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...Green tech will gain a growing portion of the U.S. military's $104 billion procurement budget in the coming years, according to DOD spokesman Chris Isleib. "It's beyond a high priority for us," he says. "In the Iraq theater, such a high percentage of our convoys were fuel convoys. Our reliance on these [fuel] convoys was putting our soldiers' lives at risk. We realized that the need for alternative fuels was urgent. We needed to mobilize...
...prostate portion of the study looked at a sample group of nearly 77,000 men in 10 health-care centers across the U.S. Half the men were randomly assigned to receive regular PSA tests and physical exams. Since investigators could not ethically recommend that the other group not receive the screenings - which are, for now, considered the first defense against prostate cancer - they were simply given no particular recommendation at all. Half that group went ahead and had the exams on their own, and the remaining...
...surprise that The Crimson would welcome President Obama’s executive order increasing federal funding for stem cell research. After all, Harvard will receive a huge portion of this funding...
...decades, heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the leading killer of Americans. Most heart-related deaths happen among the elderly, by far the largest at-risk group for cardiovascular disease. But a new study finds that an alarming portion of heart failure cases are occurring in a much younger group - under age 50 - and overwhelmingly among African Americans...
...program’s suspension, the outrage over this substantial loss has all too quickly evaporated. With most of the remaining transfers graduating this year and the rest slated to graduate in 2010, the entire institutional memory of the program will soon be lost. A small but important portion of our population will be forgotten...