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- Ex-Californians bring cancer fight to West Texas 20 Dec 2009 19:11 GMT
... ) - In a crowded room at a sold-out 1998 conference, ... them in the stoic manner expected of scientists: Twenty percent of their patients had fought ... instead, his cancer warriors go on. The scientific discoveries that cured Nick created questions that ...
- PSHS music teacher named as finalist as Texas' best AP teacher 20 Dec 2009 16:33 GMT
... been named a finalist for the O’Donnell Texas AP Teacher Award and is eligible to ... world, we, as a society, need doctors, scientists and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based careers, but even ...
- Researchers say Idaho may be poorly prepared for disease outbreaks: The H1N1 outbreak shows significant gaps in the public health safety net, researchers say in a new study. 20 Dec 2009 00:14 GMT
... to be transported to the state's public laboratory in Boise, potentially hundreds of miles away. ... a germ sample gets to a state lab, the faster health officials can identify a ... New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Vermont. All achieved satisfactory results in nine of ...
- Air near school subject to tests 20 Dec 2009 06:52 GMT
... A Burkburnett elementary school that is being tested for its outdoor air quality by the ... 44 on Berry Street, and four other Texas schools in April to be the subject of ... Dallas and two in Deer Park. EPA scientists warn against drawing conclusions at this point ...
- Texas City foundation gives out $93,000 in grants 20 Dec 2009 07:33 GMT
... Texas City foundation gives out $93,000 in grants ... $280 up to $5,000 for education programs. Science Instructional Specialist Laura Clark received a $4,900 ... out to increase student performance on state-mandated tests, as well as a $3,900 grant to ...
- Researchers need parents participation in study of Down's Syndrome support 20 Dec 2009 13:27 GMT
... of children with Down's Syndrome to participate in a study. The study, conducted by Texas Tech University and Kansas State University, will help researchers and parents understand the adjustment process that parents go through when the child is ...
- 2 East Texas Libertarians Announce Candidacy 20 Dec 2009 07:10 GMT
... Organization on Saturday presented its candidates for Texas House District 6 and the First Congressional ... a bachelors degrees in History and political science from UT Tyler. Parkes is a substitute ...
- California's Troubled Waters 20 Dec 2009 08:55 GMT
... in San Francisco, UC Irvine and NASA scientists detailed the state's groundwater changes and outlined ... 2003, said Jay Famiglietti, UCI Earth system science professor and director of the UC Center ... Famiglietti's doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. Other regions under study include ...
- Students raise funds to see space launch 20 Dec 2009 09:07 GMT
... space launch GALVESTON — When Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off in March, it will carry ... DETAILS: Ambassadors Preparatory Academy is a nonprofit, Texas Education Agency approved charter school for all ... the state, with a commendation for its science program, gold performance acknowledgment in attendance, and a ...
- Iraq, the Kurds, and Israel: Entwined Futures 20 Dec 2009 14:43 GMT
... vast Western Desert. Of the 73 fields discovered - only 15 have been developed. Iraq's ... one tenth the cost elsewhere - while Texas boasts 1,000,000 drilled wells, Iraq barely sports 2000. ... the two nations, one that involves economic, scientific, cultural, educational and other non-military exchanges. Israel ...
- Spiritual Needs Rank High as Death From Cancer Nears 20 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
... "Medicine tends to focus on the more scientific aspects of the person, and we've made ... some important advancements can be made." The researchers discovered that people with advanced cancer were ... seven treatment centers in the Northeast and Texas. The final analysis included information from 343 people ...
- A big idea we like: Hear, hear to GE chief's notion of Houston's opportunities in clean energy 20 Dec 2009 07:33 GMT
... We Houstonians like a big idea. GE Chairman and ... the grounds that it creates an open-minded, discovery-driven attitude about potential solutions. That way lies ... This is where the engineers, chemists, earth scientists and other skilled people will come up ...
- Warming Climate Chills Sonoran Desert's Spring Flowers 20 Dec 2009 04:33 GMT
... the UA are also co-authors. The National Science Foundation and the Philecology Foundation of Fort Worth, Texas funded the research. In 1982, Venable began ... warm, such as wooly sunflower, known to scientists as Eriophyllum lanosum, and a species of ...
- Seed firm's competitive practices eyed 20 Dec 2009 06:50 GMT
... two sources familiar with an investigation in Texas said state Attorney General Greg Abbott's office ... the top thanks to innovation by its scientists and aggressive use of patent law by ... law by its attorneys. First came the science, when Monsanto in 1996 introduced the world's ...
- Tyler ISD's Stewart, Hogg And Dogan On PEG List 20 Dec 2009 09:04 GMT
... or more of students have failed the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test in any two of the previous three ... or more of students fail the eighth-grade science TAKS test in the "all students" category ...
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