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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1998
Page
2
Eastman Kodak Co will stop manufacturing 126-size film cartridges on New Year’s Eve 1999 after selling 50 million cameras from 1963 to 1970 and 20 million more later. Scott Sims of Scott’s Photo in Rochester recalls stocking cartridges until customers dwindled and notes film will vanish once supplies run out.
Los Angeles cartoonists from Local 839 of the Motion Picture Cartoonists Union criticized Nickelodeon’s new Nicktoons Animation Studio for low pay and weak benefits. An ad in Daily Variety mocked studio openings and highlighted a miniature golf course while calling for fair compensation.
A House National Security Committee vote 30-23 endorses language in a defense bill to require the Army Navy and Air Force to run basic training platoons as all male or all female by April 15 1999 and to house men and women in separate barracks. The Marine Corps already separates genders in boot camp.
A small key chain pistol, three inches long and capable of firing two .42 caliber rounds, challenges airport security screens. The $20 weapon uses a rear ring cock and a button trigger, designed to fire gas cartridges. The FAA says it remains confident detectors will find such devices despite its low metal content and simple shape.
President Clinton said his executive privilege claim in the Monica Lewinsky inquiry is "quite different" from Nixon’s tapes case. At the federal courthouse, Clinton staffers and witnesses continued testimony as the independent counsel’s grand jury probe persisted. Clinton declined to comment on appealing a judge’s ruling about aides testifying, though aides suggested an appeal is likely.
Congressman apologizes for the Hubbell tapes release amid a GOP fund-raising inquiry furor. Rep. Dan Burton accepts responsibility for mistakes while top investigator departs under House Speaker Newt Gingrich. President Clinton denounces selective release as privacy violation and notes the broader embarrassment to Republicans.
Danish researchers report in Nature that CART stands for cocaine and amphetamine-regulated transcript and acts as a brain appetite brake. Blocking CART increased eating, while injecting CART reduced intake and blocked neuropeptide Y. Human CART exists, suggesting potential for obesity drugs. Emory findings to appear in Synapse.
Dr Judah Folkman notes two mouse-eliminating drugs would be added to chemotherapy radiotherapy gene therapy and immunotherapy if effective in humans. He cautions results are from mice and human trials 12 to 18 months away for the licensed company to begin.
A CDC study estimates 68,000 to 340,000 annual salmonella infections in the United States are caused by a strain resistant to five antibiotics. The germ has troubled Europe, especially Britain, and may cause more severe illness than typical salmonella. Many cases go unreported.
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