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Federal Officials Reject City's Plan to Ban Food Stamps for Soda
New York Times (blog)
By PATRICK MCGEEHAN Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg'sproposal to bar New York City's food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits. In October, the city proposed a two-year experiment to ...
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Weiss Says Cloud Software Replacing Microsoft, Oracle
Washington Post
19 (Bloomberg) -- Scott Weiss, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about cloud-based software and the outlook for enterprise software makers such as Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Inc. Weiss also discusses the outlook for venture capital firms ...
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'Work-Life Balance' Argument Back in Spotlight After Bloomberg Claim Dropped
ABC News
By SHARYN ALFONSI and ENJOLI FRANCIS A federal judge's ruling this week thatBloomberg Media Co. did not broadly discriminate against pregnant women and mothers is drawing fire because of the judge's comments that companies do not need to allow for ...
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U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Four-Week Retreat Since 2009 on Economic Concern
Bloomberg
Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Deborah Kostroun reports on the performance of the US equity market today. US stocks fell, posting the fourth straight weekly slump for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, ...
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Bloomy: Don't Taint 9/11 Ceremony With Politics
New York Daily News (blog)
Mayor Bloomberg on Thursday panned any political jockeying for speaking time at the Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony, saying it cheapened the sacred event. The mayor slammed reports that Govs. Cuomo and Chris Christie were angling for larger roles at the ...
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U.K. Gilt Yields Sink to Record Low on Global Economy Concerns
Bloomberg
Sterling appreciated against all its 16 major peers monitored by Bloomberg. “The critical point for the gilt market has been the shift in the MPC,” said Adam McCormack, head of gilt sales at Barclays Plc in London. “There's more speculation now that ...
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Arne Duncan on US Education: Political Capital With Al Hunt
Bloomberg
19 (Bloomberg) -- US Education Secretary Arne Duncan talks with Bloomberg's Al Hunt about the No Child Left Behind education law, for-profit colleges and the outlook for the Pell Grant federal education program. Bloomberg's John McCormick and Hans ...
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Bloomberg: Volatile markets not a problem
CBS News
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says recent volatility in US and European stock markets will self-correct, and that the plunge in the Dow Jones average isn't even the issue. "The problem is not the stock market; the problem is what the stock ...
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Colombia Yields Fall to Record Low as Bank Leaves Rate Unchanged
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's peso bonds rose, pushing yields to a record low, after the central bank unexpectedly left its benchmark interest rate unchanged and on speculation inflation will be within the central bank's target. ...
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Fed's Dudley Predicts Stronger Growth in Second Half of 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley said he expects growth to accelerate in the second half of the year as the impact of "temporary factors" such as the earthquake in Japan and higher commodity prices subsides ...
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Tice Sees Another Recession, Dow Average at 8000-9000
Washington Post
19 (Bloomberg) -- David Tice, president of Tice Investments LLC, talks about stock market volatility and the outlook for the US economy and equities. Tice speaks with Mark Crumpton and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line. ...
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Brazil Rate Futures Fall as Growth Concern Overshadows Inflation
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- Yields on Brazilian interest-rate futures contracts fell as traders bet a slowdown in global growth may help central bank President Alexandre Tombini tame inflation without increasing borrowing costs. Yields on the contract due in ...
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U.S. Growth Forecasts Lowered at Citigroup, JPMorgan Amid Global Slowdown
Bloomberg
Photographer: Joshua Lott/Bloomberg Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, discusses the outlook for the US economy and Federal Reserve policy. Kasman speaks with Maryam Nemazee and Erik Schatzker on ...
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Yen Strengthens to Postwar Record Versus Dollar Amid Global Growth Concern
Bloomberg
The yen gained 5.6 percent over the past three months, making it the second-best performer among 10 major-economy currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Currency Indexes. The franc, the biggest gainer, climbed 12 percent, while the dollar ...
