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PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs
Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, New York City, Book, New York University
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Cravings could be defeated with two little words
Why is it that we crave chocolate chip cookies rather than chard? Or bread instead of broccoli? Take heart: It's biological. "Our attraction to sweets — and salt, carbohydrates and fat — is hard-wired from the Stone Age," says Dr. David Katz,...
Tags: Nutrition, Lifestyle and Leisure, University of California, Los Angeles, Heart Disease, Yale University
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A sense of where you are
Contributing columnistThere he stood. Under a basket at Princeton University’s Dillon Gymnasium. In his basketball practice uniform. Still sweating from a demanding workout. Now he caught questions, not basketballs, passed to him by the acclaimed writer John McPhee. On...Tags: Jerry West, Basketball, New York Knicks, Converse, Inc., National Basketball Association
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Museum's new curator shaking off the cobwebs in Sykesville's attic
Sykesville's Gate House Museum of History has always highlighted the community past, but these days visitors entering the small museum can almost feel a sense of renewal and vitality as well. The atmosphere is almost as if someone came along and —...Tags: Human Interest, Museums, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Arts
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Caltech computer scientist wins $3M award
Caltech physics and computer science professor Alexei Kitaev is among the first group of scientists to win the Fundamental Physics Prize, which comes with a $3 million award. Kitaev has developed algorithms and theories in the field of quantum computing,...
Tags: Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science and Technology, Applied Physics, Science
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William Boulton 'Bo' Kelly Jr., architect and preservationist
William Boulton "Bo" Kelly Jr., a Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who founded Baltimore Heritage and helped establish the Baltimore's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice in...Tags: Harvard University, Hamilton, Fishing, Rash Field, Pimlico
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George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology
George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...
Tags: Harvard University, World War II (1939-1945), Colleges and Universities, University of Alabama, Psychology
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ANALYSIS: Romney, Ryan factcheck
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his debut as Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan promised "America's comeback team" won't duck tough budget issues, although the man standing next to him has kept his head low so far. Romney vowed the duo would "preserve"...
Tags: Interior Policy, Computer Networking and Internet, Politics, Democratic Party, Labor Legislation
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Dutch architect and educator is IIT's next architecture dean
The Illinois Institute of Technology announced Tuesday that it has named Dutch architect and educator Wiel Aretsas the new dean of its architecture school. Arets, currently a professor of building, planning and design at the BerlinUniversity for the Arts,...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Europe, Netherlands, Colleges and Universities, Religion and Belief
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Class Acts: Benjamin Spar, Farmington High School
The Hartford CourantFor Benjamin Spar, music isn't simply a series of notes on a page. Spar, the valedictorian of his class, played the viola in the school's symphony and its chamber ochestra. He sang in the chamber and madrigals choirs and won national honors to sing...Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, Music
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David Hyde Pierce Directs Comedy At Williamstown
The Hartford CourantDavid Hyde Pierce says there wasn't a "Eureka!" moment when it occurred to him to set Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners in manors, "The Importance of Being Earnest" with the playwright's characters as transplanted American gangsters in the 1930s....Tags: YouTube, Yale Repertory Theatre, Celeste Holm, Christopher Walken, Russell Crowe
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Bruce P. Wilson, bank president
Bruce Page Wilson, former president of Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co., who earlier had been president of the old Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad, died July 5 of complications from a stroke at Nubbin Ridge, his Green Spring Valley home, where he had...Tags: Transportation, Annapolis, Mercantile Bankshares Corp., Yale University, Board of Directors
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