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Vaccine prevents cervical cancer in tests
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
Early testing shows an experimental vaccine to be 100 percent effective against the virus that causes cervical cancer, raising doctors' hopes of someday sending the lethal disease into retreat in the same way as smallpox and polio. "It appears to be the real thing," said Dr. Christopher Crum, a pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "You're looking at some very compelling evidence that this vaccine will prevent cervical cancer."...
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Second escapee back in custody following multistate crime spree
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
GOSHEN, Ind. -- The second of two escaped inmates suspected of abducting a South Carolina woman during a multistate crime spree was captured Wednesday in Indiana. The woman's whereabouts were not immediately known. Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, was being questioned Wednesday afternoon...
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World briefs 11/21/02
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
Michael Jackson faces furor for endangering son BERLIN -- Media scolded Michael Jackson on Wednesday for endangering his young son by dangling him over a fourth-floor balcony railing at a Berlin hotel, with outraged British tabloids demanding an investigation of the star...
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New cancer drug shows promising early results
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- A new drug designed to stop cancer by cutting off its blood supply has surprised experts by showing a tumor shrinkage rate unprecedented for a drug so early in its development. In the first human trials, involving 23 people with terminal cancer, the tumors of one-quarter of the patients shrank by half or more...
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Spain seeks to ease fears of environmental disaster
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
CAION, Spain -- Winds reaching 60 mph and high waves hindered shoreline cleanup Wednesday, a day after the tanker Prestige and its cargo of fuel oil sank off Spain. Yet the high winds, which pushed waves to 26 feet, helped break up a large oil slick off Portugal as Spanish authorities worried the storm was shoving a second fuel oil slick closer to the coast...
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Latest oil spill prompts outcry over single-hulled freighters
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- They're derided as "environmental timebombs" and "floating garbage dumps." Yet more than half the world's 10,000 oil tankers are the old-style, single-hulled variety despite outcries after every disastrous spill, from the 1989 Exxon Valdez in pristine Alaska to this week's sinking of the Prestige off the verdant coast of Spain...
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German doctor conducts public autopsy in London
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
LONDON -- In a gruesome spectacle reminiscent of the pre-Victorian past, a German doctor defied threats of prosecution Wednesday night and conducted a public autopsy in an art gallery, charging spectators $19 a head. Compounding the controversy over the first public autopsy in Britain in 170 years, a TV network said it would air edited footage...
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Unannounced inspections likely for Saddam's palaces
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- "Business-like" talks with Iraqi officials have set the stage for a decisive new round of weapons inspections starting next week, including possible unannounced drop-ins on President Saddam Hussein's palaces, the chief U.N. inspectors said Wednesday...
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Bush urges NATO to stand firm against Saddam
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- President Bush, recalling Europe's grim history of "excusing aggression," challenged skeptical NATO allies Wednesday to stand firm against Saddam Hussein as the alliance expands in size and might to combat terrorism. Should the Iraqi leader deny next month that he possesses weapons of mass destruction, "he will have entered his final stage with a lie," Bush said...
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Venezuelans block highway in protest against police takeover
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela -- Demonstrators blocked a busy highway in Venezuela's capital with cars and flaming piles of trash to protest the government's militarization of Caracas' police. Smoke clouds billowed over the Francisco Fajardo highway Tuesday only hours after opposition Mayor Alfredo Pena led a march to Congress to protest President Hugo Chavez's appointment of a new police chief...
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U.S. military jury acquits soldier of homicide charges
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
DONGDUCHEON, South Korea -- An American soldier was acquitted of negligent homicide charges Wednesday in a traffic accident that killed two South Korean girls. Outraged activists said they would hold demonstrations to protest the verdict. A U.S. military jury cleared Sgt. Fernando Nino in a three-day court martial. If convicted, he would have faced up to six years in a U.S. prison for the deaths of the 14-year-old girls on June 13 near the border with North Korea...
