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Chabot Space & Science Center Welcomes Three New Board Members; Representatives From Lawrence Berkeley Labs, PG&E, Accenture to Join Foundation Board of Directors.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Edward E. Penhoet and Garrett Gruener, Co-Chairs of Chabot Space & Science Center's Foundation Board, have announced the election of three new Board...

Many Discharged Patients Do Not Know Diagnoses, Medications, Side Effects; Greater Efforts Needed by Physicians and Patients to Make Sure Aftercare Is Followed.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers report in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings that more than one-half of their study patients were unable to list their medications, diagnoses,...

Intel, UC Berkeley's Business School Join Forces to Train Entrepreneurship Faculty Around the World.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Intel and the University of California, Berkeley, are joining forces to boost entrepreneurial know-how in emerging technology hotbeds around the world with...

National Family Caregivers Association President/Co-Founder Represents Patient Family Community at White House Signing; Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
August 2, 2005... Byline: National Family Caregivers Association KENSINGTON, Md., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) President and Co-Founder, Suzanne Mintz, was selected to represent the patient and family community...

Michigan State University Getting Into the Video Game; New Program to Address Emerging Demand for Game Designers.
August 2, 2005... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Starting this fall, Michigan State University is offering a new game design and development program. The Specialization in Game Design and Development...

Business, Sustainable Agriculture Open Door to New Markets.
August 4, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iowa farmers are producing more organic and specialty meats, fruit and vegetables, but it takes more than a green thumb to grow these enterprises into businesses that...

A Step Toward the $1,000 Personal Genome Using Readily Available Lab Equipment.
August 4, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The theoretical price of having one's personal genome sequenced just fell from the prohibitive $20 million dollars to about $2.2 million, and the goal is to...

NeoRx Joins Scripps Research Institute in First Scientific Collaboration at Scripps Florida; Gov. Bush Lauds First Major Biotech Collaboration for Scripps Florida; Focus to Be on Discovery of Novel, Small-Molecule, Multi-Targeted, Protein Kinase Inhibitors for Cancer Treatment.
August 4, 2005... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- NeoRx Corporation (NASDAQ: NERX), a cancer therapeutics development company, and The Scripps Research Institute, a non-profit biomedical research...

On Its 12th Anniversary, Family & Medical Leave Act Is at Risk; Department of Labor Changes, Next Supreme Court Justice May Mean Fewer Americans Have Access to FMLA Protections.
August 4, 2005... Byline: Communications Consortium WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- "The Family & Medical Leave Act was a godsend," according to one Atlanta-based mother who used the law to care for her teenage daughter, who was fighting a losing...

Bond-Rating System Isn't Broken, Say Researchers at Stanford Business School.
August 5, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Is the fact that Moody's Investors Service was still touting WorldCom debt as "investment grade" just four days before the firm went bankrupt proof...

Smart Startups Don't Wait to Set Up Accounting Systems, According to Research at Stanford Business School.
August 5, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The question of when to set up management control systems such as financial planning and monitoring tools haunts most entrepreneurs involved in...

Power To Go.
August 5, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joe Hynek pulled a high-tech hat off his desk and popped it on his head. Look how this is made, he said from underneath a round and pointy rice paddy hat. The...

National Conference Focuses on Access to End-of-Life Care; Toolkit on Providing Care in Rural Areas Released.
August 5, 2005... Byline: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- NHPCO's First National Conference on Access to Hospice and Palliative Care, "Opening Doors, Building Bridges," dealt specifically with...

The Entrepreneurial Nest: Stanford Business School Research Examines Who Will Stay or Leave.
August 5, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The dawn of the Internet age has spawned a new breed of iconic figure: the high tech entrepreneur. Little wonder, then, that much media ink and...

To Rent or Not to Rent? Study Reveals Apartment Price, Attitude of Rental Agents Major Factors in Decision Process.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- How does a prospective resident decide which apartment to rent? A new study reveals that rental agent attitude, rental price, and the appearance of the unit's...

Consumer Reports 'State of the Net' Survey Shows Wave of Crime Threatens Online Users; Online Survival Guide Includes 13 Tips on How to Stay Safe.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Home Internet users have a one in three chance of suffering computer damage, financial loss, or both because of a computer virus or spyware, according to the conclusions...

