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Spencer to market
ginseng-infused beer
CHARLESTON — Robert Spencer, a
tall former college basketball player, is
promoting a new beer geared toward a
new generation.
Spencer, who began selling his new
“energy beer” earlier this month, isn’t
fazed. “In a year,” he says, “I think
we’ll be worldwide.”
Mobius Infused Lager went to
market Nov. 8 and already you can
order a bottle in at least 30 locations in
this city known for its dining and
nightlife. #
Working with Thomas Creek
Brewery in Greenville, he developed
Mobius, which is infused with taurine,
ginseng, caffeine and thiamine.
Prosecutor chan
prisoner case po
ANDERSON — A newly elected
Upstate prosecutor says she wants to
try the inmates that cost the most to
keep behind bars first.
Usually, prosecutors try the people
who have been in jail the longest. But
Chrissy Adams, elected solicitor of the
10th Judicial Circuit, says her plan will
s.*v ? more money.
Adams’ system, thought to be the
first of its kind in South Carolina,
recognizes that some inmates requiring
health care and prescription drugs can
add thousands in costs to a jail’s
budget in a matter of weeks. /
NATION
Lawmakers to decide
Amtrak’s next move
WASHINGTON — Though
Congress approved a $1.2 billion
subsidy for Amtrak, the money-losing
passenger railroad still is careering
toward a major disruption in service.
To save it, the Transportation
Department’s inspector general says,
Congress must do more. Considering
current Amtrak policies, says Inspector
General Kenneth Mead, it’s up to
lawmakers to determine what must go
and what may stay to restructure
Amtrak and stop the hemorrhaging.
Mead said it’s impossible to tell
when the railroad will experience a
major failure. The railroad simply lacks
the money to make the repairs.
Government releases
list of recalled toys
WASHINGTON — A reminder from
the government: check those holiday
shopping lists to make sure no recalled
children’s toys are on them.
The Consumer Product Safety
Commission compiled its annual top
10 list of children’s product safety
recalls to coincide with the start of the
holiday shopping season.
All the products were recalled in the
past year, the commission said. The
agency received reports of 11 toy
related deaths in 2003 involving
children under age 15, down from 13
reported deaths in 2002.
WORLD
Raids intensify Sunni
distrust of Allawi
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S.-Iraqi
raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque, one
of the most revered sites for Sunni
Muslims, spawned a weekend of
street battles, assassinations and a
rash of bombings that changed
Baghdad. The capital, for months a
city of unrelenting but sporadic
violence, has taken on the look of a
battlefield.
The chaos has fanned sectarian
tension and deepen^! Sunni distrust of
interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. It
has also heightened the anxiety of the
city’s 6 million people, already worn
down by years of sanctions and tyranny,
then war, military occupation, crime
and deprivation.
Iraq moves forward
with election plan
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi authorities
set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation’s
first election since the collapse of
Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and
pledged that voting would take place
throughout the country despite rising
violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a
boycott.
The vote for the 275-member
National Assembly is seen as a major
step toward building democracy after
yeari of Saddam’s tyranny.
Prozac free,
Carrey says
he’s beating
depression
LOS ANGELES — Jim Carrey
says on the CBS program “60
minutes” that he is better able to deal
with depression now that he lives a
life free of Prozac and alcohol.
In an interview for Sunday’s
broadcast, Carrey said he took
Prozac for a long time, but the drug
didn’t cure his depression.
“I had to get off at a certain
point because I realized that ...
everything is just OK,” he told
reporter Steve Kroft at his home in
Brentwood.
Even when he was taking Prozac,
the depression didn’t go away
entirely, he says.
“It feels like a low level of
despair you live in where you’re not
getting any answers but you’re
living OK and you can smile at the
office,” he said.
Carrey says he still has bouts of
depression, but he now deals with it
without Prozac and alcohol.
“I rarely drink coffee. I am very
serious about no alcohol, no drugs,”
he said. “Life is too beautiful.”
Carrey’s film credits include
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind,” “The Mask” and “The
Truman Show.”
MARK J. TERRILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jim Carrey sticks his tongue
out as he accepts the award
for Favorite Male Movie Star
at Nickelodeon’s 17th
annual Kids’ Choice Awards
in April.
