NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE, France — Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit outside Paris that’s unique to France. The 19th century farm buildings and wooded surroundings are a haven within the Ville-Evrard hospital complex in ...
NEW YORK — Gordon S. Wood, the eminent and prolific scholar who forged a highly influential and sharply debated narrative of the country’s early years of independence through such prize-winning works as “The Creation of the American Republic” and “The Radicalism of the American ...
WILLIAMSPORT — Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Lycoming, has always been bullish about the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. His district is in the heart of the northern section of the Marcellus Shale belt, stretching diagonally across the state. The powerful chairman of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, Yaw is a recipient of the Shale Gas Advocate Award from the Marcellus Shale Coalition. Even so, he may be even more bullish than usual now. “The only reasonable solution that we have to our energy problems is using natural gas,” Yaw said in an interview with ...
Pennsylvania students would be barred from using cellphones during the school day under legislation the state House approved last week. House Bill 1814 was approved in a 126-75 vote. Lawmakers were divided on the issue, with members of both parties voting for and against the bill. The state Senate approved a similar bill in February, raising the possibility that a final compromise bill could be included in a broader budget deal. Lawmakers returned to the Capitol Monday for the four-week sprint leading up to a June 30 budget deadline. The legislation requires school boards to enact ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A zoo in Taiwan’s capital received a pair of endangered red pandas from China on Saturday, in the first exchange of animals in more than a decade as tensions between the two sides run high. The pandas, a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female, will be in ...
It’s very rare that we can say a nation was fundamentally different the day after a major construction project was completed from what it was the day before. But that’s exactly what happened to the United States of America on May 10, 1869, as the First Transcontinental Railroad was ...
