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Susan Love, doctor/patient
And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...
Tags: Women's Health, Health and Medical Professionals, HPV Vaccine, Health and Safety at School, Leukemia
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They were two Caltech games for the record books
The 108th loss of Mason Freedman's college athletic career probably looked pretty much like the rest of them. The whistle of the chilled wind that cut across the Caltech baseball field was unfettered by cheers. The three rows of aluminum bleachers were...
Tags: Sports, Entertainment Events, Students, Science and Technology, College Baseball
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Four ladies from Burma
WASHINGTON -- When Burma's Zin Mar Aung was placed in solitary confinement for trying to organize students in 1999, Bill Clinton was president of the United States. When she was released, Barack Obama was in the Oval Office. Zin Mar Aung says she...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Washington, DC, Wars and Interventions, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
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Krugman Speaks at the Chicago Council
I had the pleasure of watching Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs this past week, which I will partially remember for his edifying remarks on the state of the economy...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Conservation, Politics, Finance, The New York Times
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Thousands protest in Egypt after week of deadly riots
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptians protested Friday after a week of deadly riots that have shaken President Mohamed Morsi’s grip on the nation and spurred fears that fresh unrest may lead to economic collapse. [Updated at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 1: The...Tags: Cairo (Egypt), Entertainment Events, Punishment, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi
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Ocean wonders abound in Field Museum's 'Creatures of Light'
It's dark in the rooms that hold the new exhibition at the Field Museum, dark almost like in the deep ocean where many of the featured "Creatures of Light" live. It's dim enough to get you wondering if you, too, after enough time in an environment...
Tags: Mushrooms, Science, Entertainment Events, Science and Technology, Field Museum of Natural History
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Egyptian liberals, Islamists join in denouncing violence
CAIRO -- Egypt's young revolutionaries organized a rare gathering Thursday for deeply divided Islamist and liberal political parties to denounce the violence and unrest that have threatened the nation’s stability and economy. The meeting came...
Tags: Politics, Egypt, Polio, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed ElBaradei
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Wealthy Pacific Palisades entrepreneur buys local newspaper
L.A. NOWAt a time when Alan Smolinisky’s peers have mostly traded paper for pixels, he doesn't own an iPad or a Kindle. The Pacific Palisades resident is not much for social media and says he has never used Facebook or Twitter....... -
Famed authors behind the plays onstage in Orlando
Central Florida's theaters will be bursting with famous names during February — but they're names from the page, not on the stage. Plays presented around the region will boast some of the most famed names in literature, from ancient Greek writer...
Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Longwood (Seminole, Florida), England, Winter Garden, Seminole State College
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Egyptian opposition leader calls for talks to end violence
CAIRO -- A key Egyptian opposition leader Wednesday called for talks with President Mohamed Morsi, ultraconservative Islamists and military officials to quell days of rioting that have killed more than 50 people and left the country edging toward anarchy....
Tags: Egypt, Politics, Angela Merkel, Mohamed ElBaradei, National Government
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Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103; Nobel-winning scientist
The human body begins as a single cell that proliferates into a few identical daughter cells which ultimately grow into billions of specialized body cells. Scientists and physicians have long recognized the pattern of this process, called differentiation,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Alzheimer's Disease, Italy, General Practitioners
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Elwood Jensen dies at 92; his research spurred cancer treatments
Elwood Jensen, a medical researcher whose ground-breaking work in the field of endocrinology and breast cancer led to revolutionary and life-saving treatments, died of complications from pneumonia on Dec. 16 in suburban Cincinnati, the University of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, University of Chicago, Chemistry, Biotechnology
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