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Former Iraqi general put under house arrest
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A former Iraqi army chief of staff -- who has predicted Saddam Hussein would be ousted by March -- was placed under house arrest in Denmark for planning to leave the country for Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Ironically, Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, who fled Baghdad in 1995 and became Iraq's highest ranking military defector, was held in Denmark for investigation of allegations he had a role in a 1988 poison gas attack on Kurds in the north...
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Britain to allow entry of U.S., Canadian dogs and cats
(International News ~ 11/21/02)
LONDON -- Dogs and cats from the United States and Canada will be allowed to enter Britain without enduring the dreaded six-month quarantine -- and just in time for Christmas travel. The government announced Wednesday that from Dec. 11 its "pet passport" plan for vaccinated animals from Western Europe and some other countries will be extended to cats and dogs from the United States and Canada...
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Route EE to be closed for railroad repairs
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
Union Pacific crews will make railroad crossing repairs on Route EE in Cape Girardeau County from 7 a.m. today to 5 p.m. Friday if the weather permits construction. The crossing is located between Highway 25 at Delta and Highway 77 at Chaffee. The crossing will be closed to traffic. Drivers will need to take alternate routes while the repairs are being made and are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area...
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Inspections lacking for elevators, boilers, amusement rides
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Thousands of elevators and boilers in Missouri have never been inspected by state safety officials, according to a new state audit. State Auditor Claire McCaskill's office found that in all cases, the state Division of Fire Safety should establish procedures to locate the equipment, inspect it and make sure it is registered with the state...
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Health care, emergency workers hold bioterrorism conference
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri health care and emergency workers who have years of experience dealing with floods, earthquakes and tornados are comparing notes about the newer threat of bioterrorism. "People will say terrorism isn't going to happen here," Linda Landesman, assistant vice president of the New York Health and Hospitals Corp., told the opening session of a two-day Missouri "bioterrorism summit."...
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Man put to death for 1986 murder
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
POTOSI, Mo. -- A Kansas City, Mo., man convicted of what prosecutors called a cold-blooded, execution-style killing was put to death early Wednesday. William R. Jones Jr. died at 12:04 a.m., three minutes after the first of three lethal doses was administered at the Potosi Correctional Center. He was the sixth Missouri inmate executed this year...
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SIU faculty union votes to authorize strike Feb. 3
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
The AssociatedPress CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Members of the Southern Illinois University faculty union voted to authorize a strike on Feb. 3 if progress isn't made on a new contract by then, union leaders said Wednesday. Eighty-eight percent of the 346 union members who voted favored authorizing the strike, union officials said...
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FDA weighs sales of innovative wheelchair
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Stairs soon may no longer be insurmountable obstacles for some of the nation's two million wheelchair users. The first wheelchair that can climb stairs -- plus shift into four-wheel drive to scoot up a grassy hill and even elevate its occupant for eye-level conversation -- took a major step toward the market Wednesday, as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended it be allowed to sell...
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Asteroid threat not as bad as thought, data indicates
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
Medium-size asteroids that could flatten a city the size of New York strike Earth less frequently than previously believed, possibly only about once a millennium, according to a study aided by military satellites. Asteroids are rocky space debris created by collisions in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or chunks that break away from comets. They rain down on the Earth every day, but most are tinier than grains of rice and quickly burn in the upper atmosphere as meteors...
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United Airlines machinists agree to concessions
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
CHICAGO -- The union representing 37,500 United Airlines machinists announced a tentative agreement Wednesday on $1.5 billion in wage and benefit concessions, giving United an important boost in its effort to stave off bankruptcy. The machinists were the last employee group to agree to accept a share of the $5.8 billion in labor cutbacks that the airline was seeking...
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Cape looks to smooth kink out of jagged Main Street
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
A huge building changed the face of Cape Girardeau in September of 1907. Known as the "old shoe factory," the five-story brick structure near the Mississippi River housed more than 1,200 employees. The building, first run by Robert, Johnson and Rand, and later owned by Florsheim, was a cornerstone to downtown -- so much so that the city built its Main Street around it. At the point where the shoe factory used to be, northbound Main Street took a hard left and then a hard right...
