Poll: Donald Trump leads Republican field in Iowa
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Businessman Donald Trump leads the field of Republican presidential candidates among likely GOP caucus voters, according to a new poll from Suffolk University.
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Hearing aids: Making conversation easier
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Research shows that two hearing aids make speech easier to understand than only one. Just as the brain converts visual input from both eyes into one clearly defined image, it turns the input from two ears into a single sound picture where speech stands out more clearly.
James River Writers Presents: Writing Virginia into Your Fiction
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For its August Writing Show, James River Writers travels the Commonwealth in search of stories short and long.
Virginia Tech students to launch experimental 3-D printer on NASA rocket ship from Wallops Island
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How would a 3-D printer work in the microgravity of suborbital space after surviving a jarring ride 100 miles above the earth? A group of Virginia Tech College of Engineering students hope to have an answer next week after a launch at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
Robert Hurt: Progress in the People’s House
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The 114th Congress began with high expectations as the American people sent an urgent message that they wanted change to get our great nation back on track.
Ken Plum: Alzheimer’s epidemic
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In 1982 my then legislative assistant came to me distressed that her father had been found to have Alzheimer’s disease.
Can we harness coal without emitting ourselves into another Ice Age?
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Today coal still accounts for some 40 percent of worldwide electricity generation. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that global demand will continue rising to record levels, topping nine billion metric tons annually by 2019.
Warner, Kirk, Shaheen introduce bill to make air travel safer for passengers with severe allergies
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to introduce bipartisan legislation to improve access to life-saving medication for airline passengers with food and other severe allergies.
President Obama nominates UVA’s Michael Suarez to National Council on the Humanities
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President Obama last week nominated Michael F. Suarez, director of the Rare Book School and University Professor at the University of Virginia, to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Governor McAuliffe hosts Latino Summit
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Governor McAuliffe hosted on Wednesday the first Latino Summit of his administration at the Arlington campus of George Mason University.
