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Jul 8, 2011

SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 08, 2011


Crucell Discovers Important New Antibody Against Influenza A
Reuters (press release)
Leiden, The Netherlands (July 7, 2011) - Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell NV and The Scripps Research Institute today published an article in the world's leading journal of original scientific research Science describing Crucell's novel ...
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Middle School Girls Attend Science Camp at Stanford
Patch.com
The AAUW-sponsored 'Tech Trek' camp will encourage six local young women to pursue studies in the traditionally male-dominated math and science fields. By Brantley Watson | Email the author | 11:00am Now in its 14th year, Tech Trek, a weeklong camp ...
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Graphene: What Can Go Wrong? New Studies Point to Wrinkles, Process Contaminants
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (July 7, 2011) — Using a combination of sophisticated computer modeling and advanced materials analysis techniques at synchrotron laboratories, a research team led by the University at Buffalo (UB) and including the National Institute of ...
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Waters Recognizes Albert J. Fornace Laboratory at Georgetown University ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Waters' Centers of Innovation Program supports the efforts of scientists facilitating breakthroughs in health and life science research, food safety, environmental protection, sports medicine and many other areas. "Professor Fornace and his laboratory ...
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State of Education 2011: Emphasis on Technology
Virginia Living
Virginia leads the way in STEM education—science, technology, engineering and math. By Meredith Rigsby The ability to use technology both in the classroom and the workplace has become a 21st century necessity. Educators today need to stay on top of ...
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Farmer's son cultivates a career in translational research
ScienceCareers.org
He has won grants from the Austrian Science Fund and the MPN Research Foundation, which is funded largely by patients. "You feel an extra deal of responsibility [when] you're spending patient donations," he says. Last year, he won the Austrian Academy ...
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NASA Sends Phones, Cells, Spores and More to Space on Last Shuttle
Space Ref (press release)
NASA's Ames Research Center will send a variety of life science experiments andtechnology demonstrations aboard the final space shuttle to better our understanding of how robots can help humans live and work in space and how spaceflight affects the...
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Space Ref (press release)
BGI announces first release of updated bioinformatics software
PhysOrg.com (press release)
“Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with complex human diseases and traits,” stated Haojing Shao, Technology Leader of Science andTechnology Department of BGI. “Most variants identified so far ...
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Clarkson University's Laura Ettinger Named Fulbright Scholar to Croatia
Clarkson University News (press release)
"My studies reflect my professional and political concerns about gender issues, the state of American health care, women's health, and women in technology andscience today," says Ettinger. "I am excited to immerse myself in Croatian culture and in ...
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Clarkson University News (press release)
Flour Bluff teacher to attend space camp
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Anderson, who teaches science and social studies, said her students were excited about the camp, which will send her to the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., in less than two weeks. Unfortunately, Flour Bluff students will have to wait ...
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UA Study Plays Key Role in International Lung Research
UA News (press release)
"The Tucson study in many aspects is unique because it was one of the longest-running respiratory studies ever conducted." Tucsonan Mark Cesnik, 60, remembers volunteering with his parents to participate in the study back when he was in high school. ...
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UA News (press release)
HU scientists make cancer understanding breakthrough
Jerusalem Post
Using cutting-edge technologies, researchers Prof. Batsheva Kerem and doctoral student Efrat Ozeri-Galai, of the Alexander Silverman Institute of Life Sciences in the HU's Faculty of Sciencewere able to characterize for the first time the DNA regions ...
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Seven New Full-Time Faculty Members Hired
St. Gregory's University Athletics
This involves the use of podcasts to enhance classroom teaching and distance learning, integrating arts in the science curriculum to develop student skills of observation and higher learning, and use of the iPod as a media delivery tool. ...
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CPRIT Enters Agreement with Roche Aimed at Advancing Texas' Fight Against Cancer
Business Wire (press release)
Roche will assess investment opportunities and offer support to selected ventures through access to its scientific knowledge, drug development, regulation, clinical studies, manufacturing and marketing expertise. A joint CPRIT/Roche governance ...
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John E. Fischer, materials professor | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-07-07
Philadelphia Inquirer
He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a master's degree in engineering from California Institute of Technology; and a doctorate in nuclearscience and engineering from RPI in 1966. ...
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The baseless campaign against GM food
ABC Online
The Academy of Science found that "GM products have been in several foods for many years and consumed without any substantiated evidence of ill effects on health, and their safety confirmed by many peer-reviewed studies world-wide". ...
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ABC Online
Nineteen new students win $50000 Medallion Scholarships
WMU News
She graduated from Warren Mott High School and the Macomb Mathematics Science TechnologyCenter and is the daughter of Brad Morrison and Karen Morrison. Her accolades include an honorable mention in the Grand Valley State University Statistics Poster ...
