Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Penn State's turfgrass science program has received a $40,000 grant from The Toro Co. to support student activities, along with product donations that include an aerator and other Toro equipment valued at about $25,000. Toro's cash grant will help give student teams the opportunity to travel and compete in two major turfgrass events. The new aerator will be used for demonstration and instructional purposes.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Results of the Big Ten Battleground Poll, an innovative new project that tests voter sentiment in the eight Big Ten states that are key to this closely fought presidential campaign, will be presented Thursday, Sept. 18, on the Big Ten Network.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Penn State's Big Ten Conference opener against Illinois will be a split national telecast on ABC. The sold out clash is set for an 8 p.m. kickoff in Beaver Stadium on Sept. 27. ABC will air the game to most of the nation. Penn State improved to 3-0 with a 55-13 thumping of Syracuse last Saturday, moving to No. 15 in the USA Today Coaches poll and No. 16 in the Associated Press poll. Illinois (2-1) defeated Louisiana-Lafayette, 20-17, last week, and is No. 22 in the AP poll and 23rd in the USA Today survey. The Fighting Illini are idle this week.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Nanoparticles filled with a drug that targets two genes that trigger melanoma could offer a potential cure for this deadly disease, according to cancer researchers. The treatment, administered through an ultrasound device, demonstrates a safer and more effective way of targeting cancer-causing genes in cancer cells without harming normal tissue.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
All-Pro greats Floyd Little and Art Monk were in the Carrier Dome Saturday, as were many members of the 1959 national championship team, plus the spirits of the late great Ernie Davis and Coach Ben Schwartzwalder. They were represented by actors Rob Brown and Dennis Quaid who played their characters in a new movie about the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, who tragically died of leukemia before he could ever play in the pros. The movie, titled "The Express," had a gala premiere in the historic Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse on Friday night. But all the ghosts of Syracuse football's storied past could not help the current Orange team that was thoroughly dominated by Penn State, 55-13, on the scoreboard, 560 to 159 yards on the stat sheet, and four to one in fans still in the Dome by game's end.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Across the nation, more stories are surfacing about people owing more money than their houses are worth. The real estate market is still in a turmoil and even people with good credit histories are having financial problems. How could this be? From the mid-1990s until 2006, housing prices increased dramatically in parts of the United States including Southern California, Florida, Phoenix and Las Vegas. The rest of the country also experienced increases but not to the same extent. In 2006 sales slowed down and prices began to decline -- substantially in some markets.
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