Bank offers solution to poverty
BY HARRY DUNPHY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Global pover
ty can be cut in half by 2015 if rich
countries lower trade barriers
and increase foreign aid, the
World Bank said Sunday.
Poor countries can help them
selves by investing more in
health and education, the bank
said.
But a new bank report said
even if worldwide economic
growth stays on track, poverty
will remain severe in Africa,
where the number of poor is like
ly to climb from 315 million in
1999 to 404 million in 2015.
Poverty also is on the rise in the
Middle East, the bank said.
“Growth alone will not be
enough to halve poverty by 2015,”
said Nicholas Stern, the bank’s
chief economist.
“Developing countries need to
ensure that all people, and espe
cially poor people, have access to
education, health care and put in
place the right investment cli
mate to crease opportunities,
spur productivity and make real
improvements in people’s lives.”
In a sign wealthy nations were
offering more aid, Treasury
Secretary John Snow said the
United States would give the
bank $100 million in the budget
year starting Oct. 1 for low-inter
est, long-term loans to poor coun
tries.
Snow, who made the an
nouncement at the spring meet
ings of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund,
said the United States might pro
vide an additional $200 million
in 2005 if developing countries
show progress in education,
health and private sector devel
opment.
Stern said the bank hoped
“rich countries will follow
through on their aid commit
ments and will take action on
trade,” particularly on agricul
ture subsidies at the World Trade
Organization meeting in Mexico
in September.
Developing countries main
tain that the $300 billion a year
that wealthy nations pay their
farmers in subsidies drives down
the price of commodities pro
duced by poor nations. That
makes it hard for them to sell
goods at a profit and improve
their economies.
The bank report outlines the
sharp differences between life in
poor and rich countries.
It shows that during the 1990s
there was rapid progress in re
ducing the number of poor peo
ple who live on less the $1 a day,
the bank’s definition of pover
ty.
The report said the numbers
dropped from 1.3 billion in 1990
to 1.16 billion in 1999 but these
gains occurred largely in India
and China, whose economies
made strong progress during the
decade.
The number of poor rose in
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
from 6 to 24 million, from 48 mil
lion to 57 million in Latin
America, from 5 to 6 million in
the Middle East and North Africa,
and from 241 million to 315 mil
lion in Africa.
The bank said lower trade bar
riers by well-off countries could
boost annual growth in develop
ing countries by an extra 0.5 per
cent over the long run and lift an
additional 300 million out of
poverty by 2015.
“Trade can spur development
by expanding markets for devel
oping countries exports,” Stern
said.
“Poor countries are facing
huge rich country barriers in ex
porting those products that play
the best to their comparative ad
vantage — namely agricultural
goods and textiles.”
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are answered through reasoning.
He said more students are tak
ing the MCAT, which means
schools have a wider pool of stu
dents to choose from, and they can
take more of the top candidates,
therefore making it more compet
itive to get into medical schools.
But the increased competition
“should not be something they are
thinking about before test day,”
Chen said.
“There are things that you can
do right now, before the test, and
there are things you can’t do be
fore the test,” he said. “Only deal
with the things you can do right
now.”
Right now, students who have
not been preparing for the MCAT
or are not taking a test-prep course
need to decide whether they are
prepared for the test, Chen said.
If students are not prepared,
they should wait to take the test,
Chen said, because students are
now required to report all scores
to their potential schools. “They
should not take it for practice,” he
said.
He said any student can go to a
Kaplan Test Prep center or online
to take a free practice test.
Chen said the most important
thing is to be able to think clearly
on the day of the test, and not wor
ry about whether you know ev
erything or not.
At Kaplan, MCAT preparation
is called the three C’s: “Content,
critical thinking and crisis pre
vention,” Chen said.
For students who have been
preparing for the test and know
the content, their preparation now
is all about crisis prevention, he
said.
“Bring things like tissues and
cough drops,” Chen said. “Not for
you, but for the person sitting next
to you.”
Mark Versnick, a first-year stu
dent at the USC School of
Medicine, said that although a
Kaplan course is fairly expensive,
it was really helpful to him in his
test preparation.
