Today in History Highlights From Across Centuries
On Jan 7 1610 Galileo began observing Jupiter s moons and a fourth appeared. Simon Marius later named the Galilean satellites Io Europa Ganymede Callisto. In 1927 transatlantic telephone service linked New York and London. In 1999 Bill Clinton faced impeachment trial and was acquitted.
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Galileo Galilei
Jupiter
Simon Marius
Galileo
Jovian
Europa
New York
London
Senate
Bill Clinton
Homegrown Terror Study Finds Youthful Male Suspects Predominate
A Duke UNC study tallies 139 American Muslims accused of planning or carrying out violence since 9/11. Most were under 30, male, US born or naturalized, with Arabs the largest group but ethnic distribution broad. No clear geographic center or pattern emerges for radicalization.
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U.S
Duke University
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Alzheimer's therapy combo shows improved results in mice
Johns Hopkins researchers report in Science Translational Medicine that a cocktail of treatments reducing brain plaque improved memory with few side effects in mice, outperforming individual therapies. The study notes no cure exists for Alzheimer’s, which affects about 30 million people globally and ranked sixth in U.S. deaths in 2007.
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Science Translational Medicine
United States
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
Father's alleged assault plan foiled by own kids
Raul Gaucia-Valenzuela 33 and a friend planned a weekend break in to beat the boyfriend of an ex wife. The plan collapsed when Gaucia-Valenzuela’s two children aged 8 and 11 entered the home and recognized him. No injuries reported. Gaucia-Valenzuela jailed on burglary and related charges.
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Colorado
Raul Gaucia-Valenzuela
Gaucia-Valenzuela
Better antiseptic curbs post surgery infections
Doctors and patients alike can reduce surgical site infections by washing patients with an antiseptic and applying medicated nasal ointment. A second study found the antiseptic outperforming the traditional iodine skin scrub. Infections challenge hospitals with millions of procedures annually and up to half a million U.S. cases a year. Dr. Robert Weinstein of Stroger Hospital notes many infections come from patients own germs.
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Robert Weinstein
Cook County
Stroger Hospital
Chicago
Holocaust museum gunman James von Brunn dies in NC
The 89-year-old federal inmate and white supremacist who was accused in the deadly 2009 shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum died Wednesday at a Butner, North Carolina hospital while awaiting trial. He had suffered from congestive heart failure and sepsis.
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Washington
Holocaust Museum
North Carolina
James von Brunn
Butner
N.C
Denise Simmons
von Brunn
Yemen says U.S. troops no ground role in Yemen
Yemen Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al Qirbi said Washington may train and assist but not deploy combat troops, stressing Yemeni forces stay under local command. He spoke as security hunts targeted al Hanaq, alleged AQAP leader, amid tightened U S and Western aid and embassy closures over threats.
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San‘a
Yemen
Iraq
Afghanistan
U.S
Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Washington
al-Qaida
Associated Press
Mohammed Ahmed al-Hanaq
Arhab
San’a
al-Hanaq
Obama
United States
Britain
Nigerian indicted in plot to blow up plane
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, indicted on charges including attempted murder and use of a weapon of mass destruction for an alleged Christmas Day attack on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit. The failed plan involved injecting chemicals into a hidden pentrite explosive in his underwear as passengers and crew battled flames. Authorities say he trained with al Qaida operatives in Yemen and that security was later stepped up globally. President Obama described it as an attempted strike linked to al Qaida.
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al-Qaida
U.S
Yemen
Arabian Peninsula
Detroit
San’a
al-Qirbi
Obama
Guantanamo Bay Military
Northwest Airlines
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Amsterdam
Barbara McQuade
Barack Obama
United States
Abdulmutallab
Nigeria
Journal-World contact list and editors
The Lawrence Journal-World provides contact numbers for local news city and county government Kansas University Lawrence schools and departments. It lists editors and assignments including Dennis Anderson Caroline Trowbridge Ann Gardner Tom Keegan Jon Niccum and Jonathan Kealing with direct emails and phone lines.
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Ijworld
Kansas University
Lawrence
Dennis Anderson
Jonathan Kealing
Jkealing
Ljworld
Contact credits and redelivery hours for News Partners
News Partners 6News provides Cody Howard as director with phone and email, Mediaphormedia contact Dan Cox, and other staff numbers. Classifieds line, subscription and delivery help offered by the 832-7199 number. Weekday and weekend hours for delivery support are listed, with redelivery guarantee in town if called before the cutoff.
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Cody Howard
Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
Dcox
Ljworld
Poll asks about SamForGov iPhone app adoption
Readers weigh in on whether they will download SamForGov the iPhone application. The poll also asks how much weight respondents gained during the holidays with options ranging from stayed the same to more than 20 pounds. Visit LJWorld.com for more responses and to vote.
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Ljworld.com
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