French PM vows action to stem rise of far right
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News France The Local ^
| 12/15/15 | Not attributed
The French Prime Minister has vowed to take urgent action to cut unemployment, acknowledging measures are needed to stem the rise of the far-right National Front. The record performance of the far-right National Front in the regional elections seem to have jolted the French government into action, with the Prime Minister vowing
to take on the economic "state of emergency". French PM Manuel Valls has vowed to draw up a series of measures to combat record unemployment and in doing so stem the rising tide of the National Front. Despite the National Front being beaten in the second round of...
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Eye Lenses Regenerated Using Infants' Own Stem Cells
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Live Science ^
| 03/14/2016 | by Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
Stem cells could help treat people with cataracts and even some who are blind by regenerating eye tissue and replacing flawed lenses, according to new experiments in children and rabbits. In
order for people to see properly, both the lens of the eye and the cornea — the layer of tissue that covers the eye in front of the lens — must be transparent. Current treatments for people who have clouding in the lens or cornea involve artificial implants or donor transplants, respectively, but these surgical procedures can be risky, researchers said. In the new research, scientists performed minimally invasive...
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Math disaster in college: Would-be STEM majors can't add 1/2 + 1/3
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Joanne Jacobs ^
| Sep 6, 2023 | Joanne Jacobs
After a year of remote algebra, Diego Fonseca struggled with advanced algebra. Despite
a week at George Mason University's Math Boot Camp, the would-be computer science major failed the math placement test to qualify for calculus four times. He didn't know the basics. Across the country, more students are placing into pre-college math, reports AP's Collin Binkley. "At many universities, engineering and biology majors are struggling to grasp fractions and exponents." At George Mason in Northern Virginia, fewer would-be STEM majors are getting into calculus and more are failing, he writes. “We’re talking about college-level pre-calculus and calculus classes, and...
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DNC looks to rebrand to stem losses during Obama administration
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washingtontimes.com ^
| Nov. 17, 2015 | Kelly Riddell
Reeling from its midterm losses last year, the Democratic National Committee is planning a multiyear strategy to recapture Democratic seats downballot by reworking its messaging, easing ballot-access restrictions in several states and by playing an active role in redistricting.<> During
the Obama administration, the Democrats have lost 11 governorships, 13 U.S. Senate seats, 69 House seats and 910 state legislative seats. A Gallup poll measuring trends in party affiliation since 2004 found 29 percent of Americans identified as Democrats in October, compared to 38 percent in March 2009 after Mr. Obama first took office. Members of the DNC group that...
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Embryonic Stem Cell Fail as Firm Goes Defunct
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American Thinker ^
In 2004, Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards promised that if John Kerry won, people would rise out of their wheelchairs and walk. In
the 2006 election, actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s, made a commercial for Democratic Senate candidates in which he urged voters to support those candidates who opposed restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and stood in the way of imminent miracles. Private funding, it should be noted, was never restricted. The only thing that stood in the way of miracle cures from embryonic stem cell research miracle cures, we were told, was the...
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Vision restored in rabbits following stem cell transplantation
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Science Daily ^
| 03/22/2016
Date: March 9, 2016 Source: Cardiff University, Osaka University Summary: Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development. ________________________________________ Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem
cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development. When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to...
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UN urges prisoner releases to stem spread of coronavirus
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Franc24 ^
| March 25, 2020
Countries must protect people in detention from the COVID-19 pandemic by releasing vulnerable prisoners, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Wednesday. "Covid-19 has begun to strike prisons, jails and immigration detention centres, as well as residential care homes and psychiatric hospitals, and risks rampaging through such institutions' extremely vulnerable
populations," said Bachelet said in a statement. "Authorities should examine ways to release those particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, among them older detainees and those who are sick, as well as low-risk offenders."
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Sight to the Blind: Exciting New Tech Via Stem Cells
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Townhall.com ^
| April 7, 2016 | Zachary Gappa
A gigantic step towards curing blindness was made by scientists at UC San Diego using non-embryonic stem cells. The
scientists developed a procedure to coax stem cells within the eyes of twelve infants to regrow their lenses. If it realizes its full potential, this treatment may reverse some forms of blindness for young and old alike. Perhaps more excitingly, this breakthrough has come from “adult” stem cell research--not embryonic stem cell research. Which means that eyes can be healed without harvesting the cells of aborted children.Search Google for UC San Diego, stem cells, and cataracts. This story, which should be...
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Cities look at subsidized housing to stem teacher shortages
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Associated Press ^
| Jan. 3, 2016 2:10 AM EST | Lisa Leff
As the days get shorter, first grade teacher Esmeralda Jimenez watches the dimming afternoon sky outside her classroom window the way her pupils watch the clock at dismissal time. The
studio apartment Jimenez rents for $1,783 a month, or 43 percent of her salary, is located in one of San Francisco's sketchiest neighborhoods. Getting home involves running a gantlet of feces-strewn sidewalks, popping crack pipes, discarded needles and menacing comments -- daily irritants that become more daunting after dark. [...] In San Francisco, where many of Jimenez's colleagues have roommates or long commutes, addressing the affordability crisis for teachers was...
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STEM School students walkout on democrat politicians
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Vanity
Apologies for the vanity. The sources I could find are on the "do not post list". Hopefully
this gets picked up. STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado students burst into a spontaneous protest, walking out of an event to protest politicians and the media pushing for gun control. The protest happened after Sen. Michael Bennet and Congressman Jason Crow, spoke to the crowd and spoke about gun control. The kids wanted to honor their heroes.
