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HONG KONG (AFP) – Action star Michelle Yeoh said she was confident a Chinese film will soon follow the example of India’s “Slumdog Millionaire” and become a big winner at the Oscars.

“I believe very strongly in the Hong Kong and Chinese cinemas. I think… our day (to win the Oscar) will come very, very soon,” Yeoh told a press conference in Hong Kong.

The Malaysian-born actress starred in martial arts epic “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” which won four Oscars in 2001 but missed out on the best film award.

She said the wealth of legends and attractive landscapes in Asia was a great resource for the region’s film industry.

Yeoh, who was a Bond Girl in “Tomorrow Never Dies”, sent her best wishes to “Slumdog” director Danny Boyle on his best director award on Sunday.

“I cried. I was so happy for him,” said Yeoh, who worked with Boyle in the sci-fi thriller “Sunshine”.

“Slumdog Millionaire” is a Bollywood-inspired film about a Mumbai tea boy who rises from poverty and enters a television quiz show to win millions and find the love of his life.

It won eight of the nine Oscars it was nominated for.

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Medical Colleges in public and private sectors are only focusing on traditional qualification like M.B.B.S, B.D.S., etc. but there is acute shortage of Trained Paramedics like Dispensers, Nurses, Medical Assistant. LHVs, Lab Technicians, Dental Technicians ,Dental Hygienist,Dental Assistance O.T. Assistants and X-Ray Technicians etc. because there is lack of training institutions, Which have not been established in abundance both in public as well as in Private Sector in Pakistan.

Numerous educated boys and girls are jobless because they are not technical hands.Learning by doing be encouraged and opportunities for creative expression be provided to the younger generation.

These skill-oriented Certificate/ Diploma level courses will build skills capacity to become efficient Medical Technicians.Hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centers desperately need trained Medical Technologists.

Aims & Objective

To produce well trained disciplined and skilled paramedical personnel to Clinics,Nursing Homes and Hospitals and Dental clinics.

Fighting against Unemployment by training educated young people in different field of paramedical technology which augments Government’s initiative in bridging the gap between paramedical requirement / availability ratio.

To train health workers in a properly equipped and staffed institution.

To provide them basic necessary knowledge which can be helpful to them in acquiring special skills at later stage, which provide well trained paramedical staff to practicing doctors, private clinics, nursing homes and hospitals.

Producing trained manpower in the field of technology for export to fetch badly Needed foreign exchange for the country, To achieve these objective, we will produce international level paramedical staff.
Affiliation

P.I.P.T affiliated with Punjab Faculty, Vide notification No. 1617 /PMF dated 21-02-2005.

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NEW YORK – Kate Winslet pulled off the expected Sunday night, winning the Academy Award for best actress for her quietly powerful performance in “The Reader.”

Winslet was giddy and emotional as she accepted her trophy.

“I’d be lying if I haven’t made a version of this speech before,” she said. “I think I was probably 8 years old and staring into the bathroom mirror and this (Oscar) would be a shampoo bottle. But it’s not a shampoo bottle now.”

She thanked her husband, director Sam Mendes, and their two children. And she also thanked her father, saying “Dad, whistle or something ’cause then I’ll know where you are.” He whistled back from his seat at the Kodak Theatre.

“You just don’t think that these dreams that seem so silly and so impossible could ever really come true,” Winslet said backstage.

This is the first Oscar for Winslet, who’s been nominated five other times for her roles in “Titanic,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Iris,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Little Children.”

But the British actress seemed a shoo-in to win this year: She gained Oscar momentum after snagging a best supporting actress award at the Golden Globes for her role as a former Nazi camp guard in “The Reader,” as well as best dramatic actress for her role as an unhappy housewife in “Revolutionary Road.”

Winslet, 33, received more recognition on the awards circuit for “The Reader.” Her portrayal of Hanna Schmitz – a woman having a passionate affair with a teenager who encounters her again years later while she is on trial for Holocaust crimes – was raw and restrained, netting her additional trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and British Film Academy Awards.

The best-actress category was loaded with strong contenders: Meryl Streep was another front-runner with her 15th acting nomination as a prickly nun in “Doubt.” Anne Hathaway played against her wholesome image as a toxic narcissist who leaves rehab to wreak havoc on her sister’s wedding in “Rachel Getting Married.” Angelina Jolie dug deep to portray a mother of a missing child in “Changeling.” And Melissa Leo was powerful as mom who forges an unlikely friendship in “Frozen River.”

