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STATE
Newberry County
to get more troopers
The state Highway Patrol is
sending more troopers to
Newberry County after a surge in
traffic fatalities has made its roads
some of the most dangerous in the
state.
Ten people have died on
Newberry County roads this year
through Sunday. That number is
higher than the combined total of
traffic deaths in the same period for
the previous three years, according
to the Department of Public Safety.
Court voids prenup
of mail-order bride
CHARLESTON — The state
Court of Appeals has ruled
unenforceable a prenuptial
agreement signed by a Ukrainian
mail-order bride who married a
South Carolina man who has run
for governor.
The court sided Monday with
Nataliya Bilousova, who was
married to William Holler, a York
businessman who twice during the
1990s launched Democratic
gubernatorial bids.
NATION
Bolton’s supporters
push for U.N. seat
WASHINGTON — Majority
Republicans pushed for swift
confirmation of sharp-tongued
John Bolton as U.N. ambassador
Tuesday in a rancorous committee
session. The Senate’s top
Democrat raised the possibility of
trying to block the nomination
when it reaches the full Senate.
Bolton got a crucial boost when
a pivotal Republican senator who
had expressed reservations said he
would support the nomination
reluctantly.
Aij- Force addresses
religious harassment
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. —
Less than two years after it was
plunged into a rape scandal, the US
Air Force Academy is scrambling to
address complaints that evangelical
Christians wield so much influence
at the school that religious
harassment has become pervasive.
The 4,300-student school
recently started requiring staff
members and cadets to take a 50
minute religious-tolerance class.
WORLD
Woman lit candles
before fatal Paris fire
PARIS — A night watchman’s
girlfriend has acknowledged that
she could have accidentally started
a deadly Paris hotel fire last week
after lighting candles for a tryst in
the breakfast room, authorities said
Tuesday, while the death toll from
the blaze rose to 24.
The woman told criminal
investigators that she “could be”
at the origin of the fire that
started shortly after 2 a.m. Friday
in the second-floor breakfast
room of the overcrowded budget
hotel, police and the prosecutor’s
office said.
Japanese shrine visit
stirs Chinese anger
TOKYO — Inflaming already
tense relations with China,
Japanese lawmakers said Tuesday
they plan to visit a shrine that
critics say glorifies their country’s
militarist past, and a Tokyo court
ruled against Chinese victims of
Japanese wartime atrocities.
Anti-Japanese demonstrations
involving tens of thousands of
sometimes-violent protesters have
erupted in several Chinese cities in
recent weeks over a government
approved Japanese textbook that
critics say whitewashes the
country’s militaristic atrocities.
BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rapper
unveils
exclusive
timepiece
NEW YORK — Rapper Jay-Z
and watchmaker Audemars
Piguet announced Tuesday the
creation of a limited-edition
timepiece. A series of 100
watches will retail for between
$23,500 and $69,500.
“I chose to partner with
Audemars Piguet based on the
quality and integrity of the
brand,” Jay-Z said in a
statement. “It’s a perfect
marriage.”
The 35-year-old rap mogul
has lately been a trendsetter of
high style. On the song “What
More Can I Say,” he raps, “I
don’t wear jerseys, I’m 30-plus.
Give me a crisp pair of jeans ...
The watches were co
GREGORY BULL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jay-Z holds a limited
edition Audemars Piguet
watch made to
commemorate his ten years
in the music industry
Tuesday.
designed by Jay-Z, whose real
name is Shawn Carter. They are
to commemorate his 10 th
anniversary in the music
industry, with a portion of the
proceeds to benefit the Shawn
Carter Scholarship Fund.
TV co-stars marry
in seaside service
SANTA MONICA, Calif. —
Sophia Bush and Chad
Michael Murray, co-stars of
the TV series “One Tree Hill,”
have tied the knot.
They were married Saturday
in a seaside ceremony at the
Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa
Monica, Bush’s publicist, Sarah
Fuller, said Monday.
Bush, 22, and Murray, 23,
met in 2003 while filming the
WB series. Bush plays feisty
cheerleader Brooke Davis and
Murray plays Lucas Scott, a
brooding intellectual struggling
to find peace.
They became engaged last
year. Murray has said he
proposed while they were in
A HE T “The only people who
carry canes are people
who should be in
shows.”
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Class rings are ready to be passed out Tuesday at the USC ring ceremony on the Horseshoe.
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Australia, where he was
finishing work on the “House
of Wax” movie.
“I had a bunch of roses and I
put lights down on a tennis
court that spelled something
out for her,” he said at the
time, declining to say what the
message read.
‘Pains’ star Thicke
to tie knot again
LOS ANGELES — “Growing
Pains” father Alan Thicke is
headed to the altar again.
Thicke, 58, will wed his
longtime girlfriend, Tanya
Callau, in Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico, on May 7, his
publicist said Monday.
It will be the third marriage
for Thicke, who played TV dad
Jason Seaver on ABC’s
“Growing Pains,” which ran
from 1985 to 1992.
“I’ll be on my third
honeymoon, so I’m more of an
authority than I care to be,”
Thicke joked in a statement.
Thicke had a cameo in the
2004 film “Childstar” and is
producing and writing a
television pilot called “Second
Honeymoon.”
Company honors
NASA engineers
HOUSTON — A group of
engineers was honored
Tuesday for concocting a plan
using plastic bags, cardboard
and duct tape to save Apollo
13’s astronauts after their
spacecraft was crippled by an
explosion 35 years ago.
Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred
Haise and Jack Swigert would
have died without the
engineers’ quick thinking, said
John Schneiter, president of
GlobalSpec, the New York
company that presented the
award.
