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Leaf lesions due to late blight. (Credit: Copyright College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) — Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States....
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | yesterday
written on Friday. Since then Mr. Ban's mission has failed. See news items. kmk Burma and Ban Ki-moon: Is this the end game? By Kyi May Kaung. In a game of chess, Russian Grandmaster Gary Kasparov says that the end game is when there are very few of both white and black pieces left on the board, and therefore the options are limited. The king is hemmed in or checkmated. (Gary Kasparov, How Life Imitates...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
The disease blamed for the Irish potato famine in the 1840s is infecting tomato and potato plants in the eastern United States, agricultural officials said. A press release from Cornell University, New York state's land grant college, warned home gardeners and commercial farmers that late blight is killing the tomato and potato plants.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University will present A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections from July 18 to October 18, 2009. Conceived to exemplify the breadth and strength of the complex artistic output of the Bloomsbury artists, the exhibition will include over 190 paintings, watercolors, drawings, books from the Hogarth Press, and decorative...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s is on the loose in Rhode Island and is damaging potato and tomato crops. The state Department of Environmental Management's Division of Agriculture Friday advised gardeners, farmers and commercial growers that an outbreak of Late Blight , scientific name Phytopthora infestans, should be countered...
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cookiesinheaven (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Blight is hitting the Right Coast, hard. Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. Late blight -- the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s -- occurs sporadically in the Northeast, but this year's outbreak is more severe...
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Suburban Guerrilla (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Not the tomatos! Fortunately for me, I got my heritage plants at the local CSA and not the Home Depot. How about you? Meg McGrath, professor of plant pathology at Cornell University, calls late blight “worse than the Bubonic Plague for plants.” “People need to realize this is probably one of the worst diseases we have in the [...]
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Corrente (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
It's not only the financial markets and the food chain that are contaminated. Check this out : Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. Late blight — the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s — occurs sporadically...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Oscar the bobcat is healing by leaps and bounds after a team of surgeons at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine repaired injuries he sustained after being hit by a car.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, July 1 (UPI) -- Babies born from frozen embryos via intracytoplasmic sperm injection do as well as frozen embryos using in vitro fertilization, U.S. researchers have learned. IVF is a process by which egg cells are fertilized by sperm in vitro -- outside the womb. ICSI is a type of IVF using a single sperm injected directly into an egg. Study leader Queenie Neri of Cornell...
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Healthy Life Science by Crabsallover (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Abstract: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/338/jun30_1/b2376 full article: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/jun30_1/b2376?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Brugts&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT Daily Mail Article: http://crabsalloverhealth.blogspot.com/2009/07/should-all-over-50s-take-anti.html Published 30 June...
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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Carole B oyce Davies was born in Trinidad. She was recruited to build the African-New World Studies Program at FIU, she served as its director for three successful three-year appointments, which moved the program to international recognition. Boyce-Davies has degrees from the University of Maryland (BA, 1972); Howard University (M.A., 1974) and (University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Ph.D., 1978). In September...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
ITHACA, N.Y., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say research involving the exhaust plume from a NASA space shuttle launch suggests the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet The mysterious explosion leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest and a cause has never been determined. But Cornell University researchers say findings from their study indicated the explosion was nearly certainly caused...
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LYRA and KAG (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
BY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: 29 June, 2009 The exhaust plume of a shuttle launch that created noctilucent clouds similar to those seen after the Tunguska event supports the theory that a comet, and not a meteoroid, exploded over Siberia one hundred years ago. "It's almost like putting together a 100-year-old murder mystery," says Cornell University's Michael Kelley, who led the...
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PREGNANCYWEEKLY'S BLOG (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from frozen embryos fertilised via standard IVF treatment. The researchers also compared babies born as a result of cycles in which the women had additional hormone medication with...
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myyname | 04/12/2008
The Atkins diet is favored by many celebrities. More and more famous actors like Jennifer Aniston and her ex-husband Brad Pitt are fans of the low-carbohydrate diet. "People like actors need to lose weight rapidly and increase their energy level at the same time. That is why so many celebrities go on the Atkins Diet," commented John Paul, press speaker of the popular Internet portal aboutatkinsdiet.com...
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Lilly Seders | 01/16/2008
By Delthia Ricks Birds have long sounded an alarm about the movement of microbes in nature. Scientists, for example, are tracking avian influenza as it circumvents the globe, moving mostly through flocks of wild birds. Wildlife investigators in New York are trying to find out what a viral outbreak among crows means to birds statewide as well as to flocks in neighboring states. Detected two weeks ago...
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Lilly Seders | 01/16/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS Birds have long sounded an alarm about the movement of microbes in nature. Scientists, for example, are tracking avian influenza as it circumvents the globe, moving mostly through flocks of wild birds. Wildlife investigators in New York are trying to find out what a viral outbreak among crows means to birds statewide as well as to flocks in neighboring states. Detected two weeks ago...
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