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Higher Business Taxes May Follow Treasury's Definition of Small
Bloomberg
Photo: Stephen Yang/Bloomberg There is general agreement that the existing definition of a small business is overly broad. It encompasses any entity that generates flow-through income for its owners -- a category that can include someone who sells ...
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European, Asian Volatility Gauges Rise on Concern Global Growth Is Slowing
Bloomberg
Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Anthony, head of derivatives and equities at BGC Partners LP, talks about equity market volatility and investment strategy. He speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg ...
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Deutsche Bank's Konstam Says European Banks Well Funded
Washington Post
19 (Bloomberg) -- Dominic Konstam, an analyst at Deutsche Bank AG, talks about the global economy, the US credit rating and Treasuries, and the European debt crisis and banks in the region. Konstam, speaking with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's ...
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Chinese, Biden Express Confidence in Treasuries
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg News - Fri Aug 19 16:09:07 GMT 2011 Vice President Joe Biden listens to a speech by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping during a China-US Business Dialogue in the Beijing Hotel on Aug. 19, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden listens to a speech ...
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Chef Puck Expands to Europe With Restaurant in London: Video
Washington Post
Stephanie Stanton reports on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop. (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) Correction: Clarification: AP source: Obama to make big jobs speech in September SuperFan badge holders consistently post smart, timely comments about ...
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US Stocks Erase Gains as Economic Concerns Offset Valuations
BusinessWeek
19 (Bloomberg) -- US stocks erased gains as growing concern over the global economy and Europe's debt crisis overshadowed valuations near the cheapest level since 2009. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index increased 0.1 percent to 1141.91 at 11:07 am in New ...
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Cable Industry, Sprint In Talks About Clearwire Buy
Dslreports
From the "well that's not terribly surprising department," Bloomberg reports that Sprint and several major cable companies are in talks to acquire struggling Clearwire. Talks so far have involved all of Clearwire's cable investment partners including ...
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Deutsche Bank Put-Options Volume Rises to Record in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG put-options volume surged to a record on US exchanges, boosted by a single trade, on speculation that Germany's largest lender will extend declines after falling to a two-year low. More than 28000 puts to sell changed ...
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HP May Face Exodus of Engineers, Kedrosky Says
Bloomberg
19 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed blog and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talks about the outlook for Hewlett-Packard Co. Hewlett-Packard fell the most in more than 23 years today after issuing forecasts that missed ...
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FDA Lets Bloomberg's Food Stamp Proposal Fizz Out
NY1
The city disagreed with the FDA's decision. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement, "We're disappointed that the federal government didn't agree and sorry that families and children may suffer from their unwillingness to explore our proposal."
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NY1
Europe Losing Autonomy to HP Signals Software Boom as SAP May Be Targeted
Bloomberg
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Kreher, analyst with Edward Jones & Co., talks about Hewlett-Packard Co.'s planned overhaul of its businesses, including an agreement to buy Autonomy Corp. for $10.3 billion and ...
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Allied World Assurance, SinoTech Energy: US Equity Preview
BusinessWeek
19 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in US trading Aug. 22. Stock symbols are in parentheses. Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG (AWH US): The insurer set a Sept. 20 meeting for its shareholders to vote on ...
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Bovespa Posts Weekly Decline on Inflation, Global Growth Concern
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- The Bovespa stock index posted its third weekly drop in four after inflation in Brazil quickened more than forecast and concern mounted that global economic growth is faltering. Financial stocks including Itau Unibanco Holding SA ...
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Hamptons Scene: DiMennas' $5 Million Gift Builds History Museum for Kids
Bloomberg
Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg Louise Mirrer, president of the New-York Historical Society, which is opening the DiMenna Children's History Museum. Louise Mirrer, president of the New-York Historical Society, which is opening the DiMenna ...
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Bloomberg's 9/11 Ceremony Plans Criticized by State Governors ...
The governors of New York and New Jersey have taken issue with how New York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg has orchestrated the 10th anniversary ceremony for victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Bloomberg Claim Dropped; 'Work-Life Balance ... - ABC News Radio
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Barclays, StanChart Won't Lose Zimbabwe Licenses, Herald Reports ...
