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USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA
In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Science, Barack Obama, Schizophrenia, National Institutes of Health
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State Pension Funds Recover Strongly In 2013
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD – Buoyed by the stock market's strong performance, the state's pension fund investments generated a return of 12.07 percent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year. State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier credits the growth to...Tags: Politics, Civil and Public Service, Career and Workplace, Fiscal Cliff, Government
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A skin-care line that is not just another pretty toxic face
Special to the Los Angeles TimesGregg Renfrew wants to change the way people live, starting with their cosmetics. Sitting in her light-filled office in Santa Monica, Renfrew rattles off the statistics she finds most alarming when it comes to some of the lotions, sprays and powders...Tags: Science and Technology, Lena Dunham, Media Industry, Environmental Issues, Consumers
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Amid euphoria of finding woman alive, Bangladesh rescuers return to task of retrieving bodies
Associated PressSAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers on Saturday returned to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving...Tags: Sheikh Hasina, Government, Collective Contract, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes, Engineering
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Bangladesh factory fire kills 8
NEW DELHI — A deadly fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh raised new cries for improvements in the country's industrial safety conditions Thursday, two weeks after a massive building collapse killed at least 950 people. The blaze that swept...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, The Walt Disney Co., Pakistan, Plant Openings, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Historic agreement offers hope for a war-weary world
In a world wracked with seemingly unsolvable conflicts from the Middle East to Central Asia and the Korean Peninsula, there is a ray of hope from another historically war-ravaged region — the Balkans. After 10 intense rounds of negotiations and...Tags: International Organizations, Serbia, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Bangladesh fire kills eight as collapse toll hits 930
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A fire in an 11-story garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people, including a ruling party politician and a top official in the country's powerful clothing manufacturers' trade group, as the death toll from the...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Career and Workplace, Collective Contract, Manufacturing and Engineering
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LETTER: GMO Labeling Foe Wants To Squelch Our Right To Know
It appears that Dr. Ronald Kleinman has sifted through the welter of information on GMOs and concluded for himself that these products are safe [May 7, op-ed, "Don't label Genetically Engineered Food"]. I have likewise sifted, and find myself with...Tags: Allergies, Genetic Engineering
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Brazilian named to head World Trade Organization
SAO PAULO, Brazil--Roberto Azevedo of Brazil has been elected the first Latin American director-general of the World Trade Organization, the global body charged with moving forward stalled trade agreement talks. The choice of Azevedo over close rival...
Tags: International Organizations, World Trade Organization, Politics, Trade Agreements, International Economic Institution
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Deadly factory fire renews outcry in Bangladesh
NEW DELHI -- As Bangladesh struggles to improve its dismal industrial safety record after a massive building collapse last month, another garment industry disaster has raised new cries for reform. Shortly before midnight Wednesday, a fire swept...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Fires, The Walt Disney Co., Pakistan
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Connecticut Beekeepers Worry About Pesticide Use
As part of the ongoing battle against Lyme and other tickborne diseases, public health organizations are asking residents in 11 Fairfield County towns to participate in a study to see if wiping out the ticks on rodents will help rein in the illnesses in...
Tags: Greenpeace, Environmental Politics, Bethel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Winter honey bee deaths devastate keepers, puzzle scientists
Something is killing the honey bees of Maryland. Close to 60 percent of the managed hives died last fall and over the winter — about twice the national average, according to the state bee inspector and local keepers. "I had a healthy hive that...
Tags: Science and Technology, Agriculture, Environmental Politics, Agricultural Research and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park
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