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Cardinals cut money request for new ballpark
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
Like most folks from Southeast Missouri, Bill Burch of Sikeston, Mo., didn't care much for a proposal the St. Louis Cardinals pushed earlier this year for a taxpayer-financed downtown ballpark. Now that the team is pursuing a plan under which private investors would foot most of the bill, Burch, a member of the Missouri Development Finance Board, had no problem voting to authorize $29.45 million in state tax credits for the project...
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Missouri commission gives date for road-funding decision
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State transportation commissioners plan to decide in January whether to change a road funding formula that has resulted in a contentious split among the interests of big cities and rural areas. Since 1998, half of the state's road funds have been directed to the St. Louis and Kansas City areas and the other half has been divided among the rest of the state...
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Craft pleads to stealing
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
A former Jackson insurance agent received two years probation after pleading guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor for stealing from her clients. The case against Lisa D. Craft, 35, began in August with nine felonies, but after careful examination, parts of the investigation didn't hold up, said assistant prosecuting attorney Ian Sutherland...
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Start of season brings excitement
(Sports Column ~ 11/21/02)
I've been waiting for our season opener since the horn sounded at our last game last season. Now with the opener at Arkansas State on Friday night I'm nervous, but cautiously optimistic about the season. The wins in the two exhibition games were important for our team. ...
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The big, mean NCAA gets even meaner
(Sports Column ~ 11/21/02)
You have to wonder what's in the food at the NCAA cafeteria to make the people so mean. Mean enough to suspend one kid for renting a car and two others for taking part in a charity game to raise money for cancer research. Mean enough to suspend a fourth -- for a dozen games -- because he played against middle-aged men in a rec league on his own time...
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DC's Feast - The usual and lots of pie
(Column ~ 11/21/02)
"What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000." -- Wavy Gravy at Woodstock Nov. 21, 2002 Dear Leslie, We are not nearly so ambitious as Wavy Gravy, but readying Thanksgiving dinner for 19 does feel like an army mobilization....
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Mavericks winning with defense, for a change
(Professional Sports ~ 11/21/02)
DALLAS -- Scoring never has been the problem for the Dallas Mavericks. They've been doing that for the past few years with Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash. It was poor defense that kept the Mavs from getting past their rivals in the Western Conference...
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Warner, Rams look past 0-5 beginning
(Professional Sports ~ 11/21/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Kurt Warner's back, and this time it's with a Rams team that looks more like the Super Bowl contender of the last three seasons than the outfit that began the year 0-5. "I'm excited to see the team playing like it is," Warner said Wednesday. "It's fun to see the team you expected to be out there, and to make this thing interesting."...
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LPGA head says Augusta policy should be changed
(Professional Sports ~ 11/21/02)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- LPGA Tour commissioner Ty Votaw urged Augusta National to admit a female member, saying its obligation to golf outweighs its rights as a private club. The LPGA Tour is not involved with the Masters. Votaw said he wanted to make his position clear because, "We represent not just women, but the game."...
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Otahkians sign five volleyball recruits
(College Sports ~ 11/21/02)
The Southeast Missouri State University volleyball team will go into the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament today with several new recruits lined up for next season. The Otahkians, who play Austin Peay at 7 p.m. today at Martin, Tenn., signed five players to national letters of intent Wednesday, coach Cindy Gannon said...
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Missouri looks for another close game at home vs. Kansas State
(Professional Sports ~ 11/21/02)
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- For reasons unexplained, Kansas State has recently taken better teams to Missouri and barely come away with wins. Although the No. 10 Wildcats (9-2, 5-2 Big 12) have beaten their last four opponents by an average of 41 points, they're well aware of the Tigers' history of making highly ranked Kansas State teams sweat...
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'Jackets reverse a trend, top Blues
(Professional Sports ~ 11/21/02)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Once again the Columbus Blue Jackets watched a goal slide into the net in the final minute. For a change, it was good news. David Vyborny scored while falling to the ice with 47.7 seconds left as the Blue Jackets beat the Blues 3-2 Wednesday night...
