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USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA
In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Barack Obama, Students
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NBA center Jason Collins says he is gay
NBA center Jason Collins, who played for the Washington Wizards last season, has become the first male athlete still active in a major professional sport to come out as gay. Collins made his announcement to Sports Illustrated, which will feature Collins...
Tags: Jason Collins, Washington Wizards, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gay Pride Los Angeles, Yvette Prieto
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How long it takes to get insurance OK to admit psychiatric patients
Psychiatrists spent an estimated 1 million hours on the phone getting insurance authorizations to admit people to hospitals – time the lead author of a study on the matter says could be better spent helping patients. And perhaps time the...
Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Medical Specialization, Psychiatry, Science and Technology
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Boston bombings: Officer lost all blood but is expected to recover
BOSTON -- A Boston officer shot and wounded in pursuit of the marathon bombing suspects last week had to be resuscitated after his heart stopped and he lost his entire blood supply, but doctors and relatives on Sunday said he was emerging from sedation...
Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Shootings, Medical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Owner: Bombing suspect demanded his car back from shop on Tuesday
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The owner of an auto body shop near the home of the Boston bombing suspects said the younger brother appeared in hisĀ store on Tuesday, nervous and demanding his car immediately. Two weeks ago, said 44-year-old Gilberto Junior,...
Tags: Shootings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, FBI
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, Human Interest
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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: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Shootings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Bioengineered rat kidney could lead to treatments for people
A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has engineered functional rat kidneys by stripping donor kidneys of their cells and then repopulating the remaining collagen substructures with new cells. The bioengineered kidneys produced...
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Biotechnology Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry, Medical Research
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Les Blank dies at 77; prolific documentary filmmaker
When Les Blank arrived in the lush, untamed Amazon in 1981 to make a documentary about Werner Herzog's film, "Fitzcarraldo," he knew the German's reputation as a daredevil director. Herzog had chosen the remote jungle locale, plagued by tribal...
Tags: Tampa, Independent (Movie Genre), Music, Entertainment, Museum of Modern Art
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Paul Williams dies at 64; pioneering chronicler of rock music
Paul Williams was returning to his dorm room when a fellow student relayed a message that was radical even for the 1960s: "Hey, Williams! You got a phone call from Bob Dylan." Not long before, it was Paul Simon who had rung Williams up on the hallway...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Bob Dylan, Music, Entertainment, Alzheimer's Disease
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Anthony Lewis dies at 85; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the New York Times, taking up...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, U.S. Navy, Civil Rights, Bronx (New York City)
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