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YOUR MONEY
Stockpile savings for emergencies High prices for fuel, food and other necessities have forced many to live from paycheck to paycheck. But after eight straight months of job losses, more and more Americans are finding there is no more paycheck. Throw...Tags: Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Schering Plough Corporation, Emergency Planning, Abbott Laboratories, Ciena Corporation
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Fall Cultural Calendar
CLASSICAL MUSIC Bach at Noon: Baritone Joshua Copeland, winner of the 2008 Bach Vocal Competition for Young Singers, performs, along with Rosa Lamoreaux and Frederick Urrey of the Bach Choir and the Festival Orchestra. Central Moravian Church, Main and...Tags: Henrik Ibsen, Genetics, Judaism, Festive Event, Awards and Prizes
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Md. partisans fire up for swing states
As Republicans celebrated their convention's choice of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Howard County Democrats were mobilizing to help push their nominees - Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden - into the White House. At the Democrats' annual...Tags: Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Labor Day, John McCain
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Bold times, bold art
Of The Morning CallSheryl Oring is a performance artist who invites the public to perform the art of good citizenship. In ''I Wish to Say'' she sits in a portable office dressed in 1950s clothes and types messages from spectators to George W. Bush on an antique keyboard....Tags: Values, Medical Specialization, Bethlehem Steel, John Lennon, Awards and Prizes
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Editorials from Wisconsin newspapers
DO NOT LIMIT POLITICAL SPEECHFor advocates of free speech -- and that ought to include all Americans -- the day politicians decided it was a good idea to regulate paid messages around elections should be draped in black on the calendar. The argument is always that these ads can...Tags: Sexual Assault, Juvenile Delinquency, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Democracy, Political Candidates
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Targeted treatments wage war on breast cancer
Elizabeth Harden recently saw a patient in her 80s whose breast cancer metastasized, or spread to her bones, seven years ago. The woman is doing well and has not required additional chemotherapy during that time. She's not cured but she's living a good...Tags: Virginia, Medicine, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Western Medicines, Cancer
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Laura Ziskin lassoed the stars for 'Stand Up to Cancer'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs a movie producer, Laura Ziskin has wrestled with studio executives, stars and lawyers. As a late-stage breast cancer patient, the "Spider-Man" maker has faced a far more perilous foe, and now Ziskin intends to do to malignant cells what she has done to...Tags: Film Festivals, Sony Corp., Charlize Theron, David Fincher, Movies
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Neurogen Faces Nasdaq Delisting
Neurogen Corp., the struggling Branford-based biotechnology company, said it was notified this week that its stock may be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market because it has been trading at less than the required $1-a-share minimum for 30 days. For...Tags: Biotechnology Industry
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Multicultural mecca
Of The Morning CallFor 24 seasons Lafayette College's Williams Center for the Arts has been the Lehigh Valley's epicenter for pushing and ripping envelopes. It has presented a five-actor ''King Lear'' and an operatic hip-hop ''Romeo and Juliet,'' multimedia banquets of...Tags: Medical Specialization, Values, Texas, Retirement, Society
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Indian River State College in Fort Pierce adds biotechnology degree
Scripps Treasure Coast NewspapersOfficials at Indian River State College hope the start of a new biotechnology associate's degree is another step toward turning the Treasure Coast into the Research Coast. This week, the college welcomed 28 students into the first classes —...Tags: Real Estate Agents, Biotechnology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Technology
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Are we safer?
The impending closure of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax-laced mailings of 2001 has generated new interest in the question: Are we safer today than we were when anthrax was distributed up and down the Eastern seaboard, killing five people and...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, Guerrilla Activity, National Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Pro: Marijuana use for chronic pain and nausea
Special to The TimesMedical marijuana use has a history stretching back thousands of years. In prebiblical times, the plant was used as medicinal tea in China, a stress antidote in India and a pain- reliever for earaches, childbirth and more throughout Asia, the Middle...Tags: Medical Specialization, Addiction, California, San Diego (San Diego, California), Medicine
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