New study cites typhoid fever in Alexander the Great’s death
University of Maryland researchers contend typhoid fever caused Alexander the Great’s death in 323 B C E Babylon at age 33. They note a late surviving account and classic symptoms such as chills and high fever support a typhoid diagnosis over poisoning or malaria.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander
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Babylon
David W. Oldach
University of Maryland
New England Journal of Medicine
Brady Bunch Actor Pleads Guilty to Drunken Driving
Michael Paul Lookinland known as Bobby Brady pleaded guilty in St George to drunken driving after a Bronco rollover. Police said his blood alcohol was three times the legal limit. Sentenced May 27 to 1500 dollar fine and 24 hours community service after completing rehab in December. he was filming Promised Land in Salt Lake City and sustained cuts and bruises.
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Michael Paul Lookinland
Bobby Brady
Lookinland
Salt Lake City
St. George
Mandela Poison Plot Revealed By Testimony At Panel
Cape Town AP report states a scientist testified that apartheid officials planned to poison Nelson Mandela with thallium to induce brain damage. Andre Immelman allegedly discussed the plan, aiming to disable Mandela rather than kill him, as part of chemical weapons probes at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Schalk van Rensburg
Andre Immelman
Mandela
van Rensburg
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Wouter Basson
Ace Greenberg donates $1 million for Viagra access
Alan Ace Greenberg head of Bear Stearns donates one million dollars to buy Viagra for poor men. He says the money comes from his own wealth and aims to address silent suffering. The grant funds purchases at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City with his wife Kathy as a board member.
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New York
Alan
Ace” Greenberg
Bear
Stearns and Co
Greenberg
Israel Museum
Jerusalem
Mr Greenberg
New York City
Kathy
Court says poor can attend religious schools in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds a school choice program allowing low income Milwaukee students to attend religious or other private schools at taxpayer expense. The ruling expands eligibility to possibly 15,000 students, about ten times the current number, with grants around 5000 dollars per child annually. Justice Steinmetz wrote the decision, while dissenters argued it breaches a constitutional ban on state funds to religious bodies.
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Jury Awards Nearly $1 Million in Tobacco Liability Case
A Jacksonville jury ordered Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp to pay about 1 million dollars to the family of Roland Maddox, who smoked Lucky Strikes for almost 50 years and died of lung cancer at 67. Damages include 500,000 compensatory and 450,000 punitive. $52,249 for medical expenses. B&W plans an appeal.
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B&w
Woody Wilner
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
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Maddox
Angela Widdick
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
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BEW
BAT Industries PLC
American Stock Exchange
Three white men charged in brutal killing of James Byrd Jr.
In Jasper Texas prosecutors weigh death penalty for Lawrence Brewer Shawn Berry and John King accused of chaining James Byrd Jr to a pickup and dragging him for miles. Byrd 49 was found dead with severed head and limbs after last seen at a bridal shower. Investigators report blood along a two mile road. All three suspects have criminal records and ties to white supremacist groups.
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Jasper
Texas
Guy James Gray
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James Byrd Jr
Mr. Byrd
Lawrence Russell Brewer
Sulphur Springs
Shawn Allen Berry
John William King
Aryan Brotherhood
Ku Klux Klan
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