Blacks Survive More At VA Hospitals In Study
A JAMA study of 36,509 patients at 147 VA facilities finds blacks have lower 30 day death rates than whites across six conditions including pneumonia diabetes and heart failure. Black mortality was 4.5 percent at 30 days versus 5.8 percent for whites. six month rates were 11.7 percent versus 14.3 percent.
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Veterans Affairs
Ashish K. Jha
The
Veterans Affairs Med
Ical Center
San Francisco
University of California At
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Mark
Markets Hold Steady as Earnings Worries Persist
U S stocks drift amid earnings anxieties ahead of upcoming reports. Dow up 9.76 to 10535.14, Nasdaq down 40.62 to 2585.88, S&P 500 off 2.71 to 1315.84 as analysts warn first quarter growth may lag. Local quotes list several firms and farm grain prices across Franklin and Ottawa counties.
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Ronald K. Hill
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co
Standard & Poor
Edward D. Jones & Co
Ottawa Co-op
Franklin County Consolidated Farm Services
Scientists Create Record Density With Gold Nucleus Collisions
STONY BROOK N Y AP Scientists used a particle accelerator to smash gold nuclei at nearly light speed, producing matter more than 20 times denser than ordinary nuclei and temperatures over 1 trillion degrees. The Brookhaven team says such collisions hint at quark gluon plasma and echo a CERN record, awaiting stronger statistics to confirm.
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Stony Brook
N.Y
Brookhaven National Laboratory
John Harris
Yale University
Brookhaven
CERN
Particle Physics Laboratory
Geneva
Switzerland
Obituaries for Nellie Shoemaker and James Wood in Kansas and Montana
Nellie Marie Shoemaker 93 of Belgrade Montana died January 6 2001 in Bozeman after living there since July born July 20 1907 in Osawatomie to Louis Hominghausen married Earl Shoemaker in 1929 he survives two daughters five grandchildren and five great grandchildren graveside service 2 p m Friday Osawatomie Cemetery memorials to First Presbyterian Church Bozeman. James Lee Wood 68 of Linn Valley Lake died January 13 2001 at Miami County Medical Center Paola born August 31 1932 in Silt Colorado son of Walter Wood and Pearl Weischedel Wood funeral 1:30 p m Thursday Eddy Birchard Funeral Home Osawatomie burial Osawatomie Cemetery survived by two sons Scott and Tony a daughter Sharon sister Irene nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren memorials to American Heart Association.
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Edgewood Vista
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Amelia Hominghausen
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Utah
Topeka
Montana
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Huntsville
Alab
Bonnie Lauderdahl
First Presbyterian Church
West Babcock
Miami County Medical Center
Paola
Eddy Birchard
Silt
Colo
Walter A
Pearl H. Weischedel Wood
New Castle
Hazel Morene Murray
Glenwood Springs
Osawatomie City
Linn Valley Lake
Scott Wood
Tony Wood
Craig, Colo
Sharon Croan
Irene Wood
Rifle
Kurds' thriving mini state hinges on U S air power
In Irbil Kurdish authorities govern a largely autonomous northern Iraq zone ten years after the Gulf War. They enjoy freedoms, media, and commerce while relying on U N aid and U S air patrols for protection from Iraqi forces nearby. Oil smuggling and illicit trade fund both sides, despite sanctions and regional tensions.
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Iraq
Baghdad
United Nations
Air
Saddam Hussein
Ibrahim Amin Abdel Rahman
U.N
Sami Abdel Rahman
Washington
Saddam
Turkey
Iran
Kuwait
Weather Outlook Across Regions With Mixed Snow and Rain
The forecast calls for light snow in New England and the northern Great Lakes tomorrow while rain extends from east Texas to South Carolina. Snow also falls across southern Missouri to West Virginia and is likely in the southern Aickies area. Sunny skies expected from the northern Plains to the Pacific coast as temperatures trend with the road conditions.
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