Graham continues
to draw big crowds
PASADENA, Calif. — The Rev.
Billy Graham’s Southern California
crusade, one of the last for the 86
year-old evangelist, already had
attracted tens of thousands of people
going into Sunday’s conclusion of a
four-day appearance.
The crusade in the 92,000-seat
Rose Bowl marks the 55th
anniversary of the Los Angeles
revival that propelled Graham to
national fame in 1949.
This mission will be Graham’s
last in California and likely his
second-to-last ever, his advisers said.
He is scheduled to appear at a revival
in New York’s Madison Square
Garden in June.
About 230,500 people crammed
the stadium in the first three days.
Saturday’s crowd was just 2,000
seats shy of filling the arena, one of
the largest Graham has ever
booked.
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Angeles’ size and linguistic diversity
would make it difficult to mobilize
worshippers, but said they were
extremely pleased with the turnout.
“He’s been setting stadium
attendance records a lot in recent
years and you never know what to
expea when you go somewhere
new,” said Melany Ethridge, crusade
spokeswoman.
The crusade was delayed for
several months after Graham broke
his pelvis.
Graham’s first Los Angeles
revival addressed a much different
city. The five-county area covered
by that crusade had a population of
just under 5 million in 1949; now,
16 million live in the concrete grid
of freeways.
Graham planned to speak for
three weeks in 1949 under a tent
pitched in downtown Los Angeles.
But when famous personalities
such as 1936 Olympian and war
hero Louis Zamperini and mobster
Mickey Cohen showed up, the event
caught the nation’s eye and Graham
kept going for eight weeks. Up to
6,000 people showed up each
evening, for an estimated 350,000
overall.
Scholarship named
in honor or Ross
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Diana Ross
looked every inch the diva as she
pulled up to Musictech College in a
black stretch limo and got out
wrapped in a thick fur coat and
wearing dark sunglasses.
Striding across a specially rented
red carpet leading to the school
door, Ross beamed as she accepted a
bouquet of white roses and signed
record albums held out for her
autograph.
But inside the small music
conservatory, where a new full
scholarship was named in her honor
Saturday, Ross told an audience of
more than 100 students that it’s not
divadom that defines her, it’s
motherhood.
“I’m more a mom than I am a
celebrity, even though I know you
know me as a celebrity. I’m a
mother first,” she said.
Ross, who has had her ups and
downs in nearly 40 years in the
music business, said she has always
believed in herself.
“I actually don’t remember ever
not believing in myself,” said Ross,
60. “I was brought up in the Brewster
projects in Detroit and I always knew
that there was a way out.”
Rodman on slow
path back to NBA
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Dennis
Rodman is playing basketball again
in a bid to return to the NBA, but
for now he’s not venturing far
from home.
Rodman’s debut with the
Orange County Crush of the
American Basketball Association
begins next month. But his contract
is only for home games.
Rodman, 43, “doesn’t want to
deal with all the hoopla that comes
along with being Dennis Rodman
when he travels,” said Shannon
Barr, his publicist.
Still, the seven-time rebounding
champion will leave home for some
things: At the moment he’s in
Houston shooting a television
commercial to be aired during the
Super Bowl, Barr said.
The Crush has its first game
Sunday, but Rodman won’t even
start practice for another week to 10
days. The first home game is Dec. 9.
“Dennis just wants to
;|
concentrate on staying home and
getting in the best basketball shape
possible,” Barr said. “He has one
goal in mind and that is to make it
back to the NBA without any
distractions.”
Rodman, who played on NBA
championship teams in Detroit and
Chicago, returned to the NBA
briefly in 2000 with the Dallas
Mavericks. But he was waived after
29 days, a day after criticizing
owner-in-waiting Mark Cuban.
Rehnquist’s health
leads to speculation
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist’s health is
shrouded in mystery, the extent of
his thyroid cancer a closely guarded
secret. Several coming events could
give the public an idea about the
seriousness of his condition.
Since announcing his illness in a
statement on Oct. 25, the 80-year
old Rehnquist has run the nation’s
highest court from his home in
suburban Virginia.
He rules on cases by reviewing
transcripts of arguments and passing
along his votes to justices. Opinions
are largely researched and drafted by
law clerks. Administrative tasks fall
to a top aide.
