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These students are on a mission
On Christmas Day, Zachary Wetzel walked 20 miles through the mountains and jungles of Paraguay to a hotel that could receive phone calls from the United States. He made the journey to receive a call from his parents in La Caņada.
Wetzel is one of 28...Tags: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Denver, Paraguay, Phoenix (music group)
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Sacred Heart's student body on a growth spurt
Neighbors of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy must have known to ignore the screams coming from the school on Monday morning. It was just the sound of a few hundred girls getting reacquainted for the first time since school was dismissed for the summer....Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, China
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Children with rare brain disease improve after gene therapy
Florida Jewish JournalUsing gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful...Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Specialization, Alzheimer's Disease, Technology
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Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward for ring of fire
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan’s Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing “ring of fire” eclipse. Millions...
Tags: Japan, Arts and Culture, Tokyo (Japan), Asia, Customs and Tradition
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PGA scores
Byron Nelson Championship Saturday At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,166; Par 70 Third Round Jason Dufner 67-66-69 -- 202 -8 J.J. Henry 68-68-67 -- 203 -7 Jason Day 68-68-67 -- 203 -7 Dicky Pride...Tags: Seung-Yul Noh, Matt Kuchar, Robert Gamez, Rocco Mediate, Charles Howell
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Tiananmen Square activist loses latest bid to return to China
BEIJING — On a warm summer night in 1989, a 21-year-old Chinese student waded into the South China Sea from a deserted beach. Still wearing his clothes and Nike sneakers, he swam to a speedboat waiting 200 yards offshore. Wuer Kaixi's role as a...
Tags: Politics, Li Peng, Beijing (China), Prisons, Human Rights
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CSO, Muti announce tours of Far East, Mexico in 2012-13
No sooner have the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti unpacked their bags from their successful tour of Russia and Italylast month than they are making plans for two more foreign trips together next season. The music director will take his...
Tags: Japan, Trips and Vacations, Daniel Barenboim, Tianjin (China), Entertainment
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The Gossiping Gourmet: A taste of Taiwan in O.C.
China has a great variety of regional cuisines yet, locally, we only see a few of these represented, mainly Cantonese, Szechuan and Beijing, or a combination thereof. We went in search of something different, and found Chef Chen, an attractive, small...
Tags: Pancakes, Pasta, Lifestyle and Leisure, Marco Polo, Italy
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Allentown job fair draws big, diverse crowd
They came in suits. They came in shorts. On display at the fifth annual The Morning Call/CareerBuilder's Career Fair at Coca-Cola Park on Wednesday was the occasional necktie. More common was dress-down attire: baseball caps, sneakers, sandals and at...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, The Pennsylvania State University, Employment Opportunities, Chemicals
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Arts on TV: 'Stomp,' 'Nice Work If You Can Get It,' 'Evita'
“106 & Park: BET's Top 10 Live” 6 p.m. Thursday, BET: “Stomp.” “Open Call” 9 p.m. Thursday, KCET: Colburn School Orchestra -- Takemitsu & Mahler: Colburn Orchestra with guest conductor Gerard Schwarz as he guides some...
Tags: Culture, Ricky Martin, Black Entertainment Television (tv network), Stephen Colbert, Entertainment
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Cindy R. Goodsell-Sims
Cindy R. Goodsell-Sims, born Cynthia Rae Goodsell, November 21, 1942 in Niles, Michigan. Died April 19, 2012 of complications of multiple heart attacks and strokes. Graduated Newport Harbor Union High School, Newport Beach, Calif and Orange Coast...
Tags: Heart Attack, China
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'Warriors of the Rainbow' star: From minister to leading man
24 FramesLin Ching-Tai is a 52-year-old Presbyterian minister in Taiwan. But for the epic action film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” he traded his vestments for tattoos and a fake scar, transforming into the legendary aboriginal chief Mouna...
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