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Cheers: James Lawson was born in 1928, the same year as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was an important ally of KingÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike King, who was cut down when he was just 39, Lawson was able to live a long life and see the changes ...

We need more primary care physicians in rural communities

AmericaÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s health care system prioritizes sickness over wellness and prevention. According to the Commonwealth Fund, despite spending the highest percentage of gross domestic product on health care, the United States ranks last among 11 of the wealthiest countries in the world. The ...

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Cheers: The tunnels that are cut through mountains and hillsides and under rivers are marvels of modern engineering. And itÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s easy to imagine how awed drivers must have been a century ago when they traveled through the Liberty Tunnels in their Model Ts when it opened to traffic in January ...

Adding Negro League stats to MLB records offers more complete picture of history

In a distant corner of PittsburghÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson. ItÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s a flat stone, set in the ground, and has GibsonÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words ÎÞëÊÓÆµœLegendary Baseball ...

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Cheers: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy ...