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...DIVORCED. PATRICK HOLLAND, 14, from his father, Daniel Holland, becoming the first child to divorce a parent on his own (without the assistance of a ward or guardian); in Canton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Daniel Holland shot his wife Elizabeth in their Quincy, Massachusetts, home in 1998 and is serving a life sentence. Patrick discovered his mother's body. "No one should ever have to go through what I went through," he said last week...
...often, they pay an appalling price to feel?and look?cool. Among the 30 patients in the head-injury ward at Hanoi's Viet Duc Hospital, doctors say 70-80% are there due to motorcycle accidents. Dr. Nguyen Kim Lien, a steely eyed woman in her 40s who runs the ward, estimates that a third of her patients wouldn't be there if they had been wearing helmets. For her part, Dr. Lien says she sticks to a bicycle, always wears a helmet and insists that all her family members do, too. But old habits are hard to change, even...
DIED. RODGER WARD, 83, one of auto racing's most prominent figures during the glory days of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; in Anaheim, Calif. Before winning the Indy 500 in 1959 and 1962, Ward almost quit racing because of his involvement in two fatal crashes--one that killed his former crew chief Clay Smith, and another that claimed the life of his friend and two-time Indy 500 champion Bill Vukovich...
Complementing the backstrokers, senior Kate Nadeau earned second-team All-Ivy honors for her performance in the 200-yard butterfly, while sophomores Molly Ward and Jane Evans followed up their strong debut seasons with consistent showings in short-distance freestyle, and butterfly and individual medley, respectively, to nab second-team nods. Joining them among the All-Ivy ranks was Alli Bates, who returned from injury to take second in the 100-yard butterfly at the Ivy Championships...
Sources: U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations: Cross-Channel Attack, by Orlando Ward; The Penguin Atlas of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, by John Man; D-Day Gliders, by Philippe Esvelin; D-Day 1944, Omaha Beach, by Steven J. Zaloga