If your kids hate apples, should you feed them apple pie?
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Department of Justice seeks stay on stem cell ruling
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the federal judge who halted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to lift his injunction while it appeals the ruling.
That ruling roiled researchers around the nation and locally, who had won federal grants for research. They weren’t sure if they could touch experiments in their labs aimed at finding treatments for many kinds of disease.
The Obama administration had allowed many more stem cell lines to be used for research than the Bush administration. But the ruling last week by Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of U.S. Di
Metro Centre Teams with Local Entrepreneurs to Get Peorians in the LOOP
Peoria, IL, August 31, 2010 –()– For Metro Centre, housing successful locally owned stores for over 31 years just isn’t enough. The Metro Centre team wants to create Peoria’s next great businesses as well. They recently teamed with local entrepreneurs Rich Pestien, owner of Bushwhacker, and Jeff Wolffe, a fitness expert, to create LOOP Cycling Studio, a totally new spin on indoor cycling. LOOP is a full-body workout experience that nourishes the mind, body, and soul.
“We are proud to provide more than just space for local business owners,” said Metro Centre owner Eric Brinker, who is also a partner in LOOP Cycling. “We are Read more…
National health study looks to Baltimore for data
The government team responsible for all those statistics about Americans’ health and eating habits are in Baltimore for the next several weeks collecting data – but officials say the turnout has been below average so far.
The CDC’s 50-year-old National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey randomly selected the city as one of 15 it will visit this year and sent out notices to hundreds of residents also chosen randomly. Officials want about 370 of them to come for comprehensive testing and surveying in their four-trailer clinic set up Harbor East.
Participants get thousands of dollars worth of tests taken and interpreted by doctors, so people can learn, for example, if they have asthma, diabetes, brittle bones and bad teeth. They a