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Maurice Goldhaber dies at 100; noted nuclear and particle physicist
Maurice Goldhaber, one of the pioneers of modern physics whose experiments helped create the current understanding of how the world works, died May 11 at his home on Long Island, N.Y., after a short illness. He had celebrated his 100th birthday less...Tags: Hartland, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Human Interest, Enrico Fermi
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John Oliver At Foxwoods Saturday
![John Oliver's career as lead correspondent on "The Daily Show," active standup performer and occasional actor in TV and movie comedies is quite different from the goals he had at prestigious University of Cambridge.](http://www.courant.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62041914-01125933.jpg "John Oliver's career as lead correspondent on "The Daily Show,\" active standup performer and occasional actor in TV and movie comedies is quite different from the goals he had at prestigious University of Cambridge.")
The Hartford CourantJohn Oliver's career as lead correspondent on "The Daily Show," active standup performer and occasional actor in TV and movie comedies is quite different from the goals he had at prestigious University of Cambridge. "I studied English in college, which...Tags: Heroin, Celebrities and Health Issues, Stephen Colbert, London (England), Fox Broadcasting Company
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Allan R. Sandage dies at 84; cosmologist focused on the age of the universe
Astronomer Allan R. Sandage of Pasadena's Carnegie Observatories, one of the most prominent cosmologists of the 20th century who spent the better part of his lifetime trying to determine the precise age of the universe, died Saturday at his home in San...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Astronomy, Physical Conditions, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Radio
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When to choose cosmetic surgery, and when not to
I don't have anything against cosmetic surgery.
No amount of running or iron pumping was going to do anything about the genetically programmed dark circles under my eyes, so I got those things zapped with a nuclear-powered laser that made me twitch and...Tags: Internal Medicine, Defense, Lance Armstrong, Medical Specialization, Diseases and Illnesses
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3 U.S. scientists share Nobel Prize in medicine
Three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, University of California, Berkeley, Jack W. Szostak, Awards and Prizes, San Francisco
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The Siren's Call: No country for young men either
Los Angeles TimesTerror comes in many forms. Ever since he started writing for sci-fi magazines and for "The Twilight Zone," Richard Matheson has been giving readers a grand tour in the gardens of menace. No one is safe. Not just the nervous passenger who sees a monster...Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Rentals, Stranger Than Fiction
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Lack of data from Japan distresses nuclear experts
How did Japanese workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant jury-rig fire hoses to cool damaged reactors? Is contaminated water from waste pools overflowing into the Pacific Ocean? Exactly who is the national incident commander?
The answers to these...Tags: United Nations, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Pacific Ocean, Japan, National Government
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Heaven is a fairy tale, says physicist Hawking
ReutersLONDON (Reuters Life!) - Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday. Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed...Tags: Google Inc., Stephen Hawking, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology
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A deep sense of kinship with Virginia Woolf
Los Angeles TimesIn the picture, I am probably 10 years old. I'm wearing blue jeans and a bright red sweater, and I'm perched on the stump of a redwood tree, surrounded by a forest of the same. On my lap, I hold an open book. My head is bowed, long blond hair studiously...Tags: Weather Reports, Lehigh Valley Weather, Crimes, Homes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Key breeding grounds must be protected to save tigers from extinction, researchers say
L.A. UnleashedJAKARTA, Indonesia — Conservationists must protect tiger populations in a few concentrated breeding grounds in Asia instead of trying to safeguard vast, surrounding landscapes, if they want to save the big cats from extinction, scientists said. Only... -
Vatican official: Nobel Prize for IVF inventor ignores ethical consequences of procedure
The Religion WorldA Vatican official has said that yesterday's award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization ignores the ethical consequences of the common procedure, according to National Catholic Reporter. British scientist... -
The Siren's Call: Jesus in the East; two extraordinary Victorian ladies
![Jesus is everywhere. There are plenty of books about his presence in the holy scriptures of Christianity's sister faiths (in the Talmud, in the Koran) and about secret traditions brought to light by the Gnostic gospels. There are also plenty on more provocative views of his life and death on a cross, if he really <i>did</i> die on a cross -- think of books such as "The Passover Plot," "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and that really successful novel by that guy whose name I can't seem to recall right now.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/50189129-30152109.gif "Jesus is everywhere. There are plenty of books about his presence in the holy scriptures of Christianity's sister faiths (in the Talmud, in the Koran) and about secret traditions brought to light by the Gnostic gospels. There are also plenty on more provocative views of his life and death on a cross, if he really <i>did</i> die on a cross -- think of books such as "The Passover Plot,\" \"Holy Blood, Holy Grail\" and that really successful novel by that guy whose name I can't seem to recall right now.")
Jesus is everywhere. There are plenty of books about his presence in the holy scriptures of Christianity's sister faiths (in the Talmud, in the Koran) and about secret traditions brought to light by the Gnostic gospels. There are also plenty on more...Tags: Passover, India, Christianity, Bible, Islam
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