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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 ...
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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.
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Stanford helps establish tissue bank, patient registry for lymphatic diseases
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'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA
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.
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Study: white sharks in No. California genetically unique
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Great Whites hang out in Pacific's 'shark cafe'
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.
Anthropologist recalled as 'poet's soul'
Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.
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Saba Concludes Annual User Conference; Keynotes Emphasize Importance...
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.
Should prayers be covered? Christian Scientists want 'spiritual care' as part of health bill
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.
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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 ...
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