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Tobacco Advertising Through Movies Luring Kids

A study in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that kids aged 12 to 17 in the US may have been exposed to tobacco advertising// in some form or the other despite a ban on tobacco advertising in 2001 to 2002. In 1971 tobacco adv...

Dana Reeve's Nephew Champions Aunt's Legacy

...e box of about 40 shirts and thermals was cleared out in less then three minutes. "Once cleared, I began handing out buttons to passing students, luring them by saying 'Hey can I give you a button?' When a student would come over I would ask 'What do you know about Lung Cancer?' Most of the time they w...

Chemical come-on successfully lures lovesick lampreys to traps

...n a pound, would be used each year." The research is published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . By luring fertile females to traps baited with synthetic pheromone, fishery managers could prevent them from mating and reduce lamprey populations. The syntheti...

MU researchers reveal communication tactics used by sexual predators to entrap children

...s the communication process used by child sexual predators. Their theory of luring communication is part of a new area of study which Olson calls the communic...g, or de-escalate it, Olson said. According to the study, the theory of luring communication also may offer important insight into social, deviant and com...

Cemetery Tourism, the New Catchword in US

...plans to show horror films. Trust though the cemetery managements, hard-pressed for money, to look for more and more out-of-the-earth ways of luring the living to the abode of the dead. ...

New Studies: Commercials Aren't Making Kids Fat

...the new reports indicate that the number of advertisements seen by kids has actually dropped in the past few decades. Despite being accused of luring children to eat fatty foods, advertisements for fast food restaurants make up only 3.3% of commercial breaks, the Archives study found. Furthermore, t...

Bangkok Lures Visitors With Its Growing Gourmet Scene

... all over the world." The Thai capital is building a reputation for the quality of its local and international cuisine, and the food alone is luring well-heeled gourmets, mostly from Asia's burgeoning economies. "Almost every cuisine is available here. I think the scene is very metropolitan and int...

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death

...mentally different strategy to fight viruses. They want to wipe them out by luring them to their destruction, like mice to mousetraps. Viruses invade a ...olleagues reasoned that these mutants might act as traps for phi-6 viruses, luring them into a dead end. Because Dr. Turner’s team study bacteria instea...

Be Transformed and Don’t Pay Interes

...ates for improving your// looks. The move has been criticized by authorized bodies of plastic surgery as being highly ‘irresponsible’ and akin to luring people who don’t need it, to plastic surgery. Not so, says Transform. According to them demands for plastic surgery is on the rise and besides t...

Medical Council Of India Draws Public Attention on Misleading Ads.

... Recently it has been observed that certain entities have issued misleading advertisements for luring innocent Indian Students //for admissions in MBBS from foreign universities. It is also mentioned in such advertisements that ‘recognition of degree b...

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NAU discovery could help feed millions

... managing its kangaroo, wallaby and camel populations. New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom also are in line to put ChemSpay to use. She said luring students to the research team was easy. "We want them involved with hands-on research and field experience," she said. "The first question I ask inter...

Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction

...ust not only survive, but also reproduce. Paul Turner , associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale, tested the practicality of luring a virus population into the wrong cells within the human body, thus preventing virus reproduction and alleviating disease. "Ecological traps for ...

Mitochondrial genes move to the nucleus -- but it's not for the sex

...g part of the nuclear genome is recombination, after all, but little recombination takes place in self-pollinating species. So what, exactly, might be luring mitochondrial genes to the nucleus? "We're not quite sure why yet, but we've hypothesized that successful mitochondrial genes are pairing up wit...

Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas

...n tricuspis, was introduced to several locations in Texas beginning in 1999 with BFL in central Austin. The small traps capture fire ants first by luring them in with ants from a disturbed mound. The flies follow the ants into the traps and then become stuck on strips of flypaper when they take a break ...

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

...n the time she has spent working at the garden, she says, the invader plant is the heavier "bee magnet." And if that's the case, purple loosestrife is luring pollinators away from the native plants. To investigate her hunch further, Flanagan added a third wetland species to the garden ?a native plant k...

Jefferson scientists identify gene defect leading to abnormal skin development and cancer

... expensive, labor-intensive and unpopular undertaking. The GLFC is eager to use a synthetic form of the newly found pheromone to replace the poison by luring lamprey to traps and sterilizing the males, the researchers said. Using the pheromone would be environmentally friendly and less expensive. "The G...

Leading lampreys to slaughter: Pheromone for scourge of Great Lakes identified

... expensive, labor-intensive and unpopular undertaking. The GLFC is eager to use a synthetic form of the newly found pheromone to replace the poison by luring lamprey to traps and sterilizing the males, the researchers said. Using the pheromone would be environmentally friendly and less expensive. "The G...

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State investment incentives aimed at luring angels to start-up companies

MADISON Like most states, Wisconsin has long offered specialized tax credits to expand or lure traditional businesses, but it has lacked credit programs aimed at leveraging seed capital for the states technology start-ups. Thats about to change. Act 255, a tax-credit package that passed the Leg...

Midwest health care technology luring greater investment focus

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in health care technologies developed in the Midwest, results of a new national survey show. Wisconsin, however, only rated in the middle tier for its reputation among health care investors. About two-thirds of the survey respondents have their pri...

WAVE of the Future?

... those firms create, she said. In the long run, state support of entrepreneurship will stimulate economic development with a much greater payback than luring high-profile big businesses to the state. Another WAVE graduate, Neil Peters-Michaud, said that the program promotes innovative new businesses. I ...

MyWeather-powered alerting system surpasses 165,000 downloads

...esktop icon chimes and changes color. Linked with the IBS content system and the MyWeather alert servers, critical information is delivered instantly, luring people to the host stations Web site. MyWeather operates the Desktop Alert and Premium Weather paid content program to 39 IBS-affiliated stations,...

Online scam targets credit union members

... Pewaukee, Wis. - More than two million Wisconsin credit union members are conceivable targets of a new identity theft scam already luring users of the non-profit financial institutions via e-mail. According to a notice from The Wisconsin Credit Union League , the trade association fo...