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My husband and I attended a small meeting in 2011 when Sen. Ted Cruz was running for his U. S. Senate seat.  As a retired classroom teacher, my plan was to explain to Cruz how the Obama administration planned to take over the public schools of America through the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI).  Thinking Cruz would be just like so many other politicians who have been asleep about CCSI while it has been sweeping over our country since 2009, I started in on my explanation.  Almost immediately Ted Cruz began to agree with me vociferously and quickly let all...

Marchetta could not find anyone who regularly cleaned their reusable bags. Marchetta brought the lab results to Dr. Michelle Barron, the infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Hospital. "Wow. Wow. That is pretty impressive," said Barron. Barron examines lab results for a living. "Oh my goodness! This is definitely the highest count," Barron commented while looking at the bacteria count numbers. She admitted she was shocked at what was found at the bottom of the bags. "We're talking in the million range of bacteria," she said. Marchetta used swabs provided by a local lab to test several grocery...

Lindsay Weiss of Overland Park is the grand prize winner of the Southern Living Cook-Off. She was awarded $100,000 for her recipe Roasted Banana Ice Cream with Warm Peanut Butter Sauce, which is now featured on Southern Living magazine’s Web site, www.southernliving.com. “My husband and I sat through the entire ceremony — two and a half hours — and when my name was called, I was in complete and utter shock,” said Weiss, who traveled to Birmingham, Ala., for the contest. “I was not expecting it at all.” The mother of two created her recipe last spring when she was...

ORANGE, March 2, 2007 - A 39-year-old woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave birth this week after going to an emergency room with a stomachache. April Barnum of Garden Grove gave birth to a full-term, 7-pound, 7-ounce boy by Caesarian section at University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, hospital officials said. The 420-pound woman said her size kept her and others from realizing she was carrying the baby. "Usually you can tell if you're pregnant, but with me, I couldn't tell," Barnum said Thursday, a day after the birth. "If he kicked, I didn't feel him kicking." Dr....

Travellers suffering from "Montezuma's revenge" or "Delhi belly" can take comfort from the discovery that the bacteria responsible for the runs may protect against cancer. The find also suggests a new way to treat colorectal cancer. Researchers were struck by how the cancer strikes disproportionately more often in industrial nations than developing countries. Conversely, traveller's diarrhoea, caused by intestinal Ecoli infections, is more prevalent in developing countries. Dr GianMario Pitari and colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the growth rate of a population of actively dividing cancer cells...