| State budget has millions for Research Campus
RALEIGH (AP) Lawmakers have included $16.5 million for university programs at the North Carolina Research Campus in their newly approved 1007-2008 budget. The money will cover operating expenses, equipment and faculty startup funds for programs that UNC-system schools will operate at David Murdocks' planned biotechnology research hub. The new budget separately provides $1.3 million for community college efforts at the Research Campus. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has established a small branch office next to the Research Campus and is tailoring programs to prepare people for jobs at the campus as it gears up. Here are other highlights of the $20.7 billion 2007-08 state spending plan given final House and Senate approval Monday. The figures reflect increases or reductions to base budget expenses, some of them based on projected rises in recurring spending.
Tying Into Ancient Philosophies
No matter what type of established medication you try you have had no success getting rid of that head cold you have had for over a month - you simply can't get rid of the problem. It continues to linger, depleting your energy, weakening your ability to function at your optimum level. Desperate for a solution to get rid of the ailment, you begin to look for alternatives. The cold has dragged on for so long that when a friend recommends an acupuncturist to you in order to help to relieve your problem you find it amusing at first, but you schedule an appointment because you are willing to try the alternatives. It happens to be someone that she has also gone to, someone who could probably help you and you are ready to try something a little different. .
Middle class 'priced out' by private school fees
INCREASING numbers of professionals are being priced out of providing a private school education for their children, according to new figures. Scientists, police officers and teachers and among those who can no longer afford the fees charged by Scotland's independent schools, which are rising at twice the rate of inflation, the Bank of Scotland revealed. .
low-fat kids television
Just this week former BBC children's show host Floella Benjamin appeared before a leading UK think tank urging the government to subsidize the development of kids' TV shows. For months, a coalition created by parents, producers and educators called Save Kids' TV has been urging the same. “We believe that our kids need programmes which reflect their lives back to them," says the Save Kids' TV web site. “We believe that funding needs to be found to replace the revenue which will be lost when advertising is restricted to ensure that our children get even better television." According to a report issued this week by Screen Digest, the London media research firm, investment in children's TV development in the U.K. has fallen over the past five years, despite the fact that the number of channels aimed at kids has risen.
Bob Kravitz: Sports Q&A
Maybe a little Nationalistic challenge could help pull these two open wheel antagonists together like wars used to do. If the individual interests between these two factions cannot be resolved; and a combined front be layed into Ecclestone's lap, then Bernie deserves to get anything he wants. This is a "slap in the face" to the USA. -- Gene, Noblesville
I like the idea, but what makes you think IRL and CART drivers will get together for anything?
Question: I need help. I am a former football player at Indiana University. I played in the early 1980's. Coach Hep had me more excited about Indiana Football than even when I played. I've thought of what I can do to pay respects to this great man. I've never known anyone with as much integrity, energy, and CLASS as Coach Hep.
Ayurveda being taught in US medical schools
CHICAGO: For the last several years, Dr Navin Shah, co-founder and past president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has been advocating the teaching of Ayurveda as part of medical syllabus in US universities. His mission and commitment to the cause led him to New Delhi on many occasions with a request to the Health Ministry to depute two Ayurveda professors to teach a short course in Ayurveda to medical students. The attempts proved successful and the Ministry decided to depute two professors to the US. Dr H Palep and Dr T Nesari have been selected to visit the US for a period of six weeks. The invitees for the course are medical students, faculty members and practicing physicians. The 12-hour course will be taught under the Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM) in various cities and provided without any fees.
Kennewick woman a voice for those left behind
Burma, a country slightly smaller than Texas, is nestled between India, China and Thailand. Although the government renamed the country Myanmar, the U.S. still recognizes it as Burma in support of the democratically elected parliament of 1990 that never was convened. The State Department reports that numerous human rights violations have occurred there, and the U.S. has sanctions against the country, prohibiting the acceptance of its exports. More than 1,100 political activists are held in prisons around the country. Gyi has been personally affected by the oppression for most of her life. She was born in 1962, the same year a military coup abolished the constitution. She grew up and lived in the former capital city, Rangoon, where students led pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988.
China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches
To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, "It's the economy, stupid," the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa. No. "It's the oil, stupid." Hereby hangs a tale of cynical dimension appropriate to a Washington Administration that has shown no regard for its own genocide in Iraq, when its control over major oil reserves is involved. What's at stake in the battle for Darfur? Control over oil, lots and lots of oil.
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