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IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Michael Riordan	The Men Who Made the Microchip Two books spell out Silicon Valley's origins: The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin... Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 by Christopher Lecuyer...
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Information Today March 7, 2011	EBSCO Publishing to Release Chemical Hazard Information Library CHIL brings toxicology, pharmacology, occupational and public health, and chemical hazard information to corporations, government agencies, medical facilities, and academic institutions.
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AboutSafety March 29, 2001	The Effects Of Workplace Hazards On Female Reproductive Health Examples of chemical and physical reproductive hazards for women in the workplace include cancer treatment drugs, carbon disulfide, lead, ionizing radiation like X-rays and gamma rays, and strenuous physical labor like prolonged standing and heavy lifting.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dylan Tweney	What's Inside Your Laptop? We reveal the components inside a typical notebook PC and explain where they come from.
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InternetNews June 10, 2004 Michael Singer	Trade Group Calls for More Nano IBM and the Semiconductor Industry Association say the government's plan is woefully under funded.
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Salon.com October 25, 2001 Mark D. Uehling	Free drugs from your faucet How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Fairchild Turns 50 This month Fairchild Semiconductor celebrates 50 years in the business.
AboutSafety April 20, 2001	CDC Chemical Exposure Report Begins To Fill Info Gaps In Environmental Health The first report initially measures the exposure of the US population to 27 environmental chemicals including lead, mercury, pesticide metabolites, phthalate metabolites and cotinine which tracks exposure to tobacco smoke.
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Geotimes June 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Legal victory for mining In Barrick Goldstrike Mines vs. EPA, now being heralded as a victory for the mining industry, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., ruled in April that mine operators do not have to report trace metals in waste rocks to the EPA.
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IndustryWeek August 1, 2003 John Teresko	Fearing R&D's Flight Research and development is an increasingly crucial factor in sustaining the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing amid rapid globalization. Yet experts warn that strategic missteps endanger U.S. technological preeminence.
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