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3 hrs ago | Palm Beach Post

Time to evict Jim Crow

We like to fool ourselves that Florida is this progressive, modern state showing Americans the way into the new millennium.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Palm Beach County, FL, Hallandale, FL, Opinion

12 hrs ago | Newsday.com

Home heating oil prices cooling off

Homeowners wringing their hands over high home heating oil prices received a sedative of sorts yesterday after crude oil prices slid below $90 a barrel.

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Related Topix: Hauppauge, NY

20 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

3.1 quake strikes near Piedmont

An earthquake shook parts of the East Bay this afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Earthquake

Sun Oct 12, 2008

New Mexico Business Weekly

Sandia to manage DOE-funded solar projects

The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen Sandia National Laboratories as project manager for initiatives funded under the DOE's Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems program.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Clark Fork Valley Press

Scientist tests Thompson water

Along the banks of the Thompson Falls Resevoir Thursday, University of Montana Geomorphologist Johnnie Moore bent down to take several sediment samples from the property of Thompson Falls resident, Jon Sonju.

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Related Topix: Thompson Falls, MT, Geology, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law

Inter Press Service

MEXICO: Legalisation Fight Gains Ground as Illegal Abortions Increase

Legal access to abortion, available since April 2007 in the Mexican capital, should be extended to the rest of the country, where the rate of illegal abortions exceeds the average for developing countries and ...

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Related Topix: Abortion, Prison

Sat Oct 11, 2008

MarketWatch

Nasa KSC Honors Asrc Aerospace Corporation as 2008 KSC Small Business Contractor of the Year

ASRC Aerospace Corporation , a leading provider of scientific, engineering and technical services to government agencies, announced its selection by NASA Kennedy Space Center as the 2008 Small Business ...

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, Science / Technology, NASA, Space, Cape Canaveral, FL

TwinCities.com

Deaths Elsewhere / Physician advanced leukemia research

Dr. Ernest Beutler, a leading hematologist whose studies opened an important new window onto the treatment of leukemia, died Oct.

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Related Topix: Leukemia, Health, Lymphoma, La Jolla Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Biochemistry, Biology, Science

Mass High Tech

Air Force awards $4.8M inventory contract to DRC

Dynamics Research Corp. reports it has landed $4.8 million from the U.S. Air Force for research on an inventory program.

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Related Topix: Dynamics Research, Computers, US Coast Guard, US Military, US News

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Cranbury Press

SPOTLIGHT: The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming

SPOTLIGHT: The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming! An a Out of This Worlda event on Oct.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Plainsboro, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Cranbury, NJ, Middlesex Metro

Boston Business Journal

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory names ex-Bush advisor to board

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. has named retired Gen. John Gordon as chairman of its Board of Directors.

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TheDartmouth.com

Dell engineers work to fix GreenPrint problems

Three Dell engineers visited campus Tuesday to resolve the jamming problems that have plagued Dartmouth's new GreenPrint printers since they were installed this summer.

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Related Topix: Printers

Thu Oct 09, 2008

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Contract worker breaks leg in NM lab's rocket test

Investigators say a worker suffered burns and a broken leg after a rocket motor ignited prematurely during a test at a federal laboratory in New Mexico.

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Today's Chemist At Work

Pentavalent Uranium Oxide via Reduction of [UO2]2+ Under Hydrothermal Reaction Conditionsa

Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, 725 21st Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chemical and Material Science Division, MSIN: K8-96, 902 Battelle ...

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Related Topix: Washington, DC, George Washington University, Chemistry, Science

KOB-TV

Judge rules in Sandia landfill public records case

A state district judge has ruled that a report concerning groundwater monitoring at Sandia National Laboratories' mixed waste landfill is public record.

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Related Topix: Albuquerque, NM

Wed Oct 08, 2008

Biology News Net

Scripps research team solves structure of 'beneficial' virus

The 3-D structure of the virus, known as Seneca Valley Virus-001, reveals that it is unlike any other known member of the Picornaviridae viral family, and confirms its recent designation as a separate genus ...

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Related Topix: Malvern, PA

KOAT.com

La Luz Trail Reopens

The Sandia Ranger District has reopened the popular La Luz Trail in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque.

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Related Topix: Albuquerque Metro, Albuquerque, NM, Weather

KMOV-TV Saint Louis

Feds seeking new flood strategies in St. Louis

This year's severe flooding along the Mississippi River is prompting three federal agencies to discuss how they can work more effectively together.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, Weather

KSNE-FM Las Vegas

99% Of Alaska's Glaciers Melting

About 5 percent of Alaska's area is covered by more than 100,000 glaciers - which is about 29,000 square miles.

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Related Topix: Geology, Science

MediLexicon

Turning Cancer Friend Into Cancer Foe

Burnham Institute for Medical Research has announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health

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