Monday, March 29, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Put me in, coach

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Texas A&M bat boy Max Childress, 7, looks ready to play as he glances at the Aggie baseball team gathered near third base prior to the start of Sunday's game against Mizzou. Max is the son of A&M head baseball coach Rob Childress. The Aggies ...

A&M's gay community marks 25 years out, proud

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Larry Hickman saved recordings of threatening messages left on the Aggie-run referral service for gay students. And he still has a cardboard box of documents related to Texas A&M students' gay-rights struggle. He kept it all, in part, because one ...

CS police search for robber

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:43 PM PDT

Police are investigating a report of an armed robbery of a man at his College Station home early Monday.College Station police said they responded to the 800 block of South Dexter around 12:09 a.m. for a report of an aggravated robbery. The victim sa ...

Woman accused of dragging officer

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:15 PM PDT

A woman was arrested Sunday after a Bryan police officer was dragged through an intersection during a traffic stop, authorities said. An officer said he stopped Demetrice Lacole Nelms, 29, on West 23nd Street after noticing her vehicle's registration ...

Obama pays visit to war zone

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

KABUL -- Under elaborate secrecy, President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan on Sunday near the front lines of the increasingly bloody 8-year-old war he is expanding and affirmed America's commitment to destroying al-Qaida and its allies in the ...

Reform to strain family doctors

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Better beat the crowd and find a doctor.Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promis ...

Probe identifies man who died in CIA custody

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison.Inside a chilly cell, the ...

Thai factions take fight to the airwaves

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

BANGKOK -- Thailand's prime minister met his political opponents on live television Sunday to try to defuse a crisis that has produced huge demonstrations and sent him fleeing to live at an army base, but the protest leaders said new elections are th ...

New classifications cut foster parent pay

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana is trying to shift hundreds of foster children with medical, emotional or behavioral problems into cheaper care for children without special needs, a move that cuts payments to families who care for the state's most challenged ...

As economy tanks, vendors crowd into Venice

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Sand and surf are the least of the attractions making Venice Beach one of Los Angeles' top tourist draws.On summer weekends, some 150,000 exhibitionists and gawkers flock to the neighborhood to see and be seen in a Bohemian rhapsody of ...

Texas schools going green with college curriculums

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PDT

HOUSTON -- Texas colleges and universities are increasingly building environmental practices into curriculums, a move officials say is a combination of "good business" and idealism.Sustainability is a wide-ranging field of study to prepare students f ...

Cyprus scientists try to bury ghosts of conflict

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

SOTIRA, Cyprus -- The bones of Pvt. Christofis Anastasi lay in a small coffin in the back of an army jeep. His aged mother sobbed. His father, white-haired and clothed in black, gazed at the coffin and spoke in a whisper."I've waited 36 years to bury ...

Western ranchers dreading grasshoppers

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT

NEWCASTLE, Wyo. -- Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming -- they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms.The myth ...

Tubers have new rules to follow

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

By JENNIFER R. LLOYDSan Antonio Express-NewsNEW BRAUNFELS -- Tubers who enjoy an exhilarating ride in the back of an outfitter's pickup to reach the Guadalupe or Comal River may be disappointed this year. The open-air rides won't be allowed.The ban o ...

Apps put brakes on texting while driving

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Cars use lights, bells and buzzers to remind drivers to fasten their seat belts as they start their engines.It would seem natural, then, to offer motorists friendly, yet stern warnings about another bad habit: holding a cell phone while ...

Anti-texting tools

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

* Cellcontrol: This service from ObdEdge LLC uses a $60 device that plugs into the car's onboard diagnostics port. A separate application for the driver's phone costs $25 to download and $8.95 a month to use. The phone connects to the device in the p ...

Apple pushes back new iPad shipments

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer hits U.S. shelves on Saturday, but fans who want the new touch-screen gadget shipped directly to them must wait a week.The company began taking preorders for the iPad on March 12, promising to get the device to eager ...

Pregnancy Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers say women who have been successfully treated for breast cancer can get pregnant without fear. In fact, pregnancy may actually improve chances of survival after battling the disease.   "There is a wide per ...

Cellular Discovery may Transform Cancer Treatment

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:50 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The discovery of a new cellular channel may transform the way doctors treat cancer. "We found a gateway, which is present in all humans, that allows anti-cancer agents such as bleomycin to enter the body so they may reach and a ...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: A New Therapy?

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:49 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers may have found a therapy to protect against inflammation associated with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. By treating the activity of immune cells with an experimental drug, a particular enzyme i ...

Letters for March 29

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Friday is the deadline for letters on the primary runoffs * All letters concerning the April 13 Republican and Democratic Primary runoffs must reach The Eagle no later than 5 p.m. on Friday. All letters in this election will run by April 8. ...

Calendar

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:15 PM PDT

MondayCLASSESIntermediate Computer Class for Seniors, 9 to 10:30 a.m. College Station Teen Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. $60. Register: 764-3486.Beginning Computer Class for Seniors, 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. College Station Teen Center, 1520 Rock P ...

Mother-Child Attachment Makes a Difference

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The quality of the relationship between children and their parents is important to children's development, but a new analysis concludes that children -- especially boys -- who are insecurely attached to their mothers in the ear ...

Addicted to Food

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PDT

By Erica Schaller, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Obese patients who have been saying for years that food binging is like an addiction for them may finally have scientific support. Scientists have found some mechanisms behind dru ...

NCAA WOMEN: Oklahoma advances, Nebraska eliminated

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:50 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Oklahoma and Notre Dame needed overtime yet again to decide things in the NCAA tournament.This time, it was the Sooners who made the big shot that sent them back to the regional finals.Nyeshia Stevenson hit a 3-pointer from the co ...

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