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Aljazeera.com
The downwinders: Fracking ourselves to death in Pennsylvania
Aljazeera.com
The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded "the most contaminated place in the world". As their cancers developed, the victims of atomic testing and nuclear weapons development got a name: downwinders ...

Memorial service set for Tracy Hanson Schrage, Richmond firefighter ...
Richmond Times Dispatch
She had climbed the sprawling Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii and hiked the other islands as well. In the Pacific Northwest, she climbed Mount Hood — and four or five days later reached the summit of nearby Mount Rainier. On the steep winding trail to ...

Stamp Out Stigma week coming
Colusa County Sun Herald
Colusa County students are joining classrooms across the US participating in Caps for the Cure, a childhood cancer research fundraiser. In exchange for their ability to wear a hat to school for the day, students donate $1 to The Cure Starts Now ...

Skip Entertainment's Dance for a Cause MAY 25 - Pacific News Center
Pacific News Center
SKIP Entertainment has been well-known as the island's premier dance company for youth, regularly performing throughout the community and extremely successful in international competition. ... beneficiaries SKIP's event spokesperson Jessica Castro said ...

Salon
Thirteen miles with my teenager
Salon
Lucy and I had done a similar walk a year ago, to celebrate the end of my primary course of cancer treatment. It had been a good walk but a tough one, through ... In that time, my loved ones and I have experienced the ravages of disease and a string of ...

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August calendar of events
The Seattle Times
10-11 Bike ride fundraiser for cancer research, 25, 50, 100 miles or 180-mile two-day ride, Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle; $100 registration, $1, 000 minimum fundraising (206-667-7433 or www.obliteride.org ). Festival at Mount Si ...

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On the fridge
Pacific Daily News
The I Can Cope class, for cancer patients and families, "Managing the Effects of Illness and Treatment," will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the FHP Annex conference room. Class is free, but seating is limited. For more information or to register, call ...

Salon
Few world industrial disasters have killed 1000
Salon
A helicopter makes a water drop on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday. The California wildfire burned a 15 mile path to the pacific, prompting evacuations at California State University, the Channel Islands and across Ventura ...

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Summer Times: Movies -- loud and heroic
HispanicBusiness.com
"Pacific Rim": Just describing this is like learning a new language about Kaiju (monstrous creatures) and Jaegers (massive robots). Guillermo del Toro directs this sci-fi entry starring Charlie .... "Kon-Tiki": Foreign-language Oscar nominee about ...

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NBCSports.com
Posnanski: Great or not, Sawgrass No. 17 demands attention
NBCSports.com
The Island Green – the one surrounded entirely by water except for a twelve-foot-wide walkway, you know the hole -- is unquestionable one of golf's most famous holes. It is certainly one of .... The hole runs along the Pacific Ocean, a very long bunker ...

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Things to do this weekend
Sun-Sentinel
1-5 p.m. Treasure Island Elementary School, 7540 East Treasure Drive, North Bay Village. 305-301-1799 or ... Asian Pacific. In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, there will be dance shows, music, food tasting, cultural games and ...

VIDEO: Alarming Statistics Spark Launch of Guam Diabetes Control Campaign
Pacific News Center
Mountain Pacific Project Manager James Roberts says it is their hope that empowering the island's man'amko will lead to healthy habits that will be passed on to future generations, instead of diabetes. The innovative project also uses a new electronic ...

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Okanagan College Media Release
Castanet.net
... in the College's biology lab, featuring shells, coral and other marine life from exotic locations including off the coast of Thursday Island (Arafura Sea), Ningaloo Reef, West Australia (Indian Ocean), Broome, West Australia (Indian Ocean), Flores ...

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LA council OKs BNSF port yard; lawsuits threatened
Lincoln Journal Star
Much of that traffic now comes to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thence to rail lines that carry it to the rest of the country, much of it on Union Pacific and BNSF tracks that cross Nebraska. ... BNSF said it will build a soundwall along the ...

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News Summary: Vaccine project aids poor countries
Salon
TEAMWORK: Drugmakers Merck and GlaxoSmithKline are working with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to provide hugely discounted cervical cancer vaccines to millions of girls in poor countries. That's where the cancer kills most, because ...

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On the fridge
Pacific Daily News
Inspire Productions presents the Island Vibe Music Festival, starting at 5 p.m. May 10 at the Yigo Amusement Park. Performances include hip-hop crunk legends The Ying Yang Twins, Saipan's Walter Manglona, Chamorro rap pioneer Pete "Badu" Magofna, ...

Man wrongly told he had terminal cancer gets $59K
Salon
A helicopter makes a water drop on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday. The California wildfire burned a 15 mile path to the pacific, prompting evacuations at California State University, the Channel Islands and across Ventura ...

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Pictured: The megacity of Dubai grows in the desert, from 1984 to today
TIME
... upgraders. It's not for nothing that the oil-sands region has been compared to Mordor, and First Nations Canadians who live downriver from the oil-sands developments worry about water contamination and even cancer. .... More important than those ...

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40 years on, fleeing Vietnamese take to seas again
WIS
In this photo taken on April 14, 2013, Australian Customs officials search Vietnamese asylum seekers and their belongings soon after their arrival on Christmas Island, Australia. (AP Photo). In this photo taken on April 14, 2013, ... Unfortunately, at ...

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No Silver Bullet In Tackling Nutritional Challenges
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
They are the Asian Network Inc, Cancer Society of NZ, National Heart Foundation of NZ, Diabetes NZ, Dietitians NZ, Home Economics and Technology Teachers Assn of NZ, NZ Nutrition Foundation, NZ Recreation Assn, Te Hotu Manawa Māori, Pacific Island ...

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