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LAS VEGAS As the showdown be-tween Floyd Mayweather andManny Pacquiao draws near,there is one unavoidable ques-tion: Whos going to win thefight?

Before the boxers even stepinto the ring Saturday at theMGM Grand Garden Arena, thereis already one clear winner.

Its Vegas, baby.The mega fight the Fight of

the Decade, Fight of the Century,or Fight of the Millennium, de-pending on whos holding thebullhorn is attracting tens ofthousands of visitors who want ataste of one of the most anticipat-ed matchups in more than adecade.

The citys 150,000 rooms areexpected to be near capacity, saidhotel executives such as PhillipAuerbach, a senior vice president

of Caesars Entertainment. Up to$100 million will be wagered onthe fight at Nevada sports books,said Jay Kornegay, vice presidentof the Westgate Las Vegas Super-book. And tickets to simply watchthe fight on TV in town are onsale at StubHub for up to $1,000.

So forget about Mayweatherand Pacquiao for a moment, be-cause Auerbach has another pre-diction: This weekend will bebigger than New Years Eve, whenmore than 300,000 visitors packthe city.

Looking back over the lastseveral fights, the Super Bowl, thelast couple of New Years Eves,this is going to eclipse all that,Auerbach told USA TODAYSports. Its going to eclipseeverything.

The fight has arguably eclipsedeverything when it comes tohype. It is likely to set the recordfor pay-per-view sales, surpassingthe 2.4 million purchases made in

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WASHINGTON President Obamawould very rarely, if ever grantpardons for major drug oensesand gun crimes, according toWhite House memos that reveal acautious approach to his pardonpower.

Those memos, obtained byUSA TODAY, may partly explainObamas historically infrequentuse of his constitutional power togrant pardons. But even as Oba-ma has revamped the pardonoce in an eort to get more par-don applications, his ocial poli-cy on granting pardons hasremained unchanged.

That policy was outlined in a2010 memo from the WhiteHouse counsel and modeled after

the policy of President George W.Bush. It outlined six categories ofcrimes for which clemency wouldbe rarely granted.

Indeed, Obama kept Bushs2001 pardon policy in place forthe first 18 months of his presi-dency, before issuing his ownguidance to the Oce of PardonAttorney in July 2010.

Critics of Obamas lacklusteruse of the pardon say that 2010memo shows Obama shouldnt besurprised at the recommenda-tions hes getting from the JusticeDepartment oce that screenspardon applications.

Its a memo that comes out 18months after you take the oath,and that essentially tweaks a pri-or memo from a prior admini-stration that no one thinks wasdoing a great job in this respect,said Douglas Berman, a law pro-fessor at Ohio State University.And then it takes you four moreyears to figure out that youre notgetting the cases you want to get?Well, youre not really looking.

The White House says Obamahas an ongoing commitment to

ObamapardonpolicyrevealedLeaked memo showswhy clemency is rareGregory Korte@gregorykorteUSA TODAY

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DENVER City ocials temporari-ly halted the sale of millions ofdollars worth of legal marijuanabecause of concerns that unap-proved pesticides or fungicideshave contaminated it.

Last Friday, city ocials placeda hold on 60,000 plants at a sin-gle grower here after consultingwith state agriculture inspectorsand the U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency. They previouslyhad placed crops from six otherfacilities on similar holds, allow-ing plants to keep growing butblocking their sale to consumers.

Some growers have destroyedtheir crops instead of waiting fortest results.

A mature marijuana plant canbe worth more than $4,000, butits unclear where these plantswere in the growing process. Be-cause pot is such a lucrative crop,many growers improve their har-vest by spraying young plantswith chemicals that havent beenapproved for use on marijuana.

No pesticides have been ap-proved for use on marijuana.

Those pesticides are used rou-tinely on other crops, yet health

ocials worry those other cropsarent smoked or eaten in the waymarijuana is.

This is an initiative that Den-ver is taking on to really makesure consumers do not get intoharms way, said Danica Lee ofthe Denver Department of Envi-ronmental Health.

Denver city ocials actionscame after months of waiting forthe state to launch its own moni-

toring program for contaminants.Health inspectors appear particu-larly concerned with a productknown as Eagle 20, a commercial-grade fungicide not commonlysold in home-improvement orhardware stores, because of po-tential residue.

Pesticides normally are subjectto federally monitored residuetesting. But because marijuanaremains illegal at the federal lev-el, no one has done those studies.

There is not a pesticide in thecountry approved for use on mar-ijuana, said Mike Elliot of theMarijuana Industry Group, a Col-orado-based trade organization.Were really stuck.

Most of Colorados marijuanais grown indoors because thecontrolled environment givesgrowers more oversight on light,water and fertilization while alsoreducing risk of mold and pests.

Mold can render a plant un-sellable, in part because it makesthe buds less attractive and be-cause it can impart an unpleasanttaste when smoked.

Neither Colorado nor Wash-ington state, which also has legalrecreational marijuana sales, re-quire pesticide or fungicide test-ing. However, Washington statedoes test for other contaminants.

Four states and the District ofColumbia have legalized pos-session of small amounts ofmarijuana for people age 21and older.

uAlaska. Law became effec-tive Feb. 24, but state has notyet created a regulated systemof sales.uColorado. State-licensedstores began selling pot Jan. 1,2014.uDistrict of Columbia. Lawbecame effective Feb. 26 butdoes not allow for legal sale ofmarijuana.uOregon. Law becomes effec-tive July 1, but retail stores wontopen until later in 2016.uWashington. State-licensedstores began selling marijuanaJuly 8, 2014.

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2007 for Mayweathers victoryover Oscar De La Hoya.

Mayweather and Pacquiao arethe top boxers of their era andhave teased boxing fans for yearswith a possible matchup. May-weather, 38, who has a 47-0 rec-ord, and Pacquiao, 36, at 57-5-2,are entering the twilight of theircareers, but anticipation for thebout is at a fever pitch.

The outcome will be measuredin punches landed and pain in-flicted by the two men, as well asin dollars made, and no accoun-tants figure to be busier thanthose working for MGM Interna-tional Resorts.

The companys signature prop-erty the MGM Grand is le-veraging the demand from boxingfans and others drawn to theevent. This week, the hotelcharged $1,550 for a standardroom the same room availablefor less than $250 last Saturday.

Other hotels charged inflatedroom rates while the fight pro-moters and Showtime and HBO the cable companies oering

the fight on pay-per-view posi-tioned themselves to generatemore than $300 million.

Its just becoming one giantmoneymaking machine, saidDave Pemberton, director of spe-cialty games for Caesars Enter-tainment, and everybodysgetting in where they can.