The only update on his
condition came in a short
statement from the court three
weeks ago. It said he was receiving
chemotherapy and radiation
treatments, which some doctors
familiar with thyroid cancer said
suggests Rehnquist has a fast
growing cancer.
Speculation about whether he
will step down and give the court its
first opening since 1994 has swirled
since disclosure of the illness.
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BRIEFS
Scholarship named
for Mister Rogers
College and university upper
division and graduate students
are invited to submit applications
for the Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences’ first Fred Rogers
Memorial Scholarship,
announced Nancy Steingard and
Vicki Ariyasu, Governors of the
Television Academy Children’s
Programming Peer Group.
The $10,000 Scholarship is
intended to support and
encourage an aspiring upper
division or graduate student to
pursue a career in children’s
media that furthers the values
and principles of Fred Rogers’
work. The Television Academy
and its Children’s Programming
Peer Group established the
scholarship in December 2003 in
honor of the long time creator
and host of “Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood.” Scholarship
applications are now available
and can be downloaded from the
Television Academy’s website,
www.emmys.tv. Applications for
the scholarship to be bestowed
must be postmarked no later
than Jan. 28, 2005. The
Academy expects to name a
recipient in the spring of 2005.
lectures to oner
AIDS discussion
A symposium discussing the
global nature of the AIDS issue
will be held on Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.
in the Gressette Room at Harper
College.
The symposium will feature
lectures by USC President
Andrew Sorensen, Walt
Handosky, Muriel Harris,
Melayne Mclnnes and Roger
Coate, representing the fields of
public health, political science,
media arts and economics. The
event is sponsored by the USC
Philomathic Society.
ASP to offer free
diabetes testing
Operations Diabetes,
organized by the Academy of
Students of Pharmacy, will offer
free glucose screenings Tuesday
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
Walgreens on Forest Drive and
from 3-7 p.m. at Eckerd on
Forest Drive.
No registration or prior
documentation is necessary, and
anyone at ftsk for diabetes is
encouraged to come. Anyone
who has a family history, is
overweight, has high cholesterol
or is more than 45 years old
might be at risk for diabetes. ASP
is affiliated with the College of
Pharmacy.
Names sought
for adviser award
USC is accepting nominations
for die Ada B. Thomas Faculty
and Staff Advisors of the Year
Awards. Requirements are that the
faculty or staff member must work
full time and advise undergraduate
students. Nominations can be
submitted online at
http://www.sc.edu/univl01/ada/.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
Each number on
the map stands
fora crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
# Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
E3 Violent
© Nonviolent
FRIDAY, NOV. 19
©Suspicious Fire, Snowden Dorm,
600 Main St.
The complainant told reporting
officer J. Harrelson someone started a
small fire in the elevator, but he’d put it
out. Harrelson observed bum marks in
the top right portion.
THURSDAY, NOV. 18
©Auto Break-in, Attempted Larceny
from Auto, Blossom Street Garage,
1300 Blossom St.
Someone cut open the top of the
victim’s convertible and rummaged
through the glove compartment.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
©Malicious Injury to Personal
Property, Bates House, 1423 Whaley
St.
The complainant said someone cut
open the roof and passenger-side
window of his Jeep, but, nothing was
reported missing. Estimated damage
was $500.
Reporting officer: P. Morant
©Auto Break-in, Larceny of
Registration, Bates House, 1423
Whaley St.
The victim said someone cut open
the sides of his Jeep and took his
registration.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
©Grand Larceny of Motor Vehicle,
Bates House, 1423 Whaley St.
Someone stole his 1997 Mitsubishi
Gallant.
Reporting officer: P. Morant
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17
©Auto Break-in, Larceny of CD
Player, Bates House, 1423 Whaley
St.
Someone broke out the front
passenger-side window by throwing a
rock through it and stole a Sony CD
Player worth $250 and 20 njiisic CDs
worth about $ 10 each.
Reporting officer: J. Harrelson
©Auto Break-in, Larceny of CD
Player, Bates House, 1423 Whaley
St.
Someone broke out the front driver
side window using a rock and stole a CD
player worth $150.
Reporting officer: J. Harrelson
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