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Hughes takes helm as president MMHCA Peggy Hughes, a licensed professional counselor and a trained mediator, was recently elected president of the Missouri Mental Health Counselor's Association (MMHCA).

Willie Hensley on Ted Stevens - Uncle Ted: Pugnacious political papa

Forty-eight years ago, in the month of August in 1962, I met Ted Stevens in my home village of Kotzebue. I had decided not to return to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks that fall and was working for B and R Tug and Barge, owned by Edith Bullock, a former Republican territorial legislator. I had absolutely no concept of politics. Just nine years earlier, our family was living in a sod house ...

UM enrollment reaches all-time high

Author(s):  Blair Jackson   Total enrollment at the University of Mississippi has reached an all time high of 19,554 for all six Ole Miss campuses, according to the Institutional Research and Assessment at Ole Miss.   Show Author Info?:  Show Author Info? Teaser:  Total enrollment at the University of Mississippi has reached an all time high of 19,554 for all six Ole Miss campuses, according to ...

High testosterone levels linked to self-destructive CEO behavior, says Management Science

( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ) High testosterone levels in CEOs negotiating mergers and acquisitions are linked to a higher rate of dropped deals and an increase in hostile takeover attempts, according to a new study in the current issue of Management Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Wilmington on DVD: Solitary Man, L'Enfance Nue, Errol Flynn, MacGruber, Poirot

The thing that fascinates people about a serial seducer like Ben Kalmen, magnificently played by Michael Douglas in Solitary Man , is his speed of conquest. What could take the average man, even in our liberated society, several months or, at best, weeks to do -- sleep with the woman to whom he's attracted -- a great serial seducer can knock off in a single night.