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2 hrs ago | Freshnews

Time Warner Cable Appoints Deborah Picciolo to Senior Vice President, ...

Time Warner Cable today announced that Deborah Picciolo has been elevated to the new position of Senior Vice President of Technical Operations, Residential, effective immediately.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, NaviSite, Time Warner Cable, Wireless, Emerging Technology

14 hrs ago | KRNV-TV Reno

Man found dead from apparent fall at UCLA

Officials at the University of California, Los Angeles say a man was found dead on campus after an apparent fall from a building.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Drugs.com

Age, Other Illnesses May Make Prostate Cancer Treatment Unnecessary

Aggressive treatment for prostate cancer may not be warranted for many older patients with underlying medical conditions, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Prostate Cancer, Heart Failure

ContactMusic.com

Peter Weller Studying For Ph.d At Ucla

Actor Peter Weller is studying to receive his doctorate in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles .

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Mon May 20, 2013

Chemical and Engineering News

Safety Probe Of Academic Labs

Safety in academic and other nonindustrial chemical research laboratories will be the focus of a yearlong investigation by a National Academy of Sciences committee, which held its first meeting last week in Washington, D.C. The study will consider how safe lab practices can be promoted in academic and government labs, explained H. Holden Thorp, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, California, Texas Tech

Christian Science Monitor

Today's need: moral fiber

In business, politics, or our personal lives, instant gratification continually confronts us, and usually in the form of willful attempts to win the day with too little regard for tomorrow's consequences.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Groong

Infusion of Experience And Enthusiasm at ANCA-WR Headquarters

Infusion of Experience And Enthusiasm at ANCA-WR Headquarters http://asbarez.com/110139/infusion-of-experience-and-enthusiasm-at-anca-wr-headquarters/ Friday, May 17th, 2013 Newly-appointed ANCA-WR Executive Director Elen Asatryan GLENDALE - Major changes have occurred at the ANCA-Western Region headquarters over the past 10 days with the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Glendale, CA

Sat May 18, 2013

PsychCentral

Rat Study Shows How Brain Rewires Itself After Injury

When the brain's primary learning center is damaged, new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, a new study has found.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health

National Public Radio

Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best

Geena Davis played the president in the 2005 ABC series Commander in Chief . Now, she works on issues involving women in media.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Geena Davis, Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), California, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Damages

Fri May 17, 2013

Post-gazette.com

$600 million Powerball jackpot attracts a crowd

Vanessa Adams stood in line Friday afternoon at a Downtown convenience store hoping to win the largest Powerball jackpot in history.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Downtown (Los Angeles, CA), Pennsylvania

Thu May 16, 2013

MedlinePlus

Get Fit In Middle Age to Cut Heart Failure Risk, Study Says

People who are obese or out of shape in their 40s or 50s might think it's too late to start getting fit, but new research finds that shaping up in middle age lowers the odds for heart failure later in life.

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Related Topix: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Heart Disease

Circulation

Diesel Exhaust Induces Systemic Lipid Peroxidation and Development of ...

From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA ; and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, University of Washington

Wed May 15, 2013

Circulation

Essential Role of SH3-domain GRB2-like 3 for Vascular Lumen Maintenance in Zebrafish [Basic Science]

Correspondence to Shuo Lin, PhD, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

Science News

Cloning produces human embryonic stem cells

For the first time, scientists have created human embryonic stem cells by transferring the nucleus of a mature cell into an egg.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Biology, Science, Cell Biology, Harvard University, Genetics, Medicine

Advocate

May for Marriage: Reasons to Remember This Month

When Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a marriage equality bill Tuesday, with a stroke of his pen he granted long-sought rights to an estimated 155,995 LGBT Americans who have watched as 11 other states led the way.

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Related Topix: Wedding, US Politics, Mark Dayton, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Minnesota, US Governors, Gay/Lesbian

National Public Radio

LA Schools Throw Out Suspensions For 'Willful Defiance'

When Garfield High School in Los Angeles stopped suspending students for "willful defiance" several years ago, it saw suspensions drop from more than 600 to just one.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Tue May 14, 2013

Examiner.com

Application of Adult Learning Tools

The composition of learning institutions will continue to shift largely reflecting demographic changes.

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Related Topix: California

Discover

Medical Research Needs a Collaborative Funding Model

For nearly seven decades, federal agencies and many private funders have financed medical research through competitive grants to individual scientists who submit proposals for particular projects.

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National Geographic

Dog And Human Genomes Evolved Together

The bond between dogs and humans is ancient and enduring. They snuggle up to us at night, gambol by our side during daily walks, and flop adoringly at our feet when we crash on our couches.

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Related Topix: University of Chicago, Life, Food, Dieting

Business Journal

Pics of the Laguna Beach home that netted ECC $1.1M

Erie Community College officials celebrated the largest gift in their history Friday, a $1.1 million endowment for the nursing program.

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Related Topix: Laguna Beach, CA