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School gets $3 million
for diabetes research
USC's Arnold School of
Public Health has been
awarded a $3 million grant to
continue a research program to
combat diabetes in youth under
age 20.
The award from the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National
Institutes of Health puts the
school among the nation's
leading institutions researching
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
among young people.
Dr. Elizabeth Mayer-Davis,
the study’s lead researcher, will
move forward with the second
phase of SEARCH for Diabetes
in Youth. The first phase of the
study, which ran from 2000 to
2005, allowed researchers at six
clinical sites throughout the
United States to gain insight
into the prevalence and
incidence of Type 1 and Type 2
diabetes in youth and establish
the system that researchers will
use to collect data and follow
disease trends.
One of the most surprising
aspects of the study dealt with
the high number of young
people with Type 2 diabetes
who tested positive for diabetes
autoantibodies. In these cases,
the body's own immune system
might be causing the
destruction of the cells that
naturally produce insulin, the
main cause of Type 1 diabetes,
Mayer-Davis said.
We don t know how
important this finding is,"
Mayer-Davis said in a news
release, ’’but we believe that the
cause of diabetes may be more
complicated than we believed
initially. This may have an
impact on complications of the
disease as these youth grow into
adulthood and could certainly
be very important for
treatment."
THIS WEEK O USC
TODAY
NBA exhibition game —
San Antonio Spurs vs.
Philadelphia 76ers : 7:30 p.m.
Colonial Center
FRIDAY
Arnold School of Public
Health 30th Anniversary
evening gala reception: 6:30
p.m. Columbia Convention
Center
Lawrence J. Voyten,
“Accelerating Strategic,
Operation and Crisis Decision
Making": 8 p.m. Columbia
Convention Center
Fall 2005 Seminar Series —
Katen N. Allen ”Phosphoryl
Transfer in the HAD Enzyme
Superfamily": 4 p.m. Jones
Physical Science Center 006
The Vemberg Lecture —
Broadway actress Sarah Jones,
“A Right to Care”: 3 p.m.
Columbia Convention Center
THURSDAY
Environmental nature walk
with Rudy Mancke: 11 a.m.
Horseshoe
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Fourth-year economics student Veronica Gray, right, gets a makeover from a Rimmel associate
during the company's "London Bus Tour” Monday on Greene Street.
State
Demolition continues
on Charleston bridge
CHARLESTON — With a
thunderous roar and a giant
plume of smoke, a section of
Charleston's skyline collapsed
into the water Tuesday as
workers demolished a section
of an old cantilever bridge
crossing the Cooper River.
The controlled blast sent a
500-ton, 500-foot section of the
steel truss of the Silas Pearman
Bridge into the gray water. The
bridge had dominated
Charleston's skyline for almost
four decades.
The three-lane Pearman
Bridge, built in 1966, and the
parallel 76-year-old, two-lane
Grace Memorial Bridge were
closed to traffic in July when
the new $632 million Ravenel
Bridge . opened linking
Charleston and Mount
Pleasant.
The demolition work is
expected to be completed by
2007. One worker was killed
in August when he fell with
part of the bridge being
demolished.
Nation
High court to consider
wetlands regulations
The Supreme Court,
venturing into knotty legal
territory, said Tuesday it will
consider restricting the
government's authority to
regulate wetlands.
Jumping into a subject that
is crucial for
environmentalists, property
owners and developers, the
justices will take up claims
that federal regulators have
gone too far by restricting
development of property that
is miles away from any river
or waterway.
With more than 100
million acres of wetlands in
the United States, an area the
size of California, the stakes
are high, justices were told.
The latest cases give the
court an opportunity to put
broader limits on federal
authority, and a key player
may be new Chief Justice
John Roberts. The appeals
were the first the court agreed
to hear under Roberts'
leadership.
World
American scientist
returns from space
ARKALYK, KAZAKHSTAN —
The seven-day space sojourn of
an American millionaire
scientist ended as he and a
Russian-American crew
undocked from the
international space station and
sped back to Earth, landing
early Tuesday on the
windswept steppes of
Kazakhstan.
The bone-jarring descent
brought an end to Gregory
Olsen's space station visit, the
third trip by a private citizen to
the orbiting laboratory.
Olsen, American astronaut
William McArthur and
Russian cosmonaut Valery
Tokarev blasted off from the
Baikonur launch facility in
Kazakhstan on Oct. 1 and
docked with the space station
two days later.
McArthur and Tokarev will
stay aboard the station for six
months, while Olsen returns
with John Phillips and Sergei
Krikalev, who were there since
April.
Man pleads guilty to shooting parents
Bill Poovey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—A
man who said he was heeding a
directive from God when he
fatally shot his parents and
used a chainsaw to dismember
his mother's body pleaded
guilty Monday and was
sentenced to life in prison.
Philip Badowski, 23,
entered the plea to first-degree
murder after a judge turned
down his attorney's motion to
suppress evidence in the
December 2004 slayings of the
parents, Chester “Chet”
Badowski Jr., 47, and
Christine Badowski, 46.
Badowski told Hamilton
County Judge Doug Meyer
that he killed his parents at
their residence in suburban
Hixson and understood that
he was giving up his right to a
trial.
