Environmental Reform: The Next Generation Project
... of contributing to the debate about environmental reform during this fall's state and federal election campaigns. The full report will be published as a book early next year. "We are stepping up to the plate to fill the environmental policy void by seeking the help of experts throughout the country and ...Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
...e reversible, so that if you pull them apart, they reform when you bring them back into contact." Biomedical or consumer materials based on byssal threads are "a long way off," Waite says, but the UD findings suggest some tantalizing possibilities. "What this study contributes, at this point, is a completel...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
... While the first generation of environmental reform targeted bigbusiness, the next generation needs to include thousands of smaller companiesand millions of consumers. "We must try to influence the choices of allAmericans, because their decisions about what to buy, where to live, how much todrive, wh...Federal Food Aid Makes Healthier Children
...llion in 1995. Also, the recent debate on welfare reform has prompted the need to assess the effects of the federal food assistance programs, Habicht says. The researchers analyzed the amounts of 15 nutrients consumed over three days by participating and nonparticipating low-income children. The intake...Duke Studies Show U.S. Central Plains Vulnerable To Global Warming
...xide, might cause atransient uptake as these scars reform into peat. The transient dynamics on thedecades to centuries scale could be very different than the equilibrium changeafter a thousand years of warmer global temperatures. Because climate change may disproportionately affect trees during thei...NSF's Highest Honor For New Faculty Fosters Integration Of Research And Education
... College andlink the program to local urban school reform through collaborative activities. John P. Toscano Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry John Hopkins University Time-resolved IR Studies of Organic Reactive Intermediates John Toscano is researching the time-resolved infrared (TRIR) studies...In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
...redationto see at what level the school is slow to reform or doesn't get back togetherat all. Likewise, the models can assume conditions that don't yet exist - higher watertemperature, for instance, or lower fish populations, possibly because ofoverfishing. The scientists study the models to see how fish re...Nature publishes secret of abalone shell strength
...e whole molecule. And these "sacrificial"links can reform when the stress is gone, explained Hansma. Fibers produced synthetically are either very strong like Kevlar - usedin bulletproof vests - or tough and elastic like silicon rubber, but very fewcombine both properties. "These findings a...SIDS prevention tactic leads to epidemic of 'misshapen head' in infants
...rtuallyaround the clock for four months -- to help reform his head and reposition hisfeatures. Treatment of the condition includes neck physical therapy to correct themuscular torticollis along with repositioning techniques and/or helmet therapyto correct the head shape. Complete resolution of the shortened...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...est collaborate to contribute to science education reform in North Carolina. The support and interest from Glaxo Wellcome and its scientists will greatly advance our exploration." The traveling science laboratory, which was built on a BlueBird chassis customized by Ohio Bus Specialty Vehicles in Canton, Oh...Teaching evolution in US schools: new report to be released Sept. 26
...publications and action projects in K-12 education reform at the national level and in the Dayton area. It is neither connected with nor sponsored by Fordham University. Public Forum onThe Teaching of Evolution in U.S. Schools:Where Politics, Religion and Science Converge Tuesday, September 26, 2000 AAAS Au...DFG establishes 23 new graduiertenkollegs (university graduate training programmes)
.../strukturbericht2000.pdf) . Still, a comprehensive reform of doctoral training is lacking. Hence the DFG is demanding increased efforts in this field from the Federal Government and the Lnder. A detailed list of the new Graduiertenkollegs is given below: The arts and social sciences Cultural Hermeneutics...Hunger linked to poor health in low-income U.S. children
... component of child health policy." Recent welfare reform policies that move families to work might not enable low-income families to get enough food if the jobs they find don't pay enough. In 1998, the four co-authors reported that about 4 million children in the United States don't get enough to eat and ...Lack of access to food linked to increased medical utilization among diabetics
... nearly half of the cost savings of recent welfare reform came from cuts to food and nutrition programs, including food stamp allotments. Approximately 13 percent of diabetics in this study used food stamps, representing an estimated 1.2 million individuals nationally. A quarter of these diabetic adults ...Bone strength probed by scientists
...at rupture as collagen is stretched, and then they reform or heal," said James B. Thompson, first author and.... The time scale required for sacrificial bonds to reform in collagen correlates to the time needed for bone to recover from microscopic indentations." Besi...Studies of spider's silk reveal unusual strength
...dular. It has sacrificialbonds that open, and then reform when the load lifts. This follows a patternthat has been found in other load-bearing proteins. Spider silk is a composite material. It has crystalline parts and more rubber-like stretchy parts. The researchers found that single molecules have both, e...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
...il: bpmay@ucdavis.edu Author calls for radical reform of aquaculture practices The aquaculture industry in the United States and around the world will never grow to its full potential unless it radically reforms its practices, and produces positive impacts on the environment and society, says Barry Co...Transforming textbooks: AAAS and partners target K-12 science materials for improvement
...he Advancement of Science (AAAS) and its education reform initiative, Project 2061. Through the AAAS-led C...based evaluations, AAAS's Project 2061 educational reform initiative put educators and parents on notice that textbooks were fatally flawed. Project 2061 rat...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 13-16
...r retirement Including scientists in your science reform efforts What do I do now? (Or how do I keep from driving my wife crazy) The ACS Task Force on senior chemists ACS and you what mature career chemists prefer to do Research highlights include: Wednesday, Nov. 13 3:30 - 5p.m. The role of ozo......'s ability to care for the ill." Medical-liability reform legislation-proposed 16 January by U.S. President George W. Bush as a step toward making health care more affordable and accessible-is "laudable, but insufficient," according to Bloom, co-editor of The Dana Guide to Brain Health ( www.dana.org ). "Li...