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Teacher certification
numbers rank third
South Carolina continues .to rank
among those with the most nationally
certified teachers even though fewer
teachers earned their profession’s top
credential this year.
The National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards said Tuesday 637
South Carolina teachers and school
counselors earned national certification
during the past school year.
“It’s wonderful to see so many
teachers aspire to such high standards,”
state Superintendent of Education Inez
Tenenbaum said. “If we can increase
this year’s number next year, we have an
excellent chance to meet our statewide
goal of 5,000 National Board-certified
teachers by 2005.”
Charleston might get
$400 million plant
If, as expected, Vought Aircraft
Industries Inc. and Italy’s Alenia
Aeronautica invest more than $400
million in an aircraft parts plant in
North Charleston, it would be the largest
industrial investment since Gov. Mark
Sanford took office almost two years ago.
State and company officials are
expected to announce plans for the plant
today. The plant is expected to employ
more than 600 workers.
The largest previous investment
during Sanford’s two-year term was
when Walgreens announced in January
that it would build a $150 million
distribution center in Anderson. That
facility will employ 450 people by 2007.
NATION
Erectile dysfunction
pill being recalled
WASHINGTON —An over-the-counter
pill used to treat erectile dysfunction is
being recalled because it may contain an
unlabeled prescription drug ingredient, the
product’s maker said Tuesday.
Beverly Hills-based Spectrum Group
urged consumers to stop taking the
tablets, called Male Power Plus and
marketed as a dietary supplement.
The company said its product, also
sold online, could contain tadalafil, which
can cause dangerous side effects in people
taking nitrates to treat such diseases as
diabetes, heart disease and hypertension
— common causes of sexual problems.
FDA approval sought
for sexual arousal pill
NEW YORK — On Thursday a U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
committee will review Intrinsa, a
testosterone patch made by Proctor &
Gamble Co., which could be the first
prescription medication to win approval
for female sexual dysfunction.
P&G is one of about 10 drug
companies seeking to create parity in the
sexual dysfunction arena by developing
drugs for women. None of the other
products, ranging from creams to a
hormone sprayed on the skin, is expected
to reach the market before 2006.
WORLD
Netherlands hospital
euthanizes ill babies
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A
hospital in the Netherlands — the first
nation to permit euthanasia — recently
proposed guidelines for mercy killings of
terminally ill newborns, and then made
a startling revelation: It has already
begun carrying out such procedures,
which include administering a lethal
dose of sedatives.
The announcement by the
Groningen Academic Hospital came
amid a growing discussion in Holland
on whether to legalize euthanasia on
people incapable of deciding for
themselves whether they want to end
their lives — a prospect viewed with
horror by euthanasia opponents and as a
natural evolution by advocates.
Indonesian air crash
kills at least 31 people
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Lion Air
passenger plane carrying more than 150
people skidded off a runway in central
Indonesia during heavy rain and split into
two pieces Tuesday, killing at least 31
people, airline officials and witnesses said.
Three of the dead were children, and
at least 62 people were injured, officials
said. Some survivors remained stuck in
the wreckage for more than three hours
rjthe crash, media reports said.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
California
woman bests
‘Jeopardy’
champ after
74-win streak
NEW YORK — The woman who
ended “Jeopardy!” whiz Ken
Jennings’ 74-game winning streak is
a California real estate agent whose
own 8-year-old daughter asked for
his autograph when they met.
But having an accountant-friend
who’s nearly impossible to reach at tax
time paid off for Nancy Zerg big time.
In a victory telecast Tuesday,
Zerg beat a pop-culture icon who
had achieved an aura of invincibility.
Jennings won $2,520,700, a record
for a TV game show contestant,
since his first appearance June 2.
During his streak, Jennings
usually had opponents so thoroughly
beaten that the Final Jeopardy
question was meaningless to the
outcome. But Zerg was within
striking range, with $10,000 to
Jennings’ $14,400, at that point.
The category was business and
industry. The clue: Most of this
firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar
employees work only four months a
year.
Jennings had to think. Out of the
corner of his eye, he noticed Zerg
had quickly written her reply.
“I was pretty sure before the
music ended that was the ballgame,”
he said.
Her reply, “What is H&R Block?”
was correct and gave her $14,001.
Jennings’ wrong guess, Federal
Express, dropped him to $8,799.
Even before that, Zerg needed an
unusual display of Jennings fallibility
MARY ALTAff ER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ken Jennings, the record
holder for the most money
ever won on “Jeopardy!” was
defeated by Nancy Zerg.
to stay in the game.'" He twice
answered wrong on Daily Double
questions, which give contestants a
chance to make a big wager and
increase their lead.
