Cosby Earns Education Doctorate At UMass
Comedian Bill Cosby has earned a Doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts after five years of work and completing his orals. His dissertation titled The Integration of the Visual Media Via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids into the Elementary Schools Culminating as a Teacher Aid to Achieve Increased Learning. Cosby, 39, earned his masters at UMass in 1972 and has said he might return to teaching if show business tires him. He previously taught in Philadelphia before rising to fame in comedy.
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Cosby
Temple University
Philadelphia
Lassa fever suspected in Toronto patient first in North America
Ontario health officials said tests by the Centers for Disease Control indicated a 56-year-old woman at Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto probably has Lassa fever. The disease, first identified in Nigeria, has been fatal in 30 to 60 percent of cases there and has appeared recently in England and Australia but not North America.
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Toronto
UPI
North America
Ontario
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Etobicoke General Hospital
Nigeria
England
Australia
Terrorists attack sister of Mexico's president
Police say a far left group likely staged the machine gun ambush on a car carrying Margarita Lopez Portillo Galindo sister of President-elect Jose Lopez Portillo. Two killed including one gunman. she unharmed. bodyguard and driver wounded. Five attackers believed from the September 23 Communist League.
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Mexico City
UPI
Jose Lopez Portillo
Margarita Lopez Portillo Galindo
Communist League
Lopez Portillo
Pisto
League
Luis Echeverria
Martian fog find seen as key in life search
UPI reports Viking project scientist Dr. William Baum called shallow fogs seeping from Martian soil into the atmosphere significant in the hunt for life. He cited two Viking 1 orbiter photos taken at dawn showing water vapor rising from soil into a cold sky, suggesting atmosphere soil interaction. Viking 2 began imaging three potential landing sites on its fourth orbit.
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James J. Doyle
Pasadena
Qailif
UPI
Viking Project
Martian
Red Planet
Viking 1
William Baum
Orbiter
Baum
Viking 2
Mars
Poisons Studied in Legionnaires Deaths Link to Antifreeze Cadmium
Medical experts probe two poisons found in antifreeze and a metal cadmium as possible causes of the Legionnaires disease outbreak tied to a Philadelphia American Legion convention. Cadmium and nickel carbonyl are under investigation. the illness affected attendees July 21 24 with more than 150 nonfatal cases. Crystals in kidneys of two Pittsburgh area victims suggest ingestion of ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol from antifreeze.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Allegheny County
Denis Lucey
State Health
Secre
Tary Leonard Bachman
F. William Sunderman Sr
Sunderman
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Hahnemann Medical College
Cyril Wecht
Pittsburgh Area
Rhodesia accuses Mozambique of mortar attack on Umtali
Rhodesian spokesmen say regular Mozambique troops bombarded Umtali injuring two, marking a new phase in the jungle war. Security forces warned of possible further attacks as cross border violence escalates after a Rhodesian raid in Mozambique.
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Umitali
Rhodesia
UPI
Mozambique
Ian Smith
Umtali
Price index up 0.3 percent in July
The July Wholesale Price Index rose 0.3 percent, marking an annual inflation rate of 3.6 percent based on the 1967=100 base. Food prices fell 1 percent while industrial commodities such as petroleum, lumber and metal products jumped 0.7 percent, offsetting some farm price declines.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
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