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Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall - Los Angeles Times
Telegraph.co.uk Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall Los Angeles Times Four new books take different approaches in sizing up the events in Eastern Europe before, during and beyond 1989. A demonstrator pounds away at the...
A Cloaking Device? Scientists Gain Ground on Science Fiction
By Charles Petit, Science News Ulf Leonhardt is riding high these days, with a new award from the Royal Society of Great Britain to further develop his ideas on how to make things in plain sight disappear. Born in East Germany...
Transatlantic Programme Associate Fellows
Nora Bensahel Dr Nora Bensahel is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, specializing in military strategy and doctrine. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown...
Shortage of military therapists creates strain
FILE - Dr. Layton McCurdy, a psychiatrist and dean emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina who served on the task force, said the shortage continues with the thousands of troops needing help because of...
6:00 PM (PT) - The Future of Forestry: Challenges to Forestry in the Pacific Northwest
In the spring of 2009, the Denman Forestry Issues Series was presented by the College of Forest Resources (now the School of Forest Resources in the new College of the Environment) at the University of Washington. The series...
China's second largest lake shrinking fast
Liu Jinghui, of the Wuhan regional climate center of Hubei Provincial Meteorological Bureau said in an interview with Xinhua News agency that according to satellite images, the area of the lake was 1,338.57 square kilometers in...
Tourette syndrome helped with deep brain stimulation
All About: Disease and Condition Submitted by Kathleen Blanchard RN on Nov 7th, 2009 Tourette syndrome, (Gilles de la Tourette syndrome), is a neurological disorder that manifests before age 18, usually in childhood or...
Today in History: Widow doffs hat and is acquitted
It was a day like today. Following the death of her husband President Franklin Roosevelt and the end of the Second World War, which led to the beginning of the Cold War, Mrs. Roosevelt busied herself with the workings of the...
D.C. sniper prosecutor a death penalty veteran
By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Virginia prosecutor Paul Ebert knows how to land the big ones. Muhammad, who with teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo methodically picked off people over three weeks in...
Shaping Your Body with Thoughts
By James Goodlatte Nov 7, 2009 Positive thinking is a powerful tool in shaping one’s body. Studies have shown how mental imagery can help one lose weight or increase breast size. “The use of hypnosis for breast enlargement has...
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