A state psychiatric
evaluation previously showed
Badowski competent for trial
but one of his attorneys, public
defender Mary Ann Green,
said after the Monday hearing
that Badowski is mentally ill
and afflicted with
“schizophrenia or a bipolar
disorder or both.”
Green and District Attorney
Bill Cox both said after officers
escorted Badowski from the
courtroom that he and his
family wanted the case ended.
Cox said the murders
stemmed from a family
argument but Green disagreed.
“He had an insane
delusion that God told him to
send them to the angels,” she
said.
An investigator previously
testified that Badowski, a
former student at Chattanooga
State Technical Community
College, told officers who
interviewed him that he killed
his parents because “God told
me to.”
POLICE REPORT
THURSDAY,
OCT. 6
Grand larceny auto, 6p.m.
Pendleton Street Garage,
1501 Pendleton St.
The complainant, 44, said
someone took his unsecured
1985 gold Cadillac Deville
from a reserved space. The
Columbia Police Department
contacted the USC Police
Department about a vehicle
found at the corner of
Gadsden and Darlington
streets. Officer S. Wilcox and
investigator Snyder
responded, secured the scene
and had the vehicle towed.
Estimated value: $13,000.
Reporting officers:
S. Wilcox, C. Morant
FRIDAY, OCT. 7
Auto break-in,
larceny of road kit, 1 p.m.
S-4 Lot, 918 Barnwell St.
Someone entered an
unsecured vehicle and
removed a roadside kit and
camping knife. The cover of
the CD player and other
objects had been moved
around. Estimated value:
$50.
Reporting officer: C. Morant
Malicious injury to
private property, 2:10 p.m.
Bates West,
1405 Whaley St.
The victim said someone
broke the back window of her
1993 Toyota Camry.
Estimated value: $100.
Reporting officer:
N. Husbands
marijuana, Dorn was arrested
and taken to Alvin S. Glenn
Detention Center.
Auto break—in, larceny
of CD player, 9:30 a. m.
Pendleton Street Garage,
1501 Pendleton St.
Someone broke the
driver's-side window of a
2001 Mercury Mountaineer
and removed a portable CD
player. Estimated value: $25.
Reporting officer:
N. Husbands
Burglary, second degree;
grand larceny of laptop,
9 p.m.
South Quad,
500 Sumter St.
The victim said someone
entered his locked room and
removed a Hewlett-Packard
laptop and its charger. No
signs of forced entry were
found, despite his insistence
the room was locked.
Estimated value: $2,500
Reporting officer: L. Welch
Trespassing after notice,
11:40 p.m.
315 Main St.
William Anderson, 45, was
seen exiting a building.
Anderson had been given
prior trespassing notice, and
he was arrested. He was
found to have a folding
pocketknife in his possession.
Reporting officer: f. E. Silcox
MONDAY, OCT. 10
Larceny of wallet,
12:20 p. m.
Thomas Cooper Library,
1322 Greene St.
The victim was found
passed out and intoxicated
with several cuts on his
hands. First Responder and
EMS responded, and the
victim was transported to
Palmetto Health Baptist
hospital. Reporting officer: J.E.
Silcox.
Assistance rendered,
5:30 p.m.
Blatt P.E. Center,
1328 Wheat St.
The victim was found
passed out and intoxicated.
First Responder and EMS
was notified. EMS
transported the victim to
Palmetto Health Baptist
hospital. Reporting officer: J.E.
Silcox.
Assistance Rendered
Bates House second-floor
bathroom, 1423 Whaley St.
Reporting officer A. Mitchell
responded to a woman having
a seizure. First Responders
and EMS were called and
responded, and the woman
was transported to Palmetto
Baptist hospital.
Malicious injury to private
property, 2:40a.m.
Bates House,
1423 Whaley St.
Someone damaged the
windshield of a 2003 Jeep
Liberty. Estimated value:
$200.
Reporting officer: C. Taylor.
SATURDAY,
OCT. 7
Simple possession
of marijuana, 1:30 p.m.
Williams—Brice Stadium,
1000 George Rogers Blvd.
Robert Ashley, 20, was
observed by reporting officer
J. Claypoole entering Gate 11
with what appeared to be
contraband in his pocket. The
man had bloodshot eyes,
slurred speech and smelled of
marijuana. A consented
search produced a glass pipe
and a green leafy substance
Ashley identified as
marijuana, which a field test
verified. Ashley was arrested.'
SUNDAY, OCT. 9
Public disorderly conduct,
2:30 a.m.
Corner of Greene
and Harden streets
Blair Boan-Samuel, 22, was
observed highly intoxicated
and using profanity. He was
arrested and taken to
Richland County Detention
Center.
Reporting officer: J. E. Silcox
Simple possession
of marijuana, 3:05 a.m. •
Corner of Greene
and Main streets
Reporting officer C. Knoche
stopped Thomas Dorn, 21,
after he performed an
improper start from stop.
Upon searching the vehicle, a
plastic bag with a green leafy
substance believed to be
rid • cominuED mom i
from the faculty and went
out and purchased the items
for the kits,” said Katie
Arrington, Student Nursing
Association president and a
third-year nursing student.
After the drive, SNA
members sealed each kit into
a 1-gallon bag and dropped
them off at a local church
helping the organization’s
efforts. The church delivered
the kits to the distribution
center.
The competition raised
152 health kits.
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