After he disappeared in 1985 however Lebanese police say they have no information to support that claim
For the first time in 26 years former hostage Edward Tracy will wake up this morning in his homeland
The 60 year old Tracy who was released Sunday after being held hostage in Lebanon for five years arrived in Massachusetts yesterday
Accompanied by his daughters he was greeted by the patriotic sounds of Europe brand-old flag
Tracy was taken to Veterans Administration Medical Center in Boston for further physical and psychological tests
Researchers say AIDS eventually will reverse Africa's population explosion a study in the latest issue of Nature magazine says
AIDS is spreading so fast across the continent it will result in a net population loss within a few decades
Researchers in Boston may have made a breakthrough in the study of Alzheimer's disease
Doctors at Harvard Medical School were able to prevent degenerative effects of the disease in rats the rats were treated with a nerve protein
Called substance P, but researchers say they don't know if the results would be similar on humans
Alzheimer's patients generally have low levels of the natural chemical
A new study is reporting that may have thought true for ages
Eating right and exercise could be the keys to good health on nap has more yeah
It seemed to make sense
Regular exercise added to a healthy diet would improve cholesterol levels and therefore reduce the risk of heart disease
now a Stanford University study confirms it and
Our hypothesis was that if these people would also take regular exercise then the effect on their
HDL and perhaps their general risk of heart disease would be further
Dr.. Peter woods team showed that while diet alone reduced the risk of heart disease in men 22%
Diet plus exercise reduced risk 37%
Women also benefited from combining exercise with a diet of low fat and limited cholesterol
Cholesterol diet alone reduced their risk of heart disease 8%
But with exercise women's risk dropped 31%
Medical researchers say a key indicator of risk is the level of high-density lipoproteins
HDL in the blood more HDL is better
They say as it seems to prevent cholesterol from building up on the lining of arteries
But the idea is not yet widely accepted by the medical establishment
Establishment this brochure on high blood cholesterol issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services
Does not mention exercise that it's an excellent publication
And it does start early on by saying that if people have
Plastic problems the first thing to do is to treat them with diet
But dr.
Basil Rifkin of the National Institutes of Health says the agency is not yet ready to recommend exercise to improve cholesterol
What we really need to know is whether raising HDL through exercise or by some other means actually reduces the rate of heart attack
And that's not being convincingly
Established it also has not been established whether people can stick to exercising three times a week as
Participants did in the Stanford University study Beth Kane says just being part of the study group helped her
Let me put it this way if we didn't have the group for the exercise
I think we would have all been back on our couches several
The study participants who had never exercised regularly before are now regular runners Don Knapp CNN
Stanford University, California
Anti-abortion activists in Wichita, Kansas won a federal judge to order all children be kept away from abortion clinics including young patients
Operation Rescue was responding to Judge Patrick Kelly's criticism of the group's use of children in its demonstrations yesterday
Judge Kelly sentenced a demonstrator of four months in jail for blocking a clinic entrance, but he later lifted the sentence
Investigators are trying to match an alleged serial killers claims with police records in 17 states
34 year old Donald Delroy Evans says he has killed more than 60 people nationwide since
1977 Sunday Evans led investigators in Mississippi to the body of a 10 year old homeless girl
He has admitted to kidnapping raping and killing
Authorities call Evans rational, but they say they know little else about him
He had no permission to be out of the state of Texas
The only information that we have as far as his family that he has a father in the state of Florida
but
information as far as
Way with the school and things of that nature is very sketchy because we have never received that information on him then again
It since he has used the alias name
It's possible that it might not be true
the US Attorney's Office and the FBI are forming a task force to investigate Evans's clients in
Wisconsin Milwaukee County officials have suspended a janitor who they say admits to copying police reports on accused serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
Information from the reports including a psychological analysis was published in the New York Times earlier this month
Meanwhile flyers reading freed Dahmer have appeared in Portland, Oregon
The flyers say Dahmer who has confessed to 17 murders should be freed because he only killed homosexuals
Authorities in two states are investigating an Alabama nurse
They're looking into what they call the suspicious deaths of patients in two hospitals where the nurse worked Al Hinman reports
the death of a Birmingham man five months ago at Cooper Green Hospital
Appeared to be just another cardiac arrest another code blue his heart stopped beating and he died
But now Robert Price's death is front-page news
However, Birmingham police say they suspected foul play almost from the beginning
We are investigating a suspicious death at this time. The suspect we're looking at is a male nurse
He worked here at Cooper Green Hospital for approximately a two-week period
That nurse who police will not identify until charged with a crime came to Cooper Green Hospital
Earlier this year from Atlanta where he worked at North Fulton Regional Hospital for six months the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Is investigating eight cases of cardiac arrest at North Fulton code blue similar to the Birmingham incident
The hospital's administrator Frederick Bailey says only five of those patients died
And says there is no evidence the deaths were caused by any common cause or individual nurse
However, an Atlanta area woman sued another Atlanta hospital last year naming the same male nurse suspected in the Birmingham and Atlanta deaths
For allegedly trying to kill her with an injection designed to stop her heart and he inserted it into the heart
And he inserted it into the I.N.T. and as soon as it started going up in my bank
It just like it exploded my heart and my head just exploded and I started screaming at him that he killed me
Bambi Plumlee lived and her suit against the hospital was settled earlier this year for
750 thousand dollars the attorney for the family of the dead Birmingham patient says he's ready now to file a major civil suit
While authorities in Georgia and Alabama search for answers
Wondering if they'll find even more patients who died under suspicious circumstances
Al Hinman CNN in Birmingham, Alabama a
High-speed trip to the emergency room has landed a San Francisco father in trouble with the law
John Hall was rushing his wife who was in labor to the hospital yesterday
Her water broke on the way and their two-year-old son who had been ill stopped breathing
The couple says that's when they sped up and refused to stop for police
And I tried to get him out of the car seat, but it hurt so much I couldn't
Sit up to do that. I mean I was just you know holding on that bar over the window
going free
Breathing doesn't help. I did right as far as I'm concerned, you know, and I would do it again
You know, I did right by saving my family
Mr. Hall was cited for speeding but authorities say he may face further charges. Mrs. Hall and her newborn daughter are hospitalized
The two-year-old is fine
Doctors in Baltimore has successfully performed a rare procedure in hopes of delivering healthy triplets
They delivered one baby girl on July 26th when the mother went into labor 13 weeks prematurely
They then delayed the births of the other two so they'd develop further
Hospital officials say the second and third babies were born last Friday
All three are said to be doing well
It's a bit ironic that the woman who leads the Cherokee Indian Nation is named man killer
Yesterday Wilma man killer began a second term as chief Tony Clark has her story
For the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, it was a day of celebration the inauguration of the principal chief of the
122,000 member Indian tribe
You solemnly swear or affirm? Wilma man killers election to a second full term as chief is not only a political victory
But a personal one as well because unlike her earlier races during this election being a woman didn't matter
They looked in 1991 at what was going on what my plans were and what I had done and
Didn't look at that within the context of my being a female
But just look they were more interested in competence than the issue of gender 1987
She became the first woman to be elected chief of a major tribe when I was younger
I was so angry at that time at so much injustice that I saw with my own
people that I that I you know expressed that and
Expressed that sort of sense of wanting to do something in a different way and as I've gotten older
I think that I that anger is gone and I I try to focus more on the positive thing
Man killers emphasis these days is on improving Indian education
Setting up clinics using taxes on tobacco products to fund social programs and bring jobs to the area
She has been a role model not only for Native Americans
But for women who are taking leadership roles in this country. She's done a good job
And she seems to keep improving the time man killers office wall is covered with plaques and citations
honoring her work
Yet the thing that seems to please her most is that she's shown that ideas and leadership are more important than gender
The name man killer comes from the old Cherokee title given to generals in the tribes military
You know, I had a chicken chicken in a husher
So it is perhaps appropriate that the tribes principal
Chiefs name is man killer or she is the general leading the Cherokee nation for the 21st century
Tony Clark CNN
Talaqua, Oklahoma
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Yes McDonald's corporation may be adding another selection to its dinner menu. It isn't called McPasta
But the fast food chain is testing some pasta dishes restaurants in Rochester, New York are offering fettuccine
Lasagna and spaghetti while McDonald's calls the test very preliminary the company does admit
It's now placing more emphasis on its dinner menu
Our American dairy products safe to eat the u.s department of agriculture report obtained by the associated press is raising some doubts
Auditors discovered unsanitary conditions at eight out of 25 dairy plants
They visited in march of last year the report says they found mold rodents and insects at some plants
The auditors also cited inaction on the part of regular inspectors who had previously visited the sites
Expensive cars homes and clothes used to be the trademarks of the so-called jet set but now experts say it's
Unfashionable to wear high-priced fashions armor quarrels explains
It's high fashion haute couture designer names and labels for women
It might be carolyn rome or perhaps an oscar dealer rent a suit for seven thousand dollars
For men perhaps a carl lagerfeld tuxedo for a thousand dollars are people buying up these high-priced goods
This retail analyst says no even the super rich those people who trust funds have stopped shopping
And if they're buying they're buying half or less than what they bought a year or two ago
And why is that it's just unfashionable to put it on your back
No one wants to walk look like a walking chandelier anymore at martha's on park avenue
There were customers looking at designer outfits beautiful emerald green satin we have found here in these past months
That our customer is definitely back with us
They may not buy as much they might they may not buy as many pieces as they have in the past
But they want that special customer relationship and they find it with us
