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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An uncontrollable case of the hiccups brought an odd sort of fame to Jennifer Mee, who was 15 when she appeared on TV trying to find a cure for her affliction. Five weeks later the hiccups stopped and the media attention disappeared — until this week, when Mee, now 19, was charged with murder after police said she met a man online and lured him to a vacant house where two of her friends robbed and shot him.
If you’re looking to chisel a date in the Walkman’s tombstone, then Oct. 25, 2010, is as good as any. Perhaps Oct. 23, 2001, the day the iPod was born, is the better date. Sony said Monday that it has ceased production of the cassette tape Walkman in Japan, effectively sounding the death knell of the once iconic device.
