2 MICRO EXPANSION MIGHT CREATE HUNDREDS JOBS TOM COPELANDNews Record Mi Jv Hr 'rW i 1 5 0 Mb If I 1 an? jpttii HP wnlWiJffA Micro employees work in the clean room at the new wafer fabrication plant in Greensboro employee base of 1300 is sufficient to operate the second plant initially but as business grows in the next few years workers will be added MICRO DEVICES Where: 7628 Thorndike Road Greensboro NC 27409 (336) 664 1233 What the company does: Makes microchips for mobile 1 telephones and other wireless communications devices Employees: 1300 iscal 2001 revenues: $3354 million 'a 1 I JXSL 11 GUlLEORDj Greensboro IradTenterJX RMICR0O XT DEVICES XT MANUACTURIN 11 PMNT Thorndike Rd Il MARGARET BAXTERNews Record 2nd Micro plant opens to high hopes The new factory is expected to play a key role in company strategy to diversify into making different chips for different devices BY AMY JOYNER Staff Writer GREENSBORO Micro Devices opens its second microchip manufacturing plant today in Greensboro potentially creating hundreds of higher paying jobs in the next few years Initially 1300 employees will continue making its signature gallium arsenide chips at the new 275000 square foot plant on Piedmont Triad Parkway in Greensboro Those semiconductor chips are sold to such companies as Nokia Motorola and Ericsson and used to help power mobile phones and other wireless devices But the new factory is also expected to play a key role in strategy to diversify into making different chips for dif ferent devices second wafer fabrication plant or fab as it is called has been in the making for more than two years In July 1999 Micro decided to expand produc tion in Greensboro rather than at other sites considered in Scotland Ireland and Texas The new plant has much more capacity than original plant on Thorndike Road At its original plant Micro can make 60000 to 70000 4 inch wafers every year Each wafer is then converted into thou sands of microchips When the new plant is operating at full capacity the company can produce about 210000 chip laden wafers a year said Doug DeLieto director of investor relations The company received $56 million in incentives to expand here The incentives See Micro Page A5 WXLV to pull plug on newscast The ABC affiliate has consistently had the smallest audience among the four network affiliates during the past six years By Jamie Kritzer Staff Writer GREENSBORO WXLV (Channel 45) is canceling its television news operation and will broadcast news for the last time on Jan 1 1 the station announced Wednesday Will Davis who manages the ABC affiliate said that WXLV could no longer justify producing a local newscast that had not made a profit 2001 Davis made the announcement to a saddened newsroom at noon Wednesday Davis blamed financial woes on the economy and the failure to attract viewers and strong rat ings WXLV consistently had the smallest audience among the four network affili ates with news broadcasts during the past six years economy was what really did us Davis said just no way we can continue to produce a journal istically sound newscast in the economic condition fac ing right The decision will leave Triad TV viewers with three choices for local news: ox affiliate WGHP (Channel 8) CBS station WMY (Channel 2) and NBC affiliate WXII (Channel 12) WXLV will continue to broadcast all of the program ming produced by the net work including soaps such as My and prime time TV shows such as ma and The decision leaves 35 peo ple without jobs how many people produced the Winston Salem week See Newscast Page A6 Triad girds for first snowfall Snow in the forecast sends residents hurrying to grocery and hardware stores Wednesday By Daniel Nonte Staff Writer In the face of the first snowfall road crews across the Triad readied their snowplows Wednesday and residents stocked up on gro ceries and other supplies The National Weather Ser vice on Wednesday predicted MORE ONLINE or maps of priority snow routes in Guilford Randolph and Rockingham counties a list ofclosings and the latest weather information visit wwwnews recordcom 3 6 inches of snow for the Triad starting Wednesday night and ending today The storm was expected to dump as much as 12 inches of snow on parts of the state north and east of Raleigh As of 9 pm Wednesday res idents of Asheboro Greensboro and cities nearby were watch ing snowflakes fall and police were tending to dozens of fend er benders in slick areas Seagrove reported more than 3 inches of snow and officials with Asheboro city schools decided to cancel classes today because of the accumulation Other districts will decide See Snow Page A6 MORE: Storm hits the South making roads hazardous A2 LYNN HEYNews Record 1 1 Mr ifcB al James Mitchell puts groceries in the back of his truck as snow begins to fall Wednesday in Asheboro Mitchell was shopping at the Winn Dixie at Hammer Village Shopping Center INDEX AND ORECAST WWW ull report B10 Copyright 2002 News Record Precipitation: 80 chance High: 31 Low: 22 COMING THURSDAY Some of the most popular Christian rock acts are bringing Winter Jam 2002 to the Greensboro Coliseum Sharing the concert bill will be bands such as NewSong and Newsboys City Life COMING THURSDAY Dismal corporate earnings a recession and the Sept 11 terrorist attacks sent stocks to their lowest level in nearly three years But in late 2001 Wall Street showed the resiliency that has attracted millions of investors during the past decade Our annual roundup of the financial markets chronicles all the ups and downs Special Section Stocks 2001 fiBAL'SW 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