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 Sunday, 20 April 2003
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CBC Sports: Ben Johnson wants Carl Lewis stripped of '88 gold 'Earlier this week, Dr. Wade Exum, the former United States Olympic Committee director for drug control, released more than 30,000 pages of documents that show Lewis was one of more than 100 U.S. athletes who failed tests that would have disqualified them at the Olympics but were reinstated after it was decided the drug use was "inadvertent."
"Ben was not the only one on drugs -- they were all taking drugs, there was no difference," Johnson's manager, Morris Chrobotek, told the Sydney Morning Herald.'
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CBC News: SARS targets younger victims, officials worried 'It's an alarming trend that's already been noticed in parts of Asia, said Dr. Andrew Simor, the head of microbiology at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
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Most of Canada's roughly 300 probable and suspected cases of SARS are in the Toronto area. The figure has been climbing for the past few weeks, and officials have warned that the number could soar quickly if efforts to contain the illness fail.'
< 12:14:24 AM>.
CBC News: Toronto hospital closes wards over SARS fears 'Canada's largest trauma unit stopped accepting new patients Saturday after four employees showed symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital also closed its critical care, cardiovascular intensive care and SARS units for 10 days.
Eight other health-care workers at Sunnybrook have been quarantined. Officials issued the precautions, saying they suspected the workers were exposed to two SARS cases at the hospital.'
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