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If you're Jewish and willing to move, there's a small community somewhere willing to cut you a check. A growing number of synagogues are offering incentives to get Jews to relocate to help keep small congregations alive. Incentives can include interest-...

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Bittleman, the new agriculture counselor at the Environmental Protection Agency, is determined to improve communications between rural America and an agency that many farmers consider both economically and culturally threatening. "My...

Home  News  Humanities and Social Sciences  Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later      THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012 Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood...

When Les Blank arrived in the lush, untamed Amazon in 1981 to make a documentary about Werner Herzog's film, "Fitzcarraldo," he knew the German's reputation as a daredevil director. Herzog had chosen the remote jungle locale, plagued by tribal...

Out of a dozen entries from across the country, a local high-tech company recently landed one of the top honors in a "serious-gaming" contest tied to the Defense Users' GameTech Conference, an industry trade show held earlier this month in Orlando....

Morrison, Gilbert Caffall, 82, passed away on March 14, 2013 at his home in Mission Viejo, California. Born February 28, 1931 in Beaumont, Texas to Ardis Emma Caffall and Frank William Morrison. He attended Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas and...

A year prior to our daughter's graduation from Tulane University, Ellen DeGeneres spoke during the ceremony, followed by Anderson Cooper, who delivered the commencement address. It was a pleasure to be a member of the audience of this widely respected...

As a student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Timothy Harlan was often struck by how little the medical professionals around him seemed to know about healthful eating. Doctors would tell their patients what foods to avoid, but rarely did...

The Heart of Danville Main Street program started off the New Year with a new executive director. Bethany Rogers, a Danville native and the daughter of Buck and Jan Rogers, stepped into her new role Jan. 3. Brenda Willoughby, interim director, will...

STANFORD — Teresa Ann Johnson, M.D., an internal medicine physician who specialized in emergency medicine, passed away in the comfort of her home on the 18th day of January, 2013. She was 53. Known affectionately as “Doctor J” in the...

BIG RAPIDS (AP) — A Ferris State University pharmacy professor has been killed in an overseas bus crash. The Big Rapids school says in a statement it's "deeply saddened" by the death of Lucy Ngoh, who died after being hurt in a Dec. 30 bus accident...

Mary Love Mezzanotte, a registered nurse who later became a lawyer, died Thursdayof liver cancer at her West Friendship home. She was 56. The daughter of a career naval officer and a homemaker, Mary Love Green was born in the Canal Zone in Panama and...