Bush plan threatens Missouri agriculture research funding
Missouri officials warn that moving to competitive grants could cost about 45 million dollars in state and private matching funds and cut roughly 50 faculty and staff from the state land grant system. Agriculture officials defend reforms as attracting top scientists, while Senator Bond warns the shift harms a multistate research network.
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Bogus e-mails impersonate ICE targets grieving families
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau warns of scams using fake ICE messages linked to the bureau site. One email seeks to recover funds from a slain soldier’s friend and another pretends to track looted Iraqi funds. Victims urged to ignore and delete these messages.
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Swift Probe Tracks Decades-Old Magnetar Burst Event
Swift space telescope, launched last November, pivots to gamma ray bursts and records the afterglow from a December magnetar flare in SGR 1806 20. The burst from a neutron star 50 000 light years away in Sagittarius was up to a billion times more powerful than typical soft gamma repeater flares, leaving a smoldering, glowing ring from debris in surrounding gas.
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Stanford University
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Computers Campaign Encourages Global Tech Awareness
Tyrone Taborn, head of Career Communications in Baltimore, leads a global technology awareness drive backed by IBM. The Black Family Network umbrella program shares curricula for community campaigns each year, with about 200 events planned this month across Brazil, Canada, South Africa and Jamaica.
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Bill Would Allow Nursing in Public in Kansas
Kansas House Health and Human Services Committee endorsed a bill declaring a woman may breast feed any place she has a right to be and urged breastfeeding as state policy. The measure, backed unanimously after testimony from public health officials and mothers, moves to the House for debate.
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