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  • Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 12:10:09 -0500

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Title: Science Guide News Daily - The Complete Source for Science News

Organizing The World Wide Web Of Science


Science News From The Net
(updated 10:44 AM EST, Wednesday, December 31, 1997)

Daily News | Monthly News

Daily News

Biology, Biotechnology, and Medicine

Bird flu may have spread to mainland China - CNN Heath
As Hong Kong vendors slit the throats of their chickens and ducks and the government gassed farm poultry, there were reports Tuesday that the "bird flu" that has killed four people in Hong Kong may have spread to mainland China.
 
Mapping The Way To A Bigger Prawn - EurekAlert
CSIRO researchers have produced the world's first prawn gene map, which is the first step in assisting prawn farmers to grow bigger, faster growing prawns in the future.
 
Seniors Must Do Homework in Choosing Health Care - New York Times
 
National Eye Care Month Is Set for January - New York Times
 
New Studies Examine Heart-healthy Benefits of Alcohol - New York Times
 
CDC Helps `Bird-Flu' Efforts in Hong Kong - New York Times
 
Pesticide-related sicknesses reportedly up in California - Nando Times
Pesticide-related illness in California rose 20 percent in the most recent year analyzed by the state, running counter to a years long trend.
 
Cancer deaths in Britain at a 10-year low - Nando Times
 
Bats: engineering marvels - Nando Times
If you can get past the notion that bats are kind of Halloween-like and scary, they are amazing creatures. As Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins says in his book, "The Blind Watchmaker," "They are like miniature spy planes, bristling with sophisticated instrumentation."
 
Clinton Seeks More Funding For AIDS Drugs - Excite.com News
Spokesman Joe Lockhart confirmed a New York Times story that said Clinton would seek a 35 percent increase in spending for AIDS drug assistance programs which help pay for new medications that slow or arrest the progression of the infection.
 
Many are sprayed, but a few are worse - Excite.com News
Whether or not you realize it, if you don't buy organic foods, pesticides are an integral part of your family diet. And of the 300 pesticides approved by the federal government, 73 -- including some of the most frequently used -- have been found to be "probable" or "possible" carcinogens.
 
New 'tumour freezing' treatment gives some hope for cancer sufferers - Excite.com News
A pioneering method of treating cancers by freezing tumours with liquid nitrogen is on trial at a London hospital, and could help maintain the quality of life for sufferers.
 
New Insight Into Tumor Suppressor - Excite.com News
Researchers have now determined the structure of protein that plays a vital role in putting the brakes on cell growth, according to a new report. The protein, known as p18INK4c is a member of INK4, a family of molecules that can result in cancer if mutated or disabled.
 
Group sues over Medicare mandate - Excite.com News
A national seniors group filed suit yesterday in federal court hoping to block enforcement of a new law that would ban physicians from the Medicare system if they privately negotiate their fees with patients whose treatment otherwise would be covered by Medicare.
 
More hospitals join the list on drive-by status - Excite.com News
A cocktail of respiratory viruses caused as many as 17 Houston health-care facilities to request some form of drive-by status for at least part of Tuesday. In most cases, intensive-care units were filled when people with chronic lung and heart diseases developed complications after they contracted some kind of respiratory ailment, he said.
 
 

Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

NASA filled the calendar in 1997 - Excite.com News
A retrospective of NASA missions from the past year
 
 

Agriculture

 

Engineering, Energy, Mathematics, and Technology Issues

Northwest system helps pilots avoid turbulence - CNN Sci-Tech
About one minute after United Airlines Flight 826 was violently rocked by air turbulence over the Pacific Ocean Sunday night, a Northwest Airlines plane flew safely 4,000 feet higher thanks to turbulence prediction methods used by Northwest.
 
 

Chemistry

 

Computers, Computer Science, and the Internet Issues

IBM breaks own disk-drive capacity record - CNN Sci-Tech
IBM scientists have developed a computer disk drive that can store 11.6 billion bits per square inch -- about the same as all the letters in 1,500 novels.
 
 

Anthropology, Archaeology, Linquistics, and Paleontology

 

Environmental Sciences & Issues, Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography

Researchers find 'mystery bird' unseen for 113 years - CNN Earth
An Indian "mystery bird" unseen for 113 years and suspected to be extinct has been photographed by American scientists, who also uncovered a bird-watchers scandal.
 
Report: Population to double in 74 poor countries - CNN Earth
The population boom is still booming in the world's poorest countries, even as it levels off in richer nations that encourage the education and employment of women, the Population Institute reported on Tuesday.
 