Las Vegas figured to be flushwith cash after this weekend evenwithout a boxing match. Alreadyon tap: the running of the Ken-tucky Derby, which attractsscores of horse players and gam-blers, and a pre-Cinco de Mayocelebration that lures throngs of

revelers. Then came Feb. 21,when Mayweather ended fiveyears of frustration for boxingfans by announcing he and Pac-quiao had agreed to a fight.

The hotels felt an instant im-pact, Auerbach said. Within thenext three days, the city was al-most sold out, he said. It wasunlike anything Ive seen before.

The Las Vegas Convention andVisitors Authority oers no pro-jections on hotel occupancy andeconomic impact, and cautionmight be wise. Last week, Auer-bach said a standard room at Cae-sars Palace was available for

$1,000 for a two-night minimumstay. But Wednesday, a standardroom was available for $500 withno minimum night stay, and theMGM rooms had dropped below$500 Thursday.

We hear there are a lot of peo-ple coming to town who just wantto be in Las Vegas, who just wantto be part of the buzz this grandevent is creating, Cara Clarke ofthe Las Vegas Metro Chamber ofCommerce said. So I thinktheres going to be a lot of peoplecoming in just to watch the fight.

That could be more challeng-ing than finding an aordable ho-

tel room. On the Strip, only theMGM Grand and its nine sisterproperties will show the fightduring viewing parties. The hotelsaid it took hours to sell out oftickets, which were priced at $150per person. Only four restaurantswithin 25 miles of Las Vegas werelisted online as oering the fighton closed-circuit.

Kornegay reported a steadyflow of bets and expected the ar-rival of high-rollers today.Though the fight will be availableon closed-circuit only at MGMproperties on the Strip, all sportsbooks will show the KentuckyDerby, NBA playos and NHLplayos among a full menu ofsports events. Its like the perfectstorm for sports betting, said Ja-son Simbal of CG Technology,which operates sports books foreight properties in Las Vegas.

Jason McCormick, Red RockResorts sports book director, hada thought when talking about theimminent arrival of tens of thou-sands of visitors.

Hopefully, he said, every-bodys getting their tax refundcheck.

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KATHMANDU Life now is divid-ed into before and after.Days and dates have been fil-tered out, replaced by the over-whelming needs of peoplearound me and a constant gnaw-ing sense of loss and anxiety. Ihave lived in Kathmandu foralmost two years, and this is nowmy home.

The magnitude-7.8 earth-quake of April 25 has only rein-forced that feeling. My days noware spent juggling two worldsthat constantly overlap: that of amother with the responsibilityfor a 10-year-old son, a homeand six extended Nepali familiesthat in one way or another haveworked for us, and also that ofbeing a reporter.

Like everyone else, I haveanxieties and am on edge wait-ing for the next aftershock andhave a constant earthquakehangover the feeling of beingfrequently dizzy and o-balance.I comb my area stores to stockup on food and water and plastictarps for dozens of people. Thedaily downpours have made lifemiserable for hundreds of thou-sands of Nepalis whose homeswere destroyed.

It is the first line of our greet-ings now: Is your house OK?The answers are numbinglyrepetitive. Some of the Nepalis Iknow have lost everything ex-cept for whatever they havemanaged to salvage by diggingthrough rubble or running inand out of teetering houses.

My friend Keshav Tapa Magarlives in the village of Koth Gaunperched on one of the highestsouthern hills encircling theKathmandu Valley. When Ivisited it a few months ago, I hadthe feeling of soaring above theworld, like an eagle geared upwith a camera.

The village consists of 75traditional houses made of hard-packed tawny red mud andbricks and matching tiled roofs.During lunch, Keshav managedto sneak many an avocado chunkto my huge and delighted Rho-desian Ridgeback. Today KothGaun, like many other villages, isno more. Not one house is leftstanding.

It is not just the ancient tem-ples and stupas that have crum-bled, but a whole way of life.Nepals allure to the outsideworld has been its monuments,its mountains and its people. Allhave been terribly battered. Atevery pile of rubble I pass, Iremember what it looked likebefore, and then I pause know-ing I will never see it again.

Before the quake, Id joke withmy husband that it was almostimpossible to get an editor toshow a glimmer of interest in aNepal story unless it involvedEverest. Within hours of thequake, I was bombarded withrequests from as far as Australiaand Colombia and job oers

from NGOs on their way in.The Big One has brought

massive international aid andhordes of journalists. Yet muchof the story is outside of thevalley, in areas blocked by land-slides, far from cell connectionsand dicult to access. That storyremains to be told.

The government seems to beat a loss, and so far less than 10%of the aid that has come into thecountry has made it out of Kath-mandu Valley.

The heavy aid planes keepcoming, on Wednesday crackingKathmandus single runway sobadly that it had to be closed forrepairs.

The city seems to be descend-

ing into another type of chaos:that of disorganization and lackof guidance.

Early Thursday, under a graydrizzly sky, I walked throughKathmandus centuries-oldDarbar Square. Most of the brick

and carved-wood temples arerubble. The main square is nowhome to red and blue tarpaulins,their huddled inhabitants mak-ing tea and chatting.

Less than 15 feet away is thewhite Rana palace, partiallyfallen down. Marching up themuddy road was an orange-uniformed Japanese search-and-rescue team, stopped infront of a group of Nepali po-licemen digging through therubble of a temple by hand. Theyexchanged a few words with thepolice, but there seemed to beno urgency in their work. We arein Day 6, and finding survivors isagainst the odds.

Less than 13 kilometers awayin Bungamati, more than 60% ofthe houses had been destroyedand not a single internationalaid agency had shown up. A totaldisconnect between needs andaid delivery.

Lorch, a former New York Timescorrespondent, is a writer in Nepal

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Nepal a country rattled to the core

At every pile of rubble I pass, writes Donatella Lorch, here at Kathmandus Darbar Square,I remember what it looked like before, and then I pause knowing I will never see it again.

Donatella LorchSpecial for USA TODAY

It is not just theancient temples andstupas that havecrumbled, but awhole way of life.

clemency and plans to reviewmore requests in the comingmonths. In March, Obama short-ened the sentences of 22 peopleconvicted of drug crimes.

The president believes strong-ly that a critical component ofour criminal justice system is fordeserving and qualified appli-cants to have the ability to pet-ition for clemency, said BrandiHone, an assistant WhiteHouse press secretary.

The Constitution gives thepresident Power to grant Re-prieves and Pardons for Oencesagainst the United States.

And for much of the nationshistory, presidents have used thatpower frequently to forgive pastcrimes, restore civil rights, showmercy and correct injustices.

But that power has witheredover the past 40 years. PresidentNixon pardoned 51% of applica-tions received, according to sta-tistics compiled by politicalscientist P.S. Ruckman Jr.

For Bush, the rate was 7.6%.And for Obama, its half of that.

Both Bush and Obama gave in-structions that said they wouldlook unfavorably on pardon ap-plications in certain categories:terrorism and national securitycases; violent crimes; crimesagainst children; gun crimes andpublic corruption cases.

