Iraq's prime minister-designate, Ibrahim Jafari, increased efforts to form a new government Sunday, as insurgents advanced their campaign of violence with two lethal bombing operations, including one in Baghdad that left at least 21 Iraqis dead and scores more injured.
Late Sunday afternoon, a car bomb exploded outside an ice cream shop in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of al- Shoulah, a poor and predominantly Shi'ite Muslim district. As people rushed to assist victims in the crowded market area, a second bomb detonated, killing at least 15 people and injuring 40, according to police and television reports.
In another double bombing, a technique increasingly employed by the insurgents, suicide bombers detonated a pair of explosive-laden cars at a police academy in Tikrit as recruits were leaving for training in Jordan. The bombings killed six policemen and wounded 35 people according to hospital officials.
The bombings Sunday came after a week where more than 100 Iraqis and foreigners have died.
James Burgess, former publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, has given the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication a $1 million gift to create an endowed professorship in ethics.
The James E. Burgess Ethics in Journalism Chair will be part of an envisioned center devoted to issues of fairness, accuracy and integrity in the media, according to a UW-Madison statement.
Journalism School Director James Baughman said in a statement while the school has previously integrated ethics in its courses, the gift will allow an expansion of its instruction.
\Journalists face a new set of ethical traps, many driven by technological change, some by economic considerations,"" he said.
The UW-Madison Journalism School is celebrating its centennial this weekend.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Friday U.S. sales of the Today Sponge, the favorite nonprescription birth control product of women when it was withdrawn from the market in 1995.
The Today Sponge prevents pregnancy by covering the cervix and releasing spermicide. However, it does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases and is far less effective as birth control than oral contraceptives, Depo-Provera injections or an intrauterine device.
The effectiveness and safety of the original product were never questioned, but the new version still required extensive testing before it could receive FDA approval.
The polyurethane sponges will be available in two months on the Allendale company website and later at retailers.
