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- Aggies share memories of student
- Libraries put service at your fingertips
- Police: Man smiled at officer, then fled
- Equine workshops planned this month
- Obama takes $3T budget to Congress
- Home hires dance partners for lonely senior ladies
- Egypt's military dissolves parliament
- State considers $100 surcharge on gas-guzzlers
- Swiss freeze Mubarak's assets
- San Antonio couple, 92, to marry Saturday
- Egypt unrest puts Mideast peace efforts on hold
- Police crack down on Yemen protests
- Texas Declaration of Independence on display
- Craft, comet set for rendezvous
- Docs powering up concerns about energy drinks
- Texan designs commemorative Reagan stamp
- Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire are big winners
- Cutting Facial Pain - Research Summary
- Cutting Facial Pain
- Magnesium Protects Against CP?
- Letters for February 14
- Calendar
- The Brain Learns from Mistakes
- Threat cases are hard to prosecute
- Laughing gas is making a comeback in maternity wards
| Aggies share memories of student Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST Friends of Nicolis "Nico" Williams said they will remember the Texas A&M student for his smile and his ability to make someone's day better, but also for the way he would invite himself over and ask for a sandwich or remind you that he was bette ...   |
| Libraries put service at your fingertips Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST A new program being offered at Texas A&M University aims to make the resources of campus libraries more accessible to students. "Text the Libraries" launched Thursday around 6 p.m., and by 10 a.m. Friday, 15 messages had been sent by students c ... |
| Police: Man smiled at officer, then fled Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA 37-year-old Bryan man was arrested after smiling at a police officer before driving through a red light, officials said.Bryan police said officers were at the intersection of North Texas Avenue and North Sims Avenue at 1 a.m. Sund ... |
| Equine workshops planned this month Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST Eagle Staff Report The Texas AgriLife Extension Service has scheduled two equine workshops from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 at the Louis Pearce Pavilion on the Texas A&M campus. On Feb. 24, mare and foal topics will be discussed, inc ... |
| Obama takes $3T budget to Congress Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will send Congress on Monday a $3 trillion-plus budget for 2012 that promises $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by freezing many domestic programs for five years, trimming military spending ... |
| Home hires dance partners for lonely senior ladies Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Hewitt Bruce extends his hand to a waiting lady pining for a dance -- and someone with whom to share it. He twirls and waltzes and makes exacting steps; she has become the woman to envy. And as one song fades to another, he is of ... |
| Egypt's military dissolves parliament Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST CAIRO -- Egypt's military rulers took sweeping action to dismantle the autocratic legacy of former President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, dissolving parliament, suspending the constitution and promising elections in moves cautiously welcomed by pro-demo ... |
| State considers $100 surcharge on gas-guzzlers Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:07 PM PST FORT WORTH, Texas -- State officials are considering levying a $100 surcharge on some new vehicles that fall short of federal fuel efficiency standards. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram says no legislation has been filed to add the surcharge, but it's a ... |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST CAIRO -- Switzerland has frozen whatever assets Hosni Mubarak and his associates may have there, and anti-corruption campaigners are demanding the same of other countries. But experts say hunting for the deposed Egyptian leader's purported hidden we ... |
| San Antonio couple, 92, to marry Saturday Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:07 PM PST SAN ANTONIO -- She calls him Mr. Massey.He's looking forward to calling her his wife. About 150 people are expected to attend Saturday's wedding in San Antonio for 92-year-olds Jewel Etter and Holman Massey.The San Antonio Express-News reports that E ... |
| Egypt unrest puts Mideast peace efforts on hold Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST JERUSALEM -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's downfall appears to have nudged Israel and the Palestinians toward some common ground: Neither side seems to think now is the time for brave moves toward peace.For Israel, Mubarak's departure has left b ... |
| Police crack down on Yemen protests Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni police armed with sticks and daggers on Sunday beat back thousands of protesters marching through the capital in a third straight day of demonstrations calling for political reforms and the resignation of the country's U.S.-al ... |
| Texas Declaration of Independence on display Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST AUSTIN -- The original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence, a document that makes Texas special among the nation's states, is getting a new home for a now rare public appearance. Brittle, fading and suffering the ravages of exposure to lig ... |
| Craft, comet set for rendezvous Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- After a long-distance courtship, a NASA spacecraft is set to meet up with its celestial sweetheart -- a comet half the size of Manhattan that had an encounter with another spacecraft not long ago. The rendezvous between Stardust and c ... |
| Docs powering up concerns about energy drinks Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST CHICAGO -- Energy drinks are under-studied, overused and can be dangerous for children and teens, warns a report by doctors who say kids shouldn't use the popular products. The potential harms, caused mostly by too much caffeine or similar ingredien ... |
| Texan designs commemorative Reagan stamp Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST By MATTHEW HUISMAN The Dallas Morning News PLANO -- When Bart Forbes got a call from the U.S. Postal Service asking him to design the commemorative stamp honoring President Ronald Reagan's centennial birthday, the Plano artist couldn't say no. The re ... |
| Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire are big winners Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- Lady Antebellum was the big winner at the Grammys with five awards, including record and song of the year for the band's yearning crossover ballad Need You Now, but rockers Arcade Fire won Sunday's biggest prize, album of the year, fo ... |
| Cutting Facial Pain - Research Summary Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:50 PM PST BACKGROUND: Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from your face to your brain. If you have trigeminal neuralgia, even mild stimulation of your face, such as from brushing your te ... |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST PHOENIX (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's a pain that can be triggered by something as simple as a cool breeze or a bite of food. One in 15 thousand people has trigeminal neuralgia -- a disease that's misdiagnosed as everything from dental pain to migraine ... |
| Magnesium Protects Against CP? Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Something as simple as magnesium may protect against cerebral palsy (CP). A new study in mice shows consuming magnesium sulfate significantly reduces brain injury associated with maternal inflammation or infection. Magnesium s ... |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST Some random thoughts about events in the news Random thoughts: * I see where A&M has hired a new vice president for administration. He will earn $270,000 per year. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is limited to around $204,000 i ... |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDAR Feb. 21 is the registration deadline for the Milano Athletic Booster Club second annual Alumni Baseball/Co-ed Softball Event on March 5 at Milano High School. The cost is $20 per player per event and includes a T-shirt. There will ... |
| The Brain Learns from Mistakes Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The brain makes mistakes and then corrects them, according to a new study. A research group, led by Dr. Peter Scheiffele at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, was able to document the brain's process of establishing a n ... |
| Threat cases are hard to prosecute Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:17 PM PST WASHINGTON -- One man posted a message to the White House Web site threatening to kill the president. "This is not a joke," he warned, and typed in his name.Another vowed in letters to a federal judge and the Justice Department to "kill your presiden ... |
| Laughing gas is making a comeback in maternity wards Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:16 PM PST CONCORD, N.H. -- Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet.The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals -- one in San Francisco and one in Seattle -- still offer ... |
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