Zerg, a former actress who lives
in Ventura, Calif., psyched herself
up before the game by repeating to .
herself: “Someone’s got to beat him
sometime, it might as well be me.”
Jennings combined an
extraordinary breadth of knowledge,
uncanny skill at sensing the precise
instant to ring his buzzer and a killer
competitive instinct hidden behind a
baby-faced grin and polite manner.
It made many of the games
boring. But “Jeopardy!” executives
aren’t complaining; ratings were up
22 percent over the same period last
time.
Jennings wasn’t prepared for how
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Wednesday, December 2, 2004
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DECK THE HALLS
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Takela Funderburk, a third-year chemistry student, sorts
through the more than 800 Christmas stockings in the
Carolina Productions Office of Community Services.
much he’d miss the daily
competition, though.
“It didn’t really hit me that was
going to be the hard part,” he said.
“I thought the hard part would be
the loss.”
The loss is actually a distant
memory and not really a secret: the
show was taped in early September
and news leaked right away. Video
clips of his loss appeared on the
Internet Monday.
Neither Jennings nor Zerg expect
the record will be broken.
JFK memorabilia
to be auctioned off
NEW YORK — Furniture,
artwork and knickknacks from the
homes of President John F. Kennedy
and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
will be auctioned in February,
Sotheby’s announced Tuesday.
The auction, to be held Feb. 15
17, is more modest than a 1996
Kennedy auction at Sotheby’s that
brought in $34.5 million, including
$2.5 million for an engagement ring
from Aristotle Onassis. The latest
, auction features some 600 lots
including art, books and
photographs.
Many items have presale
estimates as low as $200, though the
Kennedy mystique could drive
prices up.
“We never know,” said Chapin
Carson, a senior vice president at
Sotheby’s. “When we estimate things
we don’t add in any extra value for
the provenance. That’s sort of for the
market and the buyers to decide.”
The property was consigned by
Caroline Kennedy, who in an
introduction to the catalog says she
has given everything of historical
significance to the John F. Kennedy
Library Foundation and kept the
things that mean the most to her and
her children. She says a portion of the
auction proceeds will go to the library
foundation and other charities.
Pop stars team up
for charity single
LONDON — A new recording of
the 1984 charity single “Do They
Know It’s Christmas?” hit British
record stores, many of which opened
early in anticipation of large crowds.
The single features artists
including Coldplay’s Chris Martin,
former Beatle Paul McCartney,
U2’s Bono and Dido. The recording
will raise money for victims of the
ongoing strife in the Sudan, where
fighting has killed thousands of
people and created 1.8 million
refugees.
HMV Records, one of Britain’s
largest music retailers, opened more
than 200 stores an hour early, at 8
a.m., Monday and reported strong
early morning sales.
“There wasn’t a huge rush of
people, but a steady stream of
customers this morning,” said
Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for
HMV. “I don’t know that it’s going
to be the smash success that the
original was, but I think it will do
quite well and raise quite a bit of
money for Africa.”
Castaldo said he expects the
single to sell at least 1 million copies
and to top the singles charts in
Britain for several weeks.
HMV and other retailers were
“Lou Holtz is going to be
remembered along with
Woody Hayes for having a
fight at the Clemson
game.”
LOU HOLTZ
FORMER USC HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
selling the single for $7.55.
The song retails for $2.82 at
online distributors.
Apple’s iTunes, the popular
online music store, wasn’t carrying
the single because it declined to sell
the song for more than the service’s
$1.50 base price. An Apple
spokesman in London declined
Monday to comment on its dispute
with the Band Aid trust over the
cost of the recording.
Bob Geldof wrote “Do They
Know It’s Christmas?” in 1984 with
Midge Ure for a superstar group
they called Band Aid, featuring
artists including Boy George, Duran
Duran and Phil Collins. Bono is the
only artist to appear on both
versions of the song.
The original record raised millions
for those starving in Ethiopia.
Glover slams U.S.
for not signing pact
GENEVA — Danny Gloves
criticized the “arrogance and
dismissiveness” of the U.S.
government, expressing regret that
his own country has yet to sign a
144-nation treaty to eliminate the
use of land mines.
Speaking on his return from
Ethiopia, where he represented the
U.N. children’s agency on a three
day visit to heavily mined areas near
the border with Eritrea, the 57-year
old actor said he felt “a sense of
embarrassment that my own country
has not signed the Ottawa Treaty.”
“It smells of a certain kind of
arrogance and dismissiveness,”
Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon”
films, told reporters Monday at the
United Nations’ Geneva offices.
Land mines litter the border
between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which
recently fought a 2 1/2 year war in
which thousands of people were
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Glover also criticized the United
States for failing to send a delegate
to the upcoming Nairobi Summit
on land mines, which marks the
10th anniversary of the Ottawa
Treaty.
