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STATE BRIEFS Students involved in anthrax hoax TRAVELERS REST-Two teenagers were arrested Tuesday in the investigation of white powder scattered across the courtyard at Travelers Rest High School, a scare that kept the school closed for two days. The 9th-grade boys, one a student at the school and the other a student at Berea High School, were taken by their parents to the Travelers Rest Police Department late Tuesday morning, police said. Tests revealed the substance was powdered sugar, investigators said Tuesday. The youths were charged with creating a hoax device, malicious damage of more than $5,000 and disturbing schools. They were released to their parents. Their names were not released because of their ages. The boys have been suspended and will be recommended for expulsion, a Greenville County school district spokesman said. “You have to be serious about anything these days, onfl nro Hnn4 uronL to put any of our staff and students at risk,” Principal Harvey Choplin said. Two people wearing heavy winter clothing; hoods and gloves were caught on the school’s security cameras early Monday, said Travelers Rest Police Chief Tim Christy. They spread the white powder and vandalized the school property for about 15 minutes. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED EASLEY MAN CHARGED: Lawrence Clyde McAdams, 83, turned himself into authorities after being charged in the stabbing death of his wife. LOTTERY OFF TO COURT: South Carolina’s Lottery Commission will be forced to use a temporary advertising agency as challenges to the games lucrative advertising contract head to court. PRAYER IN SCHOOL CLOSER FOR S.C.: The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to Virginia’s mandatory minute of silence in schools on Monday, declining to take a closer look at the silent prayer issue it last examined 16 years ago. The decision pleased South Carolina legislators who are pushing to bring prayer back into schools. NATION BRIEFS Child pornography considered in case WASHINGTON-Sittingin a borrowed courtroom for a second day, the Supreme Court considered a case with implications for the future of Id mprdereres coudl be high technology, if not high art. Free speech advocates and pomographers challenged a 1996 law in which Congress forbade any visual depiction of what “appears to be” children in sexually explicit situations or that is advertised to conveyy . the impression that a minor is involved. Through technology not available when the court placed child pornography outside First Amendment protection, pomographers can create dirty movies about children and adolescents that involve no actual children. Legitimate filmmakers also can fool the eye by using youthful-looking adult actors to portray adolescents, and it was the consequences of that practice that captured the justices’ attention Tuesday. Justice Sandra Day n’Pnnnnr nckpH thp government’s lawyer about a sex scene in the movie Traffic, a movie that depicts a high school girl in bed with an older drug dealer. A startlingly frank discussion of the scene ensued, along witha pointed question for the administration from Justice Stephen Breyer. “I go to the video store, and I buy three movies: Traffic, Lolita and Titanic,” Breyer said. “Each contains simulated sexual activity by someone who is 17” or younger. “The question is, why am I not guilty (of possessing child pornography) under your interpretation?” IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED FORD FIRES CEO: Jacques Nasser was ousted as CEO of the slumping Ford Motor Co., replaced by the great-grandson of founder Henry Ford, the company announced Tuesday. The move puts a Ford family member in charge of the company’s day-to-day management for the first time since 1979. ECONOMY WOES: Consumer confidence plummeted in October to its lowest level in 7 1/2 years as the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing anthrax scare sapped Americans’ optimism about job security and the economy. WORLD BRIEFS Israel might pull out of disputed territory JERUSALEM — In a sign of a possible rift within the Israeli government, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was preparing an independent initiative aimed at breaking the deadlock with the Palestinians, an aide and reports said Tuesday. The Israeli newspaper Maariv said the plan, to be presented in coming days, includes a pullout from all of Gaza and the dismantling of Israel’s settlements there — an idea that in the past has been opposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Unrest continued in Gaza, with Palestinians firing several mortar rounds into a Jewish settlement early Tuesday and Israeli troops briefly entering Palestinian-controlled territory in search of the source of fire. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday urged Sharon to return to peace talks. “I call on Sharon to go back to the negotiating table,” Arafat told an Italian TV show by telephone. “Let’s go back to implementing the accords, let’s go back to saving the peace piuueaa wiin iiu uunuinwiinig, no military pressures.” Arafat later met for 15 minutes with Pope John Paul II, who expressed his condolences for “the numerous victims of the interminable spiral of violence” and repeated his appeal for a resumption of negotiations, according to a Vatican statement. