Pension drops lawsuit against ACS over Xerox buy

Xerox Corp. said Monday that a pension fund has dropped a lawsuit over provisions in the copier company's purchase of Affiliated Computer Services Inc. that would have made it tough for a better buyout offer to succeed.

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Astronomers call for repair of Hubble's main camera

The ACS's "discovery efficiency" for recording faint objects is three to four times higher at visible wavelengths than a new instrument, called WFC3, to be installed in 2008 (Illustration: STScI)

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Bachmann and fellow Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) have introduced a law to limit the the information the American Community Survey (ACS) may gather. [Read why]

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For neutrinos created recently, the ranges they can exist in are very, very small. But over the roughly 13.7-billion-year lifetime of the cosmos, "relic" neutrinos have been stretched out by the expansion of the universe, enlarging the range in which each neutrino can exist.

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Cosmologists don't usually take their lead from the animal kingdom. But a model that postulates the existence of a 'chameleon' particle — which would change its mass depending on its surroundings — is gaining attention. More Articles

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The glyphosate or patented herbicide sold by Monsanto as Roundup is the number one selling herbicide in the world. This is the formulation used with patented Roundup Ready gmo crops that cover the bulk of America's commodity crop acreage.

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Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent. More Articles

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Space shuttle astronauts will attempt an unprecedented in-orbit repair of key Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instruments during the servicing mission scheduled for August 2008.

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An anonymous Email that was circulated on October 10 calls into question the practices of the non-profit publishing giant, the American Chemical Society (ACS), which has long been under scrutiny.

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In a stark departure from past practice, the American Cancer Society plans to devote its entire $15 million advertising budget this year not to smoking cessation or colorectal screening but to the consequences of inadequate health coverage.

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FBI officials said they will finish developing plans by September for Phases 2 through 4 of the bureau's enterprise case management system, known as Sentinel.

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This is a great article about the fundraising program, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. A fundraiser of the American Cancer Society. Learn how you can get involved in this great event and help those around you suffering from this disease.

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This is an article about the start of the American Cancer Society and how they grew to be the largest volunteer driven health organization in the world.

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This article is about the American Cancer Society's signature fundraising event, Relay for Life. Relay started in 1985 with just one man who ran around the track for 24-hours!

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This is an article about why my family is involved in the American Cancer Society's signature fundraising event, Relay for Life. And, our struggle and heart ache of losing a loved one to cancer.

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This is a great article about a new drug, just approved by the FDA, to aid in the fight against breast cancer. It offers new hope to those fighting this disease and for all of us a glimpse into a cancer-free tomorrow.

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Chemistry meeting grants audience to low-energy nuclear work.After an 18-year hiatus, the American Chemical Society (ACS) seems to be warming to cold fusion.

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A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.

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In the past we've had a census every ten years,the government has made a new census called the American Community Survey which is 24 pages of questions ranging from how many people you have in your house to the details of your work hours.Some of these new census questions are l …

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First Random Act of Vineness Awards

In its first few weeks of testing, the new system of Vineacity has proven to be a better model than the previous Positive Feedback %. We think that most would agree that the six measures of Vineacity create a more well rounded image of a user's conduct around the site.

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"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is partly blind. Its main camera put itself in safe mode on Monday, 19 June. The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is Hubble's workhorse instrument, providing astronomers with unprecedented detailed views of the universe.

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The American Chemical Society has just started its national meeting in Atlanta. Mentioned at the presidential symposium was President Bush's State of the Union address. More specifically, President Bush's connection of science and technology with our quality of life.

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