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By Rodriguez, Fausto J Perry, Arie; Gutmann, David H; O'Neill, Brian Patrick; Leonard, Jeffrey; Bryant, Sandra; Giannini, Caterina Abstract There are few pathologic studies of gliomas in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. We analyzed clinical and pathologic features of gliomas from 100 neurofibromatosis type 1 patients (57 men; 43 women). The median age at tumor diagnosis was 13 years (range, 4 months to 68 years). Most tumors were typical pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) (49%) or diffusely...

By Tania Valdemoro, The Miami Herald Mar. 11--The Miami Beach Board of Adjustment Friday settled a pair of permitting challenges filed against Fisher Island championed by a local union -- siding with Fisher Island -- and deferred two more disputes until April. For the past year, Fisher Island and the Service Employees International Union Local 11 have been fighting over the union's attempts to organize workers on the island. The latest front in the war: building permits for the Palazzo del...

By Fish, Lynn A Wilson, F Scott Although several studies have been performed, Graduate Admissions programs are still encountering difficulties uncovering criteria that will predict academic success in their programs. Researchers have analyzed Executive, full and part-time MBA programs and can only conclude that undergraduate grade point average and the GMAT are significant factors to predicting success; however, predictability with these factors is less than 19%. Similar to other studies,...

By Kim, Hyuk-Rae The global community is witnessing the growing importance of NGOs in local, national, and international spheres. NGOs increasingly penetrate into what had been an almost exclusive domain of the government. Transcending the territorial boundaries, they address a variety of global agendas such as the environment, grassroots development, and international security, which in turn force the state to seek partners in the civil society sector. This paper investigates the shifting...

By Stephen P. Clark, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Aug. 7--STAMFORD -- The rustling of leaves caught the attention of Grace LeVander as she had dinner with her husband, Carl, in the screened gazebo outside their North Stamford home one evening last month. It was about 7 p.m. when Grace spotted what appeared to be a fisher cat about 30 feet away. When Carl moved closer to get a better look, he discovered two more fisher cats. "They moved like a weasel, like a mink," said Carl, 77. "It was...

To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Jerry Feaser of the PA Game Commission, +1-717-705- 6541, PGCNews@state.pa.us HARRISBURG, Pa., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials, an adult fisher recently was hit on a rural road in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, resulting in the first record of a fisher killed in the area since a reintroduction program in 1994. The fisher, one of the largest members of the weasel family, was found by a local...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Walter Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian, today announced the state Department of Health's laboratory in Lionville, Chester County, has confirmed that a fisher recovered near St. Michaels, Cambria County, was rabid. This particular fisher had become a part of the Game Commission's ongoing research project seeking to learn more about this member of the weasel family. "This is the first recorded case of rabies in this...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer safety officials and toy maker Fisher-Price, a Mattel Inc. brand, said on Wednesday about 614,000 Laugh & Learn musical chairs were being voluntarily recalled because they pose a strangulation hazard. Fisher-Price had received three reports of young children getting their necks lodged between the seatback and the side table of the toy, including one report of a child receiving a welt on the neck, according to a news release from the U.S. Consumer...