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- Foreign Medical School Has Hopes Of Hanging Its Shingle on U.S. Soil
Ross University, medical school in Caribbean island nation of Dominica, wants to open branch in Casper, Wyoming; plan has been embraced by Gov Jim Geringer and local business leaders; it has stalled amid fears that permitting foreign medical school to operate in US would lead to proliferation of unlicensed and unregulated schools; map; photos
- Kansas City Fed: Regional Factory Production Now Net Positive
For the first time in 10 months the Tenth Federal Reserve District is reporting factory production that is now net positive. The Tenth Federal Reserve District encompasses Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico, and western
- Ancient primate sniffed out dinner in the trees
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AP - One of the earliest primates lived in trees and relied more on smell than vision, a new study indicates. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago in what is now Wyoming, researchers report in Tuesday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Fueling Job Growth in Rural America
TEN SLEEP, Wyo., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleutian Technology has completed a 40-acre land purchase west of Ten Sleep, Wyoming on Highway 16. The acquisition marks a strategic milestone for the company's executive team who is committed to providing
- Lawsuits over wolf hunting filed in Mont., Wyo.
(AP)
AP - A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana.
- Far-flung dino? Wyoming, Scotland tracks cue study
LARAMIE, Wyo. --It's a Jurassic curiosity: As far as anyone can tell, the fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks in north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast are indistinguishable. Even after painstaking measurements and statistical analysis,
- Dinosaur tracks 'match' in US, Scotland
It's a Jurassic curiosity: the fossilised, three-toed dinosaur tracks in north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast are indistinguishable, an expert says. Even after painstaking measurements and statistical analysis, University of Glasgow
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Introduction
Wyoming became the United States forty-fourth state on July 10, 1890. The state's largest city and capital is Cheyenne. Wyoming was named by combining two Indian words meaning "at the big flats". The Equality State was the first state to give women the right to vote. Yellowstone was the first National Park, and Devil's Tower was the first National Monument. Wyoming is the least populated state in the country, but in size it is one of the larger states raking 9th with 97,105 square miles.
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