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Last Week in the World of News
3/14, Illinois
A 14 car Amtrak train in Illinois traveling approximately 80 M.P.H. slammed into a truck loaded with steel rods. Eleven people were killed and more than 100 people were injured.
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3/15, Washington,D.C.
The Institute of Medicine recommended that marijuana cigarettes, or joints, be made available for short periods of time to help cancer and AIDS patients find relief for their severe pain and nausea.
3/18, Washington,D.C.
"Dr. Death" Jack Kevorkian, who has helped 140 people commit suicide since 1990, will go on trial for injecting lethal drugs into the arm of Thomas Yonk, a victim of Lou Gehrig's disease.
