Science & Math students win regional honors in competition - WRAL
Posted: Today at 9:58 a.m. Durham, N.C. ? Two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics won regional honors in a national competition for their project on genetics and chemotherapeutic drugs. Seniors Sajith M ...
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NASA scales back flagship Mars mission - Guardian Unlimited
AP Science Writer= LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission. The decision to slash ...
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A computer composing and playing jazz - ZDNet Blogs
Tags: Software , Computer , NTNU , Øyvind Brandtsegg , PhD Student , Computer Instrument , Productivity , Tools & Techniques , Management , Roland Piquepaille The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has some unusual teaching ...
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Discovery Questions Intelligence of Human Ancestor - Newsblaze.com
A recently discovered female pelvis is changing minds about the head size of an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus, and consequently revising notions about how smart they may have been. Found in Gona, Ethiopia, not far from the site that yielded ...
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Legislature Discusses Pet Law Changes - Southwest Times Record
LITTLE ROCK ? Arkansas and Alabama are the only states that still require annual rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats, but that could change in the 2009 session. Because of improvements to the vaccine over the years, and the growing number of pets ...
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Obama appears to be stocking up his Cabinet - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Birthplace: Brooklyn, N.Y. Schools: International School, Bangkok, Thailand (high school), Dartmouth (B.A. in government and Asian studies); Johns Hopkins, M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies. Now: President, Federal Reserve Bank ...
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Book is uplifting for caregivers - West Hawaii Today
"Mama and Me: Words To Uplift." By Barbara Kim-Yamashita. Self Published. $10. Despite caring for her bed-ridden mother for many years, Barbara Kim-Yamashita was able to piece together an impressive career as a 1960s Hawaii television personality ...
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Nov 23 - Nov 29 (3) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
...the potential usefulness of pharmocogenetics extends beyond safety. Most drugs on the market are, by some accounts, only effective for 50 percent of those who take them. Researchers envision a time when you?ll be able to walk into your doctor ...
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2 NC women among 32 picked as Rhodes Scholars - Daily Reflector
RALEIGH, N.C. ? An MIT student from Leicester who is days away from graduation and a University of North Carolina senior from Cary are among the 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2009. Alia Whitney-Johnson will graduate from the ...
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Cabinet takes up MNS menace - Hindustan Times
The Union Cabinet on Thursday told Home Minister Shivraj Patil to convey to Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh that there were pressing demands from several quarters for the arrest of MNS leader Raj Thackeray under the National Security Act ...
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