Subways plotter testifies of death by own action attack
A Brooklyn court heard Ghazi Abu Mazar say he planned to kill Jews in a death by self explosion, not on the subway, after claiming he failed to assassinate President Clinton in Seattle. Investigators noted a TWA 800 crash claim in his apartment notes. In Pittsburgh, stem cell research shows rat models with 75 percent Parkinsons improvement, hinting at future human trials.
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Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar
U.S
Brooklyn
Clinton
Seattle
Washington
TWA
Antiques thief confesses amid child-protection pressure
Gary Evans, under investigation for multiple killings, reportedly admitted to five murders he feared leaving victims' children without answers. A state police investigator pressed him, and Evans described feeling compelled by the need to protect the victims' families in an Albany Times Union interview.
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Troy
Gary Evans
Evans
Albany Times Union
Heat and snakes hamper search for bombing suspect
In Andrews North Carolina investigators faced heat and rattlesnakes as they combed rugged mountains for bombing suspect Eric Rudolph. Federal agents reportedly followed fresh footprints in Nantahala National Forest and visited a store where he bought boots in 1994, while a fingerprint match was reported at an abandoned campsite.
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Wbs-Tv
Rudolph
AIDS virus forms early immune stronghold in body
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease report that HIV can establish a latent pool of infected immune cells within about 10 days after infection. The pool may endure for years and be resistant to drug therapy, with findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Pittsburgh
Nature Neuroscience
Ronald McKay
National Institute of Neuroiogical Disorders and
Washington
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Academy of Sciences
Suit alleges racial abuse at Kiwanis camp trip
A federal suit in Little Rock claims Kiwanis Club of Memphis and the Boy Scouts of America allowed 80 inner-city children to suffer racially motivated abuse at Kia Kima Scout Reservation in Hardy during July 1997. The plaintiffs seek 15 million dollars amid alleged forced consumption of charred wood, lake water, and unsupervised conditions. Kiwanis officials deny the allegations.
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Ark
Kiwanis Club of
Memphis
Hardy
Kiwanis Club
Joy Foshee
Injured smokers sue over Minnesota tobacco settlement
Minnesota could lose at least a third of its 6.1 billion tobacco settlement if injured smokers win a class action filed Friday on behalf of about 70,000 people. The suit is a proposed class action pending court validation.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Ron Meshbesher
Eight charged with murder in deadly Vietnamese restaurant attack
In Tacoma Washington eight suspects face murder and assault charges for the killings at a Vietnamese restaurant. The group includes a 22 year old and seven teenagers aged 19, 18, 17 and 16. Five defendants are jailed, three at large, with high bail set for juveniles and adults ordered held without bail.
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Tacoma
Wash
Pierce County
Gerald A
Horne
Readers react to choice of Ulysses
The panel named James Joyce Ulysses the century’s best English language novel, though readers dispute the pick. Comments praise some entries while questioning female representation and the inclusion of several male authors. The panel included Cerf Boorstin Byatt Foote Morris Schlesinger Gregorian Vidal Styron.
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New York
James Joyce
Ulysses
Random House
Jon D. Rimmer
Joyce
Larry Richette
Gore Vidal
Don DeLillo
James Salter
Christopher Cerf
Modern Library
Daniel J. Boorstin
Library of Congress
A.S. Byatt
Shelby Foote
Edmund Morris
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
John Richardson
Vartan Gregorian
Carnegie Corporation
Vidal
William Styron
Byatt
Cerf
Bennett Cerf
Cynthia Ozick
Ozick
William Kennedy
Salman Rushdie
Styron
Virginia Woolf
Balu Wharton
Wa Cainer
Doris Lessing
Toni Morrison
William Burroughs
Margaret Atwood
Eudora Welty
FTC Chair Warns Firms on Self Policing Privacy
FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky told a House panel that regulators may push for stricter privacy laws if companies fail to craft adequate self enforcement rules by year end. He said businesses can improve privacy but face substantial barriers to overcome.
