Democrat & Chronicle
Sen. Hillary Rodman Clinton will be in East Rochester on Monday to visit the newly installed fuel cell at the Each Rochester School District, her staff confirmed today.
Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, also will announce recommendations from a “green” building conference she held in Rochester last fall.
She is expected to [...]

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If you’ve felt a little unsteady lately in the Missouri / Tennessee border region, here’s why:

Blame it all on George Bush’s attempt to steal the Senate races in both states.

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Pluto has been demoted, for no good reason.

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OK, so everybody gets to be a planet. How inclusive of them. But, what about Titan? It’s larger than Mercury. Why isn’t Titan a planet?
Our new motto about the number of planets: Lighten or Titan! Titan for planethood, or it’s gonna get ugly.

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University of Rochester
In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they’ve gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common [...]

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WHO
20 February 2006
Several recent media reports have included speculations about the significance of mutations in H5N1 avian influenza viruses. Some reports have suggested that the likelihood of another pandemic may have increased as a result of changes in the virus.
Since 1997, when the first human infections with the H5N1 avian influenza virus were documented, the [...]

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From Kodak and ITT, the beginning of the scanning technology from Star Trek:
USA Today
The United States has 2.3 million miles of natural gas pipeline. Laid end-to-end, the pipes, mostly carrying methane, would circle the equator 92 times. Errant bulldozers, imperfect seals, and other mishaps, disasters and defects cause leaks. But why fret over the wasted [...]

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By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service
Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building.
The new “Radar Scope” will give warfighters searching a building the ability to tell within seconds if someone is in the [...]

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How about we recognize a disorder consisting of turning intellectual fashions into pseudoscience?
Glenn Reynolds

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UPDATE: I’ve closed comments. As I read what I’ve written, I’ve in no way advocated intelligent design. What I have done is urge that theories not be taught as facts, and that competitive theories be presented to allow for intellectual growth in students. We are supposed to be teaching them to think for themselves.
I’m not [...]

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NOAA
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