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MIAMI, FLORIDA: U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey announced Friday that he will resign from his job as a federal prosecutor after a Miami newspaper reported accusations that he bit a topless dancer on the arm. "The strain on my family has been so great, I am returning to private practice and I owe it my family to do this," said Coffey at a press conference at the federal courthouse. Coffey's resignation comes one day after the Miami Herald reported that the prosecutor was under investigation by the Justice Department. According to the Herald, a dancer at the Lipstik Adult Entertainment...
...cross-country traveler was knocked unconscious in a car accident, doctors could punch up his or her medical records to determine the best treatment. With such a system, public-health officials could keep better track of epidemics, for example, or the emergence of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. Researchers could scan the population to identify important risk factors that increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer. AT&T is helping create such a network of linked records for the National Health Service of Britain. Doctors there, however, have strongly opposed the system at every turn...
...Lama, about 23 buildings, including ten belonging to the Lama Foundation spiritual community, have been destroyed. The fire began Sunday as a small trash fire. TIME's Nancy Harbert reports from Albuquerque that area residents are worried that this fire and another near Tucson, Arizona are putting a strain on firefighting resources. "Normally, the fire season doesn't start until June, so we're all nervous that this hasn't peaked. There is a fear that if there are more fires in the Southwest, they won't have the ability to fight them all. There has only been 0.38 inches...
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control were quick to reassure the public that Ebola Reston is a markedly different virus from the one that killed 244 people in Zaire last year. Ebola Zaire, as that strain is known, is one of the world's deadliest viruses; 80% of its victims bleed to death...
Ebola Reston, by contrast, has never been linked to illness in humans. Still, doctors are closely monitoring everybody who had any contact with the monkeys in Texas. Experts warn that they can't rule out the possibility that Ebola Reston could mutate into a strain that is fatal to humans. Says a spokesman for the cdc: "It would be folly to predict what the virus will...