Clinton fails to persuade Israel on troop withdrawal
AP reports President Clinton did not compel Israel to resume West Bank troop withdrawals under the Wye River accord during a 90 minute meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Arafat at the Erez crossing. Clinton remains hopeful and will send Albright back for further talks as negotiations continue amid mixed signals from Netanyahu and Arafat.
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Woorich Clinton
Israel
Erez Crossing
Gaza Strip
Clinton
West Bank
Wye River
Benjamin ‘Netanyahu
Yasser Arafat
Athiman
Jordan
Hassan
King Hussein
United States
Pecemre
Bethlehem
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chelsea
Church of the Nativity
Manger Square
Arafat
Soha
Clintons
Netanyahu
Sarah
Masada
Washington
Ments
Holbrooke arrives in Serbia amid Kosovo tensions
U S envoy Richard Holbrooke travels to Belgrade and Pristina to revive stalled Kosovo peace efforts after the worst clashes in months killed at least 37 in the province. He plans talks with ethnic Albanian leaders and Yugoslav President Milosevic to push for a rapid peace plan amid rising violence and a NATO threat.
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Pristina
Yugoslavia
Richard Holbrooke
Serbia
Kosovo
Pec
Holbrooke
Belgrade
Rodan Milosevic
State Department
Helroate Delian Tog
Cement
Bo Ieing
Resovo
Abdlata
NATO
Albania
Organization For Security and Cooperation In Europe
OSCE
Tanjug
Kosovo Liberation Army
KLA
Milosevic
U.S
Christopher Dill
Iso
Mothers urge action as drug resistant germs alarm scientists
Washington AP report on mothers pressuring lawmakers to boost research into antibiotic resistant infections after a Mississippi mother tells of her daughter Shaunna in a vegetative state nine years after one of the first multidrug resistant meningitis cases. Senate leaders back new funding and faster drug development.
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Washington
Angela
Horn Lake
Miss
Shaunna
U.S
Bill Frist
Tenn
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Martin Rosenberg
Jeffrey Kaplan
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Trawler nets blamed for ocean damage
Two environmental groups say bottom trawling and dredging harm worldwide fisheries by crushing sponges and coral and disturbing the seabed, which affects young fish. A government official questioned some conclusions, noting uncertainty about focusing on trawling.
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Washington
Andrew Rosenberg
National Marine Fisheries Service
Conservation Biology
Washington, D.C
Woman gets life for murder taking fetus in Tuscaloosa
Felicia Scott was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of a pregnant teenager, stifling the victim and performing a crude Caesarian to remove the baby. The judge called the crime heinous and premeditated, rejecting a death sentence in Alabama. The infant, a girl, is now 2 1/2 and lives with her father.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Felicia Scott
Gay Lake Jr
Alabama
Scott
Donetta Cochrane
Carethia Curry
Miss Curry
GPS Ski Tracker Widens Price Of Alpine Bragging
In Vail Colorado the SportsTracker GPS system lets skiers rent a compact receiver to map their route, speed, and totals atop the mountain for 27 dollars a day. The device, created by James Gibson, aims to appeal to bikers hikers and golfers as well though its use echoes espionage warnings from a Russia arrest last year. Meanwhile in Parma Ohio Dwight Childs 29 faces a two 12 hour jail term for failing to switch off an air bag that deployed and killed his infant son Jacob. He pleaded no contest to vehicular homicide and running a red light in the crash aftermath. The incident underscores debates about air bag safety and enforcement of deactivation warnings.
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Vail
Colo
Russia
U.S
Jeff Crices
James Gibson
Parma
Ohio
Dwight Childs
American Automobile Association
Kenneth Spanagel
Childs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Jacob
Gene therapy builds muscle in aging mice
University of Pennsylvania researchers report that injecting a growth factor gene into aged mouse muscle restored about 27 percent of lost muscle and strength, while younger mice gained roughly 15 percent. Experts caution safety, ethical questions, and potential health risks before human trials.
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Washington
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
H. Lee Sweeney
Sweeney
Dr Sweeney
Warming trend seen as foe for Canada’s far north
Canada faces a climate shift that could thaw the permafrost and disrupt infrastructure across the sub Arctic. The Canada Country Study warns indigenous Inuit communities may lose hunting grounds and face water contamination and coastal erosion as temperatures rise sharply, with this year registering nine degrees above normal near the Mackenzie River delta.
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Toronto
Canada
Northwest Passage
Canadian
Environment Department
Northwest Territories
Mackenzie River
Beaufort Sea
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