USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program Awards $40,500 in Scholarships to New York Students.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds(R), the nation's largest student loan guarantor, and USA Education, Inc., the nation's leading provider of education funding, will jointly award 27 scholarships of $1,500 each to deserving college-bound students in New York. The USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program, formerly...

Use of legs and feet for control by scoters during aerial courtship.
Block Island Sound, New York/Rhode Island, USA supports large populations of scoters (Melanitta spp.) in late winter and early spring. Groups of each species of scoter form courting parties at this time, comprised of a single hen with an entourage of drakes (Gunn 1927, McKinney 1959). Airborne courting parties...

Birds: The Art of Ornithology.
BIRDS: THE ART OF ORNITHOLOGY. By Jonathan Elphick. Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 300 Park Avenue South, New York, USA. 2008:336 pages and 300 illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-8478-3134-0. $19.95 (hardcover).--This volume is indeed broad in scope. It spans the millennia of bird art from Paleolithic cave wall paintings in southern France...

Piezoelectric motors licensed for high-volume use.
A manufacturing licence that allows a major global manufacturer to make tiny electric motors based on piezoelectric ceramic actuators has been granted by New Scale Technologies of Victor, New York, USA. Under the agreement Alps Electric Company Ltd will make the motors in Kakuda City, Japan. The...

NanoDynamics invests to meet escalating demands for waste gas treatment.
NanoDynamics Inc is increasing its investment in capital equipment and production staff for the company's BioLatis[TM] manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York, USA. Exploiting the effective so-called "nature-mimicking" method of biological filtration, the BioLatis ceramic substrate offers reliable odour control for gas remediation systems in industrial and...

Century Casinos at Brean Murray Carret & Co. Conference.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-6 October 2008-Century Casinos at Brean Murray Carret & Co. Conference(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Century Casinos announced that the company is attending the small cap consumer conference hosted by Brean Murray Carret & Co. in New York, USA, on October 6. Peter Hoetzinger,...

Antiquities plundered as war continues in Iraq.
Even Iraq's archaeological riches aren't immune to the devastating effects of war. According to a new study, widespread looting of archaeological sites throughout southern Iraq has taken its toll on the 'cradle of civilisation'. Elizabeth Stone, professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York, USA,...

Pinoy Musik Festival in US on its 2nd year.
NEW YORK, USA - Special Edition Press, Inc. is presenting the 2008 Pinoy Musik Festival - a two-day celebration of Filipino music and entertainment extravaganza in the East Coast. Capitalizing on last year's successful Pinoy Musik Festival in Atlantic City, it returns bigger and better, moving to...

Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World.
HANDBOOK OF AVIAN HYBRIDS OF THE WORLD. By Eugene M. McCarthy. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. 2006: 583 pages and 20 figures. ISBN: 0-19518323-1. $89.50 (cloth).--Research on avian hybridization played a key role in the development of the New Synthesis (Mayr 1942), and remains at the forefront of...

Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness.
IVORYBILL HUNTERS: THE SEARCH FOR PROOF IN A FLOODED WILDERNESS. By Geoffrey E. Hill. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. 2007:260 pages, 74 black and white photographs, 4 maps, and 1 diagram. ISBN: 978-0-19-532346-7. $24.95 (cloth).--This is another in a series of books that have recently appeared about the...