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Information Statement: M 4.3 045 NW HOMER, AK. 0542Z OCT 5: Tsunami NOT expected

Palliative Care Report Card, United States - A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s Hospitals

Palliative Care Report Card, United States - A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s Hospitals: "How Does Your State Rate?"

Smart Slime, Ovulating Strippers Among 2008 Ig Nobels

Smart Slime, Ovulating Strippers Among 2008 Ig Nobels: "Generics and Jerks

Duke University business professor Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, took home the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

In one study covered in the book, a group of people took placebos—fake pharmaceuticals—that they were told were expensive. Another group took the same pills but was told the drugs were inexpensive.

The 'expensive' pills were found to be more effective pain relievers than the 'cheap' ones.

The study could have implications for patients given generic, instead of brand-name, medications."

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"The reverse side also has a reverse side."

Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard | Newsweek Science | Newsweek.com

Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard | Newsweek Science | Newsweek.com: "(CAPLEN, Texas) A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.

Dorothy Sisk asked her colleague, Lamar University paleontologist Jim Westgate, to accompany her to her Bolivar Peninsula home after Ike hit. Together they found something unusual in the remains of Sisk's front yard: a six-pound fossil tooth."

A PACIFIC STORM WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE COAST TODAY.
WINDS WILL RISE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 45 TO 55 MPH BY AFTERNOON.
HOWEVER.AT THE COASTAL HEADLANDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
THIS EVENING.EXPECT WINDS AT THE COASTAL HEADLANDS TO PEAK NEAR
35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH.

Ocean Power Technologies Wins New $2M Award from US Department of Energy - MarketWatch

Ocean Power Technologies Wins New $2M Award from US Department of Energy - MarketWatch: "PENNINGTON, N.J., Oct 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ('OPT' or the 'Company') today announces that it has received a US$2.0 million award from the US Department of Energy (DoE), in support of OPT's wave power project in Reedsport, Oregon."

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Foster's Law

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."

Ancient Tsunami Carried Giant Boulders to Tonga

Ancient Tsunami Carried Giant Boulders to Tonga: "The largest of the seven boulders is 50 feet (15 meters) wide and estimated to weigh 1,600 tons. It currently sits more than 300 feet (100 meters) from the sea and 30 feet (10 meters) above sea level, an anomaly on the South Pacific island's flat landscape.

'We suspect that this may be the largest [object] moved uphill by a tsunami,' said Cliff Frohlich, a senior scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin."

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Several members of the LVH Fishing Club have helped and participated in the U-DA-MAN fishing tournament which occurs every year in October. Some of the funds from that event are used for enhancement of salmon habitat. Larry Dale, Wayde Dudley and Barb Dudley helped ODFW on Sunday, September 21st, with a project to place logs on Big Elk Creek. The US Forest Service selected 70 logs and had them stacked in a nearby meadow. (By logs I mean full grown trees that had the branches cut off, some with huge root wads). A helicopter then picked up the logs, one by one, and placed them in several designated areas on the creek. Our job was to help direct traffic and make sure no vehicles crossed the road if the helicopter was overhead. As we only had 4 vehicles that day we had plenty of time and the great pleasure of watching the helicopter work. It was amazing how they could pick up the logs, carry them and then place then exactly where they needed to go. It was very impressive as each round trip only took about 2-1/2 minutes.

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Space Smash-Up Turned Planets to Dust

Space Smash-Up Turned Planets to Dust: "A dust cloud surrounding a nearby star 300 light-years from Earth may be all that remains from the collision of two rocky planets, researchers say.

The planets may have been similar to Earth in size, age, and distance from their sun. The bodies circled a binary star, or a pair of stars locked in tight rotation, known as BD 20 307."

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Information Statement: M 6.9 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION 1520Z SEP 29: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK