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...Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died Jan. 5, hours after arriving at a juvenile boot camp for stealing his grandmother's car and violating probation. A local coroner says sickle cell trait, not an altercation with boot camp guards, killed Anderson. But an eerily silent surveillance video shows Bay County deputies restraining, kicking and punching the boy, who at times appeared limp and unable to comply. The results of a second autopsy remain secret, but at least one coroner involved says the youth did not die of sickle cell, or any other natural causes...
...Following Anderson's death, Florida officials shut down the Bay County boot camp while state lawmakers scrambled to improve standards at the handful of remaining programs. But that hasn't been enough to satisfy critics of the handling of the incident...
...They gave up their sit-in Thursday afternoon at the request of Anderson's parents to prepare for a march. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton spoke to crowd of about 1,500 at that rally in front of the the state capitol building Friday morning. Both demanded the state complete its investigation and punish those responsible. They later met privately with Gov. Jeb Bush...
...discontent with the choice. “Considering past speakers, we were under the impression it would be someone with a recognizable social commitment,” said UPenn Senior Class President Pierre Gooding. At Yale, where graduates will hear a commencement speech from news anchor and Yale alumnus Anderson Cooper, one writer headlined a letter about Cooper’s selection to the Yale Daily News, “College fell short with speaker choice.” And Stanford senior Paul S. Wright wrote in an e-mail of his school’s selection of news anchor...
...conceptual revolution in cancer biology," says Dr. Robert Weinberg, a cancer-research pioneer at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass. "This is going to explain the way a wide variety of human cancers originate and the way they grow." Says Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a leukemia researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas: "If we are able to eradicate the cancer stem cell, we will be able to cure patients...