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RECENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(Geneva, Switzerland) The European consortum for high-energy physics research, known as CERN, has responded with typical Swiss ingenuity after recent budget cuts necessitated a radical design change in the main module of the superconducting supercollider. (click for photo)

(King of Prussia, PA) Scientists at General Electric have created a device which offers an unprecedented degree of protection from lightning strikes for those individuals whose activities require them to risk personal exposure during thunderstorms. (click for photo)

(Vancouver, British Columbia) None other than FGCU's own Dr. Edwin Everham, noted environmentalist and collector of office furniture that he has stacked next to your correspondent's door,  has teamed up with ecologists at Simon Fraser University to promote greater survival rates of Pacific salmon which historically have spawned in the innumerable rivers and streams of the Pacific Northwest.  Win has pioneered a new method for ensuring that the salmon swimming upstream survive the danger of predatory bears. He is shown here flawlessly executing the Direct Ursine Discouragement procedure. (click for video)

(Black Hills, SD) Roy C. Andrews of the University of Saskatoon has announced the discovery of a previously unknown type of dinosaur from the late Pernicious period. The skeletal remains were remarkably well preserved, permitting scientists to readily reconstruct a life-sized model of the original animal. (click for photo)

(Bear Notch, KY) Dr. Clement Q. Hatfield, chief analytical chemist at the Louisville Institute for Catalysis and Organic Research (LICOR), demonstrates the  Institute's recently commissioned mobile ethanol recovery apparatus. (click for photo)

(Batavia, IL) Researchers at Fermilab were disappointed to learn that another group prevailed in the quest to obtain the first close-up image of a single proton. Miss Sklodowska's fourth grade class at the Hodgkiss School  succeeded by ingeniously harnessing the full power of a Xerox copier. By magnifying a sheet of paper using the 10X setting fifteen times, they were able to probe distances on the order of a femtometer and ultimately to produce an  image of an isolated proton. (click for photo)

(Hollywood, CA) Biologists from the University of California engaged in field work at the Beverly Hills Hotel tiki bar succeeded in observing for the first time the mating ritual of the rare speckled tree frog Terpsichoreus obnoxii. (click for video)

(Boston, MA) Educational researchers led by Dr. Natalie Drest of Harvard University have compiled a retrospective comparison of teaching  methods used to impart mathematical knowledge over the last half century. (click for summary)

(Sarasota, FL) A team at the Florida Institute of Geriatrics led by Dr. Euda Mann has developed an anti-aging therapy based on supplementation of  the important neurotransmitter rho-padopamine, which affects the brain's ability to interpret ambiguous messages, such as subtle ironic humor. Two subjects with severely depleted levels of this chemical were put on a strict regimen and restored to nearly full humor capacity within one week using Dr. Mann's technique.  (click for photo) 

(Chicago, IL) Due to concerns expressed by PETA over the gratuitous sacrifice of large animals by using horsehide to manufacture baseballs for an essentially unnecessary entertainment purpose, Major League Baseball has begun experiments with utilizing smaller animals in an attempt to meet the demands of the animal rights activists.  (click for photo)

(New York, NY) The spiraling rate of auto theft in the Big Apple has inspired psychologists at Columbia University to train chimpanzees for duty in the NYPD's new Carchimp Program designed to get to the root of the problem. The first graduate of the program, J. Fred Muggs, formerly of the Bronx Zoo, is shown here in action during a routine mission. (click for video)

(Moscow, Russia) Physiologists at the Steklov Institute for Sports Medicine have rejuvenated the athletic careers of former Soviet heavyweight weightlifter Vasily Alexeev and former Japanese wrestler Takeshita Nagoya using an advanced training system that reprograms synaptic connections to transfer accumulated athletic skill into different sports. (click for photo) (click for video)

(San Diego, CA) Biologists at the San Diego Zoo have taken a page from Dr. Phil's notebook with their new program of training animals by embracing them as if they were humans. (click for photo) (click for video)

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