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• MONDAY 20. MAY, 2013
• 21:34 A Conversation With Brenda Milner: Still Charting Memory’s Depths

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  Brenda Milner’s work with an amnesia patient in the 1950s showed how memory is rooted in specific regions of the brain. With modern technology, she says, “we can see so much more.”  

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• 20:37 Scientist at Work Blog: Thwarted by Moonlight

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  Sometimes a lot of light at night does not illuminate. When you’re looking for slow lorises in the forests of Vietnam, a full moon is not a good sign.  

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• 20:28 Q&A: How Do You Prevent Toenails From Thickening and Getting Deformed?

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  In a healthy person with no nail disease, by far the most common cause of thick nails is trauma.  

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• 20:22 Books: In Essays, Nurses Highlight Job’s Tedious Duties and Profound Implications

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  In a new anthology of essays, 21 nurses describe the often quiet work of keeping patients alive.  

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• 20:14 Dot Earth Blog: A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers

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  Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.  

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• 19:11 Mind: The D.S.M.-5 as a Guide, not a ‘Bible’

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  The American Psychiatric Association’s official manual of mental disorders, newly revised, may not be ideal, but it offers clinicians a common language.  

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• 18:49 Global Health: 4 Germs Cause Most of Infants’ Severe Diarrhea

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  A study pinpoints just four microbes as the most common causes of severe and fatal diarrhea among the world’s infants.  

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• 05:10 High Plains Aquifer Dwindles, Hurting Farmers

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  Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer, once a prodigious source of water, are now so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.  

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• SUNDAY 19. MAY, 2013
• 05:02 Joseph Farman, 82, Is Dead; Discovered Ozone Hole

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  Mr. Farman’s single-minded and at times officially derided study of atmospheric changes in the Antarctic led to one of the most important environmental discoveries of the 20th century.  

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• SATURDAY 18. MAY, 2013
• 20:16 Prototype: At Ministry of Supply, Teamwork in Making High-Tech Apparel

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  Two groups of M.I.T. entrepreneurs were working on similar ideas for high-tech clothing. But instead of becoming rivals, they combined their efforts into a single, growing company.  

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• 07:17 State of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?

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  Beach nourishment projects will restore shorelines but require expensive upkeep and affect ecosystems; federal taxpayers will foot the bill.  

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• 07:16 State Of the Beaches: In Rockaways, Racing the Clock to Repair the Beach

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  Hurricane Sandy left the parks department with the onerous task of having the beach ready for a Memorial Day weekend opening.  

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• 02:47 Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

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  Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.  

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• FRIDAY 17. MAY, 2013
• 21:56 World Briefing | Health: Single Yellow Fever Shot Offers Lifetime Protection, W.H.O. Says

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  One shot confers lifetime protection and the “booster shot” given at 10 years is no longer necessary, the World Health Organization said.  

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• 20:49 Dot Earth Blog: The Adirondack Park and Conservation on a Crowding Planet

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  A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene.  

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• 17:39 Scientist at Work Blog: Heading North, With an Appetite

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  It is early April, and another whale season is drawing to a close.  

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• 02:33 World Briefing | Asia: Indonesia: A Logging Ban Is Extended

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  Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rain forests and peatlands, an official said Thursday.  

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• 02:30 Interior Proposes New Rules for Fracking on U.S. Land

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  The proposal, which would allow some drilling fluids to be kept secret, did not please environmental advocates or the oil and gas industry.  

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• 02:05 Performing From Space, Chris Hadfield Is Canada’s Low-Orbit Star

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  Chris Hadfield’s exploits in space may have cemented his reputation as the world’s best-known singing astronaut, not to mention Canada’s newest celebrity.  

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• THURSDAY 16. MAY, 2013
• 19:31 Senate Panel Advances Nominee for E.P.A.

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  The committee voted 10-to-8 along partisan lines to send the nomination of Gina McCarthy to the Senate floor.  

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• 13:00 Matter: Dogs: From Fearsome Predator to Man’s Best Friend

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  Scientists are zeroing in on some of the genes that were crucial to the rewiring of canine brains in the transition from wolves to domesticated dogs.  

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• WEDNESDAY 15. MAY, 2013
• 23:59 Observatory: Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus

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  The African clawed frog carries a disease that threatens hundreds of other amphibian species, new research shows.  

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• 23:55 Japanese Reactor Is Said to Stand on Fault Line

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  Seismologists directed by Japan’s new nuclear regulator said the fault showed signs of being geologically active, suggesting a high earthquake risk.  

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• 23:28 Scientists Use Cloning to Create Embryonic Stem Cells

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  Researchers fused skin cells with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the person who provided the skin cells.  

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• 21:29 Malfunction Imperils Mission to Find Other Earths

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  If engineers cannot restore a mechanism that keeps the Kepler spacecraft’s telescope pointed, one of the most romantic and successful of NASA’s projects could end.  

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