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Florida man gets
$450,000 after
surgical mishap
MIAMI (AP) — A man whose
doctors left a 16-by-28-inch sur
gical towel in his abdomen after
he underwent surgery for an aor
tic aneurysm was awarded
$455,000 in damages Tuesday.
William Barlow, 62, developed
a blood infection and fever after
leaving the Veteran’s
Administration hospital in
December 2000, according to a
summary of the case released by
the judge. The towel was re
moved four months later.
The VA conceded fault on the
forgotten towel but tried to limit
the damage award, citing
Barlow’s poor health and obesi
ty. A message left with the gov
ernment’s attorney was not re
turned.
U.S. District Judge Ursula
Ungaro-Benages, who heard the
trial without a jury, decided
Barlow’s existing medical prob
lems, including emphysema and
diabetes, were aggravated by
the infection, the 10-day stay for
the towel’s removal and the
quick succession of major
surgeries. '
Barlow also had surgery to re
move a cancerous kidney in
2000.
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that RAs distribute some kind
of self-help CD, which would
assist students in performing
all of these functions on their
own.
“Absolutely, we’re in favor
of using RAs to serve as re
sources to distribute CDs and
verify that machines have
been debugged,” Luna said.
Luna also said he would be
in favor of organizing a techni
cal support team like the ones
many other universities have.
Universities such as Stanford
have a separate staff of students
called tech assistants (TAs),
who help with students’various
computer problems, he said.
Jo Dawn Brown, Resident
Life Coordinator for Capstone,
agreed it’s a good idea for stu
dents to get involved by help
ing other students with their
computers, but said she be
lieves the role of RAs is to help
their residents adjust to cam
pus life and build relationships,
not to be their residents’ source
of help for computer problems.
“I definitely feel that there’s
a need for assistance in the res
idence halls; however, I don’t
feel that’s a responsibility of
RAs,” Brown said. “If RAs
choose to do that, that’s great,
but I don’t feel it should be a
requirement.”
RAs can still be “extremely
helpful” in ensuring the secu
rity of their residents’ com
puters, Luna said. But with the
vast majority of RAs in halls
for first-year students, he
doesn’t want the added re
sponsibility to detract from
their accomplishment of the
Housing mission statement.
“Our mission in University
Housing is very clear,” Luna
said. “It is to design living and
learning communities that
promote students’ academic
success and personal develop
ment.”
Luna said he and Dreiling
have talked about the plan and
have decided to meet with
Computer Services and the
Residence Hall Association to
discuss the idea as well as oth
er options.
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STATE
NAACP schedules
Democratic debate
COLUMBIA (AP) - South
Carolina NAACP leaders have
convinced six Democratic pres
idential hopefuls to crisscross
the country and attend a presi
dential forum at the civil rights
group’s annual convention on
Friday.
By Tuesday, Massachusetts
Sen. John Kerry, former
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and
retired Gen. Wesley Clark were
the only candidates who have
not yet accepted an invitation to
participate in the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
round-table discussion on mi
nority issues.
The South Carolina NAACP
is holding its convention in
Charlotte to honor its economic
boycott of the state, which is tied
to efforts to remove the
Confederate flag that continues
to fly on State House grounds.
High school student
dies of head injury
HOLLY HILL, S.C. (AP) - A
Vance teenager has died after
collapsing and bumping his
head on a brick pillar, authori
ties said.
Terrence Mitchell, 17, Had .
been racing another student
down a hall at Holly Hill-Roberts
High School when he fell into a
brick pillar, authorities said.
Mitchell was pronounced
dead at the high school at 4 p.m.
Monday, said Orangeburg
County Coroner Samuetta
Marshall. An autopsy is sched
uled Tuesday.
Marshall said the definite
cause of death is still under in
vestigation.
Group calls for MLK
holiday reversal
YORK (AP) — A group known
for its support of the Confederate
flag has asked York County
Council to reverse a decision
that gives workers a Martin
Luther King holiday.
The council voted 5-2 Monday
to uphold last month’s decision
adding the holiday.
Council members said while
they appreciated feedback but
that they stood firm in their de
cision.
Only one county, Greenville,
has offices open on the King hol
iday. In July, Greenville County
workers didn’t give the King
holiday enough support in a vote
to put it on their calendars.
‘Safe summer’ ends
with inmate killing
COLUMBIA (AP) - The fatal
stabbing of an inmate at the
Lieber Correctional Institution
near Ridgeville this weekend
comes after what Corrections
Director Jon Ozmint has called a
“very safe summer.”
Steven Moultrie, 40, was the
first inmate to die violently be
hind bars since Ozmint started
running the state’s prisons in
February, the director said.
