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The Most Overlooked Resources In The Fight Against Cancer
Nowadays you hear a lot about cancer: scary statistics, the importance of early detection screenings, risk factors, etc. These are important things to know, sure, but you’ve heard all this before. It’s long past time to go over what most...Tags: Medical Specialization, Health Treatments, Cancer, Human Interest, Rush University Medical Center
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Tornado Relief: How to Help
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsHere are some of the many ways you can help the people of Oklahoma as they deal with massive cleanup and recovery efforts. If you want to help in the relief efforts - the best thing you can do is send money. The Kansas Division of Emergency...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Executive Branch, Natural Disasters, Politics, Sam Brownback
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CPS report card shows many schools struggling
By Chicago Public Schools' own reckoning, about a quarter of its elementary schools and more than 40 percent of its high schools are failing, according to internal documents obtained by the Tribune.
Each year, district officials score each school based...Tags: University of Chicago, Humboldt Park, Teaching and Learning, Ron Huberman, Students
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
CHILD CARE-UNION Court rules for union in child-care dues dispute LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan child-care providers who sued to try to recover union dues have failed to persuade an appeals court to revive their lawsuit. The court on Wednesday...Tags: Energy Resources, U.S. Congress, Rick Snyder, Motorvehicle Accidents, Feminism
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NOAA official joining National Aquarium
Eric Schwaab, a native Baltimorean who's spent the last three years in the federal government overseeing fisheries and coastal conservation efforts, is returning home to take a new post at the National Aquarium. Schwaab, 52, currently an acting...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Vice President Addresses Coast Guard Graduates
The Hartford CourantNEW LONDON -- Vice President Joe Biden told graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony Wednesday morning that they will face new responsibilities in a changing and dangerous world. "This is not your father's Coast Guard," Biden...Tags: Executive Branch, Dannel P. Malloy , University of Delaware, Politics, Janet Napolitano
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In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk
ReutersBy David Stanway and Niu Shuping BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Metal, China, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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America's frogs and toads disappearing fast, U.S. study warns
ReutersBy Environment Correspondent Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S. government study shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing from ponds and creeks...Tags: Biology, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Technology, State Parks, Environmental Issues
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America's frogs and toads disappearing fast, study warns
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S. government study shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing from ponds and creeks across the United States. The average rate of decline...Tags: Biology, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, State Parks
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Protecting children from attempted child abduction by a stranger
Tribune reportersIn panel vans and rusted sports sedans, the men trolled Chicago alleys and placid suburban cul-de-sacs, offering children rides and tempting them with candy bars, juice boxes, even cash. Some made plaintive appeals about finding a lost puppy. Others...Tags: Crimes, Family, Parenting, Prosecution, Police Investigations
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Palm Beach County approves new deal to sell Mecca Farms
Finally giving up on developing taxpayer-owned Mecca Farms, Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday approved pursuing a $26 million deal to sell the former citrus groves to the state for water storage as well as a public shooting range. The price of the...
Tags: Rentals, Palm Beach County, Florida Atlantic University, Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter
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Failure to bring border-crossing fugitives to justice a national problem
Jorge Montiel fled to his hometown near Pachuca, Mexico, after he was alleged to have raped and murdered a Georgia housewife in October 2010.
Federal agents tried to bring the international fugitive to justice, but something stood in the way: the cost....Tags: Laws, Crimes, Safety of Citizens, U.S. Congress, Immigration
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