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- No chance
- Gearing up for Turkey Day
- Golf tournament to benefit local family
- Dems at odds over health care
- Two men accused of breaking into cars in CS
- Textbooks may soon go digital
- Family ties draw Iraq refugees to Michigan
- Mumbai security in question a year after attack
- Rescuers search for survivors after explosion
- Bishop admits to asking Kennedy to skip Communion
- Astronaut's baby is born as he circles Earth aboard shuttle
- Iraq PM attacking Saddam loyalists
- Jobless aid might hinder hiring
- Military school probed over sexist policies
- Census: Strange creatures at home deep in oceans
- Michael Jackson wins 4 AMAs
- How Often Should Women Get a Mammogram?
- Text 2 Prevent Skin Cancer?
- Study: Meditation Lowered Cardiac Disease Risk by 50 Percent
- Letters for November 23
- Calendar
- RI slow to spend stimulus money
- Cocktail creator OKs Ohio switch
- Bake or Boil for Heart-Healthy Fish
- Sports in brief
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Patrick Navarro of A&M's IEEE Tech reaches back for a pass deflected by Brandon Pope of A&M's INFORMS during the A&M Student Engineering Council's annual flag football tournament at Anderson Park in College Station on Sunday. More than a ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Preparations for a Thanksgiving dinner at Twin City Mission begin early Monday morning, three days before the big feast.That kind of head start is needed when you have 35 to 40 turkeys to bake. The holiday is a busy time for the mission, especially t ... |
| Golf tournament to benefit local family Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST The Down Syndrome Association of Brazos Valley is hosting the first annual Kase Marshall Benefit Golf Tournament on Jan. 9. Kase was born Sept. 8 with Down syndrome and a heart condition that requires numerous surgeries. The association hopes to rais ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.The dispute among Democrats foretells of a rowdy floor debate ... |
| Two men accused of breaking into cars in CS Posted: 23 Nov 2009 12:16 AM PST Police said they arrested two men Sunday after they burglarized vehicles in College Station and one struck an officer.Officers responded to a report of a vehicle burglary in the 1500 block of University Drive East at 3:50 p.m., police said. When poli ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips -- either online or in custom ... |
| Family ties draw Iraq refugees to Michigan Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST DETROIT -- The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.It wasn't that Alsaqa disliked Worcester, Mass. But he never thought twice about staying. Even though the U.S. gov ... |
| Mumbai security in question a year after attack Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST MUMBAI, India -- The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors.One year after the terror attack that left 166 peo ... |
| Rescuers search for survivors after explosion Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST HEGANG, China -- When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered.Nearly two days later, ... |
| Bishop admits to asking Kennedy to skip Communion Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democra ... |
| Astronaut's baby is born as he circles Earth aboard shuttle Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.Abigail Mae Bresnik was born as her father circled Earth on his first space shuttle mission, just hours aft ... |
| Iraq PM attacking Saddam loyalists Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST BAGHDAD -- A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prim ... |
| Jobless aid might hinder hiring Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST WASHINGTON -- As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself.Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a high ... |
| Military school probed over sexist policies Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST LEXINGTON, Va. -- Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll.The federal ... |
| Census: Strange creatures at home deep in oceans Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST NEW ORLEANS -- The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits. ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson made history posthumously by winning four American Music Awards on Sunday night, but he couldn't beat Taylor Swift as the year's favorite artist and the evening's top winner.The 19-year-old took the evening's top award, ... |
| How Often Should Women Get a Mammogram? Posted: 22 Nov 2009 05:45 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Some researchers say a mammogram every two years achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, with less harm. This was the unanimous consensus of six independent research groups. Researchers from CISNET, the Cancer I ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 05:49 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study suggests that daily text message reminders may increase sunscreen use and reduce the rate of skin cancer. In a study, adults who received daily text messages with a local weather report and a sunscreen reminder were ... |
| Study: Meditation Lowered Cardiac Disease Risk by 50 Percent Posted: 22 Nov 2009 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) who practiced transcendental meditation techniques had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to non-meditating controls. CHD is the leading cause of ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Community responded well in time of tragedy Accident victims Ismael and Minerva Fabela-Perez are resting in their hometown in Mexico. Daughters Jeannette, Celeste and Josie are beside them. Many thanks to the people of Bryan and College Station ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe TAMU Holistic Teaching Garden's Annual Holiday Plant and Bulb sale is Dec. 3-5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. http://aggiehorticulure.tamu.edu/holisticgarden.MondayCLUBSCollege Station Noon Lions Club. Hilton Hotel, 801 Univer ... |
| RI slow to spend stimulus money Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Grea ... |
| Cocktail creator OKs Ohio switch Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one -- as his home state of Ohio has proposed -- as long as the drug works efficiently.Dr. Jay Chapm ... |
| Bake or Boil for Heart-Healthy Fish Posted: 22 Nov 2009 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If you're looking after your heart health, baking or boiling fish is the way to go, new research shows. If you want the heart-healthy benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, baked or boiled fish is beter than fried, dried or salted, a ... |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Johnson makes history with 4th straight titleHOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Jimmie Johnson never let up in pursuit of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship.This was no easy Sunday drive for the most dominant driver of this decade, even though Johnson n ... |
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