Showtime to air new Lolita on cable TV in August
Showtime bought rights to the controversial film adaptation of Nabokov's novel, starring Jeremy Irons, and will air it on cable in August with late night slots on Showtime and Sundance Channel. The network notes the film’s content and age considerations while pursuing a possible U.S. theatrical release later.
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United States
Showtime
Vladimir Nabokov
Jeremy Irons
Humbert Humbert
Adrian Lyne
U.S
Terial
Europe
Lyne
Hollywood
Sundance
Jerry Offsay
Anjelica Huston
Carolina
Turner Broadcasting System
Ted Turner
Offsay
Stanley Kubrick
Coached doctors improve heart attack survival rates
Two studies in JAMA show that regular reporting on treatment success and coaching of doctors raise survival after heart attacks. Medicare pilot programs reduced deaths by 0.9 percent by 1995 and boosted beta blocker and aspirin use, with similar gains for non Medicare patients.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Alabama
Connecticut
Iowa
Wisconsin
Thomas A. Marciniak
Federal Health Care Financing Administration
Baltimore
Harvard
Sidney C. Smith Jr
American Heart Association
David Naylor
University of Toronto
Naylor
Defendants seek directed verdict in Minnesota tobacco trial
In Minnesota tobacco case, both the state and tobacco defendants filed motions asking the judge to direct verdicts in their favor. BAT U.K. & Export Ltd. was dropped from the suit as plaintiffs allege a conspiracy and jurisdiction issues. Plaintiffs seek 1.77 billion dollars plus punitive damages. jury instructions set for Wednesday with final arguments Thursday and Friday ahead of a potential verdict.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
B.A.T. Industries PLC
Brown & Williamson
British-American Tobacco
BAT
U.K. & Export) Ltd
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Killer bees reach Nevada amid El Nino effects
Africanized killer bees, migrating northward since the 1950s, have been found near Laughlin in Nevada's south. State official Paul Iverson cites wetter cooler El Nino weather as boosting nectar and bee reproduction, with swarms historically linked to mass attacks and fatalities in Texas and Arizona.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
South America
Laughlin
State Agriculture Commission
Paul Iverson
Iver
Africa
Brazil
Texas
Arizona
Woman deported for smothering baby during smuggle
Galiema Begg, 30, pleaded guilty to alien smuggling after her 8 month old son Mohamed died when held too tightly during breastfeeding while the pair were hidden in a vehicle during an attempted smuggle into the United States. The coroner ruled the death accidental.
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N.Y
United States
Galiema Begg
U.S
William Skretny
Mohamed
Achmat
Casles
Niagara Falls
Ontario
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