There's something funny in this fruitcake

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Web sources, many governmental, of information about food safety, healthy eating, ethnobotany, drugs derived from plants, food colorings used over since the 15th century, and other topics of interest related to food are listed and discussed. Topics include healthy and natural foods. The Gatherer, at www.kippewa-gardens.com/cg-bin/Gatherer.pl, a multiple-database search engine on various uses for plants is devoted mostly to natural medicines and other remedies, but also directs to Native American recipes. Princeton Univ., at www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/hall.html in its The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences details preservative-developing research of Lloyd Hall. Environmed Research (West Vancouver, BC), at its commercial site has easy-to-read summaries of common health problems related to diet/nutrition/allergies/environment.

Canada, Health aspects, Usage, Food industry, Prevention, History, Food additives, Food, Web sites (World Wide Web), Information services, Web sites, Foodborne diseases

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This is the house that Buck Rogers built

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The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) awarded $1.1 mil in grants in 2000 to cut down on the monthly cost of new housing by at least 20% by 2010. The Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the Natl. Inst. for Standards and Technology (NIST) announced this. The grants are to encourage companies that produce new housing construction materials. Three kinds of new construction materials produced by recipient companies are discussed and materials found by searching the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site are discusses. Various accomplishments around the world are covered. Topics include lighting and heat, clean houses, into which germ/dust-fighting materials are incorporated, preparing for disasters/attack, and the unusual.

World, Research, Housing, Practice, Building materials, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling, Materials, Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing

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When "it can't happen here" happens

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the issue of research misconduct and ways and means of handling such occurrences in academic institutions and industry. United States Office of Science and Technology Policy has formulated a government policy defining research misconduct comprising of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism.

Evaluation, Laws, regulations and rules, Plagiarism, Ethical aspects, Science and state, Science policy, Research teams, Science and ethics, Scientific ethics

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