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Scientists help dispel myths of Doomsday

By Kiran Sood · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

WASHINGTON – As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of “2012” last week, news of Earth’s demise spread quickly across the Web.

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Senate votes to begin health-care debate

By Noam N. Levey · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

WASHINGTON- Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their health-care overhaul legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the chamber voted to begin formal debate of a sweeping measure to guarantee medical coverage for all Americans. The 60-39 procedural vote, backed by all 58 Democrats and two independents, with Ohio Republican George Voinovich not voting, overcame a Republican-led filibuster designed to block consideration of the bill and kept up momentum behind President Barack Obama’s top legislative priority.

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Bee ordinance gets first OK from Council

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

City Council unanimously passed an ordinance on first reading Tuesday allowing Ypsilanti residents to keep bees. The ordinance had been considered by City Council last month, but decided a permit process should be included with the original language and postponed the matter before a vote was taken. If approved on a second reading the ordinance would give residents the opportunity to apply for a permit to keep no more than two bee hives on a parcel of land.

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Governor to talk the 'Promise' at EMU

By Danny Hopkins and Alyssa Eckles · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Gov. Jennifer Granholm is on a tour to save the Michigan Promise Scholarship. And her next stop? Eastern Michigan University. Granholm will be visiting campus from 9 – 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Student Center to discuss the scholarship.

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Panel: Mammograms under 50 downplayed

By Sarah Avery · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. – An influential federal panel said most women under 50 do not need routine mammograms – a direct contradiction to longstanding advice from doctors and cancer groups.

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Journalists in Iraq facing political parties' pressure

By Warren P. Strobel · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

BAGHDAD – Warid Badr Salim’s front-page satire in a recent edition of the newspaper al-Mada compared Iraq’s parliament to wolves stalking sheep – the Iraqi people – and cheekily suggested its members need the diplomatic passports they’ve awarded themselves just to leave Baghdad’s fortress-like Green Zone.

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State preference ban still being contested

By Robin Erb · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

DETROIT – Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring was in court again Tuesday, another step closer to its assumed destination: the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Police Blotter Nov. 13 - 16

By Jordan Dekker · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Nov. 13 At 9:49 p.m., an officer initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of Lowell and Jarvis Streets and found the driver to be in possession of three baggies of marijuana.

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Peninsular Place armed robbery suspect arrested

By Alyssa Eckles · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

A suspect in an armed robbery at Peninsular Place has been arrested, according to Ypsilanti Police Department. The 23-year-old Detroit man was picked up Tuesday night outside the city in Ypsilanti township

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Ypsi City Council to reconsider Michigan's Open Meetings Act

By Dan DuChene · Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

City Council will be reconsidering whether the Michigan Open Meetings Act will apply to subcommittees created by itself or its boards and commissions. Toward the end of the meeting Tuesday, Councilmember Bill Nickels, D-Ward 2, motioned to reconsider the resolution, adopted by City Council last month.

Ypsi Meals on Wheels funds down

By Christine Laughren · Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009

Starting on the seventh floor of Clark East Towers apartment complex off East Clark Road, Jackie Macy and her assistants begin to make their daily rounds for Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels.

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NASA mission discovers watery surprise on moon

By Lisa M. Krieger · Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The moon is a wet place, NASA scientists announced Friday at a Mountain View, Calif., press conference, unveiling their long-awaited analysis of a mile-high plume of debris kicked up by the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. “We saw real crystalline ice and lots of water vapor, as well as other species,” such as sodium and perhaps even carbon dioxide, methane, ethanol and sodium dioxide, said Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. “It’s been a ‘Holy Cow!’ moment every single day since the impact,” as NASA’s analysis of the debris plume continues, he said. Scientists say the discovery of ice and water vapor transforms our perception of this celestial neighbor, long thought to be a dry and barren place.

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Despite controversy, 9-11 trials move ahead

By Carl Rosenberg · Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009

MIAMI — Confessed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9-11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantanamo. Charges against the alleged al-Qaida kingpin have not yet been filed in Manhattan, N.Y, the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center. But the decision to bring to civilian court the mass murder case of nearly 3,000 people on Sept.

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Welcome back to Winging It, the Eastern Echo's arts and entertainment podcast.

This episode, Caroline Buxton sits down with Tessa Hanrath to talk about "June on the Moon," EMU Theatre's upcoming interactive sensory production.

For more information on performance dates and ticketing, check out EMU Theatre's website at: https://emich.ludus.com/index....

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