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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as more details emerged from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have...
Tags: Richard Burr, Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Separation of Church and State, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live
BOSTON (AP) — In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive. That includes...
Tags: Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics, Sports, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Pence visits South Bend, talks of jobs engines
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- A key point in Mike Pence's economic plan might bring a payoff for Indiana college towns, including this one. The Republican gubernatorial candidate visited South Bend on Thursday, making stops at The Tribune, General Sheet Metal Works...Tags: Democratic Party, Rupert Boneham, Small Businesses, Colleges and Universities, Income Tax
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Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by...
Tags: Technology, Air Transportation Delays, Companies and Corporations, Stanford University, Barack Obama
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Study: 6 pounds of bacteria live on 200-pound person
WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or...
Tags: Staphylococcal Infection , Colleges and Universities, Ecosystems, Stanford University, Conservation
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NASA starts off new year with mission to the moon
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cruise to the moon took 3½ months and covered 2½ million miles — far longer than the direct three-day flight by Apollo astronauts.
Over the New Year's weekend, a pair of NASA spacecraft arrived back-to-back at their...Tags: Astronomy, New Year's Day, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Space Programs
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84. Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four...Tags: Steve Jobs, Computer Science, Apple Inc., Stanford University, Alan Turing
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Lennon, Holtz among those receiving Notre Dame honorary degrees
SOUTH BEND — Retiring alumni association director Charles F. "Chuck" Lennon and former head football coach Lou Holtz will be among 12 people who will be presented honorary degrees at the University of Notre Dame’s May 22 commencement in...Tags: College Baseball, Investments, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, London (England)
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MIT grad's invention turns brewery waste to fuel
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont brewery is giving new meaning to the idea of green beer. Magic Hat Brewing Co., of South Burlington, is the first site to use a device that turns spent grain from the brewing process into natural gas that...Tags: Energy Resources, Alternative Energy, Natural Gas, Natural Resources, Vermont
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