National Briefs

Paychecks now accessible through CashPay
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

Murielle Wright, Human Resources benefits specialist, said that by using CashPay, a new payroll option offered through Bank of America, she is able to save time and keep better control of her money.
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Modern movements
Dance department to present ‘Moving Forward’ this weekend
By Kristin Campbell
Staff Reporter

TCU dancers can be seen on crutches, on trapezes and being thrown up into the air this weekend at “Moving Forward”, the TCU fall dance concert.
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Anthrax threat found in Midwest postal facility
By Laura Meckler
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Preliminary tests Wednesday found anthrax spores in a Kansas City, Mo., postal facility, extending the anthrax threat to the Midwest.
More than 170 workers joined tens of thousands others on the East Coast who are taking antibiotics to ward off possible infection. Anthrax was also found at a private postal maintenance center in Indianapolis on equipment sent from a contaminated mail-processing center in Trenton, N.J.
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House rejects plan for airport security
Close vote defeats Senate intention to make screeners federal employees
By Jim Abrams
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House rejected a plan Thursday to turn airport screening operations over to federal employees, handing a major victory to the White House and its Republican allies.
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Student allegedly lied about knowing hijacker
By Larry Neumeister
Associated Press

NEW YORK — A U.S. college student who allegedly lied to a grand jury when he denied knowing one of the Sept. 11 hijackers had videotapes about martyrs and pictures of Osama bin Laden in his car and home, prosecutors said in an indictment released Thursday.
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U.S. wants to land more special forces
By Robert Burns
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States is urgently working to land more clandestine warriors in Afghanistan to intensify pressure on the Taliban, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.
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Colleges focusing on perks
By Megh Duwadi
The Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. (U-WIRE) — Massage sessions, on-campus beach volleyball courts and free cable television are perks that many of today’s college students receive automatically upon matriculation.
These modern-day amenities appear downright luxurious when compared with the more austere book-focused collegiate experience of the past.
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Terrorist attacks revitalize interest in ‘smart cards’
By Doug Bedell and Paula Felps
Dallas Morning News

DALLAS (KRT) — The attacks of Sept. 11 have rekindled calls for a national identification card — a “smart card” containing embedded personal information. Although even smart cards can be forged, many see them as an important tool in the fight against terrorists.
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