Spokane Spokesman-Review - Christmas season continues to give us a look under the hood re: what it’s like to work in a mid-major newsroom, including insight into what interns discuss here and the heartache a young journalist feels when he spends the day with a 2-year-old cancer
Downtown Kalamazoo eatery closes
Kalamazoo Gazette - The biotech company has entered an agreement with a Japanese biotech form to produce drugs that it hopes will attack infections developed by people undergoing treatment for diseases such as cancer and AIDS. A licensing agreement with Takara Bio Inc
Les Skramstad, 70; ex-mineworker sued over health risks of asbestos
Los Angeles Times - whose early suspicions helped reveal that asbestos from a vermiculite mine poisoned the air and soil and killed hundreds of residents of the northwestern Montana town of Libby, died Jan. 21 at his home of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer


