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"History repeats itself, but the special call of art is to record that which has passed away and is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird." During their visit to Mexico last December, artists Pinky ...
2009-10-11 06:07:00
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The Anne-Marie House is in need of donated items that can’t be purchased through food stamps, Director Laurie Skibba said. Those items include paper products (toilet paper, napkins, paper towels), diapers, baby wipes, personal-hygiene products and ...
2009-10-11 05:53:00
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The quiet Nottingham suburb of Beeston is an unlikely site for a battle, but it is here that leisure conglomerate Rank Group has launched its latest weapon in the increasingly acrimonious 'bingo wars'. A bright pink Mecca bingo club, covering 35,000 ...
2009-10-11 08:30:00
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled a method for calibrating entire waveforms - graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time - rather than just parts of waveforms as is current practice. The new ...
2009-10-11 07:33:00
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2009) — Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales that dwarf the ...
2009-10-11 04:12:00
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Thanks to scientists who have finally discovered the exact brain cell that sends us to sleep or keeps us awake, jet lag may soon be history. The finding by University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues overturns a long-held ...
2009-10-11 01:35:00
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It was a shock, at least to some, to unfold a copy of the Independent Record on a recent Sunday to find a sizable letter "F" emblazoned across a report-card like graphic linked to a story on the Helena Public Schools. An "F?" How can that be, we may ...
2009-10-11 12:52:00
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GAINESVILLE - University of Florida administrators and professors agree that the faculty is underpaid. They just disagree on whether enough has been done about it, and how raises should be meted out. The issue is part of an impasse in contract ...
2009-10-11 12:02:00
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In a somewhat cynical table-turning exercise, a German anti-piracy body seems to be encouraging illegal downloading of music and other media in an effort to strong-arm money out of lawbreakers. DigiRights Solutions (DRS) from Darmstadt has circulated ...
2009-10-11 02:46:00
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An elementary math program that has won acclaim for producing stellar math scores on state tests and yet continues to take hits as being fuzzy and weak on basic math facts has put down deep roots in the Philadelphia region. Everyday Mathematics ...
2009-10-11 01:56:00
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About 400 middle and high school students from throughout the county took part in a daylong conference Saturday at University of the Pacific that introduced girls to careers in mathematics and science. The 17th annual San Joaquin Expanding Your ...
2009-10-11 01:56:00
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PEDRO ELIAS ZADUNAISKY, 91: Mr. Zadunaisky, an Argentine astronomer and mathematician whose calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturn's outermost moon, Phoebe, as well as Halley's Comet, died Oct. 7. He was a pioneer in celestial mechanics ...
2009-10-11 04:12:00
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Israel Gelfand, the Russian mathematician whose research laid the mathematical framework for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners and who did crucial work in a host of more esoteric fields, died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University ...
2009-10-11 02:32:00
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