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...messages and other documents she and Halliday unearthed in China, Russia and elsewhere, plus the 150 or so former Mao minions, victims and acquaintances they interviewed, including a dozen heads of state and government as well as the nurse who heard the Great Helmsman's last words ("I feel ill; call the doctors"). It's difficult to gauge the reliability of all this research, but it builds a case sure to anger Mao fans everywhere, especially his successors in Beijing. Among the charges...
...Miss., after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk helped galvanize the civil rights movement; to collect evidence for an investigation reopened last year after a documentary filmmaker told authorities he believed several who participated in the 14-year-old's murder are still alive; in Alsip, Ill. The clerk's husband and his half brother were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury but later admitted their involvement to Look magazine...
DIED. ARNIE MORTON, 83, restaurateur who in 1960, with Hugh Hefner and Victor Lownes, launched the first Playboy Club and then founded Morton's, the steak-house restaurants; of cancer; in Deerfield, Ill. His original Chicago eatery, opened in 1978, got a boost after Frank Sinatra dined there one night, and the newly dubbed "steak house for the rich" soon expanded to other cities...
...what really caught our eye were all the ads--especially on the Internet--from companies offering to store our baby's cord blood as "insurance," as they they put it, against the day our child gets desperately ill. The idea is that by saving a baby's cord blood, you will have a source of stem cells that uniquely match his or her DNA. The Cord Blood Registry, which claims to be the oldest and largest of these blood banks, says it has frozen more than 300,000 samples at $1,975 a pop--plus a $125 storage fee every...
...Lincoln just got a spiffy new museum near his boyhood home in Springfield, Ill. But the hometown legacy of less-than-Lincolnesque figures is often harder to maintain. An update on some domiciles of departed American icons that have been in and out of danger recently...