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News Corp. Forms Diversity Council After Cartoon
News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
The company will form a "diversity community council"...Tags: New York, Stephen Rea, Health, Vaccines, New York City
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George Shor Jr. dies at 86; Scripps geophysicist studied the ocean floor
George G. Shor Jr., the Scripps geophysicist whose study of the ocean floor helped lay the foundation for the theory of tectonic plates and continental drift, died July 3 at his home in La Jolla from complications following a series of strokes. He was 86....Tags: Building Material, Landforms, Retirement, New York City, Mountains
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Emil L. Smith dies at 97; biochemist advanced protein research
Biochemist Emil L. Smith, who pioneered the process of determining the structure of proteins, played a key role in bringing UCLA's department of biological chemistry to national prominence, and led the first scientific delegation to China, has died. He...Tags: New York, Biology, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Health, Drugs and Medicines
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Scary books: Read any good grimoires lately?
Thanks to their conspicuous use by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the girls of the TV show "Charmed," Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked" and plenty of other prominent pop culture figures, grimoires have become far more familiar to the general public....Tags: San Francisco, History, University of Oxford, Broadway Theater, Colleges and Universities
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Computer program paves way for artificial pancreas
Booster ShotsA newly developed computer program merges the operations of continuously implanted glucose sensors and insulin pumps in diabetics, bringing researchers closer to an artificial pancreas that could provide much better control of insulin levels, minimizing... -
Brand X Files: Megan Fox almost a virgin. Weird Al sex tape. 'Ugly Betty' gets her braces off.
Brand XMegan Fox is practically a virgin: "I’ve only been with two men my entire life," the 23-year-old actress tells Harper's Bazaar. (Hello) Plus, see her high school yearbook photo. (World Correspondents) The Weird Al Yankovic sex tape: SFW depending on... -
LEBANON: Experts argue against 'clash of civilizations' at university forum
Babylon & BeyondThe clash of civilizations between the Islamic world and the West isn’t over -- it never began, according to a group of top-notch scholars gathered in Beirut last week. The scholars from around the world convened at the American University...... -
LEBANON: Professor condemned for scholarly work with Israeli counterparts
Babylon & BeyondA politically charged uproar has erupted on the campus of a leafy university over the academic collaboration between a local Arab professor and two Israeli counterparts. In a town hall at the American University of Beirut earlier this month, nearly...... -
Looking at Virginia Woolf's death with newly opened archive
Jacket CopyLetters from Virginia Woolf's set, being opened to the public for the first time, cast new light on the Bloomsbury group of, as one wrote, "dirty intellectuals." The newly opened archive, at Cambridge University, consists of two collections of letters,...... -
Are there victims of Amazon's killer reviews?
Jacket CopyLast week, a literary "whodunit" circling around extraordinarily nasty reviews on Amazon's British website came to a surprise conclusion. The anonymous reviews fit a pattern: The targets were some of the nation's leading academics, and all the reviews... -
Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Biology, Gaucher's Disease, Applied Physics, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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The Klan is still dead
DAVID J. GARROW, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.RECENT NEWS headlines announce a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Christian Science Monitor warns that the KKK "appears to be on the rise again after years of irrelevance." The Associated Press reports that white supremacists are "significantly more...Tags: Florida, North Carolina, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Crimes
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