Consumer Reports Study Shows Buyers Get Better Service, Selection at Independent Appliance Stores Than at Most Nationwide Chains.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A survey of more than 6,000 Consumer Reports readers published in the September 2005 issue of the magazine, and available at http://www.ConsumerReports.org, shows that...

Consumer Reports Rates Health Insurance Plans Based on Huge Reader Survey; Free Web Guide Helps Patients Appeal Denials of Care.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- As we approach the annual open enrollment period, when millions of people who purchase health care insurance through their employer will have the opportunity to switch...

Infiniti M35 Emerges as Consumer Reports' New Top-Rated Luxury Sedan; M35 Outscored Some Full-Size Premium Luxury Cars in CR's Testing for September Issue.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Infiniti M35 outpointed competitors from Audi, Cadillac, Acura, and Lexus to become Consumer Reports' new top-rated luxury sedan. The five vehicles, all priced around...

UC Berkeley Business School to Host Nation's Leading Research Prize in Socially Responsible Investing.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, in partnership with the Social Investment Forum, announced today that the...

University of Texas at El Paso Professor Appointed to National Institute of Health Committee.
August 9, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Texas at El Paso health sciences professor Maria A. Amaya has accepted an invitation by the National Institute of Health to serve as a charter...

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program Enters 32nd Year of Funding; Seven Health Professionals Selected to Receive Competitive Awards.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seven health professionals with a wide range of academic and community-based experience have been named Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows for...

Haas School of Business Alumnus Gives $25 Million for Executive Education Building.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An anonymous donor will provide $25 million toward a new executive education building for the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of...

Consumers Should Spend as Much Time Making Health Care Decisions as They Do Buying Automobiles, Says Consumer Reports Medical Guide.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new article at http://www.ConsumerReportsMedicalGuide.org discusses treatment choices in health care that are often controversial and confusing, and the need for...

California Pacific Medical Center Offering New Technology to Diagnose, Treat Gastrointestinal Diseases; Minimally-Invasive Procedure Provides More Accurate Diagnosis, Treatment Without Surgery.
August 10, 2005... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- California Pacific Medical Center's Kenneth Binmoeller, M.D., and Ann Chen, M.D., are now performing Double Balloon Enteroscopy - a non-surgical...

Berkeley Lab Scientist Sees Risk to Insurance Industry From Climate Change.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The insured share of the world's total economic losses from weather-related catastrophes is rising, increasing from a negligible fraction in the...

Lung Cancer Can Strike Anyone - But Smokers at Greatest Risk.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent death of television news anchor Peter Jennings and Dana Reeve's diagnosis have put lung cancer in the national spotlight. This increased attention,...

Recovering Alcoholic Smokers Can Quit Second Addiction.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tobacco-caused disease is the leading cause of death for patients with alcoholism, but a study led by The Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center brings hope to...

National Science Foundation Awards $36 Million Toward Securing Cyberspace; Cyber Trust Continues to Support Research for Trustworthy Computing Systems.
August 15, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) expects to make 36 new awards totaling $36 million through its 2005 Cyber Trust program. The awards, ranging from...

American Dental Hygienists' Association to Focus on Tobacco Use, Heart Disease, Oral Health for 2005 National Dental Hygiene Month.
August 15, 2005... Byline: American Dental Hygienists' Association CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) announced today that in response to the staggering oral and general health statistics related to...

New Initiative to Reduce Burden of Student Debt Announced by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
August 16, 2005... Byline: The Pew Charitable Trusts PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- American families today are facing extraordinary financial challenges on many fronts - the rising costs of health care and housing, the need to save for...

Purdue University Simulation to Help Merge Molecules With Silicon Electronics.
August 16, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University have created a nanotech simulation tool that shows how current flows between silicon atoms and individual molecules to help...

Security Expert Quizzes Public About Identity Theft Risk.
August 16, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thieves don't need high-tech access to computer data to steal identities because too many people make their personal information readily available, says a Purdue...

