| Teens compete at NASA Ames to create perfect cities
Imagine a world free of real-life hassles. No IRS, telemarketers or clogged toilets. Clean energy. Fresh air to breathe - a wonderful world without unruly humans. That happy future - actually, 31 futuristic ideas - was on display Saturday at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, where teams of students participated in a "Future City Competition." Creative models of ideal cities filled an auditorium as engineers of tomorrow - ages 12 to 14 - explained their visions to judges. Residents of the Bay Area, these youngsters envisioned worlds precisely suited to human habitation. "It's pretty much perfect," said Ryan Bogert, 14, surveying his team's winning city, called "Domas Porada," a name borrowed from Sir Thomas More, author of "Utopia." (Town motto: "What can be, will be!") Aiming to improve on a world botched up by grown-ups, they used computer programs based on the city-building personal computer game "SimCity" to design their town, then built 25-by-50-inch scale models using recycled materials.
Legislator: Sorry for calling unmarried teen parents 'sluts'
Lorez Meinhold of the Colorado Health Foundation said shame has been shown have little impact on values and behavior. She said state leaders should focus instead on the scarcity of programs aimed at preventing teen pregnancy. Garza Hicks said the state needs more prevention programs through schools and community groups, but she said the public must decide whether it wants to fund them. “Sometimes it takes just a little more information, a little more education," Garza Hicks said. “And we must not give up on them either." .
David Dreman Buys Frontier Oil Corp., Wachovia Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Sells Insituform Technologies Inc., EDO ...
The Contrarian and the value guru, David Dreman undervalued companies with strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth. The recent market corrections certainly give him a lot of opportunities, He has been buying energy stocks and financials. These are his buys and sells during the 4 th quarter. David Dreman buys KBW Bank ETF, Select Sector SPDRFinancial, Exxon Mobil Corp., Allegheny Technologies Inc., Alcoa Inc., Grant Prideco Inc., Computer Sciences Corp., Lincoln National Corp., M&T Bank Corp., The Progressive Corp., W.R. Berkley Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc., Sempra Energy, iShares Russell 2000 Index, CIGNA Corp., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Western Digital Corp., Valero Energy Corp., VF Corp., American Standard Companies Inc., Terex Corp., The Dow Chemical Company, BHP Billiton Ltd., MetLife Inc., Norfolk Southern Corp., Lam Research Corp., Southern Copper Corp., Assurant Inc., AutoZone Inc., FreeportMcMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Transocean Inc., American Capital Strategies Ltd., Noble Energy Inc., The Home Depot Inc., Noble Corp., Duke Energy Corp., Nucor Corp., Kohl's Corp., Liberty Media Corp.
Rockies' Fuentes loses in arbitration; Hawpe signs
Colorado Rockies pitcher Brian Fuentes was an arbitration loser Friday and will earn a salary of $5.05 million for the 2008 season.</p><p>Fuentes requested a figure of $6.5 million, but a three-member panel ruled in favor of Colorado's offer.</p><p>The 32-year-old lefty was 3-5 with a 3.08 earned run average and 20 saves last season, but lost his role as the team's closer late in the campaign. He still helped the Rockies to their first World Series appearance.</p><p>The Rockies did avoid arbitration with outfielder Brad Hawpe, signing the 28- year old to a one-year contract.</p><p>Hawpe hit .291 with 29 home runs and 116 RBI in 2007 as Colorado's everyday right fielder. In 445 career games - all with the Rockies - the left-handed Hawpe is a .282 hitter with 63 homers and 256 RBI.
International Collaborations
In this section of the Nanoforum website, we present and link to sister organisations of Nanoforum in other parts of the world. These sister organisations all host webportals to the nanoscience and nanotechnology community in one or more countries. Nanoforum collaborates with these sister organisations to support academic and industrial researchers looking for partners and funding for international research projects between Europe and other parts of the world. Another source of information for researchers interested in such global research collaborations is the Nanoforum report on "Funding and Support for International Nanotechnology Collaborations". This report was published online on the Nanoforum website in the section Nanoforum reports in December 2005. .
Sick overstayer threatens suicide
An American overstayer who uses a dialysis machine 12 hours a day is threatening to stop her own treatment and die in Wellington rather than accept deportation. The Immigration Service has booked Lana Schmidt on a flight out of Auckland next Saturday, and warnedit will force her removal if she resists. But Ms Schmidt says she has nowhere to go, there are no arrangements for her continued medical care once she gets to Los Angeles, and she cannot get support from the United States Medicare system till July. Ms Schmidt came to New Zealand in 2000 to be with Zahid Jawad, an Iraqi-born New Zealand citizen whom she met in the US. But after their relationship broke down two years later, her health deteriorated and she suffered kidney failure.
US Consumers Oblivious to GM Food Fears
Concerns over genetically modified foods have failed to make much impact in the United States, where consumers and the US media are less fired up about the issue than in Europe, activists say. Dr Michael Hansen, a biologist with the major New York-based Consumers Union, says the media doesn't talk about GM issues and there is more apathy in the US. "When the public is asked in the survey, a high percentage wants food labels," he said. "They just don't realize the extent to which certain food such as corn or soybean are genetically engineered, and often they have not heard of any of these food safety concerns." On Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy banned the only genetically modified crop grown in France, the Mon 810 maize produced by the US agriculture giant Monsanto.
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