Albert Turner Sr dies after surgery delay in Alabama
Civil rights leader Albert Turner Sr died while awaiting surgery for abdominal bleeding after his heart stopped during an operation to remove part of his colon. Turner, 64, was Alabama field secretary for the SCLC in 1965 and helped lead the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march before it was halted by state troopers.
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Martin Luther King
Robert Turner
Selma Baptist Hospital
Turner
Alabama
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Selma-to-Montgomery
Postal executives' move costs questioned in D C
Washington DC Postal Service paid over 142000 to relocate CFO Richard Porras and about 106000 to move John Ward, both remaining at the headquarters. Both advised Postmaster General William Henderson and oversee a budget over 63 billion. An exception to the usual 50 mile relocation rule was granted after promotions in 1998.
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Postal Service
Washington
Richard Porras
John Ward
William Henderson
Judy Demorok
de Torok
CNN settles defamation suit over nerve gas story
CNN reached a mediation settlement with retired Army General John Singlaub over the 1998 Operation Tailwind report that accused the military of nerve gas use on defectors. Terms were not disclosed. Singlaub, a former commander in the Studies and Operations Group, was unnamed as a source in the CNN broadcast and later retracted.
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CNN
John Singlaub
Singlaub
Dead Trucker’s Family Wins $50 Million Suit Against Mack Trucks
A Grove Hill jury awarded Mary Witherspoon 50 million dollars after finding Mack Trucks Inc. liable for a fatal 1995 wreck that trapped Tonnie Witherspoon, 33, in a burning log truck. The suit claimed an inexpensive device could have saved him.
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Mack Trucks Inc
Grove Hill
Mary Witherspoon
Tonnie Witherspoon
Mack
Microsoft security code flaw exposes rude remark
A Windows based code flaw in FrontPage 98 extensions allowed access to multiple Web site pages on the same server though remote hacking was unlikely. The flaw included a taunting message Netscape engineers are weenies and was not a password or backdoor. Microsoft says the issue is older software now upgraded.
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Seattle
Microsoft Corp
Internet
Netscape Communications Corp
Microsoft
Scott Culp
Netscape
Catherine Corre
America Online Inc
Dan Leach
AOL
Wall Street Journal
Culp
Teachers union pushes national exams for teachers
Atlanta AP report says the American Federation of Teachers urged national exams for aspiring educators to raise standards, while the NEA criticized the move as a hindrance amid a teacher shortage. The proposal calls for a subject major, a year internship, and higher GPA, with plans to raise minimum GPA from 2.5 to 2.75 then 3.0.
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American Federation of Teachers
National Education Assn
AFT
Sandra Feldman
Federation
The
Education Writers Assn
Bob Chase
NEA
Chase
Joan Baratz-Snowden
Wayne Johnson
California Teachers Assn
Johnson
California
Princeton grad finds oldest quasar 12 billion light years away
Grad student Xiaohui Fan, astrophysics, at Princeton University, reports the discovery of a quasar 12 billion light years distant. The finding offers a view of the early universe less than a billion years after the Big Bang, as researchers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and colleagues discuss its luminous nature and study potential.
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Princeton, N.J
Princeton University
Astrophysics
Xiaohui Fan
Earth
Fan
Robert Lupton
Princeton
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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