Chemical sickness prompts Southcenter Mall closure
In Tukwila Washington a shopping mall was evacuated and shut as more than forty people fell ill from exposure to an irritant chemical. Police and fire officials searched for the source of the release at the Southcenter Mall near Seattle and reported symptoms such as breathing difficulty headaches coughing and throat irritation.
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Tukwila
Wash
Southcenter
Seattle
Sixth edition of The Joy of Cooking due Nov 5
Cambridge report notes the sixth edition of The Joy of Cooking arrives November 5 priced at 30 dollars. It drops canned tomato soup and frozen vegetables, adds Ethiopian chicken Thai beef salad Szechuan tofu, low fat cheesecake and a pasta chapter with 4500 recipes, many revised.
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Cambridge
Mass
Irma Rombauer
Shelvers
Five swept from Newport jetty by hurricane surf
Heavy surf from Hurricane Linda swept five people into the sea off a Newport Beach jetty as the weakening storm veered away from Southern California. One victim remained in critical condition at Hoag Hospital, while three others were treated and released and the fifth required no treatment.
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Los Angeles
Newport Beach
California
Hoag Hospital
Train Derailment Sparks Fire Near Bardwell Texas
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train derailed near Bardwell 35 miles south of Dallas, sending 15 of 63 cars off the tracks at about 7:15 a.m. One burning car toppled into a dry culvert, pulling five others with it. Authorities suspect warped track caused the accident. no injuries were reported.
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Bardwell
Texas
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Dallas
Burlington Northern
Jim Sabourin
Virulent bacteria kills four newborns in Boston
Boston doctors report a fast-killing bacterial strain in Children's Hospital NICU killed four newborns in just over a month this summer. Officials say the strain may be new and could have affected another infant last year. Investigations by the hospital and Massachusetts Department of Public Health seek to determine if the same bacteria appeared in at least three other ward patients in 15 months. none of those children died.
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Boston
Children’s Hospital
State Department of Public Health
Nichols discussed murder talk after Waco at gun shows
Nichols told the FBI he agreed that possibly something should be done about the Branch Davidians deaths near Waco Texas after gun show discussions. He spoke to agents on April 21, 1995, two days after the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168. He faced trial with potential death penalty outcomes.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Terry Nichols
FBI
Branch Davidians
Waco
Texas
Nichols
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
Davidians
Stealth jet crashes at Maryland air show
An F-117A stealth fighter crashed during an eastern United States air show after a brief fly by over Hancock Field and Maryland. The aircraft, loaned from Langley to support shows, had a history of classified status and multiple prior crashes. Pilot safety crews and witnesses described the incident as the jet diving into an incline before impact.
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Chesapeake Bay
Knight
Lockheed Martin Corp
Air Force
Keri Humphrey
New Mexico
Lockheed
California
Nevada
49Th Fighter Wing
Holloman Air Force Base
N.M
Langley
United States
Pete Alberti
174Th Fighter Wing
Hancock Field
Syracuse
Alberti
Hancock
Maryland
Jim McKeever
Middle River
Wage gap between men and women widens again
The wage gap between men and women is widening after years of narrowing. Median weekly earnings for full-time women are just under 75 percent of men's, down from 77 percent four years earlier, puzzling economists and women’s groups.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Francine Blau
Cornell University
Memorial service in Central Park honors Princess Diana
About 14,000 people gathered in Central Park for a memorial service for Princess Diana. Mayor Giuliani and Britain's consul led the program honoring her charity work and style. Opera stars and the Metropolitan Opera performed works by Bach, Verdi, and Berlioz, with lilies and blue larkspur framing the stage.
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New York
Central Park
Diana
John Lennon
Richard Thomson
New Yorker
Rudolph Giuliani
Britain
Jeffrey Ling
Giuliani
Jessye Norman
Denyce Graves
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Verdi
Berlioz
Beth Anderson
London
Margaret Haggerty
Harlem Hospital
Paula Marie
Mother Teresa
Missionaries of Charity
Mary Robertson
New Jersey
Diana Spencer
Elton Johns Candle in the Wind 97 tops British charts
Elton Johns Candle in the Wind 97 sold 600,000 copies in one day in Britain, the fastest selling single. The Diana tribute, recorded after her funeral, rose to No 1 on the chart with all proceeds to the Diana Memorial Fund. Bernie Taupin adapted the Marilyn Monroe tribute for Diana.
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London
Elton John
Diana
Britain
Westminster Abbey
Bernie Taupin
Marilyn Monroe
Diana, Princess of Wales
Driver seen drinking at Ritz hours before princess crash
CNN report cites unnamed sources that Henri Paul drank French liqueur at the Ritz Paris then two to three whiskeys at another bar before returning to the Ritz. witnesses and CCTV referenced. Paul, 41, drove with alcohol three times the legal limit and had Prozac and Trazodone in his system.
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Atlanta
Diana
Dodi Fayed
Ritz
CNN
Henri Paul
Fayed
Paris
Paul
MADD ties Princess Diana death to anti drunk driving ad
In Dearborn Michigan Mothers Against Drunk Driving launches an ad campaign using Princess Diana's death to illustrate that alcohol impaired driving can affect anyone. MADD president Katherine Prescott says the point is not to diminish her death but to highlight the role of alcohol.
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Dearborn
Mich
Mothers Against
Diana
Katherine Prescott
MADD
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