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The winners of the 2000 presidential primaries may be those who are best at using character as a political resource, according to the author of a book on presidential leadership.

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A "salon"-type gathering of people, ranging from high school seniors to practicing medical doctors, who enjoy quarks, pizza, liquid nitrogen ice-cream -- and share a love of physics -- meets monthly at The University of Tulsa.

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The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership has issued a $40,000 grant to Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management to fund a national case study competition for entrepreneurship students.

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The impact of tourism on the cultures of the American Southwest will be the focus of a symposium at Southern Methodist University, March 24-25.

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Feb. 2000 has been declared Sinus Pain Awareness Month by the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, with patient information, interviews with ear, nose, and throat specialists, patient histories, and a video news release available.

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More telescopes have joined the search for Mars Polar Lander after Stanford scientists failed to confirm a radio signal from the missing spacecraft last week.

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More and more companies are embracing "soulful" themes, e.g., Volkswagen uses the slogan "If you were really good in a past life, you come back as something better" to link its new Beetle to the traditional "Bug."

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LSU professor William Pryor has received the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest, given by the American Chemical Society, for his research on how vitamin E can help prevent heart disease.

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Recent announcements of layoffs at Coca-Cola are a major management misstep that show a lack of leadership, according to an internationally known expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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NSF leaders will brief members of the science and engineering community on NSF's budget request.

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If Ben & Jerry's is acquired by a major multinational corporation, it spells "death for the company as it stands," according to an internationally known expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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AIDS patients may be at significantly greater risk of death when cytomegalovirus (CMV) circulates in their blood, suggests research at the University of North Carolina.

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Pregnant women with HIV may reduce the risk of transmitting the AIDS virus to their babies by taking a combination of AIDS drugs and giving birth by cesarean section, according to University of North Carolina researchers.

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In a study focusing on ill children and adolescents with depressed immune systems, UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center researchers will try to determine if laughter can help reduce pain and prevent and treat diseases.

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The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology has endorsed NIH's draft guidelines for stem cell research.

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Ohio State researchers took another step toward developing an effective treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the most common inherited cause of childhood mortality (Human Molecular Genetics, 2-00).

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Valentine's Day has become the traditional day to celebrate love by exchanging gifts and kisses.

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An NC State University research team has identified and mapped two genes for enzymes that play important roles in hibernation in ground squirrels and, because the genes are nearly identical to ones found in nonhibernating mammals, the findings could have implications for areas such as organ transplants and hypothermia.

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Material derived from a pig's small intestine is being used to heal persistent wounds that could have otherwise required amputation and to treat conditions such as skin sores, urinary incontinence, damaged internal organs, and hernias.

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By studying the crystal structure of a protein molecule, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have discovered an important cell-regulation process that impacts cancer development and may lead to the development of cancer-fighting drugs(Science, 12-99).

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The trade volume between two countries sharing a common currency is greater than that of comparable countries with their own currencies, according to research by a Haas School of Business professor.

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For romance, candy can be dandy, but if you overdo it, the effort to remove those love handles can be anything but sweet.

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The University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, in conjunction with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capital and technology firms, today announced the start of the second annual Business Plan Competition.

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A research team led by the University of Iowa has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes a hereditary form of blindness (Nature Genetics, 2-00).

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NYU School of Medicine researchers received more than $11 million from the National Institute on Aging to study amyloid beta, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

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Recent cases challenging university affirmative action policies mean that many institutions should rethink both the reasons for such programs and how they implement them, contends a University of Arkansas law professor (California Law Review).

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It may be possible to protect infants from acquiring the HIV virus during birth by giving them and their mothers a combination of three potent human antibodies shortly before delivery and after birth (Nature Medicine, 2-00).

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An important link between getting specific bacterial infections and developing autoimmune diseases such as arthritis has been uncovered by Johns Hopkins scientists (Nature Medicine, 2-00).

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Radiation has long been used as a method for killing cancer cells. Now researchers say radiation looks promising as a way to kill the overgrowth of tissue cells that can lead to a reblockage of a heart artery, according to a report in Circulation.

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Researchers are closing in on why people who overindulge in alcohol sometimes pass out, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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The greatest challenge in the man-insect wars in the new millennium, at least in the United States, may be a swarming little nuisance called the Formosan termite, a UGA researcher reported in the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society.

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The winner of the Republican Party's presidential nomination will be George W. Bush, according to students at Washington and Lee University. Bush was selected during the school's 2000 Republican Mock Convention on Jan. 29. They've only been wrong once since 1948.

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Research suggests that people have virtually no memory for the direction of objects that rotate (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2-00).

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A breakthrough by a University of Arizona faculty member and her Harvard Medical School colleague promises to dramatically improve the speech patterns of many people who cannot breathe on their own and who depend on mechanical ventilators.

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Former national security adviser Anthony Lake will launch a series concerning U.S. foreign interventions with a lecture called "Foreign Humanitarian Intervention: Which Children to Save?" (Feb. 10, 2000).

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1- Super bowl ads are a bargain; 2- Psychological effects of snow; 3- What the QBs need to do to win; 4- New law could lead to citizenship for Elian Gonzalez.

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The seemingly irresistible business trend of mergers and acquisitions during the 80s and 90s is said to be having a negative impact on the nation's cities and towns.

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A brief application of a polymer commonly used in medicine and cosmetics has been shown to immediately repair damaged nerve membranes in live guinea pigs with severe spinal cord injuries (FASEB Journal, 1-00).

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A test used to gauge developmental abilities, sometimes given to children before they enter school, can give parents of premature children a good idea of whether or not their child is at risk for future learning problems, suggests an Ohio State study (recent issue of The Journal of Pediatrics).

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Members of Congress who are most successful in getting their bills passed into law receive more campaign contributions from political action committees, a study at Ohio State has found (current Legislative Studies Quarterly).

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An Ohio State study suggests that it is large institutional investors who drive dizzying daily changes in the stock market.

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As the number of individuals interested in integrative medicine continues to increase, the number of physicians and other health care providers demanding training in integrative modalities has skyrocketed.

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The public lacks information about important mental health benefits, and this lack of information represents a barrier to seeking care when needed, according to the Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine (Psychiatric Services, 2-00).

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New mental illness research offers bold insights into mental health risks associated with fetal and birth complications, according to several papers in The American Journal of Psychiatry (2-00).

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The Economics Department of Mount Holyoke College is hosting a conference on "The World Economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Feb. 18 and 19, 2000.

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The ability to coax climate signals out of coral reefs is a talent that landed a University of Arizona geoscientist and colleagues a spot in today's Science (1-28-00).

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Pinning Wisconsin's economic growth to the potential of biotechnology, Gov. Tommy Thompson has proposed a $317 million investment in research centers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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In the face of increasing hacker attacks, at-risk personal computer users do have a few options, says a UAB computer engineer.

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Staying Healthy at 50+ is a program aimed at helping older Americans understand and incorporate preventive care into their lives.

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A Colorado State University researcher theorizes that an oversupply of certain fatty acids, not sun and shadow, keep groundhogs up and active on Feb. 2 or send them back to hibernation.