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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 11, 2011


Grant will allow researchers to be more competitive
Iowa City Press Citizen
Researchers in Iowa have received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy renewable energy and promote energy research within the state, officials at Iowa's three Regent universities announced Thursday. ...
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Desert RATS 2011: Mid-way Report
Space Ref (press release)
NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) crew has reached the mid-way point in the 14th annual Desert RATS mission, conducted at Black Point Lava Flow in the Arizona desert. On Aug. 30, the crew — consisting of engineers, astronauts ...
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Space Ref (press release)
32 new tenure-track faculty join APSU
Clarksville Online
She has a Master of Education in school counseling and a Bachelor of Science in educationalstudies. In addition to having taught at UT, Buchanan has supervised school counseling students at Carson Newman College in Jefferson City and at UT. ...
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Names and changes
Roanoke Times
George Flick Jr., distinguished professor of food science and technology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been given the title of distinguished professor emeritus. James Lang, Strickler Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies in ...
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Are UK schools teaching kids the wrong skills?
Telegraph.co.uk
Parkinson says his local university sends good science, engineering and maths graduates his way, and in return he helps the institution on relevant research projects. However, the students who come to work for him are "totally gobsmacked" at the ...
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'Inter-disciplinary approach can help understand different cultures'
Indian Express
He also said the success of science and technology has had a huge impact on the manner in which social science is being pursued these days. “Scientific temper is characterised by generality, universality, freedom from context, faith in rationality and ...
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PU seizes plagiarised articles for 2 PhD thesis
The Nation, Pakistan
According to the latest documents, principal author Prof Mahmood and co-author Dr Gilani produced the research paper titled “Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Molybdenum and Tungsten Tetra Carbonyl Compounds with Schiff Base Ligands” and published ...
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Academics and researchers are a behind-the-scenes front in the war on terror
Ct Post
But by no means are these research groups standing alone. The US Department of Homeland Security created 12 Science and Technology Directorate Centers of Excellence at universities across the country. So at the University of Maryland, where START is ...
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Purdue's men of steel
Journal and Courier
The work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the American Institute of Steel Construction, and the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Huesca Hosts Prestigious Mediterranean Agriculture Weed Science Specialists
Event Planner Spain (press release)
The meeting was organized with support from the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Research Department of the University of Saragossa, the Department of Agriculture and the Environment of the government of Aragon, the Centre of Agri-FoodResearch ...
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Advanced training crucial for landing future jobs
Dayton Daily News
Particularly in demand are those workers fluent in science, technology, engineering and math, experts say. “The nature of work has changed,” said Deborah Norris, vice president of workforce development for Sinclair Community College. ...
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Rich Tax Breaks Bolster Makers of Video Games
Gainesville Sun
So Congress tried to restrict what research would qualify. The credit was denied for social science research and marketing. The narrowest definition, proposed by the Clinton administration, was to allow the credit only for research that produced an ...
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A story without an end
Edmonton Journal
This and other aerial photos from the 9-11 attacks were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Photograph by: Det. Greg Semendinger, AFP, Getty Images, ...
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A decade later 9-11's effects mostly transparent in Lubbock's life
LubbockOnline.com
Ask Ron Kendall, founding director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at TexasTech, why his program at Reese Technology Center has been involved in chemical and biological counterterrorism studies since 1998. ...
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UD's offshore wind studies get boost
The News Journal
The largest grant went to the Biodiversity Research Institute in Maine, which would get $4.5 million to study the impact of wind turbines on ocean life. The announcement did not include the names of the research projects' principal investigators.
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Florida virtual-school options expand
Orlando Sentinel
A review last year by the US Department of Education, however, cautioned there had been "few rigorous research studies" on the effect of online education in the kindergarten-to-12th-grade arena. Previous studies had focused mostly on college students ...
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College notes
The State
York Tech's Chester Center, off SC 9, offers more than 90 courses in various programs of study. The Lewis and Lucia Bell Scholarships will be awarded based on merit and/or need to qualified residents from Chester and Fairfield counties.
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HCT must implement an aggressive plan to recruit and employ nationals: Minister
Gulf Today
Addressing the gathering, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, said that the HCT has been successfully generating skills and innovation the UAE ...
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Stop worrying about veggie prices: Use biotech to increase crop yield, fight ...
