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Science & Policy News
September 2005
Knowledge @ W.P. Carey, September 28-October 11, 2005 Experts Set Forth Options for the Shape of New Orleans to Come: New Orleans should try to become a more integrated city with far greater resilience as it rebuilds from its hurricane damage, according to experts at Arizona State University.
Google Confirms Ames Plan: Google is set to collaborate with the NASA Ames Research Center on research surrounding topics such as supercomputing that could benefit everything from moon launches to online searches.
BBC News, September 28, 2005 GM Crop Impact Lasts Two Years: A follow-up to the UK's major trial of genetically modified crops, the Farm Scale Evaluations, finds that impacts on wildlife can persist for two years.
New York Times, September 27, 2005 Gulf Currents That Turn Storms Into Monsters: In this stormy season, experts have been fixated on the loop current, a great ribbon of hot water meandering through the Gulf of Mexico.
BBC News, September 26, 2005 Firms urged to back design talent: Students designing products for disabled people are hoping to get their creations recognised by manufacturers.
Melting snow hastens warming in the Arctic: Melting snow has triggered the warmest summers across Arctic Alaska in at least 400 years, causing tree and shrub growth that will accelerate warming by 2 to 7 times as the century unfolds.
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Managing the next disaster: The number and scale
of disasters worldwide has been rising rapidly in recent decades because
of changes in society, not global warming. Familiar Sounding Budget Cuts: It reads like a hit list from Republican-led Congresses of the past: Kill the National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities. Cut benefits for graduate students. Do away with AmeriCorps.
Read more Search for Transplant Organs Becomes a Web Free-for-All: In their often desperate hunt for a compatible donor, an increasing number of patients needing transplants are mounting personal online searches.
Read more Up in Flames: British military rations donated to the victims of Katrina have been stalled by the FDA due to meat content.
Washington Post, September 16, 2005 New Lines of Communication: Some want to scrap the old infrastructure to create a high-tech wireless region in New Orleans.
Read more First Genetically Modified 'Superweed' Confirmed by the UK Government: Against scientific predictions, a common weed now has GM genes and is resistant to weedkiller.
Inside Higher Ed, September 14, 2005 Gender and NIH Grants: Female applicants for grants from the National Institutes of Health received on average only 63 percent of the funding that male applicants received, according to a new study by the Rand Corporation.
Read more Exiled from their La. labs, scientists assess their losses: Hurricane Katrina devastated scientific research in this city, claiming thousands of laboratory animals, ruining valuable caches of tissue, and interrupting clinical experiments as patients scattered across the nation.
Read more Study Reveals Public Attitudes Towards Nanotechnology: Americans cautiously welcome nanotechnology, with concerns over consumer awareness and long-term effects.
Washington Post, September 8, 2005 Rethinking Defenses Against Sea's Power: Flood experts see lessons in New Orleans.
Read more Criminals to 'adapt to ID cards': The UK government's proposed ID scheme will do little to stop identity theft and may actually exacerbate fraudulent behaviour in its early years.
New York Times , September 4, 2005 Political Science: Is the federal government blatantly "misusing" science, or, like all adminstrations, simply "molding it to fit a political agenda?"
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