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Under the Microscope
5:32 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

On food and phones

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Author Michael Pollan spoke to St. Louis Public Radio's Veronique LaCapra.
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On the show this week, we’ll revisit a report that tests the iPhone 4s’s ability to recognize accents, and hear from author Michael Pollan.

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Science, Health and Technology
4:20 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Interview with author Michael Pollan

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Author and self described "food advocate" Michael Pollan.
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Michael Pollan considers himself a writer, a professor and eater.  

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Shots - Health Blog
3:29 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America

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Dr. Dan Shuman (right), who was recruited to the Ashland Health Clinic as part of its mission-focused medicine program, consults with a patient about smoking cessation.
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Benjamin Anderson (right), Ashland Health Clinic's CEO, poses with Tony Kargbo (left), who was just hired as the director of nursing for the clinic's long-term care facility.
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Originally published on Wed February 1, 2012 11:01 pm

Recruiting doctors to live and work in rural America is a chronic problem. Most health centers try to attract workers with big salaries and expensive homes.

Shots previously reported that one center in Maine was trying to lure medical students to the countryside for their final two years with the hope that they stick around.

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Health & Wealth Report
2:09 pm
Tue January 31, 2012

Mormons returning to northwest Missouri, 174 years after 'extermination order'

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"We believe that this is the birthplace of the human race," said Barry Bartlett, who moved to Missouri 16 years ago. His great, great, great, great grandfather wielded a mean oak stick back in the Gallatin election day battle of 1838.
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Bryan Youd is the bishop in charge of the local church here in Gallatin. He's standing in the chapel of the new building.
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Just off Highway 13, past the Gallatin Quarry.
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The overlook at Adam-Ondi-Ahman. In the summer, the corn is tall and the tour busses thick.
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The church was built in 2005, but members quickly outgrew the new space, and added on in 2008.
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Downtown Gallatin. The Mormon community here now numbers around 400, a sizable group in a town of less than 2000.
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"All of this is this noxious blend of religious bigotry, land hunger, and this cultural difference," said Tom Spencer, historian at Northwest Missouri State.
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John Dougan, the Missouri state archivist. The original "Mormon extermination order" of 1838 is housed at the archives, as is Governor Kit Bonds' rescission order of 1976.
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Ever since Mormon prophet and founder Joseph Smith revealed the Book of Mormon in 1830, his followers have struggled for acceptance. If you want to understand the "why" behind this rocky relationship, the rolling farmland of northwest Missouri might be the best place to start -- the birthplace of the human race, according to Joseph Smith, and the place where Christ will first step down in the second coming. 

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Science, Health and Technology
1:20 pm
Mon January 30, 2012

Demolition of Joplin hospital begins

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Demolition has begun on a Joplin hospital that took a direct hit from a deadly May 22nd tornado.

The Joplin Globe reported that about 1,000 people turned out Sunday for a ceremony at the shell of the once-bustling St. John's Mercy Hospital. Speakers talked about the history of the hospital before a wrecking ball ceremonially smacked the side of the building a few times. From there, the crowd went to a groundbreaking ceremony for the new structure. It is being built at a site three miles away.

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