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AUSTIN, Texas – A.J. Abrams scored 18 of Texas’ final 20 points Saturday night, leading the Longhorns to a 73-68 upset of No. 2 Oklahoma, which had to play most of the game without leading scorer and rebounder Blake Griffin after he sustained a concussion in the first half.

Abrams scored 16 in a row in the final 8 minutes, hitting four 3-pointers, then capped off the scoring with two free throws with 4 seconds to play.

Griffin, the Big 12’s leading scorer and leading rebounder, played just 11 minutes and left for good with about four minutes left in the first half, finishing with two points and three rebounds. Griffin appeared to take a shot to the face when he tried to spin for a baseline shot.

Willie Warren scored 27 points to lead Oklahoma (25-2, 11-1 Big 12), which had won 13 in a row.

Abrams finished with 23 points and Damion James scored 16 for the Longhorns ( 18-8, 7-5).

Abrams started his run of consecutive points with a 3-pointer that put Texas up 56-50. He finished it with another 3 over two defenders to put the Longhorns up 69-65 with 1:17 to play.

After the Sooners cut the lead to one on Juan Patillo’s putback layup, Longhorns forward Dexter Pittman grabbed an offensive rebound before powering over three Sooners for the basket. Oklahoma’s Tony Crocker missed a 3-pointer to tie before Abrams drew a foul and made his two free throws.

Warren, the Big 12’s top scoring freshman, did his best to carry the Sooners on the court where he won a Texas state high school championship last season. He was 10 of 20 from the floor with six 3-pointers but it was clear the Sooners missed their leader Griffin.

Texas came in desperate for a win after losing four of their last six and the game quickly picked up the intensity and physical play of the Longhorns’ and Sooners’ football rivalry. Griffin knocked down the wispy Abrams just 10 seconds into the game to pick up his first foul.

Griffin soon picked up another foul and had already spent about 5 minutes of the half on the bench before he appeared to take a shot to the face from the 300-pound Pittman, who was guarding him near the basket.

Griffin went back to the bench and sat there with a cotton swap stuffed into his left nostril. At halftime, while his teammates ran off the court, Griffin staggered toward the locker room as a trainer held his right arm.

Warren had knocked down two 3s just before halftime and kept firing away in the second.

After Texas built a 41-29 lead early in the second, Oklahoma stormed back with a 14-0 run and led 43-41 on consecutive baskets by Patillo. Two more 3s by Warren put Oklahoma up 61-56 with 5 minutes to play. Even that came with some drama as Warren collapsed to the floor writhing in pain and trainers ran onto the court, apparantly to work out cramps in his left calf.

That’s when Abrams wrapped it up with the long shots of his own. His third 3 put Texas up 66-64, a lead the Longhorns wouldn’t give away.

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NEW YORK - The California fertility doctor who implanted the octuplet mom with lots of embryos was no lone wolf: Fewer than 20 percent of U.S. clinics follow professional guidelines on how many embryos should be used for younger women. “Clearly, most programs are not adhering to the guidelines,” said Dr. Bradley Van Voorhis, director of the fertility clinic at the University of Iowa.

The furor over Nadya Suleman and her octuplets has brought scrutiny to U.S. fertility clinics and how well they observe the guidelines, which are purely voluntary. The controversy had led to talk of passing laws to regulate clinics, something that has already been done in Western Europe.

“There are enough clinics that quite openly flout professional guidelines that we really do need to start thinking about public policy in this area,” said Marcy Darnovsky of the Oakland, Calif.-based Center for Genetics and Society, a public interest group. “I think it’s way overdue.”

The 20 percent figure is contained in reports filed by clinics with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fertility doctors say there are many reasons clinics skirt the guidelines: pressure from patients who want to use more embryos to improve their chances of getting pregnant; financial concerns from those who are paying for their treatment out of their own pockets; and the competition among clinics to post good success rates.

And the only penalty for violating the guidelines is expulsion from some of the industry’s professional organizations, though that can affect whether insurance companies will cover a clinic’s treatments.

