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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: Central Intelligence Agency, Sports, Separation of Church and State, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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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: Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Massachusetts General Hospital
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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: Small Businesses, Kevin Allen, Elections, Colleges and Universities, Stanford University
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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: Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Air Transportation Delays, Stanford University, Technology, NASA
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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: National Institutes of Health, Genetics, Biology, Stanford University, Health and Safety at School
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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: New Year's Day, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Galileo Galilei, Science
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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: Awards and Prizes, Sports, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Human Interest, University of Alabama
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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: Alan Turing, Awards and Prizes, Stanford University, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Apple Inc.
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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: Vermont, Natural Resources, Natural Gas, Energy Resources, Alternative Energy
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Anthony Madrid Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Poetry and Web Conjunctions. His first book is “I Am Your Slave Now Do What I...Tags: Television Industry, University of Illinois at Chicago, New York City, Entertainment Events, Yale University
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U.S. Senate confirms Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz's nomination to lead the Energy Department. With a vote 97 to 0 in favor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor will take the helm...Tags: U.S. Senate, Science and Technology, Ernest J. Moniz
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Obama's environment, energy team nears completion with votes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's energy and environment team took two steps forward on Thursday after the U.S. Senate confirmed Ernest Moniz as energy secretary and a committee cleared Gina McCarthy to get a full Senate vote to lead the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Ron Wyden, Labor Disputes, Politics, David Vitter
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