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Looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad . Hospitals looted, humanitarian aid hindered by unsafe conditions. [http://www.iht.com/articles/92987.html , [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10795-2003Apr11.html]

Prince Laurent Of Belgium marries British -born ' Commoner ' Claire Coombs at the St. Michael And Gudula Cathedral in Brussels . {Link without Title}

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: {Link without Title} )