Citing economic factors and programming requirements from ESPN Radio as reasons for the decision, KFNC (97.5 FM) said today that Chronicle columnist Jerome Solomon has been removed as a regular host of the station’s afternoon drive time sports talk show.
Dave Tepper, the station’s new program director, said Carl Dukes will host from 3 to 5 [...]

Dupre’s page had portrayed her as a New Jersey native who left a broken home to pursue a music career in New York. Court papers allege that Spitzer paid thousands of dollars for her services with the Emperor’s Club VIP.”I have been alone,” she wrote. “I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. [...]

But even though microbes essentially rule the Earth, scientists have never before been able to conduct comprehensive studies of microbes and their interactions with one another in their natural habitats. Now, a new study provides the first inventories of microbial capabilities in nine very different types of ecosystems, ranging from coral reefs to deep mines.
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