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...getting some family time over the long weekend. The First Lady, Laura Bush, brought her mother, Jenna Welch, back from Texas this week for the festivities, and the President previewed the guest list for a well-wisher he stopped to chat with during a recent trip to Missouri...
...Card Jr., the outgoing White House Chief of Staff, popping his head into the press cabin at the back of Air Force One on Tuesday night, toward the end of the flight back to Andrews Air Force Base after a long day of Medicare and political events in Missouri and Iowa. He startled the journalists, some of whom were dozing or watching the movie Fun with Dick and Jane...
...viewers,” Laurenti told the Gazette. “I very much look forward to hearing him speak to our alumni in June.” Jim Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kan., in 1934. He graduated from Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri and spent three years in the Marine Corps before starting work as a newspaper journalist, initially in order to fund his fiction writing. He switched to television journalism after a decade in newspapers and moved to Washington with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1972. He began his collaboration with Robert...
...group of scientists, including a professor at Harvard Medical School, announced research last Wednesday that could lead to every fast-food addict’s dream: healthy bacon. Researchers from the University of Missouri, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School say that they had successfully cloned five pigs implanted with a gene that caused them to produce Omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease. The new research could mean that ham-lovers will be eating beneficial Omega-3s in addition to the cholesterol and saturated fats that...
...principle, this cycle of stress accumulation and release should be fairly regular, but scientists are finding it is not. Paleoseismologist Tina Niemi of the University of Missouri--Kansas City, for example, is studying a stream-fed marsh near Tomales Bay that has preserved evidence of past earthquakes in its sedimentary layers. By trenching through those layers to a depth of 15 ft., she has uncovered buried fissures formed by recurrent earth movements along the San Andreas. On average, that pattern repeats every 250 or so years, but "average" in this case covers a wide range. In one instance there appears...