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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics walks on stage to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Women's Conference 2007 in Long Beach, California on October 23, 2007. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
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BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Higher blood levels of cadmium in females, and higher blood levels of lead in males, delayed pregnancy in those trying to have a baby, U.S. researchers said.
POTOMAC, Md., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- R. Sargent Shriver Jr., the Kennedy brother-in-law who was the first director of the Peace Corps, was honored Saturday at a funeral mass in Maryland.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Less than two months after the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the Special Olympics movement she founded is planning ways to honor her memory.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Maria Shriver, California's first lady and niece of the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says her uncle had an "extraordinary" heart.
HYANNIS, Mass., Aug. 14 (UPI) -- More than 100 people gathered in Hyannis, Mass., Friday to attend the private funeral of the late Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
HYANNIS, Mass., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Hundreds of people came to a Massachusetts church Thursday to remember Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, who died Tuesday.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, younger sister of President John Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, died Tuesday in a Cape Cod, Mass., hospital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama said Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sibling of a president and two senators, would be remembered for her work on behalf of the mentally disabled.
HYANIS, Mass., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, younger sister of President John Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, died Tuesday in a hospital in Massachusetts. She was 88.
HYANNIS, Mass., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Family members of Eunice Kennedy Shriver gathered Monday at her bedside in a Massachusetts hospital, where she remained in critical condition.
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