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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7504)	10/24/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Woman rescued after weeks of torture by husband ZION, Ill. (Reuters) - A woman who was held prisoner and repeatedly tortured for weeks by her husband was rescued after she managed to make a telephone call, police say. "She was held five or six weeks against her will and literally tortured over that time," said Lt. Greg Nugent of the police department in Zion, a town north of Chicago near the Wisconsin state line. "For the last week to 10 days we don't think she ate at all. She lost 40 pounds and was tortured in just about every imaginable form," he said. "She was beaten with a hammer, a table leg, burned, cut, stabbed with a fork. Her body is literally covered with bruises and cuts. Her husband was rubbing salt into the wounds and giving her salt baths after he cut her," he said. "She was bound and put in a closet," he added. Nugent said the woman was rescued on Tuesday after she managed to make a call when her husband did not unplug the telephone as he had been doing. The woman was being treated at a hospital. Her husband was held on $1 million bond, charged with aggravated battery, aggravated kidnapping and criminal sexual assault. He said the husband had offered no explanation for what had happened. "He just asked for a lawyer," Nugent said Thursday. ^REUTERS@ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Man dies of rabies after bat bite DENVILLE, N.J. (Reuters) - A New Jersey man died of rabies after being bitten by a bat in what doctors said was the state's first case of human rabies in 25 years. The 32-year-old man contracted rabies during the summer when he was trying to remove bats from his living room, said Dr. Donald Allegra, infectious disease specialist at Northwest Covenant Medical Center in Denville, N.J. Allegra said he had turned to Montana and Washington state, the only other places where human deaths from bat-transmitted rabies have occurred this year for help in saving the man's life, who had been comotose on a respirator. Of 35 cases of human rabies diagnosed in the United States since 1980, 20 -- including the New Jersey man -- have been linked to bats. Less than one percent of bats carry the rabies virus, Allegra said. The man, who was not identified by the hospital, was admitted Oct. 15 complaining of flu-like symptoms but did not suspect he had rabies. Symptoms include high fever, difficulty swallowing, fever, aches and chills. There is no cure for rabies and death usually occurs three to 20 days after the onset of symptoms. New Jersey public health veterinarian Dr. Faye Sorhage said the victim, who lived with his wife and two children in an old house in a rural area, had handled two bats in July. Sorhage said bat droppings in the house indicated there could have been about 200 bats there at any one time. The man claimed he was not bitten by the bats, but the doctors said that a victim could be bitten without realizing it. ^REUTERS@ ----------------------------------------------------------- And we thought we had it bad.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7504)	10/25/1997 10:28:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Microsoft forges ahead with plan to bolster Windows CE in '98 Redmond, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. is pushing ahead with plans to introduce Hydra-a multiuser version of Windows NT-by Q1 1998, shipping with Windows-based terminals from three hardware manufacturers. "We're not seeing any widespread embracing of [Windows CE]," said Becky Diercks, an analyst at Business Research Group. These devices will likely remain so-at least until Microsoft finds partners to develop a form factor similar to 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot, the top-selling handheld device in 1996, said Karl Wilhelm, vice president of SRA Corp., Fairfax, Va. techweb.com o~~~ O