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Three more online degree programs brings UMC total to 10
Crookston Daily Times
The new online degrees join the existing degree programs in accounting, applied health, appliedstudies, business management, marketing, manufacturing management, and quality management. Adel Ali, Ph.D., head of the Math, Science, and Technology ...
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CHI & HINJ to Co-Host Congressional Briefing on Alzheimer's Disease Research ...
Business Wire (press release)
CHI members Genentech, Pfizer, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and University of California, Irvine and HINJ members Merck, Lundbeck, Bayer and Pfizer are all working to advance important new studies and therapeutics. ...
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A friendship continued into the new century
Russia & India Report
This would help to establish Russia as an attractive partner for developing trade and cooperation in the science and technology sectors, and also in the high-tech sector, which is a priority for both countries. The book also includes a selection of ...
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Russia & India Report
Programs try to save students from 'summer slide' in academics
Los Angeles Times
Think Together, a Santa Ana-based group, is providing science, math and technologyskills for 800 students in three Santa Ana schools with its $125000 Packard grant. TheWhittier City School District received its first $110000 grant from Packard last ...
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Los Angeles Times
Heartland Institute's Climate Contrarians Enjoy Media Platform
Media Matters for America (blog)
Maxwell Boykoff of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of ado has noted that on the issue of climate change, "Outlier voices have gained more prominence and traction in mass media over time through a mix of ...
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Team America Rocketry Challenge
Space Ref (press release)
The White House recently highlighted our efforts in its Office of Science and Technology Policy blog about TARC: Building a Model (Rocket) Workforce. We urge you to consider sponsoring the Team America Rocketry Challenge for its 10th anniversary season ...
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DOE Creating Partnerships to Provide IT Tools to Workforce
IndustryWeek
The DOE's National Training and Education Resource (NTER) will provide students with highly interactive and engaging materials in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas, as well as virtual technician training. ...
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Pride in the Future: the Politics of Iran's Space Program
Foreign Policy Journal
“People wondered after the first time if they just got lucky”, one science analyst observed. “Now that they've put two satellites up there, that indicates perhaps it wasn'ta fluke the first time. It demonstrates that their rocket technology is pretty ...
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Foreign Policy Journal
Conference on economic impact of new EPA water rules scheduled for late July
Florida Independent
The meeting will be lead by The National Academies' Water Science & Technology Board — a committee “comprised of experts in science, technology, academics, and the environment under the direction of Dr. Laura Ehlers.” The board is slated to meet at ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen news, Jul 08, 2011

Taking sides in Syria
Socialist Worker
The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt were hailed as a defining moment in the Arab world. Both revolutions, as well as the ongoing struggles in Yemen and Bahrain, are widely seen as major setbacks for regimes allied to western imperialism, ...
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For America, An Arab Winter
The Wilson Quarterly
In others, efforts to change the status quo have failed and led to state repression (Bahrain and Syria) or civil war (Libya and Yemen). Elsewhere, in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, and Lebanon, there's been much ...
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Hama 'stones' Syria forces; families flee
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Saleh thanked Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who has come under domestic and international pressure to assume power during the president's absence, “for his efforts in bridging gaps between all political parties” in Yemen. ...
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4 reasons why Bradley Manning deserves a medal
CBS News
The chain reaction of democratic protests and uprisings that has swept Egypt, Libya,Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, and even in a modest way Iraq, all began in Tunisia, where leaked US State Department cables about the staggering corruption of the ruling Ben ...
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Levi's to intensify its marketing campaign with 'Arab Spring'
Economic Times
... Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year. Libyan rebels are attempting to overthrow ruler Muammar Gaddafi, while protests and demonstrations have rocked governments inBahrain, Yemen, Syria and swept across other parts of North Africa and Middle East....
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The Spring Revolution: Age Of Hope And Time For Disappointment
CounterCurrents.org
From self-immolation of a young man that triggered uprising in Tunisia, the fire of revolts has engulfed Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. Everyone is wondering whether these revolts against autocracy will be able to transform the basic fabric of ...
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Peace-nicked
On Line opinion
By Richard Hil - posted Friday, 8 July 2011 Currently, there are something in the order of 17 war-like conflicts happening around the globe, with the latest bloodbaths occurring inLibya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt. The actual number of 'wars' ...
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Arab Spring bad for region's economies says UN report
The National
Protests are also hurting the economies of Yemen, Syria and Bahrain and "may make it even harder" to reduce the proportion of people living on less than US$1.25 a day - the global benchmark poverty level - until "stability is restored", it said. ...
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Tony Blair: 'I Warned Gaddafi'
AOL News
Now there are conflicts in Syria and Libya, Iraq is still not stable, and Yemen andBahrain are on the brink of collapse. Which Middle Eastern country is your top priority right now? Tony Blair: The Israel-Palestine peace process is still my main task, ...
