Europe Intelligence Wire articles from April 2005

Europe Intelligence Wire archives from April 2005

Boss Petts keen to forget derby defeat.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) St Ives v Sileby Rangers SILEBY boss Gary Petts is hoping Monday's defeat against ON Chenecks will be the wake-up call needed to beat St Ives tomorrow. The division one leaders suffered a 3-2...

Calderwood sets five-win target.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) COBBLERS boss Colin Calderwood believes five wins in the final six games of the season will propel his side to automatic promotion. Town travel to mid-table Leyton Orient tomorrow with Calderwood...

Grays calls for miracle.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) ASSISTANT coach Paul Grayson is backing his players to perform in tonight's Heineken European Cup quarter-final in front of 37,000 fanatical Toulouse supporters. Despite sacking their coach, being...

Manor opens for summer visitors.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) Canons Ashby, a 16th century manor house near Daventry, has opened its doors to the public after being closed for the winter. Already more than 2,000 people have visited the Elizabethan manor...

Cutting tax is election vow from Lib-Dems.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) LIBERAL Democrats fighting to take control of Northamptonshire County Council focused on the party's national campaign to "axe the tax" when they launched their local manifesto last night. Members...

Caravans get back on supermarket car park.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) TRAVELLERS have set up camp in a supermarket car park in Sixfields exactly two weeks after caravans were evicted from the same spot. Nine caravans arrived in the car park of Sainsbury's in Weedon...

OAP's anguish at vandalism attacks.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A 93-year-old woman has been left terrified by gangs of youths who have waged a campaign of vandalism against her Northampton home. Ivy Fitzhugh of Fulford Drive, Northampton has been forced to...

Ex-servicemen set up new club.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A VETERANS club is being set up in Northampton to provide activities for previously housebound pensioners. A group of ex-servicemen have joined forces to set up the organisation at the Eastern...

Brothers in campaign to stop village quarry.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) TWO pint-sized protesters are leading the fight against controversial plans to build a massive quarry in a quiet Northamptonshire village. Adam Cox, 10, and his eight-year-old brother Simon joined...

Shock at school's 'appalling' design.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) DESIGNS for a new school have been described as "absolutely horrendous" by planners responsible for the overhaul of the proposed site. A new St Luke's Primary School building is due to be built...

Frustration at delays to hi-tech bus display.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) HI-TECH information systems displaying predicted bus arrival times are still not up and running almost a year after the technology was first launched in Northampton. Transport bosses at...

Car theft boy, 14, dies in hospital.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A TEENAGER who police believe was travelling in a stolen car which crashed into a lamp post has died, three days after the collision. Ben O'Connell, aged 14, died at Birmingham Children's Hospital...

Woman stabbed to death.
April 1, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A POST mortem examination has revealed that a 23-year-old woman found dead at a flat in Abington suffered multiple stab wounds. John David Nixon, a 47-year-old craftsman gardener employed by...

Cryoablation Treatment Helps Diminish Pain of Bone Cancer; Mayo Clinic Researchers Report Improved Quality of Life for Patients.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Pain from cancer that has spread to the bone can be effectively diminished with a new treatment that freezes the cancerous areas, Mayo Clinic researchers reported today at the 30th Annual Scientific...

UC Workers' Pressure Campaign Escalates to Counter Administration's BadFaith Bargaining; April Fool's Day Message From Angry Staff:"UC, Stop Joking Around with Our Lives!".
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) BERKELEY, Calif., Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Members of the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), the independent union that represents 16,000 clerical staff at the University of California's nine campuses and Lawrence...

Schiavo Expert: State and Federal Involvement in EndofLife Issues PostSchiavo Resolving the Divergence of Ethics and Law?
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- The following expert is available for comment on the Terri Schiavo case. - - - - SOURCE: Alice Herb, attorney, medical ethicist and member of the faculty in the Graduate Program in Health...

Finance Students From Around the World Predict Slow Changes in Social Security, Drop In Oil Prices By the End of the Year.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) Dayton, Ohio., Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Finance students attending the largest student investment strategy symposium in the world say President Bush will be able to reform Social Security by the end of his term, but not...

Theologians Offer Observations About Pope John Paul II.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) Dayton, Ohio., Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Dayton offers a number of theologians who can comment on Pope John Paul II. For assistance in scheduling interviews, contact Linda Robertson, director of national...

