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Stability balls get a workout subbing as office desk chairs
Being a desk jockey might seem like light duty, but it can be rough on the body.
Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners today elected its 2010 officers: The newly elected officers will assume their duties following the completion of the Winter National Meeting.
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
This Studies Area Is All About Hatred
Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University , who is developing a new academic field of hate studies.
Spokane transit system looking at trolleys
The Spokane Transit Authority is using $360,000 in federal and state grant money for a study of a possible trolley or streetcar system in downtown Spokane.
Abuse claims against Jesuits reach 500
More than 500 people have filed claims accusing Jesuits of sexually abusing children across the Northwest.
Bedford Falls as the Promised Land
The slums of Pottersville are Pharaonic enslavement, and Bedford Falls flows with milk, honey and justice in Patrick McCormick's theological reading of It's A Wonderful Life .
Guest Composer/Conductor to Visit CCM
Composer and conductor Robert Spittal will serve as an artist in residence at CCM from December 3-8, 2009.
Hate study may help fix the future
For a question that goes right to the heart of many of the modern world's very real problems, very few people are asking it, and even fewer are trying to get to the bottom of it.
Filmmaker Sees Immigration Angle to Posada Celebration
By Mark Pattison Source: Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009 People hold hands through the U.S.-Mexican border fence during a 2007 Christmas "posada." WASHINGTON - Now coming to a Catholic high school near you: the eye-opening documentary Posada .
Omaha native returns for UNO lecture
Omaha native Marc Manganaro will return to the state next week as part of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Centennial Speaker Series.
Free Thanksgiving meals available today, Thursday November 25, 2009
Emily Carver, a volunteer from Fairchild Air Force Base, stacks frozen turkeys Tuesday in the gym at the Salvation Army Center in Spokane.
Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jim Mohr, of Gonzaga University, is trying to figure out what makes one group of people hate another.
What's up in northeast Spokane? Not turnout
Northeast Spokane has an electoral problem that needs to be examined after the 2010 Census is complete.
Does Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate's solution to...
Is it as simple as choosing one over the other? Photobucket The mission: Combating hatred This morning's Richmond Times-Dispatch featured an AP article written by Nicholas K. Geranios on Gonzaga University's Institute for Action Against Hate.
Why do we hate? New academic field of hate studies seeks the answer
Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Tutsi hate the Hutu? Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies.
Auburn resident accepted to Navy's nuclear program
Brett Matthews, a Mechanical Engineering student at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has been selected for the highly competitive U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate program.
North Idaho Repository Proceeds Despite Concerns
A field in the mountains of North Idaho has become a crossroad for two historic forces - mining and the legacy of Catholic missionaries.
Physiology led him to great heights
Nick Adrizzi of Inland Imaging immobilizes Dawes Eddya s arms while preparing him for brain and heart testing June 1, shortly after his return to Spokane from his conquest of Mount Everest.
GU hands out 50 doses of H1N1 vaccine
Gonzaga University started giving out its H1N1 vaccines Tuesday. Gonzaga only had 50 doses to hand out and all of those doses were already reserved.
Detractors line up against state's Spokane River plan
The gondolas at Riverfront Park pass in front of Spokane Falls on Wednesday. A plan to limit algae- producing phosphorus in the Spokane River has a range of critics.
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