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...Details remained sketchy through the night and into the morning. Official statements from the U.S. military in Baghdad said only that a U.S. soldier, whose name was not released, disappeared about 7:30 p.m. in central Baghdad, outside the Green Zone. Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a spokesman for the infantry division in charge of Baghdad security, said a Baghdad resident called one of the military's tip lines saying kidnappers grabbed the soldier. Withington said the search was ongoing but offered no further information...
...involving all coalition forces available," Withington said...
...says Kodak's Cohen Szulc. There is some silver lining for the industry. Vendors are looking to emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. And even in the mature Japanese, European and U.S. markets, a lot of people still do not have digital cameras. IDC analyst Paul Withington in London says that household penetration levels are far from the 70-80% that the industry reached with film cameras. "It's down to the vendors to try to stimulate that growth," says Withington. That means that consumers are in for a treat of more features at lower prices...
...spark that started what came to be called the collegiate "fish wars" of our grandparent's generation occurred right in Boston. It was 60 years ago, March 3, 1939, when the very first goldfish was gulped by Lothrop Withington Jr. in a campaign publicity stunt at Boston College. A candidate for freshman class president, Withington staged the swallowing to attract attention, after his friends gave him the idea with a $10 bet. Hungry for votes, anxious to collect his money, and most probably motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...