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With hopes of launching southern Ohio's standing as a mecca for the most technologically-savvy region in the country for medical education and services, the Adena Health Foundation is well on its way to building the most modern health care centers in the nation.

Having recently received a grant of $1 million from PACCAR (parent company of the Kenworth Truck Co.), Adena Healthcare has gathered nearly half of its $15 million budget for constructing the Adena Healthcare Education Innovation Center.

"Today, the most modern medical educational facility is at Riverside Hospital in Columbus," said Larry Gates, a member of the Adena Healthcare Board of Trustees. "In two years, the most modern facility in the United States will be at Ross County at Adena."

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) ? Portland General Electric customers may be bailing the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry out of a $4.6 million delinquent loan with state money intended to fund efficiency measures and renewable energy.

A 3 percent public purpose surcharge on PGE and PacifiCorp customers was implemented by the Legislature in 2002 to fund the Energy Trust of Oregon, an organization that works with residential and industrial customers to promote energy efficiency and efforts to use renewables.

Opponents of the measure say using that money to pay off OMSI's debt to the Department of Energy amounts to a legislative raid on ratepayer money.

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But regulators still urged to demand stiffer commitments

12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 26, 2007

rloftis@dallasnews.com

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SINGAPORE | Developed countries are hypocritical for criticizing China's greenhouse gas emissions while using the country's cheap labor to power industries that pollute, Asian business and government leaders said Monday."This is green imperialism," Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Malaysia's deputy finance minister, told a panel discussion on global warming at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, a two-day conference.China has come under increasing pressure from the United States in particular to take more...

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Readers express a variety of opinions in their letters to FLORIDA TODAY.

Stormwater project hurts Melbourne woods

I care deeply about the protection of the Indian River Lagoon. Stormwater retention ponds can be very helpful in keeping polluted runoff from entering the lagoon.

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