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Provocative Trends Forecast in Unprecedented Gathering of Fashion, Entertainment Industry Leaders at Norman Lear Center Conference.
February 2, 2005... Byline: USC Annenberg School for Communication LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Top names in fashion, music, television, film and academia converged Saturday (Jan. 29, 2005) at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los...

Want to Petrify Wood Without Waiting a Few Million Years? Try This; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Scientists Can Mineralize Wood in Record Time.
February 2, 2005... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. , Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- California has Silicon Valley. Could a Silicon Forest in Washington be next? A team of materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National...

Society of Professional Journalists Donates $1,000 Toward Student's Fight.
February 2, 2005... Byline: Society of Professional Journalists INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Society of Professional Journalists has donated $1,000 from its Legal Defense Fund to help a journalism student challenge Oklahoma State University's...

New York Academy of Sciences Honoree Dr. Nguyen Dan Que Released From Prison in Vietnam.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2005... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, recipient of the New York Academy of Sciences' 2004 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award, has been released from prison by the...

University of Virginia Study Shows How Schools Can Safely Deal With Student Threats of Violence.
February 7, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study demonstrates how schools can safely respond to students who make violent threats, thereby preventing them from being carried out. Conducted by...

Society of Professional Journalists Task Force to Investigate Adviser Dismissal at Marquette University.(Brief Article)
February 8, 2005... Byline: Society of Professional Journalists INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Society of Professional Journalists President Irwin Gratz Monday appointed a task force to look into a decision by Marquette University to deny a...

Journalists, Educators, Civil Rights Leaders Gather to Remember Leroy Aarons; USC Annenberg Announces Establishment of New Summer Institute to Carry on Work of Journalism Pioneer.
February 10, 2005... Byline: USC Annenberg School for Communication LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The USC Annenberg School for Communication is establishing the Leroy F. Aarons Summer Institute on Sexual Orientation Issues in the News, Dean...

Leading Wildlife Conservation Expert, Michael Bean, to Deliver Stanford Law School's Robert Minge Brown Lecture, on Using Private Land to Save Endangered Species.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stanford Law School has awarded Michael Bean, a nationally recognized leader in wildlife conservation, its Robert Minge Brown Lectureship, for his innovative...

New Tool Sheds Light on International Net Governance; Harvard and Stanford Offer Model for Transparency, Public Comment.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance grapples to draft recommendations on how international Internet governance is defined, what topics it includes,...

New Report Shows Action Now Can Cut Spending, Protect Public Safety, Reduce Prison Population.
February 15, 2005... Byline: The National Technology Transfer Center CHARLESTON, W.Va., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The rapid growth of people in prison in West Virginia is crippling the state budget and costing badly needed funds for state efforts ranging...

Iraq and War on Terror Are Topics of Spring Lectures at New York Law School.
February 16, 2005... Byline: New York Law School NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Iraq and the United States-led war on terror are topics that currently hold great interest for scholars of international law and politics. New York Law School's Center for...

Panamanian Ship Assessed Half Million Dollars for Coral Damage.
February 16, 2005... Byline: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, today announced a settlement of more than half a million dollars in a case of a...

Free Press Takes Hit With Recent Court Rulings.
February 16, 2005... Byline: Society of Professional Journalists INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Society of Professional Journalists President Irwin Gratz today issued the following statement: Yesterday was a rough day for the news media in the...

Steroid Use Linked to Fans' Unrealistic Demands on Athletes, Duke Expert on Doping Says.
February 17, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ongoing furor over the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by top athletes, stirred most recently by Jose Canseco's tell-all book, is hypocritical...

Arbitrator's Report Confirms University of California Diverted $20 Million Slated for Employee Wages.
February 17, 2005... Byline: Coalition of University Employees BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Members of the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) will release the Fact-Finders' Report of Arbitrator Gerald R. McKay at a press conference...

Americans Support Most Uses of Reproductive Genetic Testing, Report on U.S. Attitudes Reveals; But Serious Concerns Remain About Safety, Accuracy, Misuse, Lack of Regulation.
February 17, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A majority of Americans believes it is appropriate to use reproductive genetic testing to avoid having a child with a life-threatening disease, or to test...

Stem Cell Research - Promise and Politics - Focus of Conference at Smith; National Institutes of Health Stem Cell Task Force Director, Researchers to Speak March 4-5.
February 18, 2005... Byline: Smith College NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The development of embryonic stem cell research and the widespread attention it has received in recent years has aroused political conflicts between the potential for...

Semester Spent at Judges' Sides Provides CSU Northridge Students Unusual Insight Into the Law.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Calif. State University, Northridge NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The conversations between lawyers and judges aren't always the easiest to follow, nor is the courtroom action as exciting as an episode of "Law...

JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx Linked to Illegal Logging of Endangered Forests and Resulting Humanitarian Crisis.
February 24, 2005... Byline: Rainforest Action Network SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Investigations by Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network have confirmed that JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) client BlueLinx (NYSE: BXC), America's largest...

Child Sex Trafficking Study by CU-Boulder Sociologist Reveals Misperceptions.
February 28, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Unprecedented research into child sex trafficking in the post-war nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina suggests that public perceptions of the problem and some...

New Book Documents First Statewide Civil Rights Movement in Florida.
February 28, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Decades before the Montgomery bus boycott, African Americans in Jacksonville, Florida, organized streetcar boycotts that forced the city to...