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...finale and preparations are already underway in Moscow for the big show in May. The walkup to the competiton already has spawned several controversies for organizers and politicians to deal with. Russia's large contingent of gay Eurovision fans is feuding with Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's notoriously homophobic mayor. Russian gay rights groups are threatening to schedule a parade during the contest, despite being warned not to by Luzhkov. If the march does take place, it will most likely be met with violence and arrests, which have taken place every time a gay rights march is held in Russia...
...think Fred Phelps is a man who has not enough to do,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons...
...city is about to announce that on Monday its mayor, representatives in Congress and health-care professionals will launch a new effort to make health records completely paper-free. That means digitizing every prescription and patient history written not only in the 10-county area surrounding Tampa and St. Petersberg, Fla., but also, eventually, in the rest of the country. Over the next two years, Tampa's leaders plan to train every one of the 8,000 physicians in the area in electronic prescribing, with the goal of having at least 60% of all eligible prescriptions by Tampa Bay doctors...
...Subtly challenged her hard-charging boss, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, by summoning to a City Council hearing a health department aide Giuliani had targeted for firing. Hamburg also publicly opposed an effort requiring AIDS educators to promise to stress abstinence to city students, arguing that science and not "wishful thinking" should drive AIDS education...
...took care of me like a newborn. She's the kind of person you figure can do almost anything." -Former New York Mayor David Dinkins, remembering how Dr. Hamburg persuaded him to take a tuberculosis test after he spent time with someone who was afflicted with the disease. (New York Times, March...