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CU-Boulder Friends of the Libraries will present "Backstage with Margot Fonteyn," a multimedia theatrical presentation highlighting the life of the famed British ballerina on Friday, Nov. 19. The event will be held at 7 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the fifth floor of CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. The program is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Attendees should enter through the west doors of Norlin Library. Pay parking will be available at the Euclid Avenue Autopark.

Fossilized feces from 73 million-year-old aquatic life found on Devon Island in the Arctic Circle suggest an ancient marine ecosystem teeming with bottom-feeding creatures, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher. Such a scenario is similar to modern Arctic marine environments where excess nutrients generated by huge pulses of plankton growth in the summer drop to the bottom of the ocean where they can be eaten over time.

Note to Editors: Colwell will participate in a news briefing Nov. 9 at the DPS meeting in Louisville, Ky. Contents embargoed until 12:10 p.m. EST Nov. 9. A University of Colorado at Boulder-built instrument riding on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is being used to distinguish objects in Saturn's rings smaller than a football field, making them twice as sharp as any previous ring observations.

Help may be on the way for millions of Americans suffering from chronic pain, a debilitating condition that makes it extremely painful to do anything from taking a shower to putting on a shirt, according to a CU-Boulder researcher. Linda Watkins, a professor and researcher in the University of Colorado at Boulder's psychology department and Center for Neuroscience, is developing a revolutionary gene therapy that she says could stop chronic pain for months at a time, something unheard of today.

Note to Editors: Esposito will participate in a news briefing Nov. 8 at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Louisville, Ky. Contents embargoed until 12:35 p.m. EST Nov. 8. A University of Colorado at Boulder professor involved with the Cassini-Huygens mission is reporting an ever-changing vista at the frontiers of Saturn, featuring wayward moons, colliding meteoroids, rippling rings and flickering auroras.

Despite its popularity fueled in part by the blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park," amber nevertheless trails the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado when it comes to the richness of the fossil beetle record, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

New University of Colorado at Boulder research shows high-altitude aquifers honeycomb parts of the Colorado Rockies, trapping snowmelt and debunking the myth that high mountain valleys act as "Teflon basins" to rush water downstream.

While pundits question whether Iraqi insurgents can be controlled or defeated, a political science professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder believes the insurgents will eventually fail.

Editors: Contents embargoed for use at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 4. For those who have wondered why they like or dislike certain things, or how they decide what to order from a menu, a team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder says it's dopamine. A CU-Boulder team studying Parkinson's disease patients found strong evidence that dopamine in the brain plays a key role in how people implicitly learn to make choices that lead to good outcomes, while avoiding bad ones.

Health officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder said today that the campus is experiencing an outbreak of norovirus and is recommending precautionary measures for students and extra cleaning in certain sections of campus residence halls. Norovirus causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping. °µÍø½ûÇø 35 students have been seen at Wardenburg Health Center with these symptoms since Oct. 26, said Wardenburg Director Robert Cranny.