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| Well-being of one in five children in metro area at risk, says study |
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| By Robert Joiner, Beacon staff |
| Posted 4:56 am Thu., 12.10.09 |
| Robert Joiner, Beacon staff |
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Michael Eastman
Photographer Michael Eastman, in conjunction with the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, gives a detailed look at brains, nerve endings and other details inside mice, humans and more. To find out about the fundraiser at which you can see more such photos, see In the Spotlight.
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Posted 6 a.m. Tues., 02.09.10 - Part of the appeal of Charlie Brown is that he keeps trying to kick that football that Lucy always yanks away at the last minute. Bevis Schock says President Obama is like Lucy and equates raising taxes to pulling back the football. If taxes go too high, he says, entrepreneurs will stop trying.
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Posted 9:16 a.m. Mon., 02.08.10 - With a smoking rate of 40 percent, Turkey has created a political and social firestorm is its seven-month old ban on public indoor smoking. Ekrem Mehmet Morali says that the country should have done more to mitigate how the ban affects coffeeshops and to help smokers quit.
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Posted 6 a.m. Sun., 02.07.10 - How do you compare crime rates in cities that have different socio-economic conditions? Richard Rosenfeld joined in ranking of cities according to their homicide rates, after adjusting for poverty and other conditions strongly associated with city homicide rates but over which the police exert little control. The news for St. Louis isn't good.
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Updated 9:37 p.m. Thurs., 01.21.10 - In a major decision rejecting…
Beacon Roundtable
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Posted 2:45 p.m. Thu., 02.04.10 - In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dale Singer, Jo Mannies and Robert Joiner sit down to talk about Missouri's budget, Illinois' primary, abstinence's effectiveness…
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MFFH Regional Meetings
The Missouri Foundation for Health will hold a meeting to highlight its funding strategy for 2012. The meeting is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on February 1 at the Missouri Foundation for Health's 2nd floor training room in the Grand Central building at Union Station in St. Louis.
Meetings are free and designed for health and community action nonprofits, community service clubs, human service providers and community leaders. RSVPs are encouraged: Contact Maranda Witherspoon at 800-655-5560 or [email protected]. More information.
The MIKADO has a little list … were you on it?
The St. Louis Beacon rang in 2012 with a concert performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta, "The Mikado," at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Higher Education Channel was on hand to record it. Here is a link to the complete perfomance, which we hope you'll enjoy.
The musical direction of "The Mikado" was by Amy Kaiser; Craig Terry was conductor-accompanist. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Beacon.
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