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Washington State U starts sperm bank for honeybees
There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees. Entomologist Steve Sheppard and his crew are using liquid nitrogen to preserve semen extracted from the industrious insects that pollinate much of the nation's food supply but face environmental threats. The ...
Raleigh General CEO back for 2nd stint
The life of a health care administrator can be surprisingly nomadic. David Darden, CEO of Raleigh General Hospital for the second time, back now since May, found out early in his career in health care administration that he'd be planting stakes in places like Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and New ...
VA job program helps ex-military medics
Navy corpsman Jason Martines earned his chops on the Afghan battlefield, patching together wounded Marines in the war-ravaged Helmand Province. Army medic Mathew Vance witnessed the birth of homemade bomb attacks as a convoy medic during his first tour in Iraq. On his second deployment, he worked on a trauma ...
NC woman recalls 'The Forgotten War' as nurse
Things happened fast for Virginia Graves in 1951. She graduated from Presbyterian Hospital's nursing school, enlisted in the Army Nursing Corps, went through basic training at Fort Sam Houston and as a second lieutenant receiving her orders in Tokyo, Japan, she learned she was headed to Korea. Her first 32 ...
Attacks in Pakistan's southwest kills 22
Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people. The violence emphasized the challenges that new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will have in bringing ...
Neb. agriculture college optimistic about future
The roads narrow on the 250-mile trip from Lincoln to Curtis from four lanes to a narrow strip of asphalt without shoulders at the southwest Nebraska end of the trip. That could be taken as a sign that the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture is the end of the road ...
Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction'
Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after quarrelsome meetings with the new president. The decision cemented Rowhani's reputation as a moderate who rejected Ahmadinejad's combative approach in world affairs in favor of the more nuanced philosophy ...
AP IMPACT: Snowden's life surrounded by spycraft
In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation's capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for "No Such Agency." But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency's looming presence was both a very ...
Chicago to hire 600 for school safe-passage routes
The city of Chicago, which plans to close dozens of schools this summer to save money, has received 11,000 requests for help getting children to their new schools along safe-passage routes. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/17bnWa2 ) that 600 adults will be hired next month to work along the ...
Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction'
Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after quarrelsome meetings with the new president. The decision cemented Rowhani's reputation as a moderate who rejected Ahmadinejad's combative approach in world affairs in favor of the more nuanced philosophy ...
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