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Ida Margaret McRonald (nee Magness)
Ida Margaret McRonald (nee Magness) was born on October 2, 1930 and died of leukemia in Verdugo Hills Hospital on May 26, 2013. She was born in Crumlin, a small town in Wales. Her parents were Stephen Lester Magness and Ethel (Watkins) Magness. As a...
Tags: Suez Canal, Science and Technology, Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Caņada...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Barack Obama, Google Inc., Science
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JPL begins work on two new missions to Mars
Less than a year after the rover Curiosity's successful landing on Mars, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are at work on two new missions to the Red Planet. The space agency last year announced that a new lander and rover...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Aerospace Manufacturing, Science and Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Judge rules in favor of JPL scientists disciplined for emails sent from work accounts
Scientists and engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were unfairly disciplined for sending emails about a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving background checks at the agency, a judge has ruled. The ruling comes after the JPL employees...
Tags: Judges, NASA, Science and Technology, Work Relations, Labor Legislation
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JPL: NASA Curiosity rover back to work after Martian spring break
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has emerged from its "spring break" and is back to work, officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. Up next on the agenda: Drilling the second target at Yellowknife Bay. The Mars Science Laboratory mission made...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Amina Khan
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Local stargazers escape to the desert
They traveled more than 200 miles from the San Gabriel Valley to reach one of the darkest corners in Southern California. Three hours before sunset on Saturday, half a dozen amateur astronomers unloaded high-powered telescopes onto a concrete platform...
Tags: Astronomy, Saturn, Mojave National Preserve
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Airborne laboratory being used to measure California's snowpack
Teams will fan out across the Sierra Nevada on Thursday to perform their final snow survey of the season, a closely watched rite of spring that helps determine how much water will flow to farms and cities in coming months. But 18,000 feet above the...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Cross Country Skiing
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Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA...
Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Space Programs
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Director of academics-focused nonprofit in Pasadena announces departure
The executive director of a nonprofit that operates a number of tutoring programs and a summer school in Pasadena is stepping down after eight years. Randy Jurado Ertll, executive director of El Centro de Accion Social – which also offers...Tags: NASA
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Dental clinic for HIV-positive, low income patients opens in Pasadena
Accessing much-needed dental care is no longer like pulling teeth for HIV-positive patients in San Gabriel Valley. A new dental clinic that recently opened in Pasadena fills a major health care gap for those who have HIV, but lack insurance. That’...
Tags: NASA, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, AIDS, Hospitals and Clinics, Root Canal
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Boy Scouts lift ban on openly gay youth
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In an emotionally charged vote Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth starting in January next year, the latest sign of a shift in American attitudes toward gays and lesbians. After months of debate in...Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, NASA, Los Angeles Hotels, Gays and Lesbians
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Capture an asteroid? Piece of cake
“What could go wrong?” If you’re a woman, you’ve undoubtedly heard this phrase -- probably more than once -- from your father/grandfather/husband/boyfriend/male friends, shortly before the aforementioned types did something...Tags: NASA, The Home Depot, Jesse James, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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