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Audrey Niffenegger on 'Raven Girl'
Audrey Niffenegger has always been a renaissance woman. Best known as the author of the best-selling novels "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2003) and "Her Fearful Symmetry" (2009), Niffenegger, a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is also...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Fine Artists, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Washington, DC, Biology
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Straw and hay fuel fire that destroyed farm building in 1913
An article in the May 24, 1913, edition of The Argus reported the damage to an area farm due to an early morning fire. A large barrack on the Wilton Farm, Wilkens avenue and Maiden Choice road, George J. Zaiser, owner, was destroyed by fire early...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Arts and Culture, Automotive Equipment, Electronics, Festive Events
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Kirk Douglas to pay tribute to his late friend Burt Lancaster
Kirk Douglas will be paying tribute to his old friend and frequent co-star Burt Lancaster at the UCLA Film & Television Archive's June 7 screening of their classic 1957 western, “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” at the Billy Wilder Theater in...
Tags: John Sturges, Armed Conflicts, Entertainment, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Harlequin ladybird can be a pest in disguise
The harlequin ladybird was once a stalwart ally of greenhouse growers around the world. Native to Japan, Korea and other parts of eastern Asia, the bright red ladybugs were prized for their aphid-eating abilities — until they caused serious declines...Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Germany, Biology, Science and Technology
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Minimizing personal injury on dairy farms
Here is an alarming statistic, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (2012), “Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting was one of only two private industries to experience an increase in the rate of injuries and illnesses in 2011...Tags: Beverage Industry, Rabies, Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Diseases and Illnesses
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: United Nations, Political Systems, Bolivia, Vladimir Putin, Relief and Aid Organizations
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Which is worse, isolation or loneliness?
Los Angeles TimesHenry David Thoreau relished isolation but didn't feel lonely. Marilyn Monroe was a social butterfly but died lonely. Their separate fates — Thoreau dead of tuberculosis at 44, Monroe of suicide at 36 — can't tell us much scientifically, but...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Marilyn Monroe
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Henryton demolition approved
The Board of Public Works gave the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene the green light Wednesday to move forward with the emergency demolition of 18 vacant buildings at the Henryton State Hospital Center in Carroll County. The center, which... -
South African ruling party criticized over video of frail Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Tuesday defended a controversial decision to allow the broadcast on television of a video of an unsmiling Nelson Mandela, looking frail, pallid and uncomfortable, as...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Sociology, Politics, Pneumonia, Government
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The Bronte Society corrects a grave error
Anne Bronte, younger sister of Charlotte and Emily, has a new gravestone, the BBC reported Tuesday. The new plaque corrects a 164-year-old error on the original. Anne, author of the novels "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" as well as a...
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USDA starts new program to track farm animals
MILWAUKEE - The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease. It is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's second attempt at implementing such a system,...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Food Industry, Brucellosis, Scabies
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500 Washington County enrollees sought for cancer study
holly.shok@herald-mail.comSeeking 500 Washington County enrollees to participate in a 20- to 30-year study aimed at finding cancer cures, the American Cancer Society on Thursday hosted an enrollment kick off with the plan to start collecting information and local blood samples...Tags: Medical Research, The Herald-Mail, Genetics, Biology, American Cancer Society
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