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United States Senate Office of Public Records [Lobby Filing Disclosure
"In accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 the Secretary of the Senate has initiated this program to allow the public to view filings received by the Office of Public Records."View digitized images of lobby reports by name (registrant, client, lobbyist), client country or state, filing year (1998-present), and other criteria. Includes instructions for using the program. From the U.S. Senate. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Growth Factor Receptor Affects Prostate Cancer Progression
Breeding mice with a gene for a cellular receptor that can be turned on and off-at will-not only enabled researchers to show how prostate cancer progresses, but also provides a model for studying when a drug targeting a gene will have an effect on the cancer. Characteristics Of Increased Risk For Compulsive Gambling Linked To Pa
Patients with Parkinson's disease who are younger when they develop the condition, have a personality trait known as novelty-seeking or whose personal or family history includes alcohol abuse may be more likely to develop pathological gambling as a side effect of medications used to treat their condition, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Astronomers Pinpoint Origin Of Nature's Most Powerful Magnetic Bursts
Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of powerful bursts from nature's most magnetic objects. The bursts are from "magnetars,"some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe. Magnetars are a type of neutron star, which are superdense stars that pack the mass of a sun into a body the size of Manhattan Island. Tiny magnetars possess magnetic fields that are at least 100 trillion times as powerful as Earth's magnetic field. Solar Powered Bottle Sorter And Other Eco-friendly Inventions By Stude
The assignment was wide open: Design something based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and develop it into a prototype product. The results ranged from simple mechanical devices to complex electronic machines, but all served that central purpose in original ways. The Lawrence &Houseworth Albums: Online Photographic Database
This collection of nearly 1,500 pictures from a photographic publishing company, "used for the selection of prints by its customers, is ... 'without doubt the finest single pictorial record of the maturation of Northern California and the Pacific Coast following the rambunctious days of the Gold Rush and statehood.'"Includes images of the states of California and Nevada, San Francisco and Sacramento, mining, buildings, landscapes, and Native Americans. From the Society of California Pioneers. Milky Way Galaxy Wears Two Halos Of Stars
Though it's devoured and destroyed countless smaller galaxies in its nearly 14-billion-year history, the Milky Way has earned itself two halos of stars, according to astronomers. Though our galaxy is shaped like a flat disk of up to 400 billion stars rotating clockwise, it also wears two crowns of stars that make up a spherical haze and envelops the galaxy's disk. Though others have suggested that the galaxy wears two halos of stars before, this is the first definitive proof of two different halos, he said. Physicists Offer New Approach To Studying Antimatter
UC Riverside physicists are able to see for the first time in the laboratory that positronium atoms (each of which is made up of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, called the positron), become more unstable than usual after colliding with one another, turning into gamma radiation. Global warming ad
A TV public relations campaign is set to air at the beginning of February. The ad campaign sponsored by Avaaz.org is set to demand that G8 leaders put climate change, or global warming as we used to call it in pre-euphemistic times, at the top of the next Summit agenda in June.Avaaz says this is [...]
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