Institutes

More Moms Seeking Safer Plastic Baby Bottles (Carteret County News-Times)

24 Jul 2008

(ARA) - Moms across the country are raising concerns and tossing away baby bottles after a recent report issued by an arm of the National Institutes for Health. The report indicated that bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical found in many plastic baby bottles, could pose health risks.

Teachers attend Humanities Texas Institute (Coppell Gazette)

24 Jul 2008

Angela Geiger, Kimberly Pope and Melanie Ringman of Coppell Middle School North joined outstanding teachers from across the state earlier this month at “From Disunion to Empire: The United States, 1850-1900,� a pair of institutes exploring U.S. history in the second half of the nineteenth century.

ON THIS DATE (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

24 Jul 2008

1931 -- Paavo Nurmi sets the world record at 2 miles in a meet at Helsinki, Finland, with a time of 8:59.6. 1960 -- Jay Hebert beats Jim Ferrier by one stroke to win the PGA golf tournament. 1967 -- Don January wins a playoff by two strokes over Don Massengale to win the PGA championship. 1970 -- The International Lawn Tennis Association institutes the nine-point tiebreaker rule.