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VIDEO: Mayor Bloomberg says immigration is 'single biggest' way to ...
By genevas@thehill.com (Geneva Sands-Sadowitz)
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the single biggest thing President Obama can do right now to spur job creation in the United States is to allow more immigration. Most importantly we want to get immigrants from ...
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Bloomberg's Tom Keene Eats Breakfast on Live Radio, Is Very ...
By Alan Sytsma
To say that Tom Keene has had a busy couple of weeks would be an understatement: As the editor-at-large at Bloomberg News, the co-host of the "Bloomberg Surveillance" morning radio show, and the anchor of Surveillance Midday on ...
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Hewlett-Packard's PC Unit May Lure Lenovo ... - Financial News
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Bloomberg For Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC vendor, buying the Hewlett-Packard unit would help the company more than double its share of global sales and vault past Dell, the No. 2 producer. For Lenovo, the world's third-largest ...
Financial News
Visa Unveils Plan to Speed Adoption of Mobile Phone-Based Payment ...
By News
USA Today Visa Unveils Plan to Speed Adoption of Mobile Phone-Based Payment SystemsBloomberg Visa Inc. (V) unveiled plans to encourage US retailers to shift to checkout systems that let consumers pay.
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In The News Today « Jim Sinclair's Mineset
By Jim Sinclair
Job seekers look at job listings on a bulletin board at the One Stop Career Link Center in San Francisco on Wednesday. The state's unemployment rate ticked up two-tenths of a percentage point in July to 12%. (Bloomberg News / August 17, ...
Jim Sinclair's Mineset
Hewlett-Packard's PC Unit May Lure Lenovo, Samsung Bidders ...
By Google Inc.
Bloomberg For Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC vendor, buying the Hewlett-Packard unit would help the company more than double its share of global sales and vault past Dell, the No. 2 producer. For Lenovo, the world's third-largest ... all 516 news articles ». Short URL: http://www.wallst.net/?p=233722. Posted by Google Inc. . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. ...
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Centrica, Siemens and Dong Seek USD 1,7bn for UK Offshore Wind ...
By Offshore Wind
The figure includes a 550 million-pound term loan and a 250 million-pound facility to pay for a link to bring the power to shore, according to a term sheet obtained by Bloomberg News. The companies' use of commercial loans and their own ...
Offshore Wind » News by topic
Hewlett-Packard and the M&A scoop | Felix Salmon
By Felix Salmon
Yesterday, just after noon, Bloomberg found itself in possession of some market-moving news about HP: it was engaging in a major strategic shakeup, closing its WebOS division, buying UK company Autonomy for about $10 billion, ...
Felix Salmon
Gold Tops $1880 in Longest Weekly Rally Since '07 « Republic ...
By SiteOwner
Gold may climb next week amid concern about debt crises and slowing growth, a Bloomberg Newssurvey showed. Sweden's financial regulator said lenders must do more to prepare for a worsening debt crisis in the region as the Wall Street ...
Republic Monetary Exchange News Blog
US Airways Discussing neo With Airbus? | Aero-News Network
Bloomberg News reports that US Airways would only confirm that the airline is in "informational" discussions with the European planemaker. While no new orders are apparently imminent, analysts say the nations' smallest major full-fare ...
Aero-News Network
Germany's discouraging GDP data adds to fears | The News Journal ...
Bloomberg News. Filed Under; Business. FRANKFURT -- The German economy, Europe's largest, almost stalled in the second quarter as the region's ...
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The Yeshiva World Bloomberg Defends Obama's ... - Yeshiva World News
“Look, everybody deserves a vacation, and he's gotta decide what's right and set his own schedule, and I'll leave that to him,” Bloomberg said at a news ...
www.theyeshivaworld.com/.../Bloomberg-Defends-Obama's-V...
