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WEDNESDAY, APRIL30, 2003
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STATI
Third suspected SARS case found in northwest Kansas
TOPEKA—A northwest Kansas man is believed to be the third person in the state to contract the SARS virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.
The man, whose identity was not released, developed symptoms of the SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, after traveling to Asia. He has recovered and is no longer considered infectious, according to a KDHE news release.
"We don't see a concern for the general public in that part of the state," Watson said yesterday. "We have contacted everyone who had close contact with him and the health care workers who treated him, and none of them had symptoms of SARS."
Specimens from the man have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for analysis.
The state health department is also awaiting results of specimens sent to the CDC for a northeast Kansas woman who recently traveled to Asia. She was never hospitalized and has apparently recovered.
Additional tests have been done on a south central Kansas man who had the first suspected case of SARS in Kansas. He was hospitalized but has also recovered.
The disease has sickened more than 5,300 people, mostly in Asia, and has killed at least 355 people.
NATION
Osbourne boy enters rehab after drug, alcohol problem
PASADENA, Calif. — Jack Osbourne, the 17-year-old son of heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne, has checked into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic, People magazine reported.
The teenager entered Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena on April 23, according to the issue appearing on newsstands Friday.
"I got caught up in my new lifestyle and got carried away with drugs and alcohol," Osbourne told the magazine. "Once I realized this, I voluntarily checked myself into a detox
facility for my own health and well-being."
The magazine said Osbourne acknowledged to his mother, Sharon, in January that he was overindulging in marijuana and alcohol.
Jack Osbourne is the youngest of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's three children. He and his 18-year-old sister, Kelly, became international stars with the success of MTV's reality show The Osbournes. Their older sister, Aimee, didn't take part.
"It takes a lot of courage and strength to admit you need help, and both Sharon and I are proud Jack is facing his problems head-on," Ozzy Osbourne said.
Ozzy Osbourne has been candid, both on and off the show, about his decades of battles with substance abuse. The second season began in November on a somber note, with the 54-year-old rock star boozing heavily to cope with Sharon's diagnosis of colon cancer.
Ozzy since has said that his wife is cancer-free after months of treatment
Santorum to remain senator despite anti-gay remark
WASHINGTON—Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania will stay on as the Senate's No. 3 Republican despite his remarks about homosexuals, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday.
"Absolutely he will remain in the leadership," Frist said after the weekly GOP conference meeting. "He has the full 100 percent confidence of Senate Republicans."
He has been under scrutiny since an April 7 interview with The Associated Press. During the interview, Santorum brought up a pending Supreme Court case over a Texas sodomy law and said, "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
Santorum, a conservative, has said his remarks were in the context of a past Supreme Court ruling on privacy and were not meant as "a statement on individual lifestyles."
The Associated Press
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Melanie Weiser, Dallas junior, hands a Star of David to Karli Tracey, Deerfield, Ill., sophomore. Students from the Hillel House handed out various badges yesterday. The badges, such as the Star of David, represented those that Jewish people in concentration camps were forced to wear. Students also handed out fliers with listings of this week's activities that will honor victims of the Holocaust.
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Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a University Forum at noon in the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
KU Memorial Unions will host a rededication ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union. Call 864-2445.
Cai Hong of the American studies department will lecture on "American Studies in China" from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at room 202 in Bailey Hall. Call 864-3845
versity will lecture on "Always Looking Forward to Freedom: The Wartime Destruction of Slavery and the Transformation of Community Life in Northern Mississippi" from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Hall Center for the Humanities. Call 864-4798.
Jay Gubrium of the University of Missouri will lecture on "Life Narratives in Ethnographic Perspective" at 3:30 p.m.at room 706 in Fraser Hall. Call 864-4111.
Bruce Mactavish of Washburn Uni.
Psi Chi, the KU Psychology Club will hold an ice cream social at 6 p.m. at room 547 in Fraser Hall. Contact Sarah at 766-6205.
NATION
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will practice from 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m. at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
Boy found in Chicago hospital could be missing N.C. child
Eli Quick was actually Tristen.
CHICAGO — Almost three months after a dirty, bedraggled boy showed up at a suburban hospital, authorities said he may be a child who disappeared in North Carolina more than two years ago.
"I think it's him," Tristen's mother, Raven Myers, told WTVD-TV in Durham, N.C. "They say he's got a lisp, I've got a lisp. It's just weird."
Relatives of Tristen "Buddy" Myers are optimistic that authorities have found the boy, who was 4 when they last saw him in October 2000.
The Department of Music and Dance will present the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre at 7:30 p.m. at room 240 in Robinson Center. Call 864-4264.
It is expected to take four to six weeks for DNA tests to confirm whether a boy who said his name was
For Illinois authorities, the case began as one of a disappearing father.
A man who identified himself as Ricky Quick brought the boy into an Evanston hospital Feb. 3, said Jill Manuel, representative for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The hospital notified the child welfare agency because the boy was filthy and had not changed clothes in days, Manuel said. Hospital officials called
Chicago police representative Pat Camden said the man was taken into custody but later released.
police when the man tried to leave with the boy, and the man was arrested on a warrant for a theft charge, said Evanston Police Cmdr. Michael Perry.
Quick never showed up to get the boy, which left DCFS worker Sharon Moriarity with the job of tracking down the boy's family, Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy said.
Moriarity determined that the woman the boy said was his mother, Sharon Smith, was killed in May 2002, Murphy said.
The Associated Press
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