Investing in youth
One United Way agency adds learning to exercise with
healthy results

Getting kids to participate in sports, says Ron
Fairchild, requires little arm twisting. Provide a ball and
a court, and the bigger problem might be getting them to
stop. A tougher sell is to persuade a child to do his
homework or sit down and read a book, particularly a child
who receives little to no learning encouragement at home,
says Fairchild, who sits on the board of directors for the
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Maryland.
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ISIS project takes first big
steps
ISIS dwells among us. While that might sound ominous,
it's magic to thousands of ears. Although still 24 months
away from full implementation, the Internet Student
Information System is out of the starting gate, as a
permanent executive director for the project has been
appointed and ISIS's development teams have knocked down
the first in a series of "go live" target dates.
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Searchable database of human proteins
unveiled
Like expert curators who verify and create catalogs of
the world's great art collections, an international team of
scientists has developed a human protein database they say
will change the way biology is done. The team unveils the
online Human Protein Reference Database in the October
issue of Genome Research.
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