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Riverbanks acquires 2 Australian koalas Two female koalas are making their new home in South Carolina’s capital city. Lottie and Kilarney came to Riverbanks Zoo from the David Fleay Wildlife Park in Queensland, Australia. They join Mirai, a male koala sent to Riverbanks from a Japanese zoo in 2002. Another male koala that ar rived at the same time has since died. Riverbanks Zoo got permis sion to import the koalas as part of a sister state relationship be tween South Carolina and Queensland. Modified tax plan to replace local tax State senators retooled a prop erty tax reduction plan so that it wipes out taxes on homes and cars. The plan Sen. David Thomas, R-Fountain Inn, introduced Thursday raises the state’s sales tax to 7 cents on the dollar, up from a nickel now. That extra $1 billion in sales tax collections would replace lo cal property tax collections to pay for county, city and school opera tes. w It depends on voter passage x»f a referendum in November. Nation Guardsman accused of aiding al-Qaida FORT LEWIS, WASH. - A National Guardsman is accused of trying to pass intelligence to U.S. military personnel who were pos ing as al-Qaida operatives, al legedly telling the phony terror ists that he shared their cause. Spc. Ryan G. Anderson is charged with three counts involv ing attempts to supply intelligence to the enemy. The Uniform Military Code says attempts to aid the enemy can be punishable by death. The charges do not allege that Anderson ever actually passed in formation to real al-Qaida mem bers. NASA to build craft for in-space rescue CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. - When shuttle flights resume, NASA will have a craft on stand by for a rescue mission in case a crew ends up with a damaged ship and is stranded on the interna tional space station. Shuttle program manager Bill Parsons said Thursday the second shuttle will not necessarily be on the launch pad, but will be ready to travel to the space station with in 45 to 90 days. That is the current estimate for how long seven addi tional astronauts could remain on the orbiting outpost before food, oxygen and other supplies run out. 2 U.S. infantrymen killed by explosion BAGHDAD, IRAQ - An explo sion killed two U.S. infantrymen in an insurgent center west of Baghdad on Thursday, but the U.S. civil administrator said the date for handing power over to an Iraqi government would not change. The blast occurred as troops from Task Force All-American were investigating an earlier at tack on a U.S. convoy near Khaldiyah, a Sunni Triangle town about 50 miles west of Baghdad, witnesses said. Israel, U.S. to atune West Bank efforts JERUSALEM - Israel will coor dinate its unilateral steps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with the United States, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday after briefing senior American envoys on his “disengagement plan.” Sharon addressed Washington’s concerns by saying he does not believe Israel would undermine the U.S.-backed “road map” peace plan by redeploying troops and imposing a boundary on Palestinians in the West Bank. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE **^792 : U.S Postal Service is cre ated. 1941: First Jews from Poland are transported to concentration camps. txtenaea.i-orecast v i . Today HI: 71 LO: 50 Saturday HI: 68 LO: 34 Sunday HI: 60 LO: 34 Moday HI: 60 LO: 40 Tuesday HI: 57 LO: 40 Today ARCHAEOLOGY COLLOQUIUM, “COLLAPSE OF LATE BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS RESULTING FROM THE ERUPTION OF THERA IN THE AEGEAN”: Gambrell Hall 153,3 p.m. SEMINAR, “THE FLEXIBLE METAL SURFACE-FACETING INDUCED BY ULTRATHIN FILMS”: Dr. Ted Madey of Rutgers University, Jones Physical Science Center 006,712 Main St., Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Seminar 4 p.m. use BAND CLINIC, UNIVERSITY BAND CONCERT: Roger Center, 4:45p.m.-5:30 p.m. WACHOVIA ART FRIDAY: Columbia Museum of Art, 5-9 p.m. DANCE MARATHON: Strom Thurmond Wellness & Fitness Center, 7 p.m. “THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED! A CELEBRATION OF ART BYZELDA FITZGERALD”: McKissick Museum, 7:30-10:30 p.m. USC BAND CLINIC, USC SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT: Koger Center, 7:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m. Saturday FAMILY DAY AT THE MUSEUM: Columbia Museum of Art, 10:30 a.m.-12p.m. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS FILM SERIES, “FAITH RINGGOLD: THE LAST STORY QUILT”: Columbia Museum of Art, 11 11:30 a.m. USC BAND CLINIC, FAYETTE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WIND ENSEMBLE/WANDO HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT: Koger Center, 1-2:30 p.m. BLACK HISTORY MONTH FAMILY REUNION: Russell House Ballroom, 1-3 p.m. USC BAND CLINIC, USC CONCERT BAND/PALMETTO CONCERT BAND: Koger Center, 7:30 p.m.