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Study questions effort to end AIDS testing
WASHINGTON - A North Carolina effort to end anonymous AIDS testing may be detrimental, suggests a study that found more people were tested in counties that offered tests without reporting names to state health officials.North Carolina health officials disagreed with the findings, reported in today's American Journal of Public Health, saying people with HIV get better health care when the state knows who they are.
At issue is anonymous testing, under which patients are identified only by a number, vs. confidential testing, under which the state records names on a list that, by law, is kept private. State workers use the names to track down people the patient may have infected and to contact patients themselves to offer health services.
Twenty-six states require reporting of names of HIV-infected people. North Carolina offers both types, but the state Health Department wants to end all anonymous testing. A lawsuit attempting to block that move is pending in state Supreme Court.
Silicon Valley leads in import gains
WASHINGTON - Silicon Valley posted the nation's best export record last year, at least in terms of dollar gains.
Rising international demand for computers and other electronic products made San Jose, Calif., the top metropolitan area with an increase of $6.9 billion in foreign sales, up 34.5 percent over 1994, said a Commerce Department study released yesterday.
The report, which showed how 253 metropolitan areas stacked up in terms of trade, was an effort by the administration to highlight economic benefits of expanded trade at a time when President Clinton's trade policies are being attacked by GOP challenger Bob Dole.
Dole attacked Clinton's record last week, noting that the trade deficit has widened every year Clinton has been in office.
"Thousands and thousands of American jobs are being given away to foreign countries," he alleged.
U of L players named in suit
LOUISVILLE - A former University of Louisville student has alleged in a lawsuit that he was beaten by five football players during a pickup basketball game at Crawford Gym.
In the suit, which was filed Monday in Jefferson Circuit Court, Jamie T. Page contends he was attacked without provocation on Oct. 30, 1995.
Page alleges that he was severely beaten by Ibn Green, a freshman fullback; Robert Bates, a junior wide receiver; Rico Clark, a senior safety; Deran Wiley, a junior cornerback; and Antuan Wordlow, who was a sophomore defensive back last year but isn't on the roster this year.
A grand jury last summer declined to indict the players on second-degree assault charges.
The suit also names as defendants the university; its president, John Shuaker; football coach Ron Cooper; Daniel P. Keller, the director of its Department of Public Safety; and Melvin A. Sloan, the equipment clerk at Crawford Gymnasium.
FBI: hair samples match missing girl's
BOWLING GREEN - Samples of hair recovered where a body was found in northern Tennessee were consistent with hair of a 7-year-old Bowling Green girl who has been missing for three months, the FBI said yesterday.
Hair samples from the remains were taken to the FBI Laboratory in Washington, where they were determined yesterday to be consistent with hair taken from clothing previously provided to the FBI.
The hair samples are not a positive identification, but it would be rare to find two people with such similar microscopic characteristics, the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI also said a red or maroon van was seen near the Tennessee site on July 24, the day Morgan Violi disappeared.
A woman told law-enforcement authorities that she saw a van at the site, but Robertson County Sheriff Ted Emery said earlier Wednesday that the van did not match the vehicle used in the kidnapping.
Trump buys rights to pageants
NEW YORK - Donald Trump, connoisseur of all things fine, is buying himself a bevy of blondes, brunettes, redheads.
Trump announced yesterday that he has acquired the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen beauty pageants from ITT.
"It's a done deal," the real estate mogul said. "It's a very, very great entertainment format. It gets very high ratings, it's doing very well and we'll make it even better."
Trump wouldn't say say how much he paid, but the New York Post said that the deal was worth tens of millions of dollars and that Trump beat out several other potential buyers, including some South American media moguls.
Compiled from wire reports.
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