Economic Times
The debate on genetically modified (GM) food no longer runs along the monster or messiah lines: it clearly is a viable solution, but a lot will depend on where we go from here and how we leverage thetechnology. Consider Bt cotton and its impact on the ...
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54.5 MPG CAFE BY 2025
Insurance News Net (press release)
Sean McAlinden , chief economist and executive vice president of research at the Center for Automotive Research , says the Obama Admin.'s understanding of automotive technology is flawed and that it is cherry-picking data from studies particularly ...
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Prostate research progress 'dazzling'
Windsor Star
"It's really exciting times and it's a testament to how much research has evolved," says Chi. "All these things you have been hearing about from scientific and lab studies are all coming to fruition in the clinic." Dr. Martin Gleave, executive director ...
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Jamaica targets ICT investment at major outsourcing summit
South Florida Caribbean News
Gartner, Inc., the company staging the summit, is the world's leading informationtechnology research and advisory firm, with 1250 research analysts and consultants and clients in 80 countries. The event is designed to provide an “in-depth exploration ...
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At-large candidate: Marla Swesey
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Many studies on early intervention have found that children who attend preschool have better cognitive, academic and social outcomes later in life. The state of Iowa was right to continue funding preschool for 4-year-olds who would otherwise not be ...
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KANSAI: Who & What
The Japan Times
... Research Center for Japanese Studies. Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam, senior lecturer of Foreign Trade University Hanoi and vice president of Institute for Technology and Development, a member of the Vietnam Union of Science & Technology Association, ...
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Why we keep getting hit
Times of India
Another contrast in approach is our failure to analyse each terrorist-related incident, prepare casestudies, draw the right lessons and integrate them in our future operations and training. The US has made intensive research, both within the ...
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Online Shopping Dangers: How E-Retail Affects Women's Spending
Huffington Post
The new field of neuromarketing aims to boil your buying habits down to a science—then use them to help retailers profit. One key finding: When online, beware the mid-range buy. Research reported in the New York Times has shown that if you have two ...
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Special Needs Kids In Punjab Being Trained To Be Self-Dependent
South Asian Link
The centre has been set up on the premises of the school by the Education andResearch Network (ERNET) India, New Delhi, an autonomous society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and InformationTechnology, ...
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Many changes, most subtle, implemented since attacks
Evansville Courier & Press
"Our discourse has changed, I think, even within the last few years," said Professor Wesley Milner, the International Studies Program director and the Ingleheart Chair in Political Science at the University of Evansville. ...
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Google guzzles 2.3b kilowatt-hours of electricity a year
Sydney Morning Herald
Still, the report, along with concerns that power use by big data centres that Google and others rely on was growing rapidly, prompted Google to conduct detailed studies of the company's efficiency, power use, and greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Tim Tyson says beware the 'gay boogyeman game."
Winston-Salem Journal
Timothy B. Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture. The Journal welcomes original submissions for guest columns on local, ...
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Saudi's Electoral 'Experiment' Continues
MidEastPosts
According to the Riyadh-based ASBAR Center for Studies, Research and Communications, older Saudis took the most interest in the elections. An estimated 73 percent of the registered Saudis voters over the age of 46 cast ballots. ...
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9/11 changed the way the world takes to the sky
gulfnews.com
The US has spent an additional $400 billion on security plus $1.3 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War research project by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. America's economy may be ...
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SLIIT RoboFest 2011 opens doors to competitors country-wide
Sunday Times.lk
It provides a platform to showcase the skills students derive from their studies, and we are pleased to open the competition to the public and encourage more people to participate in activities of this nature". President and CEO of SLIIT Professor ...
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Sunday Times.lk
Getting a jump on math
Vancouver Sun
He says studies back his contention that virtually every child can learn math, and cited a recent one by researchers from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education that found students learning Jump Math ...
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Boomers at work
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
University of Sioux Falls offers an accelerated degree completion program geared to non-traditional students and presents three courses of study: Management, accounting or entrepreunerial studies, says LuAnn Grossman, director of the degree completion ...
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War of 9/11 Timeline: 1993 WTC bombing
AsianWeek
Awlaki studies Islam as a teen. But Sanaa's Islamic universities include some of the most radical Islamist academies where jihadists from around the world such as John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban” travel to be indoctrinated in radicalism. ...