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ND junior recovering after championship injury
(High School Sports ~ 11/21/02)
If they gave out purple hearts in sports for injuries suffered in the line of duty, Notre Dame forward Blake Urhahn would be a decorated hero. Urhahn, a junior, has been hospitalized since Saturday night after injuring a kidney on the final play of the Class 2 state soccer championship. Urhahn's head pass led to the Bulldogs' game-winning goal in a 1-0, four-overtime victory over St. Francis Borgia at the Anheuser-Busch Conference and Sports Centre in Fenton, Mo...
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Rabbi convicted in plot to kill wife in 1994
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
FREEHOLD, N.J. -- A rabbi was convicted of murder Wednesday for hiring two men to beat his wife to death so he could carry on an affair with a woman he met while ministering to her dying husband. He could now face a death sentence. The verdict against Rabbi Fred J. Neulander, 61, came nearly a year after his first trial for the 1994 slaying of Carol Neulander at their suburban Philadelphia home ended in a hung jury...
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Head-on crash kills sisters going to visit each other
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
SIX MILE, Ala. -- Two sisters were killed when their vehicles collided head-on on a rural highway as they traveled to visit each other, authorities said. Authorities said the women were driving Jeeps in opposite directions on Alabama 25 Sunday when one of the vehicles crossed the center line, colliding with the other. Trooper Cpl. Stan Lemon said investigators were trying to determine which car was on the wrong side of the road and why...
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Two officers struck, killed while helping motorist change tire
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. -- A truck rammed into a police cruiser, killing two officers who had stopped to help a woman change a tire. The truck's driver, 28-year-old Brian Nelson, tried to run off but was caught and charged with felony driving under the influence, Dorchester County Sheriff Ray Nash said. He may also face additional charges, Nash said...
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SLU researchers lead herpes study
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Researchers at Saint Louis University will lead a national four-year study into a possible vaccine to prevent genital herpes in women, SLU officials announced Wednesday. The study, a follow-up to an earlier national study, is funded by the National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, developer of the proposed vaccine...
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Prisoner claims Moussaoui was backup for Sept. 11 attacks
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- An al-Qaida prisoner's reported description of Zacarias Moussaoui as merely a backup figure could weaken the government's argument for executing the man accused as a Sept. 11 conspirator, legal experts said Wednesday. U.S. officials said Tuesday that a top al-Qaida operative, Ramzi Binalshibh, told interrogators that Moussaoui met with the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks in late 2000 or early 2001 in Afghanistan...
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U.S. jets bomb three Iraqi sites
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- Iraqi gunners on Wednesday fired missiles and artillery at U.S. warplanes and the Americans responded by bombing three communications facilities at air defense sites in southern Iraq, officials said. U.S. planes have attacked six air defense facilities this week. Pentagon officials said Iraq has stepped up its efforts to shoot down American and British pilots patrolling the "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq as U.N. weapons inspectors prepare to begin their work...
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Pauline Bohle
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
The funeral for Pauline E. Bohle of Viburnum, Mo., will be held at 11 a.m. today at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Dr. Harold Landwehr will officiate. Burial will be in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel after 10 a.m. today...
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Relis Oliver
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
BELKNAP, Ill. -- Relis "DeBug" Oliver, 81, of Belknap died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, at his home. He was the son of Alvin and Bertha Davidson Oliver. He married Pauline Greer, who preceded him in death. Oliver retired from Vienna Correctional Center in Vienna, Ill., and had also worked 27 years at Main Brothers Box and Lumber Co. He had served on the Belknap Village Board and Belknap Grade School Board. He attended Belknap Pentecostal Church...
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Mary Bequette
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
Graveside service for Mary Arvezean Bequette of Tucson, Ariz., will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Dongola Friendship Cemetery in Advance, Mo. The Rev. Billy Anders will officiate. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday...
