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Video shows Islamist rebels executing 11 Syrian soldiers
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - A video published on Thursday showed fighters of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executing 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. The film is believed to be from eastern Deir al-...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Death Penalty, Politics, Human Rights, Freedom of the Press
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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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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: Politics, Computer Networking and Internet, Civil Rights, Murder, International Criminal Court
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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: Colleges and Universities, Science, Lafayette College, Financial Aid, U.S. Congress
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Second Alaska volcano belching ash and steam
ReutersBy Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15 (Reuters) - One of Alaska's most active volcanoes has erupted with clouds of ash and steam, and lava is flowing down its snow-covered flank, scientists said on Wednesday. Pavlof Volcano began erupting on...Tags: Landforms, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanoes, Science and Technology
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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: Politics, Laws, Interior Policy, Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control
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State Universities Getting Short End Of The Stick
The Hartford CourantAs the legislative session heads toward a close, Connecticut citizens and legislators should question why the state provides much higher subsidized public support to students at the University of Connecticut than to those in the Connecticut State...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Employees, Students, Career and Workplace
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WHO reports first patient-to-nurse spread of new SARS-like virus
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health...Tags: Politics, Viral Diseases and Infections, France, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Germany
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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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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: High Blood Pressure, Chemical Industry, Columbia University, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs and Medicines
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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: Multiple Sclerosis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Animals, Shinya Yamanaka, Education
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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: Science, Hewlett-Packard Co., Employees, S&P 500, Hologic Incorporated
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