Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2009 3 Timeline: The secret history of swine flu 8 North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Faster Than In Previous 500 Years, Study Finds 13 Rot-resistant Wheat Could Save Farmers Millions 15 Dendritic Cells Spark Smoldering Inflammation In Smokers' Lungs 16 Cancer: New Explanation Of 'Asian Paradox' 18 Why Fish Oils Help With Conditions Like Rheumatoid Arthritis 19 Underwater Exploration: Autosub6000 Dives To Depth Of 3.5 Miles 21 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Problems Associated With Low Folate In Pregnant Women 23 Tsunami Evacuation Buildings: Another Way To Save Lives In The Pacific Northwest 24 The Objects of the Exercise 26 Perplexing Pain 28 Grand Visions for a Faded Bronx Boulevard 30 Art That Leaps Off the Canvas 32 A Distant Bauhaus Star 35 How New Buicks Took Shape in China 37 Wise Warriors, Artfully Attired 39 A Southern Mirrored Window 41 Bite-Size Legal Trouble and Suspense 43 Ayn Rand’s Revenge 45 A132re Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases 48 Wilderness Warriors 51 Lung cancer care 'inadequate' 53 Depression link to processed food 55 Culture (Not Just Genes) Drives Evolution 57 Curiosity: The Killer Catalyst 59 Snagging Free-Range Solar Power in Space Is An Option 61 If Bridges Could Talk … 66 Transforming Cassandra into Pollyanna 69 A Visit to Dirty Snow Cones National Park 76 Let's Get Wind Power Off the Ground 79 Building a Better Citizen 82 A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis 88 Lupus Drug Shows Promise in New Trial 91 Quandary With Mammograms: Get a Screening, or Just Skip It? 93 Species' extinction threat grows 95 Logging 'caused Nazca collapse' 97 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Aspirin 'only for heart patients' 100 Memory test 'spots pre-dementia' 102 Gene Therapy Repairs Injured Human Donor Lungs For The First Time 104 Renal Cancer: Protein Triggers A Snowball Effect 107 Angry Faces: Facial Structure Linked To Aggressive Tendencies, Study Suggests 109 Biochemical 'On-switch' Could Solve Protein Purification Challenge 110 Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank' 112 A Solution To Darwin's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries' Emerges 114 Tai Chi Exercise Reduces Knee Osteoarthritis Pain In The Elderly, Research Shows 116 Chewing Gum Can Reduce Calorie Intake, Increase Energy Expenditure, Nutritionist Finds 118 New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out One-third Of Species 120 Major Advance In Human Antibody Therapy Against Deadly Nipah Virus 123 Regeneration Can Be Achieved After Chronic Spinal Cord Injury 125 Interactions With Aerosols Boost Warming Potential Of Some Gases 127 Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box 130 New Storage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery 132 Making Health Care Better 133 Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? 143 Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? 149 Scheme 'can cut extra emissions' 151 Studies 'overstate species risks' 152 Gadget problems divide the sexes 154 Tiny tech sparks cell signal find 155 Babies 'cry in mother's tongue' 157 Experts map the body's bacteria 159 555 Billion Sahara Solar Energy Belt Takes Giant Step Forward 161 Kö-Bogen: Düsseldorf’s Green Roofed Crystal Complex 162 A Solar Powered Monorail System For Bologna 163 Stunning Open Air Library Pops Up in East Germany 164 Horse genome unlocked by science 165 Foetal heart rate monitor warning 166 New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response To HIV And Prostate Cancer 168 Stephen King’s Glass Menagerie 170 How your brain sees virtual you 172 Genes show when a woman's biological clock will stop 174 Nicky Clayton: Dancing with Darwin 177 Why did our species survive the Neanderthals? 179 Was life founded on cyanide from space crashes? 180 Mass extinction blamed on fiery fountains of coal 182 Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals 184 Plan to pierce heart of urban monster volcano 191 Atmospheric 'tides' trigger landslides at night 193 Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic 194 Injected cells stop body from attacking self 199 Breast cancer changes with spread 200 2 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.91 November 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2009 World Regional National Total Institution Region Country Rank Rank Rank Score 1 Harvard University Americas 1 1 100 2 Stanford University Americas 2 2 73.1 3 University of California, Berkeley Americas 3 3 71.0 4 University of Cambridge Europe 1 1 70.2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Americas 4 4 69.5 (MIT) 6 California Institute of Technology Americas 5 5 64.8 7 Columbia University Americas 6 6 61.7 8 Princeton University Americas 7 7 60.2 9 University of Chicago Americas 8 8 57.0 10 University of Oxford Europe 2 2 56.3 11 Yale University Americas 9 9 55.2 12 Cornell University Americas 10 10 53.1 13 University of California, Los Angeles Americas 11 11 52.3 14 University of California, San Diego Americas 