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      <title>Intel ISEF</title>
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         <title>New Mexico Hot Springs</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;New Mexico's own Kristina Dahm explains her project about hot springs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:33:29 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Minnesota Twins!</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:05:07 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Brazil Team at the Atomic Museum</title>
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         <category>Live from Albuquerque</category>
         
         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:19:06 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Find Your Photos on Flickr</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter your project's number, and we'll show you the pictures we took:&lt;/p&gt;

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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:01:32 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Journey to Trinity</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Four Intel ISEF Finalists talk about a tour they took from Albuquerque to the Trinity Test Site, where the first nuclear bomb was detonated on July 16th, 1945. &lt;/p&gt;

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         <category>Live from Albuquerque</category>
         
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:29 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Those Singing Cowboys</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;A special musical performance just before the closing ceremony. Who are the cowboys in suits at the end? &lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:43:51 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>This Shark Could Save You</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt; Hadeel Masoudi of Amman, Jordan explains her project on shark antibodies.&lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:37:40 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>This Robot Could Kill You</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Adam Halverson of Garretson, South Dakota, gives a tour of his robot creation. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:55:09 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Model of Destruction</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Mathew Tucker of Mankato, Minnesota shares the inspiration and development of his tornado model. &lt;/p&gt;

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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:52:06 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>How Old Is Your Crocodile?</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Hermain Khan of Staten Island, NY, explains his Earth Science project.&lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:33:43 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Craziest Experiment</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;What's the craziest experiment you've ever done? Finalist Susannah Clary from Albuquerque reports. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:39:13 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Talking Science</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Jack Franchetti, an expert in media and communication skills, coaches two Intel ISEF Finalists on their presentations. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:52:45 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Caffeine and Peppers</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Daniel Posch from Hillcrest High School in Midvale, Utah took these photos of contrasting stimulants...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Check out more ISEF snapshots on &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=intelisef"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.  And if you haven't yet, &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef/2007/05/share_your_photos.php"&gt;upload your own photos and videos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef/2007/05/caffeine_and_peppers.php#commentsArea"&gt;Read the comments on this post...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IntelIsef/~4/DMeSXROp28I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 10:16:08 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Puerto Rican Spirit</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;Robbi Bishop-Taylor from Forster Australia took this great video of a Puerto Rican cheer at the pin exchange. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 18:00:43 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Two Minutes: Saving Portugal's Corks!</title>
          <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the great things about the international nature of the Fair is the insight some projects provide on the problems facing their home countries and regions. Take for instance the team project in Plant Science by Eduardo Manuel Soares Guerreiro, Estela Da Silva Guerreiro, and Rita Catarina Ramos Pimenta dos Santos Silva from Odemira, Portugal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="The bark of a cork oak tree" src="http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef/upload/2007/05/397px-Quercus_suber_aka_cork_oak.jpg" width="396" height="599" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Their research addresses the causes of a devastating condition known as "decline" that has wreaked havoc on cork oak forests in Portugal and threatens the country's cork industry. For perspective, Portugal has about a third of the world's cork oaks, and it produces over half of the world's supply of cork. The industry is such an important part of the country's economy and culture that it's illegal to cut down a cork tree in Portugal. And understandably so: Each tree can only be harvested every nine or ten years and takes more than two decades to mature.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During a break at this year's ISEF, we had a chance to speak with Eduardo and Estela about their project, and gave them the two-minute project explanation challenge. Their response is below the fold.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef/2007/05/two_minutes_saving_portugals_c.php"&gt;Read the rest of this post...&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/intelisef/2007/05/two_minutes_saving_portugals_c.php#commentsArea"&gt;Read the comments on this post...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IntelIsef/~4/Z_eX-ga9-y0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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