Word: colorado
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...While decisive, the order can be reversed by a future President, so Obama urged congressional leaders to seal the intent of his order into law - a process that Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado has already begun. DeGette co-authored two previous bills expanding taxpayer support of embryonic-stem-cell research, both of which Bush vetoed...
...California is granted a waiver, it would have far-reaching consequences as thirteen other states have already adopted California's standards and could quickly implement them. Several other states, among them Florida, Utah, Colorado, Iowa and Minnesota are considering adopting the California standard. Even Illinois, in the heart of the industrial Midwest, is considering legislation modeled on California, says David Doniger from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocate for the California rules. Bottom line: It could be a green stampede...
...1990s, retail advertising began to fall off because, the thinking went, modern businesses wanted broadsheet displays, not shrunken tabloid pages. Reporting talent - disgusted with the paper's draconian management - came and went. The Rocky cut back its statewide coverage and pretty much ignored Colorado's burgeoning Hispanic and newcomer populations. The paper also committed the ultimate sin in journalism: it was boring. What did Scripps do? Reduce subscription prices, mount a few lame marketing campaigns and change the paper's name to the Denver Rocky Mountain News...
...recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard-affiliated hospitals and the University of Colorado found that people with low levels of vitamin D are 40 percent more likely to report respiratory infections such as colds and flu. The study analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, in which 19,000 participants were tested for their blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D—a precursor of the vitamin that is considered the best measure of its concentration. Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels were found to be much more likely to report having...
...Craig Fugate is widely considered to be among the very best emergency managers in the country, and Florida is being looked upon as one of the very best prepared states." - Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Florida Trend magazine...