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Childrens Hospital announces $75M expansion

(WBIR, Knoxville) East Tennessee Children's Hospital has announced it's expanding. The plans include construction of a new five-story building next to the current facility and renovations within the current hospital once the new building is complete, for a total price tag of about $75 million. The proposed site for the new building is on White Avenue between 20th and 21st streets. ...
Record rainfall brings relief to TNs drought-damaged trees

The recent stretch of rainy days on top of one of the wettest springs in years across East Tennessee has made a big impact on the growing season. All of the moisture and cooler temperatures have pushed harvest of several spring crops behind the normal schedule by a couple of weeks. But there is an incredibly bright side to the rain-soaked spring in terms of penetrating a deep-rooted problem in ...
UT trustees panel recommends raises for DiPietro Cheek and Rakes

Don Stansberry, the Board of Trustees'vice chairman, said the best value of a place is good leadership and DiPietro has been that and has the results to show ...
KCSO Gang members arrested in East Knoxville drug raid

KNOXVILLE -- Two reputed gang members and a third suspect were arrested on felony drug charges after authorities seized nearly 2 pounds of marijuana, as well as crack cocaine at an East Knoxville ...
Anderson Co. residents raise money for In God We Trust signs

Residents of Anderson County have raised the nearly $5,000 needed to hang signs displaying the phrase "In God We Trust" at the county courthouse, confirm officials in the Anderson County purchasing office. The county is in the process of ordering the signs, and installation is expected to occur some time next month. The signs were ...

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Au revoir les enfants [DVD]

Louis Malle was 12 years old in 1944 when he had to stand by helplessly and watch as the Gestapo arrived at the Petit-Collge dAvon, the small, Catholic boarding school he was attending, and arrested four children and the headmaster. The children were Jewish and had been ... ...

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Dept. of Justice Sexual victimization higher in TN juvenile centers than U.S.

According to a report from the Department of Justice, the percentage of children in Tennessee juvenile centers who've been sexually victimized is higher than the national average. ...
UTs athletic deficit up to $3 million for year

Tennessee's athletic department is expecting a budget deficit between $2 million and $3 million this year. That's a drop from $3.98 million a year ago according to a review at the university's board of trustees meeting Wednesday. The athletic department cut its 2012-13 budget to $99 million from $105.9 million. But revenue is expected to be no more than $97 million. ...
Long-time educator councilman dies after battle with cancer

(WBIR, Rockwood) A long-time East Tennessee city councilman and educator has died. Bill Thompson, 75 of Rockwood, lost his battle with cancer on Sunday. Rockwood officials say Thompson rarely missed city council meetings, even when he was sick. They held a moment of silence during Monday night's meeting to honor him. Thompson was also a former teacher and principal. Rockwood High ...
Filling the GAP Center hopes to replace axed dementia service

Pickett, who is dually certified in family practice and psychiatry, had worked for the 20-year-old program that provided comprehensive care and referrals to dementia patients and their ...
Board puts off Pryor Brown request

The city's Downtown Design Review Board has postponed a request to demolish a downtown parking garage until the Metropolitan Planning Commission can review a plan to build a parking lot in its ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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New sulfur-based battery outperforms traditional lithium-ion technology

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries.

"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this week in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Scientists have been excited about the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries for decades, but long-lasting, large-scale versions for commercial applications have proven elusive. Researchers were stuck with a catch-22 created by the battery's use of liquid electrolytes: On one hand, the liquid helped conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. The downside, however, was that the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.

The ORNL team overcame these barriers by first synthesizing a never-before-seen class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode. ...