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Federal Trade Commission
Robert Pitofsky
After-school nutrition bill clears House for Senate vote
The House passed a bill reauthorizing Agriculture Department nutrition programs to expand after-school snacks for students through age 18 and create a universal elementary school breakfast program. The measure, approved 383 to 1, moves to the Senate with Rep. Ron Paul the sole dissenter.
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Agriculture Department
Senate
Ron Paul
Texas
The 100 best English novels of the 20th century list
The Modern Library editors rank a wide range of titles led by Ulysses and The Great Gatsby. Other top selections include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Lolita, Brave New World, The Sound and the Fury, Catch-22, Darkness at Noon, and The Grapes of Wrath with numerous classics by Hemingway, Conrad, Faulkner, James, and Woolf among others. The compilation mixes enduring canonical works, midcentury innovations, and authorial standouts across fiction from 1900 to 1960s.
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Ulysses
James Joycs
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Joyce
Vladimir Nabokov
Aldous Huxley
Willan Faulkner
Joseph Heller
Arthur Koestler
D.H. Lawrence
John Steinbeck
Malcolm Lowry
Samuel Butler
George Onwell
J, Claudius
Robert Graves
Virginia Woolf
Theodore Dreiser
Carson McCuilers
Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Wright
Henderson
Saul Bellow
Samarra
John O'Hara
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Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
India
E.M. Forster
Henry James
Ernest Hemingway
Joseph Conrad
William Faulkner
Jack Kerouac
Dashiell Hammett
Ford Maddox Ford
Edith Wharton
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
Walker Percy
Willa Cather
James Jones
John Cheever
J.D. Salinger
Anthony Burgess
W. Somerset Maugham
Sinclair Lewis
Alexandria
Lawrence Durrell
Jamaica
Richard Hughes
Mr. Biswas
Naipaul
Nathaniel West
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Doctorow
Arnold Bennett
Jack London
Loving
Henry Green
Salman Rushdie
Erskine Caldwell
William Kennedy
John Fowles
Wide Sargas
UAW GM at impasse as warlike strike continues
In Flint Michigan UAW President Stephen Yokich and union leaders warn GM they will pursue a prolonged strike. GM faces billions in lost production and十 thousands idled as talks resume and judges consider arbitration while Washington weighs limited intervention and mediation options.
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UAW
Yokich
North America
DAW
Gerry Holmes
New Orleans
Clinton
American Airlines
United Parcel Service
General Motors Corp
United Automobile Workers
Alexis M. Herman
Herman
York
Texas Lawmakers Lead in Privately Sponsored Travel
A Center for Responsive Politics study ranks four Texas House members in the top 10 for privately funded trips in 1997. Most travel was subsidized by industry groups with business before Congress. Bill Archer led all with 105 trips totaling $126,967 for him and his staff.
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Turkey
Texas
Congress
Center For Responsive Politics
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House Ways and Means
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Bill Archer
Houston
Archer
Pentagon to Release Study on CNN Sarin Gas Allegations
The Pentagon prepares its own analysis of CNN claims that the U S military used sarin gas in a 1970 Laos operation known as Tailwind. CNN retracted the report after outcry from veterans and journalist scrutiny, with Time Magazine also publishing the piece.
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CNN
U.S
Laos
Time Magazine
U.S. economy slows after strong first quarter
The high flying U.S. economy shows signs of slowdown after a 5.4 percent growth rate in early year. Analysts warn that even with solid consumer demand, the economy may have contracted in spring, a rare turn since the 1991 recession ended, as the trade deficit widens amid volatility.
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America
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Adanglas
Campaign finance reform inches forward amid floor fight
Bipartisan backers of reform led by Reps. Shays and Meehan won a vote against an amendment forcing unions to disclose all financial activities. Opponents from Willamnsville called the move a poison pill intended to erode Democratic support, as the debate remains weeks from a final outcome.
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Arty Meehan
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