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Researchers this week will begin a four-year study to retarget America's $380 billion in annual education spending.

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First in Europe, then in northeastern North America, salmon runs were decimated by many of the same factors. Now a strikingly similar scenario is playing out in the Pacific Northwest. A scientist recommends novel steps he believes could save Northwest salmon.

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The President of the Nasdaq Stock Market will be at the UW on Tuesday to officially open the only trading room in the western United States on a college campus.

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The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in response to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Rather it was the end game in a long, deliberate process undertaken by the United States government.

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Conventional wisdom says a river's flood plain builds bit by bit, flood after flood, whenever the stream overflows its banks and deposits new sediment on the flood plain. But for some vast waterways in South America's Amazon River basin, that wisdom doesn't hold water.

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Considering the cost of wildfires against the cost of thinning overly dense stands in two national forests in Washington and Oregon has implications for forests across the Intermountain West, from Canada to Arizona and New Mexico.

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A 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major differences in the prey hunted by Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon, countering the idea that Cro-Magnon supplanted Neanderthals because of some evolutionary physical or mental advantage.

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Richard L. Nolan, professor emeritus of The Harvard Business School, will be named on Monday the inaugural Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration at the University of Washington Business School.

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Researchers studying physical and chemical processes at the smallest scales, smaller even than the width of a human hair, have found that fluid circulating in a microscopic whirlpool can reach radial acceleration more than a million times greater than gravity, or 1 million Gs.

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Companies that offer interactive Web sites to consumers have a two to five times greater chance of selling their products than those that only provide static information, according to a professor.

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The increasing maldistribution of wealth is weakening democracy and turning ordinary Americans into powerless, second-class citizens.

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A brief non-judgmental interview and feedback session designed to enhance people motivation to change their behavior added to a self-help program appears to be effective in treating some people with two common eating disorder, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.

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Contrary to popular belief, using the Internet may not improve a person's chances of finding a job.

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Nine out of 10 urban school superintendents say they need more authority to fix bad schools and boost student achievement, according to a survey of the superintendents of the nation's 100 largest districts.

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The staying power of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field is one reason they also may have been incubators of Earth's earliest life.

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The group that proposed creating a National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at a closed South Dakota gold mine has completed a detailed engineering plan for the conversion.

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Social interaction apprently plays a far more important role in how infants learn language than previously believe, according to three related studies.

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Given only a fraction of a second to respond to images of men popping out from behind a garbage dumpster, people were more likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object such as a flashlight rather than a gun.

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Through many decades, stories about earthquakes raising or lowering water levels in wells, lakes and streams have become the stuff of folklore. But the relationship between seismic activity and hydrology is not well understood and is ripe for serious examination by scientists from the two disciplines, said a University of Washington hydrologist.

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Invisible and unfelt by anyone at the surface, the energy from internal waves appears to be crucial to the conveyor-belt-like circulation wherein cold water sinks at high latitudes and is driven to upwell at lower latitudes.

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It's getting harder and harder for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation. Only about 100 people still speak the native Alaskan language. However, a new effort to save Aleut by recording and videotaping the language will begin this year.

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Social-welfare programs may help many more people than previously thought, an economist has found.

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Forty university architecture students soon will head to Montana to help the Northern Cheyenne tribe build a house out of straw. The June 29-July 11 "build" will make use of techniques developed at the University of Washington and Pennsylvania State University.

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School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers. The new study documents the effects of a system used by nearly all urban school districts, which allocate money as if all teachers made the same salary even though better-paid teachers cluster in affluent neighborhoods.

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Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun's heat away from Earth and into space, are part of everyday life. But a new study says the cooling effect of man-made aerosols could throw a monkey wrench into the current understanding of climate change.

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Murder often begins at a terrifyingly young age. It is an awful journey-- frequently launched by physical and sexual violence, bullying and neglect -- that terminated in 1997 with the execution of 37 convicted Texas men.

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Researchers found that an unmarried mother is 42 percent more likely to marry the father if the child is a boy.

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What may be the nation's first university graduate course on Information In Sports is quietly introducing 30 future librarians this spring to, among other things, the infield fly rule.

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Researchers discovered that a group of aerospace engineers usually chose human sources over written ones and were three times more likely to choose familiar people over experts they didn't know.

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The bizarre Lost City hydrothermal vent field surprised scientists with vents that are the tallest ever seen -- the one that's 18 stories dwarfs most vents at other sites. The first U.S. scientific expedition to the site since its discovery leaves April 21.

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A woman's heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problem at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth.

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Experiment results from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility undo the long-held notion that a proton is shaped like a sphere, a University of Washington physicist has found.

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Children whose mothers are the most depressed, anxious and report high levels of psychosomatic symptoms are twice as likely to be taken to a doctor when they complain of a stomache ache than are children whose mothers report the least amount of such mental stress.

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Researchers have found a species of crow that distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or not the other bird is a relative.

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Eighty-four percent of political campaigns last year used Web sites designed to encourage participation in the political process, a University of Washington researcher found, up from less than 70 percent in 2000.

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The high-tech industry may be mired in a slump but it continues to stoke a business revolution that could leave some regions behind, University of Washington researchers found from interviewing the chief information officers of 38 companies.

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Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to have bound the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside.

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Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals.

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Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year. Nine-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language.

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University of Washington professors can help reporters with stories on terrorism and conflicts involving Iraq and North Korea.

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Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well-being. But they are growing up in increasingly bleak environments because of what a psychologist calls environmental generational amnesia.

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Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resource, and also indicated that early Indians' harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable.

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In 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from a violent birth to the watery blue planet celebrated in pictures from space. Now in a news book, two University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving toward its final end.

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America's top college graduates increasingly reject careers in science and engineering, University of Washington researchers have found, raising concerns about America's technological future.

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Tools such as the Hubble telescope let astronomers peer deep into space, but the special-purpose Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope in New Mexico is shedding more light on our celestial neighborhood.

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Social support may play a small but potentially important role in helping HIV-positive people adhere to the complicated schedules for taking their drug 'cocktails' and a pilot study suggests that individuals who had the support they needed are more likely to take their medicines.

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Earth's most ancient fossils are hard to find, and finding evidence of life somewhere other than Earth promises to be as challenging, says a noted University of Washington astrobiologist.

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Scientists have gathered the most direct evidence yet that parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are on a long-term, natural trajectory of melting.

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When members of two species compete directly with each other, scientists believe the one that adapts most quickly has the upper hand. But new evidence suggests that in relationships that benefit both species, the one that evolves more slowly has the advantage.

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Rain falling on snow is becoming a more-common phenomenon in northern latitudes. When it happens, ungulates such as reindeer and caribou can be cut off from a substantial portion of their food supply.