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1 hr ago | Mental Help Net

Scientists Can't Replicate Surprising Finding on Alzheimer's Treatment

Although a study in 2012 suggested a cancer drug could reverse the thinking and memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease, three groups of researchers now say they have been unable to duplicate those findings.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Northwestern University

1 hr ago | US News & World Report

Study Finds 'Serious Problems' With 2012 Alzheimer's 'Breakthrough'

Last year's finding that the drug bexarotene reduced the buildup of Alzheimer's-causing plaques may not legitimate, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Lymphoma

5 hrs ago | The Economist

Free exchange: Making pay work

OF ALL a firm's inputs, its workers' effort is perhaps the oddest. It is as vital as land, factories or machines, but much harder to control.

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Related Topix: Berkeley, CA

10 hrs ago | Medical News Today

Mortality Risk Increased By Delayed Transfer To The ICU

Delayed transfer to the intensive care unit in hospitalized patients significantly increases the risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study from researchers in Chicago.

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Related Topix: Health

14 hrs ago | LewRockwell.com

The Craziest Neocon Attack on Libertarianism?

Hillsdale College in Michigan hosts Mises Lectures in free-market economics and houses the library of Mises in the Ludwig von Mises Room in its Mossey Library.

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Related Topix: Hillsdale College, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Healthcare Law, Law

18 hrs ago | Star Tribune

Graduate in four years? Yeah, right.

For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor's degree long after graduation day, here's some consolation: At least it didn't take you six or eight years.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Opinion

Wed May 22, 2013

ILLINOIZE

Sex ed bill likely to become law

By Jamey Dunn Legislation that would end abstinence-only sex education in the state's public schools is headed to Gov.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality, Pat Quinn, US Governors, Family, Kids, Illinois, Illinois Government

The Winnipeg Free Press

'Quality Balls' doc profiles Winnipeg-born comedy veteran David Steinberg

David Steinberg arrives at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

UConn Advance

Ecology Professor Receives Royal Summons to Join Scientific Committee

In early May, Professor Robin Chazdon, a tropical ecologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of 18 scientists from around the world summoned to a special committee on tropical forest ecology and climate change at the Royal Society and St.

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Related Topix: Ecology, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Prince Charles

Michigan Radio

Where poverty lives in Michigan

An interview with Scott Allard, an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

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Science Daily

Life scientists present new insights on climate change and species interactions

This knowledge, they say, is critical to making accurate predictions and informing policymakers of how species are likely to be impacted by rising temperatures.

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Related Topix: Science, Ecology, Biology

Science, Industry and Business

Researchers find genetic tie to improved survival time for pulmonary fibrosis

Research into genetic features of pulmonary fibrosis by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine may lead to improved treatment of this deadly lung disease, according to a paper published online by JAMA.

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Related Topix: University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, Vanderbilt University

NBC Chicago

Reductio ad Trotterum

Leo Strauss had Donne Trotter's number. Strauss was the University of Chicago professor who coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum .

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Related Topix: Pat Quinn, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Jesse Jackson, Democrat

Chicago Reader

Yeezus, everyone has something to say about Kanye West's new music

Unless you decided to go on an Internet-free sabbatical in the past week there's a good chance you've heard something about Kanye West's sixth album, Yeezus , which comes out June 18.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Northwestern University, Chicago, iPhone

LaGrange Daily News

Wimps versus barbarians

An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.

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Related Topix: Swarthmore College, Activism, Swarthmore, PA

ScienceBlogs

The Ball State Kerfuffle [EvolutionBlog]

Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics at Ball State University, has come under fire for an honors course called, "Boundaries of Science." The problem: the course appears to be little more than thinly veiled Christian evangelism.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, Ball State University, Biology

Newswise

Dr. Jeffrey Matthews Named President-Elect of Chicago Surgical Society

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, Dallas B. Phemister Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine, has been named president-elect of the Chicago Surgical Society.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, Chicago, IL

Tue May 21, 2013

Cleveland.com

Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School senior Libby Roether hosting Fashion Week fundraiser

Libby Roether submitted this photo of her and her student models trying on fill-in pieces at TJ Maxx in Beachwood.

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Related Topix: Broadview Heights, OH

ABC7 Chicago

I-Team: Expanded gambling could deal Illinois a dangerous hand

Gambling may be a way to boost tourism and tax dollars, but what about those who would do anything for a bet? One Chicago bank went belly-up when a former blackjack addict floated $10 million in checks.

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Related Topix: Games, Blackjack, Cook County, IL

Christianity Today

Ball State Will Investigate Course on 'Boundaries of Science'State...

At Christianity Today , we're constantly tracking important developments in the church and the world.

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