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Science, Health and Technology
4:29 pm
Thu October 25, 2012

Slimmer school lunches struggle to fit in

Credit Grant Gerlock / Harvest Public Media
Tracy Zeorian, of Manley, Neb., is packing lunch most days for her two daughters in high school after they complained of being hungry after eating the new school lunches.

Lunch is served in a small gymnasium that doubles as the cafeteria at Elmwood-Murdock High School, a small, rural school in eastern Nebraska. After the period bell rings, a line quickly forms at the service window where trays are loaded with fish patties on whole wheat buns and small piles of curly fries.

With the emphasis on small.

Because at Elmwood-Murdock, like at other schools across the country, students this year have been put on a new diet.

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Science, Health and Technology
3:50 pm
Thu October 25, 2012

New Bloomfield school receives funding for classroom technology

Credit Evan Townsend / KBIA
Ryan Denning teaches Animal Farm in his high school literature class. Denning plans to use the education grant to make his lessons more interactive.
Science, Health and Technology
8:45 am
Thu October 25, 2012

QR codes link past with the present in Jefferson City cemetery

Credit Samantha Renner, General Manager / Riverview Cemetery
Brochures for a self-guided tour at the cemetery contain QR codes such as these.

The Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City cemetery is implementing QR codes into its tours.

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Health & Wealth Update
5:31 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Telehealth can connect rural areas with medical care

In September, the state awarded grants to eleven rural Missouri hospitals to improve broadband internet connections speeds. The connection would be used for telehealth, a way rural towns access physicians in bigger cities electronically. KBIA’s Lee Jian Chung brings us the first of a two part series on the expansion of telehealth services in Missouri.

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