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Current, former University of Virginia astronomers honored
A University of Virginia astronomer and his former U.Va. colleague have been awarded $1 million from the Shaw Prize Foundation. The Shaw Prize is considered Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize, which does not specifically provide an award for...
Tags: Science and Technology, University of Oxford, Entertainment Events, Science, Astronomy
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Aung San Suu Kyi holds live Skype interview with Virginia Tech students
ReporterFirst two Hollywood actors, now a Nobel Peace Prize-winning heroine. From half a world away,Aung San Suu Kyi spoke with a class of Virginia Tech students. Suu Kyi is a political activist and a leader in the National League for Democracy in Burma....Tags: Martin Sheen, Democracy, Virginia Tech, Burma, Politics
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Catonsville girl receives transplant, but is rejecting heart
Ann Bartlinski placed the Eucharist and a pearl-beaded rosary blessed by the hands of the late Pope John Paul II on the chest of her 6-year-old daughter, Teresa, who lay Tuesday in a hospital bed, her tiny body rejecting a donor's heart. Teresa...
Tags: Catonsville, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, John Paul II, Stroke, Birth Defects
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INTERVIEW-US right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president
Reuters* Peres says US has no choice but to arm moderate rebels * Terror groups are tearing apart the Arab world * Dismisses idea Israel can attack Iran alone By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his...Tags: Defense Equipment, Government, Israel, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters before...Tags: Defense Equipment, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Manufacturing and Engineering, Weaponry
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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: Iran, Government, Iran's Nuclear Program, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel
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Jailed China dissident's wife decries injustice in letter to Xi
ReutersBEIJING, June 14 (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother's jailing, which activists have called official...Tags: China, Entertainment Events, Xi Jinping, Human Rights, Barack Obama
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: Transportation, Social Issues, Health and Safety at School, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University
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Tibetan self-immolations having little effect, Dalai Lama says
ReutersBy Thuy Ong SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing's policies, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday, while urging China to look harder...Tags: Dalai Lama, China, Entertainment Events, U.S. Department of State, Beijing (China)
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Robert W. Fogel 1926-2013
Robert W. Fogel, a University of Chicago professor who in 1993 joined the Hyde Park school's line of Nobel Prize winners in economics, created a body of work that challenged widely held assumptions about American history. Early in his career, Mr....
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The orgy of literary treasures bought at Sotheby's auction
Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very...
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Arts and Culture, Authors, Entertainment Events, David Foster Wallace
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Nelson Mandela, 94, hospitalized in 'serious' condition
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a "serious but stable" condition on Saturday after being taken to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said. The 94-year-old, who became...Tags: Government, Jacob Zuma, Pretoria (South Africa), Gallbladder Disease, Politics
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