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The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks spurred many to action, including Scarsdale couple Bruce and Dana Freyer, who helped set up a charity for Afghanistan.

MOREHEAD, Ky. - The small town of Morehead is not where one would expect to find a Stanford University scientist.

President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending.He planned his Nov.

ASSIA, a 6-year-old startup, today raised $10 million in funding, some of which comes from carriers that it hopes will become customers.

Tyler Crouch and Reid Hollen will take over the ambitious task of running Xslaves.org, a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that engages high school students in raising to assist former child soldiers in Uganda.

Stream Processors , a chip design firm focused on video processing, is shutting its doors and is engaged in an asset sale, VentureBeat has learned.

Great whites aren't all alike. Even though the sharks travel all over the Pacific Ocean to hunt, they tend to mate with others from the same area, forming genetically distinct groups.

Arnetha Ball recalls a time when a teacher in a mostly African-American classroom was taking roll and asked if a particular student was absent.

Metro NY recently reported that Facebook has "hopped aboard the peace train with it's new Peace Dot domain." This quote makes me happy because I imagine the Facebook logo drowning in hemp jewelry and Grateful Dead tee shirts holding up earnest peace signs waving goodbye to Papa Zuckerberg before heading to a d-list version of Woodstock somewhere in ...

Lanny L. Lewyn, Technical Advisor to Tanner EDA , the world leader in PC-based analog, mixed-signal and MEMS circuit design software, is giving a pre-conference tutorial and invited paper on Physical Design and Reliability Issues in Nanoscale Analog CMOS Technologies at the IEEE Nordic Microelectronics or NORCHIP event.

Millions of people in the United States may suffer from lymphatic diseases, but little is known about what causes these illnesses or how widespread they may be.

The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.

The study in mice suggests that the gene may play an important role in maintaining cognitive function during aging.

By now, you're probably sick of reading all the competing theories about who and what created the housing bubble of 2003 to 2006 and subsequent bust.

Study: white sharks in No. California genetically unique Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 17:27 The magnificent predators, which have for years struck fear in surfers, abalone divers and swimmers, have been isolated from other white shark populations for so long that they are genetically unique to the world, the researchers concluded.

Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study released Wednesday reveals.

Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.

Saba , the premier people management software and services provider, concluded People 2009 - Saba Global Summit, the most acclaimed annual user conference in Saba's history.

As the health care battle moved forward last week, Phil Davis, a senior Christian Science church official, hurriedly delivered bundles of letters to Senate offices promoting a little-noticed proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church's prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses.

The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population ...