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HUGH McOIARIVXID POLITICS BOVINE TO State may lose its status as disease-free, pace 2b TRANSITION I NEW MAYOR Rochester Hills leader will share her plans for city's future tonight, pace 2b THURSDAY Feb. 17, 2000 Dateline 2 Obituaries 3 YourNeigbors 4 Roadwork 4 ON THE WEB www.freep.com MPVK mm i WIU El 'EDNA used to match body i tion charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Disappointed with Lowe's decision, defense attorney Michael Schwartz chastised the prosecution's case. "They know their case is very, very thin and they're going to have a hard time," Schwartz said. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Michael Lehto said earlier that Azizul Islam is the only person with motive to kill his wife because their marriage had crumbled, he said.

He was the only one Please see DNA, Page 5B Husband will be tried in death, mutilation By BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Prosecutors used DNA evidence from a toothbrush Wednesday to identify body parts found in Dearborn and Ohio as those of missing Plymouth resident Tracy Islam. They also convinced a judge that there is probable cause to charge her husband, Azizul Islam, a 50-year-old biochemist, with THERAPEUTIC AND DISCIPLINARY SCHOOLS Toudi oath for teens first-degree murder and mutilation of a body. Judge Ronald Lowe of the 35th District Court bound the case over to Wayne County Circuit Court after the 9-hour preliminary examination, continued from Jan. 21. Now the prosecutors' challenge is to get a conviction based on a great deal of circumstantial evidence.

Although the 35-year-old's cause of death is unknown, Lowe said, "I'm satisfied her death was not by natural causes." Upon conviction, first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison; the mutila 3 I) 7 i fit The primary puts Engler OH, MY. The focus on Gov. John Engler and how next week's Michigan Republican presidential primary may or may not affect his future is already intense. And it will only get stronger in the next few days. To his credit, Engler seems to be taking it in stride.

"I'm reading (where) my entire future is on the line," he told reporters in Lansing on Tuesday. "And I'm something of an object of failure or pity, I guess, if we don't win Tuesday." He said it, of course, with light sarcasm. Well, it's sure no secret that Big John is very much the Republicans' man of the hour in John Engler Michigan and that he's got plenty on the line. For example: A piece in the Feb. 21 Time magazine by Michael Duffy re-, hashes details of how Engler "has done everything he could to gift wrap the GOP nomination for George W.

Bush." But it also says Engler's effort may be "increasingly in jeopardy" due to "a mob of party crashers," i.e., independents, Democrats and possibly Republicans put off by what the article refers to as an internal GOP "wrestling match" between Engler and GOP chair Betsy DeVos over vouchers, who may all vote for John McCain. The piece, though it doesn't dwell on Engler's future, does note pointedly that, unlike in 1996 when Engler had vice presidential ambitions but was late getting behind Bob Dole, "this time around Engler was determined to be a player from the start." The Associated Press, in a lengthy pre-primary story this week, runs quotes from several pundit types about how a Bush loss in Michigan might affect Engler's future. The speculation ranges from "he'll be even more of a lame duck he won't be the force that he's been in the past" (Bill Ballenger of Inside Michigan Politics newsletter) to other than not going to Washington, I don't think it affects him much he'll still be a player" (Lansing pollster Ed Sarpolus). A check with Engler spokesman John Truscott on Wednesday disclosed this sampling of Engler interview requests: National columnist Jules Witcover; USA Today's Walter Shapiro; Brian Williams of MSNBC; Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC; the Washington Times; the Milwaukee Journal; the Philadelphia Inquirer; CNN; "Fox News "Face the the Washington Post's E. J.

Dionne, and NBC's Lisa Myers. So? So, what does Tuesday mean for Engler and his future? Here are my guesses: A) If Bush wins even narrowly well, pop the corks. Engler's a hero and all options, including a possible cabinet post or high-level spot in the White House, are possible assuming Engler is interested and, of course, that Bush wins in November. B) If McCain wins (even if he wins big), Engler, after the Democrats and pundits are finished dumping on him, is still very much a player assuming McCain (or Bush if he makes a comeback) is elected president with Michigan's help in November. OlfAl Gore (or Bill Bradley) wins the presidency well, forget Engler nationally.

But in Michigan, while some will be tempted to write him off, it would be far wiser to remember that Engler will still be governor (two more years). And for anyone who crossed him back in February, that's a long time to get even. Right? HUGH McDIARMID can be reached at 313-223-4477. mwrnrnw prone 313-222-6600 Section pa Azizul Islam, 50, is accused of killing his wife, then dismembering and dumping her body in parts of Michigan and Ohio last year. His defense attorney called the prosecution's case "very thin." M.J.

