Belize Hurricane Iris Capsizes Diver Boat Kills 15
The hurricane struck Belize with 140 mph winds sinking the MV Wave Dancer. Twenty divers from Richmond Virginia and eight crew were aboard when the storm hit. Fifteen bodies recovered by midday, five crew and three divers accounted for earlier. Prime Minister Musa warned 900 homeless, while rescue teams searched coastal waters.
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Big Creek
Belize
U.S
Richmond
Patricia Rose
Peter Hughes
Microsoft loses appeal to Supreme Court
Microsoft Corp. failed to persuade the Supreme Court in a longshot bid, keeping the antitrust case in federal court. The decision leaves settlement talks to resolve penalties for alleged anti competitive conduct, with Judge Colleen Kollar Kotelly seeking a mediator if progress stalls.
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Microsoft
Supreme Court
High Court
U.S
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Jackson
Colleen Kollar- Kotelly
Kollar-Kotelly
Supreme Court declines review on gun maker liability ruling
Gun makers persuaded the Supreme Court not to revive a case testing liability for lethal products. The court refused to review a Louisiana ruling that shielded manufacturers from local government lawsuits. The decision follows a broader 1999 trend that improved gun maker immunity as cities and counties sought tax money spent on gun violence.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Nobel Prize Winners Harness Ultra Cold Atoms
Three researchers Eric Cornell Carl Wie eman both American and German Wolfgang Ketterle shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for creating a Bose Einstein condensate a new state of matter from ultra cold gases. Their work with lasers and magnetic fields could lead to tinier faster electronics ultra precise clocks and quantum computers. The prize totaling 943000 will be shared among the three, with future awards for chemistry economics literature and peace planned in coming days.
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Eric A. Cornell
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Boulder
Colo
Carl E. Wieman
University of Colorado In
Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colorado
Ketterle
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Oslo
Norway
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