Potpourri: Jan. 14, 2013
ELECTROMAGNETIC fields from cellphones, power lines, computers, Wi-Fi routers and other all-surrounding electrical equipment are causing elevated levels of brain tumors and other cancers, according to the Bioinitiative 2012 Report from the University of Albany.
ELECTROMAGNETIC fields from cellphones, power lines, computers, Wi-Fi routers and other all-surrounding electrical equipment are causing elevated levels of brain tumors and other cancers, according to the Bioinitiative 2012 Report from the University of Albany. "Epidemiological evidence shows that radiofrequency should be classified as a human carcinogen," one researcher said. This is electrifying news.
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For-profit online universities - which compete against traditional state-owned and nonprofit institutions, and live mostly on federal student loans they induce their customers to obtain - sometimes draw complaints that they're more interested in money than in education. Now the Higher Learning Commission has put the online University of Phoenix "on notice" that its accreditation is under scrutiny. This caused stock prices to tumble for the parent corporation, Apollo Group.
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Article II of the U.S. Constitution says only a "natural born citizen" of the United States may be president. A Purdue University student protested that this requirement could exclude every person who was delivered by caesarean section. Well, that should confound Donald Trump and Tea Party zealots who question President Obama's birth certificate.
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Fundamentalist leader Jeremiah Dys still is protesting that statewide school rules against harassment impinge on free speech and religious freedom. He means that evangelical students should be allowed to humiliate gay students by calling them evil and wicked.
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If you are walking through the Huntington Mall in Barboursville and it seems like someone installed a large piece of art right in the middle of the bustle, someone did. You can learn more about paper artist Kelly O'Brien's second art installation at the mall in Douglas Imbrogno's video, wvgazette.com/Life/201212060067/.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: Police say John Edward Dempsey shot a retired Logan banker to death in his home, then went to another home and killed a man inside, then went to a third home where he was chased off by the homeowner with a gun, and then clashed with state troopers, who shot him to death.
ELECTROMAGNETIC fields from cellphones, power lines, computers, Wi-Fi routers and other all-surrounding electrical equipment are causing elevated levels of brain tumors and other cancers, according to the Bioinitiative 2012 Report from the University of Albany. "Epidemiological evidence shows that radiofrequency should be classified as a human carcinogen," one researcher said. This is electrifying news.
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For-profit online universities - which compete against traditional state-owned and nonprofit institutions, and live mostly on federal student loans they induce their customers to obtain - sometimes draw complaints that they're more interested in money than in education. Now the Higher Learning Commission has put the online University of Phoenix "on notice" that its accreditation is under scrutiny. This caused stock prices to tumble for the parent corporation, Apollo Group.
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Article II of the U.S. Constitution says only a "natural born citizen" of the United States may be president. A Purdue University student protested that this requirement could exclude every person who was delivered by caesarean section. Well, that should confound Donald Trump and Tea Party zealots who question President Obama's birth certificate.
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Fundamentalist leader Jeremiah Dys still is protesting that statewide school rules against harassment impinge on free speech and religious freedom. He means that evangelical students should be allowed to humiliate gay students by calling them evil and wicked.
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If you are walking through the Huntington Mall in Barboursville and it seems like someone installed a large piece of art right in the middle of the bustle, someone did. You can learn more about paper artist Kelly O'Brien's second art installation at the mall in Douglas Imbrogno's video, wvgazette.com/Life/201212060067/.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: Police say John Edward Dempsey shot a retired Logan banker to death in his home, then went to another home and killed a man inside, then went to a third home where he was chased off by the homeowner with a gun, and then clashed with state troopers, who shot him to death.
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