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The Loneliest Walk by Jerry Maldonado
Written by Jerry Maldonado   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Jerry MaldonadoAs most of you know being a father out ways anything in my life. In my opinion, if you have children there is nothing more important than to provide, nurture, and educate their precious souls.  My hope is that my stories provide an example to parents who may have lost touch with this simple philosophy. This story is no exception.

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Your Lack Of Planning Will Never Create An Emergency For Me
Written by Wild-Man Bill   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

We all have friends, relatives and co-workers who are not good at meeting deadlines or managing their time. On a regular basis, they come to us with an eleventh hour emergency and that is when they beg us to save their neck. Because you’re such a good person, you alter your schedule, drop what you’re doing and come to their aid. That is okay to do, for someone who you care about, but no more than once a year.

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Memorial Day Dedication and Tribute
Written by Dorian de Wind   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Dorian de WindThe month of May is a special month for our military. The entire month is National Military Appreciation Month, giving us the opportunity to honor and recognize the courageous men and women who serve and protect our nation. May 8 was Military Spouse Appreciation Day. May 16 was Armed Forces Day,

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A Picture by Harold A. Maio
Written by Harold A. Maio   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Last summer a picture issued from the US Supreme Court, Justice Scalia, et alii. It was not an instant Polaroid, but a picture long in development, like all Supreme Court decisions. A portrait, "felons and the mentally ill." Almost no one "saw" the double portrait, assuredly no one at the supreme court did. Copies spread throughout the country, editors faxed, photocopied and printed them. Newscasters flashed them, and advocacies, legislators, government agencies shouted them, without themselves "seeing" the picture.

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Researchers Gain Ground in Efforts to Fight Parasite Infection
Written by UT Southwestern   
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Dallas, Texas - New findings by researchers UT Southwestern Medical Center are accelerating efforts to eradicate worm infections that afflict a third of the world’s population. The new findings, demonstrate that a biochemical system that controls development and reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans, a common research worm, also provides the same function in several parasitic nematodes, including hookworm.
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Collaboration Focuses on Fracture Putty for Bone Injuries
Written by Northwestern University   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Evanston, Illinois - Northwestern University is part of a multi-institution initiative to produce “fracture putty,” a biocompatible compound designed to mend serious leg fractures, such as those suffered by soldiers.

The two-year research project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties
Written by NIST   
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Atlanta, Georgia - Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have directly measured the unusual energy spectrum of graphene, a technologically promising, two-dimensional form of carbon that has tantalized and puzzled scientists since it was discovered in 2004.

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Thirty-One Percent of Americans Never Use Sunscreen
Written by Consumer Reports   
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Consumer ReportsYonkers, New York - Thirty-one percent of Americans polled by the Consumer Reports National Research Center said they never wear sunscreen.  But consumers aren’t oblivious to the sun’s risks: 22 percent of those polled said they’d been examined by a doctor for something they thought might be skin cancer.  The July issue of Consumer Reports rates ten top selling sunscreens to slather on, noting that there’s plenty of variation among the brands tested. 
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Commitment to Best Practices to Avoid, Deter or Delay Acts of Piracy
Written by Sunday NewsCape   
Sunday, 31 May 2009
New York, New York - During the meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 29, 2009, representatives from the Bahamas, the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Panama signed the New York Declaration, a commitment to best management practices to avoid, deter or delay acts of piracy.
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Stylish Skivvies by Jackie Papandrew
Written by Jackie Papandrew   
Sunday, 24 May 2009

Stylish men’s underwear. Those are not words I ever expected to include in a column. If you ask the men in my family, those are words that should be banned - on pain of a slow and torturous death - from being included in the same sentence.

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