American Field

Ural on URLS exploring the civil war on the internet.(afterslavery.com )
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 988 words; ...was a "great missed opportunity" in American history, an international team of scholars...about the end of slavery and how African Americans and whites responded to the changes...Memphis, leading historians in the field, have approached their task with impressive...celebrate the active roles that African ...

Fiction complements fact.(Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier & American Fiction)(Brief article)(Book review)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 613 words; Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier & American Fiction, by Craig A. Warren, Kent State University Press...Shaara's The Killer Angels and Howard Bahr's 2006 The Judas Field, which Warren sees as one of the best Civil War novels in...

Disparity in use of implantable devices to prevent sudden death in heart failure patients.(Clinical report)
NewsRx Health; 1/10/2010; 1542 words; ...cardiac rhythm abnormalities were developed by the American College of Cardiologists, the American Heart Association and the Heart Rhythm Society...on tight evidence or clear consensus in the field that they should be done. Study design The...

Dental delight: Tooth of sea urchin shows formation of biominerals.
NewsRx Health; 1/10/2010; 1076 words; ...In a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Pupa Gilbert, a professor...pigeons use to sense Earth's magnetic field, she says. Animal bones provide an important...Electronics, Emerging Technologies, Magnetic Field,

Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light, UCLA scientists report.
NewsRx Science; 1/10/2010; 1695 words; ...presented Dec. 17 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco...charged particles and electromagnetic fields from above. The breakthrough came earlier...held together by the Earth's magnetic field. "Collisions of auroras associated...configuration," Lyons said. The same ...