Infertility Doctor Jacobson Convicted on 52 Counts
Federal jury finds Cecil Jacobson guilty of fraud and perjury over artificial insemination with his own sperm possibly fathering up to 75 children. He faces up to 280 years in prison and a May 8 sentence. Former patients testified he misled them about pregnancies.
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Jacobson
United States
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Richard
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Earman
Jean Blair
James Blair
Randy Bellows
Virginia State Board of Medicine
Stone Presses for JFK Records Release on Capitol Hill
Oliver Stone met lawmakers and officials in Washington urging release of CIA FBI and military documents on the 1963 Kennedy assassination. Senator David Boren said most material can be public with exclusions and a historians panel could review disputes. Representative Louis Stokes promised a bill within two weeks.
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D-Okla
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Boren
Louis Stokes
Ohio
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Stokes
Lee Harvey Oswald
Sigmoidoscopy May Cut Colon Cancer Deaths, Trim Coloscopy Needs
Washington Post reports that sigmoidoscopy can reduce colon and rectal cancer deaths by about 30 percent and need not be performed as often. Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest a 10 year interval may match 3 to 5 year schedules and that some small polyps may not require colonoscopy every four to five years.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Protest Reignites Blue Ribbon Schools Program
Students and educators nationwide challenged a funding halt for the Blue Ribbon Awards. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander pledges new funding from a $100 million Educational Excellence appropriation, keeping the program on track for fall awards with about 250 certificates.
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Los Angeles
Horn
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