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Feature | Thursday, June 23,2005
{after 1st article on article listing} Illinois meditations
When I signed up for a meditation course at
the Illinois Vipassana Meditation Center, I was hardly expecting a
peaceful, relaxing vacation. It would be meditation all day, ev
News | Thursday, May 29,2003
Flirting with disaster?
If sewage contributed to 1998’s leptospirosis epidemic, we may still have a problem.
In the spring of 2001 Joe Mackay left a message with the Springfield Metro Sanitary District. He'd seen sewage flowing out of three manholes in the Lick Creek Wildlife Preserve near Lake Springfield.
Feature | Thursday, May 22,2003
Troubled waters
Does a microscopic monster lurk in Lake Springfield?
For a small Midwestern city with a clean, wholesome reputation, Springfield's 1998 outbreak of leptospirosis seems nothing short of bizarre. It was by far the largest epidemic of that illness in Unite
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