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Published: May 27 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Expensive government advertising campaigns, which play an important part in the national drug strategy, do little, if anything, to dissuade teenagers from using drugs, according to a study by University of Florida researchers.
Published: May 26 2004
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK — The critically endangered Miami Blue butterfly, one of the rarest insects in North America, will return to South Florida today when University of Florida researchers release several hundred butterflies that have been bred in captivity.
Published: May 25 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians fell sharply in May, prompted by escalating gas prices, a falling stock market and growing pessimism over the war in Iraq, University of Florida economists report.
Published: May 4 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at the University of Florida have found an inexpensive way to extract the antioxidant lycopene from tomatoes, a technology that could turn a mountain of discarded produce into a marketable commodity.
Published: May 25 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Old-growth stands of longleaf pine, the tree that once dominated the Southern landscape and still provides habitat for dozens of threatened species, have all but vanished, according to a study by a University of Florida researcher.
Published: May 21 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Every driver knows two cars can’t occupy the same parking space.
Published: May 19 2004
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — University of Florida experts and state officials have eradicated a newly introduced termite species from America’s shores, and they say this is the first time such an invasion has likely ever been stopped.
Published: May 13 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Boys and their issues are hot property, despite a recent rash of criticism from pop psychologists and talk show hosts saying that male problems are ignored, says a University of Florida researcher and the author of a new book about the changing notions of boys' behavior.
Published: May 12 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Surgeons at the University of Florida and the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center are a step closer to understanding what promotes scarring in vein grafts designed to reroute blood through the legs after key arteries become blocked.
Published: May 11 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Like the signals it emits, the radio may soon disappear from sight.
Published: May 10 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists have long viewed the network of blood vessels tumors create to siphon oxygen and other nutrients from the body as a potential target for therapies geared toward stopping tumors in their tracks. But efforts to block blood vessel development or impede existing vessels in tumors in the lab haven’t met with as much success as some had hoped.
Published: May 6 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neighborhood integration is necessary to reduce school segregation but Americans continue to remain separated in their neighborhoods a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, a new nationwide study by the University of Florida finds.
Published: May 5 2004
When 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff, a National Guardsman and Iraq veteran, delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address on Saturday, criticizing the administration’s war planning and operations, people took notice.
Published: May 4 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — What’s a little male fish’s secret weapon for attracting the lady fish? Something some guys but few other males in the animal kingdom have thought of: It acts like a good dad.
Published: May 3 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A scientific team that includes a University of Florida physicist has used an “underground observatory” in a former iron mine to search with greater sensitivity than ever before for the universe’s most elusive component: dark matter.
Published: May 3 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Who you are determines how you stay fit, suggests a new University of Florida study that links personality as one factor in an individual’s willingness to stick to an exercise routine.