You have to crawl before you can walk, walk before you can run and before you perform brain surgery - you had better know your anatomy. The general science courses at Temple College provide the basic building blocks for upper-level chemistry and health science professions, but some aspiring doctors and lab technicians may soon be out of luck. The Temple College Newton Science Building is full to the point of bursting, according to the faculty, and at the rate Temple College is growing there is a distinct possibility that they will have to turn away students from certain classes in the near future.

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a surprise turnabout, North Korea agreed Tuesday to return to six-nation disarmament talks just three weeks after rattling the world by conducting an atomic bomb test. The breakthrough came after pressure from China and a U.S. offer to discuss financial penalties already in place. President Bush cautiously welcomed the deal and thanked the Chinese for brokering it. But he said the agreement wouldn

The ever-expanding Temple VA hospital has welcomed a new chief of staff to its facility. Dr. Edward J. Sherwood was selected for the position for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System on Oct. 10.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Exploiting GOP vulnerability in the Nov. 7 elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki flexed his political muscle Tuesday and won U.S. agreement to lift military blockades on Sadr City and another Shiite enclave where an American soldier was abducted. U.S. forces, who had set up the checkpoints in Baghdad last week as part of an unsuccessful search for the soldier, drove away in Humvees and armored personnel carriers at the 5 p.m. deadline set by al-Maliki. Iraqi troops, who had manned the checkpoints with the Americans, loaded coils of razor wire and red traffic cones onto pickup trucks.

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope, which opened Earth

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Only one of the last five points Temple scored came from its own doing. But Georgetown, its opponent, suffered an implosion of massive proportions - including a substitution error, two service errors and its coach getting ejected - that aided the Tem-Cats as they defeated the Lady Eagles 17-25, 28-26, 25-23, 25-23 in a Class 5A bi-district playoff volleyball match Tuesday night at Wildcat Gym.

BELTON - Although there might not have been a whole lot of highlight reel material Tuesday night, there was no shortage of scrapping. Ultimately, No. 22-ranked Gatesville had a bit more firepower than upstart Rockdale in coming away with a 27-25, 25-23, 21-25, 25-22 victory in a Class 3A bi-district playoff volleyball match at Belton

MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Heat received its NBA championship rings, saw the postseason highlights played on giant video screens and watched a new banner swing from the arena