"Your Eloquence and Sheer Good Sense Has Changed the Way; Americans Think About Abortion".
Excerpts from a tribute to Rep. Henry Hyde by pro-life Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) I will try to follow President Franklin Roosevelt's suggestion that when speaking to an audience, "one should be sincere, be brief, and be seated." I will have no problem being sincere because I'll...

OSU women end nonleague schedule with Bearcats.
Byline: The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - The Oregon State women's basketball team chases its seventh win of the season today against Cincinnati, a victory total that would surpass its wins for all of last year. The Beavers (6-3) and Bearcats (9-1) play at Gill Coliseum. Game...

Maggots can debride and heal refractory wounds: in addition to removing dead and infected tissue, maggots appear to release growth factors that promote healing.
NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Maggots provide a gentle and safe "biological debridement" of refractory wounds and can promote wound healing. Using maggots to clear infection and dead tissue from a wound is cost effective, usually painless, and well received by patients and their families, Dr. Aletha W. Tippett...

Estimates of rTPA use might be artificially low.
Kissimmee, Fla. -- The use of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for treatment of ischemic stroke in the United States appears to be underestimated, Dr. Dawn Kleindorfer said at the 31st International Stroke Conference. Previous estimates have been based on extrapolation of regional study data or on data...

Quetiapine has efficacy for adolescent mania.
Quetiapine was at least as effective as divalproex in alleviating manic symptoms in adolescents in a randomized, double-blind pilot study, wrote Dr. Melissa P. DelBello and her colleagues at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. The 28-day pilot study of 50 adolescents aged 12-18 years was the first...

Intergenerational service-learning.
Abstract In an effort to infuse gerontological content throughout a BSW curriculum, a series of mandated service-learning assignments was implemented to expose social work majors to work with older adults as well as offer real-life settings in which to apply their skills. The development and implementation of...

America and Britain should join forces to end poverty: both nations "believe that peace and security are the foundation of any progress ... that creating the right climate for economic growth ... is the best way ... to raise the finances needed to defeat poverty.".
I WANT TO REFLECT not only on the challenges that the U.S. and Great Britain face in fighting poverty on this small and fragile planet of ours, but also on the way in which we do it and how it is seen by others. One of the things I...

Event calendar.
April 2006 APR 5-7 ISC West 2006 Las Vegas, NV www.iscwest.com APR 18-21 The Learning Guild The eLearning Producer Conference Boston, MA www.elearningguild.com APR 19-21 The 7th Annual Knowledge Management Conference & Exhibition Washington, DC www.itsgov.com/EGov.aspx APR 20-22 Association of American...

SCC calendar.
May 11, 12: SCC 2006 annual scientific seminar, the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA. More info: www.scconline.org. May 16, 17: NYSCC 2006 Suppliers' Day, NJ Expo Center, Raritan Center, Edison, NJ. More info: www.nyscc.org. June 1: Carolina Chapter Continuing Education Program, Charlotte, NC. ...

Good pay minus hard life equals job at call center.
Byline: RONALD S. LIM with MANNY B. MARINAY CALL CENTER agents are certainly not your average 9 to 5 employees. While most of us are in deep slumber, they work in the graveyard shift. They speak with a fancy American twang, varying their accent depending on the...