| UPI NewsTrack TopNews | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:56:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- China says it opposes military acts in the Korean Peninsula but urged North Korea, which conducted a nuclear test, to refrain from aggravating the issue. "China opposes any military action to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told the official Xinhua news agency. The spokesman also said North Korea "should refrain from any action that may aggravate the Korean Peninsula situation," and asked that country to return to the six-party talks that include China, Russia, the United States, Japan and the two Koreas. The spokesman said, "We believe that the denuclearization and the maintaining of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula best serve the interests of all parties." -0- NKorea issues warnings to Japan PYONGYANG, North Korea, Oct.... | |
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| | | “Silver” Market Spells Gold for NC Businesses | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 1:09:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | As Baby Boomers age, North Carolina businesses need to prepare for the magnitude of new business opportunities they will bring. The message that businesses large and small must respond to the best educated and most consumer savvy generation of middle-aged and older customers the country has ever known will be discussed in a lecture Monday, Sept. 18, at 6 p.m. in the Claxton Room, Elliott University Center, at UNCG. The lecture is free and open to the public. Speakers will be Dennis Streets, Director of the North Carolina Division of Aging and Adult Services, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Janice Wassel, director of the Gerontology Program and co-director of the dual degree MS in gerontology/MBA at UNCG. The event will be sponsored by the Gerontology Program.... | |
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| | | Four UCSF Nurse-Scholars Earn Prestigious Hartford Scholarships | | Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:58:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Four nurse-scholars with the UCSF/John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence have been awarded scholarships of $100,000 or fellowships of $125,000 to allow them to make a two-year, full-time commitment to research, teaching and leadership in geriatric nursing. The awards are part of the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) program sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. BAGNC is one of several initiatives based on the John A. Hartford Foundation trustees recognition of the centrality of nurses to the care of older adults. .... | |
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| | | Weston claimed 'old' title | | Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 1:24:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO -- Roberta Weston, a Chicago woman who claimed to be 118 years old which would make her the world's oldest person died in her sleep, her family said. Weston died Sunday. Both she and her family have claimed she was born on Aug. 9, 1887, but have no documents to support her birth date. Weston was born in Columbus, Miss., and her family says record-keeping in the South at the time was inconsistent. "Roberta wasn't senile," says Weston's niece, Ruby Hampton. "Roberta knew how old she were." Weston's parents were "most likely" slaves at one time, and the family worked as sharecroppers, Hampton said. .... | |
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