Andrews festival brings bluegrass joy and gatherings
A readied annual festival in Andrews features ample pickin and grinnin as crowds gather for music and community celebration. President Clinton and Hillary reportedly signed a purchase agreement for a five bedroom house in a NYC suburb for 1.7 million dollars per spokesman Joe Lockhart. Ford Motor Co will pay 7 million but avoid criminal liability for a boiler explosion that killed six workers and injured 14, according to the state's top workplace safety regulator.
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Socks Help Some Sleep Better Says Study
An expert suggests wearing socks or using a hot water bottle may ease sleep for people with chronically cold feet. The Basel researcher Anna Wirz Justice notes body heat loss via widened hand and foot vessels helps prepare for sleep. The team analyzed 18 healthy young men and found late evening dilation and heat loss appear central to falling asleep.
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Psychiatric University Clinic
Basel
Switzerland
Ranchers reject inheritance tax proposal in tax cut debate
Odessa area ranchers fear federal inheritance taxes will erase 100 year old homesteads and hope to pass land to the next generation. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison backs eliminating the inheritance tax as part of the tax cut bill amid president’s objections.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison
Texas
Hutchison
Dancers acquitted prompt review of lewdness policy
Ector County will re-examine its approach to prosecuting public lewdness cases at topless bars after two dancers were acquitted. Irma Zizzo and Rebecca Osborne won in separate courts as jurors cited lack of evidence and witness count, prompting calls to adjust future prosecutions and enforcement by the sexually oriented business board.
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Tracey Bright
Acapulco
Irma Zizzo
Jerry Caddel
Rebecca Osborne
Jim Bobo
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Ector County
Caesar’s Gentlemen’s Club
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Sales tax revenues fall again in Odessa and Midland
Odessa receipts for September state sales tax fell nearly 9 percent from 1998, yielding an $846,047.61 check, down 8.81 percent. The payment includes $169,209 for the Odessa Development Corp. The August rebound was 2.7 percent from 1998, ending 15 straight months of gains. Midland also dropped 11.57 percent to $832,692.
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Odessa Development Corp
Midland
September 1998 area budget changes by city
Decreases from September 1998 include Alpine 41406 down 22.6 percent and Andrews 42756 down 18.1 percent. Other declines are Big Spring 244950 down 4.8 and Crane 15249 down 7.9 percent. Increases are Seminole 34311 up 3.5 percent and Stanton 8411 up 4.2 percent.
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Fort Stockton
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Pecos
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Stanton
Vitamins C and E May Lower Toxemia Risk in Pregnancy
London researchers report that high dose vitamin C and E might reduce toxemia in high risk pregnancies. The study is preliminary and experts urge caution as long term safety and large scale confirmation are needed.
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London
Lucilla Poston
Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine
United Nations urged to send peacekeepers to East Timor
Pressure mounted at the United Nations for armed peacekeepers to intervene as Indonesian security forces struggle to halt pro-Indonesian militia violence in East Timor. Two U.N. staffers were killed and thousands fled Dili as gunfire and fires spread through the capital and surrounding villages.
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Indonesia
United Nations
East Timor
U.N
Online kidney auction tops $5.7 million before stoppage
In San Francisco, a kidney offered on eBay reached 5.7 million dollars before the site halted the auction for violating health part sale rules. The seller, "hehero" of Sunrise Florida, started bids at 25 000 dollars on August 26 and faces possible criminal penalties under federal law.
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eBay
Kevin Pursglove
Pursglove
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