NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR.
Kimberly Guyer of Northboro was named to the University of New Hampshire dean's list for the fall 2007 semester. Guyer, who is the daughter of Maria and James Guyer of Northboro, was awarded high honors for maintaining a 3.5 to 3.69 grade point average. State...

Rural children's need for SCHIP outweighs urban counterparts'.
Rural children are much more dependent on the State Children's Health Insurance Program than are urban children and also have less of a safety net to fall back on if the popular public insurance program is cut, a new study found. The study, by the Carsey Institute...

2008 The amazing race is on.
"The default of ethics, failure of old-style politics, and contemptuous boldness and disrespect that congressmen, lobbyists, and other influence peddlers have shown during recent years have incited the public to demand changes in the way politicians raise money and use media in their campaigns. " ********** ...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2): this is the concluding part of John Perkins' interview with Amy Goodman of the New York-based TV/radio station, democracy now, on how America's intelligence community recruits and trains "Economic Hit Men" to entice world leaders into a vast network that promotes US commercial and political interests around the world. Perkins was an Economic Hit Man himself.
Amy: And what were your thoughts at the time? I mean, you continued doing this work. Perkins: It was a very pivotal point for me that, throughout my work, as I describe in the book, my conscience was torn. And to me this is one of the...

Heart closure product gains research grant.
NMT Medical Inc said it has received a Phase I grant from the US National Institute of Health (NIH) to evaluate a bioactive technology for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure, trademarked BioTrek. The research is being carried out at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, under...

The case against IMF, World Bank: "the World Bank and IMF are a product of the politics and economics of the 1940s with little relevance to today's world, and in the sense that patience with their efforts at tinkering and reform has reached its limit. The question is not whether there should be change but how," argues the World Development Movement.
Gathering towards the end of the Second World War in the New Hampshire resort town of Bretton Woods, 44 countries attended a conference aimed firstly at creating global economic rules that would promote stability and prevent another great depression, and secondly devising a strategy for rebuilding Europe once the...

US approval for vascular graft.
A vascular graft that is able to offer both strength and to reduce the weeping often seen with traditional bypass grafts has gained US Food and Drug Administration approval. Trademarked Flixene, the graft was developed by Atrium Medical Corp, USA. What is innovative about the synthetic graft...

A rustic spirit for the holidays.
AMONG THE MOST beloved illustrators of our time, Tasha Tudor--the subject of a special exhibition that illuminates the holiday season with her heartwarming images for greeting cards--has written, illustrated, and been the subject of more than 100 books during a still-ongoing career that has spanned three quarters of a...

Optimizing your optics line: photography aficionados don't have to be the only customers you appeal to. It's possible to also boost your consumer base with binoculars, spotting scopes, and telescopes.
Readers from the Field & Stream subscription list, die-hard Major League Baseball fans, and fanatical star-gazers may not be the visitors you'd normally expect to see in front of your photo specialty counter. But add binoculars, telescopes, and spotting scopes to your retail repertoire (or pay more attention to...

Hot trends: Bruce Sterling on global warming in the glossies.
CLIMATE CHANGE isn't a vogue, because vogues go away when they get boring. Vanity Fair, along with Vogue and Elle, discovered climate change this season. These are three very trendy magazines, but climate change is no mere trend. Global warming has been two hundred years in the...