Teachers benefit from job-saving stimulus spending
Salon
"This early data confirms that the Recovery Act is working across the country to keep tens of thousands of teachers in the classroom and construction workers on the job during these tough economic times," said Elizabeth Oxhorn, a spokeswoma...
Glance at 2009 Nobel Prize winners
Salon
-- Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide, work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies and ...
On Winning a Nobel Prize in Science
New York Times
In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don’t. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their leng...
John Edwards
Chicago Tribune
Then Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with cancer. And now, this: a betrayal, and an increasingly messy one, eliciting both fascination and revulsion among the locals -- that is, if they've still got a stomach for the prurience. "It's icky,"...
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Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Williamson reports on the White House. The mystery begins in a Pittsburgh bar where several high-flying airline types met last month. The group swapped stories over drinks when three people present let loose with a good tale. Bo, ...
City to share costs for connector road culvert
Daily Advance
Elizabeth City officials agreed Monday night to share with a Chicago-based developer the cost of transforming a 50-foot-wide ditch next to Halstead Boulevard Extension into a foundation for the city’s planned bicycle path. The ditch was bui...
Americans Ostrom, Williamson win Nobel economics
Yahoo News
Last week, American scientists Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of res...
Partisan split likely in key Senate health care vote
McClatchy
Still, Elizabeth Carpenter, a health policy expert at the New America Foundation, saw the comments as having some value, noting "they're looking at policy, not politics." So far, though, policy's having trouble breaking through the politica...
Prince William's soccer bid
Monsters and Critics
Meanwhile, William is hoping to travel to New Zealand early next year in his first overseas trip in place of Queen Elizabeth. He is already due to visit Australia but it is expected he will also take on the trip to the neighbouring island a...
Mad Men nails its history with help from UH
Houston Chronicle
Among the memorable items: the wedding album of actress Elizabeth Taylor and Connie's oldest son, Nicky Hilton. “It was the first wedding for both of them,” Young said. “She looks gorgeous.” Looking ahead to future Mad Men episodes, Young ....
Three decades after adoption, DNA test reveals painful truth
Baltimore Sun
On Dec. 1, according to documents given to Ryba, the infant was transferred to St. Elizabeth's Home in Yardville, a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic Charities. And on Jan. 7, 1976, Phil Bloete - identified on the state adoption consen...
From Cocteau Twins to Carousel , Guitarist Robin Guthrie Mesmerizes
Wired
As the mesmeric guitar virtuoso of defunct Scottish band Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie’s celestial reverb merged with singer Elizabeth Fraser’s angelic ululation to create one of the most memorable sounds of the last three decades. Guthrie’s...
Filmmaker Nichols Graduates to AFI Lifetime Honor
ABC News
The 77-year-old Nichols joins past AFI award recipients such as "Virginia Woolf" star Elizabeth Taylor, "Silkwood" star Meryl Streep and "Graduate" star Dustin Hoffman. Nichols' most recent film was 2007's "Charlie Wilson's War," starring T...