College Students Use Credit Cards to Pay for Their Education; Smith College Survey of 700 Students Nationwide Found a Quarter Cover Tuition and More Than Half, Textbooks and School Supplies, With Credit Cards.
August 17, 2005... Byline: Smith College NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A recent national survey of college students found 23 percent use credit cards to pay for tuition and fees, and 52 percent for textbooks and school supplies -- a...

Report Raises New Concerns About Nation's Already Fragile Health Care Safety Net; Hospital Care May Be Severely Limited in High Poverty Suburbs .
August 17, 2005... Byline: Burness Communications BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new report, "Hospital Care in the 100 Largest Cities and Their Suburbs, 1996-2002: Implications for the Future of the Hospital Safety Net in Metropolitan...

Leading Child and Family Research Analysts Awarded Grant to Establish Early Childhood Information and Policy Initiative; Project THRIVE Launches at National Center for Children in Poverty.
August 17, 2005... Byline: National Center for Children in Poverty NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health was just awarded a prestigious five-year...

Idaho National Laboratory Director Appointed Chairman of Governor's Science & Technology Council.
August 17, 2005... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Governor Dirk Kempthorne announced this week that Idaho National Laboratory Director John Grossenbacher will serve as the new chairman of the Governor's Science...

Soaring Gas Prices Reflect Energy Intensive Lifestyle, Says Wright State University Economist.
August 18, 2005... Byline: Wright State University DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- With gasoline prices soaring to record highs, Americans are paying the price for an energy intensive lifestyle, according to Robert Premus, Ph.D., a professor of...

University of Texas at Dallas-Led Research Team Produces Strong, Transparent Carbon Nanotube Sheets; Numerous Electronic, Optical, Structural Uses Demonstrated; Advance Reported in Aug. 19 Issue of Prestigious Journal Science.
August 18, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) nanotechnologists and an Australian colleague have produced transparent carbon nanotube sheets that are stronger than...

Transportation Bill Sends $10 Million to Iowa State University-Based Concrete Technology Center.
August 18, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A $10 million federal appropriation to an Iowa State University-based concrete technology center will help engineers from coast to coast develop pavements that last...

Global Union Discusses Plans to Unionize Wal-Mart Aug. 22-25; Vanderbilt University Labor Expert Available; Global Union Taking on Wal-Mart, Classic Showdown Between 'David and Goliath'.
August 19, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Labor unions from around the world will meet next week (Aug. 22-25) in Chicago to plan efforts to organize workers at Wal-Mart stores around the world. Up to...

Second Usability Sprint for Free/Libre/Open Source Software: 'Extreme Usability'; Developers, Activists Gather to Make Open Source Software More Usable, Explore 'Extreme Usability' in Open Source Development.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Aspiration SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Second Free & Open Source Software Usability Sprint is under way in San Francisco today through Wednesday, Aug. 24 (http://www.flossusability.org). Co-hosted by...

Consumers Trust Web Sites Less Than Ever, Consumer Reports WebWatch Finds; WebWatch to Reveal Results of Nationwide Poll Oct. 26 at Washington, D.C., Conference; Harvard Law Professor, Noted Net Law Expert Jonathan Zittrain to Keynote.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumer Reports WebWatch will present findings from its national poll of Internet-savvy adults to the press, government, non-profit and private-sector executives at a...

Sustainability Matters at Amherst College.
August 23, 2005... Byline: Amherst College AMHERST, Mass., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- When your annual utility bill approaches $4 million, you can save a lot of money by focusing on energy conservation -- and lighten the load on the environment, too....

Expert Advisory: New Google Software Part of Trend Toward 'Intelligent Push' Technology, Duke University Professor Says.
August 23, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Google Inc. announced on Monday its new Google Desktop 2 software, which provides users with a personalized stream of news headlines, weather reports, stock prices and...

Columbia Business School Announces Partnership With Fudan University School of Management; Partnership With Shanghai School Will Train Chinese Executives in International Finance.
August 23, 2005... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School, today announced a partnership with Fudan University's School of Management in Shanghai, China. The first phase of...

Pain at the Gas Pump: University of Maryland Business School Experts Available for Comment.
August 23, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Experts from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland are available for comment on issues related to the impact of...

