Word: columbus
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According to the Columbus Dispatch, in Ohio’s three largest counties 38 percent of 361,473 newly registered voters are ages 18 to 25, a remarkable increase compared to previous election cycles. In Ohio counties with major universities, the number of new registrants has either doubled, or almost doubled. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports that 81,000 new voters have registered since the beginning of the year, many through the New Voters Project (NVP), a non-partisan group aiming to boost youth turnout. The efforts of NVP extend beyond just Iowa; in Wisconsin the group...
...mild, also appears to make no difference on the timing of delivery--suggesting that infection is only one stage in a larger, much more complex process. "We've been taking the one-cause-at-a-time approach for 20 years," says Dr. Jay Iams at Ohio State University in Columbus. "But it doesn't work that way." Indeed, many researchers believe they won't really have a good grasp of how to prevent prematurity until they answer an even more fundamental question: How does a woman's body decide it's time to give birth in the first place...
...LANCASTER, OHIO, A FAST-GROWING SUBURB OF COLUMBUS WHERE cornfields are giving way to subdivisions, the Bush re-election headquarters at 120 East Main Street ran out of yard signs after giving out 3,500 of them and is scrambling to get more. Each evening, volunteers pour into a nearby building to make more than 1,000 telephone calls--their share of the more than 30,000 that George W. Bush's campaign says its ground troops make in Ohio every night. When the sun comes up, the volunteers are out knocking on doors across Fairfield County...
...weekend where the nation celebrates Christopher Columbus finding the Americas, a few Crimson golfers had problems finding the fairway...
Many students—from Harvard and beyond—took advantage of the long Columbus Day weekend by traveling home, inviting friends from other schools and just relaxing after the beginning-of-school rush...