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22-Year Analysis Shows Overall Media Coverage of HIV/AIDS Decreasing, Focus on Global Epidemic Increasing; People Most Affected by HIV/AIDS Are Rarely Focus of Media Coverage.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Kaiser Family Foundation MENLO PARK, Calif., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Are the media experiencing "AIDS fatigue?" A new Kaiser Family Foundation study examining 22 years of news coverage finds that overall media coverage is...

Fat: It Isn't Always Bad For the Heart.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Unwanted fat may have a bigger effect on the heart than physicians previously thought. Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have...

Racial, Economic Gaps in Kids' Vision Care Seen in Four New Studies; Minority Children, and Uninsured, Far Less Likely to Get Eye Exams, Glasses.
March 2, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A quartet of new studies focusing on children's eye care finds that race, income, location, gender and insurance status can make a big difference...

Scientists Urge Caution When Releasing Engineered Organisms Into Environment.
March 2, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A panel of scientists has recommended a more cautious approach towards releasing genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) into the environment. The panel,...

Evidence Bubbles Over to Support Tabletop Nuclear Fusion Device.
March 2, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers are reporting new evidence supporting their earlier discovery of an inexpensive "tabletop" device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion...

Implantable, Continuous Sensor Reduced Glucose Fluctuations in Type 1 Diabetes.
March 2, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Adults with type 1 diabetes experienced decreased periods of high or low blood sugar when using a long-term implantable, continuous glucose sensor,...

University of Iowa Study Identifies Damaging Mechanism in Transplants, Heart Attacks.
March 2, 2004... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Iowa study suggests that inhibiting a certain protein involved in inflammation might be of therapeutic benefit in organ transplantation, heart...

UC San Diego's Dr. Leon Thal to Receive Potamkin Prize, One of Neurosciences' Highest Honors.
March 2, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Potamkin Prize, one of the nation's highest honors in neurosciences, will be awarded this year to Leon Thal, M.D., University of California, San...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Better Way to Help Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Experience Significantly Less Pain.
March 2, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The intense pain many patients with pancreatic cancer experience may be reduced by more than 50 percent using a nerve block technique along with the standard...

New Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Lines to Be Made Available to Researchers.
March 3, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at Harvard University announced today that they have derived 17 new human embryonic stem-cell lines. The new...

USC Researchers Link Unusual DNA Structure to Cancer; Paper in Nature Shows Molecular Quirk May Lead to Common Form of Lymphoma.
March 3, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Southern California researchers have discovered an unusual DNA structure in the chromosomes of lymphocytes that appears to create a so-called "fragile...

New Studies Indicate Those Infected With HIV May Benefit From Infection With Another Virus, Says Jefferson Virologist.
March 3, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Roger Pomerantz, M.D., suggests that understanding how HIV interacts with another virus, GBV-C, may help...

Visualizing Central Dogma: Researchers Create First Movie Starring DNA, RNA, Protein.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 1958, five years after he helped discover the double helix structure of DNA, Francis Crick coined the term "Central Dogma" to characterize the...

Study: Young Blacks Less Attuned Than Whites to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss; Neither Group Does Enough to Guard Against It, Researchers Found.
March 4, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Young blacks know less about hearing loss than their white counterparts, but those in both groups turn a deaf ear to advice about how to protect themselves in...

News Tip: Research News From Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iowa State University today relased the following news tip. Think Thin Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State...

News Tips: Research News From Iowa State University's College of Education.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iowa State University today released the following news tips from its College of Education. --- A MEASURE OF SUCCESS An Iowa State University faculty...

News Tips: Research News From Iowa State University's College of Engineering.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iowa State University today released the following news tips from its College of Engineering. --- YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE Tom Daniels, assistant...

News Tips: Research News From Iowa State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iowa State University today released the following news tips from its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. --- IT TAKES A VILLAGE It plays out like a...

