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...debate has been contentious - Minnesota has grappled with the issue for over a decade. Other states have banned commercial harvesting of wild turtles -among them Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Alabama and just last month, Maryland. But until now, Texas was one of a handful of states that remained wide open...
What seems clear, however, is that the brain of a migraineur (as sufferers are called) is primed to overreact to all sorts of stimuli that most people can easily tolerate. "The brain receives input from a wide variety of triggers--stress, hormones, falling barometric pressure, food, drink, sleep disturbances," says Dr.David Buchholz, a neurologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. "Each of us has hisown stack of triggers and his own personal threshold at which the migraine mechanism activates. The higher the trigger level climbs above the threshold, the more fully activated the migraine system...
When Melinda Gates listens, she leans in toward the speaker with rapt concentration, her eyes wide open, drinking in information. If she's visiting high school classrooms, as she was last month in Chicago, she doesn't hesitate to crouch down, in her heels and navy blue pantsuit, to get on eye level with a seated student and patiently ask questions. What she listens for are answers to some of the most vexing questions in public education: What does it take to turn a failing, urban high school into one that prepares students for higher education? How do you engage...
...financial aid provisions for summer internships and plans for an upcoming University-wide public service event dominated the focus of Undergraduate Council representatives during last night’s 20-minute meeting—the penultimate general assemblage of the UC for the year...
Before the docket was addressed yesterday, UC Vice-President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 announced a University-wide “Day of Service” to be held in September that will bring together College and University participants from several student groups and graduate schools to spend a day on service projects...