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...board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government and a consortium of international companies led by the France's state-owned Electricit? de France, the dam will have a generation capacity of 1,070 MW of electricity when completed in 2009, 95% of which will be sold to Thailand. "We don't have...
...December, HUL and Google began a joint venture to digitize some 40,000 volumes held in Harvard’s collections. Following successful completion of the pilot program, all 15 million volumes held in Harvard’s libraries could eventually be digitized. The news was greeted with excitement and support throughout the academic community. Digitization, after all, offers a means of dissolving the physical barriers of library walls and book covers; with digitization, a field researcher in Mongolia could have the entire Widener Library collection at his fingertips. The concept represents the ultimate realization of the Internet?...
Defensemen received the first assist on all four of Harvard’s goals. Cahow had three and Weaver one...Ali Boe now ranks sixth in the nation in goals-against average and fourth in winning percentage...Attendance for the joint semifinal session at the Whittemore Center was registered...
...medicine is rife with "just so" stories. St. John's wort is good for rheumatism and chamomile cures insomnia because Grandma said it was just so. But scientific evidence is emerging that Asia's favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...
...lung tumors. "For the first time we have a scientific explanation of why EGCG inhibits the growth of cancer cells at concentrations which are found in the blood of people who drink two to three cups of green tea a day," says Professor Roger Thorneley, one of the joint research team members...