10/05/2008 -
More Animals Test Positive for West Nile
Five more infected birds and two more horses tested positive in Benton County.
Source:
KIMA Yakima
http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/30471639.html
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10/07/2008 -
Bard's pairs offer complex lessons
A REFRESHING look at mating rituals in Shakespeare.
Source:
The Australian
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24461796-12332,00.html?from=public_rss
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10/03/2008 -
Bird collected in Morris tests positive for West Nile virus.
The Grundy County Health Department reported Monday a bird collected from Morris has tested positive for West Nile virus.
Source:
Morris Daily Herald
http://morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2008/10/03/news/346cgrubirdwestnile.txt
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10/06/2008 -
Sector Snap: Jewelers follow Wall Street lower
Shares of jewelers slipped Monday as credit concerns knocked the broader markets sharply lower and the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 800 points.
Source:
AP via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081006/jewelers_sector_snap.html?.v=1
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10/07/2008 -
Free health tests for children
Get tested: Shriners Hospitals for Children offers specialty care to children from birth to age 18 for no charge, regardless of a family's financial situation.
Source:
Everett Herald
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081007/LIVING/710079966/1042/LIVING02
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10/02/2008 -
Foreclosures Worsen Spread of West Nile
When delinquent mortgages tripled in Kern County, Calif., mosquitoes swarmed in neglected swimming pools -- and West Nile virus cases surged 276% in 2007.
Source:
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/news/20081002/foreclosures-worsen-spread-of-west-nile?src=R
SS_PUBLIC
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10/03/2008 -
Recovering From West Nile Virus
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) ? Dixon Cook is the first person in North Carolina this year to contract the West Nile Virus. He was bitten by mosquito in August and said he didn't think anything of it. A month later, doctors confirmed he had the potentially deadly disease. Leah Beno shows how the disease has changed Cook's life.
Source:
WGHP Greensboro
http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7567281&version=1
&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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10/07/2008 -
Kenya: Evolution Caught in the Act
In what could be a first in the world, scientists have caught evolution in the act of creating a new species in Lake Victoria as animals and plants try to cope with increased pollution and the effects of climate change.
Source:
AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200810070147.html
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10/07/2008 -
Remarks by Under Secretary Allen at the Maritime Security Council
Remarks by Under Secretary Charles Allen at the Maritime Security Council 2008 Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2008.
Source:
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/speeches/sp_1223396110064.shtm
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10/07/2008 -
Uganda: Jinja Chairman Blasts Town Leaders
JINJA district chairman Hannington Basakana has criticised the municipality leaders over what he called dishonesty and greed.
Source:
AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200810070016.html
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10/03/2008 -
Pennington County reports only West Nile case in past week
PIERRE -- The number of human West Nile cases in South Dakota remains at an all-time low.
Source:
Rapid City Journal
http://rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/10/03/news/local/doc48e36f18748f546699
1154.txt
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10/03/2008 -
West Nile remains a threat
While the weather has become cooler, with more autumnal temperatures, a new bumper crop of mosquitoes threatens to spread the West Nile virus into October, a time when transmission of the disease
Source:
Connecticut Post
http://www.connpost.com/ci_10621069?source=rss
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10/07/2008 -
News Categories
At the Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders made an ambitious, but critical promise. They went beyond imprecise proclamations on the urgent need to fight poverty by signing up to a set of measurable commitments to actually improve the livelihoods of people around the world in a set time-frame.
Source:
Yemen Observer
http://www.yobserver.com/opinions/10014991.html
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10/07/2008 -
Post-Ike skeeter spraying to start
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has announced that, weather permitting, targeted post-Hurricane Ike aerial spraying for mosquitoes may begin as early as Thursday night in parts of the following counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Newton and Orange.
Source:
Pearland Journal
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2008/10/07/pearland_journal/news/9-24_skeeter_
spraying.txt
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10/07/2008 -
What's new at the Mackinaw Area Public Library
Recently arrived at the Mackinaw Area Public Library is the paperback edition of ?The Romanovs: The Final Chapter,? first published in 1995. The book deals with the aftermath of the murder of the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas, his wife, and his four daughters, when the communists took over in Russia.
Source:
The Mackinaw Journal
http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2008/10/07/news/mackinaw/opinion3.txt
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