Moultrie was stabbed with a
homemade knife Sunday after
noon. He and the suspect were
both housed in Lieber’s Special
Management Unit, where
guards place prisoners who
cause trouble, Ozmint said.
NATION
Graham drops out
of presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) - Florida
Sen. Bob Graham ended his bid
for the presidency Monday after
struggling to gain momentum or
raise cash in the crowded
Democratic field, while leaving
open the possibility of another
Senate campaign or even a vice
presidential run if asked.
Graham, 66, became the first
Democrat to drop out of the 10
way competition.
Graham said he has not de
cided whether he would run for.
re-election to his Senate seat,
which he has held since 1987. He
declined to endorse any of the re
maining Democratic presiden
tial candidates, saying any
would be preferable to President
Bush, even if they supported the
war in Iraq.
man arrested aner
dagger found in shoe
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A man
trying to board a Los Angeles
bound flight was arrested after
an 8-inch dagger was found in
side one of his shoes.
Vincent P. Rosso was stopped
Monday at Newark Liberty
International Airpimt when a
federal screener tolifhis super
visor that Rosso appeared to be
concealing a dagger in either his
coat or sneakers.
The dagger was detected
when the items went through an
X-ray machine, said Tony
Ciavolella, a Port Authority
spokesman. Officials do not be
lieve Rosso has any terrorist
links, but the FBI is reviewing
the case.
Bush doubts leak
source will be found
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Bush voiced doubt
Tuesday whether it will be pos
sible to find out who leaked the
identity of an undercover CIA
officer as the White House faced
an evening deadline for turning
over any relevant information
to criminal investigators.
In a brief question-and-an
swer session with reporters, the
president renewed his pledge to
cooperate with the Justice
Department investigation to
“come to the bottom of this.”
“I have no idea whether we’ll
find out who the leaker is, par
tially because, in all due respect
to your profession, you do a very
good job of protecting the leak
ers,” Bush told journalists.
Police find listening
device in City Hall
PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Police
conducting a routine security
sweep of Mayor John F. Street’s
City Hall office found a hidden
listening device Tuesday morn
ing, authorities said.
Street, who is seeking re-elec
tion, quickly sought to reassure
city residents that his office was
not the subject of an investiga
tion.
“I have done nothing wrong,”
Street said at a news conference.
FBI spokesman Linda Vizi
said the device was not connect
ed to any campaign espionage,
but she refused to say whether
Street was being investigated or
whether the FBI planted the de
vice.
WORLD
North Korea won’t
allow Japan at talks
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP)
— North Korea dealt a blow
Tuesday to prospects for further
multilateral talks aimed at curb
ing its nuclear weapons devel
opment, saying it will not allow
Japan to participate in any new
dialogue because it is untrust
worthy.
Japan firmly rejected the
North Korean position, saying
it had a role to play in any talks
on the nuclear issue.
Although North Korea iM
quently issues belligerent state
ments, often as a way to gain
leverage over its adversaries, its
latest assertion complicates ef
forts by the United States and
its allies to restart six-nation nu
clear talks.
2 Americans among
Nobel Prize winners
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (AP)
— Two American citizens and a
Russian won the 2003 Nobel
Prize in physics Tuesday for
theories about how matter can
show bizarre behavior at ex
tremely low temperatures.
The Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences cited Alexei t
Abrikosov, 75, Anthony 1
Leggett, 65, and Vitaly L.
Ginzburg, 87, for their work con
cerning two phenomena called
superconductivity and super
fluidity.
The $1.3 million prize money
will be shared equally among
the three winners.
Male contraceptive
closer to market
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AP) -
A practical male contraceptive
could be a step closer after Re
searchers said Tuesday that tri
als prevented pregnancies
among 55 couples using it for 12
months.
The treatment stops spe|
production by using implant’
the male hormone testosterone
under the skin and injections of
the female hormone, progestin.
The U.S. government-funded
trial, sponsored by Virginia
based family planning organi
zation CONRAD, successfully
and reversibly turned off sperm
production in the men who took
part, said Rob McLachlan, di
rector of clinical research at
Prince Henry’s Institute of
Medical Research in Sydney,
Australia.
Rioters clash with
Pakistani police
i i
JHANG, PAKISTAN (AP) -
Police exchanged fire with riot
ing demonstrators Tuesday at
the funeral for an assassinated
hard-line Sunni Muslim politi
cian, and at least one person
died in sectarian violence else
where in the country.
Maulana Azam Tariq, the
one-time leader of the banned
Sipah-e-Sahaba Sunni extrem
ist group and a member of
Parliament, was gunned down
in Islamabad Monday along
with three bodyguards and a
driver.
A previously unknown Shiite
group, calling itself the
Fedayeen Imam Mahdi, claim'- L
responsibility for the attack \
an e-mail to journalists.
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