Iacocca starts fundraiser for type 1 diabetes cure
Former auto executive Lee Iacocca launches a three year testing program at Massachusetts General Hospital to fund clinical tests and potential cure for type 1 diabetes. He pledges 1 million dollars and aims to mobilize ten million participants contributing ten dollars each. The disease affects about two million Americans and can cause blindness and limb loss.
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Iacocca
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
United States
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Sigourney Weaver Declines Fear Factor Challenge
Sigourney Weaver says she would not be a good Fear Factor contestant. She dislikes eating cockroaches and describes a recent frightening encounter with a multi legged flying creature in her bedroom while promoting The Village thriller now in theaters.
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Associated Press
Sigourney Weaver
People Magazine
Weaver
Fonzie's Rise Surprises Happy Days Creator
Garry Marshall recalls Fonzie's sudden star power in Happy Days as Henry Winkler's silent biker outsized first season. The show features Ron Howard as a 1950s teen with Fonzie gaining lines and prominence after initial credits.
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Associated Press
Garry Marshall
Henry Winkler
Ron Howard
Fonzie
Marshall
Winkler
Schreiber Narrates Ground Zero Baseball Documentary
HBO announces Nine Innings From Ground Zero narrated by Liev Schreiber. The film links the 2001 World Series and New York’s response after September 11, with a sundown screening in midtown Manhattan and a Sept. 14 HBO broadcast.
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Associated Press
Liev Schreiber
Midtown Manhattan
HBO
New York
Ground Zero
Lower Manhattan
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Released From Hospital
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 83, who was hospitalized for hypothermia after a sailing trip, has been released. She is the fifth child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy and the mother of Maria Shriver, journalist and California first director of the Peace Corps.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Associated Press
Shriver
Rose and
Joseph Kennedy
Maria Shriver
California Shriver
Peace Corps
Notable birthdays span film icons and performers today
Actress Shelley Winters and actress Madeleine Stowe share today as birthdays. Directors and actors including Roman Polanski Robert Redford Patrick Swayze Denis Leary Christian Slater Edward Norton are listed among notable celebrants.
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Shelley Winters
Roman Polans
Robert Redford
Patrick Swayze
Denis Leary
Madeleine Stowe
Christian Slater
Edward Norton
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