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Mary Thompson
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
Mary Frances Thompson, 51, of Camdenton, Mo., died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002, in Holbrook, Ariz. She was born Dec. 10, 1950, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Elam Jakob and Ruth K. O'Neal Russell. Thompson was a truck driver with IWX Trucking Co. in Springfield, Mo...
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Births 11/21/02
(Births ~ 11/21/02)
Strange Son to Michael Lynn and Amy Dawn Strange of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:43 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002. Name, Brayden Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Strange is the former Amy Huckstep, daughter of Joe and Marsha Huckstep of Scott City. She is employed at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri. Strange is the son of Clyde and Dianne Furman of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is employed by Byron Lang Inc...
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Correct 11/21/02
(Correction ~ 11/21/02)
The Missouri Clean Water Commission will have immediate appellate review of the Department of Natural Resources' refusal to issue a water quality certification on the St. John's Bayou New Madrid Floodway Project. The name of the commission was incorrect in Wednesday's edition. The Southeast Missourian regrets the error...
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Out of the past 11/21/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/21/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 21, 1992 Thousands of shoppers make day of craft hunting in Cape Girardeau; two craft shows at three locations draw Christmas shoppers and craft fans by thousands; more than 600 exhibitors are selling items at two shows. The Southeast Missourian will publish Saturday editions on next five weekends; Saturday publications will be delivered to all subscribers and will be available at newsracks at normal price; Gary Rust, publisher, says, "We're testing the market. ...
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'Cheaper by the Dozen' is a sentimental slice of Americana
(Entertainment ~ 11/21/02)
Mr. Gilbreth (T.J. Bishop) seems like a domineering managerial wonk who insists on running his family the way he does his business. He blows a whistle to gather his legion of children for inspection, he pays lip service to running family meetings democratically but declares everyone else's ideas out of order, and he refuses to let his girls wear silk stockings or makeup because he considers boys a distraction...
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Ex-lawyer is charged in theft of letters by Faulkner
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Prosecutors have charged a 43-year-old former Arkansas lawyer and convicted thief -- who has a history of stealing historic documents -- with taking six William Faulkner letters from Southeast Missouri State University's rare book room and selling them to a manuscript dealer in Texas...
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Toybox, Christmas for the Elderly need help
(Editorial ~ 11/21/02)
Just as so many of us don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from, most of us have few worries about buying special holiday gifts for family and friends. But, as we know, the needy are always with us. There are two special programs that bring together generous donors of gifts and those who otherwise wouldn't receive much in the way of holiday cheer. One is for children, and the other is for the elderly...
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This is the season for helping needy friends
(Editorial ~ 11/21/02)
This is the time of year when we think a lot about helping our needy friends and neighbors. As we get deeper into the holiday season, many of us will drop money into kettles manned by bell ringers, write checks and donate food. Thankfully, generosity is doing well in Southeast Missouri. Churches and charitable organizations have been reporting strong support from donors throughout the year. This year's level of holiday giving is likely to show similar strength...
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FanFare 11/21/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/21/02)
Briefly Baseball A special marketing task force was formed by baseball commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday following a season that saw drops in regular-season attendance and World Series television ratings. Selig is calling the task force "Major league baseball in the 21st century" and said he will include people from marketing, advertising, the media and academia...
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Schools practice show and tell
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Lisa Trunzo took in the sights and sounds at Blanchard Elementary Tuesday as her daughter Eva, a second-grader, tugged on her mother's arm and proudly pointed out the various aspects of her school: the colorful bulletin boards, the finer points of cafeteria lines and her beaming principal...
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Kicking the habit
(Community ~ 11/21/02)
It took three major attempts at quitting before Chuck McGinty was successful at giving up cigarettes. He's been a nonsmoker for 18 months now. Statistics show that 70 percent of the nation's 47 million smokers say they want to quit but only 45 percent of them will make the effort and fewer than 3 percent will actually quit...
