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IUSB employees urge purchase of former natatorium
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Some Indiana University South Bend employees are urging Chancellor Una Mae Reck to seek the purchase of the city's former natatorium, which houses IUSB's Civil Rights Heritage Center. The university currently leases the historic building at...Tags: Civil Rights, Employees, Education, Heritage Foundation, Career and Workplace
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Docs at odds over kids' cholesterol test guidance
CHICAGO (AP) — Should all U.S. children get tested for high cholesterol? Doctors are still debating that question months after a government-appointed panel recommended widespread screening that would lead to prescribing medicine for some kids....Tags: Heart Problems, Schering Plough Corporation, Statins (drugs), Heart Disease, Diabetes
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First of 2 papers on lab-made bird flu published
NEW YORK (AP) — Four months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu. Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the government's...
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Panel backs sharing studies of lab-made bird flu
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. biosecurity panel said Friday that it supports publishing two revised studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu in the lab. The committee, meeting in Washington, said the updated versions do not...
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US says don't publish recipe for lab-bred bird flu
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have genetically engineered bird flu so it can spread easily between mammals — work necessary to prepare in case the dangerous virus ever mutates on its own and spreads from person-to-person. Now the U.S....Tags: National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, Genetic Engineering, Viral Diseases and Infections, Bird Flu
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Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of...Tags: Demographics, Arizona, Homes, Elections, Democratic Party
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Police remove protesters from Wisconsin Capitol
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police carried dozens of protesters from a hallway leading to the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday as Democratic representatives pounded on the locked door of the chamber, demanding to be let in to the room where a vote was...Tags: Madison (Dane, Wisconsin), Executive Branch, Politics, Elections, Scott Walker
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Could gene tests tell if kids can be sports stars?
CHICAGO (AP) — Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits costing less than $200. Some customers say the test results help them steer their children to appropriate sports. But...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Health, Health Organizations, University of Michigan, Elections
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Coley named new Ivy Tech chancellor
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND — Thomas G. Coley, a longtime community college administrator in the Midwest, was named Thursday as the next chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College’s north-central region. He will begin the job June 1. Coley has served as...Tags: Science, United Way , Chris Murphy, Elections, Politics
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Woman testifies in suit against Trump Tower
Her family too poor to care for her, Jacqueline Goldberg was placed in a children's home at age 10. Seven decades later, Goldberg had the kind of money that allowed her in 2006 to put cash deposits down on two condos in Donald Trump's luxury...
Tags: Trials, Condos, Whoopi Goldberg, Laws, Real Estate Buyers
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic...Tags: Chemical Industry, Animals, Shinya Yamanaka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Heart Disease
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Seven seek district judge seat held by David Harding since 1989
A decision by David B. Harding not to seek re-election after almost 24 years as district judge in Center Valley has led to a flood of candidates in the May primary. The seven hopefuls includes lawyers, a police chief, a police officer, a constable and an...Tags: Elections, Politics, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Trials, The Ohio State University
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