Abdullah Prepares for Election Results, Uproar
KABUL – The main challenger to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai accused the president Saturday of encouraging efforts to steal this week’s election, but Abdullah Abdullah said he would prevent supporters from taking to the streets if he ultimately loses. Abdullah said he would challenge the results vigorously for the next several weeks as votes are [...]
Classic Word Games Get Teens Ready for School
If your teen has college admissions tests looming and the studying of vocabulary flash cards just isn’t happening, reach for the tech – specifically, Ubisoft’s new “Classic Word Games.” This Nintendo DS game actually makes the learning of new words fun. With 14 games housed in one little DS cartridge, “Classic Word Games” packs a [...]
Richard’s JagAWARDS: Preseason Week 2
In the second preseason game of the year, Jacksonville (0-2) lost last night to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-1) by a score of 24-23. The big story of the night was wide receiver Troy Williamson finally living up to the hype. It was a sure sign of life for him. In addition to Williamson, quarterback [...]
Some Camcorders Are Worth The Price
Advances in technology are breathtaking. Nowhere is this truer than in video. Fifteen years ago, camcorders were expensive and not very good. Everything was analog, you couldn’t easily edit and you played your video on your VCR. Today, camcorders are digital. You can easily transfer videos to your PC or Mac for editing, and prices [...]
New Indian Health Head Works to Heal Agency
WASHINGTON – Growing up in Rapid City, S.D., Yvette Roubideaux remembers visiting the local Indian Health Service clinic – and waiting. She never saw the same doctor twice and often heard relatives gripe about the poor care they got. As a young, Harvard-trained doctor, she worked long days at an IHS rural clinic in Arizona [...]
UF Study: Medicaid Reform Appears to Save Money
A new evaluation of Florida’s Medicaid reform experiment has found that spending on the government health care program in the trial counties of Broward and Duval was lower on a per-patient per-month basis than it was before the reform. The study also found that the savings in the counties was more than what it was [...]
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