Earth's coral reefs in decline, researchers say - CNN Earth
As 1997, the "International Year of the Reef," draws to an end, scientists are warning that 12 months of especially intense research has shown that more must be done to protect the "rain forest of the ocean."
 
 

Psychology

Psychology: Control Stress in 1998 - New York Times
 
 


Weekly News and Information
(Updated Every Tuesday Morning)

The Alchemist (requires registration only)

 

CNN Computer Connection

 

CNN FutureWatch

 

CNN Science & Technology Week

 

NewsFile

 

ScienceNews Online

Scientific American Web Weekly

Explorations
The Beep Heard Round the World October 6, 1997 - On October 4, 1957, the launch of the Sputnik satellite singlehandedly began the space race.
 
Ask The Experts
 
BookMarks - The Current Pick of the Web


Monthly News and Information

Scientific American - Oct 1997

ARTICLES
Faster Ships for the Future
A Simpler Ride into Space
Automated Highways
Now That Travel Can Be Virtual, Will Congestion Virtually Disappear?
 
 
NEWS AND ANALYSIS
 
In Focus
Tissue Engineering Comes of Age
 
Science and the Citizen
Betting on Protein Folding
Wallabies in the Lab
Ecosystem Census
Asbestos in Court
(Mis)Understanding Evolution
Infection and the Mind
By the Numbers: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
In Brief
 
Technology and Business
Heavy Metal Meets Its Match
Utilities Go Green
Supercapacitors Get Charged Up
Virtual Reality CAVE
 
Cyber View
Master of Your Domain
 
Profile
Jane Goodall
 
 
AMATEUR SCIENTIST
Recording the Sounds of Life
 
 
WORKING KNOWLEDGE
Fish Ladders
 
 
REVIEWS
Queer Science Indeed
Clean Genes
Briefly Noted
 
 
COMMENTARIES
Connections: The Buck Stops Here
Wonders: Air-Cooled
 
 
FROM THE EDITORS
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
Letters to the Editors
 

Smithsonian Magazine - Oct 97

Claws
In Corea, Maine, and other coastal towns, lobstering has been a way of life for generations, but a sea change is under way By Jim Doherty, photographs by Richard Howard
 
Go West, Moran
In the artist's epic paintings of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, Americans discovered a land worth seeing and saving By Donald Dale Jackson
 
Nitrogen
Hazy days, green scum in lakes and less biodiversity may be our harvest if we overuse this element to ensure bountiful crops By James Trefil
 
Where Echoes of Spirits Still Dwell
Age old rituals and beliefs live on in the fantastic costumes and masks of New Guinea's modern day aboriginal tribes Photographs by Chris Rainier
 
They Flew & Flew & Flew
Staying the course through engine repairs, storms and fatigue, in 1935 two brothers set a record that's never been broken By Edwards Park
 
For Those Who Want to Play Outdoors
Begun as a co-op for climbers, REI now has gear for everyone from skiers to bikers and folks who just like to look the part By Scott McCredie, photographs by Regis Lefebure
 
Picasso Takes on the Masters
Everything old was new again when the great experimenter tried his hand at the works of Manet, Velázquez and others
 
Bang! Bang! You're Dead
In Europe and America, politics, a maiden's honor, even the pronunciation of a word, were worthy reasons to fight a duel By Barbara Holland, illustrations by Peter De Sève
 
The Strange Journey of Heinrich Harrer
Long after winning fame and fortune for his memoir Seven Years in Tibet, is the author ready to tell the rest of his story? By Lewis M. Simons
 
 
Letters to the Editor
 
Additional Sources
 
Smithsonian Perspectives
An Illustrated History of a Mughal Emperor By Secretary I. Michael Heyman
 
Phenomena, Comment & Notes
Two Cultures--Never the Twain Shall Meet? By John P. Wiley, Jr.
 

Technology Review - Oct '97

BEAM IT DOWN
Capturing solar energy by low-orbiting communications satellites and sending it to earth via microwave.
 
NEW HOPE IN THE MINEFIELDS
New ways to speed the removal of the millions of buried landmines that continue to kill and maim civilians in more than 60 countries.
 
NURTURING NEIGHBORHOOD NETS
Providing free access to computer networking can extend the pleasures and benefits of the Net to people living in poor communities.
 
WE CAN REBUILD YOU
Developing supple artificial muscles to run robots and perhaps replace worn-out or defective human parts.
 
IT'S A FLY! IT'S A BUG! IT'S A MICROPLANE!
Intelligent flies on the wall.


  • Science Guide News Daily - The Complete Source for Science News, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/31/1997

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