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| ?12/30/2011?? | Venezuela Will Keep Receiving Gas from Colombia |
| ?12/29/2011?? | 14 Killed in Fuel-Tanker Wreck in Venezuela |
| ?12/29/2011?? | Chavez?s Former Shrink Seeks Pardon for Murder Conviction |
| ?12/28/2011?? | Chavez: Venezuela Will Be World?s Top Oil Exporter |
| ?12/23/2011?? | Repsol, Eni Agree to Invest $1.5 Billion in Perla Gas Field with Venezuela's PDVSA |
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| ?12/31/2011?? | Mayor-Elect of Southwest Colombia Town Slain |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Mudslide Kills 3 in Colombia |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Colombia Extends Pact to Supply Gas to Venezuela |
| ?12/30/2011?? | No One Hurt in Bombing Near Colombian Police Station |
| ?12/29/2011?? | Colombian Ex-Militiaman Sentenced to 20 Years for Massacre |
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| ?12/28/2011?? | Two Hurt in Protest in Panama |
| ?12/26/2011?? | US Charges 12 in Panama Drug Trafficking Conspiracy |
| ?12/12/2011?? | Former Dictator Noriega Begins Serving Time in Panama |
| ?12/11/2011?? | Former Dictator Noriega Returns to Panama |
| ?10/21/2011?? | Obama Signs Trade Pacts with Panama, Colombia into Law |
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| ?12/9/2011?? | Petroecuador to Ship $538 Million Worth of Oil to PetroChina in 2012 |
| ?12/9/2011?? | Ecuador State Oil Firm Eyes 16% Output Boost in 2012 |
| ?12/3/2011?? | New Wells Bring Repsol?s Ecuador Output to 45,000 BPD |
| ?11/28/2011?? | Ecuador Authorities Seize 3 Tons of Cocaine |
| ?11/16/2011?? | Ecuadorian Soldier Dies in Clash with Smugglers |
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| ?12/20/2011?? | Two Arrested After Deadly Exorcism in Bolivia |
| ?11/23/2011?? | Repsol to Invest $640 Million in Bolivia |
| ?11/13/2011?? | Bolivia is No. 1 Cocaine Supplier to South American Market, UN Says |
| ?10/27/2011?? | Spanish Firm Signs Contract for Bolivia Gas Plant |
| ?10/24/2011?? | Two Burned to Death by Vigilantes in Bolivia |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Guatemalan Girl Killed by Stray Bullet on New Year?s Eve |
| ?1/1/2012?? | Mayor-Elect Shot in Western Guatemala |
| ?12/31/2011?? | 44,000 Hondurans Deported from U.S. and Mexico in 2011 |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Guatemalan Judge Wounded in Assassination Attempt |
| ?12/29/2011?? | More Than 6,700 Slain in Honduras in 2011 |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Brazilian City Hosts World?s Largest New Year?s Eve Party |
| ?12/27/2011?? | Brazilian Gang Stealing Hair from Beauty Salons |
| ?12/27/2011?? | Brazil Will Soon Be World?s No. 5 Economy, Government Says |
| ?12/27/2011?? | America Movil to Invest $5.4 Billion in Brazil |
| ?12/27/2011?? | Bus-Truck Collision Kills 6 in Brazil |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Pope Approves Cuba Visit Agenda |
| ?12/31/2011?? | Authorities, Faithful See Off Our Lady of Charity Pilgrimage in Havana |
| ?12/29/2011?? | Cuban Opposition Says 7 Political Prisoners Pardoned |
| ?12/28/2011?? | Cuban Government Publishes Names of Pardoned Prisoners |
| ?12/27/2011?? | Cuba Expands Phone Connections 18.5% |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Mexican Civil Servant Gets 48 Years for Time Theft |
| ?1/1/2012?? | 49 Kidnappings Per Day Occurred in Mexico in 2011 |
| ?12/31/2011?? | Arms Distributor for Pacific Cartel Arrested in Mexico |
| ?12/31/2011?? | Three Slain, Four Arrested in Northern Mexico Shootouts |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Mexican Hospital Welcomes Kids from Both Sides of Border |
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| ?12/29/2011?? | Puerto Rico Murder Count Reaches 1,130 |
| ?12/22/2011?? | Former San Juan Police Chief Denied Bail in Kiddie Porn Case |
| ?12/19/2011?? | Puerto Rico Hits 1,100 Homicides for the Year So Far |
| ?12/17/2011?? | Moderate Earthquakes Rattle Puerto Rico |
| ?12/17/2011?? | Dominican Police Arrest 2 in Deadly Capsizing |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Over 100 Injured in Argentina on New Year?s Eve |
| ?1/1/2012?? | Argentine Governor Dies in Accidental Shooting |
| ?12/31/2011?? | Peronist Youth Seek Blood Donors for Argentine President?s Operation |
| ?12/29/2011?? | Robbers Walk Out of Argentine Bank with Sacks of Mail |
| ?12/28/2011?? | Argentine President to Undergo Surgery for Thyroid Tumor |
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| ?12/30/2011?? | Family at Peace After Probe of Allende?s Death |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Fire Rages in Chilean National Park |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Indians Burn Government Helicopter in Southern Chile |
| ?12/28/2011?? | Tourists Evacuated from Chilean Park Due to Fire |
| ?12/26/2011?? | Chilean Daily Ordered to Pay Victims of Explosive Recipe |
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| ?12/20/2011?? | Lori Berenson Back in U.S. |
