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• Fasting Every Other Day For Diet

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 437
  Limiting calories as a large element of a quick weight loss diet isn’t novel. In most cases it’s essential. Fasting diets place a replacement twist in how this calorie cutback is accomplished. However, because of livelihood issues and the dearth of the ability for people to keep up this kind of diet method, ...
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• Walking while talking on cell phone risky for older people: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 29 (ANI): Walking while talking on mobile phones may be dangerous for older people, say researchers.They also say that just listening to music on an iPod or other portable device doesn’t pack the same risks as talking on a cell phone.The findings are based on two lab-based studies in which ...
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• Labelling clinches success or failure of product

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) Labelling practically clinches the success or failure of a product, a new study says.The research conducted by University of Illinois (U-I) economist Michael Mazzocco and Augustana College marketing professor Nadia Novotorova demonstrated that product labelling makes a difference when it ...
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• Would G.M.O. Apples by Another Name Taste Sweeter?

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 722
  Consumers might be more willing to bite into genetically modified apples if they were labeled differently, according to research published this month in the Journal of Food Distribution Research.
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• Swine flu: Chicago begins offering inoculations at airports

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  As they battle the holiday crowds this weekend, frazzled travelers at Chicago airports also will have the option of stopping to get protection against the swine flu virus. A clinic at OHare International Airport run by the University of Illinois at Chicago began offering H1N1 flu vaccines in nasal mist form this week. ...
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• Your Week 13 College Football Scores

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 586
  10 am ET: Morning! Happy Thanksgiving! I’m clearly not here, but I will definitely be watching football later tonight. Turns out the Lone Star Showdown is the best game of the day because the NFL scheduler is on crack and decided the Lions and Raiders should get this kind of national exposure. Yeesh. Have a great ...
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• Eco Tech: Illinois researchers develop spherical solar cells to capture more light

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 431
  Eco Factor: Energy-efficient solar cells capture more light without the use of sun trackers. The amount of energy produced by a solar cell depends on the amount of incident sunlight. Since the position of the sun changes in the sky, manufacturers have developed sun tracking mirrors that can continuously focus ...
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• US Patent 7622437 - Nanoparticle blood clot agent

  
  TinyTechIP — Authority: 132
  http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7622437.html This patent from the University of Illinois teaches a phospholipid nanoparticle composition which enhances certain proteins ability to trigger blood coagulation. Claim 1 reads: 1. A method for controlling bleeding in a human or animal patient, said method comprising ...
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• Self-assembling spherical solar cells

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  Via KurzweilAI.net — Pretty interesting solar concept. There is still a lot of innovation going on in the solar space. Origami Solar Cells Technology Review, Nov. 25, 2009 Research ers at the University of Illinois have developed self-assembling spherical solar cells capable of capturing more sunlight than ...
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• Your Week 13 College Football Picks

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 586
  Record after week 12: 129-66, 90-103-2 AS I suck against the number again. 2008 was my version of Luis Gonzalez’s 51 home runs. Happy Thanksgiving! Thursday, November 26, 2009 8 pm ET Lone Star Showdown (3) Texas (11-0) at Texas A&M (6-5) (+21) The one college football game on Thanksgiving ...
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• Grad Students’ Struggle Shows Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
  In a big victory last week, more than 1,000 graduate students at the University of Illinois exercised their freedom to bargain and won a contract that includes what all workers deserve: fair wages and better working conditions. Unfortunately, too many employees around the country are denied the freedom to bargain. ...
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• Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (PhysOrg)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. (read ...
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• 5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agencys persistent financial decline.
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• Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (EurekAlert!)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. (more…) Related items New study confirms exotic electric properties of ...
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• Review: UIC Theatre’s “Stars in the Morning Sky”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 137
    Touching, if limited, performances in “ Stars In the Morning Sky” UIC Theatre presents: Stars in the Morning Sky adapted by Peter Christensen and Yasen Peyankov directed by Lupa Lopatina Solomon thru November 22nd  ( ticket info ) reviewed by Paige Listerud Lupa Lopatina Solomon ...
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• Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta block...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.
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• Illinois Grad Employees Win Key Contract Demand, Return to Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
  More than 1,100 graduate student employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) won protection of their tuition waivers and other key improvements in a tentative deal reached with the university last night following a two-day strike. The Graduate Employees’ Organization ( GEO/UIUC ), an ...
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• U of I graduate student instructors continue striking

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  URBANA -- University of Illinois graduate student instructors plan to continue striking Tuesday after an estimated "several hundred" classes were canceled Monday, organizers said. Carrying umbrellas and strike signs, instructors picketed outside four major classroom buildings on the Urbana-Champaign campus while ...
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• SLIDERS ADD TWO U OF I PLAYERS

  
  Summer Ball — Authority: 142
  From the Springfield Sliders SPRINGFIELD, IL – Sliders management continues to pick out some of the best prospects from the Big Ten Conference. In past weeks, the Sliders have signed three Purdue Boilermakers. Two players from the University of Illinois have now been added to the Sliders roster. Left-handed ...
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• U. of Illinois Grad Employees Strike to Save Tuition Waivers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
        More than 1,100 graduate student employees, who teach nearly a quarter of the undergraduate classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), went on strike today after the university refused to guarantee continuation of the teaching and grad assistants’ tuition waivers.  The ...
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