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1. Congress must not overlook dental care
(Health/Healthquest)

BY WALTER VAN BRUNT DELTA DENTAL OF NEW JERSEY COMMENTARY Much of the recent discussion of health care reform has ignored oral health. That's unfortunate because good oral health means much more ...

2. Half the world projected to face ‘severe water stress’
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to coastal erosion, shrinking river deltas, and damage to coastal fisheries. TIERRAMÉRICA: But agriculture and aquaculture are vital for the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people around the world. ...

3. O’Connor couple sentenced for stealing health care from Hoboken school district
(N.J./State)

... Blue Shield, the Hoboken Board of Education, whose benefits program is also administered by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delta Dental Insurance Company, Bollinger Insurance, and Maxor Pharmaceutical ...

4. A new non-toxic method for fighting termites
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... we basically found is they're producing these enzymes that are able to chew up a component of the fungal cell wall, and a small sugar called Glucono delta-lactone [GDL] could inhibit these enzymes," Bulmer ...

5. Ancient to modern: Alexandria's Bibliotheca Alexandrina
(Life/Style)

... hour journey from Cairo to Alexandria. As the train rumbled through the fertile Nile Delta of Lower Egypt, we gazed out the window at men in turbans and long white robes working the rich green fields, ...

6. Gasoline and crude oil prices hit new highs for the year
(U.S./Nation)

... caused by the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) continues. MEND is a militant group opposed to the extraction and exportation of Nigerian oil by international oil companies and seeks ...

7. Cyclone Aila lashes Eastern India, Bangladesh
(World/International)

... remove debris, including hundreds of uprooted trees and power poles. Rivers flowed over mud embankments in the Sundarbans Delta, in which the world's largest tiger reserve is located. Conservationists ...

8. Dental career center opens in Newark high school
(Health/Healthquest)

The Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation is celebrating the opening of a dental career center located in Newark's Central High School. The Delta Dental Careers Center will serve as a hands-on facility ...