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In Watertown, hiding in the bathroom, hearing the gunshots
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- An hour or two before, Deanna Finn hadn't anticipated she’d be ducking with her son in the bathroom of her Watertown home, listening to gunshots, her husband blocks away. The travel ban that had marooned area residents in their... -
Boston bombings manhunt: Lockdown closes campuses, halts transit
Residents of Boston and its nearby suburbs woke to find themselves in a virtual lockdown Friday as mass transit came to a halt, college campuses were closed and officials urged people to shutter their businesses and stay inside. “It is important...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deval Patrick, Public Transportation
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Officer slain at MIT loved his role
For Sean Collier, police work was a calling, an academic pursuit and a dream. On Thursday night, he died on duty — in what police believe was the fourth death in a violent rampage wrought by the Boston bombing suspects. The MIT campus police...
Tags: Students, Somerville, Shootings, Teaching and Learning, Hendrick Motorsports
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Intense manhunt near Boston
WATERTOWN, Mass. — With the Boston area jumpy from the deadly marathon bombings, a shooting that killed a police officer at MIT and a nearby carjacking triggered a massive police response. By early Friday, one suspect was in custody and police had...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Shootings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Explosions, Middlesex County (Massachusetts)
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How the Kings' championship banner was made
Before the Kings hoisted their 2012 Stanley Cup banner to the rafters of Staples Center, the biggest decision they had was choosing a company to make it. Luc Robitaille, the team's president of business operations, said the club decided to go with New...
Tags: Staples Center, LeBron James, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Los Angeles Kings
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Morgan MacLean: Turning urban trash into beautiful illusions
As an architectural model maker for Frank O. Gehry, Morgan MacLean learned how to turn a wad of paper into a replica of a building. Now, as a sculptor, he is tweaking that creative process. The artist, 34, lives and works in Highland Park, devoting...
Tags: Fine Artists, Sculpture, Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture
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Dr. Charles Epstein dies at 77; geneticist survived attack by Unabomber
Dr. Charles Epstein, a UC San Francisco medical geneticist who studied Down syndrome and pioneered genetic counseling for families with affected children, but whose career was temporarily interrupted by a vicious 1993 attack by the notorious Unabomber,...Tags: Health, Biology, University of California, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Research
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Sidney Harman dies at 92; Newsweek owner and high-fidelity sound pioneer
Sidney Harman, a philanthropist, polymath and pioneer in high-fidelity sound for homes and cars who tried to resuscitate an icon of American journalism when he bought Newsweek last year, has died. He was 92.
Harman died Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.,...Tags: Health, Leukemia, Plant Openings, Harman International Industries Incorporated, Media Industry
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Meinhardt Raabe dies at 94; one of the Munchkins in 'The Wizard of Oz'
Times Staff And Wire ReportsMeinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94. Raabe died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla., after an apparent...Tags: Health, Death, World Columbian Exposition (1893), L. Frank Baum, Hospitals and Clinics
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Sheldon J. Segal dies at 83; scientist led development of long-lasting contraceptives
Sheldon J. Segal, who led the team that developed Norplant, Jadelle, Mirena and other long-lasting contraceptive agents that are used by more than 120 million women around the world and who promoted the idea that women did not have to have monthly...Tags: Health, Death, Brooklyn (New York City), Bedford (Bronx, New York), Japan
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Samuel M. Genensky dies at 81; mathematician invented tools for the near-blind
Samuel M. Genensky, a former Rand Corp. mathematician and inventor whose near-blindness led him to help others cope with limited eyesight and become more self-sufficient, died June 26 at his Santa Monica home. He was 81.
The cause was complications of...Tags: Television, Death, Invention and Innovation, Education, Brown University
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Soldier is killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen George Howell told his hometown friends that, at age 24, he had decided to enlist in the Army despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they tried to talk him out of it. His best friend, Derek Paris, remembers Howell as unshakable. "He just said,...Tags: Armed Forces, Death, Family, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts
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