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Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs
U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his ...
Congress fights over student loans
Another fight in Washington has college students stuck in the cross fire. If Congress does nothing, interest rates for new subsidized stafford student loans will double on July first. (Cox Washington Bureau)
House backs variable rate student loans
Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party lines. The Republican-backed bill would allow students to dodge a scheduled rate hike for students with ...
2-day worker walkout ends at UC hospitals
A two-day strike by hospital workers ended on Thursday, with both sides claiming victory even though there was no resolution to a contract dispute involving staffing and pensions. The University of California said the vast majority of union workers had crossed picket lines to work at hospitals in several areas ...
Richard-Ross makes plans for Rio Games and beyond
Sanya Richards-Ross frantically called her agent in New York to ask for a list of speechwriters. The Olympic champion runner had received a call from the president of the University of Texas, her alma mater, saying student groups had selected her to deliver the commencement address. Richards-Ross is an experienced ...
Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal
An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government. These exemptions have generated widespread resentment ...
UAF nearing partnership for veterinary program
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is finalizing details on a partnership that would establish a new veterinary medicine program by 2015. The proposal would allow the school and Colorado State University to jointly offer a veterinary degree, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/1ac326E). Under terms of the deal, which ...
IN OKLAHOMA, THE FIRST OF 24 FAREWELLS
c.2013 New York Times News Service OKLAHOMA CITY — Three days after one of the most destructive tornadoes to strike Oklahoma in decades, people here filed into a mortuary chapel Thursday morning amid heavy rain and flashes of lightning for the first of two dozen funerals. As soaked mourners stepped ...
UMass Memorial, nurses reach tentative 3-year deal
UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses at its University Campus reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract late Wednesday night, averting a strike that had been scheduled to start Thursday. The sides were stuck on staffing levels, with nurses demanding more of them be ...
Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting ...
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