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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. A chilling look - on tape - as Osama bin Laden shows pleasure at the mass destruction of September 11th. Plus, On the eve of the innaugural run of the Downeaster, we look at the state of transportation in the granite state And let the revels begin. in Hanover |
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Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. I'm Allison McNair. |
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Anger and outrage.That sums up the reaction many Americans had as they witnessed a smiling Osama bin Laden seen on a videotape released by the Pentagon Thursday. Reporter Eric Phillips has the story. |
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A professor at New Hampshire's Daniel Webster College says he is more furious than ever. Professor Dr. Reza Hoshmand says he's outraged that bin Laden and Al Queda are justifying their crimes by somehow saying that the people they killed were not innocent. Hoshmand says the Koran preaches that innocent people should never be harmed. |
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It's official. President Bush formally notified Russia that the U-S is pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The President made good on his campaign promise to get rid of what he called a cold war relic. Russia responded that the decision was a mistake. Democrats expressed concern that it raises the prospect of a new arms race involving other countries. |
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Congress approved a 343-billion dollar defense bill Thursday. The bill includes pay raises for all service members, funding for an anti-terrorist campaign and all the money the president requested for his missile defense plan. Representatives Sununu and Bass voted in favor of the bill. |
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New Hampshire's attorney general says there won't be any more plea bargaining in the Zantop murder case. Friday, 17-year old James Parker pleaded guilty to a charge of being an accomplice to the second-degree murder in the death of Suzanna Zantop. 18-year old Robert Tulloch is accused of two counts of first degree murder. At a packed news conference in Concord, Attorney-General McLaughlin gave little new information on the case, but emphasized that the plea bargain with Parker was based on the cicumstantial evidence that the state has gathered. |
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The trial of Robert Tulloch is expected to begin in April. |
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This Saturday regular Amtrak service begins from Portland to Boston, with three stops in New Hampshire. A ceremonial run takes place Friday. The public paid 50-million dollars for the new line. But how many people will ride the rail, why did it take so long and will enough people ride it to keep it going? Earlier Christopher Morgan, Administrator, Bureau of Rail and Transit joined me here in studio. And on the phone, Bill Boynton, NH Dept. of Transportation. \On the Phone: Bill Boynton\NH Dept. of Transportation |
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Two bald eagles have returned to an area near a proposed site for a new access road to Manchester airport. It's not clear if the eagles are the same pair that built the nest last year. Photographer JoAnn O'Shaughnessy took this and other photographs of the threatened species. She's an Audubon society volunteer. The nest is less than 400 feet from the proposed path of a bridge on the new airport road. A report is due next month detailing how construction might affect the birds. |
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Preliminary figures show New Hampshire's unemployment rate increased one tenth of a point in November. It was three point nine percent compared to three point eight percent in October and up over one and a half points from a year ago. We still have a better employment picture than the rest of the nation where five point six percent of the population was out of work. |
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Profit warnings, layoff announcements and a report of plunging retail sales made for a gloomy day on Wall Street, where heavy selling pushed stock prices down sharply today. |
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The Dow fell 128 points. The Nasdaq lost about 65 points, or more than three percent. And the S&P 500 was down over 17- and a half points. Dow Jones Industrials\9766.45\-128.36\NYSE\569.27\-6.12\AMSE \812.23\-4.35\Nasdaq\1946.51\-64.87\S&P 500\1119.38\-17.69\Wall Street \ |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Shares of Enterasys Networks were off by ninety- seven cents. P-C Connection was down a dollar- twelve. Pennichuck Corporation rose two- dollars and sixty cents. Teradyne Dropped two- dollars and sixty- nine cents. And Texas Instruments ended the day down two- dollars and twenty- eight cents. |
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What does it take to say you're an employee at the best place to work in New Hampshire? Anyone at Hypertherm Incorporated in Hanover can tell you. The Company President announced Wednesday that employees will get 30 percent of the company stock over the next 10 years. The stock is worth about 30 million dollars. Hypertherm has been named the best company to work for in the granite state three times by Business New Hampshire Magazine.The company is the largest provider of cutting equipment for the metal-working industry. |
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Senator Bob Smith is sponsoring a plan to give laid off North Country mill works jobs in the White Mountain National Forest. Smith is proposing pumping two million dollars into the forest service budget. The jobs would be temporary. |
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Drug companies will be able to develop new medicines more quickly thanks to work being done at the University of New Hampshire. A new biotechnology research and development center will allow students the chance to do cutting-edge research. The center is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. It will be one of only seven biotechnology and health care sites in the country. And UNH reseachers will also be teaming up with Dartmouth Medical School in a 12--million-dollar research program. Senator Judd Gregg says the two will establish a biomedical research center specializing in immunology and inflammation. |
