Bluefield Town Council OKs Water Rate Increase
Bluefield Virginia town council approved a roughly 9.5 percent rate hike for the average water customer effective July 1 after a public hearing. The plan raises minimum charges and tiered rates, with concerns about pressure and impact on large users like Bluefield Beverage.
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Genome project ends public private race with joint claim
The A1 report describes a White House event where public and private teams led by Collins and Venter announced a rough draft of the human genome. It notes 97 percent identified base pairs and 85 percent ordered in chromosomes, with completion expected in two years. It covers international collaboration, funding, and the goal of reconciling methods to verify results.
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White House
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Reactions Split On Fame of Gattaca Style Genetic Ideas
A panel of Princeton residents and professionals weigh genetic mapping and cloning. Some fear privacy and anxiety from DNA tests while others praise potential to vanquish diseases and birth defects. Dr James Osborne, a Bluewell dentist, calls gene insight the greatest breakthrough of the last century.
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Bluewell
Young prodigy Lee Walls earns college degree at 18
Teresa Walls praises her son for finishing a college degree at eighteen through dual enrollment between Richlands High and Southwest Virginia Community College. Lee Walls, now an SWCC graduate, plans to study environmental science at Mary Washington College, facing questions about his freshman or sophomore standing due to 55 transfer credits.
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Rockefeller Pushes Rural Tech Revival for West Virginia
Senator Rockefeller warned West Virginia lags in Internet access and home computers with 18 percent and 28 percent respectively, urging passage of the Rural Telecommunications Modernization Act to create tax credits for broadband investments. He pressed FCC Universal Service and announced tech forums and a WV venture-capital group to attract high tech firms and funding.
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