| ?12/19/2011?? | Peru to Allow Berenson to Travel to U.S. |
| ?12/18/2011?? | Berenson Prevented from Boarding Flight at Peruvian Airport |
| ?12/17/2011?? | Historic Lima: From Chaos to Culture to Trendy in 20 Years |
| ?12/17/2011?? | Peru Court Allows Berenson to Travel to U.S. for Christmas |
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| ?12/13/2011?? | 20 Hurt in Blast at Government Office in Uruguay |
| ?10/16/2011?? | Clinton Send Congratulations on Uruguay Bicentennial (VIDEO) |
| ?9/29/2011?? | U.S. Partners With Uruguay for TechCamp Montevideo |
| ?8/23/2011?? | Clinton Sends Independence Day Wishes to Uruguay |
| ?7/18/2011?? | Former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry Dies |
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| ?12/21/2011?? | Latin America Economy to Grow 3.7% in 2012, UN Panel Says |
| ?12/19/2011?? | Another Strong Year for Latin American Exports |
| ?12/12/2011?? | Pope to Visit Cuba and Mexico Before Holy Week |
| ?12/6/2011?? | Mesoamerican Leaders Call on U.S. to Reduce Drug Consumption |
| ?12/5/2011?? | Latin American Citizens Seek Greater Social Mobility, UN Official Says |
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| ?1/1/2012?? | Hundreds of Police Patrolling Los Angeles After Another Night of Arson |
| ?12/31/2011?? | Los Angeles Cops Investigate Over 20 Fires in Last 48 Hours |
| ?12/30/2011?? | Farmworkers in El Paso Glum About 2012 |
| ?12/30/2011?? | U.S. Government Creates Telephone Hotline for Detained Immigrants |
| ?12/29/2011?? | Hispanic Woman?s Letter Included on Book of Missives to Obama |
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| ?12/31/2011?? | Spain Opposition Calls Rajoy Austerity Package ?Unjust? | |||||
| ?12/30/2011?? | Spain?s New Government Announces Tough Austerity Measures | |||||
| ?12/29/2011?? | New U.S. Jobless Claims Rise | |||||
| Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=457734&CategoryId=14091 zynga stock zynga stock sam houston state university sam houston state university bradley manning whoopi goldberg tebowing Tuesday, January 3, 2012Autism may be linked to abnormal immune system characteristics and novel protein fragmentScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2012) ? Immune system abnormalities that mimic those seen with autism spectrum disorders have been linked to the amyloid precursor protein (APP), reports a research team from the University of South Florida's Department of Psychiatry and the Silver Child Development Center. The study, conducted with mouse models of autism, suggests that elevated levels of an APP fragment circulating in the blood could explain the aberrations in immune cell populations and function -- both observed in some autism patients. The findings were recently published online in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. The USF researchers concluded that the protein fragment might be both a biomarker for autism and a new research target for understanding the physiology of the disorder. "Autism affects one in 110 children in the United States today," said research team leader Jun Tan, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and the Robert A. Silver Chair, Rashid Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology at USF's Silver Child Development Center. "While there are reports of abnormal T-cell numbers and function in some persons affected with autism, no specific cause has been identified. The disorder is diagnosed by behavioral observation and to date no associated biomarkers have been identified." "Not only are there no associated biomarkers, but the prognosis for autism is poor and the costs associated with care are climbing," said Francisco Fernandez, MD, department chair and head of the Silver Center. "The work of Dr. Tan and his team is a start that may lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatments." The amyloid precursor protein is typically the focus of research related to Alzheimer's disease. However, recent scientific reports have identified elevated levels of the particular protein fragment, called, sAPP-?, in the blood of autistic children. The fragment is a well-known growth factor for nerves, and studies imply that it plays a role in T-cell immune responses as well. To study the autism-related effects of this protein fragment on postnatal neurodevelopment and behavior, Dr. Tan and his team inserted the human DNA sequence coding for the sAPP-? fragment into the genome of a mouse model for autism. While the studies are ongoing, the researchers documented the protein fragment's effects on the immune system of the test mice. "We used molecular biology and immunohistochemistry techniques to characterize T-cell development in the thymus and also function in the spleen of the test animals," Dr. Tan said. "Then we compared transgenic mice to their wild-type littermates." The researchers found that increased levels of sAPP-? in the transgenic mice led to increased cytotoxic T-cell numbers. The