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Moving on, fighting on
Dr. Leisha Emens dreads the calls she has been getting lately. The news is rarely good. "A lot of people are dying right now. It's to be expected. These people have an incurable disease," Emens says in late August, as she wraps up her early work running...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Tumors, Walt Disney, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Liver
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On shaky ground
Baltimore Sun reportersBaltimore's arcane system of ground rents, widely viewed as a harmless vestige of colonial law, is increasingly being used by some investors to seize homes or extract large fees from people who often are ignorant of the loosely regulated process, an...Tags: Sales, Credit Ratings, Computer Networking and Internet, Laws, Condos and Houses
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Judge tentatively OKs sale of ex-WorldCom CFO's home
Associated PressNEW YORK - A federal judge gave her blessing yesterday to a deal in which former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan will forfeit his ornate $11 million Florida mansion and his retirement account to settle with investors who lost billions when the...Tags: WorldCom Incorporated, Defendants, Corporate Officers, Companies and Corporations, Punishment
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NIH worker accused in Fla. anthrax threat
Sun National StaffAn employee at the National Institutes of Health was arrested yesterday, accused of making an anthrax threat against an assessor's office in Florida with which she was having a property tax dispute, the FBI's Miami office said. Michelle Ledgister, 43, of...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Diseases and Illnesses, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Anthrax, Property Tax
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Facing anthrax scare with rational caution
AMERICANS should react to the possibility of terrorism by anthrax spore as they have to such dangers as cancer from the sun and death on the highways - by proceeding with caution, even extreme caution, but not with panic. A handful of incidents,...Tags: Defense, Tom Daschle, Guerrilla Activity, World War II (1939-1945), Plastic Surgeons
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Postal route in N.J. tracked
Sun StaffTRENTON, N.J. - Federal investigators descended on suburban Ewing Township yesterday, tracking a postal carrier's route where at least one of the anthrax-tainted letters that have rattled the nation in recent weeks might have been mailed. FBI agents went...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Defense, Tom Daschle, Manhattan (New York City), Atlanta
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Anthrax probe widens as second case discovered
Sun StaffFederal officials widened their probe yesterday into the death of a Florida man from anthrax, acknowledging that they are considering bioterrorism after anthrax spores were found on the victim's computer keyboard and in a colleague. Attorney General John...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Plastic Surgeons, Diseases and Illnesses, Anthrax, Newspaper and Magazine
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More anthrax cases found
Sun StaffTwo suspicious letters - one delivered in New York and another in Nevada - have been found to contain anthrax, while five more employees of a Florida tabloid publisher have tested positive for exposure to the rare and deadly bacteria, officials...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), New York City, Tom Brokaw, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Laws
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Anthrax alert shuts House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, ABC (tv network), Death, Bill Frist, Government
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Woman in N.Y. 4th anthrax case
Sun StaffAn NBC News employee in New York became yesterday the fourth American to be discovered with a rare anthrax bacterium, raising fears that media companies may have been targeted for a biological attack through the mail. The possibility that the anthrax...Tags: Dick Cheney, Newspaper and Magazine, Death, John Ashcroft, Television Stations
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ChoicePoint had earlier data leak
Times Staff WritersScammers penetrated ChoicePoint Inc.'s vast online database of personal records five years ago in an operation similar to a more recent case that has triggered a national furor over privacy, court records show. Two Nigerian-born fraud artists were...Tags: Sunland, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Illegal Immigrants, Christine Burton, Wages and Pensions
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A year later, clues on anthrax still few
Sun StaffIt began with an ugly red bump on the middle finger of Johanna Huden's right hand. Huden, an editorial assistant for the New York Post, thought it was an insect bite. In retrospect, Huden's infection, which appeared about Sept. 21 last year, would turn...Tags: Weaponry, Defense, United Nations, Anthrax, Iraq
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