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• Ryan Wittman is Cornells all-time scorer in win over La Salle

  
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  View full sizeAPCornells all-time leading scorer, Ryan Wittman.PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Wittman scored a career-high 34 points to become Cornell’s all-time leading scorer as the Big Red held off La Salle 78-75 on Tuesday. Wittman, a senior forward, needed 31...
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• College Facilities Make the Green Grade

  
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  Several colleges including Bellevue College and Hamilton College have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Cornell University also recently teamed up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to help more ...
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• Eco Tech: Cornell University researchers create energy-harvesting ‘Piezo-tree’

  
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  Eco Factor: Prototype device to harvest renewable energy. Researchers at the Cornell University have created an energy-harvesting tree that uses the flittering of leaves to produce electricity. Dubbed the “ Piezo-tree ”, the system carries synthetic leaves that are connected to a piezoelectric stem. As ...
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• Adam Frey Is Died; Miraculous Survivor Dies Of Cancer Sadly – Post Chronicle

  
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  Post Chronicle Adam Frey Is Died; Miraculous Survivor Dies Of Cancer Sadly Post Chronicle Adam Frey was a wrestler at Cornell Universitys who got into a terrible car accident that he got out of practically injury free. ...
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• Cornell basketball team tops St. Johns at Madison Square Garden

  
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  Gloria Wright / The Post-StandardCornell center Jeff Foote. Jeff Foote’s smile was big even for a 7-footer. The senior center had 19 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks and was selected as the most valuable player of the Holiday Festival...
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• College Basketball Roundup: Cornell Denies St. John’s in Holiday Festival Final

  
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  Cornell beat St. John’s, 71-66, for its first championship in the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden. St. John’s won its 14th festival four years ago.
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• Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

  
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  PHILADELPHIA ?- People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released today. ...
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• People@Work: Fired for Playing Fantasy Football, or for Being 26 Years Old?

  
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  Your heart has to go out to Cameron Pettigrew, losing a job in this economy. The 26-year-old Fidelity Investments employee, along with three others, was fired in October for violating a company policy regarding gambling while participating in fantasy football, a virtual game that utilizes real-life statistics from ...
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• 2010 Aussie competition will see robots battle it out

  
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  Washington, December 20 (ANI): A team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready robots as part of a 2010 international war games challenge that could spur real-life battle bots.The 2010 Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic ...
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• The Amazing Miracle Food That Really Works

  
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  Anti-aging, weight management, natural immunity, and detoxification of pollutants in our bodies are all topics of concern for us in the 21st century. Can it be that one substance provides a solution to all of these issues? According to news reports from Cornell University, the New England Journal of Medicine and the ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Skorton Presents Argument for NY Tech Innovation

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 522
  This week in an op-ed featured in the Times-Union , David Skorton , the president of Cornell University ,  argued that even with the large amount of money earned and spent by its universities and research intuitions, New York state is lagging in technological innovation.  Pointing to how little VC money and ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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