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The University of Wisconsin in Madison is a public, land-grant institution which opened for classes in 1849. It¿s the oldest and largest campus in the University of Wisconsin System, a statewide network of 13 universities, 13 transfer colleges and an extension program. Current enrollment is just over 42,000 students. In the fall of 2007, the university offered 134 undergraduate majors and 153 Master¿s degree programs. The Wisconsin Badgers sports teams compete in the Big Ten conference. Notable alumni include aviator Charles Lindbergh; archtitect Frank Lloyd Wright; authors Eudora Welty and Joyce Car...
The University of Wisconsin in Madison is a public, land-grant institution which opened for classes in 1849. It¿s the oldest and largest campus in the University of Wisconsin System, a statewide network of 13 universities, 13 transfer colleges and an extension program. Current enrollment is just over 42,000 students. In the fall of 2007, the university offered 134 undergraduate majors and 153 Master¿s degree programs. The Wisconsin Badgers sports teams compete in the Big Ten conference. Notable alumni include aviator Charles Lindbergh; archtitect Frank Lloyd Wright; authors Eudora Welty and Joyce Carol Oates; Baseball commissioner Bud Selig; and astronaut Jim Lovell.
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Bird flu can spread in mammals, study finds
In a long-awaited study that helped prompt a contentious debate over the wisdom of conducting research that has the potential to help as well as harm, scientists reported Wednesday that they had engineered a mutant strain of bird flu that can spread...
Tags: Vaccines, Health Organizations, Preventative Medicine, Science and Technology, Bioterrorism
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U.S. government recommends publication of bird flu papers
The U.S. government will support publication of two controversial research papers, officials said Thursday. The studies report details of experiments in which the deadly H5N1 influenza virus was engineered to pass between mammals, officials said Thursday....
Tags: Political Corruption, Health Organizations, Politics, Science and Technology, National Government
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Foundation grants first fellowships in organic plant breeding in U.S.
Daily DishClif Bar Family Foundation grants first fellowships in organic plant breeding granted in U.S.... -
Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. dies at 92; oversaw growth of ratings firm
"If you can put a number on it," Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. said his father once told him, "then you know something."
It was a lesson the younger Nielsen — who died Monday at age 92 — never forgot. His lifelong efforts remade his father's once-...Tags: U.S. Army, Companies and Corporations, Technology, Market Research, VNU NV
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PASSINGS: Dave Gavitt, Wilma Lee Cooper, James Speed, James N. Rosenau, Yuli Ofer, Kurt Ziebart
Dave Gavitt
Coach led organization
of Big East Conference
Dave Gavitt, 73, one of basketball's most influential leaders in the last three decades, died Friday in a hospital near his hometown of Rumford, R.I., after a long illness, his family said....Tags: Economic Sanctions, Obituaries, Arts, St. John's University, College Sports
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Retail roundup: JCPenney, retail association for students, trends
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Steve Jobs dies at 56; Apple's co-founder transformed computers and culture
Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He was 56.
Apple announced the death of Jobs — whose legacy...Tags: Arts, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Social Sciences, Diseases and Illnesses, IBM
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Is the World Wide Web becoming our external memory drive?
Whether our laptops, tablets and smartphones have made us smarter or dumber is a matter of endless debate and of scant but growing research. A new study grabs hold of an important corner of that question, finding that we have adapted the way we remember...Tags: Education, Psychology, Harvard University, Human Interest, Columbia University
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Har Gobind Khorana dies at 89; biologist, chemist won Nobel Prize
Har Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in rural India to become a giant of modern biology, winning the Nobel Prize in 1968 for work that helped decipher the genetic code and explain how cells make proteins, died Nov. 9 in Concord, Mass. He was 89....Tags: Chemistry, Entertainment Events, Nobel Prize Awards, India, Cornell University
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PASSINGS: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Jeno Paulucci, Walter Doniger, Lynn Margulis, Irving Elman
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Nigerian secessionist leader in '60s
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, 78, a millionaire's son who led Nigeria's breakaway republic of Biafra during the country's civil war that left 1 million dead, died Saturday in a London...Tags: Obituaries, Forests, Coup d'Etat, Nigeria, Natural Resources
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Lawrence S. Eagleburger dies at 80; former secretary of State
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the wisecracking, chain-smoking diplomat who charmed both Republicans and Democrats, handled tense assignments during the first Persian Gulf War and rose up the ranks to become secretary of State toward the end of President George...Tags: The Associated Press, Religious Conflicts, Republican Party, Politics, Richard Nixon
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Extracting the facts about pomegranate pills
Legend has it that King Tut was fond of pomegranates, and so were the ancient Persians. They surely enjoyed the fruit in its natural form — not processed into pomegranate extract pills.
These days, a number of companies sell pomegranate supplements...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Companies and Corporations, Healthy Diet, Prostate, Heart Disease
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