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DEERFIELD, Ill., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 1, 1999 Chicago Bears fans and the organ donation community experienced a great loss with the passing of Chicago Bears legend and organ donation advocate, Walter Payton. Payton, who suffered from primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare autoimmune liver disease, passed away at the age of 45 while on the waiting list for a liver transplant. In honor of Payton, Donate Life Illinois (DLI) and Astellas Pharma US, Inc., (Astellas) in...

NORWALK, Conn., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business and social responsibility advocate, announced today that it will make a $100 donation to the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) for each tackle recorded by a Redskins safety during the 2009 season. The donation, which is part of Diageo and the Washington Redskins' "Responsibility is a Team Sport" program, aims to help promote responsible decision making amongst adult beverage...

A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists.Under the proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those permits would be controlled because the government would retain enough, at a fixed price, to stop the cost increasing above that level.The economists, whose work is published Tuesday Jan, 6 along with two other research papers, say it could appeal to supporters of a carbon tax and...

Spring Partners today announced the introduction of springpad a set of free online notebooks for people to organize, share and tackle life's tasks and events. springpad is perfect for the holidays, offering a convenient way to keep track of all your meals, parties, travel and gift buying. With the holidays just around the corner, limited time and dollars add to the stress of trying to get everything done. springpad helps to keep you organized and current by providing automated access to...

By Will Elliott >Lake Erie The first solid sign of fall fishing showed up this past week with a few nice steelhead trout hitting at 65-foot depths off Cattaraugus Creek. Rick Miller at Miller's Bait & Tackle heard of a couple smaller steelies stealing into mouth-of-the-creek waters. "If we get some more cool nights, the runoff from upstream at Gowanda and Springville should cool waters down here and have trout in the creek in a week or so," he said. He also noted a much better take on...

Keystone Lake in Armstrong County gave up a 44-inch musky this week and a 35-inch musky last week, according to Pam Warr of Keystone Bait and Tackle in Shelocta. A few nice bass and walleyes have also shown up, too. • An angler fishing Blue Spruce Lake in Indiana County this past week reeled in a 7-pound, 2-ounce largemouth bass. • The fishing has generally been pretty good at Lake Arthur, too, said Ron Anderson of Appalachian Trails in Prospect. Anglers drifting nightcrawlers have...

By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Aug. 1--Today marks the debut of a new format for the fishing report, which is now a two-part feature available both in the paper and on The Morning Call's Web site. Each week, I'll give Lehigh Valley fishermen a summary of the region's best bets in print, along with timely news and notes about the angling scene. The popular local fishing summaries from our freshwater and saltwater tackle shop reporters will continue to be available in...

By JIM FREDA Acres and of bunker are still present in Monmouth and Ocean county waters with the area from Bradley Beach to Mantoloking having the largest concentrations in the last week. The action for big striped bass, however, has been like a roller coaster ride as each day has its ups or downs and special twists or turns. There is usually a bite each day somewhere in the above- mentioned area but it has been occurring with no rhyme or reason and at no particular place. Sometimes it has...

By Patrick Markey BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe appears set to secure a second term in Sunday's elections with Colombians ready to reward him at the ballot box for cracking down on warring paramilitaries and Marxist guerrillas. Nearly four years with Uribe at the tiller have slashed kidnapping and crime rates, opened up key highways once plagued by banditry and steered the economy to strong growth in spite of a four-decade-old conflict that kills...

By Gerard Wynn BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany and Britain called on Monday for tougher greenhouse gas targets after the European Union said emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide fell well short of official quotas last year. The EU's carbon trading scheme, the centerpiece of its Kyoto strategy to tackle climate change, is supposed to drive pollution cuts by handing industry fewer permits to pollute than expected emissions, so firms have to buy in the extra permits. But the EU said...