Sunday marked the 35th
anniversary of the spacecraft’s
return to Earth after their
aborted moon mission. It was
crippled by the explosion of an
overheated oxygen tank,
raising concerns that the
carbon dioxide the astronauts
expelled from their lungs as
they breathed would eventually
kill them. Two of Apollo’s
three fuel cells, a primary
source of power, also were lost.
Engineers advising the
astronauts from the ground
figured out a way to provide
them oxygen for the trip
home.
“It was clearly a show
stopper in this flight,” Haise
said Tuesday. “I’m very
appreciative and thankful
because otherwise, I wouldn’t
be here with you today.”
Engineers who solved the
problem, astronauts from the
Apollo program and others
gathered for Tuesday’s
ceremony at Space Center
Houston, an educational
complex next to the Johnson
Space Center. The awards
presentation took place in a
theater that includes the
podium from which President
John F. Kennedy urged the
nation in 1962 to send men to
the Moon.
About 56 hours into the
voyage, Swigert had made the
famous call to mission control:
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“Houston, we’ve had a
problem.”
Engineers on the ground
had to figure out a solution,
and then tell the astronauts
how to make the fix. “They had
to make it right the first time,”
Schneiter said. “It had to work,
and son of a gun, it did.”
Ed Smylie, who oversaw
NASA’s crew systems division
in 1970 and is now an
aerospace consultant, was glad
the engineering side of the
mission was being recognized.
“The guys in the front room
are the ones who are in the
front lines and get a lot of
attention,” he said. “Those of
us who are in the back room
don’t get a lot of attention.”
Smylie said he was at home
watching television when he
learned there was a problem
aboard Apollo 13. Within
minutes, he was at the space
center trying to come up with a
solution.
The astronauts had moved
to the lunar module from the
command module to conserve
power for the emergency
return to Earth. They had
lithium hydroxide canisters to
cleanse their spacecraft of
carbon dioxide, but some of
the backup square canisters
were not compatible with the
round openings in the lunar
module.
“This was equivalent to
being on a sinking ship,”
Schneiter said. “In this case,
you are on a ship that was
mortally wounded, and you
were simply not going to be
able to breathe in a couple of
days.”
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
Coramae L. Phillips IV |
Graduate Cello Recital: 6 p.m.
School of Music 206.
USC Jazz Combos: 7:30
p.m. School of Music 206.
THURSDAY
Sarah Maureen Jackson
Junior Cello Recital: 5 p.m.
School of Music 206.
USC Left Bank Big Band:
7:30 p.m. School of Music
• 206.
FRIDAY
Online Teaching Interest
Group: noon, Computer
Services 312.
“Cheating with
Technology and How to Stop |
It”: 1:30 p.m. Computer
Services 320.
Julie Ann Neuberger
Graduate Piano Recital: 4:30
p.m. School of Music 206.
SATURDAY
Lomazov Piano Studio
Recital: 7:30 p.m. School of
Music 206.
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Rwandan genocide *
topic of screening ▼
USC’s African Studies
Program will show “Hotel
Rwanda” at 7 p.m. Thursday
in Calicott Oil as part of an
event to mark the 11th
anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide.
The event will feature a
short presentation by Bill
Spink, a third-year
* international studies student
who lived in Rwanda for three
years.
For more information,
contact African Studies
Coordinator Ron Atkinson at
777-6619.
Book association |
to hold conference
USC will play host to the
first conference of the
Southeast Association of Book
Arts May 19-21.
Some of the nation’s most
celebrated book artists will be
on hand 5:30-7:30 p.m. May
21 at McMaster Gallery. The
free event will feature an
exhibit of book arts.
Many of the books will be
for sale, and refreshments will
be served.
McKissick Museum will
play host to a reception at
5:30 p.m. Thursday featuring
S.C. Honors College
students’ work from this
semester’s “The Art of the
Book” class. * ^
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
H Violent
© Nonviolent
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
©Disorderly Conduct/Trespass
After Notice
Bates West, 1405 Whaley St.
Reporting officers D. Adams
and C. Taylor responded because
John Williams refused to sign in at
the desk. The officers took
Williams down to the lobby to sign
in, but Williams began causing a
disturbance directed toward
Taylor. Adams took Williams
outside and told him to leave the
property or he would be arrested.
Taylor again informed Williams of
his trespass notice and walked him
to his car. As the officers returned
to their vehicles, Adams observed
Williams across the parking lot
engaged in a fight with the RA who
made the complaint.
©Theft from Coin-Operated
Machine
Nursing Building, 1621
College St.
:
While doing property checks,
reporting officer A. Mitchell
observed someone had broken a
vending machine’s front window
with a rock.
Q Harassment
Bates West, 1405 Whaley St.
The victim said she has
received harassing remarks from
John Williams during the last
several months. Williams called
the victim on a cell phone from
outside her dorm. The victim said
she is afraid of Williams and his
friends. Williams was arrested on
the same day for disorderly
conduct and trespass after notice
in an unrelated incident.
Reporting officer: D. Adams.
SUNDAY, APRIL 17
®Theft from Coin-Operated
Machine
Business Administration
Building, 1705 College St.
Someone used a pencil ]
sharpener to break out the front
glass on a vending machine and
removed $50-$70 in small bills
and coins.
Reporting officer: J.
Widdifield.
■ Armed Robbery
Computer Services Garage,
501 Sumter St.
A subject described as a black
male, about 21, ran up to the /
victims, pulled out a black (•
revolver and demanded they give '•
him everything they had. The *
subject got into an older-model
red vehicle, drove south on !
Sumter Street and made a right **
turn onto Whaley Street. The ’>
subject took a wallet (estimated
value: $5), a cell phone (estimated
value: $160), one Bank of
America credit card and $120
cash.
Reporting officer: S. Alexander.
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