Friday, June 29, 2007 By Sara Burgin It's mid-December and 35 to 45 percent of students at each Plymouth County school are absent due to illness and ten percent of law enforcement, health care and other emergency personnel are absent from work due to illness or caring for ill family members. Friday, June 29, 2007 By Sara Burgin It's mid-December and 35 to 45 percent of students at each Plymouth County school are absent due to illness and ten percent of law enforcement, health care and...

Researchers at Iowa State University are participating in the first-ever, nationwide study to measure gases and compounds emitted from livestock facilities, including poultry, dairy and swine operations. Air quality measurements will begin at most locations around the country soon and by fall will be underway at 14 monitoring sites in nine states. Jacek Koziel, associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, leads the Iowa effort. As a follow-up to the current project, the...

Cuba does not and will never recognize the spurious mandate of the so-called Personal Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, an aberration invented and institutionalized by the United States with the aim of stepping up its campaigne of lies and propagandist manipulation against the Cuban people. Cuba does not and will never recognize the spurious mandate of the so-called Personal Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, an aberration invented and...

African swine fever, a contagious viral disease in pigs, is widespread across Georgia, a U. Controlling animal movement and slaughtering infected pigs is the only way to prevent the disease from spreading to healthy animals, wildlife and even local ticks, the agency said. According to the agency, neighboring countries have not reported outbreaks, but nations that share borders with Georgia should be on the alert. food agency said Tuesday, urging a national campaign to control the movement...

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