Federal Programs to Help African-American Families Have Ultimately Harmed Them, Book Says.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The federal government's programs designed to help the disadvantaged have not only failed to help African-Americans, but nearly 40 years later they may have left...

March Science & Technology News Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST LOUIS, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

Faulty DNA Replication Linked to Neurological Diseases.
March 4, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lengthy sequences of DNA -- with their component triplet of nucleotides repeated hundreds, even thousands of times -- are known to be abnormal, causing rare...

Report Highlights Prospects for U.S., South American Agriculture Exports.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University WASHINGTON, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A weak dollar, high prices and global economic growth bode well for U.S. agricultural exports, according to the 10-year projections of the Food and Agricultural Policy...

Thomas Jefferson University Alzheimer's Vaccine Shows Promise in Animal Model.
March 5, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new vaccine for Alzheimer's disease created by researchers at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has shown...

C-Reactive Proteins Do Not Predict Early Osteoarthritis.
March 7, 2004... Byline: Duke University SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- C-reactive proteins, which are released into the bloodstream as a result of inflammation, may not be an accurate early predictive marker for chronic diseases such as...

State-Required Continuing Medical Education Does Not Affect Heart Attack Care.
March 7, 2004... Byline: Duke University NEW ORLEANS, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first such analysis, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that state-mandated programs for continuing medical education (CME) for physicians have...

Can Good Teachers Be Identified in Advance? New Evidence Says Yes; Kids Learn More From Nationally Certified Teachers, Study Shows.
March 8, 2004... Byline: University of Washington SEATTLE, March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teachers who qualify for national certification do a measurably better job in the classroom, according to a major study to be released this week. Pupils of...

Heart Attack Deaths Increase During Winter Holidays.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Duke University NEW ORLEANS, March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have now demonstrated what many have long suspected -- heart attack patients admitted to U.S. hospitals during the winter...

Discovering New Life at the Bottom of the Sea: University of Virginia Students Find Colorful Sea Floor.
March 8, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Humans know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the sea. But there is no life on the moon. The sea is full of life, and scientists are...

Reprogrammable Cells From Fat Are True Adult Stem Cells.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Duke University SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- After successfully turning cells taken from human fat into different cell types, Duke University Medical Center researchers have now demonstrated that these specific...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify Testing to Help Better Select Patients for Prostate-Related Radiatio Treatments.
March 9, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers report in the current Mayo Clinic Proceedings that certain physical conditions in a patient, such as a low urinary flow or urinary pain, might help...

When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed.
March 9, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 - a far greater number than had ever...

Progenitor Cells Predict Heart Disease Severity.
March 9, 2004... Byline: Duke University NEW ORLEANS, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have uncovered a strong relationship between the severity of heart disease and the level of endothelial progenitor cells...

Why Don't Heart Patients Take Their Medicine? University of Michigan Study Finds Forgetfulness at Top of the List.
March 9, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System NEW ORLEANS, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's one of the biggest conundrums in medicine: Why don't patients take the medications their doctors prescribe, even when the drugs could save their...

Media Coverage of WMD Issue Gets Failing Grade: University of Maryland Study.
March 9, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Major media outlets in the United States and Britain inadequately reported both the lead-up to war with Iraq and its aftermath, according to a new...

Asian Culture Is Changing Mainstream America.
March 9, 2004... Byline: American Sociological Association WASHINGTON, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Asian culture in America has become more pervasive and Asians' acclimation more complete than that of other immigrants. Whether it is the culture that has...

Half of Those Who Could Benefit From Implanted Defibrillators Wouldn't Qualify Under Medicare, Study Shows; Cost Savings Balanced Against Saving Lives of Heart Failure Patients.
March 9, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System NEW ORLEANS, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a vivid illustration of the tradeoffs that society increasingly faces in this age of costly new medical technology, new research examines the...

MIT Filter Cleans Nepalese Drinking Water.
March 9, 2004... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- An easy-to-use, inexpensive filter developed by MIT researchers for treating contaminated drinking water will be installed in 25 Nepalese villages this year, thanks to a $115,000...

