Barry Goldwater memorial draws national figures in Arizona
Politicians from four decades attend Barry Goldwater’s funeral at ASU Gammage. John McCain Newt Gingrich Nancy Reagan honor his public service and blunt honesty. Speakers recall his influence on conservatism and his lifelong love of flying. Family plans to mix his ashes with Peggy’s in the Grand Canyon confluence.
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Tempe, Ariz
Barry Goldwater
John McCain
R-Ariz
Honor Goldwater
America
McCain
Goldwater
Senate
Paradise Valley
Congressional
House
Newt Gingrich
Washington, D.C
Nancy Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Gammage
Arizona State University
Arizona
David Gordon
Scottsdale
Congress
Air Force
Reagan
Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Bruce Babbitt
Clinton
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Drug resistant TB emerging worldwide
Worldwide survey by the World Health Organization finds 1.4 percent of tuberculosis samples resistant to more than one of four key drugs. Highest rates in Latvia 14.4 percent, Estonia 10.2 percent, with notable burdens in Russia and the Dominican Republic. US multidrug resistance at 1.6 percent. Single drug resistance reaches 10 percent globally, and 10 percent of bacteria are resistant to at least one medicine. Editors warn the global TB burden could rise without proper treatment.
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Boston
Soviet Union
World Health Organization
New York City
Ariel Pablos-Mendez
Columbia University
WHO
Pablos-Mendez
Africa
New England Journal of Medicine
Latvia
Estonia
Dominican Republic
Argentina
Russia
Thailand
United States
Benin
Botswana
Brazil
Cuba
France
Kenya
Lesotho
New Zealand
Scotland
Spain
Swaziland
Zed Republic
Dixie E. Snider Jr
Kenneth G. Castro
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
El Nino disruptions may be ending says UN weather group
El Nino, blamed for floods in Africa and droughts in Asia, is in its dying stages says the World Meteorological Organization. Uncertainty remains about timing, with forecasts suggesting normal conditions by mid to late 1998 and possible La Nina follow on.
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Singapore
Africa
Asia
American West
World Meteorological Organization
Peru
Ecuador
South America
Earth
U.N
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Godwin Obasi
Nigeria
Destroying asteroids may be harder than it looks on screen
Los Angeles AP reports that computer simulations of a 17 kiloton shock on the asteroid Castalia show deflection or destruction is more complex than imagined. Researchers note size shape and structure crucial for any nuclear option while NASA budgets push to detect and study near Earth objects over the next decade.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Nature
Eric Asphaug
University of California At Santa Cruz
NASA
Earth
Pentagon
Energy Department
Asphaug
Aspirang
Alan W. Harris
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
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Music City Mall
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