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Serena Williams in another final; Federer and Nadal to face off
A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament. The top-ranked American overcame an early break of her serve to ease past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep, 6-3, 6-0, Saturday and reach the...
Tags: Tomas Berdych, Marco Andretti, Auto Racing, Thomas Aiken, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Will robots see with fly eyes? Bugs inspire new high-tech camera
Flies' multifaceted eyes have long allowed them to elude frustrated swatters from all directions. Now, inspired by insects' vision, researchers have built a digital camera with an array of tiny lenses lining a bulging eyeball, allowing an undistorted,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Freedom of the Press, Hofstra University, Brooklyn (New York City), Los Angeles Unified School District, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end
This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...
Tags: Gene Siskel, Colleges and Universities, Sundance Film Festival, Movies, Entertainment
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Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Movies, University of Chicago, Independent (Movie Genre), Hoop Dreams (movie)
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Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist
Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...
Tags: Biology, Awards and Prizes, Education, Nobel Prize Awards, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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Kerosene wick lamps produce both light and hazardous soot
The bright orange flames of kerosene wick lamps used in millions of impoverished households around the world are significant sources of global warming and pollutants linked to respiratory diseases, according to a new study. Lab and field work led by...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Global Change, Environmental Pollution
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Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant
Roger Ebert may already be on the mend from a hairline fracture in his left leg, but there's news Thursday that may be enough to get him out of bed and dancing: His annual film festival, Ebertfest, received a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion...
Tags: Tom Cruise, Movies, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Ang Lee, Richard Linklater
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Stress in trauma's wake: Genes play a major role
Ten years after terrorists hijacked four American jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people, there's growing evidence that people with a previous history of depression, or who have been traumatized before, are far more vulnerable to developing post-...Tags: Psychiatry, DeKalb, Medical Specialization, Symptoms, Steven Kazmierczak
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The Unreal World: 'Carnage' and child bullying
"Carnage"
SBS Productions
U.S. release: Dec. 16
The premise
Ethan Longstreet (Eliot Berger), age 11, has formed a gang at his Brooklyn school but has excluded classmate Zachary Cowan (Elvis Polanski), also age 11. When Zachary confronts him, Ethan...Tags: New York University, Medical Specialization, Movies, Movies, Education
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Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
PASSINGS: Bernard G. Sarnat
Bernard G. Sarnat
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, research scientist
Dr. Bernard G. Sarnat, 99, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and research scientist who advanced the study of facial deformities, died of respiratory failure Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, his...Tags: Research, Waylon Jennings, University of Chicago, Tammy Wynette, Surgery
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