MORGANTOWN - A motorist who killed a West Virginia Universitystudent has been charged with driving under the influence of alcoholand causing death.
Joseph Paul Wolfe, 25, of Bobtown, Pa., had just left his job ataStar City grocery store and was bicycling …
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What does the face of poverty look like? It looks like a man, rail thin, wearing old that are rumpled and torn. He is clean, though. He has come to tell us that his daughter-the one we helped him buy school supplies for last fall-had been very ill in the hospital. She was in the main hospital for three weeks and every day they fed three bottles of serum into her body by IV drip. He spent every cent he had and the church helped him out. This daughter, who was eight years old, was his only child. She died this afternoon at 3 p.m.
Now he needs to figure out what to do with the body. He doesn't have any more money. He can't pay to put the body in the morgue. He …
Spending on health care slowed slightly in 2007 as consumers turned more to generic drugs instead of brand-names to fill their medicine cabinets, the government reported Monday.
Although the cost of buying drugs, visiting the doctor or going to the hospital continued to increase faster than the overall economy, the 6.1 percent growth rate for all health care spending was the slowest since 1998. In 2006, spending increased 6.7 percent.
Officials worry that devoting more and more resources to health care makes it harder for families to meet other pressing priorities and for businesses to compete internationally.
Overall, Americans spent $2.2 …
Maintaining a certified handicap - regardless of how much youplay - can enhance your enjoyment of golf.
A handicap facilitates participation in social outings and theestablishment of friendly, informal matches as well as more serious,big-money battles. Players of different abilities can comparehandicaps and apply them for the purpose of reasonably faircompetition.
Starting Monday, for instance, players with established handicapscan compete for prizes in the Chicago Sun-Times Grand SlamSweepstakes. Any golfer who plays an 18-hole round before May 22 cansubmit the scorecard, with his score adjusted by his handicap, and beeligible for an array of drawing prizes if …
Identification of Cleaner Production Improvement Opportunities Kenneth L Mulholland, AIChE and John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 200 pp., $59.95, February 2006, ISBN: 0-471-79440-6
This book is a practical how-to manual for implementing the best pollution prevention strategies that are economical and efficient for eliminating costly end-of-pipe treatments. The author. Dr. Kenneth L. Mulholland, focuses on eliminating pollution at the source in order to achieve zero pollution and waste, thus lowering treatment …
Republican presidential contender John McCain on Saturday said he wants to again allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada as a way to bring health care costs under control.
The Arizona senator, speaking to reporters about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Canadian border and just across the river from New Hampshire, said too much of health care costs are based on high drug prices.
"Drug companies and the lobbyists they pay in Washington want to keep your drug prices high. Obviously, I want them to be affordable," McCain said, returning to his criticism of how Washington works.
Until drugs are cheaper, the cost of health …
Brown, Clifford (Brownie) important and widely influential 1950s-era jazz trumpeter; b. Wilmington, Del, Oct. 30, 1930; d. in an automobile accident on the Pennsylvania Tpke. near Bedford, Pa., June 26, 1956. He studied at Del. State Coll. and Md. State Coll. and gained experience playing in college jazz bands. He worked and recorded with Chris Powell. Later, Brown joined Tadd Dameron and toured Europe with Lionel Hampton's orch. (1953). Upon returning to the U.S., he worked with Art Blakey. Brown joined the Max Roach Quintet (1954), with Richie Powell on piano, and Harold Land, who was replaced by Sonny Rollins in late 1955. The group was sometimes …
