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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:51:48 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Finding Answers in the Clouds
If you were fortunate to spend time recently in the Maldives, a collection of tropical islands in the central Indian Ocean, you may have seen a collection of tiny aircraft buzzing overhead. With a wingspan of about eight feet and weighing less than 50 pounds, one might mistake them for a set of remote control planes. But these aircraft are no hobbyist's toys--they are sophisticated autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs), and they are providing scientists with important insights into how ...
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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:28:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation
Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation
Global warming could affect one of the world's major oil seed crops, the sunflower. Drawing on genetic information from early plant stocks is key to improving future harvests.
This is the view of David Lentz, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, who has been studying the origins of domesticated sunflowers since an initial sunflower discovery in Tabasco, Mexico, in 2000.
"It is very hard to extract genetic information ...
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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:47:50 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Executive Branch Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE 450
Executive Branch Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE 450
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PDF: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/forms/ogc450_2007.pdf?govDel=USNSF_67
Document Number: oge450
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