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I t might have been different if they had lost the beer supply, but Summerfest weathered a lengthy power failure that tested but didn’t break the patience of a sun- baked opening-day crowd. The stages went quiet at 3:20 p.m. and remained unplugged for nearly three hours until We Energies crews restored the juice just after 6 p.m. The cause of the power fail- ure had not been determined late Thursday, and electricity was being sent to the festival grounds through an alternate feed, said Beth Martin, spokes- woman for We Energies. The area had a similar pow- er loss late Tuesday, Martin said. “When we get in there to- night and make permanent repairs, in all likelihood we’ll have a better opportunity to determine what happened,” Martin said. Thursday’s failure affected the Summerfest grounds, Charter Wire and a nearby condominium complex — 67 customers, not including the 17,000 people who had passed through Summerfest turn- stiles by midafternoon. The only casualty appeared to be a 53-year-old Summerfest security guard who was shocked while leaning against a power pole near E. Erie and Polk streets. Witnesses report- ed hearing an explosion. A Summerfest spokesman said the worker remained conscious and was talking before being transported to a local hospital. He was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. During the lull in the music, festival patrons did what they normally do: drank beer, talked and ogled each other. That covered the adults. Kids seemed to have little We Energies employees work to restore power just west of the Summer- fest grounds Thursday. Festival power resumed around 6 p.m. JEFFREY PHELPS./ [email protected] Nick Palmer, who plays bass for the Organ Donors from Minneapolis, looks over electrical wires on a side stage as a few others unplug and play acoustic. By TOM HELD and JESSE GARZA [email protected] Please see SUMMERFEST, 18A “If I knew the one person who tripped over the cord and did all this, I might give them some grief.” Julie Minette, who said she wasn’t leaving unless someone told her Elvis Costello wasn’t going on Boom, boom out go the lights for almost three hours M I L W A U K E E WEST FINAL EDITION ★ FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2006 ★ WWW.JSONLINE.COM ★ 50¢ CITY & SUBURBS 75¢ ELSEWHERE SUMMERFEST 5 ways to upgrade Weekend Cue Reviews, top picks, schedule 8B Longtime fans Take Five / 2A AT THE MOVIES ‘Devil Wears Prada’ 1 / 2 Andy Garcia’s ‘Lost City’ 1 / 2 SPORTS Words to the Wise Safe salad tong tips WORLD & NATION Crisis over Israeli soldier Israeli warplanes strike the Palestinian Interior Ministry even as efforts continue to reach a deal to free a kid- napped Israeli soldier. 3A Pressure on pay Congressional Democrats push Republicans to raise the $5.15- per-hour minimum wage. 3A METRO Probe of county finances A state task force will examine Milwaukee County finances and recommend solutions. 1B SPORTS Saving the day Derrick Turnbow records his 23rd save as the Milwaukee Brewers hold off the Chicago Cubs, 5-4, at Wrigley Field. 1C Let’s make a deal The Milwaukee Bucks have one — and possibly two — trades in the works. 1C INSIDE TODAY’S TOP NEWS A WORD — DIABOLICAL (deye’ uh BAHL ik uhl) Very wicked or cruel; fiendish. adj. Page 9E Comics 3F Crossword 1F Dear Abby 1F Deaths 4B Editorials 20A Entertainment 1E Movies 3E Sports on TV 2C TV listings 2F INDEX 7 SECTIONS TODAY: 82 / 59 Partly cloudy; warmer TOMORROW: 88 / 66 Quite warm; scattered thunderstorms TODAY’S TMJ4 WEATHER MAP, FORECASTS ON PAGE 2B Researchers at the Universi- ty of Wisconsin-Madison have found a more economical way to use fructose, the sugar in fruit, as an alternative to pe- troleum in the development of raw materials used to build plastics, fuels and pharmaceu- ticals. They hope it will be an im- portant step toward building more everyday products from renewable sources and reduc- ing our reliance on fossil fuels. The new method, published today in the journal Science, makes the production of the versatile molecule HMF cheaper and more efficient, ac- cording to chemical engineer James Dumesic, who devel- oped the technique with col- leagues. Until now, manufacturing of HMF was too expensive for it to be used commercially. Joseph Bozell, a professor of biomass chemistry at the Uni- versity of Tennessee who was not involved in the research, sees these results as a first step in moving toward petroleum alternatives in the chemical industry. “Once you get to the point of thinking about HMF,” Bozell said, “you have a material analogous to something from the petrochemical industry that is a building block for thousands of other things.” The building block Bozell re- fers to is terephthalic acid. This compound is used in the production of polyesters such as PET, the recyclable plastic in soda bottles. HMF is easily converted into another com- pound, FDCA, which is the bio- fuel equivalent of terephthalic Will fruit be the new oil? UW researchers improve use of fructose as petroleum alternative By KATHARINE OTT [email protected] Please see FRUCTOSE, 18A The University of Wisconsin-Madison an- nounced Thursday that it would launch a re- view of an instructor who argues that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, at- tacks for its own benefit. The instructor, Kevin Barrett, is co-founder of an organization called the Muslim-Jewish- Christian Alliance, which claims the Bush ad- ministration planned the attacks to create a war between Muslims and Christians. He ar- gues that members of the faiths must work to- gether to overcome the belief that terrorists were to blame. Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to provoke war By MEGAN TWOHEY [email protected] “Unless he’s yelling fire in a crowded theater, we need to be careful to protect his academic freedom.” David Walsh, president of the UW System Board of Regents Please see BARRETT, 15A Washington — The Bush administration likely will have to extend rights to terrorism suspects at the U.S. military prison in Guanta- namo Bay, Cuba, that it has denied them for years, after the Supreme Court invalidated the government’s system of military trials and ruled that the detainees must be treated ac- cording to international standards, officials and experts said Thursday. In one of the most important rulings on pres- idential powers after Sept. 11, 2001, the court voted, 5-3, Thursday to shut down the military commission that has been trying Salim Ah- med Hamdan, a Yemeni held at Guantanamo who is accused of being a bodyguard and driv- er for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The court said the commission that Presi- dent Bush established to try prisoners on ter- rorism charges does not meet the standards of fairness required by the military code of jus- tice and the Geneva Conventions and is illegal. The opinion was delivered by Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s last veteran of World War II who served as a Supreme Court law clerk during the late 1940s, the last time the Military trials ruled illegal Terror detainees may get new rights By JOSH WHITE Washington Post Please see GUANTANAMO, 22A A copy of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” in most people’s bathroom would be nothing more than reading material for a captive audience. For Heidi and Jef- frey Jones, it’s a sly joke and a reminder to meet the challeng- es most of us never imagined. Such as struggling to reach the ATM, gas pump and eleva- tor buttons. And paying to alter every article of clothing they buy. And facing the con- stant staring and unwelcome remarks. Heidi and Jeffrey are little people. They’re also parents of two boys (of average height), own- ers of a home they had built in the Town of Delafield and For a week, they’re faces in the crowd MICHAEL SEARS / [email protected] Jeffrey Jones and his wife, Heidi, push their two sons, Logan (left), 6, and Cameron, 4, on the swings at their Town of Delafield home. IN MY OPINION Jim STINGL Please see STINGL, 17A “It’s like looking in the mirror. For the other 51 weeks of the year, you’re living in an average-size world.” Dan Okenfuss, spokesman for Little People of America, on the group’s national conference that starts today in Milwaukee
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It might have been differentif they had lost the beersupply, but Summerfestweathered a lengthy power
failure that tested but didn’tbreak the patience of a sun-baked opening-day crowd.
The stages went quiet at 3:20p.m. and remained unpluggedfor nearly three hours until WeEnergies crews restored thejuice just after 6 p.m.
The cause of the power fail-ure had not been determinedlate Thursday, and electricitywas being sent to the festivalgrounds through an alternatefeed, said Beth Martin, spokes-woman for We Energies.
The area had a similar pow-er loss late Tuesday, Martinsaid.
“When we get in there to-night and make permanentrepairs, in all likelihood we’llhave a better opportunity todetermine what happened,”
Martin said.Thursday’s failure affected
the Summerfest grounds,Charter Wire and a nearbycondominium complex — 67customers, not including the17,000 people who had passedthrough Summerfest turn-stiles by midafternoon.
The only casualty appearedto be a 53-year-old Summerfestsecurity guard who wasshocked while leaning againsta power pole near E. Erie andPolk streets. Witnesses report-
ed hearing an explosion.A Summerfest spokesman
said the worker remainedconscious and was talkingbefore being transported to alocal hospital. He was beingtreated for non-life-threateninginjuries. During the lull in themusic, festival patrons didwhat they normally do: drankbeer, talked and ogled eachother. That covered the adults.
Kids seemed to have little
We Energies employees work to restore power just west of the Summer-fest grounds Thursday. Festival power resumed around 6 p.m.
JEFFREY PHELPS./ [email protected]
Nick Palmer, who plays bass for the Organ Donors from Minneapolis, looks over electrical wires on a side stage as a few others unplug and play acoustic.
By TOM HELDand JESSE [email protected]
Please see SUMMERFEST, 18A
“If I knew the one person who trippedover the cord and did all this,
I might give them some grief.”Julie Minette, who said she wasn’t leaving unless someone
told her Elvis Costello wasn’t going on
Boom, boom out go the lights for almost three hours
M I L W A U K E E
WEST FINAL EDITION � FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2006 � WWW.JSONLINE.COM � 50¢ CITY & SUBURBS 75¢ ELSEWHERE
SUMMERFEST5 ways to upgrade Weekend CueReviews, top picks, schedule 8BLongtime fans Take Five / 2A
AT THE MOVIES
‘Devil Wears Prada’ ��1⁄2
Andy Garcia’s‘Lost City’ ��1⁄2
SPORTS
Words to the WiseSafe salad tong tips
WORLD & NATIONCrisis over Israeli soldierIsraeli warplanes strike thePalestinian Interior Ministryeven as efforts continue toreach a deal to free a kid-napped Israeli soldier. 3A
Pressure on payCongressional Democrats pushRepublicans to raise the $5.15-per-hour minimum wage. 3A
METROProbe of county financesA state task force will examineMilwaukee County financesand recommend solutions. 1B
SPORTSSaving the dayDerrick Turnbow records his23rd save as the MilwaukeeBrewers hold off the ChicagoCubs, 5-4, at Wrigley Field. 1C
Let’s make a dealThe Milwaukee Bucks haveone — and possibly two —trades in the works. 1C
INSIDE TODAY’S TOP NEWS
A WORD—
DIABOLICAL(deye’ uh
BAHL ik uhl)Very wicked orcruel; fiendish.
