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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1999
Page
3
A blood test showed former Owensboro reporter Kim Stacy did not have AIDS as she claimed in fictitious columns about her health. Stacy was fired May 10 after admitting five columns about terminal brain cancer were fabrications and later said the AIDS story was also a lie.
World War II servicemen are dying at over 1,000 daily, prompting veterans groups to urge Congress to create larger national cemeteries. They tell the House Veterans Affairs subcommittee planning takes five to seven years, arguing space will run out early in the 21st century unless action is taken. A VA official says current grounds would last until 2030 with no expansion. Representative Terry Everett notes annual deaths exceed 377,000 and funding is insufficient to meet needs.
The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education requires public universities to inform parents when underage students are caught with alcohol on campus. Following high profile deaths at MIT and LSU in 1997, schools like University of Delaware, Georgetown, Clemson, Lafayette, and Indiana University have adopted similar policies. The Delaware campus notified 1,414 parents last fall, and repeat offenses declined thereafter.
A Boston University built research satellite launched this week for a 12.3 million ionosphere mission appears to be power starved after not fully pointing its solar panels at the sun. The university said the craft seems to have run out of battery power and has not communicated since yesterday. Dan Cotton, senior researcher at the Center for Space Physics, is the principal investigator. This report from wire service copies.
In West Virginia a tracing unit works through paper records and microfilm to follow two of the four Littleton firearms to their Denver area first retail sales. The effort highlights limits of gun tracing, including private sales past the initial dealer chain and sparse high‑tech tools. The ATF and NRA clash over tracing reach and prosecutions amid federal debates on gun control.
Harvard researcher Anne Becker reports a fivefold rise in eating disorder symptoms among Fijian teenage girls after TV adoption in 1995. By 1998, 15 percent vomited to control weight, 74 percent felt too big or fat, and 62 percent had dieted, amid exposure to American shows.
Yale researcher Dr Ralph Hoffman reports preliminary results from 12 patients using transcranial magnetic stimulation. About half experienced markedly reduced hallucinations, some lasting days to weeks, with one case seven weeks after four daily treatments. Further research is needed to confirm efficacy.
Jet-setting Americans who eat chicken and meat overseas are bringing back resistance to antibiotics used to treat stomach upset and other bacterial illnesses. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine links resistance largely to foreign travel and partially to U S poultry antibiotic use approved by the FDA in 1995. Lead author Kirk Smith of the Minnesota Health Department calls for scrutiny of quinolone use in poultry.
In a Journal of the American Medical Association report from Chicago, researchers led by Dr. Ronald Turner at the Medical University of South Carolina tested tremacamra on 177 volunteers all given rhinovirus. The drug cut sneezing runny noses and congestion nearly in half by blocking rhinoviruses from attaching to a cell molecule, though its effectiveness across diverse cold-causing viruses remains to be proven.
Harvard Divinity School dean Ronald Thiemann quit after explicit material was found on a university computer. The Globe cited anonymous Harvard sources saying the resignation followed a university request for conduct unbecoming a dean. Thiemann remains a tenured professor on sabbatical.
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