Metro area panel reshapes U.S. metro map for Census 2000
Residents fear changes to metropolitan boundaries will erase city identities. High Point NC protests being merged into Greensboro while Grand Forks ND and East Grand Forks MN could lose distinct status. Final recommendations go to the Office of Management and Budget before April 1.
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Washington
High Point
N.C
Greensboro
Donna Machen
Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee
Robert “Punky” Beauchamp
Grand Forks
East Grand Forks
Minn
Red River
Federal Bureau of the Budget
OMB
Wall Street bomb blasts shake New York office near Barclays Bank
A small bomb exploded before dawn on Wall Street near Barclays Bank injuring one person and shattering windows. Police say no evidence of terrorism. a man seen nearby is sought. Four postal workers escaped the blast as Barclays Bank building suffered minor damage.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Rudolph Giuliani
Barclays Bank
Wall and Water Streets
Kelleher
Dennis Theodore
World Co. LLC
Barclays
Britain resumes direct rule in Northern Ireland amid disarmament doubt
Britain reasserts direct control over Northern Ireland stripping powers from the Protestant Catholic coalition. The move follows IRA disarmament questions and tensions over Sinn Fein links. Peter Mandelson says powers may return if IRA decommissions and a date is set. Ulster Unionists weigh cabinet status as Trimble faces altered risks.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Britain
Irish Republican Army
Peter Mandelson
Mandelson
Ulster Unionists
Sinn Fein
Gerry Adams
IRA
David Trimble
FDA probes gene therapy trial amid child cancer deaths
The FDA suspends a St. Jude Baylor College of Medicine gene therapy study to determine whether an accidental exposure to HIV or other viruses occurred in treated children. Officials say findings are preliminary and no violations have been confirmed.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Reporhe
Bill Frist
R-Tenn
St. Jude’s
Laura Bowman
Bowman
Past catches up with Vietnam-era fugitive in Arizona
In Phoenix, anti-war activist Howard Mechanic, once a Scottsdale City Council candidate known as Gary Tredway, surrendered after a week of newspaper investigations exposed his identity. He had fled a five-year sentence for throwing a cherry bomb at firefighters during a 1970 protest.
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Phoenix
Howard Mechanic
Scottsdale
Gary Tredway
Mechanic
John Eichenauer
Eichenauer
Washington University
St. Louis
Kent State University
Ohio
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