Archive: 09/15/2009
EPA holds up 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.
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Can U.S., China find common ground in climate talks?
The U.S. and China should be able to agree on energy cooperation projects that reduce greenhouse gases and lead to a successful outcome at international climate talks in Copenhagen in December, two U.S. climate insiders said ...
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Lenovo Adds Touch of Simplicity to New MultiTouch Screen ThinkPad PCs
Lenovo today is bringing business users a new way to work with multitouch screen technology on the versatile and portable ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and slim and powerful ThinkPad T400s laptop. Lenovo is also ...
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Building a base for honeybees
On a recent muggy morning, Tammy Horn used a smoker to puff aromatic drafts into wooden beehives beneath a locust tree, then carefully removed the top of a hive.
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Report: Great Lakes toxic cleanups lagging badly
(AP) -- A federal report says the government is moving so slowly to clean up the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes that it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the current pace.
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Scientists say animal rights extremists threaten researchers and health outcomes
Two new expert commentaries released in the September 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience spotlight the increasingly violent animal rights attacks and the need for an educated public and engaged research community to ens ...
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After outcry, T-Mobile drops paper billing fee
(AP) -- T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail.
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Insulin, metformin do not reduce inflammatory biomarkers for diabetes patients
In patients with recent onset type-2 diabetes, treatment with insulin or the diabetes drug metformin did not reduce inflammatory biomarkers, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, although the treatment did improve ...
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Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill
(AP) -- NASA's weakened return-to-the-moon program has gotten a lift on Capitol Hill. The head of a special expert panel conceded to Congress on Tuesday that the moon program could work if given enough money. That would ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Study finds increased risk of death for patients with celiac disease-related disorders
New research indicates that patients with lesser degrees of celiac disease-related symptoms, such as intestinal inflammation or latent celiac disease, have a modestly increased risk of death, according to a study in the September ...
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Acute kidney injury patients more likely to need dialysis within 5 years
Patients who sustain injury to their kidneys and require in-hospital dialysis are three times more likely to need long-term dialysis later in life compared to those without a history of this condition, says a new study from ...
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Outcomes appear to be improving for conservative management of localized prostate cancer
A comparison of outcomes of different eras of conservative treatment for localized prostate cancer indicates that overall and prostate cancer-specific survival rates are higher for men diagnosed from 1992 through 2002 compared ...
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Researchers find phone assessment effective for evaluating cognition in the elderly
Cognitive testing by telephone in elderly individuals is generally as effective as in-person testing, according to a new study by Effie M. Mitsis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants
Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic ...
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Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered
A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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