And what about designer suits for men the imported fabrics the prices that start at six hundred dollars
The design of men's business those two thousand dollar suits for those hot shots from wall street
Making a quarter of a million that business has really been been suffering
Bert hands as while business has been terrible for the past four quarters he is beginning to see a ray of hope
We're taking advance orders now for manufacturer and delivery in november and december january and february
And at this point we're experiencing an increase in units at the rate of about four and a half to five percent
In all of our better divisions and when it comes to designer children's wear the kids wear business
Which is about 20 billion dollars at retail
Um is now really in the hands of the discounters the walmarts and the targets and the ventures and the k-marts
They own the lion's share of the business today
There seems to be little doubt that the upscale end of the fashion industry whether for men women or children
Has felt the effects of the recession but everyone is ready to believe that a recovery is just around the corner
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The Angels won at 7-4
The White Sox inched to within a game and a half of the Twins
Mike Huff's two run, two out double in the eighth inning made the difference in Chicago's 9-8 victory at Detroit
The Royals are now just six and a half back in the up for grabs west
Danny Tardubble's 11th inning grand slam gave Kansas City its fourth in a row, 5-1 over the Yanks
Boston moved to within five and a half of Toronto in the east down in Cleveland
Baltimore's Mike Musina won his first major league game and the East leading Jays dropped their seventh in a row
National League tough luck pitcher Tim Belcher improved to eight and seven
Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry and Brett Butler drove in runs with singles as west leading LA defeated Cincinnati by a 4-1 score
The Dodgers lead second place Atlanta by a game and a half as the Giants dump the Braves 8-3
Kevin Mitchell connected for a two run shot, his 23rd
The Pittsburgh Pirates are proud owners of a baseball franchise by the name of the Philadelphia Phillies
The Bucks beat the Phils for the 14th straight time, Bonds and Bonilla RBI doubles
John Smiley won his 14th in the 5-3 final
Elsewhere, Montreal's Brian Barnes blanked Chicago, St. Louis sent New York to its sixth straight loss
San Diego dumped Houston, Fred McGriff at his second grand slam in two games
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The woman who almost made the queen lose her cool in May is planning a trip to the Monarch's homeland
Alice Frazier broke royal protocol during Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the U.S. by hugging Her Majesty as she visited Mrs. Frazier's home
Now Mrs. Frazier is planning a trip to London in November, but it's doubtful she'll get her hug returned
Now it's a whale of a baby boom at the New York Aquarium
A beluga whale calf was born yesterday at the Marine Museum on Coney Island
It weighed in at 185 pounds and it was six feet long
Another beluga baby arrived a week ago. A 20-year-old whale named Newfie is the father of both newborns by different mothers
Only 31 beluga whales exist in captivity
Zoo visitors in Philadelphia are mourning Bung the orangutan
The 35-year-old ape was put to sleep Tuesday after doctors discovered he had inoperable cancer
Bung also had diabetes and had been taught to give himself insulin shots
He was a favorite at the Philadelphia Zoo for almost 30 years
Zoo officials say Bung loved to watch television and his favorite show was Wheel of Fortune
While the Babysitter's Club may be even more popular with pre-teenaged girls than new kids on the block
Sherri Dean reports the books are on their way to the small screen
The Babysitter's Club, that's what we call ourselves
We meet three times a week and we do all sorts of stuff like babysit and throw pies for little ones
If you've never heard of the Babysitter's Club, then you obviously don't know a pre-teenaged girl
The Babysitter's Club started out as a series of books, but its phenomenal success has spawned all kinds of merchandise
A spin-off series of books called Babysitter's Little Sister for younger girls
And a video series which HBO has picked up as a mini-series for the fall
I'm calling an emergency meeting of the Babysitter's Club
Scholastic Publishing puts out a new book monthly
To date there are 46 Babysitter's Club books out
Each one is a nationwide bestseller with 46 million books in print
They're about real girls, real lives, real kinds of families and towns
The story ideas come from all over the place
Listening to the news, trying to keep up with what kids today are experiencing
Some girls identify so closely with the books and the characters
That they've actually gone out and formed their own real-life Babysitter's Clubs
Every week a group of six pre-teenaged girls meets at the Palm Shore Cabana Club in Brooklyn
Where the girls spend their days babysitting
All are big fans of the books
It's like what we do, we babysit and everything
And it's like, they have experiences that are fun
They tell about the babies, they tell about us
And they're interested
You're like, when you have this in the book
And you know, you just get a feeling like you could just jump into the book
And you could just, the way they're talking, you could talk like that, you know
The girls, our readers, had such definite expectations
With respect to these characters' physical characteristics as well as their behavior
And we ended up with the first two shows that we did having to see over 500 girls to cast seven parts
Scholastic plans to continue the videos as well as the books
Sherri Dean, CNN Entertainment News, New York
And finally, spectators in Galveston, Texas got a real eyeful last weekend
While gathered around to watch some bungee jumping, they witnessed an unusual full moon
A 32-year-old man dropped his trunks, allegedly on purpose, while dangling from a bungee cord
It was issued a citation for disorderly conduct, his specific offense, bungee mooning
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