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• Stanford University to triple size of office park in Redwood City

  - 2008-07-31

  As it runs out of space in Palo Alto, Stanford University is planning to plant more roots in Redwood City in the form of 1.5 million square feet of new office space. The university wants to build a dozen administrative offices and five parking garages at the...

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• Stanford X-ray exhibit takes an inner look at terrorism

  - 2007-09-05

  Among a batch of X-rays that arrived at the Stanford University School of Medicine this week were images of a severely broken leg studded with hex nuts, a pierced chest hosting an entrenched nail and pieces of a bomber's wristwatch embedded in a young girl's neck. The collection...

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• Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Stanford Professors Team Up to Launch Think Tank on Terrorism

  - 2007-04-19

  Led by Renowned Psychologists Philip G. Zimbardo and James N. Breckenridge, 'CIPERT' Will Study Causes and Impacts of Political Violence PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Professors from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology PGSP and Stanford University announced today the launch of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research...

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• Annual review of biochemistry; v.75, 2006

  - 2006-12-01

  Annual review of biochemistry; v.75, 2006. Ed. by Roger D. Kornberg et al. Annual Reviews 2006 982 pages $208.00 Hardcover QP514 This handsomely bound volume contains 29 articles reviewing recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It opens with Robert Lehman's (Stanford...

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• Autism Research at Packard Children's Seeks Participants

  - 2006-11-27

  Eight Subjects to Be Enrolled Locally; Multi-Center National trial PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University are studying the safety and effectiveness of a new atypical anti-psychotic medication to improve behavioral problems such as agitation and aggression in children with autism. This medication...

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• Six vie for three seats on Menlo Park Council

  - 2006-10-17

  MENLO PARK -- In Menlo Park, projected budget shortfalls and controversial issues such as privatization of city services and adding sports fields to Bayfront Park have drawn out a contentious field of candidates split into two distinct camps. In one corner, incumbents Lee Duboc and Mickie Winkler...

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• A Relatedness Analysis Of Government Regulations Using Domain Knowledge And Structural Organization

  BNET - 2006-01-05

  The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding and retrieval of regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources of regulations and interpretive guides with differences in format, terminology and context. This paper describes a comparative analysis scheme developed to help retrieval of...

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• Locating Related Regulations Using A Comparative Analysis Approach

  BNET - 2006-01-05

  The sheer volume and complexity of government regulations make any attempt to locate, understand and interpret the information a daunting task. Other factors, such as the scattered distribution of the regulations across many sources, different terminologies and cross referencing, further complicate the technical issues in developing a regulation information management...

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• Straight Talk on Social Security Reform

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  It is worth recalling the original mission of Social Security. Enacted in 1935, at a time when the unemployment rate exceeded 20 percent, the primary purpose of Social Security was to provide protection against poverty-ridden old age. An important corollary was to provide the wherewithal for older workers to leave...

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• Stanford University to set up campus in India.

  - 2004-12-02

  The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--NEW DELHI, India -- If stringent visa rules have hampered the international character of American universities, the 113-year-old Stanford University has found a way out. The university is exploring options of opening ...

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