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DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, pioneer rock-'n'-roll tunesmith; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. He wrote songs that helped define the careers of Elvis Presley (Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up), Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire), Peggy Lee (Fever) and James Taylor (Handy Man). A modest man who never met most of the singers made famous by his songs and one of the few black composers of the proto-pop era, Blackwell blended country with rhythm and blues to make music the world still sings...
...least one pharmacy that had been producing its own pops--compounding them, in the jargon of the trade--and selling them over the counter, isn't waiting for the FDA crackdown. "This was our first venture into otc compounding," says William Johns, owner of Peoples Custom Rx in Memphis, Tenn. "I've decided we will sell them only by prescription until this all gets sorted...
...Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing Doe, who admits he felt compelled to meet with the prelate whenever O'Connell called. "We'd meet and he'd say, 'Get undressed and get in bed,' and I did." When O'Connell became a bishop, says Doe, "I thought this was all over...
Kerry and Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) plan to introduce legislation for a U.S. contribution to the Global Fund, a U.N.-sponsored project that aims to raise $10 billion to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria...
...CITY The U.S. government reports that the rate of gonorrhea infections nationwide finally leveled off in 2000. That's the good news. The bad? It shot up more than 20% in cities like Buffalo, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Detroit; Nashville, Tenn.; and Kansas City, Mo. The best way to prevent the sexually transmitted disease is abstinence or condoms. But don't count on help from the spermicide nonoxynol-9. Contrary to expectations, a separate report shows that nonoxynol-9 does nothing to kill off gonorrhea bacteria...