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• MONDAY 6. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 23:39 Essay: Breast Cancer Screening Matters, but Prevention Is the Real Goal

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  Perhaps too much emphasis is placed on looking for existing breast cancer when the search should focus on prevention and the possibility of finding a vaccine.
  
   

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• 23:37 Fallout From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Retraction Is Far and Wide

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  As the published evidence for the source of chronic fatigue syndrome fell apart, a legal melodrama erupted, dismaying and demoralizing patients and many members of the scientific community.
  
   

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• 23:37 Vital Signs: When Watched and Cheered On, I.C.U. Workers Wash Hands More

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  After the installation of cameras and boards announcing compliance rates, hand washing at an I.C.U. soared, a study shows.
  
   

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• 23:36 Vital Signs: Low-Protein Diets May Be Costly to Lean Body Mass

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  On a low-protein diet, the body is forced to get its protein from lean body mass, a study shows.
  
   

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• 22:42 Global Update: Did Malaria Kill 655,000 People in 2011 or Twice That?

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  The numbers are being quietly fought over in e-mails among malaria specialists at the World Health Organization and the University of Washington.
  
   

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• 22:12 Vital Signs: Fructose Consumption Increases Visceral Fat, Study Reports

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  Fructose consumption may increase cardiovascular risk factors because it increases visceral fat, the kind that accumulates around internal organs.
  
   

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• 22:11 To Survive a Quake, New Bay Bridge Span Will Offer Least Resistance

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  The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco is designed to go with the flow if a major earthquake strikes, to ensure minimal damage and disruption.
  
   

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• 21:41 Dot Earth Blog: What's a Science Teacher to Do?

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  A look at the issues confronting teachers trying to explore climate science amid heated public debate.
  
   

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• 20:20 Green Blog: A Scramble to Rescue Dolphins

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  No explanation has emerged for the unusually high number of dolphins landing on Cape Cod beaches.
  
   

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• 18:12 Green Blog: A Bay Area Experiment in Electric Bike Sharing

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  A program will encourage people to drive less or give up cars altogether, with far less sweat.
  
   

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• 13:55 Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Chinese Challenge on Airline Emissions

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  China says it has instructed its airlines not to comply with European Union rules requiring carriers to pay to offset their emissions.
  
   

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• SUNDAY 5. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 20:30 City Room: Colliding Continents Created the Rock Formation in a Children's Playground

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  We all know that our skyscrapers are built on bedrock, even if they have to reach down a way to find it. But not many of us know that a few bedrock outcrops are visible in mid-Manhattan.
  
   

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• 04:05 China Fires Officials for Not Reporting Toxic Spill

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  The spill, which affected 200 miles of the Longjiang River in southern China, was caused by two companies that accidentally released tons of cadmium.
  
   

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• SATURDAY 4. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 18:45 Dot Earth Blog: In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Common Ground

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  A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming.
  
   

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• 08:04 Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot

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  Suspicious of government initiatives, protesters linked to the Tea Party are denouncing all manner of measures they equate with a 1992 United Nations resolution, Agenda 21.
  
   

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• 05:53 Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger

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  Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could fail.
  
   

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• 00:03 Scientist at Work Blog: One Moose, Two Moose

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  Counting Isle Royale moose can be a tedious task that requires great dedication. But each moose has its own life story.
  
   

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• FRIDAY 3. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:56 SCIENCE: The Far Side of the Moon

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  NASA on Thursday released a video taken as one of the twin spacecraft in its Grail mission passed over the far side of the Moon.
  
   

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• 19:14 Green Blog: Report: Sierra Club Accepted Gas Industry Money

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  An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry.
  
   

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• 18:47 Green Blog: Coral, Part II: Is the Cold or Heat More Lethal?

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  Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal.
  
   

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• 17:28 Green Blog: Warming Seas and Corals: A New Conundrum

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  A new study based on research in western Australia suggests that warming seas can benefit corals -- but perhaps only to a point.
  
   

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• 16:30 Green Blog: On Our Radar: Military Drones That Mimic Butterflies

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  To aid defense contractors, researchers try to map how butterflies carry out an astonishing variety of flight maneuvers.
  
   

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• 07:28 National Briefing | New England: Maine: Emergency Plan Would Limit Cod Fishing

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  Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council.
  
   

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• 05:34 Dot Earth Blog: A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak for Coal-Dependent Workers

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  A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.
  
   

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• 05:00 Fessenheim Journal: Wishing Upon an Atom in a Tiny French Village

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  In the village of Fessenheim, an aging nuclear plant stirs both protests and support over the use of nuclear power across France.
  
   

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