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Managers who are fired tend to overestimate their abilities. By contrast, self-objectivity could be essential to their success or recovery.

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Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a new and innovative method to treat insulin-dependent diabetes. The treatment could potentially be used to help prevent or slow down the occurrence of diabetes in juveniles that have a strong tendency towards developing the disease before adulthood.

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Athletes have been advised for years that carbohydrates and amino acids can enhance their performance. Now, it appears that timing of the right food ñ in addition to fluid replacement ñ may be crucial to post-exercise recovery.

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A powerful numerical simulation developed at the University of Illinois has revealed that gravitational waves ñ ripples in the fabric of space ñ play a major role in coalescing neutron stars. The results may aid in the future detection of gravitational waves.

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A computer simulation developed at the University of Illinois is helping scientists better understand the strange world of nanoelectronics ñ where one electron can control a device, but quantum mechanics is required to describe the behavior of that electron.

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A new study examining fluctuations in mortality has found that significantly more deaths occur in the U.S. during the first week of each month, and that this peak in deaths may be due to substance abuse by people who receive government support payments at the beginning of the month.

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Virginia voters have clear views on what is and is not a fair campaign advertisement and are prepared to punish candidates who make unfair charges, according to a new study conducted for the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.

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On July 20, 1969, Purdue University alumnus Neil Armstrong became the first human to plant his feet on the moon. As the 30th anniversary of Armstrong's mission nears, here's a list of story ideas about other Purdue efforts to expand our reach in space.

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Princeton scientists have answered several fundamental questions about one of the smallest devices in the human body -- molecules that function as motors, carrying substances from place to place within a cell.

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If confirmed by subsequent studies, the results of a heart attack study reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine may lead to a re-examination of paramedic transport policies, says Prediman K. Shah, M.D., Director of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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In the last decade, swelling human and animal populations have helped load Eastern North Carolina ecosystems with nitrogen, phosphate and other nutrients that can be harmful to air, water and land resources. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University say Mother Nature, and the violent weather patterns she controls, could be at the root of the state's water quality problems.

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Scientific evidence points to a possible link between schizophrenia and altered brain development in the first three months of pregnancy, according to a new report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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A natural compound found to be extraordinarily potent in protecting nerves from harm in a lab model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will likely usher in a new drug "cocktail" approach to the disease, Johns Hopkins scientists reported in the July 1, 1999 Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.

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The world's fastest encryption device, developed at the Sandia National Laboratories should soon be protecting data being transmitted from supercomputers, workstations, telephones and video terminals. It encrypts data at more than 6.7 billion bits per second, 10 times faster than any other known encryptor.

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The decision by manufacturers to raise the price of cigarettes last year will have a significant impact on whether young people take up smoking and how much tobacco farmers grow in the future, according to a Virginia Tech study released this week.

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University of Iowa Health Care researchers have found that, in some cases, adolescents diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma may actually have exercise-induced hyperventilation.

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An antiviral drug administered once daily during flu outbreaks may be useful in preventing type A and B influenza, according to a new University of Michigan School of Public Health study.

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Cognitive decline is not a normal part of aging for the majority of elderly people, researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center say.

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Elderly men who walked about two miles a day had half the risk of heart attack of males who walked a quarter mile, according to a study in today's Circulation.

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Johnson & Johnson today said it has begun clinical trials, involving people with disabilities, to test a new advanced mobility system that has unique functions not available on existing products.

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Athletes have been advised for years that carbohydrates and amino acids can enhance their performance. Now, it appears that timing of the right food -- in addition to fluid replacement -- may be crucial to post-exercise recovery.

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In their continuing quest for large interstellar molecules, radio astronomers at the University of Illinois have located dense clumps of formic acid -- the simplest organic acid -- inside the hot star-forming cores in three interstellar molecular clouds.

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1. Drivers Exams Need a Checkup 2. New Use for an Old Drug

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Using principles gleaned from radio astronomy and medical X-ray tomography, researchers at the University of Illinois have assembled an optical system that produces three-dimensional reconstructions of objects without using a lens.

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Researchers at Texas Tech University are touting a longer staple cotton that could open new markets for the Texas crop. The new breed may allow cotton farmers to broaden their demand base and markets for the crops before they are ever produced.

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1. Cultivating Sea Urchins as a Cash Crop 2. UAB Unveils Space Station Hardware

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Many older adults still do not receive flu and pneumococcal vaccinations despite their proven safety and effectiveness in helping some elderly people -- especially those with chronic medical conditions -- avoid more serious illness.

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A University of Iowa reading test appears to be more sensitive than other reading tests, able to pick up on even subtle reading problems of patients recovering from brain injuries.

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1- heart patients still taking chest pain medications, 2- gamma knife surgery in brain disorders, 3- pain affects quality of life

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Environmental engineers at The University of Texas at Austin report showers and dishwashers can contribute to indoor air pollution. Even chlorinated tap water can transfer hazardous compounds to indoor air, they report in Environmental Science and Technology.

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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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1. Watch What You Say in Chat Rooms 2. Music Made Easy

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1. Steps Toward Web Regulation 2. U.S. and German Unions United Over Big Three Contracts 3. Addressing the Dress Code Without Getting Sued

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1. Feed a Bookworm, Watch it Grow 2. New Program Helps At-Risk Kids Get Ahead 3. Are Parents Up To Home Schooling?

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Cancer scientists at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have figured out a way to keep the body's cancer-fighting immune cells awake and responsive to tumor cells far longer than they normally do.

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Achieving financial savings in the operating room may require patients to wait longer for elective surgery -- as long as a year. However, a University of Iowa researcher has a better way.

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A new study confirms that writing tests administered via paper and pencil may significantly underestimate the capabilities of computer-savvy students, according to assessment specialists at Boston College.

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1.) Helping nerves regenerate 2.) Summer training for women scientists of developing countires 3.) Magnetic refrigeration goes to prototype stage 4.) Research grants awarded for cleaner coal technologies

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Foster children who get mentors show improvement in their peer relationships, a building block that helps them to develop trust in other people, a new study says.

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Women in midlife and older are finding help honing their financial knowledge and decision-making skills by taking a University of Illinois Extension program, according to a survey of those who completed the eight-week course in its first four years.

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Most kids do at least a little bullying of their peers, according to a University of Illinois professor, if the results from a survey at a large Midwestern middle school are any indication.

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Mayo Clinic Jacksonville scientists have shown that a specially created molecule injected into the belly of a rat can cross the nearly impassable blood-brain barrier and can stop the chemical reaction in the brain that the molecule was designed to impede.

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Regardless of how you roll the dice, casino gambling is a loser when it comes to crime, a University of Illinois economist says.

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Modifying tile drainage systems and crop rotations in farmer's fields are the best methods to prevent nitrates from fertilizer from leaking off farms and into nearby streams, say two Purdue University agronomists.

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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered a new method for rapidly analyzing proteins.

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a close encounter with Mars to capture some of the sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.

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African Americans are less likely than Caucasians to undergo an important surgery designed to prevent stroke, according to a study published in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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African Americans are less likely than Caucasians to undergo an important surgery designed to prevent stroke, according to a study published in this monthís Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Genetic studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have shown that some boys will be infertile as adults because they have inherited a genetic defect from their fathers through a commonly used method of assisted reproduction known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

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Mayo Clinic neurologists are using existing technology and an investigational drug to detect pre-symptomatic Parkinson's disease in at-risk people who have family members with Parkinson's disease, they reported in the July issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.