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Novel Semiconductor Structure Bends Light 'Wrong'Way -- Exciting Appli
Scientists have created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats. Diana Death a "Tragic Accident"
Collection of articles from December 2006 about "an official UK police inquiry into the [1997] Paris car crash which killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed [and that] has found no evidence the couple were murdered."Includes a link to the full report ("The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder") and to information about the life and death of Princess Diana. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Optimism Isn't Always Healthy
People are generally optimistic, believing they'll do better in the future than they've done in the past. This time around, I'll actually use that gym membership. I'm sticking to the diet this time. Now is the time to start saving for a down payment on a house. However, a new study reveals that this "optimism bias"can lead us to make immediate choices that go against our long-term goals. Privacy Board Veils Wiretap Docs
The White House denies a Wired News sunshine request for documents on the government's warrantless wiretapping program. In 27B Stroke 6. The Cultures and History of America: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at t
This is "an exhibition featuring fifty highlights from the rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. The exhibition focuses on the early Americas from the time of the indigenous people of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean through the period of European contact, exploration, and settlement."The site includes an online exhibition and a bibliography. E-Book Readers Go Head to Head
From Amazon.com's new Kindle to Bookeen's Cybook Gen3, get the feature-for-feature lowdown on these bookworms' friends. HIV-TB Spreads In Africa, Undermines Control Of World's Two Deadliest
The largely unnoticed collision of the global epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic that is rapidly spreading in sub-Saharan Africa. However, health systems cannot adequately diagnose, treat, or contain the co-epidemic due to unanswered scientific and medical questions, according to a new report. The report urges research and immediate action to thwart co-epidemic as threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis/HIV mounts. Study Resolves Doubt About Origin Of Earth's Oldest Rocks, Possibility
Experiments led by Nicolas Dauphas of the University of Chicago and Chicago's Field Museum have validated some controversial rocks from Greenland as the potential site for the earliest evidence of life on Earth. First Report Of Cancer Drug Gleevec As New Target Therapy For Pulmonar
Today, German scientists of the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) published a case study in the Sept. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The study reveals that the cancer drug Gleevec (Imatinib) may represent a promising new targeted therapy for patients suffering from pulmonary hypertension. U. Of Colorado Researcher Identifies Tracks Of Swimming Dinosaur In Wy
The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student.
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