There were an estimated 1,444,920 new cancer cases in 2007, according to the American Cancer Society. An estimated 559,650 Americans died in 2007, and of those deaths, 1,545 were children under the age of 14. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, falling only behind heart disease.
The 2,312 uncounted absentee and provisional votes could change the result of the Republican primary for the Athens County Commissioner race, but it appears Larry Payne has won.
Knowing that they still had a chance to snag the final bye in next week's Mid-American Conference Tournament didn't console the Ohio players after the Bobcats dropped their first home game of the season to Akron last night in The Convo.
Just after receiving their white coats, Ohio University medical students are whisked away to Columbus for a crash course in ethics and professionalism as part of a program between the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the State Medical Board of Ohio.
Some voters traveling to polling locations had to weather some unexpected challenges yesterday.
As incumbent Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren prepared to talk with reporters after defeating challenger Susan Gwinn in the Democratic primary last night, he reminded his audience of the heated campaign ' with a song.
University officials ask for student input. The students respond. University officials ignore the students' suggestions. With few exceptions, this has been the typical cycle over the past few years. It would be a breath of fresh air if this turns out not to be the case with this year's Student General Fee Committee.
ThePalestra.com reporter Tiffany Wilson, right, interviews freshman Diana Steuber during a primary results viewing event in Baker University Center. Fox News and ThePalestra.com hosted yesterday's event, which included food, music and giveaways.
After playing six games on the road and compiling a 3-3 record, the Bobcats are prepared to play their first home game of the season.
For the second year in a row
Over the next few weeks, most students will be huddled indoors, in love with climate control and thermostats ' hoping for that first 60-degree day.
I was quite taken aback early Friday morning when I opened up The Post to see that Arcade Fire was in fact coming to Athens, Ohio. I heard rumors that such an event was occurring, but with the whole Dave Matthews Band is coming to OU fiasco, I didn't think such a thing could be true. When The Post confirmed such an event was taking place Sunday night, I was ecstatic and I immediately planned my entire weekend around seeing them play live, for free, in Nelsonville.
I was shocked to read in Monday's Post that students from such a progressive community as Athens would give NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) a big ol' stamp of approval. Particularly after nearly all of the respected news authorities called NAFTA one of the biggest issues in this election because of the fact that Ohio was so adversely affected by its passing. It becomes clear to me after reading the paragraph in the editorial Obama by a nose that the staff of The Post, like many of NAFTA's most fanatical advocates, never read the agreement. According to www.citizen.org, NAFTA is essentially an investment agreement as opposed to a free trade agreement. The agreement has allowed investors ever-increasing favor over voting people and workers abroad. It is a one-size-fits-all agreement that all domestic laws in each country involved must adhere to, also according to www.citizen.org. It does away with protective tariffs, thus allowing, and arguably encouraging, investors to relocate to the Third World where the wages are far lower, and the standard of living is often deplorable. NAFTA and other agreements like it allow companies to take manufacturing jobs away from Americans and relocate to countries where cheap labor is exploited, child labor and other laws are lax, and families are forced to choose between sending their children to school or having them work to make ends meet, while corporations like Exxon post record profits (Exxon posted a quarterly profit of $11.6 billion last fiscal quarter, the biggest quarterly profit posted by any company in history). NAFTA has kept millions of families around the world in poverty and destitution in order to satisfy an insatiable corporate appetite. I implore the staff of The Post and anyone else who read the editorial to reconsider before hitting the polls.
After months of proposing change, Pat Kelly is one election away from the chance to reform the Athens County Sheriff's Office.
Knox County farmer Fred Dailey won the Republican nomination in last night's primary for the 18th Congressional District, outrunning his closest opponent by almost 5,000 votes.
Incumbent Congressman Zack Space will once again be the Democratic candidate vying for the 18th District's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Ohio Board of Regents 2007 Diversity Report (The Post, February 27, 2008) makes the diversity problem at Ohio's public universities very clear: White, non-Hispanics are greatly underrepresented. According to the Regents' report, they compose only 78 percent of university students statewide, whereas they compose 84 percent of the Ohio population according to the Statistical Abstracts of the United States (http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/oh.html). Multiplying university enrollment data provided by U.S. News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/tools/search.php) by the percentages in the Regents' report reveals that the under-representation of minorities at three Ohio public universities, including Ohio University, totals 1,010 students, while the over-representation of minorities at nine other public universities in Ohio totals 11,964 students. This excess minority enrollment in nine Ohio universities statewide is considerably more than the entire enrollment at the University of Cincinnati.
Ohio's chances at a bye all come down to one game.
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