| Phoning while driving ban among goals
Oh and they actually enforce speed limits and traffic ordinances. If downtown is a 20mph speed zone, it is enforced. Finally, as a licensed driver, cell phone user, and someone who has been accident free for over 15 years, I would support the ban completely...with one condition. Apply it equally to law enforcement and public workers. If the private citizen can't do it, why should those who serve us be exempt. I'm sure that my remarks will generate some heat. Great! " .
Rancher: Cloning equals better beef product
Charlo rancher Larry Coleman prepares a shot Thursday afternoon for one of the cows in the herd at the Coleman Limousin Ranch. Coleman invested in cloning a prize bull in 1999 and is still awaiting FDA approval to market meat products from cloned animals. The agency moved a step closer to full approval last week.
Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian .
Sleep tests move to comfy quarters
Along with clean sheets and a continental breakfast, some local hotel guests can now get something else: a diagnosis. Mary Washington Hospital recently signed a contract to rent five rooms at the Massaponax Hampton Inn. Since October, patients have been getting tested for sleep apnea, restless-leg syndrome and other disorders in the comfortable hotel setting. Terry Enders of Spotsylvania County was one of the center's first patients. Enders had been tested for sleep apnea before, at the hospital's main lab on Princess Anne Street in Fredericksburg. He said he appreciated the comfort and familiarity of the hotel during his follow-up test. "It's difficult enough to do a test like this," Enders said. "This is nice." Putting a sleep lab in a hotel is a new trend, notably among big university-affiliated sleep centers such as those at Duke and Vanderbilt.
When 17th-century women would seek out hare spittle
Despite the wonders of modern medicine, seeking treatment for infertility can still be a heartbreaking experience. But spare a thought for British women living in the 17th century. Anyone having difficulty conceiving all those centuries ago might have come across one William Sermon, a notorious physician whose 1671 book recommended a bizarre array of cures for infertility, such as drinking wine mixed with hare spittle or mouse ear. A copy of his book, The Ladies Companion, Or The English Midwife, has been unearthed in a Surrey attic and is expected to fetch up 2,000 when Sotheby's auctions it next month. Sermon (c1629-1680) is said to have decided to study medicine after witnessing a woman giving birth alone in a wood while he was out hare-shooting which may explain why hares feature so prominently in his cures.
MICK MCCABE: How one local recruit's story ended with a happy ending
Buh was exaggerating, of course, but Debniak does have serious speed for his size. He won the OK Red 200 title in 22 seconds and was electronically timed in the 40 at 4.43. Combine that with running for 1,237 yards and 15 touchdowns, and recording 12 sacks, and he was someone Stanford wanted to get on campus. "Wow! It was pretty incredible," Debniak said. "It's a world-renowned school. I want to major in psychology, and it has the No. 1 psychology department in the country." As you might expect, Debniak hit it off with Harbaugh. "He's very down-to-earth," Debniak said. "He's a great guy. You can tell he has a confidence about him. He reaches out to you and wants to get to know you as more than just a player." Debniak loved the campus and the coaches, but there was something else.
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