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UPDATE 4-Two freight trains collide in Missouri 7 injured

Sat May 25, 2013 1:27pm EDT By Tim Bross ST. LOUIS, Mo. May 25 (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said. None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash - two train workers and five people who had ...
Cargo trains collide derail in SE Missouri

CHAFFEE, Mo. - A federal agency has sent investigators to southeast Missouri, where seven people were injured when two cargo trains collided on tracks under a highway overpass, causing the overpass to partially collapse.Scott County Sheriff's Office Dispatcher Clay Slipis said the collision happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday near Chaffee when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern ...
Kimball too sick to attend Indy 500 driver meeting

IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball was sick Saturday and missed the public driver meeting for the Indianapolis 500.A team spokesman for Chip Ganassi Racing said medical personnel gave Kimball fluids as treatment and the illness was unrelated to his diabetes.Kimball is expected to race on Sunday. He'll start 19th and is one of 11 American drivers in the ...
A Look Back • St. Louis fights off British-led raid during American Revolution

Dear Abby o I'm a 21-year-old nursing student in college. I'm a "people person" and everyone says I'm easy to talk to. According to my ...
Teens create touching exhibit on local veterans at History Museum

The exhibit now at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Parkruns through Oct. 20. The exhibit is part of the Teens Make History program, which began in 2007 for mainly under-served students ages 15-18. It has been expanded to teens of diverse backgrounds. The teens in the program also write and perform short original plays about history, attend an academy and are eligible for paid ...

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The Black Cauldron

More than thirteen years after its brief and disastrous showing in U.S. theaters, Disney has released on video "The Black Cauldron," its first and (so far) only PG-rated animated feature film. Produced in 1985, a time when (if you can believe this) Disney's animation studio was fledgling and on the brink of closing down shop for good, "The Black Cauldron" is a flawed, but ambitious film that was o ... ...

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Seven hurt when trains collide spurring collapse of southeast Missouri overpass

o Seven people were injured early Saturday morning when two freight trains collided, spurring the collapse of a highway overpass.Dispatcher Clay Slipis of the Scott County Sheriff's Department said two vehicles were on the Highway M overpass about 2:30 a.m. when a Union Pacific train T-boned a Burlington Northern train.Several Union Pacific cars derailed, hitting an overpass pillar and ...
Jimmie Johnson chasing NASCAR history not legacy

Jimmie Johnson climbs into his car before practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Chuck ...
Freight train collision in Missouri leaves 7 injured

Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said.None of the seven people hurt - two aboard the trains and five people who had been in cars on the two-lane overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County Sheriff Rick ...
Massive Missouri train collision takes down highway overpass

ROCKVIEW, Mo. Seven people were injured in a massive train collision in eastern Missouri early Saturday morning that took down a highway overpass, CBS affiliate KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, ...
Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668000

German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body.

Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can develop.

Michael Lewis, an associate professor of oncology in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, stated that being able to target secondary tumors is vital to successfully treating patients with progressive cancers.

"Depending on the type of cancer, primary tumors usually are not the cause of death for cancer patients. If a cancer metastasizes, or spreads creating hard-to-find tumors, it often becomes fatal. Having a way to identify and shrink these secondary tumors is of utmost importance when fighting to save people with these diseases," Lewis said.

In an effort to find a way to locate and kill secondary tumors, Lewis, in collaboration with J. David Robertson, director of research at the MU Research Reactor and professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, have successfully created nanoparticles made of a radioactive form of the element lutetium. ...