Health campaign shows mixed progress mid decade
Health promotion efforts under Healthy People 2000 show progress in life expectancy, reduced heart disease and cancer deaths, increased mammography, and fewer teen pregnancies, while rising obesity, AIDS, homicides, and barriers to care appear in other populations. life expectancy gaps persist between black and white Americans.
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Paul Recer
Ashington
U.S. Public Health Service
J. Michael McGinnis
Philip R. Lee
The
Health Service Report
Journal of the American Medical Association
Health Service
Grieving father donates organs to Israel
Alisa Flatow, a Brandeis junior from New Jersey, was killed in a Gaza bus bombing. Her father Stephen authorized organ donation, with heart going to a 56-year-old man in Beilinson Hospital, liver to a 23-year-old, lungs and kidneys to four others, and corneas to an eye bank.
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Bersheba
Israel
Alisa Flatow
Islamic Jihad
Gaza Strip
Stephen
Miss Flatow
Bernardo Vidneh
Beilinson Hospital
Tel Aviv
Brandeis University
West Orange
N.J
Jerusalem
Stephen Flatow
U.S
Gaza
Alisa
Zeva Berezan
Flatow
New Bosnia fronts open battles flare near Sarajevo
UN reports indicate renewed fighting in northern Bosnia with shelling on Sarajevo and Tesanj. Two children were killed when shells hit a school in Tesanj as Serb attacks escalate. Unity of forces and restricted movement hinder details.
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Bosnia
Sarajevo
Herzegovina
U.N
Chris Gunness
Tesanj
United Nations
Gimea
SRNA
Doboj
Teslic
Gunness
Zepce
Donji Vakuf
Tokyo nerve gas attack group shifts story to pesticides claim
World Digest reports the doomsday cult behind the Tokyo subway sarin attack now says the gas was not nerve gas but a botched pesticide recipe. Police raids uncovered chemicals usable for sarin and a gas residue found in a sect building, while leader Shoko Asahara’s earlier anti-chemical teachings conflict with the new explanation.
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Tokyo
U.S
Shoko Asahara
McCain urges full U.S.-Vietnam ties amid repatriation ceremony
U S senator and Vietnam War prisoner John McCain urged Washington to establish full diplomatic relations with Vietnam this year after Vietnamese officials handed over 10 wooden boxes believed to contain American remains. The remains were placed in metal coffins and loaded onto an Air Force plane for forensic identification in Hawaii.
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Hanoi
Vietnam
U.S
Washington
John McCain
R-Ariz
Hawaii
McCain
Briton kills self after losing lottery
A 51 year old man in Liverpool shot himself after realizing he had not registered lottery numbers that matched the Saturday night winning draw. The numbers 14 17 22 24 42 47 echoed numbers he had used with a friend since the National Lottery began. He left a wife and two sons.
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Liverpool
England
Tim O'Brien
Britain
O'Brien
O’brien
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