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IN lIfe & arts IN MetrO & state IN sPOrts
TRIPLE THREAT
Austin teen pushes herself to improve
SOAKED
Expect more rain to dump
STAR TURN
Nate Jones’ performance was
speed in three sports • E1 on Austin area today • B1 a bright spot in the Longhorns’
AUSTIN TRIATHLON BEGINS AT 7 A.M. DETAILS, E8 YOUR WEATHER, B8 mostly dim offensive display • C1
holidays IMMIGRATION DISARMAMENT TALKS
Children Envoy:
On Labor Day,
a look at how
the state works
Nearly 344,000 Texans draw their
N. Korea
living in limbo sets end
paychecks from taxpayers. These pub-
lic servants, state agency employees
and higher education workers are the
flesh and blood connection between
of nukes
a population and its government. The
average state worker is almost 44 and
earns $35,000 a year, about $5,000
less than the average civilian
worker does. Nation will stop production
Short of telling 344,000 of nuclear fuel and reveal all
stories on this Labor Day, we programs this year, U.S. says
provide statistics to illumi-
nate the individuals and By David E. Sanger
The New York TimeS
the whole on A12.
The top American negotiator with North Ko-
— Mark Lisheron,
rea said Sunday that the country had agreed to
American-Statesman
disable its nuclear fuel production capabilities
by the end of the year and to reveal to inter-
national monitors all its nuclear programs,
MoRE insidE including what U.S. intelligence agencies
Read what’s closed think was a second, secret
today. • B2 program purchased from
Pakistan.
At the end of a two-day INSIDE
meeting in Geneva — the Iran claims
kind of one-to-one ses- goal reached
sion the Bush administra- with 3,000
CALENDAR • THE WEEK AHEAD tion had rejected in recent centrifuges.
years — Assistant Secre- • A4
TUESDAY tary of State Christopher
Hill said the two sides had
Down under: President Bush arrives in Sydney, agreed on what would be a speedy next step
Australia, for the Asia Pacific Economic Coop- after action by North Korea this summer to
eration summit. He’ll visit through Saturday. turn off its main nuclear reactor.
Back to work: Congress returns from recess. He said it was the first time that North Ko-
rea had ever offered a timeline for declaring
and disabling its nuclear program.
WEDNESDAY “One thing that we agreed on is that the
DPRK will provide a full declaration of all of
Game developers gather: Big names in the
their nuclear programs and will disable their
online game industry come to the Austin Game
nuclear programs by the end of this year, 2007,”
Developers Conference. About 18,000 people
Hill said, using the initials for the Democratic
are expected at the Austin Convention Center.
People’s Republic of Korea.
www.austingdc.net.
But in a separate news conference, his coun-
terpart, Kim Gye Gwan, who heads the North
Korean negotiating team, made no mention of
THURSDAY
See NUCLEAR, A4
First Thursday on
South Congress
Avenue: Store own-
ers keep their doors
open late. Features dance craze • soulja boy
live music, food
and artists’ booths.
6 to 10 p.m. South Jay Janner photos AmericAN-STATeSmAN
Congress Avenue
An unfinished mural of the Statue of Liberty at the Southwest Key Programs shelter in Conroe
between Riverside
symbolizes the dream of prosperity for unaccompanied immigrant youths who stay there before
Drive and Live Oak
possibly being placed with a relative or sponsor. A judge ultimately decides their future.
Street. Free. www
.firstthursday.info.
Toll road opening:
New section of Youths who come By Juan Castillo
AmericAN-STATeSmAN STAff
c
Texas 130 tollway,
to U.S. alone wait
from U.S. 290 East ONROE — From his home in Hon-
to Texas 71, opens. duras, “Joel,” a boy in the company Stephen chernin assOciateD Press
Tolls for some will of 15 adult strangers, embarked on a Soulja Boy’s single ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy)’
start Nov. 1. poignant, nightmarish and ultimately
in shelters before
landed him on MTV’s ‘Total Request Live.’
NFL opener: The illegal odyssey to the United States. He
carried one dream: to live again with his par-
lean with it,
New Orleans Saints
face the Super Bowl ents.
learning their fate
champion Indianapolis Colts in the NFL season They left him for their own journey north
opener. 7:30 p.m., NBC. when he was a year old, believing it was the best
crank back and
way to provide for their family. That was 16 years
ago. Joel said he understood why they left; in
FRIDAY Honduras, poverty is rampant.
Financed by his father’s $2,000 payment to a
Bridge dedication: Unveiling of historical
marker commemorating the late Ann Richards,
former governor of Texas. 11 a.m., Ann Richards
Congress Avenue Bridge.
At shelter, there’s school work, soccer
Kids’ facility offers variety of services • A14
smuggler and sustained by Joel’s wish, his 1,800-
mile quest across borders began with a frigid
stowaway ride on a freight train from Tegucigal-
pa, the Honduran capital, and continued by bus
follow the beat
By Joe Gross
to Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico. He and
american-statesman staff
SATURDAY See LIMBO, A14 The Twist. The Hustle. The Electric Slide.
Horns host Frogs: Texas faces The Macarena.
Texas Christian in a Top 25 Some of the children According to radio stations, dance clubs
matchup at Royal-Memorial enter the U.S. to flee and the YouTube nation, it’s time to add the
Stadium. 6 p.m., FSN. war; others are com- Soulja Boy to that storied list. The complicated
U.S. Open tennis: Men’s semi- ing to be with their dance, also known as the Crank That after the
finals, 11 a.m., and women’s families. A boy makes name of the song that shows you how to do it,
final, 7 p.m., CBS. a phone call at the has become a national dance sensation and
shelter in Conroe, north inspired a cottage industry of video parodies,
of Houston. imitators and tributes.
SUNDAY Soulja Boy is also the stage name of 17-year-
old DeAndre Ramone Way, the Interscope
Lake Travis cleanup: Divers and shoreline
volunteers pick up debris, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. To
@ statesman.com recording artist who created the song and
See more photos from dance. The single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
volunteer, call (512) 391-0622, or go to www. has been flying up the Billboard R&B/hip-hop
the Conroe facility with
keepaustinbeautiful.org. songs chart, moving from No. 17 to No. 8 in
this story online. And
Cowboys, Texans open: Houston hosts Kansas two weeks, and sits at No. 2 on the almighty
read our immigration
City at noon, CBS. Dallas faces the New York Billboard Hot 100 chart.
blog at statesman.com/
Giants at 7:15 p.m., NBC.
immigration.
U.S. Open tennis: Men’s final, 3 p.m. CBS. See CRANK, A7
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