SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 23, 2011

?New appointments to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ...
TMC Net
... and the Counter Terrorism Science and Technology Centre Oversight Board. Professor Robert Winston Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of FertilityStudies at Imperial College, runs a research programme in the ...
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Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
History News Network
Blood Work has been acclaimed for engaging writing and careful research. A Publisher's Weekly starred review praised Dr. Tucker for “a marvelous job of chronicling the 17th-century controversy pitting science against religion and shows how much of the ...
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Genetic link found for depression but 'cure' still a long way off
The National
"I didn't expect that we would get a signal this strong," says Gerome Breen, lead author of the UK study and lecturer at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at King's College. "Usually in studies in depression we've got ...
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The National

Faces of pioneer VCs of new federal varsities
Nigeria Daily Independent
He did his NYSC as an Assistant Lecturer and Resident Veterinarian in the Department of AnimalScience, Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RUST), Port Harcourt. After national service, he was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer at the ...
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Biotech Firm Synedgen Announces Research Results of New Antibacterial Wound...
RedOrbit
The Synedgen technology could be even more useful for chronically infected wounds, removing persistent biofilms and improving outcomes for patients with very few effective options.” remarked Townsend. Further preclinical studies in vivo are slated for ...
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Sangamo's Inevitable Acquisition/Merger
Seeking Alpha
Sangamo has licensed intellectual property directed to the design, selection and use of ZFPs and ZFP TFs for gene regulation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johnson & Johnson, The Scripps Research Institute, Harvard University and Johns ...
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Is it worth it? Yes, say local college graduates
San Diego Union Tribune
Staight, 28, graduates from the University of California San Diego in June with degrees in management science and linguistics. He hopes to work in international business, particularly with companies involved in technology or infrastructure projects in ...
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The dance of the cells: A minuet or a mosh?
EurekAlert (press release)
Support for the study was provided by the European Research Council, the Spanish Ministry ofScience and Innovation and the National Institutes of Health. "Collective Cell Guidance by Cooperative Intercellular Forces," Dhananjay T. Tambe, ...
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Aust well placed for China growth: Rudd
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia is a world leader in green building technologies and systems and China is a world leader in developing ecocities. "The synergies are clear," Mr Rudd told Guangdong University of ForeignStudies. It is estimated that environmental damage costs ...
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Makeover turns school into a model of change
The Age
A new relationship was recently formed with Scotch College, whereby staff and VCE students from both schools meet and collaborate on their studies. Professor Ramon Lewis, of La Trobe University, has also visited the school to explain his research on ...
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The Age

Twenty-five Domain Group students graduate in IT
DI-VE
The degrees were conferred by the University of Hertfordshire Project Manager, Professor Jill Hewitt, who serves as Professor of Interactive Systems, Head of the School of Computer Science and Director of Systems Usability. Professor Hewitt's research ...
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Manmohan aims to rescript India's relations with Africa
Livemint
In neighbouring Mozambique, JSW Steel Ltd has acquired coal mining assets and Jaguar Overseas Ltd is constructing a science and technology park in Maluana, 60km from capital Maputo. The project is expected to be completed by next year but Mozambican ...
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: Apollo Hospitals signs an MoU with University College of London
Financial Express
... offers a joint scholarship to students wishing to pursue a Masters programme at the University in the broad field of development studies, with special focus on developmental economics, public health or science-technology-society studies. ...
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Iran officially opens transgenic mice research center
Iranian Students News Agency
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran officially opened transgenic mice research center after initial months-long activities in a bid to expand studies on the domain. The project has been pursued since 2009 and it has been working since late 2010 during which three kinds ...
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Diverse support given to earthquake victims
The Daily Yomiuri
Its 125 research labs for studies in medicine and other fields are prepared to accept about 350 students, mainly graduate students. The university already has taken in about 10 graduate students from Tohoku University, whose research facilities were ...
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Stillwater district considering switch to middle schools
Pioneer Press
But a review by the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota found that moving sixth-graders could have a negative impact on student achievement. Most studies show elementary students get significantly ...
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A tip of the cap to some creative people
South Bend Tribune
To see his stuff, go to www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/windgate.php. Penn High School senior Michael Schrager recently received the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Dean's List Award at the National Robotics...
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South Bend Tribune

