The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
New York - Michael J. Fox, who shot to stardom for playing an uptight young Republican in the 1980s television series Family Ties, is now starring in an election campaign for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The Canadian-born Fox, who now holds U.S. citizenship and suffers from Parkinson's disease, praises Kerry for his stand on stem cell research. "Stem cell research can help millions of Americans whose lives have been touched by devastating illnesses," Fox says in the ad. Kerry has promised to "lift the ideologically driven restrictions on stem cell research" if he wins the upcoming presidential election. Vancouver - Scientists said the chance of Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupting soon was declining, but warned the mountain could continue venting steam and volcanic rock for several weeks. "There's not necessarily going to be a big one," said Jake Lowenstern, a USGS volcanologist. Baghdad - Explosions and gunfire on Thursday evening rocked an area in central Baghdad where many foreigners and journalists stay. A fire was burning outside the Sheraton Hotel after several rockets landed in the compound, which is surrounded by a concrete wall. Three rockets hit the Sheraton's second and fourth floors, according to security guards at the nearby Palestine Hotel. The explosions shattered windows and filled the main lobby of the hotel with smoke and debris.8/10/04