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By Ari Levy, Aaron Ricadela, Bloomberg News | August 19, 2011. Most Viewed; Trending. Spotlighting Sustainability · 2011 100 Most Influential People in ...
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Watch Gizmodo's Joe Brown On Bloomberg News
Watch Gizmodo's Joe Brown On Bloomberg News Gizmodo's Joe Brown joined Bloomberg West on August 16, 2011 to discuss the evolution of the tech in your living ...
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Bloomberg Stalker Says He Shouldn't Be in Jail - Local News - New ...
A 48-year-old Queens pizzeria worker jailed for stalking Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daughter with emails and text messages called his imprisonment ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../bloomberg-stalker-says-he-shouldnt-...
NY judge: Discrimination claim at Bloomberg failed - One News Page
NY judge: Discrimination claim at Bloomberg failed: A federal judge has ruled that there is insufficient evidence to show that the financial.
www.onenewspage.com/.../NY-judge-Discrimination-claim-at-...
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Real Health - RH News : Bloomberg's NYC Sex Ed Policy May Help ...
Starting this year, public middle schools and high schools in New York City will be required to offer sex education classes with curriculum that includes ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 20, 2011


Research and Markets: International Wood Products Journal
SunHerald.com
... publishes peer reviewed contributions on all aspects of wood science, engineering andtechnology, its processing and applications. The submission of original research papers, reviews and case studies is welcomed on any topic within this scope. ...
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NASA grant will open new worlds for students at FDLTCC
Pine Journal
FDLTCC was one of only four colleges in the United States to be awarded a grant from NASA, which amounts to some $150000 a year for up to three years to enhance studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). ...
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Gene Mutation Adds Chromosomes in Cancer Cell Lines
MedPage Today
Taken together, the two studies begin to tease out the role that aneuploidy plays in cancer, according to Richard Kolodner, PhD, and colleagues at the University of California San Diego. In an accompanying perspective article, Kolodner and colleagues ...
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A-levels: Brian Cox, China, and the recession
Channel 4 News
More than 40 per cent more students took maths A-level this year than five years ago, but modern languages and general studies are in decline. Channel 4 News looks at why. More students are also opting for science and technology A-levels, ...
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Channel 4 News
Dominican Republic leader visits USU to discuss science collaboration
The Herald Journal
His talk with USU faculty members and students was meant to discuss strategies to foster scienceand technology research in his country. "We have the longest agreement with USU," said Aybar in a news release. "We have many students come to USU, ...
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RCC embraces the sciences
Westfair Online
His son's department, in contrast, offers green-tech studies, occupational therapy and EMS paramedic studies, linking with neighboring community colleges for a unified and uniform emergency medical studies. As the 2011-12 school year dawns, ...
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Westfair Online
Chevy Volt: Flagship Model Of The Government-Industrial Complex
Forbes
I am a senior fellow in climate studies at the Cato Institute and in research and economic development at George Mason University. I am a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
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MCCC Earns 2011 'Top Associate Degree Producer' Title
Patch.com
Degrees offered in this area include associate in applied science, science in biotechnology, biomanufacturing and molecular techniques; technical studies; nuclear engineering technology; and nanofabrication technology. In the category of education, ...
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Berkeley Lab opens advanced biofuels facility
R & D Magazine
“The establishment by EERE of this facility at Berkeley Lab, a DOE Office of Science national laboratory, reflects a new spirit of cooperation between the DOE technology and science programs. Berkeley Lab is proud to play its part. ...
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Government of Canada Supports Community Jobs and Growth
MarketWatch (press release)
On May 30, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) announced that a total of 35 colleges across Canada would share more than $8 million over one year in ARTI Grants, a brand-new initiative under the CCI Program. ...
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Workshop Strengthens UW-NCAR Partnership
University of Wyoming News
"It's been a good learning experience," says Damao Zhang, a UW Ph.D. student from China who studies atmospheric science. "The NCAR teachers are very good. They know their software and they provide a good guide on how you can learn it, even in just a ...