“For me, it seemed easier to
have someone there,” he said,
“holding your hand, keeping you
motivated to stay on top of what
you should be doing.”
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Tips for students preparing to take the
MCAT during the upcoming two weeks:
♦ Get a good night’s sleep the Thursday and Friday before the test.
Also, start going to bed at the time you plan to the night before the
test to get your internal clock used to the change.
♦ Mimick the test If you’re studying throughout the day, study in the
order that the test occurs - physics, chemistry and verbal
reasoning. This is so that you can get used to that kind of thinking at
certain times of the day.
♦ Dress in layers the day of the test; the room temperature can
drastically change over eight hours.
♦ “Carbo-load” the night before the test This is so that you will have
reserved energy for the next day.
u Eat one serving of carbohydrates, one serving of protein and a
banana the morning of the test. The carbohydrates are for quick
energy, the protein is so you don’t get as hungry as fast, and the
banana is for brain power.
♦ Take advantage of the breaks. Review flash cards for the physical
sciences and read magazines for verbal reasoning to shift gears
between the sections.
♦ Drink Gatorade during the break. It won’t make you go to the
bathroom as much as water will.
♦ Eat a granola bar or piece of fruit during the break. Avoid complex
sugars, such as Snickers bars, that give you energy for the moment,
but can cause you to crash in the middle of the exam.
♦ Bring lunch. With all the worries of the day, you shouldn’t have to
worry about finding lunch during your hour break. Use the break to
switch gears and get ready for the remainder of the test. Avoid
eating turkey, which can make you sleepy; mayonnaise, which can
give you food poisoning; and high concentrations of fat.
Source: Kaplan
Fire
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bon monoxide poisoning. He did
not release their names Sunday
evening pending notification of rel
atives.
University President Karen
Holbrook spoke with investiga
tors outside the house after a pri
vate briefing with fire and police
officials earlier in the day.
“We are clearly a community
in mourning,” Holbrook said.
Of the 12 Ohio State students
who lived in the house, 10 had been
located alive, said one of the resi
dents, Zack Randol, 21, a sopho
more from New York who said he
wasn’t home at the time of the fire.
He said the party was to cele
brate the 21st birthday of one of
his roommates. “This is the worst
thing that could happen,” Randol
said.
Jennifer Lehren said she and
her boyfriend had been asleep in
his bedroom at the back of the
house on the second floor, and she
woke up while firefighters were
carrying the two of them to safe
ty
“I didn’t know what was going
on until I was outside,” said
Lehren, 20. “I remember scream
ing that it was so hot and that my
hair was on fire.”
Lehren was treated for burns
on her hands and released. Her
boyfriend, Josh Patterson, 20, was
in critical condition with minor
bums and smoke inhalation.
About a dozen students who
said they knew the men who lived
in the house gathered on a nearby
street corner Sunday afternoon.
“They’re not wild. They don’t
have people over who would do
this. They don’t have enemies.
They’re not those kind of guys,”
said Tomomi Ono, 19.
S.C. Marine dies in friendly-fire accident
BY JACOB JORDAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marine Pvt. Nolen Ryan
Hutchings of Boiling Springs was
killed in a friendly-fire incident
in the war in Iraq, his father said
Sunday evening.
Marines came by the family’s
home earlier in the day and ex
plained to the parents that their
20-year-old son was killed March
23 while traveling with an ar
mored vehicle unit.
“He was proud to be a Marine.
We were proud of him,” his father,
Larry Hutchings, said by phone
as he held back tears, sniffling.
“He would make an effort to help
somebody out no matter what
kind of problem it was for him.”
Searching for words,
Hutchings said he was relieved to
find out what happened to his son,
who went missing three weeks
ago during fighting on the out
skirts of Nasiriyah.
“The relief in knowing for sure
what’s going on,” Hutchings said.
“Of course, we’re not happy with
the results, but just knowing that
he’s with God is a comfort to us.”
Nolen Hutchings was one of
the missing Marines assigned to
the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine
Regiment, 2nd Marine
Expeditionary Brigade at Camp
Lejeune, N.C.
Larry Hutchings said his son’s
unit was going to secure a bridge
in Nasiriyah and eventually help
wounded soldiers. But someone
called in for air support and the
unit was hit, the father said.
