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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 2002
Page
3
Wheaton College plans to name a proposed 21.6 million dollar student center after Todd M. Beamer, alumnus and United Airlines Flight 93 passenger. Anonymous donors already gave 5 million toward construction and 13.5 million remains to be raised before work begins.
Families of murder victims in Illinois prepare for Prisoner Review Board hearings on death row cases starting Oct 15. Governors review could commute sentences to life without parole after 160 inmates faced challenges to capital punishment since 1977. Victims urge that such reviews undo hard won justice despite strong evidence in many cases.
Steven Kim Sr. 57, a postal worker and Korean Army veteran, allegedly fired seven shots at the United Nations in New York to protest North Korea conditions. He is jailed without bail on gun and violent attack charges, facing 5 to 16 years if convicted. His son, Steven Kim Jr., 26, defends the protest as nonviolent but regrets the outcome and plans to visit his father.
Julie Truckenbrod of Mendota considers storing umbilical cord blood for her third child. Nurse midwife Liz Jennings-Porter notes no risk to mother or baby and calls it a simple option. Jennings-Porter, whose 19-year-old daughter has cancer, says stored blood could serve as an insurance policy for future transplants. Truckenbrod recalls little prior exposure to cord blood donation.
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