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YellowBrix Top Science

• TELUS World of Science launches bold new strategic direction to close 11th St. location
  CALGARY, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - TELUS World of Science - Calgary announces a closure strategy that will bid a fond far...
• Researchers map all the fragile sites of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome
  MONTREAL, Feb. 8 /CNW Telbec/ - The research group of Dr. Franois Robert, a researcher at the Institut de rech...
• Hurt puppy improving, cruelty investigation continues
  Feb. 8--The Humane Society of Mercer County is still investigating a suspected animal cruelty case, but it wan...
• Evolution on the march: New DNA findings show that human genetic mutations are more recent, more rap
  Feb. 8--Conventional wisdom holds that if you could bring back someone from 40,000 years ago, he or she would ...
• EDITORIAL: Science: Enriching human life
  Feb. 8--CHARLESTON, W.Va. Millions of seniors -- who would have died in yesteryear -- are healthy and thrivin...
• For Henrietta Lacks, immortality comes in a test tube: Pitt alum's book tells of a woman whose proli
  Feb. 7--Nearly 60 years ago, a beautiful African-American woman died of aggressive cervical cancer at Johns Ho...
• Middle, high school students enjoy science at Olympiad
  Feb. 7--FARMINGTON -- Eighth graders Casee Scott and Amber Shaner believe they might have careers as crime sce...
• Sunday Conversation: Refining the origin of the human race
  Feb. 7--Anthropologist Todd Disotell of New York University will speak Tuesday night at the Houston Museum of ...
• The final chemistry frontier
  These species are the molecules of space, the cosmic chemicals that dwell in the vacuous netherworld between s...
• Let there be light
  In the beginning, the brain was a dark and shapeless void. Then scientists deployed dyes, and lo, the intrica...

YellowBrix Top US News

• Retired engineer gets 15 years in spy case
  A retired Boeing engineer convicted of supplying trade secrets to China must serve 15 years in prison, a Calif...
• Attorney: Savio said if she died, Drew did it
  Feb. 8--An attorney who represented Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, testified this morning that if...
• BRIEF: Metro terminal opens after security breach
  Feb. 8--Security officers stopped passengers from entering the McNamara Terminal at Metro Airport this morning...

YellowBrix Top Headlines

• UC Davis study suggests autism risk grows with mother's advancing age
  Feb. 8--UC Davis researchers say that a 40-year-old woman's risk of having a child with autism is 50 percent g...
• BRIEF: Dicks next in line for Murtha's chairmanship
  Feb. 8--WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Murtha's death Monday is likely to give Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, a powerf...
• U.S. Rep. John Murtha dies at 77
  U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., officials said. A sta...
• Doctor charged in Jackson's death
  Michael Jackson's personal physician was charged with involuntary manslaughter Monday in Los Angeles in connec...
• Toyota suffers from bad news
  DETROIT _ Consumers say they have heard more negative news about Toyota in recent days than they heard about G...
• All accounted for at Conn. blast site
  All the workers present at a Connecticut power plant when it exploded Sunday have been accounted for, official...
• Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the night sky in successful launch
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Space shuttle Endeavour brought an early dawn to Kennedy Space Center on Monday, punchi...
• Big Easy does it: Saints stun Colts in Super Bowl
  Feb. 8--MIAMI -- Even President Obama underestimated the steely determination of the New Orleans Saints, who s...
• Five die in US power plant blast ; The search continues for survivors after explosion
  A MASSIVE blast blew apart a power plant as workers building it purged natural gas lines, killing at least fiv...
• Last shuttle night flight blasts off into space
  Space shuttle Endeavour took off toward the space station today on one of the programme's last scheduled missi...

YellowBrix Top Entertainment

• 'Priscilla,' 'Sister Act' get Olivier nods
  "Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical" and "Sister Act" were among the shows nominated for the best new ...
• UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News
  Cowell's Haiti relief single released LONDON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Haiti charity song "Everybody Hurts," recor...
• 'Genius' Tribute
  TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to jazz legend Sir John Dankworth, who has died, aged 82. The saxophonist, whose ...
• Dave, Oprah, Jay pull off 'Super' surprise
  A surprise Super Bowl ad featuring U.S. celebrities David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno was planned an...
• Jazz saxophonist Dankworth dead at 82
  Jazz saxophonist John Dankworth, known throughout the British jazz scene, died after a prolonged illness at th...
• Singers, rappers perform to help aid Haiti
  Singers and rappers said during a benefit concert in Miami that residents of Haiti are in desperate need of ai...
• Police: Charlie Sheen car stolen, wrecked
  Police say a car belonging to Charlie Sheen was stolen from the actor's garage and later found wrecked in a Lo...
• Cast from 'Jersey Shore' to appear on 'The View'
  NEW YORK -- ABC says the housemates from "Jersey Shore" are headed to "The View" for some fist-pumping and out...
• Jackson's doctor to be charged with involuntary manslaughter
  LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles prosecutors plan to file a criminal case in the death of Michael Jackson on Monday. ...

