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UK Basketball: Advocate colleagues sound off on Kentucky-Louisville game
Advocate-Messenger WritersHal Morris, the assistant sports editor at the Advocate-Messenger, is a lifelong Louisville fan. He still has his T-shirt from the original “Dream Game” between Kentucky and Louisville from 1983, but notes that he has sadly outgrown it in...Tags: Anthony Davis, Nerlens Noel, John Calipari, National Basketball Association, YouTube
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McDonald's sales slide on avian flu fears; Wendy's revenue rises
McDonald’s had another rough month as sales at restaurants open more than a year slid in April, a month after the world’s largest burger company said the gauge dipped 1% during its first quarter. This time, the Oak Brook, Ill., chain...
Tags: McDonald's, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Oak Brook, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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World watch
Czech Republic: A gas explosion rocked Prague's Old Town district Monday, injuring 35 people and damaging several buildings. The explosion occurred in an office building on busy Divadelni Street, close to the National Theater and Vltava River, where the...Tags: Prague (Czech Republic), Explosions, Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines
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In China, rat meat is sold as lamb
BEIJING -- Feasting on strips of mutton dropped in a simmering pot is a popular dining pastime in China, but what if the meat served is actually made of rat? That may be on the minds of diners after the latest stomach-churning food scandal to hit China....Tags: China, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Flu, U.S. Military
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In China, let a thousand blogs bloom
China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...
Tags: Liu Xiaobo, Politics, Entertainment Events, Restraint of Trade, Social Media
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Pre-emption fever threatens local control and economies
Small-business owners have a big stake in the unfolding debate in the Legislature over pre-emption of local workplace measures (HB 655, SB 726). Some politicians have apparently caught pre-emption fever and are all too eager to undermine our...Tags: Local Government, Politics, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Marketing
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Bird flu more difficult to detect this time around
China has suffered outbreaks of bird flu before, but the virus that has now infected more than 100 people across eastern China and Taiwan is different in several important ways, according to scientists and researchers. The new virus is H7N9, a different...
Tags: Health Organizations, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, China, Symptoms, Flu
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China's H7N9 bird flu death toll likely to rise
Chinese health officials are warning that the death toll from the H7N9 bird flu is likely to rise in the weeks and months ahead. In a report on the outbreak that began in China in February, doctors and researchers from from several public health...
Tags: China, Wildlife, Demographics, Flu, Health
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Bird flu outbreak is spreading fear in China
BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her...
Tags: Health Organizations, United Nations, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Politics, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Chinese officials urge calm as seventh bird flu victim dies
The toll from China’s new strain of bird flu climbed to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old retiree in Shanghai and the number of cases spread to 24, but officials expressed confidence the outbreak could be contained. The World...
Tags: Health Organizations, China, Wildlife, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Flu
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Newport News surgeon C. Waldo Scott prevailed through perseverance
Two decades after his death in 1993, the memory of Newport News surgeon and civil rights activist C. Waldo Scott still remains strong among many residents of the city he worked so long to transform. Not a month goes by without some past patient or...
Tags: New York University, Colleges and Universities, Religion and Belief, Politics, Justice and Rights
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Bird flu deaths among Chinese reach 6
BEIJING -- A new form of bird flu has infected more than a dozen people and caused six deaths in China in the last two months, according to official Chinese media reports. As of Friday, Chinese media reported 14 people were infected with the virus, a...
Tags: Health Organizations, China, Politics, Flu, Health and Safety at School
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