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Hedge Funds Cut Fees To Stem Client Exodus
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Financial Times ^
| 19 December 2015
Many hedge funds are cutting fees and negotiating with investors to trim some of their hefty costs and avert withdrawals after another mediocre year for returns. The
industry has been shifting for several years away from its traditional model of charging 2% of assets and keeping 20% of profit. Some funds are already wooing customers with fees closer to 1% and 15%, people in the industry say. Now pressures are mounting on a wider range of fund managers, as a crowded sector copes with a middling year. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index is up 0.3% on the year and...
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Storms and borders stem refugee flow to Germany
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TheLocal.de ^
| 30 Nov 2015 15:23 GMT+01:00
The number of refugees arriving in Germany has fallen off sharply in the past few days, with police reporting half the number of new arrivals this weekend compared with last. [...] A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said that strong winds in the Aegean Sea, where asylum seekers traveling from the Middle
East make the crossing from Turkey into Europe, could be one cause of the drop in numbers. Another reason for the fall in arrivals could be the border controls set up at by various countries along the so-called "Balkan route" the route through Europe taken by most refugees...
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Researchers test vaccine they hope could stem Alzheimer's
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CBS News ^
| 06/22/2019
Researchers at University of New Mexico researchers are working on a vaccine they hope could prevent Alzheimer's disease, reports CBS Albuquerque affiliate KRQE-TV. UNM's Health and Sciences Department Associate Professor Kiran Bhaskar, who's been passionate about studying the disease for the last decade, says the work started with an idea in 2013.
"I would say it took about five years or so to get from where the idea generated and get the fully functioning working vaccine," he said. Bhaskar and his team started to test the vaccine on mice. It has not yet been shown if it works in people....
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America’s STEM Crisis Threatens Our National Security
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American Affairs Journal ^
| Feb 20, 2019 | Arthur Herman
February 20, 2019 AmericaÂ’s STEM Crisis Threatens Our National Security By Arthur Herman On October 4, 1957, a steel sphere the size of a beach ball and bristling with four radio antennae circled the Earth in eight minutes. Dubbed
“Satellite-1,” or “PS-1” (Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1) by its Soviet fabricators, it was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviets had launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit, where it stayed for three weeks before its batteries died. Then it continued silently in a decaying orbit for another two months before burning up in the atmosphere. Its radio signal pulses were easily...
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You Can Now Donate to the Ahmed Mohamed STEM Scholarship Fund
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News.Mic ^
| September 18, 2015 | By Joe Levine
On Wednesday, the story of Ahmed Mohamed erupted online. The
14-year-old from Irving, Texas, was suspended from MacArthur High School and arrested after he brought a homemade clock to school that a teacher mistook for a bomb. After the story went viral and gained widespread support, Mohamed's family created a LaunchGood initiative on Wednesday seeking to add some cold hard cash to the teenager's newfound fame. The #IStandWithAhmed campaign hopes to raise money to support Mohamed and others like him with a scholarship to pursue their education in a STEM field. Within hours of its creation, the campaign raised more...
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Shock: Some ‘adult’ stem cells are actually taken from unborn babies
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LifeSiteNews ^
| 9/23/15 | Steve Weatherbe
September 23, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Retired hockey star Gordie Howe and NFL football star John Brodie have both had fetal stem cells injected into their spines to treat strokes, but because they had adult stem cells administered intravenously at the same time, critics say there is no way to know if their
recoveries derive from the fetal cells. "There is no way to learn which is responsible," Theresa Deisher of Seattle-based AVM Biotechnology, told LifeSiteNews. A second problem is more serious: fetal stem cells were the scientific rage a decade ago because of their capacity to turn into any kind...
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Not with a bang but a whimper: What ever happened to the stem cell wars?
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MercatorNet ^
| 11/3/15 | Michael Cook
It’s time for scientists and bioethicists to establish a Embryonic Stem Cell Truth and Reconciliation Commission.It all seems so long ago now. But
from 2002 to 2008 they barnstormed, fibbed, exaggerated, hyped, and caricatured to get government funding so that they could play God with human embryos. It was a brutal battle in which truth came second. "People need a fairy tale," said Ronald D.G. McKay, a leading stem cell scientist, in 2004.The claims made for the near-miraculous potential of human embryonic stem cells were extraordinary. Celebrities and scientists spoke with the breathless enthusiasm normally associated with crystal medicine or ayurvedic...
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Stem cells op gives millions hope of cure for blindness
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The London Daily Express ^
| September 29, 2015 | David Pilditch
A BRITISH pensioner has become the first person to undergo revolutionary eye surgery aimed at curing blindness in millions of people. The
60-year-old woman, who had severely impaired sight and was in danger of going blind, is said to have had no complications so far following the three-hour operation last month. The surgical team hopes to determine how successful the treatment was by early December. The woman has asked to remain anonymous. The scientists behind the pioneering procedure hope it will dramatically transform lives, allowing the blind to recognise faces of loved ones again and regain the ability to carry...
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New U.S. push for vaccines, boosters to stem 'raging' Omicron
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Reuters ^
| December 19, 2021 | By Doina Chiacu and David Brunnstrom
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials urged Americans on Sunday to get booster shots, wear masks and be careful if they travel over the winter holidays, with the Omicron variant raging across the world and likely to take over as the dominant strain in the United States. The government is
gearing up for the next phase of battle in a two-year fight against a virus that has killed 800,000 and disrupted every aspect of daily life. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that the number of Omicron cases will...
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Japan intervenes in forex market to stem yen's slide
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Nikkie Asia ^
| 9/22/22
TOKYO -- The Japanese government and the Bank of Japan have intervened to buy the yen and sell dollars for the first time in about 24 years after the currency weakened on indications that the central bank would stick to its ultraloose monetary policy. The
intervention on Thursday was confirmed by Masato Kanda, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs. It followed a slide in the yen after BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda made bearish remarks that indicated he had no intention to raise rates any time soon. Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki later said that the BOJ intervened to calm volatility...
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