Obama softened Bushs stanceagainst drug crimes. Where Bush

was reluctant to issue pardons fordrug tracking cases, Obamaspolicy said pardons should berare only for large scale drugtracking oenses in which theapplicant had a significant role.

But even with a more liberalpolicy, Obama has granted just 22drug-related pardons, comparedwith Bushs 30.

Obama also added significantfinancial crimes to cases he wouldrarely grant pardons on.

Like Bush, Obama maintaineda three-strikes rule, disfavoringapplications where the applicanthas three or more criminal con-victions.

And while Obama did awaywith an eective 10-year timelimit before someone can applyfor a pardon, he expressed a pref-erence for older cases.

The President believes, how-ever, that where more time haspassed since conviction or re-lease, applications will tend to bestronger, in part because the ex-tended time period provides agreater opportunity for the appli-cant to establish exemplary post-conviction conduct and demon-strate true acceptance ofresponsibility, remorse andatonement, said the 2010 memofrom then-White House counselRobert Bauer.

But the White House doesntjust communicate to the pardonoce by memo. The kinds ofcases the president takes actionon can send just as clear a mes-

sage, said Margaret Love, whoserved as pardon attorney in theClinton administration and nowrepresents federal convicts seek-ing clemency.

The White House was sendinga clear signal in those early yearsthat they didnt want anythingbut old filing-the-edges-o-pen-nies cases, and so that appears tobe the kind of case they got fromJustice, Love said.

Filing edges o of pennies wasan actual pardon case: In Decem-ber 2010, almost two years intohis presidency, Obama issued hisfirst nine pardons, including the1963 coin mutilation case of Ron-ald Lee Foster.

USA TODAY reported in Feb-ruary that Obama not only wasgranting fewer pardons than hispredecessors he was also grant-ing them on increasingly oldercases.

Of the presidents 64 pardons,only five have been for peopleconvicted in the prior 15 years.Since then, Obama has given anumber of speeches and inter-views explaining why hes been sostingy with granting pardons,fewer than President Jimmy Car-ter issued every full year of hispresidency.

I noticed that what I was get-ting was mostly small-timecrimes from very long ago, Oba-ma told the Hungton Post.

Obama said he was revamp-ing the pardon oce and wouldbe more aggressive on pardons.

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President Obama has chosenChicago to host his future presi-dential library, two individualswith knowledge of the decisionsaid Thursday, placing the monu-ment to his legacy in the city thatlaunched his improbable ascentto the White House.

Obamas library will be built onChicagos South Side, where theUniversity of Chicago has pro-posed two sites not far from theObama familys home. It was un-clear which of the two sites hadbeen selected for the library.

Obamas decision to place thelibrary in Chicago was conveyedto the Associated Press by two in-dividuals with direct knowledgeof the decision. Both spoke oncondition of anonymity becausethe decision has yet to be publiclyannounced.

HOUSE OKS FIRST JOINT GOP BUDGET SINCE BUSH ERA

House Republicans approvedalong party lines Thursday the

first GOP budget agreed upon byboth houses of Congress since theGeorge W. Bush presidency.

Weve got a lot left to do, butwere listening to the Americanpeople and were getting thingsdone, said House Speaker John

Boehner, R-Ohio. The 10-yearbudget plan passed, 226-197, withall Democrats in opposition.

The GOP-controlled Senatewill approve it next week, saidSenate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell, R-Ky.

The vote follows Wednesdaysannouncement that negotiatorsreached a deal to reconcile Houseand Senate plans. Susan Davis

SENTENCES REDUCED FOR 3 INATLANTA CHEATING SCANDAL

Three former Atlanta PublicSchools administrators who re-ceived the harshest sentencesthis month after being convictedof conspiring to cheat on stan-dardized tests were resentencedto terms that would allow themto serve three years in prison.

Judge Jerry Baxter of FultonCounty Superior Court, who onApril 14 told the former regionaldirectors in the citys school sys-tem that they would serve sevenyears of a 20-year term, gaveSharon Davis-Williams, TamaraCotman and Michael Pitts newsentences of 10 years in prison,allowing them to serve threeyears behind bars with the bal-ance as probation. Pitts will servean additional three-year term be-cause he also was convicted on acharge of influencing a witness.

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Hundreds of protesters filledthe steps of Baltimores City Hallon Thursday, again giving voice tofrustration over the death of ayoung black man in police custo-dy, as the department turned overits investigative findings toprosecutors.

Police Commissioner AnthonyBatts declined to make the inves-tigative results public while thestates attorney determineswhether charges will be broughtagainst any of the six suspendedpolice ocers involved in FreddieGrays arrest. No timetable hasbeen set for that decision.

Among the latest develop-ments was a report from TheWashington Post that a prisonersharing a police van with Gray,who died of spinal injuries, toldocers Gray appeared to be try-ing to injure himself, based on

what he heard behind a metalpartition inside the van.

The death of Gray, 25, sparkedalmost two weeks of protests thatturned violent Monday, prompt-ing the governor to call out theNational Guard to stop rioters.

A 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew tookeect for a third night Thursday.Small groups of people were oncity streets as the curfew began.

As 200 to 300 people demon-strated outside the citys govern-ment oces, similar marchestook place in Philadelphia, NewYork and other cities. New YorkPolice Commissioner WilliamBratton said 143 people were ar-rested Wednesday night.

A small group of protesters inPhiladelphia scued with policeas they tried to block the en-

trance to a major highway. In Baltimore, Amanda David,

41, burst into tears as she told thecrowd her 5-year-old son, MicahAllen, is terrified of police. Itbreaks your heart as a mother,she said. Hes told me: There gothe police. ... What are they goingto do to us?

The police findings turned overto prosecutors were the result ofan investigation by 30 ocers,and the case remains under ac-tive investigation, Batts said.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that after the prosecu-tor, States Attorney MarilynMosby, completes her review, aninternal disciplinary police de-partment process can begin. Shesaid the Department of Justice isundertaking its own inquiry. Thefamily of Mr. Gray wants answers.I want answers. Our entire citydeserves answers into Mr. Graysdeath, the mayor said. I ask thateveryone remain patient and vigi-lant on this path to justice.

At a meeting later with civilrights leaders, Rawlings-Blakesaid she would welcome a JusticeDepartment collaborative re-form of the police department,but she didnt want the depart-ment to take over the city.

I know we have problems andI am determined to fix them,Rawlings-Blake said. We will getjustice for Freddie Gray. Believeyou me, we will get justice.

The States Attorneys Oceconfirmed it received hard copiesof the police file on Gray, butprosecutors are conducting theirown investigation.

While we have and will con-tinue to leverage the informationreceived by the department, weare not relying solely on theirfindings but rather the facts thatwe have gathered and verified,Mosby said in a written state-ment. We ask for the public toremain patient and peaceful.

