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No significant damage to Texas course in storms

Greens were pelted by big hail and debris blew around the TPC Four Seasons course, but the site of this week's Byron Nelson Championship escaped significant damage during heavy storms.

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Electron Perfectly Round to One Part in a Million Billion, Experiment Finds

By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine Now that's precision measurement: the electron is a perfect sphere, give or take barely one part in a million billion. The result comes from the latest in a long line of experiments to probe the shape of the fundamental particle that carries electrical charge. [More]

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Three Myths about Surviving a Tornado [Video]

What should you do when you hear a tornado warning and have only minutes to act? Our friends at AccuWeather.com have produced this short (1:15) video explaining common misconceptions. [More]

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10 Facts You Want to Know about Tornadoes

While the search for survivors of the nightmarish Joplin, Mo., tornado is still far from over, AccuWeather.com meteorologists are forecasting that another round of deadly storms is about to occur today. As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll had already raised to 118, ranking the event among the top 10 deadliest U.S. tornadoes of all time.

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Nelson’s charity the model for PGA Tour

Former commissioner Deane Beman was so impressed when visiting Byron Nelson's tournament that it became the model for how every PGA Tour event gives proceeds to charity.

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Seafood Fraud Hurts Ocean Conservation: Report

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. seafood fraud -- where farmed, imported or endangered fish is sold as wild, local and sustainably-managed -- is hurting efforts to preserve ocean diversity, conservation advocates said on Wednesday. [More]

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Beyond Hawaiian-Shirt Friday: Groupon, Hulu Inspire Employee Innovation With Radical Trust

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

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Alzheimer’s Moment: Researchers Shore Up Antibody Effectiveness Against the Disease

The search for ways to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease has been stymied in part by difficulties in reliably delivering therapeutics into the brain to prevent proteins there from depositing fibrous plaques that damage synapses and ultimately wreck one's cognitive abilities. Researchers have experimented with antibodies, peptides and even nanoparticles to find some way of effectively preventing plaque formation but these efforts have yet to yield an anti-Alzheimer's drug.

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