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| Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off |
The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial for the hospital,... |
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 It appears that a huge fire broke out at Universal Studios early Sunday, destroying several movie sets such as “Back to the Future’ and the King Kong exhibit and also a sound stage, the Associated Press reports.The fire broke out on a sound stage at the theme park in a set featuring New York brownstones facades around 4:30 a.m.According...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she was entitled to alimony, saying she was deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend had left her deeply in debt.The two...
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 Bethel Woods, a country drive from the former farm of Woodstock, houses a multimedia museum as a sign of praise
to the birthplace of US
counterculture, that will open its gates on June 2.
Forty years ago the farming village of Woodstock, north of
New York City, entered history with its famous festival, where half-million...
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Children’s Memorial Hospital has united powers with the University of
Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital in order to make a list of the nation’s
“best children’s hospitals” for neonatal care. The list will be available
starting from Monday in the weekly American news magazine, U.S. News & World
Report. It is also available...
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 New York City
officials decided to suspend several crane operations in the city during the
weekend in order to focus on the Friday’s accident according to which a crane
put an end to the lives of two workers.
The crane fell from about 200 feet above the street, strongly crashed
into a luxury apartment building on East
91st...
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UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun revealed Friday that he
had a cancerous growth removed from the right side of his neck May 6, just four
days before his 66th birthday. Three dozen lymph nodes around the area were
also extirpated and tested for cancer, and Calhoun’s entire body was scanned.
The result of the scan was...
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 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was personally invited to a meeting with the rock group Kiss. She went to a Kiss after-party in Stockholm, Sweden on Thursday. Rice arrived in the Swedish capital for the opening of the UN Iraq Compact Annual Review Conference. The band was there to play a sold-out concert and asked to meet her.Rice...
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 May 30 – All the attention will
be headed towards a handful of top spellers that will reach the Washington’s stage
tonight in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A record was
breached this year’s competition when 288 children managed to enroll to the
Thursday’s Preliminary rounds.
Harsh competition, but the...
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 A large crane collapsed in New York City,
Manhattan on
Friday, killing one person and damaging an apartment building, emergency
services said, according to Reuters. It appears that one person died in the
collapse shortly after 8 a.m. EDT, the New York City Fire Department said.
The crane smashed into “The Electra” apartment...
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Police said an off-duty officer was justified in shooting
two men, one fatally, after they attacked him and a woman on Wednesday night in
Chinatown, the New York Times reports.
Police officers also said they were investigating if the
attackers were connected to the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who had been accused of
harassing...
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 Teen Kills Himself in Front of Webcam
An official told Fox News on Friday that a teenager from Florida committed suicide in front of his webcam after he had posted online messages announcing everyone about...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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