“We talk about, security, peace
and building multilateral
relationships, but I think this sends a
bad message,” he said.
Knotts’ home state
to celebrate hero
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —Don
Knotts is getting his own festival.
City officials in his West Virginia
hometown plan to honor the actor
with a Don Knotts Festival during
Arts Celebration Week in August
2005.
The Morgantown festival will
include showings of some of Knotts’
film and television work. The 80
year-old is mainly identified with
the role that won him five Emmy
Awards, that of bumbling deputy
Barney Fife on the ‘60s family
comedy “The Andy Griffith Show,”
which also starred Ron Howard and
Jim Nabors.
“The goal is to showcase West
Virginia and Morgantown artists as
much as possible,” Mayor Ron
Justice said. “I would call it a
celebration of Don’s work and what
he has accomplished.”
POLICE REPORT
Each number on
the map stands
for a 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
0 Violent
© Nonviolent
Reports taken from the USC Police Dep^tment.
WEDNESDAY, N0V.1/
©Larceny of plants, Preston
College, 1323 Greene St.
Two plants were stolen from the
lobby of Preston College. Estimated
value of the plants was $75.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox
TUESDAY, NOV. 23
0Petit Larceny f Kappa Sigma
House, 801 Mark Buyck Way
Someone stole four strands of
multi-colored twinkle lights and six
red-colored bows with pinecones. The
estimated value was $50.
Reporting officer: S. Alexander
. SATURDAY NOV. 27
0 Grand Larceny of Laptop, USC
Law Center, 1200 Greene St.
A silver Gateway laptop (estimated
value $1,200) was stolen from a
cubicle with no signs of forced entry.
Officers observed small spaces above
and below each cubbjj^hat could have
allowed entry into the locked storage
space.
Reporting officer: R. Millhouse .
SUNDAY, NOV. 28
©Larceny of Laptop, South Quad,
1200 Sumter St.
Some one stole a black Dell laptop
(estimated value $999) and $40 in
U.S. currency.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
MONDAY NOV. 29
©Auto Break-In and Larceny,
Blossom Street Garage
A black Pioneer CD player
(estimated value $300) and a black
Jensen CD player (estimated value
$100) were taken from two separate
vehicles.
Reporting officer: M. Winnington
(6, Auto Break-In and Larceny of
CDs, Parking lot, 600 Park St.
Someone broke the pas^iger side
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY .
COMEDIAN DARRELL I
HAMMOND: Koger Center, 8 p.m.
ANNUAL USC TREE LIGHTING
CEREMONY: Horseshoe, 6 p.m.
WORLD AIDS DAY QUILT
CONSTRUCTION: Russell House
Patio, 4:30 p.m.
SENIOR VOCAL ENSEMBLE:
School of Music Recital Hall, 4:30
p.m.
WORLD AIDS DAY
THURSDAY
STUDENT ALUMNI ESP PICK
UP: Russell House, first floor, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
GRADUATE VOCAL ENSEMBLE:
School of Music Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY |
LATE NIGHT CAROLINA: Russell
House, second floor lobby, 10 p.m.
to 2 a.m.
RENAISSANCE COMPUTING
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FUTURE:
Swearingen Engineering Center,
Amoco Hall, 2:30-4 p.m.
MONDAY
EXAM WEEK
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BRIEFS
Students make ^
awareness quilt
USC student organizations,
residence halls, Greek
organizations and U101 classes
will gather on the Russell House
Patio at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
to join together quilt panels
reflecting this year’s World
AIDS Day theme, “Women and
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Once the quilt panels are
connected, students will carry
the quilt to Rutledge Chapel on
tile Horseshoe to join the
community-wide event, taking
. place Wednesday from 6-7 p.m.
A reception will be held in
the Gressette Room of Harper
College immediately after the
event. ^
Award recognizes
student advisers
USC is accepting
nominations for the Ada B.
Thomas Faculty and Staff
Advisors of the Year Awards.
Requirements are that the
faculty/staff member must work
full time and advise
undergraduate students.
Nominations can be submitted
online at
http://www.sc.edu/univl01/
ada/.
Cocky ranks 8th
in mascot bowl
The CapitalOne Mascot of
the Year competition isn’t over ”
yet. Cocky has gone 2-3, and was
losing by more than 1,000 votes
to Scratch, the University of
Kentucky Wildcat, Thursday.
Cocky is ranked 8th in the overall
standings, down by about 7,000
to the leader, the Duke Dog.
Students can vote once a day at
www.capitalonebowl.com.
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window of a vehicle and stole one CD
case (estimated value $25) and 25 CDs
(estimated value $375 dollars).
Reporting officer: M. Winnington