Новости за 23.02.2016

A Feb. 14 Post and Courier editorial asks readers to open their minds on the topic of converting one lane of the Legare bridge into a bicycle-pedestrian-only lane. The editorial tells us this will enable thousands of commuters to bike or walk to work every day. It would mean significantly fewer cars on the roads and would "increase travel...

A Jan. 28 column by Steve Bailey said it is disturbing that Academic Magnet High School was founded on the campus of a historically black school and is now predominantly white.

Some people think Bernie Sanders might as well be from Mars as he advocates for universal health care in our country. If we look in the mirror, we as a nation are the people from Mars. All other industrial Western countries offer their citizens universal health care. Even our neighbor Mexico does.

The Feb. 9 Post and Courier article about the Magnolia site includes a picture of undeveloped land at sea level. We see the "highway to nowhere" running through a tidal marsh. Is developing such land realistic? I think not.

South Carolina legislators who support term limits for Congress have filed resolutions with the avowed aim of a constitutional convention that would take up the issue. Better that those legislators first look closer to home for term limits in the General Assembly.

President Barack Obama has said he will soon nominate a successor to Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court justice who died unexpectedly on Feb. 13 in Texas. The president promises that the candidate will be someone Senate Republicans have considered and approved in the past. Some of the betting focuses on Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Ending the long, cruel scourge of Jim Crow segregation demanded inspiring leadership and courageous action.

WASHINGTON — Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama’s mischief was methodical.

By Dan Beaman, Virginia Bush,

One South Carolina presidential primary is now over, dampening the succession of robocalls, ominous videos and lurid mailers. So the prospect for a calmer, more rational week seemed within reach.

In 2001, when Dr. Alison Stuebe was pregnant with her first child, breast-feeding was a personal challenge that soon morphed into a professional research interest. Her son Noah was 3 months old when she began her residency in maternal-fetal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

You can order a pizza, a latte, movie tickets or your next car online, so why is it so darned hard to email your doc?

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State University researchers are moving ahead with a long-delayed project in which a dozen students will be paid to eat genetically modified bananas.

NEW YORK — Tired of hearing that more than a third of U.S. adults don’t get enough sleep? Here’s something new: a government report about which states get the most sack time.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths.

Over many years, the 77-year-old patient has managed to control his Type 2 diabetes. Thanks in part to daily doses of a drug that reduces blood sugar, his glucose level is a very low 6.5 percent.

WASHINGTON — A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease although it isn’t robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them.

When journalist June Cross started filming a documentary about AIDS in South Carolina, this state topped all others in the country for heterosexual transmission.

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BATTAGLIA, Salvatore Joseph, 90, of Mount Pleasant, husband of Elizabeth Ruggiero Battaglia, died Saturday. Arrangements by Charleston Cremation Center and Funeral Home.

Dr. Stania DeJesus’s primary care practice sits along a row of nearly identical storefronts in an office park next to Trident Medical Center.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios will lead Australia's Davis Cup charge against the United States in the opening tie in Melbourne next month, with doubles specialist John Peers to debut in the team tournament.

At last, the cast of Friends was all together seen in one stage -- sans Matthew Perry, of course; but he was on the big screen in the background.

With stock and property markets on shaky ground, investors in China and Hong Kong are pouring money into art. But as Farah Master reports, few if any of these pieces will end up hanging above the fireplace.

Marking her return to the streets of New York after a successful Super Bowl stint in San Francisco as a correspondent, Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach conquered the runway and streets of the Big Apple next as part of the much-awaited New York Fashion Week.