investigators also discovered subsequent impairment in the recall function of memory T-cells in the test mice, suggesting that the adaptive immune response is negatively affected in the presence of high levels of the protein fragment. "Our work suggests that the negative effects of elevated sAPP-? on the adaptive immune system is a novel mechanism underlying certain forms of autism," concluded Dr. Tan, who holds the Silver Chair in Developmental Neurobiology. "The findings also add support to the role of sAPP-? in the T-cell response." Other researchers involved in this study were Antoinette Bailey, Dr. Huayan Hou, Dr. Demian Obregon, Jun Tian, Dr. Yuyan Zhu, Dr. Qiang Zou, Dr. William Nikolic, Dr. Michael Bengston, Dr. Takashi Mori (Saitama Medical Center/Saitama Medical University, Japan) and Dr. Tanya Murphy. The work was supported by the Silver Endowment and a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health. Recommend this story on Facebook, Twitter, Other bookmarking and sharing tools: Story Source:
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Source: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r5687257071 jerome simpson safeway standing rib roast powerball rajon rondo its a wonderful life its a wonderful life Spacecraft Twins Arrive at the Moon (Time.com)The Moon is like an aging boxer, its face scarred and distorted by a lifetime of powerful blows. In the boxer's case, those blows are delivered over the course of a few decades. In the case of the Moon, the punishment has been going on for billions of years, courtesy of comets and asteroids that carved out craters and piled up mountains all over the lunar surface. The very birth of the moon was violent: planetary scientists are pretty sure our companion world was created when a Mars-size object slammed into Earth and ripped off a Moon-size chunk. Much of our understanding of that violent history comes from rocks hauled back by the Apollo missions four decades ago. But the astronauts who gathered that evidence literally just scratched just the surface -- and many of the Moon's secrets are buried far deeper. PHOTOS: Hubble's Greatest Hits That's why the GRAIL mission, which successfully inserted itself into lunar orbit over the weekend, is so crucial. GRAIL, the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, will be probing deep beneath the Moon's surface to analyze its interior structure in unprecedented detail. Since that structure reflects how the Moon was originally formed and the violence done to it since, GRAIL will fill in all sorts of blanks about our satellite's birth and evolution. That's the "what," but it's the "how" that's so ingenious and that deserves a bit of explanation. GRAIL is not one, but two identical satellites that will orbit in tandem, 35 miles above the surface -- GRAIL A in front, GRAIL B following tens of miles behind. If the Moon were simply a featureless, homogenous sphere of rock, the distance between A and B wouldn't change. The Moon isn't featureless, though: in some places there's extra stuff piled on the surface (mountains, crater walls) and in others there are gaping pits -- the craters themselves. When GRAIL A approaches a mountain, the peak's extra gravity pulls on the probe, making it speed up just a bit, while GRAIL B, still out of range, doesn't yet feel the tug. The distance between the two spacecraft increases, and the probes' electronics record the increase, even when the gap widens by no more than the width of a red blood cell. When GRAIL A approaches a crater, by contrast, there's a little less gravity than usual to pull it along. A slows a little, B catches up slightly, and that change is recorded as well. GRAIL B will trail GRAIL A from pole to pole, the pair completing one orbit every two hours as the Moon rotates slowly underneath. Over the mission's three-month lifespan, the twin ships will make three complete gravity maps of the entire lunar globe. But surface features aren't all the probes will study. There are also regions of higher and lower density buried beneath the lunar surface. These mass concentrations -- or mascons -- are the likely result of ancient volcanism or ancient impacts. They too exert differing gravitational pull, with the denser material pulling harder than the less dense, and those differences will be detected by the GRAILs as well. So sensitive are the spacecraft that they will effectively be able to see -- gravitationally speaking -- all the way down to the lunar core. All of these readings will be analyzed along with one other data stream: the slight flexing the entire moon undergoes as a result of the tidal pull of the Earth. The nature of the flexing will be partly determined by what the Moon's deep structure looks like -- whether the core is solid or semi-solid or molten, for example. Best of all, there isn't the slightest doubt that this twin-satellite concept can work: it's based on the wildly successful GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) mission, which has been orbiting Earth