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Avoiding Fuel Economy Isn't New
While the Bushies haven't prompted car makers to fix fuel economy or emissions, the inconvenient truth is that the Clinton-Gore team failed to live up to its promises, too. In Autopia. New Medical Technique Punches Holes In Cells, Could Treat Tumors
A large animal study has shown that certain microsecond electrical pulses can punch nanoscale holes in the membranes of target cells without harming tissue scaffolding, including that in the blood vessels - a potential breakthrough in minimally invasive surgical treatments of tumors. Public Radio Exchange
This not-for-profit "web-based marketplace for public radio programming"provides freely-available, original sound-based content on a wide variety of topics, many of them unusual and interesting. Diehard public radio junkies can register (free) to contribute comments about PRX programs. Includes a blog and a podcast. Act for Libraries: ALC Reports
Compilation of Americans for Libraries Council (ALC) reports on issues related to libraries and society, including economic valuation, health information services in public libraries, libraries and productive aging, innovation in American libraries, and planning and implementing an intergenerational and intercultural reading and discussion program. ALC is "a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing innovation and investment in the nation's libraries." www.nycsubway.org
Detailed information about the New York City subways. Find technical information about the trains, including abandoned or unused tunnels, abandoned stations, brief history, maps dating back to 1880, and information about the signals. Also provides a glossary, a FAQ, images of the subway cars, and information about other trains and subways in New York, the U.S., and around the world. From a group of hobbyists. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Preventing Or Reducing Enlarged Heart Decreases Risk Of Heart Failure
For high-blood-pressure patients, preventing or reducing enlarged heart reduces risk of heart failure. An estimated 20 percent of all high-blood-pressure patients, or 12 million Americans, have LVH and are at increased risk of developing heart failure. Previous studies have shown that hypertension doubles the lifetime risk for developing heart failure in men and triples the risk in women, accounting for 39 percent of new heart failure cases in men and 59 percent of incident cases in women. Breast MRI Spots Other Cancers, May Alter Treatment Plan
MRI, which is not routinely administered to women who plan to undergo a lumpectomy, can find additional cancerous areas in the breast that previously evaded detection, discover cancer in the opposite breast that standard imaging tests such as mammography and ultrasound missed, or determine a tumor is actually larger than expected. 'Dachshund' Gene Reverts Cancer Genes To Normal, Predicts Breast Cance
Scientists have shown that the activity of a gene that commandeers other cancer-causing genes, returning them to normal, can predict the prognosis of an individual with breast cancer. They looked at cancer cells from more than 2,000 breast cancer patients and found that this commandeering or "organizing"ability is increasingly lost in cancer cells and associated with the progression of disease. The more the gene is expressed in breast cancer, the better the patient did. Bloggers Shrink the Planet
The international Global Voices summit brings together political refugees, human rights advocates and people just determined to save the world -- or a part of it. What they have in common is a deep certainty that the internet can do more than just sell us stuff. Quinn Norton reports from New Delhi.
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