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By Andy Schor

 

Few Michigan residents are strangers to the fallout that comes with state and federal budget cuts. With many lawmakers reluctant to embrace sustainable solutions to our budget problems, vital services that our area families and businesses rely on continue to be slashed (and in some cases eliminated completely) at every level of government.  

 

One of the most alarming possibilities currently being discussed in Washington is the closure of the United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center on Collins Road in Lansing and subsequent transfer of that facility’s services to Grand Rapids. This is being justified by a feasibility study conducted by the U.S. Postal Service which is being called into question by a number of regional leaders. 

Making bones speak:  Students analyze a Nubian skeleton from the Middle Ages. More than 400 ancient skeletons from Africa are on loan to MSU from the British Museum. Photo by G.L. Kohuth

 

E. LANSING, MI — In a narrow, modest laboratory in Michigan State University’s Giltner Hall, students pore over African skeletons from the Middle Ages in an effort to make the bones speak.

 

Little is known about these Nubians, meaning the information collected by graduate and undergraduate students in MSU’s Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Program will help shed light on this unexplored culture.

 

From what has already been gathered, life in ancient Nubia could be brutal. Residents of Mis Island – a remote area along the Fourth Cataract of the Nile River in present day Sudan – were plagued by meager diets, high infant mortality and diseases such as scurvy and tuberculosis.

Dear Tamara:

 

My wife and I have been having an ongoing argument about whether I should give my sister a kidney. My sister has been sick for awhile and is now in need of a transplant. Out of our eight siblings, I am the only match. Of course everyone in my family is encouraging me to help my sister and at first I thought it was a no-brainer.

 

I come from a close-knit family and helping each other is what we do. But now my wife has a problem with it and doesn’t want me to go through with the surgery. She has always had an issue with how close I am to my family, especially my mother and my sisters. 

By Robert Pagliarini,
Tribune Media Services

 

Experts can be dangerous.

 

I’m the number-one proponent of using the other eight hours to learn from others, grow and advance, but whenever you find yourself seeking information, guidance or answers from an authority figure such as an expert or doctor, watch out! You just might save your life.

Tom and Lupe Izzo (left) and Magic Johnson (right) at an event in East Lansing, MI, where Magic played basketball at Michigan State University. TNCP photo

 

Selected Networks Were Proposed By Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Robert Rodriguez, and Constantino “Said” Schwarz

 

PHILADELPHIA, PA  -  Comcast Corporation, one of the world’s leading media, entertainment and communications companies, today announced it has selected four new minority-owned independent networks to be broadly distributed on Comcast Cable systems between April 2012 and January 2014.  After a thorough evaluation of more than 100 proposals, Comcast selected four networks – two of which are majority African-American owned and two that are majority American Hispanic owned and operated and programmed in English.