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The Daming Palace Foundation in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province announced Saturday that it was recruiting volunteers to help repair two ancient Chinese stone horse reliefs in the United States.

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Unlike most Western think tanks, most Chinese think tanks are in some way affiliated with the government, which largely dictates their function and work.

Paul Paterra can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6220. American forces in Iraq are fortified by Vulcan spirit.

Don Lerman set a record by eating seven sticks of salted butter in five minutes.

Ciena Corporation , the network specialist, today announced that MAGPI , an Information Systems and Computing organization at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has implemented a network based on the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to support high performance network connectivity among multiple research labs located at ...

Police have made an arrest in the slaying of a pregnant woman killed in a barrage of bullets in Pittsburgh.

Owner Curtis Larrimore has told harnessracing.com that the world champion trotter Snow White died early Thursday morning at the age of four after suffering a twisted intestine while at trainer and co-owner Kevin Lare's farm in Delaware.

The Investment Management Consultants Association has announced the addition of a new exam and some procedural changes for its certified investment management analyst designation program.

You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved.

As weeks passed and Shavaughn Wallace's killing went unsolved, her mother would wander into her bedroom, still filled with her clothes and her smell, wondering whether the case would go cold.

Police arrested a man Wednesday in the death of a pregnant college student killed in a barrage of bullets in Pittsburgh two months ago.

Ronald Weich, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs today announced two new members of the Office's leadership team.

When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life.

Inovio Biomedical Corporation , a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today it has established a new collaboration with the National Microbiology Laboratory of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Pennsylvania to further evaluate Inovio DNA vaccine candidates against swine influenza A virus.

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation , a privately-held, clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel systems to deliver human therapeutics, announces that AGTC has entered into an agreement with the National Neurovision Research Institute , the clinical trial support organization for the Foundation Fighting Blindness , to collaborate ...

A motorcyclist has crashed into a bridge over the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia and his passenger went into the river.

The radiation oncologist whom regulators accuse of mishandling scores of radioactive seed implants at the Philadelphia veterans' hospital told a Congressional panel on Monday that while he "could have done better" with some implants, his patients over all received effective treatment for their prostate cancer .

OCEAN CITY -- A Pennsylvania woman killed in a fatal collision on Coastal Highway last week was described by a friend as a 'bright spirit' who 'unconditionally loved every single person she met.' Kristin Anne Stormer, 23, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., was a recent Indian University of Pennsylvania graduate living in Ocean City for the summer.