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A nurse practitioner and a high school basketball coach were cited Saturday during Homecoming and family weekend at Eastern Mennonite University for their work in exemplifying the highest ideals of their alma mater. Dwight A. Gingerich, a 1981 EMU graduate from Kalona, Iowa, received the “alumnus of the year” award for 2010. The award is…
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A new poll commissioned by The Hill has Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello trailing Republican challenger Robert Hurt by a single point as their race heads into the stretch drive. Hurt had a 45 percent-44 percent lead over the Democrat in The Hill/ANGA poll, results of which were released on Wednesday by the newspaper. The…
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Shenandoah University is set to become the newest full-time member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, effective in all sponsored sports at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year. The acceptance of Shenandoah’s application for admittance was ratified last week at an annual meeting of the ODAC’s presidents. “The colleges and universities in the Old…
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Join the Waynesboro Family Y at the Waynesboro Library – Mondays at 10 a.m. and at 5 p.m. – for screenings of movies highlighting health issues. The schedule of screenings includes: Monday, Oct. 4: “Food, Inc.” Drawing on Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” and Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore Dilemma,” director Robert Kenner’s Oscar-nominated documentary…
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This is part two on a continued series when faced with blood in the urine. I was then prescribed to take a more intensive exam under a CT instrument, also known as CAT or computerized axial tomography. According to radiologyinfo.org, CT scanning—sometimes called CAT scanning—is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat…
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We’re three years out from whatever is going to happen election-wise in 2013. Ken Cuccinelli is ready. “I am proud this week to announce that we have assembled an extraordinary team of leaders across the Commonwealth to serve as political coordinators and liaisons on behalf of my campaign. These coordinators will serve the essential function…
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The partisan split in politics is getting old and stale. Real people want real solutions to real issues, and one of the gravest is within our grasp to solve. For decades, we have been under a nuclear cloud, but world and U.S. leaders have risen to the occasion to provide safeguards. The United States and…
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Reading the news is usually an ordeal of watching the world fall apart at an accelerating pace, so when four United Nations agencies offer a new count of mothers’ deaths worldwide in pregnancy and childbirth, one braces for another depressing and insoluble problem. The numbers over the past 20 years, after all, have been stubbornly…
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Any Virginian who wants to test the strain the death penalty can endure must carefully study the case of Teresa Lewis – currently scheduled to be executed on Sept. 23. New evidence in the case directly and resoundingly rebuts the specific bases upon which the sentencing judge concluded she deserved a death sentence. Timing and…
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Welcome to my world and join me on another adventure and educational trip. Hello, readers, and those in the need to know. I have been feeling poor lately with various symptoms that first led to my brain stem stroke. My most recent MRI revealed that my basilar and vertebral artery are void of flow. So…
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