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The story of the Great American Smokeout
(Community ~ 11/21/02)
Today marks the 26th annual Great American Smokeout, which is recognized as a platform for educating the public on the dangers of tobacco use. The event began in 1971 in Randolph, Mass., when Arthur P. Mullaney asked people to give up cigarettes for a day and donate the money they would have spent on cigarettes to a high school scholarship fund...
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Area restaurants urged to go smoke-free for a day
(Community ~ 11/21/02)
A coalition of health-care organizations in Southeast Missouri has asked area restaurants to go smoke-free for a day during the Great American Smokeout. The group, Cape Girardeau Smoke Free Community Partners, wants to promote healthy environments, and breathing cleaner air indoors and out is part of that project. About 60 restaurants in Cape Girardeau and Jackson already are smoke-free...
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FTC wants TV, newspapers to reject deceptive diet advertising
(Community ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- The government is urging television, newspapers and magazines to stop carrying deceptive advertising with promises like "eat all you want and lose weight" or "lose weight while you sleep." "Reputable media should be embarrassed by some of the ads that run," Howard Beales, director of the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection bureau, said Wednesday. "The claims are so ridiculous."...
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Ben Plucknett
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
ESSEX, Mo. -- Walter Harrison "Ben" Plucknett, 48, of Essex died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002, at his home. He was born April 13, 1954, in Beatrice, Neb., son of Glenn Walter and Mary Jane Fry Plucknett. Plucknett attended Beatrice High School and was the state discus record holder in Nebraska...
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Ella Tidwell
(Obituary ~ 11/21/02)
Ella Jane Tidwell, 84, of Millersville died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
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Speak Out A 11/21/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/21/02)
A quality film THERE ARE an awful lot of comments about movies like "Red Dragon" and how a movie is only good if it's G-rated with family values. A bad movie is a bad movie. "Red Dragon" may disturb some, and it may be realistic. But that's the point. ...
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Congress completes much but many issues unresolved
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- The 107th Congress began fading into the history books Wednesday, its legacy including a colossal agency to gird the nation against terrorism, new curbs on corporate behavior and campaign spending, and deep tax cuts. Even as they addressed some high-profile issues, lawmakers left others languishing. National energy policy, patients' rights, prescription drugs, tighter bankruptcy laws, drought aid for farmers and extra counterterrorism funds all fell victim to partisan stalemate...
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Where in the world? - Young Americans flunk geography
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- One in 10 young Americans could not locate his own country on a blank map of the world, a survey of geographic literacy shows. Only 13 percent could find Iraq. "Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but apparently today neither war nor the threat of war can adequately teach geography," John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society, said Wednesday...
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New security department starts on mundane tasks of bureaucracy
(National News ~ 11/21/02)
WASHINGTON -- The biggest government reorganization in half a century is starting with the mundane -- like finding office space and deciding who gets new digs -- in an effort the White House says will take a year. Nearly two-dozen agencies with tasks as diverse as protecting America's borders and gathering intelligence will be merged into the new Homeland Security Department...
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Sikeston man pleads guilty to cocaine sales
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
A Sikeston, Mo., man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to two felony counts of distribution of 5 grams or more of cocaine base. James R. Warfield, 26, sold 7.3 grams of cocaine base to a confidential informant in Sikeston on March 11 for $250. The next day, he sold 6.1 grams to an informant for $200...
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Military news 11/21/02
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Wood begins advanced training course CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Army Pvt. Christopher T. Wood has arrived at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to complete a radar repairer advanced individual training course. Wood will learn to perform direct and general support level maintenance on ground based sensor and firefinder radar electronic assemblies and associated equipment...
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Community briefs 11/21
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Millersville Masonic Lodge to meet tonight MILLERSVILLE -- The Millersville Masonic Lodge Westview No. 103 will meet tonight with dinner to be served at 6:45 p.m. followed by a meeting at 7:30 p.m. All masons are invited. For more information, call Billy Keele at (573) 866-3282...
