Going the farthest distance might sound like a foot race. But this past weekend, it meant stretching the boundaries of fuel efficiency as student teams competed in the fifth annual Shell Eco-marathon® Americas, a challenge for students to design, build and test fuel-efficient vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of energy. High school and university students from Canada and the United States competed in the two-day street course challenge in downtown Houston.
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Two Merck research scientists, Nancy A. Thornberry and Ann E. Weber, Ph.D., will receive the Discoverers Award, the highest honor from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), during a ceremony tonight at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J.
They will be recognized for their leadership in the discovery of JANUVIA®, a once-daily pill that helps patients with type 2 diabetes control glucose in conjunction with diet and exercise. Though women have been part of teams honored with the Discoverers Award in the past, this is the first time in the award’s 24-year history that women alone have won.
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Ticketmaster, a Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) company, and IOMEDIA, a digital agency, today announced the creation of an exclusive relationship to introduce Virtual Venue™, a cutting-edge interactive ticketing technology to teams, venues, and fans across the sports and entertainment industry.
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AXE Shower and COMEDY CENTRAL Digital have teamed up to develop the AXE Dirtcathlon – a four-part Web series pitting coed teams against one another other in crazy challenges designed to get them as messy as possible within 90 seconds. The series, hosted by actor/comedian Rob Riggle, will launch today on www.axedirtcathlon.com. The AXE Dirtcathlon will be showcased on COMEDY CENTRAL’s Atom.com website and will also be featured on ComedyCentral.com, Spike.com, Jokes.com, and other Viacom-owned properties.
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Former University of Texas great Colt McCoy is teaming up with Scott & White Healthcare as part of a philanthropic initiative to raise $50 million for a planned regional children’s hospital. The collaboration was announced today at a reception for hospital officials and donors at Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
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Whether gearing up for spring cleaning, new landscaping projects or home improvement tasks, industry leader Pella Corporation encourages families to add “window safety review” to their springtime to-do lists. Simple actions now can help protect the safety of loved ones all year.
April 3 - 9 is National Window Safety Week — an annual reminder to parents and caregivers about how to help prevent accidental window falls or injuries and how to use windows for potential emergency escapes. Pella Corporation teams up with the National Safety Council (NSC) to promote year-round window safety tips.
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Welcome to Dubai, a bustling seaport metropolis that is home to more than a
million people. The local finals of the Volkswagen Junior Masters recently took
place here. This unique soccer development showcase saw the best under
thirteen teams in the United Arab Emirates battling it out for a chance to play
in the world finals in Spain. Saif Mohammed Sultan Abdullah Sultan ASabaage
participated in the tournament.
Welcome to Mexico. We’re in the south central province of Puebla where the Mexican finals of the Volkswagen Junior Masters recently took place.
The Volkswagen Junior Masters is an under thirteen tournament in which the best teams from twenty countries will compete in the world finals in Madrid this May.
Puebla local, Alejandro Dresser was one of the young hopefuls who participated in Mexico’s final junior masters match-ups.
Welcome to Zimbabwe. We’re in the nation’s capital, Harare. And this is Rufaro Stadium. The Zimbabwean finals of the Volkswagen Junior Masters recently took place here. The Volkswagen Junior Masters is a global football development tournament that culminates in May when teams from twenty countries will participate in the world finals, to be held at the famed Bernabeaú Stadium in Madrid, Spain. Zimbabwe’s national team failed to qualify for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in neighboring South Africa but hopes are high that Zimbabwe’s junior players will perform well in Spain.
Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race returns for a third season this summer, with host Tyler Florence presiding over the cross-country culinary road trip with a brand-new twist: no longer a competition between current food truck operators as in prior seasons, this high-stakes battle is between eight teams who desperately want to be in the food truck business – they have a dream, a concept and insane culinary skills. Each three-person team is provided a vehicle for the race, but only the grand prize winner gets to keep their food truck and a $50,000 cash prize to start their dream business. From mobile mini-pies and authentic Aussie grub to specialty waffles, each team’s inspired cuisine and road strategy is put to the test in city-specific challenges that begin at a Long Beach, Calif. lighthouse and continue through the finale at the West Quoddy Lighthouse in Maine, the easternmost point of the United States. The seven-episode series premieres on Sunday, August 19th at 10pm ET/PT, after the finale of Chopped: Grill Masters, and beginning the next week will air in its regular timeslot Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
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The Procter & Gamble Company’s Oral-B® and television host Brooke Burke took over New York City’s Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station to celebrate their commitment to advancing America’s oral health. Oral-B, the brand of toothbrush more dentists use themselves worldwide, is offering consumers 50 percent off select Premium Power toothbrushes after mail-in rebate from Sept. 1 – Oct. 31, 2010 to empower Americans to take charge of their own oral health. Oral-B Premium Power toothbrushes will be donating $25,000 to Operation Smile — a worldwide children’s medical charity that provides free surgeries for children with cleft lips and cleft palates.
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Fluke Corporation introduces the Fluke® 805 Vibration Meter, a portable multifunction vibration screening tool that provides quantifiable information on the bearing and overall health of motors and other rotating equipment. The Fluke 805 is ideal for frontline mechanical troubleshooting teams that need reliable and repeatable measurements of rotating equipment to make imperative go/no-go maintenance decisions.
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