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(Verna) Mildred (Holweger) Rose

(Verna) Mildred (Holweger) Rose moved on to the great beyond this morning, at approx 8:10am, peacefully, while sleeping. Her daughter, my mother, held her hand as she left. For those of you that know my family, know she is beyond pain now, and back with Grampa, after 20 years apart….. Say a prayer for my [...]

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Center for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR) Opens El Greco Exhibition | Art Knowledge News BRUSSELS.- Regarded today as one of the founders of the Spanish School of painting, El Greco has not, however, always enjoyed that lofty status. At the time of his death in Toledo in 1614, Europe was wildly enthusiastic about the [...]

Montgomery County sex-party host must role-play by the zoning rules – washingtonpost.com

Montgomery County sex-party host must role-play by the zoning rules – washingtonpost.com To understand how Paul Pickthorne got cross-wise with Montgomery County’s land-use regulations, you’ll need a glossary: “R-60″ is a zoning classification for subdivisions of single-family houses where commercial activity generally isn’t permitted. The 6300 block of Tone Drive in Bethesda is such a [...]

Global Arab Network | Syrian archaeological site: Large shopping center dating back to the fourth millennium B.C | Travel

Global Arab Network | Syrian archaeological site: Large shopping center dating back to the fourth millennium B.C | Travel In his lecture under the title “Syrian Civilized Centers from the 4th to the 1st millennium B.C.”, Hanon made a presentation on the big city of Habbouba where a large shopping center dating back to the [...]

Global Arab Network | Islamic law in favour of Coptic Christian rights in Egypt | Related news from Egypt

Global Arab Network | Islamic law in favour of Coptic Christian rights in Egypt | Related news from Egypt Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:43 Over the past decades, numerous polls have demonstrated that the majority of Egyptians want shari’a-or Islamic principles-applied to parts of their country’s legal system. Egypt’s constitution reflects this: Article 2 of [...]

TERRORISM: ALGERIA, DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLINGS IN ’90S —ANSAmed

ANSAmed TERRORISM: ALGERIA, DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLINGS IN ’90S (ANSAmed) – ALGIERS, FEBRUARY 3 – The Court of Algiers has sentenced Mohamed Benziane to death for ”crimes committed in several regions, membership of an armed terrorist group and possession of weapons of war”. The accused was arrested in 2004. Sources in the justice system, quoted [...]

Madly Mapping the Universe « Berkeley Lab News Center

Madly Mapping the Universe « Berkeley Lab News Center It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. Berkeley Lab scientists developed a code called MADmap to do just that for the cosmic microwave background, then posted it on the web for other interested sky mappers. Scientists probing the sky with the PACS [...]

Rats, Murder, and Secret Wartime Bunkers ~ National Portrait Gallery Goes Online | Art Knowledge News

Rats, Murder, and Secret Wartime Bunkers ~ National Portrait Gallery Goes Online | Art Knowledge News LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has launched its archive catalogue on the web, revealing to a wider audience fascinating stories about the Gallery’s activities since it was founded in 1856. An Edwardian murder and suicide in the public galleries, [...]

How sperm get a move on; discovery suggests new target for male contraception

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Acupuncture found effective against depression during pregnancy

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Scientists ID a protein that splices and dices genes

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Cocaine or ecstasy consumption during adolescence increases risk of addiction

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Study Reveals Potential Evolutionary Role for Same-Sex Attraction– Association for Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science Male homosexuality doesn’t make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. It appears that the trait is heritable, but because homosexual men are much less likely to produce offspring than heterosexual men, shouldn’t the genes for this trait have been extinguished long ago? What value could this sexual orientation have, [...]

D.C. area stocks up and hunkers down for major snowstorm – washingtonpost.com

D.C. area stocks up and hunkers down for major snowstorm – washingtonpost.com Wind-driven snow will begin to pelt the region with the ferocity of a summer thunderstorm Friday, according to forecasts, accumulating at a rate of three inches an hour during the worst of it and piling up more than two feet deep before it’s [...]

First germanium laser

First germanium laser MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature. Unlike the materials typically used in lasers, germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips. So the [...]

Compound created at OSU could become important new antidepressant | News and Communication Services | Oregon State University

Compound created at OSU could become important new antidepressant | News and Communication Services | Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered and synthesized a new compound that in laboratory and animal tests appears to be similar to, but may have advantages over one of the most important antidepressant [...]

NIST’s second ‘quantum logic clock’ based on aluminum ion is now world’s most precise clock

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