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in the gravity well in the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s gift shop Monday.
Gadbery came to the planetarium with her mother Laura and two older sisters to see the
show- “Magic Tree House Space Mission,” which is based on a best-selling series of educational
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Christopher Dodd
endorses Obama
CLEVELAND (AP) - Sen.
Christopher Dodd endorsed one
time presidential rival Barack
Obama on Tuesday and said it is
time for Democrats to join forces
to defeat the Republicans in the
fall campaign.
“I don’t want a campaign that
is divisive here, and there’s a dan
ger in that” Dodd said, although
he denied he was nudging Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton to end
her candidacy'.
Dodd is the first of the
Democratic campaign dropouts
to endorse another candidate.
McCain disavows
talk show chatter
CINCINNATI (AP) -
Republican John McCain quick
ly denounced the comments of a
radio talk show host who while
warming up a campaign crowd
referred repeatedly to Barack
Hussein Obama and called the
Democratic presidential can
didate a “hack, Chicago-stvle"
politician.
Hussein is Obama’s middle
name, but talk show host Bill
Cunningham used it three times
as he addressed the crowd before
the likely Republican nominee’s
appearance.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)
ln an about-face, Senate
Republicans on Tuesday agreed
with Democrats to advance an
anti-war bill because they said
the debate would give them time
to hail progress in Iraq.
The change of heart came
after months of blocking similar
measures. But unlike most of last
year, security conditions in Iraq
have improved, and Republicans
say they now feel they have the
upper hand on the debate.
“We welcome a discussion about
Iraq," Senate Republican leader
Mitch McConnell declared.
Drug-resistant
TB is spreading
LONDON (AP) - Drug-resis
tant tuberculosis is spreading
even faster than medical experts
had feared, the World Health
Organization warned in report
Issued Tuesday.
The rate of TB patients infect
ed with the drug-resistant strain
topped 20 percent in some coun
tries, the highest ever recorded,
the U.N. agency said.
Though the report is the larg
est survey of drug-resistant TB,
based on information collected
between 2002 and 2006, there
are still major gaps: Data were
only available from about half of
the world’s countries.
The measure, by Democratic
Sens. Russ Feingold ofWisconsin
and Majority Leader Harry Reid
of Nevada, would cut off money
for combat after 120 days. It had
been expected to fall short of the
60 votes needed to overcome a
procedural hurdle.
But after Republicans agreed
in a private meeting that the
debate could help make their
case, the Senate voted 70-24 to
begin debating it in earnest.
Aides said a final vote could
come later this week. The White
House said the president would
veto such a measure.
Blackouts in Fla.
affect 3 million
MIAMI (AP) Florida's larg
est utility says equipment failure
and a fire at a Miami substation
led to power outages that affected
up to 3 million people.
Florida Power & Light is still
determining what caused the
failure and fire. The company says
such equipment failure should
not have caused the widespread
blackouts. The problem caused a
nuclear plant south of Miami to
automatically shut down.
Company officials say just
about 20,000 people remained
without power by 5:30 p.m.,
mostly due to outages caused by
storms.
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pay for college is not simple,’ said
Steve Brooks, executive director of
the N.C. State Education Assistance
Authority, which helps manage col
lege loans for N.C. students.
“It’s difficult to come up with
a simple plan that is also fair. It’s
that trade-off between simplicity
and fairness,' Brooks said.
The UNC system recently created
a commission to simplify- the finan
cial aid process through steps such as
haring the Internal Revenue Service
contribute its data so that students
and parents wouldn’t have to answer
the same tax questions twice.
“That would make it simpler
on the family and make it more
fair when making a calculation,'
Brooks said.
But he said relying on the IRS
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ger term."
And although the platform origi
nally called for a $2 million endow
ment to fund the series, that hasn’t
been created. Instead, the first
speaker probably will be funded
with a combination of money from
the Division of Student Affairs
and student fees, with a possible
endowment later, Jablonski said.
While collaboration was key for
some projects, some of Carson’s
other successes will be all her ideas.
The Carson administration
created a scholarship intended to
reward a junior who has excelled
during the first two years at
UNC. The first scholarship will
be awarded for 2008-09. Carson
said, adding that an official call for
applications will come in the next
couple of weeks.
But some platform points, such
as the addition of a Yogurt Pump in
the Student Union, haven’t had the
same success.
Although “YoPo in the Union’
flashed across many of Carson’s
campaign A-frames, YoPo is a no
go this year, as Union renovations
have still not been decided.
Don Luse, Carolina Union
director, said that he and Carson
discussed her plan before she took
office but that the renovations are
still at least three years away.
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extenuating circumstances, such as
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precautions aren’t taken.
And relying on the IRS could
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less reflective of a student's actual
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Both candidates also plan to
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getting people involved, but I know
that in leadership experience that
can lead to inefficiencies." said Gia
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“With the reauthorization of
the Higher Education Act up in
the air in Congress, we’re already
on a path to making a lot of the
changes that they're both talking
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legislation."
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Now. with about a month left in
her term. Carson said that her deci
sion to integrate other groups proved
successful and that she is pleased
with the progress her administration
has made this year.
"My platform, coming into this,
was not a check-off sort of plat
form," Carson said. “It was a very
building, big ideas-oriented plat
form, so I knew that it was going to
be important for me to think long
term. ... We’re trying to do things
which make the University a better
place in the long run."
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Monarchs on the evening.
The Tar Heels would get the
tying run in scoring position in
the bottom of the 10th. but a Seth
Williams strikeout ended the rally
With another game Thursday,
there’s no time for UNC to worry
about the loss.
“This game is going to be out of
our minds by tonight." junior Tim
Federovvicz said.
Starting Tar Heel pitcher, fresh
man Matt Harvey, had a solid
performance in his first collegiate
start, pitching 4.2 innings without
allow ing a run. He allowed three
hits and two walks and struck out
an impressive eight Old Dominion
batters.
But errors cost UNC in the end
“Thank goodness it’s just the
fourth game of the year." Fox said
“If they’re all like this. I'll be
dead by the end of the season.’
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