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Washington cows positive for bovine TB
MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) - Eleven more cows at a Moses Lake, Wash., dairy have tested positive for bovine tuberculosis. State Agriculture Department spokesman Hector Castro told KING the cows have been removed from the herd for more testing. None of 1,... -
Tuberculosis outbreak in downtown L.A. sparks federal effort
L.A. NOWPublic health officials have launched a new, coordinated effort to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis in downtown L.A.’s skid row, including searching for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease. The Centers for... -
Richard Artschwager dies at 89; painter and sculptor
Richard Artschwager, an artist who turned his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker into a distinctive approach to making sculptures and paintings that defy easy categorization, died Saturday in Albany, N.Y., following a brief illness. He was 89. A...
Tags: Architecture, Museums, U.S. Army, Manhattan (New York City), New York City
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: Schizophrenia, H.L. Mencken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Howard H. Seliger, Hopkins biology professor
Howard H. Seliger, a retired Johns Hopkins University biology professor who fulfilled a childhood fascination with fireflies by later investigating the science behind their light-making properties, died of coronary artery disease Dec. 20 at his Mount...Tags: Teachers, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Standards, Purdue University
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: Schizophrenia, Alcohol Addiction, France, West Point, Hospitals and Clinics
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From our files for Jan. 20, 2013
1913: 100 years ago Bertha Penman, the notorious blind tiger keeper, who carries a government license and employs bootleggers on a straight salary, is to be released from the work house, provided she will leave Danville never to return. Health Officer...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Cuba, Judges
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Collectibles become attractions at at suburban Chicago museums
Most museums have rooms devoted to specialized collections. But few focus as obsessively (and extensively) on a particular brand of cultural artifact as these two suburban museums. Both the Donald E. Stephens Museum of Hummels in Rosemont and the American...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Cinderella (fictional character), Germany, Arts and Culture
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Kentucky Fiction: Fox excels at dramatizing divided loyalties of Civil War
ContribEditor’s note: “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” 1903, by John Fox Jr., is the fourth in a series of book reviews about works of Kentucky fiction. An unexpected number of the best Kentucky novels have come from the hills of the...Tags: Flu, Butterfly Ballots, Mark Twain, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Officials say Nelson Mandela will spend Christmas in the hospital
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's elder statesman, Nelson Mandela, will spend Christmas in the hospital, with authorities announcing that doctors have no plans to discharge the former president. Mandela, 94, South Africa's first black president, has been...
Tags: Pretoria (South Africa), Holidays, Racism, Africa, South Africa
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The significance of Erdrich
Just before N. Scott Momaday won the a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for "House Made of Dawn," Marshall Sprague reviewed the book for the New York Times and began: "This first novel, subtly wrought as a piece of Navajo silverware, is the work of a young Kiowa...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, The New York Times, Sprague, Sex Crimes
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Amy Wilentz revisits Haiti in 'Farewell, Fred Voodoo'
-------------------- Farewell, Fred Voodoo A Letter from Haiti Amy Wilentz Simon & Schuster: 352 pp., $27 -------------------- When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, killing thousands, Amy Wilentz tried to stay away. This wasn't easy for her to...Tags: Slavery, Sean Penn, Tour Operations Industry, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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