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Boomers clock back in
Source: Bradenton Herald
Online sites help over-50 individuals find work in messy economy by BRIAN NEILL Gene Burnard knows what it's like to be over the age of 50 and looking for work. That's because he's older than 50, himself, and runs an online service that helps retirees…
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New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Source: The University of Queensland
Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.In evolutionary terms, the brain's ability to remember a fear or trauma response has been crucial to our long term survival.However, in…
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Bangor man given Alzheimer's study grant
Source: The Community Telegraph
A QUEEN'S academic from Bangor has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer's disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd, who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen's, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel…
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Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
Source: The New York Times
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City's elementary school students - roughly 20 percent - missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
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Activists tackle defence lawyers in lesbian's murder
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
by NATASHA JOSEPH GENDER activists say they are to lodge complaints with the Law Society of South Africa against several lawyers representing nine men accused of beating a lesbian to death more than two years ago. On February 4, 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, was kicked,…
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TUI warns budget cuts will 'asset-strip' education
Source: Irish Times
by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be "asset-stripped" because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…
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2,000 children put into State care in 2006
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN ALMOST 2,000 children were admitted into State care in 2006 due to abuse or neglect in their families, according to an unpublished report compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The figures are contained in a national review of child and family…
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2,000 disabled people to lose EUR6,500 a year
Source: Irish Examiner
by Mary Regan AT least 2,010 people with disabilities will lose EUR6,500 a year because of measures introduced in Budget 2009, according to Fine Gael who said this was more confirmation that the most vulnerable have been targeted. The Disability Allowance, which was previously paid…
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'Tinker with the health system at your peril'
Source: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O'Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…
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Report rips state's vote readiness Coffman disputes concerns, says counties prepared
Source: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
by Myung Oak Kim Colorado is poorly prepared to handle electronic voting machine failures on Election Day, according to a national report issued Thursday. The report gave Colorado low marks because state regulations don't say exactly how poll workers should address voting terminal malfunctions and…
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