Allstate Misses Analysts? Estimates
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Getting The Big Smoke Ready For Olympic Flame
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New Mexico Looks Again At Show’s Use Of Children
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Fire At Dubai Port
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Science News

Peter Staudhammer, Designed NASA Instruments, Dies at 73
2008-02-01 05:30 - Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon.

Managers Proceed With Shuttle Mission Plans
2008-02-01 05:30 - Pending resolution of a potential radiator hose problem, the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for launching on Feb. 7 on a twice-delayed mission to the International Space Station.

Managing Traffic in the Urban Age
2008-02-01 05:30 - City managers and planners say traffic must be managed in a crowding world but how do you have a prosperous city and not have it choke on its own wealth?

Synthetic Genome: Signed, Sealed, Decoded
2008-01-30 06:01 - You were expecting poetry, perhaps? The secret messages hidden in J. Craig Venter’s synthetic bacterial genome have now been revealed. They are Dr. Venter’s name, and that of his research institute and co-workers.

Doomsday for Vermin
2008-01-30 05:32 - If every rat, cockroach and bedbug disappeared from New York City, would that be a good thing, ecologically speaking?

Blogging on Obesity (1 Letter)
2008-01-30 05:31 - To the Editor:.

A Call for Sharing (3 Letters)
2008-01-30 05:31 - To the Editor:.

Teens and Gross Anatomy (1 Letter)
2008-01-30 05:31 - To the Editor:.

The Nature of Politics (1 Letter)
2008-01-30 05:31 - To the Editor:.

For F.D.A., a Major Backlog Overseas
2008-01-30 05:31 - A series of reports concludes that the agency is so overwhelmed by a flood of imports that it is incapable of protecting the public from unsafe drugs, medical devices and food.


 
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