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The government's first city-by-city study of tobacco use shows fewer Americans from the Northeast are smoking than in other parts of the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attribute the lower rates to stronger no- smoking laws and higher cigarette taxes in the region. The Midwest and southern regions had the highest rate of any metropolitan area in the country, with more than 31 percent of its residents saying they're smokers. |
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Three months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, the number of blood donors has fallen off in New Hampshire, but the Red Cross says the need for blood is still high. While the Red Cross says the blood supply has never been safer, the FDA wants the agency held in contempt. A hearing is set for Friday on how the Red Cross manages its blood operations. |
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A damp day around the granite state. We checked in with Steve Bailey at the Mount Washington observatory to find out how long the weather will last. |
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Mount Washington Observatory\Thursday On The Summit\Sleet, freezing rain, rain showers with fog and freezing fog\High: 36 degrees\Peak gust: West 75 mph\Visibility: 1/16 mile Overnight\North\Patchy fog\Chance of drizzle\Cloudy\Lows: upper 30s Overnight \South\Patchy fog \Chance of drizzle\Cloudy\Lows: upper 30s, rising to lower 40s Friday\North\Cloudy \Rain showers likely late\Highs: 40 to 45 \Winds: Light and variable Friday\South\Cloudy then rain late\Highs: 44 to 49\Winds: Light and variable \ |
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This is a special time of year in the Upper Valley. It's when people from many walks of life put down what they're doing and become actors, jugglers, singers and dancers. With a cast of more than one hundred, Christmas Revels is a performance that includes grandchildren to grandparents. Our cameras were there for a recent rehearsal. |
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narr - There may not be a lot of snow on the ground in New Hampshire, but there is music. And dance. So, the holiday season is surely upon us. Ridge clip - "I come to Revels to start the Christmas season. I doesn't feel like Christmas without it." narr - This is Christmas Revels -- performed by Revels North. Started in New York fifty years ago, Christmas Revels found its way to New Hampshire and has become an annual tradition in the Upper Valley. Ridge clip - "This year's story is about the medieval gathering of performers from all over Europe who get together to celebrate their faiths." narr - Director David Guy decides on the story a year in advance. Coincidentially, this year's has a strong, multi-faith theme. David clip - "Afterwards, we were all thinking, boy if there's a year when we want to have Jewish, Christian and Islamic music all in the same show, this is the year." sound of rehearsal narr - But Revels is more than a performance. Ridge clip - "I met my wife through Revels." narr - It's an opportunity for people throughout the Upper Valley to get together and celebrate. Krysta clip - "It feels like home. You're with other actors and you're having a lot of fun up on stage. It's magical." Ridge clip - "This is a community. We have people on stage and people in the audience and we interrelate. Many of the people in the audience have been involved with Revels at one time or another." narr - Some of the more than one hundred cast members, are on stage for the first time. They're teachers, farmers, doctors and neighbors. Many become involved, first by watching. Kyrsta clip - "A lot of my friends come to see this and think it's really cool. They say wow, I want to do this and get involved the next year." David clip - "Theres' an opportunity to surround audience and sing carols of blessing. They sing with us and get up and join us. The audience brings a lot of energy to the performance." Kyrsat clip - "I like to sing all the time and I know that I want to sing for the rest of my life. I'm having a lot of fun with my friends and family." narr - This happens to be a dress rehearsal. You can be part of the real thing starting tonight at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. The performances run until Sunday night. |
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The Christmas Revels continue through Sunday December 16th in Hanover. For more information, call 298-8913. |
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And there's more holiday theatre entertainment on tap. One of the most familiar plays of the season is the stage version of the Dickens' classic - A Christmas Carol. |
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A Christmas Carole opens friday night at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. For tickets you can call the box office at 603 668 5588. And be sure to tune to Outlook on Thursday December 27 for a look at the State of the Arts in New Hampshire. We'll feature Christmas Carole actors Bob Shea and Patrick Tierney. |
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In addition to the production of A Christmas Carol in Manchester there are lots of holiday events going on around the Granite State. Here's just a few of them in our Arts Calendar. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Journalists from around the state join us to share their perspectives on the week's headlines. We'll talk about everything from the Berlin mills to the insanity plea in the Zantop murder case. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Ally McNair. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook. 10o'clock only on NH Outlook |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. We travel to Hanover for the annual Christmas celebration of music. The Revels begin at 10 only on NH Outlook |