Several Marines survived the at
tack, but Hutchings said he found
out by phone late Saturday that
his son had been identified as one
of the dead soldiers.
“There was nothing left but
parts,” he said.
Hutchings said he became frus
trated and upset Saturday
evening and made phone calls to
various military officials.
“I was tired of this crap,” he
said. “And I was going to do what
ever I had to do to get the infor
mation.
“I personally think if I hadn’t
got on the phone last night and did
what I did, we’d still be waiting.”
Hutchings said he finally was
able to talk to a commander at
Dover, Del., who told him about
his son.
The 51-year-old Upstate man
said his son grew up wanting to
be a Marine. The teenager signed
up not long after graduating from
Boiling Springs High School, leav
ing in January for active duty.
Hutchings said it didn’t matter
that his son was killed in a friend
ly fire incident, adding that acci
dents always happen. “My son
was there, he died for his coun
try,” he said.
No funeral arrangements had
been made by Sunday evening,
but Hutchings said he hopeii
there would be a service by the
end of the week.
POLICE REPORT
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Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
I hese reports are taken directly from the USG Police Department.
Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat.
Thursday, April 10
©TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE, AS
StSTING ANOTHER AGENCY,
RUSSELL HOUSE, 1400 GREENE
ST. Lance Middleton was found
sleeping in the lobby of the
School of Nursing earlier in the
day and was given a field inter
view card and a trespass notice.
Later, Middleton was found in
the Russell House at a computer
near the reference desk.
Middleton was arrested on
charges of trespassing after no
tice at the Russell House. A crim
inal check performed by report
ing officer G. Kerwin revealed
that Middleton was wanted by
the Charleston Police
Department. He was taken to
Richland County Detention
Center and held until Charleston)
could extradite him.
Oauto break-in, larceny of
CDS, BULL STREET GARAGE, 611
BULL ST. The victim said some
one broke into her vehicle and
took 12 CDs and $20 cash.
Estimated value: $260. Reporting
officer: D.W. Friels.
©TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE,
THOMAS COOPER LIBRARY,
1322 GREENE ST. The com
plainant called the USC Police
Department after seeing Ronnie
Hunter inside the library. The li
brary staff, in the presence of a
police officer, had already given
Hunter a trespass notice after
some previous incidents. Hunter
was arrested and taken to the '
Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Reporting officer: J.R. Merrill.
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said. He said some items are un
dervalued at their opening bid
price because dealers might not
know that the item they have is a
collector’s dream relic.
Fulmer said the most valuable
item the library purchased from
an eBay seller was a series of im
ages from Civil War diarist Mary
Boykin Chestnut. Some of the im
ages were of Chestnut, and some
were of assorted family mem
bers.
“That was a case when those
items were highly sought after,”
Fulmer said. “There was a lot of
bidding against us for those ma
terials.
Not just fdr people who col
lected Chestnut-related materi
als, but in this case, some of the
photos were from a resort in
Virginia where the Chestnuts
had visited after the Civil War,
and we were bidding against
people who were looking for im
ages of people in general who
would have visited that resort in
the past.”
Fulmer said he sees several of
the same online aliases bidding
against him. But, he said, anyone
would know for whom he is bid
ding; the library uses its own
name as its alias.
He said that, oftentimes, he no
tices other libraries and muse
ums using eBay for the same rea
son and predicts online auctions
will be increasing in popularity
for such a use in the coming
years.
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Williams said.
Williams said USC was chosen
as a participant because “we’re
probably the largest archival ed
ucation program in the
Southeast — a natural one to be
included.” *
In addition, Elizabeth Dow, a
Louisiana State professor who
earned the grant, served as a vis
iting professor at USC.
Class size will be limited to six
students for all classes offered by
the other three institutions, but
the program places no limits on
the number of USC participants
in the USC-taught classes.
Williams predicts that, within
the three years of the pilot, a to
tal of about 50 students will par
ticipate.
The program is meant to offer
each school courses it does not
have-in its own department, but
that one of the other three might
offer.
The program aims to eventual
ly make classes available online,
as well, he said.
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