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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2000
Page
10
A joint Japanese American team reports in Science that a piglet was cloned as researchers pursue pigs to grow human organs for hearts livers and kidneys. Separately PPL Therapeutics of Scotland cloned five pigs and reused Dolly related methods.
Union negotiators for striking phone workers threaten to walk out at midnight Thursday if no substantial progress is reached, risking a prolonged strike involving 25 million people and entering its 12th day. The IBEW and CWA are pressuring for a rapid settlement as talks stall in Washington.
Former Libyan Ambassador Abdul Rajab Azzarong hiked four miles through jungle to a rebel hide-out to secure the release of Western hostages. Libya funded a multimillion-dollar deal with Abu Sayyaf to end nearly four months of captivity as Manila seeks to curb terrorism stigma.
Karen, a longtime mother figure on Big Brother, was removed from the CBS reality show during Wednesday's live broadcast. She cried and hugged fellow residents as she left, expressing joy at returning to her children in Columbus Indiana after pleading for viewer votes in a past episode.
In Los Angeles protesters and police clashed briefly near the Staples Center as about 2,500 marchers blocked an intersection. Delegates were escorted through the crowd while others found alternative routes. few arrests were made and no serious injuries reported.
Senator John McCain, 63, seeks treatment options at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale after doctors found two melanoma spots on his left arm and temple. Advisers expect a Friday news conference. prognosis depends on depth and spread, with surgery possible for surface lesions and experimental therapies for advanced cases.
No Lottery 2000 plans a 50,000 dollar TV blitz across Columbia Greenville Spartanburg Charleston Florence and Rock Hill starting Sunday through Aug 24 to argue against a state lottery. Kathy Bigham leads the effort and says ads will be thought provoking and issue oriented while stressing the lottery is an improper role for government. The group will pause ads until fall due to cost.
A TV documentary cites a close friend that Princess Diana wished to marry Hasnat Khan, a London heart surgeon, before her 1997 Paris car crash, saying she had dated him for two years and planned to live with him.
Heilig-Meyers, a Richmond based furniture retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will close 302 stores, cutting about 4400 jobs and leaving 596 stores and roughly 12 900 employees across 29 states. The firm reports 1.35 billion in assets and 868 million in liabilities, with a quarterly net loss of 15 million. CEO Donald S. Shaffer blames ongoing weak results and credit market changes, saying in store credit will end and a third party will handle financing. A $215 million lender group commitment supports reorganization, subject to court approval, with profitable RoomStore operations to remain open. Closures include distribution centers in Hesperia California and Thomasville Georgia. Aiken stores are excluded.
Five University of South Carolina employees have been suspended without pay as SLED joins campus police in probing possible personal use of public funds at the Institute of Public Affairs. About 60 staff work there, with a $5 million budget last year, mostly from grants and contracts.
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