Nearly one month after the oil-rig explosion, elementary ways of containment leave engineers desperate to curb this ecological disaster By Dylan Mooney Failing to contain the largest oil disaster of the century, British Petroleum will now attempt to stop the leak by pumping high density liquids into the fractured pipeline. Already skeptical of this procedure’s [...]
Dalai Lama Pays A Visit to Madison Visit Brings Faith to New Research Center By Lily Vartanian This past weekend in Madison a new research center was opened, The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. Not only was the new center a site of attraction because of its opening, but it also brought [...]
Adam Wheeler charged with 20 criminal counts in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Mass By Dylan Mooney Applying as a transfer student to Harvard in 2007, Wheeler created fake transcripts from M.I.T., and the prestigious Philips Andover Academy in Massachusetts. Administrators first became suspicious of Wheeler’s records when it became apparent that he had plagiarized the [...]
Donations of Fur Go To Stop Oil Slick By Lily Vartanian Throughout Wisconsin, local pet groomers have helped aid to the Deep-water Horizon Gulf oil spill by giving large amounts of dog hair to stop the spread of the spill. More than 400,000 pounds have been donated thus far to make into hair mats and [...]
A Nissan Pathfinder containing loose explosive materials was abandoned and discovered moments later on Saturday evening By Dylan Mooney Tracking the license plates of the vehicle, police have successfully identified the owner of the Pathfinder, yet they do not consider him to be a suspect. Paul J. Browne, chief spokesman of the NYPD stated that had the [...]
Officials struggle to develop most effective way to provide relief to oil-stricken region By Dylan Mooney Ecologists contemplate various methods of cleanup following the explosion and sinking of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico April 20. One scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded that oil is leaking at the [...]
Random killing leaves two presumably innocent adults dead at hospital By Dylan Mooney A gunman fatally shot one woman and injured two others before killing himself outside of a hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., the police said. The attack happened at about 4:30 p.m. near the patient discharge area of the Parkwest Medical Center, the police [...]
Newly developed vaccine may prevent growth of some cancers By Dylan Mooney Drugs designed to disable the proteins that spur cancer are the latest medicine used by oncologists. Herceptin, the drug costing $42,000 a year wholesale, causes flulike symptoms and also has a rare, serious side effect, severe heart damage that can even be fatal. [...]
Link between Tampa and Orlando, FL causes many view such services as unnecessary By Dylan Mooney Members of Congress, including those of Florida, believe that state is not fit to receive $1.25 billion-a considerable portion of the stimulus bill’s funds. Representative John L. Mica, a Republican of northeast Florida wonders why notoriously congested Northeast routes, [...]
President Obama fulfills top domestic priority after signing fiercely debated legislation By Dylan Mooney Many consider the massive health care bill that passed the House on Tuesday to be the most expansive social legislation enacted in this country in decades. Speaking to a crowd of 300 in the East Room of the White House, Obama [...]
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