Lakes With Zebra Mussels Have Higher Levels of Toxins, Michigan State University Research Finds.
March 10, 2004... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Inland lakes in Michigan that have been invaded by zebra mussels, an exotic species that has plagued bodies of water in several states since the 1980s,...

Heart Attack Patients Face 25 Percent Lower Death Risk If Hospitals Follow National Care Standards; First Evidence That Guidelines for Drugs, Tests, Lifestyle Changes Save Lives.
March 10, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System NEW ORLEANS, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heart attack patients have a 25 percent lower risk of dying within a year of leaving the hospital if their doctors and nurses follow standard national...

Aggressive Heart Therapies Still Underused, Despite Blood Chemical Status.
March 10, 2004... Byline: Duke University NEW ORLEANS, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicians are underutilizing aggressive therapies such as anti-clotting drugs and invasive procedures in heart patients, despite the presence of biochemical markers in...

USC Study Finds Hormone Supplement Used by Athletes May Not Increase Testosterone; DHEA, Available Over the Counter, Appears to Elevate Levels of Harmful Hormone Instead.
March 10, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Athletes who take the popular supplement DHEA to increase their testosterone levels and improve their performance may actually be raising levels of a hormone that...

Sandia Sensor Has Potential to Help U.S. Military Eliminate 'Friendly Fire' During Combat; Tagging Device Monitored From Air.
March 10, 2004... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A device to help eliminate friendly fire during military combat has been created by engineers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia...

College Students Manage Portfolios of Millions of Dollars; Future Money Managers to Learn From Wall Street's Best.
March 10, 2004... Byline: University of Dayton DAYTON, Ohio, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nationwide, increasing numbers of colleges and universities are trusting their undergraduate students with millions of dollars. The number of student-managed...

UCLA Conference Brings Together World-Renowned Scientists to Address Origin of Animals.
March 10, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A UCLA symposium on Friday, April 16, will bring together internationally renowned scientists to address the origin of animals. Free to the public, the 15th annual symposium...

First Transgenic Butterflies Created Using Jelly Fish Gene.
March 11, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- University at Buffalo biologists who study butterfly wing patterns have inserted into an African butterfly a marker gene from a jellyfish species, resulting in the...

Undergraduates Track Molecules That Trigger Heartbeat; Research Could Lead to Better Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease.
March 11, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins are mapping the interaction of molecules within a cardiac cell, describing microscopic movements that could be...

UC Irvine Study Identifies How New Neurons Grow in Adult Brain; Findings Have Potential Implications for Use of Stem Cells to Treat Neurological Diseases.
March 11, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of California, Irvine study on cell growth in the adult brain may provide important clues to the potential use of stem cells in the...

NASA Satellite Finds Something Fishy About Santa Ana Winds.
March 11, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Southern California's legendary Santa Ana winds wreak havoc every year, creating hot, dry conditions and fire hazards. Despite their often-destructive...

New Insights Into Devastating Basketball Foot Injury.
March 13, 2004... Byline: Duke University SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- After conducting a detailed analysis of the forces at work during commonly performed maneuvers by elite basketball players, Duke University Medical Center researchers...

Stem Cells Offer Promise for Hair Growth; Penn Researchers Successfully Transplant Cells That Lead to New Hair Follicles.
March 15, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have isolated stem cells responsible for hair follicle growth. The findings,...

Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team Sandstorm Robot Sets Distance Record in DARPA Grand Challenge.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University BARSTOW, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sandstorm, the autonomous robot vehicle developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team to compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge, traveled 7.4 miles into...

Obesity Drug Inhibits Prostate Tumor Growth.
March 15, 2004... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Burnham Institute's Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D., has discovered that orlistat, commonly prescribed as an anti-obesity drug, has a positive side-effect: it inhibits...

Water Vapor May Warm Earth Less Than Some Models Predict.
March 15, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some climate forecasts may be overestimating future increases in global temperature because they are based on an overestimate of the amount of...

