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Shaun White’s X factor
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White: Competes Feb. 17 in Vancouver.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Airport First lady says: ‘Let’s move’ scanners stir fears on child obesity
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Mulligan’s education
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Mulligan: Nominated for An Education.

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By Shizuo Kambayashi, AP

Toyota: Japan Prius recall
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Space also could be issue; TSA dismisses
By Thomas Frank USA TODAY The government’s plan to install body scanners in dozens
of airports could lengthen security lines and congest terminals, airline and airport
officials warn. Scanners that look through passengers’ clothing to find hidden
weapons are significantly larger than the metal detectors they will replace. And
they take at least five times longer to scan a single passenger. “Those machines
have a footprint that we don’t have the space for,” said Tim Anderson, operations
chief at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which will get scanners this
year. Steve Lott of the International Air Transport Association, an airline group,
said scanners “would lead to significant passenger delays at the checkpoint.”
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule said the scanners will
not “significantly increase” checkpoint lines. The agency will help find the
best location for the machines, he said, adding that “TSA’s top priority is enhancing
security.” The TSA plans to install 950 scanners at airports in the next two years,
a move driven partly by the recent attempt to bomb an airliner near Detroit. Suspect
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the plane in Amsterdam with explosives in his underwear.
The first new scanners will be installed this month. Most will be used on passengers
in “primary” screening as they enter airport checkpoints and put belongings through
an X-ray machine, Soule said. About 40 scanners have been operating in 19 airports
for more than a year, mostly for passengers requiring extra screening. The scanners
take about 15 seconds to check a passenger compared with “a few seconds” for
a metal detector, Soule said. The extra time should not create backups, Soule said,
because checkpoint lines are usually slowed by passengers putting carry-on items
through X-ray machines. Lott said scans can take 40 seconds for passengers unfamiliar
with the portal-style machines that are up to 6 feet wide. Christopher Bidwell, security
chief for the Airports Council International, said he was pleased the TSA is working
with airports to address lines and space constraints. “Certain airports just don’t
have the real estate” for scanners, Bidwell said. The scanners already in use have
been welcomed by passengers, particularly as an alternative to patdowns, the TSA
says. Passengers who decline to be scanned are searched by hand. The mass installation
worries airports. SeattleTacoma International Airport expects to get five scanners,
which could push checkpoint lines into a main corridor, airport spokesman Perry Cooper
said. “This will be an impact for us,” Cooper said. Metropolitan Oakland International
Airport officials are working with TSA to find the “optimum placement” for
scanners, acting airport director Deborah Ale Flint said. “We have space constraints
in both of our checkpoints,” Flint said.

War critic Murtha dies at 77
mTough Vietnam vet was a ‘patriot,’ Pelosi says; fight looms to retain seat
for Dems, 2A

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Police gain more eyes with YouTube
Cops nationwide say they more often turn to the video-sharing service, other sites,
for evidence. 3A.

Chaos could boost drug traffic in Haiti
U.S. officials say quake aftermath, lack of jobs, escaped prisoners could fuel cocaine
business. 4A.

GOP to Dems: Start over on health care
Lawmakers say they’ll accept the president’s offer to negotiate if the current
plan is scrapped. 5A.

mMoney: Broadband wires tied up
Keen interest in $7.2 billion in stimulus for highspeed Internet projects bogs down
system. 1B.

mSports: Danica’s NASCAR debut set
Patrick will drive the No. 7 Chevy in the Nationwide Series at Daytona on Saturday.
1C. uSuper Bowl is most-watched TV event. 1C.
By Alex Brandon, AP

mLife: Author explains ‘Why Boys Fail’
Richard Whitmire says fewer males attend, graduate college because of verbal skills
demands. 4D.

Getting the program rolling: Michelle Obama helps students from Washington’s Bancroft
Elementary School harvest sweet potatoes from the White House garden Oct. 29.

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Obama’s mission: End problem in a generation
By Mimi Hall and Nanci Hellmich USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Her daughters were 6 and
9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom — struggling to juggle office
hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired
to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through.
She thought the girls were eating reasonably well — until her pediatrician in Chicago
told her he didn’t like the weight fluctuations he was seeing. “I was shocked
because my kids looked perfectly fine to me,” Obama says. “But I had a wake-up
call.” Like many parents, however, “I didn’t know what to do.”

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Today, the self-described “mom in chief” is launching Let’s Move, a campaign
to help other parents deal with a national health crisis she describes in epic terms.
The goal: to eliminate childhood obesity in a generation. “It’s an ambitious
goal, but we don’t have time to wait,” the first lady said in an interview with
USA TODAY in her spacious office in the East Wing of the White House. “We’ve
got to stop citing statistics and wringing our hands and feeling guilty, and get
going on this issue.” She says she intends to “sound the alarm” about the epidemic:
About 32% of children and adolescents today — 25 million kids — are obese or
overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those extra
pounds put kids at a greater risk of developing a host of debilitating and costly
diseases, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Please
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Host countries that didn’t win any gold medals during their Winter Games: Chamonix
St. Moritz Sarajevo Calgary

What can top 3 feet of snow? Another foot (at least)
Icy Mid-Atlantic braces as a second storm closes in
By Oren Dorell and Alan Levin USA TODAY Starting tonight, snow forecast to hit Eastern
cities still digging out from a weekend wallop could keep some people stuck at home
for a week and cause a second round of disruptions to air travel. “I already told
the boss: I’m working from home Wednesday,” said Susan McGinn, 40, of Newark,
Del., who stopped at the Sterling Grille in downtown Wilmington on Monday for a break
from her snowbound existence. The storm, the second major snowfall in three days,
is forecast to sock Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia with 12 to 18 inches of
snow on top of the 2 to 3 feet that crippled the area Friday through Sunday, said
Mike Eckert, a National Weather Service forecaster. It could also bring 8 to 16 inches
of snow to New York and Boston, he said. Eckert predicted the storm will break records
for snowfall in a single winter set in 1995-96: In Philadelphia, where 56.3 inches
of snow has already fallen this season, the snowiest winter had 65.5 inches; and
in Baltimore, where 60.4 inches has fallen, the old record was 62.5 inches. Wind
gusts of up to 40 mph could cause “widespread blizzard conditions” from Washington
to southern New England, Eckert said. Add that to the snow that hit the Midwest and
Plains states Monday, and disruptions could worsen at airports that are still struggling
with the weekend snow. Southwest Airlines, which canceled 500 flights when its busy
hub in Baltimore shut down for nearly three days, began a new round of cancellations
of flights to and from Chicago’s Midway Airport on Monday, spokeswoman Marilee
McInnis said. The storm will force Virginia Department of Transportation crews to
ignore side streets and culde-sacs that haven’t been plowed until the end of this
week, because interstates and primary roads must be cleared first, spokesman Jeff
Caldwell said. Safeway, which has 176 supermarkets from New Jersey to Virginia, is
having a hard time keeping shelves stocked with milk, eggs and bread, spokesman Craig
Muckle said. “There may be challenges there,” he said. Tired of sitting around,
82-year-old Jim Johns of Waynesboro, Va., was out using his snowblower on his neighbor’s
driveway Monday afternoon. “I bought the snowblower in ’91, and really this has
been the first time I’ve had a use for it.” Contributing: Doyle Rice; Mike Chalmers,
The News Journal in Wilmington, Del.; and Katharine Lackey, The News-Leader in Staunton,
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