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NB Provincial Woodlot Day set for Sept. 17
Times and Transcript
LeBlanc describes himself as a new generation of logger, always on the cutting edge of technology, tracking global trends in the forest industry. He believes that responsible and sustainable management of a renewable resource is key in a world that is ...
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: The Most Important Honey-Do List
PR Newswire (press release)
Further, some studies show that nutrients such as lycopene, found in tomatoes, and sulforaphane, in foods such as broccoli, can have cancer-fighting properties. Even red wine contains antioxidants. Move It – Exercise goes a long way in improving a ...
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Frontier Post :: Peshawar News :: Research should be linked to ...
By shimran
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has stressed the need for making the research and educational studies in the higher educational institutions more relevant to the present day requirements and ensure ... Addressing as the chief guest at the 7th Convocation of the Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology at Convention Centre on Saturday, the Governor while mentioning the advancement achieved by China in the fields of ...
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News | Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, All School Sites ... The Senior Research Fellow will lead an interdisciplinary programme of research, knowledge ...
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CNN World News, Sep 11, 2011


Taliban targets coalition base on eve of 9/11 anniversary
CNN International
By Joe Sterling, CNN Afghanistan has made advances in security, economic development and governance, said Gen. John R. Allen. (CNN) -- As the 10th anniversary of al Qaeda's attack on the United States approaches, Taliban militants struck a coalition ...
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Angry crowd turns on journalists reporting embassy attack in Egypt
CNN International
Cairo (CNN) -- An angry crowd lingering near the Israeli embassy in Cairo after an attack on the building a day earlier turned on journalists reporting the incident Saturday, accusing at least one of being an Israeli spy. As a CNN crew filmed the ...
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How the attacks hit home
Ottawa Citizen
"We saw the clip that CNN played over and over of the plane going into the tower, and we realized why all the lines were busy all the time." Brouse never heard again from his two employees, who had been hired about four months earlier, or any of their ...
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His & Hers: TV News Crew Remembers 9/11 Then & Now
abc11.com
When we reached Salisbury, several satellite trucks were already there, including one from CNN. I set up my tripod and claimed my spot, assuming we still had a job to do there. While we waited, everyone gathered around a TV monitor CNN had hooked up ...
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Reverberations were felt Down Under
MyCentralJersey.com
Then she told us: There had been a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. After a hasty, unsettling breakfast, we went back to the room, switched on CNN and saw the stunning videos. Like everyone who saw them — whether they lived close to New ...
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Yuma officials recall feeling shock, disbelief
Yuma Sun
They had a TV in the lobby that was always on CNN. “I walked in and looked at the TV just as the second plane flew into the second tower,” Engel said. “Several people were already standing in the lobby. I joined them and several more came in and ...
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Let there be laughter
Malaysia Star
Now a CNN online columnist, Obeidallah co-founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival in November 2003, which has about 50 Arab-American comedians as members. In 2005 and 2007, he and fellow Arab-American comedians – Maz Jobrani, Aron Kader and ...
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Young man's family's memories ease pain
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Satterfield said immediately after she talked to Steve, she turned on the television and saw CNNpicking up the story as it unfolded in real time. "I just started screaming," Satterfield said, her voice halting with emotion. ...
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9/11– North Escambia Remembers
NorthEscambia.com
I called my wife and told her to turn on CNN, that I didn't know what was going on but I was on my way home. When I got home I sat in horror watching the replays of the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center and then saw the unbelievable ...
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Songs Inspired By 9/11 For Metalheads! (VIDEOS) Megadeth, Shadow Gallery ...
Post Chronicle
As the world celebrates pop music and country songs about 9/11, today I feel the metal crowd is being left out to rust. This article will be the solution because lets face it, websites like the Huffington Post, CNN, Fox, MSN, Gawker, etc. ignore metal ...
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Post Chronicle
Where were you on Sept. 11?
Pocono Record
The city was in shock, like the rest of the world. I had managed to get a room at my hotel and sat there watching CNN, wondering how long I would be there. All hotels were full, car rental places for a 200-mile radius were sold out, phone lines were ...
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9/11 Anniversary Media Coverage Dominates Weekend TV, Online Schedules
mediacaster
News and history/documentary-focused networks like CNN, Fox News Channel, History, Discovery Channel and National Geographic, already known for documenting the terror attacks and their aftermath over the past decade, will be joined by entertainment ...
