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STATE Two surgeons leave Greenville hospital GREENVILLE (AP) - One of the state’s top four trauma cen ters has ended contracts with two trauma surgeons, and the state’s health agency says it might review the program. Greenville Hospital System terminated contracts with its two trauma surgeons Monday, but said the change won’t af fect quality of care. Greenville Memorial is one of four Level I trauma centers in the state. The others are in Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston, said Dr. Spence Taylor, the system’s academic chairman of surgery. Phyllis Beasley, program co ordinator at EMS Division of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, said GHS’s current trauma program was “outstanding.” The surgeons don’t have to be trauma surgeons, but must be board-certified with current Advance Trauma Life Support certification, she said. Pre-K programs receive 40 IBMs COLUMBIA (AP)-IBM has donated 40 computers and spe cial software to pre-kinder garten programs across South Carolina. “Today’s economy requires computer skills,” Gov. Jim Hodges said Monday. “IBM is making it possible for our chil dren to begin acquiring this knowledge early.” The computers were donat ed through the state’s early childhood development pro gram First Steps. Twelve pub lic schools and 15 nonprofit children’s centers in Chester, Lancaster, Lexington, Richland and York counties will receive computers and staff training as part of IBM’s KidSmart Early Learning program. “IBM is committed to im proving education and giving kids a jump start at school,” said Anfte McNeill, a company spokeswoman. NATION „ Caffeine might ward off cancer WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers say laboratory mice slathered with caffeine developed fewer skin tumors than untreated animals, sug gesting the chemical that adds zip to coffee and tea also might protect against skin cancer. Dr. Allan Conney, a professor of cancer and leukemia research at Rutgers University, said a skin lotion spiked with caffeine or with another compound found in green tea reduced more than half the number of skin tu mors on hairless mice that had been exposed to high levels of ul traviolet radiation. Skin cancer is the most com mon of all cancers in the United States. The American Academy of Dermatology esti mates about a million cases will be diagnosed in the coun try this year. Alcohol industry lobbies for tax cut WASHINGTON (AP) - As sev eral states consider trimming budget deficits by raising tax es on beer, liquor and wine, the industry is finding support in Congress to cut the federal ex cise tax on alcoholic beverages. More than 200 lawmakers seeking re-election have signed on to tax cut proposals. At least 18 states have raised cigarette taxes in recent months. At least 15 have considered rais ing alcoholic beverage taxes; of those, Alaska and Tennessee have approved increases. If Congress grants the tax cuts, it would provide a long sought victory to an industry that has been a prolific giver of campaign cash. Beer, wine and liquor inter ests have donated at least $3.7 million to congressional Republicans and national par ty committees and $2.6 million to their Democratic counter parts for this fall’s election, ac cording to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. WORLD Police move against banned separatists MADRID, SPAIN (AP) - Police stormed the offices of a Basque po - litical party aligned with the out lawed ETA separatists Monday, hours after Spain’s parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of banning the party. The fast-moving steps against the Batasuna party began earlier Monday when a judge suspended its activities for three years, ac cusing it of complicity in terrorist acts carried out by the Basque ETA group. Parliament’s lower house then voted 295-10 in favor of banning the party. The government is ex pected to ask the Supreme Court on Friday to outlaw the party. Supporters of the Batasuna party, which has nearly 1,000 elected representatives, gathered outside party offices Monday night in Basque region, waving red-white-and-green Basque flags and swastikas symbolizing Spanish “fascism.” Helicopter crash brings toll to 118 VLADIKAVKAZ, RUSSIA (AP) - Another soldier injured in a mili tary helicopter crash last week has died, bringing the death toll to 118, the same number killed in the sinking of the nuclear subma rine Kursk in the Barents Sea in August 2000. Sgt. Ruslan Khalikov died Monday night in a military hos pital in Rostov-on-Don, Maj. Gen. Alexander Serov said Tuesday. Khalikov was the fourth person hospitalized after the crash to die. The Mi-26 helicopter was car rying 147 people when it went down Aug. 19 outside Khankala, the Russian military headquar ters in Chechnya. The dead in cluded conscripts, 21 officers and an army nurse and her child. Some of the survivors remain in grave condition. Investigators still don’t know whether a technical problem was to blame for the crash or whether Chechen rebels shot down the he licopter, as they have claimed. Greene Street CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 versity, the topic of improved lighting has come up numerous times. “I am proud and appreciative of the way this group came to gether to improve the lighting sit uation of the area,” Ellis said. The shooting death of federal prosecutor Michael Messer last year made people moire aware of the necessity of good lighting, ac cording to Lt. Henry Garbade of the USC Police Department. Messer was shot as he and an other visiting prosecutor, both training at USC’s National Advocacy Center, were walking down Laurens Street. Garbade said that, according to USC student crime statistics, most of the violent crime that has occurred on campus has hap pened in that quadrant. “Criminals throughout histo ry have preferred darkness,” Garbade said. “I’m glad to see that the USC Neighborhood Association saw a need for this.” i He said he thinks the lighting will help deter crime in the area. Mindy Rimer, a fifth-year ex perimental psychology student from Lexington, said her car was broken into while she was parked in Five Points last November. “The lighting definitely needs to be improved,” Rimer said. “I don’t feel safe being a 23-year-old female student walking by my self, or with a friend, in that area.” Other students shared her con cern. Morgan Jones, a fourth year theater and speech student from Saluda, said he thinks the lighting would make students feel more protected. As a resident of Capstone last year, Jones said he didn’t feel safe walking back from Five Points late at night. “I think that improving the lighting on Greene Street would be a step toward improving over all campus safety,” Jones said. “Adding lighting in that area would give students in Capstone and Columbia Hall a feeling of se curity when walking in that area.” Kelli Horne, a second-year in ternational business student from Spartanburg, is living on Greene Street this year. She said the additional lighting would help her feel more secure walk ing to her car late at night. “I think it provides a safer en vironment for the students and residents in the area,” Horne said. Third-year biology student LaZandra Tidwell from Lancaster agreed. “I think it’s a good idea to im prove the lighting. I would feel a lot safer,” Tidwell said. Ellis said he wasn’t sure when work would begin. Until it does, he said students can lower their * chances of being a victim by* walking in groups when possible, being aware of their surround ings, knowing locations of call boxes, avoiding dark areas and calling the USC Police Department if they need escorts to their cars late at night. “USC — Use Sense and Caution,” Ellis said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com yeju . 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