Viagra approved by FDA marks first noninvasive impotence cure
The FDA cleared Pfizer Viagra, a pill for erectile dysfunction, showing about two thirds improved function in trials. It works with sexual stimulation, costs about seven dollars per pill, and will ship within two weeks. Experts caution it targets medical issues and not libido, and anticipate a growing market with multiple rivals.
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Pfizer Inc
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University of Southern California
Padma Nathan
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Padma-Nathan
Tap
Zonagen Inc
Vasomax
DNA made microchips and vast storage dream grows
Israeli researchers at Technion led by Uri Sivan mix biology and electronics to create a DNA built conductive wire far thinner than a human hair. The team aims to eventual 250 times smaller wiring and store vast data, with potential for faster cheaper complex computers. Separately in Memphis, DA says no evidence of conspiracy or new trial for James Earl Ray in MLK assassination. McMinnville case sees no charges after strip search of 34 middle school girls. principal and liaison officer cleared, officer reassigned, vice principal resigns.
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Library of Congress
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Yoav Eichen
Erez Braun
Memphis, Tenn
Martin Luther King Jr
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Ray
Bill Gibbons
Memphis
Mcminnville
Ore
Brad Berry
Duniway Middle School
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Last surviving astro chimp Minnie dies at 41 in New Mexico
Minnie the last surviving astro chimp from the early space program died at 41 in Alamogordo. She trained for the Mercury Project as the only female chimp but never flew. Ham and Enos were earlier chimps, with Enos orbited before John Glenn. The Coulston Foundation oversaw the space chimps at Holloman AFB since 1993.
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N.M
Minnie
Ham
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Coulston Foundation
Don McKinney
Holloman Air Force Base
Alan B. Shepard
Enos
John Gienn
Cows Consume Mass Grain Fatalities At Washington Farm
In Olympia Washington AP thirty two dairy cows died after an automatic feeder dumped grain spilling tons of feed and triggering lethal stomach acid. Owners Bobby and Judy Odermann report two deaths by morning and thirty more by afternoon devastating a herd valued up to forty five thousand dollars and threatening the farm's future.
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Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Kosovo
Albania
Milosevic
Robert Gelbard
Milos
Gelbard
Poland
Bronislaw Geremek
Organization For Security and Cooperation In Europe
Olympia. Wash
Bobby
Judy Odermann
Michael Paros
Obermanns
Mona Lisa to get room of her own
Louvre officials announced the Mona Lisa will move to a private 4.2 million gallery funded by Nippon Television by 2001. The new gallery aims to ease crowds around the famed portrait while remaining displayed in the Salle des Etats on the museum’s second floor.
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Paris
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Louvre
Christophe Monin
Nippon Television
France
Hospital worker admits killing up to 50 patients
Efren Saldivar a Glendale Adventist respiratory therapist told police he killed as many as 40 to 50 terminally ill patients. Authorities suspended his license and fired him while 43 colleagues were also suspended. Police consider exhumation and file reviews as the investigation, with no charges filed yet and evidence gathering ongoing.
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Efren Saldivar
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Glendale
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State Respiratory Board
William Currie
Currie
Glendale Adventist
Mark Newmyer
Newmyer
Respiratory Board
Natalie Brooks buried after Westside Middle tragedy
Natalie Brooks age eleven was buried after a shooting rampage at Westside Middle School that killed three classmates and a teacher. Four funerals followed for victims while Drew Golden and Mitchell Johnson await trial on multiple murder and battery counts. Neighbors offered comfort as families struggled with forgiveness.
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