GLOBAL: The answer to why people blog
University World News
Melbourne psychologist James Baker has been studying bloggers for the past five years, beginning with a research project for his masters degree and now culminating in a PhD at Swinburne University of Technology. With his supervisor Dr Susan Moore, ...
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Connections is the theme as 452 graduate as members of the 'Centennial Class'
Connecticut College
You have earned recognition through fellowships from Goldwater, Fulbright and the National ScienceFoundation, among others. You have shared your talents with the world through study abroad, internships and special research projects. ...
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Nashville People in Business
The Tennessean
46 and Concept Technology landed No. 55. The National Association of Home Builders recognized Nashville-based Lend Lease by awarding the company the National Green Building Award for Project of the Year for its Zero Energy Homes project at Fort ...
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Weekly News Roundup: General Dynamics (NYSE:GD)
StocksandShares.TV
The Electric Boat unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD ) will also conduct research and development studies on technology areas including manufacturing, maintainability, survivability, hydrodynamics, acoustics, and materials.
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Apocalypse not now
Edmonton Journal
You can't argue with science." Interestingly, the study's authors found Nordic countries have already achieved something close to domestic parity. They suggest the trend is in part due to the fact those nations offer more generous child care services ...
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Dish Networking: MIT Startup Matches TV With Social Conversation
AdAge.com
Mr. Roy directs the Cognitive Machines group at MIT Media Lab, where he studies how children learn language. He presented his research in a widely viewed TED talk earlier this year, in which he showed how he recorded every moment of his family's life ...
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AdAge.com

Paralyzed Man Stands and Takes Steps After Spinal Implant
Mobile Magazine
However, if the effect could be replicated in further studies, individuals with spinal-cord injuries could potentially use a portable stimulation unit equipped with a walker, and stand independently, maintain balance and even take some steps. ...
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Mobile Magazine

Hicks: Her cream of the crop
DesMoinesRegister.com
JOHN GAPS III/THE REGISTER Research associate Wenyan Wu scans the skin of researchassociate James Calland during moisturizer testing inside a lab at Des Moines' Kemin Industries last week. / JOHN GAPS III/THE REGISTER Kemin President Chris Nelson ...
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Who's news
Appleton Post Crescent
He holds a bachelor's degree in architectural studies from UW-Milwaukee. Erin Buenzli has been promoted to director of wellness and recreation. She had been Lawrence's head athletic trainer since 2000. She holds a bachelor's degree in health promotion ...
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LED fueling Thermal Tech expansion
North Bay Business Journal
According to Erica Corral, Ph.D and assistant professor at the University of Arizona who conducts research on ultra-high temperature ceramics and composites for use in hypersonic vehicles, Thermal Technology's machine is especially advantageous. ...
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North Bay Business Journal

