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...DONNA LEON...
Although the legendary Fountain of Youth that brought Ponce de Leon to Florida in the sixteenth century is probably a myth, four researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) may recently have discovered the next best thing...
Many iconic athletes, who spend their entire lives as victors, often have to experience losing before they?re convinced to call it a career. Willie Mays stumbling in his forties with the Mets, Muhammad Ali falling to Leon Spinks and doing roach motel commercials in the late-seventies, Joe Namath tossing interceptions for the Rams. They should have retired years before...
DISCOVERED. An ICE AX believed to be the weapon used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky; by the daughter of a former Mexican secret service agent; in Mexico City. DNA tests of bloodstains on the ax have been delayed by a dispute between Ana Alicia Salas, who says her late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin...
...ailing British helicopter manufacturer, had ballooned into one of the severest tests for Margaret Thatcher in her nearly seven years as Prime Minister. The controversy has already prompted the angry resignation of Defense Minister Michael Heseltine and threatened to force the ouster of Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan. In the House of Commons last week, amid charges of high-level deceit and manipulation, Thatcher's critics turned the debate into a full-scale assault on her whole style of governing. Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, demanded an investigation...