Like Charles Dickens, the Australian novelist Morris West died suddenly at his desk, with an unfinished manuscript before him. The date was 8 October 1999; then in his eighty-fourth year, West had pub...
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Intra-arterial administration of thrombolytic therapy (mainly tissue-plasminogen activator [t-PA]) has demonstrated significant and immediate clinical improvement, dubbed the "Lazarus phenomenon," ...
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CANBERRA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Bookmakers, the polls and even
the economy are against Australia's conservative Prime Minister
John Howard, but the nation's political "Lazarus" should not be
written ...
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Jerry FalwellLYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the evangelist who used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics, has died. He wa...
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Soweto, South Africa (dpa) - Lazarus Tlhahane, 69, a grandfather
seven times over, is hoping to be adopted.
He owns one of the 15 makeshift stalls that have sprung u...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Ibrahim Gambari, the UN special envoy for Myanmar,
was scheduled to arrive in Indonesia Wednesday night as part of an
emergency regional tour to seek consens...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pregnant women are receiving
more high-tech imaging exams, exposing their babies to higher
doses of radiation than a decade ago, a study said on Tuesday. While the levels of ra...
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Coming soon to the Supreme Court: a rare appearance by a black lawyer. More than a year has passed since a black lawyer in private practice stood at the lectern in the elegant courtroom and spoke t...
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For millions of comic strip readers, the prehistoric era was a hoot: Cavemen played baseball, ants went to school, birds rode on the back of turtles and snakes made quips.All of it was thanks to ca...
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SYDNEY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Australians began voting on
Saturday in national elections to decide whether to end more
than 11 years of conservative rule or give Prime Minister John
Howard, who trail...
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Ten years ago, many critics (and at least a few sane people, too) thought that rock had breathed its last. The early-90’s grunge wave had crested and broken, leaving behind lots of second- an...
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