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2 June 1997 | ScienceNOW

Business and the Bible Don't Mix

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MELBOURNE--An Australian court here today shot down a novel attack on a creationist's claim to have found Noah's Ark. Judge Ronald Sackville ruled that ArkSearch Inc., the organization promoting exploration...
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29 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Germany May Reverse Genome Sequence Data Policy

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Following a meeting in Bonn this week, German science officials appear likely to defuse a dispute enveloping the country's new genome research program. According to Knut Bauer of the research...
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27 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

U.K. Revamps University Research Grants

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Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) is planning major changes in the way it funds projects in universities, pushing researchers to forge collaborations or else see their funds dry up. The...
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21 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

NSF Funds Faster Connections

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For scientists trying to share vast amounts of electronic data, traffic on the Internet can slow to an agonizing crawl. But the pace will pick up soon for 35 research...
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21 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Sexism Reported in Swedish Peer Review

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An analysis of medical research grant applications in Sweden suggests that the peer-review process is not immune to sexism. After a court battle to gain access to reviewers' evaluations, two...
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20 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Howard Hughes Network Expands by a Big Leap

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The rising stock market will be floating more biomedical research. With its endowment soaring, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is expanding its support for scientists...
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19 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Geneticists Urged to Share Data

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Worried that business secrecy may undermine scientific cooperation, an international group of geneticists last week appealed for a change of European patent policies to encourage scientists to release sequence data...
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15 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Russians Still in Station Program, But Launches Delayed

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Funding problems in Russia have led to an 8-month delay in the planned launch of the first pieces of the international space station. The initial launch will now occur in...
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13 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Suit Delays NIF Construction

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WASHINGTON--The Department of Energy (DOE) will delay for 11 days the start of extensive construction on a major laser facility to allow a federal court to hold a hearing on...
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13 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Baltimore to Head Caltech

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In a surprising move, the California Institute of Technology announced today that it has named Nobel Prize-winning virologist David Baltimore as its new president. "It's a great appointment for Caltech...
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6 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Court Cool to Academy's Secrecy

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has lost another round in a long legal war with animal activists and environmental groups. The U.S. District Court of Appeals here today...
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2 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Brookhaven Lab Operators Given Pink Slip

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Energy Secretary Federico Peña said yesterday that he will terminate the department's contract with the operator of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities Inc. (AUI). During a visit to the Upton,...
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1 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

A Baker's Dozen Win Top Science Prizes

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--National Science Foundation director Neal Lane announced here yesterday the 1997 recipients of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Also announced were winners of the...
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30 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Activists Seek to Block Nuke Programs

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and 38 other environmental and activist groups today announced plans to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court here tomorrow to halt...
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21 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Journals Joust Over Financial Ties

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Pulling no punches, three top medical journals have squared off over whether and how to disclose conflicts of interest that may color research findings. The dispute pits Boston's venerable New...
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17 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Seattle Researchers Claim They Were Pressured

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Five scientists have accused some special interests, including companies and medical lobby groups, of trying to disrupt the flow of public health data for commercial or ideological ends. The critique,...
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16 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Geneticists More Likely to Hide the Goods

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Citing examples of data-hoarding by colleagues, some scientists have griped that commercialism and competition are destroying the once-congenial atmosphere of U.S. academic labs. Such complaints are now likely to gain...
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15 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Wulf Wins Engineering Presidency

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--After 2 years of turmoil, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has a new president. William Wulf, a University of Virginia computer engineer, was elected today by the NAE's...
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15 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Quashed Study Sees Light of Day

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Findings suppressed for more than 2 years by a drug company that sponsored the research will finally appear in tomorrow's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)....
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11 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Europe to Overhaul Vast Research Program

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LONDON--The European Commission this week announced its plans for a radical shake-up of the European Union's (EU's) main multibillion-dollar research effort. The commission intends to focus the Framework program on...
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8 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