Swissray Sells Another DR System to a Large Orthopedic Practice in Florida
PR-USA.net (press release)
As the pioneer and technology leader in the field of Digital Radiography, Swissray continues toresearch, develop and manufacturer their technologically advanced systems in Switzerland. Swissray has received from Frost & Sullivan the "Single Detector ...
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The way we were
BusinessWorld Online
... employed or the sample universes selected by the international research organizations, the perception will persist that the Philippines is not globally competitive -- we are way below the mean, in most internationally acclaimed economic studies. ...
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Video Conferencing Week in Review
TMC Net
Here are some of the exciting happenings from the video conferencing world from the past week, as detailed on the Video Conferencing community on TMCnet, your one-stop resource for news, events, case studies, and all the latest information to ensure ...
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Value of Saudi contracts reaches SR49.7bn in Q1
Arab News
A contract for SR2 billion was awarded by Saudi Aramco to UAE-based Drake & Scull International for the right to build commercial buildings for the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies Research Center (KAPSARC). The types of buildings to be constructed ...
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State website to monitor health insurance increases
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Keith Rodgers, a former assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina who most recently worked at a Delaware company as a senior research analyst managing drug safety, epidemiology and health care outcomes research studies, ...
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Movers & Shakers from the May 23, 2011 issue
Worcester Business Journal
Cosco will research and design marketing strategies for high-tech, health care, energy and financial services sectors. He previously worked as a team leader in the computer hardware industry at Asian Atlantic Industries Inc. in Stratham, NH, ...
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Spaulding Clinical Honored at BizTech Conference
PR-USA.net (press release)
Spaulding Clinical Research, LLC is a Clinical Pharmacology Research Unit and Cardiac Core Lab that offers a full range of global services from study design through study execution/conduct, data management, statistical analysis, and clinical ...
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TEDxBayArea June 2011
San Jose Mercury News
--Dr. Garry Neil, Corporate VP for Science & Technology, Johnson & Johnson " Capturing New Markets reveals critical patterns underlying why some new ventures become big businesses, and others do not. The journey to creating new markets can be full of ...
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DNA diviners: Valuable service or dangerous novelty?
healthzone.ca
“There are these probes on the chip that can detect which (SNP) version someone has at that location in the genome,” says Shirley Wu, the company's science content manager. Relying on published academic studies, the company then weights the risks or ...
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Release of “Trademark Licensing Contract in the Jordanian Legislation” Book by ...
ag-IP-news Agency
Al-Salamat told ag-IP-news Agency that this book, which has been recently published by the Deanship of Academic Research (DAR) at the University of Jordan and falls in 202 pages, discusses aspects of licensing contracts to use the multi-trademark ...
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Green Technology and Environmental Science News: Andean ...
Green Technology and Environmental Science News. ... Previous research had set the maximum expected earthquake size to be magnitude 7.5 (Richter), based on ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, May 23, 2011

Saleh Declines to Sign Power Transfer; Egyptians Resume Call for ProtestsBloomberg
Egypt is disintegrating socially and its economy “is busted,” said
Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy
Agency and possible candidate for the Egyptian presidency, said on CNN's
“Fareed Zakaria GPS.” In Libya ...
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Opinion: Capricious season of spring
Egyptian Gazette
The Arab revolutions, which managed in Egypt and Tunisia to peacefully
remove their corrupt regimes, have brought joy and liberty to the two
nations. Even though, other Arab peoples in Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen
continue to suffer military ...
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Tehran: Arab Spring is Islamic revolution coming into bloom
Daily Star - Lebanon
The movements in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain and the rest of
the Arab countries are led, or have been, by the Muslim masses. These
movements are religiously oriented; they aim to overthrow the pro-Western
regimes of these countries and ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, May 23, 2011

Sovereign Debt Crisis Update
Insights of a Fundamental Analyst ... The ECOFIN (EU finance ministers) yesterday decided that "backstop measures" should be in place in each ..... Tags : debt, greece, crisis, juncker, eur,eurozone, stresstest .... Any opinions, news, research, analyses, prices or other information contained on this website, ...

