(Taylor Media Services) Predominantly Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. will soon get one of the largest the largest grants in its history: $150 million to help prepare future engineers and other technology professionals. Siemens PLM Softwa ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 5:43AM
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Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama. Her father, John Corpus of Green Bay, stood to ask Obama about health care during the president's t ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 5:38PM
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White people had the highest incidence rate for melanoma of the skin. Hispanic people had the second highest incidence of getting melanoma of the skin, followed by Asian/Pacific Islander people. White people were more likely to die of melanoma of th ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 5:20PM
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a kidney transplant bill named for former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning. Mourning, a kidney transplant recipient, was on hand for the signing ceremony Wednesday at a Tallahassee dialysis center. It was a retur ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 2:03PM
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The Canadian health-care system is opaque, unconcerned with patient satisfaction and, of course, has lengthy waiting times for medical services as a defining feature. Canadians are aware of these problems but many accept them as the unfortunate but i ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 7:02AM
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June 9, 2009
The family of Dr. George Tiller announced today that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:36AM
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AP - The most prominent American museum bearing witness to violence against Jews was the scene of bloodshed, its doors breached by an assailant who opened fire with a rifle, killing a guard in an attack linked to a white supremacist's hate. Law enfor ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:23AM
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Bossip just caught word that Ush & Tameka’s marriage might be crumbling as we speak. The “project manager” chick, Grace Miguel, that Usher was seen with last week, is married and wants no parts of the drama.
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Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 9:54PM
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Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard who was shot at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this morning has died of his injuries in hospital. He was 39 years old. It is believed he was shot by James Wenneker Von Brunn, when he walked in to the m ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 7:12PM
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(BlackNews.com) - Toward the end of his life, tennis legend and activist Arthur Ashe sat down and wrote a letter to his young daughter to be read and re-read for inspiration and comforted as she got older and he wasn’t around. The letter was, and is ...
Posted Monday, June 8th 2009 at 9:56PM
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June 7
Prince
Prince was born on this date in 1958. He is an African-American singer, producer, musician, and global multi-media entertainer. Prince Rogers Nelson is from Minneapolis, MN, a graduate of Minneapolis Central High School, who taught ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 8:48PM
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WASHINGTON — After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, t ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 7:00PM
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Arrest warrant issued for Daniel James Murray, man 'on a mission to kill' President Obama
The gun-loving former New Yorker being sought Friday for threatening to kill President Obama was known in his old neighborhood as the "Cape Man" of Blue Jay Wa ...
Posted Friday, June 5th 2009 at 7:37PM
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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday. Jobim t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 5:29PM
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AP - The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she made a poor word choice in a 2001 speech in which she said that a Latina judge would often reach a better conclusion than a white male judge who hasn't lived the same li ...
Posted Friday, May 29th 2009 at 4:51PM
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