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Santa Ana, California - The first significant winds of the season are expected to blow through Southern California beginning this Sunday, prompting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to direct his Office of Emergency Services (OES) and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) to prepare for the wildfire potential that accompanies this weather forecast.

Washington, DC - Advances in information technology have shaped not only how we find or share information, but also how we make new medicines. A project just funded by the National Institutes of Health plans to take computer-aided drug design to the next level.

Los Angeles, California - It’s hard being a mussel: You have to worry about hungry starfish and even hungrier humans, not to mention an environment that can change your body temperature 50 degrees Fahrenheit in just a few hours.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - A panel of five MIT faculty experts in economics and business analyzed the ongoing financial crisis in the U.S. and world markets at a special session Oct. 8 that filled lecture hall 10-250 to capacity and extended to two overflow auditoriums.

Tempe, Arizona - When a luminary such as Edward O. Wilson states publically that his accomplishments rest on the shoulders of another, it has heightened meaning. Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Harvard research professor emeritus, has pioneered seminal works in evolution of social behavior and organization; and a commitment to conservation that has shaped the face of science, philosophy, ethics and activism for more than a half century.

Los Angeles, California - Even tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may face threats from a warming planet, according to new research co-authored by a UCLA scientist.