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NY Times launches local websites network
Mar 03, 2009 |
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The New York Times has launched an experimental network of websites providing local community news and information for residents of neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey.
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Unsafe neighborhoods disable the elderly
May 27, 2009 |
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Elderly people who live below the poverty line and perceive their neighborhoods to be dangerous are more likely to have a mobility disability. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health suggest that e ...
Urban kids who feel safe look to future, avoid danger
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 04, 2008 |
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New research shows that urban middle school students who felt safe in their neighborhoods were better able to resist instant gratification, and in turn engaged in fewer violent and other risky behaviors.
Social problems dominate concerns in neighborhoods with unsatisfied residents
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A new study reveals that the general appearance of a neighborhood is the single most important factor affecting how satisfied residents are about the area where they live.
Scientists unveil new tool to understand evolution of multi-domain genes
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May 16, 2008 |
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Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins ...
People living in poorer neighborhoods at increased risk for death, worse health risks
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Regardless of an individual's dietary and lifestyle risk factors, living in a poorer or more socioeconomically deprived neighborhood may increase a person's risk for death, according to data presented at the American Association ...
NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.
People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...
Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide, reports a new study in this week's PLoS Medicine. Katja Falland Fang Fang from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden ...
Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...
Planets Living on the Edge
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some stars have it tough when it comes to raising planets. A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. The stars themselves ...
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