Jamal Bryant, pastor of Em-powerment Temple in Baltimore,called police shameful for tell-ing the public about the reportsrelease date but not revealing anymore details about Grays death.

Its a contrived, botched pub-lic relations campaign from thepolice department trying to savethemselves, their brand, and re-write the narrative, Bryant said.Its insulting to the intelligenceof the citizens of this city.

Contributing: John Bacon, William M.Welch

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MOSCOW A decade ago, whenRussian President Vladimir Putincelebrated the 60th anniversaryof defeating the Nazis in WorldWar II, leaders of the UnitedStates, France and Germany at-tended the victory parade in RedSquare.

Now, as Putin prepares tomark the 70th anniversary, Presi-dent Obama and other top West-ern leaders are snubbing theevent because of Russias incur-sion into eastern Ukraine and itsannexation of Crimea last year.

Even Putins one big get forthe parade North Koreas KimJong Un has become an unex-pected no-show after he canceledhis trip because of internal issuesin his nation, the Kremlin said ina statement Thursday.

British Prime Minister DavidCameron and German Chancel-lor Angela Merkel also declinedinvitations to join the celebra-tion. The United States will in-stead send Ambassador JohnTet. About 25 world leaders areexpected to attend.

Russias plans for the May 9Victory Day parade are stokingthe countrys growing anti-Amer-ican sentiments, already highover the conflict in Ukraine.

They (now) want to destroyRussia, said Viktor Karavayev, a

war veteranwho enlisted at17 to fight theGermans in1943. Duringthe war, Eng-land and theUnited Stateswere our allies,and now theyare our ene-mies.

Putin wasmore concilia-

tory during a call-in show twoweeks ago. Though he blamedsome decisions to stay away onpressure from the United States,he said leaders had a right to de-cide for themselves whether toattend as Russians celebrate ourown holiday.

Russias commemoration ofthe Soviet Unions victory in thewar has grown increasingly elab-orate over the years. This yearsparade will include a record16,000 soldiers, more than 200aircraft and 1,880 military equip-ment units, Russias DefenseMinister Sergei Shoigu said inMarch, according to the Kommer-

sant newspaper. Rehearsals of theparade got underway on thestreets of Moscow this week.

In some ways, the parade hascome to reflect the confrontationwith the West over Ukraine.Their aims areclear to under-mine the moralauthority of mod-ern Russia, to de-prive it of thestatus of victor,Putin said during aparade planningsession in March.

The parade alsosignals Russiaswillingness to dis-play its militarymight. Its strategicmissile forces have conducted anincreasing number of exercises,while a Russian fighter jet nearlycollided with a U.S. reconnais-sance aircraft on April 7 over theBaltic Sea.

The parades demonstration offorce is still primarily for domes-tic audiences, said sociologist LevGudkov of the Levada Centerpolling group. The cult of Vic-

tory Day is used to justify the ideaof unaccountable state power.

Reminders of the Soviet vic-tory against German fascism col-ors Russian state televisioncommentary about the conflict in

Ukraine. TV pun-dits frequently la-bel Ukraines newgovernment asfascist becausesome self-de-scribed Nazis havesided with the pro-Western govern-ment that replacedPutins ousted ally,Viktor Yanuko-vych, after massiveprotests last year.

For Putin, whohas enjoyed 85% approval ratingssince annexing Crimea from Uk-raine last year, rallying aroundthe parade seems to be anotherway of bolstering popular sup-port, Gudkov said.

Increasingly, the parade hasbecame a way to legitimize ...state power, Gudkov said. Themore celebration, the more peo-ple will be prepared to submit.

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If youre more into six-packabs than Hooters Bunday

Monday, a restaurantnamed Tallywackerspromises to opennext month in Dal-las, perhaps in timefor Mothers Day.

Inspired by Hoot-ers, the chain that

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Fla., this eatery will fea-ture guy eye candy with

its appetizers, hot dogs,pasta dishes and what its

owner called comfort foods.Its funny that everyone has

asked themselves the samequestion over time when visit-ing these venues more relatedwith female eye candy: Whyisnt there a male equivalent?owner Rodney Duke saidWednesday on The Kidd Krad-dick Morning Show on KHKS-FM, Dallas.

He said he thought about theidea for a decade, co-owninganother bar in the meantime,before pulling the trigger.

Earlier this month, Duke hada five-hour cattle call in Dallasfor prospective employees, pro-moted on Craigslist and ribbedby comics from Comedy Cen-tral to Jimmy Fallon.

The beefcake bar and grillhasnt opened but already has

more than 17,000 likes onFacebook.

Duke wasnt saying exactlywho he is hiring but contendsthat he wants to hire a varietyof men.

Everyone has a dierenttype, he said. We want to haveeye candy for everyone.

Patrons will be able tochoose their waiter by choosingto sit in the section where hesserving, Duke said.

Dont expect Chippendales,

the iconic male stripteasetroupe, he said.

Food service and bare chestsdont mix in city health ocialseyes.

But customers likely will seewaiters in tight red T-shirts anda version of a boxer brief, hesaid. The uniforms are still be-ing designed.

Were going to be a respect-able restaurant, Duke said.Theres not going to be anygroping going on.

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Tallywackers restaurant, the male equivalent of Hooters,will feature guy eye candy with its menu.

STATE-BY-STATEALABAMA Auburn : Saturday,more than 700 cyclists will takepart in Bo Jacksons fourthannual Bo Bikes Bama ride toraise funds for the GovernorsEmergency Relief Fund inmemory of the lives lost duringthe storms April 27, 2011, AL.comreported.

ALASKA Anchorage : Fewermoose (292) were struck andkilled by trains thiswinter than theprevious 10years as a resultof low snowfallthat makes iteasier formoose towalk ontracks,accordingto the state,newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Laveen : CesarChavez High School sophomorebasketball player Amreil Watson,15, died after he collapsed whileplaying in the gym after school,abc15 reported. The cause ofdeath is unknown.

ARKANSAS Little Rock : TheU.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicefinalized critical habitatdesignations for the Neoshomucket and rabbitsfoot musselsthat are smaller than thedesignations it initially proposed,Arkansas News reported.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento : Gov.Brown, a Democrat, issued anexecutive order calling for thestate to cut greenhouse gasemissions to 40% below 1990levels by 2030, the Los AngelesTimes reported.

COLORADO Denver: Ozonepollution is getting worse in theDenver metro area, according tothe American Lung Association,KUSA-TV reported. In thegroups State of the Air annualreport released Wednesday, theDenver metro area was rated13th-worst in the country. In theprevious report, the area was the26th-worst.

CONNECTICUT Greenwich:Police suspect a Range Rovertheft is related to several othersover the past two months, theGreenwich Time reported.

