A year after Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation as Alaska governor, interest in her and the small town she put on the map hasn't gone away.
While it's not at the fever pitch it reached during Palin's run for vice president, there remains a steady stream of pilgrims to Wasilla.
At least one tour company builds old Palin haunts into a trip that includes a musk ox farm visit.
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Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) overexpression has been associated with increased invasiveness in mammalian breast cancer cell lines, but the effects of overexpression on key underlying cell migration properties such as translational speed and directional persistence are not understood. Moreover, the differential effect of HER2 activation through heterodimerization with epidermal growth factor receptor versus human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 (HER3) on cell speed and persistence has not been studied. To investigate these issues, we developed a high-throughput wound closure assay in which individual cell locomotion and wound closure kinetics were …
Wall Street skidded lower in another erratic session Tuesday as investors grappled with the possibility of further trouble for the housing market and mortgage lenders like Countrywide Financial Corp. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 180 points.
Investors tried to take the market higher, but succumbed to another stream of bad news.
In the morning, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday its index tracking pending U.S. home sales fell 2.6 percent in November, a larger decline than the market expected. Jitters about Countrywide and KB Home, which posted a disappointing fourth quarter loss, kept Wall Street on edge throughout the day, and comments by …
Health staff are gearing up for one of the busiest times of theyear.
NHS 24 is ready to provide clinical assessment, referral to otherhealth services and to offer advice and information from a range ofexperts.
On any normal day NHS 24 in Scotland - which has one of itsthree centres in Aberdeen - receives an average of 100 calls every15 minutes.
During winter this can rise significantly.
And on Boxing Day and January 2, more than 13,000 calls canbe received - many from people who …
Anxiety Disorders Fearing Others: The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobias Ariel Stravynski. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; 2007. 432 p. US$56.95
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Social phobia, or social anxiety disorder as it is commonly referred to in North America, has moved over 20 years from its status as "a neglected anxiety disorder"1 to a condition that receives attention in the public media and is the subject of volumes of scholarly publications. Psychiatrists are aware from their clinical experience that the boundaries of social phobia are not absolutely clear. They are also confronted with the fact that social phobia rarely presents as a solitary disorder. At …
BOSTON - A bust of the Rev. Louis Toma, an icon at the East Boston church where he served for 50 years, has been removed by the Boston Archdiocese at the request of parishioners who said the late cleric sexually abused children.
About 16 people, including some who said they were victims, watched as the bust was lifted Friday from the grounds of St. Lazarus Church and a bulldozer pushed over its marble pedestal, The Boston Globe reported.
Women complained to Cardinal Sean O'Malley last year that Toma had abused numerous young girls during his decades as pastor and asked that the statue be taken down.
Barbara Thorp, director of the Victims' Support Office of the …
The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto Rican island where the young U.S. Marine guarded stores of Cold War-era chemical weapons.
The retired sergeant, now 57 and terminally ill with cancer and other ailments, blames exposure to toxins released while he was stationed there from 1970 to 1972. By coming forward to support similar claims by island residents, he has become the public face of a new and bitter battle over Vieques, the Navy bombing range-turned-tourist destination off the U.S. territory's east coast.
"I've been sick since I left Vieques," said the wheelchair-bound Marrero, who now lives in an …
