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'Still the pioneers'

post-gazette.com
Aug 3, 2008
        

Slippery Rock exhibit to showcase nuns' medical advances By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Photo courtesy of Gordon Ovenshine Sister Joachim Anne Ferenchak, a Carmelite Sister for the Aged and Infirm of Hollidaysburg,...

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John Campbell Is Dead

footnotemaven.com
Aug 1, 2008
        

This is another chapter from my attempt at creative non-fiction in writing my family history. This chapter opens with the vignette describing the funeral of my Great Great Grandfather John Campbell of Carrollton, Missouri, and...

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Let's Put Gaia on a "Wanted" Poster

hogonice.com
Jul 30, 2008
        

She is a Mean Old Thing I did a short Mancow spot this morning, and I was thrilled to get it. I will make Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man - The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook famous if it kills me. Right now, I'm taking a...

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Georgia's lab apes languish in post-Soviet limbo

reuters.com
Jul 29, 2008 4 related
        

By Dmitry Solovyov SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - In the capital of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, cracked steps lead up to a battered 1970s monument featuring a baboon. "Polio, yellow fever, typhus, encephalitis,...

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Ghostly goings-on at Leeds museum

ghostvillage.com
Jul 21, 2008
        

Published Date: 19 July 2008 GHOST hunters are heading for Leeds to team up with the award-winning, multi-ghost haunted, Thackray Medical Museum. The overnight event on July 26, between 7pm and 2am, features a special 'haunted...

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THE THIRD PART OF NIGHT (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971)

grunes.wordpress.com
Jul 17, 2008
        

During the Second World War the Weigl Institute, led by Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl, employed Poles, including Jews, resistance fighters and intellectuals, using their blood to produce vaccine for epidemic typhus. This...

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Monkeys caught in crossfire of Russian politics

theglobeandmail.com
Jul 14, 2008 1 related
        

From space travellers to post-traumatic stress victims, primates at Abkhazia's research institute follow the fortunes of their rulers JANE ARMSTRONG From Monday's Globe and Mail SUKHUMI, GEORGIA — Only the monkeys seem...

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Campaign against pests at eateries

thestar.com.my
Jul 7, 2008
        

YOU can make a difference in the war against rats, which StarMetro had recently highlighted. In our report, some 2,000 rodents have been killed by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall as part of their pilot project in rodent eradication...

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Queensland tick typhus

medicinenet.com
Jul 5, 2008
        

Queensland tick typhus: One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere. Queensland tick typhus is similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, another tick-borne rickettsial disease, but is less severe. The...

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Rodents on the increase in KL and PJ

thestar.com.my
Jul 2, 2008 3 related
        

Stories by CHRISTINA LOW and FAZLEENA AZIZ IT SEEMS as if rats in the Klang Valley are taking advantage of this Year of the Rat. According to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) health director Dr Zainol Ariffin Pawanchee, most rats...

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