"We already know that active and passive smoking has severe health implications, " said Phillipa Major, its assistant director of research.

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Carlene Firmin, the assistant director of Policy and Research for Barnardo's, told me in an interview for the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire edition of the Politics Show that more effective action is required to track down and prosecute the gangs.

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"The no-girls-allowed rule keeps women from accessing that power where they can conduct business and rise in professional development and create their own power networks, " said Veronica Arreola, assistant director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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The findings add to growing evidence that calorie restriction can benefit health and longevity, but this shouldn't prompt already skinny seniors to start dieting, said Carol Greenwood, a senior scientist and assistant director of the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit at Baycrest, a Toronto academic medical center focused on aging.

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"Nokia has a long history of innovation and their partnership with Microsoft allows us to extend the core academic and community resources of the University into the pocket of our students, " noted David Middleton, Executive Director, Center for Mobile Research and Innovation, and Assistant Vice President of Administration at Seton Hall University.

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Professor Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard, along with her research assistant and two students scraped data on 1, 130 people of the now more than 2, 500 who have shared their DNA data for the Personal Genome Project.

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