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Use to request a fax or photocopy. Study: Small indulgences a healthy habit On its evening health feature, this Cincinnati television station reported on Brown University research demonstrating that giving in to a food craving may help people eat less later in the day. VIDEO: www.wkrc.com/guides/health/headlines/story.aspx?content_id=E8F6B0A1-5D2A-4FC0-A1DA-BF5BB0E4B24F
Take one small black hole Horatiu Nastase, an assistant professor of physics (research) whose area of interest is mini black holes, remarks on recent findings showing that far more Higgs bosons will be produced by mini black holes than by conventional collisions.
News and Notes with Ed Gordon Economics Professor Glenn Loury participates in a roundtable discussion about a push to sue President Bush; hundreds of Democratic officials meeting on ways to galvanize the party; and Bill Cosby's criticism of a Washington Post series on black men.
An alternative to nursing care Joan Teno, a professor of community health who studies end-of-life care and the quality of care for seriously ill people, is the medical director of PACE, or Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. PACE is a new agency that helps elderly people continue to live in the community when they are frail enough to qualify for nursing home care. "It's always been my biggest frustration with how our health-care system works – how fragmented it is," Teno said. "There are very few places where I can work with a multidisciplinary team. One is hospice, the other is PACE. That's fun. That's the type of medicine I like to practice." Free registration: www.projo.com/projojobs/onthego/alternative.htm
College women may not have edge at hiring time Career counselors say that although women are academically superior in larger numbers, employers look for additional qualities such as personality. The article notes that about 30 percent of women who graduated from Brown in 2006 received honors degrees, while 24 percent of the men did. This article also was distributed through the Scripps News Service to newspapers across the United States. Free registration: www.projo.com/projojobs/content/projo_20060723_23juri.4d7179d.html
Bionic breakthrough Science correspondent Julian Rush reports on Matthew Nagle and the brain implant with which he learned to use his thoughts to operate a computer, turn on a TV set, open e-mail, play a video game and manipulate a robotic arm. The BrainGate system used by Nagle was developed by scientists at Brown University. An interview with Brown neuroscientist John Donoghue is included in the broadcast.
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