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Medvedev Is Reinventing the Red Army

How Medvedev plans to reform the military—and why Obama should not be worried. Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP-Getty Images By Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Nov 30, 2009 On a chilly day...

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Scientists at UA, collaborating institutions decode maize genome

Scientists from the University of Arizona led by Arizona Genomics Institute director Rod A. Wing and from collaborating institutions have deciphered the complete genetic code of the maize plant for the first time.

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UTA approves smoking, tobacco ban on campus

Posted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 Students and faculty will no longer be allowed to light up on the University of Texas at Arlington’s campus, President James Spaniolo said Friday, as the school becomes the first four-year college...

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Saving the single cysteine: New antioxidant system found

We've all read studies about the health benefits of having a life partner. The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up...

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Wired Science: One Long Bluff

According to a recent online report from Wired Science, “On one of the Galápagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in...

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UNT regents vote for MD program at Health Science Center

Despite impassioned pleas of osteopathic leaders from across the nation, the University of North Texas regents voted unanimously to proceed with plans for a medical school to pair with its Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine...

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Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water

A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's JBC, researchers in Italy have...

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Errors in the Conduct of Systematic Reviews of Pharmacological Interventions for Irritable Bowel...

Gastroenterology Division, Health Sciences Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. OBJECTIVES:Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are integral to evidence-based clinical decision making. Although flawed...

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Rethinking The Human Future In Space

With NASA reporting a "significant amount" of water on the lunar surface, is it time to re-examine our priorities regarding living and working in space? Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute, talks about why...

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8:00 PM (PT) - The Changing Arctic

Over the last 10 to 20 years, distinctive climate changes have occurred, including a shift in Arctic Ocean circulation, decreased sea ice extent and thickness, regional increases in surface air temperatures, thawing of...

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