Taipei student named as author of Chernobyl computer virus
Chen Ing-hau, a former Tatung Institute of Technology computer engineering student, identified as the author of the Chernobyl virus. The institute punished him in April 1998 with a demerit after the malware damaged an inter college data system. he was not expelled.
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Trapped worker decapitated in trench rescue attempt
A 42 year old construction worker was trapped in a trench at a home site in Bloomfield Township Michigan. A co worker using a back hoe trying to rescue him may have unintentionally killed him. An autopsy will determine if suffocation occurred first. The incident happened Wednesday night and the coworker was distraught and hospitalized.
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Bloomfield Township
Mich
Steve Nordquist
Nordquist
Virginia slayer executed by injection in slaying case
Ronald Dale Yeatts, 38, was executed by injection in Jarratt Virginia for robbing and slashing the throat of 70-year-old Ruby Meeks Dodson during a 1989 home invasion. An accomplice aided the crime and remains jailed for life.
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Jarratt
Ronald Dale Yeatts
Yeatts
Ruby Meeks Dodson
Dodson
Japan's oldest person dies at 112 in Kansago
Denzo Ishizaki born October 20, 1886 dies at home in Kansago Ibaraki after hip injury in 1997. He served briefly as a town assembly member and was a former elementary school teacher. Kamato Hongo, 111, of Kagoshima, holds the title now, per Kyodo News.
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Tokyo
Japan
Denzo Ishizaki
Kansago
Ibaraki Prefecture
Kamato Hongo
Kagoshima
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Sex tops job but lags family in American values survey
A Columbia NIH survey of 500 adults 25 plus shows 82 percent rate sex life as important or very important, while 99 percent value loving family relationships and 96 percent cite financial security. Job satisfaction trails at 79 percent with strong worries about seeking medical help for sex problems.
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Washington
Marianne J. Legato
Columbia University
National Institutes of Health
Gas Explosion Destroys Townhouse Under Construction
A natural gas blast leveled a Romeoville townhouse under construction, injuring eight and prompting NiCor to cut gas to about 30 nearby homes. A construction worker and a bystander were among the injured, with one man in serious condition at Loyola Medical Center.
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Romeoville, I
Carl Alston
NiCor Gas Company
Iwan
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood
Provena St. Joseph’s Medical Center
Joliet
Lockport
Bill Denney
Romeoville
Chicago
Ill
Aides' loyalty pays big dividend
The AP finds 37 of 42 departing House members gave staffers bonuses totaling nearly 1.5 million dollars. Former Rep. Bill Hefner gave his 13 aides 119,100 dollars in bonuses, with most others awarding about 10,000 dollars each as they left office. Taxpayer groups criticize the practice as wasteful and argue leftover funds should go to the Treasury.
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Washington
House
Associated Press
Bill Hefner
D-N
Treasury
Boy Bidder Surpasses 3 Million on eBay Auction Sale
Andrew Tyler a 13 year old from Haddonfield NJ placed bids totaling over 3 million on items including a 1955 Ford convertible a Van Gogh painting an antique bed and a Viking ship replica. He won 925 012 worth of merchandise before his parents discovered the activity and had internet privileges suspended. eBay suspended the account and notified sellers of the fictitious bids.
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Haddonfield
Andrew Tyler
eBay
Philadelphia Inquirer
Andrew
Teen drunken driving decline levels off study says
A University of Michigan study finds teen drinking and driving fell 40 percent from 1984 to 1997 but leveled off in the 1990s with little further progress. The research notes reduced enforcement of zero tolerance laws and ongoing access to alcohol as contributing factors.
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Washington
Patrick O'Malley
University of Michigan
O'Malley
American Journal of Public Health
O’malley
Hingson
Alexander Wagenaar
University of Minnesota
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