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• Miscellaneous Articles

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  What did FDR really die from , or rumored to have died from? _____ Wall Street is behind the U of C cash crisis . _____
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• New method may treat arterial disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) A discovery that grew out of a collaboration between engineers and doctors shows promise in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a common circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs.The condition is considered a red flag for vascular disease, heart ...
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• New tool may help assist pediatric heart surgery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): Scientists from University of California, San Diego and Stanford University have developed a novel tool that may help surgeons plan for a life-saving operation called the “Fontan” surgery, which is performed on babies born with severe congenital heart defects. Babies who get this surgery ...
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• New material may help combat arterial disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): A group of researchers from University of California, Los Angeles has developed a novel material that can help fight peripheral arterial disease also known as hardening of arteries.The condition is considered a red flag for vascular disease, heart attack and stroke, and its progression can ...
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• Bacteria plays an important role in a plant’s immunity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) When it comes to plants’ innate immunity, bacteria play a vital role, according to researchers.A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system swings into action to defend against the invasion of the disease-causing ...
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• A School Rivalry That Crosses Family Boundaries

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The rivalry between U.S.C. and U.C.L.A., whose rosters often include relatives of the other school’s players and alumni, will be played out for the 79th time on Saturday.
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• Stem cells show promise in healing newborns’ lungs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Toronto, Nov 27 (IANS) Stem cells can protect and repair the lungs of newborns, says a study that conducted clinical trials in rats.“The really exciting thing that we discovered was that stem cells are like little factories, pumping out healing factors,” says Bernard Thebaud, an Alberta Heritage Foundation for ...
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• Semiconducting nanowires are coming

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  With all the news about nanotechnology and wiring that’s been coming out over the last year or so, this release is no surprise . The release: November 26, 2009 Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Nanowire formation Download photo caption below A new ...
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• Hybrids Are Good, but ICE Car Tweaks, Cooking Stoves Better for Curbing Oil Use

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Weve said it before and, because theres a well-written article on the subject in todays Wall Street Journal (subscription required), well say it again: Tweaking regular gasoline-powered cars is likely to curb oil use than plug-in-hybrid and all-electric vehicles for years to come. Raising the average fuel economy of ...
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• Too much light. “… tailor various features of the photosynthetic machinery to let algae use light energy more efficiently and suffer less damage under extremely high light and temperature conditions… “

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  Arthur Grossman from the Carnegie Institution – Department of Plant Biology – has stated:“If we are going to attempt this we have to make sure that we use the right algae that can thrive and produce oils at high levels under harsh environmental conditions.”“It’s possible that we can also tailor various ...
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• Engineers, doctors at UCLA develop novel material that could help fight arterial disease (EurekAlert!)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  ( University of California - Los Angeles ) To develop a device to treat peripheral arterial disease that could prevent thrombosis from occurring in small diameter vessels, a team from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in collaboration with the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, was ...
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• Lancet studies say reducing greenhouse gases will also benefit human health

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): A series of six studies published in the medical journal The Lancet have determined that tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions will have major direct health benefits, in addition to reducing the risk of climate change, especially in low-income ...
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• California’s Public Universities: Harder To Get Into

  
  California Budget Bites — Authority: 414
  Gaining admission to California’s public universities is becoming more difficult. Not only are the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) increasing student fees in response to state budget cuts, they are also reducing enrollment. The decisions to cut enrollments come at a time when ...
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• “News Alert”.: Breaking World Financial News and Special Report, “Update”.: “We as Americans must reframe from the after the Thanksgiving Day (Black Friday) Commercial and goods Fire Sale”, says Captain Democracy.: “The prices are to high and we the peopl

  
  Architecture & Environmental Design — Authority: 118
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• UC Berkeley to Investigate Police Brutality in Protests

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 589
  And speaking of the upheaval in the University of California system, Democracy Now! has some really important updates about the protests that happened after the UC board voted to increase tuition rates by over 30%. Forty students were arrested Friday night after campus police entered Wheeler Hall, which the ...
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• What Happened to Our Movement?

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 589
  In light of the recent protests in the University of California system, Xicana scholar and activist, Cherrie Moraga, gave a pointed and stirring critique/speech to a graduation class at UC Berkeley. In it, she asks, “What happened to our movement?” in reference to the work done by activists of color in the 60s. ...
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• Book Review: Alcatraz, The Gangster Years By David Ward

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  By Randall Radic Alcatraz.   The word means ‘pelican,’ and comes from the Arabic al-qatras, meaning ‘sea eagle.’  Almost everyone’s heard of it.  Clint Eastwood starred in a movie about escaping from Alcatraz.  Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery battled a misguided general in another movie called ...
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• Global warming may increase chances of civil war in Africa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 24 (ANI): A new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, US, has suggested that climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades.The study, conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley as well ...
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• Link Dump! Brought To You By Maria Menounos

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 597
  Somebody booed the hell out of Tiger Woods at Stanford/Cal on Saturday. Still better than yelling “GET IN THE HOLE!!!!!!!!” after he tees off on a 600-yard par five - Yardbarker/Sports by Brooks Had it…and I f*cking misspelled “Saints” with two seconds left. F*ck you for wasting my time, quiz! You’ll ...
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• UC EMPLOYEES VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN YUDOF

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 133
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Blogmeister doesnt know how this un slipped by him, but it appears University of California employees delivered a vote of "no confidence" in former UT Chancellor Mark Yudof way back in September.  Nothing like timely news, eh? Many thanks to the alert reader who pointed this ...
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