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Rowe family struggles to make ends meet with child who suffers from debilitating disorder

It's not an easy life. Every day is a struggle for Rowe resident Jessica Gonzales and her family. In June of 2006, Gonzales and her husband, Justin Ortega, were ready to give birth to a healthy baby girl. All the ultrasounds and checkups gave her reason to believe her little girl had no proble ... »Story,

Studies unveiling secrets of fall color

David Brown | Washington Post There aren't many things that look their best right before they die, but the leaf of the sugar maple is one of them. Briefly at the end of each growing season, maple leaves seem to want to imitate the sun, whose energy they've been dutifully col ... »Story,

NASA probe reveals new clues about Mercury

Peter N. Spotts/The Christian Science Monitor | NASA's Mercury mission spacecraft, Messenger, is revolutionizing humanity's view of the first rock from the sun. And its primary science mission hasn't even started yet. During its third and final flyby of Mercury, NASA's Messenger has found min ... »Story,

Study: Cell users miss the obvious

Kie Relyea/The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald | BELLINGHAM, Wash. — How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones? Enough to miss seeing a clown — wearing bright purple and yellow clothes, with a red nose and big red shoes — riding a unicycle near the ... »Story,

Two S.F. nurses get recognized for work

Ana Maria Trujillo | The New Mexican Two Santa Fe nurses were recently awarded 2009 New Mexico Nursing Excellence Awards. Trudy Perry, the Region 2 school health advocate of the New Mexico Department of Health received the New Mexico Distinguished Nurse of the Year Award presented by th ... »Story,

Science fare Nov. 7, 2009

| The New Mexican Upcoming science, nature and technology programs on KNME Public Television, channel 5. NOVA: Becoming Human, Part 1 Ch. 9.1 — 7 p.m. today Ch. 5.1 — 11 a.m. today NOVA presents a definitive three-part special that investigates exp ... »Story,

Food-service inspections Nov. 7, 2009

| The New Mexican For the period ending Oct. 30. Call the New Mexico Environment Department at 505-827-1840 to file a complaint. VANESSIE OF SANTA FE, 434 W. San Francisco St. Cited for moderate-risk violation for lack of chlorine test strips (corrected), lack ... »Story,

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The art of Helen HardinThe story goes that in the 1970s, Indian artists Helen Hardin and Fritz Scholder had words. What prompted the exchange is not known, but allegedly Hardin quipped that if her colleague got punched in the nose and it started to bleed, he would lose his Indian blood in five minutes. If the tale is true, this was quite a verbal TKO for someone who was not a full-blooded Indian herself. One of Hardin's parents was Anglo, the other a member of Santa Clara Pueblo. Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño. »Story

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