Sunday, June 25, 2006

Chest health - Concentrated animal feeding operations near schools may pose asthma risk (EurekAlert!)


Concentrated animal feeding operations near schools may pose asthma risk (EurekAlert!)
Children who attend school near large-scale livestock farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) may be at a higher risk for asthma, according to a new study by University of Iowa researchers.

The Creole Cat is Back Post-Catrina
... for her father, Guy DiPascal, who was diagnosed with lung cancer. DiPascal, a native and life ...

Whitewater Festival Comes to Great Falls (Washington Post)
The Potomac is to us in Washington what the Rockies are to Colorado, what the Pacific is to Hawaii. The so-called "nation's river" is our playground, a place of both meditative calm and ferocious power. Perhaps no place is the river's strength more evident than in the cascading Great Falls.