Clusters of TV and computer screens beam chatty videos about cooking, travel and wellness books. A music kiosk lets visitors download MP3s or burn CDs, while another offers tips on how to publish your own novel.
Welcome to the newly opened Borders bookstore in Southbury, Conn., which looks less like a traditional branch of the nation’s [...]

Health professionals have stressed the need to promote health education at federal, state and local government levels.
They made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of the first National Conference on Health Promotion and Education (HPE)in Abuja.
The communiqué stressed the need to make advocacy a major tool for making HPE a priority.
Education It [...]

Oklahoma Area Health Education Center at Okla-homa State University and Rural Health Projects NwAHEC will conduct a free cancer survivorship education session in Enid noon to 2 p.m. June 21 at Senior Life Network’s activity room in Oakwood Mall, 4125 W. Garriott.
This is the first of several two-hour cancer survivorship education sessions planned throughout rural [...]

The first issue to settle in discussing aboriginal affairs is who defines the issues and who is supposed to solve them.
Pierre Trudeau was quoted in Morris Shumiatcher’s book Welfare: The Hidden Backlash, as saying “all of us feel a sense of guilt, not so much toward the Indian, as toward the fact that we haven’t [...]

Potomac College in D.C. and its sister college, the University of Business and International Studies of Geneva, will offer an international business degree that combines studies in the U.S., Switzerland and online beginning this summer.
The D.C. school’s first-ever international program was conceived when the owner of Potomac College, New York-based Hamilton White Group, added the [...]

Moving to a big city after graduation is the popular path of many college graduates. Opportunities abound; there’s lots to do and plenty of people to befriend.
But what if you don’t want to be one of millions fighting to get ahead in a big city? If the idea of a huge metropolis sounds overwhelming and [...]

Alfonso Contrisciani, whose company oversees food services at Nationals Park, walked the concourses at the stadium May 20, ignoring much of the game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Wearing his dress whites and then changing into a sports coat to go incognito, he quietly observed everything: The staff behind concession stands. The kitchen crews.
As vice president [...]

WELSH food and drink companies will be joining their European counterparts in Amsterdam today and tomorrow at a specialist trade event.
The PLMA (Private Label Manufacturers Association) exhibition is for food and drink companies and high quality European retail and foodservice buyers looking to source new products and suppliers for own label brands.
Organised by International Business [...]

A new report says Vermont’s the second-best place in America to raise children, even if it does have high health care costs.
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The report, by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that supports health policy research, compared children’s health in the states and concluded that Vermont’s just behind Iowa in healthiest state [...]

Riverview HealthCare Campus in collaboration with Ottawa County Senior Resources hosted their first ever, Senior Health and Wellness Fair on Wednesday May 28, 2008 to celebrate the 15th Annual National Senior Health & Fitness Day. Seniors from across the county were treated to various vendors and local healthcare providers featuring free screenings such as blood [...]