It might have been differentif they had lost the beersupply, but Summerfestweathered a lengthy power

failure that tested but didn’tbreak the patience of a sun-baked opening-day crowd.

The stages went quiet at 3:20p.m. and remained unpluggedfor nearly three hours until WeEnergies crews restored thejuice just after 6 p.m.

The cause of the power fail-ure had not been determinedlate Thursday, and electricitywas being sent to the festivalgrounds through an alternatefeed, said Beth Martin, spokes-woman for We Energies.

The area had a similar pow-er loss late Tuesday, Martinsaid.

“When we get in there to-night and make permanentrepairs, in all likelihood we’llhave a better opportunity todetermine what happened,”

Martin said.Thursday’s failure affected

the Summerfest grounds,Charter Wire and a nearbycondominium complex — 67customers, not including the17,000 people who had passedthrough Summerfest turn-stiles by midafternoon.

The only casualty appearedto be a 53-year-old Summerfestsecurity guard who wasshocked while leaning againsta power pole near E. Erie andPolk streets. Witnesses report-

ed hearing an explosion.A Summerfest spokesman

said the worker remainedconscious and was talkingbefore being transported to alocal hospital. He was beingtreated for non-life-threateninginjuries. During the lull in themusic, festival patrons didwhat they normally do: drankbeer, talked and ogled eachother. That covered the adults.

Kids seemed to have little

We Energies employees work to restore power just west of the Summer-fest grounds Thursday. Festival power resumed around 6 p.m.

JEFFREY PHELPS./ JPHELPS@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM

Nick Palmer, who plays bass for the Organ Donors from Minneapolis, looks over electrical wires on a side stage as a few others unplug and play acoustic.

By TOM HELDand JESSE GARZAtheld@journalsentinel.com

Please see SUMMERFEST, 18A

“If I knew the one person who trippedover the cord and did all this,

I might give them some grief.”Julie Minette, who said she wasn’t leaving unless someone

told her Elvis Costello wasn’t going on

Boom, boom out go the lights for almost three hours

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WORLD & NATIONCrisis over Israeli soldierIsraeli warplanes strike thePalestinian Interior Ministryeven as efforts continue toreach a deal to free a kid-napped Israeli soldier. 3A

Pressure on payCongressional Democrats pushRepublicans to raise the $5.15-per-hour minimum wage. 3A

METROProbe of county financesA state task force will examineMilwaukee County financesand recommend solutions. 1B

SPORTSSaving the dayDerrick Turnbow records his23rd save as the MilwaukeeBrewers hold off the ChicagoCubs, 5-4, at Wrigley Field. 1C

Let’s make a dealThe Milwaukee Bucks haveone — and possibly two —trades in the works. 1C

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Researchers at the Universi-ty of Wisconsin-Madison havefound a more economical wayto use fructose, the sugar infruit, as an alternative to pe-troleum in the development ofraw materials used to buildplastics, fuels and pharmaceu-ticals.

They hope it will be an im-portant step toward buildingmore everyday products fromrenewable sources and reduc-ing our reliance on fossil fuels.

The new method, publishedtoday in the journal Science,makes the production of theversatile molecule HMFcheaper and more efficient, ac-cording to chemical engineerJames Dumesic, who devel-oped the technique with col-leagues.

Until now, manufacturing ofHMF was too expensive for it to

be used commercially.Joseph Bozell, a professor of

biomass chemistry at the Uni-versity of Tennessee who wasnot involved in the research,sees these results as a first stepin moving toward petroleumalternatives in the chemicalindustry.

“Once you get to the point ofthinking about HMF,” Bozellsaid, “you have a materialanalogous to something fromthe petrochemical industrythat is a building block forthousands of other things.”

The building block Bozell re-fers to is terephthalic acid.This compound is used in theproduction of polyesters suchas PET, the recyclable plasticin soda bottles. HMF is easilyconverted into another com-pound, FDCA, which is the bio-fuel equivalent of terephthalic

Will fruitbe the

new oil?UW researchers improve use of

fructose as petroleum alternativeBy KATHARINE OTTkott@journalsentinel.com

Please see FRUCTOSE, 18A

The University of Wisconsin-Madison an-nounced Thursday that it would launch a re-view of an instructor who argues that the U.S.government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, at-tacks for its own benefit.

The instructor, Kevin Barrett, is co-founderof an organization called the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, which claims the Bush ad-ministration planned the attacks to create awar between Muslims and Christians. He ar-gues that members of the faiths must work to-gether to overcome the belief that terroristswere to blame.

Sept. 11 claimstirs UW probeInstructor says U.S. plannedthe attacks to provoke war

By MEGAN TWOHEYmtwohey@journalsentinel.com

“Unless he’syelling fire in

a crowdedtheater, weneed to becareful toprotect hisacademicfreedom.”

David Walsh,president of the

UW System Boardof Regents

Please see BARRETT, 15A

Washington — The Bush administrationlikely will have to extend rights to terrorismsuspects at the U.S. military prison in Guanta-namo Bay, Cuba, that it has denied them foryears, after the Supreme Court invalidated thegovernment’s system of military trials andruled that the detainees must be treated ac-cording to international standards, officialsand experts said Thursday.

In one of the most important rulings on pres-idential powers after Sept. 11, 2001, the courtvoted, 5-3, Thursday to shut down the militarycommission that has been trying Salim Ah-med Hamdan, a Yemeni held at Guantanamowho is accused of being a bodyguard and driv-er for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

The court said the commission that Presi-dent Bush established to try prisoners on ter-rorism charges does not meet the standards offairness required by the military code of jus-tice and the Geneva Conventions and is illegal.

The opinion was delivered by Justice JohnPaul Stevens, the court’s last veteran of WorldWar II who served as a Supreme Court lawclerk during the late 1940s, the last time the

Military trialsruled illegal

Terror detainees may get new rightsBy JOSH WHITEWashington Post

Please see GUANTANAMO, 22A

Acopy of “Don’t Sweatthe Small Stuff” in mostpeople’s bathroom

would be nothing more thanreading material for a captiveaudience. For Heidi and Jef-frey Jones, it’s a sly joke and areminder to meet the challeng-es most of us never imagined.

Such as struggling to reachthe ATM, gas pump and eleva-tor buttons. And paying toalter every article of clothingthey buy. And facing the con-stant staring and unwelcomeremarks.

Heidi and Jeffrey are littlepeople.

They’re also parents of twoboys (of average height), own-ers of a home they had built inthe Town of Delafield and

For a week, they’re faces in the crowd

MICHAEL SEARS / MSEARS@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM

Jeffrey Jones and his wife, Heidi, push their two sons, Logan (left), 6,and Cameron, 4, on the swings at their Town of Delafield home.

IN MY OPINION

Jim STINGL

Please see STINGL, 17A

“It’s like looking in the mirror. For the other 51 weeks ofthe year, you’re living in an average-size world.”

Dan Okenfuss, spokesman for Little People of America, on the group’s

national conference that starts today in Milwaukee