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| Mammogram Readers Could Take a Cue from Film-Making
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| Commercial Composting a Growth Industry in Austin
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:38:50 GMT ContributorNetwork - While Austin, like most Texas cities, has a recycling program, the capital of the state is experimenting with commercial composting, using food and other organic waste to create mulch and potter's soil for commercial use, according to the Austin American Statesman. |
| Sierra Club Received Millions from Natural Gas Industry
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| Ship that hit Ky. bridge has precious space cargo
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| Same Genes Key to Early & Late-Onset Alzheimer's: Study
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| Organization Warns of EPA 'Regulatory Avalanche'
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:51 GMT ContributorNetwork - The Texas Public Policy Foundation is warning of an "approaching regulatory avalanche" in a report. The foundation says new rules in the works by the Environmental Protection Agency could cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here are the details of the report. |
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| Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:45:00 GMT SPACE.com - A fluke of astrophysics has revealed what scientists are calling the brightest galaxy ever seen through a cosmic "zoom lens," NASA officials say. |
| Sex & Parenting Genes Discovered in Mice
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:00 GMT LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.