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CAROLINA®BRIEF USC provides money to aid Katrina victims USC presented checks for $15,397.28 each to the American Red Cross and South Carolina Cares agencies Monday at a news conference at the Naval Reserve Center. The university and the organizations collected the money with the local Boy Scouts at the Alabama football game Saturday, Sept. 17, to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Mayor dod t^oble, b.t.,. Cares Chairman Sam Tenenbaum, Red Cross Chief Executive Officer Scott Salemme, USC employees, local Boy Scouts arid Red Cross volunteers attended the check presentations. “The program here in Columbia has become a national model for how to care for the survivors,” Coble said. South Carolina Cares is the Midlands effort organized by Congressman James E. Clyburn and Columbia Mayor Bob Coble to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. A coalition of government, business, community and religious leaders has already welcomed more than- 1,800 Katrina evacuees to the Midlands area. THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock: “From Bach to Country-Western: Captivating Stylings of Paul Schoenfield” 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Adam Estes doctoral saxophone recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 MONDAY Brad Edwards faculty trombone recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Lisa Sain Odom doctoral voice recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 TUESDAY Henry Anderson guitar recital': 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Kelly Mayo voice recital: 6 p.m. School of Music 206 Hunter and Robbins: Opening reception 5-7 p.m. McMasterll9 ON THE WEB © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM Read online five days a week. Oh dear. Weather Forecast TODAY High 18 loui II SAT. High 83 Loiu 66 sun. High 80 low 68 ffion. High Tl Loui 60 jPS. Loin 60 Fire down below Blake Rut mm THE CAMECOCK Firemen handle a blaze at an abandoned building on Assembly Street on Wednesday afternoon. State Tammy brings rain, heads toward Florida Tropical Storm Tammy brought much needed rain to South Carolina as it moved ashore in northeast Florida. The storm also brought winds gusting to 40 mph along the southern South Carolina coast and prompted a tropical storm warning for Beaufort and Charleston counties. But the main effect of the Storm would be heavy rain, which started moving inland Wednesday and was expected to spread to the Upstate by Thursday. The rain was welcome after much of the state had a dry September. Some locations, especially in the Midlands and Upstate, reported no rain last month .and the U.S. Drought Monitor has listed most of the state as “abnormally dry." Nation it it' Prosecutodfe accept tv Rove’s offer to testify Federal prosecutors have? accepted an offer * from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11 th, hour testimony in the case of a CIA officers leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won’t be indicted, say people directly familiar with the investigation. The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, said Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not made any decision yet on whether to file' criminal charges against the longtime confidant of President Bush or others. Rove has already made at least three grand jury appearances and his return at this late stage in the investigation is unusual. World American chemists awarded Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin of France won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for work that reduces hazardous waste in creating new chemicals. The trio won for developing the metathesis method for creating organic molecules. Metathesis has tremendous commercial potential in the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and foodstuffs industries. The method lets scientists rearrange atoms within molecules to form chemicals. “Metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society and the environment,” the committee said. POLICE REPORT TUESDAY, OCT. 4 Verbal threats; Information, 3:02 p. m. 4 Medical Park Road A woman, 52, said a man, 56, called her to confirm a doctor’s appointment. The man became irate and said the woman would not be smiling if he had to pay any money. The woman said she did not want to press charges. Reporting officer: A. Mitchell Larceny of bicycle, 6:20 p.m. Jones Physical Science Center, 712 Main St. Someone removed a silver, red and black Mongoose that was unsecured to a bike rack. Estimated value: $100. Reporting officer: C. Knoche TUESDAY, OCT. 5 Malicious injury to private property, la.m. Carolina Coliseum, 701 Assembly St. Facilities Management said someone broke a pane of glass on the main door of the building. Estimated value: $100. Reporting officer: J. E. Silcox Assisting another agency, 4:45 p.m. 1000 block of Assembly Street. Reporting officers J. Harrelson and B. Timber: assisted the Columbia Polic^P Department and Columbia Fire Department with traffic management at the site of a structure fire at the Heart of Columbia motel. Larceny of bicycle, 7 a.m. Columbia Hall, 918 Barnwell St. Someone removed a USC registered blue Trek bicycle cable-locked to a bike rack. Estimated value: $500. Reporting officer: C. Taylor ' Larceny of monies, 10:30_ p.m. A Bates House, 1423 Whaley St. The victim said someone took $52 from his wallet. Reporting officer: J. Widdifield I m m 5 Reports are taken from the USC Police Department. m TH#&AMECOCK Read it. www.dailygamecock.com Great white clocks more than 12,000 miles Randolph C. Schmid ap science writer WASHINGTON — A great white shark named Nicole logged more than 12,000 miles swimming from Africa to Australia and back, the first proof of a link between the two continents’ shark populations, researchers say. A second report details the movement of dozens of salmon sharks from summer waters near Alaska to warmer winter quarters off Hawaii and Baja California. “Sharks have home ranges that are at the scale of ocean basins,” said researcher Barbara A. Block of Stanford University. She added that conservation management of sharks such as the white shark and salmon shark will require international cooperation. Tracking a shark from Africa to Australia “is one of the most significant discoveries about white shark ecology and suggests we might have to rewrite the life history of this powerful fish,” said Ramon Bonfil, lead author of that study. Both reports appear in Fridays issue of the journal Science. George H. Burgess, a shark expert at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said while sharks are known to travel long distances, this was the first evidence of movement between Australia and Africa. “These are large animals that have the capability of making large movements,” he said. Enric Cortes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Shark Population Assessment Group, in Panama City, Fla., agreed this is the first direct evidence of a connection between African and Australian white sharks. Using satellites to track sharks is new technology that may provide new perspective on their movements, he said. Peter Klimley, a shark expert at the University of California, Davis, called a trip of that length “amazing.” Fie said there have been genetic indications that these two shark groups might be connected, “but that’s not the same as showing actual movement.” Bonfil, of the Bronx, N.Y. based Wildlife Conservation Society, said he “suspected that these sharks could be doing these kinds of travels ... but there was previously no proof of this. Everybody thought they were mostly coastal in behavior.” A satellite tracking device temporarily attached to Nicole documented her 99-day swim from South Africa to Australia. About six months later, she was identified from photos back off the coast of South Africa. Some 24 other white sharks tagged off South Africa engaged in wide-ranging coastal migration, but only Nicole headed out to sea. Nonetheless, Bonfil said, “I don’t think we got one in a million.” Nicole was tagged in November 2003 with a device that reports her position. Researchers said the shark was renamed Nicole in honor of Australian actress Nicole M. Meyerl UW. ASSOCIATED PRESS This undated photo provided by the journal Science shows Nicole, the shark that swam across the Indian Ocean twice. Kidman. Block’s group tagged 48 salmon sharks in Alaskan coastal waters aiid tracked them by satellite from 2002 to 2004. They found some sharks remained in the North Pacific all year, eating salmon in summer and herring in winter, while others swam south to Hawaii or Baja California in winter. As they swam south, they dove deeper into cooler waters, researchers found. “The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would,” Block said. “But ... where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.”