www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/...of.../18/Key Market Movers for the Coming Week: No Easy Escape From Greek Contagion
Seeking Alpha
Only dramatic new crises have halted the rise in the S&P 500 and most other risk assets since then: Despite the steady drumbeat of deterioration in the EU debt crisis, and in growth prospects for Japan, the UK, the US, and China, markets have kept ...
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EUROZONE CRISIS: THE GREEK TRAGEDY
Express.co.uk
By last week, the epic battle with the country's 340billion euros debt, the largest of any debt load on the Continent, had turned into a battle for public order in the heart of Europe's oldest capital. Amid rising violence and runaway crime, crisis-hit ...
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Greece and eurozone woes
The Hindu
The Greek economic crisis exposes the fact that even the most economistic of the European Union's policies, namely monetary union, is inextricably political and must be addressed by political measures. Athens, for its part, has made strenuous efforts ...
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EUR/USD Weekly Review 22 May 11
International Business Times
This is a joint bailout exercise with the European Union aimed at curbing the sentiment fallout resulting from the Euro Zone's debt crisis. While this will probably help boost sentiments for sometime, the Euro Zone, especially the weaker countries need ...
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Comparing Sovereign Credit Risk and Stock Market Risk
Seeking Alpha
I recently caught an IMF working paper titled “Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers: Evidence from the European Debt Crisis”. The authors find that there are spillovers associated with changes in sovereign debt ratings. ...
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Juncker Calls for Greek Privatization Agency
Wall Street Journal
The standoff between the ECB and euro-area governments reflects how intractable the Greek crisishas become. A year after extending Athens a bailout, it has become clear the €110 billion Greece was promised by its euro-zone neighbors and the ...
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Kenny's chance to get Obama onside on new IMF chief
Irish Independent
The IMF concludes with a very clear sideswipe at the inadequate European policy response to the banking and sovereign debt crisis. "This decisive approach to programme implementation, which should be supported by a more comprehensive European plan, ...
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Gold futures - Weekly review: May 16-20
Forex Pros
Forex Pros – Last week saw gold prices climb to a one-week high on Friday, surpassing the USD1,500 an ounce mark, as simmering fears over the euro zone's debt crisis boosted the safe haven appeal of the precious metal. On the Comex division of the New ...
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Germany: Economic titan, political pygmy?
Financial Express Bangladesh
Armed now with more cash, it has become a key player in the eurozone debt crisis, providing billions of euros (dollars) towards bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. "Since World War II Germany has been very prudent when it comes to occupying top ...
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EBRD region: Growth prospects improve but with increasing risks
EMportal
Growth prospects for the economies in the EBRD region have improved, but concerns are growing about the possible fallout from sovereign debt problems in some euro zone countries and inflationary pressures are emerging as a new risk. ...
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Greek PM rules out restructuring ahead of cabinet plan
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister George Papandreou will chair a cabinet meeting Monday to discuss a new fiscal plan which he says is guaranteed to overcome Greece's debt crisis without resorting to major structural change. "We are discussing a four-year programme that ...
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Eurozone crisis may derail Irish recovery, warns IMF
Tehran Times
The message that Ireland could see its debt reduction plan undermined by wrangling among the EU'screditor countries – including France, Germany, Sweden and Finland – came as the IMF approved a €26bn (£22.6bn) loan for Portugal. ...
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IMF approves US$36.8b loan for Portugal
Business Times - Malaysia
... a 26 billion euro (US$36.8 billion) loan for Portugal to help the country recover from a debilitating sovereign debt crisis, saying it would immediately disburse 6.1 billion euros to ease investor concerns over the euro zone member's debts. ...
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Spain voting begins amid mass protests
msnbc.com
After the euro zone debt crisis forced Greece, and later Ireland and Portugal, to take bailouts, Zapatero implemented round of measures to tackle a huge public deficit and persuade financial markets that it has the budget under control. ...
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Greek Prime Minister: 'Debt Restructuring Is Not Under Discussion ...
By Maxwell Strachan
ATHENS (Harry Papachristou) - Greece must avoid debt restructuring and push on with budget cuts and privatisations to overcome its debt crisis, the country's Prime Minister George Papandreou and senior ECB officials said on Saturday. ... into its EU/IMF 110-billion euro bailout, Greece is struggling with weak revenues and deep recession, fuelling speculation that it will have to restructure its debt to pull itself out of the fiscal mess that triggered a euro zone crisis. ...
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Massive Losses Expected For Spain's Socialists As Voting Begins ...
By Pat Dollard
Tens of thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in the past week in city squares around the country against austerity measures that have kept a fiscal crisis at bay but aggravated the highest jobless rate in the European Union. ... After the euro zone debt crisis forced Greece, and later Ireland and Portugal, to take bailouts, Zapatero implemented round of measures to tackle a huge public deficit and persuade financial markets that it has the budget under control. ...
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Euro Watch: Is Italy Not Spain The Real Elephant In The Euro Room?
By Edward Hugh
The chart below (which comes from a recent report by PNB Paribas economist Ken Wattret ) shows the path of constant price GDP in the four largest eurozone countries (plus the UK) relative to where they were in Q1 2008. .... the key variable to watch for the debt/GDP ratio is nominal GDP. Now Italy managed to achieve nominal GDP growth of around 4% a year in the decade before the crisis, and a rough and ready calculation suggests that with nominal GDP growth of around 4% ...
Euro Watch - http://eurowatch.blogspot.com/
Euro More Volatile | Live Stock Trading News | Equities, Forex ...
By Shayne Heffernan
Euro More Volatile. The Euro finishes the week with a return to vulnerability. The equities market correctly brushed off the media Noise regarding the EuroZone debt crisis. The Euro was seen a stabilizing across the board last week. ...
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EU Debt Crisis - Euro Zone Crisis Plan Is Failing: Willem Buiter ...
The plan to deal with the euro zone debt crisis and avoid restructuring ... Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis ...
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Euro zone ministers divided over Greek debt crisis < French news ...
Discussions amongst euro zone finance ministers Monday focused on Greece's deepening debt crisis, with disagree... < French news | Expatica France.
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There is no eurozone debt crisis: OECD chief - Worldnews.com
News Analysis-EU Debt Crisis-11-16-2010-(Part1) ..... The debt crisis in the euro zone is being reignited now that it is clear that Greece is not delivering ...
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Germany and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis
Germany and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Lessons of History ... euro the role of a real alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency, .... News, Magazines, Journals. Gegenblende (DGB); Global Policy Journal; New Statesman ...
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News Strauss-Kahn casts shadow over EU debt crisis talks
The IMF is pumping in one euro for every two put up by European Union governments in the ...Eurozone debt crisis threatens stability: Italian minister ...
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DOMINIQUE STRAUSS KAHN News, May 23, 2011

An American Woman Expat View on Strauss-Kahn
Huffington Post (blog)
I literally told her she came from one of the most equal countries in the world for women and that she should really consider going back home. Perhaps I came back to France because it is beautiful, I like the food and my friends, have a half-French ...
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“Where Money Goes to Die:” After a Decade in Decline, Can Microsoft, Intel And Cisco Pull off a Rebound? - Money Morning

BY DAVID ZEILER, Associate Editor, Money Morning
For most of the 1990s, U.S. high-tech heavyweights Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC) and Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) didn't just dominate their respective markets.

HEALTH News, May 23, 2011

College mental health screenings going high-tech
FOX 12 Idaho Sun, 22 May 2011 21:31 PM PDT
Look around a waiting room at a university counseling center and you'll see students wrestling with all sorts of issues: The one who's failing because of binge drinking. Another who's struggling with a roommate...

Surge of severe health problems with sugar gliders reported
Carroll County Times Sun, 22 May 2011 21:27 PM PDT
What are sugar gliders? Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials that are native to New Guinea and Australia. They inhabit open forests, where they live in trees as family units. Sugar gliders move from tree to tree using their gliding membrane that extends from their forepaws to their ankles.

Coca Cola criticised over water recall
The New Zealand Herald Sun, 22 May 2011 21:27 PM PDT
Coca-Cola Amatil has rewritten the way it recalls its products after it was pulled up by health authorities for the way it recalled its Pumped flavoured water that made 11 people sick over summer.The 750ml water bottles remain...

Health reps: Better public outreach needed
The Michigan City News-Dispatch Sun, 22 May 2011 21:27 PM PDT
LA PORTE â A performance assessment made by and for La Porte County health-service organizations calls for a local health system with more organized public outreach.

Births
The Youngstown Vindicator Sun, 22 May 2011 21:24 PM PDT
Births ST. Joseph Health Center Heather Longstreth and Joel Perez Sr., Warren, girl, May 20.

Re-Creation to perform new stage presentation at Beckley VA today
The Register-Herald Sun, 22 May 2011 21:21 PM PDT
Click HERE to see stories and photos from Thursday's press conference where an independent report, compiled by a team headed by formerfederal Mine Safety and Health Administration chief J. Davitt McAteer, was released, citing Massey Energy safety failings for the Upper Big Branch explosion in which 29 miners were killed on April 5, 2010.

Health Protesters, U.K. Deals, China Audits, Dutch Bank Chief: Compliance
Bloomberg Sun, 22 May 2011 21:21 PM PDT
Aetna Inc. âs annual meeting was disrupted May 20 by placard-carrying protesters demanding the insurer stop funding political efforts to undo the 2010 health- care overhaul.

U.S. Objects to New Law on Clinics in Indiana
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun, 22 May 2011 21:20 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is raising serious objections to a new Indiana law that cuts off state and federal money forPlanned Parenthood clinics providing health care to low-income women on Medicaid.

Calendar â May 23, 2011
The Register-Herald Sun, 22 May 2011 21:20 PM PDT
Click HERE to see stories and photos from Thursday's press conference where an independent report, compiled by a team headed by former federal Mine Safety and Health Administration chief J. Davitt McAteer, was released, citing Massey Energy safety failings for the Upper Big Branch explosion in which 29 miners were killed on April 5, 2010.

CDC assesses potential human exposure to prion diseases
EurekAlert! Sun, 22 May 2011 21:19 PM PDT
( Elsevier Health Sciences ) Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have examined the potential for human exposure to prion diseases, looking at hunting, venison consumption, and travel to areas in which prion diseases have been reported in animals. Three prion diseases in particular -- bovine spongiform encephalopathy, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and chronic ...


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Obama: '67 borders reflect longstanding policy - Yahoo! News

Play VideoNews 8 San Diego – President ObaBy BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press – 1 hr 27 mins ago

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended his endorsement of Israel's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a future Palestine, telling America's pro-Israel lobby Sunday that his views reflected longstanding U.S. policy that needed to be stated clearly.

He also said the Jewish state will face growing isolation without "a credible peace process."

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Benedict makes first-ever papal call to space | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Nathan Lindstrom Chronicle

Video feeds in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center show Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican talking with astronauts on the International Space Station.

The first-ever call to space by a pope came through "loud and clear" on Saturday, as Pope Benedict XVI commended astronauts for their courage, blessed them and extended special prayers to shuttle commander Mark Kelly, whose wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.

From space, "I think it must be obvious to you that we all live together on this earth and how absurd it is that we fight and kill," said Benedict, speaking from the Vatican to the International Space Station, where the space shuttle Endeavour docked Wednesday during its final mission. "I know that Mark Kelly's wife was the victim of a serious attack, and I hope that her health continues to improve."

Johnson Space Center in Houston coordinated the call, planned by the Vatican and the European Space Agency. Benedict addressed a dozen American, Italian and Russian astronauts, acknowledging the scientific advancements, international cooperation and global unity fostered by their work.

Among them were several members of the Catholic Church, including Kelly, Col. Ron Garan, Col. Mike Fincke and Col. Roberto Vittori, who floated a coin given to him by the pope before the camera.

DiNardo leads group

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Catholic leaders from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston watched the Holy Father's message live from Mission Control in Houston along with astronauts' families and some of the agency's Catholic employees.