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Nature's noisemakers
Sun StaffOne summer several years ago, Gaye Williams was walking in a wooded spot near Fort Meade as millions of cicadas whirred and droned in the trees overhead. Then the weirdest thing happened: She was seized with the impulse to flee. It wasn't the critters...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Periodicals, Agricultural Research and Technology, St. Mary's County
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The struggle to vanquish an ancient foe
Sun StaffRip Ballou's world began to blur around the edges as he stood among the croquet wickets, sipping home-brewed beer at a friend's lawn party. He should have expected it. Two weeks earlier, he'd agreed to let infected mosquitoes land on his arm and fill...Tags: Cancer, New York City, World War II (1939-1945), Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Armed Forces
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A drug-defiant disease
Sun StaffILIFI, Kenya -- It's a calamity occurring in slow-motion, something that many see happening but no one is sure how to stop. Here in Africa, where AIDS and tuberculosis rage, doctors are witnessing another health catastrophe in the making, a surge in fatal...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces, Africa, Vaccines
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Book review: Atheist calls for abolishing religion
The News & ObserverIf I pressed a claim for the urgent need to eradicate Judaism, Islam, Christianity or Hinduism from the face of the Earth, I would be rightfully denounced as a barbarian, madman -- or worse. Yet if I were to assert that the future of the human race...Tags: Nazi Party, Raleigh, Philosophy, Book, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Wind blasts on Neptune, Uranus may shed light on exoplanet weather
Inscrutable ice giants Neptune and Uranus have only a thin rind of windy weather over their fluid contents, a team of planetary scientists say. The research published in the journal Nature relies on decades-old data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft -- and...
Tags: NASA Voyager Program, University of Arizona, NASA, Science
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Anwar criticises new Cabinet line-up at rally
The Star, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Asia News NetworkJOHOR BARU (The Star/ANN) -- Malaysia's Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has criticised the new Cabinet line-up, questioning the decision to pick Hindraf chairman P. Waythamoorthy as deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department. "Waythamoorthy...Tags: Elections, Germany, Najib Razak, Government, Malaysia
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Struggling with math? Plug in to improve
ReutersApplying painless but targeted electrical stimulation to parts of the brain that play a role in number manipulation may in future be a way to help people who struggle with math, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers who experimented with a type of...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Medical Research
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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Duke University, Judaism, Teachers, Grateful Dead (music group)
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Struggling with maths? Plug in to improve
Reuters* Researchers used "transcranial random noise stimulation" * Five days of stimulated training boosted maths performance * Technique could help people with learning difficulties By Kate Kelland LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Applying painless but...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Mathematics, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Medical Research
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COLUMN - Scrambling for the immigrant elite
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 14 (Reuters) - A new era has arrived in immigration. Many countries - the United States, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands - have for decades taken in poor...Tags: Media Industry, Migration, United Kingdom, Immigration, U.S. Congress
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COLUMN-African minerals and the illusion of fair value: Kemp
ReutersBy John Kemp LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - "With Africa's economies riding the crest of the global commodities wave, there is an unprecedented opportunity to convert the region's vast resource wealth into investments that could lift millions out of poverty,...Tags: Prices, Guinea, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Africa, Metal and Mineral
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CORRECTED-FACTBOX-Five top host countries for Americans studying abroad
Reuters(In the signoff, corrects the spelling of the reporter's name to Kathleen Kingsbury.) May 13 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. students enrolled in full-degree programs at universities outside the United States grew 4 percent to about 46,000 last year,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Cambridge, Employment Opportunities, Germany, United Kingdom
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