since 2002. By noting changes in our planet's gravity, GRACE has, among other things, discovered a giant impact crater underneath the Antarctic ice sheet, measured ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica and noted depletion of groundwater during the recent U.S. drought. If GRAIL does half as well as GRACE -- and there's every reason to think it will -- the textbooks on selenology, or lunar geology, may have to undergo some major revisions. Finally, it's worth noting yet another thing that makes the GRAIL mission so extraordinarily clever. Rather than take a direct route across the 250,000-mile Earth-Moon gap -- a journey that took the Apollo astronauts just three days -- GRAIL meandered through space on a loop-the-loop path known as a "weak boundary trajectory" that lasted more than three months, following the path of least resistance through the complex terrain created by the interacting gravitational fields of Earth, Moon and Sun. Going slow meant not only that the spacecraft needed less fuel, but also that engineers had longer to check out the probes' electronic health. Plus when GRAIL finally arrived, it took less energy to ease it into a lunar orbit . Back in 1990, just such a "weak stability boundary" trajectory was first used to salvage the Japanese Hiten satellite, which failed in its original attempt to reach the Moon and didn't have enough fuel for a second try. In a brilliant bit of cosmic inventiveness, a mathematician-turned-rocket-scientist-turned artist named Ed Belbruno calculated a new slow, low-energy route for Hiten and saved the mission. Fortunately, lunar experts, including MIT's Maria Zuber, GRAIL's lead scientist, won't have long to wait for the results of the mission. GRAIL should be all wrapped up by early summer, and by the time the one-year launch anniversary rolls around in September, we should know a lot more about the long and violent history of our nearest, but still largely unknown, cosmic neighbor. PHOTOS: The Best Photos From Space 2011 View this article on Time.com Most Popular on Time.com: pentatonix nicki minaj barbie doll nicki minaj barbie doll black dahlia drew drew lady gaga marry the night video Sunday, January 1, 2012Memorable links from the first half of 2011
Instead of reviewing my activities in the past year, I thought I?d do something a little different and share with you the blog posts and news articles from 2011 that I found the most memorable. Because there are so many, this post contains links from January through June. If I remember to do a part two, that list will undoubtedly be shorter because I started my current job in June and have had much less time for blog and news reading. Browse, read, and enjoy. Glancing over this list, I think it probably tells you a thing or two about where my greatest interests lie. AT&T Pretty Much Predicted 2011 in 1993 Kissing & the science of humanity Lemur Week: Ringtailed Lemurs Look Where You?re Looking Hard Core The Mathematics of Beauty No love for outsiders ? oxytocin boosts favouritism towards our own ethnic or cultural group Stop using the word ?Caucasian? to mean white How the diabetes-linked ?thrifty gene? triumphed with prejudice over proof Saturday Evening Rant, Iodine Edition Are your Allergies worst in the morning? Extra nipples ? They?re just a matter of timing Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder? Masturbation calms restless leg syndrome The danger of appealing stories: anecdata, expectations, and?skepticism Is Bigger Really Better? Forget chocolate on Valentine?s Day, try semen, says Surgery News editor. Retraction, resignation?follow The ?Lesbian Until Graduation:? Now A New York Times Most Emailed Article! That?s Not a Dinosaur! The Neuroscience of the Gut Sucked Out Of A Plane? Nervous Nellies Reflections of Gotham: Why Do New Yorkers Wear So Much Black? That (expletive) Semen-Antidepressant?Study Divided by language, united by gut bacteria ? people have three common gut types Nature?s Living Tape Recorders May Be Telling Us Secrets How peppermint may cool that irritable bowel syndrome Superfetation: Pregnant while already pregnant Sex on the brain: Orgasms unlock altered consciousness Marketing food to kids with cartoon characters Gut Bacteria Linked to Behavior: That Anxiety May Be in Your Gut, Not in Your Head Mpemba?s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold??(1969) Bats Use Carnivorous Pitcher Plant as Living Toilet Blue Lights Shown to Give a Brain Boost! But is a Better than?Coffee? Semen allergy suspected in rare post-orgasm illness Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d053ee9c5d02b506350b5854f30c1671 turkey recipes happy holidays norad how to carve a turkey how to cook a turkey yorkshire pudding whitney cummings
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2011 was an exciting, stressful, occasionally scary, and very fruitful year for me, personally and professionally. I hope you are all pleased with the way life treated you this year. And if not, there?s always 2012!