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Los Angeles, California - Sharing your happiness with your Twitter followers right now? Odds are, they’re going to pay it forward, a new study shows.
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Stanford, California - American firms, especially those in California, stand to gain if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is enacted, a Stanford economist says.
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Los Angeles, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released the following statement today in response to the ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, striking down President Barack Obama’s deferred action immigration programs:
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Nature has developed innovative ways to solve a sticky challenge: Mussels and barnacles stubbornly glue themselves to cliff faces, ship hulls, and even the skin of whales. Likewise, tendons and cartilage stick to bone with incredible robustness, giving animals flexibility and agility.
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Washington, DC - The historical novel, Like A River by Kathy Cannon Wiechman, is the 2015 recipient of the Grateful American Book Prize. Kathy is a prolific writer but her civil war novel is the first to be published, but not the last. She is hard at work producing new works with the goal of encouraging young readers to study American history. In an interview shortly after receiving her Prize she said: "I attempt to slip in historical details in a way that doesn't shout, "History lesson here!" If a reader is engaged with a character and a story, lessons will be learned, though inadvertently." Here is the interview:
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - At the Siggraph Asia conference this week, MIT researchers presented a pair of papers describing techniques for either magnifying or smoothing out small variations in digital images.
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