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5 hrs ago | Science Daily

Discovering Drugs, Biofuels In Tropical Seas

The project will concentrate its research in the Philippine archipelago whose waters are inhabited by an estimated 10,000 marine mollusk species, or about a fifth of all the known species, and are regarded by ...

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Related Topix: Oregon Health & Science University, Biology, Science, Department of Energy, Oceanography

13 hrs ago | Trend Hunter Magazine

Votevertising - Red, White & Drew Barrymore in Harpera s Bazaar

Votevertising - Red, White & Drew Barrymore in Harper's Bazaar [Edit] 219 Views - Click for Gallery Forget about addictive interactive election polls and make sure to register to vote online before the ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Drew Barrymore, Barack Obama, John McCain

Mon Oct 06, 2008

RedOrbit

University Creates Online Western Sound Library

Rattlesnakes are not the friendliest creatures. Ordinarily, they are best left alone instead of being snuck up on.

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Related Topix: Libraries, California

Trend Hunter Magazine

Visualizing Election Polls - University of Utah Makes the Pie Chart Interactive

Most of the election polls that are on television are fine for most people; they show the general aggregated numbers, and some go a step further and break them down by gender.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

KBCI CBS 2

Young boy saves brother in Pocatello house fire

A 9-year-old boy is credited with saving his brother during a weekend house fire in Pocatello.

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Related Topix: Fire, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT

Sun Oct 05, 2008

EurekAlert!

Visualizing election polls

Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt? University of ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Science, Computer Science

hosted The Associated Press | The Associated Press

Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West

Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford.

'You get yourself in some strange situations,' said Jeff Rice, a soft-spoken University of Utah research librarian who's trying to create the first comprehensive _ and free to the public _ archive of natural sounds in the West.

Minutes later he was squatting in the hills above Salt Lake City, training his lightweight parabolic microphone toward a Great Basin rattlesnake a few feet away.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Libraries, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT

KTVX

University of Utah earns B for eco-friendliness

The University of Utah has earned a 'B' grade in a nationwide survey of environmental practices on college campuses.

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Sat Oct 04, 2008

Salt Lake Tribune

Utahns will be integral part of largest study of U.S. kids

The largest study of U.S. children ever performed - aiming to track 100,000 from the womb to age 21 - will start recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January.

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Related Topix: Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake County, UT, Cache County, UT, US News

Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake City attorney: No obligation to give Leonardo $10 million bond

Calling downtown Salt Lake City's planned science, art and cultural center "insufficiently undefined," the City Attorney's Office says the city has no obligation to give The Leonardo its voter-approved $10.2 ...

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT

About.com

Cell Death and Cancer

Cancer is linked to a cell's inability to destroy itself through a process known as apoptosis .

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Fri Oct 03, 2008

PsycPORT.com

Talking, texting, driving don't mix

Texting or talking on a cell phone creates an "inattention blindness" that puts drivers at roughly the same risk as drunkeness and makes them as much as six times more likely to have a accident, studies show.

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Salt Lake Tribune

University of Utah seeks to raise $1 billion in eight years

While working as a news writer for the Daily Utah Chronicle in the early 1990s, Travis Rigby couldn't even remember the paltry sums he earned at the campus newspaper.

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Related Topix: Utah State University

Thu Oct 02, 2008

Kutv.com

Researcher: Wasatch Front urban living to rise

Urban living may increase along the Wasatch Front. Call it the return of the urbanite.

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Related Topix: Provo, UT, Provo Metro

Medical News Today

Knee Arthritis Did Not Benefit From Supplements

Featured Article Main Category: Arthritis / Rheumatology Also Included In: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 01 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT US scientists found ...

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Related Topix: Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT, Sundance Film Festival, Medicine, Medication, Celebrex, Celecoxib (generic), Arthritis, Health

Wed Oct 01, 2008

KTVX

UTA adjusts train schedules for football game, LDS Conference

The Utah Transit Authority adjusted its schedules to accommodate heavy traffic expected for the University of Utah football game with Oregon State on Thursday night, and for the semi-annual Conference of the ...

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Related Topix: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Religion

MediLexicon

Galen College Of Nursing Expands, Launches Registered Nursing Program

Galen College of Nursing - formerly known as Galen Health Institute School of Nursing - announced today it has launched an associate degree program for licensed vocational nurses who want to become registered ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, San Antonio, TX, Texas

Scientific Blogging

Understanding Apoptosis In Cells May Lead To A Cancer Breakthrough

Submitted by News Staff on 1 October 2008 - 12:00am. Microbiology When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage - University of Utah biologists say their ...

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Related Topix: Microbiology, Biology, Science, Genetics

Deseret News

Supplements don't slow cartilage loss well, study says

Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate - two dietary supplements popular with people suffering osteoarthritis - did no better than a placebo in slowing the rate of cartilage loss in the knees, according to a large ...

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Related Topix: Utah, Medicine, Arthritis

Tue Sep 30, 2008

WBIR-TV

Study: Popular supplements ineffective against arthritis

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY A two-year study of how well glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate slow cartilage loss in arthritis patients could not show that the popular nutritional supplements work any better ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Pain, Medication, Celebrex, Celecoxib (generic)

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