155,000
Confirmed dead in 11 countries hit by tsunami
$43.64
Per barrel of oil after
attacks in Saudi Arabia
Dead bodies
found in a burned
car on an Oregon
reservation
129
Votes deem Christine Gregoire as Washington’s next governor
Items per
second sold
on Amazon.com
in record day
of sales
regional Winter break update global
December 27
SEATTLE — Shares in Amazon.com Inc.
rose nearly 9 percent after the online retail
er said it had recorded its best holiday sea
son ever.
Spokesman Craig
Berman said Dec. 27
sales for its 10th holiday
season were better than
any previous year, but
he declined to give spe
cific figures.
Retail analysts have been optimistic
about online holiday sales, even as some
traditional retailers have struggled during
the all-important season. Internet research
firm comScore Networks Inc. said online
holiday sales are now likely to increase 28
percent, beating its original projections of
23 percent to 26 percent.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Amazon
had said its consumer electronics sales sur
passed sales of books for the first time - also
in keeping with a holiday trend that favored
electronic gut items
this year.
Throughout the hol
iday, Amazon said
popular items includ
ed Apple Computer
Inc.'s iPod music
players, as well as DVU players and
digital cameras.
Shares in Amazon rose $3.32 or 8.5 per
cent to $42.25 in trading Monday on the
Nasdaq Stock Market. However, the compa
ny's stock still remains far off its 52-week
high of $57.82.
Holiday sales are
now likely to increase
28 percent
Turning
Southern
California
freeways into
a virtual
demolition
derby
December 29
SEDONA, Ariz. — A powerful storm battered the West
last week, forcing dozens of people from their homes, send
ing recreational vehicles floating down a flooded creek in
Arizona and turning Southern California freeways into a vir
tual demolition derby. The storm spawned a tornado in
Southern California and left 140,000 customers without
power in the area while making for treacherous driving con
ditions. The California Highway Patrol logged 220 crashes
between Tliesday night and Wednesday morning — more
than three times the normal amount.
December 30
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — As the
world scrambled to the rescue, survivors
fought over packs of noodles in quake
stricKen Indonesian streets
Dec. 29 while relief sup
plies piled up at the airport
for lack of cars, gas or
passable roads to move
them. The official death toll across 11 coun
tries soared past 77,000 and the Red Cross
predicted it could exceed 100,000.
Bodies were piled into mass graves in the
belief that burial would ward off disease.
Paramedics in southern India began vacci
nating thousands of survivors against
cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery,
and authorities sprayed bleaching powder
on beaches where bodies have been recov
ered. In Sri Lanka, reports
of waterborne disease such
as diarrhea caused fears of
an epidemic.
President Bush announced the united
States, India, Australia and Japan have
formed an international coalition to coordi
nate relief and reconstruction of the 3,000
miles of Indian Ocean rim walloped by Sun
day's earthquake and tsunami.
Survivors fought over
packs of noodles
December 29
TULKAREM, West Bank - Interim Pales
tinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned
Israel's West Bank separation barrier during
campaign stops Dec.
29 at towns fenced
in by the concrete
slabs, urging Israel
to remove the mas
sive structure.
Abbas, the front
runner in next
month’s Palestinian presidential election,
has hit the campaign trail this week, ad
dressing large audiences in the West Bank
towns of Jericho and Tlilkarem.
Several thousand people in llilkarem greet
ed Abbas. Many held pictures of Abbas and
Arafat and chanted slogans for the two men.
Tlilkarem, located along the line be
tween Israel and the West Bank, is
surrounded on two sides by the 25-foot
slabs of the Israeli barrier, and Abbas
spoke at a stadium
just 500 yards from
the wall.
“1 say to our
neighbors ... no
fence will bring
peace or bring you
security,” Abbas told the rally.
Israel says the structure is needed to
block suicide bombers from entering the
country. But Palestinians say the barrier is a
land grab that will prevent them from estab
lishing an independent state.
— The Associated Press
“I say to our neighbors
no fence will bring peace
or bring you security.”
HEALTH PROMOTION
OPPORTUNITIES
Relax 6 Renew:
Free sin week series designed to deuelop and strengthen your meditation practiue for
relaxation and mental clarity. Wednesdays 4 45 pm - 5 45 pm, January 26th -
March 2nd. Call 346-4456 to register.
Total Cholesterol Screening:
Euery Tuesday from 9:30 - 11:30 am you can get your total cholesterol checked for
free. Simply stop by Health Education in the basement of the Health Center.
Lending Library:
Excellent books are auailable for loan to 00 students from the Health Education room
couering nutrition, sexual health, meditation 6 more. Check out our health
newsletters, articles, and other resources. Just stop by.
Guest Speakers and Presentatinns:
Peer Health Educators and Health Center Staff are auailable to speak to your
organization on many health issues. Call us for details.
Tobacco Cessation Support:
Meet inith a peer health educator to discuss strategies to become tobacco free, free
nicotine gum and patches are auailable to registered students (winter term only).
Call 346-4456 to set up an appointment.
Campus flduisorg Board On Tobacco:
Meets regularly in Health Center library. Call 346-2728 for meeting time.
Eueryone is welcome.
CPR Certification:
Monday February 7th and March 7th from 5-9 pm. $30 for 2 year flHfl certification.
Call 346-2770 to register.
Boiling Ulater 101:0 Oegetarian Cooking Class
Tuesdays, January 25th. February 1st and February 8th from 4-5:30 pm.
Call 346-2704 to register. $15 includes mining bowls, utensils and three meals.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
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