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    Oct 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize

    E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92.
    E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Leukemia, Oncology, Medical Research

    2. Oct 24, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  2. If voters legalize marijuana in state, will the Feds step in to stop it?

    Washington could legalize pot in the Nov. 6 election, but rules against the drug will likely stay the same at the state’s largest university. And there is a question of whether federal authorities would step in if Initiative 502 passes.
    Q13 FOX News reporter
    Washington could legalize pot in the Nov. 6 election, but rules against the drug will likely stay the same at the state’s largest university. And there is a question of whether federal authorities would step in if Initiative 502 passes. If the...

    Tags: Justice System, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Colleges and Universities, Elections, Lawyers

    3. Oct 20, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  3. Nobel laureate, bone-marrow transplant innovator Dr. E. Donnall Thomas dies

    <a>Nobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D.</a>, died Saturday at the age of 92.
    Q13 FOX News Online
    Nobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., died Saturday at the age of 92. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers. In 1974, Thomas became the first...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Leukemia, Oncology, General Practitioners

    4. Oct 17, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Andrew Brimmer dies at 86; first black member of Federal Reserve

    Andrew Brimmer, the son of a Louisiana sharecropper who in 1966 became the first black member of the Federal Reserve Board, has died. He was 86.
    Andrew Brimmer, the son of a Louisiana sharecropper who in 1966 became the first black member of the Federal Reserve Board, has died. He was 86. Brimmer died Oct. 7 at a Washington hospital after a lengthy illness, said his daughter, Esther Brimmer....

    Tags: Michigan State University, Finance, Tuskegee University, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy

    5. Oct 9, 2012 |Story| KTUU

  5. Independent Review of Pebble Mine Research Raises Questions

    Can mining and salmon co-exist?&nbsp; &nbsp;That debate is being heard in Anchorage this week over the proposed Pebble Mine project.&nbsp;
    Can mining and salmon co-exist?   That debate is being heard in Anchorage this week over the proposed Pebble Mine project.  The Pebble Limited Partnership is holding another round of scientific review panels overseen by The Keystone Center.  The non-...

    Tags: Radio, Mining, Aquaculture, Metal and Mineral, Seafood and Fishing Industry

    6. Oct 9, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  6. Voter registration rates have fallen since last presidential race

    Voter registration rates have declined since 2008, especially among young people, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center report.
    Q13 FOX News anchor
    Voter registration rates have declined since 2008, especially among young people, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center report. The organization said that in interviews conducted over the course of 2012 so far, 72% of adults 18...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Elections

    7. Oct 10, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  7. Green Wheels: The Student Competition That Comes With a Job

    Sometimes it pays to be a geeky student engineer. General Motors, for instance, has hired no less than 100 young mechanical and electrical graduates who've been through the federal college eco-car competitions. It's a three-year immersion for the slide-rule set, in which they design a car, build it, and then in the third year trouble-shoot the inevitable bugs.
    Sometimes it pays to be a geeky student engineer. General Motors, for instance, has hired no less than 100 young mechanical and electrical graduates who've been through the federal college eco-car competitions. It's a three-year immersion for the slide-...

    Tags: Vehicles, General Motors Corp., Biofuels, Students, Colleges and Universities

    8. Oct 6, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  8. Armed robbers strike again, assault 2 more in U District

    Assailants robbed and hit two victims in the face with a handgun Saturday morning in the University District, just days after police arrested a suspect allegedly involved in similar robberies occurring the week before.
    Q13 FOX News Reporter
    Assailants robbed and hit two victims in the face with a handgun Saturday morning in the University District, just days after police arrested a suspect allegedly involved in similar robberies occurring the week before. According to Seattle police, two...

    Tags: Crime Victims, Theft, Students, Colleges and Universities, Firearms

    9. Oct 4, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  9. Suspect arrested in connection with string of U District robberies

    Seattle police have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in three Saturday morning armed robberies in Seattle's University District neighborhood, police said Thursday.
    Q13 FOX News Reporter
    Seattle police have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in three Saturday morning armed robberies in Seattle's University District neighborhood, police said Thursday. Police said they found the 29-year-old suspect boarding a Metro bus in West Seattle...

    Tags: Theft, Colleges and Universities

    10. Jun 13, 2012 |Story| Reuters

  10. Many doctors use limited Spanish skills with patients

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many doctors-in-training with shaky Spanish skills are willing to discuss medical care with their patients in Spanish &mdash; but that may change after they are tested for fluency, a new study suggests.
    Reuters
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many doctors-in-training with shaky Spanish skills are willing to discuss medical care with their patients in Spanish — but that may change after they are tested for fluency, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed 76...

    Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Cancer, Medical Research, Pediatrics, Hospitals and Clinics

    11. Sep 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Some women actually have men on the brain

    For decades after a woman has carried a male child in her womb or shared her mother's womb with a brother, she carries a faint but unmistakable echo of that intimate bond: male fetal DNA that lodges itself in the far recesses of her brain.
    For the Booster Shots Blog
    For decades after a woman has carried a male child in her womb or shared her mother's womb with a brother, she carries a faint but unmistakable echo of that intimate bond: male fetal DNA that lodges itself in the far recesses of her brain. That...

    Tags: Cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    12. Sep 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. USC vows to investigate allegations of Joe McKnight perks

    L.A. NOW
    USC on Saturday vowed investigate allegations that a former county appraiser provided a car and a plane ticket to former USC football star Joe McKnight. The Times reported Saturday that a key figure in the ongoing corruption investigation at the......
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