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...sounded almost pleased. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, personally urged Bush to consider Miers, sources say. A senior administration official, asked about the logic of the choice, points to Democratic support and the fact that, as Bush said in introducing her, Miers had been "a pioneer in the field of law"-a woman who was active in the Southern legal community at a time it was dominated by men, becoming the first female president of both the Dallas Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. Sure enough, Reid issued a statement 90 minutes after Bush...
Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan is one of 13 recipients of this year’s NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the results of which will be officially announced at an NIH Symposium this morning. The grant is intended to fund chancey biomedical research in unexplored areas...
This is only the second year that the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award has existed. It marks a new provision, in the traditionally conservative grant system, for “individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research,” according to the NIH website...
...turntablist sense. There's just no physical way to recreate the vinyl experience with tracks that are still inside the iPod. You'd have to sample the tunes into some kind of memory first, and by that point, you might as well connect one or two of Pioneer's virtual turntables for CDs and DVDs...
...evacuees are staying in the homes of strangers. In some cases, the results have been predictably disastrous. A Minnesota woman unwittingly took in a woman who turned out to be wanted in Florida on suspicion of organized fraud, grand theft and probation violation, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press...