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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality
New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...Tags: Massacres, Civil Rights, Religious Conflicts, Human Rights, International Court or Tribunal
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College researchers begin to feel sequester effects
Lafayette College geologist Kira Lawrence is piecing together a model of the climate between 3 million and 5 million years ago by analyzing the chemical makeup of organic matter from the bottom of the ocean. It was a time called the Pliocene Epoch,...Tags: Education, U.S. Congress, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Lehigh University
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Fossil finds hint at when apes and monkeys went separate ways
Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged. Fossil specimens of jaws and teeth, collected by Ohio...
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Benefactor doesn't dictate direction of research
Editor: In response to "Harford County Council passes resolution condemning state gun law" (May 15th, 2013): The article quotes a Harford County Councilman who questioned the objectivity of gun policy research at Johns Hopkins University because New York...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Webster, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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U.S. RESEARCH ROUNDUP: Amazon.com, eBay, Cisco, Facebook, Medtronic
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Cisco and Facebook, on Thursday. HIGHLIGHTS * Amazon.com Inc : Lazard starts with buy rating; price target $310 * EBay Inc...Tags: Ratings, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Mortgages, PrivateBancorp Incorporated, Conceptus Incorporated
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Michigan Tech institute gets $1 million contract with US military for radar-related research
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Tech Research Institute has a $1 million contract to conduct radar-related research for the U.S. military. Houghton-based Michigan Technological University on Thursday announced the 6-month contract with the U.S....Tags: DARPA, U.S. Military
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Anger linked to raised heart attack risk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bottling up emotions is thought to harm both mind and body, but a new study suggests that the opposite extreme may be no better. In a study of thousands of heart attack patients, those who recalled having flown into a rage...Tags: Heart Attack, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, High Blood Pressure, Pharmaceuticals
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic...Tags: George W. Bush, Biology, Medical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colleges and Universities
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ANALYSIS-Discount employee stock plans offer outsiders trading tips
ReutersBy Tim McLaughlin BOSTON, May 15 (Reuters) - When investors unloaded their shares in Hewlett-Packard Co. last year, the computer giant's rank-and-file did the opposite. They bought nearly four times as much stock as they did in the previous year...Tags: Career and Workplace, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Arizona State University, Stock Market, Employees
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Stern Advice-Retiring on 0.25 percent a year
ReutersBy Linda Stern WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - It isn't like Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues have it in for old people - I'm sure they are all very respectful of their elders. (The policy-setting reserve bank presidents...Tags: Finance, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Financial and Business Services, Money and Monetary Policy
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Critics slam new cloning research
ReutersBy Sharon Begley NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Scientists' assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research. The research "will...Tags: Medical Research, Macular Degeneration, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, University of Notre Dame
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Is grief a mental illness? Psychiatrists, critics face off over revised diagnostic guidebook
AP Medical WriterCHICAGO (AP) — In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain "senior moments" are called "mild...Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Mental Health, Learning Disability
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