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Jeremy Zawodny, a programmer who helped launch the Yahoo Developer Network and promoted the philosophy of openness now in vogue at the company, is leaving.

UT professor John Slatin, an advocate of Internet accessibility for the blind, died last week after battling leukemia since June 2005.

There's an article in a recent issue of The Advocate about Thomas Beatie. Publicly, he's a mild-mannered husband in a sleepy Oregon community.

He's also pregnant with his first child. It's not a typo. Thomas Beatie, a legal male who is legally married to a woman, is pregnant with him and his wife's child.

AP - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is planning to run for Congress in Michigan. Kevorkian is on parole since being released from prison last year.