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...center contains two floors of exhibition space: "Incredible Journeys," which runs until Easter next year, will explore the reading experience with seven rooms of styles and genres, such as topsy-turvy world, wilderness world and a world of quests and challenges. There's also a story lab, in which the public can access digitized collection material, a sunny reading nook, a caf? and a bookstore. Flossie Hunt, 11, of Rothbury, Northumberland, predicts that "people will want to spend the whole day here." Memo to Hogwarts admin: get those school trips organized pronto...
...Ridge has also been frequented by Harvard undergraduates, since it offers opportunities for both junior and senior thesis research and the lab course Astronomy 191, “Astrophysics Laboratory...
...This lab, at Seoul National University, which made news earlier this summer when they announced a more efficient way of producing human stem cells using a similar cloning process, works seven days a week, for almost 24 hours a day. By keeping a constant vigil for the hormonal signs of ovulation in their female dogs, the scientists were able to surgically remove the eggs at just the right time...
...such schools offer leadership opportunities, a caring environment plus a rich variety of courses, facilities and subject-matter specialists that K-8s can't begin to match. Fritsche, for instance, not only has its elaborate program in the arts but also offers an extensive library, a graphics and electronics lab, three gymnasiums and many extracurriculars. While the best of Milwaukee's K-8 schools have adopted such middle school features as lockers, science labs, changing classes throughout the day, they can't equal a program like Fritsche's. At Humboldt Park, for instance, Spanish is taught by a paraprofessional using...
...past few decades, argument has focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete...