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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James are the subjects of Cornell University professor and author's latest work of literary criticism, CITIZENS OF SOMEWHERE ELSE.

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Minimum wage hardly helps poor workers; instead, we should expand the Earned Income Tax Credits that targets workers with low family incomes, says a Cornell University professor who testified on minimum wage policy before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee.

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Ice cream that won't melt when you put it inside a microwave oven: Apple treats called "Sweet Spots" are Cornell's entry as national finalists in the annual Institute of Food Technologists' Product Development Student Competition.

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Six years ago, an economics journal suggested that milk producers who pay "check-off" allocations may be better served spending that money on research, rather than on milk promotion and marketing. Now, Cornell University agricultural economists say that the mathematical model used in that study may be incorrect due to erroneous assumptions, and in some cases money spent on consumer promotion will pay off better.

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Officials from the Dominican Republic and Cornell University will celebrate the construction start of a multipurpose facility -- a biodiversity laboratory for undergraduate students and a distance-learning center for scholars of that Caribbean nation -- in ceremonies set for June 18 in the Punta Cana region of the Dominican Republic.

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Lani Guinier, Houston Baker and Stanley Fish are among more than a dozen prominent guest speakers who will present public talks as part of the 1999 Summer Session of the School of Criticism and Theory, (SCT) hosted by Cornell University beginning June 14.

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The hidden poles of the moon have been revealed by Cornell University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers working with the radar antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif. The south pole image, in particular, reveals a chaotic surface, with deep craters that are in permanent shadow from the sun and which are potential repositories for water ice.

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The seventh International Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors will be held at Cornell University July 26-30. The following includes information for media representatives wishing to attend the conference and a media registration form.

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The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, one of the world's leading centers for X-ray research in biology and materials science, is building a major addition that will provide a quantum leap in its capabilities.

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A new book by Cornell University professor Vicki Caron describes France's response to its Jewish refugee crisis when Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933-42.

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Students in associate professor Rob Bloomfield's equity research course at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management have posted on the World Wide Web a semester's worth of carefully researched stock information on companies they have identified as good investments largely ignored by professional analysts at investment firms.

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Two new books edited by two Cornell University sociologists explore how people develop their weight-related identities and cope in social situations; how our society and culture shape weight ideals; and how weight issues become social problems.

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Cornell University Library has acquired a rare set of William Wordsworth's "Poetical Works" (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions.

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An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers.

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In celebration of Labor History Month a coalition of academic, labor, business and arts organizations, among them Cornell University, will sponsor a performance Saturday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to noon in New York City's Union Square about the square's central role in the American trade union movement.

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An enduring nuptial gift is included in every sperm package from a male rattlebox moth (Utetheisa ornatrix) to his freshly mated female: a potent, plant-derived chemical that protects her for life against predatory spiders, biologists at Cornell University have discovered.

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Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, national security adviser, will speak at the Senior Convocation the day before Cornell University's 131st Commencement on Sunday, May 30. By tradition, the commencement address on Sunday will be given by Cornell president Hunter Rawlings.

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Cornell University biologists who study dwindling populations of a rare ground squirrel in Idaho have found another reason to let "natural" fires burn: Without lightning-sparked fires every 10 to 12 years, non-native plants and pine trees are isolating squirrels into shrinking groups with inadequate food and keeping them from breeding with nearby populations.

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A study by an assistant professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, shows when consensus decision-making will work and when not to use it.

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Researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the North American Bluebird Society are asking bird-lovers to log on to http://birds.cornell.edu and put their birdhouses on the map for the first-ever Great North American Bluebird Count.

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Cornell University Cooperative Extension will air "Not in My School, Not in My Community," a live panel discussion on youth violence. The broadcast, available free of charge to television stations, television networks, schools, county extension offices and others able to downlink from a satellite, will air Monday, April 26 at 3 p.m., EDT.

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In a new book, "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them," a Cornell professor explains how boys become vulnerable to committing acts of violence and what parents, teachers and communities can do about it.

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Cornell computer scientist Carla Gomes has received three grants totaling $858,782 from the U. S. Air Force to study methods of speeding the computer solutions of problems that involve testing many possible combinations of variables and constraints, such as in scheduling and design of manufacturing systems. Her methods short-circuit problems with "heavy tails," where there may be a vast number of wrong answers.

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"Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Closure in Political Authority," a new Cornell University web site, will allow faculty, students and researchers from around the world to explore the socio-political fallout that followed the death of six 20th-century patriarchs, including Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin, Ceausescu, Mussolini and Tito.

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A fortified orange-flavored powder drink has been so successful in improving the nutritional status of East African children that Michael C. Latham, professor of international nutrition and a physician, will conduct a study of 350 pregnant women to see if it can improve their nutritional status, especially iron status.

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For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

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Steve Shiffrin says in his new book "Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America" that flag burning, other forms of public dissent protect core American values that we should encourage, not merely tolerate, but that our institutions wrongly try to limit.

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Bill Nye, the television writer and host of the popular public television children's science program, "Bill Nye, the Science Guy," will unveil the first extraterrestrial sundial at a press conference at Cornell University on Wednesday, April 21.

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The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $88,183,000 for the operation of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) over the next 54 months.

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Cornell University Press has published the world's first book using paper carrying the Forestry Stewardship Council logo. The FSC logo in a book signifies that the owner of the timber used to make the book's pages has met strict criteria for sustainable timber management.

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A survey of human resource managers by Cornell University found that health, life and disability insurance costs rarely rise because of hiring employees with disabilities, but stereotypes about people with disabilities are still pervasive in the workplace, causing them to be hired less and fired more.

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A Cornell professor of history and classics and director of the Peace Studies Program threw himself into a difficult new sport and then wrote a book about it. Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty is a memoir that navigates through mid-life rites of passage as it meditates on the techniques and history of rowing.

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Women who cook, eat and chat together improve their diets together in a unique Cornell Cooperative Extension program called Sisters in Health.

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A new Cornell University invention can clean up pesticide and textile waste water on site efficiently and inexpensively using the Fenton reaction without some of the problems of current technologies, says Cornell doctoral student, David Saltmiras, and professor Ann Lemley, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting

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Out of the doggie bags and into the compost piles, restaurant food scraps could boost community gardens under glass if a waste-reduction plan by Cornell University student environmentalists takes root.

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Biotechnologists at Cornell University have engineered a strain of bacteria with two abilities -- to soak up heavy-metal pollutants, such as mercury, and sequester them for recycling -- and now are ready to begin field trials of a system that should reduce water and soil contamination to the parts-per-trillion level.

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By mimicking nature, a Cornell University chemist has found a seemingly efficient way to create a new plastic material. It would be either biodegradable or able to react with water to convert into nontoxic materials, and it would have properties such as impact resistance.

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Cornell University researchers release thousands of tiny solid polystyrene spheres, each about the size of a speck of dust, into flowing water and tracking their movement with a laser. The information they receive back explains how particles behave in a turbulent environment.

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A new chemical isolated from spider venom might one day prevent human brain cells from dying after being deprived of oxygen for short periods, a Cornell University chemist believes.

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Cornell University researchers are testing nanofabricated silicon "sieves" that might replace organic gels to make an automated DNA sequencing device on a chip.

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Eberhard Bodenschatz watches 100 million years of geological time pass in an hour. He sees transform faults being created, rift valleys opening and spiral structures called microplates forming. by watching a model of tectonic evolution in a tub of molten wax. Wax experiments allow him to study millions of years of tectonic spreading in the laboratory.

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A tiny silicon device resembling a harp with strings only 50 nanometers thick allows Cornell University researchers to study resonance phenomena on a microscopic scale, at uncommonly high frequencies.

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Cornell University researchers are studying the physics of nanomanufactured bar magnets as small as 25 nanometers wide, which could find application as storage devices for computer data.

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The South Asia Program at Cornell University announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature to bring distinguished South Asian writers to the campus, made possible through a generous gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Mrs. Suman Prabhu.

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A new Cornell University web site provides easy access to massive databases of geological data. Users of the site can just point and click to make maps displaying both geographic and geological information about areas of the world they choose.

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Archivists and computer systems specialists at Cornell University have embarked on an 18-month project to study new record-keeping technologies and recommend ways to ensure that electronic records are preserved for the future.

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In a truly global course at Cornell, students from four continents and corporate managers from 10 international companies linked via teleconferencing are working together on teams to solve key international human resource problems.

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Cornell University geologists will establish 30 temporary seismic-recording stations in eastern Turkey to better understand the collision of continents and the births of earthquakes. The region was selected because it is one of the most seismically active and the youngest continent-to-continent plate boundaries on earth.

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The Cornell Early Childhood Music Project at the childcare center at Cornell uses chants, musical playground, instruments from around the world and other unique approaches to focus on music for enhancing brain development.

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A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats. A symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.