Family searches for Katrina missing relative Darryl Milton
In New Orleans, Roy Milton and family hold onto hope for Darryl Milton and his girlfriend Pam Washington, among about 1900 people listed as missing after Hurricane Katrina. They last heard from him trapped in an attic as floodwaters rose and phone service failed.
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New Orleans
Roy Milton
Darryl Milton
Darryl
Pam Washington
Katrina
Ninth Ward
Tasheka Dixon
Milton
Chavez unveils new Venezuela flag drawing praise and protests
President Chavez raised a modified flag featuring a leftward white horse, extra star, indigenous bow and arrow, and a labor machete. Supporters cheered at a large ceremony while opposition marchers criticized the changes as a political stunt and waste. The flag will replace the current symbol in documents and official use.
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Venezuela
Caracas
Simon Bolivar
Hugo Chavez
Chavez
Bolivar
B vitamins fail to cut heart risks in major studies
Two large trials show B vitamin supplements lowered homocysteine but did not reduce heart attack or stroke risk. Eva Lonn and Kaare Bonan led studies in North America and Europe with thousands of patients over five and three years, finding no mortality or morbidity benefit despite lower homocysteine levels.
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Washington Post
Eva Lonn
McMaster University
Canada
Kaare Bonan
University of Tomsa
Norway
Kite crackdown leaves Lahore skies largely empty during Basant
Pakistani police arrested about 1,400 people over three days to enforce a ban on kite flying during Basant after seven deaths from wire or glass string injuries. Mayor says ban reduced fatalities. some defied it as police raid backyards and detain fliers.
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Lahore
Pakistan
Punjab
Malik Munir Ahmed
Basant
Mian Amir Mahmood
Detective Tracks Westminster Whippet Through Queens
Pet detective Karin Goin says Vivi the whippet, missing after the Westminster Kennel Club show, is roaming Queens. Goin and two tracking dogs followed a trail from South Jamaica to Baisley Pond Park and then to a residential area near 192nd Street and 45th Avenue in Flushing, noting the trail was fresh.
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Jamaica
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45Th Avenue
Flushing
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