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Geology lecture focuses on Mount St. HelensThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:48PM'Mount St. Helens 1980-2010: A Tale of Two Eruptions and Three Decades" is the topic for Friday's geology lecture at Southwestern Oregon Community College.

Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicineThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:46PMDoctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.

Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicineThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:42PMCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients. With increasing regularity, they're meeting in monthly book clubs to discuss medical-themed literature.

Book Clubs For Doctors Show Human Side Of MedicineThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:20PMCOLUMBIA, Mo. -- Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients. With increasing regularity, they're meeting in monthly book clubs to discuss medical-themed literature. Humanities courses are now required in many medical schools.

Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's GenomeThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:03PMTHURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Two separate scientific teams announced this week that they had successfully sequenced individual genomes to pinpoint precise genetic causes of illness -- breakthroughs that open the door to a future of individualized, genomics-based medicine.

School of Sustainability Graduate Students Launch Sustainability JournalThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:45PMAs graduate students in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, Maren Mahoney and Zach Hughes had seen plenty of academic journals related to sustainability. But nowhere could they find a publication that made the complex concept of sustainability accessible to the everyday reader.

Pocket Science - geneticist hunts down the cause of his own genetic disorder, and male moths freeze females but ...Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:33PMNot Exactly Pocket Science is a set of shorter write-ups on new stories with links to more detailed takes by the world's best journalists and bloggers. It is meant to complement the usual fare of detailed pieces that are typical for this blog. Geneticist sequences own genome, finds genetic cause of his disease If you've got an inherited disease and you want to find the genetic faults responsible ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches Earobics REACH, a New and Innovative Adolescent Literacy ProgramThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:30PMBOSTON----Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced that Shane Templeton will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt at the National Association of Secondary School Principals conference on March 12, 2010, to share the latest research and innovations in the field of adolescent literacy.

Library NotesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:02AMGurnee Warren-Newport Public Library, 224 N. O'Plaine Road. (847) 244-5150. Meet Mother Goose: Families with children of all ages are invited to meet Mother Goose and her friends at 10 a.m. Saturday. Full of rhyme, puppetry and creative dramatics, Mary Jane Haley's program invites kids to relish the magic of puppetry and nursery rhymes. Register is required. new technology: In celebration of ...