Day: May 22, 2011

Summer Reading for the Kids at the Park Forest Library

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 22, 2011. The Park Forest Library, 400 Lakewood Boulevard, invites kids ages 0 – 18 to be part of its Summer 2011 Reading Program “A Midsummer Knight’s Read.” Start your quest on Tuesday, June 7 at 7 PM with sign-up and a special presentation of King Arthur[Read More…]

Area Educators Work on New Principal Evaluation System at GSU

Area educators work together under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Murphy of Vanderbilt University on a revised principal evaluation system. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- In the culmination of a three month project, approximately 15 school district administrators and principals recently met at Governors State University to finish developing a[Read More…]

Buying ‘Legal Highs’ From The Internet Is A Risky Business

Many drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ on the internet do not contain the ingredients they claim, reports the journal Drug Testing and Analysis University of Lincoln, UK-(ENEWSPF)- Many drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ on the internet do not contain the ingredients they claim. Some instead contain controlled substances and are[Read More…]

2-Year Results: Artificial Disc A Viable Alternative To Fusion For 2-Level Disc Disease

LOS ANGELES-(ENEWSPF)- When two adjacent discs in the low back wear out, become compressed and cause unmanageable pain, numbness or other symptoms, replacement with artificial discs can be a viable alternative to standard fusion surgery, based on two-year post-surgery data from a randomized, multicenter trial recently published in the Journal[Read More…]

NASA Sees Tropical Storm 04W’s Thunderstorms Grow Quickly

This TRMM satellite 3-D image shows that some thunderstorm towers near TSO4W’s center of circulation were punching up to heights of over 16 km (~9.9 miles) above the ocean’s surface. (Photo: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center-(ENEWSPF)- Tropical Storm 04W formed from the low pressure System 98W this morning[Read More…]

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