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14 min ago | Science Blog

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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Related Topix: Immunology, Biology, Science

8 hrs ago | The Globe and Mail

What Newfoundland can teach us

NEIL REYNOLDS Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 2:27AM EST r eynolds.globe@gmail.com When the Great Depression struck in 1929, Newfoundland was independent and democratic - indeed, like Canada, a dominion in its own right.

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Related Topix: Newfoundland, PA, Canada,

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Tour strengthens bonds

The national tour of "Legally Blonde - The Musical," starring Becky Gulsvig, opened in Providence in September 2008.

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Related Topix: Legally Blonde, Comedy Movies, Worcester, MA

Mind Hacks

Quack Psychologists, 1927

I've just found this interesting 1927 news item from Science magazine lambasting the rise of 'quack psychologists' that were apparently troubling the American public at the time.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science

Bloomberg

Elizabeth Warren Winning Means Banks Won't Sell When They Can't Explain It

In Elizabeth Warrena s world, credit card contracts would be so simple a teenager could read and understand them in four minutes.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Oklahoma Government, Oklahoma, Barack Obama

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Daily Express

Cancer: Skin implant that can destroy cancerous tumours

A TINY skin implant that can destroy cancerous tumours has been unveiled by scientists.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health

ScienceBlogs

Is the IBM Cat Brain real? [Collective Imagination]

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Biology, Science, Anthropology, Yale University, Computer Science

CW11 New York WPIX-TV

New hip-hop program at Minnesota music school gives students a license _ or diploma _ to ill

DJ Freddy Fresh slaps a vinyl record on the turntable, cues it up and tells a student, "Remember, the top of the note was there, right? Grab it." The student places his hand on the disc.

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Related Topix: Minnesota, Smith College, Berklee College of Music, University of Wisconsin Madison, Entertainment

RedOrbit

Climate Change Could Boost Incidence Of Civil War In Africa

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in today's online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

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Related Topix: Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley, Startups, New York University, Stanford University

Tue Nov 24, 2009

TechWeb.com

Networking Sites Aid in Social Identity

Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, help young users form their social identity as they grow into adulthood, U.S. sociologists said.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Michigan State University

WHDH

Business journalist fellowship funded at Harvard

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a new fellowship for business reporters.

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Related Topix: Journalism

CNN

Climate, nuclear cooperation on table for state dinner

The trip comes amid India 's always tense relationship with nuclear rival Pakistan, regional concerns over the Afghan war and the burgeoning trade relationship between the U.S. and India, a country of 1.2 billion people with a growing and influential diaspora in America.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Michelle Obama,

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

United Nations: HIV epidemic peaked in 1996, number of infected almost unchanged since 2007

The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Charleston Daily Mail

Lawmaker defends RI Rep Kennedy in Communion flap

A Pennsylvania lawmaker defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy on Monday against a bishop who has acknowledged asking the Rhode Island congressman not to receive Holy Communion because of his support for abortion rights.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Patrick Kennedy, Democrat, Representative Patrick Murphy, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Providence, RI

Boston Business Journal

Neil Gordon: Natural leader

Gordon became the CEO for The Discovery Museums in August after 14 years with the Boston Children's Museum, most recently as its chief operating officer and overseeing the museum's $47 million renovation project.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Family, Kids

Star Phoenix

Child abuse marks genes, affects ability to cope: Study

Children play basketball on a school playground. Child abuse can indelibly mark and alter genes in its young victims leaving them less able to cope with stress later in life, according to new Canadian research.

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Pennlive.com

'Julie from Staten Island' to be performed at Staten Island Academy

The 21-and-over show, directed by veteran standup comic Linda Smith, will be followed by a Q&A with Gambuto.

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Related Topix: Staten-Island, NY, New York, NY, Theater, Arts, Entertainment

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Sweetness & Light

Obama Met With Half Brother In China

When President Barack Obama landed in Beijing on Monday on his first state visit to China, his first order of business was family business.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Hu Jintao, Kenya, Africa

Bloomberg

Harvard, MIT, Yale Students Lead Recipients of Rhodes Scholarships in U.S.

Students from Harvard University won five Rhodes Scholarships and those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were awarded three, leading the 32 U.S. recipients of the award for 2010.

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Related Topix: Prison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, United States Military Academy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Boston Globe

Next on the Huba s horizon

LET'S HOPE Mayor Tom Menino is recovering nicely from his recent knee surgery, and using the unexpected downtime to contemplate something he said shortly after his thumping victory to an unprecedented fifth term.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Wellesley, MA, Brookline, MA, Opinion

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