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Discounts off AT&T basic rates, refers to AT&T home or AT&T Calling Card accounts. Subject to billing availability Certain exclusions apply 'Subject to credit approval. ’Valid for lyr. Must sign up in 1996 and use service at least 1 hr./mo. $2.50/hr. for additional hrs. or $1995 for unlimited usage. Customers pay separate telephone charges to reach the service THIRSTY? Cheesecake Apple Fritters Scones Sandwiches Baklava Soup Turnovers Muffins Sweet Cinnamon Rolls Sausage Kolaches Eugene's Behind Garcia's on Harvey Rd. Next to Marooned CDs in Northgate HjrTli The Battalion Mr a pt i? 1 Ijffi Ij rj Pagt Thursday •September 12,1 Shakur’s injuries carry high death ratpd LAS VEGAS (AP) — The record executive who was with Tupac Shakur when the multimillion selling rapper was shot has failed to show up for police questioning. Shakur, 25, remained in critical condition and on life support at University Medical Center with four gunshot wounds. His right lung was removed in one of two operations Sunday. The rapper was originally given a 50-50 chance, but a University Medical Center doctor said Tuesday that eight of 10 patients die from the combination of such serious chest wounds and the removal of a lung. “It’s a very fatal injury,” Dr. John Fildes, chairman of the hos pital’s trauma unit, told the New York Daily News for a story pub lished today. “Statistically, it carries a very high mortality rate,” Fildes said. “A patient may die from lack of oxygen or may bleed to death in the chest.” Police say they are frustrated by a lack of cooperation from Shakur’s entourage, many of whom witnessed the shooting. Marion “Suge” Knight had agreed to talk to police investigat ing the Saturday night shooting, but didn’t appear Monday or Tuesday, police said. Knight, chairman of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, was released from the hospital Sunday after being treat ed for a head wound he suffered in the attack. “We’ve had contact with his attorney, but as of yet haven’t seen him,” Sgt. Kevin Manning said late Tuesday. Shakur, who has a history of vio lence and run-ins with the law, was a passenger in a car driven by Knight late Saturday when a white Cadillac with four men inside pulled up and someone opened fire. The gangsta rapper was hit four times, at least twice in the chest. In November 1994, Shakur was shot five times by robbers in the lobby of a New York City recording studio. He lost $40,000 worth of jewelry. Shakur, who starred opposite Janet Jackson in the movie Poetic Justice, has been working on another film, Gridlock. His latest album, All Eyez On Me, has sold at least 5 million copies. k NEWYC itists dis itside the udes that Hidden e Milky 1 alysis suj “We’ll se s,said res Mick Inst many. He prese Thursda; melia Sai chnology Scientist ns not oi ding life, lar systen There’s n Shakur )0Ct( THURSDAY Kurt Tatom (from Deep Blue Something) Opening for Wakeland $2.50 Chuggers Doctor finds new theory about cause of Edgar Allan Poe’s deal $1.00 Bar Drinks FRIDAY Sunflower (Austin Live Music) $2.75 Pitchers 75$ Bar Drinks SATURDAY ATM vs. SW Louisianna doors open @6:00 / Game @ 7:00 $1.00 off all drinks and chuggers Kickoff until half-time Hot-Dogs Nachos Frito Pies (No cover over 21 after game - no band) Check out out new web site @ bcsclubs.com NEW YORK (AP) — Edgar Allan Poe didn’t die drunk in a Baltimore gutter, according to the first scientific study of the writer’s final days. The tell-tale facts suggest rabies instead. Dr. R. Michael Benitez, who practices medi cine a mere block from the writer’s grave, says it’s true that Poe was seen in a bar on Lombard Street on an election day dreary in October 1849, delirious and possibly wearing somebody else’s soiled clothes. But Poe wasn’t drunk. “I think Poe is much maligned in that respect,” said Benitez, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He describes Poe’s last days in a medical horror story as dramatic as the writer’s most gruesome tales. The author of “The Raven” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” entered the hos pital comatose, but by the next day was per spiring heavily, hallucinating and shouting at imaginary companions. The day after that, he seemed better but couldn’t remember falling ill. On his fourth day at Washington College Hospital, Poe again grew confused and bel ligerent, then quieted down and died. That’s a classic case of rabies, said Benitez, whose diagnosis appears in the September issue of .the Maryland Medical Journal. And there are other clues, too. During the brief period when he was calm and awake, Poe refused alcohol and could drink water only with great difficulty. Rabies victims frequently exhibit hydrophobia, or fear of water, because it’s painful for them to swallow. Although there’s no evidence that a rabid animal bit Poe in the days before he suc cumbed, that doesn’t cast much doubt on Benitez’ theory. About a quarter of rabies vic tims can’t remember being bitten at all. And once a person is infected, the symptoms of rabies can take up to a year to appear. But once the symptoms do show up, rabies is a swift and brutal killer. Most patients die within a few days. Poe “had all the features of encephalitic rabies,” said Dr. Henry Wilde, who frequently treats rabies at Chulalonkorn University Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Although it has been well-established that Poe died in the hospital, legend has it he suc cumbed in the gutter, a victim of his debauched ways. The legend may have been fostered by his doctor, who in later years became a temperance advocate and changed the details to make an object lesson of Poe’s death. Poe scholars welcomed the diagnosis as the first scientifically valid assessment of Poe’s death. Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, said he has heard dozens of wild tales, but “almost everyone who has come forth with a theory has offered no proof.” m iih ivs ■2i her ithdra tri til! -in; il Some versions have him lying unci scions under the steps of the Haiti Museum before being taken to the hospi Others put his prostrate form on planless pended between two barrels outside Lombard Street tavern In most versions of the story, Poe is weai someone else’s grimy clothes, having tx robbed of his own fine white suit. Whatever the facts, Poe almost cert didn’t die of alcohol poisoning orwi Jerome said. The writer was so sensitive to alcohol glass of wine would make him violently! days. Poe may have had problems with alci as a younger man, Jerome said, but by of his death at 40 the author almost stayed clear of the bottle. 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