“You have patients who are desperate and you have doctors who are driven by success rates. It’s not a good combination,” said Pamela Madsen, founder and former head of the American Fertility Association.

When the guidelines were issued in 1996 by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the intent was to cut down the number of multiple births, particularly triplets and higher, that can result when many embryos are implanted and more than one takes. Big multiple births can lead to disastrous, life-threatening complications, lifelong disabilities such as cerebral palsy, and crushing medical costs.

The guidelines suggest how many embryos doctors should use, with the number varying by age and other factors. They also allow for some flexibility for more if previous attempts have failed or the embryo quality is poor.

“These decisions are complex and need to be individualized, which is why we strongly believe that guidelines are better than hard rules,” said Dr. David Adamson, a former president of the reproductive medicine society.

The group credits the guidelines with reducing triplets and higher multiple pregnancies from 7 percent of attempts to 2 percent in 2006. Nearly two-thirds of the procedures involved four or more embryos in 1996; that has fallen to 16 percent.

But for women under 35, government records show that just 83 of 426 clinics followed the guidance calling for one and no more than two embryos. The average for fresh embryos (as opposed to frozen) implanted in women in that age group ranged from a 1.4 to 4.8. The vast majority of the clinics averaged between two and three embryos.

Dr. Mousa Shamonki, director of the IVF program at the University of California, Los Angeles, said his patients frequently ask for more embryos to boost their chances of getting pregnant. He tells patients that it’s not OK to end up with triplets or even twins.

“The only thing that happens when you add additional embryos is you’re increasing the multiple pregnancy rate,” he said. “You’re rarely increasing the overall pregnancy rate significantly.”

The UCLA program had one of the highest transfer rates in 2006 for younger women. That rate – 3.5 embryos per cycle – matched that of the West Coast IVF Clinic in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Suleman was treated. Shamonki said changes he implemented after he took over drove down UCLA’s rate to 2.1 embryos the next year.

Fertility specialists have attacked Suleman’s doctor, Michael Kamrava, for using so many embryos. Suleman, 33, has said she had six embryos implanted; two presumably split. She said she refused selective abortion to reduce the number, which is a common option in such cases. Kamrava has declined requests for interviews.

The reproductive medicine society and the Medical Board of California are looking into the case.

Europe has brought down transfer rates and multiple births through laws and voluntary agreements. England and Sweden have laws barring more than two embryo transfers for younger women.

In Sweden, “we have a slogan: One at a time,” said Dr. Karl Nygren, former head of an IVF monitoring committee for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

Seventy percent of in vitro fertilization procedures in Sweden involved only a single embryo in 2005, according to Nygren. For Europe, the average was 20 percent. By contrast, only 11 percent in the U.S. involved one embryo in 2006.

A key difference, though, is that health programs in Europe cover the cost, so that if one attempt fails, women can try again without having to worry about the expense.

In the U.S., most patients have to foot the bill for IVF, which costs about $12,400 per attempt. Only 14 states make insurers cover some infertility treatments.

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LOS ANGELES – A group of security workers stand at attention as two black SUVs, each driven by armed guards, pull up to the artists’ entrance to the Kodak Theatre. Inside are the Academy Awards’ most famous guests.

Men in black suits open the car doors. There sit 10 cardboard boxes carrying the show’s critical stars: Oscar No. 3453 and 51 of his fellow Oscar statuettes. Steve Miessner, the Keeper of the Oscars, rides along with them.

He and the security guards load the boxes onto two dollies, and each is sent up a backstage freight elevator accompanied by an armed guard.

Miessner leads them down a winding hallway and into an office in the bowels of the Kodak. Two guards stand at the door as he dons his trademark white gloves and begins unpacking the precious cargo: 50 foam containers, each with one Oscar inside.

No. 3453 is among the first he unpacks. Miessner examines it and notices a bit of packaging glue stuck to the statue. He pulls a blue velvet cloth from his toolbox, which also includes tiny wrenches and a pen light, and gently polishes.

One by one, Miessner opens the foam containers and places the golden men on a desk.

“I usually set them all out and put little medallions on them, because backstage you can’t see the serial numbers,” he says.

Miessner, 47, officially works as an assistant to the film academy president and executive director. But he’s also the only academy person who handles the Oscar trophies.

