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"Looking forward to Thursday?" he said with a big smile.
"Only if that's the day you're moving out," I said with a straight face.
Paul just kind of frowned and looked at his shoes. Ever since he got laid off from his job about month ago, he has been knocking on my door every day looking to talk football. It gets so bad at times that I actually wish that football was just really so...
Drugs may be motive in Burlington killing, police say
DES MOINES (AP) --- Authorities are investigating whether a patient at a drug-abuse treatment center killed a worker to get drugs.
Ryan Ray Wichhart, 19, of North Liberty, is charged with killing Kathi Mertens, 44, a counselor aide at the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services center in Burlington.
Her body was found Wednesda...
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Tossing and turning in their sheets, frustrated with their inability to count enough sheep, chug enough milk or find some way to force themselves asleep, more students are turning to drugs despite concerns from healthcare officials.
Irregular schedules featuring early-morning classes and late nights of studying or drinking put ma...
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The Food and Drug Administration, for all its faults, has largely preserved a dispassionate scientific sobriety above the tides of public philosophy.
In fact, its earliest incarnation was a humorless little office called the Bureau of Chemistry, which was created by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drugmaker Wyeth tried to discredit a Food and Drug Administration scientist who linked the company's withdrawn heartworm treatment to the deaths of hundreds of dogs, a U.S. Republican senator charged on Thursday.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said the FDA employee, Victoria Hampshire, approached his staff "because she was scared and fel...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Today's fun challenge is "Spot the Next Brownie." In this fab game for the whole family, review a list of Bush administration cronies in office and see if you can pick the next Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown, another disaster waiting for a hurricane to happen.
Scope out the Bird Flu Czar from Amtrak. Stewart Simonson is now in charge of "the protection of the civilian popu...
... A senior administration official said that neither President Bush himself, nor his chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., nor his counselor, Dan Bartlett, was Mr. Woodward's source. So did spokesmen for former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; the former director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet; and his deputy, John E. McLaughlin.
A lawyer for Karl Rove, the deputy White Hous...
My name is Mistress Hypatia. I'm from Large East Coast City, but I'm thinking of moving to Seattle and opening a new Domination Center.
A "Domination Center"? Hmmnn, there's a phrase I've never heard before. I wonder if that's anything like a shopping center? Would it have a food court? Or would it be like a Wal-Mart dungeon? "Mistress-Mart! Always Low Prices!"
So my associate ...
BERLIN- The Berlin police are looking for a burglar who broke into the Apple Drugs pharmacy and stole prescription drugs.
The police say that on Nov. 13 at 5:37 a.m., the unidentified suspect made entry into the building by breaking a window on the north side of the store. The suspect then entered the store and removed an amount of prescription drugs.
The case has been turned over t...