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A Brilliant Light Is Extinguished
Derek Jacobs, certified by Microsoft as a systems engineer when he was only 12, is killed in a motorcycle accident. Wikileaks Spills
Though it hasn't launched yet, some material is leaked from the spooky Wikileaks, and it makes for interesting and paranoid reading. Is it a CIA front? Is it an attack on the Chinese government? Does it matter? Plus: Our contest to name airport security rigamarole produces such gems as Patriot Bins and Freedom Tables. In 27B Stroke 6. Columbia Study Finds Hemophilia Therapy Dramatically Improves Outcomes
A new multi-center, international study led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia shows that recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) has the potential to be a significant advance in treating bleeding stroke (acute intracerebral hemorrhage or ICH). Net's A-List Meme Masters to Meet at ROLFCon
The cewebrity party of the year is shaping up, and it's looking like a doozy. See who's on the guest list -- and vote for your favorite meme makers. Automated External Defibrillators Are Frequently Recalled
A new study shows that automated external defibrillators (AEDs), the devices used to resuscitate victims of sudden cardiac arrest, had a greater than 20 percent chance of being recalled for potential malfunction over the past decade. Cancer Drug Can Extend Survival In Patients With Deadly Brain Tumors
Avastin, a relatively new type of drug that shrinks cancerous tumors by cutting off their blood supply, can slow the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer, a pilot study conducted at Duke University Medical Center has found. Purdue 'Metamaterial' Could Lead To Better Optics, Communications
Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction"in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications, a step that could lead to better communications and imaging technologies. Findings are detailed in a paper appearing Dec. 15. Disfarmer
"In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer [born Mike Meyers] captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945"in black-and-white photographs. This site provides a brief biography, access to dozens of his photos (available for purchase), and selected photos that can be sent as email postcards. First U.S. Web Site: Documentation of the Early Web at SLAC (1991-1994
This collection documents the installation of the first United States Web server at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Features a chronology, images of the first SLAC Web pages, a list of some of the people involved in Web activities at SLAC (along with publications such as "The Virtual Library in Action"), and other related documents. From Archivist Jean Marie Deken of the SLAC Archives and History Office. Meteorites Offer Glimpse Of The Early Earth, Say Purdue Scientists
By examining the chemistry of 29 chunks of rock that formed billions of years ago, scientists believe that the composition of these so-called enstatite chondrite (EC) meteorites could offer a window into the planet's distant past, by recording the approximate temperature at which the Earth formed.
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