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Community cuisine 11/21
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Abundant Life plans Thanksgiving dinner A Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings will be served at Abundant Life Church, located at Route K and U.S. 25, from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Diners may eat in or carry out. Call 243-7827 early to arrange for delivery. Cost is $6, though meal is free to those who qualify. All proceeds will go to Shepherd's Cove Children's Home. Call the church office at 243-7827 for more information...
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United Way reaches 77 percent of goal
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
With the 49th Annual Area Wide United Way campaign well under way, more than $684,000 of the $895,000 goal, or 77 percent, has been committed in pledges at this time. "We are grateful to our community for their generous support of our local programs and agencies. Every donation we receive has an impact," said Nancy Jernigan, Area Wide United Way executive director ...
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Volunteer named state 2002 Auxilian of the Year
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
In just eight years, Ilena Aslin's vision has redefined the purpose and mission of Southeast Missouri Hospital's Auxiliary. This Cape Girardeau woman's dedication to the Auxiliary and its mission recently earned her top honors as 2002 "Auxilian of the Year" from the Missouri Association of Hospital Auxiliaries...
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Patchwork of dreams
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Southeast Missourian By creating and donating quilts based on the artwork of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital patients, local quilters have made a child's visit to St. Jude hospital a little less clinical and a bit more like Grandma's house...
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Hybrid car rally planned in Cape
(Local News ~ 11/21/02)
Fuel-efficient hybrid cars combine a gasoline-driven engine with an electric engine. The goal is to reduce pollution and increase fuel economy in a vehicle that does not suffer from low power and does not need to be plugged in. The Sierra Club is sponsoring a Hybrid Car Rally today to bring attention to these vehicles. A Toyota Prius, which gets 50 mpg, is being driven around the state in the rally. A Honda hybrid vehicle also will be brought to Cape Girardeau...
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Cape police report 11/21/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/21/02)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, Nov. 21 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Kitty D. Durbin, 40, of 207 E. Monroe, Jackson, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of allowing an unlicensed driver to drive and possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Cape fire report 11/21/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/21/02)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, Nov. 21 Firefighters responded Tuesday to the following items: At 3:26 p.m., illegal burn at 1000 N. Middle. At 3:32 p.m., emergency medical service at 100 Country Club Dr. At 8:18 p.m., after hours burning at 447 Edgewood. Firefighters responded Wednesday to the following items:...
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Health calendar 11/21
(Community ~ 11/21/02)
Today Newborn massage class from 10 to 11 a.m. at Generations Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The class is free and participants receive massage oils and a booklet. Call 651-5825 to register. Fibromyalgia Support Group meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the conference room at St. Francis Center for Health and Rehabilitation. For information, call Marilyn at 331-5880...
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Marine general impressed with visit to the area
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/21/02)
To the editor: The members of the Cpl. Mason O. Yarbrough Detachment and I are very grateful for the support your publications have given us during the period leading up to and including the Marine Corps Ball. Lt. Gen. Charles Pitman was impressed with his visit to Southeast Missouri and the reception he received. The newspaper helped make his visit a success, and he made our Marine Corps Ball a success...
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Church leaders see good reasons not to go to war
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/21/02)
To the editor: There has been questioning about why top-ranking church officials strongly oppose a war in Iraq. In order to understand their stance, Christians would first have to accept that their leader and mentor is Jesus Christ himself. Jesus never looked to approval ratings before speaking the truth. ...
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Card on balloons brings memories of letter in bottle
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/21/02)
To the editor: It brought back memories when I read the article on the birthday card on some balloons that Danny Hahn found while combining corn. In 1936 or 1937, while I was serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps at New Canton, Ill., another member of the camp by the name of Mueller or Miller found a bottle along the Illinois River with a girl's name and address in it. She was from Pearl, Ill. He wrote to her. Later, when I was in a camp in northern Wisconsin, I heard they got married...
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High court hears challenge to governor's nursing home cuts
(State News ~ 11/21/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- In a case that could set a precedent on how Missouri governors handle budget shortfalls, the state Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether Gov. Bob Holden violated the constitution by withholding nearly $21 million in nursing home grants...
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