NYU Hit for $15 Million on Indirect Costs

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The New York University (NYU) Medical Center has agreed to pay $15.5 million to the federal government to settle a civil complaint alleging that for 11 years the center overcharged...
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8 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Canada, U.S. Strike Deal on Space Station

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Canada will build an important component of the international space station in exchange for free access to its laboratories under a new bilateral agreement announced today in Washington. The agreement,...
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7 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

European Treaty Bans Dubious Biotech Research

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LONDON--Several European countries have agreed to the first-ever international convention on biomedical ethics. The nonbinding treaty, signed on 4 April at a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain, sets strict limits on...
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31 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

NSF Taps Two Supercomputing Centers

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When it comes to the number of supercomputing centers it wants to support, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that less is more. Under a new program called Partnerships...
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27 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

NCI Does U-Turn on Mammograms

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BETHESDA, MARYLAND--The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has once again endorsed breast cancer testing for women in their forties. The action brings NCI recommendations in line with those of the American...
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25 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Jump Start for Russian R&D Businesses

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Russian government is about to launch two programs aimed at feeding the flames of an already-hot cottage industry: science-based businesses. The initiatives were announced here at a conference...
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25 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Opening Gambit in Italy's Year of Reform

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VENICE--Italy's chief research funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), has a new head: informatics engineer Lucio Bianco, a relatively unknown academic. Bianco is expected to steer the council toward...
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25 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Report Jolts Japan's Earthquake Program

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Japan's 32-year-old earthquake-prediction research program has failed to meet its goal of warning the public of impending earthquakes and has overstated the chances of developing accurate forecasts. So says a...
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24 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Reports Warn of R&D Cuts

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists should be skeptical of the White House claim that R&D has been protected from the headlong rush to cut the federal deficit. That's the underlying message in reports...
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20 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Advice on Thwarting Genetic Discrimination

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--After Christine DeMark told her boss she was getting a test for a gene defect linked to Huntington's disease, her employer "did everything they could to force me to...
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18 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Cabinet Shake-Up Boosts Russian Science

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MOSCOW--Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday resurrected his science ministry and appointed an engineer to spearhead a drive to reform Russian science. The ongoing Cabinet reorganization should give Russian scientists a...
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17 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

A New Voice for European Scientists?

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STRASBOURG, FRANCE--Some 200 prominent European researchers met here over the weekend to launch an association that will speak for working researchers across the continent. But the newborn organization, called Euroscience,...
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17 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

The End of Leprosy?

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Citing a stunning decline in leprosy cases worldwide, a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva suggests that the disease can be eliminated by 2000. But...
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12 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Panel Makes Case for New South Pole Station

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WASHINGTON--An expert panel recommended today that the National Science Foundation (NSF) go ahead with its plan to build an ambitious new research station at the South Pole. But with an...
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11 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

House Targets Embryo Researcher

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress has launched an investigation into controversial human embryo studies conducted by Mark Hughes, a molecular geneticist who once worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Representative Joe...
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10 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Will New Promises Save Russian Science?

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MOSCOW--Destitute, their labs on the brink of ruin, Russian scientists may finally have something to cheer about. A series of public rallies in the last 2 weeks has elicited a...
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10 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

British Companies Share Their Secrets

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LONDON--Corporate scientists often must hide proprietary data to protect a bottom line. But at least in Britain, that doesn't mean they're unwilling to share the fruits of their basic research....
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4 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

ORI Absolves Fisher of Misconduct

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Bill Clinton today sent a memo to federal agencies prohibiting them from funding experiments on human cloning. The ban doesn't change existing policy at the National Institutes of...
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27 February 1997 | ScienceNOW

Grants Bolster Latin American Science

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BETHESDA, MARYLAND--Guests at an awards ceremony here grimaced as they watched a video of biochemist Lourival Possani pluck a deadly scorpion from a box full of its squirming cousins and...
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26 February 1997 | ScienceNOW

Varmus: Cloning Humans "Repugnant"

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The cloning of an adult sheep by Scottish biologists was on every legislator's mind when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appeared to defend his...
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