Detection at a Distance for More Sensitive MRI.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Alexander Pines and his colleagues have discovered a remarkable new way to improve the versatility and sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging...

New Hypothesis About Alzheimer's Disease.
March 15, 2004... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has proposed a new theory about the cause of Alzheimer's disease, the progressive...

Penn Study Provides Step Towards Tailoring Treatment to Individual Smokers' Needs.
March 16, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transdermal nicotine (the nicotine patch) may be an effective treatment for non-obese, Caucausian, and low nicotine dependent smokers who respond...

Corporate Social Marketing Stimulates Good Behavior, Profits, According to Article in Stanford Social Innovation Review.
March 16, 2004... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Wildfire prevention. Water conservation. Oral hygiene among low-income children. When three different corporations undertook to change people's...

$3.1 Million NSF Grant Awarded: West Virginia University Receives Funding to Conduct First-of-Its-Kind Biometrics Research.
March 16, 2004... Byline: West Virginia University MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- When America's security is riding on the line, there is no room for error. The means of authenticating or determining the identity of an individual must...

Report Identifies Trends, Issues in Globalization for Next Decade; Fourth Georgetown McDonough School Delphi Study Examines Geographic Issues, Policy Concerns, Corporate Strategies for International Business.
March 16, 2004... Byline: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown U. WASHINGTON, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- With a global gross domestic product of $47 trillion, global trade now accounts for more than 17 percent of the world's economic activity. At the...

Student Builds Micro Biosensor Chip to Move DNA Molecules; Device Could Help Diagnose Illnesses, Detect Biohazards.
March 16, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins undergraduate has constructed a new type of microchip that can move and isolate DNA and protein molecules. He believes that by linking the chip with...

Optical Glucose Sensor Developed at UC Santa Cruz Holds Promise for Diabetics, Intensive Care Patients.
March 16, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a novel optical glucose sensor that could be used to provide continuous...

Mount Holyoke Researcher Receives Five-Year Grant to Study How Low-Income Urban Youths' Science and Technology Aspirations Develop.
March 17, 2004... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have justly spent much time studying what influences low-income urban youth to pursue careers in the sciences at the college level. But little...

Babson College's Lisa Colletta Authors 'Dark Humor' Book.
March 17, 2004... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babson College Professor Lisa Colletta's recent book, "Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), brings to light the role...

Nepalese-American Creative Writing Professor Samrat Upadhyay Explores the Universal in Acclaimed Debut Novel.
March 18, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mount Everest. Monsoons. Buddha. Shangri-La. Kathmandu. Think Nepal, and you'll likely think exotic. Yet Indiana University Bloomington Creative Writing...

Research on Inherited Eye Disorders Uncovers New Information About Blood-Vessel Formation.
March 18, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered that genetic mutations underlying two inherited eye disorders arise in different components of a single intracellular...

Black Police Officers in South Still Face Racism, University of Florida Researcher Says.
March 18, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A "blue curtain" has descended within police departments in the South, bringing to a standstill the progress made by black officers, University of Florida...

Mathematical Rule Said to Be Widely and Wrongly Used to Forecast Future Beach Erosion.
March 18, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A decades-old mathematical model is being inappropriately used in at least 26 nations to make potentially costly predictions about how shorelines will retreat in response...

International Finding on Access to Scientific Data Outlines Critical Need for Open, Systematic Approach.
March 18, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Open access to publicly funded scientific data will benefit society in many ways and is a policy issue that must be systematically addressed in an...

Iowa State University Astrophysicists Share $17.5 Million Award to Go After Gamma Rays.
March 18, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Several Iowa State University scientists play a major role in the upcoming construction of VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System), an array...

Knight Commission Study Finds Two-thirds of Men's Teams Would be Ineligible for NCAA Basketball Tournament; Only 21 of 65 Men's Teams Would Meet Panel's Graduation Standard.
March 19, 2004... Byline: The Knight Foundation PITTSBURGH, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 2001, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics strongly recommended that eligibility for postseason tournament play should be reserved for...

