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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 2008
Page
7
In Winfield Missouri flood crews and residents raced to raise a four foot sandbag levee to shield 100 homes after a muskrat burrow fractured the Pin Oak levee. National Guard Col Michele Melton led the effort with Army Corps engineers coordinating the patchwork defense amid 720 residents helping the effort.
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed for party unity after their divisive primary, urging supporters to back change and join forces. Obama praised Clinton and her husband as pillars of the party as about 5,000 people in a hamlet named for unity watched the rare joint appearance.
In ORDSTOWN Ohio on Friday John McCain spoke to autoworkers in a downbeat area urging support for free trade agreements while backing government investment to help develop future electric cars. He toured a GM plant making the Chevrolet Cobalt, which will add a third shift and 1,400 workers in August to increase output. GM plans 2010 for the Chevrolet Volt, a 40 mile battery car with a seven gallon gas range.
Walter Grubb, a former coworker, says Wesley Higdon told a secretary he would kill after being fired. Higdon shot and killed a supervisor and four others at Atlantis Plastics in Henderson before killing himself. Grubb recalls Higdon's threats echoing days before the rampage.
Duke University researchers led by Bruce Donald built a fleet of fully steerable microrobots about 250 microns long and 60 microns wide that move on a pinhead. The tiny machines, with a pivoting arm and inchworm like steps, could probe brain cells and manipulate electronics, working with neurobiologist Richard Mooney and physicist Jeb Finkelstein.
Police say a group of teens aged about 14 to 17 assaulted Anthony Waters, 42, leading to fatal blunt abdominal trauma after robbing him of a music player and headphones. Surveillance video captured passers by slowing as the attack unfolded near G and M Towing on Cleveland's east side. No arrests have been made.
Several states led by Georgia West Virginia and New York intensify campaigns to educate social workers nurses and parents about unsafe sleep risks for babies kept out of adult beds or sleeping alone Experts say up to 3600 of more than 4500 sudden unexpected infant deaths yearly could be prevented with safe sleeping positions and places The national Back to Sleep effort focuses on backs but this new push broadens sleep environment guidance despite debates over SIDS versus suffocation causes
A two year study by the National Commission on Adult Literacy calls for major federal legislation and funding to reach 20 million people by 2020. Cheryl King stresses urgency, noting the US loses educational momentum while OECD peers perform better in adult literacy. Don Block cites gaps in US adulthood education compared with other nations.
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