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Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Brian Doherty	Artifact: When Coinages Clash The Franklin Mint and Marvel's Surfer already have proven themselves more powerful than the U.S. government in one respect: While Washington's seal made a coin worth only a quarter, the image of the Surfer made it worth $72 on eBay.
Psychology Today Jul/Aug 2007 Jay Dixit	Decision '08: Reading Between the Lines Scrutinizing the frontrunners. Word for word, the presidential candidates revealed. Barack Obama... Hillary Clinton... John Edwards...
Aviation History November 2007 John J. Geoghegan	The BentProp Project: Providing Families Of WWII Airmen With Closure To date, the BentProp Project has found 26 American and 23 Japanese aircraft and the remains of 15 MIAs by scouring the swamps and jungles of Palau for wreckage.
Aviation History November 2007	Letter From Aviation History - November 2007 The search is on once more for Amelia Earhart. Since the initial search effort was called off and the aviators were declared lost at sea, several theories about their fate, from running out of gas and crashing into the ocean to landing on another island and being captured by the Japanese, have surfaced.
Information Today September 4, 2007	USPTO Publishes New Patent Application Rules The United States Patent and Trademark Office has published new rules in the Federal Register that it says will allow the agency to make the patent examination process more effective and efficient by encouraging applicants to use greater precision in describing the scope of their inventions.
Job Journal September 2, 2007 Rich Heintz	State of the Workplace Is anyone really paying attention to the plight of American workers? Here is a look at some of the major issues confronting American workers in 2007.
Managed Care August 2007 Lola Butcher	Evidence-Based Medicine Is Not Enough Although EBM is only just getting started, many people are looking beyond evaluating treatments head to head and considering cost as well, although that raises political difficulties.
Geotimes September 2007 Carolyn Gramling	NY State: Still No License for Geologists After 11 years of trying, geologists in the state of New York are still waiting for their professional license. Despite a long series of unsuccessful bills stretching back to 1996 to introduce such a license to the state, some proponents see signs that the mood in Albany may be changing at last.
Geotimes September 2007 Megan Sever	Graduate Student Murdered A 24-year-old geology graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver and an intern with the Colorado Geological Survey was murdered while doing field work.
Geotimes September 2007 Michael E. Webber	Energy: Don't Blame China for High Oil Prices Any way you slice it, America is the number one energy hog in the world. If we want to find someone to blame for high energy prices, then it's time to take a good long look in the mirror.
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