DELAWARE Dover: Republicanlegislation aimed at increasingmanufacturing employmentfailed in the state Senate Laborcommittee as unions ralliedagainst the measure, The NewsJournal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: TheAmerican Foreign ServiceAssociation will honor ForeignService Specialist David Collins,who lost his life serving theUnited States overseas, duringAFSAs annual memorialceremony today in theDepartment of States C Streetlobby. Collins name will beinscribed on the memorial wall.

FLORIDA Patrick Air ForceBase: A 60-year-old lawn careworker was hospitalized afterbeing repeatedly stung by bees atPatrick Air Force Base, FloridaToday reported.

GEORGIA Atlanta : Gov. Deal, aRepublican, signed legislationthat requires insurers to provideup to $30,000 a year in coveragefor children 6 and under whohave been diagnosed with autism,the Journal-Constitutionreported.

HAWAIILihue: LuisSoltren, whohas a beeallergy, sued hisbeekeepingneighbor for about$2,000 in bills heincurred duringhospital trips to treattwo stings, theGarden Islandreported.

IDAHO Boise: Thestate is the cheapest in thecountry to buy car insurance for ahigh-risk driver, the Idaho StateJournal reported.

ILLINOIS Springfield : DanWalker, who was governor from1973 to 1977, died at his homenear San Diego at age 92, theChicago Tribune reported.

INDIANA South Bend: Lawprofessors say theyll defend at

no cost an Indiana womanseeking to overturn herconviction in the death of herpremature infant.Thirty-three-year-old Purvi Patelof Granger was sentenced to 20years in prison in March.Prosecutors said she took drugsfrom China to end her pregnancyrather go through a medicalabortion.

IOWA Des Moines: The spreadof the latest strain of dog flu hasput area animal facilities on highalert, The Register reported.Samples from a sick dog treatedin Sioux City tested positive forcanine influenza.

KANSAS Topeka: Ocials saidan equipment failure allowed3 million gallons of raw sewage toseep into the Kansas River, TheTopeka Capital-Journal reported.

KENTUCKY Louisville: U.S.Senior District Judge JohnHeyburn, a Republican whocarved an independent path inthree decades on the federalbench, upholding schooldesegregation and striking downlaws that forbade gay marriage,died Wednesday, TheCourier-Journal reported. He was66.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Agroup of parents, educators andcommunity members ralliedagainst Common Core near theState Capitol to make theirposition known to legislators, TheTown Talk reported.

MAINE Livermore Falls: Threemore deer have been found shotand left to waste in fields inMaine, the Sun Journal reported.

MARYLAND Salisbury: RedLobster Restaurants settled a

federal lawsuit oversexualharassmentallegations bythree femaleworkers and willpay them$160,000, theDaily Timesreported.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston: The 2024Olympic committee

wants to build atemporary stadium in

the southern part of thecity, but the site is

occupied by public transitrepair garages, The Boston Globereported.

MICHIGAN Detroit: The 2015national convention of theAmerican Society of AssociationExecutives, often called the SuperBowl of trade shows, is fromAug. 8-11.

MINNESOTA St. Joseph: PattyWetterling is leaving her position

as director of the stateDepartment of Healths SexualViolence Prevention Programafter more than seven years, theSt. Cloud Times reported. Herson, Jacob Wetterling, 11, wasabducted at gunpoint near St.Joseph in 1989 and has neverbeen found.

MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: Workbegan this week on the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers EngineerResearch and DevelopmentCenters new headquartersbuilding at its campus o HallsFerry Road, The Vicksburg Postreported. The construction islikely to take 28 months.

MISSOURI Columbia: TheColumbia Board of EducationPolicy Committee is consideringadding gender identity andexpression to the districtsnon-discrimination policy, TheColumbia Daily Tribune reported.

MONTANA Great Falls: A manwho apparently liked aCrimestoppers Facebook postingthat listed him as one of CascadeCountys most wanted in Aprilwas arrested, The Great FallsTribune reported. Levi Reardon,23, appeared in District Court onMonday on a warrant charginghim with felony forgery.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A man wassentenced to up to three years inprison after a trac stop thatturned up more than $400,000last year, The Lincoln JournalStar reported. Jairo Cardenas, 30,entered a plea agreement topossession of money during adrug violation.

NEVADA Carson City:Assembly members are reviewinga bill backed by Gov. Sandovalthat would increase access todrugs that can help reverse apotentially deadly heroin orpainkiller overdose. The Senatepassed the bill unanimously.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:Despite the spring thaw, NewHampshire ocials toldthe ConcordMonitor thatthe potentialfor brush firesremains.

NEW JERSEYMorristown:Windowwashers dressedas Batman,Spider-Man andCaptain Americato surprisepatients at GoryebChildrens Hospitalfor NationalSuperhero Day, theDaily Recordreported.

NEW MEXICO Roswell: Statepolice say two crewmembers on a

freight train that struck a parkedtrain on a siding apparentlyjumped before the impact,KOAT-TV reported.

NEW YORK Rochester: ARochester man accused ofrecruiting for the Islamic Statewas arraigned on new assaultcharges in federal court. MufidElfgeeh, a naturalized U.S. citizenfrom Yemen who ran a pizzaparlor before he was arrested lastyear, pleaded not guilty to threecounts of assault.

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte :Duke Energy plans to build linedlandfills to bury coal ash at itsclosed Dan River Steam Stationand Sutton Plant as it presses toexcavate ash from its ponds atthose sites by the 2019 deadlineimposed by the state, CharlotteBusiness Journal reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A3-year-old boy found wanderingalone outside was returned to hismother, The Bismarck Tribunereported.

OHIO Cleveland: If youretraveling through HopkinsInternational and BurkeLakefront airports, be on thelookout for posters showcasingThe Avengers and CaptainAmerica: The Winter Soldier,WKYC-TV reported. Bothcomic-book-inspired movieswere filmed here, and the GreaterCleveland Film Commissionwants location scouts to knowthat northeast Ohio has been thescene for other profitable moviessince 1983s A Christmas Story.

OKLAHOMA Ada: TheChickasaw Nation scheduled itsannual reunion this weekend atthe Kullihoma Campground. Theevent begins today.

OREGON Pendleton: A prison iswaging a battle to get swallowsout of the buildings nooks andcrannies before they lay eggs, ThePendleton East Oregonianreported. Inmates at the Eastern

Oregon CorrectionalInstitutionsprayedhigh-poweredhoses to knockout thepersistent birdsnests. Federallaw says theprison will haveto leave them beonce they startlaying eggs.

PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia: A

rabbi protested ads ontransit buses that include a 1941

photograph of Adolf Hitler with aformer Arab leader, ThePhiladelphia Inquirer reported.Rabbi Linda Holtzman said sheand other Jewish activists arepasting stickers on the sides of

buses bearing the ads.

