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Experts evaluate carrots at UC Cooperative Extension carrot research day
Staff WriterResearchers, scientists and agricultural business representatives evaluated a carrot crop at the University of California Desert Research Extension Center in El Centro on Tuesday. Just like sommeliers rate wines by flavor and color, discerning tasters...Tags: Education, Cheese Corn, Science and Technology, Science, Colleges and Universities
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USDA gleans public's input
Multimedia ProducerThe United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service of the University of Wisconsin had a carrot test trial Tuesday at the University of California Desert Research & Extension Center near Holtville. The event was open to...Tags: Education, Cheese Corn, Science and Technology, Trials, Colleges and Universities
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Health issues vary in low-income Imperial County
Staff WriterIn Imperial Valley two in every five people are obese, nearly 13,000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 163 children were hospitalized in 2010 due to asthma. The Valley leads the state with these factors, having the highest rates of diabetes,...Tags: Asthma, Lungs and Airways, University of California, Los Angeles, High Blood Pressure, Health and Safety at School
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Woman testifies in suit against Trump Tower
Her family too poor to care for her, Jacqueline Goldberg was placed in a children's home at age 10. Seven decades later, Goldberg had the kind of money that allowed her in 2006 to put cash deposits down on two condos in Donald Trump's luxury...
Tags: Realty, Donald Trump, Condos, Real Estate Buyers, Roosevelt University
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
ReutersBy Sharon Begley NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996:...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Biology, Religion and Belief, Colleges and Universities, Values
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Seven seek district judge seat held by David Harding since 1989
A decision by David B. Harding not to seek re-election after almost 24 years as district judge in Center Valley has led to a flood of candidates in the May primary. The seven hopefuls includes lawyers, a police chief, a police officer, a constable and an...Tags: Career and Workplace, Separation of Church and State, Judges, Colleges and Universities, Coopersburg
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LCF seniors win $1,000 scholarships
Eight high school seniors from La Cañada Flintridge were each awarded a $1,000 scholarship last week. The La Cañada Thursday Club lauded Matt Singelyn, Colleen Degnan, Kara Lankey, Sophia Eckerle, Liza Upton, Katharine Henry, Danielle Smith and Colby...
Tags: High Schools, Schools, Awards and Prizes, Duke University, Sports
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...Tags: Baylor University , Science and Technology, Pittsburgh Steelers, Obituaries, Philosophy
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A better way to track a bomber
The mayhem in Boston the week of April 15 was a reminder of how an American city can be paralyzed by a homemade bomb. The same kinds of improvised explosive devices that menaced U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be deployed by freelance...
Tags: Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Science and Technology, Judges, Politics, Bombings
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Northwestern junior competes for $100,000 on 'Jeopardy!'
For RedEyeNorthwestern University junior Daniel Donohue may or may not have won $100,000 in the "Jeopardy!" College Championship. You'll have to watch the two-week tournament starting Monday to find out for sure. Donohue was selected to compete on the show against...Tags: Education, Jeopardy!, Georgetown, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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There's a better way to track a bomber
Los Angeles TimesThe mayhem in Boston the week of April 15 was a reminder of how an American city can be paralyzed by a homemade bomb. The same kinds of improvised explosive devices that menaced U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be deployed by freelance...Tags: Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Science and Technology, Explosions, Colleges and Universities, Politics
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Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...
Tags: Africa, Biotechnology Industry, Biology, Science and Technology, University of Chicago
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