Personal pleas ring at stem cell hearing (Boston Globe)
With arguments ranging from the highly personal to the highly technical, witnesses testified before state lawmakers yesterday about the pros and cons of human embryonic stem cell research, forcing legislators to weigh deep moral and scientific questions surrounding a bill intended to stimulate the state's biotechnology sector.
Commonalities, differences revealed (Rapid City Journal)
PIERRE - She likes pizza. He's a meat-and-potatoes man. She prefers classical music. He turns up the radio for rock. She is Lutheran and a Democrat. He is Catholic and a Republican.
Critical Condition (RedNova)
African Americans overcame insurmountable obstacles to defeat the racist Jim Crow system; now the fight for equal rights has turned to quality health care 2002 was not a good year for Natalie Webb.
National Catholic Reporter Classifieds (National Catholic Reporter)
Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.
V-V-S OUSTED IN OPENING ROUND (The Evening Times)
NEW HARTFORD -- The New Hartford Spartans rolled to a 70-51 victory over Little Falls native Al Knapp's Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Red Devils Saturday in the opening round of Section III's Class A playoffs.
AHS ROUNDUP: Big wins for basketball, girls hockey (Andover Townsman)
Goals by sophomore Alison Burns and Capt. Jacqui Munro enabled the Andover High girls ice hockey team to edge Everett, 2-1, and officially annex the first league championship in the brief hsitory of the program.
Kutztown overcomes nerves, Biglerville (Reading Eagle)
The Cougars deal with being a high seed and come back from a 10-point deficit to post their first District 3 victory since 1994. Unlike the great Kutztown boys basketball teams of bygone days, the current Cougars aren't comfortable with the view from the top.
Woodlan grad ending record career at Madonna (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Noel Emenhiser will always wonder whether he did enough, even though he’s done so much for the Madonna University men’s basketball team. All-time leading scorer. Four-year starter. Top five in career rebounds and assists. Most wins in school history but never a winning record in four seasons.
The Complete Caravaggio part one (Guardian Unlimited)
Caravaggio special: The National Galleryʼs forthcoming exhibition of Caravaggioʼs late works will be one of the biggest shows of the year. But many key paintings will be absent from it. Jonathan Jones set out to see every known Caravaggio in existence.
MADONNA AND A NEW OBSESSION ; First There Was Shooting. Then Pilates. Then the Cult Religion Kabbalah. Now She Spends (RedNova)
ON GREY February mornings a familiar figure in a flat cap and tracksuit is to be found slipping unobtrusively into a Judo and Karate club in one of the less fashionable roads in Fulham, South- West London.