RHODE ISLAND Providence:The Narragansett BayCommission voted to move aheadwith an $815 million project, theProvidence Journal reported. Thecommission has spent$360 million on phase one and$187 million on phase two. Thosewill capture about 60% of thebacteria-laden storm water thatpasses through the systems.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:Community leaders asked forcalm in the wake of a hit and runin which a black 7-year-old boyplaying in the street was injuredin an accident involving a whitefemale driver, The GreenvilleNews reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: AnOmaha-based homebuildingservice that says it can lower thecost of building a house isexpanding to the area, the ArgusLeader reported. Harrisburg-based Coburn Construction isworking with Omaha-basedAbsolute Customs to bring thecompany into the market.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Thenumber of newborns sueringfrom drug withdrawal doubled ina four-year period. Tennessee ispart of a four-state region in theSouth that had the most cases,according to a study in theJournal of Perinatology.

TEXAS Austin: A $4.9 billion taxrelief plan tentatively approvedby the House includes cutting thestate sales tax from 6.25% to5.95%. It would be the first timethe state sales tax was cut, TheTexas Tribune reported.

UTAH Salem: Ocials warnedparents that a case of whoopingcough was confirmed at SalemHills High School, KSL-TVreported.

VERMONT Burlington:University of Vermont facultyand administration have reachedan impasse in contractnegotiations for part-time facultymembers, the Burlington FreePress reported.

VIRGINIA Arlington :Philanthropist David Rubensteinis donating $5.37 million torefurbish the U.S. Marine CorpsWar Memorial, the 100-tonbronze sculpture of theflag-raising at Iwo Jima duringWorld War II, The WashingtonPost reported.

WASHINGTON Sedro-Woolley:A northern school districtdeclared a planned teachersunion strike illegal, TheSkagit-Valley Herald reported.but that wont stop the rally.

WEST VIRGINIA Matewan : TheWest Virginia Mine WarsMuseum will open May 16, theCharleston Daily Mail reported.The museum tells the stories ofcoal miners fight for labor rights.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: AShedd Aquarium researchercaptured video of a mysteriousand massive swarm of 5- to 7-inchlong leeches in a pool of waternear the bay this month, theGreen Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Gillette: A man wassentenced to serve up to 30 yearsin prison for stabbing his uncle todeath with a barbecue fork duringa drunken argument inNovember 2013, The GilletteNews Record reported. OrlandoMarcus Gonzales, 32, wassentenced for the death ofTheodore Maes. He pleaded nocontest to second-degreemurder in January.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, LindaTufano, Frank Anklam, Carolyn Cerbin,Linda Dono, Nicole Gill, MikeGottschamer, Dennis Lyons andNichelle Smith. Design by TianyReusser. Graphics by AlejandroGonzalez.

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WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton isstepping up her race for cam-paign money, holding three invi-tation-only events in the nationscapital Thursday before a fund-raising swing next week throughCalifornia.

The Democratic front-runner,who is deliberately focusing onraising money in relatively mod-est amounts, may need everypenny. Several Republicans vyingfor their partys presidentialnomination are pulling in stag-gering sums through super PACsthat can collect unlimited contri-butions, setting up a 2016 cam-paign that will be awash in cash.

Former Florida governor JebBush, who declared his interest inthe GOP nomination last Decem-ber, has yet to ocially join thecampaign, giving him the leewayto raise big sums for his Right toRise super PAC.

At this pace, spending in the2016 race could top $4 billion or about twice the amount thatPresident Obama, RepublicanMitt Romney and their allies col-lected in the 2012 contest, saidAnthony Corrado, an elections

expert at Colby College in Maine. Its a radically dierent ap-

proach to structuring cam-paigns, he said of the Republicancontenders use of super PACs.

Clinton, who has made over-hauling the nations dysfunc-tional campaign-finance systemone of the pillars of her buddingcampaign, is building a decidedlylow-key fundraising system. Bun-dlers, for instance, need only tocollect a total of $27,000 from 10or more individuals for the pri-mary to earn the title ofHillstarters.

Next week, Clinton will head to

California where her stops in-clude a fundraiser May 6 at thehome of billionaire environmen-talist Tom Steyer. Steyer, whopumped more than $73 millioninto 2014 midterm races, willhelp Clinton in a considerableway, said Chris Lehane, Steyerstop political adviser.

Clinton also is slated to attenda fundraising event at the homeof Esprit clothing co-founder Su-sie Tompkins Buell, along withfundraisers hosted by Homeland

co-creator Howard Gordon andother Hollywood luminaries.

Clintons campaign has not re-leased any fundraising totals, anda super PAC supporting her can-didacy, Priorities USA Action,raised no money in 2014 to avoidsiphoning cash away from thepartys Senate races.

Signs abound that Republicansare setting a blistering pace. Bushtold donors this week that he hasset a 100-day fundraising recordfor Republican politics. Allies ofseveral other Republicans, suchas Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, haveclaimed raising tens of millions in

super PACdonations.

Last week, bil-lionaire industrial-ist Charles Kochtold USA TODAYthat his politicalnetwork will investabout $300 millionin electoral politics

in 2016.We have never seen the kind

of money we anticipate beingspent in this election cycle, saidMichael Podhorzerof the Demo-cratic-aligned AFL-CIO.

Steve Elmendorf, a veteranDemocratic strategist, said Clin-ton has time to build her cam-paign account.

Its not like being a Republi-can in a crowded field of 15 candi-dates, he said. She can do it in aslow, steady way.

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Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is building a low-key fundraising system.

Clinton picks upfundraisingpace

Republican rivalsalready pulling instaggering sumsFredreka SchoutenUSA TODAY

We have never seen thekind of money weanticipate being spent inthis election cycle. Michael Podhorzer, political director of theDemocratic-aligned AFL-CIO

WASHINGTON South CarolinaRep. Trey Gowdy, who heads theHouse committee investigatingthe Benghazi attacks that left fourAmericans dead in 2012, says hemight be willing to accept assur-ances under oath from HillaryClinton that she has provided all

her relevantemails to thepanel drop-ping requestsfor an indepen-dent examina-tion of hercomputerserver.

If she were,under sometheory, able tosay, Yes, I canpromise you

under penalty of perjury you haveevery single document youre en-titled to, that would probablyshut o that line of inquiry, hesaid. If she can, then it will be ashort conversation.

Congressional Democrats ac-cuse the special committee of be-ing little more than a GOP fishingexpedition aimed at damagingthe former secretary of State and possible Democratic presi-dential nominee even though ahalf-dozen congressional inqui-ries already have examined theattacks that killed U.S. Ambassa-dor Chris Stevens and three otherAmericans in Libya.

Gowdy, 50, insisted he was ap-proaching the inquiry not as apartisan but as the federal prose-cutor he once was. The three-term Republican congressmansaid the panel recently completedinterviews with the five State De-partment ocials who were onthe ground in Benghazi onlyone previously had been inter-

viewed in a congressional inquiry and is wrapping up inter-views with CIA employees whowere on the scene. None of thempreviously had been questionedby Congress.