Columbia Business School Study Analyzes Risks, Rewards of Global Services Sourcing.
August 24, 2005... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Conventional wisdom will say that you should offshore "low-end" functions that are simple and low-risk. And this is certainly true when one looks at the origins of...

USDA Yields in Battle Over Access of Personal Care to National Organic Program; Organic Non-Food Products Qualify Says USDA.
August 24, 2005... Byline: Organic Consumers Association WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- On the eve of a deadline requiring the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) to respond to a federal court complaint filed in June by the Organic Consumers...

Caterpillar Inc. and Carnegie Mellon Strengthen Team Support to Win 2005 Grand Challenge Desert Race; Robot Vehicle Technology Races Ahead.
August 25, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Caterpillar Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines, is...

Statement by American Dental Association President Dr. Richard Haught on CDC's Oral Health Status of Americans Report.
August 25, 2005... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following is a statement by American Dental Association President Richard Haught, D.D.S., regarding today's report on the oral health status of Americans by the...

San Jose State University Is Awarded $500,000 for Nanotechnology Partnership.
August 25, 2005... Byline: San Jose State University SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- San Jose State University announced today that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the College of Engineering a $500,000...

California Pacific Nurses Overwhelmingly Vote to Approve New Contract.
August 25, 2005... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nurses at the California Campus of CPMC who are represented by the California Nurses Association have voted overwhelmingly to approve a final contract...

Stanford Business School: New Study Says Location Makes a Difference for Nonprofit Support.
August 26, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although most nonprofit organizations are small, they collectively represent an important part of a region's economy. An important new study just...

Idaho National Laboratory Supercharges Computing Bandwidth.
August 26, 2005... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory has taken significant steps toward giving its scientists and engineers dramatically improved...

FDA Stalls Again on Decision to Increase Access to Emergency Contraception.
August 26, 2005... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a statement by Belle Taylor-McGhee, Executive Director, Pharmacy Access Partnership, on the FDA Decision for OTC Application for Plan B Emergency...

Mother Jones Releases Annual Campus Activism Roundup.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Mother Jones Magazine SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mother Jones magazine today released its 12th annual roundup of college campus activism, naming the group filibuster mounted by Princeton students in response to...

Purdue Creates Method to Drive Fuel Cells for Portable Electronics.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University have developed a new way of producing hydrogen for fuel cells to automatically recharge batteries in portable electronics, such as...

California Small Farms Ideal for Goat Meat Production.
August 29, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESON, Calif., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The most consumed meat in the world isn't beef, chicken or pork - it's goat. Goat meat hasn't yet caught on in the United States like...

Local Public Health Experts Available to Discuss Public Health Response to Hurricanes.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patrick Libbey, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Dr. Jeffrey Goldhagen, director of the Duval County...

CARE USA Honored as Nonprofit of the Year for Multichannel Marketing Including Internet Fundraising.
August 30, 2005... Byline: GetActive Software BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The international relief organization CARE USA, a GetActive client, has been honored by the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation as its 2005 Nonprofit...

Johns Hopkins Allergist Available to Discuss Surviving Ragweed Season.
August 30, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Now that spring allergy victims are finally feeling relief from the diminishing tree and grass pollen, along comes the start of the ragweed pollen season,...

Professor Uses 'Novel' Way to Teach Advanced Public Relations.
August 30, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University public relations students are learning that fiction can prepare them for reality. "I traded in textbooks for novels in three of my advanced...

Global CFO Survey: Corporate Optimism Plummets in Response to Housing, Fuel Concerns.
August 31, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chief financial officers are more pessimistic than ever about the U.S. economy and fear the effects of a housing bubble that might burst, of high fuel and health care...

Book Calls for Stronger Business Ethics Education to Fight Corporate Corruption; Book Edited by Kennesaw State University Professor Sheb L. True.
August 31, 2005... Byline: Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University KENNESAW, Ga., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A call for business schools to fight corporate corruption by increasing ethics education is examined in a new book called "Fulfilling...

Expert Advisory: Hurricane Katrina - Aftermath and Recovery.
August 31, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Maryland has a number of experts who can talk about the impact of Hurricane Katrina, its aftermath and what will be required to...