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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
To put an end to suicide bombings, the United States needs a new strategy that would reposition troops and work with local allies to boost their fighting capacity. Despite a popular belief that suicide terrorism is the result of religious fanaticism, such bombings are really a calculated response to occupations by outsiders, according to new research in a new book, “Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It”.
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Craig Jones on 10/05 at 12:36 PM
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Friday, September 24, 2010
September 28 event will address holistic approaches to treating fibromyalgia. Hormones, stress, inflammation levels and nutrient deficiencies are considerations, along with other factors that are often treated successfully without strong pain medications.
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Craig Jones on 09/24 at 11:47 AM
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Cornell University Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ashutosh Saxena is working to bring such robots into homes and offices. “Just like people buy a car, I envision that in five to 10 years, people will buy an assistive robot that will be cheaper or about the same cost as a car.”
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Craig Jones on 09/23 at 02:34 PM
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Health Policy today released a report that, for the first time, calculated the startlingly high individual costs of obesity to Americans. The report, “A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of Being Overweight and Obese in the United States,” authored by Avi Dor, Professor and Director of Health Economics Program at The George Washington University, and colleagues used a series of measures including indirect costs, lost productivity, and direct costs, such as obesity-related medical expenditures, to estimate the price tag of obesity at the individual level.
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Craig Jones on 09/22 at 03:05 PM
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In the natural history of news, timing is very important, of course. Knowing the influence of timing on news, does it follow that journalists pay attention to awareness events? Although it doesn’t require much examination of awareness calendars to see that the association of events to dates seems arbitrary and artificial—there is no strong relationship of hunger to October as far as I know – awareness events are very popular. Just look at the full calendar.
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Roger Johnson on 09/21 at 04:09 PM
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Monday, September 20, 2010
We’re excited to be attending the PRSA International conference October 16-19 in our nation’s capitol. We spend our days communicating with you by phone, email and the web, and we are looking forward to meeting you face to face.
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Zakira Beasley on 09/20 at 01:28 PM
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Monday, September 20, 2010
A “test and treat” strategy, the leading proposal by the World Health Organization to combat HIV/AIDS in South Africa, is seriously flawed, say UCLA researchers in The Lancet.
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Craig Jones on 09/20 at 10:14 AM
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Daily doses of raw or heat-treated ginger are effective for relieving muscle pain following strenuous exercise, according to research reported in The Journal of Pain.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/17 at 10:01 AM
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Almost half of children with ADHD whose aggressive behaviors had not been controlled during routine outpatient care could achieve near absence of aggressive, explosive behavior with “first-line” stimulants.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/17 at 09:08 AM
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Friday, September 17, 2010
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