This Week in Death brings you: Notes from around the pool! We take you from the shallow to the deep end, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be a Syms-like educated death pool competitor.
Please accept TWID's sincere apology for our one day delay. The TWID committee was slightly ill this week. Don't worry, had it been serious, it would be one of the headlines...
Suck it up and quit being such a B.B.
Eighty-one-year-old blues legend B.B. King cancelled a show and was admitted to a Galveston, Texas, hospital with "flu-like symptoms," a hospital spokesman said on Friday. King, who is diabetic but otherwise said to be in good health, was admitted to the University of Texas Medical Branch's Acute Care for Elders Unit at about 9:15 p.m. Thursday, hospital spokesman John Koloen said.
Still time to turn in this Papert
US Professor Seymour Papert, who got into a motorbike accident in Hanoi in December 2006, has recovered his strength. Prof Papert's family said that he had been discharged from the hospital in Boston in the US. He is now still undergoing treatment at home. Luckily enough, he will not have any after-effects after the head trauma and now he can speak.
Once, Twice, Three times a Lady Bird
Green cited LBJ's education accomplishments — creating Head Start, launching a federal student aid program and directing funds to elementary and secondary schools — and said they may have been overshadowed by other facets of his presidency. He and the other Texans are feeling a sense of urgency to get the tribute done because Johnson's widow, Lady Bird Johnson, is in poor health. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4484765.html
Looking to reclaim her spot as an angel?
Farrah Fawcett is facing another medical nightmare – she must have surgery to stop her going blind. The former Charlie's Angel began losing her sight after months of painful chemotherapy for intestinal cancer.
Non-points related deaths for the week...
Former Reds pitching coach Vern Ruhle died Saturday night at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston of complications from a donor stem cell transplant for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. He was 55.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb
E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died Tuesday. He was 88.
http://www.chron.com/disp
26 days, 4 deaths and counting...
The Commissioner's Council
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