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Grand Jury begins probe of Zantop murders

By Omer Ismail | March 20, 2001

A nineteen-member investigative grand jury heard testimony yesterday from two hometown friends of Robert Tulloch and James Parker " the two teens charged with two counts of first-degree murder of Half and Susanne Zantop. A friend of Tulloch and Parker, Gaelen McKee, 15, had little to say after the long grand jury session, which took place behind close doors. "Yeah, it was tiring," McKee said after leaving Grafton Superior Court in Haverhill with his father, Marc. New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin, who attended yesterday's session in court, declined to comment about any of the proceedings or any aspect of the investigation. "I cannot make any comment on today's activities," McLaughlin said after the hearing. The investigative grand jury, which will reconvene for a second day this morning, apparently questioned at least one of the witnesses about the suspects' familiarity with knives. Tim Courts, of Chelsea, Vt., who received a subpoena in the case, did not testify yesterday, but his son Zack, 17, was questioned for about 45 minutes about his friendship with the suspects. Tim Courts told The Boston Globe that his son was asked repeatedly about whether Tulloch and Parker owned different types of knives. Tim Courts also said his son was asked whether Parker or Tulloch ever had mentioned the Zantops to him.

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DHMC plans major expansion

By Omer Ismail | August 18, 2000

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is considering a major expansion in three of its main facilities -- diagnosis and treatment, outpatient clinics and cancer treatment -- and is currently in the planning stages of how this extension should be realized. According to Susan Reeves, vice president of the medical center, the center is feeling a major space crunch and the expansion project is a huge one, which is expected to be completed by 2005. Reeves said the construction of more outpatient clinics is one of the the project's main focuses. "A combination of better technology and much better drugs have led us to be able to make the transition from in-hospital to outpatient care," Reeves said, adding that the current size of the outpatient clinics is proving too small to accommodate all the patients. Reeves said that while in the past many patients had to be admitted to receive serious treatment like chemotherapy, vast technological improvements have allowed the medical center to handle most of this treatment from the outpatient wards without having to admit the patients. Economic factors have also been responsible for the move to outpatient clinics; receiving treatment in such clinics proves a lot cheaper for the patients, Reeves said. According to Reeves, the medical center's patient volume has been consistently growing at a rate of five percent every year -- another reason why the center has "outgrown our space" since it was first built in October 1991. The medical center will be "adding onto existing buildings and building buildings to accommodate our growth," Reeves said. According to Reeves another reason for the shortage of space is that the center has also started many new programs, which were not offered when the medical center first moved to Lebanon nine years ago. She referred to the center's Air Medical Transport Program, which flies transport patients in helicopters and treats them at the hospital. "Now we don't have any [more] room to be introducing any new programs," Reeves said.

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Class of 2004 picks PCs over Macs

By Omer Ismail | August 16, 2000

Come September, for the first time ever, a majority of members of the incoming class will use a Windows machine rather than a Macintosh one -- with the overall percentage approximately 60 percent to 40 percent in favor of PCs. According to Dartmouth's computing store manager, Theresa Woodward, 100 more members of the Class of 2004 have ordered a PC rather than a Mac.

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