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1. Pursuing parenthood: Discourses of persistence
   11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
   People harbor many cherished goals that may prove elusive even with the aid of market offerings, such as pursuit of an ideal of beauty. Despite repeated setbacks, some individuals persist, often making extraordinary investments of time, emotion and money. A new study furthers our understanding of persistent goal striving, particularly in cases where the chances of success are low and the costs of continued efforts are high.
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2. Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
   06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
   When addressing the United Nations' first Millennium Development Goal -- reducing poverty and hunger by 50 percent -- there are successes to build on, but further efforts must focus on three key malnutrition issues: highlighting where progress remains slow, innovative programming and spreading best practices from emergencies into developmental settings.
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3. Tillson backing striker Canham for goal feast
   08-23-2007 · University of Bath
   Team Bath FC head coach Andy Tillson is backing striker Sean Canham to bag 20 league goals this season. The tall striker hit a hat-trick in Team Bath's 3-1 win over Merthyr Tydfil on Tuesday and will be gunning for more goals against Hitchin Town at Twerton Park tomorrow (25 August).
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4. ORNL United Way campaign sets lab record with $845,000
   10-12-2006 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
   This year's United Way campaign at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has raised $845,000 for East Tennessee agencies, exceeding the $800,000 goal and once again setting a record for ORNL.
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5. MIT: Nanocomposities yield strong, stretchy fibers
   01-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an elusive engineering goal. Inspired by spider silk, a naturally occurring strong and stretchy substance, MIT researchers have now devised a way to produce a material that begins to mimic this combination of desirable properties.
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6. Long-lasting paper documents
   04-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Although there be great historical, artistic or archaeological interest in preserving them, paper documents have a limited life. Prolonging this life is the goal of the European Papertech project.
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7. Students take Porsche to electric avenue
   06-05-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   For the past six months a team of MIT students has spent hundreds of hours converting a sleek Porsche 914 into an electric vehicle. Their goal? To demonstrate the viability of electric vehicle technology and to help clarify what has yet to be done.
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8. Nutritional and environmental interventions can help decrease child deaths worldwide
   10-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Interventions that improve nutrition and environmental conditions can also provide substantial gains toward the goal of reducing child mortality, especially when the interventions prioritize the poor, according to a study in the Oct. 24/31 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on poverty and human development.
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9. Freeze-dried tendon implants prove effective in early studies
   01-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Donated, freeze-dried tendon grafts loaded with gene therapy may soon offer effective repair of injured tendons, a goal that has eluded surgeons to date. According to study data published today in the journal Molecular Therapy, a new graft technique may provide the first effective framework around which flexor tendon tissue can reorganize as it heals.
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10. Initiative leadership guides energy goals
    05-09-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    MIT President Susan Hockfield's aspiration to harness MIT's capabilities to meet global energy challenges has become the MIT Energy Initiative. MITEI is led by Ernest J. Moniz and Robert C. Armstrong, and supported by students, faculty, and international collaborations.
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