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Bright Minds: Danielle Hilliard, air and missile defense
“The combat system is the brain that helps you fire ‘the bullet,’ which is actually an extremely complex missile,” Danielle Hilliard says of her highly technical job in air and missile defense. She uses simple visual images to...
Tags: Technology, Clarksville, Weaponry, NASA, Missile Systems
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body is released for Muslim funeral rites
The remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon, has been turned over to a funeral parlor in Worcester, Mass. for proper Muslim funeral rites. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a gun battle with police days after...
Tags: Sports, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Awards this week: Edgars, Ellies
Just when you thought literary awards season was over, there were not one but two occasions to get dressed up and applaud great writers and their publications Thursday. They both took place in New York -- meaning we didn't have to hit the dry cleaner --...
Tags: Google+, Stephen King, Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine, The Wire (tv program)
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Remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect claimed
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died in a gunbattle with police, was claimed on Thursday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said a funeral home retained by...
Tags: Trials, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Transit cop shot in Boston bombing chase recovering, cracking jokes
Richard “Dic” Donohue Jr. came to the edge of death after a bullet to his right thigh severed his femoral vein and artery. The 33-year-old Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer from Woburn, Mass., lost his entire blood supply...
Tags: Sports, Sean Collier, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Shootings
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Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....
Tags: Health and Safety at School, High Blood Pressure, Barack Obama, Medicaid, Health Insurance
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Cheaters never prosper, and neither does anyone else
Ever feel like you were the one doing all the work while everyone else just sat back and enjoyed the fruits of your hard labor? Well then you might appreciate the plight of those lowly yeast cells that work overtime breaking down table sugar into...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Satellite Technology, Space Programs
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The Week in Pictures | April 22 – April 28, 2013
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On the hunt for exoplanets with TESS: A live Q&A
If you have questions about TESS, the planet-hunting satellite, or the search for exoplanets in general, you've come to the right place. At noon PDT, the Kavli Foundation will host a live Google Hangout with three leading scientists on NASA's TESS...
Tags: Science, Google+, NASA, Google Inc., Satellite Technology
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Edward Frieman dies at 87; leading figure in American science
Edward A. Frieman, a leading figure in American science for decades as a researcher with wide-ranging interests, a top-level governmental advisor on defense and energy issues, and director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Teachers, Applied Physics, Columbia University, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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