Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
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...ng Cancer Center is the world's oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research, and education in cancer. Throughout its long, distinguished history, the Center has played a leadership role in defining the standards of care for patients with cancer. Memorial Sloan-Ketteri...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
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...t and other uses. Simultaneously, state agencies, private companies and private citizens are restoring or creating hundreds of wetland acres each year. The project, funded by the...High Levels of Vitamin C Prove Toxic to HIV
...ing Cancer Center is the worlds oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research, and education in cancer. Throughout its long, distinguished history, the Center has played a leadership role in defining the standard of care for patients with cancer. In 1996, Memorial Sloan...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
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... women today regard the entire body, even its most private parts, as a message board," Brumberg writes. Such trends have led to sexual coercion of young girls, the demise of chastity as an ideal, the waning of virginity, the rise of sexually active girls throughout middle America and dwindling parental power...Computer Model Offers New Insight On Bacterial Photosynthesis
...utes of Health, NationalScience Foundation and the private Carver Foundation....Largest Tyrannosaur Fossil Unearthed In Montana
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...s receive free medical examinations, all meals and private lodging,and will be given a stipend for their participation. The National CancerInstitute, part of the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports theRockefeller study. The Rockefeller University Hospital is the oldest hospital in ...Duke Lemurs Are Released In Madagascar
...he National Science Foundation, Duke Universityand private donations....Purdue Researchers Track Oil Spill's Effects On Sea Otters
...n and the National Geologic Survey, as well as the private sector. "This is the first time a significant comprehensive effort has been made to follow the impact such a disaster has on an entire ecosystem, including predators, prey and the environment," Rebar says. Rebar, who was asked by the Justice Departme...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
... The Whitaker Foundation is the nation's largest private sponsor of biomedical engineering research and education. It supports more than 400 research projects, 140 graduate fellows and 100 education and internship programs at colleges and universities. The foundation also supports research to lower medical...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
..." such as theoceans and atmosphere. Making private capital the central engine of sustainable development. For example, every developing country must find ways to attract foreigninvestment into water and sewage infrastructures, and into industrial pollutioncontrols. Redefining the World Bank...1998 Declared Year Of The Ocean
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