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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
MONDAY OCTOBER 20 2006
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2006
》 WORLD
Nigerian plane crash kills Muslim leader
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian airline with 104 people on board slammed into the ground moments after takeoff on Sunday — the third deadly crash of a passenger plane in less than a year in this West African nation known for its notoriously unsafe air industry. Six people survived, and the rest were believed dead.
Among those killed was the man
regarded as the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, and thousands of people gathered at a regional airport to receive his body.
Rescue workers found debris from the smashed plane, body parts and luggage strewn over an area the size of a football field.
The plane went down inside the sprawling airport compound about two miles from the runway. Smoke rose from the aircraft's mangled and smoldering fuselage. Its tail hung from a tree.
Emergency workers pulled blackened corpses from the wreckage, then covered the bodies with white sheets and hauled them away in stretchers. An Associated Press reporter counted at least 50 cadavers, though other bodies had been transported earlier to local morgues.
The plane was bound for the northwest city of Sokoto. Witnesses said there was a rainstorm around the time the aircraft took off, but rains later subsided, giving way to overcast skies.
Mustapha Shehu, spokesman for the Sokoto state government, had said earlier that the sultan's son, Muhammed Maccido, a senator, also was aboard the flight, along with Abdulrahman Shehu Shagari, son of former Nigerian President Shehu Shagari, who was in office between 1979 and 1983. Their fates were not immediately known.
Last year, two planes flying domestic routes crashed within seven weeks of each other in Nigeria, killing 224 people.
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It's something his body refuses to completely adjust to, he said. Cailteux found himself eating at the same times as his old schedule, with his meals being immediately before he was going to bed. An acid reflux problem was the result, and he's been fighting it since.
"It's not like you can tell your body's urges, like eating, to stop even though mentally you need to," Callteux said. "It's a disorienting process."
Brown also said that students with sleep deficiencies often suffered from depression and anxiety-induced illnesses'. He suggested medical attention could ease changes in student-sleeping cycles like those experienced by both Hardesty and Cailloux.
Brown said melatonin, a hormone that helps regulate sleepwake cycles, can help people adjust
their sleep schedules.
Carole Guillaume,
Watkins physician and sleep medicine specialist, said businesses that operate at night often use fluorescent lighting that simulates
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Calteilue said that sleep deprivation and excessive "down time" at work has kept alive a reluctant addiction he began in the Navy alive.
"I smoke cigarettes, and while that's bad for me, the side effect of it is that it kind of keeps me up," Cailteux said. "So while socially people may look down upon it, I do it for different reasons."
Justin Clay, Kansas City, Kan. senior, has increased his caffeine intake drastically since he began working as a delivery driver for Gumby's Pizza, 1445 W. 23rd St. While he only works three nights a week, cleanup often keeps him at work until after 4 a.m. Clay said he struggles to get to his 8 a.m. class on less than four hours of sleep.
Clay has also noticed his health diminishing since starting work at
"There's a totally different atmosphere outside the bakery doors than inside for sure."
daylight and the sun. This can help employees such as Hardesty to feel more awake during the odd hours of their jobs.
MICHAEL HUMPHREY
Assistant manager
Wheatfields Bakery and Café
"The best way to reset your circadian rhythm is with light," Guillaume said. "It's a way to simulate the wake center to get you reset and used to a different time
Gumby's. Clay said his irregular sleep schedule led to irregular eating cycles, which led to recent stomach problems and weight gain.
"My eating schedule can be extremely abnormal." Clay said. "I've probably put on five to 10 pounds since I've been there."
Michael Humphrey, assistant manager at Wheatfields Bakery and Cafe, 904 Vermont St., has developed into a coffee aficionado since starting work at the bakery five years ago. He prefers the 3 a.m. to noon shift, making Wheatfield's
hand-shaped artisan breads, to a typical 9 to 5 job. Since Humphrey's change of schedule to the early morning shift, he too has relied on artificial stimulants to put the pep back in his step.
"I drink espresso by the gallons," Humphrey said.
