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Birds' gravity-defying beak eating mystery unravelled (New Kerala)

16 May 2008

Washington, May 16 : A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has solved the gravity-defying mystery behind a bird's beak, by finding that certain types of shorebirds defy gravity to get morsels of food up their long, thin beaks into their mouths.

The Scene: Copenhagen (New York Times)

16 May 2008

Denmark may never completely escape the shadow of Arne Jacobsen’s Egg chair, but at street level in Copenhagen today, where the creative energy flows no less freely than it did 50 years ago, young artistic types are hardly hooked on the classics.

Poniard to Present Clinical Data From Picoplatin Trials in Multiple Tumor Types at American Society of Clinical ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

16 May 2008

Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, today announced that the Company will present data from three clinical trials of picoplatin, in various tumor types and combinations, at poster sessions during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology at McCormick Place in Chicago.