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			<title><![CDATA[ Restrictions Are Eased for Research Using Embryonic Stem Cells ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Hundreds of embryonic stem cell lines, whose use in the United States had effectively been curtailed by the Bush administration, can be used to study disorders and develop cures if researchers can show the cells were derived using ethical procedures, according to new rules issued by the federal...
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			<dc:creator>Shankar Vedantam</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Q and A on the Climate Bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:21:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The climate bill approved by the House last month started out as an idea -- fight global warming -- and wound up looking like an unabridged dictionary. It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen with loopholes and giveaways meant to win over un-green industries and wary legislators.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Picks Francis Collins as New NIH Director ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama yesterday nominated Francis S. Collins, a physician and scientist who helped guide the Human Genome Project to completion, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
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			<dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Science Digest: The Globe's Belches ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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We knew that cow burps were a major source of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere. Now add belches of methane gas from vents on the bottom of the ocean to the list of significant methane sources.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Start-Ups Say Innovation Doesn't Grow on Trees ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Biotechnology start-ups have long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health to fund research-and-developmentast but a last minute change in the legislation exempted the agency from the requirement to reserve a portion of the money for small businesses.
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			<dc:creator>Kim Hart</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dog 'Guilt' Probably Just Reaction to Owners' Cues, Study Finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Many dog owners have had this experience: Arriving home, they discover their pooch looking sheepish, with its head down, ears pulled back, tail tucked between the legs, maybe slinking behind the sofa. Puzzled, they soon discover the reason: a favorite pair of shoes chewed to pieces, or perhaps the...
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sky Ledges Open Atop Sears Tower ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CHICAGO, July 1 -- Don't look down. Or do, since that's the idea. But brace for vertigo. In the city of big shoulders, this is like standing on an eyelash.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Slevin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Metro Crash May Exemplify Paradox of Human-Machine Interaction ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sometime soon, investigators will piece together why one train on Metro's Red Line hurtled into another last Monday, killing nine people and injuring dozens. Early indications suggest a computer system may have malfunctioned, and various accounts have raised questions about whether the driver of the...
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			<dc:creator>Shankar Vedantam</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Science Digest: Want to Be Heard? Speak Into the Right Ear ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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If you need to bum a cigarette in a noisy Italian nightclub, make sure to ask someone in his or her right ear, says a study published last week in the German journal Naturwissenschaften ("The Science of Nature").
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'The Link' by Colin Tudge with Josh Young ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In short, "The Link" is so accessible as to seem simplistic -- but it works as a compelling introduction to the study of human evolution.
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			<dc:creator>Guy Gugliotta</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New York to Pay Women Who Give Eggs for Stem Cell Research ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research, a move welcomed by many scientists but condemned by critics who fear it will lead to the exploitation of vulnerable women.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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