ALGIERS, Algeria -- The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a Sahara natural gas plant took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.
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(HealthDay News) -- Some children who are diagnosed with autism at an early age will ultimately shed all signs and symptoms of the disorder as they enter adolescence or young adulthood, a new analysis contends. Whether that happens because of aggres ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 1:20PM
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(HealthDay News) -- When people submit personal genetic material for scientific research they expect to remain anonymous, but a new study demonstrates that the privacy of male volunteers in particular could be breached. In a report that appears in t ...
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Actor RonReaco Lee of BET's "Let's Stay Together" Joins Twelve Students from HBCUs to Test Their African American History Facts and Compete for Cash Prizes
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Rust College was repre ...
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To date, 255 college presidents have joined Emerson President Lee Pelton in a pledge to lead campus discussions next semester on how best to address gun violence in America and in offering President Obama any assistance he may need. College president ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 12:22PM
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CLIMATE AWARNESS FORECASTS
YOUR SCIENCE NEWS
JANUARY 2013
Day 18
From one of the official climate watchers The National Oceanographic Atmospheric Association NOAA comes the announcement that weather expectations will possibly show normal s ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 10:53AM
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YOUR WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS
JANUARY 2013
17 Day
A Kentucky youth had a dying wish to break and set a new Guinness World Record as being the individual to receive the most Christmas cards has died. Dalton Dingus did however receive over 500,00 ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 9:12AM
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YOUR NATIONAL NEWS
JANUARY 2013
18 DAY
The sub sandwich giant Subway was faced with a short dilemna as a recent FaceBook posting now removed indicated that their 12" sub sandwich was only about 11inches. This photo of the sandwich being measur ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:49AM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two men had recently bought a house together in San Francisco, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of people,” the neighbors wrote, asking: “How can we improve the neighborhood?”
“Yo ...
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Protesters from Ukraine-based rights group FEMEN staged a topless demonstration against the Vatican’s increasingly hostile stance on gay rights this weekend.
The four women, whose torsos were inked with messages like “In Gay We Trust” and “Shut Up ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:43AM
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A story about Manti Te’o‘s girlfriend dying of leukemia, which the Notre Dame All-American credited with inspiring him as he led the Fighting Irish to the BCS title game, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:40AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
JANUARY 2013
17TH DAY
Jakarta, India
Heavy rains has lead to a flood of awesome ontake in Jakarta City. The rains has departed but not without leaving thousands of residents dwelllers in high flood waters. Many of the people ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:28AM
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Fourteen Alcorn students have been selected to witness the nation's government in action and attend the quadrennial presidential inauguration January 17-22, 2013. Their trip will include participating in community service projects during "A National ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 5:43PM
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If you can't find peace of mind and education anywhere else you can always find it on Oprah Winfrey's Television Network - OWN.
Let's support Ms. Winfrey and Lance Armstrong as the truth behind his Cycling Career Mishap accusations are uncovered.
Let's learn from both of these motivators and ...
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