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Food Network.com: Holiday Archives
Recipes and menus for major and some minor holidays (including April Fool's Day, Mardi Gras, and Oktoberfest). Cooks will appreciatethe sidebar topics that pop up with every recipe: Terms and Tips Encyclopedia, Culinary Q and As, Ingredient Substitutes, and Fat and Calorie Calculator. University Of Pittsburgh Researchers Develop Co-polymer That Acts Like
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a way that could prolong the effectiveness of antioxidants that are commonly used in products to protect against the harmful effects caused by sun and air exposure. Reporting in the Jan. 10 print issue of Biomacromolecules, a journal of the American Chemical Society, they describe a chemically formulated co-polymer that in laboratory studies was able to withstand significantly longer periods of intense ultraviolet light than other formulations. One Mars Orbiter Takes First Photos Of Other Orbiters
Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet. When It Comes To Information Overload, Two Heads May Not Be Better Tha
In an age of e-mails, databases and online catalogues, two heads may no longer be better than one, according to new ESRC-sponsored research into the effects of information overload. Voices From the Wall: Personal Stories About the Fall of the Berlin Wa
This site from 2006 celebrates the 16th anniversary of the reunification of Germany (October 3, 1990) and how the Berlin Wall came down starting on November 9, 1989. Features a timeline with video clips about the Berlin Wall, personal accounts, and material about how the wall has been "dismantled, destroyed, and commemorated."Includes links to related sites. From the German Embassy, Washington, D.C. Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in P
This 2007 study "has documented 73 cases where children 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to death in prison. ... This report is intended to illuminate this cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on children, particularly for those who have been without legal help for so long."Includes profiles of some of the children, data, and photos. Opens directly into a PDF file. From the nonprofit law organization, Equal Justice Initiative. 'Carnivorous' Coelophysis Dinosaur Fossil Re-examined -- Last Meal Was
Four American Museum of Natural History paleontologists have overturned a 1950s claim that a theropod dinosaur called Coelophysis was a cannibal that ate juveniles of its own kind, forcing a revision of a popular story of dinosaur behavior that has been repeated many times in the scientific literature, popular media, and museum exhibits. In order to test the well-known cannibal-Coelophysis hypothesis, the team re-examined the anatomy of the two celebrated Coelophysis fossils said to exhibit cannibalism, as well as the structure of the bone found in the abdominal cavity of one of the specimens. Cassini Images Discover A Windy, Wavy Titan Atmosphere
Imaging scientists, analyzing images of Titan designed to allow views of the surface and lower atmosphere, have discovered that the winds on Titan blow a lot faster than the moon rotates. In contrast, the jet stream of Earth blows a lot slower than the surface of our planet moves. Boxing Day boredom and monkey proteins
It’s Boxing Day and you’re probably seriously bored playing the “normal” game of Pick-up Monkeys. Rather than heading for the Wii or the PS3, how about adding a little monkey magic, or more seriously some wire binders and following Dr N. Michael Green, Division of Mathematical Biology, of the UK’s prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) [...] [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him.
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