-9:20 p.m. 30TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHAEOLOGY: GambrellHall 153 DANCE MARATHON: Strom Thurmond Wellness & Fitness Center Sunday USC BAND CLINIC, FINAL CONCERT: Koger Center, 2 p.m. 4:30 p.m. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY Monday SG ELECTIONS BEGIN: http://vip.sc.edu, 9 a.m. RING WEEK: Russell House, 1st floor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. GRADUATION FAIR: Russell House Bookstore, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building 634,4 p.m. APPLICATIONS FOR HOMECOMING COMMISSION DUE: Russell Holise 227 LAST DAY TO DROP A COURSE OR WITHDRAW WITHOUT A GRADE OF “WF” BEING RECORDED Tuesday RING WEEK: Russell House, 1st floor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. “WRITING AT WORK” WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton St. Annex, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. SG ELECTIONS END: http://vip.sc.edu, 5 p.m. “A TRIBUTE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC HERITAGE” CONCERT: St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 7 p.m. Wednesday “WRITING AT WORK” WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton St. Annex, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. 1 Aniston eager to departfrom old ‘Friends’ LONDON - Jennifer Aniston says she’s looking forward to leaving “Friends” character Rachel Green behind after a decade on the hit NBC sitcom. Aniston, in London Wednesday to promote her new romantic com edy, “Along Came Polly,” said she’ll always be grateful for the character that made her famous, but she wants to focus on big screen roles. Aniston, 35, said she’d like to do more films such as 2002’s “The Good Girl,” in which she played against type as a frumpy and mis erable small-town store clerk. NBC has announced that Matt LeBlanc will star in a spinoff se ries, but Aniston said she has no plans to revisit Rachel — and hopes her fans will let her move on. ‘Today’ show to hold intern competition NEW YORK - The“Today” show will introduce eight NBC in terns Friday who will compete in a weeklong series called “The Intern.” Developed to model the net work’s successful prime-time show “The Apprentice,” the in terns will be broken into two teams, with a participant being fired each day until there are four remaining winners, NBC said Tuesday. The four winning interns will go on special assignment with the “Today” show team — co-hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, news anchor Ann Curry and weather and feature reporter A! Roker. Couric and Lauer will be “dis missing” an intern each day, with the guidance of Roker and Curry, who will act as advisers. Macdowell hopeful for older actresses VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Andie MacDowell said she’s saddened by Hollywood’s obsession with youth — but believes older actresses have a future. “I don’t think that youth should be glorified,” said the 45-year-old MacDowell, who was in Vienna to attend Thursday night’s Opera Ball. “It’s a mind-set that has to be changed.” MacDowell said she’s confident enough that older actresses have a future that she’s devoting most of her time to her children. MacDowell said she’s inspired by Diane Keaton’s Oscar-nominat ed performance in “Something’s Gotta Give,” a romantic comedy in which the 58-year-old actress has a brief nude scene. MacDowell is planning a new film, but would only reveal that “it’s dark, like ‘Pulp Fiction.’” Campbell fights for celebrities’ privacy LONDON - Naomi Campbell went to the tradition-steeped House of Lords Wednesday, hop ing to win legal privacy rights for Britain’s beleaguered celebrities. The supermodel’s lawyers ap pealed a court ruling that a news paper had the right to print a pic ture of her leaving a drug rehabil itation meeting. Campbell wants to overturn the October 2002 ruling that the Daily Mirror was justified in publishing a picture of her leaving the Narcotics Anonymous meeting be cause she’d lied previously to the media about her drug use. Shoah Foundation to open Krakow exhibit WARSAW, POLAND-A new ex hibit on the Jewish ghetto in the southern city of Krakow is sched uled to open this summer, with a grant of about $40,000 from Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. The exhibit in the former “Under the Eagle” pharmacy, lo cated in the heart of the district where the Nazis forced some 17,000 Jews to live from 1941-43, will document the history of the ghetto, said Krakow councilor Boguslaw Sonlk. “I received a phone call from the Spielberg foundation that they have cleared all the bureaucratic hurdles and that the money is coming through,” Sonik told The Associated Press. Some parts of Spielberg’s Oscar winning “Schindler’s List” take place in the former ghetto. