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Badger's Smith fails first-offender program
Wisconsin running back Lance Smith has been expelled from a first-offenders program and suspended from the team. Smith was put in the program after an incident last year in which he allegedly pushed his girlfriend. Court records show the 20-year-old...Tags: Court Administration
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Medicine collection drive on tap
The realization that household medicines tossed into the garbage or flushed down the drain pose serious risks to groundwater, has caused government agencies to rethink disposal methods. On Saturday, Cook County will join Will, Kendall and other counties...Tags: Metra, Environmental Politics, Midlothian
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Kidsday meets the dogs from 'Legally Blonde'
Kidsday Reporters, Age 14, Rockville CentreIf you have pets, think back on how difficult it was to train them. Now, try to think of how hard it must be to train dogs for Broadway productions. We recently saw "Legally Blonde the Musical" at the Palace Theatre, where we were able to go backstage. We...Tags: Palace Theater, Animals, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Celebrity, Farms
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Victor McKusick, genome project pioneer, dead at 86
Dr. Victor McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86. Officials at Johns Hopkins University, where McKusick was a professor of genetics, said he died Tuesday in Towson, Md.,...Tags: Natural Science, Genetics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Heart Disease, Biology
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Virginia executes man who beat co-worker with brass lamp
Associated PressA killer who argued Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the nation's second-busiest death chamber. Christopher Scott...Tags: Government, Timothy M. Kaine, Punishment, Local Authority, Western Medicines
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To avoid water contamination, officials hold medicine-collection drives
Chicago Tribune reporterFor decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's attitude about disposing household medicines went like this: If it's safe enough to swallow, it's safe enough to flush down the toilet. In recent years, scientists have learned that the old axiom,...Tags: Metra, Environmental Politics, Waukegan, Water Supply, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Medicare Part D a boon for drug companies, House report says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterU.S. drug manufacturers are reaping a windfall from taxpayers because Medicare's privately administered prescription drug benefit program pays more than other government programs for the same medicines, a House committee charged in a report Thursday. The...Tags: Medicare, Health Insurance, Company Privatization, Privatization, Government
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Equine Therapy
In tonight's Medical Watch ... call it a horse doctor. Animals doing therapy on people to help them overcome their demons. Depression, eating disorders and even drug abuse are no longer hurdles for people with a horse by their side. Kelly: "I was doing a...Tags: Eating Disorders, Western Medicines, Illnesses
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Va. company says it has HGH urine test
For years, human growth hormone has been considered one of the main banned substances used by athletes who want to build strength and avoid getting caught. Now a company in Virginia says researchers who originally set out to work on diagnosis and...Tags: International Olympic Committee, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Sports Organizations, Western Medicines
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Japan's meager daylight savings
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the land of the rising sun, no one can seem to agree on when it does. Rise, that is. Or set, for that matter. This summer, thousands of people here on Hokkaido island switched to daylight saving time, with the idea that they'd start work an hour...Tags: Energy Saving, Don Lee, Employees
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