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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1997
Page
3
More than 10 000 gallons of oil leaked from a Texaco underground line near Lake Barre. Crews boomed seven miles of water as 9 660 gallons were recovered by Sunday with estimates of 10 500 to 16 800 gallons spilled. The seven-inch pipeline was shut within ten minutes of rupture.
President Clinton announced a national goal to develop an AIDS vaccine within 10 years. He described a new NIH research center in Bethesda staffed by up to 50 researchers and urged urgent global action while activists criticized the plan as insufficient and watered down.
Researchers race to locate HPC1 the gene believed to cause about one third of inherited prostate cancer. Teams from Johns Hopkins and Sweden narrowed its chromosome location to a 3 to 6 million bit stretch. Gronberg said discovery could come in months to a year with 334000 American men diagnosed this year and 41800 deaths.
Kasparov, smarting from his loss to IBM's Deep Blue, urges a rematch in Time magazine proposing a 10 game, 20 day contest played every other day. IBM designers declined to commit, noting the computer defeated him 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 last weekend.
A second floor balcony at the University of Virginia collapsed during graduation ceremonies injuring 18 and killing Mary Jo Brashear of El Paso Texas. The 12 year old victim and 25 000 spectators witnessed the incident as commencement continued.
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