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Will Asian-language smokers use a tobacco quitline?Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:33PMTelephone counseling programs for smoking cessation, popularly known as "quitlines," are an increasingly common way for smokers to quit. Every state in the U.S. now has one. However, most of them provide counseling services in English and Spanish only. The only quitline so far to offer counseling in multiple Asian languages is the California Smokers' Helpline. Since 1993, the Helpline has ...

Mårten Mickos Named CEO of Eucalyptus SystemsFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:31PMSANTA BARBARA, Calif.----Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud software, announced today that Mårten Mickos has joined the company as chief executive officer.

FAMILY MATTERS: Workshops, counseling are beneficial to any marriageFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:23PMDEAR FAMILY: My husband and I went to a marriage workshop and to a few sessions of marriage therapy about two years ago. Things were great for awhile, we talked more, did more things together, had lunch sometimes during the week and made sure we had our weekly date night. Work, children and life started getting in the way and before we knew it we were right back the way we were before. Actually ...

Dormant microbes promote diversity, serve environment: studyFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:18PM(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability of microbes, tiny organisms that do big jobs in our environment, to go dormant not only can save them from death and possible extinction but may also play a key role in promoting biodiversity and ecosystem stability.

A blue gem for greener fuelFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:18PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Sapphire, a brilliant blue gemstone most familiar in jewelry, may soon play an important part in making coal a cleaner fuel source.

Innovate My School - innovation and inspirationFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:16PMSubjects Foundation: Communication, lang..., Foundation: Creative dev...., Foundation: Knowledge and ...., Foundation: Mathematical dev......, Foundation: Personal, social..., Foundation: Physical dev....,

Dostoyevsky and MeFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:10PMAn entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.

All birds use the same navigation systemFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:03PMHow do birds find their way when they fly? Scientists resolved this question a couple of years ago at DESY with the synchrotron radiation source DORIS III, when they discovered structures containing iron in the beaks of homing pigeons. These structures are able to measure the direction and intensity of the earth`s magnetic field and thus help the birds navigate. Recently a team of scientists ...

Egg challenge tests science studentsFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 1:59PMLonoke High School freshmen physical science students competed against the senior physics students during an engineering competition involving eggs Friday.