YellowBrix Top Technology

• Ex-local SAP official to be firm's co-CEO
  Feb. 8--SAP AG's chief executive, Leo Apotheker, abruptly resigned over the weekend, leaving shares of the wor...
• Toyota to recall 270,000 Prius models
  TOYOTA is preparing to recall 270,000 Prius models in the latest of a series of embarrassing gaffes that threa...
• BRIEF: A peek at First Hill's splendid past
  Feb. 8--'Historic Houses' They're almost all gone now, but you can get some telling glimpses into First Hill'...
• China says hacker training site closed
  Chinese authorities shut down the country's largest hacker training Web site in central Hubei province, China ...
• San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Mr. Roadshow column: What to do if your car suddenly accelerates
  Feb. 7--Q Please tell us again what we should do if we have a runaway situation with our car. I told my wife ...
• OPINION: Dumb criminal did himself in
  Feb. 7--LOCKPORT -- If tattoo artist Christopher Crego is looking for a popular music lyric to add to his body...
• Police use Facebook, MySpace to find suspect: U.S. Marshals arrest Valley tattoo artist wanted in Ne
  Feb. 6--It isn't often police thank a suspect for helping them in their case against him, but a local tattoo a...
• BRIEF: A rooftop view of Seattle-area real estate in 2009
  Feb. 6--Click on the attached chart to see a summary of the 2009 real-estate market in the Seattle area, based...
• Sun Microsystems CEO leaves post with tweet
  In a tweeted goodbye, the CEO of Sun Microsystems bowed out Thursday with a bit of Japanese-style poetry. Jo...
• Probe of Prius brake issues begins / Report: 270,000 Prius hybrids to be recalled in U.S. and Japan
  Toyota faced mounting pressure yesterday as the U.S. government opened a probe of brake problems with the Priu...

YellowBrix Top Health

• Bill targeting unused drugs moves ahead despite foes ; Drug manufacturers say the cost of medicines
  Maine could soon become the first state to require drug manufacturers to establish a system for collecting unu...
• Journal: No Vaccine-Autism Link
  A British medical journal's retraction of an infamous 1998 study that had linked the measles, mumps and rubell...
• RJR's innovation draws interest of FDA: FDA asks R.J. Reynolds for data about new smokeless products
  Feb. 7--The evolution of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. may be shaped in large part by how well it can live down --...
• EDITORIAL: Fixing a medical miscue
  Feb. 6--IT TOOK too long, but The Lancet, an international medical journal that published an article that theo...
• Poll: Most believe swine flu threat over
  A poll suggests most Americans believe the swine flu was overblown and assume the pandemic is over. The result...
• Hints of awareness detected in vegetative people
  NEW YORK -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have e...
• Health spending rise biggest in 50 years
  WASHINGTON -- Spending on health care consumed an estimated 17 cents of every dollar spent last year in the Un...
• FDA seeks data on tobacco products from Star, Reynolds
  Feb. 5--Federal tobacco regulators are worried that nicotine tablets sold by Star Scientific Inc. may be hooki...
• Scientists communicate with man deemed to be in vegetative state
  DOCTORS HAVE managed to "communicate" with a man diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state for the pa...

Golf

• Barton golfers off to slow start: Barton tied for 10th
  Feb. 8--REUNION, Fla. -- After three weeks without playing a complete round, the Barton College golf team got ...
• Rory home to ease his pain
  World number seven Rory McIlroy will visit a Belfast-based specialist today to discover the extent of a back p...
• Stricker takes big lead at Riviera
  CUTLINES Steve Stricker celebrates his birdie putt on the 10th green during the third round of the Northern ...
• Pebble Beach Golf: Scenic MPCC is back in rotation, a draw a ATandT National Pro-Am
  Feb. 8--PEBBLE BEACH -- Tiger Woods boosts ticket sales at golf tournaments. But as the whole world knows, he...
• Stricker No. 2 in world golf rankings
  Steve Stricker's victory at the PGA's Northern Trust Open in California boosted him to the world No. Stricker...
• Schuylkill trio bows out of D-11 Duals
  Feb. 8--BETHLEHEM -- Blue Mountain's run as District 11 Duals runner-up and state qualifier is over. The eigh...
• Stricker rights himself to win title at Riviera
  Feb. 8--LOS ANGELES -- There have been five players in PGA Tour history who lost a tournament after entering t...
• Official: 'My gut' says Tiger playing here
  Feb. 8--Telephones inside the Tucson Conquistadores' east-side office began ringing Wednesday, hours after an ...
• No Keeping Up With Jones
  PHILIP McLEAN failed to repeat his opening-day heroics at the Jones Cup Invitational in Georgia. The Peterhead...

