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DEFINITION vam-pahy-r i-lek-tron-iks n. Unused appliances, like cell-phone chargers and coffeemakers, that quietly suck up electricity when left plugged into sockets. Constant consumers, they spike electric bills and put more strain on the nation's power grid...
...Rogelio Alonso, terrorism expert at King Juan Carlos University, there was also sufficient evidence that "several members of the March�11 cell had very close links to al-Qaeda leaders." But the sentencing made no reference to al-Qaeda, arguing only that some of the accused constituted a "terrorist jihadist cell." Judges were clearly unswayed by the mountain of indirect evidence, the most common kind in international terrorism cases...
...spring. “Brainbow provides a way of seeing many neurons at the same time in the same place,” said Lichtman, who coined the name for the technique. “With previous techniques, there were only a handful of colors for visualizing cells,” he said. The technique is an enormous improvement over previous staining procedures. “Our hope is that this new technique will provide a lot more details for how the brain is wired,” said Jean Livet, a post-doctoral researcher who worked on the study...
...Bush supporters and advisers are Obama converts. Three former major fund-raisers for the President have given money to Obama. One of them, James Canning, a Chicago financier, is openly supporting Obama after he grew tired of what he calls the G.O.P.'s "Neanderthal positions on things like stem cell research and global warming." Mark McKinnon, Bush's chief media consultant during both of his presidential campaigns, has warned his clients - including Senator John McCain - that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination McKinnon won't work against him in the general election. And Matthew Dowd, Bush's former top political...
...scattered research experts buried in unconnected and fragmented departments and research groups, we hope that Shell’s funds will indeed be used in collaborative and multidisciplinary projects. A model to emulate is the Stem Cell Institute, which successfully integrates scholars and techniques from across the university. In this respect, we hope that the Shell donation will not just be a funding pool that will serve many different needs but that instead it will force people currently separated by institutional boundaries to work together...