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For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
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An NIH grant will fund an unconventional strategy at UNC Asheville against drug-resistant bacteria and it's undergraduates, not graduate students, are doing the lab work. -
The news comes after the House Ethics Committee recommended Edwards be censured for inappropriate conduct toward two female staffers.
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The congressman sent the staffers “lavish” gifts, invited them to “intimate dinners and vacations” and sent them notes about his “effusive affection” for them, according to the panel. -
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“HCA threw every argument against the wall to try to get this case thrown out, but they didn’t stick,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson said in a statement.