Baseball

• Showdown in Austin
  Feb. 8--People have been pointing tonight's Big Monday showdown between Kansas and Texas since before the seas...
• Winn and Yankees finalize $1.1M, 1-year contract
  NEW YORK - Randy Winn and the New York Yankees have finalized a $1.1 million, one-year contract. He would get ...
• Bob Melvin hired as scout by New York Mets
  NEW YORK - Former major league manager Bob Melvin has been hired as a professional scout by the New York Mets,...
• Clang! Clank! Brick!
  Feb. 6--Jen Kalinowski calmly took a breath, dribbled a few times and spun the basketball in her hands. By a...
• College basketball Top 10
  The NCAA admitted this week its officials have chatted with conference commissioners, university presidents, ...
• Hyland's back, as Riots up the ante
  With the return last Friday night of Keegan Hyland of South Portland, the Western Maine Class A boys' basketba...
• 'Anbar Whale' Perishes Off Al Musa'Nah Coast
  According to ONA: A giant whale: 'Al Anbar' weighting 6 tons was found washed off 'Al Ouaid' village coasts in...
• Sultanate Rains
  According to ONA: Heavy to moderate and light rains fell today in a number of governorates, regions and wilaya...
• Rain Fall Continue in Wilayats of Sultanate
  According to ONA: Heavy, moderate to light rains continued today for the second consecutive day in governorate...
• The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky., Jerry Tipton column
  Feb. 8--Hall of Fame coach and John Calipari critic Bob Knight won't be at Kentucky's game against Tennessee ...

Hockey

• Bears rally to beat Pens
  Feb. 8--HERSHEY -- Maybe it was a "trap" game, the kind of game that comes after one big game and before anoth...
• And the streak goes on for Hershey
  Feb. 8--Deer in the headlights? For the first 30 minutes, that's exactly what the Hershey Bears looked like. ...
• Well-known entertainers, athletes, astronaut and parents of great Canadians join final days of Vanc
  VANCOUVER, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Par...
• Two special selections for Devils
  NEWARK - Being selected to play in the Olympics is nothing new for Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur and forwar...
• Devils own reigning champions
  NEWARK -- If Steve Yzerman watched Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur play against the Pittsburgh Penguins on We...
• Rodowicz reaches 100 points: The Hoosac Valley student scores twice to lead Drury to a 7-1 win over
  Feb. 8--NORTH ADAMS -- Matt Rodowicz can claim something no other Hoosac Valley High School athlete can ever c...
• St. Louis Blues are 'desperate' to win games
  Feb. 8--You can spend hours dissecting the St. Louis Blues and why their expectations for the 2009-2010 season...
• Flyers, new winger Leino hope to help each other
  Feb. 8--After he acquired Ville Leino from Detroit two days ago, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren suggeste...
• Canes send Wallin to Sharks
  Feb. 8--It was the day after Christmas, and Niclas Wallin was about to play his 500th game for the Carolina Hu...
• Sabres work to right ship before break: Ruff stresses lapses due to lack of practice
  The Buffalo Sabres insist they're moving forward, trying to wipe out an 0-4 week that has erased all but one p...

NCAA Football

• Unsung Loucks leads Florida State to key conference victory against Miami
  Feb. 7--TALLAHASSEE -- The last time Luke Loucks had a game like this, he was in high school, he said. Loucks...
• LMC could vote St. Francis out: The start
  Feb. 7--TRAVERSE CITY -- What started as frustration over Traverse City St. Francis' dominance in the Lake Mic...
• Lakers' Bynum braces himself for worst
  Feb. 7--PORTLAND, Ore. -- Andrew Bynum on Saturday revealed the reason for wearing a second knee brace Friday ...
• Morris is Midgets' new head coach
  Feb. 7--Dennis Morris has looked up to coaches all his life. The 28-year-old former Dickinson State All-Ameri...
• The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Mike Baldwin column: NBA Insider: Quality of East teams is on rise
  Feb. 7--Maybe it's time to stop tossing out the jokes about how the Eastern Conference stinks. Would three or...
• Half Moon Bay boys basketball rallies to win
  Feb. 6--The Half Moon Bay High boys basketball team overcame a 12-point second-half deficit to beat host Capuc...
• St. Louis Blues lament inconsistent play
  Feb. 6--For all of the speculation about what needs to happen for the Blues to chase down a playoff spot in th...
• Washington guard Sara Mosiman is back, hoping to make a bigger contribution
  Feb. 6--With the cobwebs gone, Washington senior Sara Mosiman is back focusing on her team's goals in a road m...
• Big recruiting numbers don't always add up: Approximately one-third of national letter of intent sig
  Feb. 6--When Colorado State University-Pueblo head football coach John Wristen looked at this year's recruitin...
• Practice is perfect for Cavaliers
  Feb. 6--To the naked eye, it looked normal. Debbie Ryan bounced around the sidelines screaming plays and show...

