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Presidential $1 Coin Program
"The United States is honoring our Nation's Presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 coins per year."Features a coin release schedule, coin images (and edge lettering), and material about coinage legislation and U.S. Mint directors during each presidential term. From the U.S. Mint. Prions - When Good Turns Bad
Prions, the protein-like pathogens at the heart of the fatal brain disorder CJD can rapidly "remodel" good proteins into bad, according to US scientists, who have demonstrated this for the first time in living cells. Breast Cancer Returns More Often In Black Women
Contrary to previous studies, African-American women with early-stage breast cancer who have surgery to remove the cancer followed by radiation therapy have a higher chance of their cancer coming back in the breast and lymph nodes 10 years after diagnosis, compared to their Caucasian counterparts, according to the largest study of its kind. NNSA/LLNL Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record: Exceeds 100 Teraflop
A supercomputer developed through the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship efforts has performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world. 'Botox' Can Ease Writer's Cramp
"Botox,"the popular anti-wrinkle treatment, can also ease writer's cramp, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Writer's cramp describes the painful involuntary, spasmodic muscle contractions of the fingers, hand or arm during writing. But it can also occur during other manual tasks. Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses Of Steroids For Preterm Birth Is
Researchers question whether giving repeated courses of steroid drugs to mothers at risk of preterm delivery is based on sound evidence. Babies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy often have neonatal lung disease, a major cause of illness and death -- the earlier the birth, the greater the risk. How We'll Get Back To The Moon
Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There are echoes of the iconic images of the past, but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot. No One Strategy Is Best For Teaching Reading, Professor Shows
For decades, a debate has simmered in the educational community over the best way to teach children how to read. Now, a Florida State University researcher in Tallahassee, Florida, has entered the fray with a paper in the prestigious journal Science that says there is no one "best"method for teaching children to read. A 'Periodic Table' Of Natural Products
Natural products have always been an important source for the development of chemical tool compounds or drugs respectively in chemical biology and pharmaceutical research. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany have now described the structural interrelationships between natural products by analyzing some 200,000 of them in co-operation with scientists from the pharmaceutical company Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. Apple: Options Probe Clears Execs
After some exciting post-Christmas days when Steve Jobs looked to be tarnished by shadowy doings, an internal Apple investigation says he and other Apple execs are clear of securities fraud charges. In Cult of Mac.
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