One in every 50 people screened for a suspected sexually transmitted infection in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital was found to be infected with HIV using a rapid blood sample screening test.
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I hope it will be good for you.
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Corn (maize) was domesticated in the earlier part of the Holocene in Mexico from a wild plant called teosinte. Subsequent to the discovery of this area of origin by MacNeish, a great deal of research has gone on to track the spread of …
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Know your primate is up at its new home. What’s that? You are not going to follow the link until you see part five of Attenborough’s Life of Mammals. You all are hard, demanding task masters, but very well. Part five is below the fold …
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pinata. Back in 2006, Tim Blair declared. I’d lean towards the official police figures myself (although jerked-around crime counting methods make comparisons problematic), mainly because they’re, you know, official police figures. …
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Applicants are starting to receive their Summary Statements from grant reviews that took place in September/October NIH study sections. The Summary Statement is the written record of the review of your grant. …
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“Ghosts of Minnesota” and “American Atheists” Just in time for Halloween, we interview John Funk about his website “Ghosts of Minnesota.” John says, “I’m fascinated with stories of ghosts and hauntings despite my skepticism, …
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It is time to be alarmed. An usual but possibly valid poll taken at Saint Cloud State indicates that Norm Coleman may be quite far ahead of Al Franken in the Senate race here in Minnesota. This is very disturbing for three reasons. …
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I keep on hearing that the political polls are inaccurate because pollsters do not call wireless phones. I commission polls at UC Berkeley and we call wireless phones. Seems like a no brainer to me. So, I’ve never quite understood why …
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tags: Autumn in the Palouse, landscape, nature, photography, Image of the Day. Autumn in the Palouse. [Eastern Washington State, USA]. Image: Joe Fuhrman, 2008 [larger view]. The Palouse is where I grew up. …
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