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Athletics Faculty committees will oversee study CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 pation in an earlier version of the certification program in 1995 helped to improve the quality of the athletic department in general. “There are a lot of areas that we have improved over the last sev en or eight years,” Tharp said. Tharp said that the certification process usually receives a wel comed response from athletic di rectors and associates from uni versities in the NCAA. “I just think that as we take a look at what we do and our department, we remember that we are in the education process, educating stu dent athletes, and educating young people,” Tharp said. “Hopefully, they become better people from the time they start on campus to the time that they leave.” The NCAA approved the certi fication process in 1993. The process was later revised in 1999. Every Division I school is re quired to conduct a self-study every ten years and provide an in terim report midway between each full certification. The NCAA is responsible for maintaining in tercollegiate athletics as an inte gral part of an educational pro gram, according to their mission statement. When the'committee concludes its study in November 2002, a vis iting committee comprising rep resentatives from other universi ties and sports conferences will conduct.an evaluation based on USC’s self-study. USC and the vis iting committee will give a com bined report for approval from the NCAA. The NCAA last certified USC in 1995 after its previous re port. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Uprising 7 think one was killed, ’ soldier says CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I don’t know how many Americans there were. I think one was killed, but I’m not sure,” the U.S. soldier said in the footage. “There were two of us at least, me and some other guy,” he said. The soldiers appeared to have planned the battle, Central Command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. 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A jury convicted Quattlebaum and sentenced him to death in 1998. The state Supreme Court ordered a new trial last year. The court’s ruling said a former Lexington County deputy prosecutor engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by eavesdropping on a private conversation between Quattlebaum and his lawyer. The Supreme Court has banned Lexington County prosecutors from the retrial. The trial will be in Lexington County Circuit Court, though Quattlebaum’s lawyers have tried twice to move it to Richland County. IT HAPPENED: NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED DANGEROUS HOLIDAY ROADS: Leesville man Jesse Wilson Smith Jr., 39, lost control of his motorcycle on a secondary road in Lexington County and became the 11th fatality on South Carolina roads this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. NATION BRIEFS Scientists claim to clone first embryo BOSTON — A group of scientists in Massachusetts claimed Sunday they had cloned the first early human embryo, a step toward v providing genetically matched replacement cells for patients with a wide range of diseases. The scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, in Worcester, Mass., say they have no interest at present in transplanting such early embryos into a woman’s womb to give birth to a cloned human being. Several states, including California, have banned human cloning. Congress is considering such a ban. In findings published Sunday by The Journal of Regenerative Medicine and described online in Scientific American, the scientists said they had grown a six-cell human embryo. IT HAPPENED: NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED ANTHRAX: Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., says there was enough anthrax in the letter sent to his office to kill more than 100,000 people. 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Hundreds of Marines landed in helicopters southwest of Kandahar, the Taliban’s last garrison, and were to be followed by several hundred more from Navy ships in the Arabian Sea, a senior U.S. defense official said in Washington on condition of anonymity. Tribal leaders said the U.S. forces were moving toward Kandahar from the south. The deployment came as tribal fighters claimed that they had seized an area near Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual home. By taking control of Toarkoter, the fighters said they had a clear view of Kandahar’s airport, three miles away. Taliban fighters briefly resisted before fleeing, said a tribal leader, Abdul Jabbar. At least 10 dead after plane crashes ZURICH, Switzerland - A Swiss airliner with 33 people on board crashed Saturday night as it was approaching Zurich Airport to land. At least 10 people were killed and nine others walked away from the wreckage, officials said. ' Local authorities issued an urgent appeal for local " residents to join the search for survivors from the Crossair Jumbolino, which went down in a wooded area in the suburb of Birchwil, some two miles east of the airport. The cause of the crash — the second to strike Crossair in less than two years — was not immediately known. However, two experts quoted on state-run Swiss television said the plane appeared to be flying too low. Weather conditions were also poor when Flight LX3597 went down, just after 10 p.m., with rain and some snow. Crossair chief Andre Dose said there * were no indications that terrorism was to blame. IT HAPPENED: NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED NO SURVIVORS IN MINING DISASTER: Work crews dug more bodies from a pile of rock and mud left by a landslide at a condemned Colombian mine, bringing the death toll to 47 on Saturday. An official said there was no hope offinding survivors. 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