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MU expert looks back to debate 1 and forward to the vice presidential debate

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The 2008 presidential campaign has been running for a very long time, but we have now entered another phase with the commencement of the debates. Friday night saw the first presidential debate of 2008, between John McCain ...





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What's his name again? How celebrity monikers can help us remember

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the abilit ...


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Decades-old dioxins pollute river, divide US community

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The signs posted along Michigan's Tittabawassee River warning of dangerous dioxin levels don't really worry fisherman David Mitchell.


EPA head: US must make up for lost time on climate (AP)

EPA head: US must make up for lost time on climate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(AP) -- The top U.S. environmental official told a divided U.N. climate conference Wednesday that the Obama administration's moves to "make up for lost time" and cut greenhouse gases would complement congressional ...


EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health (AP)

EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (10) | comments 46

(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.


New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...


Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (49) | comments 182

Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...


Obama to plead US case at global warming summit (AP)

Obama to plead US case at global warming summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a ...


Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.


Measure to change U. of Neb. stem-cell rule fails (AP)

Measure to change U. of Neb. stem-cell rule fails (Update 2)

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than those outlined under federal guidelines, which were expanded after ...


Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.



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