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• No Pr0n Policy at UMD

  
  Epsilon Clue — Authority: 416
  A while back, I mentioned that a student group at the University of Maryland was going to show a porn flick . A state legislator got bent out of shape at the thought that 18-20-year-olds might be thinking about sex, and threatened to cut off state funding to the university. Eventually, the university was told to come ...
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• Single-wing flight based on maple seed aerodynamics

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 695
  The Samara Micro-Air-Vehicle is a product of over three years of work at the University of Maryland’s Aerospace Engineering Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory. The Samara is an applicant in the DARPA nano air vehicle program . Unlike the ornithopter we saw in July , this vehicle uses only one wing for flight. A small ...
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• Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  GREENBELT, Md. -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by.
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• Tokai Pushes Edge With Three-Pronged Attack on Prostate Cancer

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  Biotech , cancer , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Prostate cancer has been one of the hot fields for new biotech drug development this year, and now Cambridge, MA-based Tokai Pharmaceuticals is getting into the game with a drug that it hopes will someday help men live longer and push the boundaries of ...
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• Students Protest Layoff Of Diversity Officer

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  Several hundred students marched Thursday to the administration building at the University of Maryland to protest the firing of a popular diversity officer in one of the largest demonstrations at the College Park campus since the Vietnam War era.  Protesters rallied in support of Cordell Black, associate provost for ...
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• Libel in Fact: Intuitive Judgments

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In recent posts , I have been examining a 1964 poll conducted by Fact magazine. The poll asked psychiatrists to comment on then-Senator Barry Goldwaters personality.  The comments published in Fact provide some useful illustrations of how people judge one another. In 2007, Arie Kruglanksi and Edward ...
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• The Wolf in the Parlor

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  Something old and something new sent two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jon Franklin on a quest to document the transition of wild wolf to family pet. The old thing was a photo — a man and puppy, exhumed from a 12,000-year-old grave. The new thing was a wife — he married a dog lover. Though he’d ...
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• ‘Without Bias’: A Great Documentary Is Made About A Local Tragedy

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that Len Bias had died. All I can remember being told was that Bias had died after using cocaine. And that it had been his first time. It was a scary story . And it worked as a scary story. I never tried cocaine; I always cited Bias as the reason. But, of ...
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• University Of Maryland, Baltimore Heads $12.2 Million Study Of Chlamydia

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Perhaps the most comprehensive, multi-institutional study yet of the sexually transmitted bacteria chlamydia is under way at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). A new $12.2 million, grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, will allow a ...
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• Unstoppable Starts Here! Dino Gregory Could Be Latest Ineligible Terp

  
  Shell Games — Authority: 129
  Listening to the Terps’ 75-54 exhibition win last night over the mighty Crimson Hawks of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, you never would have guessed that Maryland had, or ever had, anyone on their roster named Dino Gregory.  And that’s noteworthy why, you ask?  Quit bothering you with this stupid exhibition ...
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• New class of molecules may help prevent fatal complication in patients with kidney disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have made an important discovery about why potassium builds up to dangerous levels in the bloodstream, a relatively common medical probl
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• Shedding light on the cosmic skeleton

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  "Matter is not distributed uniformly in the Universe," says Masayuki Tanaka from ESO, who led the new study.
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• Len Bias Remembered In ESPN’s “Without Bias”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Madhuri DeyNov. 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The tragic death of basketball player Len Bias will be aired on ESPN on the 3rd of November. Even after two decades of his death, his death continues to raise questions about drug abuse and the reckless lives led by many people who submit themselves inordinately to the baleful ...
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• Celebrating our history and our historians!

  
  CPA Success — Authority: 420
  "If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development." - Aristotle How many of us know the history of our Profession? Last Friday we had the opportunity to recognize a few of Marylands leading accounting educators for their service to the CPA Profession above and beyond their ...
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• Studying Online Associate Degree in Economics

  
  About Online Degrees — Authority: 119
  The Associates in Economics is designed to help provide students the knowledge they need to pursue a career in the broad field of Economics. Students get the basic skills required to achieve their goals for a career in the financial world. An online degree in Economics at the associate’s level at most colleges ...
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• Hand Sanitizers or Soap: Which Works Best?

  
  ABC News: Health — Authority: 873
  Soaps and sanitizers are tested to see which yields the ultimate cleanliness.
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• Introducing the Maple-Copter (scientists copy maple seed design ==> helicopter…must see video!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Oct 21, 2009 — Plants are not as stationary as one might think. Parts of them, like seeds, can travel for miles. One good example is the maple seed. Its little helicopter seeds can catch an updraft and fly a long distance from the tree. Now, engineers at University of Maryland have imitated its physics and designed a ...
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• Albright unplugged

  
  On the Record — Authority: 131
  Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrapped up her 20-minute speech  Thursday at the University of Maryland School of Law by joking she was about to do something she never could while a government official – directly answer questions.  Albright did just that for another 20 minutes, touching on a ...
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• Micro-UAV Inspired By Maple Seeds

  
  Botropolis — Authority: 430
  How many times have you watched a Maple seed gently fall through the sky and thought to yourself that it’s like a mini helicopter? And it is. That flight is how the Maple tree gets it’s seeds as far as possible, harnessing the breeze. Using the spiral flight that the seeds take when they fall off a tree, ...
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• UMES voted into Eastern College Athletic Conference

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 127
  The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has joined the Eastern College Athletic Conference. The announcement was made by Commissioner Rudy Keeling and President Dan Mara.The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with approximately 300 Division I, II, and III ...
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