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Thanks to the miracle of HD television, your favorite Friends characters now appear chunkier. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. 75th Anniversary Salute to FDR
"On Monday, July 2, 2007 the Museum of Broadcast Communications held their '75th Anniversary Salute to FDR.' ... The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University [in Chicago] was transformed into the convention floor of 1932."Here you can watch the re-creation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt accepting his first presidential nomination (in his "New Deal"speech) by actor Robert Vaughn, and reflections by current news commentators. From the Museum of Broadcast Communication (MBC). Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in Your Lonely Final Years
Before Toyota made cars, it made robots. It’s making them again, and wants to use them in a most unusual place. Looking ahead at the second half of this century, Toyota sees a mounting health care crisis and aging population coming to Japan. It sees a future where manufacturing robotic workers is the hot new industry and “autonomation” takes on a whole new meaning. And the first place we might see these robots is in hospitals.
 New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain
A British archaeologist has just returned from a period of fieldwork in Iran, working on the first archaeological project in the country to explore the very recent past. The project looks at the effects the Iranian White Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s had on the ancient ‘Landlord Villages’ of the early Islamic period of the country’s history. Gene, Stem Cell Therapy Only Needs To Be 50 Percent Effective To Creat
A muscular dystrophy patient should be able to maintain a normal lifestyle if only 50 percent of the cells of the heart are healthy, according to a new article. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and greatly affects the quality and length of life for individuals with specific forms of muscular dystrophy. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that gene and/or stem cell therapy could help a variety of organs in the body, but until now scientists have been unsure whether the heart could benefit from these treatments. Barrett's Esophagus Patients Have Same Survival Rates As General Popul
New research has found that survival rates of patients with Barrett's esophagus, which can be a precursor for esophageal cancer, are no different than the survival rates for the general population. QuikScat Shows Rough Seas, Atmospheric Conditions At Time Of Two Java
A ferry carrying more than 600 passengers sank in the Java Sea between the island of Java and Borneo just before midnight on December 29, 2006, during high winds and rough seas. On January 1, 2007, a plane carrying more than 100 people crashed on its flight over the Java Sea; high winds and turbulent weather are being investigated as possible causes. The origin of surges of deadly winds in this usually relatively calm region is poorly monitored and understood. However, ocean winds data from NASA's QuikScat satellite show potential for helping alleviate such deficiencies. Voyager Spacecraft Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier. It is entering a vast, turbulent expanse, where the sun's influence ends and the solar wind crashes into the thin gas between stars. Supersaturated Steel Could Save Energy In Factories
Pulp and paper plants in the future may operate at lower energy levels as the result of a new technology. A new hardened surface has been implemented in pump impellers undergoing severe wear operation at the Sonoco paperboard plant in Newport, Tenn. The impellers in the plant are working at three times the life of regular impellers with an annual energy savings of 56 million BTUs. Nutritional Genomics Identifies A Potential Weight-loss Resistance Gen
Jos Ordovas, PhD, director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University, and colleagues identified a variation in the perilipin gene that appears to render some people resistant to weight loss from calorie restriction. This research builds on their earlier work on perilipin and obesity.
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