AVILADetrorl Free Press Limits on kids book spark war of words In Zeeland, best-selling series is off the shelves By THOMAS BeVIER FREE PRESS SPECIAL RITER ZEELAND Some teachers, are so riled over efforts to restrict children from reading the best-selling Harry Potter books that they are threatening to burn their Winnie the Pooh discount bookstore cards. Protesting teachers about 40 signed a petition asking the school board to take its restrictions off the Harry Potter books also plan to attend Monday's Zeeland Board of Education meeting, hoping to get the board to take the clamps off the Harry Potter books. The novels by Scottish author J.K. Rowling feature Harry, a boy being trained at the Hog-warts School of Witchcraft and-Wizardry and his adventures in. fantasy.

The Pooh cards are good for a discount at Pooh's Corner bookstore, whose owner decided not to carry the Harry Potter books after Gary Feenstra, superintendent of the Zeeland Public Schools, ordered them removed from shelves of school libraries. Students who want to read the books need written permission from their parents. Feenstra said he read the first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and was troubled Please see BOOK, Page 6B Wizardry, violent themes have critics. ing piece. Over the past decade or so, most scientists who've tested the global warming hypothesis have reached a similar conclusion.

Many, like Pollack, believe that human beings are contributing to the change by burning fossil fuels such as gasoline and oil. Ptea.sc see U-M, Page 8B rt 1 Paul Malloure and son David, 14, of Brighton talk with David's friends at lunch at the Hyde School in Bath, education, structure, tough discipline, family therapy and college preparatory courses. V' Pliolos Dy CARL D. WALbHSpecw to Ihe Free Press Maine. The school emphasizes for families in crisis Critics say they take advantage of desperate parents, fleecing them financially while mistreating tryir children under the guise of therapy.

Many families, such as the Malloures, see them as a last resort. First, the Malloures flew David to a wilderness camp in Utah, where he hiked the desert for three months, living on little more than lentils, rice and raisins. Then they enrolled him in a boarding school on the Maine coast where family counseling sessions are mandatory and punishments include hours of jumping jacks and manual labor. "We're still struggling with a lot of things. But he's got a better outlook," said Paul Malloure, a project manager for an Oakland County highway contractor.

This year, the Hyde School in Bath, Maine, was used by six other southeastern Michigan families, and 240 more families Please see TEENS, Page 5B '''fa? CTV' A. Specialized centers for problem kids soar in popularity ByTAMARAAUDI free press staff riter This was the view from the end of Paul and Barbara Mal-loure's rope: Their teenage son David was failing all of his classes. He was repeatedly suspended from middle school for talking back to his teachers. He quit the football and soccer teams. He was caught with pot.

He wore baggy black clothes and wrapped hardware chains around his wrists. He stopped smiling. "A point came where we didn't know what to do any more," said Barbara Malloure, a Brighton homemaker with three other school-age children. The family had switched David's schools twice, and tried counseling. "Nothing worked," she said.

vr Is: 1 j. nrr designed for drug-addicted and defiant teens. These tough-love programs rely on structure and punishment, in some cases forcing teens to earn food and shelter by performing exhausting labor. Advocates call them the last best hope to confirm the globe, an ambitious effort that allowed them to track temperature trends over the last five centuries. Their research led to an article that will appear today in the scientific journal Nature.

By analyzing the temperature of rocks as deep as 656 yards below the earth's surface, the trio developed evidence that they say shows the global climate has been Paul Malloure is blindfolded for a communication exercise with his son while visiting him for the weekend. U-M geologists go deep global warming theory The Malloures then took a dramatic step one that more Michigan families are taking each year, according to parents, therapists and educators. They sent their 14-year-old son hundreds of miles away to an extreme disciplinary and therapeutic program ing. As a scientist, he was trained to respond to a hypothesis with questions. So Pollack teamed with U-M geologist Shaopeng Huang and a Canadian colleague, Po-Yu Shen of the University of Western Ontario, and the three went searching for evidence deep in the earth.

They gathered temperature readings from 616 mines around warming for 900 years. The trend has accelerated in the last century and half, the researchers say, since the burning of fossil fuels began. "I think this should lay to rest any doubt that the earth is.warm-ing," Pollack said of the article. "There is now so much evidence from so many different sources. This is one more convinc In 500 years, the Earth got 1.8 degrees hotter By EMILIA ASKARI FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Henry Pollack, a University of Michigan geologist, was intrigued but unconvinced when he first heard the theory of global warm.

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