Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of Aandal Gic 1411 Henderson 9257420 491 Porlee 7884040 1510 mans Portage news continued on around Canada military raises coming Ottawa Canadas sailors and airmen will get pay raises when the Federal govern ment announces new funding for the military the defence minister said there will also be More Cash for upgrading and replacing old much of which has been rusting Art Eggleton senator resigns Ottawa tory senator Eric Berntson resigned yesterday from the upper taking his annual pension with him As he begins a yearlong jail sen tence for biker in isolation Montreal Hells Angels Leader Maurice mom who is behind bars awaiting a new trial on murder will remain in High Security Iso a judge ruled Boucher wanted to be moved to the general population at a Montre Alarea mens Road War a mystery Hamilton two Drivers of sport Utility vehicles took Road rage to the verge of Road War on during momentary stops in the bizarre one Driver smashed the others window with a bottle and minutes later hit him in the face with a Metal late police were still trying to determine what sparked the violent the entire which lasted 13 ended when one of the vehicles jumped a Concrete median and sideswiped a pass ing s wrongdoing denied works minis Ter Alfonso Gagliano denied yesterday that he did anything wrong when his office sought information for the wife of a reputed but the Canad an Alliance says its not going to let the matter Gagliano stood up in the com Mons to explain Why his office wrote a letter to the immigration department last May seeking information on behalf of Maria Sicurella i who was seeking to become a landed Amodeo is the wife of Gaetano whose name appears on Interpol list of 500 most dangerous she later sponsored her husband for entry to nip breathe easier Saskatchewan governing new democrats held on to one of their safest seats last night with a provincial by election win by Warren that also gave them some breathing in their razor thin coalition the Saskatchewan party holds 26 while with Mccall the government Side is com prised of 28 new democrats and two compiled from Canadian press february 2001 Canad world b1 business b6 tse listings b8 Mutual funds b9 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 Dean Bicknell Canadian press Scorgie discusses investments on Oprah people Are finally respecting what i plans first million by she began investing at 10 teenage Alberta investment Whiz who Aims to become a millionaire at 25 has agreed to share some of her savvy with talk show Host Oprah Lesley a 17yearold honours student at Calgary Scarlett High started investing in Canada savings Bonds when she was she soon diversified into Mutual funds and All with Money she made working Par time she wont say How much Money she has but As a condition of appearing on Oprah she had to show the producers financial statements proving she could make a million by the time she turns i am kind of shocked at myself that i can do Scorgie said in an it requires a lot of persistence and but its totally Scorgie and her mom were whisked to Chicago last tuesday to tape the Oprah show episode called Ordinary extraordinary the show airs it features personal investment author Ric and gives viewers eight secrets to becom ing we Are talking to no two Winfrey said in a web site pro motion of the Scorgie started out saving her Money from babysitting and delivering she entered the world of investment full Force once she got her first Par time Job at the Calgary Public something i Learned in the first few months of having a Job is that i really dont have a lot of things to i dont have the financial commitments that an adult she it is a proven fact teenagers have More disposable income than she said the most difficult part of investing her hard earned Cash was getting people to take her its said its such a and you wonder Why kids blow All their because there is no one there to take you seriously when you i have can i invest it with supportive parents and a keen interest in the Stock mar Mutual funds and Scorgie is on track to a worry free she Hopes her Story will inspire other Young people to invest their people Are finally respecting what i she i have been saying this for so and it is so youve got to save your you cant just blow it on lunch every single its really important for kids to Start investing when they Are to have a secure financial Scorgie plans to take business classes at the University of Cal Gary next Canadian press Powell goes easier on Iraq backs loosening curbs on civilian goods Damascus based on soundings in the Arab Secretary of state Colin Powell is preparing to recommend that curbs on Export ing civilian goods to Iraq be eased but tight controls be maintained on weapons a senior official said Powell found during a tour of Arab capitals deep distress with the Impact of sanctions on the iraqi peo but he also was told that president Saddam Hus Sein had to be contained the official the consensus was that the iraqi people should not have to pay through suffering for Saddam quest for weapons of mass the official said As pow Ell made the final Stop on his six country tour of the even some goods that conceivably could be useful to the iraqi such As currently controlled water pumps and May be exempted from the official imposed during the presidency of pres ident George Bush have been the Bedrock of a Tough policy toward Iraq for More than a finishing a Quick trip to the Middle East and per Sian Powell met yesterday with syrian presi Dent Bashar Assad and foreign minister Farouk Alshara to discuss Iraq sanctions and Middle East peace the Bush administration has information that suggests Syria was importing iraqi Oil for reexport out Side the in sanctions and Powell took up the Issue with president Powell said Assad promised he would submit to the in after their the official syrian Arab news Agency did not mention but said Assad stressed to Powell that Syria remains committed to the israeli Arab peace process under conditions agreed by ear Lier israeli governments and the United Powell left for his next a nato meeting in Powell stopped earlier in saudi Jor Dan and in Kuwait Powell pledged that Freedom will live an Prosper in this part of the world in spite of whose forces were driven from Kuwait 10 years ago by the Gulf War continued please see Saddam b2 we dont de dare somebody dead until there Wann and dead Frozen Tot Case shows body resilience by Helen Branswell Toronto theres a piece of collective Wisdom known to medical personnel who work with victims of acute in our we dont declare some body dead until there warm and says Peter clinical director of the critical care unit at Toronto Hospi Tal for sick that because the body has a remark Able ability to shut itself Down when subjected to extreme under the right with the right virtually full recovery is but As the Case of the Ottawa woman who froze to death in a Snowbank in december All hypothermia stories do not end As happily As the one unfolding now at Stollery childrens Hospital in More people die of extreme hypothermia major loss of body temperature than survive so what happens in cases like the 13 Mont hold Edmonton whose diaper Clad body withstood the frigid blasts of c temperatures when faced with a rapid loss of Core the body metabolism slows the marked decline in activity Means the body needs considerably less oxygen and Energy to sus Tain itself and keep the brain the lower your the lower your requirements for oxygen and Cox for with a Core temperature of 20 c 37 c is Normal a body needs Only 20 per cent of its Normal oxygen he the Little whose name has not been had a Core temperature of 15 c when she was she in in a col induced coma a state not dissimilar to that used by Doc tors to facilitate some forms of cardiac she had no circulation for some but the amount of oxygen that the brain cells needed was very said Alf head of the paediatric intensive care unit at Stollery childrens Hospi whats important for survival is that the body cools Down rapidly and that its healthy at the continued please see Frozen b2 says doctor b2 All news is bad news global news c weeknights ;