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AGH tests dissolving heart stent

Some 500,000 people receive heart stents each year. The metal stent keeps open an artery that is narrowing because of plaque. But once a patient receives a stent, he or she must be on blood thinners, which can lead to ...
Penn-Trafford grad among those helping tornado victims

Baseball players from West Virginia University were in Oklahoma for a game when the devastating tornado hit, leveling homes and taking lives. The players said they knew they had to ...
Ark. treasurer resigns amid charges she took cash

Arkansas' state treasurer resigned Tuesday after being accused of taking at least $36,000 in cash - sometimes stashed in a pie box - from a broker who later came to manage a large share of the state's $3.3 billion investment ...
Oklahoma tornado cuts 17-mile path

Search-and-rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life a day after a monster tornado pulverized a vast swath of suburbs of Oklahoma ...
Charges Allege Philadelphia Pharmacist Filled Forged Prescriptions and Laundered the Profits

PHILADELPHIA-An information was unsealed today charging Bevis Vanterpool, 35, of Philadelphia, with conspiring to distribute oxycodone, a Schedule II narcotic controlled substance, and money laundering, in violation of federal drug and money laundering laws, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Vanterpool is a pharmacist who owned and operated Tracemark Pharmacy at 4839 North ...

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Your Friends & Neighbors

Neil LaBute's "Your Friends & Neighbors" is akin to a sociological cataloging of human misery, cruelty, and sexual dysfunction. Its characters are either inhumane, self-absorbed, insipid, or all of the above. Throughout the film, those personality flaws (which are so immense, the word flaw seems insufficient) come into constant conflict, causing unending misery and pain. Only one character ... ...

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Jodi Arias asks jury for life term deliberations begin

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona ...
Indians Perez deletes Twitter account

CLEVELAND — Indians closer Chris Perez deactivated his Twitter account following two rough outings, and after receiving a slew of negative comments. Perez took down (at)chrisperez54 on Monday, not long after the two-time All-Star gave up a ninth-inning home run to Seattle's Endy Chavez. It was the second straight poor performance by Perez, who allowed back-to-back homers in the ninth ...
Local relief rushes to tornado disaster sites

on the North Side paid the cost to get relief items to the tornado victims. "To see the pictures and videos is really astounding, so the reaction we had was to see what we could do to help and to see what networks we could mobilize to get help there as soon as possible," said Liam Carstens, vice president of Medical Programs and Strategic Initiatives. Brother's Brother functions ...
Fort Pitt Bridge meme goes viral

An Internet meme about the Fort Pitt Bridge has gone viral. It shows a picture of the outbound lanes and says, "Left lanes need to exit right, right lanes need to exit left. Here's 300 feet to make it ...
Lawyer Feds investigating Susan Powell case

Chuck Cox, left, describes the search for his missing daughter as he stands with attorney Anne Bremner during a news conference Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Seattle. Bremner said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance. She made the announcement at the Seattle news conference a day after local officials in Utah said they had closed their ...

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...