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If applied in time, changes in diet and exercise can reverse atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries that is caused by a buildup of cholesterol. Unfortunately, the earliest signs of atherosclerosis have been...

In November, two important meetings regarding the Gas Turbine industry in India were herd in Bangalore and Chennai, India. On November 5, 2011, 16 people gathered in Bangalore to discuss forming a gas...

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund on Dec. 22 announced grants worth nearly $1.5 million to help Haitians. A $264,000 grant to the Oasis Foundation will help revive l'Ecole Hoteliere Haitienne (the Haiti Hotel...

Regulators have long sought to make it easier for consumers to comprehend the terms of insurance contracts by insisting that policy forms be written in language that most consumers can understand. They typically...

HEADNOTE Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where "career planning" is an oxymoron Adam Hasler looks like a footloose millennial. He's worked as a model, waited tables, and lived all over...

Prof. Yamagata's predictions not only have enormous importance in terms of oceanic as well as atmospheric temperature variations, but also directly impact a wide range of economic and security issues for nations bordering...

Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Ltd and Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation today announced they had received the IEEE Milestone for Hitachi's pioneering development of the world's "First Practical Field Emission...

Indiana casinos saw their take from gambling fall in 2011, and new competition in Ohio and perhaps other neighboring states virtually guarantees things will get worse from here. The house win at 13...

LAW Moritt Hock & Hamroff in Garden City added a new area of practice in the patent sector with the addition of Steven S. Rubin as counsel. Rubin, who has 15 years of...

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) announced that five new members have been elected to its Commercial Board of Directors, which oversees the organization's commercial brokerage division. The new members are:...

EDUCATION Christopher Frost was appointed academic dean of the school of arts and sciences at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue. Frost, who brings with him more than 25 years of experience, was previously...

HEALTH CARE Demetrios Kadenas joined Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead in the newly created position of chief development officer. Kadenas most recently spent five years as a consultant and executive director with...

After 20 years at a corporate advertising firm, Pete Sussi was ready for a more animated career. Freelancing in designing 3-D animation, Sussi took the plunge and opened his own firm, Northport-based Platinum...

By Ha'aretz Motti (not his real name), a businessman with connections in Arab countries, was stunned several months ago when representatives of a well-known Israeli food company asked him to check the possibility...

In 2012 the Crafoord prizes in Mathematics and Astronomy are for the first time awarded simultaneously as two separate prizes with a prize amount of SEK 4 million each. BOX, Sweden -- THE...

SAN DIEGO -- KFx announces the upcoming publications of results on its APPIANFx Femoral Implant for ACL Reconstruction at the upcoming ORS (Orthopedic Research Society 2012 Meeting) meeting February 4th-7th in San Francisco,...

FLINT, Mich. -- Kettering University students are not the only ones who benefit from experiential learning. Dr. Ezekiel Gebissa, professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, recently spent an academic term in China...

Joint development with Kyushu University optimized for semiconductor miniaturization 20 nanometers or later, aiming for commercialization this year Tokyo, Jan 19, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (*1) (a company...

Stony Brook University has entered into a multiyear research partnership with the global pharmaceutical company Sanofi to develop a potential treatment for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections. The university didn't disclose the terms...