February is American Heart Month, which for many, means a time to educate Americans about how to live more heart-healthy lives. Heart disease, including strokes, kills more than half a million Americans every year. But in women, heart problems often present themselves very differently than they do in men. Mary Mandel, a heart disease survivor, and Dr. Vinh Nguyen, a cardiologist at St. David's ...
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The Bearkats badly need a win. Tonight at 7, Sam Houston State’s men’s basketball team returns home to Johnson Coliseum seeking to end a three-game losing streak when they play host to the McNeese State Cowboys.
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IDEA PROTEST Join the community protest again IDEA Public Schools in Allan Elementary and Eastside Memorial High. 6pm. Allan Elementary, 4900 Gonzales.
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AUSTIN -- With six months to go until the summer Olympics, all eyes of the swimming world are focused on Austin this weekend. That's because the Swimming Grand Prix is underway at the Joe Jamail Swim Center at the University of Texas. It's part of a series leading up to this summer's Olympic qualifications. On the men's side, 14-time gold medalist Michael Phelps is there. Janet Evans, 1988 gold ...
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AUSTIN -- Hundreds in Austin are marching in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sunday, Dr. King would have turned 83 years old. The celebration and remembrance in Austin started with the words of Dr. King himself playing out over a loud speaker on the University of Texas campus. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream ...
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Chad Kingi (Thousand Oaks) knew there were a few men's volleyball programs recruiting his little brother last year. But Kingi knew there was one thing UC Santa Barbara could offer his brother that other programs could not — him.
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For some reason, gear ratios don't interest most women.
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Attendees of South by Southwest 2012 are in for a treat. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas festival taking place March 9-17. Among them are 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. The organization already announced [1] Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods would open the festival (the movie is phenomenal [2]) and today the majority ...
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In front of a White Building gym swarming with more than two hundred fans, the Penn State fencers set out to forget about last weekend's St. John's Invitational and to re-establish themselves as the class of collegiate fencing.
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HOUSTON — Police in Houston say they are testing some evidence found at the scene of a fatal shooting of an Iranian woman who was an activist on behalf of democracy and women’s rights in her home coun
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