Archive for February, 2008

The personal becomes the universal (Park Record)

Irene Taylor Brodsky says she gets a lot of letters from people that don't know her, many four or five pages long.

By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY Tribune Chronicle (Tribune Chronicle)

WARREN — A judge on Thursday approved a $15 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by surviving family members of a renowned local surgeon who died in a plane crash.

By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY Tribune Chronicle (Tribune Chronicle)

WARREN — A judge on Thursday approved a $15 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by surviving family members of a renowned local surgeon who died in a plane crash.

North Iowa News (The Globe Gazette)

Chamber seeks nominations for board of directors vacancy

Sumner’s sweeper, Tim Hyland, dies at 48 (Puyallup Herald)

Tim Hyland will no longer be sweeping Sumner’s streets, but he’ll forever be known as “the sweeper.”

Youngest patient worldwide to have auditory implant in the brain stem (News-Medical-Net)

A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra, led by doctors Manuel Manrique Rodríguez, specialist in ear, nose and throat surgery and Bartolomé Bejarano Herruzo, specialist in paediatric neurosurgery, have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves.

A Dancer’s Passion (WXOW 19 La Crosse)

According to the oxford journals, nearly ten million people are hard of hearing and close to one million people are functionally deaf in the US. But, time and again we see people overcoming this limitation.

North Iowa News (The Globe Gazette)

Chamber seeks nominations for board of directors vacancy

Free Sundance screening (Provo Daily Herald)

Do you sometimes wish that you could get that Sundance Film Festival vibe without fighting crowds and traffic, searching high and low for a place to park, and bundling up to beat freezing temperatures in the dead of winter?

A new fight over cochlear ear implants (Minnesota Public Radio)

Insurance companies who cover one cochlear implant are balking at covering a second, in spite of evidence that two work better than one.