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Drunken drivers who kill will face harsher penalties
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday signed into law seven bills, including one that will increase the penalty for people who accidently kill others while driving drunk, and another intended to expand the rights of crime victims.
The first bill will make aggravated motor vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs a Class D felony, punishable by one to 10 years in prison. Presently, it is a Class E felony, which carries a sentence of one to five years.
Aggravated motor vehicular homicide while driving recklessly or while fleeing a law enforcement officer remains a Class E felony.
The governor also signed a bill that will require county prosecu-
toms to notify crime victims of an inmate's parole hearing at least one month before the hearing. The Kansas Parole Board will be required to consider comments from the victim and the victim's family before making a decision on parole.
The bill is part of a Victim's Bill of Rights.
The Department of Corrections also must notify victims of an inmate's release if the crime for which she was committed was violent.
Hayden also signed into law a bill that will codify in the statute all the laws pertaining to creation of the Department of Wildlife and Parks, which came about in 1867, with the merger of the Park and Resources Authority and the Kansas Fish and Game Commission.
Austrian hospital suspends physician
The Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria — City authorities yesterday suspended the head of a hospital department where four nursing aides confessed to at least 49 murders, and officials opened the bodies of several presumed victims.
Nurses confess to 49 'mercy killings'
Suspension of the hospital official, physician Franz Pesendorfer, allows mounting criticism of his refusal to cooperate with police during an investigation last year of killings at Vienna's Laung hospital.
Four assistant nurses arrested since Friday have confessed to killing at least 49 elderly patients by forcing water into the patients' lungs.
Most victims were in their 80s.
Newspaper reports said that the lives of 22 of the 49 victims could have been saved if Pesendorfer had cooperated last year, when senior investigator Max Eldebacher said he would "ease the wall of silence" at the hospital.
A police report said that Pesendier refused to give investigators the name of a doctor who alerted Pesendier to suspicions about the killings after talking with a nurse's assistant.
Austria's largest daily newspaper, Neue Kronen Zeitung, said that if Pendseroff and the second doctor "had not kept quiet, it would fairly certainly have been possible to stop the series of murders a year ago."
The Associated Press
A quest to study the birth of the universe and the fundamental makeup of matter passed a milestone as a $125 million Stanford atom smasher made its debut two years of delay, scientists said Wednesday.
Atom smasher produces first Z particle
"We have one Z particle. It was made Tuesday morning. We found it this morning," physicist Michael Wiordan said by phone from the Stanford University campus. "I am in the University. 30 miles southeast of San Francisco."
"This particle is the key to understanding the birth of the universe," Riordan said. "It helps us understand the forces that bind matter together and make it decay" radioactively.
The Z particle was produced in the government-funded Stanford Linear Collider, a 3-mile-long machine that slams together particles called electrons and positrons at nearly the speed of light.
The collider's success in creating its first Z particle is considered a triumph for American physicists and for the center's director, 1976 Nobel Prize winner Burton Richter.
That's because the machine cost only about one-eighth as much as the $1 billion Large Electron-Positron collider, to produce Z particles as in a previous experiment at the National Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva.
There was no guarantee that Z particles would be produced by the relatively inexpensive but untested technology of Stanford's collider, which is designed to detect the particles of like CERN's conventional ring-shaped lab.
"This is a milestone," said Jeff Sherwood, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy, which paid for the collider. "We're delighted to hear news about the production of the Z particle."
The collider is designed to produce large numbers of Z particles by coming close to recreating
conditions that existed in the first instant after the "big bang" — the incomprehensible explosion scientists believe formed the universe up to 20 billion years ago.
But many months of hard work remain until the collider will be able to mass-produce the particles,
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Z particles are so heavy that they could have eated naturally only for an instant after the big ban.
So by making Z particles and watching how they decay into other particles, scientists can study the makeup of matter and the fundamental forces that make it. The makeup of matter since the universe was formed.
Construction of the collider was completed in May 1987, and Richter initially hoped to have it start mass-producing Z particles that summer. Scientists started it up a year ago, but shut it down again in September to correct technical glitches that prevented its proper operation.
The modifications added $10 million to its original $115 million cost. Riordan said.
Roberto Peccei, a physics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, called the Stanford achievement "wonderful" and "very important."
Getting the collider to produce a Z particle is a step toward helping scientists find if the four fundamental forces of nature really are manifestations of a single "unified" force that physicists
believed exist when the universe was formed 15 billion to 20 billion years ago, Pececi said.
Stanford's collider and the one under construction at CERN "will probe the early universe with an effectiveness that no telescope will ever achieve." Scientific American magazine said last year.
Richter said last year that the collider will help scientists who are “trying to understand what’s in the mind of God. Something started all of this (universe). We call it the big bang, and we really don’t understand what went on back then. We want to find out what are the most fundamental things and most fundamental forces in the physical universe.”
The four fundamental forces are gravity; electronmagnetism, which produces light, radio waves, X-rays and microwaves; the strong force, which binds protons and neutrons together in the center of atoms; and the weak force, which makes some atoms break down radioactively.
The discovery of Z and related W particles at another type of atom smasher at CERN in 1983 yielded the 1848 Nobel Prize in physics for Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Moer because it helped explain why electrons behave so strongly that says electromagnetism and the weak force really stem from a single "electroweak" force.
"The standard model explains how matter and energy are interrelated." Sherwood said. "It will make us think that make up the entire universe. By producing these materials at Stanford), we're looking to verify the model."
Only a few hundred manmade Z particles have been produced in accelerators worldwide. Stanford's collider is designed to mass produce at least tens of thousands of Z particles.
The collider is run by Stanford University for the Department of Energy
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