A Sampling of Clips for November 25^th, 2009

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Amid Charges of Global Warming Hoax, New Warning on Climate Change
Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 24 -- Global carbon-dioxide emissions are rising fast, global temperatures continue to climb at a pace in line with projections, and polar regions are losing ice faster than climate models have projected. These are some of the recent research findings highlighted by a group of 26 climate scientists in a report released Tuesday dubbed The Copenhagen Diagnosis. (Quotes Richard Somerville, professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, a lead author of the IPCC's 2007 volume on climate science, and a contributor to this report) More

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Dirt May be Good for Children
Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 25 -- It many just be the research parents of sometimes dirty children have been waiting for. They can now answer the tuts of fastidious friends by pointing to scientific findings that the more germs a child is exposed to early in life, the better their immune system later. Researchers from the School of Medicine at UCSD, found that being too clean could impair the skin's ability to heal. They discovered that normal bacteria that live on the skin trigger a pathway that helps prevent inflammation when we get hurt. More

Scientist Stresses Better Research Facilities
The Hindu, Nov. 25 -- Genetically modified mosquitoes can make human synthesized antibody that block malaria parasite inside the mosquito gut, said Dr.Kailash Prasad Patra, scientist from Department of Medicine, UCSD, USA, while addressing the students of Talent’s College of Science & Technology at Koraput. More

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