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...York credited the region's unseasonably cold weather for relatively decent sales of outdoor and winter apparel in November, while the only retailer to report an increase in sales in the Fourth District, which includes Ohio and Kentucky, was a national discount chain. A domestic car dealer in West Virginia told the Fed his average sales have gone from 250 cars per month to just six in November...
...farm in the hills of west virginia, Josh Frye isn't raising chickens just for meat. He is also raising them for their manure. Through a process that some scientists tout as a solution to climate change, food shortages and the energy crisis, Frye is transforming the waste into a charcoal-like substance called biochar that in the long run could be far better for the world than chicken nuggets. "It might look like this is just a poultry farm," says Frye. "But it's a char farm...
Ever since an unstable Virginia Tech student went on a 2007 shooting rampage that left 32 dead, mental-health experts have been looking for answers. A new study by researchers from Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health and the New York State Psychiatric Institute provides some grim data: nearly half of college-age Americans have psychiatric problems, and fewer than one-quarter seek help...
...standardizing the medical tests, assessments and care given to mental-health patients in the public system. The recommendations include taking regular measurements of patients' height and weight, checking their glucose levels and carefully evaluating their medication history. Psychiatrists, likewise, are not exempt. According to Mental Heath America, based in Virginia, a recent survey of people with schizophrenia revealed that they rarely discussed physical health with their psychiatrists. So the organization is working on an initiative with the American Psychological Association to better educate mental-health specialists about the physical concerns facing patients with serious mental illness...
...With reporting by Virginia Lopez / Caracas