Brains Taken From Deceased By City Office Revealed
Medical examiner's office removed brains from 26 people who died in 1990 and 1991 and sent them to Penn Medical School without family consent. Families say city did not inform them, while city cites autopsy authorization. Several relatives recall shock and distress upon learning the practice. Courts seal most names. Penn brains sent under an agreement with a university professor.
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Philadelphia
Margaret Zucoski
Joseph
Zacoski
Zucoski
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Zucoskis
Philadelphia Medical Examiner
Penn Medical School
Mediical Examiner
Phila
the Inquirer
The
Inquirer
Penn
Jeff Moran
City Health Department
Daisy Bishop
Delores Milliner
Woman sues former employer over boxing incident nose injury
Vivian Mondello, 30, sues Reuben H. Donnelley and co worker John Schoudel in U S District Court for 6 million claiming her nose was broken during a 1993 internal video boxing stunt at Donnelley Manhattan offices. She alleges coercion and threats of discipline, saying she did not consent to boxing and has permanent disfigurement and distress.
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New York
Vivian Mondello
U.S. District Court
Mondello
Reuben H. Donnelley
NYNEX
Yellow Pages
Dun & Bradstreet
John Schoudel
New Jersey
Donnelley
Manhattan
Schoudel
NYPD to adopt tougher fitness standards and preemployment tests
Commissioner William Bratton aims to slim down the NYPD with a new diet of policy changes. Recruits will face preemployment exams. academy graduates must meet stricter fitness tests. current officers will undergo ongoing physicals. The plan follows criticism of past lax standards and a recent purge of holdovers who failed the academy test. Seven fired recruits, six women and one man, filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging discrimination.
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NEW York
New York Police Department
William Bratton
Bratton
John Q
Julian
Academy
Michael Julian
City Human Rights Commission
Commission
Nydia Negron
General Mills Halts Cheerios Shipments Over Unapproved Pesticide
General Mills paused shipments of Cheerios and other oat cereals after discovering grain treated with a pesticide not approved for oats. No recall planned for boxes in stores, and authorities found no health risk. Shipments will resume once a technical violation is resolved.
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Minneapolis
General Mills Inc
Craig Shulstad
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Austin Sullivan
Golden Valley
Minn
General Mills
School seeks dismissal of suit over Jesus picture
In Cincinnati, a high school asks the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to drop Eric Pensinger’s lawsuit over a framed Jesus print. The school argues offense is not enough to remove the display, while Pensinger and ACLU contend the image makes non Christians feel excluded.
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Cincinnati
A _ high school
David Melton
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Melton
Eric Pensinger
Pensinger
Bloomingdale Rs School
Bloomingdale, Mich
Paul Denenfeld
Union
Eric
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