The Bible as Blueprint for Earth's Recovery: Book by Swarthmore Professor Mark Wallace Makes Biblical Argument for Environmental Protection.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) SWARTHMORE, Pa., Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The mounting degradation of the earth's primary life-support ecosystems endangers the existence of future generations, according to a team of international business people and...

Roundup Highly Lethal To Amphibians in Natural Setting, Finds University of Pittsburgh Researcher; Some Species Totally Eliminated.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) PITTSBURGH, Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The herbicide Roundup is widely used to eradicate weeds. But a study published today by a University of Pittsburgh researcher finds that the chemical may be eradicating much more than...

U.S.India Research Team Completes Analysis of X Chromosome; Dozens of New Genes Identified.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) Baltimore, Apr. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- By intensely and systematically comparing the human X chromosome to genetic information from chimpanzees, rats and mice, a team of scientists from the United States and India has...

Princeton Offers Admission to 10.9 Percent of Applicants.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) PRINCETON, N.J. -- Princeton University has offered admission to 1,807 students, or 10.9 percent of the record 16,516 applicants for the class of 2009. Acceptance letters were mailed March 31 to 1,214 students who...

Hat Trick for McGill Researchers: Luc Devroye, Margaret Lock, Nahum Sonenberg Win Coveted Killam Prizes.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) MONTREAL -- McGill researchers have been awarded three of the five 2005 Killam Prizes -- Canada's most distinguished annual awards for career achievements in five categories. Computer scientist Luc Devroye is the...

Mayo Clinic Study Shows Advanced Prostate Cancer Previously Considered Inoperable May Be Operable, Curable.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) ROCHESTER, Minn. -- New findings from Mayo Clinic indicate that cT3 prostate cancer, a disease in which the cancer has spread locally from inside the prostate to immediately outside it, is operable and has 15-year cancer...

Florida International University's College of Business Administration Among America's Best Graduate Schools; U.S. News & World Report Again Lists College in Top 25 for International Business.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) MIAMI -- For the second consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools," which hits newsstands April 4, lists Florida International University's (Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of...

Feat of Experimental Acrobatics Leads to First Synthesis of Ultracold Molecules; Achievement Could Benefit Fields of Superchemistry, Quantum Computing.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) CHICAGO -- A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules. The experiments -- conducted by Cheng Chin, now at the...

Paintings of San Francisco's Presidio Featured in Exhibition of Recent Works by Jim Caldwell, May 15, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Glass Palace, Crissy Field.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) SAN FRANCISCO -- Prominent California landscape artist, architect and Bay Area resident Jim Caldwell unveils a new series of paintings of San Francisco's Presidio in a one-day public exhibition at the Glass Palace in the...

Study: Many New York City Employers Discriminate Against Minorities, ExOffenders.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) PRINCETON, N.J. -- Black applicants without criminal records are no more likely to get a job than white applicants just out of prison, according to a Princeton University study of nearly 1,500 private employers in New York...

Stanley J. Korsmeyer, MD, Renowned Cancer Biologist, Passes Away at Age 54.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) BOSTON -- Stanley J. Korsmeyer, MD, a scientific leader at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose landmark discoveries about why cancer cells survive opened a promising new avenue for cancer treatment, died March 31. A...

Chabot Space & Science Center Unveils New Telescope Eyepiece That Allows Wheelchair Access to the Stars.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) OAKLAND, Calif. -- Visitors to Chabot's 36-inch telescope, "Nellie," will now be able to observe the skies from a sitting position, allowing those in wheelchairs to observe planets, star clusters, galaxies and other...

Four Years Later: Soka University Prepares for First Commencement, May 22.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Four years ago 120 students from 18 states and 18 countries embarked upon a pioneering adventure as the first class of Soka University, Aliso Viejo, a new private, non-profit liberal arts college in...

University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center to Study People's Outlook on Poetry.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) CHICAGO -- The nation's first scientifically based survey of people's attitudes toward poetry has been launched by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago through the sponsorship of The Poetry...

Professor's Study Reclassifies Traditional Gentleman Class in India.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The image of India's popular middle class established under colonial rule in the mid-1800s is still rippling through current Indian society, says a Purdue University Indian history expert. The...

Church Historian Says When it Comes to Governance, the Catholic Church May Have Mislaid Its Own Rich History.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Historian Francis Oakley argues that "the future of the Catholic Church may lie in its willingness to pay renewed attention to missing, overlooked or repressed pieces of its own history." The...

Professor Explains Courtroom Persuasion Strategies, Trial Tactics.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Trial tactics that defy common sense are just one reason millions of Americans are drawn to the many law-related shows on television, says a Purdue University psychologist who studies persuasion in...

