Feb 23,2007
Once again this summer, Crystal Cruises mixes politics with pleasure.
Husband and wife James Carville and Mary Matalin, returning lecturers for the cruise line, will present their opposing political views on the 2008 election onboard the Crystal Serenity as it plies the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas from Venice, Italy, to Rome.
SET A COURSE FOR POLITICS - Crystal Cruises is offering more than just Old World cruising this summer. As part of its Crystal Visions ... [full story] 1145 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
A joint English-Canadian research team has discovered genetic markers that can identify people predisposed toward developing Type 2 diabetes.
The group believes these discoveries will help them to understand up to 70 percent of the disease's genetic background, and can help prevent people from developing Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.
The research is published online in the journal Nature.
Led by scientists from Imperial College London and Canada's McGill University, ... [full story] 1072 times read - 2 comments posted
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Feb 23,2007
It's supposed to get downright spooky after a while. Except it doesn't.
Animal-control guy - that is, dogcatcher - Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) starts reading a tattered little self-published novel called "The Number 23" that his wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), picked up in a used bookstore.
'THE NUMBER 23' - Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston are featured in the drama 'The Number 23.' CNS Photo courtesy of Christine Loss. Eerily, the plot of the book ... [full story] 1226 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
It's supposed to get downright spooky after a while. Except it doesn't.
Animal-control guy - that is, dogcatcher - Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) starts reading a tattered little self-published novel called "The Number 23" that his wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), picked up in a used bookstore.
'THE NUMBER 23' - Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston are featured in the drama 'The Number 23.' CNS Photo courtesy of Christine Loss. Eerily, the plot of the book ... [full story] 309 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
"Petropolis" by Anya Ulinich; Viking; 325 pages; $25.
Life in Asbestos 2, a dreary, crumbling Siberian town in the dreary, crumbling Soviet Union, wasn't going to hold back young Sasha Goldberg. Not if her mother had anything to say about it, and her mother had something to say about everything.
"Children of the intelligentsia don't just come home in the afternoon and engage in idiocy," she tells her daughter. Two problems: 1) The Goldbergs' membership ... [full story] 331 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
Chimps in Senegal are regularly making and using spears to hunt other, small primates, without human help, according to research led by an anthropologist. It’s the first study to report regular tool use by non-humans while hunting other vertebrates, according to the U.S. National Geographic Society, which helped fund the work.
A bushbaby (Otolemur garnetti) was a reported victim of a spear-wielding chimp. (Image courtesy U.S. Nat'l Human Genome Inst.)
Anthropologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State ... [full story] 813 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
On Thursday Bend Memorial Clinic laid off about 20 workers in an effort to control costs and resource management, officials said.
Bend Memorial Clinic has chosen to undergo an internal review of clinic operations and cost management to improve the overall operations of the clinic and to reduce the cost of providing high quality healthcare for the community.
The clinic has designed a detailed plan that will address the way in which it delivers healthcare ... [full story] 1416 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
Raveta, a leader in innovative collaboration solutions, announced the release of Audio Fabric, the world's first service that enables musicians to play together live over the Internet using any type of instrument-acoustic, electric, MIDI, or voice. Musicians in different locations can play together as if they are in the same room using their ordinary broadband Internet connections. Audio Fabric also enables musicians to find each other, record their sessions, store sessions in a band archive, ... [full story] 1186 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
A high-pitched, shrill whistle rumbles from deep inside the chest of a majestic bull elk (Cervus elaphus) and echoes through the aspen-dotted hills in the evening's final light. The sound, now as recognizable to millions of Americans as the animal that produced it, could mean lots of things: a long-distance call to a prospective mate or a warning to intruding bulls to stay away. But for those whose hairs still stand on end when they ... [full story] 672 times read - No comment posted
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Feb 23,2007
New Survey Highlights the Importance of Health and Fitness During Preconception and Pregnancy
According to BabyCenter, the leading online resource for new and expectant parents, a majority of women increase their focus on health, fitness and nutrition once they become a mother, than before they planned to conceive and/or had a child. New research shows approximately 65 percent of women exercise more or try to exercise more since becoming mothers, and 82 percent reported eating ... [full story] 1310 times read - No comment posted
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Once again this summer, Crystal Cruises mixes politics with pleasure.
Husband and wife James Carville and Mary Matalin, returning lecturers for the cruise line, will present their opposing political views on the 2008 election onboard the Crystal Serenity as it plies the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas from Venice, Italy, to Rome.
SET A COURSE FOR POLITICS - Crystal Cruises is offering more than just Old World cruising this summer. As part of its Crystal Visions ...
A joint English-Canadian research team has discovered genetic markers that can identify people predisposed toward developing Type 2 diabetes.
The group believes these discoveries will help them to understand up to 70 percent of the disease's genetic background, and can help prevent people from developing Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.
The research is published online in the journal Nature.
Led by scientists from Imperial College London and Canada's McGill University, ...
It's supposed to get downright spooky after a while. Except it doesn't.
Animal-control guy - that is, dogcatcher - Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) starts reading a tattered little self-published novel called "The Number 23" that his wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), picked up in a used bookstore.
'THE NUMBER 23' - Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston are featured in the drama 'The Number 23.' CNS Photo courtesy of Christine Loss. Eerily, the plot of the book ...
"Petropolis" by Anya Ulinich; Viking; 325 pages; $25.
Life in Asbestos 2, a dreary, crumbling Siberian town in the dreary, crumbling Soviet Union, wasn't going to hold back young Sasha Goldberg. Not if her mother had anything to say about it, and her mother had something to say about everything.
"Children of the intelligentsia don't just come home in the afternoon and engage in idiocy," she tells her daughter. Two problems: 1) The Goldbergs' membership ...
Chimps in Senegal are regularly making and using spears to hunt other, small primates, without human help, according to research led by an anthropologist. It’s the first study to report regular tool use by non-humans while hunting other vertebrates, according to the U.S. National Geographic Society, which helped fund the work.
A bushbaby (Otolemur garnetti) was a reported victim of a spear-wielding chimp. (Image courtesy U.S. Nat'l Human Genome Inst.)
Anthropologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State ...
On Thursday Bend Memorial Clinic laid off about 20 workers in an effort to control costs and resource management, officials said.
Bend Memorial Clinic has chosen to undergo an internal review of clinic operations and cost management to improve the overall operations of the clinic and to reduce the cost of providing high quality healthcare for the community.
The clinic has designed a detailed plan that will address the way in which it delivers healthcare ...
Raveta, a leader in innovative collaboration solutions, announced the release of Audio Fabric, the world's first service that enables musicians to play together live over the Internet using any type of instrument-acoustic, electric, MIDI, or voice. Musicians in different locations can play together as if they are in the same room using their ordinary broadband Internet connections. Audio Fabric also enables musicians to find each other, record their sessions, store sessions in a band archive, ...
A high-pitched, shrill whistle rumbles from deep inside the chest of a majestic bull elk (Cervus elaphus) and echoes through the aspen-dotted hills in the evening's final light. The sound, now as recognizable to millions of Americans as the animal that produced it, could mean lots of things: a long-distance call to a prospective mate or a warning to intruding bulls to stay away. But for those whose hairs still stand on end when they ...
New Survey Highlights the Importance of Health and Fitness During Preconception and Pregnancy
According to BabyCenter, the leading online resource for new and expectant parents, a majority of women increase their focus on health, fitness and nutrition once they become a mother, than before they planned to conceive and/or had a child. New research shows approximately 65 percent of women exercise more or try to exercise more since becoming mothers, and 82 percent reported eating ...