Bates College Biochemist Receives $272,000 Grant.
March 19, 2004... Byline: Bates College LEWISTON, Maine, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Paula Schlax, an assistant professor of chemistry at Bates College, has received a National Science Foundation grant for nearly $272,000 to support her research into...

Failure of DNA Repair Mechanism Precedes Final Stage of Deadly Leukemia, Penn Study Shows; Preventing BCR/ABL Oncogene From Blocking Normal DNA Repair May Allow Patients With Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia to Live Longer.
March 22, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medical researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the last stage of chronic myelogenous...

UC San Diego Researchers Win Pentagon Funding to Develop Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking Technology for Battlefield Environments.
March 22, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego will lead a six-university effort to enable troops to set up mobile communications...

Vanderbilt's Television News Archive to Be Digitized; National Endowment for the Humanities Announces Major Grant.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 30,000 videotaped hours of television news programming will be preserved digitally through a grant awarded to the Vanderbilt Television News Archive...

'Nano-Lightning' Could Be Harnessed to Cool Future Computers.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mechanical engineers at Purdue University are developing a new type of cooling technology for computers that uses a sort of nano-lightning to create tiny wind...

Insight Into Alcohol-Nicotine Interaction Might Lead to New Quitting Method.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In tests on human volunteers, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that even small amounts of alcohol boost the pleasurable effects of nicotine, inducing...

25th Anniversary of Three Mile Island: Dickinson Social Scientist Took Area's Pulse, Nearly 400 Interviews Now Made Public.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Halstead Communications CARLISLE, Pa., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Twenty-five years ago on March 28, in the Harrisburg, Pa. area, the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant accident caused widespread panic. President Jimmy...

Puzzling Type Ia Supernova Proves to Be an Explosion Inside a Circumstellar Disk; Details of SN 2002ic Progenitor System Determined With Spectropolarimetry.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- By measuring polarized light from an unusual exploding star, an international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has worked out the first...

Sandia Researchers Measure Particulate Emissions on Board Diesel Passenger Vehicle; 'Real World' Technique Key to Validating Federal Vehicle Compliance Procedures.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif., March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a unique laser-based, soot heating technique, a team led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Combustion Research Facility (CRF) has...

UCLA Chemists Report the Most Sophisticated Artificial Nanomachine Yet.
March 22, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA supramolecular chemists report in the journal Science an artificial molecular machine that functions like a nanoelevator. "Such nanoscale robotic devices could find use in...

University of Nebraska Medical Center Researcher Gains Funding to Study Promising Nicotine Vaccine.
March 23, 2004... Byline: University of Nebraska Medical Center OMAHA, Neb., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's called serendipity -- when amazing good fortune falls into your lap when you least expect it. Sam Sanderson, Ph.D., knows all about...

Dr. Frederick Alt Wins Prestigious Cancer Research Award for Groundbreaking Work on Genomic Stability.
March 23, 2004... Byline: The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research BOSTON, March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Frederick Alt, Ph.D., Senior Investigator at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research in Boston, Mass., has received the 2004 Clowes Memorial...

Improved Crop Production, Fewer Greenhouse Gases Are Results of Agricultural Research by Boston College Professor.
March 23, 2004... Byline: Boston College CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kevin G. Harrison, an assistant professor in Boston College's Geology and Geophysics Department, has published new research on a farming technique that can both...

One of Homo Sapiens' Earliest Fossil Ancestors Reconstructed in Painting to Be Unveiled March 25 at Buffalo Museum of Science.
March 23, 2004... Byline: University of Pittsburgh BUFFALO, N.Y., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A painting depicting a never-before-seen fleshed-out image of Lucy - one of Homo Sapiens' earliest fossil ancestors, whose 3.18-million-year-old skeleton was...