Category Archives: Education

First Embryonic Stem Cell Study Approved by U.S.

By doris | Published: January 25, 2009

Full Story At nationalgeographic.com A U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world’s first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells—a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury. The company gained federal permission this week to inject eight to ten patients with cells derived from embryonic cells, said [...]

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Obama reverses abortion-funding policy

By doris | Published: January 24, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.President Obama says he doesn’t want family planning to be used as a “political wedge.” President Obama says he doesn’t want family [...]

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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act benefits everyone

By doris | Published: January 22, 2009

Equal pay for equal work is good. But when everyone gets a cost of living increase in mim. wage and they forget about the people that have worked for raises , they do not get a cost of living raise. I used to make about $2.00 over mim. wage and worked very hard for it. [...]

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Low Cortisol Levels May Be Risk Factor in Developing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By doris | Published: January 11, 2009

Full Story At Health News We all occasionally get tired, depressed, and run down, but between 1 and 4 million Americans suffer from a disorder that causes long-term and sometimes debilitating tiredness that is not relieved by rest or sleep—a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), more commonly referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Those [...]

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Ill. has 4 cases in national salmonella outbreak

By doris | Published: January 8, 2009

Full Story At chicagotribune.com CHICAGO – Four Illinoisans have been hit with salmonella poisoning in an outbreak that has sickened almost 400 people nationwide. Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said Thursday the cases range from a 2-year-old to a 73-year-old. They are located in Lake, Fayette, Franklin and St. Clair counties and [...]

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Technology helps Santa make magic, scientist says

By doris | Published: December 16, 2008

Full Story At Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ever wondered how Santa Claus can travel around the world in just one night on his reindeer-pulled sleigh and deliver toys to all the children? “He exploits the space-time continuum,” says Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University. Santa’s magic may [...]

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When Medicine Meets Marketing

By doris | Published: December 15, 2008

Full Story At  Newsweek.com Dallas Hextell was just a baby when his parents bought him a walker—not because he was late reaching a milestone, but because they worried he might never toddle on his own. At 9 months he had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a form of brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation in [...]

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VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened December 5, 2008—In Iceland’s remote Westman Islands, warming weather is threatening a beloved mascot: the Atlantic puffin. Video by Public Television’s Wild Chronicles, from National Geographic Mission Programs

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Tech commission suggests new cybersecurity post

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At CNET News The Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation’s cybersecurity, a new report to be released Monday concludes, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and [...]

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Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering HIV said Saturday he believes there will be a therapeutic vaccine to treat the virus within five years. Luc Montagnier, of France, told reporters in Sweden that he believed it was “a matter of 4 to 5 [...]

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“Big Bang” collider repairs to cost up to $29 million

By doris | Published: December 5, 2008

Full Story At  Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) – Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the “Big Bang” could cost up to 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday. Announcing a further delay to the Large Hadron Collider’s resumption, now expected in summer, CERN spokesman James [...]

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Feds to Judge: Don’t ‘Second Guess’ Bush Domestic Spy Program

By doris | Published: December 3, 2008

Full Story At  Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO -– The Bush administration on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits against the nation’s telecommunications companies accused of complying with the government’s once-secret spy program adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. “That was designed to protect from a terrorist attack,” [...]

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High Court Hears Sex Discrimination Case

By doris | Published: December 3, 2008

Full Story At  CBS News AP) A Massachusetts girl’s awful experience on a school bus is at the heart of a case argued in the Supreme Court Tuesday over limits on lawsuits about sex discrimination in education. The 5-year-old kindergarten student in Hyannis, Mass., told her parents that in 2000 a third-grade boy repeatedly made [...]

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Chicago Offers Students Cash for Good Grades

By doris | Published: December 2, 2008

Full Story At ABC News At Chicago’s Manley High School, good grades equal green, which has studious pupils like Cierra Banks cashing in on their marks.gradesChicago’s “Green for Grades” program offers high school freshmen and sophomores money for good marks. “They paying me over $100 to get As,” said Banks, 15, who was happy to [...]

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Mobile phones distract drivers more than passengers

By doris | Published: December 1, 2008

Boston.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know why — passengers act as a second set of eyes, [...]

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9-year-old girl donates bikes to needy students

By doris | Published: November 27, 2008

Full Story At   Chicago News – abc7chicago.com CHICAGO (WLS) — A Wilmette girl is celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday by giving to others who are less fortunate. For third grader Nicole Basil of Wilmette, the Mahalia Jackson School on Chicago’s South Side is a long way from home. But bicycles have brought Wilmette and the [...]

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Dead teen’s mom testifies in cyberbullying trial

By doris | Published: November 20, 2008

Full Story At The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tina Meier often sat with her daughter while she was online to ensure nothing fishy was happening. Lori Drew wanted to find out what kind of nasty rumors were being spread about her daughter. Both women — once neighbors and friends — have been described [...]

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Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren’t Really Looking for Him

By doris | Published: November 13, 2008

 Full Story At ABC News When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long-lost fifth-grade dodge-ball buddies and see if his secret crush from high school had looked [...]

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‘Piggybacking’ Your Way to Better Credit?

By doris | Published: October 13, 2008

Full Story At ABC News Kurt wanted to buy a home for his wife and two children — and he wanted to do it through a mortgage he could afford. But the 44-year-old Chicago man had spent time in prison on drug charges and hadn’t been able to build up a credit history.piggybackingIs “renting” a [...]

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‘Pregnancy pact’ schools to vote on birth control

By doris | Published: October 8, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com GLOUCESTER, Mass. – Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a “pregnancy pact” are considering whether contraceptives should be distributed at the high school. The Gloucester (GLAW’-ster) school board is expected decide Wednesday night whether to distribute contraceptives to students without parental consent. It could also vote to give [...]

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