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Purdue University reprimands professor who made false fusion claims
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University on Wednesday reprimanded a scientist who has been accused of falsifying assertions that he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments. Rusi Taleyarkhan made headlines in 2002 when he published a paper...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Values, Ethics, Tennessee
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Attack in California revives interest in 1993 killing of girl near Glenview
Chicago Tribune reporterA man once questioned in the 1993 stabbing death of a suburban Cook County teen has been charged with attempting to kill a California woman, and is a suspect in at least one other killing there. The development brings new attention to the killing of...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Murder, Police Investigations, Santa Monica, Police
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Keyes had 'eighth sense'
| 247-4636Leroy Keyes is parked outside his oncologist's office. Eight months ago, doctors diagnosed this Peninsula sports legend with Stage 2 prostate cancer. Keyes had ignored warning signs, and surgery was necessary. "My doctors are optimistic," Keyes says via...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Cancer, Bob Griese, Emmitt Smith, Purdue Boilermakers
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Corn Ethanol Faces an Uncertain Future
KickingTiresEthanol recently survived its most direct challenge yet when the EPA rejected Texas Gov. Rick Perry's request to halve this year's ethanol mandate, but that doesn't mean the biofuel's detractors are going away. A quarter of this year's U.S. corn......Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Rick Perry, AAA, Renewable Energy, Executive Branch
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Prints can point to drugs, explosives
Crime scene investigators may find a wealth of information in fingerprints, including traces of illicit drugs and explosives, using a new technique, scientists said. The method involves spraying a solvent onto a fingerprinted surface and analyzing...Tags: Research, Texas, Explosions, Law Enforcement, Police
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Food industry giants pass rising costs to consumers
The Wall Street JournalCompanies throughout the food chain are changing the way they do business in response to soaring grain costs, and consumers are likely to bear the brunt in the form of rising food prices. Farmers are making the broadest cuts to their livestock herds in...Tags: Livestock Farming, Monsanto Company, Smithfield, Inflation and Deflation, Stocks
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Phelps pulls away in golden moment
The New York TimesWith every race Michael Phelps swims, his celebrity grows. Cheering him on this morning at the National Aquatics Center in his first final of the Beijing Games was President Bush, who arrived minutes before the start of the 400-meter individual medley...Tags: Beijing Games, Indiana University, Executive Branch, Colleges and Universities, Michael Phelps
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Device can reveal what you touched
The Associated PressScientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints' telltale marks -- one in a string of developments that gives modern forensics even better ways to solve mysteries like the anthrax attacks or JonBenet Ramsey's murder. For example,...Tags: Virginia, Colleges and Universities, West Virginia, Explosions, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Hot weather can slow vegetable production
Hot spells may make some vegetables such as tomatoes and squash drop blossoms or quit setting fruit, says B. Rosie Lerner, a horticulture educator with the Purdue University Extension in West Lafayette, Ind. Other plants may wilt. But check that soil is...Tags: Conservation, Water Restrictions, Illinois, Local Authority
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and second-run theaters
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. After Hours Film Society Tivoli Theatre 5021 Highland Ave., Downers Grove 630-534-4528...Tags: Wim Wenders, Sarah Jessica Parker, Academic Progress, Irving Park, Nastassja Kinski
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Mentors propel biotech neophyte
Looking for a way to combat chemical warfare, a local firm also may have found a powerful new antibiotic, thanks to a little help from its mentor friends in Chicago's biotech community. The biocatalyst developed by Oak Brook-based Lybradyn Inc. works...Tags: Argonne National Laboratory, Biotechnology, Energy Saving, Biotechnology Industry, David Miller
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Mets 2008 Draft List
On the Mets beatROUND # NAME POS. HT WT B/T DOB SCHOOL 1 18 Ike Davis 1B 6-4 215 L/L 3/22/87 Arizona State University 1 22 Reese Havens SS 6-1 195 L/R 10/20/86 University of South Carolina 1S 33 Brad Holt RHP 6-4......Tags: University of Michigan, Eric Campbell, University of Central Florida, New York Mets, Michael Powers
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