Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Marc Boutavant is a French graphic artist, illustrator, and children's book writer. He is the co-creator (with Emmanuel Guibert) of the ARIOL comic book series. Boutavant was interviewed in January 2008 by Anita Loughrey, as one of the speakers at the SCBWI Bologna Conference 2008 (scheduled for March 29 and ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Val Brathwaite is the Art Director for Bloomsbury U.K. Val has a wealth of publishing experience, having worked at Belitha Press, HarperCollins, Kingfisher, Orchard Books, and Scholastic. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Anita Loughrey interviewed her in November 2007, as one of the speakers at ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez, introduction by Richard Ford (Chronicle, 2007).This 219-page collection of essays is an entertaining, inspiring, and informative read--bursting with insights and perspective. Its target audience may write for ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Giselle Tsai is one of the founding members of the children's book department at CommonWealth Magazine Group. Their list includes picture books, easy readers and short novels. Giselle was interviewed by Anita Loughrey in January, as one of the speakers at the SCBWI Bologna Conference 2008 (scheduled for March 29 ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Simplifying the process for forming compounds that can be used in many everyday products, such as pharmaceuticals and plastics, has earned one University of Houston chemist a prestigious honor.
Olafs Daugulis, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UH, is among 118 outstanding young scientists, ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Geoff Garrett and Mr Zhijun Li, Vice President of Chinese security-inspection-system specialist Nuctech Company Ltd, have launched a new venture to commercialise the next generation in air cargo scanning technology.
In a move that will advance front-line border security worldwide, the joint venture will see the two ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The Pennsylvania Department of Health and its partners were recognized by Philadelphia City Council for the department’s Pennsylvania Injury Reporting and Intervention System, or PIRIS, a unique pilot program that addresses gun violence in Philadelphia.
The system provides comprehensive intervention services to 15- to 24-year-old gunshot victims who are admitted to ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Recognizing the valor, service and sacrifice of America’s 1.7 million women veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has created a comprehensive array of benefits and programs.
“Women who served this country in uniform — whether veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, the current Global War on ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages — greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women — as well as heart and metabolic disturbances, new Mayo Clinic research shows. The finding conflicts with the widely ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Medicine is a science. That means research should provide clear answers that stand the test of time and scrutiny from additional investigations. That’s the theory behind evidence-based, data-driven scientific medicine. But in our imperfect world, things don’t always turn out as they should. The April 2008 issue of Harvard Men’s ...
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