Nobel prizes honor U.S. Canadian physicists and Californian chemist
American Clifford Shull and Canadian Bertram Brockhouse win the physics prize for neutron spectroscopy and studying atoms. American George Olah of UCLA earns the chemistry prize for advancing hydrocarbon chemistry and cleaner fuels. Olah plans to donate the prize money to his wife.
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U.S
Stockholm
Sweden
Clifford Shull
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bertram Brockhouse
McMaster University
Ham
Ilton
Ontario
George Olah
Motive and suspects named in Hauser slaying
State documents reveal Blake Privitt and Burt Smith among youths tied to the fatal October 4 incident on a Marshall County road. Autopsy shows Rebecca Hauser died from multiple stab wounds after being shot once in the face, with a nonlethal gunshot.
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Blake Privitt
Marshall County
Ted Kamatchus
Hauser
Burt Smith
Thomas Bennett
Albion
Marshalltown
Privitt
Haitian President Quits as Cedras Regime Collapses
The last pillar of Haiti's military regime falls as Cedras is set to leave, and officials from Aristide’s government return to offices amid a large American military presence. The army installs a figurehead president as pressure mounts for a transition.
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Cedras
Gazette Wire Services
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Jean- Bertrand Aristide
Resigning Haiti government ends Cedras era riots in exile
Emile Jonassaint announced his resignation and that of his government as Haitians celebrated outside Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras hillside mansion. Cedras prepared for exile to Panama where asylum was granted after a letter from Aristide. Cedras and family slated to fly out on Spirit of Indianapolis. U.S. ambassador Swing called it the end of a period of impunity for toppled regimes.
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Emile Jonassaint
Raoul Cedras
Cedras
Panama
Berta Thayer
Port-au- Prince
Spirit of Indianapolis
U.S
William Swing
Aristide
Jonassaint
Nearsightedness surgery shows long term gains
A study finds that about 70 percent of patients who underwent radial keratotomy in the early 1980s did not need glasses or contacts ten years later. Nearsighted individuals see close objects clearly but struggle with distant ones. farsighted individuals see far objects better yet have trouble focusing on near work.
Auditor McMahan defends procurement reforms amid scandal
Finance chief Lyle Hanson notes irony of auditing doubts as staff diligence irks some. Former payroll clerk Beverly Van Horn cites solvent payments and in sewers dumping claims. McMahan recalls asked questions by Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Zeller and Fiser face tight race for county post with Dec 6 special election pending.
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Lyle Hanson
McMahan
Beverly van Horn
Goldin
van Horn
Wayne Murdock
Murdock
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