Book Lovers From All Over California, Actors, Authors Will Join Locals in Historic 24Hour 'ReadIn' in Effort to Stop Closing of Library System in Salinas, Birthplace of John Steinbeck: April 2.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) SALINAS, Calif. -- In an effort to save Salinas, California's public library system, which is slated to shut down completely because of budget shortfalls, dozens of authors, community activists, and supporters have organized...

Nicolai His Expressionist World Opening at Founders Hall Art Gallery Soka University, Aliso Viejo April 15 to Aug. 26, 2005.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Nicolai is back! Taking an absence of six years from the art world, he embarked on spiritual journeys to India and investigated the evolving art energies in Prague. During this time, he also built his...

Purdue Scientists Unravel Midwest Tornado Formation.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A Purdue University study of tornado formation indicates that twisters can develop in unexpected ways and at unexpected times and places, a discovery that presents a new twist to weather watchers...

Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation to Cosponsor Planting of More Than 150 Trees at Quarry Lake Park in Fremont, April 2.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) FREMONT, Calif. -- Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation (MPUUC), The League of Women Voters, and the Tri-Cities Ecology Center, in coordination with James Lawrence, Quarry Lakes Park Supervisor will gather...

International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) BERKELEY, Calif. -- Nine teams of MBA students planning social enterprises that range from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research...

U.S. State Department Taps Skidmore College Professor for Speaking Tour.
April 1, 2005... (From AScribe) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Skidmore Professor of Government Roy H. Ginsberg has been invited by the U.S. Department of State to travel to Poland April 4-8 to deliver a series of lectures on U.S.-European relations. The visit...

Spread of Common Day Care Illnesses Caused by Misconceptions About Illness Transmission; Simple Public Health Tool Can Reduce Transmission.
April 3, 2005... (From AScribe) BOSTON -- Viral upper respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are the two most common illnesses that occur in children enrolled in day care, and secondary attack rates within families can be as high as 27 percent for...

Late goal proves so costly for Town.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) Leyton Orient 3 Cobblers 2 COLIN CALDERWOOD refused to criticise his Cobblers players after they slumped to a last-gasp defeat at Brisbane Road. For the third time this season Town lost an away...

Turner sends Sileby to brink of the title.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) St Ives 1 Sileby Rangers 3 SILEBY put their promotion destiny in their own hands with a comfortable win over second-placed St Ives. Rangers moved four points clear at the top of division one with...

Colin rallies town troops.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) COBBLERS boss Colin Calderwood says his team must not let Saturday's defeat to Leyton Orient damage their morale for the remainder of the season. Town were 3-2 losers at Brisbane Road, the decisive...

Soldier's widow wins law change.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) THE widow of a soldier who lives in Northamptonshire has successfully changed the law so her late husband's pension will benefit their children. Lorna Brumpton, aged 34, who lives in Wayside,...

Campaigners bid to reopen Bedford line.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) RAIL USERS in Northampton are campaigning to reinstate a GBP300 million train line to Bedford, 40 years after it closed. The service would be an extension of the Thameslink line and could provide...

Crawford had a very big proposal to make.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A Northampton man chose to propose to his girlfriend by printing the big question on to a big banner. Moulton resident Crawford Warnock draped a banner with the words "Will you marry me?" across...

Tributes to a great Pope.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) A SPECIAL service of mass and prayers was held at Northampton Cathedral to mark the extraordinary life of Pope John Paul II, who died on Saturday, aged 84. The doors to the Cathedral of Our Lady...

Three saved from blaze.
April 4, 2005... (From Northampton Chronicle and Echo) TWO children were rescued from a block of flats in Northampton when a fire broke out in their lounge. Firefighters were called to the blaze at the fourth-storey flat in St Barnabas House, Lower...

America's Most Diverse Media Network Showcases Ethnic Media's Impact on American Journalism NCM EXPO 2005; First National EXPO of Ethnic Media Convenes in New York City at Columbia University, June 9.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) NEW YORK -- NCM (New California Media), in partnership with the independent Press Association-NY, will showcase ethnic media from across the country at the first national EXPO of its kind, held in New York City on June 9 at...

U.S. News Ranks Georgetown MBA, Climbs Six Spots in 2005; Specialties in International, Nonprofit, Executive Also Receive High Marks.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) WASHINGTON -- The MBA program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business was ranked number 27 among the top schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report. This represents a jump of six spots from number 33...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the Death of Pope John Paul II.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) ATLANTA -- Rosalynn and I are saddened by the passing of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II. A man shaped by his own experience under Nazi occupation during World War II, he dedicated his life and vocation as instruments of...

