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On February 11, the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee passed the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009 (H.R. 554), intending to gain a better understanding of the health and safety risks associated with nanomaterials seeking approval to enter the marketplace. The legislation followed a report by the National Research Council criticizing the current level of oversight regarding nanotechnology products and the Environmental Protection Agencys interim report on the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program.
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A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the first to create one of two basic types of semiconductors using an exotic, new, one-atom-thick material called graphene. The findings could help open the door to computer chips that are not only smaller and hold more memory -- but are also more adept at uploading large files, downloading movies, and other data- and communication-intensive tasks.
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The expression the glass ceiling first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1986 and was then used in the title of an academic article by A.M. Morrison and others published in 1987. Entitled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations?, it looked at the persistent failure of women to climb as far up the corporate ladder as might be expected from their representation in the working population as a whole.
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