King Commemoration Honors Hayes at MLK Birthday Event
Charles Hayes, Illinois congressman and civil rights figure, will be guest speaker as United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-3 marks Martin Luther King Jr. birthday. Hayes helped elect Harold Washington Chicago mayor and calls to public invited audience.
Two area teachers win NEA poetry fellowships
Cornell College English professor Robert Dana and former U of I visiting lecturer William K. Knott are among 100 writers awarded $20,000 NEA Fellowships for Creative Writers. The awards total $2 million across 30 states, aimed at letting authors devote time to writing, research, or travel. Dana, 55, has published in The New Yorker The Nation Paris Review Harvard Magazine and others. Knott taught at U of I and is now at Emerson College in Boston.
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Tauke presses action on rural hospital Medicare report
Rep. Tom Tauke urges immediate HHS action on a completed report alleging underpayments to rural hospitals. The study could shift Medicare wage base rules retroactively to 1983, boosting rural payments while forcing urban hospitals to repay funds, risking trust-fund impact.
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Diet Center Promises Fast Weight Loss Program
An advertisement outlines a Diet Center plan offering a tailored weight loss program with confidential counselor support and daily follow ups. It promotes safe fat loss, a Diet Center Supplement to curb cravings, no high pressure sales, and a maintenance program to keep pounds off.
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Virus linked to long-lasting flu-like illness in two reports
Two studies suggest a herpes family virus, Epstein Barr, may trigger a prolonged flu-like syndrome with fatigue fever and swollen glands. Researchers caution routine tests miss the condition and that many cases resemble chronic fatigue with other illnesses.
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