Health worker fired over confidential AIDS list misuse
Miami public health employee William Calvert was fired after alleged use of a confidential AIDS and HIV patient list to screen dates. Disks with nearly 4,000 names were taken to a gay bar. Calvert, claiming innocence, says he did nothing wrong. Disks and an anonymous letter named him, with Calvert having led a Pinellas County program since 1992. The case raises concerns about health record security and past policy allowing file removal.
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William Calvert
Calvert
Tampa Bay Area
Pinellas County Health Department
Church fires probe links racism to rising tensions
The U S civil rights commission reported that the wave of church burnings in Alabama Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee signals deeper racial tensions in America. Officials urged six state governors to meet and craft strategic plans with the Justice Department and other agencies. Louisiana Governor Mike Foster agreed to an Oct. 20 discussion as officials noted white church fires occur too and only about 20 percent of black church arsons are clearly racially motivated.
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Mary Frances Berry
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South Carolina
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Bobby Doctor
NAACP
United States
Atty
Duval Patrick
Justice Department
Civil Rights Division
Civil Rights Commission
Mike Foster
Berry
Nobel Prizes Awarded to Buckminsterfullerenes and Helium Superfluidity
Five Americans and six scientists total won Nobel Prizes for chemistry and physics. Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley of Rice University shared the chemistry prize for buckyballs or fullerenes discovered at Rice in 1985. The physics prize went to David Lee, Robert Richardson, and Douglas Osheroff of Cornell and Stanford for superfluid helium-3 at near absolute zero. The awards highlight fullerene applications and subatomic insights with broad future tech potential.
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New York
R. Buckminster Fuller
U.S
Harold Kroto
Sussex University
England
Robert Curl, Jr
Richard Smalley
David Lee
Robert Richardson
Douglas Osheroff
Lee
Richardson
Cornell University
Osheroff
Stanford
Chelsea school lunch stickers spark new stigma debate
In Chelsea Massachusetts the poorest students wear blue or yellow lunch stickers to indicate free or paid meals as 2400 elementary pupils begin using temporary tags. Superintendant Sears says stigma is media hype while noting 75 percent qualify for free lunch and future photo IDs will conceal payment status.
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Mass
Connie Ruelas
Boston
Boston University
Supt
Douglas Sears
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sears
Myrna Aguilar
AP Proto
Springsteen denies backing Dole after campaign use of song
Bruce Springsteen rebutted claims his music supported Bob Dole after Red Bank rally used Born in the U S A without permission. He stated he is not a Dole supporter in a fax to the Asbury Park Press, a repeat of similar protest in 1984. George Burns estate auction at Sotheby’s Beverly Hills offers cigars glasses and a chair with estimated totals from 250000 to 350000. Proceeds support Cedar Sinai Medical Center United Jewish Fund and MP&TVF. Burns died March 9 near his 100th birthday.
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Bob Dole
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Los Angeles
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Burns
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Sotheby's
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United Jewish Fund
Motion Picture and Television Fund
Gulf War Illness Not Found by Panel Yet
An 18 member Institute of Medicine panel found no evidence of a distinct Gulf War chronic illness from Persian Gulf service. They noted pain fatigue and cognitive complaints among veterans may reflect psychological stress and exposure to nerve gas remains unlikely though deserving future study.
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Institute of Medicine
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Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments
National Academy of Sciences
Institute of Medicine Committee
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