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- Cast of characters
- Election could create stalemate
- Simulator aims to curb texting drivers
- Armed man robs Bryan mobile phone store, police say
- Obama gives Dems one last push
- One car wreck sends 3 TAMU students to the hospital
- White, Perry hit final stops
- Bombs almost cleared security
- Hostages freed from church in Iraq
- GM pulls the plug on steadily declining Pontiac
- Shuttle set for Wednesday launch
- Jury selection to start in Smart trial
- Texas mom on trial over girl allegedly in closet
- 'Saw 3D' is a Halloween-weekend box office hit
- Shooting at Oakland Halloween party injures 9
- No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween
- Chu talks zombies and vampires on Facebook
- Clinton urges rights progress in Cambodia
- Green Tea Does Not Protect Against Breast Cancer
- Healthy Cells A Culprit For Poor Chemo Results
- Small Molecule Inhibitor Discovered As A Possible Treatment For Colon Cancer
- Sugary Drinks Linked To Type 2 Diabetes And Metabolic Syndrome
- Recapping The Eagle's recommendations
- Fiddling During Brain Surgery - Research Summary
- Fiddling During Brain Surgery
| Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT The Genie (Josh Sparks) escorts Princess Jasmine (niece Mia Nam) around the courtyard of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the Texas A&M campus on Halloween early Sunday evening. It was the third annual holiday event where childr ... |
| Election could create stalemate Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT Subpoenas. That's how Texas A&M presidential scholar George Edwards III describes Barack Obama's presidency under a Republican congressional majority. "If the Republicans take the House, all they'll be doing is issuing subpoenas for two yea ... |
| Simulator aims to curb texting drivers Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Experts agree that texting while driving is a dangerous habit for teenagers, but a group of public safety advocates are hoping a NASCAR simulator will help new drivers understand that risk. The Texas AgriLife Extension Service a ... |
| Armed man robs Bryan mobile phone store, police say Posted: 31 Oct 2010 01:48 PM PDT Bryan police were searching Sunday for a man who robbed a mobile phone store on East Villa Maria Road. Authorities said a man entered the Mobile Zone USA early in the afternoon, showed a gun and demanded money, police said. Officers, who would not r ... |
| Obama gives Dems one last push Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT CLEVELAND -- President Barack Obama made Ohio his final campaign stop Sunday in the tumultuous midterm elections, trying to help hard-pressed Democrats in a state that could prove crucial to his fortunes in two years. Republicans said it was too l ... |
| One car wreck sends 3 TAMU students to the hospital Posted: 31 Oct 2010 01:53 PM PDT Department of Public Safety troopers continued late Sunday to investigate a one-car wreck in Burleson County that sent three Texas A&M students to the hospital. Officials said the 7 a.m. accident off F.M. 50 involved a truck that hit a guardrail ... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT Democratic candidate Bill White spent all of the last weekend of the 2010 election season campaigning, in person and by phone, while Republican Gov. Rick Perry took a day off to watch his beloved Texas A&M Aggies play football and enjoy his solid ... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The mail bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago may have been aimed at blowing up planes in flight and was only narrowly averted, officials said Sunday, acknowledging that one device almost slipped through Britain and another seized ... |
| Hostages freed from church in Iraq Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- Islamic militants held around 120 Iraqi Christians hostage for nearly four hours in a church Sunday before security forces stormed the building and freed them, ending a standoff that left at least 19 people dead, U.S. and Iraqi officials ... |
| GM pulls the plug on steadily declining Pontiac Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT DETROIT -- Pontiac, whose muscle cars drag-raced down boulevards, parked at drive-ins and roared across movie screens, is going out of business on Sunday.The 84-year-old brand, moribund since General Motors decided to kill it last year as it collapse ... |
| Shuttle set for Wednesday launch Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After a two-day delay, NASA's countdown clocks began ticking Sunday toward the final launch of space shuttle Discovery.A pair of gas leaks resulted in back-to-back launch postponements for Discovery. NASA test director Steve P ... |
| Jury selection to start in Smart trial Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT SALT LAKE CITY -- Eight years after he's accused of slicing through a kitchen window screen with a knife and whisking away a young girl in the middle of the night, the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart is headed to trial in federal cour ... |
| Texas mom on trial over girl allegedly in closet Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:35 AM PDT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The mother of a 12-year-old Brownsville girl allegedly locked in a closet except to attend school or use the bathroom faces trial on child abuse charges. The trial of 40-year-old Leticia Ines was scheduled to begin Monday in ... |
| 'Saw 3D' is a Halloween-weekend box office hit Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Psychokiller Jigsaw has come back to life at the box office.Lionsgate's Saw 3D, the final installment in the series about Jigsaw's legacy of bloody terror, debuted as the Halloween weekend's No. 1 movie with $24.2 million, according to ... |
| Shooting at Oakland Halloween party injures 9 Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT OAKLAND, Calif. -- A gunman suspected of taking part in a Halloween party shooting that injured nine people in downtown Oakland is being sought by police, authorities said Sunday.Officers who responded early Sunday saw several hundred people fleeing ... |
| No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.Local students between 6 and 14 years old, along with children from military families, w ... |
| Chu talks zombies and vampires on Facebook Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The walking dead have infiltrated the Energy Department. Energy Secretary Steven Chu shared a picture of himself as a zombie on his Facebook page in an effort to teach users about saving electricity. "To date, there is no scientific ... |
| Clinton urges rights progress in Cambodia Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s.Clinton was in the capital, ... |
| Green Tea Does Not Protect Against Breast Cancer Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Green tea has been the subject of medical studies for decades, and is reputed to have long-purported health benefits. Research has shown some evidence that regular green tea drinkers have lower chances of heart disease an ... |
| Healthy Cells A Culprit For Poor Chemo Results Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:47 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It is natural to blame chemo therapy failure on the malignant cancer cells themselves, but an unlikely antagonist has recently been identified: healthy stress response cells. These cells protect our organs in times of cri ... |
| Small Molecule Inhibitor Discovered As A Possible Treatment For Colon Cancer Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:47 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There's a possible new treatment for colon cancer and it is found in a surprising place: small molecule inhibitors. When tested on mice during a Roswell Park Cancer Institute experiment, a molecule focal adhesion kinase ( ... |
| Sugary Drinks Linked To Type 2 Diabetes And Metabolic Syndrome Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:47 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study finds drinking soda and other sugary drinks regularly is linked with a clear and consistently greater risk of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. "Many previous studies have examined the relationship between sug ... |
| Recapping The Eagle's recommendations Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Editorial Board Brazos County voters, except for the thousands who cast early ballots, will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote on races from Congress and the governorship to commissioner and constable. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p ... |
| Fiddling During Brain Surgery - Research Summary Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:50 PM PDT BACKGROUND: According to the Mayo Clinic, brain surgery treats problems in the brain and the structures around it through an opening (craniotomy) in the skull. The disorder essential tremor occurs within the nervous system and causes a rhythmic shak ... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:48 PM PDT ROCHESTER, Minn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's one of the few surgeries where patients stay awake during the operation. Deep brain stimulation is being used to help some of the ten million people with essential tremor: a disorder that causes a person's ... |
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