12 12 50.7 15 University of Pennsylvania Americas 13 13 49.3 16 University of Washington Americas 14 14 48.0 17 University of Wisconsin - Madison Americas 15 15 46.7 18 University of California, San Francisco Americas 16 16 45.9 19 The Johns Hopkins University Americas 17 17 45.2 20 The University of Tokyo Asia/Pacific 1 1 45.1 21 University College London Europe 3 3 44.6 22 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Americas 18 18 43.8 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 23 Europe 4 1 43.6 Zurich 24 Kyoto University Asia/Pacific 2 2 42.7 University of Illinois at Urbana- 25 Americas 19 19 42.4 Champaign The Imperial College of Science, 26 Europe 5 4 41.9 Technology and Medicine 27 University of Toronto Americas 20 1 40.5 28 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Americas 21 20 40.4 29 Washington University in St. Louis Americas 22 21 39.5 30 Northwestern University Americas 23 22 38.7 31 Duke University Americas 24 23 37.1 32 New York University Americas 25 24 36.9 32 Rockefeller University Americas 25 24 36.9 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.91 November 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila 34 University of Colorado at Boulder Americas 27 26 36.4 35 University of California, Santa Barbara Americas 28 27 35.0 36 University of British Columbia Americas 29 2 34.4 37 University of Maryland, College Park Americas 30 28 34.1 38 The University of Texas at Austin Americas 31 29 34.0 University of North Carolina at Chapel 39 Americas 32 30 33.4 Hill Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 40 Europe 6 1 33.3 6 41 The University of Manchester Europe 7 5 33.0 41 Vanderbilt University Americas 33 31 33.0 43 University of Copenhagen Europe 8 1 32.7 43 University of Paris Sud Paris 11) Europe 8 2 32.7 Pennsylvania State University - 45 Americas 34 32 32.5 University Park 46 University of California, Irvine Americas 35 33 32.4 46 University of Southern California Americas 35 33 32.4 The University of Texas Southwestern 48 Americas 37 35 32.2 Medical Center at Dallas 49 University of California, Davis Americas 38 36 31.8 50 Karolinska Institute Europe 10 1 31.7 50 University of Pittsburgh Americas 39 37 31.7 52 Utrecht University Europe 11 1 31.5 53 The University of Edinburgh Europe 12 6 31.0 54 University of Zurich Europe 13 2 30.9 Rutgers, The State University of New 55 Americas 40 38 30.4 Jersey - New Brunswick 55 University of Munich Europe 14 1 30.4 57 Technical University Munich Europe 15 2 30.2 58 University of Florida Americas 41 39 29.8 59 Carnegie Mellon University Americas 42 40 29.6 59 The Australian National University Asia/Pacific 3 1 29.6 61 University of Bristol Europe 16 7 29.5 62 The Ohio State University - Columbus Americas 43 41 29.1 63 University of Heidelberg Europe 17 3 28.7 64 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Asia/Pacific 4 1 28.6 65 King's College London Europe 18 8 28.5 65 McGill University Americas 44 3 28.5 65 Purdue University - West Lafayette Americas 44 42 28.5 65 University of Oslo Europe 18 1 28.5 69 Brown University Americas 46 43 28.4 70 Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris Europe 20 3 28.1 71 Osaka University Asia/Pacific 5 3 27.8 4 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.91 November 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila 72 Leiden University Europe 21 2 27.7 72 University of Helsinki Europe 21 1 27.7 74 Boston University Americas 47 44 27.3 75 University of Melbourne Asia/Pacific 6 2 27.2 76 Uppsala University Europe 23 2 27.1 77 Moscow State University Europe 24 1 26.9 77 University of Arizona Americas 48 45 26.9 77 University of Rochester Americas 48 45 26.9 80 University of Utah Americas 50 47 26.6 81 The University of Sheffield Europe 25 9 26.3 82 Nagoya University Asia/Pacific 7 4 26.0 83 University of Nottingham Europe 26 10 25.9 84 Tohoku University Asia/Pacific 8 5 25.8 85 University of Basel Europe 27 3 25.6 86 Michigan State University Americas 51 48 25.5 87 Case Western Reserve University Americas 52 49 25.3 88 Stockholm University Europe 28 3 25.2 88 Texas A&M University - College Station Americas 53 50 25.2 90 University of Goettingen Europe 29 4 24.9 91 McMaster University Americas 54 4 24.6 91 University of Virginia Americas 54 51 24.6 93 Indiana University Bloomington Americas 56 52 24.4 94 Arizona State University - Tempe Americas 57 53 24.3 94 University of Birmingham Europe 30 11 24.3 94 University of Sydney Asia/Pacific 9 3 24.3 97 University of Aarhus Europe 31 2 24.2 98 University of Bonn Europe 32 5 24.1 99 Rice University Americas 58 54 23.9 100 Emory University Americas 59 55 23.8 http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp 5 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.91 November 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Timeline: The secret history of swine flu • 15:26 29 October 2009 by Debora MacKenzie and Michael Marshall 16 August 1957: a nurse at Montefiore Hospital gets the first Asian flu vaccine shot in New York (Image: Associated Press) Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health.