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HEALTH MATTERS: Lung cancer screening saves lives
By John A. Heim Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the United States. In fact, more people die of lung disease than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined, according the American Lung Association. This is in part because lung cancer – unlike colon, breast and…
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WEST WINDSOR: Four seek school board seat
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR Four West Windsor residents have filed applications to fill the vacancy on the Board of Education left by Robert Johnson, who recently announced his resignation. Cornell Edmonds, Louisa Ho, Rakesh Kak and Yingchao Zhang all filed their applications on or before the 4 p.m. deadline on April…
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Wild Plant Walk for Edible Native Plants
By Dan Farella Join Dan on May 10th at 2:30 pm in Hightstown for an insightful walk around the land to demystify the “wall of green” surrounding us. He will teach you to identify many plants revered in the herbal traditions for healing ailments, as well as how to forage for nutritious wild food directly…
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Choosing your electricity provider
Al Cavallo, Princeton To the editor: It is extremely encouraging that Sustainable Princeton (letter, 4/27/2013) is urging everyone to consider choosing a renewable electricity supplier. About 35 percent of all U. S. carbon emissions are generated by burning fossil fuels for electricity generation, so that if we are to minimize climate change this source must…
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PRINCETON: 2 university students are venture capitalists
By Oren Fliegelman, Special to the Packet Imagine being in control of half a million dollars before graduating from college or even having held a full-time job. For two entrepreneurial Princeton University juniors, this is not just a dream, it’s reality. About a month ago, Taylor Francis and Raymond Zhong learned their applications to the…
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May flowers
Garden State African Violet Club to host Violets in Vogue at college When many people think of violets, they envision the purple or blue African Violets with the plain green leaves that mothers or grandmothers grow on the kitchen windowsill. However, modern African Violet hybridizers have developed plants with interesting complex characteristics such as ruffled,…
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LOCAL MAGICIAN CONRAD COLOGNE WINS BIG IN LAS VEGAS!
Not everyone who goes to Vegas returns home richer than they left, but Conrad Cologne says he did just that. Hillsborough’s own Conrad Cologne went to Las Vegas to study at the McBride Magic & Mystery School, operated by Las Vegas headliner Jeff McBride and his teacher, Eugene Burger. He attended so on a full…
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Plants and art collide
One of the art pieces that will be on view at Morven in May from May 3-5 at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton.
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