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Playing 'Mind' games
LA Times StaffFor the last few months, Universal Pictures has been juggling a live grenade, hoping it won't go off. In the public eye, the studio's Ron Howard-directed film, "A Beautiful Mind," has been viewed as one of the favorites for this year's best picture Oscar....Tags: Illnesses, John Forbes, The New York Times, Periodicals, Russell Crowe
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Fun facts
Special to Baltimoresun.comAre you having a few film buffs over for an Oscar party? Would you like to impress them with your uncanny knowledge of Oscar trivia? Here are a few fun facts about the annual ceremony to sprinkle in amid the overdone musical numbers and the nominees for...Tags: Roberto Benigni, Music Theater, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Laurence Olivier
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Still searching for the secrets of life
Sun StaffFor most scientists, a Nobel Prize is the capstone of a career. But in the 50 years since their breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick have continued to pursue the frontiers of knowledge, albeit along...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, DNA, Science, Cancer, Colon
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Race to the double helix took many twists, turns
Sun StaffAbout noon on Feb. 28, 1953, two men burst into their favorite pub, a scruffy spot called The Eagle near their Cambridge University laboratory. As people sipped their beers and forked down shepherd's pie, one of the men gleefully announced: "We have...Tags: DNA, Science, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cambridge (England), Cancer
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Hopkins scientist wins Nobel Prize
Sun StaffDr. Peter C. Agre, a self-effacing Johns Hopkins School of Medicine biochemist who delights in telling colleagues that he earned a D in chemistry before dropping out of high school, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for his breakthrough...Tags: Arts, Epidemics and Plagues, Daniel Nathans, Science, Blood Disorders
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Oh, the drama
Sun Arts WriterTwo Weeks Before the Debut of Her New Play, Snakes: "Don't tell anyone," Cherie Vogelstein confides, "but I haven't written it yet." That's dismaying, given the importance of the event. It's mid-fall, and Snakes is to premiere in New York City at the...Tags: Family, Edward Albee, Hell's Kitchen (tv program), Johns Hopkins University, John Barth
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Contrasting studies
Special to Baltimoresun.comWhen a Quaker merchant named Johns Hopkins left $7 million in a will to found a hospital and a university in his name, few could have imagined the legacy of that investment would include historic breakthroughs in medicine and physics (as evidenced by a...Tags: NAACP, Jada Pinkett Smith, Johns Hopkins University, John Barth, Antonio Freeman
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The changing creed of Hopkins science
Sun StaffSecond of three articles Venture capitalist Steve Gorlin planted himself in a classroom at the Johns Hopkins University's medical school and listened for two days as, one after another, nearly a dozen top researchers pitched ideas and promoted...Tags: Vaccines, Finance, Invention and Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel Nathans
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Columbia panel to determine significance of e-mail warning
Associated PressWASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said yesterday that an independent panel will decide the significance of e-mails by a NASA research engineer warning two days before Columbia broke apart that damage to the shuttle's insulating tiles might have...Tags: Mesa, CNN (tv network), Ronald Reagan, Chuck Yeager, Rocketry
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The path to the double helix -- and beyond
Sun Staff1865 Experimenting with common garden peas, Austrian monk Gregor Mendel shows how traits like color and height are passed from one generation to the next. 1868 Swiss scientist Fredrich Miescher discovers DNA what he calls "nuclein" in human pus...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, DNA, General Electric Company, Science, Drugs and Medicines
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Netanyahu urges no let-up in world pressure on Iran after vote
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for no relaxation of international pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear efforts after the election of a new president widely hailed as a moderate. Netanyahu said it was...Tags: Entertainment Events, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Nuclear Program, Israel, Iran
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Drew Sharp: Tigers have time for a closing discovery
Detroit Free PressDETROIT The curtain should come down on the Jose Valverde Reunion Tour. The Tigers can't trust him. It was a worthwhile experiment. If it worked and he stabilized the bullpen, fine. If it didn't, it cost the Tigers little. And considering that the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Jose Valverde, Omar Infante, Detroit Tigers, Alex Avila
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