He’s responsible for tracking all 52 statuettes reserved for Sunday’s ceremony. He’ll stand backstage as the awards are presented, noting the serial number of each Oscar and its recipient. After the show, he’ll log the information into the academy’s Statuettes Database.

But today he’s making sure each trophy is accounted for and camera ready. He writes “3453″ on a white paper tag and ties it with string around the Oscar’s neck, like a little pendant. Miessner, who has served as Keeper of the Oscars for five years, says some nights he wakes in a panic, dreaming that an Oscar sent onstage during the show was still wearing it’s numbered necklace.

“In the back of my mind I start to have all these fantasies about what could be going wrong,” he says, noting that an entire shipment of Oscars was stolen – and eventually recovered – in 2002. (Hence all the armed guards.)

Just knowing the Oscars are safely at the Kodak brings Miessner some relief.

“They’re here. I know they’re protected,” he says. “They’re stationary. They’re not going anywhere.”

Until Sunday, when No. 3453 and his brothers will be sent off to their new homes.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The sports comeback tale “The Wrestler” was picked as best picture Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film and won two other prizes, including best actor for Mickey Rourke.

A tuneup for the Academy Awards on Sunday, the Spirit Awards featured several winners also up for Oscars, including three of the four acting choices – Rourke, best-actress recipient Melissa Leo for “Frozen River” and supporting-actress pick Penelope Cruz for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

Rourke gave a prolonged, hilarious, expletive-laden acceptance speech, dedicating the award to Loki, his beloved Chihuahua that died six days earlier, and thanking everyone from his director, Darren Aronofsky, to the wrestling community. He mentioned that he had just talked with the Santa Monica police department, which “gave me a bed to sleep in 10 years ago,” when Rourke was in the midst of the bad-boy behavior that made him a Hollywood has-been until his comeback in recent years with films such as “Sin City” and “The Wrestler.”

The film stars Rourke as a washed-up former star with a last shot at glory in the ring. It also took the cinematography award for Maryse Alberti. The crowd gave Rourke a standing ovation and he received hugs and backslaps from audience members as he headed to the stage.

“I didn’t realize how many closet Mickey Rourke fans there were,” Aronofsky said backstage. “That’s been the biggest surprise of the whole trip.”

Momentarily forgetting co-star Marisa Tomei’s name, Rourke later complimented her for her role as a stripper in “The Wrestler,” which earned her a supporting-actress Oscar nomination.

“Not many girls can climb the pole,” Rourke said. “She climbed the pole, and she did it well.”

Right after Rourke’s speech, Tom McCarthy won the best-director award for the immigrant drama “The Visitor.”

“I feel like we should just stop the show after Mickey, because who could follow that, really?” McCarthy said.

Leo gave a whoop as she took the stage to collect her prize for “Frozen River,” which got its start a year ago at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the top dramatic honor. She stars as a destitute mother who stumbles into the immigrant-smuggling business with a Mohawk Indian woman along the U.S.-Canada border.

“You are my people. You know you are my people,” Leo told the independent-cinema crowd at the awards luncheon in a tent along the Santa Monica beach. “`Frozen River’ is a truly independent film.”

The supporting honors went to Cruz as a combustible artist in a three-way relationship with her ex-husband and an American woman in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and James Franco as a lover of slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk.”

Allen won the screenplay honor for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” his romance that follows the affairs of two American women in Spain.

Cruz thanked Allen “just for letting me be around him. … He’s really the symbol of independence in our industry.”

True to his neurotic nature, Allen abruptly departed the set on a pivotal day, when Cruz was to shoot a steamy kissing scene with Scarlett Johansson, Cruz said. Allen had found a freckle on his hand and wanted a dermatologist to examine it, she said.

“He just left, and I love him for that,” Cruz said.

Franco said he was a longtime fan of Van Sant’s films and signed on because of the talent involved with “Milk.”

“When I heard this thing was happening with probably my favorite actor, Sean Penn, and it was such an important story, that was enough for me,” said Franco, who added thanks to “everyone that was part of Harvey’s life.”

“Milk” also received the award for best first screenplay for Dustin Lance Black. The best first feature prize went to “Synecdoche, New York,” the directing debut of Charlie Kaufman, who won a screenwriting Oscar for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

“Synecdoche,” a sprawling story of a theater director’s attempt to re-create New York City on massive stages, also received the Robert Altman Award, given to a film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast for following in the spirit of the late maverick filmmaker.

