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How the ‘Mouse Man’ changed medical research

By ⋅ January 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New Scientist, January 29, 2009 By Sharon Oosthoek link to New Scientist One hundred years ago in a lab at Harvard University, a young zoology student was busily overseeing the breeding of pair after pair of brother and sister mice. The “Mouse Man”, as he was known on campus, was trying to create the first [...]

Registered with the do-not-call list? Expect more calls, says consumer watchdog

By ⋅ January 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

CBC.CA January 23, 2009 by Sharon Oosthoek Canada’s highly touted do-not-call list is having the opposite effect, leading to more telemarketer calls, says the Consumers’ Association of Canada. “It’s a travesty,” president Bruce Cran said Friday. “Here we have all these people thinking they were getting rid of incoming phone calls. Anyone who is registered [...]

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