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2:39 pm
Wed April 18, 2012

The Traveling Trunk Of African American & Latino Inventors

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Students from the Youth Leadership Summit from the Urban League's national conference in Boston last year
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Students from a local community group in Boston peruse the traveling exhibits
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Students from the Exxon Mobile Bernard Harris Summer Camp
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Students from the Youth Leadership Summit from the Urban League's national conference in Boston last year
Carroll G. Lamb, Executive Director of The Institute of Black Invention and Technology
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If you're a young black or latino student plotting your future, do you look up to athletes or entrepreneurs? Entertainers or innovators?

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Health
11:37 am
Tue April 17, 2012

The Race To Create The Best Antiviral Drugs

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The HIV-1 virus cultivated with human lymphocytes.
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Carl Zimmer is the author of 12 books about science, including A Planet of Viruses. He has also appeared on RadioLab and This American Life.
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Originally published on Tue April 17, 2012 2:42 pm

If you've ever had a bacterial infection like staph or strep throat, your doctor may have prescribed penicillin. But if you've had the flu or a common cold virus, penicillin won't work. That's because antibacterials only kill bacteria, and both the flu and the common cold are viruses. So for illnesses like the flu, doctors prescribe antiviral drugs, which target the mechanisms that viruses use to reproduce.

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Around the Nation
11:12 am
Tue April 17, 2012

War Of The Worlds: When Science, Politics Collide

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In 1925, people lined up to buy anti-evolution books in Dayton, Tenn., where the "monkey trial" of teacher John T. Scopes took place. Tennessee recently enacted a law encouraging teachers to question accepted science on evolution and other issues.
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Scopes (center), a high school science teacher, was put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, an act that was illegal. He was convicted and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on appeal.
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Roger Cone, chairman of the department of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., says he thinks scientists "have a responsibility to be in the public sphere."
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Tennessee state Rep. Bill Dunn, a Republican from Knoxville, says the legislation he co-sponsored does nothing to threaten the teaching of evolution or other science subjects.
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Originally published on Tue April 17, 2012 6:36 pm

Roger Cone is a microbiologist, not a politician. He struggles with a basic truth: For all the scientific acceptance of evolution, many Americans simply don't believe it is factually accurate.

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