adj.Page 9E
Comics 3FCrossword 1FDear Abby 1FDeaths 4BEditorials 20AEntertainment 1EMovies 3ESports on TV 2CTV listings 2F
INDEX7 SECTIONS
TODAY:
82 / 59Partly cloudy;
warmer
TOMORROW:
88 / 66Quite warm;
scatteredthunderstorms
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Researchers at the Universi-ty of Wisconsin-Madison havefound a more economical wayto use fructose, the sugar infruit, as an alternative to pe-troleum in the development ofraw materials used to buildplastics, fuels and pharmaceu-ticals.
They hope it will be an im-portant step toward buildingmore everyday products fromrenewable sources and reduc-ing our reliance on fossil fuels.
The new method, publishedtoday in the journal Science,makes the production of theversatile molecule HMFcheaper and more efficient, ac-cording to chemical engineerJames Dumesic, who devel-oped the technique with col-leagues.
Until now, manufacturing ofHMF was too expensive for it to
be used commercially.Joseph Bozell, a professor of
biomass chemistry at the Uni-versity of Tennessee who wasnot involved in the research,sees these results as a first stepin moving toward petroleumalternatives in the chemicalindustry.
“Once you get to the point ofthinking about HMF,” Bozellsaid, “you have a materialanalogous to something fromthe petrochemical industrythat is a building block forthousands of other things.”
The building block Bozell re-fers to is terephthalic acid.This compound is used in theproduction of polyesters suchas PET, the recyclable plasticin soda bottles. HMF is easilyconverted into another com-pound, FDCA, which is the bio-fuel equivalent of terephthalic
Will fruitbe the
new oil?UW researchers improve use of
fructose as petroleum alternativeBy KATHARINE [email protected]
Please see FRUCTOSE, 18A
The University of Wisconsin-Madison an-nounced Thursday that it would launch a re-view of an instructor who argues that the U.S.government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, at-tacks for its own benefit.
The instructor, Kevin Barrett, is co-founderof an organization called the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, which claims the Bush ad-ministration planned the attacks to create awar between Muslims and Christians. He ar-gues that members of the faiths must work to-gether to overcome the belief that terroristswere to blame.
Sept. 11 claimstirs UW probeInstructor says U.S. plannedthe attacks to provoke war
By MEGAN [email protected]
“Unless he’syelling fire in
a crowdedtheater, weneed to becareful toprotect hisacademicfreedom.”
David Walsh,president of the
UW System Boardof Regents
Please see BARRETT, 15A
Washington — The Bush administrationlikely will have to extend rights to terrorismsuspects at the U.S. military prison in Guanta-namo Bay, Cuba, that it has denied them foryears, after the Supreme Court invalidated thegovernment’s system of military trials andruled that the detainees must be treated ac-cording to international standards, officialsand experts said Thursday.
In one of the most important rulings on pres-idential powers after Sept. 11, 2001, the courtvoted, 5-3, Thursday to shut down the militarycommission that has been trying Salim Ah-med Hamdan, a Yemeni held at Guantanamowho is accused of being a bodyguard and driv-er for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
The court said the commission that Presi-dent Bush established to try prisoners on ter-rorism charges does not meet the standards offairness required by the military code of jus-tice and the Geneva Conventions and is illegal.
The opinion was delivered by Justice JohnPaul Stevens, the court’s last veteran of WorldWar II who served as a Supreme Court lawclerk during the late 1940s, the last time the
Military trialsruled illegal
Terror detainees may get new rightsBy JOSH WHITEWashington Post
Please see GUANTANAMO, 22A
Acopy of “Don’t Sweatthe Small Stuff” in mostpeople’s bathroom
would be nothing more thanreading material for a captiveaudience. For Heidi and Jef-frey Jones, it’s a sly joke and areminder to meet the challeng-es most of us never imagined.
Such as struggling to reachthe ATM, gas pump and eleva-tor buttons. And paying toalter every article of clothingthey buy. And facing the con-stant staring and unwelcomeremarks.
Heidi and Jeffrey are littlepeople.
They’re also parents of twoboys (of average height), own-ers of a home they had built inthe Town of Delafield and
For a week, they’re faces in the crowd
MICHAEL SEARS / [email protected]
Jeffrey Jones and his wife, Heidi, push their two sons, Logan (left), 6,and Cameron, 4, on the swings at their Town of Delafield home.
IN MY OPINION
Jim STINGL
Please see STINGL, 17A
“It’s like looking in the mirror. For the other 51 weeks ofthe year, you’re living in an average-size world.”
Dan Okenfuss, spokesman for Little People of America, on the group’s
national conference that starts today in Milwaukee