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University of Wyoming News
Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in US history
PhysOrg.com
Environmental Science & Technology featured as its cover story the paper titled “Oil biodegradation and bioremediation: A tale of the two worst spills in US history.” One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and ...
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PhysOrg.com
Girls need positive role models to increase presence in STEM careers
Eastern Iowa Schools
The annual event kicks off the new year by highlighting some of last year's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) successes and inspires for the year to come. Rockwell Collins CEO Clay Jones said the event is really for the students in the...
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Eastern Iowa Schools
Professorial Permutations
Harvard Magazine
The University's professoriate includes more women and minorities, and is larger, more international, and stronger in science, technology, engineering, and math. Effecting these deliberate changes has been a slow process at times. ...
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The US is debating the use of chimps in medical research
ZME Science
“We are more than halfway” to mice that could replace chimps in hepatitis studies, Alexander Ploss of Rockefeller University said. “Whether we have that mouse in two years, five years, 10 years . . . who knows?” Ethics and medical science, ...
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ZME Science
Local college students graduate, receive dean's list honors
Kennebec Journal
Ross Gorham of Gardiner, bachelor of science degree in kinesiology: sport studies; Matthew Moore of Kents Hill, master's degree in environmental education; Katreana Cloutier of Litchfield, bachelor ofscience degree in occupational therapy, cum laude; ...
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Potential Unique Drug Target for Alzheimer's Identified
Medscape
Medscape Medical News asked Nancy Y. Ip, PhD, from The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology, Clear Water Bay, China, to comment on this new study. "Our group first reported that Cdk5 is S-nitrosylated by nitric oxide,” she noted, ...
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The Venture-Capital University
Harvard Magazine
Harvard also supports thousands of studies, each of which is also a “project”—an analysis of Bach's compositions, an investigation of poor families' expenditures, the mapping of the human genome. Like venture capitalists, research universities have ...
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College Grads And Scholars From Woodbury
Patch.com
Megan Carter graduated from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Ind. with a Bachelor ofScience degree. Kelly Daly graduated from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind., with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. ...
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Geeky Science -The Ultimate Spy tool
OpEdNews
In test studies, the patch was used instead of bulky electrodes to monitor brain, heart and muscle tissue activity and users who had it on their throat operated a voice-activated video game with more than 90 percent accuracy. ...
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HNU ENERGY DEEPENS LONG-STANDING COMMITMENT TO MAUI'S RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGYPARK
AltEnergyMag (press release)
Based in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, HNU ENERGY is a subsidiary of HNU PHOTONICS, a fully integrated science and technology company, devoted to incubating innovative ideas into state of the art products with commercial, scientific, and military applications ...
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Strong Attendance at Expo West 2010
WholeFoods Magazine Online
Also in this session, Tropp noted that agro-tech giant Monsanto admitted to its first genetically engineered (GE) seed failure in India, implying that the food system cannot be fixed through GE endeavors. Bill Nye The Science Guy in “Cleaning With No ...
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WholeFoods Magazine Online
The myth of mountaintop removal mining
The Guardian
I don't know how they can deny the science. I really don't … I think one of the misconceptions is that many people believe that wind is just outrageously expensive. Truth is, wind power competes very well with natural gas. The technology is getting ...
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Masters of Distraction
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Davidson goes on to discuss a much wider variety of science. She touches on hot topics such as mirror neurons and cross-cultural studies of how children learn categorization. But they often seem cherry-picked, as if she began with a suite of ...
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Work begins on $4 million campus expansion at Rockford Christian
WREX-TV
The school is adding on a 25000 square foot Science, Technology and Humanities Center. The building will also include a multimedia center with green room, additional art studios, and a roof top environmental studies classroom and wind turbines for ...
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Quanterix Digital ELISA Measures Low Abundance Biomarkers of Inflammation in ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Quanterix Corporation is developing its proprietary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA(TM)) technologyfor the in vitro diagnostics and life science research markets. The digital nature of SiMoA yields unprecedented assay performance, stemming from a ...
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