Jet Blue Repeats As No. 1 in Air Quality Rating; LowFare Carriers Dominate Top Spots.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) WICHITA, Kan. -- Five of the top six performing airlines are low-fare carriers, according to the national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. The 15th annual study, ranking the 16 largest U.S. airlines, was announced today...

A Message From the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Upon the Death of the Pope John Paul II.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- People the world over are mourning the death of Pope John Paul II. He was leader of the Catholic Church, an ambassador of peace, a teacher of compassion, and a man that has made an indelible mark upon the...

Robert Rubin to Keynote Martin J. Whitman School of Management Building Dedication April 8.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Robert E. Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration and current chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc., will help usher in a new era of business education at...

Has the Application Wave Crested? Number of College Applications May be Dropping After Years of Sustained Increases.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Association for College Admission Counseling's 2004-05 State of College Admission report provides evidence that the rate of increase in applications to four-year colleges and universities is...

Leading Materials Engineer Linda E. Jones to Direct Smith College's Innovative Engineering Program.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- One of the country's preeminent researchers in high-temperature materials, Linda E. Jones of Alfred University, was recently named director of Smith College's pioneering Picker Engineering Program. ...

New Ford Foundation Program Seeks to Foster Constructive Dialogue About Sensitive Issues on College Campuses; National Grants Initiative 'Difficult Dialogues' Calls for Proposals.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) NEW YORK -- The Ford Foundation today announced a $2.5 million grants initiative, Difficult Dialogues, to support scholarship, teaching and civil dialogue about difficult political, religious, racial and cultural issues in...

Foundation Giving Rebounded in 2004; Survey Polls Grantmakers on Giving, Accountability Issues.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Giving by the nation's more than 66,000 grantmaking foundations increased to a new high of $32.4 billion in 2004, according to "Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates: 2004 Preview," a new report from the...

Jet Blue Is Again No. 1 in Airline Quality Rating; LowFare Carriers Dominate Top Spots.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) WASHINGTON -- Five of the top six performing airlines are low-fare carriers, according to the national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. The 15th annual study, ranking the 16 largest U.S. airlines, was announced today at a...

Predatory Lending: Citigroup's Higher Cost Home Purchase Loans Are Disproportionately to African Americans and Latinos, New Inner City Press Study Shows.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) NEW YORK -- The nation's largest bank, Citigroup, is four times more likely to confine African Americans than whites to higher-cost home purchase loans, according to the just-released 2004 mortgage lending data. Inner City...

Tepper School MBAs Join International Network for Corporate Responsibility; Use Business Skills to Bring About Positive Change in Local, World Communities.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) PITTSBURGH -- Community service spirit is strong at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University as evidenced by the launch of a student chapter of Net Impact, an influential network of approximately 10,000...

Science Becomes Art in 'Weird Fields'.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The whorls and swirls of color may look like something by art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, but the winning images from MIT's annual 8.02 "Weird Fields" contest are really computer-generated...

Paintings of San Francisco's Presidio featured in exhibition of recent works by Jim Caldwell; Sunday, May 15, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Glass Palace, Crissy Field.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Prominent California landscape artist, architect and Bay Area resident Jim Caldwell unveils a new series of paintings of San Francisco's Presidio in a one-day public exhibition at the Glass Palace...

New Comic Book Chronicles San Francisco Bay Area History Through the Eyes of Youth of Color.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) OAKLAND, Calif. -- Forty years after the Civil Rights Movement, why do housing patterns in many parts of the Bay Area remain segregated? Why are good jobs and good schools still out of reach of neighborhoods where a majority...

Bates College Geologist Receives $50,190 for ClimateChange Research.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) LEWISTON, Maine -- Michael J. Retelle, a professor of geology at Bates College, is one of 13 scientists across the nation to share nearly $1,500,000 in National Science Foundation funding for Arctic research related to...

U.S. News Names Babson College No. 1 in Entrepreneurship; MBA Program Honored For 12th Straight Year.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) WELLESLEY, Mass. -- U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the No. 1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 12th year in a row. Babson tops entrepreneurship programs at Stanford, Penn (Wharton),...

