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Antibiotics, jet travel, the Internet and GPS. Those are just a few things made possible by military investments that paved the way for mainstream commercial applications benefiting millions of Americans. The same process is going on with the military and renewable energy. And what makes the process today all the more beneficial is the human…
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Is James Madison really “the forgotten father of American environmentalism”? Andrea Wulf, design historian and award-winning author of “The Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation,” will discuss this topic at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Health and Human Services Building on the JMU campus east of…
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On 31 October, the world’s population is projected to reach 7 billion. The 7 billionth person will be born into a world that is very different from when the United Nations was founded in 1945, when our numbers were only about a third of what they are today. We are living 30 per cent longer….
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Opening Statement: Good win over a very tough Boston College football team, they played us hard and played us with great effort. I was pleased to get out of here with a win. I’m not pleased about our injuries. Going on with Duke, you know it’s a team that’s really three points away from being…
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QUESTION: There was a time when Virginia tended to play one Thursday night game each season. The matchup against Miami will be the team’s first Thursday game in a while. What does this mean as a recruiting tool and as a chance to showcase the program? COACH LONDON: Provided that you play well and you’re…
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Starting Nov. 1, restaurant-style room service will be available at Augusta Health. “There’s a perception that hospital food must be bland and boring, but that is all changing here,” said Zeph Putnam, director of nutrition services at Augusta Health. “Our nutrition staff has the privilege and responsibility of providing well-balanced, good-tasting and nutritious meal to…
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The short answer: It would be a long shot. But right now it’s a much longer shot that anybody in the rest of the crowded GOP Senate primary field will be able to knock off frontrunner George Allen. Allen has been running consistently in the upper 50s to mid to upper 60s in the polls…
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Halloween is a real special time for us fans of old-timey monster flicks, horror films, and those beloved 1950’s science ficdtion schlockers. We drag out our dusty old VCR copies of classics like the original “Frankenstein,” “Dracula,” and Lon Chaney, Jr.’s portrayal of “The Wolf Man,” and spend the evening of October 31st salivating over…
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The Humane Society of the United States is calling on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to issue an emergency order or otherwise direct the Virginia Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations on the sale and possession of dangerous wild animals following the escape Tuesday night of 48 wild animals—from bears to wolves to lions—from an…
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The standard civics class lesson is that voting is a primary responsibility of citizenship. We are often reminded at patriotic events that our men and women in uniform protect our rights and freedoms including participating in our government by voting. Yet, with all the importance assigned to voting, voter participation rates in this country are…
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