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED FRANCE SHOOTING: A masked gunman opened fire in Tours on Monday, killing four people, injuring eight and sending terrified bystanders running for . cover. Afterward, the suspect told officials he had no recollection of the incident. JAPAN UNEMPLOYMENT: Just two months after hitting a record high, Japan’s unemployment jumped to a new record 5.3 percent in September as the global economic slowdown continued to batter the nation’s export-dependent economy. RUSSIAN SUB RECOVERY CONTINUES: Investigators pulled three cruise missiles, data reorders and five more bodies from the carcass of the Kursk nuclear submarine Monday. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov expressed hope the probe would explain what caused one of Russia’s worst naval disasters. Problem children could be detected at early age BY JACOB RABON THE GAMECOCK Professor cites causes and methods of prevention of child hood murder. In support of his latest book, Children Who Murder: A Psychological Perspective, Dr. Robert Heckel spoke on Monday at USC. Heckel, a distinguished USC psy chology professor emeritus, co-au thored the book with Dr. David Shumaker. Heckel made a clear distinc tion between preteen and teen murders and said there are fun damental differences between them. While childhood murder ers are a small group, he said they are an extreme case of an even larger problem and that studying them could lead to solutions for a wide range of problems. According to Heckel, potential situations that could lead to mur derous behavior in children in clude being bullied, family drug and alcohol abuse, parental men tal illness, an unstable living envi ronment, a domineering mother and a negative relationship with a father figure. Any of these factors could lead to a lack of moral devel opment, the key ingredient of childhood murderers, Heckel said. By age 3, Heckel said, most children begin showing care, em pathy and understanding of oth ers, but potential problem chil dren often don’t. Heckel said identifying these children at an early age while they are in prekindergarten programs is an important step because younger children can be rehabilitated much easier than older children. According to Heckel, better train ing of people who run these pro grams would greatly aid in iden tifying early problems that could lead children to murder or other delinquent behavior. An important asset in pre venting childhood murderers is a formal and informal support structure for children in the com munity. Programs like Boys and Girls Clubs and after-school pro grams fall into the formal support category, while general caring falls into the informal support category, Heckel said. “There is hope, but we must change the nothing-works atti tude that spawned a legal process that often fails the children and often warehouses problem chil dren instead of rehabilitating them,” Heckel said. Most of the students that at tended the lecture thought Dr. Heckel’s ideas were good and that there needs to be more support for children. A third-year psy chology major who asked not to be named said, “What we do or don’t do for our children now will change the future, for better or worse.” While the methods for preventing childhood murder seem to be simple, Heckel said, “We need to make a great effort to get the point across.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Afghanistan Administration faces criticism CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 raided Taliban targets in south ern Afghanistan. Otherwise, he had said he could not discuss whether U.S. troops were oper ating inside Afghanistan. The Bush administration has come under increasing criticism in recent days for not doing more to destroy the Taliban militia and assist the loose alliance of opposition forces in the north. That al liance, with modest U.S. help, is hoping to win control of the crossroads city of Mazar-e Sharif. On the 24th day of the air campaign, British Defense Minister Geoffrey Hoon con sulted with Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and told a joint news conference it would not be wise, from a military standpoint, to halt or limit the aerial bom bardment during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. “It wouldn’t make military sense to announce upfront what our intentions were dur ing that period,” Hoon said. “It certainly wouldn’t make mili . tary sense to afford the Taliban regime, which has been under very considerable pressure in recent times, the opportunity of regrouping, reorganizing during a predictable period of time.” Rumsfeld expressed a similar view Monday, although President Bush has not announced his in tentions. In a review of recent military action in Afghanistan, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem told reporters that on Monday about 70 combat planes hit 13 target areas in Afghanistan, including Taliban military command-and-control sites, airfields, Taliban field troops, and caves and tunnels used by the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network to hide and store weapons and equipment. Stufflebeem is deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Victoria Clarke, chief spokes woman for Rumsfeld, said Tuesday’s bombing plan called for using about 95 strike aircraft. Rumsfeld said that about 80 per cent of Tuesday’s planned attacks were against Taliban forces in the field, a plan designed to help clear the way for advances by the north ern alliance, which is facing off against Taliban troops near the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul. 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