City calendar: 4/10 to 4/16 (International telephone calls)

City calendar: 4/10 to 4/16
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - HILL DISTRICT: The Regional Coalition of Community Builders, University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and Sustainable Pittsburgh sponsor a community forum for regional planning from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hill

Young scientists advance to international competition
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Friends since middle school, Lin Chen and Andrew Lechner can read each other like a book. So when the time arrived to team up on a major science project, Chen and Lechner knew precisely where they were headed. "We didn't want to do plants," Chen said

Officials Want Metro Extended To BWI
WBAL Channel - ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland officials are increasingly talking about the need for extending Metrorail all the way to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. But even boosters of the multi-billion-dollar proposal concede they're a

Sneak peak: New York International Auto Show
MSNBC - If it s springtime, it s New York for the auto industry the New York International Auto Show, that is. This show marks the last of the major auto shows in the U.S. and kicks off the busy spring selling season for automakers and their dealers

Fresh Pizza wins $15K Revention POS system
Pizza Marketplace - HOUSTON Ted Alonzo, owner of Fresh Pizza in Lorenzo, Calif., won a $15,000 Revention POS system during International Pizza Expo held in March. According to a news release, Lorenzo s name was picked from 5,000 entries. "To my knowledge, Revention

csmonitor.com staff
Christian Science Monitor - AMSTERDAM As I was preparing for this article, I asked a very good friend who is Jewish if it was appropriate for me to use the term "holocaust" to portray the worldwide violence against women. He was startled. But when I read him the figures in

Goodwill Southern California Meets Review Standards; Local Goodwill
dBusinessNews.com - LOS ANGELES -- CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) announced that Goodwill Southern California has been re-accredited for a period of three years for its assistive technology, employment and community employment services

William H. Foege, MD, MPH Named 2006 Sabin Gold Medal Recipient
Genetic Engineering News - WASHINGTON, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute (SVI) will award the 2006 Sabin Gold Medal to global health expert and epidemiologist William H. Foege, MD, MPH at a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on May 9, 2006 in Baltimore

Device gives mobility to disabled poor
Springfield News-Leader - COLUMBIA Every day, the phone calls and e-mails arrive from some of the world's most far-flung and forlorn corners. From Afghan war zones to impoverished Guatemalan villages, they seek the Missouri-made gifts that offer independence, mobility

A Baltimore naturalist's trip to a lost world
Baltimore Sun - Next came work at the Smithsonian Institution, and a joint appointment with the Wildlife Conservation Society and Conservation International, an organization promoting biodiversity and conservation in more than 40 countries. He describes a stint in