Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 31, 2009 -- Drs. M.K. Goldstein and H.S. Pennypacker, members of the U.S. research team that created and validated standards for effective manual breast examination, today announced development of a new tactually accurate, personal breast model for women that teaches their fingers what to feel for while pacing the duration of each breast palpation.
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MammaCare's Tactually Accurate Breast Model Trains Sense of Touch to Detect Small Tumors (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
With her three children 5,000 miles away, the model decided to mark Mother's Day in the way she knows best - with a mammoth drinking session.
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Portrait of a woman celebrating Mother's Day: Drunken Katie Price found slumped over table (Daily Mail)
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
A couple have kept their love alive by spending 20 years building a model of the town where they first met.
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Model couple re-create the town where they first met (Times Online)
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Miriam Brinks fell in love with trains at the tender age of 2.
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Model train show packs Finch (The Morning Sun)
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
EVESHAM - Model train enthusiasts turned out in droves for the 16th annual Train and Toy show, looking for bargains and hard-to-find items.
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Train enthusiasts roar into town (Burlington County Times)
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
DENISON -- Everything is computerized now, Robert Robinson said. During his 43 years working on the railroads, 5-man teams worked with the trains; now, one man with a computer can do much of that work. "It's totally different," he said.
More here: Red River Railroad Museum celebrates re-opening (The Herald Democrat)
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Charles W. Briggs Jr. was president of Anderson Cadillac, a Rotary Club member and a model railroader.
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Bill Briggs sold cars, but he loved trains (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Trains ranging from model scale to life size again will highlight this year's 2009 Railroad Days Festival today and Saturday at the historic Callahan Depot.
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Coming Up (as of March 27) (Nassau County Record)
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
If Britt Harrington doesn't have the most expensive hobby in the country, it's hard to imagine who does.
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High-priced hobby a trip for restorers of old trains (Dallas Morning News)
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The Yarmouth County Museum is hosting an exhibition of model trains called Trains and Tracks...
Continue here: Trains and Tracks at the county museum (The Yarmouth County Vanguard)
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