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Major challenges facing Arabs
gulfnews.com
More immediately relevant to Arab fortunes is the situation in both Yemenand Syria. A stable Yemen is vital to the security of the Arabian peninsula, and a stable Syria is vital to the security of the eastern Arab world. The loss of life in both these ...
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Contemplating My Delegation to Iran
Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog)
Currently, we, along with our Saudi proxy, are supporting repressive regimes in Bahrain and Yemen, and attempting to mitigate any real change in the corrupt Egyptian military regime which still governs Egypt, though without Mubarak. ...
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Gulf: A leading market for luxury cars
Business Standard
The upbeat outlook for much of the Gulf region contrasts with other areas of the Arab world, where uprisings have overthrown governments in Egyptand Tunisia and have sparked a civil war in Libya and riots in Syria,Bahrain and Yemen. ...
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Bin Laden's bookshelf
Khaleej Times
With new governments emerging in Tunisia and Egypt, possibly in Libya or Yemen, but not likely in either Syria or Bahrain, it is tempting to say that a better way forward for the Arab/Muslim world is about to emerge, and that the physical death of OBL ...
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The Arab Summer: Taking Stock
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
With proper leadership, both Egypt and Tunisia might be able to balance a political transition with reasonable economic growth, thus reinforcing the power of their example to other countries. In Libya, Yemen and Syria, the winds of change are blowing ...
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The Fourth of July 2011 | North End Regional Review
By North End Regional Review Staff
During the past six months we have witnessed democratic uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt,Libya, Yemen, Syria, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain and Oman. Bottom line, people want to be free. People are tired of the party line. ...
North End Regional Review
Middle East Update: July
Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Yemen middle_east1. Now What? ... Obama administration is open to dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because "it is...
islamnewsroom.com/news-we-need/1613
Arab Dominoes (in process, and to follow:) Tunisia, Egypt, Libya ...
So far Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria are all dealing with the process of having autocracies change to governments elected by the people. ...
zyonism.wordpress.com/.../arab-dominoes-in-process-and-to-f...
Motion for a resolution on Syria, Yemen and Bahrain the context of ...
B. whereas also in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, ... in particular regarding the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya has been slow and at times ...
www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type...B7...
Al Jazeera wilts in Arab Spring #BAHRAIN #YEMEN #SYRIA #EGYPT ...
Al Jazeera wilts in Arab Spring http://t.co/8YN5nxt #BAHRAIN #YEMEN #SYRIA #EGYPT #LIBYA #TUNISIA الجزيرة ذبلت في... http://fb.me/A3ccrLcD by @MediaOfTruth.
inagist.com/.../Al_Jazeera_wilts_in_Arab_Spring_BAHRAIN_...
Bahrain in the Context of the Arab Spring | thepearlroundabout.org
Bouazizi's death was the spark that has since rippled across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, ...
www.thepearlroundabout.org/?p=2279
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - Tuesday 28 June 2011 | World ...
Opposition groups in both Syria and Bahrain face the dilemma of whether to ...... not mentioning Syria / Libya / Bahrain / Yemen / Egypt and all the other ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../libya-syria-middle-east-unrest-live
Arab Spring Sprung? | Standpoint
The only six countries affected by the "Spring" are Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya,Yemen and Syria, in chronological order. Let's review them. ...
standpointmag.co.uk/points-east-and-west-julyaugust11-eman...
Michael Josephson Commentary: Independence Day and Courage 730.2
We celebrate this year's Fourth of July holiday at a time when millions of people inLibya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen are at various stages ...
charactercounts.org/.../independence_day_and_courage_7.ht...
YouTube - Gaddafi / Syria Kill 24 / Afgan / Yemen / E-Coli ...
Hillary Clinton says Libya Gaddafi must go now, but at the same time she embraces the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt! Syria kills 24 more because of protest of ... ... the government in bahrain is like the government in syria. ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zFOAj45sA
The Spring Revolution: Age Of Hope And Time For Disappointment By ...
From self-immolation of a young man that triggered uprising in Tunisia, the fire of revolts has engulfed Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. ...
www.countercurrents.org/qazi080711.htm
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#Bahrain | البحرين تستقدم يمنيين للعمل في الأمن http://bit.ly/kF5V10 #IamArab # GCC #KSA #EGYPT #Feb14 #Syria #Yemen #Libya #BahrainND ...
www.bahrain-nation.net/vb/showthread.php?p=15918
Tell it like it is: Major Global, National and Local Stories of ...
The Arab Spring is a bright sign in countries such as Tunisia Libya, Egypt, Syria,Yemen, Iran and Bahrain as the smart phone/facebook generation takes to ...
rjschwartz.blogspot.com/.../major-global-national-and-local-st...