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston star in “Along Came Polly.” USC.Briefly Blackboard named as awards finalist Blackboard Inc., the software company that supports USC’s ed ucational site http://black board.sc.edu, was recently named as a finalist for the 2004 Codie Awards for Best Secondary Education Instructional Solution and Best Educational Total Comprehensive Solution. The Codie Awards, sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association, highlights the best companies, products and services in the software and information industry. For more information on Blackboard Inc., visit http://www.blackboard.com. Entrepreneur awards taking applications The Global Student EntrepreneurSM Awards is ac cepting applications for its awards program recognizing and reward ing the entrepreneurial efforts of undergraduates at universities worldwide. First place winners from each region receive a $10,000 prize and a place as an author in book three of the Student Entrepreneur series. The awards program is spon sored by Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business, and winners will be recognized in November at the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization Conference in Chicago. For more information, visit http://www.gsea.org. Undergrads invited to place ring orders Undergraduate students having completed 60 credit hours and graduate students completing 15 credit hours are invited to visit the USC Ring table on the first floor Russell House lobby to place their ring order Monday through Feb. 27. President Andrew Sorensen will present the rings to students Tuesday, April 27 at the Ring Ceremony on the Horseshoe. For more information, contact the Carolina Alumni Association at 777-4111. Free activities at Late Night Carolina USC’s Alcohol and Drug Programs will hold Late Night Carolina Friday, Feb. 27 on the 2nd floor of the Russell House. The event will take place from 10 p.m.- 2 a.m. and features a DJ, spades tournament, rice art, ping pong, video games and more. Admission is free for students with a USC ID. Late Night Carolina is co-sponsored by GAMMA and Capstone Residence Hall. AAAS to play host to civil rights partaker The Association of African American Students plays host Thursday to Cleveland Sellers as he relates his experience as a par ticipant of the civil rights move ment. Sellers, director of USC’s African-American Studies Program, will speak in the Russell House Theater at 6 p.m. for the Black History Month event. Admission is free. Police.Report Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS 11 Violent © Nonviolent Tuesday, Feb. 17 ® LARCENY OF BICYCLE RACK, SENATE STREET GARAGE, LEVEL 1,1600 SENATE ST. The victim said that between Feb. 15 and Feb. 17 someone removed a black bike rack from his vehicle. Estimated value: $100. Reporting officer: W.R. Bond. Wednesday, Feb. 18 © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY/RECOVERY, NATIONAL ADVOCACY CENTER GARAGE, 700 BULL ST. Victim No. 1 said someone broke the front passenger’s-side grass and rear driver’s side-glass of his vehicle. The victim said the subject removed an Eddie Bauer book bag, two textbooks, a TI-85 graph yig calculator and a class manual. Estimated damage: $400. Estimated value: $312. Reporting officer: Q.L. Young. Victim No. 2 said someone re moved his Old Navy book bag, two textbooks, a TI-89 graphing calculator and one pair of pre scription glasses. Estimated val ue: $395. Reporting officer: Q.L. Young. The textbooks were recov ered at the S.C. Bookstore and returned to the victims. Victim No. 2 recovered his book bag and its contents in a dumpster on the Greene Street side of the bookstore. The only item still missing was the TI-85 calcula tor of victim No. 1. Estimated value recovered: $607. Reporting officer: Q.L. Young. © TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE, OLD HARDEE’S LOT, 500 ASSEMBLY ST. While on routine patrol, reporting officer J.M. Simmons observed Edward Gaither. Simmons stopped Gaither and a check revealed that he had been given a prior trespass after notice. Gaither was arrested. Thursday, Feb. 19 O TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, f PRESTON COLLEGE, 1323 GREENE ST. Reporting officer G. Kerwin responded to a call of a suspicious person inside Preston College. Subject John Floyd was asked why he was there and he said he was there to make conversation. He followed a student in order to gain entry. Floyd was asked to produce identification. He complied, and a check was made revealing a trespass warning with an arrest for trespassing issued Feb. 26, 2000. While speaking with the officer, Floyd became loud, boisterous and used profanity. Floyd also smelled of alcohol. He was arrested. O MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ( ST. The complainant said he was checking the property when he found the bottom section of glass broken out on a door on the south side of the building. Estimated damage: $150. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. 1