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A Conference to Address Diabetes Throughout the Lifespan," was held in March 2005 and gave over 1200 community members the opportunity to become aware of the emerging devastation Diabetes is causing throughout communities nationwide. The partnerships that developed post conference consist of over 100 organizations and are still growing. The contributing organizations are drawing expertise from community members, health professionals and research academia. In addition there are local legislative offices engaged in the work process. The post conference activities developed three working groups and are governed by a peer support group consisting of researchers, community and academia. The peer support group uses several features of the HAAF model for partnership to facilitate group develo...
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. William L. Osteen, Sr., District Judge. (CA-92-...
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Performing first on Saturday will be the Multi-School Jazz Band, a loyal orchestra of dedicated youths who make their appearance every year. Also taking the stage that day will the Drew University All-Stars, featuring Leon Jones and Casper Glenn, M.D., AXX Straight Out of Jamaica with Prezident Brown, the Michael Session Sextet, The Impressions, who are still sensational after 40 years of trouping, Latin jazz percussionist and band leader Pete Escovedo, Rose Royce of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore," 'Wishing On A Star" and "Car Wash" fame and, finally, Donald Byrd, an elder statesmen among trumpet masters.
In the 1970s, he moved away from hard bop and headed toward fusion, funk, soul and rhythm and blues. Shortly afterward, his "Black Byrd" album became the highest-ever seller for the Bl...
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A memorable saga of the American West is the trek of a portion of the Nez Perce Indian tribe
who, pursued by the U. S. Army, undertook a 1,300-mile march from the Pacific Northwest to the supposed safety of the Canadian border. This "long march" is now the subject of a highly dramatized biography by Kent Nerburn, Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 419 pages).
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Arshi Nisley emigrated from Pakistan to the United States with her mother in 1978 when she was 10 years old.
She didn't speak English well.
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KAPOLEI, Hawaii - Asia-Pacific leaders held their annual summit Sunday, having claimed progress on a U.S.-backed free trade bloc that received praise from American businesses and labor but drew a less enthusiastic response from China and Russia.
The balmy weather for the gathering at a resort on the west side of the island of Oahu contrasted with pessimism over the economic outlook expressed by many attending the summit. With Europe again on the brink of recession, Asia's vital role as a driver of global growth is gaining even greater urgency.
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Work crews were picking up trash and dismantling a concert stage Tuesday, two days after a Korean-American festival drew 75,000 people during the weekend to the first major public event in the new Overpeck County Park.
Organizers and Bergen County officials said they were pleased with the outcome of the two-day event, calling it a "significant cultural event" for the county and its fast-growing Korean-American population. But some residents were dismayed to find that the cleanup was still incomplete -- with trash blowing across a field still filled with hundreds of plastic folding chairs at 3 p.m. Tuesday.
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THE most entertaining presidential race in my lifetime comes to its dramatic conclusion tonight. Someone wins. Someone loses.
I say thanks for the memories.
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Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian
Rob and Joyce Winters, background right, of Oregon City, Ore., drive their red 1972 two-wheel-drive Chevrolet Blazer pickup past the Kiggins Theatre, which screened American Graffiti, on Main Street in Vancouver. Saturdays third annual Cruisin the Gut drew perhaps 2,000 vehicles and large, admiring crowds along Main from early afternoon to nightfall.
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Rendezvous for Red, the annual fundraiser for the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma, drew a big crowd to the Skirvin Hilton Hotel. The invitation asked that guests wear "party casual with a touch of red.
Obviously, the guests didn't know what a "touch" was. The ballroom looked like a crowd of Sooner fans - red shirts, red dresses, red shoes, red shorts, red scarves, red jewelry.