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Oprah Winfrey to deliver annual Stanford lecture on a meaningful life
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Stanford, California - Oprah Winfrey, a global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress, will offer her personal reflections on life when she delivers "Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life" at 7 p.m. Monday, April 20, in Stanford Memorial Church.
Diagnostic Tools: A Calculated Risk
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- Written by Wallace Ravven
Berkeley, California - Rushed to the hospital with a crushing headache and numbness on his left side, the 72-year-old man appears to be having a stroke - either a bleed or a block in a major artery supplying the brain.
New material captures carbon at half the energy cost
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the polluted emissions of a coal-fired power plant.
Bioengineers put human hearts on a chip to aid drug screening
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are not talking about emotional vulnerability.
Teaching programming to preschoolers
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing stickers to laminated sheets of paper.
Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Since December, an outbreak of swine flu in India has killed more than 1,200 people, and a new MIT study suggests that the strain has acquired mutations that make it more dangerous than previously circulating strains of H1N1 influenza.
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