The narrative, at least forthose who opposed the creationof our committee, was Every oth-er committee has looked at every-thing; theres nothing new underthe sun; this is purely politics, he said. How could you possiblyhave a thorough investigationinto Benghazi if you did not evenbother to interview the eyewit-nesses who were on the groundthe night the attacks happened?

His committees investigationhelped reveal that Clinton reliedexclusively on a private email sys-tem and server when she led theState Department, a practice atodds with Obama administrationguidelines. Gowdy hopes to ques-tion her about the emails at ahearing the week of May 18.

Clinton sent the committee300 emails and provided 55,000pages of emails to the State De-partment, then had all the emailson her server deleted. Gowdy hadasked that an independent thirdparty examine the server, thoughhe signaled he might be willing tosimply accept her assurances.

That said, he raised somedoubts about whether Clintonwould be in a position to oerthose assurances. I think my firstquestion would be, Madame Sec-retary, with all due respect, howdo you know that, because yourenot the one who went throughthe emails; your lawyer did, hesays. So your lawyer has a dutyto you. Who with a duty to thepublic has been through youremails?

He said the committee thissummer also would interviewWhite House national securityadviser Susan Rice, who as Unit-ed Nations ambassador providedsome of the first public explana-tions of the Benghazi attacks.

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colleagues and greet young ad-mirers from the Vietnamesemedia.

The group has held reunions inHo Chi Minh City, formerlycalled Saigon, every five yearssince 1995.

Arnett, formerly of the Associ-ated Press and CNN, said no mat-ter where all the journalists havebeen since, the time they spent inthe war has left them with a spe-cial bond.

The Vietnam War has re-tained the ability to keep thejournalists who covered it verytuned into each other, he said.Everyone you meet here will saythat Vietnam was their coming ofage as a journalist. We saw thebravery and the diculties andthe brutality of conflict. We be-came real experienced journalistshere.

Army veteran Chuck Searcy

HO CHI MINH CITY Under theshadow of a heavy security pres-ence, Vietnam celebrated the40th anniversary of the fall of Sai-gon on Thursday with speeches,martial music, dance perfor-mances and a massive militaryparade.

More than 6,000 troops and ci-vilians carrying rifles and flagsmarched down Ho Chi MinhCitys main boulevards beforecoming to a stop in front of Re-unification Palace, the site of thefinal scene of the war, wherecommunist troops from NorthVietnam arrived in tanks on April30, 1975, before hoisting theirflag.

The marchers were received byviewing stands filled with Viet-nams political and military lead-ership, war veterans, dignitariesand delegates from Cambodia,Cuba and Laos.

A program of large-scale song-and-dance numbers concludedwith a finale featuring dozens ofwomen wearing Vietnams tradi-tional ao dai dresses dancingalongside men dressed as guerril-la soldiers.

In his opening speech for thecelebration, Prime MinisterNguyen Tan Dung praised thegreat victory in 1975 for usher-ing in an era of independenceand reunification and building so-cialist Vietnam into a strong na-tion with wealthy people and ademocratic, just and civilized so-ciety, state media reported.

Bitter rifts remain over the warbetween North and South Viet-nam that left more than 3 millionVietnamese and nearly 60,000American troops dead, but thosewho participated in the festivitiesreflected on the past with a deepsense of pride and accomplish-ment.

This is the happiest day inVietnam, because we had tospend 30 years to have peace,

said former major generalNguyen Ngoc Doanh, referring to1945, when the nation originallydeclared independence, until theend of the war in 1975.

Vietnam desires peace morethan any country in the world,said Doanh, who fought in thebattle of Xuan Loc the last ma-jor battle of the war.

The anniversary attracted visi-tors from around the world whostill hold a deep connection withVietnam.

A group of more than two-doz-en foreign journalists who cov-ered the war, dubbing themselvesthe Old Hacks, held a reunionparty here the night before theanniversary parade.

Famous faces such as Peter Ar-nett and Nick Ut, the photogra-pher whose work in Vietnam wonhim a Pulitzer Prize, were amongthose on hand to catch up with

has lived in Hanoi since 1995,working on projects to addressthe devastating consequences of awar that is still killing and maim-ing people years later throughunexploded bombs and minesU.S. forces eft behind.

He first returned to Vietnam in1992.

My reaction was the same asevery vet Ive spoken to since, hesaid. I was stunned at how warmand welcoming the Vietnamesewere. They had no sense of anysense of hostility or bitterness to-wards us at all.

A crowd of about 10,000 spec-tators lined the parade routeThursday, which was tightly cor-doned o by police.

Teacher Lan My Hang, 56, saidthe anniversary reminded her ofhow frightened she was as a 16-year-old during the wars finaldays. In the past, I was soscared, she said. I didnt knowwhat was going to happen.

Now, she says, Vietnam ispeaceful, and I feel very content.

Many younger Vietnameseview the pomp and pageantry ofthe anniversary celebrations withreactions ranging from gentlemockery to skepticism to outrightscorn.

Tran Hoang, 24, who works inpublic relations, said he plannedto skip the parade.

All of the anniversaries eachyear are superficial, he said.Theyre not very meaningful tome. And theyre too expensive.They should be spending moneyon more important things.

Though the tightly controlledocial media covered the anni-versary event with a triumphantglow, other voices on Facebook,blogs and websites have grownincreasingly critical of a one-par-ty state they consider to beopaque, corrupt and stuck in thepast.

The anniversary of the war isbeing greeted in a very solemnand conventionally patrioticway, said Vietnam scholar Jona-than London, a professor at CityUniversity in Hong Kong. Butequally important in Vietnamright now is that the country isseeing very interesting and oftensurprising changes in its politicalculture.

In Vietnam, 40 years since warMassive paradecelebrates era ofindependenceThomas MarescaSpecial for USA TODAY

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Vietnamesestudentswave flagsduring cele-brationsmarking the40th anniver-sary of theend of theVietnam Warin Ho ChiMinh City.

TheVietnamWar hasretainedtheability tokeep thejournal-ists whohavecovered itverytunedinto eachother. Peter Arnett

KATHMANDU Rescue workerscontinued to feverishly search forsurvivors in this devastated capi-tal days after a massive earth-quake, even as communicationswere slowly restored and shopsbegan to reopen.

Two survivors were rescued inseparate locations hours apart inKathmandu on Thursday, fivedays after the magnitude-7.8earthquake struck the region,killing more than 5,900 people,injuring 10,000 and destroying ordamaging hundreds of thousandsof homes.

Pemba Tamang, 15, and Krish-na Devi Khadka, in her 20s, werefound buried under rubble afterbeing trapped by Saturdaysquake. Crowds cheered as Ta-mang was freed from the remainsof a seven-story building by agroup of rescuers supported byan American disaster responseteam from Fairfax, Va.

