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• Looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad. Hospitals looted, humanitarian aid hindered by unsafe conditions. [1], [2], [3]
• Prince Laurent of Belgium marries British-born 'commoner' Claire Coombs at the St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. [4]
• Poet Linda Gregerson receives the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Waterborne. The award is presented annually by the Claremont Graduate University for a "mid-career poet". Joanie Mackowski receives the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
• Canadian scientists announce that they have decoded the genetic code for the virus which is thought to cause Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The code is published on their website: http://www.bcgsc.ca/bioinfo/SARS/ . (News item: [5])