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Gerontology specialists join SDSU Extension team
BROOKINGS - To best serve South Dakota's aging population, SDSU Extension hired two Gerontology Field Specialists, John Sanders and Leacey E. Brown. "John and Leacey will provide strong regional and state-wide leadership while delivering research-...Tags: Watertown, Social Sciences, U.S. Air Force, Culture, Physical Conditions
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For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON -- Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Interior Policy, Voting, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gun Control
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Educators Killed In Newtown Shootings Receive Commendations
The Hartford CourantThey are decorated veterans who flew helicopters behind enemy lines to rescue wounded soldiers, led air strikes over fire-swept rice paddies and single-handedly destroyed an enemy bunker with a grenade. But on Monday, those recipients of the Medal of...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Students, Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Human Interest, Culture
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The Lehigh Valley's forgotten graves
The old gravestone is broken. A crack about three-quarters of the way to the top has severed it, exposing a rough, jagged edge, like a chipped front tooth. The detached top, where the name and date of birth were long ago etched, lies on the ground. It's...Tags: Memorial Day, Slatington, Human Interest, Walnutport, Wars and Interventions
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Letters from a son: What Allentown's William Reichard saw at Antietam
He had never been in the smoky, confusing haze of gunfire. Never watched helplessly as strong young men fell dead in front of him. Until the Battle of Antietam, William Reichard didn't know war. Reichard, barely 20, left Allentown in the summer of...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Armed Forces, Abraham Lincoln, Wars and Interventions
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READER SUBMITTED: CRT Celebrates 50 Years Of Changing Lives
StatewideIn a fitting tribute to May being National Community Action Month and Community Renewal Team's 50th anniversary this year, CRT celebrated with a gala themed "50 Years of Changing Lives" at the Hartford Marriott on May 15. The event raised more than $50,...Tags: Family, Health and Safety at School, Middletown, Culture, Dwayne Johnson
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READER SUBMITTED: Farmington Resident Chosen To Lead National Volunteer-Training Program At Grand Canyon
FarmingtonKailie Gulino of Farmington, is one of two students from Johnson State College to have been selected as site leaders for a national "alternative break" leadership session this summer at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Gulino, a junior anthropology...Tags: Social Sciences, Education, Colleges and Universities, Gardens and Parks, Travel
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Comics' superpowers
When I was 4 when I was bitten. My parents had taken me to Yellowstone National Park. I remember wooden walkways among geysers. Old Faithful was still faithful then. My father tells me we saw bison and elk, but I only remember being entranced by a walking...Tags: Twin Peaks (tv program), Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities, Frank Miller, Fiction
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Stockholm in relative calm after five nights of rioting
LONDON — The streets of Stockholm were quieter late Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that rocked the Swedish capital and shook the Scandinavian country's self-image as a tolerant, liberal place. Since Sunday, sections of northwest...
Tags: Police Arrests, Racism, Culture, Sweden, Aftonbladet (newspaper)
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Nights of rioting test Sweden's reputation for tolerance
LONDON -- Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country’s self-image as a tolerant, liberal place. Since Sunday, sections of...
Tags: China, Racism, Aftonbladet (newspaper), Sweden, Riots
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Most local homeless have ties to Costa Mesa
Challenging perceptions that the homeless mostly come to Costa Mesa from other communities, new data show a solid majority of the city's homeless population have ties of some kind to the city. At least 65% of the 182 homeless interviewed last year lived...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Religion and Belief, Interior Policy, Mental Health
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Special Report: The deeper agenda behind "Abenomics"
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - When ill health and political gridlock forced Shinzo Abe to quit after one dismal year as Japan's prime minister, his pride was dented and his self-confidence battered. One thing, however, was intact: his commitment to a controversial...Tags: Inflation and Deflation, Parliament, China, Services and Shopping, Federal Reserve
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