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Med school puts ailments in focus
THE REGION’S NEW medical school recently made a house call of sorts, poking into parts of the 16-county territory that it serves to ask, “So, how are you doing?”
Sometimes wired is also entangled
AS A SOCIETY, the convergence of portable electronic devices and common sense too often exists only in a virtual world.
Addiction in the U.S. provides the good life in Xalisco
XALISCO, Mexico — As a boy, Esteban Avila had only a skinny old horse and two pairs of pants, and he lived in a swampy neighborhood called The Toad. He felt stranded across a river from the rest of the world and wondered about life on the other side.
Name a hero for Jefferson Award
W E’RE searching for a volunteer of exceptional nature, a man or woman in Northeastern Pennsylvania who personifies the phrase “hometown hero.”
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