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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 8:39 p.m.

The Democratic nominee for one of the Jefferson County judgeships has had her law license suspended by the State Bar for allegedly taking some money from a client ... Now a subcommittee of the Democratic Party has voted to remove her as the nominee, thereby clearing the way for the woman she beat  in the primary/runoff to get the nominee ... http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/08/update_nicole_still_wants_judg.html ... The nominee intends to appeal to the full party ... The question posed is - is

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UAB CORD teaches kids the realities of scientific research


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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 4:11 a.m.

Inside a University of Alabama at Birmingham laboratory, 17-year-old Tiffany McDaniel, a senior at Carver High School, has been hard at work this summer on an experiment to determine the effects of nanoparticles on health ...

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About those Alabama Taxes ...


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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

First off, as noted earlier this week, Alabama is second from the bottom in taxes per capita.  And we would be first except South Carolina's economy fell off a bigger cliff than ours did ... As the Birmingham News points out, our taxes don't feel like the second lowest in the nation, because the Alabama tax structure is so unfair: ... The bottom 80 percent of taxpayers in Alabama, who earn up to $78,000 a year, pay more than twice the percentage of their incomes in state and local taxes than

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The 500mph ambulance: UAB’s Critical Care Transport jet


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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 1:15 a.m.

Ashley Hagood doesn’t remember her first airplane ride. The 23-year old North Alabama woman was unconscious, aboard the University of Alabama at Birmingham Critical Care Transport jet, as it made a mad dash from Panama City, Fla., to Birmingham, Ala., in an attempt to save her life ...

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UAB to offer new AP-related scholarships to Birmingham City School seniors


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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 1:01 a.m.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has developed a new Advanced Placement (AP) Scholarship Program for Birmingham City School System seniors, using income generated from an endowed fund made possible by an anonymous $4 million cash gift designated for scholarships for women and minorities ...

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UAB Gospel Choir to celebrate 15th anniversary with reunion concert, preview new “Mirrors” CD


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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 9:30 a.m.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Gospel Choir will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a reunion concert and new CD preview at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. South ...

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UAB students in early med school program learn the art of writing, publishing


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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 5:01 a.m.

Three University of Alabama at Birmingham sophomores have spent the summer of 2010 learning what it takes to become a published writer ...

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New cancer radiation technology at UAB improves accuracy, drops treatment time below a minute in some patients


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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 8:43 a.m.

The Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center is among the world’s first to begin using radiation technology that dramatically reduces treatment times ...

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UAB researchers reach crucial milestone in quest for lifelong joint replacement devices


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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 6:37 a.m.

Total knee and hip joint replacement devices that last a lifetime are closer to reality thanks to recent breakthroughs in Department of Physics laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham involving specialized nanodiamonds a billionth of a meter in size ...

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Gulf leak may be stopped, but experts still identifying unknowns, working to minimize toxic health effects, UAB researcher says


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Published Aug. 2, 2010 at 4:50 a.m.

While oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, experts are far from finished working to anticipate, outline and minimize the disaster’s potential health risks, says a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health researcher actively involved in helping the federal government deal with repercussions from the April 20 accident ...

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