Harvard Medical School News Tips: HIV Care, ADHD Drugs, Racial Health Disparities.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) BOSTON -- Following are three news tips from Harvard Medical School. - - - - 1. HIV-INFECTED, INJECTION DRUG USERS RECEIVED LESSER STANDARD OF CARE (Embargoed for release until 4 p.m. EST Monday, March 28; Study in...

Nanotechnology Can Play Vital Role in Forest Products Industries; Technology 'Roadmap' Released, Free Download Available.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) MADISON, Wis. -- The future of the U.S. forest products industries, which employ some 1.1 million Americans and contribute more than $240 billion annually to the nation's economy, could depend on how well those industries...

Nonprofit Sector Already Reporting on Finances; Johns Hopkins' Listening Post Survey Details Nonprofit Financial Reporting Practices.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) BALTIMORE -- In a recent survey distributed to more than 600 nonprofit organizations across the United States, 95 percent reported regularly distributing financial statements to their boards of directors and 97 percent said...

David M. Scobey Named Director and Professor of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) LEWISTON, Maine -- David M. Scobey has been named as the director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and as the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships at Bates College, announced Vice...

Chemical Guidebook May Help Mars Rover Track Extraterrestrial Life.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life. Using new imaging tools and earthly parallels of ancient...

Urban Neighborhoods Affect How People Think About Health.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The number of days people stay home ill is influenced by neighborhood poverty and whether they receive subsidized health care, such as Medicaid, says a Purdue University urban sociologist. "As...

Consumer Reports Finds TwoChild Car Seats Perform Poorly in Crash Tests in RearFacing Latch Mode.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) YONKERS, N.Y. -- Car seats are a must for children. Parents are strongly advised to keep infants in rear-facing car seats as long as possible. When Consumer Reports recently crash-tested rear-facing child car seats, most...

Consumer Reports Tells How to Make the Housing Market Work for You; Owners 20 Tips for Saving Thousands of Dollars; Buyers Beware of Hidden Mortgage Costs; Sellers How to Cut Commissions in Half or More.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) YONKERS, N.Y. -- Whether consumers are in the market for a new home, already own one, or are considering selling, the May issue of Consumer Reports offers advice about the big changes in the housing market. The report,...

Consumer Reports Investigates Ionizing Air Cleaners: Five Models Are Not Recommended; Some Can Create Significant Levels of Potentially Harmful Indoor Ozone.
April 4, 2005... (From AScribe) YONKERS, N.Y. -- The May issue of Consumer Reports presents new concerns about ionizing air cleaners: among five models that did a poor job of cleaning the air, several can expose users to potentially harmful ozone levels....

Chemical Guidebook May Help Mars Rover Track Extraterrestrial Life.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life. Using new imaging tools and earthly parallels of ancient...

Chris Brubeck's Latest Composition, 'Mark Twain's World A Symphonic Journey With Genuine Thespians,' to Receive World Premiere by Stockton Symphony April 7 And 9.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) STOCKTON, Calif. -- "Mark Twain's World -- A Symphonic Journey with Genuine Thespians," Chris Brubeck's unusual 90-minute symphonic composition with narration and staged dramatic scenes, will receive its world premiere by...

Ursinus College Opens New Performing Arts Center.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. -- Responding to student interest, strengthening its ties to the growing Philadelphia suburban region and confirming a mission to educate the whole student, Ursinus College is opening The Kaleidoscope, its...

Harvard Launches Popular Web Site in Spanish; New Site Reaches Hispanics/Latinos With Personalized Disease Prevention Messages.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) BOSTON -- The Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health, has announced the launch of a Spanish-language version of its popular risk assessment Web site, Your Disease Risk. The new site,...

University of Iowa Researchers Improve Huntington's Disease Symptoms in Mice.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have taken another step toward a potential treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). Using an approach called RNA...

60th Anniversaries of VE and VJ Days Expert Available: Pitt Professor Donald M. Goldstein Calls World War II History's Most Important War, With Enduring Impact; Goldstein Is Author/Coauthor of 13 Related Books.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) PITTSBURGH -- As the nation prepares to commemorate the 60th anniversaries of V-E and V-J Days on May 8 and August 14, respectively, Pitt faculty member Donald M. Goldstein wants to ensure that Americans always remember the...

Pair of Cancer Genes Found to Drive Both Cell Migration and Division; Link Suggests News Ways of Thinking About Tumor Growth and Inflammation.
April 5, 2005... (From AScribe) BALTIMORE -- Johns Hopkins researchers have found that two genes already known to control cell movement are also needed for proper cell division. They report their findings in the April issue of Developmental Cell. ...