Former Cornell lacrosse player George Boiardi has been of the minds of the Cornell lacrosse team during their run to the Finals of the 2009 NCAA Lacrosse tournament. The Cornell lacrosse player was killed in 2004 during a lacrosse game against Binghamton University. With less...
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The 2009 NCAA Lacrosse Championship will have the number two seed, Syracuse taking on the fifth seed Cornell, who upset the first seed Virginia in a Semi-final match on May 23. The 2009 NCAA Lacrosse Championship is...
Cornell University's "New Student Reading Project" requires Garry Wills' book, "Lincoln at Gettysburg," to be read this year, with this justification:"Lincoln at Gettysburg invites readers to reflect on the ideals that should shape America’s national purpose and allows them...
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I can't believe it took so long to happen but the Silicon Alley Insider has done a piece tracking the stars of Web 1.0. On the list are Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, who I worked for in the late...
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Robert Burton, M.D., author and former Chief of Neurology at Mount Zion-UCSF Hospital, examines why most voters will not change their minds about their favorite candidate even if presented with sufficient facts...
I had no idea that fish could hum, Disney movies notwithstanding. Not only do some fish hum, though, but their humming is controlled by a similar brain circuit to ours. These musical fish can teach us about our...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI want to know which Scientists come up with these Bizzaro ideas? Is there anything under those labcoats? Cause there certainly doesn't seem to be anything...
Altered levels of both sex hormones and gonadotropins
may contribute to sleep disturbance in older postmenopausal women,
according to a study published in the December 1 issue of the journal Sleep.
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"The researchers also found that Americans with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty -- 25.4 percent of working-age Americans with disabilities live in poverty compared with 9.5 percent of those without disabilities. People with disabilities...
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Even though Al Gore just got the Nobel Prize, he is not the one who invented Traminette. Bruce Reisch of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell University)in Geneva (New York) is the man behind it. Jim Clarke looks at why Winemakers look to hardy hybrids...
In the developed countries, potable water and fresh food is considered a right. Yet, as arecently published article by David Pimentel et al. from Cornell University shows, 40% of the world's population...
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"Virgil Goode's (R-VA) paranoid ravings, warning of "In Muhammad We Trust" on US Currency and "The Islamic Flag" flying over Washington are the most recent examples of a rising tide of Islamophobia in the United...
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"To track anti-American sentiment all you need is a $10 bucket of paint and a map of the globe. A quick look at the polling data shows that we don't have many supporters left. Take this dramatic example: six out of ten Iraqis favor attacks on US forces, and we liberated them."
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"American voters have been in a bad mood lately. They don't think highly of the President's performance. They aren't crazy about the war. They certainly don't like the G.O.P.-led Congress--a New York Times poll last week put its approval rating at just 25%. And while...
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