Health / Disease

PRUDEN: Sticks, stones and dangerous words

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The scholars and wordsmiths at the Department of Homeland Security leave everyone who aspires to good citizenship speechless.

Some of the wordsmiths put together a manual for agents who track the Internet, looking for evildoers and those who aspire to evildoing. Those agents are assigned to pick up suspicious ...

Dairies pamper cows with massages, waterbeds

CHILTON, Wis. — Lucky, a 7-year-old dairy cow, had been walking with a limp for several weeks when veterinarian Sara Gilbertson was called. Instead of prescribing painkillers, Gilbertson tried an unusual new therapy — a chiropractic adjustment that included a full-length spinal massage.

Gilbertson rubbed the Holstein's spine by gently ...

Tea partyers down on Upton in Michigan primary

DETROIT — He chairs one of Capitol Hill's most powerful committees, won his 2010 race with 62 percent of the vote and even boasts a niece who graced Sports Illustrated's swimsuit-edition cover. But all that hasn't saved Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan from a strong Republican primary challenge fueled by ...

Shale study's lead author faces 'green' backlash

Faced with mounting criticism, the State University of New York at Buffalo is distancing itself from a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling study released earlier this month by the school's own Shale Resources and Society Institute.

But the report's lead author is defending the work by the fledgling institute, saying Monday that ...

Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Shining light on hearings

MIAMI — A California judge's decision to open a county's child-welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or harms the young victims appearing in family court.

When a child is abused or neglected, there's a family-court hearing to ...

Shining light on hearings

MIAMI — A California judge's decision to open a county's child-welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or harms the young victims appearing in family court.

When a child is abused or neglected, there's a family-court hearing to ...

American Scene: Witness claims naked attacker was chewing man's face

MIAMI — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off ...

American Scene: Witness claims naked attacker was chewing man's face

MIAMI — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off ...

Tropical Storm Beryl soaks Memorial Day events

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation - and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl.

While it left little damage after sweeping ashore with 70 mph winds just after midnight at ...

McDonald’s Rejects Anti-Obesity Campaign, ‘Proud’ of ‘Repsponsible’ Menu

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 14:32
Anthony Gucciardi | 'A McNugget is actually compromised of 7 different ingredients, many of which have sub-ingredients. Real chicken is not even the main ingredient in this ‘flesh formula’

Greece Pours $22.6 Billion Into Four Biggest Banks

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 14:32
CNBC | 'Funds are part of a 2nd, 130-billion euro bailout Greece agreed this year with its euro zone partners and the IMF to stave off bankruptcy.'
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