Black workers sue Ford Credit for $660 million in Maryland
Black employees at Ford Motor Credit Co. Regional Operations Center in Columbia file a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in hiring, evaluation, and promotion. They claim training duties for new hires were followed by faster pay and advancement for white workers and harsher punishments for Black employees.
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Historic cemetery sold in Hollywood
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery known for stars Rudolph Valentino Douglas Fairbanks Sr and Cecil B Demille sold for 375000 with cash to fund futuristic use turning tombstones into computer screens that flash messages or show home movies. Tourists could view biographies via kiosks or theaters at the century old site.
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Next Internet gains boost from three firms
Washington AP reports the next generation Internet gains speed via an ultra-fast data pipeline and equipment from three companies. Benefits target academics and researchers. home access is not planned. Organizers claim it could transmit the Encyclopedia Britannica in one second versus 27 hours on a 28.8 kbps modem.
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Breard Death Row Case Faces Gov Gilmore and World Court
The Virginia governor weighed a clemency petition as Angel Breard awaits execution after the US Supreme Court refused to block it. The case centers on Vienna Convention rights and a World Court stay request, amid questions about Paraguay consular notification and potential new trial.
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Jim Gilmore
Madeleine Albright
World Court
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Virginia
Paraguay
United Nations Tribunal
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Albright
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Supreme Court
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Donald Curry
Berlin Zoo Seeks Panda Breeding Help With Insemination
In Berlin the zoo performed a four hour artificial insemination on Yin Yin the giant panda using Bao Bao’s sperm as time presses to return Yin Yin to China in 2000. The 12 year old was tranquilized for the second attempt in two years to breed the endangered animal.
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Berlin
China
Costly Choices in End of Life Decisions Revealed
A study of 250 terminally ill patients and their surrogates finds relatives accurately predict patient wishes about feeding tubes CPR and other treatments about 66 percent of the time. Accuracy is higher in permanent coma than dementia or low chance recovery. Education communication and private insurance influence matching outcomes.
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Daniel P. Sulmasy
Annals of Internal Medicine
American College of Physicians
Sulmasy
Washington
Baltimore
Georgetown University
Center For Clinical Bioethics
Postmaster general warns end of mail monopoly by 2020
Washington postmaster Marvin Runyon says the U S mail delivery monopoly will fade as competition grows and electronic mail expands. He predicts a more automated Postal Service by 2020 with legal changes to loosen rate setting and new services while stressing the need for efficiency.
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