The documentary winner was James Marsh’s “Man on Wire,” about tightrope walker Philippe Petit and his 1974 mission to walk a rope between the World Trade Center towers. “Man on Wire” is favored to win the documentary Oscar, as well.

Another Oscar contender, the French school drama “The Class,” took the foreign film honor.

Presented by the cinema group Film Independent, the Spirit Awards honor movies that cost less than $20 million to make, with a significant part of their budget originating from outside the Hollywood studio system. Other criteria for nominations include films’ originality and provocative subject matter.

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NEW YORK – Already feeling masochistically nostalgic for the misadventures of the previous presidential administration?

You can relive those eight years – and more – in “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush,” Will Ferrell’s merciless and often blisteringly funny raunch roast of the former chief executive who left the Oval Office less than three weeks ago.

Ferrell wrote and stars as Bush in this 90-minute satiric biography, which opened Thursday at the Cort Theatre. The actor, a former “Saturday Night Live” regular and now a full-fledged movie star, seems totally at ease on a big Broadway stage.

His initial entrance couldn’t be more theatrically high-flying, but let’s not spoil too much of the surprise. Once on stage, he struts and swaggers. His movements suggest a gunfighter at the OK Corral. So does his twangy sagebrush accent, which is right in line with Bush’s reinvention of himself as a tried and true Texan – who happened to have been born in Connecticut and then went to Yale University.

Physically, the lanky actor is done up in a coifed mop of gray hair and for much of the time in a crisp white shirt and power tie – that is until he dons a flight outfit for Bush’s premature “Mission Accomplished” moment about the Iraq War.

The evening’s format is direct address. Ferrell talks right to the theater audience about the Bush family and then segues into the man’s political career – first as governor of Texas and then as president.

The facts are not particularly revelatory, none that a reader of daily newspapers (and there must be few left) won’t know. It’s what Ferrell does with them that counts, taking off on wild riffs that produce giddy waves of laughter.

No one escapes Ferrell’s sharp, often naughty sense of humor, starting with members of the Bush clan. Fans of Bush’s mother, Barbara, will not be too pleased with his steely description of the family’s matriarch.

Ferrell works his way through the ex-president’s two terms with a photo display of all the man’s cabinet members and some choice comments, particularly about Donald Rumsfeld. Of course, there’s also a special shout-out to his vice president, Dick Cheney. And foreign leaders come in for a few jabs, too.

“You’re Welcome America” is not exactly a one-man show. There are several other performers including a breakdancing Secret Service agent, played by Ferrell’s brother, Patrick, who, weirdly enough, is a John Belushi lookalike. Then there’s a sexy Condoleezza Rice, portrayed by Pia Glenn who delivers what can only be described as a pole dance (without the pole) worthy of any high-priced “gentlemen’s club.”

Director Adam McKay, a longtime Ferrell collaborator, never lets the jokes flag. Projections keep famous faces flying by as Bush talks about his two terms in office.

Ferrell’s interplay with the audience is sharp. Late in the evening, there’s a segment where he asks theatergoers their names and their occupation. Then he comes up with nicknames, something Bush was fond of doing for his friends.

As a thinker, Ferrell is a lot faster with a quip than the bumbler he is impersonating. But then he is in the business of entertainment. Now maybe we can put the Bush years behind us – and Ferrell wants us to do it with a laugh.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Home run king Barry Bonds has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury investigating steroid use in sports.

The arraignment Thursday was the third time Bonds entered a plea in the case. He originally was indicted in November 2007, but the government revised the indictment twice to fix legal technicalities.

Bonds now faces 10 counts of making false statements to a grand jury, plus an additional obstruction of justice charge.

The case is expected to go to trial next month. If convicted, he faces a sentence between probation and two years in prison.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – FBI agents searched the home of a one-time leading suspect in the 1982 murders of seven people who swallowed tainted Tylenol as part of a review of the unsolved case, a federal official said.

Agents from Boston and Chicago were seen Wednesday removing boxes and a computer from the condominium owned by James W. Lewis, who served more than 12 years in prison for trying to extort $1 million from the painkiller’s manufacturers. A storage facility in Cambridge also was searched.

FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Chicago said Wednesday the Boston-area search was related to authorities’ decision to review the poisonings case.

No one was ever charged with killing the seven people who took cyanide-laced drugs in the Chicago area 26 years ago, leading to dramatic changes in the way food and medical products are packaged.

The FBI’s Chicago office cited “advances in forensic technology” in a Wednesday statement announcing that it, along with Illinois State Police and local departments, was conducting a “complete review of all evidence developed in connection with the 1982 Tylenol murders.”

Simon said the FBI issued the statement “to put what is happening in Boston into context.”

The review began in part because of publicity and tips that arrived after the 25th anniversary of the deaths in 2007, according to the FBI. It has not resulted in any criminal charges.

“All of these tips have been or will be thoroughly investigated in an effort to solve this crime and bring some measure of closure to the families of the victims,” the statement said.

Commander Kenneth Galinski of the Arlington Heights Police Department in suburban Chicago said Thursday that a department officer was in the Boston area. Three of the victims took the tainted pills in Arlington Heights.

Galinski said he’s “cautiously optimistic” investigators have made a breakthrough in the case, but said his department’s involvement in the investigation is limited.

Galinski said authorities were holding no one in custody, including Lewis. He declined to comment further.

In a space of three days beginning Sept. 29, 1982, seven people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in Chicago and four suburbs died. That triggered a national scare, prompting an untold number of people to throw medicine away and stores nationwide to pull Tylenol from their shelves.

Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”

He was arrested in December 1982 after a nationwide manhunt. At the time, Lewis gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer might have operated and described how someone could buy medicine, use a special method to add cyanide to the capsules and return them to store shelves.

Lewis later admitted sending the extortion letter but said he never intended to collect it. He said he wanted to embarrass his wife’s former employer by having the money sent to the employer’s bank account.

In a 1992 interview with The Associated Press, Lewis explained that the account he gave authorities was simply his way of explaining the killer’s actions.

“I was doing like I would have done for a corporate client, making a list of possible scenarios,” said Lewis, who maintained his innocence. He called the killer “a heinous, cold-blooded killer, a cruel monster.”

Lewis also served two years of a 10-year sentence for tax fraud. In 1978, he was charged in Kansas City with the dismemberment murder of Raymond West, 72, who had hired Lewis as an accountant. The charges were dismissed because West’s cause of death was not determined and some evidence had been illegally obtained.

In 2004, Lewis was charged with rape, kidnapping and other offenses for an alleged attack on a woman in Cambridge. He was jailed for three years while awaiting trial, but prosecutors dismissed the charges on the day his trial was scheduled to begin after the victim refused to testify, according to the office of Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.

In 2007, Lewis was interviewed on a local-access television show, “The Cambridge Rag,” by host Roger Nicholson. In segments available online, Lewis asserted his innocence in the Tylenol and West cases. He turned aside Nicholson’s suggestion that he take a lie-detector test, saying they are unreliable and unscientific.

Lewis moved to the Boston area after getting out of prison in 1995 and is listed as a partner in a Web design and programming company called Cyberlewis. On its Web site, which lists the location searched Wednesday as the company’s address, there is a tab labeled “Tylenol” with a written message and audio link in which a voice refers to himself as “Tylenol Man” and complains about “the curse of being labeled the Tylenol Man.”

Messages left at phone numbers listed to Lewis’ wife, Leanne, and the company were not immediately returned. There was no answer Wednesday night at an accounting business listing Leanne Lewis as director and no immediate response to an e-mail to the business.

The 1982 poisonings led to the introduction of tamperproof packaging that is now standard. Bottles of the pain reliever were triple-sealed and warnings against taking capsules from damaged packages prominently displayed. Johnson & Johnson also sealed the bottle caps to the neck with a tight, plastic band and stretched a tough foil membrane over the bottle’s mouth.

In 2007, 25 years after the deaths, survivors of the victims said they remained haunted by what happened and frustrated that nobody was convicted.

“I will never get past this because this guy is out there, living his life, however miserable it might be,” said Michelle Rosen, who was 8 when her mother, Mary Reiner, collapsed in front of her after taking Tylenol for post-labor pains.

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