Few gains for Bush at summit
Sunday, November 6, 2005
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Charleston Post and Courier
| President Bush left the Summit of the Americas Saturday with no more than he expected: a cold shoulder from some Latin American leaders, no consensus on a free trading bloc for the hemisphere and biting criticism from anti-U.S. protesters and Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.
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Scientists unravel coral reefs' secrets
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 DAVE MUNDAY - - Charleston Post and Courier
| About 1,500 feet below the ocean's surface lies an unexplored territory that could hold the cure for troubling diseases or glimpses of previously unknown life forms.
Unlike the Amazon rain forest, this mysterious territory is just 150 miles away. You can find it off the coast. That's where centuries-old coral reefs harbor strange secrets.
A crew of 15 scientists exploring those mysteries made an unexpected stop in the Charleston area because of the effects of Hurricane Wilma to the south. They're spending two weeks studying coral reefs between Florida and North Carolina. The Life on the Edge mission is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This is the mission's sixth year, and scientists say they've barely made a dent
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Envoy sharply criticizes Israel
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
AP's JOSEF FEDERMAN - - Charleston Post and Courier
| A top Mideast envoy criticized Israel in especially tough language for moving too slowly on talks to open Gaza's borders, saying the country is behaving almost as if the Gaza Strip withdrawal never happened.
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Ophelia expected to punish N.C. coast for 2 days
Thursday, September 15, 2005 Bo Petersen - - Charleston Post and Courier
| CAROLINA BEACH, N.C.--While South Carolina was spared the brunt of the storm, Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains Wednesday, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and an 11-foot storm surge.
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Schools bursting at the seams
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 SEANNA ADCOX - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Ask Mount Pleasant Academy Principal Jane Davis when mobile classrooms began dotting her 5-acre campus, and she'll shrug.
"The trailers have been here since way before I got here," said Davis, now in her 18th year at the elementary school.
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Federal transportation bill comes to aid of hospitals
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 DAVE MUNDAY - - Charleston Post and Courier
| The federal transportation bill would ease traffic congestion for many Lowcountry residents, but it could be a lifesaver for patients coming into Charleston hospitals.
The House passed the bill last week, and the Senate is expected to pass its version next month. U.S. Rep. Henry Brown, R-S.C., who put $27 million worth of local projects into the bill, says he's confident they will remain in the final version.
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Panel picks 16 road projects
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 ROBERT BEHRE - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Lynn Whitner has lived in the Kings Grant neighborhood for 17 years and has seen the congestion on Dorchester Road go from bad to worse to worse still.
"Our quality of life stinks at the present time. You cannot even get out starting at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to get across the street to the Wal-Mart," she said. "There are days I know people sit out there 45 minutes to an hour."
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Focusing on illness in children
Thursday, February 10, 2005 HOLLY AUER - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Children are storehouses of knowledge for medical scientists. Inside their tiny bodies are the secrets behind some of adulthood's cruelest diseases and the keys to attacking those that strike kids themselves.
Today marks the opening and dedication of the Medical University of South Carolina's Charles P. Darby Children's Research Institute, a facility poised to link some the nation's best science with its sickest children.
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Colon care: confusing but critical
Monday, February 7, 2005 HOLLY AUER - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Caring for your colon can be confusing business.
The recent parade of news about colon cancer screening tests -- some of it scary, some of it promising, some of it downright bewildering -- hasn't made it any easier. Even if you thought you knew how to keep tabs on your colorectal health, any of the items coming out of medical journals and research labs lately may make you think you're wrong.
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Mental illness hard to treat in children
Sunday, February 6, 2005 HOLLY AUER - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Christopher Pittman is on trial for murder, his defense hinging on an attempt to indict the system that cares for mentally ill children in America.
Pittman's attorneys claim the prescription antidepressant Zoloft unleashed a violent rage in the then-12-year-old boy that led to the shooting deaths of his grandparents. Testimony presented so far in the case, including that of the doctor who prescribed Pittman the drug shortly before the Chester County killings, shines light on a set of growing concerns in the psychiatric community.
Among them: a shortage of doctors who specialize in child psychiatry, poor communication between doctors who treat mentally ill children and questions about how to select a child's medication.
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County Council District 7 election thrown out
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 ROBERT BEHRE - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Charleston County election officials on Monday rejected the Jan. 11 County Council District 7 election in which Republican Joey Douan eked out a win over Democrat Colleen Condon and preserved council's GOP majority.
In a 4-3 decision, which split along partisan lines, members of Charleston County's Board of Elections and Voter Registration called for a new election.
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Michigan congressman seeks exit poll data
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
AP's SETH SUTEL - - Charleston Post and Courier
| The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has asked The Associated Press and five broadcast networks to turn over raw exit poll data collected on Election Day so that any discrepancies between the data and the certified election results can be investigated.
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Researchers seek ways to aid state's shrimpers
Sunday, November 28, 2004 TYRONE WALKER - - Charleston Post and Courier
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Clemson University researchers are studying ways to rejuvenate the state's ailing shrimping industry.
While the U.S. consumption of shrimp has risen steadily during the past decade, the price per pound has dropped. This is because of the influx of lower-priced imports from China, Thailand, Brazil and other countries, which account for nearly 90 percent of the shrimp sold in America.
