Radio head: Money Box Live
- August
- 2
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You know you’ve been listening to too much Radio 4 when you’ve heard every single thing on Pick of the Week (Sunday, 6.15pm), and shortly afterwards, every single thing on Feedback, apart from the very brief whisper of Five Live they put on to be polite. So I’m in no position to complain about Money [...]
Sex Offender Law In Oregon Is Different
- May
- 19
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Without giving too much away, I live near a park in West Medford and I just found on www.familywatchdog.com, a Web site that tracks where sex offenders live, that a sex offender lists an address near this park. A friend told me that sex offender cannot live within a 1,000 feet of a park of [...]
A strong reaction to bio lab
- April
- 20
Plum Island is about a mile and a half from Orient and
clearly visible to the people who live there, unless the fog is heavy. Little wonder, then, that the possibility of a new, more sophisticated National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on the island drew a vocal, standing-room-only crowd of Southold residents mostly [...]
Cancer prevention
- March
- 6
Q: What’s my best defense against breast cancer?
A:While a family history of breast cancer or a genetic mutation can’t be controlled, you can control or change some risk factors associated with this disease. And even with those risks that can’t be reduced, understanding them can help you take steps to detect the disease [...]
Down payments just got bigger
- February
- 3
WASHINGTON — Critics call it the new redlining: Many of the country’s largest mortgage lenders are imposing restrictions on entire counties or ZIP Codes that they rank as risky or declining. Countrywide Bank sent mortgage brokers a list on Jan. 25 that categorized hundreds of counties as soft markets with rankings from 1 to [...]
Lawmakers try again to hike tuition for illegals
- January
- 31
On the outside, Elizabeth looks just like any other Utah teenager. She’s white, as is an estimated 83 percent of the state’s population, and she shares the majority LDS faith.
Yet, even though this Southern Utah University student never crossed the border illegally and her parents [...]
Bypass better than stents for coronary disease
- January
- 23
NEW
YORK: For patients with several blockages in their coronary arteries, mortality
rates are lower when they undergo bypass grafting rather than having the new
generation of drug-eluting stents inserted, a study shows.
The results are published in
this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Edward L Hannan, at the State
University of New York, Rensselaer, and colleagues [...]
Banks are going to extract some
- January
- 18
“Anytime you need to go a bank it’s a problem right now. Banks are going to extract some flesh. They have to.” - Jonathan Rather, general partner and CFO of Welsh, Carson in New York, about the higher interest on debt that banks are demanding now, particularly from highly leveraged companies that desperately need to [...]
