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BOISE - Idaho became the first state in the nation with a general roadless rule Friday, Aug. 29, when state and federal officials jointly announced publication of the final environmental impact statement for Idaho's Roadless Plan.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - John McCain's running-mate pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was born in the small northern Idaho city of Sandpoint in 1964 and graduated from the University of Idaho with a journalism degree in 1987.

Whilst the Australian government should be applauded for increasing the tax on premixed spirits, the authors of a Comment in this week's edition of The Lancet say it should be part of a battery of strategies to reduce both binge and excessive drinking.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) expressed its extreme disappointment and surprise at the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA's) draft Children's Television Standards 2008. The draft standards proposals include no general restrictions on food and beverage advertising during children's viewing times.

As of January 2009, the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging (JNHA) will be listed in the journals catalogue of the scientific publisher Springer. A forward-looking editorial policy has allowed for dynamic development of the journal since it was founded in 1997. This year for the first time, it was included in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and was given a remarkable opening impact factor of 1.47.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- With the oil and gas boom spreading across the West, New Mexico officials are taking an unprecedented step to get federal and state land management agencies to think about wildlife before opening up public land to energy development.

LEHI, Utah (AP) -- Lee Knight has always loved the idea of generational business, jobs that link a family's past to a family's future. But for the seven years the Lehi resident was selling garage doors, he never dreamed he would one day be in the field he's in now.

SILVER CITY, Idaho (AP) -- The craggy gullies where Idaho cowboy Paul Nettleton runs 1,200 head of cattle are often precious minutes from reliable cell phone coverage.