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Readers Discuss 9/11 on Facebook
Patch.com
My brother-in-law and I had CNN on and saw the second plane hit. He commented that it was like he was watching a movie; that this was so unreal. Something like 14 kids from their hometown (Basking Ridge, NJ) had lost parents. So very very sad. ...
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The Day That Changed Our Lives Forever
The Moderate Voice
It wasn't until that evening when we joined Michael, an English friend who as a child had endured the London Blitz, that we saw on CNN that the towers had indeed collapsed. The Happy Hour crowd at this bar, equal parts bikers and businessmen, ...
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Cabaero: If Facebook, Twitter were around in 9/11
Sun.Star
Star website at www.sunstar.com.ph, its coverage of the faraway terror attacks were based mostly on breaking news from CNN and BBC and from wire reports. That coverage too marked the beginning of efforts to deliver news instantly and in different ...
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Video of Great Dane goes viral
Salina.com
Within a few days of the Welcome Home posting, national media began calling for interviews or permission to show the video. Emmitt and Trevor have been shown on ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC's "Today Show," CNN, "Fox and Friends" and "Inside ...
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World's Greatest Invention: Remote Control Auto-Mutes Annoying Celebs Like Snooki
Student Operated Press
And then it was Donald Trump,` said Richardson, who is a video producer for Make Magazine. `And after a while I realized there`s sort of always someone who I don`t really want to hear about.`" I always have my TV on CNN or MSNBC while I`m online ...
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Computer overuse produces 'photosensitive epilepsy' for youth who 'live online'
HULIQ
While computer science students here in Eugene view computers and video games for the young as “helping to keep the troublesome youth comfortably numb,” too much tech is no longer a joke. For example, it was back on Dec. 17, 1997 that CNN broke a...
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News TV: tripping on TRP
Hindustan Times (blog)
When news television first came to India, it was broadly derivative of the BBC or CNN. Now, it has become a visual form of talk radio with shock jocks, instant sensations, manufactured controversies and a thrill a minute. (I have dealt with this in a ...
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Out There: Students get 9/11 history lesson
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
See what others throughout the nation are saying and record your own video: http://911.usatoday.com. Many people remember where they were and what they were doing when the first plane hit a World Trade Center tower Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. ...
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News Talk Radio remembers 9-11
News Talk 980 CJME
The newsroom had CNN on when the first plane went into the first Twin Tower. “My first thought was, 'Oh my goodness. This has been a terrible accident. A plane has gone into the World Trade Centre.'” Docking remembers the first reports being ...
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Image Credit: Bob Mahoney/The CW
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
17 installment of his CNN show 360. Depardieu will be featured on Cooper's Sept. 13 show (the chat series premieres on Monday, Sept. 12 with Amy Winehouse's family as guests) in an episode that will also feature appearances from Snooki, Kathy Griffin ...
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'Terrorism will never win'
Sky News Australia
Former national security advisor Frances Townsend told CNN on Friday that US spy networks had been alerted to a new threat after intercepting communications from a known, reliable operative in Pakistan. 'It's Washington or New York. ...
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Why Donald Rumsfeld doesn't like the phrase "War on Terror ...
By amarcnn
Watch a special edition of CNN GPS ""9/11 and the World" at 1pm ET/10am PT this Sunday. ... It looks like CNN just removed those two videos that were posted by rajeev here in the comments section. That is a good thing .... It just astounds me that as much as has happened since 9/11, let alone what has not been made public, these 2 people who stammer around worse than about anyone I've ever seen supposedly doing the news, and flinging around BS like it was perfume. Amazing ...
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Vice President Joe Biden Honors Heroes Of Flight 93 (VIDEO ...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking newsworld news, and news about the economy Source: CNNWashington - President Barack Obama requested time Wednesday ... READ MORE. A First Look At The 9/11 Memorial (VIDEO). Police: Arkansas ...
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9/11 Changed The World (VIDEO) | Roland S. Martin Blog
CNN's Maggie Lake talks to World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein about rebuilding after the 9/11 attacks. WATCH: Extended coverage of the ... READ MORE · Survivors Of The WTC Collapse (VIDEO). Harrowing tales of survival from ...
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