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.
Bankok, Thailand - Health and food experts from around the world opened an emergency meeting Tuesday on Asia's bird flu outbreak as the death toll rose to 13 and UN officials sought to dampen fears of the virus striking large numbers of people. A seven-year-old boy became the fourth person to die from the disease in Thailand. Meanwhile, an outbreak in China's poultry stocks appeared to widen, with newly confirmed or suspected cases reported in six provinces. Washington - A white powder found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office tested Tuesday as an "active" form of the deadly poison ricin, forcing cancellation of most Senate business in the second such scare from a lethal toxin to hit the capital. But officials have found no evidence that anyone was significantly exposed to the poison enough "to make them sick," said Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol physician. Montevideo, Uruguay - A multimillion-dollar effort to raise large parts of the German battleship Graf Spee - scuttled off Uruguay in the opening days of the Second World War - should begin late this week, a salvage expert said Tuesday. A symbol of German naval might early in the war, the ship prowled the South Atlantic chasing and sinking as many as nine allied merchant ships before it was crippled by British warships in a December 1939 naval engagement.4/2/04
