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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gregory H. Boyce today announced leadership changes within the business units to further strengthen Peabody's global operating platform. The company has named Eric Ford as Chairman of Peabody's Australia Business Unit, Charles F. Meintjes as President - Australia and Kemal Williamson as President - Americas. All changes are effective Nov. 15, 2012. (Logo:...
A marketing professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has spent years studying the hookah pipe phenomenon growing around college campuses. She wants to debunk the myths surrounding hookah -- primarily that it is safer than cigarette smoking - and develop messages to counter those myths. Her research has been published in several major journals. (PRWEB) June 06, 2012 Merlyn Griffiths is dazzled by the beauty of hookah pipes. But, she has learned, even beautiful things...
Solar systems that have “hot Jupiter-type” planets closely orbiting host stars likely do not have Earth-like planets neighboring them, according to a new study by researchers from University of Florida (UF), Fermilab, and Carnegie Institution. “Hot Jupiters” are giant planets that are roughly the size of Jupiter but orbit more closely to their parent stars, making them much hotter than Earth or Jupiter, according to Eric Ford, researcher at UF. These planets have very short orbital...
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) today announced the relocation of the Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, headed by Eric Ford, to Brisbane, Australia. This move reflects the significant and growing contributions of the company's Australian operating platform. It comes against the backdrop of the successful acquisition of Macarthur Coal, the leading producer of low-volatile PCI metallurgical coal. Ford will lead Peabody...
A combination of several well-known safety procedures could greatly reduce patient-harming errors in the use of radiation to treat cancer, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.Radiation oncologists use more than a dozen quality assurance (QA) checks to prevent radiotherapy errors, but until now, the Hopkins researchers say, no one has systematically evaluated their effectiveness. Working with researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, the Hopkins team gathered...
Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects.Building on this concept, University of Florida astronomers have analyzed light passing through the upper atmosphere of the giant planet HD 80606 b, about 190 light years from Earth, and determined that its atmosphere contains the element potassium."It's wonderful that this method works so well for Jupiter-sized planets," said Knicole Colón, a...
Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems have been found to have two or more planets. Planets, it appears, come in bunches. Most of these systems contain planets that orbit too far from one another to feel each other's gravity. In just a handful of cases, planets have been found near enough to one another to...
