Powerball jackpot grows after no six-number winner
Des Moines reports no ticket matched all six Powerball numbers Saturday night. The $33.6 million prize would have been split by players with five numbers plus the Powerball. the Wednesday jackpot is estimated at $38 million. Six tickets matched five numbers but not the Powerball, winning $100,000 each, sold in Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri and West Virginia (three).
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Des Moines
Delaware
Louisiana
Missouri
West Virginia
Detroit drug crackdown stalled amid weak prosecutions
The Detroit News analysis of over 4,000 drug cases since 1999 shows police failed to fulfill Benny Napoleon's 1998 pledge to curb narcotics trafficking. In 1996 and 1997, 6,267 narcotics cases were opened, but 1999 and 2000 dropped to 4,132 with many losses due to mishandled evidence, court lapses, or unsupported charges. Only two cases led to convictions on major drug charges.
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Benny Napoleon
Detroit News
Penn State Graduation Held Amid Security Measures
Penn State main campus weekend ceremonies proceeded without incident despite a death threat to a black student leader and a wave of racist letters. About 6 250 graduates passed through metal detectors as police presence rose for Friday and Saturday events and eased on Sunday.
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Penn State University
Penn State
Ancient BMAC civilization shows first hints of writing
Archaeologists led by Fredrik Hiebert report a small stone seal with four to five red symbols from Annan Turkmenistan dated around 2300 B C. The artifact suggests a literate Central Asian society within the Bactria Margiana Archaeological Complex.
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New York
Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Soviet Union
Fredrik Hiebert
University of Pennsylvania
Hiebert
Bactria Margiana Archaeolo
Annan
Harvard University
Mesopotamia
Iran
Indus River Valley
Mids
Egypt
Tigris
Euphrates Valley
Sumer
Babylon
Victor Meir
Kara-Kum Desert
Afghanistan
19 year old earns physics doctorate at Arkansas
John Carter, who began college at age 10, earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Arkansas at 19. He will teach at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri this summer. His mother Belinda Carter praises his early reading, self teaching, and extraordinary intellect.
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Fayetteville, Ark
John Carter
Carter
University of Arkansas
Belinda
Six Flags
John
Greg Beil
East Texas* Baptist University
Belinda Carter
Beil
Crowder College
Neosho
Cancer antibody shows shrinkage in terminal colon cancer patients
Researchers report that the monoclonal antibody C225 stabilizes and shrinks colorectal tumors in end stage patients who failed chemotherapy. In 120 studied, nine stopped growth and 27 shrank by at least fifty percent, with half of responses lasting over six months. Proceedings were at the ASCO meeting in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Leonard Saltz
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York
Saltz
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Moscone Center
Federal Food and Drug Administration
New kidney drug may reduce need for transplant
A Chicago report notes sirolimus or Rapamune, approved in 1999, can replace or reduce cyclosporine in kidney transplant patients. Study finds Rapamune–cyclosporine weaning yields similar low rejection, suggesting less kidney damage and possible fewer transplants. Doctors emphasize combined therapy limits rejection risk with steroids.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Donald Hricik
Case Western Reserve University
Hricik
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