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CAROLINA m BRIEF USC doctor quoted in national paper A USC researcher has added another notch to his belt when it comes to being cited by the national press. Dr. Shawn Youngstedt of the Arnold School of Public Health was quoted in the Tuesday New York Times on his research into the relationship between sleep and exercise. According to the story in the Health & Fitness area of the Science Times, Youngstedt says that exercise before sleeping can promote better sleep by “soothing anxiety and helping increase body temperature,” despite popular understanding. Youngstedt, whose name is on USC’s lists of experts for the media, was * quoted in anMSNBC.com column on exercise last August and was recently featured in The State’s Life & Style section. ■; THIS WEEK USC THURSDAY USC Cares charity concert — Samuel Thompson, violin: 7:30 p.m. School of Music FRIDAY^! fp Last Lecture Series — Religious Studies professor Dr. James Cutsinger, “Thinking is a Present. Active Participle and Other Forgotten Truths”: 7 p.m. Harper College Gressette Room SUNDAY Southern Exposure Concert, “Alarm Will Sound”: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Suggestions for Page 2 ? E-mail gamecocknews @gwm.sc.edu. ON THE WEB © www.dailygamecock.com Read online five days a week. Rad. Striking a chord Katy Blalock / THE GAMECOCK First-year music student Taryn Lounsbury plays in the band Cellar Door on Monday. State Nation World Officer charged with sexual misconduct A former Corrections Department officer has been arrested and charged with first-degree sexual misconduct after authorities said she had sex with a male inmate. Samoan Michelle Morley, 2 5, of Columbia, had sex with a Broad River Correctional Institute inmate between October 2001 and January 2005, the State Law Enforcement Division said Tuesday. Also, a Lee Correctional Institute officer was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, misconduct in office and furnishing contraband to prisoners, SLED said. Troy R. *Wilkins Jr., 22, of Sumter, was arrested Monday after he bought four ounces, of marijuana from an undercover SLED officer, according to an arrest warrant. Wilkins planned to deliver marijuana to an inmate, the warrant said. UPN, WB to go off air, join to form network NEW YORK — Two small, long-struggling television networks, UPN and The WB, will shut down this fall and programming from both will be used to launch a new network aimed mainly at young and minority viewers. The new network will be called The CW.“C”forCBS Corp. and “W” for Warner Bros., each of which will own half of the new entity and contribute programs, assets and executives to the venture. The new network will draw on programming from both UPN, whose shows include “Everybody Hates Chris” and “Veronica Mars,” as well as from the slate of The WB, which includes “Supernatural,” “Smallville” and “Everwood.” Tribune Co., a Chicago based media company, will relinquish its 22.5 percent stake in The WB in exchange for a 10-year affiliation deal to carry the new network on 16 of its stations. The rest of The WB was owned by Time Warner Inc., parent of Warner Bros. Leader’s election may help trade relations OTTAWA — Strained relations between the world’s largest trading partners were expected to improve after the election of Conservative leader ’Stephen Harper as Canada’s next prime minister. But while his ideology runs parallel to that of the Bush administration, Harper failed to win a majority and will be constrained by the need for an alliance, which ppuld limit his ability to move Canada to the right. The 46-year-old economist, who arrived in Ottawa from his constituency in Calgary, Alberta, on Tuesday, briefly addressed supporters at the airport. He canceled a press conference, and said he would hold one Thursday instead. “We had a good sleep, we’re all excited and we’re all feeling pretty upbeat, as you can imagine ... to start rebuilding this great country of ours,” Harper said, with his wife, Laureen Teskey, and young son and daughter at his side. FDA panel recommends ban on nonprescription asthma inhalers Andrew Bridges ' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Asthma sufferers may not be able to buy nonprescription inhalers for much longer because the devices contain propellants that harm the earth’s ozone layer. An advisory panel voted 11-7 Tuesday to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration remove the “essential use” status that Primatene Mist and other similar nonprescription inhalers require to be sold, spokeswoman Laura Alvey said. Final revocation of that status would mean a de facto ban on their sale. The FDA usually follows the advice of its outside panels of experts, though a decision can take months. If the agency opts to follow the panel’s recommendation, it would begin a rulemaking process that would include public comment and opinion, Alvey said. Weather Forecast TODAY High 51 Low 30 High 56 loui 30 High 62 loui 34 High 61 Loui 50 sun. High 66 Loui 44 CRIME REPORT MONDAY, JAN. 23 Larceny of CarolinaCard and room key, 4:30 p.m. Strom Thurmond Wellness Center, 1000 Blossom St. Someone took the victim’s CarolinaCard and dorm room key. Estimated, value: $80 Reporting officer: S. Wilcox Accidental damage, 2:28 p.m. 900 block of Union Street The complainant struck a curb and damaged his two driver-side tires. Reporting Officer: S. Wilcox SATURDAY, JAN. 21 Larceny of clothes, 1:30 p.m. South Tower, 614 Bull St. Someone removed the victim’s clothing from a dryer. Estimated value: $300 Reporting officer: T. Brewster-Gooding Larceny of cell phone, 6 p.m. East Quad, 1400 Blossom St. The victim said her cell phone was stolen from her purse while sitting on a bench awaiting a ride. She said she mistakenly left the location, leaving her purse on the bench. When she returned, her purse was there, but her cell phone was missing. Estimated value: $300 Reporting Officer: LT.P.I. Jones Google agrees to censor results to adhere to Chinese laws (Dicheal Liedthe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China’s Web suffix “.cn,” on Wednesday. A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine has previously been available through the company’s dot com address in the United States. By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make its search engine more widely available and easier to use in the world’s most populous country. Because of government barriers set up to suppress information, Google’s China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine or encountered lengthy delays in response time. The service troubles have frustrated many Chinese users, hobbling Google’s efforts to expand its market share in a country that expected to emerge as an Internet gold mine over the next decade. China already has more than 100 million Web surfers and the audience is expected to swell substantially — an alluring prospect for Google as it tries to boost its already rapidly rising profits. Baidu.com Inc., a Beijing-based company in which Google owns a 2.6 percent stake, currently runs China’s most popular search engine. But a recent Keynote Systems survey of China’s Internet preferences concluded that Baidu remains vulnerable to challenges from Google and Yahoo Inc. I To obtain the Chinese license, Google agreed to omit Web content that the country’s government finds objectionable. Although China has loosened some of its controls in recent years, some topics, sucb as Taiwan’s independence and 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre, remain forbidden subjects. Google officials characterized the censorship concessions in China as an excruciating decision for a company that adopted “don’t be evil” as a motto. | But management believes ’ it’s a worthwhile sacrifice.