Police ocer L.B. Basnetcrawled into a gap in the rubbleto reach the dust-covered Ta-mang. He thanked me when Ifirst approached him, Basnettold the Associated Press. Hetold me his name, his address,and I gave him some water. I as-sured him we were near to him.

Rescuers used jacks to lift theconcrete slabs that had trappedhim, Basnet said. The teens over-turned motorcycle next to himheld up the concrete slabs, givinghim room to survive.

As rescue eorts continued,life in the capital started to re-sume. Its been more than fivedays since the earthquake, so thefear factor is much lower now,but people are still sleeping out-side under tents, said AmritSharma, a Web developer inKathmandu. Still, people havestarted returning to their homes.

With every passing day, life isslowly returning to normal. Yousee more cabs now on the streets,and the shops have started open-ing, he said. Some schools and

workplaces in Kathmandu havealso opened.

Tsering Lhamo of Kathmandusaid people are relaxed. Thecalm is there, and people are nowcoming to terms with what hap-pened, also because tremors arefelt only now and then, she said.

The airport in the capital is nolonger filled with a surge of visi-tors desperate to leave, but in-stead with large pallets arrivingwith medicine, food, blankets,tents and other supplies.

Turkish doctors Mustafa Yazi-lioglu and Muzaer Akkoca wait-ed in a deserted wing of theairport to pick up 10 tons of med-ical supplies sent from the Turk-ish government.

They are part of a search-and-rescue team that arrived in Kath-mandu on Sunday, spending thebulk of their time in some of Ne-pals hardest-hit areas.

Critics say the government res-cue eort should have happenedfaster. Its a situation where ourgovernment, despite being awarethat the country is at the top ofthe list of earthquake-pronezones, proved to lack the capacityto respond immediately, saidShikha Prasai of Kathmandu.

We are trying our best, butour resources are limited, saidUpendra Karta Aryal, chief of po-lice in Nepal. We were not pre-pared for a disaster of such a largescale.

Inayat reported from Lahore, Pakistan.Contributing: Jane Onyanga-Omara inLondon and WUSA-TV in Washington

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A U.S. doctorattends toPemba Ta-mang insidean ambulanceon Thursdayafter Tamangwas rescuedby Nepalesepolice andU.S. rescueworkers froma buildingthat col-lapsed fivedays before.

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Its fuel tanks empty and its op-tions gone, NASAs Messengerspacecraft smashed into planetMercury on Thursday afternoonafter valiantly fighting o the in-evitable.

Engineers calculated that thespacecraft, traveling a scorching8,700 mph, bombed into theplanets heavily pockmarked sur-face at 3:26 p.m. ET Thursday. Itwas not a gentle goodbye: Theimpact probably pulverized thecar-size spaceship and gougedout a 50-foot crater big enoughto accommodate a school bus near Mercurys north pole.

The spacecraft probably belly-flopped onto the cratered terrainon the far side of Mercury, whenthe ship was out of contact withEarth. Engineers confirmed itsdeath when they could not pickup a signal from the craft.

We monitored Messengersbeacon signal for about 20 addi-tional minutes, said mission op-erations manager Andy Calloway

of the Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory. Itwas strange to think during thattime Messenger had already im-pacted, but we could not confirmit immediately due to the vastdistance across space betweenMercury and Earth.

Were really sad to see this,because Messenger has been afabulous mission, Brown Uni-versitys James Head said beforethe impact. Its an exhilaratingtime, but also really poignant.

At least Messenger went downwith a fight and in a blaze of glory.Edging ever closer to Mercury be-cause of the eects of the sunsgravity, the ship, its fuel tanks dry,was supposed to meet its destinyin March.

But creative engineers boughttheir craft an extra month of lifeby repurposing Messengersstockpile of helium, used to pres-surize the fuel tanks. Leftover he-lium was expelled from thespacecrafts thrusters, nudging

the ship away from the loomingsurface.

Were beyond running onfumes at that point, Messengermission systems engineer DanOShaughnessy said. Were ven-turing into uncharted territory.

The spacecrafts new lease onlife allowed scientists an intimatelook at the tiny, scarred planetthat Messenger has orbited forthe past four years. The bad news,Head says, was that the shipwould eventually get too close,but theres good news about thebad news the closer you are, thehigher-resolution images youget. Scientists took advantage ofthe view by peering into cratersthat hide pockets of ice andsearching for magnetic fields atthe planets surface.

Messenger managers hopetheir spacecrafts final restingspot will be pinpointed after theEuropean Space Agencys Bepi-Colombo spacecraft launches forMercury in 2017.

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WASHINGTON Senate HomelandSecurity and Governmental Af-fairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., issued his first subpoenaWednesday, demanding the Vet-erans Aairs inspector generalturn over records related to an in-vestigation of treatment at the VAmedical center in Tomah, Wis.

The committees top Demo-crat, Tom Carper of Delaware,signed o on the subpoena de-manding the records by May 13.

The inspector general con-ducted a 212-year probe of opiateprescription rates and a cultureof fear and retaliation at the To-mah facility but did not publiclyrelease the findings last year. Fivemonths later, Marine Corps vet-eran Jason Simcakoski, 35, diedfrom mixed drug toxicity as an in-patient at Tomah, days after doc-tors agreed to add another opiateto the 14 other drugs he wasprescribed.

Interim VA Inspector GeneralRichard Grin has refused formonths to give the investigativedocuments to Johnsons commit-tee, saying they contain informa-tion that cannot be turned overunder federal privacy laws, in-cluding the identities of witness-es and veteran medical records.

Johnson accused Grin of

stonewalling. My sta has bentover backward, being supportivein just really giving the IG everyopportunity to redact names. Imean were not looking for per-sonal information here, he said.We just need enough informa-tion so we can draw conclusions,so we know what were looking at,and they just havent done it.

Grin sent a letter to Johnsonlast week indicating he would al-low Johnsons committee or stamembers to privately reviewsome of the documents. We havebeen working with the committeesince February 2015 to providethem with responsive documents,while balancing our obligation toprotect sensitive information,Grins spokeswoman, JoanneMoet, said.

Johnsons oce has been re-viewing what happened in Tomahsince news reports in January re-vealed the existence of the in-spector generals probe, itsfindings and Simcakoskis death.The probe found unusuallyhigh opiate prescription rates atTomah and concerns from phar-macists who left the facility, butthe inspector concluded therewas no evidence of wrongdoing.

Johnson wants to determinehow that conclusion was reachedand hopes the file the committeesubpoenaed will help.

The committee held a hearingin Tomah in March, where whis-tle-blowers and relatives of veter-ans who died after treatment atthe VA testified the facility hasbeen a hotbed of dysfunction andmismanagement for years.

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