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...1960s. Ford's diesel-engine plant, the only business left on the 475-acre (192 hectare) site, has a workforce of just 4,000; also gone are 60,000 other jobs that depended on the car industry and its employees. It's a depressing tableau, one all too familiar: just like Detroit, this once vibrant center of auto manufacturing seems stuck in a spiral of persistent decline...
...last name be withheld, says her experience with statin side effects was harrowing. Margaret was in her early 50s and had high cholesterol and diabetes when her doctor put her on statins. Soon after, she says, she forgot how to do basic math and got lost driving to familiar places. But when she described the symptoms, she says, her doctor refused to believe they were related to the drugs. "I felt like I was going crazy," says Margaret, "but within a week or two of stopping the statins, my brain started to work again...
That part of Compton's rant is familiar territory for those caught up in the modern Sagebrush Rebellion, a land-rights movement that is spreading rapidly in Western states. Over the past few years, offices of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have come under increasing attack by ranchers, farmers and loggers fed up with federal rules about land use, water rights and endangered habitats. In Nevada, where more than 80% of the state is public land, federal employees have been refused service in restaurants, taunted at public gatherings and harassed with vulgar gestures. In March...
Butler and Guenard said that holding a basketball tournament raised awareness of the importance of cancer research among many people who were not familiar with HCS’s mission. Though the tournament was a relatively small fundraiser compared to Relay for Life, which raised over $125,000 last year, Guenard said that it was effective in broadening support for cancer research activities...
...students familiar with the appointees, enthusiasm replaces ambivalence...