Brown acknowledged a natural attraction to stimulants such as caffeine in high-stress circumstances, but said that stimulants should never be used as a crutch in sleep-deprived instances. It is something he feels students are too often abusing as a substitute for a good night's sleep.
Humphrey said he prefers the bakery's more tranquil environment to many of the other food delivery and bar-crowd options available in Lawrence. His cost for the quieter environment is a social life Humphrey describes as "kind of cut off."
"It's funny going to work early on a Friday or Saturday when the bars are just getting out," Humphrey said. "People are really rowdy, and there's a totally different atmosphere outside the bakery doors than inside for sure."
Hardesty's distractions only begin with Thursday morning drag queens. He's been flashed by a young woman while at work working free items, been offered extravagant amounts of money to sell alcohol after midnight — which is illegal in Kansas — and regularly deals with crowds of homeless people seeking shelter or conversation.
But the graveyard shift isn't for everyone. J.R. Burbridge, Spring Hill senior, was a delivery driver for Jimmy Johns, 1447 W. 23rd St. Burbridge worked the late night
circuit for a year-and-a-half, often ending shifts at 4 or 5 a.m. in the morning. After accumulating a large number of absences in his early morning classes trying to squeeze in a few extra moments of sleep, Burbridge began noticing the disastrous effects his job was having on his academic success. After dealing with the "drunken college atmosphere," Burbridge became tired of the fast-food industry as a job.
"I've delivered to people answering the door completely naked, parties where people offer you shots of alcohol or to smoke you up instead of payments, which never really went over well," he said.
These reoccurring encounters all led to longer delivery times and the store closing later than Burbridge had expected.. It was too straining on him, and he left his job at Jimmy John's for a position at Papa Keno's Pizzaria.
"Keno's is a bit more expensive than limmy John's, so you're taking away the crowd that's obnoxious and drunk." Burbridge said. "Plus we stop delivering at 10 o'clock."
While Burbridge may have escaped the grasp of late-night jobs, Hardesty continues to punch the time card of the graveyard shift at the Kwik Shop.
"Generally people are really nice, which helps things go smooth." Hardesty said. "But honestly, I don't remember what life was like before I had to do this."
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@kansan. com.
Edited by Catherine Odson
Police make attempt to stop violence
WORLD
Guillermo Arias/ASSOCIATED PRESs
A barricade set up by protesters burns in downtown Oaxaca, Mexico. President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence.
OAXACA, Mexico — Federal police armed with assault rifles and riot shields stormed this normally picturesque tourist destination Sunday, bypassing barricades and touching off fierce street battles as they tried to end five months of protests and violence.
Officers in black helmets entered the city from several sides, reinforced by armored vehicles, trucks mounted with high-pressure water cannons and bulldozers. Helicopters roared overhead.
Police marched up to a metal barrier blocking the historic city center - which has served as home base for the protests since late May - but pulled back as protesters armed with poles and sticks attacked them from behind, hurling burning tires.
Protesters could be seen readying Molotov cocktails and other homemade bombs, but had yet to use them against police, who fired tear gas canisters. The area filled with black smoke from burning cars. Some protesters used syringes to pierce their arms and legs, then paint signs decrying the police in blood.
"I think their strategy isn't working," said protest organizer Hugo Pacheco.
Police and state authorities - often in plainclothes - have shot at protesters, setting off clashes in which at least eight demonstrators have died since August.
President Vicente Fox, who leaves office Dec. 1, resisted months of repeated calls to send federal forces to Oaxaca until Saturday, a day after gunfire killed a U.S. activist-journalist and two residents.
Fearing further violence, the president had hoped to negotiate a peaceful end to the Oxaca unrest.
Normally a beautiful site, Oaxaca's main plaza of historic arched buildings and towering shade trees is now covered with graffiti. Protesters have set up a group of tents that serve as their base of operations.
On one major street, police buses had most of their windows shattered by protesters hurling rocks and massive chunks of concrete.
While some protesters retreated as federal forces advanced, others fortified their blockades, pledging a street-by-street defense against police.
Authorities are not saying how many officers were sent to Oaxaca, but protesters have estimated there are at least 4,000 in the city.