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Big spending is Congress habit
Saturday, November 27, 2004
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Charleston Post and Courier
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ronald Reagan, in his 1988 State of the Union address to Congress, hefted a 1,000-page, 14-pound spending bill and warned lawmakers against sending him more "behemoths" like this. "And if you do, I will not sign it."
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Fritz says goodbye
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 SCHUYLER KROPF - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Democratic U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings' formal goodbye to his colleagues started with a fiery condemnation of a Washington run amok.
It ended with a humble thank you.
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Senate OKs $800B debt limit hike
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
AP's Alan Fram - - Charleston Post and Courier
| A divided Senate approved an $800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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Chafee: Reid sounded out joining Democrats
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, a moderate often at odds with GOP conservatives, disclosed Wednesday that the leader of Senate Democrats sounded him out about switching parties in the aftermath of President Bush's re-election.
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Fallen Marine remembered for love of country, family
Thursday, November 11, 2004 PHILLIP CASTON - - Charleston Post and Courier
| --Jonathan Gadsden looked up from his hospital bed after his mother fed him a few spoonfuls of dinner.
"Mama," he said, "pray with me."
Zeada Gadsden closed her eyes and held her son's hand, the same way she had done every night she visited the wounded Marine at James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Fla., and during the weeks he spent at Bethesda Medical Center in Maryland.
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DeMint hopes to call Lowcountry home
Saturday, November 6, 2004 SCHUYLER KROPF - - Charleston Post and Courier
| After a year spent in what used to be smoke-filled rooms, Republican U.S. Senator-elect Jim DeMint grew pale on the campaign trail.
Pretty soon, getting a suntan should come easily. DeMint wants to move to Charleston.
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More battles likely on Bush judge picks
Saturday, November 6, 2004
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Charleston Post and Courier
| In a psychological war of words, Senate Republicans are issuing only slightly veiled threats against their Democratic counterparts if the minority party resuscitates its penchant for blocking President Bush's choices for federal judgeships.
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Bush overlooks own flip-flop in debate
Thursday, October 14, 2004
AP's CALVIN WOODWARD - - Charleston Post and Courier
| President Bush overlooked a flip-flop of his own when he boasted Wednesday about launching the Homeland Security Department: He was against it before he was for it. John Kerry told Americans he has a health care plan that covers all of them, when he doesn't.
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Candidates look to avoid debate pitfalls
Monday, September 27, 2004
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Charleston Post and Courier
| This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must stifle the smirk, for instance, and Kerry must cut short his rhetorical rambling.
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Cahill, Rove lead presidential campaigns
Monday, September 6, 2004
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Karl Rove is a smooth, jovial political operative with a Texas-honed reputation as a ruthless competitor and three George W. Bush victories under his belt. Mary Beth Cahill is a daughter of Boston's rough-and-tumble ward battles who just last year brought her no-nonsense organizational skills to Democratic opponent John Kerry's camp.
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Kerry: Bush lets groups do 'dirty work'
Friday, August 20, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Charleston Post and Courier
| John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records.
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Cheney Criticizes Kerry's Terror War Plan
Friday, August 13, 2004
AP's Laura Meckler - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday questioned Sen. John Kerry's call for a "more sensitive" war on terror, saying it won't impress the Sept. 11 terrorists or the Islamic militants who have beheaded U.S. citizens - criticism Kerry dismissed as negative politics.
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Kerry Pledges to Honor Indian Treaties
Monday, August 9, 2004
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry attended an intertribal Native American ceremony on Sunday beneath majestic red sandstone cliffs and said "all of America's children" will receive health care if he wins the White House.
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State opens fire in battle for Civil War documents
Sunday, August 8, 2004 BRIAN HICKS - - Charleston Post and Courier
| On the eve of an auction for more than 400 Civil War-era letters and documents, the state of South Carolina has stormed in to stop the bidding -- and has claimed the entire lot.
State Attorney General Henry McMaster on Friday slapped a temporary restraining order on a Columbia auction house and Charleston attorney Kenneth Krawcheck to halt the sale of 444 letters and documents dating back to wartime South Carolina.
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Obama Draws Roars of Approval at DNC
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
AP's Christopher Wills - - Charleston Post and Courier
| Offering his own life as an example of uniquely American possibilities, Barack Obama - the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya - drew roars of approval from Democrats on Tuesday night, saying Americans must not allow "spin masters and negative ad peddlers" to divide the country.
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Kerry Looks to Outshine Clintons at DNC
Monday, July 26, 2004
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Charleston Post and Courier
| It's John Kerry's convention, but Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton are stealing his opening-night thunder. Forceful, charismatic and controversial, the Clintons are the most sought-after stars in the Democratic Party, reminders of White House glory days and an administration willing to wage fierce fights with Republicans.
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Officials Want Election Rescheduling Rules
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
AP's ERICA WERNER - - Charleston Post and Courier
| The head of a new federal voting commission suggested to congressional leaders Monday that there should be a process for canceling or rescheduling an election interrupted by terrorism, but national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said no such plan is being considered by the administration.
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