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Cal State trustees appoint new Cal State L.A president, others
William A. Covino, a veteran Florida and California administrator, was named Wednesday as the new president of Cal State L.A., becoming the first new leader of the El Sereno campus in 33 years. Covino’s selection was among a slate of...
Tags: Columbia University, Science and Technology, California State University, Long Beach, Barack Obama, Students
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Scientists sequence Norway spruce DNA. The tree's genome is LONG
Researchers reported Wednesday that they had sequenced the genome of the Norway spruce, a giant evergreen native to Europe that has also been planted widely in parts of North America. Published in the journal Nature, the catalog of the tree's DNA was...
Tags: Science and Technology, Biotechnology Industry, Washington State University, Norway, Medical Research
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...Tags: Columbia University, Science and Technology, Education, Colleges and Universities, Agriculture
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Why USC and not a black college, Dr. Dre?
I was in Detroit preparing to give a speech last week when the news came across my Twitter feed: "Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine donate $70 million to USC to create new degree." As one of the first university presidents from the hip-hop...
Tags: Human Interest, Science and Technology, Students, Education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Weather conditions were ideal for tornado that slammed Oklahoma
The city of Moore, Okla., was struck by a devastating tornado Monday because all the familiar ingredients were in place to spawn such a massive storm. It was also a victim of simple bad luck. At least twice before in recent years, in 1999 and 2003,...Tags: Science and Technology, Weather Reports, Tornadoes, Moore Oklahoma Tornado (2013), Natural Disasters
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Hello, Ollie
Before skaters recorded tricks on their phones and ESPN began airing the X Games or "extreme sports on TV," a Hollywood Hills High kid so slight that he looked more like a sixth-grader leaned back on his board and popped it into the air — without...
Tags: Science and Technology, Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, X Games, The New York Times
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Huge magnet set for delicate voyage to Fermilab
A 50-foot-wide circular electromagnet — so delicate that tilting it just a few degrees would destroy it — must make a four-week journey this summer off the U.S. coast and up a river, before inching its way by road to a new home at Fermilab...
Tags: Science and Technology, Tropical Storms
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Invasive frogs carry amphibian-killing fungus
African clawed frogs were first brought to California decades ago to help doctors figure out whether their patients were pregnant. After new technology made those pregnancy tests obsolete, the creatures were let loose, and thrived for decades in the...
Tags: Africa, Biology, Science and Technology
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Biotechnology, Baltimore Museum of Art, NASA
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Science and Technology, Barack Obama, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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John V. Mullendore, 83
John Vernon Alexander Mullendore, 83, of Clear Spring, Md., passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at his home. Born Aug. 31, 1929, in Boonsboro, Md., he was the son of the late Albertus Daniel Mullendore and Frances Young Alexander Mullendore. John was a...
Tags: Human Interest, Reformed, Science and Technology, Education, International Military Interventions
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Rain clouds, trees and a metaphor
A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and reported in The New York Times [May 14, 2013], informs us that (1) "For years, scientists and engineers have noticed an increase in river flows when the trees along the...Tags: Science and Technology, Israel, Judaism, The New York Times, Benjamin Netanyahu
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