Football

• Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Randy Galloway column: Saints a reflection of coach's guts, guile
  Feb. 8--MIAMI -- Think what might have been. A head coach at Valley Ranch who could win Super Bowls with a no...
• DOUG KRIKORIAN: Saints in Heaven: Once-miserable New Orleans franchise redeems itself with first Sup
  Feb. 8-- Super Bowl's super ratings In a surreal climax to a surreal season, the New Orleans Saints Sunday ev...
• Former Miami Hurricanes play key role in Saints' Super Bowl victory: Former Hurricanes Jonathan Vilm
  Feb. 8--More than eight years after helping the University of Miami win the last of its five national champion...
• Area schools send six to college athletics
  Feb. 6--Lon Morris College has just started its football program, and it will add two players from the Kilgore...
• Can you believe it?
  Feb. 8--MIAMI -- New Orleans knocked off Indianapolis Sunday night here at Sun Life Stadium 31-17 in Super Bow...
• With or without Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings' future looks bright
  Feb. 8--Even as Brett Favre mulls retirement, the Vikings can take comfort knowing that essentially the same ...
• Young Pokes will have their day
  Feb. 8--FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- "These kids are going to have their day." University of Wyoming men's basketba...
• Brees set for 'Letterman' visit
  Super Bowl XLIV MVP and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is set to appear on "Late Show with David Le...
• Bad moves that yielded worse results at the Super Bowl
  Feb. 7--Excess preys on weakness. And as the Super Bowl has evolved into a festival of excess, weaknesses --...
• Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice head 2010 Hall of Fame class
  Feb. 6--Everyone knew the NFL's career rushing leader, Emmitt Smith, and wide receiver Jerry Rice, the NFL's ...

NCAA Basketball

• Sabine teams win; KHS loses
  Feb. 6--Kilgore High School's basketball teams both lost to Henderson Tuesday, Sabine teams both defeated Elys...
• Kahn: Wolves deadline trade would be minor at most
  MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota Timberwolves boss David Kahn says he won't trade any of the team's core players this m...
• NU dominating? It's a slam dunk
  Feb. 7--Here's how you know it's not the same old Northwestern basketball: The Wildcats started Sunday's game ...

Basketball

• Tech point guard growing into role
  Feb. 8--When Texas Tech point guard John Roberson arrived from Plano to play for the Red Raiders two years ago...
• Clearing out the notebook on Oregon City-Clackamas girls
  Feb. 6--Oregon City couldn't find the range from long distance all game, except when it mattered the most -- ...
• Clippers' Kaman to replace injured Roy in All-Star Game
  New York, NY (Sports Network) - Los Angeles Clippers center Chris Kaman was named the replacement for ...
• Tigers take turn for the worse: MU's offense can't find net in an ugly loss.
  Feb. 8--Almost good enough gave way to almost bad enough for the Missouri women's basketball team yesterday af...
• Haysi scrambles past Rebels; Hurley girls pull upset
  Feb. 8--BIRCHLEAF, Va. -- For Haysi it was all about execution. The Tigers executed on offense when it matter...
• Benton girls get crucial MEC win against Smithville
  Feb. 6--SMITHVILLE, Mo. -- A little consistency went a long, long way for Benton's Shelbee Cox. With 14 poin...
• South Boys Freshmen Win MHC Championship
  Feb. 8--The South Decatur boys freshman basketball team concluded its season with a win in the Mid Hoosier Con...
• BRIEF: Connersville Edges Pirate 7B Girls By Two Thursday
  Feb. 8--CONNERSVILLE -- The Greensburg girls 7B team lost a very close one at Connersville Thursday night, 30-...
• Warriors boys, girls continue to roll
  Feb. 8--The North Edgecombe Warriors took care of business by whipping Kipp Pride 70-48 Friday night in Legget...