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• The Requisite Poison Toy Scare

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Of course its the Zhu Zhu "pets".... Antimony was measured at 93 parts per million in the hamsters fur and at 106 parts per million in its nose. Both readings exceed the allowable level of 60 parts per million, said ORourke, an associate professor of environmental science at the University of California, Berkeley. And ...
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• Libel in Fact Magazine: The Psychiatrists who Knew Goldwater Best

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  To understand how someone will behave, is it best to ask someone who knows the individual, or to rely on the judgment of an independent observer? This question arises in interpreting the 1964 Fact Magazine  poll of psychiatrists , that concerned Senator Goldwaters character.  The poll results appeared in an ...
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• Researchers find MRI useful in detecting pregnancy complications

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 446
  Researchers have found that the use of MRI to be accurate and useful for detecting abnormalities during pregnancy. During the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, researchers from the University of California, San Diego presented their finding from a study involving the use of MRI to detect ...
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• More Bad News for my Beloved U.C.

  
  The Cyber Hacienda — Authority: 119
  Abandoning Californias commitment to education . Every time I see a news article about the University of California system, I try and convince myself not to read because its probably more bad news. Well here we go again, I wish I hadnt read it. Here is just one excerpt of Tim Ruttens editorial in todays Los Angeles ...
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• Network of environmental sensors will help people avoid air pollution hot spots

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, December 5 (ANI): In a new research, computer scientists from University of California, San Diego, are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help people avoid air pollution hot spots by tracking their exact location.The network is known as “CitiSense”, which is the vision of computer ...
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• California Auditor Says Cal State University Employee Was Unfairly Reimbursed for Travel

  
  Latest entries from dotcommonsense.blog-city.com — Authority: 140
  Man already got over $200k a year from system and charged for premium travel on top of that. Now working for University of California, which is having desperate money problems of its own.
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Jerry Brown Throws Down: UCLA Prof’s Phony Bologna L.B. Research and Education Foundation

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  California Attorney General   Jerry Brown  can’t abide charity-related monkeyshines. So if use your charity as a personal bank account to finance your research and business ventures, maybe like UCLA Professor Gerald D. Buckberg, M.D. and others, well look out, Jack. Deets below. El Protector De La Gente , ...
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• Whose University? California Students Fight for Access to Education

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 660
        Marcy Rein, a retired member of Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU) Local 29, gives us an in-depth report on the struggle by students at the University of California to oppose draconian cuts that endanger jobs and quality education. From a block away on Telegraph Avenue, you could sense the ...
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• Occupations Spread Across California: An Analysis

  
  Kasama — Authority: 475
  This was originally posted on advancethestruggle.wordpress.com.“These protests represent a political eruption in a time when militant struggle is bubbling up to the surface.  It’s becoming progressively clearer that proposing such militancy is not premature…but also prove that it isn’t wise to push heroic yet ...
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• Bird alarm calls warn friends and foes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) Bird alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some of them can sing from the side of their mouths, says a new study.Many animals respond vocally when they detect predators, but it’s not clear to whom they are signalling, said Jessica Yorzinski, ...
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• MATRIX SENSORS

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 132
  Welcome to Matrix Sensors, Inc. Matrix Sensors’ mission is to commercialize chemical and biological applications of a molecular detection technology based on CMUTs (Capacitative Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers). The CMUT technology has been developed jointly by Stanford University and the University of ...
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• Chinese ‘herbal’ ciggies as unhealthy as regular ones

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 4 (ANI): A new American study has found that smoking Chinese “herbal” cigarettes, which contain a mix of tobacco and medicinal herbs, is just as unhealthy as regular cigarettes.A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Stanton A. Glantz, professor of medicine in ...
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• Weight Loss Surgery News – December 4, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 129
  Check out this week’s WLS News to learn the effect our nation’s obesity epidemic could have on health care costs by the year 2018. Doctors are doing the math and the answer isn’t pretty. Plus, we’ll tell you how men can reduce their risk of prostate cancer, and explain the link between obesity in women [...]
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Climate-gate Nonsense Comes to California

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  Robert Cruickshank Theres been a lot of attention given to the "Climate-gate" odyssey that began when a British university server was hacked and emails stolen from a climate research unit. As bloggers continue to unearth the truth about this, the right-wing ...
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• Gladstone scientists identify strategies to protect new brain cells against Alzheimers disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  Stimulating the growth of new neurons to replace those lost in Alzheimers disease (AD) is an intriguing therapeutic possibility. But will the factors that cause AD allow the new neurons to thrive and function normally?
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• UT PROFESSOR SPEAKS OUT AGAINST LAYOFFS

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 133
  If readers havent already, when they finish reading the article linked below, they need to read the open letter from a University of California professor , as well.  In terms of university priorities, the similarity of administration behavior is striking. Why wouldnt it be since Texas imported its "leadership" in ...
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• An Intern’s Perspective of Working on ENDA

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This guest post is from HRC Field Department Intern Amy Rothman: I arrived in Washington D.C. on September 20, 2009 to begin a program that would impact my life in a way I could never have imagined. I am in D.C. as a participant in the U.C.D.C program representing the University of California, Davis. U.C.D.C is a ...
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• VAI researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  Grand Rapids, Mich. (Dec. 3, 2009) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold.
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