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  • Sen. Clinton presses ahead in campaign 15 May 2008 16:37 GMT
    ... older, and a similar share had no education beyond high school, exit polls indicated. More than half were ... The Democratic win on Tuesday in a Mississippi special election increased by one the number ...

  • Timothy Egan: New Math for November 15 May 2008 16:17 GMT
    ... hold onto a Republican Congressional seat in Mississippi this week by using racial scare-mongering from ... of Bend, the crowd at Summit High School was nearly all-white, and as enthusiastic as any ...

  • Video Footage Of U.S. Tornado: Death Toll Rising 15 May 2008 16:15 GMT
    ... electricity Severe storms raced through Oklahoma and Mississippi Wednesday and early Thursday, spawning high winds ... Bethany, damaging several cars at Southern Nazarene University, Police Chief Phil Cole told The Oklahoman. ...

  • Countrywide Shareholders' Suit Against Executives and Directors Can Proceed 15 May 2008 16:06 GMT
    ... are several pension funds, including the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, the Fire & Police Pension Association ... and the Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi. They claim Countrywide directors and officers failed ...

  • Scientists Are Building Database Of Bite Marks 15 May 2008 15:58 GMT
    ... Bundy of murdering her and another college student. But critics say human skin changes and ... "Extreme Makeover" to remake his teeth. In Mississippi, forensic odontologist Dr. Michael West has come ... hopes to collect more impressions from dental schools across the country to expand the database ...

  • NC-based Nucor considering Louisiana site for plant 15 May 2008 15:57 GMT
    ... said the site near Convent on the Mississippi River is the only one under consideration ... intended to pay the St. James Parish school system $850,000 annually for work force education projects. The project would mean about $3.3 ...

  • patch 15 May 2008 15:57 GMT
    ... the birds and the bees--especially the birds. Rebecca L. Holberton, a biologist at the University of Mississippi, is developing a patch that can safely deliver hormones to encourage reproduction ...

  • Obama's Appalachian problem 15 May 2008 15:55 GMT
    ... into north Georgia and Alabama and northeastern Mississippi. As Josh Marshall noted in a posting ... In his classic work, "Albion's Seed," Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer described the four ...

  • Heavy Rain Floods Roadways, Closes Yazoo City School 15 May 2008 15:54 GMT
    ... In Yazoo City, school officials closed Woolfolk Middle School Thursday because of ... according to Assistant Superintendent John Deem. The students were being taken home by bus at ... pick up their children at the school. Mississippi has been targeted for violent weather in ...

  • Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout 15 May 2008 15:18 GMT
    ... center on poverty and work at the University of North Carolina. He began criss-crossing the ... that included stops in New Orleans, Kentucky, Mississippi, Cleveland and elsewhere. Many of the stories ... poverty won't be televised. Peter Dreier is professor of politics at Occidental College in Los ...

  • Countrywide faces shareholder suit; Shumer seeks FTC probe 15 May 2008 15:17 GMT
    ... pension funds are plaintiffs in the case, including the Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and the Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado. Riley McDermid is a ...

  • Mississippi Mauling: The Republican Strategy for Congressional Self-Destruction 15 May 2008 15:15 GMT
    ... Mississippi Mauling: The Republican Strategy for Congressional Self-Destruction ... In 1984, to be precise. As a college freshman that year, I volunteered for every Republican ...

  • Judge: Countrywide Must Face Lawsuit By Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, Others 15 May 2008 14:54 GMT
    ... face a lawsuit led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and other shareholders. (PDF) to see ... of Colorado, Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi, the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System, ...

  • Entergy Charitable Foundation Announces $2.1 Million in Grants 15 May 2008 14:52 GMT
    ... funding, approximately $1 million, is earmarked for education programs in south Louisiana. The largest grant, ... is going to the St. Bernard Parish School Board to help fund construction of the ... 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of ...

  • In veto-proof move, House votes to increase farm subsidies, food stamps 15 May 2008 14:52 GMT
    ... -- one each in Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi -- include rural farm areas and have ... to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to schoolchildren. *Increase subsidies for certain crops, including fruits ...

  • BigChurch Means Big Money For Penthouse 15 May 2008 14:48 GMT
    ... Bible Belt (indeed, this year's is from Mississippi), and that his business partner, is a ... of all of them. Sarah Parham, Women's Campus Minister at the University of Kentucky Wesley Foundation, a Methodist organization, ...

  • Boating Accidents Decline in 35 States Over the Last Five Years 15 May 2008 14:48 GMT
    ... shore or swimmers and punishes reckless operators. Education is especially critical. In 2006, there were ... Minnesota -7% Yes West Virginia 24% Yes Mississippi -28% Yes Wisconsin -33% Yes Missouri -9% ...

  • What about private levees? 15 May 2008 14:19 GMT
    ... River levee in Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, is supposed to ... Robert Bea, a levee expert from the University of California at Berkeley. They were built ...

  • HR & Benefits Essentials Releases 50-State Minimum Wage Report 15 May 2008 13:56 GMT
    ... minimum wage rate, such as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee, will be affected. ... Poster, WH-200, WH-201, and WH-202 (for certain Student-employees), and more. For more information, please visit ...

  • Southern names 3 finalists for chancellor 15 May 2008 13:56 GMT
    ... succeed Ed Jackson as chancellor of Southern University. The finalists are: Ray Belton, chancellor of ... University vice president for academic affairs in Mississippi. The Southern Board of Supervisors will make ...

  • Dream was not on court 15 May 2008 13:55 GMT
    ... as youth Eric Scott was a middle school basketball star in Scottsboro. Jackie Scott, Eric's mother, ... that led to a scholarship to Southern Mississippi, where he helped the Golden Eagles win ...

  • 9. From skyscrapers to Saarinen: A history of St. Louis architecture 15 May 2008 13:55 GMT
    ... two great rivers of North America, the Mississippi and the Missouri, and the town soon ... circulating library west of the Mississippi. Washington University was founded in 1853 in an upscale ... At the same time, Washington University's new campus opened west of Forest Park. Built in ...

  • Nirmal Tolani Joins Hendrickson International Operations as Director of Business Development 15 May 2008 13:54 GMT
    ... master's degree in business administration from Indiana University in Ft. Wayne, Ind.; a master's degree ... a master's degree in materials engineering from Mississippi State University in Mississippi State, Miss., and ...

  • Mississippi Burning: GOP Should Heed Gingrich's Warnings 15 May 2008 13:53 GMT
    ... South going Democrat, the battle to replace Mississippi Congressman Roger Wicker proved bad news for ... can come across as the slightly condescending professor. But forget the issues of style. He's ...

  • S.C. at War: A long year, happy ending 15 May 2008 13:53 GMT
    ... the words “Daddy's home” when an old teacher stopped at the table to talk. The teenager ... to remember when we were back in Mississippi training, it was so long ago. “Now, ...


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