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2010 championships Olympic Trials trial for Drake, Des Moines
Officials from Drake and the city of Des Moines celebrated another track and field milestone Thursday.
"It's the latest jewel," university president David Maxwell said of hosting the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships. "Our friends and supporters in the Des Moines community really came through, and we're very, very grateful."
The nation's elite athletes will compete June 23-27, 2010, at Drake Stadium, hoping to qualify for the IAAF World Cup in Split, Croatia. .
NCAA reinstates 5 suspended Alabama players
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The NCAA has reinstated five Alabama players who were suspended for improper receipt of textbooks, making them eligible in time for Saturday's Iron Bowl game at Auburn. The 4-game suspension for violating rules covering free books for course work was lifted Saturday. The group included starting offensive linemen Antoine Caldwell, Marlon Davis, running back Glen Coffee and reserve defensive backs Chris Rogers and Marquis Johnson. The NCAA ruling followed a report submitted last week by the university regarding its ongoing investigation into the case. The internal probe is to determine if any Alabama scholarship athletes violated NCAA rules by obtaining more textbooks than they were allotted for their own classes. The Alabama case surfaced just days after the NCAA put Ball State on probation for two years because of misuse by athletes in several sports of a textbook loan program.
Poor nations demand green technology
Uganda gets plenty of sun, making it a great spot for solar energy. There's only one problem: In one of the world's most impoverished nations, few people can afford an imported solar panel.Poorer countries accuse the rich of pressuring them to control emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, while refusing to provide them with technology needed to do so without hurting their economies.They have made their demands that rich nations provide cheap access to green know-how a centerpiece of the U.N. climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia."We know the challenges are there, but we cannot respond to the challenges because we don't have the capacity," said Maria Mutagamba, Uganda's environment minister.Wealthy countries say they must consider demands of private companies for protection of their intellectual property rights, assurances they will have the opportunity to profit from their investments, and better regulation and laws in host nations.Industrialized countries deny they are unfairly withholding know-how from poorer nations."Let there be no doubt, America is engaged in the transfer and receipt of technologies on a massive scale," Jim Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told reporters.The need of developing countries for energy will only increase with economic growth, and they argue that reliance on outdated technology today will lock them into high-emissions patterns for decades to come.The United States has long been the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, but some say it has already been eclipsed by rapidly growing China, a country that relies heavily on outdated and dirty coal-burning technology.
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