Eugene, OR — The Oregon Student Assistance Commission (OSAC) announced Nov. 17 the opening of its scholarship application season for students planning to attend college in the fall of 2011. OSAC administers more than 400 private scholarships and public grant programs to help students pay for their college education. Searching and applying for OSAC scholarships [...]
Frank Jordans and Jim Gómez Associated Press Geneva, Switzerland (AP) — Roman Catholic believers and leaders in parts of the world most stricken by AIDS drew hope from Pope Benedict XVI’s recent comments on condoms, even if the Vatican took pains to explain that nothing has changed about its policy on contraception. For those focused [...]
Mexico City (AP) —The quesadilla had more zip Wednesday and the taco tasted just a bit sweeter as Mexico celebrated its food being put on the United Nations list of intangible cultural heritage, alongside the lofty art of eating in France. The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized everything from the growing of [...]
Erik Schelzig Associated Press Writer Nashville, TN (AP) — Republican state Rep. Curry Todd said Tuesday he is “truly sorry” for likening undocumented undocumented immigrants to rats. Todd remarked last week that undocumented immigrants can “go out there like rats and multiply” after hearing that federal law requires the state to extend prenatal care to [...]
Mexico City (AP) —Mexico’s celebrated winter visitor, the Monarch butterfly, has a new conservation center aimed at boosting its dwindling numbers. The black and orange insect has been hit hard by deforestation around its winter nesting grounds in Michoacan state. Environmentalists say that last winter, only about one-fourth as many butterflies migrated to Mexico from [...]
Washington (AP) — President Barack Obama has called on the Senate to pass legislation this year that would allow certain foreign-born young people who entered the United States as children without documents to become legal U.S. residents. Obama urged action during a meeting Tuesday with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The legislation, known as [...]
Jonathan J. Cooper Associated Press Portland, OR (AP) — On top of a big budget deficit, next year’s closely divided Oregon Legislature will have to tackle a high-stakes task that will influence the next 10 years of state government. Following the release of figures from the 2010 U.S. Census, Oregon lawmakers will try to redraw [...]
Mexico City (AP) — Recriminations from a border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica rippled throughout the region Sunday as Mexico and Costa Rica hotly denied Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s suggestion that drug-trafficking interests were behind a regional vote on the issue that didn’t go his way. The Mexican Foreign Relations Department said in a [...]
Michael Felberbaum AP Tobacco Writer Richmond, VA (AP) — The federal government hopes new larger, graphic warning labels for cigarettes that include images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs and teeth will help snuff out tobacco use. The images are part of a new push announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the [...]
Marilynn Marchione AP Medical Writer Chicago, IL (AP) — Working women are equal to men in a way they’ll wish they weren’t. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big U.S. government-funded study found. [...]
