| Thu, 2 Sep 2010  In Medical School Shift, Meeting Patients on Day 1
| For generations, medical students have spent two years in classrooms and laboratories, memorizing body parts and dissecting specimens, eagerly anticipating the third year when they would get to work with actual people who have actual diseases. Ozier Muhammad/The New Y... | States Awarded Grants to Improve Achievement Tests
| The Department of Education on Thursday awarded $330 million to two groups of states to design new standardized tests to replace the end-of-year reading and math exams used over the past decade to measure achievement under the federal No Child Left Behind law. | The n... | Time Marches ... Backward!
| I’ve learned to shrug off some fairly ignominious baggage associated with being a resident of New Jersey: the Burr-Hamilton duel, the Hindenburg disaster, “Jersey Shore,” the Nets’ 2009-10 season. But the news that my state was once part of the... | 'Magic' process turns kiwifruit into gold
By 5:30 AM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print | New Zealand researchers have cracked what seems like modern-day alchemy, transforming one kiwifruit into 100 plastic spoons and the city's sewage into electricity. | Scion, a Crown research institute in Rotorua, has deve... | Though Condemned, German Author Opens Debate
| BERLIN — When a German banker and former government official spoke publicly about a unique “Jewish gene,” when he attacked Islam as a source of violence and stunted development, when he espoused genetic theories that evoked the fright of the Nazi pas... | Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes
| NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. | The rig was located just west of where another rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and t... | U.S. Retailers Depended on Discounts in August
| Back-to-school season started off on sale, with retailers receiving new merchandise in August, and then marking it down to get it out the door. Mary Altaffer/Associated Press | Shoppers at Macy’s in New York last month. U.S. retail sales surpassed expectations in Au... | A Future Built on Different Standards
| ILZ, AUSTRIA — Until a few years ago, Styria, a province in southeastern Austria bordering Hungary and Slovenia, was an economic backwater, a buffer zone between the prosperous west of the country and its formerly Communist neighbors. | A blog about energy and t... | |
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