Four of her sons dead, woman blames gangs
In Brooklyn's Sunset Park a mother, Mary Serrano, says gang influence ruined her family, with four of her 14 children killed or wounded since 1977. David Serrano, 15, died after being shot with a zip gun, amid claims the neighborhood is overrun by drugs and violence. Police charged George Rentas with the shooting.
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New York
David Serrano
Lutheran Medical Center
David
Mary Serrano
Sunset Park
Brooklyn
Gowanus Bay Docks
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brownsville
The
Bronx
Doyle Lord
United Negro American Association
George Rentas
Rentas
Our Lady of Peace statue travels to Chicago
A four-ton stainless steel statue titled Our Lady of Peace by Charles Parks could not pass under Indiana tollway bridges. Transporters rerouted the three story statue along Indiana Highway 30, arriving in Chicago late Friday night for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting.
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Chicago
Peter Foote
Catholic Archdiocese of
Charles Parks
Wilmington
Del
Philadelphia
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Bridge clash halves both teams with bold bidding
In a tour match between a Canadian team and a South African squad declarer George Mittelman of Montreal wins five diamonds after aggressive bidding. He uses precise timing to ruff clubs and cross to draw trumps, finishing with 11 tricks. In the other room a diamond slam reaches and a trump lead reduces crossruff potential.
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West
George Mittelman
Montreal
Goren Offers Guidance On Doubles For Penalties And Takeout
By Charles Goren with a trump the queen of spades and ace of clubs. If declarer wins the first trick his position is precarious though he can still prevail by guessing distribution. Get Goren doubles booklet for $1.85 by mailing to Goren-Doubles, P O Box 259 Norwood NJ 07648.
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Declarer
Mittelman
Charles Goren
Passively Smoked Flight Attendants Show Minimal Nicotine Uptake
A study on non-smoking flight attendants on a Tokyo to San Francisco eight hour flight found nicotine and carbon monoxide exposure equivalent to about one cigarette. Five attendants in the smoking section showed blood nicotine levels doubling, while no measurement of lung irritation was reported. Researchers from San Francisco General Hospital published in the New England Journal of Medicine say exposure remains relatively small and unlikely to cause physiologic harm.
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Boston
Tokyo
San Francisco
Neil L. Benowitz
Benowitz
Donna Foliart
Charles E. Becker
San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
New England Journal of Medicine
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RED Oro
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M.W. Carr
Barnes of
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