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Chris Pollock is the third hand transplant patient at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He lost his left hand and most of his right forearm in an agricultural accident in November 2008.
When Chris Pollock was trapped alone in a farm field two years ago, his hands caught in a grinding, mechanized corn picker, "I asked God three times to let me die." (Today)
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President Barack Obama speaks Monday at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville, Ohio.
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- Opening what may be remembered as the climactic sprint in the marathon debate on health care, President Barack Obama called for courage to address the needs of patients ill-served by the nation's current insurance system. (Today)
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During a geology field trip in 2004, the professor told his students that a road-cut featuring rock formations near Pittsburgh International Airport was a great place to find plant fossils. (Today)
Two Catholic elementary schools in McKees Rocks and Coraopolis are on the endangered list because a private foundation is unable to continue donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to each next school year. (Today)
Looking back in time sounds like pure science fiction, but that's what happens every time you see a star. The light producing that image has been traveling through time for thousands, millions, even billions of years, depending on how far away the star was at the time. (Today)