Welcome back from the weekend. Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have overlooked over the past week: Merck said it would cut 1,200 jobs following the FDA's rejection of one cholesterol drug and a scandal that's cuts sales of its combination drug Vytorin, which it...
Evaluating the reliability of a transportation network often involves an intensive simulation exercise to randomly generate and evaluate different possible network states. This paper proposes an algorithm to approximate the network reliability which minimizes the use of such simulation procedure. The algorithm will dissect and classify the...
University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...
Thank you for your acknowledgement of our troops in Afghanistan in the July issue. I am sure there many Americans are unaware Canadian troops are there. We have lost some good men and women there in the fight to free the Afghan people from the tyranny they have suffered for...
THE election of Barack Obama threatens to become the worst thing that ever happened to race-based affirmative action. So says liberal columnist Bonnie Erbe. "What could do more damage to the argument that African Americans deserve racial preferences than a majority of Americans voting to put an African American in...
Some observers--most notably, Reason magazine's Radley Balko--have long been documenting U.S. police forces' increasingly militaristic approach to the drug war. Their latest example is among the most shocking: After intercepting 32 pounds of marijuana in a package addressed to the residence of Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md., police...
The Courtauld Cezannes (COURTAULD GALLERY, LONDON) Card Players, Man with a Pipe, Mont Sainte-Victoire and several more, showcasing the gallery's collection of the French master painter. (020-7848 2777) to 5 Oct Hadrian (BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON)...
Last Night's TV MY ZINC BED BBC2 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? BBC1 Einstein successfully predicted that a massive heavenly object would be able to bend light, in a process known as gravitational lensing. He didn't, as far as I know, fully explore the application...
TOM CRUISE'S Second World War epic Valkyrie has been hit by a $11m (6m) law suit filed by a group of extras who suffered broken bones, cuts and bruises after they were thrown out of a lorry during shooting. The claim is the latest in a string...
Want to know the smartest things being said about the Democratic National Convention? Scan the blogs. The term blog is now 11 years old; the first convention wired for bloggers was in 2000. But better and better writers have embraced the form and found out what it's best at:...
By Zoe Elizabeth Buck RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER Incoming college freshmen often pay a physical price for the combination of high levels of stress, free-flowing booze, unlimited carbohydrates and a sudden lack of parental control: the infamous freshman 15. That is...
MARSEILLE, France AFP — French first division front-runners Marseille muddled into the Champions League proper here on Wednesday after an unconvincing 2-1 home win against Brann to go through 3-1 on aggregate. The Velodrome stadium observed a minute's silence for the two fans killed in a car accident...
Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures (INVERLEITH HOUSE, EDINBURGH) Gaitskell to Blair: almost 50 years of paintings and collages opposing British government policy, including the famous Ulster triptych. (0131-248 2971) to 12 Oct Hadrian (BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON)...
Conference Call Scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET Today SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Cell Genesys, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEGE) today announced that it has terminated VITAL-2, the second of two Phase 3 clinical trials of GVAX immunotherapy for prostate cancer, which compares GVAX immunotherapy in combination with Taxotere[R] docetaxel to...
The following calls were among those handled by the Antioch police Aug. 19-26 according to information provided by the police department. Aug. 19 Stolen vehicle: A green 1996 Jeep Cherokee was stolen from the 2700 block of Del Oro Circle sometime during the night....
Lafayette LABOR DAY VIGIL AT THE CROSSES: A peace vigil will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Labor Day, at the Crosses of Lafayette war memorial to honor soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are more than 4,000 crosses at the two-year-old memorial,...
One of the primary reasons Mormon Media Observer exists is to help improve the quality of media reporting about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through media criticism. So, like the MMO did back in December, it's time to hand out grades on recent reports about the LDS...
Canadian Forces personnel participated in a historic flight with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg over Bosnia-Herzegovina on 20 August 2008 aboard a Belgian aircraft, which undertook the 500th observation mission conducted under the Open Skies Treaty, which promotes openness and transparency among its signatories. "The participative role that we are...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Coral Reef Alliance CORAL has joined forces with Leisure Pro, the Internet's largest scuba diving and snorkeling merchant, to raise awareness about the endangered state of our planet's coral reefs. In observance of International Year of the Reef 2008, Leisure Pro is drawing on...
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