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Stanford researchers have found the key link to how plants form stomata, tiny mouth-like structures which allow plants to interact with their environment and are essential to their survival.

A team of evaluators from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs will visit Stanford Dec. 16-19 as part of the triennial re-accreditation process of the university's Human Research Protection Program.

School modernisation projects worth £800m are brought forward in the government's economic recovery plan.

Have you taken a peek at the new Group Study Rooms in the Science & Forestry Library? The rooms are generating lots of positive feedback and students are making bookings already at the Science Library's Service Desk.Samples of the new

I wrote A People's History of Sports in the United States to reclaim a sports history that is far more dynamic than we were ever led to believe. I wrote it because as Howard Zinn's People's History of the United

During the vice-presidential debate of 1988, Republican nominee Dan Quayle attempted to draw a parallel between himself and John F. Kennedy. Quayle's Democratic opponent, Lloyd Bentsen, who had served with Kennedy in the Senate, looked Quayle in the eye and

Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School, made a splash with her book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Thomas Jefferson's relationship to his slave has been subject of much controversy-Gordon-Reed lucidly cuts to the

If pressed to select the unifying lesson of "Lincoln in His Time and Ours," a public symposium held November 22 in New York City at Columbia University and co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Columbia, it

His guarded optimism reminded me that there is hope for Iraq, and it resides in the Iraqi people themselves. And as we withdraw our combat forces, let us do whatever we can to empower peace-loving Iraqis to win back their

As reported by McClatchy Newspapers, a new analysis by Project Vote of exit-polling data suggests that 1.2 million fewer "whites" went to the polls on election day in 2008 than in 2004-this despite predictions and expectations of a record-setting voter

Why, then, should we be celebrating the "new frugality" imposed by hard times, particularly if we have moved beyond the moral universe plotted by Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and Michael Novak? Why should we be hoping that the current

Why, then, is the New Deal now remembered for its innovative liberal economic policies? It was only in response to political pressure that Roosevelt adopted many of his administration's most famous programs, included deficit spending, old-age pensions, and pro-union legislation.

Remember all those big fat turkeys we sketched as kids when Thanksgiving rolled around every November? Even if most of us lacked any artistic skill whatsoever, we could make a stick figure of a plump and feathery bird complete with

A few weeks before Thanksgiving 2007, the New York Times ran a story about the booming market for heritage turkeys. A heritage turkey can be any turkey from a breed other than the kind found in most grocery stores. As

There's no knowing how Durant would have reacted to the collapse of his brain-child. But as an incorrigible optimist and rock-ribbed believer in the free market, I suspect he would have disapproved of the automakers' rush to Washington with the