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LA Times Probe Finds Nurses' Criminal Records Ignored
LOS ANGELES -- In March 2006, a Long Beach hospital put state licensing authorities on notice: Two patients had accused a nurse of molesting them on a single night. One said that he massaged her breasts, the other that he groped her under her hospital...Tags: Laws, Consumers, Ohio, Los Angeles Times, Juvenile Delinquency
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'Cloak of Invisibility' Takes Step Toward Reality
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON -- From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality. Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Research, Science and Technology, Education
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Madoff Teated For Dizziness, Hypertension
BUTNER, N.C. -- The federal Bureau of Prisons says Bernard Madoff is being treated at a prison medical center for dizziness and hypertension.
Spokeswoman Traci Billingsley says Madoff is being treated at a hospital at the Butner federal prison in North...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Crimes, Bernard Madoff, North Carolina, Corporate Crime
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Doctors Remove Plastic Spoon From Man's Lung
KTLA NewsRALEIGH, N.C. -- Doctors say man plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a...Tags: Queens (New York City), North Carolina, Ohio, Lungs and Airways, Hamburgers
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Tylenol Could Soon Require a Prescription
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug...Tags: Instrument Engineering, Coughing, Percocet (drug), Johnson & Johnson Inc., Tylenol (drug)
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Joshua A. Barbati, teacher
Joshua A. Barbati, a retired Baltimore County public school educator and longtime Loch Raven resident, died May 11 of melanoma at Levine & Dickson Hospice House in Huntersville, N.C.
He was 79.
The son of Italian immigrants, Mr. Barbati was born in...Tags: Ball State University, Pikesville, Charlotte, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Loyola University Maryland
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Chicago architect designs a beacon for health care in Haiti
MIREBALAIS, HAITI — Under a blinding Caribbean sun, far from the sleek Chicago residences she usually designs, architect Ann Clark saw well-laid plans turn to improvisation, yet again.
Overhead, a 2,850-pound ventilation system dangled from a...Tags: Entertainment, Melissa Harris, Tuberculosis, Arts and Culture, Medical Specialization
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Orange honors 97 seniors admitted to top colleges
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe Orange County School Board is recognizing tonight its top one percent — nearly 100 students admitted to top colleges from amongst about 10,000 high school graduates this year. The district's traditional high schools provided the names of their... -
China's Bo Xilai scandal revs up news media run by exiles
BEIJING — "Beijing power struggle heralds end of China Communist Party," screams one headline. More sensational headlines purport to reveal how the wife of recently sacked Politburo member Bo Xilai poisoned an Englishman, who may have been her...
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W.Va. pastor to retire after 42 years of service
The Rev. Richard A. Kroll, lead pastor at Asbury United Methodist Church in Charles Town, has announced his retirement after 42 years of service to the United Methodist Church. Kroll is a 1964 graduate of Fork Union Military Academy and a 1968...Tags: Methodist, Carroll County (Maryland), Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Understand realities of a part-time program
You get several advantages from earning your MBA through a part-time program. You can hang on to your job while you get your degree. You earn a salary even as you study. And since you take fewer classes at a time, you're not paying as much tuition all...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, Teaching and Learning, New Products
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Claremont McKenna College president to retire in 2013
L.A. NOWPamela B. Gann, who has been president of Claremont McKenna College since 1999, announced Tuesday that she will step down from that post in about a year....
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